procreated heavenly Essence according to both Eternal Principles 6. But now Man was created Good and Perfect according to and out of all the three Worlds as an Image of the Deity in whom God dwelled and was even that Essence what God is according to Eternity and Time in all the three Worlds but a Creature with a beginning as to the Creature and dyed through Lubet as to the Heavenly and Divine Essence For the inward Lubet which was generated in the Center viz. in the fire wherein stood the Life in the Divine Essentiality that is that which enkindled the Essence of the divine Meekness wherein the Joyfulness or the Angelical Form consisteth that I say turned it self from the inward Lubet of the Liberty and Eternity into the Time viz. into the Extern Birth into the Planetick Property it departed out of the Pure Divine Element into the four Elements Thus the inward Divine Essentiality or inward Corporality did no longer retain any Leader or Life and this was the death for the Souls fire proceeding from the Fathers Property turned it self away from the Sons Property in which alone the Divine Life consists 7. Thus the Property of the Soul remained naked onely and alone with its Will in the outward Sulphur and the inward disappeared and continued stedfast in the Eternal Unchangeableness as in an Eternal Nothing wherein there was no more any Effecting or working Efficacy to bring to pass 8. Thus Man with his outward Body lived barely and meerly to the Time the precious Gold of the Heavenly Corporality which tinctured the outward Body was disappeared and so the outward Body stood barely and alone in the Life of Natures Desire viz. in the Souls fiery Property understand in the Form and Property of Mars viz. in the Wrath of God who is the Wrath in Sulphur viz. the Property of Gods Anger and the dark World but being the outward Body was created out of the Time therefore the Time viz. the Constellation with the four Elements presently obtained the dominion in him and the divine Property viz. the Desire of the Deity which Ruled and Tinctured Time so that there was a holy Life in the Creature out of the Time was vanished it s own peculiar Love in the divine Desire was turned to water and it became blinde and dead in the Will and Desire of God and the Soul must help it self with the Suns Light 9. But being that Time hath Beginning and End and the Will with the Desire hath given up it self to the Temporal Leader therefore the Dominion of Time destroyeth its own contrived spirit and so the Body also dyeth and passeth away and this is that which God said to Adam That he should not eat of the Tree or Plant of the Knowledg of Good and Evil of both Properties lest he dyed as it also came to pass he dyed in the Sulphur The Sul in the Kingdom of God viz. the Lubet of the divine Liberty out of which the Light of God shineth and in which the divine Love viz. the Love-fire burneth did disappear and withdraw from him 10. Now there was no remedy for him unless Gods Desire entered again into his dead Sulphur that is into his mort Sul viz. into the dead or mortified Essentiality and again enkindle it with the Love fire which came to pass in Christ and there the Heavenly Body wherein Gods Light shineth did again arise But if this must be effected then the Love-desire must again enter into the Desire of the Enkindled Anger and quench and overcome the Anger with the Love the divine water must enter again into the Souls burning fire and quench the wrathful death in the Astringent Fiat viz. in the Desire to Nature that the Love-desire which desireth God might be again enkindled in the Soul 11. For Mans Happiness consists in this that he hath in him a true Desire after God for out of the Desire springeth forth the Love that is when the Desire receiveth the Meekness of God into it self then the Desire immerseth it self in the Meckness and becomes essential and this is the Heavenly or Divine Essentiality or Corporality and therein the Souls-spirit which lay shut up in the Anger viz. in Death doth again arise in the Love of God for the Love Tinctureth the Death and Darkness that it is again capable of the divine Sunshine 12. And as this is done in Man so likewise it is in the Transmutation of Metals the Sulphur is shut up in Saturn viz. in the Death and yet there is no Death but a Vegetative Life and the outward Mercury is the Life thereof Now it the Metalline Body shall come to the Highest Perfection then it must dye unto the External Dominator viz. to the Elements and come again into such a Sulphur as it was when as yet it had not the four Elements on it but lay onely in the Element in unity 13 But now none can reduce it into such a Body save he onely which hath generated He that hath given it the four Elements He Alone can take them away and He that at first made it Corporeal He must aval it into himself and transchange it in himself into another Body and this is the Sulphur which hath Mercurius as its chief Faber in it self He must again take it out of dark Saturns bowels in the Fiat and introduce it into his own and with his own Fire separate the four Elements from it and reduce it into one as God at the last Day will in the Enkindling of his own Fire separate the Essence of the four Elements from the Pure Element that the eternal Corporality in the Pure Element may Arise and spring forth and as in the death of Man the four Elements do sever from the true Man who is the Element of God and the Heavenly Body remaineth onely in it self even so it goeth in the Transmutation of Metals Process 14. The Body lieth shut up in a disesteemed Form in Saturn not wholly in Saturns Property in a dark colour marked with Mercurius its Father and Sol its Mother clothed with Saturn and manifest with the Life of Mars but its Mother is not outwardly manifest and known on it unless its Faber be enraged with its own Iniquity which yet cannot be except an Alienate be applyed whereby its Propriate is enraged and then if his Anger be set on a fire or fury he becometh so very hungry and thirsty and yet can finde no refreshment in it self then it seizeth on its Faber who hath made it and fighteth against its Creator as the earthly wicked man against God so long till he devoureth and consumeth himself as a fiery pestilent Poyson consumeth the Body unless you remedy stay and allay its hunger yet there is none that can still this horrible Hunger but God himself who hath made him and if he assists not in due time then the Hunger in the Wrath
its refreshment in Love then all the seven Forms do manifest themselves in this Property as came to pass in the Process of Christ in his Miracles but as yet they are not perfect in the operation of their Properties manifestation 19. The Universal is not yet there until all seven do give their Will into One and forsake their property in the Wrath and depart from it with their Will and take into them the Loves-property they must take in the Will of the Nothing that their will be a Nothing and then it can subsist in the Wrath of the Fire and there is no further Turba therein for so long as the Desire of the Wrath is in the Form it is adverse and opposite unto the second Form and enflameth the second Form with its wrathful property that is it striketh the Signature of the second and awakeneth it in the Wrath and then the voyce or sound of the second enkindleth the first Forms property in Mercury and so no Form can attain unto any perfection that it might enter into Love 20. Therefore the Artist can effect nothing unless he gives a Meat unto the Forms which they all do desire and love to eat wherein there is no Turba now the Properties cannot eat being their mouth is frozen up in the Impression of Saturn the Artist must first open their mouth and make them alive in their Zeal that all the Forms may be hungry and then if there be Manna they do all eat together thereof and so the precious grain of mustard-seed is sown 21. Now when Mercury doth thus awake from the Death of the Impression of Saturn and gets Manna into the mouth of his property of the poysonful Deaths-Source then ariseth the Flagrat of the Kingdom of Joy for it is as a Light which is enkindled in the Darkness for the Joy or Love springeth up in the midst of the Anger Now if Mercury apprehends the glimpse or aspect of the Love in Mars then the Love dismayeth the Wrath and it is as a Transmutation but it is not fixt and stedfast and as soon as this cometh to pass the Angelical Properties do appear in view and ken The Process in the Temptation 22. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness and the Devil came unto him and tempted him When the Soul of Christ did hunger the Devil said unto Jesus Open the Centre in the Stones that is the Impressed Mercury and make thee Bread eat the Substance of the Souls property what wilt thou eat of nothing viz. of the speaking Word Eat of the expressed Word viz. of the property of Good and Evil and then thou art Lord in both this also was Adams bit wherein he did eat Death Then said Christ Jesus Man liveth not by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth from the mouth of God 23. Mark Whence had the Person of Christ the Will that he would not eat with the Souls Hunger of the Bread which could have been made of stones which he could well have performed Or how had it been if the Hunger of the humane Property had after the Unction of Baptism here eaten in the Temptation of the Mercury in the Impression of Death viz. of the Sulphur of the expressed Word in which was the Anger and from whence the Love was fled as it is so in the earthly Property 24. Observe The Will and Desire to eat of the Speaking Word came into the Souls property from the Motion of the Deity when as the same had moved it self in the Soulick Essence shut up in Death in Mary his Mother in her Essence or Seed and introduced the Aspect of the Eye of God in the Love into the dead Souls Essence and had manifested the Love in Death then one Divine Property desired the other and the Desire of the bodily Hunger to eat of Gods Bread or Essence came from the Baptism When the Water of the Body which in the Impression of the Substance was enclosed in Death did taste the Water of eternal Life in the holy Spirit viz. the holy Spirits Corporality or Essentiality in the Baptism then the Incentive of the divine Hunger of the Ardent Desire after Gods Essence did arise in the flesh as a divine Hunger a glimmering or shining Incentive of Divine Property 25. Now the Man Christ must hereupon be tempted in Body and Soul of which he would eat on one part the Expressed Word of Love and Anger was represented before Body and Soul in which the Devil would be Lord and Master and rule therein omnipotently and on the other part the Speaking Word in the Love property was only represented to the Soul and Body 26. Here now began the Combate which Adam should have undergone in Paradise for on one side Gods Love-desire which had manifested it self in the Soul did eagerly attempt the Soulick and bodily property and introduced its Desire into the Souls property that the Soul should eat thereof and give the Body Manna thereof and on the other side the Devil in Gods wrathful property did assault in the Souls property and brought his Imagination into the property of the first Principle viz. into the Centre of the dark World which is the Souls Fire-life 27. Here was the Contest about the Image of God whether it would live in Gods Love or Anger in the Fire or Light for the property of the Soul as to its Fire-life was the Fathers according to the Fire-world and being the Soul in Adam had quenched the Light-world the Light-world was again incorporated with the Name Jesus which came to pass in the Conception of Mary 28. Now it was here tryed in the Temptation of which property man would live whether of the Fathers in the Fire or of the Sons in the Light of Love Here the whole property of Christs Person was Tempted The Devil said as he had also said unto Adam Eat of the Evil and Good Hast thou not Bread then make Bread of Stones why dost thou Hunger so long in thy own Property Then said the Divine Desire Man liveth not of Bread alone but of Every Word of God 29. Thus the property of the fiery Soul resigned it self with its Desire into the Love viz. into the Speaking Words property and the fiery Desire did eat Manna in the Love-desire O ye Philosophers observe it well when this was done the Love transmuted the fiery property into its Love-property here the Father gave the Fire-Soul unto the Son understand the fiery property of the Expressed Mercury to the Speaking Mercury in the Light for Christ also said so afterwards Father the men were thine and thou hast given them me and I give unto them Eternal Life 30. Here Gods Love gave the Eternal Love-Life to the Corrupted Humanity the Love did wholly give it self in unto the Fire-wrath and transmuted the Wrath of the Soul into a Triumphant joyful Love but if the Souls and Bodies property had obeyed the Devil in Gods
or Course †Or judgment seat * Or Le ts the Woman deceive him * Or priests which call themselves the Ministers of Christ but are not * It freely loseth it self in the Nothing * Manner or condition †Was born or begotten * In the heat of his tryal †Or stuff * Text Hold. †Are drowned * Plenty * Transformed †Taken or received * In War for their proud unrighttous Mammon in bitter strife about their outward worship of christ †Altogether * Understanding of folly †Or number three * Mirrour Resemblance Glass †Or In. †with * Text The Sun †Or wild * Goeth out * Must go out of their centre †Into the sole power vertue of Jupiter * Soulish Creature †Breath air tune * Glass * Or Conversed †Or was †Or Virgin †It makes it self or it hath its own faber in it self †Erom †Or As dead * Or Leave * Contra-will †Contrary will contrariety * Or Signeth marketh it self in the body †Or comprehended or conceived * Colours of distinction a Element †Or Horologue * Into the desired end or Perfection of rest †This is now c. * In the outward Principle in the expressed formed Word * Constellation * Sphere †Or then * Or In which the Soul in the Resigned will doth again enkindle by its desire the true Life in Gods will-will-spirit viz. in the eternal Light or Liberty †Such a Creature as it was at first before it fell * Source †Equal essence * Or Departure * Into a Swound or Impotency †Or Assimulate * Or Vehemently per-force †Stirring active vital * Enraged †With their bestial lustful excess or disorder * Or Put his mercy into us * Or what it is * Or Figurizeth †Or Intraction * The flowing or proceeding forth †Or Fair complexion * Orb or Rotation * Or He. * Or noise †Or The first property a Or The sting in the hardness viz. the hardness it self * Understand the mother of Sulphur Prima materia * Or Opposite to to the dark desire or dark Impression which is after the Lights desire * Or without any ground * Or reached †Becomes impotent * The Caput mortuum * Law or Appointment * Or In a Creatural manner †Or Genuine property * Or Fly from thence as a smoak * Or As to its inward motion * Or Seethe * Nauseate abomination †Unregerated * Or All the Creatures * Nauseate or Loathsomness †Entire * Or then †Or proceeding from * Text spue out * Weeving or working property * Our own enemies * Voice or breath * That Christ once dyed and suffered for us c. * Or highest * Or worketh desire * Bear or carry * Text A pilferer from God his substance * Spewing out * Lubet or longing desire * Or This is always the end * Counterpoised * Or This is spoken without any ground or foundation * Or Dye * Or Birth-right * Text comforted us I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII Thus far the Author hath given his answer * Man nor Woman * Husband and wife male and female distinct Sex * Living Inoculation or Ingrafture * Or Converse †Miracles * Unto * As to such a great work * Against or through * In the Ministry of the Word * Carnally in his fleshly mind †Or Sacrament * Without the right Apostolical institution of the Ordinance * Ordinance or Institution * Sophister * What Book the Author means I do not know unless he speaks it of this Book of the 177 Questions and so speaks intentionally but if he did finish his Answer unto all these Questions the rest are either lost or kept back for we have but 14 fully answered and the beginning of the 15. Yet in his other Writings he hath truly fundamentally answered these Questions yea more then Reason can ask
with the Stars and Elements as an Extern Birth out of the Mother of all Essences all which proceeded out of the Eternal Beginning and took a Temporal Beginning for here we are to consider that the Eternal Pregnatress moved it self and enkindled its own Form or Similitude where then the one became Corporeal in the other but afterward God created the Earth which we are thus to consider of c. 33. The first desire to Nature impresseth it self and introduceth it self with the Impression into three Forms viz. into Sulphur Mercury and Sal and in the Impression all become rising and moving which is not in the Still Nothing and so forceth it self even into the highest Anguish even unto the Salnitral Flagrat where then is the Original of the Fire Thus the Source whirleth in it self as a boyling of water upon the fire for the Austere Desire is attractive and the fiery is expulsive which is a Sulphur and the Astringent Attraction is a wrathful Sting or Compunction viz. a Contrition and yet it is held by the Austereness that it cannot move away whereupon it is painful and causeth pain as if it were wheeling or seething which yet is only Spirit without Essence which cometh to pass in Mercury and is Mercury his own form 34. And there is the Separation of two Wills viz. one remaineth and is the very anxious Essence being it originally ariseth from the Desire the other which ariseth out of the Lubet of the Liberty retireth back again into it self into the Liberty and yet there is no parting sundering or dividing from one another but thus it goeth one with another all along through the enkindling of the fire through the Salnitral Flagrat where with the enkindling of the fire the death is effected in the wrath of the fire where the Source dyeth and yet there is no death but a likeness of death and yet the real eternal and temporal Death is in that wise even there the Liberty apprehendeth it self in it self and the Death or Flagrat falleth down into the Liberty as impotent and freely resigns it self and the Spirit viz. the Source understand the very sharp fiery anxious Source becomes material and retaineth only an essential working like to an impotent desire and in the enkindling of the fire in the Salnitral Flagrat each Property severeth it self in it self and the whole Materia is particularized viz. to metals stones and earth 35. The highest Metal as Gold ariseth from the Liberty which is comprized all along in the Flagrat in the Astringent Impressure and it is not free from the Materia of the Rest for all is comprized or enwrapt up together but being the Liberty with the Sul or Lights property is comprized or comprehended therein also thereupon Sul is expulsive to the manifestation of it self as 't is the property of the Liberty so to be Hence it comes that metals grow and not the gross hard stones which are too hard comprized in the Impression out of the wrathful Essentiality and have too little Sul in them 36. But as concerning the precious Stones with their radiant Lustre and great Vertue the same have their Original in the flash of the Fire where Life and Death Separate as when one part by reason of the dark Essentiality descends and the other by reason of the Liberty ascends and yet all is brought into Essence in the Flagrat so that the same flash or glance becomes also material in the Flagrat and therefore they are hard and of a blinking glance like an Eye for so also is the original of the Eye or Sight in the Womb when the Life enkindleth all according to the Right of Eternity 37. And therefore they are of so great Power Efficacy and Vertue in that they are so nigh to the Deity and bear the incorporated Names of the divine Power in them as also Gold is nigh unto the divine Essentiality or heavenly Corporality if man could open or disclose the dead Body and reduce it to a flying moving Spirit which only can be effected through the Divine Motion then it should be seen what it could be which no Reason beleeveth or understandeth without divine Sight or Vision 38. Further we are also to consider of the other Metals and Minerals which in like manner do thus take their Original but in the Salnitral Flagrat each property is severed as we see that the property of the Fire and Light is divers and all from the first Impression where before the Impression the Lubet and Desire of the Liberty stand mutually in each other as a Chaos a Complexion of great Wonders where all Colours Powers and Vertues are contained in this only CHAOS or Wonder-Eye which CHAOS is God himself viz. the Being of all Beings who thus manifesteth himself in Particular Beings with the Eyes of Eternity each Materia is an Essence according to the Spirit whence it was generated and if it be enkindled in the Fire it yeeldeth likewise such a Light as the Spirit is in the Essence 39. And thus also we are to consider of the Metals what kind of Spirit each of them hath such a Glance and Lustre it yeeldeth and also such a Body it hath 40. As the mind acteth and moveth the thoughts and senses from the highest to the lowest and comprehends and commands by the thoughts from the highest to the lowest even so the Eternal Mind hath manifested it self from the highest Majesty even to the lowermost meanest or outermost thing viz. unto the greatest Darkness and this World with the Sun Stars and Elements and with every Creatural Being is nothing else but a Manifestation of the Eternity of the Eternal Will and Mind and as it was in the beginning so it still standeth in its Sude and Vegetation and so it still putteth forward to Light and Darkness to Evil and Good and all things consist in these first three Forms viz. in Sulphur Mercury and Sal as one degree orderly after another for so likewise are the Quires of the Spirits also of the Stars Trees Herbs and of all kinds whatsoever have been and are so also the inward Heavenly Quires with their distinction CHAP. IV. Of the Birth of the Stars and four Elements in the Metalline and Creatural Property 1. AS is before mentioned All Things proceed out of One only Mother and sever themselves into two Essences according to the Right of Eternity viz. into a Mortal and an Immortal into Life and Death into Spirit and Body the Spirit is the Life and the Body is the Death viz. a House of the Spirit as the holy Trinity standeth in the Birth so also the extern Birth There is likewise Essence and Spirit in Heaven a figure whereof we see in this outward World where there are four Elements and yet there is but one only Element which severs it self into four Properties viz. into Fire Ayr Water and Earth as is above mentioned 2. For so
Original whereof is this That the Love is a Desire and desireth onely Light and Joy for the Materia is made out of the Desires Property But if the Love-desire shall come to be corporeal in the Impression then it must resign it self to the wrathful Fiat viz. to Mars his Desire in the fire or in the fiery Property for the Saturnine Property taketh all into its might and maketh it Corporeal 39. Therefore the Metal of Venus is so nigh allyed to gold by reason of her own Property from the Liberty but Mars makes it too wrathful and too spreud and because it separates it self out of Mars his fire it retaineth a great part of Mars his Property in it 40. Mars his Metal is Iron for he is the Wrath in Sulphur in which the fire enkindleth and ariseth his Original with the Materia is in the Austereness of the Desire Copper doth sever it self in the Generation out of Iron for it Ariseth from the Will of Venus and they differ as Body and Soul for Mars is the Fire soul of Venus and maketh Venus Corporeal else Venus as to her own Property giveth onely water in the mortification in the Salnitral Flagrat for her fire is onely a pleasant Shine Smile or Love-fire as she is alone devoyd of other mixture and therefore she cannot produce any Corporeal Essence from her own Power and Ability which is hard and tough she is onely the Mother to her childe without a creatural Soul Mars is her Soul and Saturn maketh her Body 41. The spirit of Sol may Tincture Mars and Venus and change them into the highest Metalline Perfection viz. into Gold which cannot so easily be effected in Silver unless it be reduced into the first Maetria where Saturn Mars and Mercury are together in the Sulphur and then it can be done Venus receiveth its toughness from Saturn and its redness from Mars as the fire 42. Now the Desire of Venus is onely Eager and longing after Sol as after her first Mother whence she springeth forth in her Birth in the first Original for the Love cometh forth originally from God and so it is likewise in the extern Birth in the Figure The Desire of Venus goeth into Sol into the Sun and receiveth in its Desire the Property of the Sun and shineth from Sol she hath a very Peculiar Shine and Lustre above all the Planets and Stars which she receiveth from her Mother and in her Mothers Power consists her Joy viz. the Pleasant Twinkling Smiling Aspect which she hath in her she is in her own Property as she is purely alone without the property of the other Planets a real Daughter of the Sun understand in Sulphur where all is enwrapt together therefore she standeth next under the Sun as a childe of the Sun not that the Sun did generate that Star for he is likewise created with her but in the Sulphur without the Creation meerly in the Generation it is so both in the Heavenly and Earthly Being or Principle 43. For God the Father Generateth the Love through his Heart now the Sun by way of similitude betokeneth his Heart for it is a figure in the outward World according to the Eternal Heart of God which giveth strength and vertue to every Life and Essence 44. And understand it aright As All things proceed from the Word and Heart of God which is the Divine Sulphur in the Birth of the holy Trinity and manifest themselves in and through the Proceeded or Egressed Essence which is Gods Wisdom and yet again do eagerly force and press out of the Egress in and towards his Heart and Power and vehemently long after it as Paul saith all Creatures do groan and pant with us to be delivered from Vanity 45. So also doth the outward Essence in the outward Birth of Metals Planets Stars and Creatures Each thing longeth after its Center viz. after its first Mother whence it proceeded viz. after the Sun in Sulphur for it is the Tincture of all Essences Whatsoever the first Desire with the Impression in Saturn maketh Evil in the Wrath of Mars that the Sun turns again into good As the Divine Sun Tinctureth the Anger or Wrath of God so that the wrathful Property of Gods Anger is changed into a Joyfulness so likewise the outward Sun Tinctureth the outward Sulphur viz. Saturn and Mars that there is a pleasant Temperature viz. a growth springing and blooming in all Metals and Creatures therefore the Sun is the Center which Reason will not beleeve understand in the Planetick Orb and in all Vegetables and Animals CHAP. V. Of the Sulphurean Death and how the dead Body is revived and replaced into its first Glory 1. ALl Life and Motion with Understanding Reason and Senses both in Animals and Vegetables consist originally in Sulphur viz. in Natures Desire and in the Lubets Desire of the Liberty 2. In Natures Desire ariseth the Death and Enclosing and in the Desire of the Liberty ariseth the Opening and the Life for the Liberties Desire Tinctureth the Desire of the dark Nature so that the wrathful Mother foregoeth her own Right and freely resigneth to the Liberties Desire and so the Life groweth in Death for there is no Life without Light but if the Light goeth out in the Essence of the Sulphur then it is an Eternal Death which no man can revive except God move himself in the Lubet-desire in the same Death for Death can receive no Life into it unless the first Desire viz. the free Lubets Desire doth manifest it self in the Desire to Nature wherein the Enclosing and Death is generated 3. Therefore when Man dyed in the Sulphur none could have made him alive again unless the Free Lubet viz. the Desire to the Eternal Life did again enter into his Phur viz. into the Birth of the Nature of the humane Property and moved the enclosed Death viz. the Center of Nature and give it self again into the Center viz. into the Soulike Property and into the Souls Essentiality and Corporality and this was so brought to pass 4. We know that the right Sulphur is a generation of all Spirituality and Corporality so far as concerneth its first Original where it is heavenly it is the Generation of the Essence of all Essences For all whatsoever Eternity and Time is in it self hath and is able to effect lieth in this Birth But now as to the Kingdom of this World it is earthly viz. a figure of the Eternal for in it the Time and Creature consist and all whatsoever is visible and invisible 5. Now Man and every Life also as to the Kingdom of this World was created and generated out of the outward Sulphur Man out of the inward and outward Sulphur and the outward Creature onely out of the outward for Man is an Image and likeness of God and the other Creatures are as a Similitude according to the Figuration in the internal Generation in Gods Wisdom viz. in the expressed or
