come to that Heighth as even to a Perfect Jasper Purity which will whatever it toucheth turn into its own Source Light and Power This is the White Stone to which the Bride of the New Jerusalem will be joyned and which will be hung in her Crown Therefore after nothing less ye beloved ones do ye aspire And say not in your Hearts How can this be Let that be cast upon your God's All-sufficiency that by Wisdom's Stone will do High Mighty and Marvelous things through them with whom it shall be found that only shall have the honour of bringing the Jerusalem down to be seen within this Orb. For in such in whom the Stone of Wisdom is sown and grown up are the Lookers and the Expectors to see this wonderful Time Others who believe nothing of it will stand without this City amongst the Worshippers of the Beast none of whom can Traffick or Merchandize amongst the precious Foundation Stones Which are the Purchase of the Lamb for his Conquering Tribe to follow after him with Palms of Victory over all fears and doubts that spring from Unbelief which hath kept numberless out and stopped their Ascending up hither § 3. Now to you who through the Agate Windows of this walled City are given to look in know that it is granted for no other end but to take your Eye and to draw your whole Spiritual Body herein It is not to Tantalize you or to let you see only the Tree of Vertue and not hereof not touch nor tast but ye are evermore to live upon it When ye as fixed Inhabitants shall no more go out this Tree will be Food of most high Virtual Strength Power and Spirit This Word then I will only drop and leave with you to wait in pure Love Patience till for this last Remove the Stone Within do Compleat you through its All-Tincturing Power The STILL ETERNITY § 1. As I was considering the high and weighty Work whereunto we are called my Spirit was immediately caught up into an High Region that was all Calm and Still where I saw no Figures or Images But there was a wonderful Light which Flowed into me like a River Then it was opened in me that this was the Creating Light from whence all Beings did proceed that what was now expected as a New Creation must be brought forth from the Stilness of this Light with which the Soul's Essence must be Mingled And that from this Union the Variety of the Wonders should be produced in the World § 2. It was further said to me that I had been long driven to hit the furthest Centre of all Centres but the Plummet Line of my Spirit was too short to Fathom that deep Gulf which was in a Visional Figure some Years ago shewn to me This being led by the Spirit to call to mind there came before mine internal Eye a Deep Abyss that opened it self and Streamed forth with such a commixture in all variety of Colours of Precious Stones so dreadfully Sparkling and Glorious that no other but a simple and abstracted Spirit could behold it and much less enter into and so be Mingled with it according as I was both times invited and called to § 3. This Second time it was renewed to me by an Internal Opening from which it was given me to understand that this God-head-Gulf was now broken up for a Streaming forth with that high mixed Matter which would Deify and Tincture the Soulish Essence that had been under the Depravity Then it was said to me by the Spirit that this was the true and right Baptism into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost by which the Soul would return to its first Original and then would know it self to have Power in GOD as his Virgin Heart and Spouse to do and act agreeable unto so high an Unity This is the Summity of all Depths that can be searched into Do but study this and the Eternal Abyssal World will from its Stilness come to Qualify with and Operate in you in order to the wished-for Transmutation Hereby will you into all Wisdoms's Treasures be admitted and the Walls about your habitation shall be the Rock of Fire-Stones in which Munition Strength your Hiding shall be as in God's ownSecrecy until you go forth to Proclaim another Day of PENTECOST AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION WHICH By a Noble and Worthy Inquirer was upon his own Experience sent to be RESOLVED To Answer a Query Why such Departed Souls that are detained in the Middle Regions do often attract and draw their near Relations and Friends to be with them This you must know proceeds from a most intimate Unity that was betwixt them while Living whence not having Center'd their Loves higher than what was Elementary the Deceased may have much power to draw away the Life of such out of the Body Of which kind some Instances have been known Let this therefore be a good Caution to all dear and near Relations to carry up their Love to one another beyond what is but Creaturely But this know that no Departed Spirit can have any force or power over the Living without they be such as are of Low Birth under the Laws and Rudiments of this World and the Constellations of the Starry World But