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A63812	A treatise of dreams & visions wherein the causes, natures, and uses, of nocturnal representations, and the communications both of good and evil angels, as also departed souls, to mankind. Are theosophically unfolded; that is according to the Word of God, and the harmony of created beings. To which is added, a discourse of the causes, natures, and cure of phrensie, madness or distraction. By Tho. Tryon, student in physick.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing T3197A; ESTC R221812	87,971	320

every man laying aside all subtilty and hypo●risie would speak his mind freely to his Neighbour without Cover or mental Reservations and leave off speaking of one thing to their neighbour or Friends faces and quite other and contrary things behind their backs To complement persons present with a thousand Flatteries and Lyes and revile the same persons as soon as they are absent with as many Calumnies Slanders and unjust Reproaches which is one of the worst kinds of Madness and indeed a Devilish one because they know they do not as they ought being at that very time accused and condemned by the Voice of Wisdom or divine Principle nor is there scarce one thing in Ten that men in the World do act but is far greater Madness and Evil than those things which persons do that are deprived of their Sences For Example Is it not a greater Extravagance for an Ambitious man to fell his Liberty and became a slave to the Lusts and Capricio's o● Grandees to spend whole years in supple Attendan●●s ●●ouching Cringing Fawning or Dissembling only in hopes of being one day made a great man or having an airey Title added like a Rattle to his name and seeing people stand Cap in hand to him whom he imagines to admire him though in truth as many of them as are wise deride and pitty his egregious Folly For a Lascivious man to was●e his Wealth his Strength and expose both Body and Soul for the filthy imbraces of a loathsom Strumpet And hazard his Life and honour in attempting the Chastity of some virtuous Woman and be ready to dye for the Love of her whom as soon as he has debaucht he will ●corn and hate For men to swallow down vast Estates at their T●●oats and 〈◊〉 away the Labours of their 〈…〉 their Table with variety of Dishes and be at any charge for ●●inant Saw●es to provoke the Appetite beyond the power as well as n●cessities of Nature that their Bodies may be filled with Diseases That they may roar under the Stone and the Illia●c Passion and live Tormented Lives and dye an Immature Death For Parents to cark and care and vex and torment themselves with unreasonable Toils and many times hazard their Souls for unjust Gain meerly to heap up Estates for their Children who all ready wish them dead or to leave Riches amongst strangers who in their frolicks laugh at the memory of the old Miser and make themselves and their Companions merry with telling ridiculous Stories of him who for their sakes and for the getting those very Houses and those Bowls they 〈◊〉 in lies perhaps broyling in the 〈◊〉 Caverns of the Everlasting Tophet These and an hundred the like things which are the main business and the daily imployment of many that would be counted the shrewdest and most notable part of Mankind Are not I say all these far greater and more mischievous Phrensies than for a man to pull of his Garments and sit naked and spend time in weaving of Sraws or Building with Chalk upon the Walls innumerable Cities whereof he fancies himself to be Emperor To speak Truth the World is but a great Bedlam where those that are more mad lock up those that are loss the first presumptuously and knowingly committing Evils both against God their Neighbours and themselves but the last not knowing what they do are as it were next door to innocency especially when the Evil Properties were not awakened nor predominant in the Complexion in the time of their Senses Tell me I pray Are not all these Intemperances Violence Oppression Murder and savage Evils and Superfluities deservedly to be accounted the worst Effects of Madness As also Lying Swearing vain Imaginations and living in and under the power of evil Spirits more to be dreaded than the condition of those that want the use of Senses and Reason and therefore are esteemed Mad § 8. As for the Species of Madness they are as various as men are in their Complexions for according to what Principle and property whether good or evil does govern the Life in the time of their retaining their Reason and Senses such a property does more clearly manifest it self when the Reason and Senses are broken to pieces for this cause some who have seemed very Religious and soberly inclined as long as