Earthliness brought into us out of the Earthly and Diabolical Essence as a Contrary Qualm is not that which greeneth but the disappeared Image of God understand that which was given to Adam out of the Divine Substantiality as from the Second Principle out of the Kingdom of Heaven which by the bringing-in of the Earthly dyed or as I might express it was again enclosed or shut up into the Eternal Quietness as into that Nothing when it lost its right Divine Life and this is it in which the Eternal Word became Man and brought in again the living Substantiality with its Entering and Opening and out of Death brought forth Eternal Life This same Divine and also in Death enclosed humane Substantiality or Flesh became Man to which the Earthly Husk only did adhere and held the Earthly burning Death captive in it self Therefore we must observe a Difference when we will speak of our selves 15. The Holy Scripture also speaketh not of a wholly New Flesh viz. that the Old cometh to be conceived wholly New in Divine Essence and begotten in God otherwise it must follow that the Evil introduced bestial Flesh with the bestial Properties were become exalted in the Power of the Majesty 16. And if one would say that the Earthly Qualm is wholly killed in the New Birth out of Christ and that it doth wholly and totally dye in the Death of Christ as the Author of the Book saith That the old Man is altogether Dead and Nothing and Christ alone liveth and governeth in this outward visible Flesh and doth all then must and should Man also eat and drink after the Manner of Paradise and enjoy only an Heavenly Qualm For Christ eateth no more Earthly food but Divine The bestial Maggot-paunch doth neither suffer us to call the Whole Man out of all the Three Births Divine much less the Kingdom of this World of Stars and Elements which is the Qualm Life and Regiment of the outward Man 17. We cannot deny be a Man so holy as he will but that the Spirit of the Outward World is the Spirit Life and Guide of his Outward Flesh and we see clearly how the outward Man standeth in a Starry Constellation when it leaveth him he falleth away and putrifieth 18. Yet since it is given to me of Gods Grace to know what the Earthly and also what the Heavenly Man is in One Person therefore I will a little delineate and signifie how things stand with the Author of the Book sent to me and that out of the Ground although in a childlike simplicity for a Rule to the Author and those that read his Book 19. As for the Author himself I understand that he indeed may well be a godly Man born anew and holy in Christ with his New Birth in the New Man in regard of the Inhabitation of Christ For the Substantial Inhabitation is throughout agreeing with the holy Scripture as he also highly assevereth it and I have in that Point no Objection at all against him It is the true Ground that God hath begotten us for children out of his Heavenly Substance in himself through his Power in the Word in Christs Flesh and Blood out of his own Essence 20. I understand also Flesh and Spirit in one Substance and by no means Spirit without Flesh and Blood I understand also that it is come to pass in the Womans seed and cometh yet always to pass and I say upon sure ground that Christ in and out of mine own humane Essence is born a new Creature in my self as the Author also throughout saith 21. But the Author wanteth the Understanding of the Three Principles in one another viz. of the Threefold World one within another He distinguisheth not one from another He hath wrapt up himself wholly with all Reason and Senses and hath cast himself wholly into the Incarnation of Christ into his Suffering Death and Resurrection and hath denyed his own outward Life He desireth to live only in and of Christ He rejects all what is and liveth contrary to it He desireth nothing but what is of Christ that Christs Life Spirit and Will may be his Spirit Life and Will Thus he is as it were sunk down into the Life Will and Spirit of Christ so that his old man is as it were dead although according to the Kingdom and Qualm of this World in his own Principle in himself he liveth and is not dead for he cannot dye until the Spirit of the Outward World in his Constellation do leave him and yet he doth not dye then but goeth into the Mysterium of the Outward Principle with his Wonders and Works until the Judgment of God for the Restitution of all that which we have lost in Adam 22. This right Christian Entrance of the Author is very Right and without falshood it is also gone rightly with him in Christ if it be so indeed as I fully perceive as he writeth of himself But his knowledg of himself what and how he is were need better to be declared He hath cast himself into the middle of the Tree where he indeed is safe and stands very Well But the Root of the Tree is yet hidden to him he standeth therein as a Twig but in the middle 23. When a man will satisfie the humane Mind so that it may yeeld it self into Eternal Rest then a man must shew it the Root of the Tree whereout Spirit and Flesh have their Origiginal A man must shew and manifest unto him the Center both of the Eternal and also of the Original Nature so that he may comprehend the Earthly and also the Heavenly Mysterium Then is the Eternal Beginning and the Eternal End altogether One In this the Spirit of the Soul lieth down to rest for it seeth the Wheel wholly and perfectly 24. With this Description the weak corrupted Nature is very ill contented for a thing is requested of it that it cannot do The Author saith it ought altogether to dye that Christ alone might live in the Flesh This the Nature will not but hopeth for a Renovation the which it putteth on as a garment but not Essentially in Power But as fire doth through-glow a stone so the beams of the Holy Ghost go often out of the Second Principle of the New Man through the Old And as Iron in the glowing and without the glowing is still Iron at one time as at the other so is also the Earthly Man 25. He must be servant to the Inward Man when the New with his glowing Divine Fire goeth through him he also willingly doth it so long as the fire-glowing shineth through him but he cannot change himself into the Inward Kingdom For the outward Flesh and Blood saith Christ shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven it shall and must putrifie as an husk from the Essence of the Corn sown in the field 26. You have Beloved Sirs the Ground of this Mystery in my Book of the Incarnation of Christ and in a
Earthliness the Earthliness and the dark World became manifest in him For the Souls-fire did imagine after Earthliness and brought earthly Infection into it self Thus the Souls-fire began to burn in the earthly Qualm and became manifest in the Earthliness whereas yet the earthly form and shape ought not to have been manifest 39. And thus the Soul also lusted to eat of Evil and Good as of the evil poysonous and grim Property out of the Dark Worlds Substantiality to wit of Lying Deceit and Falshood in which she lived in Gods Anger and in the Dark World 40. For the Outward Earthliness hath its Original in the Creation out of the Substantiality of the Dark World and not only out of this but also out of the Heavenly This God forbad Adam viz. that he should not eat of the Tree of the knowledg of Good and Evil otherwise he should dye from Paradise as from the Divine Substantiality 41. For the Heavenly pure Element with the Divine Essence greened through all the fruits which were created for Man and he should have eaten after a Magical manner the Separation was in his Mouth so that the Heavenly swallowed up the Earthly like as the Day the Night as we also know that our Life which we now have must enter into a Transmutation if it will be called a Child of God it must again put on God whom in Adam it did put off 42. For we understand and know that Adam with his Imagination understand the Soul is gone out of the Divine Power as from the Second Principle into the Outward as into the Third and the poor Soul lieth now captive in a strange Lodging where the Devil afflicts her and still brings