Earthliness brought into us out of the Earthly and Diabolical Essence as a Contrary Qualm is not that which greeneth but the disappeared Image of God understand that which was given to Adam out of the Divine Substantiality as from the Second Principle out of the Kingdom of Heaven which by the bringing-in of the Earthly dyed or as I might express it was again enclosed or shut up into the Eternal Quietness as into that Nothing when it lost its right Divine Life and this is it in which the Eternal Word became Man and brought in again the living Substantiality with its Entering and Opening and out of Death brought forth Eternal Life This same Divine and also in Death enclosed humane Substantiality or Flesh became Man to which the Earthly Husk only did adhere and held the Earthly burning Death captive in it self Therefore we must observe a Difference when we will speak of our selves 15. The Holy Scripture also speaketh not of a wholly New Flesh viz. that the Old cometh to be conceived wholly New in Divine Essence and begotten in God otherwise it must follow that the Evil introduced bestial Flesh with the bestial Properties were become exalted in the Power of the Majesty 16. And if one would say that the Earthly Qualm is wholly killed in the New Birth out of Christ and that it doth wholly and totally dye in the Death of Christ as the Author of the Book saith That the old Man is altogether Dead and Nothing and Christ alone liveth and governeth in this outward visible Flesh and doth all then must and should Man also eat and drink after the Manner of Paradise and enjoy only an Heavenly Qualm For Christ eateth no more Earthly food but Divine The bestial Maggot-paunch doth neither suffer us to call the Whole Man out of all the Three Births Divine much less the Kingdom of this World of Stars and Elements which is the Qualm Life and Regiment of the outward Man 17. We cannot deny be a Man so holy as he will but that the Spirit of the Outward World is the Spirit Life and Guide of his Outward Flesh and we see clearly how the outward Man standeth in a Starry Constellation when it leaveth him he falleth away and putrifieth 18. Yet since it is given to me of Gods Grace to know what the Earthly and also what the Heavenly Man is in One Person therefore I will a little delineate and signifie how things stand with the Author of the Book sent to me and that out of the Ground although in a childlike simplicity for a Rule to the Author and those that read his Book 19. As for the Author himself I understand that he indeed may well be a godly Man born anew and holy in Christ with his New Birth in the New Man in regard of the Inhabitation of Christ For the Substantial Inhabitation is throughout agreeing with the holy Scripture as he also highly assevereth it and I have in that Point no Objection at all against him It is the true Ground that God hath begotten us for children out of his Heavenly Substance in himself through his Power in the Word in Christs Flesh and Blood out of his own Essence 20. I understand also Flesh and Spirit in one Substance and by no means Spirit without Flesh and Blood I understand also that it is come to pass in the Womans seed and cometh yet always to pass and I say upon sure ground that Christ in and out of mine own humane Essence is born a new Creature in my self as the Author also throughout saith 21. But the Author wanteth the Understanding of the Three Principles in one another viz. of the Threefold World one within another He distinguisheth not one from another He hath wrapt up himself wholly with all Reason and Senses and hath cast himself wholly into the Incarnation of Christ into his Suffering Death and Resurrection and hath denyed his own outward Life He desireth to live only in and of Christ He rejects all what is and liveth contrary to it He desireth nothing but what is of Christ that Christs Life Spirit and Will may be his Spirit Life and Will Thus he is as it were sunk down into the Life Will and Spirit of Christ so that his old man is as it were dead although according to the Kingdom and Qualm of this World in his own Principle in himself he liveth and is not dead for he cannot dye until the Spirit of the Outward World in his Constellation do leave him and yet he doth not dye then but goeth into the Mysterium of the Outward Principle with his Wonders and Works until the Judgment of God for the Restitution of all that which we have lost in Adam 22. This right Christian Entrance of the Author is very Right and without falshood it is also gone rightly with him in Christ if it be so indeed as I fully perceive as he writeth of himself But his knowledg of himself what and how he is were need better to be declared He hath cast himself into the middle of the Tree where he indeed is safe and stands very Well But the Root of the Tree is yet hidden to him he standeth therein as a Twig but