will be impossible to carry this Evangelical Ministration in such an evil Region where the Cry and Plea of mortal necessities are continually heard as making it a lawful imposition upon the very illuminated Saints to puddle about Earthly things by which indeed the wayunto the most Holy hath been blocked up no open Face of God could through this muddy glass be seen as being the dark side of the Cloud which keeps from God by many removes and distances Therefore a healing Balsom for a continual bleeding wound the great and merciful High Priest hath sent down even the victorious reconciling Crown of the Priestly anointing which is in very truth his Essential Diety which riseth as a Fountain of purity overspreading the whole Humanity and consecrates it for both Tabernacle Ark and Altar in which the Holy Ghost officiates and accomplisheth the whole Divine service Now whatever Soul and Spirit shall be thus taken up and arrested upon Gods account to serve and minister about the Heavenly and most excellent things which belong to the Everlasting Priesthood for it is not to be thought that the most holy will allow or permit such to prophane what he hath Sanctified or the Living to be entombed with the Dead or the high sented Oyl which springs from the Holy Ghost to let in the noysom putrifactions from the loathed Kedar where all unclean Spirits do dwell Here is an absolute command to have no touch nor intermedling withal so as to ensnare or come into hazard of breaking the consecrated Vows For it is a true saying of that great Saint That we in this consideration do cease to be our own we cannot according to the Law of the Spirit dispose of our selves no not for an hour or day from our Lord and Master's Employ and Business further than as good and faithful Stewards we can give a satisfying account according to those Spiritual Circumstances we are bound in unto him The great and mighty King loveth to see all his Priestly train and attendants still about him in such an Holy order and Heavenly posture as they may be ready to be sent forth upon the most eminent services who can find employment enough for his Subjects and Ministering Spirits who takes it as a great dishonour to have this holy order bring their high profession to be brought into contempt by running into the cloud and thickest of vain rudimental things Nay more than this the restitution extends to the ordained and called ones upon whom the anointing hath been poured forth for the most Holy incense Offering they cannot be at liberty to fall in with those lawful and necessary concerns which pertain to the feeding and cloathing of the Body but if here at any time engaged the Spiritual part suffers hurt because it acts out of its own Sphear and divine property which should stand in Faiths essentiality where all our motions should be accompanied with the Principle of Faith in the Priestly Ministration for the supplying what is needful to the true Temple worshippers whereunto keeping and walking with God in a perfect way fulfilling all his Sanctuary institutions such are as Lillies to Spring and grow without toil or care The blessings of the Deep shall ever more abound and flow in while there is an abiding in the Faith hereof giving God full credit and running all fully upon his acconnt in this case The Truth is the Lord stands engaged to provide all sufficiency for his Servants whom he hath called from all other low inferior Services and Employes being himself in Covenant with the Priesthood of his own ordination Holy Paul makes use of it from the unchangeable Law that runs from Shadows and figurative Services till it comes to the Life and Substance Do you not know saith he that they which minister about Holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers with it They have a right hereunto according to a Law of divine Institution But the Proprietors of these worldly Goods do uot hold themselves obliged hereunto but do engross and take up all and if they let go any thing it is rather by constraint than a free and voluntary Offering But we are not to search too deep into this matter for Faultiness may be found among our own Tribe that lie within the circle of the Priestly Covenant in whom much Remisness and Shortness hath been found as to the ministring to the Necessities of the true dedicated Nazarites But we hope to see another Power and Spirit that shall bear rule which shall make the fast clasped Proprietors to become all free and open-handed according to the fore-going Prophecy that the Churl shall be made liberal yea so as to reckon nothing to be his own But here it may well be asked What is it that must come to loosen from this Self-bottom so as to unhinge this strong Gate that hath kept out from the Land of eternal Store and Blessing whereof Abraham's Seed in the Faith are Heirs This doth in part answer the Question which may produce the great change in narrow Spirit 's which is the Gift of the Faith of the operation of God which openeth from the Springs of Love which are spread abroad by the holy Ghost and kept as a live Coal that can multiply it self into a strong and vehement flame of Love which is the cherishing Root that makes Faith to become all fruitful beyond all exteriour sense and sight resting and considing in the creating Fiat which can call those things that are not to be and make a something of nothing This we may call the Riches of Faith that can make an increase where no visible Matter appeareth This is no common Faith it is no where found but where the holy Ghost hath planted himself for a Blessing and growing Revenue Who ever shall receive of this Gift and taste the Power of it will soon cease to grasp and love earthly and perishing things they will be constrained to offer and consecrate all that may be for the service and use of the holy royal Melcbizedeck Priesthood And though at this time little of this Spirit and Power doth appear in the World yet know of a truth from the Witness of Jesus that the long tircling Motion of the holy Anointing which hath hitherto but scattered his Sparks of Light is now in very deed upon the out-breaking Day of Life that what hath been only in sweet Love-Movings and transcient passing Powers that have in the very Altar-waiters ceased But we shall say now again Behold come and see the burning ghostly Body is risen that will turn all uncertain Motion into a fixed act of all flowing generating Powers But this the Lord hath shewed me This will be first appropriated to the high Priestly Order that can pass beyond the Vail to whom the Holy of Holiest stands open For there are different Degrees States and Oders in this last and new erected Priesthood in which
eternal Rock there to be fed and nourished with its own Nature-Milk and Honey of Love till it become strong and able to encounter and overcome all its Opposites that it may reign alone as Monarch of the Soul My Friends who-ever you be that shall read this experimental Writing know assuredly that if you can but find this burning Star of Love risen nay if you can but feel the Glowings and Enkindlings of heat in the center of your Hearts it is more to be valued than all other spiritual Gifts Powers and divine Ornaments which pertain to the new Creation then we may boldly despise and contemn all worldly Dominions and all the Joys and Delights of sensual Love For you must know it is such a Sacred and Coelestial Seed coming immediately from the heart of the Deity as cannot admit any thing of defilement or pollution to abide with it It soon leaves the Soul if any thing be taken in which cannot abide the burning touch of this Altar Coal But here it may be asked What is this Love which is so highly exalted above all Heavenly and Earthly things Sure there must be some rare transcending Quality in it not commonly known that makes you press it so vehemently Truly well I may yet not I but the essential Love it self doth move me to open the Mystery of it which happily hath not been understood as now by breaking up the Fountain of it that so it may plentifully run forth for giving the Light of the Knowledge of it doth but make way for the very substantial Body it self to rise sensibly in its flaming Quality Take this further account of it that it is known for to be the most holy and pure Generation of the immaculate Virgin of God for which is prepared a Virgin-Womb that this Birth might be the choice and and undefiled One of her that brings it forth It will not be now at Christ's second Birth as it was at his first then his Vissage was marred more than any mans he was a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief and there was no Form or Comliness in him which made him to be set at naught and greatly despised though without Sin or Guile but being found a Sufferer under it therefore could not be exalted till he had slain the Enmity and wrought out Victory and thus he hath his first Birth in us which must precede his second But there is a vast difference between Christ's first and second Coming Many Ages are passed wherein the Saints have only known the Birth of Christ in them after this weak suffering dying and reproachful state The Apostles upon whom the holy Ghost was poured forth after a most signal manner by which Christ gave witness in them of his Victory and Exaltation enabling them to work miraculously yet notwithstanding they were not got beyond the suffering Birth of Christ in themselves for they only had the Revelation and Fore-sight of his appearing in Power and great Glory but they departed this Life and did not see the sign of the Son of Man to take up in them for a visible Reign and Kingdom that might redeem out of all Tribulation and so it hath continued until this day But yet there is not to be found a Generation so prepared and made ready for the second Coming of Christ as was in that day which might make us doubt whether the coming of Christ be so nigh because this Birth of Love is so hardly found in any risen up to an absolute Dominion which is a sure Introduction to the Omnipotent Reign of Christ in this visible Earth in the inward Properties of the Love Flock But you will say The Apostles and those that were Converted by their Ministry were all in the Dispensation of Love and were in expectation of having the Kingdom restored to Israel in their day and what was the reason then that Christ's second Birth did not rise in them To which I Answer That it was thought meet by the Father of Wisdom that all of that Generation should drink of their Lord's suffering and dying Cup as he often hinted unto them when Personally with them though they had a general Spirit of Prophecy concerning his glorious Reign in which he would appear in his Saints And then again it may be demur'd upon Whether those Elders themselves had compleated their own Regeneration and so were perfectly arrived to the Throne-Do minion of Love as fixed Overcomers St Paul Peter and John that were most eminent amongst them seemed to have somewhat more in their Eye than to what they had attained and so were still a pressing after it But however it may be concluded that they had gotten the Start before any that are known this day yet it seems that hitherto Love's Womb hath been shut up from bringing forth Children of the Resurrection at least to any thing that is manifestly known But for this we may have good hope that if indeed it be Born in any one and made strong to maintain its Right Superiority over the whole inward Creation ruling as God by whom it is certainly avouched that a Virgin Spirit shall be given to such for eternal Generation who shall be able to raise and quicken the holy Grain of Love that lieth as dead that so Love may see her Off-spring to multiply exceedingly unto all perfect Purity Such an holy Congregation and Society being once raised to reign upon Love's-Throne together they will be as so many raised Banners which will be terrible to the Nations which stand without the circle of Love Now by all this we see what hath hitherto put a stop and caused the Lord to delay his coming and will still till perfect Love be come to burn up every Image in the Mind that is not engraved by God's own Finger It is certainly to be concluded that Charity is the golden Wash baptizing Pool out of which Souls do come all Ruddy and White Clear and Bright to whom the Lord may say My Dove my fair One my Undefiled come away the Love-Scarlct-Dye hath washed thy Blackness away so that now thou art all fair in my Eye This is a Prophecy which hath now in some its fulfilling and will have more abundantly as this Spirit of burning Love takes possession of Hearts and then the very Face of God will be the Covering by which we shall see and know what before we were ignorant of as to our own pure Love's-Nativity which was fore-known in Christ before the World of Wrath and Bitterness did shew it self And thus by the first and second Birth of Christ in us all will come to be restored to a glorious new Creation where Love shall dye no more nor Sin live which brought in Curse and Sorrow and estranged God from us Now is not all this a most perswasive Motive to the Love-Flock where-ever scattered that God intends to bring them to this Love-band of Perfection that so we may know one another as God's
