If thou canst thus sow thy self singly and purely into me as into the Heart of Sion's rich Soil and there passively a while lie as in thy Tomb and unknown Sepulchre Where none after This method have of latter days been before thee not knowing or understanding the Mystery of This reposing Death then accordingly will an unmixed glorified yea deified Body arise with all rarified Senses Powers and operative Faculties meet for all Heavenly Employment and Service which can no more be drawn downward to mind inferiour matters or things These impressing Savings dropping from the Lips of my Jesus caught my Spirit into the pleasant dying and dissolving part For this kind of Death was not so grim nor terrible to me as what had formerly passed upon me Yet somewhat of a Spiritual conflict was awakened in me and the Powers of my Heavens were at strife about the laying down of this more refined Life For I found some sharp contest with an opposite Power who said What will you further dye and cease from now that the perfect thing is sprung in you Will you have all now of this Holy Nature sink down and bury it in Paradisical Ground sowing only in Hope that it will arise a Body and fair Lily in the Tower of sion This Objection met my Spirit as if I were herein to do a superstuous act but still to Wisdom's Word I adhered Which followed me all the Day long bringing a Scripture to me out of Isa. 26. Thy dead Men shall live together with my dead Body they shall rise Ver. 19. Awake sing ye that dwell in the Dust. From hence was shewn me the present sweet fellowship with my Jesus in this his own Body that is to be our Grave and embalmed Tomb whereby we are to be so Spieed with his Deified Humanity as to see no Corruptibility being called out to empty and spill our whole Life into him This being the publick Day of our Meeting my Spirit was with this new Matter filled but I quenched and stopped the going forth of it and spoke out little of this Secret Which I know would have gone forth with Mighty Powers attending it But some being there that would not happily have digested this new broached Matter I did for fear stop it though it stifled the Breath of Power and thereby was hurtful both to my self and to others Which verified to me that Word Quench not the Spirit despise not Prophecying Which I shall henceforth be cautious of and correspond with according to my Power and inspiring Breath Going afterwards to my Night's Repose I had a mighty disturbed Sleep being in a Place where I saw only the Doctor and my self where did arise out of a burning Lime-Pit a suffocating Smell which was so offensive that I told him we must make all hast out here or we should be stifled such great heaps of Chalk-Stones lay on every side as we could make but slow Pace out neither could I see what way to pass by till on a sudden a Gate opened and a Person called us to come and put forth his Hand â—…o help us over those great Stones that lay in our way so coming out into a Place where we met to worship and praise our God among our own selected Number But while we were in our Spiritual Exercise I saw one amongst us as a mocking Ishmaelite thrusting out a great pair of Lips and deriding our Powers with that I was stirred up in Spirit to go to that Party and give a rebuke and they became ashamed thereat and was Speechless for I was made to discover their Nakedness After this I fell asleep and about Break of Day I was awakened with these Words The Trumpet out of Sion soundeth to call forth the Dead in Jesus awake awake ye that sleep in Sion's Dust. This Alarm much eased my Spirit and drew it into an inward waiting for I know there would somewhat follow if watched thereunto keeping and abiding in the still Rest and waiting from under this Altar to be raised by that Life quickening Spirit that I do feel stir and eccho again to my Cry from under the Altar May the 8th 1676. This Morning being wholly attentive to my Lawgiver for further Manifestation Impowerings and Inspeakings I found Mary Magdalen's restless Spirit with me to attend the Sepulchre of my Lord from which I could not go Knowing well what I had sown into that Holy Ground from whence I expected a good Return While looking and expecting I saw nothing but a bare empty Tomb left here no Jesus was at present to be found Which brought a damp and heaviness upon me but mourning in Hope the Angel that rolled away the Stone did speak Comfort to me saying Though thy Lord into whom thou didst shed thy choicest Life-Seed and didst sow all thy Love-Spirit is now fled from thy sight and thou art hereat amazed be of good cheer he will not leave thee a restless Seeker here No sooner were these Words pronounced to me but I heard another Voice within me sound saying Hail O Mary why dost thou fear I know I know thou hast entrusted me with all thy Life-Treasury therefore in great Jeopardy I did see thee lest I should not again descend unto thee Then wouldst thou have counted me as a Thief and Robber to go away with all thy Life Spirit Power and Strength leaving thee void empty and distressed But now thou shalt know that I am returned again to thee to give thee a Resurrection with my self For I see thou canst not live without me therefore Ascend thou shalt in Spirit to be with me that thou mayst not only behold me in my Glory but know thy self also with me as a Partaker of the same Glory Only satisfie thy self that for a time some Intervals may be because of thine Abiding still in an Elementary Body which may be a Cloud upon thee But yet as often as it is possible allowing the Circumstances that do attend Corporeity exhale I will thy Superiour Part and Spirit up to me Therefore be not dismayed though there may happen many Assaults and Attempts that will make War against this Resurrection-State Which Offences will come in through the withdrawing of this inspiring Unction Whose Power is arising yet again for reforming all these Abuses and Ecclesiastical Disorders in my Visible Church Militant Therefore be not snipped in thy Hopes but be thou of good Courage who have for this Pearl of the Holy Ghost hard and unweariedly sought and art upon the growing Body for it For who so worthy thereof shall be as those who gradually shall through all Sufferings Dyings Risings Ascendings come up through all a Conqueror to me Verily I say if â—…ye shall in such a raised Spirit appear to me in Mount Sion you shall have free Liberty to take what you will out thence â—…s Co-partners with me in the Kingdom of the Father's Soveraignty whereto I â—…m by all this calling you up Therefore see see what
those that follow the Lamb do long to sing Glory to God in the Highest c. and to publish the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of Our God and Saviour flying in the midst of the Heavens upon the Wing of the Dove-Spirit and Proclaiming with a Loud Shout FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME Rev. 14. 7. Timotheus January 1st 1697. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS AN Account of the first Appearance of Wisdom's Star to the Author pag. 17. Of the Book of Wisdom sealed with three Seats pag. 19 The Key of the Great Mystery p. 22. The Mystery of Rebeccah and of Jacob's obtaining the Blessing unfolded p. 25. The Mystick Death p. 32. Wisdom's Flaming Heart with the Budding Tree for Transmutation p. 34. The Mystery of Laban and Jacob or the strife of the Sensual and Supersensual Life p. 37. The Faithless and Faithful Dalilah compared p. 42. The true Nazarite p. 43. The Book of Life and the Book of Death p. 46. The Divine Angler p. 49. The Magical Journey with an account of Wisdom's high Stone of Wonder p. 53. The Eternal Matter of this Stone together with the Chain of the Creator with the Creature p. 64. An Expostulation of Wisdom's Pilgrim p. 66. The Voice of the Bridegroom p. 67. The Answer to the Spirit of the Soul p. 68. The Reply of the Bridegroom ibid. Thi Preparations of the Second Marriage p. 69. The Shulamite's Debate p. 72. Wisdom's Charge to the Shulamite admitting hâ—…r into the New Mystical Paradise p. 80. What is required to a Divine Association p. 85. An Experimental Reâ—…lation of the Lords Day and of being in the Spirit p. 86. The Hidden Mystery of Faith's Seed p. 88. Wisdom's Call and Direction for the Tabernacle Building p. 91. The Holy Composition Oil p. 101 102. The Garden of Beulah in the Land of Havilah p. 105. The Originâ—… and Nature of the Royal Ghostly Power in the Tabernacle-Body p. 117. The Renewed Spiritual Wooing p. 120. The Mystery of Spiritual Sol and Venus or the two Hoavenly Tinctures Male and Female p. 124. The going up from the Low Valley towards SION-Hill p. 126. A great Combat of the Dark world against the Ascending Traveller p. 131. The Lamb worried by two Dogs p. 135. A Visional Manifestation of the Various Growths of the New Birth before the Winged Power â—…f the Holy Dove p. 136. A further Declaration and Demonstration of this last Fixed State and of the Power of the Holy Ghost p. 137. A Preparation for fresh Assaults from the Dark Kingdom p. 140. A Memorandum how the Leviathan Spirit â—…nded the Author's Companion which caused a mighty Conflict for several Days and how he came to be again Restored p. 143. The Application hereof made by the Witness of the Tabernacle p. 150. Fresh Instances and Encouragements from the Spirit of Wisdom p. 15â—… The Union of the Zeal of Phineas with the Nazarite Purity p. 156. A Brâ—…viat of some late Perils we were in p. 157. The Divine Appearance from Mount Perazim p. 163. The Unicorn-Power p. 164. A seasonable Caution against Treachery p. 165. A Pâ—…servative against Dark Magick p. 166. The Allegory of Balak and Balaam ibid. The Case of Jacob's Servitude and Deliverance p. 167. The Cloud of Glory upon the Spiritual Tabernacle p. 170. Of Maimed Births p. 171. The Foundation Stones of the Holy City p. 172. Wisdom's Rock of Glory upon which it is founded p. 173. The twelve Foundation-Stones that every one is to bear who is thereinto admitted p. 178. A Call to this Searching Spirit from out of the New Jerusalem p. 183. The Reason of the Scituation of its Gates p. 185. Another Call to this Ascending Spirit p. 187. The Descent of the Jà sper-Stone for this End p. 188. The Tree of Life which is Three and One p. 189. The River of Sion p. 190. The Spirit 's Eccho to Wisdom's repeated Call p. 192. The earnest Expostulations of this Spirit with her Mother and with her Beloved p. 193. The Nazarite-Diet for the Jerusalem-Born Spirits p. 195. The Voice of the Bridegroom to the Spirit of the Bride after she had found an entrance into this City p. 198. The Bridegroom 's further Admonition to her and to the Jerusalem-Waiters p. 201. The Love Chain 203. The Chariot of Elijah p. 204. The New Book Opened or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS containing the Process of the Regeneration in his Mystical Incarnation Death Resurrection Ascension and Glorification p. 206. The Paradisical Sowing p. 207 211. The Spring or the Resurrection p. 208. The Ascension of the Bridal Spirit p. 209. The Glortfication of the same p. 210. Another Seal of this Book of Life opened or an Experimental Passage through another Death p. 212. Quench not the Spirit p. 213. The Mocking Ishmaelite p. 214. The Magdalen Waiter p. 215. The Salutation of the Risen Jesus p. 216. The Immutability of the New Creature p. 219. The Witnesses of the Resurrection p. 220. The Immediate Robe given to the Risen of Jesus p. 221. The Wonder-Birth p. 223. It s Education p. 225. The Book of Prophecy and of Life to be eaten down p. 226. The Food from the Altar p. 228. Aurora or the Day-spring from on High p. 231. The Threefold Appearance of the New Adam or the Three Degrees p. 233. The Ocean-Treasury p. 237. A Digression concerning the Communication and Interpretations of Magical Representations p. 238. The Passage to the Mountain of Pretious Stones p. 241. The Sapphire-Stone p. 243. The Spirits eager Search and Sighing after this Treasure p. 244. The Oppositions made from the outward Astrum p. 245. The Holy Root of the Magical Life ibid. The Globe of Light or the Perfect Day p. 247. The â—…ight of Paradise compared with that of Mount Sion p. 249. The End of all Things at hand p. 251. The Fall of Babylon p. 252. The Magical Seals p. 253. The Restoration of the Magical Might or the Spirit Ascension to the Monnt of Olives p. 256 The Extirpation of the Imaginary Root p. 258. The Superimaginary State ibid. The Eternal Stillness or the Rock of Power p. 262 A Vision of God's Flaming Eye p. 263. The Interpretation of the Vision p. 265. The Believing Rest p. 267. The Lily of Faith p. 268. The Flying Banner p. 270. The Parting Principle or the Shooting of the Gulph p. 271. The Box of Spikenard or Divine Love p. 275. The Blessing made a Curse or the Ark in the Temple of Dagon p. 276. The Travelling forward of the Ark of the Presence p. 277. The Joseph's Blessing p. 278. Joshuah or the Conquering Worthy p. 280. The Ark-Drivers p. 281. An Appearance of the Personal Humanity of Christ and of the Father's Glory p. 282. The Arcanum of the Holy Ghost taught by Christ p. 283. Take heed of Pilate's Spirit p. 285. The Rules of Merchandize p. 288. The Oracle within the Veil The Michael-Unction p. 293. The Opening in Heaven of the most
Good Upon which no Corrupter ever came or could come or with any of these Springing Essences was ever mingled hereupon By the Serpent no Poysonable Rays were ever here at all scattered it is a Place which ever from his Eye was hid by the Divine Constellations All which Plants here thou dost see from one Seed do after their kind thus multiply in this Variety Now for the Holy Ointment which I would give thee skill to make Go first to that Bed where the pretious Thyme is included and take there seven Handfuls thereof then take the like quantity of the Baulm of Hope and of the Sweet Majoram of Patience according to the same perfect number as the two former To these let there be also added the Spirit of Mints Power the Eye-bright of All-seeing the Rue of Fortitude and the Hyssop of Purity These do thou gather when the Sun-Beams are in their greatest heighth and Influence and extract the Juice out of them and so dissolve it with the Kidney-Fat of a choice Deer that must be slain on purpose for this use This thou wilt know is to be obeyed and yielded to though it be even thy dear Sensitive Life which for this Composition must be dissolved the Death of which is only Serviceable for so Secret an Use. Hereupon a soft gentle Fire from the Altar is to be taken and then diffuse in the Golden Vessel of the pure Humanity and thou shalt see what a fragrant Restorative Ointment this will come to be whereby all Cures shall be wrought Practitionally the Knowledge of this Art being engrafted in thee as a Natural Scyon co-inherent within thy inward parts to transmute and make all that which was of a divided Property to be of one pure and rarified Sort and Constitution as relating to the healing part which through the whole Manhood is to disperse it self to settle all again in its first Primitive Order Then again here is another secret greatly requisite to be learnt as the Spicy Oil which is the Spirit of Spirits extracted and drawn out from the Seven Spirits mentioned the Ingredients to this are deep and worthy of Inquiry which cannot be illustrated but by way of Metaphorical Description which the wise and apt under Wisdom's Manuduction will soon understand for that all the Materials are lying or growing so close about thee within this Physical Garden which may be called the Eflux of the Deity which evaporateth through every Plant and Tree which groweth here from and by which ye may understand the high and precious Quality of whatever you shall a Composition make out Hereupon did arise a Query Whether it might not be as effectual to take of these Plants and Trees as they naturally grow in themselves for an healing Balsom and Liquor for the restoring of Life without mingling them in a Confectionary way To this I was answered thus by the holy and profound Artist that said Through the uniting of many Spirits Powers and Vertues into one sublime Substance there is produced an Almighty Force and Strength which would not be while they continued in their separated Essences but through the Coagulation by the Hand of Wisdom into one Quintessence it would have its vigorous penetration as in the accomplishment hereof ye may witness if ye wax not saint but persevere with all diligence and not be turned aside though you do meet sometime with the Waters of Strife but hold out or all is lost which already is wrought For I would not that either of you who so voluntarily your selves to me have bound should grow weary till I your Work have crowned having chosen you out of my Olive-Ground to sprout that so ye may to each other empty forth what I your Fountain have blessed you with as a fruitful Womb to bring forth even that mighty Lordly Sprout which will make your Heavens and Earth to shout and all the Hosts of them to praise and celebrate the Rising Star from the East therefore with all fear and care go on and persevere till that all things shall be put under him who is born in you the King of Salem against whom great Conspiracies will be but as he in you shall grow up he shall them all defeat through the Crown of this anointing Oil which I am to shew thee how to make First then come with me into my secret Lebanon where the Beds of Spices are and take thee seven Ounces of the Mace of Grace of like quantity of the Spikenard of Love the Camphore of Peace the Heart-cheering Cloves of the Saffron of Joy the Noble Frankincence of all Faith the Myrrh of Triumphant Victory the Casst of a Sound Mind and Perfect Heart Take all these and put them under the grinding Wheel which maintaineth its uncessant working Motion within thee till they come to be an Oily Substance mixed into one perfect Lump then diffuse all in the Juice of the Pomegranat for a certain time adding hereunto the Powder of Gold of Pervilium which is to be mixed with the Magistery of Pearl and the Ruby-Spirit all which close in a pure Crystalline Bottle into which nothing ever before was put and set it constantly under the Sun-shine of thy Heavens for the perfect Clarification thereof Which at the tenth number will attain to the full height of a Life-quickning Spirit Having taken good notice of this Mysterious Receit I lay'd it up in me as a Precious Jewel resolving to follow the Rules of this Intrinsick one and to make an experiment hereof if by any means it might be brought to a Triune Body of such sublimity All which must be wrought in the Tent of the Virgin-Wisdom where no soiling thing must interfere while this Composition is in doing And only Sanctuary Instruments I did see must be used here Having then order to discharge all out of this Celestial Place no Servant which appertained to the old and first Tabernacle I durst to admit for my aid or help or in any service therein to imploy Now all that are to rest within this Place where the Glory of the Majesty does it self unfold with the first Balsam must be anointed thus to me it was declared Oh the great Purity that I did see was required in ministring about these Holy Things it cutteth off quite from all Intermedlings in a putrified Earthly State the Eye so single and clear is through this Ointment purifying it that it cannot bear any more to behold in it self either Spot Blemish or Wrinkle knowing well none else in the Tabernacle of God's Holiness with him can live Therefore in the Oil of Consecration I am appointed for to abide and to drink of this Liquor of Life which suddenly may ready be through the diligent Hand that prepareth it as I do both feel and see which maketh my Spirit so intent hereupon that while the great Artist is at work I know not how my Eye to take off that so I may be able and skilful after the same manner
