the Original Matter of it doth lye they may and do wear out their Cloaths and go naked away without being Cloathed upon with this Spiritual Body Without which there being no getting up so high as to face the Throne Majesty they must abide in Centres of low Degree till they can put on Christ's Resurrection Body Which is the Royal Robe that the Virgin Bride with all her Off-spring do appear in at the Festival Day in which the Marriage shall be Solemnized The First-fruits of it are given as Tokens and Pledges to Wisdom's Children by CHRIST now in the time of his Betrothment unto the Pure in Spirit who keepeth their Virgin Mind undefiled who will as a most intimate Lover make frequent Visits bringing unto them choice and spiritual Food that the Espoused may Banquet with him while the Cup of Love is still renewed and filled as fast as it is drunk in O is not this Ravishing Love of our Immanuel that doth make it out to this degree considering that we are yet but in our Minority and carrying the mean appearance of a Mortal Shade From out of which such a Pull and Shake he will in his time give as shall make the vile and gross Image which we bear to be more fine than the Ophir Gold by the means of that Superior Element that will with our Minds so Qualifie and Commingle as the Light so as to arise thereby in a shining Lustre for to come up unto the unity of the Lord's Glory § 18. Now having given you an Account of the Seven Worlds with the Inhabitants assigned to fill them up I proceed on to the Eighth which is the Beginning and the Highest of all Worlds called the Still Eternity This there is no way possible for any one to describe or give account of but by being taken up into it From which there is a freedom to give a Description according to what hath been seen in this World by a Spirit thither Translated It may be most properly entitled the Highest Court or Principality of the Tri-Un Majesty The Scituation of it is founded upon an Abyssal Deep where from an inaccessible Light doth generate and spread it self without bounds as a vast Globe of Eternity God is here to be known and understood abstractedly from Eternal Nature as abiding in his own Simplified Deity before either the Angels or other Creatures were Created Here the Holy Trinity dwelt in the meek Stilness enjoying themselves before they brought forth any Image or Likeness to themselves For in this high and lofty Sphere no Figures of Glory could be seen though great Powers did move here and variety of Wonders did appear sending forth a Majestick Awefulness § 19. Q. But it may be demanded What the Wonders of this World are since there is nothing of Figure in it to be beheld neither the Father nor the Son nor the Holy Ghost in any Distinction for to be known Ans. It is verily so yet there is a Consubsisting of the Blessed Trinity in each other The Fulness of the Godhead dwelleth here Unbodily with his Virgin Wisdom and the Seven Spirits All which do here open themselves from an Infinite Source and from thence all the Creating Powers do flow forth For this is the Abyssal World from whence all other Worlds were Created § 20. Q. It may be further Queried What further Wonder did you here see Ans. A glorious and wonderful Element was seen with numberless Sparks of Light As this outward Air or AEther is full of Stars so this Element was bespangled with Lights Upon the Inquiry of the Spirit that was there caught up what these might be It was answered That all these were Simplified Spirits that were ordained to garnish that Globe and to attend there the Tri-Un Deity from whom they are Generated evermore watching the Eye to see when it would send them forth to assume or take up Bodies being all pure meek and mild Spirits which do perfect whatsoever and wheresoever they enter These are the Spirits that will sublime and make Bodies to become All-Divine § 21. Q. Then was it further asked by this Translated Spirit Whence their Birth was Ans. It was Answered From God the Father in Conjunction with the Eternal Virgin Wisdom who brought them forth Upon this I was advised how that these Spirits are reserved in this High Globe till Wisdom's Day upon this Visible World should as the Morning-Star break forth Then are they to go forth to multiply and make a Princely Host God's Wonders throughout all Nations for to display that so this World of Misery and Mortaüty may see a more Happy Day from the Operation of this Eternal and Meek Stilness which will infuse their Powers and qualifie with Souls that from before all Worlds were preordained to be Spirited after this kind by the means of simple Abstraction answerable to the Production of these Pure and Eternal Spirits that fill up this Globe of the Majesty of the Tri-Un God who generated them out of himself before the Creation of Angels or of any other Beings For these Spirits are the First-born from out of the Womb of the Eternal Virgin as hid in God before there was any Figurative Manifestation They will enter therefore into holy Souls with such penetrating Powers as shall give another habit of Mind casting it into an Eternal Stilness and quieting all the Working Properties in the Region of Nature No awakening or stirring up there shall then be of the Soulish Essence from its Conjunction with the Body for that the Property of these Spirits is to do and act all in a still and silent way and from thence the greatest Power and Force shall most effectually go forth For it was told me that as these Spirits of Light naked and unbodied did fill up the Globe of the Unbodily Majesty in Trinity so it should come to pass in the full Age of time when Wisdom's First-born shall be made manifest that this World or Globe should then descend and open in the Virgin Off-spring of Wisdom By whom alone the mighty Deeds and Works will be made apparent so that it may be discerned that they are wrought in God only All Counterfeit Actings of this kind will fall down as Dagon before the Ark so that no dark Magia shall be able to stand For in this Day all faces of a covering shall be rent away that so the true and right Acting Spirit may be known Now in this new Modification which is a Passiveness in Spirit Soul and Body so as no other motion of Life may be but from the Tri-Unity that may beget pure and simplified Spirits as numberless as our Thoughts these holy mild and all-quieting Spirits may multiply in Souls accordingly prepared for them For it hath been further shewed to me that the very Images of the Mind should be all of a Deified Stamp and of a most deep Engraving from the most High Majesty Thus it is given to let you understand that
