never be off on their Knees as to Prayer and watchfulness Then after some large Conference with the Spirit which cannot be brought forth in words There was presented to me in sight a wonderful great Wheel which seemed to spread over the whole Earth the Colour was as a Ruby-Red and it was full of Eyes round the circle of it very piercing Then it was said to me This presents God the Almighty working Wheel of which there is no beginning or end so I saw a living Spirit moving in the Wheel hoisted up as between the Heavens and the Earth then saw I four small Wheels descend out of this one of the same colour and had Eyes also then I enquired Ah Lord tell me what this meaneth And it was answered These are the Charriot-Powers which pass through all things in Centers high and Centers low and to whom these Wheels shall be joined unto they only shall be able to act the great Wonders of time then saw I where they descended and rested for a while and then they went forth and were lifted up by the great Wheel which as a Loadstone drew them up and my Spirit was presently gone to them and presently the Angelical Center stood open and from thence my Spirit was carried by these Wheels into the Apostles Center then into the Son's Center then into the Father's deepest deep of all Centers where I was to center and abide till the Wheels went forth then my Spirit should go with them who would be Eyes to see what way and whither my Spirit was to go do and act for it was said to me Now no Creaturely Will can move here for the Holy Spirit assumeth all Will Power and Act here and then no defeat is to the high holy pure Enterprize which you together in the Faith and Love co-working with these Wheels it shall be as the spreading of the Net aright and casting it to the taking of a worthy and rich Prize so go forward on and prosper February 10. 1694. § 49. This Morning the Vision of the Four Wheels appeared again which moved in the Four Elements each one being carried upward by a Spirit that was as a bright Flash of Lightning The which considering in my Mind with an inquiry hereupon made it was told me That they did represent the working Wheels of Nature that the All-powerful Spirit doth drive upward to reach the One Eternal Element which being touched with it would penetrate through the whole Bodily Man that was made up of the Four Elements Then did I see these Four Elements expire into one great terrible Flaming Wheel that spread it self over the whole Heavens and in the middle of the VVheel there were Seven Eyes § 50. Which I waiting upon was thus opened to me that the gross Earthly Part in the nature of the Four Elements should by the Spirit of Christ who took upon him the Elementary Body so come into ours as to wind them up by a strong Circling Motion as every Part may be so touched as to be tinged with and to partake of the Superiour Properties and Powers of this pure and unmixed Element and so be swallowed up in this Great Governing Wheel that ruleth over all the lower Wheels with all the Planets which thereto do coagulare and work For all by Outward Nature are under their Power and Empire till got free by ascending up to this upper ruling Wheel with its Seven Eyes Concerning which it was told me that they were the Seven Supercelestial Planets or Constellations that did govern and controll all in this lower World and its Planets This is that which will reach to Redemption of the Body § 51. Much more the Spirit of my Lord discoursed me upon this Matter which must be concealed till my Outward Elementary Wheels shall fully expire into the upper and superiour Wheel Only this I may declare for the present time that the upper Flaming Wheel with its Seven Eyes as a Loadstone is drawing mightily some known to me that have been touched therewith And it will not rest in its wheeling Motion till they shall be as to their weak Elementary Life changed into the One Superiour Element whereby the Heavenly Constellations shall predominate over all of these outward Ones which hitherto have reigned over the Elementary Part that yet lieth Unredeemed February the 12th § 52. This Day being much drawn inward in the Spirit of my Mind this word met me Arise and ride upon the Mule of Faith stand over all that is Elementary There is a Thing to be done by some that in the Crown Number do stand who shall the Land of Havilah command but Abraham's High Faith for this must spring February the 14th § 53. VVhile I was in a deep Introversion about this Matter this Word spake in me saying There is a Birth that is upon breaking forth that shall bring the Blessing of mighty Increase to present and succeeding Generations Sarah in her Old Age is near her time of bringing forth the Heir who must possess the good things of the Upper and Neather World Understand thou then what this meaneth the Old Age is an arrivement unto the Mystery of Faith Now excite thou those that are of Good will to encourage themselves with the Hope this good Old Age to see as mighty Hero's in this Faith that so ye may bring forth the Blessing to the weary and oppressed Gird up I say and take heed ye do not falter or turn out of Faith's way then shall ye bring forth a Nation as in One Day § 54. Now as some of us were hereupon waiting