thing is desirous one of the other to copulate and encrease decrease grow fair perish love and hate 6. In every Creature in this World is a Good and Evil will and source in Men Beasts Fowles Fishes Wormes and in all that which is upon the earth in Gold Silver Copper Tinn Iron Steel Wood Herbs Leaves and Grasse As also in the earth in stones in the water and all whatsoever can be thought upon 7. There is nothing in Nature wherein there is not Good and Evil every thing moveth and liveth in this double impulse working or operation be it what it will 8. But the holy Angels and the fierce Wrathful Devils are here to be excepted for these are severed apart Each of these liveth qualifieth and ruleth in his own peculiar quality 9. The holy Angels live and qualifie in the light in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost raigneth But the Devils live and raign in the fierce wrathful quality in the Quality of fiercenesse and wrath destruction or perdition 10. Yet both of these the good and the evil Angels were made out of the qualities of Nature from whence all things existed only they differ in their qualifying or Condition 11. The Holy Angels live in the power of meeknesse of the Light and joyfulnesse and the Devils live in the power of the rising or elevating quality of fiercenesse terrour and Darknesse and cannot comprehend the light into which condition they precipitated and cast themselves through their pride and elevating of themselves as I shall shew afterward when I shall write of the Creation 12. But if thou wilt not believe that in this world all descendeth or cometh from the Stars I will demonstrate it to thee if thou art not a Sot or Stock but hast some little Reason and understanding left therefore take notice of that which followeth 13. First behold the Sun It is the Heart or King of all Stars and giveth light to all stars from the East to the West it enlightneth and warmeth all all liveth and groweth by its power besides the joy of all creatures standeth in its power 14. If that should be taken away or Extinct then all would be dark and cold neither would there grow any fruit and neither man nor beast could propagate and increase because their heat would be extinguisht and their Seed would be cold and chilled Of the Quality of the Sun 15. If thou wilt be a Philosopher and Naturalist and search into Gods Being in Nature and discern how all is come to passe then pray to God for the holy Spirit to enlighten thee with the same 16. For in thy Flesh and Blood thou art not able to apprehend it and though thou dost read it yet it is but as a Fume or Mist before thine Eyes 17. In the Holy Ghost alone who is in God and also in the whole Nature out of which all things were made in him alone thou canst search into the whole Body or Corporeity of God which is Nature as also into the holy Trinity it self 18. For the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the holy Trinity and reigneth and ruleth in the whole Body or Corpus of God that is in the whole Nature 19. Even as the spirit of Man ruleth and reigneth in the whole body in all the Veins and replenisheth the whole Man even so the Holy Ghost replenisheth the whole Nature and is the Heart of Nature and raigneth in the good Qualities of every thing 20. Now if thou hast that spirit in thee so that it enlightneth filleth and replenisheth thy spirit then thou wilt understand what followeth in this writing 21. But if not then it will be with thee as it was with the wise Heathens who gazed and stared on the Creation and would search and sift it out by their own Reason and though with their fictions and conceits they came before Gods countenance or Face yet they were not able to see it but were stark blind in the knowledge of God 22. And as the children of Israel in the Desart could not behold Moses his countenance and therefore he must put a Vail before his face when he drew near to the people 23. The cause of it was they neither understood nor knew the true God and his Will who notwithstanding walked among them and therefore that Vail was a sign and type of their blindnesse and mis-understanding 24. As little as a peece of work can apprehend him that made it so little also can Man apprehend and know God his creator unlesse the Holy Ghost enlighten him which hapneth only to those that rely not upon themselves but set their hope will and desires only upon God and move in the Holy Ghost and these are one Spirit with God 25. Now if we consider rightly of the Sun and Starrs with their Corpus or Body operations and Qualities then the very divine Being may be found therein and that the vertues of the stars are Nature it self 26. If the whole Wheel Circumference or Sphear of the stars be well considered then it is soon found that the same is the mother of all things or the Nature out of which all things are come and wherein all things stand and live and whereby every thing moveth all things are made of these powers and therein they abide eternally 27. And though indeed they shall be changed at the end of this Time when good and evil shall be separated And so in like manner Angels and men in the power of Nature out of which they had gotten their first beginning shall subsist in God eternally 28. But here thou must elevate thy minde in the Spirit and consider how the whole Nature with all the powers which are in Nature also the widenesse depth and height also heaven and earth and all whatsoever is therein and all that is above the heavens is together the Body or Corporeity of God and the powers of the Starres are the fountain Veins in the naturall body of God in this world 29. Thou must not conceive that in the Body of the Stars is the tryumphing Holy Trinity God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost in which there is no evil but is the Light-holy eternal fountain of joy which is undividable and unchangeable which no creature can sufficiently apprehend or expresse which dweleth and is above the Body of the Stars in it self whose depth no creature is able to measure or fathom 30. But we must not so conceive as if God were not at all in the Corpus or Body of the Starrs and in this world for when we say ALL or from Eternity to Eternity or All in All then we understand the Entire GOD. 31. Take Man for a Similitude or Example who is made after the Image or Similitude of God as it is written in Moses Gen. 1. 27. 32. The Inward or hollownesse in the Body of Man is and signifieth the Deep betwixt the Stars and the Earth 33. The whole Body with all its parts signifieth Heaven and
good and Evil in Nature and so seeing every thing cometh from God needs must then the Evil also come from God Answer 65. Behold there is a Gall in mans Body which is poison and he cannot live without this Gall for the Gall maketh the Astral spirits moveable joyous triumphing or laughing for it is the source of joy 66. But if it be inflamed or kindled in one of the Elements then it spoileth the whole Man for the wrath in the Astral spirits cometh from the Gall. 67. That is when the Gall overfloweth and runneth to the Heart then it kindleth the Element of fire and the fire kindleth the Astral spirits which raign in the Blood in the veins and in the Element of Water and then the whole Body trembleth by reason of the wrath and the poyson of the Gall. 68. And such a source hath Joy and from the same substance as also the wrath That is when the Gall in the Loving or Sweet quality is inflamed in that which man is in love withall then the whole body trembleth for joy in which many times the Astrall spirits are affected also when the Gall is overflown and is kindled in the Sweet quality 69. But it hath no such Substance in God for he hath not flesh and blood but he is a Spirit in whom all powers are as we pray in the Lords Prayer Thine is the power John 4. 24. Matth. 6. 70. And as it is written of him in Isaiah 9. He is Wonderful Counsel Power Champion Eternal Father Prince of Peace 71. The Bitter quality is in God also but not in that manner as the Gall is in Man but it is an everlasting power in an elevating triumphing spring or source of Joy 72. And though it be written in Moses I am an angry zealous God Exod. 20. Deut. 4. 24. yet the meaning of it is not that God is angry in himself and that there ariseth a fire of anger in the Holy Trinity 73. No that cannot be for it is written against those that hate me in that same Creature the fire of anger riseth up 74. But if God should be angry in Himself then the whole Nature would be on fire which will come once to passe On the Last Day in Nature and Not in God but in God the triumphing Joy will burn it was never otherwise from eternity nor will it Ever be otherwise 75. But now the elevating springing triumphing joy in God maketh Heaven triumphing and moveable and Heaven maketh the Stars and Elements moveable and the Stars and the Elements make the Creatures moveable 76. Out of the Powers of God are the Heavens proceeded out of the Heaven are the Stars out of the Stars are the Elements out of the Elements are the Earth and the Creatures come to be 77. Thus all had its beginning even to the Angels and Devils which before the Creation of Heaven Stars and the Earth were proceeded out of the same power out of which the Heaven the Stars and the Earth were proceeded 78. This is a short Entrance or Introduction shewing how the Divine and Natural Being is to be considered Henceforth I will describe the true Ground and Depth concerning What God is and how all things are framed in Gods Being 79. Which indeed hath been partly concealed from the beginning of the World to this time and Man with his Reason could not comprehend it 80. But seeing God is pleased to reveal Himself in Simplicity in this last Time I shall give way to his Impulse and Will I am but a very little Spark of Light AMEN The Third Chapter Of the most blessed Triumphing Holy Holy Holy Trinity GOD the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost ONE onely God 1. COurtâ—ous Reader here I would have you faithfully admonished to let go your Opinion and Conceit and not to Gaze after the Heathenish wisdome nor be offended at the simplicity of the Authour for this work comes not from his Reason but from the impulse of the Spirit 2. Onely be thou careful to get into thy spirit the Holy Ghost which issueth forth from God and He will lead thee into all truth and reveal Himself unto thee 3. And then thou wilt see well enough in his Light and Power even into the holy Trinity and understand those things which are written hereafter following Of GOD the FATHER 4. When Our Saviour JESUS CHRIST taught his Disciples to pray he said When ye pray say thus Our Father which art in Heaven Matth. 6. 5. The meaning is not as if Heaven could comprehend encompasse or contain God the Father for itself is made by the Divine power for Christ saith My Father is greater then all Joh. 10. 29. 6. And God saith in the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my footstool Esa. 66. What house would you build for me I compasse the Heaven with a Span and the Earth with three Fingers Esa. 40. 12. Also I will dwell in Jacob and Israel shall be my Tabernacle Psal. 135. 4. Syrac 25. 13. 7. But in that Christ calls his Father a Heavenly Father his meaning is that his Fathers lustre and power appeareth and shineth very bright and pure in Heaven and that above the circle or incloure which we behold with our Eyes and which we call Heaven doth appear the totally Triumphing Holy Trinity The Father Sonne and Holy Ghost 8. Christ also thereby distinguisheth his Heavenly Father from the Father of Nature which is indeed the Stars and the Elements these are our Natural Father out of which we are made and by whose impulse we live here in this world and from whence we have our food and nourishment 9. But God is therefore Our Heavenly Father in that our Soul continually longeth after him and is desirous of him yea it thirsteth and hungreth continually after him 10. The Body hungreth and thirsteth after the Father of Nature which is viz. the Stars and the Elements and that Father also feedeth and nourisheth the Body 11. But the Soul thirsteth after the heavenly Holy Father and he also giveth meat and drink to it feeding it with his holy Spirit and the spring source or fountain of joy 12. Yet we have not two Fathers but only One for Heaven is made by his Power and the Stars out of his Wisdome which is in him and proceedeth forth from him Of the Substance and Property of the Father 13. When we consider the whole Nature and its property then we see the Father 14. When we behold Heaven and the Stars then we behold his eternal Power and Wisdom so many Stars as stand in the whole Heaven which are innumerable and incomprehensible to Reason and some of them are not visible so manifold and various is the Power and Wisdome of God the Father 15. But Every Star in Heaven Differeth in its power and Quality which also maketh so many Distinctions in and among the Creatures upon the Earth and in the whole Creation 16. But all the Powers which
though we are risen with Christ in our Souls Spirits and Minds serving the Law of God in this Life with a perfect Hearâ— â—ay though sinne dwell in our flesh yet if we let it not raigne in our Mortall or imperfect Bodies so that we obey it not in the Lusts thereof then the Holy Spirit dwelleth in our minds and in our bodies which are the Temples of the Holy Ghost but if we let sin raigne then our Souls and Bodies are Denns of Theeves and Murtherers and the habitations of all Devills This for the present is my understanding which I pray may be enlightened and helped by the Father of Lights from whom is every perfect Gift to my selfe and all mankinde my brethren who have severall measures of the same Light and divers Gifts by the same Spirit of which I desire to be made partaker from themselves and shall highly rejoyce my selfe therein with them But the Ground to the understanding the things here mentioned and of all things contained in the Scriptures is exactly described in this Authors writings For they discover both where the Things themselves are to be found in which are hidden all Divine and Naturall Mysteries and likewise shew as with the finger how those secret things have proceeded to their Being and manifestation from the infinite Incomprehensibility wherein Nothing can be perceived and yet All things have proceeded from thence and how they have come to be as they Are to the discerning what the Effable Manifested Revealed God is and all Creatures whatsoever and amongst the rest what we our selves are and how we may attain the true only and eternal happiness and blessednesse of Life everlasting with and in God And can there be anything more usefull beneficiall necessary and worthy then this Also further by his writings we may come to understand how Christ is the Saviour of All Men and yet all will not attaine salvation Though it be confessed and must be granted that Eternal Salvation is attained by some Infants also by some innocent ignorant Persons of yeares that have been born of Hethenish Jewish and Christian Parents being such as have served God according to the Law of their fore-fathers with an upright Conscience as Paul who was a Jew and so the Eunuch Servant to Candace Queen of Aethiopia a stranger and Cornelius the Centurion and all others fearing God and working Righteousnesse in every Nation are accepted of him though they know nothing of the Great and Common Salvation that hath appeared to all Men as the Apostles knew it For if any be cleansed from his Sinnes it is done by the blood of JESUS CHRIST which clenseth us from all Sinne and this is effected in us and for us when we knew not and though we know not of it nor how it is done in the least to satisfie a Soul that it may undoubtedly be convinced thereof And indeed had not the Holy Scripture mentioned this thing concerning the Blood of Christ it had not been possible for any Man but such as the Prophets and Apostles were to have procured any that are now called Christians to Believe and Confesse it Neither can any understand this though he reade of it in the Scriptures but by the Holy Spirit within himselfe which proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne in the Soul of every one and by the word in the Heart the word of Faith which is God and Christ even that true Divine Light which lighteth every one that cometh into the world The same also may be said concerning all those that have been are or shall be saved though they attain not the understanding of the mysteryes of Salvation in this Life as those 〈◊〉 who wrote the Holy Scriptures neither can any understand them as they did but by the Same Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Soul Therefore let none boast that he is not born among those that are called Heathens but among those that were outwardly called Jewes of old or Christians now or of the Church of Rome or Protestants or of the Reformed Religionâ—â— Presbyterians Independents Separatists Seekers or Perfectists though every one of these have outwardly a high Prerogative and Excellency above the Heathen yet the lives and fruits of these not exceeding their's they will â—â—se up in Judgment against these but let every Soule in Love rejoyce with all other Soules in this that God is our Father in whom wee live and move and have our Beings ruling in our Soules ' and manifesting his infinite Grace and Mercy and bringing all things to passe according to his unconceivable Wisdome and Goodnesse and according to the purpose of his good will towards Men which 〈◊〉 his Eternall Gospell To those that hearken and yeeld to his will and Word of Life alwaies calling in the Soul of every one or else none could be condemned for neglecting and contemning it as they shall be also provoking the Soul to forsake that which it perceiveth to be evill and embrace and Co-work with that which it perceiveth to be good Holy and divine within it selfe therefore also let every Soul groape after God in its Heart that it may feele and know him whom to know is Life Eternall and feele the Hope of enjoying the inestimable good things that are laid up for them that Love God though few here know anything thereof and yet he will certainly give them unto us at that Day which himselfe hath appointed which will also assuredly come though no man knoweth when nor what that day will be or bring forth but he to whom God doth reveale it Aud indeed such Person 's Writings whose unsterstandings have been filled with Spirituall Divine Wisdome are to be prized above all others And though it be an exceeding happinesse and joy to us that God hath bestowed so large understanding to those that have written the Scriptures and therefore we ought diligently and frequently to read and deeply consider them yet in most of the Mysteries thereof it remaineth very dark to us we having so little knowledge of the things it speaketh of therefore how highly in exceeding Love to the Scriptures should we value and esteeme the writings of this Author Jacob Behme which disclose the very things which are but briefly hinted therein and so fundamentally as to satisfie all the objections of Reason that can be made and which do also direct us plainly in the way to find the infallible Conductor the Holy Spirit which will open our understandings to discerne those hidden Mysteries mentioned in the Scriptures so long agoe that we through patience and comfort of them might have Hope And yet but darkly of purpose that some things should be kept secret from the beginning of the world and not revealed till the due time and season in every Age and some not till this last age which is appointed for the manifesting of all mysteries And because this Author could not so deepely and fundamentally disclose these mysteries but in
are all but one thing a moving boyling hovering like a Spirit or Matter Onely it hath not Reason for it is not the Holy Spirit and thus also the fourth Element must adhere or belong to a natural spirit or it is not capable of Reason 75. And thus God the Father goeth forth in his Deep out of all his powers and Generateth the Splendor the Heart or the Sonne of God in his Center 76. Which may be likened to the round Globe of the Sun which shineth upwards downwards and on every side And so the splendor together with all the powers goeth forth from the Sonne of God in the whole Father 77. Now in the whole Deep of the Father Externally without the Sonne there is nothing but the manifold and unmeasurable or unsearchable Power of the Father 78. And the unsearchable Power and Light of the Sonne is in the Deep of the Father a living all-powerful all-knowing all-hearing all-seeing all-smelling all-tasting all-feeling Spirit wherein is all power splendor and wisdom as in the Father and the Sonne 79. And as in the four Elements there is the power and splendor of the Sun and all the stars so it is in the whole Deep of the Father and that is and is rightly called the Holy Ghost which is the third self-subsisting Person in the Deity Of the Holy TRINITY 80. Now when we speak or write of the Three Persons in the Deity you must not conceive that therefore there are three Gods each Raigning and Ruling by himself like temporal Kings on the Earth 81. No Such a Substance and Being is not in God for the Divine Being consiseth in power and not in Body or flesh 82. The Father is the whole Divine power whence all creatures have proceeded and hath been alwayes from Eternity He hath neither beginning nor end 83. The Sonne is in the Father being the Fathers Heart or Light and the Father generateth the Sonne continually from Eternity to Eternity and the Sonnes Power and Splendor shineth back again in the whole Father as the Sun doth in the whole World 84. Also the Sonne is another person then the Father but not Externally without or severed from the Father nor is he any other God then the Father is his power Splendor and Omnipotence is no lesse then the whole Father 85. The Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne and is the Third self-subsisting person in the Deity As the Elements in this World go forth from the Sun and the Stars and are the moving Spirit which is in every thing in this world 86. So the Holy Ghost is the moving Spirit in the whole Father and proceedeth or goeth forth from Eternity to Eternity continually from the Father and Sonne and replenisheth the whole Father he is nothing Lesse or Greater then the Father and Sonne His moving power is in the whole Father 87. All things in this World are according to the similitude of this Ternary Ye blind Jewes Turks and Heathens open wide the Eyes of your Mind I must shew you in your Body and in every Natural thing in Men Beasts Fowles and worms also in wood stone leaves and grasse the Likenes of the Holy Ternary in God Objection 88. Ye say there is but One Being in God and that God hath no Sonne Answer 89. Open your Eyes and consider your Selves Man is made according to the similitude and out of the power of God in his Ternary Behold thy inward man and then thou wilt see it most plainly and clearly if thou art not a fool and an irrational Beast therefore observe 60. In thy Heart in thy Veins and in thy Brain thou hast thy spirit and all the powers which move in thy heart in thy Veins and in thy Brain wherein thy Life consisteth signifieth God the Father 91. From that power Springeth up thy Light so that thou seest understandest and knowest in the same power what thou art to do for that Light glimmereth in thy whole Body and the whole Body moveth in the power and knowledge of the Light for the Body helpeth all the Members in the knowledge of the Light which signifieth God the Sonne 92. For as the Father generateth the Sonne out of his power and as the Sonne shineth back in the whole Father so in like manner the Power of thy Heart of thy Veins and of thy Brain generateth a Light which shineth in all thy powers in thy whole Body Open the Eyes of thy Mind consider it and you shall find it so 93. And Observe As from the Father and the Sonne there goeth forth the Holy Ghost and is a self-subsisting Person in the Deity and moveth in the whole Father so also out of the powers of thy heart veins and thy brain goeth forth the Power which moveth in thy whole Body and out of thy light goeth forth in the same Power Reason Understanding skill and Wisdom to govern the whole body and to distinguish all whatsoever is Externally without the Body 94. And both these are but one in the government of thy Mind viz. thy spirit which signifieth God the Holy Ghost also the Holy Ghost from God ruleth in this spirit in thee if thou art a child of Light and not of darknesse 95. For in respect of this light understanding and government is man distinguished from Beasts and is an Angel of God as I shall clearly shew when I shall write of the Creation of Man 96. Therefore observe exactly and take notice of the order of this Book and thou wilt find Whatsoeve thy Heart desireth or ever longed for 97. Thus you find in Man three fountains First the Power in thy whole Mind which signifieth God the Father Then secondly the Light in thy whole mind enlightening the whole Mind which signifieth God the Sonne Then thirdly there goeth forth out of all thy powers and out of thy light also a spirit which hath understanding 98. For all the Veins together with the Light in thee as also thy Heart and thy Brain and all whatsoever is in thee make or Constitute that spirit and that is thy Soul and it well signifieth the Holy Ghost which goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and raigneth in the whole Father for the Soul of Man raigneth in the whole Body 99. But the Body or the beastial flesh in man signifieth the dead corrupted Earth which Man through his Fall hath so framed it to himself as more shall be spoken of in its due place 100. The Soul containeth the first Principle and the Soul's spirit the second principle in Ternario sancto in the Holy Ternary and the outward spirit viz. the Astral containeth the third principle of this world 101. Thus you find also the Ternarie of the Deity in Beasts for as the Spirit of a man is and Existeth so it is also in a Beà st and therein is no difference 102. But the difference lyeth in this that Man is made by God himselfe out of the best Kernel
relish for food nor do they rot and grow stinking as those in this world do but all consist in holy Divine power 49. Their Constitution or composition is from Divine power from the Salitter and Mercurius of the divine pomp and are the food of the holy Angels 50. If mans abominable Fall had not spoiled it he would have been feasted in such a manner in this world and have eaten such fruit as indeed they were presented to him in Paradise in a twofold manner 51. But the infectious Lust longing and Malady of the Devil who had infected and spoiled the Salitter of which Adam was made that brought Man into an Evil Longing or Lust to eat of both the Qualities the Evil and the Good whereof I shall write clearly here following and demonstrate it Of the Creation of Angels 52. The Spirit sheweth plainly and clearly that before the Creation of the Angels the Divine Being with its rising and qualifying was from eternity and remained so in the Creation of Angels as it is also at this day and will so continue in and to Eternity 53. And the Space Room or place of this world together with the creaturely heaven which we behold with our eyes as also the Space or Place of the Earth and Stars together with the Deep was in such a form as now at this day it is in aloft above the Heavens in the Divine Pomp. 54. But was the Kingdom of the Great Prince Lucifer in the Creation of the Angels Understand according to the second Principle out of which he was thrust forth into the outermost which also is the very innermost of all 55. Who by his proud elevation in his Kingdom â—indled the qualities or the divine Sâ—litter out of which he was made Understand the Center of his Nature or the first Principle and set it on fire 56. Supposing thereby he should grow hugely and highly light and qualifying above the Sonne of God but he became a Fool therefore this place or space in its burning quality could not subsist in God whereupon the Creation of this world ensued 57. But this world at the End in Gods appointed Time will be set again to its first place as it was before the Creation of Angels and Lord Lucifer will have a hole or dungeon for his eternal habitation therein and he will remain eternally in his kindled quality which will be an eternal base filthy reproachful Habitation an empty void dark valley or dungeon a hole of fiercenesse or wrath Now Observe 58. God in his moving created the holy Angels at once not out of a strange matter but out of himself out of his own power and eternal wisdom 59. But the Philosophers had this opinion as if God had made the Angels only out of the light but they erred therein for they were made not only out of the light but out of all the Powers of God 60. And as I have shewed before there are two things especially to be observed in the Deep of God the Father first the power or all Powers of God the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost are very lovely pleasant and various and yet are all One in another as one power 61. And as the powers of all the stars rule in the Ayre so also in God but every power in God Sheweth it self with its operation severally and distinctly 62. Then afterward the Sound is in every power and the Tone or tune of the Sound is according to the quality of every power and therein consisteth the total Heavenly Kingdom of Joy and so from this divine Salitter and Mercurius all Angels are made viz. out of the Body of Nature Question 63. But thou mayest here ask How are they made or generated or in what way and manner Answer 64. If I had the tongue of an Angel and thou hadst an Angelical understanding we might very finely discourse of it But the Spirit only doth see it and the tongue cannot advance towards it For I can use no other words then the words of this world but now the Holy Ghost being in thee thy Soul will well apprehend it 65. For behold the totall holy Trinity hath with its moving Composed compacted or figured a Body or Image out of it self like a little God but not so fully or strongly going forth as the whole Trinity yet in some measure according to the extent and Capacity of the Creatures 66. For in God there is neither beginning nor end but the Angels have a beginning and end but not circumscriptive apprehensive palpable or conclusive for an Angel can sometime be great and suddenly little again their alteration is as swift as mans thoughts are All qualities and powers are in an Angel as they are in the whole Deity 67. But thou must rightly understand this They are made and compacted together or figured out of the Salitter and Mercurius that is out of the exit or excrescence 68. Consider this Similitude Out of the Sun and Stars go forth the Elements and they make in the Salitter of the Earth a living spirit and the stars remain in their Circle or Sphear and that Spirit likewise getteth the quality of the starres 69. But now the Spirit after its compaction is a severed distinct thing and hath a substance of its own as all the Stars have and the stars also are and remain severed and distinct things each of them is free to it self 70. Neverthelesse the quality of the Stars reigneth in the Spirit yet the Spirit can and may raise or demerse it self in its own qualities or may live in the influences of the stars as it pleaseth for it is free for it hath gotten the qualities which it hath in it self for its own 71. And though it had them at the beginning from the stars yet they are now its proper own Just as a mother when she hath the seed in her self as long as she hath it in her and that it is a feed it is hers but when the seed is become a child then it is no more the mothers but is the childs proper own 72. And though the child be in the mothers house and the mother nourisheth the child with her food and that the child could not live without the mother yet both the Body and the Spirit which are generated out of the mother are the Child 's proper own and it retaineth its corporeal right to it self 73. And in this manner it is with the Angels they are also all composed framed or figured out of the Divine Seed but every one hath his own Body to it self though they are in Gods house and feed on the fruit of their mother out of which they were made yet their Bodies are their proper own 74. But the quality Externally without them or externally without their Bodies viz. their mother is not their propriety as also their mother is not the childs propriety also the mothers food is not the and then we shall get the Angelical Clarity
joy 23. Where then should the Father else place them but before the Gate of his Heart Doth not all joy of Man which is in the whole man arise from the fountain of the Heart so in God also then there ariseth the gyeat joy out of the fountain of his Heart 24. And therefore hath he created the Holy Angels out of himself which are as it were little Gods answerable to the Being and qualities of the whole God that in the power should Act forth the praise and sing and ring forth in the power and increase the arising joy from the heart of God 25. But the Splendor and the power of the Sonne of God or heart of God which is the Light or source and fountain of joy taketh up his fairest and most joyfull original in the center or midst of these kingdoms and shineth into and through all the Angelical Gates 26. Thou must understand this properly what the meaning of it is for when I speak by way of similitude and liken the Sonne of God to the Sun or to a round Globe it hath not that meaning as if he were a circumscriptive fountain which can be measured or whose depth beginning or end could be fathomed I write so only by way of similitude till the Reader may come to the true understanding 27. For the meaning is not here that the Sonne of God should be generated only in the Center or midst of these Angelical Gates and no where else without beyond or besides these Angelical Gates 28. For the powers of the Father are every where from and out of which the Sonne is generated and from which the Holy Ghost goeth forth how should he then be generated only in the Center of these Angelical Gates 29. This therfore is the only gronnd and meaning that the Holy Father who is ALL would have in these Angelical * Gates his most joyful and most richly loving Qualities out of which the most joyful and most richly loving Light Word heart or fountain of powers is Generated and therefore hath created his Holy Angels in this place for his joy honour and Glory 30. In the Abyssal or bottomlesse Eternity indeed it is in one place as well as in another but where there are no Creatures it cannot be known but by the Spirit in its wonders 31. And this is the Select place of the glory of God which God the Father in himself hath made choise of wherein his Holy WORD or heart is generated in highest glory Clarity or brightnes power and tryumphing joy 32. For Observe this Mystery The Light which is generated out of the powers of the Father which is the true fountain of the Sonne of God is generated also in an Angel and a Holy Man so that in the same light and knowledge he tryumpheth in great joy 33. How then is it that he should not be generated every where in the whole Father For his power is ALL and every where even there where our heart and sences or Thonghts cannot reach 34. And so Now where the Father is there is also the Sonne and the Holy Ghost for the Father every where generateth the Sonne his holy WORD power light and sound and the Holy Ghost goeth every where forth from the Father and the Sonne even within all the Angelical gates and without besides or beyond the angelical gates also 35. Now if a Man likeneth the Sonne of God to the Globe of the Sun as I have often done in the foregoing Chapters that is spoken in the way and manner of Natural similitudes and I was constrained to write so because of the mis-understanding of the Reader that so he might raise his Sense or Thoughts in these natural things and climbe from step to step from one degree to another till he might come into the high mysteries 36. But it hath not this meaning that the Sonne of God is a circumscribed compacted figured Image like the Sun 37. For if it were so then must the Sonne of God have a beginning and the Father must have generated him at once and then he could not be the Eternal Almighty Sonne of the Father but were like a King who had yet a greater King above him who had generated him in Time and in whose power it were to alter and to change him 38. This were such a Sonne as had a beginning and his power and splendor were like the power of the Sun which goeth forth from the Sun the Body or Globe of the Sun standing still in its place And if this were so then indeed one Angelical Gate would be nearer to the Sonne of God then another 39. But here I will shew to thee the highest Gate of the divine Mystery and thou needst seek no higher for there is no higher Observe 40. The Fathers power is all in and above all Heavens and the same power every where generateth the Light Now this ALL-POWER is and is called the all-power of the Father and the Light which is generated out of that all-power is and is called the Sonne 41. But it is therefore called the Sonne in that it is generated out of the Father so that it is the Heart of the Father in his powers 42. And being generated so it is another Person then the Father is for the Father is the power and Kingdom and the Sonne is the Light and Splendor in the Father and the Holy Ghost is the moving or exit out of the powers of the Father and of the Sonne and formeth figureth frameth and Imageth all 43. As the Ayr goeth forth from the power of the Sun and Stars and moveth in this world and causeth that all creatures are generated and that the Grasse Herbs and Trees spring and grow and causeth all whatsoever is in this world to be 44. So the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and moveth or acteth formeth or frameth and Imageth all that is in the whole God 45. All growing or vegetation and forms in the Father arise and spring up moving in the Holy Ghost therefore there is but ONE only GOD and three distinct Persons in one divine Being Essence or substance 46. Now if a Man should say the Sonne of God were an Image circumscriptive or measureable like the sun then the Three Persons would onely be in that place where the Sonne is and his splendor or shining would be without or beyond him and as gone forth from the Sonne and the Father would be One onely Externally without or besides the Sonne and then the power of the Father which would be afar off and wide distant from the Sonne would not generate the Sonne and Holy Ghost externally without and beyond the Angelical Gates and so there would be an un-almighty Being Externally without or besides this place of the Sonne and moreover the Father would be a Circumscribed or measurable Being 47. Which is not so but rhe Father every where generateth the Sonne out of all his powers and the
