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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

this Heaven wherein God dwells is not manifest in the outward Complexion but only in it self viz. in the second Principle It oft happens that the holiest Souls are in this manner overwhelmed with Sadness and this not without Gods special permission to the end they may be proved and strive the more earnestly after that heavenly Crown of Victory which is given them in this Life as a pledge of their everlasting Felicity For when the Soul takes Heaven as it were by Storm and wins her Crown the Gift of the holy Ghost after a constant persevering stedfastness in the fiery Conflict her Crown of triumph is much more noble and pretious then that which is not obtained till after the bodily Death for the Revelation of Jesus Christ saith To him that overcomes will I give to sit with me upon my Throne as I have overcome and am seated on my Father's Throne Therefore let no man thus tormented with anguish imagin with himself in the assaults of the Complexion that it ●…mes from God's wrath and want of mercy in him which is a meer sancy of his own Complexion in the Stars For we ●…ell see that the vilest ●…atted Swine of the Devil's herd that wallow and bath themselves day and night in the filth of Sin are not so full of Sadness not so assaulted with this kind of Temptations the reason is because they have an outward light in the Complexion wherein they dance before the Devil in an Angels likeness So as long as there is but one little spark of Light glimmering in a man's Heart which ●…s God's Grace and would gladly pertake of Salvation the Door of Gods Grace stands yet open For he who is given over by God whose Sin is come to the full measure he is not at all soli●…ous after God Man or Devil but is stone-blind runs on carelesly in a course of lightness without fear ●…s himself upon a customary practice of some outward Service of God goes a Beast into the Sanctury and com●… again a Beast out there is in him no true divine knowledge but all his Religion is a meer outward Custom and Chimarea of man's Brain which he sets up to himself as an Idol and imbraces it as his Holiness The sorrowful Soul troubles and torments it self because it cannot presently in the point of its des●…re dig up in it self the Fountain o●… the greatest Joy it sighs and bewails its sa●… condition thinks God will have none of it when it cannot palpably feel his presence it sees other men that walk along with it in God's fear that yet are cheer●…ul enough and supposing this cheerfulness of theirs proceeds only from a divin●… Fountain of Love and Light in their Souls is concei●…ed that 〈◊〉 is not accepted with God but rather rejec●…d by him because 〈◊〉 doth no●… presently upon its Conversion which it expected feel in its Heart the like comfortable effects of the refreshing presence of God. Before the time of m●… enlightning it went even thus with me I stood out a hard conflict before I obtained my precious Crown of Victory and then did I first learn out this experimental knowledge th●…t God dwells not in the outward fl●…shly Heart but in the Soul's centre in himself then was I also first aware of it that ' 〈◊〉 God which had laid hold on me and drawn me to him in my first desire which before I was ignorant of thinking the good desire had been my own Property and th●… God was indeed far from me But afterw●…rds I saw him and rejoyced at the unspeakable Grace and Love of God and now write the same for a Caveat that they by no means fain●… or di●…ir when the Comfor●… del●…ys his coming but rather think of that of Davi●… Heaviness may endure for a Night but Joy cometh in the Morning Have a cer●…ain assured con●…idence upon Gods promise and however thy mis-giving Heart say No yet let not this asfright thee For to believe is not to be filled with Joy in the fles●…ly Heart and outwar●… Complexion that the fleshly mind and spirit be so jocond that the very Heart and R●…ins leap fo●… joy this is not Faith but these are only some Love-em●…nations from the holy Ghost within a divine lightning which hath no s●…ability but after a short resplendance disappears For God dwells no●… in the outward Heart or Complexion but in himself in the second centre in the Jewel of the noble Image of God's likeness which is hidden in this outward world Dear Soul think no other when the anxious property of thy Complexion thus kindled by the Stars begins to move but that thou then stands as a Labourer in God's Vineyard thou must not stan●… idle but be working thou dost God ●…herein a great and very considerable piece of Service and t●…y labour is this th●…t thou overcome the Temptation by an unmoveable Faith however no comfort appear in the outward Heart to support it be not deceived 't is not Faith to give a●…nt to what I see and feel but this is Faith to trust the hi●…den Spirit and believe the truth of its