enkindled Sparks encreasing to Flames which are to consume all envy wrath as Stubble and Dross The Trumpet sounds from Mount-Zion and waxeth louder and louder we daily hear it from which we have declared the most excellent things concerning the eternal Love-fellowship in Gods own clearness in which no spot of Darkness is to be found You will say Where are such to be found according to this degree which you have here described All vsiible Churches and Societies are far too light when weighed with this golden Grain and Shekel of the eternal Sanctuary We know it to be so from the all-piercing Eye which doth try all degrees of Love and it may be universally bewailed that so much superficial formal and dead Love is found both to God and one another Hence we do not wonder that the Bridegroom makes no more haste his Bride wanting as yet her full Vesture or Robe of pure Charity without which she can never be said to be ready for this is to be all her Glory both within and without and to adorn her for love and delight Therefore all Preheminence and Honour give to Love taking all care to nourish it up in God and there abound in it towards one another This high pure and mystical Unity of Love hath been yet very little understood and less practised that Leaven-born-society is much scattered Where is Love's paved habitation to be found in which fervent Charity doth wholly act and move loving and admiring as God appears and looks forth through the Lettice of Humanity in each one Oh! how should it draw out and open the Springs of Love as God himself who is the Spirit and Life of Love which moveth and riseth in holy Souls And therefore it becomes us to be tender of it not to grieve it or quench it in one another for that may cause it to sink and dye away in our selves and then the very Ark of our strength departs from us and the heat and vigour of all spiritual Life declines with it Upon which consideration O ye Heaven-born out of the Womb of eternal Love where-ever dispersed let your Gatherings be to this lifted-up-Standard where Love's Kingdom is known and possessed in all Peace Joy and Tranquility The Trumpet from Mount-Zion doth found to call you away from all worldly drossy perishing Loves which are not Supersensual and Coelestial nay further from all luke-warm supperficial Loves for Love's workings must be fervent strong and immutable for the making meet for the rising and abiding Powers of the holy Ghost to work from All which will be brought out of the firey Furnace of Love for the great and mighty things that give Testimony of Christ's Kingdom in his Saints being come for it will surely open from this Center Now who-ever ye are that feel the touch of this Coelestial Fire-Stone send forth your warming Sparks to set one another in an holy Flame know your own Mother's Children hide not your selves from them be no longer Strangers towards them sind them out from North to South revive yet once again the Apostolical knot and band of unfeigned Love that may fore-run the Bridegroom's return to dwell amongst us that so we may no longer Fast and Mourn but be ever feasted with Love's multiplyings from the Fountain-Deity Even so confirm it O Lord Jesus accordingly Oh God! inspire with thy Love-Fires That we may abide with Angelical Quiers The Lamb's Trump doth sound to call us up To drink of this Love-flaming Cup The Spirit thereof doth so sweetly burn That Mortals into Seraphims doth turn Is not this the transforming thing Which to a God-like Beeing will bring Oh Charity What can be said of thee Dost thou not proceed from the Deity Henceforth I must proclaim Love's Fame To all that bear that living Name Who would not in love be with Love also For its force is greater than all Foe How doth it expel all Fears that they fly Because of sweet Peace and Serenity Love born of God Heir to all Goods Steward of his House giving out Food Is not this the one only excellent thing Which will fetch out the Serpent's Sting Nay more than this I clearly see Love will enter the secret of the Deity Where ye will see Love a burning Lamp Upwards flying never choked or dampt Wind we up our Angels to God above Where we may drink our fill of Love And feast on those fat and pleasant things That are within the Gardening Springs Where the everlasting Gates open stand For such as be united in Love's hand Come enter then as Charriot burning Flame Into that holy Place which known is by Name We feel Love like a bubbling Spring Which make us the new Song ever sing All Praises we will give to Elohim Who rideth on the Seraphims Floods of Joy with Coelestial Praise Shall now out-flow to the Ancient of Dayes For while we feel and taste Love's Fire It doth extinguish all earthly Desire Let thy Love stream forth as a Shower Let it flow forth in Life and Power This is the thing that is most pure It can all of our Desires fully cure Oh! let the Kingdom of this Love come That we may reign with God the Son In everlasting Love's sweet Harmony Hereby conquering all of the Enmity Love is the Lamb 's pure Virgin-Bride She is all Fair and Comly So sweet so mild and ravishing in his Eye That in his Love-imbraces she must lie There possessing such pure Coelestial Joy As none can know nor come to annoy A Bed of Rest here for her is found That makes Love's-Trumpet ever found Having passed through Love's Region and Dominion we are come to set forth according to the Gift still bestowed upon us the glorious state of the everlasting Priesthood of Christ carried on in his most holy Temple Body and heavenly Sanctuary which is framed for it by the Love-Power and Wisdom of the Most-High who will have a Kingdom of Priests elected and set apart for this purpose To draw near in full assurance of acceptance with him in all their holy Offerings each one from their consecrated Tabernacle to minister to the mighty Jehovah For the which is required a special Ordination which none can be capable of but such as first are all purified in the burning Springs of Love that so they may become Holy Merciful and Compassionate to intercede for the Ignorant and such as are turned aside from the tract of the just and perfect One. Now then to be called anointed of God to this holy Function is the greatest spiritual Dignity and Honour that can be conferred upon the Love-Flock it excels both the Prophetical and Kingly Dominion all which intrinsically do agree together only the Priestly Office doth out-shine in Glory being the last and finishing Ministration which shall reconcile and gather into the Unity with the most holy and ever blessed Trinity where fixation within the Temple-Body of the holy Ghost shall ever more be enjoyed Now in
deeper into the abyss being where the greatest of Wisdom's secrets are to be known when the spirit of the Soul can after this manner steal slide away from time and mortal day then open stands that gate that given entrance to behold the glorisi'd beings to hear the languages of that light world which none else can hear but them that are got out of the noise of all other hearings into that still and silent deep where most pleasant joyful Voices and Sounds are heard which entring through the several Orgains as a siery Bresth and nothing of vocal Words is either required or needed there Now then by this you may judge that pure and unadultered revelation and vision of a true sight is not so quickly rushed into nor easily attained it is a great and peculiar Gift and also requires great watchfulness and attenders upon it if any would enjoy and hold it incorruptedly And that there may be no deceit in this matter when you come to try your own and other Spirits take this observation further with you If any one brings out a Prophecy or Revelation take notice what defensive power and guard it hath upon it The beloved John when he had all those visions and revelations he gives an account how they were seen and heard by him for saith he I was in the Spirit on the Lords day and a good proof there was of it as much as if he had said That it was neither Mans nor Mortals day that did rise and inclose upon him but the one everlasting Day or Ancient of Days in whose Light he had the glorious Prospect of heavenly things themselves Thus he was in the Spirit which was his defensive power and guard to keep out all ether trifling Spirits Observe this further it is a much different thing for the Mind and Spirit of the Soul to be caught and taken up into the spirit pure and abstractedly for then it is secured from mixtures but when the holy Spirit is come only into the Property of our Souls giving sorth lustrous Light and Revelation in speaking fluently yet hazardable to be twisted about from the self-promoting Essence that ready and apt is to dash in upon the divine inspiring as soon as it arise from its own center deep This I speak knowingly having traced through the deep Meanders before I arrived to know the true and certain way of Revelation by which now I am put out of doubt concerning the true Oracle speaking in the Soul as to my own particular watching thereunto with heedfulness for the keeping out all fluttering Spirits that have their birth and nourishment from the astaral and elementary Region that can go in and out for proving till we are got beyond their Kingdom Now indeed when the spirit of the Soul meets with such a pull up into the Spirit as the beloved Disciple then it is out of all fears but this is very rare they are high favourits that do frequently meet with such transportations but the other is more common and frequent to Saints that lovers and enjoyers are of that Ministration for whose sakes I have been impulsed to open these secret things that they may put on their impregnable strength of defence for the preserving this great immunity as the choicest of all of Gods favours and that incorruptedly as from the pure spring of the Spirit then you will find every faculty tinged with the fiery Glance of the holy Ghost as you see by the dark hard body of Iron being inclosed with Fire it is so penetrated therewith as it becomes as one and the same fire flame but you must keep and feed it there as the Salamander which always liveth in the fire after this manner doth the holy Ghost with his invisible flaming Body penetrate through the spirit of the Soul that it is encompassed with Light as the Angel which is said Rev. 19. 17. standing in the Sun all appearing as the very Sun of glory therefore highly valuable it is for any Saint to get such a clothing of the Spirit upon them for nothing of Adam's weak or impotent Nakedness can here be seen but all glory strength and power will be your habitation therefore these are gifts to be much set by and desired and not slighted or despised Now having given a plain and experimental account of this nice and difficult Point which I hope may have reached to the satisfaction of the doubtful I shall now by virtue of a heavenly Commission given me from the Lord give counsel and caution to three sorts and degrees of Persons The First of this is to them that do question Whether there be any Spirit of Prophecy or Revelation given forth since the Apostles deceased as believing all dyed with them This would be a sad and deplorable thing if God should since that Age cut off the spring of Revelation from its original that so the Sheep and Lambs of Christs flock should no more expect to be fed from the fresh springing Pastures where no footing hath been as also to drink of those flowing Rivers of Life that renew daily from the fount of the God head let such but call to mind and consider those many Scripture-Prophecies and Promises concerning the continuation of this Gift unto the very end of time both in the old and new Testament I shall mention only some of the latter John 14. 16 17 18. 2 Cor. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 2. 10 11 12 13 14. John 2. 28. Heb. 8. 9 10 11. Many more than these Scriptures could call up for confirmation of the continued run of the Spirit throughout all Ages Christ by his Spirit comforting us saying Lohe would be with his to the end of the World Now as from the Lord I beseech you not to eclipse the light of the Day-star 2 Pet. 1. 19. in your own Souls nor quench the Spirit nor despise Prophecying then may the witness of Jesus rise in you to confirm this most glorious Ministration as a burning Lamp of Revelation A word of Love-caution is to another sort of Persons who are entred into this Ministration in its first degree and are under the Spirits discipline and teaching the word of Counsel from the Father of Spirits is this That they keep precisely to the Rules and Laws of the Spirit for there will be expected from such more shining and singular Conversation shewed forth in a self-denying Life dying to all of those mortal things and sensual enjoyments that strangle and choke the fiery Breath of the holy Spirit to stop it from kindling further and deeper in the Soulish Essence that so there may be a coming up to a mighty Increase and Fruitfulness in the love and unity of the Spirit having all tenderness to support love and cherish each Olive Plant that springeth out of this Eden Garden which is watered by the holy Mists and dropping Dews of the Spirit Now to the third sort this word of Wisdom and Counsel doth