his Imagination into her unless she gives her self wholly again into the Second Principle which in Christs Person opened it self again in the Humanity and in that same Life be again born in God otherwise she standeth meerly naked with her Root in the Dark World as in Gods Wrath and with her Imagefigure in the Desire of this Outward World and therein she will not be acknowledged and received for a Child of God 43. But since it is so that Adam with his Imagination into the Earthliness hath awaked the Inward Kingdom in the Anger that it burneth in him and all his Children and brought the Earthly Desire into his Heavenly Flesh thereby we understand that there-through the Holy Spirit is departed from the same Substance For God cursed the Earth that is nothing else but that he departed with Paradise from Man the Life of Paradise which was in Adam in the Divine Essence was extinguished Wherefore God said to Adam What Day thou eatest of the Tree or the Plant of the knowledg of Good and Evil thou shalt dye that is nothing else but to dye to the Kingdom of Heaven and to become Living to the Earthly Qualm 44. For thus said also the Serpent Thou shalt not dye but thine eyes shall be opened thereby and shalt be as God But the Serpent deceived Eva indeed her earthly Eyes were opened but the heavenly were shut up 45. Thus we also understand that Adam with his Imagination hath wholly brought the Will of the Soul into the Outward World and hath made his Outward Flesh wholly Earthly and Bestial in which the Stars and Elements did immediately domineer and so dyed wholly from the Heavenly Substantiality although there is no Death or Dying in the Heavenly Substantiality Only since Gods Spirit departed from it it was shut up into the Quietness or Stilness as into the Nothing and therethrough Man lost the Similitude of God even the Noble Image 46. Therefore said Christ You must be born anew of Water and the Holy Spirit if you will see the Kingdom of God The Water is the Heavenly Substantiality begotten of the Meekness of the Majesty of God in which the most noble Tincture is Heavenly 47. And understand us that the Word of God viz. that which became Man in Mary hath again brought that same Water or Divine Substance into our in Death inclosed and shut up Substantiality understand not into the Earthliness but into the Heavenly part which was brought into Adam with the Holy Ghost when He brought himself into the Image For the seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head Gods Essence took upon it the Essence of Man and became Flesh and not only the Essence of the Flesh but also the Essence of the Soul Thus the Divine Life came again into the Flesh and the Second Principle was again born in Man to a Life in God and yet the outward Kingdom adhered unto it 48. Since then we are all sprung from Adam we are also all of us born out of his corrupt sinful Flesh and are all in Gods Wrath and with the Soul shut up in the dark World for we are born into the Earthly frail Life out of the Earthly evil and perverse Will in Disobedience in meer Anguish Misery Poyson Malice Hatred and Anger out of the Eternal Death we are born from the Kingdom of Truth into Lyes and Deceit The Devil hath brought his Will into Us and therein we live and eat continually of the forbidden fruit 49. Unless we return with our Will and enter again into the New Birth which Christ hath opened for us in our Humanity Then we become again conceived in the Word that opened it self in Mary in the true Humane Essence and become pregnant of the Saviour as of the Divine Kingdom 50. God is not revealed in us in the Earthly Essence but in the true Image which disappeared in Adam but the Outward adhereth to the Inward The Inward Man manifesteth the Divine Mysterium and the Outward Man manifesteth the Outward Mysterium as the Mirror of the Wonders 51. Thus the War goeth on in the New or Regenerated Man the New will be Master for he beholdeth the Divine World and the Old opposeth him and Will also be Master for he beholdeth the Outward World But if the Inward groweth waxeth strong in the Will of God understand when the Soul hath given her self over wholly thereinto then the Outward is taken Captive For the Inward killeth dayly the Outward with Gods Love and Meekness so that the Outward cannot bring into the Fire of the Soul his earthly pestilent and of the Devil infected evil Desire and Will 52. Yet the Outward cannot wholly be killed before his Dissolution for if the Outward Man should be wholly killed then must the Kingdom of this World wholly break off from him and the Outward also cannot wholly be put into the Renovation for the Devils Infection sticks fast in him But the Outward must again be put into the Mysterium and in the Last Day be brought through the Everlasting Fire where then the Turba shall swallow up the Evil Desire in the Fire and the Mysterium shall again with its Wonders appear on the Noble Image 53. Therefore I can with no ground say of mine
one Body 159. For I do very well know the Authors Spirit and I love to speak to him seeing he for Christs Name sake as you mention hath suffered much and willingly hath brought his Life into Christs footsteps therefore I acknowledg him for a right true Christian 160. But he need not to be ashamed to learn to know himself better and to learn more in the Spirit in the Spouse of Christ For Christ saith Seek and ye shall find The Wisdom hath neither number nor end 161. I say of my self nothing else but that I first am become an A. B. C. Scholer and will heartily seek in the Spouse of Christ of the Spirit of Christ in my Brethren and Members Me in them and them in Me. 162. I do not arrogate to me yet any perfect knowledg for that which is perfect is not of mine understanding but revealed in the Spirit of Christ in my Brethren I am in my self as a Nothing that I might be found and known to be somewhat in the knowledg of my Brother in his Spirit and that God in Christ may be All in us both the Understanding Willing and Doing 163. Therefore I exhort you not to take this otherwise then Christianly and Brotherly for I am not a Master of your Spirit and Knowledg but your help in the Lord that the Authors Course may not be in vain nor the Name of Christ blasphemed in his Members as Babel hath done I have written this short Declaration and Explanation to refresh us in our knowledg in the Lord What is more is to be found in the Book of the Threefold Life and in the three Books of the Incarnation of Christ and do commend you all to the Love of JESUS CHRIST Dated on the Sunday Quasi modo geniti Anno 1621. A Theosophick EPISTLE or LETTER WHEREIN The Life of a true Christian is Described What a Christian is and How he cometh to be a Christian Together with a Description What a Titular Christian is What the Faith and Life of both of them is Written to a good Friend of his in Christian Brotherlike and Memberlike Admonition and a good Intention BY JACOB BEHMEN LONDON Printed by John Macock 1653. The Fountain of the Heart of JESUS CHRIST be our Refreshing Renovation and Eternal Life 1. BEloved and much respected Friend in Christ I do wish to you out of a memberlike obligation as one branch on the Tree is bound to do to the other in a co-operating Desire the open Fountain of Grace which God hath revealed in Christ Jesus in our Humanity that the same may flow in you richly and the Divine Sun therethrough bring into the Soul his Love-beams and therewith awake and open the great Magnetick Hunger of the Soul as the true divine Mouth after Christs Flesh and Blood together with bodily Welfare 2. For as much as I have often perceived by your loving Friend D. K. and also in my presence marked that you in the Drawing of the Father have an extraordinary Thirst and great Longing after his Life which he hath manifested in Christ Jesus out of his highest Love therefore I would not omit out of a memberlike obligation to visit you with a short Epistle upon the desire of the D. and also of your self and to recreate and refresh my self somewhat in that same Fountain of the Life of Jesus Christ with you since it is