like a Plant or sprout he sprouteth as a Juniper Tree in Gods substance 32. He hath with his entrance into the humane halfe dead Essence broken or destroyed death for he sprouted at once both in the humane and divine Essence 33. He brought to us along with him in our Humanity the virgin-like Chastity of the wisdome of God he environed our souls Essence with heavenly substantiality 34. He was the Champion or Saviour in the Battel where the two Kingdoms lay together in strife viz Gods Anger and Gods Love he gave himselfe willingly up into the Anger and quenched it with his Love understand in the humane Essence 35. He came out of God into this world and assumed our Soul into himselfe that he might introduce us out of the Earthliness of this world again in himselfe into God 36. He generated us again a new in himselfe that we might be capable to live in God 37. Out of his will begat he or generated he us that we should put our will into him and then he bringeth us in himselfe to the Father into our Native Country again viz into Paradise out of which Adam went forth 38. He is become our Fountain his water springeth up in us he is our Spring and we are Drops in him he is become the fulness of our substantiality that we in him may live in God 39. For God is become Man he hath introduced his abyssal immensurable substance into the Humanity his Substance which filleth the Heaven that he manifested in the Humanity 40. Thus the Humane Substance and Gods substance are become one substance one fulness of God our substance is his moving in his Heaven 51. We are his Children his Wonder his moving in his abyssal Body 42. He is Father and we his Children in him we dwell in him and he in Us we are his Instrument wherewith he seeketh and maketh what he will 43 He is the Fire and also the Light together with all substance or every thing He is hidden and the Work maketh him Manifest 44. Thus we know that God is a Spirit and his Eternal Will is Magicall that is desirous he alwayes maketh substance out of Nothing ond that in a twofold source viz according to the Fire and Light 45. Out of the fire cometh fierce wrath climing up Pride willing not to unite it selfe with the Light but a fierce wrathful Eager Earnest will according to which he is not called God but a fierce wrathful consuming Fire 46. This Fire also becometh not manifest in the pure Deity for the Light hath swallowed up the Fire into it self and giveth to the Fire its Love its substantiality its water so that in Gods substance there is onely Love Joy and a pleasant habitation and no fire known 47. But the Fire is onely a Cause of the desirous Will and of the Love as also of the Light and of the Majesty else there would be no substance As it hath been largely expounded in the former writings 48. And now it is known to Us wherein our New Regeneration standeth even while we are yet in this world covered with the Earthly Tent or Tabernacle and are fallen home to the Earthly life viz meerly in the Imagination that wee with our will enter into Gods will and wholly unite and give up our selves into Him which is called Faith or Beleeving 49. For Word Faith or Glauden Believing is not Historical but it is a receiving out of Gods Substance to Eat of Gods Substance to introduce Gods substance with the Imagination into the Souls Fire to still its hunger therewith and so to put on the Substance of God 50. Not as a Garment but as a Body of the Soul the Soul must have Gods Substance in its Fire it must Eat the Bread of God if it will be a Child 51. Thus also it becometh New born in Gods Spirit and Substance which Spirit it transplanteth out of the soyl of the fierce wrath and Anger into the soyl of Love Meekness and humility of God and blossometh forth with a new blossom in Gods soyl or field 52 And that blossome which groweth in Gods Love is the right true Image of the Deity which God desired when he Created Adam to or in his likeness that now hath Gods and Mans Sonne Regenerated to us again 53. For his Regeneration out of God and out of our Substance is our Regeneration his power Life and Spirit is all ours 54. And we need do no more to it but that we onely and meerly enter with our will-Spirit through him into Gods substance and so our Will becometh generated in Gods will and receiveth divine power and substance 55. Not strange substance but our first with which we with Adam entered into Death and that awakeneth and raiseth up again to us the first born out of the Dead which is Christus Christ 56. He is God but yet is generated or born out of us that he might make us living from or out of the Death 57. Not any strange Life which we have not had in this World but our own Life for Gods purpose must stand 58. The fait blossome and Image must grow out of the Corrupted soyl and not onely so but also out of the pure Soyl. 59. We must be generated or Born of or out of the Virgin not out of the Man of the Anger out of the Fires Tincture but out of the Lights Tincture 60. We put on the Virgin of Christ with our giving up our selves thereinto 61. We herewith become the Virgin of Modesty and Chastity and purity in Ternario Sancto in the holy Ternary in the Angelical world a Looking-Glass of the Holy Trinity whetein God beholdeth himselfe and which he hath taken to him for his Spouse 62. He is our Husband or Man to whom we in Christ have been betrothed Maried and incorporated 63. And We are now Mary in the Covenant of Grace out of which God and Man become generated or born 64. Mary was the first in the high blessing for in her was the Mark at which the Covenant aimed or pointed 65. She was known in God in the highly precious Name JESU before the foundation of the World was laid 66. Not that she brought the Life out of Death but that God in her would bring the Life out of Death and therefore she became highly blessed and the pure virgin Modesty was put on to her 67. And out of that Virginity out of which Christ became Generated or born we all must be generated or Born for we must become Virgins and follow after the Lamb of God else we shall not see God For Christ saith Ye must be generated or born anew if ye will see the Kingdom of God through water and the holy Spirit 68. The water is the Virginity for the Virgin bringeth the Lights and Waters Tincture viz Love and Meekness 69. And the Spirit out of which we must become generated or Born is that which gave it selfe into
Holy Trinity the Mouth of the Manifestation or Revelation of the substance of all Substances and the power of the Life of all and every Life 25. The Third Person is the Spirit which with the apprehension of the Willing through the Imagination out of the power of the speaking goeth forth out of the Mouth of the Father into the Eye AVge viz into the Looking Glass of wisdome that is clearly free from the willing and also from the Word 26. And although indeed the will out of the Word giveth it yet it is free as the Aire is free from the Fire as Men see that the Air is the Fires spirit and Life and yet is another thing then the Fire and yet is given forth also from the Fire 27. And as Men see that the Air giveth forth a living and moving Heaven which is lustrous and moveable so also is the Holy Spirit the Spirit and Life of the Deity and another Person then the Father and Sonne 28. It beareth also another Office it openeth the wisdome of God so that the Wonders Appeare as the Aire openeth all the Life of this World that all Live and Grow 29. Thus this is a short explanation of the Deity in the Abyss how God dwelleth in himselfe and is himselfe the Center of the Genetrix 30. But now the humane Mind resteth not satisfied with this it asketh or inquireth after Nature after that out of which this world is become born or Generated and All Created Therefore now the Text concerning the Principle followeth further to which we have invited Reason for a Guest The Third Chapter How God without the Principle of Fire would not be manifested or revealed also Concerning the Eternal Substance and Concerning the Abyssal Will. 1. WEe have by this description shewed you what the Deity without or beyond Nature is wherein it is to be understood that the Deity as concerning the Three Persons together with the Eternal Wisdome that they are free from Nature and that the Deity hath yet a deeper Ground then the Principle in the Fire 2. But now the Deity without the Principle were not or would not be Manifest 3. And understand the Deity without or beyond the Principle to be a Glimps of the Great Wonder which none knoweth or can know what is is wherein all Colours power and virtue appear in a very terrible substance which yet seemeth like no substance but a terrible Wonder-AVge or Eye of Wonderâ— so that neither Fire Light noâ— Darkness may be discerned but a Glimps of such a Spirit in a high deep blew green and mixed Colour wherein all Colours lye and yet none may be known from the other but resembleth a Flash which is terrible whose Glimps disturbeth and Consumeth all 4. Thus we are to know concerning the Eternal substance viz the Eternal Spirit without the Fire and Light for it is a desirous will which thus maketh it self a Spirit 5. This Spirit is the Eternall Potentiality of the Abyss wherein the Abyss bringeth it selfe into a Ground whence all substance ariseth 6. For every Form in the Spirit is an Imagination a desirous will and desireth to manifest or Reveal it self 7. Every Form impregnateth its Imagination and Every form also desireth to manifest it self and therefore is the Looking-Glass of the Glimps a Wonder of the substance of all Substances and of the wonder there is neither Number ground nor End 8. It is a meer Wonder whose comprehension can not be written for onely the soulish Spirit which ariseth out of this Wonder that alone understandeth it 9. And then we understand how this Abyssal will is from Eternity in Eterniâ—y perpetually desirous viz to Manifest it self and to search or fathom it self what it is to bring the Wonder into a Substance and to Manifest it self in the Wonders 10. The desiring is an Imagination wherein the willing draweth into it self and impregnateth it self and overshadoweth it self with the Imagination that so out of the free willing a Contrary or opposite will existeth to be free from the Overshadowing viz from the Darknesse 11. For that which is drawn in is the Darkness of the free willing whereas otherwise without the Imagination it would be free â—et also in it self without the Imagination it would be a Nothing 12. Thus there ariseth together in the first willing in the Desiring a Contrary or opposite willing for the desiring is drawing in and the first will is quiet or still and in it self without substance 13. But it Impregnateth it self with the desiring so that it is full of Substance viz of the Wonder and power which overshadow it and make a Darkness of it or out of it 14. Whereas then in the indrawn powers an other will apprehendeth it self to go out from the dark power into the liberty 15. That other or second will is the Hearts or words Will for it is a cause of the Principle that the anxious wheel kindleth the Fire 16. So then it goeth through the Anguish viz through the fire forth with the shining or Lustre of the Light viz the Majesty wherein then the Substance of the Holy Trinity becometh Manifest and conceiveth or assumeth here the deare and precious Name God GOLL 17. Understand this further thus The first will viz God the Father that is and remaineth Eternally free from the Anxious source or quality as to what the willing in it selfe is but it s desiring becometh impregnated and in the desiring ariseth Nature with the Forms and Nature dwelleth in the Will viz in God and the will in Nature 19. And yet there is no Mingling for the will is so very thinne as it were Nothing and therefore it is not apprehensible it is not comprehended by Nature else if it might be Comprehended there would in the Deity be BUT ONE Person 20. It is indeed the cause of Nature but yet it is and remaineth in Eternity another World and Nature remaineth also another world in it self for it standeth in the power of the Essence out of which the Principle ariseth 21. For the Clear bright Deity in the Majesty standeth not in the Essence or in the Principle but in the Liberty without or beyond Nature 22. But the shining Light without or beyond the Principle maketh the Incomprehensible or Abyssal Deity manifest it giveth the shining or Lustre of the Majesty and yet hath it not in it selfe but it comprehendeth or conceiveth it out of the Looking-Glass of the virgin-like wisdome out of the Liberty of God 23. For if the Looking-Glass of Wisdome were not then could no Fire or Light be generated it all taketh its Original from the Looking-Glass of the Deity that is now to be understood in this manner following 24. God is in himselfe the Abyss viz the first World of which no Creature knoweth any thing at all for it standeth solely and alone with Spirit and Body in the Byss or Ground 25. Thus also God himselfe in the Abyss would not
