of Christ for it hath lost body and substance and standeth naked and bare without Divine Substance or Body in God's Mercy or Compassion in the Divine Tincture viz. in the Ninth Number Number 34. and waiteth for the last Judgment wherein God will in the Tincture bring and restore again whatsoever Adam lost but its here-acted works will not go or pass through the Fire but the dark Magick Fire hath swallowed them up into its Mystery into the Dark World Let this be said to thee O Man Souls Eternal Habitation Numb 35. 201. After Ninth Number standeth the Souls Eternal Habitation Number 35. signifying that these escaped Souls are notwithstanding in God in the Angelical World but without their works and cannot so highly attain the Glance or Lustre of the Majesty as those Souls which have here cloathed themselves with God's Power and Vertue The word Habitation goeth into the Liberty without or beyond Nature as also above Image doth for the Soul must stand in Nature but the Images Habitation is without or beyond Nature in the Divine Liberty Angelical World Numb 36. 202. Without or beyond this Habitation standeth the Angelical World Number 36. signifying the Angels Courts and Quires or Princely Thrones in the Liberty of the Divine Majesty where yet their root also standeth IN Nature but is not apprehended Proud Devil Numb 37. Will of the Devil Lucifer Numb 38. 203. At the left in the upper space Number 37. standeth Proud Devil or stubborn Devil with two Lines one reaching up upon the Character or Letter O Number 4. and the other reaching up above the Great Mystery of the Number Three where standeth Will of the Devil Lucifer Number 38. 204. Here is the Devils Fall to be considered he hath brought his proud or stubborn Will up from the Line or Stroak of the Cross aloft and hath willed to rule over or above the Mystery of the Divine Wisdom in wit and cunning suttlety and fierce wrath in the Fires might or power and to kindle the Mystery of the Number Three that he might be Lord As indeed he then kindled the Substantiality in the Mystery whence Earth and Stones have come to be and hath willed to fly out above the Mystery of the Number Three Number 38. as still at this day he desireth to fly out above the Angelical Princes-Thrones Abysse of the Dark World Number 39. Eternal Hell of Devils Number 40. 205. And upon this hath followed his thrusting out from the Divine Mystery so that he is Thrust out from the Superiour Thrones into the Dark Magick fire and is Thrust down below that is into the Abysse of the Dark world For he must dwell externally without the Principle in the Fire-crack viz. in the first Three Forms to Fire in the Anguish there he hath his Hell as below at Number 40. is to be seen and thereinto also the Damned souls fall back so that Eternally they cannot see or behold God The second Cross Line upwards thus †206. Over the line Number 1. above aloft standeth Abysse Eternity signifying the Liberty without or beyond the Principle and thereby is understood the Mystery of the Eternity wherein every Creature standeth in its source or fountain Quality in its own Fire be it in Darkness or Light and hath therein no other Light than shineth within it which light also it apprehendeth Externally without it self there are Both worlds viz. the Light-world and Dark-world are there in one another But the Light becometh not attained unless a creature be capable of it 207. There are Angelical Thrones which we know nothing of Experimentally our knowledge reacheth but only into the Extent of the Place of this world so far as the kindling in the Creation reached and of THAT is this wheel made with the Cross SON Numb 41. and of the Heart 208. Above the upright Line standeth SON and at the Left Angle or Point Number 9. FATHER and at the Right Line Number 14. HOLY SPIRIT signifying the Birth or Geniture and Persons of the Holy Trinity The Heart in the Cross is the Center and ♡ signifyeth the Eternal Band of the Ternary 209. The Word SON Number 41. signifieth the WORD which the Eternal FATHER continually and from Eternity speaketh in the Light and Dark world according to each worlds source or fountain Quality or Property 210. But in that the Three Persons at the Cross are free and touch not the Line it signifieth that God is free from Nature and not in the apprehension of Nature but he dwelleth in himself indeed in Nature but unapprehended by that which doth not give up it self into Him Of the Heart in the Cross 211. The Heart in the Cross signifieth that God's Heart hath manifested it self in Nature by or with the Principle of the Fire whence the Majestick Light originateth Secondly It signifieth the Manifestation or Revelation in the Humanity wherein God's Heart hath manifested it self by or with a Humane Heart and how that Humane Heart hath attained the comprehension of the Holy Trinity As indeed it is the Center in the Cross by which a Man is to understand the Inward Man viz. the Inward Heart 212. And you see that the HOLY SPIRIT at the Right on or in the Line and at Number 14. goeth forth from the Heart into the Light World signifying that the Holy Spirit dwelleth in the Regenerate or New born Heart viz. in the Image and continually introduceth the Images Will into the Divine light-Light-world And as this Heart in the Cross is united with the Holy Ternary so must the Humane Heart understand the Inward-Man be united with the Deity that God may be in it All in All its Will and Deed. 213. But that the word SON Number 41. above the Cross Line a loft standeth distinguished from the Heart signifieth that the Man Christ is become Lord over all and is the King over this Circle for God hath manifested himself in the Humanity and this Man compriseth the whole Divine Substance in himself for within him and Externally without him is one and the same fulness One God and Divine Substance there is no other place where we can be able to apprehend God then in the Substance of Christ there is the whole fulness of the Godhead or Deity Bodily or Corporeally Heaven Number 42. 214. The Word Heaven on the upright Cross-line Number 42. signifieth that the Heaven is in the Man Christ and also in us and that we must through his Cross and Death go to him into his Heaven which himself is for on the Cross is Heaven become opened to us again or New-born and Regenerated to us Secondly It signifieth that the right or true Divine Heaven is an Habitation of the Divine Desire viz. of the Divine Magia therefore it is called not aningoing but an ingeneration of God's Fire into Divine Substantiality and that even only on the Cross viz. through and in the Birth or Geniture of the Holy
for a desiring is a seeking and in the seeking standeth the the Figure of the Seeking the Figure maketh the Seeking manifest or revealed 152. Thus the Spirit dwelleth also in its own Figure in the Power or Vertue and in the Light of the Majesty and is an Image according to the Spirits Property 135. Not that the Spirit is the Image but the Seeking its Desiring is the Image for it dwelleth in its self in its seeking and is another Person in its Figure viz. the Powers or Vertues Figure and according to this Substance is God called Threefold in Persons 154. But that we may open your eyes wide to see ALL the Ground of the Deity as it now will and must be therefore behold now the great wonder which we had lost with going out of Paradise where we must labour in the Six Dayes Works of this World and so see what and where we are and ye will find here such a thing as hath stood hidden even to Nature 155. Behold when you will speak of the Trinity look upon the first Number upon A upon the Eternal Beginning which is the Father and then look upon the O in the middle which is the Son then look upon the V which is the Exit of the Holy Spirit which goeth into it self with the sincking through the sharp fierce Wrath into the second Principle which hath E and goeth through the Power or Vertue forth as a light-flaming Flash which hath I. 156. Now take the swift-going of the flaming Flash to it which is T Allmach T des Ewigen GOTTES the Omnipotence of the Eternal God which there in the fierce Wrath as a flash destroyeth and in der LIEB in the Love in the I as a Mighty loving God exulteth through presseth and powerfully exalteth or riseth up and if you put the I thereinto then have you the Matter of the Divine Substance in the Power or Vertue it is Ein Engel an Angel and in the Out-Birth out of the Center it is GOLDT Gold 157. The World is covetous and full of boasting especially those that would be accounted Masters of Arts and say they know Gold and are blind People why see you it not thou wilt say How Go with the outward life into death there must the outward life die and in the Anguish give it self forth into the Number of the Crown viz. into the Thousand Number 1000 there is the End and Death ariseth and standeth up to a glorious Life with a New fair Body and you need give nothing to it but the Soul it