meer Joy unto me that our Paradisical Pearl-tree greeneth and worketh fruit in our fellow-members to our Eternal Joy 3. And herewith I will shew unto you out of my small gifts and knowledg What a Christian is and Wherefore he is called a Christian namely that only He is a Christian who is become capable of this high Title In Himself who hath turned himself with his Inward Ground Mind and Will to the free-given Grace in Christ Jesus and is in his Souls-Will become as a young Child that only longeth after the Brests of the Mother and sucketh the Brests of the Mother whereof it liveth 4. So also this Man only is a Christian whose Soul and Mind entereth again into the First Mother whereout the Life of Man is sprung viz. into the Eternal Word which hath revealed it self with the true Milk of Salvation in our Humanity being blind in regard of God and drinketh this Mother-milk into his hungry Soul whence the New Spiritual Humanity springeth and the fiery Soul being out of the Fathers Propriety reacheth and obtaineth herewith the place of the Love of God in which place the Father begetteth his Beloved Son wherein alone the Temple of the Holy Ghost which dwelleth In Us is found and wherein also alone the Spiritual Mouth of the Soul which eateth Christs Flesh and drinketh his Blood is understood 5. For He alone is a Christian in whom Christ dwelleth liveth and Is in whom Christ after the Inward Ground of the Soul and the Heavenly Essence which disappeared in Adam is risen and become Living He that hath in his Inward Ground put on Christs Victory against Gods Wrath as also against Hell Devil Death and Sin I say Christs Humanity Passion Death and Resurrection the Seed of the Woman to wit Christ in his Victory also overcoming in him and dayly triumphing upon the Serpents head in the Will of the Wicked Flesh and killing the sinful Lusts of the Flesh 6. For in Christ alone we are received to be Gods Children and heirs of Christ not through an outward strange shew of a special grace-receiving through a strange merit of a grace imputed from Without but through a Childlike Inhabiting Memberlike and Essential grace where the Conqueror of Death to wit Christ with his Life Substance and Power ariseth In Us from our Death and ruleth and worketh In Us as upon a Branch on his Vine as the Writings of the Apostles throughout do witness 7. He is not a Christian who only comforteth himself with the Passion Death and Satisfaction of Christ and imputeth the same unto himself as a grace-gift and yet remaineth an Unregenerated Wilde Beast such a Christian is every Ungodly Man for every one will fain be saved through a grace-gift The Devil also would very willingly be an Angel again through Grace received or applyed from Without 8. But that he should turn and become as a Child and be born a new out of Gods Grace-Water of Love and the Holy Ghost that pleaseth him not So also it pleaseth not the Titular-Christian who putteth about himself the Grace-mantle of Christ and yet will not enter into the Childship and the New Birth although Christ saith he cannot otherwise see the Kingdom of God 9. For what is born of the Flesh is Flesh and cannot inherit the Kingdom of God Joh. 6. To be fleshly minded is Enmity with God but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace and He alone heareth Gods Word that is born of God for alone the Spirit of Grace in Christ heareth Gods Word 10. For no man hath seen God the
not the Word of God but Babel a meer Confusion Misery Howling and Crying and no man heareth it but only the Spirit of the Outward World it is only an Antichristian Hypocrisie and a glittering Flattery 140. A Knave goeth into the Outward Church and a Knave sits therein and a Knave returneth thence and is an hypocrite who giveth good words before God and comforteth and tickleth himself from without with Christs Satisfaction yet still remaineth the old Man in himself 141. He supposeth God forgiveth sins as Life is of grace and favour given to a Murtherer although the Conscience doth continually accuse the Murtherer that he is guilty of the deed and of punishment O no it is not so Christ said Unless ye turn and become as Children ye shall not see the Kingdom of Heaven No Verbal Forgiving availeth before God but it is as Christ said to those that turned to him Thy Faith hath helped thee 142. For Christs Spirit went into the Faith of the Patient and the Faith of the sick went into Christs Spirit then the Cure was there otherwise there had been no healing 143. This a Man may see on the Day of Pentecost when those Men were attentive to S t Peter whose Will was bent into themselves and desired the Kingdom of God in them the Spirit of Christ sounded out of Peters Mouth But as for those whose Will was bent into this World the Spirit past by them who said These men are drunk because they speak thus 144. So it goeth also Now when the Spirit of Christ speaketh then saith the Outward Reason These men are mad and hereticks But as for those whose Will is turned into themselves in a desire after Gods Kingdom they hear the Spirit of Christ speak 145. Therefore all those into whose heart this throngeth are admonished to abide Constant and to meet the golden River that floweth out of Zion and they shall find the Pearl for it is born Let no man gaze on Time and Person it is the Spirit of Christ that speaketh 146. And the Author writeth out of the Bride of Christ very well and truly of the Spirit of Christ out of the New Man But he must learn to distinguish this Old Mortal being from the Spirit of this corrupted and cursed World from the New and not esteem the mortal corruptible flesh and bones for Christ his Flesh 147. Nor to seek Christs Flesh in the four Elements and in the Spirit of the Outward World but in the Root of it as in the Holy Element one Principle deeper then this World is yet not absent from the Outward Body 148. Nor must he think the Old is Transmuted into the New but as Gold groweth in the gross Stone out of the Stone the Sun being the Cause of the Tincture and the gross Stone the Cause of the Body and yet it must not be understood as if the New Body had any place or room in the Old in its Principle for it standeth a Birth deeper in it self 149. As we may know by this that God is in this World and yet the World neither knoweth nor seeth him He dwelleth a Birth deeper in the Center then this Outward World is He filleth all in this World and yet there is nothing that comprehendeth or seeth him for he dwelleth not in the World but in himself So also the New Man and yet there is no separation from one another 150. Like as there is a difference between Fire and Light the Fire not being able to comprehend the Light although the Light is born out of the Fire so also the New Man out of the Old through the Entering of the Spirit of Christ like as the Sun maketh a Tincture of Gold in the Stone 151. But when the Author writeth that the Old Man falleth wholly away in the Repentance and dyeth altogether in the Death of Christ he erreth For Christ is not come for the Old Mans sake nor is he become Man in the old defiled sinful flesh but in the Essence of the Image that a New Man may be born out of the Old and dwell in the Old yet not in the Third Principle in this outward World but in the Second in Heaven in God and God in him 152. Therefore he ought not to write I Christ the living Word in this my visible flesh and bones This none that is born out of Christ will grant him The Outward Man is conceived and born in Sin He is not Christ but the Inward Man is in Christ a Member of Christs Body in the Essence of Christ 153. And that he supposeth that Nature falls wholly and altogether away from Man when the New Birth ariseth that is not so and in that he understands as yet nothing of the Eternal Nature There falls no Nature away from him for the Life stands in the Nature viz. the Life of the Soul in the Eternal Nature and the outward Spirit in the Stars and Elements 154. The Eternal Nature holds in it self the seven Spirits or Forms of the Deity from whence the Holy Divine World is sprung and also this Outward World