and dwelleth in the wisdome and weareth it upon it selfe as its Garment of the Great wonders 55. Secondly it is the Cause to the indrawing to the Substantiality of the darknese viz to the other world and is the Cause and the Spirit to the Originall of the Essential Fire it is it selfe the source or quality in the Anguish of the Principle and also of the fiery world viz of the Great Life 56. And then Thirdly It is it selfe also that which the power in the dying of the principle bringeth forth out of the Fire wherein the power out of the anguish out of the dying severeth it selfe from the Dying goeth into the Liberty dwelleth in the Liberty and maketh the Light-world and so it is the flame of the Love in the Light-world 57. Here in this place ariseth the deare Name of God of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Spirit 58. For in the fire-Fire-world it is not called the Holy Spirit or God but Gods Anger Gods fierce wrath wherein as to this God calleth himself a Consuming fire 59. But in the light-Light-world viz in the Sonne of God it is the Flame of Love and the power of the Holy divine Life wherein it is called God the Holy Spirit 60. And the light-Light-world is called the Wonder Council and Power of the Deity which the Holy Spirit openeth for it is the Life therein 61. And is all together as farre as our Heart and Mind or Thought can reach Nothing but onely these Three worlds it ALL standeth therein 62. Viz First there is the Eternal Liberty and therein the light with the power in the Looking-Glass of wisdome which is called God the Father Sonne and Holy Spirit 63. Secondly there is the dark substantiality in the Imagination in the harsh astringent desirous willing the Impregnation of the desiring wherein all standeth in the Darkness viz in the anxious death 64. Thirdly There is the fiery world viz the first Principle which standeth in the Anguish viz the Great strong Omnipotent Life wherein the Light-world dwelleth but runapprehended by the Fire The Fourth Chapter Of the Principle and of the Originall of the Fire-World and of the Center of Nature also how the Light severeth it selfe from the Fire so that from Eternity in Eternity two Worlds are one in another 1. WEe will not write mutely or not to be understood but demonstratively with good Evidence We perceive and know that every Life doth originate it selfe out of the Anguish as in a venome or poyson which is a dying and yet is also the life it selfe As it is plainly to be perceived in Men and all Creatures 2. For without the Anguish or poyson there is no Life as is very well to be seen in all Creatures Especially in Man which existeth in Three Principles 3 As First One in the Fire wherein the Great Life standeth to which a dying Poyson viz the Gall belongeth which Poyson maketh the Anguish-Chamber wherein the Fire-life originally ariseth 4 And Secondly out of the fire-life the second Principle viz the Light-life out of which the Noble Minde with the Senses or thoughts Existeth wherein we bear and understand our Noble Image for the fire-life in the Heart originally ariseth from the Death of the Gall. 5. Thirdly We understand the Third Principle in the other Anguish-Chamber viz in the Maw or Stomack or Entrails whereinto we stuffe the four Elements with the constellation or Astrum where then the other Anguish-Chamber viz the third Center is viz the Kingdom of this World a stinck and Evil source or qualities house wherein the third Life viz the starry and Elementary life becometh generated and through the outward Body governeth with the Reason of the third Principle 6. Now we understand very well that in the Heart viz in the Center there standeth another world hidden which is incomprehensible to the starry and Elementary source or qualities house for the Heart sigheth or panteth after that World 7. And the Spirit which becometh generated out of the Death of the Hearts Poyson possesseth that other world for it is free from the Poyson which kindleth the Fire and yet dwelleth in the Fire of the Heart 8. But with its Imagination it conceiveth or comprehendeth the other world of the Libertty in the Imagination and dwelleth in the Liberty without of beyond the fire-source or quality but that onely so farre as it brings or bears a longing pleasure to or into God 9. Now then seeing there is such a Threefold dominion in Man sure it is much more so without or beyond Man for if that were not it could not possibly have come into Man for where there is nothing there also Nothing comes to be but if somewhat cometh to be it cometh out of that which is there Every Imagination modelleth onely its like in it selfe and manifesteth it selfe in the Similitude 10. Seeing then that the Substance of all Substances is an Eternall Wonder in Three Principles therefore it bringeth also forth onely Wonders Every Principle according to its Property and Every property again out of its Imagination whereby we know that the Eternal is a meer wonder 11. Therefore now we are to think upon these wonders and to consider the kind and property of the Eternal Genetrix for there can be no property unless it have a mother that giveth or affordeth it 12. Therefore we understand now first in this Great wonder of all wonders which is God and the Eternity together with Nature Especially seaven Mothers out of which the substance of all Substances originally ariseth and yet they are all seaven but one onely substance none of them is the first or the Last they are all seaven alike Eternal without beginning their beginning is the Opening of the Wonders of the ONE onely Eternal willing which is called God the Father 13. And then Secondly the Seaven Wonders could not be manifested or revealed if the ONE onely Eternal will which is called Father were not desirous 14. But if it be desirous then it is an Imagining in it selfe and is a longing pleasure to find it selfe 15. And it findeth it selfe also in the Imagination it findeth Especially Three forms in it selfe whereof None is the other and also none is without the other but every one generateth the other and if the one were not the other would not be but the will remaineth an Eternal Nothing without substance also without shining or Lustre 16. So now if the will be desirous therefore it is in-drawing of that which is in the Imagination wherein yet there is nothing and so it draweth it selfe and impregnateth it selfe in the Imagination and not in the willing for the will is as Thinne as Nothing 17. But now every desiring is harsh or astringent for it is its property and that is the first Mother 18. And the willings indrawing in the desiring is the other or Second Mother for these are two forms which are contrary or
which is more Noble then what it had devoured it giveth Spirit for substance 29. For it devoureth the Meek munificence or well doing that is the water of Eternal Life but it giveth the spirit of Eternal Life As ye see that the Wind goeth out of the fire as also the Air viz the right spirit out of the fire-life 30. Thus understand our Minde aright God the Father is in himselfe the Liberty without or beyond Nature but maketh himself manifest in Nature through the Fire the fiery Nature is his property 31. But he is in himself the Abyss wherein there is no feeling of any source quality or pain 32. But yet bringeth his desirous willing into source or quality and Createth to himself in the source or quality an other or second willing to go out of the source or quality again into the Liberty without or beyond the source or quality 33. That same second will is his Sonne which he generateth out of his own Eternal willing from Eternity 34. Which he bringeth through the breaking open of the source or quality of Death viz through the Earnest severity of his fierce wrath forth Through the fire 35. That very second will viz the Sonne of God the Father is that which breaketh or destroyeth Death viz the stern dark source or quality which kindleth the fire and goeth forth through the Fire as a thining Lustre or Glance of the fire and filleth or satiateth the first willing which is called Father 36. For the Glance is also as a thinne as a Nothing or as the will which is called Father and therefore it can dwel in the Liberty viz in the Fathers Willing and maketh the Father Light clear bright amiable friendly for it is the Fathers Herts oder Barmhertzigkcit Heart or Mercifulness 37. It is the Fathers substantiality it filleth or satiateth the Father in all places though indeed there is no place in him no beginning nor End 38. Understand us further thus The Fathers fire devoureth the Meek substance viz the water-source or quality of Eternal Life into it selfe into the fires owne Essence and meekeneth it selfe therewith 39. There must the substantiality in the fire as it were dye for the fire devoureth it into it self and Consumeth it 40. And giveth forth out of the Consumingness a living richly Joyful spirit and that is the Holy Spirit which thus goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne into the Great Wonder of the holy substantiality and openeth the same perpetually and Eternally 41. Thus the Deity is an Eternal Band which cannot cease or pass away and thus it generateth it self from Eternity and the first is continually also the last and the last again the first 42. And thus understand the Father to be the fiery world the Sonne the Light and power-world and the holy spirit to be the Life of the Deity viz to be the outgoing driving Power and yet all is but ONE God 43. As the Fire and the Light together with the Aire are but one onely Substance but yet divideth it self into Three parts and none can subsist without the other for the fire is not the Light also not the wind which goeth forth out of the Fire 44. Each hath its office and Each hath its own Substance in it self and yet each is the others life and a cause of the others life 45. For the Woâ—â—â—â—loweth the fire up else it would be stifled in its fierce wrath 〈◊〉 would fall into the dark death even as the stifling is the true 〈◊〉 wherein the fire of Nature extinguisheth and no more draw â—â—â—bstance into it 46. Of all thiâ—â— have a good similitude in the outward World in all Creatures she◠〈◊〉 every Life viz the Essential Fire-life draweth substance to 〈◊〉 â—hat is its food to Ear. 47. And the fire of its life consumeth the substance and giveth forth the Spirit of the power out of that which is consumed and that is the life of the Creature 48. And you see doubtless very rightly how the Life ariseth out of Death it becometh no Life unless it break that out of which the Life should go fortâ— it must also go into the Anguish Chamber into the Center and must reach to attain the fire-flash in the Anguish else there is no Kindling 49. Although the Fire be manifold and so also the Life yet out of the greatest Anguish existeth also the greatest Life as out of a right Fire 50. Thus dear children of God in Christ we give you our knowledge and entent to ponder of We mentioned in the beginning that we would shew you concerning the Death of Christ First wherefore Christ must have dyed and secondly wherefore we must dye also and Thirdly rise again in Christ 51. This you see now in this description very clearly and understand our Great Misery that it hath been necessary for us that the word or Life of the Holy light-Light-world is become a Man and hath generated us anew in himselfe whosoever understandeth nothing here he is not generated or born of God 52. Do but see into what Lodging Adam hath introduced us He was an extract of all the Three Principles a total similitude according to all the Three-worlds and had in his Mind and Spirit the Angelical property in him 53. He was introduced into the holy power and substantiality viz into Paradise that is the divine substantiality he should have eaten of divine substantiality and have drunk the water of Eternal Life after an Angelical Manner as in the Book of the Threefold Life hath been mentioned at large 54. But he lost the divine substantiality and the Angelical property and Imagined into the out-birth viz into the Kingdom of the Earthly source or quality which the Devil had kindled in his Fall He turned his Eyes out from God into the Earthly God out from the divine Light into the light of this world 55. Thus he became captivated and remained in the Earthly source or quality and so he fell into the Earthly Corruptible source or quality which ruleth in him and filleth him it putteth a body on to him and breaketh or destroyeth it again and swalloweth it up into its own Essence into its Essential Fire 56. But being the soul was breathed in out of the Spirit of God viz out of the Eternal into Man so that the soul is an Angel therefore hath God assumed the same to himself again 57. And the power of the holy light-Light-world viz the Heart of God is entered into the humane Essence which lay shut up in death into the anguish Chamber of our Misery 58. He hath gotten into himself a soul out of our Essence he hath taken our Mortal Life into himselfe and introduced the soul through death through the Earnest severe fire of God the Father into the Light-world hath broken or destroyed death which held us captive and unshut the life 59. Now it may not nor cannot be otherwise wâ—osoever will possess the Light-world
must enter in through the same path which he hath made he must enter into the death of Christ and so in Christs Resurrection he entereth into the light-Light-world 60. Even as we know that the Eternal Word of the Father which is the Fathers heart becometh generated from Eternity to Eternity out of the fierce wrath of the Death of Darkness through the Fathers Fire and is in himself the right Center of the Holy Trinity and is out of himself together with the outgone Holy Spirit the Light-flaming Majesty or light-Light-world 61. Thus also in like manner and property must we with our Hearts Senses or Thoughts and Minds go forth out of the harsh astringent stern and Evil or malignant Earthliness out of our selves out of the perished or corrupted Adamical Man and with our earnest severe willing and doing slay him 62. We must take upon us the Old Adams Cross which hangeth to us while we live and must upon and in the Cross go into the Center of Nature into the Triangle and be born anew again out of the anxious wheel if we will be Angels 63. But seeing we were not able to do this therefore hath Christ given himself into that veâ—ry Center of the fierce wrath and broken the fierce wrath and extinguished it with his Love 64. For he brought heavenly divine substantiality into that very fierce wrath into the Center of the Anguish-Chamber and extinguished the souls anguish-fire viz the fierce wrath of the Father of the fiery world in the soul so that thus Now we fall no more home to the fierce wrath 65. But when we give up our selves into the Death of Christ and go forth out of our selves out of the Evil Earthly Adam then we fall in Christs death into the Path or way which he hath made or prepared for us we fall into the Bosome of Abraham that is into Christs Armes who receiveth us into himself 66. For the Bosome of Abraham is the unshut light world in the death of Christ it is the Paradise wherein God Created us 67. And now the Matter lyeth in this Not that we be Lip-Christians or Mouth-Christians and pourtray and represent Christs death before us and remain wicked in heart spirit and soul but that we very Earnestly with Mind and Thoughts with willing and doing go forth out of the evill Inclinations or Injections and strive and fight against them 68. And though they evidently cleave and hang to us yet we must daily and hourly slay that evâ—â— Adam as to his willing and doing â— we must do that which we would not willingly do 69. We must deny our earthly Evil life it self and put on Christs life in us and then the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violens take it to themselves as Christ said 70. Thus we become impregnated with the Kingdom of Heaven and enter thus into Christs death with the living Body and receive the Body of Christ viz the divine substantiality we carry the Kingdom of Heaven in Us. 71. And thus we are Christs Children Members and heirs in Gods Kingdom and the express reflex Image of the Holy divine World which is God the Father Sonne and Holy Spirit and the same Holy Trinitys substantiality 72. All