the Darkness it is a Rust or Smoak therefore if its outward Water-body be cast into the fire understand that Body which it receiveth in Sulphur from the watery property then it doth evaporate for in the fire every property doth sever it self again into the first Essence whence it came Originally where all things were only a Spirit 44. And then secondly it severs it self according to the Water of the dark Impression into a Poyson source which yet cannot be understood to be a Water but only a Corporeal Essence of the Spirit for as the Spirits property is so is also its Water and even so it is in the Fire-flagrat 45. Further understand us in the fiery Flagrat concerning the Salniter whence the manifold Salts and Powers do arise for all the Properties of the Spirit are become Corporeal in the great Motion of the Essence of all Essences and entered into a visible and comprehensible Being This Flagrat is effected in the enkindling of the Fire and in the mortification of the Fire it doth impress into it self from the Waters Original a Water according to the property of the Flagrat which yet is rather Fire then Water but yet its mortal Essence is a Water according to the property of the Flagrat it is the Comprizal of all Properties it bringeth forth in its Comprehension viz. in the fiery Flagrat all Properties in it self and apprehendeth the property of the Light in its Powers and also the property of the dark Impression in its Powers and maketh all fiery one part according to the Coldness and one part according to the Heat but the most part according to the endless Mercury which is the Life of all Essences in Evil and Good in Light and Darkness 46. This Salniter is the Mother of all Salts in Vegetables and Animals viz. in Herbs and Trees and every thing he is in all things which give a taste and smell the first root according to each things property In the Good which grow in the Love-desire in the oyl of Brimstone he is good powerful and pleasant and in the Evil he is evil in the Anguish of Brimstone and in the Darkness he is the Eternal Horrour and Despair continually desiring in the Flagrat to aspire above the Gates in the Fire from whence ariseth the Will of all Devils and of all Pride to ascend above the Humility of the Love-desire and in the Fire is the Tryal of his Essence as we see how he clasheth and consumeth himself in the Flash as a sudden thought 47. For its Essence ariseth not in the Essence of Eternity also it cannot inherit it but in the enkindling of the Temporal fire yet it is perceived in the Eternal Spirit by reason of the Elevation of the joy but according to the Essence of mortification viz. according to the Salt of the Fire it subsists in the Fire for this property ariseth out of the first Desire viz. in the essence of the first Impression which property the Philosophers call Saturn therefore the Salt is manifold all sharpness in the taste is Salt the good taste ariseth out of the oleous Salt and so also the Smel which is the Egressive Spirit in which the Tincture appeareth as a lustre or fair Complexion of colours 48. Thus understand us aright the Salniter in the Fire-Flagrat is the Severation of the properties where Death and Life do Se Ver themselves viz. the life which entereth with the Love-desire into an Essence and Dominion and then the Life which in the Flagrat of Death according to the property of the cold sinketh down in the mortification of the Flagrat as an impotency and giveth weight and according to the Subtilness water and according to the Grossness of the Austereness Earth and according to Sulphur and Mercury Sand and Stones and according to the Subtilness in Sulphur and Mercury understand according to the Water of the same it maketh Flesh and according to the Anxious darkness a smoak or rust but according to the oleous property viz. according to the Love-desire a sweet Spiritual Essence and according to the Spirit a pleasant Smell and according to the moving of the Fire and Light it giveth the One Element and from the Lustre in the Fire-Flagrat with aspect of the Light it affordeth the precious Tincture which tinctureth all oyly Salts whence the pleasant taste and smell ariseth 49. The Salnitral Flagrat is the Sude in the Essence whence the growth and pullulation doth arise that there is a growing in the Essence its Impression viz. the Salt is the preservation or upholding of the Essence so that a thing subsists in a body or comprehension it holdeth the Sulphur and Mercury else they would part from each other in the Fire-Flagrat 50. All things consist of Sulphur Mercury and Salt In the Salnitral Flagrat the Element SeVers it self into four properties viz. into Fire Air Water and Earth which in it self is none of these but only a moving and gentle walming not as the Ayre but as a moving of the Will in the Body a cause of Life in the Essence For as the Eternal Spirit of God proceedeth from the Father who is a Spirit from the Fire and Light and is the motion and life of the Eternity so likewise the Air proceedeth forth continually out of all the properties in the Salnitral Flagrat in the Fire from the Anguish in Sulphur in the forcing Mercurial Wheel as an impetuous aspiring motion it is a Son of all the properties and also the life of the same the Fire of all the Forms doth afford it and also receives it again for its life the water is its body wherein it maketh the seething in the Salniter and the Earth is its power wherein it enkindleth its Strength and Fire-Soul 51. There is but one only Element and that doth unfold it self in the Salnitral Flagrat into four parts viz. with the enkindling it giveth a consuming Fire of the Darkness and its Essence and in the Flagrat of the dying of the Cold and the Darkness it parts it self into Essences viz. according to the Subtilness into Water and according to the Grossness into earth and then according to the motion in the Flagrats walming into Air which doth most resemble the Element but not wholly essentially for the one Element is neither hot nor cold also not forcing or compulsive but gently moving Of the Desire of the Properties 52. Every Property keepeth its own Desire for a property is nothing else but an hunger and the hunger doth form it self into such an Essence as it self is and in the Salnitral Sude it giveth such a spirit into the four Elements for the Original of the Sude is in the Element whence four Elements proceed forth in the Flagrat 53. Each body stands in the inward motion in the Element and in the growth and life in the four Elements but every creature hath not the true life of the Element but only the
into the deepest Humility before him it suffereth and doth all things readily only that it might but receive grace it is willing to take the Cross of Christ upon it self and regardeth not at all the scorn of all the World in its Self-hood but continually presseth forward into Christs Love-desire this Desire doth only grow out of Christs Death and out of his Resurrection in God and bringeth forth fruit in Patience which are hidden in God of which the earthly man knoweth nothing for it findeth it self in its Self-hood 29. A true Christian is a continual Champion and walketh wholly in the Will and Desire in Christs Person as he hath walked up and down upon the Earth Christ when he was upon the Earth desired to overcome Death and bring the humane Self-hood in true Resignation into Divine Obedience and this likewise a Right Christian desireth to do he desireth continually to dye to the Iniquity of Death and Wrath and give himself up to Obedience and to arise and live in Christs Obedience in God 30. Therefore dear Brethren take heed of putting on Christs Purple mantle without a Resigned Will the poor Sinner without Sorrow for his Sins and Conversion of his Will doth only take it in scorn to Christ Keep you from that Doctrine which teacheth of self-ful Abilities and of the works of Justification 31. A true Christian is himself the great and anxious Work which continually desireth to work in Gods Will and forceth against the self-ful Lusts of Self-hood and willeth continually so to do and yet is many times hindered by Self-hood He breaketh Self-hood as a Vessel wherein he lieth captive and buddeth forth continually in Gods Will-spirit with his Desire Resigned in God as a fair blossom springeth out of the Earth and worketh in and with God what God pleaseth 32. Therefore let the true Christendom know and deeply lay to heart what is now told and spoken to her viz. that she depart from the false Conjecture or Opinion of comforting without conversion of the Will it is only an outward expressed form of the New birth a Christian must be one spirit with Christ and have Christs Will and Life in him the form doth not renew him neither comforting or giving good words doth at all help or avail but a mortifying of the evil imbred Will which is Gods child and born out of Christs death no other Will attaineth Christs Inheritance my much knowing doth not also do it the Heardsmen in the Field is as near to me as the Doctor no wit or subtle art in Disputation about the way of God doth help or avail any thing thereto it is only a let and hinderance the true Will entreth into the Love of God and his Children it seeketh no form but falleth down before its Creator and desireth the death of its false Self-hood it seeketh the work of Love towards all men it will not flourish in the Worlds scorn but in its God its whole life is a meer repentance and a continual sorrow for the evil which cleaveth unto it It seeketh no glory or applause to shew it self but liveth in humility it acknowledgeth it self always as unworthy and simple its true Christianity is always hidden to it in its self-hood He saith I am in myself-hood an unprofitable Servant and have not as yet begun to do or work repentance aright He is always in the beginning to work repentance and would always fain reach the gates of the sweet grace he labourech thereto as a Woman in Travel laboureth to bring forth and knows not how it fareth with him the Lord hideth his face from him that his working may be great towards him He soweth in anguish and tears and knoweth not his fruit for it is hidden in God as a painful Traveller goeth a long way ayming at his wished for journeys end so also he runneth after the far mark of his rest and findeth it not unless his Pearl doth appear unto him in its beauty and embraceth him in its Love If it again departeth from his Self-hood then ariseth sighing and sorrowing again with continual Desire and one day calleth another the day the night and the night the morning and yet there is no place of Rest in the Earthly Self-hood save only in the fair Solar lustre of his precious Pearl when the Sun ariseth to him in the Darkness then the Night departeth and all Sorrow and Anguish fly away 33. Therefore dear Brethren learn to take heed and beware of Contention where men contend about the literal Form A true Christian hath nothing to contend for for he dyeth to his Reasons desire he desireth only Gods knowledg in his Love and Grace and letteth all go which contendeth and striveth about the Form for Christs Spirit must make the Form in Himself the outward Form is only a guide God must become Man or else Man becomes not God 34. Therefore a Christian is the most Simple or plainest man upon the Earth as Esaias saith who is so simple as my Servant All Heathens desire Self-hood and do teer and devour one another for the Authority and Honours but a true Christian desireth to dye to them he seeketh not his own but Christs honour All whatsoever contends about Self-hood viz. about the self ful honour and pleasure of this Life the same is Heathenish and far worse then Heathenish yea like the Devil who departed from God into a Self-fulness Let it cover it self with Christs mantle as much as ever it will yet the man of false Self-hood is lodged under it if he will be a Christian then he must quite dye to Self-hood that the same may only hang unto him from without as a Garment of this World wherein he is a Stranger and Pilgrim and always consider and think that he is but a servant in his high Office and serveth God therein as a Servant and not be his own Lord and Master 35. All whatsoever doth Lord it self without Gods call and appointment the same is from the Devil and serveth the Devil in his own Power and Form defend and flatter thy self as much as thou wilt it doth not avail before God thy own heart accuseth thee that thou art a false branch thy Nobility and Highness doth not at all avail or help thee in the Sight of God If thou dost not thereby drive Gods Order thy Office is not thine but Gods If thou walkest falsly therein then thy own judgment is upon thee and condemneth thee to death thou art a Servant and although thou beest a King yet thou servest and must enter with the poorest into the new birth or else thou shalt not see God 36. All self-ful assumed or arrogated Laws and Authority wherewith the poor are vexed and oppressed do all come from Self-hood whose Original is in the expressed form which hath with the Form introduced it self into a Self-hood and extroduced it self quite from God Whatsoever doth not serve in a Servants Office before
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
