find it self in another form of Life and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality before Jehovah's Throne attend 〈◊〉 to know the counsel and decrees of the Soveraign Majesty under whom is mannaged all inferior Government which shall be committed to those who reign with Christ the Lord Oh! this will be a wonderful time indeed For while the Lord is opening these things to me I am as one sunk into the Abyssal Ground where I am as nothing till he put forth a piercing Ray from his flaming Eye to fetch my Spirit up again who thus spake unto me Stand thou up and hear and declare the new Model of my Reign and let it be published for it is time to awaken those who are ordained for the first Resurrection that they may no longer sleep in the day break of my appearance And do thou solemnly see thy Heart to the great Immunities that are revealed not only for speculation 〈◊〉 for sulfilling where great Earnestness shall be found Thus the 〈◊〉 One set home his Word and causeth it to pass through a Vessel that is nothing to be accounted of whereat my self stands amazed what should move the Lord thus to appear and hold such a free Converse and leave such weighty things in trust with me Oh! What can be said but that it is the Good-will and Pleasure of my Christ and King who will change Tin and Dross into Gold as it pleaseth him The Fifth Property of the Holy Ghost is that whereby the Soul gets free from the striving Elements and comes to Rest and Peace all Wars and Combates ceasing The Soul having got up these four ascending Steps towards the Throne can now look down like a Tower of strength terrible to all the lower Inhabitants round about It is a Palace compacted within it self knowing nothing but a serene Peace and Concord neither Dragon nor Beast do so much as attempt to come here for Love and Peace is their Hell and Torment Christ's personal Reign in his Saints consists of Peace Power Love Joy the holy Ghost moveth in the mild and meek Property from the Water of Life that captivates the Enmity and Strife and shuts up the dark Center with all its Spirits This carries a two-fold meaning for first it is to be understood of that Love and Peace which possesseth the whole inward Hemisphere of the Soul and in the next place of the same Love flowing forth and diffusing it self through all the Subjects of that peaceful Kingdom which Christ will establish in the high Angelical Harmony of Love The Sixth out-flowing Property is the Omnipotence of God exerted in the renewed part in an absolute and Almighty Dominion that admits of no controule Here is no need of going out to borrow Gifts or Powers which are now fixed in the Soul to manifest the Wonders of the Magia which hath been shut up in Wisdom's Principle whose Virgins Crown of Power is sent down as a signal Testimony of the Kingly Reign that must prevail over all the Earth The bright flaming Standard of Christ's Personality will be of that Magnificence as to draw home the dispersed and scattered Flock which hath suffered Violence in this Babylonish Kingdom A Jubile will be proclaimed by them to whom this Dominion shall first come They the Head-Kings and Leaders are appointed to shine forth as Stars that shall bear such sway in God's Omnipotency as shall make all the Elect to haste and fly to this Kingdom as Doves to the Windows where all occasions of complaint about the Necessities of Life shall be cut off because Wisdom's Store-house shall from the Inherent Omnipotency abundantly supply whatsoever is needful of this kind The Paradisical lost Power shall be restored in a higher degree than ever to the end that Self-Love and Propriety may be taken away which cannot enter into Christ's Kingdom for the Lord hath averred That none who are thus spirited shall ever his Kingdom inherit The vast and inexhaustable Treasure of divine Riches cannot be enjoyed in Propriety but only in Loves Communion The Seventh and last Property of the holy Ghost that gives witness to Christ's Reign doth consist in a Life of Praise Exaltation which goeth forth in the Angelical Tongues Powers and Sounds of so many persumed Offerings paying an everlasting Love-Tribute of Joy to the Antient of Dayes by and in whom they are come to reign over all Kingdoms in this World in Christ's personal Power The New Hallelujahs from the Fire-breath of the Holy Ghost shall be the Holy Sport and Coelestial Play of the Children of this Kingdom All their Works shall speak forth the Praises of the Most High for Wisdom's Spirit will act so high and in such a mysterious manner as hitherto hath not been known all which miraculous Powers have been reserved to make up the Glory of Christ's second coming in his Representatives here on Earth For if the Lord should not in this manner demonstrate his God-head-Power in his Saints they would be set very light by and it would be a vain thing to assume the Title and Name of Kings without anointing Power suitable to it No Dominion whether inward or outward can be maintained without Loves-Omnipotency And truly my Lord hath assured me that he hath made large and full Provision for this Day who upon some private Objections of my own said to me Be thou nothing doubtful concerning all the great Things of my Kingdom which have been opened to thee from the Center of Light they have been revealed for a ground of Faith The Head of the Dyal is moving towards the fixed Hour which will manifest all these working Powers of the holy Ghost Wherefore do not streighten thy self nor any to whom this Word shall come but run out in a spacious large Belief answerable to Loves-Power and the ability of the object to whom the Eye of Faith is directed For wonderful things are upon the Wheel by which you may know it is high time to put forth your Hands to raise and awaken that which hath been so long asleep This was the concluding Word of Counsel from the Lord. The fore-going Properties is that which makes way for the Reign of Christ in personal Power and Glory which is now the great thing to be waited for as the End and Consummation of all that hath been revealed in the bare discovery of which we are not to rest but we are to press forward to enjoy the Fruit or Product of it in the inward Center where Christ will be manifested in his Personal Glory and Power For the driving seeking Spirit will not be at rest till it can put on its Resurrection-Body It knows that hitherto notwithstanding all its Refinings and Dyings to sinful Self and the World it yet remains a naked Spirit which must return into the Virgin-Womb of Eternity there to be regenerated into an heavenly Corporeity from the one holy Element out of which Christ's holy Personality is taken This is the
which we shall come fully to know and to understand as we are made one in the holy Ghost then may we go forth safe and secure in the Magick VVill to glorifie the great Elohim whether in Body visible or invisible all is and shall be acted forth according to the fore-sight of the Magical Globe-Eye and carried on in and through the operation of the holy Ghost in impotent and despicable Vessels in the Eye of the world These are they whom God will take into his high School of divine Wisdom there to be brought up in the deep VVisdom and to be so perfectly accomplished as that nothing may be beyond their art and skill to perform to exalt and magnifie their God and King by whom alone they shall be enabled to do all marvelous things Now from the fore-going Rales we are taught to drown the many VVills that have been generated from the mixed Essence of the Soul and to loose them in the Abyssal-Deep from whence then may spring the Virgin-Will that never was in Bondage to any thing of degenerate Man but stands free and clear in Conjunction with Almighty Power which will most certainly produce answerable Consequences as kept fixed in the Socket where the burning Oyl of the holy Ghost flames out in sparkling Magick operating here and there upon Persons and Things for Change and Renovation yet none can pierce the way but such as are become Masters of his high Art I know nothing more worthy for the single Eye to look into and contend for than the Magia of Faith which was once delivered unto and exerted by the Saints of former Generations and why we should give it for lost now I see no cause but should be earnest for the reviving of it and calling it up from the Dead I shall not here determin whether for want of this Power we may not lie under the charge of having lost our first Love but sure I am that this Magical Power of Faith is in a manner quite lost for the re-attaining of which the holy Ghost is awakening Wisdom's slumbering Virgins And therefore the Lord hath appeared in his own glorified Humanity to reveal these Mysteries and that by one who is as the smallest Dust that lies under the trampling Power of the earthly Wise and those that are mighty in Reason Yet here the Way is laid open to attain to this All-powerful Activity in the Magia of the holy Ghost to encourage provoke us to set upon the work giving Praise unto him who hath been pleased to reveal where the Key of the Magia doth lie which will open that Treasury that can fully enrich all impoverished Souls Wherefore it is worth the lending our Ear to Wisdom's renewed Call and Cry and no longer to delay but hasten to get through all her Gates and to be Planters of a new Paradisical Earth through the Magical Operation of the holy Ghost which is the absolute imployment and business of some known to God who if they continue faithful shall never have reason to be ashamed or repent of their being engaged therein notwithstanding they may meet with great Treats and Sufferings at first from Nabal the churlish Spirit of this World that can love or favour nought but what is of its own liking But Wisdom's Children shall be able to set themselves free as they become Studients in the Art of this divine Magia Rebecca the true Virgin-Mother is ready to give such advice as will supplant Esau that Jacob may carry away the Blessing Oh! what is like to the Magical Stone for the bringing in of a superabundant encrease from the right golden Grain by which all excellent and perfect things did at first spring At the return of which a new and marvelous Change every where will appear in the highest Unity and Community in all those Coelestial Immunities which the Most-High is invested withal Thus having brought forth in some part what hath been showered down from the heavenly Powers at several Seasons upon me with a command to publish it I have nothing more but to Pray we may obey all these precious Rules A further Revelation upon the last subject which I thought had been concluded but the running Oyl doth spring a fresh for an addition that so all help might be ministred by way of manuduction to such high spirited Souls as shall resolve to separate themselves that they may be meet to intermeddle with