same no transmutation came upon her no more then upon others only living a holy Virgin Life but no matter of Wonder after Christ's Birth wrought aâ—… by or through her have shone forth but all still by the Birth that proceeded from her Who in that Day gave proof by Miracles of the pure Deity working through Humanity This great Question was thus resolved me through the Word of Life opening which testified as followeth True it is that in the humane Birth of thy Jesus there was a visible shew of distinction because of the Corporeity which then was needful to be born but in this case it will be otherwise For this is a Birth of meer Spirit without any commixture of Humanity only it will pass and act sometime through this Virgin Humanity which it hath chosen to be its Birth-Womb or Temple-Body whereby it may act its Deeds of Wonder answerable to its Birth-Deity So that here the Mother of the Virgin Birth will be more dignified and honoured then the foregoing Ministration in the Birth of Jesus was Therefore an oriental bright flaming Garment is allotted her with a Crown beset with Stars plainly declaring that to her is given the Command and Power to bear sway within the Celestial Region and by and through that near relation and conjunction with this mighty Birth when born to go forth to seal and save the Nations that shall bow to its Soveraignty For this Birth consisteth of marvelous Power none can its mystical Being sound or find out for it operates in every Creature and thing after a Magical manner And in this one pure Virgin she will first unseal that everlasting Source of â—…reasure and therefrom distribute according to the degrees and measures of the Holy Ghost who shall give his quickning Powers first in them who for this successive Birth have their Minds purified and refined For this a touch-flaming Stone there is that will inkindle Life in each one as its pleasure shall to introduce it self most free For by way of Birth it will grow in all that hereof shall participate and after like manner generate But oh here will be the great thing who shall be counted worthy to be the first of this Ghostly Generation for him to begin withal December the 15th 1676. This Word came Behold yet and see here is Birth-prize within your most pure Womb-Hearts now laid there is no prohibition but all Love-Emanations and Incitations by Spirit-provocations to put you upon the believing the possibility thereof And know for a truth that this Birth will go forward and grow mightily if you do but keep to these two Rules and observe them nicely The first is to eschew drinking out of that Cup wherein is mingled very subtlely Red Wine that is sugar'd with all sweet sensibility that flows readily into this Wine being from the strange and Wild Vine Therefore it must be refused in regard of the evil Consequences that do attend it For the Poyson of every earthly Essence is mingled here withalâ—… which contributed doth feed up that olâ—… Life-Birth by which this is warned to depart out for what doth feed up the one doth starve the other they cannot be Twins in this sanctified and holy Vehickle which only is allotted for the Nazarite For whom a choice and particular provision is appointed by the Father of it Now charge in special to yoâ—… is given who herein may be concerned that you henceforth refuse to tast anâ—… of their delicious Fruits that do sprinâ—… from the neathermost part and loweâ—… Region for they are all crude and sowâ—… for want of that kind way of ripening from the everlasting warm heat of thâ—… one blessed Element which by givinâ—… proof of your Fear Love and Caâ—… herein lest thereby this Holy Thiâ—… should suffer ye must faithfully abstaiâ—… from all her crude earthly Fruits the may ye hope firmly and claim boldâ—… Stores and Supplies out from the Treâ—… sury of a God all-sufficiency that wiâ—…l most marvellously excel all of this earthly growth millions of degrees for Vigour Strength and Pleasantness That for the nutriment of this holy Birth-Stone shall be conveyed though unseen yet tasted and felt by them that shall carry this Birth in them till it cometh to its full Number and Date The second Rule that was given us strictly to observe was this alluding to the Woman in the Revelations that was cloathed with the Sun before she brought forth signifying to us that Clarity and Virgin-Purity was the signal mark of such as should her personate in the Heavenly state Therefore what less will become us then Garments of Light having no streaks of the Night of Darkness upon them as it is written all Light in the Lord. Who is our fine Linnen-Righteousness to exercise the simplified Nature of the Virgin-Spirit who this Birth is to bring forth in the World Then also I had this further Advertisement that it would be very requisite for us who carried this living Birth-Stone within us for to seek a Desart solitary Place void of all the commixed Solaces of this World who would envy and hate and chase such as should apply themselves hereunto as Noted Ones who do wait for this great Birth refreshing Therefore be wise and wary said the holy Guide and make no mention yet what the Lord is for and in you doing Remembring that Word Let not him that is but putting on his Armour boast or glory as he that putteth off having given proof of Victory So ye are to consider that your Walks here in this dark Valley and amongst the Dead is very slippery and unsavoury and may well offend the holy pure conceived thing within you Now then fly to a solitary Wilderness where you may preserve your selves and Birth from the Dragon's Eye that awakeneth and stirreth up every where against it For as much as he with his piercing Eye doth see who nearest the Birth-mark are now then up and away take flight with that Wing which is a strong resolved Will that carries swift as an Eagle into that Path and Way which the Vultur's Eye shall not espy during the time of your most secret hiding in this Wilderness Which to you shall be as a Lebanon for the Angel of my presence shall here walk with you if herein you shall obey then will I feed and nourish you with that which is choice and primary Food indeed such as the gross and sensitive Life never understood I do only require the act of your flying Will to abide where you will see nothing grow that can feed your earthly sensitive Appetite Here is no other Life to be known or exercised but that of Faith which must fetch in all Provision belonging hereunto Therefore my Spirit doth allure you who are justified and nourished by the outflowing Acts of Faith which through a constant exercise will be of that predominancy as to eat out and swallow up the mutinous Essences which strive so hard to make void this Life
A FOUNTAIN OF Gardens WATERED by the Rivers of Divine Pleasure And Springing up in all the Variety of Spiritual Plants Blown up by the Pure Breath into A PARADISE Sending forth their Sweet Savours and Strong Odours for Soul-Refreshing P. J. De Loutherbourg By JANE LEAD Cantic 4. 16. Awake O North Wind and come thou South blow upon my Garden that the Spices may flow out let my Beloved come into his Garden and eat his pleasant Fruits Chap. 6. 2. My Beloved is gone down into his Garden to the Beds of Spices to feed in the Gardens and to gather Lillies LONDON Printed and Sold by J. Bradford near Crowder's-Well 1696. A Bundle of Revelations United And to be Dispersed to such as are Impartial Seekers and Unwearied Searchers into the Deep Things of GOD Which are only Knowable to that Holy Spirit that diggeth into the Rich Mines and Treasury of WISDOM Of which the Author hereof was under a Powerful Driving for the Space of about Thirty Years keeping a Private Recollection to her self as they did from Time to Time open and come down as a Burning Shower not knowing whether they should have been made Publick in her Age but thinking rather they might be kept as a Garden Enclosed and as a Fountain Sealed PRovidence having opened a Door unexpectedly through the strong Instigation of an highly Worthy Person truly enobled in the Spirit of his Mind who having had a savour and Relish of some Foregoing Books that had been Printed did make a generous offer to have the Bank and Stock of what the Holy Unction had dropped in brought forth into Manifestation for the Universal Enlightening Leading and Refreshing for the Dove-Flocks belonging to the Great Shepherd to whom such Pastures lie open to be freely fed upon I think my self obliged to Publish for these Ends what can be recovered of the Process and Diary of my Life since I have been under these Love-Visitations from the Spirit of my Lord. The Time being now accomplished wherein the Hour-glass of the Spirit is a second time turned up for the which there is a Call from the New Jerusalem World that all Persons of every Quality Rank and Degree under what Denomination soever they be throughout all Nations Peoples and Languages do give eart and watch every Golden Sand that this Glass doth run that nothing of it may run wast For it is the Morning-Watch and Day-break of the Spirit that is to spread forth its Light and Glory whereby is to be enlightned the Dark Ignorant State of the World who have sat in the Region of Traditional and Literal Knowledge according to the Rational Wisdom of Man which through the Innundation of the Spirit must all be drowned and a New Earth prepared wherein the Sowing of the Spirit is to be with one pure Golden Grain that can admit of no mingling of what is from Man for another Time is now at hand wherein nothing but what is purely taught of God shall abide and stand Therefore as one that hath obtained through Infinite Love and large Grace to be Baptized into this Glorious Manifestation of the Spirit I do beseech and excite all to whom this Journal shall come that they do well observe and take diligent notice of the Method and Way which God took with me in order to the bringing me forward to the Arrivement at the manifold Degrees and Growths which is here in a most simple and undress'd manner brought forth without any Alteration but just as the Spirit was pleased to render it self in its own Cloathing So in obedience to the Call of Wisdom may the same Visitation of Immediate Divine Teaching as a Day-star in your Hearts appear which may your Souls greatly revive and chear Now give me leave to tell you the Beginning of my Way that the Spirit first led me into In the first place then after some Years that I had lived in some good Degree of an Illuminated Knowledge setting under the Visible Teachings of Men that could give no further Light than that they had arrived from others through all of which I traced as a wandring Spirit that could find no Rest but something still I found within my self that did open to draw in from a more pure Air then I could meet without me Whereupon I introverted more into my own Inward Deep where I did meet with that which I could not find elsewhere except it were with such as were brought under the same Dispensation of whom a few Names were made known unto me Wherefore I do give my own Experience that I would have every one that desires to be Sealed with the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation not to take in any Fears Jealousies or Prejudices concerning the Emanations and Manuductions that the Holy Ghost will dispense forth as any shall be found Lovers and Waiters thereupon For I my self found all other Grounds and Pastures dry and barren as a parched Desart until I came to this Fruitful Lebanon where all Variety of sweet scented Flowers did as another Eden flourish pleasantly Which were known and enjoyed by giving up to the Teaching of the Holy Unction which as the Waters of the Sanctuary will never cease springing till they become an Overwhelming River which is the true Baptizing Water of Life This you will find to be true as you seriously apply your self to this Way and Method of God's Immediate Teaching Which then you shall find to open in the Center of your own Soul And this way manifesteth it self in a various Dispensation Sometimes this is by Inspeaking from the Essential Word which giveth its own certain Sound as different Occasions do offer upon a Soul 's waiting thereupon For it would be a very deplorable Case if Christ should leave his Flock and seal up the Fountain of all Future Revelation that is no necessary to be Renewed in every Age of Time Therefore he brings us to lie at the Mouth of this bubling Well of his Spirit for to drink in what is New and Fresh which doth greatly delight the Soul that would otherwise be apt to faint and flag before it come to the end of its Race Wherefore he doth strow our Way witâ—… fragrant Flowers all sweet and pleasant and of many and beautiful Colours as you may observe when you read the Similitudes and Visions which are here Published God many times coming down to unfold himself in this Figurative and Parabolical Yet more Essentially and Deeper above and beyond all Figures and Representations of which I shall give you some account as being under Command not to keep back or shun to declare the whole Purport whereinto I have been carried for the universal Refreshment and Benefit of such who are as meaned Children from every other Breast but that of their Eternal Mother whence all Wisdom and Understanding doth stream forth Intellectually which is the growing Nutriment as it doth pass Radically into the Soul as the Blood doth into the Veins Now here is a
