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
in which the Life in Mercury doth burn and shine of which thou hast a Similitude If in a Creature there be a strong poysonful Mercury of a dry quality that Creature is strong bold couragious and potent which hath also a clear Oyl in it for the fiery property of the Mercury consumeth the waterish but if its fat be enkindled it yeeldeth a clear Light much more would it be if the watery property were severed from the oleous CHAP. VII How Adam in Paradise and Lucifer was a fair Angel and how they were corrupted and spoiled through Imagination and Pride Process 1. WE will give an occasion of Consideration unto the earnest Searcher and Seeker and if he apprehends our meaning he shall indeed be able to find the Noble Philosophers Stone but so that he be chosen thereto by God and his Life also standeth in the Heavenly Mercury otherwise we are a Mystery unto him and we will represent it unto him in Similitudes in the most manifest and yet Mystical manner 2. When Adam was created in Paradise the Heavenly Mercury did then lead him his Life burned in a Pure Oyl therefore his Eyes were Heavenly and his Understanding did excel Nature for his Light shone in the Oyl of the Divine Essentiality the external waterish Property was not manifest in his Oyl he was Iliastrish that is Angelical and became in the Fall Cogastrish that is the waterishness in the mortal Property was manifest in his Oyl and penetrated so that the Mercury in him became an Anxious Poyson which before in his Oyl was an exaltation of Joyfulness 3. For the Salnitral Flagrat in the Impression in the Coldness viz. according to the Saturnine Property was thereby elevated and got the Dominion as a cold Poyson which ariseth in the Impression of Death whence the Darkness was generated in the Oyl and Adam dyed to the Divine Light to which the Devil perswaded him by the Serpent that is by the Essence and Property of the Serpent for the Kingdom of Wrath and also the outward Kingdom was manifest in the Serpent for it was more subtle then any Beast of the field and this subtlety Eve desired for the Serpent perswaded her that her eyes should be opened and she should be as God and know good and evil 4. Which also was the Will of the Devil that he would know Evil and in the Enkindling to the Knowledg in Mercury he became corrupt and dark for he entered with the Imagination according to his Condition Knowledg and Desire into the fiery Byss and Adam according to his Knowledg and Desire went into the cold Byss into the Impression into the procreated waterish Property in the Salniter where both Kingdoms stand severed He desired to prove and taste the watery Mercury in which is the Mortal Poyson and Lucifer desired the fiery Mercury which giveth Strength and Might whence his Pride arose viz. out of the fiery Mercury But both viz. Lucifer and also Adam lost the Oyl of the Meekness of the Divine Essentiality 5. Now we are to consider of the Serpent which deceived Adam with its craft How it was and what its subtlety was after which Adam Eve did Imagine wherefore they did eat of the forbiden Tree which was Evil and Good and how they did eat Death thereby and what their Salvation and Restoration is naturally and properly what Evil and Good is what the Property of the eternal Life and then the Property of eternal Death is what the Cure is whereby the Sickness introduced by Adam and its death may be healed and restored both to the Temporal and Eternal Life 6. Let the Reader attend unto the sence and meaning for we have not the Ability to give this into his hands that onely belongeth unto God but the Gates shall stand open for him if he will enter in if not flattery avails him not 7. The Devil was a fair Angel and the Serpent the subtle Beast and Man the likeness of the Deity now all three were corrupted by Imagination and Pride and got the Curse of God for their false Lust or cunning 8. All whatsoever is Eternal proceedeth originally from one Ground as Angels and Souls but the Serpent is not out of the Eternal Ground but out of the Beginning as we have before given you to understand how with the Enkindling of the fire in the Salnitral Flagrat two Kingdoms SeVer viz. Eternity and Time and how the Eternity dwelleth in the Time but yet onely in it self but yet so nigh unto the Time as Fire and Light which are in one another and yet make two Kingdoms or as Darkness and Light dwell in each other and the one is not the other The like we are to consider of the inchoative poysonful Mercury in the Devil and in Man and in the Serpent also how an Oyl corrupteth and yet the Essence or Being of God is not hereby at all corrupted but entereth into it self viz. into the Nothing and the Creatural Mercury which Ariseth or is begotten with the Beginning of the Creature in the Creature goeth out of it self that is out of the Eternal into Time viz. into the Beginning of the Creature It desireth its own self that is the Beginning and will be its own or a Selfist and forsaketh the Eternity into which it should be wholly confined and resigned with its Desire and bring its Hunger thereinto and then its Poyson-Source would not be manifest 9. For whatsoever doth hunger after the eternal Nothing viz. after the quiet meek Liberty of God that is not manifest to it self but it is manifest in the Still Liberty viz. in God for as the Hunger is such is also the Essence in the Hunger each Hunger or Desire maketh it self an Essence according to the Property of the Hunger or Desire 10. Thus the Devil maketh or causeth in himself his Darkness for he went with his Desire into himself into the Property of the Center to the Desire and forsook the Eternity viz. the Nothing that is the Lubet of Love so that he enkindled himself in his Poysonful Mercury that is in the Forms unto Life in himself and became an anxious Fire-source in the Darkness as wood that is burnt to a coal which onely gloweth and hath no more any true light in it also no oyl or water so it went with him Now in his own Property viz. in his Lifes-Forms there springeth forth nothing but a stinging envious Property where one Form doth hate and annoy the other and yet do so beget each other 11. And so was the Serpent likewise yet not by its own Aspiring Haughtiness but when God said Let all sorts of Beasts come forth each according to his property or kinde then came forth Beasts out of every Property of Nature as it was manifest in the Se Veration when God moved himself to the Creation for the Devil would domineer over the Love and Meekness of God and put
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-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
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
