nakedness came into the world but the toil and drudgery of Tillage and Husbandry the grievous pangs of Childe-bearing and lastly what is most terrible of all Death it self Of all which as of some other things also I shall give you such plain and intelligible reasons that your own hearts could not wish more plain and more intelligible To what an happy condition Adam was created you have already heard How he was placed by God in a Garden of delight where all his senses were gratified with the most pleasing objects imaginable his eyes with the beautie of trees and flowers and various delightsome forms of living creatures his ears with the sweet musical accents of the canorous birds his smell with the fragrant odours of Aromatick herbs his taste with variety of delicious fruit and his touch with the soft breathings of the air in the flowry alleys of this ever-springing Paradise Adde unto all this that pleasure of pleasures the delectable conversation of his beautiful Bride the enjoyments of whose love neither created care to himself nor pangs of childe-bearing to her for all the functions of life were performed with ease and delight and there had been no need for man to sweat for the provision of his family for in this Garden of Eden there was a perpetual Spring and the vigour of the soil prevented mans industry and youth and jollity had never left the bodies of Adam and his posterity because old age and death were perpetually to be kept off by that soveraign virtue of the Tree of Life And I know as you heartily could wish this state might have ever continued to Adam and his seed so you eagerly expect to hear the reason why he was depriv'd of it and in short it is this His disobedience to a commandement which God had given him the circumstances whereof I shall declare unto you as followeth Amongst those several living creatures which were in Paradise there was the Serpent also whom you know to this very day to be full of subtilty therefore you will lesse wonder if when he was in his perfection he had not onely the use of Reason but the power of Speech It was therefore this Serpent that was the first occasion of all this mischief to Adam and his posterity for he cunningly came unto the woman and said unto her Is it so indeed that God has commanded you that you shall not eat of any of the trees of the Garden 2 And the woman answered unto the Serpent You are mistaken God hath not forbid us to eat of all the fruit of the trees of the Garden 3 But indeed of the fruit of the Tree in the midst of the Garden God hath strictly charged us Ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it lest ye die 4 But the Serpent said unto the woman Tush I warrant you this is only but to terrifie you and abridge you of that liberty and happinesse you are capable of you shall not so certainly die 5 But God knows the virtue of that tree full well that so soon as you eat thereof your eyes shall be opened and you shall become as Gods knowing good and evil 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eye and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit and did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat 7 And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew they were naked and were ashamed and therefore they sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons to cover their parts of shame 8 And the Lord God came into the Garden toward the cool of the evening and walking in the Garden call'd for Adam But Adam had no sooner heard his voice but he and his wife ran away into the thickest of the trees of the Garden to hide themselves from his presence 9 But the Lord God called unto Adam the second time and said unto him Adam where art thou 10 Then Adam was forc't to make answer and said I heard thy voice in the Garden and I was afraid because I was naked and so I hid my self 11 Then God said unto him Who hath made thee so wise that thou shouldst know that thou art naked or wantest any covering Hast thou eaten of the forbidden fruit 12 And Adam excus'd himself saying The woman whom thou recommendedst to me for a meet help she gave me of the fruit and I did eat 13 And the Lord God said unto the woman What is this that thou hast done And the woman excus'd her self saying The Serpent beguiled me and I did eat 14 Then the Lord God gave sentence upon all three and to the Serpent he said Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattel and above every beast of the field and whereas hitherto thou hast been able to bear thy body aloft and go upright thou shalt henceforth creep upon thy belly like a worm and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life 15 And there shall be a perpetual antipathy betwixt not only the woman and thee but betwixt her seed and thy seed For universal mankind shall abhorre thee and hate all the cursed generations that come of thee They indeed shall busily lie in wait to sting mens feet which their skill in herbs however shall be able to cure but they shall knock all Serpents on the head and kill them without pity or remorse deservedly using thy seed as their deadly enemy 16 And the doom of the woman was Her sorrow and pangs in childe-bearing and her subjection to her husband Which law of subjection is generally observed in the Nations of the world unto this very day 17 And the doom of Adam was The toil of Husbandry upon barren ground 18 For the earth was cursed for his sake which