as for them who are got up higher by the supernatural Birth they are out of danger to be reached by any Departed Spirits For such are above their Influence as making GOD their Centre only It hath been shewed to me also that there is a great Congruity betwixt the highest Degrees of Saints departed into the Mount Sion and Jerusalem Principle with such here as have attained to that high Birth which can reach their Principle Now this sort act quite after another kind they do not so much covet to draw them out of the Body as to Influence and bring down their Gifts and Powers into Manifestation in and through those whom they stand in such Love-Unity with These Perfect Spirits in the Separated order do well know and take notice who are most fitly Qualified though in Bodies Elementary for Immersement vvith them and do thereby communicate and disperse the Light of New Revelations into this Lower Princiciple that so the Inhabitants herein may come hereby to Enlightened and Transformed For these Blessed ones above do with much longing wait for their Kingdom to be Opened and spread among Mortals till Immortality shall swallow up all in its own Everlasting Light and Life This I thought meet to superadd to the foregoing Subject as the Opening renewed in me from Wisdom's Centre As now being under a Commission to keep nothing back that may serve for the Information or Satisfaction of Wisdom's Meek and Lowly Children who are restless Inquirers to learn and understand what in this Her Rising Day is to be Proclaimed to the whole Earth FINIS * The Revelation of Revelations p. 39 to 56. The Enochian Walks p. 26. The Laws of Paradise in the Preface p. II 47. a Laws of Parad conclusion Sep. 13. 1695.
the Original Matter of it doth lye they may and do wear out their Cloaths and go naked away without being Cloathed upon with this Spiritual Body Without which there being no getting up so high as to face the Throne Majesty they must abide in Centres of low Degree till they can put on Christ's Resurrection Body Which is the Royal Robe that the Virgin Bride with all her Off-spring do appear in at the Festival Day in which the Marriage shall be Solemnized The First-fruits of it are given as Tokens and Pledges to Wisdom's Children by CHRIST now in the time of his Betrothment unto the Pure in Spirit who keepeth their Virgin Mind undefiled who will as a most intimate Lover make frequent Visits bringing unto them choice and spiritual Food that the Espoused may Banquet with him while the Cup of Love is still renewed and filled as fast as it is drunk in O is not this Ravishing Love of our Immanuel that doth make it out to this degree considering that we are yet but in our Minority and carrying the mean appearance of a Mortal Shade From out of which such a Pull and Shake he will in his time give as shall make the vile and gross Image which we bear to be more fine than the Ophir Gold by the means of that Superior Element that will with our Minds so Qualifie and Commingle as the Light so as to arise thereby in a shining Lustre for to come up unto the unity of the Lord's Glory § 18. Now having given you an Account of the Seven Worlds with the Inhabitants assigned to fill them up I proceed on to the Eighth which is the Beginning and the Highest of all Worlds called the Still Eternity This there is no way possible for any one to describe or give account of but by being taken up into it From which there is a freedom to give a Description according to what hath been seen in this World by a Spirit thither Translated It may be most properly entitled the Highest Court or Principality of the Tri-Un Majesty The Scituation of it is founded upon an Abyssal Deep where from an inaccessible Light doth generate and spread it self without bounds as a vast Globe of Eternity God is here to be known and understood abstractedly from Eternal Nature as abiding in his own Simplified Deity before either the Angels or other Creatures were Created Here the Holy Trinity dwelt in the meek Stilness enjoying themselves before they brought forth any Image or Likeness to themselves For in this high and lofty Sphere no Figures of Glory could be seen though great Powers did move here and variety of Wonders did appear sending forth a Majestick Awefulness § 19. Q. But it may be demanded What the Wonders of this World are since there is nothing of Figure in it to be beheld neither the Father nor the Son nor the Holy Ghost in any Distinction for to be known Ans. It is verily so yet there is a Consubsisting of the Blessed Trinity in each other The Fulness of the Godhead dwelleth here Unbodily with his Virgin Wisdom and the Seven Spirits All which do here open themselves from an Infinite Source and from thence all the Creating Powers do flow forth For this is the Abyssal World from whence all other Worlds were Created § 20. Q. It may be further Queried What further Wonder did you here see Ans. A glorious and wonderful Element was seen with numberless Sparks of