bringeth forth manifold fruit there thou hast an Angel which is free from the fierce Wrath for it is totally clean pure seek it and thou wilt find it 158. But thou supposest perhaps to find it thus in thy Old Garment no friend we will now teach you another A B C learn that first then seek if you will then have a love to it if not leave it for the * O is muchnobler and more pretious than the L. An Exposition of the Philosophick Globe or Eye of both the Threefold Circles which especially signifie the two Eternal Principles wherein yet the Third also is clearly understood And how a Man should understand them 162. THese Circles should be like A round Globe having the Cross go through it for it is an Eye of the Eternity that a man cannot delineate fully it is the Eye of the Substance of all Substances signifying the Eye of God which is the Looking-Glass of Wisdom wherein from Eternity all Wonders have been seen and hereby is delinated how it came into substance for the Reader of this book to Think and consider of 163. Not in such a way as if a Man could fully describe or delineate it for the mind or Thought only can apprehend it and only that Mind which can walk in the Divine Mystery not through Art or Reason but through the understanding which the Spirit of God openeth to the humane Souls-Spirit in the Great Mystery else it can NOT be apprehended 164. The Reader should take consideration of the Number and then of what standeth within or without the Circle or where every word in the Circle beginneth and endeth it hath all its assured certain signification for every word standeth in its exact place 165. That which is without the Circle or Wheel signifieth the Libirty of the Abyss without or besides the Principle Number 1. Abysse 166. The great Mystery of the Abysse wherein the Divine Substance in the Looking-Glass of Wisdom generateth it self in the Ground is marked with Number 1. and Number 2. standeth by it so also round about the whole Circle is to be understood Of the three * Circles 167. The Three Circles drawn about one another signifie the Eternal Birth or Geniture of the Divine Substance together with All Eternal Mysteries without and within Nature viz. the Original of all Things or Substances as they are here marked Of that half of the Threefold Circle at the left hand and of Numb 2. 168. The Threefold Circle at the left where without the Circle standeth Number 2. The Mystery without or besides Nature signifieth how the profundity or groundlesness bringeth it self into a Ground viz. the Eye of Eternity the first Will which is called Father of Eterternity and of all Beginnings how in the Trinity in the Wisdom he introduceth himself into an Eternal Ground and dwelleth in himself and possesseth himself and how he bringeth himself into Nature and how Substance originateth as also Perceptibility and Perception Of that half of the Three-fold Circle at the right hand 169. The other Threefold Circle at the right signifieth the Divine Substance of the holy Trinity together with the Angelical World which originateth out of the Great Mystery of the Eternity and is manifested or revealed through the Principle of the Fire Of the Eye in the Circle 171. The Eye in the Circle where the Cross goeth through with an Angle or Point and Line signifieth each of them a World both at the left and right At the left it signifieth the great Mystery of the Dark World wher the Wonder-Eye introduceth it self in Nature At the right it signifieth the Light-world where the Divine Mystery hath through the Fire brought it self forth and dwelleth in the majestick Light with the first Mystery of Wonder An Exposition of the Circles at the left hand Numb 3 4 5. 173. The three Characters or Letters AOV marked with Number 3 4 5 signifie the Mystery of the holy Deity without or besides Nature how it manifests or reveals it self in Nature Of A Num. 3. and Tincture Num. 6. 174. A signifieth the first profound or groundless or unsearchable Will which is called Father go about that * Circle to the nether point of it there standeth Tincture Number 6. which is the Wills Ens and the first beginning to
signification of the Signs or Marks of All Things 10. A Consolatory Book of the four Complexions 11. An Apology to Balthasar Tilken concerning the Aurora and another to him concerning Predestination and the Person of Christ and of Mary 12. Considerations upon Esaias Stiefells Book 13. Anno. 1622. A Book of True Repentance 14. A Book of True Resignation 15. A Book of Regeneration or the New Birth 16. Anno. 1623. A Book of the Predestination and Election of God 17. An Appendix to the Predestination being A Compendium of Repentance 18. The Mysterium Magnum or the Great Mystery being an Exposition upon Genesis 19. Anno. 1624. A Table of the Three Principles or a Key to his Writings written to Godfried Frewdenhammern and John Hausern 20. A little Book of the Supersensual Life 21. A little Book of Divine Vision 22. A Book of the Two Testaments of Christ viz. Baptism and the Lord's Supper 23. A Dialogue or Conference between the Enlightned and unenlightned Soul 24. An Apologie for the Book of True Repentance upon a Pamphlet of the Primate of Gerlitz Gregory Richter 25. A Book of 177. Theosophick Questions 13 and part of the 15th Answered 26. An Extract out of the Mysterium Magnum 27. A Prayer Book called the Holy Week 28. A Table of the Divine Manifestation or an Exposition of the Three-fold World to John Sigismund of Sigismund and to Abraham van Frankenberg being at the End of an Epistle concerning the True and false Light 29. A Book of the Errours of the Sects of Ezekiel Meths to A. P. A. or an Apology to Esaias Stiefel 30. A Book of the Last Judgment 31. A Book of several Letters written at several times 32. A Clavis or Key of his Writings being the Exposition of some words The Books which the Author finished nor are marked thus In these he hath left so Noble and Pretious a Talent and Treasure for the setting forth God's Honour and Glory and for the promoting Man's Salvation both for the present and for the future times that since the times of the Apostles higher and deeper grounded Mysteries concerning the Deity have scarce been revealed his acquaintance for the most part was with Godly Learned People and such as were experienced in the knowledge of Nature with whom he conversed as also with some of the Noble men of Lusatia and Silesia in all fear of God though some of the Common Preachers have not forborn as their usual manner is to cast forth their venom against his Writings and to stir up the Rude and foolish People with all manner of Reproach and Scandal yet the Truth liveth still and hath prevailed and will at length Tryumph in secret But he the blessed Jacob Behme the Teutonick at Gerlitz in his House near the Water-side of the River Neisse Anno. 1624. the 18. Day of the Month of November new-stile about the sixth hour in the Morning being the 24. Sundy after Trinity after he had heard most exceeding lovely sweet Musick without his Chamber and being refreshed with the Holy Use of the Testament of Christ at his Supper his Sons and some Good Friends praying and weeping about him with these his last and Comfortable Words Now go I hence into Paradise Meekly and gently sighing blessedly departed in the fiftieth year of his Age. After the Preaching of the Funeral Sermon he was buried in the Church-yard at Gerlitz upon the Grave a Wooden Cross was set with this Mystical three-fold Figure graven upon it viz. An Eagle with a Lilly-Twig A Lyon with a Sword A Lamb with a Mitre The Superscription over the Cross was this V. H. I. L. I. C. I. V. That is Vnser Heil Im Leben Jesu Christi In Vns. In English thus Our Salvation is In the Life of Jesus Christ In Vs. Which was J. B. Motto or usual speech and Superscription in his Letters Also these words were the Inscription of the Cross Born of God Dead in Jesu Sealed with the Holy Spirit Resteth here Jacob Behme of Old Seidenburg Note 1. The Southern Eagle stood upon a high Rock and with one foot trod on the Head of a Serpent and with the other held a Palm and with its Beak received a Lilly-Twig reached forth-out of the Sun 2. The Northern Lyon was Crowned and signed with a Cross and held in the Right foot before a fire-flaming-Sword and in the Left a fiery Heart and rested with the hough or hinder part of the Right Foot behind upon a Cube and with the Left upon a Globe 3. The Lamb with a Mitre walked meekly and quietly between them both in the Meadows and by the Brooks and Rivers of Grace His Seal or Stamp was a Hand out of Heaven with a Lilly-Twig In the Memorial Books of good friends he used to write these Verses Text. Weme Zeit i st wie Ewigkeit Und Ewigkeit wie die Zeit Der i st befreyt von allem streit Englished To whom Time is as Eternity And Eternity as Time He is freed from all strife The outward Form of his Body was almost of no Personage he was lean and little of Stature with a Fore-head very much inbowed high Temples