in the middle 23. When a man will satisfie the humane Mind so that it may yeeld it self into Eternal Rest then a man must shew it the Root of the Tree whereout Spirit and Flesh have their Origiginal A man must shew and manifest unto him the Center both of the Eternal and also of the Original Nature so that he may comprehend the Earthly and also the Heavenly Mysterium Then is the Eternal Beginning and the Eternal End altogether One In this the Spirit of the Soul lieth down to rest for it seeth the Wheel wholly and perfectly 24. With this Description the weak corrupted Nature is very ill contented for a thing is requested of it that it cannot do The Author saith it ought altogether to dye that Christ alone might live in the Flesh This the Nature will not but hopeth for a Renovation the which it putteth on as a garment but not Essentially in Power But as fire doth through-glow a stone so the beams of the Holy Ghost go often out of the Second Principle of the New Man through the Old And as Iron in the glowing and without the glowing is still Iron at one time as at the other so is also the Earthly Man 25. He must be servant to the Inward Man when the New with his glowing Divine Fire goeth through him he also willingly doth it so long as the fire-glowing shineth through him but he cannot change himself into the Inward Kingdom For the outward Flesh and Blood saith Christ shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven it shall and must putrifie as an husk from the Essence of the Corn sown in the field 26. You have Beloved Sirs the Ground of this Mystery in my Book of the Incarnation of Christ and in a
Book of the Threefold Life very largely how Man standeth in a Threefold Life Viz. 1. According to the Soul in the Eternal Fathers Nature and in the Root of the Dark World in the Center of the Eternal Original as in the Spirit of the Eternal Father 27. 2 dly How the right true Image and Similitude of God greeneth out of the Soul as out of the Death in the Souls Magical Spirits Fire in another Principium or in another World and becometh free as God himself from Nature as also from Death Qualm and Pain and that the true Image of God liveth not in the Regiment of the outward World nor useth for it self the outward food and drink but eateth of the Divine Substantiality as of the Bread of God Christs Flesh and Blood so that Christ liveth in it and it in Christ and that same Eating consisteth in a Spiritual Desire and also cometh to pass truly and substantially and that the Soul is therewith nourished in her hungers-fire and that a great Gulf happeneth between the Soul and the true Image in the Death of the Fire 28. As we see this in Fire and Light and have therein a true form pattern and similitude where a man by a comparison understandeth the Soul by the fire-glow for it is in it self what concerneth it alone without the noble Image a fire-eye consisting in God the Fathers Eternal Nature brought from the Spirit of God out of the Fathers Property into the outward Created Image which was Created both out of the Outward and Inward heavenly Divine Substantiality and we understand the Noble Image in or by the Light and in the Vertue of the meek Light that out-shineth from the Dying as from the Consuming Qualm of the Fire Where then we see how the Light dwelleth in the Fire without any feeling of the firequalm and how the Fire is a painly Essence to Nature and the Light is free from the Fires Nature and yet without the Fire it is a Nothing 29. Secondly I have shewed you in the fore-mentioned Books how the Fire is a Magick-desire of Meekness to cool it self and to fill its dry Hunger whereout it receiveth Life and Light and again how that the Light is also a great Desire of the Fire to awake its Life Vertue and Power through the Fire 30. Thirdly How that the Light in its Desire maketh a Substantiality and Being viz. Meekness which taketh its Original in the Dying in the Fire which Meekness is called the Water of Eternal Life for it is a sinking through the Death and it giveth Sensibility and and Substantiality and how the Fire doth again draw that same Substantiality into it self and satiate it self therewith and out of that same Indrawing it doth again beget a Spirit out of it self which continually goeth again into the Substantiality and at length bringeth the shining from the Fire and Light into the Substantiality Which Shining or Splendor in the Substantiality of the Meekness is called Tincture which bringeth the Substantiality into the highest Ornament and Colours and thus Reneweth the Essence viz. the forms of the Dark World to the Fire-life and high-graduates it and changeth it into another thing so that out of the unpleasant painly Qualm of the First Principle through Fire the highest Joyfulness ariseth in the precious Tincture And thus the worst is the cause of the best In which Type or Figure we