then the sweet quality extends it self Gently or mildly and there grow little subtile leaves in the Head which are of the kind of all the qualities and then the sweet water is as it were a pregnant woman new with child having conceived the Seed and it alwaies presseth onward till it openeth the Head 94. And then also it presseth forth in little leaves like a woman which is in travel and bringing forth but the little Leaves or Blossoms have no more its colour and form but the form of all the Qualities for now the sweet quality must bring forth the children of the other Qualities 95. And when this sweet Mother hath brought forth the Fair Green Blew White Red and Yellow Flowers Blossoms or Children then she groweth quite weary and cannot long nourish or Nurse these children neither can she have them long seeing they are but her step-children which are very tender 96. And so when the outward heat presseth upon these tender children all the qualities in the children cannot be kindled for the Spirit of Life qualifieth or floweth in them 97. And seeing they are too weak for this strong Spirit and cannot elevate themselves they yeeld or surrender their Noble power and that smells so lovely and with so pleasant a savour that it rejoyceth the very Heart and maketh it Laugh but they must wither and fall off because they are too tender for this Spirit 98. For the Spirit draweth from the Head or Bud into the Blossoms and the Head or Bud is formed according to the kind of all the Qualities the astringent quality attracteth or collecteth the Body of the Bud or Head and the sweet quality softneth it and spreadeth it abroad and the Bitter quality parteth or distinguisheth the matter into Members and the Heat is the living spirit therein 99. Now all the qualities labour or work therein and bring forth their fruit or children and every child is qualified or conditioned according to the kind and property of all the Qualities 100. This they drive and act so long till all the matter be quite dryed till the sweet quality or sweet water be dryed up and then the fruit falls off and the stalk dryeth also and falleth down And this is the end of Nature in this World 101. Concerning this much higher things are to be written which you will find concerning the Creation of this world this is only brought in for a Similitude and described in the briefest manner 102. Now the other form or kind of Qualities or of the Divine Powers or of the Seven Spirits of God are especially to be observed or known by the Instance or Example of Heat 103. First there is the ground or the corporeall Being although in the Deity or in the Creatures either it hath no peculiar or several Body but all the Qualities are in one another as One however the operation of every quality is perceived in particular and severally 104. Now in the Body or fountain is the Heat which generateth the fire which is a form or kind of thing which a man can search into and out of the heat goeth the light through all the Spirits and Qualities and the light is the living Spirit which a man cannot search into 105. Bnt a man can search into its will and know what it willeth or how it is for it proceedeth in the sweet quality and the Light riseth up in the sweet Quality in the sweet water and not in the other qualities 106. For Example thou canst kindle all things in this world and so make them give light and burn if the sweet Quality have the predominancy in it and where the other qualities are predominant in it thou canst not kindle that And though thou mayest bring Heat into it yet thou canst not bring the Spirit into it to make it give light therefore all qualities are the children of the sweet quality or of the sweet water because the spirit riseth up onely in the water 108. Art thou a rational Man in whom is the Spirit and understanding then look all about in the world for there thou wilt find it thus 109. Thou canst kindle wood that it give light for the water is chief upper Regent or predominant therein so likewise in all sorts of Herbs on Earth wherein the sweet water is predominant 110. Thou canst not kindle light in a stone because the astringent or harsh Quality is chief or predominant therein neither canst thou kindle light in Earth unlesse the other qualities be first vanquished and boyled out of it which is seen in the Gun-powder which yet is but a flash or a spirit of terrour wherein the Devil in the Anger of God representeth himself which I will describe and demonstrate more largely in another place Objection 111. But thou wilt say That a man cannot kindle the water to make it give light Answer Yes Dear Man Here lyeth or sticketh the mystery The wood which thou kindlest is not very Fire but a Dark or Opake stock onely the fire and light taketh their original from thence 112. But thou must understand this concerning the sweet quality of the water and not concerning the stick or block but it is to be understood concering the Unctuositie or fatnesse which is the spirit therein 113. Now in the Elementary water on earth the sweetnesse is not the Chief or Upper Regent but the astringent bitter and sowre quality else the water were not mortale but were as that water is out of which Heaven is created 114. And that I will demonstrate to thee thus viz. that the astringent sowre and bitter Quality is predominant in the Elementary water on Earth 115. Take Rie Wheat Barley Oates or what you will wherein the sweet quality is predominant soak or steep it in the Elementary water afterward Distill it then the sweet quality will take away the predominancy from the other and afterward kindle that water and then you will see the spirit which is remaining in the water of the unctuousnesse or fatnesse of the Corn which did overcome the water 116. This thou seest also in Flesh the flesh neither burneth nor shineth or giveth Light but its Fat burneth and shineth or giveth Light Question 117. Thou mayst perhaps ask How comes that to passe or In what manner is it so Answer 118. Behold in Flesh the astringent sowre and bitter quality is predominant and in the fat the sweetnesse is chief and predominant Therefore fat creatures are alwaies Merrier and frolicker then the lean because the sweet Spirit floweth more abundantly in them then in the Lean. 119. For the light of Nature which is the Spirit of life shineth more in them then in the lean For in that Light in the sweet quality standeth the tryumphing or the Joy for the astringent or harsh and bitter quality triumph therein for they rejoyce that they are refresh'd fed given to drink and enlightned from the sweet and light quality 120. For in the
Felleys and Spoaks and with all the Naves turneth about and is felleyed together as seven wheeles so that it can go any way forward backward downward upward and crosse-wayes without turning back 12. Whereas yet alwayes the form of all the seven wheeles and the One onely Nave in the Center of all the wheeles is fully in sight and so it is not understood how the wheel is made but the wheel alwaies appears admirable wonderfull and marvellous with its rising up and yet abideth also in its own Place 13. In such a manner the Deity is continually generated and neverpasseth away ceaseth or vanisheth out of sight and in this manner also is the Life in Angels and Men continually generated 14. But according to the moving of the seven spirits of God the figures and Creatures of the transitorinesse are formed and not thus generated though indeed the Birth or geniture of all the seven spirits sheweth it self therein yet their quality standeth onely in the seventh Nature-spirit which the other six spirits do form figure frame alter and change according to their wrestling and rising up 15. And therefore also the figures and transitory forms and creatures are changed according to the condition of the seventh Nature-spirit in which they rise up 16. But the Angels are not onely Imaged or framed out of the seventh Nature-spirit as the transitory creatures are but when the Deity moved it self to the creating of Angels then in every circle wherein each Angel was incorporated or compacted together there the Deity with its whole substance and being was incorporated or compacted together Understand the two Eternal Principles viz. the Fire and the Light and yet not the quality or source of the Fire But the Essence of it and became a Body and yet the Deity continued in its seat as before Understand this wall 17. The Angels Body or the comprehensibility is from or out of the Seventh spirit and the Birth or Geniture in that Body is the Six qualifying or fountain-spirits and the spirit or the heart which the six spirits generate in the center of the Body in which the Light riseth up and the animated or soulish spirit out of the Light which also qualifieth uniteth or operateth with the Deity without distinct from the Body that signifieth the Heart of God out of which the Holy Ghost goeth forth 18. And it also was from or out of the heart of God co-united or mixed in the Body of the Angel in their first compacting or incorporating together therefore the Angels Government in the Mind generateth it self as the Deity doth 19. And as in the Seventh Nature-spirit of God which existeth out of the other six there doth not stand the whole perfect knowledge of the other six spirits for it cannot search or dive into their deep Birth or Geniture in that they are its Father and generate it out of themselves 20. No more doth the whole full and perfect knowledge of God stand in the Angelical Body but in the Spirit which is generated in the Heart which goeth forth from the Light which qualifieth or operateth also with the heart and spirit of God wherein the whole full and perfect knowledge of God standeth but the Body cannot apprehend that animated or soulish spirit as also the seventh Nature-spirit comprehendeth not the deepest birth or Geniture of God 21. For when the seventh Nature-spirit is generated then it is dryed by the astringent Quality and is as it were staid and kept by its Father and cannot go back again into the Deep that is into the Center of the Heart where the Sonne is generated and from whence the Holy Ghost goeth forth but must hold still as a Generated Body and must give way to the qualifying or fountain Veins that is to the spirits to qualifie work and labour the rein as they Please 22. For it is the proper house and habitation of the six spirits which they continually build according to their pleasure or as a Garden of delight into which the Master of it soweth all manner of Seeds according to his pleasure and then enjoyeth the fruit thereof 23. Thus the other six spirits continually erect this garden of delight and