greet them whom we discern to be of a high and lofty stature having shot forth their Branches in great lustre and glory as having got beyond all declarative Revelations and Teachings as not receiving or needing any but what their own center of Light will supply them withal here-from inclining to slight what lies in bank and store with their fellow-Labourers for this same Treasure to such this word is sent that they carry it in great humility and lowliness of Mind prefering each ones gift before or as their own maintaining all sweet and lovely Fellowship with those of lower or higher degrees in mutual Concord and Harmony for the maintaining a holy Fraternity and spiritual Neighbourhood although each Saint may have a full Provision and plentiful Portion of Spirit in themselves so as they have no dependance on another yet love is freely communitive and disperseth it self in great variety so as what one Saint is gifted and furnished with the other may want of that sort and kind and so a heavenly Traffick and Correspondency may be maintained feeding and feasting with each other on the various Fruits as all springing from one Stock and Tree of Life for it is experienced that much increase of the holy Anointing hath flown forth by the converse and declaration of divine Inspirations from one Saint to another the which hath begotten a new and spiritual Generation as in former Ages so in this sending forth divine sparks of Light and Love for the gathering in of the holy priestly Train that are to make up the Temple-Glory till the which shall come to be compleated there will be all need of this holy in spiring Breath to be breathed from one to another whether by vocal Voice inspeaking or converse as the holy Spirit shall go forth in its various operations for the edifying of the Body of Love for a holy Convocation to the Lord. In the hopeful Expectation of which I have been driven to disclose these great and deep secrets being assured That this Generation shall not pass away before there shall be a fulfilling of what hath been revealed prophecied of in this little Tract and blessed are they that shall have their lot and portion herein There is a rich Bank yet behind from whence the oily Springs do fill that may be emptied forth when Vessels are made more fine and ready thereof to take in for the which we shall wait and seek to find some such for to partake of that rich and weighty Prize that yet lieth in the secret eternal Mine for there is Vally deep which under the Water of Life doth lie that will bring forth the fruitful Olive Plants that shall be there fed and nourished hiddenly till of a strong and full grown stature in Spirit and Power they may come for to be then will they shew themselves to the true Israel of God universally that the Priestly Kingdom may come for to spread and flourish every where in power and great glory sealed with Mission of the holy Ghost acting and going forth in signal miraculous working Powers for confirmation of the truth of this Dispensation in such a way as none shall resist nor any dark Magician shall be able to counterfeit for so strong and impregnable is the Foundation of this Temple-body of glory that neither Dragon Beast or false Prophet shall be able it to undermine it being built and compact together of precious Saphire Stones transparent for Beauty and Glory the Jasper Stone being both Foundation and Covering thereon then will the shout of a King be heard in the Land of Salvation Oh! ye holy and elect of God where-ever you have been hid appear if you have put on your anointed Shield promote and help forward this royal Priesthood wherein the lively express of the holy Ghost is to be manifested Oh! that some fitch might be known that hereto do give themselves and mind no other thing as the Lords approved Work-men that may come to build up the inward Priestly Temple whose Furniture and Glory shall be the Gifts and Powers of the holy Ghost And now what have I more to do but to wait in hope that the pure flaming Spirit may henceforth go forth to gather in this Priestly Host who as in a reathed Chain of Love united may be inseparable that so we may come to take our degrees of Prophets Priests and Kings for the making good what hath been in this Treatise revealed which though in the form of a dead Letter yet O God as the Auther hereof did in the writing meet with a mighty flow of the anointing Presence so let the same out-flowing Spring accompany such whom thou hast ordained to be taken into this holy Priestly Order to which give thy Amen O great High-Priest to whom the Glory hereof doth belong Even so let that Kingdom come into this World that shall consist of Kings Priests and Prophets with all such Righteous Plants let the whole Earth be plantd for Joy and Praise to him who is the Antient of Days Hellelujah to him who is KING of Kings THE END As you may see in the Book entituled The Heavenly Cloud by the same Author Meaning the Book of the Heavenly Cloud Acts 1. 4. Ephef 1. 10. Rom 6. 14. Rev. 11 10. Rom 5. 12 Gen 3 5. Isa. 55. v. 1. The opening of the first Seal Rev. 6. v. 1 2. The opening of the second Seal Rev. 6. v. 3 4. The opening of the third Seal Rev 6. 5 6. The opening of the fourth Seal Rev. 6 7 8 Paâ—â—icular experiences coâ—â—â—rning this seal opening The open ing of the fifth Seal Rev. 6 9 10 11. The opening of the sixth Seal Rev. 6 14. to the end chap 7. Rev. 2. 3. The seventh Seal shown by way of Vision some space of time after the opening of the other Seal The seventh Seal is included in the seven Thunders opening as the effect of this Seal The frst Thunder The second Thunder The third Thunder The fourth Thunder The fifth Thunder The sixth Thunder The seventh Thunder January 2d 1682. So soon as desired that is to be understood carried up in a Spiritual Transportation First Property Second Property Third Property Fourth Property Fifth Property Sixth Property of the Soul Seventh Property Rev. 121. Meaning Wisdom who is God's esposed Virgin For this Virgin-Nativity see into she Wisdom of Sedemon Chap. 6. 7. Which five Gates were the 5 Sences spoken of before Now proceed we to the following Gates By Sophia is meant Virgin-Wisdom See Rev 18. 11 12 c. The word Magia is the created Power of the-Holy Ghost so to be undestood as often as named A weighty Expression from Emmanuel Methinks I hear some say This is such a new Model as is wonderful strange Pray open the Mystery of it yet more fully Answer I only can give out what the Measuring Line of the Spirit hath fathomed and no more Magia is the Faith of the operation of the Holy Ghost A fresh Prophetical opening upon this subject Seven days of Solitude from all of mortal Society as might be avoided The which hath induced the Author to publish these divine Secrets Col. 3 12. The General Epistle of John ch 16. 17. ch 4. 7. 8 â— 10 11. That is Love's Infancy before it grows strong For the Kingdom was here delivered up and God became all in all Which Body is the Ark of the living presence soto be understood Mal. 18. 18. Joh. 20. 23. That is by incorporation with Christ their sinless Life all Purely acting in them How blind to time must that eye be Who would see the glories of Eternity Sure those who Heaven most desire They from all of the Earth do most retire
THE REVELATION OF Revelations Particularly as an ESSAY Towards The Unsealing Opening and Discovering THE Seven Seals the Seven Thunders and the New-Jerusalem State The which have not hitherto so far been brought forth to light except by the Spiritual Discerner to any degree of Satisfaction as to the understanding of the grand Mystery Published by J. L. the Author of the Heavenly Cloud made mention of particularly in the Preparatory Epistle to that late Theosophick Piece Entituled Theologia Mystica A Work never Extant before Rev. 5. 9. And they sang a new Song saying Thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof 1 Cor. 1. 10. For God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit 's for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God London Printed and Sold by A. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch Also by J. Lead at the Carpenters in Bartholomew-Close and at Book-sellers in London and Westminster 1683. H. LION To the living Stones gathered and to be gathered to Christ the Foundation Stone where-ever hid scattered and dispersed who are elected in God for the New-Jerusalem-Glory and Mount-Zion-Church all Love Grace Peace and Joy be multiplied from him who was is and is to come THe Establishment of the restored Sion-Church cannot be by Man or after Manly Wisdom but by the holy Spirit which Christ our Prince and Saviour hath sent in his own Name to build upon the Foundation of the Father and the Son a Rock indeed which remaineth steady and unshaken from Time to Eternity And indeed who else is found sufficient for the gathering and building of these holy Temple-Stones that are to be fitly compacted together to make up this glorious Church that may be presented all fair without Spot as becomes the Spouse and Bride of the Lamb which you will find the whole subject of the following Revelations tend to even to the bringing out of all that are found in Lifeless Forms into the very substantial Life and Ministration of the holy Spirit where the Increase and growing up is known into that Body in which God will move and work all for the which end all Prophecies that have been from the foundation of the World may have their fulfilling in this last Age for the which good Assurance is given from the fresh springing of the Word of Wisdom that may produce a sealed Commission not only in Letter but from the feeling fiery-breath of the true Unction which is the living Epistle by which alone I desire to be made known to you and from thence do send pure Love-greeting to them whose Ears are opened to hear and receive what the Spirit of Truth hath declared and unfolded in this little Volumn which now is presented to publick view contrary to the intent and purpose of the subordinate Author hereof who as I was waiting in my continued course and order upon the heavenly showring and to feed and be refreshed in this all-fruitful and pleasant Pasture being satisfied here to take my lengths and breadths in all free conference with the Lord the Spirit whom I did well know by his inward flaming Body which at certain times did stir and rise and then I could hear and distinctly know the Voice of his Mouth which came as a soft melting Fire-breath and said Record what since October 1679. hath been seen heard tasted and felt and shun not to declare it for it hath a peculiar service on Gods behalf to do though at present hid from thee only observe and be watchful and I will certainly Follow this at the Heels And thus you may perceive under what constraint I am and by whose Commission these deep and mystical Revelations are now published who fore-sees what effects they are to have and what Souls and Spirits are to be touched and enkindled from the same burning-Ray which will surely over-shadow the believing And for the doubtful I have only this Caution and that from the holy and just One. That henceforth they cease from rash and uncircumcised Judgment which doth arise from the rational Will and Spirit and above all to put on the meek simple and child-like Spirit and so cease to be injurious to their own Souls for nothing is more prejudicial to the growing and springing Life and Light than to give way to Incredulity and an evil Suspition raised from the dark Mists of Sense and worldly Wisdom which can never reach the deep things of the Spirit Therefore if there be any force power or authority in that Word of Life that was from the beginning and is now come to bear his own living Record in our day which Word and Spirit of Truth and Wisdom let none resist but open the everlasting Doors of their Souls and Minds for to take it in and so you will of the lively Hope partake and bear the true and living Testimony with us That the Morning Star is risen for to lead us out of our selves where nothing but Darkness is and where the fallen Spirits keep their strong Hold binding and putting out the Eyes of Sampson the Nazerite the figure of the eternal Spirit which is in all the Sons of Adam against which the grand Apollyon hatcheth his treacherous Conspiracy for he hath great Indignation against us because such Love Grace and Goodness hath now abounded to us in Christ Jesus our Lord who is come to offer himself an effectual Salvation in all there is not a Door that he passeth by but that at one time or other he knocks at it and would find entrance in to redeem and fetch out his own eternal Spirit from under Bondage Death and Misery But such are the subtil Wiles of that Enemy of all Mankind that he provides a Dalilah for some to steal and draw away their Minds and to seduce their more Noble part to that which is vile base and sensual And then another more subtil Bait he casts out for those who are mortified and have escaped those worldly Charms and are come to a sober and lawful use of the things of this Creation and yet are held Captives through the Multiplicity of Mortal Cares Businesses and Concerns for the outward Man whereby they are so overcharged and weighed down in their Spirits that they cannot get up to shake off this carthly Dust to walk with God in Enoch's state not observing that counsel of the Lord Christ First to seek the Kingdom of Heaven and with all getting to get Wisdom The contrary to which is most universally practised in making sure first of the Beasts Kingdom and the perishing Mamon of Unrighteousness and then if the Kingdom of Heaven will fall in and be added to them it shall be welcome but alas this will not do Christ will not be served last Wherefore let not the Serpent beguile any who seek the Pearl of Christs Kingdom but be wise to avoid the choaking Earth and drowning Floods and trust the Lord upon his Word who will certainly make