words maugre all the Contradictions of blind Nature The Soul that 〈◊〉 lockt up in the dark Chamber of the Melancholy Complexion should not dwell long or scarce at all in Speculations about the wrath of God nor give it self much to solitude but rather spend its time in Godly Conferences For so the matter of those friendly and profitable yielding sufficient entertainment to the working Phansie 't is by this means handsomly diverted from its torturing Cogitations For no deep speculation is in this state prositable for it which seeing it cannot turn it to its health and comfort 't is better let it alone Also the Melancholy Mind should with great care avoid Drunkenness for when the Body thus loads it self with Drink then the earthly power of the Drink taketh the Complexion Chamber totally in then do●… the Soul with the Imagination to its great hurt feed upon the earthly Prop●…rty kindles its Fire therewith and rejoyceth for 〈◊〉 short time in it But when that man becometh sober again after his Drink then stands the poor Soul as most desolate and more then ever forsaken of God for it loses in the overflowing of th●… earthly Property the divine Imagination and Desire for th●… Spirit of God will not have his dwelling in the earthly Imagination I speak it as a most certain ●…ruth which I have 〈◊〉 well grounded knowledge of in the centre of Nature and deepest Principle of Life The Soul must be content to remain in Sorrow for a little time for while it sits contentedly in the House of Mourning it is not in the House of Sin. But alas what is it How soon will it be at liberty from its sorrowful Prison and have the victorious Crown of everlasting Joy set upon in Head O Eternity thy duration is of vast extent What is it for a Soul to be a small moment in sadness

and Adam made himself Earth and that he is ●…ut can a man make of himself what he will he hath both before him the Fire and the Light Will he be an Angel in the Light then God's Spirit in Christ helpeth him to the Society of the angelical Quire. But will he be a Devil in Fire then God's anger helpeth him into the Abiss to the Devil Now observe further God said to the Serpent the old Devil Seeing tho●… hast done this cursed art thou And to the creaturely Serpent which must now become a creature for the Devil had turned himself into the form of a Serpent therefore must the Serpent also continue to it he said Thou shalt go upon thy Belly and 〈◊〉 Earth Seeing it had seduced man so that he was become ●…arthly therefore should also the Devil's Image be earthly and devour the fierce wrathful Source or Quality viz. Poyson that should now be its Source or Quality And here we are to know that the Devil figured or framed to himself the Serpent's Image from the Constellations and elements through his Imagination so he had great Power till the Lord wholly cursed him and set the dear Name Jesus for a mark or limit o●… seperation and there his great Power was laid Adam was the only man that God created Eve his Wife God would not create Generation was to be out of one only But seeing he fell so that God must make him a Wife then came the Covenant and Promise again upon one only that all should be regenerate and new Born again out of one only viz. out of the second Adam not out of the Virgin Mary but out of Christ the heavenly Adam God set his purpose in Adam's Child and brought his Imagination into the persished Image and impregnated the same with his divine Power and Substantiality and converted the Soul's will out of the Earthliness into God so that thus Mary became impregnated with such a Child as Adam should have been impregnated with Which Self ability could not effect but sunk down int●… Sleep viz. into the Magia where then the VVoman wa●… made out of him which should not have been made 〈◊〉 Adam himself should have impregnated in Venus's Matrix and have generated Magically But seeing that might not be therefore was Alam divided and his own Will of great might and power was broken in him and shut up in Death But now Alam being divided the Man longeth after the Matrix of the Wife and the VVife after the Limbus of the Man The woman hath a watry Tincture and the man a fiery the man soweth Soul and the woman Spirit and both sow Fiesh viz. Sulpher therefore is Man and VVife but one Body and make together a Child And therefore ought to continue together if they once mix VVhosoever mixeth w●…ith another or seperateth from one another they break the Ordinance of Nature and such a one is like the bruite Beasts and considereth not that in the Seed the eternal Tincture lieth wherein the divine Substantiality lieth hid Also that is a work which will follow after man in the Shadow and its Source or Quality will one day be made stirring in the Conscience Of the Soul's original with its Essences Substance and Property THe Soul is a Life awakened out of the Eye of God its original is the Fire and the Fire is its Life