Deceive and belye one another and tear the Bread out of others Mouthes for very greedinesse and great Covetousnesse neither should one outbrave another in Statelinesse Fashions and deportment and so despise another who cannot use his slie crafty subtile Devillish Policy and Tricks 54. O no the Angels in heaven do not so but they love one another and rejoyce in the Beauty and lovelinesse of others and none esteemeth or accounteth himself excellenter then the other but every one hath his Joy in the other and rejoyceth in the others fair Beauty comely form and Lovelinesse whence then their love one towards another riseth up so that they lead one another by the Hand and friendlily Kisse one another Observe the Depth 55. As when the flash of life riseth up in the Center of the Divine power wherein all the spirits of God attain their Life and highly rejoyce there is a loving and Holy Embracing Kissing Tasting Touching or Feeling Hearing Seeing and Smelling So also there is among the Angels when the one seeth heareth feeleth or toucheth the other then there riseth up in his heart the flash of Life and one spirit embraceth the other as it is in the Deity Observe here the Ground and highest Mystery of Gods Angels 56. If thou wilt now know from whence their Love Humility and friendlinesse cometh which riseth up in their heart then Observe that which followeth 57. Every Angel is Constituted as the whole Deity is and is as a little God For when God constituted the Angels he constituted or framed them out of Himself 58. Now God is the same in one place as he is in another God is every where the Father and Sonne and Holy Ghost 59. In these three Names and Powers standeth Heaven and this world and all whatsoever thy heart can think upon and though thou shouldst draw a little Circle which thou canst hardly look into or which thou canst hardly discern even lesse then the smallest Point thou canst imagine yet even in that is the whole Divine power and the Sonne of God is generated therein and the Holy Ghost therein goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne if not in Love then in wrath as it is written with the holy thou art Holy and with the perverse thou art perverse Psal. 18. 26. 60. They which stir up the wrath of God upon themselves which wrath standeth also in all the spirits of God in that place where it is awakened stirred up or provoked On the other side where the love of God is awakened or stirred up there it standeth also in the full Birth or Geniture of the whole Deity of or in the place or thing wherein it is awakened 61. And herein there is no difference the Angels are created one as well as another all out of the Divine Salitter of the heavenly Nature onely this is the difference betwixt them that when God constituted them each Qcality in the great Motion stood in the highest Geniture or rising up 62. Hence it is come to passe that the Angels are of various and Manifold Qualities and have several colours and Beauties and yet all out of or from God 63. Yet every Angel hath all the qualities of God in him but one of them is strongest in him according to which he is Named and glorified in that Quality 64. Now as the qualities in God alwaies generate raise up and heartily Love the one the other and the one alwayes getteth its life from the other And as the flash in the sweet water riseth up in the heat from whence the Life and the Joy have their Original so it is also in an Angel his internal Birth or Geniture is no otherwise then that which is distinct from him or without him in God 65. And as the Sonne of God without or distinct from the Angels is generated in the middle or Centrall fountain Spring in the heat in the sweet water out of or from all the seven spirits of God and re-enlighteneth back again all the seven Spirits of God whence they have their Life and Joy 66. So also in like manner the Sonne of God in an Angel is generated in the Angels middle or centrall fountain Spring of the heart in the heat in the sweet water and re-enlightneth back again all the seven qualifying spirits of that Angel 67. And as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and formeth Imageth figureth or frameth and loveth All even so the Holy Ghost goeth forth in the Angel into his fellow Brethren and Loveth them and rejoyceth with them 68. For there is no difference between the Spirits of God and the Angels but only this that the Angels are Creatures and their Corporeal Being hath a beginning but their power out of which they are created is God himself and is from Eternity and abideth in Eternity 69. Therefore their agility is as nimble and swift as the Thoughts of a Man where ever they would be there also they are Instantly moreover they can be Great or Small as they please 70. And this is the true Being of God in Heaven yea Heaven it self If thy Eyes were opened thou shouldst see it plainly and clearly on Earth in that place where thou art at present 71. For seeing God can let the spirit of Man see it which is yet staying in the Body and can reveal or manifest himself to him in the flesh surely he can well do it also when he is out of the flesh if he pleaseth 72. O thou sinful House of this world how art thou encompassed with Hell and Death awake the hour of thy Regeneration is at hand the Day-breaketh the Day-spring Dawning or Morning-Rednesse sheweth it self 73. O thou Dumb and Dead world why dost thou require or demand Signes and Wonders Is thy whole body chilled and benummed wilt thou not awake from sleep 74. Behold a great sign is given Thee but thou sleepest and seest it not Therefore the Lord will give Thee a sign in his zeal or Jealousie which thou hast awaked and provoked with thy Sins Of the whole Heavenly delightfulnesse of all the Three Kingdomes of Angels 75. Here the Spirit sheweth that where every Angel is constituted stated or settled there that Place in the heavenly Nature wherein and out of which he is become a creature is his own seat which he possesseth by Right of Nature as long as he abideth in Gods Love 76. For it is the Place which he hath had from Eternity before he was become a Creature and that Salitter stood in the same place out of which he existed and therefore that seat remaineth to him and is his by right of Nature as long as he moveth in Gods Love 77. But thou must not think as if God were tyed to it and cannot or may not expell him from thence if he should move or stirre otherwise then God had constituted settled or stated him at first 78. For as long as he abideth in obedience and in love
the light of God but the inward spirit which is loaden therewith against its will shall be set again in its first House 61. The last following pressure ang signifieth that the innermost spirits in the corruption are not altogether pure and therefore they need a sweeping away purging or consuming of the wrath in the fire which will be done at the End of this Time 62. The word Schuff conceiveth it self above and under the Tongue and shutteth the Teeth in the upper and lower gummes and so presseth it self close together and being held together and spoken forth again then it openeth the Mouth again swiftly like a Flash 63. And this signifieth the astringent spirit 's strong driving together of the corrupted Salitter as a Lump on a Heap 64. For the Teeth retain the word letting the spirit go forth leisurely between the Teeth And this signifieth that the astringent quality holdeth the Earth and Stones firmly and fast together and yet for all that letteth the spirits of the Earth spring up grow and bear Blossoms out of the astringent spirit which signifieth the Regeneration or Restitution of the spirits of the Earth 65. But that the Mouth is swiftly opened again after the word is Ended it signifieth concerning the Deep above the Earth that God the Lord will neverthelesse dwell there and reserve his Regiment for himself and hold the Devil as a Prisoner in the wrath-fire 66. The word GOTT conceiveth it self in the midst or Center upon the Tongue and is thrust thither out of the Heart and leaveth the Mouth open and stayeth sitting on its Royall Seat and soundeth without and within but when it is spoken forth then it maketh another pressure between the upper Teeth and the Tongue 67. And this signifieth that when God created Heaven and Earth and all the Creatures he neverthelesse remained in his Divine Eternal Almighty Seat and never went away from it at all and that HEE alone is ALL. The Last pressure signifieth the sharpnesse of his spirit whereby in a Moment he effecteth all in his whole Body 68. The word Himmel conceiveth it self in the Heart and is thrust forth to the Lips there it is shut up and the syllable mel setteth the Lips open again and is held on the middle of the Tongue and so the Spirit goeth forth on both Sides of the Tongue out of the Mouth 69. And this signifieth that the innermost birth is become shut up from the outermost by the horrible Sins and is incomprehensible to the outward corrupted Birth or Geniture 70. But being it is a word with a Twofold syllable and that the second syllable mel openeth the mouth again it signifieth that the Gates of the Deity are become opened again 71. But that by the word or syllable mel it is conceived again upon the Tongue and held fast with the upper Gumms and that in the mean while the spirit slippeth forth on both sides of the Tongue 72. This signifieth that God would again give to this corrupted Kingdome or Place in God a King or Great Prince who should open again the innermost Birth or Geniture of the clear and Bright Deity and thereby the Holy Ghost should go forth on both sides that is out of the innermost Depth of the Father and of the Sonne and should go forth again into this world and should new regenerate this world again through the New King 73. The word und conceiveth it self in the Heart and is staid and compacted or incorporated by the Tongue on the upper Gummes but when it is let loose it maketh another pressure from the Heart out at the Mouth 74. Now this signifieth the difference or distinction between the Holy and the Earthly Birth or Geniture This syllable cometh indeed from the Heart but is staid by the Tongue on the upper Gummes so that one cannot yet perceive what kind of word it is And this signifieth that the earthly and corrupt Birth or Geniture cannot lay hold on or apprehend the innnermost Birth or Geniture but is foolish and silly 75. The last pressure from the Heart signifieth that it will indeed qualifie mix or unite with the innermost Birth or Geniture in its sensibility perception or Thoughts but cannot apprehend it in its Reason therefore this syllable or word alone by it self is Dumb and hath no signification or understanding in it alone but is used onely for distinction sake with some other word 76. The word Erden is thrust forth from the Heart and is conceived on the hinder part upon the Tongue at the hinder Gummes and trembleth the Tongue is used about the first syllable Er yet not steadily but it recoiles inward at the neather gummes and croucheth as it were before an enemy trembling 77. The other syllable den is conceived by the Tongue and the upper Gumms and leaveth the Mouth open and the spirit of formation goeth forth at the Nostrills and will not go forth together in this word out at the Mouth and though it carrieth forth somewhat indeed along with it yet the true Tone or Noise of the true spirit goeth onely forth through or at the Nostrils or Organ of Smelling This is a great Mysterie 78. The word or syllable Er signifieth the kindled astringent and bitter quality the earnest severe wrath of God which trembleth at the hinder part of the Gummes before which the Tongue is as it were afraid and croucheth at the neather gums and flieth as it were from an Enemy 79. The word or syllable den conceiveth it self on the Tongue again and the spirit attracteth the power and vertue out of the word and therewith goeth forth another way at the Nostrills and so goeth therewith up into or towards the Brain before the Royal Seat And this signifieth that the outermost Salitter of the Earth is eternally rejected from Gods Light and Holinesse 80. But that the Spirit layeth hold on the power and vertue of the word and goeth another way through the Nostrills into the Brain before the Throne of the Senses or Thoughts it signifieth that God will extract the Heart of the Earth from the wrath of wickednesse and use it to his eternal Royal Praise Observe 81. He will extract from the Earth the Kernel and the Best or the Good Spirit and will Regenerate it anew to his honour and Glory 82. Here O Man consider thy self well and mind What manner of seed thou sowest into the Earth the very same will spring up and bear Blossoms and fruit for ever either in the Love or in the Wrath. 83. But when the good shall be separated from the Evil then thou wilt live in that part which thou hast laboured for here be it either in Heaven or in Hell-fire 84. In what soever thou endeavourest Labourest and actest here into that thy Soul goeth when thou Dyest 85. Or dost thou think that my spirit hath suck'd this which I have set down here out of the corrupted Earth or out of an
of God Another Question which is chiefly treated of in this Book is this viz. Where then shall the Wrath of God become Answer 52. Here the spirit answereth that at the End of the Time of this corrupted Birth or Geniture after the Resurrection from the Dead this place or space where the Earth now is will be given to the Devill for a propriety or Possession and House of wrath yet not through and in all the three Births or Genitures but onely in the outermost in which he now standeth But the innermost will hold him Captive in its might and strength and use him for a footstool or as the Dust under its foot which innermost Birth he will never be able either to comprehend or to touch 53. For it hath not this understanding or meaning that the wrath-fire should be extinguished and be no more for then the Devils also must become Holy Angels again and live in the holy Heaven but that not being so a Hole Burrough or Dungeon in this world must remain to be their Habitation 54. If Mans Eyes were but opened he should see God every where in his Heaven for Heaven standeth in the innermost Birth or Geniture every where 55. Moreover when Stephen saw the Heaven opened and the Lord JESUS at the right hand of God there his spirit did not first swing it self up aloft into the upper Heaven but it penetrated or pressed into the innermost Birth or Geniture wherein Heaven is every where 56. Neither must thou think that the Deity is such a kind of Being as is onely in the upper Heaven and that the Soul when it departeth from the Body goeth up aloft into the upper Heaven many hundred thousand Miles off 57. It needeth not do that but it is set or put into the innermost Birth and there it is with God and in God and with all the holy Angels and can suddenly be above and suddenly beneath it is not hindred by any thing 58. For in the innermost Birth the upper and neather Deity is one Body and is an open Gate the Holy Angels converse and walk up and down in the innermost Birth of this world by and with our King JESUS CHRIST as well as in the uppermost world aloft in their Quarters Courts or Region 59. And where then would or should the Soul of Man rather be then with its King and Redeemer JESUS CHRIST For near and afar off in God is one thing one comprehensibility Father Sonne and Holy Ghost every where all over 60. The Gate of the Deity in the upper heaven is no other also no brighter then it is in this world and where can there be greater Joy then in that place where every hour and Moment beautiful loving dear new born children and Angels come to Christ which are press'd or penetrated through Death into Life 61. Doubtlesse they will make large Relations of many Fights and where can there be greater Joy then where in the midst or Center of Death life is Generated continually 62. Doth not every soul bring along with it a new Triumph and so there is nothing else but an exceeding friendly well coming and Salutation there 63. Considâ—â—â—hen the Soules of children come to their Parents who in the Body did Generate them whether Heaven can choose but be there or dost thou think my writing is too Earthly 64. If thou wert come to this Window thou wouldst not then say that it is earthly And though I must indeed use the earthly Tongue yet there is a true heavenly understanding couched under it which in my outermost Birth I am not able to expresse either in writing or in Speaking 65. I know very well that the word concerning the three Births cannot be comprehended or apprehended in every Mans Heart especially where the Heart is too much steeped soaked or drowned in the flesh and bolted and Barred up with the outermost Birth 66. But I cannot render it otherwise then as it is for it is just so and though I should write meer Spirit as indeed and truth it is no other yet the heart understandeth onely Flesh. Concerning the Constitution and form of the Earth 67. Many Authors have written that Heaven and Earth were created out of NOTHING but I do wonder that among so many excellent Men there hath not one been found that could yet describe the true Ground seeing the same God which now is hath been from Eternity 68. Now where nothing is there nothing can come to be All things must have a Root else can nothing grow If the seven Spirits of Nature had not been from eternity then there woâ—â—â— no Angel no Heaven also no Earth have come to be 69. But the Earth is come from the corrupt Salitter of the outermost Birth or Geniture which thou canst not deny when thou lookest on Earth and Stones for then thou must needs say that Death is therein And on the other side also thou must needs say that there is a Life therein otherwise neither Gold nor Silver nor any Plant Herb Grasse or Vegetable could grow therein Now one might Ask Are there also all the three Births or Genitureâ— therein Answer 70. Yes the Life presseth thorough Death the outermost Birth is the Death the second is the Life which standeth in the wrath-fire and in the Love And the Third is the Holy Life An Instruction or Information 71. The outward Earth is a bitter stinck and is dead and that every man understandeth to be so But the Salitter is destroyed or killed through Death for thou canst not deny but that Gods wrath is in the Earth otherwise it would not be so astringent bitter sowr venomous and poisonous neither would it engender such poisonous venomous Evill worms and creeping things But if thou shouldst say that God hath created them thus out of his Purpose that is as much as if thou shouldst say that God himself is Evil Malice Malignity or Wickednesse Pray tell me Why was the Devil expell'd or Thrust out 72. Surely thou wilt say because of his Pride In that he would needs be above God But Guesse Sir with what he would do so what Power haâ— he to do it Here tell me if thou knowest any thing of it if thou knowest Nothing be silent and attentive 37. Before the Times of the Creation He sate in the Salitter of the Earth when it was yet Thin or Transparent and stood in a heavenly holy Birth or Geniture and was in the whole Kingdom of this world therein it was neither Earth nor Stones but a heavenly Seed which was generated out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature for therein sprung up heavenly fruits forms and Ideas which were a pleasant delightfull food of Angels 74. But when the wrath did burn therein then it was killed and destroyed in Death Yet not so to be understood as if it were therefore altogether quite dead For how can any thing in God dye totally that hath had its
if Nature had fully chang'd it self with its sharp Birth into Love according to the heavenly Right Law or Manner then were the Devils again in the Seat of God 47. And this thou mayst very well perceive and understand in Extream Heat and Cold as also by the Poison Bitternesse and Sowrnesse in this world all which stand in the Birth or Geniture of the Stars wherein the Devil lyeth Captive 48. The Stars are onely the kindling of the great House for the whole house is benumm'd in Death as the Earth is for the outermost Birth or Geniture is dead and benumm'd as the Rind Shell or Bark of a Tree but the Astral birth is the Body in which the Life riseth up 49. But it is in its Body very sharp yet the new Birth which riseth up in the water of Life and presseth through Death mitigateth it But it cannot alter the kernel of the sharp Birth but is generated out of it and keeps its holy new life to it self and presseth through the angry Death and the angry Death comprehendeth it not 50. Now this love and wrath is indeed one Body but the water of Life is the heaven of Partition between them so that the Love doth not receive or comprehend the Wrath nor the wrath the Love but the Love riseth up in the water of Life and receiveth into it self from the Earth and austere Birth the power which is in the Light which is generated out of the Wrath so that the New Body is born out of the Old 51. For the old Body which standeth in the austere Birth belongeth to the Devil for a House and the new belongeth to the Kingdom of Christ. Now it may be Asked Are not all the Three Persons of the Deitie in the Birth or Geniture of Meeknesse in this World Answer 52. Yes they are all three in this world in the full Birth or Geniture of Love meeknesse Holinesse and purity and they are alwaies generated in such a substance and Bâ—eing as was done from Eternity 53. Behold God the Father Spake to the People of Israel on Mount Sinai wâ—en he gave the Law to them saying I am an angry zealous or Jealous God to those that hate me Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 54. Now thou canst not make of this One onely Father who is both Angry and also full of Love two Persons but he is one onely Father which continually generateth his heartily beloved Sonne and from both these the Holy Ghost goeth forth continually Observe the depth in the Center 55. The Father is the One onely being who himself is ALL who continually generateth his heartily beloved Sonne from eternity and in both of them the Holy Ghost is continually standing in the Flash wherein the Life is Generated 56. But now from the austere and earnest Birth or Geniture of the qualifying or fountain spirits of the Father wherein the Zeale or Jealousy and the wrath standeth the Body of Nature alwaies cometh to be wherein the Light of the Sonne viz of the Fathers Heart standeth incomprehensibly as to Nature 57. For the light is in the Midst or Center of the Birth or Geniture and is the place of Life wherein the meek Life of God is generated from or out of all the powers of the Father and in the same place the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne 58. Now those powers of the Father which stand in the kindling of the Light are the holy Father and the meek Father and the pure Birth or Geniture of God and the Spirit which riseth therein is the holy Ghost but the sharp Birth or Geniture is the Body wherein this Holy Life is continually generated 59. But when the Light of God shineth through this sharp Birth or Geniture then it becometh very meek and is as it were like a Man that is a sleep in whom the Life still moveth and the Body is in a sweet quiet rest 60. And in this Body of nature now was the kindling made for out of this Body the Angels also were created and if they had not elevated and kindled themselves in their Highmindednesse then their Body might have stood eternally in a stillnesse and in an incomprehensible meeknesse as it is in the other Principalities of Angels that are without distinct from this world and their spirit had generated it self eternally in their Body of meeknesse as the holy Trinitie doth in the Body or Corporeity of God and their inborn or innate spirit had been one Heart one Will and one Love with or in the Holy Trinity for to that end also they were created in the Body of God to be a joy to the Deitie 61. But Lord Lucifer would himselfe be the Mighty God and kindled his Body and excited or stirred up therein the sharp Birth of God and opposed the Light or bright Heart of God intending to rule therein with his sharpnesse which was a thing impossible to be done 62. But being he elevated and kindled himself against the Right of the Deitie thereupon the sharp Birth in the Body of the Father rose up against him and took him as an angry Sonne Prisoner or Captive in the sharpest Birth and therein now is his eternall Dominion 63. But now when the Father kindled himself in the Body of the sharpnesse he did not for all that kindle the holy source wherein his most loving Heart generateth it self and so thereupon his Heart should sit in the source of wrath No! that is impossible that it should be for the sharp Birth cannot apprehend the holy and pure Birth but the holy and pure presseth quite through the sharp and generateth to it self a new Body which standeth again in meeknesse 64. And that new Body is the water of Life which is generated when the light presseth through the wrath and the holy Ghost is the Former or â—ramer therein but Heâ—ven is the Partition between love and wrath and is the seat wherein the wrath is transmuted or changed into Love 65. Now when thou beholdest the Sun and Stars thou must not think that they are the Holy and pure God and thou must not offer to pray to them or aske any thing of them for they are not the Holy God but are the kindled austere Birth or Geniture of his Body wherein Love and Wrath wrestle one with another 66. But the holy God is hidden in the Center of all these things in his Heaven and thou canst neither see nor comprehend him but the soul comprehendeth him and the Astral Birth but half for the Heaven is the Partition between Love and Wrath That Heaven is every where even in thy selfe 67. And now when thou worshippest or prayest to the Holy God in his Heaven then thou worshippest or prayest to him in that heaven which is in thee and that same God with his light and therein the holy Ghost breaketh through in thy Heart and generateth thy Soul to be a New Body of God which ruleth and
Spirits stood in the Crack of the Word or fire-flash p 519. l 2. f. of r. above p 521. l 3. r. of the Light why then do you contend or dispute about the way of the Light as if none can see it rightly p 527. l 4. r. are though he was capable of understanding the right or Law of God and hath took p. 528. l 18. r. God the Lifer p. 530. l. 11. r. Earth and made them moveable p. 532. l. 27. r. as to its own p. 533. l. 28 r. flesh in Death p. 534. l. 5. r. water in the. p. 546. l. 27. f. Devils r Hellish p. 548. l. 14. r. the Souls Birth p. 549. r. water and in the Fire the meek Love riseth up for p. 551 l. 12. f. of r. in p. 552. l. 21. r. Body of Nature p. 553. l. 14. r. Love-Joy l. 25. r. inceptive p. 565. l. 10. f. must rule r. ruleth p. 570 l. 19 f. true r. new p 573. l 12. r. soul for the soul is generated out of the power of the Body and. p 574. l. 23. r. benummed not quite dead p 576. l 30. f. Earth r. first p 582. l 29. f. God r. the Deity p 587. l 13. r. thereof whereby I gat new Life and power again p 598. l 26. f. roueth r. rouleth p 606 l 17. r. Body of this world in all powers of the Body p 607. l 27. r. Heart through the Light p 614. l 11. r. to be Lord. p 615. l 5. r. he had assumed p 627 l 14. f. body r. Love l 17. f. of r. in p. 642. l. 4. r. intended to make a Bon-fire of it 〈◊〉 put J. B. Preface for the Aurora To the Courteous Reader 1. COurteous Reader I compare the whole Philosophie Astrologie and Theologie together with their Mother to a goodly Tree which groweth in a fair Garden of pleasure 2. Now the Earth in which the Tree standeth affords sap continually to the tree whereby the tree hath its living Quality but the tree in it self groweth from the Sap of the earth becomes Large and spreadeth it self abroad with its branches And then as the Earth worketh with its power upon the tree to make it grow and encrease so the Tree also worketh continually with its branches with all its strength that it might still bear good fruit abundantly 3. But when the Tree beareth few fruit and those but small ones neither shrivelled rotten and worm-eaten the fault doth not lye in the will of the tree as if it desired purposely to bear evill fruit because it is a goodly Tree of good Quality but here lyeth the fault because there is often great cold great heat mildew caterpillars and other worms happen to it for the Quality in the Deep from the influence of the Stars spoileth it and that maketh it bear but few good fruit 4. Now the Tree is of this condition that the bigger and older it is the sweeter fruit it beareth in its younger years it beareth few fruit which the crude and wild nature of the ground or earth causeth and the superfluous moisture in the tree and though it beareth many and fair blossoms yet the most of its Apples fall off whilest they are growing which is not so when it standeth in a very good soyl or mould Now this tree also hath a good sweet quality but there are three other which are contrary unto it namely the bitter sowre and astringent 5. And as the Tree is so will its fruit be till the Sun worketh on them and maketh them sweet so that they become of a sweet taste and its fruit must also hold out in rain wind and tempest 6. But when the tree groweth old that its branches wither and the sapp ascendeth no more then below the stemm or stock there grow many suckers at last from the root also twiggs grow and make the old tree flourish shewing that it also was once a green twigg and young tree and is now become old For Nature or the sapp struggleth so long till the Stock groweth quite dry and then is to be cut down and burnt in the fire 7. Now observe what I have signified by this similitude the Garden of this tree signifieth the World the soyl or mould signifieth Nature the Stock of the tree sigâ—ifies the Starres by the Branches are meant the Elements the fruit which grow on this tree signifie Men the sapp in the tree resembles the pure Deitie Now Men were made out of Nature the Starrs and Elements but God the Creator raigneth in all even as the sapp doth in the whole tree 8. But there are two Qualities in Nature even untill the Judgment of God the One is pleasant heavenly and holy the other is fierce wrathfull hellish and thirsty 9. Now the good one qualifieth and worketh continually with all industry to bring forth good fruit and the Holy Ghost raigneth therein and affords thereunto sapp and life the bad one Springeth and driveth with all its endeavour to bring forth bad fruit continually to which the devil affordeth sap and hellish flame Now both are in the tree of Nature and Men are made out of that tree and live in this world in this garden betwixt both in great danger suddenly the Sun shineth on them by and by winds rain and snow fall on them 10. That is if man elevateth his Spirit into the Deity then the Holy Ghost moveth springeth and qualifieth in him but if he permit his spirit to sink into the world in lust towards evil then the Devil and hellish sapp stirreth and raigneth in him 11. Even as the Apple on the tree becometh corrupt rotten and worm-eaten when frost heat and mill-dew fall on it and easily falls off and perisheth so doth Man also when he suffers the Devill to rule in him with his poyson 12. Now as in Nature there is springeth and raigneth good and bad even so in Man but Man is the Child of God whom he hath made out of the best Kernel of Nature to raign in the good and to overcome the bad though evill sticketh unto him even as in Nature the evill hangeth on the good yet he can overcome the evil if he elevateth his spirit in God for then the Holy Ghost stirs and moveth in him and helps him to overcome 13. As the good quality in Nature is potent to overcome the evill for it is and cometh from God and the Holy Ghost is the Ruler therein even so is the fierce wrathful Quality powerful to overcome in a malicious wicked soul for the Devil is a potent Ruler in the wrath or fierceness and is an eternal Prince of the same 14. But Man hath cast himself into fierce wrathfulnesse through the fall of Adam and Eve so that the evill hangeth on him otherwise his moving and driving would be only to the good But now it is in both and it is as St. Paul saith know ye not that to whom you yield your selves servants in obedience his
servants ye are to whom ye obey either to sinne unto death or to the obedience of God unto righteousness Rom. 6. 16. 15. But because man hath an impulse or inclination to both he may lay hold on which he pleaseth for he liveth in this World betwixt both and both Qualities the good and the bad are in him in which soever man moveth with that he is indued either with a Holy or a Hellish Power For Christ saith My Father will give the Holy Ghost to those that ask him Luk. 11. 13. 16. Besides God commanded man to do good and did forbid him to do evill and now doth daily call and preach and exhort man unto good Whereby we see well enough that God willeth not evil but his Will is That His Kingdom should come and his Will be done on earth as it is in heaven Now since man is poisoned through sinne that the fierce wrathful quality as well as the good reigneth in him and is now half dead and in his grosse ignorance can no more know God his Creator nor Nature and its operation yet hath Nature done its best endeavour from the beginning till now to which God hath given his Holy Ghost so that it hath at all times generated wise sholy and understanding men which did learn to know Nature and their Creator who alwayes in their Writings and Teachings have been a Light to the World whereby God hath raised his Church on Earth to his eternal praise Against which the Devil hath raged and spoiled many a noble Twigg through the wrathfull fierceness in Nature whose Prince and God he is 17. For Nature hath many times prepared and fitted a learned judicious man with good gifts and then the Devil hath done his utmost to seduce that man and bring him into carnal pleasures to pride to a desire to be rich and to be in authority and power Thereby the Devil hath ruled in him and the fierce wrathfull Quality hath overcome the good his Understanding his Knowledge and Wisdome hath been turn'd into Heresie and Errour who hath made a mock of the Truth and been the Author of great Errours on earth and a good Leader of the Devils Host. 18. For the bad quality in Nature hath wrestled and doth still wrestle with the good ever since the beginning and hath elevated it self and spoiled many a noble fruit even in the mothers Womb as it plainly appeareth first by Cain and Abel which came from one womb Cain was from his mothers womb a despiser of God and proud but Abel on the contrary was an humble man and one that feared God 19. The same is seen also in the three sons of Noah as also by Abraham's sons Isaac and Ismael especially by Isaac's in Esau and Jacob which struggled and wrestled even in the mothers womb therefore said God Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated Gen. 25. which is nothing else but that both qualities in Nature have vehemently wrestled one with another 20. For when God at that time moved in Nature and would reveal himself unto the world through righteous Abraham Isaac and Jacob and would raise a Church to himself on earth for his glory then in Nature Malice also moved and its Prince Lucifer Seeiâ—g there was good and bad in man therefore both Qualities could raign in him and therefore there was born at once in one womb an evill and a good Man 21. Also it is cleerly seen by the first world as also by the second even unto the end of our time how the Heavenly and Hellish Kingdom in Nature hath alwayes wrestled one with another and stood in great travel even as a woman in the birth This doth most cleerly appear by Adam and Eve For there grew up a tree in Paradise of both Qualities of good and bad wherewith Adam and Eve were to be tempted to try whether they would hold out in the good Quality in the Angelicall nature and form For the Creator did forbid Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit but the evill quality in Nature did wrestle with the good and brought Adam and Eve into a lust and longing to eat of both Thereupon they presently became of a beastial form and nature and did eat of good and bad and must increase and live in a beastial manner and so many a noble twigg begotten or born of them perished 22. Afterward it is seen how God did work in Nature when the Holy Fathers in the first world were born as Abel Seth Enos Kenan Mahaleel Jared Henoch Methusalah Lamech and Holy Noah These made the Name of the Lord known to the world and preached Repentance for the Holy Ghost wrought in them 23. On the contrary the Hellish God also wrought against it in Nature and begot Mockers and Despisers first Cain and his Posterity and it was with the first world as with a young tree which groweth is green blossometh fairly but bringeth little good fruit by reason of its wild Nature So Nature in the first world brought forth but little good fruit though it blossomed fair in wordly knowledge and luxury or wantonesse which could not apprehend the Holy Spirit who wrought in Nature then as well as now 24. Therefore said God It repents me that I have made man Gen. 6. 6. and he stirred up Nature so that all flesh dyed which lived on dry Land excepting the root and stock that remained in vertue and so he hath hereby Dung'd the wild Tree and manured it that it should bear better fruit But when the same sprung up again it brought forth also good and bad fruit again Among the sons of Noah there were found again Mockers and Despisers of God and there hardly grew any good branch on the tree which brought forth any holy and good fruit the other branches were bearing also and brought forth wild Heathens 25. But when God saw that man was thus dead in his Knowledge He moved Nature again and shewed unto man how there was good and bad therein that they should avoid evill and live unto the good and he caused fire to fall down out of Nature and fired Sodom and Gomorah for a terrible example to the world But when the blindnesse of men grew predominant and refused to be taught by the Spirit of God he gave Laws and Precepts unto them shewing how they should behave themselves and confirmed them with wonders and Signs lest the knowledge of the true God should be quite extinct But for all this the light did not manifest it self for the darkness and wrathful fierceness in Nature struggled against it and the Prince thereof ruled powerfully 26. But when the Tree of Nature came to its middle age then it began to bear some mild and sweet fruit to shew that it would henceforth bear pleasant fruit Then were born the Holy Prophets out of the sweet branch of the tree which taught and preached of the light which hereafter should overcome the wrathful fierceness in Nature