understand in the Inward Birth the Birth and the Substance of the Holy Trinity 31. And then fourthly I have declared to you in the fore-mentioned Books how that the Whole Substance of all Substances is a Continual Desire to manifest it self in its Desire and that this Desire to Manifestation is the Fiat and the Power in the Light is the Word and how that the Word hath moored the Fiat in all the Forms of the Eternal Nature according to the Light and also according to to the Dark World through which the Desire according to both the Worlds Properties hath made Substance in it self whereout in the Substantiality Good and Evil is sprung according to the Property of each World out of which Substance this visible World is created with the Stars and Elements as an own and peculiar Life yet not separated from the Eternal And moreover it is declared how that the Inward Spiritual Substance hath in its Desire manifested it self with this outward visible World as with an Image 32. Now when God created Man as an Image after his Substance a Similitude after God he created him out of the Mother of all Substances and out of all the Three Worlds 33. For God would behold himself through Man in One Image he should be a Similitude after God His Body he created both out of the Outward and Inward Substantiality as out of the Earthly and Heavenly and breathed into it through his Spirit a living Breath that is himself according to the Divine World and also according to the Outward World 34. For the Spirit of God is the Spirit of every Life but distinguished into Three Principles of Three Worlds As 1. According to the Dark World after the First Principle according to which God calleth himself an angry zealous God and a Consuming Fire which is the Eternal Nature And 2 dly According to the Light-World as according to Gods Love and Meekness in regard of which he is called the Holy Spirit And 3 dly According to the Outward World the Ayr-Spirit with the Qualm of the Stars and Elements Thus Man hath received a Threefold Life the Spirit of all the Three Worlds 35. Now it is palpable and plain enough to understand that the Holy Ghost had not his Regiment in the outward earthly Flesh but in the Inward Heavenly For with his entering into the Humanity he also brought in with him the Heavenly Divine Substantiality 36. For Gods Spirit dwelleth from Eternity to Eternity only in Heaven that is only in his own Substance in the Power of the Majesty Now when he breathed himself into the Image of Man then the Heaven was in Man for God would manifest himself in Man as in an Image after himself and open the great Wonders of his Eternal Wisdom through Man 37. Therefore we must rightly consider Man what he is and not make an Earthly Beast of him neither an Angel of his earthly part but he is created into the Wonders in respect of the Earthly Kingdom viz. according to the Third Principle that he should manifest the Wonders in Figures For to that end he hath the Inward Spirit out of the first Principle but he should not domineer therewith neither with the Outward but yeeld himself over to the Holy Ghost in the Second Principle and in the outward Life be as a Child in the Mothers bosom 38. For the Spirit of God had in him the outward Kingdom as it were swallowed up like as the Light swalloweth up the dark Night that a Man seeth it not But through his Imagination into
Earthliness the Earthliness and the dark World became manifest in him For the Souls-fire did imagine after Earthliness and brought earthly Infection into it self Thus the Souls-fire began to burn in the earthly Qualm and became manifest in the Earthliness whereas yet the earthly form and shape ought not to have been manifest 39. And thus the Soul also lusted to eat of Evil and Good as of the evil poysonous and grim Property out of the Dark Worlds Substantiality to wit of Lying Deceit and Falshood in which she lived in Gods Anger and in the Dark World 40. For the Outward Earthliness hath its Original in the Creation out of the Substantiality of the Dark World and not only out of this but also out of the Heavenly This God forbad Adam viz. that he should not eat of the Tree of the knowledg of Good and Evil otherwise he should dye from Paradise as from the Divine Substantiality 41. For the Heavenly pure Element with the Divine Essence greened through all the fruits which were created for Man and he should have eaten after a Magical manner the Separation was in his Mouth so that the Heavenly swallowed up the Earthly like as the Day the Night as we also know that our Life which we now have must enter into a Transmutation if it will be called a Child of God it must again put on God whom in Adam it did put off 42. For we understand and know that Adam with his Imagination understand the Soul is gone out of the Divine Power as from the Second Principle into the Outward as into the Third and