through the Turba viz. through the Anger of God and quite through Death and when it is through then it is in Gods m Or substance Essence 3. It remaineth in its n Deedes and wonders and Essences which it wrought here It beholdeth the Majesty of God and the Angels face to faâ—e 4. Wheresoever it is it is in the Abyssall world where there is no End nor Limit whither should it goe where the carkasse is there the Eagles gather together It is in Christs flesh and Bloud with Christ its Shepheard 5. Though it should goe a thousand miles off yet it were then in the same place from whence it went for in God there is no Limit neere and farre off is all one 6. It is as swift as a Thought it is Magicall it dwelleth in its Wonders they are its House 7. The Essentiality that is without it is Paradise a springing blossoming and growing of all manner of faire heavenly fruits just as we have all kinds of fruit here in this world which we eate after an Earthly manner so also there are all manner of fruits in Paradise which the soule may eate they have colours and vertues in the substance and not like a thought though they be as thin and subtile as a Thought but substantiall comprehensible and palpable to the soule virtuall and sappy with the water of Life and all this from the heavenly substantiality 8. For the heavenly body of the soule is from the pure Element whence the foure Elements are brought forth and that giveth flesh and the Tincture giveth bloud the heavenly man hath flesh and bloud and Paradise is the Power of the substantiality it is heavenly Earth incomprehensible to our outward Reason 9. But wee will againe teach you another A. B. C. All in this world have not Christs flesh in them hidden in the Old Adam yea among very many not one but the Regenerate who are departed from their owne will into Gods will in whom the Noble Graine of Mustard-seed is sowne out of which a Tree is growne 10. Most soules depart from the body without Christs body yet they hang as by a o The small threed of Faith threed and are at last in their Faith gotten into the will these soules indeed are in the Image in the Spirit but not in Flesh 11. Such as these waite for the last Day when the Image viz. the Body shall come forth out of the Grave out of the first Image for God will raise it up by the voyce of Christ even that Image which Adam had in his Innocency which hath been washed with Christs Bloud 12. But the Earthly Body shall not touch it that must come before the Judgement in the Turba but after the Sentence of the Judgement the Turba shall swallow it up and the p Or workes Wonders of it shall onely remaine 13. You must understand us aright These soules that must waite till the the last Day for their Bodies they remaine with their bodies in the still Rest till the last day without feeling any q Or Source paine but in another Principle 14. They have neither Darknesse nor Majesty in the Earth but are at rest without paine in the Eternall still Liberty without touching of the Body 15. Yet they see their r Or workes Wonders but they effect nothing in them for they expect God and are in Humility fot they are sunke downe through Death and are in another world yet there is a great Å¿ Gulfe or distance Space between them and the holy soules that are in Christs flesh and Bloud but not a Principle they are in one and the same Principle 16. But a Spirit without a body hath not that t Or Power might which the Spirit in the body hath therefore they rest and are under the Altar of God 17. When the last Day shall come then shall they come forth and eat of the Bread of God and put on the Divine Body as is mentioned in the Revelations of John Rev. 6.9 10 11. where the soules under the Altar cloathed in White say Lord when wilt thou avenge our Bloud and it was answered them that they should rest a little while till their brethren were accomplished which should be killed for the witnesse of Jesus 18. But the soules of the wicked have another place viz. in the most u the innermost in the utter Darknesse innermost which also is the most uttermost of all Darknesse they dare not goe up and downe they remaine meerely with the body in their x Esseâ—ce of workes substance yet not in this world neither doe they touch the Earth 19. It hath indeed power enough over the Earth it can open it without y Essence and feeling substance and perceptibility But it hath not the outward Principle it hath not power enough over the outward Spirit yet it can for a time make z Shew jugling tricks Apparitions in the a Or Spirit of the Aire fydereall Spirit 20. As many appeare againe in the Astrall Spirit and seeke b Or Rest Abstinence and make many afraid with keeping a racket in houses all which they doe by the Astrall Spirit till that be consumed and then their c Or Pompe and shew trickes lie in the Darknesse and they expect the last Judgement 21. Our Babell sath it is the Devill which goeth up and downe in the shape of the soule indeed the damned soule hath enough of the Devill but it is not the very Devill he is in the Abysse and tormenteth the soule in the time of the body willingly in the Abysse of the soule 22. Neither doth he altogether want a cloake for his knavery for he can put on an outward cloake to seduce or terrifie men in 23. But this complaint we have against Babell that she is so extreme blinde and hath so little knowledge of God she hath cast away Magick and Philosophie and received the Antichrist now she hath lost her understanding she hath a kinde of Art still but her understanding quite faileth her she hath broken the Glasse and peereth through the holes of the Spectacles 24. What shall we say The world is blind-folded it is led by a string and taken captive and it seeth it not yet it were at liberty if it did but see it once the snare wherewith it is bound is malicious Knavery thou shalt soone be made to see It is broad day-light doe but awake thou Keeper of Israell 25. Thus my beloved friend know that there is a difference of Places where soules are according to that whereinto the soule is entred if it be Holy and Regenerate then it hath a d The body of Christ Body which expecteth onely the e Or workes Wonders of the body at the last Day it hath f Conceived or formed comprehended them already in the Will but at the Day of Judgement it must stand before the Judgement 26. All soules
understanding 120. The five Senses lie in the Naturall understanding in a Spirituall manner and in the second Property viz. in the motion in the fiery Mercury they lie in a Naturall manner 121. The sixt Property giveth understanding in the voyce or sound viz. in the q Articulation speaking of the word and the second property of Nature is the producer and also the House Toole or Instrument of the speech or voyce in the second Property the Power and vertue is painefull but in the sixt Property it is joyfull and pleasant and the difference between the second and sixt Property is in Light and darknesse which are in one another as fire and Light there is no more difference between them ☽ The seventh Property 122. The seventh Property is the substance that is the subjectum or house of the other six in which they all are substantially as the soule in the body by this we understand especially as to the Light-world the Paradise or budding of the working Power 123. For every Property maketh unto it selfe a Subject or r Or resemblance Object by its owne Effluence and in the seventh all the Properties are in a temperature as in one onely Substance and as they all did proceed from the unity so they all returne againe into one ground 124. And though rhey worke in different kindes and manners yet here there is but one onely substance whose power and vertue is called Tincture that is an holy penetrating growing or springing Bud. 125. Not that the seventh Property is the Tincture but it is the Å¿ Corpus aut Substantia Body of it the Power and vertue of the Fire and Light is the Tincture t Or with in the substantiall Body but the seventh Property is the substance which the Tincture penetrateth and sanctifieth we meane that it is thus according to the power and vertue of the Divine manifestation but as it is a Property of Nature it is the substance of the attracted desire of all properties 126. It is especially to be observed that alwayes the First and the seventh Property are accounted for one and the second and sixt also the third and fift and the fourth is onely the dividing Marke or u Or Limâ—t bound 127. For according to the manifestation of the Trinity of God there are but three Properties of Nature the first is the Desire which belongeth to God the Father yet it is onely a Spirit but in the seventh Property the Desire is substantiall 128. The second is the Divine power and vertue and belongeth to God the Sonne in the second Number it is onely a Spirit but in the sixt it is the substantiall Power and vertue 129. The third belongeth to the Holy Ghost and in the beginning of the third Property it is onely a fiery Spirit but in the fift Property the great Love is manifested therein 130. Thus the Effluence of the Divine Manifestation as to the three Properties in the first Principle before the Light x Appearet is Naturall but in the second Principle in the Light it is spirituall 131. Now these are the seven Properties in one onely Ground and all seven are equally Eternall without beginning none of them can be accounted the first second third fourth fift sixt or last for they are equally Eternall without beginning and have also one Eternall beginning from the unity of God 132. We must represent this in a typicall way that it may be understood how the one is borne out of the other the better to conceive what the Creator is and what the Life and Substance of this world is Of the third Principle viz. The visible world whence that proceeded and what The Creator is 33. THis visible world is sprung from the Spirituall world before mentioned viz. from the outflowne Divine Power and vertue and it is a Subject or Object resembling the Spirituall world the spirituall world is the Inward ground of the visible world the visible subsisteth in the Spirituall 134. The visible world is onely an Effluence of the seven Properties for it proceeded out of the six working Properties but in the seventh that is in Paradise it is in Rest and that is the Eternall Sabbath of Rest wherein the Divine Power and vertue resteth 135. Moses saith God created Heaven and Earth and all Creatures in six Dayes and rested on the seventh Day and also commanded y Or to rest on it it to be kept for a Rest 136. The understanding lieth hidden and secret in those words could not he have made all his workes in one Day neither can wee properly say there was any day before the Sun was for in the z Or depth or vast firmament above the Moone Deep there is but one Day in all 137. But the understanding lyeth hidden in those words he understandeth by each dayes working the Creation or Manifestation of the seven Properties for he saith In the Beginning God created Heaven and Earth The first Day 138. In the FIRST Motion the Magneticall Desire compressed and compacted the fiery and watery Mercury with the other Properties and then the grossenesse separated it selfe from the Spirituall Nature and the fiery became Metals and stones and partly Salnitre that is Earth and the watery became water then the fiery Mercury of the working became cleane and Moses calleth it Heaven and the Scripture saith God dwelleth in Heaven for this fiery Mercury is the Power and vertue of the Firmament viz. an Image and resemblance of the Spirituall world in which God is manifested 139. When this was done God said Let there be Light then the Inward thrust it selfe forth through the fiery Heaven from which a shining power and vertue arose in the fiery Mercury and that was the Light of the outward Nature in the Properties wherein the a Or growing vegetable Life consisteth The second Day 140. In the SECOND Dayes worke God separated the watery and fiery Mercury from one another and called me fiery the Firmament * The * seven Formes of Spirits mentioned REVELA cap. 1. ♄ ☽ The First forme Harsh Desiring will 1. Darke-world a similitude of it is a Candle ☿ ♃ Second Bitter or stinging ♂ ♀ Third Anguish till the flash of Fire ☉ Fourth Fire Dark-fire Light fire 2. Fire-world a similitude of it is the fire of a Candle ♀ ♂ Fifth Light or Love whence the watet of Eternall Life floweth 3. Light-world a similitude of it is the Light of a Candle ♃ ☿ Sixt. Noyse sound or Mercurie ☽ ♄ Seventh Substance or Nature  The First Principle Darke or Fire of Wrath Light or Fire of Love The second Principle The Dark-world hence God the Father is called an Angry zealous Jealous God and a Consuming Fire The Light world hence God the Sonne the word the Heart of God is called a Loving and Mercifull God The third Principle This world of foure Elements which is produced out of the two Inward Worlds and