again and fashioned according to that form which they were in from the beginning of the Creation 74. Only the two qualities good and bad which have been in Nature one in another were separated and the bad one was given to the prince of malice and wrath or fiercenesse for an eternal habitation and that is called Hell or a Rejection which in eternity no more apprehends or toucheth the good quality but is an oblivion of all good and that unto its eternity 75. In the other quality stood the Tree of eternal Life and its source and off-spring descended from the holy Trinity and the Holy Ghost did shine into the same And all men came forth which descended from the loynes of Adam who was the first man Each in its vertue and in that quality in which each did grow on earth 76. Those that on earth had eaten of the good Tree which is called JESUS CHRIST in them did dwell the Mercy of God unto eternal joy they had in them the power of the good quality they were received into the good and holy quality and they sung the Song of their Bridegroom each in his voyce according to his own Holinesse 77. But those that were born in the Light of Nature and of the Holy Ghost and on earth never fully knew the Tree of Life but were grown in its power which overshadowed all men upon earth as very many Nations Heathens and Babes which were also received into the same power wherein they were grown and wherewith their spirit was cloathed and they sung the song according to their power and measure in the noble tree of eternal life for every one was glorified according to his power vertue measure and proportion 78. And the Holy Nature Generated joyfull heavenly fruit even as on earth it had generated fruit in both the Qualities which were both good and bad so now it did generate heavenly fulnesse of Joy 79. And those men that were now like Angels did each eat the fruit of his Quality and they sung the song of God and the song of the Tree of eternal life 80. And that was in the Father as a holy Sceane a triumphing joy for to that end all things at the beginning were made out of the Father and now they abide so to all eternity 81. But those that were grown on earth in the power of the tree of wrath that is which the fierce quality had overcome and were withered in the wickednesse of their spirit in their Sins all those came forth also each in his power or faculty and were received into the Kingdom of Darknesse and each was indued in that power in which he was grown up and their King is call'd Lucifer viz. one expell'd or driven forth from the Light 82. And the hellish quality brought forth fruit also as it had done upon earth onely the good was severed or parted from it and therefore it brought forth fruit now in its own quality And these Men also which were now like the spirits did each eat the fruit of his quality and so did the Devils also 83. For as there is a difference in men upon earth in their qualities and all are not of one Quality Condition or Disposition even so among the rejected reprobate spirits and so in the heavenly pomp in Angels and Men and that lasteth unto its eternity AMEN 84. Courteous Reader This is a short information concerning the two Qualities in Nature from the beginning to the end how there arose from thence two Kingdoms a heavenly and a hellish and how they stirre in this time and strive one against another and what the issue of it will be in the time to come The Contents of this Book by way of Introduction To this Book I have given this Name viz. The Root or Mother of Philosophie Astrologie and Theologie And that you may know what this Book doth treat of Observe I. 1. In the Philosophie is treated concerning the Divine power I. What God is II. How in the Being of God is created Nature the Stars and the Elements III. From whence every thing hath its Original IIII. How Heaven and Earth were created V. How Angels Men and Devils were created VI. How Heaven and Hell and whatever is creaturely were created and what the Two Qualities are in Nature All out of a true ground in the knowledge of the Spirit by the impulse and motion of God II. 2. In the Astrologie is treated I. Of the powers of Nature of the Stars and of the Elements II. How all Creatures proceeded from thence III. How the same do impell and rule all IIII. And work in all and how good and bad is wrought by them in Men and Beasts V. Whence it cometh that Good and Bad is and raigneth in this world VI. Also how the Kingdom of Heaven and of Hell consisteth therein 3. My purpose is not to describe the course place and Name of all Stars and what their Annual Conjunction Opposition Quadrat is or the like what they yearly and hourly operate which by a long processe of time hath been observed by the wise skilful and Expert Men who were rich and large in spirit by their diligent contemplation observation deep sense Calculation and Computation 4. Neither have I studied or learned the same and I leave that to the Learned to discourse of but my intention is to write according to the Spirit and sense and not according to Speculation III. 5. In the Theologie is handled I. Of the Kingdom of Christ of what condition the same is II. How it is set in opposition to the Kingdom of Hell III. How in Nature it fighteth and striveth against the Kingdom of Hell IIII. How men through Faith and Spirit are able to overcome the Kingdom of Hell and triumph in Divine power and obtain eternal salvation and all this as a victory in the Battel V. Also how Man through the operation or working in the hellish quality casts himself into perdition VI. And what the issue of both will be at last 6. The Supream Title is AVRORA That is The Dawning of the Day in the East or Morning-Rednesse in the Rising of the SVN And is a secret Mystery concealed from the wise and prudent of this world which themselves shall shortly be sensible of but to those which read this book in singlenesse of heart with a desire after the holy Spirit who place their hope onely in God it will not be a hidden secret but a manifest knowledge 7. I will not explain this Title but commit it to the judgment of the impartial Reader who wrestleth in the good quality of this world 8. Now if Mr. Critick which qualifieth or worketh with his wit in the fierce quality gets this book into his hand he will oppose it as there is alwayes stirring and Opposition between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Hell I. First he will say that I ascend too high into the Deity which is not a meet thing
for me to do II. Then Secondly he will say that I boast of the Holy Spirit I had more need to live accordingly and make demonstration of it by wondrous Works or Miracles III. Thirdly he will say that I am not learned enough IIII. Fourthly he will say that I do it in a vain-glorious way V. Fifthly he will be much offended at the simplicity of the Author as it is usual in the world to gaze onely upon high things and simplenesse is a scandal and offence unto it 9. To these partial worldly Criticks I set in opposition the Patriarchs of the first world which were mean despised Men against whom the world and the Devil raged as in the time of Henoch when the holy Fathers preached powerfully of the name of the Lord they did not ascend with their Bodies into Heaven and yet beheld all with their Eyes Only the Holy Ghost revealed himself in their Spirits 10. Afterward it is seen in the next world among the holy Patriarchs and Prophets all which were mean simple Men and some of them were Herds-men 11. Also when the MESSIAS CHRIST the Champion in the Battle in Nature assumed the humanity though hee was the King and Prince of Men yet he kept himselfe in this world in a low estate and condition and was a Stranger to the world And all his Apostles were poor despised Fisher-men 12. Nay Christ himselfe returneth thanks to his heavenly Father that he hath concealed it from the worldly wise men and revealed the same to Babes Math. 11. 13. Besides it is seen how they also were poor Sinners having both the impulses of good and of bad in Nature And yet they reproved and preached against the Sinnes of the world yea against their own Sins which they did by the impulse of the holy Spirit and not in vain glory 14. Neither had they any Ability from their own strength and power to teach of Gods Mysteries in that kind but all was by the impulse of God 15. So I can say nothing of my self neither nor boast or write of any thing save this that I am a simple man and besides a poore sinner and have need to pray daily Lord forgive us our sins and say with the Apostle O Lord thou hast redeemed us with thy Blood 16. Neither did I ascend into heaven and behold all the works and creatures of God but the same heaven is revealed in my spirit so that I know in the spirit the works and creatures of God 17. And besides the will to that is not my natural will but it is the impulse of the Spirit and I have endured many an assault of the Devil for it 18. But the spirit of man is descended not only from the Starrs and Elements but there is hid therein a spark of the light and power of God 19. It is not an empty Word which is set down in Genesis the 1. ch v. 27. God created man in his own Image in the Image of God created hee him First it hath this sence and meaning viz. that he is created out of the whole Being of the Deitie 20. The Body is from the Elements therefore it must have Elemental food 21. The Soule hath its Original not only from the Body though it be in the Body and hath irs first beginning in the Body yet it hath its source also from without in it by and from the Ayr and so the Holy Ghost ruleth in it in that maner as he replenisheth and filleth all things and as all things are in God and so God himself is all 22. Seeing then the Holy Spirit in the Soule is creaturely viz. the proprietie or Portion of the Soul therefore it searcheth even into the Deitie and also into Nature for it hath its Source and descent from the Being of the whole Deitie 23. When it is kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost then it beholdeth what God its Father doth as a son beholdeth what his Father doth at home in his house 24. It is a Member or child in the house of the heavenly Father 25. And as the Eye of man seeth even unto the Stars from whence it hath a finite original and begining So the soul also seeth even into the Divine Being wherein it liveth 26. But the Soul having its source also out of Nature and that in Nature there is good and bad also in that man hath cast himself through Sin into the fiercenesse or wrath of Nature so that the soul is daily and hourly defiled with Sins therefore it knoweth but in part 27. For the wrath or fiercenesse in Nature raigneth now also in the soul. But the Holy Ghost doth not go into the wrath or fiercenesse but raigneth in the source of the soul which is in the light of God and fighteth against the wrath or fiercenesse in the Soul 28. And therefore the soul cannot attain unto any perfect knowledge in this life till at the end when light and darknesse are separated and wrath or fiercenesse is with the Body consumed in the Earth and then the soul seeth clearly and perfectly in God its Father 29. But when the soul is kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost then it triumpheth in the Body like a huge fire which maketh the heart and reins tremble for Joy 30. But there is not presently a great and deep knowledge in God its Father but its love towards God its Father triumpheth thus in the fire of the Holy Spirit 31. But the knowledge of God is sowen in the fire of the Holy Ghost and at first is as small as a Grain of Mustard seed as Christ makes the comparison Matth. 13. afterward it groweth large like a tree and spreadeth it self abroad in God its Creator 32. Just as a Drop of water in the Ocean cannot avail much but if a great River runneth into it that maketh a greater commotion 33. But the time past present and to come as also depth and heighth near and afar off is all one in God one comprehensibility 34. And the holy Soul of man seeth the same also But in this world in part only it happeneth some times that it seeth nothing at all for the Devil doth assault it furiously in the fierce wrathful source which is in the soul and oftentimes covereth the noble Mustard seed and therefore Man must alwayes be in fight and war 35. In this manner and in this knowledge of the Spirit I will write in this book concerning God our Father in whom are all things and who himself is all And will handle how all is become distinct and creaturely and how all driveth and moveth in the whole tree of life 36. Here you shall see the 1º true ground of the Deity 2º how all was One Being before the Time of the world 3º how the holy Angels were created also and out of what 4º Also how the terrible Fall of Lucifer together with his Legions hapned 5º How Heaven Earth Stars and the Elements were made
6º how metals stones and other creatures in the earth are generated 7º How the birth of life is and the corporeity of all things 8º Also what the true heaven is in which God and his Saints do dwell 9º And what the wrath of God is and the Hellish fire 10º And how all is become kindled and enflamed In brief How and what the Being of all Beings is 37. The First Seven Chapters treat very plainly and comprehensibly of the Being of God and of Angels by similitudes that the Reader may from one step to the other at last come to the deep sense and true ground 38. In the Eighth Chapter beginneth the depth in the Divine Being and so on the further the deeper 39. One thing is often repeated and still more deeply described for the Readers sake and by reason of my slow and dull apprehension 40. That which you do not find sufficiently explained in this book you will find more clearly in the second and third 41. For corruption is the cause why we know but in part and have not perfect knowledge at once 42. Yet this Book is the WONDER of the World which the holy Soul will understand well enough Thus I commit the Reader into the meek and holy Love of God The First Chapter Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature of both the Qualities the Good and the Evil. 1. THough Flesh and Blood cannot conceive or apprehend the Being of God but the Spirit only when enlightned and kindled from God 2. Yet if a man will speak of God and say What GOD is Then I. A man must diligently consider the Powers in Nature II. Also the whole Creation Heaven and Earth III. The Stars the Elements and the Creatures which are proceeded from them As also the holy Angels Devils and Men moreover Heaven and Hell Of the Two Qualities in One. 3. In this Consideration are found Two Qualities a Good one and an Evil one which are in one another as One thing in this world in all Powers in the Stars and the Elements as also in all the Creatures and no Creature in the Flesh in the Natural Life can subsist unlesse it hath the Two Qualities What a QVALITY is 4. Now here a man must consider What the word QVALITY meaneth or is A Quality is the Mobility boyling springing and driving of a thing Of Heat 5. As for Example Heat which burneth consumeth and driveth forth all whatsoever cometh into it which is not of the same property and again it enlightneth and warmeth all cold wet and dark things it compacteth and hardneth soft things Of Light and Fiercenesse 6. It containeth likewise two other kinds in it namely 1º Light and 2º Fiercenesse of which take notice in this manner The light or the heart of the heat is in it self a pleasant joyfull Glance or Lustre a power of life an inlightening and glance of a thing which is afar off and is a piece or source of the heavenly Kingdom of Joy 7. For it maketh all things in this world living and moving all flesh trees leaves and grasse grow in this world in the power of the light and have their life therein viz. in the Good 8. Again it containeth also a fiercenesse or wrath which burneth consumeth and spoileth this wrath or fiercenesse springeth driveth and elevateth it self in the Light and maketh the light moveable 9. It wrestleth and fighteth together in its two-fold source as one thing It is also one thing but it hath a double source The light subsisteth in God without heat but it doth not subsist so in Nature 10. For all Qualities in nature are one in another as one Qualitie in that maner as God is all and as all things descend and come forth from him For God is the Heart or fountain of Nature from him cometh all 11. Now the Heat reigneth and predominateth in all powers in Nature and warmeth all and is one source or spring in all for if it were not so the water would be too cold and the Earth would be congealed and there would be no Ayr. 12. The Heat is predominant in all in trees herbs and grasse and maketh the water moveable so that through the waters Springing out of the earth there groweth herbs and grasse and it is therefore called a Quality because it operateth moveth and boyleth in all and elevateth all 13. But the Light in the Heat giveth power to all qualities so that all groweth pleasant and joyful Heat without Light availeth not the other qualities but is a perdition to the Good an evil source or Spring for all is spoiled in the fiercenesse or wrath of the Heat Thus the light in the heat is a quick Spring or living fountain into which the Holy Ghost entreth but not into the fiercenesse or wrath 14. Yet the heat maketh the light moveable so that it springeth and driveth forth as is seen in winter when the Light of the Sun is likewise upon the earth but the hot Rayes of the Sun cannot reach into the earth and that is the reason why no fruit groweth Of the qualification of the Cold Quality 15. Cold is a Quality also as well as Heat it qualifieth or operateth in all creatures whatsoever come forth in Nature and in all whatsoever doth move therein in Men Beasts Fowles Fishes Worms Leaves and Grasse 16. And Heat is set in opposition unto it and qualifieth therein as if it were one and the same thing but it opposeth the fiercenesse or rage of the Heat and allayeth the Heat 17. It containeth also two sorts or Species in it which is to be Observed viz. It mitigateth the heat and maketh all things pleasant and is in all creatures a quality of life for no creature can subsist without cold for it is a springing driving Mobility in every thing 18. The other kind or Species is Fiercenesse for where it getteth power it suppresseth all and spoileth all even as the Heat doth no life can subsist in it if the Heat did not hinder that The fiercenesse of Cold is a destruction to every life and the house of Death even as the Hot fiercenesse also is Of the qualification of the Ayr and the Water 19. Ayr hath its original from Heat and Cold â—or Heat and Cold work powerfully and replenish all whereby is caused a lively and stirring motion but when cold allayeth or mitigateth the Heat then both their qualities are rarified and made thin and the Bitter quality drawes them together so that they become Dewey 20. But the Ayr hath its original and greatest motion from Heat and the water hath it from cold 21. Now these Two Qualities wrestle continually one with another the Heat consumeth the water and the Cold condenseth or crowdeth the Ayr. Now ayr is a cause and the spirit of every life and motion in the world be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables all whatever is hath its life from the Ayr and nothing can
Time of this World 46. Now Observe The Sun stirreth in the midst in the Deep between the Stars in a round circle and is the heart of the Stars and giveth Light and power to all the stars so tempering the power of the starres that all becometh pleasant and joyfull 47. It enlighteneth also the Heaven the Stars and the Deep above the Earth working in all things that are in this world and so rightly signifieth the Sonne of God 48. For as the Sun standeth in the midst betwixt the Stars and the Earth enlightening all powers and is the Light and Heart of all the powers and is all the Joy in this world besides all beauty and pleasantnesse standeth in the light and power of the Sun 49. Even so the Sonne of God in the Father is the Heart in the Father and shineth in all the powers of the Father his power is the moving springing joy in all the powers of the Father and shineth in the whole Father as the Sun doth in the whole world 50. If the Earth should be taken away which signifieth the House of Misery Trouble or of Hell then the whole Deep would be Light in one place as well as in another as indeed the whole Deep in the Father is as light in one place as in another from the Lustre of the Sonne of God 51. And as the Sun is a Self-subsisting creature power and Light which shineth not forth from or out of all creatures but in and into all creatures and all creatures rejoyce in its power 52. So the Sonne in the Father is a self-â—ubsisting person and enligheneth all the powers in the Father and is the Fathers joy or Heart in his Centre or the Midst of him Observe here the Great Mystery of God 53. The Sun is made or Generated from all the Stars and is a Light taken from the whole Nature and shineth again into the whole Nature of this World it is united with the other Stars as if it self together with all the stars were but one starr 54. And so the Sonne of God is Continually Generated from all the powers of his Father â— from Eternity 〈◊〉 is not made but the Heart and Lustre shining forth from the powers of his Heavenly Father a self-subsisting Person the Center or Body of the Lustre in the deep 55. For the Fathers power Generateth the Sonne continually from Eternity to Eternity but if the Father should cease to Generate then the Sonne would be no more also if the Sonne should shine no more in the Father then the Father would be a dark valley also then the Fathers power would not rise from Eternity to Eternity and so the Divine Being would not Subsist 56. Thus the Father is the selfe-subsisting Being of all powers and the sonne is the heart in the Father which is Generated continually out of all the powers of the Father and who again enlightneth the powers of the Father 57. Do not conceive that the Sonne in the Father is so mix'd that his Person can neither be seen nor known No for if it were so then it were but one Person 58. For as the Sun shineth not from or out of the other stars though it had its original from the other stars so also the Sonne shineth not from or out of the powers of the Father as to his Body or Corporeity 59. And though he be generated continually out of the powers of the Father And yet he shineth back again into the powers of the Fahter for he is another Person than the Father but not another God 60. He is eternally in the Father and the Father generateth him continually from eternity to eternity and the Father and the Sonne is ONE God of an Equall Being in Power and Omnipotence 61. The Sonne seeth tasteth heareth feeleth smelleth and comprehendeth All as the Father doth in His power all liveth and is whatsoever is Good as in the Father But that which is Bad or Evill is not in Him Of GOD the Holy GHOST 62. God the Holy Ghost is the Third Person in the triumphing holy Deity and proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne 〈◊〉 the holy moving spring or fountain of Joy in the whole Father 63. He is a pleasant meek quiet Wind or whispering Breathor Still voyce out of all the powers of the Father and of the Sonne as on Mount Horeb with the Prophet Eliah 1 Kings 19. 12. And on Whitsunday or the Day of Pentecost with the Apostles Act. 2. may be perceived 64. Therefore if we will describe his Person substance and property from the true Ground it must be represented in a Similitude For the Spirit cannot be written down being no Creature but the moving flowing boyling power of God 65. Consider the Sun and Stars again the Stars being many and several inexpressible and innumerable they signifie the Father out of the stars the Sun is come to be for God hath made it out of them and it signifieth the Sonne of God 66. And from the Sun and stars proceed the four Elements Fire Ayr Water and Earth as hereafter I shall demonstrate plainly when I shall write of the Creation Now Observe 67. The three Elements Fire Ayr and Water have a threefold moving or qualification but proceed from one Body and consider the fire or heat swells and flies aloft from the Sun and stars and from the Heat the Ayr swells and flies aloft and from the Ayr comes the Water 68. And in this motion or qualification consisteth the life and spirit of all creatures and whatever can be named in this world and that signifieth the Holy Ghost 69. And as the three Elements fire ayr and water proceed from the Sun and stars and are one Body in one another and cause the living motion and the spirit of all the Creatures of this world 70. So the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne and causeth the living motion in all the powers of the Father 71. And as the three Elements move in the Deep as a self-subsisting spirit and cause heat cold and clouds and do flow forth from the power of all the stars and as all the powers of the Sun and stars are in the three Elements as if they themselves were the Sun and Stars from whence is the life and spirit of all Creatures and doth consist therein 72. Just so the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Sonne and moveth in the whole Father Observe here the deep Mystery 72. All the Stars which men see and those which they do not see they all signifie the Power of God the Father and out of these stars is Generated the Sun which is the Heart of all the stars 73. Also there goeth forth from all the stars the Power which is in every star into the Deep And the Power Heat and shining of the Sun goeth likewise into the Deep 74. And in the Deep the power of all Stars together with the Heat and lustre of the Sun
or Pith of Nature to be his Angel and Similitude and God Ruleth in man with his holy Spirit so that Man can Speak discourse distinguish and understand all things 103. But a Beast is made of the wild Nature of this World the Stars and Elements have generated Beasts through their motion according to the will of God 104. And so the spirit in Birds Fowles and Wormes Existeth also and all hath its three-fold source in similitude to the Ternary in the Deity 105. And you see also the Ternarie of the Deity in Wood and Stones as also Herbs Leaves and in Grasse only these are all Earthly 106. However Nature Generateth nothing be it what it will in this World and though perhaps it should stand or continue but scarce a Minute yet it is all generated in the Ternarie or according to the similitude of God 107. Now Observe In either wood stone or herbs there are three things contained neither can any thing be generated or grow if but one of the three should be left out 108. I. First there is the Power from which a Body comes to be whether wood stone or herbs II. After that in the same there is a Sap in that thing which is the Heart of the thing III. And thirdly there is in it a springing flowing Power Smell or Taste which is the spirit of the thing whereby it groweth and encreaseth Now if any of these three fail the thing cannot subsist 109. Thus you find in Every thing a Similitude of the Ternarie in the Divine Being look upon what you will let no man make himself so stark blind as to think otherwise or to think that God hath no Sonne and Holy Ghost 110. I shall make this more plain and clear when I come to write of the Creation for I do not borrow of other men in my Writings And though indeed I quote many Examples and Testimonies of Gods Saints Yet all is written by God in my Mind so that I absolutely and infallibly believe know and see it yet not in the flesh but in the spirit in the impulse and motion of God III. It is not so to be understood that my Reason is greater or higher than all other mens living but I am the Lords Twigg or Branch and am a very mean and little Spark of his he may set me where he pleaseth I cannot hinder him in that 112. Neither is this my Natural will that I can do it by my own small ability for if the Spirit were withdrawn from me then I could neither know nor understand my own Writings and I must on every side fight and struggle with the Devill and lye open to temptation and affliction as well as other men 113. But in the following Chapters you will soon see the Devil and his Kingdom laid naked his Pride and Reproach shall suddenly be discovered The Fourth Chapter Of the Creation of the Holy Angels An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven 1. THe Learned and almost all Writers have very much Cumbred and troubled their Heads mightily to search contrive and conceive in Nature and have brought forth many and sundry Opinions concerning How and Of what the Holy Angels were framed And on the other side what that horrible Fall of the Great Prince Lucifer was or How he became so base a wicked and fierce wrathful Devil From whence that Evil Quality should Spring or What drove him to it 2. And although this ground and great Mystery hath remained hidden from the beginning of the world and that humane flesh and blood is not able to conceive or apprehend it 3. Yet God who created the world will reveal himself now at the End and all great Mysteries will be manifested or revealed to intimate that the great Day of Revelation and the Final Judgment is neâ—â— and daily to be expected 4. On which will be restored again all that which hath been lost through Adam and in which the Kingdome of Heaven and the Kingdom of the Devill shall be severed asunder in this world 5. But How all this will be done God will reveal in the highest plainesse and simplicity so that no man will be able to Oppose Him 6. Therefore every one should lift up his Eyes for his Redemption draweth near And not seek after base covetousnesse pride and wanton luxurious statelinesse supposing it the best life to be Here whereas in their luxury they sit in the midst of Hell to wait upon Lucifer as his Guard 7. Which themselves shall suddenly be sure to see with great terrour anguish and eternal despair as also to their shame and scorn whereof the Devils are a terrible Example who were once the fairest and brightest Angels in Heaven as I shall reveal write and manifest here following I will suffer Gods impulse I am not able to withstand it Of the Divine Quality 8. Since thou hast perceived in the Third Chapter the Ground of the Ternarie in the Divine Being I shall here shew plainly the power and operation as also the Qualities or qualification in the Divine Being or from what the Angels were properly and peculiarly created or what their Body and Power is 9. And as I said before All the powers or vertues are in God the Father and no man with his sense and thoughts can reach to apprehend it But in the Stars and the Elements as also by all the creatures in the whole creation of this World a Man may clearly know it 10. All power and vertue is in God the Father and proceedeth also forth from him as Light Heat Cold Soft Gentle Sweet Bitter Sowre astringent or harsh sound or noise and much more that is not possible to be spoken or apprehended All these are in God the Father one in another as one power and yet all these powers move in his Exit or going forth 11. But the powers in God do not operate or qualify in that maner as in Nature in the stars and Elements or in the creatures 12. No you must not conceive it so For Lord Lucifer in his Elevation made the powers of impure Nature thus burning bitter cold astringent soure dark and unclean 13. But in the Father all powers are mild soft like Heaven very full of joy for all the powers tryumph in one another and their voice or sound riseth up from Eternity to Eternity 14. There is nothing in them but Love meeknesse mercy friendlinesse or courtesie even such a tryumphing rising source or fountain of joy wherein all the voices of Heavenly joyfulnesse sound forth so as no man is able to expresse it nor can it be likened to any thing 15. But if a man will Liken it to any thing it may nearest be Likened to the Soul of Man when kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost 16. For then it is thus joyful and tryumphing and all powers rise up in it and tryumph and so raise the Bestial Body that it trembleth this is a true glimpse of the divine Quality as the
Beginning and End 13. And in the Head is the divine Councel-Seat or Throne and it signifieth God the Father and the Five Senses or qualities are the Counsellours which have their influences out of the whole Body out of all the powers 14. Now the Five Senses alwayes sit in Councel in the Power of the whole Body and when the Councels Decree is concluded then the compacted or concreted Judge speaketh it out into its Center or midst of the Body as a WORD into the Heart for that is the fountain of all powers from which also it taketh its rise 15. Now it standeth there in the Heart as a self-subsisting Person composed out of all powers and is a Word and signifieth God the Sonne and now it goeth out from the Heart into the Mouth on to the Tongue which is the sharpnesse and that so sharpeneth it that it soundeth forth and is distinguished according to the Five Senses 16. From what Quality soever the word taketh its original in that quality it is thrust forth upon the Tongue and the power of the distinction or difference goeth forth from the Tongue and that signifieth the Holy Ghost 17. For as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and distinguisheth and sharpneth all and effecteth or produceth that which the Father speaketh through the Word 18. So also the Tongue sharpneth articulateth and distinguisheth all that which the Five Senses in the head bring through the heart on to the Tongue and the Spirit goeth forth from the Tongue through the Mercurius or Tone in that place as it was decreed or concluded by the Councel of the five Senses and executeth it all Of the Mouth 19. The Mouth signifieth that thou art an un-allmighty Sonne of thy Father whether thou art an Angel or a Man For through the Mouth thou must draw into thee the power of thy Father if thou wilt live 20. An Angel must do so as well as a man though indeed he needs not to use the Element of Aire in that manner as a man doth yet he must attract into himself through the Mouth the Spirit from which the Ayr in this world existeth 21. For in Heaven there is no such Ayr but the qualities are very meek and joyful like a pleasant cheering Breath of wind and the Holy Ghost is among all the qualities in the Salitter 2nd Mercurius 22. And this the Angel also must make use of or else he cannot be a moveable creature for he must also eat of the heavenly fruit through the Mouth 23. Thou must not understand this in an earthly manner for an Angel hath no Guts neither Flesh nor Bones but is constituted or composed by the Divine power in the shape form and manner of a man and hath all members like Man except the Members of Generation and the Fundament or going out of the Draffe neither hath an Angel need of them 24. For Man gat his members of Generation and Fundament first in his dolefull and lamentable fall An Angel sendeth forth nothing but the Divine power which he taketh in at his Mouth wherewith he kindleth his heart and the heart kindleth all the members and that he sendeth forth from himself again at the Mouth when he speaketh and praiseth God 25. But the heavenly fruits which he eateth are not earthly and though they are in such a form and shape as the earthly are yet they are meer Divine power and have such a pleasant Lovely Taste and Smell that I cannot liken it to any thing in this world for they Taste and Smell of the Holy Trinity 26. Thou must not think that they are there only as it were a Type or shadow of things no for the Spirit sheweth plainly that in the heavenly pomp in the heavenly Salitter and Mercurius do grow Divine Trees Plants Flowers and all sorts of whatsoever is in this world but as a type and resemblance And as the Angels are so are the vegetation and fruits all from the Divine power 27. These heavenly Sprouts and Springings thou must not wholly liken to this world For there are two Qualities in this world a Good and an Evil and many things grow through the power of the Evill quality which doth not so in Heaven 28. For Heaven hath but one form or manner nothing groweth there which is not good Only Lord Lucifer hath deform'd and dress'd this world in that manner And therefore was Mother Eve ashamed when she had eaten of that which was dress'd by the Evil quality in like manner also she was ashamed of her members of Generation which she had caused by biting of this Apple 29. The Angelical and Heavenly fruit hath not such a substance indeed it is most certain and true that there are all manner of fruits in heaven and not meerly Types and Shadowes also the Angels pluck them with their Hands and eat them as we do that are Men but they need not any Teeth to do it withall neither have they any for the fruit is of a divine power 30. Now all this whatsoever an Angel maketh use of which is Externally without him for the supporting of his life is not his corporeal propriety as if he had it by a Natural right but the Heavenly Father giveth it them in love 31. True it is their Body is their own propriety for God hath given it to them for a propriety Now whatsoever is given to any for his own or for propriety that is his by right of Nature and he doth not deal righteously which taketh it from him again unlesse upon condition and agreement And thus God doth not neither and therefore an Angel is an eternal incorruptible Creature which standeth or subsisteth in all Eternity 32. But what would the Body profit him if God did not feed it for then it would have no mobility and would lye still like a dead Block Now therefore the Angels are obedient to God and humble themselves before the powerful God they honour laud and praise him in his Great Deeds and Works of Wonder and sing continually of Gods Holinesse Because He feedeth them Of the Gracious Blessed and Joyfull Love of the Angels toward God from a true Ground 33. The right Love in the divine Nature cometh from the fountain of the Sonne of God Behold thou child of man let this be told thee the Angels know already what the right Love toward God is but thou needest it in thy cold Heart 34. Observe when the gracious amiable blessed Joyful Glance and Light together with the sweet power out of the Sonne of God shineth into all powers in the whole Father then all the powers are kindled by the Gracious amiable blessed lovely Light and sweet power in a triumphing and joyful manner 35. So also when the Gracious amiable Blessed and joyful Light of the Sonne of God shineth on the loving Angels and casteth its Beams into their Heart then all the powers in their Body are kindled and there riseth up