consumes the Body and puts it into the eternal Darkness 15. This Hunger desireth nothing but the Mercy of God that he might be freed from the Anguish of Hell but this he cannot obtain of himself for he is shut up in the Anger of God and his dear Mother which nursed him in the beginning is also shut up in Death but if God sheweth his Grace and gives him again of his Love then the Anger is dismayed at the Love and this is a Flagrat of great Joy for he again tasteth the sweetness of his dear Mother and then he knoweth full well that he hath been so vile and wicked and repenteth of his Iniquity and will turn and mortifie the old Adam and cast it away from him 16. So the Artist taketh him presently away with the old Adam from the strange Anger and layeth him in a soft bed for the old Adam is sick and will dye and then his own Faber in the old Adam is in the Love of God which destroyed the Anger and will make a young childe and rejoyceth in the childe and the old Adam grows sick and weak wholly dark and swart and dyeth and the four Elements go out from him with their colours so the Faber gives him even Leave to go and continually laboreth on the new Body which shall arise from Death and none seeth his labor for he worketh in the dark 17. But the Artist takes no care about the work but giveth the Faber his own food till he seeth that a Vegetative Life appeareth in the dark Death with a new colour out of the black and then when the new Man is ready the Artist cometh and brings the Soul and gives it the Faber at which the Faber is dismayed that another Life cometh into him and he puts the Soul into the new Body and goeth inwardly in the Anger Thus the new Man ariseth in great Power and Glory from Death and bruiseth the Head of the old Serpent in the Anger of God and passeth through the Anger and the Anger can do him no harm at all Whoe'er thou art that hereunto art born Thou hast a chosen work no way for lorn CHAP. VI. How a Water and Oyl is generated and of the difference of the Water and Oyl and of the Vegetable Life and Growth 1. ALl Life Growth and Instigation consist in two things viz. in the Lubet and then in the Desire the Lubet is a free Will and as a Nothing in comparison to Nature but the Desire is as a Hunger in the Desire ariseth the moving Spirit viz. the Natural and in the Lubet the Supernatural which yet is Natures but not out of its own property but out of or from the property of the Desire 2. The Desire is the Instigation of the Essence viz. an Hunger and the Lubet is the Hungers Essence which it taketh into it self for the Desire is only an hungry Will and it is the natural Spirit in its Forms but the Lubet is out of the Liberty for God is desire-less as concerning his own Essence in so much as he is called God for he needeth nothing All is his and he himself is All. 3. But he hath a Lubet-will and he himself is the Will to manifest himself in the Lubet yet in the free affection-less Lubet no manifestation can be effected for it is voyd of Desire it is as if 't were nothing in respect of Nature and yet it is All but not according to the Desire viz. according to Nature but according to the satisfying of Nature it is the satisfying of the hungry Desire viz. of Nature it freely and willingly gives it self into the Hunger of Nature for it is a Spirit without Essence and Desire wholly free as a Nothing but the Desire doth essentialize or materiate it in it self and that according to two Properties viz. one according to the Eternal Liberty which is free from the Source and the other according to the Desire which giveth a vegetative Life viz. a growing or a giving forth it self 4. The Free Essence is and giveth an Oyl and the Desires property giveth a Life of the Oyl the Oyl is a Light and the Desires property giveth to the Light the Essence viz. the Fiery property so that the Light shineth as is to be seen in the Fire and Light and the free Lubet remaineth yet a free Will in it self but giveth its Meekness viz. a free Resignation into the Desire that it cometh to Essence and Lustre its Will is only good it hath no other Desire save only to be good meek and pleasant there is also no other possibility therein for it is as a Nothing wherein no disturbance or Source can be but it is the Meekness it self 5. But being it cannot be a Nothing by reason that it is a Cause and Beginning of the Desire therefore it giveth it self freely as the Sun-shine freely gives it self into every property and the Desire conceiveth or taketh this free Lubet viz. the Lustre or shine of the Abyss of Eternity into it self and makes it in it self into Essence according to its property so much property as is in the Desire so much also there is of Essence and we are to consider that when the free Lubet doth give in it self into the Hunger of the Desire that the Desire then maketh out of the free Lubets property a Similitude according to the Liberty which is as if 't were nothing and yet is this is a Water and Oyl 6. But seeing the Desire that is the Hunger is filled with the free Lubet it maketh its own property in the Essence of the Liberty also to Essence its Essence is Water and the Essence of the free Lubet is an Oyl Thus a two fold Property ariseth in one only Spirit viz. a fiery Property according to the property of the Desire and a joyful or Lucid Property according to the Liberty 7. The fiery giveth in its Essence viz. in its Water a sharpness from the austere Desire which is saltish or a Salt and from the fiery Anguish a Brimstone whence in the Impression and Creation of the World are made stones earth and metals so also the Elements and Stars all according to the forms in the Desire and the oleous property giveth its Meekness viz. a Love-Lubet wherein the fiery is impressed with the Desire and maketh Corporality and the oleous giveth it self out in its Meekness and maketh the Vegetable Life viz. a springing and growing in the fiery Impression whereinto the Fire must give its Essence and Instigation viz. the vehement Compunction in the Attraction of the Desire which is the Severator in the Corporality viz. the Distinguisher Carver and Causer of the Essence and Multiplicity or Variety 8. Philosophers have called this Form Mercurius from the anxious inciting Sphere which is the Cause of all Life and Motion and a Faber in the oyly and watry Property 9. Thus we are
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
Wrath and made Bread of the Enclosed Mercury and eaten thereof then had the Will entered again into its self-hood and could not have been transmuted 31. But being it entered into Resignation into the Speaking Word of God and was willing to be and do what ever that pleased then the Will went from its self-hood though the wrathful Death of Gods Anger viz. from the Expressed Word which the Devil had poysoned with his Imagination quite through the property of the Wrath and sprang forth afresh with a new Love-desire in God here the Will was Paradise viz. a divine Lovebudding in Death 32. Thus now the Love-will being set in opposition to the poysonful Mercury of the Souls property in the Anger of God then came the Devil and said Thou art the King who hast overcome come and shew thy self in thy Miracles and Deeds of Wonder and he brought him upon the Pinacle of the Temple and said Fall down that men may see it for it is written He bath given his Angels charge over thee that they should bear thee up in their hands left thou dosh thy foot against a stone Here the Devil would fain that he should use again the Fires might viz. the Souls self-hood in its own fiery property and depart out of the Resignation into an Arrogation of Self in its own Fire-will as he had done and also Adam when he went with the Desire in his own Might into Evil and Good and would have his eyes open in Evil and Good as Moses writeth thereof that the Serpent did perswade them thereunto 33. Here came the fine Adorned Beast again and tempted the second Adam also for God gave him leave seeing he said the Fires Matrix had drawn him he could not stand here now that should be tryed for he was an Angel also as well as the humane Soul which he had Seduced but the humane property in Body and Soul in the Person of Christ had once cast it self into the Resignation out of its Self-hood into Gods Mercy and stood still in the Resignation viz. in the divine Will and would not cast himself down or do any thing save what God alone did by it and said unto the Devil It is written Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God which is as much as if he had said A Creature of God shall will not do nothing but what God willeth and doth by it there must be no other God besides the only One to Rule and Will the Creature must go and do as the Will-spirit of God doth lead it it must be Gods Instrument wherewith he worketh and doth only what he pleaseth 34. In this proof Adam did not stand for he went from the Resignation into an Arrogation of Self into an own self-will and would try Evil and Good Love and Anger and prove how Evil and Good tasted Here dear man was the trying state before the Tree of Temptation in Paradise and that was fulfilled which the first Adam could not and would not do in divine Obedience in Resignation 35. When the Devil saw that in this also he had no success that the Humanity would not give way to depart out of the Resignation out of Gods Will he carried the Humanity upon an high Mountain and shewed it all the Riches of the World all whatsoever doth live and move in the Expressed word all the Dominions and Might in the outward Nature over which he calleth himself a Prince but hath only the one part in the Wrath of Death in possession and said unto it understand to the humane property If thou fallest down and worshipest me I will give thee all this 36. The Humanity should again depart out of Resignation into a Desire of Propriety and desire to Possess something of its own in arrogation of Self in the Cursed Property Evil and Good this had been a dainty dish and delight unto the Devil then had he remained King and his lyes had been Truth in this Adam also was Corrupted and entred into selfish Propriety and desired worldly Dominion and Covetousness which may be seen in Cain which is the Heart of the poysonful Mercury viz. its Hungers-desire which maketh it self Essence according to the property of its Hunger not Manna but Earth as we may see in the wilde Earth what he hath made in the Enkindling or Motion of the Father in his Fires property in which Inflammation viz. in the poysonful Wrath of the Expressed Mercury the Devil thought to be a Prince and is so in the same property in the wicked and also in the Government of the World in the Wrath but God holdeth him captive with the Water and Light of the third Principle so that he is not Prince in the Dominion of the expressed Word but the Judges Executioner He must look where Turba Magna is enkindled in the Wrath and there he is busie so far as Turba Magna goeth in the Wrath further his Courage is cooled 37. He would give the Humanity of Christ this whole Dominion to rule in and above all in the Essence of all things as a mighty God which notwithstanding he only possesseth in the part of the Turba in the Wrath of God and hath it not in his full Domination He should but set his Desire thereinto and introduce his Will into him and he would bring his Mercury of the Creature into the Greatest Omnipotence that he should be a Lord over Good and Evil and have all things at Command to do therewith as he pleased for so Adam had fooled it 38. His Mercury went with the Desire into the Impression whence Cold and Heat ariseth and Imagined thereinto and so the property of the cold and hot Fire did presently boyl up in the Mercury of the Creature and so also the outward Heat and Cold did soon pierce into the enkindled Mercury of the humane property so that the body now suffereth pain from the Heat and Cold which property before when as it stood in the free Will of God in the Resignation was not manifest and thus Evil and Good did Rule and domineer in Adam 39. For the Centre of Wrath viz. the dark Worlds property was manifest in him in a poysonful Deaths property as the Mercury in Man is yet to this day so poysonful and of a venomous Source whereas indeed he is changed in the vital Light into a Solar property but yet the poyson and property of Death doth hang unto it and it is his Root as we plainly see that so soon as the ready Instrument of his martial fiery Properties Signature or Form is a little struck or played upon that his evil poysonful fiery Property doth come forth and shew it self and inflameth the body that it doth even tremble and shake for the very poyson of Wrath and will ever enter into the Enkindled Poyson Source in him who hath awakened and enkindled the same and assimulate in his malice with the malignant Fomenters malice and wrestle in the poysonful