pleasure and sowe their fruits thereinto and seed upon it to strengthen their Migâ—t and joy and this is the Garden in which the Angels dwell and walk up and down in and wherein the heavenly fruit groweth 24. But the wonderfull proportion or variety of Harmony which appeareth in the growths or vegetations and figures or forms in this Garden ariseth from the qualification or operation and from the loving wrestling or strugling of the other spirits 25. For that which is predominant or chief in the striving Imageth or formeth the growth and vegetation according to its kind and the other alwayes help to promote it one while one is at it by and by the other then the third and so on 26. And therefore also there arise so many several growths vegetations and figures as are altogether insearchable and incomprehensible to the Bodily Reason of the Angels but to the animated or soulish Reason of the Angels they are wholly fully and perfectly comprehensible 27. And this is also wholly hidden as to my Body but not as to my animated or soulish spirit for so long as it qualifieth or worketh with and in God it comprehendeth the same but when it falls into Sin then the Door is shut against it and the Devill bolteth it up fast and it must be set open again with great labour and industrie of the spirit 28. I know very well that the wrath of the Devil will mock and scoff in the hearts of wicked men at this Revelation For he is mightily ashamed because of this revelation he hath also given my soul many a Pang and Crush for it but I leave it to Gods direction that will have it so I cannot resist him though my earthly Body should go to wrack for it yet my God will glorifie me in my knowledge 29. The Glorification of this my knowledge I desire and no other for I know that when this my spirit in my new body which I shall get at the Day of my Resurrection out of this my now corrupted Body shall arise that it will appear like the Deity as also like the holy Angels 30. For the triumphing Joyous Light in my spirit sheweth me it sufficiently in which I have also searched into the depth of the Deity and described it rightly according to my gifts and the impulse of the spirit though in great feeblenesse and weaknesse in that my original and actual sins have often bolted the Door against me and the Devil hath danced before it as a whorish woman and rejoyced at my Captivity and anguish yet that will bring very little profit to his Kingdom 31. Therefore I must now look for no other then his fierce wrath but my stay trust and Refuge is the Champion in the Fight who hath often delivered me
it had brought forth heavenly fruit which had a holy pure heavenly Body and were the food of Angels so now it brought forth fruits according to its comprehensible palpable hard Evil wrathful poisonous venomous half-dead kind for as the Mother was so were her children 24. Not that the fruits of the Earth are thereupon wholly in the wrath of God for the incorporated or compacted Word which is immortal and incorruptible which was from eternity in the Salitter of the Earth sprung up again in the Body of death and brought forth fruit out of the dead Body of the Earth but the Earth comprehended not the Word but the Word comprehended the Earth 25. And now as the whole Earth was together with the Word so was the fruit also but the word remained in the Center of the Heaven which is also in this place hiddenly and this Birth or Geniture caused the seven qualifying or fountain spirits out of or from the outermost corrupt and dead Birth or Geniture to form the Body and it self viz. the Word or Heart of God remained in its heavenly seat sitting on the Throne of Majestie and filled the Astrall and also the mortal Birth or Geniture but to them was the holy life altogether incomprehensible 26. Thou must not think that thereupon the outermost dead Birth or Geniture of the Earth hath gotten such a Life through the risen word that sprung up so that it is no more a Death No that can never be for that which is once dead in God that is really dead and in its own power can never be living again but the Word which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Astrall Birth in the Part of the Love that generateth the Life through the astrall Birth or Geniture through the Death 27. For thou seest plainly How all the Fruits of the Earth whatsoever it bringeth forth must putrifie and Rot also they are a Death 28. But that the Fruits get another Body then the Earth is which is much fuller of vertue fairer or more beautifull also of a better taste relish and smell it is because the Astrall Birth or Geniture receiveth power or vertue from the Word and formeth or frameth another Body which standeth half in the Death and half in the Life and standeth hidden between the Wrath of God and the Love 29. But that the Fruits upon the Body are much pleasanter lovelier sweeter and milder and with a Good Taste and relish that is even the Third Birth out of the Earth according to which the Earth shall be purged and cleansed at the End of this time and shall be set or put again into its first Place but the Wrath will abide in Death The richly joyfull Gate of Man 30. Behold thus saith the Spirit in the Word which is the very Heart of the Earth and which riseth or springeth up in his Heaven in the half flash of the Life wherewith my spirit in its knowledge qualifieth mixeth or uniteth and through which I write these words 31. Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth out of an incorporated or compacted Masse or Lump Understand out of the Matrix of the Earth wherein the Eye is twofold the one in God and the other in this world out of Three Principles and not out of the wrath but out of the Birth or Geniture of the Earth and stood in the Astrall Birth or Geniture in the part of the Love but wrath hung to him which he should have put forth from himself as the the fruit putteth forth from it the bitternesse of the Tree 32. And that he did not but reached back from the Love into the wrath and lusted after his dead or mortal Mother to eat of her and to suck her breast and to stand upon her stock 33. Now according to his wrestling so also it befell him and so he brought himself with his outermost Birth or Geniture into the Death or mortality of his mother and with his life he brought himself out from the Love into the Part of the wrathful Astral Birth or Geniture 34. And there he standeth now between Heaven and Hell in the Face of the Devill in his kingdome against whom the Devil warreth fighteth and striveth continually that he might either banish him out of his Country into the Earth or make him a child of wrath in Hell And what is Now his Hope Answer 35. Behold thou blind Heathen behold thou Render Perverter Obscurer and wrester of the Scriptures open thy eyes wide and be not ashamed at this simple plainnesse for God lyeth hid in the Center and is yet much more Simple and plain but thou seest him not 36. Behold thy spirit or thy soul is generated from or out of thy Astral Birth or Geniture and is the Third Birth in thee Just as an Apple upon a Tree is the Third Birth or Geniture of the Earth and hath not its vegetation in from or within the Earth but from above the Earth and if it were a Spirit as thy soul is it would not suffer the Earth any more to tye or bind it to corruption 37. But thou must know that the Apple on its stock or Branch however with its innermost Birth or Geniture qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Word of God through whose power it is grown out of the Earth 38. But being the wrath is in its Bodily or Corporeal Mother therefore it cannot set or put it out from the Comprehensible or palpable Birth but must remain with its Body in the palpablenesse or comprehensibility in Death 39. But in its power in which its life standeth wherewith it qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Word of God it will in its mother in the power of the Word at the last Judgment Day be set or put again into its heavenly Place and be separated from the wrathfull and dead or mortall palpablenesse and spring up in the Heaven of this world in a heavenly form and 〈◊〉 a Fruit for Men in the other LIfe Here understand The power of the Principle out of which the Apple and All groweth shall in the Renovation of the world spring up again in Paradise with the wonders 40. But being thou art made out of the Seed of the Earth Red Earth is Fire and Water conceived with or by the word Fiat out of the Matrix of the Earth but when Man Imagined or set his desire into the Earth he became Earthly and hast set or put thy Body back again into thy Mother therefore thy Body also is become a palpable dead or Mortal Body such as thy Mother is 41. And thy Body hath the same Hope which thy Mother the Earth hath viz. that at the last Judgement Day in the power of the word it shall be set or put again into its first Place 42. But being thy Astral Birth standeth here on Earth in the wrath and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Love in the Word Just as the Fruit on the Tree doth for the power
