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The wonders of God's creation manifested, in the variety of eight vvorlds as they were made known experimentally to the author J. Lead.
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Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.
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The Wonders OF GOD's Creation MANIFESTED In the Variety OF EIGHT VVORLDS As they were made known Experimentally to the Author J. LEAD Heb. 1. 5. By whom he made the WORLDS LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious Henri Lion THE EDITOR TO THE READER VVHAT is contained in this Treatise the Subordinate Author is very sensible will appear more than ordinarily Strange to the greatest part of those who shall look upon it But yet it is not at least doubted but it will carry along with it such a Living Testimony for the Confirmation of its Truth not only to those that are already Redeemed from the Earth and do follow the Lamb whither soever be goeth being set free from the Traditions Rules and Manuductions of Men but also to several who may be yet under the Name Mark and Image of the Beast and of this Worldly Principle as may sufficiently evince its Primary Author and Demonstrate that the Great Shepherd of Israel is not now wanting to head his Sheep into Fresh Pastures The Accâ—ptation which the former Books that have through this Instrument been brought forth to the Light have found Abâ—oad in oâ—hâ—r Nations since the setting forth of the Heavenly Cloud and of the Revelation of Revelations in the High Dutch Tongue is certainly greater than can have proceeded from any Dead or Lifelâ—ss Testimony To Relatâ— how God has Blessed them and doth daily Blâ—ss them as it appears from Letters contiunally coming from Forreign Parts woulâ— bâ— to write an History And if a Prophet be to so much Esteemed in his own as in another Countrey this is no new thing nor any mâ—re to be wondred at than that our Blessed Loâ—d himself did there meet with the worst Entertainment where he ought to have found the best and was as to his Divine Power more a Stranger and less believed in by his own Town than by any other The Wisdom of God is exceedingly wonderful in the Choice which he makes of Instruments to Manifest himself by that os That may not be attributed to the Creature which only belongs to him He takes up a Meek and Fearful Vessel to make the most haughty Powers to Tremble the Youngest and most Despised Son of a Shepherd to make him a glorious Conquer our over many Potent Princes and to leave a Kingdom to his Posterity in Peace an ordinary Plowman to make him mighty to Command both Heaven and Earth even to teach him to destroy his Enemies by an Invisible Power and to raise up again the Dead to Life a Woman to be a Mother and a Saviour in Israel when no Man was found and a few Fisherman to stand up against and triumph over all the Strength and Policy of the World So that it must be said this is verily the Lord's doing and it is wonderful in our Eyes There is certainly so far from being any thing of the Art of Man in whatever has pass'd through this Blessed Instrument and such an Incapacity in the Subject to make use of it that as it cannot but give great effence to all that seek for it so to those who seek more for the Wisdom that is Above than that which is Below there is a clear Demonstration from whence it must have proceeded And I have here leave to say that whoever in the Meek and Sober Spirit shall desire further Satisfaction in this Subject here Treated on the Author will readily Answer to such Inquiring Minds and Orally confer with them while remaining in this Outward Principle Thus much is Undeniable that however some may perhaps think that there may be somewhat here advanc'd which will serve to render Souls more careless as to the Great Concern of their Future State and to Adjourn their Provision for it there is yet not so much as any Possibility of Admission even into the Lowest Heavens without the New Birth according to the Foundation upon which all this stands Wherefore is Highly behoves every one to secure that and to press forward with the greatest earnestness hat they get entirely out of the Hellish Source and the evil Nature raising themselves up above whaâ—ever is Elementary that at their leaving this visible World they may be found cloathed upon with the Holy One Element This that is here Reveal'd might not have gone further than among a few Confiding Friends but that the same Spirit who Revealed it was pleased to raise up in a wonderful manner a Great and Princely Defender and Protector of these Divine Truths and of the High Mystery of Faith whose Name Shines Gloriously in the Unscal'd Book of Life to do all that is needful for the Promulgation of the Glad Tidings of the Everlasting Covenant and Kingdom of God with Man and for the Building of the Temple of Jerusalem and the raising the Tabernacle of David that is fallen The Effect of which will be more abundantly Manifested by what shall be hereafter Published through the Assistance and Direction of the Great Master-Builder the LORD Blessed for ever THE CONTENTS A Manifestation concerning the Eight Worlds or Regions Allotted to Human Souls c. A Further Manifestation concerning the Four Heavenly Worlds An Answer to a Question Henri Lion A MANIFESTATION Concerning the Eight VVORLD 's OR REGIONS Allotted to Human Souls According to their several Degrees of Ascent or Descent The Revelation of Jesus Christ now Glorified who sends greeting by his Spirit to the Good-willers and Waiters for his Appearance § 1. WHEREAS it hath been sounded in my Ears that no New spring of Revelatino from him who is ascended into the Heavens doth come down Behold I JESUS the Lord have given and raised up and will yet more evidently give and raise up Witnesses to contradict the Unbelieving Who while they continue so will be excluded from this great and inestimable Priviledge of taking from me and thereby of knowing the hidden secrets that lye in God the Fountain of Eternity Now then to thee who hast already born a true Witness for me I do give a further Commission to go sorth from a Book within Unsealed wherein thou shalt meet with an unmeasurable Deep of Revelation to publish for the Universal Enlightening of the Ignorant and Blind in Mind For from this the Spirits Day shall break up apace that so it may be known that God in his Christ hath not forgotten to reveal himself to the Inhabitants of this lower World in truth and righteousness But together with this there will be that which will take up a false Covering of the Spirit Therefore my LORD did say to me that pure and right Revelation should not go forth Naked or only Literally but clothed with Power in the Number Seven where the Strength of an Almightiness shall be a guard upon its Testimony of Truth and Verity § 2. Now then I am to make report of some particulars revealed by the Spirit of CHRIST Of which the First was this That the time was very