Souls spirit would live that is burn 22. Thus by Gods Curse or withdrawing the Heavenly Body was shut up and the Anger-Source set open and so the Heavenly Body lieth still shut up but seeing Man by the Eternal Mercury that is by the Word of Divine Power was in one part formed out of Eternity into Body and Soul none could disclose the Poyson-death and destroy the mortal Mercury and change it again into the Lights-Source viz. into the Source of the divine Joyfulness save only the very divine Mercury viz. the Power and the Word of Life it self for the Serpents poysonful earthly property was manifest and stirred up in man therefore when Gods Word did pity the Corruption of man and did again embrace him he said The Seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head and thou understand the Serpents poyson or fire shalt sting him in the Heel 23. Herein now lieth the Philosophers Stone to know how the Seed of the Woman bruiseth the Serpents Head which is done in the Spirit and Essence Temporally and Eternally the sting of the Serpent is Gods Anger-fire and the Womans Seed is Gods Love-fire which must be again awakened and illustrate the Anger and deprive the Wrath of its might and put it into the divine Joyfulness and then the dead Soul which lay avalled in Gods Curse doth arise when the poysonful Mercury which resembleth Gods Anger is Tinctured with Love then the Deaths Anguish in Mercury is changed into the highest Joyfulness and Desire of Love which doth again make a Love-essence in it self viz. an heavenly Body out of the earthly when Mercury is changed into an heavenly Source it desireth no longer or more the earthly mortal Life it desireth not the four Elements but only the One wherein the four are contained as it were avalled as the Light holdeth the Darkness avalled in it self and yet the Darkness is in it but not manifest in the Light as God dwelleth in Time and the Time comprehends him not unless it be translated and wrapt up into Eternity that the divine Light doth again shine in its Source and then the Time is manifest with its Wonders in the Eternity 24. On this wise also is the Process of the Wise men with the Precious Stone There is no nearer Consideration of the same then to consider and know how the Eternal Word viz. the heavenly divine Mercury in the divine Power is become man and slain Death and the Anger in man viz. changed the Mercury into the divine Joyfulness whereby the humane Mercury which before lay shut up in Gods Anger viz. in the Source of Death doth with its new enkindled Desire which now is called Faith in the Holy Ghost attract divine Essentiality viz. Christs Body unto it self and setteth it self in divine Power and Light above the Anger of God and the Poyson of the Serpent and bruise the head of the Anger viz. the poyson of Death with the Life of divine Joyfulness that is the Anger was Master but in the Light it became a Servant which now must be a cause of the Joyfulness as it is most plain clear and manifestly made known and shewn unto us in the Mercurial Life 25. Now observe the Process and meditate thereon ye dear Children of Wisdom and then ye shall have Enough Temporally and Eternally do not as Babel doth which tickleth and comforteth it self with the Philosophers Stone and boasteth of it but keepeth only a gross Masons-Stone shut up in Poyson and Death in stead of the precious Philosophers Stone what is it for Babel to have the Stone when as it lieth wholly shut up in Babel It is as if a Lord bestowed a Country upon me which indeed was mine but I could not take possession of it and remained still á poor man for all that and yet I boasted of the Dominion and so had the Name and not the Power Even thus it goeth with Babel about the precious Stone of the New-birth in Christ Jesus 26. In the Sweet Name Jesus Christ the whole Process is contained what and how the New-birth is out of Death into Life which is very clearly understood in the language of Nature for the Name Jesus is the property of the free Lubet of Eternity which yeelds it self into the Centre of the Pregnatress viz. into the Fathers property and figurizeth it self in the Centre in the Fathers property viz. in the Fathers Fire to a word of Eternal Power 27. Understand the Father viz. the Fathers fiery Forms do figurate shape this divine Voyce essentially in it self in the Lubet of the Liberty that is the Fathers fiery property maketh it self in the divine Essence of the eternal Love to a Mercury of Ioyfulness for the Fathers property is the Fire-source and the Sons viz. the eternal Lubets property is the Love-source and yet also there would be no Desire of Love if the Fathers Fire did not enkindle it and make it moveable viz. denrous from the Fire ariseth the Desire 28. The Father of all Essences begetteth this holy Desire through his Fire-source which is now his heart of Love which giveth in his Fire the shining Lustre and Splendor even there the Wrath in the Fires-property dyeth from Eternity to Eternity and is changed into a Love-desire 29. Thus observe it the free Lubets property is here in the Fires property called Christ which signifieth in the language of Nature a Potent Champion depriving the Wrath of its Power a Shine of the Light in the Darkness a Transmutation where the Love-Lubet ruleth over the Fire-Lubet viz. over the Wrath the Light over the Darkness Here the Seed of the Woman understand of the free Lubet in which there is no Source bruiseth the Head of the Wrath of the Eternal Nature viz. of the Eternal Desire for the Fires property is rightly called the Head for it is the Cause of the Eternal Life and the Liberty viz. the free Lubet or the Nothing is rightly called the woman for in the Nothing viz. in the Liberty of all Source consists the Birth of the Holy Trinity of the Deity 30. Now the Fire giveth Life and the free Lubet giveth Essence into the Life and in the Essence is the Birth where the Father viz. the Eternal Ground begetteth his Essence viz. his Heart out of the Abyss in Himself that is out of the Abyss in Himself into a Byss the Son is the Fathers Byss Thus the Father remaineth in Himself as touching his own property only the Byss of the Eternal Nature and the Son remaineth in the Father the Byss of the Power and Kingdom of Ioy a resemblance whereof you see in the Fire and Light And thus the Son Tinctureth the Father with the Liberty viz. with the Nothing and the Father Tinctureth the Son the Nothing that there is an Eternal Life therein and no more a Nothing but a Sound or Voyce of the Manifestation of the
Anger nor Death can destroy it 72. It seems strange in the eyes of Reason that God hath kept such a Process with the Restoring of Man in Christ that he appeared in such a poor disesteemed form in the humane Property and was reviled mocked scorned scourged crucified and slain and that he was buried and rose again out of the Grave and walked forty days upon the Earth before he entered into his invisible Kingdom Reason is so blind that it understandeth nothing of the Eternal Birth it knows nothing of Paradise how Adam was in Paradise and how he fell and what the Curse of the Earth is if it understood this the whole Process were manifest to it as the Eternal Birth is in it self so is also the Process with the Restoration after the Fall and so likewise is the Process of the Wisemen with their Philosophers Stone there is not the least tittle of difference betwixt them for all things do Originally Arise out of the Eternal Birth and all must have one Restoration in one and the same manner 73. Therefore if the Magus will seek Paradise in the Curse of the Earth and find it then must he first walk in the Person of Christ God must be manifest in him understand in the internal Man that he may have the Magical Sight He must deal with his Purpose as the World did with Christ and then he may find Paradise wherein is no Death 74. But if he be not in this Birth of Restoration and walketh not himself in the way wherein Christ walked upon the Earth if he steps not forth into the Will and Spirit of Christ then let him give over and leave off his Seeking he findeth nothing but Death and the Curse of God I tell him plainly and faithfully for the Pearl of which I write is Paradisical which God doth not cast before Swine but giveth it to his Children for their play and delight 75. And albeit much might be mentioned here that even Reason might obtain open eyes yet it is not to be done for the wicked would grow worse and more full of pride therefore being he is not worthy of Paradise and also cannot enter thereinto no Heavenly Jewel shall be given him and therefore God doth hide it and permits him to whom he doth reveal it to speak of it no otherwise then Magically therefore none attains it unless he himself be a Magus in Christ unless Paradise be manifest in his internal Man and then he may find if he be thereto born and chosen by God CHAP. VIII Of the fiery Sulphureous Seething of the Earth and how the Growth is in the Earth also of the Separation of the several Kinds of Creatures An open Gate for the Wise Seekers 1. LEt the Reader but consider what before is written concerning the Centre of the Generation of all Essences and then he may easily proceed here All whatsoever is Corporeal let it be either Spirit or Body consisteth in a Sulphrous property the Spirit in such a spiritual Property and the Body out of the Spirit in such a Corporeal property 2. For all things are arisen from the Eternal Spirit as a likeness of the Eternal the invisible Essence which is God and the Eternity hath in its own Desire introduced it self into a visible Essence and manifested it self in a Time so that he is as a Life in the Time and the Time is in him as it were dead as a Master that maketh his work with an Instrument and the Instrument is mute to the Master and yet it is the Making the Master only guides it even so are all things confined into limit measure and weight according to the Eternal Generation and they run on in their Operation and Generation according to the right and property of Eternity 3. And God hath appointed over this great Work only one Master and Protector which can alone manage the Work which is his Officer viz. the Soul of the great World wherein all things lie and he hath appointed a Type of its likeness as the Reason over this Officer which represents unto the Officer what he is to do and make and this is the Understanding viz. Gods own Dominion wherewith he ruleth the Officer Now the Understanding sheweth unto the Officer what the property of each thing is how the Se Veration and Degrees proceed from each other for all things are contained in the Sulphurean Body and Mercury is Sulphurs Life and the Salt is the Impression that preserveth the Body from falling to ashes so that the Spirit is known in a palpable Essence 4. The Property of Mercury is in Sulphur as the boyling of a Water Sulphur is the Water wherein Mercury Seetheth and produceth continually Two Forms out of the Water viz. one Oleous living from the Liberty of the divine Powers property and one Mortal from the dissolution in the Fire in the Salnitral Flagrat 5. The Oyly is in Stones and metals herbs trees beasts and men and the Mortal property is in the Earth in the Water in the Fire and Ayr likewise the Oleous property is in these four Forms viz. in the Earth Water Fire and Ayr as a Spirit or Life and these four Properties are as a dead Body in which the Oyl is a Light or Life whence the Desire viz. the Growth ariseth as a Springing out of the dead Property which is the Vegetative Life a Springing budding and growing out of Death 6. But now the Oyly property could not be a Life if it were not in the Anguish of Death the Anguish maketh it to pullulate or move in that its Will is to fly from and press out of the Anguish and forceth it self eagerly forwards whence the growth ariseth Thus must Death be a cause of the Life that the Life may be stirring or active and therefore Mercury is the true moving Life 7. In the Mortal property he is Evil and is called the Life of Death of Hell and the Anger of God and in the Oyly property he is Good from the efficacy of the Meekness and Liberty of God and he is the Officers Faber whereby the Officer distinguisheth the Degrees in the Vegetative Life severing the living Being from the mortal the heavenly Essentiality from the dead or earthly and orders it into two Kingdoms viz. the Good in the Oleous property into a heavenly Being viz. into a Light and the Mortal part into the Darkness 8. These two Kingdoms are in continual Combate one with another and there is an uncessant wrestling in them as water boyling on the fire each boyleth in its property viz. the Oyly in Joy and Meekness and the Mortal in the Anguish of Darkness and yet one is the cause of the other the Light is the Death and deadly destruction of he Darkness viz. of the Anguish for in the Light the Anguish hath no strength but it changeth it into the exultation of Joyfulness and the cause of Joy else there would be no Joy
forms of Life in their Enmity do become unanimous and then the hunger of the Disease ceaseth and the process to the Universal is as hath been already mentioned It is not my intent to mention a clear Declaration thereof it is clear enough he that will not seek thereby a new man born in God and apply himself diligently thereto let him not meddle with my Writings 37. I have not written any thing for such a Seeker and also he shall not be able to apprehend our meaning fundamentally albeit he strive never so much about it unless he entreth into the Resignation in Christ even there he may apprehend the Spirit of the Universal otherwise all is to no purpose and we do faithfully warn the Curious Critick not to amuse himself for he will not effect any thing in this way unless he himself doth enter thereinto and then it will be shewn him without much seeking for the way is child-like plain and easie CHAP. XIII Of the Enmity of the Spirit and of the Body and of their C U R E and R E M E D Y. 1. EVery Body is in it self a senceless and as a dead thing or being it is only a manifestation of the Spirit which is in the body the Spirit is signed with the Body whatsoever the Spirit is in it self in an incomprehensible unperceivable operation the same is the body in the Comprehensible and Visible working There is one form of the Seven forms of Nature Superiour and Chief the other do hang unto it and give their Signs also according as each of them is strong in the Essence and as the Forms do stand in their order in each thing even so they do sign the Body of every Thing and Creature in its Generation or kind this is the manifestation of the Divine Wisdom in the Expressed Word of Love and Anger 2. There is not any thing but it hath its Soul in it according to its property and the Soul is a kernel to another body whatsoever liveth and groweth hath its Seed in it God hath comprehended all things in his Word and spoken them forth into a Form as the Will had formed it self in the Desire the expressed or Spoken is a Plat-form of the Speaking and hath again the Speaking in it this same Speaking is a Seed to another Image according to the first for both work viz. the Speaking and the Spoken Word 3. The Speaking worketh in it self viz. in the Eternity and the spoken also in it self viz. in the Time the Speaking is the Master and the Spoken is the Instrument the Speaking maketh the Nature of Eternity and the Spoken maketh the Nature of Time each maketh in its Comprehension two properties viz. Light and Darkness wherein the Element of all Beings doth consist which in the Expressed Word doth sever it self into four Elements but in the Speaking Word there is but One the Element in it self is neither hot nor cold also neither dry nor moist but it is a Lubet viz. a desiring Will wherein the Divine Wisdom maketh the different and various Colours all according to the Desires property in which there is neither number nor end but in the four Elements there is number and End For with the Expressing in that they are become Self-full they have taken a beginning and have formed themselves into a Model or Plat-form of a time which runneth as a Watch-work it formeth frameth and destroyeth 4. This Watch-work consists of Seven forms or properties as is before mentioned which make in themselves a three-fold Spirit viz. a Vegetative Sensitive and Rational the Vegetative consists in the four Elements the Sensitive in the Seven forms of Nature and the Rationative in the Constellation but the Understanding proceeds only from God for it ariseth out of the Eternal Nature all life whatsoever which hath its limit in the Expressed Word doth consist in Sal Sulphur and Mercury for therein consist the Seven properties of Every life of this World and also the spirit of Vegetation Sensation and Reason 5. Sulphur is the Mother of all Spirituality and Corporality Mercury manageth the Dominion therein and Sal is the house of its habitation which Mercury it self maketh in Sulphur Reason ariseth in the Oyl of the Sulphur whereinto the Constellation giveth its desire viz. the essence of its property whence forth-with the senses and thoughts do arise but the Understanding proceedeth forth from the Oyl of the Element viz. in the free Lubet in the Speaking Mercury 6. Now then seeing it is very necessary for us poor children of Eve to know whence the Disease and Enmity of our life doth arise and what that is in us which maketh us our own Enemies and doth vex perplex and plague us in our selves Much more necessary then it is to know the Cure whereby we may cure our selves in our Self-hood and bring ourselves into the limit of Rest. 7. This we will delineate and declare if there be any one that hath a mind to enter upon it and truly prove and try it and we will set forth whence Evil and Good do arise originally and how they arise and give occasion to the understanding Searcher to seek and we will shew how the will to Evill and Good doth arise and how the Evil is the death of the Good and contrariwise the Good the death of the Evil. 8. When we consider what the Mercurial life is then we find that it consists in Sulphur for Sulphur is a dry hunger after Matter which maketh an austere Impression and in its austere Impression it hath the Fire and also in its Impression the Oyle whence the life burneth Now the Impression maketh coldness and its Compunction or Intraction maketh heat so that now there is a cold Fire and an hot Fire in one thing the cold maketh in it self Hardness and Darkness and the Heat maketh in it self the Light and yet there could be no Light if the Oyl in the Sulphur did not dye in servent hot anguish as the Candle in the Fire 9. Now there is a two-fold dying in Sulphur whence also a two-fold Life is Generated as first the Impression or Desire doth intract contract enclose maketh hard cold thick and the hardness viz. the Enclosed causeth a death in the Enclosed Being and yet in that spirit there is no death but a pricking raging and anxious cold Fire-life which is generated with the Impression and is the life of the darkness 10. Secondly in the same Anguish in the austere desire the hot Fire is generated which consumeth the Substance which the coldness viz. the Impression of the desire to Nature doth make Thus there remaineth in the Fire the contention betwixt the Cold and Heat the cold will have its life according to its property and in that it doth strive for life it doth enkindle the Heat in its Impression and forth-with the Heat depriveth the Cold of its Might and consumeth the Colds
four Elements viz. into the Centre of Darkness in the Creation whence Heat and Cold ariseth 24. His Desire in the beginning was bent inclined into the Liberty of God viz. into the Element where he was Resigned in God and then Gods Love-will ruled him with the free Lubets property but he departed out of the free Lubet of God out of the Resignation into a Self-ful Will which he forged in the Centre to Nature whence the Pain and Torture doth arise viz. Heat and Cold so also astringency sowre bitterness and all the Properties of the dark Impression 25. Even there he fell into the Eternal Death viz. into the dying Source in which the Mercurial Life in the Sulphur ruleth in the Poyson where one Form in the Mercurial Sphere doth envy hate annoy and destroy the other where there is meer Anguish Aking Tormenting and Enmity for the free Lubet was quenched in him wherein the holy Element viz. the divine Body doth consist and there arose in the same pure Element the four Elements of the outward Source even there the Image of God was cursed which is nothing else but that Gods Love-will which ruled in the Image of his likeness did withdraw from man and so man fell into the Dominion of Nature and being the four Elements have a temporal beginning and end and must again enter into the End therefore also the humane Body which is now become wholly earthly in the four Elements must fall again into the four Elements and be destroyed therein and therefore now we are to consider of his Cure and Restoration how he may again be delivered from Death and he again introduced with the Body into the Pure Element and with the Spirit into the Dominion of Gods Will. 26. Now there is no other remedy save that he with the Spirit which ariseth in the Chaos and was inspired by Gods Will-spirit into the created Image doth again depart out of his self-hood viz. out of his natural Will and resign himself up fully and freely into the first Will which in the beginning formed him into an Image He must wholly dye to his self-hood in himself in the Death of the dark Impression so far as he liveth therein to his own will in the self-desire of the outward life of the four Elements and cast himself with total Resignation into Gods Will viz into Gods Mercy that he may no longer live and will to himself but unto God viz. to the first Will of God which created him in its Image whereby God did manifest himself in an Image and so he is with the first Astrum viz with the Chaos of the Soul again in the same comprehension wherein God created him unto his Image 27 But seeing the Self-hood viz. the self-ful Will doth strive against this and will in no wise dye to its Self-hood understand by Self-hood the Will of the outward World which is from the outward Stars and four Elements therefore Gods food must be given to the inward Will of the Spirit to eat of that it may live without need and Hunger as to the outward Being that it may continually mortifie and break the Will of the earthly Self-hood until the Earthliness viz. the earthly Body doth freely unloose or dissolve it self in Death and also enter again into the Mother whence it was created and forsake its self-hood that the pure Body of the Element in which the true Life in Gods will-Will-spirit doth again enkindle the Soul in the Resigned Will and the disappeared Body from the Pure Element may become a mansion of the Soul viz. a Paradisical Budding or bloomy Renovation in the Eternal Spring-time of Paradise 28. And that the own Will of the Soul might be able to do this viz. that it might break it self off from its self-hood and willingly enter into the Death of its self-hood and become a Nothing in its self-hood the free Will of God viz. the Eternal Lubet to the Chaos of the Soul which is the Eternal Mercury in the Power of the Majesty is again entered into the disappeared Image of God proceeded from the Pure Element viz. into the Virgin-like life and draweth the Will of the Soul to it self and giveth it again cut of Love and Grace the Heavenly Corporality of the pure Element for Food and the Water in that Element in the Tincture of the Fire and Light viz. of the Eternal Life for Drink and hath encorporated it self in the Humanity and freely tendereth it self to all Souls with full desire that Soul which dyeth to its self hood and bringeth its Hunger again into Gods Mercy may enjoy this food whereby it doth again become the first Creature in Gods Love 29. Now we are to Consider how the poor Soul captivated in Gods Anger being devoyd of the heavenly food doth live in meer anguish and distress and restless pain as the outward earthly body in its properties doth live in its Hunger in meer anguish distress and oppressing pain unless that the Soul with the Pure Element doth so over-power and keep it under that it doth not fully domineer in its own Dominion of the outward Astrum and four Elements in the poysonful Mercurial Wheel according to the dark Impression by reason of the Influence of the Element if that the Universal doth withstand it then it may stand in quiet rest but yet no longer then the inward doth Penetrate the outward body and Tincture it There is in the four Elements no perfection till the body is changed again into the Pure Element therefore it must enter again into that whence the four Elements do arise 30. Now in this time of the four Elements there is meer pain and Vexation the Soul amuseth it self on the outward Astrum which doth force into it whence its false Imagination doth arise and the body doth stir up the poysonful Mercurial Wheel whence sickness and pains befall it therefore the Soul must be cured with the Inward Perfection viz. by the Speaking Word wherein it standeth in Gods Hand which alone is able to Tincture the Soul and bring it into rest the outward Body must be tinctured and healed with the expressed Mercury and of the outward Mercury doth also stand in the Curse as a Poyson-wheel then he must be tinctured with his own light in his Mother in the Body or Womb of Sulphur Mercury his own Will and Hunger must be broken that the envious odious Hunger may become a Love-desire 31. And now to knâ—w how this may be brought to pass we must consider the generation in Sulphur whence Joy and Sorrow doth arise for the poysonfuâ— Mercury may not otherwise be resisted and also nothing can resist it save its own Mother which brings it forth in whose Womb it is couched as nothing can resist the cold but the heat only and yet the heat is the colds Son even so also the poysonful Mercury must be resisted with its own child which he himself doth generate in