somewhat Hawk-nosed his Eyes were Grey and very Azure otherwise as the Windows of Solomons Temple he had a short thin Beard a small shril Voice an amiable pleasing Speech He was modest in his Behaviour humble in his Conversation and meek in Heart his highly enlightned Spirit is to be discerned by his Writings in the Divine Light The following Relation was taken out of a Memorial of Michael Curtz concerning what happened at the Departure of the Blessed Jacob Behme ON Sunday November 18. early in the Morning he called his Son Tobias and asked him If he heard the Excellent Musick he said No then he spake that the Door should be opened that the singing might be the better heard afterward he asked what the Clock had stuck and was told it had struck Two he said It is not yet my time three hours hence is my time In the mean while he spake these words once O thou strong God of Hosts deliver me according to thy Will O thou Crucified Lord Jesus Christ have Mercy upon me and receive me into thy Kingdom When it was near about six he took leave of his Wife and Sons blessed them and said Now go I hence into Paradise He did bid his Son to turn him about sighed deeply and so very meekly and quietly departed from this World PREFACE Then followeth in the former Preface Printed 1647. Thus. IF it were not for the great Fruit that I conceive may grow to every one that studieth it I should be sorry that I am the Instrument to make such things known in my Native Language and much more unwilling it should be published to the view of so many various Minds as are now sprung up But my hope is Goodness will get the upper Hand and that the Fruits of the Spirit will prevail to the subduing of the Lusts
56. 228. But Man was out of the Mystery created an Image and Similitude of or according to God to or for God's Wonder Therefore at the right Number 54. standeth Wonder For he was a Wonder of all things or Substances a Lord of All things or Substances taken out of all things or Substances and was in the Inward Image an Angel As next Wonder in the Liberty standeth Angel Numb 55. For his Spirit dwelleth in the Liberty of God viz. in the Majesty as beyond the word Angel Number 56. Spirit standeth Which all signifieth the right or true Man viz. the First before the Fall and the second in Christ into which he must enter again or is rent or separated from God Four Elements Numb 57. 229. Under Mystery Number 55. standeth Four Elements they begin at the left on the outward Circle and go to the right through the Cross through two Circles signifying the outward World which originateth as an Out-birth out of the inward Substance on the outward Circle and bringeth its Wonders into the Mystery first into the second Principle into the first two Circles for they shall not go with their Substance into the Liberty through the Third Circle at the Right but pass in the Principle into the Mystery and in the Principle be tryed or purged in the Fire For there is the Limit of Separation The Souls Joy in Ternario Sancto Number 58. 230. Above on the second Circle at the Right Number 45. standeth Son the same is the Judge and Separator and beneath on the same Circle Number 58. standeth Souls Joy in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary signifying that the Soul shall have joy in its works which it hath wrought in the Four Elements to the Praise and Glory of God which it hath introduced into the Angelical World into the Mystery For the Four Elements stand with their Root in the Great Mystery 231. And were the Earth not come into such a perished Condition and that the Devils Poyson and kindling or inflamation had not been done it were still one and the same Substance with or in the other Three Elements as indeed it is now in the Heavenly Substance Spiritual Bodies Habitation Num. 59. 232. This Bit hath Adam swallowed down into himself and thereby Lost his Angels Form For the Four Elements should stand hidden in him and he should live only in the One Element in Gods Power and Vertue and know or experiment nothing of the Evil As at the Right in the Liberty Number 59. standeth the Spiritual Mans Habitation there should the Images Body dwell viz. the Souls Body but that became hindred from it it must now under the Earth and become included or shut up in the Earthliness Earth Number 60. 233. Under the Four Elements standeth Earth Number 60. signifying that the Earth is wholly fallen back to the Inner World For the word toucheth neither the Left nor the Right Circle it is as a Death but the Cross goeth through it signifying its Restauration or bringing again to what it was that the Humane Earth is new-Born or Regenerated on the Cross and that the Heavenly and Divine Substance shall be severed from the Dark worlds Substance through the Fire of God where then shall be new Earth in a Heavenly Source or Fountain Quality Form Essence and Property and that which is hidden in the Earth in the Heavenly Part shall sprout or spring again Further is to be Considered that the Earth standeth thus upon or in the Abysse for it reacheth no Principle therefore it must pass away or vanish Earthly Man Numb 61. 234. Underneath standeth Number 61. Earthly Man where the Cross goeth through the midst of the Word which signifieth the fallen Earthly Man who is fallen under and into the Earth that is he is fallen home or back to the Earth and the Cross parteth or separateth the words Earthly and Man for Man shall again become separated from the Earth and enter into his Eternal Part either into the Light or Dark world Wonder Number 62. 235. Under the Cross Line standeth Number 62. Wonder signifying that the evil Wonder also the Evil part of the Earth shall in the Judgement of God when God will make separation fall home or back to the Abysse of Darkness and that shall be to All Devils and Evil Men their Earth on which they shall dwell one among another for the Abysse standeth under it below at Number 1. Babel Number 63. 236. Near Wonder standeth Babel Number 63. signifying how Babel is only a Wonder of the Abysse and worketh only Wonders in the Abysse Own Reason in Babel Numb 64. 237. Further above under the Circle at the Right after Earthly Man Number 64. standeth Own or self Reason in Babel which goeth round about the outside of the Circle of the Second Principle and goeth in own self Authority under the Divine World backward and supposeth She is in God and serveth or worshippeth him but is without God in self She or it Teacheth and doth only its own Things or Matters for it self for its own Ends it Ruleth the outward world in own self Reason without Gods Spirit and Will only according to its own Will Therefore it goeth about the Light world dissembling in Hypocrisie and giveth God good Words and continueth only without God upon or in the Abysse and thereinto also it falleth back and entereth Wonder of the Great Folly Num. 65. 238. Under Own Reason Number 65. standeth Wonder of the Great Folly signifying Babel who hath found all Art Suttelty and Cunning Politick Devices and Lost it self It seeketh Gold and loseth God it taketh Earth for Gold Death for Life and that is the Greatest Folly that is found in the Substance of All Substances as is sufficiently mentioned in other Places The Conclusion 239. Thus we see when we are at home not in this World but in the two inward Worlds in which soever we labour here into that we enter when we die we must Lose the outward we must only be new-born or Regenerated on the Crosse 240. Babel hath turned it self wholly away from the Crosse which signifieth the Proud own self Reason-Wise Subtle Men who rule and order themselves in or according to the Wit or Ingenuity of Folly 241. The Earthly Man on the Crosse Number 61. signifieth the simple heap or company which yet hang to the Crosse of Christ and become at length new-born or regenerated through the Crosse 242. But Reason hath even rent and torn it self off from the Cross in its own self Pleasure and Voluptuousnesse in its own Pomp Might or Power and Laws and that is a Wonder of Folly which even the Devils do scorn and deride 243. This the Reader should further consider of for there lyeth much under it it hath the understanding of all the Three Worlds See thy self therein it is a right true Looking-Glass for the Number Three is a Cross and hath Two