all Wisdom and thereby be enabled to stand before the Globe-Eye of Almighty Soveraignity which is a peculiar Prerogative appropriated only to the wise and pure in heart who shall set themselves a-part to follow the Track of the divine Magia which by the holy Ghost is prescrib'd that so we may once more again stand upon Paradisical Earth with our impregnable Circle drawn about us to keep the Serpent and all his brood of wild Creatures out from us It will be well worth our waiting for every drop of pure Unction which shall now fall for fuller Instruction and be distributed forth as the Sping-Tide of the Spirit doth in us rise which was renewed in this Word Learn to live God and God shall live thee his most holy Tabernacle shall be thy Covert which shall be visible to the Sons of Men that they may know the most holy One in the waste and desolate places of the Earth with his own will dwell Urging that foregoing Rule for this end that the Magical attraction of Faith which riseth from the burning Love must bring God down to be all in all that so the Humanity may be covered over with the Tabernacle of the Deity which will be our House that cannot be dissolved though the Starry Heavens together with the four Elements and all their product do pass away for though they take their original from the holy Beeing yet they cannot abide forever because they cannot incorporate with the pure Deity Therefore they must have their time to expire when God shall descend in his most holy Tabernacle what will it be less than the rending away the vail of these visible Heavens in their first and second Administration and all shadowed Presentations and Figurations wherein some-what of Glory as a twinkling Star in this benighted Day doth appear All which have but made way for the opening of the everlasting Tabernacle where we may be clothed upon with the Magical Body of the holy Ghost that so we may know what it is to live God Oh! what weight doth this Word carry with it Let us not suffer it to go lightly off but take in what the Urim and Thummim doth advertise about this high Contaction But here may be enquired What it is that may qualifie to possess Gods living Tabernacle Verily no less is required than for us to live God and for God to live us which is the wonderful Hypostatical Union which Christ our Lord spake of in his day We shall know him in the Father and so reciprocally the Father swallowing up
But here it may be asked What manner and kind of Offerings will those first Fruits of Redemption be This is a Question which cannot be so fully answered till we are compleatly perfected in this Tabernacle which hitherto is only a rearing But what of these Immunities hath been expressed by the great Priest and opened from the Tabernacle-Testimony unto me shall be given forth for their sakes who may have right to bring in such perfect Offerings to the most holy and separated place in the day of their Restoration mutually with us who are expecting the accomplishment in all its divine Ordinances and Consecrations for the perfecting every Comer hereunto But now to define what kind of Offerings we shall bring as Priests to God they are the Fruits of the Magia in their out-flowing Operation which actually send out a most powerful Spirit from its own essential Spring of Spirit wherein God is the only pure Original of it What is sent forth to effect but a new Generation of Heavens and Earth The Magia worketh in this manner saying Let the old Tabernacle with all its shadowy Appearances pass away and be no more And it is so for the force of the out-going Spirit incorporates with the Word and makes it Essential whether it be expressed Vocally or no the Co-centred Decree passeth into and though the Spirit carrieth all Power with it either to nullifie or make void or to give a new Plantation and an heavenly splendorious Formation upon Creatures and Things for a lustrious Transformation of what is fading and dying that so Immortality may be renewed whether in Rationals Animals or Vegetables The matter of the one Element is so immerced and coagulated in a Magical Spirit that it is able to give a Life where the very Face of Death doth appear whether dead as to a Spiritual Life according to that saying And you hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sens. Who is this in the Person of Christ but the same holy Ghost in his out-going Power that through our Persons so influencing and given a Resurrection to a dead Life whether in our selves or others as cause requires Then also as to the very mortal Life to prolong it and to secure it from Pain and Sickness Yea from Death it self But this quickinmg Spirit is only appropriated to such as have dyed and suffered with Christ in the Flesh and thereby have overcome the World Therefore let none think that they can come to this degree of Power Might and Dignity till they are Born again from the Dead that is a cessation to the enkindled Life from the Stars which generate earthly Motions and Thoughts which work in a way of Sensuality from which there must be a departing in reference to those great Things which are to succeed I have been often brought to see the limit of the first Born Life that doth consist between Time and Eternity in the stirring Essences of Sin whereby I am made so wisely knowing as not grieve or to have any Reluctancy upon the sentence of a total Expiration of such an injurious Life as keeps me out of God's Tabernacle-Body where I can no more dye Whereupon the holy Ghost out of the Virgin-Body doth cry and call to such who would come to be all Magical to offer up their first-Born rational Life for a Sacrifice And then of a truth we shall bring other kind of Fruits and Offerings and no more as Tributaries and Servants to Sin Beast or Dragon but be freed through the rising Birth that will mount and fly over all those who kept the other under great Fear and Bondage but in this we shall come to be Kings in God's House and of his own Family Oh! what hath been here let down by Golden Drops from the Head-Fountain Let it O God mingle all forcibly for Life contaction with the more noble part within us that so this great and perfect Tabernacle may be according to its own secret way compacted indissolvably where we may securely dwell and nothing of Violence Oppression or Fear but receive Power from the rising Body of the holy Ghost to bear down and expel whatsoever is against us This is what the Lord hath by a signal Word averred and he will see it fulfilled as in any one such a Spirit of Resolution shall be found to go forward in this great Enterprize to encounter and rush through every Throng that would stop and put them by who are ready to venter their All for it Now somewhat may be said as to those high Ends for which God is resolved to raise his principal Magia First to redress comfort and relieve the groaning Creation which is in spiritual travail even such who are in Famin and Death in Agonies Sorrow and Heaviness through divers Temptations and the Buffetings and Wiles of Satan To these the Magical Balsom shall be given for Cure from such as are first risen in the Tabernacle-Body of God They shall bind all evil Spirits and there shall go forth a virtual Power from them to do as if Christ were in person there And in the second place this Power shall extend it self to the taking away of all outward Maladies of the Body and all Sufferings relating to Penury and Want and all Weariness Toil and anxious Care for the Needs and Requirings of the Body A further addition to the former subject Know then that as in a miraculous way this will be made as healing Waters from out of the Threshold of the Sanctuary that shall recover the dry and parched Earth to make it bud and flourish as it did before the Curse did overflow it Take it inward as to spiritual Fruitfulness or otherwise as to the outward Elementary state Great also will be the Trust that will be granted by the mighty Jehovah for mannagement for his little Flock sake and put into the Hands of some that are to be set apart as good and principal Shepherds indeed who can both let out and lay down their Life for the elect Sheep which are to be gathered in not by Sounds or Words but by a Magical Impregnation which can send in a Breath of Life to quicken what is as dead This is now what we are in a daily expectation of from the rich Furniture which will come down with the Tabernacle-Body Oh come holy Souls and let us be in a watchful posture for I do see in Spirit that the Morning of this Day begins apace to clear the bright Clouds do open the face of our Heavens appear the separating Vail is all rending away that out of the first Tabernacle we may pass and within the most holy place fixedly stay where we shall have no cause to fear that God will henceforth move away because we our selves shall be brought up to that height of Purity that all Offerings shall be most pleasant and powerful from the everlasting Flame of the holy Altar from whence ascending Powers will go up to bring
no defiled thing can ever enter it Its consistency is an invisible Body as thin as Air as piercing as a Flame an all-moving acting and vigorous Spirit of Power and Life that can go in and out as an invisible Breath which no mortal Eye can see only its force may be felt as a Seraphick Heat that burns as a Refiners Fire in our Corporality to the end that it may tinge it with the holy Ghost's property This is the true and faithful delienation of this perfect thing called by the Apostle Charity Where-ever this comes it makes all imperfect things flee before it but it strengthens and confirms every Plant that is sown by the Spirit and makes them appear above Ground which have long lain buried under it It is the King-flower of the whole Paradisical Spring that protects the whole transmuting all into one entire Body of Love that doth extend and give forth it self in all spiritual Bountifulness according to its high Nature and Property It is not shut up to it self upon any consideration as to what it poslesseth and enjoys for it holds nothing in Propriety whatever its Lot is but all is free to the Disciples of the same descent and birth with himself this Love cannot with-hold from any of their Necessities for it seeks not its own Then it hath also a virtual Power as made to inherit the best of Riches and Substance of the everlasting Kingdom to conveigh and freely distribute of this inexhaustable Treasury to impoverished Souls and to relieve them that are in great Distress which Power can pass in as an high virtual Balsom to heal the Wounded who are under the striking of the Scorpion-Sting of the Serpent For this Love is a ministring Flame where holy Passiveness and Humility are as the open-Door for its access and there cherish and feed it with what its present degree doth require Charity is furnished with all sorts and stores it is God's Steward upon Earth