is the reason that it brings forth thorns and thistles and other weeds that Husbandmen could wish would not cumber the ground upon which they bestow their toilsome labor 19 Thus in the sweat of his face was Adam to eat his bread till he return to the dust out of which he was taken 20 And Adam called his wife Eve because she was the mother of all men that ever were born into the world and lived upon the face of the earth 21 And the generations of men were clothed at first with the skins of wilde beasts the use of which God taught Adam and Eve in Paradise 22 And when they were thus accoutred for their journey and armed for greater hardship God turns them both out and the Lord God said concerning Adam deriding him for his disobedience Behold Adam is become as one of us to know good and evil Let us look to him now lest he put his hand to the Tree of Life and so make himself immortal 23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence
you may have the more firm faith in God for the blessings and fruits of the earth when the ordinary course of nature shall threaten dearth and scarcity for want of rain and seasonable showers 6 For there had been no showers when God caused the plants and herbs of the field to spring up out of the earth onely as I told you at the first of all there was a mighty torrent of water that rose every where above the earth and cover'd the universal face of the ground which yet God afterward by his almighty power commanded so into certain bounds that the residue of the earth was meer dry land 7 And that you farther may understand how the power of God is exalted above the course of natural causes God taking of the the dust of his dry ground wrought it with his hands into such a temper that it was matter fit to make the body of a Man which when he first had fram'd was as yet but like a senslesse statue till coming near unto it with his mouth he breath'd into the nostrils thereof the breath of life as you may observe to this day that men breath through their nostrils though their mouths be clos'd And thus man became a living creature and his name was called Adam because he was made of the earth 8 But I should have told you first more at large how the Lord God planted a Garden Eastward of Judea in the Countrey of Eden about Mesopotamia where afterwards he put the man Adam whom he after this wise had form'd 9 And the description of this Garden is this Out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every Tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food But amongst these several sorts of Trees there were two of singular notice that stood planted in the midst of the Garden the one of which had fruit of that wonderful virtue as to continue youth and strength and to make a man immortal upon earth wherefore it was call'd the Tree of Life There was also another Tree planted there of whose fruit if a man ate it had this strange effect that it would make a man know the difference betwixt good and evil for the Lord God had so ordain'd that if Adam touched the forbidden fruit thereof he should by his disobedience feel the sense of evil as well as good wherefore by way of Anticipation it was called the Tree of knowledge of good and evil 10 And there was a River went out of Eden to water the Garden and from thence it was parted and became into four heads 11 The name of the first was Phasis or Phasi-Tigris which compasses the whole Land of the Chaulateans where there is Gold 12 And the Gold of that Land is excellent there is also found Bdellium and the Onyx-stone 13 And the name of the second River is Gihon the same is it that compasseth the whole Land of the Arabian-Aethiopia 14 And the name of the third River is Tigris that is that which goeth towards the East of Assyria and the fourth River is Euphrates 15 And the Lord God took the man Adam by the hand and led him into the Garden of Eden and laid commands upon him to dresse it and look to it and to keep things handsome and in order in it and that it should not be any wise spoil'd or misus'd by incursions or careless ramblings of the heedlesse beasts 16 And the Lord God recommended unto Adam all the Trees of the Garden for very wholesome and delightful food bidding him freely eat thereof 17 Only he excepted the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which he strictly charg'd him to forbear for if he ever tasted thereof he should assuredly die 18 But to the high commendation of Matrimony be it spoken though God had placed Adam in so delightful a Paradise yet his happinesse was but maimed and imperfect till he had the society of a woman For the Lord God said It is not good that man should be alone I will make him an help meet for him 19 Now out of the ground the Lord God had form'd every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and these brought he unto Adam to see what he would call them and whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof 20 And Adam gave names to all cattel and to the fowls of the air and to every beast of the field but he could not so kindly take acquaintance with any of these or so fully enjoy their society but there was still some considerable matter wanting to make up Adams full felicity and there was a meet help to be found out for him 21 Wherefore the Lord God caus'd a deep sleep to fall upon Adam lo as he slept upon the ground he fell into a dream how God had put his hand into his side and pulled