such a Joyful Love-fire that for great joy they sing and ring forth Praises and that which neither I nor any other Creature is able to expresse 36. With this Song I would have the Reader cited into the other life where he will have experience thereof I am not able to set it down in Writing 37. But if thou wilt have experience of it in this world give over thy Hypocrisie Bribery and Deceit and thy Scorning and turn thy heart in all seriousnesse to God Repent thee of thy Sins with a true intention and resolution to live Holily and pray to God for his holy Spirit 38. Wrestle with him as the Holy Patriarch Jacob did Who wrestled with him all night till the dawning of the Day or Morning Radius brake forth and would not give over till God had blessed him Gen. 32. Do thou so like wise with him and the Holy Ghost will get a form in thee 39. If thou holdest on in thy earnestnesse and wilt not give over then will this fire come suddainly upon thee like lightning and shine into thee and then thou wilt well experiment that which I have here written and wilt easily beleeve that which is in my Book 40. Thou wilt also become quite another man and wilt think thereon all the dayes of thy life thy delight will be more in Heaven then on Earth 41. For the conversation of the Holy Soul is in Heaven and though indeed it converseth in the body on earth yet it is alwayes continually with its Redeemer JESUS CHRIST and eateth as a guest with him Note this The Seventh Chapter Of the Court Place and Dwelling also of the Government of Angels how it stood at the beginning after the Creation and how it is become as it is 1. HEre the Devil will oppose like a Snarling Dogg for his shame will be discovered and he will give the Reader many a sore stroake and alwayes put him in doubt that these things are not so 2. For nothing doth torment him more then when his Glory is upbraided to him by signifying what a Glorious King and Prince he hath been when this is objected to him then he is in a rage and madnesse as if he would storm and overthrow all the world 3. If this Chapter should be lighted upon by a Reader in whom the fire of the Holy Spirit should be somewhat weak I fear the Devil would be very busie to set upon him tempting him to doubting whether the things set down here be so or no that his kingdome might not stand so very naked nor his shame be so quite discovered 4. Now if he can but suppose he shall bring it to pass to be doubted of in any heart he will not fail to use his utmost skill pains and labour therein I see very well already that he hath it in his purpose 5. Therefore I would have the Reader warned that he be diligent in the reading hereof and patient so long till he cometh to the reading of the Creation and of the Government of this world and then he will find it plainly and clearly demonstrated from Nature Now Observe 6. When God Almighty had Decreed in his Counsel that he would make Angels or Creatures out of himself then he made them out of his eternal power and wisdom according to the form and manner of the Liberty in his Deity and according to the Qualities in his Divine Being 7. At first he made three Kingly Governments or Dominions answerable to the number of the Holy Trinity and each Kingdom had the Order or Ordnance power and quality of the divine Being 8. Now elevate thy Sense Thoughts and Spirit into the Deep of the Deity for here a Gate is opened The Place or Space of this world the Deep of the Earth and above the Earth even to Heaven as also the created Heaven which was made out of the midst of the Waters which moveth above the Stars and which we behold with our Eyes whose depth we cannot sound or reach with our sense all this place or room together was one Kingdom and Lucifer was King therein before his being thrust out 9. The other two Kingdoms that of Michael and that of Uriel those are above the created Heaven and are like that other Kingdom 10. These three Kingdoms together contain such a Deep as is not of any humane Number nor can be measured by any thing 11. Yet you must know that these three Kingdoms have a Beginning and End But that God who hath made these three Kingdoms out of himself is infinite and hath no End 12. Yet without and beyond and besides these three Kingdoms there is likewise the power of the Holy Trinity for God the Father hath no End 13. But thou art to know this Mystery that in the Center or Midst of these three Kingdoms is generated the splendor or Sonne of God 14. This needs explanation Read the Second and Third part of these writings where it is described more fundamentally for nothing that is divisible measurable or circumscriptive is here meant or understood oâ—ly it was in simplicity and plainnesse set down so at the first because of the slow and dull apprehension 15. And the three Kingdoms are circular round about the Sonne of God neither of them is further or nearer to the Sonne of God for the one is equally as near about the Sonne of God as the other 16. From this fountain and from all the powers of the Fether goeth forth the Holy Ghost together with the Light and power of the Sonne of God in and through all Angelical Kingdomes or Dominions and without beyond and besides all the Angelical Kingdoms which no Angel or man is able to dive or search into 17. Neither have I any purpose to consider of it further much lesse to write but my Revelation reacheth even into the three Kingdoms like an Angelical Knowledge 18. But not in my Reason or apprehension or in perfection like an Angel but in part and so-long only as the Spirit tarrieth in me further I know it not 19. When he parteth from me I know nothing but the Elementary and earthly things of this world but the Spirit seeth even into the depth of Deity Question 20. Now one may ask what manner of Substance or thing it is that the Sonne of God is Generated in the Center or midst of these Three Kingdoms Surely one Angelical Hoast must needs be nearer unto him then the other seeing their Kingdom hath so great a Deep 21. Also then the Glory Clarity or brightnesse and power of the Sonne of God would not be so great without beyond or besides those Kingdoms as in with and among those that are near him and as in the Angelical Circuit or Court Answer 22. Answ. The holy Angels were made to be creatures from God that they should praise sing ring forth and Jnbilate before the Heart of God which is the Sonne of God and tncrease the heavenly
and so then it reciprocally maketh all the powers in the Father living and moving and through that Spirit are all the Angels formed and Imaged out of the Fathers Powers 143. And that Spirit preserveth and supporteth all formeth all all vegetation colours and Creatures both in heaven and in this world and above all the Heaven of Heavens For the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity above all is thus and no otherwise neither will it be otherwise in all Eternity 144. But when the fire is Kindled in a Creature that is when a Creature elevateth it self too high or too much as Lucifer and his Legions did then the light extinguisheth or goeth out and the fierce wrathfull and hot source the source of the hellish fire riseth up that is the Spirit of the fire riseth up in the fierce Quality 145. Observe here the Circumstances how this is done or how it can come to be done Therefore consider an Angel is formed figured composed or compacted together out of all powers as I have described it at large 146. Now when he elevateth himself he elevateth himself first in the astringent quality which he gripeth close together as a woman which is in travel and presseth himself whereby the hard quality becometh so hard and sharp that the sweet water can force or prevail with it no more and so can rise up no more meekly or mildly in the Creature but is captivated and dried up by the astringent quality and changed into a hard sharp fierce Coldnesse 147. For it becometh too empty and dry by the astringent contraction and loseth its bright lustre and its unctuosity fatnesse or Oylinesse wherein the light Spirit riseth up which is the Spirit of the Holy angelical and divine life becometh so hard compacted and pressed together by the astringent qualitie whereby it is dried up like sweet dry Wood. 148. And so when the bitter quality riseth up in the exsiccated or dryed sweet quality then cannot the sweetnesse mollifie it and imbibe it with its sweet light-water because it is dried up 149. And there the bitter quality raveth and rageth and seeketh for rest and food and finds it not and moveth or boyleth in the Body as a faint Poyson 150. And now when the heat kindleth the sweet quality and would mitigate its heat in the sweet water whence it riseth up and shineth in the whole Body there it finds nothing but a hard dry sweet source or quality there is no sap or moisture it being quite exsiccated or dryed up by the astringencie 151. Then it kindleth the sweet source or quality with an intent to be refreshed but there is no sapp left only the sweet source or quality is now burning and glowing even as a hard dryed or burnt stone and can no more kindle its light and so the whole Body remaineth now a Dark valley in which there is nothing but a fierce hard coldnesse in the astringent quality and in the sweet a hard glowing fire only wherin the fierce Wrathful heat riseth up in all Eternity and in the bitter quality there is a raving raging stinging and burning 152. And thus you have here the true description of an Expulsed Angel or Devill as also the Cause thereof and that not written in a similitude only but in the Spirit through that power out of which all things are come to be 153. O man behold thy self herein look before thee and behind thee it is not in vain 154. This great History or Action how it came to passe and how it went you will find it at large concerning the Fall of the Devill V. Of the Fifth Circumstance or Species 155. The Fifth Quality or the fifth Spirit of God among the the Seven Spirits of God in the Divine power of the Father is the gracious amiable blessed friendly and joyful Love 156. Now observe what the fountain of the gracious amiable blessed and friendly love of God is Observe it exactly for it is the very Pith Marrow or Kernel 157. When the heat in the sweet quality riseth up and kindleth the sweet source fountain or spring then that fire burneth in the sweet quality now seeing the sweet quality is a thin or transparent lovely pleasant sweet fountain or spring-water it allayeth the heat and quencheth the fire and so there remaineth in the sweet fountain spring of the sweet water only the joyful light 158. And the heat is only a gentle soft warming even as it is in a man which is of a Sanguine Complexion wherein also the heat is only a friendly cheerly warming if the party liveth temperately and keepeth a due Measure 159. That friendly Courteous Love-Light-fire goeth along in the sweet quality and riseth up into the bitter and astringent quality and so kindleth the bitter and astringent quality feeding them with its sweet Love-sap refreshing quickning and enlightning them and making them living or lively cheerfull and friendly 160. And when the Light-love-power cometh at them so that they taste thereof and get its life O there is a friendly Meeting Saluting and Triumphing a friendly wellcoming and great love a most friendly and gracious amiable and blessed kissing and well relishing taste 161. There the Bridegroom kisseth his Bride O gracious amiable Blessednesse and great love how sweet art thou how friendly and Courteous art thou how pleasant and lovely is thy rellish and taste how ravishing sweetly dost thou smell O noble light and bright glory who can apprehend thy exceeding Beauty how comely adorned is thy love how curious and dainty are thy colours and All this Eternally who can expresse it 162. Or why and what do I writeâ— whose Tongue doth but stammer like a child which is learning to speak with what shall I compare it or to what shall I liken it Shall I compare it with the love of this world No that is but a meer dark valley to it 163. O Immense greatnesse I cannot compare thee with any thing but only with the Resurrection from the Dead there will the love-fire rise up again in US and embrace Man courteously and friendly and re-kindle again our astringent bitter and cold dark and dead Quality and embrace us most friendly 164. O noble Guest O why didst thou depart from us O fiercenesse wrath and astringency or severity thou art the cause of it O fierce wrathfull Devil O what hast thou done who hast sunk down thy self and beautiful bright Angels into darknesse woe woe for Ever 165. O was not the gracious amiable blessed and fair Love in thee also O thou High and Lofty minded Devil why wouldst thou not be contented wert thou not a Cherubin and was there any thing so beautiful and bright in heaven as thou what didst thou seek for wouldst thou be the whole or Total God didst thou not know that thou wert a Creature and hadst not the Fan and Casting shovel in thy own hand or Power 166. O why do I pity thee thou stinking Goat O
thou cursed stinking Devil how hast thou spoiled us how wilt thou excuse thy self What wilt thou Object to me Objection 167. Thou Sayst If thy Fall had not been Man would never have been thought of Answer O thou Lying Devil Though that should be true yet the Salitter out of which Man is made which is also from eternity as well as that out of which thou art made had stood in eternal Joy and Bright Glory and had likewise risen up in God and had tasted of the gracious amiable blessed love in the seven Spirits of God and enjoyed the heavenly Joy 168. O thou lying Devil stay but a little the spirit will discover thy shame to thee tarry but a little while longer and thy pomp pride and Pageantry will be at an End Stay the Bow is bent the Arrow will hit thee and then whither wilt thou fall the place is ready provided and prepared it wanteth only to be kindled wilt thou bring fewel lustily to it that thou be not frozen with cold thou wilt sweat very hard dost thou suppose thou shalt obtain the light again No but Hell fire Smell to thy sweet Love Guesse at it what is that called Gehenna yes that will be in love with thee Eternally 169. Woe woe poor miserable blinded Man why sufferest thou the Devil to make thy Body and Soul so dark and blind O temporal Good and the pleasure and voluptuousnesse of this life thou Blind Whore why doest thou go a wooing and whoring to the Devil 170. O Security the Devil watcheth for thee O High-mindednesse thou art a hellish Fire O Beauty Pomp or Bravery thou art a dark valley O self-vindication or Vengeance thou art the fierce wrath of God! 171. O Man why will the world be too narrow for thee thou wilt needs have it all for thy self and if thou hadst it thou wouldst not have Room enough O this is the Devils high-mindednesse who fell out of Heaven into Hell 172. O Man Alas O man why dost thou Dance with the Devil who is thine enemy Art thou not afraid that he will thrust thee into Hell why dost thou go on so securely Is it not a very narrow stick on which thou Dancest under that small narrow Bridge is Hell dost thou not see how high thou art and how dangerously and desperately thou goest thou Dancest betwixt Heaven and Hell 173. O thou blind Man how doth the Devil Mock at thee O wherefore dost thou trouble heaven dost thou think thou shalt not have enough in this world O blind man is not Heaven and Earth thine nay God himself too What dost thou bring into this world or what dost thou take along with thee at thy going out of it thou bringest an Angelical Garment into this world and with thy wicked life thou turnest it into a Devils Mask or vizard 174. O thou miserable Man Turn Convert the heavenly Father hath stretched forth both his Arms and calleth thee do but Come he will take thee into his Love art thou not his child He doth Love thee if he did hate thee he must be at odds with himself O no it is not so there is nothing in God but a mercifull amiable love and Bright glory 175. O ye Watchmen of Israel why do ye sleep Awake from the sleep of whoredom and dresse or trim your Lamps the Bridegroom cometh Sound your Trumpets 176. O ye covetous stiffnecked and drunken Roysters how do you wooe and go a whoring after the covetous Devil Thus saith the LORD Will ye not feed my people which I have committed to your charge 177. Behold I have set you upon Moses his chair and entrusted you with my flock but you mind nothing but the wooll and mind not my sheep and therewith you build your great Palaces But I will set you on the Stool of Pestilence and my own Shepherd shall feed my sheep Eternally 178. O thou fair world how doth Heaven pity thee How dost thou trouble the Elements O wickednesse and malice When wilt thou leave and give over Awaken awaken and bring forth thou sorrowfull Woman behold thy Bridegroom cometh and requireth fruit at thy Hands Why dost thou sleep behold he knocketh 179. O gracious amiable blessed Love and clear bright Light tarry with us I pray thee for the evening is at hand O Truth O Justice and righteous Judgment what is become of thee doth not the Spirit wonder as if he had never seen the world before now O why do I write of the wickednesse of this world I must do it and the world curseth me for it Amen The Ninth Chapter Of the Gracious amiable blessed friendly and Merciful Love of God The Great Heavenly and Divine Mystery 1. BEcause I write here of heavenly and Divine things which are altogether strange to the corrupted perished Nature of Man the Reader doubtlesse will wonder at the simplicity of the Authour and be offended at it 2. Because the condition and inclination of the corrupted Nature is to gaze onely on high things like a proud wild wanton and whorish woman which alwayes gazeth in her heat or burning Lust after Handsome men to act wantonnesse with them 3. Thus also is the Proud corrupted perished Nature of Man it stareth only upon that which is glittering and in Fashion in this world and supposeth that God hath forgotten the afflicted and therefore plagueth them so because he mindeth them not 4. Corrupt Nature imagineth that the Holy Ghost regardeth onely high things the high Arts and Sciences of this world the profound studies and Great Learning 5. But whether it be so or no look but back and then you will find the true Ground What was Abel A shepherd What was Enoch and Noah plain simple men What were Abraham Isaac and Jacob Herdsmen 6. What was Moses that dear man of God A Herdsman What was David when the Mouth of the Lord call'd him A shepherd 7. What were the Great and Small Prophets Vulgar plain and mean People some of them but Countrey people and Herdsmen counted the underlings or footstooles of the world men counted them but meer fooles 8. And though they did Miracles Wonders and shewed great signs yet the world gazed only on high things and the Holy Ghost must be as the Dust under their feet for the proud Devil alwaies endeavoured to be King in this world 9. And how came Our King JESUS CHRIST into this world Poor and in great trouble and misery and had not whereon to lay his head Matth. 8. 20. 10. What were his Apostles Poor despised illiterate Fishermen and what were they that believed their preaching The poorer and meaner sort of the people The High Priests and Scribes were the Executioners of Christ who cryed out Crucifie him crucifie him Luk. 23. 21. 11. What were they that in all Ages in the Church of Christ stood to it most stoutly and constantly The poor contemptible despised people who shed their Bloud for the sake of Christ. 12. But
his necessity becommeth enlightned and kindled by the Holy Ghost As the Sun kindleth the cold heat in a Tree or Herb whereby the cold chilled Heat becometh living Now Observe 64. As the members of Mans Body love one another so do the spirits also in the Divine power there is nothing else but a meer longing desiring and well liking acceptation as also a triumphing and rejoycing the one in the other for through these spirits cometh the understanding and distinction in God in Angels Men Beasts and Fowles and in every thing that liveth 65. For in these Five Qualities riseth up the seeing smelling tasting and feeling and so a Rational spirit cometh to be 66. As when the light riseth up then one spirit seeth the other 67. And when the sweet spring or fountain water riseth up in the light through all the spirits then the one tasteth the other and then the spirits become living and the power of life penetrateth through all 68. And in that power the one smelleth the other And through this qualifying influence and penetrating the one feeleth the other 69. And so there is nothing else but a Hearty loving and friendly aspect or seeing curious smelling a good relishing or tasting and lovely feeling a gracious amiable blessed kissing a feeding upon and drinking of one another and lovely walking and conversing together 70. This is the gracious amiable blessed BRIDE which rejoyceth in her BRIDEGROOM herein is love joy and delight here is light and brightnesse or clarity here is a pleasant and lovely smell here is a friendly and sweet taste 71. And this for ever without End How can a Creature sufficiently rejoyce therein O Dear love and gracious amiable blessednesse Surely thou hast no End No man can see any End in thee thy profound Deep is unsearchable thou art every where all over thus onely in the fierce Devil thou art not thus they have spoiled and perished thee in themselves Question 72. Now thou wilt say Where then are these gracious amiable and blessed spirits to be met with Do they dwell onely in themselves in Heaven Answer 73. This is the other open Gate of the Deity here thou must set thy eyes wide open and rouze up or awaken the spirit in thy half dead heart for this is not an Obscure Fiction Contrivance or Phantasie Observe 74. The Seven Spirits of God contain or comprehend in their circumference and space Heaven and this world also the wide breadth and depth without and beyond the heavens even above and beneath the world and in the world yea the whole Father which hath neither Beginning nor End 75. They contain also all the Creatures both in heaven and in this world and all the Creatures in heaven and in this world are imaged fashioned or framed out of these spirits and live in them as in their own propriety 76. And their Life and Reason is generated in them in such a manner as the Divine being is generated and also in the same power 77. And out of and from the same Body of the seven Spirits of God are all things made and produced all Angels all Devils the Heaven the Earth the Stars the Elements Men Beasts Fowles Fishes all Worms Wood Trees also Stones Herbs and Grasse and all whatsoever is Now thou wilt ask Question 78. Seeing God is every where and is himself All How cometh it then that there is in this world such Cold and Heat such biting and striking among all Creatures and that there is nothing else almost but meer fiercenesse or wrath in this world Answer 79. The cause is that the first four Forms of Nature are one at Enmity against the other without the light and yet they are the causes of Life 80. Behold here the wickednesse and malice which is the Cause viz. when King Lucifer did sit in his Kingdom like a high-minded proud Bride then his Circuit Circle or Orbe contained or comprehended the place or space where now the Created Heaven is which is made out of the water 81. And the place also of the created world even unto heaven as also the Deep where now the Earth is that was all a pure and holy Salitter wherein the Seven Spirits of God were Compleat and Pleasant as now in Heaven although they are still compleat and full in this world But observe the Circumstances rightly 82. When King Lucifer elevated himself then he elevated himself in the seven qualifying fountain-spirits and kindled them with his elevation so that all was wholly burning and the astringent quality was so hard and Compact that it generated stones and was so cold that it made the sweet spring or fountain-water turn to Ice 83. And the sweet spring water became very thick brittle and as in many pieces and the bitter quality became very raging tearing and raving whence Poyson arose aloft and the fire or heat was violently and zealously or fervently burning and consuming and so there was a very great distemper and confused Mixture 84. Upon this King Lucifer was thrust out of his Royal Place or Kingly Throne which he had in that Place where now the created Heaven is and thereupon instantly ensued the Creation of this world 85. And the hard Brittle matter which had wrought forth it self in the kindled seven qualifying or fountain-spirits was driven together from whence the Earth and Stones came to be and after that all the Creatures were created out of the kindled Salitter of the seven Spirits of God 86. Now the qualifying or fountain Spirits became so fierce and wrathfull in their kindling that the one continually spoileth the other with its evill naughty quality or source and so also now do the creatures which were made out of the qualifying or fountain spirits and live in the same impulse the one biting beating worrying and annoying the other all according to the kind or disposition of the Qualities 87. Upon this now the Totall or Universall God hath Decreed the Last Judgment wherein he will separate the Evil from the Good and set the good again in the meek mild and Pleasant delight as it was before the horrible kindling of the Devill and will give that which is fierce or wrathfull to King Lucifer for an Everlasting Habitation 88. And then there will be two Parts or divisions of this Kingdom the one Men will get with their King JESUS CHRIST the other the Devills shall have with all ungodly Men and wickednesse 89. This is a short Introduction that the Reader might the better understand the Divine Mystery concerning the Fall of the Devil and concerning the Creation of this world you will find all more at large particularly described Therefore I would have the Reader admonished that he read all in order and so he will come to the true ground 90. It is true that from the beginning of the world it was not so fully revealed to any Man but seeing God will have it so I submit to his Will and will see
Question 74. Thou askest How can a man quench this kindled fire Answer 75. Hearken Thou hast the sweet water in thee pour that into the fire and then it goeth out if thou letst it burn then it consumeth in thee the Sap that is in all the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits so that thou wilt become dry 76. When that is done then thou art a hellish fire-Brand and a Billet or Faggot to lay upon the hellish fire and then there is no remedy for thee Eternally 77. But when thou lookest upon a thing which thou lovest and awaknest the spirit in thine heart then thou kindlest the fire in thine heart which burneth first in the sweet water like a Glowing coal 78. And whilst it is but glimmering it is only a gentle soft longing delight or pleasing Lust in thee and doth not consume thee but if thy heart be in a greater commotion and thou kindlest the sweet quality or fountain so that it becomes a burning flame then thou kindlest all the qualifying or fountain spirits and then the whole body burneth and so Mouth and Hands fall on to work 79. This fire is the most dangerous and hurtful and hath spoiled Most since the world began and it is a very hard matter to quench it for when it is kindled it burneth in the sweet water in the flash of Life and must be quenched through Bitternesse which is scarce a water but much rather is a fire 80. Therefore also there followeth a heavy sad sorrowful Mind when one is to forsake that which burneth in his Love-fire in the sweet fountain water 81. But thou must know that thou in the Government of thy Mind art thine own Lord and Master there will rise up no fire to thee in the circle or whole circumference of thy Body and Spirit unless thou awaknest it thy self 82. It is true all thy spirits spring and move in thee and rise up in thee and indeed alwaies One spirit hath more power in thee then another 83. For if the Government of the spirits were in one man as in another then we should all have one will and form but they are all seven in the power of thy compacted incorporated spirit which spirit is the SOUL 84. It hath in it the first principle the spirit of the soul hath the second and the Astral or starry spirit in the Elements hath the Third viz. this VVorld 85. Now if a fire riseth up in one qualifying or fountain spirit then that is not concealed or hidden from the soul It may instantly awaken the other qualifying or fountain spirits which are contrary to the kindled fire and may quench it 86. But if the fire will be or become too big then hath the soul a Prison wherein it may shut up the kindled spirit viz. in the hard astringent quality and the other spirits must be the Gaylors till their wrath be allayed and the fire be extinguish'd Observe what that is 8. When One qualifying or fountain spirit driveth thee too strongly or presseth thee too hard to a thing which is against the Law of Nature then thou must turn thine Eyes away from it if that will not help then take that spirit and cast it into prison 88. That is Turn thy heart away from temporall Pleasure and voluptuousnesse from fulnesse of eating and drinking from the Riches of this world and think that To day is the last Day of the End of thy Body turn away from the wantonnesse of the world and call earnestly to God and yield or submit thy self to Him 89. When thou dost so then the world mocketh thee and thou are a fool to them But bear this crosse patiently and let not the imprisoned spirit get out of Prison again but trust in God and he will set upon thee the Crown of the divine Joy 90. But if the spirit breaketh out of Prison then put it in again make good thy Part against it as long as thou livest and if thou gettest so much advantage that it do not wholly kindle the source or fountain of thy heart whereby thy soul would become a dry firebrand of wood each fountain or source having yet its Sap when thou departest from hence 91. Then will not that kindled fire at the Last Judgment Day hurt thee nor will it cleave or stick in thy Sappy-spirits but after this anxious afflâ—ction and trouble thou wilt be in the Resurrection A triumphing Angel of God Question 92. But now thou maist say Is there in God also a contrary Will or Opposition amongst or between the spirits of God Answer 93. No though I shew here their earnest Birth how earnestly and severely the spirits of God are generated whereby every one may very well understand the great earnest severity of God 94. Yet it doth not therefore follow that there is a disunion or discord amongst them For the very innermost deepest Birth or Geniture in the heart or kernell is onely and altogether so which no creature can apprehend in the Body but in the flash where the hidden spirit is generated there it will be apprehended for that is also generated in such a manner and in such a power as is here mentioned 95. But unto me is opened the Gate of my Mind so that I can see and discern it else it would indeed remain concealed with and hidden to me till the day of the resurrection from the dead yea it hath been concealed from all men since the beginning of the world but I submit my will to Gods Will let him do what he pleaseth 96. In God all the spirits do triumph as one spirit and one spirit alwaies mitigateth and loveth the other and so there is nothing but meer Joy and Delight but their severe Birth or Geniture which is effected or done in secret must be so for life understanding and Omniscience is thus generated and this is an eternall Birth or Geniture which is never otherwise 97. Thou must not think that perhaps in Heaven there is some manner of Body which onely is thus Generated which above all other things is called God 98. No but the whole Divine Power which it self is heaven and the Heaven of all Heavens is so generated and that is called GOD the Father of whom all holy Angels are generated and live also in the same power also the spirit of all Angels in their Body is alwayes continually and eternally thus generated in like manner also is the Spirit of all Men. 99. For this world belongeth as well to the Body or Corpus of God the Father as the Heaven doth but the spirits which are in the locality or space of this world were kindled through King Lucifer in his elevation so that all things in this world are as it were half Faint and Dead And therefore it is that we poor men are so very much blinded and live in so great and desperate Danger 100. Yet thou must not therefore think that the heavenly light in
and they become living and Love the light that is they take it into them and are impregnated with it and that Spirit which is so taken in is the Love of the Life which is the fifth Spirit 29. Now when they have taken the love into them then they qualifie Act or operate for great Joy for the one seeth the other in the Light and so the one toucheth or stirreth the other 30. And then the tone riseth up and the harâ— Spirit beateth striketh or thâ—mpeth but the sweet maketh that beating or striking Mild and the Bitter divideth it according to the condition or kind of every quality the fourth causeth the ringing the fift causeth joyfulnesse and the compacted incorporated sounding is the Tone or Tune or the Sixth Spirit 31. In this Tone riseth up the power of all the six Spirits and becometh a palpable Body to speak after an Angelicall manner and subsisteth in the power of the other six Spirits and in the light and this is the Body of Nature wherein all heavenly Creatures Ideas Figures and Sprouts or Vegetations are Imaged or fashioned The Holy Gates 32. But the Light which subsisteth in the midst or Center in all the Seven Spirits and wherein standeth the Life of all the seven Spirits and whereby all seven become triumphing and Joyful and wherein the heavenly joyfulnesse riseth up 33. That is it which all the seven spirits do generate and that is the Sonne of all the seven spirits and the seven Spirits are its Father which generate the Light and the Light generateth in them the Life and the Light is the Heart of the seven spirits 34. And this Light is the true Sonne of God whom we Christians worship and honour as the Second Person in the holy Trinity 35. And all the seven Spirits of God together are God the Father 36. For no one spirit of them is alone or without the other they all seven generate one another for if one were wanting the other could not be 37. But the Light is another Person for it is continually generated out of or from the seven spirits and the seven spirits rise up continually in the light and the powers of these seven spirits go forth continually in the glance or splendor of the light in the seventh Nature-spirit and do form and Image all in the seventh Spirit And this out-going or Exit in the Light is the Holy Ghost 38. The flash or stock or Pith or the Heart which is generated in the powers remaineth standing in the midst or Center and that is the Sonne and the Splendor or Glance in all the powers goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne in all the powers of the Father and formeth and imageth in the seventh Nature-spirit all according to the power and operation of the seven Spirits and according to their Distinction and impulse And this is the true Holy Ghost whom we Christians honour and adore for the Third Person in the Deitie 39. Thus O blind Jew Turk and Heathen thou seest that there are Three Persons in the Deitie thou canst not deny it for thou livest and art or hast thy being in the Three Persons and thou hast thy life from them and in the power of these three Persons thou art to rise from the Dead at the Last Day and live Eternally Note 40. Now if thou hast lived well and holily in the Law of Nature in this world and hast not extinguished the half Flash which is the Sonne of God which teacheth thee the Law of Nature in thy seven qualifying or fountain spirits and hast not put it out through a fierce elevation which runneth on contrary to the Knowledge of Nature Then wilt thou with all Christians live in eternal Joy Note 41. The Law of Nature is the Divine Ordinance out of the Center of Nature he that can live therein needs no other Law for he fulfilleth the will of God 42. For it lyeth not in thy unbelief to hinder it thy unbelief doth not take away or make void the truth of God but Faith bloweth up the Spirit of Hope and testifieth that we are Gods Children The Faith is generated in the flash and wrestleth so long with God till it overcometh and gets the victory 43. Thou Judgest us and thereby thou judgest thy self in that thou blowest up the zealous or Jealous Spirit in Anger and Wrath which extinguisheth thy Light But if thou art grown on a sweet Tree and suppresseth the evil influence or suggestions and livest well and holily in the Law of Nature which sheweth thee very well what is Right If thou art not indeed grown out from a fierce or wrathful Twig or Branch Here is meant or understood out of or from a very wicked Seed where out there often groweth a Thistle though yet there were a remedy if the will were but once broken but it is a Rare and Pretious thing However indeed on a Good Tree it is often so that some branches do also wither Note 45. Moreover thou art blind For who shall separate thee from the love of God in which thou art born or Generated and wherein thou livest if thou perseverest and continuest therein till the End who shall separate thee from God in whom thou hast lived here 46. That which thou hast sowen in the Ground that will spring up be it Rye Wheat Barley Tares or Thorns that which is not combustible or capable of the final or last Fire that will not burn at all but God will not corrupt or spoil his good Seed himself but will husband Till and manure it that it may bear fruit in the Eternal life 47. Seeing then all live and have their Being in God why do the weeds Glory and boast against the Wheat Dost thou think that God is a Dissembler and that he regardeth or respecteth any mans person or name 48. What Man was the Father of us All was it not Adam And when his Sonne Cain lived wickedly before God why did not his Father Adam help him But here it may be said He that sinneth shall be punished Ezek. 18. 4 20. 49. If Cain had not quenched or extinguished his light who could have separated him from the love of God 50. So thou also thou boastest thou art a Christian and knowest the light why dost thou not walk therein Dost thou think the Name will make thee Holy Tarry friend till thou comest thither into the other world then thou wilt know it by experience Behold many a Jew Turk and Heathen will sooner enter into the Kingdom of Heaven who had indeed their Lamps well Trimmed and Furnished then thou who Boastest Question What Prerogative or Advantage then have the Christians Answer 51. Very much For they know the way of life and know how they should rise from the Fall but if any will lye still then he must be thrown into the Ditch and there must perish with all the wicked Heathens 52. Therefore take
