out of request both as to spiritual Wares or bodily Sustenance as soon as some Virgin-Passengers shall have entred this Gate who shall be so highly favoured for having here broke through that they shall have liberty to open this high Factory to the rest of their fellow-Members that yet are Captives in the Assyrian Land and were there brought up according to the Laws and Customs of the Babylonians which could not be avoided during their time of Captivity But now Babylon's Sun is going down and the Night of Death and Darkness is spreading it self over all the pompous state of the Merchants of the Earth All this will be seen upon the breaking in of the Bridegroom's Spirit and his Virgin who will deliver the exile Captives and clasp them close within themselves and exercise the Soul in another Science Its skill and wisdom in the divine Magia will actually go forth from this Co-essential participation of the Virgin-Nature to renew all good and pleasant things according to the first Paradisical Property as in the following Gate will be made out where the Virgin will particularly exercise her Magia for Redemption out of the present Captivity under which the Israelites as well as Ethiopians do groan being beset with the effects of Sin and Mortality which this sixth Gate doth deliver us from The sixth Gate is called the transferring Gate where the most choice and noble Gifts are transferred from the Palace of the glorious Majesty as the Foundation of Wisdom's factory mannaged by Wisdom's Correspondents who are skilful in the working Wheel of the divine Magia Oh! what transferring Powers will pass from one to the other to bring forth the flourishing of Eden that it may again appear in this habitable World Wisdom's Lovers now must dig deep to find this Kernal which hath lain hid in the Ground of Virgin-Wisdom from whom it must be transmitted to them who shall plant Paradise in a greater Latitude in this World For which a sure and unalterable Decree is gone forth for it is affirmed by the living Word who declares before-hand the truth of these things which are already begun and shall be finished as soon as all the Virgin 's Gates are past and entred And this is more considerable where such a mutual constant Correspondency is betwixt those two Kingdoms Paradise and Mount-Zion all rich things will be transferred from each to other yea an immortal Factory is here to be maintained betwixt the Inhabitants of these two heavenly Countries and so transferred still into this lower Orb as occasion shall be For though some part of this Earth by virtue of the Virgin-Stone may be ting'd into a Paradisical Property and thereby made capable of Commerce with the superior Worlds yet there will be a race of Vagabond Cains that will abide still under the Curse Tho Paradise be made visible in this World yet all will not suddainly thereby be brought to leave Babylon's Merchandize neither will the divine Arts and Mysteries be transferred commonly but upon such who have sought them diligently and have let all other Arts and Callings to for them being resolved to know no other but the heavenly Magia This is the invisible Stock which the Virgin doth traffick with to gain Honour Wealth Renown and a Crown of Glory to her God and Bridegroom Now it may be asked What matter is here to work upon for such abundant increase Where lies the Mystery of this Art that must be transferred by her as a Gift I Answer That this is a great Secret which cannot be revealed all at once and so deeply Mystical that none but Wisdom's exercised Magicians have ever founded it and found the matter hereof Yet we must not deny the great favour which the Most-High hath afforded for the opening of this secret thing through the very Person of Christ's glorified Humanity that so we might know what will make mortal Dross become like the fine Gold of Opher But to give an answer to that Question What that matter is which in Wisdom's Principle we are to work upon I say first negatively That it is no gross tangible Matter that we shall traffick with we shall need no Barns or Store-houses to lay it up in To describe it according to what is revealed we say it is a rushing Breath a tincturing Blood a running flash of Light and Fire coagulating together in a word it is the Power of the Deity transferred to a Virgin-Spirit on God's behalf as in the Person of Christ and his Virgin transmitting themselves as a spiritual Root from whence all fruitful Powers of the holy Ghost may be proved for otherwise all fore-passed things will bring little Glory to our mighty King and Saviour The seventh Gate is the Gate of Projection which will take off all Vails that have been upon the most Holy Place where we may enter as all knowing in Wisdom's Mysteries and Wonders But here lies the difficulty how to attain the skill to stir up the precious Gift that according to what was before described from the tincturing Blood of the divine Virgin we may be able to bring forth Matter Form and Colour according to the Quint-essential Spirit transferred from the highest Beeing But it may be asked here How or in what manner doth this Projection operate I Answer Several wayes all which may be referred to these two Heads viz. Transformation and Transfiguration in which two great effects Projection will be known in its essential Virtue flowing out and entring in where the Venom of the Serpent is which poysonous matter is transferred in the Soul by means of this Projection from the Tincture of Wisdom's Stone which causes an unalterable Transmutation of all gross Matter and the vile Bodie 's shape into a bright heavenly Consistency Such a Coelestial Body Wisdom's Virgin shall have power to put on when called up to the Seraphick Thrones and to appear before the highest Majesty to receive new Commissions what to act further according to the Counsel and Will of the Holy Trinity who will greatly delight to put them upon working what is Noble Great and Wonderful which none can parallel except they have first passed all the fore-mentioned Gates If it be asked What Works and Signs shall follow Wisdom's Projections I Answer They are such as Jews will not believe before they see them nay even Wisdom's Disciples who have been gathered under her Wing and drunk of her tincturing Blood will be sometimes in doubt of these things whilst they are yet but Passengers from Gate to Gate Wherefore we must not expect to be believed by those who are yet without the Gates However we will according to what hath been revealed by the supream Magns declare and set forth what God can do by his Instruments who are thus highly and divinely qualified In the first place they will be able to act from a creating Power the Virgin 's Omnipotency will enable them to give a new Form Virtue and Purity to all things
rich Garment with which the Sion-Kings are to be arrayed and thereby will be distinguished from those who stick fast in corrupted Nature and are not regenerated into this bright Image and from those also who though they are regenerated according to the inward man yet being intangled in the Thickest of the many things are fain to stay behind till those who by their hard pressing forward have overcome the World Beast and Dragon Therefore be first instated in the Lord 's personal Power for the Lord assured me that this would be the way he would take in this present Age to instate some who are known to him in his Personal reign that they may enjoy here on Earth their first Heavens to the terror grief envy of such who have been hard cruel in the dealt's Kingdom restraining their good things from the Lambs of Christ's Fold Here it will be as in the case of Dives and Lazarus they shall see those who were most despicable in their Eyes to be greatly beloved and honoured as being intrusted with a Kingdom in which they shall reign as the true Born Co-heirs with their Head Christ bearing rule over all those who have been their Oppressors in this World It was also revealed to me That there were others which stood in a mixed state and divided between the two Kingdoms of Light and Darkness but yet followed after the Mark and Crown these would scarce believe that such a Commission as this would ever be given to any appearing in a mortal Form to be crowned as Co-heirs with the Lord in his Personal Glory But the just One hath shewed that thus it shall be to convince and provoke to Emulation these last spoken of that they also may make haste to be made Kings and Priests to God The grand Query after all that hath been revealed concerning the Reign of Christ in his Saints is this Where this Government shall be pitched It is an ancient Scripture-Prophecy that Judah shall reign with God for he is faithful with the Saints The Scepter shall not depart till Shiloh come who is the King and Law-giver that is was and is to come And to whom will he come first of all but to those pure virgin-Virgin-Spirits who travel to bring forth Christ spiritually as the product of an invisible Almightiness which will appear to be that Man-Child which is to rule the Nations with the Rod of God's Power in this World and do far greater Wonders with it than Moses ever did with his For the eternal Magia shall bring forth all her Plants of renown The highest Wisdom shall be brought into manifestation and replenish the Earth a-new that God may walk in the midst of it and no longer be unknown to its Inhabitants who are refined from their Dross and thereby got a free and open entrance into the Jerusalem from above The partition Wall must be broken down that Christ above and Christ beneath may joy n together for mutual Joy and Fruition But here it may be objected How can this be as long as the Body is yet Terrestrial for an Earthly Body cannot ascend to the Lord's Glory I Answer That therefore a new Body is prepared even a Heavenly such an one as Christ had who could change his Form how and when he pleased So he appeared to Moses and Elias in his transfigured bright Body and then came down again in a terrestrial Body to the sight of Mortals which Power shall be renewed again in those who shall personate Christ upon the Earth they shall ascend and descend at pleasure and transmute themselves readily which state will much excell all Visions of the glorified Person of Christ for without this Coelestial Body we cannot hold out in that Sublime and Seraphick Communion hid with Christ which shall be in this Kingdom of the Saints Wherefore there is such a Body prepared which shall be able to pass into the invisible Orb where the King of Glory dwells It is given me to see this approaching day in the Spirit if the Representation thereof be so glorious what will the thing it self when actually accomplished This report which the holy Ghost doth give of it doth powerfully constrain the Soul to put in its whole stock of faith for it The sum of all these Discoveries concerning the Reign of Christ must be terminated in the Virgin seed Eve's lost chastity will produce a new Generation to whom this Kingdom shall be committed in trust This was revealed from that Vision which Holy John saw of a great wonder in Heaven a Woman clothed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet and a Crown of twelve Stars on her head Many interpretations have been made of this Vision which here I am neither to approve of or condemn but to mind the opening of the living Word who is present to explain whatsoever is obscure to those who turn aside from the Wisdom of the flesh and receive the united drops as they fall from the Heavenly Cloud to which is required a well purified vessel in which no taint of putrifaction doth remain This was a Proviso given me to observe throughout all this Ministration which made me set time a-part to prepare the vessel before I could see the Cloud break and send down its shower upon my ground This I mention for their sakes who are in this Ministration of Revelation Now to proceed to what the Lord hath opened to me from this figure of the Woman who is represented here as travelling in Birth intimating to us that as by a Woman a finful off-spring was brought forth in which Sorrow Sin and the Curse had dominion so from this Eternal Virgin-Wisdom a birth is to be born in which nothing but Joy Life Blessing and Eternal Power and Dominion shall take place This Virgin Adam had in himself before ever Eve was taken out of him but she with-drew as soon as Adam looked outward as if he were not sufficient of himself to encrease and multiply for the replenishing of Paradise God having created him Male and Female in himself But this design was overturned and Eve's Generation is now multiplied over the face of the whole Earth from whence Paradise with the Virgin is fled yet a wonder is now again seen in the Heavens which we are to declare to our own little flock which brings such tidings of Joy as doth far excel that of Gabriel to her who was the blessed amongst Women as being defigned to be the Mother of our Jesus in his fleshly appearance But now by this Virgin he is brought forth in another appearance as a mighty Ruler and Potentate over this Earth who is really and truly to fulfill whatsoever was tipified in Solomon's Reign David's Wars must cease which cannot be till this everlasting Virgin hath brought forth her Man-child who is to possess what Adam and Eve have lost of Paradise and Mount-Zion Kingdom All which is to be restored by the Virgin who is not limited to Male
THE REVELATION OF Revelations Particularly as an ESSAY Towards The Unsealing Opening and Discovering THE Seven Seals the Seven Thunders and the New-Jerusalem State The which have not hitherto so far been brought forth to light except by the Spiritual Discerner to any degree of Satisfaction as to the understanding of the grand Mystery Published by J. L. the Author of the Heavenly Cloud made mention of particularly in the Preparatory Epistle to that late Theosophick Piece Entituled Theologia Mystica A Work never Extant before Rev. 5. 9. And they sang a new Song saying Thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof 1 Cor. 1. 10. For God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit 's for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God London Printed and Sold by A. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch Also by J. Lead at the Carpenters in Bartholomew-Close and at Book-sellers in London and Westminster 1683. H. LION To the living Stones gathered and to be gathered to Christ the Foundation Stone where-ever hid scattered and dispersed who are elected in God for the New-Jerusalem-Glory and Mount-Zion-Church all Love Grace Peace and Joy be multiplied from him who was is and is to come THe Establishment of the restored Sion-Church cannot be by Man or after Manly Wisdom but by the holy Spirit which Christ our Prince and Saviour hath sent in his own Name to build upon the Foundation of the Father and the Son a Rock indeed which remaineth steady and unshaken from Time to Eternity And indeed who else is found sufficient for the gathering and building of these holy Temple-Stones that are to be fitly compacted together to make up this glorious Church that may be presented all fair without Spot as becomes the Spouse and Bride of the Lamb which you will find the whole subject of the following Revelations tend to even to the bringing out of all that are found in Lifeless Forms into the very substantial Life and Ministration of the holy Spirit where the Increase and growing up is known into that Body in which God will move and work all for the which end all Prophecies that have been from the foundation of the World may have their fulfilling in this last Age for the which good Assurance is given from the fresh springing of the Word of Wisdom that may produce a sealed Commission not only in Letter but from the feeling fiery-breath of the true Unction which is the living Epistle by which alone I desire to be made known to you and from thence do send pure Love-greeting to them whose Ears are opened to hear and receive what the Spirit of Truth hath declared and unfolded in this little Volumn which now is presented to publick view contrary to the intent and purpose of the subordinate Author hereof who as I was waiting in my continued course and order upon the heavenly showring and to feed and be refreshed in this all-fruitful and pleasant Pasture being satisfied here to take my lengths and breadths in all free conference with the Lord the Spirit whom I did well know by his inward flaming Body which at certain times did stir and rise and then I could hear and distinctly know the Voice of his Mouth which came as a soft melting Fire-breath and said Record what since October 1679. hath been seen heard tasted and felt and shun not to declare it for it hath a peculiar service on Gods behalf to do though at present hid from thee only observe and be watchful and I will certainly Follow this at the Heels And thus you may perceive under what constraint I am and by whose Commission these deep and mystical Revelations are now published who fore-sees what effects they are to have and what Souls and Spirits are to be touched and enkindled from the same burning-Ray which will surely over-shadow the believing And for the doubtful I have only this Caution and that from the holy and just One. That henceforth they cease from rash and uncircumcised Judgment which doth arise from the rational Will and Spirit and above all to put on the meek simple and child-like Spirit and so cease to be injurious to their own Souls for nothing is more prejudicial to the growing and springing Life and Light than to give way to Incredulity and an evil Suspition raised from the dark Mists of Sense and worldly Wisdom which can never reach the deep things of the Spirit Therefore if there be any force power or authority in that Word of Life that was from the beginning and is now come to bear his own living Record in our day which Word and Spirit of Truth and Wisdom let none resist but open the everlasting Doors of their Souls and Minds for to take it in and so you will of the lively Hope partake and bear the true and living Testimony with us That the Morning Star is risen for to lead us out of our selves where nothing but Darkness is and where the fallen Spirits keep their strong Hold binding and putting out the Eyes of Sampson the Nazerite the figure of the eternal Spirit which is in all the Sons of Adam against which the grand Apollyon hatcheth his treacherous Conspiracy for he hath great Indignation against us because such Love Grace and Goodness hath now abounded to us in Christ Jesus our Lord who is come to offer himself an effectual Salvation in all there is not a Door that he passeth by but that at one time or other he knocks at it and would find entrance in to redeem and fetch out his own eternal Spirit from under Bondage Death and Misery But such are the subtil Wiles of that Enemy of all Mankind that he provides a Dalilah for some to steal and draw away their Minds and to seduce their more Noble part to that which is vile base and sensual And then another more subtil Bait he casts out for those who are mortified and have escaped those worldly Charms and are come to a sober and lawful use of the things of this Creation and yet are held Captives through the Multiplicity of Mortal Cares Businesses and Concerns for the outward Man whereby they are so overcharged and weighed down in their Spirits that they cannot get up to shake off this carthly Dust to walk with God in Enoch's state not observing that counsel of the Lord Christ First to seek the Kingdom of Heaven and with all getting to get Wisdom The contrary to which is most universally practised in making sure first of the Beasts Kingdom and the perishing Mamon of Unrighteousness and then if the Kingdom of Heaven will fall in and be added to them it shall be welcome but alas this will not do Christ will not be served last Wherefore let not the Serpent beguile any who seek the Pearl of Christs Kingdom but be wise to avoid the choaking Earth and drowning Floods and trust the Lord upon his Word who will certainly make