that is done in the twinckling of an eye 281. For the Water in the Deep originateth from the Fire yet not from the fierce Wrath but from the Light for the Light goeth forth from the Fire and hath its own seeking or longing it seeketh to it self a Looking-Glass that it may behold it self and have it for a habitation and draweth it in the Desiring into it self and dwelleth therein and that which is drawn in is Water which apprehendeth the Light else the Deep of the World would not apprehend the Light if the Light did not dwell in the Water the Water is the fulfilling or satiating of the Light in its desiring 282. And the Water seeketh again a Looking-Glass and willeth to have a habitation which is Flesh as ye see that the Water receiveth the glimps or shadow of all Substances or Things in their Body so that the Body it self is represented in the Water which is because the seeking of the Fire hath taken hold of it 283. Further herein is seen the End of Nature for the Eye findeth its Life in the Water and thus it goeth back into the seventh Form and seeketh its Body in the Water and there is further no desire more in the outward this Body desireth no other Body more in the outward but it looketh back after its mother of which ye have a right and true Example in a Looking Glass which is Fire and Water and that receiveth the Image very clearly 184. And thus ye see that the End goeth back again and seeketh the Beginning and nothing further in the outward for this World is at the limit and is included in a Time and runneth on to the Limit and then the End findeth the Beginning and this World standeth as a Model or as a Looking-Glass in the Beginning Let this serve you to the finding of the Mystery and remit your self rightly into the Beginning that ye may be apprehended or known to be a wonder in God's Love 285. And thus ye are to know that the the second Form of the Water consisteth in the Spirit it is its Fathers Looking-Glass its Makers which dwelleth in the Spirit and is found only by its Maker it self findeth not it self for so long as a thing goeth forward externally there is no finding in the Inward internally only the Spirit which dwelleth in the Inward findeth it self in the Outward 286. But the outward Life findeth not the inward unless it have the inward Spirit then is the finding and it is done according to the inward Spirit and then the outward Life speaketh of the inward and yet knoweth it not only the inward Spirit filleth the outward so that the outward is a Mouth and the inward hath and produceth the Word so that the inward Kingdom standeth manifest in the outward in the sound and that now is a wonder 287. The inward is a Prophet and the outward apprehendeth it not but if it do come to apprehend it then it hath God's Substantiality in it viz. God's Flesh Christ 's Flesh the Virgins Flesh and yet the Prophet standeth or consisteth in the Spirit but that Flesh conceiveth its Power or Vertue and assureth the outward Man that he doth even that which his Maker willeth as indeed this Pen is in such a condition and no otherwise 288. Thus we apprehend the ground of this World that it is a Figure of the inward according to both Mothers that is according to both Fires viz. according to the Fire of fierce Wrath and according to the Fire of the Light as the Model viz. the Looking-glass of the Light of Eternity is the Sun and the Looking-Glass of the fierce Wrath is the outward Fire and the Substantiality of both is the Water and the Earth the Earth is the fierce Wraths Substantiality the Water the Lights the Air the Eternal Spirits which is called God the holy Spirit 289. Yet ye are to know that this World is not the Substance of the Eternity but a Figure a Looking-Glass therefore it is called a Principle of or by it self because it hath a peculiar Life of its own and yet standeth in the Magick Seeking of the inward 290 The Word Fiat is the Master of the outward for it holdeth the outward in its conceived or framed Looking-Glass it is not the Looking-Glass it self but a Similitude in which its Spirit discovereth it self in deeds of Wonder to behold the Wonders of Both Fires viz. of the Wrath and of the Love and thus continually bringeth the Substance of all Substances into the Beginning And therefore is this World turning as a Wheel or Orb for the End seeketh continually the Beginning and when it findeth the Wonders then the End giveth the Wonders to the Beginning and that is the Cause of the Creation of this World 291. The Life of all and every Creature is a Wonder before the Beginning for the Abyss knew nothing of it and the beginning of the Eye findeth it all and setteth or placeth the Model in it self so that it hath an Eternal Number and recreateth it self in the Number of the Wonders The Eighth Form of Fire 292. Seeing thus there is ONE Substance in TWO Forms one that taketh on an unsearchable Beginning in it self and holdeth it Eternally and another that is the Eternal Model which compriseth and with its Body is included in a limit therefore we are to consider of the Turba which breaketh the included comprised Life again and setteth the Model of the comprised Wonders in the Beginning and presenteth such things to the Beginning as were not from Eternity but came to be in the comprised Time 293. Beloved Friend to you and such as you are who seek the Beginning is this thing shewn for your Mind is our Mystery seek it in U S not in ME I the outward Man have it not but the Inward in the Virgin in which God dwelleth THAT hath it and that calleth it self twofold 294. My outward Man is not worthy of the Mystery but God hath so ordained it that he might manifest or reveal it to you by means that you might know him by Means and not say it is from my own wit and understanding 295. And seeing you are a learned Person you should know that God loveth also the silly and despised of this World if he seek God as indeed I have done and that the right and true finding or invention sticketh not in Art but in Gods Spirit and Will 296. For this hand is simple and accompted foolish in the esteem of the World as you know and yet there lyeth such a hidden secret or Arcanum therein as is unsearchable to Reason 297. Therefore have a care pour Oyl into the Wounds that desire or require healing and consider well what Christ saith How hard it is for a man to enter into the Kingdom of God who is captivated with cares of the Belly in Might or Potency and Honour 298. You will not find
but not matter else that which is drawn in will be darkness to thee 20. Let the Devil behind thee roar before thy left Eye he cannot enter in unless thou lettest thy Eye take in matter 21. Thus wilt thou when thy earthly Body breaketh see all the wonders in the left Eye with the right which thou hast made or acted and found here in this life-time and so when the earthly Body falleth away then is also thy left Eye free from the Nature of the fierce wrath 22. And though it hath Nature for it is Nature it self which awakeneth and retaineth the wonders yet it standeth then with the wonders in the Eternal Liberty being it hath let in nothing of matter therefore it is free 23. And Nature with the Wonders is a fire-sharpness and layeth hold of the Eternal Liberty and so maketh Majesty in the Liberty in the Wonders from which the right Eye which accounteth it self here in this life as dead becometh enlightened and rejoyceth it self Eternally with the left Eye in the Majesty of the highly joyous Kingdom and eternally seeth God with BOTH Eyes 24. This is one Gate whosoever rightly in the spirit apprehendeth seeth THIS he seeth ALL whatsoever God IS and CAN do He seeth also therewith or thereby through Heaven Hell and Earth and through the Substance of all Substances and is the whole Scripture of whatsoever hath been written from the beginning of the world but it is a pretious sight the Old Man knoweth it not he seeth it not but the New Man born or generated in God 25. But being we are so hard to be understood by the purblind mind therefore we will render it more simply behold when thou wilt with thy Soul see God's Light and wilt that it be enlightened from God then do it thus 26. Thou art in this World and if thou hast a lawful honest Calling or Employment without falshood or wickedness continue therein work labour trade and manage it as necessity requireth seek Wonders both in the Elements and in the Earth be it in what Art Science or Employment it will it is all God's Work seek in the Earth Silver Gold make artificial works thereof build till plant it is all to God's Deeds of Wonder 27. But listen to this A. B. C. thou should not suffer thy spirit to enter thereinto fil or satiate it self therewith make a Mammon of it and to set thy self therein as in a Darkness else it is but God's Fool therein and the Devils mymmick Ape and setteh its will therein 28. And thy noble Image becometh altered according to thy Imagination in the Spirit according to thy will which is in Covetousness thou losest God's Image for it is Magical it is as subtile as a Spirit and much subtiler yea much subtiler and thinner than the Soul it self 29. It is as God is who dwelleth in the Eternal Liberty unapprehended by any thing for it is thinner or purer then any thing and so is also thy noble or pretious Image which yet standeth in Heavenly Flesh and Blood and is the Substantiality out of or from God's Body 30. It is Christ's Flesh and Blood and thy Soul dwelleth therein it is the Fire of the Majesty therein 31. And the holy Spirit sitteth in the Heart of the Image and goeth out of the Image forth with Voices Languages Wonders Songs and Sounds