the Devil Behold I pray the right Cure wherewith the enkindled Mercury in Mans life is to be remedied it must be a Mercury again but first enkindled in Venus and Jupiter it must have the Suns property which it attains unto by Jupiter and Venus As God dealeth with us poor men so must the outward poysonful sick Mercury be Tinctured with such an external Cure not with the dark Impression of Saturn with Cold unless it be first sweetly appeased and qualified with Jupiter and Venus that the Sun doth again shine in Saturn but with meek Love this is his right Physick whereby the Death is changed into Life yet this is only a common manual Cure which the Vulgar may learn 9. But it behoveth the Doctor if he will be called a Doctor to study the whole Process how God hath restored the universal in Man which is fully clear and manifest in the Person of Christ from his Entrance into the Humanity even to his Ascention and Sending of the Holy Ghost 10. Let him follow this entire Process and then he may find the Universal provided he born again of God but the selfish pleasure worldly glory covetousness and pride doth lie in the way Dear Doctors I must tell you the Coals are too black ye defile your white hands therewith the true unfeighned self-denying Humility before God and man doth not relish with you Therefore ye are blind I do not tell you this but the Spirit of Wonders in its manifestation 11. But we will give Direction unto the desirous Seeker who would fain see if he knew the way fitly to attain his intent for the time is at hand where Moses is called from the Sheep to be a Shepherd of the Lord which shall shortly be manifest maugre all the raging and raving of the Devil Let not the dear and worthy Christendom think being now it doth seem as if she should go to wrack and ruine that it is utterly undone No The Spirit of the Lord of Hoasts hath out of his Love planted a new branch in the humane Property which shall root out the thorns of the Devil and make known his Child Jesus to all Nations Tongues and Speeches and that in the Morning of the Eternal Day 12. Dear Brethren behold I pray the right Cure what did God with us when we lay sick in Death did he quite cast away the created Image understand the outward Part viz. the outward Corrupt Man and make wholly another new Man No he did it not although he introduced Divine Property into Out Humanity yet he did not therefore cast away our Humanity but brought it into the way or Process to the New-birth 13. What did he He suffered the outward Humanity viz. the outward Water understand the Essentiality of Venus which was shut up in the Wrath of Death to be baptized with the Water of the Eternal Essence and with the Holy Ghost that the Incentive of the outward Essentiality shut up in Death might again glow as a fire that falleth into Tinder Afterward he withdrew his outward food from the outward Body and brought it into the Desart and let it hunger and then the Spark enkindled from the Fire of God must Imagine into God and eat Manna of divine Essentiality forty days of which Israel was a Type in the Wilderness Sinai with their Manna The Essence of Eternity must overcome the Essence of Time therefore it is called a Temptation of the Devil for the Devil as a Prince in the Wrath of God did there tempt the outward Humanity and did represent all that unto it wherein Adam fell and became disobedient unto God 14. There now it was tryed whether the Image of God would stand being internally there was Gods Love-fire and externally the Baptism of the Water of Eternal Life Here the Soul was tempted whether it would be a King and an Angelical Throne in the stead of the fallen Angel and possess the Elected Throne of God in the Royal Office from which Lucifer was taken and thrust into the Darkness viz. into the Throne of Poyson and Death but seeing he did stand in that the Soul did resign and submit its Will alone into Gods Love-fire and desired no earthly food nor the earthly Kingdom Good and Evil for outward Dominion the Process to the Universal viz. to the Restoration of all that which Adam had lost did further proceed and go on He turned Water into Wine 15. Ye Physicians observe this it concerns you in your Process you must also go the same way to work He healed the sick so you must likewise make the Form in your poysonful Mercury whole and sound by the Power of the Philosophical Baptism He made the dead alive again the dumb to speak the deaf to hear the blind to see and cleansed the Lepers all this must go before that all the Forms in Mercury may be pure sound and living which Mercury himself doth make after the Baptism and Temptation as the living speaking Mercury did this in the Person of Christ the Artist cannot do it only there must be Faith for Christ also Testifieth that he could not do many Wonders at Capernaum save heal a few diseased for the Faith of the Capernaitans would not enter into the Divine Mercury of Christ. 16. So that we see there that the Person of Christ viz. the Creature could not work the Wonders in its own Power but the Mercury viz. the living speaking Word in him for the Person did cry and call into God viz. into the speaking Word and set its Desire thereinto as we may see in the Mount of Olives where he prayed that he did sweat drops of blood and by Lazarus when he would raise him up he said Father hear me but I know that thou always bearest me yet because of those that stand by I say it that they may beleeve that thou workest by me 17. Thus the Artist must not arrogate any thing unto himself the Mercury doth it self after the Philosophical Baptism work these Wonders before it doth manifest the Universal for all the seven Forms of Nature must be Crystalized and purified if the Universal shall be revealed and each Form carrieth a peculiar Process when it is to be brought out of the property of the Wrath and entered into the pure and clear Life and transmute it self into the Crystalline Sea which standeth before the Throne of the Ancient in the Revelation and change it self into Paradise for the Universal is Paradisical and Christ also came therefore into our Humanity that he might again open or make manifest the Universal viz the Paradise again in Man the Speaking Word in Christ wrought Wonders through all the seven Properties or Forms through the Expressed Word in the Humanity before the whole Universal was manifest in the Corps of the humane Property and the Body glorified 18. Even thus it is in the Philosophical Work when the Mercury shut up in Death receiveth into it the Baptism of
Properties Right and then must the Body set to its strength as a Servant and accomplish the Poysonswill and wrangle and contest with his Adversary and beat him or be beaten of him let it be either by hand-blows or words it is all in this Property and Desire of this poysonful Mercury 40. Hence ariseth all War and Contention namely from the Dominion of Gods Anger in the Corrupt and Enkindled Mercury of the Expressed Word which doth so act its delight and sport in the poysonful Wraths and dark Worlds property in Man 41. Therefore the Warrior is a Servant of Gods Anger He is the Ax wherewith the Angry Husbandman cuts up his Thorns and Bryars from off his ground He is the chief Worker and Accomplisher of the wrathful Anger of God Gods Anger according to his Fires property will have it so and not his Love and he that suffers himself to be made use of thereunto he serveth the Anger of God according to the dark and Fire-worlds-desire and property which in the heavy Fall of Adam hath manifested it self in the humane property and brought Man viz. the Angelical Image into an half devilish Vizard and Likeness in which property and Image of his Will in the Expressed Creatural Mercury or vital Word he cannot inherit Gods Kingdom but must be born a new in his Mercury and Will with and in Christ in Gods Love viz. in the holy Speaking Mercury and Word of Life that a new obedient Will wholly resigned into Gods Love may proceed from his Creatural Mercury which neither wills or acts any thing but what the Will of the Speaking Divine Mercury willeth who in his Self-hood and selfish Arrogation in his own Will is as Dead that he may be the Instrument of the Great God whereby he should act work and do how and what he pleaseth and then is God All in All in him his Will and Deed and he is a Branch in the Great Tree which draweth Sap Power and Life from the Tree of God and groweth and liveth in him and bringeth forth his fruit then is the Mercury of the humane Life a procreated or expressed fruit which groweth upon the Paradise-Tree of God and giveth forth its Note and Sound and striketh the Signature in the Speaking Word of God viz. Gods Harp and Lute in his Praise to which end man is created not that he should needs play upon the Instrument of Anger and Death according to the Devils will 42. The Devil hath given himself to be such a