good whatsoever we part with on his account as there are some who can witness to Gods Truth and Faithfulness in this matter A Third Caution is for those who are got out of the Throng and Incombrance of worldly Multiplicity and have thrown off all those weights and sins which do so easily beset them they must know that all this will not fully secure them though it be a very good Ground-Work and greatly advantagious for the rearing up of Gods perfect Tabernacle within them for the following Glories to rest upon it but be advertised from the holy and true fore-sight of the Spirit of Jesus who knows the Dangers and Perils which attend this state also which though they have escaped the worldly Bondage and earthly Pollutions yet spiritual Defilements may remain which are of more dangerous consequence than briary Cares and worldly Distractions for we have not only to do with a Birth of Flesh and Blood but there are internal Powers and Principalities of an higher Descent which joyn their Forces with the rational Spirit which is the more wise and sober part in man and therefore most readily take upon them to prescribe Laws and Rules for the superior Soul to walk by who finding it self fallen stands in great need of an Help and Guide to bring it out of this wretched Plunge and confused State being convinced by Christ the true Life and Light risen within how the case stands with it and thereby made eagerly desirous to be set free from those inward usurping Powers which come with all deceiveableness to circumvent and keep the Soul in the strong hold of a rational Sense which must be quitted And now the enlightned Soul feeling the Malady so great and so painful looks out diligently for a speedy Relief and is ready to embrace every Physitian that doth profess to be skillful in the curing of Souls whereupon comes in a second danger of which ye will do well to take heed that is to be cautioned from whom you receive Spiritual Medicine and whether they be such who have the true Balsom and Tincture of Life to give forth from the very Unction of God resting in them for no other can be profitable unto you All who have not this Soveraign White Stone which knows only how to pour out his Name as precious Oyntment from Vessel to Vessel are Physitians of no value Therefore while ye in the state of Minority are and have need to be under Pastors and Teachers till you are come up to the highest Form ready prepared and qualified for the great Master Teacher to undertake you even the holy Spirit who will perfect whatever was lacking in other Teachings and through other Mediums for which direct your Eye waiting in a peactable Concord and silent Harmony in your own Jerusalem within whereupon written is to be Holiness to the Lord in every Property and then you will come to know the fresh Pasturesprings which are only under the breaking-up-Seal of the holy Unction where no defiled foot hath ever come to raise the Dust to discolour this golden Stream This is the Ministration which you will find the following Openings to point out and lead to and though as yet it be an unbeaten Path which the Lord hath by his Instrument now declared and made known in way of Vision and Prophecy yet it is the true Day-star that will give its own light and witness Therefore let the Wonderers Despisers and Contemners take heed of making a Mock of that which the Alpha and Omega will own and stand by as his express Mind who prohibited the publisher hereof from altering the way and manner of the revealing of these great and deep things Therefore you have them unpollished in their own naked Simplicity as they were every day revealed given forth not in the dress of humane Wisdom no they are of another descent and the spiritual Ones in God will feel know and taste from what Treasure-House they proceed And as for others we do not heed their Judgment only shall be found in hearty Prayer for their true enlightning that all may come to know what the Love-Trumpet doth now sound for is it not that both Earth and Sea may give up their long buried Dead and that his cursed Ground may no longer shut up the dead in Christ Are not these Tidings brought from the bright East that the Lord is coming to bring forth himself in a new and marvellous Resurrection such as never was yet and therefore hath before-hand sent his holy Spirit of Prophecy to proclaim what he intends to fulfil according to his antient Purpose and Decree and for this end hath shewed what Gates are to open to give entrance into this All-fruitful Sharon where the scattered love-Flock hath been hunted and chased as panting Harts shifting their Pastares and yet not finding where to lie down and be at Rest which indeed can never be expected till through the Seven Seals ye do come where the full glorious Resurrection Day ye shall witness through all things becoming New where the holy Spirit your Over-seer and feeling Life shall ever and always be known for fixation in the Resurrection State And though the Saduces be numerous that have no Faith ever to see this first Resurrection which is from the Body of Sin to be made free giving witness hereunto first by being begotten alive from the Dead according to the Scriptures You hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sin Therefore it is not incredible to us that God should raise the Dead see Rom. 4 5 7 Chapters but each one in Christ's Order for allowance must be given for degrees for as the Death is gradually so is also the Resurrection perfected through received Acts of Power a Similitude whereof we may see in the visible Sun which doth not attain its Meridian height at his first rising and so the Body of the Resurrection doth not at once but by degrees advance to its full height of Lustre and Glory So as we must give way to Measures and Degrees in all sorts whether in dying or rising all opening one Everlasting Mystery of Glory in the Powers of our Lord Jesus who will bring all one after another up to Glory Now then let each one prove his own Work wrought in God whether in Death Resurrection Ascention or Glorification for these are all linked together though not attai ned or reached but in their own Order still going on from the first Step to the last the way for the Attainment of which you will find described according to the measure of the Spirit given for Manifestation of these long hidden Truths that have lain under the Seals where you will find the Path that leadeth into the Death and the loosing therefrom through the seventh Seal opening for the Resurrection which the seven Thunders do plainly express and so proceed on to the ascending Reign in Christs Kingdom which is great and magnificent giving its own
the preciousness of the Spirit for the Vessels sake wherefore I shall no longer be backward to reveal what is of great weight and importance as being well assured that the Lord Jesus will go along with me till I have fulfilled the Declaration of the whole Mystery I feel the divine Agent that works mightily in holy separated Souls and Minds driving on to make way for what is yet behind in reference to the manifestation of that Kingdom which now the Lord is about to restore in his Saints and therefore gives forth fresh and lively Ideas of it that pure Minds may be excited to look for its coming in their New Earth and Heavens which are to be garnished as with Purity so with Dominion and Power even the rising Body of the holy Spirit which must restore all things which have been in Confusion Now what goeth before to make ready for this hath been already set down by the Golden Pen which is dipped in the springing Unction to which more considerable Revelations are added by him who saith He is come to make all things New being ready to give forth the Promise of the Father in the Ministration of the everlasting Gospel I say the faithful Witness and Ground of all Mysteries minded me of his Charge to his Disciples when he was to disappear to the outward viz. That they should wait at Jerusalem the holy City in Harmony Concord and Oneness of Mind with great confidence and love to each other A deeper search the holy one doth make in them who in this last Age are waiting to be endowed with the full acting Body of the Deity which will be manifested in a different manner than in the days of the Apostles that being by way of Gift coming down as a Shower but now those who shall be endowed with this signal Blessing must have it by way of a Birth in them The Apostles were to wait at Jerusalem which was a figure of the Principle of Light where all Natures and Properties are harmoniz'd to an equal Temperature all Faculties are spiritualiz'd and purged from their Drossiness and reconciled to each other in a sweet Love-accord It is plainly shewed me that the holy Spirit will have his Birth in a peaceable Habitation where the conquering Life of Jesus by his dying and rising hath first made its way by reconciling the Properties of Nature and bringing them to a divine Harmony by which renewing Nature into a soft and sweet Mildness causing all Contrarieties of Spirit to cease by subduing it to the Light-Principle Wherefore it is but in vain to expect the Establishment of that Kingdom which the Birth of the holy Spirit will bring to us till this thorow Work be wrought that we may come to Unity in our selves and with one another which is a very high Perfection And truly from hence I have been informed where the Birth of Power hath stuck and why so many Faculties fruitless Births have been brought forth Wherefore let not our bribed Senses or the Spirit of Unbelief so far delude us to make us believe that the holy Spirit will open its Birth but according to what hath been by the Lord himself revealed But it may be objected That if the Terms be so hard it looks as an Impossibility to obtain it because nothing of the evil Qualities and striving Properties must remain which are not so quite allayed in any but may be stirred up again into Motion Pray therefore let us know what Provision hath been revealed against this that it may beg it a Hope and Belief in those who are yet in the Division and Strife the Good warring against the Evil and the Evil against the Good being divided betwixt the Night and the Day as the greatest Saints are For Answer to this Objection the Spirit of the Lord hath searched and found out a Cure which will bring the broken and divided Estate of the first Adamical Birth into Unity Harmony and pure Liberty I shall as I am able bring it sorth in the same Model it was given to me for a true seeing Glass by which I was directed to fathom the deepest Ground of my eternal Soul and to find out its true essential Properties as they were derived from the unmixed Purity of the one pure Element This pure eternal living Soul thus breathed by God into an Angelical Image and formed into an Organical Body from the one pure Element all which was to be seen in the first Paradisiacal Man But when Lucifer prevailed by darting in his hellish Fire it left such a Sting which hath poysoned all the inward Essences of of the very Immortal part and therefore the Wound is found so deep that no Medicine can be found to reach it but Christ the in-breathed Word who only can reach the Soul 's original Ground and being the Creating Fiat can alone make all Nowagain according to the highest Uniformity of the express Deity And this cometh first to be known in a fiery Ray of Loue-Light that discovers where the Root of sin doth lie and so when the Spirit of the Soul comes by the Word of Life to understand its own Original and by what means it hath been corrupted and captivated it is made full-willing and eager to strike in with that Christ which riseth from the Centre-Light in its own Soul to redeem and reconcile all to himself that was alienated from him in the Birth of Strife Thus Christin us is our Peace indeed who hath made of both and all one New Creature having abolished the Law of Enmity blotting and rcoting out sin by the same degrees as his own righteous Nature enters in which restores all peaceable Concord So that the Spirit who is made Partaker of this Gift of God hath put on Royal Liberty and being clothed with Christs essential Body finds it self unloaded of all sinful weights and moves swifty in the Circle of Light and runs its Races through the unknown Spaces and Christaline Spheres where other Worlds do appear with all their glorious Objects Ranks and Orders which must needs make this World look base and vile to a Soul that is come naked and free out of the original Womb as begotten again from the dead rising in a perfect clarified Body of Light and being quite recovered from that desperate lapsed state that would have sunk the Soul into everlasting Death Thus you see by what means the disagreeing Properties of Nature may come to be harmoniz'd as in the beginning God must become Man and by his consuming fiery Property destroy original Sin which is the first Engine that moves the Wheel of Strife and Division in the Soul which Fire is Gods choice Instrument when set and tuned by his hand who gave it a Beeing out of Eternal Nature into which it must be dissolved again that it may be a meet Instrument for the holy Spirit to play such Tunes and Triumphant Sounds and teach such new Lessons as have not hitherto
been understood All which shall be made good when the Soul shall be brought forth as a well tuned Instrument new strung and qualified in the deified man where the holy Spirit moves every Property according to the central Wheel in its new begotten Form which is set free to run its Races in the Sphere of Light where weak Mortality with its sinful Essences are out-run and left behind in the Fall Let not this seem strange or impossible for in the Deep a Mean is found for the bringing forth of this long buried Seed which hath long waited to arise in its original Body of essential Perfection and harmoniz'd Powers that it may appear that God is come to move and shew himself in the Covenant of his Love according to the Preordination in the heart of Christ for by him we do obtain this Resurrection in order to all the following Glories which the holy Spirit shall bring with him even so Anon. This Instruction being so immediately from the Lord carried great weight with it and made me resolve to wait upon the working Power in my inward Deep for the reducing of every divided Property to Unity for I was fully convinced that this Uniformity must be the Temple in which the holy Spirit will appear for the bringing of all working Powers to a heavenly Consort and Agreement I sate upon this day by day and as I found great drivings thereunto from the South Wind of Heaven so strong Storms were raised from the North with roaring Seas that lifted up their Waves to scatter and make void this holy Enterprize in injecting divers Temptations that such a thing as this could not hold or abide but would have its Overturnings and Changes for that nothing less than a God can always be in an equal Temperature and that this was rather the full effect of the holy Spirits coming than a Preparation for it Thus was I puzled and tossed to and fro in my Mind as if I were put upon that which could never be brought about or carried through to the desired End But the Lords Word was mighty and powerful to press me forward to this sweet and well ordered Composure of Mind to abide in an equal Temperature notwithstanding all that might come in to discourage me whether from those visible things or from the dark Principality which is much more hurtful in regard that they as Spirits can shoot in their Darts before we are aware so that this bath been my watchful Exercise for some days to resist what would have done Violence to that which in Concord and Peace would ever unshaken remain The holy One according to his friendly way and manner of Visitation did after all this exceedingly comfort and strengthen me to maintain his right of Conquest over all that which yet is left to vex and awaken Anxiousness or any Fear or Turmoile in the Soul My Jesus thus spake Consider and know thou art to hold fast what I have purchased by the fore-passed Death in thee as having assumed that Body of Sin to offer it up for a consuming Sacrifice once for all as was shewed in the Type of the visible Body which is now done again in the invisible So that you are to reckon and account your sins virtually done away they can claim no Law either to reign or condemn Look upon all Motions of this kind to be at the check of the Spirit who hath again quickned the dead and will no more give way to that which came in to flesh for to destroy And therefore let none