exercised Authority over you and thereby you shall know the first formation into the clear and pure Airy Body which will carry you though obscurely as Christ your Lord did that shall hereout appear in another form as he did when risen from the Dead who did only to a few appear discending from his Paradisical Sphear Even so by the same quickning Spirit pass over with your Jesus till you arrive beyond Paradise and come to assume that third Birth Degree which alone is appropiated to the all-Ghostly-Trinity which as in one shall swallow up every lower Degree that now must go forward in you in order to this superiour Birth Which only can be born out of these who are ascended to Mount Sion as the proper Region for the pure Virgin to travail with this Birth in Oh it is so high great and principal that out of this holy Climate it cannot be manifested therefore consider what holy separated and sequestred Spirits the hopes of this third degree of the Spirit 's Birth do call you for to give up your selves unto Faint not but stick close unto that which as a munition of Rocks will be to you for Strength Light and Counsel till to this last degree of glory you shall be brought and therein your Jesus will appear Therefore do you set forward be as those that are dead and yet alive Be Ye not any longer but let the second Degree of the Spirit 's Birth live in this very time of your attained process having so far obtained the potent Power of the free willing Spirit as this to effect by the Birth-Spirit which is already born in you which will so far perfect the Death as to bring forth that Body of the Resurrection Which gradually proceeds from the Root of that Eternal Spirit which raised Christ from the Dead this shall also be that generating Life-quickning Spirit in you to bring forth the last and principal Birth-degree which growing will be till the compleat Death and Resurrection are passed through Thâ—…n may ye expect the breaking forth of this high and great Manifestation of God the Holy Ghost who will Reign indeed Omnipotently over all that hath lain under the Fall No Song of full Redemption can be sung till this Kingdom of the Lamb and Bride mutually do meet The counsel of the Spirit is to you who have this pure Unction Matter in you that you give it all scope and liberty for its further driving forth in you For ye may be as many who have gone forth in this generating Birth but have stopped the Life-Vein before it could come to breath in a risen Body all of pure Air. Therefore double your Watch and be heedful for it is no light or trivial work that you must herein set upon for wâ—…re you to begin your whole Life again days few enough they would be to clear and acquit all to make room for this rising Bâ—…rth forth to go But to such as shall hereunto set themselves with a perfect Heâ—… Hezekiah-like I will saith the Sâ—…irit add unto their days some degrees of the Sun of their outward Life which shall not go down till you have finished that Faith which will give the power to open the fiâ—…st Seal where doth lie under the Saphire Stone Obey and flee to your appointed Wilderness that this fore-running Life of Faith may have all supremacy over your sensitive part to work down and bury in the Death-Grave all which would this Birâ—…h Lily with its Rose-Mate oppose These things in charge the Spirit of Jesus doth mutually leave with you the terms and conditions are faithfully revealed to you you may either win or lose this great Pâ—…ze as to the Manifâ—…station hereof in this Principle But be ye wise December the 23d 1676. It was this Morning further manifested to me that those three who so appeared unto me were the same which appeared to Abraham bringing the good News that the Isaac-Birth was near Only they were in humane Shapes these were all in a pure Mist and formed into Airy Bodies only for Spirits to behold But this was the Secret that was opened to me from hence according as was cryed in me which was this as the Word opened Understand now and kâ—…ow oh ye Intellectual Spirits for what end did these appear to thee What less but to advertise that the great and last Birth-Day of the Spirit is drawing near The barren Sarah shall again bear from the Youthful Nature of the Virgin which hath its time for to flower in Nature's Ground for the Trinity to consummate all by this one passing act of transfused Spiritual Generation This is that which must do the Cure upon the Mortal Sore as this whole Birth-Trinity is born in each one Births there have been from the Fathers and Sons property as that of Isaac and of Jesus in the Flesh being figuratives which have had their Mystery fulfilled And here hath been the stop being baptized into the Father and the Son but not knowing that last and Celestial Baptism of the Holy Ghost Who beareth no other similitude but what answereth and is consonant to that eternal Element from whence this Ghostly Body is contracted Which is all Breath of Power a Flame of Purity clarified Earth through which Golden Streams do run through every Vein to make up a transparent Body which may well become the Holy Trinity for to dwell in Here is the Birth that is not yet come into the World there hath wanted the Woman-Virgin cloathed with the Sun for to bring it forth Who must be drawn aside from all and kept up only for this mighty travelling Work who hath an appointed daily Portion from the high Father of this Birth sent in for the nourishing of this which is so highly compacted of the threefold Seed of the Deity That so nothing of defect shortness of power and disability may be which have been complained of hitherto But when this Trine do agree as one to pass through the Virgin-Mind then shall such walk as full Victors over the Sea of Glass having Bodies sutably framed unto those Spirits which ye receive in the second Birth-Ministration Which for want of such a Ghostly Body through a Christ-like Spirit yet remaineth weak till the whole Mystery of Father Son and Spirit comes and shall appear to Move and open in the eternal Birth-center evermore December the 26th 1676. It was further noted unto me from that Vision of the three Spiritual Bodies That all Discovery and Revelation of the Will and Mind of the Dâ—…y would now be from these three bearing Witnesses for themselves in our pure eternal part Who there will never cease to be a Speaking Oracle for Manifestation if we stick closely to observe and obey what daily proceedeth herefrom For it was said to me Turn and dive deep in for the Living Word is become a bubbling Spring that shall work out all mâ—…d things that would corrupt and make void the Law of my Spirit which
VVisdom's Key which will make our Hands drop with sweet smelling Myrrh upon the Handle of her Lock Which while I was opening her Privy-Door with this Key my Soul failed within me and I retained no strength my Sun of Reason and the Moon of my outward Sense were folded up and withdrew I knew nothing by my self as to those working Properties from Nature and Creature and the Wheel of the Motion standing still another moved from a Central Fire so that I felt my self Transmuted into one pure Flame Then came that Word to me This is no other then the Gate of my Eternal Deep canst thou subsist in this Fiery Region which is Wisdom's Mansion where she meets with holy abstracted Spirits and gives forth a fiery Law which if thereunto thou canst give heed so as to come up to her Requirings then no Secret shall be with-held from thee Thus far am I admitted to come into the entrance of her House where I must stop till I hear further from her Now as I was attending to obtain a fresh Visit being entred into this first Mansion of her House to hear and learn further she said on this wise That I was greatly beloved and she would be my Mother and so should I own her and call her who would now be to me as Rebecca was to Jacob to contrive and put me in a way how I should obtain the Birth-right-Blessing For if I would apply my self to her Doctrine and draw my Life's Food from no other Breast I should then know the recovery of a lost Kingdom At which Salutation I was dissolved and melted the fervent heat of this Love strongly impulsing me to a resolve for to obey her in all things VVhich pure Oil from Wisdom's Vessel stopping it opened again not till October the 20th in the Morning-Watch then heard I her Voice thus Sequester and draw out of thy Animal Sensitive Life that is too gross I cannot appear till that disappear There must be Spirit with Spirit Light with Light No sooner had I this caution but I felt Power which suspended the active busie mind which for a time was expired into silence Know then said the same Voice thou shalt supplant thy Brother Esau who according to the Figure is a cunning Hunter in the out-birth and field of Nature While he with his subtilty seeking it abroad in the wild Properties of the External Region I will now help thee to it â—…ear at Hand even in thy own enclosed Ground There the true Scape-Goat feeds of which I will make savoury Meat such as God thy Father loves Hearing this Salutation from my late known Mother I was deadly ravished in the Spirit in the Light of the Lord and feared to return to the dark House of my outward Senses again which opened a Spring of Intercession in me that as one of the Friends of the Bridegroom I might hear his Voice still which indeed was so pleasant and swâ—…t as I could well have admitted of a dissolution of my Elementary Being rather than this Conference should not still be maintained with this renowned Pearl of Wisdom But I have learned to observe her Time and Seasons I witness her opening as in the twinkling of an Eye a pure bright subtil swift Spirit a working Motion a Circling Fire a penetrating Oil. November the 10th 1673. IN the Morning about the fifth Hour my Spirit was called forth to attend Wisdom's Oracle again to know further into that mysterious thing she discoursed with me in order to the obtaining the Birth-right-Blessing Oh thou Fiery Soul know thy self now out of thy own Creaturely Being Whereupon I was environed with sweet burning Flames which devoured and consumed all thâ—… Bryars Thorns and accursed Emanations that did offer to put forth So thaâ—… Scripture was witnessed feeling God'â—… being a Wall of Fire which separateâ—… the Earthly part from the Heavenlyâ—… Tâ—…en uttered Wisdom her Voice Oâ—… thou sollicitous Spirit I am now comâ—… to shew thee what is required of thee aâ—… in the beginning of my parling I Shunneâ—… not to declare what it would cost theâ—… to purchase the Key that unlocks thâ—… Gate which gives thee entrance into that pure and transparent City wherâ—… thou art to be an Inhabitant in the Lamb'â—… Nature for ever I tell thee God requires an Offering from thee as he did of Abraham there is no sparing any part an whole Burnt-offering through the Eternal Spirit must be given up Understand me thus thou hast an Earthly Principle that hath dilated and overspread thee and got into dominion and covered thee safe from my Heavens within thee but these Thrones and Powers must be cast down their Place must be found no more Thou hast made great Complaints for want of constant near Alliance and Freedom with God thy â—…reator but marvel not the Cause lies â—…ere in dying yet thou art not totally â—…ead This is the first Baptism thou art 〈◊〉 know and how many have herein falâ—…n short in not giving their earthly Self Thorough-wounding and killing Blow â—…herefore to thee O beloved of thy â—…other Rebecca I commend to thee my â—…aming Sword be thou now valiant â—…d let it do full Execution in the Camp 〈◊〉 Nature slay utterly Old and Young â—…hatever in thee bears not my Mark and â—…ame which is my Image Few in this â—…tter Age have come thus far Thereâ—…re I have had so little pleasure to inâ—…bit with and to reveal my self to the â—…hildren of this Generation in that a â—…re Crystalline Mind is so rarely to be â—…und and in no other will thy God â—…pear Therefore hear and learn of â—…e who well knows what will qualifie â—…ee for the reception of thy Fountain-â—…ght and Joy which may be an abiding â—…riend and Comforter to thee which â—…as the Heritage of Jacob thy fore-â—…nner in the Line and Blessing Now â—…aving made known what thy Offering to be which is one remove that makes way for the return of thy Bridegroom the second thing required is the Venison that must be presented to thy Father that he may eat thereof that so the Love from his Heart may flow into thee wherein the Blessing will be known but of this thou shalt have my Counsel as thou art faithful in answering to this preparative Work At these Sayings of my Mother I well pondered all tending to the refining me out of my Earthly Life seeing I must offer it up and that time of my departure out of the first Principle is drawing nigh upon me as Wisdom has plainly shewed me that though I had come with many Offerings yet till all was consumed by that one whole Burnt-Offering I could not be made perfect in the Virgin-State where Christ's Second Birth in pure Spiritual Humanity should appear in me Which Wisdom told me was the true and right Venison that God my Father would receive from my Hand who could savour no other Meat Offering but what should be made up and dressed by the Hand of Virgin-Wisdom who
Elementary requirings and accordingly make Provision as the rest of my fellow Creatures in the World which were under the Government of that great Monarch Reason to whose Scepter all must bow that live in the Sensitive Animal Life These and such Arguments I was assaulted with and pursued as Jacob was by Laban when he took his Flight to return to his Father's House so greatly distressed was my Spirit seeing it self so oppressed that it could not tell where to make its escape or how to discharge my self from being a Subject to his Starry Kingdom as I stood in the Line of Nature I was under the dominion of the Starry Region in the strife of the four Elements which brought in the Curse where Care and Fear and the toil and labour of the Body did consist Saith the Prince of the earthly Life How wilt thou acquit thy self from my Laws and break thy Brother Esau's Yoke from off thy Neck Thus in obedience having drawn up my Charge and having good proof and witness hereof I presented it to the view of my Mother who said Are these things so indeed I shall advise with the Deity how to destroy them out of thy inward Coasts seeing thou dost not join or take any part with them but hast brought in Evidence against them as Traytors to the Crown Dignity and Dominion of the Lamb whose Power they would depose him of in his chosen and elect Seed and though these evil seducing Spirits think their Mountain so strong that it is never to be moved yet know their Day of Judgment is hastening on apace and they will be given up to be tryed by the Fiery Law which issueth forth from the Ancient of Days who hath appointed a Day in which he will avenge his Elect that cry mightily to him as oppressed by these invading Spirits Be of good Comfort the Judge is nominated the Jury is chosen by whom the Verdict will be given therefore bâ—… true to the Interest of my Son who iâ—… appointed to judge the World in thee and to cast out Hell Sin and Death the Beast and his retinue into that Lake where there shall be no return out thence to assault thee more with their Dregs and Poysonous Floods This is to be done by joining Issue and Power with me who am come to help thee against the great Leviathan who makes War most where he sees his Time of Reigning is almost worn out and that he must have no more place who thinks it very great Injustice to be cast out of Man's Nature before the laying down the Mortal Body But oh to thee let me commend this present state that in my Virgin-Purity thou mayst still be found for I delight thee all fair to see then with my presence frequently I would visit most satisfiedly wherein you tell me all your Joy doth lie Then droop not but most pleasant be as those whose Name and Place is ever with me Call in also those who of doubtful Heart are apt to be Unanimously go forward remembring what the true Nazarite is to be of Holy Courage and Divine Magnanimity no more must such hang down the Head or to feebleness of Mind give way but the Power display which in the Seven Locks concealed are it is but needful that you all Force do draw out for while these Earthly Spirits do border upon your Land they will be scouting out therefore without my proved Armour dare not with them to parley this is the Charge I shall leave with thee August the 10th OH the Wrestling Wheel that I did feel moving to grind the Earthly part down setting all at Variance in me that so it might still keep uppermost and subdue the numerous Hosts that would my Will have forced for did that but yield then the Field where the Treasure and Substance is concealed would obnoxious to the Robber and Spoiler be who hath watched the Prize to take from me Therefore in variety of Temptations I placed am to prove whether or no I can stand and let the Waves still beat and go over me and no ill fear while the Ark of Faith about doth inclose me the great Swellings of Jordan shall not afright me while I do see the strength of Salvation so nigh that willeth and bringeth to pass according to the out-flowing of the Omnipotency which from the new-born-Will most prosperously effecteth all things Then will it be seen what the Conjoyning of the Eternal Constellations bringeth forth upon the hidden Man through their Fiery Drivings which now thrust forward for Consummation that I might see the issue of what I have been made to hope and believe and pray for Though Prophecies and Revelations do for a time most delightfully entertain the Internal Senses yet short they are of the Body which consisteth of the Heavenly Things themselves as it is well said Prophecies Tongues and Faith and Hope shall have their Cessation but the Kingdom of the Love all Concord the bright Bodified Spirit that hath received Dominion as a super-addition is beyond the Priestly and Prophetical Office But while I was reaching after and inquiring when I might expect the coming down of the Seven-Throne-Powers which are the Pillars of this Kingdom by whom it will be established for ever in the Perfection of Righteousness the Word said to me Rest a while these two are the foregoing Ministrations that will make much for the third the Holy Order of a Priest to give attendance in the Tabernacle is no light thing to be near to the Majesty of Purity which requires a perfect Consecration For the Holy Being will have none about him to minister to him but anointed Ones from whom may be smelt the Spicy Perfume that so nothing of the dead unsavory part may be felt this will qualifie for the Ordination of the Power Here wait till made perfect then thy own Hands shall be sufficient for thee whereby thou wilt find ability to fetch in out of the secret Tower where is kept for every full grown one this presented great Jewel of Power which I dare not to any commit till they perfectly become wise of a sound and unchangeable mind to keep secret what the will-pleasure of the Deity is to have from the unworthy to be concealed no unfaithful Dalilah ever more shall here with be intrusted which of a double mind be which goeth after any Lover besides me therefore make proof of Truth Love and Loyalty in a fixed Virginity before this discovery be made forth in Verity but this know the true Nazarite is with Him who will not be deceived in his choice as the figurative Sampson was This mighty Man of strength will take none into his Bosom but such as may be confided in Therefore if thou wouldst his Dalilah be of perfect Beauty with spotless Chastity which will well please this mighty Prince of Peace who will not thence refuse thee when well assured that thou hast declined and forsaken thy Father's House and Kindred
Loss and recover Honour upon our Disgrace Oh tell us where thy Walks are that our Spirits may thee meet engage we will no other into thy Company to bring but he in us who is thy beloved Emmanuel to whom thou wilt thy Heart impart and thy Secrets all disclose he for us boldly will Oh thou Fairest One thee Woo and solicitate darting back those Love-quivers that may for Languishing Lovers passage find into the deep Abiss of the Eternal Mind where as in a pleasant Grove or Bed of Roses we may sit waiting for the Honey-Dews from thy Lips which so sweetly drop when with us thou dost talk turn away we cannot that Eye by which we have beheld thy Beautiful Perfection Oh Love so strongly thou dost move and work that no Repellings taken notice of are the Celestial Fire makes this Water of Life within us to boil that Love runs over as a bubling Spring into the Fountain from whence it did begin which makes our hopes that this mighty Stream and Tyde will fetch home our Virgin-Dove that with us she may fix and not out more from us depart but abide within the most Holy Bodyfied Ark. Thus I was quickned into a sweet Sense of an Immutable Felicity enjoying while nothing else was suffered to break in to disturb the new seeking Lovers within the Paradise do walk this chast Virgin never is to be seen or spoken with but either here or in her Father's most Kingly Court keeping up to her Princely State and will confer with nothing which is below her self it is in vain for any to make attempts â—…er high Favour to obtain without they can give proof that their descent is equal with the Lamb of God Oh great Mystery Christ in us the true and great Consellor of this Spirit or Wisdom and vertuous Diadem of Glory no Ray or Look of Love will she cast but upon him who is declared to be the Son and Heir of all the Heavens visible and invisible Glory this is the Decree of the most single pure Dove that none might her Descent expect but such as are throughout sprinkled with the high and sacred Blood which all clean and meet do make for the Holy Matron within us to cohabit in free Conference My interiour Mind was to prepare for this Crowning Power upon us to come down to effect what yet lay in the Birth of a Sealing Promise which again was renewed and spake on this wise to the Steward which had the Charge of this great and weighty Matter that is the Spirit of Faith the true Eliezer that only faithful Servant which is to be trusted to take a Wife for the Isaac of the Heavenly Country from among the Paradisical Inhabitants which is of near akin to the Most High God known and alotted according to the Determinate Knowledge of the Father of this blessed Seed to whom the Heirship and all the Promises appertain Therefore be strengthned in Hope through the Hand of Faith which is put under the Thigh for an assured Confirmation that this my trusty Steward will not fail to bring into thy Tent that choice and lovely Rebecca which shall refresh and comfort ye after your days of Sorrow and Mourning which I have seen you both as one Spirit in waiting for the Nuptial Day with this Damsel or Dove of chast Purity Now then give proof of your ardent Desire and Love unto her and dispatch and send away this Messenger of Faith which only will and can be successful in this matter who having the Spirit of Prayer joined with Faith and Prudence which maketh this Undertaking to be prosperous so as not to return empty without this worthy and all precious Prize which will answer to both and all the Joys of your Spirits mutually to inherit her January the 5th 1675 6. From this Word of Instruction I was convinced of the expediency of having conjunction and mixture with the Female Virgin tincture in which I was made to understand what Force Might and Strength lieth couched therein as the Womb which conceiveth and bringeth forth numberless Birth-Powers into a manifest Existence therefore no sooner do's the Shilah grow up which signifies the grown state of Jesus that for him is designed a Spouse Bride that so Male and Female in one pure Virgin-Body might meet together to quicken and raise the dead Essences of the Life which so long have been sunk into its central ground and is not to be awakened but through the uniting Powers of Spiritual Sol and Venus which is after an Hypostatical going into each other mingling Powers according to the Nature and Vertue of the precious Golden Seed which in the divine Matrix is sown as the Materiallity of that most pure Ghostly Body which from hence is begotten and generated as was expresly unfolded unto me that we might know the way and manner of this wonderful propagation the Spirit and Bride From this opening the great necessity was shewn me for the following close this conjucal Band of Marriage-Consummation for effectual operation depending thereupon for the Man-God cannot be without his Virgin-Female which hath the tinctural Deity which is the Glory of the Lamb Wisdom's Bridegroom which when grown up in us to Marriage-state seeketh a Companion that is suitably accomplished with all Divine Perfections for Joy Delight and Increase in the Heavenly Gifts and Powers after the manner of a Divine Celestial co-operation from whence is the ingendring of all pure Births that admission and right have to the Kingdom of Light Joy and Glory In this lieth the great Secret of the new model of Nature again formed and quickned in a bodified Substance far transcending that which is brought forth according to the outward Elements which is for ever remote from the Father of Spirits who hath given charge that no Wife shall be taken for his Isaac out from that strange Birth and Lineage for all bringeth forth according to its Likeness that which is born of Spirit is Essential Mighty and Powerful as the similitude of God Now then saith the Spirit that hath all good will to you which have made out for this high Match for your selves Oh go forward and prosper send forth all your Royal Train to meet your Rebecca at the Wells of Joy and Salvation present her by the Hand of Faith those strong scented Love-Bracelets and Chain for her Neck that may give full Testimony of both your high floated Affections towards her February the 16th 1675 6. The going up from the Low Valley towards SION Hill BEing now cast upon the Crystalline Shore and there ordered to set down and wait for what every Spring-Tide out from this Heavenly Ocean would voluntarily into our out-spread Net cast in which in the Love Fear and Holy awfulness I obeyed resolving to omit no known express of the High Powers in their Orders successively given forth having their tendency for the bringing us through all the Plunges and Labyrinths of the Mortal Sensitive