shall I get rid of this Body I would fain exist in that pure Essence with thee where nothing of this lump of Earth might prevent my constant Walks in those high Places with thee whose presence will make these outward Elements to flee away from the superior Spirit The Holy One replied Be not troubled at thy Binding Mortality for I will descend in this fiery Cloud into thee as a baptizing Fire which shall take away the gross Impurities of the Senses that thou mayst be clarified in order to thy Codeification which will manifest the out-spreading Name of thy Emmanuel whereby thou shalt receive Power to ascend through Fire and Air and continue that all-desireable freedom of Communion with the holy Trinity And though none in a Body of Flesh and Six can come up to me yet Grace Pity and Love do move to descend in the Spirits flaming Cloud to make the way free that such may have a Pass who account no Place their Rest or Dwelling besides me Wherefore pursue and watch to drink in of this pure Spirit of Burning which will clear and take out of the way whatsoever hath kept from ascending into the Holy City Whilst these Words were in spoken from the Anointing I felt a sensible rising and spreading over all my Heart Head and Body as if all were covered with a Cloud of Sun-heat giving out light by which I could soe what was inwardly done as well as feel it Then it was further spoke in me that I should take notice that this was also the bright Garment of the Sun Such is the Nature of this secret flaming Matter that it seeds strengthens and clarifies a naked Spirit all at once Then was I inquisitive to know the Substance or Ground of it but it was replyed Meddle thou not with that only receive it passively and Co-operate with it when it ariseth and then walk with and draw in the feeding Fire and Air and when it resteth in its own place rest thou with it and be assured it will not leave thee till it have concentred thee in the Deity This light flaming Cloud encompassing me gave this further Revelation to shew what the Holy One is about to do in order to the laying of the Foundation of this strong City in which the mighty God will pitch his Tabernacle and settle his Rest forever Many Types Images and foregoing Figures of this Jerusalem have been given through the several Ages of the World but the Heavenly Thing it self hath not been brought forth as no wt will be because the set time approacheth For the trying burning Furnace is kindled and the Wind of the Almighty forcibly blows up the Flames thereof in the center of the Soul of every one who are the Elect Members of this Holy Corporation Now is the time for the Spirit of Burning and Judgment to prepare each Stone which is designed for this super-excellent Glory No connterfeit Gold or reprobate Silver can pass through this Furnace which is ordained to prove whatsoever comes to be built on this Foundation The mighty King sends forth his Decrees to fulfil the ancient Prophecies concerning the return of the long Captivity of these who belong to this Mother-City that they may know their original freedom and no longer abide as Captive-Exiles among the Babylonians in Confusion and Reproach And what sign will the Lord give for this but by loosing the last Seal under which doth lie the rich Bank and vast Treasury of Wisdom Spirit and Power which shall so vigorously carry on this New-Jerusalem-Building that all the Powers which the Dragon and Beast can raise by their Agents visible and invisible shall but turn to their Shame and Confusion when the Lamb ariseth to open the Seventh Seal under which the most precious things even that fine transparent Matter lies hid to be manifested in due time for the beautifying of this divine Building But here an Objection may arise and question this revealed Grace and proclaimed Liberty to the Children of the Captivity who are now called to sit upon this heavenly Building which is this That the time is not yet and that the last Seal is not so near breaking open and who is it that can give a Sign for a Testimony that this Decree is already gone forth To all which the Spirit of Truth gives this Answer who best knows what he hath wrought in order hereunto in the Central Deep of some Elect Vessels who are not to make any out-cry until the Mystery be fully finished in them know that the time is at hand wherefore let none look afar off or run out from themselves and neglect their own Vintage at home but regard how near the Grape is to ripeness which contains the Wine that is to be drunk at the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb who charges it as a great over-sight upon those that are Regenerate that they have put this Day afar off not discerning the Lords Body who is quickned from the dead in them who are passed from Death with him and so are put in Subordinate Commission with the Lamb to break open all those Seals which shall make way for the descent of the Holy City For what in John's Revelation is mentioned concerning these things is very obscure and mystical and there is no fathoming of it to the utmost until the Lord himself come with the Plummet-Line of the Holy Spirit to measure out the meaning Though there are some who have been favoured with this Light of Revelation by means of which they understand what lies hid under those Allegorical Expressions and through the opening of the Seals have discovered those rich Jewels which were concealed under that dark Covert the opening of which Seals I shall set down in order according as it was acted in my own particular through my Soul 's waiting with the Lamb's-rising Power in a particular experience of my own in the divine Mystery At the opening of the first Seal the Spirit of Faith came forth to encounter with the fearful and unbelieving Spirits that set before me an Impossibility of ever reaching to a Paradisical Purity and Mount-Zion-Dignity and was kept under a great Fear and Perplexity under the dominion of Unbelief until this first Seal was broke open for thereupon the strong Lyon of the Tribe of Juda set me free to run the Race of Faith unto the end giving in this Caution to take care to be well mounted on this Horse of the Spirit of Faith and to hold fast to him who rides on it who hath the conquering Bow in his Hand to shoot his Arrows into those unbelieving Spirits that would still keep us in Doubts and Perplexity At the opening of the second Seal all Peace Pleasure and Joy were taken away from the Earthly Life and withal such a Light broke forth which made me see the vile Abomination of an earthly state compared with the Perfection of the Divine Life so that now I rejoyc'd in nothing more than
on the Earth The Elect shall reap and long enjoy the creating Works of their own Hands for with no less Power shall the Representatives of Christ the Lord be invested This declared must be throughout all Worlds that Christ will appear in his Saints that are risen again to bear the Tropky of a Death-Conquering Power Now the next enquiry is When is the time that this may be expected because hitherto there is but very small appearance of any such thing that is Who is it qualified in such a high degree as this heavenly Kingdom requires Who are willing to be Beheaded and through Death to be made partakers of this Reign But yet notwithstanding all these Objections of Fear Unbelief and the whole throng of discouraging Spirits of the sensible Life whose cry is Who is able to suffer all this Faith and Love are given to the worthy pretenders to this Kingdom whereby they are carried as with Wings over all the Floods of Fear and Discouragement neither shall they want either Resolution or Valour to wade through the greatest opposing Difficulties who are designed for it and found in the Lamb's Roll. A double and trebble portion of his Spirit the Lord hath said he will add to them who first shall abrogate the Law of Sease which hath been the chief hinderance of his Kingdom which therefore is to be made void because it diverts the Soul from fetching all its Supplies from the Rock neither can Faith arrive to its full strength till Sense be led into captivity and cast into a dead Sleep Now as to the time of the Lord's Reign when it shall be you will be apt to say That this is an unknown thing and that none can prefix the time It is true that many have Calculated and puzled their Spirits about it in vain But if we will know how near the time is we must not look without us but in the unsealed Book of Life within us there you will find the fore-going Signs which are first to be accomplished in your own Heavens and Earth We may try and prove our selves by what hath been already revealed from the seven Seals and Thunders how near the Kingdom of our Lord is approached unto us Let each of us examin our selves how far the preparative work is advanced in us We see what the Beast and Dragon's Kingdom must suffer in us to make way for this Reign which cannot be established till all this Trash be taken out of the way Therefore we shall only know the time by such an one who shall give the first deadly stroke and come forth a Conqueror over the whole sensitive Life and this outward Kingdom which stands divided between Good and Evil in such an Overcomer as this my Jesus expressed he would appear and personate a Kingly Reign and that we are not to look out for any other Sign at this time but the Manifestation of this conquering Life And further said There would go forth an Arrow from the Word of Revelation which should so closely stick in some as to pierce through the Heart of the Beast who hath warred to hinder the Lord's triumphant Reign in his Saints By all which it is clear that there is no surer sign of the approaching Personal Reign of Christ than to see the Beast wounded to the Heart for no sooner will the Beast be removed but his Kingdom will appear whose right it is to rule in Heaven and Earth Who is it now that will suck in the Marrow of these precious things which is the dropping Oyl which distills from the Olive-Tree to make our way smooth light and clear and to preserve us from being daunted though our Portion should be a draught of Blood for the life of the Beast must be taken away before the Lord appear in us like himself in Power Glory and Majesty Oh! what Drawings and Desires may these weighty sayings from the Lord enkindle in us from his coming to reign in absolute dominion within us The Word came to me Run hard there is a rich Prey to be taken by treading down of the Beast which may be taken if pursued to the Victory Wherefore be valiant in the Faith for all Might is in God to overcome whatsoever opposeth his Reign and Personal Kingdom Much and free Communication I had with the Lord this Night and a Cloud of Light appeared in me which raised my hope higher I had also many Queries satisfied Then there appeared to me a pitched Standard which reached from the Earth to the Heavens where its top was hid it resembled a strait ascending Flame and it was signified that this was the Standard of overcoming Power which no earthly Warrior would venture to engage with for its Dominion reached from the Earth to the Heavens and this Word was added Stick close to it and move not from under it for it will be a shelter from the Storm which is coming on with a flowing Sea of Troubles raised by the wrathful One whose Kingdom is Division This Motto and Inscription was given out from the sealed Book within as follows In Christ I live in Christ I dye that I may cease from Sin and beastly Properties that so the first Ground of Life may rise over all to immortalize the Reign of Christ. Words no more as empty Sails spread out shall be but become the thundering Air of an Almighty Power which is Christ in his essential Spirit who wanders from the Heights above and Depths below will in his time show Look and read the circle Line and the most marvelous things may further know and find Upon some inward Conference with my Lord about the Shipwracked-Bark of Nature which still upon the forreign Coast doth lie and is often in Jeapordy by reason of some Tides which might make the Vessel spring-a-Leek the Lord did immediately come in with these Words saying Make reflection and ponder well my Grace and Love which hath been so great as to lay in my Life so deep with thine that thou canst suffer nothing but I do call it mine Thy broken Vessel shall be renewed into its Original when all of sinsul Properties shall be drowned in the Alpha and Omega who is the beginning and end of Time and who will open the sealed Mine where the unsearchable Riches shall freely abound as in the state of Innocency where nothing of necessity or want was known All this is going on und advancing in the moving Circle of the Duty all that is required of thee is to be steady in the highest float of Earth My Spirit was let down into the deep Center and Circumserence where the personal Glory met me with whom I had great Felicity to behold the Shepherd with his Fold who friendly faluted me for though a naked Spirit I was not despised by such dignified Bodies though I was made very sensible of the want of such a glorious Body and as soon as I desired it I was forthwith imbodyed as
find it self in another form of Life and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality before Jehovah's Throne attend 〈◊〉 to know the counsel and decrees of the Soveraign Majesty under whom is mannaged all inferior Government which shall be committed to those who reign with Christ the Lord Oh! this will be a wonderful time indeed For while the Lord is opening these things to me I am as one sunk into the Abyssal Ground where I am as nothing till he put forth a piercing Ray from his flaming Eye to fetch my Spirit up again who thus spake unto me Stand thou up and hear and declare the new Model of my Reign and let it be published for it is time to awaken those who are ordained for the first Resurrection that they may no longer sleep in the day break of my appearance And do thou solemnly see thy Heart to the great Immunities that are revealed not only for speculation 〈◊〉 for sulfilling where great Earnestness shall be found Thus the 〈◊〉 One set home his Word and causeth it to pass through a Vessel that is nothing to be accounted of whereat my self stands amazed what should move the Lord thus to appear and hold such a free Converse and leave such weighty things in trust with me Oh! What can be said but that it is the Good-will and Pleasure of my Christ and King who will change Tin and Dross into Gold as it pleaseth him The Fifth Property of the Holy Ghost is that whereby the Soul gets free from the striving Elements and comes to Rest and Peace all Wars and Combates ceasing The Soul having got up these four ascending Steps towards the Throne can now look down like a Tower of strength terrible to all the lower Inhabitants round about It is a Palace compacted within it self knowing nothing but a serene Peace and Concord neither Dragon nor Beast do so much as attempt to come here for Love and Peace is their Hell and Torment Christ's personal Reign in his Saints consists of Peace Power Love Joy the holy Ghost moveth in the mild and meek Property from the Water of Life that captivates the Enmity and Strife and shuts up the dark Center with all its Spirits This carries a two-fold meaning for first it is to be understood of that Love and Peace which possesseth the whole inward Hemisphere of the Soul and in the next place of the same Love flowing forth and diffusing it self through all the Subjects of that peaceful Kingdom which Christ will establish in the high Angelical Harmony of Love The Sixth out-flowing Property is the Omnipotence of God exerted in the renewed part in an absolute and Almighty Dominion that admits of no controule Here is no need of going out to borrow Gifts or Powers which are now fixed in the Soul to manifest the Wonders of the Magia which hath been shut up in Wisdom's Principle whose Virgins Crown of Power is sent down as a signal Testimony of the Kingly Reign that must prevail over all the Earth The bright flaming Standard of Christ's Personality will be of that Magnificence as to draw home the dispersed and scattered Flock which hath suffered Violence in this Babylonish Kingdom A Jubile will be proclaimed by them to whom this Dominion shall first