Lutanist who contriveth and helpeth to act and drive on the Play in the Wrath viz. in the Darkness He is the Instrument and Actor in the Wrath of the Eternal Nature which hath its effects and atchievements with him and in him as its Instrument The like also must the wicked man do as Saint Paul speaketh thereof The holy man is unto God a sweet Savour unto Life and the wicked a sweet Savour unto Death All whatsoever doth live and move must enter into the Glory of God one worketh in his Love the other in his Anger All is generated and created in the Infinite Being to the manifestation of the Infinite great God out of all the Properties of Evil and Good Creatures were brought forth by the Will of the Speaking Word for the property of the Darkness and the Fire was as well in the Speaking as the property of the Light and therefore there are evil and good Creatures 43. But the Angels and Men were spoken forth in the Image of Gods Love they ought not to speak and incline their Will into the Fire and dark Word and introduce their Desire thereinto also not at all will to be their own but continue stedfast in the Resignation in the Speaking Will of God as a form of the Speaking Will and bear no inclination to any thing save only unto the Speaking in which Figure they stand as an Image or Platform of the Expressing as a spoken Word wherewith the Speaking Word doth behold it self in its own likeness whereby it doth there manifest the Eternal Knowledg of the Eternal Mind and setteth the Spirits Will into a Form and playeth therewith 44. As a Limmer that pourtrayeth his own Image and doth thereby behold what he is and how his form and feature is or as a Musician doth compose a curious Lesson or Song and so playeth and melodizeth with his Life and Will of Life viz. with the Sound of his own Lifes Mercury in the Tune of the Song or upon some Musical Instrument as it is agreeable to his Life 's Mercury wherewith his vital Mercury doth joy and delight it self 45. Thus likewise God created us to his Love-Consort unto his Joy and Glory whereby he exalteth his Speaking Eternal Word or playeth in the same with us as with his Instrument 46. Therefore when this melodious Instrument was broken in its Sound by the wrathful Might of his Anger that is when Mans Image would play in its own Might both in Evil and Good in Love and Anger viz. in its own self-will and would not yeeld it self to be used whereunto the Speaking Word had created it and departed out of Resignation into an Arrogation of Self and would play as it self pleased now good then bad Then this Instrument was against the Love of God in which no voyce breath or inkling of Anger is manifest or can be as in the light of the Fire no pain of the Fire is manifest 47. For the Will of the humane Mercury went out from the Will of the divine Speaking Word into its own self-will Thus it fell into the Centre of the Pregnatress of all Essences viz. into the Anguish Poyson and Death where Gods Anger viz. the Speaking in the Wrath took possession of it Here now was our distress we were forlorn Opprest in wrathful Death and woful Scorn If God had not restored us again We should have still been tumbling in Deaths pain 48. Thus dear Reader it is clearly set before you wherein Christ was tempted namely whether the Soul and the whole Man viz. the Image of the Speaking Word after that God had introduced the Spark of his Love again into the humane Property and freely given in it self again with the Love into it would now again enter into its first place and be Gods melodious Instrument in his Love or not or whether it would be a selfish Arrogator in its own Will and do what it s own Speaking would bring forth in the Enkindled Mercury of its Life whether it would suffer Gods Will to strike the Signature upon its Instrument or the Anger of God to strike it as before came to pass viz. in the First Adam 49. Here it was tryed Therefore said the Devil viz. the Organist in Gods Anger unto Christ That he should fall down and worship him and then he would give him all Dominion Power and Glory he should and might do what he please he should live and
according to the time viz. according to the Humanity 77. When Adam was in the Image of God and was neither Man nor Woman but both He stood forty days in Paradise without wavering and when he fell he stood even untill the third day viz. forty hours in the Sleep even till God did make or build the Woman out of him Thus Israel must be tempted forty days on Mount Sinai whether it would live in the obedience of God under the Wonders and mighty Acts and when as it could not be God gave them the Law of His Covenant as a Looking-glass of that which was promised in the Covenant therefore the temptation of the body was upon them forty years that the body must eat Manna to try whether Man could be remedied when as the body or outward person could not stand then Joshuah brought them through the water with the Covenant of the Type where Israel must serve with Sacrifices in the Covenant in the Type of the Final accomplishment until the time of Restitution came in and then the Valiant Champion in Battel stood 40. days in the Wilderness of the temptation and stood out the first Tryal of Adam in Paradise and the three hours of darkness on the Cross are the three hours of the Temptation of Christ when the Devil tempted him And again the forty hours of Christ in the Grave are the forty days of Adam in Paradise and the forty days of Moses upon the Mount and the forty years in the Wilderness and the forty days after the Resurrection before the Ascention are even one and the same and now when the Champion had stood out Adams Tryal the Soul was tempted forty days in the Humane property whether it would eat of Gods Word and live in full Resigned obedience in the Will of God and be a true Image Likeness and Similitude of the Divine Power in the Unsearchable Eternity according to the Trinity of the Deity 78. In the like manner let the Philosopher observe us that the essence of time doth also stand in such a property for man was created out of the Essence of time into an Image as an extract of all essences a compleat Image and likeness according to Time and Eternity ruling and standing in the Time and in the Eternity as an Instrument of the great infinite God with whom by and with his Spirit he would make and do what he pleased 79. Now man is the Instrument of God with or by whom he doth manifest his hiddenness both in his own Humane property viz. in the Essence and Image of God and then also through man as with the Instrument in the Mother of all Beings as in the Grand Mystery viz. in the Soul of the great world 80. Man hath power so far as he goeth as an instrument of God in Divine obedience as his Spirit doth guide and lead him that he can introduce the Earth which standeth in the Curse of God into the Benediction and make of Deaths-anguish the highest triumphant joy in the outward Pregnant Mother but he himself doth it not only his will doth labour with the understanding therein and doth conjoyn the Compacta which belong together as Life and Death which stand opposite to one another these he must joyn together and bring them into one by such an art as Time and Eternity are united by and in the man Christ and by him all those which give their will thereinto 81. He will see in his work all whatsoever God did in the Humanity when he brought it again into the Universal viz. into Paradise He will see how the Wrath devours and swallows up the fair Venus into his pricking thorny essence and how Venus doth fully yeeld in her self and how the Wrath also dyeth away in Venus and becometh wholly dark and black as a Coal for death and life do lie together both in the Death viz. in the obedience of God they both hold still unto him and suffer the Spirit of God to make