things to prove him as any in this Age shall ever be called to or need fear to be tryed withal Many worthy Instances more there are upon Record of such who by this Faith have subdued and conquered whatever withstood them so as nothing was too hard for them who skilled were in the use of this bright flaming Shield which hath for a long time been out of Exercise For of late Age it hath scarcely been known after this manner of working to have been ever used which is in the way of giving Being and Existency to that which is Not. This is the Quintessence and Spirit of Faith the immediate Begotten of the Father that acteth according to the Will and Power of the Omnipotency There is no Sufficiency in any but from this All-sufficiency putting forth Which I advise thee to look up to and wait upon in the serene Stillness and when the Birth is strong enough grown it will shew it self whose Child it is In the mean time hide and conceal it and wrap it up in the Mantle of Love and Patience The Nourishment hereof shall be from that Breast of Wisdom's Word by which it shall still be sustained till it cometh to be a full grown Power and of a perfect Age and then shall the Government upon this Shoulder be laid and both the Inmost and Utmost Bounds of all that which the Heavens and Earth contain shall to this Spirit of Faith bow most voluntarily as rejoycing to see Immanuel's Kingdom arising as the Morning Star out of the East I have now no other Word to give but that thou hold fast and keep the Word of God's Patience enduring all Contradictions rather then denying or shrinking back from this which will crown thee and become thy Glorified Body Be strong then O my Spirit flag not for my Law-giver out of Sion I do see who upon my Earth doth stand with his Love-Fan in his Hand to divide from what can have no consistency with the Trinity in Nature November the 22d 1675. Wisdom's Call and Direction for the Tabernacle Building UPon the New Covenant which was opened and established in me this Word came unto me further Where is the Place for my Testimony to be put except in the Ark and Tabernacle where I only give the witness of my Presence This is the great high and most considerable Work of all therefore thou art noted as also them that are moved and stirred up to join with thee as known by Name to go forward in the framing and fashioning of this goodly Tent for the Presence of the Most Holy to take up in Then cryed the Voice unto me Put your Hands to this curious Work according to the Pattern which Wisdom hath given you At this I said in my Spirit Ah Lord where is the Stuff and Matter to work upon Then replyed the Word of Wisdom Ye shall find all with and in your own Treasure-House into which the Free-will-Offerings are brought therefore be not careful as to that your business is to order and manage the Materials provided to your Hands This put me upon great Importunity for Skill and Understanding for it was a New Work to us and we must obtain a special Gift or we should be non-plus'd in it Then this Word spake to me Am not I with thee who devised the first Tabernacle in the Figure and Shadow and made those two choise Ones wise-hearted for the effecting of that which was but a Worldly Sanctuary Am not I come to give you a wise and understanding Heart Why lean you not upon me for this Ability and Sufficiency Nothing would suffice but Cohabitation with your God and it could no other way be effected but by this New and Living Sanctuary by me framed Therefore as a tender faithful Mother I have not concealed any thing that might throughout accomplish thee for free and mutual Society with thy God and beloved Jesus Now take good notice of what I shall instruct and give Rules for in order to this pure and perfect Tabernacle erecting Which must be a Transcript from what is in the Superior Heavens which the Majesty of Glory fills that the one may come expresly to answer the other and that so the same which bears Record in Heaven may also in thy restored and New Earth bear it where the Everlasting JEHOVAH loveth to be if he may but find a Receptacle suitable for so great so wonderful and so infinite a Security Now then consider to what a choice eminent and worthy Service thou and thy fellow Workmen are called labour that my Stone may spring in you which only can make wise Artists to comprehend the Nature and Manner of this Work first then know here is no less then a Creating Power with which ye must be endued withal before you can make any thing of this Work according to that ancient Prophecy which saith The Lord will CREATE upon every dwelling Place a Tabernacle for a Shadow by Day and it shall be a Flaming Fire by Night Here is the New-Covenant Prediction come to be fulfilled in thy Day that ye may rejoice in that which I create and bring forth in the Birth Power of All-Wisdom which so readily can take out the Pattern in which the High and Lofty One doth inhabit This is not after the manner of a Terrestial Formation by visible Gold Silver Purple Scarlet or Linen which Methaphorically Imaged out the true and real Sanctuary of God's Being which is to be created in thy Internal Part. There the Holy Ark thou must make by me who can extract it Magically casting the Mould from out of that superior and undiscovered Golden Ground which at my Command casteth up all precious Matter for thee to work upon Which unconceivable and unknown must be for no common Eye shall ever this espy it is the peculiar Gift which only doth appertain to those which are called by Name this Holy Thing to ingrave Wonder-working Hereupon my Spirit was as one overturned being appointed to such a Service wherein no Earthly Material Tool or Instrument was to be used For all Wisdom and Understanding from the Rational Terrestrial Man was prohibited and to be wholly laid aside and only the Wisdom which is from above that indeed is Pure was to take place and give Instruction in this great Affair which tended to the settling of the Heavenly Promise through the erecting of this Holy Tabernacle Thus being in a deep plunge and concern in my self how and when to set upon the Work as being pressed out of measure to proceed upon it praying with all Prayer for my self and that other Person nominated in this Work I received this Divine Charge to persist unweariedly without Interruption For that if there were a falling back or but a slacking in either it might stop the Wheel Therefore I was forewarned to be well satisfied in the Spirits that I concurred and united withal lest that should be mutable and not hold out to the finishing
Work for we should be tryed and if we were not perfect in One Accord it could not prosper in our Hand and then it were better to engage singly if not clear and cordial as one Then was brought before me something of a staggering which would be very hurtful if at any time it should in either of us prevail before we obtain the fixation in the Body of the Power for it was shewed me there would not want strong belingrings to weaken our Hands in the Work for the whole stress lay upon following and cleaving to our Guide and keeping to the Paradisical Laws which in the Ministration of the Spirit can only be fulfilled Now these things sinking deep upon my Spirit drew forth many Inquiries and Heart-searchings and Suspitions least the Work should in any wise be impeded for I saw the Dragon upon his violence to snatch at the Birth which made me cry O save it out of his Hands and carry us out of his reach Then Wisdom spake this Word No place out of danger but the Ark and Tabernacle where your Strong Hold is the Sanctuary which is provided foryour Refuge Then did I apply my self to ask how long it should be before we might herewith be invironed that so we might no longer be in Fear and Jepordy It was replyed That it is much in our Power both to hasten or to prolong it there was a possibility of a quick Work to be made of it if we would follow it fully intirely with all Might for it was of that nice difficult curious Nature that every Interruption detarded it God could make a Tabernacle to descend ready finished upon thee but it is his pleasure to give thee the Honour of the Workmanship and Building hereof that thou mayst hear and learn of Wisdom how to form and bring forth this inclosed Tent for the God of Jacob to dwell in Then this Query did rise up further in me But seeing the manner of this curious Work O Wisdom is to be effected by a Spiritual Magician who by a Vertual Power must do all in it how can we be capable hereof till we come to be made such For who can make themselves so sublime and perfect as to reach to so high a degree of Wisdom as is required in this Work Truth it is O impotent Spirit without me thou hast no sufficiency therefore this understand I do not insist or require thee to set upon this Matter of so great Consequence nakedly in thy own strength for then soon an abortive thou wouldst make This doth require as great a Skill and Power as the first Heavens and Earth with all the Hosts that did belong unto them which were generated through the deep Spirit of Wisdom's Understanding So know I do call upon this Original Breath infused from my Essential Power and Life which resleth in the Cell of thy Eternal Mind till it be awakned by my Voice sounding as a Trumpet saying Come forth and gird on thy Spiritual Powers and follow me where thou shalt see in what Holy Affairs and Spiritual Work I will employ thee knowing the Gift of Ability which already is given unto thee which now is required to be stirred up to the utmost sufficiency thereof to join the Chariot of thine Internal Spirit with me and so be the Wheel within mine doing only what you see me do who am risen out of thy deep Central Earth all things anew to create Seven Pillars hewn out in the first place here must be for this Perfect Sanctuary all Crystalline out from that Rock which is the Eternal Jasper-Stone Next is that fine-twined Linnen which for Curtains about this Tent is ordered to be imbroidered by the Golden Thread and wrought by the Needle of my Eternal Spirit In the third place it is to be paved all with Molten Gold from that Everlasting Mountain which thou didst see the Covering also of the same Orential Gold must be All which though Metaphorically I do them thus present to thee yet all shall be accomplished in a perfect Mystery as the Deity shall all over-shadow thee who long hath waited this Tabernacle to see perfected in thee that so the Covenant within the Ark might find a place of Security Here thy God will choose to put his Name only Where nothing must come near that is defiling And therefore appointed are over the Thronely Mercy-Seat flaming Cherubims this Holy Place to guard Whose cry is only Holiness to the Lord Most High who within this Tent defires with thee to dwell and with Power Majesty and Glory it to fill but know that here God will admit none into this seperated Court to come but the High-Priest which hath the Crown of the Anointing Oil therefore consider the wonderful Purity that is required when thou comest near to thy God to inquire who will from between the Flaming Seraphims commune with thee in all Matters and Things in which thou art to receive Commands For now the real sum of all that which is required in this thy approach is purity in the highest degree that can be extracted from that Original Sourse out from which floweth the Golden Streams of All-Holiness which will be found within thy self and in their rising so cleanse and sanctifie them all over as therefrom this Holy Tabernacle will it self form and grow upon thee till it shall have swallowed up all foregoing Tabernacles as Aaton's Rod did devour the rest of the Magicians Powers So know that God will be and live intirely to himself within thee as his perfect Tent enduring no Vessel or Instrument or Spirit to come here but what hath the Inscription of Perfect Holiness upon it For who may here ascend but what can dwell in a Flaming Pillar of Fire and not be consumed and be able to say Evermore let me in this sweet aimable pleasant Fire O God with thee abide till I know nothing within me stirring but the Ark of thy Strength and the Power of thy Omnipotency which will be and is the finishing Glory of thy Sanctuary Where unutterably and perpetually my Spirit may be folded up as in an unknown Reservatory within this Holy Place of Purity In order to the attainment of which Perfect State this Word I heard Abstain thou from all Meats which are offered unto Idols and feed upon nothing which is Common or Unclean which is not purged by the Fire that burneth upon my Altar a true Fast ye are to keep in your Spirits from the gross creeping Things and flying Fowls of Imaginations that are apt to flutter in the Air of your Minds and would feed upon that which is hurtful making ye Infirm and Weak for this Tabernacle-Work For as ye are called and chosen to the Order of the Holy Priesthood there to attend instantly Day and Night maintaining the Fire upon the Altar from the pure Spikenard which is to be made up of all Spices into a perfuming Oil this is thy Service to cast herein Fuel or
then in all former Ministrations whatever Oh now then to my Call and Cry within you take special Recognizance it is my Elijah's Voice that the Way of the Holy Ghost might be made plain and strait Take heed no Lyon or Wolf so much as once set their Foot on it Make your Watch still strong for slimy muddy Pits are on each hand the great Levia than there doth under Water lie waiting to see if here you do set your Feet awry For this subtle Serpent doth well know hereby all former and present Prophecyes will be prolonged if not cut off So that if by any means he could Ingulf you within this noisome Pit where all devouring Fish of Prey do lie which still would be eating out your Belief and Confidence in what do's lie beyond the Border of the Senses he will not fail to do so Because it is not for the gross but for the pure and immaculate Eye only to espy those Celestial Glories Whereof not only to the Sight I do here you my beloved Lambs invite but come I say and tast what in my upper Banquetting-House is to be found to which ye yet so high never ascended where the Ghostly Body upon the Crystalline Sea is set But stay yet ye must and ye must it not touch with unwashen Hands with strong scented Oil your Finger must drop while in this Dish ye them dip to give proof ye are a prepared Guest who have put on the Bridegroom your Robe this will be your Tickets Testimony that right you have to eat of this choice Mess which only for the Bride and Bridegroom are set forth Though with many sweet and pleasant Fruits I have out of my Paradisical Garden you fed and with the Spirit of the Vine I have your Thirsts often satisfied yet none like or to be compared to this Therefore it is reserved as the strong Meat which only those that are come to ripe and perfect Age can bear thereof to eat Therefore go thy way and be comforted that ye are entred into Love's Eternal Calendar and may assuredly of this last and great Gift partake as ye shall in the bright Temple grow reaching to the full Stature of your Jesus To which Coming fear not but your Father will equally dispence the Holy Ghost as his free Benevolence Grow grow get up to this high Nativity with all speed The Most High hath great need of such worthy high Disciplined Spirits to go forth bearing the Heavenly Trophy and Banner of Glory which may take away fallen Nature's reproach How much will it be the joy of Wisdom your Mother to see you come up through all Tribulations to inherit the Antient and Royal Seat near unto that Great King your Prince and Personal Saviour through the introducing of his pure Spirit and Nature without which ye never had been capable of so high a Calling as to have fellowship with him not only in the Knowledge but in the joint Possession without any defraud as ye shall see impartially when this Ghostly-Dove with her Cherubin-Wing doth with all Power upon you rest so as no more from you ever to flye or withdraw O run hard still cry knock and call I will assure thee from the Word of a God it shall abundantly answer to all A Memorandum March the 13th 1675 6. FRom the 6th of this present to the 13th I have been exercised in great Conflicts upon and through a sudden surprize upon the mortal part of my Companion and Fellow-Labourer in that Paradisical Husbandry he being smote and struck as with a Leviathian Dart upon his Animal and Vital Spirit the first time was on the Monday being abroad upon his returning home which went over again The next Day about the same time a Feaver took him and in great Violence ceased on his Heart and so he wrestled a good space of time in great Anguish which so affected me that I drew in and awakned a great Travel for his escape from these Sorrows of Death which had so ceased upon him I having had some warning of an imminent Danger and Peril which I saw the Night before he was first affâ—…cted and came down to advertise him hereof before he went from home As thus there was a deep Pit with great Swelling Waters under which the subâ—…il Levia than with his outstretched Jaws did lie to grasp in such as near there did walk Now the Doctor with my self being that way to pass I heard a word uttered Be ware come not too near it is a dangerous place Upon which I watchful was and took good heed and avoided it that the Doctor might not therein be ingulphed but draw off with all speed Which did predict there was some Danger nigh this being the Pit of Death as by the effect thereof soon did shew it self But the mighty Jehovah hereunto a Counter-check did give to reverse what the destroying Angel was upon executing For this second assault was very grievous being upon Tuesday which did abide on his vital Spirits from 4 in the Afternon till 10 at Night In which interim a Daniel's Spirit did come down which in us did Pray with mighty fervency winged up by Faith as knowing that in this ascending Power stood our help For after I had ceased and the Doctor began to Pray I saw a bright Star dance about his Bed and a Word came with it unto me I have heard and I will deliver for my own Name sake out of the present Jaws of Death This was a signal Evidence that Saving Health was near and that in this Hour of Exercise Jesus with his Healing Vertue would appear which soon after was witnessed So the Pains for that time were asswaged and he slept that Night and the next Day had respite So as we did hope this Storm was gone over But on Wednesday Night he found himself ill again So together we did seek the Lord for his Counsel whether or no he might venture upon some outward means to help to remove that violent Humour which by that strong Leviathan would have grasped away his Life For without permission from the Court and College of our Spiritual Physicians we dared not to adventure because we had committed the whole Cure of this deadly Wound to those All-healing Soveraign Powers While then we were supplicating and soliciting to know the Mind of Wisdom â—…erein this Word came It is suffered â—…n condescention to the instability of â—…our Faith however by Grace the corruptible Drugs shall be changed in their Constitution and Quality for else they in this case could not be available For know that my secret Medicine must be the Preparative Then after this the Doctor was free to take a Powder which gave him two or three Vomits and Purgations On Thursday Morning after which he was very cheerful and thought himself to be eased of his weight and talon which had so terrified him but after he had Dined it beset him again more fiercely and violently then at