it parteth not to all Eternity from Man otherwise Man were a Nothing For out of Nature the Mystery of Eternity is revealed and also the Divine Being as is declared in my Book of the Six Points Nature came not into Man for Sins sake wherefore should it then for the Regenerations sake fall away 155. By Death the outward Nature falleth away from the Nature of the Soul but it goeth only into the outward Mysterium until the Day of Judgment then shall all its here-made Wonders and Works appear therein when the Spirit of God shall moor the Mysterium of this World then shall all be manifest and the Turba shall be separated from the good and given to the Dark World and the Mysterium unto the New Man yet only Holy and without spot 156. And this is the Resurrection of the Flesh it is not the Husk as the Bestial flesh which ariseth but the Life in the Outward Mysterium with the Wonders it shall be included in the Holy Element and united with the Body of Christ the New Man and in Eternity stand with its Wonders in it 157. But not in earthly Essence but as a shadow or figure For by reason of the Divine Life this same Life of ours is esteemed as dead for so was Adam also before his Heva before the Imagination but in the Imagination the Outward Life was made manifest and the Heavenly dyed 158. This I could not Loving Sirs and Brothers hide from you nor from the Author in an Answer of your Book sent to me for my Conscience requires it in the LORD not in any intention to reject or put down the Authors Book or high Spirit but in Love towards him I would communicate my gifts and understanding to him into his gifts as one member to the other that we might edifie and acknowledg one another in Christ as Members in
A CONSIDERATION Upon the Book of ESAIAS STIEFEL OF THE Threefold State of Man and his New Birth Written Anno Christi 1621. BY JACOB BEHMEN Otherwise called Teutonicus Philosophus LONDON Printed by John Macock 1653. The Open Fountain in the Heart of JESUS CHRIST be our Source and Constant Quickening 1. MOst Honored and much Esteemed Sirs in the Love of Jesus Christ and in the Union of his Humanity my Singular Friends and Brothers It is meer Joy unto me and the Recreation of my Soul that I do now perceive from divers places that the most precious Tree of Christ our Salvation hid through the fleshly Anti-christ beginneth again to green from the very Root through all the Gates of Darkness in the midst of the Captivity of Babylon Much more do I rejoyce in the Outgreening Plant of its Amiableness and Loveliness Power and and Vertue since I find my self also to be a little Twig on the same Tree and that it is so sweet and pleasant and I see this with great admiration that it as it were in the midst of the Night beginneth to green forth with fair Twigs yea that in the midst of the Winter Lillies and Flowers grow 2. Is not this contrary to all Outward Reason that an old desolate broken house that continually expecteth by the Tempest to be thrown into heaps beginneth to become New again and set forth its first youth as if it had never been old We see now the first shape of this Tree how it was in its youth and how in the age and youth of it there is one Shape Power and Vertue Is not this a great Wonder 3. We became in our First Mother that bare us all blind and are now in our old age in the end become seeing again in the Mothers bosom We became dumb and lost our Mother-Tongue and find it now in our old age again so that we know our Mother in and by the same and can speak with her out of her own Tongue Ought not we justly highly to admire that we were in our Mother and knew her not that we have been such a long time blind in her and now become seeing in the old age 4. But shall we speak of our Old age No We are a New Branch born of our first Mother We were a dryed Branch on the Tree but the Mother hath brought into us her Sap and Vertue and brought forth a young Twig out of her self wherein she will have Joy and through which she will bring forth her fruit yea she hath born a young Son out of the Old he shall not be blind neither go out from her but abide in her house for he is her only Heir in whom she hath Joy 5. Loving Brothers Let us rejoyce and be glad in the Lord that our City Jerusalem in Zion is now a building again in which our Mother dwelleth and shall also be our Everlasting Habitation 6. Sithence then Loving Sirs and Brothers as I perceive you stand also with us in the greening Essence and have received a seeing Eye therefore I desire to refresh my self heartily in my Members in the Essence of my Mother with you in our new Life and I beseech you that you would understand it no otherwise then in true Sincerity and Love as one Member is bound to the other 7. That I thus will speak with you is not done to ascend above your gifts nor to exalt my self above you because a sharper understanding is given me of the Divine Mystery but rather take it thus viz. that I am not become your Breaker but rather a Beam in our Building in the House of the Mother of us all not through Humane Reason or Art but he that hath Power hath so ordained it even He that doth what he will 8. Now a House must not only have spars and beams but also Stones for the Foundation and it must have divers Joynts Now if the Lord placeth one for the Foundation or Corner-stone and useth another about the Building then we ought to learn to acknowledg the one the other every one according to his gifts and not to despise or reject one another in regard of the unequal gifts as is practised hitherto for a long time in Babel But rather consider the good and benefit of the House and that the one Juncture must not be as the other although it is all one within another and is together but one House 9. To me it is given to understand and to speak of the Ground to another of the whole Building of God as in a sum Yet the Ground and the Whole House is but One it comes from One Spirit and all serveth for the Wonderful Manifestation of God 10. Therefore if I shall speak with you out of my gifts and shew you the House within I desire you to understand and take it Lovingly I do it not out of Levity and Presumption but in true Knowledg given to me of God for benefit and bettering that our Pearl might be found and the Enemy that hath so long detained us captive be choaked in his own Poyson that we may learn to know the Wonderful God in his bottomless Wisdom and delight our selves in him as Children like as a Branch on a Tree in his Essence and Power which Joy and delight is a greening in our Lives Essence Therefore you will not interpret it otherwise 11. You have sent me a Book to behold my self and also your Friends and request me to open my knowledg thereupon unto you which doubtless in my Writings which you have in your hands might be to you already sufficiently opened and understood what I would thereupon answer you Yet seeing it is for Gods Glory and the Benefit and Salvation of Man I wil give you a short and summary Answer unto it and further refer you to my other Writings 12. Of the Author himself who indeed according to mine outward Man is unknown to me yet in the Spirit is not a Stranger but born out of my Mothers Essence and Power I see say and know so much out of his Written Words which without doubt are also his Spirit and full Will that he indeed hath wholly given over himself as he also throughout mentioneth of himself into the Mothers bosom and desireth nothing else but the Mothers Life and Spirit 13. And that indeed the Mother-spirit is in him as in the old and yet now in a new greening Essence doth keep the old in the grim Qualm Prisoner and is so sunk down with the old Essence that he cannot know himself in that he supposeth he is wholly and totally and throughout new and without sin and spot This is truly and rightly said yet only according to the Inward new Man born out of Christ but not according to the Mortal Corruptible Man which the New holdeth captive in him as through-piercing and wholly overshadowing him 14. The Old Stock or Husk understand the Body which Adam by his Imagination into the
