then we see that they since the Turkes departed from them have been but one People before God in holinesse and righteousnesse with different names 93. And they are the two Sonnes to one whereof the Father said Goe and doe this and he said yea but did it not and to the other also doe this and he said no but did it which doth so highly advance and magnifie the Turkes in the Kingdome of Nature which the blinde Christian world doth not understand 94. Not that we justifie the Turkes and say that they should remaine in their blindnesse no but to the painted Christians wee declare that they are alike with them before God in that they are as blinde in respect of Christs Kingdome as the Turkes as it plainly shews it selfe in that Christendome is full of strife and contention wrangling and jangling about Christs Deity and humanity and abominably prophaneth and hideously unhalloweth the holy Name in his humanity and use it onely for a forme and custome to sweare Covenant and protest also to Idolatry superstition and hypocrisie and are gone from the sword of the holy Spirit unto a bloud-thirsty confounding Sword wherein is nothing but contending and contemning one another and the whole titular Christendome is turned into meere sects and orders where one sect doth despise and brand another for unrighteous and thus they have made of Christendome a meere murthering Den full of blasphemies about Christs person and have bound the Spirit of Christ to the formes and orders of disputation and have set foolish Reason over Christs Kingdome to be a Master or Judge of the understanding or meaning of Gods Spirit in the holy Scriptures and mysteries 95. But ought we to speake so of Christendome and the Turkes as if they were alike Thus we say the Turke is openly an Ishmalite and mocker of Christs humanity and holdeth him not for the Sonne of Man and God too for he understands not the heavenly Ens in the person of Christ 96. But the Sects of Christendome doe indeed cover themselves with Christs Mantle but doe attach him in his humanity and Deity and revile him in his whole person teare and rend one another with words and swords about his person the one will have it this way another that way every one will be Master over his words and spirit and so deride Christ in his members and thereby destroy all brotherly love and are as revolting rebellious and fugitive Ishmaelites as the Turkes and live in their selfish will and serve the Kingdome of Nature in their selfe-hood selfe-interests and pleasure 97. A Christian must be dead with Christ to selfe and be risen againe in Christ and be borne anew of Christ and to have put on Christ that he be a Christian in Christ in the Spirit and heavenly flesh of Christ according to the internall spirituall man 98. But instead hereof men have put on Babel and the Antichrist and doe boast themselves of their Ordinances of the divine orders in the performances of devout duties in lip labour and much prating and in the Stone-houses of Churches and in the Cathedralls and Cloysters of Christendome where indeed they doe counterfeit somewhat of Christ seeing that they there reade the writings which the Apostles left behinde them but afterward with their Preaching for the most part they foist in the Kingdome and Government of Nature with brawling and disputing and spend the time with disputing confuting and contending about Sects and the different mentall Idolls or opinions insomuch that one party is brought wholly to condemne another and the eares and hearts of the hearers are so infected with gall and bitternesse that one Sect wilfully opposeth another and cryes it downe for devillish whence nothing but wars and disdainfull provocations doe arise to the desolating of Countries and Cities 99. Thus they are all alike before God and lie as it were shut up in Hagar in the dead Reason except the true children of God which verily are here and there to be found among all Nations and Sects but wholly simple and despised also covered under Christs Crosse to the Reason-wise-world 100. For like as the foure Elements receive the power or influence of the Sunne into them and in the substance the body yet not the Sunne is seene albeit it worketh therein so also the Spirit of Christ is hid in the children of God but as an hearb springing from the earth doth by the vertue of the Sunne put forth a faire blossome and fruit so likewise Gods children out of their plaine homelinesse or deformity to the lewd world's or prating hypocrites eye In the 27 Chapter of the Three Principles what the Lilly is may be discerned 32. THe Lilly will not be found in strife or warres but in a friendly humble loving Spirit together with good sound * Wall-grounded convincing satisfactory Reason This will grow to the throwing downe Babel and the building up of Zion Reason this will dispell and drive away the smoake of the Devill and flourish in its time Therefore let none thinke that when strife goeth on and he getteth the upper-hand now it is well and right and he that is under and subdued let him not thinke sure I am found to be in the wrong I should now goe to the other opinion or side and helpe that party to prosecute the other no that is not the way such a one is meerly in Babel 33. But let every one enter into himselfe and labour to be a righteous man and feare God and doe right and consider that this his worke shall appeare in Heaven before God and that he standeth every moment before the face of God and that all his works shall follow after him and then the Lilly of God springeth and groweth and the world standeth in its Seculum AMEN Mysterium Magnum Chap. 41. Pag. 326. 