together and while one was in Prayer there appeared this Vision from the Light World From the which the Virgin descended and met an ascending Spirit that was pressing and expecting to come up to the Mount Sion Orb unto the Glorious Lord. But there was a stop by the Descent of the Virgin of that Orb who appeared to us in great splendour and congratulated us saying Thus I know whereto ye would in your Spirits have arrived but I am come from your Lord to make known the Thing which ye have long been in travail for And now I do appear to you for this purpose that you may be overshadowed with my Virgin Nature which may be the Womb all sanctified for the conceiving of the Holy Ghost which will be the Lordly Birth in Spirit And as he was brought forth in the Fulness of Time by a single Personal Virgin so now in Plurality in Virgin Spirits to multiply upon the Earth that so Evil Births may sink and dye as these Virgin Births shall rise And therefore to you who in holy Dedication are this Counsel is given Observe from this Day how this Birth in you shall go forward on and therefore watchful each one of you be And after this Saying she cast a wonderful bright shining Ray of Glory as we were sitting together upon each of us § 55. Now at her first Appearance St.
Paul stood with her and Elizabeth that brought forth John the Baptist and many others that attended her giving audience to what she spake giving great Reverence to her So then she disappeared And the next Morning my Spirit calling all this up into my Mind she appeared again and asked me whether I had Faith to believe what she had made known For by Faith said she your strength will be to Conceive this Lord of Life At which the Apostle Paul who appeared said I will their Assistant be the Faith that was Revealed to me shall cowork mightily in the Spirit that willeth hereunto Then she said It pleaseth me well you should their Helper in this Travelling Birth be till to Perfection it may come Then I was made to Query What we should do further in order to this thing And she said Only Believe and Love as with One Soul and Heart then the Apostle John appeared and he said The Love which was begotten in me I will in the way of the Spirit enter to beget in them who for this great Thing are appointed that Love may the cherishing of this Heavenly Birth be to carry it on till the place of breaking forth shall be found Then the Apostle Peter he appeared with great Amity and said to me The Key was given to him to Unlock the Centre-pure of this Holy Birth the Binding also is given said he to me and the Evil Eye shall under a Tye be The Loosening Power for the bringing forth hereof shall to the Virgin Minds by me all freely be contributed to effect what the Princely Virgin hath so graciously declared Then being filled with a sweet silent Peace and Joy as lying in a rich Bath of Flaming Love they withdrew There were numerous Virgins in great Triumph with the Superiour and Chief One as her Attendants This further is to be noted that as I was considering still in my mind and watching hereupon out there went before me Seven bright Stars and a Crown over them And enquiring what that signified it was opened in me that they were the Super-Celestial Planets that Rule and were to Qualifie with the holy Birth and that the Crown denoted a King was to be born and all Dominion and Power should be given to him July the 18th § 56. There appeared to me a Glorious Face circled as with a Rainbow the Face sent forth such a Reflection of Light that it drew as out of a Cloud another Face which was as the Likeness or Figure of my own Face Which received such a Bright Glance as presently brought up several who faced the Face of the supream Glory And many that lay still hid in the Clouds came one after another as the Clouds broke away And by the streaming Light of the first presented Face we all as in a Glass did behold the shining Glory that was upon all our own Faces such of us as in the waiting Life cojoined were § 57. Waiting the next Morning and praying for the Vision to be made out more to me that so I might understand the drift of the Spirit hereby finding a vehement going out of my mind and desire after this Face to behold it again it did accordingly again appear And then I did not only see it but heard the Voice saying Thus the strong ardency of thy Love-desire hath opened my Face again to let thee know I will make thee a Head-Leader of an Heavenly Train that shall to me their whole Minds Spirits and Persons give up for a great and peculiar Work which hitherto hath lain under a Relaspe Which now gird up to thou with thy fellow-workers and waiters in the Faith that have offered themselves up all willingly hereunto for my Face and Countenance shall be turned still toward you for the breaking away those Clouds that a covering upon the Faces of my chosen Vessels have been Thus did the Lord commune with me who as the small Dust of the Ballance sees her self to be yet must stand in a Service for the Lord all obediently who hath promised to be the Hands of Sufficiency to bring to pass the great Wonders out of the Sea of Glass That shall these Gather'd Faces bless With Floods of Joy and Righteousness July the 23d § 58. Being still upon