the poor Soul lieth now captive in a strange Lodging where the Devil afflicts her and still brings his Imagination into her unless she gives her self wholly again into the Second Principle which in Christs Person opened it self again in the Humanity and in that same Life be again born in God otherwise she standeth meerly naked with her Root in the Dark World as in Gods Wrath and with her Imagefigure in the Desire of this Outward World and therein she will not be acknowledged and received for a Child of God 43. But since it is so that Adam with his Imagination into the Earthliness hath awaked the Inward Kingdom in the Anger that it burneth in him and all his Children and brought the Earthly Desire into his Heavenly Flesh thereby we understand that there-through the Holy Spirit is departed from the same Substance For God cursed the Earth that is nothing else but that he departed with Paradise from Man the Life of Paradise which was in Adam in the Divine Essence was extinguished Wherefore God said to Adam What Day thou eatest of the Tree or the Plant of the knowledg of Good and Evil thou shalt dye that is nothing else but to dye to the Kingdom of Heaven and to become Living to the Earthly Qualm 44. For thus said also the Serpent Thou shalt not dye but thine eyes shall be opened thereby and shalt be as God But the Serpent deceived Eva indeed her earthly Eyes were opened but the heavenly were shut up 45. Thus we also understand that Adam with his Imagination hath wholly brought the Will of the Soul into the Outward World and hath made his Outward Flesh wholly Earthly and Bestial in which the Stars and Elements did immediately domineer and so dyed wholly from the Heavenly Substantiality although there is no Death or Dying in the Heavenly Substantiality Only since Gods Spirit departed from it it was shut up into the Quietness or Stilness as into the Nothing and therethrough Man lost the Similitude of God even the Noble Image 46. Therefore said Christ You must be born anew of Water and the Holy Spirit if you will see the Kingdom of God The Water is the Heavenly Substantiality begotten of the Meekness of the Majesty of God in which the most noble Tincture is Heavenly 47. And understand us that the Word of God viz. that which became Man in Mary hath again brought that same Water or Divine Substance into our in Death inclosed and shut up Substantiality understand not into the Earthliness but into the Heavenly part which was brought into Adam with the Holy Ghost when He brought himself into the Image For the seed of the Woman should break the Serpents head Gods Essence took upon it the Essence of Man and became Flesh and not only the Essence of the Flesh but also the Essence of the Soul Thus the Divine Life came again into the Flesh and the Second Principle was again born in Man to a Life in God and yet the outward Kingdom adhered unto it 48. Since then we are all sprung from Adam we are also all of us born out of his corrupt sinful Flesh and are all in Gods Wrath and with the Soul shut up in the dark World for we are born into the Earthly frail Life out of the Earthly evil and perverse Will in Disobedience in meer Anguish Misery Poyson Malice Hatred and Anger out of the Eternal Death we are born from the Kingdom of Truth into Lyes and Deceit The Devil hath brought his Will into Us and therein we live and eat continually of the forbidden fruit 49. Unless we return with our Will and enter again into the New Birth which Christ hath opened for us in our Humanity Then we become again conceived in the Word that opened it self in Mary in the true Humane Essence and become pregnant of the Saviour as of the Divine Kingdom 50. God is not revealed in us in the Earthly Essence but in the true Image which disappeared in Adam but the Outward adhereth to the Inward The Inward Man manifesteth the Divine Mysterium and the Outward Man manifesteth the Outward Mysterium as the Mirror of the Wonders 51. Thus the War goeth on in the New or Regenerated Man the New will be Master for he beholdeth the Divine World and the Old opposeth him and Will also be Master for he beholdeth the Outward World But if the Inward groweth waxeth strong in the Will of God understand when the Soul hath given her self over wholly thereinto then the Outward is taken Captive For the Inward killeth dayly the Outward with Gods Love and Meekness so that the Outward cannot bring into the Fire of the Soul his earthly pestilent and of the Devil infected evil Desire and Will 52. Yet the Outward cannot wholly be killed before his Dissolution for if the Outward Man should be wholly killed then must the Kingdom of this World wholly break off from him and the Outward also cannot wholly be put into the Renovation for the Devils Infection sticks fast in him But the Outward must again be put into the Mysterium and in the Last Day be brought through the Everlasting Fire where then the Turba shall swallow up the Evil Desire in the Fire and the Mysterium shall again with its Wonders appear on the Noble Image 53. Therefore I can with no ground say of mine
