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A34451	The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books.	Cooper, William, fl. 1668-1688.; Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, d. 1709. Vitulus aureus, quem mundus adorat & orat. English.; Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670. Novum lumen chimicum. English.	1673 (1673)	Wing C6062; Wing C6061_PARTIAL; ESTC R6283	114,421	261

he that desires to know God must learn to know him in his image and that perfectly which perfect knowledge is this That God is man and that he is true man who is of God and God is in him This is the wisdom that is mystical hitherto and yet is manifest but only to the wise and is called Theosophia because God doth no where so clearly manifest himself as in man who is his image or honour or glory 1 Cor. 11. 7. Therefore man needs not to go far but only into himself to learn the true knowledge of God and to seek after God in himself and himself in God If he do not thus all is vain and no where else any wisdom to be found Acts 17. 27. Luke 17. 21. Seeing the three other books proceed only from the one Book as the world of God therefore all three do testifie unanimously of this book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 namely each in its letter wisdom and testimony but none so clearly as man doth This is that great whole and perfect Library of wisemen wherewith in justice and equity they may be contented All wisdom and knowledg with their mysteries in these books we may not learn any where else but only through the same Spirit who himself hath penned these books made and testified He therefore who is desirous to study these books must from the bottom of his heart acknowledge and confess his own blindness folly and ignorance and must pray unto the Father of Lights for illumination wisdom and understanding that he would send his holy spirit which may lead us into all truth and take us away from all foolishness and falshood and may bring us to the Light of Gods glory Which may not be done by any other means then through a love to God and to mans own salvation and through a holy life without all Hypocrisie and through the Light that commeth from above and not from beneath from man and his wisdom which all those must learn to deny that desire to learn the wisdom of the holy ones We will speak thus That hitherto all these books were sealed up but are now opened in the end of the World according to the Prophecy 4 Esd 6. 20. Dan 12. 9. Zach. 14. 7. And if wise worldly men are offended at this they betray themselves that the wisdom of the holy one is not in them The books of wisdom testifie unanimously of the word by which all things are created and in which only all wisdom doth rest and which is the beginning of all beginnings in which is all and without which nothing is which is all in all God blessed for ever Amen CHAP. II. Of those principles and beginnings of all things as also of God himself and of all whatsoever it be THe Principle of all Principles and beginning of all beginnings as also of God himself is only the word according to the testimony of the divine truth and word it self John 1. Now the word may not be defined otherwise then that it is a Spirit breath or voice of God yea God himself in such a subsistence essence and being as namely How the image of God doth represent us according to the similitude which is man as that he is a quic●ning spirit a spiritual Adam and heavenly man which is God the Lord glorined and magnified for ever Amen Now we hold altogether that this is the proper definition of God and no other which the holy writ clearly signifieth 1 Cor. 15. 45 47 48. who according to his Image and Similitude hath created a spiritual Adam and Terrestrial man when God said Let us make Adam or Man after our image after our Similitude Gen. 1. 26 27. Now the word being the Beginning of all Beginnings there is contained in the same the Light Life and Love The Light affords the Revelation of God for God is Light and dwelleth in Light and is the Father of Lights Life is the virtue and power of God and a quickning Spirit who hath createth and preserveth all Love is a Testimony of God in which is the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost in one word which is called Jesus Christ the spiritual Adam and heavenly Man Messias who is Essential Alpha and Omega All in All the Beginning and the End the First and the Last Blessed and Praised for ever Amen Rev. 1. 22. Now the word being the true Principle in God himself then consequently all proceedeth from the word out of which do chiefly manifest themselves three general Principles in which Principles with and through which all things are contained and are these namely God Nature Element Now these three general Principles afford also a threefold world namely a divine uncreated from Godflowing world from Eternity then an Angelical world which proceedeth or lighteth forth or shineth forth out of the Light in which God dwelleth and lastly an Elementary world whose Original came out of the water After these three general Principles proceed also three special Principles namely Ghost Wind and Water Now every world hath its proper Ghost Wind and Water in their Kind and Nature All things Created out of the divine world from above are Created out of Water and Spirit from above through the wind and breath of the Omnipotent God for to the Divine world is properly competent the Spirit to the Angelical is properly competent the wind and to the Elementary world is water proper After these special Principles follow lastly particular Principles each of which hath its proper Being out of which in which and from which it consists But these three Principles