whatsoever becometh generated and opened out of the wisedom or substantiality is our Paradise and nothing dyeth to or in us but onely the dead Adam the Earthly Evil one whose willing we here nevertheless have continually broken and destroyed to whom we are become Enemies 73. Our Enemy onely departeth from us he must go into the fire understand into the Essential fire viz into the Four Elements and into the Mystery and must at the End of this Time be tryed through the fire of God and our Wonders and Works must be presented to us there againe whatsoever the Earthly Mystery hath devoured and swallowed up into it self that it must give up again into the fire of God 74. And yet not such an Evil one or substance but the fire of God devoureth the Evil and giveth us such a one for it as we here in our Anxious seeking have sought or desired 75. For as the fire deuoureth the substantiality but giveth Spirit for substance so shall our Works in the Spirit and Joy out of the fire of God be presented and set before us as a clear fair Looking-Glass like the wonders and wisdome of God 76. Let this be manifested or revealed to you dear Children for it is become highly known suffer not your selves to be so tickled with Christs death and to pourtray or paint the same before you as a work done and that it is enough for us when we know and believe that it is done for us 77. What doth it avail me that I know a Treasure lyeth hid deepeâ— and that I dig it not out it availeth nothing to Comfort and flater in hypocrisy and with the Mouth to give good words and fine babling but yet keepe Wickednesse in the soule 78. Christ saith Ye must become born anew or else ye will not see the Kingdom of God we must Convert and become as a Child in the Mothers body or womb and be generated or born out of divine substantiality 79. We must put a New Garment on to our soul viz the Mantle of Christ the Humanity of Christ else no flattering Hypocrisie availeth 80. It is all Lying which the Mouth-Cry saith which pourtrayeth Christ before our Eyes as that he hath done it for us and that we should onely comfort our selves with it and thereupon do walk in the old Adam in Covetousness high-mindedness and falshood in the Lusts of Evil and Maliciousness it is the Antichristian deceit of the false Spiritualty or Clergy of whom the Revelation warneth us 81. It all availeth nothing that we flatter our selves and tickle our selves with Christs suffering and Death we must enter into it and be like or conformable to his Image and then is Christs suffering and death profitable to us 82. We must take his Cross upon us and follow him quench the Evil Lusts and slay them and alwaies readily and earnestly will and desire that which is well and then we shall plainly see what Christs foot-steps are 83. When we shall strive and fight against the Devill the Old Adam and the Evil world against Earthly reason which desireth onely pleasure and voluptuousness then Christs Cross becometh rightly laid upon us for the Devil is it the world is it and our Evil Adam is it that we must fight against all these are our Enemies 84. And there must the New Man stand as a Champion and fight in the Footsteps of Christ 85. O how innumerable many Enemies will he there awaken and stirre up which will all fall upon him and this may indeed be called fighting for the Thorney victorious Garland or Crown of Christ as a Conquerour and yet onely be continually despised
Longing Malady The Gate of the New-Man 43. This is now to be understood thus God is become Man and hath introduced our humane soul into the divine substantiality again in Christ that eateth again of the divine substantiality viz of the love and meekness and drinketh of the water-spirit of Eternal Life out of the Eternal wisdome which is the fountaine of divine substantiality 44. That same soul of Christ hath gotten divine heavenly flesh and Bloud on it together with the word which is the Center of the Light-world which therein Imagineth or longeth after the poor Captive Souls that very Word dwelleth in the divine substantiality and in the virgin of Wisdom 45. But came into Mary and took our own Flesh and Bloud into the divine substantiality and brake and destroyed the power which held us captive in the anger of Death and of the fierce wrath on the Cross viz in the Center of Nature of the Original in the Fathers Eternal willing to Nature out of which our soul was taken 46. And kindled in that same Essence viz in the souls dark fire the burning Light fire again and brought the other or second willing of the soul through the fire of God viz quite forth out of the Original into the burning white clear bright Light 47. And when Nature in the soul found this it became richly full of Joy it brake Death in pieces and sprouted with Gods power forth into the Light world and made out of the fire a Love-desire so that in Eternity no fire more is perceived or known but a great and strong will in the Love after its sprouts and branches viz after our souls 48. And this is that which we say God thirsteth after our souls He is become our stock we are his sprouts and branches 49. As a stock alwaies giveth its sap to the Branches so that they live and bear fruit to the Glory of the whole Tree so doth also to us our stock the Lord JESUS CHRIST in the Light world which hath manifested himself in our souls he will have our souls viz his Branches 50. He is entered into Adams place or sted who hath destroyed us he is become Adam in the Regeneration 51. Adam brought our souls into this world into the Death of the fierce wrathfulness and he brought our soul out of Death through the Fire of God and kindled it in the Fire again so that it attained the shining Light again whereas else it had continued in the Dark Death in the Anguish source or quality 52. And now at present it lyeth onely in our selves Entering in that we onely follow after in the same way which he hath made 53. We need onely to cast our Imagination and Total willing into Him which is Called Glauben Believing or Faith and to oppose the Old Earthly willing and so we conceive or receive the Spirit of Christ out of the Regeneration which draweth heavenly substance into our soules viz Christs heavenly flesh and Bloud 54. When the Soul tasteth that then it breaketh through the dark Death in it self and kindleth the Fire of Eternity in it selfe out of which the shining Light of the Meekness burneth 55. That same very Meekness draweth the Soul again into it selfe viz the souls Fire and swalloweth the same up into it selfe and giveth forth out of the Death the Life and Spirit of Christ 56. Thus that same Spirit which goeth forth out of the Eternal fire dwelleth in the Light world with God and is the right Image of the Holy Trinity 57. It dwelleth not in this world the body apprehendeth it not but the Noble Minde wherein the soul is a Fire that apprehendeth it yet not palpably 58. Indeed the Noble Image dwelleth in the souls fire of the Minde but it hovereth therein as the light in the Fire 59. For while the Earthly Man liveth the soul is continually in hazard or Danger for the Devil hath Enmity with it who continually casteth forth his streames with false and wicked Imaginations into the starry and Elementary spirit and reacheth or graspeth therewith after the souls Fire and willeth continually to infect the same with Earthly devils longing and Malady 60. There must the Noble Image defend it self against the Souls fire and there it costeth striving and fighting for the Angels Garland there riseth up often in the Old Adam Anguish doubting and unbelief when the Devil sets upon the soul 61. O thou Cross of Christ how heavy art thou ofentimes how doth the heaven hide it selfe but so the Noble Grain is sown when that is sprung up then it bringeth forth much faire fruit in Patience Thus every little sprout groweth in the soule out of the divine wisedom 62. It must all press forth out of the Anguish Chamber as a sprout out of the root of the Tree it is all generated in the anguish 63. if a Man will have divine knowledge he must very many times go into the anguish-Chamber into the Center for Every sparckle of the Divine Ingenium wit skil or understanding out of Gods wisedom must become generated out of the Center of Nature else it is not permanent or Eternal 64. It must out of the Eternal Ground stand upon the Eternal Root and so it is a Sprout in Gods Kingdome out of Christs Tree 65. Thus we understand the Dying what it is and wherefore Christ must have dyed and why we must all dye in Christs Death if we will possess his Glory 66. The Old Adam cannot do that he must again into that out of which he is gone forth he shall be tryed through the fire of God and give up the wonders again which he hath swallowed up 67 They must come again to Man and appear to Man according to his will so far as he hath here made them in Gods willing but so for as to Gods dishonour so they belong to the Devil in the Abyss 68. Therefore let every one look to it what they here doe and make with what Minde and Conscience he speaketh doth and â—â—nye seth it shall all be tryed through the Fire 69. And what is capable of the Fire that it shall devour and give it to the Abyss in the Anguish of that a man shall have loss and hurt and shall want it in the other world 70 Instead of having Joy that he was a Labourer in the Vineyard of God he will be found to be a sluggish servant 71. Therefore will also the power Might clarity and brightnesse in the wonders of the divine wisdome in the other world be very unlike and different 72. Many is here a wiched King but in the other world to come a swine-heard shall be preferred before him in the Clarity brightnesse and Wisdome the Cause is his wonders wil be given to the Abyss being they were Evil. 73. Behold ye dear Men I shew ye a similitude of the Angelicaâ— world behold the flowery blossoming
in the Hearts of Men by the suggestion of the Arch-Enemy of all Man-kind who knoweth well enough that if the inward Word be once Choaked and killed at the Root so that it groweth not to be felt known and obeyed he will soon cause in Evil Minds that Most precious literal Word to be used onely as a pretence thereby to cover all Sin in Hypocrisie causing the Word in the Heart not to be so much as thought on or observed whereas on the Contrary he that highly esteemeth of the Word the Commandment Christ in the Heart that word of Faith by which the heart it self cometh originally to have its very being cannot in the least fail of Esteeming the powerfull working thereof in the inexpressible various wisdom dwelling in the Heart and appearing from the Mouth or Pen of any Man whatsoever Therefore peruse this Book which will inform us how the Eternal Word became Man and how the Man JESUS CHRIST who was born of the Virgin Mary and lived upon Earth for the space of Three and Thirty years and upwards then was Crucified dyed was buried arose again and ascended into Heaven within the little part of the World that Space of the Country of Aegypt the Wildernss the Land of Canaan Judea and City of Jerusalem in the fulness of Time about sixteen hundred and fifty Eight years ago How HE was also this Eternal Word which was is and Ever shall be God and Christ the Eternal Alpha and Omega the beginning and the End the word of Faith that very Word which is in our Hearts the word of Life the inserted or ingrafted Word the word of Grace the Spirit of Life the Bread which came down from Heaven which alwaies is in Heaven not the outward though in the outward Bread for we live not by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth out of the Mouth of God this is the Bread of Life Our Dayly Bread and so how he is both God and Man Also how we that are Men may here in this Life be rightly partakers of Him according to the sayings of the Scriptures also of his Sufferings Death and Resurrection and how or in what manner it is that he is like unto us in all things Sinne onely excepted and yet he took our Sinnes upon him he that knew no Sinne became Sinne for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him All this will be clearly discerned in this Treatise of the Incarnation of JESUS CHRIST or his Becoming Man and therefore also that so precious knowledg may not remain any longer shut up it is here published in the English Tongue Though by perusing it and Meditating therein the Holy Bible will appear assuredly to be as much the Word of God as a writing by Mans hand can be and the words there once spoken by the Prophets Christ the Apostles other Holy Men as much the word of God as words and voyces of Men can be The true sence and meaning thereof in the understanding as much the word of God as the Meaning in the Mind and understanding of any Man can be Yet the writing the Words and sense or meanings proceeding from Creaturely Instruments are creaturely whereas the Thing properly called the word of God which inwardly frames those Meanings and formeth all things whatsoever both visible and invisible is not a Creature for it is the Creator the Creating Word which is God himself who formeth all things in himself and so ALL is HE not one IOT a Creature But he createth the Creature and dwelleth therein yet the Creature is not nor ever can be He and so that word of his which is produced effected brought forth and Manifested Externally by the Creature is Gods Word but is not God the Word But the inward Word in the Heart that vvord of Faith even Christ the Word that Word is God Let me enquire a little Were not all Eternal Things whatsoever in Being in their own uncreated World before therewas so much as the least Glimps of any Created thing either Angel or Man either Created Light or Darkness either Created Heaven or Hell or this World And were not the Divine holy Spiritual and all other Natural things in Being without the Created inward and outward world as well as in them And had it not been so though the Angels world and ours had never been created And were not all the Things without them and within them in Being though they had not been spoken of in the Scriptures were not the Word God though John the Apostle had not said so were not the Pure in Heart Blessed should we not through Patience possess our Souls Is not God himself Light And if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light doth not the Bloud of Jesus Christ clense us from All Sinnes otherwise not though it be in us And is not his Flesh meat indeed and his Bloud drink indeed Why do we not eat and drink thereof If we deny our selves and take up the Cross of Christ that is tribulation anguish afflictions adversities and Crosses and follow him in Meekness and wel-doing loving those that hurt us returning Good for Evil to every one and blessing for Cursing and this unfeignedly from a sincere Heart are we not his true Disciples will not Heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that desire it though certain Disciples that believed and had been baptized in the Time of the Apostles had not so much as heard whether there was any holy Ghost yet being baptized in the Name of the Lord JESUS and having the hands of Paul laid on them they received the holy Ghost and Spake with Tongues and prophesied Do not they receive the Seed into Good Ground that heare the Inward Word and receive consent to or obey it and so understand it also bring forth fruit Doth not Faith come by inward Hearing and that Hearing by the same word of God And can those that have not Ears to hear that is Spiritual Ears hear though his voyce his Spiritual Tongue and voyce is gone into all the Earth that Word ingrafted in every thing by which all doth subsist Can the Natural Man perceive the Things of God seeing they are spiritually to be discerned or can any teach them rightly that is Spiritually but by the Spirit And if the word of Promise the Seed of the woman had not been quickned in Adam and Eve by Gods putting Enmity between the Womans and the Serpents Seed they both of them and all their posterity had been meerly Natural and Children of wrath onely and had been uncapable of ever becoming the Children of Grace and Mercy but in the Word of promise Christ in them all Mankind have in them the Spiritual Man the hidden Man of the Heart in whom even Cain was able to do well and so doing should have been accepted and in whom they are not only able to discern but to do all