again and fashioned according to that form which they were in from the beginning of the Creation 74. Only the two qualities good and bad which have been in Nature one in another were separated and the bad one was given to the prince of malice and wrath or fiercenesse for an eternal habitation and that is called Hell or a Rejection which in eternity no more apprehends or toucheth the good quality but is an oblivion of all good and that unto its eternity 75. In the other quality stood the Tree of eternal Life and its source and off-spring descended from the holy Trinity and the Holy Ghost did shine into the same And all men came forth which descended from the loynes of Adam who was the first man Each in its vertue and in that quality in which each did grow on earth 76. Those that on earth had eaten of the good Tree which is called JESUS CHRIST in them did dwell the Mercy of God unto eternal joy they had in them the power of the good quality they were received into the good and holy quality and they sung the Song of their Bridegroom each in his voyce according to his own Holinesse 77. But those that were born in the Light of Nature and of the Holy Ghost and on earth never fully knew the Tree of Life but were grown in its power which overshadowed all men upon earth as very many Nations Heathens and Babes which were also received into the same power wherein they were grown and wherewith their spirit was cloathed and they sung the song according to their power and measure in the noble tree of eternal life for every one was glorified according to his power vertue measure and proportion 78. And the Holy Nature Generated joyfull heavenly fruit even as on earth it had generated fruit in both the Qualities which were both good and bad so now it did generate heavenly fulnesse of Joy 79. And those men that were now like Angels did each eat the fruit of his Quality and they sung the song of God and the song of the Tree of eternal life 80. And that was in the Father as a holy Sceane a triumphing joy for to that end all things at the beginning were made out of the Father and now they abide so to all eternity 81. But those that were grown on earth in the power of the tree of wrath that is which the fierce quality had overcome and were withered in the wickednesse of their spirit in their Sins all those came forth also each in his power or faculty and were received into the Kingdom of Darknesse and each was indued in that power in which he was grown up and their King is call'd Lucifer viz. one expell'd or driven forth from the Light 82. And the hellish quality brought forth fruit also as it had done upon earth onely the good was severed or parted from it and therefore it brought forth fruit now in its own quality And these Men also which were now like the spirits did each eat the fruit of his quality and so did the Devils also 83. For as there is a difference in men upon earth in their qualities and all are not of one Quality Condition or Disposition even so among the rejected reprobate spirits and so in the heavenly pomp in Angels and Men and that lasteth unto its eternity AMEN 84. Courteous Reader This is a short information concerning the two Qualities in Nature from the beginning to the end how there arose from thence two Kingdoms a heavenly and a hellish and how they stirre in this time and strive one against another and what the issue of it will be in the time to come The Contents of this Book by way of Introduction To this Book I have given this Name viz. The Root or Mother of Philosophie Astrologie and Theologie And that you may know what this Book doth treat of Observe I. 1. In the Philosophie is treated concerning the Divine power I. What God is II. How in the Being of God is created Nature the Stars and the Elements III. From whence every thing hath its Original IIII. How Heaven and Earth were created V. How Angels Men and Devils were created VI. How Heaven and Hell and whatever is creaturely were created and what the Two Qualities are in Nature All out of a true ground in the knowledge of the Spirit by the impulse and motion of God II. 2. In the Astrologie is treated I. Of the powers of Nature of the Stars and of the Elements II. How all Creatures proceeded from thence III. How the same do impell and rule all IIII. And work in all and how good and bad is wrought by them in Men and Beasts V. Whence it cometh that Good and Bad is and raigneth in this world VI. Also how the Kingdom of Heaven and of Hell consisteth therein 3. My purpose is not to describe the course place and Name of all Stars and what their Annual Conjunction Opposition Quadrat is or the like what they yearly and hourly operate which by a long processe of time hath been observed by the wise skilful and Expert Men who were rich and large in spirit by their diligent contemplation observation deep sense Calculation and Computation 4. Neither have I studied or learned the same and I leave that to the Learned to discourse of but my intention is to write according to the Spirit and sense and not according to Speculation III. 5. In the Theologie is handled I. Of the Kingdom of Christ of what condition the same is II. How it is set in opposition to the Kingdom of Hell III. How in Nature it fighteth and striveth against the Kingdom of Hell IIII. How men through Faith and Spirit are able to overcome the Kingdom of Hell and triumph in Divine power and obtain eternal salvation and all this as a victory in the Battel V. Also how Man through the operation or working in the hellish quality casts himself into perdition VI. And what the issue of both will be at last 6. The Supream Title is AVRORA That is The Dawning of the Day in the East or Morning-Rednesse in the Rising of the SVN And is a secret Mystery concealed from the wise and prudent of this world which themselves shall shortly be sensible of but to those which read this book in singlenesse of heart with a desire after the holy Spirit who place their hope onely in God it will not be a hidden secret but a manifest knowledge 7. I will not explain this Title but commit it to the judgment of the impartial Reader who wrestleth in the good quality of this world 8. Now if Mr. Critick which qualifieth or worketh with his wit in the fierce quality gets this book into his hand he will oppose it as there is alwayes stirring and Opposition between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Hell I. First he will say that I ascend too high into the Deity which is not a meet thing
the light that fierce fire is like the manner of the conjunction of these two Now Observe 26. Now when the fire-spirit and the astringent spirit struggle and wrestle thus together then the astringent maketh a vehement hard Cold astriction and the fiery maketh a terrible fierce Heat 27. And now the rising up of the heat and of the astriction maketh a trembling fierce terrible spirit which raveth and rageth as if it would tear the Deity asunder But thou must understand this exactly and properly 28. This is thus in the Original of the Quality in it self but in the midst in the rising up of this fierce spirit this spirit is caught and mitigated in the sweet water where its fierce source or fountain is changed into a trembling bitter and greenish Colour like a greenish duskinesse and retaineth in it self the condition and property of all three Qualities viz. of the fiery astringent and sweet and so from these three existeth the fourth Quality viz. the Bitter 29. For from the fiery quality the spirit becommeth trembling and Hot and from the astringent it becometh severe astringent hard and corporeal so that it is a spirit which alwayes subsisteth and from the sweet it becometh meek or mild and the fiercenesse changeth it into a gentle bitternesse which standeth now in the Fountain or Well-spring of the seven Spirits of God and helpeth continually to generate the other six spirits Understand this rightly 30. It doth as well generate its Father and Mother as its Father and Mother doth generate it for after that it is corporeally generated it then with the astringent Quality alwayes generateth the fire again and the fire generateth Light and the light is the Flash which alwaies generateth the Life again in all the qualifying or fountain spirits whence the spirits have life and alwaies generate one another again 31. But here thou must know that one spirit alone cannot generate another neither can two of them do it but the birth of a spirit standeth in the operation of all the seven spirits six of them alwayes generate the seventh and so if one of them were not then the other would not be neither 32. But that I sometimes take onely two or three to the Nativity or birth of a spirit I do that because of my own weaknesse for I cannot beaâ— them all seven at once in their perfection in my corrupted Brain 33. I see them all seven very well but when I speculate into them then the spirit riseth up in the middlemost fountain or well-spring where the Spirit of life generateth it self which goeth now upwards now downwards it cannot apprehend all the seven spirits in one thought or at once but only in Part. 34. Every Spirit hath its own quality or source though indeed it is generated of the other and so it is with the apprehension of Man he hath indeed the fountain of all seven spirits in him but in what quality or fountain soever the spirit riseth up the qualifying or fountain spirit thereof wherein that same spirit is most strongly Imaged that is it which he comprehendeth most sharply in that rising up 35. For even in the Divine power one spirit doth not go through all the spirits equally at once in its rising up for when it riseth up then indeed it toucheth or stirreth them all at once but it is caught in its rising up so that it must lay down its statelinesse and Pomp and not triumph over all the seven 36. It is the Being or Substance of the Senses and Thoughts otherwise if a Thought through the Center of Nature could penetrate all the forms then it were Free from the Band of Nature 37. Thus it is also in Man when one qualifying or fountain spirit riseth up then it toucheth all the other and seeth all the other for it riseth up in the middle or central Fountain or Well-spring of the Heart where in the Heat the flash of Light kindleth it self wherein the spirit in its rising up in the same flash seeth through all the spirits 38. But in our corrupted flesh it is only like a Tempest of lightning for if I could in my flesh comprehend the flash which I very well see and know how it is I could clarifie or transfigure my Body therewith so that it would shine with a Bright Light and Glory For from the Flash cometh the Light of the Majestie And then it would no more resemble and be conform to the Bestial Body but to the Angels of God 39. But hearken friend tarry yet a little while and then give the bestial Body for food to the Worms but when the Total God shall kindle the Seven Spirits of God in the corrupted Earth then if that same Salitter which thou sowest in the earth will not be capable of the fire then thy qualifying or fountain-spirits which thou didst sowe in thy life-time and is sowen in thy departure from hence will rise again in the same Salitter which thou hast sown and will triumph therein and become a Body again 40. But he that will be capable of the kindled fire of the seven Spirits of God he shall abide therein and his qualifying or fountain spirits shall rise in hellish pain which I shall demonstrate clearly in its due place 41. I cannot describe unto thee the whole Deity by the Circumference or extent of a Circle for it is unmeasurable but to that Spirit which is in Gods Love it is not incomprehensible it comprehends it well yet but in Part therefore take one part after another and then you will see the whole 42. In this corruption we cannot get higher then with such a Revelation neither doth this world inclose it self any higher both as to the Beginning and the End 43. I would very fain see somewhat higher in this my anxious generating or Birth whereby my sick Adam might be refreshed 44. But I look round about me in all the world and can find out nothing all is sick lame and wounded moreover Blind Deaf and Dumb. 45. I have read the Writings of very high Masters hoping to find therein the ground and true depth but I have found nothing but a half dead Spirit which in anxiety travelleth and laboureth for health and yet because of its great weaknesse cannot attain perfect power 46. Thus I stand yet as an anxious woman in travell and seek perfect refreshing but find onely the scent or smell or savour in its rising up wherein the Spirit examineth what power sticketh in the true cordial and in the mean while refresheth it self in its sicknesse with that perfect smell or savour till the true Samaritan doth come who will dresse and bind up its wounds and heal it and bring it to the eternal Inne or Lodging then it shall enjoy the perfect Taste 47. This Herb which I mean here from whose Fragancy my spirit taketh its refreshing Every Countrey Plowman doth not know it nor Every Doctor the one is as