converted and become as Children you cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven The Self-wil must enter again into the First Mother which brought it forth viz. into the Sulphur by the Will understand Mercury 61. But now who will perswade it to do so for it is become a Self-thing and must enter again into the Mother and become Nothing this seemed a strange wonderful thing to Nicodemus but the Lord said unto him The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but thou knowest not from whence it cometh or whither it goeth even so is every one that is born of God Behold who perswaded the Will of Christ in his Humanity for to enter again with the Will into the Filiation or Adoption as it were into the Mothers Womb and eat Nothing forty days and would also eat nothing but remained in full stedfast Resignation in the Mother Did not the Deity do it which was entered into the Humanity 62. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick Work therefore let the Artist well observe and rightly understand us he must seek the evill stubborn Child which is fled from the Mother and entered into the Centre and would be a Self-thing or it s own only in Saturn for the wrath of God hath shut him up with its Impression in the chamber of Death 63. Not that he hath made him to Saturn but he holdeth him shut up in the Saturnine death the same he must again take and bring into the Mothers Womb and then send the Angel with a Message unto Mary and tell her she shall bring forth a son whose name shall be called Jesus and if the Mother shall yeeld her consent thereunto and receive the Name Jesus then the new Humanity shall begin in the Mother with the new Child in the old Apostate captivated in the Anger of God and the Name Jesus will first give in it self unto the Dead Child which lay captivated in Saturn and eagerly draw the Will of the Evil dead child unto it self this is the fair Bride which sheweth her Crown of Pearl unto her Apostate Bridegroom he should but again receive her and she would again give him her love Now if the Apostate youth shut up in death doth again receive her then is the Artist well prepared and counted worthy by God to finish his purpose Now will the Bride love the Bridegroom and a Virgin bring forth a Son at which all the World will wonder the Virgin shall embrace the Man but he is a Man and not a Woman and hath the Virgins heart 64. Now he must be tempted whether or no he will live in Virgin-like Chastity and in full Resignation of his Will to God for he must be a Valiant Champion and destroy the Devils Fortress of Prey which he hath in his Mother in seven Kingdoms then let the Devil set his Mothers House on fire with his wrath and tempt him he will now well enough defend himself with Christ against the Devil 65. This being done the young man with his Virgin-like heart will wholly give himself up unto the Mother when as the Tempter comes and assaults him and the Mother will wholy swallow him up into her self through the Devils wrath He giveth himself forth wholly out of his own Will into the Nothing Now thinketh the Artist with himself I have lost all that he hath lost Heaven for he seeth nothing and doth not consider that a Virgin hath now brought forth but let him have Patience that which is impossible to the Artist that is possible to Nature after the night it is day when the Tempter hath finished all his Temptations then cometh the Sign or Appearance of the Angels then the Devil which hath tempted him must depart 66. Let the Artist well observe this and pack away the Devil and suffer the young man with his Virgin-like Heart to lie in his Bed and eat his former food for he is now become a Physician of his Sisters in his Mothers house he will do great Wonders in all the seven Kingdoms of his Mother which are the seven Forms of Life as Christ hath done 67. As in Saturn he will raise the dead understand he will awaken the dead Essence which held him captive in his former Prison for the shall turn or make the Earth to Heaven Even as the Virgin hath raised up his Will out of the Anger in the Love and made him a Wonder-worker so must he also awaken with his Will which is united unto the Virgins Heart the Form or Signature in his Mothers womb whence she hath brought forth him and all her Children and enkindle it with the Virgins and his Love-desire This is effected and done in the Sulphur of Saturn in the young mans own personal Property and in his mother for before the espousing of the Virgin the heavenly Essence of the young man lieth shut up in Death for when God cursed the Earth then the heavenly Paradisical Body disappeared and the Impression of Saturn took it in possession until the Restitution where God shall restore that which is hidden that Paradise doth again spring forth afresh in the Expressed Word or that the Artist doth open the same in a Part by Gods permission 68. In the second Kingdom of the Mother viz. in Luna he shall also do Wonders for Jesus fed with five Barley loaves five thousand people this is the working in the Essentiality or Corporality He turned water to wine These and the like do all belong unto the Lunar property where the Champion with his Virgin doth open Paradise and feedeth the Body where nothing is where the outward Mercury hath not laboured and wrought Thus the Forms in the Lunar property do open themselves as if they are Paradisical even then the Artist thinketh I am nigh unto it but he is yet far off from the End 69 In the third Kingdom of the Mother viz. in Jupiter Christ did make the Babes and Ignorant of a very weak and mean capacity Knowing and Understanding viz. of poor Fishermen Carpenters and the like Mechanicks he made Apostles and the most understanding men of all and also of poor disrespected vilified people as of women and simple ones he made faithful devout dear godly children who apprehended in themselves the Universal without any Art 70. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick work the essentiality which lieth disappeared in death where the Mercury is wholly earthly cold and impotent doth now arise in power as if the whole Being and Essence were become a new life at which the Artist doth wonder and marvelleth what it is or how it hapneth and yet doth also exceedingly rejoyce that he seeth the Divine Power to spring forth before his eyes in a half dead Essence and that in the Curse of God he seeth all the four Elements each apart and seeth how the Wisdom of God doth represent it self therein as an harmony of joy and seeth all colours
the colour and yet becomes a Death to the three forms in the Wrath for she drowneth Death with Love Thus the Life is made a death to death viz. to the Wrath and now they both do lie in the will of the Eternal Nature viz. in the Verbum Fiat which proceedeth with them the Divine way in manner as it proceeded forth into Essence in the beginning of the Creation for in the beginning Paradise viz. the Universal was manifest and the Love shone through the Death or Anger Even so it must be again Venus must become the Eye or Sight in the Wrath and then of Saturn Mars and Mercury there will be a Jupiter Mars becomes Sun and Saturn Moon and so Mars shineth with the Sun out of Saturn in Luna from Venus's eye and all Seven are only one Thus the strife hath an end and all is accomplished until the Resurrection of the body 87. And when Jesus had drunk the Cup and said My God why hast thou forsaken me then he said All is finished understand the work of mans Redemption and said further Father into thy hands I comit my Spirit and towed his head and gave up the Ghost Here the whole life of Christ resigned it self into the Fathers desire viz. into the Will of the Eternal Nature and fully gavein the Will of his Self-hood viz. his creatural will again into the Centre viz. into the first Mother whence the Soul-like Creature was produced that is into the grand Mystery of Eternity the Self-will must again enter into Natures End so that the selfness may wholly dye that Gods Eternal Will and Spirit may be and do only All in All in the Humanity and that the Creature might afterwards be alone his Instrument wherein he might do and work according to his good pleasure and thus God the Father hath in Christs death and entrance into our Humanity again received our self-hood into his Will and that this might be he first tinctured the Humanity with the Deity that the Humanity might be a pleasant sweet savour and offering to him in his power for afore death lay before it 88. Here the Love destroyed Death and opened the fast Seal that the Will might again enter into that which it was before it was the creature and even so we all must follow him upon the path which he hath made open for us none can see God unless God become first man in him which is brought to pass in Faiths desire and even then the Corrupt Will which is apprehended in the Death and Anger of God and which bloometh in the earthly essence and bringeth forth fruit unto death be wholly mortified and fall into the free Resignation into the Will and mercy of God and then the own will is with and in Christ at Natures end in the Grand Mystery of God viz. in Gods hands Gods hands are the Eternal desire or the Eternal will which is Unchangeable thus the Creatural Self-will dyeth it entereth wholly into the Nothing that it might no more live to it self but unto God 89. Thus it falleth out also in the Philosophick work when the Artist hath first seen great wonders which the Creatural and Natural will hath wrought in the power of Venus insomuch that he supposeth that he is nigh thereunto Even then Nature doth first dye in his work and becomes a dark night unto him the property and power of all the forms must give forth themselves from their Centre and fall unto Natures End all do freely yeeld over themselves as one dead Essence and there is no longer any effectual working therein all is divided in the Crown into the Thousand number and then it is again in the mystery at Natures End as it was before it came into the Creatural Being understand the Essential desire viz. the expressed Mercuty must again come unto the End of its selfness and resign it self into the Speaking Word 90. The Corporall Essence remaineth in the Centre of the four Elements until the judgment of God which now at Death standeth in the Centre of Sol viz. in the Compaction of Venus and Mercury which Compaction at Death falleth wholly into one thing viz. into one power of Jupiter that is into the Centre of the Liberty for here the desire to cold and heat goeth out all Earthly will and desire of the properties dyeth and there is no more any hunger after the Earthly or Deaths property CHAP. XII Of the Seventh form in the Kingdom of the Mother how the Seventh Kingdom viz. the Kingdom of the Sun is again opened and made alive set forth in Parable or by way of Similitude of Christs Resurrection 1. WE are not to think that when Christ dyed the natural Death in the Humane property that he dyed as to his creatural Soul much less as to the Deity also he did not disappear or dye in the Heavenly Essentiality and in the Heavenly Tincture this cannot be only the Will and Dominion of Self viz. of the outward World which domineered in man unto the own Will and own powers of the Selfish creature wherein man was disobedient to God I say he gave that wholly into the Fathers hands viz. into the End of Nature into the Fathers great Mystery not that it should be dead but that Gods Spirit might alone be the life thereof that the Divine Dominion might be in Christs Person that the Eternal Father might Rule and Reign with his Eternal Spirit in his Image and therefore God hath determined to keep the last judgment by this Jesus 2. Now the Creature of Christ doth not it alone but God in his Image through the Creature in the Dominion of his Eternal Spirit of all the three Principles which is the life and Dominion of every Being in each thing according to its property 3. And understand us aright when Christ dyed on the Cross the Name Jesus did not also dye which destroyed Death and Tinctured the expressed Word viz. the Form of the Deity or the Formed Word viz. the Soul with Love No it cannot be the Eternity doth not dy only the Spoken Word which standeth again in the desire of the Speaking viz. in the Fiat which changeth it self in its own Speaking viz. in the Self-desire and bringeth its own Sound into another form and Source then the Speaking Word had spoken it set it forth with the Verbum Fiat into a Form Signature and Will as Lucifer with his Royal throne and Adam also did when they both departed out of Resignation into Self hood the Instrument would be Master 4. The outward working Sensitive life wherein the Anger of God was set on fire did wholly dye away not that it should be a Nothing but it fell into the Nothing viz. into Gods Will into Gods working and feeling quite from the Will of the outward World which is evill and good so that it might no longer live to the World viz. to the Astrum in the walm of the