troubleth us 20. Only of the Creation we have ability to speak for it is a Work in the Being or Substance of God and we understand that the Will of the Word or Heart of God comprehended or Comprised the astringent Fiat in the Center of the Fathers Nature together with the Seaven Spirits and Forms of the Eternal Nature and that in the Form and Manner of the Thrones 21 Where then the harsh Fiat stood not as a Maker but as a Creator in the property of Each Essence All in the Great Wonders of the VVisdome 22. As the Figures were from Eternity discovered in the Wisdome so they now became comprehended by the Fiat in the Will-Spirit of God 23. Not out of strange Matter but out of Gods Essences out of the Fathers Nature and became introduced by Gods Will-Spirit into the light of the Majesty 24. VVhere then they were Children and not strange guests generated and Created out of the Fathers Nature and property and their will-spirit was inclined or directed into the Sonnes Nature and property 25. They could and should Eat of Gods love-substantiality in the Light of the Majesty where then their fierce wrathful property out of the Fathers Nature became changed into Love and Joy 26. And that they all did besides or except one Throne and Kingdom and that turned it self away from the light of Love and would rule and domineer in the stern Nature of the Fire above Gods meekness and Love 27 And was therefore driven out from the Fathers Property from its own Creaturely Place into the Eternal Darkness into the Abyss of the stern Fiat and there must stand in its own Eternity and thus the fierce wrath of the Eternal Nature is here also filled 28. But yet we are not to think that King Lucifer also could not have stood He had the light of the Majesty for himself as well as the other Thrones of Angels If he had Imagined thereinto or according to it He had continued an Angel 29. But he drew himself out of Gods Love into the Anger and so he is now an Enemy of the love of God and of all Holy Angels 30. VVe are here to consider further Of the Enimicitious kindling of the Extruded Spirits while they were yet in the Fathers property How they with their Imagination kindled the Nature of the substantiality so that out of the Heavenly Substantiality Earth and Stones are come to Bee and the Meek Spirit of the water is come to be a burning Firmament in the fires source or quality whereupon the Creation of this World viz of the Third Principle followed 31. And for the Place of this World there was an other Light awakened viz. the SUN that so the Devils Pomp might be withdrawn from him and he was thrust out and shut up as a Prisoner in the Darkness between the Kingdom of God and of this world 32. VVhere then in this world he hath no further to Rule but only in the Turba in the fierce wrath and Anger of God where that is awakened there he is Executioner and is a continual Lyer Mischiefer and betrayer and Cheater of the Creatures 33. He turneth all Good into Evill so far as he is permitted room to do so whatsoever is Terrible and Pompous there he sheweth his might and willeth continually to be above God 34. But the Heaven which is Created out of the midst of the Waters as a Meek Firmament allayeth his Pomp so that he is not Chief Great Prince in this world but Prince of wrath 35. Now when the Devil was thrust out of his Place this Place or Throne thereupon stood without its Angelical Hoast in great desire and longing after its Prince but he was thrust out 36. So now God Created for it another Prince Adam the first Man who was also a Throne-Prince before God and here we are rightly to consider his Creation as also his Fall for the sake of whom the Heart of God moved it self and became Man 37. It is not so slight or trivial a thing or Matter about the Creation of Man for whose Fall sake God became Man that he might Help him again 38. So also his Fall was not the meere Biting of an Apple also his Creation was not in that manner as outward Reason supposeth which understandeth the first Adam in his Creation to be onely a meere Clod of Earth 39. No my Dear Mind God is not become man for the sake of a Clod of Earth neither was the matter meerly one disobedient Act for which God was so enraged that his wrath could not be pacified except it be revenged on the Sonne of God and slay him 40. To Us Men indeed since the loosing of our Paradisical Image this Mystery hath continued hidden except to some who have attained the Heavenly Mystery again to them somewhat thereof hath been opened according to the Inward Man 41. For in Adam we are Dead as to Paradise and must Sprout and Grow again through Death and the Corruption of the Body into Paradise as into another world in the life of God into the Heavenly Substantiality and Corporeity 42. And though it be so in some that they attain the Substantiality of God viz Christs Body again on to the soul yet the Perished Earthly Adam hath covered the Holy and pure Mystery so that the Great secret Mystery hath continued hidden to Reason 43. For God dwelleth not in this world in the Outward Principle but in the Inward he dwelleth indeed in the Place of this world but this world apprehendeth him not how then will the Earthly Man apprehend the secret Mysteries of God 44. And if a Man do apprehend them he apprehendeth them according to the Inward Man which is born of God again 45. But seeing the Divine Mystery will now more and more henceforth be laid so wholly open and be so very apprehensibly given to Man that he will very clearly apprehend the hidden secret therefore it ought by him to be well considered what it signifieth Even the Harvest of this world for the beginning hath found the End and the Middle is set into the separation 46 Let this be told to you ye Children who would inherit the Kingdom of God there is a time of Great Earnestness or severity at Hand the Floar shall be purged Evil and Good shall be severed one from another The Day Dawneth this is highly known 47. When we will speak of Man and rightly understand out of what he is made we must Consider of the Deity together with the Being of All Beings or Substance of all Substances for Man was Created according to the similitude of God out of all the Three Principles a totall Image and Similitude according to all Beings or Substances 48. He must not be an Image of this world only for this worlds Image is Beastial and for the sake of no Beastiall Image is God become Man 49. For neither did God create Man to live thus in
Inability that is Being or Substance 16. For the Spirit ariseth in the Fire but it severeth it selfe into two Sources or Qualities as one into the Fire and one in the sincking down into the Liberty into the Light 17. This is called God for it is Meek and Lovely and hath in it self the Kingdom of Joy and the Angelical world is understood in the sunk down Liberty of the Substantiality 18. Therefore when we were gone out from the Liberty of the Angelical Substantiality into the Dark source or quality whose Abysse was the Fire then there was no Remedy unless the Lights power and Word as a word of Divine Life became a Man and brought us out of the darkness through the fire source or quality through the Death in the fire a-again into the Liberty of the divine Life into the divine Substantiality 19. And Therefore must Christ dye and with the soul-Spirit go through the Fire of the Eternal Nature viz through Hell and the fierce wrath of the Eternal Nature and enter into the Divine Substantiality and break open a way for our souls through the Death and Anger through which we may with and in him enter through death into the Eternall Life 20. But concerning the divine Substantiality viz concerning the divine Corporeity we are to understand as followeth 21. VVe understand that the Light giveth Meekness viz Love Now the fires anguish desireth Meekness that it may slake its great Thirst for the fire is desirous and the Meekness is giving for it giveth it self 22. Thus in the desiring of Meekness cometh to be substance or Being viz a substantial Essentiality which is sunk down from the fierce-wrath which giveth its own Life freely and that is Corporeity for out of the power in the Meekness it becometh substantial and is by the Astringency as by the Eternal Fiat attracted or put on and retained 23. And is therefore called Substantiality or Corporeity because it is sunk down from the fire source or quality and Spirit and is in respect of the spirit as mute or inanimate Dead and impotent whereas Yet it is an Essential Life 24. Understand us aright thus when God created the Angels there were onely Two Principles manifested and in Being or Substance viz that in the Fire and that in the light viz One in the fierce wrathful Substantiality in the stern astringent Fiat with the forms of the fires Nature 25. And then that in the Heavenly substantiality out of the Holy Power with the water source or quality of Meekness of the Life of Joy in which the divine Sulphur as in the Love and Meekness was generated its Fiat was Gods desiring will 26. Out of this divine Substantiality viz out of Gods Nature the Angels as Creatures were Created and the source or quality of their Spirit and Life ariseth in the Fire 27. For without Fire no Spirit doth subsist and if it go out of the Fire into the Light there it obtaineth the love source or quality and the fire becometh onely a cause of its Life but the fires fierceness becometh quenched with the Love in the Light 28. But Lucifer dispised this and continued in the Fire-Spirit and so Elevated himself also and kindled the substantiality in his Place out of which Earth and Stone came to be and he was thrust out and so the Third Corporeity and the Third Principle began together with the Kingdom of this world 29. So when the Devil was thrust out into the Darknesse then God Created another Image according to his similitude in this Place 30. But if it must be Gods similitude according to all the Three Principles then must it also be taken out of all the Three and out of All Beings or Substances of this Place or of this Deep as far as the Fiat had with Lucifers Principality given it self into the Ether to the Creation 31. For Man came in the sted of Lucifer and hence ariseth also the Envy of the Devils that they cannot afford Man that Honour but leade him continually into the Evil way of perdition whereby they may but increase their Kingdom and they do it as a spite against the Meeknesse viz the love of God supposing that seeing they live in the fierce strong Might that they are higher then the Spirit of God in the Love and Meekness 32. Understand it thus Gods Will-Spirit viz the Holy Spirit hath comprised the Two-fold Fiat in two Principles viz in the Angelical world the Inward and in this outward world the Outward and Created den Mesch oder Menschen as a Mixt person for The Mixture or Man he should be an Image according to the Inward and outward world but should with the inward source or quality rule over the outward thus he should have been the similitude of God 33. For the outward Substantiality hung to the Inward and the Paradise grew through the Earth and Men in this world upon the Face of the Earth was in Paradise for Paradisical fruit grew for him till the Fall when the Lord Cursed the Earth 34. Then Paradise passed into the Mystery and became a Mystery or hidden secrecy to Man whereas yet if he be born of God again according to the Inward Man he dwelleth in Paradise but according to the Outward he dwelleth in this world 35. VVe are further to consider the Beginning and Original of Man thus God hath created his Body out of the Matrix of the Earth out of which the Earth was Created 36. All was together one in another and yet parted it self into Three Principles of a Threefold Substantiality and yet that in the fierce wrath was not known 37. Now if Adam had continued in Innocency he had lived the whole time of this world only in Two Principles and had ruled with one over all and the fierce wrathful Kingdom had not been known or manifested in Him though indeed he had it in him 38. And we are to understand furthee that Adams Body was Created out of the Inward Element wherein the Inward Firmament and Heaven together with the Heavenly Essences do lye as to one Part by the Inward Fiat 39. And as to the other Part he was created by the outward Fiat out of the outward Four Elements and out of the Constellation or Astrum for in the Matrix of the Earth they stood one among another The Paradise was therein and the Body was created also in Paradise 40. Understand us aright He had divine and also Earthly Substantiality on him but the Earthly was impotent and as it were swallowed up in the Divine 41. The Substance or matter out of which the Body was Created was a Mass or Lump of fire and water together with the Essences of Both those principles although the First also lay therein but not stirring 42. Every Principle should continue in its seat and should not mixe even as is done in God and then Man were a Total Image according to Gods Being or Substance Of
