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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

Contents of the other six in which they work as the Life doth in the Flesh also it is a Food of the Fire where the Fire draweth Essence for its sustenance wherein it burneth and the seventh is the Kingdom of the divine Glory Not that the seventh Property is the Tincture but it is the Body of it the Power and Virtue of the Fire and Light is the Tincture in the substantial Body It is especially to be noted that alwayes the first and seventh Properties are accounted for one and the second and sixth also the third and fifth and the fourth is only the dividing mark or bound And yet all seven are but one the last is the Body of the first They are altogether only the manifestation of God according to Love and Anger Eternity and Time. In the Desire is the original of Darkness and in the Fire the eternal Unity is made manifest with the Light in the fiery Nature Out of the fiery Property and the property of the Light the Angels and Souls have their Original The Darkness becometh substantial in it self and the Light becometh also substantial in the fiery Desires these two make two Principles viz. God's anger in the darkness and God's love in the Light each of them worketh in it self and there is only such a difference between them as between Day and Night and yet both of them have but one only ground and the one is alwayes a cause of the other The visible World is the third Principle that is th●… third ground and beginning this is out-breathed out of the inward ground viz. out of both the first Principles and brought into the Nature and ●…orm of a Creature But according to the manifestation of the Trinity of God there are but three Properties of Nature the first is the Desire which belong●…th to God the ●…ather yet it is only a Spirit but in the seventh Property the Desire is substantial The second is the divine Power and Virtue and belongeth to God the Son in the second Property it is only a Spirit but in the sixth it is the substantial Power and Virtue The third belongeth to the holy Ghost and in the beginning of the third Property it is only a fiery Spirit but in the fifth Property the g eat Love is manifested therein Now these are the seven Properties in one only ground and all seven are equally Eternal without beginning none of them can be accounted the first second third or last but are equally Eternal We must represent this in a Typical way that it may be understood how the one is born of the other The ☿ Seven Forms of Spirits mentioned Revelations Chap. 1. 1. Dark World a Similitude of it is a Candle ♄ ☽ I. Harsh desiring will. ☿ ♃ II. Bitter or stinging ♂ ♀ III Anguish till the flash of Fire 2. Fire World a Similitude of it is the Fire of a Candle ☉ IV. Fire dark Fire light Fire 3. Light World a Similitude of it is the Light of a Candle ♀ ♂ V. Light or Love whence the VVater of Eternal Life floweth ♃ ☿ VI. Noise Sound Mercury ☽ ♄ VII Substance or Nature The first Principle The dark World or Fire of Wrath hence God the Father is called an angry zealous ●…eal us God and a con●…ming Fire The second Princple The Light World or Fire of Love hence God the Son the Word the Heart of God is called a loving and merciful God. The third Principle This World of four Elements which is produced out of the two inward VVorlds above said and is a Glass of them wherein Light and Darkness Good and Evil are mixt it is not Eternal but hath a beginning and an end Of God the Father Son and holy Ghost WHen we consider the whole Nature and its Property then we see the Father When we behold 〈◊〉 and the Stars then we behold his eternal Power and Wisdom So many Stars as stand in the whole Heaven which are incomprehensible to Reason so manisold and various is the Power and ●…Visdom of God the Father If a man would liken the Father to any thing he should liken him to the round Globe of Heaven Thou must not conceive here that the very Power which is in the Father standeth in a peculiar severed part or place in the Father as 〈◊〉 Stars do in Heaven No but the Spirit sheweth that all t●…e Powers in the Father are one in another as one Power VVhen I think with my self what is many hundred thousand Miles above the siary Firmament I find the eternal unchangeable Unity is there the only Eternal God or that only Good which a man cannot express His immensenses●…●…ighth and depth no Creature no not any Angel in Heave●… can search into it But the Angels live in the Power of the Father very meekly and full of Joy and they alwayes sing in the Power of the Father In the Fire God is called an angry God but in the Ligh●… or Love-fire he is called the holy God and in the dark Nature he is not called God. VVe must make distinction each world hath its Principle and Dominion and indeed all is from one eternal Original but it severizeth it self in a twofoid Source a Similitude whereof we have in the Fire and Light where the ●…ire is painful and consuming and the Light meek and giving And yet one were as nothing without the other Of God the Son. YOu must not think that the Son is another God then the Father or that he is without or besides the Father No the Father and Son are not of such a Substance he is eternally in the Father he is the Heart in the Father and the Father generateth him continually from Eternity to Eternity and the Father and Son is one God of an equal Beeing in Power and Omnipotence Now the Heaven and Stars and the whole Deep between the Stars signifie the Father And the seven Planets signifie the seven Spirits of God or the Princes of the Angels among which Lord Lucifer was one before his fali which all were made out of the Father in the beginning of the Creation of Angels before the time of this VVorld Now as the Sun standeth in the midst betwixt the Stars ●…nd the Earth enlightning all Powers and is the Light and Heart of all Powers and is all the Joy in this VVorld Even so the Son of God in the Father is the Heart in the Father and shineth in all the Powers of the Father his Power is the moving springing Joy in all the Powers of the Father and shineth in the whole Father as the Sun doth in the whole VVorld Of God the Holy Ghost THe holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son and is the third self-subsisting Person in the Deity As ●…he Elements in this World go forth from the Sun and Stars and are the moving Spirit which is in every thing in thi●… world So the Holy Ghost is the moving Spirit in the whole Father and

●…HE Temple of VVisd●…m FOR THE Little world In TWO Parts ●…he First Philosophically Divine treating of The Being of all Bee●…gs And whence every thing hat●…●…ts origi●… as ●…eaven Hell Angels Men and Devils Earth Stars and Eleme●…●…articularly of all Mysteries concerning the Soul ●…d of Adam before and after the Fall. Also a Treatise of the four Complexions wit●…h 〈◊〉 Causes of spiritual Sadness c. To which is added A Postscript to all Students in Arts and Sciences Second Part Morally divine contai●… Abuses stript and whipt by Geo. Wither with his discription of Fair Virtue ●…econdly A Collection of divine Poems ●…om 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Essayes and Religious Meditations of Sir Francis Bacon Knight Collected Published and intended for a general 〈◊〉 BY D. L. Printed and Sold by Willia●… Bradford in Philadelphia Anno 1688. A few words to the Reader by way of PREFACE MY intent is to say little either of the Book it self or by what impulse I took the pains to ●…mpile and publish it but rather let nimble Time ●…hat over-runs all things manifest the Effects of both 〈◊〉 so also let it manifest my Opponents which 〈◊〉 been the fate of publick Writers heretofore And lest that in this promiscuous Generation of 〈◊〉 this little Book might appear as a promiscuous Co●…osition of Authors it is there●…ore distinguished ●…n t●… parts ●…w then as to the first part I say that most of what ●…he diligent Searcher and Enquirer shall find dispe●…d in the whole Works or Writing's of Jacob Behn he will here find collected contracted and compr●…d in a little room it being chiefly the substanti●… or affirmative part that is here delivered and 〈◊〉 the circumstantial for otherwise it could not 〈◊〉 contained