Light As this outward Air or AEther is full of Stars so this Element was bespangled with Lights Upon the Inquiry of the Spirit that was there caught up what these might be It was answered That all these were Simplified Spirits that were ordained to garnish that Globe and to attend there the Tri-Un Deity from whom they are Generated evermore watching the Eye to see when it would send them forth to assume or take up Bodies being all pure meek and mild Spirits which do perfect whatsoever and wheresoever they enter These are the Spirits that will sublime and make Bodies to become All-Divine § 21. Q. Then was it further asked by this Translated Spirit Whence their Birth was Ans. It was Answered From God the Father in Conjunction with the Eternal Virgin Wisdom who brought them forth Upon this I was advised how that these Spirits are reserved in this High Globe till Wisdom's Day upon this Visible World should as the Morning-Star break forth Then are they to go forth to multiply and make a Princely Host God's Wonders throughout all Nations for to display that so this World of Misery and Mortaüty may see a more Happy Day from the Operation of this Eternal and Meek Stilness which will infuse their Powers and qualifie with Souls that from before all Worlds were preordained to be Spirited after this kind by the means of simple Abstraction answerable to the Production of these Pure and Eternal Spirits that fill up this Globe of the Majesty of the Tri-Un God who generated them out of himself before the Creation of Angels or of any other Beings For these Spirits are the First-born from out of the Womb of the Eternal Virgin as hid in God before there was any Figurative Manifestation They will enter therefore into holy Souls with such penetrating Powers as shall give another habit of Mind casting it into an Eternal Stilness and quieting all the Working Properties in the Region of Nature No awakening or stirring up there shall then be of the Soulish Essence from its Conjunction with the Body for that the Property of these Spirits is to do and act all in a still and silent way and from thence the greatest Power and Force shall most effectually go forth For it was told me that as these Spirits of Light naked and unbodied did fill up the Globe of the Unbodily Majesty in Trinity so it should come to pass in the full Age of time when Wisdom's First-born shall be made manifest that this World or Globe should then descend and open in the Virgin Off-spring of Wisdom By whom alone the mighty Deeds and Works will be made apparent so that it may be discerned that they are wrought in God only All Counterfeit Actings of this kind will fall down as Dagon before the Ark so that no dark Magia shall be able to stand For in this Day all faces of a covering shall be rent away that so the true and right Acting Spirit may be known Now in this new Modification which is a Passiveness in Spirit Soul and Body so as no other motion of Life may be but from the Tri-Unity that may beget pure and simplified Spirits as numberless as our Thoughts these holy mild and all-quieting Spirits may multiply in Souls accordingly prepared for them For it hath been further shewed to me that the very Images of the Mind should be all of a Deified Stamp and of a most deep Engraving from the most High Majesty Thus it is given to let you understand that
unto you a great Light hath shined O let it not cloud and pass over you but be ye wise in this your Day to follow the Spirit 's bright-guiding Star which is arising amongst you O London there is hid in thee them that have a true and right Mission from the Munition Rock to give out the Waters of the Spirit plenteously For a Cry there is gone forth for persons to be Prepared and Sanctified by this Water of Life that so they may receive of the Holy Ghost and be witnesses of his Power Hear and hearken in the Spirit O hearken and you will hear the Seventh Trumpet sound from the Seven Spirits that are before the Throne that do tell you that the Mystery of time is now finishing and that the Everlasting Gospel of the Love is opening and and that the Heavens are ready to roll down to open their Glory up-the Earth that the Inhabitants thereof may no longer lye buried in the Dark shade of an Earthly Life § 24. Over thee O City of London a Mighty Angel doth fly with this Thundering Cry saying Do not despise Prophesy neither decry down the Ark of the Living Testimony from which the Spirit as a flowing Stream must renew Paradise upon the Earth And this Warning is given to all of what Ranks or Degree soever whether High or Low whether in the outward Grandeur or in the private and inferious Means of this World Even to you all and every one this Call doth reach Shake shake your Earthly Dust away For now it is the Spirit 's Day That will admit of no Delay § 25. For Scepters and Crowns must be thrown down to the Lamb of God He is in his Saints come to Reign Wherefore all Nations and Languages and Peoples not only here in