out one of his ribs closing up the flesh in stead thereof 22 And how the rib which the Lord God had taken from him was made into a woman and how God when he had thus made her took her by the hand and brought her unto him And he had no sooner awakened but he found his dream to be true for God stood by him with the woman in his hand which he had brought 23 Wherefore Adam being pre-advertised by the vision was presently able to pronounce This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh What are the rest of the creatures to this And he bestowed upon her also a fitting name calling her Woman because she was taken out of Man 24 And the Lord God said Thou hast spoken well Adam And for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh so strict and sacred a tie is the band of wedlock 25 And they were both naked Adam and his wife and were not ashamed but how the shame of being seen naked came into the world I shall declare unto you hereafter CHAP. III. 1 A subtile Serpent in Paradise indued with both reason and the power of speech deceives the woman 2 The Dialogue betwixt the woman and the Serpent 7 How the shame of nakednesse came into the world 8 God walks in the Garden and calls to Adam 10 The Dialogue betwixt Adam and God 14 The reasons why Serpents want feet and creep upon the ground 15 The reason of the antipathy betwixt Men and Serpents 16 As also of womens pangs in child-bearing and of their being bound in subjection to their husbands 18 Also of the barrennesse of the earth and of mans toil and drudgery 21 God teacheth Adam and Eve the use of leathern clothing 24 Paradise haunted with apparitions Adam frighted from daring to taste of the Tree of Life whence his posterity became mortal to this very day 1 AND truly it cannot but be very obvious for you to consider often with your selves not onely how this shame of
highly rais'd for us to continue long in their embracements and will cleave to the joyous and chearful life of his Vehicle and account this living Vehicle and his Soul one Person 25 Thus Adam with his new-wedded Joy stood naked before God but was not as yet at all ashamed by reason of his Innocency and Simplicity for Adam neither in his reason nor affection as yet had transgressed in any thing CHAP. III. 1 Satan tempts Adam taking advantage upon the Invigoration of the life of his Vehicle 2 The Dialogue betwixt Adam and Satan 6 The Masculine faculties in Adam swayed by the Feminine assent to sin against God 7 Adam excuses the use of that wilde Liberty he gave himself discerning the Plastick Power somewhat awakened in him 8 A dispute betwixt Adam and the divine Light arraigning him at the Tribunal of his own Conscience 14 Satan strucken down into the lower Regions of the Air. 15 A Prophecy of the Incarnation of the Soul of the Messias and of his Triumph over the head and highest Powers of the rebellious Angels 16 A decree of God to sowre and disturb all the pleasures and contentments of the Terrestrial Life 20 Adam again excuses his fall from the usefulnesse of his Presence and Government upon Earth 21 Adam is fully incorporated into Flesh and appears in the true shape of a Terrestrial Animal 24 That Immortality is incompetible to the Earthly Adam nor can his Soul reach it till she return into her Ethereal Vehicle 1 NOw the life of the Vehicle being so highly invigorated in Adam by the remission of exercise in his more subtile and immaterial faculties he was fit with all alacrity and chearfulnesse to pursue any game set before him and wanted nothing but fair external opportunity to call him out into action Which one of the evil Genii or faln Angels observing which had no small skill in doing mischief having in all likelihood practised the same villany upon some of his own Orders and was the very Ring leader of rebellion against God and the divine Light For he was more perversely subtile then all the rest of the evil Genii or beasts of the field which God had madâ— Angels but their beastiality they contractâ—â— by their own rebellion For every thing 〈◊〉 hath sense and understanding and wants the divine Life in it in the judgement of all wise and good men is truly a Beast This old Serpent therefore the subtilest of all the beasts of the field cunningly assaulted Adam with such conference as would surely please his Feminine part which was now so invigorated with life that the best news to her would be the tidings of a Commission to do any thing Wherefore the Serpent said to the feminized Adam Why are you so demure and what makes you so bound up in spirit Is it so indeed that God has confined you taken away your Liberty and forbidden you all things that you may take pleasure in 2 And Adam answered him saying No we are not forbidden any thing that the divine Life in us approves as good and pleasant 3 We are only forbidden to feed on our own Will and to seek pleasures apart and without out the approbation of the will of God For if our own will get head in us we shall assuredly descend into the Region of Mortality and be cast into a state of Death 4 But the Serpent said unto Adam Tush this is but a Panick fear in you Adam you shall not so surely die as you conceit 5 The only matter is this God indeed â—â—ves to keep his creatures in awe and to hold them in from ranging too farre and reaching too high but he knows very well that if you take but your liberty with us and satiate your selves freely with your own will