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A34451	The Philosophical epitaph of W.C. Esquire for a memento mori on his tomb-stone, vvith three hieroglyphical scutcheons and their philosophical motto's and explanation : with the philosophical Mercury, nature of seed and life, and growth of metalls, and a discovery of the immortal liquor alchahest : the salt of tartar volatized and other elixirs with their differences. Also, A brief of the golden calf, the worlds idol : discovering the rarest miracle in nature, ... / by Jo. Fr. Helvetius. And, The golden ass well managed and Midas restor'd to reason, or, A new chymical light : demonstrating to the blind world that good gold may be found as well in cold as hot regions, and be profitably extracted out of sand, stones, gravel and flints &c. .../ written by Jo. Rod. Glauber. With Jehior, aurora sapientiae, or, The day dawning or light of wisdom : containing the three principles or original of all things whereby are discovered the great and many mysteries of God, nature and the elements, hitherto hid, now revealed / all published by W.C. Esquire. : with a catalogue of chymical books.	Cooper, William, fl. 1668-1688.; Helvetius, Johann Friedrich, d. 1709. Vitulus aureus, quem mundus adorat & orat. English.; Glauber, Johann Rudolf, 1604-1670. Novum lumen chimicum. English.	1673 (1673)	Wing C6062; Wing C6061_PARTIAL; ESTC R6283	114,421	261

he that desires to know God must learn to know him in his image and that perfectly which perfect knowledge is this That God is man and that he is true man who is of God and God is in him This is the wisdom that is mystical hitherto and yet is manifest but only to the wise and is called Theosophia because God doth no where so clearly manifest himself as in man who is his image or honour or glory 1 Cor. 11. 7. Therefore man needs not to go far but only into himself to learn the true knowledge of God and to seek after God in himself and himself in God If he do not thus all is vain and no where else any wisdom to be found Acts 17. 27. Luke 17. 21. Seeing the three other books proceed only from the one Book as the world of God therefore all three do testifie unanimously of this book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 namely each in its letter wisdom and testimony but none so clearly as man doth This is that great whole and perfect Library of wisemen wherewith in justice and equity they may be contented All wisdom and knowledg with their mysteries in these books we may not learn any where else but only through the same Spirit who himself hath penned these books made and testified He therefore who is desirous to study these books must from the bottom of his heart acknowledge and confess his own blindness folly and ignorance and must pray unto the Father of Lights for illumination wisdom and understanding that he would send his holy spirit which may lead us into all truth and take us away from all foolishness and falshood and may bring us to the Light of Gods glory Which may not be done by any other means then through a love to God and to mans own salvation and through a holy life without all Hypocrisie and through the Light that commeth from above and not from beneath from man and his wisdom which all those must learn to deny that desire to learn the wisdom of the holy ones We will speak thus That hitherto all these books were sealed up but are now opened in the end of the World according to the Prophecy 4 Esd 6. 20. Dan 12. 9. Zach. 14. 7. And if wise worldly men are offended at this they betray themselves that the wisdom of the holy one is not in them The books of wisdom testifie unanimously of the word by which all things are created and in which only all wisdom doth rest and which is the beginning of all beginnings in which is all and without which nothing is which is all in all God blessed for ever Amen CHAP. II. Of those principles and beginnings of all things as also of God himself and of all whatsoever it be THe Principle of all Principles and beginning of all beginnings as also of God himself is only the word according to the testimony of the divine truth and word it self John 1. Now the word may not be defined otherwise then that it is a Spirit breath or voice of God yea God himself in such a subsistence essence and being as namely How the image of God doth represent us according to the similitude which is man as that he is a quic●ning spirit a spiritual Adam and heavenly man which is God the Lord glorined and magnified for ever Amen Now we hold altogether that this is the proper definition of God and no other which the holy writ clearly signifieth 1 Cor. 15. 45 47 48. who according to his Image and Similitude hath created a spiritual Adam and Terrestrial man when God said Let us make Adam or Man after our image after our Similitude Gen. 1. 26 27. Now the word being the Beginning of all Beginnings there is contained in the same the Light Life and Love The Light affords the Revelation of God for God is Light and dwelleth in Light and is the Father of Lights Life is the virtue and power of God and a quickning Spirit who hath createth and preserveth all Love is a Testimony of God in which is the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost in one word which is called Jesus Christ the spiritual Adam and heavenly Man Messias who is Essential Alpha and Omega All in All the Beginning and the End the First and the Last Blessed and Praised for ever Amen Rev. 1. 22. Now the word being the true Principle in God himself then consequently all proceedeth from the word out of which do chiefly manifest themselves three general Principles in which Principles with and through which all things are contained and are these namely God Nature Element Now these three general Principles afford also a threefold world namely a divine uncreated from Godflowing world from Eternity then an Angelical world which proceedeth or lighteth forth or shineth forth out of the Light in which God dwelleth and lastly an Elementary world whose Original came out of the water After these three general Principles proceed also three special Principles namely Ghost Wind and Water Now every world hath its proper Ghost Wind and Water in their Kind and Nature All things Created out of the divine world from above are Created out of Water and Spirit from above through the wind and breath of the Omnipotent God for to the Divine world is properly competent the Spirit to the Angelical is properly competent the wind and to the Elementary world is water proper After these special Principles follow lastly particular Principles each of which hath its proper Being out of which in which and from which it consists But these three Principles proceed from the former and are Spirit Soul and Life and Body All bodies are out of the Water All Life and Soul out of the Wind And all Spirit out of the Spirit But concerning the Angels their Body is out of the Wind of the Angelical World their Soul and Life a Fire-flame and their Soul a ●ight of which elsewhere These are our Principles in the Wisdom out of which all things have their Original Whether other Principles may be shewed unto us we do much doubt The Primum mobile first mover of all things is the Word for in it is the Life The Secundum mobile Second mover of all things is the Spirit through which all things are Created The Tertium mobile Third mover is the Wind and these three moving Principles are the Perpetnum mobile everlasting mover of all things by which all things move live and have their Being But these three do rest upon the Water bodily out of which the World is and all things are And in the Air according to the Life wherein all things are And in Heaven from which all things come from above after the Spirit but the Spirit from God from which he cometh and returneth thither John 1. 4. Psal 104. 30. Acts 17. 28. Eccles 12. 7. But all these come together on and in the Earth as in the heart of the world Wisd 1. 7. In these