of and with them what it pleaseth who introduceth them again into the Eternal will of God whereto he at first created them and thus the Essence standeth again in the beginning in the Order as God created it It must only stand in its Impression in the Verbum Fiat viz. in the Divine making until the day of Gods Separation when God will change the Time again into the Eternity 82. And when Jesus had drunk the cup and tasted the Vinegar mixed with Gall in the outward man and inwardly in the Love-property viz. in the Virgin the wrathful Anger of God then said the whole man Christ My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For Gods Speaking Word stood still now in the Humane property and the new-born essentiality which was dead in Adam and was again quickned in Christ did cry with the same My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For the Anger of God was by the Souls property entred into the Image of the Divine Essentiality and had devoured the Image of God 83. Here now the Image in the Creature of the Soul cryed My God my God wherefore hast thou for saken me for the Humane Image which disappeared in Adam and was again revived in Christs Incarnation should bruise the head of Gods Anger in the Fire-soul and change its Fire-might into Sol and now the Speaking Word of God did here forsake it and it fell into its souls wrath where it felt Gods Anger for the Speaking Word did so bring it through the Anger into Death and out of the Death again into the Solar life understand into the Eternal Sun 84. Like as the Candle dyeth in the Fire and out of that death the light power proceedeth viz. the great painless life so out of Christs dying and death the eternal Divine Sun should and must arise in the Humane property but the Selfness of the Humane property viz. the Souls own Self will to live in the Fires might must here dye and be drowned in the Image of Love and the Image of Love must also resign and give it self in unto the Wrath of Death that so all might fall down into death and arise in Gods will and mercy through death in the Paradissal Source in the Resignation that Gods Spirit might be all in all Hells eye must see through the Love as the light shineth out of the Fire and the Fire from the Darkness and the Darkness taketh its Original from the Eternal desire 85. And as Adam changed the likeness of God into the dark Deaths form so God did again change the likeness through his Fire-wrath out of Death into the Light he drew forth the likeness again out of death as a blossome groweth from the harsh Earth 86. Thus it goeth likewise in the Philosophick work Venus is forsaken when she receives the three wrathful properties into her self in wrath their wrath viz. the death doth devour her life whereupon she loseth
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
four Elements but to the Eternal Fathers Nature in the walm of the pure Divine Element the life of the outward world dyed 5. Thus the true Humane Life fell forth-with again into that place whence Adam had brought it viz. into Paradise whereupon Christ said to the Thief To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise it fell into Adams death whereby he dyed unto Paradise and sprang up in Adams Death as a new creature out of the old like as the branch springeth from the Corn and this it did from the might and power of the Speaking Word which of grace was entered with living essentiality into the disappeared Heavenly Essentiality of man and had freely given it self into the Centre of the Soul-like nature and also into the wrath of the Anger and Death in the Flesh and changed the Anger into Love and tinctured the corrupt blood in the Anger with the Love 6. The Divine Tincture Tinctured the Humane the Divine Sun entered into the Humane the Divine Sun entred into Adams night viz. into Adams sleep Gods Sun with the Name Jesus entred with Adams Soul and Humanity in Christs person into death understand into Adams sleep 7. When Christ dyed then Adam dyed also to his Self-hood in Christs death the Name Jesus was in Christ the Serpent-stroyer in Adams Humanity Christ entered into the Image of the first Adam so that the first Adam in the Humanity of Christ did become the same Christ and Serpent-stroyer indeed not in the same Creature but in the same Souls and Bodies property 8. The first Adam fell into Sleep viz. into the impotence of the Divine World and dyed in the death of Death the second Adam entered into the death of Death and took the death of Death captive in Himself viz. in the Humanity of Adam He was a death to Death and brought forth the Life out of Death into the Eternal Liberty He arose in the Divine Omnipotence in the Essence of the first Adam Gods Spirit in the Speaking Eternal Word brought forth Adam out of death in Christs Humanity Adam did arise in Christs Humanity and all the Children of Adam which are partakers of Christs Kingdom do arise in Christ all in Christs Flesh and Blood Soul and Spirit but every one in his Creature which he hath had here and mortified in Christs death 9. Every one is a particular twig but there is only one Tree which is Christ in Adam and Adam in Christ only One not two only one Christ in all Christians so that I may say If I be dead in Christ unto the World I am the same Christ viz. a branch on the same Tree 10. But seeing that I in the outward man do yet live in my Self-hood therefore I must also dye with the outward man in Christs death and arise and live in him Now therefore I live with the Will of Faith in the mind in Christ and am a Christian in the Will of the Mind in the desire of Faith and receive Christ with his Humanity into my Will and cast my Will into his death and thus my inward man is also dead in Christs death and liveth no longer to Self-hood but I am resigned in him and lie buried in his death but being He is arisen in Gods Will I also live in His Resurrection in Him but my Earthliness in its Selfness liveth to the Earthly World until it also dyeth quite to Self-hood and entereth into the Resignation and Putrifaction and then Christ will awaken it through my inward man which now liveth in Him 11. Like as he is arisen from the Dead even so shall I who shall dye to the Earthliness in Him viz. in my first Father Adam in the Name Jesus as a Christian in Christ my twig withered in Sin on the Tree shall obtain strength and sap in the Name Jesus to life I shall and must spring forth afresh with my Humanity in Him as in my Stem who is become a Heart and Power in my Father Adam and bring forth fruit to the praise of God 12. My Will-spirit which now is in Christs Humanity and liveth in Christs Spirit that shall in Christs power give Sap to the dry tree that it shall again arise at the last day in the sound of the Trumpet of the Divine Breath in Christs voyce which also is my voyce in his Breath and spring afresh in the Tree Christ viz. in Paradise the Paradise shall be in me all whatsoever God hath and is shall appear in me as a Form and Image of the Divine Worlds being all colours powers and vertues of his Eternal Wisdom shall be manifest in me and on me as on his likeness I shall be the manifestation of the Spiritual Divine World and an instrument of Gods Spirit wherein he maketh melody with Himself with this Voyce which I my self am as with his Signature I shall be his Instrument and Organ of his expressed Word and voyce and not only I but all my fellow-members in the glorious Tuned Instrument of God we are all strings in his Joyful Consort the spirit of his mouth doth strike the tune and note on our strings 13. And therefore God became Man that he might again repair his glorious Instrument which he has made for his praise which perished as to him and would not sound according to the desire of his joy and Love and did introduce again the true Love-sound