hitherto would not hereunto put you till Wisdom's Spirit in highest measure be grown up for the management and carrying on of so high and mystical a part which excels and transcends all Buildings whatever that have gone before your Temple and Sanctuary Purity all inferiour is to this That which was lacking in them must be perfected here in this by this descending and all-compounding Glory which meets all in one here where now are descried the Lame the Blind and the Halt none of whom are so much as to look within this high Mountain of Holiness upon which the Glory resteth Neither can any come hither who bring not their twelve tried Foundation-Stones along with them To which end the Spirit which revealeth all secret deep things doth give for the manifestation here of unto thee That thou mayst know what maketh thee further meet to inherit this City which hath such transparant Foundations For so unvariable is Wisdom's Heart of Love that hath moved the Chariot-Wheels of thy Spirit and brought thee thus far even to the Gate and entrance of this magnificent place as by no means here to be shut out where ye are designed Marriage If ye can all over conquering first ascend to the Rock where these wonderful Precious Stones are to be found â—…oth for Foundation and Garnishing See then here whether the flight of thy Spirit must be namely to Wisdom's Treasure-House whom all must be fetched down for the City building Here carried up thou must be in thy Spirit not only to see in Vision or in bare Idea's these Stones of Glory but to have them put upon thee as thy Breast-plate row upon row with the engraving of that new Name which giveth sound Judgment and perfect Sight and Understanding into all Visibles and Invisibles This is a great estate which I am now setting before you and also bringing into yoâ—… as ye shall be able to bear the Glory of it which will be all Consuming to the existency of your present Heavens and Earth Which can no longer abide but they must fall away and flee at the bright rising of this Sion-Beauty in Crystalline Appearance and Celestiaâ—… Cloathing Rejoyce ye O my Dovâ—… Spirits in what I am about to createâ—… and to lay in you anew such Foundations as shall make my Name the Pranâ—… in these New Heavens and Earth upoâ—… which my beloved City shall be placed In order to this ye must suffer the Plumâ—…met-Line in the Guardian Angels Hanâ—… to measure the height length anâ—… breadth of this walled City each onâ—… within your own New Earth The Duâ—… of which must be all fanned through thâ—… Sieve of immaculateness which will 〈◊〉 no mixture of old Earth pass througâ—… The Heavens that now must be in yoâ—… circling Clarification continually must be pure bright and without mixture For consider for whom this City is prepared and builded is it not for one who is terrible in Holiness and Purity and that only can dwell with what is like himself Behold now and hear that Word again saying I decree all things in ye New as chosen Testators of this my will and as my front Battellers and primary Builders working according to the Law-giver and Rule-setter whose Eye and Hand shall prove it self great and mighty as ye shall thereupon rest immediately for all counsel and aid and shall thereto still â—…lye for Wisdom April the 5th 1676. In the Night-Vision I with another Person were to make a new remove to some place which we had no knowledge of being under a strict limitation thereto to hasten The way which we were to pass I saw as a fiery Oven which when we came at put us to a stop then waiting and looking on it a while the Flames died and soon were vanished Then the guiding Word said Pass on fear not the place is not now too hot to set your Feet upon which after some debate with our selves we ventured through Then was presented to our view a Knot of all Precious Stones as if they had been taken out of a Rock truly they were for Colours and Brightness and Sparkling so excelling so wonderful Transparent as all and the highest of what can be illustrated out from this Creation is but a gloomy shadow hereunto The glance was sudden and soon passed out of my view only pointing and leaving a great Impression as to the late Manifestation and the moving forward to the Jerusalem-Work Which yet required a higher and more Seraphick ascending up of our Spirits then hitherto hath been which I was in great Jeapardy about both for that others and also for my own sufficiency and spiritual ability to go forward and through paved Spirits to follow on For the Vision shewed me we should meet with hot work but that it would be allayed and overcome for us After which I saw our way made to pass through Waters before we could come to this City That Word still saying Only believe and I will pass on before you proclaiming my Name and opening to you the Foundation of it from whence your strength shall arise and your pregnant Power shall be known Who now then must be your Master-Builder to instruct you in this your Foundation-Work but that Wisdom which was with Jehovah from everlasting who gave Being and Existency according to the Spiration of the Eternal Will even so in like manner must this moving Will-power again go forth for the removing and undoing what the dark Fire enkindled Properties have done racing and pulling down that Babylonish Building to the Ground that its place may be found no more nor yet its turbulent Sea For I am making away for you out of all these first desolate part of things your Hands with me I require you to put and so you shall stop and prevent the Flood-Gates of the Beast and of the Serpent's fury Come now and I will shew you where all these Foundation-Stones do lie look see within the compass of your new Earth and of the burning Glassy Sea treasure-matter for this Foundation Building here ye may espy Therefore the Golden Plummet of my Spirit shall be given to you that so ye may be able not only to sound but also to bring up what lieth couched here beneath The first Stone which the Spirit drew up to view was a bright Saphir upon which was engraven the great Name Jehovah Shammah The second was an Onyx-stone with Everlasting Wisdom written upon it The third was a Beril presenting the Flaming and Ghostly Breath issuing forth in sparkling power The Second Row the first is the Jasper which is all Light sparkling like to the Diamond upon this is engraven the Express Word or Image of God The second Stone of this second Row is a Sardius it is a Sardine-stone which represents the Virgin Purity as meet to unite to the Jasper The third Stone of this Row is an Amethyst upon which is engraven the highest degree of Seraphick Love that cements all in one The third
every way so beset him from the Throne-Spirit-Lamps proceeding from God and the Lamb which hath out vied and abased all other Lights which hereat pull themselves in and fall down as not able to abide or contest with this God Essential Light Ah but while with you I am discoursing these things I hear this loud Ecchoing-Cry within Oh when shall we be cloathed upon with this New Jerusalem Light that it may be our Lot within this City to abide or else why is it after this manner so illustrated through the Knowledge and Manifestation of these things Thou dost but sadden out Hearts and multiply our Sorrows till thou takest us in hereunto For how can we love to see that place which we must not come into And look upon thesâ—… Lovely Trees and not yet touch or tâ—… them This doth but sharpen our Spiritual Appetites to make them moâ—… eagerly hunger after them April the 14th 1676. Our Eyes being now pitched upon this choice and only Tree among all Eden's Varieties none here doth please us so as here to stay we do see now somewhat beyond them at a distance Wisdom Therefore ye would have Admission into what I have shewn you or else ye tell me that it had been better to have had it still concealed from you I know yea I know these are your deep Love-arguings for your Zeal to this my House and City of Glory is very great so as you would bring down out hence the first ripe Fruits and I know you are in travel for your Bride Jerusalem to see All which is most acceptable to Wisdom's Spirit who searcheth deeply and will turn up every Fire-Stone to see what yet lieth under Therefore thou that plyest so hard the perfect thing it self for to come to be I asâ—…ure my Hand will not slâ—…ck but will â—…ut it self forth to draw thee forward â—…ill thou through the conquering part â—…hall come Who then shalt challenge by Right this threefold Tree thereof to feed upon then will transmuting work begin Here your Eyes will be open indeed from a virtual strength taken in under the Honey-Dew which upon these Branches lie it may be well said it is the Eye-Salve in truth which enlightneth the Eye that no Secret can from it be hid for it beholdeth every precious thing whether above or beneath But to go on let me answer what I read still within thy Heart who saith O Jesus why am not I brought without further delay here Why hast thou caused my Ear Morning by Morning to hear of those great Immunities if I may not enter upon this rich and stately Inheritance By which I may shew what thou hâ—…st Oh Jesus for me wrought that so all Insidels may be convinced who are in the gain-saying Spirit that a Saviour is risen to carry us through into the Land of Possession For glorified I cannot be till upon Mount Sion my Ransomed Ones with their Victorious Crowns and Palms do stand free Oh this is all I must tell thee a little time more allowed must be for the full conquest to be made I even I am come with my Fire and sifting Fan till I will not leave one Canaanitish Spirit in thy Land This is my present work to subdue and bind all under you I now a busie swift and mighty Agent am for you who have laid your help upon me and have charged me with this great thing to bring it to pass for you Your Hearts and Minds I now require to leave with me as an empty Tent for no more a mixed Family shall there dwell I Wisdom with my own Train will you fill turning all out but my own begotten Fire-sparkling Seed for with nothing else can I evermore agree When this is done ye cannot ye shall not live out of this Sion-Glory April the 15th 1676. The Nazarite Diet. Furthermore I have set forth within thee those Foundation-Stones that are already laid in their fair Colours I the Lord thy Builder and Maker will modelize all anew and will alter the Face of thy Mind by changing and turning the inclination of thy Heart towards this Tree of Life Towards which all thy Desiâ—…e shall be for which cause within thy new Foundation Wall it shall for ever henceforth spring The Root of this high Deified Matter being found from the hour of the Life quickning in Wisdom's Virgin-Womb from which a Body pure and Celestial doth grow rising out of the Tomb where Christ thy Foundation Seed was laid For this Tree of Life is proper for none to feed on but those that have been dead and are alive again For which end thâ—… beloved Paul desired to know nothing but what might bring to this Resurrection-state which would be the undeniable Witness that ye have right to enter and to pass through the flaming Cherubinical-Wall being of the same Sardius and Ruby-Bodies But before you fully this attain you have a Time of allowance granted you for growth and provision to feed upon it suitably for the Younglings state You could not yet be able to bear the strong Powers and Spirits which this Tree of Life doth produce Therefore Butter and Honey Milk and Oyl are your present Portions which are appointed you by Wisdom who well knows what your present reception can carry off and will not overcharge that which is but weak and tender Therefore hath she wisely ordered this Sanctuary-Dyet which is strong enough to nourish this new Birth of Life As 1st with the Milk of all Lovetenderness 2dly Then with the Honey-Dews of Predictions Manuductions and Counsels 3dly With the melting Butter of consolating Joy 4thly With the Oyl of Light which is for the restoring and keeping clearer the Sight that it may be able to look into this City where the Jasper-stone so wonderfully doth shine Now know these kinds of Food will bring you up make you so pure clear and fair as in the Fulness of Time ye shall without restriction Boldly of this strong Life Virtue take Which will a Change to purpose in you make For consider what the Nature and Spirit of this Tree is I shall here present the several Properties of it to wit Power Majesty Wisdom Riches Honour Omnipotency Blessing Salvation Dominion Strength Dignity and Glory All these are given at once to feed upon and to drink in the Juicy Liquor of all these Fruit-Powers What or who can bear it but the strong grown Nazarite that hath been incorruptibly trained up for it After this for the space of Ten Days it is not known what Occurred from the Heavens as not being found Registred by Doctor P. April the 25th 1676. The Bridegroom's Voice The Word in me from Jesus thus spake O ye Jerusalem Waiters by what Gate came ye in and what have you here seen that ye so willing are here to stay Taken thou art with the flaming Eye that thou hast no mind hereout to depart till ye have got another Heart which â—…o where else could be perfectly
exchanged Here only is the Place for the Bridegroom and his Bride after long Exile to meet again Oh then be wise and for your Bridal Spirit and Garment of Power undeniably wait None out of this Treasure-City can ever it obtain for in this Sion must all be born again after many other preceding Births which fore runs this great and last Transmuting Birth Which to that Perfection is brought that no desire there will be for to see another change then what this Jerusulem-state will translate thee into For which cause I have it to thee shewn that ye might here into enter in in that I see your Minds so refined that ye disdain among Beasts any longer to live and feed Come O ye blessed of my Father who out of these Prison-Walls and defiled Pastures shall steal and depart away as who are no more to touch with that which makes this City from you to shut it self up I have this 1600 Years expected still Comers up to me into my Personal Glory here But few have made their way all clear unto me not having skill or known the Art of dying to the Earthly part fully and totally Half dead and half alive many have so far tryed and therefore could no entrance find here because a putrified part still was found Which hath made me so unknown and to such necessitated ones to carry it strange they not considering the Disproportionableness of my present state and how that I am iâ—…stated in the highest degree of the Father's Glory of Purity that so if even my Affectons and Heart were touched to descend upon any that ardently seek Personal Union and Manifestation with me yet it would not be permitted till this Mount Sion-Birth is brought forth which makes the high Clarification and all Perfection of Beauty desirable without exception to the everlasting Father of perfect Spirits Who willeth that I should take none into the inward secret Court where all Dignities and Princely Throne-Powers and Glories are till throughly purified and cloathed upon with the Jasper-stone This anointed Cherubin-covering hath been scarcely put on therefore they could not come up to bring down the Everlasting Kingdom which must again to a certain Number be restored Blessed are they who shall know it in their Day looking hereunto and waiting for it within the Jerusalem-Walls where this new Off-spring and Generation must be born Yea Blessed are ye my Beloved and those that are with you United in Me for the Bringing down of this Happy Day upon the Earth April the 27th 1676. His further Admonition In or about Break-of-Day I prayed as the present state of things were shewn me and matter therefrom given me I never felt a greater Efflux of Spirit Power Joy and Peace came into me then did at this season which opened that Word and made it known in its Living Witness saying Now feel and tast what the Kingdom of God is it is made to thee a Substantiality and shall out-flow according to its working Property Henceforth then in Wisdom's Balance weigh and consider every thing you say that your Words may no more be Naked but cloathed with the Guardian Power Which will come to be of great Consequence as managed in Dove-Simplicity and