the Glance of the Majesty for the meeknesse taketh its beginning with the Flash of lightning which is the severing mark of the two Principles where the Wrath goeth upwards and the Meeknesse downwards and are both the substance of the Corporeity 38. For although the wrath in the flash inclineth upwards and also y Crosse-wise or square side wayes yet the sinking down of death is in it also for the flash killeth the hard strong might as is seene how it dissipateth the darknesse and yet the sting of the wrathfulnesse remaineth in it where no death is perceived but substantiality without understanding as also in the sinking of the captivated meeknesse in the Light there is no understanding neither but substantiality and yet it hath the Tincture which springeth in the substantiality and is like a growing and the understanding remaineth meerly in the Centre on the Crosse in the z Or Trinity Number Three 39. Thus wee say the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne as the Aire from the nre and the Light but whither doth he goe Into the substantiality with the Glance of the Majesty wherein the Deity standeth revealed This Gate is called by mee in all my Writings a The Holy Ternary Ternarius Sanctus for I meane the Number Three or Trinity in the substantiality viz. in the Angelicall World where the Three Persons have revealed themselves 40. Now therefore wee say very right that the Sonne is the Word of the Father which the Father speaketh But now the Deepe Minde asketh Whither doth he speake it or into what doth he speake it forth Behold the Word is the Heart and soundeth in the Essences or working powers of the Father and the Heart speaketh it in the mouth of the Father and in the mouth the Holy Spirit of the Father comprehendeth it in his Centre and so goeth with it forth from the Father and the Sonne into the substantiality where it standeth with the Glance of the Majesty as a Virgin of the Wisdome of God in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary 41. This which is spoken forth is an Image of the Holy b Trinity Number Three and a Virgin but without substance yet a similitude of God In this Virgin the Holy Ghost openeth the Great Wonders of God the Father which are in his hidden seales 42. c Alias not that Moreover the Holy Ghost manifesteth the opened seales of the Heart of God in the Glance of the Majesty which stand in the light and are called the seaven Spirits of God 43. Thus the Image of the Wisdome of God standeth in substance among the seaven burning Spirits which burne in the Light of God for they are the Divine Nature and it hath the seaven Starres of the hidden seales which stand in the Anger of the Father in his Centre in its hand for the Heart of God is the might of the number Three as the Apocalyps sheweth you in the first Chapter The highly precious Gate for Man to Consider of 44. This Wisdome of God is an Eternall Virgin not a d Or Wife Woman but the Chastity and Purity without blemish and is as an Image of God Shee is a representation of the number Three which generateth nothing but in her stand the great Wonders which the Holy Ghost discovereth and the Word of the Father createth through the soure Matrix viz. the Fiat and shee is the wonderfull Wisdome without number in her hath the Holy Ghost discovered the Image of Angells as also the Image of Man which the e The Word which giveth beeing Verbum Fiat hath created 45. Shee is the Great secret Mystery in the Counsell of God and goeth f Alias in the second Principle into the first Principle viz. into the Anger of the Father and openeth the Wondâ—rs in the hidden seales or formes of Nature in the wrath and is comprehended by nothing for shee is an Image without substance of Generating the Holy Ghost hath through her discovered the Third Principle which the word Fiat hath made corporeall out of both the Matrixes out of both the Mothers of the substantiality and he hath discovered a limit to that substance in the Centre of the Seaven Formes where they shall goe into their Ether with the corporeall substance and yet both the Mothers or Matrixes shall stand in the substantiality before the Virgin of the Wisdome before the number Three or holy Trinity in the Eternall Figure to Gods glory and g The manifestation of his miraculous deeds his works of Wonder 46. Therefore consider O yee Philosophers how God created this world in Six Dayes for each Dayes work is a Creation or Creature of a Spirit in Ternario sancto and the Seaventh Day is the Rest of the Sabbath of God in the Seaventh Spirit of God wherein the Virgin of the Wisdome of God standeth and therein is no more any working of Anxiety but the Eternall Perfection of Rest 47. For the six Spirits must shed forth their operations of what is in their seales and are not knowne before till they have powred forth the vertue or power of their Vialls in the Principle of this world which Men and the other Creatures bring to substance and h Work act or effect as a building to the manifestation of Gods Works of Wonder 48. And when this shall be accomplished then the hidden Spirits of God under the seales enter againe into the Ether viz. into their Centre and then the Time of the seaventh Seale beginneth in the substantiality in the presence of God and the hidden Mystery of the Kingdome of God is accomplished as is mentioned in the Revelation of Jesus Christ and as wee have knowne in Ternario sancto in the Holy Ternary 49. This Wisdome of God which is the Virgin of Glory and Beautious Ornament and an Image of the number Three is in her figure an Image like Angells and Men and shee taketh her Originall in the Centre on the Crosse like a blossome of a branch out of the Spirit of God 50. For shee is the i Or Essentialitie Substantiality of the Spirit which the Spirit of God putteth on as a Garment whereby he manifesteth himselfe or else his forme would not be knowne for shee is the Spirits Corporeity and though shee is not a corporeall palpable substance like us Men yet shee is substantiall and visible but the Spirit is not substantiall 51. For wee Men can in Eternity see no more of the Spirit of God but onely the Glance of the Majesty and his glorious power wee feele in us for it is our life and conducteth us 52. But wee know the Virgin in all her heavenly Similitudes or Images whereas shee giveth a body to all fruits shee is not the Corporeity of the fruit but the Ornament and Lustre 53. The Corporeity goeth forth out of the Substantiality which is not the Spirit but an impotency in comparison of the Spirit in which the number
a seeking of the Essences when the innumerable and Groundlesse multitude is alwayes borne in the Will and an Eternall craftinesse a continuall rising in the hunger an Eternall finding of the similitude of its owne desire the similitude of the Essences in the Will and this is manifest in the flash for the flash elevateth it selfe ever above the darknesse and the Essences are in the flash and are continually brought into the Will 115. Thus the Fire-will is a t Sucking or attraction seeking of the high swelling Pride and a Contempt of the darknesse it contemneth its owne roote it is covetous and would devoure more then it hath or more then it should it hath all lusts for the desiring Essences are manifest in the Fire and thence it cometh to passe that in each Will each Essence is againe Centre of a whole substance 116. And this is the cause of Creation of this world viz. that the Modell hath appeared from Eternity as in a Glasse and was in the Eternal Essences in the figure as in a virgine without bringing forth and was seene in the light of God and hence cometh the Matter of the Earth Starres and Elements also All Arts wit and subtlety deceit falshood covetousnesse haughtinesse in the Creatures of this world 117. For this world is a Materiall seeking comes from the Eternall u Viz. seeking and is become materiall and perceptible in the Creation viz. in the word x Verbum Fiat Let there be as Fiat Lux. Genesis 1. Let there be light Fiat by the Heaven of the waters as may be seen in Earth and stones and the Firmament together with the Elements is yet this y Or attraction seeking and still it seeketh the Earthy for it cannot reach back againe into the Eternall 118. For all substances goe forward in their progresse so long till the End findeth the beginning and then the beginning swalloweth up the End againe and is as it ever was but that the z Figure or Idea Modell remaineth for the Modell did proceed from the Eternall from which the Creation came forth into a substance as The Eye of Gods wonders 119. You must know also that the Spirit of the Aire proceedeth from the bitter Eternall Fire-spirit which also goeth forward after the Wonders in the will of the a Or attraction seeking of the Essences which are the Starres and therefore it maketh b Or Wheelings Or Jarring whirlings and cometh from many places as from above from beneath and sidewayes and many times round about like a wheele all according as the Fire-seeking is kindled by the Essences of the Starres 120. This is wholly like the wheele of the Minde and it hath its owne Spirit and a proper life of its owne and a proper Will of its owne and therefore it is a Principle and continued so long till the End findeth the beginning the the beginning taketh the End into it selfe and maketh the Middle which manifesteth what is done between both beginning and End therein which ye will consider further of unlesse ye be c Or Mad. foolish d Matth. 25.8 Virgins 121. Also this e Regiment Viz. Turba Regimen secundum Werdenhagen Dominion continueth no longer then it can remaine in the number of the Creation For every day of the Creation is a Circle of a Revolution in the Eye and hath its f 1. Number or Time number g 10. X. 100. 