riseth up the astringent or harsh quality rubs it self with the Bitter and Hot and there the light kindleth which is the Sonne of which it is alwayes impregnated in its Body and that enlighteneth and maketh it living 39. Now that light in Lucifer was so fair bright and Beautiful that he excelled the bright form of heaven and in that light was perfect Understanding for all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits generate that same light 40. But now the seven qualifying or fountain-Spirits are the Father of the Light and may permit or suffer the Birth of the Light to be as much as they please and the light cannot exalt or raise it self higher then the qualifying or fountain-spirits will permit or give it leave 41. But when the Light is generated then it enlightneth all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits so that all seven are Understanding and do all seven give their will to the Birth of the Light 42. But now every one hath power and Might to alter its will in the Birth of the light according as there is need now if that be so then the spirit cannot triumph thus but must lay down its prancing Pomp. 43. And therefore it is that all seven spirits are in full power every one of them hath the Reines in its hand that it may hold in and check the generated spirit from triumphing any higher then is fit for it 44. But the seven spirits which are in an Angel which generate the light and understanding they are bound and united with the whole God that they should not qualifie any other way either higher or more vehemently then God himself but that there should be one and the same manner and way between them both 45. Seeing they are but a part or peece of the whole and not the whole it self for God hath therefore created them out of himself that they should qualifie operate or Act in such a manner form and way as God himself doth 46. But now the qualifying or fountain spirits in Lucifer did not so but they seeing that they sate in the highest Primacie or Rank they moved themselves so hard and strongly that the spirit which they generated was very fiery and climbed up in the fountain of the heart like a Proud Damsell or Virgin 47. If the qualifying or fountain spirits had moved qualified or acted gently and lovely as they did before they became creaturely as they were universally in God before the Creation then had they generated also a gentle lovely mild and meek Sonne in them which would have been like to the Sonne of God and then the Light in Lucifer and the Light of the Sonne of God had been One thing one qualifying operating acting and affecting one and the same lovely kissing Embracing and struggling 48. For the great Light which is the Heart of God would have played meekly mildly and lovingly with the small Light in Lucifer as with a young sonne for the little sonne in Lucifer should have been the dear little brother of the Heart of God 49. To this End God the Father hath created the Angels that as he is manifold and various in his Qualities and in his alteration or variegation is incomprehensible in his Sport or Scene of Love so the little spirits also or the little Lights of the Angels which are as the Sonne of God should play or sport very gently or lovely in the great light before the Heart of God that the Joy in the Heart of God might here be encreased and that so there might be a holy Sport Scene or play in God 50. The seven spirits of Nature in an Angel should play and rise up gently in God their Father as they had done before their creaturely Being and rejoyce in their New-born sonne which they have generated out of themselves which is the Light and Understanding of their Body 51. And that light should rise very gently or mildly in the Heart of God and rejoyce in the light of God as a child with its Mother and so there should be a Hearty loving and friendly kissing a very meek and pleasant Taste or relish 52. In this the Tone should rise up and sound with singing and ringing forth in praising and jubilating also all the qualities should rejoyce therein and every spirit should exercise or practise its Divine work or labour as God the Father Himself doth 53. For the seven spirits had this in perfect knowledge for they were united and actuated with God the Father so that they could all see feel taste smell and hear what God their Father did or wrought and made 54. But when they elevated themselves in a sharp or strong kindling then they did against Natures Right otherwise then God their Father did and this was a stirring quality or rising up against or contrary to the whole Deity 55. For they kindled the Salitter of the Body and generated a high triumphing Sonne which in the astringent quality was hard rugged or rough dark and cold in the sweet was burning bitter and fiery The Tone was a hard fiery noise The Love was a lofty Emnity against God 56. Here now stood the kindled Bride in the seventh Nature-spirit like a Proud Beast now she supposed she was beyond or above God nothing was like her now Love grew cold the Heart of God could not touch it for there was a contrary will or opposition betwixt them The Heart of God moved very meekly and lovingly and the heart of the Angel moved very darkly hard cold and fiery 57. And the heart of God should now unite and qualifie with the Heart of the Angel but that could not be for there was now hard against soft and soure against sweet and dark against light and fire against a pleasant gentle warmth and a hard knocking or rumbling against a loving melodious song Question Hearken Lucifer Where lyeth the fault now that thou art become a Devill Is God in fault as thou lyingly sayst Answer 58. O no thou thy self art faulty the qualifying or fountain Spirits in thy Body which thou thy self art have generated thee such a little sonne Thou canst not say that God hath kindled the Salitter out of which he made thee but thy qualifying or fountain spirits have done it whereas thou wert clearly before a Prince and King of God 59. Therefore when thou sayst God Created thee thus or that he hath without sufficient cause spewed thee up out of thy place then art thou a Lyar and Murtherer For the whole heavenly Hoast or Army beareth witnesse against thee that thou hast thy self erected and prepared this fierce Quality for thy self 60. If it be not so then go before the face of God and Justifie thy self But thou seest it plain enough without that and besides thou darest not look on that matter Wouldst not thou fain have a friendly kisse of the Sonne of God that thou mightst once be eased or refreshed if thou art in the Right then do but once
generateth the other and yet none of them do vanish out of sight but that all seven be visible or in sight 88. And the seven Wheeles alwaies generating the Naves in the midst or center according to their turning about so that the Nave stand alwaies free without alteration or removing whether the wheeles go forward or backward or crosse waies or upward or downward 89. And the Nave alwaies generating the Spoaks so that in their turning about they stand right and direct from the Nave to the Felleys of the wheel and yet none of the spoaks to be out of sight but still turning about thus one with another going whithersoever the wind drive it and that without need of any turning back or stopping Now observe what I shall inform you in the application of this 90. The seven Wheeles are the seven Spirits of God the one alwaies generating the other and are like the turning about of a wheel which hath seven wheels one in another and the one alwaies wheeleth it self otherwise then the other in its station and the seven wheeles are Felleyed or hooped Round with Felleys like a round Globe 91. And yet that a man may see all the seven wheeles turning round about severally apart as also the whole fitnesse or compasse of the frame with all its Felleys and Spoaks and Naves 92. And the seven Naves in the midst or Center being as it were one Nave which doth fit every where in the turning about and the wheeles continually generating these Naves and the Naves generating the Spoaks continually in all the seven wheeles and yet none of the wheeles as also none of the Naves nor any of the Felleys or Spoaks to be out of sight and as if this wheel had seven wheeles and yet were all but one wheel and went alwayes forward whithersoever the wind drove it Now Behold and Consider 93. The seven wheeles one in another the one alwaies generating the other and going on every side and yet none out of sight or turning back these are the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits of God the Father 94. And they generate in the seven wheeles in each wheel a Nave and yet there are not seven Naves but only One which fitteth in all the seven wheeles And this is the Heart or innermost Body of the wheeles wherein the wheels run about and that signifieth the Sonne of God 95. For all the seven Spirits of God the Father generate continually in their circle and that is the sonne of all the seven spirits and all those qualifie or act in his Light and is in the midst or Center of the Birth and holds together all the seven spirits of God and they in their Birth turn about therewith thus 96. That is they clime either upward or downward backward or forward or crosse-wayes and so the Heart of God is alwayes in the midst or center and fitteth alwaies every qualifying or fountain Spirit 97. Thus there is One Heart of God and not seven which is alwaies generated from all the seven and is the heart and life of all the seven 98. Now the Spoaks which are alwaies generated from the Naves and Wheeles and which do fit all the wheeles in their turning and are their Root stay and fastning in which they stand and out of which they are generated signifie God the Holy Ghost which goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne even as the Spoaks go out from the Nave