the Prophet to that furious Avenger Here hath been attempt upon attempt against the Election cry upon cry for Fire to consume But be of good cheer and do ye fear nothing more hereof for your God hath Justified and the Prayer of the Humble and Penitent hath been heard and hath shut out the Accuser with all their Complaints whose Mouths are stopped Balaam doth now well see that he is under restraint and limitation finding no Might to effect what in his Eye did seem just and right Therefore he subjected is not willingly but forced by an uncontrollable Soveraignty and divine Spell as nothing from the dark Magick could nullifie Henceforth love and magnifie him that hath without shadow of change thus appeared to save secure and to deliver from all Plots and Charms whereby weaker and faint all Powers of this kind will grow because all Attempts shall still be frustrated while in the single Purity ye my Dove-Mates shall keep to your allotted One who is the fore-ordained Bridegroom who is worthy and will draw you into no Premunire ye may safely venture all the Stock of your Spirit to the utmost height of all Loves Joys Affiances and sow all these without fear into the Ground-Heart of the Immanuel and ye shall see what a fruitful Crop this will bring in March the 28th 1676. The Case of a Laban and Jacob was brought to me as having a special reference to the Doctor That as Jacob grew very weary of living in a strange Land and under servitude in Bonds now longed to be free a Spirit and to return to his Father's House with that Spiritual Stock and Riches of Life that Wisdom had blessed him withal and to provide for the sustainment of his own Family within himself of which the outward was but a shadow and type of So it was shewn me in like manner this was the time the full Experiment of the Doctor 's long and weary servitude in a strange Land and Country who was now called to separate and come away to his Father's House and to draw in all his Substance and Stock of Vital Spirit whenceforth the pure Virgin-Essences do spring that nothing thereof might be scattered or left behind for all will be little enough to supply and maintain that which is of pure Generation in him wherein will consist his true Joy and Pleasure to him to his Sons and Daughters his Men-Servants and Maid-Servants to grow up to Stature fat and flourishing in his own House In this saith the Spirit shall be his Blessing but while these things are upon the prosecution great Tribulations from the Laban Spirit must be expected for he will never consent to let Jacob go Therefore Wisdom did put it into his Heart to make the breach by stealing away for Laban with his subtle Entreaties would have plyed him as formerly Which to avoid he resolved to make his own way sore longing after his Father's House which made him run the hazard of all Laban's displeasure This wise understanding Spirit was now given to the Doctor to be couragious and so to resolve to take his Flight and Journey on having with him and for him Jacob's Angel that will not leave him till safe conducted into the inward Court of the Love and Joy-presence of the Father Now in the process thereto Laban raiseth an Army that are of the same Evil Eye with himself and these pursue hard to overtake but God disappoints the Evil intended and gives warning saying I warn and charge that ye let my First-Born go free touch not mine Anointed for he must now Ascend to me no Bonds or Cords shall evermore be upon him but as a free Denison in my Holy City is he to wait upon all my Commands For my Work is so great that all must be taken up in them Ye who hasten up your selves thereunto must be found in one entire Act working with the Spirit of my Might without sloath For which end I have now set you free that ye may stand obligatory to no other Commands but wait to receive Laws and Injunctions as Wisdom shall renew to you The Oyl will not cease to run empty your Vessels as fast as you can it will become in you a rising bubling Life till it hath made you pure without Sin By which you will give proof that you are the first Redeemed out of the Earth Go on to this Work my elected Ones the high Powers of Eternity are with you to effect what the Spirit of Wisdom doth direct unto April the 4th 1676. FRom the Love-circling of a mighty Seraphim-flame which I felt burn up in my Heart-Altar a soft sweet Breath moved as a Mist or white Cloud It all over-covered and filled the Sacred Tabernacle of the Mind as with a still silent Glory which included and comprehended its own Ideal Being in me coming to drink and suck up what of its own it could find scatter'd among the Ruins of Time and bundle of Mortality The head-Principality then calleth for all in to make up the Perfect Man Bone to its Bone and Sinew to its Sinew all jointed and set in lovely order which while divided and in piece-meals could be of no force but lieth as dead and useless till the forming Hand gathers â—…nd uâ—…ites them each in order to the â—…salem's Glory It was here shewed to â—…e that many Births have come forth â—…ismembred some have wanted Eyes others have wanted a Hand another â—…eet another an Ear. And while any one of these have been wanting as to â—…he inward spiritual Man no degrees of Ascending could be none could be â—…aken into the Courts of the Lord nor â—…e a work-man for the Lord without â—…he use of all these Spiritual Members wherein the full force of a Spirit doth 〈◊〉 This word of Advice and Cauâ—…ion came with a full gust to try and exâ—…mine whether we who were set out and appointed to be Labourers in God's Harâ—…est and Priests to officiate and Miniâ—…ters in the most Holy Place were no way deficient but sound perfect and without blemish having all parts enâ—…ire making up a compleat Spiritual Body each one in our selves As also â—…ourished up to a strong full grown Man Otherwise saith the Anointing which knoweth all things ye cannot go Forward to dig and undermine twelve Foundations deep upon which my Holy City stands that doth command all Worlds with their Kingdoms Which ye are to do and search into as strong and mighty for this Service of the Lord who saith Come forth and stand before me that I may see whether or no ye be clear single pure and sound in every part and to no one Creature or thing pre-ingaged but aloof off in alienation from all dry earthly succours do stand Then will I link and â—…x you in and among my Royal Band who allotted are Foundation Stones of the Great City where my Name is writ upon This is the highest and last Service which I have for you to do and
Scripture And I dare say that your Learned Friend must own that how much soever it may be exploded it is yet a Doctrine more clearly to be found in the most Primitive Antiquity than the greater part of those which at this day so much divide the contending Parties of Christendom Now as for your Friend whom you dare to trust he is indeed a Disciple of Wisdom and a Son of the Prophets but he is yet but in a low Class and very young in this Heavenly Life But could he Experimentally declare more then hitherto he can it might not be very expedient upon many weighty Reasons so to do till the great Effusion of the Miraculous Powers do make the way clear for such a Declaration However he can say that he is not a Stranger to the Baptism of the Holy Ghost which is by Fire He has seen the Fulfilling of some Prophecies already and so is the better encourag'd to expect that of others His Tryals Deliverances and all the secret part of his Life both at home and abroad has been strangely singular and what God designs to do with him further he knows not but desires to stand entirely Passive to his Will Now it remains that I should answer your Last Request which concerns the distinguishing the Impetus of our own Imaginations from Divine Inspirations which contains in it two Questions 1st How the Persons themselves that are under them can distinguish them And 2dly How others that have them not are to judge concerning them But of all that relates to this you may expect a Particular Account by another way in Answer to some Queries that were proposed to me And in the mean time I recommend to you for your Guidance the very last Revelation in the Book I have this only to say to the First at present that the Imagination ought to be perfectly mortify'd the Death and Cross of Christ being the true Path to Illumination And to the Second That Care is to be taken neither too hastily to Approve nor too hastily to Reject but to Try all Spirits and to hold fast them that are Good suspending to pass Judgment on those that are not understood May the God and Father of your Spirit enlighten it in his own good time to his Glory by the Internal Revelation of his Son Jesus Christ through the Operation of his blessed Spirit that works in you that so by your own Experimental Conviction you may be able to Convince others and so by promoting that Divine Knowledge whose Increase is foretold by the Prophet Daniel you may shine as a Star in the Firmament of Wisdom So committing you with your dear Companion to his Gracious Protection I take leave to subscribe my self Your known Friend London Septem 9. 95. Query How are Spirits to be Discern'd IF this Query refers to the Persons themselves who are or suppose themselves led by a Good Spirit it is Answered That the Manner of Discernment is by Sensation which is not to be described This Sensation like the New Song the New Name and the White Stone they only who do experiment and while they do experiment are able to distinguish But then it may be Queried How shall they who suppose themselves to be led by a True Spirit and are not be enabled to discern aright in this matter since they are without this Spiritual Sensation by which the others are assur'd concerning the Truth of their Visions and Revelations Ans. They are to seek for it of God by a perfect Mortification of their own Wills and especially as to these very supposed Favours and by most instant and violent Prayer Thus some who upon the Commission of an evilthing have been depriv'd of the Good Spirit of God which they did enjoy and have been deliver'd up to a Spirit of Delusion for some time Satan all this while exactly Personating an Angel of Light giving forth false Oracles and opening a false Paradise upon them have been again restored to their former Enjoyments and Divine Sensation the Scenes of the false Paradise made to drop into pieces and the true One to Open and the Evil Spirit forced to stand before the Angel whom he had Personated If it be further Queried Whether and How do those that are truly led by the Holy Spirit discern the Spirits by which others are led The Answer will be That all are not able to do so but only some that are arriv'd to a very high Degree and great Experience in the Supernatural Life As for the Manner of Discerning it is the same with respect to others as to themselves there being no Mark so certain here as that of Internal Sensation Thus Spiritual Things are spiritually discerned felt and received and the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets But if in the last place it be demanded How then shall those who are Strangers to these Leadings of the Spirit and who desire alike neither to fall into any Errour nor to resist the Truth be able to govern themselves in this Matter To this the Answer is very easie That they are not to perplex themselves in this Inquiry so long as they remain either Carnal or Rational but to endeavour by all means according to the clear Path chalk'd out in the Scriptures to become Sdiritual To which State when they are arriv'd they need not fear being able to judge or themselves and if with respect to others they shall not be presently capable to judge they can be under no apprehension of any danger so they do but follow the pure Dictates of the Spirit to themselves and therefore they will desire this satisfaction no further then as it shall be given them from Above However even they who are not arriv'd beyond the Rational Life need not be much mistaken while they continue so For if that which is said to be Revealed be of weighty concern either to that Particular Soul or to the publick and if it directly tend to Purity of Life and to the Exaltation of God and the Humiliation of Man then if it be not plainly disagreeable with what has been for Certain before Reveal'd even they according to their meer Natural Reason ought not to slight it Two Testimonies for the Dispensation of the Spirit Revived I. The Testimony of Dr. J. P. the Author's Fellow Traveller Christian Friend NO other Foundation can be laid that what Christ hath laid for he hath laid himself in his Saints to be established upon whicn is the hidden Mystery of God But to know and to feel Christ in us in his Burning Flaming Heart of Love by way of Wedlock and Marriage-Union between the Soul and its Bridegroom This is a deep Mystery that few are counted worthy to comprehend But all these Feelings these foretasts of Divine Love with ravishing Joys do but leave us to the Warfaring State against all our Spiritual Enemies to conquor Hell Sin Eternal Death Dragon and all Hell-Devils together with the Beast and
hath seemed good to the Most Wise God and Father of our Spirits to raise up according to the necessity of this present day an Instrument by him fitted through many Fires and Waters and through all manner of Temptations both in the Heighths above and in the Depths beneath and immediately instructed at Wisdoms Oracle for so great a Work as the education of the King's Children and the leading them up step by step to their Fathers Throne that they may be Kings and Priests upon the Earth unto God and unto the Lamb for ever and may from the Righteous Virgin Earth spring up as Plants of mighty Renown in a well-watered Paradise and as Olive-branches continually empty the Golden Oyl out of themselves and drop their fatness for maintenance of a Perpetual Light in the Sanctuary that was before darkned This will easily be seen to be the Drift of these Writings by any one that is but a little skilled in their Dialect And it is no contemptible Providence of the All-seeing Eye of Etâ—…rnity that this Book after having laid so many years as in the dust should now come to be brought forth into the Light in such a Critical Juncture of Time and in this very Year which is full of great Expectations on this hand and on that To which nothing is given me in Particular to say but only this Word of Caution to the greedy Expectants and Waiter for some Outward visible Revolution in Church or State Let such be Sober in their Hopes and take good heed to themselves of their Observations or Calculations and let them not lay too great a â—…ess upon any external Delivâ—…ance how great soever or upon the Rise or â—…ll of any Earthly Monarch Potentâ—… 〈◊〉 State neither let them seek for the Kingdom of Christ in their own Will nor according to certain preconceived Notion â—…d Images nor binding it down to any Sect or Party in the so called Christian World for they shall find iâ—… no where but in the Triumphant Resignat on of Jesus Christ. When therefore they shall be certain that they have drunk of the 〈◊〉 â—…me Cup which he did drink that they 〈◊〉 passed through the strait and wrestling Gate of Death that they are entirely passed from all their Own into the Liberty of the Divine Will and have broken down every Image and Boundary that Man as Man hath set up then let them know that the Kingdom of Christ is near to them and upon its very breaking forth in much Glory Majesty and Power And when they themselves are thus got without the Walls of the Great City Babylon then and 〈◊〉 before let them expect the Descent of the New Jerusalem out of Heaven For most assuredly to none but Virgin Souls to the true Nazarites that for the Hope of Israel do wait in the Inward Temple Day and Night with their Lamp-spirits ever burning that so they may be ready to go forth at their Bridegroom's Call to meet him to the Lillies of the Vallâ—…y who though they neither Reap or Spin for themselves are yet arrayed more gloriously than Solomon in the Immaculate Robe of the Lord their righteousness yea to none but the Undefiled Doves that are in him made all beautiful and fair and that having washed themselves seven times in the Pool of his Blood are thereby set apart and redeemed from the Earth to be His Companions will this Beloved City come down Of the Truth of which every one must necessarily be convinced that doth but consider seriously the Process that this Author hath been Led in according as the same from these ensuing Memoirs may be gathered in order to the drawing down the Powers of the Heavenly Worlds and the unsealing the Fountain of the Holy Ghost and the Book of the Refurrection Neither can this Jerusalem Glory be disâ—…erned by any others or after any other method than is herein laid down from the Opener of that Principle let them look never so long about crying Lo here in the East or Lo there in the West For this High Promotion of Wisdom's Children cometh neither from the East nor from the West neither out of the North as some some are gazing after it at present nor yet from the South But the Lord cometh from TEMAN where the glorious Virgin Principle is Unlocked whence the warm holy Supernal South-wind doth blow upon the Gardens of Lebanon and cause the Spices to flow out whither the Patriarch Abraâ—…am always directed his Travels and where Jacob saw the Ladder of Heaven and the Gate thereof The Key of which Gate is there presented by the Hand of Divine Wisdom to all her Children to whom she crieth aloud standing at the entry of the Celestial City and proclaimeth the Joyful JUBILEE inviting them to return Now from their Captivity and Presently to come forth from the Tottering Babel which is founded upon the Sands and to enter with her Key into this City which hath Foundations For this She standeth in the top of the Heavenly Places and putteth forth her Voice to them at the coming in at the Doors for this She meeteth them in every Path layeth hold on them that having tried them with her Laws they may enter in Hereby and feast at the Table which she hath furnished for them But alas I see that the most even of those that have been enroll'd under Her Discipline will be not a little afraid to lay hold on this Key of the Kingdom when it is reached out to them and will shrink from it beholding how large it is and that it is made full of all Solid Gold even as this very Author did at its first Presentment as thinking it impossible for any ever to bear the Weight of it Besides this there is a Mercurial Serpent which twineth himself about it whose Life can be destroyed no otherwise but by the Royal Antidote of the Unicorns Horn. Let not any therefore think it a Light thing or easily Attainable to bear the Key of the Government on their Shoulders But let them examin thoroughly tâ—…e several Progresses and Steps of this Author in order to its Attainment that are Recorded for the space of about Six Years in This present Volume Of which it must be confessed that much has bcen Lost so that the Links of Wisdom's Chain may often seem to be broken But as the greatest Architect Statuary and Painter of these Last Ages is said to have become so Excellent meerly by his Observations drawn from a most Imperfect Maimed Statue or Bust being the Work of a most Exquisite and Masterly Hand so it is not at all to be despaired but that there may be found also in This Day some of Rare and Excellent Abilities of Spirit who notwithstanding any Imperfections or Maimings of this Spiritual Register or any Defects in its Exterior Habit of Languge or Style may by the assistance of their Supream Tutor ' draw forth even from the Disjointed Parts of This Work such an excellency
of Knowledge and Skill in all True Learning and Solid Wisdom that they may be found ten times better and more Skilful than all the Magicians and Men of Faâ—… that are in the Universities throughouâ—… 〈◊〉 Europe For when Wisdom's Key is obtained and her Book unsealed in any according to the Process here described then may all the Depths of Philosophy as well as of Divinity and all the Hidden Treasury of Wisdom in All Worthy Arts and Sciences be successively broken up And thus as from one Foot of the Rhodian Coloss which is to This Day preserved every one that is but skilled in the Proportions of the Human Body can exactly Calculate what the Whole should be and Know thence how to frame one accordingly so every one to whom God has given some good degree of Understanding in the Symmetry and Proportions of the Spiritual Body will notwithstanding any Intervening Breaches or Abrupt Transitions be able hence to Frame some suitable Idea of the whole Design and Oeconomy of God in the Manifestation of his Kingdom to Separated and Virginiz'd Souls Now the Manifestation of this Divine Kingdom is Various in Several Persons and in the same Person at several Times Whence this Variety in the Descent of the Heavenly and Ghostly Powers whether in this Principle or in another and of the Joys of the World to come is here not unfitly Symboliz'd out by a Garden or Paradise as it was by the King thereof himself in his truly Gracious Answer to the Penitent Thief And yet more Expressively is this Flourishing State of the Lamb's Elect Bride Cipher'd to us by a Fountain of Gardens or Paradises planted with all Trees of Frankincense Myrrh and Alloes and with all the chief Spices out of which the Royal Ointment is prepared for the Consecration of such Priestly Kings as are to Reign upon the Earth in the Lamb's Nature and Name Which shall make all the Wild Beasts of the Forest to fly into Dens and Lurking Holes and every Venemous Creature to hide it self from the Great Attick Iomin in his Representatives and from the Fiery Stream issuing out of his Mouth by which the Spirit of Antichrist that Huge Leviathan shall be utterly Destroyed So will the Kingdom of Christ manifest it self by a Gradual but Total overthrow of that of Him who has Usurped all the Kingdoms of the Earth until all that which he has caused to be as a Wilderness by the Blast of his Poisonous Breath be again Renewed and made to be as the Garden of God filled with Wells of Living Water and Streams from the Upper Lebanon A Garden giving forth all the Variety of Flowers and Fruits of Life according to the Seasons and according to every ones Essential Ground and Internal Soil a Garden in which there is not any mixt Tree existing from the Root of the outward Elements containing Good and Evil Truth and Falshood Light and Darkness but all whose Trees are Trees of Life all whose Plants are Plants of Righteousness all perfectly Good and True All-beautiful and Lustrous How various the Manifestation of this Lebanon-Kingdom will be no Pen can describe no Tongue can express That is Various indeed but the Manifester all the while is but One and the Essential Word of God which is the Worker of all these things is most Uniform The Manuductions Illuminations and Inspirations are very different but still there is but one Way one Light and one Spirit one Lord and one God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and of us all who in these last Days is about to appear yet more fully to us by his Son setting him Openly upon his Holy Hill Thus he who is the Abyssal Unity of all Beings clotheth himself as with several Names râ—… forth in several Powers weareth on his Head several Crowns and glanceth from his Eyes several Lights And yet there is but One Crown One Power and One Name as there is but One Light which diffuseth it self in all the variety of Colours Which Unity and Variety of Light is well to be heeded in the Reading of this Book and of all other Spiritual Treatises whatever of what Rank or Degree soever they be For God sometimes appears in the Darkness and yet in that Darkness there is Light again he appears in the Light and yet Darkness may be mixed with this Light till the Perfect Day do spring from on High Thus he appears to some at a distance as in a great and strong Wind to others in an Earthquake in both which Formes he eminently manifested himself through some about the Beginning of the Last Century Then after this approaching still nearer he apppears to a third sort in the Fire as at this very Day he powerfully doth to some that are known to Wisdom's Disciplehood And lastly he demonstrates his Presence to some as to this his Chosen Vessel in a still small Voice and in a sweet gentle lambent Flame Sometimes God manifests himself to the Eye or Ear of the Receptive Heart according to the several Properties Operations and Influxes of this or that Name which he puts on of this or that Attribute which he communicates of this or that Sphere in which the Living Wheels of the Creatures before the Throne of God do move Thus was he manifested to the Unregenerate Spirit of Balaam according to the eficacy of the Name Shaddai who saw the Vision of him in this Similitude or Vesture falling into a Trance And this is the lowest sort of True Divine Prophesie Then was he Manifested unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the Name of El-Shaddai which is a much higher Degree than the former as that whereby is expressed not only the Paternal Property in the Absolute Soveraignty of his Will but also the Meek Love-Principle co-joined with it in a Federal Rite After this he was manifested under the Law at sundry Times and in divers Manners by the Most Essential and Great Name of the Covenant Jehovah but still according to the variety of the Vessel and its fitness to receive the Emanations thereof either in a High or Low Degree Then lastly he was made known under the Gospel to the Apostles to the Evangelists to the Prophets and to other Ranks mentioned in the Apostolical Epistles by the Name of Jesus which Name doth Unseal and Open that of Jehovah whence the Miraculous Powers did so abound in the Early Days of the Church while there was Faith in this Name But still it is the same One Holy and True God that revealed himself both to the Vile Son of Beor and to the most Heroick Father of the Faithful though not by the same Name And he is nevertheless One and having Appeared after Manner and in that Name to the Proâ—…hets of Old and then speaking after another Manner and by another Name â—…n their Successors the Prophets Neither would he be the less so should he even speak to us after another Manner than he hath yet spoken