1000. Ten whereof is the ✚ the highest number and Man hath ten times ten viz. a hundred for his number and in the Crowne of Paradise he hath the number Thousand but in the Eternall Essentiality in the Divine Centre of the Majesty he hath h 0. no Number 122. Now looke narrowly with very cleere Eyes God created this world with every substance in six dayes and they were finished about the middle of the sixt Day somewhat after-noone towards the Evening and then the Rest and the Sabbath of the seventh Day began on the sixt Day And so the Eternall Rest found the beginning of the Greation on the sixt Day afternoone this was the End then came the Beginning and the End together in One againe and it was manifest what God had made in the Dayes 123. Seeing then Man by his Imagination hath destroyed the heavenly Angelicall Body and hath brought it into a corruptible number that is into the outward Principle and therefore he is in it for he hath lost the Paradisicall number and is placed in the hundreth number wherein he is also now given up to the Outward Life as to his leader that is he hath given himselfe up to this Leader so that his number to be fulfilled in the Circle of the Outward Principle is cleerely knowne to us 124. If we knew certainly the houre of the sixt Day wherein the Creation was finished we could then set you downe the yeare and day we meane the i Or Iudgement Day last Day for it goeth not a minute further it hath its limit hidden in the inward Circle 125. Therefore know for certaine that the time is neare for in the sixt Day afternoone the Rest of the Eternall Day began and therefore God instituted the Sabbath of the seventh Day for a Rest and an everlasting Remembrance 126. And as the Rest began on the sixt Day towards the Evening and the Entrance to the manifestation of the k Working Viz. the wonders workes of the Creation the End then taking in the beginning againe and the six Dayes stood thus in the Circle as a wonder so know that ye were created in Paradise and yet are gone out from it into the Spirit of Wrathfulnesse into Death l Which Spirit which hath now wrought its wonders in you these 5500. yeares and upwards 127. And now the End hath found the beginning againe and ye shall see also feele and finde what Paradise hath been even every one of them that shall be borne in God 128. For to speake after the manner of Reason and not according to God Paradise is borne againe but ye shall not escape mortality nor the wrath in the Flesh but Paradise is now already manifest in the Minde in the soule of the Children of God and they have the true taste of the Power 129. And no subtilty nor power can hinder it no subtilty can suppresse it nor can any Devill destroy it for the End hath found the beginning there can be no hinderance of it the Power of falshood breaketh and then remaineth nothing but a waiting for the bridegroome for the Children of God shall be found in Paradise when the Turba in the Wrath shall be swallowed up We speake high things yet we understand and know them certainly in the Wonders 130. Thus as is mentioned above if you understand us aright there is borne out of the Wrathfulnesse of the Anger out of the Eternall Centre out of which this world was produced and created which is a
disgrace which was put upon them that were innocent is a great Triumphant Glory to them in that they have suffered in Innocency and put on Patience in Hope which they have still on Death cannot take it away nor put it off but the soule taketh that with it which it hath z Or wrought conceived 17. It s many hearty Prayers wishes and good deedes in love to its Neighbour are its food which it eareth and joyfully enjoyeth till its New Body shall eate Paradisicall fruit 18. But they which have put on the Divine Body here they eate at Gods Table without ceasing yet the Paradisicall fruit belongeth to the body of the Wonders which shall arise out of the Grave and which was created in Paradise for it was made out of the Beginning and it bringeth the End with the a Or workes Wonders into the Beginning againe 19. But wonder not nor thinke that we understand it so though we seeme to speake of two bodies of the Holyest Saints for they are not two but one But consider that Gods Essentiality filleth all and that is the Divine Body which is put upon the. b The great Holy soules Holy soules even in this life 20. For they cast their will into Gods will and so they receive the Divine Body which filleth all things their will dwelleth in the Divine Body and eateth of Gods Word of Gods fruit of Gods c Or Power vertue in the Divine Body and Christ is in God God is become Christ 21. And so they d Or are clothed with weare Christs Body in God and yet waite for their first Adamicall holy Body with the e Viz. The workes and deedes which were done by the Elementâ—ry Body during the whole l fe Wonders which shall be put upon them with Paradisicall f Or quality property 22. For Gods purpose must stand he created the first Body g Or in for Paradise it should have continued there Eternally and it must goe thither againe and the soule must remaine upon the Crosse of the Ternary in the Mouth of God whence it came and yet the whole Person continueth with Body and soule in one another but God filleth All in All. 23. O! that we had but a humane Pen and were able to write it in the Spirit of your soule according to our knowledge O! how many would then returne out of Sodome and Gomorrah out of Babell out of the Covetous proud vale of Misery which notwithstanding is but Anguish and paine full of feare vexation and horrour 24. And here we shall let you know that you may deeply consider it what is the lamentable and miserable condition of the damned soules and what they have to expect and but briefly seeing the following Question doth it at large 25. Their expectation is like that of an imprisoned Malefactour who continually listneth when any thing stirreth when the Executioner should come and execute Judgement and give him his Reward just so doe they 26. They have a false Conscience which gnaweth them their sins are set continually before them they also see their workes Magically they see all their unrighteousnesse and vanities their unmeasurable pride and haughtinesse they see the oppression of the poore their scorning and suppression of them 27. Their false beliefe flieth from them their Hypocrisie was only a deceitfull Glasse it reached not the Heart of God it standeth visibly before them in the Magick viz. in their will but when they search therein they stirre up the Turba of the Fire which will alwayes consume the Glasse and then they are in feare and horrour 28. For they see and know that all must be tried at the last Day by the Eternall fire of Gods Anger and they feele very well that their workes will stay in the Fire 29. The Devills also exceedingly Tremble when they consider their fall which rests in Gods Judgement what he will doe of which the Holy Scripture telleth us plainely enough especially the Judge Christ himselfe 30. Thus know that the totally miserable condition of the damned is that when they should trim their Lamps to meete their Bridegrome at his comming they tremble and smother all their workes which the Turba neverthelesse sets before their Eyes 31. But now those soules which are damned in a high degree are very presumptuously bold they reject God and curse him and are his h Most malicious worst Enemies 32. They hold their cause to be just they oppose God with daring impudency and thinke is there fire so are wee fire is there i Rising boyling properties source then wee will climbe up above God and Heaven in the source of the fire what care wee for humility wee will have the strength and might of the fire we will be above God and doe Wonders by our Power 33. Wee have the Roote God hath but the Glance let us be Lords God shall be servant our k The wrath of the Eternall Nature Mother is his life wee will overthrow his strong Tower at once 34. They have the minde of Souldiers that scale Forts and walls and thinke the Citie is theirs though indeed they loose their lives and never get it 35. You must understand that Hell is against Heaven and the Inhabitants thereof against the Inhabitants of Heaven and this in God is also a great Wonder all maketh for his Glory The three and twentieth Question Whether doe the Soules of the wicked without difference for so long a time before the Day of Judgement feele any ease or Refreshment 1. A Thing which goeth into an Eternall Entrance is also in the Eternall End who can put any thing into his hand that is a far off and not present where it is to be done he must give it onely into his hand that is by to receive it And that thing which with its will is gone forth out of it selfe can receive nothing within it selfe because it desirerh nothing within it selfe 2. Thus it is with the wicked in this world he is gone with his will out of himselfe into Covetousnesse Pride and pleasure into vices gormandizing tipling and whoring also into Gluttony his will is continually bent to dispise the poore in scorne and disgrace to plague the poore and to tread him downe by Authority 3. He hath corrupted Judgement with lies and bribes and continually swallowed downe unrighteousnesse as a Cow drinketh water all that hath come from him hath been l Or cruell bitter Anger which he prosecuted as farre as his power would reach his will hath been meere wilfulnesse he hath done what he listed he hath danced after the Devills owne Pipe and hath wholly entred into Covetousnesse he hath accounted his money and meanes his Treasure and his will hath continually entred into it 4. He hath never retired into himselfe and sought after Love much lesse humility he hath esteemed the needy as his footstoole he hath crushed him under without measure he hath counted it his