proceed from the former and are Spirit Soul and Life and Body All bodies are out of the Water All Life and Soul out of the Wind And all Spirit out of the Spirit But concerning the Angels their Body is out of the Wind of the Angelical World their Soul and Life a Fire-flame and their Soul a ●ight of which elsewhere These are our Principles in the Wisdom out of which all things have their Original Whether other Principles may be shewed unto us we do much doubt The Primum mobile first mover of all things is the Word for in it is the Life The Secundum mobile Second mover of all things is the Spirit through which all things are Created The Tertium mobile Third mover is the Wind and these three moving Principles are the Perpetnum mobile everlasting mover of all things by which all things move live and have their Being But these three do rest upon the Water bodily out of which the World is and all things are And in the Air according to the Life wherein all things are And in Heaven from which all things come from above after the Spirit but the Spirit from God from which he cometh and returneth thither John 1. 4. Psal 104. 30. Acts 17. 28. Eccles 12. 7. But all these come together on and in the Earth as in the heart of the world Wisd 1. 7. In these

Principles out with and through the same subsist all things And without these nothing can subsist that is or hath a Being and are Light Life and Love God Nature and Element Spirit Wind and Water Body Soul and Spirit and that in the Word CHAP. III. Of the first Principle of all things which is God GOd being the beginning of all Beginnings as from which all things proceed then his beginning is from no other He is without a beginning because he is not from another yet though he hath his beginning from no other he representeth in himself his beginning to all This beginning of God is not a beginning to God himself but to us for he himself is all in all Now that he might shew himself to us men to testifie and instruct us of him therefore God sheweth himself in his beginning which is the Word which is God himself Now through this VVord is shewed to us testified and taught that and what God is and who he is But without word or speaking may be neither Doctrine nor Testimony nor a presentation as Reason doth make it manifest Therefore the VVord is the beginning of God to us out of which all Testimonies Names and Relation of God do proceed as out of the depths of God which consist in their own proper Spirit wind and water The name of God is but one according to the Essence which no man knoweth but only he upon whom he is written with the living Letters of the Spirit of God and his VVord Essentially which is Christ and those that are of his Being These are they in whom the VVord dwelleth Essentially and that see his Glory in a Light and Eye that no body else can see All the names of God come together only in this one name For the whole fulness of the Godhead dwe leth in him bodily who is called Alpha and Omega Zach. 14. 9. Col 2. 9. He that seeth him seeth also God and the Father and the living Word and the quickning Spirit John 14. 9. 1 John 1. 1 Cor. 15. 45. Even so he that seeth man seeth also with the Body the Soul and the Spirit which are in their Nature invisible The Testimony of God consisteth in three Namely in three witnesses which are the Father the VVord and the Holy Spirit Now as the name proceeds from the word so doth every Testimony of God and resteth only upon the dear and true witness that is called Amen which is the beginning of Gods Creatures Rev. 3. 14. And the Testimony of God stands thus God Father Word Holy Ghost Amen which is Christ Now because no body can testifie of God but he himself alone and all Testimonies of Truth must be justified by three Therefore God also testifieth of himself by three but they are not three persons But one onely person and one only God even as in one Earthly mans Body Soul and Spirit cannot be three distinct persons so in God are not three persons But this is the Testimony of God to us in the Name non in Nominibus sed in Nomine of the Father Son and Holy Ghost which consist in the word which three are one thing and one But this Testimony none acknowledgeth save he that hath it within himself Essentially that is that hath the Spirit out of God and is annointed and sealed with it This is the Testimony of God with one word through which we are Sons and Heirs of God Rom. 8. Lastly The Revelation of God consists in seven Powers which are the seven Spirits of God Rev. 1. 4. Chap. 4. 5. Chap. 5. 6. Zech. 4. 2 10. And rest upon him who is called and is Jesse who is of no other but out through in and of himself is is self subsisting in whom is all who hath all Also the fulness of the Godhead Rev. 3. 1. Isa 11. Col. 2. 9. For through him all things are Created in Heaven and in Earth and by him all things are preserved by him also all is Redeemed and reconciled He Reigneth over all and hath all under his Power through him all lost things are restored at his glorious coming He also holdeth Judgment over all flesh over quick and dead And lastly he will make old things new and will abandon and put away all old things Everlastingly Therefore the Mystery of God consists in One Three and Seven and according to this Mystery all other things are Created and consist in One out of Three through Seven and are therein testified learned manifested or justified nothing at all excepted whatsoever it be and that for this Reason That God in his mystery may be learned and glorified in and on all his Creatures Herein consists now the Mystery of the VVisdom in its measure number and weight as in One Three and Seven whereby all things are numbred measured and weighed so perfectly