called the Direful and Black Kingdom over the which Lucifer is King ruling there in the Pride of his Might in the Wrathful Fire Now from hence it is given given us to understand that such Souls as in the time of this Life are Infected and deeply Essenced in this Satanical Principle being stained with all that is Diabolical going hence without being Renewed and Transformed in some degree by the Love Light Principle must when they die out of the Body expect this Hellish World to be their Habitation and Portion with all those Punishments that the Evil Angels will delight to inflict upon them O that this dreadful Place and Company could warn and terrify all that of this Diabolical Spirit are For who would ever endure were it but for a Year or a few Years such intolerable Sufferings if they might by any means be prevented Which may be done if in holy Fear they do eschew all those Evils that do lead hereto So having no more to say to this Dark Kingdom we must leave it to the Fiery Purgation until the Venom of Sin in every Evil Property shall by the means of it expire both as to Angels of the Hellish source and to such Souls as have been deceived and captivated by them For the Creating Fiat will move the Mystery yet once again for the making of all things New Then shall the old things of Hell Death Sorrow and Pain come no more into remembrance God is said to be Everlasting and Unchangable in Love but not so to be in Anger and Wrath For Love must drown and swallow that up § 8. But now the Elementary Worlds with their Peculiar Furniture or Inhabitants severally allotted to them are next to be searched into Be it then known that each Element hath a Spirit of another kind than what is known or can be seen amongst Mortals The Fiery Region hath a Spirit proper to it that is of the only nature and quality of the Fire The Water likewise and the Air each hath its proper Spirit to inhabit therein Which are to fill up the Wonders of Gods Creation having their several Offices known to the Creator the which are not yet manifest to Mortals Only thus much is revealed and deserveth to be known that these Elementary Spirits do Cooperate and Qualify with the Elementory Nature of Man both for Good and Evil according as the Propensity of the Mind doth either way incline But we shall leave this Mystery till the One Everlasting Element shall stand open for unvailing these Secrets and so proceed to let you know the State of such as depart out of this Body Which I am to order according to their several Ranks and Degrees The First I have already mentioned who depart out of the Body in the Diabolical Spirit The Second Sort is such as are Ignorant of God and of their own Eternal Being looking no further than to an Earthly Animal and Rational Life in which they are swallowed up yet do darkly see something beyond Believing in God and Christ Historically and are convinced by the Light of Nature that they stand in need of a Saviour and so falsly do take hold of him These when they dye pass no higher than the Airy Region where they are to abide till they receive power and strength to mount higher For in these Elements the Proper rest is not Found Now for the Third Degree of Souls they are those that are more knowing and believing in GOD and CHRIST who being truly Convinced of their Depravity and lost Estate and of the necessity of Redemption yet cannot come off clearly from the Worldly Principle sticking in the outward Birth so as they cannot pass through the strait Gate of the New Birth of Regeneration and yet do notwithstanding entertain hopes of Salvation through CHRIST that at Death they may presently enter without more a do into the Heavenly Kingdom In which Millions of Souls are deceived For they that are of this Rank and Sort have but some what an Higher Degree in the Elementary Regions where their Receptacle and Mansion must be till time shall wear out all of the gross matter of the Impure Elements And as they feel not much Pain Agony or Sorrow so but little Pleasure or Joy because they cannot reach the Vision of God But Redemption will operate in these and and work through great Compunction and Reflection for the lost time and opportunity which hath been missed to gain an higher State § 9. But here a Query may be put concerning the Fiery Soul that is Eternal and breathed forth from God and found to lye hidden in the Unregenerated Persons For it may be asked where this Divine and Pure Spirit doth go upon their Decease In answer to this we give you to understand according to what hath been in the Divine Magia made known that the Supream Spirit returns to God that introduced it into the Elementary Body So that God takes that which is his own to Himself For this is an high graduated Spirit that doth belong to the Soul and that being smothered and stifled by the contrary Principle never came into any Dominion to suppress and reign over the opposite Nature And so with relation to this God said of the old wicked World that his Spirit should no longer strive with Man So that the Soul which never was renewed and Born again may go into Deprivation and Suffering together with the Astral and Elementary Part for a known and limited time till that which is Elementary shall be Refined and Transmuted When therefore the set time shall come for God to move and Open the One Element that shall transmute all Elements into it self then the New Creation of pure Coelestial Bodies in every Region will be made manifest But here I must stop my Pen for the Mystery of both Living and Dead is so hidden and deep that the Holy Ghost bringeth to light a new Record which this present Age cannot well bear or understand Nor will it be until there come a breaking off from the old Traditional Knowledge and a weaning from the Breasts of a strange Mother that so they as new born Spirits may draw from the Eternal Word of Wisdom fresh Unction that giveth light unto the Understanding and by which the Counsel of the Most High is made known and all the secrets that can be desired are manifested Which leadeth on to the Four Heavenly Worlds § 10. The first of these is the Paradisical World the Inhabitants of which are such as have attained to a good degree of Regeneration being Born of the Spirit and as have been partakers of the Baptism of Water Blood and Spirit for Renovation that so thereby the Principle of the Paradisical World hath been opened in them before they depart out of the Body of Mortality which giveth them a swift passage to enter Paradise Where as Plants they do spring and grow for an higher Transplanting into the Kingdom of Mount Sion For