the Promise did incorporate it selfe in the Light of Life that is in the Tincture of the soul instantly in Paradise when Adam fell yea indeed before Adam was Created as Paul saith We are Elected in Christ before the foundation of the World was laid 7. For God in his wisdome knew the Fall therefore the Name JESUS did so instantly incorporate it selfe into the word of Life environed with the Virgin of Wisdom in Adamsâ— Image with the Cross 8. For the soul it selfe is even a Cross-Birth as when the soul-Fire kindleth it â—â—â—fe then it maketh in the flash a Cross that is an Eye with a Cross with Three Principles with the Character of the Holy Trinity as in the Third Book or part concerning the Threefold Life of Man is declared and yet further in the Fourth Part the forty Questions of the Soul 9. We are to understand that Mary in whom Christ became Man was truly the Danghter of Joachim and Anna according to the Outward Flesh and was extracted out of the Seed of Joachim and Anna according to the Outward Man 10. But according to the will she was a Daughter of the Covenant of Promise for she was the Mark to which it pointed at 11. In her stood the Center in the Covenant and therefore she was by the Holy Ghost in the Covenant highly blessed among and above all women Ever since Eve for the Covenant opened it selfe in her 12. You must understand it aright according to its high precious worth The word together with the Promise which with the Jewes stood in the Type or prefiguration as in a Looking-Glass wherein God the Angry Father Imagined and thereby quenched his Anger that moved it selfe Nâ—w after an Essential manner which from Eternity had not been done before 13. For when Gabriel the Prince brought her the Message that she should be impregnated or with Child and that she consented thereto and said be it unto me as thou hast said then the Center of the Holy Trinity moved it selfe and opened the Covenant that is the Eternal Virginity which Adam lost became opened in her in the word of Life 14. For the Virgin of Gods Wisdom environed the word of Life viz the Center of the Holy Trinity thus the Center became Moved and the Heavenly Vulcan struck up the Fire of Love so that the Principle in the Love-flame became generated 15. Undeâ—stand this right In Maries Essences in the Virgin-like Essences which perished in Adam out of which he was to generate a virgin-like Image according to the Wisdom of God the divine fire became struck up and the Principle of Love kindled 16. You are to understand that in the seed of Mary When she became impregnate with the Soul-Spirit that is with the Tincture of Venus for in the Tincture of Venus that is in the Source or Quality of Love Adams first Fire became struck up in the word of Life 17. And in the Child JESUS 〈◊〉 both Tinctures perfect just as in Adam and the word of Life in the Covenant understand in the Holy Trinity was the Center and rhe Principle appeared as in or to the Fathers part 18. Christ became Man in GOD and also in MARY in all the THREE Principles and together therewith also in the EARTHLY world 19. He took the form of a Servant upon him that he might be able to Master Death and the Devil 20. For he was to be a Prince in the Place or space of this world in the Angelical Prince-Throne viz uopn the seat and in the Authority of the late Angel and Prince Lucifer over all the Three Principles 21. Now then First If he must be Lord over this outward World then he must also dwell in the Outward World and have it Essence and property 22. In like manner Secondly If he must be Gods Sonne then he must also be generated out of God 23. And Thirdly If he must quench the Fathers Anger then he must of necessity be also in the Father 24. And Fourthly If he must be the Soone of Man then he must also of necessity be of Mans Essence and Substance and Fifthly must have a humane Soul and a humane Body as we all have 25. It is known to us that Mary his Mother as also Christ from or of his Mother were both of the humane Essence with Body Soul and Spirit and that Christ received a Soul out of Maries Essence yet without Masculine Seed 26. Onely the great Secret Arcanum of God was there opened and the first Man with his Sâ—cret Mystery which fell into Death was here generated to Life again understand in the Principle of God 27. For because of this the Deity Moved it selfe and struck up the Fire in the Fathers Principle and so the deadened Sulphur which dyed in Adant became living again 28. For the word had in it self heavenly Substantiality and opened it selfe in the Heavenly Substantiality in the virgin-like Image of the Deity this is the pure chast Virgin wherein the Word of Life became Man 29. And so the Outward Mary became adorned and blessed with the Highly blessed heavenly Virgin among all Women of this World 30. In her that which was dead and shut up of the Humanity became living again and so she became as highly graduated or Dignified as the first Man before the Fall and became a Mother of the Throne-Prince 31. This came not out of her ability but out of Gods ability unless the Center of God had moved it selfe in her she would have been no otherwise then all Eves Daughters 32. But in this place The word of Life had fixâ—d the Mark as also the Covenant of Promise and therefore she is the blessed among all Women and above all Eves Children 33. Not that she is a Goddess which Men should honour as God for she is not the Mark for she also said How shall that come to pass since I know not of any Man 34. But the word of Life in the Center of the Father which gave in it self with the Moving of the Deity into the Humanity and opened it selfe in the Humane Essence that is the Mark that is the Goal that we must run to in the Regeneration 35. This is a greater wonder then in the first Adam for the first Adam was created out of Three Principles and his Spirit was introduced into him through the Spirit of God and the Heart of God needed not to move it selfe in an especial manner for Gods Spirit did onely move it self out of Gods Heart 36. But now the Center or Heart of God moved it selfe which had rested from Eternity and the Divine Fire was there struck up and kindled or awakened as a Man may Express it The Dear or precious Gate 37. We should rightly understand the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ the Sonne of God thus he is not become Man in the Virgin Mary onely so that his Deity or divine Substantiality did sit bolted up or
have suffered it selfe to be impregnated with Earthly seed 94. Here it attaineth the right fires and Mans Tincture so that thus it is also a right Masculine Virgin as Adam was in his Iâ—nocency The Tenth Chapter Of the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Chrst the Sonne of God and how he lay Nine Months as all the Children of Men shut up in his Mothers Body or Womb and how properly his Becoming Man is 1. MEn have had much disputing about Christs becoming Man but very blindly and have made many Opinions concerning it and so Men have beene turned about with Opinion and have left and let the right becoming Man or Incarnation lye still upon which our Eternal Salvation dependeth 2. Of which all the cause hath been that Men have sought it in outward Wit or Understanding and Art and Not at the right Mark Aim or Place 3. If a Man were entered into Christs becoming Man or Incarnation and were born of or out of God it would need no disputing for the Spirit of God openeth to every one the becoming Man or Incarnation even in himself and without this there is no finding it 4. For how will we find in this Worlds Reason that which is not in this World we find in the outward Reason scarce any Glimps thereof but in Gods Spirit is the right finding 5. The becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ is such a Mystery as which the Outward Reason knoweth nothing of for it is done in all the Three Principles and cannot be searched out unless a man know the first Man in his Creation before the Fall 6. For Adam was to generate the Second Man with the Character of the Holy Trinity out of himselfe in which the Name JESUS was Imaged or Incorporated 7. But that could not be and therefore must another Adam come in whom it was possible for Christ is the Virgin-like Image with the Character of the Holy Trinity he is conceived in Gods Love and generated in this world 8. Adam had divine Substantiality and his soul was out of the first Principle out of the Fathers property and that should have with its Imagination inclined it selfe into the Fathers Heart viz into the Word and Spirit of Love and purity and have eaten of the Substantiality of Love and then it had reteined Gods Substance in the Word of Life in it selfe and would have been impregnated with the power out of the Heart of God 9. Whence then it should have Imagined out of it selfe into â—s substantiality and it selfe have impregnated its Substantiality so that a whole similitude according to the first Image would have Existed through the Imagination and the yeelding up of the Soul into it and be conceived in the power of the Substantiality 10. But being this could not be done in Adam because of the Earâ—â—liness which clave to him therefore it was done in the Second Adam Christ who was in such a manner conceived through Gods Imagination and entering into the Image of the first Adam 11. And it is known to us that being the first Adam had fixed his Imagination in the Earthliness he is become Earthly and that done against the purpose of God yet the purpose of God must stand 12. For here God set his purpose in Adams Child and brought his Imagination into the perished Image and Impregnated the same with his divine power and Substantiality and Converted the Souls will out of the Earthliness into God so that thus Mary became Impregnated with such a Childe as Adam should have been impregnated with 13. Which selfe ability could not effect but sunk down into sleepe viz into the Magia where then the Woman was made out of Adam which should not have been Made but Adam should himselfe have impregnated in Venus's Matrix and have generated Magically 14. But seeing that might not be therefore was Adam divided and his own wilâ— of Great Might and power was broken in him and shut up in Death 15. And seeing he would not set his Imagination into the Spirit of God therefore must his great Might and power in Death hold still and let the Spirit of God set his Imogination into it and do with it what he will 16. Therefore Gods Spirit awakened the Life to him out of that Death and became the Spirit of that Life that the Image and Similitude according to God which was known from Eternity in Gods wisdom might yet be generated and subsist 17. For it stood before the time of the World and from Eternity in the Virgin-Looking-Glass in the wisdom of God and that in two Forms 18. Viz according to the First Principle of the Father in the Fire and in the second Principle of the Sonne in the Light and yet was onely Manifest in the Light and in the Fire as it were in a Magia viz in a possibility 19. As the Starry Heaven modelleth to Man a figure in sleep in his Minde according to its ability or possibility so also hath the Image in the Center of the Fires Nature appeared altogether Invisibly 20. But in the wisdom in the Looking-Glass of the Deity it hath appeared as an Image like a shadow yet without Material Substance and yet hath been in the Essence of that Spirit 21. Which if it had discerned it selfe in the Looking-Glass of the wisdome it would have known and seen this Image and would once have set its will thereinto to bring it into Substantiality that God might have an Image or similitude in Substance where it might not need any more to see it selfe as in a Looking-Glass but find it selfe in Substance 22. Therefore seeing the first Image Imagined into the stern Might and power and thereupon became Earthly and Dead Gods Spirit brought its will and life into Death and took to it selfe again the first Life out of Death that the first Life might stand in full obedience before it and that it alone may be the Will and the Deed. 23. Thus it is known to us that God hath Entered into the halfe dead Image understand into Mary and even into that virgin-like form which lay shut up in Death wherein Adam should have become impregnated and generated an Image of himselfe in the Virgin-like Chastity 24. In this shut up Virgin-like half dead Matrix is Gods Word or Heart viz the Center of the Holy Trinity become a Humane Image without hurt to his Substance 25. And whereas the first living Virgin-like Matrix in Adam would not be obedient to God yet now when it was again awakened and raised out of Death it became Obedient and gave it selfe totally humbly and willingly into Gods will and thus now the right Virgin-like Image became figured into the Obedience of God again 26. For the first will must remain in Death which Imagined against Gods will and a pure Obedient will became awakened which might remain in the heavenly Meekness which would no more suffer the Image in the fire in the Fathers part to