into the strings yea he hath introduced the voyce which soundeth in his presence again into us viz. into his Instrument he is become that I am and hath made me that which he is so that I may say that I am in my Resignation in him his Trumpet and the sound of his Instrument and Divine voyce at which now I do rejoyce in all my fellow-strings and voyces which with me are tuned and set as an Eternal work unto the praise and glory of God 14. Thus know ye now my Fellow-voyces in the praise of God that I sound with my string played upon in the Spirit upon and in your Note and thus sing I unto you that whatsoever Jesus hath done through the Christ viz. through his and my Humanity the same he doth yet to day in me and in all my fellow-members he dyed to my Self-hood in his death and I also dye to my self-hood in his death He is given up to his Resignation in God his Father and God his Father hath araised him up with the spirit of his mouth in him and set him forth for the Royal Image according to the holy Trinity through and with whom God will judg all things in the place of this World 15. Thus God also hath awakened in him my Spirit and Soul through his Spirit in the great Name Jesus in Christ so that I in my Resignation in him need not to dye for he dyed in me and for me his death in that he is arisen from death is become my Eternal life so that now I live in his death as
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
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
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
captivated I say also that I cannot for it lieth not in my willing running and toiling but it lieth in the Compassion of God for I cannot by my own strength and ability overcome the wrathful Anger of God which is enkindled in me but seeing his dear Heart hath freely given it self again out of Love and in Love into the Humanity viz. into the poysonful enkindled Mercury in the Soul and Tinctured the Soul viz. the Poyson-Source of the Eternal Nature in the Eternal Fathers Natures property therefore I will cast my will into his Tincture and I will go with my will out of the Enkindled Poyson-Source out of the evil Mercury in Gods Anger into his Death and with my corrupted will I will dye with him in his Death and become a Nothing in him and then he must be my Life 62. For if my will is a Nothing then he is in me what he pleaseth and then I know not my self any more but him and if he will that I shall be Something then let him effect it but if he willeth it not then I am dead in him and he liveth in me as he pleaseth and so then if I be a Nothing then I am at the End in the Essence out of which my Father Adam was created for out of Nothing God hath created all things 63. The Nothing is the highest Good for there is no Turba therein and so nothing can touch or annoy my Soul for I am a Nothing to my self but I am Gods who knoweth what I am I know it not neither shall or ought I to know it 64. And thus is the Cure of my Souls sickness he that will adventure it with me shall find by experience what God will make of him As for example I here write and I also do not do it for I as I know nothing have also not learned or studied it so then I do it not but God doth it in me as he pleaseth 65. I am not known to my self but I know unto him what and how he pleaseth Thus I live not to my self but unto him and Thus we are in Christ only One as a Tree in many boughs and branches and he begetteth and bringeth forth the fruit in every branch as he pleaseth and thus I have brought his Life into mine so that I am Atoned with him in his Love for his Will in Christ is entered into the Humanity in me and now my Will in me entereth into his Humanity and thus his living Mercury that is his Word viz. the Speaking Mercury Tinctureth my wrathful Evil Mercury and transformeth it into his and thus my Mars is become a Love-fire of God and his Mercury speaketh through mine as through his Instrument what he pleaseth and thus my Iupiter liveth in the Divine Joy and I know it not the True Sun shineth unto me and I see it not for I live not to my self I see not to my self and I know not to my self I am a thing and I know not what for God knoweth what I am and so now I run and tend to and fro as a thing in which the Spirit driveth or acteth me as he pleaseth and Thus I live according to my inward Will which yet is not mine 66. But yet I find in me another Life which I am not according to the Resignation or Self-denyal but according to the Creature of this World viz. according to the Similitude of Eternity this Life doth yet stand in poyson and strife and shall yet be turned to Nothing and then I am wholly perfect Now in this same Life wherein yet I find my self-hood is Sin and Death and these likewise shall be brought to Nothing and in that Life which God is in me I hate Sin and Death and according to that Life which yet is in my self hood I hate the Nothing viz. the Deity Thus one Life fighteth against the other and there is a continual Contest in me but being Christ is born again in me and liveth in my Nothingness therefore Christ will according to his Promise made in Paradise bruise the head of the Serpent viz. of my Self-hood and mortifie the evil man in my Self so that he himself may truly live in me 67. But what shall Christ do with the evil man shall he cast him away No! for he is in Heaven and doth thereby accomplish and effect his Wonders in this World which stands in the Curse Now each laboureth in its own Vineyard the outward Man laboureth in the Cursed World which is Evil and Good in the Wonders of God viz. in the Mirror of Glory which yet shall be revealed in him and the inward Man is not its own but Gods Instrument with whom God maketh what he pleaseth till the outward with its Wonders in the Mirror shall also be manifest in God and even then is God All in All and he alone in his Wisdom and Deeds of Wonder and Nothing else besides and this is the Beginning and the End Eternity and Time 68. Now understand it aright unto the outward Man there appertaineth a Cure from the outward viz. from the outward Will of God who hath made himself external with this visible World and for the inward Man there is a Cure from the inward World which God is All in All only One not many one in all and all in one but if the inward Penetrates the outward and illustrate it with its Sun-shine and the outward receiveth the Sun-shine of the inward then is it tinctured cured and healed by the inward and the inward doth illustrate it as the Sun through-shines the water or as the fire do set the Iron quite through of a light glee here now needeth no other Cure 69. But seeing the Devil in the Wrath of the eternal Nature doth oppose the Soul as an enemy of the Soul and continually casteth his poysonful Imagination at the Soul to tempt and try it and the Anger or Wrath of the Eternal Nature is manifest in the outward Man which Adam awakened and stirred up thereupon this Wrath is oftentimes stirred up by the Devil and his servants that it doth effectually work and burn in the outward body and even then the inward Love-fire goeth out in the outward Man as a red-hot Iron is quenched in the water yet not so soon in the internal but in the external Man unless the outward Man continue lying in the mire of sin so that the Soul which had given it self into the Nothing viz. into the Liberty into the Life of God doth enter again with its Desire into the outward sinful Man then it loseth the inward Sun for it goeth again out of the Nothing into the Something viz. into the Source 70. Thus the outward body must then have an outward Cure and albeit the inward Man yet liveth in God yet whereas the Soul hath Imagined into the outward Wrath so that the divine Tincturation is no longer in the outward Man the outward Mercury viz.