that nothing can be added to it or diminished from it For all the works of God are perfect and testifie of the Creator according to the Mystery of the wisdom namely that by the works may be known Him that made them that what and who he is in his Mystery CHAP. IV. Of the Second Principle viz. Nature NAture is the second Principle and beginning of all things and stands betwixt God and the Elements through which God worketh into the Elements at through and by means and is in its consideration even as Angelical whose beginning is out of God a forth-blown Breath VVind and Air of the Almighty in which consists the Soul and Life of all Created things and every living Soul and is concentred and fastened together essentially bodily and self-subsisting in the Tree of Life even as God in Christ and the whole Elementary world in Man This second Principle is not everlasting according to the beginning yet eternal according to the end even as the Angels are It is not Created out of nothing as this world but proceedeth from God even as the Life from the Spirit as a Breath VVind or Air doth proceed and is also the breath of Gods VVord in which is Life thus that the speaking of the word is a living Eternal Breath and is distinct from God as a living breath or Soul from the quickening Spirit The living breath Soul or Life of all things i● according to its Original out of the Nature but the Spirit out of God namely after his measure and the body out of the Elements The Spirit as the Soul or the Life are distinct thus As God who is Eternal Life and the quickening Spirit himself and hath Life from no other because himself is the Spirit And as the living Soul having her Life not out from and by or through it self but out of the Spirit which maketh things alive whose breath is the Life Now that is soulish which hath its Life not from it self but from the Spirit and which is not a Spirit but only a breath All things whatsoever are in their Being have the food of thir

be extracted and we may observe a kind of demonstration hereof by our Mother Earth who brings forth all things For take any good and fit Earth extract all the Stones Roots Salt peter and whatsoever else is included and being then left open to the Air for some time in a convenient place it will not onely of its self be impregnated again with new salt Peter Vegetables Stones Mettals and Minerals but also with Animals and those very Stones c. shall hold a Sulphurous Gold and Mercury fit for a Philosopher to work upon and to make a fit Medicine for any of the three Kingdoms of Nature and this being after specificated with a fit Metallick shall perfect the impure Mettals to Sol and Lune and 't is strange that salt Peter a Mineral in the Earth should have its root and Quarry in the Air. And verily every thing brought to such likeness in perfection of Elements and the three Principles as to be Quintessential and fixt are in community of substance with the principles of Mettals and are in a manner universal and may help to make the Stone for Transmutation of Mettals as well as for the health of Men c. For the community of matter of all things is in Sal Sulphur and Mercury and the purity of the four Elements is in pure Water and pure Earth brought to a Quintessential essence and so are in community of substance with Mettals and will be of equal nature with their principles namely in Sal Sulphur and Mercury For the matters and principles of Generation are in Sal Sulphur and Mercury and these may as well be had by Art above the Earth as by Nature in the Mines and so may be brought to a fixt Sulphur of Nature which is as good an Earth for the work as may be for Guido saith of the Earth it is no matter so it be fixed and Raimund saith nought is required in this Art for transmutation but pure Earth and pure Water and Ripley saith Hair and Blood cannot be the Stone for transmutation but Elements separated from them may and of ☿ separated from them is little good but if brought to Sulphur of Nature it is as good Earth for it as may be yet still mark that it be brought to a community of Nature and must be fermented with pure real Gold yet you are not tied to go to so great a distance for things neerer of kin are easier transmuted and the neerest the best Wherefore the Artists may begin where Nature left off in her simple and single operation And like a good Husband-man with Corn Sow the pure grain of Gold not common Gold in its pure Mercurial virgin Mother Earth not common Earth but a white Crude Golden Water or Essence brought to them by the help of Eagles or else by the mediation of the Doves and the man in his glittering golden Robes may drink of his Nectar in a pure silver Cup three to the Graces or nine to the Muses as Ripley intimates and according to the old Mystical Law Ter bibe aut toties ternos sic mystica Lex est Drink Three or thrice Three which is a Mystery And so the Masculine and Feminine or ☉ ☽ ☿ being in perfect health and in their prime and Sperme as one thing willingly embrace and joyn to spiritualize themselves into a Sprout or living Seed to grow up to the highest degree of the power energy and virtue of ☽ and Gold and of the spiritual Stone of Philosophers and to do whatsoever else the Philosophers have need of Nam Lapis Philosophorum nihil alind est quam Aurum in gradibus suis multiplicatum stante proportione quâ fuit in Auro primo For the Philosophers Stone is no other thing then Gold multiplied in its de-degrees standing in the same Temperature or Proportion in which it was at the first which must be nourisht with the Mothers pure Milk till it can feed upon stronger Meats and so gets vigour to Multiply And then the Glorified King Triply Crown'd shall vanquish his Enemies and redeem