possibly be so clarified as to become a part of that High Court of Eternity seeing none must come there but what have passed through those two Principles namely Paradise and Mount Sion's Kingdom The Answer This is granted that it must be so yet this is no Impossibility to the good-willing and obedient into whom these Heavenly Worlds will come down and open and diffuse their qualifying Powers to make them meet to be partakers of this Jerusalem-world as to its Spiritual Substantiality which will enter Souls into a present most happy and blissful Fruition of GOD. This is not spoken only by a Revealed Intelligence from the Heavens which is witness great enough to confirm the Truth of it but there is yet a more Evidence Where and in Whom this City is already come down in its Purity and Brightness though vailed to the Mortals here below The Splendorous Deity may for a time under a shade of contemptible Humanity lye obscured but Virgin Wisdom's Day will by her bright Star through the dark Pitcher of this Earthly Form shine forth so as in this time of our Evening-tide her Morning Light shall upon the Earth spread § 16. But methinks this Query meets me by the way What is it that I mean by this Virgin Wisdom that is the true Mother of the Citizens of this Jerusalem and who is the Princess of this Kingdom Of the which I doubt not but to give to the impartial and pious Inquirer a true and right account from the great knowledge hereof which hath been freely communicated unto me and of the which I have therefore in some formerly Printed Books made mention as also for that now upon the opening of the Four Heavenly Worlds a fresh Stream of her Brightness hath circulated about my inward Mind that so I might know and understand what in her secret Deep hath hitherto lain hid that to light and manifestation is commanded to be brought forth The which Command for Publication I must obey and all her Rules and Methods observe In the first place we shall describe her Eternal Originality which is srom God the Tri. Un Deity being a Virgin hid in Him from all Eternity but as to her Nativity brought forth in Time now I shall not speak in a Proverb but plainly as thus God Created Adem at first to bear his own Image and Figure who was to represent God himself the High and Divine Masculine Male and Female so that Adam had his Virgin in himself in imitation of his Creator which in Time was brought forth in a distinct Figure And this was a Type of the Eternal Virgin Mother that lay hid in God the Centre and Heart of Flaming Love from whence the production of a Glorious Female Figure was brought forth that was so commixed and mingled with Deity as she became God's Spouse and Bride being Spirit of his Spirit Now be it known unto all that from this Eternal Virgin Wisdom a new Generation of Virgin Spirits shall be Born to make up the Glory of the New Jerusalem JESUS CHRIST being the Head and the First-born of this Royal and Princely Generation who was after the way and manner of Humane Nature conceived in the Womb of that Virgin Mary that was but a Type of the Eternal Virgin who brought forth the Son of God before all Time But Mary's Womb was sanctified to bring forth in Time that CHRIST who was the Son of God before all Time And so the Eternal Virgin Womb goeth on still according to Nature to bring forth Wisdom's Off-spring by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost and the Qualifying Powers from the Jerusalem World § 17. In the next place I am to acquaint you what is the way of Bringing up and the manner of Education in which Virgin Wisdom's Children are to be Manured and Disciplined that as their Birth is great and high being Heirs to the Father's Kingdom of Eternity so they may have all those worthy Accomplishments suiting to the same which are required The chiesest of which according as they have been revealed by the Spirit of Wisdom shall be declared and made known This then is the first Proviso or Caution which is given that for as much as these holy Births are encompassed with an evil and sinful Principle wherein great Danger and Temptation doth lye to prevent and hold down this Pure Thing from springing therefore as soon as this Birth is from whence its descent is with all high Graduations it must deny and despise the Image of the Earthly sinful Birth by which the Heaven-born Spirit will be daily proved For Christ the Lord was not exempted from Temptations so Tried in like manner all must be until the Conquest be wrought out Therefore we are charged to forsake our sinful Native Country and People of that sort with our Father Adam and Eve's Family and to return unto our first and antient Degree as free Denizens of that City of which God is the Light and which Wisdom through the Eternal Spirit doth rule and govern in all Love-soveraignity This then being premised I come to give the Particulars after what manner Wisdom's Children are to be Educated In the state of