in so few Sheets For Jacob t●…●…hout his Writings hath much used Tautology 〈◊〉 confesseth by reason as he saith of his 〈◊〉 and dull Apprehension 〈◊〉 yet what is here immitted to thy view is his 〈◊〉 and sentences in his own phrase and 〈◊〉 as I found them dispersed as aforesaid for ●…o otherwise durst I deal by him God forbid should only this know that I have in about half dozen places added a Parenthesis instead of Ma●…gent which yet is his own expressions of the sam●… thing else-where thereby the more unfolding 〈◊〉 matter to the understanding All which considering my many years acquaintance with his Writings may very well be notwithstanding the wonderful Revelation and deep sight and knowledge 〈◊〉 man had in heavenly Mysteries for in his time t●… eternal day was but as it were dawning and 〈◊〉 day-star beginning to appear but now the glori●… Sun is arisen and arising and shines forth ints splendor and gives a clearer discerni●…g of thigs that differ Not that I boast my self so greatly illumined thereby or so highly graduated in discerning ●…re than others O no I am as subject to be obs●…ed by the clouds of Sin and Error as other men an●…am so frail and subject to fall that no man nee●… the hand of divine Protection more than I an●…●…ver had more need than now to call to mind and ●…ain a lively sence of the day of my first inward Vis●…●…ion which I once knew which was a Day Anguish and Sorrow and that from no extern●… cause when I sought secret places to bewale my wo●…●…state because of inward Sin for no man coul●… outwardly accuse me of evil and yet that day eve●…●…at day of Mourning was a day of Love and Re●…●…oycing in which I can in Truth say As Showers of Rain do cause the Earths Increase So streams of Tears did bring my Soul true Peace And in that day of my first love and zeal for Holiness the reading all Books was a burthen to ●…me yea even the holy Scriptures also and instead of receiving comfort therefrom I was only wound●…ed in spirit by them witnessing that saying The Letter kills but it is the Spirit that quickens But now I shall come to the matters themselves Jacob Behme to the Doctors and Schollars and Readers of his Writings COme on ye Doctors if yé are in the right then give answer to the Spirit What do you think stood in the place of this world before the time of the World 2ly Out of what do you think the Earth and Stars came to be 3dly What is that in man that displeaseth God so much that he tormenteth and afflicteth man so being he hath created him And 4thly That he imputeth Sin to man and condemneth him to eternal punishment 5thly Why hath he created that wherein or wherewith Man committeth sin 6thly What is the cause or the beginning or the birth and geniture of Gods fierce Wrath out of or from which Hell and the Devil are come to be 7thly Or how comes it that all Creatures in this world do bite scratch strike beat and worry one another and yet sin is imputed only to man 8thly Out of what are the venomous and poysonous Beasts and Worms and all manner of Vermine come to be 9thly Out of what are the holy Angels come to be 10thly What is the Soul of man And lastly What is the great GOD himself and how is he in Love and Wrath If you can demonstrate that God is not in the Stars Elements Earth Men Beasts Worms Leaves and Grass also in Heaven and Earth also that all this is not God himself that my Spirit is false and wicked then I will be the first that will burn my Book in the fire and recall and recant all whatsoever I have written and will accurse it and in all obedience willingly submit my self to be instructed by you I do not say that I cannot err at all for there are some things which are not sufficiently declared and are described as it were from a glimpse of the great God when the Wheel of Nature whirled about too swiftly so that man with his half dead and dull capacity or apprehension cannot sufficiently comprehend it Now it concerns every one that will speak or teach of divine Mysteries that he have the Spirit of God and know in the Light of God those matters which he will give forth for true and not suck or draw them from his own reason and so without divine knowledge run upon the bare Letter in his opinion and drag the Scriptures as it were by the hair of the head to prove it as is usually done by reason From this so exceeding many Errors are arisen in that the divine knowledge hath been sought in mens own wit and art and so men are drawn from the Truth of God in their own Reason And though I search sublimely and deep and shall set it down very clearly yet this must be said to the Reader that without the Spirit of God it will be a Mystery to him and hidden from him Therefore let every one take heed how he judgeth that he fall not into the judgment of God. Every one will not understand my Writings according to my meaning and sense but every

one according to his gift for his benefit one more than another according as the Spirit hath its property in him For the spirit of God is often subject to the spirits of men if they will that which is good or well and seeth or looketh af●…er what man willeth that his good work be not hindred but that every where above all Gods will or willing or desiring be done Of the two Qualities in one TVvo Qualities a good one and an evil one are in one another as one thing in this World in all powers in the Stars and the Elements as also in all the Creatures and no Creature in the ●…esh in the natural Life can subsist unless it hath the two Qualities 2. For from the two fold Source every thing hath its great mobility running springing driving and growing for meekness in Nature is a still Rest but the fierceness in every Power maketh all things moveable running and generative for the driving Qualities cause a Lust in all Creatures to evil and good 3. In every Creature in this World is a good and evil Will and Source which is caused by or proceedeth from the Stars for as the Creatures in the Earth are in the●…r Qualities so are the Stars there is nothing in Nature wherein there is not good and evil in Men Beasts Fowls Fishes Worms and in all that which is upon the Earth or in the Earth or Gold Silver Copper Tinn Lead Iron VVood Herbs and Grass in the Earth in Stones in t●…e VVater and all whatsoever can be thought upon Eve●… thing moveth and liveth in this double impulse working or operation be it what it will. 4. But the holy Angels and fierce wrathful Devils are here to be excepted the holy Angels live and qualifie in the Light and Meekness in the good Quality but the Devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful Quality in fierceness destruction and perdition 5. And though Moses writes I am an angry zealous God Yet the meaning of it is not that God is angry in himself and that there ariseth a ●…ire of Anger in the holy Trinity No that cannot be for it is written Against those that hate me In that same Creature the Fire of Anger riseth up For if God should be angry in himself then the whole Nature would be on fire which will come once to pass in the last day in Nature and not in God. But in God the triumphing Joy will burn it was never otherwise from Eternity nor will it ever be otherwise 6. Now the elevating springing triumphing Joy in God maketh Heaven triumphing and moveable and Heaven maketh the Stars and Elements moveable and the Stars and the Elements make the Creatures moveable out of the Powers of God are the Heavens proceeded out of the Heavens are the Stars out of the Stars are the Elements out of the Elements are the Earth and the Creatures come to be Thus all had its beginning even to the Angels and Devils which before the Creation of Heaven Stars and the Earth were proceeded out of the same Power out of which the Heaven the Stars the Earth were proceeded Now Hell and the dark World or the anger of God is a Gulf of desperation devoid of the Hope of God and all good it is the first ground to the eternal Nature the place is between the Kingdom of God and this World and maketh a peculiar Principal dwelling in it self and hath neither place nor local abode and is every where inhabiting it self only and yet it giveth Essence to the Light and outward 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is it is the cause of the Source