in Gods representing 293. For in God that which is done and past and that which is to come is all one And therefore was the New Regeneration out of Christ reckoned or imputed to the Children of the Covenant as iif they stood already in the New Body of Christ as if Christ had already drowned the Anger with his bloud-shedding and that the Life were already become Generated out of Death againe 294. For that very Life out of the Limit or Mark stood in Gods Imagination and with the Promise in Paradise it set it self therein that very Life was Promised to Abraham that it should be awakened againe in his seed Not in a strange seed as the Libeller conceiteth but in the seed of the Noble Image which out of the Heavenly Substantiality out of the Second Principle was together given to Adam for a Body 295. And yet with the Entrance of the Soul into the Earthlynesse was become shut up in the still Death as in the Nothing and that should againe sprout out of Death and therein rise againe and be borne A New Man in holinesse innocency and Righteousnesse it should againe be put on to the Soul 296. Understand it highly and aright The Life of God in the Covenant of the Limit or Mark which in Mary assumed the humanity that very Life must from Christ enter into us understand into our disappeared Image shut up in Death That is the Graine that is sowen into the Dead disappeared Substantiality that draweth that humane Essence again to it and becometh again the Life of that Image 297. Thus the Noble Lilly Twig or Branch groweth up which first is small as a Graine of Mustard-seed as Christ saith and afterwards becometh as large as a Bay Tree That is the True New Regeneration out of Christ 298. My Libeller put you other Eyes into your Bride and look upon the Old Testament and the Covenant of Promise with or as to Adam and Abraham rightly doe not imbitter the Scripture and drag it not about by the Haire of the head in a strange understanding Your Meaning or Opinion Obscureth the Noble Lilly or Branch which now should sprout or Grow out of the Mother or Roote much more then it doth serve to the promoting of its growth 299. If you would Judge in this Mystery then must you be born againe in Christ you must see out of Christs Eyes if you would apprehend the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum but if you were born of Christ then you would not be a Mote Judger but a loving Brother 300. Christ bids you not condemne but meekly to converse and friendly Instruct not to wrangle or scoffe or pronounce Men to be in the Jawes of the Devill My friend you are yet very blinde concerning the kingdome of Christ I will rightly shew you the Doore of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ as it is given to me from the Grace of God in the Love of Christ 301. Not through my understanding but in my resignation in Christ from Christs Spirit From Christs Spirit have I conceived or received the knowledge the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum I have not studied in your Schoole I have knowne nothing of that neither have I sought it in that way I sought only Gods Heart and more is come to me then I sought or understood 302. Therefore if you would be brother in Christ put your Bucks-hornes off and then we may see one another with right Eyes and a modest Mind and instruct one another in the Feare of God 303. Such Surlynesse and Scorne is Babel the Mother of Tyranny and Great spirituall whoredom whence Warres and Strise is arisen at all times your Libell is only a Bloudy provocation and a scoffing an unseemly puffed up Pride a Cainish property goe out from it if you would see the richly Amiable countenance of Christ in the Holy Ternary in Ternario Sancto if you would see the Wonder-Branch of the hidden LILLY which at present Sprouteth out of the Roote of the Tree 304 If you would grow and sprout with the Noble Lilly Branch out of the Old Tree you must bring an humble Heart and so you must stand in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ if you would grow spring or sprout and speak out of or from God 305. For None know any thing of God but only the Spirit of Christ which is in God the Some in the Bosome of the Father searcheth out in our spirit even the Depths of the Deity Our spirit must stand in the Spirit of Christ if we we would understand the Divine Mysterie 306. It is not enough for Men to put together or collect a heap of Scripture Texts and Make an Opinion and Meaning out of them no my Friend Opinion doth it not but the Living Word where the Heart experienceth the certainty therein Consisteth Faith in the Holy Spirit 307. In Opinions there is meere Doubting whether it be right or not Out of Opinions is the Antichrist Generated If we would speak of God then we must speak from or out of the Spirit of Christ which alone knoweth what God is or else we are very Lyars 308. Christs Spirit must speak out of us of the Divine Mysterie else we speak out of the Babel of Confusion Christ is in our right humane Essence understand in Adams Essence become Man not in the Essence of the Starres and Elements but in the Essence of the One Element through which before the fall Paradise grew or sprouted in Adam 309. When the Angel Gabriel came to Mary he Saluted her and sayd Haile Graciously Amiable the Lord is with Thee Thou blessed of all Women thou shalt be impregnate in thy Body and beare a sonne whose name thou shalt call JESUS 310. Here it hath not that understanding as the Libeller Explaines it that Mary was borne out of God before-hand Ere Christ in her became Man No Christ is the first from the Dead he first kindled the Life in Death only the Limit or Mark stood in Mary that was the Blessing For in the Limit or Mark was the Living Word and the Spirit of God Surrounded and Cloathed with the Noble Virgin of the Wisdome of God in the Divine Substantiality 311. When the Angel sayd thou shalt be impregnate in thy Body And shee the Virgin Mary thereupon said Behold I am the Maid-servant of the Lord be it done unto me as thou hast said then the Life in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant viz the Heart of God moved in Maryes in Death included Essence That word was cloathed or surrounded with divine Substantiality out of the Water of Eternall Life generated out of the Meeknesse of the Light of the Majesty of God 312. And in that Substantiality was the Tincture out of the Fire and Light of God which is the Glance or Lustre and Ornament of the Substantiality 313. And in the Tincture was the Chast
the Father of the House Beelzebub what will they doe to those of his Houshold faith Christ When they persecute you and hate you for my Names sake then doe you rejoyce for great is your Reward in the Kingdome of Heaven 620. Men say an Enemies Mouth never speaks Good there is nothing so Evill but some men make it worse My Book is not Evill it meddles with none only thou makest it Evill thou expoundest it in an Evill sence and my sence was right and Good when I made it 621. Thou fayest there is an evill spirit in me if there were a good spirit in thee then thou wouldst make the Evill to be Good and wouldst not pervert all 622. Gods Spirit seeketh only Good he contends with none he Loveth Man and where he is in a Man there he driveth on to Love and Humility towards his Neighbour he Teacheth and instructeth Gently and Meekly he lifts not up the Horns also he comes not with Thunder and Ligntning as the Anger in the Fathers Nature upon Mount Sinai and with Elias did but with a still meek Voyce as at the day of Pentecost 623. God hath in Christ regenerated us in the Love not in his fires property that we should meet together one with another with a Modest and amiable condiscention and behaviour in a friendly Will and intention and heartily admonish one another as brethren 624. We should help up the weak and erroneous and friendly instruct them in the way and not from the narrow path plunge them into the Water or else cast them into Gods Anger in Hell-fire as the Libeller doth where he saith Hell Fire is thine 625. Christ saith Whosoever saith unto his Brother thou Fool he is guilty of Hell Fire or Raiha he is guilty of a Councill what is he worthy or guilty of who calleth his Brother a Devill and judgeth or condemneth him to Hell fire O Man Consider thy self convert from such uncouth Paths 626. We have indeed here is this valley of Misery before hand in the way of our Pilgrimage a very small narrow Bridge into Gods Kingdome why should we our selves first throw one another down doth one goe astray then let the other shew him the way let us deal one by another as Brethren 627. We all are born blind now then if sight be afforded us of Grace why then doth not one Brother afford Eyes to the Other Every one seeth as God hath favourably afforded him according as sight is given to him why will one brother hate the other for the sake of that because he knoweth not what the Lord hath given to him 628. O how Miserable is this Time of Ours how the Devill hunteth for us with Snares and Nets so that one Brother reproacheth dispiseth contemneth and slayeth the Other that he may captivate us in Gods Anger How doth he not afford us the high honour which he had but lost it with Pride 629. Dear Brethren beware of Pride especially those that are generated out of much Learning Knowledge it is the Pride of Reason and it is Mans worst Enemy it hath set up nothing but Wars and contemning of others 630. Syrach saith The higher thou art the humblyer behave thy self Pride goeth before a Fall Our Reason-knowledge is folly if Gods Spirit in us kindle not the knowledge if I knew all Scriptures outwardly and had not the Spirit of understanding what were my knowledge other then a Conceit 631. That is not Divine knowledge that any confirm an Opinion with many Texts of Scripture collected and put together for every Text hath its proper understanding in the place it standeth according to the Matter treated of oftentimes it signifieth much otherwise then the purpose it is drawn by one for to HIS Opinion 632. The Right knowledge standeth in this where any will Judge there his knowledge in him should be confirmed from the Spirit of God it must goe forth from the Center and not from a strange Mouth 633. Or dost thou suppose that Gods Spirit hath ceased to speak or that it is Dead so that the Spirit which moveth in Gods seeing dare not say any more Thus saith the Lord. 634. The Spirit sheweth it what it should speak only it bewares and defends it self from the intermixture of the Spirit of this World and from the Imagination of the Devill that the right humane will spirit which goeth forth out of the souls fire into the Light be not infected with its Malignity or Curse 635. There is no better Medicine or Antidote then the Desire of Love and the Humility so long as it goeth on and judgeth in Love and Humility in the seeing of the Divine Power so long is his Word GODS WORD for it is approved by the Spirit of God it goeth upon the wings of the Wind in the pure humane will-will-spirit as David saith The Lord Rideth upon the Wings of the Wind. 636. You find by no Prophet or Apostle that any hath spoken from anothers Mouth but from his own Gift somtime the Spirit hath brought in a Text and thereby cleered other Scriptures but the Maine Matter hath been set downe out of his own Spirit and Mouth 637. Who hath prohibited us that we should not dare to speak out of the Gifts of our Spirit but that we should only speak with a strange Mouth from our Spirit as the Libeller would have it 638. Who hath made a Law that a man should take away the Speech from the Spirit and change it into another Forme but even the Antichrist who hath set himself to be Lord over Gods Spirit and hath changed the Mouth of the holy Children into his Colour and Will 639. Indeed the High Apostles have not commanded it but they said Keep in Remembrance JESUS CHRIST who dyed for us and rose againe and did bid us Teach and Preach that they have barred up the Spirit of no Man or commanded his Tongue to be altogether changed into THEIR Words They have all of them indeed spoken together every one out of his own Tongue and yet out of ONE Spirit which was CHRISTS 640. We have still at this very Day the very SAME Spirit if so be we are born or generated out of HIM dare it not then now speak what is Necessary at this Time what is the Cause that the Center of the Holy Trinity Manifesteth or Revealeth it selfe even Mens Seeking their Desiring 641. Men strive now about the Person of Christ about Gods Election and Men raise Wars and reproaches about it and that Gods Love will have no more to be and he will rather manifest or reveale himself that Men should yet see what he doth and so goe out from strise about Gods Will into a right Apostolick life and no more contend about the knowledge as is done hitherto for a long time in Babel 642. But that now thus a simple Mouth must speak such great Things and NOT one highly Learned Ask