those that follow the Lamb do long to sing Glory to God in the Highest c. and to publish the Glad Tidings of the Kingdom of Our God and Saviour flying in the midst of the Heavens upon the Wing of the Dove-Spirit and Proclaiming with a Loud Shout FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME Rev. 14. 7. Timotheus January 1st 1697. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS AN Account of the first Appearance of Wisdom's Star to the Author pag. 17. Of the Book of Wisdom sealed with three Seats pag. 19 The Key of the Great Mystery p. 22. The Mystery of Rebeccah and of Jacob's obtaining the Blessing unfolded p. 25. The Mystick Death p. 32. Wisdom's Flaming Heart with the Budding Tree for Transmutation p. 34. The Mystery of Laban and Jacob or the strife of the Sensual and Supersensual Life p. 37. The Faithless and Faithful Dalilah compared p. 42. The true Nazarite p. 43. The Book of Life and the Book of Death p. 46. The Divine Angler p. 49. The Magical Journey with an account of Wisdom's high Stone of Wonder p. 53. The Eternal Matter of this Stone together with the Chain of the Creator with the Creature p. 64. An Expostulation of Wisdom's Pilgrim p. 66. The Voice of the Bridegroom p. 67. The Answer to the Spirit of the Soul p. 68. The Reply of the Bridegroom ibid. Thi Preparations of the Second Marriage p. 69. The Shulamite's Debate p. 72. Wisdom's Charge to the Shulamite admitting hâ—…r into the New Mystical Paradise p. 80. What is required to a Divine Association p. 85. An Experimental Reâ—…lation of the Lords Day and of being in the Spirit p. 86. The Hidden Mystery of Faith's Seed p. 88. Wisdom's Call and Direction for the Tabernacle Building p. 91. The Holy Composition Oil p. 101 102. The Garden of Beulah in the Land of Havilah p. 105. The Originâ—… and Nature of the Royal Ghostly Power in the Tabernacle-Body p. 117. The Renewed Spiritual Wooing p. 120. The Mystery of Spiritual Sol and Venus or the two Hoavenly Tinctures Male and Female p. 124. The going up from the Low Valley towards SION-Hill p. 126. A great Combat of the Dark world against the Ascending Traveller p. 131. The Lamb worried by two Dogs p. 135. A Visional Manifestation of the Various Growths of the New Birth before the Winged Power â—…f the Holy Dove p. 136. A further Declaration and Demonstration of this last Fixed State and of the Power of the Holy Ghost p. 137. A Preparation for fresh Assaults from the Dark Kingdom p. 140. A Memorandum how the Leviathan Spirit â—…nded the Author's Companion which caused a mighty Conflict for several Days and how he came to be again Restored p. 143. The Application hereof made by the Witness of the Tabernacle p. 150. Fresh Instances and Encouragements from the Spirit of Wisdom p. 15â—… The Union of the Zeal of Phineas with the Nazarite Purity p. 156. A Brâ—…viat of some late Perils we were in p. 157. The Divine Appearance from Mount Perazim p. 163. The Unicorn-Power p. 164. A seasonable Caution against Treachery p. 165. A Pâ—…servative against Dark Magick p. 166. The Allegory of Balak and Balaam ibid. The Case of Jacob's Servitude and Deliverance p. 167. The Cloud of Glory upon the Spiritual Tabernacle p. 170. Of Maimed Births p. 171. The Foundation Stones of the Holy City p. 172. Wisdom's Rock of Glory upon which it is founded p. 173. The twelve Foundation-Stones that every one is to bear who is thereinto admitted p. 178. A Call to this Searching Spirit from out of the New Jerusalem p. 183. The Reason of the Scituation of its Gates p. 185. Another Call to this Ascending Spirit p. 187. The Descent of the Jà sper-Stone for this End p. 188. The Tree of Life which is Three and One p. 189. The River of Sion p. 190. The Spirit 's Eccho to Wisdom's repeated Call p. 192. The earnest Expostulations of this Spirit with her Mother and with her Beloved p. 193. The Nazarite-Diet for the Jerusalem-Born Spirits p. 195. The Voice of the Bridegroom to the Spirit of the Bride after she had found an entrance into this City p. 198. The Bridegroom 's further Admonition to her and to the Jerusalem-Waiters p. 201. The Love Chain 203. The Chariot of Elijah p. 204. The New Book Opened or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS containing the Process of the Regeneration in his Mystical Incarnation Death Resurrection Ascension and Glorification p. 206. The Paradisical Sowing p. 207 211. The Spring or the Resurrection p. 208. The Ascension of the Bridal Spirit p. 209. The Glortfication of the same p. 210. Another Seal of this Book of Life opened or an Experimental Passage through another Death p. 212. Quench not the Spirit p. 213. The Mocking Ishmaelite p. 214. The Magdalen Waiter p. 215. The Salutation of the Risen Jesus p. 216. The Immutability of the New Creature p. 219. The Witnesses of the Resurrection p. 220. The Immediate Robe given to the Risen of Jesus p. 221. The Wonder-Birth p. 223. It s Education p. 225. The Book of Prophecy and of Life to be eaten down p. 226. The Food from the Altar p. 228. Aurora or the Day-spring from on High p. 231. The Threefold Appearance of the New Adam or the Three Degrees p. 233. The Ocean-Treasury p. 237. A Digression concerning the Communication and Interpretations of Magical Representations p. 238. The Passage to the Mountain of Pretious Stones p. 241. The Sapphire-Stone p. 243. The Spirits eager Search and Sighing after this Treasure p. 244. The Oppositions made from the outward Astrum p. 245. The Holy Root of the Magical Life ibid. The Globe of Light or the Perfect Day p. 247. The â—…ight of Paradise compared with that of Mount Sion p. 249. The End of all Things at hand p. 251. The Fall of Babylon p. 252. The Magical Seals p. 253. The Restoration of the Magical Might or the Spirit Ascension to the Monnt of Olives p. 256 The Extirpation of the Imaginary Root p. 258. The Superimaginary State ibid. The Eternal Stillness or the Rock of Power p. 262 A Vision of God's Flaming Eye p. 263. The Interpretation of the Vision p. 265. The Believing Rest p. 267. The Lily of Faith p. 268. The Flying Banner p. 270. The Parting Principle or the Shooting of the Gulph p. 271. The Box of Spikenard or Divine Love p. 275. The Blessing made a Curse or the Ark in the Temple of Dagon p. 276. The Travelling forward of the Ark of the Presence p. 277. The Joseph's Blessing p. 278. Joshuah or the Conquering Worthy p. 280. The Ark-Drivers p. 281. An Appearance of the Personal Humanity of Christ and of the Father's Glory p. 282. The Arcanum of the Holy Ghost taught by Christ p. 283. Take heed of Pilate's Spirit p. 285. The Rules of Merchandize p. 288. The Oracle within the Veil The Michael-Unction p. 293. The Opening in Heaven of the most
Holy Place p. 294. The Seven Compassings p. 298. The Golden Fleece ibid. The Uncloathing of Joshua the High-Priest p. 299 A 〈◊〉 against the Composition-Poyson p. 303. The Consubstantiation of the Heavenly Bread p. 304 The Gourd ibid. The Jubilee 305. The Covering of the Son of Man p. 306. The Pot of Manna and the Bowl of Oyl ibid. The Fair Achsah presented to Othniel p. 307. The All-Golden Grain or the true Masculine Spirit p. 309. The New Creation p. 311. A great Battel against it from the Dark and middle Worlds p. 31â—… A Renewed Evidence hereupon of the Resurrection Body p. 316. The Dew of Hermon ibid. The Swan-like Washings p. 318. The Return of the Beast to the Lake and the Chaining up of the Dragon p. 〈◊〉 323. The Name aâ—…d Mark of the Lamb p. 321. The Guardian Eunuch p. 324. A sâ—…t Battel from the Outward Worldly Principle p. 527. The Captain of the Lords Host appears to the Combatant p. 329. A Call to the Shulamite p. 350. The Shulamite's Obedience so this Call p. 331. The Blessing of Zebulon p. 332. Vision and Fruition p. 333. The Golden Globe or the New Mold of Imagination p. 334. Rules for the Government of the Imagination p. 337. The Lamb's Book p. 340 344. The Lamb's Feast p. 341. Ejaculations after the Lamb 's Great Appearance p. 345. His Fountain-Body unsealed ibid. The Golden Mist or the Circling Breath of the Deity p. 346. The Holy Incense p. 349. The Healing Word p. 352. The Eâ—…postulation of the Spouse p. 354. The Bridegroom's Answer by his Spirit p. 357. The Marriage-Union p. 360. The Working Mines p. 362. The Divine Chymist p. 364. The Chrysolite p. 366. The Virgin in Labour to bring forth her First-born p. 367. A Râ—…sentation of the Lamb and of his Bride Triumphant p. 369. Her Cup of Blessing p. 372. The Royal Purchase p. 374. Wisdom's Wardrobe or the Virgin Rayment p. 375. Repeated Cautions and Reproofs from the Importunate Lover to his Beloved that she might hasten out of the Land of her Captivity p. 376. The Eunuch-Spirit or the Sabbath of Rest p. 380. A New Onset causing an Interruption in the Spiritual Calling p. 382. The Sabbatical City p. 383. The Breaking through of the Divine Glory p. 384. The Oracular Glory speaking Mouth to Mouth p. 386. The Ministration of Elisha p. 387. The Comforters Message from the Bridegroom p. 392. The Day of the Spirit p. 394. A fresh Attack against the Spirit of Faith p. 396. The Covering of wrought Gold interwoven with Scarlet Silk p. 397. The Caterpillars p. 399. The Viâ—…eyard or the Magical Ground p. 401. The Weighty Drop p. 403. The Life of Divine Soveraignty or Man is become as one of us p. 404. The Gods ascending out of the Earth p. 406. Ahasuerus or the King as the Banquet p. 408. Esther's Preparatory Fast p. 410. Her Feast and Petition p. 411. Mordecai and Haman or the Princely Spirit of Faith and the Insulting Spirit of Reason p. 413. The King's Answer to Esther's Petition p. 416. The Flying Horse of Power ibid. The United Crown or the Nazarite Covering p. 418. The Burning-Wheel or the Spirit 's Workmanship p. 419. What it is to be a Standard-Bearer of the Spirit p. 420. The Seraphim covering the Wheels of Nature p. 421. The Progress of the Wheel-Work p. 424. The Cherub-Tent p. 425. The Way of the Spirit cleansed by the Cherubim Oracle p. 426. Wisdom's Armory disclosed ibid. It is broken up by the Mighty Cyrus p. 427. The Sign of the Son of Man p. 430. The Binding of the Four Winds p. 432. The Olive-Tree or the Sealing of the Deity p. 433. The Mystery of the three Heavenly Witnesses p. 435. The Ternary of Witnesses on the Earth p. 437. The Unity of these Three p. 439. Adullam or the pure Virgin-Tabernacle p. 440. The Great Day-Star p. 442. The Ark floating upon the Waters of the Sanctuary p. 443. The Seven Sealed Doors p. 444. The Transmutation into Birds p. 445. The Interpretation hereof p. 446. The Accusers Opposition to it p. 449. The Victory gained by the Spirit of Faith p. 450. Another Defeat of his Dark Magick p. 451 455. The Basis of the First and Second Creation p. 452. The Birth of Immanuel guarded against the Dragon p. 454. The Coming of Elias p. 455. The Conquering Bow or no Conquest no Portion p. 457. The Sword of the Lord in Gideon's Hand p. 458. The Fruits springing from One Eternal Element p. 461. The One Elementary Body p. 461. The Garden-Plantation p. 463. The Olive-Berry p. 464. The Strong Force of United Spirits p. 466. A Resolution of some Queries relating to the Wonder-Woman p. 468. The Wilderness-Temptation or Floods of Jealousie cast out against the Woman p. 476. The three Ghostly Bodies p. 479. The Three Distinct Births of the Spirit further unfolded p. 480. A Prolongation of the Outward Life promised to some that are to Open the First Seal p. 484. The Messengers of the Isaac-Birth p. 485. The Excellency of this Third Birth above the two former p. 487. The Young Elephant p. 091. A Letter of Resolution in Answer to some Objections sent from a Learned Physician to the Publisher hereof upon occasion of the English Edition of The Letter to some Divines concerning the Question Whether since Christ's Ascension God doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind And may for the like Reason refer to this present Work p. 493. How are Spirits to be discerned p. 499. Two Testimonies for the Ministration of the Spirit Revived The Testimony of Dr. J. P. the Author 's Follow Traveller The Testimony of Mr. T. B. An Advertisement WHereas in the Year 1683. there was Printed a Treatise of that Inlighten'd Philosopher and Profound Divine Dr. John Pordage this Author 's most Intimate Friend entitled THE OLOGIA MYSTICA or the Mystick Divinity of the Eternal Invisibles viz. the Archetypal Globe or the Original Globe or World of all Globes Essences Centers Elements Principles and Creations what soever wherein many Deep and Hidden Mysteries have been Unfolded from a Ray of the Divine Light and the same though Published with great Disadvantage to the Author's Memory and the Great Things therein deliver'd has excited in several Searching Spirits are eager and longing Desire to see the rest of his Writings made Publick This is to give Notice that Leave having been at last obtained after many reiterated Solicitations from the Executors of the said Dr. John and of Mr. Francis Pordage the Publisher of this Book will undertake to Gratifie the World with all the Theological Theosophical and Philosophical Works of the said Illuminated Son of Wisdom which are come to his Hands if there shall be any suitable encouragement given to such a Design The Titles whereof are these that follow viz. Mystica Philosophica or a Treatise of Eternal Nature wherein the Distinction of God from Nature is Discussed and many Weighty Questions both Physical and Divine relating
challenge no part in thee How will the Bridegroom rejoyce to see his Bride as a spotless Lily growing under the sturdy Tree of Life who therefrom will pluck and present herewith the most lovely Fruits that this new revived Eden-Garden do afford here is private Walks sweet pleasant Groves where the Lamb with his Virgin Bride may fully solace and none do them espy Spirit with Spirit can walk and talk very hiddenly linked and wrapped up in the Mystery of the Trinity in Unity from out of whose Arms none shall ever more pluck out Oh thou deep Well of Love which thus freely flows no need of drawing when thy Springs unlock while thou art communing what Perfumes doth thy Breath send forth as a Cluster of all rich Compounds is thy breaking up Turn away thine Eye for thou hast overcome me with the Sparkling Flames thereof How shall I be able to hold a Conference with thee except by renewing strength and transfiguring Glory I be admitted into thy fiery Charriot all paved with Loves there with thee my Bride to set and evermore to fix for greater Bliss then this I cannot desire to possess who my dear Sophiae art April the 30th 1675. The weightiness of Wisdom's Workmanship being viewed by the Eye of the Father which only seeth into her deep Magical ground where she is an absolute Princess to create and generate Spirits in her own express Likeness knowing well what her Offspring have right unto and therefore their Education is to be answerable to their high Birth Having such near Aliance to the Glory of the Trinity all must in Wisdom's Children answerably correspond that she may not be ashamed to present and make challenge for them what by Heirship is due Now finding the whole scope and tenor of my Mother's Laws and Counsels are to put me upon Cloathing my self with the highest Purity that in nothing I might be inferior to the Glorified and Angelical Spirits who have not such a gross Animal Nature to deal withal as I have and yet required to be as Immaculate as the Lamb of God I cannot but thus break out Ah my Mother I do not say how can but how and when must the Accomplishment of this be for which I am now in such dying Agonies that this New Glorified Life might only appear While thus in secret Debate I was contesting because my Hopes were delayed as to the present Age which gives right to an Estate of Glory at Hand which is the Manifestation who are Jewels belonging to the Crown-Royal O what Raptures of Love's Divine did I feel ardently desiring a Dissolution from my own Creaturely Being and from all others who in corrupt Nature's Genealogy do live as one wearied and tired out of all seeking only Fellowship and Bosom-Rest with my Mother in the free New Jerusalem as it is known in its descent into the Habitable Parts of a renewed Earth inclosed for the precious noble Seed to put forth in their manifold Vertues Powers Colours and Operations All which be kept in their vigorous fragrant sweetness as a ready Entertainment for the High Throne-Powers to welcome themselves here in Mystical Paradise in which Wisdom hath recreated and formed another Adam being Male and Female a Production of her own Virgin-Nature as upon my Expostulation was opened to me who bad me not despond but be of good cheer for she was come to renew the beautious and fresh Glory of the now declined withered Garden formerly called Eden but now so over grown with prickling carking caring Bryars unsavoury Plants all concurring to make desolate and ravenous For such as the fallen Man is so is his place among Dragons and unclean devouring Beasts and Birds of Prey out from which I have seperated and called thee to dwell on the Face of that pure Ground as an anointed Cherub to keep all in order in this Holy Place suffer thou no strange Plant here to put forth neither lust thou any more to tast of that one Tree which so pleasant appeareth to the dark Eye Though a new generated Spirit thou art yet not excluded from the Serpent's tempting dart no more then he who was the first Begotten who thy Pattern still is to be Consider him in his Forty Days temptation before whom this Tree was set presenting all Kinds and Sorts of tempting Fruits but of none he would either tast or touch who thereby gave proof he was an impregnable Rock fitly qualified the Father's high Trusty of all his Treasures to be made the same Yesterday and to Day he is alive for evermore in the weak and frail Form of a Human Body to perfect the same Conquest for thee that so compleat through Sufferings thou in him mayst shine Celestially therefore fear not to go through the dark Valley or Golgotha where nothing but dead and unsavoury Carkasses in thy way do do lie True it is the world without thee is a loathed place but suffer and bear the Evil Manners of it for a little space till thy Restoration perfectly be wrought out then power thou shalt have to subject all under Foot Observe for thy encouragement that Jesus â—…hough from the VVomb inspired yet gradually in his work did proceed in â—…et and appointed times whereby all Proâ—…hecies by him were fulfilled My Mother 〈◊〉 this my Agony did present before â—…y anointed Eye an earthen Pot set â—…pon a soft Fire in which was a Liquor of melted Gold boiling with a scum â—…n it which was an Idea of my present â—…tate which saith Shew now thy self â—…ee how expedient it is to abide still on â—…his gentle Fire that will not crack the â—…essel but Refine the Golden Matter in 〈◊〉 which is to be cast into several Moulds 〈◊〉 furnish my House withal no Vessel â—…an be fixed there but what hath been â—…yed in this Furnace therefore know 〈◊〉 is to be no unkindness to thee that â—…ou art still proved hereby every seveâ—…l Fruit that puts forth from the vital Spirit Tree of Love must be dipped in this Pot of Gold then will the offering of these Fruits be pleasant because weighty and solid Think not much that Gifts and Powers do not yet come to their Birth there is somewhat more to be done in preparation thereto it is no pleasure to either Father or Mother to see their Children go naked and be poor and impotent obnoxious to the Spirit of Reason's scorn and derision who provides for their Children deliciously at which sometimes thou art ready to stagger and tempted hereby to turn back again fearing to pass through this Fiery Baptism without which no New Name will be given upon which is entailed that Dominion thou so much desirest Therefore go forward slacâ—… not thy Pace the greater part is run oâ—… thy Race though a craggy and rougâ—… way hithertowards it hath been yeâ—… know before the end it shall all be strowed with fragrant Flowers which aâ—… Glorifying Powers Love Tokens seâ—… down from him who will thee sigâ—… with a
then in all former Ministrations whatever Oh now then to my Call and Cry within you take special Recognizance it is my Elijah's Voice that the Way of the Holy Ghost might be made plain and strait Take heed no Lyon or Wolf so much as once set their Foot on it Make your Watch still strong for slimy muddy Pits are on each hand the great Levia than there doth under Water lie waiting to see if here you do set your Feet awry For this subtle Serpent doth well know hereby all former and present Prophecyes will be prolonged if not cut off So that if by any means he could Ingulf you within this noisome Pit where all devouring Fish of Prey do lie which still would be eating out your Belief and Confidence in what do's lie beyond the Border of the Senses he will not fail to do so Because it is not for the gross but for the pure and immaculate Eye only to espy those Celestial Glories Whereof not only to the Sight I do here you my beloved Lambs invite but come I say and tast what in my upper Banquetting-House is to be found to which ye yet so high never ascended where the Ghostly Body upon the Crystalline Sea is set But stay yet ye must and ye must it not touch with unwashen Hands with strong scented Oil your Finger must drop while in this Dish ye them dip to give proof ye are a prepared Guest who have put on the Bridegroom your Robe this will be your Tickets Testimony that right you have to eat of this choice Mess which only for the Bride and Bridegroom are set forth Though with many sweet and pleasant Fruits I have out of my Paradisical Garden you fed and with the Spirit of the Vine I have your Thirsts often satisfied yet none like or to be compared to this Therefore it is reserved as the strong Meat which only those that are come to ripe and perfect Age can bear thereof to eat Therefore go thy way and be comforted that ye are entred into Love's Eternal Calendar and may assuredly of this last and great Gift partake as ye shall in the bright Temple grow reaching to the full Stature of your Jesus To which Coming fear not but your Father will equally dispence the Holy Ghost as his free Benevolence Grow grow get up to this high Nativity with all speed The Most High hath great need of such worthy high Disciplined Spirits to go forth bearing the Heavenly Trophy and Banner of Glory which may take away fallen Nature's reproach How much will it be the joy of Wisdom your Mother to see you come up through all Tribulations to inherit the Antient and Royal Seat near unto that Great King your Prince and Personal Saviour through the introducing of his pure Spirit and Nature without which ye never had been capable of so high a Calling as to have fellowship with him not only in the Knowledge but in the joint Possession without any defraud as ye shall see impartially when this Ghostly-Dove with her Cherubin-Wing doth with all Power upon you rest so as no more from you ever to flye or withdraw O run hard still cry knock and call I will assure thee from the Word of a God it shall abundantly answer to all A Memorandum March the 13th 1675 6. FRom the 6th of this present to the 13th I have been exercised in great Conflicts upon and through a sudden surprize upon the mortal part of my Companion and Fellow-Labourer in that Paradisical Husbandry he being smote and struck as with a Leviathian Dart upon his Animal and Vital Spirit the first time was on the Monday being abroad upon his returning home which went over again The next Day about the same time a Feaver took him and in great Violence ceased on his Heart and so he wrestled a good space of time in great Anguish which so affected me that I drew in and awakned a great Travel for his escape from these Sorrows of Death which had so ceased upon him I having had some warning of an imminent Danger and Peril which I saw the Night before he was first affâ—…cted and came down to advertise him hereof before he went from home As thus there was a deep Pit with great Swelling Waters under which the subâ—…il Levia than with his outstretched Jaws did lie to grasp in such as near there did walk Now the Doctor with my self being that way to pass I heard a word uttered Be ware come not too near it is a dangerous place Upon which I watchful was and took good heed and avoided it that the Doctor might not therein be ingulphed but draw off with all speed Which did predict there was some Danger nigh this being the Pit of Death as by the effect thereof soon did shew it self But the mighty Jehovah hereunto a Counter-check did give to reverse what the destroying Angel was upon executing For this second assault was very grievous being upon Tuesday which did abide on his vital Spirits from 4 in the Afternon till 10 at Night In which interim a Daniel's Spirit did come down which in us did Pray with mighty fervency winged up by Faith as knowing that in this ascending Power stood our help For after I had ceased and the Doctor began to Pray I saw a bright Star dance about his Bed and a Word came with it unto me I have heard and I will deliver for my own Name sake out of the present Jaws of Death This was a signal Evidence that Saving Health was near and that in this Hour of Exercise Jesus with his Healing Vertue would appear which soon after was witnessed So the Pains for that time were asswaged and he slept that Night and the next Day had respite So as we did hope this Storm was gone over But on Wednesday Night he found himself ill again So together we did seek the Lord for his Counsel whether or no he might venture upon some outward means to help to remove that violent Humour which by that strong Leviathan would have grasped away his Life For without permission from the Court and College of our Spiritual Physicians we dared not to adventure because we had committed the whole Cure of this deadly Wound to those All-healing Soveraign Powers While then we were supplicating and soliciting to know the Mind of Wisdom â—…erein this Word came It is suffered â—…n condescention to the instability of â—…our Faith however by Grace the corruptible Drugs shall be changed in their Constitution and Quality for else they in this case could not be available For know that my secret Medicine must be the Preparative Then after this the Doctor was free to take a Powder which gave him two or three Vomits and Purgations On Thursday Morning after which he was very cheerful and thought himself to be eased of his weight and talon which had so terrified him but after he had Dined it beset him again more fiercely and violently then at