the Womans seed with the Moving of the Deity which brake or destroyed Death which out of the water bringeth forth a Light-flaming Blossome wherein he is the spirit and life of the blossome 70. Not according to the Fire-source or quality of the fierce wrath but according to the Quality of the Light in the Meekness and humility The Twlefth Chapter Of the Pure Virginity How we poor Children of Eve must be conceived out of the pure Virgin-like Modesty or Chastity in the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and be new born in God else we shall not see God 1. WE poor Children of Eve finde in us no pure virgin-like thoughts for Mother Eve which was a Woman hath made us all Feminine and Masculine 2. We are in Adam and Eve all become Men and Women except we enter into the heavenly virginity with our desiring Will in which God hath generated us out of Christ to be Virgins again 3. Not according to the Earthly Life in which there is no Modesty Chastity and purity but according to the Life of the Heavenly Virgin in which Christ became a Man and which with the Over-shadowing of the Holy Ghost became put on to Mary which is without ground limit and End which every where standeth before the Deity which is a Looking-Giass and representation or express Image of the Deity 4. Into this Virgin wherein the Holy Tinity dwelleth wherein we were discerned or discovered before the times of the world by the Spirit of God and were know in the Name of JESU we must Enter with our Will-Spirit 5. For our true Image in which we are the similitude of God is with Adam and Eve extinguished to Us and become Earthly 6. Which is done through Lust or Imagination and so Gods clear Countenance became covered for we lost the heavenly Modesty or Chastity 7. But seeing God for us hath out of his favour and Love opened his clear countenance towards us again in the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and so now it lyeth in this that as we in Adam have imagined into the earthly longing whence we are becom Earthly so we now set our desiring will in the havenly Virgin and bring our longing thereinto and then our Image goeth out from the Earthly Woman and conceiveth the virgin-like Essence and property wherein God dwelleth wherein the souls Image may attain the Countenance of God again 8. Outward Reason saith how may that come to pass that we might be born again out of the Virgin out of which Christ was born It understandeth solely Mary but we understand not the Mary which is a creaturely Virgin 9. For as we also in the immaterial Virgin-like modesty or chastity became Creaturely Virgins so if we enter into the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ not according to the outward Life in the four Elements but according to the Inward in the One Element where the Fire of God swalloweth up the four Elements into it self and yet in his Light viz in the second Principle wherein the outward Man and Woman must go through death in Christs resurrection as a virgin in the one Element wherein all the four lye hidden we then grow forth and spring in the Right viâ—gin-like wisedome of God 10. We must dye away from the Man and the Woman and Crucifie the Corrupt Adam he must die with Christ and be cast into the Fathers Anger 11. That swalloweth up the Earthly Man the Earthly Woman and giveth to the soul out of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Chrâ—st a virgin-like Image wherein the Man and the Woman is but one only Image with one only Love 12. Now the Man sets his Love in or upon the Woman and the Woman in or upon the Man but if both the loves be turned into one there is then no desire of Co-mixture more in the one onely Image but the Image loveth it selfe 13. But now the Image in the beginning was Created in the virgin-like wisedome of God viz out of the divine substantiality 14. And now because the substance was become Earthly and fallen into death therefore the Word which became Man awakened and raised it up again and so the Earthly source or quality remaineth with death in the Anger and the raised remaineth in the word of life in the virgin-like Modesty or chastity 15. And so we bear here in this World a two fold Man in one Person viz a virgin-like Image born out of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and an Earthly Image Masculine and Feminine shut up in Death and in the Anger of God 16. The Earthly must bear the Cross and suffer it selfe to be scorned persecuted and afflicted in the Anger and becometh at length given to Death and then the Anger swalloweth it up into the sourcive qualifycating fire of God 17. And so if the word of Life which in Mary became Man is together in the Earthly Image then Christ who wrought the word of Life out of God riseth up from Death and bringeth the Essence of the sourcive or Qualificating fire understand the humane Essence out forth from Death 18. For he is arisen out from Death and liveth in God and his life is become our Life and his death our Death we are buried in his death and sprout forth in his resurrection and victory in his Life 19. But understand the meaning right Adam was the virgin-like Image he had peculiar Love of his own for the Spirit of God had breathed it into him for what other can the Spirit of God breath out of it self then what it selfe is 20. But now that is All and yet all sources or qualities are not called God but in all sources or qualities there is but one onely Spirit which is God viz according to the second principle in the Light yet there is no Light without Fire 21. But in the fire he is not the love-Spirit or Holy Ghost but the fierce wrath of Nature and a cause of the Holy Spirit an Anger and a Consuming fire 22. For in Fire is the Spirit of Nature Free and yet the Essentiall fire also giveth or affordeth Nature and is it selfe Nature 23. And yet we understand but one holy Spirit in the Light though indeed all is but one substance yet we understand that the Matter which is generated out of the Meekness of the Light is as it were impetent and obscure which the fire draweth and swalloweth up into it selfe 24. But giveth forth out of the Material source or quality out of the fire a mighty potent Spirit which is free from the Matter and also from the fire and though the fire reteineth it yet it apprehendeth not its source or quality 25. As we see that the Light dwelleth in the Fire and yet hath not the source or quality of the Fire but a Meek love-source or quality which also would not be if the Matter were not dead and consumed in the Fire 26. Thus we consider and conceive
within the Old Adam shall follow after him and the Evill or Malignity of the Old Adam shall be burnt up in Gods fire and be given to the Devil for food 56. Now saith Reason being the New Man in this world in the Old is onely in the becoming Man or Incarnation then it is not PERFECT 57. This is no otherwise then as with a child where the seed with two Tinctures viz the Masculine and Feminine is sowen the one in the other and a Child cometh out of it 58. For as soon as a Man Converteth and turneth himselfe to God with heart Minde thoughts and will and goeth out from his wicked wayes and giveth himselfe up wholly sincerely and Earnestly into God then in the fire of the soul in the old perished or Corrupted Image the Impregnation beginneth 59. And the Soul apprehendeth in it selfe the Word that moved it selfe in Mary in the Center of the Holy Trinity which in Mary with the Modest highly blessed heavenly Virgin the wisedom of God gave in it selfe into the halfe dead Virgin and became a True Man 60. That very Word which in Mary in the Center of the Holy Trinity moved or roused it selfe which united or Espoused it selfe with the half dead shut up virginity apprehendeth the Soulish Fire and then instantly in the Souls Image viz in the souls Light in the Meckness viz in the shut up virgin-like wisdom the Impregnation begineth 61. For Mans love-Tincture apprehendeth Gods Love-Tincture and the seed is sown in the Holy Spirit in the Souls Image as in Our Book of the Threefold Life of Man is written at large 62. Now behold When the virgin-like Marks in Gods love appear then may this twig or branch be born for in God ALL is PERFECT 63. But being it sticketh covered in the Old Adam and standeth onely as it were in the Essence as a â—â—â—d therefore there is great danger concerning it for many attain this Twig or Branch first at their last End 64. And though indeed he hath brought it along with him out of his Mothers body or womb yet it becometh perished or corrupt and broken and made earthly by many 65. Thus it goeth also with the poor sinner when he repenteth but afterwards becometh an Evil Man it goeth with him as befell Adam who was a fair Glorious Image Created and highly Englightned from God 66. But when he suffered Lust to overcome him he became Earthly and his fair Image became captivated in the Earthly source or quality in the Anger of God and thus it goeth continually 67. But this we say according as we have received enlightning in the Grace of God and have wrestled much for the Garland that they that in the Earnest continue stedfast or Constant till his Twig or Branch get a Bud or little blossom his Twig or branch will not easily be broken in one or more storms for that which is weak hath also a weak life 68. We speak not thus in or as concerning the Deity but Naturally it is thus and indeed also all is done Naturally for the Eternal hath also its Nature and the one doth but proceed out of the other 69. If this world bad not been poysoned by the Malignity and fierce wrath of the Devil then Adam had continued in this world in Paradise and there would have been no such fierce wrath in the Starres and Elements 70. For the Devil was a King and great Lord in the place of this world and he hath awakened the fierce wrath 71. God therefore created the Heaven out of the midst of the Waters that the fiery Nature viz the fiery Firmament might be captivated with the water-Heaven that its fierce wrath might be quenched 72. Else if the water should be gone or pass away Men would plainly see what would be in this world nothing else but a cold stern harsh astringent and fiery burning yet onely Dark for there could be no Light for the Light subsisteth meerly in the Meekness so there can also be no shining fire except it have meek substantiality 73. Therefore it is known to US that God hath burned the heavenly substantiality into water which was done Naturally 74. When God the Father moved himselfe and the Devil fell who would be a fire-Lord over the Meekness then there was such a Bolt thrust in before his poysoned Malignity so that now he is Gods Ape or Mimick and not Lord a raver and fulfiller in the Anger-source or quality 75. Therefore being we know this that we are environed with the Anger we should have a care of our selves and not so slightly and meanly Esteem our selves for we are not onely from this world but also in lik manner from the divine World which standeth hidden in this world and is neer us 76. We can live and be in Three worlds at once if we sprout forth with the virgin-like Image out of the Evil life 77. Eor we live in the first Principle in the fire-world in the fire as to the Essential-soul viz as to the fire-source or quality in the Center of Nature of Eternity 78. And then with the right pure Virgin Image we live in the Light-flaming Paradise-world although in the place of this world the same is not manifest yet in the virgin Image in the Holy Spirit and in the word that dwelleth in the virgin-like Image becometh known 79. And then Thirdly with the Old Adam we live in this Corrupted sickly world with the Devil in his kindled sickness or Longing therefore it is said be Watchful or Circumspect 80. Christ saith Be simple as Doves and subtle as Serpents take heed to your selves 81. In Gods Kingdome we need wo subtilty we are onely Children in the bosome of the Mother but in this world we must be watchfull or Circumspect or look to our selves 82. We carry the Noble Treasure in an Earthly Vessel it is soon done to loose God and the Kingdom of Heaven which after this time is more to be attained 83. We are here in the soyl and in the seed we stand here in the growing if it fall out that the Stalk be once broken yet the root is there still so that another stalk may grow 14. Here the Door of Grace standeth open to Man there is no sinner so great but if the Convert he may be regenerated or new born out of the Evil Malignity 85. But whosoever wilfully and obâ—â—inately casteth his root into the Devils Mire and as to his growing or sprouting out again despairs or resloves against it who will help him that will not himself be helped also God will not have him who himself will not 86. But if in his will he converts to God then God will have him for he which willeth in Gods Anger him will Gods anger have But he which willeth in the Love him will Gods love have 87. Paul saith To whom you give your selves as Servants in Obedience either of sinne to Death or of
Understand here also the Fall of Man who turned his Imagination into the Materiall Essentiall substantiality and is gone forth out of the Light 74. For which cause the will of the Love out of the light world is again entered into the Material Substantiality in the humanity and hath again espoused or united it self to the Essential fire-spirit in Man viz of the soul and given it self thereinto and hath introduced the same quite through death and the Fire into the light-light-world in Ternarium Sanctum into the Holy Ternary viz in the willing of the Holy Trinity 75. Let this be a finding and knowing to you and despise it not for the Great depth sake which will not be every Mans comprehension the Cause is the darkness wherein Man plungeth himself 76. Else every one might very well find it if the Earthly way were once broken through and that the Adamical evill malignant or Malicious flesh were not so dearly loved which is the hinderance The Fifth Chapter Of the Principle in it self what it is 1. WE ought further to consider the first four Forms of Nature and so we shall find what a Principle is 2. For that is properly a Principle when a thing becometh what it never was before where out of Nothing a source or quality cometh to be and out of the source or quality a right life with understanding and senses or thoughts 3. And yet we know the right Principle to be in the fires Original in the fire-source or quality which breaketh the substantiality and also the darkness 4. Thus we acknowledge and understand First the Essence and property of the Fire for a Principle for it maketh and giveth the Original of Life and of all mobility also the strong might of the fierce wrath 5. Secondly We understand and acknowledge that also for a Principle First which can dwell in the fire unapprehended by the fire Secondly which can take away the might of the fire And thirdly can change the fires quality or source into a Meek love Fourthly which is omnipotent over all Fifthly which hath the understanding to break the Root of the fire And out of the fire to make darkness and a dry hunger and thirst without finding any case or refreshment as the Hellish quality or source is 6. This is the Abyss wherein the substance is spoiled where death domineereth with its sting as a spoiled or faintened Poyson 7. Wherein really there is an Essential Life but it hateth and is at enmity with it self where the right fires kindling is not attained but onely appears as a flash without blazing 8. And thus we give you to understand that in the Eternal there are no more but two Principles viz one is the burning or blazing fire which becometh filled with the Light the Light giveth it its property so that out of the burning source or quality an high Kingdom of Joy cometh to be 9. For the Anguish attaineth the Liberty and so the burning fire continueth onely to be a cause of finding the Life and the Light of the Majesty 10. The fire taketh into it self the Lights property viz the meekness and the light taketh into it selfe the fires property viz the Life and to find it self and the second Principle is understood in the Light or to be the Light 11. But the Essential substantiality out of which the Fire burneth continueth Eternally a Darkness and a source or quality of fierce wrath wherein the Devil