his own Bosom before he condemneth others and passeth his judgement upon them 249. Is not Mary extracted or begotten of Joachim and Anna also Naturally conceived and borne as all the children of Adam then let him demonstrate it else his conceit will till then remaine untrue 250. But if he say if Mary were begotten of Joachim and Anna then were Christ begotten of sinfull seed as his high flowne Spirit runneth on and supposeth Then I say to him once for all that he is altogether blinde in the Divine Mystery and understandeth nothing thereof 251. He speakes indeed of the High Blessing of Mary but he draweth it to a strange Seede out of which Mary was begotten or extracted but he saith not with any ground what kinde of seede that was whether it was barely the Spirit of God or whether it was heavenly Substantiality or the Seede in the Word or was also somewhat of humane Essence 252. For the Humane Essence is to Him throughout sinfull he will not at all be born of Man but of God in like manner as if God in Christ had introduced a strange humanity and he throughout explaines it so He will only be born in Christ as the Dew of the Morning 253. But Sir Libeller hearken we will not be so evill as you are we will readily of Good Will shew you the true Ground in the Mysterie if you will not goe in that way then goe aside we have other Eyes then you have Have you Art then have we Light 254. You are not our Judge though you condemne me I am a childe of God in Christ and my seeing is proceeded from Gods seeing Therefore I will from a Good heart shew you my open Face though you are not able to apprehend how Christ is become conceived aad born of Humane Essence without sinne and you conclude throughout that I speak of Christ as if he were proceeded from sinfull seed though all indeed is very groundlesly Judged and your meaning standeth in Babell Therefore observe my Confession of Faith and acknowledgement as it followeth Exactly 255. God sayd to Adam when he stood in Paradise and lived in the Divine source or quality and substantiality What day thou eatest of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill thou wilt dye the Death by Dying he meaneth not only the Outward Body which with the Beginning of Sinne first became Living 256. For the Outward Body fell not down instantly when Adam transgressed the Commandment and Dyed but he gat now the Great Life and became Lord before he was weak or impotent and the right Man potent or Mighty he formerly came behinde and waited on the Image of God and was a servant but when the Soul introduced Earthly source or quality then he was Lord and the Image was shut up in Death 257. The Spirit is the Life the Flesh is not the Life The heavenly Fleshes Life was Gods Spirit and the Earthly Fleshes Life was this Worlds Spirit 258. When the Earthly drew into the Heavenly and took the Dominion then the heavenly vanished or disappeared for the Spirit of the heavenly departed away out of the Earthlynesse into its Principle then stood the Image which was out of the Divine Substantiality in Death not in the fierce wrath of the Death of the Anger so that the heavenly Substantiality were become kindled in Gods Anger but as a vanished disappeared Substance without source or quality and Life 259. For that which is generated out of the Love that receiveth no fierce wrath into it self for the Lights Substantiality is water of Eternall Life the water maketh no fierce wrath but quencheth the Fires fierce wrath 260. If now the heavenly Image or Substantiality in Adam were taken out of the Heavenly Limbus then surely its Originall Mother was the Water of the Eternall Life which originateth from the Meeknesse or Desire of the Light of God as the Water in the Deepe of this world from the Meeknesse of the Sun 's Light Through Venus's Desire 261. What fierce wrath or Anger then would or could come into the heavenly Substantiality of the Holy Body in Adam Also that Substantiality was not at all the Life it self but the Spirit of God was the right Life in the holy Body 262. But when the Spirit of God departed then stood that Image as dead without Life and the Soul lived of the Earthly Fire-fewell though indeed it is not quite Earthly Essence yet that Earthly Essence is generated from the first Principle wherein also the Soul standeth 263. Therefore also the Soul lusted after that source or quality there was given to the Soul a heavenly Body of which it should Eate and Not of BOTH Body's It should set or put its Lust or longing and Imagination only into the Heavenly then would the Soul-Fire have had the Earthly Body in the Dark World only hanging to it 264. But when it would eate of Both then came the Dark Body to have power or strength and Light and ruled over the right humane Body Thus sinne began in the Soul-Fire for it became kindled with the fierce wrathfull Essence and so now the Soul Fire burnt in that very source or quality and the Divine Light of the Soul which shone in the meek heavenly Substantiality extinguished 265. For in the Beginning the right humane Essence of the Soul was the fewell to its Life's burning but afterwards the Earthly Essence was it and that is now the Sinne and the Opposite Will and the Soul hath no Image or Body which remaineth Eternally unlesse it be through Christ Regenerated out of its first Substantiality through the Death of Christ 266. Therefore it is that many kindes of Figures appeare in the Souls Image in the inward all according to what its desire is to a Substance as the Image of wilde Beasts also Serpents and Toads In whatsover Essence and Will the Souls-Fire liveth and burneth according to that Essence is also the FIAT in the Will-Spirit and it Imageth or frameth such an Image so now when the outward Body deceaseth then standeth that Image thus in such a forme and source or quality 267. In the Time of the Earthly Life it may alter its will and then also its Fiat altereth the Figure but after the Dying of the Body it hath nothing more wherein it can alter its Will as is to be seene by the Devills 268. Therefore sayd Christ To must become borne anew through Water and the Holy Spirit or ye cannot see the kingdome of God understand out of Gods Water out of the water of the first right Image wherein the Holy Spirit dwelleth in which christ is become conceived and born 269. That Water hath not taken sinne into its Essence for that cannot be for that which is out of or from Gods meeknesse becometh not kindled in the fierce wrath of God but is as an impotency or weaknesse shut up in Death viz in the stillnesse in the still nothing 270. Adam
expected in me and so how much I want of the Infinite effect of being able to dwell with the Eternall Burnings I may well account my self one of the unworthiest of the children of Men John Sparrow The First APOLOGIE To Balthazar Tylcken Being An Answer of the Authour concerning his Book the AVRORA Opposed by an Enemicitious Pasquil or Opprobrious Libel This Answer Written Anno 1621. By Jacob Behme Also called Teutonicus Philosophus Englished by JOHN SPARROW LONDON Printed by M. S. for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his Shop at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of St. Pauls 1661. A brief and well intended Answer of the Authour concerning his Book AVRORA against the enimicitions Pasquil or Libel in respect of some opposed and falsly recited Articles or Conclusions and ill-understood by this Libeller 1. INto what Calamity Misery Anxiety and great Perplexity we are plenged by the heavy fall of Adam is dayly demonstrated in that we have not only thereby obscured and darkened our Noble Image so that we cannot any more see or apprehend the Divine Light unlesse we become borne of God againe but also we have thereby awakened and made stirring in US the Originall fierce Wrath of the Eternall Nature so that the fierce wrath venome and poyson thereof is become Springing up and burning in us 2. Which is rightly called GODS Anger-Fire which should not become stirring and Manifest but continue shut up in the Center for it should remaine shut up in the Love in the Divine Light and be only a cause of Life and Mobility 3. Which so long as it remaineth shut up in the Light is a Spring or Fountaine of Joy and Knowledge but if the Light Extinguisheth is an Evill Opposite Poyson wherein nothing qualifyeth or operateth but meere self Enmity or Hatred where instantly all Love and desire of Good hath an End 4. As we poor Children of Eve must now feele in us with great paine sorrow and Misery how that fierce wrath stirreth driveth and vexeth us so that now we no more converse one with another in Love as Children of God but very venomously spitefully hatefully murtheringly and enimicitiously doe maliciously persecute dispise slander and reproach also rob Murther and doe all manner of Evill and alwayes wish death fierce wrath and all Evill one to another 5. Which great Misery and Evill is sufficiently to be traced in this Libell and out of what manner of Mind knowledge and Will it is flowen forth in that he undertakes not only to Misconstrue the words but also to wrest the whole understanding into a false meaning or sense and to pronounce the Authour to be a Devill and in a very vaunting reproachfull spitefull Malicious and Odious manner likeneth the Authours Will or Intent thought or sence and mind to the Devill without any knowledge of him who he is how he is or what Spirit 's Child he is whether he seeks God or this World 6. Thus he takes upon him to infinuate his innate poyson into the Heart thought or sense and Will or intention of the Authour all which is very horrible lamentable and Miserable in that he knoweth not himself or from what Mind his Zeal proceeds and in whose driving he runneth 7. He cannot see that his whole writing is a meer venomons Pasquil or Libel and Evill meaning or intention for though that which is spoken is not reproveable by him yet he can not leave it unreproached whereby a man may cleerly see out of what Spirit and Mind it is flowen forth and how the miserable fierce wrath hath ruled in him and yet he dares set in his Title that it is Christian-like and well intended 8. But if he would set any thing better in the room of it it might indeed be born with But I can find in all his Writing no Divine Knowledge and Light which yet he highly boasteth of as if he had an enlightened Mind and Thoughts and were Exercised therein 9. An Enlightened Mind or thoughts if the Light be from God proceedeth friendly and lovingly and instructeth a Man what he should Doe and leave undone it owneth others in a brotherly Duty it hunteth not Mens Minds into the Jawes of the Devill but they are Gentle in reproving and teaching with Good instruction They reprove in Generally they catch not hold of a Man Privately particularly and Singly and make not a Den of Theevery or Murther by the Good Way side 10. An Enlightened Mind which hath Exercised Thoughts as the Libeller would seem to have knoweth the Gifts of God that they are without End or Number that God Leadeth his Children Wonderfully and giveth to one a Divers gift to Expresse than to another as the Apostle also witnesseth the same 11. That God giveth to one from the gift of his Spirit to do Miracles or Wonders to another to interpret Tongues to a Third to Prophesie to a Fourth to speak with Tongues c. and all from the One only Spirit of God which thus speaketh from the Great Wonders of the eternall Wisdome of God and thus Driveth and teacheth the Children of God that the unmeasurable Wisdome of God may appear in his Children 12. If the Spirit of God ruleth in a Man then he is NOT Crafty suttle Deceitfull trecherous Lying astonishing ambitious but reproveable teachable and Meek he is not thorney prickley Misconstruing and vainly frivolous he suddenly apprehends what is in a Man and from what Spirit he Speaketh For the Spirit of God it self knoweth it self very well in a Man it needeth no Witnesse it tryeth the Heart and the Reins Soul and Body it speaketh the Truth and disgraceth or reproacheth no man it drives on all to that which is good and proveketh Men to Righteousnesse 13. But this whole Libell or Pasquil is nothing Else but a Misconstruing poysoning and disgracing he draweth the Scripture by the hair of the Head and corrupteth it that he may but take occasion to prick with Thorns besides he hath no right understanding of the Scripture that must serve him as he will have it meane that he may therewith satisfie his fierce wrath and bring it as fuell to his ficrce Fire that it may burn farre and neere and so make shew of his Deep knowledge though he should thereby tread his Brother Abel under his feet 14. And yet his knowledge which he hath here brought forth to the Day Light Concerning GODS Will is as to one part in Bibell and he largely buildeth the Babylonish Tower therewith as it shall be set before his eyes which for my part I doe unwillingly but now necessity requires I must doe it 15. Not for my own sake but for the sake of those whom he hath kindled with his envious fire and poysoned and hath insinuated into them very Erroneous Opinions especially concerning Gods Election of Grace therefore it behoveth me to cleere my meaning how I have apprehended it in Divine knowledge and how also it