pretend a necessity of continuing in that which hath brought in Confusion and Disagreement seeing a Redeeming Spirit is come down to renew and gather in the lost again to the divine Beeing from whence they did proceed at first pure as God is pure to which degree of Perfection that we may be restored again is the end of Christs Mediatory Office not only without but within us where the Body of Sin hath been yielded up for an Offering This confirming Word Christ the Lord who is arising left with me for them who have been in the Death with him that we henceforth may know our selves in him to be acquitted and released from all Claims which the evil Powers and Properties can make for upholding that Kingdom where the Beasts Throne is which consists of envy wrath strife from all which by an eternal Decree of the Lord Jehovah you are set free and brought into the Harmony of that Kingdom where the springing Joy from the Peace of God doth run as a River that hath its Division through all Properties for to bring them to the heavenly Unity whereby the Creature is set free from the Bondage of Sin and a wafaring Life according to the Pattern seen in the Mount of Vision to which my Spirit hath been oft taken up to see the wonderful Plat-form of the New-Jerusalem The Vision of the New-Jerusalem The Lord took me away from my mortal part and shewed me the Scituation of this great Glory and said Behold and see the Pattern of the heavenly Houses and Mansions which make up the New-Jerusalem where the Glory of the One only God doth fill all with the essential Light and Splendor of his divine goodness I shall as I am able describe what I did see in the Heavens of this Mother-City for so it was named to me who is to bring forth her first and free-born to replenish the New Earth and Heavens It appeared as a City sounded upon one square Stone whose Dimensions were very large It was all paved with light flaming Colours appearing like so many various sparkling Stones inlaid on the great Foundation Stone which gave forth a luster as if so many bright Suns had been there Towards the Verge or out-side of this square Stone were seen many Seraphick Bodies wreathing Arm in Arm and several rows of various spiritual Forms of different Ranks and Stature These Rews appeared like the Stories of a building which were carried up higher higher in a square Figure till it was wonderful high upon the Heads of the most inward glorified Bodies a Covering was spread by one more Diaphanous and of greater splendor than all the rest the Height of his Person was higher by the head then all the other who called to me out of this most glorious Building To take good heed of all I had seen for it had a further meaning which I was to have revealed when driven by the Spirit into the light Mystery where all deep things do open Oh my dear Lord be thou an All-springing Testimony within and from this New-Jerusalem My Spirit being drawn out for a further Enquiry concerning this New-Jerusalem state what the Appearance of it to us did signifie for this present time the Foundation Stone thereof gave forth this Word That such a City the mighty Cyrus would himself be the Founder of upon the visible Stage of this World although there be little appearance
of it as yet because the Elect Stones are at present lying amongst the Rubbish of Confusion who in due time are to be linked together to make up a strong City of Defence through the Gates of which no unclean Vessel shall pass nor whatsoever is Lame or Blemished according as was seen in the Pattern This the Lord will effect by his Might and Spirit and establish this City on Mount-Zion at which the whole World shall Tremble Whilst the Lord was communing with me about this heavenly City I saw it descend and cover the whole Earth and all those who were not prepared to enter and who could claim no Birth-right freedom in this Mother-City did flee away by Multitudes Heaps upon Heaps to hide themselves from the bright Splendor of the divine Body with the anointed head in the midst of it The Glory was so great that we can only give an Eclipsed account of what was seen But as the descent of this Magnificence did terrifie and cause above three parts of the World to flee away as having an irreconcileable Enmity to Spirits and Bodies of such Purity so on the other hand I saw a Numerous Company gathered to it from all Quarters the Trumpet-shout of Jerusalems great King calling them in from all parts they were all the first-born of this Mother-City who well knows her own calling them by that Name which is impressed upon them in flaming Characters of Love Multitudes of this kind encompassed the holy City but few were admitted to the Seraphick wreathe even those only who had put on the glorified Body Whereupon I asked Why those who were called and had the Name of the heavenly City upon them were not received in And the Lord said That those who were taken into the Glory had finished their inward Transformation to the utmost Perfection waiting only for the Consumation of the Nuptial Glory but that the rest though far gone in true Regeneration could not be admitted until their Redemption were perfectly wrought out to the end that no flaw may be found in the Stones that are to constitute this divine Building but as any shall arrive to this degree of Perfection so this City shall descend and take them in Hereupon followed a further discovery to let me know the Royal Freedom of the spiritual Seed proceeding from the New-Jerusalem as the Virgin Bride of God who though come down into this visible Birth of Time yet was before all Time in the Substantiality of spiritual Essence by whom the renewed fruitfulness of this free Birth shall in this last Age of the World be made manifest which was the joyful Message which sounded in my Heavens with what is further to be declared for our Consolation It was thus laid before me That the Jerusalem from above hath been these many Ages travelling to bring forth her first and free-born according to that divine Likeness whose Descent is not to be found within the verge of Time For here the Gate of Gods deep hath been opened to let us in to see the wonderful Mystery that was fore-ordained to work through all the Vicissitudes of Time since the first Creation Now then let us consider what the first Plant of Paradise was from whence we are all sprung it was but a flower from the Earth for out of the Dust of the Earth the Lord God created man and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life and man became a living Soul which was pure as immediately proceeding from the most Holy But how soon did this Glory fade and return to Earth again whereas if he had kept his first Estate he would have been advanced to higher degrees of Perfection and become fruitful in Gods Virgin off-spring All which Design for a limitted time was overturned but the Foundation of Gods Election stood so firm in the Essentiality of the out-breathed Word which was the Light of Adam's Life in the Center of Immortality that the same Word will restore all again according to the first gracious Intent of the wise Creator whose purposed Grace shall renew the face of all things that have been marred in the first Adamiral Image But though so desperate a Fall hath overtaken the whole Creation yet is it but as the fading or cropping of a flower whose eternal Root remaining will put forth and spring a-fresh in a more glorious Beauty and Figure than the first ever had For though by one mans Disobedience all are made subject to Death and the Curse which is the bruising of the Heel yet the Head-Life remains which will recover raise and make all sound again for in this promised seed the faded Life will be quickned according to the Election of Him who will hereby more Eminently make known the Riches of his Grace and Glory in his Vessels prepared thereunto For though there be in all men an holy seed remaining whereby they are in a possibility of recovery yet because all have not an Heart to improve this Talent it continues an unprofitable dead Seed to many notwithstanding all are called To take of the Water of Life freely that by its quickning Virtue the buried Seed may be raised to a new Life in a Body of its own kind which Seed through many Deaths does renew its never fading Flower of Life for a higher degree of Glory in the New Jerusalem state of fixation Now from what hath been said we are informed that there is an Elect Number which is to make up the New Jerusalem-Bride here upon Earth who shall finish the Mystery of the Seventh Seal and be all instated in that Kingdom which the Alpha and Omega hath designed for his Virgin-Bride before Paradise or this World were And that I might know that this design and unchangeable purpose of God is still going on there was shewed me a clear White Stone in which were engraven numberless Names all ordained to make up the Glory of this City of God which shall be the Praise and Admiration of the Heavens and a dread and amazement to the Earth for the Revelation of it will bring a Wo upon them who have no part in it This the Lord himself did signifie saying Henceforth know your Free-Birth Name and Place in this City and be not fearful or unbelieving but travel on in the assured Hope that shall not be made ashamed for the everlasting Father hath prepared for you this City of which I am the Builder in you The hand of the Lord was strong upon me still and took me up into an high and lofty Place where I saw a burning Furnace which appeared all Blew like the airy Clouds and the Lord walking in it to and fro who said See whether thou canst make thy Pass to me and abide in this pure everlasting burning Region which is the Spirits purging Fire which will devour whatsoever is not of the same Essentiality with me Upon which I replied Ah! my Lord I am free to make my Pass to thee but how
shall I get rid of this Body I would fain exist in that pure Essence with thee where nothing of this lump of Earth might prevent my constant Walks in those high Places with thee whose presence will make these outward Elements to flee away from the superior Spirit The Holy One replied Be not troubled at thy Binding Mortality for I will descend in this fiery Cloud into thee as a baptizing Fire which shall take away the gross Impurities of the Senses that thou mayst be clarified in order to thy Codeification which will manifest the out-spreading Name of thy Emmanuel whereby thou shalt receive Power to ascend through Fire and Air and continue that all-desireable freedom of Communion with the holy Trinity And though none in a Body of Flesh and Six can come up to me yet Grace Pity and Love do move to descend in the Spirits flaming Cloud to make the way free that such may have a Pass who account no Place their Rest or Dwelling besides me Wherefore pursue and watch to drink in of this pure Spirit of Burning which will clear and take out of the way whatsoever hath kept from ascending into the Holy City Whilst these Words were in spoken from the Anointing I felt a sensible rising and spreading over all my Heart Head and Body as if all were covered with a Cloud of Sun-heat giving out light by which I could soe what was inwardly done as well as feel it Then it was further spoke in me that I should take notice that this was also the bright Garment of the Sun Such is the Nature of this secret flaming Matter that it seeds strengthens and clarifies a naked Spirit all at once Then was I inquisitive to know the Substance or Ground of it but it was replyed Meddle thou not with that only receive it passively and Co-operate with it when it ariseth and then walk with and draw in the feeding Fire and Air and when it resteth in its own place rest thou with it and be assured it will not leave thee till it have concentred thee in the Deity This light flaming Cloud encompassing me gave this further Revelation to shew what the Holy One is about to do in order to the laying of the Foundation of this strong City in which the mighty God will pitch his Tabernacle and settle his Rest forever Many Types Images and foregoing Figures of this Jerusalem have been given through the several Ages of the World but the Heavenly Thing it self hath not been brought forth as no wt will be because the set time approacheth For the trying burning Furnace is kindled and the Wind of the Almighty forcibly blows up the Flames thereof in the center of the Soul of every one who are the Elect Members of this Holy Corporation Now is the time for the Spirit of Burning and Judgment to prepare each Stone which is designed for this super-excellent Glory No connterfeit Gold or reprobate Silver can pass through this Furnace which is ordained to prove whatsoever comes to be built on this Foundation The mighty King sends forth his Decrees to fulfil the ancient Prophecies concerning the return of the long Captivity of these who belong to this Mother-City that they may know their original freedom and no longer abide as Captive-Exiles among the Babylonians in Confusion and Reproach And what sign will the Lord give for this but by loosing the last Seal under which doth lie the rich Bank and vast Treasury of Wisdom Spirit and Power which shall so vigorously carry on this New-Jerusalem-Building that all the Powers which the Dragon and Beast can raise by their Agents visible and invisible shall but turn to their Shame and Confusion when the Lamb ariseth to open the Seventh Seal under which the most precious things even that fine transparent Matter lies hid to be manifested in due time for the beautifying of this divine Building But here an Objection may arise and question this revealed Grace and proclaimed Liberty to the Children of the Captivity who are now called to sit upon this heavenly Building which is this That the time is not yet and that the last Seal is not so near breaking open and who is it that can give a Sign for a Testimony that this Decree is already gone forth To all which the Spirit of Truth gives this Answer who best knows what he hath wrought in order hereunto in the Central Deep of some Elect Vessels who are not to make any out-cry until the Mystery be fully finished in them know that the time is at hand wherefore let none look afar off or run out from themselves and neglect their own Vintage at home but regard how near the Grape is to ripeness which contains the Wine that is to be drunk at the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb who charges it as a great over-sight upon those that are Regenerate that they have put this Day afar off not discerning the Lords Body who is quickned from the dead in them who are passed from Death with him and so are put in Subordinate Commission with the Lamb to break open all those Seals which shall make way for the descent of the Holy City For what in John's Revelation is mentioned concerning these things is very obscure and mystical and there is no fathoming of it to the utmost until the Lord himself come with the Plummet-Line of the Holy Spirit to measure out the meaning Though there are some who have been favoured with this Light of Revelation by means of which they understand what lies hid under those Allegorical Expressions and through the opening of the Seals have discovered those rich Jewels which were concealed under that dark Covert the opening of which Seals I shall set down in order according as it was acted in my own particular through my Soul 's waiting with the Lamb's-rising Power in a particular experience of my own in the divine Mystery At the opening of the first Seal the Spirit of Faith came forth to encounter with the fearful and unbelieving Spirits that set before me an Impossibility of ever reaching to a Paradisical Purity and Mount-Zion-Dignity and was kept under a great Fear and Perplexity under the dominion of Unbelief until this first Seal was broke open for thereupon the strong Lyon of the Tribe of Juda set me free to run the Race of Faith unto the end giving in this Caution to take care to be well mounted on this Horse of the Spirit of Faith and to hold fast to him who rides on it who hath the conquering Bow in his Hand to shoot his Arrows into those unbelieving Spirits that would still keep us in Doubts and Perplexity At the opening of the second Seal all Peace Pleasure and Joy were taken away from the Earthly Life and withal such a Light broke forth which made me see the vile Abomination of an earthly state compared with the Perfection of the Divine Life so that now I rejoyc'd in nothing more than