viz. the Fire 〈◊〉 the whole Beeing of all God's Beeings 7. In the Darkness he is an ang●…●…ealous God in the fire Spirit a consuming ●…ire and 〈◊〉 the Light ●…he is a merciful loving ●…od and in the Power of the Light he is especially above all other Pro●…rties called God and yet 't is all but God manifested●… who manifesteth himself through the eternal Na●…ure in ingredient Properties 8. The Essence of this VVorld 〈◊〉 in evil and good and the one cannot be with●…t the other But this is the great Iniquity of this ●…Vorld that the evil over powereth the good that 〈◊〉 Anger is stronger then the Love and this by re●…n of the Sin of the Devils and Men who have dist●…bed Nature by the false Desire that it mightily and effectually worketh in the wrath as a Poyson in the Body 9 VVe see very clearly that there is nothing in this VVorld so evil but it hath a good in it the good hath its rise originally out of the heavenly Property or light VVorld and the evil hath its Property out of the dark VVorld for both VVorlds are in each other as one Of the Seven Forms or Properties of the Eternal Nature which make three Principles or VVorlds I. Form Astringent Desire IT is the beginning of the eternal Nature the cause of Essences as also of harshness sharpness hardness Cold and Substance ●…a Mother of all Salts II. Form Bitter Compunctive The motion of the Desire it cutteth asunder the hardness and attracted Desire the true Root of Life a cause of the stirring so also of the Senses and the ground of the bitter pain III. Form Anguish Perceivance It is a cause of the Mind wherein the Senses are moved and acted the ground of the natural VVill wherein the eternal VVill desireth to be manifested that is it will be a Fire or Light In these three first Properties consisteth the foundation of Anger and of Hell and of all that is wrathful IV. Fire Spirit Reason Desire In the Fire the unity appeareth and is seen in the Light that is in a burning love and the wrath in the Essence of Fire In Fire and Light consisteth the Life of all things viz. in the Will thereof let them be ●…nsensible vegetable or rational things every thing as the Fire hath its ground either from the Eternal as the Soul or from the Temporary as Astral Elementary things for the Eternal is one Fire and the Temporary is another V. Form Light Love. This Property is the ●…ire of Love or world of Power and Light which in the Darkness dwelleth in it self and the Darkness comprehendeth it not in the Light the eternal Unity is substantial that is an holy spiritual Fire an holy Light an holy Air which is nothng else but Spirit also an holy Water which is the over-flowing Love of the unity of God and an holy Earth which is all powerful virtue and working It is the true spiritual angelical world of the divine Joy which is hidden in this visible world VI. Form Sound Voice Word Proceeding from the divine Powers which is formed in the Love the Sound is the understanding wherei●… all the Properties understand one another VII Form Essence Beeing Mansion This seventh Property is rightly and truly called the ground or place of Nature wherein the other Properties stand in one only ground the

goeth forth from Eternity to Eternity continually from the Father and Son and replenisheth the whole Father he is nothing less or greater then the Father and Son. Here we cannot say with any ground that God is three Persons but he is three fold in his eternal Generation b●… begetteth himself in Trinity having three manner of workings and yet but one only Essence as may be seen i●… the over-flown Power and Virtue in all things but it is especially represented to us in Fire Light and Air which are three several sorts of working●… and yet but in one ground and substance And as we see that Fire Light and Air arise from a Candle though the Candle be none of the three but a cause of them so likewise the eternal Unity is the cause and ground of the eternal Trinity which manifesteth it self from the Unity and bringeth forth it self in first Desire or Will which is the Father secondly Pleasure or Delight which is the Son and thirdly proceeding or out-going which is the Holy Ghost Of the Creation of the holy Angels and how an Angel and a Man is the Image of God. THe Powers in God do operate or Qualifie in that manner as in Nature in the Stars and Elements or in the Creatures No you must not conceive it so for Lord Lucifer in his Elevation made the Powers of impure Nature thus burning bitter cold astringent sower dark and unclean But in the Father all Powers are mild soft like Heaven very full of Joy for all the Powers triumph in one another The quality of the VVater is not of such a condition or man●…er in God as it is in this world The bitter Quality qualifieth in the sweet astringent or ●…arsh and sower Quality and the love riseth up from Eternity to Eternity As all the Powers of God the Father rise up from Eternity to Eternity so all the Powers rise up also in an Angel and a Man into the Head ●…or higher they cannot rise for they are but Creatures which have a beginning ●…nd an●… end And in the Head is the divine Council-S●…t or Throne and it signifieth God the Father And the five Senses are the Counsellors which have their Influences out of the whole Body out of all Powers Now the five Senses always sit in Council in the Power of the whole Body and when the Council's Decree is concluded then the compacted or concruted Judge speaketh it out into its Centre or midst of the Body as a word into the Heart for that is the Fountain of all Powers from which also it taketh its rise Now it standeth there in the Heart as a self-subsisting Person composed out of the Powers and is a VVord and signifieth God the Son and now it goeth ou●… from the Heart into the Mouth on to the Tongue which is the sharpness and that so sharpneth it that it sendeth sorth and is distinguished according to the five Senses From what Quality soever the VVord taketh its original in that Quality it is thrust forth upon the Tongue and the power of the destruction or di●…erence goeth sorth from the Tongue and that 〈◊〉 the Holy Ghost The Mouth signifieth that thou art an unalmighty Son of thy Father whether thou art an Angel or a Man for through the Mouth thou must draw into thee the power of thy Father if thou wilt live An Angel must do so as well as a man though indeed he needs not to use the Element of Air in that manner as a ●…an doth 〈◊〉 he must a 〈◊〉 into himself through the 〈◊〉 the Spirit from which the Air of this World 〈◊〉 For in Heaven there is no such Air but the Qualities are very meek and joyful like a pleasant cheering breath of Wind. And this the Angel also must make use of or else he cannot be a moveable Creature for 〈◊〉 must also eat of the heavenly Fruit through the Mouth Thou must not understand this in an earthly manner for an Angel hath no Guts neither Flesh nor Bones but is constituted and composed by the divine Power in the shape form and manner of a man and hath all Members like man except the Members of Generation and the Fundament or go●…ng out of the Dross neither hath an Angel need of these For man got his Members of Generation first in his doleful and lamentable fall An Angel sendeth forth nothing but the divine Power which he taketh in at the Mouth wherewith he kindleth his Heart and the Heart kindleth all the Members and that he sendeth forth from himself again at the Mouth when he speaketh and praiseth God. But the heavenly Fruits which he eateth are not Earthly and though they are of such a form and shape as the Earthly are yet they are meer divine Power Indeed it is most certain and true that there are all manner of Fruits Plants and Flowers in Heaven as in this World and not meerly Types and Shadows As the Angels are so are the Vigitation and Fruits all from the divine Power These heavenly Sprouts and Springings thou must not wholly liken to this World for there are two Qualities in this world a good and an evil and many things grow through the Power of the evil Quality which doth not so in Heaven For Heaven hath but one Form or manner nothing groweth there which is not good only Lord Lucifer hath deformed and dressed this World in that manner Of the Place and Government of Angels WHen God Almighty had decreed