they retain'd their Senses and outward Reason as soon as they become deprived thereof the bitter envious fierce wrathful proud Spirit appears in its own form and has its operation without let or hindrance which was before by the cunning Reason and sensual subtilty kept in that it could not manifest it self for some men have obtain'd so much outward government over this bitter Spirit that they can at one and the same time cry Hosanna and Crucifie say God bless you and in their hearts wish your destruction But when such people who hide their Woolvish and Bearish Natures in the external sheeps cloathing of a dissembled Innocency happen to be Mad or deprived of outward Sense and natural Reason then they discover the Savage Nature that ruled before in the Center of their Souls But others who in the time of their sound Senses were accounted harsh and moross or severe their Tongues not so smoothly plain'd or Tipt with Complements but yet their words and works more agreeable to their insides that is they speak as they think and do not play the Hypocrites by retaining subtil Reservations or saying one thing and at the same time resolving on another such I say though many of them did not seem to be so fair and good men as the former yet they are really more innocent and have far better Principles within than the others who made use of their Natural Faculties to hide and cover the subtil bitter Spirit and therefore when these latter plain sort of people happen to be distracted they appear more calm and friendly than the former because the good property had a greater dominion in the Soul. § 9. Every person when disturbed in his Senses and Reason then the distinguishing Faculties of Nature does variously appear in properties and Qualities differing according to which of the seven Forms Nature did carry the upper dominion in the Complexion Therefore Mad People vary as much in their inclinations and passions of Love and Hate as they did in when in their Senses For Example If the first or Saturnine Property did preside in the Soul and be not corrected moderated allayed and made friendly by Wisdoms Voice whilst they remained in their Senses then such will manifest themselves when Mad in sullen dogged mischievous Melancholy dispositions and Inclinations with blasphemous words apt to hurt and be injurious with Sour evil Complexion and Looks But if the lovial Properties had the uppermost Governments in the time of their Reason then such when out of their wits are for the most part affable and friendly using no ●ruel words nor so apt to do hurt or be churlish or dogged But if the Martial

A TREATISE OF Dreams Visions WHEREIN The Causes Natures and Vses of Nocturnal Representations and the Communications both of Good and Evil Angels as also departed Souls to Mankind Are Theosophically Vnfolded that is according to the Word of God and the Harmony of Created Beings Night unto Night sheweth Wisdom Psal. 19. 2. To which is added A Discourse of the Causes Natures and Cure of Phrensie Madness or Distraction By Tho. Tryon Student in Physick THE CONTENTS OR CHIEF HEADS of the Two Ensuing Treatises Of Dreams Chapter 1. IS by Way of Introduction shewing the Difficulty of this Werk it s Usefulness both in Physick morral Phylosophy and Divinity Objections against the Observations of Dreams Distinguish'd and Answered Those that have hitherto Treated of this Subject have done it imperfectly because they understood not the true Radix of Dreams The Vain or Superstitious Conceits of many People about their Dreams no Argument but a Wise and Good man may still regard his with great profit to himself from Page 1. to P. 11. Chapter 2. Gives a Definition of Sleep and shews its Causes Natures and End. The Mischief when 't is too long Also a plain Description of the Nature and Vses of the inward Sence's Faculties of man. Viz. the common Sence Phantasi● Iudgment Memory and where each of them Reside Why we sometimes remember our Dreams and sometimes not Of those that Talk Rise Walk c in their sleep the Causes thereof and how to prevent it as also of those that are troubled with the Night-Mare its Causes and Cure. from Pag. 11 to 26. Chapter 3. Layes open the general Cause or Radix of Dreams whence they are derived viz. from the ever active property of the Soul that really we never sleep without Dreaming and the reasons why we do not sometimes perceive it That there is no standing still in the ways of God or Nature whence occasionally is discoursed why young Converts very zealous at first do afterwards decay in Grace and Knowledge the Advantages of being sober and serious and pressing on after greater Acquisitions and Attainments from Pag. 26. to p. 47. Chapter 4. Treats of the Causes of Dreams