Beast did rise is a terrible tossing working Sea where all the worldly Spirits drive their Traffick for to make Babylon pompous and great who ever loves the Earth and are admirers of the Beast who gives Riches and worldly Honours to such as serve him but oh come here and see how he must fall with his whole Hierarchy Wherefore let none trust to his Kingdom which in one day shall be made desolate through the fiery Judgments Here are two Seas at strife one against the other turn your Eyes inward you who are the Lamb's Warriors and witness bear to these two Seas meeting within the Ground of Nature The Sea of the Beast contains great abundance of Riches according to its perishable kind besides there is an overflow to the Merchants of it that are in a free Trade to uphold that worldly Kingdom wherein all Nursery of Sins-Wuchcraft is maintained But according as I was called upon to come and see how the Beast and all his rich trafficking-Sea is to be dryed up as the Lamb of God shall fill his Vials from out of this glassy Sea and pour them upon it when all its Pomp and Riches shall sink as a Mill stone never to rise again Oh? at this let all our Nations rejoyce within us as this Vision is fulfilling Now follows another great Mystery which I was called upon to look into concerning the seventh Seal wherein lies hid the Reward and rich Price which though not yet given in Possession yet the Holy One hath seen it expedient to reveal it by breathing sorth this Word in me saying Come thou apart and Sanctifie a Fast tonelling nothing of the Leaven which is found in the House of fallen Nature abstain from any other Cup but what I the Anointed shall sill unto thee from the burning Sea of Glass which will be a Lamp to give Light and perfect Knowledge in the most hidden things that everlasting Wisdom hath hitherto sealed up For to you who are come to the sixth Seal and to your burning Elements in the heat of that melting Furnace these further Secrets are disclosed for the Consolation who shall hold out in this last Battel-Race for Conquest Therefore put on your Life-Armour day by day and continue in the Fight for joy of that which is now revealed as your Reward taking all care to abstain from the Leaven of Imaginations which may stop the Sluce of Revelation in its Purity The empty Bowl with light burning Oyl began to come in and became a rising Spring which did give light to the dark Socket of my Understanding within and the first thing that was shewed me was an open Book written within and every one of the seven Seals broken and it was in the Hand of the God-head-man who said Come and read what the seven Wonders which my faithful Witness did declare of in his day of Revelation which were then to be sealed up because the Day of their fulfilling was so far off But now in this present time there hath been such a servent heat of flaming Intercession which hath made all these Seals to melt away that the Secrets contained in the Book might be opened and made known This Living Book which was presented to my view to read was the glorified Person of the Lord Jesus who did now appear to reveal what was sealed up in the seven Thunders His presence was not terrible as appearing under the Vail of pure Humanity where he hides me as in the Clifts of his own Spiritual Body whilst he talketh with me who thus said Thou art come to a deep Knowledge for here the greatest Good highest Beeing stands unsealed to the introverted Eye of thy Spirit that can enter into the Light of Eternity where the Looking-Glass of all Mysteries does stand open Now the cry of the first Thunder was this Behold how the six dayes Creation is come to its limit and Man ceaseth to be being returned into the Eternity of his own Spirit there to rest in God while the Number of the Beast is summed up and his Kingdom furnished with the Ordinances of Day and Night which take place in this changeable Element from whence the Craft and Subtilty of Reason doth arise to uphold and maintain the lapsed earthly Life All which there will be no further need of according to what the second Thunder doth utter The second Thunder uttered as follows Come and see who out of the Bed of passive stillness do now arise and come forth all new and immortalized to rule as Gods in an immutable Creation These are they who have been exercised in great Tribulation and lain as dead under the Seals but they are come to live and take the Lamb's Power to reign in Gods Omnipotency which is the only Instrument they shall play upon to subdue all inwardly and outwardly For they are now put in Commission under him who is come to judge the Quick and Dead and to remove all things wherein the Serpents Brood hath been nourished The cry of the third Thunder is this Ho! come ye whose Names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life The way is all cleared and the great River Euphrates is dryed up for to give Passage to the Holy Land where the Tree of Life shall meet you with its flowing Fruits whose savour leaves a perpetual Sweetness and such a strength of Joy as will make you know the Feast of Tabernacles it come indeed with God alone for to celebrate and keep The Walls all ranged are with Seraphims that are appointed for your Guard to usher you into an higher Sphear and more magnificent place than this which was the Seat of the first Paradisival Man where you are to make but your forty dayes stay For an higher Orb doth descend as a Cloud to take up the Elders that have their Throne-Seats prepared in the great Jerusalem City which is the settled Rest where no more removing is feared for there is an indissolvable Link all fixed in a Co-operating Power which never shuts up The fourth Thunder opened thus unto me by way of Vision I saw seven Golden Candlesticks branched out from a Suid of Gold and each Socket appeared empty and there came one in the appearance of a Jaspher-light and poured in some sparkling Liquor and there arose a shining burning which sent forth Flakes of light very numerous running up and down like Lightning so as nothing could contain them nor prevent them from going whither they would then was it cry'd in my hearing What hast thou seen but the great Wonder of the fourth Thunder disclosing the fiery Lamps that are appointed to be fixed in renewed Nature which are so impowering that on whomsoever they rest they may act and do whatsoever they will into For the Concord of these seven Spirits is of that force as they can save or destroy bind or loose they are the seven proper Powers that must make out who are God's Co-deified Ones and
commissioned to act in this last Seene of Wonders in the wonder-City that shall be all compacted of pure Spirits Hear and see ye shall be planted there as the great Cannons for these Powers will multiply as a great Host which can cut off this visible World at one stroke This is the great reserve to be given as a Reward to the suffering Conquerors The fifth Thunder cryed Now unseal the Tabernacle-Testimony let the eternal Gospel of Love and Peace go forth in the cloven Tongue which can only speak out what springs from the original Law of restored Nature to its primary Purity out of the Fountain of the Deity Behold these are the separated and anointed Ones who have this Gospel-Dispensation as a perpetual rising spring proceeding from the holy Spirit who can indeed absolve and pronounce Remission of Sins For Power will rest upon those who can conveigh the New-Testament-Blood to heal and deliver from the infective Root of Sin not in a painted formal Imitation but there shall go forth a Fire-breath to send this healing Gospel into the very Center-Root of the sick and sorrowful in Spirit who under the wound of Sin have laid long for Cure To which true Royalty and Priesthood some shall be more eminently ordained for the gathering in of those who lie under the Babylonish Rubbish who shall be raised through the out-going Might of the everlasting Testimony in the Blood of the Lamb's Life which is the known Character that only shall be given to them The Declaration of the sixth Thunder was thus represented to me I saw one holding forth a Saphire Signet or sealing Stone with which were to be marked all the Free-born that do belong to the New-Jerusalem for none but such as are marked can have right to the vast Riches which are concentred in Wisdom's Bank who to this day hath locked up the Brides Dowry and will not part with it till she can come with this Seal upon her Heart which is now brought out to put the highest impress of Saphire-Glory and Purity that may signifie that the Lamb's Bride is all thus dignified Oh! who shall henceforth detain those Riches Wealth and Honour which have been treasured up from before the Foundation of the World For all must now be given up to her command whether it be in Heaven or Earth or in the glassy Sea whether in Heights or in Depths or in any of the Eternal Sphears The sealing Name is every where the Authority that must set all open which hath been locked up hitherto because none could bring alone with them the Seal which is now freely brought down of God's own ingraving and therefore can never be counterfeited for it bears the lively Portraiture of Father Son and Spirit to whom all Riches Power and Glory are given The last Thunder comes in great Power to declare the Great Day of the Marriage-Feast of the Lamb The Fountains run now with that Spirit Wine that was in the Grape before all Time the choice and precious Fruits ripened by the Serene and Pure Elements are prepared and the Table is covered with all Replenishments that God himself can set out to express the Content and Joy he takes to see this consummating Day wherein I saac hath brought home his Rebecca into God the Father's and Jerusalem's Glory where henceforce a perpetual Feast of Joy forever is to be kept Angels now sound your Trumpet-Songs because the Harvest is reapea and God's Kingdom come The Lamb and Bride are now met to maintain a living Fame in another Creation The Redemption is finished Salvation is witnessed and the Mystery of God is unsealed The Harpers are summon'd to the Holy Quire with their Sounds and fiery Tongues that may proclaim the Lamb hath given up the Kingdom consisting of perfect Spirits that God only may be the top covering of great Majesty Strength Wisdom and Glory in and over all the Inhabitants of this Holy City which beareth this Name The Almighty creating Power â—â—â—ileth and taketh up his abode here Henceforth bless the Lord on High It s he that hath unsealed Treasures richly What can them hide from the Spirit 's Eye That pierced have into the Heart of the Deity Tribute-Offerings pay to our God and King Who hath revealed Wonderful Things Oh what Seraphick Sounds do I hear Are they not the Thunders of the Coelestial Sphear Calling for an attentive Ear Spirit to hear o're Which as the Doors be to the Golden Ore Where vast Treasures land up are in store But sound are only by Spirit 's Pore This is the state in which the Souls blest Eye May see God without Thought intellectually Though Speech and Converse away may fly The thunder of his Power abides essentially This is the Day we rejoyce to see Even the acting Power of the Deity What is it but the fiery piercing Eye That can the unsealed Book untye Wherein the perfect Number Seven lie Blessed is that Power from on High That hath struck the Crystial Rock From whence the Thunders did fly I feel the gushing in of Crystial Springs That whirleth as upon Cherubim Wings No more to look down to Earthly Things The Glass so clear through which I see Beholding glorious Objects variously That snatched away before I am awake Pass we on to the Sea of Glass Through all Worlds we make our Pass Brought we are to our own Land Where all Wonders in order stand Rewing what the Mortal cannot endure Even those Coelestials that are ever pure Blessed are those in whom the wonder Of the seven Thunders uncloaked be That feel that see that possess God in Unity Raised high into the Heart of the Deity Whereout Spring secret pleasant things That swallows up in Joy that hath no end Thus were the seven Thunders opened and interpreted to me from the springing Word upon which I closely waited and witnessed felt a sweet precious anointing and refreshing Joy to come in from every Thunder-Cry Oh! this is so great so weighty and rich and such surprizing Goodness which in this Book of Life is found which is now unsealing that no other things any more ought to be minded by us Thus the triumphant King and Conqueror who is possessed of all these Royal Powers and Dignities that are infolded in these seven Thunders hath given his Word that none of these shall fail in any one that hath the mark of the seventh Conquering-Seal broken up in themselves to whom joynt-power and authority will be given in order to the beginning of that Reign which is to be settled here on Earth according to the Prophecy in John's Revelation which presseth hard upon me from the Fiery Cloud that circles round my Spirit for a defensive Banner which will let nothing of the eclipsing dark Principle come in whilst the Center deep from the Soul 's fiery Essence opens and the bright Streamers from the Heart of the glorified Jesus who meets me in such a peaceable Love-paved-Walk
on the Earth The Elect shall reap and long enjoy the creating Works of their own Hands for with no less Power shall the Representatives of Christ the Lord be invested This declared must be throughout all Worlds that Christ will appear in his Saints that are risen again to bear the Tropky of a Death-Conquering Power Now the next enquiry is When is the time that this may be expected because hitherto there is but very small appearance of any such thing that is Who is it qualified in such a high degree as this heavenly Kingdom requires Who are willing to be Beheaded and through Death to be made partakers of this Reign But yet notwithstanding all these Objections of Fear Unbelief and the whole throng of discouraging Spirits of the sensible Life whose cry is Who is able to suffer all this Faith and Love are given to the worthy pretenders to this Kingdom whereby they are carried as with Wings over all the Floods of Fear and Discouragement neither shall they want either Resolution or Valour to wade through the greatest opposing Difficulties who are designed for it and found in the Lamb's Roll. A double and trebble portion of his Spirit the Lord hath said he will add to them who first shall abrogate the Law of Sease which hath been the chief hinderance of his Kingdom which therefore is to be made void because it diverts the Soul from fetching all its Supplies from the Rock neither can Faith arrive to its full strength till Sense be led into captivity and cast into a dead Sleep Now as to the time of the Lord's Reign when it shall be you will be apt to say That this is an unknown thing and that none can prefix the time It is true that many have Calculated and puzled their Spirits about it in vain But if we will know how near the time is we must not look without us but in the unsealed Book of Life within us there you will find the fore-going Signs which are first to be accomplished in your own Heavens and Earth We may try and prove our selves by what hath been already revealed from the seven Seals and Thunders how near the Kingdom of our Lord is approached unto us Let each of us examin our selves how far the preparative work is advanced in us We see what the Beast and Dragon's Kingdom must suffer in us to make way for this Reign which cannot be established till all this Trash be taken out of the way Therefore we shall only know the time by such an one who shall give the first deadly stroke and come forth a Conqueror over the whole sensitive Life and this outward Kingdom which stands divided between Good and Evil in such an Overcomer as this my Jesus expressed he would appear and personate a Kingly Reign and that we are not to look out for any other Sign at this time but the Manifestation of this conquering Life And further said There would go forth an Arrow from the Word of Revelation which should so closely stick in some as to pierce through the Heart of the Beast who hath warred to hinder the Lord's triumphant Reign in his Saints By all which it is clear that there is no surer sign of the approaching Personal Reign of Christ than to see the Beast wounded to the Heart for no sooner will the Beast be removed but his Kingdom will appear whose right it is to rule in Heaven and Earth Who is it now that will suck in the Marrow of these precious things which is the dropping Oyl which distills from the Olive-Tree to make our way smooth light and clear and to preserve us from being daunted though our Portion should be a draught of Blood for the life of the Beast must be taken away before the Lord appear in us like himself in Power Glory and Majesty Oh! what Drawings and Desires may these weighty sayings from the Lord enkindle in us from his coming to reign in absolute dominion within us The Word came to me Run hard there is a rich Prey to be taken by treading down of the Beast which may be taken if pursued to the Victory Wherefore be valiant in the Faith for all Might is in God to overcome whatsoever opposeth his Reign and Personal Kingdom Much and free Communication I had with the Lord this Night and a Cloud of Light appeared in me which raised my hope higher I had also many Queries satisfied Then there appeared to me a pitched Standard which reached from the Earth to the Heavens where its top was hid it resembled a strait ascending Flame and it was signified that this was the Standard of overcoming Power which no earthly Warrior would venture to engage with for its Dominion reached from the Earth to the Heavens and this Word was added Stick close to it and move not from under it for it will be a shelter from the Storm which is coming on with a flowing Sea of Troubles raised by the wrathful One whose Kingdom is Division This Motto and Inscription was given out from the sealed Book within as follows In Christ I live in Christ I dye that I may cease from Sin and beastly Properties that so the first Ground of Life may rise over all to immortalize the Reign of Christ. Words no more as empty Sails spread out shall be but become the thundering Air of an Almighty Power which is Christ in his essential Spirit who wanders from the Heights above and Depths below will in his time show Look and read the circle Line and the most marvelous things may further know and find Upon some inward Conference with my Lord about the Shipwracked-Bark of Nature which still upon the forreign Coast doth lie and is often in Jeapordy by reason of some Tides which might make the Vessel spring-a-Leek the Lord did immediately come in with these Words saying Make reflection and ponder well my Grace and Love which hath been so great as to lay in my Life so deep with thine that thou canst suffer nothing but I do call it mine Thy broken Vessel shall be renewed into its Original when all of sinsul Properties shall be drowned in the Alpha and Omega who is the beginning and end of Time and who will open the sealed Mine where the unsearchable Riches shall freely abound as in the state of Innocency where nothing of necessity or want was known All this is going on und advancing in the moving Circle of the Duty all that is required of thee is to be steady in the highest float of Earth My Spirit was let down into the deep Center and Circumserence where the personal Glory met me with whom I had great Felicity to behold the Shepherd with his Fold who friendly faluted me for though a naked Spirit I was not despised by such dignified Bodies though I was made very sensible of the want of such a glorious Body and as soon as I desired it I was forthwith imbodyed as