stuck into the soule and did leade the poore soule out of Death and out of Hell n In by or through in himselfe 68. And heere wee see that after the Word did become Man that Man suffered himselfe to be hanged on the Crosse and entred into Death on the Crosse understand heere the New Living Man borne of God went into the Abysse and brake Death in the soule and opened the Centre of the soule Hee brake all the seaven Seales of the Centre of Nature so that the soule came to have its owne power againe for he kindled the Divine fire in the soule againe so that the soule did againe reach the Eternall Tincture out of its own fire 69. And thus it came againe into its first Mother in power and Majesty and the Old Adam hung to the Crosse as Curse to the scorne of all Devills there they might doe so far as they could with it as indeed they were busie with the Sophisters and Antichrists the Pharisees 70. There the Devills ran with other suttlety and Tricks into o Corners and secret places holes and did hide cover and conceale the Resurrection through the Ministers of the Dragon the Pharisees which yet pretend to be the Ministers of God but they served the Devill in his lyes as is done now adayes where the Death and power of Christ is closed up and denyed 71. This hanging on the Crosse is nothing else but that as the soule hath its originall upon the Crosse in the Centre of Nature out of the Word of the Lord ex verbo Domini where the Name of the Number Three standeth There hath the Word of the Father moved it selfe and is entred into the Humanity as is heeretofore mentioned concerning the Virgin and is become Man on the Crosse in the Eternall and in the Earthly Virgin and hath been made a spectacle on the Crosse to the Old Adamicall Man and all Devills and their lofty Pride and hath slaine Death on the Crosse and thereby broken through it and so brought the Adamicall Man with flesh and bloud as a spectacle into Death and hath cast away from him all Earthlinesse and brought him powerfully through Death into Life 72. Thus he is new Borne in God and sitteth upon the Rainbow on the Substantiality and Colours of the Eternity in the power of the Majesty and is a Lord of Heaven and of this world and a Judge of Hell and a p Or Power Conquest over Death 73. Of this you have a true Gound yee that are Regenerated in Christ that as Christ brought his body both the Heavenly and the Earthly which he received in his Mother Mary out from Death againe and did cast away from him nothing else but the Earthly source or property viz. the Spirit of this outward world 74. So also must our Bodies in the power of the soules that are in him that is in his Word and Heart which is every where come forth againe at the Last Judgement Day and cast away no more from it but this source and spirit of the outward World for none rise againe in the entire corrupt Body but in the flesh and bloud of Christ 75. But the corrupted Spirit which remaineth in the Earthly Matrix in its Tincture must appeare before the Judgement of God at the End of Dayes and there shall the sentence and Judgement of the Judge Christ be pronounced and then after the pronouncing all goeth into the q Receptacle or Devourer Ether and then the Spirit of God which Created the World will execute that sentence 76. But that I may not meete with false Interpretours that may mistake his Text as the Spirit sheweth mee therefore you must know that when the soule is Borne anew in the Word and in the Spirit of Christ in this life Time then also the first Substantiality viz. the inward Body of the soule which Adam had in Paradise out of the Eternall Virgin wherein he was created Man becometh new borne and getteth the flesh of Christ 77. This new Body in which the New Regenerate soule sticketh sticketh in the old corrupt flesh and is incomprehensible and immortall But the Old Man which is conceived from the Spirit of this World must perish in the Earth it goeth into its Mother who must bring it fortb and present it at the Last Judgement day but after the Sentence of Christ it goeth into the Ether and is only as a Figure r For or before to the Eternall New Man for in that Figure all a Mans works follow him 78. So also they that be alive at the houre of the last Judgement the Old man will fall away from them with the perishing of the World and passe into the Ether For all the Bodies of the wicked shall be presented there in the Mother viz. in the Spirit of this world and the soules shall heare the Sentence and their Bodies also passe away with the Mother and stand as a Figure and their Works follow them into the Abysse The Ninth Chapter Concerning the Threefold Life Also of the Å¿ Driving or Impulsion Inclination and whole Government of Man in this World Highly to be Considered 1. IT is shewen to mee what the Devills intention is how he will endeavour to smother these High and precious Writings therefore be watchfull yee children of God beleeve not the Sophisters too much who cry out Heretick Heretick to the fire with them That is not the voyce of the Holy Ghost but the voyce of the Antichrist and of the Dragon for these Writings will exceedingly discover the Devills smoaking Pit and not onely so but they shew also the Whore of Babell very plainly like a whore t Am Pranger put to open shame 2. But because the Men of the Spirit of this world take care only for their Belly and are loath to loose their honour credit reputation and Goods but had rather part with God and the Kingdome of Heaven wee shall be persecuted by the Whore through the Instigation of the Devill therefore be watchfull yee children of God and looke not upon that which is high and hath great authority but regard the wellfare of your soules This wee leave you for the last farewell 3. Christ saith None kindleth a light and setteth it under a cover or under a Bushell but setteth it upon a Table that all that are in the house may see by the light thereof Thus must wee doe also and must not bury our Talent which is so dearly bestowed upon us in the Earth for wee must give an account thereof at the Day of the Judgement of God as the Spirit of the Mother intimateth to us 4. If this knowledge or understanding of this Spirit shall happen to fall upon any they will be then certain what it is u Which is here written Wee need no Letters of Commendation Christ is our Letter of Commendation which is sufficient for us None ought to call themselves after my
care about the Number Thousand it standeth upon the Crowne of the Virgin in which are set Twelve Starres six of them Divine and six Humane k The Number 1000. is the Number of the Crowne the Number 100. is the Number of a Man the Crowne hath the Number Thousand and the Virgin the Number Hundred 9. Christ saith Seeke first the Kingdome of God and all other things will be added to you All lyeth in the willing for the willing maketh the desiring and the desiring receiveth where nothing is though indeed there is something there yet it is hidden to us Men unlesse a Man have attained the Stone upon the Crosse and then he findeth where Reason saith there is nothing for that which hath not been from Eternity is not at all and thereof wee know nothing we know onely of that which is and hath ever been though indeed not manifested to us Men but yet is of God in his Wisdome from Eternity to Eternity 10. Therefore although wee speake of two Kingdomes viz. of the Kingdome of God and of the Kingdome of this World in that manner as if we saw them with bodily eyes let it not seeme a wonder if God reveale himselfe in Man then is he in two Kingdomes and seeth with twofold Eyes and yet this way is not so hard and difficult as Reasons seeking in outward things it lyeth all in the willing the outward willing must enter into the inward it must deny it selfe as if it were dead to the outward and had no life in the outward and yet liveth as God liveth and is in the outward and the outward is dead to him so that it cannot apprehend him so also thou O Man thou art with thy soule in the inward but thy soules will hath turned it selfe about with Adam into the outward therefore if thou wilt behold God and the Eternity turne thy selfe about with thy will into the inward and then thou art as God himselfe for thou wert thus created in the beginning and thus thou livest according to the inward will unto God and in God and according to the outward will thou livest in this world and hath both Kingdomes thy own and art indeed rightly an Image and similitude of God thou searchest out all things and findest that which lay hidden in secret for thou findest that in the Eternity and beholdest it standing backward in the Out-birth in the Figure 11. The Ground of the Creation of this world is much easier to be knowne in the Inward Man in the Will of God then visible things to the outward Man the outward knoweth lesse that which he seeth with his eyes and taketh hold of with his hands heareth with his eares smelleth with his nose and tasteth with his mouth then the inward doth the Ground and the Existency of the outward The Inward seeth indeed the Creature in the Ground of it but is as it were dead to the outward and yet liveth therein and in that he liveth to the outward he liveth to God in regard of his Works of Wonder in that he manifesteth and bringeth into Beeing that which standeth hidden in the Figure 12. And yet wee say still that the Eternall standeth in the willing and the will maketh desiring and in the desiring standeth the Figure of the willing Thus it was before the Time of this world But when God moved himselfe in his willing he so created the desiring that it stood in a Beeing and other then this very thing wee know nothing 13. Therefore now the desiring is another thing then the willing for the willing is without Beeing or Substance and the desiring maketh Beeing and so out of the Eternall Nothing is come whatsoever is and before there was nothing but onely a willing which was a Virgin without Image and yet was a figure of an Image in the willing and this figure hath discovered the Spirit and created it into a Beeing or Substance as wee perceive in the Forme of this World the Figure hath caused the Spirit that it hath Expressed the Wonders in Figure and that is the Matrix of the Genetrix and that is the Spirit of this world for the Spirit could l Spoken forth or Created expresse nothing but a similitude of it selfe for there was nothing else 14. Therefore wee demonstrate the Creation to you thus for to create signifieth to comprehend in the willing whatsoever standeth in the figure in the willing for when a Carpenter will build an house he must first Frame a Modell of it in his willing how he will build it and then he buildeth it according to the Modell of his willing 15. Thus also hath the Spirit of God framed in his will a Modell after his likenesse and so created that Modell for you see in this world that when the Spirit through the word Fiat upon the First Day created the Out-birth in the Wrath viz. Water and Earth he comprehended the Figure in the Will and that was the Heaven which he created on the Second Day and tryed the Work on the Third Day and suffered to proceed out of the Earth formes and Images out of the Essences viz. Trees Hearbs and Grasse which were Images of the Essences of the desiring but the Image of the Spirit remained still hidden and yet was in Beeing even unto the Fourth Day Heere understand a Day without the Sunne is one turning about of the wheele of Nature in the desiring of the willing and the Inward Will hath the Number Six according to the six Spirits and the outward Will in the desiring of the Figure hath also the Number Six according to the similitude of the Spirit and the two Kingdomes viz the inward and the outward make with their Number Sixes m The twenty-foure houres in 4 Quarte s Morning Noone Evening Midnight foure and twenty which divide themselves into foure parts viz. six before noone and six after noone six before midnight and six after midnight till the beginning or morning againe 16. And according to this the Spirit in the desiring did set a signe and a Reckoning whence Times and Yeares proceed which were not before for Every Number of the Twelve which is heavenly Divine and Earthly humane or Beastiall hath a signe in the Firmament which the Spirit created into a visible Beeing together with the Crowne of the Centre which is the n Or Sphere Circumference of the Constellations And we give you notice that the Creating of the Spirit is a going forth out of it selfe into the outward For in Loco Solis in the place of the Sun is the Point where the Spirit created the similitude for the word Fiat stood there and went forth from the inward Number Ten as a Body that is Luna and in such a comprehension was the manner and forme of the Deepe apprehended and the Spirit went forth and drave the Essences of the Centre even to the Crowne and there o Or framed them into the Signes