Principles out with and through the same subsist all things And without these nothing can subsist that is or hath a Being and are Light Life and Love God Nature and Element Spirit Wind and Water Body Soul and Spirit and that in the Word CHAP. III. Of the first Principle of all things which is God GOd being the beginning of all Beginnings as from which all things proceed then his beginning is from no other He is without a beginning because he is not from another yet though he hath his beginning from no other he representeth in himself his beginning to all This beginning of God is not a beginning to God himself but to us for he himself is all in all Now that he might shew himself to us men to testifie and instruct us of him therefore God sheweth himself in his beginning which is the Word which is God himself Now through this VVord is shewed to us testified and taught that and what God is and who he is But without word or speaking may be neither Doctrine nor Testimony nor a presentation as Reason doth make it manifest Therefore the VVord is the beginning of God to us out of which all Testimonies Names and Relation of God do proceed as out of the depths of God which consist in their own proper Spirit wind and water The name of God is but one according to the Essence which no man knoweth but only he upon whom he is written with the living Letters of the Spirit of God and his VVord Essentially which is Christ and those that are of his Being These are they in whom the VVord dwelleth Essentially and that see his Glory in a Light and Eye that no body else can see All the names of God come together only in this one name For the whole fulness of the Godhead dwe leth in him bodily who is called Alpha and Omega Zach. 14. 9. Col 2. 9. He that seeth him seeth also God and the Father and the living Word and the quickning Spirit John 14. 9. 1 John 1. 1 Cor. 15. 45. Even so he that seeth man seeth also with the Body the Soul and the Spirit which are in their Nature invisible The Testimony of God consisteth in three Namely in three witnesses which are the Father the VVord and the Holy Spirit Now as the name proceeds from the word so doth every Testimony of God and resteth only upon the dear and true witness that is called Amen which is the beginning of Gods Creatures Rev. 3. 14. And the Testimony of God stands thus God Father Word Holy Ghost Amen which is Christ Now because no body can testifie of God but he himself alone and all Testimonies of Truth must be justified by three Therefore God also testifieth of himself by three but they are not three persons But one onely person and one only God even as in one Earthly mans Body Soul and Spirit cannot be three distinct persons so in God are not three persons But this is the Testimony of God to us in the Name non in Nominibus sed in Nomine of the Father Son and Holy Ghost which consist in the word which three are one thing and one But this Testimony none acknowledgeth save he that hath it within himself Essentially that is that hath the Spirit out of God and is annointed and sealed with it This is the Testimony of God with one word through which we are Sons and Heirs of God Rom. 8. Lastly The Revelation of God consists in seven Powers which are the seven Spirits of God Rev. 1. 4. Chap. 4. 5. Chap. 5. 6. Zech. 4. 2 10. And rest upon him who is called and is Jesse who is of no other but out through in and of himself is is self subsisting in whom is all who hath all Also the fulness of the Godhead Rev. 3. 1. Isa 11. Col. 2. 9. For through him all things are Created in Heaven and in Earth and by him all things are preserved by him also all is Redeemed and reconciled He Reigneth over all and hath all under his Power through him all lost things are restored at his glorious coming He also holdeth Judgment over all flesh over quick and dead And lastly he will make old things new and will abandon and put away all old things Everlastingly Therefore the Mystery of God consists in One Three and Seven and according to this Mystery all other things are Created and consist in One out of Three through Seven and are therein testified learned manifested or justified nothing at all excepted whatsoever it be and that for this Reason That God in his mystery may be learned and glorified in and on all his Creatures Herein consists now the Mystery of the VVisdom in its measure number and weight as in One Three and Seven whereby all things are numbred measured and weighed so perfectly that nothing can be added to it or diminished from it For all the works of God are perfect and testifie of the Creator according to the Mystery of the wisdom namely that by the works may be known Him that made them that what and who he is in his Mystery CHAP. IV. Of the Second Principle viz. Nature NAture is the second Principle and beginning of all things and stands betwixt God and the Elements through which God worketh into the Elements at through and by means and is in its consideration even as Angelical whose beginning is out of God a forth-blown Breath VVind and Air of the Almighty in which consists the Soul and Life of all Created things and every living Soul and is concentred and fastened together essentially bodily and self-subsisting in the Tree of Life even as God in Christ and the whole Elementary world in Man This second Principle is not everlasting according to the beginning yet eternal according to the end even as the Angels are It is not Created out of nothing as this world but proceedeth from God even as the Life from the Spirit as a Breath VVind or Air doth proceed and is also the breath of Gods VVord in which is Life thus that the speaking of the word is a living Eternal Breath and is distinct from God as a living breath or Soul from the quickening Spirit The living breath Soul or Life of all things i● according to its Original out of the Nature but the Spirit out of God namely after his measure and the body out of the Elements The Spirit as the Soul or the Life are distinct thus As God who is Eternal Life and the quickening Spirit himself and hath Life from no other because himself is the Spirit And as the living Soul having her Life not out from and by or through it self but out of the Spirit which maketh things alive whose breath is the Life Now that is soulish which hath its Life not from it self but from the Spirit and which is not a Spirit but only a breath All things whatsoever are in their Being have the food of thir