or Female for she may assume either according to her good pleasure for she is both Male and Female for Angelical Generation But here it may be asked What is this Virgin Whence is she How can she introduce her self into that Nature where her pure chastity hath been violated This last indeed may be accounted a wonder above our hopes and expectation which yet she is in a rendiness to do as is well known to them who have understood her and preferred her above all things as being well assured that like as all Bliss and Peace sted away with her so upon her return all good will come back with her again As to her Nativity it is from everlasting before the Creation of Heaven or Earth She was before all as being the Co-essential creating Power in the Deity which formed all things out of nothing and hath given a dignified existency to all those Seraphick Glories which move within her own Sphear who are the product of an unsearchable Wisdom for the replenishing of those superior Worlds which are little known in this where we are out-casts neither can we be acquainted with much glories till we be born again out of her Virgin-Womb for so it must be before ever we come to be Christs in conformity with Christ our Head A Marvelous thing the Lord hath revealed to me concerning this Woman which holy John saw viz. that she represents Gods Spouse and Mate from whom the highest Birth the Eternal Word of Wisdom did go forth as the mighty Alpha and Omega in a distinct glorious personality known to himself in God and the Everlasting Virgin before any thing of the heavenly Hosts were created For he stood equally in the Counsel of the Father and Virgin for the bringing of the whole Creation into a figurative manifestation Now for what is all this but to discover the mystery of this Woman that she is the eternal Virgin who will essentially introduce her self into those who are prepared and appointed to enjoy her She will confer her Sun and Crown of Stars upon her Representatives Here will be brought down the one elemental Robe and the quint Essential Root will again be found which will give a most glorious Luster and all renew the gross vile matter as heing the acting Wisdom to shew forth Gods wonders all which reserved are until her day She is looked for as Gods fruitful Bride to bring forth Christs personality in plurality as so many immaculate Princes ruling in God Just cause will be found if we consider this Principle wherein the Serpent with so much bitterness wars against the Virgin and her Seed why her Off-spring as soon as born is caught up to Heaven from whence the Dragon is cast out and where the Iron Rod will crush him and be too hard for him and his adherents Her Off-spring will appear all Virgins with her own lustrous Son who is the first-born amongst the Kings of the Earth and Heavens Oh the high and majestical Glory which shall proceed from the Virgins Womb with whom is the blessing that will abound in fruitful Gifts and high working Powers from the Magia ground Eve's Conception in Sorrow shall not here be known for this Virgin never was disobedient or broke Faith with God who is her Husband the fruit of whose travel is Blessing and Joy through the whole Generation that shall be Born of her She shall be the Mother of the true Virgin-Church wherein no mixture of Will-Worship or False Doctrine shall be found But it may be queried How can this heavenly Virgin endure to come down upon this defiled Earth for to multiply her Off-spring in it For without doubt the Serpent and Dragon will violently rage against her which we have experience of in our selves when he crowds into our very Heavens with all evil Beasts at his Heels waging War against us Yet nothing of all this shall be able to prevent God's purpose who will appear with his Virgin in the divine Body and cover her with the one Element which will torment all evil-evil-Spirits and wear them out who can as little endute her Virgin-Purity as the Virgin-Spirit can bear their Poyson Therefore a separation is made as we read that the Woman had a Place prepared for her in the Wilderness which signifies the Spirit of Faith which carries it from off the sensual Ground where the Concourse of fluttering Spirits of all kinds are wherefore this is no place for God's Virgin to stay in she may be in danger of having her Chastity violated or of being drowned with the wrathful Floods of the Dragon The Serpent will not cease to make his attempts with more subtilty than eyer because by this introduced Virgin-Spirit his Head-power shall be crushed and his Seed dis-inherited but the Virgin-Spirit shall mount like an Eagle and so escape the Dragon's deluge A Fountain is opened in the Desart of which the Soul which is in union with the Virgin shall drink instead of the muddy Waters of the Earth which she loathes Pleasant Food is provided in this Wilderness by God himself and his Christ. The Lord affords these Dainties to the abstracted Life where the Virgin-Spirit is a stranger to sensitive Self within as well as to the enchanting World without Here it wants no good company for its never without heavenly Visitants because it reserves it self chiefly for converse with the Deity from whom she expects all her Blessing and Encrease And thus the Soul shall spring and multiply where the Virgin hath realized her self Her Wilderness shall become a rich Sharon-Pasture a Land of unknown Plenty where Gold Silver and precious Stones shall be as the Dust under the Feet of these holy separated Virgins Also within and without their feeding shall be on Power Joy and Peace till the division of Time shall come to an end in which a further Mystery will be understood But oh let all this be first sully witnessed Here follows a further Advertisement from him who is come to fulfill old Prophesies in the substance of his own Person that is Born of the Virgin from whom we may expect the perfecting of that which all fore-going Ministrations and Manifestations have left short in regard of those wonders which shall be effected in this latter Age. To which end Christ hath opened the Center-Eye that can pierce as deep as the Deity where this Virgin lies with all her Glory who ever since Adam's day hath been obscured because she would not trust her self with any Mortal only some of her shining Rays have now and then been scattered into holy Souls a taste of which hath been given as the first Fruits of what is reserved for Christ the Lord's second Birth-day where shall be provided a Penticost-Feast according to the royal and heavenly state of Jehovah's Bride and Mate Oh! how unable am I to bring forth in Words what hath been shewed me of the later Fruits that Wisdom's Children shall feed upon in that day
spring The Virgin feels her self in the Centre of the Deity she handles what doth not appear to be tangeable viz. Breath Spirit Fire and Air in all these her feeling-motion is in great Serenity A Center-Life that burneth from the Mirror of the Deity boyles Love up to that height as nothing is felt but Pleasure and ravishing Delight it is the Heat and Blood that runs through every Vein of the Virgin-Body and is an Antidote against all Fear and Pain which is felt in the mortal Sense Oh! what Deaths Akings and Griefs have we felt in our Souls as well as in our Bodies our Minds being in continual Anxiousness and Trouble to see what we are fallen into I speak of such who have been touched with the Fire-Stone of the Virgin which must go before her healing Medicine And blessed are they who have first known the painful feeling under her severe Discipline for such shall be her polished Pillars on which she will engrave her Virgin Name as he saith who is the true and faithful Witness who is come to take off the Virgins Vail that we may see her in the Glass of perfection and come to know and feel her not as distinct and a-part from us but all Virginized in her essential Deity that the joyful feeling in breath of Fire and Air may be witnessed and then we shall see what shall follow the Harmony of these Sences which is the Character of the Virgin-Nature the Pattern we are to try our selves by for which end we are also called to look into her Mirror that so it may stir up all favour of desire in us to have those Sences in their excellency awakened in us Oh great Goddess and Queen of all Worlds wilt thou after so long a time of Desertion once appear again Who is it that hath entreated thy Favour and gained a Promise from thee of a Visit though this be too short because nothing now will satisfie unless thou bestow thy self with all thy divine Sences as a co-deified Life to shew that thou art now prevail'd upon to joyn with the Redeeming Blood to restore thy own Virginity where thou findest Humility and Importunity in that Personality which is all beloved of the highest Wisdom and only Spouse of God know and remember us who are brought to thy feet and have been under thy severe Discipline therefore allot thy self to be our Garland and Crown Now we are advanced one step higher towards Wisdom's heavenly Throne from whence her Golden Scepter is stretched forth to lay hold on which passeth through and beyond every elementary Cloud which the sensitive Life hath raised so as we could not see our way to that sparkling Rock of the Deity for which cause the bright Sun now shines from her eternal Orb through the dark Clouds that we might see every ascending degree twisting and winding so intricately that without a Guide expresly sent down from that Sphear there is no possibility ever to come to any one of her Gates which lead to the New Jerusalem These are set before me to be in number Twelve five of which were spoken of in the fore-going Chapter and now we repair to her Oracle as our Guide for the revealing of the other seven Gates together with the Way which leads from one to to the other where the hidden Track of the Virgins Way may be found treading upon that unknown ground under which is found a rich and precious Stone from which the highest blessing will abound The Way to the first of these seven Gates is very solitary and lonely it is very rare to meet with two agreed to hold out in it to the end it is so full of rending Thorns and affrighting wild Beasts for herein lies the design of the horned Beast to scatter and divide such who are agreed to travel in Wisdoms Path Also the Nimrod Hunters of this World send out after them either to divide or bring them back again These are the Oppositions we may expect in this Way against which we must be provided and fore-armed that our entrance by this Gate may not be prevented The Inscription of this Gate is Abnegation or Renunciation of this outward Principle The first Question which is asked by the Angel who keeps this Gate is Are you come away as Strangers and Pilgrims Will you no more return to the Traffick of Babylon For the Prince of this City will only admit of such as shall abjure all Commerce with the Merchants of Tarshish though by this means all earthly Riches are gained to keep up a Worldly Reputation and Fame but the Angel of this Gate will have good Assurance that whoever comes up hither be quite broken off from and have no further dealing with the Harlot daughter of Sidon who hath deceived the Kingdoms of this World with her Sorceries Whoever they be that get through this streight Gate for them a sure and good Foundation is laid to walk forward towards the second Gate But here another thing is to be considered before entrance can be given for this Angel is charged not to take any ones single Security but enquires whether Christs Spirit in them and his Person for them will stand engaged to perform all this Agreement For she dares not trust the Soul upon a single Promise though fervent and unfeigned and full of good Will yet it is not sufficient if he be not able to maintain the Gate ground against his Enemies that will attempt to circumvent him Therefore we that are come hereunto are to give in the Name of our Security and so pass on freely to the second Gate The second Gate is called the wrestling or struggling Gate it is the Gate of Probation before it stands a Center-Gulf Here will rise what will countermand the Pilgrim back again into the worldly Principle which he had abjured and left behind Wisdom stands by her Angel to call and invite to come through but the Gulf swells so very high that it appears impossible to get over Legions of Spirits here do follow crying out What mean you to run so great a hazard as to have a place where is store of all good things for Supply and Maintenance Thus Temptations and Assaults will beset the Pilgrim threatning hard and bitter things to him who is a seeking his own Native Country and original Virginity and endeavours with great wrestling to get rid of all these knawing Vipers What! say they will you turn quite away from those pleasant Joys in which others live spending their days in Gods Love and Peace and therein rest contented not attempting the passing of this Gulf till the limit of your Life requires it All this and much more will press in to turn away the Soul from pursuing after its Virgin Crown and therefore this Gate is called the Probation Gate Now if the Spirit of Christ be so powerful in the Soul as not to regard these Temptations being resolved to venture through the fiery Gulf that
But here it may be asked What manner and kind of Offerings will those first Fruits of Redemption be This is a Question which cannot be so fully answered till we are compleatly perfected in this Tabernacle which hitherto is only a rearing But what of these Immunities hath been expressed by the great Priest and opened from the Tabernacle-Testimony unto me shall be given forth for their sakes who may have right to bring in such perfect Offerings to the most holy and separated place in the day of their Restoration mutually with us who are expecting the accomplishment in all its divine Ordinances and Consecrations for the perfecting every Comer hereunto But now to define what kind of Offerings we shall bring as Priests to God they are the Fruits of the Magia in their out-flowing Operation which actually send out a most powerful Spirit from its own essential Spring of Spirit wherein God is the only pure Original of it What is sent forth to effect but a new Generation of Heavens and Earth The Magia worketh in this manner saying Let the old Tabernacle with all its shadowy Appearances pass away and be no more And it is so for the force of the out-going Spirit incorporates with the Word and makes it Essential whether it be expressed Vocally or no the Co-centred Decree passeth into and though the Spirit carrieth all Power with it either to nullifie or make void or to give a new Plantation and an heavenly splendorious Formation upon Creatures and Things for a lustrious Transformation of what is fading and dying that so Immortality may be renewed whether in Rationals Animals or Vegetables The matter of the one Element is so immerced and coagulated in a Magical Spirit that it is able to give a Life where the very Face of Death doth appear whether dead as to a Spiritual Life according to that saying And you hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sens. Who is this in the Person of Christ but the same holy Ghost in his out-going Power that through our Persons so influencing and given a Resurrection to a dead Life whether in our selves or others as cause requires Then also as to the very mortal Life to prolong it and to secure it from Pain and Sickness Yea from Death it self But this quickinmg Spirit is only appropriated to such as have dyed and suffered with Christ in the Flesh and thereby have overcome the World Therefore let none think that they can come to this degree of Power Might and Dignity till they are Born again from the Dead that is a cessation to the enkindled Life from the Stars which generate earthly Motions and Thoughts which work in a way of Sensuality from which there must be a departing in reference to those great Things which are to succeed I have been often brought to see the limit of the first Born Life that doth consist between Time and Eternity in the stirring Essences of Sin whereby I am made so wisely knowing as not grieve or to have any Reluctancy upon the sentence of a total Expiration of such an injurious Life as keeps me out of God's Tabernacle-Body where I can no more dye Whereupon the holy Ghost out of the Virgin-Body doth cry and call to such who would come to be all Magical to offer up their first-Born rational Life for a Sacrifice And then of a truth we shall bring other kind of Fruits and Offerings and no more as Tributaries and Servants to Sin Beast or Dragon but be freed through the rising Birth that will mount and fly over all those who kept the other under great Fear and Bondage but in this we shall come to be Kings in God's House and of his own Family Oh! what hath been here let down by Golden Drops from the Head-Fountain Let it O God mingle all forcibly for Life contaction with the more noble part within us that so this great and perfect Tabernacle may be according to its own secret way compacted indissolvably where we may securely dwell and nothing of Violence Oppression or Fear but receive Power from the rising Body of the holy Ghost to bear down and expel whatsoever is against us This is what the Lord hath by a signal Word averred and he will see it fulfilled as in any one such a Spirit of Resolution shall be found to go forward in this great Enterprize to encounter and rush through every Throng that would stop and put them by who are ready to venter their All for it Now somewhat may be said as to those high Ends for which God is resolved to raise his principal Magia First to redress comfort and relieve the groaning Creation which is in spiritual travail even such who are in Famin and Death in Agonies Sorrow and Heaviness through divers Temptations and the Buffetings and Wiles of Satan To these the Magical Balsom shall be given for Cure from such as are first risen in the Tabernacle-Body of God They shall bind all evil Spirits and there shall go forth a virtual Power from them to do as if Christ were in person there And in the second place this Power shall extend it self to the taking away of all outward Maladies of the Body and all Sufferings relating to Penury and Want and all Weariness Toil and anxious Care for the Needs and Requirings of the Body A further addition to the former subject Know then that as in a miraculous way this will be made as healing Waters from out of the Threshold of the Sanctuary that shall recover the dry and parched Earth to make it bud and flourish as it did before the Curse did overflow it Take it inward as to spiritual Fruitfulness or otherwise as to the outward Elementary state Great also will be the Trust that will be granted by the mighty Jehovah for mannagement for his little Flock sake and put into the Hands of some that are to be set apart as good and principal Shepherds indeed who can both let out and lay down their Life for the elect Sheep which are to be gathered in not by Sounds or Words but by a Magical Impregnation which can send in a Breath of Life to quicken what is as dead This is now what we are in a daily expectation of from the rich Furniture which will come down with the Tabernacle-Body Oh come holy Souls and let us be in a watchful posture for I do see in Spirit that the Morning of this Day begins apace to clear the bright Clouds do open the face of our Heavens appear the separating Vail is all rending away that out of the first Tabernacle we may pass and within the most holy place fixedly stay where we shall have no cause to fear that God will henceforth move away because we our selves shall be brought up to that height of Purity that all Offerings shall be most pleasant and powerful from the everlasting Flame of the holy Altar from whence ascending Powers will go up to bring