possibly be so clarified as to become a part of that High Court of Eternity seeing none must come there but what have passed through those two Principles namely Paradise and Mount Sion's Kingdom The Answer This is granted that it must be so yet this is no Impossibility to the good-willing and obedient into whom these Heavenly Worlds will come down and open and diffuse their qualifying Powers to make them meet to be partakers of this Jerusalem-world as to its Spiritual Substantiality which will enter Souls into a present most happy and blissful Fruition of GOD. This is not spoken only by a Revealed Intelligence from the Heavens which is witness great enough to confirm the Truth of it but there is yet a more Evidence Where and in Whom this City is already come down in its Purity and Brightness though vailed to the Mortals here below The Splendorous Deity may for a time under a shade of contemptible Humanity lye obscured but Virgin Wisdom's Day will by her bright Star through the dark Pitcher of this Earthly Form shine forth so as in this time of our Evening-tide her Morning Light shall upon the Earth spread § 16. But methinks this Query meets me by the way What is it that I mean by this Virgin Wisdom that is the true Mother of the Citizens of this Jerusalem and who is the Princess of this Kingdom Of the which I doubt not but to give to the impartial and pious Inquirer a true and right account from the great knowledge hereof which hath been freely communicated unto me and of the which I have therefore in some formerly Printed Books made mention as also for that now upon the opening of the Four Heavenly Worlds a fresh Stream of her Brightness hath circulated about my inward Mind that so I might know and understand what in her secret Deep hath hitherto lain hid that to light and manifestation is commanded to be brought forth The which Command for Publication I must obey and all her Rules and Methods observe In the first place we shall describe her Eternal Originality which is srom God the Tri. Un Deity being a Virgin hid in Him from all Eternity but as to her Nativity brought forth in Time now I shall not speak in a Proverb but plainly as thus God Created Adem at first to bear his own Image and Figure who was to represent God himself the High and Divine Masculine Male and Female so that Adam had his Virgin in himself in imitation of his Creator which in Time was brought forth in a distinct Figure And this was a Type of the Eternal Virgin Mother that lay hid in God the Centre and Heart of Flaming Love from whence the production of a Glorious Female Figure was brought forth that was so commixed and mingled with Deity as she became God's Spouse and Bride being Spirit of his Spirit Now be it known unto all that from this Eternal Virgin Wisdom a new Generation of Virgin Spirits shall be Born to make up the Glory of the New Jerusalem JESUS CHRIST being the Head and the First-born of this Royal and Princely Generation who was after the way and manner of Humane Nature conceived in the Womb of that Virgin Mary that was but a Type of the Eternal Virgin who brought forth the Son of God before all Time But Mary's Womb was sanctified to bring forth in Time that CHRIST who was the Son of God before all Time And so the Eternal Virgin Womb goeth on still according to Nature to bring forth Wisdom's Off-spring by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost and the Qualifying Powers from the Jerusalem World § 17. In the next place I am to acquaint you what is the way of Bringing up and the manner of Education in which Virgin Wisdom's Children are to be Manured and Disciplined that as their Birth is great and high being Heirs to the Father's Kingdom of Eternity so they may have all those worthy Accomplishments suiting to the same which are required The chiesest of which according as they have been revealed by the Spirit of Wisdom shall be declared and made known This then is the first Proviso or Caution which is given that for as much as these holy Births are encompassed with an evil and sinful Principle wherein great Danger and Temptation doth lye to prevent and hold down this Pure Thing from springing therefore as soon as this Birth is from whence its descent is with all high Graduations it must deny and despise the Image of the Earthly sinful Birth by which the Heaven-born Spirit will be daily proved For Christ the Lord was not exempted from Temptations so Tried in like manner all must be until the Conquest be wrought out Therefore we are charged to forsake our sinful Native Country and People of that sort with our Father Adam and Eve's Family and to return unto our first and antient Degree as free Denizens of that City of which God is the Light and which Wisdom through the Eternal Spirit doth rule and govern in all Love-soveraignity This then being premised I come to give the Particulars after what manner Wisdom's Children are to be Educated In the state of their Infancy and Minority as soon