shall defeat the Serpent's Subtilty Who strong Poyson had for thee prepared but could no way send it in thy Vessel being with the Antidote Liquor and juice of Life before-hand filled Which still take thou care to keep brim-full that so nothing which is of crude anxious Nature into thee may come upon thy Ascension which is to bring down another Spiritual Form For I see it is time and expedient that to my Jerusalem Waiters I should appear to bring them up where new Robes and Vestures are fitted out for the new-born Inhabitants to wear That so without a Vail upon my Face I might to you plainly speak for I have no pleasure to carry it at this distance towards you could you bear but the â—…ight of my terrible Crystalline Glory which I am so deeply ingulphed withal that I cannot be conversant after that way and manner which I was before I ascended into this high Throne-Power and Heavenly Place conversing with those for whom I went to prepaâ—… Mansions for in my Father's House a much highâ—…t Purity I now require in such who are to be my fellow Associates then what was existent in that day This is a new Law not understood and will be only received to a small number for know that to thee I will this thing reveal what Wisdom is about to do in order to the bringing the Bridegroom and Bride together For while the Bâ—…ide is found unready and all undressed and out of the Jerusalem's Glory I could in no wise acquaint my self with her otherwise then by Secretaries and influencing Breathings to let her know by these what she must further be wrought into for more minute Sight and Knowledge with me her designed Bridegroom and Mate April the 28th 1676. The Love-Chain According as the Living Word who spake thus by way of Prophecy in me did further by Similitude present it self as thus A Golden Chain in Links was let down from the high Throne Sphear where Jesus in the Love-Kingdom reigns This Chain had a Golden Ball at the end and the Voice said Hold fast if thou wilt come up unto me if thou shouldst gad abroad with thy Mind or Eye and let this slip out of thy Hand then thou wilt be prevented of cohabitation with me in my Princely Glory For this is the strong Power of Might which brings the Bridegroom and the Bride together Every Link in this Chain hath its proper use and service Wisdom is the great Engineer which did this contrive for my Spouse and I to meet and each other to greet While then in the Heavens I must be contained this Chain shall descend still to help up such as are risen out of the dark Night dress of a corruptible Life into a Body of Light This Chain is of so high a refined Mettal that it admits of no Hand to lay hold of it but the pure Lily Hand which is strong in Faith who is perswaded that this Love-Chain is sufficient to bring one up after the manner of Elijah's Chariot Who was mighty in Faith and so brought down this Ascending Chariot by this Chain of divers Links But he had first ascended by it as appeared being one who had power with God upon all occasions even to shut and open the Heavens when he pleases what else are these Links of drawing Powers but this Elijah's Spirit of Prophecy and Prayer of Faith perfect Love Patience Hope Weekness Long-suffering Peaceableness Temperance and immutable Perseverance These are the Link-fastening tyes on your parts Then that which answers on mine are these Light Greatness of Power and Might Love Grace and Good-will Kindness Pity and all Tenderness without variableness with the watchful protecting and safe-guarding Eye which shall maintain all this for a
subsist answerably upon its own native Food O let it not seem strange that this Life-Birth of Jesus is now upon its rising again it will be defended and protected by the conquering Right of the Mighty Alpha who will have regard unto this Kingly Heir while he is in his Young and Infant state that he may not be bereaved of his Kingdom There is no fear of this last high and perfect Birth to be hereof supplanted because the Foundation-Seal is upon it which is the Lord that quickening growing Life and Spirit that makes all that is not for it to fly away before it May the 19th 1676. Now knowing in my self another Spirit acting and moving in this new begotten Birth I was now apt for Phylosophick teaching in the all hidden Magia of Wisdom's Secrets In which this holy born Thing might attain skill and understanding as being thereunto constituted For as its Birth is from Mount Sion high great pure and Spiritual so must its Learning and Education answer thereunto No Tutour Teacher or Governour to it must be but what out of the Royal City the New Jerusalem doth come from thence by God the Father's Commission Who will new string our Tongues so as the Stammerer shall speak in that one pure Language which is only understood by Jesus and the Brotherhood Oh the Spirit of this New Creature dives deep and is of a piercing Understanding and of a quick Ear. Now upon this Birth 's opening and shewing it self as the true Nazarite it was set much upon my Heart and great awfulness was upon us who were Witnesses of this rising Birth how to carry it and behave our selves towards it So we sought earnestly by Prayer to be directed in the management thereof as desiring to answer this great Love-Gift according to the requiring of the gracious Donour This was my Morning consideration after which being much kept waking in the Night about it I fell into a slumber about the Morning and here was presented unto me a Book open and a Finger pointing to me to read it being very fair and legible Which I engaged my Mind to understand the meaning of but it seemed to be written in another Language then I had yet learned and so I could make nothing out of it But when I awaked and had waited a while in the interiour Silence it was said to me This was the Book of Prophecy which could not literally be read but it was given forth for the new living Birth to feed on it and to be eating it down and so ye shall feel it become a springing Source bringing forth deep precious and weighty things After this way and manner the holy Birth shall be disciplined and thus taught by a secret intrinsical mingling and conveying Power that shall all other Teachings drown nullifie and obliterate This shall only be of force and authority according as it was with Jesus who only is to be your Precedent of whom by way of derision it was said How comes this Man to be so understanding and knowing seeing he never was learned He being poorly and meanly Educated as they judged and not come up so high in their Form as to be bred up a Scribe therefore it was admiration to them how he came by that Wisdom and Knowledge Which so outvied all and made them astonished when they reasoned with him He brought forth all his Sayings from this deep central Birth of the holy overshadowing Breath-Power which issued continually affording still fresh and new Matter Now then to you who have partaken of the same Life and Birth with your Jesus and are come to feel this Word of Life stirring within you ye are charged to live by this Word which is the Book of Life incorporating it self in you Mistrust not but you will find enough herefrom to nourish and strengthen all your Internal Senses Expect no less in this Birth of Life then what was manifest in your Jesus the same budding Fruits there will be from the same Spirit as ye grow up in it Fear not but the anointing Powers and Gifts will open and flow as Antecedents belonging hereunto And whereas you have desired to know how you may manure this holy Birth You are required to bring him into the Temple of the Lord and there to dedicate him up in the Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood Whose growth will be great and signal in the Courts of Holiness for evermore May the 20th 1676. This Morning this Word run through me and still cried in me Knowest thoâ—… what a Treasure thou standest charged withal Consider the high worth oâ—… this Birth and give all Attedance to it wait upon it and minister to it as youâ—… great Prince and Saviour For behold it is come to Redeem you out of all Siâ—… and Thraldom and will be a growing Tree of all fruitful Boughs excellently and richly laden Therefore be choice of it and tender it as the very Apple of your Eye and permit nothing to offend it Your will-Will-Spirits who from the high Eternity are tinged are commanded to Watch and Ward about it and to unite entirely with this perfect thing For it is a Stone out of the Sion Rock that will be your Covering of Strength and Salvation and the opening of the Store-house of all Blessings to run out freely It is but natural for you to grow and spring out of this Central Birth operating from within Your charge is only to attend this Altar-Fire and the pure Celestial Oyl that is the Free-will which the holy flaming Body doth subsist of from the Everlasting Mountain of Holiness distilling down to your Hands Therefore your only Business is to wait to take it in and upon this Holy Altar to pour it That so hereby it may become a very strong sweet and savoury Meat to the nourishing of the pure part which must be one with it through our being turned into a Golden perfect lump So solid and stable it must be as neither Clay Iron Brass or Tinn may or can here penetrate in No contrary Metals can run into this pure Body or what is not of its own high extracted Matter Therefore now this thing consider well and suffer this Lily Birth alone by it self to dwell undisturbed in the Sacred Temple till grown out of all Fear and Jeopardy to the state of Eldership to which full grown Body and Head the Crown is made only fit May the 22d 1676. These Internal Openings and Manuductions following me still so as they would hardly give room for any thing of a Worldly Sense to enter in contrary Seeds in my inward Ground could not be born there being something in me that was now grown so strong as to resist and throw out all other light and scruffy Grain For my Granary must be reserved for the one pure Birth-Seed according as my Jesus hath his Mind to me revealed Who said expresly Come come shut up the Grates and Windows of thy low carnal earthly Senses by which the
Light of the Mortal Day doth enter in to rule according to the manner of this World's Inhabitants Know ye your selves who have my new living Birth upon you Impressed you are under the Charter and Laws of the Jerusalem free born from above and not from beneath though in the World yet not of it This Birth of Life is a meer Stranger all its care is to keep it self that the Evil One may not touch him nor mislead him through introducing his false Light into you as his Rational Star within this low Orb to bind you under these Planets that rule over the fallen outward Birth Which now you are to reckon your selves freed from by this Aurora the Morning Birth of this great and Everlasting Days-Man The Light that now is breaking open upon you is to give a sight into that City and new Creation to which ye do belong For ye are under quite another kind of Government having taken upon you that high Apostolical Profession which enters you into and makes you partakers of that high calling For here is a Spiritual Service and Employ allotted for every Sion born Spirit so soon as they are grown up to the understanding part As the outward rational Spirit and Body as soon as grown up and capable of Traffick and Commerce are their own Crafts-Masters in and over things Temporal by which Corporalities do subsist Even so likewise see what Calling the great High-Priest and Apostle took upon him as our Pattern so soon as he was grown up in Wisdom and Ability so as to take upon him the Office and Function whereby he might set upon the Work and Business for which he was sent into the World by God the Father Who never was found sloathful or negligent in Spiritual Business for he was always found in Spiritual Action working the Works of his God and Father in his Day May the 23d 1676. Who now hath also imprinted the Name Jesus in you as the Mark for you to follow the same honourable and high Calling whereby ye may obtain a rich and plentiful Spiritual Livelihood therefore be vigilant and always upon the right hand Industry through which will be blessed Income Eternally A Vision seen by me in the Night after my first Sleep I saw one as in a Figure of a sprightly Youth presenting himself near my Bed-side which amazed me and I was afraid to take knowledge of him who made out to me as if he would draw my Aspect to him but I could not find any Power for Speech with him This disappearing another in taller Stature and more Manly Countenance drew upon me seeming to desire Familiarity with me and then I looked when this Appearance would have spoke but it was passive and silent only pleasant in its Countenance who on a suddain withdrew Then again was a presentation of a Person in a middle Stature comely sweet and amiable for attraction yet I being bounded in my Spirit was hindred otherwise I could have run with my Spirit into him After this I was drawn to consider in my Mind of this threefold Appearance Then it was thus spoken in me thou hast Imagically seen the threefold degree of the Immaculate Life-Birth-Growth which it must reach in you who are designed to Personate your Jesus in his full grown state here upon the Earth It is a high Prerogative to attain to all these Degrees for where is there any in this last Age past or present that have seen my antient Prophecy made good which is that there shall not be in my City and Mountain of Holiness an old Man that hath not fulfilled his days that is hath not reached to the express Degree of me their full grown Head Many indeed have in my Birth been Quickened and their outward Figure been extinguished before they have brought forth the Life into visible Manifestation Others again have attained to the Breaking forth so as that they have seen and handled the Word of Life but still in the Infancy of days Others may have reached so far as that Youthful state which was in the first Idea shewn to thee In which as in a Glass ye may see your own present state But oh here you are not to stay or trifle out your time like Children to play it away but now putting away all Childish knowledge and understanding to grow now in every part from my vigorous Heart's Birth infusing its strength through you and growing up to that compleat Structure and Image which is after God in the Perfection of Holiness Know ye that you cannot tell till you come into the strong Man's state what ye shall be able to do work and act You will find Power and Might from a full grown Body to subdue and bring all Creatures and Worlds under in which will consist the great Soveraignty of my Kingdom that comes into none till they know the second remove into the Young Man's understanding Degree through which the World is conquered as it stands in the Property of Sin and in its enmity to God Come up my Children dear let me meet you growing up in this second Birth Degree perfect pure and clear then I will appear to you in my Last grown state in my Ghostly Body which when you see not only like to me but that ye be the same with me in it then ye shall see the days of the Son of Man For the Ascending Might is to bring down this Dove flaming Body Saphire-like Which is the only defensive Weapon of War that will make all Spirits stand in awe of you and the glittering Sword of the Spirit out of my Mouth shall make all your Enemies backward for to fall By me ye shall trample and miraculously over them as ye knit Power with Power and Might with Might from this Body of Light which fed is from the Blood of my Life You now hereby do see what the Hope of your Calling is be hourly exercised herein work hard in the Fiery Furnace which is kindled within out from which you may expect that pure strong bodied Spirit will come which will really translate you into the Mount Sion state with me your beloved Dove-Mate May the 25th 1676. A Vision which I saw in the Night This appeared as I was walking in a green Pasture with one or two with me only for repass suddenly within a Bow-shot there was manifested a pleasant calm Sea which seeming so near I said to them with me Come let us go and set down by the side of it where I also saw a heap of Precious Stones and I heard a Voice say There is a great Treasure and Valuable Things are there hid Then I resolved thither to make with all speed but when I came to set forward neither I nor they with me could go there were such Bogs and Quick-sands that none of us durst adventure For somewhat reflected and said in me You cannot go till you be shod with the Golden Sandals these you must have before