under check and in awe Thy Throne is set thy Council is fixed the Urim and Thummim of sound and right Judgment is come down and Decrees are gone forth which all powerful Might will see executed within this hidden Kingdom of my Soul and Mind The Prospect of all this which now is come the Spirit in Christ my Lord's Personality did give me to see and therefore to Prophesie as hoping the Time is at hand which is so in good earnest for I am made to understand that the holy and just One is come in his first and early Reign to put all things to rights that were found in confusion in the fallen Properties of Nature and to Harmonize whatsoever did put forth from the bitter Root Essence in Jars and Strife Oht to have a Cure come in to relieve this fallen weary tired-out Life that was in perplexed Strife can do no less than give cause of Triumph where-ever such a Dominion is known and entred upon though invisible None is privy to what is done or acted there but the obedient Subjects that do wait upon the Throne are ready to fulfil all royal Laws that are expressed from the counsel of the Trinity And truly I do find great Joy in keeping up to this Restriction and Ordinances which do appertain to the Lord Christ's Kingdom although they be quite different and of another kind than what was allowed to be and by the just One winked at before that Word which is Spirit and Life did protest to me That he was come to make a total alteration and to throw out all the Forms and Constitutions which have passed for a heavenly Formation which yet never reached to this new most perfect and excellent Kingdom which is so Chrystaline as that the Spirit and Soul are realized in a circuled Glory and so shut up as no more to look out or come down from off this high mounted white Throne whereon the Reigns of a great and wonderful Government are to be held fast For which many cautional Words I have received for it is the abiding that will work out the most glorious Victory for no one that is shot up to the highest Stature in Christ and so ripe for the Government is yet come to be exempted from Assaults and Temptations that will put forth from the satanical earthly Kingdom where all carnal earthly Senses and rational Subtilty do still lie lurking that if the exalted Spirit that doth sit upon the Throne with Christ should but venture down and debase it self by complying with what it hath rejected of this world's Laws and Rudiments it is possible the Kingdom may be rent away as in Saul's case nay in Solomon himself God would not remit it when he departed from the Lord in any degree but received a Rebuke to purpose for it all which was laid before me for the holding fast the Scepter in Humility Purity Fear Righteousness and holy Couragiousness that I might so hold out in this first and invisible Reign of the Lamb of God that he may come to be visibly magnified for the Conviction of those that are yet alienated by a Spirit of Unbelief not knowing the peaceable Fruits of this Kingdom within which in no wise can mingle with what is of the Starry Government as being quite of another Spirit It neither careth nor seeketh for Regency or Dignity from these inferior Planets which give the World's Wealth and Honour to the vilest and basest of Men. Wherefore it is little regareded by such who have Eyes to see the workings of the superior Constellations which move in the third Heaven remote from all mortal sight from which alone I have sought for Honour Credit and Reputation And now I am greatly satisfied to be esteemed of no Repute and to be as a poor Lazarus for the joy of that Kingdom which is already possessed by me Yet not here so resting as not to expect and believe but that this invisible Kingdom will so work out visibly as it may make the Sun Moon and Stars of this inferior Orb to bow before it for the assurance of which we can desire no fuller nor better Evidence than the total and victorious Reign of God over all the Sin-infected Properties For let this be but finished and it will be a certain Introduction to the manifestative Reign of the holy Ghost who will not fear to face the Locusts of the Earth that have had their Fulness and Blessings from the Beast's Kingdom whose Glory will certainly wither and dye away Nay they who are of the number of Israelites and yet abide in the Abomination of Self-Love will be so ashamed and confounded at the opening of this plentiful Store that will so abundantly shower down upon them that sit on the Throne with Christ that all those who have detained these worldly Goods shall have such Indignation against themselves for it that they shall throw their Gold and Silver to the Bats and Moles of the Earth and take hold of the skirts of the Throne-Princes and cry to partake of their Lot and Portion For it will be of that Quality and daily increasing Substance for the satisfying of all kind of Requirings of the outward Body that Jacob's All and Enough will most surely be possessed without Curse or Sorrow which we know have attended the whole visible Treasury gotten by the outward Wisdom and Art of Man who have thereby so Idoliz'd the Works of their Hands that they have quite run themselves out of those Blessings which come in by giving up their whole Mind and Will to be the Lord's dominion This is the surviving Kingdom that shall spread from the root of Christ risen up in his perfect stature within and throughout the Souls Essence to deifie it so that it may abide in the unalterable Substance of a Godded Nature without the hazard of ever relapsing into Sin Curss or sorrowful Weakness which will be the most wonderful Salvation that ever yet was brought to manifestation For which cause it will necessarily follow that this visible Kingdom will be also established and become as a listed up Ensign that all flesh may tremble and fall before it which did so insult and lift up it self in Arrogancy Where the Lord was but as yet come in his first Reign no shew of Glory was seen to outward appearance but rather dark Clouds of Sufferings which being rightly improved makes meet for the full possession of the first and second Kingdom each one in their high graduation for coming forth to Glorification as are now in the hidden Sphears where the high Throne-Glories are manifested in another manner of Kingly Pomp and Splendor than what ever hath or indeed could possible be figured out here till the Kingdom it self do work out visibly and then we shall know what we at present are known of our God for in order to this excelling Reign which is to answer to the Royalty Purity and Pomp that God himself is now with all
in his glorified Saints and Angels It is fully assured me that God hath taken into his Eye and Love election at this very day those who shall come to sit in Princely Majesty and great Dominion in the inward Regency of the Soul conquering the thwarting motions of sin and their own Passions for Faithfulness Truth and Love to carry through here will be signs and evidence sufficient what God will further exalt unto In the interim whosoever have attained to the first Kingdom in Wisdom Sanctification and in the excelling Charity know that these will give the mighty onset for enterance into the utmost bounds of this overlasting Kingdom which we shall not think it only sufficient to pray for but to be doing all that is required for it in all comely order and fixed resolution to hold fast what we have already gotten that none may supplant us of that which will be the lifted up Crown to be seen every where upon the heads of the anointed Ones Here follows divine Openings of the Reign and Kingdom of the Love Having been exercised for some considerable time in the Prophetical Office and Ministration from the spirit of Revelation as my writings bear witness concerning the Kingdom of Christ in its suffering state first of all then in its rising up through tribulation unto victory for dominion and glorification through the Love Now the degrees which lead hereunto have been sufficiently described in The Heavenly Cloud Printed in 1680 by the Author which hath had most forcible effects for the bringing in and establishing of this Kingdom wherein and to whom this Spirit of prophesie was given for a sealing evidence that the Spirit of Truth being the Spring of those foregoing Revelations which are now to be confirmed by the present Reign of a risen Christ in some personalities which are shall be taken up for this end to shew it forth by that most excellent and perfect thing coming in which is the Love Dominion which hath exalted the same Propetical Spirit now with Christ upon the Throne and doth absolutely rule in Gods meek Love over the whole Region even to the utmost parts of the Souls inward Earth where now great peace is found the Government being carried on sereinly and calmely through the conquering Love which hath like a River overflowed the whole Earth But this was not so fully felt known and witnessed as of late The former Reign was maintained in an imperfect degree the spirits within were indeed under awe and check and unwillingly made subject to the Kingdom 's Laws that were renewed suitable to this most eminent and singular Ministration While sometime I was under it which was looked upon as sharp and severe the whole man being rein'd in very Straight would have gone forth into a reluctancy and so break all Harmony in the properties that should be found abiding in a new Model And thus indeed the Kingdom hath suffered violence and hath been hid in great strife as many Holy Souls may witness with me in the same case who are come thus far to the Dominion Which is a good and hopeful introduction to the ruling Scepter of Love in which will be found a far more pleasant and joyous Kingdom when all and every Spirit is brought over and subjected to the Love's Soreraignity in their order and place to their superior Governour to wit the Heaven-born Spirit who personates Christ upon the Throne Now to come to have every motion tinged with the fiery Love Balsom how will they run and fly at the very look of the Kingly anointed Eye where Love's rayes are so vehement as to captivate every thought to the obedience of the Lords Anointed King not in some but in all and every thing which will indeed make every Saint that hath attained hereunto walk worthy of God whose beeing consisteth in the Essentiality of Love and admitted for to be Gods fellow companion being in the center-Life of a Love dominion There must necessarily follow all Holy Boldness to come into a Christ propriety with God the Father as Heirs of all Kingdoms that are worthy of inheriting whether in the Mystery or out of it Love's Center opens through all and brings in an endless pleasure and Joy which cannot be by any worldly craft stolen away Therefore it is that most excellent thing that will heal and cure all within the Soul reconciling what was at variance whether in relation to God or to any of our fellow Members Therefore what is to be more desired or to be paralleled with I must solemnly profess that I have found such soveraign power and sweetness in the opening of this Love center that I cannot but commend it to others and seek earnestly to have more fellow-Commoners with me at Gods Table that there we may sit down together and feed upon the fruits of Love which are the Wine and Strength of the Kingdom For in very Truth I am come to witness Holy Paul's conclusion of it that it is the absolute perfect thing that works out all imperfection removing all sorrow and grief from the mind and heart For it is a strong and vehement heat that devours fear and anxity Oh! how doth it shelter and secure from all blood sucking vipers that they cannot prey upon the inward part of the Soul Because this is a love which cannot imagine into any evil thing and therefore nothing of the Serpent Venom can mingle with it which makes the Soul to know it self to be returned to its priminary concord and Virgin Simplicity But now it may be queried Whether I give forth the commendation of this High and perfect Love from Revelation or from divine and pure sensation I must acknowledge it is from both they are met together as proceeding from one Love Center which is the first glass wherein I saw the aimable Beauty and worthiness of this most excellent thing with all those advantages and great prerogatives attending it for it brings in no less than a Kingdom of sweet peaceable Amity and Love whereby I now sind an unspeakable benefit But it may be asked farther How comes this most precious and worthy thing to be wrought so essentially in the Soul as to be evermore ruling upon the Throne and as having got absolute conquest over whatsoever would stir up Trouble and Sedition In answer to this I shall give my own experience as one who hath obtained Grace of this kind after it was begotten by Species and Revelation and formed in me as a true Essential life Birth which I did sind daily grow up and encrease in Wisdom and Strength But then after that this Love was grown up to such a vehemency towards my God as known to me in the person of my Lord Christ from and through frequent visits and very intimate conversation which I did daily enjoy in an unknown and most singular way which in very Truth was so grateful and sweet that it drew up my superior vital spirit after him that
will be impossible to carry this Evangelical Ministration in such an evil Region where the Cry and Plea of mortal necessities are continually heard as making it a lawful imposition upon the very illuminated Saints to puddle about Earthly things by which indeed the wayunto the most Holy hath been blocked up no open Face of God could through this muddy glass be seen as being the dark side of the Cloud which keeps from God by many removes and distances Therefore a healing Balsom for a continual bleeding wound the great and merciful High Priest hath sent down even the victorious reconciling Crown of the Priestly anointing which is in very truth his Essential Diety which riseth as a Fountain of purity overspreading the whole Humanity and consecrates it for both Tabernacle Ark and Altar in which the Holy Ghost officiates and accomplisheth the whole Divine service Now whatever Soul and Spirit shall be thus taken up and arrested upon Gods account to serve and minister about the Heavenly and most excellent things which belong to the Everlasting Priesthood for it is not to be thought that the most holy will allow or permit such to prophane what he hath Sanctified or the Living to be entombed with the Dead or the high sented Oyl which springs from the Holy Ghost to let in the noysom putrifactions from the loathed Kedar where all unclean Spirits do dwell Here is an absolute command to have no touch nor intermedling withal so as to ensnare or come into hazard of breaking the consecrated Vows For it is a true saying of that great Saint That we in this consideration do cease to be our own we cannot according to the Law of the Spirit dispose of our selves no not for an hour or day from our Lord and Master's Employ and Business further than as good and faithful Stewards we can give a satisfying account according to those Spiritual Circumstances we are bound in unto him The great and mighty King loveth to see all his Priestly train and attendants still about him in such an Holy order and Heavenly posture as they may be ready to be sent forth upon the most eminent services who can find employment enough for his Subjects and Ministering Spirits who takes it as a great dishonour to have this holy order bring their high profession to be brought into contempt by running into the cloud and thickest of vain rudimental things Nay more than this the restitution extends to the ordained and called ones upon whom the anointing hath been poured forth for the most Holy incense Offering they cannot be at liberty to fall in with those lawful and necessary concerns which pertain to the feeding and cloathing of the Body but if here at any time engaged the Spiritual part suffers hurt because it acts out of its own Sphear and divine property which should stand in Faiths essentiality where all our motions should be accompanied with the Principle of Faith in the Priestly Ministration for the supplying what is needful to the true Temple worshippers whereunto keeping and walking with God in a perfect way fulfilling all his Sanctuary institutions such are as Lillies to Spring and grow without toil or care The blessings of the Deep shall ever more abound and flow in while there is an abiding in the Faith hereof giving God full credit and running all fully upon his acconnt in this case The Truth is the Lord stands engaged to provide all sufficiency for his Servants whom he hath called from all other low inferior Services and Employes being himself in Covenant with the Priesthood of his own ordination Holy Paul makes use of it from the unchangeable Law that runs from Shadows and figurative Services till it comes to the Life and Substance Do you not know saith he that they which minister about Holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers with it They have a right hereunto according to a Law of divine Institution But the Proprietors of these worldly Goods do uot hold themselves obliged hereunto but do engross and take up all and if they let go any thing it is rather by constraint than a free and voluntary Offering But we are not to search too deep into this matter for Faultiness may be found among our own Tribe that lie within the circle of the Priestly Covenant in whom much Remisness and Shortness hath been found as to the ministring to the Necessities of the true dedicated Nazarites But we hope to see another Power and Spirit that shall bear rule which shall make the fast clasped Proprietors to become all free and open-handed according to the fore-going Prophecy that the Churl shall be made liberal yea so as to reckon nothing to be his own But here it may well be asked What is it that must come to loosen from this Self-bottom so as to unhinge this strong Gate that hath kept out from the Land of eternal Store and Blessing whereof Abraham's Seed in the Faith are Heirs This doth in part answer the Question which may produce the great change in narrow Spirit 's which is the Gift of the Faith of the operation of God which openeth from the Springs of Love which are spread abroad by the holy Ghost and kept as a live Coal that can multiply it self into a strong and vehement flame of Love which is the cherishing Root that makes Faith to become all fruitful beyond all exteriour sense and sight resting and considing in the creating Fiat which can call those things that are not to be and make a something of nothing This we may call the Riches of Faith that can make an increase where no visible Matter appeareth This is no common Faith it is no where found but where the holy Ghost hath planted himself for a Blessing and growing Revenue Who ever shall receive of this Gift and taste the Power of it will soon cease to grasp and love earthly and perishing things they will be constrained to offer and consecrate all that may be for the service and use of the holy royal Melcbizedeck Priesthood And though at this time little of this Spirit and Power doth appear in the World yet know of a truth from the Witness of Jesus that the long tircling Motion of the holy Anointing which hath hitherto but scattered his Sparks of Light is now in very deed upon the out-breaking Day of Life that what hath been only in sweet Love-Movings and transcient passing Powers that have in the very Altar-waiters ceased But we shall say now again Behold come and see the burning ghostly Body is risen that will turn all uncertain Motion into a fixed act of all flowing generating Powers But this the Lord hath shewed me This will be first appropriated to the high Priestly Order that can pass beyond the Vail to whom the Holy of Holiest stands open For there are different Degrees States and Oders in this last and new erected Priesthood in which
