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A28527	Mercurius Teutonicus, or, A Christian information concerning the last times being divers propheticall passages of the fall of Babel and the new building in Zion / gathered out of the mysticall writings of that famous Germane author, Jacob Behmen, alias, Teutonicus Phylosophus.; Selections. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3409	51,513	57

power thou sayst wee are nigh unto the Kingdome of God and yet wert never farther off this thy end will testifie and declare to be true 57. What doth thy knowledge availe thee the Devill knows likewise that which thou knowest but he doth it not and so doest thou and therfore the Kingdome of God remaineth hidden to both of you Thy knowledge is thy snare which captivates thee wert thou plaine and single-hearted thou wouldst not be so proud what doth the simple know of false suttlety and deceit if he learnt it not from the wit of the Turba Thou saist Wee beare forth Gods will and teach it art thou not Cain who daily killeth Abel Behold thy selfe aright thou art even he Abel lyeth at thy feet and lamenteth but thou art that wicked Beast that trampleth upon * Upon the sincere Love and humilitie of Christ and all those that would practice it Abel and oppressest the low and miserable and thou esteemest the simple as dust and yet thou devourest his sweat and fillest thy selfe with deceit without ground how canst thou then say Here is the Church of Christ O thou art Babel a Citie of whoredome and falshood 58. Thou knowest Gods will and yet doest onely thine omn will and also saist We are gone out from Babel we have the true Doctrine among us yea but hadst thou the Spirit of righteousnesse and truth and wouldst live contented with a little thy Mother would alwayes give thee enough that thou shouldst have no lack but thy pomp pride and arrogancy have no trust in God therefore thou reliest onely upon covetousnesse and thou doest onely devoure the fat of the Earth thou takest it away by force and not with right The Law and justice which thou doest arrogate to thy selfe thy false covetous heart hath invented Thou livest onely in deceit thou flatterest and deceivest thy selfe to thine own hurt wert thou truly wise thou wouldst have an eye to thy End and to that which followeth thereafter But thou blindest thy selfe with pride and yet sayest here is a golden time Many would faine have seene that we see and heare that which we heare but have neither seene nor heard it yea but hearken it shall be a witnesse against thee and make thy judgement so much the more heavy for thou art not growne better thereby but worse Therefore know what is declared thee the same was thy own Prophet which hath called thee back from thy pride unto the Mother of humility but thou art made onely worse thou hast quasht the sword of the Spirit that thou mightest live as thou listest but he hath forsaken thee and given thee over to the Turba which shall devoure thee as it hapned in times past to Israel No Consultation availeth thy Covenants are to no purpose seeing thou dependest upon the arme of flesh hence God also is quite departed from thee and sufferest thee to doe that which maketh for thy own destruction 59. Or why doest thou take the Covenant of God into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed and onely seekest Covetousnesse supposest thou that God is such a false hypocrite and lyar as thou art leave off from thy lip-labour mouth hypocrisie thou art not accepted of God unlesse thou doest returne and goe out from falsehood 60. It is with thee now as the Turba desireth whose sport and recreation it is to fulfill the Anger of God that it may devoure whatsoever is growne up in his Kingdome and thou art blinde therein and seest nothing To what end art thou so having and covetous depart from it doest thou not see how the Noble Tincture doth arise it will very shortly put forth its blossome and then thou shalt have Silver and Gold enough 61. But what shall we need say more thou hast whored thy selfe asleep thou choosest rather to goe quick into the Abysse then to forsake the Whore Therefore that shall be executed upon thee which thy own Prophet sheweth thee who hath long enough called thee with his Trumpet thou expectest Deliverance onely from the fiery devouring sword that shall also cut thee through 62. Or doest thou thinke that we are madd that we speake thus yea rather we are borne of thee wee see and understand the complaints of our Mother that rebuketh her children for shee declareth the wrath in the Turba which is growne even to the wrathfull Anger of God 63. We speake what is given us what we know in the zeale of the Lord what have we to doe with Babel we speake among our selves with the members of our body and with those who dwell in the Courts of God with those who now mourne with us whose sorrow shall be turned into joy Divers remarkable Places taken out of the Commentary of Teutonicus upon Gene●●s Chap. 30. o Or Verse Paragraph the 34. 