in his Counse●… that he would make Angels and Creatures ou●… of himself then he made at first three Kingly Governments or Dominions answerable to the number of the holy Trinity and each Kingdom had the order or ordinance Power and Quality of the divine Beeing First Prince Michael signifieth the great Strength and Power of God and is created according to God the Father that circumference or space Region or Province wherein he and his Angels are created is his Kingdom which is above the created Heaven Secondly Prince Lucifer this high and mighty glorious beautious King lost his right Name in the fall He was created according to the quality beauty and condition of God the Son and was bound to and united with him in Love and his Heart also stood in the centre of Light as if he had been God himself and his Beauty and Brightness well transcended all For his circumference Conception or chiefest Mother was the Son of God his Court Province Place or Region wherein he dwelt with his whole Army or Company and wherein he is become a Creature and which was his Kingdom is the created Heaven and this World wherein we dwell with our King Jesus Christ. For our King sitteth in divine Omnipotence where King Lucifer did sit and on the kingly Throne of expulsed Lucifer and the Kingdom of King Lucifer is now become his O Prince Lucifer how dost thou relish that Lucifer had still been an Angel if his own Will had not introduced him

and Adam made himself Earth and that he is ●…ut can a man make of himself what he will he hath both before him the Fire and the Light Will he be an Angel in the Light then God's Spirit in Christ helpeth him to the Society of the angelical Quire. But will he be a Devil in Fire then God's anger helpeth him into the Abiss to the Devil Now observe further God said to the Serpent the old Devil Seeing tho●… hast done this cursed art thou And to the creaturely Serpent which must now become a creature for the Devil had turned himself into the form of a Serpent therefore must the Serpent also continue to it he said Thou shalt go upon thy Belly and 〈◊〉 Earth Seeing it had seduced man so that he was become ●…arthly therefore should also the Devil's Image be earthly and devour the fierce wrathful Source or Quality viz. Poyson that should now be its Source or Quality And here we are to know that the Devil figured or framed to himself the Serpent's Image from the Constellations and elements through his Imagination so he had great Power till the Lord wholly cursed him and set the dear Name Jesus for a mark or limit o●… seperation and there his great Power was laid Adam was the only man that God created Eve his Wife God would not create Generation was to be out of one only But seeing he fell so that God must make him a Wife then came the Covenant and Promise again upon one only that all should be regenerate and new Born again out of one only viz. out of the second Adam not out of the Virgin Mary but out of Christ the heavenly Adam God set his purpose in Adam's Child and brought his Imagination into the persished Image and impregnated the same with his divine Power and Substantiality and converted the Soul's will out of the Earthliness into God so that thus Mary became impregnated with such a Child as Adam should have been impregnated with Which Self ability could not effect but sunk down int●… Sleep viz. into the Magia where then the VVoman wa●… made out of him which should not have been made 〈◊〉 Adam himself should have impregnated in Venus's Matrix and have generated Magically But seeing that might not be therefore was Alam divided and his own Will of great might and power was broken in him and shut up in Death But now Alam being divided the Man longeth after the Matrix of the Wife and the VVife after the Limbus of the Man The woman hath a watry Tincture and the man a fiery the man soweth Soul and the woman Spirit and both sow Fiesh viz. Sulpher therefore is Man and VVife but one Body and make together a Child And therefore ought to continue together if they once mix VVhosoever mixeth w●…ith another or seperateth from one another they break the Ordinance of Nature and such a one is like the bruite Beasts and considereth not that in the Seed the eternal Tincture lieth wherein the divine Substantiality lieth hid Also that is a work which will follow after man in the Shadow and its Source or Quality will one day be made stirring in the Conscience Of the Soul's original with its Essences Substance and Property THe Soul is a Life awakened out of the Eye of God its original is the Fire and the Fire is its Life Thi●… is the greatest wonder that the Eternity hath wrought that it 〈◊〉 ma●…e the eternal a corporeal Spirit which thing no Sense can find out and it is unfathomable to us For no Spirit can sound it self it seeth well the Deep even into the Abiss but it comprehendeth not its Maker it 〈◊〉 and diveth into him indeed but it knoweth not its own making this is only hidden to it and nothing else therefore 〈◊〉 we are cómmanded to be silent and dive no further The Essences of the Soul came out of the centre of Nature out of the Fire with all For●…s of Nature all the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lie in the Soul. All that God hath and ca●… do and th●…t God is in his T●…rnary all this is in the Essence of the Soul as the virtue of a Tree i●… in the T●… that groweth out of it The Substance of the Soul is heavenly created creat●… out of the divine Essentiality yet the Will of it is free eith●… to demerse it self and esteem it self nothing and so eat of the Love of God as a Twig feedeth upon a Tree or to ris●… up in its Fire and be a Tree of it self and eat of that and so get Essentiality viz. a creaturely Body The Property of the first Soul was created according to both Mothers but all Properties lie in it it may awaken and let in what it will and whatsoever it awakneth and le●…h i●… is pleasing to God if its Will b●… in the Love of God in humili●…y and obedience Of the breathing in of the Soul and of its peculiar Fashion and ●…orm EVery Spirit without a Body is empty and knoweth not it self and therefore every Spirit desireth a Body for its Food and for its Habitation Hence the outward Image according to the Spirit of this World with the outward Fiat was conceived and a Body was created out of the Matrix of the Earth a mass or red Earth consisting of Fire and Water The inward man was in Heaven and his Essences wer●… P●…radisical his glance in the inward Eye was Majesty an incorruptible Body which could speak the Language of God and of Angels and the Language of Nature as we see in Adam that he could give Names to all Creatures to every one according to its Essence and Property 〈◊〉 was also in the outward Image and yet knew not the outward Image 〈◊〉 inde●…d the Body hath no knowledge And in this two ●…old Body which was created in the sixt●… Day in the sixth Hour of the Day in the same Hour whic●… Christ was hanged on the Cross after the Body was finished the royal Soul was breathed in from within by the holy Ghost into the Heart in the holy man into its Principle like an awakening of the D●…y A●…d the outward Spirit viz. the Air and the whole outward Principle with the Stars and Elements did cleav●… to the inward and the outward Spirit breathed its Life in the same manner with the Soul through the Nostrils into the Heart into the outward Heart into the earthly Flesh which was not then so earthly The Source of the Wrath insinuated it self with the breathing in viz. with the original of the Soul so that the Soul could not remain God's Image unless it remained in Humility and Obedience and yielding its Will into God's Will or else it were very difficult for a Creature to rule such two Principles as the wrathful and the outward are the outward being also born out of the wrathful Therefore sure its Temptation was not only the biting of an Aple nor di●… it continue only for some few Hours but