near approaching in the which the Earth should cast forth the Dead that have been buried in the Body of Sin For this end a terrible Blow and Stroke upon the Nations of the Earth will fuddenly come God saith he is wearied out with the Sinful Abomination of this World to which he purposeth shortly to put an end For it hath accordingly been sounded in my inward Ear that the Ends of all Sinful Worlds are by the great Creator of them now determined Upon which saying I queried in Spirit with my LORD in what other Worlds besides this Visible and known World the Evil of Sin did yet remain Whereupon it was replied that such as go out of this World in their gross and unmortified Earthly Life without Clarification obtained through the Water of Regeneration and the Blood of Christ shed in them and so Attoning for Sin and Trespasses which not being entirely done away before they go out of this Life will still abide with them in their nature and quality after Death do pass into such Worlds Stations or Centres which are most agreeable and natural to them and do accordingly bear great varieties and sundry degrees of Punishments proportioned to the Impurity that is left in them For as much as Sin dieth not totally with the Body except while in it there hath been a Dying to it by the Spirit of Righteousness spreading over it So that from hence a Cry doth go forth to all Nations Peoples and Languages to Purge out the corrupt Leaven of Sin that it may not go with them into that World or Worlds where their Lot may be § 3. For it hath been revealed unto me that there are several Regions or Worlds that do receive the Souls of all Degrees and Ranks to the Number Eight The First of these is this Mortal Visible World The Second is the Astral or Aerial World The Third is the Waterish Elementary World And the Fourth is the Fiery Dark World These are all the Worlds where Sinful Lustings may be with Punishments answerable till Sin shall expire therein through the Meditorship and Propitiatian of CHRIST the Almighty Redeemer For into the next Four Worlds nothing of Evil or Sin can enter or in the Inhabitants of them dwell The First of these is the Paradisical World being all Coelestial and a very pleasant State where there is a growing up to higher degrees of Perfection to compleat us for the Kingdom of Mount Sion Where Christ's the Lord's Kingdom is in great Magnificence with all the Angelical Principalities under him and with the Elders as Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles The Third Heavenly World is the Royal and Principal Seat of God the Father with the Eternal Virgin Wisdom and the Seven Spirits This bears the Title of the Great City called the New Jerusalem where the Glassy Sea doth encompass about Then above this is that World called the Still Eternity Out of which were generated all of these Worlds above-mentioned Of all which I must give an account according as I have had them shewed and opened from the deep Centre and Original Being of them I did not know when I published my two last Treatises that of the Enochian Life and the other of the Paradisical Laws that my God would ever have had made use of me any more in this kind the Day of my Life being so far spent and growing to its evening Rest. But my LORD doth still follow me with fresh Revelations and Inkindlings from his own immense Deep which run as a Fiery Stream through me so that I find there is no resisting this all-driving Power by which hidden and unknown Worlds must be made manifest in this last Age of Times § 4. But before I go upon this large and copious Matter it will be proper to Answer a grand Objection that is expected to be cast in upon the Reading hereof Namely Since the Holy Scripture maketh no mention of such Variety of Worlds how shall we give credit hereunto In Answer to this it is given from him who Was and Is and Will be the true Inspirer to open new Volumes of his Mind which are not to be less reputed and credited than the foregoing Scriptures The Old Testament having been appropriated to the Ministration of the Father the New to the Son now the Third Day is come in which the Holy Ghost will have His which will Excel all before it to Unseal and Reveal what yet never was known or understood that will be communicated to and by such as are in an extraordinary manner sanctified and set a part for this holy Function For from this Spirits Day must go forth a New Spring of things yet to be revealed both as to the Present and Future State that hath lain hid within these mentioned Worlds The Account of which I am more particularly to give according as it hath been shown to me from the Spirit of Inspiration For I write here from no other Ground than what the Spirit of CHRIST in the Glass of Wisdom hath presented to mine Inward Eye which pierceth into the Deep of God's Mind And which is no longer to be concealed for the Holy Unction is given for this end to drop his golden Oil which will dissolve all those Seals that have stood so long for an hiding and shutting up of those Mysterious Truths that a Commission is now given to bring forth in order to their being proclaimed and inscribed upon the Pillars and Temple of God's House Whether believed or not it must stand as the Engraving of God's Hand § 5. The First in Order is this Corporeal Visible World in which we now live Where good and evil Births have been produced from Adam and so still shall go on to be procreated till the Numbers shall be finished and filled up that are indeed as to us numberless but numbred by God Here is laid a Foundation for his manifold Wisdom in a wonderful way and manner to be made manifest from this first ground of Natural Generation Which Births after a limited time must pass through the Death of the Elementary Body to such Regions as their Lot will fall to § 6. As for such Ranks of Souls that do dye Unregenerated these having no part in CHRIST and having lived ignorant and as without God in this present World do go to their own direful Place within the Circumference of the Evil Worlds where they will be proved and tried till the general Restitution of all Lapsed Worlds by the Mighty God and Saviour shall come to be effected But of this we will not further now insist having elsewhere more largely declared it § 7. Now therefore beginning from below I proceed to make known to the true Simplified Inquirers what the First and Lowest of these Worlds or Elements is This is entitled the Dark Hellish World and by the only Supream Creator and Judge is allotted a Receptacle for Lucifer and the rest of the Apostatized Angels of that Hierarchy It may be also