come They the Head-Kings and Leaders are appointed to shine forth as Stars that shall bear such sway in God's Omnipotency as shall make all the Elect to haste and fly to this Kingdom as Doves to the Windows where all occasions of complaint about the Necessities of Life shall be cut off because Wisdom's Store-house shall from the Inherent Omnipotency abundantly supply whatsoever is needful of this kind The Paradisical lost Power shall be restored in a higher degree than ever to the end that Self-Love and Propriety may be taken away which cannot enter into Christ's Kingdom for the Lord hath averred That none who are thus spirited shall ever his Kingdom inherit The vast and inexhaustable Treasure of divine Riches cannot be enjoyed in Propriety but only in Loves Communion The Seventh and last Property of the holy Ghost that gives witness to Christ's Reign doth consist in a Life of Praise Exaltation which goeth forth in the Angelical Tongues Powers and Sounds of so many persumed Offerings paying an everlasting Love-Tribute of Joy to the Antient of Dayes by and in whom they are come to reign over all Kingdoms in this World in Christ's personal Power The New Hallelujahs from the Fire-breath of the Holy Ghost shall be the Holy Sport and Coelestial Play of the Children of this Kingdom All their Works shall speak forth the Praises of the Most High for Wisdom's Spirit will act so high and in such a mysterious manner as hitherto hath not been known all which miraculous Powers have been reserved to make up the Glory of Christ's second coming in his Representatives here on Earth For if the Lord should not in this manner demonstrate his God-head-Power in his Saints they would be set very light by and it would be a vain thing to assume the Title and Name of Kings without anointing Power suitable to it No Dominion whether inward or outward can be maintained without Loves-Omnipotency And truly my Lord hath assured me that he hath made large and full Provision for this Day who upon some private Objections of my own said to me Be thou nothing doubtful concerning all the great Things of my Kingdom which have been opened to thee from the Center of Light they have been revealed for a ground of Faith The Head of the Dyal is moving towards the fixed Hour which will manifest all these working Powers of the holy Ghost Wherefore do not streighten thy self nor any to whom this Word shall come but run out in a spacious large Belief answerable to Loves-Power and the ability of the object to whom the Eye of Faith is directed For wonderful things are upon the Wheel by which you may know it is high time to put forth your Hands to raise and awaken that which hath been so long asleep This was the concluding Word of Counsel from the Lord. The fore-going Properties is that which makes way for the Reign of Christ in personal Power and Glory which is now the great thing to be waited for as the End and Consummation of all that hath been revealed in the bare discovery of which we are not to rest but we are to press forward to enjoy the Fruit or Product of it in the inward Center where Christ will be manifested in his Personal Glory and Power For the driving seeking Spirit will not be at rest till it can put on its Resurrection-Body It knows that hitherto notwithstanding all its Refinings and Dyings to sinful Self and the World it yet remains a naked Spirit which must return into the Virgin-Womb of Eternity there to be regenerated into an heavenly Corporeity from the one holy Element out of which Christ's holy Personality is taken This is the
or Female for she may assume either according to her good pleasure for she is both Male and Female for Angelical Generation But here it may be asked What is this Virgin Whence is she How can she introduce her self into that Nature where her pure chastity hath been violated This last indeed may be accounted a wonder above our hopes and expectation which yet she is in a rendiness to do as is well known to them who have understood her and preferred her above all things as being well assured that like as all Bliss and Peace sted away with her so upon her return all good will come back with her again As to her Nativity it is from everlasting before the Creation of Heaven or Earth She was before all as being the Co-essential creating Power in the Deity which formed all things out of nothing and hath given a dignified existency to all those Seraphick Glories which move within her own Sphear who are the product of an unsearchable Wisdom for the replenishing of those superior Worlds which are little known in this where we are out-casts neither can we be acquainted with much glories till we be born again out of her Virgin-Womb for so it must be before ever we come to be Christs in conformity with Christ our Head A Marvelous thing the Lord hath revealed to me concerning this Woman which holy John saw viz. that she represents Gods Spouse and Mate from whom the highest Birth the Eternal Word of Wisdom did go forth as the mighty Alpha and Omega in a distinct glorious personality known to himself in God and the Everlasting Virgin before any thing of the heavenly Hosts were created For he stood equally in the Counsel of the Father and Virgin for the bringing of the whole Creation into a figurative manifestation Now for what is all this but to discover the mystery of this Woman that she is the eternal Virgin who will essentially introduce her self into those who are prepared and appointed to enjoy her She will confer her Sun and Crown of Stars upon her Representatives Here will be brought down the one elemental Robe and the quint Essential Root will again be found which will give a most glorious Luster and all renew the gross vile matter as heing the acting Wisdom to shew forth Gods wonders all which reserved are until her day She is looked for as Gods fruitful Bride to bring forth Christs personality in plurality as so many immaculate Princes ruling in God Just cause will be found if we consider this Principle wherein the Serpent with so much bitterness wars against the Virgin and her Seed why her Off-spring as soon as born is caught up to Heaven from whence the Dragon is cast out and where the Iron Rod will crush him and be too hard for him and his adherents Her Off-spring will appear all Virgins with her own lustrous Son who is the first-born amongst the Kings of the Earth and Heavens Oh the high and majestical Glory which shall proceed from the Virgins Womb with whom is the blessing that will abound in fruitful Gifts and high working Powers from the Magia ground Eve's Conception in Sorrow shall not here be known for this Virgin never was disobedient or broke Faith with God who is her Husband the fruit of whose travel is Blessing and Joy through the whole Generation that shall be Born of her She shall be the Mother of the true Virgin-Church wherein no mixture of Will-Worship or False Doctrine shall be found But it may be queried How can this heavenly Virgin endure to come down upon this defiled Earth for to multiply her Off-spring in it For without doubt the Serpent and Dragon will violently rage against her which we have experience of in our selves when he crowds into our very Heavens with all evil Beasts at his Heels waging War against us Yet nothing of all this shall be able to prevent God's purpose who will appear with his Virgin in the divine Body and cover her with the one Element which will torment all evil-Spirits and wear them out who can as little endute her Virgin-Purity as the Virgin-Spirit can bear their Poyson Therefore a separation is made as we read that the Woman had a Place prepared for her in the Wilderness which signifies the Spirit of Faith which carries it from off the sensual Ground where the Concourse of fluttering Spirits of all kinds are wherefore this is no place for God's Virgin to stay in she may be in danger of having her Chastity violated or of being drowned with the wrathful Floods of the Dragon The Serpent will not cease to make his attempts with more subtilty than eyer because by this introduced Virgin-Spirit his Head-power shall be crushed and his Seed dis-inherited but the Virgin-Spirit shall mount like an Eagle and so escape the Dragon's deluge A Fountain is opened in the Desart of which the Soul which is in union with the Virgin shall drink instead of the muddy Waters of the Earth which she loathes Pleasant Food is provided in this Wilderness by God himself and his Christ. The Lord affords these Dainties to the abstracted Life where the Virgin-Spirit is a stranger to sensitive Self within as well as to the enchanting World without Here it wants no good company for its never without heavenly Visitants because it reserves it self chiefly for converse with the Deity from whom she expects all her Blessing and Encrease And thus the Soul shall spring and multiply where the Virgin hath realized her self Her Wilderness shall become a rich Sharon-Pasture a Land of unknown Plenty where Gold Silver and precious Stones shall be as the Dust under the Feet of these holy separated Virgins Also within and without their feeding shall be on Power Joy and Peace till the division of Time shall come to an end in which a further Mystery will be understood But oh let all this be first sully witnessed Here follows a further Advertisement from him who is come to fulfill old Prophesies in the substance of his own Person that is Born of the Virgin from whom we may expect the perfecting of that which all fore-going Ministrations and Manifestations have left short in regard of those wonders which shall be effected in this latter Age. To which end Christ hath opened the Center-Eye that can pierce as deep as the Deity where this Virgin lies with all her Glory who ever since Adam's day hath been obscured because she would not trust her self with any Mortal only some of her shining Rays have now and then been scattered into holy Souls a taste of which hath been given as the first Fruits of what is reserved for Christ the Lord's second Birth-day where shall be provided a Penticost-Feast according to the royal and heavenly state of Jehovah's Bride and Mate Oh! how unable am I to bring forth in Words what hath been shewed me of the later Fruits that Wisdom's Children shall feed upon in that day
spring The Virgin feels her self in the Centre of the Deity she handles what doth not appear to be tangeable viz. Breath Spirit Fire and Air in all these her feeling-motion is in great Serenity A Center-Life that burneth from the Mirror of the Deity boyles Love up to that height as nothing is felt but Pleasure and ravishing Delight it is the Heat and Blood that runs through every Vein of the Virgin-Body and is an Antidote against all Fear and Pain which is felt in the mortal Sense Oh! what Deaths Akings and Griefs have we felt in our Souls as well as in our Bodies our Minds being in continual Anxiousness and Trouble to see what we are fallen into I speak of such who have been touched with the Fire-Stone of the Virgin which must go before her healing Medicine And blessed are they who have first known the painful feeling under her severe Discipline for such shall be her polished Pillars on which she will engrave her Virgin Name as he saith who is the true and faithful Witness who is come to take off the Virgins Vail that we may see her in the Glass of perfection and come to know and feel her not as distinct and a-part from us but all Virginized in her essential Deity that the joyful feeling in breath of Fire and Air may be witnessed and then we shall see what shall follow the Harmony of these Sences which is the Character of the Virgin-Nature the Pattern we are to try our selves by for which end we are also called to look into her Mirror that so it may stir up all favour of desire in us to have those Sences in their excellency awakened in us Oh great Goddess and Queen of all Worlds wilt thou after so long a time of Desertion once appear again Who is it that hath entreated thy Favour and gained a Promise from thee of a Visit though this be too short because nothing now will satisfie unless thou bestow thy self with all thy divine Sences as a co-deified Life to shew that thou art now prevail'd upon to joyn with the Redeeming Blood to restore thy own Virginity where thou findest Humility and Importunity in that Personality which is all beloved of the highest Wisdom and only Spouse of God know and remember us who are brought to thy feet and have been under thy severe Discipline therefore allot thy self to be our Garland and Crown Now we are advanced one step higher towards Wisdom's heavenly Throne from whence her Golden Scepter is stretched forth to lay hold on which passeth through and beyond every elementary Cloud which the sensitive Life hath raised so as we could not see our way to that sparkling Rock of the Deity for which cause the bright Sun now shines from her eternal Orb through the dark Clouds that we might see every ascending degree twisting and winding so intricately that without a Guide expresly sent down from that Sphear there is no possibility ever to come to any one of her Gates which lead to the New Jerusalem These are set before me to be in number Twelve five of which were spoken of in the fore-going Chapter and now we repair to her Oracle as our Guide for the revealing of the other seven Gates together with the Way which leads from one to to the other where the hidden Track of the Virgins Way may be found treading upon that unknown ground under which is found a rich and precious Stone from which the highest blessing will abound The Way to the first of these seven Gates is very solitary and lonely it is very rare to meet with two agreed to hold out in it to the end it is so full of rending Thorns and affrighting wild Beasts for herein lies the design of the horned Beast to scatter and divide such who are agreed to travel in Wisdoms Path Also the Nimrod Hunters of this World send out after them either to divide or bring them back again These are the Oppositions we may expect in this Way against which we must be provided and fore-armed that our entrance by this Gate may not be prevented The Inscription of this Gate is Abnegation or