death as one dying and yet there is no more any death in him but thus I dye to my Self and Sin in him seeing that my desire and will presseth forth from my Self hood into it so that I dye dayly to my self until once I shall obtain the limit of my Self-hood and my Self-hood with the earthly Will and Desire doth wholly dye unto its Selfness even then shall my Self-hood and all whatsoever is in me which seeketh and loveth it self fall into the Death of Christ viz. into the first Mother whence God created me and my Self-hood shall become a Nothing and even then my Self-hood lieth in Christs Death in the Resignation as an Instrument of God who then will make it his Instrument as he pleaseth 16 But seeing now my Soul and Spirit doth live in his Resurrection and his Voyce Ayr or Breath is in me according to the Resignation in him as S. Paul saith Our Conversation is in Heaven whence we do wait for the Saviour Jesus Christ Therefore also his Voyce which is in me in that I am or live no longer to my Self-hood but he alone is and liveth in me shall raise up my dead body which I resign to him and bring it into his first Image whereto he created it 17. Thus now I live in God and my Self-hood doth not know it for it liveth not in God but in it self God is indeed in it but it doth not apprehend him and hideth the Pearl which I am in Christ not I but he in his Humanity in my Creature in Himself and thus I speak and write of the great Mystery of all Beings not that I have apprehended it in my self-hood but he striketh my Signature in my Desire which presleth into him as he pleaseth 18. I am known to my self but not in my self-hood but in his Mirror which of Grace he hath put into me thereby to allure my self-hood unto him viz. into the Resignation and so likewise dear Brethren it shall again be represented unto you out of his Glass which he hath set forth through my Capacity in him as his Instrument 19. Thus it goeth also in the Philosophick Work Sulphur Mercury and Sal are entered by the Curse of God into their Self-hood viz. into a Self working and living all doth now work in the Curse and Anger of God according to the property of the first Principle if God had not placed the Sun as a Nature god of the outward visible World therein which tinctureth every working life even every thing which groweth and moveth all would be in the dark Deaths Impression viz. in the Abyss of Hell 20. Now if any thing shall be freed from this Self-hood viz. from the wrathful Death and be again brought into the Universal viz. into the highest Perfection then it must dye wholly to its Self-hood and enter into the Stilness viz. into the Death of the Resignation at Natures End Mars must wholly lose the might of the Fire and Wrath and Mercury also his poyson-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
through the Earth thus it is also yet hidden in all things and may be opened by understanding and Art so that the first Vertue may overcome the enflamed malignity 53. Albeit we Men have not full power to do it in Self-might yet it may be done in Gods permission who hath again turned his mercy towards us and again opened Paradise and its comprehension in Man Hath God given us power to become his Children and to rule over the World wherefore then not over the Curse of the Earth Let none hold it for impossible there is required only a Divine understanding and knowledg thereunto which shall blossom in the time of the Lilly and not in Babel for whom we also have not written CHAP. XIV Of the wheel of Sulphur Mercury and Salt of the Generation of Good and Evil shewing how the one is changed into the other and how one doth manifest its property in the other and yet both remain in the first Creation in the Wonder of GOD to his own manifestation and Glory 1. THIS is an open gate of the fore-going Description Every one saith Shew me the way to the manifestation of the Good Hear and observe well dear Reason thou must thy Self be the way the understanding must be born in thee otherwise I cannot shew it thee thou must enter thereinto so that the understanding of the Work in its practique Art wherein I deal not may be opened unto thee I write only in the Spirit of Contemplation how the generation of Good and Evil is and open the Fountain He shall draw the water whom God hath appointed thereunto I will here only describe the wheel of Life as it is in its self 2. When I speak of Sulphur Mercury Salt I speak of one only Thing be it either Spiritual or Corporeal all created things are that one thing but the properties in the generation of this only Thing do make difference or do give various gradual distinctions for when I name a Man or Lyon Bear Wolf Hare or any other Beast yea also a Root Herb Tree or whatsoever may be named it is the same only thing 3. All whatsoever is corporeal is the same being the Herbs and Trees and also the Animals but each thing in its difference of the first beginning according as the property in the Verbum Fiat hath imprinted it self in each thing so is that Kind in its propagation and all things stand in the Seed and Procreation and there is not any thing but it hath a fixity in it be it either hidden or manifest for all shall stand to the glory of God 4. Whatsoever is arisen from the Eternal Fixity as Angels and the Souls of Men doth remain undestroyable in its fixt being but whatsoever is arisen in the Unfixt being viz. with the motion of Time that doth again enter into the first motion whence it hath taken its Original and is a Map of its form which it had here like a picture or as an Image in a Glass without life for so it was from Eternity before the times of this world which the most High hath introduced into an Image into the Comprehensible Natural life in time to behold the great Wonders of his Wisdom in a creatural Being as we plainly see 5. Now we are to consider the only Mother how the same is in her property whence the innumerable multiplicity doth arise and hath continually arisen and how she generateth Life and Death Evil and Good and how all things may be brought into their First Ens viz. into the place where they do originally arise to which the Death or the Dying is the greatest Mystery 6. For no thing which is departed out of its first Order as the Mother brought it forth can go back again and enter with it s assumed Order into its Root unless it dye again with its assumed Order in its Mother and even then it is again in the End and in the place whence it was created and so it stands again in the Verbum Fiat viz. in the Bound of its Order in the Expressed Word and may enter again into that which it was in the beginning before it was Corporeal and there it is Good for it standeth again in that whence it proceeded 7. Now therefore we are to consider the beginnings of all things for we cannot say that this World was made out of Something it was only and barely a Desire out of the Free Lubet that the Abyss viz. the highest Good or Being viz. the Eternal Will would behold it Self in the Lubet as in a Glass therefore the Eternal Will hath conceived the Lubet and brought it into a Desire which hath Impressed it self and figurized and corporized it self both to a Body and Spirit according to the same Impressions property according as the Impression hath introduced it self into forms whereby the Possibilities or powers are arisen in the Impression as a Nature 8. This Impression is the only Mother of the manifestation of the Mystery and it is called Nature and Essence for it manifests what hath been from Eternity in the Eternal Will yet we are to conceive that there was in Eternity a Nature in the Eternall Will as an Eternal Mind in the Will but it was only a Spirit in the Will and the Essence of its Ability was not made manifest save only in the Looking glass of the Will which is the Eternal Wisdom wherein all things which are in this World were known in two Centres viz. according to the Fire and Light and then according to the Darkness and Essence all which came with the motion of the Eternal will through the desiâ—e in the will into a manifest mystery and so introduced it self into a manifest possibility 9. This is now the Essence expressed or made manifest out of Eternity into a Time and consisteth in the fore-mentioned Forms in Sulphur Mercury and Salt where the one is not divided or parted asunder from the other it is one Eternal Essence and shapes it self into the properties of the Desire according to the possibility of the Manifestation and we are to understand that one property is not nor cannot be without the other they are altogether the same only Possibility and now we will speak of their differences viz. how this only Possibility doth introduce it self into Good and Evil viz. into still Peace and Constant unquietness 10. We find Seven especial properties in Nature whereby this only Mother worketh all things which are these viz. First the Desire which is astringent cold hard and dark Secondly bitter which is the Sting of the Astringent hard enclosure this is the cause of all Motion and Life Thirdly the Anguish by reason of the raging in the Impression where the impressed hardness falleth into a Teering or contriting Anguish and Pain by reason of the Sting 11. Fourthly The Fire where the Eternal Will in this Anxious desire doth introduce it self into an anxious darting Flash
cavil and carp at any thing but what danceth as they pipe but I value not their Censures but pity their Letter-learned mock-sciences being but the courted shadows of their own amused fancy such as these being captivated in the Mystery of Babel do Wonder only after their Beast Mammon upon which they ride in Pride and scorn any thing but what doth please and flatter them in their admired works of Covetous iniquity gilded over with seeming holiness but the Babylonish Structure of their Turba Magna-miracles will fall when it hath attained the highest limit of its Constellation and no wit of man shall be able to prop it up In the mean time the Antichrist in Babel will rage and domineer and execute the Sentence of Wrath or his own dismal doom upon himself But I will not transgress by too large a digression but come to my intent which is to explain thee some words which I have used in this Translation as Flagrat Lubet Source Sude The Translators Exposition of the word Flagrat The word in the Germane is Scbra'ck which signifies properly a Fright sudden Astonishment or Dismayment in the other Books it is translated Terrour and Crack but I have put it Flagrat from the Latin word Flagro although by it I mean not a burning but even the powerful opening of the Life or Death in the enkindling of the Fire in Nature for the Fire is the dividing bound mark wherein the life of both Principles is Opened and Se Vered the life of the first is the dying death in the darkness and the life of the Second is the living life in the Light you may perceive a Resemblance of this Flagrat in Thunder and Lightning so also in Gun powder or the like as take divers Sulphrous Salnitral minerals exactly mixt now their Powers are as I may say contracted or shut up in the Astringent dark Desire or Death but touch them Rightly with the true Fire and you will see how they will soon open disclose and flash forth and even display and stream forth themselves into divers properties colours and vertues It is even the bursting forth of the Ardent Desire in Nature It is as I may term it the Magical Fire-breath whereby the powers either of Light or Darkness are dismayed In brief it is the pregnant Eccho of the sound of Eternity every where speaking working and opening it self in Love or Anger in each thing according to its Will and Desire In some it is the horrible Flagrat to Death and in others it is the pleasant Triumphant Flagrat to Life Lubet The word in the Dutch is Lust which signifies a longing desire or list to a thing also a delight delectation or contentful joy Sometimes Imagination and Lust but because our word Lust is commonly used in the worst sense viz. for a longing after Evil and Vanity and would not properly to agree or fully express the Germane word Lust in all places I have generally translated it Lubet from the Latin word Lubitum whereby is meant the Divine beneplacitum or good pleasure by it is understood the Original to a Desire in the Eternal Nothing or Pregnant Magick Gods free wel-liking to the Desire of the manifestation of Nature and Creature without which all had been an Eternal Stilness in the Nothing This Lubet in man is the moving will to Good or Evil Light or Darkness Love or Anger Source By this is meant the first Original Qualities or Properties of both the inward Principles as they do break forth in the Sude of the Fire in the Flagrat of Love or Anger in Nature or Creature for in the Darkness the Love-Ens or Paradissical Light is shut up in Death and causeth an austere dark Source Pain Horror Torment or Disquietness and so it is the radical Property of the contentious Elements and Stars in the Curse of God and in the Light the Life of Love breaks forth and swallow up this wrathful Source of Darkness and Death and turns it into Joy or a divine Source So that by Source understand the Original Quality Property or Qualification of Evil Darkness Anger Sorrow Cursing Damnation Death Hell or the contrary to these in their divine Source or essential working Property both according to Time and Eternity Sude The word Sude is Germane and signifies a Boyling or Seething It is the Stirring of the Seven Properties in Nature arising from the Assimulation or essential co-influence of the outward and inward Sol in Sulphur whence the bloomy Vegetation of the Earth proceeds also the Generation of Metals and Mynerals doth lie therein These are some unusual Words which I have used in the rendering this Book into English not that I would make it a Strange-Lation or be a Coyner of new words to amuse the mind only but to express as well and as fitly as I could the Authors Intent and scope although I cannot say I have every where attained to the full and lively expression of the Authors meaning for as Nature did open its knowledg in him so likewise its language so that in some words there may be a proper and peculiar Idea which our English words in some places perhaps do not so fully express yet I hope none shall find the Authors Sence falsified or perverted but truly translated according to the Original Copy which I have Words they are but Vehicula rerum they are formed to express things and not bare Sounds or empty Ayrs Now He that rightly understands the ground of the Cabala and Magia and knows how the Language of Nature speaks in every Tongue may well translate this Author but the bare letter of his Writings though never so exactly translated will not give a man the understanding of them but the Spirit of Regeneration in Christ in whom the fulness of the Deity dwelleth bodily I should be glad that any one would take the Pains to amend what I have done Amiss and render them more easie to a vulgar capacity It shall be enough for me that I have made him but stammer in English with a Babes tongue God in due time may raise up those that will do them better for all things in this World come by child-like steps or gradually to their Perfection In the mean time I shall adventure to put one Book more God willing into English which is the chiefest of all his Writings if any may have the preheminence and that is the Mysterium Magnum or A deep and Theosophical Exposition upon the whole first Book of Moses called Genesis The SeVerall Names and Titles of the Authors Books collected out of his Writings and put into Seven Parts THe first Book called Aurora or The dawning of the Eternal Day was written in the year 1612. It was taken from him before it was finished and kept by the Magistracy of Gerlits with strict command to him that he should not meddle with writing Books which belonged not to his Vocation whereupon he did forbear for Seven years but