the Expressed Word must have a Tincturation from the outward expressed Love and Light unless the Will-spirit of the Soul doth wholly re-enter into the inward hidden Man and be again transmuted and then the Cure may be again introduced into the outward Man being the through-shining Love of God in the Light which is exceeding precious 71. But now this Herb is rarely to be found upon the Earth for men do eat only of the forbidden Tree therefore the Poyson of the Serpent doth so spring up in them in the Wrath of the eternal and external Nature so that they must also have an external Cure for their Serpents Poyson in the outward Mercury 72. It is indeed Possible for a man to live without sickness but he must bring the divine Tincturation from the inward Man through the outward which is very difficult to do in the World for the outward Man liveth amongst the thorns of Gods Wrath which gall and sting him on every side and blow up the Wrath of God so that it burneth in the outward Man and then the Tincturation of Gods Love may not continue there it is indeed there but not in the outward enkindled Abominations but it dwelleth in it self like as the Light dwelleth in the Darkness and the Darkness comprehends it not also knoweth nothing thereof but when the Light is manifest in the Darkness then is the Night changed into Day 73. Thus it is likewise with Man of what Light Man liveth of that also cometh his Cure if he liveth in the outward World then the outward Goodness and Love viz. the outward Jupiter and Venus with the Sun must be his Cure or he remaineth in the Angry Mars and in the poysonful Mercury in the earthly Moon captived in the Impression of Saturn viz. in the earthly Sulphur which however is made manifest and awakened in the outward Man by Adam for whose sake the outward Man must dye putrifie and so enter again into the Nothing viz. into the End or as I might better say and signifie it into the beginning of the Creation into the Essence out of which it went and departed with Adam CHAP. X. Of the inward and outward Cure of Man 1. LEt the Lover of God understand us aright We do not go upon an Historical Heathenish Conjecture but only and alone upon the Light of the outward Nature both Suns shine unto us Understand us aright and see how God hath Cured Man when the Poyson of the Serpent and Devil held him imprisoned in Death and how he yet still cureth the poor Soul captivated in Gods Anger the like Process also must the Physician keep in curing the outward body 2. The divine Light and Love was extinguished in Adam because he Imagined into the Serpents property viz. into Evil and Good so that the Poyson of Death began effectually to work in Mercury and the Source of Anger was inflamed in the eternal Mars and the dark Impression of the eternal Natures property took possession of him his body became Earth in the dark Impression in the Poyson of the enkindled Mercury and was an enmity against God he was utterly undone and there was no remedy for him by any Creature neither in Heaven nor in this World the wrathful Death captivated him in Soul and Body 3. Now how did God do to Cure him and Tincture him again did he take a strange thing thereunto No! He took the Likeness and cured him with that what was corrupted in him viz. with the divine Mercury and with the divine Venus and with the divine Jupiter understand in Man was the Expressed Word which I call the Eternal Mercury in Man for it the true ruling acting Life it was inspired or in-spoken into Mans Image which God created out of his Essence into an Image according to God as into a Creatural Image which was the Soul with the Property of all the Three Worlds viz. with the World of Light and Understanding which is God and with the Fire World which is the Eternal Nature of the Father of all Beings and with the Light Love-World which is Heavenly Corporality for in the Love-desire is the Essence viz. the Corporality 4. The Desire of Love is Spirit and is the Heart of God viz. the right divine Understanding In the Love-Essence Mercury is Gods Word and in the fiery Nature he is the Wrath of God the Original of all Mobility and Enmity also of Strength and Omnipotence the fiery Property maketh the Light viz. the Liberty desirous so that the Nothing is a Desire and this Desire is the Love of God which Adam did extinguish in him for he Imagined after Evil and God that is after Earthliness the Earthliness came forth into a Being both out of the Wrath and out of the Love-Being and that through Gods Motion that the Wonders of the Abyss and Byss might be made manifest that Good and Evil might be made known and manifest and this Adam being the Image of God should not do for God had created him unto his Image He should have Tinctured the Fire-World and outward World with the Word of Love that so none of them should be manifest in him like as the day holdeth the night avalled in it self 5. But by false Imagination he hath awakened and manifested the dark and poysonful Mercurial Fire-World in him so that his bodily Essence of the dark Impression is fallen unto the evil Part in the poysonful Mercurial Property and the Soul is become manifest in the Eternal Nature in the Fathers Fire-property viz. in the poysonful hateful Mercury according to which God calleth himself an angry zealous God and a consuming fire 6. Now to help and restore this again viz. the Image of God God must take the right Cure and even the same which Man was in his innocency But how did he effect it Behold O Man behold and see open thy Understanding thou art called 7. He introduced the holy Mercury in the Love-flame viz. in the fiery Love with the Desire of the divine Essentiality or after the divine Essentiality which Desire maketh divine Corporality in it self again into the Expressed Word viz. into the Mercurial Fire-Soul understand into the Souls Essence in the Womb of Mary and became again that same Image of God He Tinctured the Poyson viz. the Wrath of the Father of all Essences with the Love-fire He took only even that same Mercury which he had breathed into Adam for an Image and formed into a Creature He took only that same property yet not in the Fires property but in the burning Love He did with the Love introduce again the Light of the Eternal Sun into the humane property that he might Tincture the Wrath of the enkindled Mercury in the humane property and inflame it with Love that the humane Jupiter viz. the divine Understanding might again appear and be manifest 8. Ye Physicians if ye here understand nothing then ye are captivated in the Poyson of
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.
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
substance and then also the Fire-spirit cannot subsist for unless it hath substance it goeth out therefore it must continually and without intermission dye in it self in the fiery anxious desire so long as it hath the colds substance to live upon its life ariseth and yet it is nothing but a constant dying and consuming and in its Devoration is the greatest hunger after substance this same hunger passeth forth through and with the Devoration out of the dying of the Fire and dwelleth in the Nothing yet it may not be a Nothing and also it cannot be a Nothing therefore it draweth the Fire again into it self for its own desire is bent towards its Mother but being it is once dead to the Fire-Source it cannot dye any more in the Fire of the Heat or Cold but it continually proceedeth forth from the Fire and the Fire draweth it again continually into it self and so it is the life of the Fire and this is the Air which in the Fire is rightly called Wind by reason of the Strength and Force and in that which is proceeded forth it is properly called Air by reason of its life of meekness 11. And in the dying of the Fire we are to understand the Oyl whence the Fire receiveth its shining Light in which the true Life is understood for that which proceedeth forth in the Fire-death with the Desire to be delivered and freed from the Fire-Source that is a desire of meekness and taketh its Original in the first Will to Nature in which the Eternal Nothing bringeth it self with its Lubet into a Desire 12. This Lubet doth bring forth it self through the cold and hot Death through both the dyings again into the liberty viz. into the NOTHING and so it is manifested in the Austere Impression through the Fire and brought into a Principle and yet it is not either of the Fire or of the cold but so is its manifestation 13. But being the Eternal Lubet to Nature doth introduce it self with Nature into a desire thereupon this desire cannot dye either in the cold or heat for it taketh its Original neither in the Heat or Cold but in the Nothing and so it is after that it proceedeth forth from the dying in the Fire again desiring namely of its own property and doth impress