as they are Spiritually Born care is to be taken that this holy Birth draw the sustenance of Life from no other than its own Virgin Mother whose Breast must at all times satisfie and nourish it For according to what it sucks in of such a Kind Nature and Quality the Birth is for it draws in the Spirit and Life of its Mother Therefore watch to it and hang not upon any strange Breast Quest. Next it may be inquired What kind of Cloathing this Royal Birth must have Ans. Though it be Born a pure Spirit yet it must not be naked and without a Body for cloathing of such a sort as becometh the degree of Wisdom's Princely Children You will ask What is that I Answer It is a pure and fine Robe made up of a Diaphanous Matter from the One Eternal and Unmixed Element which can no more fade as did the First Adam's Paradisical Body that was though Celestial yet Alterable whence that withdrawing it self he became Naked for he had then lost his Virgin Body wherein his strength did lye But now again Care is taken in the New Creation that a Body be firly prepared for the making up the New Jerusalem Bride But here it will be objected that none so made Meet and Rarified in this Life-time can expect to be so long as they are Cloathed with the Body of the Four Elements In Answer to this be it said that the Corporeal Body is but an outside covering as the Badgers Skin was a covering upon the Tabernacle Glory Yet I must distinguish betwixt who are renewed and born into this Virgin Mind and Nature and they who are Strangers to it and know nothing of it albeit capable of it but for want of searching into their own Deep where
near approaching in the which the Earth should cast forth the Dead that have been buried in the Body of Sin For this end a terrible Blow and Stroke upon the Nations of the Earth will fuddenly come God saith he is wearied out with the Sinful Abomination of this World to which he purposeth shortly to put an end For it hath accordingly been sounded in my inward Ear that the Ends of all Sinful Worlds are by the great Creator of them now determined Upon which saying I queried in Spirit with my LORD in what other Worlds besides this Visible and known World the Evil of Sin did yet remain Whereupon it was replied that such as go out of this World in their gross and unmortified Earthly Life without Clarification obtained through the Water of Regeneration and the Blood of Christ shed in them and so Attoning for Sin and Trespasses which not being entirely done away before they go out of this Life will still abide with them in their nature and quality after Death do pass into such Worlds Stations or Centres which are most agreeable and natural to them and do accordingly bear great varieties and sundry degrees of Punishments proportioned to the Impurity that is left in them For as much as Sin dieth not totally with the Body except while in it there hath been a Dying to it by the Spirit of Righteousness spreading over it So that from hence a Cry doth go forth to all Nations Peoples and Languages to Purge out the corrupt Leaven of Sin that it may not go with them into that World or Worlds where their Lot may be § 3. For it hath been revealed unto me that there are several Regions or Worlds that do receive the Souls of all Degrees and Ranks to the Number Eight The First of these is this Mortal Visible World The Second is the Astral or Aerial World The Third is the Waterish Elementary World And the Fourth is the Fiery Dark World These are all the Worlds where Sinful Lustings may be with Punishments answerable till Sin shall expire therein through the Meditorship and Propitiatian of CHRIST the Almighty Redeemer For into the next Four Worlds nothing of Evil or Sin can enter or in the Inhabitants of them dwell The First of these is the Paradisical World being all Coelestial and a very pleasant State where there is a growing up to higher degrees of Perfection to compleat us for the Kingdom of Mount Sion Where Christ's the Lord's Kingdom is in great Magnificence with all the Angelical Principalities under him and with the Elders as Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles The Third Heavenly World is the Royal and Principal Seat of God the Father with the Eternal Virgin Wisdom and the Seven Spirits This bears the Title of the Great City called the New Jerusalem where the Glassy Sea doth encompass about Then above this is that World called the Still Eternity Out of which were generated all of these Worlds above-mentioned Of all which I must give an account according as I have had them shewed and opened from the deep Centre and Original Being of them I did not know when I published my two last Treatises that of the Enochian Life and the other of the Paradisical Laws that my God would ever have had made use of me any more in this kind the Day of my Life being so far spent and growing to its evening Rest. But my LORD doth still follow me with fresh Revelations and Inkindlings from his own immense Deep which run as a Fiery Stream through me so that I find there is no resisting this all-driving Power by which hidden and unknown Worlds must be made manifest in this last Age of Times § 4. But before I go upon this large and copious Matter it will be proper to Answer a grand Objection that is expected to be cast in upon the Reading hereof Namely Since the Holy Scripture maketh no mention of such Variety of Worlds how shall we give credit hereunto In Answer to this it is given from him who Was and Is and Will be the true Inspirer to open new Volumes of his Mind which are not to be less reputed and credited than the foregoing Scriptures The Old Testament having been appropriated to the Ministration of the Father the New to the Son now the Third Day is come in which the Holy Ghost will have His which will Excel all