their Infancy and Minority as soon as they are Spiritually Born care is to be taken that this holy Birth draw the sustenance of Life from no other than its own Virgin Mother whose Breast must at all times satisfie and nourish it For according to what it sucks in of such a Kind Nature and Quality the Birth is for it draws in the Spirit and Life of its Mother Therefore watch to it and hang not upon any strange Breast Quest. Next it may be inquired What kind of Cloathing this Royal Birth must have Ans. Though it be Born a pure Spirit yet it must not be naked and without a Body for cloathing of such a sort as becometh the degree of Wisdom's Princely Children You will ask What is that I Answer It is a pure and fine Robe made up of a Diaphanous Matter from the One Eternal and Unmixed Element which can no more fade as did the First Adam's Paradisical Body that was though Celestial yet Alterable whence that withdrawing it self he became Naked for he had then lost his Virgin Body wherein his strength did lye But now again Care is taken in the New Creation that a Body be firly prepared for the making up the New Jerusalem Bride But here it will be objected that none so made Meet and Rarified in this Life-time can expect to be so long as they are Cloathed with the Body of the Four Elements In Answer to this be it said that the Corporeal Body is but an outside covering as the Badgers Skin was a covering upon the Tabernacle Glory Yet I must distinguish betwixt who are renewed and born into this Virgin Mind and Nature and they who are Strangers to it and know nothing of it albeit capable of it but for want of searching into their own Deep where
unto you a great Light hath shined O let it not cloud and pass over you but be ye wise in this your Day to follow the Spirit 's bright-guiding Star which is arising amongst you O London there is hid in thee them that have a true and right Mission from the Munition Rock to give out the Waters of the Spirit plenteously For a Cry there is gone forth for persons to be Prepared and Sanctified by this Water of Life that so they may receive of the Holy Ghost and be witnesses of his Power Hear and hearken in the Spirit O hearken and you will hear the Seventh Trumpet sound from the Seven Spirits that are before the Throne that do tell you that the Mystery of time is now finishing and that the Everlasting Gospel of the Love is opening and and that the Heavens are ready to roll down to open their Glory up-the Earth that the Inhabitants thereof may no longer lye buried in the Dark shade of an Earthly Life § 24. Over thee O City of London a Mighty Angel doth fly with this Thundering Cry saying Do not despise Prophesy neither decry down the Ark of the Living Testimony from which the Spirit as a flowing Stream must renew Paradise upon the Earth And this Warning is given to all of what Ranks or Degree soever whether High or Low whether in the outward Grandeur or in the private and inferious Means of this World Even to you all and every one this Call doth reach Shake shake your Earthly Dust away For now it is the Spirit 's Day That will admit of no Delay § 25. For Scepters and Crowns must be thrown down to the Lamb of God He is in his Saints come to Reign Wherefore all Nations and Languages and Peoples not only here in this Dominion but beyond the Seas every where must the sound of this Trumpet hear For a mighty CYRUS there is already raised whom the most High will in such a manner uphold and endue with his Spirit as he shall be able to bring forth his Temple-Glory and Praise that so out of all Kingdoms Countries and Languages there may be a Gathering and that as Eagles they may fly to that high Mountain where the Olive Tree will drop the Unctuous Oyl most freely This is the Oyl that in Spirit I do see run And I see that some in all Nations will herewith be shortly sprinkled to give notice that the Omnipotent KING is entering upon his Thousand Years Reign § 26. Thus having in Answer to that Grand Objection to wit How there should be any World or Worlds more than what the Scripture hath made mention of demonstrated that there is a succession of the Spirit of Revelation that is never to cease but is more than ever to increase yet upon the Earth as will in this very Age be known and be witnessed I must now draw to the Conclusion of this World called the Still Eternity Concerning which I have this to declare from what I was when taken up into it admitted to the knowledge of I was then shewn and taught these three Particulars worthy to be observed First that no Entrance for Habitation is here found to any departed Spirit though arrived to never so high a Degree of Perfection Nay it was said that CHRIST himself as the First-born from the Dead and as Glorified in our Humanity did not ascend up hither The Unity in the Godhead is always here but not in his Personality For this Globe and Inmost Court is reserved for a greater Mystery then what is yet to be made known Only thus much I was with respect to it informed that as out of this Still Eternity the Deity in and through the Eternal dilating Eye did speculate his own Working Properties for to manifest himself in Nature and thereby generate out of the Eternal Meek Stilness the Creating Powers from the Trinity did go forth to bring forth in the first place the Angelical World furnishing it with Angelical Spirits and so on did proceed to the rest of the above-mentioned Worlds The Second thing we are to note is that this shut-up Principle and highest Court of the Tri-Un God and of his Virgin Wisdom with her offspring of Simplified Spirits is not to be opened till the Will and Pleasure of God the Creating Father shall be to move himself through these mild and pure Spirits for some New Manifestation and Modification upon