Essences which it wro●…ght here it beholdeth the Majesty of God and the Angels face to face The heavenly Body of the Soul is from the pure Element whence th●… four Ele●…ts are brought forth and that giveth ●…lesh and the tincture giveth Blood But all in this world have not Christ's flesh in them hidden in the old Adam yea among very many not one but the regenerate who are departed from their own w●…ll into God's will in whom the noble Gram of Mustard-Seed is sown out of which a ●…ree is gro●…n Most Souls depart from the Body ●…ithout Christ's body yet they hang as by a Thred and are at last in their ●…aith gotten into the will these Souls indeed are in the Image in the Spirit but not in the Flesh such as these wait for the last Day when the Image viz. the Body shall come forth out of the Grave out of the first Image for God will raise it up by the Voice of Christ. even that Image which Adam had in his Innocency But the earthly Body shall not touch it that must come before the Judgment in the Turba but after the 〈◊〉 of the Judgment the Turba shall swallow it up and the wonder of it shall only remain Understand these Souls that must wait till the last Day for their Bodies they remain with their Bod es in the still Rest till the last day without f●…ling any pain but in another Principle they have neither Darkn●… nor Majesty in the Earth but are at Rest without pain in the eternal still liberty without touching the Body Yet they see their wonders but they effect nothing in them for they exp●…ct ●…od and are 〈◊〉 humility ●…or they are sunk down through Death and are in another VVorld yet there is a great space between them and the holy Souls that are in Christs Flesh and Blood but not a Principle they are in one and the same Principle But a Spirit without a Body hath not that might which the Spirit i●… the Body hath there●…ore they rest and are under the Al●… of God when the last Day shall come forth and eat of the Bread of God and put on the divine Body as is mentioned in the Revelations of John. But the Souls of the Wicked have another place viz. in the most innermost which is ●…lso the most uttermost of all Darkness they dare not go up and down they remain meerly with the Body in their Substance yet not in this world neither do they touch the Earth It hath indeed power enough over the Earth it can open it without Substance and Preceptibility But it hath not the outward Principle it hath not power enough over the outward Spirit yet it can for a time make Apparitions in the Syderial spirit as many appear again in the Austral spirit and seek Abstinence make many afraid with keeping a racket in Houses all which they do b●… the Austral spirit till that it be consumed and then their Tricks lie in the Darkness and they expect the last Judgment Thus there is a difference of places where Souls are according to that wherein the Soul is entred if it be holy and degenerate then it hath a Body which expecteth only the wonders of the Body at the last Day for at the Day of Judgment all Souls good and bad shall every one receive their Sentence and Reward And you must know that the Souls of the Wicked have no ease before the Day of Judgment their best ease and joy is when they climb up in the Will in their Works which they did here and continually desire to do them more still it grieveth them that they did not afflict the Honest more then they did their Will is just so as it was here they are Spirits of Pride like the Devil a covetous devouring Spirit when but the least thought of the last Day entreth them then fear and horror stirreth in them they rather 〈◊〉 that thought alone and recreate themselves in Haughtiness This is a great Wonder that an Angel should become such a furious Devil And so the power of God's anger cometh to be manifest in God for God hath manifested himself according to both Eyes in Love and Anger and it is left free to man he may go into which of them he will God throweth none into Wrath the Soul casteth it self into it But you must know that the Wrath hath set its Throat ●…ide open and draweth mightily and desireth to devour all for it the Cov●…sness and the Pride insulting over Humili●…y A●…d so also Love and Humility have opened 〈◊〉 Mou●… and draw with all their Powers and would draw man into Love. into Heaven Now into which of these the Soul entreth in that it remaineth whether in Love or in Anger in that Tree it standeth and there is no deliv●…nce in Eter●…y from thence VVhether men●… VVishes do profit them any thing or no THe Prayer and Wish of the Righteous pierceth into He●…ven and not into Hell. No good wish entreth into Hell but if the wicked leave behind him much Falshood and Deceit so that the hellish Torment is wished to him in 〈◊〉 Grave such wishes come to the wicked Soul those wishes come to pass with them for that Soul must swallow down 〈◊〉 Abomin●…ions which it committed here and that is its Food which the Living send after it But it is altogether unfit and doth not beco●…e the Children of God at all for thereby they sow into Hell into the Anger of God they had need beware lest they also reap that which they sow if they do not recall themselves and repent it will fall out no otherwise Furthermore we give you to understand according to our Gift that those Souls which as it were 〈◊〉 by a 〈◊〉 and but at last enter into Repentance and so compre●… the Kingdom of Heaven as it were by a Thred so that 〈◊〉 and faith are mixt are in such a condition that a hearty Prayer and Wish redoundeth to their profit and 〈◊〉 into the poor captive Soul into its Source if it be 〈◊〉 with all earnestness For it is neither in Hell nor in Heaven but in the Gate in the middle Source of the Principle where Fire and Light sever themselves and is held by its Turba that alw●… seeketh the Fire But then this small Twig which it hath conceived viz. the weak Faith deeply demerseth it self an●…●…rnestly reacheth after the Mercy of God and yieldeth 〈◊〉 self patiently into the death of that sinking down and 〈◊〉 getteth out from the anguish and sinketh down from the pa●… into the meekness of Heaven And although many a Soul ●…is held a sufficient while 〈◊〉 the Anger cannot devour that small Faith but must at 〈◊〉 let it go But I leave it to him to try what this is who 〈◊〉 fully per ●…ereth in Sin till his end and then first desireth 〈◊〉 be saved and then the Pope forsooth must save him 〈◊〉 shall find it by ●…oful experience

of the original of Sin. Now if the free-will would approach to God with the Desire then it ●…ust depart out of its false something and 〈◊〉 it now doth so depart th●…n it is bare and impotent for 〈◊〉 is again in the first nothing ●…or if it would come to Go●… then it must dye to its f●…lse self-hood and forsake it and 〈◊〉 it forsakes the same then it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and meerly as nothing and so it cannot go work or move if it will shew its Might●… then it must be in something wherein it doth imaginate 〈◊〉 form it self But when man will say man cannot turn 〈◊〉 Will towards that which is good viz. towards Grace 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 Grace indeed standeth in the Abiss of 〈◊〉 Creature in all wicked men and the Will need only stand still from ●…icked working and then it beginneth as to its self-will 〈◊〉 dive down into the Abiss For that which standeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ill together with the ●…ernal One and becometh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there●… Can the Will be obedient to a worldly Lord and Master and for that end stand still for which he would have him ●…erefore not also to God especially when the Ability is as ●…given as a man doth but incline his Will to stand still It is better to know nothing then to Will according to self for that which knoweth nothing the will of that passeth away with the Creaturely Life and its stri●…e hath an end and ●…ath no more source of Torment as we may understand in ●…rrational Creatures For it is the Source and Torment of all the damned that ●…re wishing and woulding viz. they would that which is ●…lf and in their woulding they generate Ideas Species and Formations viz. contrary Wills and Desires the Will being 〈◊〉 strife so that one thing is manifested in multiplicity where●…n it is at enmity with it self but when it is one with the ●…ternal One then can no enmity be therein Therefore it is man's last proof or tryal when he standeth ●…ill to God in all things then in him Light proceeds out of Darkness Life out of Death and Joy out of Sorrow for God is in and with