or Originals of all things whatsoever Whereby are discovered the great and many Mysteries in God Nature and the Elements hitherto hid now made manifest and revealed To the Honour of God the love of our Neighbour and to the Comfort and Joy of the Children of Wisdom In the 4. Book of Esdras 6. v. 10. The Books will be opened before the Heaven insomuch that they all shall see Zachariah 14. 7. At the time of the Evening it shall be Light THE EPISTLE To the honest sober READER Curteous Reader THis Spring or Dawning of Wisdom was published some years since but being out of Print and something better improved by the Author and sutable to Pythagoras his Metaphysical and Physical Figure with my smaller Philosophical Epitaph and Figures I thought good to make them with the rest into one small Volume where much light of Divinity and Philosophy will appear concentrated and multiplied to any ingenious Spirits It is Gods greatest bounty to give light and Eyes to see not only the Corporal and Temporal but the Spiritual and Eternal Light of Wisdom Quantum quidque habet Luminis tantum numinis The more Light the more of God who dwelleth in Light and in his Children who are Children of Light and Life For this is the Condemnation and death That Light is come into the World and men love Darkness rather then Light because their deeds are Evil. This therefore as a Trumpet these latter days may awaken and teach men what God the World and Devils are that so their Souls and Spirits hereby quickened and inspired may the better know themselves and arise from dead works of Sin and sensual vanities the first Resurrection of Grace to be sure to rise again with Christ in the Kingdom of Heaven in Glory For many talk of Heaven and being in its Glory with Christ which have it not within them or desire to be there with such mortified pure and peaceable Company as go thither who rather have Hell and feed on it and delight in it and such company which the better to distinguish and reflect upon the the way and Company for Heaven take these four Observations To do Evil for good is devilish Evil for Evil Natural Sensual and Bestial Good for Good Humane and Good for Evil Divine The Wisdom therefore from above is still Pure Holy and Good gotten by mortification on the Cross of Christ and brings Joy and Peace in the Holy Ghost for the Kingdom of Heaven but horror amazement and misery attend the rest who live not after the Gospel of the Cross of Christ which is the power of God to Salvation but after the Flesh and do evil to serve the Devil To know and fear God therefore is perfect Righteousness Wisdom and Eternal Life so that the Patriarchs and many termed Heathen not having the outward name of Christ may have his Spirit and Essential name and be better members of him then we who live not thereafter For as the Scripture saith he was the Rock of Ages was slain from the beginning and hath enlightned every one that cometh into the World and was before Adam But most men do not know nor fear God but superficially believe there is a God and therefore talk of him as Parrots and sometimes worse by Lyes Oaths and Curses c. And therefore have no true faith in him or his Son For did they truly know and consider him still in his property and works to be Infinite Wise Omnipotent and Omniscient just as well as merciful and that he is able to destroy them in a Moment in the very Act of sin then would they fear him the first degree of Wisdom and so after Christs Example avoid all occasions and appearance of sin as they can and will do in some Acts for a very Childs being present And so would believe that he who made and Created the Eye and Ear and gives it Life and Sense in the instant of its exercise can both see and hear as well as any Eye and Ear which can see or hear nothing at any time without his help and likewise that he is as really present though invisible to the outward Sense as any Creature can be which he hath made yea and that he knows our very secretest thoughts too in whom we live move and have our Being But I am not in a Sermon but an Epistle nor would I hinder thee in the Porch from entring into this glorious building of Light where thou mayst find an heavenly Manna and sumptuous Mansion or Eternal Tabernacle for thy self not made with hands and so I take leave to be Thy Christian Friend and Servant W. C. July 3. 167● THE PREFACE TO THE Lovers of Wisdom Loving Readers WE remember and know that all understanding and Wisdom cometh from God and all good things we receive from the Father of Lights and that Wisdom is nothing else but the Breathing of God who sends his Spirit and teacheth men what Wisdom is the Truth and true Knowledge Syrach 1. Jam. 1. Wisd 7. 25. Job 32. 5. Wisd 9. 17. John 20. 22. Acts 2. Psal 94. 10. Syrach 38. 6. Exod. 26. 1. 2. This Knowledge consists chiefly in three things 1. To know God 2. Our selves 3. That which God hath created After Wisdom and Knowledge followeth Judgment namely to discern Good from Evil Light from Darkness Truth from Falshood Upon judgement and understanding followeth Election and will to doe the one and to shun the other The Knowledge or Understanding of all things is threefold Namely 1. Of Men 2. Of Angels 3. Of God The understanding or knowledge of Men is but in part The Knowledge of Angels is in fear and trembling But Gods knowledge alone is perfect Wisdom Knowledge and the examining thereof cometh from the spirit alone which is in Men Angels and God For the spirit searcheth into all even into the depth of God 1 Cor. 10. 11. The Wisdom Knowledge and Understanding of men is three-fold after the spirit of the same Namely The spirit of men generally in this world is Foolishness in Gods eyes for let men be never so Learned and VVise yet the perfect and true wisdom is hidden from them because they do not know themselves 1 Cor. 1. 2. Mat. 11. 25. Some of these wise men are called Philosophers according to the Spirit of Sects boasting of the holy Scripture of God and of Christ but they have no knowledge of them because their Spirit is not of God but they are only mens opinions of God and of Christ and are carnally and earthly minded full of errours and confusion Lastly The Spirit of Gods holy Ones who being godly and spiritually minded are taught of God The VVisdom and knowledge of the first is full of folly darkness and Ignorance The wisdom of the second is full of misleading Philosophy and continual contentions The wisdom of the third sort of men who are Godly is but in part although true and good Rom. 1. 29. Ephes 4.