and then come others to play and strive and contend also till the Evening till they goe to sleepe into their owne Countrey out of which they are come for wee were in the Land of Peace but the Devill perswaded us to goe in to his unpeaceable Countrey 112. Deare children what doe wee meane that wee are so obedient to the Devill why doe wee so contend about a Tabernacle which wee have not made nay this Countrey is not ours nor this Government ours it is our Mothers and the Devill hath defiled it let us pull it off and goe to our Mother that shee way put us on a faire pure Garment againe and then wee neede not contend about the defiled Garment heere wee contend about a Garment because one brother hath a fairer Garment then another and yet the Mother putteth every ones owne Garment upon them and why therefore doe wee contend with our Mother who hath brought us forth are wee not all her children Let us be obedient children and then shee will purchase a new Garment for every one of us and then wee shall rejoyce wee shall all forget the defiled one 113. Wee goe into the Garden of Roses and there are Lillies and flowers enough wee will make a Garland for our sister and then shee will rejoyce with us wee have a Round to dance and wee will all hold hands together let us be very joyfull there is no more might to hurt us our Mother taketh care for us wee will goe under the figtree how abundant is its fruit How faire are the Pine Trees in Lebanon Let us be glad and rejoyce that our Mother may have joy of us 114. Wee will sing a song of the Driver or Oppressour who hath set us at variance How is he captivated Where is his power Hee is not heere to be found neither hath hee gotten the defiled Garment which wee contended about the Mother hath it in her keeping How poore he is Hee domineered over us but now he is bound O Great Power how art thou thus brought to scorne thou that didst file aloft above the Cedars art now laid under foote and art so voyd of Power Rejoyce yee Heavens and yee children of God for hee that was our Driver Oppressour and persecutour who plagued us day and night is captivated Rejoyce yee Angells of God for Men are delivered and malice and wickednesse is taken captive The Twelfth Chapter Of the true Christian Life and Conversation What Man is to doe in this Valley of Miserie that he may worke the workes of God and so attaine the Eternall Highest Good 1. THere is nothing more necessary and profitable to Man in the valley of Misery upon Earth then for him to learne to know what he is from whence he is and whither he tendeth what a Or businesse he undertaketh What he getteth or acquireth course he taketh and whither he goeth when he dyeth there is nothing more profitable then to know these things for the outward conversation remaineth in this world but what the heart conceiveth that a Man taketh with him The will of the spirit of the soule is Eternall that which is comprehended in the will of the spirit of the soule that the soule carrieth with it when the soule and body part Therefore it is necessary for us to labour for somewhat that is Good wherein the soule may accomplish its Eternall sport and have its joy therein for the works of our soule follow after us and the works of our hands and of the outward spirit remaine in this world for the soule is in the Eternity whatsoever it maketh and imagineth heere that standeth alwaies before it unlesse it breake that againe and then it is as a broken worke which it hath no more to doe withall for it is gone out from that for the Eternall cutteth an Eternall Modell and the corruptible and * Or Inchoctive inceptive cutteth a corruptible Modell for after this time every thing will stand in its own Modell for that which the Eternall Will conceiveth that getteth an incorruptible forme if it selfe doe not breake it 2. Therefore it is good for Man to choose in this life that which is best in which he may have joy Eternally for when thou choosest Beauty Bravery and Honour or Riches then thou art thereby made b Vselesseâ— unbeneficiall to thy brother and sister who are in Misery in this world for the Bravery of this world despiseth the meane and simple and Riches wringeth away the sweate from the poore or grindeth the Faces of the Poore and great Power and Authority presseth and oppresseth the low and miserable Great honour despiseth the simple and will not condescend to the needy seeing therefore in the other life the soules of many that have been simple miserable and in this world contemned poore oppressed and dejected will appeare and seeing it is certaine that in their forme will not be comprehended much highnesse bravery desire of might and honour for their soules have in this valley of misery onely shut up themselves into the meek Love of God and yeelded themselves into simplicity and lowlinesse and have not dared to have communion with might pomp and great honour for such things have had no affinity with them 3. And seeing it is so that the soules in the other life shall have Joy one with another and enjoy the gifts and vertues one of another and seeing then the soules will have their substance which they have heere taken in and conceived appeare in their Eternall Will as a Figure therefore wee ought very highly and heartily to consider it that wee doe not in this world conceive and let into our hearts Pride and stoutnesse also covetousnesse and oppression of the miserable for with these wee cannot enter into the Congregation of Christ they receive us not into their society for it is a contrariety to them 4. For in the Kingdome of Heaven there is nothing but Love and Concord every one inclineth his love and favour to the other and every one rejoyceth in the gifts power and c Iustre or Brightnesse Beauty of the other which they have obtained from the Majesty of God and they all give thanks to God the Father in Christ Jesus that he hath chosen and received them to be children for the mighty power of the strong who have been Mighty in Faith and in the Wonders of God rejoyceth for the weake that the Spirit of God is in them and that they also are in the Wonders in the Eternall Will 5. Therefore deare children and brethren in Christ let us in this world inclose our hearts minds and wills in humility into one Love that wee may be one in Christ If thou art highly advanced to power authority and honour then be humble despise not the simple and miserable but consider that in the other life they shall be in one highnesse with thee squeeze not the oppressed afflict not the afflicted that they may not
Verse 15 Spheare Chap. 10. The Spheare of the wise Magists and Mathematicians is not perfect of the wonderfull turning of the wheele of Nature Verse 25 Spirit Spirits Chap. 1. The Spirit of God is not subject to the Band of the Eternall Nature Verse 13 Chap. 2. The Brimstone Spirit is the will in the foure Formes wherein the Devills dwell Verse 37 Chap. 4. The Spirit desireth to bring the Light forth in its highest Depth Verse 1 Chap. 4. Of the seaventh Forme Also how a Spirit is and how it subsisteth Verse 5 Chap. 4. A similitude describing the Out-flowne Aire and Spirit of God Verse 79 Chap. 4. Of the further working of the Spirit Verse 81 Chap. 4. How the Spirit differeth from the Body Verse 84 Chap. 4. The Spirit is not the Light but the blower up of the Light Verse 85 Chap. 5. Men should not judge least they fall on the sword of the Spirit which will reprove the World for Sinne Righteousnesse and Judgement Verse 4. 5. 6. 7 Chap. 5. How the Spirit of this world may know it selfe Verse 28 Chap. 5. How the Spirit that proceedeth from God openeth the understanding of the Minde Verse 29 Chap. 5. How the Spirit proceedeth from the Father and the Word Verse 37 Chap. 5. Whither the Spirit goeth when it goeth forth from the Father and Sonne Verse 39 Chap. 5. How the Holy Spirit revealeth the Opened Seales Verse 42 Chap. 5. The Aime of the Different Wisdome The Touch-stone to try whether the Spirit of God or the Spirit of the Devill speaketh Verse 74 Chap. 5. How the Spirit hath brought all the Three Principles into a Body Verse 89 Chap. 5. The comparing of the Spirit of Man with the Eternall Spirit and the Number-Three Verse 90 Chap. 5. As the World is spoken forth from the Spirit so is it also in Mans Spirit Verse 91 Chap. 5. The Spirit of Man hath in it selfe the Kingdome of God of Hell and of this World also how all was without Beeing till the A. and O. Verse 92 Chap. 5. The Centre was but one Spirit How all came to be thick grosse and hard as it were opposite to the Majesty of God Verse 99 Chap. 5. How the Aire or Winde is not the Spirit of the Number-Three Verse 102 Chap. 6. How the Spirit of God Ruleth in us and how the soule attaineth the Paradisicall Garland Verse 32 Chap. 6. As the Spirit is so is the body of it Verse 59 Chap. 7. How often unwillingly the Holy Ghost is called a Devill and the Devill accounted a good Spirit Verse 60 Chap. 8. A similitude of the going forth of the Spirit in a Red hot Iron Verse 6 Chap. 8. How no Spirit desireth to come out from its Mother againe Verse 59 Chap. 9. Hee on whom the understanding of this Spirit falleth he understandeth it Verse 4 Chap. 9. Of the roote of the Fire Spirit and of the impotent Aire Spirit Verse 54 Chap. 10. How the Spirit of God hath planted and created a Modell in his will Verse 15 Chap. 11. Of the Breathing in of the Aire Spirit and the Spirit of the soule Verse 15 Chap. 11. How the Spirit of this World introduceth its Government also in the seede Verse 34 Chap. 14. How wee are subjected to the Spirit of this world from our Entrance into the womb of our Mother Verse 4 Chap. 17. How the outward Spirit should looke after outward things Verse 6 Chap. 18. How the outward Spirit hath insinuated it selfe into the soule Verse 34 Chap. 3. How the six Spirits have executed their fierce might in us Verse 50 Chap. 4. Wherefore and of what the Spirits are created Verse 29 Chap. 4. The Spirits are created out of the Centre of the Eternall Minde Verse 31 Chap. 4. How the Creation of the Spirits was Verse 36 Chap. 4. The Spirits are created every one according to its kinde Verse 37 Chap. 4. Of the Spirits that have their originall out of the Inceptive will Verse 54 Chap. 4. Out of what the Earthly and Watery Spirits are Verse 55 Chap. 4. The Spirits are incomprehensible to us The Authour will shew us the Government of Heaven further and then the Government of Man Verse 57 Chap. 5. When it is that the six Spirits shall be knowne Verse 47 Chap. 5. When the hidden Spirits goe into the Ether also of the Time when the seaventh Seale taketh its beginning knowne by the Authour Verse 48 Chap. 5. How the Spirits of Darknesse lie captive Verse 110 Chap. 10. How the Creating of the Spirits was Verse 16 Chap. 14. Of the six Spirits of Nature also of the Originall of Mobility Verse 27 Starre Starres Chap. 7. How every Starre hath a severall property Verse 74 Chap. 3. The Word is in the Father and hath the seaven Starres or Formes in its power Verse 47 Chap. 3. Wee are under the power of the seaven Starres or seaven Spirits of the Fathers Nature Verse 48 Chap. 5. How the