more particularly where seven Causes are assigned viz. 1st The Constitution 2dly The Profession or Course of Life 3dly The influx of the Planets 4thly Diet or Medicine 5thly Evil Spirits 6thly Good Spirits and Angels 7thly and lastly Extraordinery Visions from God all which are severally ●andled and the whole reduced into a threefold Radix viz. either 1. from the outward Principle of this World or 2. from the dark wrath or 3. from the friendly Divine Principle of Gods L●ve and Light and how by your Dreams you may know which of these three Principles do predominate in your Souls with a distinction of the several kinds of Dreams arising from each Compl●xion Sangnine Cholerick Melancholy and Phlegmatick as a●so of those that flow from each of the seven Planets from Pag. 47. to p. 58. Chapter 5. Contains a deep and serious Discourse proving that Dreams are a Figure or Resemblance of the Condition of Souls after Death The representations in Dreams are real to the Soul whilst we sleep tho they seem fantasti●k to us after we wake by reason of the vast difference between the material and immaterial Worlds from Pag. 58. to p. 68. Chapter 6. Shows how departed Souls Communicate with persons living in Dreams and sometimes in Apparitions What kind of Bodies such Apparitions have and whence taken How long such Bodies can endure Burning of dead Bodies a means to prevent the appearing of their Spirits and why An●cessary Note for Midwives That it is casier for departed Souls to communicate with us in Dreams then by Apparitions Here is likewise discoursed of the Commnnications of Angels with men How Spirits either good or evil are attracted by sympathy or simile and their effects whence the vanity of mens imaginations and desires do in a great measure proceed from Pag. 68. to p. 89. Chapter 7. Treats particularly of the Offices rendred to men by good Angels The Ground of min● Thoughts Actions The Shapes wherein good and bad Angels appear and the Reasons thereof from Pag 89. to p. 125. Chapter 8. Rehearses in order several Scripture-Examples and Testimonies touching Dreams and discants thereon illust rating thereby many difficult Texts from Pag. 125. to p. 143. Chapter 9. Discourses of Angels-Guardians of Countries and particular Persons and their Offices towards men mentioned in Scripture and how men do conciliate their assistance not by invocation or worship which is not due to them but by simile as they increase in Faith Holiness and Innocency from Pag. 143. to p. 176. Chapter 10. Why man cannot communicate with Spirits in his outward Sences but in Dreams and Extasies It also treats of strange material Figures represented Calls heard Blows received and the like before Death Of middle Spirits Against telling of Dreams Why Dreams are always represented in coopereal Forms and in what sence mens Works are said to follow them after death from Pag. 176. to p. 202. Chapter 11. Offers reasons why we are not to think that these Communications from good Ange●s by Dreams and the like so frequent in former times are not now wholly ceased Together with the Reasons why the same 〈◊〉 are so Rare and Seldom from Pag. 202. to p. 219. Chapter 12. The causes why Dreams are always represented actually present As also of the means tending to promote intellectual Communications the Excellency of Temperance and a regular Diet and sober vertuous course of Life and that it doth mighly advance true significant and profitable Dreams and helps to make an honest useful Emprovement thereof Also a Conclusion of the whole exhorting to Piety Holiness and Innocency from Pag. 219. to p. 249. Of Madness Section 1. DEfines the several sorts of Distraction that the same ariseth not so much from Excess of any of the Humors as from irregular Passions of the mind and poysonous Ferments Pag. 249 250 251. Section 2. The particular Passions most apt to cause it Pag. 251 252 253. Section 3. The maner how they disorder the Soul Pag. 253 254 255 256. Section 4. Pride the general cause of several sorts of Madness Pag. 256 257 258. Section 5. Madness is a bringing forth of all conceptions or imaginations as fast as they arise without any choice from Pag. 258. to p. 261. Section 6. They have no Vail to cover or disguise themselves with Pag. 261 262. Section 7. Most of the actions of men are worse and more mischievous and silly then those of common Madmen proved by particular instances from Pag. 262 to p. 267. Section 8. The several species of Madness and how by their Carriage you may know what Principle is most predominate in each Pag. 267 258 269. Section 9. A description of Madness according to the seven Planets that the Stars especially the Moon has great Power over such distemper'd People from pag.