Renunciation of this outward Principle The first Question which is asked by the Angel who keeps this Gate is Are you come away as Strangers and Pilgrims Will you no more return to the Traffick of Babylon For the Prince of this City will only admit of such as shall abjure all Commerce with the Merchants of Tarshish though by this means all earthly Riches are gained to keep up a Worldly Reputation and Fame but the Angel of this Gate will have good Assurance that whoever comes up hither be quite broken off from and have no further dealing with the Harlot daughter of Sidon who hath deceived the Kingdoms of this World with her Sorceries Whoever they be that get through this streight Gate for them a sure and good Foundation is laid to walk forward towards the second Gate But here another thing is to be considered before entrance can be given for this Angel is charged not to take any ones single Security but enquires whether Christs Spirit in them and his Person for them will stand engaged to perform all this Agreement For she dares not trust the Soul upon a single Promise though fervent and unfeigned and full of good Will yet it is not sufficient if he be not able to maintain the Gate ground against his Enemies that will attempt to circumvent him Therefore we that are come hereunto are to give in the Name of our Security and so pass on freely to the second Gate The second Gate is called the wrestling or struggling Gate it is the Gate of Probation before it stands a Center-Gulf Here will rise what will countermand the Pilgrim back again into the worldly Principle which he had abjured and left behind Wisdom stands by her Angel to call and invite to come through but the Gulf swells so very high that it appears impossible to get over Legions of Spirits here do follow crying out What mean you to run so great a hazard as to have a place where is store of all good things for Supply and Maintenance Thus Temptations and Assaults will beset the Pilgrim threatning hard and bitter things to him who is a seeking his own Native Country and original Virginity and endeavours with great wrestling to get rid of all these knawing Vipers What! say they will you turn quite away from those pleasant Joys in which others live spending their days in Gods Love and Peace and therein rest contented not attempting the passing of this Gulf till the limit of your Life requires it All this and much more will press in to turn away the Soul from pursuing after its Virgin Crown and therefore this Gate is called the Probation Gate Now if the Spirit of Christ be so powerful in the Soul as not to regard these Temptations being resolved to venture through the fiery Gulf that
its never fading Beauty and Glory By which means the Deity may be invited to renew his Walks with Men as at the beginning who will take great delight to see the Children of Paradise acting Magically under the Conduct and Government of the Eye of the holy Ghost For no work or action is so agreeable to the Trinity as that which is wrought from the Magical seeing Eye where God beholds and views himself in his manifold Wonders of Wisdom in Nature's Virginity But now the great Question of those who are willing to be Wisdom's Disciples is Which way they may ascend up to this Globe-Eye to become Magicians in the holy Ghost's Property This Question is deep and weighty and shall be answered according to the Gift of Revelation received Know then that the way to ascend to the Globe-Eye is through its descending down into the Root-Essence of the Soul and contracting with it Philosophically turning it into a Magick Eye where then it may most easily ascend and fly to be an Eye in the Globe-Eye before which all stands naked and open whatsoever hath proceeded from the Center Ground of God's Globe of Eternity Therefore they who shall find such favour as to be introverted and environed with this Eye may well come to understand the grounds of the divine Magia and be able to exert it from the Co-essential Power of the holy Ghost without which all attempts for it will lie in Scorn and Derision Hence we may understand where the Ground-work for divine Philosophy doth lie whereby great Overturns and mighty Changes may be effected in this Worlds Region where God will have great occasions for divine Magia to act in his behalf And truly somewhat begins to work in order hereunto for the Magick Eye hath cast forth an enticing Glance to draw up unto it and there to stand a while as locked up in it as a close working Philosopher that carefully tends his Furnace where the Coelestial Fire burns softly to bring forth a transparent Stone in which the first-born Magick of the holy Ghost doth consist But here we may be said to lanch so deep into the Abyssal Eye as to lose our selves whilst vve are seeking this one precious thing that can make this old wrinkled Face of the Creation to become young and fresh as Paradise in its first springing But who will grieve at the loss of this gross Matter the true Philosopher well knows that this is the gross Body which the Fire is to kindle upon being of that penetrating Nature as to dissolve the whole bulk of Sensuality with the strong twisted band of Rationality For when the great Artificer the holy Ghost comes to set his Furnace at work in very deed in the Soul all gross thick matter does by degrees transpire For what is so great an Enemy to the divine Magia as the rational Wisdom which is in strong Combination with the humane Sense It is as an Inundation of Waters which hath prevailed like Noah's Flood to drown the Fire-spark of Faith so that it is scarce to be found alive in any ones Earth All Furnaces have hitherto been too weak the strong Tide of the rational Mind hath broke in like a Sea to chill and damp what the Spirit of God would have still blown up unto Victory For whosoever shall attain to be an Adiptist in the Magical Eye of Sophia must watch the Mouth of the Furnace continually that the Spirit of Faith may work high through the gentle heat and constant supply of that Matter which maintains the heavenly Fire which can only master and get dominion over all the thick dark Body of Mortal Sense which hath long been the grand Adversary of Virgin-Wisdom's Magicians and hath kept them from attaining the Gate of Projection Now what is there to be considered further to help us forward in this high point of Magical Philosophy seeing the Benefits are of so great import and serve for the repairing of a ruinous state of things within our selves and every where round about us We are to observe these Orders and Rules which go along with Faith 's Magia First There must be an absolute trust reposed in Christ the essential Deity as contacting and coagulating with our soulish Essence and thereby recover our unipotency The depth of those Sayings of our Lord when personally upon the Earth who still invited and called upon all to believe on him as Co essential with the Father and thereby entrusted with all that Power and Sufficiency which can be called God's Now here is given us to understand a deep and mystical Sense how that the Lord did not limit or shut up the Faith to his particular Personality and appearance on the Earth for that was not to abide but directed to the exerting forth of our Faith to the Lo I am in whom there is no change to the end of all Worlds He is now therefore to be believed on as introduced into our soulish Essence for there he brings in the Globe-Eye as the sure Ground-work for all the various operations of the holy Ghost to act out the great Magical Powers from Thus our Faith is directed to a God like Almightiness within our selves If we can but find the Incarnation of Christ the Lord in us we then have a sure and steady Anchor for our Faith to hold by and work out our freedom Magically having somewhat of subtle pure Matter to work upon we may go on forward to Projection Another Rule is the going forth in the prerogative Royal of the Will that is immerced into and become one with the Power of the holy Ghost We may remember that Christ the Lord upon doing any great or marvellous Cure put forth the soveraignity of his Will as when he said to the Leper I will be thou clean And sometimes he put it to those who he perceived had Faith in him saying What will ye that I should do unto you And no less was effected for them than they desired the Lord should do for them These expressions of our Saviour may be a grand Rule for us to follow and ought well to be regarded by us for in the Will is the highest Magick when it is united with the Will of the Highest when these two Wheels meet in one they are the swift running Charriot which nothing can cross or stop in which the Bridegroom with his Bride Sophia ride most triumphantly together over all things viz. over Rocks Mountaints and Hills which are all made a Plain before them and Seas dryed up What is able to resist a Will that is united with God's Will before which every thing must stoop and bow which Will when ever it goes forth alwayes accomplisheth its Enterprise It s not a naked Will that wants its Garment of Power impregnable Almightiness is with it to pluck up to plant to kill and to make alive to bind and to loose to save and destroy All which Power will be centred in the royal freeborn-will
in his glorified Saints and Angels It is fully assured me that God hath taken into his Eye and Love election at this very day those who shall come to sit in Princely Majesty and great Dominion in the inward Regency of the Soul conquering the thwarting motions of sin and their own Passions for Faithfulness Truth and Love to carry through here will be signs and evidence sufficient what God will further exalt unto In the interim whosoever have attained to the first Kingdom in Wisdom Sanctification and in the excelling Charity know that these will give the mighty onset for enterance into the utmost bounds of this overlasting Kingdom which we shall not think it only sufficient to pray for but to be doing all that is required for it in all comely order and fixed resolution to hold fast what we have already gotten that none may supplant us of that which will be the lifted up Crown to be seen every where upon the heads of the anointed Ones Here follows divine Openings of the Reign and Kingdom of the Love Having been exercised for some considerable time in the Prophetical Office and Ministration from the spirit of Revelation as my writings bear witness concerning the Kingdom of Christ in its suffering state first of all then in its rising up through tribulation unto victory for dominion and glorification through the Love Now the degrees which lead hereunto have been sufficiently described in The Heavenly Cloud Printed in 1680 by the Author which hath had most forcible effects for the bringing in and establishing of this Kingdom wherein and to whom this Spirit of prophesie was given for a sealing evidence that the Spirit of Truth being the Spring of those foregoing Revelations which are now to be confirmed by the present Reign of a risen Christ in some personalities which are shall be taken up for this end to shew it forth by that most excellent and perfect thing coming in which is the Love Dominion which hath exalted the same Propetical Spirit now with Christ upon the Throne and doth absolutely rule in Gods meek Love over the whole Region even to the utmost parts of the Souls inward Earth where now great peace is found the Government being carried on sereinly and calmely through the conquering Love which hath like a River overflowed the whole Earth But this was not so fully felt known and witnessed as of late The former Reign was maintained in an imperfect degree the spirits within were indeed under awe and check and unwillingly made subject to the Kingdom 's Laws that were renewed suitable to this most eminent and singular Ministration While sometime I was under it which was looked upon as sharp and severe the whole man being rein'd in very Straight would have gone forth into a reluctancy and so break all Harmony in the properties that should be found abiding in a new Model And thus indeed the Kingdom hath suffered violence and hath been hid in great strife as many Holy Souls may witness with me in the same case who are come thus far to the Dominion Which is a good and hopeful introduction to the ruling Scepter of Love in which will be found a far more pleasant and joyous Kingdom when all and every Spirit is brought over and subjected to the Love's Soreraignity in their order and place to their superior Governour to wit the Heaven-born Spirit who personates Christ upon the Throne Now to come to have every motion tinged with the fiery Love Balsom how will they run and fly at the very look of the Kingly anointed Eye where Love's rayes are so vehement as to captivate every thought to the obedience of the Lords Anointed King not in some but in all and every thing which will indeed make every Saint that hath attained hereunto walk worthy of God whose beeing consisteth in the Essentiality of Love and admitted for to be Gods fellow companion being in the center-Life of a Love dominion There must necessarily follow all Holy Boldness to come into a Christ propriety with God the Father as Heirs of all Kingdoms that are worthy of inheriting whether in the Mystery or out of it Love's Center opens through all and brings in an endless pleasure and Joy which cannot be by any worldly craft stolen away Therefore it is that most excellent thing that will heal and cure all within the Soul reconciling what was at variance whether in relation to God or to any of our fellow Members Therefore what is to be more desired or to be paralleled with I must solemnly profess that I have found such soveraign power and sweetness in the opening of this Love center that I cannot but commend it to others and seek earnestly to have more fellow-Commoners with me at Gods Table that there we may sit down together and feed upon the fruits of Love which are the Wine and Strength of the Kingdom For in very Truth I am come to witness Holy Paul's conclusion of it that it is the absolute perfect thing that works out all imperfection removing all sorrow and grief from the mind and heart For it is a strong and vehement heat that devours fear and anxity Oh! how doth it shelter and secure from all blood sucking vipers that they cannot prey upon the inward part of the Soul Because this is a love which cannot imagine into any evil thing and therefore nothing of the Serpent Venom can mingle with it which makes the Soul to know it self to be returned to its priminary concord and Virgin Simplicity But now it may be queried Whether I give forth the commendation of this High and perfect Love from Revelation or from divine and pure sensation I must acknowledge it is from both they are met together as proceeding from one Love Center which is the first glass wherein I saw the aimable Beauty and worthiness of this most excellent thing with all those advantages and great prerogatives attending it for it brings in no less than a Kingdom of sweet peaceable Amity and Love whereby I now sind an unspeakable benefit But it may be asked farther How comes this most precious and worthy thing to be wrought so essentially in the Soul as to be evermore ruling upon the Throne and as having got absolute conquest over whatsoever would stir up Trouble and Sedition In answer to this I shall give my own experience as one who hath obtained Grace of this kind after it was begotten by Species and Revelation and formed in me as a true Essential life Birth which I did sind daily grow up and encrease in Wisdom and Strength But then after that this Love was grown up to such a vehemency towards my God as known to me in the person of my Lord Christ from and through frequent visits and very intimate conversation which I did daily enjoy in an unknown and most singular way which in very Truth was so grateful and sweet that it drew up my superior vital spirit after him that