Book of the Threefold Life very largely how Man standeth in a Threefold Life Viz. 1. According to the Soul in the Eternal Fathers Nature and in the Root of the Dark World in the Center of the Eternal Original as in the Spirit of the Eternal Father 27. 2 dly How the right true Image and Similitude of God greeneth out of the Soul as out of the Death in the Souls Magical Spirits Fire in another Principium or in another World and becometh free as God himself from Nature as also from Death Qualm and Pain and that the true Image of God liveth not in the Regiment of the outward World nor useth for it self the outward food and drink but eateth of the Divine Substantiality as of the Bread of God Christs Flesh and Blood so that Christ liveth in it and it in Christ and that same Eating consisteth in a Spiritual Desire and also cometh to pass truly and substantially and that the Soul is therewith nourished in her hungers-fire and that a great Gulf happeneth between the Soul and the true Image in the Death of the Fire 28. As we see this in Fire and Light and have therein a true form pattern and similitude where a man by a comparison understandeth the Soul by the fire-glow for it is in it self what concerneth it alone without the noble Image a fire-eye consisting in God the Fathers Eternal Nature brought from the Spirit of God out of the Fathers Property into the outward Created Image which was Created both out of the Outward and Inward heavenly Divine Substantiality and we understand the Noble Image in or by the Light and in the Vertue of the meek Light that out-shineth from the Dying as from the Consuming Qualm of the Fire Where then we see how the Light dwelleth in the Fire without any feeling of the firequalm and how the Fire is a painly Essence to Nature and the Light is free from the Fires Nature and yet without the Fire it is a Nothing 29. Secondly I have shewed you in the fore-mentioned Books how the Fire is a Magick-desire of Meekness to cool it self and to fill its dry Hunger whereout it receiveth Life and Light and again how that the Light is also a great Desire of the Fire to awake its Life Vertue and Power through the Fire 30. Thirdly How that the Light in its Desire maketh a Substantiality and Being viz. Meekness which taketh its Original in the Dying in the Fire which Meekness is called the Water of Eternal Life for it is a sinking through the Death and it giveth Sensibility and and Substantiality and how the Fire doth again draw that same Substantiality into it self and satiate it self therewith and out of that same Indrawing it doth again beget a Spirit out of it self which continually goeth again into the Substantiality and at length bringeth the shining from the Fire and Light into the Substantiality Which Shining or Splendor in the Substantiality of the Meekness is called Tincture which bringeth the Substantiality into the highest Ornament and Colours and thus Reneweth the Essence viz. the forms of the Dark World to the Fire-life and high-graduates it and changeth it into another thing so that out of the unpleasant painly Qualm of the First Principle through Fire the highest Joyfulness ariseth in the precious Tincture And thus the worst is the cause of the best In which Type or Figure we understand in the Inward Birth the Birth and the Substance of the Holy Trinity 31. And then fourthly I have declared to you in the fore-mentioned Books how that the Whole Substance of all Substances is a Continual Desire to manifest it self in its Desire and that this Desire to Manifestation is the Fiat and the Power in the Light is the Word and how that the Word hath moored the Fiat in all the Forms of the Eternal Nature according to the Light and also according to to the Dark World through which the Desire according to both the Worlds Properties hath made Substance in it self whereout in the Substantiality Good and Evil is sprung according to the Property of each World out of which Substance this visible World is created with the Stars and Elements as an own and peculiar Life yet not separated from the Eternal And moreover it is declared how that the Inward Spiritual Substance hath in its Desire manifested it self with this outward visible World as with an Image 32. Now when God created Man as an Image after his Substance a Similitude after God he created him out of the Mother of all Substances and out of all the Three Worlds 33. For God would behold himself through Man in One Image he should be a Similitude after God His Body he created both out of the Outward and Inward Substantiality as out of the Earthly and Heavenly and breathed into it through his Spirit a living Breath that is himself according to the Divine World and also according to the Outward World 34. For the Spirit of God is the Spirit of every Life but distinguished into Three Principles of Three Worlds As 1. According to the Dark World after the First Principle according to which God calleth himself an angry zealous God and a Consuming Fire which is the Eternal Nature And 2 dly According to the Light-World as according to Gods Love and Meekness in regard of which he is called the Holy Spirit And 3 dly According to the Outward World the Ayr-Spirit with the Qualm of the Stars and Elements Thus Man hath received a Threefold Life the Spirit of all the Three Worlds 35. Now it is palpable and plain enough to understand that the Holy Ghost had not his Regiment in the outward earthly Flesh but in the Inward Heavenly For with his entering into the Humanity he also brought in with him the Heavenly Divine Substantiality 36. For Gods Spirit dwelleth from Eternity to Eternity only in Heaven that is only in his own Substance in the Power of the Majesty Now when he breathed himself into the Image of Man then the Heaven was in Man for God would manifest himself in Man as in an Image after himself and open the great Wonders of his Eternal Wisdom through Man 37. Therefore we must rightly consider Man what he is and not make an Earthly Beast of him neither an Angel of his earthly part but he is created into the Wonders in respect of the Earthly Kingdom viz. according to the Third Principle that he should manifest the Wonders in Figures For to that end he hath the Inward Spirit out of the first Principle but he should not domineer therewith neither with the Outward but yeeld himself over to the Holy Ghost in the Second Principle and in the outward Life be as a Child in the Mothers bosom 38. For the Spirit of God had in him the outward Kingdom as it were swallowed up like as the Light swalloweth up the dark Night that a Man seeth it not But through his Imagination into
and immaculate for if a Man will search from whence Sin hath its Original he must look upon the Ground 67. The new Body worketh no Sin but the Soul by Imagining into the Wickedness bringeth Sin into it self Now since the true Similitude after God hath its Beginning out of the Soul therefore the heavenly Substantiality becometh Infected through the Poyson which is taken into the Soul 68. Sin toucheth not the Heart of God as the Center of the New Body but the Substantiality is Infected as when a Man poureth Earth into fair Water The Flesh of the New Man and the Spirit of God is not one thing the Spirit of God remaineth in the new Man although Adam be spoiled in regard of him as it also came to pass in Adam 69. What falleth from the Light-world it the Fire-world receiveth if it be a grim Substantiality then it is swallowed up in the Fire and falleth into the Dark World into Eternal Death When the new Body is infected it loseth its Divine Life the Deity loseth nothing by it but only its Mirror of the Wonders For the Body is not God only it is through the Spirit by the noble Tincture highly graduated with the splendor of the holy Heaven so that in it the Colours of the Divine joy-Joy-kingdom do shine But if it be darkened then the Tincture ariseth in another Property viz. according to that in which the Fire of the Soul burneth such a Tincture shineth also thereout and as the Spirit of Man is in himself such an Heaven he geteth also for his Habitation 70. Nothing can fall beyond God for He himself