what in the Created Worlds is found defective that so by a Renewed Creating Power going forth in this manner out from the Still Eternity another face of more excellent Beauty and more transcendent Glory may for an everlasting Fixation come over that which under a Lapse and an Apostacy hath been But how finite and short is all that can be said or even imagined in comparison of those more amazing and stupendous Charges that still add to the Glory of God's Workmanship in his New Creation As to the Third particular that we are to take notice of which is the Order Union and Equal Degree of these Spirits in this Globe of Eternity we can but just hint at it This Unity and Coequality of theirs is manifested by their Operations They are in their working Motion most Active but all their Acts and Powers do go forth in a most profound Stilness the Deity co-operating through them by which an Influencing Stilness doth from them pass forth to the Inhabitants of the other Worlds And yet these Spirits remain all the while unmoveable within their own Principle and Centre moving according as the Deity glanceth forth in them with the Governing Eye which giveth them their all-seeing Commission the which in a delightful Obedience they never fail to execute neither can they do otherwise being unalterably Fixed in the Moving Power of the Holy Ghost THE Conclusion HAving now given a faithful and true Description of these Eight several Worlds not from History but from the revealed Mystery according to the measure of the Communication of the Spirit of CHRIST it remaineth to consider what Use and Application may be made by the Readers of these deep and weighty things that have been here Unvailed In the first place then we are hereby called upon to consider with the deepest humility the efficient Cause and Founder of these Worlds that produced them all out of an Abyssal Deep and an Eternal Nothingness Secondly We are called upon to appropriate to God what is more Immense than Immensity and Greater than all Greatnesses Higher than all Heights Deeper than all Depths Perfecter than all Perfections who maketh his dwelling in an Eternal Circle of Love Power and Wisdom filling all these Worlds with the fulness of his Godhead made manifest in the express Image of his Glory namely in the Second Number of the Three that bear Record in Heaven Thirdly we are excited to consider what we Mortals are from whom our Descent is and what manner of Spirit we consist of and exist by For until we
The Wonders OF GOD's Creation MANIFESTED In the Variety OF EIGHT VVORLDS As they were made known Experimentally to the Author J. LEAD Heb. 1. 5. By whom he made the WORLDS LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious Henri Lion THE EDITOR TO THE READER VVHAT is contained in this Treatise the Subordinate Author is very sensible will appear more than ordinarily Strange to the greatest part of those who shall look upon it But yet it is not at least doubted but it will carry along with it such a Living Testimony for the Confirmation of its Truth not only to those that are already Redeemed from the Earth and do follow the Lamb whither soever be goeth being set free from the Traditions Rules and Manuductions of Men but also to several who may be yet under the Name Mark and Image of the Beast and of this Worldly Principle as may sufficiently evince its Primary Author and Demonstrate that the Great Shepherd of Israel is not now wanting to head his Sheep into Fresh Pastures The Accâ—ptation which the former Books that have through this Instrument been brought forth to the Light have found Abâ—oad in oâ—hâ—r Nations since the setting forth of the Heavenly Cloud and of the Revelation of Revelations in the High Dutch Tongue is certainly greater than can have proceeded from any Dead or Lifelâ—ss Testimony To Relatâ— how God has Blessed them and doth daily Blâ—ss them as it appears from Letters contiunally coming from Forreign Parts woulâ— bâ— to write an History And if a Prophet be to so much Esteemed in his own as in another Countrey this is no new thing nor any mâ—re to be wondred at than that our Blessed Loâ—d himself did there meet with the worst Entertainment where he ought to have found the best and was as to his Divine Power more a Stranger and less believed in by his own Town than by any other The Wisdom of God is exceedingly wonderful in the Choice which he makes of Instruments to Manifest himself by that os That may not be attributed to the Creature which only belongs to him He takes up a Meek and Fearful Vessel to make the most haughty Powers to Tremble the Youngest and most Despised Son of a Shepherd to make him a glorious Conquer our over many Potent Princes and to leave a Kingdom to his Posterity in Peace an ordinary Plowman to make him mighty to Command both Heaven and Earth even to teach him to destroy his Enemies by an Invisible Power and to raise up again the Dead to Life a Woman to be a Mother and a Saviour in Israel when no Man was found and a few Fisherman to stand up against and triumph over all the Strength and Policy of the World So that it must be said this is verily the Lord's doing and it is wonderful in our Eyes There is certainly so far from being any thing of the Art of Man in whatever has pass'd through this Blessed Instrument and such an Incapacity in the Subject to make use of it that as it cannot but give great effence to all that seek for it so to those who seek more for the Wisdom that is Above than that which is Below there is a clear Demonstration from whence it must have proceeded And I have here leave to say that whoever in the Meek and Sober Spirit shall desire further Satisfaction in this Subject here Treated on the Author will readily Answer to such Inquiring Minds and Orally confer