my Watch for what was further to be Revealed resolving to draw off from all the Dregs and Lees of sensible Operations and launch still deeper into the Immense Deity which thus did further open a sight in me of an enclosed Principle whose Defence was a circling Flame And within it there appeared bright Beryl Bodies walking up and down and with them did appear as in a Looking glass like as a round Globe the Personal Glory of our Mighty King who moved as they moved The Ground they went upon was paved as with Sparkling Stones with Veins of Gold which cast forth a mighty Lustre This all precious and amazing sight in Spirit given me moved to an Inquiry What was to be learned and understood July the 24th § 59. So next Morning attending this Vision it was obvious to the Eye of my Mind still and Intelligence came in all satisfyingly that this enclosed Principle was the Land of all Blessed Stores where the Eternal Springing Mines are that no one could ever come in to see and possess but such as had Faced the glorious Face of CHRIST in Righteousness then added to such should be the like Beryl Bodies as here I did see § 60. Then did I make a further Inquiry Whether or no I might with any other whom I would recommend to the Princess and Head-Governess here admittance have And it was Answered That for this very cause it was thus by way of prospect shewn unto me whereby I might understand there was a possibility for entring in with such who in the Spirit of Faith's Purity should be me presented be here to come that we might put on our Bâ—ryl Bodies as burning Saphirs to walk and talk with him who in the moving Globe of Glory here was seen Then upon this feeding my Mind with a pleasing Hopes of finding entrance here for my self and such who in Faith's Unity do stand this Word spake all powerfully Hasten to put on you Flaming Garments then free pass will for you be the Flaming Wall parted for you shall be the Governour of this Principle doth both love and desire your Appearance here for which end he doth appear § 61. So retiring still in my Mind and casting up these Love-Visitations and Representations which took up my thoughts moving the Spirit for further Information what this Principle might be called with the Inhabitants hereof After some stillness and attendance hereupon the Revelation opened in me and I knew it to be Wisdom's Orb or Principle The Inhabitants herein were all highly arted and skilful in Magical Operations that is whatever they bent their Will to do it was produced and brought forth So as it was shewed me they were exercised in such Faith
Fear and Unbelief is stirred up from the World Within us so as the Power could not arise strong enough for so Great an Enterprize Wherefore there was all the need that is possible of a strong Guard upon these that were yet to go out from the Bow that the Gulf might not swallow them up This was the Counsel given from the Holy Spirit with this encouraging Word that strength of Omnipotency should attend us in whatever our Hand shall find to do as we go on to persue so worthy a noble and God-exalting a Glory as the Finishing Part will most evidently to all Spectators appear to be when we shall come to sit under Faith's Tree having through the seven-fold Spirit and Power of God arriv'd to all its Twelve Degrees there to feast upon all its Fruits and to know the true Banquet and Supper of the Lamb. § 22. Now turning again into my Watch for the Inspeaking Oracle to satisfie several Inquiries which arose in me one of which more particularly was with great submitted Humility an Inquiry Why the Expected Power of Faith in any one yet could not go forth albeit so many Promises have been Renewed and Repeated upon one and upon another of us that have been kept up still in the Infallible Word And it was hereupon Answered me thus saying Do ye think it a light or a small Thing which ye are aiming at Know this then for a present Stay to Thee and to the Waiting Spirits with Thee united in the same Eternal Band howsoever and wheresoever dispersed they may be upon the Face of the whole Earth that there is a Sphere which must be cut through that so the Spirit may pass to find the Central Power which this Starry Sphere and Outward Constellations do yet stop and hinder who would hold their Dominion still up over the Mortal Man For if this Circle be broken through by any * See Enoch Walks p. 39. Mighty Champion in the Faith of God himself opening in the Soul then all of that Opposing Kingdom falleth and till then the Kingdom of the Power can have no Place Therefore fly ye and get above the Starry Bindings and all that is of this lower Elementary World Mount mount above all the Elements ye Flying Archers and shoot the last and Seventh Golden Arrow which hath on it the Emblem of an Eye that is all-seeing and two Wings that are over all Gulfs to fly and so to pass God's secret Treasury then the Power will be set free and effect what each one of you have destred so exceedingly This gave for the present some satisfaction to my Spirit and an Encouragement to press forward to the Mark of the High Calling of Faith § 23. But having pressed on for some considerable while longer to this Mark and being still kept back from it I have been