Thi●… is the greatest wonder that the Eternity hath wrought that it 〈◊〉 ma●…e the eternal a corporeal Spirit which thing no Sense can find out and it is unfathomable to us For no Spirit can sound it self it seeth well the Deep even into the Abiss but it comprehendeth not its Maker it 〈◊〉 and diveth into him indeed but it knoweth not its own making this is only hidden to it and nothing else therefore 〈◊〉 we are cómmanded to be silent and dive no further The Essences of the Soul came out of the centre of Nature out of the Fire with all For●…s of Nature all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lie in the Soul. All that God hath and ca●… do and th●…t God is in his T●…rnary all this is in the Essence of the Soul as the virtue of a Tree i●… in the T●… that groweth out of it The Substance of the Soul is heavenly created creat●… out of the divine Essentiality yet the Will of it is free eith●… to demerse it self and esteem it self nothing and so eat of the Love of God as a Twig feedeth upon a Tree or to ris●… up in its Fire and be a Tree of it self and eat of that and so get Essentiality viz. a creaturely Body The Property of the first Soul was created according to both Mothers but all Properties lie in it it may awaken and let in what it will and whatsoever it awakneth and le●…h i●… is pleasing to God if its Will b●… in the Love of God in humili●…y and obedience Of the breathing in of the Soul and of its peculiar Fashion and ●…orm EVery Spirit without a Body is empty and knoweth not it self and therefore every Spirit desireth a Body for its Food and for its Habitation Hence the outward Image according to the Spirit of this World with the outward Fiat was conceived and a Body was created out of the Matrix of the Earth a mass or red Earth consisting of Fire and Water The inward man was in Heaven and his Essences wer●… P●…radisical his glance in the inward Eye was Majesty an incorruptible Body which could speak the Language of God and of Angels and the Language of Nature as we see in Adam that he could give Names to all Creatures to every one according to its Essence and Property 〈◊〉 was also in the outward Image and yet knew not the outward Image 〈◊〉 inde●…d the Body hath no knowledge And in this two ●…old Body which was created in the sixt●… Day in the sixth Hour of the Day in the same Hour whic●… Christ was hanged on the Cross after the Body was finished the royal Soul was breathed in from within by the holy Ghost into the Heart in the holy man into its Principle like an awakening of the D●…y A●…d the outward Spirit viz. the Air and the whole outward Principle with the Stars and Elements did cleav●… to the inward and the outward Spirit breathed its Life in the same manner with the Soul through the Nostrils into the Heart into the outward Heart into the earthly Flesh which was not then so earthly The Source of the Wrath insinuated it self with the breathing in viz. with the original of the Soul so that the Soul could not remain God's Image unless it remained in Humility and Obedience and yielding its Will into God's Will or else it were very difficult for a Creature to rule such two Principles as the wrathful and the outward are the outward being also born out of the wrathful Therefore sure its Temptation was not only the biting of an Aple nor di●… it continue only for some few Hours but

of Light which turn themselves backward into one another as the VVheel in Ezekiel that could go on every side though Babel hath contrived another meaning about it but a blind one without a Spirit 〈◊〉 the meer Soul is not co●…oreal but in its Tin●…ure a Body groweth whether it be a heavenly or a ●…ellish Body and yet is not a Body which can be com●…rehended outwardly but a virtual Body the divine ●…ody Christ's heavenly Body the heavenly ●…lesh which he giveth us to eat in his ●…estament But the outward Spirit it the Soul do not hinder it but let it in bringeth its Imagi●…tion into and spoil●… it o that another strange ●…mage cometh to be in 〈◊〉 Spirit in the ●…incture acco●…ding to the contents 〈◊〉 L●…st as the covetous come to be a Wolf the ●…ous a Dog the proud a Ho●…se Peacock or other 〈◊〉 also Toads Adders Serpents a●…d other Worms and creeping things Now ●…ods Sp●…rit receiveth not their Images so long as they continu●… such Of the Propagation of Soul viz. how it cometh into a Child in the Mother 's Womb. THe VVoman hath gotten the Matrix viz. the Tincture of Venus or Tincture of Light and the Man hath the Tincture of Fire which you may perceiv●… by the eager Imagination of both towards one another For the S●…d in the Essence eagerly seeketh ●…he Life the Man 's in the VVoman●… in Ve●…us and the VVoman's in the Fire in the original of Life For they must now propagate as Beasts do in two Seeds the Man soweth Soul and the woman Spirit and being sown in an earthly Field it is also brought forth after the manner of all Beasts Nevertheless