before it to Unseal and Reveal what yet never was known or understood that will be communicated to and by such as are in an extraordinary manner sanctified and set a part for this holy Function For from this Spirits Day must go forth a New Spring of things yet to be revealed both as to the Present and Future State that hath lain hid within these mentioned Worlds The Account of which I am more particularly to give according as it hath been shown to me from the Spirit of Inspiration For I write here from no other Ground than what the Spirit of CHRIST in the Glass of Wisdom hath presented to mine Inward Eye which pierceth into the Deep of God's Mind And which is no longer to be concealed for the Holy Unction is given for this end to drop his golden Oil which will dissolve all those Seals that have stood so long for an hiding and shutting up of those Mysterious Truths that a Commission is now given to bring forth in order to their being proclaimed and inscribed upon the Pillars and Temple of God's House Whether believed or not it must stand as the Engraving of God's Hand § 5. The First in Order is this Corporeal Visible World in which we now live Where good and evil Births have been produced from Adam and so still shall go on to be procreated till the Numbers shall be finished and filled up that are indeed as to us numberless but numbred by God Here is laid a Foundation for his manifold Wisdom in a wonderful way and manner to be made manifest from this first ground of Natural Generation Which Births after a limited time must pass through the Death of the Elementary Body to such Regions as their Lot will fall to § 6. As for such Ranks of Souls that do dye Unregenerated these having no part in CHRIST and having lived ignorant and as without God in this present World do go to their own direful Place within the Circumference of the Evil Worlds where they will be proved and tried till the general Restitution of all Lapsed Worlds by the Mighty God and Saviour shall come to be effected But of this we will not further now insist having elsewhere more largely declared it § 7. Now therefore beginning from below I proceed to make known to the true Simplified Inquirers what the First and Lowest of these Worlds or Elements is This is entitled the Dark Hellish World and by the only Supream Creator and Judge is allotted a Receptacle for Lucifer and the rest of the Apostatized Angels of that Hierarchy It may be also
it is very rare that any Souls do come up to be with CHRIST the Lord immediately upon the departing from the Body Though I do not say but some may reach to such a perfect degree of Christ likeness as that when they Die this Angelical World may stand open to receive them and so being admitted into that high Glorification may from Glory to Glory still be ascending till at length they arrive to the New Jerusalem State And beyond this there remains no more to pass into but the inmost Place of Purity which bears the Title of the Still Eternity for that nothing but Everlasting Rest Stilness and Silence is to be perceived here Of each of which Worlds there are some Particulars to be at this time declared from the Faithful Witness that it may be discerned who they are that are made meet to inhabit them § 11. It ought then to be known how that those Souls that are Born of God and so Renewed in every part the whole Man being changed into a Deified Nature must needs enjoy and know beforehand the Joys and Pleasures of these Worlds to which they do belong according to that degree which any in this Life-time do reach to Such as are allotted for the Paradisical World when they Decease will have it at some time or other open while in the Body For the Spiritual Property will qualifie most interiourly so as the true Mystical Paradise puts forth its flowing Glory in the inward ground of a Renewed Mind So that this outward Principle and evil World preventeth not in the Holy and Heaven-born Souls those pleasant Golden Springs from running to Circle and Water every Plant which by the Spirit of CHRIST hath been renewed Therefore the Holy Trinity do delight often to manifest themselves in the Souls Paradisical Heart and Mind as well Now as Hereafter § 12. From hence it was given me to understand that as the Mystical Paradise so also the Mystical Sion doth therewith also stand open in the ground of this pure Heart gradually shooting forth and revealing it self in it And concerning this more than Glorious World the Kingdom of Christ in which he with his Perfected Saints doth Reign it is shewn me how the same Light and Pure Principle doth open it self in those Souls where the Paradisical or Angelical Life doth spring Spiritually For every World or Principle doth attract to it self its own which belongeth unto it And the Powers and Influences of each are sensibly felt according to the Constellations that any one is under The vile and wicked sort are pulled and drawn by the Magick of the Dark World But the Heaven-born Souls are inspired and qualified by these Upper Worlds as by some is well known so that Paradise and the Mount Sion World are manifested in their own Original Light in the Centre of the Soul From which I do give a Description of these Invisible Worlds as they were first opened within from whence Love Power Joy and Peace do spring which maketh Heaven to be the Souls present dwelling with Christ and all the Angelical Train though not visibly seen yet essentially enjoyed But this is only to be known by Spirits that are deeply introverted and carried out and beyond a Creaturely Life And when any worthy ones in this Light Principle shall be fixed then expect we may that the Eternal Powers will move and work through such to whom the Dominion of Christ's Kingdom here below will be intrusted For which we have many