spirit be mild and meek 83. But what do those in the East thou art a lofty Proud Bride from the beginning the Crown was alwayes offered to thee from the beginning but thou thoughtst thy self too Fair already thou livest as the rest do Of the Divine and Heavenly Natures operation and property 84. Now if thou wilt know what kind or manner of Nature there is in Heaven and what kind of Nature the Holy Angels have also what kind of Nature Adam had before his Fall and what properly the holy heavenly and Divine Nature is then observe the circumstances exactly concerning this seventh qualifying or fountain-spirit of God as followeth 85. The seventh qualifying or fountain spirit of God is the qualifying or fountain-spirit of Nature for the other six do generate the seventh and the seventh when it is generated is then as it were the Mother of the six which encompasseth the other six and generateth them again for the corporeal and natural Being consisteth in the seventh Observe here the Sense 86. The six rise up in a full or compleat Birth according to the power and condition of each of them and when they are risen up then is their power mingled one in another and the hardnesse dryeth it and is as it were the whole Being 87. This corporeal exsiccation or drying I call in this book the Divine SALITTER for it is therein the Seed of the whole Deity and is as it were a Mother which receiveth the Seed and alwayes generateth fruit again according to all the Qualities of the Seed 88. Now in this rising up of the six spirits there riseth up also the Mercurius Tone or Sound of all the six Spirits and in the Seventh Nature-spirit it subsisteth 96. As c. 89. By the word SALITTER in this book is understood How out of the Eternal Center of Nature the Second Principle groweth and springeth up out of the first Just as the Light springeth up out of the fire wherein two Spirits are understood viz. I. First a Hot II. Secondly an Aërial one whereas in the aërial life the true vegetation or growing consisteth and in the fire-life is the cause of the Quality 90. So when it is written the Angels are created out of God then it is understood or meant Out of Gods Eternal Nature wherein is understood or meant the seven forms and yet the divine holy nature is not understood to be in the Fire but in the Light 91. And yet the Fire giveth or holdeth forth to us a Mystery of the Eternal Nature and of the Deity also wherein a Man is to understand two principles of a twofold source viz. I. a Hot Fierce Astringent Bitter Anxious Consuming One in the fire-source And out of the fire cometh the II. viz. the light which dwelleth in the Fire but is not apprehended or laid hold on by the fire also it hath another source then the fire hath which is Meeknesse wherein there is a desire of Love where then in the Love-desire another will is understood then that which the Fire hath 92. For the fire will consume all and causeth a high rising in the source and the meeknesse of the light causeth Entity or Substantiality viz. In the eternal light it causeth the water-spirit of Eternal life And in the third principle of this world it causeth water together with the existency or Original of the Ayr. 93. Thus the Reader is to understand this book as concerning Three Principles or Births viz one is the original of the Eternall Nature in the eternal will or desire of God which desire driveth it self on in great anguish till it come to the fourth form viz. to the Fire 94. Wherein the second which is the Light existeth and replenisheth the Eternal Liberty besides or beyond Nature wherein we understand the holy Ternarie in the Light without or beyond Nature in the power of the Light in the Liberty as another or second spring or source without Being and yet united with the fire's Nature viz. as Fire and Light together in One. 95. And the third principle of this world is generated and created out of the First that is Magically as is clearly demonstrated in our Second and Third Book unto which this Book is onely an Introduction and is the first Book which was not sufficiently apprehended by the Authour at the first time though it appeared clearly enough yet all of it could not be conceived also it was as when a Torrent or stormy Showre of Rain passeth over a place from whence vegetation and springing existeth for therein is the Seed of the whole Deity 96. As in the mother and then the seventh generateth all manner of Fruits and Colours according to the Operation of the Six 97. But here thou must know that the Deity doth not stand still but worketh and riseth up without intermission as a pleasant wrestling moving or struggling 98. Like two creatures which in great Love play together Embracing struggling and wrestling one with the other now the one is above by and by the other and when one hath overcome it yeeldeth or giveth over and lets the other rise up again 99. Thou mayst also understand it thus in a similitude as when Seven Persons had begun a friendly Sport and Play where one gets the upper hand above another and a third comes to help that one which is overcome and so there is a pleasant friendly sporting amongst them whereas indeed they all have one and the same agreement or Love-will together and yet strive and fight or vie one against the other in a way of Love in sporting and past-time 100. And thus also is the working of the six Spirits of God in the seventh suddenly one of them hath a strong rising up suddenly another and thus they wrestle in love one with another 101. And when the Light riseth up along in this striving then the Holy Ghost moveth in the power of the Light in the Play of the other six spirits and so in the seventh there spring up all manner of fruits of life and all manner of Colours and vegetations or Ideas and forms 102. Now as that quality is which is strongest so the Body of the fruit is Imaged and the Colours also in this striving or wrestling the Deity formeth it self into infinite and insearchable variety of kinds and manners of Images or Ideas 103. For the seven spirits are the seven-head-Sources or springs and when Mercurius riseth up therein that stirreth all and the bitter quality moveth it and distinguisheth it and the astringent dryeth it up 104. Nature and the Ternarie are not one and the same they are distinct though the Ternarie dwelleth in Nature but unapprehended and yet is an eternall Band as is plainly expounded in our Second and Third Book Now observe here how the Imaging in Nature is in the seventh Spirit 105. The sweet water is the beginning of Nature and the astringent quality draweth or attracteth it
flesh but riseth up like a flash of lightning even as fire flashes and sparckles out of a Stone when a man strikes fire upon it 132. But when the flash is caught in the fountain of the Heart then the Holy Ghost riseth up in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits into the Brain like the Day-break Dawning of the Day or Morning Rednesse and therein sticketh the mark Aime or scope and knowledge 133. For in that light the one seeth the other feeleth the other smelleth the other tasteth the other and heareth the other and is as if the whole Deity did rise up therein 134. And herein the spirit seeth into the depth of the Deity for in God near and afar off is all one And that same God of whom I write in this Book is as well in his Ternarie in the Body of a Holy soul As in Heaven 135. From this God I take my knowledge and from no other thing neither will I know any other thing then that same God and the same it is which maketh that assurance in my spirit that I steadfastly believe and trust in him 136. And though an Angel from heaven should tell this to me yet for all that I could not believe it much lesse lay hold on it for I should alwayes doubt whether it were certainly so or no But the Sun it self ariseth in my spirit and therefore I am most sure of it and I my self do see the proceeding and Birth of the holy Angels and of all things both in heaven and in this world 137. For the Holy Soul is one spirit with God though indeed it is a Creature yet it is like to the Angels Also the Soul of Man seeth much deeper then the Angels for the Angels see onely to the heavenly Pomp but the Soul seeth both the Heavenly and the Hellish for it liveth between both 138. Therefore it must undergo many hard Bangs and pinches and must every day and hour wrestle and struggle with the devill that is with the hellish qualities and so it liveth in great danger in this world and therefore this life is very well called the Valley of misery full of anguish a perpetual hurliburly pulling and haling worrying warring fighting struggling and striving 139. But the cold and half-dead Body doth not alwayes understand this fight of the Soul The Body doth not know how it is with it but is heavy and anxious it goeth from one room or businesse to another and from one Place to another it seeketh for ease and rest 140. And when it cometh thither where it would be yet it findeth no such thing then doubtings and unbelief fall in between and come upon it sometimes it seems to it as if God had quite cast it off but it doth not understand the fight of the Spirit how the same is sometimes down and sometimes gets aloft 141. And what vehement and furious warre and fight there is betwixt the hellish and heavenly Quality which fire the Devils Blow up and the Holy Angels Quench it I leave to every Holy Soul to consider of 142. Thou must know that I write not here as a Story or History as if it were related to me from another but I must continually stand in that Combat or Battle and I find it to be full of heavy strivings wherein I am often struck down to the ground as well as all other Men. 143. But for the sake of the violent fight and for the sake of the earnestnesse which we have together this Revelation hath been given me and the vehement driving or impulse to bring it so to passe as to set all this down in Paper 144. But what the Totall sequel is which may follow upon and after this I do not fully know onely sometimes future Mysteries in the depth are shewed to me 145. For when the flash riseth up in the Center one seeth through and through but cannot well apprehend or lay hold on it for it happeneth to such a one as when there is a Tempest of Lightening where the flash of fire openeth it self and suddenly vanisheth 146. So it goes also in the Soul when it presseth or breaks quite through in its fight or Combat then it beholdeth the Deity as a flash of Lightening but the source quality or fountain of Sins covereth it suddenly again For the Old Adam belongeth to the Earth and doth not with this flesh belong to the Deity 147. I do not write this for my own Praise but to that end that the Reader may know wherein my Knowledge standeth that he might not seek that from me which I have not or think me to be what I am not 148. But what I am that all men are who wrestle in JESUS CHRIST our King for the Crown of the Eternal Joy and live in the Hope of Perfection the beginning whereof is at the Day of the Resurrection which is now shortly near at Hand which in the circle of the rising or Horizon of the East in the flash is very well to be seen in which Nature sheweth it self as if it would be Day-Break 149. Therefore take heed that you be not found asleep in your Sinnes surely the prudent and the wise will take notice hereof but the wicked will continue in their Sins 150. They say What ayles the Fool when will he have done with his Dreaming This is Because they are asleep in fleshly Lusts Well well you shall see what kind of Dream this will Bee 151. I would fain take ease and rest in my meeknesse if I were not put upon this work but that God who hath made the world is too strong for me I am the work of his Hands he may set me and place me where he will 152. And though I must be a by-word and Spectacle of scorn to the World and Devils yet my hope is in God concerning the Life to come in Him I will venture to hazard my self and not resist or strive against the Spirit Amen The Twelfth Chapter Of the Nativity and proceeding forth or descent of the Holy Angels as also of their Government Order and Heavenly joyous Life 1. VErbum Domini The Word of the Lord comprised the Qualifying or fountain-spirits by the Fiat that is the saying Let there be Angels into a will and that is the Creation of the Angels Question 2. Now the Question is What is properly an Angel Answer Behold when God Schuff created the Angels then he created them out of the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit which is Nature or the Holy Heaven 3. The word Schuff Created thou must understand thus as when a man sayes drawn together or driven together as the Earth is driven or Compacted together In like manner when the whole God did move himself then the astringent quality drew or drove together the Salitter of Nature and dryed it and so the Angels came to be now such as the Quality was in every place such also was the Angel
Body he had it for his own propriety which while it shone with or agreeable to the Light of the Sonne of God which was Externally without or distinct from him they both qualified incorporated and united together as one thing though they were two yet they were bound or united together as Body and Soul 140. And as the light of God raigneth in all the powers of the Father so he also did raign in all his Angels as a mighty King of God and did wear on his Head the fairest Crown of Heaven 141. Here at present I will leave him a little scope because I shall have so much to do concerning him in the second Chapter Let him prance a little yet here in the Crown it shall suddenly be plucked away from him Of the third Angelical King called URIEL 142. This gracious amiable Blessed Prince and King hath his Name from the Light or from the flash or going forth of the Light which signifieth rightly God the Holy Ghost 143. For as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Light and formeth figureth and Imageth all and raigneth in all such also is the power and gracious amiable blessednesse of a Cherubin who is the King and heart of all his Angels that is when his Angels do but behold him they are all then affected and touch'd with the will of their King 144. For As the will of the heart affecteth and stirs all the members of the Body so that the whole Body doth as the Heart hath Decreed or concluded Or as the Holy Ghost riseth up in the Center of the Heart and enlightneth all the Members in the whole Body so the Cherubin with his whole Glance or Lustre and will affecteth all his Angels so that they all are together as one Body and the King is the heart therein 145. Now this glorious and Beautiful Prince is Imaged and framed according to the kind and quality of the Holy Ghost and is indeed a glorious and fair Prince of God and is united with the other Princes in Love as one heart 146. These are now the Three Princes of God in the Heaven And when the Flash of life that is the Sonne of God riseth up in the middle or central circle in the qualifying or fountain spirits of God and sheweth it self triumphantly then the Holy Ghost also riseth upward triumphantly In this rising up the Holy Trinity also riseth up in the heart of these three Kings and each of them triumpheth also according to his kind and Quality 147. In this rising up the Armies or Companies of all the Angels of the whole Heaven become triumphant and joyfull and that Melodious TE DEUM LAUDAMUS WE PRAISE THEE O GOD riseth up 148. In this rising up of the heart the Mercurius in the heart is stirred up or awakened as also in the whole Salitter of Heaven there riseth up in the Deity the miraculous wonderful and fair Beautiful Imaging of heaven in several manifold various colours and manners and each spirit presenteth it self in its own peculiar form 149. I can compare it with Nothing save onely with the most Pretious Stones or Jewels as Ierubin Cherubins c Delfin Topazes Rubie's Emeraud's c Topaze's Onix'es Saphir's Diamonds Jasper's Jacinct's Ametist's Beril's Sardis'es Carbuncles and such Like 150. In such manner and Colours the Heaven of Gods Nature sheweth or presenteth it self in the rising up of the spirits of God and now when the Light of the Sonne of God shineth therein then it is like a Bright clear Sea of the colours of the above-mentioned Pretious Stones or Jewels Of the wonderful proportion alteration or variation and rising up of the Qualities in the heavenly Nature 151. Seeing then the Spirit giveth the form and manner of Heaven to be known I cannot chuse but write it thus down and let his will be done who will have it so 152. And although the Devil will raise scorners and mockers to vilifie it I do not much regard that I am satisfied with this gracious amiable and blessed Revelation of God they may mock so long till they find it by experience with Eternal Shame then the fountain of woe Lamentation and sorrow will surely Gnaw them 153. Also I have not gone up to Heaven and beheld it with my fleshly Eyes much lesse hath any told it me For though an Angel should come and tell it me yet I could not apprehend or conceive it without enlightening from God much lesse believe it 154. For I should alwayes stand in Doubt whether it were a good Angel sent of God or no seeing the Devil can transform or cloath himself in the form of an Angel of light to seduce Men 2 Corinth 11. 14. 155. But because it is generated in the Center or Circle of Life as a bright shining light like unto the heavenly Birth or rising up of the Holy Ghost with a fiery driving or impulse of the spirit therefore I cannot resist or withstand it though the world alwaies make a mock of me for it 156. The Spirit testifieth that there is yet a very little time remaining and then the Flash in the whole circle of this world will rise up to which end this spirit is a fore-runner Messenger and Proclaimer of the Day 157. And then whatsoever man is not found in the Birth of the Holy Ghost at that time in him the Birth will never rise at all but he abideth in the quality or source of darknesse as a dead hard Flint stone in which the source or quality of fiercenesse wrath and corruption riseth up Eternally 158. And there he will be a mocker eternally in the Birth of the hellish Abomination for whatsoever quality the Tree is of such also is its fruit 159. Thou livest betwixt Heaven and Hell into whichsoever thou sowest in that thou shalt reap also and thar will be thy food in Eternity If thou sowest scorn and contempt thou wilt also reap scorn and contempt and that will be thy food 160. Therefore O child of Man have a care trust not too much upon worldly wisdome it is blind and is born blind but when the flash of life is generated therein then it is no more blind but seeth 161. For John 3. 7. Christ saith You must be born anew or else you cannot enter into the Kingdome of heaven 162. Truly it must be generated in such a manner in the Holy Ghost which riseth up in the sweet spring or fountain-water of the heart in the Flash 163. And therefore hath Christ ordained or Instituted the Baptism or New Birth or Regeneration of the Holy Ghost in the Water because the birth of the light riseth up in the sweet water in the Heart 164. Which is a very great mystery and hath been also kept secret from all men since the beginning of the world till now which I will demonstrate and describe plainly in its due place Now Observe the Form and
Posture of Heaven 165. When thou beholdest this world thou hast a Type of heaven I. The Stars signifie or denote the Angels for as the stars must continue unaltered till to the End of this Time so the Angels also in the Eternal Time of heaven must remain unaltered for ever 166. II. The Elements signifie or denote the wonderfull proportion variety change and alteration of the form and posture of Heaven For as the Deep between the Starres and Earth alwaies alter and change in their form suddenly it is fair bright and Light suddenly it is lowry and dark now wind then rain now snow suddenly the Deep is Blew or Azure suddenly greenish by and by whitish then suddenly again Dusky 167. Thus also is the change and alteration of Heaven into many several colours and forms but not in such a manner and kind as in this world but all according to the rising up of the Spirits of God and the Light of the Sonne of God shineth therein Eternally But the rising up in the birth differs in the Degrees more at one time then at another And therefore the wonderful wisdome of God is incomprehensible 168. III. The Earth signifieth or denoteth the Heavenly Nature or the seventh * spirit of Nature in which the Idea's or Images forms and Colours rise up 169. IIII. And the Birds or Fowles Fishes and Beasts signifie or denote the several forms or shapes of figures in Heaven 170. Thou art to know this for the spirit in the Flash testifieth the same that in Heaven there arise all manner of figures or shapes like the Beasts Fowles Birds and Fishes of this world but in a heavenly form or manner clarity or brightnesâ—e and kind as also all manner of Trees Plants and Flowers 171. But as they rise so they go away again for they are not incorporated or compacted together as the Angels are for these figures are so formed in the Birth of the rising qualities in the spirit of Nature or Nature-spirit 172. If a figure be Imaged in a spirit so that it it subsisteth and if another spirit wrestleth with this aud gets the better then it comes to be divided and indeed changed or altered all according to the kind of the qualities And this is in God as a holy Sport Play or Scene 173. Therefore also the Creatures as Beasts Fowls or Birds Fishes and Worms in this world are not created to an Eternal Being but to a transitory one as the figures in Heaven also passe away 174. This I set down here onely for a manuduction or introduction you will find it described more at large concerning the Creation of this world The Thirteenth Chapter Of the terrible dolefull and Lamentable miserable Fall of the Kingdome of Lucifer 1. I Would have all proud covetous envious and wrathfull men invited to look into this Glasse and there they will see the original of their pride covetousnesse envy and wrath also the issue and final requital or wages thereof 12. The Learned have produced many and various Monsters concerning the beginning of Sin and Original of the Devil and scuffled one with another about it every one of them thought he had the Axe by the Handle yet it continued hidden from them all till this very time 3. But since it will henceforth be fully revealed as in a clear Looking-Glasse therefore it may well be conceived that the Great Day of the Revelation of God is now near at hand wherein the fiercenesse and the kindled fire will be separated from the Light 4. Therefore let none make himself stark blind for The time of the Restitution of whatsoever man hath lost is now near at Hand the Day Dawneth or the Morning-Rednesse breaketh forth It is high Time to awake from sleep Question Now it may be Asked What is the source or fountain of the first Sin of Lucifers Kingdom Answer 5. Here we must again take in Hand the highest depth of the Deity and see Out of what King Lucifer became a Creature or what was the first source or fountain of Evil or Malice in him 6. The Devil and his crew continually excuse themselves and so do all wicked men which are begotten in corruption saying God doth them wrong in thrusting them out or rejecting them 7. Nay this present world doth dare to say that God hath Decreed or concluded it so in his predestinate purpose and counsel that some men should be Saved and some should be Damned and say to that end also God hath rejected Prince Lucifer that he should be a spectacle of Gods wrath 8. As if Hell or Malice and Evil had been from Eternity and that it was in Gods predestinate purpose that Creatures should and must be therein and so they pull and hale and bestir themselves to prove it by Scripture though indeed they neither have the knowledge of the true God nor the understanding of the Scriptures though some erroneous things also are brewed from the Scriptures 9. Christ saith the Devil was a murtherer and Lyar from the beginning and did not stand in the Truth John 8. 44. But being these Justifiers and Disputers assist the Devil so stedfastly and pervert Gods truth and change it into Lies in that they make of God a thirsty and fierce wrathful Devil and such a one as hath created and still willeth Evil and so all of them together with the Devil are joyntly murtherers and Lyars 10. For as the Devil is the Founder and Father of Hell and Damnation and hath himself built and prepared for himself the Hellish quality to be his Royal Seat so also such Writers and Scriblers are the Master-Builders of Lies and Damnation who help to confirm and Establish the Devils Lies and to make of the Merciful loving and friendly God a murtherer and furious Destroyer and so pervert and turn the truth of God into Lies 11. For God saith in the Prophet As true as I live I have no delight or pleasure in the death of a Sinner but that he turn and live Ezek. 33. 11. And in the Psalms it is thus thou art not a God that hast pleasure in wickednesse Psal. 5. 5. 12. Besides God hath given Lawes to man and hath forbidden the Evil and commanded the Good Now if God would have the Evil and also the Good then he should be at Odds with himself and it would follow that there would be destruction or destructivenesse in the Deity one quality running counter against the other and the one spoiling and corrupting the other 13. Now how all this is come to passe or how Wickednesse hath taken its First Source original and beginning I will declare in the highest simplicity in the greatest depth 14. To which End the spirit inviteth and citeth summoneth or warneth all men that are seduced into Errours by the Devil that they come and present themselves before the Looking-Glasse of this School wherein they shall see and inspect the murtherous Devil into his very heart 15. Then he
Old Felt Hatt or Old Shoe 86. Truly no for the spirit at this Time of my description and setting it down did unite and qualifie or mix with the deepest Birth or Geniture of God in that I have received my knowledge and from thence it is sucked not in great Earthly Joy but in the anxious Birth or Geniture perplexity and Trouble 87. For what I did hereupon undergo suffer and endure from the Devill and the Hellish quality which as well doth rule in my outward Man as in all Men whatsoever this thou canst not apprehend unlesse thou also Dancest in this Round 88. Had not our Philosophers and Doctors alwaies plaid upon the Fiddle of Pride but on the Musicall Instrument of the Prophets and Apostles there would have been far another knowledge and Philosophy in the world 89. Concerning which in regard of my imbecillity want of Literature or Learning and study as also the slownesse and dullnesse of my Tongue I am very insufficient but not so slender in the knowledge Only I cannot deliver it in profound Language and the Ornament of Eloquence but I rest contented with my gift I have received and am a Philosopher among the Simple Concerning the Creation of the Light in this world 90. Here shut the Eyes of thy Flesh a little for here they will profit thee nothing being they are blind and dead and open the Eyes of thy spirit and then I will rightly shew thee the Creation of God Observe 91. When God had driven the corrupted Salitter of Earth and Stones which had generated it self in the outermost Birth by the kindling together on a Heap as in a Lump then for that cause the third Birth or Geniture in Nature in the Deep above the Earth was not pure and Bright because the wrath of God did yet burn therein 92. And though the innermost Birth or Geniture was light and Bright yet the outermost which stood in the wrath-fire could not comprehend it but was altogether dark 93. For Moses writeth in Genesis 1. Und es war Finster auff der Tieffe And it was Dark on the Deep The word auff on signifieth the outermost Birth or Geniture and the word in signifieth the innermost Birth or Geniture 94. But if the innermost Birth had been dark then the wrath of God had rested in this world Eternally and it would never have been Light but the wrath hath not thus touched or reached the Heart of God 95. Therefore He is a sweet friendly Bounteous Good Meek Pure and Mercifull God according to his Heart in the innermost Birth or Geniture in the place of this world and still continueth to be so and his meek Love presseth forth from his Heart into the outermost Birth or Geniture of the wrath and quencheth the same and therefore Sprach Er he said Er werde Licht Let there be Light Here observe the sense in the Highest Depth 96. The word Sprach or said is spoken after the manner of Men Ye Philosophers open your Eyes I will in my simplicity teach you the Sprach Gottes the Speech Speaking or Language of God as when he saith a thing and indeed it must be so 97. The word Sprach conceiveth itself between the Teeth for they bite or joyn close together and the spirit hisseth forth through the Teeth and the Tongue boweth or bendeth in the middle and setteth its forepoint as if it did listen after the hissing and were afraid 98. But when the spirit conceiveth the word that shuts the Mouth and conceiveth it at the hinder gums upon the Tongue in the hole or hollownesse in the bitter and astringent Quality 99. And there the Tongue is terrified trembleth and croucheth to the neather Gums and then the spirit cometh forth from the Heart and closeth the word which conceiveth it self at the hinder Gums in the astringent and bitter quality in the wrath and goeth forth mightily and strongly through the fiercenesse as a King and Prince and also openeth the mouth and ruleth with a strong spirit from the heart through the whole Mouth within and also without the Mouth and maketh a mighty and long syllable as a spirit which hath broken the wrath 100. Against which the wrath with its snarling in the astringent and bitter Quality at the hinder gums in the hollow on the Tongue struggleth and keeps its right to it self and keepeth its seat in its Place and lets the meek spirit come forth from the heart through it and thundreth with its snarling after it and so helps to form or frame the word yet with its thundring cannot get away from it seat but abideth in its hollow Hole as a Captive Prisoner and looketh terribly This is a great Mysterie 101. Here observe the sense and meaning if thou apprehendest it then thou understandest the Deity a right if not then thou art yet blind in the Spirit 102. Judge not else here thou runnest counter against a strong Gate and wilt be imprison'd if the wrath-fire catcheth thee then thou wilt remain eternally therein 103. Thou Child of Man Behold now how great a Gate of Heaven of Hell and of the Earth as also of the whole Deity the spirit openeth to thee 104. Thou shouldest not think that God at that time did speak in that way as Men do and that it was but a weak impotent word like Mans word 105. Indeed Mans word conceiveth it self just in such a form manner proportion quality and correspondency onely the half dead Man doth not understand it And this understanding is very noble dear and pretious for it is generated onely in the knowledge of the Holy Ghost 106. But Gods Word which He spake then in power hath encompassed Heaven and Earth and the heaven of heavens yes and the whole Deity also 107. But it frameth ann conceiveth it self first between the Teeth closed or clapp'd together and hisseth which signifieth that the Holy Ghost at the beginning of the Creation went through the firmly closed wall of the Third and outermost Birth or Geniture which standeth in the wrath-fire in this world 108. For it is written And it was dark on the Deep and the Spirit of God moved on the water The Deep signifieth the innermost Birth or Geniture and the darknesse signifieth the outermost corrupt Birth or Geniture in which the wrath burned The water signifieth the allaying or Mitigation of the spirit 109. But that the spirit doth hisse through the Teeth it signifieth that the spirit is gone forth from the heart of God through the wrath but that the Teeth remain closed together whilest the spirit hisseth and do not open themselves it signifieth that the wrath hath not comprehended or reached the Holy Ghost 110. But that the Tongue doth crouch towards the neather gums and is sharp at the point and will not be used about the hissing it signifieth that the outward Birth or Geniture together with all the Creatures which are therein cannot comprehend or reach to apprehend the holy