18. Colos 2. 8. 2 Tim. 3. 4. 1 Cor. 13. 9. 11. Truly wise men dive into the best gifts and perfection which are of three sorts Charity Prophecy and Examination Love and Charity are the Center and contain the circle of all godly virtues and have Faith and Hope but Prophesying hath all knowledge wisdom and doctrine Lastly examination containeth all understanding judgment and discretion In these three things all is contained that belongeth to wisdom the Center whereof is the word of God This is that which all men ought to study and should communicate to others according as they have received a gift of the Spirit of grace● That God the Author of all good may be glorified and that none do boast of gifts and extol himself above others but rather be humble And then none ought to quench the Spirit neither in himself nor others but rather to stir it up And lastly let no man despise Prophecy that he may not offend God his neighbour nor scandalize himself Love forbeareth all The wisdom of the spirit searcheth all and Examination tryeth all Since we have undertaken through the admonition of the spirit to speak of wisdom as much as our knowledge in part may afford Therefore we intreat the Reader in Love that those whom we displease or who are offended would tolerate us in love As knowing that wisemen also must bear with fools And things spoken of in this book may not presently be rejected but rather be suffered to stand remembring that God also is patient unto Sinners But if any one do think himself wise let him shew the spirit of Judgment and let him discern thus least he judge himself also For we hold that we also have received a gift of the Spirit of grade which we will not suffer to dye but to the praise of the Lord we will put it out to use out of love to the Children of wisdom although not as an instruction but as a good testimony to our selves that we have received a gift of the Spirit not in vain The reason that induced us to the writing of this book is because we hope to be Beneficial to the children of wisdom It may be we have publisht the like twelve years ago the Title of it being Aurora Sapientiae yet since it hath been desired by some again I have not altered the Title hoping that it is not a little mended and corrected I have set it out briefly that it may neither be tedious to the Reader nor chargeable to the Buyer nor yet painful to the Printer Benevolous Reader take all in good part and thus we commend the well wishers to Gods gracious ptotection THE CONTENTS Of the several Chapters of this Book OF the Books of wisdom in which the same may be learned how and in what manner Chap. 1. Of the Principles and Beginnings of all things as also of God himself and of all whatsoever 2 Of the First Principle of all things which is God 3 Of the second Principle which is Nature 4 Of the third General Principle namely the Elements 5 Of the three special Principles Spirit Wind and Water 6 Of the particular Principles Body Soul and Spirit 7 Of the Elements and contrary Elements in the Creation 8 Of the Principle or Original of that evil one and of the Angels 9 Of the difference of the Light and Darkness as also of the Light and Fire 10 Of the Principle of the Fire and its Mystery 11 Out of what wherein and whereby all things good or bad do subsist pass away and yet how they last for ever 12 Of the Creation of the World 13 Of the particular Creation 14 Of the Mystery of the Word 15 Of the Mystery of the Created lower visible things 16 Of the Creation of Man and of his Anatomy 17 Of the Image of God after which man is Created 18 Of the Mystical Image that is of the Mystery of God Chap. 19 Of the Truth and Spirit by which all wisdom is justified 20 Of the Mystery of Time and to understand 〈◊〉 aright 21 The Conclusion 22 AVRORA SAPIENTIAE Morning Light OR Dawning of Wisdom WE take the liberty according to the gift of the Spirit to speak briefly of Wisdom in this little Treatise without any prolixity And because we made mention in the Preface of a three-fold Knowledge as of Men of Angels and of God now we will speak here that Wisdom also is threefold as 1. The Natural of all Created things 2. The Wisdom of Faith unto Salvation And 3. The Secret and Mystical wisdom which gener●lly is unknown and that we call vera Philosophia Theologia and Theosophia Of these three we will speak as briefly as may be possible The Spirit of the Lord be upon both the Writer and the Reader Amen JEHIOR OR THE Morning Light of VVisdom CHAP. I. Of the Books of Wisdom in which the same may be learned How and in what manner THere are chiefly but three Books in which all Wisdom is contained Namely 1. The whole Nature and Creation 〈…〉 great Book of Heaven and 〈…〉 2. The Book of the Holy Writ in the Letter of the Holy word of God 3. Man himself The only Center or Principle of these three is the word of God which is the book out of which these three books have their Original The first book of Nature contains seven other books which are the seven Elements of which in particular here●fter These seven Books have three other books opposite which are the three contrary Elements of which also hereafter The second book the Holy Writ is divided into three other books as into the Law of the Old Into the Gospel of the New and into the Eternal Gospel of the everlasting Testament and Covenant which comprehends the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ The Third book of Man is only one book and is sealed to the blind but opened to the seeing In this book is hidden sealed and also manifest and opened all Wisdom and man is called the Image or Honour of God o● which below and man cannot be called by any other name 1 Cor. 11. 7. Out of the first book we learn Philosophia the natural Wisdom in and about the knowledge of created natural things which are of the Elements and we learn this wisdom out of the three Principles and seven Elements and discern the same from the three contrary Elements else we cannot find the truth of the Natural Wisdom Out of the second book we learn Theologia or Divinity the wisdom unto Salvation and that in the three foresaid books through the seven spirits Isaiah 11. and we di●●●nguish it from all humane glosses and books of Prophane ones For the book expounds it self and needs no humane interpretation but only hath need of Faith which apprehends all things Out of the Third Book which is Gods Image we learn the true knowledge of God as also his being and essence and his whole Mystery in so much as

afterwards turned into a living death which never dyeth and a deadly eternal life made manifest as a soul to Satan At last through Lucifers pride a strange wind was gotten in Lucifer as a body unto him and Satan hath quite lost the Angelical Principle and self-subsistance and became a strange Bird and a wild Fly Lucifer did try whether he could not be a God or like unto God which yet he was in his portion and measure therefore he is called a Tempter and Satan and he was become such an one namely both a God and a Creator and a Creature of his own and lost all all Gods Testimony wholly as also the Testimony of good Angels He is a Knave or Lyer from the beginning through sin which hath begotten him and he hath begotten sin he is sins father and sin is his mother that hath begotten him and he her through covetousness in the leering eye of self-love and imagination Now as sin is that evil and found out in its Principle by Lucifer so it hath turn'd him into an evil one and one is the Principle of the other and so he can be excused by no means So Lucifer hath murdered himself and hath lost the Angelical Printiple and is and remaineth a forlorn Child and son of Perdition the right Antichrist for ever Thus is sin gotten through