high Spirits as Angels and Souls of men which stand in the first Principle in them the Element is incitable In the life of the third Principle it standeth still and is as a hand of God where he holdeth and governeth the four Elements as an Exit or Instrument wherewith he worketh and buildeth 54. Now every property of nature doth in its hunger take its food out of the four Elements as the hunger is so it taketh a property out of the Elements for the four Elements are the body of the properties and each Spirit eateth of its own body 55. First There are the Sulphurean properties according to the first second Impression viz. according to the dark astringent and anxious Impression and then according to the Love-Impression in the Light viz. according to evil and good 56. The dark hunger desireth essence according to its property viz. Earthly things all whatsoever resembleth the Earth and the bitter hunger desireth bitter Raging stinging and pain it receiveth into it self such an Essence as the poyson-source out of the Elements and the hunger of Anguish desireth anxious hunger viz. the Anguish in the Brimstone also the melancholy taketh the desire to dye and continual sadness and the Fire-flash receiveth into it Anger Aspiring ambition pride a desiringness to destroy all and make it subject to it a desire to domineer in and above all to consume all and to be Peculiar and it taketh the bitterness from whence the Flash ariseth to Envy and Hatred and the astringency to Covetousness and the Fire to Anger and Indignation 57. Here is the true desire of Gods anger and all Devils and of all whatsoever is against God and Love and this hunger draweth such an Essence into Self as it is to be known searcht out in the Creatures and in the Herbs also 58. Now the Fire flash is the End of the first desire viz. of the dark nature and in the Fire the dying of the first hunger and Will beginneth for the Fire consumeth all grossness of the first Forms and casts them into death and here is the Se Veration of both Wills viz. the one which entreth back again into the property of Death and is a Will in the life of the dark Desire as the Devils have done who would domineer in the Fire flash in the Salnitral Sude over Time and Eternity but they were driven back by the Spirit of God and spewed forth out of the Love desire as an abomination and thus also it hapneth here to the wicked soul of man whereupon the Election followeth here is the Aym or scope of the Electrion of grace of which the Scripture speaketh that God knoweth his and here the Eternal Lubet of Gods liberty apprehendeth the Will-spirit which is arisen in the dark Centre and brings it through the dying in the Fire into the Element 59. In the Salnitral Flagrat lyeth the Possibility backwards and forwards If the will of the Desire goeth back then it is as to the Kingdom of this World earthly and as to the Kingdom of the Eternal World it is in Gods Anger and cannot see God unless it be converted and entreth into the Dying in the Fire and wholly dye to its Selfness and enter into the Resignation of the Eternal Will in the Salnitral Flagrat into the Element viz. into the Heavenly Essentiality and Corporality so that the Hunger may eat of the pure Element and then it hath further no other desire for it is in the Fire dead unto the austere dark hunger which is evil thus from the dying in the Fire ariseth the light for here the Liberty is enkindled that it becomes also an hunger and a desire this is now a Love-desire a Love-hunger 60. In the outward World it is the light of the Sun in the four Elements and it is the bestial Love-desire viz. after the Sulphurean body and Essence whence the copulation and multiplication doth arise viz. the Vegetative life and from the Mercury in the Salniter wherein the sensible life is therein the Astrum giveth the Reason in the Animals from the properties of the Salniter 61. For the whole Astrum is nothing else but a Salniter in the Verbum Fiat in the motion of the Being of all Beings in the fiery Flagrat comprehended in the properties of the Salts wherein all the powers of the Element do stand as an extern birth which do continually boil in the four Elements as a Salnitral Salt and do introduce their property in their desire fn the four Elements into the essence of Bodies as is to be seen in Trees Herbs Grass and all growing things 62. Thus understand us further concerning the second Centre which is manifest in the dying of the Fire in the Light whereby the Abyss of Gods liberty doth introduce it self into the Byss of Nature both with the inward world in the Kingdom of Heaven in the eternity and then also with the outward Kingdom in the Time 63. Now all this hath also the properties of the Desire and taketh its Original from the first Principle viz. from the first Centre and there is yet no right dying in the Fire the dark Essence only dyeth and the Will-spirit goeth forth with the eternal Will to Nature again out of the fiery Death in the light it is only a transmutation of the Spirit so that an hunger ariseth out of the Liberty and this Hunger is a Love-desire as to the soul of Man it draweth Essence from the Element of God viz. in the Divine Salniter it taketh the divine Salts or Powers into it self and as to the outward Worlds Desire it draweth the Oyl out of the Sulphur into it self in which Oâ—â— the outward Life burneth and so it is likewise in the Vegetables and Metals and whatsoever else 64. The Sun maketh the outward Transmutation and the divine Light in the Souls property maketh the inward according as each thing standeth in its degree so doth its Hunger reach a property Those which are in the Time receive a property from the Time and those in Eternity likewise out of Eternity The Hunger which proceeds from Eternity eateth of the Eternity and that which is of the Time eateth of the Time The true Life of all Creatures eateth of the Spiritual Mercury viz. of the sixth Form where all Salts are essentially the Spirit eateth of the five Senses for they are the Spirits Corporality and the Body viz. the Vegetable Life eateth of the Essence of the Sulphur and Salt for Christ saith so also Man liveth not by bread only but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God 65. Now the sixth Form of Nature is the expressed Spiritual Word and the Speaking Word therein is the Eternal Word In the first Impression in the Darkness it is the Word of Gods Anger and in the outward World it is the poysonful Mercury viz. a Cause of all Life and Stirring of all Tones and Sounds Now every Property eateth of
two Beginnings viz. in the property of the Desire which is an Attraction and in the property of the Light or Liberty which is forth-driving or pressing to the Manifestation through the desire of Nature 12. The Desire viz. the Attraction maketh Hardness and is the Cause of the Fire and the Lubet is a Cause of the Lustre or Light of the Fire Sul is light and Phur maketh fire yet it cannot be reduced alone in Sulphur to fire and light but in Mercury and at last in Sal which is the real Body but not of the Brimstone but of the Essence and Water And so understand that in the first Desire which ariseth in the Lubet of the Liberty all things are and are made Substantial and Essential whence the Creation of this World is proceeded and we find herein the property of the Earth so likewise of all Metals and Stones and also of the Astrum and the Original of the Elements all out of one only Mother which is the Lubet and the Desire whence all things proceeded and still proceed 13. For Mercury is generated in Sulphur it is the Severing viz. of Light and Darkness from one another the breaking Wheel and Cause of the various Division or Multiplicity it severeth the dark Essentiality from the Essentiality of the Light viz. the Metals from the gross astringent dark stony and earthly property for the property of the Desire giveth and maketh dark Essence and the property of the free Lubet maketh light Essence viz. Metals and all of the same kind and resemblance 14. Mercury hath in the beginning of his Birth three Properties viz. the Trembling in the Austereness and Anguish from the hard impressing of the Astringent hard Desire and the Expulsion of the Multiplicity viz. the essential Life for the Desire attracteth very hard unto it self and the Attraction maketh the Motion or sting of Trembling or horrible Compunction and that which is impressed is the Anguish but if the Liberty be therein comprehended it refuseth it and there ariseth the Original of Enmity and the Severing that one Form severeth from another and a two fold Will ariseth 15. For the Lubet of the Liberty doth again set its desire into the Stilness viz. into the Nothing and doth force again out of the darkness of the Desires Austereness into it self viz. into the Liberty without the wrath of the Enmity and so it hath only sharpened it self in the Austere Impression in Mercury that it is a moving feeling Life and that its Liberty is sharpened so that it becomes a Lustre which is and causeth a Kingdom of Joy in the Liberty and so understand us that the Spirits Dominion viz. the Spirit and the Essence doth thus Sever. 16. The Essence remaineth in the Impression and becomes material that is not God but gold or any other metal according to the property of the first conception in the Sulphur or Stone or Earth out of the desires own peculiar property all according as the first Sude in Mercury for no mettal can be generated without Salniter which is the Flagrat in Mercury which also becomes material in the Astringent Impression and divides it self in the Severation one Part into brimstone another into Salniter and a third into a Salt sharpness whereas yet there cannot be any corporeal essence in all these but only the Spirit of the Essence the Essence proceedeth wholly out of the Death through the Mortification which is effected in the great Anguish of the Impressure where there is a dying Source which is the Mercurial Life where the Salnittal Flagrat ariseth as an opening displaying Flash for the Liberty viz. the property of the Eternal Lubet doth there Severize into it self and yet the attracted Essence out of the Lubet of the Liberty continueth all along in the Comprehension of the Attraction in the Astringent austere dark Anguish Now if the Wrath entreth so vehemently into it self as to raise up the Salnitral Flagrat then it apprehendeth the Essentiality of the free Lubet in it self whence ariseth the Flagrat for the Wrath there apprehendeth the Meekness which is even as if water were poured into fire which giveth a Flagrat and then the Wrath of the great Anguish dyeth and with the Flagrat the Joy ascends and the Flagrat is out of Mercury or out of the Anguish of Death and becomes also material but by reason of the Liberty it changeth it self into white which is Salniter Now if the fire viz. the horrible anxious sharpness doth again come into it then the Salniter is dismayed and giveth a Repulse for the first Property which was before the Death is again enkindled with the Brimstony-spirit a sufficient resemblance whereof you have in Gun-powder which is the matter of these Properties 17. Further we are to know the Dying with the Enkindling of the Fire all which is done in the Flagrat for it is a Flagrat to Death and to Life one part immerseth it self into the property of Death viz. into the Wrath of the Austere Desire and the other part which is from the Lubet or Love-essentiality ariseth up in the Kingdom of Joy but being that there hapneth also a mortifying in the Free Materia albeit it is no mortifying but a redeeming from the Wrath for the Materia of the Liberty will be free from the Wrath thereupon this Materia falleth downward which is water and it is not of the property of the Wrath but the Wrath holds iâ—â—â—ptive in it self but they are severed from one another in the Essence and Source the Wraths Essence giveth earth and stones and the Essence of the Liberty is water which ariseth with the enkindling of the fire through the mortification out of the meekness of the Light 18. But being this Water doth also severize it self in the Salnitral Flagrat and before the Salniter all was mutually enwrapt together thereupon it obtaineth divers Properties in the Separation and there is a diversity of Water and this various diversity of Properties giveth in each property also a bodily or Corporeal Essence all according to the first Separation of Mercury in Sulphur for in the Mortification in the Salnitral Flagrat two things are effected and come forth viz. a Life and a body of the Life understand an Essential and a life-less sense-less Body whose Materia is mortified in the Flagrat Thus there is a diversity of Water and a diversity of the Life and a diversity of the Body or of the Materia as each body is so is also its essential Spirit 19. Now we must consider this from the first Original as 1. from the Lubet of the Liberty and 2. from the desire to Nature or the manifestation of the Abyss 20. First In the Salnitral Flagrat there is produced through the Anxious Mortification a Sulphrous water from the Anguish which affordeth a Brimstone as we plainly see and all whatsoever is of the like sort and semblance
21. Secondly There is generated from the Astringent austere attractive in-drawing Property a Salt-water its Materia is Salt if it be again impressed through the fire or heat then it turneth into Salt and all whatsoever is sharp and attractive be it either in Herbs or Trees proceedeth thence for there is as much diversity of Brimstone and Salt as there is variety of taste and fire to be found in all Creatures Herbs and Trees also all whatsoever liveth and groweth hath Brimstone and Salt for the saltish property attracteth and preserveth the body and the Brimstone hath in it the Oyl or Light wherein the free Lubet to manifestation consisteth whence the growth ariseth 22. Thirdly There is brought forth through the Salnitral Flagrat out of the property of the bitter compunctive Attraction in the first Impression in the Spirit an earthly property of water its Materia is Earth for the same ariseth from the dark Essentiality where the Darkness doth impress it self in the first Desire wherein the Darkness ariseth as is before mentioned Thus it begetteth out of its property in the Impression a mist smoaky steam or vapour which the Flagrat in the Salniter apprehendeth and its Essence is dismayed or dyeth and fallâ—â—h downwards this is the Materia of the Earth albeit the Earth is not of one only Sort but hath in it all whatsoever became Corporeal in the Flagrat all which springeth through the Death of the Earth according as it was enwrapt and driven together in the Creation into a Lump as we plainly see 23. Further We are to consider of the highest Arcanum viz. of the Heavenly Essentialy and then of the precious stones and metals whence they all do take their rise and original seeing that all things come out of one Mother which is the Lubet and Desire of Eternity to its own manifestation 24. Now as concerning the uncorruptible Essence of Corporality the same ariseth also in the first desire to Nature yet in the Impression of the free Lubet and goeth all-along through all the Forms even into the highest sharpness where it retireth again into it self as a Life out of the Fire the Eternal Fire is Magical and a Spirit and dyeth not the Liberty is its Enkindler but the eternal Nature is its sharpness this same Essence loseth the Wraths property in the Light it is in the same fire as a dying yet there is no dying but an entrance into another Source viz. out of a painful desire into a Love-desire it yeeldeth also Spirit and Essence from the Fire-spirit and the Essence of Meekness from the Light 25. For that which dyeth to the Fire or sinketh through death that is divine Essence and it is effected likewise through the Salnitral Flagrat of the divine Joyfulness where the Property Trembleth in the Joy of Meekness and immerseth it self through the death of the Fire which is called Gods Anger and quencheth it so that God dwelleth in a meek Light and the first property to the enkindling of the Light is fire and wrath of the eternal Nature and maketh the dark world 26. The Properties of the first Mother in the Lubet and Desire do also divide themselves in the Salnitral Flagrat of Joyfulness into distinct parts as is to be seen in this outward world it yeeldeth also Water but of a very soveraign essence and it resembleth only a spirit of a pleasant lovely desire This is the Water of which Christ told us that he would give us to drink and whosoever should drink the same it should spring up in him to a fountain of eternal life 27. It retaineth also in the Flagrat of the Disclosure the fiery Property which is called Heaven in which the Wonders of the divine Kingdom of Joy are known and manifest and in the watry Property it retaineth the pleasant Spring or Paradise for in the fiery Property the eternal Element ariseth and it is the real Essence of the divine Corporality wherein consists all whatsoever may be known in God as is sufficiently and orderly cleared at large in our other Writings of the Divine Revelation treating of the Divine Wisdom and of the Divine Eternal Abyssal Birth And now we will turn us to the Essence of the outward World viz. to the manifestation of the Eternal viz. to Metals Herbs and Trees so also to Men and Beasts 28. We see that the Metals have another manner of body then the living creatures or are otherwise then the earth and stones are Now Reason asketh How the Original of every thing is seeing that in the beginning all arose out of one Mother and yet the Eternity hath no Temporal beginning Here we must again consider the Mother of the first Pregnatress where and how one Essence severeth it self from another viz. the Inchoative from the Eternal Time from Eternity and yet they stand mutually in each other but are severed into two Principles viz. into the Kingdom of God and of this World and yet All is Gods But seeing Christ calleth the Devil a Prince of this World and we also are able to declare how far and in what he is a Prince and that this world is not his own but he is the poorest creature in this world and also not at all in this world 29. Now therefore look upon the first Ground upon the Mother which hath thus generated all creatures so also the earth stones and all metals her Property consists in a spiritual Sulphur Mercury and Sal and all whatsoever hath had beginning is arisen in and out of her Impression and inchoatively thereupon came forth with the first form of the Mother viz. with the Astringent Attraction through the Fiat into a Creatural Being and affordeth a diversity of Essence and Spirit according to the first property of the Separation 30. As first The high Spirits which were created out of the Free Lubet in the Desire in the Fires property viz. out of the Centre of all Essences and had in them the Properties of both the eternal Worlds but those which after their corporizing or creaturizing remained with their Desire in the Property of the Free Lubet and introduced their Will out of the Fire into the Light they became Angels and the other which introduced their Desire again into the Centre viz. into the Austere Properties they became Devils viz. Out-casts from the free Lubet out of the Light as is mentioned in other Writings 31. Therefore the Devils have neither the Kingdom of God nor the Kingdom of this World in Possession for in the begining of the Creation this world was created out of both the inward Properties wherupon the Devil hath now only the Wraths Part in Possession the other profiteth him nothing and thus he is in the world and also not in the world for he hath but one part thereof in Possession from the other he is cast out 32. After the Creation of the highest Spirits God created this visible World
we are to consider of the Creation of this World that the whole Essence of Eternity hath moved it self in the Place of this World and the whole Form was Enkindled and Sirred and that in the desire to Manifestation and there the Generation divided it self in the Flagrat of the enkindled Fire into four parts viz. into Fire Water and Earth and the Ayr is its moving Egressive Spirit as is to be considered in Sulphur which consists in these four things 3. In like manner also the Astrum is thus Generated out of the first Mother and All put together is only one Body and it All taketh its rise from the inward Spirit as a hand or foot groweth forth from the inward Centre and hath already its fashion in the Centre viz. in the first operation and so only groweth into a form as the spirit is 4. The First Mother of all Things viz. the Lubet with the Desire doth especially introduce it self into Seven Forms and yet continueth stedfast in three only but manifests it self in Seven Forms 5. As the first Form is Astringent viz. an Austere Attraction which is a Cause of Coldness and Salt and all Corporality 6. The second Form is the Compunction viz. the Drawing or Motion and causeth the Feeling also Pricking Aking Tormenting the Affection of bitterness enmity and friendliness joy and sorrow 7. The third Form is the Great Anguish in the Impression which causeth two Wills viz. one to the Fire to the highest sharpness and the other to the mortifying and dying in the Fire where the Will of the free Lubet falleth down to the Wrath in the Fire and again goeth into it self and maketh a Lustre in the Fires sharpness 8. Now the fourth Form is the Fire it self viz. the first Principle in the Life with which the dark and light World do Sever also in this Flagrat all Material Separations are effected and the Corporality and Multiplication beginneth according to the Property of the first Eternal Mind viz. according to the Essentiality a mortal Ens and according to the free Source a living Ens. 9. The fifth Form is now the second Desire which is done after the Separation and that according to two Properties viz. one according to the Lubet of the Liberty out of the Light which is the highest Love-desire and the other according to the Fires Lubet which leadeth its Life of its Essence in the Love in the Light whence the Joyfulness and every true Life ariseth 10. The Love giveth Essence for it is expressive and yeelding viz. it self for God giveth himself to every Essence and the Fire is receptive for it needeth Essence in its wrathful Hunger else it extinguisheth and then the Lustre of the Light would go out and the Desire of Love would cease for the Fire maketh the Light desiring viz. of the Joyfulness for if the Fire dyeth the Light waxeth dark and Love turneth into Anguish as may be conceived of in the Devils 11. The sixth Form ariseth from the Turning Wheel before the Fire where the Multiplication of the Essence ariseth out of the property of Mercurius in the Salnitral Flagrat with the enkindling of the Fire one Form is introduced into another and if now the Love-desire penetrateth all the Forms then all the Forms grow very desirous the one after the other for the dear lovely child Venus is in all 12. Here beginneth the Taste Smell Hearing Seeing and Feeling and Speaking for the Light doth open another Principle of another Source and filleth All and here springeth up the Life in Death viz. the Love in the Anger the Light shineth in the Darkness here the Bridegroom embraceth his Bride and God himself resisteth his Anger viz. the Wrath of Nature and in this Form all Speeches Understanding and Senses do arise and the True real Life of all Creatures so also the Life in the Vegetables viz. Trees and Herbs in each thing according to its property c. 13. The seventh Form ariseth from all the other and is the body mansion-house or food of the other and it s thus effected when the other Forms do taste each other in their mutual Penetration in the Love-desire then in each Form there is an hunger or desire after the Love viz. after the Light now each Hunger or Desire is forth-reaching after the thing it doth desire and eagerly attracteth the property of the thing desired and thus out of two one Essence is made viz. out of the Hunger and that which the Hunger desireth for this Hunger doth not stand in Death it doth not any more aval or enclose up it self in Death unless it be too great and the Imagination in the Hunger be too great and the Hunger cannot obtain that same thing then it choketh as many times a child is so choked or smothered in the mothers womb if this Form be enkindled in another Form to eat of some external thing whereupon the mother grows so ardent in longing and if she cannot get it the child also cannot get it now it choketh in the Hunger or else a member is spoiled whence the Hunger did arise 14. The first Hunger in the Centre before the Fire is a spiritual Hunger which maketh the dark World and the Hunger of the free Lubet maketh the light World both which are only Spirit until they pass both together through the enkindling of the Fire where then they are mortified to the Spirit and are a likeness of the first Spirit viz. a manifestation of the incomprehensible Spirit which is called God in Love and Anger in a two-fold Source thus each standeth undivided in it self viz. God in the Time and the Time in God and the one is not the other but they come from One Eternal Original thus the Temporal Spirits-hunger giveth a Temporal Body and the Eternal Spirits-hunger affordeth an Eternal Body and are both mutually in each other and yet are distinct 15. The seven Forms do make them a Body according to their Hunger out of their own Property therefore all whatsoever the Spirit hath in all Propertises lieth in the Body 16. Further we are to know that there is a Severation made in the Creation of this World for this is to be seen in the Sun and Stars so likewise in all Creatures also in Metals Stones and Earths for this same is the manifestation of God 17. We see in the Firmament seven Planets and in the Earth seven Metals which are fixed and also seven Planets only which are fixed in their property the rest are Minerals and so of the Stars and as the Planetick Orb hath its predominant Stamp or Influence so is also the Birth of each thing 18. As the Deity viz. the divine Light is the Centre of all Life so also in the manifestation of God viz. in the Figure the Sun is the Centre of all Life in the highest Life the highest things have taken their beginning and so forward successively