Spirit which goeth forth out of the innermost Birth or Geniture out from the Heart of God neither can they hinder him by their power 111. For he goeth and penetrateth through all shut or closed Doors Closets and Births and needs no Opening of them as the Teeth cannot stay or hinder the spirit or breath from going or passing through them 112. But that the Lips stand open when it is come hissing through the Teeth it signifieth that he with his going forth out of the Heart of God in the Creation of this world hath opened again the Gates of heaven and is gone through the Gates of Gods wrath and hath left the wrath of God strongly shut and bolted up and hath left the Devil his eternal kindled wrath-house close locked up out of which he cannot come Eternally 113. It further signifieth that the Holy Ghost in like manner hath an open Gate in the wrath-house of this world where he may drive and perform his work incomprehensibly as to the Gates of Hell and where he gathereth or congregateth a holy Seed to his eternal Praise against or without the will of the strong fast shut hellish Gates and altogether incomprehensibly as to them 114. But as the spirit effecteth his going forth and his conceived or intended will through the Teeth and yet the Teeth do not stir nor can comprehend the will of the spirit so the Holy Ghost also without the apprehension or comprehension either of the Devill or of the wrath of God buildeth or erecteth continually a holy Seed and Temple in the house of this world 115. But that the whole word Sprach said formeth or conceiveth it self at the hinder gummes on the Tongue in the hollow hole in the Center of the astringent and bitter quality and snarleth it signifieth that God hath conceived or framed the place of this world at the heart in the midst or Center of it and hath built to himself again a house to his praise against all the grumbling murmuring and snarling of the Devill in which he ruleth with his Holy Ghost 116. And as the spirit goeth forth from the heart through the grumbling murmuring and snarling of the bitter and astringent quality very strongly and powerfully and with its going forth ruleth in the astringent and bitter quality incomprehensibly as to the astringent and bitter quality as a potent King so also the Spirit of God ruleth in the outermost Birtâ— or Geniture of this world in the wrath-house mightily and generateth to himself a Temple therein incomprehensibly as to the wrath-house 117. But that the astringent and bitter spirit doth so grumble and murmur when the spirit from the Heart goeth through its House and ruleth powerfully it signifieth that the wrath of God together with the Devils are in the house of this world set in opposition to the Love so that both these all the time of this world must fight and strive one against the other as two Armies in the Field from whence also wars and fightings among Men and among Beasts and All Creatures have their Original 118. But that the astringent and bitter quality conceive themselves together with the word and unite and agree one with another and yet the spirit of the Heart onely speaketh forth the word at the Mouth it signifieth that all Creatures which were onely produced and put forth by the word viz. the Beasts Fowls Fishes Worms Trees Leaves Herbs and Grâ—sse were formed from the whole Body being Good and Evill 119. And that in all these there would stand both the angry and corrupt quality and also the love of God and yet all would be driven on by the spirit of Love though those two would disturb rub plague squeeze and vex one another Note 120. Whereby then in many a Creature the wrath-fire would be so very hard kindled that the Body together with the spirit will afford and produce an Eternal wrath Salitter in Hell 121. For the spirit which is generated in the Heart must in its Body walk through the midst or Center of the Hellish Gates and may very easily be kindled they are as wood and fire which will burn if thou pourest no water in among them 122. O man thou wert not created together with and as the Beasts by the word from Good and Evill and if thou hadst not eaten of good and Evil then the Wrath-fire would not have been in thee but by that means thou hast also gotten a bestial Body It is done The Love of God take pity and have Mercy in that behalf 123. But that after the conceiving and compaâ—â—ing of the word together in the astringent quality at the hinder gums upon the Tongue the Mouth openeth it self wide and the compacted and united spirit goeth forth together at the Mouth which Spirit is generated both ouâ— of the Heart and also out of the astringent and bitter quality it signifieth that the creatures would live in great anguish and adversity and would not be able to generate through one Body but through Two 124. For the Astringent and bitter quality receives the power from the spirit out of the Heart and infecteth or affecteth it self therewith And therefore is Nature now become too weak in the spirit of the heart and is not able to elevate its own innermost Birth of the Heart and for that cause Nature hath brought forth a Male and a Female 125. Thus it denoteth also the Evil and Good will in the whole or universall Nature and in all the Creatures that there would be a continuall wrestling fighting and destroying from whence this world is rightly called a valley of Misery full of Crosses Persecutions Toyles and Labours For when the spirit of Creation entred into the midst and interposed its power it was fain to make and forâ— the Creation in the midst or center of the Kingdom of Hell 126. And now seeing the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature is Two-fold that is both Evill and Good therefore it is that there is a perpetual tormenting squeezing lamenting and howling and the Creatures in this life are subject to torments and afflictions so that this Evill World is justly call'd a murtherous Denne of the Devill 127. But that the astringent and bitter spirit sitteth still in its seat at the hinder gums on the Tongue and thrusteth forth the word at the Mouth and yet cannot get away from thence it signifieth that the Devil and the wrath of God would indeed be domineering in all the Creatures yet should not have full power in them but must stay in Prison and there would belch forth or blow into all the creatures and plague them but should not overcome them unlesse the Creatures themselves are minded to tarry there in that place or love to live in the qualities and be of the conditions of the Devill and wrath of God 128. Just as the Meek spirit of the Heart goeth througb the astringent and bitter quality and overcometh it and though it be
indeed infected with the astringent and bitter spirit yet it teareth and breaketh thorough as a Conquerour but if it should wilfully sit still in the hollow hole in the astringent and bitter spirit and suffer it self to be taken captive and would not fight then the fault were its own 129. And thus it is also with those Creatures which will continually sowe and reap in the Hellish fire especially that man who liveth in a continual desire of Pride Covetousnesse Envy and Wrath and will at no time fight and strive against them with the spirit and fire of Love such a one himself pulleth the wrath of God and the burning hellish fire upon his Body and Soul 130. But that the Tongue doth crouch so much towards the neather gums when the word goeth forth it signifieth and denoteth the animated or soulish spirit of the Creatures especially of Man 131. The word which conceiveth it self at the upper Gums and which qualifieth or uniteth with the astringent and bitter spirit signifieth the seven spirits of Nature or the Astrall Birth or Geniture in which the Devill ruleth and the Holy Ghost opposeth him therein and overcometh the Devill 132. But the Tongue signifieth the Soul which is generated from the seven spirits of Nature and is their Sonne and so now when the seven spirits will then the Tongue must stirre and must perform their demands 133. If the Astrall spirits would not prove false and would not wooe the Devill to commit adultery with him then they would hide the animated or soulish spirit and hold it fast in their Bands as a Treasure when they fight with the Devill Just as they hide and cover the Tongue when they wrestle with the astringent and bitter quality as their best Jewel 134. Thus you have a short and real Introduction concerning the word which God hath spoken rightly described in the knowledge of the Spirit faithfully imparted according to my Gifts and the Talent I am entrusted with Now it may be Asked What then is it that God Spake when He said Let there be light and there was Light The Depth 135. The Light went forth from the innermost Birth or Geniture and kindled it self in the outermost Note It gave again to the outermost a natural peculiar Light of its own 136. Thou must not think that the Light of the Sun and of Nature is the Heart of God which shineth in secret No thou oughtest not to worship the Light of Nature it is not the Heart of God but it is a Kindled Light in Nature whose Power and Heart standeth in the unctuosity or fatnesse of the sweet water and of all the other spirits in the third Birth or Geniture and is not called God 137. And though it be generated in God and from God yet it is but the instrument of his handy-work which cannot apprehend and reach back again to the clear Deity in the deepest Birth or Geniture as the flesh cannot apprehend or reach the Soul 138. But it must not so be understood as if the Deity were separated from Nature no but the are as Body and Soul Nature is the Body and the Heart of God is the Soul Now a Man might Ask What kind of Light then was it which was kindled was it the Sun and Stars Answer 139. No the Sun and Stars were first created but on the Fourth Day out of that very Light there was a Light arisen in the seven spirits of Nature which had no peculiar distinct seat or place but did shine every where all over but was not bright like the Sun but like an azure Blew and Light according to the kind and manner of the qualifying or fountain spirits till afterwards the right Creation and kindling of the fire in the water in the astringent spirit followed viz. the Sun The Nineteenth Chapter Concerning the Created Heaven and the form of the Earth and of the Water as also concerning Light and Darknesse Concerning Heaven 1. THe true Heaven which is our own proper humane Heaven into which the Soul goeth when it parteth from the Body and into which Christ our King is entred and from whence it was that he came from his Father and was born and became Man in the Body or Womb of the Virgin Mary hath hitherto been close hidden from the children of men and they have had many Opinions about it 2. Also the learned have scuffled about it with many strange scurrilous writings falling one upon another in calumnious and disgraceful terms whereby the holy Name of God hath been reproached his Members wounded his Temple destroyed and the holy Heaven profaned with their calumniating and malitious Enmity 3. Men have alwaies been of the Opinion that Heaven is many hundred nay many thousand Miles distant from the face of the Earth and that God dwelleth onely in that Heaven 4. Some Naturalists or Artists have undertaken to measure that height and distance and have produced many strange and monstrous devices Indeed before this my knowledge and Revelation of God I held that onely to be the true Heaven which in a round Circumference and sphear very azure of a Light Blew colour Extends it self above the Stars supposing that God had therein his peculiar Being and did rule onely in the power of his holy Spirit in this world 5. But when this had given me many a hard blow and repulse doubtlesse from the Spirit which had a great Longing yerning towards me at last I fell into a very deep Melancholy and heavy sadnesse when I beheld and contemplated the great Deep of this world also the Sun and Stars the Clouds Rain and Snow and considered in my spirit the whole Creation of this world 6. Wherein then I found to be in all things Evil and Good Love and Anger in the inanimate creatures viz. in Wood Stones Earth and the Elements as also in Men and Beasts 7. Moreover I considered the little spark of light Man what he should be Esteemed for with God in comparison of this great work and fabrick of Heaven and Earth 8. But finding that in all things there was Evill and Good as well in the Elements as in the Creatures and that it went as well in this world with the wicked as with the vertuous honest and Godly also that the Barbarous People had the best Countries in their possession and that they had more Prosperity in their wayes then the vertuous honest and Godly had 9. I was thereupon very Melancholy perplexed and exceedingly troubled no Scripture could Comfort or satisfie me though I was very well acquainted with it and versed therein at which time the Devil would by no means stand Idle but was often beating into me many Heathenish Thoughts which I will here be silent in 10. But when in this affliction and trouble I elevated my spirit which then I understood very little or nothing at all what it was I earnestly raised it up into God as with a great storm or onset wrapping
up my whole Heart and Mind as also all my Thoughts and whole will and resolution incessantly to wrestle with the Love and Mercy of God and not to give over unlesse he blessed me that is unlesse he enlightened me with his holy Spirit whereby I might understand his will and be rid of my sadnesse And then the spirit did break thorough 11. But when in my resolved zeal I gave so hard an assault storm and onset upon God and upon all the Gates of Hell as if I had had more reserves of vertue and power ready with a resolution to hazard my life upon it which assuredly were not in my ability without the assistance of the Spirit of God suddenly after some violent Storms made my spirit did break thorough the Gates of Hell even into the innermost Birth or Geniture of the Deity and there I was embraced with Love as a Bridegroom embraceth his dearly beloved Bride 12. But the greatnesse of the triumphing that was in the spirit I cannot expresse either in speaking or writing neither can it be compared with any thing but with that wherein the life is generated in the midst of Death and it is like the Resurrection from the Dead 13. In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all and in and by all the Creatures even in Herbs and Grasse it knew God Who he is and How he is and What his will is and suddenly in that light my will was set on by a Mighty impulse to describe the Beeing of God 14. But because I could not presently apprehend the deepest Births of God in their Beeing and comprehend them in my Reason there passed almost Twelve years before the exact understanding thereof was given me 15. And it was with me as with a young Tree which is planted in the Ground and at first is young and tender and flourishing to the Eye especially if it comes on lustily in its growing But doth not bear fruit presently and though it blossometh they fall off also many a cold wind frost and snow puffe upon it before it comes to any growth and bearing of Fruit. 16. So also it went with this spirit the first fire was but a Seed and not a constant lasting Light since that time many a cold wind blew upon it but the Will never extinguished 17. This Tree was also often tempted to try whether it would bear Fruit and shew it self with Blossoms but the Blossoms were struck off till this very time wherein it standeth in its first Fruit in the growth or vegetation 17. From this Light now it is that I have my knowledge as also my will impulse and driving and therefore I will set down this knowledge in writing according to my Gift and let God work his will and though I should Irritate or enrage the whole world the Devill and all the Gates of Hell I will look on and wait what the LORD intendeth with it 18. For I am too too weak to know his Purpose and though the spirit affordeth in the Light to be known some things which are to come yet according to the outward man I am too weak to comprehend the same 19. But the animated or soulish spirit which qualifieth or uniteth with God that comprehends it well but the bestial Body attains onely a Glimpse thereof Just as if it lightned for this is the posture of the innermost Birth or Geniture of the soul when it teareth through the outermost Birth or Geniture in the elevation of the Holy Ghost and so breaketh through the Gates of Hell but the outermost Birth presently shuts again for the wrath of God bolteth up the firmament and holds it captive in its Power 20. And then the knowledge of the outward Man is gone and he walketh up and down in an afflicted and anxious Birth or Geniture as a woman with child who is in her travel and would alwaies fain bring forth her child but cannot and is full of Throes 21. Thus it goeth also with the bestial Body when it hath once tasted of the sweetnesse of God then it continually hungreth and thirsteth after it But the Devil in the power of Gods wrath opposeth exceedingly and so a Man in such a course must continually stand in an anxious Birth or Geniture and so there is nothing but fighting and warring in his Births or Genitures 22. I write not this for mine own glory but for a comfort to the Reader so that if perhaps he be minded to walk with me upon my Narrow Bridge he should not suddenly be discouraged dismayed and distrustfull when the Gates of Hell and Gods wrath meet him and present themselves before him 23. When we shall come together over this narrow Bridge of the fleshly Birth or Geniture to be in yonder green Medow to which the wrath of God doth not reach or come then we shall be fully requited for all our damages and hurts we have sustained though indeed at present the world doth account us for fooles and we must suffer the Devill in the power of Gods wrath to Domineer Rush and roar over us It should not trouble us for it will be more excellent Reputation to us in the other life then if in this Life we had worn a Royal Crown and there is so very short a time to get thither that it is not worth the being called a Time Now Observe 24. If thou fixest thy Thoughts concerning Heaven and wouldst fain conceive in the Mind What it is and Where it is and How it is thou needest not to swing or cast thy Thoughts many thousand Miles off for that Place or that Heaven is not thy Heaven 25. And though indeed that is united with thy Heaven as one Body and so together is But the One Body of God yet thou art not in that very place which is become a Creature aloft many hundred thousand Miles off but thou art in the Heaven of this world which containeth also in it just such a Deep as is not of any Humane Number or is Circumscriptive 26. For the true Heaven is every where even in that very Place where thou standest and goest and so when thy spirit apprehendeth the innermost Birth or Geniture of God and presseth in through the astral and fleshly geniture then it is clearly in Heaven 27. But that there is assuredly a pure glorious Heaven in all the three Births or Genitures aloft above the Deep of this world in which Gods Being together with that of the holy Angels riseth or springeth up very purely brightly beautiously and joyfully is undeniable and he is not born of God that denyeth it But thou must know 28. That the place of this world with its innermost Birth or Geniture uniteth or qualifieth with the Heaven aloft above us and so there is one Heart one Being one Will one God All in All. 29. But that the place of this world is not called Heaven and that there is a firmament or fast inclosure between the upper Heaven
above us it hath this understanding or meaning as followeth 30. The upper Heaven compriseth the two Kingdoms that of Michael and that of Uriel and of all the holy Angels which are not fallen with Lucifer and that Heaven continueth as it was from Eternity before the Angels were created 31. The Other Heaven is this world in which Lucifer was a King who kindled the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature and that now is the wrath of God and cannot be called God or Heaven but Perdition 32. Therefore the upper Heaven includeth it self up so far in its outermost Birth or Geniture and reacheth so far as the wrath of God reacheth and so far as the Government or Dominion of Lucifer hath reached for the corrupted or perished Birth or Geniture cannot comprehend the Pure 33. That is the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world cannot comprehend the outermost Birth or Geniture of Heaven aloft above this world for they are one to the other as the Life and the Death or as a Man and a Stone are one to the other 34. And therefore there is a strong firmament or inclosure between the outermost Birth or Geniture of the upper Heaven and that of this world for the firmament between them is Death which ruleth and reigneth every where in the outermost birth in this world and this world is so bolted up therewith that the outermost Birth of the upper Heaven cannot come into the outermost Birth of this world there is a great Cliff or Gulph between them And therefore in our outermost Birth or Geniture we cannot see the Angels neither can the Angels dwell with us in the outermost Birth of this world but in the innermost they dwell with us 36. And so when we fight with the Devill they keep off his Blowes in the innermost Birth and are the Defence and Protection of the holy Soul 37. Therefore we can neither see nor comprehend the holy Angels for the outermost Birth of their Body is incomprehensible to the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world 38. The second Birth of this world standeth in the life for it is the Astral Birth out of which is generated the third and holy Birth or Geniture and therein Love and wrath strive one with the other 39. For the second Birth standeth in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of this world and is in all places and in all the Creatures as also in Man But the Holy Ghost also ruleth and reigneth in the second birth and helpeth to generate the third holy Birth or Geniture 40. But this third Birth or Geniture is the clear and holy Heaven which qualifieth or uniteth with the Heart of God without distinct and above all Heavens as one Heart also they are the one Heart which holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth the place of this world and holdeth the Devil Captive in the outermost birth in the Anger fire as an Almighty incomprehensible God 41. And out of this Heart JESVS CHRIST the Sonne of God in the Womb or Body of the Virgin Mary went into all the three Births or Genitures and assumed them really that He might through and with his innermost Birth or Geniture take the Devill Death and Hell Captive in the outermost Birth and overcome the wrath of God as a King and Victorious Prince and in the power of his Geniture or Birth in the flesh presse thorough all Men. 42. And so by this entring of the innermost Birth of the Heart of the Heaven of this world into the Astrall and outermost is JESUS CHRIST the Sonne of God and of Mary become the Lord and King of this our Heaven and Earth who ruleth and reigneth in all the three Births or Genitures over Sin the Devil Death and Hell and so we with him presse through the sinful corrupted and outermost dead Birth or Geniture of the flesh through Death and the wrath of God into our Heaven 43. In this Heaven now sitteth Our King JESUS CHRIST at the right hand of God and encompasseth or surroundeth all the three Births as an almighty Sonne of the Father who is present in and throughout all the three Births in this world in all Corners and Places and comprehendeth holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth all as a new Born Sonne of the Father in the power and upon the Seat or Throne of the once Great mighty Potent and now expell'd accursed and Damned King Lucifer the Devill 44. Therefore thou child of man be not discouraged be not so timorous and pusillanimous for if thou sowest in thy zeal and earnest sincerity the seed of thy Teares thou dost not sow it in Earth but in Heaven for in thy astral Birth thou sowest and in thy animated or soulish Birth thou reapest and in the Kingdom of heaven thou possessest and enjoyest it 45. While thou livest in this strugling or striving Birth or Geniture thou must Buckle and suffer the Devil to ride upon thee but so hard as he striketh thee so hard thou must strike him again if thou wilt defend thy self For when thou fightest against him thou stirrest up his wrath-fire and destroyest his Nest and this is then as a great combustion and as a great strong Battel maintained against him 46. And though thy Body perhaps is put hard to it and suffers pain in misery yet it is much worse with him when he is vanquished for then he roareth like a Lion which is robbed of her young whelps for the fiercenesse and wrath of God tormenteth him but if thou lettest him Lodge within thee then he groweth fat and wanton and will vanquish thee in Time 47. Thus thou hast a real description of Heaven And though perhaps thou canst not in thy Reason conceive it Yet I can very well Conceive it therefore consider Rationally and seriously upon it What God is 48. Thou seest in this world Nothing but the Deep and therein the Stars and the Birth or Geniture of the Elements now wilt thou say God is not there 'pray then what was there in that place before the time of the world Wilt thou say there was Nothing then thou speakest without Reason for thou must needs say that God was there or else nothing would there have come to be 49. Now if God were there then who hath thrust him out from thence or vanquished him that he should be there no more But if God be there then he is indeed in his Heaven and moreover in his Trinity 50. But the Devil hath kindled the Bath or Lake of wrath whence the Earth and Stones also the Elements are become so fluctuating as also cold bitter and hot and so hath destroyed the outermost Birth or Geniture 51. Whereupon now this Treatise and my whole purpose is to describe how it is come to be living and revived again and how it regenerateth it self again And from thence also in the Creatures the beastial Flesh is come to be but Sin in the Flesh is the Wrath
whilest the spirit goeth through its Place it signifieth that the dark Night in the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world hath never comprehended the Light also never shall comprehend it in all Eternity 140. Hence it is that the Creatures see onely the Astrall Light with their Eyes else if the darknesse were not yet in the outermost Birth or Geniture then the Astrall spirit could see through Wood and Stones as also through the whole Earth and could not be hindred by any thing Just as it is in Heaven 141. But now the Darknesse is separated from the Light and abideth in the outermost Birth or Geniture wherein the wrath of God resteth till the Last Judgment Day but then the wrath will be kindled and the darknesse will be the House or Habitation of Eternal Perdition wherein Lord Lucifer together with all wicked Men which have sowen into Darknesse into the soyl of the wrath shall have their eternal Dwelling and Residence 142. But the Astrall Birth in which the natural Light now standeth and wherein the holy Birth is Generated shall be also kindled at the End of this Time and the wrath and the holy Birth shall be separated asunder for the wrath shall not comprehend the holy Birth or Geniture 143. But the wrath in the Astrall Birth shall be given to the House of Darknesse for a Life and the Wrath shall be called the Hellish fire And the House of darknesse which is the outermost Birth shall be called Death And King Lucifer shall be the God therein and his Angels and all Damned Men shall be his Ministers Officers and Servants 144. In this Devouring Gulf or Throat will rise up all manner of Hellish Fruits and Forms all according to the hellish quality and kind as in Heaven there spring up Heavenly fruits and forms according to the heavenly quality and kind 145. Thus you may understand what the Creation of Heaven and Earth signifieth and is also what God made on the first Day Though indeed the first Three Dayes were not distinguisht or severed asunder by Evening and Morning but a Time is to be reckoned and accounted as of Twenty four Hours as there is on high above the Moon such a Time and Day 146. Secondly it is also therefore counted for a Humane Day because doubtlesse the Earth instantly began its Revolution and did turn Round about once in such a period of Time while God was separating and so till he had separated the Light from the darknesse and thus it performed and finished its course the first Time The Twentieth Chapter Of the Second Day 1. IT is written thus concerning the second Day And God said Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the waters and let it be a distinction or division between the waters so there God made the Firmament and divided the waters under the firmament from the waters above the firmament and it was so done And God called the firmament Heaven and so out of the Evening and the Morning the second day came to be Gen. 1. v. 6 7 8. 2. This description sheweth once more that the Dear Man Moses was not the Original Authour thereof for it is written very Obscurely and not fnlly expressed though indeed it hath a very excellent understanding and meaning 3. And without Doubt the Holy Ghost would not have it revealed lest the Devill should know all the Mysteries in the Creation For the Devil doth not know the Creation of the Light viz. how Heaven is made out of the midst or Center of the water 4. For he can neither see nor comprehend or apprehend the Light and holy generation or production which standeth in the water of the Heaven but the Generation or production only which standeth in the Astringent Bitter Sowr and Hot Quality from whence existed the outermost Birth or Geniture which is his Royall Fort or Castle 5. The meaning is not that he hath no power in the Elementary water to possesse it for the outermost corrupted Birth or Geniture in the Elementary water belongeth also to the wrath of God and Death is also therein as well as in the Earth 6. But the spirit in Moses meaneth here quite another sort of water which the Devill can neither understand nor comprehend But if it should have been declared so long a time ago then the Devill would have learned it from Man and had without doubt strowed his hellish chaff also into it 7. Therefore the Holy Ghost hath kept it hidden almost till the last Hour before the Evening wherein his Thousand yeares are accomplished and then he must be let loose again for a little season as is to be read in the Revelat. ch 20. v. 3. After that Summer cometh the Last Winter but the Sun will shine warm yet before that Time 8. But being he is now loose from the chains of Darknesse God causeth Lights to be set up every where in this world whereby Men might learn to know him and his feats and wiles and beware of him 9. Whether he be loose or no I offer it to every one to Consider view but the world in the clear Light and thou wilt find that at present the four new Sonnes which the Devill generated when he was thrust out of Heaven do govern the world viz. 1. Pride 2. Covetousnesse 3. Envy 4. Wrath These rule the world at present and are the Devills Heart his animated or soulish spirit 10. Therefore view the world very well and then thou wilt find that it fully qualifieth uniteth and Co-worketh with these four new Sonnes of the Devil Therefore men have cause to look circumspectly to themselves For this is the Time of which all the Prophets have prophesied and Christ in the Gospel saying Thinkest thou that the Sonne of Man will find any faith when he shall come again to Judge the world Luke 18. v. 8. 11. The world supposeth that it flourisheth now and standeth in its Flower because the clear Light hath moved over it But the spirit sheweth to me that it standeth in the midst or Center of Hell 12. For it forsaketh the Love and hangeth on Covetousnesse Extortion and Bribery there is no Mercy at all therein Every one cryeth out if I had but Money Those that are in Authority and power suâ—k the very Marrow from the Bones of Men of low Degree and Rank and feed upon the sweat of their Browes Briefly there is nothing else but Lying Cozening robbing and murthering and so may very justly be called the Devils Nest and dwelling House 13. The Holy Light is now adayes accounted a meer History and bare knowledge and that the spirit will not work therein and yet they suppose that is Faith which they professe with their Mouthes 14. O thou blind and foolish world full of Devils It is not Faith to know that Christ dyed for thee and hath shed his Blood for thee that thou mightest be saved This in thee is but a meer History and knowledge
Worms or Creeping things 61. And the Devil can reach half into this Birth so far as the wrath comprehendeth or reacheth and no deeper and thus far goeth his dwelling and no Deeper therefore the devill cannot know how the other Part in this Birth hath a Root And so far Man is come in his knowledge from the Beginning of the world to this time since his Fall But the other Root called the Heaven the spirit hath kept that hidden and concealed from Man till this Time Left the Devill should have learned it from Man and should have strowed Poison into it for Man beforehis Eyes 62. This other Part of the Astrall Birth which standeth in the Love in the sweet water is the Firmament of Heaven which holdeth the kindled wrath together with all the Devils captive For they cannot enter thereinto and in that Heaven dwelleth the Holy Spirit which goeth forth from the Heart of God and striveth or fighteth against the fiercenesse and generateth to himself a Temple in the midst in the fiercenesse of the wrath of God 63. And in this Heaven dwelleth the Man that feareth God even with and in the living Body for that Heaven is as well in Man as in the Deep above the Earth And as the Deep above the Earth is so is Man also both in love and wrath till after the departure of the soul but then when the soul departeth from the Body then it abideth either only in the Heaven of Love or only in the Heaven of Wrath. 64. That Part which it here hath comprehended in its departure that is now its Eternal permanent incessant dwelling House and from thence it can never get for there is a great * Cliff between them and the other as Christ speaks of the Rich man Luk. 16. 26. 65. And in this Heaven the Holy Angels dwell amongst us and the Devils in the other Part And in this Heaven Man liveth between Heaven and Hell and must endure and suffer from the fiercenesse many hard Blowes Temptations Persecutions and many times Torments and Squeezings 66. The wrath is called the Crosse and the Love-Heaven is called Patience and the spirit that riseth up therein is called Hope and Faith which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with God and wrestleth with the wrath till it overcometh and getteth the victory 1 John 5. 4. 67. And herein lyeth the whole Christian doctrine He that teacheth otherwise doth not know what he teacheth for his doctrine hath no foot ground or foundation and his heart alwaies tottereth wavereth and doubteth and knoweth not what it should do 68. For his spirit alwaies seeketh for Rest but findeth it not for it is impatient and alwaies seeketh after Novelties or some New thing and when it findeth somewhat it tickleth it self therewith as if it had found some new Treasure and yet no stedfastnesse stability or certainty in him but he seeketh continually for Abstinence or for a Diversion 69. O ye Theologists the Spirit here Openeth a Door Gate for you If you will not now see and feed your Sheep and Lambs on a green meadow but on a dry seare Heath you must be accomptable for it before the severe earnest and wrathfull Judgment of God therefore look to it 70. I take Heaven to witnesse that I perform here what I must do for the spirit driveth me to it so that I am wholly captivated therewith and cannot be freed from it whatever may befall me hereafter or ensue upon it The Holy Gate 71. III. The Third Birth or Geniture in the Body of God in or of this world is under the firmament of Heaven hidden or concealed and the Firmament of heaven qualifieth mixeth or uniteth there with but yet not fully Bodily but creaturely as the Angels and the Soules of Men do 72. And this Third Birth or Geniture is the Almighty and Holy Heart of God wherein our King Jesus Christ with his natural Body sitteth at the right hand of God as a King and Lord of the whole Body or place of this world who encompasseth holdeth and preserveth all with his Heart 73. And this Firmament of Heaven is his Throne or footstool and the qualifying or fountain spirits of his natural Body rule in the whole Body of this world and all is tyed bound or united with them whatsoever standeth in the Astral Birth in the Part of Love The other part of this world is tyed bound and united with the Devill 74. Thou must not think as Johannes Calvus or Calvinus thought which was that the Body of Christ is not an Almighty Being and that it comprehendeth or reacheth no further then a little Circumscribed Place wherein it is 75. No thou child of Man thou errest and dost not rightly understand the Divine Power Doth not every man in his Astrall qualifying or fountain Spirits comprehend the whole place or Body of this world and the place comprehendeth Man it is all but one Body onely there are distinct Members 76. Why then should not the qualifying or fountain spirits in the naturall Body of Christ qualifie mix or unite with the qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature Is not his Body also out of the qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature and his heart animated or become soulish from or out of the third Birth or Geniture which is the Heart of God which comprehendeth all Angels and the Heaven of Heavens even the whole Father 77. Ye Calvinists desist from your Opinion and do not Torment your selves with the comprehensible or palpable Being for God is a Spirit John 4. 24. and in the comprehensibility or palpability standeth Death 78. The Body of Christ is no more in the hard comprehensibility or palpability but in the Divine comprehensibility or Palpability of Nature like the Angels 79. For our Bodies also at the Resurrection will have no more such hard Flesh and Bones but be like the Angels and though indeed all forms and powers shall be therein and all faculties and Members even to the Privy Parts and these shall be in another manner of form and so also the Entralls and Guts and yet we shall not have the hard comprehensibility or Palpability 80. For Christ saith to Mary Magdalen in Joseph's Garden at the Sepulcher after his resurrection Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my God and to your God Joh. 20. v. 17. As if he would say I have not now the Bestial Body any more although I shew my self to thee in my form or shape which I had otherwise thou in thy bestial couldst not see me 81. And so during the Fourty Dayes after his Resurrection he did not alwaies walk vifibly among the Disciples but invisibly according to his heavenly and angelical Property but when he would speak or talk with his Disciples then he shewed or presented himself in a comprehensible or palpable manner and form that thereby he might speak natural words with them for the corruption cannot comprehend or apprehend the Divine