his Brethren and Kindred in all or any Nations from their vile Corruptions If they can but touch the hem of his Garment or entertain him at his approach as they ought for 't is alike to him to raise their Essences as to separate their Maladies Yet you must First Learn the Eagles that foster up the Doves And makes Diana taste of Venus's Loves Where Cupid conquers Mars his furious Ire And makes the Magnet draw the Calib's Fire Which seems a Riddle and 's the Gordian Knot And Herculean labour for the Artists Lot Without the perfect knowledge of which thou canst never attain thy end CHAP. II. Of the Causes and Manner of Multiplication of Life and Seed And one way of preparing Mercury for the Philosophers Stone and others for making of Vniversal Medicines c. IN the beginning God gave his blessing to increase and multiply and commanded that each Thing from its like should draw its Form and so created in Nature a certain Chain or subordinate propinquity of Complexions between Visibles and Invisibles by which the Superiour Spiritual Essences descend and converse here below with the matter Yet Nature hath nor had but one onely Agent hidden in the universe which is Anima Mundi working by its universal Spirit through innumerable distinct Concreates according to their Specificque Forms and Seeds which God the Father at first Creation by his word and Idea or Son and Holy Spirit did Glance at once into the first matter and so set Laws and Bounds in Nature Of In and over all which he is still president upholding strengthening and ordering all the said Powers as his Instruments in every particular as well as in the general so that a Sparrow falls not without his Providence and Power and so kind by kind produceth kind in all Natures Three Kingdoms Animal V●gitable and Mineral by means of the said Seed For as Fernelius saith Nihil est in ulla naturae parte quod non in se generis sui semen contineat There is no part of Nature which doth not contain within it self the seed of its own kind God and Nature still use the same and as a mean to unite the Form to its own Matter and to raise strength and Appetite in the Patient and to invite the active Virtue of Form and Life to work freely Yet still its motions to tend to its own Specifick end as God had ordained except it be misplaced or abused as Sendivogius expresseth or joyned to some unfit matter which end being attained the Life then seems Dead or at a stand and so Chained Hedged and imprisoned with Corporal ●ences that it can work no further upon that subject to its Promotion but onely doth Organizare molem and sets its Prison or House into the best order it can Branching into several Members that it may have the more room to employ its Faculties evidently seen in Animals and

or Originals of all things whatsoever Whereby are discovered the great and many Mysteries in God Nature and the Elements hitherto hid now made manifest and revealed To the Honour of God the love of our Neighbour and to the Comfort and Joy of the Children of Wisdom In the 4. Book of Esdras 6. v. 10. The Books will be opened before the Heaven insomuch that they all shall see Zachariah 14. 7. At the time of the Evening it shall be Light THE EPISTLE To the honest sober READER Curteous Reader THis Spring or Dawning of Wisdom was published some years since but being out of Print and something better improved by the Author and sutable to Pythagoras his Metaphysical and Physical Figure with my smaller Philosophical Epitaph and Figures I thought good to make them with the rest into one small Volume where much light of Divinity and Philosophy will appear concentrated and multiplied to any ingenious Spirits It is Gods greatest bounty to give light and Eyes to see not only the Corporal and Temporal but the Spiritual and Eternal Light of Wisdom Quantum quidque habet Luminis tantum numinis The more Light the more of God who dwelleth in Light and in his Children who are Children of Light and Life For this is the Condemnation and death That Light is come into the World and men love Darkness rather then Light because their deeds are Evil. This therefore as a Trumpet these latter days may awaken and teach men what God the World and Devils are that so their Souls and Spirits hereby quickened and inspired may the better know themselves and arise from dead works of Sin and sensual vanities the first Resurrection of Grace to be sure to rise again with Christ in the Kingdom of Heaven in Glory For many talk of Heaven and being in its Glory with Christ which have it not within them or desire to be there with such mortified pure and peaceable Company as go thither who rather have Hell and feed on it and delight in it and such company which the better to distinguish and reflect upon the the way and Company for Heaven take these four Observations To do Evil for good is devilish Evil for Evil Natural Sensual and Bestial Good for Good Humane and Good for Evil Divine The Wisdom therefore from above is still Pure Holy and Good gotten by mortification on the Cross of Christ and brings Joy and Peace in the Holy Ghost for the Kingdom of Heaven but horror amazement and misery attend the rest who live not after the Gospel of the Cross of Christ which is the power of God to Salvation but after the Flesh and do evil to serve the Devil To know and fear God therefore is perfect Righteousness Wisdom and Eternal Life so that the Patriarchs and many termed Heathen not having the outward name of Christ may have his Spirit and Essential name and be better members of him then we who live not thereafter For as the Scripture saith he was the Rock of Ages was slain from the beginning and hath enlightned every one that cometh into the World and was before Adam But most