whom he dare trust with the Care of his Houshold who are in spiritual Hunger and Nakedness It is a most infallible truth that God will appoint such holy Overseers in his new-born Church that shall recover the Apostolical Spirit and Power that hath been lost out of the Earth and it shall rise as a more bright Morning Star and multiply it into a Generation that will be all lovely in which God may see himself For which end the Kingdom and Dominion is already come into some and prospering to this expected degree treasuring up now for a full Bank in store against that Day in which our Son of Man will again appear in the Heavens for the delivering up the Kingdom to the Father that so God who is Love may be all in all But in order to the accomplishing of this last and finishing Mystery there shall arise a Melchizedeck Priesthood which shall know the way into the Holiest of all concerning which we shall come to declare after this subject is finished for it springs out of Love's-Root in us For this is the most clear and undeniable witness of Truth when Light and Revelation and Life of Enjoyment meet together then Declaration carries Power and Authority with it But to return to the present thing what can be said sufficiently of it that so if possible the reign of Love might come to spread it self as a Net to gather in for the Priestly Kingdom Some other Motions may be further urged as these Would you be always in a serene quiet and peaceable Frame and Constitution of Mind so as no vicissitude working-Cross or Turbulency towards you whether from Gentiles Barbarians or Israelites all which may give nothing of Disturbance where Charity is predominant and why so This is very marvelous never to be perplexed and never to be put out of Harmony Objection But how can this agree When as our most perfect Pattern was said to be troubled and his Soul was sorrowful unto Death as also that Afflictions are not joyous for the present First We will Answer this main Objection as to Christ our Lord in his Agonies You must know that all this was on this side his Resurrection observe that and it was to shew that he had the sensible Passions of our Humanity and that he was on our behalf to feel a sinless Grief and Sorrow and to be really touched with these kind of Infirmities or else how could he make Provision through and by Love's Conquest If he had not been in Temptation and in Encounter with all Despite and Defamations but yet he maintained his own Peace which was the Fruit of Love through all and was reconciled to all the cross Dispensations that met him in the World For it was this perfect Love that carried him through to bear and suffer all things and was for our Example and Encouragement to express during the time of his humane Minority those sensible Dolours and Passions but he comes of a victorious Champion and tells us That he had overcome and assureth us That in him we shall have a most fixed and firm Peace though in the World exercised with Tribulation So from hence it is to be admitted and allowed that in the time of our Minority before Love is in its perfect degree risen it cannot be otherwise expected but we may be liable to Grief Sorrow Commotion Fears and Jealousies and so up and down in an uncertain Motion tossed to and fro in our Minds and all this because Love is but little weak and low of Stature it is not got up into the Throne of Dominion so as to govern all by the Law of Love yet such are not to be hopeless or of doubtful Mind as desponding ever to see the Resurrection of Love so as to possess its peaceable Immunities Know whoever you be that are made willing to venture the loss of all for to arrive at this Pearl of Charity that you shall most surely find it and great rejoycing there will be at the finding of this lost Groat Indeed the House of the Soul must be first throughly searched and the natural Self-love must be swept out For what is that which we must lose but even all Rubbish Filth and Dross that so our Hearts being emptied and cleansed from all these the King of Love may enter in with his full Train wherein we may know nothing but Concord Tranquility and a springing Treasury of all Goodness Wherefore let all holy and pure Minds be stirred up to wait for the dropping Dews which fall from the one eternal Element to bring this Plant of Loves Kingdom forward even unto its full height of Perfection and be tender of its first Buddings for it hath many subtil Enemies both at home and abroad It is the Heir and therefore is conspired against for can but the envious Spirits find out where its Birth doth spring they will attempt to kill it whilst it is but an Infant for which cause it must be hid in the Clefts of the
will be impossible to carry this Evangelical Ministration in such an evil Region where the Cry and Plea of mortal necessities are continually heard as making it a lawful imposition upon the very illuminated Saints to puddle about Earthly things by which indeed the wayunto the most Holy hath been blocked up no open Face of God could through this muddy glass be seen as being the dark side of the Cloud which keeps from God by many removes and distances Therefore a healing Balsom for a continual bleeding wound the great and merciful High Priest hath sent down even the victorious reconciling Crown of the Priestly anointing which is in very truth his Essential Diety which riseth as a Fountain of purity overspreading the whole Humanity and consecrates it for both Tabernacle Ark and Altar in which the Holy Ghost officiates and accomplisheth the whole Divine service Now whatever Soul and Spirit shall be thus taken up and arrested upon Gods account to serve and minister about the Heavenly and most excellent things which belong to the Everlasting Priesthood for it is not to be thought that the most holy will allow or permit such to prophane what he hath Sanctified or the Living to be entombed with the Dead or the high sented Oyl which springs from the Holy Ghost to let in the noysom putrifactions from the loathed Kedar where all unclean Spirits do dwell Here is an absolute command to have no touch nor intermedling withal so as to ensnare or come into hazard of breaking the consecrated Vows For it is a true saying of that great Saint That we in this consideration do cease to be our own we cannot according to the Law of the Spirit dispose of our selves no not for an hour or day from our Lord and Master's Employ and Business further than as good and faithful Stewards we can give a satisfying account according to those Spiritual Circumstances we are bound in unto him The great and mighty King loveth to see all his Priestly train and attendants still about him in such an Holy order and Heavenly posture as they may be ready to be sent forth upon the most eminent services who can find employment enough for his Subjects and Ministering Spirits who takes it as a great dishonour to have this holy order bring their high profession to be brought into contempt by running into the cloud and thickest of vain rudimental things Nay more than this the restitution extends to the ordained and called ones upon whom the anointing hath been poured forth for the most Holy incense Offering they cannot be at liberty to fall in with those lawful and necessary concerns which pertain to the feeding and cloathing of the Body but if here at any time engaged the Spiritual part suffers hurt because it acts out of its own Sphear and divine property which should stand in Faiths essentiality where all our motions should be accompanied with the Principle of Faith in the Priestly Ministration for the supplying what is needful to the true Temple worshippers whereunto keeping and walking with God in a perfect way fulfilling all his Sanctuary institutions such are as Lillies to Spring and grow without toil or care The blessings of the Deep shall ever more abound and flow in while there is an abiding in the Faith hereof giving God full credit and running all fully upon his acconnt in this case The Truth is the Lord stands engaged to provide all sufficiency for his Servants whom he hath called from all other low inferior Services and Employes being himself in Covenant with the Priesthood of his own ordination Holy Paul makes use of it from the unchangeable Law that runs from Shadows and figurative Services till it comes to the Life and Substance Do you not know saith he that they which minister about Holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers with it They have a right hereunto according to a Law of divine Institution But the Proprietors of these worldly Goods do uot hold themselves obliged hereunto but do engross and take up all and if they let go any thing it is rather by constraint than a free and voluntary Offering But we are not to search too deep into this matter for Faultiness may be found among our own Tribe that lie within the circle of the Priestly Covenant in whom much Remisness and Shortness hath been found as to the ministring to the Necessities of the true dedicated Nazarites But we hope to see another Power and Spirit that shall bear rule which shall make the fast clasped Proprietors to become all free and open-handed according to the fore-going Prophecy that the Churl shall be made liberal yea so as to reckon nothing to be his own But here it may well be asked What is it that must come to loosen from this Self-bottom so as to unhinge this strong Gate that hath kept out from the Land of eternal Store and Blessing whereof Abraham's Seed in the Faith are Heirs This doth in part answer the Question which may produce the great change in narrow Spirit 's which is the Gift of the Faith of the operation of God which openeth from the Springs of Love which are spread abroad by the holy Ghost and kept as a live Coal that can multiply it self into a strong and vehement flame of Love which is the cherishing Root that makes Faith to become all fruitful beyond all exteriour sense and sight resting and considing in the creating Fiat which can call those things that are not to be and make a something of nothing This we may call the Riches of Faith that can make an increase where no visible Matter appeareth This is no common Faith it is no where found but where the holy Ghost hath planted himself for a Blessing and growing Revenue Who ever shall receive of this Gift and taste the Power of it will soon cease to grasp and love earthly and perishing things they will be constrained to offer and consecrate all that may be for the service and use of the holy royal Melcbizedeck Priesthood And though at this time little of this Spirit and Power doth appear in the World yet know of a truth from the Witness of Jesus that the long tircling Motion of the holy Anointing which hath hitherto but scattered his Sparks of Light is now in very deed upon the out-breaking Day of Life that what hath been only in sweet Love-Movings and transcient passing Powers that have in the very Altar-waiters ceased But we shall say now again Behold come and see the burning ghostly Body is risen that will turn all uncertain Motion into a fixed act of all flowing generating Powers But this the Lord hath shewed me This will be first appropriated to the high Priestly Order that can pass beyond the Vail to whom the Holy of Holiest stands open For there are different Degrees States and Oders in this last and new erected Priesthood in which