all the three Principles are in the Seed but the inward cannot be by known the outward for in the Seed the Soul is not living but when the two Tinctures come together then it is a whole Essence for the Soul is essential in the Seed and in the Conception it becometh Substantial Thus the S●…ul cometh not at all into the Body or is breathed into it from without but the three Principles have each of them its own Artificer one working Fire in the centre and the other maketh VVater 〈◊〉 the Tincture and the third maketh the earthly MisteryMagnum and yet it is no new thing but the very Seed of Man and VVoman and is only conceived in the mixture and so only a Twig g●…eth out of the Tree The Soul is not every time new created and breathed in but is propagated after a human manner as a Branch groweth out of a Tree as I may better render it as a man 〈◊〉 or sow●…th Seed and so a Spirit and Body groweth out of it And this is only the difference that the three Principles are alwayes in str●…fe about Man each would fain have him So that many times a wonderful Turba is brought in while yet he remains in the Seed But if the Parents both ●…ather and Mother have their Souls cloathed with Christ's ●…lesh and divine ●…ssentiallity then it cannot be for Christ saith A good Tree cannot bring for●…h evil Fruit yet the Turba in time ca●… enter in with the Reason So also an evil Tree cannot bring sorth good 〈◊〉 that is if both the Parents be evil and held captiv●… by the Devil then an evil Soul is sown but the Principles cannot yet judge it nor the Turba neither it i●… indeed an evil Chi●…d ●…t if it turn it may with th●… Imagination e●…ter into the VVord of the Lord. Consider this ve evil Parents ye gather Money for your Children get them good Souls that is more necessary for them How and where the Soul is seated in man also of its Illumination THe Soul is in God conceived in the Heart and the VVord which conceived it was in the Heart viz. in the centre and so it continueth in the Figure and in the Seat as it was comprehended by the Fiat an●… so it is still at this day It dwelleth in three Principles but the Heart is its original it is the inward ●…ire in the Heart in the inward Blood in the Heart and the Spirit of it which hath a glance from the Fire is in the Tincture for it is cloathed with the Tincture and burneth in the Heart The Soul is indeed seated in the inward Principle but it ruleth even in the outward viz. in the Stars and Elements and if it be not an Ape and suffer it self to be captivated it hath power enough to rule them and if the Soul demerse it self into God the outward must be obedient to it The outward Essence reacheth not the inward into the Soul but only by the Imagination There is nothing else in this world no 〈◊〉 ●…or Sword that can touch the Soul or put it to death but only the Imagination that is its Poyson for it originally proceedeth from the Imagination and 〈◊〉 in it eternally The Soul is thus enlightned it is in this world and ●…lso in God here in this Life it is a Servant of God's wonders which it should open with one Eye and with the other bring them into the beginning before God and set and cast all its doings into God's will and by no means say of any thing in this This is mine I am Lord of this for it lyeth if it say so All is God's thou art a Servant and shouldst walk in Love and Humility towards God and thy Brother for thy Brother's Soul is a fellow-Member with thy Soul thy Brother's joy in Heaven with God is also thy Joy his Wonders are also thy Wonders For in Heaven God is all in all he ●…deth all the holy Ghost is the Life of all there is meer Jo●… there is no Sorrow there all is Go●…'s one rejoyceth at the Power Brightness and Beauty of another there is no Malice nor Envy for all that remaineth in Death Hell. O how cheerful is the Soul when its a●…ish sourcè of Fire tasteth God's Light how exceeding courteous it is O how it boweth it self before God. Whether is the Soul of a new-born Child without Sin HOw can a Soul be born pure it cannot be it bringeth the Turba with it into the World an●…●…s ●…ful in the Mother's ●…omb Yet the Soul is not wholly forsaken of God so far as ●…he Father and Mother are ho est and in God for it cometh from the Soul of the 〈◊〉 and Mother And although a Child dye in the Mothers womb without Baptism yet it is baptized with the Spirit of the ●…ather and of the Mother viz. with the holy Ghost which dwelleth in them and the Turba is destroyed in Death for the Faith's part passeth through to God. But the matter is far otherwise with wicked Parents if the Child dye in the Mother's Womb the Soul of it falleth into the Turba and reacheth not od to Eternity it also knoweth nothing of him but it is a Life according to the Essence and Property of the Parents And yet it doth not