him in all things Of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Christ the Son of God. WHen God created Man as an Image according to 〈◊〉 substance a similitude of or according to God then 〈◊〉 created him out of the Mother of all things or Substances ●…nd all the three Worlds his Body he created out of the outward and also the inward Substantiality viz. out of the ●…arthly and heavenly and inbreathed into him through his ●…pirit a living Breath that is himself according to the divine world and also according to the outward World. For the Spirit of God is the Spirit of all and every Life 〈◊〉 distinguished into three Principles or three Worlds 〈◊〉 first according to the dark world according to the first Principle according to which God calleth himself an angry ●…ealous or jealous God and a consuming Fire which is the ●…ernal Nature Secondly According to the Light-world viz. according to God's love and meekness according to which he is ca●… the holy Spirit And Thirdly according to the outward World the A●… Spirit with the Quality or Souree of the Stars and Elements Thus hath man received a three-fold Life the Spirit of all the three Worlds Therefore we should rightly consider man what he is 〈◊〉 make an earthly Beast of him and also make no Angel of 〈◊〉 earthly part he hath the inward Spirit out of the first Principle but he should not rule therewith also not with the o●…ward but give up himself to the holy Spirit in the sec●… Principle and in the outward Life be as a Child in the A●…ther's Bosom or Lapp The Soul standeth in three Principles viz. in the eter●… Fire's Nature and in the eternal Light 's Nature viz. i●… the Love Fire which extinguished in Adam for which 〈◊〉 at ●…resent the strife is And thirdly it standeth in the Kingdom of this World viz. in Mortality and Restoration When the inward sou●… ground viz. the eternal Soul 〈◊〉 the Father's property of the Word of God turneth back ag●… and looks about after i●…s●… Pearl viz. after the 〈◊〉 Princip●… then it perceiveth that it was lost in Adam s●… whence ariseth its misery and return again and as so●… it returneth again God giveth his Grace into it again 〈◊〉 unknown and not understood by it This great unqu●…eness ariseth in the Soul that it 〈◊〉 goeth into Repentance when i●… seeth that it hath l●…t i●…s 〈◊〉 neither may nor shall nor can it any other way 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 first Pearl which i●… had and come ●…o divine S●… 〈◊〉 unless it turn with its Fires Might wholly again into 〈◊〉 ground of the incorporated Grace and give it self up there●… We necessarily find it clear that there is yet another Su●…stance i●… ow Flesh which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which yet now is 〈◊〉 being then it●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after that which 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have been so in the beginning of its Beeing and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there would be no sighing or longing after another thing For we know that every Substance sigheth after that out of which it had its first Original and so our Will sigheth after such a Flesh as God created So we clearly understand that we are gone forth out of the Eternal into the Corruptible For Adam's imagination hath drawn the earthly Quality of the Stars and four Elements into the Limus and the Stars and Elements have drawn in the longing Malady of the Earth And thus the heavenly Matter of the heavenly Flesh became earthly The true Ens of the Soul which the Word assumed in the Name Jesus was of us men from the Female tincture viz. from the true Adamical Soul yet from the Property of the Light which was severed from Adam and put into the Woman that this Property of the Light might transmute or change the fiery Masculine property again into the Love and divine Humility and that the Masculine and Feminine property might be quite changed into one Image again as Adam was before his Eve when h●… was neither Man nor Woman but a Masculine Virgin. Therefore Christ took his Soul from a Woman viz. from a Virgin and yet was a Man so that he rightly stood in the Adamical Image and brought the averted severed Properties of Life in which our Will had broken it self off from God again into the temperature and union viz. into that one For Adam turned his Will from the only Will of God and Jesus Christ took our Soul again into the only Will of God and turned the will of our Soul in our Humanity which he assumed into the only will of God again We poor Children of Eve should not in Eternity as to the Body have returned again but our Soul would have eternally continued in God's anger source or quality with all Devils But the becoming Man

kindling They are another thing then Earth man loveth that well and 〈◊〉 it for his Maintenance but he knoweth not its ground and original it is not in vain loved by the Mind it hath a high original if we would consider of it But we are justly silent of it here seeing man without that loveth it too much and thereby withdraweth himself from the Spirit of God One should not love the Body mor●… then the Spirit for the Spirit is its Life this we give you to understand in a Similitude and are silent of the matter with the ground and original thereof But know this that it was given to man for his Sport and Ornament he had it by the right of Nature it was his understanding the outward Bodies for the outward Body with its Tincture and the Metalline Tincture are near a kind When the Tincture of the outward Body was destroyed by the Devils evil longing then the Metalline Tincture hid it self from the human became an enemy to it for it is p●…rer then the perished in the outward Man. Let this be manifest to ●…ou ye seekers of the Metalline Tincture If you would find the Philosophers Stone then apply your selves to the new Birth in Christ else it will be hard for you to apprehend it for it hath a great agreement with the ●…nly Substantiality which if it were released from the fierce wrath would be very well seen It s lustre signifieth somewhat so that if we had 〈◊〉 Eyes we ●…hould well app●…ehend it A collected Appendix ●…or the clearer opening the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THe Beeing of all Beeings is but one only Beeing●… but in its g●…eration it severs it self into two 〈◊〉 viz. 〈◊〉 Light and Darkness into Joy and ●…orrow into ●…vil a●…d Good into Love and Anger into 〈◊〉 and Light and out of these two eternal Begi●…nings or Principles into a third begi●…ning viz. into the Creation to 〈◊〉 own Love play and ●…lody according 〈◊〉 the Property of both eternal 〈◊〉 Death is the bound mark of all whatsoever is temporal whereby the Evil may be destroyed If Gods Anger be omnipotent to destroy then is his Love also omnipotent to preserve if this contrariety were not there would be no Life and there would be no good also no evil for if there were no fierce wrath there would be no moving Thus the Substance of all Substances is a continual working desiring and fulfilling the ●…ire desireth the Light that it may get meekness and substance for its burning or life and the Light desireth the Fire else there would be no Light and it would have neither Power nor Life and they both de●…ire the dark anguish else the Fire and Light would have no Root and all would be a nothing Therefore I say God's Love is as great as his Anger his Fire as great as his Light and his Darkness as great as either of the other it is all alike eternal without be●…inning and it beginneth it self from Eternity with or 〈◊〉 the Darkness and bringeth it self from Eternity to 〈◊〉 darkness into the Source or Quality even into the 〈◊〉 and in the rising up of the ●…ire is the eternal Death ●…here the Darkness and Light seperate themselves each ●…to a Principle in it self and the Light also it self po●…sseth it self one dwelleth in the other unapprehended 〈◊〉 the other there is in ●…ternity no parting asunder ●…hose that dwell in the Darkness see not the Light and ●…hose that dwell in the Light see no Darkness God ●…uld not be manifested or revealed and there would 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nature nor Creature without the darkness Observe now God's anger maketh the dark mind ●…ull of