43. LOving Brethren be instructed aright the God of Love he will not the death of a poore corrupt and lost man but hath powred forth his best Treasure which he had in himselfe and is himselfe in Grace over all men like as the Sunne doth shine unto the good and evill but the wicked doth corrupt and spoile the * His precious Image Treasure in himselfe and will not receive it but sucketh and taketh in the Ens of the Serpent full of vanity and is baptized with the fire of Gods Anger in the will of selfe 44. But if he went with his own-selfe-will into the death of Christ and desired from the bottome of his heart to die from his selfe and own will in Gods mercy and cast his whole dependance and trust upon God and thought that he had nothing of his Own in this earthly Cottage but that he was onely a servant of God and his Neighbour in all that he possesseth and forsooke in his minde the propriety and selfe-interest he should soone be baptized with the holy Spirit and put on Christ in his will 45. But these mischievous earthly
unchristian fury and bloud-thirsty minde whereby shee destroys not her opposites onely but her own selfe and even that which shee thinks to better and maintaine Thing whereby men may now see how her whoredome hath been manifold and how the Devill had beset us with manifold Nets and how one whoredome runs in the opposition to another and are malicious bite and slay one another 24. For the Great Paine is come upon her and shee shall now bring forth the Great Iniquitie wherewith shee is fully pregnant and therefore shee cryeth out because of her wofull smart and shee speaketh of the childe which she shall bring forth viz. of Murther Covetousnesse and Tyranny shee uncovereth her faire feature as she is in the Heart Now he that will not know her for him there is no remedy 25. The Revelation saith Goe out from her my people that you may not be partakers of her plagues for shee hath filled her cup full with the Abominations of her whoredome in the Anger of God them shee shall drinke out and thereby be forced to burst her selfe 26. And this is that which I say of Babel that shee is a whore and shall suddenly breake in pieces and no stranger shall doe it the spirit of her own mouth doth strangle her her own Turba destroyeth her shee cryeth for vengeance and murther upon heresie and yet shee doth it not for God but for her Adulterous Bratt otherwise if shee did it for God shee would enter into his Command and Will of Love where Christ saith Love one another for thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples 27. The Kingdome of God stands not in any warre or revilings or in an outward shew in delicious dayes herein the children of God are not to be found but in love in patience and hope in faith under the Crosse of Christ there groweth the Church of God to the holy Ternary i. e. a new angelicall man hidden in the old and this is my certain knowledge briefly comprized concerning this Article in my writings you may see further of it 28. Secondly concerning Zion I say according to my knowledge as the Spirit sheweth it to me that there shall surely come an Ending of the Deceit and Zion shall be found yet onely of the children of faith not in generall as if no wicked man should remaine 29. For the Oppressour shall be a Cause that Zion is borne when men shall see how Babel is an whore then shall many children be found in Zion and seek the Lord but the Oppressour shall dog them at the heels and cry them downe for Hereticks also persecute and put to death and exercise their faith and where one is killed there shall ten yea an hundred rise up in his Room 30. But the generall Zion appeareth first in greatest misery when Babel breaketh it shall stand desolate and miserable and then the children of Zion shall say How hath the Lord forsaken us come we beseech you let us seeke his face ah let us depart from strife war and contention have we not alas made our Countrey desolate is not all provision spent are we not brethren wherefore do we fight we will enter into one Love and seek the Lord and no more fight and destroy our selves we will be content are we not here altogether Strangers and Pilgrims and seek our native Countrey 31. In this Time verily a Zion shall be found and the Heaven shall give its dew and the earth its fatnesse but not in that manner as if wickednesse should be wholly done away for it shall continue unto the end of which Christ saith Thinkest thou that when the Son of Man shall come that there will be faith upon the earth And although the children of Zion shall have a fiery deliverance that they shall remaine maugre the will of the Devill insomuch that God will worke great things as at the times of the Apostles yet it endureth not unto the end For as it was in the dayes of Noah when he entred into the Arke so shall the coming of the Son of Man be as it is written 32. But that the Holy Ghost shall be in