dwelleth 12. As ye see plainly that the fire is another thing then that out of which the fire burneth 13. Thus the Principle consisteth in Fire and not in the Essential source or quality of the Substantiality 14 The Essential source or quality is the Center of Nature the cause of the Principle but it is dark and the fire shining 15. And here is rightly shewn you how the breaking of the fierce wrath viz of the Death and the Eternal Liberty out of Nature both together are the Cause of the shining 16. For Therefore is the Wonder-spirit of the Abyss desirous viz that it might become shining and therefore it bringeth it self into source or quality that it may perceive and find it self and that it might manifest or reveal its wonder in the source or quality for without source or quality there can be no Manifestation or revelation 17. Now understand us further thus The source or quality viz the fierce wrath hath no right substantiality but the harsh fierce wrath is the substantiality of the sting wherein it sticketh or stingeth 11. And the Anguish together also with the fire are or make also no right substantiality but it is onely such a Spirit yet the one must be thicker then the other else there wâ—uld be no finding 19. As viz the harsh astringency maketh thick and dark and so the bitter sting findeth the Anguish in the harsh dark property as in Matter for if there were no Matter there would be no spirit or finding 20. The Abyss findeth it selfe in the harsh astringent darkness but it breaketh open the darkness and goeth forth out of the harsh darkness as a spirit which hath found it selfe in the anguish-source or quality 21. But it leaveth that hard Matter of the darkness wherein it found it selfe and goeth in into it selfe again into the Liberty viz into the Abyss and dwelleth in it self thus must the source or quality be its sharpness and finding and is to it also a kindling of its Liberty viz of the Light wherein it seeth it selfe what it is 22. And thus now it desireth no more for it selfe but the source or quality but modelleth it self and seeketh or seeth it self according to all Forms 23. And every form is desirous to find and to manifest or reveal it selfe and thus also every form findeth it selfe in it self but yet goeth with the desiring out of it self and setteth it self there represented as a figure or Spirit and that is the Eternal wisdome in the Colours wonders and virtues and yet is not particular but all totally universally yet in infinite forms 24. These forms have with the moving of the first willing which is called Father incorporated or corporised themselves into Spirits viz into Angels that so the hidden substance might perceive and find and see it self in Creatures and that there might be an Eternal sport or Scene in the wonders of Gods wisdom 25. And thus we understand further the substantiality of the Light-world which really is a right substantiality for no right substance can consist in fire but the Spirit onely of the Substance 26. But the fire causeth the substance for it is a hunger an Earnest desiring it must have substance or it extinguisheth 27. Vnderstand this as followeth The meeknese giveth and the fire taketh the Meekness is a going forth out of it self and giveth a substance of its likeness every form out of it self 28. And the fire devoureth that yet it giveth the Light out of it it giveth that
work that which the New man seeth in God 12. Yet Christ saith The Sonne of Man doth Nothing but what he seeth the Father do and that he doth also 13. Now therefore is the Sonne of Man become our House into which we are entered he is become our Body and his Spirit is our spirit 14. Should we then in Christ be blind as to God The Spirit of Christ seeth through and in us what he will and whatsoever he will that we see and know in him and without him we know nothing of God 15. He doth divine Works and seeth what and when he will not when Adam will when Adam would fain shed abroad his Malignant wickedness with high-mindedness to be looked upon 16. O no there he hideth himself he seeth not in us in the light of Joy in God but in the Cross and Tribulation in Christs suffering and dying in Christs persecution and Contempt in great sorrow and Lamentation into these he seeth and letteth the Old Ass Crouch and bear the Cross that is its Office 17. But in the way through the Death of Christ the New-Man seeth into the Angelical world it is to him much easier and clearer to apprehend then the Earthly world it is done Naturally 18. Not with Imagining but with seeing Eyes with those Eyes which shall possess the Angelical World viz with the Eyes of the souls Image 19. With the Spirit which goeth forth out of the souls Fire that Spirit seeth into heaven that beholdeth God and the Eternity and no other and that is also the Noble Image according to the similitude of God 20. Out of or from this seeing hath this Pen written not from other Masters or out of Conjecture whether it be true or No. 21. Though now indeed a Creature is but a peece and not a total entireness so that we see onely in Part yet it is searchable and fundamental 22. But the wisdome of God suffereth not it self to be written for it is infinite or Endless without Number and Comprehension we know onely in Part. 23. And though indeed we know much more yet the Earthly Tongue cannot lift it self up and say it or bring it forth It speaketh onely words of this World and not words of the Inward World for the Minde reteineth them in the hidden Man 24. And therefore one alwaies understandeth otherwise then an other all according as every one is indued with the wisdome and so also he apprehendeth and so he expoundeth it 25. Every one will not understand my writings according to my meaning and sense indeed it may be not one but every one according to his Gifts for his benefit one more then another according as the Spirit hath its property in him 26. For the Spirit of God is often subject to the Spirits of Men if they will that which is good or well and seeth or looketh after what Man willeth that his good worke be not hindred but that every where above all Gods will or willing or desiring be done 27. For the Spirit which becometh generated out of the souls Fire out of Gods Meekness and substance that is also the Holy Spirit It dwelleth in the Divine Property and taketh its seeing out of the divine property 28. What is it now that is strange to or in us that we cannot see God This world and the Devil in Gods Anger it is that we see not with Gods Eyes else there is no hinderance 28. Now if one saith I see nothing divine he should consider that Flesh and Blood together with the subtilty and Craft of the Devil is a hinderance and Cover to him oftentimes in that he willeth in his high-mindedness for his own honour to see God and oftentimes in that he is filled and blinded with the earthly Malignity 30. Let him look into the footsteps of Christ and enter into a new Life and yeeld himselfe to be under the Cross of Christ and desire onely the Entrance of Christ through Christs death descention into Hell and ascention into Heaven to the Father what shall hinder him but that he must needs see the Father and his saviour Christ together with the Holy Spirit 31. Should now the Holy spirit be blind when he dwelleth in Man or write I this for my own Boasting 32. Not so but for a rule of Direction to the Reader that he might forsake his Errour and depart from the way of wickedness and abomination forth into a holy divine substance that he also with the divine Eyes might see the wonders of God that so Gods will may be done 33. To which End this Pen hath written very Much and not for its own honour the pleasure and voluptuousness of this lifes sake as the driver continually reproacheth us that we do and yet it remaineth onely to the Driver in the Anger of God whom we would fain that he may have the Kingdom of heaven if he might be but released from the Devil and the Earthly state and proud Longing Malady which make him blind 34. Thus dear children of God you who seek with much sighing and Tears Let this be in earnest sincerity to you Our seeing and knowing is in God He manifesteth or revealeth to every one in this world as much as he will as he knoweth is profitable and good for him 35. For he that seeth out of or from God he hath Gods work to manage he should and must manage teach speak and do that which he seeth else his seeing will be taken from him for this world is not worthy of Gods Seeing 36. But for the Wonders sake and the revelation of God it becometh given to many to see that the Name of God may be manifested to the world which will also be a witness against all the Doings of the ungodly which pervers the truth into Lyes and despise the Holy Spirit 37. For we are not our own but his whom we serve in his Light 38. We know nothing of God He God himself is our knowing and seeing 39. We are Nothing that he may be all in us we should be blind deaf and dumb and know no Life in us that he may be our Life and seeing and our work may be his 40. Our Tongue should not say if we have done any thing that is good this have we done but this hath the Lord in us done His Name be highly prâ—ised 41. But what doth this Evil world now If any say this hath God in me done if it be good then saith the world Thou Fool I thou hast done it God is not in thee thou lyest Thus the Spirit of God must be their Fool and Lyar. 42. What is it then or who speaketh out of the Blasphemous Mouth Even the Devil who is an Enemy of God that he may hide and Cover the work of God that Gods spirit might not become known and that he may continue Prince of the World even till the Judgement 43. Thus When you see
put his willing-spirit into the outward Life viz into outward Principle into the false seeking or wicked longing Lust and Imagined according to or longed after the Earthly Life 86. And so he went out of Paradise which sprouteth forth through death into the Second Principle forth into the outward and wenâ— thus into Death and so must dye and thus his Image became deâ—stroyed 87. This we have inherited from Adam but from the second Adamâ—Christ the Regeneration 88. Where we must enter into Christs Becoming Man or Incarnation and with him into his Death and out of Death with him sprout forth into the Paradise-world into the Eternal substantiality of the Liberty of God The Sixth Chapter What Lust can do How we are fallen in Adam and helped again in Christ and how it is no Easie Matter to become a right true Christian 1. THus we understand that it lyeth in Lust that destruction or perdition is come out of the Lust and yet still Cometh from thence continually 2. For Lust is an Imagining where the Imagination windeth or insinuateth it self into all Forms of Nature so that they all become impregnated with the Thing out of which the Lust existeth 3. As then we understand that the outward spirit of Man which is a fimilitude of the Inward hath lusted after the fair Image and in that regard set its Imagination into the Inward whence the inward is become infected 4. And being it did not instantly feel the death therefore did it give the space and room to the outward in its willing-Spirit and so the outward is drawn into the Inward for a Lodging and is at length become the Host in the house and hath obscured or dimmed the inward so that the fair Image is disappeared 5. There the Image fell among the Murderers viz among the stern or severe Spirits of Nature and of the Life 's original these held the Image Captive and drew off from it the Paradise Garment and committed murther within it and left it lying half dead 6. And now the Samaritan Christ was needful and that is the Cause that God became Man 7. If the wound or hurt could have been healed by a word speaking or word forgiveness God would not have become Man 8. But God and Paradise were lost as also the Noble Image became destroyed and made desolate and must be New-Regenerated or born out of God again 9. And therefore came God with his word which is the Center in the Light-life * and became Flesh so that the Soul gat a divine Paradisical habitation again thus to be understood 10. That as Adams Soul had opened the Door of the Fires Essences and had let in the Earthly Essences whose source or quality had wound it self into the Paradise-Image and made the Image Earthly 11. So Gods Heart did set open the Doors of the Lights Essences and encompassed the soul with heavenly Flesh and so the Holy Fleshes Essences Imagined after the Image after the souls Essences 12. Thus now the soul became impregnated again so that it went with its willing-spirit through the Death into the Paradise-life 13. And thence came the Temptation of Christ that he became Tempted to try whether the Soul would Eat of the Word of the Lord whether it could enter through Death into Gods Life 14. Which in the End became fulfilled on the Stock or Tree of the Cross where Christs Soul went through the fire of the fierce wrath through the stern source through Death and sprouted forth again into the Holy paradise-Paradise-world in which Adam was Created 15. Thus are we Men become helped again and it is necessary for us that we draw away our willing Thoughts and Mind from all Earthly things and turn them into Christs Suffering Dying Death and Resurrection 16. So that we continually Crucifie the Old Adam with Christs Death and continually dye from Sinne in the Death and Dying of Christ and continually rise again with him out of the Anguish of Death into a New Man and sprout into the life of God else there is no Remedy 17. We must dye away to the Earthly willing in our willing and must continually become regenerated to the New world in Faith in the Flesh and Bloud of Christ we must be generated or Born out of Christs Flesh if we will see Gods Kingdom 18. It is not so sleight a thing to be a right true Christian it is the very hardest thing of all the willing must be a Champion and fight against the perished corrupt willing 19. It must sinck it selfe down out of the Earthly Reason into the Death of Christ into Gods anger and as a worthy Champion breake the power of the Earthly willing 20. And with so hardy and bold a courage that it will set and hazard the Earthly life upon it and not give over till it have broken the Earthly willing which indeed hath been a strong Battel with me where two Principles strive and fight one with the other for victory 21. It is no slight matter it must be earnest to fight for the victorious Crown and Garland for none get that unless he Overcome he must break the Might of the Earthly willing which yet of his own Might he can not do 22. But if he sincketh himself down out of the Earthly Reason into Christs Death with his inward willing then he sinketh down through Christs death through Gods fierce wrath and through all the holding Cords of the Devil into the Paradise-world into the Life of Christ 23. He must make his wil as it were dead and so he liveth to God and sincketh down into Gods Love though there he liveth in the outward Kingdom or Dominion 24. Yet I speak of the victorious Crown or Garland which he getteth in the Paradise-world if he once presseth in for there the Noble seed becometh â—â—wn and he getteth the Highly precious pledge or Earnest of the Holy Spirit which afterwards leadeth and directeth him 25. And though he must in this world travail or wander in a dark Valley wherein the Devil and the worlds wickedness continually Rusheth and Roareth tumultuously upon him and often casteth the outward Man into abominations and so Covereth the Noble Grain of Mustard seed yet it will not suffer it self to be kept back 26. But thence sprouteth forth and a Tree Groweth out of it in Gods Kingdom against all the raving and Raging of the Devil and his followers and dependents 27. And the More the Noble Pearl-Tree is sought the more swiftly and strongly it groweth suffereth not it self to be suppressed though it costeth the outward life 28. Thus my Dear Minde search aright after the Tree of Christian Faith it standeth not in this world 29. Indeed it must be in thee but thou must with the Tree be with Christ in God so that the world doth but hang to thee even as it hung also to Christ 30. Not so to understand it as if this World were