coveting and coveting through looking upon and looking upon through imagination and that through self-love and that through an arrogant liberty this through security and that through wantonness where there is no fear for as fear is the beginning of wisdom so is wantonness the beginning of folly and sin He that is fearful will not easily hazard upon sinning Lucifer was Created of God a good Angel and that so that he might easily have been kept from sining So also might Man if he would himself but self-will brought him to that sin yea his own wantonness but now he could not be so perfect Created that he could not fall into sin at all The reason is because his weight measure and number could not endure it because he was not born of God but had his Principles besides God although through God but what is born of God and of his seed that cannot sin because it is born of God to whom it is impossible to commit sin Thus is made clear and manifest the mighty abundant difference in the Creation which was very good at the Renovation which was done in and on the old Creature by means and help of the spirit of God and among the new births from above of God which is it alone to make Children and Heirs of God and Co-heirs of Christ unknown to the world and their wise Children Now the Angels consisting out of Wind Fire and Light and the fall of Lucifer standing before them as a warning therefore they cover their feet and faces before God with fear and trembling and are rather ashamed of themselves that they may find grace before the Lord God Now they are a fiery flame for a protection of the godly and a perdition and death to the wicked God also is a consuming fire in his Angels not on or in himself and will come also with his Angels and his Power and with fiery flames to judgment CUAP X. Of the difference of the light and darkness as also of the light and fire HItherto the light was not reckoned under the Elements by the wise of the world though it be the first of them in the Creation for in all Creatures the Bloud and Eyes are first and not the Heart Now the light is a going forth of Gods glory and it never goeth down or decayeth in its spirit an● is a dwelling of the seven spirits of God as the darkness is an habitation of Evil spirits In the light dwelleth the spirit of the Lord the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of Counsel and of strength the spirit of Knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. All wisdom understanding and knowledge all judgment and examination and every truth and righteousness cometh from and out of the light and through the same And as the light doth illuminate the whole world and maketh day and is the day it self So it illuminates also every spirit in all living souls and as there is no day without light neither can be so no wisdom nor knowledge nor understanding can be without light But the light in its body in our opinion is a pure essential spiritual Salt from which all Gemms and precious stones get their Colour as also all Flowers and Beauties their fairness All which the spirit of light doth work and adorneth all things with beauties for in the light all Colours are hid and are gotten by the same the soul of the light is nothing else but a joyful Life out of Nature as an Angelical Life and his spirit and eternal love proceeding from the spirit of the Lord. Out of this light God hath made the lights of Heaven which are coagulated living and comprehensible lights and are nothing else in their essence but a spiritual essential and exceeding pure Christalline salt so high tempered as ever any thing may be without any quality or property of heat coldness warmth moistness drought and have their proper motion in and on themselves especially the Sun ●unneth always with the light and day but the Moon with the darkness and night and the other stars in and on their places and order Those lights of Heaven do shew always and every where clearly the power of the Elements and contrary Elements what their operations be through which powers all things in the whole world are finished and wrought upon but through the lights of Heaven no less then a Looking Glass sheweth such and such you see Now the powers of the Elements and contrary Elements change and revolve daily weekly monthly and yearly Now because out of the light cometh knowledge which searcheth out all the depths in every spirit soul and body and presents them in the lights of Heaven prophesie tell and give to understand to the beholders who are the Children of the light The spirit of light searcheth all in all things and sheweth by the lights of Heaven every ascendent or spirit in all things and also in Man namely what spirit soul and body he hath received at his nativity out and according to the Elements and opposite Elements as also what spirits do incentre in him All which if bad or evil Man may decline or resist by the holy and good spirit as a beast can shake off the dust or flyes Now the Lights of Heaven rule the whole world namely acording to their time and shew things present past and future Now because every Element hath its spirits as the Earth the Water and the Air and their eyes are more spiritual then our bodily they can therefore spy something in the lights of Heaven and reveal it to Man But the Children of light do not use the

the things on Earth Col. 3. 2. In my fathers house are many dwellings that last for ever saith Christ John 14. Why should we regard the visible things which are fading away The Apostle saith If there be a Soulish body then there is a Spiritual body also 1 Cor. 15. 44. And when this house of our Earthly Tabernacle is broken then we have an house from above of God which is not made with hands 2 Cor. 5. There are Terrestrial bodies there are also Coelestial 1 Cor. 15. 40. Yet always the Spiritual Coelestial and yet invisible are hid within the soulish Terrestrial and visible Now as God his invisible glory continually poureth down into this sublunary world so he gathereth it to him again and then when all is ended in the end he will set them before him in a new Creation as it is written Rev. 21. 5. Behold I make or Create all things new But before this new Creation cometh the renewing of the old Creation and Creature goeth before Namely in the joyful coming of the Lord which will be with great power and glory because all shall be set free that is called Creature Rom. 8. 23. From the Devil Curse Death then will be the joyful Jubile Now we must know that there will be great difference between the renewing and the new being it self The old Creature is made new in its old being but the new Creature hath a new essence and that not from below as the old but from above For above is the right essence below is o ly the type and Image this is the mystery we are to observe Above are the right Principles and Elements these below are only a shadow Below are meerly Terrestrial bodies but above are the Coelestial although they are hid in those below The Terrestrial bodies are meer Ashes but the Coelestial are a noble salt of life The Terrestrial life is only soulish and a mouth full of breath If that be gone then down falls all But the Coelestial life is an Eternal life and cannot dye The Terrestrial spirit is but a wind if that be gone it flyeth into the air and vanisheth But the Spirit of God is a quickening Spirit ' even as God himself is Now as all things are an Image of the Heavenly so in truth the soulish Adam and Terrestrial man is an Image also of the Spiritual Adam and Heavenly man which is Christ in God and God in Christ This is the great and miraculous Mystery which thou O man O Adam O thou Image of God chiefly above all things shouldst observe that thou maist know thy