words or things 82. Also it sufficiently appeareth that his Body was of an angelical kind in that he went to his Disciples through the Doors being shut John 20. 19. 83. Thus thou must know now that his Body qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with all the seven spirits in Nature in the Astrall Birth in the part of Love and holdeth Sin Death and the Devill captive in its wrath-Part 84. And thus thou now understandest what God made on the Second Day when he separated the water under the Firmament from the water above the Firmament Thou seest also How thou art in this world every where in Heaven and also in Hell and dwellest between Heaven and Hell in great Danger 85. Thou seest also how Heaven is in a Holy man and that every where wheresoever thou standest goest or lyest if thy spirit do but qualifie or co-operate with God then as to that Part thou art in Heaven and thy Soul is in God Therefore also saith Christ My Sheep are in my Hands no man can pull them away from me John 10. 86. In like manner thou seest also How thou art alwaies in Hell among all the Devils as to the wrath if thy Eyes were but open thou wouldst see wonderfull things but thou standest between Heaven and Hell and canst see neither of them and walkest upon a very Narrow Bridge 87. Some Men have many Times according to or in the Sidereal or Astral spirit entred in thither being ravished in an Extasie as men call it and have presently known the Gates of Heaven and of Hell and have told shewed and declared how that many men dwell in Hell with or in their living Bodies or with their Bodies alive And such indeed have been scorned derided or laugh'd at but with great ignorance and indiscretion for it is Just so as they declare which I will describe also more at large in its due place and shew in what manner and condition it is with them 88. But that the water hath a Twofold Birth I will here prove it also with or by the Language of Nature For that is the Root or Mother of all the Languages which are in this world and therein standeth the whole perfect knowledge of all things 89. For when Adam Spake at the first he gave Names to all the Creatures according to their qualities and innate Instant Operations vertues or faculties And it is the very Language of the totall universal Nature but is not known to every One. For it is a hidden secret Mystery which is imparted to me by the Grace of God from the Spirit which hath a Delight and Longing towards me Now Observe 90. The word Wasser water is thrust forth from the Heart and closeth the Teeth together and passeth over the astringent and Bitter qualities and toucheth them not but goeth forth through the Teeth and the Tongue contracteth and rouzeth up it self together with the spirit and helpeth to hisse and so qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Spirit and the spirit presseth very forcibly through the Teeth But when the spirit is almost quite gone forth then the Astringent and Bitter spirit contracteth and rouzeth up it self and afterwards first qualifieth with the word but yet it sitteth still in its seat and afterwards jarreth mightily and strongly in the syllable ser. 91. But now that the Spirit conceiveth it self at the Heart and cometh forth and closeth the Teeth together and hisseth with the Tongue through the Teeth it signifieth that the Heart of God hath moved it self and made a closure round about it which is the Firmament of Heaven Also as the Teeth do shut and close together and then the Spirit goeth through the Teeth so also the spirit goeth forth from the heart into the Astrall Birth or Geniture 92. And as the Tongue frameth it self for the hissing and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the spirit and moveth therewith so the soul of Man co-Imageth or frameth it self with the Holy Spirit and qualifieth operateth or uniteth therewith and presseth joyntly together in the power thereof through Heaven and ruleth together also therewith in the Word of God 93. But that the Astringent and Bitter qualities awaken behind afterwards and co-image afterwards to the framing of the word it signifieth that indeed all is as it were one Body but the Heaven and the Holy Spirit together with the Heart of God hath its proper Seat to it self and the Devill together with the wrath of God can neither comprehend the Holy Spirit nor the Heaven but the Devill together with the wrath hangeth in the outward Birth in the word and the wrath helpeth to Image all in the outermost Birth in this world whatsoever standeth in the comprehensibility or palpability Just as the astringent and bitter qualities rouze themselves behind afterwards to the framing of the word and qualifie operate or unite therewith 94. But that the spirit first goeth over the astringent and bitter qualities unperceived it signifieth that the Gate of God is every where in this world all over wherein the Holy Ghost ruleth and that the Heaven standeth open every where even in the midst or center of the Earth And that the Devill no where can either see comprehend or apprehend the Heaven but is a grumbling and snarling Hell-Hound which afterwards first cometh out from behind when the Holy Ghost hath built or raised to himself a Church and Temple and destroyeth it in the wrath and hangeth behind at the word as an Enemy who will not endure that a Temple of God should be raised or built in his Land or Country whereby his Kingdom might be lessened or diminished The One and Twentieth Chapter Of the Third Day 1. ALthough the Spirit in the Writings of Moses hath kept the Deepest Mysteries secret hidden and concealed in the Letter yet all is so very regularly described that there is no Defect at all in the Order thereof 2. For when God through the Word had created Heaven and Earth and had separated the Light from the Darkness and had given a place to each of them then presently each began its Birth or Geniture and qualifying or working 3. On the First Day God drave together or compacted the Corrupt Salitter which came to be so in the kindling of his wrath I say God then drave it together or Created it through the strong spirit for the word Schuff created signifieth here a Driving together or Compaction 4. In this driving together or compaction of the corrupted wrath Salitter was King Lucifer also as an Impotent Prince together with his Angels driven into the Hole of the wrath Salitter into that place where the outward half dead comprehensibility is generated which is the place or Space between the Nature-Goddesse the Moon and the Dead Earth 5. Now when this was done the Deep became clear and with the hidden or concealed Heaven the Light was separated from the Darknesse and the Globe of the Earth in the great wheel of Nature was
burnt 22. Behold I tell thee a Mystery so soon as the Door is set wide open to its Angle all uselesse fastnailed sticking Bolts or Barres will be cast away for the Door will never be shut any more at all but standeth open and then the Four winds will go in and out at it 23. But the Sorcerer sitteth in the way and will make many so Blind that they will not see the Door and then they return Home and say there is no Door at all but that it is a meer Fiction and so they go thither no more 24. Thus men suffer themselves easily to be turn'd away and so live in their Drunkennesse 25. And now when this is done then the Spirit is angry which hath opened the Gates because none will go OUT and IN at its Doors any more and then it flings the Door-Posts into the Abysse and then there is no more Time at all those that are within remain within and those that are without remain without AMEN Now it may be Asked What are the Stars Answer 26. Moses writeth concerning them thus And God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament of Heaven to divide or distinguish the Day from the Night and let them give signs and seasons Dayes and Years and let them be Lights in the firmament of Heaven to shine or give light upon the Earth and it was so done And God made two great Lights the greater Light to rule the Day and the lesser Light to rule the Night as also the Stars And God set them in the Firmament of the Heaven to shine or give Light upon the Earth and to rule Day and Night also to divide or distinguish the Light from the Darknesse and God saw that it was good so out of the Evening and the Morning the fourth day came to be Gen. 1. v. 14 15 16 17 18 19. 27. This description sheweth sufficiently that the Dear man Moses was not the original author thereof for the first writer thereof did not know either the true God or the Stars what they were And it is very likely that the Creation before the Flood was not described in writing but was kept as a Dark word in their memories and so delivered from one generation to another till after the Flood and till people began to lead Epicurean Lives in all voluptuousnesse 28. And then the Holy Patriarchs when they saw that they described the Creation that it should not be quite forgotten and that the swinish Epicurean world might have a Looking-Glasse in the Creation wherein they might see that there is a God and that this Beeing of the world did not so stand from Eternity whereby they might have a Glasse to look into and so fear the Hidden God 29. And it was the Chiefest Iustruction and Doctrine of the Patriarchs before and after the Floud that they led Men to the Creation as the whole book of Job also doth drive at That 30. After these Patriarchs came the wise Heathens who went somewhat deeper into the knowledge of Nature and I must needs say according to the Ground of the Truth that they in their Philosophie and Knowledge did come even before the face or Countenance of God and yet could neither see nor know Him 31. Man was so altogether Dead in Death and so bolted up in the outermost Birth or Geniture in the dead Palpability or else they could have Thought that in this Palpability there must needs be a Divine power hidden in the Center which had so created this Palpability and moreover preserveth upholdeth and ruleth the same 32. Indeed they honoured prayed to or worshipped the Sun and Stars for Gods but knew not how they were created or came to be or out of what â—hey came to be for they Might well have thought that they proceeded from somewhat and that That which created them must needs be Older and higher or Greater then all the Stars 33. Besides they had the Stones and the Earth for an Example to shew that they must proceed from somewhat as also Men and all the Creatures upon the Earth For all give testimony that there must needs be in these things a mightier and greater Power at hand which had so created all these things in that manner as they are 34. But indeed why should I write much of the blindnesse of the Heathens are not our Doctors in their Crowned Ornaments of Hoods and Cornâ—r'd-Caps as blind as they They know indeed that there is a God who hath created all this but they know not where that God is or how he is 35. When they would write of God then they seek for him without and absent from this world onely above in a kind of Heaven as if he were some Image that may be likened to somewhat Indeed they grant that That God ruleth all in this world with a Spirit but his corporeal propriety or habitation they will needs have in a certain Heaven aloft many Thousand Miles off 36. Come on ye Doctors if ye are in the Right then give answer to the Spirit I will ask you a few Questions 1o. What do you think stood in the Place of this world before the Time of the world Or 2o. Out of what do you think the Earth and Stars came to be Or 3o. What do you think there is in the Deep of the Earth Or 4o. From whence did the Deep exist Or 5o. How do you think Man is the Image of God wherein God dwelleth Or 6o. What do you suppose Gods wrath to be Or 7o. What is that in man which displeaseth God so much that he tormenteth and afflicteth man so being he hath created him And 8o. that he imputeth Sinne to Man and condemneth him to eternal Punishment 9o. Why hath he created that wherein or wherewith Man committeth sin Surely that thing must be far worse 10o. Wherefore and out of what is that come to be Or 11o. What is the cause or the beginning or the Birth and Geniture of Gods fierce wrath out of or from which Hell and the Devil are come to be Or 12o. How comes it that all the creatures in this world do bite scratch strike beat and worry one another and yet sin is imputed onely to Man Or 13o. Out of what are Poisonous and venomous Beasts and worms and all manner of Vermine come to be Or 14o. Out of what are the holy Angels come to be And 15º What is the Soul of Man And lastly 16o. What is the Great GOD Himself 37. Give your direct and fundamental answer to this and demonstrate what you say and leave off your Verbal Contentions Now if you can demonstrate out of all your books and writings 1o. that you know the true and onely God and 2o. How he is in Love and Wrath Also 3o. What that God is and 4o. if you can demonstrate that God is not in the Stars Elements Earth Men Beasts Worms Leaves Herbs and Grasse also in Heaven and Earth also that all this
wilt Dissemble with Him and adorn or magnifie thy Birth then I suppose thee to be a very fine Angel indeed But He that hath Love in his heart and leadeth a mercifull meek and lowly-minded life and fighteth against malice and hatred and presseth through the wrath of God into the Light he liveth with God and is One Spirit with God 57. For God needeth no other Service but that his creature which is in His Body do not slide back from Him but be Holy as He is 58. Therefore also God gave the Law to the Jews that they should diligently study and endeavour after meek Holinesse and Love that thereby all the world might have them for their Looking-Glasse But when they grew proud and boasted in their Birth instead of entring into Love and turn'd the law of Love into the sharpnesse of wrath then God removed their Candlestick and went to the Heathens 59. Secondly II. There is this Difference betwixt the Christians Jews Turks and Heathens that the Christians know the Tree of Life which is CHRISTUS CHRIST who is the Prince of our Heaven and of this world and ruleth in all Births or Genitures as a King in God his Father and Men are his Members 60. And now Christians know how they may by the power of this Tree presse out from their Death through his Death to him into his life and raign and live with him wherein they also with their pressing through with their new birth out from this Dead Body may be and are with him in Heaven 61. And though the dead Body is in the midst or Center of Hell among all the Devils yet for all that the new Man reigneth with God in Heaven and the Tree of life is to them a strong Gate through which they do enter into Life But of this thou shalt find more largely in its proper Place Now Observe 62. Moses writeth that God said Let there be Lights in the Firmament of Heaven which should therein give a Light to the Earth and divide or distinguish Day and Night also make Years and Times or Seasons 63. This description sheweth that the first writer did not know what the Stars are But He took hold on the Deitie at the Heart and look'd upon or had respect to the Heart to consider what the Heart and kernel of this Creation is and the Spirit kept the Astral and outermost Dead Birth or Geniture hidden from him and did onely drive him in Faith to the Heart of the Deitie 64. Which is also the Principal Point most necessary for Man For when he layeth hold on true Faith then he presseth through the Wrath of God through Death into life and reigneth with God 65. But being Men now at the End of this time do listen and long very much after the Root of the Tree through which Nature sheweth that the time of the discovery of the Tree is at hand therefore the Spirit will shew it to them and the whole Deitie will reveal it self which is the Day-spring dawning or Morning-Rednesse and the breaking forth of the great Day of God in which whatsoever is generated from Death to the Regeneration of Life shall be Restored and Rise again 66. Behold when God said Let there be light then the light in the powers of Nature or the seven spirits of God rose up and the Firmament of Heaven which standeth in the Word in the Heart of the water between the astrall and outermost Birth or Geniture was closed or shut up by or with the Word and Heart of the water and the Astral birth is the Place of the parting-mark or Limit which standeth half in Heaven and half in the Wrath. 67. For from or out of that half Part of the wrath the Dead Birth generateth it self continually and out of the other half Part which reacheth with its innermost Degree even into the innermost Heart and light of God generateth it self now continually through Death and yet the Astrall Birth or Geniture is not two but One Body 68. But when in these two Dayes the Creation of Heaven and of Earth was compleated and that the Heaven was made in the heart of the water for a difference or distinction between the Light of God and the Wrath of God then on the Third Day through the terrour or crack of the fire-Flash which rose up in the heart of the water and pressed through Death incomprehensibly as to Death there sprung up all manner of Ideas Forms and Figures as was done before the time of the kindled wrath 69. But being the water which is the Spirit of the Astral Life stood in the midst or Center of wrath and also in Death thereupon also every Body formed it self as the Birth or Geniture to Life and mobility was Of the Earth 70. But now the Earth was the Salitter which was cast up out of the innermost Birth and stood in Death but when the fire-flash through the Word rose up in the water then it was a terrour or crack from which existed the mobility in death and that Mobility in all the seven spirits is now the Astrall Birth or Geniture The Depth Understand this aright 71. Now when on the the Third Day the fire-flash in the water of death had kindled it self then the Life pressed forth quite through the dead body of the water and of the Earth 72. But yet the Dead water and Earth comprehend no more then the flash or terrour or crack of the Fire where-through their mobility existeth But the Light which riseth up very softly Gently or meekly in the fire-flash that neither the Earth nor the dead water can comprehend 73. But it retaineth its Seat in the kernel which is the unctuosity or fatnesse or the water of life or the Heaven for it is the Body of Life which the Death cannot comprehend and yet it riseth up in the Death 74. Neither can the wrath take hold of it or apprehend it but the Wrath remaineth in the terrour or crack of the Fire-Flash and maketh the Mobility in the dead body of the earth and the water 75. But the Light presseth in very gently after and formeth the Birth which through the terrour or crack of the fire-flash hath gotten its compacted Body Of the Growths or Vegetables of the Earth 76. When now the Wrathfull fire-flash awakened and rouzed up the spirits of Nature which stand in Death in the Earth by its fierce terrour or crack then the spirits began according to their peculiar Divine Right to generate themselves as they had done from eternity and form figure or frame a Body together according to the innate instant qualities of that Place 77. Now that kind of Salitter which in the time of the kindling of the wrath dyed in Death and as it did qualifie or operate at that time in the innate instant Life of the seven spirits of God so also it did rise again in the Time of the Regeneration in the Fire-Flash and is not
become any New thing but onely another form of the Body which standeth in the comprehensibility or palpability in Death 78. But now the Salitter of the Earth and of the water is no more able to change or alter it self in its dead Being and shew forth it self infinitely as it did in the heavenly place or Seat but when the qualifying or fountain spirits form the Body then it riseth up in the power and vertue of the Light 79. And the Life of the Light breaketh through the Death and generateth to it another Body out of Death which is not conformable to or of the condition of the water and the dead Earth also doth not get their taste and smell but the power of the Light presseth thorough and tempereth or mixeth it self with the power of the Earth and taketh from Death its Sting and from the wrath its poisonous venomous power and presseth forth up together in the midst or center of the Body in the growth or vegetation as a Heart thereof 80. And herein sticketh now the kernel of the Deitie in the Center in its Heaven which standeth hidden in the water of Life if thou canst now apprehend or lay hold on it Of the Metalls in the Earth 81. The Metals have the same substance condition and Birth or Geniture as the vegetables upon the Earth have For the Metalls or Mineral Oares at the time of the kindling of the wrath in the innate instant Wheel of the seventh nature-Spirit stood in the Fabrick work or operation of the Love wherein the meek beneficence or well-doing generateth it self behind the Fire-Flash wherein the Holy Heaven standeth which in this Birth or Geniture when the Love is predominant presents or sheweth forth it self in such a gracious amiable and blessed Clarity or Brightnesse and in such beauteous colours like Gold Silver and Pretious Stones 82. But Silver and Gold in the dead Palpability or Tangibility are but as a Dark stone in comparison of the Root of the heavenly Generating but I set it down here only that thou mayst know from whence it hath its Original 83. But being it hath been the excellentest rising up and generating in the holy heavenly Nature therefore also it is loved by man above all other in this world For Nature hath indeed written in Mans Heart that it is better then other Stones and Earth but Nature could not reveal or manifest to him the ground thereof from whence it is come or proceeded whereby now thou mayst Observe the Day-spring or Morning-Rednesse 84. There are many several sorts of minerall Oars according as the Salitter in Natures Heaven was predominant at its rising up in the Light of Love For every qualifying or radical spirit in the heavenly Nature containeth the property or kind of all the qualifying or fountain spirits for it is ever infected or affected with the other from whence the Life and the unsearchable Birth or Geniture of the Deitie existeth But yet is predominant as to one Power and that is its own Body from whence it hath the Name 85. But now every qualifying or fountain spirit hath the property of the whole or Totall Nature and its Fabrick or Work at the time of the kindling of the wrath was together also incorporated in Death and out of every Spirits fabrick or work Earth Stones mineral Oars and water came to be 86. Therefore also in the Earth there are found according to the quality of Each Spirit minerall Oars Stones water and Earth and therefore it is that the Earth is of so many various qualities all as Each qualifying or fountain Spirit with its innate Instant Birth or Geniture was at the time of the kindling 87. Nature hath likewise Manifested or revealed so much to man that he knoweth how he may melt away the strange or Heterogene matter from every qualifying or fountain Spirits strange infected innate Birth or Geniture whereby that qualifying or fountain spirit might remain chief in its own Primacy 88. You have an Example of this in Gold and in Silver which you cannot make to be pure or fine Gold or Silver unlesse it be melted seven times in the fire Psal. 12. 7. But when that is done then it remaineth in the middle or Central Seat in the Heart of Nature which is the water sitting in its own quality and Colour I. 89. First the astringent quality which holdeth the Salitter captive in the hard Death must be melted away which is the grosse stony Drosse II. 90. Then Secondly the astringent Death of the water is to be separated from which proceeds a poisonous venomous water of separation or Aquafortis which standeth in the rising up of the fire-flash which is the evil Malignant even the very worst source of all in Death even the Astringent and Bitter Death it self for this is the Place where the Life which existeth in the sweet water dyed in Death And that separateth it self now in the second Melting III. 91. Thirdly the Bitter Quality which existeth in the kindling of the water fire-flash is melted away for that is a Rager Raver Tyrant and destroyer also no Silver nor Gold can subsist if that be not killed or mortified for it maketh all dry and Brittle and presenteth or sheweth forth it self in severall Colours for it rideth through all spirits assuming the Colours of all spirits IIII. 92. Fourthly the fire spirit also which standeth in the horrible anguish and pangs of life must be also melted away for it is a continued Father of the Wrath and out of or from that is generated the Hellish woe 93. Now when the wrath of these four spirits is kill'd then the minerall Oary Salitter standeth in the water like a tough Matter and looketh like that spirit which is predominant in the minerall Ore and the light which standeth in the Fire coloureth it according to its own Qualitie be it Silver or Gold 94. And now this matter in the fourth melting looks like Silver or Gold but it is not yet sixt nor is it tough or malleable and pure enough its body indeed is Subsistent but not the Spirit V. 95. Now when it is melted a Fifth Time then the Love-spirit riseth up in the water through the Light and maketh the dead Body living again so that the matter which remained in the first four Meltings getteth power or strength again which was the proper own of that qualifying or fountain-spirit which was predominant in this Minerall Oar. VI. 96. Now when it is melted the sixt Time then it groweth somewhat harder and then the Life moveth which is risen up in the Love and stirreth it self and from this stirring existeth the Tone in the Hardnesse and the mineral Oar gets a clear sound for the Hard and dead beating or noise of the bitter fiery matter is gone away 97. In this sixth Melting I hold to be the greatest Danger for Chymists about the preparing of their Silver and Gold For there belongeth
contracting and retentive and formeth and contracteth the Birth together and maketh the Birth thick or solid so that out of it Nature commeth to Bee and hence Nature and comprehensibility hath its original in the whole Body of God 51. Now this Nature is as a dead unintellectual Being and standeth or consisteth not in the power of the Birth or Geniture but is a Body wherein the power generateth 52. But it is the Body of God and hath all power as the whole Geniture hath and the generating spirits take their strength and power out of or from the Body of Nature and continually generate again and the astringent spirit continually compacteth or draweth it together and dryeth it and thus the Body subsisteth and the generating spirits also 53. Now the other Birth or Geniture is the Water which taketh its original in the Body of Nature Observe 54. Now when the Light shineth thorough the astringent contracted Body and mitigateth it then the mild beneficient well-doing generateth it self in the Body and then the hard power groweth very mild and melteth as Ice in the Heat of the Sun and is extenuated or rarified as water is in the Ayr and yet the stock of Nature as to the heavenly comprehensibility remaineth standing 55. For the astringent and fire-spirit holdeth it fast and the meek water which melteth from the Body of Nature in the kindling of the Light that goeth through the severe and earnest cold and fiery Birth or Geniture and is very sweet pleasant and lovely 56. Whereby now the earnest and austere Birth or Geniture is refreshed and when it tasteth thereof it groweth capable to be raised up and rejoyceth and also is a joyful rising up wherein the life of Meeknesse generateth it self 57. For this is the water of Life wherein the Love in God as also in Angels and Men generateth it self For it is all of one sort of Power Vertue and Birth or Geniture 58. And now when the Births or Genitures of the powers taste the water of Life then they quake or Tremble for very Love and Joy and that trembling or moving which riseth up in the midst or center of the Birth or Geniture is Bitter For it riseth up swiftly out of the Birth when the water of life cometh into the Birth or Geniture like a Joyful leaping or springing up of the Birth 59. But being it riseth up so swiftly that the Birth elevateth it self so suddenly before it be fully affected with the water of life thereupon that terrour or crack keepeth its bitternesse which it hath out of or from the austere Birth for the beginning or incaptive Birth or Geniture is very austere cold fiery and astringent 60. Therefore also is the terrour or Crack now so swelling and trembling for it moveth the whole Birth and rubbeth it self therein till it kindleth the fire in the hard fiercenesse from whence the Light taketh its original And then the trembling crack becometh enlightned with the Meeknesse of the Light and goeth in the Birth or Geniture up and down and crosse-wayes both upwards and downwards like a wheel made with seven wheels one in another 61. In this pressing through and turning about existeth the Tone according to the Quality of each spirit and alwaies one power affecteth the other for the powers are as loving Brethren in one Body and the meeknesse riseth up and the spirit generateth and sheweth it self infinitely 62. For that power which in the turning about sheweth it self the strongest in the generating according to that power manner and colour the Holy Ghost also imageth shapeth or frameth the figures in the Body of Nature 63. Thus thou seest that none of the powers is the first also none the second third fourth or Last but the last generateth the First as well as the first the Last and the middle most taketh its original from the Last as also from the First as well as from the Second Third or any of the rest 64. Thou seest also that Nature cannot be distinguish'd from the powers of God but is all one Body 65. The Deitie that is the holy power of the Heart of God is generated in Nature and so also the Holy Ghost existeth or goeth forth out of the Heart of the Light continually through all the powers of the Father and figureth all and Imageth or frameth All. 66. This Birth or Geniture is now in Three distinct Parts every one being several and Totall and yet neither of them is divided asunder from the other The Gate of the Holy Trinity 67. The whole Birth or Geniture which is the Heaven of all Heavens as also this world which is in the Body of the whole as also the place of the Earth and of all creatures and whatever thou canst think on all that together is God the Father who hath neither beginning nor end and wheresoever and whatsoever thou thinkest upon even in the smallest circle that can be imagined is the whole Birth or Geniture of God perfectly incessantly and irresistably 68. But if in a Creature or in any Place the light be extinguisht then is the austere Birth or Geniture there which lyeth hid in the Light in the innermost kernel And this now is One Part. 69. The second part or the second Person is the Light which is continually generated from or out of all powers and enlightneth again all the powers of the Father and hath the fountain of all powers But is therein distinguish'd from the Father as a singular Person in that it cannot comprehend the Birth or Geniture of the Father and yet is the Fathers Sonne which is alwaies generated from or out of the Father An instance whereof you have in all the kindled Fires in this world do but consider of it 70. And the Father loveth this his onely begotten or innate Sonne therefore so heartily because he is the Light and the meek beneficent well-doing in his Body through whose power the Fathers Joy and Delight riseth up 71. Now these are two Persons and neither of them can apprehend retain or comprehend the other and the One is as great as the other and if either of them were not the other could not be neither 72. Observe here ye Jews Turks and Heathens for it concerneth you to you here are opened the Gates of God harden not your selves for now is the acceptible time 73. You are not forgotten of God at all but if you convert then the Light and Heart of God will rise up in you as the bright Sun at Noon-day 74. This I write in the power and perfect knowledge of the great God and I understand his will herein very well For I live and am in him and spring up with this work and Labour out of his root and stock and it must be so Onely take thou heed if thou blindest thy self then there is no Remedy more neither canst thou say thou knewest not of it therefore arise for the Day breaketh 75. The third diversity or
the third Person in the Being of God is the moving Spirit which existeth from the rising up in the terrour or Crack where life is generated which now moveth in all powers and is the Spirit of Life and the powers can no more comprehend him or apprehend him but he kindleth the powers and by his moving maketh figures and Images and formeth them according to that kind and manner as the wrestling Birth standeth in every place 76. And if thou art not wilfully blind thou mayst know that the Ayr is that very spirit but in the Place of this world Nature is kindled therein very swellingly in the wrath-fire which Lord Lucifer effected and the Holy Ghost who is the Spirit of Meeknesse lyeth hidden therein in his Heaven 77. Thou needest not to ask where that Heaven is It is in thy Heart do but open it the Key is here shewed to thee 78. Thus there is one God and three distinct Persons one in another and neither of them can comprehend or withhold or fathom the Original of the other but the Father generateth the Sonne and the Sonne is the Fathers Heart and his Love and his Light and is an original of Joy and the beginning of all Life 79. And the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of Life and a former framer and Creator of all things and a performer of the will in God that hath formed and created out of or from the Body and in the Body of the Father all Angels and Creatures and holdeth and formeth all still daily and is the sharpnesse and the Living Spirit of God And as the Father speaketh or Expresseth the Word out of or from his powers so the Spirit formeth or frameth them Of the great simplicity of God 80. Come on Brave Sir upon thy Brown Nagg who ridest from Heaven into Hell and from Hell into Death and therein the sting of death lyeth view thy self here thou worldly wise Man that art full of base wit Cunning and subtile Policy 81. Take notice ye worldly wise Lawyers if you will not come before this Looking-Glasse even before the bright and clear face of God and view your selves therein then the Spirit presenteth to you the Birth or Geniture in the innermost astringent circle where wit cunning and prudence is generated where the sharpnesse of the anxious Birth or Geniture of God is for there your prudence cunning and deep reaching wit is generated 82. Now if you will be Gods and not Devils then make use of the Holy and meek Law of God if not then you shall for ever Eternally generate in the aâ—stere and severe Birth or Geniture of God This saith the Spirit as the Word of God and not of my dead or mortal Flesh. 83. Thou must know that I do not suck it out from the dead or mortal Reason but my spirit qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with God and proveth or searcheth the Deitie how it is in all its Births or Genitures in its taste and smell and I find that the Deitie is a very simple pure meek loving and Quiet Beeing and that the birth of the Ternarie of God generateth it self very meekly friendly lovingly and unanimously and the sharpnesse of the innermost Birth can never elevate or swell it self into the meeknesse of the Ternarie but remaineth hidden in the Deep 84. And the sharpness in the hidden secresie is called God's WRATH and the Being of meeknesse in the Ternarie or Trinity is called GOD. Here nothing goeth out of or forth from the sharpnesse which perisheth or which doth kindle the wrath but the spirits Play very gently one with another like little children when they rejoyce one with another where every one hath his work and so they play one with another and lovingly kisse and court one another 85. Such a work also the Holy Angels exercise themselves in and in the Ternarie of God there is a very meek pleasant and sweet beeing where the Spirit alwaies elevateth it self in the Tone and the one power toucheth the other as if there were pleasant Melodious Hymnes or Songs and consorts of musicall Instruments plaid upon 86. And as the rising up of the spirits in every place is so the Tone also formeth it self but very meekly and incomprehensibly to the Bodies of the Angels but very comprehensibly to the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture of Angels and as the Deitie presenteth it self in each place so the Angels also present themselves For the Angels were created out of this Being and have among them their Princes of the qualifying or fountain spirits of God as they are in the Birth or Geniture of God 87. Therefore as the Beeing of God presents or sheweth forth it self in the Birth or Geniture so do the Angels also and that power which at any time hath the primacie in the Birth or Geniture of God and rejoyceth out of the Heart of God in the Holy Ghost that Power 's Prince of the Angels beginneth also his Hymn and Jubilateth with his Hoast or Army now one then suddenly another for the Birth or Geniture of God is like a Wheel 88. But when the Heart of God sheweth forth it self with its Clarity or Brightnesse then there riseth up the whole Hoast or Army of all the three Kingdoms of the Angels and in this rising up of the Heart of God the Man JESVS CHRIST is King and Chief he leadeth the Royal Chorus or Quire with all the holy Souls of Men till the Last Judgment Day And then the Holy Men are perfect Angels and the wicked perfect Devils and that in its eternity 89. Here view thy self thou witty suttle world and consider from whence thy prudence suttlety and vvit proceedeth Now thou wilt say to me 90. Dost not thou seek after deeper suttlety than we thou wilt needs clime into the most hidden secrets of God which is not fit for any Man to go about We seek only after humane Prudence and suttlety but thou wouldst be equall with God and knovv all How God is in every thing both in Heaven and in Hell in Devils Angels and Men. Therefore sure it is not unlawful to seek for a cunning sharp wit and after crafty Designs which bring Honour Povver or Authority and Riches A Reply 91. If thou climest up this Ladder on which I climb up into the Deep of God as I have done then thou hast climbed well I am not come to this meaning or to this work and knowledge through my own Reason or through my own will and purpose neither have I sought this knowledge nor so much as knew any thing concerning it I sought only for the Heart of God therein to hide my self from the tempestuous storms of the Devil 92. But when I gat in thither then this great weighty and hard Labour was laid upon me which is to Manifest and reveal to the world and to make known The great Day of the LORD and being they seek and Long so eagerly after the Root of the