any time before the extremity being so great as he desired to be released by Death as the greatest kindness which he could in this hour of Extremity of his Heavenly Father seek and request for At this sudden onset upon him I was somewat staggered for the Black Cloud of Death seemed all over to cover him which seemed to make void and frustrate those Words and Tokens I had received for his Restoration on the Tuesday Night before But in this juncture of time I felt a Power upon me to descend that made me Pray as in an all-Bloody-Agony and a mighty Strife betwixt Fear and Faith was in me But the strong Angel of Faith prevailed and I felt something move that was all aiery mighty and swift to overcome and conquer and which would not permit to give him up to what he himself desired Then had I a sight of all the dark afflicting Powers to be put under his Feet and that they should no longer over his mortal part have power The Relation of which I did to him declare but such was his anguish that at that time he could nothing from me hear So this Day and Night was passed away in this terrible Conflict All Night I retired from him wrestling with my God on his behalf waiting and watching what the issue of this trial would be For I do not know that I ever was in any one thing more proved because of the Word that came that he should be saved from Death Towards the Morning this Word came to me God is not a Man that he should repent or reverse what he hath spoken as to him for whom thou hast prayed Then coming to him I found him yet Ill. Then had I another Word all that Day followed me saying I am come to give him Life and that more abundantly therefore let thy mind hereupon be stayed So I saw the good Hand of our God was near and did the whole Cure and after this Bleeding he found a great alteration although before that his Extremity was much mitigated but not so sensibly taking it away as he now in himself did see So that by the Counsel of Wisdom he was hereunto directed most expresly to whose sight the Malady was only conspicuons all outward Physicians in their sight would have been too short and their power too weak and had been befooled and frustrated if any expectation had been thence For the Word for immediate Healing still followed close one upon another as matter of doubt arose Again the Word thus spake O faithless and unbelieving have I not said I will make him perfectly whole Which was the last Confirmation that I had on his behalf as to his outward Recovery Upon which I fully rested and was quieted as to him who from this time recruited his Natural Force and Strength which was abated more then he himself was sensible of But gradually he shall grow to his former strength again as a Monument of Praise to him who had renewed his Life and Being which the Princess of this World did War against with all the poysonable Influences of the lower Elements concurring and triumphing that their Mortal Robe was wrought out in him For the Dragon did see he would much more be a prosessed Enemy than ever to all his strong Holds and Territories But Wisdom's Antidore of such an high extracted Composition was made up that it expelled all his poysonable Influences she coming in with her Adjuring Power and unresistible Spell saying O Death I will be thy Death Thus the Victory was obtained through the Life-Blood â—…prouting fresh from the Fountain God-â—…ead Praise Praise Glory Glory all in us all round about us go forth with Acclamations and Thanks-giving-Offerings for such a signal Deliverance as we have been madâ—… Witnesses of which for our future Encouragement Jehovah hath wrought March the 15th 1675 6. After all this coming into my solitary composure of Spirit waiting upon my Temple-Office and Service where I met with a bright encompassing Cloud the Tabernacle-Witness rose and spake thus in me I have now answered to thee the desire of thy Heart who pressed me hard to give thee a Sign to effect somewhat through the operating force of Faith that it might work to a Deed and Wonder Behold and see this in the reviving and restoring thy Friend's dead Body which is to be great and marvellous to each Spiritual Eye For know all this restoration was managed by my Omnipotency that ye might not doubt the Root of this all sprouting Power will yet further work out and that youâ—… Prince and Saviour may yet live again that hath been so long slain Expecâ—… him he is at hand to take now foâ—… himself in you a Kingdom wherein thâ—… peaceable Reign shall be by this Solomaâ—… And the Holy Temple must be Built by Wisdom's Hand that the most Holâ—… Dove Hereupon may descend most swiftly to rouse and raise up the dead Seed which asleep is yet in Jesus therefore know as a Type of this was this late raised Man who through great Strife hath obtained his Life Now the same strong Angelical Powers that here did move in thee on his behalf must doubled be upon you both for the drawing down the Riding Power and Triumphing Birth of this more excellent Life of the Holy Ghost March the 16th 1675 6. The Dâ—…ctor being much recover'd and the Mountain and heavy Talon of Death removed he was very sweetly Spirited on the Lord's Day and carried out in Prayer speaking singing A few of us meeting together did own that day his Signal Deliverance The next day being Munday in the Forenoon waiting together I had this Word put into my Mouth immediately and unexpectedly As verily as ye have been Witnesses of my Power in plucking him out of the Pit of Death and guarding him from the violent Executioner thereof so this shall be a Sign that ye shall ascend up into the House of the Lord even the Holy Mountain of that God who hath in this hour of distress appeared and ye shall surely inherit the precious things that your Eyes shall there see Which have been long laid up in store to be given to such as can ascend with their bright Temple-Bodies which are now to be your Change of Rayment that ye may in this Holy Place both meet and know I am and will be unto you what yet cannot be conceived or believed Therefore to the charge of Wisdom expresly keep and ye shall see what the issue of being obediâ—…nt to the Law of her Mouth shall be who would not that ye should have less Purity Power and Dignity then your Jesus who is exalted and hath the Command to give and take whatever doth lie in the Father's vast Treasury Know then no less freedom ye shall have with Wisdom in her secret Stores who nothing will or can deny to conquering Spirits who through all Throngs do push and through all Armies do pass and will not be fearful or so
unbelieving as to be terrified although ye should like Elisha be encompassed with Legions of contradicting Spirits Which may happen to prove what Magnanimity and Spirit of Faith ye have to trust unto And whether or no ye will resort to this Treasure that lately hath been broken up for you that ye might know where still to retire and on all ocasions go to seek out what Power and Armory of Strength ye shall need for your present Succour and Fortitude Oh towards this let your Eyes be most absolutely fixed for it is your Father's pleasure out of this Temple and Treasure-House to bless you Covet nothing here below but wait ye upon that liberal Hand which doth all out here command If ye can arrive to believe without doubting then ye shall see what weighty Draughts out of Wisdom's Deep you will be able to draw up at pleasure so as ye will no more need or regard to go down to this World 's enchanted Sorceries for aid All and enough you will have in your own Power Search and see what in this City-Treasury is as you are by Wisdom brought up hereunto Take boldness and freedom to ask and take what may make for your Preferment in all proportionableness to Christ your Head Who is the great Prince and Commander here and would have you dispatch and clear off all Earthly Scores and come after him with all your ascending Might where there is depth of Glory to drown ye out of all transitory Sight Remember ye that Word which he said and do now in Spirit aver it again to thee that all whatever the Immense Deity hath to the utmost and full extent of that fulness in all Riches Power and Greatness to an Everlasting Dominion is now possessed by this Jesus as his own in common with the high Throne-Majesty And hath power to entail the same where and upon whom he will By which Will ye are elected and chosen by this great and high Apostle to the same Profession and Participation of Power and Dignity as joint Heirs with him Therefore take heed that ye derogate not from this your high Calling but bear up to the Witness hereof and to the acknowledgment of the Father the Word and the Spirit of Wisdom all agreeing to empress the Mark and living Seal upon you that so right to all those wonderful and rich Goods that have been shewn you in the House of your God ye may jointly enter upon as your own Inheritance Hitherto ye have stood off in the mistrust and dispute whether or no ye might make challenge hereunto as being anxious of Sin and inaffected which indeed might well clip the Wing of your ascending Power and dash your confidence For no boldness indeed here could be till Jesus by Water Blood and Spirit did come to cleanse you fully and throughly from all Sin and Unrighteousness and thereby he himself became your Temple-Body as now ye may witness indeed Therefore Stowage is made for taking in of these precious things Open wide henceforth and let all in which shall drop from the Everlasting Oily Mountains and Heavenly Hills upon the pure Gardens of your pure Minds and whatever shall distill as upon my choice Lillies on the smooth Waters of Shiloh March the 19th Upon this Day is a large Transcript by Dr. P. of some Divine Opening which he thought good to conceal under a secret Cypher and may possibly relate to some Oppositions against this Temple-Work March the 23d 1675 6. On the Morning Watch as I was spreading the present distress of things this Word came to me Salvation Salvation and Victory The oppressed at last shall go free If zealous as Phineas he shall be for me His Eye is not to pity or spare but he is to rise up in his Priestly Power to kill and destroy that which hath his Nazarite Purity defiled and annoyed Then no more Curse nor Plague but all shall be stopt and staid I have attempted this Bloody Offering nothing more precious is to my Sight nothing like this could make way for the high ascending of my beloved Pilgrim who so long with Weights and Fetters from me hath been kept down and evermore by one or other was still bound Oh the free and undefiled Virgin-Spirit is for me who makes but one Heart with me This Word came very emphatically and powerfully and hath a weight speaking in them which my Spirit did breath out for their effect upon this beloved Nazarite that so all Plummets might be cut off and the Tomb-stone removed which did keep down his rising Body that is no more to be touched with mortal Senses being elected for a high and unparallelled Work which will admit of no hanging upon by any thing that is ponderous March the 24th 1675 6. A Breviate of the late Perils we were in HAving for some space of time encountred with high Storms great Blusterings one swelling Wave following another threatning to tear and to make a wrack and split our Ship in which we were embarked through the good Hand of the most high Wisdom Being now come within the sight of out Land-mark which so near was to be anchored upon such were the contrary Winds from the Troubler as to put us back again in this our Spiritual Voyage But the good Pilote whom the Seas and Winds must still obey was for and with us sending forth the Words of Power and Authority for this raging foaming Sea which cast up Miery Mountains to be still and quiet which otherwise would have sunk the Ark of our Faith which to the Praise of Jehovah was mightily in all these violent fumations born up and secured we being charged not to fear nor to move out here but still to hoist up that mighty Sail and to wait for that holy Breath and Wind Which none know but they that are in it from whence it comes and whether it will carry such as wholly confide in it as may be spoken by the Experienced For being in great Conflict upon the Doctor 's account whom the evil ones Malice was chiefly set against to keep him down from rising in his work having put such an Iron-Yoke upon his Neck and Burthen upon his Shoulder as grew more heavy and oppressing as his Sight was grown clear and Judgment sound having been a long time in great Sufferings under it which for the working Wheel sake which jointly we were engaged in I was often and much in private with my God for a total release and acquitment that whatever pestred and hung upon him now undesirable might be cut off For to me it was said again and again An untouched and free Nazarite from all Dalilah's thy Yoke-fellow must be or else under the Curb of this grievous Iron-Yoke which will crush and stop his Vital-Breath Powers so as to hinder the free passage and play of Wisdom's bright Star which alone will lie as a bundle of Myrrh in the Bosom of his pure Heart Single Chastity is all and the
exchanged Here only is the Place for the Bridegroom and his Bride after long Exile to meet again Oh then be wise and for your Bridal Spirit and Garment of Power undeniably wait None out of this Treasure-City can ever it obtain for in this Sion must all be born again after many other preceding Births which fore runs this great and last Transmuting Birth Which to that Perfection is brought that no desire there will be for to see another change then what this Jerusulem-state will translate thee into For which cause I have it to thee shewn that ye might here into enter in in that I see your Minds so refined that ye disdain among Beasts any longer to live and feed Come O ye blessed of my Father who out of these Prison-Walls and defiled Pastures shall steal and depart away as who are no more to touch with that which makes this City from you to shut it self up I have this 1600 Years expected still Comers up to me into my Personal Glory here But few have made their way all clear unto me not having skill or known the Art of dying to the Earthly part fully and totally Half dead and half alive many have so far tryed and therefore could no entrance find here because a putrified part still was found Which hath made me so unknown and to such necessitated ones to carry it strange they not considering the Disproportionableness of my present state and how that I am iâ—…stated in the highest degree of the Father's Glory of Purity that so if even my Affectons and Heart were touched to descend upon any that ardently seek Personal Union and Manifestation with me yet it would not be permitted till this Mount Sion-Birth is brought forth which makes the high Clarification and all Perfection of Beauty desirable without exception to the everlasting Father of perfect Spirits Who willeth that I should take none into the inward secret Court where all Dignities and Princely Throne-Powers and Glories are till throughly purified and cloathed upon with the Jasper-stone This anointed Cherubin-covering hath been scarcely put on therefore they could not come up to bring down the Everlasting Kingdom which must again to a certain Number be restored Blessed are they who shall know it in their Day looking hereunto and waiting for it within the Jerusalem-Walls where this new Off-spring and Generation must be born Yea Blessed are ye my Beloved and those that are with you United in Me for the Bringing down of this Happy Day upon the Earth April the 27th 1676. His further Admonition In or about Break-of-Day I prayed as the present state of things were shewn me and matter therefrom given me I never felt a greater Efflux of Spirit Power Joy and Peace came into me then did at this season which opened that Word and made it known in its Living Witness saying Now feel and tast what the Kingdom of God is it is made to thee a Substantiality and shall out-flow according to its working Property Henceforth then in Wisdom's Balance weigh and consider every thing you say that your Words may no more be Naked but cloathed with the Guardian Power Which will come to be of great Consequence as managed in Dove-Simplicity and shall defeat the Serpent's Subtilty Who strong Poyson had for thee prepared but could no way send it in thy Vessel being with the Antidote Liquor and juice of Life before-hand filled Which still take thou care to keep brim-full that so nothing which is of crude anxious Nature into thee may come upon thy Ascension which is to bring down another Spiritual Form For I see it is time and expedient that to my Jerusalem Waiters I should appear to bring them up where new Robes and Vestures are fitted out for the new-born Inhabitants to wear That so without a Vail upon my Face I might to you plainly speak for I have no pleasure to carry it at this distance towards you could you bear but the â—…ight of my terrible Crystalline Glory which I am so deeply ingulphed withal that I cannot be conversant after that way and manner which I was before I ascended into this high Throne-Power and Heavenly Place conversing with those for whom I went to prepaâ—… Mansions for in my Father's House a much highâ—…t Purity I now require in such who are to be my fellow Associates then what was existent in that day This is a new Law not understood and will be only received to a small number for know that to thee I will this thing reveal what Wisdom is about to do in order to the bringing the Bridegroom and Bride together For while the Bâ—…ide is found unready and all undressed and out of the Jerusalem's Glory I could in no wise acquaint my self with her otherwise then by Secretaries and influencing Breathings to let her know by these what she must further be wrought into for more minute Sight and Knowledge with me her designed Bridegroom and Mate April the 28th 1676. The Love-Chain According as the Living Word who spake thus by way of Prophecy in me did further by Similitude present it self as thus A Golden Chain in Links was let down from the high Throne Sphear where Jesus in the Love-Kingdom reigns This Chain had a Golden Ball at the end and the Voice said Hold fast if thou wilt come up unto me if thou shouldst gad abroad with thy Mind or Eye and let this slip out of thy Hand then thou wilt be prevented of cohabitation with me in my Princely Glory For this is the strong Power of Might which brings the Bridegroom and the Bride together Every Link in this Chain hath its proper use and service Wisdom is the great Engineer which did this contrive for my Spouse and I to meet and each other to greet While then in the Heavens I must be contained this Chain shall descend still to help up such as are risen out of the dark Night dress of a corruptible Life into a Body of Light This Chain is of so high a refined Mettal that it admits of no Hand to lay hold of it but the pure Lily Hand which is strong in Faith who is perswaded that this Love-Chain is sufficient to bring one up after the manner of Elijah's Chariot Who was mighty in Faith and so brought down this Ascending Chariot by this Chain of divers Links But he had first ascended by it as appeared being one who had power with God upon all occasions even to shut and open the Heavens when he pleases what else are these Links of drawing Powers but this Elijah's Spirit of Prophecy and Prayer of Faith perfect Love Patience Hope Weekness Long-suffering Peaceableness Temperance and immutable Perseverance These are the Link-fastening tyes on your parts Then that which answers on mine are these Light Greatness of Power and Might Love Grace and Good-will Kindness Pity and all Tenderness without variableness with the watchful protecting and safe-guarding Eye which shall maintain all this for a
subsist answerably upon its own native Food O let it not seem strange that this Life-Birth of Jesus is now upon its rising again it will be defended and protected by the conquering Right of the Mighty Alpha who will have regard unto this Kingly Heir while he is in his Young and Infant state that he may not be bereaved of his Kingdom There is no fear of this last high and perfect Birth to be hereof supplanted because the Foundation-Seal is upon it which is the Lord that quickening growing Life and Spirit that makes all that is not for it to fly away before it May the 19th 1676. Now knowing in my self another Spirit acting and moving in this new begotten Birth I was now apt for Phylosophick teaching in the all hidden Magia of Wisdom's Secrets In which this holy born Thing might attain skill and understanding as being thereunto constituted For as its Birth is from Mount Sion high great pure and Spiritual so must its Learning and Education answer thereunto No Tutour Teacher or Governour to it must be but what out of the Royal City the New Jerusalem doth come from thence by God the Father's Commission Who will new string our Tongues so as the Stammerer shall speak in that one pure Language which is only understood by Jesus and the Brotherhood Oh the Spirit of this New Creature dives deep and is of a piercing Understanding and of a quick Ear. Now upon this Birth 's opening and shewing it self as the true Nazarite it was set much upon my Heart and great awfulness was upon us who were Witnesses of this rising Birth how to carry it and behave our selves towards it So we sought earnestly by Prayer to be directed in the management thereof as desiring to answer this great Love-Gift according to the requiring of the gracious Donour This was my Morning consideration after which being much kept waking in the Night about it I fell into a slumber about the Morning and here was presented unto me a Book open and a Finger pointing to me to read it being very fair and legible Which I engaged my Mind to understand the meaning of but it seemed to be written in another Language then I had yet learned and so I could make nothing out of it But when I awaked and had waited a while in the interiour Silence it was said to me This was the Book of Prophecy which could not literally be read but it was given forth for the new living Birth to feed on it and to be eating it down and so ye shall feel it become a springing Source bringing forth deep precious and weighty things After this way and manner the holy Birth shall be disciplined and thus taught by a secret intrinsical mingling and conveying Power that shall all other Teachings drown nullifie and obliterate This shall only be of force and authority according as it was with Jesus who only is to be your Precedent of whom by way of derision it was said How comes this Man to be so understanding and knowing seeing he never was learned He being poorly and meanly Educated as they judged and not come up so high in their Form as to be bred up a Scribe therefore it was admiration to them how he came by that Wisdom and Knowledge Which so outvied all and made them astonished when they reasoned with him He brought forth all his Sayings from this deep central Birth of the holy overshadowing Breath-Power which issued continually affording still fresh and new Matter Now then to you who have partaken of the same Life and Birth with your Jesus and are come to feel this Word of Life stirring within you ye are charged to live by this Word which is the Book of Life incorporating it self in you Mistrust not but you will find enough herefrom to nourish and strengthen all your Internal Senses Expect no less in this Birth of Life then what was manifest in your Jesus the same budding Fruits there will be from the same Spirit as ye grow up in it Fear not but the anointing Powers and Gifts will open and flow as Antecedents belonging hereunto And whereas you have desired to know how you may manure this holy Birth You are required to bring him into the Temple of the Lord and there to dedicate him up in the Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood Whose growth will be great and signal in the Courts of Holiness for evermore May the 20th 1676. This Morning this Word run through me and still cried in me Knowest thoâ—… what a Treasure thou standest charged withal Consider the high worth oâ—… this Birth and give all Attedance to it wait upon it and minister to it as youâ—… great Prince and Saviour For behold it is come to Redeem you out of all Siâ—… and Thraldom and will be a growing Tree of all fruitful Boughs excellently and richly laden Therefore be choice of it and tender it as the very Apple of your Eye and permit nothing to offend it Your Will-Spirits who from the high Eternity are tinged are commanded to Watch and Ward about it and to unite entirely with this perfect thing For it is a Stone out of the Sion Rock that will be your Covering of Strength and Salvation and the opening of the Store-house of all Blessings to run out freely It is but natural for you to grow and spring out of this Central Birth operating from within Your charge is only to attend this Altar-Fire and the pure Celestial Oyl that is the Free-will which the holy flaming Body doth subsist of from the Everlasting Mountain of Holiness distilling down to your Hands Therefore your only Business is to wait to take it in and upon this Holy Altar to pour it That so hereby it may become a very strong sweet and savoury Meat to the nourishing of the pure part which must be one with it through our being turned into a Golden perfect lump So solid and stable it must be as neither Clay Iron Brass or Tinn may or can here penetrate in No contrary Metals can run into this pure Body or what is not of its own high extracted Matter Therefore now this thing consider well and suffer this Lily Birth alone by it self to dwell undisturbed in the Sacred Temple till grown out of all Fear and Jeopardy to the state of Eldership to which full grown Body and Head the Crown is made only fit May the 22d 1676. These Internal Openings and Manuductions following me still so as they would hardly give room for any thing of a Worldly Sense to enter in contrary Seeds in my inward Ground could not be born there being something in me that was now grown so strong as to resist and throw out all other light and scruffy Grain For my Granary must be reserved for the one pure Birth-Seed according as my Jesus hath his Mind to me revealed Who said expresly Come come shut up the Grates and Windows of thy low carnal earthly Senses by which the