outward flesh and blood that it is Christs flesh and moreover perfectly holy and without fault Only I can with Truth say of the Inward Man born of God that he is conceived in Gods Essence as in the Word of Life which was again promised Adam in Paradise which opened it self in the Bound in the most blessed Virginlike Mirror as in the Divine Virginity in our Substantiality that was shut up in the Death 54. For in this Conception is the Kingdom of Heaven or the Heart of God the Man to the seed which is sown and the seed of the Woman understand the seed of the Soul and of the noble Image inclosed in the Death is the Matrix which receiveth into it the seed of God after an Essential manner so that God and Man becometh One Person according to the form or manner of the three Worlds as they stand one in another and yet the one is not the other for they possess not one the other but every one dwelleth in it self so that although God in Christ be born in Us yet we can by no means say when we speak of the whole Man I am Christ for the Outward is not Christ But thus we can and may say upon good ground I am in Christ and Christ is become Man in me 55. But his humane Kingdom is not of this World and I with my new Man in Christ am not of this World For S t Paul saith also that our Conversation is in Heaven whence We understand the Outward Mysterium wait for our Saviour Jesus Christ For the Outward Mysterium on Man shall put on Jesus Christ first in the Last Day when the Turba shall afore be taken from the Mysterium in which the Sin-mirror standeth which belongeth to the Anger of God therefore a Judgments-day is ordained when all shall be restored which we have lost in Adam 56. But if we with this outward visible and palpable Flesh were wholly perfect then must the Outward Man have put on Paradise again and then the Outward Man were Immortal and Unperishable and could go through Earth and Stones the four Elements also were as it were swallowed up in One as we shall be in the Last Day then must and should the Outward Man also eat no more of the forbidden Tree the Magical Impregnating would also begin and we not be born after a bestial or animal manner 57. But if the Author hath as he saith put on Paradise then he is taken up I as yet can say no such thing of my self I have also sought the Pearl with Earnestness and have also thereby obtained a Jewel It is also given me to know the First Man in Paradise how he was before the Fall and after the Fall and have also seen the Property of Paradise but not in the outward Man 58. I say also that the Inward Man hath put on the Kingdom of God and liveth in Heaven in God But there is yet a great Difference between the Outward and the Inward Man as also between Us and the World of Paradise Paradise greeneth no more through the Earth the Lord hath Cursed the Earth and the Outward Man dwelleth on the Cursed Earth and eateth the Cursed fruit he swalloweth down the Curse into himself and therefore here in this World there is no whole or absolute Perfection 59. But so far indeed it comes with Man if he entereth into the New Birth that he can tame the Outward Man so that he must do what he would not Willingly for the Inward depriveth him of the Power and throughthrongeth him as the Gold doth in a gross Stone But as the grossness in the Stone becometh not Gold so also the outward Man becometh not God otherwise it should follow that also the Outward World should be changed into the pure Deity 60. The Outward Man is the Outward World of the Stars and Elements and the Inward Man in Christ is the Inward Divine World and the Soul is the Fire-world for she hath the Eternal Center to Nature in her self that Center is the Dark World Therefore when she loseth Gods Light she standeth in her self in the Pit in the Dark World viz. in Gods Anger 61. That also the Author saith He is through Christ so transmuted in the Death that he cannot sin any more and thereupon leaveth the outward name of the outward Worlds Substance that needeth another far plainer Declaration and will hardly be taken or granted unless it cometh to a clearer Understanding For the most holy men have acknowledged themselves sinners not that they desire it or would do it but they complain of it before God that the outward Man is become Living in the Anger of God and that the Anger ruleth in them as that high Apostle Paul saith Now if I sin I do it not but the sin that dwelleth in my Flesh Rom. 7. 