Into this Image thou bringest thy Wonders if thou art true and faithful and do it thus 32. Put thy left will into the work which thou dost and consider that thou art God's Servant in the Vineyard of God and labour faithfully and put thy right will into God into that which is Eternal and see that thou be at no time secure or careless but consider that thou art only in thy day labour and shouldst continually listen to have the voice of the Lord calling thee to come home give Reason no place to say this is my Treasure it is mine own I have enough or I will get or gather much that I may come to honour in the World and leave much to my Children 33. Consider that thy Children are God's Children and thou God's Servant that thy work is God's work and that thy Money Goods Labour and Blood standeth in God's hands 34. He may do with them what he will when he calleth thee to go home into thy own Country then he may take thy Labour and give it to another 35. And give thy heart no place to introduce into thee the Will-spirit of High-mindedness into the Image 36. Sink down thy Will-spirit alwayes into Humility before God and so thy Image goeth alwayes in the Humility with thy will into God's Majesty and thy Image becometh continually enlightened with the high-triumphing Light of God 37. O how chearful is the Soul when its Anguish Source or Quality of the Fire tasteth Gods Light how very friendly kind and courteous is it how it boweth it self before God! Thus standeth the Soul and also the Image in the Spirit all three one in another for it is a Substance according to the holy Trinity 38. Thus my beloved Brother we give you in answer to this Question that the Soul can no otherwise be enlightened than thus this is its enlightening It is in this world and also in God it is here in this life a Servant to the Wonders of God those it should open with one eye and bring them with the other into the Beginning before God and put all its substance and doings into God's Will and by no means say of any thing in this world this is mine I am Lord over it for it lyeth if it say so 39. It is all God's it self is Servant and should converse in Love and Humily towards God and its Brother for its Brothers Soul is a Fellow-Member of it self its Brothers Joy in Heaven with God is also ITS Joy his Wonders are ITS Wonders for in Heaven God is all in all He filleth all 40. The holy Spirit is the Life in all there is mere joy no sorrow is there known there all is God's and all belongeth to the Image of God there all is common and universal one rejoyceth at anothers vertue and power charity or glory brightness and beauty there is no grutching or envy all that remaineth in Death and in Hell 41. Therefore ye Elect Children of God Regenerated in Christ take this into consideration go out from Covetousness and own Self-will ye have been a long time lead blindfold in Bable go out from her ye are called with a strong loud voice it will shortly awaken or raise the Dead let it prevail with you that you may attain Eternal Joy in God 42. The Spirit signifieth clearly that whatsoever will not grow forth together with the new Sprout that springeth forth in the Mother shall and must go into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone together with the Dragons Whore in Babel 43. It is a
the Turba and in Eternity reacheth not to God also it knoweth nothing of him but is a Life according to the Essence Property of the Parents 13. Where yet it doth not reach to the kindling or burning for the Soul had not it self acted or committed sin but is a fountain-quality-Spirit without self-desire and wonders like the flame of Brimstone and like an Ignis Fatuus which cannot reach to God but remain so between Heaven and Hell in the Mystery till the Judgment of God which will gather in its harvest and give every thing its right and true place of Repository 14. Though perhaps our learned Masters in this may have another kind of Philosophy but we enquire not after their Art we have eyes they have Arts we speak what we see 15. Thus we give you to understand that no Soul is generated or born into this world without sin how honest vertuous and godly soever the Parents are for it is conceived and bred forth or hatched in earthly Seed and bringeth the Turba of the Body along with it and that hath also surrounded the Soul 16. Therefore in the Old Testament God made a Covenant with the Children in Circumcision and so ordered in the Covenant that they must shed their Blood and drown the Turba of the the Soul therewith 17. And in the New Testament there is the Baptism wherein the holy Spirit with the Water of Life washeth off the Turba of the Souls water that it may come to God and become God's Child 18. But if any will say that every one that hath not baptism as Jews and Turks and other People with whom is not the knowledge thereof who have not the Candlestick among them that they are all rejected of God although they never so vehemently press with their teaching Life and Death into the Love of God that is a phancy and Babel-like spoken without knowledge 19. Blessedness and Salvation lyeth not alone in the outward Word but in the Power and Vertue Who will exclude those that enter into God 20. Is it not Babel who seduceth and confoundeth the whole world so that they have devided People into Opinions and yet in their wills go but one way who is the Cause of this but the Antichrist when he drew the Kingdom of God into his might authority and power and made fictions concerning the Regeneration of which when it comes to be day the very Children will be ashamed of them 21. A Man may say with good ground that Antichrists Doctrine is a fighting with a shadow as in a looking-glass and a falshood and wickedness of the Serpent which continually beguileth Eve 22. Thus it is apprehensible to us that no Soul cometh into this world without Sin every one bringeth the Turba along with it for if it were without Sin then it must dwell in a totally pure body which hath no evil will or inclination at all in which there is no earthly seeking or desire 23. But thus indeed is every body and soul tyed and united together till the Turba findeth the Limit of the Body and then the Turba seeketh the works or actions of the Body as hath been mentioned above The Fifteenth Question How Sin cometh into the Soul being it is God's Work and Creature 1. IT is in such a manner as is above mentioned The Turba together with the earthly seeking came along with it into this world and so the Soul becometh vehemently drawn by two parties first by the Word of the Lord which is passed into the middle which there of Love is become Man or incarnate that draweth the Soul continually into God's Kingdom and setteth the Turba before the eys of the Soul so that the Soul seeth in Nature what is false or wicked and sin and if it suffereth it self to be drawn then it becometh regenerated in the Word so that it is God's Image 2. And secondly the Turba also draweth the Soul mightily with its bands and bringeth the Soul continually back into the earthly seeking or longing especially in youth when the earthly Tree sticketh full of green sprouting driving Essences and Poyson and then the Turba thus flyeth strongly or mightily in so that many a soul in eternity cannot become freed and loosed from it 3. A thing which is from two beginnings which stand in equal ballance or weight doth by putting in more weight on the one part sink down be it either by evil or good 4. Sin maketh not it self but the will maketh it it cometh from the Imagination into the Spirit and then the Spirit goeth into a thing and becometh infected from the thing and so the Turba of that thing cometh into the Spirit and destroyeth first the Image of God 5. And then it goeth further seeketh deeper and so it findeth the Abysse viz. the Soul and seeketh in the Soul and so it findeth the fierce wrathful Fire by which it mixeth it self with the thing introduced into the Spirit and so now sin is totally generated or born and so now all is sin which desireth to bring that which is outward into the Will 6. The will should simply or singly be inclined and exercised in Love Meekness as if it were a nothing or dead it should only desire God's Life that God may work act or create in it and whatsoever it doth besides its will should be inclined or intended so as to do it for God 7. But if it put its will into the Thing or Substance then it bringeth that thing or Substance into the Spirit which possesseth its Heart and so the Turba becometh generated and the Soul captivated with that Thing 8. Thus we give you for an answer that no Soul cometh pure and clean out of the Mothers body or womb be it begotten by holy or unholy Parents 9. For as the Abysse and Anger of God as also the earthly world do all cleave to and depend on God the Father and yet cannot apprehend or touch his Heart and Spirit so it is also with the Child in the Mother Body or Womb. 10. If it be begotten of godly pious Parents then each Principle standeth in its own part by it self when the Turba taketh the earthly Body then the Heaven taketh the Spirit and so the Majesty filleth the Spirit and so the Soul is in God and is free from pain 11. But while the Soul sticketh in the Earthly Life it is not free and it is because the Earthly Spirit continually bringeth its Abominations with its Imagination into it and the Spirit must continually stand in strife against the Earthly Life The Sixteenth Question How the Soul both in the Adamical Body as also in the New-born or Regenerate Body is held or preserved in such union together 1. VVE have mentioned above that there are Three Principles which moreover are all Three in the Soul and stand in one another as one thing and we offer you this that the strife in the Soul beginneth in the Seeds while they yet