the hearts of the faithfull in Zion I acknowledge and know it for Zion shall not be from without but in the new man it is already borne he that would seek it let him seek himselfe and depart from the old Adam into a new life and he shall finde whether Jesus be borne in him 33. If he finds it not let him enter into himselfe and so he shall finde Babel and her workings in him those he must destroy and enter into Gods Covenant and then Zion will be manifest in him and he shall be borne with Christ in Bethleem Jehuda f Under the Crosse in disrespect and disesteeme of the world in the dark Stable not in g Not in the outward pleasures of the flesh Jerusalem as Reason faine would have that Christ should be borne in the old Asse the old Asse must be a servant and serve the New Man in Zion c. This wonderfull Prophesie following was written in a Postscript to a Letter dated the 20th of February 1623. 23. THe Tribulation and Destruction of Babel approacheth with exceeding vehement haste The Storme ariseth upon all Coasts There shall be an exceeding Tempest vaine hope deceiveth for the Destruction of the Tree draweth neere which is knowne in the Wonders 24. The a Domestick intestine homebred Fire hurteth its own native Countrey Righteousnesse and Truth are beaten downe Great Sorrow and perplexing Sadnesse doe b Scrue up themselves force themselves up 25. Men shall mourne for an empty ruinous old Cottage which is of no importance to Salvation and they shall be enraged for that Nest wherein Satan hath hatcht his c Pride coveteousnesse envy wrath and all fâ—lshood under an holy shew of Religion young 26. The Tower of Babel is found to be without foundation men suppose to hold it up with props but a winde from the Lord overthrows it 27. The hearts and thoughts of men shall be discovered for there cometh a Tryall from the Lord whereby the d Tâ—tular verball hypocrite the Cain-like Christian who perswades himselfe from a blind faith that none is accepted with God but himselfe and such as he is the demure and devout Pharisee but his false bottome will come to light maugre his many words and swords mouth-Christian shall be laid open in his false heart and soule as a reed that is shaken by the winde seeing his heart is wavering now here now there because his false ground is revealed 28. Many shall betray themselves and through hypocrisie ruine both body and goods Hypocrites and mouth-Christians shall quaile for feare when their false foundation shall be discovered 29. The Orientall e The Turk shall turne a true Christian Beast getteth an humane heart and face and ere this cometh to passe it helpeth to teare downe the Tower of Babel with its claws
38. Out of an Epis vers 38. COncerning their desire about the affaires at Prague where I was present at the coming in of the new a Palsgrave Frederick King the same into Sagan you have understood that it is already done he came in at the Fort upon Reâ—shin of Shlan and was received of all the three Orders with great Solemnity as the Custome hath been formerly among all Kings 39. I exhort you to heed well what the Prophet Ezekiel hath written in the 38. and 39. Chap Whether the time of the gathering together upon the seven Mountaines in b Confused Christendome Babel be not at hand especially in respect of the Seven c Bethlem Gabor Berger who should get help from the Turk and very easily come to the Ryne-strome 40. Where then the great overthrow of the children of Babel may come to passe where two great Rods of God shall appeare the one by warre the other by mortalitie in which Babel shall be ruined sheweth the Spirit of the Lord in all those who have prophecied before us 41. Although I account the Election of a right Germane Emperour must be yet a little while deferred and in the meane time great d This is come to passe in Germany warre and contention also desolation of many Cities strong Holds and potent Countries shall follow so far as even now is the right time of which the Spirit prophecieth which we doe not so punctually understand 42. For a thousand yeares before God is as one day the Spirit seeth all things nigh at hand then supposeth the e The Astrall spirit or apprehension of Reason Sidereall man that it shall be instantly yet it stands in Gods Counsell 43. However we know for certain the ruine of the Citie Babel to be very nigh and it appeareth to us as if the time were even instantly at hand whereas yet we cannot fully apprehend the Counsell of God but as a Pilgrim that is a day in a Countrey cannot learne all even so it is with us For God keepeth the time and houre to himselfe and yet sheweth by his Spirit the wonders that are to come 29. Out of an Epist vers 29. BUt seeing God hath promised by the Prophets especially in Joel that he will powre forth his Spirit in the last dayes upon all flesh therefore the time is to be considered 30. I say as I have knowne it that whosoever at present will dye to himselfe him shall the Spirit of the Lord according to Joels prophecy apprehend and manifest his wonders by him therefore if any be in Earnest he shall finde it by experience 31. Yet let every one be faithfully warned that if the light of God doe arise in him that he continue stedfast in great humility in resignation namely in the death of Christ c. 36. I