Image of the wisdome of God hath the seaven Starres Verse 43 Chap. 6. Out of what the Starres are also why they are to us innumerable Verse 41 Chap. 7. If the Starres and Elements had not been created the Ground of Nature had not been manifested to the Angells Verse 25 Chap. 7. Out of what the Starres are and their property Verse 72 Chap. 7. The cause of the Burning of the Starres also how they awaken all Creatures Verse 73 Chap. 9. Of the Tinctures number six and of the Spirits number six which together make Twelve in Number or the Starres which the Woman in the Revelation weareth Verse 73 Chap. 10. How the Starres are children of the Sunne very great things are to be concealed heere Verse 17 Chap. 10. How God on the fourth Day created the Sunne and the Starres Verse 19 Chap. 11. Of the working of the Starres in the Creatures to the manifestation of the wonders of God Verse 35 Chap. 11. How the soule can subdue the power of the Starres which indeed would faine be delivered from vanity Verse 38 Sting Chap. 2. The soure harshnesse is the Mother of the Sting or Goad also how in the Liberty it becometh joyfull and how the fift Forme riseth up Verse 73 Stone Chap. 6. The Eternall Flesh is the Noble Philosophers Stone which the Magi finde Verse 98 Chap. 6. There is nothing like the Philosophers Stone It is manifest and also hidden Verse 99 Chap. 6. Of the Excellency of the Stone Verse 100 Chap. 6. The great joy which he hath that findeth the Stone Verse 101 Chap. 6. This Stone is the slightest and most contemptible Verse 102 Chap. 6. The power of those that have this Stone they who rightly seeke it finde it others scorne it Verse 103 Chap. 7. What help the soule getteth in its earnestnesse also how little knowledge is necessary for the attaining of the Corner Stone Verse 9 Chap. 7. The Noble Stone is to be found every where Verse 14 Chap. 7. How
good and had shall every one receive their Sentence and Reward The Holy shall be set in the presence of the wicked that they may see and g Or taste feele the cause of their h Or source paine 27. If any should feigne a peculiar Residence or place where they should consort or sit together that contradicts the Rule of the Magia Every soule is in its owne Country and not bound to the place of the body but it may be where it will wheresoever it is it is either in God or in Darknesse 28. God is every where and Darknesse is every where the Angels also are every where each in its owne Principle and in its owne i Or soure Property 29. The Fiction of outward Reason without the knowledge of the Principles is k Or a false Glasse a conceit as a fighting with a shadow If I should aske a thousand times and should alwayes be told somewhat from God himselfe and yet were but in flesh and bloud I should looke upon it as Babell doth which supposeth that the soule flyeth into a Heaven above the Starres I know not that Heaven they speake of and I desire not to come there 30. Heaven is indeed above but there are the Angelicall Ptincipalities and Thrones This Eye of the l Skies Mansions or Spheares Aether is our Principality and Kingdome 31. The same is with them above which is with us but our Creation and Essence is in our Aether A soule may come to them if it earnestly desireth and the Angels of God will lovingly entertaine it 32. For the same Essence of God which is with us is with them this onely is the difference that they have among them Angelicall workes wholly pure without blemish and we have the great wonders and therefore they long to be with us and besides they are our servants during the life of the body and withstand the Devill 33. Now if the Angels be in this world in the Holy Principle whither then shall the soule flie first might Babell thinke perhaps into Pride as Lucâ—fer did O no! they continue in humility and looke m What God deth Gods Wonders as Gods Spirit moveth so doe they The two and twentieth Question What doth every Soule doth it rejoyce till the last Judgement Day 1. THis Question containeth the exceeding joyfull Gate of Glory leading to the knowledge of the n Or Trâ—umphant victorious Garland of the soule 2. When a Darling-Sonne travelleth a farre off into a strange Countrey for Art and Honour he often thinkes of home and of the time when he shall enjoy his Parents and friends he rejoyceth at the thought of that Day and expecteth it with inward joy and Longing also he plyeth himselfe hard in his businesse that he may get Arts and skill wherewith he may make his Parents kindred and friends rejoyce 3. Thinke of this similitude and take it into consideration It is just so with the soule the soules without o The body of Christ body have a great inward Joy and waite for the last Day with great inward Desire when they shall againe receive its faire and Holy Body with its p Or workes which it did here Wonders 4. Also their Ornament is in their will where they behold their workes after the manner of the Eternall Abyssall Magick which they shall then first receive at the last Day in the Figure with the new body out of the Old 5. Also we know and q Or sully highly perceive yet in the Spirit onely according to its knowledge that the blessed soules doe rejoyce in the labour which they tooke here and exceedingly recreate themselves in their wonders which they see Magically for they that have led many to Righteousnesse they have their Reward in the Magia in the will before their Eyes 6. They that have suffered much Persecution for the Truthes sake they see their bright r Or Crowne of Victory Triumphant Garland which at the last Day they shall put on upon the New body 7. They that have done much Good they see that plainely shining in the will 8. They who have been scorned contemned persecuted and slaine for Christs Doctrine honour and Truths sake they see the Triumphant Victory like one that hath overcome his Enemie in a fight and then sets it forrh Triumphantly to his Prince or King and for which he hath exceeding great Glory when his King receiveth him with great joy and keepes him with him for his faithfull assitant 9. We have no Pen that can write what exceeding joy is in them onely this wee know that those for the most part have put on the Divine Body in this world and so have greater perfection then the other they expect the last Day with great joy and Glory when their workes shall be presented to them and set before their Eyes in heavenly figures and the wicked shall see them Å¿ Or who they have tyrannised over against whom they have kicked 10. Every soule rejoyceth before the face of God in great hope of that which it shall receive againe for it knoweth its Reward but without the body it cannot receive it for it hath wrought its workes in the Body and therefore its workes follow it in the New body and come to it againe 11. For although the exceeding precious Holy soules have put on Christs body in this world so that they stand in Heaven viz. in the Image of God yet all their workes were wrought in the Old Body which was Gods Glasse and in the Resurrection they shall be represented in the true heavenly Figure in t Or Old body that body 12. For the first Image which Adam was before the fall is Regenerated in Christ and shall againe with its Wonders be put upon the soule and although it had the Divine Body before yet the u Or workes Wonders stand in the first Image 13. But the Turba with the outward Kingdome of the outward Source is gone for x The first Image it was a Glasse and is now become a Wonder it liveth without Spirit as a Wonder and shall be put upon the soule in great y Clarity Transfiguration or brightnesse Glory which it shall have from the Light of God at which the holy soules doe exceedingly rejoyce and expect it with great longing 14. You must know that every blessed soule trimmeth its Lamp so that it willingly meeteth its Bridegroome at the last Day it alwayes reneweth its will and thinketh how it shall rejoyce with all holy men and Angels in its new Body in the Wonders there is a continuall springing up of Joy in them when they thinke of that which is to come each as it's vertues are 15. And as their workes have been different upon Earth so also is their hope for a Day-labourer who hath wrought much rejoyceth at his wages so also here there is a friendly Essence among them and in them 16. All the scorne and
soule if the will of the soule doe but give way to it there is no neede of the Prayers of any Å¿ Or blessed â—ule Angell they all wish that Gods Kingdome may come and that Gods will be done but the Honour of Government they give to God 32. That men in Popery have invocated great Saints that are dead and that they also have appeared to men and wrought t Or Miracles Wonders we acknowledge it and it is true and although it be now taught against it is by those that are indeed quite ignorant in it It hath another A. B. C. which all of them on both sides doe not understand at all 33. The Faith of one receiveth the Faith of another the Faith of the living tooke hold of the Faith of the Saints departed and the u Viz. the will that is strong Faith hath wrought Wonders 34. Yea it is so powerfull that it can throw downe Mountaines shall then the pure Faith of the Saints in the Faith of the living be able to doe nothing Indeed it could even x Or breake in peeces destroy the whole world if God would but suffer it 35. As he hath permitted it to worke so farre sometimes that the Heathen have been converted by such meanes when they have seene such Wonders wrought at the y Or departure Death of Saints 36. Should not a soule in heaven be willing to put forth its Faith for the glory of God and the working of wonders for him This is even done by the Holy Ghost who hath wrought the Wonders by the Faith of both parties and they are onely the Wonders of God and of his Children 37. But this is wholly cast to the ground and now there is so learned a Schoole that it contemneth all Gods z Or Miracles Wonders but it is Babell and not the Spirit of God It is envious Pride They stand aloft and cry Come ye all to me here is Christ here is the Gospel Indeed there is Pride Covetousnesse Ambition and selfe arrogating malepertnesse a lifting up of proud Babell 38. It is even the old Antichrist and they are young twigs sprung out of the old Tree and they have stirred up the Turba with their strong wrathfull sap which Turba shall roote up the whole Tree for God hath cursed it it is wholly evill and wormeaten it shall downe 39. For there is a young Tree growne out of the Roote out of the old Root which shall discover what the old Tree hath been in its Wonders 40. Yet we would not upbraid any but onely speake of our Wonders and say that the servant shall enter into the House and be free for the time is at hand that he should eat with the Sonne and be merry and rejoyce with him 41. Thus we answer this your Question summarily that indeed the Holy soules doe certainly know of our holy workes and approve of them but they doe not at all regard false workes for they dwell in another Principle into which no evill worke can come nay they doe not so nor doe they enquire after that which belongeth to the Devill also they know nothing but that which reacheth to their Principle 42. Children Parents friends and strangers are all alike to them for in Heaven we are all Brethren They take no greater care of Parents