the Body and resist the Devil 33. Now being the Angels are in this World in the Holy Principle whither should the Soul then first go perhaps into Pride as Lucifer did might Babel think O no it remaineth in Humility and looketh upon Gods Wonders as God's Spirit goeth so that goeth also The Two and Twentieth Question What every Soul departed doth whether it rejoyceth or no till the Day of the Last Judgement 1. THis Question compriseth or treateth of the richly Joyful Glorious Gate to the apprehension of the Victorious Garland of the Soul 2. When a beloved Son travels abroad for Arts and Sciences and Honour into a strange Countrey afar off he often thinketh of Home and of the time of return to enjoy his Parents and Friends he rejoyceth at the thought of that day and waiteth for it with inward Joy and Longing and exerciseth himself in his affairs that he may get also Art and Ingenuity or understanding and experience wherewith he may rejoyce his Parents Kindred and Friends 3. In like manner we offer to your Mind and give you this to Consider of that the Soul without the Body hath great inward Joy and waiteth for the last Judgement Day with great inward desire when it shall get its bright fair Holy Body with the wonders again 4. Also its rest in its Will where then it seeth its works according to the kind and manner of the unsearchable Magia which it will first get in the Figure at the last Judgement Day with the New Body out of the Old 5. And it is highly apprehensible and perceptible to us but in the Spirit according to its knowledge that the blessed Souls rejoyce in their here-Exercised-Labour and do exceedingly recreate themselves in their Wonders which they see Magically For those which have brought many to Righteousness those have their wages in the Magia in the Will before their Eyes 6. Those who have suffered much persecution for the Truths sake they see their bright Triumphant Garland which they shall at the Last Judgement Day set upon the New Body 7. Those that have done much good shall have it shining in the Will before their Eyes 8. And they that have been for Christs Doctrine and Truths sake despised persecuted and slain their Tryumphal Victory is before their Eyes like one that hath overcome his Enemy in Fight and represents the Victory before his King and Prince which he hath in Great Honour and Glory where his King receives him with great Joy and keeps him by him as his faithful Assistant 9. Now what joy is in these we have no Pen to Write only we apprehend that those for the most part in this world have put on God's Body and so are in greater Perfection then the other they wait for the Last Judgement Day with Great Joy Honour and Glory when their Works in the Heavenly Figure shall pass before their Eyes and the wicked shall see against whom they have kicked 10. Every such Soul rejoyceth in great Hope before the Face of God at that which shall befall it for it apprehendeth its wages but cannot receive that without the Body for it hath done its Labour in the Body therefore it will get that again also which will follow after it in the New Body 11. For although the highly pretious Holy Souls have in this world put on Christs Body so that they stand as an Image of God in Heaven yet all their works have been made or wrought in the Old Body which was God's Looking-Glass and they shall in the Resurrection be presented to them in the Figure exactly Heavenly in their Body 12. For the first Image which Adam was before the Fall is become Regenerated in Christ and will be put on to the Soul again with its Wonders and though it hath Gods Body aforehand yet the Wonders stand in the first Image 13. But the Turba with the outward Kingdome of the outward source or quality is gone for it was a Looking-Glass and is now become a Wonder It liveth without Spirit as a Wonder and will be put upon the Soul in great clarity or Brightness from the Light of God which the Holy Souls rejoyce at exceedingly and wait for it with great longing 14. And we present to your apprehension that every blessed Soul trimmeth its lamp that it may go to meet its Bridegroom at the Last Judgement Day they renew their Wills continually and consider how they shall rejoyce in their New Bodies in the Wonders with all holy Men and Angels there is a Continual rising up of Joy in them when they think of that which is to come every one according to their vertue or capacity 15. As their works have been different upon Earth so also is their Hope for a day Labourer who hath done much service rejoyceth at his wages so also here there is a friendly Substance of Solace among them and in them 16. All scorn and blasphemy laid upon them which they were not guilty of is a great Victorious Honour and Glory to them that thus have suffered in Innocency wrongfully and put on Patience in Hope and this they have moreover that death cannot take from them nor add to them the Soul taketh along with it what it hath comprehended 17. Their often hearty Prayers well wishing and well doing to their Neighbour is their food which they eat and rejoyce themselves till their New Body shall eat Paradisical Fruit. 18. But those which have put on God's Body here they eat without Ceasing at Gods Table but the Paradisical Fruit belongeth to the Body of the Wonders which shall arise out of the Grave which was created in Paradise For it was made out of the beginning and bringeth the End with the Wonders again into the Beginning 19. And wonder not as if we speak as likely we are understood in your Eyes concerning TWO Bodies of the most holy Saints indeed there is not two of them It is but ONE consider only how God's Substantiality filleth all and that is God's Body which is in this Life put on to the holy Souls 20. For they cast their Will into God's VVill and so they receive also God's Body which filleth All their VVill dwelleth in God's Body and eateth in God's Body of God's VVord of God's Fruit of God's Power and Vertue and Christ is in God God is become Christ 21. Thus they carry about them Christs Body in God and yet nevertheless wait for their First Adams holy Body with the VVonders which shall be put on them with Paradisical source or quality 22. For God's purpose must stand he created the first Body in and for Paradise it should remain eternally therein It must go in thither again and the Soul upon the Cross of the Number Three into the Mouth of God from whence it came and and yet the whole Person with Body and Soul remaineth one in another but God filleth all in All. 23. O that we had a Humane Pen
have God and to know him and lose that again it were better to lose the World and the Outward-Life then to Lose God and the Kingdom of Heaven 7. It is not a thing to be dallied with to be disobedient to God see what befel Corah Dathan and Abiram about Moses the same will befal the Disobedient and Scorners 8. Indeed the Scorner feeth not his punishment presently but his Turba taketh it in now hath he laughed any to scorn in derision and would fain be freed or released from the Turba thereof then he must in Sorrow Lamentation grieve before God for it or else he will bring his scorn along with him into the Anger-Fire and that will Eternally gnaw him this we would have said for a Warning 9. For here we write of an earnest or severe business it is not to be slighted be not led astray God will not suffer himself to be mocked or scorned the fierce wrathful Anger is in his Might and Power he hath Hell and Heaven in his Power 10. The last Judgment is an Earnest or severe work but being we are to set down the Resurrection of the Dead therefore we must write the Manner of it how it shall be performed in what power this world shall pass away and the Dead arise it will be earnest or severe let none slight it we will speake of the ground of it 11. And think not that it is a Conceit it becometh generated out of the Turba upon your Crown the Turba of your own Spirit telleth you that for the End hath found the Beginning thus the whole Substance Matters or Works of the World stand in the Middle in the Light and out of that goeth your Prophet viz. out of your wrought Wonders or practised