the holy Ghost will appear to be all which according to our received Instruction I shall give a description of and how it may be known who are the called and chosen of God hereunto For each one ordained hereunto will have the Foundation Seal the Priestly Mark which shall be the known Character which no one shall obliterate or deny And as to the outward Sex there shall be no distinction though the Typical Priesthood admitted none but Males in its day All of that is done away for Signs and Figures in this Ministration do fly away like a Cloud Male and Female are alike here therefore the holy Ghost doth include both in one swallowing up all in the Newness Strength Power and Glory of his own springing new Birth according as it is witnessed Where there is neither Male nor Female but Christ is all and in all who is the quickning Spirit and the true Evidence that will shew forth it self according to their grown up measure and degrees For Persons here signifie little Wisdom's Purity and Power in the Spirit is all that God respecteth in his Priestly Offerings We must know that these Priests are of three Ranks or Orders constituted and ordained by the great high Priest who yet continues in his mediating Kingdom till the whole be brought up and finished for mutual Glorification with him The first and lower Rank is of those who are not yet got beyond the Son's Ministration who are yet conscious of Sins and Transgressions committed under the first Covenant according to the similitude of Adam's Transgression running from that putrified Line for whom a necessity there is to come under the divers Watchings Separations Attonings Blood-sprinklings that so they may be qualified to come within Mount-Zion's circle where no Sin-offering is needed but in order unto the rising up to the successive degrees of the Melchizedeck Order the whole Burnt-offering is required the Goat must dye and the sinful infected Life must expire amidst the Altar-Flames For a continual Offering of this kind must be till the whole Body of Sin be consumed for whilst any thing of that abides and works in its circling Motion there are required new and fresh Attonings Pacifications and Blood-sprinklings till the one Offering comes it self to be offered up once for all which acquits from all Sin and makes meet prepared Vessels to come to in the first degree of Purity whose Consciences being purged there-from all consciousness of Sin may come up with boldness and full assurance of Faith in that anointing which is shed forth to cleanse from all Sin reconciling and making all Scores and Reckonings even as in reference to God the most holy and justifier of those who are made partakers of Christ in his Prophetical Kingly and Priestly Office For where-ever the Lord comes to offer himself up through the eternal Spirit by his own Body that are fully perfected For as under the Levitical Ordinances prescribed by God it was appointed for the Priests only to bear the Ark so under this Covenant-Ministration none but the spiritually consecrated Priests that are of this Order can bear the living Testimony of Christ's risen and spiritual Body which goes forth with great Power where-ever it comes to make Rocks break and Islands flee away and Waters to divide all which makes way for the bringing up to the last step of the all Priestly Throne to sit down with Christ in heavenly Places at the Right-hand of the Majesty on high where we are to consider those who of this holy high and separated Order are here become the Tabernacle Ark and Altar and the most inward holy place where Christ the anointed hath so poured forth himself that he is to be known in them as no other than God the holy Ghost officiating and accomplishing the most holy Service as in the Person of the great high Priest who having perfected Holiness comes in the open Face of the most inward separated place where God is manifest and no Spirit nor Soul can ever come to know or meet God but here according as we have it from the Mouth of the Lord himself who told Moses That here in this holy place he would commune with him and appear in his Glory But alas who is able to see at first glance into this high exalted degree of an high Priestly Calling It is so great and wonderful that it makes the Light of all fore-going Ministrations to look dark and dim as far excelling all as the Substance doth the the Shadow But before we proceed to set forth this third and last degree that brings so into God let us consider further of the two lower Orders which to this Priesthood do belong what their Qualifications are and from whence called out The first Rank is of those afore-mentioned who have been under the Altar-Purifyings and divers Washings and blood Sprinklings and perfuming Oyls by which they are made perfect and clean and become such who have no more Conscience of Sin for the Fountain-spring of the Life-Blood stands ever open Christ in his bubling Spirit by which he maintains a sinless Purity of which sort God chuseth and ordains his Tabernacle-Ministers who are made meet to officiate about the holy things offering up the holy Incense and Heave-offerings keeping all the Laws and charge of the Sanctuary presenting only what is consecrated unto the Lord in order to the expelling of every defiled thing Now great is the Dignity of this very lowest degree forasmuch as they are made partakers of Christ and in him are become Mediators of the New Covenant wherein great strength is found inasmuch as Christ in Spirit is made the surety of this faultless Testament which gives great boldness to plead for Remission of Sins in the behalf of others who yet remain in the sinful imperfect state who being ready and free to intercede from the pure unfeigned-Love on their behalf may come up to be the highest also in this divine Function Now to mention the Service and Office of the second Order who are such as take not this Honour unto themselves but are chosen anointed and separated by the heavenly Ordination these are those who are set apart for God's Sanctuary to be pitched in the midst of them out of which they are not to depart because the Crown of the anointing Oyl hath been poured forth upon them which is no less than the Sanctification in the holy Ghost Here waiting in their perfect God-like Order who can set no desiled thing before their Eye as David speaketh Thou hast set the Godly Man apart for thy self God appropriates all that are of the Priestly Order to himself he forbids them to be Servants to men nothing of a divided Service is here to be pleaded for no going back to bury their Dead or to be defiled with them It was the blessing which Moses pronounced upon the Tribe of Levi Let thy Urim and thy Thumim be with thy holy One who said of
his Father and Mother I have not seen them neither did he acknowledge his own Brethren nor know his own Children signifying that there was a coming out from and forgetting whatsoever was of a mortal Birth and all external Bonds and Obligations It is like God's taking up of Enoch a cessation from a worldly Beeing presently follows this separate Order God will have none come near him that shall look back to the Customs Traffick and Immercements of this World though lawful to others yet not to these that are under this anointing for God who is the most high Purity soon smells an Esau-hunter and a worldly Demas with whom the holy Ghost can have no communion Nor will he take any to officiate in the holy Priestly Ministration till separated from these gross and servile things But here now follows an Objection How such shall be provided for that must discharge themselves from all secular Callings having no Propriety in the common Mammon stock and store and yet have Bodies which stand in need of Temporal things What way do you propose for their outward Subsistance As to this we refer you to what the Almighty provider and overseer hath settled as a standing Rule throughout the holy Priestly Generation that God himself is to be their Portion and Inheritance and therefore they were to have no Inheritance with their Brethren the Sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by Fire are given them for their portion How is that to be understood Thus they which wait at the Altar are to receive of the Gifts of the Altar which none other hath right to partake of There is a further meaning in this than what we have License yet to declare only thus much we may glance out in this gloomy Day that there is a Vein which runs under Ground within the holy place that to the Priests Revenue doth belong the Vulter's Eye hath it not descryed neither can any Artificer among the Sons of men this golden Mine find the everlasting precious Rock a covering is upon it and still will be till the third Rank of this high Priestly Order into manifestation shall be brought in the Conquest and sealing Power of the holy Ghost and then you will see what force Aaron the high-Priest's Rod hath to rule and pierce this long hidden Vein from whence will flow forth an inexhausted Treasury Gold and Silver in this time will be of little regard the Ingrossers of which tormented will be when they shall see their Coyn out of date For the great Melchizedeck will the absolute Monarch be and a new Coyn shall stamp which shall currantly pass through all the Earth But be this Secret what in Wisdom's Glass we have seen it is not yet our time any thing further to disclose but let us go on to the highest degree in this Tabernacle in the holiest of Beeings to pitch improving all present advantages here for in a pure Nazarite dedication This only observe If we feel in our selves such an impulsive Power from the holy Spirit strongly carrying out hereunto this will be a sign of a divine Ordination and Call hereunto We need nothing of man's Approbation or Installation to this holy Melchizedeck-Order in which Christ is to be known the same yesterday to day and forever tarrying on this everlasting Priesthood from his own eternal Loins in the spiritual Generation of which no account can be given being chosen of him hereunto before the Foundation of the World which is not to vanish away but that way may be made for the new Creation which shall consist of these three degrees of Kingly Priests However let all be cautioned not to presunie to thrust themselves into this sacred Function before the Melchizedeck-King in his true eternal spiritual Birth do spring