with them while remaining in this Outward Principle Thus much is Undeniable that however some may perhaps think that there may be somewhat here advanc'd which will serve to render Souls more careless as to the Great Concern of their Future State and to Adjourn their Provision for it there is yet not so much as any Possibility of Admission even into the Lowest Heavens without the New Birth according to the Foundation upon which all this stands Wherefore is Highly behoves every one to secure that and to press forward with the greatest earnestness hat they get entirely out of the Hellish Source and the evil Nature raising themselves up above whaâ—ever is Elementary that at their leaving this visible World they may be found cloathed upon with the Holy One Element This that is here Reveal'd might not have gone further than among a few Confiding Friends but that the same Spirit who Revealed it was pleased to raise up in a wonderful manner a Great and Princely Defender and Protector of these Divine Truths and of the High Mystery of Faith whose Name Shines Gloriously in the Unscal'd Book of Life to do all that is needful for the Promulgation of the Glad Tidings of the Everlasting Covenant and Kingdom of God with Man and for the Building of the Temple of Jerusalem and the raising the Tabernacle of David that is fallen The Effect of which will be more abundantly Manifested by what shall be hereafter Published through the Assistance and Direction of the Great Master-Builder the LORD Blessed for ever THE CONTENTS A Manifestation concerning the Eight Worlds or Regions Allotted to Human Souls c. A Further Manifestation concerning the Four Heavenly Worlds An Answer to a Question Henri Lion A MANIFESTATION Concerning the Eight VVORLD 's OR REGIONS Allotted to Human Souls According to their several Degrees of Ascent or Descent The Revelation of Jesus Christ now Glorified who sends greeting by his Spirit to the Good-willers and Waiters for his Appearance § 1. WHEREAS it hath been sounded in my Ears that no New spring of Revelatino from him who is ascended into the Heavens doth come down Behold I JESUS the Lord have given and raised up and will yet more evidently give and raise up Witnesses to contradict the Unbelieving Who while they continue so will be excluded from this great and inestimable Priviledge of taking from me and thereby of knowing the hidden secrets that lye in God the Fountain of Eternity Now then to thee who hast already born a true Witness for me I do give a further Commission to go sorth from a Book within Unsealed wherein thou shalt meet with an unmeasurable Deep of Revelation to publish for the Universal Enlightening of the Ignorant and Blind in Mind For from this the Spirits Day shall break up apace that so it may be known that God in his Christ hath not forgotten to reveal himself to the Inhabitants of this lower World in truth and righteousness But together with this there will be that which will take up a false Covering of the Spirit Therefore my LORD did say to me that pure and right Revelation should not go forth Naked or only Literally but clothed with Power in the Number Seven where the Strength of an Almightiness shall be a guard upon its Testimony of Truth and Verity § 2. Now then I am to make report of some particulars revealed by the Spirit of CHRIST Of which the First was this That the time was very
near approaching in the which the Earth should cast forth the Dead that have been buried in the Body of Sin For this end a terrible Blow and Stroke upon the Nations of the Earth will fuddenly come God saith he is wearied out with the Sinful Abomination of this World to which he purposeth shortly to put an end For it hath accordingly been sounded in my inward Ear that the Ends of all Sinful Worlds are by the great Creator of them now determined Upon which saying I queried in Spirit with my LORD in what other Worlds besides this Visible and known World the Evil of Sin did yet remain Whereupon it was replied that such as go out of this World in their gross and unmortified Earthly Life without Clarification obtained through the Water of Regeneration and the Blood of Christ shed in them and so Attoning for Sin and Trespasses which not being entirely done away before they go out of this Life will still abide with them in their nature and quality after Death do pass into such Worlds Stations or Centres which are most agreeable and natural to them and do accordingly bear great varieties and sundry degrees of Punishments proportioned to the Impurity that is left in them For as much as Sin dieth not totally with the Body except while in it there hath been a Dying to it by the Spirit of Righteousness spreading over it So that from hence a Cry doth go forth to all Nations Peoples and Languages to Purge out the corrupt Leaven of Sin that it may not go with them into that World or Worlds where their Lot may be § 3. For it hath been revealed unto me that there are several Regions or Worlds that do receive the Souls of all Degrees and Ranks to the Number Eight The First of these is this Mortal Visible World The Second is the Astral or Aerial World The Third is the Waterish Elementary World And the Fourth is the Fiery Dark World These are all the Worlds where Sinful Lustings may be with Punishments answerable till Sin shall expire therein through the Meditorship and Propitiatian of CHRIST the Almighty Redeemer For into the next Four Worlds nothing of Evil or Sin can enter or in the Inhabitants of them dwell The First of these is the Paradisical World being all Coelestial and a very pleasant State where there is a growing up to higher degrees of Perfection to compleat us for the Kingdom of Mount Sion Where Christ's the Lord's Kingdom is in great Magnificence with all the