you where the most pleasant Situations are for to some the Lot may fall out to possess a more rich and fruitful Soil than another shall according to the donation of Royal Favour which in all Ages advanceth to Spiritual Dignity according to the determination of Divine Will Oh it is worth seeking to be enlarged with the Borders of these Everlasting Habitations to possess the utmost Bounds hereof which is a Joseph's Blessing Who as thou mayest read in the History Joshua 17. 15. grew so strong and great that they would not be contented with one Lot though they had Beth-horan the Upper and Beth-horan the Neather which was indeed a fruitful Soil yet they pitched forward for the Mountain or Forrest-Trees which they by greatness of Power obtained above their fellow Brethren So now as thou growest strong and encreasest in People that is to multiply till thou comest to be of mighty force in Spiritual Powers to encounter with them who would keep thee out of the Land of Blessing thou must come to Enlargement to the very utmost Bounds of the Everlasting Hills and Mountains And as there are seven Nations to War against and cast out to answer to these thou mayest need the Seven Throne-Spirits which will multiply within thy Ark to an unconquerable Strength that so all Enemies will be chased and made to fly from before this sevenfold Eye Which shall be thy Guide to see every way to bring thee up to the South Land within the Borders of the high Eternity Therefore gird up for as I was with Moses so I will not fail to be with that Joshua who within thee is the Ark of the Almighty Strength that will go before thee For as the Father was with me so I will be with you in this present Warfaring state This Word mightily raised my Spirit up for it confirmed what went before as to the going on to possess what was yet behind For when we grow so nigh the Kingdom as to come to the matter of Possession then Joshuah must arise in the greatness of his Might to fight the Battels for us For the great and strong Nations will come out with great fury against us because they see they must have no share in our Lot but be totally cast out Question Now in this great and last Battel-Engagement What will be required of us in order to Conquest Answ. It was shewn me that the rising Spirit of Faith in our Jesus as an incorporating Power in us must go forth with the self same Word of Command that it did in Joshuah's time to command the Sun to stand still and the Moon to stop that the first should not go down nor withdraw its shining Strength neither the latter its meek watry Brightness For by the Light of this renewed Day where no Night can come to intervene all dark Reasonings Doubtings and Fears are expelled by the Majestick Light of Faith How easie is it I do see to wage War in the Light of this Eternal Day and then quite to overcome and get the mastery and to subdue the five Kings Which were presented to me as those five Senses Which are all armed for the Fight To maintain their Sensitive Right But so long as the Bow of Faith is in the Hand of our Jesus we need not fear for he hath said He will make bare his Arm for us therefore we need not fear any of their Weapons of Cruelty Let us now couragiously War and Work while it is Day and the â—…un of Power is thus shining upon us to give us our Possessions with and among the rest of the Conquering Worthies In the Name of Joshuah the Jesus which is with us let us move forward for Jehovah's Banner goeth flying before us till it shall bring us to Shiloh where the Lots shall be cast for us and we rest in them for ever according to the description of our Star Leader and Seer Even so Amen dear Jesus July the 27th 1676. Oh then if ye intend to be the Arkdrivers that so ye may bring it back again to its own resting Place consider how expedient it is first for you to be bathed in this Consecrated Oyl which hath been to you presented for who may it dare to touch but such as are scented with this spicy Oâ—…ntment that so all their Garments may give a good and sweet savour thereof For this Ark being retained in a clear washed Heart in what variety of Birth Powers will it go forth and what fresh Testimonies â—…o which give all heed as to the true anointed Oracle For out of these Thundrings Voices and Glances of Light from the Majesty will proceed While then I lay under the pouring down of these sweet Breathings forth from my dear and familiar Jesus sighing after the accomplishment of them as never thinking I had enough of these Love-Emanations I saw a sweet amiable Person in a solemn manner presenting himself to me saying I am he that hears thy Mournings who am included in thy Suffering and Sorrows as thy true Dove Mate sympathizing with thee but behold this state shall not always be but thou shalt arise with me into the high Dimensions of the All-circulating Kingdom of Light Then appeared after the vanishing of this Personal Humanity a bright Glance without any Form but only an overshadowing Light which left this Word with me This is that Light Strength and Majesty that riseth over all the dark mourning indigent Life Here thy state is presented twofold first as the Ark floating up and down upon the Delugâ—… not come to its resting place till the Eternal Dove-Spirit bringeth it up to the Burning Mount of God where the Flaming Glance of Light is perpetually generating so as in this great Body of Light thou with me shalt live to act according to the Energy of the Father's Will in the all-All-Spirit of Might Come on now if ye would of my High Calling be and therein actually employ your selves then no more stand halting looking with a double Eye as part upward and part downward Since this will never compleat your business Up ye make you my fellow-workers in mighty Deeds till you come to take to the One only thing for Diversities be great stops and hinderances to the attaining of this Practical Part. Sowers ye have been throwing here and there in various Fields with many Seeds but this hath not yet turned to that great account which I design to bring about for you if ye will abandon all other Callings sticking and Binding youâ—… selves over to me for the learning of the one high grâ—…nd Mystery Which I cannot teach you till coming to be ever with me ye behold and see after what manner I do manage those Works of Trust which concur for the full Manifestation of God's Kingdom in its lustrous Power and Glory Have not I often heard your Cry for this Kingdom to be revealed which cannot be till you come to enter into the Holy Calling of the divine
the Corn of Heaven that in all times of Famine may replenish thee with all the Heavenly Family that in this High Calling numbred with thee shall be The fourth Rule Now further on thou must proceed till thou reach to a larger Patrimony yet which is to Adventure upon that Vinyeard which enclosed is with Love's Flaming Wall where the Red Wine doth flow out of the Grape For this also thy Purchase must be Vessels prepare thou not a few for it will run till thou canst no more find to bring The fifth Rule Now all this Treasury Imbarked must be and quick Sail upon the Floating Sea which is the pure Love-Deity must have and here fear not to be robbed by any Pirate while I your Pilot shall present with you be to Land you safe upon your Spiritual Goods here and taking New Lading in to make still fresh Returns for the Universal Profit and Benefit to all those that have Dependency and Need of such Relief Afterward this Manuduction ceasing another opened in this wise July the 29th 1676. This Night I was much in Prayer and Contemplation according as the Center cast up variety of Spiritual Matter to exercise my Internal Powers as sometimes offering this and that for to be resolved in by the Word of Wisdom Which I knew was nigh unto me Then finking down into the unknown Deep where the unmixed thing might open which I did both feel and hear even to a Soul satisfying pleasure this Word spake to me thus as in all Cases and Matters of doubt Whither should ye go have not you found that within you is the Ark of Enquiry To which ever more do you give great heed which shall fill all your Treasures that so no Famine of the Food of Life shall ever be known in your Habitation For the Tree thereout will spring whose Fruit is ever thereupon to be found because its Root is in Oily Ground all from the depth beneath answering to the Fountain from above which meets together in the God of Love from whom the Word of Truth doth richly flow July the 30th 1676. This Day being filled with great Zeal Love and Power finding Faith mightily raised to believe that some good thing was nearer to be revealed to us that were diligent and servent in Spirit While we were met together in our private Exercises the Powers did open and stir In which interim I saw in the Spirit of my Mind one in the Figure of a Man but not in gross Corporality but rather like a Seraphick or as a flâ—…ming Body pouring out a Vial of Oyl in the colour of Amber upon our Heads Which Sight was a satisfying Resolve to the large and big expectation for the pouring out of the Spirit This Word attending it wait still for with this ye are to be filled preserve it pure in your Vessels and it shall never cease to run so long as your Needs require For this is the inspirating Power that will fill with Ghostly Might to do the Father's Will Great Michael-like who may proclaim that he is come to give and shed abroad of this Oyl that will give Light and Joy all full and sweet August the 5 th 1676. THis Morning I heard this Word saying to me Ye have compassed this Mount long enough Which was opened to me further as thus you have gone your Rounds and are come unto the measures of the Second Temple-Worship which is the Holy Place ye are compassing the most Holy City also which is the higher Court but ye have not yet found entrance into it But now to this Holy of Holies draw you near each one with his Golden Trumpet and do not fear for the Oyl of Faith must run to make a clear and certain Sound at which the Heavens may rend and open wide that ye may read and see what within the most Holy do lie Now as you have served in the due order and course of the New Testament Ministration with an Eye to what this will bring up further into For the Ark of this Covenant can rest in no place till it be fixed in the beloved City which presseth hard until it comes to the Rivers of Broad Waters that run pleasantly within Mounts or Walls Which is that restless rising that ye feel stirring that makes after its own place Now as you have been upon your daily Offerings and Services in this second place of Tabernacle-Service which for its time during ye have done well to obeserve yet from hence you must make a Remove to a more excelling Habitation Where you may come to possess what Prophecies Prayers Revelations and Faith expectations have hitherto detained you in But you will say how shall we arrive hereunto for this is a great and wonderful state we know not whither it may be decreed for our Age As to this matter of doubt consider there is no date of Time determined though known seen in the all-knowing Eye of the Detty when and upon whom the Godhead Power shall descend and ascend to fuâ—…fil all general and particular Revelations and Prophecies Therefore here is all Liberty and Scope for Faith to stretch forth and put in for its right having a Propriety in this high and super-eminent thing according to the free donation of Grace which hath and shall still abound towards thee Now then be assured that no Bar shall stand before you that ye may not summon in and call up Power to break down whatever is Opposite so that ye may raise the Eagle-Body by Spiritual Force and Might that only can mount up to take this worthy Prey that shall decide all Controversies that do arise to cast in fear and doubt Awake call up and gather together all those Celestial Powers which within thy Heavenly Orb do dwell For they must go forth as the Lord's Hosts in their Day to lay close Siege and by a wise Spiritual S ratagem to scale the Walls of the most Holy Place that so thou mayst have entrance for it is allotted that by meer Conquest the Prize within this City will be taken Now then raise up all the Internal Force you are able to make and set upon storming it violently sounding forth the seven Trumpets from all the Seven-Throne Spirits which are fiâ—…led with Oily Power and will be of mighty conquering force to Alarm down that last reserved Almighty outgoing Breath which doth bring absolute Soveraignty in all Heavenly 〈◊〉 renewing that Eveâ—…lasting Morning which from the Antient of Days did spring when all the Sons of God shouted for Joy and as Stars of Glory did siâ—…g knowing nothing then of Mortality or Sin To which state ye by this Life-quickening Ghost are to be reduced again that so in the Primiâ—…ive Angelical Figure you may appear as mighty Oâ—…es to act according to what you have by Conquest obtained within this Seraphick Kingdom through Love's violent onset Where ye shall then be confirmed Denizons having all freedom to exercise your Heavenly Calling
with me your Jesus having faithfully fought for your Corporation-Liberty serving out your time in the Faith and Patience according to the Father's Will Which for a Recompence the holders out are to be endued with all Power Dominion with that unknown glorious Liberty which shall impower you all Wonders for to declare by that Living Word which was is and will arise up in this sparkling consuming all-acting dividing Flame that is come to melt down every Metal and to try which and which is sound because nothing but pure Gold for this Profession will hold or shall the Seven Trumpets in the Hands hold thereby to ascend into my upper Sheep fold where all my Lambs are cloathed with Fleeces of the most fine Gold Therefore now Oh my Friends see who they are that must ascend up hither to me Lo I have the Way disclosed yet to you more full and free that so you may rise up and go forward greatly Conquering till that ye may come to the Seventh Trumpet Compassing about Which Seventh Compassing maketh all Gates within the Pavilion of Light open for to fly that the desired Throne-Majesty you may there espy Which I know will suffice and please your Eye when in my Glorified Nature you shall be able to great with boldness the Father of Spirits and Glory having upon you my tryed Golden Fleece without which ye will be speechless but with it ye have all freedom to commune and with your God to talk and to have place evermore with him to Sing the New Jerusalem Hymns which flow out most naturally from the Seventh Conqueror who is brought up hither to hear the great Last Shout August the 12th 1676. I did hear from the Angelical World great and mighty Sounds round about me with one distinct Word saying Behold him who descends upon the White Throne Who are there ready with their Garments washed clean and white thus to meet their Jesus Which Word or Alarm cast me into some Fear and Despondency being conscious that I was not cloathed with such a perfect White Robe as might answer to that White Throne for to such only was this Call to Q. Therefore what must now be done for us that we may straitway find our selves here enthroned The Reply was this Oh fear not remember how Joshuah's filthy Garments were taken off and then he could stand before me even so it is decreed and an express Charge is given to your Guardian Angel to uncloath and pluck off your Purple Robe of Sin Ignominy and Scorn For there is yet reserved one principal White Robe which yet was never seen but the Body upon which it is put must be all Immaculate for it will be no Covering to any polluted thing because it is pure and transparent throughout Be of good chear for this also is with me who want not Love Power and Strength to bring this great translation about As for your Spiritual Adversaries whom I see so vigilant they shall never tire out that Spirit of Faith which shall be animated still by that Word that riseth fresh and new Keep but your Faith me and I will from all Viper Spirits secure you that no hurt shall be to you though their Scorpion Tongues would send forth Anguishing Fire to detain you if possibly it were in their own hellish dark Sphear which shall fly from you as you fixed be to desert all but what can enter with you into this bright Ivory Throne of the Everlastlasting Deity Whereto I now expresly charge you to put all things in order hereunto and be most free for the Unbodying your selves that I may see no more a vile Nature upon you who am come my self to be your Body For no other will this unmixed Garment fit being spun out from the Golden Fleecee which is all of the working Power of he Holy Ghost who interweaveth it in great variety with bright Oriental Golden Clouds For to express that this is â—…he cloathing of Soveraignty and Righâ—…eousness in which I will avouch you before the High Throne-Majesty my all fair Spouse and Bride Who may sit with me on my White Throne freed out from all former Slights and Contempts Until this state of Zion-Beauty shall appear watch and keep Company only with Lilly Spirits feeding upon the Olive-Berries that grow upon the Mountains of Bether whereby you may become all lovely and fair ready and meet for this high Princely decking Wearing your present Garments so loosely that so soon as I call ye may let them fall though you may think there â—…s something good which is not to be parted withal as to that be not concerned for what is pure and hath been tryed by Fire shall still endure all serving to make up One entire and perfect Body which shall be for a more sublimated use and service then what ye have hither served in when under the Law of Sin but now are ye under another denomination as Spirits made free to walk in White Garments within the Celestial Globe of Light Where now we enjoy each other in Spirit but there is yet a superaddition of Joy and Glory when Body and Spirit shall ascend together passing through all Vails Clouds Rocks and Stones nothing being able to sever her or it from the most Holy Place for which state do you passive stand till acted to go forth by the mighty and strong Lyon who must rise the Prey to take which hath been reserved for the Lyon-like Heart which no fear hath nor repulse will take but will enter through the Everlasting Zion Gates to which haste haste August the 13th 1676. This inspeaking was to me Let muddy Matter no more be cast up in thee for thou art called among the Golden Flocks August the 14th 1676. This Morning my Spirit was all free and serene meet to entertain Communion with him who is cloathed with the Golden Cloud and Rainbow on his Head who said thus unto me Escape the Spider's Web who is always spinning to invite to come under her covering Know you not a Composition of Poyson is there who cannot hurt you except she can find you there to hanker and so keep your pure mounting Spirits from their own incircling Globe and Heavenly Sphere Where you know I fail not to keep you Company when at any time you are found there For an uninterrupted Conversation is to be entred upon by that which is all pure born from the Virgin-Womb which is distinct from the dark and all defiled part and cannot incorporate with it Oh therefore avoid and quickly stop that muddy Source the smell of which is so unsavoury to him who can bear nothing but what proceeds from my implanted Nature that so we may together as upon one Stalk grow For to bring forth that choice Kernel which may be ripe for the Golden Dove to swallow down For herein lieth the most hidden of all Secrets which is to come up to the full grown Ear of one and the same pure Lump and Matter
Government and Trust as in that day will be committed In the mean time live and so behave your selves as those that are known to be not only Legatees but real Joint-Heirs Looking for hastening and minding the Father of new-born bodified Spirits who is the Ministrator by me left in trust to make disposal out of Wisdom's Cabinet of this one considerable Jewel Which will become none to wear till they come up to be full grown meet also for that Garment which hath been made and wrought from Everlasting which is ever new and fresh through which ye may see the Comely Proportion of your New Creaturely Being For it is all transparent and shining answering to the Place and Company with whom you are to walk Though ye yet bear in Visibility your despised image till your invisible Body be grown up big enough to fill out this Bridal Robe by which you shall be discerned to be in the Lord's Body Which will roll away the Reproach that came in by the poor fading Fig-Leaf Cloathing Now observe and see to what an estate you may grow up unto if ye keep up in the Faith if ye unwaveringly believe ye will see it August the 23d 1676. In the Night season I heard a Voice crying Holy Holy who can enter where the Terrible Majesty of Holiness doth dwell Then was presented to me somewhat all over covered as with Swans Wings no other proportion seen and it was said This all white Nazarite may enter in here is no Partition-Wall or Skreen that will intervene After this pass'd away it was opened to me This was no other then the White Dove Body of the Holy Ghost that could wing up into the Jerusalem Court where the Antient of Days did sit to receive and welcome the Spirit of the Bride thus embodied and all attired with Plumes of White signifying the necessity of passing through the Swan-like Washings Which do make us thus pure and white for the bringing into this Virgin-state where nothing is heard to cry but Holiness to the Most High For said the Word No other can enter here therefore see what you must attain to be Swan-like keeping upon the River pure which doth proceed from the Throne Where do you abide till you come to the tenth Number washing-Tide that may present you the all fair and lovely Bride to enter in and looking find where their needs no more Sea for washing but firm Golden Ground there to walk with your Dove-Mate Who doth wait to see you come up as Sheep from the Washing each one bearing Twins in the fruitful Nature of the Holy Ghost from within that overspreading Wing to put forth and to take its Flight to this City of Light wherein Holiness is writ without and within August the 27th 1676. Being upon my Watch-Tower to heat and learn what further Remove we must go forward to and Eagerly pressing to get out from under the Reign of the Ten Horned Beast who doth daily at us push as being exalted to that Pinacle of Power which doth command all these lower Worlds imprinting its mark on the whole Universe who are under his Planet born and in his Kingdom found Out from which our Lord with many Trumpets sounds hath called us this Word anew was uttered Ah come and see the Thousand Years Reign of the Lamb are upon the Entring by those who are worthy to find a part in the first Resurrection This only will free from the decree of unavoidable Death which is the Wages of the Sin-deformed Beast who is to return again to the Lake at the time when Jesus begins his Reign Lo the old Dragon who in the Beastly Nature hath governed will be laid hold upon by the strong Angel who hath prevailed to chain him up and also to obliterate both his Image and Name that have lived and reigned in this visible World in such mighty Fame But strong and omnipotent is he who saith Behold I come to sound that Trumpet which shall bring forth a new World for an end of the Old is come before me in them who will be found the first model of this new Creation which will consist all of new raised Spirits with their full grown Bodies bearing the Lamb's Mark and Name as Sheep of another Pasture and Fold feeding in such a rich Soil as maketh fat and flourishing meet to stand in the view of the great King whom you must come up to in your new risen Immaculate Spirit and Body that we may see you are the right Heirs now grown up for the Kingdom to whom the Key of the Government doth belong Being passed through this Kingdom standing out against all his imposed Traditions Mark and Name whereby you were to be proved whether or no ye would bow to his unrighteous and pernitious Power and Scepter Against which still maintain your Ground and hold out for your ten daies Tribulation are not all fully expired in which time the Dragon will have great rage knowing his date is almost worn out as to those that have gone through the beheading for the Resurrection-Life sake For which death's hour of Temptation holding out a weighty Crown will be sent down and put on by him in the sight of all your Enemies who will maintain his right upon and over the Earth with these his tried Stones to unite his power to as with them to reign till you shall see all and every thing put under which now is above you for when my Name is known to spring within the Resurrection Body and to open in Majesty doubt not but thereto every Knee shall bow and will bring their Gifts and entreat your aspect and favour The God and Father of Lights having anointed you above your Fellows and reinstated you with me to a Throne of dignity where all in the lower Sphear shall be judged by you having received Kingly Power not for hours or dayes but for to endure throughout all Generations Now consider as wise Princely Virgins what for a while ye may yet encounter with during the Dragon's reign Do not fear him nor his Scorpion Stings which now will hardly come into you his place being demolished and his Towers falling and the new Body rising wherein nothing of his Kingdom can be more found which he seeing it will make his Kingdom to tremble that power is now assuming that will bind the crooked Leviathan who still sends out his poisonous Floods to destroy this Birth of Life which shall reign over all by him who hath gotten the Victory over the Fall and came up with great boldness shewing your bloody marks through the fight of Faith whereby ye may make claim to the Bride and the Ivory Throne there with her to lodge live and reign in everlasting fame Amen crieth your Bridegroom from Heaven August the 28th 1676. The Guardian Eunuch This word passed through me who shall among all the royal Seed of the captivity be found worthy to stand before the great and mighty King Even