you can set sure footing to go over to this Ocean Sea therefore stay a while and provide them and then you will not slâ—…de Considering this in the Morning and knowing that all Presentations of this Magical Nature have their certain Effects which I have observed ever since I came under the Discipline of the Word of Wisdom who hath been my Glassy Eye to spy out things within that Ocean and having now from this new subject matter to exercise my Spiritual Senses in laying aside the Garment of my outward Sense which to the Intellectual Understanding is the great Impediment the Glass which represented these things became altogether Clear in me so that in seeing I did see being divested of all outward Covering For which Cause the Spirit of Wisdom doth take advantage when the External Reason is laid asleep and the Animal Sense drowned even then by Internal Idea's to manifest the Objects of the Inward Worlds Which was God's method for the discovery of his Mind in foregoing Ages or by any other way for the busie working of the Astral Mind of Reason is the greatest Let to Divine Vision this I can give witness to Therefore this Command I often have received from the Most Holy Inspirator to unstrip her from her dark Leaden Body which hath not the true Organ of Sight The holy bright Aiery Spirit can admit of no such clog it is like Saul's Armour to the nimble sprightly David it must be thrown off For there is for this an absolute necessity for such as will hold any free Parly and Conference with their now glorified Jesus they must come to be in the Spirit as John was when he in Vision saw and talked with him who was for that time without any touch or feeling any weight of his gross Corporeal Senses for he dyed out of them as he saith he was as one dead which made way for the opening of this New World's Scene and unclasping that Book of Revelation which before was hid and concealed But here riseth an Objection Who can fall into such a Trance and Sleep at any time when they would enjoy such close free manner of Communion with the High Principality of Glory The Eternal Word of Wisdom doth give this Answer to this Query True it is that no Natural Person can fall into this Divine and Spiritual Lethargy so as to still and quite suspend all operation of the Ratinoal Faculties for through these the fallen Birth-Life moves and acts and can never do Violence upon it selâ—… to seek its own Destruction for this iâ—… most Unnatural But where there is another Life Birth introduced and risen in opposition to this and that can prove its lawful descent out from the Eternal Womb of the Virgin-Body This may take authority and arise in its Magical Might and depress the Sensitive Life that hinders and clouds and keeps one back from these Seraphical Sights Now I say to this pure Essential Thing begotten by the Holy Breath and infused in let that potent Will which is free enter in and be one with this pure Conception then ye will soon master the Contrariety If at any time the Starry Birth in you should be unruly then make use of that precious Stone which into your Custody is put that can and will if put forth dash and crumble all into Dust which shall henceforth either within thy own Precinct or without make attempts against this high Birth state Which grow must still till it fills with Power every part to act a Tragedy upon the Serpent and all his fallen party that strives so hard and would have cut off the Tide and Stream which from the Sea thou didst steer and run so free that no Gally could be swifter then this strong Arm which as a Boat hath wafted thee over where now sit down and wait upon my Love-Ocean Heart This seems to be a Digression from that Thing Represented which is now returned to upon the Third Day after May the 28th 1676. I saw again in a Vision a Stream from this pleasant calm Sea of which I mentioned that for want of being suitably shod we could not pass over to it which gave much Exercise to my Mind thereby stirring up matter of Enquiry and Intercession to my God pleading from the Spirit of Jesus why that Gulph should remain betwixt this Ocean-Treasury and us Who had now declined and turned our Faces from all Things Terrestrial that so we might come to possess what Wisdom's Glass had opened of this Scene of Glory This being the Matter of my Contemplation after which in the Night falling into a Transical Sleep of a suddain I found my self in a Boat that did run with the greatest swiftness that neither the Bogs nor Quicksands which formerly I saw could stop it For the Waters from the Sea had risen high over all bringing me safe and secure to this Sea-shore where I was to sit down fixed upon the Mountain of Precious Stones there to choose and pick out what was of greatest value And when I came to my Spiritual Sense waiting for the Interpretation of this Vision it thus spake in me The Ocean Sea which thou didst see doth present God the Immense Deity who contains all full rich and weighty Substance and Treasury who by no Corporeal Spirit could ever be reached for there was a Gulph and Eternal Separation between as this boggy miery Passage did present thereunto But only by Sion born Spirits whom I have seen in the true Sorrow and Mourning because hereunto they could no Path find for sure footing whereby might be attained this rich Mine where all the desirable Good doth lie Now in tenderness and compassion unto thy sorrowful Spirit this Arm and Stream hath risen which represents thy Jesus who from the Ocean-Love of the Immense Deity doth to thee flow to bring thee back to the Head-Fountain where thou mayst come to know God the Holy Ghost covering thee as the Waters do the Sea till when upon this Jesus fix who this lovely Mountain of all Precious Substance is Where be thou sure now to look turning over every Stone till thou come to find that only Saphire Stone which will change gross Mettals into bright transparent Gold and shine through dark Bodies a flaming Light These things presented are to the Eternal Eye so to speculate upon as thereby thy whole Mind may be transmuted over hereunto in order to the fulfilling of what in Vision thou hast seen May the 29th 1676. O how unutterable was it What Joy did I feel upon this secret Parley which my dear Immanuel whose Words like Butter and Oyl did distil so that hereby was lifted up the Banner of my Hope that possibly we might yet live to see the Day of the Holy Ghost who out of his Mountain-Treasury is for to come to put an end to all Sin and mortal frail Impotencies under which we do yet groan looking and hastening for this Perfect Thing to come which will
restore us perfectly to our Angelical State Even so blessed Dove and Bride break up this in us who are waiting here upon this Ocean shore for this new Spring-Tide Oh let it open upon us wide and we will not be afraid though it shall violate us away from all visible Ties from which we do now see we must be parted and separated For we can never see thee till we do withdraw out of gross Corporality that so cloathed we may be with Jesus that Celestial Body who is our Bridal Garment of which we shall not be ashamed when God our King shall call us to view and examine who the prepared Brides are for the New Jerusalem Marriage to which we now are summoned May the 30th 1676. This Day upon some occasion ministred from the outward Astrum of this World's Principle was stirred up a secret embroil that for some space of Time I was held out so as I could find no entrance for my Spirit among the Seraphick Quire where my Attendance was required Morning by Morning to hear and learn for my further Instruction in the Eternal Magia Which I felt as a deep bundle of Life-Treasury beginning to open But such a wise subtle pure swift Breath or Mist it is that it shuts up and does withdraw so soon as any thing of a Mortal Sense upon it doth fly It is such a high glance of Magisterium that it will refine out of all gross fleshly kinds whatever No parley with External matter this unknown Power will endure as my dear Inspirator hath anew shewed unto me and hath given me caution not to prevent its Descending by mingling the Will-Spirit who is chosen for its Mare with any low inferiour sense of things which may grate upon it Whoever comes to be highly Learned in this Philosophical Art must be trained up from their Spiritual Birth Infancy and hereupon wait continually for to know For the Divine Spell is a Mystical Thing and of that principal weight as the whole Mind Will and Heart must hereunto be engaged and all is little enough to turn this Cherubim Wheel of the Magia still about For which you must after the manner of a Spiritual grown Body labour hard till ye have the Mystery of this Art fully attained It is beyond all things that ever yet was named Therefore strive hard for it but ye who are yet but young in this Art may be ignorant what kind of Stock you are to work upon know then to thee this Mystical thing I will reveal that thou mayest not the Nature hereof Mistake It is an Immaterial Nothing and yet giveth Being and Existency to All things moving and piercing through the whole Body of the Creation yet not discerned generating all things anew through a Virtual Life quickening Breath this comes in and goeth forth without Sound and Noise It is communicable only to such as have covenanted and firmly bound themselves to be made by it Wise Subtle Pure Spiritual Discerning also in all Sublimities whereby proof may be given what Magical Coals of Fire are kindled that ye may scatter and make to fly as directed by Wisdom's Eye Of this ye may know yet more deeply as ye from this Holy Root still weed out all light and scruffy matter May the 31st 1676. In the Night I was as on a suddain surprized with a round Ball of Light that fixed it self upon a Post or Pillar which seemed to be on each side of me and where-ever I went they moved with me very lustrious and shining as a Star in a Cloudy Night I could go no where but they circled about me the Light was terrible but not hurtful yet pleasant to the single Eye that was opened This in way of Vision was given to espy and immediately after this Transient Sight passed away and that Scripture opened upon me Isa. 40. in these words The Lord shall be to thee an Everlasting Light which shall drown and swallow up all fore going Day-breaks which have had their several Sun-risings in thee by degrees which are true and good in their Day But behold here is yet a Prophecy to be fulfilled which shall be as the Light of Seven Days put together What or who shall be able to live and walk in such a Firmament of Light where there will be no Intervenings of any shade of Night Know then there is such a holy conceived high-born Being which yet is clouded under inferiour Lights and subjected to them for some Season till it hath accomplished the first working Properties of the Seven Days Creation Wherein Day and Night must by their Proper Sun and Moon be governed and all transacted according to the motion of the Planets the Out Birth being under their controll in the divided state betwixt the Day and the Night sometimes it is light and sometimes dark one hour is Spiritual and Heavenly the next Carnal and Earthly But to this God in the Lamb who is that one Everlasting Day is now coming to put an end as to the first Creation-Light in such who have ceased from those Works that have been wrought by the Sun and Moon-Light of the fallen gloomy Day which hath overspread the whole Creation Out from which ye are assured to come and to sit down under the bright-shine of this uneclisped Body of the new Creation-Light Hereto coming once to fix your former Sun and Moon will blush and for very shame-pull in their Heads and all their twinkling Stars will forth with withdraw as ye shall surely see when you will find your selves in another Orb for enclosed ye shall be with the Seven Lamp Spirits before and behind which are the Light of the seven days New Creation out of Sion to hold parallel with the Seven Days Creation in Paradise Which abolished must be and whose Sun must set at the rising of this sevenfold Sion Glory which to the Lamb's Birth will anew open and upon it rest For which great thing ply your God and Father hard that so ye may in this bright Cloud of Glory be carried up out of sight from all Terrestrial Lights By which ye â—…ould by no means come to behold Eterâ—…al Objects But in this Light of the â—…verlasting Bride ye can see into every Mountain of the New Jerusalem as your own native Country from which driven and scattered into this mixed state between Day and Night while standing thus indeed ye could never find Mount Sion's Path. For Paradise is to this but as a glimmering Glow-Worm not a City that had Foundations was ever erected there which plainly declares the Most High had not his fixed Residence there For out of Sion the whole Majesty of the Trinity will shine by which Light ye can only see your way for Return unto your lost home Ohâ—… the excessive Joy which Paradisical Inhabitants will know who can the conquering Gulph get through and comâ—… into this Jasper-like City where sighâ—… and fruition of God the Bride and thâ—… Lamb produceth most unutterable
flye and nothing abide but what can live in this Eternal Eye as ministring Stars of Glory before the Throne of him who like to this Circling Eye which thou hast seen hath neither Beginning or End A. The Eye B. The Globe of Light C. C. C. C. C. The Flames D. The Rainbow E. The One Element F. The Supercelestial Moon After this Word it disappeared leaving its Flaming Influences upon my Heart And further of this secret Vision he did say he would it impart as I for its Manifestation did wait and the signification hereof should come to be witnessed by that rising Birth which is called up to this Globe among these Stars to fix in this more excelling Firmament July the 17th 1676. The Interpretation of the Vision or of the Flaming Eye This Vision of the Flaming Eye is given for to see that which is worth pondering for thy pure Mind continually For glorious Idea's will multiply that hereupon all thy Senses may be employed in such sweet Rarifiedness wherein there is no danger of Excess While this Vein from the Heart of God in thee doth run it will feed that which doth come from the pure Font and hereby stop the running issue of the Imaginary part Which I will assure thee will compleat the Victory because it strikes at Sin 's Originality which had its beginning from the Conceptive part of the Heart there it came it and there it must be banished out Then it will be a New Heart in which the Flaming Eye will fix Which in Vision thou didst see with its innumerable Stars in the Firmament which are generated from this Globe-Eye so unmerously will holy and pure Cogitations from hence arise and so habitual strong and forceable as to out-pass all strange Essences that would come therein again to lodge Therefore within this Circling do ye abide that so you may keep out all evil Motions which the Serpent knows are the Foundation-matter of his Kingdom and will sting you with them if ye do not fully exclude them Which ye no way can till ye hasten away and with your Spirit fly to this bright Firmament where this Eye all Dangers will for you espy and know all secret Mysteries making you wise in that one great needful thing which will make all strait that crooked and out of the way is For such is the property of this Fire piercing Eye that it will look through the Host of the whirling Imaginations and put them to a stop that so they may not persue as to overtake those that are upon Faith's flying Banner on which keep till it hath brought you within Zion's Gates This great and weighty thing concerning Cessation and Annihilation of all fruitless Imaginations was still the Call within me to come into the Believing Rest for that this was the true dying into Jesus which passive Life is the pure Mother out from which the Birth of the God-acting-Life is to be expected For the Faith of the co-operating Power worketh here all in all The New Heart being replenished with ministring Powers suitable hereunto that will perfectly bring things to pass as the Mystery is moved in its own Sphear driving on by the mighty force of this Birth of Faith Which produceth great and marvellous things according to the sublime Nature of it For it hath no other ground to go upon but the absolute Co-eternal Deified Will which Will willeth in the New created Heart as in its own Royal Seat July the 18th 1676. This Morning I was in great Heart-searchings about this precious Lily of Faith if I could by the sight reflecting from the Eternal Eye it any where espy Querying thus with my Lord Jesus Ah Lord if the right Plant be in me as it was found in thee why doth it not act forth Where are the Signs which should follow as the Seal of Believing What makes the Birth of it stick thus long whose going forth must make way for the Holy Ghost Tell me Oh thou inspiring Word why hath it had a Name to live and yet hath been as dead For it hath not been Justified by such mighty Heroick Works as in the foregoing Ages did bear witness to it And this hath made it as a Body without a Spirit actless and fruitless Thus I earnestly expostulated that if we had it existing in us then we might have skill to use and manage it for the reviving of this worthy and unknown thing which hath been a Stranger in the Earth but is now a stirring in our Heavens and a turning up the Mould that hath from our Eye this all-precious Grain hid Where then doth it lie said the blessed Alpha to me thou hast to the heights for it ascended and for it hast sounded into the Depths but thy Aim hath been too â—…ort to reach it and thy Eye too dim for to espy it though it is so nigh Yet not known to any till they do retain the bright glance of the Flaming Eye which hath not only the specious Faculty but the streaming Power of Might to bring back again this worthy Champion that hath been by the combining Powers of Reason put unto flight Which so soon as Tydings come that they are dead who so wickedly have conspired against Faith's life then it will return again and appear on the Earth mighty and supream to open the Door for the Holy Ghost to enter in Then this Mystery of Faith will be finished To which ye are directed that by contending for it ye may obtain it unto Victory July the 19th 1676. As we this Morning were in our Spiritual operative Powers each one bringing forth out of the Treasury the Doctor being much carried out upon the Subject of Faith it was spoken to me This is the Ministry which goeth before to make way for the Holy Ghost And I saw as a Confirmation hereof a Flying Banner passing swiftly by as a Trophy of Faith's Victory Which each one must bear before the Day in which the Holy Power will shower upon us till which in one Spirit of Faith we were directed to wait together After which also a Word run through me There is need enough to provoke each other hereunto For the Day is now nearer then when first ye did set upon this Believing Oh now let us go through that we may reach to all the Degrees of Faith which will assuredly make up our fallen Breach For this is the Power that will make us all whole as the true Weapon-Salve which is anointed by the Hand of our dear Jesus to smooth and make ready for the Flying Banner of the Holy Power for to descend into us who in this Faith do wait within the secret Gate of the New Jerusalem state where into by no means must we bring any Spirit that may make mutiny for to break the holy League which must be still maintained with him who is the Covenant Who hereby reneweth our Peace and Joy in believing without annoy or staggering which hinders the purchase