men do not know nor fear God but superficially believe there is a God and therefore talk of him as Parrots and sometimes worse by Lyes Oaths and Curses c. And therefore have no true faith in him or his Son For did they truly know and consider him still in his property and works to be Infinite Wise Omnipotent and Omniscient just as well as merciful and that he is able to destroy them in a Moment in the very Act of sin then would they fear him the first degree of Wisdom and so after Christs Example avoid all occasions and appearance of sin as they can and will do in some Acts for a very Childs being present And so would believe that he who made and Created the Eye and Ear and gives it Life and Sense in the instant of its exercise can both see and hear as well as any Eye and Ear which can see or hear nothing at any time without his help and likewise that he is as really present though invisible to the outward Sense as any Creature can be which he hath made yea and that he knows our very secretest thoughts too in whom we live move and have our Being But I am not in a Sermon but an Epistle nor would I hinder thee in the Porch from entring into this glorious building of Light where thou mayst find an heavenly Manna and sumptuous Mansion or Eternal Tabernacle for thy self not made with hands and so I take leave to be Thy Christian Friend and Servant W. C. July 3. 167● THE PREFACE TO THE Lovers of Wisdom Loving Readers WE remember and know that all understanding and Wisdom cometh from God and all good things we receive from the Father of Lights and that Wisdom is nothing else but the Breathing of God who sends his Spirit and teacheth men what Wisdom is the Truth and true Knowledge Syrach 1. Jam. 1. Wisd 7. 25. Job 32. 5. Wisd 9. 17. John 20. 22. Acts 2. Psal 94. 10. Syrach 38. 6. Exod. 26. 1. 2. This Knowledge consists chiefly in three things 1. To know God 2. Our selves 3. That which God hath created After Wisdom and Knowledge followeth Judgment namely to discern Good from Evil Light from Darkness Truth from Falshood Upon judgement and understanding followeth Election and will to doe the one and to shun the other The Knowledge or Understanding of all things is threefold Namely 1. Of Men 2. Of Angels 3. Of God The understanding or knowledge of Men is but in part The Knowledge of Angels is in fear and trembling But Gods knowledge alone is perfect Wisdom Knowledge and the examining thereof cometh from the spirit alone which is in Men Angels and God For the spirit searcheth into all even into the depth of God 1 Cor. 10. 11. The Wisdom Knowledge and Understanding of men is three-fold after the spirit of the same Namely The spirit of men generally in this world is Foolishness in Gods eyes for let men be never so Learned and VVise yet the perfect and true wisdom is hidden from them because they do not know themselves 1 Cor. 1. 2. Mat. 11. 25. Some of these wise men are called Philosophers according to the Spirit of Sects boasting of the holy Scripture of God and of Christ but they have no knowledge of them because their Spirit is not of God but they are only mens opinions of God and of Christ and are carnally and earthly minded full of errours and confusion Lastly The Spirit of Gods holy Ones who being godly and spiritually minded are taught of God The VVisdom and knowledge of the first is full of folly darkness and Ignorance The wisdom of the second is full of misleading Philosophy and continual contentions The wisdom of the third sort of men who are Godly is but in part although true and good Rom. 1. 29. Ephes 4.

him see and he that hath Ears let him hear and an understanding Heart hearken unto it But this is the Revelation and appearance of Christ the day of the Revelation of the Son of Man namely that God in Christ and Christ in God a Spiritual Divine Heavenly Adam and man from Eternity is and hath been in a Divine Spiritual Heavenly Essence flesh and bloud and after this his essential Image he hath in the Creation created and framed a Soulish Adam and Terrestrial Man CHAP. XIX Of the Mystical Image that is of the Mystery of God THis is the Mystery of God as was said already which is clear and manifest on the Soulish Adam and Terrestrial Man from beneath that namely above is the true Adam and Man but beneath is only his Image Wonderful is Gods counsel and who hath known the Lords mind who was so pleased that the last should be the first and should receive the Money or Peny and the blessed glory at first Well may these last say This is the day which the Lord hath made let us rejoyce in it it is marvelous in our Eyes ●sal 118 To day is fulfilled the Word which is written The Stone which the builders rejected is become the Corner Stone and it is marvellous in our Eyes for the Spiritual Rock of which all the Fathers have eaten and drunk from the beginning of the world and upon which the Church of God is founded and builded remained unknown till to the seventh Trumpet where the Mystery of God must be manifested and is also made manifest for the Spiritual Adam and Heavenly Man in his Divine Flesh and Bloud through which we are so dearly bought is thrust away from the Holy place and on the contrary another Flesh and Bloud from beneath out of sinners is brought into the Holyest for an abomination of the desolation But now the new Creation is come in which the Word saith and the Lord himself speaketh as he hath promised Isa 52. 6. c. 40. 5. Saying Jehior or let it be light for the day is come which is known to the Lord to them to whom he will reveal his Mystery Zech. 14. Concerning the Mystery of God in the Creation of Man it is thus that God hath Created Man a Man and Woman Gen. 1. 27. And took the Woman out of the Man Chap. 2. 