21. Secondly There is generated from the Astringent austere attractive in-drawing Property a Salt-water its Materia is Salt if it be again impressed through the fire or heat then it turneth into Salt and all whatsoever is sharp and attractive be it either in Herbs or Trees proceedeth thence for there is as much diversity of Brimstone and Salt as there is variety of taste and fire to be found in all Creatures Herbs and Trees also all whatsoever liveth and groweth hath Brimstone and Salt for the saltish property attracteth and preserveth the body and the Brimstone hath in it the Oyl or Light wherein the free Lubet to manifestation consisteth whence the growth ariseth 22. Thirdly There is brought forth through the Salnitral Flagrat out of the property of the bitter compunctive Attraction in the first Impression in the Spirit an earthly property of water its Materia is Earth for the same ariseth from the dark Essentiality where the Darkness doth impress it self in the first Desire wherein the Darkness ariseth as is before mentioned Thus it begetteth out of its property in the Impression a mist smoaky steam or vapour which the Flagrat in the Salniter apprehendeth and its Essence is dismayed or dyeth and fallâ—â—h downwards this is the Materia of the Earth albeit the Earth is not of one only Sort but hath in it all whatsoever became Corporeal in the Flagrat all which springeth through the Death of the Earth according as it was enwrapt and driven together in the Creation into a Lump as we plainly see 23. Further We are to consider of the highest Arcanum viz. of the Heavenly Essentialy and then of the precious stones and metals whence they all do take their rise and original seeing that all things come out of one Mother which is the Lubet and Desire of Eternity to its own manifestation 24. Now as concerning the uncorruptible Essence of Corporality the same ariseth also in the first desire to Nature yet in the Impression of the free Lubet and goeth all-along through all the Forms even into the highest sharpness where it retireth again into it self as a Life out of the Fire the Eternal Fire is Magical and a Spirit and dyeth not the Liberty is its Enkindler but the eternal Nature is its sharpness this same Essence loseth the Wraths property in the Light it is in the same fire as a dying yet there is no dying but an entrance into another Source viz. out of a painful desire into a Love-desire it yeeldeth also Spirit and Essence from the Fire-spirit and the Essence of Meekness from the Light 25. For that which dyeth to the Fire or sinketh through death that is divine Essence and it is effected likewise through the Salnitral Flagrat of the divine Joyfulness where the Property Trembleth in the Joy of Meekness and immerseth it self through the death of the Fire which is called Gods Anger and quencheth it so that God dwelleth in a meek Light and the first property to the enkindling of the Light is fire and wrath of the eternal Nature and maketh the dark world 26. The Properties of the first Mother in the Lubet and Desire do also divide themselves in the Salnitral Flagrat of Joyfulness into distinct parts as is to be seen in this outward world it yeeldeth also Water but of a very soveraign essence and it resembleth only a spirit of a pleasant lovely desire This is the Water of which Christ told us that he would give us to drink and whosoever should drink the same it should spring up in him to a fountain of eternal life 27. It retaineth also in the Flagrat of the Disclosure the fiery Property which is called Heaven in which the Wonders of the divine Kingdom of Joy are known and manifest and in the watry Property it retaineth the pleasant Spring or Paradise for in the fiery Property the eternal Element ariseth and it is the real Essence of the divine Corporality wherein consists all whatsoever may be known in God as is sufficiently and orderly cleared at large in our other Writings of the Divine Revelation treating of the Divine Wisdom and of the Divine Eternal Abyssal Birth And now we will turn us to the Essence of the outward World viz. to the manifestation of the Eternal viz. to Metals Herbs and Trees so also to Men and Beasts 28. We see that the Metals have another manner of body then the living creatures or are otherwise then the earth and stones are Now Reason asketh How the Original of every thing is seeing that in the beginning all arose out of one Mother and yet the Eternity hath no Temporal beginning Here we must again consider the Mother of the first Pregnatress where and how one Essence severeth it self from another viz. the Inchoative from the Eternal Time from Eternity and yet they stand mutually in each other but are severed into two Principles viz. into the Kingdom of God and of this World and yet All is Gods But seeing Christ calleth the Devil a Prince of this World and we also are able to declare how far and in what he is a Prince and that this world is not his own but he is the poorest creature in this world and also not at all in this world 29. Now therefore look upon the first Ground upon the Mother which hath thus generated all creatures so also the earth stones and all metals her Property consists in a spiritual Sulphur Mercury and Sal and all whatsoever hath had beginning is arisen in and out of her Impression and inchoatively thereupon came forth with the first form of the Mother viz. with the Astringent Attraction through the Fiat into a Creatural Being and affordeth a diversity of Essence and Spirit according to the first property of the Separation 30. As first The high Spirits which were created out of the Free Lubet in the Desire in the Fires property viz. out of the Centre of all Essences and had in them the Properties of both the eternal Worlds but those which after their corporizing or creaturizing remained with their Desire in the Property of the Free Lubet and introduced their Will out of the Fire into the Light they became Angels and the other which introduced their Desire again into the Centre viz. into the Austere Properties they became Devils viz. Out-casts from the free Lubet out of the Light as is mentioned in other Writings 31. Therefore the Devils have neither the Kingdom of God nor the Kingdom of this World in Possession for in the begining of the Creation this world was created out of both the inward Properties wherupon the Devil hath now only the Wraths Part in Possession the other profiteth him nothing and thus he is in the world and also not in the world for he hath but one part thereof in Possession from the other he is cast out 32. After the Creation of the highest Spirits God created this visible World
property be broken by Mercury in the Oyl of Meekness then the Love of the Light doth incline it self also into the Oyl for the Original of both is from one Will but it is altered in the Impression As the Devil when he was an Angel changed himself into a poysonous devilish property and Adam out of an heavenly into an earthly property 21. Whatsoever groweth liveth and moveth in this World consisteth in Sulphur and Mercury is the Life in Sulphur and the Salt is the Corporeal Being of Mercury his Hunger albeit the Body is manifold according as the property of the Brimstone and Salt is according to the same property is also the ingrafted Oyl which springeth up all along in the Power for the Oyl maketh the Power or vertual Influence in each thing In the Oyl of the Impression viz in the Impressed Oyl is the other Oyl viz. the Spiritual which gives us Light but it hath another Principle it receiveth no other Source into it but the Lubet of Love it is divine Essentiality therefore Gods own Essence is nigh unto all things but not essentially in all things it hath another Principle and yet inclineth it self to all things so far as the thing hath any thing of the divine property in it it receiveth vertue from the divine property be it either a Vegetable or Animal for there are Herbs and Trees and also Creatures to be found in which something of the divine Power is couched wherewith in the Magical Cure the false Magick viz. the corrupt evil Oyl can be resisted and changed into a good Oyl 22. All sharpness of taste is Salt let it be whatsoever it will in this World nothing excepted and all Smell proceedeth from the Brimstone and Mercury is the Distinguisher in all motion or affection both in the smell power and taste but I understand by my Mercury the Sphere of the Birth of all Essences as is before mentioned not a dead Mercury but a living one viz. the Strongest according to the property of the dry Poyson c. 23. Now it doth behove the Artist and Physician to know these things else he cannot Cure any sickness or disease unless he hits on it by chance if he knoweth not wherewith the Oyl is poysoned in the body and what kind of Hunger Mercury hath in the sickness and after what he hungreth for if he may obtain the Salt according to the property of his Hunger after which he is desirous with such an Oyl as he fain would have then is the sickness over very presently for he turneth his Oyl again into the property of the Love of the Light whereupon the Life begins again to shine bright 24. For every disease in the body is nothing else but a corruption or poysoning of the Oyl where-from the Lifes-light burneth or shineth for when the Light of the Life shineth or burneth clear in the Oyl it doth expel and drive away all poysonful influences and operations as the day expelleth the night 25. For if the Oyl out of which the Life burneth be infected or inflamed with a poysonful Mercury or Salt let it be done either from the Constellation or Salt of Meat viz. from a contrary Source whereby a loathing or nauseous detestation ariseth in the oyl which the Oyl would always spue out whereunto Mercury doth help then Mercury doth eagerly travel and perplex it self in the Sulphrous fire more and more and continually laboureth to drive forth the Abominate but doth only inflame it self in it self in this austere Endevor and more more enkindle its inward Form whereupon the Oyl groweth more dark and poysonful until at last the Oyl becomes wholly waterish and earthly and then the Light and also the Fire extinguisheth and Mercury with the Sulphrous Spirit departs from it as when a Candle is put out Thus Mercury passeth out with the Sulphrous Spirit in Deaths baneful Steam until he also be famished for a time he may help himself in the Syderial Body which passeth along with it but when Mercury in the Spirit of the Great World hath consumed and starved its property then is the Temporal Life wholly gone for so soon as the Light of the Vital Oyl extinguisheth the Elemental Body falleth down into putrefaction viz. into the Fiat whence it came to be and then this Time endeth in the Creature which is the Death Dying or Departure and from thence there is no Deliverance or Return unless the heavenly divine Mercury doth once more move it self in him which yet cannot be except there hath bin a good property of the Oyl in him viz from the divine Essentiality in this property which is capable of the divine Essentiality the Light doth only enkindle it self again 26. For the divine Essentiality or this heavenly Mercury changeth the dead Oyl again into his and becomes its Life for the outward Mercury which hath ruled the Life returns not again it hath only been for a time a Mirror of the Eternal but he is changed into another Source for being suffocated he passeth again into the Mystery whence he at first proceeded in the Creation of the World and the body also goeth into the same Mystery 27. Thus it remaineth and belongeth yet to another motion of the Deity viz. to a Separating where the Evil wherein the Death was shall be separated from the Good and the Verbum Fiat shall restore and bring forth that which hath fallen into it in Death 28. The Physician is to know that in the strongest Mercury which is most poysonful the highest Tincture lieth but not in Mercury his own property which must be broken for his own property even from the Centre is the anxious poysonful Life but he hath another property in him viz. an Oyl from the Light whereby he is so strong and potent which is his food and preservation if this may be severed from him it becomes a Tincturing and mighty Enkindling of all obscured Lives viz. of all Diseases and Sicknesses for in this Oyl lieth the joyful Life and it is an Hunger after Life viz. that it might enkindle the weak and lift it up on high 29. In a Toad Viper or Adder or the like poysonful Beasts Worms or Insects the highest Tincture is to be found if they be reduced into an oyly Substance and the Wrath of Mercury be severed from them for all Life both external and internal consists in Poyson and Light as we understand that the Wrath and Anger-fire of God is a Cause of the divine Joyfulness The like also we are to know is externally for all Life devoyd of the poysonful Mercury is amort and an abominate and accounted as Dead 30. Now Mercury is an Enkindler of the Fire and every moving Life consists in the Fire and albeit some Creatures dwell in the Water yet Fire is their Life viz. the poyson-gall wherein Mercury manageth the Life but the Water in the Gall is a Poyson wherein an Oyl is hid