the holy Ghost will appear to be all which according to our received Instruction I shall give a description of and how it may be known who are the called and chosen of God hereunto For each one ordained hereunto will have the Foundation Seal the Priestly Mark which shall be the known Character which no one shall obliterate or deny And as to the outward Sex there shall be no distinction though the Typical Priesthood admitted none but Males in its day All of that is done away for Signs and Figures in this Ministration do fly away like a Cloud Male and Female are alike here therefore the holy Ghost doth include both in one swallowing up all in the Newness Strength Power and Glory of his own springing new Birth according as it is witnessed Where there is neither Male nor Female but Christ is all and in all who is the quickning Spirit and the true Evidence that will shew forth it self according to their grown up measure and degrees For Persons here signifie little Wisdom's Purity and Power in the Spirit is all that God respecteth in his Priestly Offerings We must know that these Priests are of three Ranks or Orders constituted and ordained by the great high Priest who yet continues in his mediating Kingdom till the whole be brought up and finished for mutual Glorification with him The first and lower Rank is of those who are not yet got beyond the Son's Ministration who are yet conscious of Sins and Transgressions committed under the first Covenant according to the similitude of Adam's Transgression running from that putrified Line for whom a necessity there is to come under the divers Watchings Separations Attonings Blood-sprinklings that so they may be qualified to come within Mount-Zion's circle where no Sin-offering is needed but in order unto the rising up to the successive degrees of the Melchizedeck Order the whole Burnt-offering is required the Goat must dye and the sinful infected Life must expire amidst the Altar-Flames For a continual Offering of this kind must be till the whole Body of Sin be consumed for whilst any thing of that abides and works in its circling Motion there are required new and fresh Attonings Pacifications and Blood-sprinklings till the one Offering comes it self to be offered up once for all which acquits from all Sin and makes meet prepared Vessels to come to in the first degree of Purity whose Consciences being purged there-from all consciousness of Sin may come up with boldness and full assurance of Faith in that anointing which is shed forth to cleanse from all Sin reconciling and making all Scores and Reckonings even as in reference to God the most holy and justifier of those who are made partakers of Christ in his Prophetical Kingly and Priestly Office For where-ever the Lord comes to offer himself up through the eternal Spirit by his own Body that are fully perfected For as under the Levitical Ordinances prescribed by God it was appointed for the Priests only to bear the Ark so under this Covenant-Ministration none but the spiritually consecrated Priests that are of this Order can bear the living Testimony of Christ's risen and spiritual Body which goes forth with great Power where-ever it comes to make Rocks break and Islands flee away and Waters to divide all which makes way for the bringing up to the last step of the all Priestly Throne to sit down with Christ in heavenly Places at the Right-hand of the Majesty on high where we are to consider those who of this holy high and separated Order are here become the Tabernacle Ark and Altar and the most inward holy place where Christ the anointed hath so poured forth himself that he is to be known in them as no other than God the holy Ghost officiating and accomplishing the most holy Service as in the Person of the great high Priest who having perfected Holiness comes in the open Face of the most inward separated place where God is manifest and no Spirit nor Soul can ever come to know or meet God but here according as we have it from the Mouth of the Lord himself who told Moses That here in this holy place he would commune with him and appear in his Glory But alas who is able to see at first glance into this high exalted degree of an high Priestly Calling It is so great and wonderful that it makes the Light of all fore-going Ministrations to look dark and dim as far excelling all as the Substance doth the the Shadow But before we proceed to set forth this third and last degree that brings so into God let us consider further of the two lower Orders which to this Priesthood do belong what their Qualifications are and from whence called out The first Rank is of those afore-mentioned who have been under the Altar-Purifyings and divers Washings and blood Sprinklings and perfuming Oyls by which they are made perfect and clean and become such who have no more Conscience of Sin for the Fountain-spring of the Life-Blood stands ever open Christ in his bubling Spirit by which he maintains a sinless Purity of which sort God chuseth and ordains his Tabernacle-Ministers who are made meet to officiate about the holy things offering up the holy Incense and Heave-offerings keeping all the Laws and charge of the Sanctuary presenting only what is consecrated unto the Lord in order to the expelling of every defiled thing Now great is the Dignity of this very lowest degree forasmuch as they are made partakers of Christ and in him are become Mediators of the New Covenant wherein great strength is found inasmuch as Christ in Spirit is made the surety of this faultless Testament which gives great boldness to plead for Remission of Sins in the behalf of others who yet remain in the sinful imperfect state who being ready and free to intercede from the pure unfeigned-Love on their behalf may come up to be the highest also in this divine Function Now to mention the Service and Office of the second Order who are such as take not this Honour unto themselves but are chosen anointed and separated by the heavenly Ordination these are those who are set apart for God's Sanctuary to be pitched in the midst of them out of which they are not to depart because the Crown of the anointing Oyl hath been poured forth upon them which is no less than the Sanctification in the holy Ghost Here waiting in their perfect God-like Order who can set no desiled thing before their Eye as David speaketh Thou hast set the Godly Man apart for thy self God appropriates all that are of the Priestly Order to himself he forbids them to be Servants to men nothing of a divided Service is here to be pleaded for no going back to bury their Dead or to be defiled with them It was the blessing which Moses pronounced upon the Tribe of Levi Let thy Urim and thy Thumim be with thy holy One who said of
his Father and Mother I have not seen them neither did he acknowledge his own Brethren nor know his own Children signifying that there was a coming out from and forgetting whatsoever was of a mortal Birth and all external Bonds and Obligations It is like God's taking up of Enoch a cessation from a worldly Beeing presently follows this separate Order God will have none come near him that shall look back to the Customs Traffick and Immercements of this World though lawful to others yet not to these that are under this anointing for God who is the most high Purity soon smells an Esau-hunter and a worldly Demas with whom the holy Ghost can have no communion Nor will he take any to officiate in the holy Priestly Ministration till separated from these gross and servile things But here now follows an Objection How such shall be provided for that must discharge themselves from all secular Callings having no Propriety in the common Mammon stock and store and yet have Bodies which stand in need of Temporal things What way do you propose for their outward Subsistance As to this we refer you to what the Almighty provider and overseer hath settled as a standing Rule throughout the holy Priestly Generation that God himself is to be their Portion and Inheritance and therefore they were to have no Inheritance with their Brethren the Sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by Fire are given them for their portion How is that to be understood Thus they which wait at the Altar are to receive of the Gifts of the Altar which none other hath right to partake of There is a further meaning in this than what we have License yet to declare only thus much we may glance out in this gloomy Day that there is a Vein which runs under Ground within the holy place that to the Priests Revenue doth belong the Vulter's Eye hath it not descryed neither can any Artificer among the Sons of men this golden Mine find the everlasting precious Rock a covering is upon it and still will be till the third Rank of this high Priestly Order into manifestation shall be brought in the Conquest and sealing Power of the holy Ghost and then you will see what force Aaron the high-Priest's Rod hath to rule and pierce this long hidden Vein from whence will flow forth an inexhausted Treasury Gold and Silver in this time will be of little regard the Ingrossers of which tormented will be when they shall see their Coyn out of date For the great Melchizedeck will the absolute Monarch be and a new Coyn shall stamp which shall currantly pass through all the Earth But be this Secret what in Wisdom's Glass we have seen it is not yet our time any thing further to disclose but let us go on to the highest degree in this Tabernacle in the holiest of Beeings to pitch improving all present advantages here for in a pure Nazarite dedication This only observe If we feel in our selves such an impulsive Power from the holy Spirit strongly carrying out hereunto this will be a sign of a divine Ordination and Call hereunto We need nothing of man's Approbation or Installation to this holy Melchizedeck-Order in which Christ is to be known the same yesterday to day and forever tarrying on this everlasting Priesthood from his own eternal Loins in the spiritual Generation of which no account can be given being chosen of him hereunto before the Foundation of the World which is not to vanish away but that way may be made for the new Creation which shall consist of these three degrees of Kingly Priests However let all be cautioned not to presunie to thrust themselves into this sacred Function before the Melchizedeck-King in his true eternal spiritual Birth do spring in the Soul where true Regeneration and pure and high Illuminations have passed before in way of preparation for this Priestly-Star's rising Therefore what manner of Abnegation and holy Separation is hereunto required This one Service and Work is to be followed and minded Whoever are entred into this most high and holy Profession must cease from all other rudimental earthly Services The Temple-Service is to be mannaged by clean and Sanctified Vessels set apart for that use Now here it will be convenient to shew the Necessity of having all things ministred to such in their Attendance by those who endowed are with these worldly Goods There is an Obligation lies in special manner upon all true Israelites to bring their Gifts to those who are called out from amongst them to serve at the Altar for whom Provision should be made for their necessary supply that they may have nothing of Care or Incumbrance upon them in their first entring thereupon all which is a most acceptable Offering if any shall freely communicate upon this consideration which may not of this kind be always required for as this royal Priesthood gets up to their all powerful Degrees and princely Dignities they will have no need of any creaturely Contributions for to them the Door of all heavenly Store shall stand open from whence they shall not only have to answer their own Requirings but also those of the whole oppressed and groaning Creation Wherefore what more acceptable for the present Distress can there be then to promote and help forward this Priestly Dedication which may bring so great a Blessing upon the Earth But it may be objected How shall we know infallibly such who under this Nazarite Vow and holy Anointing are that we may minister to them of our Substance there being at this day so many rising Stars which the Serpent's Tayl hath plucked down to the Earth Know that it is a principal Gift to have an impartial Spirit of discerning in this matter before the holy Ghost comes to give the undeniable Witness but now to know them whilst they are in their Minority and suffering state going on in the process of Christ who himself was questioned and doubted of sometimes by them who were daily conversant with him the same Spirit of Incredulity and suspicious Fear may have a great Predominancy now among Christ's Disciples as not discerning the Lord returned in Spirit though yet in weakness of Flesh for the abolishing of the Sin and Curse out of it which while this is but a doing in order 〈◊〉 the holy Priesthood entring upon all aid support and encouragement ought to be ministred by those who are in more enlargement as to these outward things and to lay aside all Jealousie Fear and Suspition for it is much better to be found in the excelling Spirit of Charity which hopeth and believeth the best of things and thinketh no Evil and yet doth not take away right and found Judgment but that they may discern who the Lords true anointed Ones are There are several characters by which they may be known before they reach to the high priestly mark We will mention one or two as the fore-running ground work In the