one from another to the lowermost In every external thing there are two Properties one from Time the other from Eternity the first property of Time is manifest and the other is hidden yet it setteth forth a likeness after it self in each thing 19. Whatsoever hath its beginning out of the Lubet of the Liberty standeth with the Root in an Heavenly Property and with the Body in an earthly but the Eternal standeth in Time and manifesteth it self with Time 20. Sulphur is on one part in the Internal Heavenly and as to the Body earthly yet putteth forth an Heavenly likeness according to the Eternal out of it self which is fixed and stedfast as is to be seen in Gold and is much more to be understood in the Humane Body if it were not corrupted in the Desire in Mercury for the spiritual or heavenly Man consists in Sulphur and in Mercury the Corporeal viz. the Similitude of the divine Man so also the Metalline Property in Sulphur is the noblest most excellent and highest for it is the highest Spirit 21. Understand it thus in the Heavenly Being there is also a property of a Sude when the Liberty is apprehended and enkindled in the highest Desire wherein the Joyfulness ariseth this is effected in the Heavenly Sulphur where it is made essential in the Heavenly Mercury viz. in the Eternal Word which is a spiritual Essence 22. But if the same Spirituality longeth to manifest it self in a likeness both according to the Property of the Spirit and the Essentiality too according to the Trinity of the Deity according to the Mortal and Immortal Essence then that Image is represented in the Stars and Elements and lastly it is set forth in Man who is a lively Image of the whole Essence according to the divine and outward World also the inward and outward World is represented with the Metals in a mortal Image as a Resemblance and Similitude of the living Heavenly Essentiality 23. The beginning is in Sulphur for Sul is the Lubet of the Light or the Liberty which longeth to manifestation and it cannot otherwise be effected save through Fire in Phur ariseth the Desire viz. an Austere Attraction which maketh the dark earthly Property and the Austereness of the Spirit viz. the fiery Essence In this Austereness ariseth Saturn which is the thing Impressed and Mercury is the desire of the Hunger and the Rager Raver and Breaker and Mars is the wrath in the Hunger a cause of Anger these three are the Property of Phur viz. of the free Lubets-desire 24. The free Lubets Property begetteth the Essence in the three fore-mentioned Forms viz. in Saturn Mercury and Mars for it giveth it self in to each Property and the Property in the Hunger of Mercury maketh it a Corporeal Form but if the free Lubet turneth also to an Hunger in the Austere desiring then it maketh also three Forms according to it self viz. Jupiter who is the understanding of the Lubet and Venus which is the desire of the Lubet and Luna which is the body of the Lubet and according to the Property of the Light it maketh Sol all this is Spirit but now in every Spirits Hunger there is also an Essence both according to the mortal and immortal Ens a fixt and unfixt a Figure according to the Heavenly and a Figure according to the Earthly Being or Property 25. In the Saturnine Property the desire of the free Lubet maketh according to Saturns own Property Lead and according to the watry Property in Saturn Salt and according to the mortal and earthly Property in Saturn Stones and Earth and all whatsoever is of that Sort and Semblance 26. But according to the Liberty or according to the Free Desires own property in that it yieldeth up it self to Saturn viz. to the Desire it maketh in Saturn Gold according to the desire of the Light where the Spirit and Body do sever the Spirit of its Desire is Sol and the Body is Gold understand the golden Body is in Saturn according to the property of the free Desire and not according to Saturns property his property in himself is Lead Salt and Earth but he keepeth the golden Child shut up in Himself as a black Raven not in his gray form but in a darkish glee He is a great Lord but his Dominion by reason of the golden Child which he hath in his bowels standeth not in his own Power He is not Father of the Child but Mercury is he which formeth the Child but he puts his morning Mantle upon it that he can have no joy with the golden Child but he Corporizeth the fair Child for he is its Fiat or Creator and doth hide and cover it close under his Mantle He cannot give it the Body from his own property for it understand the golden Body is the Essence of the free Desire in the highest degree of Corporality in the fix'd Death where yet there is no Death but an Enclosing and in the Similitude a Representation of the divine Heavenly Essentiality 27. Mercurius is the Master-workman of this Child which Saturn hideth when he getteth it into his Hunger he casteth off his black Cloke and rejoyceth in it but he is too malignant in his Fire-wrath he devoureth the Child and turns it wholly to his own property when he is most sharply hungry in the Fire then Sol must be given him it is his wife that his Hunger may be appeased and then when he is satisfied he laboreth in the Materia of the Child with his own Hunger or Fire and filleth up his sufficed Desire out of Sols property which he before had eaten down and nourisheth the Child till it getteth upon it all the four Elements with the Constellation and he grows exceeding pregnant with the Child and then it belongeth or is fit unto a strange Fire and yet not strange unto an Earnest Fire and then the Father giveth it the Soul viz. the Fire-spirit and its first Mother which Mercury did eat down in its Hunger which was fixt and perfect giveth the Souls-spirit viz. the Light-life even then the Death ariseth and the Child is born and becomes afterward its own and a Child of the Liberty and careth no more for its Work-master it is better then its Father but not better then its Mother in whose feed it say before the Father wrought in it it bruiseth the Head of its Fathers fiery Essence viz. of the Serpent and passeth freely through death in the Fire dost thou understand nothing here then thou art not born unto the highest knowledg of the Spargirical Science 28. Further we are to consider of the Degrees what the Liberty viz. the Eternal Lubet giveth to the Hunger of the other Forms in Sulphur in the property of the other Planets the Form of the Birth is as a Turning Wheel which Mercury causeth in the Sulphur 29. The Birth of the highest Degree
property be broken by Mercury in the Oyl of Meekness then the Love of the Light doth incline it self also into the Oyl for the Original of both is from one Will but it is altered in the Impression As the Devil when he was an Angel changed himself into a poysonous devilish property and Adam out of an heavenly into an earthly property 21. Whatsoever groweth liveth and moveth in this World consisteth in Sulphur and Mercury is the Life in Sulphur and the Salt is the Corporeal Being of Mercury his Hunger albeit the Body is manifold according as the property of the Brimstone and Salt is according to the same property is also the ingrafted Oyl which springeth up all along in the Power for the Oyl maketh the Power or vertual Influence in each thing In the Oyl of the Impression viz in the Impressed Oyl is the other Oyl viz. the Spiritual which gives us Light but it hath another Principle it receiveth no other Source into it but the Lubet of Love it is divine Essentiality therefore Gods own Essence is nigh unto all things but not essentially in all things it hath another Principle and yet inclineth it self to all things so far as the thing hath any thing of the divine property in it it receiveth vertue from the divine property be it either a Vegetable or Animal for there are Herbs and Trees and also Creatures to be found in which something of the divine Power is couched wherewith in the Magical Cure the false Magick viz. the corrupt evil Oyl can be resisted and changed into a good Oyl 22. All sharpness of taste is Salt let it be whatsoever it will in this World nothing excepted and all Smell proceedeth from the Brimstone and Mercury is the Distinguisher in all motion or affection both in the smell power and taste but I understand by my Mercury the Sphere of the Birth of all Essences as is before mentioned not a dead Mercury but a living one viz. the Strongest according to the property of the dry Poyson c. 23. Now it doth behove the Artist and Physician to know these things else he cannot Cure any sickness or disease unless he hits on it by chance if he knoweth not wherewith the Oyl is poysoned in the body and what kind of Hunger Mercury hath in the sickness and after what he hungreth for if he may obtain the Salt according to the property of his Hunger after which he is desirous with such an Oyl as he fain would have then is the sickness over very presently for he turneth his Oyl again into the property of the Love of the Light whereupon the Life begins again to shine bright 24. For every disease in the body is nothing else but a corruption or poysoning of the Oyl where-from the Lifes-light burneth or shineth for when the Light of the Life shineth or burneth clear in the Oyl it doth expel and drive away all poysonful influences and operations as the day expelleth the night 25. For if the Oyl out of which the Life burneth be infected or inflamed with a poysonful Mercury or Salt let it be done either from the Constellation or Salt of Meat viz. from a contrary Source whereby a loathing or nauseous detestation ariseth in the oyl which the Oyl would always spue out whereunto Mercury doth help then Mercury doth eagerly travel and perplex it self in the Sulphrous fire more and more and continually laboureth to drive forth the Abominate but doth only inflame it self in it self in this austere Endevor and more more enkindle its inward Form whereupon the Oyl groweth more dark and poysonful until at last the Oyl becomes wholly waterish and earthly and then the Light and also the Fire extinguisheth and Mercury with the Sulphrous Spirit departs from it as when a Candle is put out Thus Mercury passeth out with the Sulphrous Spirit in Deaths baneful Steam until he also be famished for a time he may help himself in the Syderial Body which passeth along with it but when Mercury in the Spirit of the Great World hath consumed and starved its property then is the Temporal Life wholly gone for so soon as the Light of the Vital Oyl extinguisheth the Elemental Body falleth down into putrefaction viz. into the Fiat whence it came to be and then this Time endeth in the Creature which is the Death Dying or Departure and from thence there is no Deliverance or Return unless the heavenly divine Mercury doth once more move it self in him which yet cannot be except there hath bin a good property of the Oyl in him viz from the divine Essentiality in this property which is capable of the divine Essentiality the Light doth only enkindle it self again 26. For the divine Essentiality or this heavenly Mercury changeth the dead Oyl again into his and becomes its Life for the outward Mercury which hath ruled the Life returns not again it hath only been for a time a Mirror of the Eternal but he is changed into another Source for being suffocated he passeth again into the Mystery whence he at first proceeded in the Creation of the World and the body also goeth into the same Mystery 27. Thus it remaineth and belongeth yet to another motion of the Deity viz. to a Separating where the Evil wherein the Death was shall be separated from the Good and the Verbum Fiat shall restore and bring forth that which hath fallen into it in Death 28. The Physician is to know that in the strongest Mercury which is most poysonful the highest Tincture lieth but not in Mercury his own property which must be broken for his own property even from the Centre is the anxious poysonful Life but he hath another property in him viz. an Oyl from the Light whereby he is so strong and potent which is his food and preservation if this may be severed from him it becomes a Tincturing and mighty Enkindling of all obscured Lives viz. of all Diseases and Sicknesses for in this Oyl lieth the joyful Life and it is an Hunger after Life viz. that it might enkindle the weak and lift it up on high 29. In a Toad Viper or Adder or the like poysonful Beasts Worms or Insects the highest Tincture is to be found if they be reduced into an oyly Substance and the Wrath of Mercury be severed from them for all Life both external and internal consists in Poyson and Light as we understand that the Wrath and Anger-fire of God is a Cause of the divine Joyfulness The like also we are to know is externally for all Life devoyd of the poysonful Mercury is amort and an abominate and accounted as Dead 30. Now Mercury is an Enkindler of the Fire and every moving Life consists in the Fire and albeit some Creatures dwell in the Water yet Fire is their Life viz. the poyson-gall wherein Mercury manageth the Life but the Water in the Gall is a Poyson wherein an Oyl is hid
Eternity 31. Thus dear Philosophers observe here the Ground how you should Tincture seek not the Son without the Father to Tincture therewith it must be one Body the Serpent-bruiser lieth therein aforehand for the Seed of the Woman hath not bruised the Serpents Head without the Humanity but in the Humanity The Source of the divine Lubet understand of the Love manifested it self through a Resurrection in the humane Essence and became manifest in the humane Life and Tinctured the Wrath of Death with the Blood of the divine Tincture and there the Wrath of Death was changed into a Source of divine Love and Joyfulness Thus the Love bruised the Head of the Anger and the oleous Poyson in Mercury and deprived the Wrath of its Dominion and sublim'd the Wrath into the highest Ioyfulness even there the Anger and the astringent cold Death were made open shew of in a fiery Love then it was said Death where is thy Sting Hell where is thy Victory God be thanked who hath given us Victory 32. Now it behoveth the wise Seeker to consider the whole Process with the Humanity of Christ from his Opening in the Womb of his Mother Mary even to his Resurrection and Ascention and so he may well find the Feast of Pentecost with the joyful Spirit wherewith he may Tincture Cure and Heal whatsoever is broken and destroyed We declare it in the ground of Truth as we have highly known it for a Rose in the time of the Lilly which shall blossom in May when the Winter is past for blindness unto the wicked and for a light unto the Seeing 33. God be for ever praised who hath granted us eyes to see through the poysonful Heart of the Basilisk and see the day of Restitution of all whatsoever Adam lost 34. Now we will come unto the Process of Christ and go with him out of Eternity into Time and out of Time into Eternity and bring again the Wonders of Time into Eternity and openly set forth the Pearl for Honour unto Christ and scorn unto the Devil He that sleepeth is blind but he that waketh seeth what the May bringeth 35. Christ said Seek and you shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you Ye know that Christ signifieth in a Parable concerning the wounded Samaritane how he fell among murtherers which beat him and wounded him and pulled of his clothing and went away and left him lie half dead until the Samaritane came and took pity on him dressed him and poured Oyl into his wounds and brought him into the Inn This is a manifest and lively Representation of the Corruption of Man in Paradise and also of the Corruption of the Earth in the Curse of God when Paradise departed from it 36. Now wilt thou be a Magus then thou must become the Samaritane else thou canst not heal the wounded and decayed for the body which thou must heal is half dead and sorely wounded also its right garment is torn off so that it is very hard for thee to know the man whom thou wilt heal except thou hast the eyes and will of the Samaritane and seekest nothing else thereby but to restore the loss of the wounded 37. Now consider the Eternal Word manifested it self in Adam with divine living Essentiality with the Heavenly Mercury but when the Souls-fire in Adam by the infection of the Devil poysoned the Wills spirit in Adam and introduced it through the property of the Serpent into earthly deadly lust then the Heavenly Mercury of the Heavenly Essence withdrew that is the Souls-will departed from it with its Desire and introduced his Hunger into the earthly mortal Essence viz. into the property of the cold Mercury which had made Stones and Earth Adams spirit would prove this Mercury and have the knowledg in evil and good and so this Mercury of the four Elements forthwith drew him into its Poyson and effectually wrought in him and robbed him of the Divine Property stung and wounded him with Heat and Cold and made him half dead and stripped him of his Angelical Rayment viz. the garment in the pure Element where the Heavenly Source penetrateth the four Elements and tinctured them in Adams body then he needed no other garment for Heat and Cold were as it were swallowed up in him as the Day holdeth the Night swallowed up in it self and yet the Night dwelleth in the Day but it is not manifest Thus it went with Man when the property and Source of the Night seized on him then it domineered in him and thus it went also with the Earth when God cursed it 38. Now wilt thou be a Magus then thou must understand how to change the Night again into the Day for the Source of the Night viz. of the Darkness is the Anguish-Source of Death and the Source of the Day viz. of the Light is the Life and the Lustre in the Life now Christ hath again enkindled this Shine in the Humanity and quickened man again in Himself Now if thou wilt Tincture then thou must change that which is shut up and closed in the Death of the Night again into the Day for the Day is the Tincture and yet the Day and Night lie in each other as one Essence 39. Now saith Reason How may I begin to do it Look upon the Process how God began with the Humanity when He would Tincture the same 40 Christ came into this World in the shut-up humane form and brought into the enclosed Fortress of Death the Tincture of Life viz. the Deity He came into the World as a Pilgrim in our poor form He became ours that he might Tincture us in Himself But what did he Did he live in Joy Did he behave and carry himself as a Lord No He entered into Death and dyed and put away the Nights-Source in him through Us But how did he do it He assumed the Essence of our Soul and Body unto the divine Essence and quickened our Essence with the divine that our Essence entered again with its Will and Desire into the divine Essence and then the Heavenly Fiat was moved again in the Humanity for the Humanity inclined it self again into the Liberty viz. into the free Lubet of the Deity 41. This being done the man Christ was tempted forty days so long as the first Adam was alone in Paradise and was tempted then the outward earthly food was taken from him and the Humanity must eat with its Desire of Gods Essence there was represented unto him all whatsoever the first Adam had Amused himself in and whereinto he Imagined and wherein he was captivated as in the Death of the Night This the Devil being a a Prince of this World now represented unto him in the property of Death as he had represented it unto Adam through the Serpent whereon Adam and his wife did amuse themselves and entered thereinto with the Imagination 42. Now behold What did Christ do when he
Jacob and blesseth the Will introduced to Gods Will that the divine Will yeelds it self freely into the Hunger or incline it self to the Desire and maketh the imperfect Will which earnestly presseth into his Compassion Perfect and then is it rightly said Thou hast wrestled with God and hast overcome then thy Purpose obtaineth a transformed Body which is Heavenly and Earthly 62. Observe it It is the first beginning to Baptism and so you are fit and prepared to the Baptism and not otherwise else you baptize only with the water of the outward World but the true Magus baptizeth with the outward and inward Water if he hath a right divine Desire in him then Gods Will in his Baptism is the first glimmering Tinder in Mercury so that the Life enkindleth Death viz. the Mercury shut up in Death and he getteth divine Desire even then Mercury beginneth to Hunger after divine Essence and doth his first Miracle and turneth the water into wine as Christ did after his Baptism This is the first Tincturation in the dead Corpus in the Power of Baptism that the Vegitta or working energetical Life obtaineth another Property viz. an Hunger of Love wherewith she embraceth her Bridegroom viz. the Fire-Source that he is enkindled in her Love and changeth his cold deadly Wrath and Will into a fiery Love-will then the mortal Water turneth into Wine a sharpness of a fire and water-taste out of which at last cometh an Oyl to another Baptism after the manner and disposition of the Artist viz. according as he intendeth and beginneth after the Magus hath joyned the Virgin and young man together then Christ viz. the Bridegroom is lead with his Bride into the Desart and tempted of the Devil 63. Here is the Tryal whereby the Artist is proved by God what he seeketh with his Baptism for here is the proof in Paradise to try whether the Bridegroom be not too bad for the Virgin casteth her Love upon him and inviteth him if he receiveth it with desire and giveth his Will thereinto then she giveth him her heart and will wholly This is the Heavenly Tincture which giveth it self into the enkindled Anger of God viz. into the Curse of the Earth when God cursed it that is into the Mercury enclosed in Death which is the Bridegroom for the Seed of the Woman viz. the Heavenly Tincture must bruise the Head of the Serpent viz. the poysonful Mercury in the property of Death and change his Poyson into Wine and then the Virgin receiveth the Seed of the Bridegroom and not before 64. The Desart is the earthly outward Body where Mercury is Tempted when the Devil appeareth unto Mercury and plagueth him and assaulteth him in his fiery Essence then must the Virgin come to help him and give him her Love now if the Mercury eateth of the Virgin-like Love that is of Gods Bread then he may stand before the Devil and at last the Angels come to him and serve him the illuminated Magus will well understand what is meant by the Devil 65. Hereby let the Magus in the Temptation seeing the whole Marriage standeth in the Devils Temptation have a careful eye upon his purpose and if the Angels do not appear in forty days space then is his purpose in vain therefore let him look that he suffer not too fierce a Devil to tempt and also not too weak lest Mercury become Light and desire to continue in his own poysonful Deaths property and devour the Baptism as a Wolf and the old one remain 66. So soon as he doth espy the forms of Angels let him bring Christ out of the Desart and let the Bridegroom eat again his own food and dismiss the Devil that he may no longer plague him and then Christ will do many Wonders and Signs at which the Artist will marvel and rejoyce even then he hath nothing to do the Bride is in the Bridegroom they are already married he need only make their Bed ready they will warm it well enough themselves the Bridegroom embraceth the Bride and the Bride the Bridegroom and this is their food and pastime until they beget a Child 67. But if the Artist will needs be so diligent as to warm the married Couples Bed then let him have a care that he do not anger and enrage them in their Love what he beginneth he must go on with only the Bridegroom is wonderful He hath continually two Wills viz. an earthly Hunger after Gods Anger and an Hunger after his Bride therefore he must always have his own earthly Food given him but not into his Belly but Magically that so he may satisfie only his Wills-Hunger His Food is his Mother that begetteth him as is before mentioned 68. In brief the whole Work which men do speak so wonderful much of consists in two things in an Heavenly and in an Earthly the Heavenly must make the Earthly in it to an Heavenly the Eternity must make Time in it to Eternity the Artist seeketh Paradise if he finds it he hath the great Treasure upon the Earth but one dead man doth not raise another the Artist must be living if he will say to the Mountain Arise and cast thy self into the Sea 69. When the Incarnation of the Child beginneth then first of all Saturn takes it and then it is dark and disesteemed and is contemned and derided that such a Mystery should lie hid in such a mean form there Christ walketh in a poor simple form upon the Earth as a Pilgrim and hath not so much room and propriety in Saturn as to lay his Head He goeth as a stranger as if he were not there at home 70. After this the Moon takes it and then the heavenly and earthly Properties are mixed and the Vegetative Life ariseth and then the Artist rejoyceth but he is yet in danger 71. After the Moon Jupiter takes it who maketh an understanding in Mercury viz. a pleasant Habitation and gives him its good will and in Jupiter his Enclosed Life viz. Mercury is quickened who taketh it with its Orb and forceth it into the highest Anguish and then Mars apprehends it and giveth the Fire-Soul to Mercury and in the Flagrat of Mars the highest Life doth enkindle it self and Severs it self into two Essences viz. out of the Love into a Body and out of the Fire into a Spirit then the Life of Love in the fiery Flagrat sinketh downwards and appeareth beautiful but it is Venus a Woman then the Artist supposeth that he hath the Treasure but the Hungry Mercury devoureth Venus and the Child turns to a black Raven then Mars Afflicts Mercury in himself until he grow faint and yeelds himself to Death then the four Elements Depart from him and the Sun receives the Child into its Property and sets it forth in a Virgin-like Body in the Pure Element for in the property of Mars the Light is enkindled and the right Life is born and standeth in the Pure Element no