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
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
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
its refreshment in Love then all the seven Forms do manifest themselves in this Property as came to pass in the Process of Christ in his Miracles but as yet they are not perfect in the operation of their Properties manifestation 19. The Universal is not yet there until all seven do give their Will into One and forsake their property in the Wrath and depart from it with their Will and take into them the Loves-property they must take in the Will of the Nothing that their will be a Nothing and then it can subsist in the Wrath of the Fire and there is no further Turba therein for so long as the Desire of the Wrath is in the Form it is adverse and opposite unto the second Form and enflameth the second Form with its wrathful property that is it striketh the Signature of the second and awakeneth it in the Wrath and then the voyce or sound of the second enkindleth the first Forms property in Mercury and so no Form can attain unto any perfection that it might enter into Love 20. Therefore the Artist can effect nothing unless he gives a Meat unto the Forms which they all do desire and love to eat wherein there is no Turba now the Properties cannot eat being their mouth is frozen up in the Impression of Saturn the Artist must first open their mouth and make them alive in their Zeal that all the Forms may be hungry and then if there be Manna they do all eat together thereof and so the precious grain of mustard-seed is sown 21. Now when Mercury doth thus awake from the Death of the Impression of Saturn and gets Manna into the mouth of his property of the poysonful Deaths-Source then ariseth the Flagrat of the Kingdom of Joy for it is as a Light which is enkindled in the Darkness for the Joy or Love springeth up in the midst of the Anger Now if Mercury apprehends the glimpse or aspect of the Love in Mars then the Love dismayeth the Wrath and it is as a Transmutation but it is not fixt and stedfast and as soon as this cometh to pass the Angelical Properties do appear in view and ken The Process in the Temptation 22. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness and the Devil came unto him and tempted him When the Soul of Christ did hunger the Devil said unto Jesus Open the Centre in the Stones that is the Impressed Mercury and make thee Bread eat the Substance of the Souls property what wilt thou eat of nothing viz. of the speaking Word Eat of the expressed Word viz. of the property of Good and Evil and then thou art Lord in both this also was Adams bit wherein he did eat Death Then said Christ Jesus Man liveth not by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth from the mouth of God 23. Mark Whence had the Person of Christ the Will that he would not eat with the Souls Hunger of the Bread which could have been made of stones which he could well have performed Or how had it been if the Hunger of the humane Property had after the Unction of Baptism here eaten in the Temptation of the Mercury in the Impression of Death viz. of the Sulphur of the expressed Word in which was the Anger and from whence the Love was fled as it is so in the earthly Property 24. Observe The Will and Desire to eat of the Speaking Word came into the Souls property from the Motion of the Deity when as the same had moved it self in the Soulick Essence shut up in Death in Mary his Mother in her Essence or Seed and introduced the Aspect of the Eye of God in the Love into the dead Souls Essence and had manifested the Love in Death then one Divine Property desired the other and the Desire of the bodily Hunger to eat of Gods Bread or Essence came from the Baptism When the Water of the Body which in the Impression of the Substance was enclosed in Death did taste the Water of eternal Life in the holy Spirit viz. the holy Spirits Corporality or Essentiality in the Baptism then the Incentive of the divine Hunger of the Ardent Desire after Gods Essence did arise in the flesh as a divine Hunger a glimmering or shining Incentive of Divine Property 25. Now the Man Christ must hereupon be tempted in Body and Soul of which he would eat on one part the Expressed Word of Love and Anger was represented before Body and Soul in which the Devil would be Lord and Master and rule therein omnipotently and on the other part the Speaking Word in the Love property was only represented to the Soul and Body 26. Here now began the Combate which Adam should have undergone in Paradise for on one side Gods Love-desire which had manifested it self in the Soul did eagerly attempt the Soulick and bodily property and introduced its Desire into the Souls property that the Soul should eat thereof and give the Body Manna thereof and on the other side the Devil in Gods wrathful property did assault in the Souls property and brought his Imagination into the property of the first Principle viz. into the Centre of the dark World which is the Souls Fire-life 27. Here was the Contest about the Image of God whether it would live in Gods Love or Anger in the Fire or Light for the property of the Soul as to its Fire-life was the Fathers according to the Fire-world and being the Soul in Adam had quenched the Light-world the Light-world was again incorporated with the Name Jesus which came to pass in the Conception of Mary 28. Now it was here tryed in the Temptation of which property man would live whether of the Fathers in the Fire or of the Sons in the Light of Love Here the whole property of Christs Person was Tempted The Devil said as he had also said unto Adam Eat of the Evil and Good Hast thou not Bread then make Bread of Stones why dost thou Hunger so long in thy own Property Then said the Divine Desire Man liveth not of Bread alone but of Every Word of God 29. Thus the property of the fiery Soul resigned it self with its Desire into the Love viz. into the Speaking Words property and the fiery Desire did eat Manna in the Love-desire O ye Philosophers observe it well when this was done the Love transmuted the fiery property into its Love-property here the Father gave the Fire-Soul unto the Son understand the fiery property of the Expressed Mercury to the Speaking Mercury in the Light for Christ also said so afterwards Father the men were thine and thou hast given them me and I give unto them Eternal Life 30. Here Gods Love gave the Eternal Love-Life to the Corrupted Humanity the Love did wholly give it self in unto the Fire-wrath and transmuted the Wrath of the Soul into a Triumphant joyful Love but if the Souls and Bodies property had obeyed the Devil in Gods
only in the Impression in the cold Sulphur in the sharpness of the Wrath it turneth to a false desire viz. to a false Love which is contrary to the meeknes for its desire is Saturn and Mars 2. It putteth forth its Sun understand its luster of life in Mars and the warming Light which also receiveth its fiery sharpness in the Impression in Sulphur from Mars bringeth its desire again into the liberty viz. through the dying in the Fire through the anguish It doth wholly and freely give it self forth in the dying of the Fire and forsaketh the property of the wrath 3. And so it becometh a Generall joy and not its own only even like the Sun that giveth forth its shining Lustre Universally the Sun-shine is neither hot nor cold only Mercury in the Spirit of the great World doth make in Mars and Saturns property a heat therein for the Sun doth enkindle their desire whereupon they grow so very hungry eager desirous and operative that even a Fire is found to be in the Light which heat is not of the Lights own property but of the Soul of the great Word which doth so sharpen the pleasant Light in its Splendor that it is unsufferable to the eye 4. And we are highly to consider and know that if another Fire-desire which is not like unto the outward life in Mercury would rule in the Austere wrath of the outward Nature that then it would be an Enmity contrary to the Austere cold bitter and fiery Dominion and Life and that they would exalt or exasperate their wrath eagerly desiring to be rid of it Even as it so came to passe when the Divine Love desire did manifest it self with its great meeknesse to the false cold proud and austere Fire desire of the Saturnalites Martialists and especially of the false Mercurialites It was a great Opposition and Enmity to them that Love should rule in the Death of Poyson and dwell therein this they could not not would not endure for Heaven was come into Hell and would overcome the Hell with Love and take away its might as it is to be seen in the person of Christ he loved them and did them all manner of good and healed their plagues or diseases but in that he was not arisen from their wrathful might and that he said he was descended from above and was Gods Son this was unsavory to the cold hot Fires might even that he should rule with Love over them 5. Even thus it goeth in the Philosophick Work when the wrathful Forms of the Earthliness viz. the outward Saturn Mars and Mercury do see the Heavenly Champion with the Virgins property among them and perceive that he hath far another desire then they then they are angry in themselves for the Love-desire when it glimpseth on the Fire-flagrat doth awaken their Fire-flagrat and then the wrath proceeds forth from the Anxiety into Love where-from ariseth a Deaths-flagrat in the Love but being there can be no death therein the Love condescendeth in the Fire-flagrat and giveth forth or distuseth it self into their desire and leaveth its Essence so that in their desire they reach after its Property in the Deaths-flagrat this is a poyson to Death and a pestilence unto Hell and in this Property Death was deprived of its power in the Humanity For Christ when as he shed his Heavenly blood in the Flagrat of Death and left it in Death the wrath of God was driven to retain the Heavenly Love-essence in it self Even there the Fire-desire in the enkindled Humanity was changed into a Love-desire and out of the Anguish of Death proceeded a Joy and strength of Divine Power 6. But I will hereby give the Wel-wisher fundamentally to understand how it went with Christ and how in like manner it goeth with his Philosophick Work both have wholly one process Christ overcame the wrath of Death in the Humane property and changed the Anger of the Father into Love in the humane property the Philosopher likewise hath even such a Will he willeth to turn the wrathful Earth to Heaven and change the poysonful Mercury into Love therefore observe us here aright we will not here write parabolically but wholly clear as the Sun-shine 7. God would change the Humanity after that it was become Earthly and had awakened the poysonful Mercury in the Love-property which poysonful Mercury had devoured the Love and changed it into it self again in to the Divine Heavenly property and make Heaven of the humane earth of the four Elements only one in One desire and change the wrath of God in the humane property into Love 8. Now his Anger was a might of the Fire and Wrath and was inflamed in man and therefore there must be right Earnestnesse to withstand the same and change it again into Love the Love must enter into the Anger and wholly give it self in unto the Wrath it would not be enough that God should remain in Heaven and only aspect the Humanity with Love it could not be that the Anger and Wrath should thereby yeeld up its might and strength and freely give it self unto the Love as the Fire is not made better by the light it still holds its wrath for all that in it self but when a meek Essence as water doth come into the Fire then the Fire goeth out 9. Even so Heavenly Divine Essentiality understand Heavenly water which the Tincture of the Fire and Light doth change into Blood must enter into the wrathful Fire of God and become the Fires food so that the Fire of God might burn from another Essence for water could not have done it the Fire doth not burn in the Water but the meek oleous property of the Fire and Light in the Essence of Divine meekness in the Love-desire that did effect it 10. The humane Fire-life doth consist in the Blood and therein ruleth the wrath of God now another Blood which was born out of Gods Love-essence must enter into the Angry humane Blood they must go both together into the death of the wrath and the wrath of God must be drowned in the Divine Blood and therefore the outward Humanity in Christ must dye that it might not any more live in the Wraths property but that the Heavenly bloods Mercury viz. the Speaking Word might alone live in the outward Humanity and solely rule in peculiar Divine Power in the outward and inward Humanity that the Self might cease in the Humanity and Gods Spirit might be All in All and the Self only his Instrument whereby he maketh what he pleaseth that I say the Self hood might be solely Gods instrument and wholly in Resignation for God hath not created man to be his own Lord but his servant He will have Angels under obedience and not Devils in their own Fire-might 11. Now when as His Love would give it self into Death and deprive Death of its might then the two Worlds viz. the Fathers Fire-world with