self in God and God in thee and maist know and learn what man is what Adam is what the Image of God is that is what thou thy self art of which in our book Adam which is the greatest wisdom Namely for one to know himself after a perfect and true knowledge which is spirit and truth He that doth not regard this but despiseth it which yet is Gods Image rebuketh himself and will be rebuked of God also CHAP. XVII Of the Creation of man and his Anatomy MAn hath nothing so much to care for as himself that he may know his own best and salvation Now he that knoweth himself aright in spirit and in truth knoweth God also and all things Therefore mans knowing himself availeth most to himself Now to speak briefly all things and man also consist in one three and seven The one is individual a self-subsisting in it self The three are Body Soul and Spirit And the seven are chiefly the seven Powers after the seven Powers of the seven Elements and after the seven Spirits of God which seven Powers every Creature hath in it self in its glory Even so man is an only man in himself personally 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 individualiter in his self subsistance But is put together of three as of Body Soul and Spirit and is testified by seven Powers as 1. by Moving 2. by Hearing 3. by Seeing 4 by Smelling 5. by Tasting 6. by Thinking and Reasoning 7. by Sounding or Voice Moving containeth the life to feel see go c. are reckoned all to one In this part now Man is Soulish like unto the living Souls and Beasts which have all these but in their portion and measure number and weight namely as much as belongeth to them According to this man hath no more then they and hath with them a living Soul out and after the Elements of equal beginning out of the earth and of like going down to the earth again Sal. in Eccles 3. 19. After Man hath more then the Beasts which is out of another world namely out of the Angelical which is the Mind which in its spirit is a Preacher of the Law in all men from Nature and hath the Knowledge Will and Conscience to good directs Man to all good and accuseth man in evil things in his Conscience Num. 2. 15 16. Lastly Man hath also a higher and more glorious thing in him which is the Breath of the Almighty a Heavenly Soul and life from God which God breathed into the first mans Nostrils and face wherewith he hath marked and testified his divine inward love to his Image in and on a piece and part of the Eternal light and life Gen. 2. 7. Job 27. 3. c. 33. 4. According to this part Man is Immortal because he hath such a treasure within him namely the Breath of the Almighty and thus herein he is very much distinct from the beasts yea he is above the Angels In this Heavenly Soul is hidden the Kingdom of God and in this Breath of the Almighty consists the true Manhood by which he becometh a true immortal man But in the other Elementary part he is like unto the Beasts Terrestrial Corruptible Mortal Dust and Ashes Now man having received at the Creation such a part out of God from thence he can be made partaker of the new birth Creation and Creature from God of his Nature and Essential seed which is the most holy Flesh and Bloud of the Word which is Christ and thus the new man is the new Creature out of Gods and his quickening Words seed that is of Christ and of this Spiritual Adam and Heavenly man of his flesh and bone John 1. 13. c. 3. 1. John 3. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 23. 2 Pet. 1. 4. 2 Cor. 5. 17. 1 Cor. 15. 45 47 48. Eph. 5. 30. This Seed of God Man receiveth into his Heavenly Soul through the Holy Spirit to a new life of Gods Inheritance And this body together with this Heavenly Soul and the Holy Ghost from God in its full self-subsistance doth not personally appear till after the Angelical glory and laying down of the same body Lastly in the end it entreth into the divine world Hence it is said not to be manifest yet what the Children of God are 1 John 3. Only in a Riddle and obscure word is it spoken of After the part of the first Resurrection

him see and he that hath Ears let him hear and an understanding Heart hearken unto it But this is the Revelation and appearance of Christ the day of the Revelation of the Son of Man namely that God in Christ and Christ in God a Spiritual Divine Heavenly Adam and man from Eternity is and hath been in a Divine Spiritual Heavenly Essence flesh and bloud and after this his essential Image he hath in the Creation created and framed a Soulish Adam and Terrestrial Man CHAP. XIX Of the Mystical Image that is of the Mystery of God THis is the Mystery of God as was said already which is clear and manifest on the Soulish Adam and Terrestrial Man from beneath that namely above is the true Adam and Man but beneath is only his Image Wonderful is Gods counsel and who hath known the Lords mind who was so pleased that the last should be the first and should receive the Money or Peny and the blessed glory at first Well may these last say This is the day which the Lord hath made let us rejoyce in it it is marvelous in our Eyes ●sal 118 To day is fulfilled the Word which is written The Stone which the builders rejected is become the Corner Stone and it is marvellous in our Eyes for the Spiritual Rock of which all the Fathers have eaten and drunk from the beginning of the world and upon which the Church of God is founded and builded remained unknown till to the seventh Trumpet where the Mystery of God must be manifested and is also made manifest for the Spiritual Adam and Heavenly Man in his Divine Flesh and Bloud through which we are so dearly bought is thrust away from the Holy place and on the contrary another Flesh and Bloud from beneath out of sinners is brought into the Holyest for an abomination of the desolation But now the new Creation is come in which the Word saith and the Lord himself speaketh as he hath promised Isa 52. 6. c. 40. 5. Saying Jehior or let it be light for the day is come which is known to the Lord to them to whom he will reveal his Mystery Zech. 14. Concerning the Mystery of God in the Creation of Man it is thus that God hath Created Man a Man and Woman Gen. 1. 27. And took the Woman out of the Man Chap. 2. 21 22. To shew the great Mystery of Christ and of his Church which is his Wife and spouse out of his flesh and bones Ephes 5. 30 31 32. But the Divine Spiritual and Heavenly Eve is threefold 1. The most holy Godhead it self 2. The Church of Christ 3 The Heavenly Soul in Man This is the body of Christ his Church whose Saviour he was made for which he gave himself The Divine Eve as the most Holy Godhead is the Mother of us all and the right Jerusalem which is from above The Spiritual Eve as the Church of Christ is the Mother the Spouse of the Lamb. The Virgin and Daughter of Jerusalem The Heavenly Soul is the Heavenly Eve a Maid of the Lord a Daughter of Jerusalem who was married to a Terrestrial Man who brought her to great misery and death but the Lord was made a Servant for her and hath made her free again through his death and hath married unto her a new Adam man out of his flesh and bone of which she hath a divine Inheritance Now if we ask after the Mystery of God how that may be made known answer is on man it may be known There is but one man in one Person but in it three witnesses of his substance as Body Soul and Spirit and in seven Powers The Spirit is always in stead of the Father and is the Father himself also and begetteth by the Soul as by the true Mother to himself a body which is the Child and the Son in which dwelleth all fulness So there is but one God in one only Person but in three Witnesses Father Word and Holy Ghost and in seven Spirits or Powers of God God is a Spirit and a