for the Meekness is like a Stilness but the Source of Anguish sublimeth it and turns into a pleasant laughter also the Anguish viz. the Darkness is the death and destruction of the Oyly property for if it gets the upper-hand in the oleous property it takes possession of the Corpus and turns the Oyl into a poysonful Source viz. into a dark Spirit or Body wholly earthly as Adam was when he Imagined into the Evil. 9. And yet we do not acknowledg that the Oleous property doth take any Poyson-Source into it self but Mercury viz. the Fire-Life insinuates it self into the Anguish and poysoneth the Essence of Time which the outward Mercury it self maketh in its own Desire that is he departeth from the inward oleous Essence and then the Internal Being remaineth immoveable in it self and the Essence and Spirit of Time do Se Ver from the Essence and Spirit of Eternity and yet there is no parting or dividing but both Principles remain in One Essence whereas there be two Essences but the one comprehends not the other as Eternity doth not comprehend Time for thus also Adam and Eve dyed the Souls Mercury departed with its Imagination from the Essence of Eternity into the Essence of Time viz. into the Anguish source and then the Essence of Eternity lost its Leader which Christ restored again by the divine Word or Mercury so that the Essence of Eternity which in Adam was forsaken of the Souls Mercury obtained the Life again 10. And thus we know that the Essence of Eternity lieth hid in the Anxious Mercury as in the Fortress of Death and our writing and teaching is to shew how a man may bring the poysonful Mercury with its Desire so far as to enter with its Desire again into the Essence of Eternity viz. into the Enclosed and re-assume the Essence of Eternity for a Body and with the same Tincture the Essence of Time and reconcile them in One that the whole Corpus of the inward and outward World may be only One that so there may be only one Will in the Spirit viz. a Love-Hunger and this Hunger doth then make unto it self only one Essence and then every Spirit eateth of its own Essence or Body so that afterward no Evil Will can arise any more therein 11. Thus we understand that Joy and Sorrow Love and Enmity do originally arise through Imagination and Longing for in the Inclination or earnest Desire towards God viz. the Free Love the Kingdom of loy doth arise in the midst of the Anguish of Death and if the Desire departeth our of the free Love into the Anguish of Death viz. into the Source of Darkness then is the Desire filled with the Source of Death and so Mercury worketh effectually in the Source of Death 12. Thus we declare with ground that there is nothing so bad but there lieth a Good therein but the Badness is not capable of the Good also there lieth in the most poysonful Mercury the greatest Pearl and Jewel if his poysonful Will may be introduced into the same then he himself manifests the Pearl for he changeth himself as is to be seen in the Earth where Mercury seeks its Pearl and turns it in the Oar to Gold and to other Metals according as the Sulphur is in each place 13. For there is a continual Combate in the Earth the Eternity travels with Longing through Time to be free from Vanity and in its Longing it giveth it self to Mercury as to its Life and Faber and when Mercury obtains it in his Hunger he becomes joyful and maketh this free Luber Corporeal in him and there ariseth Gold and Silver together with other Metals and good Herbs all according to the powerful Efficacy of each Place As the Boyling is in each Place so likewise is the Metal all according to the Property of the seven Forms of Nature that Form which is chief in a place according to the same Property groweth a Metal also Herbs and Trees 14. Here the Physicians must observe that they learn distinctly to know what kind of property is the strongest in each thing wherewith they would Cure if they do not know it they will oftentimes give their Patients death Also they must know that they are to understand and very exactly to know the property of the Patient which of the properties among the seven Forms of Nature is the Mercury in Sulphur for such a Salt he also maketh Now if the Physician giveth him a contrary Salt Mercury is only thereby the more vehemently enraged and made more venomous but if he may obtain his own Salt according to his own property after which he hungereth then he rejoyceth and readily quitteth his Poyson-Source in Mars his Fire But the Right Physician hath another Cure he first bringeth his Mercury wherewith he will Cure out of Deaths-Anguish into the Liberty He may well Cure the other is dangerous and uncertain if he doth happen to cure it is by chance and very unconstant and cannot cure any disease fundamentally for the outward Mercury is shut up it cannot reach no further then into the four Elements into the mortal-Essence it is able to do nothing in the Sydereal Body but if it be turned and introduced into the Love as is before mentioned then it toucheth the very Root and Ground and reneweth it even to the Divine Power in the Second Principle 15. We have an excellent Resemblance of this in the blooming Earth on the Herbs for in the Earth Mercury is earthly and venomous but when the Sun tinctureth him then he reacheth after the Suns Power after its Light and bringeth it into his Hungry fiery Mars desire into his Salt viz. into his Corporeal Essence viz. into Sulphur which is his Mother and wheels it about with his Rotation in the Essence as if he also boyled and then the Liberty viz. the highest Power reacheth after its Property viz. after the Solar Property and apprehendeth Mercury also along with it 16. Now when Mercury tasteth the Heavenly Being in it self it grows exceeding desirous after the Power of Love and draweth the same into its Desire whereupon it changeth it self and its Salt so also its Mother the Sulphur into a pleasant Source and now if the Liberty be so introduced into a Moving Life with Mercury then it is very full of Joy and springeth up in its Joy as a light from the Fire and putteth forth through the Sulphur-spirit in the Salt Thus is the growing of the Root and thence the Root geteth such a pleasant smell and taste for in the Original the Salts sharpness in the first Impression from Saturn is a sharpness of Deaths Anguish and here it is turned to a pleasant Power for all taste in Herbs in Salt 17. Thus understand us further about the Root in the Earth when the inward Power of the Liberty in Mercury his Property which now is changed doth thus force it self forth
themselves externally 36 There are commonly four Colours as White Yellow Red and Green Now according to what colour the fruit as an Apple is most signed accordingly is the Taste also in the Salt as White with a clear thin skin somewhat inclining to dark giveth sweetness which is of Venus property if the sweet Taste be strong and powerful then Jupiter is potent therein but if it be weak and fulsom then the Moon is strong therein but if it be hard and of a brownish colour then Mars is strong therein but if the white colour be of a grayish Brown then Saturn is strong therein Venus maketh a White colour Mars Red and bitter in the Taste Mars maketh Venus her Colour Light Mercury giveth a mixt colour and openeth the green in Mars Jupiter inclineth to blue Saturn to black almost gray the Sun maketh the yellow colour and giveth the right sweetness in the Salt and casteth forth the pleasant smell which takes its rise from Sulphur Saturn maketh astringent sharp and sowre and each property represents it self externally as it is internally in the Dominion so also by the Form or Signature of the leaf or branches 37. Every root as it is in the Earth may be known by the signature to what it is good or profitable even such a Form also hath the Earth and it is discerned in the leaves and stalks which Planet is Lord in the Property much more in the flower for of what taste the Herb and Root is even such an Hunger is in it and such a cure lyeth therein for it hath such a salt The Physician must know what kinde of sickness is arisen in the Body and in what Salt the Loathing is Arisen in Mercury that so He may not administer a further Loathing and Nausea to his Patient for if he giveth him the Herb in whose Property Mercury hath before received a Loathing then he ministreth Poyson to him so that the poyson in the Loathing of the Body doth exceedingly inflame it self in Mercury unless that he burn that Herb to ashes and give it him then the poyson of the Loathing loseth its Might for these ashes are a Death to the poyson of the living Mercury 38. This we finde very effectually in the Magick this also the Physician must know that all Sicknesses do arise from the Lothing in the form of Nature As when one Form in the Life is Superior if then a contrary thing clean opposite to its Property be per-force introduced into it let it be either from the Stars or from the Elements or from the seven Forms of Life then it depriveth this superior or chiefest Form which is the Leader and Ruler of the Life of its strength and power in its Salt then the Mercury of this Superior Form beginneth effectually to work that is to hunger and loath and if he gets not his own peculiar Property understand the bodily Forms which is chief in the Body among the seven Properties or Forms then he enkindleth himself in his own Poyson-Source according to his vital Property and doth so forcibly strive so long till he becomes fiery and then he awaketh his own Mars and his own Saturn which Impress him and consume the flesh of the Body in the Poyson-fire and wholly consume the Oyl of Light even then the Life's Light goeth out and it is past recovery 39. But if the Form of Life wherein Mercury is inflamed in the Loathing in the Anguish and Poyson-Source may obtain that Property into its Hunger of which the Spirit and Body is chief then he obtaineth his own natural food of which he liveth and doth again rejoyce and putteth away the Nauseate and then the Nauseate dissipateth or dissolveth and is spewed out but the Physician must have a care whether or no that thing which he will minister to his Patient be in its Property strong also in the same Essence whence the Nauseate is arisen in the Body 40. As for example A jovial man receiveth a Nauseate for or Loathing from the Lunar property now if the Physician knew that he had so gotten his Nauseate and prepared him a jovial Cure according to the Hunger of his own Spirit or Mercury this now would be right but if the Moons property be strong in the Salt which he would administer for the Nauseate then he gives him a Nauseate but if the jovial Cure be free from the Moon then the jovial Mercury receiveth his own food with great Desire and quitteth the Nauseate And thus it is likewise with Diseases which arise in the Salniter viz. from fear or frighting thereto belongeth also such a Flagrat as the first was and then there is a present Cure or such an Herb wherein the Salniter lieth in such a property as it lieth in that man 41. I know and it is shewn me that the Sophister will cavil at me because I write that the divine Power is in the Fruit that Gods Power doth appropriate it self into the Generation of Nature But hear my dear Friend become seeing I ask thee How was Paradise in this World Was it also manifest in Nature Was it also in the Fruit Was it in the World or without the World Did Paradise stand in Gods Power or in the Elements Was the Power of God manifest in the World or hidden Or what is the Curse of the Earth and the putting of Adam and Eve out of Paradise Then tell me Doth not God dwell also in Time Is not God all in All It is written Am not I he who filleth all things Also Thine is the Kingdom the Power and Glory from Eternity unto Eternity 42. Here consider thy self and leave me uncensured I do not say that the Nature is God much less the fruit proceeding from the Earth but I say God giveth Power to every life be it good or bad unto each thing according to its Desire for he Himself is All and yet he is not called God according to every Being but according to the Light wherewith he dwelleth in Himself and shineth with his Power through all his Beings He giveth in his Power to all his Beings and Works and each thing receiveth his Power according to its Property one taketh Darkness the other Light each Hunger desireth its Property and yet the whole Essence or Being is all Gods be it Evil or Good for from him and through him are all things what is not of his Love that is of his Anger Paradise is yet in the World but man is not therein unless he be born again of God then as to that new Regeneration he is therein and not with the Adam of the four Elements O that we would but once learn to know our selves and even understand it by the created Essence or Being 43. Lo â— in Saturn there lieth Gold shut up in a very disesteemed and contemptible form and manner which indeed resembles no Metal and though it be cast into the fire
and melted yet a man shall have nothing save a contemptible matter devoyd of any form of Vertue until the Artist taketh it in hand and useth the right Process about it and then it is manifest what was therein 44. So likewise God dwelleth in all things and the thing knoweth nothing of God he likewise is not manifest to the thing and yet it receiveth Power from him but it receiveth the Power according to its property from him either from his Love or from his Wrath and from which it receiveth so it hath its Signature externally and the Good is also in it but as it were wholly shut up or hidden to the Iniquity or Evil an example whereof you have on Bushes and other thorny and pricking Bryars out of which notwithstanding a fair well smelling Blossom groweth and there lie two Properties therein viz. a pleasant and unpleasant which overcometh that shapeth formeth or marketh the fruit 45. Thus also it is with man he was created a fair Blossom and Fruit of Paradise but the Devil raised up in him his thorny property by the Serpent understand the Centre the property of the wrathful Nature which in his Paradisical Source was not manifest in him but when his Hunger entered into the thorny false property of the Serpent viz into Death then the property of Death and the false Serpent in the Devils Desire pressed into his Hunger and filled Soul and Body so that the Hunger of the false Serpent began effectually to work in him and Death awaked in him and then Paradise hid it self in him for Paradise entered into it self and the poyson of the Serpent in Deaths property dwelt also in it self here was now the Enmity then said God to him The seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpeats head and thou shalt sting the Heel with Deaths poyson 46. Understand the Paradisical Image shut up and captivated in the wrathful Death in which the Word of the Deity viz. the divine Mercury ruled and wrought did disappear as the Gold is disappeared in Saturn so that nothing is seen but a contemptible matter until the right Artist sets upon it and again awaken the Mercury in the enclosed Gold and then the dead enclosed Body of the Gold doth again revive in Saturn for Mercury is its Life who must be introduced into it again and then the dead Body of the Gold appeareth and overcometh the gross Saturn wherein it lay shut up and changeth its mean contemptible old Body into a fair glorious golden Body 47. Thus likewise it is with Man He lieth now shut up after his Fall in a gross deformed beastial dead Image He is not like an Angel much less like unto Paradise He is as the gross Oar in Saturn wherein the Gold is coucht and shut up His Paradisical Image is in him as if it were not and it is also not manifest the outward Body is a stinking Carkass while it yet liveth in the Poyson He is a bad thorny Bush whence notwithstanding fair Rose-buds may bloom forth and grow out of the Thorns and manifest that which lieth hidden and shut up in the wrathful poysonful Mercury so long till the Artist who hath made him take him in hand and bringeth the living Mercury into his Gold or Paradisical Image disappeared and shut up in Death so that the Enclosed Image which was created out of the divine Meekness and Love-essentiality may again bud and spring forth in the divine Mercury viz. in the Word of the Deity which entered into the Humanity shut up and closed in the Death and Curse 48. And then the divine Mercury changeth the wrathful Mercury into its property and Christ is born who bruiseth the Head of the Serpent viz. of the Poyson and Death in the Anger of God understand the might of wrathful Death and a new Man ariseth in Holiness and Righteousness which liveth before God and his divine Image appeareth and puts forth its Lustre as the hidden Gold out of the earthly property and hereby it is clearly signified to the Artist chosen of God how he shall seek no otherwise then as he hath sought and found himself in the property of the pure Gold and so likewise is this Process and not a whit otherwise for Man and the Earth with its Secrets lie shut up in the like or same Curse and Death and need one and the same Restitution 49. But we tell the Seeker and sincerely and faithfully warn him as he loveth his Temporal and Eternal Welfare That he do not first set upon this way to try the Earth and restore that which is shut up in Death unless he himself be afore born again through the Divine Mercury out of the Curse and Death and have the full knowledg of the Divine Regeneration else all what he doth is to no purpose no learning or studying availeth for that which he seeketh lieth shut in the Curse in Death in the Anger of God if he will make it alive and bring it into its First Life then that Life must be afore manifest in him and then he may say to the Mountain Get thee hence and be cast into the Sea and to the Fig-tree No fruit grow on thee henceforth and it shall come to pass for if the divine Mercury liveth and is manifest in the Spirit then when the Spirit of the Souls Will imagineth into any thing Mercury also goeth along with it in the Imagination and enkindleth the Mercury fast apprehended in Death viz. the Similitude of God or the Manifestation wherewith the living God hath made himself manifest 50. I know and see that the Mocker in the Devils Vizard will yet bring my writing into a misapprehension and make me more dark and doubtful because I write of the inward and outward Mercury and understand by the inward the Word of God or the Divine Voyce viz. the Manifestation of the Eternity of the Abyss and by the outward Mercury I understand the Officer in Nature viz. the Instrument which the inward living powerful Word or divine Voyce useth wherewith it formeth and worketh Now the Sophister will falsely interpret it and say That I mix them both together making no difference and hold Nature for God as Babel hath already done unto me But I bid him view my words well and learn to understand them aright for I speak sometimes from the Heavenly Mercury and see that only and then presently I name the Instrument of the Heavenly therefore let him have regard unto the sence I write not Heathenishly but Theosophically from a higher Ground then the outward Faber is and then also from the same CHAP. IX Of the Signature shewing how the Internal doth Sign the External 1. THe whole outward visible World with all its Being is a Signature or Figure of the inward spiritual World whatsoever is Internally and howsoever its operation is so likewise it hath its Character externally like as the Spirit of each Creature doth set
forth and manifest the internal Form of its Birth by its Body so doth the Eternal Being also 2. The Being of all Beings is a wrestling Power for the Kingdom of God consists in Power and also the outward World and it standeth especially in seven Properties or Forms where the one doth cause and make the other and none of them is the first or last but it is the Eternal Band therefore God hath appointed six days for man to work and the seventh Day is the Perfection wherein the six do rest it is the Centre unto which the Desire of the fix Days do tend therefore God calleth it the Sabbath or Resting Day for therein the six Forms of the working Power do rest it is the Divine Sound in the Power or the Kingdom of Joy wherein all the other Forms are manifest for it is the formed Word or divine Corporality by which all things are generated and come forth to a Being 3. This formed Word hath manifested it self with the motion of all Forms with this visible World as with a visible likeness so that the spiritual Being might be manifest in a Corporeal Comprehensive Essence as the Desire of the inward Forms hath made it self external and the internal Being is in the external the internal holdeth the external before it as Glass wherein it beholdeth it self in the property of the generation of all Forms the external is its Signature 4. Thus every thing which is generated out of the internal hath its Signature the Superior Form which is chief in the Spirit of the working in the Power doth most especially sign the Body and the other Forms hang unto it as is to be seen in all living Creatures in the shape and form of the Body and in the behaviour and deportment also in the sound voyce and speech and likewise in Trees and Herbs in Stones and Metals all according as the wrestling is in the power of the Spirit so is the Figure of the Body represented and so likewise is its Will so long as it so boyleth in the life-Life-spirit 5. But if the Artist taketh it in hand with the true Mercury then he may Turn the weakest Form to be uppermost and the strongest nethermost and then the Spirit obtaineth another Will according to the most Superior Form that which before must be Servant becometh now Lord and Master in the seven Forms as Christ said unto the sick Arise thy faith hath made thee whole and they arose And thus likewise it is here each Form hungereth after the Centre and the Centre is the Voyce of Life viz. the Mercury the same is the Faber or Former of the Power if this Voyce gives it self in to the Hunger of the meanest Form in the strong Combate then it doth lift up its property understand the property of that Form and thus its Desire or Faith hath saved it for in the Desire Mercury doth lift up or sublime it self and thus it was in Christs Patients 7. Sickness had taken possession of them and the Poyson of Death had gotten the upper-hand in Mercury but now the Form of Life in the Centre did set its Hunger as a famished and mean property after the Liberty to be freed from the Abomination but being the Mercury was revived in Christ in the divine Property therefore the weak Hunger entered into Christs strong Hunger after the Salvation of Man and so the weak Hunger received the strong in the Power and then the divine Voyce in Christ said Arise lift up thy self thy Faith that is thy Desire which thou hast introduced into me hath saved thee 8. Thus the Life prevaileth over the Death the Good over the Evil and on the contrary the Evil over the Good as came to pass in Lucifer and Adam and still dayly cometh to pass and thus every thing is Signed that Form which is chief receiveth the Taste and also the Sound in Mercury and figureth the Body after its property the other Forms do hang unto it as cohelpers and do also give their Signature thereto but very weakly 9. There are especially seven Forms in Nature both in the eternal and external Nature for the External proceed from the Eternal The ancient Philosophers have given Names unto the seven Planets according to the seven Forms of Nature but they have understood thereby for another thing not only the seven Stars but the seven-fold Properties in the Generation of all Essences there is not any thing in the Being of all Beings but it hath the seven Properties in it for they are the Wheel of the Centre the cause of Sulphur in which Mercury maketh the boyling in the Anguish-Source 10. The seven Forms are these viz. the Desire of the Impression is called Saturn into which the free Lubet of Eternity gives it self this in the Impression is called Jupiter by reason of its pleasant commendable Vertue for the Saturnine Power doth enclose and maketh hard cold and dark and causeth the Sulphur viz. the vital Spirit understand the moving vital Spirit viz. the natural and the Free Lubet maketh the Impression Long to be freed from the dark astringent Hardness and it is very rightly called Jupiter being a desire of the Understanding which openeth the Darkness and manifests another Will therein 11. In these two Properties is pourtrayed and exactly deciphered Gods Kingdom viz. the Original and also the Kingdom of Gods Anger viz. the dark Abyss which is a cause of the motion in Saturn viz. in the Impression the Impression viz. Saturn maketh the Nothing viz. the free Lubet moveable and sensible and also opposite for it causeth it to be Essence and Jupiter is the sensible Power proceeding from the free Lubet to manifestation out of the Nothing into Something in the Impression of Saturn and they are two Properties in the manifestation of God according to Love and Anger viz. a model of the Eternal Form and are as a wrestling Combate viz. an opposite Desire against each other one maketh Good the other Evil and yet it is all Good only if we will speak of the Anguish-Source and then also of the joyful Source then we must distinguish that the cause of each Source may be understood 12. The third Form is called Mars which is the fiery property in the Impression of Saturn where the Impression introduceth it self into great Anguish viz. into a great Hunger it is the Painfulness or the cause of feeling also the cause of the fire and consuming also of Enmity and Malignity but in Jupiter viz. in the free Lubet in the Nothing it causeth the fiery Love desire that the Liberty viz. the Nothing is desirous and introduceth it self into Sensibility viz. into the Kingdom of Joy in the Darkness it is a Devil viz. Gods Wrath and in the Light it is an Angel of Joy understand such a property for when this Source became dark in Lucifer he was called a Devil but while he was