in the Soul where true Regeneration and pure and high Illuminations have passed before in way of preparation for this Priestly-Star's rising Therefore what manner of Abnegation and holy Separation is hereunto required This one Service and Work is to be followed and minded Whoever are entred into this most high and holy Profession must cease from all other rudimental earthly Services The Temple-Service is to be mannaged by clean and Sanctified Vessels set apart for that use Now here it will be convenient to shew the Necessity of having all things ministred to such in their Attendance by those who endowed are with these worldly Goods There is an Obligation lies in special manner upon all true Israelites to bring their Gifts to those who are called out from amongst them to serve at the Altar for whom Provision should be made for their necessary supply that they may have nothing of Care or Incumbrance upon them in their first entring thereupon all which is a most acceptable Offering if any shall freely communicate upon this consideration which may not of this kind be always required for as this royal Priesthood gets up to their all powerful Degrees and princely Dignities they will have no need of any creaturely Contributions for to them the Door of all heavenly Store shall stand open from whence they shall not only have to answer their own Requirings but also those of the whole oppressed and groaning Creation Wherefore what more acceptable for the present Distress can there be then to promote and help forward this Priestly Dedication which may bring so great a Blessing upon the Earth But it may be objected How shall we know infallibly such who under this Nazarite Vow and holy Anointing are that we may minister to them of our Substance there being at this day so many rising Stars which the Serpent's Tayl hath plucked down to the Earth Know that it is a principal Gift to have an impartial Spirit of discerning in this matter before the holy Ghost comes to give the undeniable Witness but now to know them whilst they are in their Minority and suffering state going on in the process of Christ who himself was questioned and doubted of sometimes by them who were daily conversant with him the same Spirit of Incredulity and suspicious Fear may have a great Predominancy now among Christ's Disciples as not discerning the Lord returned in Spirit though yet in weakness of Flesh for the abolishing of the Sin and Curse out of it which while this is but a doing in order 〈◊〉 the holy Priesthood entring upon all aid support and encouragement ought to be ministred by those who are in more enlargement as to these outward things and to lay aside all Jealousie Fear and Suspition for it is much better to be found in the excelling Spirit of Charity which hopeth and believeth the best of things and thinketh no Evil and yet doth not take away right and found Judgment but that they may discern who the Lords true anointed Ones are There are several characters by which they may be known before they reach to the high priestly mark We will mention one or two as the fore-running ground work In the
first place they are crucified to all mortal and temporal things that would invite and steal away the Mind and weaken the strength of Love to God that are perfectly unhinged and loosened from all of this kind which is so great a Sorcery and Witchcraft by which Millions of Souls have been bound down so that they could never expect this Resurrection state for to reach it A second Character is this That as they are become dead to all the evil appearance of things so in some respect to the show and seeming Godliness and formal state of the first Temple-building with all its Ceremonial Ministrations which can never make the Comers thereunto perfect Till these be removed no place for the Temple-Body and Tabernacle of God to come down from whence the everlasting burnning Incense and Praise-Offerings are to ascend Now from these two Branches numerous Fruits of the Spirit will spring by which you may know the high Priestly Off spring who must needs appear as bright and terrible as an Army with Banners eschewing and denying all of the changeable state of things whether considered in the heavenly Constellation or in the earthly Retinue nor staying in any state or Ministration till got-up to dwell in the munition of Rocks where neither Water nor Bread shall ever fail This and much more might be enlarged upon as the first Buddings out of the Priestly Lillies which are to grow without care and toil and therefore all-worthy to be cared for and if there shall be a carelesness or neglect of this Duty as to the present Season wherein outward things may be for the promoting of this high Priestly fraternity if no open heart here for shall be found God would not fail to bring in by some other way and shut out the earthly Proprietors that may overslip their Day in that they have omitted to consecrate their principal Substances to the use and service of this holy Stock through which their blessing would have been For the Lord who is King of the whole Creation observes well who bring their free-will Offerings of this kind Let not this seem as a Dare tinkling Sound for the weight of a God is in it who will certainly flow in through this rising Priesthood with such fruitful Powers and Gifts as they may be able to bless many with the Blessings from the holy Ghost and know the Temple-Body is here for a raising the golden Nail is fixing wherein the Soveraignity of a Kingly Priesthood in this approaching time and age is coming to be established The Lvon out of Zion is roaring to gather in his Priestly Prey blessed are they who are come to know the Thunder of his Power and do it obey taking hold of that Horn that is filled with the Priestly Oyl which may give true separating Mark to the elect Sheep the time being far spent in the hopeful expectation for all these great things to be fulfilled No other thing will now suffice after all this Light and Revelation but to be found the living Epistles which is the sure engraving of the holy Ghost as it was said that the writing of the Law was by the finger of God even so yet once more again God will copy out himself not in a dead Draught but in a lively acting Power For this end a strong gust of Wind from the third Heavens doth blow to open this fair Rose and Lilly which is yet in its bud and although long it hath been hid and kept under by the Thicker of wild Plants yet now the Love devouring flame is come forth to kindle upon them that this holy thing may come to stand single and alone from every twisting Bryar and Thorne that hath shaded overtopped this sprout of Life which is to run up unto the high Throne of the everlasting Priestly Dominion where all Boldness and Freedom is to enter the most holy place and what is that but the most secret Tabernacle of the most High wherein all pleasant Joy and Rest in Love-Communion is known Can we but come to put on this Priestly Robe Admittance then we may have to speak with God at any time But who is it that can be priviledg'd for such an immediate Access but such as wear the pure Ephod and the most holy Breast-place where is that Urim and Thummim the shut-up Oracle all open to such doth stand through which Gods Mind is well understood Of such Qualifications as these is that third and top stature of the Melchizedeck-Priesthood in which the Ark of the Testimony doth open that all difficult Points will decide either in reference to God or Man This is that last and wonderful Ministration beyond which nothing is to be looked for for it brings fallen Man back again to what he was designed before this visible Creation was brought forth May it not be permitted us to say and that not without good Authority That fallen Man is to be restored to a degree above the Angels for unto which of the Angels said he at any time Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee And Let all the Angels of God worship him What is here appropriated to Christ the same appertains to all that are of his Life-Line begotten from the same incorruptible Word to the same joyn Pre-eminence at which the fallen Angels to this day great Indignation have and therefore they are so busie and active in this present proving Time watching to beguile tempt and supplant all of this Priestly Crown as those do well know who to any good degree of this new springing Birth are come they have Thousand Wiles and subtil Baits to tempt withal from this present World by which they have great advantage to bind still under their Power striving to keep the Creature still in Enmity with themselves to God their Creator introducing still of their poysonous Sting which is become the bitter Root of Sin which the holy Ghost can only pluck away and heal again the infected part for what but a Spirit can enter into that deadly thing for Cure and Restoration against which all the fallen Angels do greatly war and struggle for they would still keep in their Scorpion Sting But the Love-Compassion of the everlasting Father hath made such Provision as to have it drawn out where Foundation building is laid for an holy royal Priesthood The Soveraign Ointment is all compounded and made ready for the perfecting this Cure at which all evil Angels whether visible or invisible who in the earthly sinful Principle do remain may envy and be in pain but no power have to hurt or thrust in their Leviathan Hook to wound again such a defensive Virtue there i found in this boyling Oyntment which works it self to such an height of Spirit as no malignity of sin is able to abide with it So penetrating it is that it throws out every black Moat that from this low blustering Region is blown in upon it And thus the holy Ghost is become