out of the Divine substantiality into the Earthly into the Stars and four Elements 213. Thus the Image became Earthly and fell among the Murtherours who smote it and wounded it and left it lying half dead thus Adam went out of Jerusalem toward Jericho as Christ said 214. The Stars and Elements put on to the Body the fierce wrathfull earthly Cloaths or Garments of their Essence and substantiality and the Dark-world gave to the souls fire also its fierce wrathfull severe or earnest and stern source or quality and now the Souls fire burned in that fierce wrathfull property and so God and the Kingdome of Heaven was Lost for the Divine Image disappeared or vanished and the Earthly began to appear the Outward Fiat gat the predominancy 215. As soon as Adam was overcome by the Spirit of this World then he fell into sleep viz. into the outward Magia which signifieth or resembleth Death for the outward Kingdome hath beginning and End and must break off from the Inward THAT is its Death for the outward Life goeth again into its Mother out of which it is proceeded viz into the Mystery of the Stars and Elements and the Inward Life of the Soul continueth in the Dark world viz in the Eternall Nature whence it is Originated 216. Therefore the Regeneration from or out of the Heart of God is necessary for us that the Dark Souls fire shut up in the fierce Wrath and Anger might conceive or receive Divine substantiality againe that its Light might shine again 217. And THAT is it which I wrote in my BOOK That all was shut up in the Anger Till the Prince of Light out of the Heart of God came and became a Man in Nature and wrestled in the Power of the Light in the Wild Nature 218. By Nature the Author understood the Eternall Soulish Nature the Center of Nature which in the Soul after the Image became Earthly became Wilde and Strange as to the Divine World 219. And Adam and all his Children must needs have continued Eternally in the wild Nature and in the Anger and fierce wrath of God if the Prince of Light out of Gods Heart had not come and put upon the Souls Fire Divine Substantiality that is the Garment or Body of Angels again if Gods Word or Heart it selfe had not become Man Here follow the Pasquils or Libellers Suppositions 220. Now the Libeller sets it down thus and he understand the Authour will thereby make CHRIST as to his Innocent or Immaculate Holy Pure Humanity Naturall and thereby prepare an Entrance and way for his Seduction from God to Nature and Creature especially and because as a Beaten and Expert Spirit he knoweth that this Tree of Life will hence forward discover his Root out of which he is grown but hath hitherto been covered with Earth and will put an End to that his Secret Mystery whereby he may bring to the people a Root which bears Gall and Wormwood and still seduce many from Christ and catch them in his Net 221. The Scripture saith of our wild humane Nature thus That we are all by Nature the children of wrath And the Naturall Man perceiveth not that which is of the Spirit Is Christ become a Man in the wild Nature then he was by Nature vaine or corruptible as all other Men. And how then hath he revealed the Mystery of God of which the Naturall Man knoweth and understandeth Nothing could he pay our Debts and offer an acceptible sacrifice for us and reconcile us to the Father 222. With these sayings this Spirit obscureth the distinction between the heavenly pure and the Earthly perished Corrupt impure Birth and Nature Also between the Womans Seed and the Serpents Abraham's and Adam's Seed and will frame for us A Naturall Christ in whom is Good and Evill Light and Darknesse Yes and No and set our Salvation on a Gog. But the Scripture discovereth his falshood and Groundlesnesse and faith That not all Abraham's Seed are also therefore Children but in Isaac shall thy Seed be called and not in Adam Cain Ishmael and Esau The Children of the Promise are accounted for the Seed 223. He saith not through the Seeds as through many but as through One through thy Seed which is Christ out of which viz out of the Eternall incorruptible Seed the Living Word of God all Children of the Promise are born as the Dew out of the Morning 224. For as his Children are not born of Bloud nor of the Will of the Flesh nor of the Will of Man but of God So also according to his Humane Flesh he cannot be born of Adam's Naturall but of Abraham's promised Seed which he himself is nor be of less Discent and Honour then his children are seeing they all come from ONE both that which sanctifieth and they that are sanctified 225. Which Seed is not a Naturall Adamicall but a Supernaturall Heavenly Seed wherein God and Man is united God in Man and Man in God out of which Mary as a Daughter of the Promise even according to her Flesh must aforehand be born e're Christ had assumed his body in her as the Holy Apostle saith cleerly that Christ proceeded from the Father according to the Flesh to whom belonged the Filiation the Glory of the Covewant the Law the Oracles Ordinances or Worship of God and the Promise which Promise belongeth Not to Abraham's Naturall but to Abraham's Seed of Faith Hitherto the Libeller 226. Are not these high inducing Vaunting Speeches How should a simple Man be otherwise then lead blindfold by them who would say he doth the Authour wrong But hearken Libeller you will not with this Description yet by a great deal lay bare the Root of the Covered Tree as you suppose you yet understand Nothing thereof much lesse the Authour's Mind and Thoughts only you falsifie and pervert it with a strange understanding 227. Are you not a false Expositor then tell me where stands it written in my Book that Christ became a man in this Worlds wild Nature that he was begotten of proceeded from Sinful Seed as thou explainest the meaning of the Authour to be so and settest down a heap of contradictory senslesse meanings and shamefully and reproachfully cryest out upon him for a Devil very blindly contrary to his meaning and understanding 228. Art thou he that must Judge me then learn first the Authour's Mind and Sence My Text saith Till the Prince of Light came out of the Heart of God and became a man in Nature it is not in the Wilde Nature but it is And wrestled in his humane Body in the Power of the Divine Light in the Wild Nature 229. The Question is What is the Wilde Nature wherein the Prince of Light out of the Heart of God wrestled in the Humanity Is it earthly Flesh Or the source or quality of the Starres and Four Elements No For the Sake of that the Prince
lost the Life understand the right Divine Life of his Noble Image and that hath Christ brought again he hath generated that Image out of Death againe the living Word out of Gods Heart is entered into the Image shut up in Death and hath assumed or taken THAT Essence to himself and become a true Man such a Man to whom the outward Body only hung which stood swallowed up in the right Image but in the outward World manifest 271. He hath also therewith put on again to the Soul the holy Body viz the Innocent or Immaculate and into that holy Body hath taken a humane Soul out of Mary's Souls Essence-seede therefore must Christ afterwards be Tempted and want the outward food for Forty Dayes 272. For the Soul must be tempted to try whether now in that holy Body it would Eate of Gods Substance and satiate it self and therefore it was permitted to the Devill to Tempt the Soul 273. Seeing he Excused himself that he could not stand because the Matrix of the fierce wrathfull Nature had drawen him too hard therefore now he should tempt and try it with THIS Man as he had also tempted and tryed it with Adam and overcame him 274. Therefore God sent another or second Adam and set him upon the Kingly Throne which he had there he should tempt or try with him whether he could also give him a Fall He now set before him the Glory of this outward World viz the outward Eating or foode 275. And though indeed that was not at hand therefore that he should with his Noble Image and Divine strength goe into the outward and command Stones to become bread to try whether he could bring it to that that the Noble Image might yet become captivated and shut up in Death 276. And then he set before him the Great power and authority he had he should with the Divine Omnipotency in the outward kingdome flie from the Temple to try whether he might introduce him into the outward Lust so that Gods Love Spirit might depart from this Image whereas the Deity was only humble and Lowly he would introduce him into Pride 277. Thirdly he set before him the Dominion of the Outward world he should be a Lord in the Third Principle that he would let him only be a Lord in the Inward should fall downe and pray unto him or worship him 273. For the Devill had to doe about the Kingly Seate that this Man was to possesse Therefore it was permitted to him viz to the Devill to Tempt HIM so that if he stood the Devill should remaine a Lyer and his Judgement be upon his own Lying Mouth or Tongue The Conception and Becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Christ is with its Circumstances as followeth 279. WHen the Divine Image in Adam was vanished or disappeared Then God pittied it and would that this Image might be helped againe and Promised to Adam and Eve the Crusher of the Serpent viz the Word and Power of the Deity that should take the Womans seede understand the disappeared Image Essence into it self and therewith destroy the sting of the Devill and the Anger of God in the Soul 280. That very Promised Word stood neverthelesse presented to the Noble Image now shut up in Death and desired its former dwelling house of its similitude for a Delightfull habitation 281. But by or with the Promise it hath set it self before the Soul againe in the Light of the Life of the Soul and set a Limit or Mark thereto whereby it would againe enter into the in Death inclosed right humane Essence and awaken the Life from Death 282. That Limit or Mark was set in Mary the Virgin and became blessed in the Word of Promise in Paradise and stood as a Center or Limit of the Humanity 283. Gods Heart had promised and espoused or united it self in that Limit or Mark That Limit or Mark became adorned with the highly precious Virgin of the wisdome of God viz with the Looking Glasse or Eye of the Holy Spirit indeed not with any strange thing but with the first Life understand the Divine of the Noble Image in Adam from which Adams Soul went forth into the Spirit of this outward world viz into