it self for in the Fire it hath taken the Impression 14. Now it cannot conceive any thing in its Impression save an Essence according to its desire which is now water understand according to the dark impressions property it is water and according to the Fire it is Oyl and that which in the cold Impression is wholly enclosed in the hardness as a Conception according to the Wraths property is Earth 15. Thus the wrathful fiery desire draweth continually the same Air Water and Oyl into it self and devoureth it and so the Fire-wrath is changed in the Air and Oyl and Water into a shining Light for the Nothing doth desire nothing else but Power and Lustre and so it maketh it self manifest and brings it self into Essence and the Spirit which proceedeth forth out of the Fire-burning in the Oyl viz. in the Light from the Fire and Light giveth Reason and Understanding for it hath originally taken its Rise in the Nothing and was the desire to Nature and hath extroduced it self through all the properties of Nature through Heat and Cold through the dying in the Fire through the Light and dwelleth again in the Nothing 16. It is a prover and knower of all the Properties for it is generated through all and proceeded forth from all it is as a NOTHING and yet hath all Things and passeth through Heat and Cold and yet none of both apprehends it as we see that the life of the Creature dwelleth in Heat and Cold and yet the right life is neither Hot nor Cold. 17. Now therefore understand us aright this Birth in the Eternity is Spiritual but in the Time it is Material For I cannot say of God that he is Darkness and Fire much less Air Water or Earth but in his Eternal desire he hath so formed Himself with the Time in the place of this World into such an Essence which he formed in the Speaking MERcuRY according to the properties of the Will and brought with the expressed Word into such a formation according to the properties of the Desire in the Eternal Nature viz. in the Verbum Fiat 18. Now the expressed Word viz. the Eternal Natures property is understood in Sulphur for therein is the Seven-fold wheel of the Birth which in the Spirit viz. in the first Conception to Nature is a Constellation and divideth it self out of the Constellation in its own peculiar Birth into Seven properties and out of the Seven properties into four Elements 19. This Constellation is a Chaos wherein all things lie but hidden and it is the first Body but Spiritual and the Seven-fold Wheel is the first Explication or working forth of the Chaos and maketh the Second Body viz. the Reason the second manifesteth the first and it is also a spiritual Body the third Body is Elementary a Cabinet of both the first and is a visible tangible Body 20. The first Body viz. the Chaos or the first Constellation being it is Spiritual is the Word expressed out of the Eternal Conception the same hath again its Speaking in it self which is the Mercurial Wheel in the Sulphur with the seven Forms which speaketh forth again from it self the four Elements 21. Thus the one proceedeth forth from the other the first before the Chaos is the Lubet of Eternity in the Abyss which taketh in it self a Will to its own manifestation this is all God and the Will conceiveth in it self a Desire in the Lubet this is the Chaos or first Astrum wherein consists the Eternal Nature which with the Desire to Nature introduceth it self into seven Forms as is before mentioned and so doth manifest the Chaos viz. the eternal hidden Wisdom of God and with the Desire in the Mercurial Wheel the Element is formed being a Spiritual Body of the Mercurial Life 22. Now all this is two-fold viz. the Desire maketh in it self in its Impression the Darkness wherein is the strong Might of the Enkindling of Nature and it is painful and the free Lubet to the Desire maketh in it self through the Enkindling of the Desire light and pleasing motion the Light is the Power and Lustre and the Element is its Body or Essence whereas yet it is only Spiritual Thus the Fire-desire is a Joyfulness in the free Lubet and in the Darkness it is an aking painful Source 23. Out of this whole Essence Man was created unto the Image of God and understand us aright He stood after and in the Creation in the Dominion of the Element the Mercurial Wheel in Sulphur stood in the Light and in the free Lubet of Eternity but he departed forth further with his Desire into the
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-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
desire to thy Self but wholly and fully introduce thy Desire again with the Resignation into the Eternal viz. into Gods Will that the same Will may be thy Will and Desire 7. Without this there is nothing but misery and death a continual dying and perishing for hence ariseth the Election of Grace If the Humane will which is departed out of the Unity of Eternity and entred into a self-fulness viz. into a selfish Lust and desire doth again break it self off from Self hood and enter into the mortification of Self-will and introduce its desire again only into the first Mother then the first Mother doth again choose it to be its Child and maketh it again one with the only Will of Eternity but that Will or Person which continueth in Self-hood he continueth in the Eternal Dying viz. in an Eternal selfish enmity and this also is only called Sin because that it is an Enmity against God in that the Creature will be at its self-ful command and Government 8. Thus in its Self-hood viz. in a Contentious strife-ful Dominion it cannot either will or do any thing that is good and as it doth impose awaken and powerfully stir up to its Self nothing else but the Dying and Death so likewise it can do nothing else unto its fellow-members for hence also ariseth the falshood or lyes that the Creature denyeth the Union with or in the Will of God and setteth his Self-hood in the place so that it goeth forth from the Unity into Desires and self-Lusts If it did but truly know that all Beings were its Mothers which hath brought it forth and did not hold the Mothers Substance for its own but for Common then the Covetousness Envy Strife and contrary Will and Enmity would not arise from which the Anger viz. the Fire of Destruction doth arise 9. All Sins arise from Self for the Self-hood doth force it self with the Desire into its Self-fulness it maketh its Self Covetousness and Envy it draweth in its own Desire strange Effence into it self and maketh the Possessor of the strange Essence also an enemy against it self so that Sin is wrought with Sin Vileness with Vileness and all run confusedly in and among one another as a meer Abomination before the Eternal Mother 10. In like manner also we are to consider of the regenerate Will which goeth out of its selfishness or Self-hood again into the Resignation the same becomes also an Enemy and an Abominate to self-hood as Sickness is an enemy to health and on the contrary Health an enemy to sickness Thus the Resigned Will and also the Self-Will are a continual enmity and an uncessant lasting War and Combate 11. Self-will seeketh only what serveth to its self-hood and the resigned Will is not at all careful but bringeth its Desire only and alone into its Eternall Mother that it might be One with her It will be a Nothing that the Mother might be alone all in it Self-will saith to the Resigned Will thou art foolish in that thou givest thy self to death and yet mightest well live gloriously in me but the Resigned Will faith thou art my Abominate Pain and Enmity and bringest me out of Eternity into a Time only into perplexity and misery thou plaguest me a while and then thou givest my Body to the Earth and the Soul to Hell 12. True real Resignation is the mortification of the Abominate against God He that wholly forsaketh his Self-hood and giveth himself up with Mind and Desire Senses and Will into Gods mercy into the Dying of Jesus Christ he is dead to the Earthly World with the Will and is a two-fold man where the Abominate worketh only in it self to Death but the resigned Will liveth in Christs death and ariseth up continually in Christs Resurrection in God and albeit the Self-desire sinneth which indeed can do nothing else but sin yet the Resigned Will liveth not in sin for it is mortified to the desire of sin and liveth through Christ in God in the Land of the Living but Self-hood liveth in the Land of Death viz. in the continual Dying in the continual Enmity against God 13. The earthly man is in the Curse of God and is an Abominate before Gods holiness he can do nothing else but seek his Self-hood for he is in the Wrath of God and albeit he doth something that is good yet he doth it not from his own self-will but the Will resigned in God compelleth him that he must do what his Self would not willingly do and now if he doth it he doth it as an Instrument