21 22. To shew the great Mystery of Christ and of his Church which is his Wife and spouse out of his flesh and bones Ephes 5. 30 31 32. But the Divine Spiritual and Heavenly Eve is threefold 1. The most holy Godhead it self 2. The Church of Christ 3 The Heavenly Soul in Man This is the body of Christ his Church whose Saviour he was made for which he gave himself The Divine Eve as the most Holy Godhead is the Mother of us all and the right Jerusalem which is from above The Spiritual Eve as the Church of Christ is the Mother the Spouse of the Lamb. The Virgin and Daughter of Jerusalem The Heavenly Soul is the Heavenly Eve a Maid of the Lord a Daughter of Jerusalem who was married to a Terrestrial Man who brought her to great misery and death but the Lord was made a Servant for her and hath made her free again through his death and hath married unto her a new Adam man out of his flesh and bone of which she hath a divine Inheritance Now if we ask after the Mystery of God how that may be made known answer is on man it may be known There is but one man in one Person but in it three witnesses of his substance as Body Soul and Spirit and in seven Powers The Spirit is always in stead of the Father and is the Father himself also and begetteth by the Soul as by the true Mother to himself a body which is the Child and the Son in which dwelleth all fulness So there is but one God in one only Person but in three Witnesses Father Word and Holy Ghost and in seven Spirits or Powers of God God is a Spirit and a Father and begets through the Word and in the same to himself a Body a Child a Son in which he with all his fulness dwelleth bodily in this manner that he that seeth the Father seeth the Son also the word it self the quickening Spirit and the quickening Adam himself Afterward God begets a Son not after the Person or a personal distinction as one Man another Man else there would be two Gods although there is but one only God But after the Testimony for our sakes he begets a Son that we namely by that Witness as of the Father and Son in God might be made Gods Children Heirs and Co heirs out of his Seed flesh and bones for God in and for himself needs neither Father nor Son because there is never no more in him but one in number but even himself is Jesse and all in all neither are there two or three but One only and none else 3 Lastly God begets also a Son and is a father after the Testimony and that to all Creatures and what ever he hath Created namely that all might have a trust and confidence in him as also the young Ravens when they are forsaken by the old ones This Testimony is done by the Spirit which from God is in all things and fills up all Wisd 1. 7. Chap. 12. 1. Who it is that cryeth to God out of the young Ravens Who is a God of the Spirits of all Flesh Num. 16. 22. And remembreth to God that he is a father of all Creatures and cannot neither ought to forsake them Now the Spirit is it that calleth upon God in all Creatures and praiseth and glorifieth him where is is said in the Psalm All that hath breath Praise the Lord Every Spirit Laud and Praise the Lord The Earth the Sea and the Trees in the Forest Praise the Lord. O man there is much in the Spirit the knowledge of him availeth much for if you do not know him you are but a Beast without a Spirit as Ecclesiastes and others more have it CHAP. XX. Of the Truth and Spirit by which all Wisdom is justified WHen we intend to speak of the Wisdom it must be done in the Spirit and Truth Now nothing is Truth but only the Spirit and the same can lead us into all Truth can teach us all and can tell us of things to come for all Spirits are in subjection to him he penetrates through them all even as fire doth to Gold and Silver seven times and the good that remaineth in it it doth not undoe but rather thinks that there is a blessing in it and bloweth into the smoking ●lax a fire of Life Light and Fire and in●useth it self into the same that it may be fitted for a new Creation for a multiplication into many thousands But nothing may attain unto Wisdom unless it be first gone to the fire for a Tryal even as the Gold

18. Colos 2. 8. 2 Tim. 3. 4. 1 Cor. 13. 9. 11. Truly wise men dive into the best gifts and perfection which are of three sorts Charity Prophecy and Examination Love and Charity are the Center and contain the circle of all godly virtues and have Faith and Hope but Prophesying hath all knowledge wisdom and doctrine Lastly examination containeth all understanding judgment and discretion In these three things all is contained that belongeth to wisdom the Center whereof is the word of God This is that which all men ought to study and should communicate to others according as they have received a gift of the Spirit of grace● That God the Author of all good may be glorified and that none do boast of gifts and extol himself above others but rather be humble And then none ought to quench the Spirit neither in himself nor others but rather to stir it up And lastly let no man despise Prophecy that he may not offend God his neighbour nor scandalize himself Love forbeareth all The wisdom of the spirit searcheth all and Examination tryeth all Since we have undertaken through the admonition of the spirit to speak of wisdom as much as our knowledge in part may afford Therefore we intreat the Reader in Love that those whom we displease or who are offended would tolerate us in love As knowing that wisemen also must bear with fools And things spoken of in this book may not presently be rejected but rather be suffered to stand remembring that God also is patient unto Sinners But if any one do think himself wise let him shew the spirit of Judgment and let him discern thus least he judge himself also For we hold that