give you out of good affection to know that this present time is seriously to be taken into consideration for the Seventh Angel in the Revelation hath prepared his Trumpet the Powers of Heaven be in Peculiar Motion Moreover both gates stand open and light and darknesse are in great desire as every thing is taken so shall it goe in 37. At what the one shall exceedingly rejoyce the other shall mock at it whereupon followeth the sore and severe judgement upon Babel 7. Out of an Epist vers 7. HAppy are those who are comprehended under the sound of the Trumpet which hath already sounded for there cometh such an earnestnesse after that Babel and her convention together with all pride ambition falshood and unrighteousnesse shall drinke an earnest Draught and even that which shee hath filled c. 3. Out of an Epist to Carel van Endern vers 3. IT is knowne to me that the time is nigh and at hand that the contentions about Religion shall enter into the Temperature but with great ruination of the false Kingdome in Babel that hath set up it selfe in Christs stead together with other great alterations concerning which although men perhaps will hardly beleeve me yet in a short time shall appeare c. * 40 Quest the 39. Quest EVery Age hath had its Seekers who have sought the Mystery but it hath been a long time very darke in Babel 5. Now for these two hundred yeares it hath begun againe to be manifest in that the fall of Antichrist hath been foreseene and men have begun to Storme Babel on one side but her strong Tower standeth still fast indeed the Whore hath been somewhat discovered yet her Beast hath but growne the more lusty 6. Therefore there is yet a wonderfull time neare at hand wherein all things shall be altered Many great Mountaines and hills shall be made a plaine and a Fountaine shall flow out of Zion wherein the afflicted and distressed shall drinke and be refreshed 7. And they shall be guided to the fresh Pasture by one onely Crooke and the Shepheard shall rejoyce with the Sheepe that God is so gracious 8. At that time Silver and Gold shall be as common as in Solomons time and his wisdome shall governe the whole Earth this is a Wonder 23. Out of an Epist vers 23. IF the world were not so blinde it might know the wonderfull Beeing of God in all creatures but now that it doth so rage and rave it doth it wholly against it selfe and against the holy Spirit of God at whose light they shall once be astonished they shall not hinder the Sonne which the travelling Mother bringeth forth in her old age for this the Heaven declareth 24. God shall f Or make him glorious enlighten him against all the raging and raving of the Devill and his g Splendour glory light shall reach from the East unto the West I write not of my selfe for I onely foreshew that this is at hand and shall come The sixt Text of his Booke entituled The Abridgement of the heavenly earthly Mystery 49. WHen we consider and ponder thus with our selfe we finde the strife of all Essences that the one is a continuall loathing of the other and is an Enemy to the other 50. For every will desireth a purity without Turba in the other Essence and yet it hath the Turba in it selfe and is also the loathing of the other 51. And then the greatest gets power over the smallest and keepeth it in subjection and except it get rid of it the strong ruleth over the weake 52. Thus the weake doth also run and seeketh the limit of the Oppressour and it will be freed from constraint and thus the limit is sought by all creatures which is hid in the Mystery 53. And even hence ariseth all the power of this world so that the one continually ruleth over the other and this was not commanded nor appointed by the highest Good in the beginning but it grew from the Turba 54. Whereupon Nature afterward acknowledged it for her own Essence which was borne out of her and
the humanity of Christ where the true Mahalaleel and angelicall Image which did disappeare in Adam was againe manifest in the humanity of Christ 39. The Sixt Time begins with Jared that is the spirituall Priesthood under the outward when as Seth Enos Cainan Mahalaleel were in their Times in their outward Orders viz. the Ministry of Enos concerning God and his Beeing and Will so likewise the Preaching of Abraham concerning the Covenant and Circumcision also Moses with the Booke of the Law under all these the inward Priest Jared went along hiddenly Inwardly this spirituall Priesthood is Christ in the New Man and outwardly in the selfe-elected Priests it is Babel 40. This Sixt Time began in the Kingdome of Christ after the death of the Apostles when as men chose themselves Teachers out of Favour and outward respects that is it did even then first open it selfe out of the hiddennesse of the shadow and put it selfe forth in the Churches of stone where the Church stood in stead of the holy Temple of Christ then indeed internally the holy Jared viz. Christs voice ruled in the children of Christ but outwardly the Cherubim with the sword for the outward authority which these Elected Priests manage is the sword of the Cherubim which in the Name Jared forceth it selfe along in the Word in the Nature-speech 41. This Sixt Time in its figure is hidden and manifest it is knowne and also not knowne for Christ said My