all places and companies became very tedious and unpleasant to me where I was prevented of feeding the flame of my Love from the beautifical enjoyment of his presence The truth is I had sucked in such a sweet Savour through a most intimate Friendliness to which my Lord condescended for the Joy and Love-delight of my Soul that I could scarcely admit the giving my Conversation to any in whom I could not see his all-aimable Spirituality for which alone I reserved my self For indeed I could willingly have attended it day by day continually without any intervening Night But my Bridegroom after all this ingratiating of himself to me did often prove those two great Witnesses in me of Faith and Love which as two twins did grow up out of the fresh Sharon which was renewed within from whence they did with great strength and loveliness spring But many hard Encounters and rude Assaults they were fain to bear and first in this respect my Lord Jesus having begotten his own lively Signature in me by his often appearing and so passing in himself as an Essential rising Body that naturally cared only to move and act in the Sphear of High and Heavenly things and at no time to be found out of that Circumference in which to be thwarted and prevented was my very great tryal having reference only to God in this matter on whom my Faith and Love was exercised for having all outward vacancies and advantages that might cherish and nourish up this Lilly-Birth according to its native kind which neither could agree to go out into the gross muddy and infectious Air of this noysom Keder or Worldly Region But so it was that my Lord suffered it thus by reason of many temporal necessities wherein I was constrained to spend my time which should wholly have been employed upon a more worthy and considerable account than to serve the Table of the outward Man which I looked upon as very low and mean in comparison of that High-born Heir whom I carried as an invisible Glory under the Vail of contemptible Corporeity And upon this consideration God tried his own begotten Love whether it would hold out under all damps checkings and suppressings both inward and outward which it met withal for I apprehend I had so great an interest and hold of the Almighty that it had been an easie thing to have had all needful things to come to serve the free born Spirit and not be engaged in the Toil and servile Care after the Rudiments of the present fallen and self-ingrossing Generation the Customs and manner of which my Spirit had long since been made to descent from in obedience to the Law of Faith which I continue to keep up unto expecting all Income of Blessing there-from And though hitherto the Lord hath exceedingly proved me herein yet now the thousand-fold is beginning to break in even by that pure and only Love-dominion which I do feel opens in the highest leavening Property for it reacheth to the Bounds of the everlasting Mountain of God's immutability of Love from whence it springs And what may it not multiply and produce as it goeth on still conquering all Enmity where-ever it meets it as having overcome it in its own soulish Essence and so may do the same in others who groan and travail for the same being but weak in Love and so not able to out-wrastle Love's opposite This is and will be the signal Motto whereby that perfect thing called Charity will be known which seeketh not its own Dignity and Tranquility in heavenly Places there to reign in the Love alone but most ardently seeks it for its fellow-Members even when rejected and fought against for this is the new Gospel-Law so urged and pressed by the Lord and his Apostles in their day as knowing it was the only means to plant us again in our own pure eternal beginning where nothing but perfect Love was known Oh! this is of such import and weight as I cannot but from the feeling sense hereof set forth the exceeding Sweetness that is to be found in it when it comes of a Conqueror as having been tryed by God himself and by our fellow Disciples which is more piercing than any Tryals from others Yet all this will not quench the right Spirit which is tinctured with the God-head flame of Love It is so strong that it works over all Choakings and Water-Floods that would drown it Thus having given a most true and experimental Account how the Kingdom of Love came to reign in Dominion for all Shakings of this pure Plant rooted and fastened it as an invincible Rock as in reference to God the Beeing of Love so likewise towards all my fellow-Members growing up in all their various degrees in this Body of Love fulfilling that Royal Law which is to love one another from a pure Heart not superficially or feignedly but with such a Love as wherewith God our Father hath loved us who caused his Love to enter in our Enmity and did thereby slay it and reconcile a depraved Nature which stood out in all Refractoriness against his Grace and Kindness Now after this sort we are to love one another even where we meet with Reluctancy and Gain-sayings to the killing and opposing of this pure thing yet Charity that is begotten of God in us will suffer and bear and rise up a Conqueror through all Beatings and Quenchings And truly whosoever hereunto arrive and can fixedly keep upon the Throne and uncessantly Reign over all Assaultings and Contradictions of this kind in themselves and out of themselves they may well and really conclude that the perfect thing is come that will redeem from all Evils even from the wrathful Root of Enmity from whence all Self-Love Envy Haughtiness Covetousness and Bitterness do proceed Now Love's-Birth rising in its strong Might in the Soul as that eternal anointed Christ who is come to condemn Sin in our Flesh yea the very Root and Source of all Sin and we shall certainly know the falling away of the Man of Sin thereby for Love is that which irrecoverably sinks him into his own bottomless Lake from whence he can never rise any more But it may be said this is a rare and wonderful thing indeed But is it attainable during this time of Mortality Yea assuredly or else the Lord Christ would never have urged it and commanded it so frequently both in leaving it as his last Charge and suming up the whole Law of Perfection in love to God and our fellow-Members preaching the same Doctrine by his Spirit in the Apostles after his Ascention according as it is by St. John and St. Paul abundantly recorded Read their Epistles and you will find what an Eminency is put upon this Gift more than all others Now the holy Ghost brings in Charity as distinct and more excellent than them all The holy Inspiration thus opened it That Charity is of that high Extraction and so purely descended that
no defiled thing can ever enter it Its consistency is an invisible Body as thin as Air as piercing as a Flame an all-moving acting and vigorous Spirit of Power and Life that can go in and out as an invisible Breath which no mortal Eye can see only its force may be felt as a Seraphick Heat that burns as a Refiners Fire in our Corporality to the end that it may tinge it with the holy Ghost's property This is the true and faithful delienation of this perfect thing called by the Apostle Charity Where-ever this comes it makes all imperfect things flee before it but it strengthens and confirms every Plant that is sown by the Spirit and makes them appear above Ground which have long lain buried under it It is the King-flower of the whole Paradisical Spring that protects the whole transmuting all into one entire Body of Love that doth extend and give forth it self in all spiritual Bountifulness according to its high Nature and Property It is not shut up to it self upon any consideration as to what it poslesseth and enjoys for it holds nothing in Propriety whatever its Lot is but all is free to the Disciples of the same descent and birth with himself this Love cannot with-hold from any of their Necessities for it seeks not its own Then it hath also a virtual Power as made to inherit the best of Riches and Substance of the everlasting Kingdom to conveigh and freely distribute of this inexhaustable Treasury to impoverished Souls and to relieve them that are in great Distress which Power can pass in as an high virtual Balsom to heal the Wounded who are under the striking of the Scorpion-Sting of the Serpent For this Love is a ministring Flame where holy Passiveness and Humility are as the open-Door for its access and there cherish and feed it with what its present degree doth require Charity is furnished with all sorts and stores it is God's Steward upon Earth whom he dare trust with the Care of his Houshold who are in spiritual Hunger and Nakedness It is a most infallible truth that God will appoint such holy Overseers in his new-born Church that shall recover the Apostolical Spirit and Power that hath been lost out of the Earth and it shall rise as a more bright Morning Star and multiply it into a Generation that will be all lovely in which God may see himself For which end the Kingdom and Dominion is already come into some and prospering to this expected degree treasuring up now for a full Bank in store against that Day in which our Son of Man will again appear in the Heavens for the delivering up the Kingdom to the Father that so God who is Love may be all in all But in order to the accomplishing of this last and finishing Mystery there shall arise a Melchizedeck Priesthood which shall know the way into the Holiest of all concerning which we shall come to declare after this subject is finished for it springs out of Love's-Root in us For this is the most clear and undeniable witness of Truth when Light and Revelation and Life of Enjoyment meet together then Declaration carries Power and Authority with it But to return to the present thing what can be said sufficiently of it that so if possible the reign of Love might come to spread it self as a Net to gather in for the Priestly Kingdom Some other Motions may be further urged as these Would you be always in a serene quiet and peaceable Frame and Constitution of Mind so as no vicissitude working-Cross or Turbulency towards you whether from Gentiles Barbarians or Israelites all which may give nothing of Disturbance where Charity is predominant and why so This is very marvelous never to be perplexed and never to be put out of Harmony Objection But how can this agree When as our most perfect Pattern was said to be troubled and his Soul was sorrowful unto Death as also that Afflictions are not joyous for the present First We will Answer this main Objection as to Christ our Lord in his Agonies You must know that all this was on this side his Resurrection observe that and it was to shew that he had the sensible Passions of our Humanity and that he was on our behalf to feel a sinless Grief and Sorrow and to be really touched with these kind of Infirmities or else how could he make Provision through and by Love's Conquest If he had not been in Temptation and in Encounter with all Despite and Defamations but yet he maintained his own Peace which was the Fruit of Love through all and was reconciled to all the cross Dispensations that met him in the World For it was this perfect Love that carried him through to bear and suffer all things and was for our Example and Encouragement to express during the time of his humane Minority those sensible Dolours and Passions but he comes of a victorious Champion and tells us That he had overcome and assureth us That in him we shall have a most fixed and firm Peace though in the World exercised with Tribulation So from hence it is to be admitted and allowed that in the time of our Minority before Love is in its perfect degree risen it cannot be otherwise expected but we may be liable to Grief Sorrow Commotion Fears and Jealousies and so up and down in an uncertain Motion tossed to and fro in our Minds and all this because Love is but little weak and low of Stature it is not got up into the Throne of Dominion so as to govern all by the Law of Love yet such are not to be hopeless or of doubtful Mind as desponding ever to see the Resurrection of Love so as to possess its peaceable Immunities Know whoever you be that are made willing to venture the loss of all for to arrive at this Pearl of Charity that you shall most surely find it and great rejoycing there will be at the finding of this lost Groat Indeed the House of the Soul must be first throughly searched and the natural Self-love must be swept out For what is that which we must lose but even all Rubbish Filth and Dross that so our Hearts being emptied and cleansed from all these the King of Love may enter in with his full Train wherein we may know nothing but Concord Tranquility and a springing Treasury of all Goodness Wherefore let all holy and pure Minds be stirred up to wait for the dropping Dews which fall from the one eternal Element to bring this Plant of Loves Kingdom forward even unto its full height of Perfection and be tender of its first Buddings for it hath many subtil Enemies both at home and abroad It is the Heir and therefore is conspired against for can but the envious Spirits find out where its Birth doth spring they will attempt to kill it whilst it is but an Infant for which cause it must be hid in the Clefts of the