Scripture Prophesies as in Isaiah the Revelations and Daniel that do abundantly declare how it must and will be given to the Saints of the Most High to possess the Kingdom of which there is also a Confirmation by a Renewed Spirit of Prophesie that doth assure us that this Day is very nigh and that it will be upon the World before they are aware of it For as the Man of the Earth hath had his Ruling Day Universally so shall the Lord from Heaven descend in such a manner into his own prepared Vessels here Below in his Kingly and Priestly Power as shall overturn and bear down all Earthly Powers but of this we shall speak farther in the next Advance or Remove up to the Third Court or Principality of God the Father's Majesty That is § 13. The Jerusalem City which is more Glorious and Magnificent than what hath yet been made mention of far surpassing the Glories of the Two lower Blessed Worlds As to the Walls and Foundations of it with the Gates that open into it they are all so Diaphonous and full of Splendorous Light that it is altogether impossible to make it out even in any degree according as it hath been exhibited and seen in the Spirit in the Metaphorical Figure of it which yet represents it very much short of the Spiritual Substantiality of this City which is God himself dilating anâ— spreading forth his Godhead in sucâ— Amazing Varieties This is a Principle and World which none buâ— CHRIST in his Glorified Humanâ—â—ty with such high Saints as arâ— Glorified with his Glory can havâ— any access to Of which unconceivable abundance of Glory these dâ— with Him continually participatâ— Ascending and Descending as cauâ—â— requireth No pass there is intâ— this City but through the Glaâ—â— Sea which Sea none do tread anâ— stand upon but such Spirits thaâ— are qualified and cloathed upâ—â— with the self-same Matter whicâ— is all Chrystalline Water and transparent Fire O how am I lost ouâ— of my self while this Globe Lighâ— and all the Wonders therein do open For in this interim it waâ— said to me Behold all the Weights of Glory have I prepared not only for Pleasure to my self but for such as do love and put on their Lord CHRIST in Deiformity and so as Conquerors pass through the Glassy Sea to enter through the Gates having this City written upon their Foreheads § 14. Now it remains to open the more Mystical Sense of the Invisible Eternity of this Mother City the New Jerusalem that from the Father in Union with his Virgin Wisdom doth multiply and so fill up that Principle with Virgin Spirits that are most perfectly Pure and Immaculate whence it is that nothing beyond this can any of the Redeemed ever arrive unto Mount Sion Kingdom is most Great and Glorious but yet inferior to this because that is in the Mediatorship of Christ but in this World all is compleated and finished So that when this New Jerusalem shall descend it will soon put this old sinful and impure World to an end But being able to give no more than a short and finite Description of this Infinite Eternal and All-glorious World I am led on further to open the Mystery of it so far as it relateth to this present Age and to the Saints who are to make up this City and to bring their Glory to shine in it § 15. Here now it may be questioned Whether any Spirit or Person in this Mortal World can
as from the outward Mortal Eye that doth speculate the Objects and Things of this World conspiring with the outward Ear which heareth and receiveth them so Thoughts do arise and multiply according to Temporal Matters and Concerns of that kind so likewise as these Spirits do proceed immediately from the Fountain Source of all Spirits they seeing and beholding their Original Being can do no other but contemplate and delight themselves in what the Eye of God doth see in them and his Ear doth hear in them having no Organical Speech but such only as is by pure Thought whence they do generate according to what they see and hear in that Globe of Eternity which filleth them with exulting Joy Now be it known that when by the Holy Ghost the time shall be expired for their descending into Corporeal Beings here or elsewhere in upper Mansions their Eye shall become our Eye their Ear ours so that we seeing and hearing in them to whom do stand open all Invisible Kingdoms and Worlds with the great Varieties of Glories in these shall have Thoughts of a right kind to spring in our Minds according to and agreeable with the Objects presented in as much as it quite turneth the Stream making that which was formerly Downward and Earthy now to become Upward and Heavenly O Blessed Time and Day when this Still Eternity shall thus open and be made manifest in Corporeities The which is given me to know will surely be And it hath been revealed that when these Spirits shall descend into Nature a Transfiguration so continually impressing will be upon the Mind for an incessant Generating of high and holy Cogitations that are no less than the very Nature and Quality of these simplified Spirits themselves as we being admitted hereby to look always into the Orb of Light and Love and to fix there steddily the Eye of the Mind Glorification may be brought down upon the Visible Elementary Body while remaining here at certain Seasons and Times of a more intimate Union and Commixture with these Powers of the manner aforesaid that so as occasion may be Mortality may be hid or swallowed up in Immortality to make good that saying We shall not all Die but be Changed from Glory to Glory by the bright influencing namely of these Spirits through the Father of Spirits § 22. Q But it may be here Queried Is not the Holy Ghost assigned for this great Change and Work of Renovation And where do we read in Scripture of such a Globe or World having such Spirits to inhabit in it Ans. It is true the Holy Ghost