of the Field where the Pearl is found which Field is called Faith's Eternal Ground July the 24th 1676. In the Morning-Watch this was first cast up upon the Shore of my Mind by way of expostulation with my Jesus whom I felt hover over me with throngâ—…ng Powers of Love as an Invitation for Discourse after the manner of a Spirit without the noise of Words This thing 〈◊〉 say was with me to offer in way of Query How it comes to pass that after â—…uch mighty high winged Prayers and â—…trong Gales rushing in through them â—…s I had witnessed but the Night before in such ascending strong Center-Raptures and Powers coming down that yet the Gulph was not shot through That is the parting Principle which still shuts out the Spirit of the Bride from her native home where she may have power of Command to act and bring down what may make for renown to the Virgin Crown while walking up and down in these Earthly Bounds My Spirit took all boldness to know why it should be so fruitless in its Mediatorship now over what it was in foregoing times when Prayer of Faith was as a ready Messenger to fetch in whatever was wanting I did lay hard upon the Mighty One using the same Arguments as Dalilah did with her Sampson how O my Jesus can it be that thou dost love me without thou shewest me aâ—… that is in thy Heart that so I may know where thy great Strength lieth and this by coming thereto as thy loyal Bosom Spouse in whom thy Heart may rest in without any suspicion that ever I will betray so great a Trust if thou wilt but once reveal this secret thing unto me For I desire I seek I look only after this to be united to the Lock of thy Power and Might as a springing Plant from thy Godhead Which will give me all Power to answer to the present state requiring which is made up of nothing but Sin and Self original and Ill Consequences bundled up into innumerable Grievances So that verily I did see the whole visible fallen part of things all putrified unsound unstable weak low and poorly spirited therefore out of this deep sence I could not but cry Help Oh help thou mighty Prince and Saviour nigh For who do see themselves lie in this Golgotha state but are willing to take the Wing of the Everlasting Morning and herefrom fly to the Rock that hath the Clifts of Munition to hide all that are weary of this loathed Place Therefore with unutterable Sighs and Requests I did this our deplorable and defective state beseech my Jesus to read over and to take away the Reproach thereof For I argued with him that if thus Indigent we should still be it would sure reflect upon the Lord our New Covenant-Restorer who nothing was to leave short or imperfect in those for whom he became an Undertaker to his Father to bring them back again After all this on my part by way of Spiritual Parley this Word came unto me saying Arise arise yet and wait Why art thou jealous that Love is wanting or the Arm of my Power abated because I do not tell thee where the hiding of this Lock of Strength is I know I know thy sore Longings of it for to partake with me that it might free thee from the fallen state Which is in such Shame and Derision that thou canst not lift up thy Head with any Confidence because the Accursed Thing is every where in and about this lower Sphear where thy abode is yet for to be in Temptation and Fear but faint not thy Bridegroom is near who will the Shield of Faith anoint with the Oyl of the Holy Ghost which will be Joy unspeakable and full of Glory after all thy heaviness The reason why thy Praying as to matters of so high a Consequence hath wrought so little is because Faith hath been so dry for want of the pouring out from on High the Golden Streams out of the Oily Fountain of the one pure Deity which would make all Prayer mighty and operative when this Balsamick Oyl doth slow from the Fountain-Head July the 26th 1676. As my Spirit was Contemplating after some Breathings forth in Prayer these Words came to me To love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart is more then all Burnt-Offerings and Sacrifices this is that which I prefer above all and to which I do look to in all that draw near to me with Love unfeigned and with a whole Heart transmitted over to me and no part kept back from him that calls for Incorporation of Hearts That so there may be but one Heart of Purity as with thy Jesus in his Humanity This Love is the Box of Spikenard opening therefrom whence thy God smelleth the sweet savour from which the Curse flyeth and will be no more found to hurt blast or destroy the springing Vine about the Walls of thy Mind From which the Wine of the Kingdom will flow to refresh the Heart then shall you find you are not far from the Kingdom that consisteth in Love Joy and Peace Then followed upon this that Scripture about the Ark being sent away by the Philistines It was shewed me it would not abide with the uncircumcised in Spirit but Dagon would be smitten and fall before it For in contrariety the Wrath-Vial opened and though the Philistines thought they had got the Blessing in regard they had heard and known what Victories and Salvations it had wrought yet it became a Curse where they held it in Unrighteousness and in an unhallowed impure Temple setting up other Gods equal and jointly with it which by no means would be endured God will be All or nothing at all to such as would retain his Ark-presence in the mixed unsanctified Mind there is nothing but Gall and Wormwood to be found instead of Sweetness The Ministration therefore that shall be afoot on Earth must be all upon a New Bottom which is figured out by that new Cart that the Ark was put into which represents a new Heart in which the immaculate presence of the Lamb will be retained No unconsecrated Uzzah must take hold thereof but only the Hand of Faith and the Flaming Spirit of Love that yoaked are together as strong and able without more addition of help to bring this to its own place within the Vail and Tabernacle where its Rest is to be For the All-seeing driving Power is with these two Kine upon whom no breach shall be as formerly when the rash Bethshemites that were not purified looked into it July the 26th 1676. Again this Word came to me from the Lord Up stay not here the Ark though in the House of Obed-Edom that is in a Nazarite Heart yea here the Blessing is not ever to rest and abide but it must move forward for there is yet much Land to be possessed which only the Eye within the Ark can spy Therefore be sure still to enquire at it who can tell
secure thee from all beleaguerings hiding thee within the Pavilion of his Power To this oh my Soul do thou enter and for ever rely for here is hiding from the Serpent's Eye August the 31st 1676. Upon these sweet Words of Counsel and Emanations I sprung out in Prayer renewing my Vows formerly made pouring forth the Oyl of Joy and Gladness upon Jacob's Pillar which is the standing Witness betwixt me and Jehovah Nissah Henceforth resolving to adventure only with Jacob's Staff in my Hand finding fresh Power animating my Faith so that I neither feared Famine Nakedness or any Distress that could happen Being resolved to abide where my Lot was cast and to go thro' with my Associate with whom the Spirit of Caleb was to proceed and to go forward unanimously with me till we might reach to the high Calling and Apostolical Power which I felt mightily impulsing to hazard the loss of all reckoning nothing of Validity or worth making Interest for but that which spoken of hath been yet reserved for us in the Everlasting Treasury Whereto upon all accounts I will apply my self for thereout will be given to that Eye which waiteth steadily Which was assured and confirmed to me from that Example of Moses his Hands being held up The Lord said to me if ye will be prevailing Conquerors over your deadly undermining Soul-destroying Foes your Hands of Faith must at no time fall down but when you find them heavy call in Aaron and Hur the Spirit of Prophecy and Prayer which props up and maintains the Affiance still to rest upon the Stone of Strength and Almightiness by which great Conquest and Success will come to be witnessed Thus happy shall ye be in holding out firmly because the Shield of your help shall tread down all strength for you September the 1st 1676. THe Doctor this Morning Praying with me the Word said while he was in Prayer Here is a Ship in full Sail directing to that Prophetical Blessing which was pronounced upon Zebulun whose dweâ—…ing should be at the Haven where all rich freighted Ships should unload themselves September the 3d. 1676. This Morning considering of some Passages which were read to me of a Fore-runner who had wonderful things by Vision revealed unto him with which I was much affected they being so weighty much answering to what I did believe might be brought to pass according to the Spirit of Prophecy who did see into the same Mystery of Christ coming While I was Praying in my self for to see this wonderful Time a Pair of Ballances was put forth by a Hand as out of a Cloud where appeared a great Roll writ upon within and a Golden Ball or Globe These in each Scale were weighed The Golden Globe immediately carried the Scale down and thus it was said Vision is not so weighty as Fruition These Writings are as the Bonds of Obligation but the subsisting thing is from this solid Body which turns Vision into Fruition which set thy Heart chiefly upon September the 4th 1676. After this passed I considered how to be changed into this Globe of unmixed solid matter groaning after the contaction of his Heavenly material thing which in Vision I had seen Then heard I Wisdom's Word to cry within me saying Thy Mind must be cast into a new Mold of Imagination that so thy thoughts may come to answer mine That Scripture being brought to me Let the unrighteous Man forsake his thoughts and turn to his God At this Word I said Oh my Lord who can nullify and put a stop to his own thoughts which is a connexion to his Life For every sight of the Eye and hearing of the Ear doth stir up and awaken these Essences therefore there is no possibility of stopping the current of them but they will run their Course as the Sun Moon and Stars in their Order will Under whose Constellations while we are living such common thoughts wilâ—… arise which though not wholly evil yeâ—… because they are not holy and perfectly good they cannot be according to what proceeds from the Heart of God who would that our Thoughts and Ways should be like unto his This case I presented before my God and my Lord Jesus to be answered September the 5th 1676. Who the next day thus resolved me saying As thou hast desired that great sublime change which is the Transmutation into the pure solid Body so know thou that for the obtaining of this there must of necessity be a superimaginariness from which fanned are all chaffy Cogitations For such is the Man as the Conceptions of his Mind are Now this is only on thy part to do whereby the circulation of profuse Imaginations may be stopped when wisely and foreseeingly thou dost prevent all occasions which administer such hard matter for such a muddy Spring to generate it self into such Multiplicities as generally fill the whole House of the Mind I Jesus do therefore come to be thy anointed Eye that so thou mayst discern the thoughts of thy Heart what to imbrace and what to forsake For know that a thought is a more considerable thing then hitherto ye have understood for their Nature are most subtle swift Spirits who numerate as the Sand upon the Sea-shore so as they make a World invisible in every Creature From whence first come all Wars Insurrections and Mutations these being first inkindled from the Fire-flash which openeth from its own center which divideth it self part into the Evil and part into the Good For so it is now that two Sources are opened in every Creature his Will standing free being redeemed out of the necessity as adhering to the Earthly the treasury of the Heavenly being free to resort to But that part from whence the pure River doth bubble up and spring multipying divine Conception is a very deep Well into which the Will-Spirit doth launch sâ—…nking down into the Depths before it can fetch up those precious Thoughts which work from the Source of all pure Deity They will through an habitual Course so unite as to rise up like an Army of great Might able to put the other to flight Here is the great Conquest to subdue every Thought and first to bring down these high Towers of the imaginary part Demolish but these and you will do your work to purpose Now that ye may be wise to know how to stop this muddy Source observe these following Rules Rules for the Government of the Imagination First Wind out of all occasions which from this World may minister and present fruitless and unnecessary Objects and Things which will kindle Essences according to their empty and profuse Likeness Secondly Keep thy self much within thy Holy Temple and Holy Place of Silence where the Trinity with their whole train delight for to descend with whom being much conversant the sight of the Eye and the hearing of the Ear within this Heavenly Sphear will both beget nourish and maintain pure Cogitations Thirdly Thou wilt see feel and know