us into the divine Mystery 21. And then Thirdly we are to Consider the Magick Kingdom of this world which also burneth in us and vehemently draweth us into its wonders for it willeth to be manifest 22. And Man is become Created therein to that End that he should manifest that same Mystery and to bring the Wonders to Light and into forms according to the Eternal wisdom 23. Now then seeing he is to do this and that he thus burneth in a Threefold fire therefore the right Spirit in which the Angelical Image sticketh hath great weariness and is in great danger for it wandereth upon a very smal Bridge 24. For it hath two Enemies which continually draw it each would be in the Image and bring its sourcive quality thereinto as viz the Inward fire and also the outward Fire the inward Kingdom of the fierce wrath and also the outward Earthly Kingdom of the Looking-Glass and thus the right Image sticketh in the Midst in the Squeezing Press 25. For the Inward Kingdom will through the outward open the Wonders 26. But being it is too sharp therefore the outward Kingdom fleeth away before the Inward and graspeth after the Midlemost viz after the Image which standeth in the Liberty of God and so fleeth and slippeth it self into the Image for it all graspeth after the Heart of God that is after the Center of the Kingdom of Joy 27. Therefore now it is necessary for the Image that it defend it selfe and not let in the Earthly Guest much less fiery and yet becometh generated cut of Both viz out of the fire the Life and out of the outward the Wonder 28. Therefore it is highly necessary for Mans Image that he lead a sober temperate life and not fill himself with the outward Kingdom for else it maketh an indvvelling in the Noble Image 29. And vve understand herein the mighty strife in Man about the Image of God for there are Three that strive about it as first the stern strong fire-Life and then Secondly the divine Life and then Thirdly the Earthly Life and so the Noble Image sticketh in the midst and is drawn of Three 30. Now it is necessary for it that it hide it selfe with the Faith in the Mystery of Hope and stand still in that same Mystery 31. Where then the Devil in the inward fire-life continually rideth forth into the outward earthly life in pride Covetousness and falshood or wickedness over the Noble Image and would introduce it into the fire and anguish life and break or destroy it 32. For he supposeth continually that the place of this world is his Kingdom he will suffer no nother Image therein 33. Now thereupon the Noble Image falleth into the Cross and Tribulation into anguish and necessity here there belongeth strife to it to fight for the Noble victorious Crown or Garland of Gods Image 34. And hence originally ariseth Prayer so that the Image continually goeth forth out of the introduced Earthly substance or Being and also out of the proud stately hellish abominations with the Prayer and continually Entereth into Gods life into his Love 35. And thus the right Image continually killeth the Earthly Adam and also the hellish pride and state of the Devil and must alwaies stand as a Champion 36. And it is most necessary of all for it that it should insinuate it self into Patience and Cast it self under the Cross and continually Spring or flow up into the Love 37. For that is its Sword wherewith it slayeth the Devil and driveth forth the Earthly substance it hath no other sword wherewith to defend it self then the Meek water of the Eternal Life and that the proud stately fierce wrathful Spirit relisheth not for it is his poyson and he fleeth before it 38. Now if we will rightly demonstrate the Tree of Christian Faith then we say Its Root standeth in the Mystery of the Hope its Sprouting standeth in the Love and its Body in the Comprehension of Faith 39. That is where the Image through its earnest desiring presseth into the love of God and comprehendeth or attracteth the Substantiality of God that is Christs Body that is now the Corpus or Body wherein the Tree standeth groweth florisheth and bringeth forth fruits in Patience which all belong in to the Angelical world 40. They are the Souls food wherein it eateth and refresheth or quicken its fiery Life so that it is transmuted or changed into the Light or Meekness 41. And thus the Tree groweth in the Paradise of God which the Outward Man knoweth not and Reason apprehendeth it not 42. But to the Noble Image it is very well to be known that will then when the outward life breaketh be manifest and all its works follow after it in the Mystery of Hope into which it hath sown 43. Therefore should none who will travail in the Path of Gods Pilgrimage propose or purpose to himselfe to have in this world Good and frolick Dayes with worldly honour but Tribulation Scorn reproach and persecution attend him every hour 44. He is here onely in a vale of Misery and must continually stand in strife for the Devil goeth about as a Roaring-Lion he stirreth up all his children of Malice and wickedness against him 45. He is accounted as a Fool he is unknown to his Brethren his Mothers house scorned and despiseth him 46. He goeth away and soweth in Tribulation and is anxious but there is none that apprehendeth it or into whose heart it entereth every man supposeth his Folly plagueth him thus 47. Thus he remaineth hidden to the World for he is with his Noble Image not of this world but born of God He soweth in Tribulation and reapeth in Joy 48. But who shall express his Glory which will be his wages or who shall speak of the Crown or Garland of Victory which he attaineth 49. Who can express the Crown of the Virgin of Gods wisdome which the Virgin of Gods wisdome setteth upon him where is there such a fair beauteous One For it excelleth the Heaven 50. O Noble Image Thou art indeed an Image of the Holy Trinity of God in which God himself dwelleth God setteth upon thee his beautifulest Ornament that thou shouldest Eternally Exult in Him 51. What is I pray the substance of this World seeing it breaketh or Corrupteth and bringeth a Man onely into anguish Cares encumbrances and misery and besides into Gods Anger and breaketh or destroyeth his fair Image and draweth a Vizard on to him 52. O how great a shame and reproach will that Man have of it when he shall thus appear at the Judgment Day of God in a beastial Image besides that which followeth hereafter that he shall abide eternally therein 53. Then Lamentation beginneth there will be sighing waiting and howling for the Lost Earnest Penny and Talent which cannot be reached or attained again Eternally 54. There shall the Image stand in Eternity before
the Abominable Devils and do what the Abominable Prince Lucifer will The Eighth Chapter In what manner God forgiveth sinnes and how a Man becometh a Child of God 1. MY beloved seeking and desirous Minde thou that Hungerest and Thirstest after Gods Kingdom Mark the Ground I pray thee what is shewed to thee 2. It is not truly so easie a thing to become a child of God as Babol Teacheth where Men bring Consciences into the History and so tickle and flatter them Courtlike with Christs sufferings and Death where Men teach forgiveness of sinnes Historically 3. Like a worldly Judicatory where ones faults are remitted him of Grace though he plainly abide wicked in his heart 4. It is clean otherwise here God will have no dissembling Hypocrites he taketh not sinne from us in such a manner in that we cleave to the knowledge and Comfort our selves with the suffering of Christ and yet in the Conscience abide in the Abominations 5. It is said Ye must be born a New or else ye shall not see the Kingdom of God 6. He that will tickle himself with Christs suffering and Death and appropriate the same to himself and yet with his willing will abide unregenerated in the Adamical Man doth like one that comforteth himself that his Lord will bestow his Land upon him without considering that he is not his Sonne whereas he hath promised that he wil bestow it onely upon his Sonne so it is also here 7. Wilt thou possess the Land of thy Lord and have it for thy proper own then thou must become his right and true Sonne For the Sonne of the Maid servant shall not inherit with the free the Sonne of the History is a stranger 8. Thou must become born or generated of God in Christ that thou mayst be a bodily Sonne and then thou art Gods child and an heir of the sufferings and death of Christ 9. And Christs Death is thy Death his Resurrection out of the Grave is thy Resurrection his Ascention into Heaven is thy Ascention into Heaven and his Eternal lifes Kingdom is thy Kingdom 10. In that thou are his right true Sonne born of his flesh and bloud so thou art an heir of all his Goods else thou canst not be Christs Child and Heir 11. So long as the Earthly Kingdom sticketh to thee in thy Image so long thou art the perished Adams Earthly Sonne no flattering hypocrisie will help give as many good words before God as thou wilt yet thou art but a strange Child 12. And Gods goods do not belong unto thee so long till thou comest with the lost Sonne to the Father again with a right true sorrow and repentance for thy lost Goods of inheritance 13. Thou must go forth with thy willing-spirit out from the Earthly Life and break or destroy the Earthly willing which is woful to the Mind and willing-spirit to forsake the treasure it possessed wherein the willing-spirit became generated and must enter into Gods willing 14. And there thou sowest thy Seed in Gods Kingdom and art new born in God as fruit which groweth in Gods field for thy willing receiveth Gods power Christsâ—Body and the New Body in God groweth to thee 15. And then thou art Gods Childe and Christs Goods belong to thee and his Merits are thy merits his Suffering Death and Resurrection is all thine thou art a Member of his Body and his Spirit is thy Spirit He leadeth thee upon right Paths and all that thou dost thou dost to God 19. Thou sowest in this world and reapest in the Heaven of God thou art Gods Work of Wonder and openest in the Earthly Life his Wonders and drawest thy selfe with thy willing-spirit into the Holy Mystery 17. Mark this ye Covetous ye Proud ye Envious ye false Judgers ye wicked Malicious which introduce your willing and desire into Earthly Goods into Money and Plenty into pleasure and the voluptuousness of this Life and esteem Money and Goods to be your Treasure and set your desire therein and yet for all that will be Gods Children 18. Ye stand and dissemble before God â—e shall forgive you your Sins but ye abide with your Image in Adams Skin in Adams Flesh and so Comfort your selves with the Sufferings of Christ and are but dissemblers ye are not Gods Children 19. Ye must become born in God if ye would be his Children else ye deceive your selves together with your Hypocrites or dissemblers who paint before you a Glistring Colour 20. They Teach and are not known of God not sent to Teach they do it for their Belly and for worldly honours sake and are the Great Where at Babel who flatter God with their Lips and with the heart and willing-spirit they serve the Dragon at Babel 21. Beloved Mind wilt thou be the Chlide of God then prepare thy selfe for affaults and for Tribulation it is no light and soft entrance into the Childs Life especially where Reason lyeth captive in the Earthly Kingdom 22. It must be broken and the willing must go out from Reason it must sow it selfe into Gods Kingdom in lowly obedience as a Grain is sown in a field or soyl it must in Reason make it selfe as it were dead and give it self up to God and so the New fruit groweth in Gods Kingdom 23. Thus that Man standeth in a Three-fold Life and all belongeth to God 24. The Inward fiery Essences of the first Principle become incorporated with the New body in Christ so that they flow up in Christs Flesh and Bloud out of Gods willing and their Fire is Gods Fire out of which the Love meekness and humility burneth 25. Where the Holy Spirit goeth forth and helpeth him to stand out the Battel against the Earthly Reason also against the pâ—rished corrupt Flesh and the willing of the Devil his Yoak of the earthly willing becometh lighter to him but he must in this World abide in the strife 26. For to the Earthly Life belongeth sustenance that he must seek and yet ought not to hang his willing and heart thereupon 27. It must Trust God and his earthly Reason passeth alwaies into doubting it will faile him it will needs alwaies see God and yet cannot for God dwelleth not in the Earthly Kingdom but in himself 28. Thus must Reason being it cannot set God be compelled into Hope 29. There then Doubting runneth Counter against Faith or Believing and would destroy the Hope and therefore must the Earnest willing with the right true Image strive and fight against the Earthly Reason there is woe and it often goeth sadly 30. Especially if Reason looketh after the Course of this World and so its willing-spirit as it were foolish hath respect towards the Course of this world There it is said be sober watch fast and pray that is that ye may Tame the Earthly Reason and make it as it were dead that Gods spirit may find place in you 31. If that