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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

one according to his gift for his benefit one more than another according as the Spirit hath its property in him For the spirit of God is often subject to the spirits of men if they will that which is good or well and seeth or looketh af●…er what man willeth that his good work be not hindred but that every where above all Gods will or willing or desiring be done Of the two Qualities in one TVvo Qualities a good one and an evil one are in one another as one thing in this World in all powers in the Stars and the Elements as also in all the Creatures and no Creature in the ●…esh in the natural Life can subsist unless it hath the two Qualities 2. For from the two fold Source every thing hath its great mobility running springing driving and growing for meekness in Nature is a still Rest but the fierceness in every Power maketh all things moveable running and generative for the driving Qualities cause a Lust in all Creatures to evil and good 3. In every Creature in this World is a good and evil Will and Source which is caused by or proceedeth from the Stars for as the Creatures in the Earth are in the●…r Qualities so are the Stars there is nothing in Nature wherein there is not good and evil in Men Beasts Fowls Fishes Worms and in all that which is upon the Earth or in the Earth or Gold Silver Copper Tinn Lead Iron VVood Herbs and Grass in the Earth in Stones in t●…e VVater and all whatsoever can be thought upon Eve●… thing moveth and liveth in this double impulse working or operation be it what it will. 4. But the holy Angels and fierce wrathful Devils are here to be excepted the holy Angels live and qualifie in the Light and Meekness in the good Quality but the Devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful Quality in fierceness destruction and perdition 5. And though Moses writes I am an angry zealous God Yet the meaning of it is not that God is angry in himself and that there ariseth a ●…ire of Anger in the holy Trinity No that cannot be for it is written Against those that hate me In that same Creature the Fire of Anger riseth up For if God should be angry in himself then the whole Nature would be on fire which will come once to pass in the last day in Nature and not in God. But in God the triumphing Joy will burn it was never otherwise from Eternity nor will it ever be otherwise 6. Now the elevating springing triumphing Joy in God maketh Heaven triumphing and moveable and Heaven maketh the Stars and Elements moveable and the Stars and the Elements make the Creatures moveable out of the Powers of God are the Heavens proceeded out of the Heavens are the Stars out of the Stars are the Elements out of the Elements are the Earth and the Creatures come to be Thus all had its beginning even to the Angels and Devils which before the Creation of Heaven Stars and the Earth were proceeded out of the same Power out of which the Heaven the Stars the Earth were proceeded Now Hell and the dark World or the anger of God is a Gulf of desperation devoid of the Hope of God and all good it is the first ground to the eternal Nature the place is between the Kingdom of God and this World and maketh a peculiar Principal dwelling in it self and hath neither place nor local abode and is every where inhabiting it self only and yet it giveth Essence to the Light and outward 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is it is the cause of the Source viz. the Fire 〈◊〉 the whole Beeing of all God's Beeings 7. In the Darkness he is an ang●…●…ealous God in the fire Spirit a consuming ●…ire and 〈◊〉 the Light ●…he is a merciful loving ●…od and in the Power of the Light he is especially above all other Pro●…rties called God and yet 't is all but God manifested●… who manifesteth himself through the eternal Na●…ure in ingredient Properties 8. The Essence of this VVorld 〈◊〉 in evil and good and the one cannot be with●…t the other But this is the great Iniquity of this ●…Vorld that the evil over powereth the good that 〈◊〉 Anger is stronger then the Love and this by re●…n of the Sin of the Devils and Men who have dist●…bed Nature by the false Desire that it mightily and effectually worketh in the wrath as a Poyson in the Body 9 VVe see very clearly that there is nothing in this VVorld so evil but it hath a good in it the good hath its rise originally out of the heavenly Property or light VVorld and the evil hath its Property out of the dark VVorld for both VVorlds are in each other as one Of the Seven Forms or Properties of the Eternal Nature which make three Principles or VVorlds I. Form Astringent Desire IT is the beginning of the eternal Nature the cause of Essences as also of harshness sharpness hardness Cold and Substance ●…a Mother of all Salts II. Form Bitter Compunctive The motion of the Desire it cutteth asunder the hardness and attracted Desire the true Root of Life a cause of the stirring so also of the Senses and the ground of the bitter pain III. Form Anguish Perceivance It is a cause of the Mind wherein the Senses are moved and acted the ground of the natural VVill wherein the eternal VVill desireth to be manifested that is it will be a Fire or Light In these three first Properties consisteth the foundation of Anger and of Hell and of all that is wrathful IV. Fire Spirit Reason Desire In the Fire the unity appeareth and is seen in the Light that is in a burning love and the wrath in the Essence of Fire In Fire and Light consisteth the Life of all things viz. in the Will thereof let them be ●…nsensible vegetable or rational things every thing as the Fire hath its ground either from the Eternal as the Soul or from the Temporary as Astral Elementary things for the Eternal is one Fire and the Temporary is another V. Form Light Love. This Property is the ●…ire of Love or world of Power and Light which in the Darkness dwelleth in it self and the Darkness comprehendeth it not in the Light the eternal Unity is substantial that is an holy spiritual Fire an holy Light an holy Air which is nothng else but Spirit also an holy Water which is the over-flowing Love of the unity of God and an holy Earth which is all powerful virtue and working It is the true spiritual angelical world of the divine Joy which is hidden in this visible world VI. Form Sound Voice Word Proceeding from the divine Powers which is formed in the Love the Sound is the understanding wherei●… all the Properties understand one another VII Form Essence Beeing Mansion This seventh Property is rightly and truly called the ground or place of Nature wherein the other Properties stand in one only ground the