gave his Humanity Gall and Vineger to drink and when he tasted it he would not drink it 66. Here is again the outward Type shewing how it went inwardly The name Iesus viz. the Love of God which was entered into the Humanity and had espoused it self thereunto did thirst in the Love-desire after the corrupt Humanity and would fain tast the pure water of the Humanity in it self but the wrathful Anger of God which was enkindled in the Humane property did give it self in with the Humane property unto the thirst of the Love desire and when the Love-desire tasted of it it would not drink it but sank down into it as wholly resigned or freely yeelded and did unite and very essentially incline it self into the Anger of God as a full and perfect obedience and fully and freely given over as a peculiar propriety thereinto 67. This was now the Flagrat of the wrath that the Love should so come into it whereupon the Earth trembled and the Rocks clove asunder for so the Death was dismayed at the Life and here the Awakened Wraths property did SeVer it self into the Centre viz. into the First Principle into the Fireâ—root and now from the Centre there proceeded forth the hunger to the New-birth in the Humane property of the hunger unto Death was made an hunger unto Life for the Love tinctured the Anger that the Fireâ—desire to the dark Impression became a desire of Life 68. Understand it here aright God the Father who gave his dear Heart into the Humanity to help mankind did now thirst after the Humanity viz. after his heart or word of Power and the Deity in the Humanity viz. the heart of the Father did thirst after the Father and the Love or the Essence of the Light did thirst after the Fires Essence for the Fires or Souls Essence in Adam was departed out of the Love-essentiality wherein the Paradise did consist into a Selfness and was become disobedient unto God and thereupon the Essence life and being of the Light and Love did dye in its Growing that is it did wither as to the Vegetative life or Heavenly growth blooming and Sense of the Paradissal Source and did awake and arise to the Earthly World 69. Here the Father brought the Soul which was entered into his Wrath and had manifested its self in his Anger again into the Love viz. into the disappeared Paradisical Image and here the dark World was dismayed in Deaths Flagrat at the Fire-Flagrat which arose up in Love in the Death as a joyful Flagrat which Joy-Flagrat entred into the dead Bodies of the Hopers of Israel who did hope upon the Messiah as a sound of the power of God and did awaken them from death 70. This Flagrat rent in twain the Vail in the Temple viz. the Vail of Moses which hung before the clear face of God so that man could not see God and therefore he must serve him with an Offering and Type of this Final Discovery in which God did manifest himself again in the Humanity This Flagrat broke the Type in the Offerings and Sacrifices and manifested the clear face of God and united the Humane Time with Eternity 71. All whatsoever the Jews did outwardly unto Christ the same was a Type of the inward viz. how it went between God and the Humanity viz. between the Eternity and Time the Jews gave Jesus Gall and Vineger in his Thirst both these properties are a Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn viz. in the Impression this is even the Type and full resemblance of the Souls property as it is in it self alone devoid of the other Love-properties 72. God gave this property of the Soul again into his Love the Death into the Life the disappeared Love-essence which the Word of God had assumed to it self in the Essence and Seed of Mary and quickned to life he gave into the Anger 's property into the Souls essence viz. into the Centre of the Fire and dark World whereupon the Soul-like Fire and dark world became an exceeding Triumphant joyful Paradisical life and here the Champion upbraided Death and Hell viz. the dark World in the Soul and said Death where is thy Sting now in man Hell where is now thy victory in the Wrath of the poyson-Source in the expressed Word or Mercury all is now dead O Death I am to thee a Death Hell I am to thee a Conquerour thou must serve me for the Kingdom of joy Thou shalt be my Servant and Minister to the Kingdom of joy thou shalt enkindle the flames of Love with thy Wrath and be a Cause of the Spring in Paradise 73. Thus we give the Philosopher to understand our sence and deep ground in Nature who desireth to seek and open the disappeared Essence of the Earth which lyeth shut up in Death viz. in the Curse of God the Vail of Moses hangeth also before him and a very right earnestness is requisite for to rend the Vail in twain that he may be able to see the face of Nature otherwise he is not fitted thereunto 74. And as it went in the Humanity of Christ betwixt Gods Love and Anger and both were transformed into One so likewise it is in his Work of Nature the poysonful Mercury in the Sulphur of Mars and Saturn giveth its Lunar Menstruum viz. the greatest poyson of the dark Source into Venus's property when Venus thirsteth after the Fire of Love then Mercury giveth his poyson into the thirst of Venus and Venus's thirst giveth it self wholly unto the poyson as if it dyed it wholly yeeldeth up its desiring life whereupon ariseth the great darkness in the Philosophick Work for the Materia becometh as black as a Raven for Venus hath resigned its life whence the glance or splendor doth arise as it is to be seen by Christ that the Sun lost its light and there was a great darkness contrary to the common Course of Nature 75. For when the inward Sun gave in it self unto the Anger viz. into the darkness of God then the outward Sun which receiveth its power and lustre from the inward as a glass or resemblance of the inward could not shine for its root from whence it shineth was entered into the darkness in the place of this World and would turn the darkness in the Curse of God into light viz. it would make the place of this world again Paradise 76. Thus likewise the Sun of the outward World which is a Figure of the inward all essential Sun must stand still with its Splendor in the darkness from the sixth hour unto the ninth which is even the time of Adams sleep when he entered with the desire into the Centre of the Eternal Nature viz. into the Birth where the Love and Anger do part themselves into two Centres and would prove the cold and hot Fire which took him and did powerfully work in him Here are three hours according to the Ternary and in the Grave three days
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
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
forms of Life in their Enmity do become unanimous and then the hunger of the Disease ceaseth and the process to the Universal is as hath been already mentioned It is not my intent to mention a clear Declaration thereof it is clear enough he that will not seek thereby a new man born in God and apply himself diligently thereto let him not meddle with my Writings 37. I have not written any thing for such a Seeker and also he shall not be able to apprehend our meaning fundamentally albeit he strive never so much about it unless he entreth into the Resignation in Christ even there he may apprehend the Spirit of the Universal otherwise all is to no purpose and we do faithfully warn the Curious Critick not to amuse himself for he will not effect any thing in this way unless he himself doth enter thereinto and then it will be shewn him without much seeking for the way is child-like plain and easie CHAP. XIII Of the Enmity of the Spirit and of the Body and of their C U R E and R E M E D Y. 1. EVery Body is in it self a senceless and as a dead thing or being it is only a manifestation of the Spirit which is in the body the Spirit is signed with the Body whatsoever the Spirit is in it self in an incomprehensible unperceivable operation the same is the body in the Comprehensible and Visible working There is one form of the Seven forms of Nature Superiour and Chief the other do hang unto it and give their Signs also according as each of them is strong in the Essence and as the Forms do stand in their order in each thing even so they do sign the Body of every Thing and Creature in its Generation or kind this is the manifestation of the Divine Wisdom in the Expressed Word of Love and Anger 2. There is not any thing but it hath its Soul in it according to its property and the Soul is a kernel to another body whatsoever liveth and groweth hath its Seed in it God hath comprehended all things in his Word and spoken them forth into a Form as the Will had formed it self in the Desire the expressed or Spoken is a Plat-form of the Speaking and hath again the Speaking in it this same Speaking is a Seed to another Image according to the first for both work viz. the Speaking and the Spoken Word 3. The Speaking worketh in it self viz. in the Eternity and the spoken also in it self viz. in the Time the Speaking is the Master and the Spoken is the Instrument the Speaking maketh the Nature of Eternity and the Spoken maketh the Nature of Time each maketh in its Comprehension two properties viz. Light and Darkness wherein the Element of all Beings doth consist which in the Expressed Word doth sever it self into four Elements but in the Speaking Word there is but One the Element in it self is neither hot nor cold also neither dry nor moist but it is a Lubet viz. a desiring Will wherein the Divine Wisdom maketh the different and various Colours all according to the Desires property in which there is neither number nor end but in the four Elements there is number and End For with the Expressing in that they are become Self-full they have taken a beginning and have formed themselves into a Model or Plat-form of a time which runneth as a Watch-work it formeth frameth and destroyeth 4. This Watch-work consists of Seven forms or properties as is before mentioned which make in themselves a three-fold Spirit viz. a Vegetative Sensitive and Rational the Vegetative consists in the four Elements the Sensitive in the Seven forms of Nature and the Rationative in the Constellation but the Understanding proceeds only from God for it ariseth out of the Eternal Nature all life whatsoever which hath its limit in the Expressed Word doth consist in Sal Sulphur and Mercury for therein consist the Seven properties of Every life of this World and also the spirit of Vegetation Sensation and Reason 5. Sulphur is the Mother of all Spirituality and Corporality Mercury manageth the Dominion therein and Sal is the house of its habitation which Mercury it self maketh in Sulphur Reason ariseth in the Oyl of the Sulphur whereinto the Constellation giveth its desire viz. the essence of its property whence forth-with the senses and thoughts do arise but the Understanding proceedeth forth from the Oyl of the Element viz. in the free Lubet in the Speaking Mercury 6. Now then seeing it is very necessary for us poor children of Eve to know whence the Disease and Enmity of our life doth arise and what that is in us which maketh us our own Enemies and doth vex perplex and plague us in our selves Much more necessary then it is to know the Cure whereby we may cure our selves in our Self-hood and bring ourselves into the limit of Rest. 7. This we will delineate and declare if there be any one that hath a mind to enter upon it and truly prove and try it and we will set forth whence Evil and Good do arise originally and how they arise and give occasion to the understanding Searcher to seek and we will shew how the will to Evill and Good doth arise and how the Evil is the death of the Good and contrariwise the Good the death of the Evil. 8. When we consider what the Mercurial life is then we find that it consists in Sulphur for Sulphur is a dry hunger after Matter which maketh an austere Impression and in its austere Impression it hath the Fire and also in its Impression the Oyle whence the life burneth Now the Impression maketh coldness and its Compunction or Intraction maketh heat so that now there is a cold Fire and an hot Fire in one thing the cold maketh in it self Hardness and Darkness and the Heat maketh in it self the Light and yet there could be no Light if the Oyl in the Sulphur did not dye in servent hot anguish as the Candle in the Fire 9. Now there is a two-fold dying in Sulphur whence also a two-fold Life is Generated as first the Impression or Desire doth intract contract enclose maketh hard cold thick and the hardness viz. the Enclosed causeth a death in the Enclosed Being and yet in that spirit there is no death but a pricking raging and anxious cold Fire-life which is generated with the Impression and is the life of the darkness 10. Secondly in the same Anguish in the austere desire the hot Fire is generated which consumeth the Substance which the coldness viz. the Impression of the desire to Nature doth make Thus there remaineth in the Fire the contention betwixt the Cold and Heat the cold will have its life according to its property and in that it doth strive for life it doth enkindle the Heat in its Impression and forth-with the Heat depriveth the Cold of its Might and consumeth the Colds