the source or quality of the Starres and Elements whose Center is the Abysse of the first Principle 284. This blessed Limit or Mark was promised to the Fathers viz to Adam Abraham David and others O how have the Prophets delighted and rejoyced at this Limit or Mark the sacrifices of the Jewes were a Type of this Limit or Mark. 285. For when Adam had lost the pure and faire Image understand the power of the Heart of God which stood in his body of the Heavenly Substantiality as a Center of the Deity then stood the Soul barely in the Fathers Property understand the Eternall Nature which without the Light of God is a fierce wrathfull and Consuming fire 286. For the Soul is out of that Center viz out of the Eternall Nature of the Father and therefore was that Soul in Israel lead so long a while even unto the Limit or Mark in the Father Nature 287. The Law on Mount Sinai was given in Fire and Thunder in the Fathers Nature and Moses was also called in the Bush by the Fire-flame in the Fathers Nature 288. And Christ also sayd thus when he came in the Flesh Father the Men were thine and thou hast given them to ME and I give them Eternall Life 289. That highly blessed Limit or Mark stood in the Grace Covenant of the Sacrifices with or in Israel The Sacrifices were a Signe or Type of the Limit which God set before them and Israel became in the Sacrifices through the Limit or Mark ransomed from sinne 290. Israel offered Sacrifice with the bloud of Beasts that Gods Imagination looked upon through the Limit or Mark of his Covenant since Man was become Earthly therefore God set the Limit or Mark before himself for a Covenant of Grace that his Imagination might not enter into the Earthly source or quality and that his anger Fire might not be awakened with Mans Earthlinesse and Sinne and so he devoure them as was done by Eliah 291. The Circumcision of the Jewes was also this that Israel must shed its Bloud and that Gods Imagination looked on through the Limit or Mark of his Covenant For Christ should destroy Death with the shedding of his bloud It should fall into the Anger of God viz into the Souls Fire and quench the kindled Fire of God 292. Therefore now God Imaged or represented to himself in the Covenant the bloud-shedding of Christ and quenched with this Imagination the fierce wrath in the Soul and through THAT became Israel saved such as with earnest sincerity have set or put their Will and Imagination into the Covenant they have received or conceived the power of the Limit or Mark in the Covenant viz
Modest Eye of the wisdome of God and the Wisdome is the Holy Spirits Corporeity wherein he dwelleth It is his Eternall Looking-Glasse wherein he hath discovered or discerned the Great Wonders from Eternity 314. And the Holy Spirit is gone forth or proceeded from the Word viz out of the Center or Heart of God forth from the Father viz out of the Fire through the Light into the Majesty into the Essence of the Paradisicall and Angelicall World understand into that Essence or into the Pure Element viz into the Substantiality of the Heavenly Corporeity 315. This very Substantiality or Corporeity as is now mentioned was Christs heavenly Flesh and Bloud For the Noble Tincture maketh the Water out of the Majesty turne into Spirituall Bloud 316. That very Substantiality which was in the Covenant wherein the Promised Word of God stood is Entered into Maryes Substantiality viz into the in Death inclosed Substantiality and is become a Body and hath made that which was shut up living againe The divine and heavenly Paradisicall Substantiality in the Covenant and Maries Substantiality is become ONE thing the Life sprouted or grew in Death 317. Therefore is Christ become our Life and Spirit also our Flesh and Bloud and therefore he giveth us understand our Souls-Fire his heavenly Body and Bloud to eate and to drink Our Soul hath with the Divine Substantialities Entrance againe gotten heavenly flesh for its Fire-Life it burneth againe in the divine source or quality out of the Love-Substantiality 318. The Holy Tincture according to the divine Fires Property belongeth to the Soul and the Waters property viz the Lights Meeknesse belongeth to the Body the Body is alwayes under or beneath the Soul 319. For the Soul it out of the Eternall Nature-Fire it is the Principle between the Dark and Light World it hath the Center of the Fire-World in it self 320. And the Substantiality is out of the Center of the Light-world in the Divine desire it cometh to a Substance for it is the substance of the Desire the Desire is Spirit and that which is comprehended in the Desire is the Substance of the Desire 321. And what can the desire comprehend other then it self that is the Meeknesse of the Light that is a sinking downe of the Love and Meeknesse towards the Fire-Spirit that riseth up That the Fire-Spirit continually comprehendeth in its desire and consumeth it that is it bringeth it through the sharpnesse of the Father and there it goeth through death againe forth into the Liberty and maketh the source or quality of the divine World for the Spirit of God is understood therein 322. Not that there is a dying or Death therein but the Fire source or quality is accounted for a Death for the Roote of the Fire is the Dark World with its sterne formes to the Fire-Nature As in the Book of the Six Points of the Great Mysterie is expresly mentioned at Large 323. Now understand the sence aright Gods Substantiality hath been from Eternity it is unmeasurable and unsathomable it is every where all over wheresoever a Man can say here is God there is also the Divine Substantiality yet not in the Outward World in the Third Principle but in the Heavenly in the Second Principle 324. Therefore said Christ John 3. 13. None goeth to Heaven but the sonne of Man which is come from Heaven and which it in Heaven his divine Substantiality was in Heaven and yet it was come into the Humanity and the Humanity is without him dead in Adam 325. Now would any goe into Heaven they must then have his substance on them He is the Ladder that Jacob saw which with one End reached to Heaven and with the other End in the Humanity 326. A Man is to understand it thus that the Body of Christ understand the Corporeity of the divine Substantiality which hath revealed or manifested it self in the Corporized Substantiality of the Humanity in Mary is Greater then ALL. 327. The divine Substantiality is not totally gone into the Creaturely Image that cannot be for it is unmeasurable Only it hath revealed or manifested it self in the humane Substantiality in the Created Image in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and kindled the humane and given its Life understand into Adam's Image which also was in Mary and in all Men. Question 328. Now it may be asked What kinde of Person was Mary being the Limit of Gods Covenant stood in her Or how did CHRIST get Body and Soul in Her and yet remained what he was from Eternity Answer 329. Many was First a Bodily Issue and Daughter of Eve the Mother of us all and of her right Mother Anna and of her right Father Joachim no immaculate pure virgin understand according to the outward World for the Anger of God stuck also in her and shee is redeemed or reconciled through the Bloud of Christ 330. And according to the Second Principle her Image stood also shut up in Death But the Limit or Mark stood in her understand in her Image but undiscernably and unperceivably in that way and manner as God is in all and the Thing knoweth nothing of him for God dwelleth not in the Thing he possesseth Nothing but only himself Thus was the Limit or Mark in Mary and Gods Promise in the Word of Life was in the Limit or Mark yet not dwelling in Mary but in it self 331. God had never according to his Heart moved himself from Eternity and when once he moved himself in Mary in the Limit or Mark then Mary became highly blessed and in the Blessing impregnate with the Saviour For the Life came into Death into the in Death inclosed Essence 332. Now yet the Seed of Man qualified or operated with the Body and now when the divine Life came into the Essence of the Seed of Mary then her whole Body viz the Images Body according to the Second Principle became Highly Blessed And in this new Wonderous Entrance and Moving of God was brought to Life so that her Essence became living and the Tincture of her Bloud became kindled with the Divine Tincture understand the Seeds Tincture which qualifieth or mixeth with the whole Body 333. But the outward Kingdome of this World was not at this time broken off from Mary that held her still captive SHEE must through Dying through her Sons Death enter into the Eternall Life 334. Her Body indeed did not vanish or fall away for it was in the Midst in the Blessing only the Earthly source or quality must break or corrupt in her and all Adam's Children must enter through One and the same Entrance into Life viz through the Dying of Christ when Christ quenched the Soul-Fire on the Crosse in Death then also Maryes Soul-Fire became quenched that is rightly kindled in the Light of the Majesty 335. The outward Body remained to be a Covering before it so long as it stood in the source or quality of the Stars
understand them not and besides you expound my sence and Mind altogether falsly Who hath called you that you should explaine my obscure deep hidden Writing I had written as a young child in the Mystery of God when I was first come into that Schoole and hung still to the A. B. C come you or any other to this Dance and you will well see whether you can be instantly a Doctor or no. 357. Such a foolish understanding as you impute to me I would scarce look for in a Cow have a care and consider how you will be able to answer it in the presence of God If your Fiction should prevaile then instantly would another Antichrist be generated or born 358. You come marching on with a twofold Seed in Adam one must be Christs Seed and the other Adams Naturall Seed and found the Election of God upon it but you look upon this Mystery as a Cow looketh upon a New Barne Door you understand nothing of it you can not explaine and set it downe with any ground what the Seed of the Noble Image is and yet you will Judge 359. Indeed thou layest a snare before Mens Souls especially the dejected sad sorrowfull Tempted Souls so that many a one thinketh thus with himself saying who knowes whether I be begotten or extracted out of a right Seed out of Christ especially when he feeleth the Assaults of Temptation then he should seek comfort in this Libell 360. You say the Gracious Election is a great Comfort to the children of Christ when they feele Gods Grace in them viz the Womans Seed but where shall he rest that is Assaulted and Tempted by the Devill he may well in your writings despaire he would think continually he were out of or from Adam's Seed and that God will none of him 361. If you will speak so of the Grace-Election then you must not leave out the Love of God which willeth not the Evill you should joyne with it that which Christ saith Father the Men were thine and thou hast given them to Me and I give them the Eternall Life Also Father I will that those whom thou hast given Me be where I am Also I am come to call the sinners to repentance and not the Righteous there is in Heaven among the Angells of God more Joy at one sinner that Repenteth then at Ninety-nine righteous that need Repentance And As true as I live saith the Lord I will not the Death of a sinner but that he turne and live 362. If you will prove any thing with Cain and Abel with Issac and Ishmael also with Esau and Jacob then learne first to understand the Three Principles what the drawing to Good and to Evill is reject not Nature learne first to distinguish the Eternall Nature from the beginning inceptive Nature else you will but lay a snare upon the Bodyes and Souls of your Disciples or Schollers and will but tumble or Grope in the Dark in meere doubting 363. You will build high and yet a Man can find no sufficient ground in all your writing It is as to the Mystery but a fighting with a shaddow Tell me if you be a Master and have an enlightened Mind and Thoughts as you suppose What are the Two Seeds in Adam out of one of which Cain out of the other