and Herbs All these stand in the Figure in the middle but quite void of such Essences and Life For no Beast cometh again but its Figure continueth in the Magia for it arose out of the eternal Glass so that now when the 〈◊〉 Glass breakesh it must remain in the eternal as a wonder to God's honour and glory forever more Here the Spirit of God will manifest himself forthwith in all the three Principles and stir up the center of Nature so that it shall burn in the ●…ire of anger for ●…ll both Heaven Earth and the ●…irmament shall be set on fire together and the Turba will 〈◊〉 up the earthly world in the ●…ire and restore it to that which it was before the Creation only the Wond●… remain st ll in two Princip es the third Principle doth vanish quite away all but the wonders And then the earthly Life and the earthly Body will fall away and the ●…ire will con●…me them and the glorious bright Paradisical body of the Righteous shall pa●… through the Fire with its wonders which shall follow it and whatsoever is false shall remain in the ●…ire The Wicked also must go into the ●…ire and their earthly Life will also fall away and their monstro●… Image will appear in the Spirit according to the shape of all hideous abominable Beasts like the Devil And in that Hour also the wrathful 〈◊〉 of the darkness shall bring forth the Devils who shall then receive their wages and lodging at the hearing of which they tremble All the D●…ad both good and evil shall arise every one in his two-fold Body and shall have the Soul wit●… the Spirit in the Body one shall have the outward earthly ●…fe or Body and therein a beastial Image in the spirit of the Soul and in the inward Image he shall have the essentiality of the wrathful Anger another shall have the outward Body Ch●… image there in and the divine Spirit of Lov●… shall shine in the Spirit of his Soul which Body the word Fiat cloatheth again with the true and pure 〈◊〉 Image For the first Body which God created and Christ 〈◊〉 with his Blood that will bring the Wonders with it and enter again into Paradise and be cloathed with the Majesty of God and then the 〈◊〉 of God is with men For the noble Image was destroyed in Adam when 〈◊〉 Woman was taken out of him so that he retained ●…ly the ●…ture of the Fire and the woman had the ●…ture of the Spirit but now they return to them ●…holly again ●…or the woman shall receive the Tincture of the Fire 〈◊〉 that ●…he shall be as 〈◊〉 ●…as neither man nor woman but a Virgin full of Chastity without the mem●…ers of man or woman And then they shall no more say Thou art my Hus●…nd or thou art my Wi●…e but they are 〈◊〉 Indeed there shall some remaining tokens of the difference be in the divine Magical wonders but none will regard that for they are all of them me●…ly the Children of 〈◊〉 liv●…ng the Life of Children in the delighting sport of Love. All the Words which the Mouth hath spoken which the Air hath received these the Air shall bring again forth for it is the Glass of the eternal Spirit the Spirit seeth them in the Glass And so man shall be judged according to his Heart Mind and Thoughts for the Turba is in all malice 〈◊〉 wickedness which is contrary to Love here will be no making of excuse for every one will accuse himself his own Turba will accuse him We direct you to the Scripture for it shall come to pass just according to the holy Scripture Note this world will be no more regarded for all earthly Knowledge and Cogitations shall remain in the Turba of the earthly life in the 〈◊〉 we shall have no knowledge more of our Parents Children or ●…riends who are in Hell. We shall have some knowledge of Hell but see nothing of it save only in the Magia in the Mystery for the Devils must dwell in darkness the wrathful Fire which is in them is the r light they have Eyes of Fire to see withal all 〈◊〉 besides is gone for the Majesty hath swallowed it up that it may burn in love We shall all know one another among our selves by Name though the earthly Name shall remain in the Turba we ●…hall have a Name according to our first name in the Language of Angels which here in this life we do 〈◊〉 understand in the language of Nature we understand ●…thing of it b●…t here we have no ●…gue to spea●… it with Here 〈◊〉 The inward Ens of Christ which the So●…●…th on it for an heavenly Body out of Christs Spir●… and out of his 〈◊〉 and Blood is spiritual it is a spiritual Body which dyeth not at the death of the outward man yea it is not buried neither doth it rise again but it is dead and buried and risen again in Christ for all and in all and liveth eternally for he is passed from Death to Life What kind of Matter our Bodies shall have in the Life to come THus we tell you we shall have a Body consisting of Flesh and Blood such a Body as Christ had for Ch●…ist by his In●…tion is become Man in us When we are born a new 〈◊〉 the Water and of the Spirit then 〈◊〉 Christ's Spirit we are born a new of Christ's ●…esh and Blood we put on Christ. Christ becometh born in the converted Sinner and ●…he in Christ becometh the Child of