frequently casting up my Accounts in the Trust of the Heavenly things which have been to me committed and considering that the Thread of my Mortal Day was near spun out it hath often drawn my Mind and Spirit into God my Deep for Inquiry to find out what it is that hath so very long kept me from hitting the Mark of High Faith and that hath obstructed the Reigning Life in the Power of the Holy Ghost by one continued Motion and Act from the Deity that so I might know my self to be thereinto Baptized being no less then what I have been caused to Hope and Believe that I am to possess and enjoy through great Strife and Soul-Travels tending hereto as no way to be Pacified till I had brought forth in me the Mighty Birth of Faith the Heir of the Promise and the First-born of the Power Actually and God Manifestatively § 24. Now as I have been in this Inquisitive State and Unsatisfied that I had reached no further with my Arrow I have still found fresh Manuductions and Encouragements to lead me higher and nearer to the Last and Utmost Degree of Faith But more particularly while I was about the middle of April in the ensuing Year thus bemoaning and lamenting the melting and passing away of Time without any thing of a God-working Power that is seen as it was in the Day of Christ and of the Apostles I had this spoke in me from the Only Revealer of Secrets Who in Plainness of Speech discoursed the matter and caused me to receive right Information concerning the with-holding of God's wonderful Appearance throughout Soul Spirit and Body And it was thus made out that the seperation from the corruptible Matter was not yet wrought out for there was yet a dividing to be as of the pure from the impure in the very original Ground and Essence of the Soul For all is there to be consumed which is not clearly of God and this is to be done by the eternal purging Fire from that one pure Element which at first produced the Eternal Angelical Natures and as thus it was then so the same Motion of the Deity must in the Chosen hereunto be made manifest in its residing power which will multiply it self into a Heavenly and New Born Generation Which will be the fulfilling of the universal and particular Prophecies concerning the Reign of Christ in the Spirit For which now the Trumpet soundeth for the gathering the Tribe of Judah to whom the Scepter and Ruling Power of the Holy Ghost will first come in the waiting and separating Ground-work as hath been described by Judah's Law-giver Who hath said that a Body of Virgin-Spirits he will rear up that shall renew his great and mighty Works which all of former ones are to excell Therefore said he to me Go on to perfect that which remains in the Soul's ground from which may spring that which will multiply Numberless Powers § 25. Upon which Word of Counsel great and strong drivings I felt still following me for the very Body of God which is Christ to be manifested in a growing Substantiality from the first Eternal Nature without the which Deifick Matter do again spring and feed and maintain it self by and from it self it cannot otherwise live seperate and be free to act and do after its own kind supersensually And that it may thus get the upperhand I was taught here to sink away from the old Creaturely Nature with all its sensible Passions and Affections that so losing that Life I might come to find my Eternal Native Life from its own Original to put forth which is God in a fixed Body created and brought forth from the first Creating Word which is to restore the Lapse again § 26. So that this is the work and business that my Lord of Life doth set before me to practise constantly and is the true meaning of Christ's Doctrine of Self-denyal which teacheth me where lies the Vein of corrupt Blood that must be let out whereby the precious Life may be secured and saved that so the Blood of Spirits from God may circulate pure and free This will
for certain is the only thing that will bring the long expected Redemption to its finishing End § 46. After which as from a New Gust the Eternal Word open'd it self Expresly in my Heart's Center informing and declaring the High Prerogative of such a Spirit in whom the Power of Transmutation did lie For in whom ever this comes to be witnessed it is no less then the Seed of the Trinity retained in the pure Matrix of the Virgin Wisdom which driveth forth till it cometh into Transubstantiation Nothing goeth beyond this for as much as it is the Beginning Strength Might and Excellency of the Father of all Spirits who generateth in Nature this High Birth of Power the true Heir of Faith as it did appear in the Immaculate JESVS How great is this Secret and to whom hath it been Revealed or who hath found this Wonderful Stone True it is that in all Ages it hath had its Seekers but none have digged deep enough for it Every Arm for these many Hundred Years hath been too short to reach it Now unto thee who art duly upon the Inquiry and watching for the highly precious Gate to open while thou art knowing in thy self the Invalidity of all other foregoing Births and Powers that yet have been rested upon as if this had been attained to which thou art now pressing to find within the Borders of Immanuel where the Seven Baptizing