the true working bubling Spring that maintains a divine clearness with wonder in which God the holy Ghost will make himself manifest in a more full and perfect manner than what ever in former Ages hath been witnessed Where-ever this powerful and piercing anointing shall first work through it will do no less than produce those creating Powers that shall another World renew God yet once more is to move himself in this Mystery from which such a Conflagration is expected that nothing more of the old Earth or Heavens shall remain For there is a Day that must burn as an Oven blessed are those in whom it shall have its enkindling wherein all dead fruitless Works shall be burnt up which makes room for the seven governing Powers of the holy Ghost to go forth whether in the Arch-Angel Trumpet-Sounds or Lightning-Voices Earthquakes Bindings Loosings Shuttings Openings working on this and on that hand as unperceiveable yet all things effecting through the impregnable motion of this invisible Operator Of this sort will be the New heavenly Hosts that created are again by the holy Ghost all lively sparkling Stones that are in their invisible Nature as fiery Flames that can go hither and thither to act according to the will of the great Elohim This is now the thing that we are day by day looking out for its all-powerful springing all other flourishings in the very Courts of Holiness in the use and exercise of divine Ordinances and solemn Convocations they are not to be staid in though they seem to be as the goodly Tents of Jacob. God the holy Ghost comes to move higher from his own essential creating Word by which he makes New Heavens that shall forever remain and no more subject be to vanishing It will be the last and greatest proving to the Saints themselves to have their Heavens not only shaking but melted all away which may be compared to an out spreading Garden of various Flowers which look pleasant and delightful but they are what must fade and dye these Garnithings are not to be trusted to for as Grass they will wither Something else that is stable and durable Iam taught and made to look for which is nothing less than the Creating Word of the holy Ghost that may be as a New Coyn'd Mint that will an ever alting Treasure renew which the Sun and Moon of these visible Heavens must bow unto All the Glory of Flesh rejected is when pure Breath and Spirit in a Body of Air shall as out of the Valley of dry Bones appear and move as a Coelestial Wheel both upward and downward carrying and bearing up as an anointed Cherub that may mount and ascend and face the supream Glory of the Lord Almighty This is the high Adoption that the Spirit in the living Creatures do move from the earthly Center up straight forward being circled about with the unfadeable Body of the immutable Heavens to whom the Heaven of Heavens will open and descend to take in such Royal clothed Priests that have put off their changeable Heavens and are all clothed with substantial Power If any one ask How this shall be and when VVe can only direct you to wait at the High-Priest's Gate by whom our inlet into all of this high inconceiveable working Powers in the holy Ghost which will the separating Description make and show by real Evidence who it is that from men and the Earth are in truth all fully redeemed Before we can give over this subject we are to make known for the Priestly Election sake that they may be strengthened supported and encouraged in their process from the knowledge of these special Royalties which to them do belong it having been specified what are the high Qualifications of this high Priesthood who must no more look down towards the creeping things of this Earth for here you must consider the Enochian translation these Priests being designed for the company of God the most holy separated Beeing for there is a real taking into God to be experienced and a ceasing from the Life of Sin Now for the bringing up hereunto there must be a passing through until the Holiest of all be entred into But now come we to describe what this holy Function stands chargeable withal as also the Dignity Power and Pre-eminence which doth attend it Every High-Priest taken from men is ordained in things pertaining to God that he may offer Gifts and Sacrifices for Sin This is a Charge which to this New Covenant Priesthood doth still belong for whoso meet to deal with God and to make intercession as the Pure and Merciful who have themselves been encompassed with Infirmity and passed through divers Temptations who but these can know how to have Compassion of the Ignorant and Knowing also that have turned aside from the Sanctuary of Gods Presence and Walks and thereby have lost their peace and joy therefore God hath as well provided in this case Priests and Mediators on the Earth as he hath provided that great High-Priest who is entred into the Heavens for the self-same Prevailency and Power will be found in and amongst this holy and undefiled Priesthood because where-ever Christ in his spiritual Body is present with the breathing Power of the holy Ghost it implies great Efficacy in every Oblation and Prayer which in their behalf shall be put up Thus a Spirit of attoning is appropriated unto the Melchizedeck-Pristhood from whom more fruitful Powers must branch forth for further service in their Place and Office There is also an Absolving Commission given That whosoever's Sins they remit they are from all Guilt discharged as pronouncing it in the Person and Power of him to whom the holy Ghost was given without Measure and who after his Resurrection breathed forth this Power upon his Disciples That whatever they bound on Earth should be bound in Heaven Hereby communicating his Priestly Power and Authority that as he the Son of Man had power to forgive sins so might they also have on Earth after his Departure to carry on their Apostolical Dispensation which only lasted for a while and being lost a feigned Form was set up in stead of it without any sealing Effects of Spirit or Power Thus the Shadow hath held up without any living presence in Babel which boasts of a Key which never yet could open nor give Enlargement to those who were bound in the Cords of Iniquity for how should they who are not purified themselves help or succour their Brethren And though this true thing hath been abused by the Arrogant and Self-exalting Spirit that with this Priestly Robe covers all manner of filch and Uncleanness all of which will come to bear its shame and have its Overthrow as this True and Royal Priesthood shall rise in Power in the true Tabernacle where the holy Ghost will present the Priestly Offerings and this is that which upon sure grounds we know is now reviving again the most Holy will bring forth his Priestly
deeper into the abyss being where the greatest of Wisdom's secrets are to be known when the spirit of the Soul can after this manner steal slide away from time and mortal day then open stands that gate that given entrance to behold the glorisi'd beings to hear the languages of that light world which none else can hear but them that are got out of the noise of all other hearings into that still and silent deep where most pleasant joyful Voices and Sounds are heard which entring through the several Orgains as a siery Bresth and nothing of vocal Words is either required or needed there Now then by this you may judge that pure and unadultered revelation and vision of a true sight is not so quickly rushed into nor easily attained it is a great and peculiar Gift and also requires great watchfulness and attenders upon it if any would enjoy and hold it incorruptedly And that there may be no deceit in this matter when you come to try your own and other Spirits take this observation further with you If any one brings out a Prophecy or Revelation take notice what defensive power and guard it hath upon it The beloved John when he had all those visions and revelations he gives an account how they were seen and heard by him for saith he I was in the Spirit on the Lords day and a good proof there was of it as much as if he had said That it was neither Mans nor Mortals day that did rise and inclose upon him but the one everlasting Day or Ancient of Days in whose Light he had the glorious Prospect of heavenly things themselves Thus he was in the Spirit which was his defensive power and guard to keep out all ether trifling Spirits Observe this further it is a much different thing for the Mind and Spirit of the Soul to be caught and taken up into the spirit pure and abstractedly for then it is secured from mixtures but when the holy Spirit is come only into the Property of our Souls giving sorth lustrous Light and Revelation in speaking fluently yet hazardable to be twisted about from the self-promoting Essence that ready and apt is to dash in upon the divine inspiring as soon as it arise from its own center deep This I speak knowingly having traced through the deep Meanders before I arrived to know the true and certain way of Revelation by which now I am put out of doubt concerning the true Oracle speaking in the Soul as to my own particular watching thereunto with heedfulness for the keeping out all fluttering Spirits that have their birth and nourishment from the astaral and elementary Region that can go in and out for proving till we are got beyond their Kingdom Now indeed when the spirit of the Soul meets with such a pull up into the Spirit as the beloved Disciple then it is out of all fears but this is very rare they are high favourits that do frequently meet with such transportations but the other is more common and frequent to Saints that lovers and enjoyers are of that Ministration for whose sakes I have been impulsed to open these secret things that they may put on their impregnable strength of defence for the preserving this great immunity as the choicest of all of Gods favours and that incorruptedly as from the pure spring of the Spirit then you will find every faculty tinged with the fiery Glance of the holy Ghost as you see by the dark hard body of Iron being inclosed with Fire it is so penetrated therewith as it becomes as one and the same fire flame but you must keep and feed it there as the Salamander which always liveth in the fire after this manner doth the holy Ghost with his invisible flaming Body penetrate through the spirit of the Soul that it is encompassed with Light as the Angel which is said Rev. 19. 17. standing in the Sun all appearing as the very Sun of glory therefore highly valuable it is for any Saint to get such a clothing of the Spirit upon them for nothing of Adam's weak or impotent Nakedness can here be seen but all glory strength and power will be your habitation therefore these are gifts to be much set by and desired and not slighted or despised Now having given a plain and experimental account of this nice and difficult Point which I hope may have reached to the satisfaction of the doubtful I shall now by virtue of a heavenly Commission given me from the Lord give counsel and caution to three sorts and degrees of Persons The First of this is to them that do question Whether there be any Spirit of Prophecy or Revelation given forth since the Apostles deceased as believing all dyed with them This would be a sad and deplorable thing if God should since that Age cut off the spring of Revelation from its original that so the Sheep and Lambs of Christs flock should no more expect to be fed from the fresh springing Pastures where no footing hath been as also to drink of those flowing Rivers of Life that renew daily from the fount of the God head let such but call to mind and consider those many Scripture-Prophecies and Promises concerning the continuation of this Gift unto the very end of time both in the old and new Testament I shall mention only some of the latter John 14. 16 17 18. 2 Cor. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 2. 10 11 12 13 14. John 2. 28. Heb. 8. 9 10 11. Many more than these Scriptures could call up for confirmation of the continued run of the Spirit throughout all Ages Christ by his Spirit comforting us saying Lohe would be with his to the end of the World Now as from the Lord I beseech you not to eclipse the light of the Day-star 2 Pet. 1. 19. in your own Souls nor quench the Spirit nor despise Prophecying then may the witness of Jesus rise in you to confirm this most glorious Ministration as a burning Lamp of Revelation A word of Love-caution is to another sort of Persons who are entred into this Ministration in its first degree and are under the Spirits discipline and teaching the word of Counsel from the Father of Spirits is this That they keep precisely to the Rules and Laws of the Spirit for there will be expected from such more shining and singular Conversation shewed forth in a self-denying Life dying to all of those mortal things and sensual enjoyments that strangle and choke the fiery Breath of the holy Spirit to stop it from kindling further and deeper in the Soulish Essence that so there may be a coming up to a mighty Increase and Fruitfulness in the love and unity of the Spirit having all tenderness to support love and cherish each Olive Plant that springeth out of this Eden Garden which is watered by the holy Mists and dropping Dews of the Spirit Now to the third sort this word of Wisdom and Counsel doth