gave his Humanity Gall and Vineger to drink and when he tasted it he would not drink it 66. Here is again the outward Type shewing how it went inwardly The name Iesus viz. the Love of God which was entered into the Humanity and had espoused it self thereunto did thirst in the Love-desire after the corrupt Humanity and would fain tast the pure water of the Humanity in it self but the wrathful Anger of God which was enkindled in the Humane property did give it self in with the Humane property unto the thirst of the Love desire and when the Love-desire tasted of it it would not drink it but sank down into it as wholly resigned or freely yeelded and did unite and very essentially incline it self into the Anger of God as a full and perfect obedience and fully and freely given over as a peculiar propriety thereinto 67. This was now the Flagrat of the wrath that the Love should so come into it whereupon the Earth trembled and the Rocks clove asunder for so the Death was dismayed at the Life and here the Awakened Wraths property did SeVer it self into the Centre viz. into the First Principle into the Fireâ—root and now from the Centre there proceeded forth the hunger to the New-birth in the Humane property of the hunger unto Death was made an hunger unto Life for the Love tinctured the Anger that the Fireâ—desire to the dark Impression became a desire of Life 68. Understand it here aright God the Father who gave his dear Heart into the Humanity to help mankind did now thirst after the Humanity viz. after his heart or word of Power and the Deity in the Humanity viz. the heart of the Father did thirst after the Father and the Love or the Essence of the Light did thirst after the Fires Essence for the Fires or Souls Essence in Adam was departed out of the Love-essentiality wherein the Paradise did consist into a Selfness and was become disobedient unto God and thereupon the Essence life and being of the Light and Love did dye in its Growing that is it did wither as to the Vegetative life or Heavenly growth blooming and Sense of the Paradissal Source and did awake and arise to the Earthly World 69. Here the Father brought the Soul which was entered into his Wrath and had manifested its self in his Anger again into the Love viz. into the disappeared Paradisical Image and here the dark World was dismayed in Deaths Flagrat at the Fire-Flagrat which arose up in Love in the Death as a joyful Flagrat which Joy-Flagrat entred into the dead Bodies of the Hopers of Israel who did hope upon the Messiah as a sound of the power of God and did awaken them from death 70. This Flagrat rent in twain the Vail in the Temple viz. the Vail of Moses which hung before the clear face of God so that man could not see God and therefore he must serve him with an Offering and Type of this Final Discovery in which God did manifest himself again in the Humanity This Flagrat broke the Type in the Offerings and Sacrifices and manifested the clear face of God and united the Humane Time with Eternity 71. All whatsoever the Jews did outwardly unto Christ the same was a Type of the inward viz. how it went between God and the Humanity viz. between the Eternity and Time the Jews gave Jesus Gall and Vineger in his Thirst both these properties are a Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn viz. in the Impression this is even the Type and full resemblance of the Souls property as it is in it self alone devoid of the other Love-properties 72. God gave this property of the Soul again into his Love the Death into the Life the disappeared Love-essence which the Word of God had assumed to it self in the Essence and Seed of Mary and quickned to life he gave into the Anger 's property into the Souls essence viz. into the Centre of the Fire and dark World whereupon the Soul-like Fire and dark world became an exceeding Triumphant joyful Paradisical life and here the Champion upbraided Death and Hell viz. the dark World in the Soul and said Death where is thy Sting now in man Hell where is now thy victory in the Wrath of the poyson-Source in the expressed Word or Mercury all is now dead O Death I am to thee a Death Hell I am to thee a Conquerour thou must serve me for the Kingdom of joy Thou shalt be my Servant and Minister to the Kingdom of joy thou shalt enkindle the flames of Love with thy Wrath and be a Cause of the Spring in Paradise 73. Thus we give the Philosopher to understand our sence and deep ground in Nature who desireth to seek and open the disappeared Essence of the Earth which lyeth shut up in Death viz. in the Curse of God the Vail of Moses hangeth also before him and a very right earnestness is requisite for to rend the Vail in twain that he may be able to see the face of Nature otherwise he is not fitted thereunto 74. And as it went in the Humanity of Christ betwixt Gods Love and Anger and both were transformed into One so likewise it is in his Work of Nature the poysonful Mercury in the Sulphur of Mars and Saturn giveth its Lunar Menstruum viz. the greatest poyson of the dark Source into Venus's property when Venus thirsteth after the Fire of Love then Mercury giveth his poyson into the thirst of Venus and Venus's thirst giveth it self wholly unto the poyson as if it dyed it wholly yeeldeth up its desiring life whereupon ariseth the great darkness in the Philosophick Work for the Materia becometh as black as a Raven for Venus hath resigned its life whence the glance or splendor doth arise as it is to be seen by Christ that the Sun lost its light and there was a great darkness contrary to the common Course of Nature 75. For when the inward Sun gave in it self unto the Anger viz. into the darkness of God then the outward Sun which receiveth its power and lustre from the inward as a glass or resemblance of the inward could not shine for its root from whence it shineth was entered into the darkness in the place of this World and would turn the darkness in the Curse of God into light viz. it would make the place of this world again Paradise 76. Thus likewise the Sun of the outward World which is a Figure of the inward all essential Sun must stand still with its Splendor in the darkness from the sixth hour unto the ninth which is even the time of Adams sleep when he entered with the desire into the Centre of the Eternal Nature viz. into the Birth where the Love and Anger do part themselves into two Centres and would prove the cold and hot Fire which took him and did powerfully work in him Here are three hours according to the Ternary and in the Grave three days
the colour and yet becomes a Death to the three forms in the Wrath for she drowneth Death with Love Thus the Life is made a death to death viz. to the Wrath and now they both do lie in the will of the Eternal Nature viz. in the Verbum Fiat which proceedeth with them the Divine way in manner as it proceeded forth into Essence in the beginning of the Creation for in the beginning Paradise viz. the Universal was manifest and the Love shone through the Death or Anger Even so it must be again Venus must become the Eye or Sight in the Wrath and then of Saturn Mars and Mercury there will be a Jupiter Mars becomes Sun and Saturn Moon and so Mars shineth with the Sun out of Saturn in Luna from Venus's eye and all Seven are only one Thus the strife hath an end and all is accomplished until the Resurrection of the body 87. And when Jesus had drunk the Cup and said My God why hast thou forsaken me then he said All is finished understand the work of mans Redemption and said further Father into thy hands I comit my Spirit and towed his head and gave up the Ghost Here the whole life of Christ resigned it self into the Fathers desire viz. into the Will of the Eternal Nature and fully gavein the Will of his Self-hood viz. his creatural will again into the Centre viz. into the first Mother whence the Soul-like Creature was produced that is into the grand Mystery of Eternity the Self-will must again enter into Natures End so that the selfness may wholly dye that Gods Eternal Will and Spirit may be and do only All in All in the Humanity and that the Creature might afterwards be alone his Instrument wherein he might do and work according to his good pleasure and thus God the Father hath in Christs death and entrance into our Humanity again received our self-hood into his Will and that this might be he first tinctured the Humanity with the Deity that the Humanity might be a pleasant sweet savour and offering to him in his power for afore death lay before it 88. Here the Love destroyed Death and opened the fast Seal that the Will might again enter into that which it was before it was the creature and even so we all must follow him upon the path which he hath made open for us none can see God unless God become first man in him which is brought to pass in Faiths desire and even then the Corrupt Will which is apprehended in the Death and Anger of God and which bloometh in the earthly essence and bringeth forth fruit unto death be wholly mortified and fall into the free Resignation into the Will and mercy of God and then the own will is with and in Christ at Natures end in the Grand Mystery of God viz. in Gods hands Gods hands are the Eternal desire or the Eternal will which is Unchangeable thus the Creatural Self-will dyeth it entereth wholly into the Nothing that it might no more live to it self but unto God 89. Thus it falleth out also in the Philosophick work when the Artist hath first seen great wonders which the Creatural and Natural will hath wrought in the power of Venus insomuch that he supposeth that he is nigh thereunto Even then Nature doth first dye in his work and becomes a dark night unto him the property and power of all the forms must give forth themselves from their Centre and fall unto Natures End all do freely yeeld over themselves as one dead Essence and there is no longer any effectual working therein all is divided in the Crown into the Thousand number and then it is again in the mystery at Natures End as it was before it came into the Creatural Being understand the Essential desire viz. the expressed Mercuty must again come unto the End of its selfness and resign it self into the Speaking Word 90. The Corporall Essence remaineth in the Centre of the four Elements until the judgment of God which now at Death standeth in the Centre of Sol viz. in the Compaction of Venus and Mercury which Compaction at Death falleth wholly into one thing viz. into one power of Jupiter that is into the Centre of the Liberty for here the desire to cold and heat goeth out all Earthly will and desire of the properties dyeth and there is no more any hunger after the Earthly or Deaths property CHAP. XII Of the Seventh form in the Kingdom of the Mother how the Seventh Kingdom viz. the Kingdom of the Sun is again opened and made alive set forth in Parable or by way of Similitude of Christs Resurrection 1. WE are not to think that when Christ dyed the natural Death in the Humane property that he dyed as to his creatural Soul much less as to the Deity also he did not disappear or dye in the Heavenly Essentiality and in the Heavenly Tincture this cannot be only the Will and Dominion of Self viz. of the outward World which domineered in man unto the own Will and own powers of the Selfish creature wherein man was disobedient to God I say he gave that wholly into the Fathers hands viz. into the End of Nature into the Fathers great Mystery not that it should be dead but that Gods Spirit might alone be the life thereof that the Divine Dominion might be in Christs Person that the Eternal Father might Rule and Reign with his Eternal Spirit in his Image and therefore God hath determined to keep the last judgment by this Jesus 2. Now the Creature of Christ doth not it alone but God in his Image through the Creature in the Dominion of his Eternal Spirit of all the three Principles which is the life and Dominion of every Being in each thing according to its property 3. And understand us aright when Christ dyed on the Cross the Name Jesus did not also dye which destroyed Death and Tinctured the expressed Word viz. the Form of the Deity or the Formed Word viz. the Soul with Love No it cannot be the Eternity doth not dy only the Spoken Word which standeth again in the desire of the Speaking viz. in the Fiat which changeth it self in its own Speaking viz. in the Self-desire and bringeth its own Sound into another form and Source then the Speaking Word had spoken it set it forth with the Verbum Fiat into a Form Signature and Will as Lucifer with his Royal throne and Adam also did when they both departed out of Resignation into Self hood the Instrument would be Master 4. The outward working Sensitive life wherein the Anger of God was set on fire did wholly dye away not that it should be a Nothing but it fell into the Nothing viz. into Gods Will into Gods working and feeling quite from the Will of the outward World which is evill and good so that it might no longer live to the World viz. to the Astrum in the walm of the
death as one dying and yet there is no more any death in him but thus I dye to my Self and Sin in him seeing that my desire and will presseth forth from my Self hood into it so that I dye dayly to my self until once I shall obtain the limit of my Self-hood and my Self-hood with the earthly Will and Desire doth wholly dye unto its Selfness even then shall my Self-hood and all whatsoever is in me which seeketh and loveth it self fall into the Death of Christ viz. into the first Mother whence God created me and my Self-hood shall become a Nothing and even then my Self-hood lieth in Christs Death in the Resignation as an Instrument of God who then will make it his Instrument as he pleaseth 16 But seeing now my Soul and Spirit doth live in his Resurrection and his Voyce Ayr or Breath is in me according to the Resignation in him as S. Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven whence we do wait for the Saviour Jesus Christ Therefore also his Voyce which is in me in that I am or live no longer to my Self-hood but he alone is and liveth in me shall raise up my dead body which I resign to him and bring it into his first Image whereto he created it 17. Thus now I live in God and my Self-hood doth not know it for it liveth not in God but in it self God is indeed in it but it doth not apprehend him and hideth the Pearl which I am in Christ not I but he in his Humanity in my Creature in Himself and thus I speak and write of the great Mystery of all Beings not that I have apprehended it in my self-hood but he striketh my Signature in my Desire which presleth into him as he pleaseth 18. I am known to my self but not in my self-hood but in his Mirror which of Grace he hath put into me thereby to allure my self-hood unto him viz. into the Resignation and so likewise dear Brethren it shall again be represented unto you out of his Glass which he hath set forth through my Capacity in him as his Instrument 19. Thus it goeth also in the Philosophick Work Sulphur Mercury and Sal are entered by the Curse of God into their Self-hood viz. into a Self working and living all doth now work in the Curse and Anger of God according to the property of the first Principle if God had not placed the Sun as a Nature god of the outward visible World therein which tinctureth every working life even every thing which groweth and moveth all would be in the dark Deaths Impression viz. in the Abyss of Hell 20. Now if any thing shall be freed from this Self-hood viz. from the wrathful Death and be again brought into the Universal viz. into the highest Perfection then it must dye wholly to its Self-hood and enter into the Stilness viz. into the Death of the Resignation at Natures End Mars must wholly lose the might of the Fire and Wrath and Mercury also his Poyson-life Saturn must be a Death to himself in so much that the Artist seeth nothing but the great Darkness and even then the Light appeareth in the Resignation for Saint John saith The Light shineth in the Darkness and the Darkness apprehended it not that is in its Self-hood viz. in its own Will and Working it cannot apprehend it but in the Resignation the Nothing viz. the Liberty of God doth shine in it 21. For the Nothing doth manifest it self in its Lubet out of the Liberty in the Darkness of Death for the Nothing will not be a Nothing and also cannot be a Nothing and likewise it cannot otherwise manifest it self save according to the property of the free Lubet which is now fixt or stedfast and in it also as a Nothing for there is no Turba therein the Self-will and Hunger is dead and in the Nothing and the Lubet of the Eternal Liberty is its Life Now seeing that the Highest Being hath once moved it self and come into a visible comprehensible Essence it doth again Figurize or form that same Essence which departeth from its Self-hood and entereth into the Nothing into such a Being or Essence as it was before the times of the World but seeing that the Verbum Fiat standeth yet to this day a Creating of the Corporal Essence it doth again make a sixt perfect Essence as the like is brought to pass in the Philosophick Work where a new Life ariseth out of Death as God doth raise us up in Himself in Christ if we dye to Self-hood and wholly resign up our selves into him 22. And thus when the expressed Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn resigneth its Self-hood into Venus then the Verbum Fiat changeth it again into such an Essence according to the Lubet of the Liberty the Death ariseth in a new Body out of the Darkness of Death in a white fair Colour but as an hidden Lustre wherein the Colour is not rightly and distinctly known until it doth dissolve it self and the Materia becomes desiring then the Sun ariseth in the Centre Saturn in the Property of Jupiter and Venus in all the Seven Forms that is in the Verbum Fiat as a New Creation and the Desire of all the Seven Forms do tend unto Sols Lustre viz. unto the white and red Colour from the Fire and Light which is the Majestatical Colour Lustre or Glory 23. And as CHRIST after His Resurrection walked forty Days in the Mystery of all the Three Principles at once in the property of the first Adam after his Creation before his sleep and before his Eve and appeared to his Disciples in his property which he had here from the outward world and did eat with them and shewed them his assumed Humanity and that he had in no wise wholly put off the same 24 Even so let the Artist understand us that in the Philosophick Work the first matter doth not wholly pass away or vanish but it entreth into the death of the life of its wrathful property and dyeth in the Curse of God but ariseth again in its former being which it had before the Curse of God the Curse only is destroyed therein and the first life doth again rise up therein and therefore it is fixt and subsists in the Fire for it is dead to the dominion of the four Elements and liveth in the fifth essence not that it hath that same life but it standeth still therein yet the spirit of the new-born Essence is a vegetative life with its growing therein its Lustre doth stand therein it sheweth the first Adam in innocency who stood likewise in such perfection 25. And as Christ tinctured our corrupt Humanity in which Mercury was turned to poyson with the Heavenly blood of the Eternal Divine Virginity and Essentiality whereby the Humane Self-hood dyed in the poyson and the Resigned life did again arise Even so the poysonful Mereurial Martial and Saturnine Will and desire
do dye in the blood of Venus in the Philosophick work and do both enter together into Death and arise both together in one Love in one Will. 26. Therefore let the Artist observe the Tincture it is more noble and precious for mans use in this valley of misery then the body which ariseth in the Tincture for the Spirit is the life the body is only a Figure of the Life and the blood is a mansion of the Spirit 27. The Artist must well observe this in the blood of the young man when his Pearl giveth it self to the three Murtherers that it also sheddeth its blood in and with the young mans then the Champion standeth in Hell and disclaimeth the Humane Self-hood then the white Lyon appeareth upon his Crimson-coloured Beast even there lyeth the Cure of sickness and the death of death 28. The body is dissolved in the blood of Love in the Death out of the Earthly into an Heavenly property The Tincture gives it self into the new body and afterwards when the body ariseth in Sols splendor it doth also forsake its will it resigneth it self wholly into the bodies essence and becomes its beauty splendor and colour which the Artist can never separate for they are together in the fifth Essence viz. in the mystery of the Verbum Fiat and do belong to Gods motion of the final day of Separation in this time unto his own manifestation unto his honour and deeds of wonder but after this time to the crystalline world in the glassie Sea before the ancient in the Apocalyps A brief Summary of the Philosophick WORK 29. Our meaning might seem very difficult unto the Reader in that we go so far about and shew Christ all along therein at which let no man wonder we do not seek gold or any Temporal goods thereby and drive man into vain curiosities we speak only with the Children whom God hath chosen thereunto for the Time is born where that which is lost shall be again found yea not only the Universal for the body of this World but also for the Soul 30. The Process is very short in both and it is only of one property which is thus the Tree understand the Life is divided into seven Forms now the curse of God is come into the seven Forms so that they are in strife and enmity and one Form doth annoy the other and can never agree unless they all seven enter into Death and dye unto the Self-will Now this cannot be except a Death comes into them which breaks all their will and be a death unto them as the Deity in Christ was a death to the Humane Self-hood and the seven Forms in the Humane Life thus is it here also the Humane Will was changed in Christ into the Eternal Sun viz. into the Resignation in God even so must all the Forms in the Philosophick Work be changed into one viz. into Sol Seven must become one and yet remain in Seven but in one desire where each Form desireth the other in love and then there is no more any strife and contest 31. Therefore let the Artist but consider how he may give death to the death with the pure life and how he may awaken the dead and disappeared life which is Heavenly and lyeth hidden and captivated in the Curse so that it may again receive the Fire-soul and if he doth but bring it so far it worketh of it self 32. When the Virgin doth again receive her Bridegroom who hath been faithless then he is prepared and fitted to the work otherwise he is no way at all fitted but all is in vain and to no purpose which he attempteth there is not any possibility for the Heavenly Image according to Gods likeness in man to be otherwise helped and restored after that the Fire-soul had entred into its self-hood unless the Spirit of God did introduce it self into the disappeared Image viz. into the Heavenly Essentiality and give it self in with the same Image awakened in it into the Souls Fire viz. into the wrath of Death and be a death to Death viz. to the wrathful anger of God that it might be drowned in the Love in the blood of the Heavenly Essentiality and although there could be no parting nor dying yet there was a dying of the Wrath so that the Wrath was changed into a joy and Love 33. Even thus the Artists Work is exactly and throughout no otherwise For Man was created out of all Beings out of the Heaven and Earth but when he became wholly earthly and the Curse seized on him the Curse also came over the earthly Being whence Man was made Thus the Heaven was shut up from man and the Heaven also was shut up in the Earth in Metals Trees and Hearbs in the food of Man and whatsoever belonged to his Ornament and Delight 34. The soul of the Earth viz. the property of the Fire of the first Principle is entered into its self-hood viz. into Gods anger now the Heaven is hidden in it therefore the Artist must in his Work reduce the Soul in the Curse and the Heaven again into One He must introduce the Soul again into Heaven or else there is no possibility now he cannot bring the Soul in its iniquity into Heaven for it will not and therefore he must bring the Heaven into the Soul and wholly give in the Heaven to the Soul that the Soul may eat of Heaven will she or nill she the Heaven must be as Death in the Soul so that the Soul cannot get rid of it how angry soever she be and vehemently rage against it until she be overcome in her wrath and entereth with the Desire into Heaven viz. into the disappeared Essence and willeth to murther it as the Jews Christ and if she so entreth into the Heavenly Essence then the Image of the Heavenly Essence falleth into the jaws of the Murtherer 35. Thus when the Heavenly Essence giveth its desire unto the Murtherer the Murther is dismayed at the Dear Love-life and ariseth in the Flagrat in the dismayment in the Heavenly Essentiality thus the disappeared Essence doth again receive the Fire Flagrat into it self and wholly uniteth it self with the Fire-life and so the Fire must burn in the Love and Meekness and forego its right in the Centre as the Light which shineth from the Fire thus and no otherwise the Heavenly Essence obtaineth its life and as a Fire doth through-heat an iron that it appeareth as if it were meer Fire and it is so but the iron doth still retain its substance even so the disappeared Essence viz. the Heaven is manifest in the poysonful Mercurial and Martial Fire-soul and maketh of Seven Wills only one and yet Seven remain but the Enmity ceaseth 36. This is a Universal which also changeth the Enmity or Malignity of all Diseases in the Humane body into one Will into unity So that the raging and raving viz. the seven