upon their Breast and as it were stiffling them occasioned by means the free penetration of the Spirits to the Nerves is hindred the passages being stopt by a surcharge of the aforesaid Humors This happens most to such as use to lie upon their Backs and whilst it is upon them they are in great Agony being unable to speak but strive to do it with imperfect groans but if any person speak to hem and call them by name the animal spirits being excited force their way and the oppression ceases or if they can move or turn the body on one side and especially if the Brest be rubbed to d●●●pate the Humor The Cure is to be effected by a regular diet and such as may generate good spirits and prevent the increase of M●lancholy and Phlegm avoid full Suppers and excess in Liquors which oft occasion the Disease use convenient purging and sometimes breathing a Vein may be expedient especially in Women in certain obstructions peculiar to that Sex the black Seeds of the Male Piony are much commended in this Distemper Thus much though it be a digression from our main Subject I thought fit having this opportunity to say of these two Nocturnal disturbances conceiving it might be of use and satisfaction to some Readers CHAP. III. Of the General Cause of Dreams or Radix whence they are derived in Nature IT is a Truth generally acknowledged but seldom so well considered as it ought to be that Man is the compleat Image of God and Nature and contains the Principles and Properties of all things Corporial and Incorporeal that he is endued with an Elemental or Palpable body actuated enliven'd or informed by an etherial spirit and so answers to the great Body of the World from whence the same is taken and is an Abridgment or Epitome thereof or if you please its Son or Off-Spring and as it doth contain all the true Properties of the gross Elements viz. Earth Air and Water which are as it were the Mothers of the Body that nourish and sustain it So he has also the Principle of Fire and Light that is Soul and Spirit which gives Life and Motion to the Body of Flesh and answers to the Soul of the great World or that mighty Spirit which is moving vivifying and most wonderfull creative and conservative Power in this vast Systime of things which we call the World and which does preserve and sustain it and every part thereof in Beauty Splendor and Harmony which living and creating power does never stand still or cease from generating and operating for if it should the whole Systime or Body of this W●rld would immediately ●ail and perish as the Apostle Paul saith without the Spirit the Body is dead and profiteth nothing The like is to be understood in the little World 〈…〉 all lively Motion strength vigour and beauty resides in the Spirit or Soul in which there is no standing still Idleness or Cessation no more than there is in the great world and as the universal spirit or power of the Lord is always forming shaping and bringing to manifestation the hidden mysteries of Eternity and cloathing the various Spirits with Elemental Bodies the like does the Soul and Spirit in Min it is always in motion and generating and as the Scripture saith of the wonderful and ever-blessed Creator That he slumbereth not nor sleepeth for sleep does truly signifie death and weakness and nothing sleepeth but what is mortal and finite So the soul and spirit in man sleepeth not as being the Breath of God and Eternal for in God there is no Time nor Seasons or divisions of Time as nights days years or the like nor any use as to himself of Sun or Moon but they are Creatures made by him for the Accomodation of this lower World and the Inhabitants thereof as St. Iohn in the Revelations doth declare speaking of the new Ierusalem or Super-Caelestial Paradise There was there neither days nor nights nor Light of the Sun or Moon but the divine Power and Spirit of the Lamb was the Glory and Light thereof And this Glympse of the ineffable Splendor he saw upon the Lords-day when he was in the spirit not in the operations of the senses of the external Nature or Body of this world unto which the properties of the natural sleep do belong but the Soul or Spirit cannot sleep for then it could not be eternal but when the Body and Senses lie lock't up fast in the Arms of Merpheus then is the soul or spirit as it were unchain'd or unbound as being free'd from the continual Interruption of the senses and Earthly dispositions which whilst they are waking and in full strength and vigour do captivate the soul and hinder its generating and progress in that manner as it doth when the body is a sleep or dead for the soul of man hath so great Power when freed ●orm the Earthly Quality and heavy sensual power that it can make something where nothing is and from the Representations of Swords or Guns Fire or Water as real when and where there is indeed no such palpable substance but it is real and substantial in the spirit even as the good and evil words and works of men shall be unto them in Eternity their works do follow them not after the manner of this world but in the Spirit yet real and essential Now it is from the Soul or Spirit in man which is the mage of the divine Eternal Spirit and never standeth still Sleepeth or Slumbereth whence Dreams and all Nocturnal Visions do arise and proceed for whilst the Senses and Powers and Faculties of the outward Nature do sleep rest or cease from their Functions the Soul