God this is the Body we shall have in Heaven No gross beastial Flesh as we have in old Adam but 〈◊〉 ●…esh and Blood such Flesh as can pass through Wood and Stone they remaining whole still as Christ c●…me in to his Disciples the Door being shut It is such a Body as hath no Turba or Fragility Hell cannot retain it it is like Eternity and yet it is real ●…esh and Blood which our heavenly Hands shall touch and feel and take hold of also a visible Body as that is which 〈◊〉 h●…ve here in this world Of Paradise and where Henoch is as also Moses and Elias WE are able to say with good ground that Paradise is still upon Earth 〈◊〉 is in it as also Moses and Elias and yet he hath the Body of 〈◊〉 Turba in the Mistery and in the heavenly Mistery he hath the 〈◊〉 Body which 〈◊〉 capable of Paradise 〈◊〉 is not gone o●…t of this world he is entred ●…to the Mistery in the VVonders he is God's Preacher and after the Turba hath overcome the VVorld he must be silent till the six Seals have ended their wonders and till the Angels of the Turba have poured out the r Vials then the wonders of the Anger are finished 〈◊〉 then Henoch cometh out of the Mystery again and entreth into the Ministry and relateth what hath been done But Noab goeth into the other world through the VVater and callet●… Moses with his VVonders

kindling They are another thing then Earth man loveth that well and 〈◊〉 it for his Maintenance but he knoweth not its ground and original it is not in vain loved by the Mind it hath a high original if we would consider of it But we are justly silent of it here seeing man without that loveth it too much and thereby withdraweth himself from the Spirit of God One should not love the Body mor●… then the Spirit for the Spirit is its Life this we give you to understand in a Similitude and are silent of the matter with the ground and original thereof But know this that it was given to man for his Sport and Ornament he had it by the right of Nature it was his understanding the outward Bodies for the outward Body with its Tincture and the Metalline Tincture are near a kind When the Tincture of the outward Body was destroyed by the Devils evil longing then the Metalline Tincture hid it self from the human became an enemy to it for it is p●…rer then the perished in the outward Man. Let this be manifest to ●…ou ye seekers of the Metalline Tincture If you would find the Philosophers Stone then apply your selves to the new Birth in Christ else it will be hard for you to apprehend it for it hath a great agreement with the ●…nly Substantiality which if it were released from the fierce wrath would be very well seen It s lustre signifieth somewhat so that if we had 〈◊〉 Eyes we ●…hould well app●…ehend it A collected Appendix ●…or the clearer opening the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THe Beeing of all Beeings is but one only Beeing●… but in its g●…eration it severs it self into two 〈◊〉 viz. 〈◊〉 Light and Darkness into Joy and ●…orrow into ●…vil a●…d Good into Love and Anger into 〈◊〉 and Light and out of these two eternal Begi●…nings or Principles into a third begi●…ning viz. into the Creation to 〈◊〉 own Love play and ●…lody according 〈◊〉 the Property of both eternal 〈◊〉 Death is the bound mark of all whatsoever is temporal whereby the Evil may be destroyed If Gods Anger be omnipotent to destroy then is his Love also omnipotent to preserve if this contrariety were not there would be no Life and there would be no good also no evil for if there were no fierce wrath there would be no moving Thus the Substance of all Substances is a continual working desiring and fulfilling the ●…ire desireth the Light that it may get meekness and substance for its burning or life and the Light desireth the Fire else there would be no Light and it would have neither Power nor Life and they both de●…ire the dark anguish else the Fire and Light would have no Root and all would be a nothing Therefore I say God's Love is as great as his Anger his Fire as great as his Light and his Darkness as great as either of the other it is all alike eternal without be●…inning and it beginneth it self from Eternity with or 〈◊〉 the Darkness and bringeth it self from Eternity to 〈◊〉 darkness into the Source or Quality even into the 〈◊〉 and in the rising up of the ●…ire is the eternal Death ●…here the Darkness and Light seperate themselves each ●…to a Principle in it self and the Light also it self po●…sseth it self one dwelleth in the other unapprehended 〈◊〉 the other there is in ●…ternity no parting asunder ●…hose that dwell in the Darkness see not the Light and ●…hose that dwell in the Light see no Darkness God ●…uld not be manifested or revealed and there would 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nature nor Creature without the darkness Observe now God's anger maketh the dark mind ●…ull of God's Love maketh the Light mind full ●…or ●…hosoever hath to them it will be