your eyes will be wonderfully opened and you will meet with a world of variety of experiments in things so that you will grow abundantly wise and like Gods know all things whatsoever whether good or evil 6 Now the Feminine part in Adam was so tickled with this Doctrine of the old Deceiver that the Concupiscible began to be so immoderate as to resolve to do any thing that may promote pleasure and experience in things snatcht away with it Adams Will and Reason by his heedlesnesse and inadvertency So that Adam was wholly set upon doing things at randome according as the various toyings and titillations of the lascivient Life of the Vehicle suggested to him no longer consulting with the voice of God or taking any farther aim by the Inlet of the divine Light 7 And when he had tired himself with a rabble of toyes and unfruitful or unsatisfactory devices rising from the multifarious workings of the Particles of his Vehicle at last the eyes of his faculties were opened and they perceived how naked they were he having as yet neither the covering of the Heavenly Nature nor the Terrestrial Body Only they sewed fig-leaves together and made some pretences of excuse from the vigour of the Plantal Life that now in a thinner maner might manifest it self in Adam and predispose him for a more perfect exercise of his Plastick Power when the prepared matter of the Earth shall drink him in 8 In the mean time the voice of God or the divine Wisdome spake to them in the cool of the day when the hurry of this mad Carreer had well slaked But Adam now with his wife was grown so out of order and so much estranged from the Life of God that they hid themselves at the sensible approach thereof as wilde beasts run away into the Wood at the sight of a man 9 But the divine Light in the Conscience of Adam pursued him and upbraided unto him the case he was in 10 And Adam acknowledged within himself how naked he was having no power nor ornaments nor abilities of his own and yet that he had left his obedience and dependence upon God Wherefore he was ashamed and hid himself at the approach of the divine Light manifesting it self unto him to the reprehension and rebuke of him 11 And the divine Light charg'd all this misery and confusion that had thus overtaken him upon the eating of the forbidden fruit the luscious Dictates of his own Will 12 But Adam again excus'd himself within himself that it was the vigour and impetuosity of that Life in the Vehicle which God himself implanted in it whereby he miscarried The woman that God had given him 13 And the divine Light spake in Adam concerning the woman What work hath she made here But the woman in Adam excused her self for she was beguiled by that grand Deceiver the Serpent In this confusion of mind was Adam by forsaking the divine Light and letting his own will get head against it For it so changed the nature of his Vehicle that whereas he might have continued in an Angelical and Ethereal condition and his feminine part been brought into perfect obedience to the divine Light and
rigid and severe thing is this businesse of Religion and the Law of God as they call it that deprives a man of all manner of Pleasure and cuts him short of all the contentments of Life 2 But the Womanish part in Adam to wit The natural and kindly Joy of the body could witnesse against this and answered We may delight our selves with the operations of all the Faculties both of soul and body which God and Nature hath bestow'd upon us 3. Only we are to take heed of Disobedience and of promiscuously following our own will but we are ever to consult with the Will of God and the divine Light manifested in our Understandings and so doe all things orderly and measurably For if we transgresse against this we shall die the death and lose the Life of Virtue and Righteousness which now is awake in us 4 But the Serpent which is the inordinate desire of Pleasure befooled Adam through the frailty of his Womanish Faculties and made him believe he should not die but with safety might serve the free dictates of Pleasure or his own Will and the Will of God that Flesh and Spirit might both rule in him and be no such prejudice the one to the other 5 But that his skill and experience in things will be more enlarg'd and so come nearer to divine Perfection indeed and imitate that fulnesse of Wisdome which is in God who knows all things whatsoever whether good or evil 6 This crafty suggestion so insinuated it self into Adams Feminine Faculties that his fleshly Concupiscence began to be so strong that it carried the assent of his Will away with it and the whole Man became a lawlesse and unruly Creature For it seem'd a very pleasant thing at first sight to put in execution what ever our own Lusts suggest unto us without controll and very desirable to try all Conclusions to gain experience and knowledge of things But this brought in nothing but the wisdome of the flesh and made Adam earthly minded 7 But he had not rambled very far in these dissolute courses but his eyes were opened and he saw the difference how naked now he was and bare of all strength and power to divine and holy things and began to meditate with himself some slight pretences for his notorious folly and disobedience 8 For the Voice of the divine Light had come unto him in the cool of the day when the fury and heat of his inordinate passions was something slaked But Adam could not endure the presence of