and Spirit ceaseth not from its operation but goeth on forming figureing and Representing of things as real and substantial for in truth though ofttimes we perceive it not and more often cannot remember particulars yet when ever we sleep we dream for you may as well imagine Fire without heat Sun without Light as to conceit that an Intellectual Immortal Soul can for one moment cease from Actions suitable to its Nature But here some will be apt to object and say This is a strange Paradox for if we always Dream in some kind or other as often as we sleep how is it that we but seldom perceive or are sensible of it Sure if the Soul and Spirit be as you teach evermore busie in framing and representing of things we should remember somewhat of the matter whereas we sleep soundly for several nights together sometimes and cannot remember that we had any Dreams at all To this I answer That the thoughts of worldly Affairs and the intemperances most men commit in Meats Drinks Labours Exercises and Passions do not only becloud the Soul and Intellect and over-whelm their powers and operation so that they cannot see or perceive any Coelestial things with Clearness as Experience dai●y proves they do the same things when we are awake

of those precautions 7. It sometimes pleases Almighty God in a special and extraordinary manner to reveal his secrets to those that fear him by Representations in Dreams which then are more usually called Visions to difference them from the other kinds Now though we shall occasionally here handle each of these yet to avoid prolixity I do conceive we may more briefly ●●duce all Dreams to a Three fold Radix or Original according to which the three fold grand Principles carry the upper dominion in the Centre of Life or Will-Spirit in each person that is to say they proceed either from the Sidereal or outward Principles of this world Or secondly from the dark Wrath or fierce fiery Life Or Lastly from the meek friendly divine Principle of Love which of these th●●e does predominate of a suitable Nature and property shall your Dreams be As for Example 1. If the dark wrathful fierce keen principle bear sway then the nocturnal Representations are Dark Melancholy Fierce Frightfull and the like 2dly If the middle uniting Nature or Friendly qualifying Fountain of divine Light do hold the chief dominion in the Life's Centre then the Dreams are more Essentially pleasant and delightful to the Soul and oft-times many wonderful Secrets are revealed and impending Dangers foretold in a Figurative way easily deciphered or understood by a well prepared mind But 3dly If the principle of this outward world and the Business or things thereof do bear sway and carry the supream Government as it generally happens amongst men that lead a meer bruitish and sensual Life and iudulge themselves in Vices Superfluities and the Vanities of the world then the Dreams are full of Idle Phantasies confused Mixtures of outward Affairs and things belonging or relating to what each man is concerned in or busied about and these are apt to be forgotten or so darkly represented and imperfectly remembred that they administer very little use or benefit to those that receive them unless they were before hand made sensible of that ill Conduct of their Lives which occasions them and thence would be perswaded by a total change of their Manners and Conversations to improve and fit their spirits for better and more advantageous Communications As for Complectional Dreams they proceed from vapours flying up from that Humour which is most predominant in the Body unto the Brain and thence Imagination with Representations sutable to such humour As persons of a Sanguine Complection or in whose ma●s of humours the Blood bears sway have ●enerally pleasant chearful and del●ghtfull Dreams Th●● the● are in M●rry Company Entertain'd 〈…〉 and the like d●vertive objects Persons of Ch●lerick Comp●●ctions dream of Anger Wrath Brawling of Oua●relling or Fighting that they use some violent motion or strugling that they meet with Bears Lyons ●ogs o● the like and are in danger to be hurt by them Such in whom Melancholy abounds are continually disturbed with frightfull Phan●a●ies and Ideas full of● Horror of being surrounded 〈◊〉 Da●kne●s or confined to some close D●ng●on left alone in a Wilderness oppressed with Poverty Want and Dispair ready to be torn to pieces with evi● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Ph●●●ma●ick person is less apt to remember his Dream but they are gene●ally about water fear of falling from on high down into some great River and being dro●n'd● or the like As these several Humours are more or less mixed or prevailing in any persons Constitution so his or her common ord●●ary Dreams will be diversified accordingly The same in effect is to be observed in Dreams that are the effects of sidereal Influences they ●arry with them the resemblances of that P●anet from whence they proceed As 1. If the Saturnine Propert● carries the upper dominion in 〈◊〉 Signs then the Dr●●ms are sad 〈◊〉 heavy and ●●ightfull fill'd with fear and 〈◊〉 2. If the Martial or fierce Fire have the chief Government then the Dreams are Fierce filled with Wrath Passion Fear and Trembling Amazing and Affrighting the outward Body insomuch that not unfrequently such Dreams do by their Horror awaken the person from his Sleep and cause all his Limbs to tremble for fear 3. If the Iovial