62. Now where sin dwelleth in the Flesh there is yet no Perfection therefore lie saith further Wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death And saith I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord So then with my Mind I my self serve the Law of God but with the Flesh the Law of Sin The Scripture saith Before thee is none living Righteous Item The Heavens are also not pure before God Why should then also an Angels name be given to the outward fleshly Man that lieth inclosed in the Anger of God He is but evil and striveth continually against Gods Law and belongeth to the Earth and his Mysterium to the Judgment of God He shall purge the floor 63. But that it is said We are dead to sin in the Death of Christ is very true that is once done for us all but we must yet always die unto Sin in the Death of Christ we must always kill the Man of Sin that the New may live But we cannot wholly kill him but take him captive and always pour Water on him out of Gods Meekness into his Fire-burning 64. For the Soul is a Fire-eye and is the greatest Life it will have Substance in which its Fire may burn But since it is in Adams fall turned and bent into this World therefore the Kingdom of the Stars and Elements is entered into it to lodg there which often bring-in a strange Turba Now if the Heavens be not clean before God how will then that be clean that is governed by the Outward Heaven namely the Outward Life that is only driven by the Outward Heavens Regiment 65. The Incorruptible as the new Man cannot put on the Corruptible as the outward Flesh for Turba is therein this shall first come to pass in the Judgment of God when the Turba shall be taken away from the Outward Mysterium 66. But that the Author saith It is not possible that a Regenerate man can sin by that we know he understandeth not sufficiently the Mysterium of the Soul We see it was possible in Adam when his outward Man was pure
and immaculate for if a Man will search from whence Sin hath its Original he must look upon the Ground 67. The new Body worketh no Sin but the Soul by Imagining into the Wickedness bringeth Sin into it self Now since the true Similitude after God hath its Beginning out of the Soul therefore the heavenly Substantiality becometh Infected through the Poyson which is taken into the Soul 68. Sin toucheth not the Heart of God as the Center of the New Body but the Substantiality is Infected as when a Man poureth Earth into fair Water The Flesh of the New Man and the Spirit of God is not one thing the Spirit of God remaineth in the new Man although Adam be spoiled in regard of him as it also came to pass in Adam 69. What falleth from the Light-world it the Fire-world receiveth if it be a grim Substantiality then it is swallowed up in the Fire and falleth into the Dark World into Eternal Death When the new Body is infected it loseth its Divine Life the Deity loseth nothing by it but only its Mirror of the Wonders For the Body is not God only it is through the Spirit by the noble Tincture highly graduated with the splendor of the holy Heaven so that in it the Colours of the Divine Joy-kingdom do shine But if it be darkened then the Tincture ariseth in another Property viz. according to that in which the Fire of the Soul burneth such a Tincture shineth also thereout and as the Spirit of Man is in himself such an Heaven he geteth also for his Habitation 70. Nothing can fall beyond God for He himself is All yet he is not called God in respect of his Anger because it devoureth much did it not also devour the whole royal hoste of Lucifer they were Angels and yet became Devils how then should it not be possible in a Man who as yet beareth in him the Sin-mirror in the outward Flesh 71. Indeed if the Soul goeth not into the false Lust so that it desireth not sin then it is not possible The Soul is free it hath the high Fire-Principle in it self both to the Dark and also to the Light World What it awaketh to it self that it hath it can live in Gods Love or Anger Whithersoever it turneth it self there it is received so that it as the Mother of the Eternal Nature is in all things Whither the Eternal Will turneth it self according to that its Image is also figured 72. Therefore Man should not be secure or bold in this World but always humble himself before God and cast his Will into the Heart of God all this time whilest he carrieth the outward Cottage he liveth in danger but while he abideth with his Will in God he is in Gods hand and then no man 〈◊〉 pluck Christs sheep out of Christs hand John 10. except the Will of the Soul teareth it self out from thence which happeneth when the Soul is secure then the Devil soweth his poysonous Imagination into her so that she therein beginneth to imagine after falshood 73. You must understand that the Soul standeth in the Fathers Property and the fair Image when it is begotten standeth in the Sons Property The Soul hath the Center of the Dark World and the Image hath the Center of the Light World as Gods Heart But if it departeth from Gods Love then the Soul bringeth its Image into the Fathers Property into the dark