God's Love maketh the Light mind full ●…or ●…hosoever hath to them it will be given But now all ●…andeth in Strife the Light against the ●…arkness an●… the Life against the Death and the ●…eath against the Life But Man is out of the great 〈◊〉 of all Substances and in him is the Strife Dost thou say God can make of me what he will he is ●…mnipotent He maketh of thee what thou wilt his ●…ove is omnipotent and also his Anger that which getteth thee holdeth thee The Wicked is to God a good favour to De●…th and the Saint or Holy is so to ●…he eternal holy Life as thou growest so thou art such Sap as thou drawest into thy self such ●…ruit thou bear●…st It is not 〈◊〉 ●…od will not be mine but thou wilt ●…ot be his and so you are parted But he cannot make himself a Child he goeth onl●… with the Will into the Matrix and then the divine Fiat apprehendeth him and maketh him one indeed he cannot make himself a Devil the hellish Fiat according to the dark world's Property maketh him one wh●… 〈◊〉 doth but give his Will up thereto Therefore ●…ghtly saith the Apostle To whom you give ●…ur selves Ser●… in obedi●… 〈◊〉 Servants you are 〈◊〉 of God's Love 〈◊〉 Anger Here the Apostle speaks of man's ●…ction that man can give up himself and be given up and though indeed of himself he cannot take or receive yet God giveth him the taking or receiving for he hath promised it him We believe a Resurrection of our Bodies which we had here it is not the earthly Body that is the Image which shall live eternally but the Heavenly which the earthly body here holdeth captive in Death but if Christ become born therein then it is no more in death but liveth in Christ and is only covered with the earthly body It is not the Husk viz. the beastial Flesh that shall arise but the Life in the outward Mystery with the wonders that shall be comprised in the holy Element and be united with the Body of Christ even of the new man and in Eternity stand with its wonders in it Seek not Christ's flesh in the four E●…ements in the Spirit of the outward world but in the Root of them viz. in the holy Element a Principle deeper then this world is not absent from the outward body Let no man think it will come to pass that men will come who will teach or compel thé holy Spirit with Authority or Power into men No it is said Today when you hear the Voice of the Lord harden not your ●…earts and Ears Expect not another time for this is the time of your Visitation incline your ●…ars and Hearts into the Temple of Christ in you Let none wait for a golden Time wherein the holy Spirit out of or from the outward Mouth will cry into the har●…d into his beastial VVill who will live only in the Lust of the Elesh O! No that is not to be done The time is already come that Henoch teacheth and Noah declareth the Deludge of Sin. Let none wait for the outward Prophet he appeareth or shineth inwardly in the Spirit the outward man will not know him the right way into the eternal Life is in man VVhoso●…ver will enter in with Sion and praise God in Jerusalem

he 〈◊〉 live and delight in his own self-will and fore-go re●…gnation and if this had come to pass then had the fair ●…nstrument been once again broken and the human melody in God's Love and Deeds of Wonder had ended but Christ said Get thee hence Satan it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him only Then the De●… left him and the Angels came and ministred unto him Christ called the Devil a Prince of this World but 〈◊〉 Devil hath neither the Kingdom of God nor the Kingdom 〈◊〉 this world in possession this world is not his own but he is 〈◊〉 poorest Creature in this world●… and hath only the wraths 〈◊〉 in possession the other profiteth him nothing thus he is the world and also not in the world he thought to be Pri●… and is so in the same property in the Wicked and also in 〈◊〉 Government in the world in the wrath He must lo●…k wh●… Turba Magna is enkindled in the wrath and there 〈◊〉 busie so far as Turba Magna goeth in the wrath fur●… his Courage is cooled Of outward Government and Dominion WHen God blessed Noah through the O●…-spring 〈◊〉 ceeding from the Covenant and bad them be fr●…sui he gave them again the whole World with all its 〈◊〉 in possession and gave them all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Fowls common with no distinction restriction or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only that they should not eat th●…ir Lif●… in the Blood le●…t 〈◊〉 should become monstro●…s in their Li●…e with eating the 〈◊〉 of the Beast God commanded them to rule over all the Beasts and Cr●…tures but in this place ●…e 〈◊〉 them no p●…culiar 〈◊〉 er ruling Power over one ano●… for all domina●…ion 〈◊〉 Rule and Authority wher●… one man rul●…th over anot●… doth a●…ise from or through the order of Nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 its Properties according to the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Dominion of the 〈◊〉 under the Constellations or Astru●… The true Image of God hath no other Dominion 〈◊〉 Members then the B●…dy 〈◊〉 in i●…s Members or the 〈◊〉 in its Branches but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the S●…rs ●…our Elements mak●…th 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Dominion and Gover●… according to its Mother whence it taketh it rise and 〈◊〉 in it liveth Here ●…ote All War and Cont●…ntion ariseth from ●…ominion of God's anger the Warrior is a Servant of God's anger he is the Ax wherewith the angry Husband-man cuts up the Thorns and Bryars from off his Ground God's anger according to his Fire's property will have it so and not his love And he that suffers himself to be made use of thereto he serveth the anger of God according to the dark and fireworld's desire and property which in the heavy fall of Adam hath manifested it self in the human Property and brought man viz. the angelical Image into an half devilish Vizard and likeness Of human Propagation ALthough honest marryed People beget Children and joyn themselves together with Love-desire yet it hath no●… this meaning or understanding that the Imagination or Desire of Man and Wife is holy and that Christ's Spirit driveth on the Imagination The Imagination ariseth out of the Tinctures which ●…indle the Mercury with their Lust and the Mercury kindleth the Spirit of the Life and now existeth the Lust and Will in the Heart viz. a vekement des●…re the tenderer the Complexion is the nobler also is the Tincture in its swee●… desire But if also it be shot with a fiery Dart in Venus's desire then 〈◊〉 the life kindled so that it is as it were more then half 〈◊〉 with Love-thoughts and yet knoweth not what hath ●…appened to it Must all this be holy then would the secret Whoredoms also be holy whereas indeed the Dart often goeth forth in false or wicked Lust. And though it be at best yet it is a thing that is in all ●…easts it is natural and when men will give it the best ●…nd rightest Name then it is called an Abomination before God's ●…oliness being a thing existed out of Sin through Adam's fall which indeed is born withal under divine pa●…iente seeing it cannot be otherwise of which we could take ●…any Examples in the holy Scriptures Look upon the people of Israel when God would give them ●…he Law on Mount Sinai and manifest or reveal himself with his Voice then he commanded the young People whic●… were loaden with such burning Lusts to abstain from the●… Wives and that pointed not only at the Marriage-work bu●… also at the Imagination Christ therefore be●…ame a Man without the helping or co-working or concurrence of any man or Husband that he might bring us forth out of this ab●…mination before God through 〈◊〉 holy Incarnation or becoming man he became such a V●…rgin like Child with both the Tinctures one in another with ou●… self-love that he might bring our rent in himself in●…o one And this is the Abomination in the Marriage-work th●… the S●…ed is unclean in the conjunction of both t●…e Tincture●… when they are brought together into one indeed it is th●… property of the eternal joyfulness when the Seed goeth fort●… viz. of the highest desiring and fulfilling if that might 〈◊〉 done without abomination then it were ●…oly but the Sulpher in the Seed is an abomination before the Holiness