or Children â—â—en they doe of others unlesse they serve God and then their service of God is acceptable and joyfull to them but they enter not into their a The evill which they doe or suffer justly Turba 43. For after the last Day honest Parents shall know nothing of their Children which are in Hell Therefore it is sufficiently and plainely knowne to us that they now also take no care about wicked matters The seven and twentieth Question Whether doe the Soules * Or in Death departed know and understand this or that businesse and Art whereof while they were in the body they had sufficient Skill 1. THis Question is like the former all their workes appeare to them in their will after a Magicall manner they see them but the figure of them shall then first be given them at the Day of Restauration so that they shall be able rightly to behold their workes for they must first be tried by the Fire and whatsoever is false the b Uncleannesse or drosse Turba of that must remaine in the Fire according to the words of c The words of Christ in Paul Christ 2. But it is strange that men should aske whether they know Arts or no without Question they know all Arts how deeply soever they are grounded but they dare not d Or bring them into act awaken them that they appeare in Spirit for Arts are borne in the Centre of Nature out of those Essences wherein the Wonders lye which they sought in this world so farre as they had the Mysterie made knowne to them 3. A soule that is without the Divine body doth not willingly enter into the Mysterie for Art it stands still in its rest it feareth the Turba It giveth God the glory 4. But those soules that are highly enlightned who have heavenly Essentiality in their Spirit They have all knowledge of heavenly things and of whatsoever lyeth hid in the Mysterie especially those who had acquaintance with the Mysterie in this Life the other dive not in into the Mysterie 5. For every one continueth in his e Or Employment calling in that which he delighted in here although there be no such working yet they have their joy in it for in Heaven there is an humble simple Childrens Life 6. Why then should they search or care for Art when the whole Mysterie of God standeth open God filleth All in All there is only a meere Wonder they All live in Wonders and are all of them the Art of God they have great knowledge but in a Paradisicall simple Childrens Life The eight and twentieth Question Whether hath the Soule any more knowledge of Divine Angelicall Earthly and Devilish things and whether can it get more certaine experience and knowledge of them then it had in the body 1. COncerning Divine and Angelicall knowledge certainly it hath much more of that for it is in the Principle of God the Sonne seeth very well what the Father doth in his House and so likewise the soule seeth what is in Heaven 2. Their knowledge is different for the highest knowledge is in the Majesty and therefore most soules must waite till the last Day when they shall receive their new Body 3. But the highly enlightned soules which are in the Divine body and Power they have superabundant understanding and knowledge of God and also of the Angels for they continue in the Wonders of God till they shall bring their owne Wonders thither 4. The soules that are without a body are in Heaven in God as it were Magically they awaken no Wonders but are under Gods Altar and expect the Wonders at
They have their joy in their abominations and their chiefest joy is to scorne God in that they are fiery Spirits and God a Spirit of Light 4. Their boast is alwayes of their strong fiery might they are as a Dragon that spitteth fire they seeke destruction and finde abominations 5. They have also fruit growing out of their own Principle as the abominations of their wills are 6. They have a sort like such as play with fireworkes as Rockets and Balls of fire also spitting fire out of their mouthes k Jesting jeering scoffing and deriding in strange Apish gestures of face and body fooling tumbling and jugling is their passe-time though indeed there is no time nor no feare of any other Torment after the last Judgement Day but their whole life is a continuall feare horrour terrour and Lamentation every one hath his worke which he did here while he lived in the Figure which awakeneth the Turba there and so he rideth in the Fire 7. The soule hath no feeling of it because it selfe is Fire but the Turba doth plague it with those Abominations which it introduced there is an Eternall despairing in them and therefore they are Gods Enemies 8. To blaspheme God is their chiefest Power they devoure Hellish brimstone and Abominations for their fruits are a kinde of stuffe that is outwardly faire but inwardly meere l Strong Abominations malice or wickednesse wrathfulnesse such Hypocrites as they have been upon Earth such bread doth their Heaven afford them to eate 9. They are at Liberty and not shut up at all they may descend as deep as they will for the Abysse and darknesse is every where and yet they are but in their first place the deeper they desire to throw themselves the deeper they fall and yet they finde no end or bottome 10. Their m Their time not the time of Man number is not the number of any humane time their n Refocillation breath is a meere stinke of Fire and Brimstone when they consider themselves in their Abominations that they were once Angels and now Devills then presently the gnawing worme ariseth which biteth and tormenteth them 11. To what end should their wickednesses be described they are evill uncleane Beasts that which they practised on Earth that followeth them and that they desire to doe there also they drinke downe abomination and wickednesse without measure 12. Their o Or Dominion Government is no way better to be knowne then in the Antichristian p Or Beast horse and scornefull men who rave with cursing and blaspheming yet this is but a q Shadow or Resemblance Glasse of the hellish Abominations we will not mention them any further for they are not worth the speaking of The five and thirtieth Question What is the Enochian Life and how long is it to continue 1. THis is also above humane Reason no outward Reason can comprehend it but seeing r The Enochian life is brought forth it is borne it must be made manifest For there are such Mysteries couched in it as the world is not able to conceive neither ought we to mention them all for they have their Å¿ Bounds or appointed time limit how farre they shall be mentioned for in t Time or Age. this u Or Wonders Miracles are yet to be done upon the Earth for which cause our speech is taken away and we must hold our peace in silence 2. Indeed we may declare what kinde of life it is or whether Enoch is gone as also Elias and Moses it is no Fiction we declare onely what is given us here wee must not mention any further we must not be believe Reason for it is a foole herein 3. But we may well speake something of it for the time is x Or come borne for y Or prophesie Enoch to speake and z Or the Sword Elias to worke againe which Babell shall finde by experience for Moses hath a Or Beames or Rayes which with their light shall contend with darkenesse hornes and yet he is a patient Lamb. 4. O how wilt thou rejoyce if thou dost get into Moses his Flock for he hath a good Message Rejoyce O heaven and skip for joy O Earth for Enoch is in the Field and keepeth his Flock 5. What doth Elias desire for he is cloathed with a white Garment he was with Christ on the Mount and spake of the consummation of mans Redemption he spake also of the entring into Paradise and of the finall deliverance from b Or driver the Hunter 6. He that is borne blinde seeth nothing How can a lame man get the prize or a deafe man distinguish Languages doth not the Sunne shine daily and yet the Moale remaineth blinde shall Babell come to see we know she is a scorner and therefore she must be blinde though the Sun shine clearely to her 7. How can he hehold two worlds that alwayes liveth but in one or is it not Art and wit that hath understanding able to search out the deep Gates yet c Art and wit they passe away as a winde which bringeth forth nothing though it maketh a boasting noyse and so doth Babell 8. When we will speake of the Enochian Life we must looke into the Scripture and see who Enoch was and what life he led and then wee may soone finde where he is and what his taking up or Translation was 9. You know that the d Gen. 5.18 Scripture saith his Fathers name was e See the Mysterium magnum ch 30. ver 19 20. JARED if you understood the Language of Nature you had the whole ground already 10. And Enâ—ch begat Methusâ—lah who attained the highest age of Man and after he had begotten him he continued in a Divine Life till the Lord tooke him away into his owne Principle 11. But we must not understand it as if he were wholly perfect in the Light of the Divine Majesty and should not appeare at the day of Judgement Indeed he is in God without Death or want of any thing yes he is in Gods Love yet but in the birth of the Divine Principle for he had also Adams flesh 12. And you know well that the outward Kingdome with the Earthly flesh belongeth to the Turba and although it be cleare that he had the body of the Wonders of God in the outward body in which Divine body of the Wonders he was taken away into the Mystery so that the outward body was as it were swallowed up by the Mysterie 13. Yet now the Mysterie must give up all whatever it hath devoured as you know that at the end the outward body must appeare with all its f Substance or Essences workes before the Judgement and thus the Turba is in the outward body with the Wonders which shall be made manifest and tryed in the Fire 14. Now then if Enoch be thus taken up both body and soule with both the bodies then the