and Wheel and yet abide also in the wheel 99. Now as the Spoaks are many and go alwaies about with and in the wheel so the Holy Ghost is the Workmaster in the wheel of God and formeth Imageth and frameth all in the whole or total God 100. Now this wheel hath seven wheels one in another and one Nave which is fitted in all the seven wheels and all the seven wheels turn on that one Nave Thus God is one God with seven qualifying or fountain spirits and yet is but one God just as these seven wheeles are but One wheel Now Observe 101. The wheel in its incorporated structure and frame signifieth the astringent quality which attracteth or draweth together the whole corporeal Being of the Deity and holds it and dryeth it so that it subsisteth 102. And the sweet spring or fountain-water is generated by the driving about or rising up of the spirits for when the light is generated in the Heat then the astringent quality is amazed or terrified for great Joy and this is a submitting or lying down or growing thin and the hard corporeal being sinketh down like a meeknesse or mildnesse 103. And so now the terrour or the glance of the Light riseth up in the astringent quality very gently and shivering and trembleth which now in the water is bitter and the Light dryeth it and maketh it friendly and sweet 104. Now therein standeth life and joy for the terrour or flash riseth up in all the qualities like the wheel aforementioned which turneth about and then there all the seven spirits rise up one in another and generate themselves as in a Circle and the light is shining in the midst or Center of the seven Spirits and re-shineth back again in all the spirits and all the spirits triumph therein and rejoyce in the light 105. And as the seven Wheeles turn about upon one Nave as upon their Heart which holds them and they hold the Nave so the seven spirits generate the Heart and the heart holds the seven spirits and so there arise voyces and divine joyfulnesse of hearty loving and kissing 106. For when the spirits with their light move or boyl turn about and rise one in another then the life is alwayes generated for one spirit alwaies affordeth to the other its taste or relish that is it is affected with the other 107. Thus the one tasteth and feeleth the other and the Tone presseth forth from all the seven spirits towards the Heart and riseth up in the heart in the flash of the light and then rise up the voices and joyfulnesse of the Sonne of God and all the seven spirits triumph and rejoyce in the Heart of God each according to its quality 108. For in the Light in the sweet water all astringency and hardnesse and bitternesse and heat are mitigated and made pleasant and so there is in the seven spirits nothing else but a pleasant striving strugling and wonderful generating like a divine holy Sport or Scene of God 109. But their sharp or Tart Birth of which I have written above abideth hidden as a kernel for it becometh mitigated by the light and sweet water 110. Just as a four bitter green Apple is forced by the Sun that it becometh very pleasant or lovely to be eaten and yet all its qualities are tasted so the Deity keepeth its qualities also but striveth or struggleth gently like a pleasant lovely Sport or Scene 111. But if the qualifying or fountain spirits should extoll or lift up themselves and
in it 153. Thus now the Heat kindled the dryed water and the light could no more elevate and kindle it self for the water was dryed up and was quite consumed by the fire or great Heat 154. The meaning is not here as if the spirit of the water were swallowed up or devoured which dwelleth in all the seven qualities but its Quality or upper place or predominancy was changed into a dusky hot and sour Quality 155. For here in this place the sour quality hath taken its first original and beginning which now also is inherited in this world which is not in Heaven in God after such a manner at all nor in any Angel for it is and signifieth the house of affliction trouble and misery and is a forgetfulnesse of all Good 156. Now when this was done the qualifying or fountain spirits rubb'd themselves one upon another in that manner and way as I have mentioned above concerning the Figure of the Sevenfold wheel for they use thus to rise up one in another and to taste one another or to affect one another from whence life and love existeth 157. Now in all the spirits there was nothing else but a meer Hot Fiery Cold and Hard corruption and so one evil quality tasted the other whereby the whole Body grew so very fierce and wrathfull for the Heat was against the Cold and the Cold against the Heat 158. And so the sweet water being dryed up the bitter quality which existed and was generated by the first flash when the light kindled it self rose up in the Body through all the spirits as if it would destroy the Body and so raved and raged like the rankest or worst Poison 159. And from thence existed the first Poison wherein we poor men now in this world have enough to chew upon and thereby the bitter poisonous Death is come into the flesh 160. In this raging and tearing now the life of Lucifer was generated that is his dear little sonne in the circle or center of his heart and what manner of life and dear little sonne came to be I offer to any Rational Soul to consider of 161. For such as the Father was such was the Sonne also viz. a dark astringent Cold hard bitter hot sour stinkiug fountain or source and the Love stood in the Bitter quality in its penetrating taste and relish and became an emnity against all the qualifying or fountain spirits in the Body of the high minded arrogant King 162. Thus the Tone rose up through the penetrating of the bitter quality through the heat and dryed water and through the astringent hard quality into the heart into the little new dear sonne 163. And here the spirit went forth and as He was generated in the heart so he went forth now at the Mouth but how welcome a Guest he was before God and in God also before the Holy Angels of the other Kingdoms I leave to thee to consider of 164. He should now have united with the Sonne of God as one Heart and one God Alas for ever Who can write or expresse this sufficiently The Fourteenth Chapter How Lucifer who was the Beautiousest Angel in Heaven is become the most horrible Devil The House of the murtherous Denne 1. HEre King Lucifer pull thy Hatt down into thy Eyes lest thou shouldst see how man will take off thy Crown away from thee thou canst no more Rule in Heaven stand still a little while we must first view thee and observe what a Beautious fair Bride thou art and whether the filth of thy whoredom may not be cleansed and washed away from thee that thou mayst be fair again we will a little describe thy chastity and vertue 2. Come on ye Philosophers and ye Lawyers and Advocates that justifie and defend King Lucifer Come near and bring him to the Barre whilest he hath yet the Crown upon him for here we will hold a Court of Judgment against Malefactours for him If ye can maintain his cause to be right then he shall be your King if not then he shall be turn'd out and cast down into Hell and another shall get his Royall Crown who will Govern Better then He. Now Observe 3. When Lucifer had thus horribly spoiled and destroyed himself all his qualifying or fountain spirits were Emnity against God for they all qualified or acted much otherwise then God and so there came to be an eternal Emnity betwixt God and Lucifer But now it might be Asked Question How Long did Lucifer stand in the Light of God The Depth Answer 4. When the Royall Body of Lucifer was incorporated or compacted together in that very Hour the Light kindled it self also in Lucifer 5. For as soon as his qualifying or fountain spirits in the framing of the Body began to qualifie or operate and to generate themselves according to the right of Nature then rose up the flash of life in the heart in the sweet spring or fountain water and so the Royall Body was ready furnished or compleat and the spirit went forth in the heart from the light through the mouth into the Heart of God 6. And so he was a most exceeding beautifull Prince and King and very dear and acceptable to the Divine Being and was received and embraced with great Joy 7. In like manner also the spirit went forth from the heart into all qualifying or fountain veins of the Body and kindled all the seven spirits and so the Royall Body was glorified in the twinkling of an Eye and there he stood as a King of God in an unsearchable clarity or Brightnesse transcendently excelling the whole heavenly Hoast or Army 8. Now in this clear and light flash the seven qualifying or fountain spirits were instantly affected as a man kindleth a fire for they were affrighted at the terrible clarity or brightnesse of their spirit and so instantly at the first flash suddenly became highly triumphing rising aloft extream stately and over-joyful and so moved themselves towards a higher Birth 9. But if they had continued in their seats and had qualified or operated as they had done from eternity then that high Light had not hurt them 10. For they were not new spirits made of any new thing but they were the Old spirits which had no beginning which had been in God from Eternity and knew very well the Right of the Deity and of Nature how they should move and stir 11. Also when God figured or framed the Body together he did not aforehand destroy the qualifying or fountain spirits but figured or framed the Body of King Lucifer together out of the kernel of that which was the best wherein was the best knowledge of all 12. Else if the qualities had been dead aforehand they had had need of a new Life and it wonld have been in doubt whether the Angels could have subsisted Eternally Conceive it aright 13. God created Angels out of himself therefore that they might be harder and dryer incorporated or