greet them whom we discern to be of a high and lofty stature having shot forth their Branches in great lustre and glory as having got beyond all declarative Revelations and Teachings as not receiving or needing any but what their own center of Light will supply them withal here-from inclining to slight what lies in bank and store with their fellow-Labourers for this same Treasure to such this word is sent that they carry it in great humility and lowliness of Mind prefering each ones gift before or as their own maintaining all sweet and lovely Fellowship with those of lower or higher degrees in mutual Concord and Harmony for the maintaining a holy Fraternity and spiritual Neighbourhood although each Saint may have a full Provision and plentiful Portion of Spirit in themselves so as they have no dependance on another yet love is freely communitive and disperseth it self in great variety so as what one Saint is gifted and furnished with the other may want of that sort and kind and so a heavenly Traffick and Correspondency may be maintained feeding and feasting with each other on the various Fruits as all springing from one Stock and Tree of Life for it is experienced that much increase of the holy Anointing hath flown forth by the converse and declaration of divine Inspirations from one Saint to another the which hath begotten a new and spiritual Generation as in former Ages so in this sending forth divine sparks of Light and Love for the gathering in of the holy priestly Train that are to make up the Temple-Glory till the which shall come to be compleated there will be all need of this holy in spiring Breath to be breathed from one to another whether by vocal Voice inspeaking or converse as the holy Spirit shall go forth in its various operations for the edifying of the Body of Love for a holy Convocation to the Lord. In the hopeful Expectation of which I have been driven to disclose these great and deep secrets being assured That this Generation shall not pass away before there shall be a fulfilling of what hath been revealed prophecied of in this little Tract and blessed are they that shall have their lot and portion herein There is a rich Bank yet behind from whence the oily Springs do fill that may be emptied forth when Vessels are made more fine and ready thereof to take in for the which we shall wait and seek to find some such for to partake of that rich and weighty Prize that yet lieth in the secret eternal Mine for there is Vally deep which under the Water of Life doth lie that will bring forth the fruitful Olive Plants that shall be there fed and nourished hiddenly till of a strong and full grown stature in Spirit and Power they may come for to be then will they shew themselves to the true Israel of God universally that the Priestly Kingdom may come for to spread and flourish every where in power and great glory sealed with Mission of the holy Ghost acting and going forth in signal miraculous working Powers for confirmation of the truth of this Dispensation in such a way as none shall resist nor any dark Magician shall be able to counterfeit for so strong and impregnable is the Foundation of this Temple-body of glory that neither Dragon Beast or false Prophet shall be able it to undermine it being built and compact together of precious Saphire Stones transparent for Beauty and Glory the Jasper Stone being both Foundation and Covering thereon then will the shout of a King be heard in the Land of Salvation Oh! ye holy and elect of God where-ever you have been hid appear if you have put on your anointed Shield promote and help forward this royal Priesthood wherein the lively express of the holy Ghost is to be manifested Oh! that some fitch might be known that hereto do give themselves and mind no other thing as the Lords approved Work-men that may come to build up the inward Priestly Temple whose Furniture and Glory shall be the Gifts and Powers of the holy Ghost And now what have I more to do but to wait in hope that the pure flaming Spirit may henceforth go forth to gather in this Priestly Host who as in a reathed Chain of Love united may be inseparable that so we may come to take our degrees of Prophets Priests and Kings for the making good what hath been in this Treatise revealed which though in the form of a dead Letter yet O God as the Auther hereof did in the writing meet with a mighty flow of the anointing Presence so let the same out-flowing Spring accompany such whom thou hast ordained to be taken into this holy Priestly Order to which give thy Amen O great High-Priest to whom the Glory hereof doth belong Even so let that Kingdom come into this World that shall consist of Kings Priests and Prophets with all such Righteous Plants let the whole Earth be plantd for Joy and Praise to him who is the Antient of Days Hellelujah to him who is KING of Kings THE END As you may see in the Book entituled The Heavenly Cloud by the same Author Meaning the Book of the Heavenly Cloud Acts 1. 4. Ephef 1. 10. Rom 6. 14. Rev. 11 10. Rom 5. 12 Gen 3 5. Isa. 55. v. 1. The opening of the first Seal Rev. 6. v. 1 2. The opening of the second Seal Rev. 6. v. 3 4. The opening of the third Seal Rev 6. 5 6. The opening of the fourth Seal Rev. 6 7 8 Paâ—â—icular experiences coâ—â—â—rning this seal opening The open ing of the fifth Seal Rev. 6 9 10 11. The opening of the sixth Seal Rev. 6 14. to the end chap 7. Rev. 2. 3. The seventh Seal shown by way of Vision some space of time after the opening of the other Seal The seventh Seal is included in the seven Thunders opening as the effect of this Seal The frst Thunder The second Thunder The third Thunder The fourth Thunder The fifth Thunder The sixth Thunder The seventh Thunder January 2d 1682. So soon as desired that is to be understood carried up in a Spiritual Transportation First Property Second Property Third Property Fourth Property Fifth Property Sixth Property of the Soul Seventh Property Rev. 121. Meaning Wisdom who is God's esposed Virgin For this Virgin-Nativity see into she Wisdom of Sedemon Chap. 6. 7. Which five Gates were the 5 Sences spoken of before Now proceed we to the following Gates By Sophia is meant Virgin-Wisdom See Rev 18. 11 12 c. The word Magia is the created Power of the-Holy Ghost so to be undestood as often as named A weighty Expression from Emmanuel Methinks I hear some say This is such a new Model as is wonderful strange Pray open the Mystery of it yet more fully Answer I only can give out what the Measuring Line of the Spirit hath fathomed and no more Magia is the Faith of the operation of the Holy Ghost A fresh Prophetical opening upon this subject Seven days of Solitude from all of mortal Society as might be avoided The which hath induced the Author to publish these divine Secrets Col. 3 12. The General Epistle of John ch 16. 17. ch 4. 7. 8 â— 10 11. That is Love's Infancy before it grows strong For the Kingdom was here delivered up and God became all in all Which Body is the Ark of the living presence soto be understood Mal. 18. 18. Joh. 20. 23. That is by incorporation with Christ their sinless Life all Purely acting in them How blind to time must that eye be Who would see the glories of Eternity Sure those who Heaven most desire They from all of the Earth do most retire
the preciousness of the Spirit for the Vessels sake wherefore I shall no longer be backward to reveal what is of great weight and importance as being well assured that the Lord Jesus will go along with me till I have fulfilled the Declaration of the whole Mystery I feel the divine Agent that works mightily in holy separated Souls and Minds driving on to make way for what is yet behind in reference to the manifestation of that Kingdom which now the Lord is about to restore in his Saints and therefore gives forth fresh and lively Ideas of it that pure Minds may be excited to look for its coming in their New Earth and Heavens which are to be garnished as with Purity so with Dominion and Power even the rising Body of the holy Spirit which must restore all things which have been in Confusion Now what goeth before to make ready for this hath been already set down by the Golden Pen which is dipped in the springing Unction to which more considerable Revelations are added by him who saith He is come to make all things New being ready to give forth the Promise of the Father in the Ministration of the everlasting Gospel I say the faithful Witness and Ground of all Mysteries minded me of his Charge to his Disciples when he was to disappear to the outward viz. That they should wait at Jerusalem the holy City in Harmony Concord and Oneness of Mind with great confidence and love to each other A deeper search the holy one doth make in them who in this last Age are waiting to be endowed with the full acting Body of the Deity which will be manifested in a different manner than in the days of the Apostles that being by way of Gift coming down as a Shower but now those who shall be endowed with this signal Blessing must have it by way of a Birth in them The Apostles were to wait at Jerusalem which was a figure of the Principle of Light where all Natures and Properties are harmoniz'd to an equal Temperature all Faculties are spiritualiz'd and purged from their Drossiness and reconciled to each other in a sweet Love-accord It is plainly shewed me that the holy Spirit will have his Birth in a peaceable Habitation where the conquering Life of Jesus by his dying and rising hath first made its way by reconciling the Properties of Nature and bringing them to a divine Harmony by which