The first Objection that meets me asking How and after what manner are these great and deep Mysteries revealed and made known for we are in doubt whether any since the Apostles days can have so pure and clear a Discovery of the Mind of God by way of Vision or Revelation As to this I Answer The thing is weighty and may be allowed of to search and follow this Query close and home for too many there be that are Pretenders to the Gift of Prophecy and Revelation whereby they put a cheat upon themselves and others and bring themselves under that Wo of taking up the Lords Spirit for their covering which is the greatest of all Evils to be under a spiritual Fraud Therefore I say let every one search try and examine from what ground and spirit they come forth as the Oracles of God to give his Mind out for assuredly they will be called to a severe Account by the Spirit of Truth Now as to this I will assure thee O Querior whoever thou art it was my great fear and jealousie even upon my first entrance into this Ministration and was made well aware of the wiles and subtilties of Satan that was ready enough to mingle his Deceits with Truth but divine Wisdom was my Counsellor and Cautioner and her Spirit became the Conduct to Truth and Separater she still throwing out what would not bear the touch of the burning Stone which Wisdom had placed in the Center of my Heart by which a wonderful Light of Manifestation did spring for the knowledge of the Truth in the deep Essentiality of it the Way Method Measure and Rules of it as experienced by me I shall demonstrate for the service and benefit of such as are true Seekers and fervent Lovers of Truth how they may come to know the true Revelation of the Spirit of Christ from those mixed Spirits that are apt to inject their Motions and so mudy the pure Springs of Revelation for know it is a nice and difficult matter to know the Spirit 's speech and voice in his day since Christ the Lords ascending than what it was before when as the Word of the Lord came expresly to the Patriarchs and Prophets articularly by immediate Voice God was very familiar in way of Speech as with Araham Moses and so to the Prophets till Christ's time but now in these last days he speaks to us by the Spirit of his Son which is the Spirit of Truth and Comforter that is the Spirit we are to try and to be proved by whether or no he is come into us as a Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation which you shall know first by way of Preparation of the inward Mind for the speaking Word or Oracle of God must have a most holy separated place distinct and apart from the outward Man for there is to be prepared an inward Temple body else no expectation of the holy Ghost without a suitable Body be prepared for him as the living Ark in which the Oracle of Truth may open and shew the Records of the Heavens But it may be further queried How can this Temple Body be raised up and kept so spiritually as to be distinct and separated from the mortal body with its senses and earthly Motions I Answer Herein indeed lieth the great Mystery of all Mysteries how to keep the spirit of the outward birth with all his infecting Multiplicities from rushing into the inward Court where the Soul and God are to be in private Counsel together for if there be a breaking in of the troubled Sea of thoughts this is that which adulterates the pure revealed things and brings a false covering upon them therefore I shall give these following Rules as they were given me by the holy Anointing when I first sought this Priviledge of divine Inspiration I was counselled as to the outward state of things To avoid as much as I could the choaking intangling Cares of this Life and also to sequester my self from all wordly Conversation and give up Spirit Soul and Body in pure dedication the which I can say in my measure I have been obedient to and have found good things as to the spiritual part have accrued thereby which I shall never have cause to repent of let my losses be what they can be as to the worldly lot of things Now the next Rule which is more interior and Evangelical as to the inward and holy place of the Mind For this take more special care and keep the outward Birth at distance from the superior and inward birth call in your heavenly guard upon it enter into no Parley with the outward Man of Reason concerning spiritual matters for you will find him a false Prophet and no way consonant to this Ministration the Soul is waiting upon therefore to watch and be in a defensive Posture against all invasions of this kind Then again take a further Caution concerning a more finer subtiltier sort of imaginariness which comes in the appearance of spirituality here lieth the greatest danger for mistake when seeming good Motions do rise and spring and yet but from the Astaral Kingdom but they are sometimes so divine as you can hardly discern them from the true teaching of the holy anointing there are Spirits that will put on such a Priestly dress like those that rose up against Moses the Lords infallible Prophet saying Are not we spiritual and therefore may be admitted into the secret of God with you and there give our Verdict as front the Oracle of God Thus we are in danger to be encompassed with Spirits so finely clothed as they would think much to be refused but where the Urim and Thummim of sound judgment in such is come that can only discern and taste Spirits of all sorts of Qualities Natures and Degrees for I well know a Mind may be replenished with knowledge and understanding of divine Mysteries from the outward Tongues receiv'd and taken in and yet have been kept strangers to the flowing Springs of Wisdom and Revelation within from whence the certainty of the true Prophet is to be known therefore let every one look to it what they speak teach or write for it will pass through the inward ground for trial where the fiery Region will prove it But now I shall come to describe the true and more certain way of divine Openings and Revelations know then where holy Consecrations and special Separations as the foregoing Preparation to this high Ministration those are as such may come to feel in themselves one essential Birth of Life to spring which is not to be catched in by verbal Comprehension Knowledge or Understanding No such thing But the Spirit of Truth and Revelation openeth himself in the fiery Essence of the Soul in a sweet silent stillness where out all thoughts are excluded then doth the light Ray of the Deity rise and overshadow and fill the Temple of the Mind with light and glory then will the soul sink away deeper
greet them whom we discern to be of a high and lofty stature having shot forth their Branches in great lustre and glory as having got beyond all declarative Revelations and Teachings as not receiving or needing any but what their own center of Light will supply them withal here-from inclining to slight what lies in bank and store with their fellow-Labourers for this same Treasure to such this word is sent that they carry it in great humility and lowliness of Mind prefering each ones gift before or as their own maintaining all sweet and lovely Fellowship with those of lower or higher degrees in mutual Concord and Harmony for the maintaining a holy Fraternity and spiritual Neighbourhood although each Saint may have a full Provision and plentiful Portion of Spirit in themselves so as they have no dependance on another yet love is freely communitive and disperseth it self in great variety so as what one Saint is gifted and furnished with the other may want of that sort and kind and so a heavenly Traffick and Correspondency may be maintained feeding and feasting with each other on the various Fruits as all springing from one Stock and Tree of Life for it is experienced that much increase of the holy Anointing hath flown forth by the converse and declaration of divine Inspirations from one Saint to another the which hath begotten a new and spiritual Generation as in former Ages so in this sending forth divine sparks of Light and Love for the gathering in of the holy priestly Train that are to make up the Temple-Glory till the which shall come to be compleated there will be all need of this holy in spiring Breath to be breathed from one to another whether by vocal Voice inspeaking or converse as the holy Spirit shall go forth in its various operations for the edifying of the Body of Love for a holy Convocation to the Lord. In the hopeful Expectation of which I have been driven to disclose these great and deep secrets being assured That this Generation shall not pass away before there shall be a fulfilling of what hath been revealed prophecied of in this little Tract and blessed are they that shall have their lot and portion herein There is a rich Bank yet behind from whence the oily Springs do fill that may be emptied forth when Vessels are made more fine and ready thereof to take in for the which we shall wait and seek to find some such for to partake of that rich and weighty Prize that yet lieth in the secret eternal Mine for there is Vally deep which under the Water of Life doth lie that will bring forth the fruitful Olive Plants that shall be there fed and nourished hiddenly till of a strong and full grown stature in Spirit and Power they may come for to be then will they shew themselves to the true Israel of God universally that the Priestly Kingdom may come for to spread and flourish every where in power and great glory sealed with Mission of the holy Ghost acting and going forth in signal miraculous working Powers for confirmation of the truth of this Dispensation in such a way as none shall resist nor any dark Magician shall be able to counterfeit for so strong and impregnable is the Foundation of this Temple-body of glory that neither Dragon Beast or false Prophet shall be able it to undermine it being built and compact together of precious Saphire Stones transparent for Beauty and Glory the Jasper Stone being both Foundation and Covering thereon then will the shout of a King be heard in the Land of Salvation Oh! ye holy and elect of God where-ever you have been hid appear if you have put on your anointed Shield promote and help forward this royal Priesthood wherein the lively express of the holy Ghost is to be manifested Oh! that some fitch might be known that hereto do give themselves and mind no other thing as the Lords approved Work-men that may come to build up the inward Priestly Temple whose Furniture and Glory shall be the Gifts and Powers of the holy Ghost And now what have I more to do but to wait in hope that the pure flaming Spirit may henceforth go forth to gather in this Priestly Host who as in a reathed Chain of Love united may be inseparable that so we may come to take our degrees of Prophets Priests and Kings for the making good what hath been in this Treatise revealed which though in the form of a dead Letter yet O God as the Auther hereof did in the writing meet with a mighty flow of the anointing Presence so let the same out-flowing Spring accompany such whom thou hast ordained to be taken into this holy Priestly Order to which give thy Amen O great High-Priest to whom the Glory hereof doth belong Even so let that Kingdom come into this World that shall consist of Kings Priests and Prophets with all such Righteous Plants let the whole Earth be plantd for Joy and Praise to him who is the Antient of Days Hellelujah to him who is KING of Kings THE END As you may see in the Book entituled The Heavenly Cloud by the same Author Meaning the Book of the Heavenly Cloud Acts 1. 4. Ephef 1. 10. Rom 6. 14. Rev. 11 10. Rom 5. 12 Gen 3 5. Isa. 55. v. 1. The opening of the first Seal Rev. 6. v. 1 2. The opening of the second Seal Rev. 6. v. 3 4. The opening of the third Seal Rev 6. 5 6. The opening of the fourth Seal Rev. 6 7 8 Paâ—â—icular experiences coâ—â—â—rning this seal opening The open ing of the fifth Seal Rev. 6 9 10 11. The opening of the sixth Seal Rev. 6 14. to the end chap 7. Rev. 2. 3. The seventh Seal shown by way of Vision some space of time after the opening of the other Seal The seventh Seal is included in the seven Thunders opening as the effect of this Seal The frst Thunder The second Thunder The third Thunder The fourth Thunder The fifth Thunder The sixth Thunder The seventh Thunder January 2d 1682. So soon as desired that is to be understood carried up in a Spiritual Transportation First Property Second Property Third Property Fourth Property Fifth Property Sixth Property of the Soul Seventh Property Rev. 121. Meaning Wisdom who is God's esposed Virgin For this Virgin-Nativity see into she Wisdom of Sedemon Chap. 6. 7. Which five Gates were the 5 Sences spoken of before Now proceed we to the following Gates By Sophia is meant Virgin-Wisdom See Rev 18. 11 12 c. The word Magia is the created Power of the-Holy Ghost so to be undestood as often as named A weighty Expression from Emmanuel Methinks I hear some say This is such a new Model as is wonderful strange Pray open the Mystery of it yet more fully Answer I only can give out what the Measuring Line of the Spirit hath fathomed and no more Magia is the Faith of the operation of the Holy Ghost A fresh Prophetical opening upon this subject Seven days of Solitude from all of mortal Society as might be avoided The which hath induced the Author to publish these divine Secrets Col. 3 12. The General Epistle of John ch 16. 17. ch 4. 7. 8 â— 10 11. That is Love's Infancy before it grows strong For the Kingdom was here delivered up and God became all in all Which Body is the Ark of the living presence soto be understood Mal. 18. 18. Joh. 20. 23. That is by incorporation with Christ their sinless Life all Purely acting in them How blind to time must that eye be Who would see the glories of Eternity Sure those who Heaven most desire They from all of the Earth do most retire
deeper into the abyss being where the greatest of Wisdom's secrets are to be known when the spirit of the Soul can after this manner steal slide away from time and mortal day then open stands that gate that given entrance to behold the glorisi'd beings to hear the languages of that light world which none else can hear but them that are got out of the noise of all other hearings into that still and silent deep where most pleasant joyful Voices and Sounds are heard which entring through the several Orgains as a siery Bresth and nothing of vocal Words is either required or needed there Now then by this you may judge that pure and unadultered revelation and vision of a true sight is not so quickly rushed into nor easily attained it is a great and peculiar Gift and also requires great watchfulness and attenders upon it if any would enjoy and hold it incorruptedly And that there may be no deceit in this matter when you come to try your own and other Spirits take this observation further with you If any one brings out a Prophecy or Revelation take notice what defensive power and guard it hath upon it The beloved John when he had all those visions and revelations he gives an account how they were seen and heard by him for saith he I was in the Spirit on the Lords day and a good proof there was of it as much as if he had said That it was neither Mans nor Mortals day that did rise and inclose upon him but the one everlasting Day or Ancient of Days in whose Light he had the glorious Prospect of heavenly things themselves Thus he was in the Spirit which was his defensive power and guard to keep out all ether trifling Spirits Observe this further it is a much different thing for the Mind and Spirit of the Soul to be caught and taken up into the spirit pure and abstractedly for then it is secured from mixtures but when the holy Spirit is come only into the Property of our Souls giving sorth lustrous Light and Revelation in speaking fluently yet hazardable to be twisted about from the self-promoting Essence that ready and apt is to dash in upon the divine inspiring as soon as it arise from its own center deep This I speak knowingly having traced through the deep Meanders before I arrived to know the true and certain way of Revelation by which now I am put out of doubt concerning the true Oracle speaking in the Soul as to my own particular watching thereunto with heedfulness for the keeping out all fluttering Spirits that have their birth and nourishment from the astaral and elementary Region that can go in and out for proving till we are got beyond their Kingdom Now indeed when the spirit of the Soul meets with such a pull up into the Spirit as the beloved Disciple then it is out of all fears but this is very rare they are high favourits that do frequently meet with such transportations but the other is more common and frequent to Saints that lovers and enjoyers are of that Ministration for whose sakes I have been impulsed to open these secret things that they may put on their impregnable strength of defence for the preserving this great immunity as the choicest of all of Gods favours and that incorruptedly as from the pure spring of the Spirit then you will find every faculty tinged with the fiery Glance of the holy Ghost as you see by the dark hard body of Iron being inclosed with Fire it is so penetrated therewith as it becomes as one and the same fire flame but you must keep and feed it there as the Salamander which always liveth in the fire after this manner doth the holy Ghost with his invisible flaming Body penetrate through the spirit of the Soul that it is encompassed with Light as the Angel which is said Rev. 19. 17. standing in the Sun all appearing as the very Sun of glory therefore highly valuable it is for any Saint to get such a clothing of the Spirit upon them for nothing of Adam's weak or impotent Nakedness can here be seen but all glory strength and power will be your habitation therefore these are gifts to be much set by and desired and not slighted or despised Now having given a plain and experimental account of this nice and difficult Point which I hope may have reached to the satisfaction of the doubtful I shall now by virtue of a heavenly Commission given me from the Lord give counsel and caution to three sorts and degrees of Persons The First of this is to them that do question Whether there be any Spirit of Prophecy or Revelation given forth since the Apostles deceased as believing all dyed with them This would be a sad and deplorable thing if God should since that Age cut off the spring of Revelation from its original that so the Sheep and Lambs of Christs flock should no more expect to be fed from the fresh springing Pastures where no footing hath been as also to drink of those flowing Rivers of Life that renew daily from the fount of the God head let such but call to mind and consider those many Scripture-Prophecies and Promises concerning the continuation of this Gift unto the very end of time both in the old and new Testament I shall mention only some of the latter John 14. 16 17 18. 2 Cor. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 2. 10 11 12 13 14. John 2. 28. Heb. 8. 9 10 11. Many more than these Scriptures could call up for confirmation of the continued run of the Spirit throughout all Ages Christ by his Spirit comforting us saying Lohe would be with his to the end of the World Now as from the Lord I beseech you not to eclipse the light of the Day-star 2 Pet. 1. 19. in your own Souls nor quench the Spirit nor despise Prophecying then may the witness of Jesus rise in you to confirm this most glorious Ministration as a burning Lamp of Revelation A word of Love-caution is to another sort of Persons who are entred into this Ministration in its first degree and are under the Spirits discipline and teaching the word of Counsel from the Father of Spirits is this That they keep precisely to the Rules and Laws of the Spirit for there will be expected from such more shining and singular Conversation shewed forth in a self-denying Life dying to all of those mortal things and sensual enjoyments that strangle and choke the fiery Breath of the holy Spirit to stop it from kindling further and deeper in the Soulish Essence that so there may be a coming up to a mighty Increase and Fruitfulness in the love and unity of the Spirit having all tenderness to support love and cherish each Olive Plant that springeth out of this Eden Garden which is watered by the holy Mists and dropping Dews of the Spirit Now to the third sort this word of Wisdom and Counsel doth