Angelical Principalities under him and with the Elders as Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles The Third Heavenly World is the Royal and Principal Seat of God the Father with the Eternal Virgin Wisdom and the Seven Spirits This bears the Title of the Great City called the New Jerusalem where the Glassy Sea doth encompass about Then above this is that World called the Still Eternity Out of which were generated all of these Worlds above-mentioned Of all which I must give an account according as I have had them shewed and opened from the deep Centre and Original Being of them I did not know when I published my two last Treatises that of the Enochian Life and the other of the Paradisical Laws that my God would ever have had made use of me any more in this kind the Day of my Life being so far spent and growing to its evening Rest. But my LORD doth still follow me with fresh Revelations and Inkindlings from his own immense Deep which run as a Fiery Stream through me so that I find there is no resisting this all-driving Power by which hidden and unknown Worlds must be made manifest in this last Age of Times § 4. But before I go upon this large and copious Matter it will be proper to Answer a grand Objection that is expected to be cast in upon the Reading hereof Namely Since the Holy Scripture maketh no mention of such Variety of Worlds how shall we give credit hereunto In Answer to this it is given from him who Was and Is and Will be the true Inspirer to open new Volumes of his Mind which are not to be less reputed and credited than the foregoing Scriptures The Old Testament having been appropriated to the Ministration of the Father the New to the Son now the Third Day is come in which the Holy Ghost will have His which will Excel all before it to Unseal and Reveal what yet never was known or understood that will be communicated to and by such as are in an extraordinary manner sanctified and set a part for this holy Function For from this Spirits Day must go forth a New Spring of things yet to be revealed both as to the Present and Future State that hath lain hid within these mentioned Worlds The Account of which I am more particularly to give according as it hath been shown to me from the Spirit of Inspiration For I write here from no other Ground than what the Spirit of CHRIST in the Glass of Wisdom hath presented to mine Inward Eye which pierceth into the Deep of God's Mind And which is no longer to be concealed for the Holy Unction is given for this end to drop his golden Oil which will dissolve all those Seals that have stood so long for an hiding and shutting up of those Mysterious Truths that a Commission is now given to bring forth in order to their being proclaimed and inscribed upon the Pillars and Temple of God's House Whether believed or not it must stand as the Engraving of God's Hand § 5. The First in Order is this Corporeal Visible World in which we now live Where good and evil Births have been produced from Adam and so still shall go on to be procreated till the Numbers shall be finished and filled up that are indeed as to us numberless but numbred by God Here is laid a Foundation for his manifold Wisdom in a wonderful way and manner to be made manifest from this first ground of Natural Generation Which Births after a limited time must pass through the Death of the Elementary Body to such Regions as their Lot will fall to § 6. As for such Ranks of Souls that do dye Unregenerated these having no part in CHRIST and having lived ignorant and as without God in this present World do go to their own direful Place within the Circumference of the Evil Worlds where they will be proved and tried till the general Restitution of all Lapsed Worlds by the Mighty God and Saviour shall come to be effected But of this we will not further now insist having elsewhere more largely declared it § 7. Now therefore beginning from below I proceed to make known to the true Simplified Inquirers what the First and Lowest of these Worlds or Elements is This is entitled the Dark Hellish World and by the only Supream Creator and Judge is allotted a Receptacle for Lucifer and the rest of the Apostatized Angels of that Hierarchy It may be also
it is very rare that any Souls do come up to be with CHRIST the Lord immediately upon the departing from the Body Though I do not say but some may reach to such a perfect degree of Christ likeness as that when they Die this Angelical World may stand open to receive them and so being admitted into that high Glorification may from Glory to Glory still be ascending till at length they arrive to the New Jerusalem State And beyond this there remains no more to pass into but the inmost Place of Purity which bears the Title of the Still Eternity for that nothing but Everlasting Rest Stilness and Silence is to be perceived here Of each of which Worlds there are some Particulars to be at this time declared from the Faithful Witness that it may be discerned who they are that are made meet to inhabit them § 11. It ought then to be known how that those Souls that are Born of God and so Renewed in every part the whole Man being changed into a Deified Nature must needs enjoy and know beforehand the Joys and Pleasures of these Worlds to which they do belong according to that degree which any in this Life-time do reach to Such as are allotted for the Paradisical World when they Decease will have it at some time or other open while in the Body For the Spiritual Property will qualifie most interiourly so as the true Mystical Paradise puts forth its flowing Glory in the inward ground of a Renewed Mind So that this outward Principle and evil World preventeth not in the Holy and Heaven-born Souls those pleasant Golden Springs from running to Circle and