is All yet he is not called God in respect of his Anger because it devoureth much did it not also devour the whole royal hoste of Lucifer they were Angels and yet became Devils how then should it not be possible in a Man who as yet beareth in him the Sin-mirror in the outward Flesh 71. Indeed if the Soul goeth not into the false Lust so that it desireth not sin then it is not possible The Soul is free it hath the high Fire-Principle in it self both to the Dark and also to the Light World What it awaketh to it self that it hath it can live in Gods Love or Anger Whithersoever it turneth it self there it is received so that it as the Mother of the Eternal Nature is in all things Whither the Eternal Will turneth it self according to that its Image is also figured 72. Therefore Man should not be secure or bold in this World but always humble himself before God and cast his Will into the Heart of God all this time whilest he carrieth the outward Cottage he liveth in danger but while he abideth with his Will in God he is in Gods hand and then no man 〈◊〉 pluck Christs sheep out of Christs hand John 10. except the Will of the Soul teareth it self out from thence which happeneth when the Soul is secure then the Devil soweth his poysonous Imagination into her so that she therein beginneth to imagine after falshood 73. You must understand that the Soul standeth in the Fathers Property and the fair Image when it is begotten standeth in the Sons Property The Soul hath the Center of the Dark World and the Image hath the Center of the Light World as Gods Heart But if it departeth from Gods Love then the Soul bringeth its Image into the Fathers Property into the dark World 74. Therefore we ought to be very humble and submissive before our God and not desire to exalt Our Name but the Name of God in Us We are not the Tree with the Root but little boughs and twigs on the Tree We receive indeed the Essence and Vertue of the Tree like as the Tree giveth it to the Twig But the Twig saith not I am the Tree but it delighteth it self in the Tree as in its Mother 75. If we put on Christ then we are truly called Christians for the new Man liveth in Christ But we ought not to say I am Christ in this mine holy flesh and bones in this my visible Conversation on Earth for Christ said also My Kingdom is not of this World Therefore Christs Kingdom In Us is much less of this World For he said I am gone forth and come from God Again I leave the World and go the Father and I will take you to me that where I am there ye may be 76. Understand it thus When the noble Seed is sown so that the Lilly-twig is born in the Humanity of Christ then he taketh it to himself where He is This noble Twig is not of this World but it cometh from God and its Plant groweth in Gods Kingdom not in this World not in Adams Manhood neither in the Woman Eva but in the Virgin being neither Man nor Woman but a chaste Virgin that follow-God and the Lamb. 77. For that is the Angel whereof Christ speaketh Matth. 22. and Mark 12. In the Resurrection they are like the Angels of God When he is born out of Christ then he expecteth no Resurrection for himself for he is Immortal if the Soul doth not poyson him in the time of this World But he Waiteth for the Outward Mysterium as the third Principle in which he hath sown all his Wonders and Works that same swalloweth up here the Outward Life with its Works and that shall come again out of the Mysterium 78. For the First Adam before his Eva he being neither Man nor Woman shall stand he shall have all the three Principles in him as God himself but not so mingled together as Now when one is brought into the other 79. The Outward World is compacted and born out of the Inward in the Desire of the Inward and in the Fiat created into a form not altogether to a fading transitory Substance for it shall be renewed in the Fire and stand again to Gods Wonder-deed not four Elements but One in which the four do lie hid For the Outward World shall not rule but the Inward Divine World through all things 80. As little as the Outward Visible World can be called God so little also the Name of God becometh or befitteth the outward Life in flesh and bones For God gave Adam a name and called him MAN he named Adam MAN This the highest Tongue understandeth Well in the Language of Nature that the name Adam hath its Original from the Second Principle as from Gods Kingdom out of the Divine Essence and the name Man from the Limus whereout the outward Body was created 81. For every thing getteth its right Name out of its Essence according to its Spirit like as the most dear Name of JESUS CHRISTUS hath a double sence Viz. By the Name JESUS in the highest Tongue is understood the Motion of the Divine Center as an Out-going Lust or Delight bringing the Lowliness in the Humility forth in the Out-going joy-Joy-kingdom in Majesty 82. And in the Name CHRISTUS is understood an In-going
or Entrance of the Love into the Anger a Breaking or Killing of the Grimness and a Perfect Transmutation with the forth-bringing of the Joy-kingdom Wherein we then understand that God himself hath resisted his Anger as the First Principle with the Second as with his Love and himself broken the grim Death the which the Souls-spirit alone Understandeth when it attaineth the Heavenly Mysterium 83. Therefore we ought to beware that we do not abuse the most precious Name of God but call him only a Christian who is a Christian viz. the Inward Man out of Christ The Outward sinful Man retaineth justly his own Name from or out of his Mother wherein he Liveth Seeing God hath given to Adam an Outward Name according to the Outward Man and the Inward also according to the Inward Man why would We then mount higher then we are in the Ground 84. Now when the Author saith of himself I the living Word of God in this my holy flesh and bones say this and do this then the Dear Name of God is thereby abused For when the Spirit of Man is chosen to be a Prophet and Mouth of God then saith he only Thus saith the LORD as all Prophets have so spoken He doth it not out of himself out of his flesh and bones but the LORD revealeth his Will through him He is only an Instrument thereto 85. He is not in flesh and bones the LORD but in the Life of Christ a fruitful humble Twig that neither will nor doth any thing it self and also desireth nothing but its Mothers Essence the Mother may do with it what she Will The Mother will only have humble Children to lie on her Brest and drink of her Vertue and live in her Will so that she may delight her self in them for her fruit groweth upon their twigs which is the praise of the Tongues in Gods Wonder-deed 86. It must not be taken so as if I would despise a Christian spirit but I teach in the Spirit of Christ in him seeing I must speak of the Root and this is the Office given me that we may edifie our selves in the knowledg in Christ in One Tree and I beseech you to understand it right For to speak with an Angels Tongue with the Mouth of the Holy Ghost is a great matter Let no man ride unarmed if Gods Spirit armeth not his Tongue Heart and Spirit and giveth assurance and Certainty then let him not say The LORD speaketh 87. For often when the Fire of the Holy Ghost shineth out of the Inward viz. out of Gods Substance through the Outward the Outward Mysterium is kindled and rejoyceth exceedingly and beginneth in the knowledg of the Light to speak with Tongues out of the Mysterium But the Will-spirit ought Well to look to it self that the Outward Spirit do not go too high and speak with Tongues out of it self in the LORDS Name For the Outward Spirit triumpheth when it getteth a Look as if it were in the Inward and mounteth often thus aloft with Joyfulness But the Outward Reasons-spirit from the Stars mingleth it self willingly therewith 88. Therefore it is a very subtil thing to speak with the Outward Mouth out of Divine Tongues the Holy Ghost must go upon the Wings of the Wind and direct the Understanding that the Mind may find it experimentally for the Certainty must be in the Mind 89. The Prophet that speaks is not the Assurance for the