Concerns to be brought before me and administred unto as occasion requires by this Life-Breath which I have so secretly infused Where-ever I bestow this Gift it gives a sufficiency from it self to do and act all that is above and beyond a Creaturely Power For it is of an Eternal Almightiness proceeding from the Father of Spirits who generateth what is like himself essentially into me the First Born of this Second Creation That henceforth the Power of Donation might rest with the Principal Head to pass and convey my self in Spirlt And I see the way of Holiness made for this pure inspiring thing to walk in which must find an Habitation suitable to its own Purity that so all may be at an agreement Then in mutual Loves and Joys my Spirit conversant is and will take in the Sence of all the Grievances and report them unto me Who now have all that is the Father's infinite Stock of Life to enrich with Wisdom Honour and Dignity at my pleasure I long and wait to have it drawn out from me therefore now make use of this all-searching Spirit whom thou mayst make a Friend of that may advance thee to a high estate even in this present time wherein thou art spinning out as others Times Mortality which hitherto hath brought forth very little of this Life's Treasury No eminent thing hath yet been wrought for to illustrate and make me shine through the Cloudy Body where through I would manifest again the Name Jesus Come O thou Complainent rise out of thy fainting disponding Bed and stir up this Gift which is with you work and keep Pace with it All must be broght to pass by the diligent Hand of this Spirit uniting with thy Spirit and thy Spirit with this Spirit who will work all in all in thee September the 23d 1676. Being in deep Meditations I was saying in my self Oh that I were beloved of my Jesus with that Love with which he loved John To whom he did appear so as it is written by which his Spirit was drawn to hear and see those wonderful things that are to us reported of Ah Lord why wilt thou not give me to lie as near thy Heart as he and as close at thy Feet as the beloved Mary that I may drink in every Word which falleth down from thy precious Lips out from which are the very Issues of Life While I was thus pleading and invocating there was presented a Triangle-Heart clear as Crystal that you might see through them linked thus 1. The Heart of Love 2. The Heart of Joy 3. The Heart of Peace 4. The Heart of the Bride 5. 5. 5. The Golden Chain with Seven Links 6. 6. 6. The Communications of the Hearts 1. 2. 3. to the Heart 4. Then heard I this Word Here is place for a Pure Heart within this Triangle Heart of the Deity for to joyn Then I saw another Heart within the Circle to spring with many more which were still generated herefrom all White and Crystalline but they were without the Chain this only one was within Then I enquired what Heart this was which was so nearly admitted It was Answered It is that Heart which through mighty ardent strong force of Love hath broken through and got into this Secret Enclosure Where it hath great opportunity and advantage to search and know what from this threefold Heart doth flow Which have their several diffusions according to their Titles The first was under the denomination of Love The Second was Joy The Third Peace All which agreed to empty themselves forth upon this other Heart which had pressed in for Shelter And what-ever Heart can abide within this Circle may attract strong infusing Powers that are all pure and vital to act in the Triangle-Might From this Idea I had great and full Confirmation that the Heart of the Trinity was most free and ready to embrace and receive them who of one Spirit and Heart were together fixed to break through the Golden Chain so as none might be nearer to the Heart of the Trinity then such who have rent and divided from all Creaturely Hearts that so they might know what from this Triangle-Heart of Love Joy and Peace doth ever flow September the 24th 1676. This Morning I was much upon the Consideration when I should begin to work in the Name Jesus as I did believe in it and had Promises from it Now this was all in my Eye to have the Spirit manifested for Activity For I know this only would be profitable as it refers to the Glory of the Most High when Works do express the working Source that is opened from the Deity Being with my God very urgent on this matter according to the impulse upon me from the Expediency that I saw for the Life to work out this way in variety according to the measure of the Gift of the operation of the Power This Word of Counsel and Caution sprang Oh thou whom I see restless and tossed to and fro in thy Mind no rest thou art indeed to find till thou comest to the working Mines For there is the Tryal and Probation who can be skill'd to work in the Furnace of an hot burning Sphear which is not remote but very near Henceforth know O thou fluttering Dove-Spirit that I have not left thee without a weighty and rich Talent which is in thine own Custody though it lieth deep with a threfold Cover upon it which must be unfolded before thou canst see this precious thing The first is the gross dark Mould of this Earthly Climate which is very stifling to this pure thing The second is the strong binding Reason that lieth as a Mountain weight upon it The third is the low natural Senses which multiply as the Sand upon the Sea-shore flowing in to stop and discourage thee from this great Attempt and worthy Service Which if once fully set upon with a Resolution to go through these Three Removes thou wilt then come to the Golden Wedge which will make thee great rich and mighty in the pure Ghostly working Property I your Jesus do tell you faithfully where the subject matter doth lie to work upon Your Complaint hitherto hath been to me as if I had carried away all the Stock and Treasury and ingrossed it to my own proper use or reserved it only for you till you had slipped out of the Body But know it is otherwise do but knit and joyn all your Force and Power with my deep Fathoming Spirit which is given to you and he will find and also work out what concerns your Freedom and Investment to the high and self-same dignified Glory with me Hither towards ye have indeed prayed and sought and believed and hoped but ye have not wrought in the Furnace where this Golden Wedge is to be all melted down to run into every part of your Body as the Life-Blood doth in your Veins Then you will know that unquenchable and fixed Efflux of the Spirit that will
be all Virtue and meer Power to work and act according to its sublime Constitution that by virtue of this dissolving Stone will put forth to do marvelous things Which may be revived after a more wonderful way then yet in and through frail Humanity have been existent Oh now then seeing that is made known unto you where the Treasure doth lie and that you have my Spirit not only to espy but to work hand to hand with you mightily Therefore resolve as in one Spirit ever fixed to be to break up that which doth lie upon this Princely thing each one in your selves to whom this Secret is revealed Do not only Pray and wait but War and work together till ye have wrought out this imprisoned Power that may yet be exalted upon the Throne of Sovereignty For verily no better then a violent unjust deposing of your and my Spirits reign hath been Call and engage all Might and Force to recover his Kingdom again that ye may sit in the Place of Judicature and have all Nations come in at your Beck All which by meer Conquest you must effect if to the Crown and Dominion ye seek to get I shall now leave with you this worthy and all desirable Jewel to the courage and liberty of your own potent Will and my Spirit shall not fail to assist you with all its Armoury So that ye may have Victory over that which would still enslave and confine you within the compass of Mortality with all its appertaining Enormities which this Stone upon its breaking through will certainly free you from Now as there is a strong Guard of Rational and Sensitive Spirits which do multiply out of the Earthly Center so be of good chear that this one Spirit shall multiply to the Thousandth Number and stand up as a mighty Army to win the Field where this Golden Mine is reserved As mighty Worthies march ye forward hold out the bloody Cross of Defiance spare nothing which doth plead for the first fallen Creation because nothing of it can subsist with this pure Stone but what is Crysolyte All my dear Jesus hasten this Stone out of this Burning Furnace in my Altar-Heart September the 29th 1676. This Night approaching to Morning great Spiritual Travail came upon me and I was in Soul-heaviness through the sharp Pangs which I was overtaken with For I felt the Birth strong to make way for its deliverance mighty throws of the Spirit did work and I therewith co-working was that if by any means I might embrace the first-born of Might to whom the Throne-Power and Government was to be established While I thought on these things my Spirit thus burst out Ah my Lord I have often been in these strong travelling Cries but yet too feeble am to bring forth that which is to be the Ruler of Nations even he who is to be cloathed with Royal Glory Strength and Majesty to attend the Throne of the Deity who will admit only such dignified Spirits there to resort and dwell who are born again of equal quality within so as it may be no Robbery to derive from thee O God this Fire-Birth which makes the pure Nazarite Whose Proceeding as also Working forth must be from that everlasting Womb of Eternity which does miraculously introduce it self into a poor despicable Corporeity which is not perceived till it cometh to a full grown Body impregnated with Life in every part and so growing till it comes to its full Birth-hour which I did believe was after the manner of a Spirit to be effected For this Word was expresly spoken to me Fear not thou shalt have this same also which shall be caught up and nourished for a certain time and then shall come again to thee For while he is a Babe and in Minority Dangers and Perils will beset him from this envious World Therefore his Birth must be hidden and concealed and there needs to be no Proclamation of it because none but Spiritual Powers and Invisible Hosts were called forth to be privy to this secret Birth Then I beheld till I saw the Virgin who travelled to ascend after the Child being overshadowed by a White Cloud therein wrapped up out of sight freed from all Malice and Despight being kept and for while reserved within the Eternal Circle of Light Then the Voice in me cryed and said Behold that which thou hast seen to ascend out of the Forms of Nature shall again descend in a full grown God-Manhood to accomplish all that hath been predicted and declared by the Spirit who hath searched out the Depths of the Birth of Wisdom Then upon this was revealed and presented to me the Figure of a Lamb all white having Seven Heads upon which were Seven Crowns like Garlands with fresh Roses and Lilies And one riding in the similitude of a Woman cloathed with a Flaming Garment like the Sun for Glory and Brightness with a Cup of Pearl-Royal in her Hand filled full of flaming Liquor of Gold Then the Spirit said This is the Lamb and the Bride which shall the Dragon and the Beast with all his horned Power ride down with all his Mark and Name which the whole World hath worshipped and admired He hath had long his Time to impose strange Laws and Injunctions and hath been in Universally obeyed Whose Sorceries Witchcrafts and Deceits have worn out many Generations who were ignorant of the Depths of this subtle Serpent and who hereby have died short of their Kingly Crown The seducing Prophet perswading them that they were under a necessity of owning this false usurped Power and Authority which so well agreed and answered to the Apostatized Life of Sensuality But oh to you whom I have seen Revolters from this strange King and his Government I the Spirit of Jesus am sent to declare to you the Father's Love and Intent Whose Heart is set to redeem you from all Sins oppressing Tyranny from the World's Spirit and all that is Rudimental I have sought out for such as for my purpose might be who are resolved to deny and throw off all weights and thronging Spirits that would traffick within my Holy Place For assuredly I do of such take special notice who do forsake all this low Oâ—…b for me to follow my new revealed Tracks Then cryed my Spirit since O my Lord I have thus far found Grace in thy sight give me to understand the meaning of this last Representation to wit of the Seven Crowned Lamb with the Effigies of a Woman riding on him So this was opened unto me by the divine Intelligencing Spirit which informed me that the Lamb which I saw with Seven Crowns signified Jesus who yet never assumed his Reigning Power on the Earth for any duration For while he was Personally in the World he was under Suffering and Reproach and ever since he hath been vailed and obscured in his Spirit the Earthly part hath yet been too hard in the Lamb's Warriours But now to any such in whom the Virgin
of Blessing but will seek to dispoil her from her greater more weighty and eminent Riches with her true Honours through the subâ—…le Pretences that all these by her given are provided to gratifie the outward mans Exigencies who hath need of all these things Which smooth Arguments have deluded Multitudes ingulphing them deep into an irrecoverable Pit of Perdition Of which common Snare O ye that are called and culled out to live upon another Fount and Spring take good heed it is for such as you thereof to be aware It is for you not to be here caught but still to go to Jacob's Lot observe therefore and diligently enquire when you are to depart out of Babylon and when the set-time is that your Laban's Service shall expire Now my charge unto you is that when I your Jesus expresly alarm you to take your leave of all and from all things and to make a quick dispatch after me that you linger not out your time with so many Taking of Leaves and long Salutes whereby to express so hard a Come-off from this Evil World For my Spirit will hide nothing from me but doth give a true account how your Mind and Will stands towards me He is that impartial Spirit of Truth who on both sides is faithful who does as well take of yours and snew to me as of mine to you He cannot and will not make any force without the free consent of your own Will nor treat with you any otherwise then by Love's Entreaties and those many considerable Advantages set before your true Spiritual Eye which in this Light of the anointed One ye may spy without defraud or hindrance And as for thee O Shulamite what thinkest thou doth thy God and me more disgust then when my Spirit bringeth this Report to my Ear that thou canst not yet give full credit to thy Espoused Lord and Husband without wavering My Spirit tells me that Love is not grown so perfect yet in thee as to cast out every questioning thought which makes thee so oft in Jeopardy For couldst thou undoubtedly believe in my Faithfulness and highly great and all-sufficent Responsibility to answer to all and what-ever relates to thee as thou standest in thy exiled state I say if in this perswasion my Spirit could thee fix thou wouldst openly decry down the Beast and his great Benefactor who doth sit on him to give Rewards out of the false pernicious Magick Cup and thou wouldst only look to thy own Eternal Dowry from the Hand of her who is all over cloathed with Strength Glory and Majesty thereby to cover those who are lodged in the Bridegroom's Heart True it is ye have not only witnessed a good Confession with your Lips but have also in some degree given the Sealing Proof by bringing out the first ripe Fruits O know ye who are my Garden Plants for what end are all my Golden Dews to you conveyed through my Spirit Are they not that ye may see this fruitful Tree of Life within your own Lebanon to spring both for Food and Healing Whereto ye are brought by that Spirit and Power which is in mine Elect who are given by the Father to be jointsharers with me in the third great and blessed Lot of pure Breath and Heat from the everlasting Deity Even so to us my God do them this infuse richly according to thy Word October the 6th 1676. This Word came to me saying None but my Eunuchs who are seperated and have cut themselves off from all other People can know how to sanctifie to me a Sabbath of Rest whereby they may cease from the toil of their own Hands In this Day their Strength will be to sit still to feel the all-piercing Unction that hath such a high and wonderful slight as to effect all work without cry or noise This I tell thee Oh Soul as a Secret in thy Ear for in this lieth a deep Mystery which is only known where the Train is purely laid running as out of a Spout from the all-flowing God-head into the pure Eunuch Spirit Who hath suffered a dismembring for the Life of Holy Generations sake through the secret unknown way of co-operation and essential contaction by which the holy thing that is of Ghostly Authority comes in this manner existent in and through Nature's frame to get in such who are thus qualified to shine forth as Day-Stars in the Lamb 's Celestial Firmament After the Spirit had revealed this unto me it said Who but such potent and high raised Spirits pointing to some one or other known by Name should be called out to bear his Name and to shine in Wisdom and Power as Lights before the Gentiles that thereby the Sons of Strangers and Aliens may come to joyn themselves to the Day-Spring from on High which though in the Clouds of Mortality yet known may be by the fruitful operation of the Spirit of Jesus which worketh mightily in contradiction to Reason's Eye Reserve your selves therefore still to hallow my great Name in keeping within the Walls upon which the Guardian Cherubims are set for your defence that there ye may keep my Sabbath from polluting no Burthens must there be carried through And so you will know the beginning of my Eternal Rest. October the 7th 1676. Being upon some occasion interrupted in my Spiritual Calling by touching with that which was ungrateful to the pure Spirit of Jesus he told me That he was of that Seraphick Nature that he could not delight to be where any worldly trafficking Spirits did resort having a disgust to what-ever did spring from this fallen accursed Principle And therefore it was agreed that I must keep his Temple-Habitation pure for that no reception must be there but for the Holy Trinity The outward Court where the common Senses flutter up and down is sufficient to take in what is to be considered for the Mortal Man Who also might well be cast upon the Spirits care and firmly relied upon For such in whom this is so shall grow and spring as a Sabbatical Lily without any thought how their Food and Cloathing do come in Ah! upon this my Spirit cryed Lord I have been a long while getting up my Faith to this pitch but cannot come to the degrees of this all-conquering Faith which may thrust out every tittle of an Earthly Confidence Which I well know are as the miry Rushes that have been a stop to this rising Lily which groweth no where but out of Faith's unweedy Soil Thus by way of Expostulation in Prayer I presented what the Spirit shewed to me was short and defective and did impede the success of the Work going on jointly by the Lord's undertakers Who were thus animated and counselled by his Spirit After that I had supplicated and owned the good Hand of God in joyning me to one that had a good degree of Love Courage and Constancy to go forward with a fixed Eye to the Mount of Transfiguring Glory this Word spake to
me concerning him He is a Son of Obedience Therefore meet with thee to prosecute the Spirits design in this visible Earth Then received I only this further Charge to keep the inward Court of our Minds all pure and clear as we love to entertain the Spirit of our Jesus there Who soon did scent every unsavoury Breath that did blow in this Garden which should be all perfumed from the Celestial Powers and Planets that are all to be blown up from his own Savours and sweet Perfumes So that our dear Lord and Spirit might thereby be refreshed in us and that continually October the 8th 1676. Some part of this Night sweetly passed in Contemplation and Prayer toward the Morning I saw in Vision a bright round Ball pourtraid like a Man's Face breaking through a Cloud and immediately two Stars broke through after it which were very bright and blazing The Interpretation of which I waited fo in my Spirit for no Representation is without his Signification unto me But the Lord did not that day explain iâ—… to me but I did feel an impregnative Virtue fill me from that time till the Afternoon Being then met to breath each one from his Gift as the Dr. was speaking the Word said in me Blessed is the Glory of the Lord which makes its remove from place to place that the Tabernacle-Body may bear witness to this Glory Which verily was felt and discerned in this very juncture of time For the most Holy did leave the Impress of his Glory upon us for it did run as Lightning through my inward parts Thus our Jesus makes his Pace swiftly to us to give often refreshing to our Hearts Hereby lifting us up from the Earth by the Spirit of his Eagle-Might which presseth into the Heavens there ever to live in the Bosome Loves Rest. October the 9th 1676. But still I was in great Concern to understand the meaning of the Sun-like Face and Stars which I saw the Night past So putting my self in an holy awful posture for the Spirit to place me unitedly to himself to understand and know as it self did know the simple Mind of the Deity It was thus revealed to me that suddenly there would break out of the dark beclouded Night of our World an open bright Face that should not speak to us in a deep unknown Spirit but Mouth to Mouth When we shall be generated as Stars from this Ghostly Body of Glory Who plainly testified such a Remove would be made If we will be constant to the Spirit our assigned Guide and Mate Who will arise in us unto this high degree and state as to swallow us up into this shining Face so that no Cloud shall be betwixt the Majesty of Glory and us For as our Jesus is so this rising Spirit of Glory will bring us into the same Transfiguring Body of Glory October the 10th 1676. The Ministration of Elisha As I was casting my self this Morning into my wonted posture of interiour Silence to hear and see what would arise out of the Spirit 's deep I was before I was aware surprised with a Natural Sleep but suddenly awaked with this Voice Search and see what is recorded for thee in 2 Kings 4. throughout not knowing as to my own rememberance what therein was contained till I looked Wherein was the Declaration of what great and marvellous things Elisha wrought eminently as nothing of the New-Testament-Ministration did them exceed So when I had perused them I asked and enquired by that inspiring Spirit who was nigh what Portion therein was for me that was thereunto pointed for to look earnestly seeking a plain understanding herein which through favour I did obtain after some space of time October the 11th 1676. This Word opened in way of Resolve Know O Soul thou hast this Elisha-Spirit with thee of which great Improvement may be made If thou canst know how to draw him out it will be possible to multiply manifoldly Therefore I thy Jesus directed thee to view the excellency of this Spirit and to provoke thee to ask a numeration of this to lay out upon my account so far as may reach to the glorified state of my new exalted Humanity As to the first part of Elisha's ability of Spirit which took in a sympathizing sence of the poor Widow's cry unto him This thou mayst read inwardly as thy own deplorable condition who hast often cryed to thy Prophet of the Oppression of this cruel Creditor the Prince and Spirit who rules in the evil World that would have taken thy two Sons both for Bond-men Who are to be understood as they relate to thy inward and outward Man to imbondage both and hold them in perpetual Captivity as Debtors through the degenerated Principle to the Law of Sin which makes obnoxious to the Curse of Servitude to this wicked Usuper From which my Elisha Spirit is to come to set free through the additional Blessing of Increase out of that Pot of Oyl that is found before-hand in thee but of no sufficiency to redeem out of the Creditor's thraldom till the Spirit of Multiplication do take Knowledge and Compassion to shew what will buy thee out of all the World's Servitude Wherein thou hast known such Perplexities and tyrannical Thraldoms that have constrained thee to look out for Liberty Now then hearken to my Counselling Word ye who do agree as united Spirits to break this Yoke from off your Neck resolving no longer to be under Tribute repair to your Prophet Elisha and only make him privy to all your Necessities Let the Prophet's Widow in this case be the Pattern in thy Eye and in all Extremities fly to no other Call upon this Elisha-Spirit for he is to be raised from the dead to work mighty Deeds First in the hidden Man of the Heart which prepareth for the working through the outward part every Vessel must be cleansed within before the Golden Oyl of the Almightiness will fill them When this is perfect and purely done shut the Door upon thee and thy two Sons and let none come in to spy For the Foundation-matter for Miracles to work upon will run from a most secret hidden Vein The method here of will be quite changed as to what was in the days of Elisha Who though he acted parallel with thy Jesus in the days of his humane state of Minority not having reached the Coronation-Glory could not till then set afoot this New Ministration that openeth from the Line of the Holy Ghost Who is that full grown Vein of Life which hath so long under Ground been hid because of which no miraculous thing hath of these last days been wrought For none hath cared with my Spirit to plunge so deep and therefore it is for a while to lie hid till they have found out the right Needle which may pierce this third Vein that proceedeth from the Godhead The Life-Blood of which will be the running multiplying Oyl which is costly indeed thou needst not crave