works 12. For it is not the Spirit of the Turba that will govern but the Spirit of Christ it hath overcome Death and taken the Turba captive He lead-leadeth Captivity Captive as a Conquerour 13. But the Turba will execute the Judgement or Justice for it is God's Servant in the Anger not his Lord but Servant therefore the Thunder which will terrifie the Earth goeth out of the Mouth of God which will kindle or inslame the Firmament and the Elements 14. The last Judgement belongeth to the Judge Christ together with the Holy Spirit For here will the Eternal Spirits Center stir it self which also hath parted it self into Three Principles viz. One in the Anger-Spirit and One in the Divine Love-Spirit and One in the Air-Spirit of the outward World 15. The last moving belongeth to him he is in Christ's Mouth according to the Deity and according to the Anger in the Hellish anguish source quality or Torment and according to the Wonders in the Spirit of this World 16. He was the Work-master of All Things or Substances and he it is also that will give to Every work its Eternal Lodging and gathereth every thing into its Barn 17. For he hath many helpers for the Angels shall sever and seperate all things and then will the Mouth of God the Father with the Word of the Lord through the Mouth of Christ speak the Sentence and then Beginneth the burning World and the Entrance of Every thing into its Barn and Reservatory 18. For the Reservatories will be manifold not only two viz. in two Principles yet in two Principles but in many distinctions all according to the several power and vertue 19. For every work standeth in a Magick Principle as a several distinct Wonder both in the Heaven and in the Hell every one according to its Spirit and so will its Form or Condition be and appear according as it is good or evil and so will its Power and Vertue be like the Flowers or Blossoms of the Earth in their Varieties and so will Man also have Joy and Glorification all according to his here-wrought acted Substance or Works 20. But we understand Substance or Works of Faith the Power and Vertue in the Love-Substance or Works not of the outward works for all shall be presented or set forth in the Figure in the Wonders and that will be so with its Beginning and Circumstances 21. When the Last Judgment Day shall Dawn then all shall open it self once more viz. the Third Time the Deity in all forms in Love and Anger then will all stand equally manifested at once and visibly before all Creatures and that is done thus 22. The Beginning of the Creation in the Word Fiat hath included this World as a Model in it self and founded the limit wherein now the Wonders are become included which should be manifested or opened in the middle and in the time and come to Substance or Effect which were seen from Eternity in the Wisdom of God's Magia and so those Wonders are then all in the Substance or Work and then the Limit is at hand and no time of seeking more for it is finished whatsoever God hath in his Eternal Councel that he hath comprised and opened in a Time 23. And now is the End of Time and the beginning hath then found the End and the End is then the beginning passeth again into that which it was from Eternity 24. But the middle in the time with its opened wonders remaineth Eternally in the beginning and in the End as an Eternal Middle with its Wonders viz. with Angels and Men in their Substance or Works as also the Figures of all Creatures as also all Creatures and all whatsoever hath become Essential at any time the Earth with its Mettals Stones and all material Substances things or works as also Trees Herbs and Grass all of them stand in the Figure in the middle and in the Wonders but without such Essences and Life as they have here 25. For no Beast cometh again but its Figure in the Magia remaineth standing for it is originated out of the Eternal Looking-Glass therefore also it must now when the outward Earthly Looking-Glass breaketh stand in the Eternal as a Wonder to Gods Honour and Glory 26. And these very Substances belong all to Paradise for it will be the Holy Paradise wherein the Heavenly Elements will bear Substantial palpable Fruits 27. And as we here in this Life account the Fruits of the Earth out of its Essence as dead things without understanding so will also the Beastial and Earthly Images of this world appear as dead Substances things or works as also all other Creatures Substance or Work it shall stand as a shadow but the Paradise hath and beareth Fruit out of the Eternal Lifes Power and Vertue viz. out of God's Essences 28. This all which for the most part lyeth hidden to us is included in the word Fiat in the beginning and End and lyeth therein as a great VVonder 29. And now will the Spirit of the first Creation move all the Three Principles and before that is done the VVord of God compriseth it self with or by that Spirit like an Elevation or Manifestation of
Eternity before the Foundation of the World was laid which stood in the Majesty of the Holy Number Three and also in the Body of Mary equally alike at Once 21. And the Soul of Christ belongeth half to the Principle of this World and half to the Holy Spirit for the Soul of Christ made use of the outward Spirits Air of the Stars or Constellations with the Power and Vertue of the Elements and also of the Word of God and of Divine food for such a Man was Adam in Innocency 22. Thus hath God in Christ Regenerated us anew and thus are we born anew in Christ out of God's Word and Spirit through the Water of the Eternal Life thus are we Gods Children in CHRIST and if we give our selves up into Christ out from our Reason then we are indued with Christs Body and our Will and Spirit liveth from or of CHRIST in US and we in him 23. Thus you may understand what Christ's Temptation was viz. that the New Regenerate Man should now hold out or endure Adams temptation to try whether his Soul could stand in God and there he was tryed in the Turba to see whether he could rightly stand in the Three Principles and rule over the Outward and therefore his food of the outward Life was withdrawn from him that the inward Life might overpower the outward and eat of the Word of the Lord and hold the outward in its own power and full Omnipotency and also hold Death Captive that it should not destroy the outward Life this must needs be a Great Combate 24. And then the other two Temptations were these he was tryed whether Man would live in full obedience to God and let God work in him or whether he would lift up himself again and free himself from God as Lucifer did and therefore the Devil must tempt him seeing this Man was to possess his Kingly or Royal Throne 25. Therefore the Devil complained that he was not able to stand the Mother of the fierce Wrathfulness drew him so hard therefore it was now permitted to him that he should tempt and try it in this Man and should set before him that which was set before himself and if this Man did overcome he should be the Devils Judge who was found to be a Lyar. 26. For he Tempted him in the second and third Assault fully to try whether he would flie in his own self might and he himself had done and had awakened the Anger or whether he would put his Trust alone in God and live in God with Will and Substance or Deed as a Child in Obedience to the Father and this he tryed so long with him as Adam was in the Temptation before his sleep 27. Thus must we also Continually be Tempted but in Christ who hath overcome we can have the Victory for his Soul is our Soul and his Flesh our Flesh if we trust in him and give up our selves wholly to him as Christ gave himself up to his Father 28. And thus beloved Friend you understand what Christ's Soul and Body is viz. Our Soul and Body if we cleave to God but if not then we are rent off and are according to the outward Life fallen home to the Spirit of this World viz. to the perished corrupt Adam and according to the Soul fallen home to the Devil in the Anger of God seek this more at large in our other Writings where you shall find the whole ground of Heaven and of this World The Seven and Thirtieth Question What the Spirit of Christ is which was Obedient and which he Commended into his Fathers Hands 1. THis is that Great Jewel for which we highly rejoyce that we know it so that we know our selves what we are and it is more dear and acceptable to us then the whole World for it is that Pearl for which one sold all his Goods and bought that Pearl of which Christ speaketh 2. For it is more profitable to Man then the whole World it is more Noble and Precious then the Sun for the Noble or Precious Stone of the Wise Men the Philosophers Stone lyeth THEREIN it hath the Mysterium Magnum The Great Mystery Heavenly and Earthly and there is nothing like it in this World but only the mean simplicity which standeth still and generateth or awakeneth no Turba this hath the Jewel hidden in it as the Gold lyeth in the Stone 3. And continueth