Pools are to be passed through before this Transmuting Stone comes to its perfection of Colour And though several of them thou hast been plunged into yet know this that there remain Three Which were shewn me to be Blood Oil and Fire The Four that I had passed through were first the Pool of Conviction secondly Repentance thirdly Renovation fourthly passing my Spirit over by pure Dedication By all which I was made meet to enter upon the last Three Baptisms which would finish the whole Mystery of the Incarnation The Bloody Pool is the Dying with JESUS the Offering up thy self through his Spirit to which end the many Lives are to suffer Death without pity or sparing any one of them as they were allied and in concord with the sensitive Root from whence they all do spring haply thou mayest believe thy self to have pass'd through every Death I grant that thou hast done so in thy Will yet art thou not come to an actual open and Triumphant shew hereof perfectly so expiring as to a Total giving up the Ghost of that Birth which was out of the Womb of that which was from the Earth earthly and into which it must be again delivered up through Death Now no more would I have thee to draw any Breath of Life from that Principle which is the Gulf of Seperation but to pass undauntedly through this Pool of Blood which is the Fifth Cirling Pool that surrounds that Wonderful Tree of Faith and Life which thou hast seen § 47. Now having after some Years pressing forward since this last Manifestation passed through these Deaths in a good Degree as hath been witnessed the Lamb having been slain in me gives a Resurrection of a New Life which standeth clearly out of all that is of the Out-Birth and that consisteth of the Astral Reason and Animal Sense which the being dead to gains the wonderful Conquest that maketh way for the being plunged into the Pool of Oil. Which Oil is the Matter and Essence from which the Holy Ghost doth spring Then passing from this to the Pool of Fire which also opens it self from this being a Fiery Seed from the Deity and so coagulating together it makes up a Deified Body which only can be capable to live in the Supercelestial Air of the One Element This we may entitle the Divine Magical Body whose Motions and Operations are all subsisting going forth in pure Acts of Faith For that is the Life that the Risen in Christ are called to to live by alone for as much as by this they are always ascending above the Earth as if they had no more to do with it bringing down by Faith all needful Things out of the Store-house of Heaven while yet they are in Bodies Terrestrial Our Spiritual Merchandizing is only to be upon the Fruits of Faith's Tree which will bring in both for Food and Cloathing abundantly while there is need for it But there is an Age coming as this Tree of Faith grows up in Persons in their inward ground to its full ripeness when the Fruit being eaten thereof Magically will Transfigure the very Elementary Body and give it a Radical Ruby Glory so that Mortality shall be hid in Immortality which is the Garment that may last the Thousand Years Reign of CHRIST and may be said to be the First Resurrection Body whereby Death shall be swallowed up All this will be effected by the Mighty Operation of Faith which subdueth all things to it self and changeth this visible Body into the Likeness of the Glorious Body of our Lord JESUS For when this Faith shall be wrought up to its highest Perfection it will be such a Prospective-Glass through which the Glorified Person of our Lord and the Father in him with the Virgin Wisdom and all the Saints shall so appear before the Spirit 's Eye that according as it is written beholding the Glory of the Lord as in Glass we shall be changed from Glory to Glory for when we see him we shall be made like unto him Thus hath it been shewn to me what the wonderful Effects of Faith shall do in its Time and Age. But it may be said who shall live such an Age as this to see To which I Answer though this be Prophesied in me yet it is not Determinated whether as to my own Particular I may it in my Age of Time see For I rather think that I may pass into Faith's Mystery where with the High VVorthies of Faith who died in the Faith not having received the Promise but seeing it afar off rejoyced in Spirit as I do hoping that others in the succeeding Age or Ages may this Transformation of Bodies know which Joy will be so to me when I into the Heavenly World translated shall be having put on Glorification which I do now already see my Superior Angel in the Mount Sion Kingdom cloathed withal in which my Rest and Satisfaction in assurance hereof do remain not knowing whether it may not be my Lot with the Elders and Worthies of the Faith to descend with CHRIST again upon the Earth to Reign The 4th of January 169 A Continuation of what further hereupon followed § 48. THis divine Opening was with me holding me in converse for some Hours in my Spirit saying Though the staff of Time for an expected deliverance seemeth to be broke yet cast not off the work you are called to abide and stand together in and understand it is the prerogative of God to change Times and Seasons who under no bounds of Time will be that his depending Creatures may