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

one only thing be it either Spiritual or Corporeal all created things are that one thing but each thing in its difference of the first beginning according as the property in the Verbum Fiat hath imprinted it self in each thing so is that kind in its Propagation and all things stand in the Seed and Procreation and there is not any thing but it hath a fixity in it be it either hidden or manifest for all shall stand to the glory of God. What soever is arisen from the eternal ●…ixity as Angels and the Souls of men doth remain undestroyable in its fixt Beeing but whatsoever is arisen in the unfixt Beeing viz. with the motion of Time that doth again enter into the first motion whe●…ce it hath taken its original and is a Map of its form which it had here like a Picture or as in an Image in a Glass without life for so it was from Eternity before the times of this world which the Most-high hath introduced into an Image into the comprehensible natural Life in time to behold the great Wonders of his VVisdom in a creatural beeing as we plainly see For we cannot say that this world was made out of something it was only and barely a desire out of the free Lube●… that the Abiss viz. the highest good or beeing viz. the eternal VVill would behold it self in the Lubet as in a Glass therefore the eternal VVill hath conceived the Lubet and brought it into a desire which hath impressed it self and figurized and corporized it self both to a Body and Spirit according to the same impress on 's propery This Impression is the only manifestation of the Mystery and is called Nature and Essence for it manifests what hath been from Eternity in the eternal VVill. A few Words shewing how lovely and graciously the 〈◊〉 Virgin Sophia in the inward ground of man viz. th●… Spirit of Christ in the new Birth out of his Humanity i●… us presen●…h her self to her Bridegroom the Soul 〈◊〉 it entreth into Repentance and how the Soul behav●… it self towards her when Virgin Sophia appeareth to i●… The Gates of the Paradisical Garden of Roses WHen Christ the Corner-stone stirreth himself in the extinguished Image of man in his hearty Conversion Repentance then Virgin Sophia appeareth in the stirring of the Spirit of Christ in the extinguished Image in her Virgins attire before the Soul at which the Soul is so amazed and astonished at its uncleanness that all its Sins immediately awake in it and tremble a●…d shake before her For then the Judgment passeth upon the Sins of the Soul so that it even goeth back in its unworthiness and is ashamed in the presence of its fair Love and entreth into ●…t self denying it self as utterly unworthy to receive such a Jewel This i●… understood by them who are of the Tribe and have casted this Jewel and to none else The Soul saith to its noble Sophia its Love that is born again in the Soul O my noble Pearl and opened Flame of my Light in my anxious fiery Life O how thou changest me into th●… Joy O beautiful Love I have broken my Faith with thee to my Father Adam and with my fiery strength have turned my self to the pleasure and vanity of the ou●…ward World and ●…ave fallen in love wit●… a Stranger and had been constrain●…d to walk in the Valley of Darkness in this strange Love if thou had●… not come to me into the House of my Misery in thy great faithful●…ess by thy pierceing thorough and destroying God's Anger Hell and dark Death and restored thy meekness and love to my siery Life O sweet Love thou hast brought the Water of Eternal Life out of the Fountain of God with thee to me and refreshed me in my great Thirst I behold in thee t●…e Mercy of God which was hidden from m●… be●…ore by the strange Love in thee I can rejoyce thou changest my anguish of Fire to be great joy to me O aimable Love give me t●…y Pearl that I may continue in this Joy forever Upon this the noble Sophia answereth the Soul saith My noble Bridegroom my Strength and Power why hast thou forgotten me so long that I have been constrained in great grief to stand ●…ithout the door knock My dear Love and faithful Treasure thou highly rejoycest me in thy beginning I have indeed broken into thee through the deep ●…ates of God through God's Anger through Hell and Death into the house of thy Misery and have graciously bestowed my Love upon thee and delivered thee from the Chains and Bands wherein thou wast fast boun●… I have kept my ●…aith with thee but thou desir●…st now an exceeding great thing of me which I will not willingly ve●…ture with ●…eeThou wouldst have my Pearl as th●… proper own remember I pray O my belove●… Bridegroom that thou didst carelesly lose it before in Adam and besides thou standest yet in great danger and walkest in two dangerous Kingdoms viz. in the original ●…ire thou walkest in that Country wherein God calleth himself a strong ●…ealous ●…od and a consuming Fire The other Kingdom thou walkest in is in the outward world the Air. wherein thou dwellest in the vain corrupt Flesh and Blood where the pleasure of the world the assaults of the Devil pass over thee every hour thou mayst perhaps ●…n thy great Jo●… bring earthliness again into my Beauty and darken my Pearl thou mayst also perhaps grow proud as Lucifer did when he had the Pearl in his possess on and so mayst turn thy self away from the ha●…mony of God and then I must afterwards be deprivo●… of my Love forever I will keep my Pearl in my self and dwell in the Heaven in thee in thy extinguished but now in me revived Humanity and reserve my Pearl for Paradise until tho●… puttest away this Earthliness from thee and then●… will give it thee to possess But I will readily affo●… and present my Countenance to thee and the swee●… Rayes of the Pearl during the time of this earthly Life I will dwell with the Pearl in the inner Quire and b●… thy faithful loving Bride I will not espouse my se●… with thy earthly Flesh for I am a heavenly Queen m●… Kingdom is not of this world yet I will not cast th●… outward Life away but visit it often with my rayes o●… Love for thy outward Humanity shall return again but I will not have the Beast of Vanity neither did Go●… create it in Adam with a purpose to have it so gro●… and earthly but in Adam thy desire through Lust form ed this beastial groseness from and with all the Essence of the awakened Vanity of the earthly Property wherein Heat and Cold Pain Enmity and Desolution consisteth Now my dear Love and Bridegroom yield but th●… self up into my Will I will not forsake thee in this eart●… ly Life in thy danger though the anger of God shou●… pass upon thee so that