is gone with Righteousnesse from the strife of the Turba and of the Devill into the Mysterie and yet hath his first unfadable body on him which though it be delivered from the Turba must yet be tryed in the Fire at the end of the Dayes and therefore his Prophet is in the Mysterie 35. And since he is become a Lamb after the Turba he hath sent his people many Prophets to preach the Mysterie as indeed there are not onely Lawes and workes contained in the Mysterie but also the Lamb Christ into whom he is also entred and hath brought his f Or the Jewes Law to be a servant in the g Or houshold Family of the Lamb that so his Wonders may be in the sheepfold of the Lamb. 36. This Moses calleth to h Or Prophesie Enoch seeing that he also is in the Mystery and is cloathed with the white Garment which he got of the Lamb in the other world and Moses commeth to help him with the Lambs deeds of Wonder because they call Noah foole who teacheth only as an honest man without Wonders 37. Babell is not able to endure i Noah's doings of simple teaching without Pomp and Couetousnesse this for so her Pompe and Pride will be taken away she setteth her selfe against k Or Miracles Moses and l Or Prophesie Enoch and persecuteth them she would murther them but Moses is already dead and Enoch is taken up and neither of them is in the outward life with her she saith come on now where is Enoch and Moses shew us their Wonders but she is blinde and cannot see them and so she raveth against Moses and Enoch and falleth into Contention 38. Then Moses calleth for m Or the Sword or vengeance Elias who went out of this world in the Divine Fire into the Abysse of the Principle with body and soule who also dwelleth in the Principle with mighty Power Now when he commeth and perceiveth the crie that n Destroyed Christendome Babell is in the Fire then he kindleth the Turba so that the great Fire burneth which consumeth flesh and bloud also stones and the Elements then Babell must drinke her last o Or the very Dregs draught 39. After this p Or the Prophets that preach in the Name of the Lord and leade a pious life Enoch hath peace a while and then is the golden Age till my q The Children of God beloved groweth voluptuous and wanton having fatted her Turba so that it seeketh the Limit and then commeth the End of all time 40. Doe not wonder at it we will stay in the meane time with r In simplicity Noah till Å¿ Miracles Moses and t Or vengeance or destruction Elias come then all the Children of God will finde it true 41. Yet it will remaine hidden to the wicked till the Turba devoure them for they looke upon this as the Jewes did upon Christ and the first world upon Noah what doth the Mysterie profit a scorner he lookes after nothing but eating and drinking and taketh care how to satisfie his haughtie minde that he may ride with Pomp in Babell 42. Thus my beloved friend we have given you a short Hint of the Enochian Life and what his Office and condition is also of Moses and Elias as a wise man consider further of it for we dare not speake otherwise thereof our understanding and will is driven into such a phrase neither have wee leave in this place at this time to write more at large or more fundamentally in plaine words 43. But if God shall please to grant that we may write somewhat upon the first and also upon the second Booke of Moses somewhat more should be revealed for the Names of the Fathers before the Floud which are there set downe belong all to the Mysterie and they containe great Wonders in them when it is Day you shall clearely know the whole course of the world in it The six and thirtieth Question What is the Soule of the Messiah or Christ 1. WE have sufficiently cleared this in our third Booke of the threefold life of man but because every one that readeth this hath not that and in regard of the Question it selfe we must answer somewhat the more here and therefore I set this down for you aske in the following Question about Christs Spirit which was u readily obedient or submissive willing and which he commended to his Father 2. Here the x Or Mankinde Old and sick Adam shall be comfortablely refreshed he shall have a y Or Cure for Death Medicine against Death and be z Or made alive quickned again for his Mother shall bring forth a young sonne to live in her bosome and he shall exceedingly rejoyce in him 3. If we would consider the soule of Christ we need onely seeke and finde our selves for Christs soule is a humane soule conceived in Mary the a Viz. the Eternall wisdome of God and the outward humanity that is God and Man twofold Virgine 4. Yet we doe not acknowledge the outward mortall Life in Mary for a pure Virgine for that which is mortall hath the Anger and the Turba which corrupteth all Purity so that no pure Virgine is borne of Eve but are all daughters of her 5. And Eve her selfe was but halfe a Virgine for Adam was the other halfe according to the two Tinctures in which man saw himselfe to be wholly a Virgine in pure Love and so saw God through himselfe that is through the Creature he saw the Originall which produced those two out of it selfe 6. And thus also in one b The whole and not divided person as Adam was before he slept whole person there is one pure Love and Chastity for it seeketh no other Conjunction it selfe is the Conjunction of both Tinctures viz. the Tincture of the soule and the Tincture of the Spirit and its power was such that it could bring forth a Spirit out of the fiery Tincture which is said to be a soule and Spirit 7. Which Adam c Extiâ—guished or put out lost when he suffered the Earthly Life to take him captive and therefore he must be divided and a woman be made out of him which must set her Love d Longing delight or lust Desire and Imagination upon the Adamicall fiery Tincture if she would be pregnant with a Soule 8. Thus none can say that Eve was a pure and chaste Virgine before the contaction of Adam for as soone as Adam did awake from sleepe he saw her standing by him and did presently set his e Fancie or Desire or lusted after her Imagination upon her and tooke her to him and saide this is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone she shall be called Woman because she is taken from Man 9. And the Eve instantly set her Imagination upon Adam and so both were mutually kindled with the Desire of each other 10. Where
is a Glasse of them wherein Light and Darknesse Good and Evill are mixt it is not Eternall but hath a beginning and an End This Table belongs to the Clavis at the End of the 132. verse of Heaven which came out of the midst of the waters viz. of Mercury whence arose the Male and Female Sex kinde in the Spirit of the outward world that is the Male in the fiery Mercury and the Female in the watery 141. This Separation was made all over in every thing to the end that the fiery Mercury should desire and long for the watery and the watery for the fiery that so there might be a Desire of Love betwixt them in the Light of Nature from which the Conjunction ariseth therefore the fiery Mercuy viz. the outflowne word separated it selfe according both to the fiery and to the watery nature of the Light and thence comes both the Male and Female kinde in all things both Animals and vegetables The third Day 142. In the THIRD Dayes worke the fiery and watery Mercury entred againe into Conjunction or mixture and embraced on another wherein the Salnitre viz. the Separator in the Earth-brought forth Grasse Plants and Trees and that was the first Generation or production between Male and Female The fourth Day 143. In the FOURTH Dayes worke the fiery Mercury brought forth its fruit viz. the fift Essence an higher power or vertue of Life then the foure Elements and yet it is in the Elements of it the Starres are made 144. For as the compression of the Desire brought the Earth into a c Or lamp Masse the compression entring into it selfe so the fiery Mercury thrust it selfe outwards by the Compressure and hath inclosed the place of this world with the d Or constellations Starres and starry Heaven The fifth Day 145. In the FIFT Dayes worke the e The Spirit of the world Spiritus Mundi that is the f Anima Macrocosmi soule of the great world opened it selfe in the fift Essence we meane the Life of the fiery and watery Mercury therein God created all Beasts fishes fowles and wormes every one from its peculiar property of the divided Mercury 146. Here we see how the Eternall Principles have moved themselves according to Evill and Good as to all the seven Properties and their Effluence and mixture for there are evill and good Creatures created every thing as the Mercury that is the Seperator hath figured and g Or Imaged framed himselfe into an Ens as may be seen in the evill and good Creatures And yet every kinde of Life hath its Originall in the Light of Nature that is in the Love of Nature from which it is that all Creatures in their kind or Property love one another according to this outflowne Love The sixt Day 147. In the SIXT Dayes worke God created Man for in the sixt Day the understanding of Life opened it selfe out of the fiery Mercury that is out of the Inward Ground 148. God created him in his likenesse out of all the three Principles and made him an Image and breathed into him the understanding fiery Mercury according to both the Inward and outward Ground that is according to time and Eternity and so he became a living understanding soule and in this Ground of the soule the Manifestation of the Divine Holinesse did move viz. the living outflowing word of God together with the Eternall knowing Idea which was knowne from Eternity in the Divine Wisdome as a Subject or forme of the Divine Imagination 149. This h Or Image Idea becomes i Indued or invested cloathed with the Substance of the heavenly world and so it becommeth an understanding Spirit and Temple of God an Image of the Divine k Or Contemplation vision which Spirit is given to the soule for a Spouse as fire and Light are espoused together so it is here also to be understood 150. This Divine Ground budded and pierced through soule and body and this was the true Paradise in Man which he lost by sin when the ground of the darke world with the false Desire gat the upper hand and Dominion in him The seventh Day 51. In the SEVENTH Day God rested from all his workes which he had made saith Moses yet God needeth no Rest for he hath wrought from Eternity and he is a meere working Power and vertue therefore the meaning and understanding here lieth hidden in the Word for Moses saith he hath commanded us to Rest on the seventh Day 152. The seventh Day was the true Paradise understand it spiritually that is the Tincture of the Divine Power and vertue which is a temperament this pierced through all the Properties and wrought in the seventh that is in the substance of all the other 153. The Tincture pierced through the Earth and through all Elements and tinctured All and then Paradise was on Earth and in Man for evill was hidden as the Night is hidden in the Day so the l Or grim fiercenesse wrath of Nature as also hidden in the first Principle till the fall of Man and then the Divine working with the Tincture m fled into their owne Principle viz. into the Inward Ground of the Light-world 154. For the l Or retired wrath did rise aloft and got the predominancy and that is the Curse where it is said God cursed the Earth for his cursing is to leave off and flie from his working as when Gods Power and vertue in a thing worketh with the Life and Spirit of the thing and afterwards withdraweth it selfe with its working then the thing is cursed for it worketh in its owne will and not in Gods will Of the Spiritus Mundi and of the foure Elements 155. We may very well observe and consider the hidden spirituall world by the visible world for we see that Fire n Or Water Light and Aire are continually begotten in the deep of this world and that there is no Rest or cessation from this begetting and that it hath been so from the beginning of the world and yet men can finde no cause of it in the outward world or tell what the ground of it should be but Reason saith God hath so created it and therefore it continueth so which indeed is true in it selfe but Reason knoweth not the Creator which doth thus create without ceasing that is the true o Distinguisher or divider Archaeus or Seperator which is an Efluence out of the Invisible world viz. the outflowne word of God which I meane and understand by the word fiery Mercury 156. For what the invisible world is in a spirituall working where Light and darknesse are in one another and yet the one not comprehending the other that the visible world is in a substantiall working whatsoever powers and and vertues in the outflowne word are to be p Or conceived understood in the Inward Spirituall world the same wee understand also in the visible world