Father and begets through the Word and in the same to himself a Body a Child a Son in which he with all his fulness dwelleth bodily in this manner that he that seeth the Father seeth the Son also the word it self the quickening Spirit and the quickening Adam himself Afterward God begets a Son not after the Person or a personal distinction as one Man another Man else there would be two Gods although there is but one only God But after the Testimony for our sakes he begets a Son that we namely by that Witness as of the Father and Son in God might be made Gods Children Heirs and Co heirs out of his Seed flesh and bones for God in and for himself needs neither Father nor Son because there is never no more in him but one in number but even himself is Jesse and all in all neither are there two or three but One only and none else 3 Lastly God begets also a Son and is a father after the Testimony and that to all Creatures and what ever he hath Created namely that all might have a trust and confidence in him as also the young Ravens when they are forsaken by the old ones This Testimony is done by the Spirit which from God is in all things and fills up all Wisd 1. 7. Chap. 12. 1. Who it is that cryeth to God out of the young Ravens Who is a God of the Spirits of all Flesh Num. 16. 22. And remembreth to God that he is a father of all Creatures and cannot neither ought to forsake them Now the Spirit is it that calleth upon God in all Creatures and praiseth and glorifieth him where is is said in the Psalm All that hath breath Praise the Lord Every Spirit Laud and Praise the Lord The Earth the Sea and the Trees in the Forest Praise the Lord. O man there is much in the Spirit the knowledge of him availeth much for if you do not know him you are but a Beast without a Spirit as Ecclesiastes and others more have it CHAP. XX. Of the Truth and Spirit by which all Wisdom is justified WHen we intend to speak of the Wisdom it must be done in the Spirit and Truth Now nothing is Truth but only the Spirit and the same can lead us into all Truth can teach us all and can tell us of things to come for all Spirits are in subjection to him he penetrates through them all even as fire doth to Gold and Silver seven times and the good that remaineth in it it doth not undoe but rather thinks that there is a blessing in it and bloweth into the smoking ●lax a fire of Life Light and Fire and in●useth it self into the same that it may be fitted for a new Creation for a multiplication into many thousands But nothing may attain unto Wisdom unless it be first gone to the fire for a Tryal even as the Gold

cannot come to its glory unless it be gone in the Crusible through the consuming fire seven times that afterward it may be Baptized with Water and Spirit to a new birth and become a new Gold and become out of the same Spirit and Water increased into many thousands and as a Heavenly Gold Spirit and Metal whereby other inferiour metals may be turned into the substance of the best Gold So it fareth with man that shall get Wisdom first he must be baptized with Fire then with Water and then with the Spirit and all this is done in the Crusible of the Terrestrial man But all wisdom is sufficient through the Spirit and in Truth through Principia subordinata Concordantia which do concenter afterward in a Harmony The Principia contain the true beginning of every thing from whence it came thither it doth return also and from thence it is preserv'd also The Subordinata contain the Order straitness and perfection of every thing as they do hang one in another stand and subsist one by another even as a Ladder or Stairs there must not be one step amiss or wanting else the subordinata are not true Commonly there are seven subordinata and follow one upon another orderly and things that follow one after another are subordinata and thus it is perfect Lastly this is a Concordance that all things may agree one with another and a Contrariety be no where found seen or heard Even as in sweet Musick all things are Harmonious let the Voices be as many as they will and change one in another going out of one into another and an everlasting Ternarius remaineth therein and so the Principles and Concordance consist in Ternarius and Vnity where one floweth out of another till to the number of seven of the Subordinata which reach after the greater number till to Twelve At last the Harmony concentreth and encloseth all which taketh altogether in One Three and Seven and presents one as the other namely the upper as the lower and the lower as the upper so that none be against the other although they be so far distinct as God and Creature Spirit and Soul Heaven and Earth yet one is in the other the one is known by the other and the one is justified by the other and that in Spirit and Truth Search now and see try and learn hear observe and judge what Wisdom this is and what Truth and Spirit is presented in this Book The fool knoweth nothing of the Wisdom and doth not understand her way Lyers do not understand the Truth nor do they know her Principles and the soulish bruitish and profane know nothing of the Spirit although they hear his wind blow yet they know not from whence it cometh nor whither it goeth Therefore do not look upon men do not inquire after men that is nothing and do not stare upon the image to the intent to adore it as all those do that dwell on Earth Rev. 13. But only inquire after the Spirit and fear him for he will direct all in the Word of Truth and Righteousness Him you are to Honour and against him do not think speak or do that you may not be condemned out of your own mouth Now all Spirit Truth and Wisdom reveal themselve in these three and are thereby known and justified namely in a Divine Light in a Divine Life and in a Divine Love where these three are in on and about man there is really Spirit Truth and Wisdom The Divine Light containeth all wisdom understanding and knowledge The Divine Life containeth all Truth Holiness and Righteousness And the Divine Love containeth the whole Spirit and poureth him out into our hearts and thereby we know that God hath loved us because he hath given us of his Spirit which cryeth in us Abba and giveth Testimony to our Spirit that we are the Children of God He poureth forth our Tears and Prayers before God that we might find grace before the Lord and teacheth us to pray aright before the Lord about things that are above maketh intercession for us with unspeakable sighs Thereby we know in the Spirit and in Truth where the right Wisdom the Divine Truth and the Holy Ghost is for these three Light Life and Love proceed from God and God himself is Light and there is neither Darkness nor Fire in or about him God is Eternal Life there is neither Death nor Perdition out of him in or about him God is Love it self and there is neither VVrath nor Pain Hell nor ●amnation out or of him He that stayeth by in and on these three namely by the Divine Light in a Divine Life and in a Divine Love he stayeth and abideth in God and God in him in the Spirit and Truth according to the wisdom and true knowledge of God and knoweth what is Truth Spirit and Wisdom and tells their true Principles Subordinates and Concordances in a Divine Harmony proved to the Elect Angels and Men in Spirit and in Truth CHAP. XXI Of the Mystery of Time to understand it aright NOthing so secret at night but the day may reveal it when the Light cometh to its Day and the day to its light and the clear Sun doth shine over all that is under Heaven The Night is past and behold the day breaks on with its fair morning light which is a light fire and a fire-light who can now subsist for the Lord cometh yea the Lord cometh coming Amen Halelujah He is like unto the fire of a Founder and like unto the sharp Lee of Sope boylers he will melt prove try c. He will wash purifie and cleanse And who can stand before him Mal 3. This he doth therefore that all filth may be done away before the Sun riseth and may not put the whole Earth and world to banishment or destruction Chap. 4. Now that day being come with its light in this time then the Mystery of the time of the whole world will be revealed But always is included and closed in and with the number of Seven For in the seventh day God finished the Creation and so in Seven always included But the number 7 standeth thus 7 49. 