It is not in the power of the Imagination of the Flesh bu●… in the pure Love-desire of C●…astity and Faithfulness whe●… two joyn their Minds together in the Marriage band an●… give up their love and faithfulness one to another to be the●… own and desire to be one Heart and Will there the Spir●… of Christ is the Love band and here now is rightly the thing Increase or multiply and be fruitful The marriage-work according to the outward man 〈◊〉 not holy but according to the inward it is holy in th●… Children of the Saints but not in beastial Vessels 〈◊〉 marriage-work in it self if it be done ordinately is not 〈◊〉 ful for it is driven on by God's officer Nature and bo●… withal under divine patience Of the Serpent that deceived Adam and of all created Things WHen God said Let all sorts of Beasts come fort●… each according to h●…s property or kind th●… came forth Beasts out of every property of Nature as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 manifest in the severation of the 〈◊〉 Kingdoms viz. Ti●… 〈◊〉 Eternity when God moved himself to the Creation for ●…he Devil would domineer over the Love and Meekness of God and put his desire also into the Anger that is into the austeer Might where the poyson-Life ariseth viz. into the Fiat of the wrathful Property out of which Form are proceeded Vipers Serpents Toads and other venomous Worms not that the Devil hath made them that he cannot only as the Desire was in the Impression of the ●…iat such also was the Creature in the evil and good For in those poysonful Beasts the highest Tincture is to be found if they be reduced into an oily Substance and the wrath of Mercury seperated For all

much too subtil to be beheld by us only the Thoughts behold him in the Spirit understand in the willing Spirit for the Will sendeth the Though●… into God and God giveth himself into the Thoughts And then the Thoughts bring the Power of God to the Will and the Will receiveth them with joy but with trembling or quaking for it acknowledgeth it self unworthy seeing it proceedeth out of a rough Lodging viz. out of a wavering ●…ind and therefore it receiveth ●…he Power in the sinking down before God. Thus out of its triumph cometh a soft gentle Meekness to be that 〈◊〉 God's true Substance and it apprehendeth that ●…ery Substance And that conceived or apprehended Substan●… is in the willing the heavenly Body and is called the true 〈◊〉 right Faith which the Will hath received in the Pow●… of God the same sinketh or demerseth it self into the mind and 〈◊〉 in the Fire of the Soul. Thus the Image of God is entire or total and God seeth or 〈◊〉 himself in such a similitude And so now Faith is not an historical Knowledge for men 〈◊〉 make Articles of it and to depend only on them and to 〈◊〉 his Mind into the works of his Reason True Faith 〈◊〉 the Might of God one Spirit with God for the holy Spirit moveth in the Spirit of Faith. We would have the Reader that loveth God faithfully warned from our Gifts and deep Knowledge and we have very earnestly and faithfully presented you the ●…ay of the Truth and of the Light and we admonish you all Christianly to consider of it and to read it diligently it hath its Fruit in it self Hallalujah Amen THus Christian Reader have I in part according to my Gift answered the wish and desire of one of the Laborious and worthy Translators of Jacob 〈◊〉 Writings who speaking thereof saith It were well that all were brought into one and the rest laid aside for the multiplicity causeth Strife and wrong confused apprehensions by reason of the catching Conceits and Conjectures of Reason which is not able to dis●…ern or look into the centre and depth of the Mystery so that Reason suppos●…h many times it is contradictory whereas it is not all contradictory but fully agrees in one in the depth Yet know there is but a glimpse of the Mysteries in these Writings for a man cannot write them He that is found worthy of God to have the Light enkindled in his Soul he sha●… see taste smell hear and feel unspeakable ●…hings concerning this knowledge He that this Author's works doth read A divine Light in 's Heart doth need Or else his Reason will but stray And grope for Light in the mid-day But none will him censure or scorn That is truly of Sophia born Wise Solomon saith Happy is the man that sindeth Wisdom and the man that getteth Understanding for the Merchandize of it is better then the Merchandize of Silver 〈◊〉 the Gain thereof than fine Gold c. A Treatise of the Four Complections and of the Causes of Fear and Sadness 〈◊〉 the Astonishment and Anguish 〈◊〉 about Spiritual things Also of the two King●… or Qualities Written by Jacob Beheme 1621. ALl Sadness and Fear wherewith a man terrifies and amazeth himself is in his inward man from the Soul for the outward Spirit which hath its Original from the Stars and Elements is not in this sort troubled because he lives in his Mother which bore him but the poor Soul is with Adam entred into a forreign Harbour viz. into the Spirit of this World wherewith the beautiful Creature is vail●… and captivated as in a darksom Prison Now the Spirit of this world hath four sorts of Lodgings wherein the 〈◊〉 Jewel is shut up 〈◊〉 these four there is but one 〈◊〉 manifest to one man as 't is with the four 〈◊〉 which every man hath in himself and is him●…lf the same beeing except his Soul which is not of that Essence though it lie as a Prisoner in it And of th●… four Lodgings or Images one only hath the 〈◊〉 in his Life the 〈◊〉 of them are 1. Cholorick 2. 〈◊〉 3. Phlegmatick 4. Melancholy The first viz. Chol●… is of the ●…ire's property causes a stout Courage 〈◊〉 Anger swelling Pride Self-willedness 〈◊〉 of others This Image shines after the outward world in a 〈◊〉 light labours after the 〈◊〉 and will always be a Lord. Is the Soul's lif●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the Cholerick Complexi●… then is it fiery furious 〈◊〉 and fretting 〈◊〉 to Fury and 〈◊〉 and if the Soul imagin therein then doth it yet more vehemenly kindle and enflame the Complexion the Soul it ●…lf being of a fiery Nature Then become these follo●… Dispositions operative in such a man viz. Anger Pride an ambit●…ous Desire to bring all men in subjection under him he is an insulter over despiser of those that be in misery and a Tyrant over those that are in subjection to him he cares not though he dye in Anger except it come to pass that the Stars hinder which oft joyning themselves with the Complexion lay a barr in the way and hinder many things There is great danger in this Complexion if the Soul live according to the outward Imagination and the band is the harder stronger there being one fiery Essence linked to another The fierce Devil hath a powerful approach to this Complexion for the ●…ire's property is his Servant the Devil is also proud and envious so is this Complexion O! how hardly is the Soul freed if it be once throughly kindled and enflamed in this Property the Devil need●… not assaut it with temptation it danceth willingly after his Pipe it is not easily sad because it hath a fiery light in 〈◊〉 Complexion and thinks alwayes that 't is the divine Light and its ways are holy and good but as long as the Soul goes no higher then the Complexion 't is a proud envious wrathful violent oppressing Will or Spirit The Soul desires in its Pomp to make a glorious show out of its fiery Complexion and in the height of its Pride and Arrogance will be reputed holy O thou Devil in an Angel's shape how dark art thou when the fiery glance of thy Complexion comes to be put out by Death Now here Observe The Soul eats spiritual Meat namely of the Spirit of the Image of the Complexions not altogether their Essence but magically it is the kindling of their Fire The Complexions in the Soul's fire became soulish or of a Soular property they are as ●…ood and Fire to each other understand by Wood the Complexion by Fire the Soul. Now the Fire must have fewel viz. either the outward Complexion or a divine Essentiality of God's Nature of one of these must it eat or dye but 't is not possible for it to perish seeing it is a desire and where there is a desiring there is also a beeing the desire makes a beeing to it self By this we understand whence ariseth such a differrence in the Wills and