34. THere are Seven Times appointed to proceed from the Tree of Life in the Word of Power The first proceedeth from the Pure Life of Adam for before the Creature the Life was in the Word whence it was brought pure into the Image This continueth till the Fall from this Pure Life springs forth a twigg in the inward Kingdome this was Abel but being the Fall hung on him in the outward world this same pure life was carried through death into the holy World It pointeth at the Kingdome of Christ who should bring us againe through death into the Pure Life 35. The Second Time begins with Seth for Moses saith that Adam was an hundred and thirtie yeares old and begat a sonne in his own likenesse and called him Seth Understand he was such an Image as Adam was after the Fall and was set in the spirituall Line of the Wonders and Cain also with him in a worldly Naturall Line of the Wonders for both * Secular and Ecclesiasticall Naturall and Spirituall Kingdomes goe together Seths time continueth till the Deluge and beareth the Supremacy even to the Deluge 36. The third time begins with E●os under Seths time and is carried along as a spirituall Ministry or knowledge of God under Seths time being as an hidden Kingdome and continues till Abraham to whom the Covenant of Christ was established in the flesh 37. The Fourth Time begins with Kenan which is the spirituall Forme in prayers and spirituall offrings wherein the Word formeth it selfe in the Wisdome and did bring it selfe along under Seths and Enos his Time and manifested it selfe with Moses like as Enos Time was first truely manifested with Abraham with the Promise in the Covenant This time of Kenan continues in its Manifestation and Dominion under Moses till Christ in the flesh 38. The Fift Time begins with Mahalaleel and 't is the Reception of the Angelicall forme viz. of the new regeneration out of the Covenant and goeth secretly all along under the Ministry of Enos under Seth and Kenan in the word of the Promise through all the three Times and was manifested with the fullfilling of the Covenant in

the humanity of Christ where the true Mahalaleel and angelicall Image which did disappeare in Adam was againe manifest in the humanity of Christ 39. The Sixt Time begins with Jared that is the spirituall Priesthood under the outward when as Seth Enos Cainan Mahalaleel were in their Times in their outward Orders viz. the Ministry of Enos concerning God and his Beeing and Will so likewise the Preaching of Abraham concerning the Covenant and Circumcision also Moses with the Booke of the Law under all these the inward Priest Jared went along hiddenly Inwardly this spirituall Priesthood is Christ in the New Man and outwardly in the selfe-elected Priests it is Babel 40. This Sixt Time began in the Kingdome of Christ after the death of the Apostles when as men chose themselves Teachers out of Favour and outward respects that is it did even then first open it selfe out of the hiddennesse of the shadow and put it selfe forth in the Churches of stone where the Church stood in stead of the holy Temple of Christ then indeed internally the holy Jared viz. Christs voice ruled in the children of Christ but outwardly the Cherubim with the sword for the outward authority which these Elected Priests manage is the sword of the Cherubim which in the Name Jared forceth it selfe along in the Word in the Nature-speech 41. This Sixt Time in its figure is hidden and manifest it is knowne and also not knowne for Christ said My Kingdome is not of this world Thus this time must passe away secretly under Antichrist where inwardly in the children of God Christs Kingdome hath been manifest but in the Rest who have lived under this Time and also have been termed Christians onely Babel and the Antichrist hath been manifest both in the Priests and their hearers for they which were borne of God they heard the true Jared in them viz. the voice of Christ but the other heard onely the outward voice in Babel viz. to dispute and contend about Christs Kingdome 42. For all warre which the Christians manage is the sword of the Cherubim from Babel Right Christians wage no warre for they have broken the