through the Earth thus it is also yet hidden in all things and may be opened by understanding and Art so that the first Vertue may overcome the enflamed malignity 53. Albeit we Men have not full power to do it in Self-might yet it may be done in Gods permission who hath again turned his mercy towards us and again opened Paradise and its comprehension in Man Hath God given us power to become his Children and to rule over the World wherefore then not over the Curse of the Earth Let none hold it for impossible there is required only a Divine understanding and knowledg thereunto which shall blossom in the time of the Lilly and not in Babel for whom we also have not written CHAP. XIV Of the wheel of Sulphur Mercury and Salt of the Generation of Good and Evil shewing how the one is changed into the other and how one doth manifest its property in the other and yet both remain in the first Creation in the Wonder of GOD to his own manifestation and Glory 1. THIS is an open gate of the fore-going Description Every one saith Shew me the way to the manifestation of the Good Hear and observe well dear Reason thou must thy Self be the way the understanding must be born in thee otherwise I cannot shew it thee thou must enter thereinto so that the understanding of the Work in its practique Art wherein I deal not may be opened unto thee I write only in the Spirit of Contemplation how the generation of Good and Evil is and open the Fountain He shall draw the water whom God hath appointed thereunto I will here only describe the wheel of Life as it is in its self 2. When I speak of Sulphur Mercury Salt I speak of one only Thing be it either Spiritual or Corporeal all created things are that one thing but the properties in the generation of this only Thing do make difference or do give various gradual distinctions for when I name a Man or Lyon Bear Wolf Hare or any other Beast yea also a Root Herb Tree or whatsoever may be named it is the same only thing 3. All whatsoever is corporeal is the same being the Herbs and Trees and also the Animals but each thing in its difference of the first beginning according as the property in the Verbum Fiat hath imprinted it self in each thing so is that Kind in its propagation and all things stand in the Seed and Procreation and there is not any thing but it hath a fixity in it be it either hidden or manifest for all shall stand to the glory of God 4. Whatsoever is arisen from the Eternal Fixity as Angels and the Souls of Men doth remain undestroyable in its fixt being but whatsoever is arisen in the Unfixt being viz. with the motion of Time that doth again enter into the first motion whence it hath taken its Original and is a Map of its form which it had here like a picture or as an Image in a Glass without life for so it was from Eternity before the times of this world which the most High hath introduced into an Image into the Comprehensible Natural life in time to behold the great Wonders of his Wisdom in a creatural Being as we plainly see 5. Now we are to consider the only Mother how the same is in her property whence the innumerable multiplicity doth arise and hath continually arisen and how she generateth Life and Death Evil and Good and how all things may be brought into their First Ens viz. into the place where they do originally arise to which the Death or the Dying is the greatest Mystery 6. For no thing which is departed out of its first Order as the Mother brought it forth can go back again and enter with it s assumed Order into its Root unless it dye again with its assumed Order in its Mother and even then it is again in the End and in the place whence it was created and so it stands again in the Verbum Fiat viz. in the Bound of its Order in the Expressed Word and may enter again into that which it was in the beginning before it was Corporeal and there it is Good for it standeth again in that whence it proceeded 7. Now therefore we are to consider the beginnings of all things for we cannot say that this World was made out of Something it was only and barely a Desire out of the Free Lubet that the Abyss viz. the highest Good or Being viz. the Eternal Will would behold it Self in the Lubet as in a Glass therefore the Eternal Will hath conceived the Lubet and brought it into a Desire which hath Impressed it self and figurized and corporized it self both to a Body and Spirit according to the same Impressions property according as the Impression hath introduced it self into forms whereby the Possibilities or powers are arisen in the Impression as a Nature 8. This Impression is the only Mother of the manifestation of the Mystery and it is called Nature and Essence for it manifests what hath been from Eternity in the Eternal Will yet we are to conceive that there was in Eternity a Nature in the Eternall Will as an Eternal Mind in the Will but it was only a Spirit in the Will and the Essence of its Ability was not made manifest save only in the Looking glass of the Will which is the Eternal Wisdom wherein all things which are in this World were known in two Centres viz. according to the Fire and Light and then according to the Darkness and Essence all which came with the motion of the Eternal will through the desiâ—e in the will into a manifest mystery and so introduced it self into a manifest possibility 9. This is now the Essence expressed or made manifest out of Eternity into a Time and consisteth in the fore-mentioned Forms in Sulphur Mercury and Salt where the one is not divided or parted asunder from the other it is one Eternal Essence and shapes it self into the properties of the Desire according to the possibility of the Manifestation and we are to understand that one property is not nor cannot be without the other they are altogether the same only Possibility and now we will speak of their differences viz. how this only Possibility doth introduce it self into Good and Evil viz. into still Peace and Constant unquietness 10. We find Seven especial properties in Nature whereby this only Mother worketh all things which are these viz. First the Desire which is astringent cold hard and dark Secondly bitter which is the Sting of the Astringent hard enclosure this is the cause of all Motion and Life Thirdly the Anguish by reason of the raging in the Impression where the impressed hardness falleth into a Teering or contriting Anguish and Pain by reason of the Sting 11. Fourthly The Fire where the Eternal Will in this Anxious desire doth introduce it self into an anxious darting Flash
or twinkling Lightning viz. into Strength and Devoration of the Darkness with which the hardness is again consumed and introduced into a corporeal moving Spirit 12. Fifthly The Egress of the free Will out of the Darkness and out of the Fire dwelling in it self where the free will hath received the Lustre so that it doth enlighten and shine as a light out of the Fire the potent desire of the free will which it hath sharpned in the Fire in that it is dead in the Fire to the essence of the darkness of the first Form and consumed doth now in the Lights desire draw into it self the essence from the Fire-dying according to its Hunger the which is now Water and in the Lustre it is a Tincture from the Fire and Light viz. a Love-desire or a beauty of colours and here all colours do arise as we have fully set it down in our other Books but especially in the Threefold Life of Man 13 Sixthly The voyce or Sound which in the first form is only a noise from the hardness is dead or mortified as to that hardnes in the Fire yet in the fifth form in the Love-desire viz. in the pleasant property it is again received as a clear Sound out of the dying of the Fire in the Lustre of the Light in the Tincture wherein also the five Senses viz. Hearing Seeing Feeling Smelling and Tasting do arise in the Tincture of the Light from the Fire 14. Seventhly The Menstruam or the Seed of all these forms which the desire doth Impress into a comprehensive Body or Essence wherein all lyeth whatsoever the Six forms are Spiritually that the Seventh is essentially or in real substance 15. Thus these are the Seven forms of the Mother of all Beings whence all whatsoever is in this World is generated and moreover the most High hath according to this Mother introduced and created such properties as this Mother is in her wrestling forms understand as she bringeth her self with the wrestling into properties into a Wheel which is as a mind of the Mother whence she continually createth and worketh and this are the Stars with the Planetique Orb according to the Plat-form of the Eternal Astrum which is only a Spirit and the Eternal Mind in the Wisdom of God viz. the Eternal Nature whence the Eternal Spirits are proceeded and entered into a Creatural Being 16. And moreover the most High hath introduced the property of this Wheel in the motion as a life into the four Officers which manage the Dominion in the Pregnant Mother and these are the four Elements to which the Wheel of the Mind viz. the Astrum affordeth will and desire so that this whole Being is but one Only thing and yet is so proportioned or composed as a mind of a man Even as he is in Soul and Body so also is this only Essence for it was created out of this whole Essence into an Image according to Eternity and Time out of Eternity according to the Soul and out of Time according to the outward Essence as a Similitude and Image of Eternity and Time both according to the Eternal Will and Mind and its Essence and also according to the mind of Time and its Essence and therefore now we are rightly to consider of this Sulphurean wheel of all Essences how the properties do introduce themselves into Good and Evil and again extroduce themselves out of Good and Evill 17. The Impression or Desire viz. the first form to Nature which is called and is also the Fiat doth receive the Desires property according to the property of all the Seven Forms into it Self and doth Impress them so that out of the Nothing proceeds forth an Essence according to the properties of the Will Now it s own property being it is only a desire and impresseth it self is Dark and causeth Hardness viz. a strong pulsation which is a cause of the Tone or Sound which becometh yet more hard in the Fire viz. in the fourth Form where then the grossness dyeth away and it is received again in the fifth Form viz. in the Love-desire and again proceedeth forth in its own property in the Love-desire and maketh the sixth Form viz. the Sound Voyce or Tone out of the Fire and Water 18. Now this Tone or Sound which is called Mercury doth arise in the first Form viz. in the Impression by reason of the will and attractive desire for the attraction maketh the motion and the Compunction in the hardness which we distinguish and call the second Form but it is a Son of the first and in the first 19. This second Form or Property is the raging stinging and bitter pain for the first is astringent and the second is drawing viz. the desire into an Essence this same Essence is the property of the first and the attraction maketh therein the second property viz. a bitter stinging which the hardness cannot endure for it would be still and thereupon it doth more vehemently Impress it self to with-hold the sting and yet the sting doth thereby only grow the greater Now the hardness viz. the Astringency wils inwards and the sting from the hardness upwards Hence ariseth the first Enmity and Opposition for the two Forms which yet are but one do make themselves their own Enemies and yet if this were not there would not be any Essence neither Body nor Spirit also no manifestation of the Eternity of the Abyss 20. But now seeing the bitter sting cannot ascend and the hardness also cannot hold or enclose it they fall into a Turning or through-breaking like a Wheel which runneth into it self as an horrible Essence where both properties are known only as one and yet each remaineth in it self unaltered and produce the third property between both viz. the Great Anguish out of which the will understand the fixt will to Nature desireth to go forth again into the liberty viz. into the Nothing into the Eternal Rest for here it hath thus found it self and manifested it self and yet there is no Sundering or departing and this anxious Form is the Mother of Sulphur for the Sting maketh it painful and the hardnes impresseth it that it is as a dying Source and yet it is the true Original to life 21. It hath two properties in it self viz. according to the Impression or Desire it is dark and hard and according to the desire of the will which willeth to be free from the anguish and entreth again into the Liberty it is Spiritual and light and the Sting breaketh in pieces its conceived Essence which the Astringent desire conceiveth in its self so that its Essence is hard and Spalt and wholly darting as a flash of Lightning and that from the Darkness and from the desire of the Light understand to the liberty 22. Now these three Forms are in one Essence as a raging Spirit and the desire impresseth these properties so that an Essence
the Darkness it is a Rust or Smoak therefore if its outward water-Water-body be cast into the fire understand that Body which it receiveth in Sulphur from the watery property then it doth evaporate for in the fire every property doth sever it self again into the first Essence whence it came Originally where all things were only a Spirit 44. And then secondly it severs it self according to the Water of the dark Impression into a Poyson source which yet cannot be understood to be a Water but only a Corporeal Essence of the Spirit for as the Spirits property is so is also its Water and even so it is in the Fire-flagrat 45. Further understand us in the fiery Flagrat concerning the Salniter whence the manifold Salts and Powers do arise for all the Properties of the Spirit are become Corporeal in the great Motion of the Essence of all Essences and entered into a visible and comprehensible Being This Flagrat is effected in the enkindling of the Fire and in the mortification of the Fire it doth impress into it self from the Waters Original a Water according to the property of the Flagrat which yet is rather Fire then Water but yet its mortal Essence is a Water according to the property of the Flagrat it is the Comprizal of all Properties it bringeth forth in its Comprehension viz. in the fiery Flagrat all Properties in it self and apprehendeth the property of the Light in its Powers and also the property of the dark Impression in its Powers and maketh all fiery one part according to the Coldness and one part according to the Heat but the most part according to the endless Mercury which is the Life of all Essences in Evil and Good in Light and Darkness 46. This Salniter is the Mother of all Salts in Vegetables and Animals viz. in Herbs and Trees and every thing he is in all things which give a taste and smell the first root according to each things property In the Good which grow in the Love-desire in the oyl of Brimstone he is good powerful and pleasant and in the Evil he is evil in the Anguish of Brimstone and in the Darkness he is the Eternal Horrour and Despair continually desiring in the Flagrat to aspire above the Gates in the Fire from whence ariseth the Will of all Devils and of all Pride to ascend above the Humility of the Love-desire and in the Fire is the Tryal of his Essence as we see how he clasheth and consumeth himself in the Flash as a sudden thought 47. For its Essence ariseth not in the Essence of Eternity also it cannot inherit it but in the enkindling of the Temporal fire yet it is perceived in the Eternal Spirit by reason of the Elevation of the joy but according to the Essence of mortification viz. according to the Salt of the Fire it subsists in the Fire for this property ariseth out of the first Desire viz. in the essence of the first Impression which property the Philosophers call Saturn therefore the Salt is manifold all sharpness in the taste is Salt the good taste ariseth out of the oleous Salt and so also the Smel which is the Egressive Spirit in which the Tincture appeareth as a lustre or fair Complexion of colours 48. Thus understand us aright the Salniter in the Fire-Flagrat is the Severation of the properties where Death and Life do Se Ver themselves viz. the life which entereth with the Love-desire into an Essence and Dominion and then the Life which in the Flagrat of Death according to the property of the cold sinketh down in the mortification of the Flagrat as an impotency and giveth weight and according to the Subtilness water and according to the Grossness of the Austereness Earth and according to Sulphur and Mercury Sand and Stones and according to the Subtilness in Sulphur and Mercury understand according to the Water of the same it maketh Flesh and according to the Anxious darkness a smoak or rust but according to the oleous property viz. according to the Love-desire a sweet Spiritual Essence and according to the Spirit a pleasant Smell and according to the moving of the Fire and Light it giveth the One Element and from the Lustre in the Fire-Flagrat with aspect of the Light it affordeth the precious Tincture which tinctureth all oyly Salts whence the pleasant taste and smell ariseth 49. The Salnitral Flagrat is the Sude in the Essence whence the growth and pullulation doth arise that there is a growing in the Essence its Impression viz. the Salt is the preservation or upholding of the Essence so that a thing subsists in a body or comprehension it holdeth the Sulphur and Mercury else they would part from each other in the Fire-Flagrat 50. All things consist of Sulphur Mercury and Salt In the Salnitral Flagrat the Element SeVers it self into four properties viz. into Fire Air Water and Earth which in it self is none of these but only a moving and gentle walming not as the Ayre but as a moving of the Will in the Body a cause of Life in the Essence For as the Eternal Spirit of God proceedeth from the Father who is a Spirit from the Fire and Light and is the motion and life of the Eternity so likewise the Air proceedeth forth continually out of all the properties in the Salnitral Flagrat in the Fire from the Anguish in Sulphur in the forcing Mercurial Wheel as an impetuous aspiring motion it is a Son of all the properties and also the life of the same the Fire of all the Forms doth afford it and also receives it again for its life the water is its body wherein it maketh the seething in the Salniter and the Earth is its power wherein it enkindleth its Strength and Fire-Soul 51. There is but one only Element and that doth unfold it self in the Salnitral Flagrat into four parts viz. with the enkindling it giveth a consuming Fire of the Darkness and its Essence and in the Flagrat of the dying of the Cold and the Darkness it parts it self into Essences viz. according to the Subtilness into Water and according to the Grossness into earth and then according to the motion in the Flagrats walming into Air which doth most resemble the Element but not wholly essentially for the one Element is neither hot nor cold also not forcing or compulsive but gently moving Of the Desire of the Properties 52. Every Property keepeth its own Desire for a property is nothing else but an hunger and the hunger doth form it self into such an Essence as it self is and in the Salnitral Sude it giveth such a spirit into the four Elements for the Original of the Sude is in the Element whence four Elements proceed forth in the Flagrat 53. Each body stands in the inward motion in the Element and in the growth and life in the four Elements but every creature hath not the true life of the Element but only the
be introduced into the Root of his Likeness for every Hunger receiveth its like into it self now the whole manifestation of Eternity with this Time is nothing else but an Hunger and Generation as the Hunger is so is also the Essence of its Satiating for with the Hunger the Creature took its beginning and with the Hunger it entereth into its eternal Being 46. In the Hunger the Spirit with the Body is generated and in the same Hunger it goeth into its eternal Being unless that it breaks its first Hunger and brings it self into another by Mortification else all is at its end so soon as it is born but Death is the only means whereby the Spirit may enter into another Source and Form if it dyeth to its Self-hood and breaketh its Will in Death then a new Twig springeth forth out of the same but not according to the first Will but according to the Eternal Will for if a thing entereth into its Nothing then it falleth again to the Creator who maketh that thing as it was known in the eternal Will before it was created to a Creature there it is in the right Aym or Limit of Eternity and hath no Turba for it is in Natures End 47. Whatsoever runneth on in Nature tormenteth it self but that which attains Natures End the same is in Rest without Source and yet worketh yet only in one Desire All whatsoever maketh Anguish and strife in Nature that maketh meer Joy in God for the whole Hoast of Heaven is Set and Tuned into one Harmony each Angelical Kingdom into a peculiar Instrument but all mutually composed together into one Musick viz. into the only Love-voyce of God Every string of this Melody exalteth and rejoyceth the other and it is only a meer ravishing Lovely and delightful Hearing Tasting Feeling Smelling and Seeing Whatsoever God is in himself that the Creature is also in its Desire in him a God-Angel and a God-man God All in All and without him nothing else As it was before the Times of this World in his Eternal Harmony or Voyce so also it continueth in the Creatural Voyce in him in his Eternity and this is the Beginning and the End of all Things CHAP. XVI Concerning the Eternal Signature and Heavenly Ioy wherefore all things were brought into Evil and Good 1. THe Creation of the whole Creation is nothing else but a Manifestation of the All-essential unsearchable God all whatsoever he is in his eternal un-inchoative Generation and Dominion of that is also the Creation but not in the Omnipotence and Power but like an Apple which groweth upon the Tree which is not the Tree it self but groweth from the Power of the Tree Even so all things are sprung forth out of the divine Desire and created into an Essence where in the beginning there was no such Essence present but only that same Mystery of the Eternal Generation in which there hath been an Eternal Perfection 2. For God hath not brought forth the Creation that he should be thereby Perfect but for his own Manifestation viz. for the Great Joy and Glory not that this Joy first began with the Creation no for it was from Eternity in the Great Mystery yet only as a spiritual Melody and Sport in it self 3. The Creation is the same Sport out of himself viz. a Platform or Instrument of the Eternal Spirit with which he melodizeth and it is even as a Great Harmony of manifold Instruments which are all tuned into one Harmony for the Eternal Word or divine Sound or Voyce which is a Spirit hath introduced it self with the Generation of the Great Mystery into Formings viz. into an Expressed Word or Sound And as the joyful Melody is in it self in the Spirit of the Eternal Generation so likewise is the Instrument viz. the Expressed Form in it self which the living eternal Voyce guideth and striketh with his own eternal Will-spirit that it soundeth and melodizeth as an Organ of divers and various Sounds or Notes is moved with one only Ayr so that each Note yea every Pipe hath its peculiar Tune and yet there is but one manner of Ayr or Breath in all Notes which soundeth in each Note or Pipe according as the Instrument or Organ is made 4. Thus in the Eternity there is only one Spirit in the whole Work of the divine Manifestation which is the Manifestator in the Expressed Voyce and also in the Speaking Voyce of God which is the Life of the Grand Mystery and of all which is generated from thence He is the Manifestator of all the Works of God 5. All the Angelical Kingdoms are as a prepared Work viz. a Manifestation of the Eternal Sound of the Voyce of God and are as a Particularity out of the Great Mystery and yet are only one in the divine eternal speaking Word Sound or Voyce of God for one only Spirit ruleth them each Angelical Prince is a Property out of the Voyce of God and beareth the great Name of God as we have a Type and Figure of it in the Stars of the Firmament and in the Kingdoms and Dominions upon the Earth among all Generations where every Lord beareth his High Title respective Name and Office So likewise do the Stars in the Firmament which are altogether one only Dominion and have their Princely Dominion in Power under them where the Great Stars bear the Name and the Office of the Forms in the Mystery of the seven Properties and the other after them as a Particularity of Houses or Divisions where every one is a peculiar Harmony or Operation like a Kingdom and yet all proceedeth in one Harmony like a Clock-work which is entirely composed in it self and all the peeces work mutually together in one and yet the great fixed Stars do keep their peculiar property in the Essence of Operation especially the seven Planets according to the seven Properties of Nature as an under-Pregnatress of the Eternal Mystery or as an Instrument of the Spirit out of the Eternal Mystery 6. This Birth of the Astrum doth beget in the four Elements viz. in its Body or Essence Joy and Sorrow and all is very good in it self only the Alteration of the Creature proceedeth from the lustful Imagination whereby the Creature elevates the Wrath of the Fire in the Properties and brings them forth out of the likeness of their Accord Nothing is Evil which remaineth in the Equal Accord for that which the Worst doth cause and make with its coming forth out of the Accord that likewise the Best maketh in the Equal Accord that which there maketh Sorrow that maketh also in the Likeness Joy therefore no Creature can blame its Creator as if he made it evil all was very exceeding good but with its own elevation and departure out of the Likeness it becomes Evil and brings it self out of the Form or Property of the Love and Joy into a painful tormenting Form and Property 7. King Lucifer stood in the beginning of