is sufficient as being so deputed and promised by the Lord CHRIST for the perfecting of the Regeneration or New Creation But what if it be the all-wise designation and pleasure of God and his Eternal Wisdom to separate such pure Spirits from his own Fountain-source thereby to effect the counsel of his Will relating to his Lapsed Creation and to put a new face of Glory upon what is so deformed and vile through the variety of his operating Spirits and Powers immediately proceeding from himself They are hence most meet to open the Depths that lye deeper than Nature and Creature being brought forth before any Elements were in existence for procreation of the Inhabitants of the several Worlds all of which are to give place to that Superstructure and Building which will be GOD himself quite throughout his whole Creation For although Seven Thousand Years may be expired in the Miseries and Temptations of an Elementary Life in this Outward and other Invisible Regions yet what are these to a God who is an Eternal Circle which can never end In the which Circle of a boundless Eternity the Infinite and All-powerful God hath much more to do in all Worlds than what hath been declared in Scripture or yet by any other ways made known finding all Prophesies and Revelations in Scripture Records do extend no further than to the Limits of the Seventh Thousand Years Sabbath What betwixt this Age and that great Jubilee will be successively produced both in this our Visible and in those Invisible Worlds that I have mentioned cannot now be particularized But in short there will be for certain most strange and wonderful Alterations throughout the whole Globe of Eternity for higher Admiration than is yet conspicuous For GOD is so full of an infinite Store that he must bring forth himself in a perpetual variety of Wonders Let none therefore presume to set bounds to the Wisdom and Power of the Immense Being to shut him up to this or that Measure or Degree Age or Time who always moveth in Eternal Liberty for the revealing and making known the Counsel of his Will and doth not pin up or confine the worthy Inquirers and Seekers of his Mind from fathoming the Treasures of his Wisdom Which are so manifold as they are still to be renewed in every Generation according as I my self have experienced in my Age of time as the Volumes of my Writings do give witness to proving that Revelation hath no cessation but that it is daily Renewed in Vessels or Instruments rightly qualified to receive it Otherwise I could never have known what is here written neither have been able to give any account of the several Worlds Regions or Centres had they not been shewn to me Therefore this is much preffed upon me not knowing but that it may be the last Testimony that I have to leave behind me in this nature to declare unto such as would know the Mind and Secrets of GOD That a special Charge is given from the High Court of Eternity that you do not stint your selves up to any foregoing Dispensation or Revelation no not to the Scripture Record it self which though truly Weighty and worthy to be received believed in and comformed unto yet is not to be taken up in and rested upon as if there were nothing more to be revealed for the Benefit and Instruction of Mankind Since the same Spirit that did Heretofore inspire the Holy Men of God to record them is Now in this last Day more abundantly shed forth to multiply Volumes of Scripture For whatsoever is purely dictated by the Holy Ghost may be called by that Name and so it was before Christ's appearing in Flesh by the Patriarchs and Prophets which was then succeeded by a Newer Ministration the former being fulfilled in Him This He promised should excel all that went before for a more plentiful sowing of the sacred Unction in the holy Ground of pure Hearts The Sower hereof is according to his Promises gone forth but where Stony Thorny and Unbelieving Ground is it cannot enter so as to take root which hath hitherto for a long time caused a great Scarcity and Famine of the Spirit with all its fruitfulness But now the Day of the Spirit is arising and its bright Sun will no more set but multiply to its Seven-fold Light § 22. Hear and Hearken O England's Inhabitants for
unto you a great Light hath shined O let it not cloud and pass over you but be ye wise in this your Day to follow the Spirit 's bright-guiding Star which is arising amongst you O London there is hid in thee them that have a true and right Mission from the Munition Rock to give out the Waters of the Spirit plenteously For a Cry there is gone forth for persons to be Prepared and Sanctified by this Water of Life that so they may receive of the Holy Ghost and be witnesses of his Power Hear and hearken in the Spirit O hearken and you will hear the Seventh Trumpet sound from the Seven Spirits that are before the Throne that do tell you that the Mystery of time is now finishing and that the Everlasting Gospel of the Love is opening and and that the Heavens are ready to roll down to open their Glory up-the Earth that the Inhabitants thereof may no longer lye buried in the Dark shade of an Earthly Life § 24. Over thee O City of London a Mighty Angel doth fly with this Thundering Cry saying Do not despise Prophesy neither decry down the Ark of the Living Testimony from which the Spirit as a flowing Stream must renew Paradise upon the Earth And this Warning is given to all of what Ranks or Degree soever whether High or Low whether in the outward Grandeur or in the private and inferious Means of this World Even to you all and every one this Call doth reach Shake shake your Earthly Dust away For now it is the Spirit 's Day That will admit of no Delay § 25. For Scepters and Crowns must be thrown down to the Lamb of God He is in his Saints come to Reign