given But now all ●…andeth in Strife the Light against the ●…arkness an●… the Life against the Death and the ●…eath against the Life But Man is out of the great 〈◊〉 of all Substances and in him is the Strife Dost thou say God can make of me what he will he is ●…mnipotent He maketh of thee what thou wilt his ●…ove is omnipotent and also his Anger that which getteth thee holdeth thee The Wicked is to God a good favour to De●…th and the Saint or Holy is so to ●…he eternal holy Life as thou growest so thou art such Sap as thou drawest into thy self such ●…ruit thou bear●…st It is not 〈◊〉 ●…od will not be mine but thou wilt ●…ot be his and so you are parted But he cannot make himself a Child he goeth onl●… with the Will into the Matrix and then the divine Fiat apprehendeth him and maketh him one indeed he cannot make himself a Devil the hellish Fiat according to the dark world's Property maketh him one wh●… 〈◊〉 doth but give his Will up thereto Therefore ●…ghtly saith the Apostle To whom you give ●…ur selves Ser●… in obedi●… 〈◊〉 Servants you are 〈◊〉 of God's Love 〈◊〉 Anger Here the Apostle speaks of man's ●…ction that man can give up himself and be given up and though indeed of himself he cannot take or receive yet God giveth him the taking or receiving for he hath promised it him We believe a Resurrection of our Bodies which we had here it is not the earthly Body that is the Image which shall live eternally but the Heavenly which the earthly body here holdeth captive in Death but if Christ become born therein then it is no more in death but liveth in Christ and is only covered with the earthly body It is not the Husk viz. the beastial Flesh that shall arise but the Life in the outward Mystery with the wonders that shall be comprised in the holy Element and be united with the Body of Christ even of the new man and in Eternity stand with its wonders in it Seek not Christ's flesh in the four E●…ements in the Spirit of the outward world but in the Root of them viz. in the holy Element a Principle deeper then this world is not absent from the outward body Let no man think it will come to pass that men will come who will teach or compel thé holy Spirit with Authority or Power into men No it is said Today when you hear the Voice of the Lord harden not your ●…earts and Ears Expect not another time for this is the time of your Visitation incline your ●…ars and Hearts into the Temple of Christ in you Let none wait for a golden Time wherein the holy Spirit out of or from the outward Mouth will cry into the har●…d into his beastial VVill who will live only in the Lust of the Elesh O! No that is not to be done The time is already come that Henoch teacheth and Noah declareth the Deludge of Sin. Let none wait for the outward Prophet he appeareth or shineth inwardly in the Spirit the outward man will not know him the right way into the eternal Life is in man VVhoso●…ver will enter in with Sion and praise God in Jerusalem

he 〈◊〉 live and delight in his own self-will and fore-go re●…gnation and if this had come to pass then had the fair ●…nstrument been once again broken and the human melody in God's Love and Deeds of Wonder had ended but Christ said Get thee hence Satan it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him only Then the De●… left him and the Angels came and ministred unto him Christ called the Devil a Prince of this World but 〈◊〉 Devil hath neither the Kingdom of God nor the Kingdom 〈◊〉 this world in possession this world is not his own but he is 〈◊〉 poorest Creature in this world●… and hath only the wraths 〈◊〉 in possession the other profiteth him nothing thus he is the world and also not in the world he thought to be Pri●… and is so in the same property in the Wicked and also in 〈◊〉 Government in the world in the wrath He must lo●…k wh●… Turba Magna is enkindled in the wrath and there 〈◊〉 busie so far as Turba Magna goeth in the wrath fur●… his Courage is cooled Of outward Government and Dominion WHen God blessed Noah through the O●…-spring 〈◊〉 ceeding from the Covenant and bad them be fr●…sui he gave them again the whole World with all its 〈◊〉 in possession and gave them all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Fowls common with no distinction restriction or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only that they should not eat th●…ir Lif●… in the Blood le●…t 〈◊〉 should become monstro●…s in their Li●…e with eating the 〈◊〉 of the Beast God commanded them to rule over all the Beasts and Cr●…tures but in this place ●…e 〈◊〉 them no p●…culiar 〈◊〉 er ruling Power over one ano●… for all domina●…ion 〈◊〉 Rule and Authority wher●… one man rul●…th over anot●… doth a●…ise from or through the order of Nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 its Properties according to the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Dominion of the 〈◊〉 under the Constellations or Astru●… The true Image of God