it but hid himself from it meditating what he should answer by way of Apology or Excuse 9 But the divine Light persisted and came up closer to him and upbraided unto him that he was grown so wilde and estranged from her self demanding of him in what condition he was and wherefore he fled 10 Then Adam ingenuously confessed that he found himself in such a pitiful poor naked condition that he was ashamed to appear in the Presence of the divine Light and that was the reason he hid himself from it because it would so manifestly upbraid to him his Nakednesse and Deformity 11 And the divine Light farther examined him how he fell into this sensible beggerly nakednesse he was in charging the sad event upon his Disobedience that he had fed upon and taken a surfeit of the fruit of his own Will 12 But Adam excused his rational faculties and said They did but follow the natural Dictate of the Joy of the Body the Woman that God himself bestowed upon him for an help and delight 13 But the divine Light again blamed Adam that he kept his Feminine faculties in no better order nor subjection that they should so boldly and overcomingly dictate to him such things as are not fit To which he had nothing to say but that the subtile Serpent the inordinate Desire of Pleasure had beguiled both his faculties as well Masculine as Feminine his Will and Affection was quite carried away therewith 14 Then the divine Light began to chastise the Serpent in the hearing of Adam pronouncing of it that it was more accursed then all the Animal Figurations beside and that it crept basely upon the belly tempting to Riot and Venery and relishing nothing but earth and dirt This will always be the guise of it so long as it lives in a man 15 But might I once descend so far into the Man as to take possession of his Feminine faculties I would set the Natural Joy of the Body at defiance with the Serpent and though the subtilty of the Serpent may a little wound and disorder the Woman for a while yet her warrantable and free operations she being actuated by divine vigour should afterward quite destroy and extinguish the Seed of the Serpent to wit the Operations of the inordinate desire of Pleasure 16 And she added farther in the hearing of Adam concerning the Woman as she thus stood dis-joyn'd from the heavenly Life and was not obedient to right Reason that by a divine Nemesis she should conceive with sorrow and bring forth Vanity And that her husband the Earthly minded Adam should tyrannize over her and weary her out and foil her So that the kindly Joy of the Health and Life of the Body should be much depraved or made faint and languid by the unbridled humours and impetuous Luxury and Intemperance of the Earthly minded Adam 17 And to Adam he said who had become so Earthly minded by listening to the Voice of his deceived Woman and so acting disobediently to the Will of God That his Flesh or Earth was accursed for his sake with labour and toil should he reap the fruits thereof all the while he continued in this Earthly mindednesse 18 Cares also and Anxieties shall it bring forth unto him and his thoughts shall be as base as those of the beasts in the field he shall ruminate of nothing but what is Earthly and Sensual 19 With sweat and anguish should he labour to satisfie his hunger and insatiablenesse till he returned to the Principle out of which he was taken for the Earthly mindednesse came from this animated Earth the Body and is to shrinke up againe into its owne Principle and to perish 20 After all these Castigations and Premonitions of the divine Light Adam was not sufficiently awakened to the sense of what was good but his minde was straightway taken up againe with the delights of the flesh and dearly embracing the Joy of his body for all she was grown so inordinate called her My Life professing she was the noursing Mother and chiefe comfort of all men living and none could subsist without her 21 Then the divine Wisdome put hairy coates made of the skins of wilde beasts upon Adam and his Wife and deservedly reproached them saying Now get you gone for a couple of brutes And Adam would have very gladly escaped so if he might and set up his rest for ever in the beastiall Nature 22 But the Eternall God
that in processe of time not onely Ecclesiastical but Civil power it self will be involved in those ruines and Christ alone will be exalted in that day For before he deliver up the Kingdome to his Father he is to put down all Rule and all Authority and Power For he must reign till he have put all his enemies under his feet The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death which as I have already signified unto you though he be now the King of Terrours will in that great Festival and Sabbatisme by reason of so sensible and palpable union betwixt the Heavenly and Earthly nature be but a pleasant passage into an higher room or to use that more mysterious expression of the Rabbins concerning Moses in whose writings this Sabbatisme is adumbrated God will draw up a mans soul to himself by an Amorous kisse For such was the death of that holy man Moses who is said to have died in Moab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the kisses and embracements of God This shall be the condition of the Church of Christ for many hundred years Till the Wheel of Providence driving on further and the Stage of things drawing on to their last Period men shall not onely be freed