compacted together then the Ideas figures shapes or forms which through the qualifying or operating of the Spirits of God in Nature rise up and also through the moving of the spirits vanish or passe away again that their light in their hardnesse should shine the clearer and Brighter and that the Tone of the Body should sound the clearer and shriller whereby the joyfulness should increase the more in God This was the cause that God created Angels 14. But that it is said the Angel generated a new Light or a new Spirit that is thus to be understood 15. When the qualifying or fountain Spirits were incorporated or compacted together then the light shone much brighter and clearer in the Body and from or out of the body then it did before in the Salitter for there then rose up a much clearer and brighter flash in the body then before whilest the Salitter was Thin and Dim 16. And therefore the qualifying or fountain spirits also became stately and Proud and supposed they had a much fairer little sonne or Light then the Sonne of God was and therefore they would also the more earnestly and eagerly qualifie or operate and elevate themselves and so despised the qualifying or Acting which is in God their Father and the Birth of the Sonne of God as also the Exit or going forth of God the Holy Ghost and supposed they could do it because they were so gloriously incorporated or compacted together therefore they would now exalt themâ—elves gloriously and stately and shew forth themselves as if they were the most fair and Beautious Bride of Heaven 17. They knew very well that they were not the whole or Totall God but were onely a piece or part thereof they also knew very well how far their Omnipotence reached or extended and yet they would no more have their Old condition but would be higher then the whole or Total God and supposed thereby they should have their place Region Quarters or Court above the whole or Total Deity above all Kingdoms whatsoever 18. And therefore they elevated or extol'd themâ—elves intending to kindle or enflame the whole God and to Govern or rule the whole God by their power and might All forms and Ideas should rise up in the qualifying and acting of their Spirit He would be Lord of the Deity and would not endure any Corrival 19. Now this is the Root of Covetousnesse Envy Pride and Wrath For in the fierce qualifying or acting and boyling rose up the wrath and burnt like fire of Heat and Cold and was also bitter as Gall. 20. For the qualifying or fountain spirits had no outward impulse upon them gotten into them but the impulse to Pride elevated it self within the Body in the councel of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits these agreed and united in a compact that they would be God alone 21. But because they could not begin it in their Old seat and so bring it to effect they therefore dissembled or playd the Hypocrite together and flatter'd one with another and so combined intending to extoll themselves against the Birth of God and would needs qualifie or work in the highest depth and then nothing could be like them being they were together the most Mighty Prince in God 22. The Astringent quality was the first Murtherer flatterer and Hypocrite for when it saw that it generated so fair and bright a Light then it compressed it self together yet harder then God had created it to be intending to be much more terrible and to draw together all in its whole Region Circuit or circumference and keep it fast as a stern severe Lord 23. And so in a degree then it had Effected somewhat from whence Earth and Stones have their Original which I will write of when I treat concerning the Creation of the World 24. The Bitter Quality was the second Murtherer which when it rose up in the Flash did tear with breaking and great Power in the Astringent quality as if it would break the Body in pieces 25. And the astringent quality permitted it or else it was very well able to have stayd and captivated the Bitter spirit and to bathe or steep it in the sweer-water till his high mind had been allayed and gone But it would needs have such a little Brother because it was so serviceable to its turn Else being the bitter spirit taketh its original from it as it were from its Father it could well have stopped or hindred that 26. The Heat is the third Murtherous spirit which killed its Mother the sweet water but the astringent spirit is the cause thereof for by its stern severe attracting together and hardening it hath thus vehemently awakened and kindled the fire by the bitter Quality for the fire is the Sword of the astringent and Bitter quality 27. But being the fire riseth up in the sweet water therefore it self hath the whip or scourge in its own power and might have stayd or kept back the astringent quality in the water but it also became a flatterer or hypocrite and dissembled with the great quality viz. the astringent and did help to destroy the sweet water 28. The Tone is the fourth Murtherer for it taketh its ringing sound in the fire in the sweet water and riseth up very gently and lovely in the whole Body 29. Yet it did not so here but after it was risen up in the water in the astringent quality it rose up so furiously like a Thunder-Clap whereby it would prove and shew forth its New Deity And so the fire rose up as when there is a Tempest of Lightning intending thereby to be so great as to be above all things in God 30. And this they practised so long till they had murthered their mother the sweet water and therein the whole Body became a dark valley and there was no more remedy or Council in God that could help here For Love was turn'd into Emnity and the whole Body became a black dark Teufel Devill 31. Of the word Teufel Teu hath its origiginal from hard beating Drumming or Thumping and the word or syllable fell hath its originall from the falle fall and so Lord Lucifer is called Teuffel Devill and is no more called a Cherubin or Seraphin Here it may be Asked Question Could not God have hindered and prevented the Pride of Lucifer that he might have abstained from his high-mindednesse Answer 32. This is a high Question on which all those lay hold that justifie and plead the Cause of the Devil but they are all Cited to appear at the Court of Justice held for Tryal of Criminal Malefactours let them have a care how they plead for their Master else the Sentence of Judgment will be pronounced against him and he will lose his Crown The wonderfull Revelation 33. Behold King Lucifer was the Head in his whole Region Circuit or Circumference also he was a mighty King and was created out of the kernell or marrow of his whole
100. Here bring in your defence and answer for your spirit if not it will be condemned For this is God Jus Right or Law which hath no begining that the child which is generated of the mother should be Humble before the mother and be obedient to her for it hath its life and Body from the mother who hath generated it 101. Also the house of the Mother as long as the mother liveth is not the childs proper own but the mother keeps the child with her in love she nourisheth it and putteth on it the best and bravest Attire which she hath and giveth the same to it for its own that her joy may be encreased by the child and that she may have Joy in it 102. But when the child rebelleth and resisteth against the mother and takes away all from the mother and domineers over her and moreover striketh at her and forceth her to change into a low condition contrary to Right and Equity then it is but Just that the child should be expell'd out of the house and left to sit behind the Hedge and quite lose its childs portion and Inheritance 103. And thus it was between God and his child Lucifer The Father did put on him the fairest Attire hoping to have Joy in him But when the child got the Robe and Ornament he despised the Father and would domineer over the Father and would ruine his Fathers house and besides struck at the Father and would not be advised or taught to do otherwise Of the second Species form sort or spirit of Sins beginning in Lucifer 104. The Second Spirit is the Water And as the astringent or harsh quality is the Father of the other six spirits which attracteth or draweth them together and so holds them so the sweet water is the Mother in which all spirits are conceived kept and generated that softneth and moistneth or soaketh them wherein and whereby they get their life and then the light of joyfulnesse riseth up therein 105. Thus King Lucifer in the same manner did get the sweet water for his corporeal Government and indeed the very kernel and Best thereof For God put on to his little sonne the Best Onrament Robe and Attire of all hoping to have great Joy in him Question Now what did this astringent or harsh Quality with its Mother the sweet Water Answer 106. It flattered with the Bitter Quality and with the Heat and perswaded them that they should elevate themselves and be kindled and so together they would destroy their mother and turn her into a sour form or property whereby they would domineer with their spirit very sharply over the whole Deity all must bow down and crouch to them and they would form frame figure and image all with their sharpnesse 107. According to this false or wicked conclusion and result they agreed to do one and the same thing and so dryed up the sweet water in Lucifer's Body the heat kindled it and the astringent dryed it and then it became very sour and sharp 108. And when in this qualifying or acting they had generated the Spirit of Lucifer then the life of the spirit which riseth up in the water as also the light became very sour and sharp 109. And now this sour spirit also stormed with all its powers against the sweet water which was without distinct from the Body in Gods Salitter and thought it self must needs be the Prime and chief and should in its own power from frame and Image every thing 110. And this was the Second Emnity against God from whence is existed the sour quality in this world for it was not so from Eternity as you have an Example thereof in this viz. if you set any sweet thing in the warmth and let it stand therein it groweth sowr of it self as also Water Beer or Wine in a vessell will do but none of the other qualities do alter but only into a stinck which is caused by the Quality of Water Now thou wilt Ask Question Why did God suffer Lucifers Evil spirit which proceeded out of the Body of Lucifer to come into Him could he not hinder it Answer 111. Thou must know that betwixt God and Lucifer there was no other difference then there is between Parents and their Children nay there was yet a nearer relation between them For as Parents generate a child out of their Body according to their Image and keep it in their house as a natural Heir of their Bodies and cherish it thus near also is the Body of Lucifer to the Deity 112. For God had generated him out of his body and therefore also made him the Heir of his Goods and gave him the whole Region or Extent of the place in which he created him 〈◊〉 Possession The highest Depth 113. But here thou must know what it was that Lucifer did fight against God with and so moved God to Anger For he could not do it with his Body for his Body reached no further then the place where he then stood he could Effect little with that but it was something else Be attentive here 114. The spirit which is generated from or out of all the seven qualifying Spirits in the Centre of the Heart the same doth