Concerns to be brought before me and administred unto as occasion requires by this Life-Breath which I have so secretly infused Where-ever I bestow this Gift it gives a sufficiency from it self to do and act all that is above and beyond a Creaturely Power For it is of an Eternal Almightiness proceeding from the Father of Spirits who generateth what is like himself essentially into me the First Born of this Second Creation That henceforth the Power of Donation might rest with the Principal Head to pass and convey my self in Spirlt And I see the way of Holiness made for this pure inspiring thing to walk in which must find an Habitation suitable to its own Purity that so all may be at an agreement Then in mutual Loves and Joys my Spirit conversant is and will take in the Sence of all the Grievances and report them unto me Who now have all that is the Father's infinite Stock of Life to enrich with Wisdom Honour and Dignity at my pleasure I long and wait to have it drawn out from me therefore now make use of this all-searching Spirit whom thou mayst make a Friend of that may advance thee to a high estate even in this present time wherein thou art spinning out as others Times Mortality which hitherto hath brought forth very little of this Life's Treasury No eminent thing hath yet been wrought for to illustrate and make me shine through the Cloudy Body where through I would manifest again the Name Jesus Come O thou Complainent rise out of thy fainting disponding Bed and stir up this Gift which is with you work and keep Pace with it All must be broght to pass by the diligent Hand of this Spirit uniting with thy Spirit and thy Spirit with this Spirit who will work all in all in thee September the 23d 1676. Being in deep Meditations I was saying in my self Oh that I were beloved of my Jesus with that Love with which he loved John To whom he did appear so as it is written by which his Spirit was drawn to hear and see those wonderful things that are to us reported of Ah Lord why wilt thou not give me to lie as near thy Heart as he and as close at thy Feet as the beloved Mary that I may drink in every Word which falleth down from thy precious Lips out from which are the very Issues of Life While I was thus pleading and invocating there was presented a Triangle-Heart clear as Crystal that you might see through them linked thus 1. The Heart of Love 2. The Heart of Joy 3. The Heart of Peace 4. The Heart of the Bride 5. 5. 5. The Golden Chain with Seven Links 6. 6. 6. The Communications of the Hearts 1. 2. 3. to the Heart 4. Then heard I this Word Here is place for a Pure Heart within this Triangle Heart of the Deity for to joyn Then I saw another Heart within the Circle to spring with many more which were still generated herefrom all White and Crystalline but they were without the Chain this only one was within Then I enquired what Heart this was which was so nearly admitted It was Answered It is that Heart which through mighty ardent strong force of Love hath broken through and got into this Secret Enclosure Where it hath great opportunity and advantage to search and know what from this threefold Heart doth flow Which have their several diffusions according to their Titles The first was under the denomination of Love The Second was Joy The Third Peace All which agreed to empty themselves forth upon this other Heart which had pressed in for Shelter And what-ever Heart can abide within this Circle may attract strong infusing Powers that are all pure and vital to act in the Triangle-Might From this Idea I had great and full Confirmation that the Heart of the Trinity was most free and ready to embrace and receive them who of one Spirit and Heart were together fixed to break through the Golden Chain so as none might be nearer to the Heart of the Trinity then such who have rent and divided from all Creaturely Hearts that so they might know what from this Triangle-Heart of Love Joy and Peace doth ever flow September the 24th 1676. This Morning I was much upon the Consideration when I should begin to work in the Name Jesus as I did believe in it and had Promises from it Now this was all in my Eye to have the Spirit manifested for Activity For I know this only would be profitable as it refers to the Glory of the Most High when Works do express the working Source that is opened from the Deity Being with my God very urgent on this matter according to the impulse upon me from the Expediency that I saw for the Life to work out this way in variety according to the measure of the Gift of the operation of the Power This Word of Counsel and Caution sprang Oh thou whom I see restless and tossed to and fro in thy Mind no rest thou art indeed to find till thou comest to the working Mines For there is the Tryal and Probation who can be skill'd to work in the Furnace of an hot burning Sphear which is not remote but very near Henceforth know O thou fluttering Dove-Spirit that I have not left thee without a weighty and rich Talent which is in thine own Custody though it lieth deep with a threfold Cover upon it which must be unfolded before thou canst see this precious thing The first is the gross dark Mould of this Earthly Climate which is very stifling to this pure thing The second is the strong binding Reason that lieth as a Mountain weight upon it The third is the low natural Senses which multiply as the Sand upon the Sea-shore flowing in to stop and discourage thee from this great Attempt and worthy Service Which if once fully set upon with a Resolution to go through these Three Removes thou wilt then come to the Golden Wedge which will make thee great rich and mighty in the pure Ghostly working Property I your Jesus do tell you faithfully where the subject matter doth lie to work upon Your Complaint hitherto hath been to me as if I had carried away all the Stock and Treasury and ingrossed it to my own proper use or reserved it only for you till you had slipped out of the Body But know it is otherwise do but knit and joyn all your Force and Power with my deep Fathoming Spirit which is given to you and he will find and also work out what concerns your Freedom and Investment to the high and self-same dignified Glory with me Hither towards ye have indeed prayed and sought and believed and hoped but ye have not wrought in the Furnace where this Golden Wedge is to be all melted down to run into every part of your Body as the Life-Blood doth in your Veins Then you will know that unquenchable and fixed Efflux of the Spirit that will
15. 26. were thus opened to me Here is a stock of Life to be given out in an absolute way of propriety but to whom is it but to the Royal Birth of such as are born into the Spirit Whereof ye who through strong travail are hither come are to be fellow-sharers in this Life with God the Son But ye are yet but young and do not understand what this Life will extend unto if preserved choicely you shall find in it the the root of that matter to work upon which is sufficient to create and translate according to the will and skill of thiâ—… Life-Operator Which derives a Power out of its own free Birth-center which hath no dependency out of its own Being Call to remembrance that saying Man is become like one of us and he would still have exercised the same authority as a God had the evil been only known and eschewed for which end Jesus hath sent his redeeming Spirit to clear off all your old Accounts as being found in the Debt-Book of Sin and also to convince you there is no necessity that you should run one Mite more upon that score ye being born of a free estate of Righteousness of your own which now you are charged to expend upon For in the time of Ignorance before you came to know what was sown in your Ground ye might be more excused But now I have revealed where doth lie the rich Revenues of the all-sufficiency ye need neither seek ask or borrow did you know â—…ow to stir up and awaken your own Magia Through which all wherein you have been taught must throughly â—…e wrought as the mighty Engineer to bring forth what hath lain under the Vail of Faith and Hope Plunge plunge â—…et deeper in within the Circle-Birth of â—…his pure thing October the 25th 1676. As I was considering of this Discoursive Opening of the Spirit it was immediately confirmed to me by a presentation after this manner The Word said Behold the Idea of another Paradisical Sphear I saw a Tree spring suddenly out of a great River with three laden great Branches then sprang divers more young Plants all sprouting from the Veins or Strings from this one Tree Each one with no more then three Branches but of different growths Some new budded others bearing Flowers in order to Fruits others grown to palpable Fruit. All round about this one Tree Upon which it was said to me These are as so many Gods which are ascended out of the Earth to replenish that which lay void and desolate Here each one hath and is growing up in a Life of Subsistency and Almighty Soveraignty deriving all this Power and Might from the Tree of Life Which sheds its Kernel-Seed into this River for such is the Nature of this Thron-River that it no sooner falls in but it springeth immediately into this threefold Form of the Deity O stagger not neither be confounded at this for except ye had been born again of this Water and Tree of Life that sheds the Golden Seed of the Spirit ye should never have known the existency of a Life-Soveâ—…aignty Therefore to you not only the â—…ight and Spring of Understanding is â—…iven but the everlasting Life-Line from his Tree doth run free because you have â—…rned in your Spirits and hearkened to â—…y Inspirations But remember your â—…ife hath many subtle treacherous â—…riends that pretend to it that will say â—…s Peter did far be it to thee to give up â—…e loss of all the old Life and only rest â—…bsist and alone depend on this But â—…ow this is but the tempting Voice of â—…e Serpent as in the days of Eve by â—…hose Fall be thou aware And now â—…hile ye are but Infants suck and draw â—…ightily from this Tree of Life and you â—…ill soon grow to be strong to have this â—…se trusted in your own management â—…o you whose Ears are so open to hear â—…e I do greatly delight to commune with â—…ou that if by any means I might encourage you to hold out and not slide back from my Precepts Which will assuredly entrust you in all Zion heights and Spirit depths of unfathomed Treasury Now haste haste to your covering Strength of Glory your Nazarite Hair while abiding in this Paradisical Sphear will soon grow upon you that so therein may be your defence from all Philistines Powers Now then in Jehovah Magnanimity abide with me his Spirit evermore to dwell and be So Amen dear Lord I pray thee October the 26th 1676. Being met together to attend the Manifestation of the Spirit by which we might profit each other in the Afternoon as the Dr. was praying this Word came to me Make use of the present Opportunity when ye have the King at the Banquet then is the time to prefer your Request Upon which waâ—… brought to my remembrance the wise Pâ—…licy of Esther to King Ahasuerus Which that Night was more opened enlarged and applied for our present and further Peace Joy and Encouragement to follow on to know the whole Counsel of our God concerning us who now revealeth all Secrets by the Spirit who presented Mordecai in the Person of himself being left to him as Orphans The whole trust care and charge being cast upon this faithful Mordecai to bring us up to that degree of Humility Meekness Courage Zeal of Life and to all sweet Spiritual Disposition of Mind that the King the Father might greatly desire us for herein consisteth our Beauty and Comliness which is so taking Vashti was refused because of Arrogancy and Disobedience but Esther finds favour being mild and pliable yielding to her Guardians Commands though to the peril of her Life So assuredly said this Comforter Be ye but wise and obedient to me who will put you upon nothing but what I do fore-see will arise for your great promotion and considerable advantage as ye my dictates shall obey Who do make use of this History of the Scripture yet that my Mind may be more easily understood you not being able to bear nor understand me in my own Tongue till further learned For which I am come down to your understanding through the Skreen of the Letter October the 27th 1676. Now this Morning it was set before me according to the Example of Esther that for a certain time it was expedient that we should sanctifie our selves by a true Fast in pure Abstinency from their Assembly-Feasts 2dly From tasting any thing that is ministred from this gross Element but to draw apart from all keeping our Internal part from being defiled shutting up from all reminding only the overturn of Haman's device That great subtle Adversary that had laid the Plot against the new introduced Life to cut it off before the King had put Honour upon it to bring it through the City-Royal upon his own Eagle-Body of Power Now seeing the malicious design of the Serpent with all his Confederacy was gone very far in this matter there was no other way to reverse the
it given me to understand the several Offices and Business belonging to each one of these to make ready for the Birth-Day and to protect this High-born One from the raging Floods the tempstuous Winds of the Adversary The Spirit 's Work is to reprove convince exhort counsel caution and comfort in order to the carring on this great Affair The work of the Water is another witness as you find it in you as a bubling Pool cleansing every part within that so not the least defect may be found in the Matrix whereout the Birth must open Then the Blood is a great Testimonial Witness and Evidence as in a mystical manner conveyed tasted and drunk down by them that do carry the matter of this Birth for it doth produce a vigorous Life that will be known and felt to refresh both Mother and Babe So keeping all these in their several acting-Properties they will be the clear evidence unto thee that the Ghostly Birth is working out it self Therefore with these three let thy Will-Spirit agree hereunto to throw out every misconceived thought For now all things must be new again by the Father Word and Spirit through this new Birth wrought That ye may come to a mighty Record among the New Jerusalem Stones where all are waiting this rising day to see because it will fix in thee an unknown Liberty both in Spirit and Body November the 21st 1676. It was also further expresly opened unto me that we were at present brought thus far as to witness these three as Spirit Water and Blood being Witnesses in our Earth which did fore-run the Ministration of the Holy Ghost For they must go before as the Ministration of Jesus who came by Water Blood and Spirit that is Death Life and Resurrection from which he passed and so must we As he did bear our Record in Heaven which will be a different thing though agreeing to one and the same end as thus the three first make way as the Water-Baptism into the Death the Blood into the Life the Spirit quickneth and giveth a Body of the Resurrection So the Ministration of Jesus hath its twofold Use upon us in order to the second thus which are to bear Record as the Father Word and Holy Ghost in our Heavens So here is to be understood the rising Degree or changing from Jesus in Spirit to that degree of Unity of Father Word and Holy Ghost all which agree to enter into a Virgin Mind thus prepared and in it after a high Mystical mauner themselves conceive so as to include them as one only Being contracting the Virgin-Will and Spirit with it self hereby becoming one inbred with it as that Heir who was darkly prophesyed of in Micah's day who said the glory of Israel was to come unto the Adullam the very pure Tabernacle of the Virgin-Nature born again of Water Blood and Spirit so made indeed a meet reception for this holy thing to be sealed up as in an unknown Pavilion or hiding Place of Strength which must be till it hath attained every measure and part to the growing big and filling up the Birth 's place with Breasts full of Milk the Spring Word of the Spirit diffusing into them the natural course of the Bloody Issue of Sin also stopping all which will be evident Signs unto you that are still apt to be questioning whether this Ghostly Birth is in you forming Therefore be still and wait for that great travelling hour that is to come upon ye before which sometimes ye will be in Pains and Heaviness because ye may meet with many a throw of Temptation all which will work the Birth forward therefore be not dismayed Oh Daughter of my Zion so long as thou walkest steadily not going out of Sion Court where you are to wait at my Council-Board to enquire what shall fore-run and be in that travelling Hour which will make great Spoil of the Mortal Shell which must break away at this great Birth-day Therefore look and expect this will make a mighty alteration for the Heavens will rend that the throne-Throne-Spirits and Powers may descend as helps and Guardian defence and Witness-bearers to this Sion-Birth For which great Provision is aforehand to be made to answer to the greatness of the Sion state all of the rich concealed Furniture and Golden Cups Pots and Vessels at such a time as this will be brought out with all the rich Robes for those to wear who do attend upon this Birth Great and mighty Preparations thou dost see are hereunto expedient for to be Because this World is so blind ignorant and unbelieving that it will be no less needful to rebuke by all high and Spiritual Magnificency in the very height of Sion Glory and to outvye hereby not only vain pompous Glory but those Abominations and false exalted Lighâ—… set up in Temple-Worships as no better then false Births Coverings which will not be removed till this mighty Standard of this Holy Ghost come to be lifted up and set upon the top of Sion-Hill in Visibility November the 22d 1676. I saw as a Preludium of this rising Birth of the Holy Ghost a bright Firmament opne and all dignified with splendorous Stars some much more blazing then others And one Star encreased so great as it became like the Body of the Sun Which Vision was thus opened unto me after some days being called over in me by a fresh vivification of Spirit that shewed me that the one Star which I saw so suddenly encrease to that largeness as the very Body of the Sun it was the Virgin-Woman that was all to be encompassed with the Birth Light of the Holy Ghost which would arise out of that Orb at which the rest of the Stars that did encompass it should shout for Joy and be Witnesses â—…hereof at the opening of this greater Day-Star which should enlighten the whole Earth Oh this left great Amazement in me provoking to some travelling Sorrows for to see this mighty Wonder â—…rought forth as in Vision so existently in that Star who is hereunto by the Omnipotency elected A further Confirmation hereunto was the Idea of an Ark that was shut up floating up and down not upon muddy troublesome Waters which once covered all Mountains and Hills whenas the Deluge was upon the Old World but these Waters were pure and healing like the Waters under the Threshold of the Sanctuary that where-ever they came quickned unto Life And it was said to me Behold the Dove is in the Ark and will be this place of broad Waters that shall cover the Earth no more to kill or destroy but to save alive according to the New Covenant that all shall know God from the least to the greatest When out of this Ark the Dove shall flye with the Everlasting Gospel as the Olive-Branch which carrieth in it that oily Property we will kindle a sweet Fire that can mix with these pure Waters and not bâ—… quenched but still maintain servent heaâ—…