Abel is generated or borne Is that the Predestinate Purpose of God as you conceit it then demonstrate it 364. You must understand the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity if you will Judge thereof also the understanding of the Dark World also of the fierce Wrath and of the Love of God what God is in Love and Anger what a Devill or an Angel is and how he came to be a Devill 365. Also you must understand the Mysterie of the Divine wisdome Especially you must understand how the Deare Name of God Originateth from Eternity How the Nothing becometh introduced into Nature so that out of the Nothing a source or quality cometh to be If you understand not THESE things then stay with your conceits at home read my Book of the Threefold Life of Man and you will see with other Eyes 366. Christ saith You must be borne anew through Water and the Holy Spirit else you cannot see the Kingdome of God He saith YOU not a stranger YOUR SELF 367. There doth not come another strange Creature into us when we become born out of Christ but when we put our whole desire into God into the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ into his suffering and Dying and become sorry for our sinnes and desire Gods Mercy in Christ then our Souls Will-Spirit goeth forth from sinne and Evill or Malice and entereth into the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ viz into the Heavenly Substantiality which is greater then all and there the Will-Spirit cometh before the Center viz before the Heart of God 368. That Heart of God is desirous of the Humanity and that graspeth with its desire into the Will-Spirit after the Humanity and thus the Will-Spirit receiveth the Power of the Center viz a Sparkle of the Divine Power 369. And that Sparkle hath on it self the Divine Substantiality viz the Water of the Eternall Life out of the Majesty of God and therein the Wisdome with the Heavenly Tincture this the Will-Spirit which is become generated out of the Soul bringeth againe with great Joy into the Souls-Fire 370. And when the Soul-Fire tasteth the sweet Love and Meeknesse in it self in its own Essence then the Essence is so very vehemently terrified that it appeareth overcome as it were dead and loseth its Fiery right and the Fiery Essence falleth into the Meeknesse of the Love viz into the Liberty of God without besides or beyond Nature and yeeldeth it self captive to the Meeknesse viz to the Lights property and is as if it were of the Fiery property and yet were not of it this is a terrour of Great Joy and the Aspect of God in the Divine Power whence Body and Soul doe tremble for Joy 371. For thus the Soulish Fire becometh put out of the Earnest severe paine of the fierce wrath of God of the Eternall Fires Essence and property into another source or quality viz into a Love-Desire for the Light of God kindleth it self in the Souls-Fire for when the Meeknesse and Love Desire cometh into the Magick Souls-Fire then the Love and Meeknesse feeleth the Great Life out of the Fathers Nature 372. For the Meeknesse is a Sinking downe it is the Water-Spirit and without the Great Life is as it were dead in comparison of the Fire but when it cometh into the Fire it becometh as vehemently terrified as the Fire in it and the terrour is the kindling of its Life and of the Light 373. Seeing then the Soul in the beginning of its Creation was cloathed and adorned with this Heavenly Substantiality and it was the Souls right inward Body and that the Soul in Adam is gone
forth with its Imagination away from this Substantiality whence that Substantiality is againe become shut up in Death viz in the still Nothing 374. And it the Soul is entered with its Imagination into the Earthly Kingdome viz into the Substantiality of its Root and neverthelesse that very first Image which became shut up in Death viz in the inability without the Life yet hangeth to the Soul but without its apprehension or understanding 375. Therefore now when the Light of the Soul becometh kindled againe and the heavenly Substantiality out of Gods Majesty receiveth the Life viz the Light in the Soul then the dead Substantiality becometh Living againe in the Lights power and becometh together with the now new introduced Substantiality one Substantiality one spirituall Body for it is of one only Essence and here Death riseth up in Christ here God and the Inward Man become one Person 376. Understand it aright This new Light-Life is Christ He first introduced it againe into the Soul and our right humanity so that God and Man is ONE Now we must follow after God we must put our Imagination into him for he hath put his into Us and then we become impregnate with the Saviour we become new-borne in his Limit or Mark that God set in Paradise wherein he is become Man Death riseth up again in that very Limit or Mark we must be true Members of Christ if we would see God 377. When the Water or the Water-source or quality out of the Meeknesse of God cometh into the Souls-Fire so that the Light kindleth it self then is the Noble Tincture already generated out of the Water in the Fire which is the Glance or Lustre and Ornament of Heaven as a Paradisicall Delight or Pleasantnesse in which the Substantiality of God shineth or appeareth and therein the Holy Spirit and in the Spirit the Divine Center viz the Power of Heart of God and in the Heart of God the Mysterie viz the Principle or the Father viz the Fire-World and in the Fire-World the Dark World and in the Dark World this outward World together with the Starres and Elements 378. Thus ALL goeth out of ONE fountain-Spring but the Heart of God is the Center of All Substances or of Every thing it is all Magicall and in the Magick-Desire standeth the Substance according to each Worlds property and according to the desire of each of them for the Desire maketh Substance according to the Desires property therefore is the Fire the strongest and the Light the Mightiest in the Power the Fire giveth Life and the Light giveth power and understanding 379. Understand it aright The Dark World is the Center of this outward World The Dark World hath the formes to Nature viz the Great Magick Desire wherein the source or Torment and Anguish generateth it self It is the wheele to the Fire-Life with its Formes and hath in it self the strong Magia of the Desire It laboureth in its own forme till to the Fire and there its Principle shuts up it self 380. For in the Fire existeth the great Life and another source or quality and also another Principle viz the Light with the quality or source of Meeknesse whereas in the Dark World there is only Anguish and a meere hunger Desire The Light holdeth the Dark World captive In these TWO now standeth the Drawing to Good and to Evill my Sir Libeller 381. The Light or the Power of the Light is a desire and willeth to have the Noble Image according to Gods similitude for it is created to the Light World so also the Dark World viz the Desiring of the fierce Wrath willeth to have it for Man hath all the Three Worlds in himself and there is a great Strife in Man to which of these now he uniteth or giveth up himself with his Desire and Willing that getteth the Dominion in him as the Apostle saith To which you give your self in Obedience you are servant of that either of sinne unto Death or of Obedience unto Righteousnesse 382. Each world standeth hidden in the other for Each dwelleth only and barely in it self neither possesseth the other in the fource or quality thereof as you see it in Light and Darknesse how the Darknesse dwelleth in the Light and is not manifest in the shining of the Light but if the Light departeth or Extinguisheth then the Darknesse becometh manifest 383. Thus you see also the difference of the source or quality how one source or quality mixeth not with the other by the Fire and Light The Light dwelleth in the Fire and yet hath not the Fires source or quality but a meek amiable one and Herein sticketh the Great Mystery Mysterium Magnum My Sir Libeller seek it and then you will find it 384. In this Mysterie seek the TWO sort of Seeds and Wills and leave free-will to Man else you are the Dark Worlds Advocate which World soever in Man gets the upper Dominion that extracts or begets Seed out of its own Essence that beareth fruit and worketh the other stands hidden be it the Heavenly or the Hellish 385. When Adam's Soul went sorth away from the Divine World out of Paradise into the Outward World then the Soul wrought or boar fruit to Death in the Dark World But when it apprehended the Cursher of the Serpent in the Limit or Mark of the Covenant then it wrought or boare fruit to Life againe 386. But being his Noble Image without the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ could not rise up our of the still Death therefore both Dominions remained qualifying or operating in him viz the Hellish and the Heavenly and are standing the whole Time in strife one with another about the Image Each hath its Fiat in it self and many a Branch is become rent off from this Tree 387. And here seek Cain and Abel also Jacob and Esou Isaac and Ishmael here you will find them and not in the Light World in Gods Predestinate purpose Here you will finde my deep hidden Magicall Book which the Authour at that time might not make more cleere but now through Gods grace may doe it 388. Read the Forty Questions of the Soul I 'le assure you you will become seeing unlesse the Anger of God and the Devills malice hath wholly blinded you and that you are a totall Cain then you will see nothing but a Shell And though you were such a one yet then the Doore of Grace standeth Open towards you and desireth to have you and you may IN Christ become generated anew 389. The Possibility is in ALL Men but in Gods Mercy not that he would not have any that came to him HE will alwayes readily only it lyeth not in humane conceits running and own doing none can make himself the Child of God he must wholly cast himself into the Obedience of God and then God maketh him a Child he must be Dead understand with the outward Reason and then God in Christ liveth in Him
390. He should not feigne to himself wayes to the Kingdome of Heaven and make Opinions as the Autichristian Church doth for in the Opinion he runs of himself yet It lyeth not in any Man 's going or running but in a lowly humble Penitent Heart which goeth forth from sinne those God hath Mercy on for it lyeth in Gods Mercy 391. When Man converteth and goeth forth from sinne then he becometh IN Gods Mercy Elected to be a Child of God then the Spirit of Christ draweth him to the Father Christ saith None cometh unto Me except my Heavenly Father draw him 392. Now he draweth not the wicked Will THAT the Devill and the Dark world draweth only Man hath Free will if he cast his Will into Righteousnesse into God then the Spirit of God comprehendeth his Will and bringeth it in Ternarium Sanctum into the Holy Ternary and there the Noble Graine becometh sowne in the Will and then beginneth the Drawing of the Father to the Regeneration 393. God hardeneth no Man but the Dark world in the Devils Imagination and Inchantment they harden Man viz the Souls-Fire they are a Door shut against the Light 394. Though indeed the Scripture saith God hath Mercy on whom he will and hardeneth whom he will yet it hath not that understanding as if God would not hear the Poor Sinner For Christ saith come all to me that are weary and heavy laden I will refresh you Also I am come to call sinners to Repentance Also The Son of Man is come not to Judge the World but that he might save the World He that runneth in his own conceit hardeneth himself for he will needs be Christ 395. Gods hardening is when he letteth one run on whither he will God knoweth his very well why should a Man pour Oyle into those wounds to which it is poyson the Soar will be but the Larger 396. Who will help him who himself will NOT Or shall Men cast Pearls before Swing If a man lets the free-will goe whither it will then it cometh into its Fathers Native Country out of which it is gone forth why doth Man lend the Devill his heart that he may introduce an Evill Will or Desire thereinto A good Tree bringeth forth good fruit 397. Why did Adam bring his Imagination into the Serpents Poyson into Pride of Multiplicity into the wonder of the fierce wrathfull Nature He had the Command not to do it why was he disobedient who compelled him Even the Lust or Longing which came from the Devil and therefore is HE Guilty of Mans Fall 398. He must indeed stand in the Temptation to try into which World he would give up himself all the Three Worlds drew him each had him on a Band there he should shew his valour as a Prince he was free 399. But that he was overcome by the Outward World that the Devill caused by his Infection as still at this very day he teareth many a little Sprout from the Tree Therefore Man should not be secure also not rely on or be of himself but continually give up himself into Gods Mercy 400. He can not better wrestle with the Devill then when he casts himself into Gods Mercy then he relyes not on or is not of himself but he is Gods the Devill may dance in his Smoak Hole how he will a Man can not hinder him of that only let him not give his Will to the Devill as Adam did Number II. Page 18. 