speaks out of two Tongues as out of the Turba of the Wickedness of Men which he reproveth and also out of the Love out of Christs Humanity and sheweth the right Way 90. Now the Certainty or Assurance consisteth in the Mind that must be kindled and filled with the Holy Ghost then the Mouth of the LORD speaketh through the Outward Mouth not as its Own Word but as the Word of God Only the noble Image in the Inward standeth as it were trembling before the Presence and great Power of the Lord. 91. It maketh no Words in the Name of the LORD unless the Spirit of God doth form them then it must do as a Child in Obedience and although the LORD commanded Fire to fall from Heaven as by Elia it cannot contain it self it shall and must perform the Work of the LORD in Zeal 92. Therefore I say in good truth out of my gifts that a man ought to have a great care of himself if he must or will speak with the Mouth of the LORD for if he will say I the Living Word of God say and do this then must the Will of the LORD be there and the Spirit of God must arm the Tongue Heart and Mind and even himself go with it otherwise it is not the Word of the LORD but of the Outward Man 93. What the Author saith further of the altogether fleshly Christendom which carrieth no more but only the Name in the Mouth when the heart and mind are known before God to be only a Mocker of the Name of Christ is so indeed and he hath after his knowledg written very truly of it 94. This Christendom hath now borrowed the Mantle of Christ with his Passion Death and Satisfaction and hath thereunder hidden the Antichristian Bastard and covereth that same Man of Pride and Falshood with the Purple-mantle of Christ and rideth therewith in Babel upon the horrible and abominable Beast spoken of in the Revelation of John 95. It tickleth it self with Christs Passion and Satisfaction and yet will not enter into Christs Passion Death and Resurrection and be born out of Christs Spirit the Bastard must only be comforted 96. O! to how many an one shall the Mantle of Christ be turned to hellish fire wherewith he covereth the man of falshood There is not spoken only of Comfort but ye must be born anew out of Water and the Holy Ghost otherwise ye shall not see the Kingdom of God saith the Mouth Christus 97. The Will must be turned from Deceit and Falshood into Righteousness and Truth if he will be called a Christian with the ground of Truth and not only in the Mouth but in the Deed be a Christian 98. But he that carrieth Christ only in the Mouth and is not born out of the Will and Spirit of Christ he is the Antichrist and boasteth himself unjustly a Christian if he striveth not against the Will of the Flesh and continually killeth it then the Life of Christ is not in him but the Outward Worlds and the Devils Will in the Anger of God is in him For Christ said Whosoever entereth not in by the Door into the Sheepfold but climbeth up some other way He is a Thief and a Robber and cometh but for to rob steal and the Sheep follow him not for they know not his Voyce He is but a Hireling and the Sheep are not his own he seeketh only the Wool 99. If any will be a Shepherd of Christ he must not be a Stranger but must be born out
Imagination into the Earthly World which standeth Essentially within the dark World whereby her Almightiness was and is broken and inclosed in the Death so she turn her self again into the Light in the Almightiness in the Spirit of Christ who hath broke that same Death in her viz. in the Soul she must go again into Gods house into her self 119. Therefore it is necessary to become new born to beget out of himself a New Son out of the Old not a New Soul but a New Image out of the Soul in the Power of the Holy Ghost a Twig out-greening out of his own Essence in the Spirit of Christ and standing within the Light of the Deity not being shone upon from without but shining out of it self 120. The New Image is the food of the Fiery Soul and fuel for her burning The Soul eateth the Love-essence of the Image and giveth out of the Consuming as out of the grim Dying the high Light and in the Light through Fire out of the Desire of the Love and out of the Desire of the Fire the high and noble Tincture of the Holy Life with the power of Colours and Vertues 121. In which Power the Center of the Joy-kingdom of the Light-World standeth as the Heart of the Deity out of which the Holy Ghost proceedeth For the Fires-Center of the Soul and the Lights-Center in the Souls Image are it out of which the Spirit of God is begotten 122. The Spirit of God entereth not from Without into the Soul but he openeth himself in himself through the Souls-fire and through the Light-fire of the Image He is the Holy Mans peculiar Propriety 123. When a Man entereth into earnest Repentance and layeth hold on an earnest Will to enter into the Mercy of God within himself and casteth from himself all false Will then is the grain sown whereout the noble Flower in the Holy Trinity groweth Understand that the Souls-Will is turned thereby out of the Dark World into the Light World 124. And then when she Imagineth into the Light World into the Center of the Deity as she before hath Imagined into this World then she shall in her self in her Imagination or Desire grow pregnant of the Saviour and out of this Pregnancy God is begotten always and to all Eternity 125. Thus the true Man becometh the food of God and God the food of Man and so are We in God and God in Us and work with and in God and are his true Children in him 126. And this we had not been able to do being Adam brought his Souls-fire into the Grimness and his noble Image out of the Soul in God if Gods Heart had not entered again into the in Death inclosed Image of the Soul and given himself into the Grimness of the Souls-fire and brought again Divine Substantiality into the Image understand into the Essence of Mary to the Image 127. Understand the Holy Tincture arose together with the divine Substantiality in the Substantiality in Gods Spirit and the Holy Blood which the Tincture in humane Property maketh Blood went into the middle of the Turba of the Soul when the Outward Life broke on the Cross Then the Grimness of Death was broken with the Love and Meekness of God and transmuted into a Life of Joy and here Death was shewed openly For divine Love was again begotten in the grim Essence of the Soul and that is our New Birth in Christ into which the Desire of our Soul must enter if it will behold God and be begotten in Christ out of God 128. Christ is the New Stock and we green forth as Branches in him We must be born in God and must also beget God in us if we will be Branches on the Tree For upon the Branches which we are the Holy fruit groweth which Gods Spirit eateth in us viz. the Praise of God 129. Loving Brothers jest not and esteem it not a fiction it is known in Ternarium Sanctum in the pure River out of Zion Let no man expect or stay for a golden Time in which the Holy Spirit shall out of the outward Mouth cry into the hardened Man who will live only in the lust of the flesh I say into his Bestial Will O no that will not be 130. Whosoever will hear the Holy Ghost teaching out of the Mouth of another he must before bring his Will into the Holy Ghost and then the Holy Ghost preacheth unto him out of the Mouth of another within him 131. The Time is already that Henoch teacheth and Noah denounceth the Deluge there is henceforth no other sign then the sign of Elias Why doth the World stand gazing and suffereth its Ears in Vain to be filled with the Stars it is all in vain 132. Whosoever will enter with Zion and praise God in Jerusalem he hath now the acceptable time the Sound of the Seventh Trumpet is already Sounded The Fountain of Israel is open Let no Man imagine that the Trumpets-Sound will come from this or that place For as the Lightening ariseth and shineth unto the West so from the Beginning to the End is the Coming of the Son of Man 133. Let no man expect the Outward Prophet he shineth Inwardly in the Spirit the Outward Man shall not know him for he standeth in the Crown-number and preacheth in the