renewing Nature into a soft and sweet Mildness causing all Contrarieties of Spirit to cease by subduing it to the Light-Principle Wherefore it is but in vain to expect the Establishment of that Kingdom which the Birth of the holy Spirit will bring to us till this thorow Work be wrought that we may come to Unity in our selves and with one another which is a very high Perfection And truly from hence I have been informed where the Birth of Power hath stuck and why so many Faculties fruitless Births have been brought forth Wherefore let not our bribed Senses or the Spirit of Unbelief so far delude us to make us believe that the holy Spirit will open its Birth but according to what hath been by the Lord himself revealed But it may be objected That if the Terms be so hard it looks as an Impossibility to obtain it because nothing of the evil Qualities and striving Properties must remain which are not so quite allayed in any but may be stirred up again into Motion Pray therefore let us know what Provision hath been revealed against this that it may beg it a Hope and Belief in those who are yet in the Division and Strife the Good warring against the Evil and the Evil against the Good being divided betwixt the Night and the Day as the greatest Saints are For Answer to this Objection the Spirit of the Lord hath searched and found out a Cure which will bring the broken and divided Estate of the first Adamical Birth into Unity Harmony and pure Liberty I shall as I am able bring it sorth in the same Model it was given to me for a true seeing Glass by which I was directed to fathom the deepest Ground of my eternal Soul and to find out its true essential Properties as they were derived from the unmixed Purity of the one pure Element This pure eternal living Soul thus breathed by God into an Angelical Image and formed into an Organical Body from the one pure Element all which was to be seen in the first Paradisiacal Man But when Lucifer prevailed by darting in his hellish Fire it left such a Sting which hath poysoned all the inward Essences of of the very Immortal part and therefore the Wound is found so deep that no Medicine can be found to reach it but Christ the in-breathed Word who only can reach the Soul 's original Ground and being the Creating Fiat can alone make all Nowagain according to the highest Uniformity of the express Deity And this cometh first to be known in a fiery Ray of Loue-Light that discovers where the Root of sin doth lie and so when the Spirit of the Soul comes by the Word of Life to understand its own Original and by what means it hath been corrupted and captivated it is made full-willing and eager to strike in with that Christ which riseth from the Centre-Light in its own Soul to redeem and reconcile all to himself that was alienated from him in the Birth of Strife Thus Christin us is our Peace indeed who hath made of both and all one New Creature having abolished the Law of Enmity blotting and rcoting out sin by the same degrees as his own righteous Nature enters in which restores all peaceable Concord So that the Spirit who is made Partaker of this Gift of God hath put on Royal Liberty and being clothed with Christs essential Body finds it self unloaded of all sinful weights and moves swifty in the Circle of Light and runs its Races through the unknown Spaces and Christaline Spheres where other Worlds do appear with all their glorious Objects Ranks and Orders which must needs make this World look base and vile to a Soul that is come naked and free out of the original Womb as begotten again from the dead rising in a perfect clarified Body of Light and being quite recovered from that desperate lapsed state that would have sunk the Soul into everlasting Death Thus you see by what means the disagreeing Properties of Nature may come to be harmoniz'd as in the beginning God must become Man and by his consuming fiery Property destroy original Sin which is the first Engine that moves the Wheel of Strife and Division in the Soul which Fire is Gods choice Instrument when set and tuned by his hand who gave it a Beeing out of Eternal Nature into which it must be dissolved again that it may be a meet Instrument for the holy Spirit to play such Tunes and Triumphant Sounds and teach such new Lessons as have not hitherto
spring The Virgin feels her self in the Centre of the Deity she handles what doth not appear to be tangeable viz. Breath Spirit Fire and Air in all these her feeling-motion is in great Serenity A Center-Life that burneth from the Mirror of the Deity boyles Love up to that height as nothing is felt but Pleasure and ravishing Delight it is the Heat and Blood that runs through every Vein of the Virgin-Body and is an Antidote against all Fear and Pain which is felt in the mortal Sense Oh! what Deaths Akings and Griefs have we felt in our Souls as well as in our Bodies our Minds being in continual Anxiousness and Trouble to see what we are fallen into I speak of such who have been touched with the Fire-Stone of the Virgin which must go before her healing Medicine And blessed are they who have first known the painful feeling under her severe Discipline for such shall be her polished Pillars on which she will engrave her Virgin Name as he saith who is the true and faithful Witness who is come to take off the Virgins Vail that we may see her in the Glass of perfection and come to know and feel her not as distinct and a-part from us but all Virginized in her essential Deity that the joyful feeling in breath of Fire and Air may be witnessed and then we shall see what shall follow the Harmony of these Sences which is the Character of the Virgin-Nature the Pattern we are to try our selves by for which end we are also called to look into her Mirror that so it may stir up all favour of desire in us to have those Sences in their excellency awakened in us Oh great Goddess and Queen of all Worlds wilt thou after so long a time of Desertion once appear again Who is it that hath entreated thy Favour and gained a Promise from thee of a Visit though this be too short because nothing now will satisfie unless thou bestow thy self with all thy divine Sences as a co-deified Life to shew that thou art now prevail'd upon to joyn with the Redeeming Blood to restore thy own Virginity where thou findest Humility and Importunity in that Personality which is all beloved of the highest Wisdom and only Spouse of God know and remember us who are brought to thy feet and have been under thy severe Discipline therefore allot thy self to be our Garland and Crown Now we are advanced one step higher towards Wisdom's heavenly Throne from whence her Golden Scepter is stretched forth to lay hold on which passeth through and beyond every elementary Cloud which the sensitive Life hath raised so as we could not see our way to that sparkling Rock of the Deity for which cause the bright Sun now shines from her eternal Orb through the dark Clouds that we might see every ascending degree twisting and winding so intricately that without a Guide expresly sent down from that Sphear there is no possibility ever to come to any one of her Gates which lead to the New Jerusalem These are set before me to be in number Twelve five of which were spoken of in the fore-going Chapter and now we repair to her Oracle as our Guide for the revealing of the other seven Gates together with the Way which leads from one to to the other where the hidden Track of the Virgins Way may be found treading upon that unknown ground under which is found a rich and precious Stone from which the highest blessing will abound The Way to the first of these seven Gates is very solitary and lonely it is very rare to meet with two agreed to hold out in it to the end it is so full of rending Thorns and affrighting wild Beasts for herein lies the design of the horned Beast to scatter and divide such who are agreed to travel in Wisdoms Path Also the Nimrod Hunters of this World send out after them either to divide or bring them back again These are the Oppositions we may expect in this Way against which we must be provided and fore-armed that our entrance by this Gate may not be prevented The Inscription of this Gate is Abnegation or Renunciation of this outward Principle The first Question which is asked by the Angel who keeps this Gate is Are you come away as Strangers and Pilgrims Will you no more return to the Traffick of Babylon For the Prince of this City will only admit of such as shall abjure all Commerce with the Merchants of Tarshish though by this means all earthly Riches are gained to keep up a Worldly Reputation and Fame but the Angel of this Gate will have good Assurance that whoever comes up hither be quite broken off from and have no further dealing with the Harlot daughter of Sidon who hath deceived the Kingdoms of this World with her Sorceries Whoever they be that get through this streight Gate for them a sure and good Foundation is laid to walk forward towards the second Gate But here another thing is to be considered before entrance can be given for this Angel is charged not to take any ones single Security but enquires whether Christs Spirit in them and his Person for them will stand engaged to perform all this Agreement For she dares not trust the Soul upon a single Promise though fervent and unfeigned and full of good Will yet it is not sufficient if he be not able to maintain the Gate ground against his Enemies that will attempt to circumvent him Therefore we that are come hereunto are to give in the Name of our Security and so pass on freely to the second Gate The second Gate is called the wrestling or struggling Gate it is the Gate of Probation before it stands a Center-Gulf Here will rise what will countermand the Pilgrim back again into the worldly Principle which he had abjured and left behind Wisdom stands by her Angel to call and invite to come through but the Gulf swells so very high that it appears impossible to get over Legions of Spirits here do follow crying out What mean you to run so great a hazard as to have a place where is store of all good things for Supply and Maintenance Thus Temptations and Assaults will beset the Pilgrim threatning hard and bitter things to him who is a seeking his own Native Country and original Virginity and endeavours with great wrestling to get rid of all these knawing Vipers What! say they will you turn quite away from those pleasant Joys in which others live spending their days in Gods Love and Peace and therein rest contented not attempting the passing of this Gulf till the limit of your Life requires it All this and much more will press in to turn away the Soul from pursuing after its Virgin Crown and therefore this Gate is called the Probation Gate Now if the Spirit of Christ be so powerful in the Soul as not to regard these Temptations being resolved to venture through the fiery Gulf that