we also have received a gift of the Spirit of grade which we will not suffer to dye but to the praise of the Lord we will put it out to use out of love to the Children of wisdom although not as an instruction but as a good testimony to our selves that we have received a gift of the Spirit not in vain The reason that induced us to the writing of this book is because we hope to be Beneficial to the children of wisdom It may be we have publisht the like twelve years ago the Title of it being Aurora Sapientiae yet since it hath been desired by some again I have not altered the Title hoping that it is not a little mended and corrected I have set it out briefly that it may neither be tedious to the Reader nor chargeable to the Buyer nor yet painful to the Printer Benevolous Reader take all in good part and thus we commend the well wishers to Gods gracious ptotection THE CONTENTS Of the several Chapters of this Book OF the Books of wisdom in which the same may be learned how and in what manner Chap. 1. Of the Principles and Beginnings of all things as also of God himself and of all whatsoever 2 Of the First Principle of all things which is God 3 Of the second Principle which is Nature 4 Of the third General Principle namely the Elements 5 Of the three special Principles Spirit Wind and Water 6 Of the particular Principles Body Soul and Spirit 7 Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation 8 Of the Principle or Original of that evil one and of the Angels 9 Of the difference of the Light and Darkness as also of the Light and Fire 10 Of the Principle of the Fire and its Mystery 11 Out of what wherein and whereby all things good or bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever 12 Of the Creation of the World 13 Of the particular Creation 14 Of the Mystery of the Word 15 Of the Mystery of the Created lower visible things 16 Of the Creation of Man and of his Anatomy 17 Of the Image of God after which man is Created 18 Of the Mystical Image that is of the Mystery of God Chap. 19 Of the Truth and Spirit by which all wisdom is justified 20 Of the Mystery of Time and to understand 〈◊〉 aright 21 The Conclusion 22 AVRORA SAPIENTIAE Morning Light OR Dawning of Wisdom WE take the liberty according to the gift of the Spirit to speak briefly of Wisdom in this little Treatise without any prolixity And because we made mention in the Preface of a three-fold Knowledge as of Men of Angels and of God now we will speak here that Wisdom also is threefold as 1. The Natural of all Created things 2. The Wisdom of Faith unto Salvation And 3. The Secret and Mystical wisdom which gener●lly is unknown and that we call vera Philosophia Theologia and Theosophia Of these three we will speak as briefly as may be possible The Spirit of the Lord be upon both the Writer and the Reader Amen JEHIOR OR THE Morning Light of VVisdom CHAP. I. Of the Books of Wisdom in which the same may be learned How and in what manner THere are chiefly but three Books in which all Wisdom is contained Namely 1. The whole Nature and Creation 〈…〉 great Book of Heaven and 〈…〉 2. The Book of the Holy Writ in the Letter of the Holy word of God 3. Man himself The only Center or Principle of these three is the word of God which is the book out of which these three books have their Original The first book of Nature contains seven other books which are the seven Elements of which in particular here●fter These seven Books have three other books opposite which are the three contrary Elements of which also hereafter The second book the Holy Writ is divided into three other books as into the Law of the Old Into the Gospel of the New and into the Eternal Gospel of the everlasting Testament and Covenant which comprehends the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ The Third book of Man is only one book and is sealed to the blind but opened to the seeing In this book is hidden sealed and also manifest and opened all Wisdom and man is called the Image or Honour of God o● which below and man cannot be called by any other name 1 Cor. 11. 7. Out of the first book we learn Philosophia the natural Wisdom in and about the knowledge of created natural things which are of the Elements and we learn this wisdom out of the three Principles and seven Elements and discern the same from the three contrary Elements else we cannot find the truth of the Natural Wisdom Out of the second book we learn Theologia or Divinity the wisdom unto Salvation and that in the three foresaid books through the seven spirits Isaiah 11. and we di●●●nguish it from all humane glosses and books of Prophane ones For the book expounds it self and needs no humane interpretation but only hath need of Faith which apprehends all things Out of the Third Book which is Gods Image we learn the true knowledge of God as also his being and essence and his whole Mystery in so much as