this Dominion but beyond the Seas every where must the sound of this Trumpet hear For a mighty CYRUS there is already raised whom the most High will in such a manner uphold and endue with his Spirit as he shall be able to bring forth his Temple-Glory and Praise that so out of all Kingdoms Countries and Languages there may be a Gathering and that as Eagles they may fly to that high Mountain where the Olive Tree will drop the Unctuous Oyl most freely This is the Oyl that in Spirit I do see run And I see that some in all Nations will herewith be shortly sprinkled to give notice that the Omnipotent KING is entering upon his Thousand Years Reign § 26. Thus having in Answer to that Grand Objection to wit How there should be any World or Worlds more than what the Scripture hath made mention of demonstrated that there is a succession of the Spirit of Revelation that is never to cease but is more than ever to increase yet upon the Earth as will in this very Age be known and be witnessed I must now draw to the Conclusion of this World called the Still Eternity Concerning which I have this to declare from what I was when taken up into it admitted to the knowledge of I was then shewn and taught these three Particulars worthy to be observed First that no Entrance for Habitation is here found to any departed Spirit though arrived to never so high a Degree of Perfection Nay it was said that CHRIST himself as the First-born from the Dead and as Glorified in our Humanity did not ascend up hither The Unity in the Godhead is always here but not in his Personality For this Globe and Inmost Court is reserved for a greater Mystery then what is yet to be made known Only thus much I was with respect to it informed that as out of this Still Eternity the Deity in and through the Eternal dilating Eye did speculate his own Working Properties for to manifest himself in Nature and thereby generate out of the Eternal Meek Stilness the Creating Powers from the Trinity did go forth to bring forth in the first place the Angelical World furnishing it with Angelical Spirits and so on did proceed to the rest of the above-mentioned Worlds The Second thing we are to note is that this shut-up Principle and highest Court of the Tri-Un God and of his Virgin Wisdom with her offspring of Simplified Spirits is not to be opened till the Will and Pleasure of God the Creating Father shall be to move himself through these mild and pure Spirits for some New Manifestation and Modification upon what in the Created Worlds is found defective that so by a Renewed Creating Power going forth in this manner out from the Still Eternity another face of more excellent Beauty and more transcendent Glory may for an everlasting Fixation come over that which under a Lapse and an Apostacy hath been But how finite and short is all that can be said or even imagined in comparison of those more amazing and stupendous Charges that still add to the Glory of God's Workmanship in his New Creation As to the Third particular that we are to take notice of which is the Order Union and Equal Degree of these Spirits in this Globe of Eternity we can but just hint at it This Unity and Coequality of theirs is manifested by their Operations They are in their working Motion most Active but all their Acts and Powers do go forth in a most profound Stilness the Deity co-operating through them by which an Influencing Stilness doth from them pass forth to the Inhabitants of the other Worlds And yet these Spirits remain all the while unmoveable within their own Principle and Centre moving according as the Deity glanceth forth in them with the Governing Eye which giveth them their all-seeing Commission the which in a delightful Obedience they never fail to execute neither can they do otherwise being unalterably Fixed in the Moving Power of the Holy Ghost THE Conclusion HAving now given a faithful and true Description of these Eight several Worlds not from History but from the revealed Mystery according to the measure of the Communication of the Spirit of CHRIST it remaineth to consider what Use and Application may be made by the Readers of these deep and weighty things that have been here Unvailed In the first place then we are hereby called upon to consider with the deepest humility the efficient Cause and Founder of these Worlds that produced them all out of an Abyssal Deep and an Eternal Nothingness Secondly We are called upon to appropriate to God what is more Immense than Immensity and Greater than all Greatnesses Higher than all Heights Deeper than all Depths Perfecter than all Perfections who maketh his dwelling in an Eternal Circle of Love Power and Wisdom filling all these Worlds with the fulness of his Godhead made manifest in the express Image of his Glory namely in the Second Number of the Three that bear Record in Heaven Thirdly we are excited to consider what we Mortals are from whom our Descent is and what manner of Spirit we consist of and exist by For until we