from the fear and pain of death but there shall be no capacity of dying at all For then shall the day of the Lord come wherein the Heavens shall passe away with a noise and the Elements melt with fervent heat and the Earth with all the things in it shall be burnt up Thus Christ having done vengeance upon the obstinately wicked and disobedient and fully triumphed over all his enemies he will give up his Kingdome to his Father whose Vicegerent hitherto he hath been in the affairs of both Men and Angels But till then whosoever by pretending to be more Spiritual and Mystical then other men would smother those essential Principles of the Christian Religion that have reference to the external Person of Christ let him phrase it as well as he will or speak as magnificently of himself as he can we are never to let go the plain and warrantable Faith of the Word for ungrounded fancies and fine sayings Wherefore let every man seek God apart and search out the Truth in the holy Scripture preparing himself for a right understanding thereof by stedfastly and sincerely practising such things as are plainly and uncontrovertedly contained therein and expect illumination according to the best communication thereof that is answerably to our own faculties otherwise if we bid all Reason and History and Humane helps and Acquisitions quite adiew the world will never be rid of Religious Lunacies and Fancies FINIS AN ACCOUNT of what is contained in the Prefaces and Chapters of this Book In the Preface to the Reader What is meant by the tearm Cabbala and how warrantably the literal Exposition of the Text may be so called That dispensable speculations are best propounded in a Sceptical manner A clear description of the nature and digniety of Reason and what the divine Logos is The general probabilities of the truth of this present Cabbala The designe of the Author in publishing of it THE LITERAL CABBALA CHAP. I. 2 The Earth at first a deep miry abysse covered over with waters over which was a fierce wind and through all darknesse 3 Day made at first without a Sun 6 The Earth a floor the Heavens a transparent Canopy or strong Tent over it to keep off the upper waters or blew conspicuous Sea from drowning the world 8 Why this Tent or Canopy was not said to be good 9 The lower waters commanded into one place 11 Herbs flowers and fruits of Trees before either Sun or seasons of the year to ripen them 14 The Sun created to and added the day as a peculiar ornament thereof as the Moon and Stars to the night 20 The Creation of Fish and Fowl 24 The Creation of beasts and creeping things 27 Man created in the very shape and figure of God but yet so that there were made females as well as males 28 How man came to be Lord over the rest of living creatures 30 How it came to pass that man feeds on the better sort of the fruits of the Earth and the beasts on the worse p. 1 CHAP. II. 3 The Original of the Jewish Sabbaths from Gods resting himself from his six days labours 5 Herbs and Plants before either Rain Gardning or Husbandry and the reason why it was so 7 Adam made of the dust of the ground and his soul breathed in at his nosthrils 8 The Planting of Paradise 9 A wonderful Tree there that would continue youth and make a man immortal upon earth Another strange Tree viz. the Tree of knowledge of good and evil 11 The Rivers of Paradise Phasis Gihon Tigris Euphrates 18 The high commendation of Matrimony 19 Adam gives names to all kinde of creatures except fishes 21 Woman is made of a rib of Adam a deep sleep falling upon him his minde then also being in a trance 24 The first Institution of Marriage 9 CHAP. III. 1 A subtile Serpent in Paradise indued with both reason and the power of speech deceives the woman 2 The Dialogue betwixt the woman and the Serpent 7 How the shame of nakednesse came into the world 8 God walks in the Garden and calls to Adam 10 The Dialogue betwixt Adam and God 14 The reasons why Serpents want feet and creep upon the ground 15 The reason of the antipathy betwixt Men and Serpents 16 As also of womens pangs in childe-bearing and of their being bound in subjection to their husbands 18 Also of the barrennesse of the earth and of mans toil and drudgery 21 God teacheth Adam and Eve the use of leathern clothing 24 Paradise haunted with apparitions Adam frighted from daring to taste of the Tree of Life whence his posterity became mortal to this very day 15 THE PHILOSOPHICK CABBALA CHAP. I. 1 The world of Life or Forms and the Potentiality of the visible Vniverse created by the Tri-une God and referr'd to a Monad or Unite 6 The Vniversal immense matter of the visible world created out of nothing and referr'd to the number Two 7 Why it was not said of this matter that it was good 9 The ordering of an Earth or Planet for making it conveniently habitable referr'd to the number Three 14 The immense Aethereal Matter or Heaven contriv'd into Suns or Planets as well Primary as Secondary viz. as well Earths as Moons and referr'd to the number Four 20 The replenishing of an Earth with Fish and Fowl referr'd to the number Five 24 The Creation of Beasts and Cattel but more chiefly of Man himself referr'd to the number Six 22 CHAP. II. 2 Gods full and absolute rest from creating any thing of anew adumbrated by the number Seven 4 Suns and Planets not only the furniture but effects of the Ethereal Matter or Heaven 6 The manner of Man and other Animals rising out of the