Water every Plant which by the Spirit of CHRIST hath been renewed Therefore the Holy Trinity do delight often to manifest themselves in the Souls Paradisical Heart and Mind as well Now as Hereafter § 12. From hence it was given me to understand that as the Mystical Paradise so also the Mystical Sion doth therewith also stand open in the ground of this pure Heart gradually shooting forth and revealing it self in it And concerning this more than Glorious World the Kingdom of Christ in which he with his Perfected Saints doth Reign it is shewn me how the same Light and Pure Principle doth open it self in those Souls where the Paradisical or Angelical Life doth spring Spiritually For every World or Principle doth attract to it self its own which belongeth unto it And the Powers and Influences of each are sensibly felt according to the Constellations that any one is under The vile and wicked sort are pulled and drawn by the Magick of the Dark World But the Heaven-born Souls are inspired and qualified by these Upper Worlds as by some is well known so that Paradise and the Mount Sion World are manifested in their own Original Light in the Centre of the Soul From which I do give a Description of these Invisible Worlds as they were first opened within from whence Love Power Joy and Peace do spring which maketh Heaven to be the Souls present dwelling with Christ and all the Angelical Train though not visibly seen yet essentially enjoyed But this is only to be known by Spirits that are deeply introverted and carried out and beyond a Creaturely Life And when any worthy ones in this Light Principle shall be fixed then expect we may that the Eternal Powers will move and work through such to whom the Dominion of Christ's Kingdom here below will be intrusted For which we have many Scripture Prophesies as in Isaiah the Revelations and Daniel that do abundantly declare how it must and will be given to the Saints of the Most High to possess the Kingdom of which there is also a Confirmation by a Renewed Spirit of Prophesie that doth assure us that this Day is very nigh and that it will be upon the World before they are aware of it For as the Man of the Earth hath had his Ruling Day Universally so shall the Lord from Heaven descend in such a manner into his own prepared Vessels here Below in his Kingly and Priestly Power as shall overturn and bear down all Earthly Powers but of this we shall speak farther in the next Advance or Remove up to the Third Court or Principality of God the Father's Majesty That is § 13. The Jerusalem City which is more Glorious and Magnificent than what hath yet been made mention of far surpassing the Glories of the Two lower Blessed Worlds As to the Walls and Foundations of it with the Gates that open into it they are all so Diaphonous and full of Splendorous Light that it is altogether impossible to make it out even in any degree according as it hath been exhibited and seen in the Spirit in the Metaphorical Figure of it which yet represents it very much short of the Spiritual Substantiality of this City which is God himself dilating anâ— spreading forth his Godhead in sucâ— Amazing Varieties This is a Principle and World which none buâ— CHRIST in his Glorified Humanâ—â—ty with such high Saints as arâ— Glorified with his Glory can havâ— any access to Of which unconceivable abundance of Glory these dâ— with Him continually participatâ— Ascending and Descending as cauâ—â— requireth No pass there is intâ— this City but through the Glaâ—â— Sea which Sea none do tread anâ— stand upon but such Spirits thaâ— are qualified and cloathed upâ—â— with the self-same Matter whicâ— is all Chrystalline Water and transparent Fire O how am I lost ouâ— of my self while this Globe Lighâ— and all the Wonders therein do open For in this interim it waâ— said to me Behold all the Weights of Glory have I prepared not only for Pleasure to my self but for such as do love and put on their Lord CHRIST in Deiformity and so as Conquerors pass through the Glassy Sea to enter through the Gates having this City written upon their Foreheads § 14. Now it remains to open the more Mystical Sense of the Invisible Eternity of this Mother City the New Jerusalem that from the Father in Union with his Virgin Wisdom doth multiply and so fill up that Principle with Virgin Spirits that are most perfectly Pure and Immaculate whence it is that nothing beyond this can any of the Redeemed ever arrive unto Mount Sion Kingdom is most Great and Glorious but yet inferior to this because that is in the Mediatorship of Christ but in this World all is compleated and finished So that when this New Jerusalem shall descend it will soon put this old sinful and impure World to an end But being able to give no more than a short and finite Description of this Infinite Eternal and All-glorious World I am led on further to open the Mystery of it so far as it relateth to this present Age and to the Saints who are to make up this City and to bring their Glory to shine in it § 15. Here now it may be questioned Whether any Spirit or Person in this Mortal World can