World 74. Therefore we ought to be very humble and submissive before our God and not desire to exalt Our Name but the Name of God in Us We are not the Tree with the Root but little boughs and twigs on the Tree We receive indeed the Essence and Vertue of the Tree like as the Tree giveth it to the Twig But the Twig saith not I am the Tree but it delighteth it self in the Tree as in its Mother 75. If we put on Christ then we are truly called Christians for the new Man liveth in Christ But we ought not to say I am Christ in this mine holy flesh and bones in this my visible Conversation on Earth for Christ said also My Kingdom is not of this World Therefore Christs Kingdom In Us is much less of this World For he said I am gone forth and come from God Again I leave the World and go the Father and I will take you to me that where I am there ye may be 76. Understand it thus When the noble Seed is sown so that the Lilly-twig is born in the Humanity of Christ then he taketh it to himself where He is This noble Twig is not of this World but it cometh from God and its Plant groweth in Gods Kingdom not in this World not in Adams Manhood neither in the Woman Eva but in the Virgin being neither Man nor Woman but a chaste Virgin that follow-God and the Lamb. 77. For that is the Angel whereof Christ speaketh Matth. 22. and Mark 12. In the Resurrection they are like the Angels of God When he is born out of Christ then he expecteth no Resurrection for himself for he is Immortal if the Soul doth not poyson him in the time of this World But he Waiteth for the Outward Mysterium as the third Principle in which he hath sown all his Wonders and Works that same swalloweth up here the Outward Life with its Works and that shall come again out of the Mysterium 78. For the First Adam before his Eva he being neither Man nor Woman shall stand he shall have all the three Principles in him as God himself but not so mingled together as Now when one is brought into the other 79. The Outward World is compacted and born out of the Inward in the Desire of the Inward and in the Fiat created into a form not altogether to a fading transitory Substance for it shall be renewed in the Fire and stand again to Gods Wonder-deed not four Elements but One in which the four do lie hid For the Outward World shall not rule but the Inward Divine World through all things 80. As little as the Outward Visible World can be called God so little also the Name of God becometh or befitteth the outward Life in flesh and bones For God gave Adam a name and called him MAN he named Adam MAN This the highest Tongue understandeth Well in the Language of Nature that the name Adam hath its Original from the Second Principle as from Gods Kingdom out of the Divine Essence and the name Man from the Limus whereout the outward Body was created 81. For every thing getteth its right Name out of its Essence according to its Spirit like as the most dear Name of JESUS CHRISTUS hath a double sence Viz. By the Name JESUS in the highest Tongue is understood the Motion of the Divine Center as an Out-going Lust or Delight bringing the Lowliness in the Humility forth in the Out-going Joy-kingdom in Majesty 82. And in the Name CHRISTUS is understood an In-going
Day out-greeneth in us through our Eternal Night and changeth the Night to wit Gods Anger Hell Death Anguish and Eternal Destruction into the Divine Day of Joyfulness although the Dark Night with the Ens of the Serpent and the Poyson in flesh and blood rageth and striveth against it 51. Therefore beloved Sir and Christian Brother we have more need to endeavor for the growth of the noble Pearl-tree and how we may come to it then to run after the unprofitable pratling and fancy where one Brother despiseth reproacheth and proclaimeth the other for an Heretick nay giveth him to the Devil for an Opinions sake which he hath made to himself 52. I tell you in my knowledg given me of God that it is a meer Deceit of the Devil who doth thus bring us poor men into Opinions contemning and reproaching that we strive for the husk and mean while lose Love and Faith and attain not to the New Birth 53. Our whole Religion is but a Childrens-work namely that we wholly go out from our own Knowing Willing Runing Disputing and resolve to enter into the Way which bringeth us again into our Lost Country and how we may return to our Mother who hath born us in the Beginning out of her self 54. Now if we will do this we must not come to her in our own Will in Pride and Contempt of her Children our fellow-Christians and fellow-Members for we are the Lost Son who is become a Swineherd and have spent our Patrimony filthily with the sty-hogs of the Devil and the World We must enter into our selves again and well consider our selves and our Fathers house and must set before us the Mirror of the Law and the Gospel and see how far we are departed from Gods