70. The number Seven after our time standeth chiefly upon the Seventh Trumpet in and with it the Mystery of God is finished yea revealed Rev. 10 11 12. Chap. As also with the seventh Vial of Gods wrath But as much as we know in part we are and live betwixt the fifth and sixth Vial. The number 49. sheweth expresly that fair Mystery of the time of the refreshing and restitution of all that is lost Levit. 25. And the number 49 is the end of the little seventh day and a beginning of the great seventh day and Sabbath of God Lastly the number 70 seeth upon the 70 weeks in the Prophet Daniel as also upon the expiration of the 1335 days Chap. 9. 24. 12. 12. When these are about then the transgression will be reconciled every

Prophecy fulfilled and the most Holy Holy with his Saints will take the Kingdom and Jerusalem rebuilded and the Eternal righteousness and all what hath been lost by the fall shall be restored Of this great glory and unspeakable joy the Spirit prophesieth in all Creatures yea in all Lights of Heaven and in all the Elements But where are the Seers where are the Hearers and where are the Observers Further concerning the time of the world it is divided in 1. 3. and 7. The one time generally containeth the whole great day of the World 12 hours Mat. 12. Which shall be 6000. years and so there were 500. years to an hour but the days shall be shortned so that they shall not be full 6000. years and the days or years of that shortning are clear in the Book of Genesis at the first judgment over the world c. The three times of the world now are that they shall be divided namely the 6000. years into three times As the first time from Adam till Noah at the Deluge and containeth 1656. years From the Deluge till to the Messiah born of the Virgin Mary is the second time divided into 12 parts each containeth 214. years or 214. ½ year which added together make 2568. years from the Deluge till to the Messias 4 Esd 14. 11. Now if 1656. are summed up with the other then the Messias is born into the world of the Virgin Mary in the year of the world 4230. The third time of the world is from Christs Nativity till to his glorious coming the Mystery of which year is mystically signified in 4 Esd 7. 28 30 Chap. 9. Calculation Concerning the abovesaid threefold number 7. 49. 70. therein is the Mystery clearly signified without any diminution or addition if only you will open your Eyes Ears and Hearts to see hear and observe clearer it cannot possibly be told these numbers in themselves calculated namely to know certainly how many years every hour of the twelve do contain because the 6000. years are not compleat but those days must be shortned But now as in the former times and judgments over the world always seven days went before the judgment came upon the world So it is now in and with the time of the judgment over this world Gen. 7. 4. Josh 6. Levit. 25. Now when the judgment is proclaimed seven days goeth before the Proclamation Now if you have the Spirit of Daniel then number and reckon how many days are past and how many are behind to the judgment None believeth what alterations there are at hand the whole World lyeth in wickedness and it will perish in it But that we may keep nothing from the Reader and wellwisher to wisdom and that he may fully conceive the time of the end namely in the sure token of it then there are three signs of it the first is that presently after the great horrible bloudy Battel that is at hand he do come whom we expect Mal. 3. 4. and the Gospel of the Kingdom be Preached in the whole world for a Testimony over all Nations that one Shepherd and one Flock may be Mat. 24. 14. Rev. 14. 6. Zeph. 3. 8 9. The second time is when the Ten lost Tribes of Israel are found out again over the Water into the Land and upon the Mount Israel do come from the Orient after the sixth Vial is poured out Rev. 16 12. 4. Esd 13. 4. Isa 11. 11. Chap. 27. 13. Jer. 31. 8. Deut. 30. 4. Mica 4. 6. 7. Rom. 11. 25. Yea whole Israel and whole Juda will come again into their Countrey and will turn to the Lord their God Hos 3 Lastly The last sign of the coming of the Lord is when the Beast and all Kings of the Earth together with Gog and Magog by the seduction of the three unclean Spirits into the Land of Israel and to the Valley of Jehosaphat and upon the Hill of Israel come together to a Battel c. and are destroyed with fire from Heaven Rev. 19 19 20 21. Ezek. 3. 8. Joel 3. Isa 24. 21 22. This is the end then beginneth the Kingdom and Priesthood of Melchisedech Halelujah Come Lord Jesus and deliver us from the Evil One Amen Conclusion COurteous Reader we conclude this our Jehior or Morning Light and salute you in the Lord from the Lord in the Spirit of Grace and Supplication which the Lord will pour out over us all through the Power from above that we might find Grace before him at his coming and may not be put to shame when he judgeth Reader if you are a wellwisher to Wisdom then take of us the Crumbs which we have gathered from the Lords Table and accept of them till Melchisedech cometh and distributeth the Holy Shew-bread and to drink of the New Wine of his distributing at the great Supper of the Nuptials of the Lamb in Paradise the fruits whereof himself will set up You are to give thanks with us to him from whom all good gifts come from above the Father of Lights praying that he would inlighten us all turn us to him and make us happy for ever This is according to the love of God whose dedesire is that all men may be saved and that all may come to the knowledge of the Truth Therefore let us be merciful loving and perfect Even as our Heavenly Father is merciful loving and perfect that it may be known and revealed that we are his Children But Curteous Reader if you affect folly and art a despiser of Wisdom go to and despise but be sure that you do not despise men herein but God himself who hath given us his Spirit and from whom all Wisdom cometh and think that the Spirit of judgment will require an account of you in that day But Reader if you are a Pharisee and Hypocrite and seekest rather Honour from Men then from God We 'll consider then what the Lord saith 1 Sam. 2. 30. He that honoureth me him I will honour also and he that despiseth me shall be despised again And Christ saith Mat. 10. 3● He that confesseth me before men him will I also confess before my Heavenly Father that is in Heaven He that denieth me before men him will I also deny before my Heavenly father But Reader if you are a simple Heart and art not fit for Wisdom then abide on in and by the fear of the Lord in a Godly life which fear is not only the beginning of Wisdom but also the end of Wisdom and it is no help to man though he be able to speak with an Angelical Tongue and had all knowledge and understood all Mysteries and had such a faith whereby he could remove Mountains and withall had not the Love of God which endured everlastingly all will profit you nothing Therefore blessed are the Babes and sucklings which know not these outward things for theirs is the Kingdom of God because the Spirit of God is declared in them Therefore