Kingdome is not of this world Thus this time must passe away secretly under Antichrist where inwardly in the children of God Christs Kingdome hath been manifest but in the Rest who have lived under this Time and also have been termed Christians onely Babel and the Antichrist hath been manifest both in the Priests and their hearers for they which were borne of God they heard the true Jared in them viz. the voice of Christ but the other heard onely the outward voice in Babel viz. to dispute and contend about Christs Kingdome 42. For all warre which the Christians manage is the sword of the Cherubim from Babel Right Christians wage no warre for they have broken the sword of the Cherubim in the death of Christ and are dead with Christ and risen againe in him and they live no longer to the externall Might and Dominion for their Kingdome is manifest in Christ and is not of this world 43. This Sixt Kingdome beginneth after the death of the Apostles and continueth with its Outward Government even to Mount Zâ—on till translated Enoch doth againe appeare in spirit and power for Enoch is the Propheticall Roote and holdeth in his Dominion Noah Moses and the sword of Elias at the end of the first a Or sixt Seale about which time we lâ—ve time the outward b The outward Priâ—sthood in Babel Jared falleth and with him that same outward Building viz. the Citie Babel 45. The Seventh time begins with * Reade the 35 Quest of the 40 Quest Concerning the Enochian life Enoch viz. with the Propheticall Mouth who declareth and layeth open under all the six times the secret Wonders of God what should be done and goeth along under Noahs Abrahams and Moses his vaile even into the Kingdome of Christ where this same propheticall Spirit is translated in the Spirit of Christ till the end of the Sixt time then he manifests himselfe in the Number of the Triple Crosse when the threefold Crosse manifests it selfe then stands the right Triple Crowne upon the Crosse even then the Enochiaâ—â— Prophets mouth doth expresse the great Wonders of the Triple Crosse that is he speaketh no more Magically in types and parables but sheweth the holy Trinity in the Figure viz. the Formed Word of God in all visible things and revealeth all Mysteries within and without 46. And even then is the Time when Enoch and the children under his voice lead a divine life of which the first life of Enoch was a Type and even then there is a blessed and golden yeare till Enochs last translation comes and then the Turba is borne which when as it shall enkindle its fire shall purge the Floare for it is the End of all time 47. Enoch begat Methusalah who was the man of the longest age and was translated three hundred yeares after this sheweth that the Spirit which in Enoch did put forth a twigg viz. Methusalah who attained the highest Age shall rule in the last and highest Age of the world and in the meane while hide it selfe before that time and remaine as it were translated as Enoch was translated and was no more seene 48. His translation was not a dying or a putting off of Nature and creature but he went into the Mystery betwixt the spirituall and outward Word viz. into Paradise and is the Propheticall Roote springing from the Stem of Adam in the line of the Covenant from which Spirit afterward the Propheticall mouth spake 49. This Spirit was translated in the Living voice of Christ when it spake in the flesh and must be silent till the voice of Jared is finished then he proceedeth forth againe from his first roote through all voices viz. through the voice of Noah which denounceth the Deluge of Anger to come upon Babel and through the Stem of Noah and the whole propagation of his Tree through all the Lines viz. through the heathenish Japheticall and Sems Line and through Abrahams and Nimrods children in Babel through Moses and the Prophets and lastly through the voice of the manifested Word in the Spirit of Christ and revealeth the whole Mystery of the Tree of knowledge of good and evill 50. For through his Voice all the fore-mentioned voices of the lines of the Wonders whence the Kingdomes of this world have had their rise shall be changed into one voice and knowledge and transplanted into one Kingdome viz. into the first Tree of Adam which is no longer called Adam but Christ in Adam All Nâ—tions Tongues and Languages heare this voice for it is the first word whence the life of Man proceeded for all the Wonders doe againe in the Word come together into one Body and this same Body is the formed divine Word which at first with Adam did introduce it selfe into one onely Stem and through him into one Tree of manifold boughes branches and fruits to the Contemplation of the divine Wisdome in the Wonders of the Powers Colours and â—ertues according to good and evill 51. This high Tree doth disclose and clearely open it selfe what it hath been in time and what it shall be eternally and in its disclosure Moses puts away his vaile and Christ his Parables in his Doctrine and then the Propheticall Mouth of this Tree of Wonders doth expresse in Divine Power all the voices of the powers of the Tree whereby Babel taketh her End and this is a Wonder and in this same Wonder all Numbers and Names are manifest and this no man can hinder 52. For that which is lost in