in the Will and New-birth as a new fiery Generation Knowledg apprehends it not only the earnest Desire and breaking of the sinful Will that apprehends it 36. Thus there is no sufficient ground in the Election of Grace as Reason holds it forth Adam is chosen in Christ but that many a Twig withereth on the Tree is not the Trees fault for it withdraweth its sap from no Twig only the Twig giveth forth it self too eagerly with the Desire it runneth on in self-will viz. it is taken by the Inflammation of the Sun and the Fire before it can draw sap again in its Mother and refresh it self 37. Thus also man perisheth amongst the evil Company in evil vain ways God offereth him his Grace that he should repent but evil Company and the Devil leadeth him in wicked ways until he be even too hard captivated in the Anger and then it goeth very hardly with him he indeed was called but he is Evil God chuseth only Children being he is evil the choyce paffeth over him but if he again reforms and amends the eternal Choyce or Election doth again receive him 38. Thus saith the Scripture Many are called but when the Choyce in Christs Suffering and Death cometh upon them then they are not capable of the same by reason of the self-ful forestalled evil Will and so they are not the Elected but evil Children and here it is then rightly said we have piped unto you but you have not danced we have mourned unto you and ye have not lamented unto us O Jerusalem how often would I have gathered thy Children together as a clock-hen gathereth her Chickens under her wings and thou wouldst not It is not said thou couldst not but thou wouldst not and while they remain in the Iniquity of Sin they also cannot God will not cast his Pearl before Swine but to the Children which draw near to him he giveth the Pearl and his Bread 39. Therefore whosoever blameth God despiseth his Mercy which he hath introduced into the Humanity and bringeth the Judgment headlong upon his Body and Soul 40. Thus I have truly warned the Reader and set before his eyes what the Lord of all Beings hath given me He may behold himself in this Looking-Glass both within and without and find what and who he is Every Reader shall find his profit therein be he either good or evil It is a very clear Gate of the Mystery of all Beings with glosses and self-wit none shall apprehend it in its own ground but it may well embrace the Real Seeker and create him much profit and joy yea be helpful to him in all natural things provided that he apply himself thereunto aright and Seek in the fear of God being it is now a time of Seeking for a Lilly blossometh upon the Mountains and Valleys in all the ends of the Earth He that Seeketh Findeth Amen HALLELUIAH The brief Heads of what the several Chapters do treat Chap. I. HOw that all whatsoever is spoken of God without the knowledge of the Signature is dumb and without understanding and that in the mind of man the Signature lieth very exactly composed according to the Being of all Beings Chap. II. Of the Opposition and Combate in the Essence of all Essences whereby the ground of the Sympathy and antipathy in Nature may be seen and also the Corruption and Cure of each thing Chap. III. Of the great mystery of all Beings Chap. IV. Of the Birth of the four Elements and Stars in the Metaline and creatural Property Chap. V. Of the Sulphurean Death and how the dead body is revived and replaced into its first glory or holiness Chap. VI. How a Water and Oylis generated and of the difference of the Water and Oyl and of the vegitable Life and Growth Chap. VII How Adam while he was in Paradise and also Lucifer were glorious Angels and how they were corrupted and spoiled through Imagination and Pride Chap. VIII Of the Sulphurean Sude of the Earth how the Vegetation proceeds from the Earth and also the difference of Sex various kinds of creatures an open gate for the Searching Philosopher Chap. IX Of the Signature shewing how the inward Ens signeth the outward Chap. X. Of the inward and outward Cure of Man Chap. XI Of the process of Christ in his Suffering Dying and Rising again Of the wonder of the sixth Kingdom in the Mother of all Beings how the Consummatum Est was finished and how likewise by way of Simility it is accomplished and effected in the Grand Philosophick Work or Universal Tincture Chap. XII Of the Seventh Form in the Kingdom of the Mother shewing how the Seventh Kingdom viz. the Solar Kingdom is again opened and revived set forth in the similitude of Christs Resurrection Chap. XIII Of the Enmity contrary Will or annoying distemper of the Spirit and Body and of their Cure and Restoration Chap. XIV Of the Wheel of Sulphur Mercury and Salt of the generation of Good and Evil how the one is changed into the other and how the one doth manifest its property in the other and yet remain in the first Creation in the Wonder of God to his own manifestation and glory Chap. XV. Of the will of the Great mystery in Good and Evil how a good evil Will doth originally arise and how the one doth introduce it self into the other Chap. XVI Of the Eternal Signature and Heavenly joy wherefore all things were brought into Evil and Good wherein the real ground of Election and Reprobation may be rightly understood The Postscript Reader IT would be too tedious and even neeedless for to give thee a brief Summary of the particular Heads of the Book for it self is but a short hidden Signature or Character of natural Divine Knowledg and therfore an observant and an understanding through-reading of the same will be thy best Index For this Author is not to be read here there by Peece-meals for he makes not a controversial bookish Rapsode of divers Authors but there is one continued Breath and Sound of his own experimental Science running an harmonious division through all the Three Principles of Divine manifestation and with sweet Accord playing interchangeably upon all the three clifts of Philosophy Divinity and Theosophy even from the deepest Base to the smallest or Highest Note that can be sounded or reached by the Spirit of Man and therefore none will understand him but the Nurslings of Sophia in whose Souls the ayr of the One Pure Element of Paradise breaths which doth ATONE the strife of the four Elements and revives the Souls true magick Fire whereby it is able to prove all things and hold fast that which is good In a word it brings the Souls true Faith working in Love into the Nothing where it loseth its own Selfish Something and findeth all things I know this Book will seem strange and simple to the proud Self-conceited Sophisters the Wiselings of Pedantick Reason who will
Impossible to him But unto those that Love Iesus we say and declare that they may very well be searcht out and understood and that it is no impossible thing for in a true Christian dwelleth Christ in whom all the treasures of the hidden wisdom are manifest the same Christian knoweth them only in the Spirit of Christ but not in his own self ful Nature and Ability As we also have clearly expounded and described these questions in a peculiar Book indeed briefly and yet in our other Writings largely and sufficiently enough and so I commend the Reader into the Revelation of Jesus Christ. He that this Authors Books doth read A Divine Light in 's heart doth need Or else his Reason will but stray And groap for Light in the mid-day But none will him censure or scorn That is truly of Soph-jah born For he that 's meaning understands Is freed from Anti-christ his bands And truly learns how for to see Into the Divine Mystery Eternal one the Nothing and the All Give Adam faint and sick a Cordial In his distemper'd Age and last distress Open the Treasury of thy Goodness O make his dissonant Spirits Accord And give 's the Harmony of thy true Word Amen HALLELUJAH FINIS * Being of all Beings * Or formed it self or originally put forth it self * Proceedeth from the mouth * Or Conception * His look or Physiognomy * In. * Vegetables * Made sick * Or Sting * Contraction or Constringency Love and Anger Father and Son * Thought Or sparkle of the will * In. * Or Voyces * Or God * Nature * World * Or Sting of Instigation * Raiser Enkindler or Enflames * Or Out of it self * Mysterium * Similitude Likeness or Signature * Palpable * Or Apprehendeth or Conceiveth * Or Standeth * Or To the nature of the Pregnatress * Or with * Stars * In. * Or Substance * Boyling * Or Separates it self in it self * Report Clash * Sinketh * Corpus * Corpus * Giveth yeeldeth or affordeth * Or Propriety * Or the properties out of which they were created had in them both the Eternal Worlds * Or until * Or The highest or chiefest Metals * Body * Liquid * Corpus * Boyling and growing walming and waxing * Loco * Outgoing breathing * Or In a seven-fold Form * Or sting * Stirring up or moving * The one is not the other * Or Out of * Or Mans. * Seething boyling or decoction * With. * Or Fashioneth * Or Faber * In a strange fire and yet not strange when the cloke is laid aside it needeth only its own fire †Here must be its own fire only from within from without * And it is the Tincture which Tinctureth the Body * Or Rotation * Draws it to it-self * Wheel or sphere †Attenuates destroys * Woman Wife * Lust. * Or Immobility * Or he should dye †Salvation * An upright full and unscigned Desire * Or therin * Leader d In one * Begin * Or In the Divine Love * Or upon the Love of God †Depart * Labor * Of or belonging to Nature †Being Materia or Food * Understand the free will * Affordeth produceth or maketh * Or Raging Sting * Or When. * Or Furious Wheel * According to or after †Or Out of * Dumo * Can but get * Sting * Or Taken from him * Or It. * Or Lothsomness * Or Lead †Or Through * Or The Riddle †Spoyled undone * Or In. a Or Outwards d Or Set his Desire upon the Anger h Text. Into himself * Out of it self †Or Wit or subtlety a Quickest keenest u Or Begetteth it self * Or sorm or immass d Affords yeelds produceth * Bring turn or sublimate †Or Joyfulness * Or Receiveth that which it hungreth after a Crept †Or Gods banning is a banishing * Or avalled * Part or Property * Open or exclude * Or Took his part * Through-shine irradiate * Or Works and effects * Here and for ever †Or noble Stone of the wise-men * Or Pregnant Centre * One that breaks through irresistably * Or Devoyd of all Source * Or Becomes * Corpus †Or Awakening or stirring it self up * Set. * Or Victorion fly triumphed over * Or The bloomy Spring of the Paradissical New birth in Man * Or pleasant spring †Or what shall I first do to bring it to pass †Workmaster or Faber †Or Whose Essence is in every Thing * Or Gods Being †Or Openly Text. In the ayr * Or She shall c. †And * Curdled * Or In Wedlock * Blended * Dumb senceless mute * Governor †Stand and lie * Corpus * Or Body * With or in †Or If his Poyson-Will be brought into the moving Spirit of Love * Gross Stone or stony grossness †Wrestling * Or Sude * The Mercury †Or Such a Physician hath true skill to cure * Or Seizeth on * Or By. Or Sulphur * In Brimstone * Shoot or Twig †Or In their wrestling Combate * Or Growth †Bag or Sack a Type or Resemblance * Vertue or Efficacy * Or mind †Or Womb. * Or The Sulphur * Giveth or yeeldeth †Brimstone †Or Life's * Or whereby †Or Nausea * Or Loathing * Unite or give in * Or so it is signed marked †Or Puts it self forth text glanceth forth * Or Hath the New-birth in perfect knowledg * Or Maketh †Or Take * In or with * Voyco or Harmony †Or Essence * In or by * Text wresting Power †Or Shapeth * Or Original * Perceivancy or Sensation †Or Breaking forth * Or Playeth †Or Distinguisheth the senses * Viz. the mercury * Viz. mercury * Thicken cuâ—ále * It giveth a cursing or a blessing Aspect †Stalk or Blossom * Or Of whitish buds in vegetables * In Conjunction with Saturn * Text that he stireth c. * Sublime them †Working powerful or vertual * The jovial Vertue * Ratio * Opposition †Otherwise Metalline * Or In. †Or I am an enemy * In or by †Or Water * Out-spoken †Transformed * The transforming Light of God in the dark Soul such as shined in Enock Elias Paul c. * Put its desire hunger and Imagination into the Nothing the highest Good or Omnipotence and eat of Gods Bread †Or other Forms * Or Unto †Or Lifes light * Or of * And all his begions of evil spirits †Agree or make sor * Or unto †Image or likeness * Melody harmony delight or play * Or Change †Or were * Royall Fort. Fort rampant * Or Kindred †Text Bodily †By Degrees * Or Signatures †Speculate or behold * Orb Rotation
he is both the Tincture of the Fire and Light must come into One viz. of the Essence which is Venus and of the Spirit which is Mars in Mercury the Fathers Love and Anger must become one thing and then this one thing is called the Kingdom of joy so long as it is separated there is in the thing only anguish and torment and meer desire but when it burneth in one Will it is a joyful proceeding forth from it self and this Egressive out-going property is called the Holy Ghost viz. the life of the Deiry 44. Therefore know that the Virgins and Young mans blood must be both shed together that the Fire-Lyon might dye which was manifest in the Humane property that the Love of the Virgin might change his wrath in her dear Love-blood into her property and obtain the Soul from the Young man for in Adam the Virgin did disappear for the Soul departed out of its Love-will out of the Resignation into its own and became disobedient unto God 45. Here the Virgin doth again take the Soul into her Self and giveth it her Crown of Pearl as unto a Noble Champion and calleth him in his own Name the white Lyon or Champion O ye children of men observe it I beseech you open the Gates of the World in your heart Open them wide that the King of glory may come in even the great Champion in Battel who hath deprived Death of its might and destroyed the Hell in Gods Anger and made of the World Paradise 46. O ye wise Seekers how doth the Lord open his windows wherefore do ye sleep in the desire of muchness in your covetousness which is multiplyed in the Wrath Do but enter only into the Divine Resignation you may partake of that which the Powers of Heaven are able to afford If you do but forsake your Selfness then the Earth shall become Heaven to you saith the Spirit of Wonders but you shall not obtain it in your wicked wayes and coverous doings 47. And when Jesus through the shedding of his Blood had given the Wrath of God in Man unto the Love that the Father had received the Love in the Humane property into the Wrath then the Kingdom of the Devil in the Wrath and the Kingdom of Love did forthwith part asunder they were divided and this Figure did hang with Christ on the Cross viz. the wicked mocker at the left hand who reviled Jesus and was not capable of his blood-shedding and the other at the right hand who was converted from his sins unto Jesus and said Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom to whom Jesus answered Verily to day thou shalt be with me in Paradise 48. Thus we are rightly to consider that when the wrath of God is drowned in the blood of Christ so that it changeth its might into Love that even then Paradise is again open for when JESUS had tinctured the Humane Blood which was corrupted in Sin with the Virgins blood in the Love then the Virgin received the Man-hood viz. the Self-hood into her Virgins Love This was the Paradise and an Habitation of God with and in Man where God dwelleth in the Humanity and is All in All in it 49. Thus it falleth out also in the Philosophick Work when Mars and Mercury do dye according to the property of the dark Impression of Saturn then Venus taketh them into her Love-blood and Venus giveth her Love into the poysonful Fire-desire Shee wholly giveth her self in unto the Fire of MARS in MERCURY yea she yeeldeth her self fully to be their own but seeing Mars and Mercury become impotent as to the might of the Fire and poyson in the Love the Love and Anger do thereupon change themselves into one Essence into one desire and here when the Fire viz. the Fire desire doth give in its desire unto the Love then saith the Love To day thou shalt be with me out of thy Fire-anguish in Paradise viz. in joy that is thou shalt be changed in me and here Venus getteth the Soul in the Philosophick work so that Mars and Mercury become her Soul and the strife ceaseth for the Enmity is appeased and quelled and thus the Child subsists in the Fire immovably without any change for Mars doth not at all annoy it and so likewise Mercury and Saturn burrs it not for they are in the Child at the end of Nature where there is no Turba any more 50. Mercury is very pure in Saturn he hath no more poyson whereby to make soil or rust in the Water viz. in the Salt of Saturn and let the Philosopher and Divine also well observe this that in Paradise there is a perfect life without any shadow of change also without any false evill desire and a continual day where the Paradisical man is clear as a transparent glass in whom the Divine Sun shineth through and through as Gold that is throughly bright and pure without any spot or foulness 51. And when Jesus knew that all was finished he seeth his Mother and John his Disciple standing by under the Cross and saith unto his Mother woman lo this is thy Son and to the Disciple Behold thy Mother and forthwith the Disciple took her unto his own home 52. This is an excellent Type how Christ hath forsaken this World viz. the Humane Self-hood and is again gone unto the Father for he saw his Mother according to this World and his Disciple viz. his Unkle according to the outward Humanity from his Mothers side and yet said unto his Mother Woman hehold there is thy Son I am no more thy Son according to my outward Humanity it is changed into Gods Son and is no longer of the World but it liveth to God but seeing thou art to be yet in the World take John who is not yet changed to be thy Guardian and thou John take thy Mother and he presently took her unto himself 53. This is the Type of the Christian Church upon Earth for we the poor Children of Eve are not presently wholly changed according to the outward man but we must also pass into death and putrifie that the wrath also in the flesh may rot and putrifie and the Spirit might rest in the death of Christ until the General Resurrection and Transmutation of the outward man in which the Earth of man shall be transformed into Heaven and the Mirrour or Type of the Wonders shall appear therein 54. Thus he commanded his Disciple to take care of his Mother His Mother is the Christian Church upon Earth wherein the Children of God are begotten according to the Spirit whom he should take care for and guide and lead them untill the number of the Humanity out of the Flesh shall be accomplished and then the Spiritual body shall arise and shall be proved in Christs death in his Entrance into the Anger where he changed the Anger into Love and the Kingdom with the Source of darknesse shall be Separated from it 55.
But in this life-time albeit the Spirit be changed in the Divine power and the Spirit be baptized with the Virgins baptism and putteth on the Image of Christ internally viz. Venus's body in the Love yet Adam is not capable of it until he also entreth into the Transmutation of Christ which comes to pass in death or in the dying unto this mortal life 56. But in the mean while Jubn as the Teacher of Christ in Christs stead must provide for the outward Mother according to the outward man and feed and teach the Lambs of Christ with Christs Spirit and it doth exactly shew us how the outward Man is not Gods Mother for Christ doth separate himself from his outward Mother and gives her unto John he hath put on the Eternal Mother viz. the Father of the Eternal Birth and therefore they do very ill that honour and worship the outward Mother of Christ for Gods Mother 57. The whole true Christendom is Christs Mother which beareth Christ in her And John viz. the Servants and Ministers of Christ are her Nurses which take care for the Mother of Christ as John did he presently received the Mother of Christ and provided for her as her Son and not as her Lord for Christ said also unto him Behold she is thy Mother even so should all the Disciples and Teachers of Christ do and take care of the poor Christendom as Sons with great Humility towards the Mother provide for and cherish her with diligence and circumspection and serve her with all discreet modesty courtesie and humility feed and comfort her with the Spirit of Christ not as the Priests in Babel do who ride over her as wealthy rich domineering Masters and will be Lords over the Mother and only seek Honours and to fatten their Bellies in pleasure and live in Strife and Contention these one with the other of what Name or Title soever they be are not all Johannites but they are the poysonful Mercurial Pharisees in whom there is nothing but meer anguish vexation pain and torment where one property doth continually torment envy and hate the other and holds it out for false and yet they are all only out of one root and have all only one will save that one colour doth not glister as the other 58. For Saturn is not as Jupiter Jupiter is not as Mars Mars viz. the Fire spirit is not as the light of the Sun and the Sun is not as Venus with her meek water-Source and Venus is not as Mercury with his Sound for she is meek and still and Mercury soundeth and setteth up his note and Mercury also is not as Luna which as a simple body doth give body to all the rest for manifestation the one is far otherwise then another and have not one property and will and yet they are in the Centre of the Essence viz. in Luna and Saturn in the property of the Soul and Body all of them one and the same batch Thus the partial Sectarian Mercurialites and Baals Servants are divided in these properties they are the Pharisees which judg and condemn Jesus in his Members 59. They wrangle and contend only about the Church and yet none will take care of the poor forsaken Mother of Christ they are mad in their Martial and Mercurial Contest and are not Johannites they enter not in Christs Spirit at the door of Christ into the Sheep fold They are Wolves Lyons and Bears yea Foxes and fearful Hares who fly from and forsake the Mother their Rise and Original is out of Babel where they continually contend wrangle grin and bite one another for the Letter Every one will be Lord and Master over the Letter and transpose and place it as he pleaseth only for the Honour Applause and Pleasure of this World They consider not that the Mother is a Widow and that Christ hath left and ordained them that they should be such Curates for her as John 60. O thou dear Mother of Christendom let these Wolves Bears and Lyons go and shelter themselves where they please regard no longer these evil Beasts take the John the Disciple of Christ who teacheth the Love and Humility 61. O thou dear and worthy Mother art thou not only One Wherefore dost thou suffer the Lyons to rent and teer thee in pieces Christ is thy Husband all these are Strangers and Hirelings unless they walk in thy filial Love and humble themselves towards the Mother and provide for her as Ministers else they be all Wolves Bears and teering Lyons although there were many thousand of them yet one is not at all better then another unless he comes forth in the line of Iohn and take care of Christs Mother and provide for the Mother with earnestness in Christs Spirit which if he hath not he is not then called of Christ to be a Guardian or Curate to the Mother but he is a Mercurialite a Pharisee such as Christ called the Seed of Serpents and Generation of Vipers who crucifie Jesus in his Members 62. And thus the Philosopher must consider of well observe Christs Mother whom he recommended unto Iohn to take care for he must likewise be a Iohn and know that his business is about the Mother and that his work in this world is not wholly Heavenly he will not so manifest Paradise that God will appear and be manifest face to face in his Work no he remaineth in the Mother yet he obtaineth the Universall in the Mother for the Mother of Christ obtained it also for it was said unto her Thou art the blessed among all women 63. So likewise the Philosopher reacheth unto the Blessing in this valley of misery that he is able to bless his corrupt body that is Tincture it and free it from sickness even to the limit of his highest Constellation according to Saturn and therefore let him take heed of Covetousness for so he introduceth the Turba 64. By the Type of Iohn and the Mother of Christ he is to know that the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of this World are two in his Work and that Gods Kingdom lyeth shut up in the Mother viz. in his work of which he must take care be a Minister thereunto and not a Lord of the Mother but an Alms-giver and not a gatherer of Treasure and Wealth not a covetous Muck-worm also none shall attain unto it or understand our meaning that wil not be a Guardian of the Mother the most High hath laid a bar before the foolish understanding that it is blind until it be weary with secking I speak in the ground of truth 65. And when Iesus had commended his Mother unto Iohn he again turned his desire into the Mother of the Humane property and said I thirst he thirsted after the Members of Humane property and desired the Salvation of Mankind viz. the health of his Members understand of his Children which should be begotten in Him and the Iews