Wherefore all Nations and Languages and Peoples not only here in this Dominion but beyond the Seas every where must the sound of this Trumpet hear For a mighty CYRUS there is already raised whom the most High will in such a manner uphold and endue with his Spirit as he shall be able to bring forth his Temple-Glory and Praise that so out of all Kingdoms Countries and Languages there may be a Gathering and that as Eagles they may fly to that high Mountain where the Olive Tree will drop the Unctuous Oyl most freely This is the Oyl that in Spirit I do see run And I see that some in all Nations will herewith be shortly sprinkled to give notice that the Omnipotent KING is entering upon his Thousand Years Reign § 26. Thus having in Answer to that Grand Objection to wit How there should be any World or Worlds more than what the Scripture hath made mention of demonstrated that there is a succession of the Spirit of Revelation that is never to cease but is more than ever to increase yet upon the Earth as will in this very Age be known and be witnessed I must now draw to the Conclusion of this World called the Still Eternity Concerning which I have this to declare from what I was when taken up into it admitted to the knowledge of I was then shewn and taught these three Particulars worthy to be observed First that no Entrance for Habitation is here found to any departed Spirit though arrived to never so high a Degree of Perfection Nay it was said that CHRIST himself as the First-born from the Dead and as Glorified in our Humanity did not ascend up hither The Unity in the Godhead is always here but not in his Personality For this Globe and Inmost Court is reserved for a greater Mystery then what is yet to be made known Only thus much I was with respect to it informed that as out of this Still Eternity the Deity in and through the Eternal dilating Eye did speculate his own Working Properties for to manifest himself in Nature and thereby generate out of the Eternal Meek Stilness the Creating Powers from the Trinity did go forth to bring forth in the first place the Angelical World furnishing it with Angelical Spirits and so on did proceed to the rest of the above-mentioned Worlds The Second thing we are to note is that this shut-up Principle and highest Court of the Tri-Un God and of his Virgin Wisdom with her offspring of Simplified Spirits is not to be opened till the Will and Pleasure of God the Creating Father shall be to move himself through these mild and pure Spirits for some New Manifestation and Modification upon what in the Created Worlds is found defective that so by a Renewed Creating Power going forth in this manner out from the Still Eternity another face of more excellent Beauty and more transcendent Glory may for an everlasting Fixation come over that which under a Lapse and an Apostacy hath been But how finite and short is all that can be said or even imagined in comparison of those more amazing and stupendous Charges that still add to the Glory of God's Workmanship in his New Creation As to the Third particular that we are to take notice of which is the Order Union and Equal Degree of these Spirits in this Globe of Eternity we can but just hint at it This Unity and Coequality of theirs is manifested by their Operations They are in their working Motion most Active but all their Acts and Powers do go forth in a most profound Stilness the Deity co-operating through them by which an Influencing Stilness doth from them pass forth to the Inhabitants of the other Worlds And yet these Spirits remain all the while unmoveable within their own Principle and Centre moving according as the Deity glanceth forth in them with the Governing Eye which giveth them their all-seeing Commission the which in a delightful Obedience they never fail to execute neither can they do otherwise being unalterably Fixed in the Moving Power of the Holy Ghost THE Conclusion HAving now given a faithful and true Description of these Eight several Worlds not from History but from the revealed Mystery according to the measure of the Communication of the Spirit of CHRIST it remaineth to consider what Use and Application may be made by the Readers of these deep and weighty things that have been here Unvailed In the first place then we are hereby called upon to consider with the deepest humility the efficient Cause and Founder of these Worlds that produced them all out of an Abyssal Deep and an Eternal Nothingness Secondly We are called upon to appropriate to God what is more Immense than Immensity and Greater than all Greatnesses Higher than all Heights Deeper than all Depths Perfecter than all Perfections who maketh his dwelling in an Eternal Circle of Love Power and Wisdom filling all these Worlds with the fulness of his Godhead made manifest in the express Image of his Glory namely in the Second Number of the Three that bear Record in Heaven Thirdly we are excited to consider what we Mortals are from whom our Descent is and what manner of Spirit we consist of and exist by For until we