15. 26. were thus opened to me Here is a stock of Life to be given out in an absolute way of propriety but to whom is it but to the Royal Birth of such as are born into the Spirit Whereof ye who through strong travail are hither come are to be fellow-sharers in this Life with God the Son But ye are yet but young and do not understand what this Life will extend unto if preserved choicely you shall find in it the the root of that matter to work upon which is sufficient to create and translate according to the will and skill of thiâ—… Life-Operator Which derives a Power out of its own free Birth-center which hath no dependency out of its own Being Call to remembrance that saying Man is become like one of us and he would still have exercised the same authority as a God had the evil been only known and eschewed for which end Jesus hath sent his redeeming Spirit to clear off all your old Accounts as being found in the Debt-Book of Sin and also to convince you there is no necessity that you should run one Mite more upon that score ye being born of a free estate of Righteousness of your own which now you are charged to expend upon For in the time of Ignorance before you came to know what was sown in your Ground ye might be more excused But now I have revealed where doth lie the rich Revenues of the all-sufficiency ye need neither seek ask or borrow did you know â—…ow to stir up and awaken your own Magia Through which all wherein you have been taught must throughly â—…e wrought as the mighty Engineer to bring forth what hath lain under the Vail of Faith and Hope Plunge plunge â—…et deeper in within the Circle-Birth of â—…his pure thing October the 25th 1676. As I was considering of this Discoursive Opening of the Spirit it was immediately confirmed to me by a presentation after this manner The Word said Behold the Idea of another Paradisical Sphear I saw a Tree spring suddenly out of a great River with three laden great Branches then sprang divers more young Plants all sprouting from the Veins or Strings from this one Tree Each one with no more then three Branches but of different growths Some new budded others bearing Flowers in order to Fruits others grown to palpable Fruit. All round about this one Tree Upon which it was said to me These are as so many Gods which are ascended out of the Earth to replenish that which lay void and desolate Here each one hath and is growing up in a Life of Subsistency and Almighty Soveraignty deriving all this Power and Might from the Tree of Life Which sheds its Kernel-Seed into this River for such is the Nature of this Thron-River that it no sooner falls in but it springeth immediately into this threefold Form of the Deity O stagger not neither be confounded at this for except ye had been born again of this Water and Tree of Life that sheds the Golden Seed of the Spirit ye should never have known the existency of a Life-Soveâ—…aignty Therefore to you not only the â—…ight and Spring of Understanding is â—…iven but the everlasting Life-Line from his Tree doth run free because you have â—…rned in your Spirits and hearkened to â—…y Inspirations But remember your â—…ife hath many subtle treacherous â—…riends that pretend to it that will say â—…s Peter did far be it to thee to give up â—…e loss of all the old Life and only rest â—…bsist and alone depend on this But â—…ow this is but the tempting Voice of â—…e Serpent as in the days of Eve by â—…hose Fall be thou aware And now â—…hile ye are but Infants suck and draw â—…ightily from this Tree of Life and you â—…ill soon grow to be strong to have this â—…se trusted in your own management â—…o you whose Ears are so open to hear â—…e I do greatly delight to commune with â—…ou that if by any means I might encourage you to hold out and not slide back from my Precepts Which will assuredly entrust you in all Zion heights and Spirit depths of unfathomed Treasury Now haste haste to your covering Strength of Glory your Nazarite Hair while abiding in this Paradisical Sphear will soon grow upon you that so therein may be your defence from all Philistines Powers Now then in Jehovah Magnanimity abide with me his Spirit evermore to dwell and be So Amen dear Lord I pray thee October the 26th 1676. Being met together to attend the Manifestation of the Spirit by which we might profit each other in the Afternoon as the Dr. was praying this Word came to me Make use of the present Opportunity when ye have the King at the Banquet then is the time to prefer your Request Upon which waâ—… brought to my remembrance the wise Pâ—…licy of Esther to King Ahasuerus Which that Night was more opened enlarged and applied for our present and further Peace Joy and Encouragement to follow on to know the whole Counsel of our God concerning us who now revealeth all Secrets by the Spirit who presented Mordecai in the Person of himself being left to him as Orphans The whole trust care and charge being cast upon this faithful Mordecai to bring us up to that degree of Humility Meekness Courage Zeal of Life and to all sweet Spiritual Disposition of Mind that the King the Father might greatly desire us for herein consisteth our Beauty and Comliness which is so taking Vashti was refused because of Arrogancy and Disobedience but Esther finds favour being mild and pliable yielding to her Guardians Commands though to the peril of her Life So assuredly said this Comforter Be ye but wise and obedient to me who will put you upon nothing but what I do fore-see will arise for your great promotion and considerable advantage as ye my dictates shall obey Who do make use of this History of the Scripture yet that my Mind may be more easily understood you not being able to bear nor understand me in my own Tongue till further learned For which I am come down to your understanding through the Skreen of the Letter October the 27th 1676. Now this Morning it was set before me according to the Example of Esther that for a certain time it was expedient that we should sanctifie our selves by a true Fast in pure Abstinency from their Assembly-Feasts 2dly From tasting any thing that is ministred from this gross Element but to draw apart from all keeping our Internal part from being defiled shutting up from all reminding only the overturn of Haman's device That great subtle Adversary that had laid the Plot against the new introduced Life to cut it off before the King had put Honour upon it to bring it through the City-Royal upon his own Eagle-Body of Power Now seeing the malicious design of the Serpent with all his Confederacy was gone very far in this matter there was no other way to reverse the
Spirit is ascended into the Father's Bosom From whence may be expected thy return to bring down that Spirit which will raise that Body thro which that Signal Sign shall be manifested that can assume Authority to release what hath been in Captivity And ye shall go forth with the Scepter dominion Ye have but this one thing to effect to shew out your selves risen from the Dead Then you will find that every Breath which proceeds from you is of such force as to command the whole Heavenly Host. November the 9th 1676. As I was this Morning cast into some perplexity about the instability which I found my self incident unto that I could not keep afloat upon the broad River still to swim in the full Stream of the Spirit But some entervenings would happen to stop my pace and prevent if it might be the arrival to that most sweet and blessed Port which hath been designed for us I for this called in the High Throne-Councel to know what shall be done for us who are sensible of these petty sinkings When the Lord hath given the Word to come after him though it be upon a boisterous Sea could we steer our Course upon Faith's Boat the floating tossing Sâ—…a would soon come to be Calm But oh my staggering Spirit is not to such a steadiness come as with my Jesus all like a Spirit there to talk with him who may yet now again be seen to walk in the deep Ocean These things being the matter of my Meditation and Consultation with that Word which was to me very nigh it suddainly cryed within me thus What stability can ye come unto till the four Winds are with-held which awaken the old condemned Life in all its Essences Then was presented a Hand from under a Wing which knit up these blasting Winds that they might not hurt the new replenished Field out of which are expected the Seven Years Plenty Then hereby I saw it was only this strong Eagle-Hand which could the rough East-Wind stay that caused those swarming Flies to bâ—…z and make a noise sucking away those Honey-Dews so soon as they do fall It was also further noted to me that these Winds were of that evil consequence as to put to wreck the Sailing Ship of Faith whereby all the out-ventured stock of Life is to be brought in These four Winds were also named to me as 1 st Wormwood 2 dly War 3 dly Anguish 4 thly Destruction These being let loose did blow up the Natural Senses breathing fresh Life every moment into them So maintaining the Spiritual War For so long as the carnal low Sense liveth and is hereby revived it will be active after many a deadly stroke to nullifie that supersensual Life of Revelation that cannot take its place till these Life-breathing Winds be bound up Then was shewed me an Engraving like a Seal with the Emblem of an Olive-Tree with three branches and it was said to me When ye are Sealed with this living Print you then shall know a fixed Life These Winds can no more hurt if once they may but stop till ye are feelingly impressed with this Olive-Tree This is another manner of Life then what is subject unto Mutability For what is greater then for the Life of the Holy Trinity to be appropriated penetratingly by way of Sealing Now for this great preparation thereto is required the one pure unleavened Lump all passive without Life to receive the Impression Which accordingly was performed by the overshadowing of the Dove that gave the living Witness of being Baptize into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost By which the Contrary Winds were restrained that they could not blow up the dark Mists and Fogs any more So from hence feeling in me a pure Serene Calmness the Powers of the Eternal World did let fall sweet pleasant Dews from which the Fruitful Sharon did spring to entertain the Trinity within the circumference of this holy Ground which is now so strongly enclosed and fortified that nothing common or unclean can pass hereunto for the pure Winds from the Heavenly Element gave forth a new fresh Air all clear and bright so that in the Light thereof liberty was given for Holy Walks as in a Supercelestial Region there to take up the Souls true Central Rest. Even so sweet Jesus never let me venture out lest those perilous Winds should me overtake to unfix me out of the even Temperature wherein all stability will the Mind most safely and securely Fix November the 12th 1676. Now upon this Sealing opened and enlarged the great Mystery of the three Heavenly Witnesses which gives light to the Understanding and makes it capable of knowing and comprehending the Souls true Originality as to what it was what it is and what it is to be what it was in its first pure State then how it fell and lastly what it is to be and after what manner to be restored In which three Particulars these Witnesses do unfold themselves and bear Record but the chief and principal of these is the Third or the Restoration whereby God raiseth the Fallen Tabernacle going forth in a new Creation and Formation to produce a suitable Habitation for himself wherein the Father doth in the first place record his own Name which is demonstrated in opening a Flood-gate of Love expressed in the Gift of his Son not only to be born for us but be born in us bearing witness that we are hereby passed from the Misery Death Curse and the Wrath of God into the Liberty and Similitude of the Deity it self wherein the Righteous and Immaculate Nature of Jesus doth spring as the Lily in the Valley For it is not a bare Record or Report of these Witnesse but it is an essential Body All-Deiform which is a Record that can never be obliterated for that the Holy Ghost is the sure Pledge hereof which doth keep alive this Impression by his continued Motives and Operations So that what is Invisible in the Heavens is made Visibâ—… to the Dove Eye through which thy Soul hath its Seeing By which Seeing it is marvellously enflamed and affected with those Objects that so beautiful excellent and enamouring are that do wonderfully take the Mind off from these low Animal and Natural Things the Super-celestial Life being raised and employed altogether upon what is so ineffably Joyous and Glorious For thus the higher Heavens are brought down by this Trinity of Witnesses into the habitable part of Man's Earth November the 20th 1676. The Ternary of Witnesses upon the Earth answering to the Impression from the three Branches of the True Olive-Tree were now heard to give in severally their Testimony agreeably with that which is given in the Heavenly Places in order to the bringing about the greatest and highest of all Ministrations which is that of the Holy Ghost and to the compleating and defending of the Kingly Birth from the Virgin Woman which the Dragon ever watcheth against to destroy it And hence was
it given me to understand the several Offices and Business belonging to each one of these to make ready for the Birth-Day and to protect this High-born One from the raging Floods the tempstuous Winds of the Adversary The Spirit 's Work is to reprove convince exhort counsel caution and comfort in order to the carring on this great Affair The work of the Water is another witness as you find it in you as a bubling Pool cleansing every part within that so not the least defect may be found in the Matrix whereout the Birth must open Then the Blood is a great Testimonial Witness and Evidence as in a mystical manner conveyed tasted and drunk down by them that do carry the matter of this Birth for it doth produce a vigorous Life that will be known and felt to refresh both Mother and Babe So keeping all these in their several acting-Properties they will be the clear evidence unto thee that the Ghostly Birth is working out it self Therefore with these three let thy Will-Spirit agree hereunto to throw out every misconceived thought For now all things must be new again by the Father Word and Spirit through this new Birth wrought That ye may come to a mighty Record among the New Jerusalem Stones where all are waiting this rising day to see because it will fix in thee an unknown Liberty both in Spirit and Body November the 21st 1676. It was also further expresly opened unto me that we were at present brought thus far as to witness these three as Spirit Water and Blood being Witnesses in our Earth which did fore-run the Ministration of the Holy Ghost For they must go before as the Ministration of Jesus who came by Water Blood and Spirit that is Death Life and Resurrection from which he passed and so must we As he did bear our Record in Heaven which will be a different thing though agreeing to one and the same end as thus the three first make way as the Water-Baptism into the Death the Blood into the Life the Spirit quickneth and giveth a Body of the Resurrection So the Ministration of Jesus hath its twofold Use upon us in order to the second thus which are to bear Record as the Father Word and Holy Ghost in our Heavens So here is to be understood the rising Degree or changing from Jesus in Spirit to that degree of Unity of Father Word and Holy Ghost all which agree to enter into a Virgin Mind thus prepared and in it after a high Mystical mauner themselves conceive so as to include them as one only Being contracting the Virgin-Will and Spirit with it self hereby becoming one inbred with it as that Heir who was darkly prophesyed of in Micah's day who said the glory of Israel was to come unto the Adullam the very pure Tabernacle of the Virgin-Nature born again of Water Blood and Spirit so made indeed a meet reception for this holy thing to be sealed up as in an unknown Pavilion or hiding Place of Strength which must be till it hath attained every measure and part to the growing big and filling up the Birth 's place with Breasts full of Milk the Spring Word of the Spirit diffusing into them the natural course of the Bloody Issue of Sin also stopping all which will be evident Signs unto you that are still apt to be questioning whether this Ghostly Birth is in you forming Therefore be still and wait for that great travelling hour that is to come upon ye before which sometimes ye will be in Pains and Heaviness because ye may meet with many a throw of Temptation all which will work the Birth forward therefore be not dismayed Oh Daughter of my Zion so long as thou walkest steadily not going out of Sion Court where you are to wait at my Council-Board to enquire what shall fore-run and be in that travelling Hour which will make great Spoil of the Mortal Shell which must break away at this great Birth-day Therefore look and expect this will make a mighty alteration for the Heavens will rend that the Throne-Spirits and Powers may descend as helps and Guardian defence and Witness-bearers to this Sion-Birth For which great Provision is aforehand to be made to answer to the greatness of the Sion state all of the rich concealed Furniture and Golden Cups Pots and Vessels at such a time as this will be brought out with all the rich Robes for those to wear who do attend upon this Birth Great and mighty Preparations thou dost see are hereunto expedient for to be Because this World is so blind ignorant and unbelieving that it will be no less needful to rebuke by all high and Spiritual Magnificency in the very height of Sion Glory and to outvye hereby not only vain pompous Glory but those Abominations and false exalted Lighâ—… set up in Temple-Worships as no better then false Births Coverings which will not be removed till this mighty Standard of this Holy Ghost come to be lifted up and set upon the top of Sion-Hill in Visibility November the 22d 1676. I saw as a Preludium of this rising Birth of the Holy Ghost a bright Firmament opne and all dignified with splendorous Stars some much more blazing then others And one Star encreased so great as it became like the Body of the Sun Which Vision was thus opened unto me after some days being called over in me by a fresh vivification of Spirit that shewed me that the one Star which I saw so suddenly encrease to that largeness as the very Body of the Sun it was the Virgin-Woman that was all to be encompassed with the Birth Light of the Holy Ghost which would arise out of that Orb at which the rest of the Stars that did encompass it should shout for Joy and be Witnesses â—…hereof at the opening of this greater Day-Star which should enlighten the whole Earth Oh this left great Amazement in me provoking to some travelling Sorrows for to see this mighty Wonder â—…rought forth as in Vision so existently in that Star who is hereunto by the Omnipotency elected A further Confirmation hereunto was the Idea of an Ark that was shut up floating up and down not upon muddy troublesome Waters which once covered all Mountains and Hills whenas the Deluge was upon the Old World but these Waters were pure and healing like the Waters under the Threshold of the Sanctuary that where-ever they came quickned unto Life And it was said to me Behold the Dove is in the Ark and will be this place of broad Waters that shall cover the Earth no more to kill or destroy but to save alive according to the New Covenant that all shall know God from the least to the greatest When out of this Ark the Dove shall flye with the Everlasting Gospel as the Olive-Branch which carrieth in it that oily Property we will kindle a sweet Fire that can mix with these pure Waters and not bâ—… quenched but still maintain servent heaâ—…
trust to hath already upon it the Foundation-Seal being already named which cannot be obliterated without it be by yielding to thy daily renewed subtilties Which as in the day of Eve so again thou wouldst be prevalent storming high so much as thou seest the Day grow nigh of overturning the Babylonish Captivity Much contest I had of this kind both sleeping and waking One thing more I remember was his charge that he some proof would see of the Father's Almightiness from his Birth in us With that I roused up my Faith and said that thou mayst wilt unto thy perpetual downfal therefore away depart with all thy Wiles from me For I will no more give Ear to the underminings of such a Serpentine Spirit who would circumvent me in the process of my New Birth after the manner of Jesus After this I fell into Sleep again towards the Morning then I felt such bitter Agonies in my outward Man as if my Life had been just parting asunder and throws and pains as if my Back had been cleaving in two which awaked me And I was amazed when I came unto my self that I found all was so well with me for I perceived the Evil One had beleagered me in his dark Magick but could neither hurt me in Mind or Body The watchful Eye of my Jesus being vigilant to preserve me from his Fury December the 6th 1676. After this Conflict I waited to understand the meaning of this terrible on-set upon me and it was thus spoken in me Satan hath desired to winnow thee and watched his opportunity to surprize thee while the Animal Life was reposed and might he have been permitted he would certainly have undermined the Virgin Birth by overthrowing thy Faith Which is the very Life-pulse of this Birth for if that stop the Life soon grows weak therefore still maintain and keep up that Faith which is the material matter of this Birth that the Evil One hunts to destroy For could he make void Faith he well knows that is the very Basis of the New Creation-building and thereby would throw down all what ever hath been wrought Consider oh ye upon whom this Probation time is come which will be the Birth growing that you carefully provide and gird on this defensive Weapon oyling it well that no rust on it at any time be found As it is given you to believe so mind to stir up this Gift in you remembring what all precious Faith hath done in this World through the very mortal Case Nay as ye read the very Visible Creation was brought about by the Word of Faith and can be no otherwise Restored to its first primary Purity Liberty and Glory but through the rising Life of Faith Of which the Serpent's subtilty broke the Golden Chain and cut that Silver Cord which held up the Paradisical Creation by introducing his Temptation into Adam Who hereby broke his Faith and Covenant with his God Now then by one Man's disobedience to the Faith all became faithless by which then it was impossible to retain the similitude of God for hereby he lost the use of the most holy generating property and brought forth strange Births as ye at this day do find the sad effects thereof But now yet once again an open Birth-Door is set for Wisdom's Life-Seed to enter in at which shall bring forth a new Creation store much excelling all the Births that have gone before To which good thing so much prophesyed of give great heed Marvel noâ—… that the accursed Serpent's Seed is so enraged night and day his Venom to let out it is because he suspects thou art designed for some eminent use through that principal Birth that may be a means to ransome many out of Turkish thrall Therefore at this Animal Life he did strike by his wounding Dart but I thy Jesus stood with Faith the Weapon Balsom nigh thee to heal And will not fail thee still to guard against his Wiles keep but my Faith and from it do not shrink And so give charge to such as engage with you upon the same account and you will see certainly the issue of that Birth that shall most perfectly restore the fallen Creation in your selves and others in such a way as yet no late President hath been since Immanuel's Birth did descend December the 7th 1676. In the Night season after some rising Ejaculations had ascended and I falling into a Sleep I was suddenly awaked as if some Person had been in the Bed with me Which in some kind of fear I rose up to see but saw nothing so lying still in the consideration a little while I felt sensibly a Hand all over-spread upon me with an influence of great Heat at which I marvelled what it should signifie Then this Word spake saying Fear not this Hand is stretched out for to encompass the Birth and by the Heat to fix the Life's impregnancy that it might be past the Dragon's power any more for to slay Who cannot cease to watch it with an Evil Eye for which cause I have overshadowed thee with my Airy Body which may bring forth accordingly as Faith shall operate in its own Mystery which is the great thing whereby the Paradâ—…sical World shall spring again without toil and care For this cannot be until such a Birth be brought forth that hath all Faith to go forth with all Power as without guilt of Sin for that quencheth the Seal of Love and Bird-limes the Wings of Faith which is also a twisting Cord to bind down its Eagle-Body but it is able to free it self from all that brought it under the bondage of Evil. Now this renewing Birth set your Minds fully upon for it will be to you the Noah that will comfort you by restoring a New World from which the Curse will fly I your Jesus must abide in my Heavenly Reservatory till this Birth in you grow ripe for it is the Elias that will come in another and more perfect Ministration then ever yet hath been that must prepare for the Coming of me your Lord from Heaven Who left this Work to be accomplished by the Buth of the Holy Ghost which was to bring forth the most perfect Restoration that so you might come to know Elias track through the burning Chariot for Translation It will certainly fall upon the Lot of some one or other that are hereunto predestinated to bring forth this mighty Elias in Spirit as the first born in Wisdom's Day to go before and overturn and make ready for my absolute Reign yet to be in the Earth in order to the New Jerusalem descending Glory Therefore take heed be circumspect believing this Birth for to see wing up your Faith and Pray and travel mightily that ye may be those Worthy Ones to bear a Living Testimony for me For a great and weighty Government will be entrusted with you when Wisdom's Birth shall be fully ripened for a much more glorious state then that of Solomon shall be