while it is yet in the Body when it is generated qualifie mix or act in and with God as one substance or thing neither is there any difference 115. And when that same Spirit which is generated in the Body seeth any thing through the Eyes or neareth through the Ears or smelleth through the Nostrills then it is already in that thing and worketh laboureth or acteth therein as in its own propriety 116. And if the same be pleasing to it it eateth thereof and is affected with the thing and wrestleth â—â—erewith and maketh a mixture or Temper together let the thing be as far off as it will even so far as the Originality of its Kingdom in God reacheth so far can the Spirit govern or rule in a Moment and is withheld or hindred by Nothing 117. For it is and comprehendeth the Power as God the Holy Ghost doth and in this there is no difference at all betwixt God the Holy Ghost and the Spirit of the Body save onely this that the Holy Spirit of God is the whole fulnesse and the spirit of the Body is but a Piece or Part which presseth through the whole Fulnesse and where ever it cometh there it is mixed or affected with the place and presently ruleth with God in the same place 118. For it is of God and in God and cannot be withheld or hindred save onely by the seven Nature-spirits of the Body which generate the animated or Soulish spirit they have the Reins in their Hand and generate it as they please Gods Spirit hath all the qualities fountains or sources but distinguisheth it self in three Principles where three sources or qualities arise the first in the fire according to the first principle and the second in
the light in the second principle and the third in the spirit of this world in the Aeriall and Astrall source 119. When the astringent or harsh quality as the Father formeth the Word or Sonne or Spirit then it stands captive in the Center of the Heart and is examined or tryed by the other spirits whether it be good or no. Now if it please the fire then the fire letteth the flash in which the Bitter spirit standeth go through the sweet water wherein it conceiveth the Love and goeth therewith into the astringent Quality 120. Now when the flash returns with the Love into the astringent quality again together with the new generated spirit or will then the astringent quality rejoyceth in the New young Sonne and elevateth it self 121. Then the Tone layes hold thereon and goeth forth therewith at the Mouth Eyes Ears and Nostrills and executeth that which is decreed in the councel of the seven spirits for as the Decree of the Councel is so also is the spirit and the Councel can alter the same as it will 122. Therefore the original Lust sticketh in the circle of the Heart in the Councel of the seven spirits and as they generate the spirit so also it is 123. And so in this manner Lord Lucifer brought the Deity into Anger and Wrath that is Kindled the Eternal Nature according to the first principle Being he together with all his Angels as a malicious Devil fought or strove against the Deity intending to bring and subdue the whole Circumference Circuit or Region under his innate Spirits that they should form frame figure and Image all and the whole Circumference Region or Extent should bow yield and suffer it self to be ruled and formed by the kindled sharpnesse of the innate spirits 124. And as this hath a Being or substance form or condition in Angels so it hath also a being substance form or condition in Man Therefore bethink and consider your selves you that are proud covetous theevish Extorting Usurers calumniating Blasphemous Envious and Whorish or Lascivious what manner of little sonne or Spirit you send into God The soul was originally comprehended in the Eternal Nature with the Word Fiat which is Gods Nature according to the first Principle and eternal Original of Nature and if it kindleth it self in the Originall then it kindleth Gods wrath in the eternal Nature Objection Thou wilt say We do not send this into God but only into our Neighbour or into his work which we like and have a Mind to Answer 125. Now shew thou me any Place to which thou sendest thy Covetous or Lustful spirit be it to Man Beasts Garments Fields Money or any thing whatsoever where God is not from him is all and he is in all Himself is All and he upholdeth and supporteth all Objection Then thou wilt say But he is with his Wrath in many things which are so hard and Evill that they are not suitable to or capable of the Deity Answer 126. Yes dear Man all this is true The wrath of God is certainly every where all over In Silver Gold Stones Fields Garments Beasts and Men and all whatsoever is comprehensible and palpable otherwise they would not be so hard and harsh to be felt as they are 127. But thou must know that the kernel of Love also sticketh in all in the hidden Center unlesse it be too too altogether Evill and so Evill a thing Man hath no liking to at all neither God possesseth all onely as to Nature He is not the essence He possesseth himself Or dost thou think thou dost well if thou bathest or soakest thy self in Gods wrath take heed that it doth not kindle thy Body and Soul and so thou wilt burn therein eternally as befell Lucifer 128. But when God shall bring forth the hidden things at the End of this time then you will discern in what Gods love or wrath hath been Therefore have a care and take heed and turn thy Eyes from Evil or else thou undoest thy self and so bringest thy self into Perdition 129. I take Heaven and Earth to witnesse that I have performed here as God hath revealed it to me that it is his Will 130. Thus hath King Lucifer in his body turned the sweet water into a sowr sharpnesse intending therewith in his haughty-mindednesse to rule in the whole Deity 131. And he hath brought it so far to passe that in this world with that sharpnesse he reacheth into the heart of all living Creatures as also into vegetables leaves and grasse and into all other things as a King and Prince of this world 132. And if the Divine Love were not yet in the whole nature of this world and if we poor Men and Creatures had not in and about us the Champion in the Fight we should all perish in a Moment in the hellish horrible Abominations 133. Therefore we sing very rightly thus Mitten wir im Leben seynd Mit dem Todt umbfangen Wo sollen wir dan fliehen hin dass wir Gâ—ad erlangen Zu dir Herr Christ alleine Daist nun Der Held im streit Zu dem wir fliehen musien Welcher i st unset Konig JESUS CHRISTUS In the midst of this our Life Death doth us round embrace whither shall we flie away that we may obtain Grace To thee Lord Christ alone This is the Champion in the Fight To Him 't is we must flie Who is Our King JESUS CHRIST 134. He hath the Fathers Love in him and fighteth in Divine Power and Might against the kindled hellish Abomination To Him we must flie and he it is that preserveth and retaineth the Love of God in all things in this world else all would be lost and perish But hoâ—â— wart and belt 〈…〉 Doth ein Kleine Zelt 〈◊〉 des Tenfels Reich danâ—â—t leit Now Hope pray and wait But a small Time and then strait Th' Devill 's Kingdom will be quite down laid 135. Ye Philosophers and Jurists or Lawyers that make God to be as a Devill in saying That He willeth Evill bring in your Plea and answer once more here and try whether you can maintain your Cause to be just if not then the sowr sharp Tart spirit in Lucifer shall be also condemned as a Destroyer and the enemy of God and of all his heavenly Hoasts and Armies The Fifteenth Chapter Of the Third Species kind or form and manner of Sinnes beginning in Lucifer 1. THe third Spirit in God is the Bitter Spirit which existeth in the flash of Life for the flash of Life riseth up in the sweet water through the rubbing or fretting of the astringent and hot quality but the body of the flash abideth in the sweet water subsisting very meekly as a Light or heart and the flash is very trembling and by the terrour and fire and water and astringent spirit it becometh bitter through the original of the water in which it riseth up 2. And that flash or raging terrour or bitter spirit
from his Bands in whom I will fight against him till my departure out of this Life Of the terrible lamentable and miserable perdition of Lucifer in the Seventh Nature-Spirit The Sad mourning House of Death 32. If all Trees were Writers or Clerks and all Branches were Pens and all Hills were Books and all Waters were Ink yet they could not sufficiently describe the lamentable misery which Lucifer together with his Angels hath brought into his place or whole space of that World wherein he was Created 33. For he hath made the House of Light to be a House of Darknesse and the House of Joy to be a House of Mourning Lamentation and Sadnesse that which was the house of pleasure delight vivifying and refreshing he hath made to be a House of thirst and hunger the House of Love to be a House of eternal Emnity and the house of meeknesse to be a House of knocking rumbling thundring and lightning the house of Peace to be a House of lamenting and eternal Howling the House of laughing to be a House of eternal trembling and Horrour 34. The Birth or Geniture of light munificence and well-doing to be an eternall hellish Pain and Torment the food of pleasing relish to be an eternal Abomination and Stinck a Loathing of all fruits and the house of Lebanon and Cedars to be a Stony and Rocky House of Fire the sweet sent or relish to be a stinck and a house of ruine and desolation an End of all Good the Divine Love to be a black cold hot eating corroding and yet not consuming Devill who is an Emnity against God and his Angels and so he hath all the heavenly Hoasts or Armies against him Now Observe 35. The Learned have had many Disputations Questions Conceits and Opinions concerning the fierce malignity and evil that is in all the Creatures even in the very Sun and Stars in this world moreover there are some so very poisonous and venomous Beasts Worms and Vegetables in this world that thereupon Rational men have justly wondred and some have concluded peremptorily That God must needs have also willed the Evill being He hath Created so much that is Evil And some have laid the blame and fault thereof upon the Fall of Adam and some have imputed it to the work and doings of the Devill 36. But being all the Creatures and vegetables were created before the Time of man therefore the fault ought not to be laid upon man for man gat not the beastial Body in his creation but it first came to be so in his Fall 37. Neither hath man brought the malignity poison and venom into the Beasts Birds Worms and Stones for he had not their Body otherwise if he had brought