Mysterium he is already known and found whoso desireth to see him let him seek him in himself and leave Babel he will find him 134. The Right Way into Eternal Life is in Man he hath brought the Will of the Soul into the Outward World it must he again bring into himself into the Inward World Paradise must green in Man 135. But he hath a dangerous and tedious Way to go for the turned Will must enter into it self again and break-through through the Kingdom of the Stars and Elements O how is he there held It must be a great Earnestness not Hypocrisie and an abiding with the Will in the Kingdom of the Stars 136. The Will must forsake the Outward World and yet it cannot wholly do it for it must maintain the Outward Body O how grievous is this in the Beginning when that must be forsaken which is so dear to the Outward Man wherein his joy and glory stands O how doth the Outward Man in the Souls-spirit hold back 137. How exceeding many Conflicts and Assaults must there be holden how busie is the Devil and sets before the poor Soul the glory and beauty of this World as riches and the pleasures of the Flesh 138. It falleth not so presently on a heap from him the Outward Will must be broken in pieces with an hard bickering and yet it dyes not but is shut up in the prison of the Inward Will and must be servant until the breaking or dissolution of the Outward Life 139. Therefore I say upon sure ground that all what is taught of God out of the Spirit of the Outward World and heard in the Outward Spirit is
Son alone who is in the Fathers Unmeasurable Bosom he declareth to Us the Word and Will of God in our selves so that we hear and understand his Will and good pleasure within us and are willing to follow the same but yet are oft kept back by the outward sinful flesh so that the Working of that same divine Power goeth not always into the Outward Figure and yet it goeth into the Inward Figure in the Inward Spiritual World whereof S t Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven 11. Of which also all the Saints and especially S t Paul hath complained viz. that they have the earnest Will and with the Mind of the Inward Ground serve God but with the flesh the Law of Sin so that the Flesh lusteth against the Spirit Which Lust is daily drowned and killed in the Death of Christ through the Inward Ground yet only in those in whom Christ is risen from Death and thus no Condemnation is to them who are in Christ Jesus For the Bestial Body belongeth to the Earth but the Spiritual Body belongeth to God But whosoever hath not it is living dead and neither heareth nor perceiveth any thing of the Spirit of God it is foolishness unto him according to the Scripture 12. Therefore this Point is not sufficiently understood and declared by maintaining only and alone a Grace received from Without and also such a Forgiveness of Sins The Forgiving of Sins and the Childship received into the Grace consisteth in the Justification of the Blood and Death of CHRIST when CHRIST's Heavenly Blood tinctured us and overcame the Wrath of God in our Soul and Inward divine Ground being out of the Substance of Eternity with the highest Love of the Deity in the Name of JESUS and changed it again into the divine Humility Obedience the torn temperature of our humane Property of Obedience and good Will entering again into the Harmony and Unity of the Properties 13. Then was the Fathers Anger which was awaked in our Lives Properties and had made it self a Governor or Ruler in Soul and Body whereby we were dead to the Kingdom of Heaven and became Children of Wrath turned again into that One Only Love and Likeness of God and our Humane Will dyed away in the Death of Christ from its own I-hood and own Willing and the First Humane Will which God out of his Spirit gave into Adam out-greened again through the Victory of the sweetness of God in Christs Heavenly Blood Then was the Devil and Hell which held Men captive confounded for this the dry Rod of Aaron did signifie which greened in one night and bare sweet Almonds 14. Now as the Sin came from one and thronged from one upon all so also the sweet Grace and Victory in Christ thronged from one upon all The Death and the Anger was broken in pieces in Christ in that one Adamical Soul and a possibility to Grace through the Breaking of Death was opened through which broken Gate the Soulish Will may again turn it self into the first Mother out of which it came in the Beginning as into the Childship or New Birth of a New Life and Will There it may attain and reach the sweet Blood of Jesus Christ which in Christ in our Humanity brake in pieces the Gates of Death and changed the Anger of God in our Humanity in himself into Love wherein the poor captive Soul drinketh out of Gods Fountain and refresheth her self in her fire-breath whereout the New Greening out-greeneth the Hunger and Desire of the Soul becoming then Substantial in the Blood of Christ after an heavenly manner 15. Now like as the Breaking of Death must be done in the Person of Christ in our Soul and Humanity so that the Eternity in Christ wherewith he was come from Heaven and also was in Heaven Joh. 3. overcame the Time as the Life and Will of the Time and did change Time with its Will into the Eternal Will of the Deity and all that was to be done in our received Humanity So must also the Desire of our Soul receive into it self that same Eternal Will in Christ where Time and Eternity stand in an Harmony and Concordance and through that Power sink it self into the Childship as into the Grace that the same Inward Paradisical Ground which dyed in Adam might again out-green in the Will of the Obedience of Christ through his Heavenly and from us received humane Blood 16. In our selves must the Expiation be manifested through Christs once made Expiation indeed through that which once was made in Christs Blood and Death But that same which once came to pass in Christ must also do it in me it must now through Christs Bloodshedding come to pass also in me Christ sheddeth also his Heavenly Blood into my Desire in my poor Soul and tinctureth the Wrath of God therein that the First Adamical Image of God may again appear and become seeing hearing feeling tasting and smelling 17. For that Image which dyed in Adam from the Heavenly Worlds Essence as the right Paradisical one dwelleth not in the four Elements its Essence and Life standeth not in this World but in Heaven which becometh revealed in Christ in us as in the one pure and holy Element whereout the four Elements in the Beginning of Time are sprung and that same New Inward Spiritual Man eateth Christs Flesh and Blood for he liveth and is in Christ Christ is his Stock and he is a branch on the Stock 18. For every Spirit eateth of that of which he hath his Original as the Animalish Mortal Soul eateth of the Spirit of the World of the Stars and Elements of the Kingdom of this World But the true Eternal Soul which is breathed out of the Eternal Word into Man as a Divine Life eateth of its Mother as out of the Holy Substantial Word of God 19. But seeing that this after her separation from God was not possible for her therefore came that same Word of Life as her true Mother again to the out-turned Soul into this Vale of Misery into the Prison of Hell and brought its Heavenly Substance into our Humane as a Body for the Soul and therewith embraced and encompassed our poor captive Soul and did open again her heavenly Mouth afore dead in the Anger of God with the Tincture of Love so that the poor Soul can again eat heavenly Manna Which eating stood in Christs Person with our received Humanity in the Temptation of Christ in the Desart again in the tryal when Adam in Christ ate Manna again from Paradise forty days 20. Therefore I say that if any one be a Christian he is it not through an imputed graceshew from Without his sins are not forgiven him through the once happened Word-speaking from Without as a Lord in this World giveth a Murtherer his Life through an outward imputed Grace No no this availeth nothing before God 21. There is no Grace wherethrough we can come to the Childship