nature do predominate in the Centre of Life then the Dreams are more mild grave and moderate 4. If Venus carries the dominion in the Complection then the Dreams are pleasant delightful and amarous 5. If Mercury have rule then your Dreams are mixt various and oft-times confused 6. If Sol bear sway then your Dreams are apt to be of great Light Honours and Dignities or of Splendid and Magnificent things Lastly If the Moon predominate the Dreams are confused unconstant mixt with Truth and Falshood So that if men would but turn their Eyes inward and learn to know themselves and the Principles and degrees of their own nature every one might in a great degree understand from what Radix and Property of nature each Dream proceeds and takes its Birth and consequently know their own Complection and likewise what Principle or Quality Good or Evil does carry the upper dominion in them so that there would be much teachablene●s in Dreams as they are derived from and demonstrate what property of the seven-fold nature has dominion in the Soul. CHAP. V. That Dreams are a Figure or Rese●blance of the Condition of Souls after Death c. BY what has been said it partly appears That altho by the degeneration of Mankind instead of observing and noting the nature of those things Dreams are become a By-Word and serve only to be derided and scoft at yet essentially and in themselves unto the wise and well-minded they may discover great Secrets both or Time and Eternity which will further appear if we modestly consider that there is scarce any thing that yields so true and great a figure or similitude of the condition of the Soul after Death or in the state of Separation as Dreams For as Death is a full Period to all the Senses and outward Faculties of the Humane Life the very same is Sleep during the time thereof for if a man should sleep seven or eight dayes nay if possible seven years when he awakes it would be no more to him then one night By this it doth plainly appear that Sleep is a Temporary Death to the Senses where no distinction length or shortness of Time is measured Therefore in Sleep all men are as it were totally dead as to the sensitive and distinguishing power of Nature and the time passes away as if he were in Eternity insensibly to all the outward Properties for what happens to the Soul in Dreams is somewhat like or a notable Resemblance of that which attends it in its separated estate whether in the Good or in the Evil. Thus in Dreams the soul enjoys a more compleat and unmixed pleasure and delight than is possible for any person to enjoy when awake and in the use of the perfec●est Senses for then in the height of his Complacency fears and apprehensions of losing the

Prophet I have hid thy Word in my Heart that I might not sin against Thee And Mary the blessed amongst women when the Angel Saluted her and told her what glorious things should happen unto her it is said that she laid up the sayings in her heart and pondered them in her religious mind which reverence and serious meditation on these wonderful things which the Angel communicated unto her was well pleasing to the blessed Creator whence every good and perfect gift proceeds For all celestical vertues are wonderfully strengthened by secrecy and the holy powers attracted who de●est publick and profane things and vain bablings Now Dreams are no other then certain discourses and incorporeal Sights of the Soul being in sleep loosed from the heavy Fetters of the Body and sences whereby it hath 〈◊〉 near affinity with the matereal beeings and according to what 〈◊〉 of the sevenfold Nature she is 〈◊〉 unto such and such 〈◊〉 Representations or Dreams 〈◊〉 appre●ends which appears as ●eal as if they were corporeal qualities and the Soul is thereby either tormented and full of perplexity or on the other side filled with Joy and Delight apprehended in the Divine Vision somewhat to this purpose is imitated by Iohn the Divine in the Revelations where 't is said Blessed are they that dye in the Lord for their Works do follow them For the Manners Habbits Temperance Sobriety Innocency of Life doing unto all as they would be done unto and the true illuminated understanding of the Mysteries of God and his great Divine Law in nature are works that may be said to follow a pious Soul after death which then calls to mind those things that it did in its life and still more intently meditates and thinks on them and endeavors to do them again for they being the Souls chief delight in the time of its continuation with the Body it still takes Pleasure in them but in a more perfect and exalted degree For after Death the Soul being deprived and wholy destitute of all the Faculties and Functions of humane Life as Nourishing Growing Generating and various Occupations of the Senses all the delights of the Body must needs cease and be terminated but their works follow them in the Mystery and become substantial for all things then appear in their real Figures Forms and Shapes as they do in this World but in the greatest Perfection and most Sublime The truth of this St Iohn in the Revelations does demonstrate where the Gate of the Heavenly Paradisical Kingdom of Eternal Happiness being opened and shewed unto him it appeared in most beautiful curious Forms Shapes and Figures of the things of this external World but in a far higher degree of perfection for the Furniture of this World viz. the innumerable and 〈◊〉 