sword of the Cherubim in the death of Christ and are dead with Christ and risen againe in him and they live no longer to the externall Might and Dominion for their Kingdome is manifest in Christ and is not of this world 43. This Sixt Kingdome beginneth after the death of the Apostles and continueth with its Outward Government even to Mount Z●on till translated Enoch doth againe appeare in spirit and power for Enoch is the Propheticall Roote and holdeth in his Dominion Noah Moses and the sword of Elias at the end of the first a Or sixt Seale about which time we l●ve time the outward b The outward Pri●sthood in Babel Jared falleth and with him that same outward Building viz. the Citie Babel 45. The Seventh time begins with * Reade the 35 Quest of the 40 Quest Concerning the Enochian life Enoch viz. with the Propheticall Mouth who declareth and layeth open under all the six times the secret Wonders of God what should be done and goeth along under Noahs Abrahams and Moses his vaile even into the Kingdome of Christ where this same propheticall Spirit is translated in the Spirit of Christ till the end of the Sixt time then he manifests himselfe in the Number of the Triple Crosse when the threefold Crosse manifests it selfe then stands the right Triple Crowne upon the Crosse even then the Enochia●● Prophets mouth doth expresse the great Wonders of the Triple Crosse that is he speaketh no more Magically in types and parables but sheweth the holy Trinity in the Figure viz. the Formed Word of God in all visible things and revealeth all Mysteries within and without 46. And even then is the Time when Enoch and the children under his voice lead a divine life of which the first life of Enoch was a Type and even then there is a blessed and golden yeare till Enochs last translation comes and then the Turba is borne which when as it shall enkindle its fire shall purge the Floare for it is the End of all time 47. Enoch begat Methusalah who was the man of the longest age and was translated three hundred yeares after this sheweth that the Spirit which in Enoch did put forth a twigg viz. Methusalah who attained the highest Age shall rule in the last and highest Age of the world and in the meane while hide it selfe before that time and remaine as it were translated as Enoch was translated and was no more seene 48. His translation was not a dying or a putting off of Nature and creature but he went into the Mystery betwixt the spirituall and outward Word viz. into Paradise and is the Propheticall Roote springing from the Stem of Adam in the line of the Covenant from which Spirit afterward the Propheticall mouth spake 49. This Spirit was translated in the Living voice of Christ when it spake in the flesh and must be silent till the voice of Jared is finished then he proceedeth forth againe from his first roote through all voices viz. through the voice of Noah which denounceth the Deluge of Anger to come upon Babel and through the Stem of Noah and the whole propagation of his Tree through all the Lines viz. through the heathenish Japheticall and Sems Line and through Abrahams and Nimrods children in Babel through Moses and the Prophets and lastly through the voice of the manifested Word in the Spirit of Christ and revealeth the whole Mystery of the Tree of knowledge of good and evill 50. For through his Voice all the fore-mentioned voices of the lines of the Wonders whence the Kingdomes of this world have had their rise shall be changed into one voice and knowledge and transplanted into one Kingdome viz. into the first Tree of Adam which is no longer called Adam but Christ in Adam All N●tions Tongues and Languages heare this voice for it is the first word whence the life of Man proceeded for all the Wonders doe againe in the Word come together into one Body and this same Body is the formed divine Word which at first with Adam did introduce it selfe into one onely Stem and through him into one Tree of manifold boughes branches and fruits to the Contemplation of the divine Wisdome in the Wonders of the Powers Colours and ●ertues according to good and evill 51. This high Tree doth disclose and clearely open it selfe what it hath been in time and what it shall be eternally and in its disclosure Moses puts away his vaile and Christ his Parables in his Doctrine and then the Propheticall Mouth of this Tree of Wonders doth expresse in Divine Power all the voices of the powers of the Tree whereby Babel taketh her End and this is a Wonder and in this same Wonder all Numbers and Names are manifest and this no man can hinder 52. For that which is lost in