of the Resigned Will not from his own Desire but from Gods Will which guideth the Resigned Will in its Desire as an Instrument 14. Therefore now whosoever will see the Kingdom of God and attain thereunto he must Educe or bring forth his Soul out of self-hood out of the Earthly Desire as the Physitian brings forth the Cure of the Desease from the painful Tormenting desire and introduceth it into a Love-desire and then the Cure also bringeth forth the Sickness in the Body out of the painful Desire and sets it into a Love-desire Sickness becomes the Physicks servant and so likewise the evil Earthly will when the Souls will is cured is the Resigned wills servant 15. The Elemental and Sydereal man must only be the instrument wherewith mans Soul laboureth in the Resigned Will for thereto God hath also created it but the Soul hath made and set up it self in Adam for Lord and Master and is entered into his Prison and given its Will thereinto but if it will be acknowledged for Gods child then it must again dye to the same and be wholly mortified to the earthly Self-hood and Desire in Gods Will in Christs death and be wholly regenerated a new in Gods Will and deprive the earthly Will in Self-hood of its power and rule over it and guide it in subjection and command as a Master his Instrument and then Self-hood loseth the power and prevalency and the lust of Self-hood ariseth as a continual longing Self-hood doth then continually long after the forms of its own life viz. after Self-glory and after earthly Abundance also after Envy and Anger whether it may be able to attain that Abundance and also after the cunning lyes of falshood these are the vital forms of the Earthly Self-hood 16. But the Resigned Will doth as a potent Champion continually bruise the head of this Serpent and saith Thou art arisen from the Devil and Gods anger I will none of thee thou art an Abominate before God And although the Resigned Will is sometimes captivated with false lust when it doth overwhelm and over-power it with the Devils desire and insinuation of its Imagination yet the Resigned Will doth forth-with cry unto the Word of God That Gods Will doth again bring it out of the Abominate of Death 17. The Resigned Will hath no rest here in this Cottage but must always be in Combat for it
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
called but few are chosen also I have loved Jacob and hated Esau also Hath not a Potter power to make of one lump of earth what he pleaseth I say the same also That many are called but few are chosen for they will not they give their free Will into Gods Anger where they are even apprehended and so are chosen to be children of Wrath whereas they were all called in Adam into Paradise and in Christ into the Regeneration but they would not the Free Will would not it exalted it self into the Wrath of God which apprehended it and so they were not chosen children for Gods love chooseth only its Likeness and so likewise Gods Anger yet the Gate of the Regeneration standeth open to the wicked whom the Anger of God hath apprehended Man hath the Death in him whereby he may dye unto the Evil but the Devil hath not for he was created unto the Highest Perfection 29. Thus it is also with Jacob and Esau in Jacob the line of Christ got the upper hand in the Wrestling wheel and in Esau the fall of Adam now Christ was therefore promised into the Humanity that he might heal the fall of Adam and redeem Esau which was captivated in the Wrath from the Wrath Jacob betokeneth Christ and Esau Adam now Christ is to redeem Adam from Death and Wrath wherein he was captivated But did Esau continue in Sin that I know not the Scripture also doth not declare it the Blessing belonged to Esau that is to Adam but he fooled it away in the Fall and so the Blessing fell upon Jacob that is upon Christ who should bless Adam and Esau so that the Kingdom and Blessing might be given of free Grace again to Adam and Esau although he was apprehended in the Curse yet the door of Grace stood open in Jacob that is in Christ therefore Jacob said afterward that is Christ when he was entered into Adams Soul and flesh Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden with your Sins and I will refresh you Also I am come to call the Sinner to Repentance not Jacob who needeth it not but Esau who needeth it and when he viz. Esau is come then saith Christ There is more Joy in Heaven for him then for ninety nine Righteous ones which need no Repentance viz. for one Esau that repenteth there is more joy then for ninety nine Jacobs who in the Centre of the Life 's Original are apprehended in the line of Christ There is more joy for one poor Sinner whom the Anger hath apprehended in the Centre of Gods Wrath in the Life 's Original and chosen to Condemnation if he bringeth the Sins of Death again into the Mortification or Death of Sin then for ninety nine righteous ones that need no Repentance 30. But who are the Righteous for we are all become Sinners in Adam Resp. They are those whom the line of Christ in the Humanity apprehendeth in the Lifes Rise or at the first point or opening of Life in them not that they cannot fall as Adam but therefore that they are apprehended in Christs Will-spirit in the wrestling Wheel where Love and Anger are counterpoysed and chosen to Life as hapned to Jacob so also to Isaac and Abel but this Line should be the Preacher and Teacher of Cain Ishmael and Esau and exhort them to Repentance and to turn out of the Anger and this Line did give in it self into the Anger which was enkindled in Adam Cain Ishmael and Esau and destroyed the Devils Sting with Love that Cain Ishmael and Esau had an open gate to Grace if they would but turn and dye in Jacob that is if they would enter into Christs Death and dye to sin in Abel Isaac and Jacob and Christ then they should be received into the Election of Grace 31. Jacob took Esau's Place in the Blessing wherefore did that come to pass In Iacob was the promised Seed of Abraham and Adam from this Line the Blessing should come upon the sinful Adam and Esau Jacob must be filled with Gods Blessing that he might bless the first born of angry Adam and Esau for the Blessing that is Christ must be born in our flesh and Soul that the Seed of the Woman might bruise the Head of the Serpent 32. The Anger must be drowned and appeased in the Humanity an offering did not do it but this Resigning into the Wrath that the Love might drown the Wrath. Jacob in Christ must drown Esau in the Love-power in his blood that Esau might also become a Jacob in Christ but Esau was not willing to receive his Brother Jacob and contended about the first birth that is Adam in sin will not nor cannot receive or accept of Christ he shall and Must dye to the sinful flesh and Will 33. Therfore Esau hath ever fought against Jacob for Jacob should drown him in Christ in his Blood this the evil Adam in Esau would not have he would live in his Self-hood therefore he strove with the earthly Adam against Jacob but when Jacob met him with his Gifts that is when Christ came with his free Love-gift into the Humanity then Esau fell upon his brother Iacobs neck and wept for when Christ entered into the Humanity Adam wept in Esau and repented him of his Sins and evil intent that he would kill Iacob for when Gods Love in the Humanity entered into Gods Anger the Angry Father bewailed our sins and misery and Iacob with his Humility drove forth mournful tears out of his brother Esau that is the Love in the Humanity brought forth the Great Compassion out of and through the angry Father so that the angry Father in the midst of his enkindled Wrath in the Humanity did set ope an open Gate of Mercy for Adam and all his Children for his Love brake the Anger which Love did put it self into Death and made an open Gate for poor Sinners in the Death to his Grace 34 Now it is commanded the poor Sinner whom the Anger hath chosen to the Condemnation of eternal Death that he enter into this same Death and dye in Christs Death to Sin and then Christ drowneth it in his Blood and chuseth him again to be Gods Child 35. Here is the Calling Christ calleth us into his Death into his Dying this the Sinner will none of Here is now Strife in the Sinner between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent which now overcometh that conceiveth the Child Now the free Will may reach to which it please both Gates stand open to him Many who are in Christs line are also brought through Imagination and Lust as Adam was into Iniquity they are indeed called but they persevere not in the Election for the Election is set upon him who departeth from sin he is Elected that dyeth to sin in Christs Death and riseth in Christs Resurrection who receiveth God in Christ not only in the Mouth but in divine Desire
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