variety of Creatures in the Animal Vegative and Mineral Kingdoms ar● gross and as it were half dead in comparison of the Heavenly and Spiritual for all these lower things are but faint dull imperfect corporal Figures and Forms as the Spiritual Kingdom whence they had their original It is therefore to be noted that no man ever dreamed that he saw any Thing Figure or Shape of the Animal Vegative and Mineral Kingdome which he never saw thought or heard of before at least in the parts if not in the whole for though many times things are magnif●ed or diminished and made 〈◊〉 or worse or Heterogeneous 〈◊〉 conjoyned in a representation 〈◊〉 never were in nature yet still 〈◊〉 is nothing that hath not 〈…〉 seen heard or though 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Wrath or Hell such as have by transgression precipitated their souls thereinto their work do also follow them and all Figures Forms Shapes or what ever else is represented unto them is Fearful and Hideous according to what degree they have with their wills entered into the wrathful fierce unclean Principle Their Conditions is like men in terible Dreams who are afraid of Swords killing falling from high places drownings Rocks falling on them or being torn to peices with wild Beasts and the like strange fierce or malancholy imaginations and representations which are all real and most essential and yet no danger of death near them nor any period to their woful condition And therefore the state of the damned is called Eternal death and a worm that never dyeth and therefore no end of their sorrow and misery These strange phansies and yet real apprehensions do follow each Spirit or Soul according to that property which carried the upper dominion in the time of the Body from which predominating property do arise and are generated most frightful hideous representations whi●h put the captivated Soul into unexpressible fears agonies make it desious to die cannot but continuing forevermore in this doleful torture perplexity yea the predominating quality gives the form to the new Body viz. of a Dog Cat Bear Lion Fox Tyger Bull Goat or other savage Beasts according to what degree such persons in their life time entered into any of their respective natures by Cruelty Lust Subtilty or the like for this very cause as was before intimated all the evil Angels Souls that have at any time appeared in Dreams or Visions have been clothed with beastial Shapes Figures Forms but good Angels and blessed Spirit● in human Form and cloathed with the product of clean innocent vegetation as fine Linning and the like for which reason some of the Philosophical Ancients would not wear any other● cloathing or garment then what had an innocent original as pure Linning and the like of their Foods whereby immitating the good Angels they attracted their benevolent Influences Thus every persons Joys or Sorrows in the Worlds to come are of that nature as where the predominant properties and inclinations the will entered into in the time of its corporeal pilgrimage for from the two internal or immaterial Worlds viz. the Good Heavenly and Paradisical and the Hellish Wrathful does proceed is generated this good evil or material World of which external beeings are but a platform or figure Which may afford a very sublime and Philosophical Speculation and he that would truely know the great adorable and ever blessed Creator must with fear and earnestness pray unto him to teach him the knowledg of himself and of the things that are every one of which does in its respective degree contain the true nature and property of the whole for the wonderful all forming Creator is in the midst of his own works and does sustain and uphold and continually generate them and leads the wise Seeker into the knowledg of the two grand Fountains of Good and Evil and whence they proceed whilst the profane tread them under their feet CHAP. XI That these Communications from good Angels by Dreams c. are not wholely ceased the Reasons why the same are now so rare and seldom BUT notwithstanding all those numerous instances we have produced from sacred Scripture of the frequent Apparitions and Communications

in Dreams when the Body and sensual Powers of the outward elemental grosness are asleep or dead which is all one during the sleep of the Body is as it were already in Eternity and swims in the great Depth or Abysses and sees with an eternal Eye or Sight in the same measure like its Creator whence it had its birth and whose Image it beareth For this cause the Soul is busied in Dreams and Visions that are represented not only really actuated but present as if they were already done or at the same time accomplished for all things whether past present or to come appear present to the Great Eye of the Eternal beeing and the same in proportion is to be understood of the Soul in its separate state that is to say dead asleep or loosed from the chains and dark clouds of the body and sences of outward composition for the Lord sees and knows all things for unto him there is neither time nor place night nor day but all is essencially present for things in Eternity goes not on bydegrees or by progressions as they do in time the like is in its kind to be understood of the Soul in Dreams when it swims out of the grosse sleepy Body more especially after Death in which state all the mystries of that Principle into which the Soul had entered