thy own to Enjoy But this word of Caution to thee is given that thou take heed unto the Laws of Paradise which have been in particular given to thee for this end Observe them and thy JESUS will here frequently talk with thee and shew himself according to the Loves Betrothment that is made afresh with thee in this Paradise This is what many Years ago was to me Communicated and Recommended by the Spirit of Truth § 3. As I was upon the Seventeenth of October in this present Year 1695. watching upon a Deceased Friends account after some time I found she had passed through the Elementary Regions Then Paradise being open'd I search'd for her and after about two Hours I found her in the Third Degree of this Heavenly World who appeared to me of a most Lively and Angelical Countenance As soon as I had met her I congratulated her and said I have been a long while seeking to find you To which she Answer'd very well you might for I have been so taken up with the Variety of the Pleasures of this Place that I had forgot all my Mortal Friends Then she added after a short pause O my Friend the Death which I feared and that kept me in Bondage all my Life long has been my Friend to set me free and its Seing that I dreaded became nothing less than a Living Balsam by which now in Trumph I can say Mortality is swallow'd up in Joy and Glory To which I Replied Did not I often tell you this and that I would venture my own Soul for yours as to the Security of it Upon which she smiling said Now I find it so to be And so seeming to be unwilling to entertain any further Discourse with me as if thereby she was held from a better Enjoyment she left me § 4. Upon which I was exercised in some Meditation and it was thus concluded That Persons who did live very circumspectly and watchfully in all Piety in their Life-time as this Person had done though void of all sensible Assurance and Comfort of God's Favour while they live as if they did not live but are estranged from this Elementary Body while they are in it do when they pass out of it obtain a swift passage through the Elements which are not able to cleave to or detain them long but are swallow'd up and chang'd into the Paradisical Body Which is a good Motive to incite all Persons to live above the Earthly Life that so nothing may stick to them when they go out of this World II. MOUNT SION § 1. Now from hence the Spiritual Man must make another Remove to see what doth lye for him beyond this Region or Principle among the Precious Things that do flow from that Rich Ocean which is betwixt Paradise Mount Sion and the New Jerusalem This is that Glassy Sea that is spoken of by the Beloved John upon which the Conquerors are seen Singing their Songs of Triumph and it doth Compass round the City where is the Residence of the Great King the Throne of the Lamb and the Seven Sealing Powers or Fountain-Spirits of God that do go forth from the most Holy One. Now this burning Sea is for Probation there being none able to pass it but they who have gotten a full perfect and thorough Conquest over this Beast and over his Image so as they no thing more of this Mark do bear They and they only can stand here because they are Signatured from this flaming Glassy Sphere that will make Bodies clear and shining as terrible Chrystal § 2. This Kingdom of Moun Sion where is an Innumerable Company of Angels with the Church of the First-Born and in which are contained all the Originals and living Patterns of what was Copied out by Moses who had a sight of them must open it self and be Established before the Kingdom of the New Jerusalem can come down either Invisibly or Visibly There is a necessity for the Mediatorial and Priestly Kingdom to go before and make way for that § 3. Yet there is such a near intimate Correspondency between these two that they may in some sort bear the Name of One Kingdom For that the Supream Majesty doth often come down hither and the whole Grand Assembly which is here do at certain seasons ascend up into the New Jerusalem so that from the strict Union that is betwixt them it is not to be wondred at if sometimes the Name of the one be applied to the other III. The NEW JERUSALEM § 1. It was further declared to a Spirit caught up here That in the Time of the Accomplishment of the New Jerusalem Glory Below there should be appointed certain Keepers of the Everlasting Gates into it most highly Spirited to let in and shut out according to the Laws of this Kingdom and that every such Angel of these Gates should sound forth his Trumpet For the Holy Breath out of this City shall make them to Proclaim and Sound forth to all parts of the Earth the Glory and the Mighty Name of JEHOVAH SHAMMAH which is the Name of the City that is to be written upon all those who are to be admitted into it Therefore Arise Arise ye Virgin Daughters and draw near having this Name inscribed upon you with the Finger of your God and having your Twelve Foundations according to the number of the Precious Stones of the Holy Oracle made clear and sure in you being all that which is to make up the Honour of your Jerusalem Glory Draw near now ye Virgin Daughters of Sion that lye hid and bring your Glory to this City At which all Gates shall open to you fly As soon as you can here with this come nigh § 2. The Apostolical Name of the Lamb is here written upon every Gate for the surviving Number of Apostolical Spirits to obtain admittance by None can enter through the Gates but these Virgin Spirits who have before stood upon Mount Sion and passed through the Sea of Glass being the Living Jasper Stones that are all covered upon with the flaming of Colours the Covenant-Rainbow Such therefore must ye be Oye Jerusalem-waiters and Children of Wisdom And by her Stone within you ye must come to be touched and changed rhat ye may be joyned to all these Flaming Stones Be of good chear for this Ruby Stone is as a Cherub at work in the Heavenly Spheres of some that are known by Name in order to this great and mighty Transmutation Wherefore it is given me to advise you that you give way to this Live Goal within you that so it may burn away all the Dross and Tin so as nothing but the Golden Matter for Coagulation with the Deity may remain upon this Almighty and most Sublime Thing that is concealed in your Inward Furnace Do ye still wait upon Ministring Fuel to it that your Fire may never go out Do ye still take out from the Pool of Golden Oyl which will then make you