401. THe Pasquil or Libeller begins here again to Reprehend but he perverteth the Authour's Mind and Sense quite and cleane and casts Gall into it where it stands written thus 402. But they that became generated or born in the Light of Nature and of the Spirit and upon Earth never rightly knew the Tree of Life but were growne in ITS Power which hath overshadowed ALL Men upon Earth as indeed many Heathen and People and Infants they were also taken up in that very power wherein they were Growne and their Spirit became cloathed therewith and they sung the Song of their Power Now thus saith the Libeller 403. And as this Spirit determines of a Naturall Christ so will he also have the knowledg of him to be Naturall and from that though they knew not the Tree of Life in Spirit and in Truth might attaine Eternall Life Externally as if there were more wayes then One to it Thus far the Libeller Answer 404. Is not the Libeller sent that he should Judg the People Tongues and Languages and shall he not Judge the Child in the Mothers body or Womb also the deaf and blind which are born Deaf especially the Heathen and Turks he letteth none of these into Heaven for he hath the Keyes of Peter O thou miserable Blindnesse how many will enter into the Kingdome of God before thee 405. Is not the Father in the Sonne and the Sonne in the Father and the Holy Spirit in them both Now if the Heathen People are without understanding Zealous for the Living God and yet have not the knowledge of Christ among them and know nothing thereof but with a totall earnest sincerity Desire the Love and Mercy of God will God then cast them all away because they have not Christs Name 406. He that apprehendeth the ONE only living God he hath apprehended the Holy Trinity The Publican in the Temple knew not how to say any thing else but only this O God be Gracious to me poor Sinner If now a Turk or Heathen should come in such a Manner with sincere earnest Supplication and Repentance and yet knew nothing of the Kingdome of Christ Sir Libeller wouldst not thou admit him to the Mercy of God 407. How doe you know what God would do for you or what have you given to him that he hath of Grace bestowed his Sonne upon you may he not then also receive Turks and Heathens to Grace especially little Children Hearken thou blind Libeller thou understandest not the Authour 's saying 408. My Text saith Those who were become Born or generated in the Light of Nature and of the Spirit The Light of the Eternall Nature is the Heart of God the Light of the Majesty of God and the Spirit from or out of the Light is the Holy Spirit with this Description the New Birth 409. Now if a man be generated or born out of THAT then it is well and good for he is born of God there will be many people thus born in God which knew nothing of the Name of Christ viz How God is become Man or Incarnate 410. Doth now the blind Libeller understand Nothing then I suppose the Devill hath blinded him See further But those that were grown in ITS Power understand in the Power of the Tree of Christ they were received Doest thou here understand the Naturall Growth with or as to Flesh and Bloud then thou art blind indeed 411. Doe you not see my Text saith Those
who were born in the Light of Nature and of the Spirit that is no fleshly Birth that which is born in the Spirit of the Light is born of God Sir Libeller you have the Property of a Toad which sucketh Evill out of Good what shall I say or write much thereof Number III. Page 26. It standeth thus 412. But if a Man will speak of God what GOD is he must diligently consider the Powers in Nature as also the whole Creation of Heaven and Earth as the Starres and Elements and the Creatures which are proceeded from them then also the Holy Angels Devils Man also Heaven and Hell 413. Hearken Libeller when thou rightly knowest what an Angel is then thou knowest thy self in thy Noble Image and knowest God in his Love according to the Second Principle 414. And when thou rightly knowest what a Devil is then thou knowest Gods Angor and the Dark World 415. And when thou rightly knowest the Stars Elements then thou hast in the Outward Nature the Similitude of the Inward Eternal Nature 416. And when thou rightly conceivest of the Creatures thou then seest by the Creation Gods wonderfull Wisdome and when thou rightly conceivest of the Heaven then thou knowest the difference or distinction of the Principles 417. But Hearken Libeller why should I talk long with thee about it thou art indeed wholly blind as to my Writings thou brigest every where other meanings thereinto then I entended by it Thou sayst Flesh and Bloud cannot Conceive of God thou oughtest not to oppose me in that I say so too and that the Outward Man knoweth or understandeth Nothing of God but the Inward Man especially the Spirit searcheth even the Depths of the Deity 418. I say not That a Beast should Consider the Angells Devills Heaven Hell Starres Elements and Creatures But an understanding Man who is the Child of God who shall have his refreshing therewith that Gods Love Groweth in Him 419. But that which is said concerning the LAW of Nature that those who live or have lived therein and are growne in that Light 's that the blinde Libeller expounds all concerning the outward Nature he understandeth nothing in it 420. The Law of Nature is Gods Commadment when God said to Adams Nature Thou shalt not eate of the Tree that Law is also written in our Minde so that we know we should doe right the very beathens and little Children understand THAT 421. Now if a Man live in that Law and doth that which he well knoweth that it is RIGHT and is generated or born out of the Light of the Eternal Nature out of the Spirit viz out of Gods Heart who will Judge him Thou Moate-Judger stay thou at home 422. When I in that Place speak of the Tree of vegetation viz of the sweet Tree then I understand or meane not the will of the Flesh but the Dominion of the Spirit of God I also speak not of the Corporall and inceptive or beginning Birth but of the Spirituall 423. The sweet Tree is Gods Spirit as is formerly mentioned at Large understand it is the heavenly Substantiality which the Word or Heart of God brought along with it into the Essence of Mary which became Man in Mary that sweet Tree of the Divine Substantiality is greater then all and moveth in the second Principle over US ALL. 424. My whole meaning Aimes at this and though thou understandest it not yet I know it and say with assured Truth that many a Heathen Turk and Infant hath eaten of this Tree in Gods Mercy and though he hath not knowne it plainly by Name that which the outward Man knoweth not that the inward Man knoweth yea the Outlandish People have even Adames Body and Soul as well as we 425. Hearken Libeller what saith Paul Rom. 2. 11. to the 16 There is no respect of Persons with God they who have sinned without Law shall perish without the Law and they who have sinned against the Law they shall be judged by the Law for in the sight of God not the hearers of the Law are justified but those that doe the Law shall be justified for if the Heathen that have not the Law and yet by Nature doe the work of the Law those having not the Law are a Law unto themselves whereby they shew that the Law is written in their Hearts seeing their Conscience witnesseth as also their Thoughts which accuse or exeuse one another till the Day wherein God will Judge the secrets of Manking through JESUS CHRIST according to my Gospel 426. Why then doth the Libeller reject this which I have written that the Law of Nature is written in Mans heart and Every one by Nature Knoweth well and his Conscience witnesseth to him that he should doe Right now if there were a Stranger who knew Nothing of Christ and did from his whole Soul christian works in hope of the Divine Wages Wilt thou condemne him 427. Doest thou not understand that they shall be judged by the Gospel which hear the Gospel and do it not and they which hear it not and do Evill shall be so too and they which heard not Christ Preached nor knew of him and yet were zealous in the Love in the fear of God shall in their zeale enter into the kingdome of God before the stiffe necked Christians which only bear the Name of Christ 428. If thou canst then blame Saint Paul to his face as thou doest me Thou unintelligent fierce wrathfull envious Libeller Thou Judgest me and Condemnest me Contrary to the Commandment of Christ who saith Judge not and you shall not be Judged condemn'not so you shall not be condemned With what Measure you Meet to others will others Meet unto you again 429. What need you spread abroad such a reproachfull Libel among the People and Judge my written unprinted Writings which I wrote only for a Memoriall to my self which are come to Light without my will and to condemn me in such a vaine frivolous and altogether Diabolicall manner 430. Thou Moate-Judger was this commanded thee it was not done in respect of the Authour of the Book but that thou mightest make shew of thy fine high understanding Thoughts what a Master of Scripture and Man of understanding thou art but I find thee in Babel with an unchristain Mind go on so and thou wilt be found a very faithfull Labourer to our Lord God in his Vineyard will you not think you 431. Thou hast in thy disgracefull Libel set it down thy self that men should condemn none but it is free for THEE only what thou forbiddest to another THOU only mayst Judge that which is secret 432. Had I known that my Book should have been read likely it had been written clearlier with plain words though it is clear enough but thou art blind The Moat or Splinter of the Thorne of Pride to shew himself to his brother Abel like Cain