and immorsed its self in the time of its Cohabitation with the Body whether Good or Evil and also all its works do follow attend and are present naked and bare unto each Soul hence the Scripture saith Blessed are those that dye are Comprehended in Gods Love for their works follow them that is are Essensually present with them as their Figures and Representations are in Dreams so the same divine Scripture saith of Christ that he was a Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World nevertheless the same was not accomplished according to time in some thousands of years after And as in Eternity all things and time are present so it thence follows that it comprehends all times and is not capable of being measured or divided much less comprehended so the Soul of man being inspirited by the eternal divine Principle of Love and Light and thereby capable of having its Conversation in Heaven and taking its Flight into Eternity for every thing is capable to reascend as high as its first Fountain whence it first descended in which state it is capacitated according to its Gifts to see things either actually past and Transacted or as yet to come and to be Transacted in time both as still or already actually present for so they all stand in Eternity there being no Yesterday nor to Morrow but t is always the same Yesterday to Day and for Ever there being in him no Turning Variation nor Shadow of Change. Thus Moses saw the Transactions of the Creation the Fall of man the Flood and all those several Actions done in the World to his own time as we may find it Recorded to us in his Five Books 2 Esdras Chap. 14. 21 to the end Esdras Likewise by the Spirit of the most high dictated to his Scribs the lost Bible for it is said in the 4● verse They wrote the wonderful Visions of the Night as for me saith Esdras I spake in the Day and in the Night I held not my Tongue v. 43. The Prophet Isaiah having a grevious Vision declared to him was ordered to set up a watchman and he to declare what he saw Chap. 21. and amongst other things he saw a Chariot with a couple of Horsmen and he answered and said Babylon is Fallen is Fallen Thus the prophet Ieremiah Chap. 51. 8. declares the Word of the Lord against Babylon and saith Babylon is suddenly Fallen as if her Destruction were Actually present or rather past and yet as to time the City Babylon Flourished many years after those Visions of Ieremiah And Isaiah after the same manner spake of Cyrus in the present Tense Chap 44. v. 29. Cyrus he is my Shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure and Chap. 45. v. 1. Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed to Cyrus whose Right hand I have holden as if Cyrus had then been in being when as to time it is recorded that this Vision was more then an hundred Years before Cyrus was born The Angel that appeared unto St Iohn Rev. 14. 8. saith Babylon is faln is faln and another Angel also appeared unto him and cryed mightily with a strong Voice Babylon the Great is Fallen is Fallen Rom. 18. 2. yet whether this mystical Babylon or that Confusion and Oppression to the meek humble divine Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ be yet fallen we are all witnesses altho the fall thereof was seen and represented as already done in Eternity at that time of St. Iohn's Vision which is about sixteen hundred years ago Thus much I thought fit to observe from that which every man from his own experience may find True that Representations of things in Dreams are alwayes actually present not past or future whereof the judicious Reader may from these hints I have given deduce several notable Remarkes But here 't is probable some may be apt to inquire If there be so much in Dreams as you seem to teach and that some Dreams are so useful and instuctive above others Can you show us 〈◊〉 method box we should procure such significant Dreams and retain them and come to understand their true significations I answer those Inquirers do it out of pride vanity or curiosity desireing Dreams and the understanding thereof that they may vapour therewith and seem some-body in the World or to get money thereby and the like devilish intentions then neither I nor any man else can possibly contribute any thing to the satisfaction of their desires because they act in a contrary Principle and these mysteries are Sealed up from them and all that are of their Spirit but to the Meek and the Humble who drives on no foolish design but the glory of God in the first place their own and Neighbours Happiness so far only as it may be subservent to that I will propose a few considerations which may somewhat tend to their Satisfaction Since True or Prophetical Dreams are a kind of Revelation of a divine power unto the Soul and that this sublime state of the minde is much advanced or depressed by Temperance or Intemperance Vertue or Vice it follows that the first step to all true wisdom is the fear of the Lord which teaches all men Sobriety Temperance and Cleanness therefore all such as are desirous to arrive at that supream state of the Soul and to be rendered capable of the Communications of Good Angels and Spirits and to receive true and profitable Dreams ought to be Chastly and Devoutly disposed and in an especial manner to observe Cleanness in Meats and Drinks and not to over-charge Nature with to great a quantity for such surplussage does strangely dull and becloud all