the holy Ghost will appear to be all which according to our received Instruction I shall give a description of and how it may be known who are the called and chosen of God hereunto For each one ordained hereunto will have the Foundation Seal the Priestly Mark which shall be the known Character which no one shall obliterate or deny And as to the outward Sex there shall be no distinction though the Typical Priesthood admitted none but Males in its day All of that is done away for Signs and Figures in this Ministration do fly away like a Cloud Male and Female are alike here therefore the holy Ghost doth include both in one swallowing up all in the Newness Strength Power and Glory of his own springing new Birth according as it is witnessed Where there is neither Male nor Female but Christ is all and in all who is the quickning Spirit and the true Evidence that will shew forth it self according to their grown up measure and degrees For Persons here signifie little Wisdom's Purity and Power in the Spirit is all that God respecteth in his Priestly Offerings We must know that these Priests are of three Ranks or Orders constituted and ordained by the great high Priest who yet continues in his mediating Kingdom till the whole be brought up and finished for mutual Glorification with him The first and lower Rank is of those who are not yet got beyond the Son's Ministration who are yet conscious of Sins and Transgressions committed under the first Covenant according to the similitude of Adam's Transgression running from that putrified Line for whom a necessity there is to come under the divers Watchings Separations Attonings Blood-sprinklings that so they may be qualified to come within Mount-Zion's circle where no Sin-offering is needed but in order unto the rising up to the successive degrees of the Melchizedeck Order the whole Burnt-offering is required the Goat must dye and the sinful infected Life must expire amidst the Altar-Flames For a continual Offering of this kind must be till the whole Body of Sin be consumed for whilst any thing of that abides and works in its circling Motion there are required new and fresh Attonings Pacifications and Blood-sprinklings till the one Offering comes it self to be offered up once for all which acquits from all Sin and makes meet prepared Vessels to come to in the first degree of Purity whose Consciences being purged there-from all consciousness of Sin may come up with boldness and full assurance of Faith in that anointing which is shed forth to cleanse from all Sin reconciling and making all Scores and Reckonings even as in reference to God the most holy and justifier of those who are made partakers of Christ in his Prophetical Kingly and Priestly Office For where-ever the Lord comes to offer himself up through the eternal Spirit by his own Body that are fully perfected For as under the Levitical Ordinances prescribed by God it was appointed for the Priests only to bear the Ark so under this Covenant-Ministration none but the spiritually consecrated Priests that are of this Order can bear the living Testimony of Christ's risen and spiritual Body which goes forth with great Power where-ever it comes to make Rocks break and Islands flee away and Waters to divide all which makes way for the bringing up to the last step of the all Priestly Throne to sit down with Christ in heavenly Places at the Right-hand of the Majesty on high where we are to consider those who of this holy high and separated Order are here become the Tabernacle Ark and Altar and the most inward holy place where Christ the anointed hath so poured forth himself that he is to be known in them as no other than God the holy Ghost officiating and accomplishing the most holy Service as in the Person of the great high Priest who having perfected Holiness comes in the open Face of the most inward separated place where God is manifest and no Spirit nor Soul can ever come to know or meet God but here according as we have it from the Mouth of the Lord himself who told Moses That here in this holy place he would commune with him and appear in his Glory But alas who is able to see at first glance into this high exalted degree of an high Priestly Calling It is so great and wonderful that it makes the Light of all fore-going Ministrations to look dark and dim as far excelling all as the Substance doth the the Shadow But before we proceed to set forth this third and last degree that brings so into God let us consider further of the two lower Orders which to this Priesthood do belong what their Qualifications are and from whence called out The first Rank is of those afore-mentioned who have been under the Altar-Purifyings and divers Washings and blood Sprinklings and perfuming Oyls by which they are made perfect and clean and become such who have no more Conscience of Sin for the Fountain-spring of the Life-Blood stands ever open Christ in his bubling Spirit by which he maintains a sinless Purity of which sort God chuseth and ordains his Tabernacle-Ministers who are made meet to officiate about the holy things offering up the holy Incense and Heave-offerings keeping all the Laws and charge of the Sanctuary presenting only what is consecrated unto the Lord in order to the expelling of every defiled thing Now great is the Dignity of this very lowest degree forasmuch as they are made partakers of Christ and in him are become Mediators of the New Covenant wherein great strength is found inasmuch as Christ in Spirit is made the surety of this faultless Testament which gives great boldness to plead for Remission of Sins in the behalf of others who yet remain in the sinful imperfect state who being ready and free to intercede from the pure unfeigned-unfeigned-Love on their behalf may come up to be the highest also in this divine Function Now to mention the Service and Office of the second Order who are such as take not this Honour unto themselves but are chosen anointed and separated by the heavenly Ordination these are those who are set apart for God's Sanctuary to be pitched in the midst of them out of which they are not to depart because the Crown of the anointing Oyl hath been poured forth upon them which is no less than the Sanctification in the holy Ghost Here waiting in their perfect God-like Order who can set no desiled thing before their Eye as David speaketh Thou hast set the Godly Man apart for thy self God appropriates all that are of the Priestly Order to himself he forbids them to be Servants to men nothing of a divided Service is here to be pleaded for no going back to bury their Dead or to be defiled with them It was the blessing which Moses pronounced upon the Tribe of Levi Let thy Urim and thy Thumim be with thy holy One who said of
Soul will win the Virgins Heart For here indeed is manifested a full proof of Love's affiance by coming out from and renouncing all the Charms of the Daughter of Babylon who hath used all her Art to fright her from attempting ever to enter this Gate She hath through all Ages rescued from the Serpent's twisting toil and brought many back to enter into her Gates again Wonderful it will be to see any one come of a Conquerour here for this is the most perilous Gate because of the Gulf which stands before it The mortal Spirit whose Affection is joyned to gross Elementary things cannot pass this Gulf without suffering loss it is a Life that cannot be saved but must be swallowed up But Christ our Life will swiftly pass through as a fiery Charriot and the naked Soul with him who hath resisted all those Temptations which would have hindred his entrance into this Gate which is the very winning of that Field where Wisdom's Gold of Opher and unknown rich Substance doth lie Oh! who is it that will hold out the Encounter at this Gate It may be truly said That many have striven to enter but because they would or could not leave behind all mortal Burthens and come quite naked out of Babylon they were not able to enter This is that which hath dis-enabled many to enter and will continue to do so except the Christ of the mighty God enable us to pass and then we shall with freedom and ease come up to the third Gate The third Gate is Translation by Fixation in Wisdom's Land or Principle The Center of the Virgin Wisdom may often open and take up the Soul and Spirit into it and then be shut again and the Soul let down into Babylon's Principle This I say may happen often before the Soul comes to be fixed in Wisdom's Orb. But when the Soul is fixed in the Heavenly sprouting life of its Emmanuel and translated into a pure Nazarite Virginity which knows nothing more of the fallen Birth Here the Soul stands in another Principle having got firm footing in Wisdoms Land Here a goodly Lot is cast for the conquering Soul who will find all riches stand before her in Wisdoms Treasury without either bounds or limits Whatsoever is of use or service is there laid down at the feet of a translated Spirit as the return of her Adventure and Trust in that day whilst she was under the Temptation of the glistering Stars of this Elementary Region all whose Promises were but as a snare and bar to keep from knowing this high Translation Oh! what a welcome Feast do I see already prepared within this Gate to satiate both the Eye and Taste The Virgin comes and salutes the Soul with a Loves entercourse saying Come now and inherit Substance with me ye who have been in weary Travel to attain this fixation Gate I behold you in the face of the Bridegroom by whose means you are arrived here Now in his Name ask and have See now what Honour and Preferment you shall have in my Kingdom which will recompence a thousand Fold for the loss you have sustained in the World from whence you are come out As you did give credit to me upon the Word of my Testimony and the fame which was brought to your Ear though as yet you possessed nothing of what 's intended for you But here is now what will weigh down and recompence all your Sufferings when you resisted manfully those busie Spirits that would have blocked up your way but in strong Faith you have broke through all Let your Victory be assigned to him who hath the opening Key for to let in from Gate to Gate All this is from the dropping Lips of Sophia and her Bridegroom who now stand ready to open the fourth Gate The fourth Gate is called the Bountiful Gate From hence the richest Gift is brought forth that ever hath been received since Adam lost his Virgin who now here gives her self again to the Soul Oh great is this Benignity who could ever have hoped for such degrees of Advancement after so long a day of Desertion night of Apostacy An Eccho sound we now do hear that she will appear in her Bounty But to whom shall this Gate open stand to receive this Liberality from her hand Is it not for Ruth who hath forsaken the Moabitish Land and come to be fixed there whence her eternal Nativity is derived where she is no sooner arrived but she is decked with all the Virgins Ornaments which are the various Accomplishments in all supernal Powers and high Abilities to act in a divine Omnipotent manner whether in a corporeal form or out of it as shall be judged moet with reference to Place Time or Persons and according to the Region where the Bridegroom with his Bride shall be whether in the Heights above or Depths beneath where his and her rejoycing shall be in each other through the breaking opening of the Center from whence the Virgin-Tincture as a warm Fire-blood doth flow in every Vein a nourishing Life is felt passing through every sense This is that Gift which the Virgin will bestow upon the fixed Soul for a greater Manifestation of God's manifold Wonders throughout the habitable part of this Earth where the whole Trinity in Wisdom will assume a Virgin-humanity to bring all what hitherto hath been confused into-order again The Government of the bruitish Spirit must give way to her day who comes to overturn all Merchants with their Merchandize No Wares of the Assyrian shall be brought through her Gates neither shall any Sale of the Harlot's goods be mingled with her Treasures but a vast separation there shall be as between Paradise and this World where all things stand in an anxious Birth but that other Sphear is blessed with a perpetual Spring of all pleasant things which we shall know and understand in their variety in the next Gate which now we are by the steady hand of Christ led up to that we may see the utmost Latitude of Wisdom's inward City and come to know all the goings in and comings out at these Mystical Gates The fifth Gate bears the Title of Wisdom's Factory of all that is mannaged by her Magia from her own stock and Principle being very different from all the Merchandize which is used in this visible World which is wholly shut out of her Gates for none can drive an earthly Trade but such as bear the Mark and Number of the Beast here in this outward Principle Wherefore Wisdom will take none to be her Factors but those who have renounced all Babylonish Trade which is maintained by bearing the Mark of the Beast from the introduced subtilty of Reason A new and wonderful Way is prescribed to them who shall have the Mark and Name of the Virgins white Stone by which they shall be impowered to drive a free and mighty Trade within this heavenly City which shall make all Babylon's Wares grow