malignity and fiercenesse or wrath into all Creatures then he could never have looked for mercy at Gods Hands no more then the Devill 38. Poor Man did not fall out of a resolved purposed will but through the poisonous venomous infection of the Devil else there had been no Remedy for him 39. Now this true information thou wilt find described here following not from a zeal to vilifie any body thereby but in Love and as a humble information and instruction from the Abysse of my spirit and for an assured comfort to the poor sick old Adam which now lyeth at the point of his Last departure from hence out of this world 40. For in Christ we are all one Body therefore also this spirit would heartily fain have it so that its fellow Members might be refresh'd with a draught of the precious Wine of God before their departure from hence whereby they might encounter and stand in the great fight with the Devil and obtain the Victory that the victory of the Devill in this modern Drunken world might be disappointed and destroyed and the great Name of the LORD might be Sanctified Now behold 41. When King Lucifer together with his Angels so gloriously beautifully and divinely created as a Cherubin and King in God then he suffered his bright beautious form to befool him in that he saw how noble glorious and fair a Spirit rose up in him 42. Then his seven qualifying or fountain spirits thought they would elevate and kindle themselves and so they also would be as fait glorious and mighty as the animated or soulish spirit and thereby would domineer by their own Power and Authority in the whole Court Circumference Dominion or extent as a New God 43. They saw very well that the animated or soulish spirit qualified mixed or operated with the Heart of God and thereupon they were resolved they would elevate and Kindle themselves hoping to be as bright illustrious deep and Almighty as the deepest Ground in the Center of the Heart of God 44. For they thought to elevate the natural Body which was compacted together or incorporated out of the Nature spirit of God up into the hidden Birth or Geniture of God that their seven qualifying or fountain spirits might thus be as high and as all comprohâ—â—â—sible as the animated or soulish spirit 45. And the animated or soulish spirit should triumph over the Center of the Heart of God and the Heart of God should be subjected under it and so the seven Spirits of God should Image frame and form all by their animated or soulish spirit 46. And this High mind and self-will was directly and wholly against the Birth or Geniture of God for the Body of the Angels should abide and remain in its seat and be Nature and as an humble mother hold still and be quiet and should not have the Omniscience and own self rational comprehensibility of the Heart or of the deepest Birth or Geniture of the holy Trinity but the seven spirits should generate themselves in their Natural Body as is done in God 47. And their comprehensibility should not be in the hidden kernel or in the innermost Birth or Geniture of God but the animated or soulish spirit which they generate in the Center of their Heart should qualifie mix or operate with the innermost Birth or Geniture of God and help to form all figures shapes and Images according to the pleasure delight and will of the seven spirits whereby in the Divine pomp all might be but One Heart and one will 48. For the Birth or Geniture of God also is thus the seventh Nature-spirit doth not reach back into its Father which generateth it but holdeth still and is quiet as a Body and letteth the Fathers Will which is the other six spirits to form and image in it how they please 49. Neither doth any one spirit particularly and severally reach with its corporeal Being after the Heart of God but includeth closeth or joyneth its will with the other in the Center to the Birth or Geniture of the Heart so that the Heart and the seven Spirits of God are One will 50. For this is the Law of the comprehensibility that it do not elevate it self up into the incomprehensibility for the
Old Felt Hatt or Old Shoe 86. Truly no for the spirit at this Time of my description and setting it down did unite and qualifie or mix with the deepest Birth or Geniture of God in that I have received my knowledge and from thence it is sucked not in great Earthly Joy but in the anxious Birth or Geniture perplexity and Trouble 87. For what I did hereupon undergo suffer and endure from the Devill and the Hellish quality which as well doth rule in my outward Man as in all Men whatsoever this thou canst not apprehend unlesse thou also Dancest in this Round 88. Had not our Philosophers and Doctors alwaies plaid upon the Fiddle of Pride but on the Musicall Instrument of the Prophets and Apostles there would have been far another knowledge and Philosophy in the world 89. Concerning which in regard of my imbecillity want of Literature or Learning and study as also the slownesse and dullnesse of my Tongue I am very insufficient but not so slender in the knowledge Only I cannot deliver it in profound Language and the Ornament of Eloquence but I rest contented with my gift I have received and am a Philosopher among the Simple Concerning the Creation of the Light in this world 90. Here shut the Eyes of thy Flesh a little for here they will profit thee nothing being they are blind and dead and open the Eyes of thy spirit and then I will rightly shew thee the Creation of God Observe 91. When God had driven the corrupted Salitter of Earth and Stones which had generated it self in the outermost Birth by the kindling together on a Heap as in a Lump then for that cause the third Birth or Geniture in Nature in the Deep above the Earth was not pure and Bright because the wrath of God did yet burn therein 92. And though the innermost Birth or Geniture was light and Bright yet the outermost which stood in the wrath-fire could not comprehend it but was altogether dark 93. For Moses writeth in Genesis 1. Und es war Finster auff der Tieffe And it was Dark on the Deep The word auff on signifieth the outermost Birth or Geniture and the word in signifieth the innermost Birth or Geniture 94. But if the innermost Birth had been dark then the wrath of God had rested in this world Eternally and it would never have been Light but the wrath hath not thus touched or reached the Heart of God 95. Therefore He is a sweet friendly Bounteous Good Meek Pure and Mercifull God according to his Heart in the innermost Birth or Geniture in the place of this world and still continueth to be so and his meek Love presseth forth from his Heart into the outermost Birth or Geniture of the wrath and quencheth the same and therefore Sprach Er he said Er werde Licht Let there be Light Here observe the sense in the Highest Depth 96. The word Sprach or said is spoken after the manner of Men Ye Philosophers open your Eyes I will in my simplicity teach you the Sprach Gottes the Speech Speaking or Language of God as when he saith a thing and indeed it must be so 97. The word Sprach conceiveth itself between the Teeth for they bite or joyn close together and the spirit hisseth forth through the Teeth and the Tongue boweth or bendeth in the middle and setteth its forepoint as if it did listen after the hissing and were afraid 98. But when the spirit conceiveth the word that shuts the Mouth and conceiveth it at the hinder gums upon the Tongue in the hole or hollownesse in the bitter and astringent Quality 99. And there the Tongue is terrified trembleth and croucheth to the neather Gums and then the spirit cometh forth from the Heart and closeth the word which conceiveth it self at the hinder Gums in the astringent and bitter quality in the wrath and goeth forth mightily and strongly through the fiercenesse as a King and Prince and also openeth the mouth and ruleth with a strong spirit from the heart through the whole Mouth within and also without the Mouth and maketh a mighty and long syllable as a spirit which hath broken the wrath 100. Against which the wrath with its snarling in the astringent and bitter Quality at the hinder gums in the hollow on the Tongue struggleth and keeps its right to it self and keepeth its seat in its Place and lets the meek spirit come forth from the heart through it and thundreth with its snarling after it and so helps to form or frame the word yet with its thundring cannot get away from it seat but abideth in its hollow Hole as a Captive Prisoner and looketh terribly This is a great Mysterie 101. Here observe the sense and meaning if thou apprehendest it then thou understandest the Deity a right if not then thou art yet blind in the Spirit 102. Judge not else here thou runnest counter against a strong Gate and wilt be imprison'd if the wrath-fire catcheth thee then thou wilt remain eternally therein 103. Thou Child of Man Behold now how great a Gate of Heaven of Hell and of the Earth as also of the whole Deity the spirit openeth to thee 104. Thou shouldest not think that God at that time did speak in that way as Men do and that it was but a weak impotent word like Mans word 105. Indeed Mans word conceiveth it self just in such a form manner proportion quality and correspondency onely the half dead Man doth not understand it And this understanding is very noble dear and pretious for it is generated onely in the knowledge of the Holy Ghost 106. But Gods Word which He spake then in power hath encompassed Heaven and Earth and the heaven of heavens yes and the whole Deity also 107. But it frameth ann conceiveth it self first between the Teeth closed or clapp'd together and hisseth which signifieth that the Holy Ghost at the beginning of the Creation went through the firmly closed wall of the Third and outermost Birth or Geniture which standeth in the wrath-fire in this world 108. For it is written And it was dark on the Deep and the Spirit of God moved on the water The Deep signifieth the innermost Birth or Geniture and the darknesse signifieth the outermost corrupt Birth or Geniture in which the wrath burned The water signifieth the allaying or Mitigation of the spirit 109. But that the spirit doth hisse through the Teeth it signifieth that the spirit is gone forth from the heart of God through the wrath but that the Teeth remain closed together whilest the spirit hisseth and do not open themselves it signifieth that the wrath hath not comprehended or reached the Holy Ghost 110. But that the Tongue doth crouch towards the neather gums and is sharp at the point and will not be used about the hissing it signifieth that the outward Birth or Geniture together with all the Creatures which are therein cannot comprehend or reach to apprehend the holy