sticketh in thy Eyes 433. But I tell thee that thy Book the Libel affordeth a good Root for a New Antichrist I understand therein very new Things which I suppose to run quite contrary to the Holy Scripture Especially concerning the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and concerning his Mother Mary 434. I believe if men did not Read the Libel it would be more conducing to their happinesse then for any to grope far after your new conceits which are contrary to the Ground of the Scripture it hath such an aspect that it filleth the Eyes of the People but not of those that understand aright they do not all account thee a Master for it it is even called Babel and an untirnely or abortive unprofitable Libel 435. Is this thy Christian Heart that thou judgest and condemnest a zealous Man who is zealous after Salvation and if I did indeed erre in my zeal and yet in a right heart and sincere meaning and that really led with Ignorance and simplicity shouldest thou condemn Me Doest thou not Observe what Saint Paul saith of the zealous Heathens as above-mentioned Rom. 2. 436. Art thou a Master and a Christian why doest thou not first Instruct me and teach me what is better Doest thou not know me I think it is not hidden to thee who I am viz a simple Man and unlearned Art thou highly learned expert and skilfull shouldst thou then deal so Tyrannically with me as to cast me to the Devill 437. Where is thy Christian Heart shew it me in thy Libel shouldest thou condemn a Simple Man I would have friendly conserred with thee and given thee a good account of my doings if thou hadst done as befits a Christian with friendly Information 438. But thy high pust up Mind would not now I have answered to it it deserves no better since thou proclaimest me a Devill I proclaime thee a Lyar for I am a Child of God and am zealous day and night after my God with Sapplication to his Mercy for Christs sake and stedfastly believe that I am a Child of God and Member of Christs Body I am also very certain in the power of the Holy Spirit that he will preserve my Deposited Treasure viz the Noble Pearly Jewel in Christ till that Day 439. Thou proud Pharisee thou shalt not take away the Noble Garland of Victory from me which my Saviour Christ hath set upon me but if thou desirest to take it away from me have a care what thou doest and where thou abidest that the Anger of God do not devoure thee 440. I would as a Christian have thee warned to abstain from such reproaching and shamefull condemning for the kingdome of God consisteth not is knowing much but in an Earnest sincere obedient humble Mind and Will in the presence of God that we be Christains in the Deed and not with the Mouth only 441. A Christian hath no strife but only against HIMSELF against his EVILL Nature God saith Vengoance is mine I will repay it we live and are in God why will we then strive about HIM Let every one but judge himself and turn to God The Strife is alwayes about the Shell and the Kernell which belongeth to the Soul men let that lye 442. Hath any Learned somwhat let him use it to the Honour of God and the profit of his Brother he should not despise any God hath regenerated us in his Love without all our knowledge or desert through his Heart viz his great Mercy when as formerly we were all of us blind and knew nothing of his bringing us back again we were all under sinne and he hath bestowed on us the childship out of Grace shall we then out selves judge one another 443. Or can we all speak with one and the same Tongue There are you know many Gifts and but One only Spirit which giveth them as Saint Paul saith Shall we then call that very Spirit a Devill which openeth Gods Wonders to us doest thou not know what the Scripture saith Whosoever blasphemeth or reproacheth the Spirit of God hath no forgivenesse Eternally 444. Thou drawest the Judgement of God wilfully upon thy self and makest the people the worse that look upon thy Reproaching so that they also become slanderers from your Mouth whereas otherwise they would be quiet that Sinne might be brought forth with Sinne and so be reserved to the severe Judgement of God who will give to every one according to his Deeds Number IV. 445. THe Libeller sets it down thus All men are created by God according to the Flesh and in that very Masse or Lump they are all shut up under Sinne disobedience and Darkness and none better then the other but they are distinguished according to the Spirit and the Children of the Light generated from or out of HIM whom he delivereth out of the Naturall Darknesse and maketh their Darknesse Light But the Children of the World he letteth sit in Darknesse and letteth their Light go out in the Midst of the Darknesse for he loved Jacob and hated Esau 446. Hearken Libeller why doest thou boyle the Broth in thy Mouth and tellest not all freely forth as it sitteth in thy heart you have it within you I would have you fully give it forth What mean you by the Two sorts of Spirits from the Mothers Body or Womb are there two sorts of Souls generated or born one out of God the other out of the Flesh as thou supposest O thou blind Reason what dost thou Teach Wilt thou judge when thou thy self understandest it not 447. Of the Flesh no Soul becometh Generated but Soul of Soul and Flesh of Flesh we are from Adam all extracted or begotten of one Soul and Spirit and no other Adam is the Tree we are the Branches we stand all in that Tree as to the Root and he hath destroyed us all 448. Else if it were so that one Man did receive in the Mothers Body or Womb an Earthly Spirit and the other one out of or from God then were he which is Generated or born out of or from God not guilty of Adams fall also he were no Sinner from the Mothers womb and the other from the Flesh were from the Mothers womb Damned as he finely Court-like applyes it to Jacob and Esau this is his meaning and the understanding soundeth just so only he boyles the broth in the Mouth 449. For what should God suffer so long a while that there is teaching and Preaching to the Damned or what would it be profitable to the totally perfect Is the Spirit from the Mothers womb of God and hath it Gods Light PERFECT then it is without Sinne and needs no Teaching But the Scripture saith They are all Sinners and come short of the boasting which they should have in God The Holy Apostles say O Lord thou hast redeemed US with thy Bloud 450. ANd the Libeller saith further Who then dare say that this is done
is the Seperation between Gods Name and Natures Name also between the Love-source or quality and the Naturall fierce wraths source or quality 495. In the Fire exist Two Principles viz Two Magia's Two desirous Wills viz the Lights and the Fires 496. The Light is a desire of Love Meeknesse and Substantiality and that is in the Eternity called God The Light is the Majesty the Lights desire is the Other or second Center or the Heart of God the Substantiality is Gods Substance it is the Water source or quality or the Spirit of the Eternall Joys Life 497. And the Fire maketh in the Water-source or quality the Tincture or Life so that Gods Substantiality is a Life That very Lights Substantiality is the Words or Hearts Cerporeity wherein the Great Mystery of the Will of the Abysse viz the Wisdome becometh Manifest 498. And the Fire is another Principle then the Light it hath a fierce wrathfull stinging consuming Desire climing up in Might and Pomp it willeth to consume and swallow up all into it self it is a cause of the Covetousnesse its Bitternesse is a Cause of the Envy for it is the sting of Death and Anger 499. And here goe back into the Formes to Fire and then thou wilt find the Dark World and the hellish fierce Wrath and in the Fire GODS Anger which the Light viz his Heart holdeth captive in the Love-Source or Quality and allayeth or meekeneth the Fires fierce-Wrath 500. For the Water of the Eternall Life generated or born out of the Meeknesse viz Gods Substantiality maketh out of the Divine Fire-source or quality another source or quality viz the climibing up of the Divine Joys Kingdome The Fire-source or quality must only be a cause of the Life and of the Light as also of the Spirit and of the Joys Kingdome 501. And heare the Name God severeth it self in the Trinity viz In the First Center to Nature viz the Eternall Will of the Fiat which in the Fire is a sterne severe zealous Substance and in the Light the cause of the Joys Kingdome and of the Spirit of Life That is the Father of all Substances also of his Sonnes viz of the second Centers of the Love-desires 502. And The Other or second Center of the power of the Light is his Sonne or Heart and maketh in himself and in the Father the Second Principle viz the Angelicall World that is our right Fathers or Native Country which Christ brought into US againe 503. And The Spirit going forth from the Fire in the Light is the Third Person in the Light in the Love and the Joy-source or quality He is called God the Holy Spirit understand according to the Sonnes Center and according to the Fires Center he is called The Anger-Spirit of the Father 504. In the Dark World HE is the Life of the Hellish source or quality out of all Formes to Nature In the Fire HE is the Flame of the fierce wrathfull Anger of God the Father and in the Light HE is the flame of the Great Love of God He is the right Life of God and is also the Life of all the Three Principles of all the Three Worlds in each World according to its property and is only knowne or acknowledged and rightly called God the Holy Spirit according to the Love viz according to property of the Sonne of God Else he is called the Spirit of the Nature of all things or Substances 505. Seeing we here goe so deep we will therefore shew you somewhat more out of true Love and not out of a Desire so totally to reproach you because of your unskilfulnesse or ignorance for we know you better then you do your selfe and though we are zealous over you yet it should be understood heartily as a reproofe of your high climbed stately proud Will over the Spirit of God from which I have my knowledge 506. Consider of the Principle of Fire and see how the Dead ariseth and how he dieth Behold the Fire is a great hungry desire after Substance and if it cannot have that then it extinguisheth 507. Here consider the Great desire of the Father after the Sonne viz. of the first Principle after the second how the Father thus in great desire loveth the Sonne for he is his life else were the Fathers Life a dry fainting hunger like the Devills and the Dark World for the Fire burneth not without the Substance of the Water-Spirit 508. Here consider what befell the Devill when he lost Gods Love and Meeknesse then he remained to be a dry hunger in the fierce Wrath of the Eternall Nature thus it goeth also with the Soul of Man for they originate all alike out of the Eternall Nature 509. Now see further what in the Center of the Fire is the Possibility and Substance you understand now that the fierce wrathfull Fire-source must have Substance and that the Fire-source or quality it self longeth after Substance and if the Fire get the Substance or the Substantiality of the Water-source or quality into it self then the Fire consumeth that Substantiality and then is the dying of the Substantiality for the Substantiality goeth againe into the Still Eternity without besides or beyond Nature viz into the Nothing 510. And you see rightly that yet there is no Dying but the Light goeth forth out of that very Death out of the Consumtibility forth and the Light is then first the power of the understanding and of the Thoughts or Senses Thus Death ariseth out of the Fire-Life viz into another World viz into the Eternall Nothing into the Liberty without besides or beyond Nature 511. And you see now that the Light dwelleth in the Fire without Source Quality or Torment and knoweth nothing of the fierce wrath of the Fire for it is in its Essence a Love Desire Thus have I written that the Deity viz. Gods Center knew nothing of the fall of the fierce wrathfull Devills but the first Principle know it viz the Father according to the Fires Nature and according to the Desire and according to the hunger in the Dark world 512. Here consider beloved Men and brethren in Christ what the suffering and dying of CHRIST as also OUR Dying is How our Soul must in Christs Death be introduced into the Center of the Hell of Gods Anger into the Principle of Gods Fire and go quite through the source or quality of the consumptibility into the other World viz into the Liberty into the Center of the Love of God 513. For Adam's Soul had turned it self out and was Dead to the Light in the Substantiality and therefore the second Adam brought the Soul againe into the Fire viz into Gods Anger-source or quality and kindled the Light againe in Death and there the Light shone againe in the Darknesse That was Death to Death and a Pestilence to the Anger viz to Hell 514. The Soul was gone forth out of the Liberty of God into the Nature of this World viz