established upon the Ghostly Nativity Instead of a Terrestrial there shall be a Celestial greatness of Dominion from this Birth-Lily springing that hath like the two Witnesses been long slain in the Seed and buried over with Earth so as forgotten in the World But now expect the raising of them up in each of you who shall stand as Olive-Trees before me still naturally flowing out with your Golden Oyl it shall not be as formerly by way of Gifts now and then but this Fatness and Olive-Sweetness shall spring out of your own Root being hereinto fully changed Then will you know the constant and fixed state and no more want your Eternal Bride and Mate December the 9th 1676. A mighty Saying was ecchoed to me brought forth out of the Counsel-deep pronouncing it should be our Lot to live by the Sword and Bow of Might by which Jacob of old took great Spoil out of the Hand of the Amorite Which was thus opened unto me that this Word came to me to let me understand that our Blessing and Portion would come in by meer Conquest For thus said the Holy and True Behold and see here is the Gift that I give to you as a Father's Blessing which is the Sword of my Spirit and the Conquering Bow whose Arrows are all of Gold with these expect ye must get your Living and also bring into me your God your worthy Prey Now therefore gird on this Sword that is so richly oiled with the purest of Unction and go forth all prosperously It is not only a defensive Weapon but it will cut down and destroy and resist every Balaam Spirit which standeth in your way None ever was possessed of this Sword but that strong Potent Will-Spirit that knew the Way to the Golden Pool of Oyl there still to bath it whenever occasion is for it to burnish and display The sight hereof will cause all about you to stand in fear and awe when they shall see you are so God-like armed with strength of Power which is so commandable that all resistency will fly away against it Oh this is that Spirit Weapon which makes riddance first within thy self it will suffer no Amorite or Cananite near its Borders to dwell But Gideon-like make havock hew and cut down every Grove where false Worships hath by blind Zeal been set up But verily the Day is near for the Sword of the Lord in Gideon's Hand to appear which will make a quick riddance in the Earth The Lamp of my Spirit in your Earthen Pitchers is now seated though the time hath not yet been for them to shine out by reason that the Olive-matter of the Holy Ghost is not yet come to that Perfection to sound forth the Trumpet for the total Victory over all Centers and Worlds which shall certainly be conquered by this out-going Birth But while this is perfecting here is Conquering Work that ye may not sit idle but now to go on every day somewhat to effect Therefore another Weapon is given into your management which is my Covenant Rain-Bow which will be to you of great consequence if you have skill rightly for to use it The use of an Eagle Eye that may this great Birth-mark espy Here lieth the grand deep-sighted Wisdom to shoot forth such a Golden Shaft as may hit and thereby make way for Wisdom's first-born to come forth through sending out this mighty Arrow of all precious Faith Nothing like this you will find will be of travelling force to help you out in your Births Agonies which upon you will come before you can imbrace this Ghostly Body imbodied with a Soul and Spirit That will spring all a new from the creating Word imbodied in a corporeal shape Which for a time shall remain a high degree of Wonder For to see the Ghostly Power to send forth through contemptible Humanity that high scented Breath of Air which may be felt tasted and smelt with whom it is resident Then this Question in me arose Ah my Lord when shall these Powers be set awork so as the doubtful in Heart may somewhat hereof see and we thereby from all upbraidings be set free I was thus answered The Day is not to be put far off for now is the acceptible time for Salvation to be wrought There is conquering work still to be done within the Flaming Sword must cut down every Briery Root and burn up every Thorny Thought which do near this Lily Birth spring and vanquish all vaporous Clouds that thicken the Heavenly Air with all the gross Animal Life of Sense which is the greatest of Impediments It is that Esau that holds Faith's Birth by the Heel that it might not break forth Therefore in the strength of Jacob's Angel do you strongly wrestle for by his Sword and Bow you must make your way and Conquest gain that so you may command both the Heaven and earthly store For Heirs of all Worlds ye will be then gird up and go forth all armed the munition of the Spirit is with you so as nothing can harm you who carry the precious and essential Root of Life in you Even now while but in it its Younglings day it is yet it will be a defence of Glory that now and then will sparkle through by which it may be known that in you is intombed a Precious Stone a White Stone that hath the Virgin 's Name engraven on it which must be for the Lamb a Spouse and Bride Therefore the Cry of the Spirit is Prepare make ready and Pray fervently for your Everlasting Birth-Door to open that the Heir of Glory may enter therethrough Even so let it be December the 10th 1676. The sweet living Pool this Night was mightily opened and stirred by the holy driving Spirit that brought choice and super-eminent good things out of the high Kingdom 's store saying also to me Come tast and see how you like the Heavenly Country-Fruit that is ripened from that unmixed Element Draw up unto my Table for you shall sit with me after the manner of a Spirit and eat such things as are set before you For I your Lord must take special care to feed and nourish those that are with Young with the highest of Birth degrees And indeed I did according to this Salutation find a sweet and pleasant tast to my Spiritual Appetite and a satisfying fulness Hereupon followed an occasioned great enlargement of Soul-magnifying in Prayer which at this time was more then usual mingled with an oily Incense Which feeling I took all advantage to put forward for the holy Birth-issue in each other who were noted in the Life-Book as was at this season asserted to me with many other Words of signal Favour that so we might have no cause to repent our Choice in being professed Traders for Wisdom's Merchandize which would turn to that account that we should not be ashamed of though now for it under disrepute as not understood or known but God will reveal us in his
come to be in like manner Illuminated and Inspirited as they were laying aside This that besets us in the way to the ultimate Perfection of our Nature by the Union of it with the supream Good may run with Patience the Race of Faith that is set before us which they have already run And certainly this very Sin which so much hinders us in running this blessed Race and from obtaining the same glorious Privileges which they Here obtain'd is also a Sin that is easily to be avoided as some you know would have it translated if we can but reflect a little according to the direction here given us either upon Enoch or Noah or Abraham or Moses or David or any of those Worthies mention'd in the foregoing Chapter And still much more if we do as the Verse immediately following leads us to but look up to Jesus the Author and Finisher of this Faith who being the same Yesterday to Day and for ever will not be wanting to work it in us as he has wrought it in them but conditionally that we do look unto him with a constant and fixed Eye Upon which give me leave to say for your Encouragement as well as for my own that there is a certain Person well known to you and me whose Angel did lately appear in full Day in an upper Room where a few Names were met together to wait for the Promise of the Father in the Latter Effusion of the Spirit and these very Words were spoken by an Internal Speaking which are the second Verse of this twelfth Chapter and which therefore I the more heartily press upon you Now as to that little Book in particular I freely confess there may be several things in iâ—… which may appear to be beneath the Majesty of God or against the Truth of the Holy Scriptures before they are rightly and truly understood and so may be apt to offend all those that are possessed with contrary Preventions But if we have not Care our Zeal will carry us much too far and we shall soon effectually overthrow as to us that very Foundation which we would establish This Excess of Anti-Enthusiasm is truly a most compendious method of Moving the Boundaries of that we acknowledge Immoveable For if we should be for throwing away our Bibles presently when we are not able to answer all the Objections that a Sceptical Wit is able to bring against them as unbecoming the Divine Majesty I am afraid but very few would be able to keep them long Though indeed there be nothing in them but what when apprehended through and according to the Spirit by which they were written iâ—… most highly worthy of it this yet matters not And if I should stay to receive any single Book either of the Old or of the New Testament till I were so well furnished as to reconcile every Passage with all the rest it might be perhaps very long before I must admit some Books that are recognized to be Divinely Inspir'd None can be more firmly perswaded then I am of the Truth of Saint Peter's Word that the Heaven must receive Christ till the Times of Restitution but then I am not able to see how this does in any wise contradict his Internal Appearance and Speech to such Virgin Souls as he has wash'd and sanctify'd in his Blood Nay I do not comphehend why he may not manifest himself in this manner to Thousands of Persons in as many distant Places at the same time and never all the while come down from the Throne of his Glory in the Heavens I dare not limit the Operations of his Spirit which pierces every where I had much rather adore them and wait in a Child-like Disposition to be Disciplin'd by Him And indeed when I consider the utter Impossibility to explain any thing of the Soul's Nature without admitting his immediate Causality and Influence I do not think it so very strange to conceive that he should by opening the Inmost Center of that Principle or Life which is his own Inbreathing reveal himself to it as Present and hold therewith a very familiar Communication And seeing it is undeniable that Christ since his Reception into Heaven has actually both appeared and spoken to some Persons by the Sacred Records themselves it is no more difficult to suppose that he may do so again whenever he pleases and it will be certain that this can never be the meaning of that Text which this Gentleman seems to understand He that has appear'd to Saint Paul and to Saint John since his Glorification and shown to them things which they knew not and who has expresly declar'd Behold I am with you to the end can hardly methinks be supposed to have bound up himself for ever not to manifest himself in the same or like manner by Vision Intellectual Revelation or Extasie to any others while they are in these Mortal Bodies for the sake of some Great and Glorious Good Now what there is in all that Book so far as it is said to come from him which doth not directly tend to this end and which is not highly becoming the Majesty of God I most profess I am not able to find after the most curious Research it is possible to make As for those special and tender Endearments which are us'd by Christ to his Church and more immediately addressed to this holy Virgin standing in the Figure of it They are sufficiently warranted by Scripture and were they not very much might be said to vindicate them What-ever particular Objections he or you may have I shall be ready to consider with all Meekness and Sobriety when-ever they are produc'd But I tell you before-hand that it will be very hard to bring any which were not brought against the antient Prophets in their time and which may not be as easily remov'd from one as from the other As for those common Imputations mention'd in yours they have always been urg'd and always been despis'd by Persons under the Leadings of the Holy Ghost And I leave you to judge as a Physician whether all that is related in that Book can be accounted for by Fancy Vapours or Cerebrosity more particularly what you read in these Sections 11 27 31 33. For Mr. Mede I have indeed a very great Deference and too much ever to believe that he could intend to contradict himself or do it in such a great Point as this and not know it All the World who have but look'd into him or even but heard of his Name must needs know what was his Sentiment as to the Glorious Reign of Christ and if that Great and Judicious Man ranges the Milluaries amongst Hereticks and Apostates of the Latter Times it is easily to be gather'd that he could mean no others then such who by their gross and unworthy Conceptions corrupted that very Truth which he so strenuously asserted For if this be not a Truth I know not any one you can make out from
further shewed me that place where she would make ready this savoury Meat which was in the fiery Essence of my Spirit Which in very deed I did feel going to work in her own kindled Furnace where she shewed me her Golden Pot. No Vessel was to be used but of that pure Metal wherein was ordered all the several Ingredients which I implored her Friendship to let me see which was granted unto me who owned that her Fear was with me and hitherto I had observed her Charge and her Secrets should be with me and that I should know such things from a deep Ground as had not been broken up of late Ages if I could bear that hot fiery Furnace which should boil away the Scum of all that which of the earthly part had yet its remainder with me Which Counsel begot this Exploration with my Mother as fearing I should not come up to these her pure and high Accomplishments Disponding therefore I said Oh my Mother-Wisdom the terms of thy Requirings are hard considering I constrained am to reside in the Out-Birth of a Mortal Shadow where Millions of Spirits do me tempt to keep me from this high and noble Ascent What an overturning must here be made that so a Renewing may be on the face of my old Earth Which Renovation well answers to that Scripture We shall not all dye but suffer a Change or Translation Oh how little did I understand till Wisdom unsealed and opened her Testimony lighting my Lamp from her Seven Pillars of Fire which now go before me that my Way may no more be dark Who hath made good her Promise for I felt her strong Impulse and her Furnace prepared burning as an Oven By which I well know what that Word of Record means The Day comes that shall burn as an Oven She told me She was now come to make ready the Venison that I might have access to God my Father with it while I was pondering seeing only the Vessel and the Fire with Isaac I was ready to say Where is the Lamb Then uttered she this Word Thou thy self must be this Paschal Lamb which must be slâ—…in Then was I taught to say or pray strike upon that Life-Vein which may abundantly return again thus yielding my self up to Love's Flaming Sword I felt a separation was made Oh how sweet is it to feel the Life's Blood run into the Founâ—…ain of that Godhead from whence it â—…ame Let none henceforth fear in the â—…ord to dye for Life shall spring again â—…s to one that awaketh out of a Sleep inâ—…o another Principle or begotten into New World in which with other Inâ—…abitants with whom I now my Conâ—…ersation have in the Light of the â—…eity I do dwell O dear Sophia what â—…m I that hitherto thou hast me brought â—…at I should know of thy Magick-Art â—…d from thy holy Flames to be inspiâ—…d which foreruns the Day of Penteâ—…ost which shall known again be to â—…ose who follow hard the Prize to â—…ke This feeling the Divine Power â—…d me touched as the Key that unlockâ—… the Gate of the Eternal Deep I furâ—…er emboldned was to ask my Mother â—…isdom how and when she would comâ—…ound that savoury Meat on which the â—…essing entailed is for I as one impatiâ—…t am till the Birth-right confirmed be me Upon which there was presentâ—… as in a Charger a Kid lying in a Comâ—…sition Liquor of Milk Oil and Blood â—…th several Spices as Spikenard â—…yrrh and Cinnamon giving forth strong Odours Then Wisdom called to me O go and see what I have compounded and prepared a Banquet-Feast whereto as thy Father will come down with his dear Son thy Elder Brother and I thy Mother and will hereof take and feed so that the Fountain of Jacob may be thy Blessing which the Eternal Father accordingly pronounced saying From the Upper and Supercelestial Planets let thy Eternal Nativity again renew as from its own Originality by which the lower Constellations and Elements shall to these subjected be and bow as a Globe upon which thy Feet shall stand and both the upper and neather Springs command The Dews of Heaven and the Fat Things of the Earth shall together upon thee meet This is the Fulness of all Blessings wherewith the Triune Unity do thee greet Henceforward now observe and obedient be to what shall be further Communicated to thee After this my Spirit still attended eagerly longing to lay my Mouth tâ—… Wisdom's Breast from which the Worâ—… of Life so sweetly did flow Then shâ—… with her Flaming Heart did present heâ—… self to me Out of which Heart sprouted forth a Tree with Twelve Branches having upon the Root of it engraven GOD is the Pith Life and Virtue that maketh the Heart thus Fruitful in various opening and quickning Powers giving forth according to each Branch a different and peculiar Fruit. Then said she to me Here doth lie the Mystery do thou it come and see how out of the Flames these Branches put forth green and palpable Fruits that are not yet grown yet thou with Patience must still wait till to perfection of ripeness they be grown in thee then of the first Fruits of this Tree thou shalt bring to thy God as an Offering who will accept it as a pure Offering that will draw down the Life's Blessing read and see what engraven is for thee and let thy Mind be staid a while till thou to this ripe Age shall arrive and comforted be that this shady Heart as a fruitful Vine shall overspread within the Walls of thy Mind a River of Oyl shall here out-spring which will make thy Flames burn still till so hot the Furnace may come to be which as the Sun for vehemency shall transmute this Fruit to a Golden Colour Then thou with savoury Meat to thy God shall come who will himsef feed upon their pleasant Fruit which nourished has been from the Life's Blood Come now and into Love's deep descend with me that thou mayst know the various operation of this Tree and every Branch thereof namely as the living sense shall spring in thee according to which thy lot will be as relating to the Blessing promised the which will require perseverance still in the Faith till to perfection in Colour this Fruit be brought No other charge I shall leave with thee but to abide within this shady Rock where Love's Flames shall be thy Food continually Oh how pleasant is it here to be all encircled with Love's flaming Breast January the 22d 1674. VVIsdom's Word opened yet again to me saying Arise swiftly follow me I will shew thee Greater Things then what hath yet been known to thee Whereupon I felt a mighty attractive Power drawing up my Spirit for Ascension but surprized I was with a potent Enemy which did me encounter highly charging me with a breach to Nature's Laws and how I stood obligatory to her in as much as I had an outward Body which I ought to take in the Sense of its
never to turn back to them more but constantly to him cleave then his Head on thy Lap he will repose and his hidden strength to thee reveal and nothing from thee conceal being in Joint-Union no more twain but one Spirit The Seven Locks of his Power he will suffer thee to unloose and draw out therefrom such Might as may slay and overcome the Philistines Host which such prickling Bryars have been to invade thy inward Coasts and most holy Place which is appointed for the Ark of the Covenant there to rest But behold now is risen a Judge and Law-giver one that is mighty to save and deliver out of the Hands of all thy Enemies who thy true Covering in the Day of Battel will be Therefore henceforth fear not those Warriours that come forth with the Goliah's Spear and Shield the Champion which keeps within shall make them all to stagger kill and fall for the true Sampson will maintain Victory over all it is well worth the sheltring under his mighty Wing here with safety thou mayst set and upon his Love do thou incroach still who will not offended be though thou intrude thy self his Dalilah to draw out his Heart more to thee till he shall make known his great Secrets unto thee I well know this is the only precious thing no one can ever privy here unto be made till Wisdom be the Bride-Garment upon their Eternal Man then ravished with thy Beauty and with a pleasant Aspect will Emmanuel look towards thee and give thee to read within the seven sealed Book There is the interpretation of all in the History as from whence I give thee to understand the Mystery of the Nazarite's seven Locks they answer to the seven Seals of this Book of Life which only is to be opened by the Virgin compleated in the seven number of Spirits which are the seven All-seeing Eyes that only can read in this Book which is the true Ground-work of all those wrestling working Properties which moved are by me as thou dost in thy self feel a new Frame and Model for great and precious substance to be taken into therefore take heed now and for no common use let thy inward part any more be for these Throne-Powers which have visited thee will admit no mixture of company all of one sort in pure Harmony will meet in this Lovepaved-Sanctuary where thy all desirable fellowship will there in the free Liberty dwell and where opportunity thou wilt have in Love's Sanctuary to dive and search till thou findest out what lieth hid within the Breast of thy worthy Nazarite who now hath received his full Dowry the Father hath invested him with all Power to a full and perfect state of Glory he is now instated then doubt not but he hath wherewith abundantly to gratifie thee a higher and greater Match I could not contrive for my self in thee consider hereof well and carry it according to my Counsel then shalt thou his Heart still draw down the Tabernacle of witness in thy Heaven the Rainbow in the Cloud which thou hast seen as the Mark or Seal of the Covenant betwixt God and thee according as it is written in the Prophets He shall be given for a Covenant What to do not to read over as a dead Letter no thou shalt witness him thy Prophetical Spring a Book written within thee to which now with all those seven Eyes do thou turn in that this Rainbow in thy New Heavens as a Throne-Circle may inclose thee with him as a secret Pavilion where no adulterated thing can break through to disturb while thou art looking into this New Testament which shall never be trusted out of this pure Circle of the Life's Covenant into which by my Virgin Purity thou only canst pass in if I were not at hand all over in an Oily Pool to bath and drench thee throughout that so the glorified Eye may think thee all fair send forth a Spicy Breath of Air which only agreeable is for thee with thy fellow Branch as not only worthy yeâ—… may be but also bold and free to take and read this Book of Life which now upon the opening is as I this Day have shewn to thee with that other Book which wide open in the common and outward place always is to be found to which thou art by the earthly dark part invited thereinto to look and it would there retain thee but out of this Book of Death thou mayst not look which is a flowing Source of strong reasoning that as a Wall would inclose and captivate thy Mind that it should need only the Death's Lines that hath the putrefying been that have kept the whole Universe Prisoners in the black Dungeon of Sin Now to this end I have presented thee with these two Books that henceforth thou mayst avoid consulting with that which always is at hand and so readily doth offer it self unto the view But I am come absolutely to forewarn not only thee but such as are growing up with thee upon pain of my displeasure you would not turn your Eyes out any more for great is your danger if under the Law of this first Covenant wherein Eternal dying is that you still in parly therewith should be found but come now draw in my wise and obedient Children I have provided this other Book to be unloosened the Seven Seals no longer shall before it stand because I in favour am with the Lamb who from his Virgin-Spouse will nothing hide Therefore in my Light you may in this Book see where you may come to your lost dignity It may well be Wisdom's Book of Revelation entituled for without me you here could nothing understand though it stood all open to you the Interpreter I my self must be to tell you Letter by Letter for you know not yet what number it is that makes up your New Name which till you do see what challenge can be made to the rest of the whole inrouled Mystery but as in a Metaphorical Look through my Glass in the first Leaf unfolded thou wilt see the engraving of that Name with Letters of Gold November the 3d. The Divine ANGLER THere was presented to me a Person Angling upon the Brink of a River to catch Fish but his Labour was fruitless So that he gave off being hopeless Then came another Person and said Be not Discouraged but follow me Behold and see I have got an Angle that hath such a Bait as all the Fish in the River will fall upon it And accordingly I beheld multitudes in a cluster brought up by it Then cryed out that first Person Surely the Lord who is the great Fish-taker in verity is come here and hath wrought this Miracle indeed Whereupon the Person went into the Deep and having vanished down into it drew up the Fish and cryed If ye will here follow me ye shall the Principal Fish take but under Water ye must learn to Dive and again know how to Rise Consider and sind