hath no other Dominion 〈◊〉 Members then the B●…dy 〈◊〉 in i●…s Members or the 〈◊〉 in its Branches but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the S●…rs ●…our Elements mak●…th 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Dominion and Gover●… according to its Mother whence it taketh it rise and 〈◊〉 in it liveth Here ●…ote All War and Cont●…ntion ariseth from ●…ominion of God's anger the Warrior is a Servant of God's anger he is the Ax wherewith the angry Husband-man cuts up the Thorns and Bryars from off his Ground God's anger according to his Fire's property will have it so and not his love And he that suffers himself to be made use of thereto he serveth the anger of God according to the dark and fireworld's desire and property which in the heavy fall of Adam hath manifested it self in the human Property and brought man viz. the angelical Image into an half devilish Vizard and likeness Of human Propagation ALthough honest marryed People beget Children and joyn themselves together with Love-desire yet it hath no●… this meaning or understanding that the Imagination or Desire of Man and Wife is holy and that Christ's Spirit driveth on the Imagination The Imagination ariseth out of the Tinctures which ●…indle the Mercury with their Lust and the Mercury kindleth the Spirit of the Life and now existeth the Lust and Will in the Heart viz. a vekement des●…re the tenderer the Complexion is the nobler also is the Tincture in its swee●… desire But if also it be shot with a fiery Dart in Venus's desire then 〈◊〉 the life kindled so that it is as it were more then half 〈◊〉 with Love-thoughts and yet knoweth not what hath ●…appened to it Must all this be holy then would the secret Whoredoms also be holy whereas indeed the Dart often goeth forth in false or wicked Lust. And though it be at best yet it is a thing that is in all ●…easts it is natural and when men will give it the best ●…nd rightest Name then it is called an Abomination before God's ●…oliness being a thing existed out of Sin through Adam's fall which indeed is born withal under divine pa●…iente seeing it cannot be otherwise of which we could take ●…any Examples in the holy Scriptures Look upon the people of Israel when God would give them ●…he Law on Mount Sinai and manifest or reveal himself with his Voice then he commanded the young People whic●… were loaden with such burning Lusts to abstain from the●… Wives and that pointed not only at the Marriage-work bu●… also at the Imagination Christ therefore be●…ame a Man without the helping or co-working or concurrence of any man or Husband that he might bring us forth out of this ab●…mination before God through 〈◊〉 holy Incarnation or becoming man he became such a V●…rgin like Child with both the Tinctures one in another with ou●… self-love that he might bring our rent in himself in●…o one And this is the Abomination in the Marriage-work th●… the S●…ed is unclean in the conjunction of both t●…e Tincture●… when they are brought together into one indeed it is th●… property of the eternal joyfulness when the Seed goeth fort●… viz. of the highest desiring and fulfilling if that might 〈◊〉 done without abomination then it were ●…oly but the Sulpher in the Seed is an abomination before the Holiness It is not in the power of the Imagination of the Flesh bu●… in the pure Love-desire of C●…astity and Faithfulness whe●… two joyn their Minds together in the Marriage band an●… give up their love and faithfulness one to another to be the●… own and desire to be one Heart and Will there the Spir●… of Christ is the Love band and here now is rightly the thing Increase or multiply and be fruitful The marriage-work according to the outward man 〈◊〉 not holy but according to the inward it is holy in th●… Children of the Saints but not in beastial Vessels 〈◊〉 marriage-work in it self if it be done ordinately is not 〈◊〉 ful for it is driven on by God's officer Nature and bo●… withal under divine patience Of the Serpent that deceived Adam and of all created Things WHen God said Let all sorts of Beasts come fort●… each according to h●…s property or kind th●… came forth Beasts out of every property of Nature as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 manifest in the severation of the 〈◊〉 Kingdoms viz. Ti●… 〈◊〉 Eternity when God moved himself to the Creation for ●…he Devil would domineer over the Love and Meekness of God and put his desire also into the Anger that is into the austeer Might where the poyson-Life ariseth viz. into the Fiat of the wrathful Property out of which Form are proceeded Vipers Serpents Toads and other venomous Worms not that the Devil hath made them that he cannot only as the Desire was in the Impression of the ●…iat such also was the Creature in the evil and good For in those poysonful Beasts the highest Tincture is to be found if they be reduced into an oily Substance and the wrath of Mercury seperated For all