Righteousness and Truth as also from the Brotherly Love and well examine our Heart whereto it is enclined 55. Now when we do this we shall find in our selves many hundred Evil Beasts which we have placed in the stead of God and still do honour the same above God and shall then first see what terrible Beasts are become manifest in Adam through the false Lust and wherefore God said to Adam The seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head to wit of the monstrous Beasts 56. Viz. We shall first see in our Desire the proud Lucifer who is departed from the Divine and Brotherly Humility and contemneth the Members of his Body and hath set himself over them as a God and Lord in whom there is no Divine Love either to Love God or his Neighbor 57. Secondly We shall find a Beast in our Properties which is like a covetous greedy Sow or swine which will draw all to it self and alone eat and possess all and desireth more then it needeth wherewith the proud Lucifer may brag and vaunt himself that he is a God over Substance who can domineer and hath power and might over his fellow-branches and we shall see how this proud Lucifer hath broken himself off from the Tree of Life and from the growth of Love and would be a Tree of himself therefore he is also dryed up in respect of God 58. Thirdly We shall find the poysonous envious Serpent in our Property which stingeth about it as a Poyson viz. Envy which wisheth no man so well as it self which stingeth and rideth in other mens hearts and slandereth them with words and praiseth only the proud Lucifer in it and calleth its falshood an Angel of God 59. Fourthly We shall find the fiery Dragon sitting in Hellish fire in our Property viz. Anger which if Covetousness and Envy cannot obtain it will strike with fists and take it by force and is so raging mad that he bursteth his Life for Wickedness and breaketh in the fiery Malice and is a very dry branch on the Tree which is only fit for the fire 60. Fifthly We shall find many hundred Beasts in our Desire which Pride loveth and honoreth more then God and Covetousness draweth to it self for a Treasure wherewith Pride braggeth as if they were Gods and thus doth withdraw from his Brother his Life that he is forced to spend it in misery and trouble through his Violence and Extortion 61. Now when a man doth thus behold himself in this Mirror of his Self-hood and is become aware of these evil Beasts then he may rightly imagine them to himself and hereby consider the grievous Fall of Adam and think that all these evil Desires one with another have their original in him out of the Monster of the Serpent through the Devils bringing-in of them into our first Parents 62. For all the Properties of the Desires lay in Adam in an Harmony and Equality and the one loved the other But such false Desires are sprung up in Men through the Devils Envy which awaked the false Lust in Adam and Eve to prove the Discord and Unequality and to taste what Good and Evil is to feel Heat and Cold and to try the multitude of the Properties so that now these Lusts draw and desire their like unto themselves and every Desire of these Properties is a several Liveshunger in Man which hath broken it self off from the Harmony and against the Love and Likeness of its fellow-branches and Brothers lustfully desireth to draw their Life and Maintenance to it self and to make it self a Lord over it and will be its Own 63. All which runneth against the Divine Will and Ground and is a perjury against God and is also against the Course of Nature as a Man may see by the Earth Trees and all Plants how all stand and grow lovingly one by the other and rejoyce in one Mother and how one branch on the Tree doth in-flow to the other his sap and vertue and the one serveth the other 64. For so was also the Life of Man Joh. 1. brought out of the Eternal Word into the Image of Man being out of the Limus of the Earth in a lovely Equality and Harmony so that all the Properties of the Life stood in an equal Weight in the Temperature in one Love and did love themselves or one another 65. But when the Devil did throw his Poyson and false Desire therein then the Properties of Life were divided into many Desires whence Strife Infirmity Dissolution and the Grossness of the Body is sprung through the false Desire and Bringing-in of the Bestial Properties whereby the Image of God which was from the Heavenly Substance disappeared whereof God said unto them What Day thou shalt eat of the Plant of knowledg of Evil and Good thou shalt dye the Death that is to the Kingdom of God as it also came to pass 66. And we ought to imagine really to our selves that this Bestial false Desire in Men is the Monster of the Serpent and an Enmity with God and the Kingdom of Heaven and that we therein are nothing else but Children of Hell and the Wrath of God and may not therein inherit or possess the