something and the contrary Elements are the nothing The nothing is become something by the word of God and the something will become nothing again when at last the word is taken away Although the contrary Elements were once nothing yet in the Creation they are a Principle along because they were made which were not afore and are of God counted not evil but good because God did look upon them and hath covered and hid their Principle which was nothing yet concentred and fastened together Corporeal in and on the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil which must have stood there as a witness namely that the world was Created out of nothing yet this should be undiscovered and not ashamed that is it should not be broken namely that the shame of the whole world might not not stand ashamed before the face of all the world and for a confusion be quite dead and perish Now as long as the contrary Elements remained unknown and in their concentrated Center were not broken they are very good But so soon as they are known in their depths they are such a thing as puts the world to a shame and at last altogether doth consume it and reduceth it to nothing These contrary Elements are three Darkness as Corporeal Fire as Soulish and corruption as Spiritual yet Corruption before the fall was no Corruption but only an alteration not unto evil but unto good and a change and exchange of all Created things The Fire before the fall was not consuming but in its knowledge was good and useful In like manner darkness was very good and for a rest and refreshing to all Creatures but now it is an habitation to ill Spirits and as far as darkness in the air reacheth and goeth so far and high also in the air hath Satan his Dominion and Reign Ephes 22. Chap. 6 12. And so are the contrary Elements become hereditary to Satan through sin who is the Prince of darkness and Potentate of the fire and the fire over him and a principle and beginner of perdition Out of darkness Hell is harched which is threefold 1. Corporeal according to its place under the earth in the nethermost places Ephes 4. 9. Luke 16. 28. 1 Pet. 3. 19. 2. Soulish in the Reign of the Devil and Prince of darkness in high places 3 Spiritual in the Devil himself and his Children This Hell will be cast at last into the fiery Lake Out of the fire is produced an unquenchable ever burning Sulphur and such a consuming fiery flame which killeth life and yet always maketh death alive The Hellish fire is three fold in the Hell in the Devil and his Children and in the fiery Pool Out of this alteration or rather perdition is at last Death gotten which in its bodyliness is a cold fire and a fiery coldness According to the Soulishness a gnawing worm that continueth devoureth and never eateth yet always consumeth and still begetteth again According to the Spirit Death is the Devil himself essentially who hath begotten sin and sin hath begotten him the Devil Now darkness was good before the fall for light was hid therein which God commanded to come forth out of the darkness The fire also was good before the fall for life rested therein because no flame was burning in the fire nor was manifest The change and alteration was good also before the fall because love did shew it self therein by the increase of the Creatures Now since Light Life and Love include all therefore they were comprehended also in the contrary Elements but they were separated from the same and thrust out and parted through sin and so that which was very good became exceeding bad and turned good and evil to a contrary and adverse thing After the fall Hell and Death were begotten and the fire was made manifest Visible and Corporeal So that it went up into the height by Reason of sin so that by Gods permission and command it may fall down from Heaven upon the wicked world especially it doth lye in and on the fiery Cherub before the door of Paradise and guardeth the way to the Tree of Life but in the glorious and joyful coming of the great God Jesus Christ this fiery Cherub must be gone and come down and all contrary Elements must reduce to nothing that is they must no more Reign and also the Devil himself must from above be cast down taken Captive and in Prison must be bound a thousand years to the glorious liberty and Redemtion of the Creature from the Vanity Curse and Death where all things as they were Created will be renewed CHAP. IX Of the Principle or Original of that evil one and of the Angels BEfore this Elementary world was Created of God the Angels and the Angelical world and Paradise which were above the upper waters were first and that so certain as the nature was first before the Elements and God before all things Therefore always out of the upper things things beneath were gotten and the upper is always before that which is below even as the Spirit is first before the Soul and Body Now the Angels God hath called through his word out of the same light wherein God dwelleth after their spirit for that end that they should serve him and hath presented them in the fiery flame after the Soul and as a wind after their body Now the Angels being out of the light wherein God dwelleth therefore they can know on in and out of the same what Gods command is and this light is the face of God in Heaven a spiritual food of the Angels which light the Angel of the Children may behold whereas on the contrary the Angels of sinful men may not behold it until the sinner doth true repentance then his Angel may appear again before that light and before the face of the Lord of which there is great joy among the other Angels But as long as the sinner doth not repent so long appeareth the Devil before God and accuseth the sinner day and night before him Now amongst God ' Angels ●ucifer was the chief for he carryed the 〈…〉 clear morning Star which was and is the son of 〈◊〉 but he was not content with that great Honour and Dignity but would fain have been Lord and God himself and no more a servant This coveting was in Lucifer gotten by an ill look and eye toward God inflamed within himself in the same fiery flame out of which the Angels after their Soul are and that so much and heavy that the light did depart in his Spirit from Lucifer and instead thereof an unspeakable great darkness came out of the fire which Lucifer himself had kindled and so instead of Heaven a Hell it self So the fiery flame unknown to Lucifer undiscovered and hid was blown up by himself out of envy and grudgings so that it turned to an essential anger yea to a consuming fire wherein at first did rest the life but was