Devill that the Libeller perverts as one that understandeth nothing of my Writings or else of meere Malice Did he not see how I have described with all Circumstances that Gods Heart or Love went not into the Devill for he the Devill would not himself have it now where the Will it self willeth not there is an Eternall Death 536. The Will-Spirit was indeed in the Originall out of Gods Nature but when it demersed it self into the Center to hide it self from the Light of God then remained fierce wrathfulnesse IN fierce wrathfulnesse With what now should resistance be made it was now in its most Originall MOTHER 537. Should Gods Love goe into the Hellish Fire that is not to be should God in his Wrath strive against it it sate already in the Hellish Fire Had not fierce Wrath striven with fierce Wrath then had not Gods Anger yet moved in the place of this World 538. Consider but the Earth thou wilt well finde it thou blinde World with all thy Texts of Scripture which thou hast produced thou wilt not put one word in my Book back from its place only that thou settest a strange vizard upon me that the people might not know me which I esteem not for I am to YOU a very strange Man 539. Thou canst not in thy Hood look me in the Face thou must put off thy skinne if thou wilt see the Spirit of the Mystery Thou understandest Not what thou writest against me thou discoursest not concerning my apprehension and that maketh that thou seest somewhat that is strange thou wilt not see that it is the Roote of the Tree Thou wilt sooner leap into Hell as Lucifer did e're thou touchest one little twig thereof 540. Thou runnest againe into thy Center towards Babel and settest upon an Academy out of which Opinons and the Greatest Babel is growne out of which all Strife hath followed where Men have contended about Words about the Shell and let the Kernell lye but hearken friend tell but TEN and thou wilt find it by Experience 541. God hath Elected ALL of us in ONE Soul and in ONE Spirituall Body to be his Children God hath not breathed into Adam TWO Spirits but One only which is the Spirit of all the Three Principles of all Three Worlds viz a Fire-Light-and-Aire-Spirit 542. Adam should have managed his Dominion with the Light-Spirit then would the Fire-source or quality have been hidden in its Principle and have stood in great joy it had burned only in it self 543. Thus also the Spirit of this World that should also have stood only in it self and have been manifest in this World and the Fire and also the Outward World should have stood as if were swollowed up into the Light and have been manifest only in it self all desires should have been set in the Light and then the Light had shined in all Essences and desires and had filled all as in ONE Will. 544. But when the Will of the Center viz the Fiery Will which is called the Soul went into the Earthly kingdome and Imagined after Evill and Good then it received also the same then its Light Extinguished and it remained in its Mother a dark dry hunger and must help it self with the Spirit of this World as with a Sun-Light 545. Therefore it comes to passe that many times when a Man goeth in the dark he is astonished and terrified and alwayes afraid somewhat should lay hold on him that is the feare of the Soul whèn it perceiveth it self to be without the Light of the Sun in a dark Dungeon it is afraid of Gods fierce Wrath in the Center and of the Devills that dwell in the Darknesse 546. Since then the Divine Light is Extinguished in the Soul therefore Mans Life and Spirit at present without the New Birth standeth in two Regiments or Dominions viz in the Souls Fire it is the Dominion of Gods Anger and of the fierce Wrath as the Fires property is 547. And according to the Spirit of this World it is Evill and Good according to the Sun and according to the Constellation of the Outward Starry and Elementary Spirit it is alwayes according to its Constellation which stood in its Birth as also hath stood in its Conception As that it is at all times aspected with the Conjunction of the Constellatison with the Imagination of the Constellation so is also the outward Will-Spirit unlesse it be that the Soul doe attaine the Divine Light againe in the New Birth and then the Soul constraineth the outward Spirit with the power of the Light and leadeth it captive 548. My Libeller your conceit deceiveth you I know of no more but ONE only Spirit according to the Property of ALL THREE Worlds which is in Man and when the Light Extinguisheth then it is in TWO Properties that which receiveth the Light of God that is Elected to be a childe of God 549. Now it lyeth indeed in Man that he should seek and desire it for Christ saith Knock and it will be opened unto you seek and you will finde Ask and you will receive Your Father will give the Holy Spirit to him that asketh for it Also There is no sonne that asketh for an Egge and the Father giveth him a Scorpion God willeth that all Men be saved 550. Where now remaines in these words and Promises the predestinate purpose of God to the Hardening or where are the Two Spirits whereof God loveth the one and hardeneth the other We have indeed All but One only Soul and that is free it may frame its Will in Gods Love or Anger into which soever it casteth it self with its desire there it is 551. It cometh to passe many times that a Soul hath demersed it self with its Will-Spirit into Gods Anger into the Dark World in its fierce Wrath to all Devills with its sinnes and yet many in the time of this world goe out againe and convert and God receiveth them to Grace He hardeneth them not 552. Have you not an Example in the Prodigali lost sonne who had consumed all his righteousnesse of his Fathers Inheritance with the Devills Swine and was become a Swinheard What the Father did with him when he came againe how he fell about hu neck and kissed him and said This is my beloved sonne whom I had lost he was dead and is become living it is likely thou wilt say God drew him else he had not come 553. The Soul is Free God draweth every one who incline towards him when it entereth into him then it is Elected to the Light World so long as the Will remaineth in the fierce Wrath in the Dark World covered with the Outward so long God willeth it not and it is not drawne but when it inclineth it self towards Gods Face and doth but a little Imagine into Gods Love then the Divine Life becometh stirring 554. Understand the Word is become Man or Incarnate and standeth in the
like a Beast and is not the Noble Image which is saded and disappeared in Death which is created out of heavenly substantiality 578. But that thou wilt not allow me this that in Man understand in the Third Principle a humane Image according to the Angelicall World out of the Heavenly substantiality hath stood in the Inward yet I say that Gods Spirit that in the Second Principle goeth forth out of the First viz out of the Souls Fire of the Father into the Second out of the Love and Light Fire into the Sonne was never at all without substance for it is the Driver forth of the Divine power and substantiality 579. Hath now the Light and Spirit of God been in Man viz in Adam then also hath Gods substantiality been therein For no Fire burneth in Gods Love unlesse it have DIVINE substantiality 580. Therefore saith Christ Whosoever eateth NOT the Flesh of the Son of Man he hath no part in HIM He understandeth the Corporeity of his unmeasurable Eternall Divine Substantiality in the Water of the Eternall Life and in the Tincture of the Power out of the Fire and Light in the Glance or Lustre of the Divine Wisdome out of the Words Body 581. Now if Adam hath been a totall sumilitude according to God then he must not only have had Earthly Substance for his Body if the Soul had had only Earthly source or quality to Eat then it had not had the prohibition but it had also the Corporeity of the Second Principle out of the Heavenly Substantiality that was the right Angelicall Image which became created in the Fiat of the Word 582. But the Outward Fiat according to the Outward Principle Created the Outward Man and God the Holy Spirit breathed himself thereinto according to the source or quality and property of all the Three Principles into the outward Image according to its outward Property viz the Spirit of the Great World Majoris Mundi of the outward World and the Angelicall Divine World according to the Love of Gods Heart and according to the Eternall Nature viz according to the Fire-World viz according to the Fathers Property the right Soulish viz the Center of the whole Man 583. In Brief what is it that Men should make many words Man was a Totall similitude according to God according to all the Three Worlds and their Properties and that he must be againe or must be a hunger-Spirit in the Dark World 584. What he maketh of himself that he is He standeth here in the Field or Soyle either there groweth out of him an Herb on Gods Table or an Herb in Gods fierce Wrath what kind of Essence so ever he will bring in the growing according to the relish of that it will also get a Mouth for it will eat either of the Love or of the Anger 585. The matter is not about the high knowledge only but about the tast or relish that any becometh the Bread of God which God Eateth It lyeth little in the knowing but all in the DOING it must be DOING the Evill Branches must be Cut off that good Wine may grow 586. We should not judge and condemn one another for the knowledge sake The Plow-Man knoweth lesse then the Doctor but he goeth many times before the Doctor into the kingdome of Heaven let us fall upon DOING that we may get Divine Essence into our Sprout let us reach after the LOVE and then we have ALL. 587. MY high Knowledge maketh me not happy or saved for I know not my self it is not Mine but Gods Spirit knoweth it self in ME he allures Me therewith to himself when he departeth or withdraweth then I know Nothing 588. I have not my knowledge at all from Man why should I then long contend with Man about it no Man can either give it me or take it away from me 589. I deal foolishly in that I Strive with thee for thou canst take nothing from me but it is done for the sake of other people which through thy Mouth abuse my knowledge else I would for thy Cursings and Judgings not lift up a Finger 590. Thou shoudst Converse in Love as a Christian if thou wouldst be Gods childe but if thou Judgest thy brother into Hell-Fire for the sake of his Gift what will become of thee how doest thou know what is befallen him that he runneth on thus How dost thou know upon what Branch or Roote God hath ingrasted him Thou wert not at all by when he did sow the Spirit of his Wisdome 591. You say it is from the Devill and there was Joy in Heaven in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary especially in the Fathers Nature when this Seed was sowne I would NOT give the little Graine that was sowen into me for all this worlds good It is more deare to me than Heaven and Earth and thou treadest it underfoote do but see what manner of Angel thou art 592. Thou writest much and if thou shouldst goe with thy writings to the Center there would be no body at home thou gatherest many Texts of Scripture together which in themselves are GOOD that thou mightst settle a framed Opinion concerning that thou knowest no Ground for 593. Thou canst not bring the Opinion into the Center and then bring it out againe there is no Spirit of Depth in thee but collected Matter from others Mouthes and thy own Mouth understandeth it not 594. But I write what I my self understand and what I can bring into the Ground of the Center 595. Art thou a Master then shew thy self one give me a writing concerning the Center of the Eternall and also of the outward Nature let it be seen what thou canst do prove it in the Light of Nature and not from a strange Mouth Speak from your own knowledge and then I will Answer thee 566. Let thy contemining alone and do thou direct it to the honour of God and make if serve the profit and salvation of Man that it may be a Sprour upon Gods Table and I will Answer thee that thou wilt Wonder and if thou meanest piously wilt highly rejoyce thou wouldst neither seek nor find any Devill in Me. 597. There is a great earnestnesse in me to seek my Eternall kingdome in God God hath not promised me a Scorpion instead of an Egge he would not give me to the Devill when I prayed so earnestly to him for his Holy Spirit 598. The Devill sets not upon a Man a spirituall high Triumphant Crowne or Garland of Victory in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary when a Man Fights against him He hath none of THAT which hath been done to this Spirit which thou callest a Devill and whence its knowledge proceeded 599. I write not for my own Fame which is in God but to Teach Men what they may expect from God if they will but come to the Ring or Lists of this Earnest Fight unlesse the outward voluptuousnesse in soft pleasure of the Flesh