understand our own Eternal being we cannot know God the Being of all Being For as we are the inbreathed Soul from God we live in his Effence Which is the Glass through which we may see and know the invisible Deity and thereby also know our selves as we consist of the higher Principles and Worlds above as likewise of those Below For they all Qualify with the Immortal and also with the Elementary Part in us for most wise and wonderful Ends. O how great is the Mysterious Greatness of the Soul that lieth vailed covered and unknown to it self The Body of out ward sensibility thuts it up from understanding its own Power as it is an Essence derived from God and an out-flowing Breath from the Most High Majesty The Earthy Life bindeth it down in all Men until Christ in Spirit do enter in to make it free in his own Liberty by quickening the Dead Effence of these Principles of Light Love and Power And by this the Soul is restored to its pre-existing and true Nativity in God which is apt to be forgotten if not continually revived in the Mind In which being exercised it will put a check and awe upon it from the consideration of what it is and to whom it must return as to its Eternal Centre Being come to the Conclusion of this Subject I must be permitted what I am in Commission for from the High and Heavenly Court to leave this word of Caution and Exhortation to all them who would full Redemption see and would be glad to be set free from all fears doubts and concerns upon that account Watch against all Cavils and Commotions that are apt to arise in the mind by way of opposition to the pure Inspiration of the Holy Spirit O! grieve it not either in your selves or in any other remembring that you have it for a Counsellor and Comforter and for a Key to open the Heavenly Worlds unto you and to give you an inheritance in them The assurance whereof will be perfect Joy Peace and Glory as some do truly witness and do give it forth their experience who do therefore advise and exhort all to whomsoever this Treatise may come whether in this Nation or in any more remote Places where God is pleased to have it Published that they seriously Study and soberly Ponder upon what by the Wisdom of God hath here been unvailed and declared For it is a Seal broken up that doth belong to this present Age wherein knowledge is to increase in order to prepare for the Great Day that hath been Prophesied of concerning the Daughter of Sion's Kingly Dominion O come forth be no longer hid ye precious Stones of Sion whithersoever scattered and dispersed Whether near or far off at Home or beyond the Seas where-ever ye lye hid come forth To you the Golden Bells from the four Eternal Worlds do Sound out their Alarum to draw you into them where as to your own People and Native Countrey ye may to the Feasts of Tabernacles come sitting down together in Joy and evermore celebrating this Marriage Feast in the Unity of Love where the Author of this Treatise would in the Spirit meet and so never cease to congratulate you as fellow Citizens and there to eat with you the Feast of Love A Further MANIFESTATION Concerning the Four HEAVENLY VVORLDS ACCORDING To the Experimental Process that some have passed through I. OF PARADISE § 1 INTO Paradise my Spirit-doth first take its Flight where all things are in good Order and the same flowing State as before Adam had lost his Virgin Mate Paradise is now stock'd again with such as have waded through the floating Sea of Sin and Mortality in order to the putting on that Image of purity which is to the Children of the Resurrection given by JESUS For not the least Guile or Fault may be found in any of the Inhabitants of this place My Spirit doth see here all in wonderful Harmony And this Word was heard from the High and Lofty one saying With the Risen from the Dead I will dwell though this Principle of Paradise be allotted to them for a certain time to be a separated Mansion until all be gathered up into the superiour Kingdom of Mount Sion and of the New Jerusalem Thus did I hear the good news that all is Rich and flourishing within the Paradisical Kingdom Nor is there any decay since Adam's Day but Increase and Augmentation is daily through the Resurrection of the Spiritual Man § 2. After this the Spirit of Wisdom said to me These things whereof an account hath been given to you may be declared of the Local Place of Paradise Whereinto Spirits separated by Natural Death putting off their Mortal Earthly Bodies do enter and there put on their Virgin Body Which doth prepare them to meet the Bridegroom who from thence fetcheth them up to Mount Sion These are such who in this very time have fought the good Fight of Faith and had very near overcome this World What is lacking to make them fully Perfect is to be done in this Paradisical place where they are appointed to stay till all their Bridal Trimming be finished and they find that they can pass the Way to the Tree of Life through the Flaming Cherub who remaineth still a Guard upon that Figurative Tree In this place Holy Angels do also wait by their Course to Minister unto those who do come here as the Designed Heirs of that more Glorious State which is revealed in Sion This is some part of those good things which doth belong to your Eternal Father but now I shall open to thee a further Mystery which is what may be entred upon in this very Life Time For there is a Mystical Paradise as well as a Local which Springs Metaphorically opening from a pure Magical Centre This will amount to thy present Peace and Joy Wait I say to feel that now that thy Spirit may give a Seal with me that thou hast receiv'd the Anointing and that thou dost walk with thy Spiritual Man in this Paradise where thou often dost hear the Eccho of thy Bridegroom's Voice calling thee still to hast the getting on all that which will make thee look Sweet and Amiable in his Eyes and the obtaining of the fragrant Sweets that may perfume and scent thee that so all thy Garments may smell of these Beds of Spices upon which thou mayest stretch thy self Here a while confined be to dwell after the manner of a Spirit in a Spiritual Body till thou shalt all of this Visible Orb overcome and much excel all Creatures in it as having the Tree of Life to live upon Which is that which will airify and put upon thee a most Transparent Body for they who do daily feed upon it shall be in good deed transmuted by it Behold to thee this Gate of Paradise doth stand open and whatsoever of the things of God is there thou hast a right not only to know but them as