unconsumed if a Robber with the Earthly Turba cometh not upon it and destroyeth it and yet attaineth it not so is also the own self-Reason in the Mystery 4. Therefore we dare and can with good ground say that a simple Layick which in simplicity without much Skill and Art cleaveth to God hath the Mysterium Magnum better and surer also undestroyed then a high learned Doctor that flyeth aloft in his Reason and destroyeth the Jewel and setteth it in Babel this indeed will not relish well but we are not much concerned in that we should set forth the Truth and baulk or shun none 5. Now when we speak of Christ's Spirit then Reason understandeth the Soul or indeed the outward Life's Spirit which standeth in power and vertue and winking of the Stars and Elements but no it is another thing wherein the Image of God standeth the outward Spirit belongeth not to the Deity but to the Wonders 6. We have truly and clearly mentioned before but since it is hinted expresly in the Question that Christ commended it to his Father in his Dying therefore we must speak thereof how it was 7. You have sufficiently conceived before in what manner the Soul is the Center of Nature the Original of Life and the Mobility as viz. a Fire of God which should be turned and inclined into Gods Eternal Will wherein it is Originally generated out of the Magick seeking and out of the Eternal Nothing is become a Great Mystery wherein ALL Things lye The Deity with all the Three Principles and all whatsoever is or is called Being or Substance or Thing 8. Also it is explained how out of the Fire the Light is generated and the Spirit-Air and then how the Fire draweth the Spirit-Air again into it self and so continually bloweth up it self again and so with the Light and the Air and the source or quality of the Fire is the Life of its own self 9. We have also mentioned moreover unto you concerning the Noble or Precious Tincture which thus ariseth in the Light in which is the Light 's meekness which is Generated out of the Anguish as a Mortification or killing and sprouteth forth out of the Mortification as another life of another source or quality where the Fires-source or quality is apprehended to be a Tincture like a driving forth of a Spirit and yet also is desirous and so draweth the power and vertue of the Light into it self and maketh it be a Substance viz. Water 10. Wherein the two Forms become apprehended one according to
Trinity Pure Element Number 34. 215. The word Pure Element on the Crosse's upper Line Number 43. signifieth the inward world out of which this outward with the Four Elements is become generated forth and standeth in the Inward Root in the Substance thereof Holy Spirit Num. 44. Son Num. 45. 216. Moreover it is to be observed exactly how the Words stand begin and end for they begin on the outward Circle at the Left where above Number 5. the Holy Spirits Character or Letter V. standeth and beneath Number 8. Substance and goeth through the two Circles at the Right even into the second Space which signifieth the Pure Divine Elements Original its indwelling and Substance whence it Originateth viz. from the Spirit of the Eternal Mystery in the Divine Substantiality viz. in the Substance of the Great Mystery and yet is only manifest or revealed in the second Principle viz. in the Substance of the Son and Holy Spirit as above one the Circle at the Right is to be seen Number 44. and 45. Father Numb 46. Holy Spirit of Divine Wisdom and Understanding Numb 47. 217. The Pure Element is the working in the right true Heaven and shutteth it self in and out with or by the Cross it is the springing or flowing moving in the Fire and Light-Heaven from or by with the Divine Substantiality understand Substance and not the Spirit of God is a life for it reacheth not into the Substance of the Father Number 46. where beneath on the Circle standeth Divine Wit or Understanding for the Element giveth or affordeth not divine Wit but the Holy Spirit Number 47. giveth Divine apprehension knowledge or skill and wit or understanding 218. The Element is a Substance in respect of the Deity as the Life in the flesh is understood to be in respect of the Soul For the Tincture is higher and giveth the ENS of the Spirit wherein the Light-Fire is understood Humanity Flesh Numb 48. 219. Under the word Pure Element standeth at Number 27. on the stroak of the upper Line of the Cross Death and the word beginneth laying hold on the left Circle and goeth through the Cross through the first right Circle There observe both the outward Circles at the left and at the right above and beneath and then thou wilt soon find what the right or authority of Death is and how it is the dying source or fountain quality in the Magick Fire and holdeth the Substantiality captive in itself as at the left beneath at Number 8. at the right beneath at Number 4. 8. is to be seen and then above on the same Circle at Number 44. and at the left above at Number 5. there a man seeth how the spiritual Life goeth and sprouteth forth through the Death and possesseth the highest Circle For all whatsoever willeth to reach or attain the Divine Life must go through the Dying Magick Fire and stand or subsist therein as the Heart on the Cross must and doth stand or subsist in the Fire of God 220. Further it is to be known that we in Adam have turned our selves away from the Cross and are with the Desire of Lust or Pleasure gone with our will above the Cross at Number 23. into an Own self Rule or Government and now Death hath captivated us in it self therefore we must now sink down out of Death on the Cross at the Line of Christ again into the Heart and become new born or regenerate in the Heart else Death holds us captive in it self For now Death standeth on the Cross-Line but at the Judgement it shall be given to the Dark World For our Will must now enter through Death on the Cross into Rest but the outward Cross shall be taken away and then Death is a spectacle or scorn and derision 221. Thirdly it signifieth that the Life of God in Christ bare * Death as a shew or spectacle of Triumph on the Cross when Death became broken on the Cross in the dying of Christ where the Life sprouted through Death and the Heart gave up or yeelded it self into the middle viz. into the Center as victorious Lord or Conquerour of Death Paradise Numb 49. 222. Under the Heart at Number 49. standeth Paradise the Word beginneth at the left on the outward Circle where above at Number 5. is marked the Spirit of the Great Mystery of the Profundity or unsearchableness of Eternity viz. V. and it goeth through the Cross at the right through all the Three Circles even into the Liberty this signifieth the constitution or existence of Paradise it originateth in the Mystery of the Eternity and prouteth through the outward and also hrough the Light World hidden in the outward World and manifested or revealed in the second Principle in the Light World as therefore the World penetrateth through all the Three Circles shewing the humane Bodies original Divine Substantiality Numb 50. 223. For in or at this place out of this substance Adams Body understand the outward Body was created according to the Third Principle and the inward Body understand the Images Body out of the Divine Substantiality as at the right near Paradise is marked with Number 50. Christ Flesh Numb 51 52. 224. That very Divine Substance understand Substance not Spirit is included in the Wisdom of God and therein is the heavenly Tincture For God's Word that became Man brought this Substance into Mary into her in Death inclosed Substantiality viz. into the Images Body and thereby God and Man became One Person 225. For this Flesh is Christs Flesh according to the Heavenly part therefore beyond Substantiality standeth Christ's Flesh Number 51 52. Christ bare such Flesh in the Inward Man as Adam had before his Eve was when he stood in the Divine Image in Purity Therefore can no Man go into Paradise unless he attain that Flesh again that Adam had before the Fall and Christ attained in the becoming Man or Incarnation Therefore must we all become born out of the Heart upon the Cross and put on Christ Mystery Numb 53. 226. Under Paradise Number 53. standeth Mysterium Mystery and the word beginneth at the left in the second Circle where above on the same Circle Number 4. the Character or Letter O standeth and beneath Principle and Fire Number 7. and goeth to the right through the Cross through the first Circle at the right This signifieth rightly and exactly Mans Creation according to the Body 227. For the Body is a Mystery taken out of the inward and outward World from above and from beneath understand out of the Earths Matrix This is the Earths Matrix out of this Mystery was it created and a Man seeth how it was created out of the inward and outward Substance viz. out of the dark and light World and is mixt with evil viz. with fierce-wrath and also with Good Wonder Numb 54. Angel Numb 55. Spirit Numb