perceive by the curious Ornament of the budding blossoming Earth And the Creator hath therefore rebuilt and revived againe the old kindled Body into so many various powers that through this Old Life in the wrath such a new life might generate it self therein through the closure of Heaven that that New Life might have all the powers operations that ever the old had before the times of wrath that it might qualifie mixe or unite with the pure Deitie distinct from this world and that it might be One holy God together with the Deitie without distinct from this World 30. Also the New Birth blossom'd in the time of the Creation when Man had not spoiled or corrupted it but by him Nature was still more corrupted and so God cursed the Ground But being Man took hold of the fruit of the old Body thereupon the fruit of the new Body was hidden in its Heaven and Man must now behold it with the new Body and cannot partake of it with the natural Body 31. Of which I have a great longing to eate but I cannot reach to it for Heaven is the closure or Firmament between the old and new Body And therefore I must let it alone till I come into the other Life and must give my bestial Body Mother Eve's Wrath-Apples to Eate Concerning The kindling of the Heart or Life of this World 32. When God had brought the Body of this world in two Dayes into a right forme and had made the Heaven for a Partition betweene the Love the Wrath then on the Third Day the Love pressed through the Heaven and through the wrath and then instantly the old Body in Death stirr'd and moved it selfe to the Birth or Geniture 33. Eor the Love is hot and that kindled the fire-source or quality and that rubb'd it selfe in the astringent and cold quality of benumm'd Death till the astringent qualitie was heated on the third Day whereby the mobilitie or the astringent Earth became moveable 54. For all stood in the fire-crak till the fourth Day and then the Light of the Sun kindled it self for the whole Body stood in anguish or Paine in the Birth as a woman in Travell 35. The Astringent qualitie was the encompasser or incloser of the life in it now the Heat was anxious which was kindled through the Love of God and did thrust forth the astringent qualitie as a dead Body but the Heat reteined its seat in the mid'st or center of the Body and so presâ—'d through 36 But when the Light of the Sun kindled it self then the nex Circle or Orb above the Sun stood in the fire-crak for the Sun or the Light was shining in the Water and the bitternesse ascended also in the fire-crack out of the water But the light made very great haste after it and laid hold on the fire crak and there it remained standing as a Captive and became corporeal 37. In this Revolution the Planet Mars came to be whose power standeth in the Bitter fire-crak for it is a Tyrant Rager Raver and Stomer like a fire-crak moreover it is Hot and a poisonous venomous enemie of Nature through whose rising up and Birth or Geniture in the Earth all manner of Poisonous Venomous evill Wormes and Vermine are come to be 38. Buâ— being the Heat in the middle point or center of the Body was so Mighty Great thereupon it extended it self so very largely and opened the Chamber of Death so wide before its kindling of the Light that it the SUN is the Greatest Star 39. But assoon as the Light kindled it self in the heat so instantly was that Hot place caught in the Light and then the Body of the Sun could grow no bigger For the light mitigated the Heat and so the Body of the Sun remained there standing in the mid'st or center as a Heart for the Light is the Heart of Nature not the Heat But here thou must observe exactly 40. As far as the middle point or center hath kindled it selfe Just so bigg is the Sun for the Sun is nothing else but a kindled poinâ— in the Body of Nature 41. Thou must not thinke that there is any oother power or vertue in it or belonging to it then there is in the whole Deep of the Body every where all over 42. For should the Love of God through its Heaven kindle the whole body of this world through the Heate it would be every where all over as Light as it is now in the Sun 43. And now if the great Heat were taken away from the Sun then it would be One Light with God but seeing that cannot bee in this time therefore it remaineth a King and Regent in the old corrupted and kindled Body of Nature and the clear Deitie remaineth hidden in the meek Heaven 44. But the light of the meeknesse of the Sun qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the pure Deitie but the Heat cannot comprehend the light and therefore also the place of the Sun remaineth in the Body of Gods wrath and thou must not worship pray to or honour the Sun as God for its place or Body cannot apprehend the water of Life because of its Fiercenesse The Highest ground of the SUN and of ALL the PLANETS 45. And here I shall have adversaries enough who will be ready to censure mee for they will not have regard to consider the Spirit but will mind their old Rules and say Astrologers understand it better who have written of such matters and they will look On this Great open Gate as a Cow looks on a new Barn Doare 46. Deare Reader I understand the Astrologers meanings and sayings full well and I have perused their writings also and taken notice how they describe the course of the Sun and Stars neither do I despise it but hold that for the most part to be good and right 47. But that I write otherwise then they in some things I do it not out of self will or conceipt and supposition doubting whteher it be so or no I dare not make any doubt herein neither can any man instruct mee herein 48. I have not my knowledge by Study indeed I have read the order and Position of the Seaven Planets in the Books of Astrologers and find them to be very right but the Root how they came to be from what they are proceeded I cannot learne it from any Man for they know it not neither was I present when God created them 49. But being the Doores of the Deep and the Gates of wrath and the Chambers of Death also are set open in my spirit through the Love of God the spirit therefore must needs look thorough them 50. And accordingly I find that the Birth or Geniture of Nature standeth to this Day and generateth it selfe just fo as it first took its beginning and whatsoever riseth up in this world whether Men Beasts Trees Herbs Grasse Minerall Oars or what it will all riseth up in such a
of Love 20. But when the two spirits of the mobilitie and of the Life were risen up out of the Place of the Sun through the kindling of the water then the meeknesse as a seed of the water pressed downward in the Chamber of Death with the power of Light with a very gentle and freindly affection or influence from whence existed the Love of Life or the Planet Venus But thou must here understand this high thing 21. The Birth or the rising or springing up of the seaven Planets and of all the Stars is no otherwise then as the Life and wonderfull proportion variety and harmonie of the Deitie hath generated it selfe from Eternitie 22. For when King Lucifer had caused this place of the world to be appointed as a House of wrath for him supposed thus fiercely powerfully to Rule thereâ—n then presently the Light in Nature went out wherin he supposed to be the Lord the whole Nature was benumm'd and congealed as a Body of Death wherein was no mobilitie and he must remaine there in darknesse as an Eternall Captive Prisoner 23. But now the Holy God would not let this place of his Body understand the space or roome of this World stand in eternal darknesse and ignominie and leave it to the Devills for their proper own but generated a new Regiment or dominion of Light and of all the seaven qualifying or fountain spirits of the Deitie which the Devill could neither apprehend nor lay hold on or touch neither was it usefull or profitable to him at all 24. For he can no more see in the Light of the Sun but in the darknesse for he is not become a Creature in this Light and therefore it is not profitable or usefull to him 25. But being there must be a new Government or dominion it must needs be such a one as the Devil could lay no hold on or touch or that he could make no 〈◊〉 as his corporeall proper owne Now that is thus constituted 26. The Love or word or Heart that is the innate or onely begotten Sonne of the Father who is the Light and meeknesse and the Love and Joy of the Deitie As He hin selfe say'd when he assumed the humanitie I am the Light of the World John 8. 12 He took the place of this world by the Heart and sate in the mid'st or center of this space or roome in that place where the mighty Prince and King Lucifer did sit before his fall and there he was new Borne to be a Creature 27. And so out of this kindled place of the Sun there existed and were chiefly generated six sorts of qualities all according to the right Law or Order of the divine Birth or Geniture 28. 1º First there arose the fire-crack or the mobility in the Heate that is the beginning of Life in the Chamber of Death 2º After this secondly the Light in the unctuositie or fattness of the water became shining in the Heat and that is now the Sun 3º And thirdly when now the Light of the Sun had affected or possessed the whole Body of the Sun then the power of Life which rose up out of the first affecting or possessing ascended as when wood is kindled or when fire is struck out of a Stone 29. Then first is discerned the Glance or splendor and out of the splendor the fire-crack and after the fire-crack the power of the kindled Body and the Light with the power of the Body elevateth it self instantly above the crack and ruleth or reigneth much higher deeper and more powerfully then the fire-crack 30. Also the power of the kindled Body in the outgone power without and beyond the fire qualifieth mixeth or uniteth gently pleasantly and very sensibly and herein rightly is understood the Divine Being 31. In the same manner also is the existency of the Sun and of the two Planets Mars and Jupiter 32. But being the Place of the Sun that is the SUN it selfe contained all qualities according to the Right of the Deitie as also all other places had thereupon instantly in the first kindling all the qualities went upward and downward and generated themselves according to the eternall beginning lesse infinite Law and Right 33. For the power of the Light which did mitigate the astringent and bitter qualitie in the place of the Sun and made it thinne like water or the Love of Life that went downwards according to the Nature of Humilitie 34. Out of this the Planet Venus existed for in the House of Death it is an opner of meeknesse or a kindler of the water and a soft penetrater into the hardnesse a kindler of the Love in which the upper Regiment or Dominion as the bitter Heat is desirous or longing after Mars and the heartie sensibilitie is desirous or longing after Jupiter 35. From whence the affections or insinuations exist for the power of Venus maketh fierce Mars or the fire-crack mild and mitigateth it and maketh Jupiter humble else the power of Jupiter would break through the hard Chamber Saturne and in Men and Beasts through the Scul or Brain-pan and so the sensibilitie would transmute it self into high-mindednesse above the Birth-Right or right Law or order of the Geniture of the Deitie in the manner and way of the proud Devill Of the Planet Mercurius 36. If we would exactly and fundamentally know how the Birth or beginning is of the Planets and Stars and of the Being of all Beings in the deepe of this world we must accurately consider the instant or innate Birth or beginning of Life in Man 37. For that taketh such a beginning and rising and standeth also in such an Order as the Birth or Geniture of the Being of all Beings in the Body of this World doth 38. For the instant or innate wheele of the Stars and Planets is no otherwise then as the Birth of the seaventh spirit of Nature before the time of the world rose up wherein were formed images and figures formes shapes or Ideas as also heavenly fruits according to the eternal right Law or Order of the Deitie 39. And in that Man is created according to the qualifying or fountain spirits of God and also out of the divine Being therefore mans Life hath such a beginning and rising up as that of the Planets and Stars was 40. For the beginning instant or innate State and Being of the Planets and Stars is no other then the beginning and impulse or government and Dominion in Man 41. And now as the humane Life riseth up so hath also the Birth of the seaven Planets and Stars risen or sprung up and therein there is no difference at all The Center or Circle of the Birth of Life The great depth 42. The spirit citeth the Physitians to come before this Looking-glasse especially Anatomists and dissectors of Men who by their Anatomy would learne the Birth and rising or springing up of Mans Life and have murthered many innocent men against
the Heart of God and qualified mixed or united with the same and the astringent spirit drew the Masse together and there was cleerely a Birth or a will or desire to the producing of a whole creature just as the Seede in Man is 116. But now the Firmament of Heaven that is between the Heart of God and the kindled hard Chamber of Death was closed or shut up else the Life in the Masse had suddenly kindled it selfe 117. For the firmament was within in the Masse as well as without distinct from the Masse which is the parting mark or limit of separation between the Heart of God and the fierce Devills 118. Therefore the word or Heart of God must blow up the movingâ—spirit in the Masse which was first done but on the sixt Day for very assured causes 119. For if Heaven had not as a Firmament been shut up in the Masse between the Heart of God and the corporeal qualifying or fountaine spirits of the Masse then the Masse might have kindled the Soul from or by its own power as it was with the Holy Angels 120. But it was to be feared that it would come to passe as it did with that faire little Son Lucifer being the corporeal qualifying or fountain spirits in the Masse were kindled in the wrath-fire 121. Therefore Heaven must be a Firmament between the sparkle which had conceived from the Heart of God in the first Glance that though the Body might happen to perish yet the holy Seed might remaine which is the Soul which qualifyeth mixeth or uniteth with the Heart of God out of which a new Body might come to be when the whole God should kindle againe the Deepe of this world in the Light of the Heart of God and just so it is come to be with the Body The Love of God have mercy and take pitty on it 122. The deare man Moses writeth that God made Man out of a Clod of Earth as the Learned have rendred it But Moses was not present when it was done 123. But this I must needs say that Meses hath written very right but the true understanding or meaning out of what the Earth proceeded remained hidden to Moses and them that have come after him in the Letter and the spirit hath kept it hidden to this very time 124. It was also hidden from Adam while he was yet in Paradise but now it will fully be revealed for the Heart of God hath set upon or assaulted the Chamber of Death and will shortly breake quite thorough 125. And therefore in these our present times some Beames of the Day will more and more break thorough in the hearts of some men and make known the Day 126. But when the Dawning or Morning Rednesse shall shine from the East to the West or from the rising to the setting then assuredly time will be no more but the SUN of the Heart of God riseth or spriugeth forth and RA. RA. R. P. will be pressed in the Wine Presse without the Cittie and therewith to R. P. 127. These are hidden mystical words and are understood onely in the Language of Nature 128. Mises writeth very right that Man was created out of the Earth but at that time when the Masse was held by the word then the Masse was not Earth But if it had not been held or kept by the word then at that very houre it had become Black Earth but the cold wrath-fire was in it already 129. For at the very houre when Lucifer elevated himselfe the Father was moved to wrath in the qualifying or fountain spirits against the Legions of Lucifer and the Heart of God hid it selfe in the Firmament of Heaven where the Salitter effect product or Fabrick of the corporeity was burning already for without or distinct from the Light is the dark Chamber of Death 130. But the Masse was held or kept in the Firmament of Heaven that it might not be congealed for when the Heart of God Glanced on the Masse with its hot Love then the unctuositie or oyle in the Masse which rose up out of the water through the fire out of which the Light riseth up and out of which the Love-Spirit riseth up caught hold of the Heart of God and was impregnated with a young Sonne 131. And that was the Seed of Love for one Love embraced the other the Love of the Masse embraced and conceived from the Love out of the Glance of the Heart of God and was thereby impregnated and this is the Birth or Geniture of the Soule and as to this Sonne Man is the Image of God 132. But the qualifying or Fountain spirits in the Masse could not presently be kindled thereby from the Soul for the Soul stood only in the seed in the Masse hidden with the Heart of God in its Heaven till the Creator blew upon the Masse and then the qualifying or Fountain spirits kindled the Soule also and then both Body and Soul lived equally together 133. Indeed the Soul had its Life before the Body but it stood in the Heart of God hidden in the Masse in Heaven and was a kind of holy Seed qualifying mixing or uniting with God which is Eternal incorruptible and undestroyable for it was a new and pure Seed for an Angel and Image of God 134. But the Fabrick effect or product of the whole Masse was an extract or attraction of the word of God out of the Fabrick or effect of the qualifying or fountain Spirits or of the Salitter out of which the Earth came to be 135. This extract was not yet become Earth though it was the Salitter of the Earth but was held or kept by the word 136. For when the Love-Spirit out of the Heart of God Glanced on the Salitter of the Masse then the Salitter did catch hold of it and conceive from it and was impregnated in the Center of the Soul and the word stood in the Masse in the Sound but the Light abode in the Center of the Masse in the Firmament of Heaven standing hidden in the unctuous oile of the heart and did not move it selfe forth out of the Firmament of Heaven in the Birth of the qualifying or fountain Spirits 137. Else if the Light had kindled it selfe in the Birth or Geniture of the Soul then all the seaven qualifying or fountain Spirits according to the eternall Birth-Right of the Deitie had triumphed and qualifyed mixed or united in with the Light and had been a Living Angel but being the wrath had cleerely already infected the Salitter therefore that danger was to be feared which befell Lucifer Now it may be Asked 138. Why were not many Masse's Created at this time out of which instantly at once there might have been a whole Angelical hoast or Army instead of fallen Lucifer 139. Why should there be so long a time of stay in the wrath 140. And why should the whole Hoast or Army be generated out of that one Masse in so very long a
Cherubim or Leader of a Kingdom of Angels is the Fountain or Heart of his whole Kingdom and is made out of all the powers out of which his Angels are made and is the most powerfull and brightest of them all 74. The Angelical King is the Center or fountain as Adams Soul is the Beginning and Center of all soules and As from the Place of the Sun was created and generated the Planetick wheel or Sphear wherein each Star is desirous of the Splendor and Power of the Sun so the Angels are desirous of their Cherubim or Prince all according to God and to his Similitude 75. For the Creatour hath extracted the heart out of the Salitter and Mercurius of the Divine powers Understand he hath composed it by the Fiat viz. the Center of Nature 76. And hath formed out of that the Cherubim or King that he might presse or penetrate again with his power into all the Angels and affect them all with his power 77. As the Sun with its power presseth into all the Stars and affecteth them all or as the power of God the Son presseth into all the powers of God the Father whereby they are all affected wherein the Birth or Geniture of the heavenly Joyfulnesse springeth up 78. In this form condition and manner it is also with the Angels All the Angels of one Kingdome signifie the many and various powers of God the Father the Angelical King signifieth the Sonne of the Father or the Heart out of the powers of the Father out of which the Angels are made The Exit out of the King of Angels or his going forth into his Angels or his affecting of his Angels signifieth God the Holy Ghost 79. And as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and affecteth all the powers of the Father as also all heavenly fruits and forms from whence all hath its rising and wherein the heavenly joyfulnesse doth consist 80. Just in such a manner is the operation or power of a Cherubim or Throne-Angel which worketh or operateth in all his Angels as the Sonne and Holy Ghost operateth in all the powers of the Father or as the Sun operateth in all the powers of the Stars 81. Whereby all Angels obtain the will of the Throne-Angel and are all obedient to him for they all work in his power which is in them all 82. For they are the Members of his body as all the powers of the Father are Members of the Sonne and he is their Heart and as all heavenly forms and fruits are Members of the Holy Ghost and he their heart in whom they rise up 83. Or as the Sun is the heart of all the stars and all stars are Members of the Sun and work one among another as one Star and yet the Sun is the Heart therein though indeed there are many and various powers yet all worketh in the power of the Sun and all hath its Life from the Power of the Sun Look on what you please be it in * Animals Metals or †Vegetables of the Earth The Eighth Chapter Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdome The Great Mysterie 1. THe Angelical Kingdoms are throughout formed according to the Divine Being and they have no other form or Condition then the Divine Being hath in its Trinitie 2. Onely this is the difference that their Bodies are creatures which have a Beginning and End and that the Kingdom where their Locality habitation or Court is is not their corporeal propriety or proper own having it for their Natural right as they have their bodies for a Natural right 3. But the Kingdom belongs to God the Father who hath made it out of his powers and he may set it and dispose it which way he pleaseth otherwise their Body is made according to all and out of all the powers of the Father 4. And their power generateth the light and knowledge in them and as God generateth his Sonne out of all his powers also as the Holy Ghost goeth forth out of all the powers of the Father and the Sonne so also in an Angel the Spirit goeth forth from their Heart from their light and from all their powers Now Observe 5. As the condition and constitution of an Angel is in his Corporeal Body with all the Members thereof such is the condition of a whole Kingdom which together is as it were one Angel 6. If a man rightly considereth all circumstances he will find that the whole government in its locality circumference or Region in a Kingdom is of the same Condition or Constitution as the body of an Angel is or as the Holy Trinity Observe here the Depth 7. All power is in God the Father and he is the fountain of all powers in his Deep in Him is Light and Darknesse Ayr and Water Heat and Cold Hard and Soft Thick and Thin Sound and Tone Sweet and Soure Bitter and Astringent and that which I cannot number or rehearse 8. Onely I conceive of it in my Body for That is originally from Adam to this time made out of all powers and according to the Image of God 9. But here thou must not think that the powers in God the Father are in such wise or qualifie in such a corrupt manner and kind as in man which Lord Lucifer hath so brough◠to passe but it is all very lovely pleasant delicious and joyfull very Gentle and Meek or Mild. 10. First there is the Light as I may naturally compare or resemble it like the light of the Sun but not so intolerable as the light of the Sun is intolerable to our corrupted perished Eyes but very lovely pleasant and delightful an Aspect or Glance of Love 11. But the darknesse is hidden in the Center of the light that is when a creature is made out of the power of the light and would move and boyl higher and faster in that light then God Himself doth then that light would go out and be extinguished in that Creature 12. Understand the Creature kindleth the fire if its spirit elevateth it self beyond the Humility that is from Love Read the Second and Third Book viz. the Three Principles and the Three-fold Life of Man 13. And instead of Light it hath darknesse and therein the Creature is sensible by experience that there is a darknesse hidden in the Center 14. As when a man kindleth a Wax Candle it giveth Light but when it is put out then is the Snuffe or Candle darknesse Thus also the light shineth from all the powers of the Father but when the powers are perished or corrupted then the light is extinguished and the powers would remain in darknesse as is apparant by Lucifer 15. The Ayr also is not of such a kind in God but is a lovely pleasant still breath or voyce blowing or moving that is The exit going forth or moving of the powers is the original of the Ayr in which the Holy Ghost riseth up 16. Neither is the
water of such a kind in God but it is the source or fountain in the powers not of an elementary kind as in this world if I should liken it to any thing I must liken it to the Sap or Juyce in an Apple but very bright and lightsome like Heaven which is the Spirit of all powers 17. It is Lord Lucifer which hath thus spoiled it that it rageth and raveth so in this world which so runneth and floweth and is so thick and dark and moreover if it runneth not it becometh stinking of which I shall treat more largely when I shall write of the Creation 18. The Heat is in God a most lovely pleasant soft gentle mild meek warmth an exit or going forth of light which expandeth it self rising up from the light wherein the source or fountain of Love Springeth up 19. The Cold also in God is not of such a kind but is a cooling or refreshing of the Heat a mollifying or allaying of the Spirit a rising up boyling or moving of the Spirit Note here the Depth 20. God saith in Moses when he gave the Law to the children of Israel I am an angry jealous God to those that hate me afterward he calls himself also a merciful God to them that fear him Exod. 20. 5 6. Deut. 5. 9 10. Question 21. Now the Question is What is the wrath of God in Heaven And whether God be angry in himself or how is God moved to Anger Answer Here there are chiefly Seven sorts of Qualities or Circumstances to be observed I. Of the First Species or Circumstance 22. First there is in the Divine power hidden in Secret the astringent Quality which is a Quality of the Kernel Pith or hidden Being a sharp compaction or penetration in the Salitter very sharp and harsh or astringent which generates hardnesse and also coldnesse and when that heat is kindled it generateth a sharpnesse like to Salt 23. This is one Species or source of wrath in the Divine Salitter and when this source is kindled which may be done by great motion or elevation touching or stirring then the astringent causeth or qualifieth in great coldnesse which is very sharp like to Salt very hard binding knitting and attracting together like a Stone 24. But in the heavenly Pomp or State it is not so elevating for it doth not elevate it self neither doth it kindle it self Onely King Lucifer hath kindled this quality in his Kingdom through his Elevation and Pride whence this quality is burning even till the Last Day 25. And by this now in the Creation of this world the Stars and the Elements as also the Creatures tremble and burn out of which existeth also the House of Death and of Hell also an Eternal Base loathsome Habitation for the Kingdom of Lucifer and for all wicked Men. 26. This Quality generateth in the heavenly Pomp the sharpnesse of the spirit out of which and whereby the creaturely Being is so formed or constituted that a heavenly Body may be framed as also all manner of colours forms and sprouts or vegetation 27. For it is the contraction compacting or Imaging of a thing and therefore it is the first Quality and a beginning of the Angelical Creatures and of all Images or figurations which are in Heaven and which are in this world and all whatsoever can be named or expressed 28. But if it be kindled through elevation which those creatures onely can do in their own Kingdome which are created out of the Divine Salitter then it is a burning source-vein of the wrath of God 29. For it is one of the seven Spirits of God in whose power standeth the Divine Being in the whole or total Divine Power and heavenly Pomp. 30. And so if it be kindled then it is a fierce source of wrath and a beginning of hell and a torment and woe of the hellish fire also a quality of darknesse for the Divine Love and also the Divine Light are extinguished therein 31. It is a Key which locketh in to the Chamber of Death and generateth Death from whence proceedeth Earth stones and all hard things II. Of the Second Species or Circumstance 32. The Second Quality or Second Spirit of God in the Divine Salitter or in the Divine power is the sweet quality which worketh in the astringent and mitigateth the astringent so that it is altogether lovely pleasant and mild or meek 33. For it is the overcoming of the astringent quality and is the very source or fountain of the Mercy of God which overcometh the wrath whereby the astringent harsh source is mollified and Gods Mercy riseth up 34. Of this you have a Similitude in an Apple which at first is astringent harsh or choaky but when the sweet quality forceth and overcometh it then it is very soft lovely and pleasant to eat and thus it is also in the Divine power 35. For when Men speak of the mercy of God the Father they speak of his power of his fountain spirits of the qualities which are in the Salitter out of which his most richly loving Heart or Sonne is generated Observe here 36. The astringent or harsh Quality is the Heart Pith or Kernel in the Divine power the contraction compaction or imaging forming or impression for it is the sharpnesse and cold as is seen that the harsh astringent cold dryeth the water and maketh it sharp Ice 37. And the sweet Quality is the allaying or warming whereby the harsh or astringent and cold quality becometh thin and soft whence the water taketh its original 38. Thus the astringent quality is and is called the Heart and the sweet is called Barm or Warm or softening or mitigaâ—ing and they are the two Qualities out of which the Heart or the Sonne of God is generated 39. For the astringent or harsh quality in its stock or kernel when it qualifieth or operateth in its own Power is a Darknesse And the sweet Quality in its own power is a moving boyling warming and rising Light a source or fountain of meeknesse and well-doing 40. But while both of them qualifie or operate one in another in the Divine power as if they were but one power they are a meek mild lovely pleasant merciful qualifying 41. And these two Qualities are two of the spirits of God among the Seven qualifying or fountain-Spirits in the Divine power 42. Whereof you have an Image in the Revelation of John Apocalypse Chap. 1. where he seeth seven Golden Candlesticks or Lights before the Sonne of God which signifie the seven spirits of God which shine in great clarity brightnesse or lustre before the Sonne of God out of which the Sonne of God is continually generated from eternity to eternity and is the Heart of the seven Spirits of God which I will here describe in order one after another 43. You must here elevate your sense or mind in the Spirit if you intend to understand and apprehend it Or else in your own sense or mind
raigneth with God in his Heaven 68. For the earthly Body which thou bearest is one Body with the whole kindled Body of this world and thy body qualifyeth mixeth or uniteth with the whole body of this world and there is no difference between the Stars and the Deep as also the Earth and thy Body it is all one Body This is the only difference thy Body is a Sonne of the whole and is in it self as the whole Being it selfe is 69. And now as the new Body of this world generateth it selfe in its Heaven so the new man also generateth himselfe in his Heaven for it is all but one Heaven wherein God dwelleth and therein thy new man dwelleth and they cannot be divided asunder 70. But if thou art wicked then thy Birth or Geniture is not capable of Heaven but of the wrath and remaineth in the other part of the Astral Birth or Geniture wherein the earnest and austere fire-source riseth up and bolts it up into Death so long till thou breakest through Heaven and livest with God 71. For instead of thy heaven thou hast the wrath-Devil sitting there but if thou breakest thorough then he must get him gone and the Holy Ghost ruleth and reigneth in that Seat and in the other Part viz. the fiercenesse the Devil tempteth thee for it is his Nest and the Holy Ghost opposeth him and the new man lyeth in his own Heaven hidden under the protection of the Holy Ghosâ— and the Devil knoweth not the New man for he is not in his House but in Heaven in the Firmament of God 72. This I write as a Word which is Generated in its Heaven where the Holy Deity alwaies generateth it self and where the moving spirit riseth up in the Flash of Life even there this Word and this knowledge is generated and risen up in the Love-fire through the Zealous spirit of God 73. I know very well what the Devil intendeth for that Part of the earnest and austere Birth or Geniture wherein Love and wrath are set opposite one to another seeth into his very Heart For when he cometh with his fierce and hellish Temptation like a fawning Dogg then he setteth upon us with his wrath in that part wherein the austere Birth or Geniture standeth and therein the Heaven is set in opposition to him and there the fair Bride is known 74. For he stingeth through the Old Man with an intent to spoyl or destroy the New but when the new riseth against him then the Hell-Hound retireth and then the new Man feeleth very well what device the Hell-hound hath darted or spit into the astral Birth and then is it time to Purge and scour it out 75. But I find that the cunning'st Devill is set against me he will raise scorners and mockers who will say that I intend by mine own conceit to grope dig deep and search out the Deitie Yes Mr. Scorner thou art indeed an obedient son to the Devil thou hast great cause to mock Gods children as if I were able in mine own power to fathom the depth of the Deitie No! but the Deitie searcheth the Ground in me Or dost thou think that I am strong enough to stand against it 76. Indeed thou proud Man God is a very meek simple and quiet still Beeing and groapeth not in the Bottom of Hell and Death but in his Heaven where there is nothing but an Unanimous meeknesse therefore it is not meet for me to do so 77. But behold it is not I that have made way for this but thy desire and highly raised lofty Lust hath moved the Deitie to reveal to thee the desire of thy Heart in the highest simplicity in the greatest depth that it may be a witnesse against thee and denunciation of the earnest severe Day of God 78. This I speak to thee as a word of the earnest Severity of God which is generated or born in the Flash of Life The Five and Twentieth Chapter Of the whole Body of the Stars Birth or Geniture that is the whole Astrologie or the whole Body of this World 1. THe learned and highly experienced Masters of Astrology or the Starry Art are come so high and deep in their understanding that they know the course and Effects of the Stars what their conjunction influence and breaking through of their powers and vertues denoteth and produceth and How thereby wind rain snow and heat is caused also Good and Evill Prosperity and Adversity Life and Death and all the drivings and agitations in this world 2. And indeed it hath a true foundation which I know in the spirit to be so but their knowledge standeth onely in the House of Death in the outward comprehensibility or palpability and in the beholding with the Eyes of the Body but the root of this Tree hath hitherto remained hidden to them 3. Neither is it my purpose to write of the Branches of the Tree and to invert or disprove their knowledge neither do I build upon their Ground but I leave their knowledge to sit in its own seat being I have not studyed it but I write in the spirit of my knowledge concerning the root stock Branches and Fruits of the Tree as an industrious and laborious Servant to his Master in discovering the whole Tree of this world 4. Not with an intent to set any new thing on foote for I have no command to do so but my knowledge standeth in this Birth or Geniture of the Stars in the Midst or Center where the Life is generated and breaketh through Death and where the moving spirit existeth and breaketh thorough and in the impulse and moving thereof I also write 5. Also I know very well that the Children of the flesh will scorne and mock at me and say I should look to my own Calling and not trouble my Head about these things but rather be diligent to bring in food for me and my familie and let those meddle with Philosophy that have studyed it and are called and appointed to it 6. With such an attempt the Devill hath given me so many assaults and hath so wearyed me that I have often resolved to let it alone but my former purpose was too hard for me For when I took care for the Belly and to get my Living and resolved to give over this businesse in hand then the Gate of Heaven in my knowledge was bolted up 7. And then my soul was so afflicted in anxiety as if it were captivated by the Devill whereby reason gat so many checks and assaults as if the Body were presently to fall to the ground and the spirit would not give over till it brake thorough againe through the Dead or Mortall Reason and so hath broke open to peeces the Door of darknesse and hath gotten its seat again in the stead thereof 8. Whereby I understand that the spirit must be tryed through the Crosse Affliction and I have not failed of bodily Temptation but was faine alwayes to