his Mothers womb out of heat and cold out of himself 32. As the Love proceeding from the heart of the Father which is his Son doth withstand the Anger of the Father whereby the Father is merciful Even so likewise it is in the expressed Word oâ— Mercury 33. Now understand it thus I do not-mean that the cold poyson of Mercury should be or could be resisted with the enkindled heat no but if the cold poyson be enkindled then the Remedy must be from the same likenss but it must be first freed from the coldness viz. From the enflamed cold wrath and brought into meekness and then it doth also still and appease the hunger of the colds desire in the disease of the Body For if enkindled heat be administred to the enkindled cold then the cold is dismayed or Flagratized at the Heat and falleth into a Swound viz. into Deaths property and so the Heat becomes in this Deaths property a poyson life viz. an anxious Sting and the Mercurial wheel runneth into Sadness viz. into Sickness or a crasie dotage wherein all jâ—y is forgotten 34. For if the life shall subsist in its own Right then the Heat and Cold must stand in Equality that so they may accord one with another and no enmity or disaffection be at all in any of them the one must not exceed or over top the other but they must stand in one Will for the enkindled Cold desireth no Heat but only likeness Every hunger desireth only likeness for its food but if the hunger be too strongly enkindled in the cold such a Cure is not to be given it which is so enkindled indeed it must be in as high a degree in the cold but the violent force must be first taken away from it so that it may be only as the Mother which generates it not according to the enkindled poyson-source but according to the Mothers Joy and so the sickness viz. the Poyson in the Anguish will be likewise changed into such a Joy and so the Life doth receive again its first property 35. The raw opposite Body doth not belong unto the Cure but its Oyl which must be mollified with its own Love understand with a meek Essence which also belongeth unto the same property for the seven Forms of Nature are only one in the Centre therefore that Oyl must be brought so far in the Wheel till it entreth into its highest Love-desire and then it is rightly fit for Cure for there is nothing so evil but it hath a good in it and that very good doth resist its evilness or poysonful malignity 36. Thus also in the same sickness it may withstand the enkindled Wrath in the body for if the cold Poyson be enkindled in the body then its good falleth into faintness and if it cannot obtain the likeness of its Essence for its help it remaineth in faintness and then the enkindled Wrath also doth forthwith consume it self and falleth also into faintness and so the natural death is in both and the moving life in the body ceaseth but if it doth attain the likeness then it gathers strength again and the enkindled Hunger of the Disease must cease 37. In like manner also we are to consider of the Heat which needs no cold property but the Likeness yet it must be first freed from the Wrath of the same Likeness and brought into its own highest Joy and Good so that this Likeness doth not effectually operate either in Heat or Cold but in its own Love desire viz. in its Best Relish and so it will bring the Heat in the body into such a Desire All corruptions in the body proceed from the Cold if the Brimstone be too vehemently enkindled by the Heat then the Right and Property of the Cold dyeth and entreth into Sorrow 38. Mercury is the moving Life in all and his Mother is Sulphur now the Life and Death lie in Sulphur viz. in the wrestling Mercurial Wheel In the Sulphur there is Fire Light and Darkness the Impression causeth Darkness Coldness and Hardness and also great Anguishment and from the Impression of the Attraction Mercury doth take his rise and he is the Sting of the Attraction viz. the motion or disquietness and ariseth in the great Anguish of the Impression where Coldness viz. a dark cold fire by reason of the Hardness doth arise in the Impression and in the Sting of Anguish viz. in the Disquietness an hot fire doth arise 39. Now Mercury is the Wheel of Motion and a stirring up of the Cold and Heat and in this place it is only a painful aking Source in Heat and Cold viz. a cold and hot fiery Poyson-anguishment and forceth forward as a Wheel and yet it is a cause of Joy and all life and motion but if it shall be freed from the Anguish and introduced into the Joy then it must be brought forth through Death 40. Now every sickness and malady is a Deaths property for Mercury hath too much enkindled and enflamed himself either in Heat or Cold whereby the Essence or Flesh which he hath attracted to himself in his Desire viz. in his Mother in the Sulphur is burnt whereby the Earthliness ariseth both in the Water and Flesh Even as the matter of the Earth and Stones viz. the Grossness of the same is nothing else but a burnt Sulphur and Water in Mercury his property where the Salniter in the Flagrat of the Mercurial Wheel whence the manifold Salts do arise is burnt or too vehemently enflamed whence cometh the Stink and evil Taste 41. Otherwise if the Mercury did so effectually operate therein in the Oyl of Sulphur that he might be brought through the Death of the Impression from the Heat and Cold then the Earth would be again in Paradise and the Joy-desire would again spring or bloom afresh through the Anguish of the Colds Impression and this is the Cause that God layd the Curse upon the Earth for the Mercurial Wheel was deprived of its Good viz. the Love-desire which ariseth in the Eternal Liberty and manifesteth it self with this Mercurial Wheel through Cold and Heat and proceedeth forth through the fire and maketh a Shine of the light and the Curse was brought thereinto which is a withdrawing of the Love-desire 42. Now this Mercury being a Life in the Sulphur of its Mother doth stand in the Curse viz. in the Anguish of the Heat and Cold and maketh in his Flagrat or Salnitral Walm continually Salts according to such property as he is in each place and as he is enkindled in each Body these Salts are only the Taste in the seven Properties 43. Now if the Mercury be too vehemently enkindled in the Cold then he maketh in the Salnitral Flagrat in his Mother in the Sulphur a cold hard Impressive Salt whence Melancholy Darkness and Sadness do arise in the Life of Sulphur for look what Salt is in each thing even such a lustre 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
property maketh all evill in the Darkness and in the Light it maketh all things good and in Sum all is wholly one in both Eternal Worlds but Light and Darkness SeVers them so that they stand as an Eternal Enmity opposite one to another to the end that it may be known what is Evil or Good Joy or Sorrow Love or Anger there is only a distinction between the Love-desire of the Light and the Anger desire of the Darkness 19. In the Original of the Eternal Nature in the Fathers property in the great Mystery of all Beings it is wholly One for the same only Fire is even in the Angelical World but in another Source viz. a Love-fire which is a poyson and a Fire of Anger to the Devils and to Hell for the Love-fire is a Death mortification and an Enmity of the Anger-fire it depriveth the Wrath of its Might and this the Wrath wills not and it also cannot be for if there were no Wrath there would be no Fire and also no Light If the Eternal Wrath were not the Eternal Joy also would not be in the Light the Wrath is changed into Joy the wrathful Fires Essence is mortified as to the Darkness in the wrathful Fire and out of the same Dying the Light and Love-fire arise as the Light burneth forth from the Candle and yet in the Candle the Fire and Light are but one thing 20. Thus also the Great Mystery of all Beings is in the Eternity in it self only one Thing but in its Explication and Manifestation it goeth from Eternity to Eternity into two Essences viz. into Evil and Good what is evil unto one thing that is good unto another Hell is evil unto the Angels for they were not created thereunto but it is good to the other Hellish creatures so also Heaven is evil to the Hellish creatures for it is their poyson and death an Eternal Dying and an Eternal Captivity 21. Therefore there is an Eternal enmity and God is only called a God according to the light of his Love He is indeed himself All but according to the Darkness he saith I am an angry Jealous God and a consuming Fire 22. Every Creature must remain in its place wherein it was apprehended in its Creation and formed into an Image and not depart out of that same Harmony or else it becomes an Enemy of the Being of all Beings 23. And thus Hell is even an Enemy of the Devil for he is a strange Guest therein viz. a perjured Fiend cast out of Heaven He will be Lord in that wherein he was not created the whole Creation accuseth him for a false perjured Apostate Spirit which is departed from his Order yea even the Nature in the Wrath is his Enemy albe it he be of the same property yet he is a Stranger and will be Lord though he hath lost his Kingdom and is only an inmate in the Wrath of God he that was too rich is now become too poor he had all when as he stood in Humility and now he hath nothing and is moreover captivated in the Gulf This is his shame that he is a King and yet hath fooled away his Kingdom in Pride the Royal creature remaineth but the Dominion is taken away of a King he is become an Executioner what Gods anger apprehends there he is a Judg viz. an Officer of Gods Anger yet he must do what his Lord and Master will 24. This Reason most ignorantly gain-sayeth and saith God is omnipotent and Omniscient he hath made it Even he hath done with his work as he hath pleased who will contend with the most High Yea dear Reason now thou thinkest thou hitst it right but first prethee Learn the A. B. C. in the great Mystery All whatsoever is arisen out of the Eternal Will viz. out of the Great Eternal Mystery of all Beings as Angels and the Souls of men are that stands in equal weight in Evil and Good in the Free Wil as God himself that Desire which powerfully predominantly works in the Creature and quite overtoppeth the other of that property the Creature is As a Candle purteth forth out of it self a Fire and out of the Fire the Wind which Wind the Fire draweth again into it self and yet giveth it forth again and when this Spirit is gone forth from the Fire and Light then it is free from the Fire and Light what property it again receiveth of that it is the first Mystery wherein the Creature consists is the All-essential Mystery and the other in the forth-going Spirit is its propriety and a self-ful Will Hath not every Angel it s own peculiar Spirit which is progenerated out of its own Mystery which hath its Original out of Eternity Wherefore will this Spirit be a Tempter of God and tempteth the Mystery which forth with captivates it in the Wrath as hapned to Lucifer It hath the drawing to Gods Wrath and to Gods Love in in it wherefore doth not the Spirit which is generated out of both which is the similitude of the Spirit of God continue in its place in Obedience as a Child before the Mother in Humility 25. Thou sayst it cannot it is not so Every Spirit standeth in the place where it was created in equal weight and hath its Free Will it is a Spirit with the All-essential Eternal Spirit and may take unto it self a Lubet in the All-essential Eternal Spirit as it willeth either in Gods Love or Anger whereinto it introduceth its Longing Imagination the Essence and property of that it receiveth in the Great Mystery of all Beings 26. In God the Birth is manifest in Love and Anger wherefore not also in the Creature which is created out of Gods Essence and Will out of his Voyce and Breath into an Image what property or note of the Voyce the Creature awakeneth in it self the same soundeth in and ruleth the Creature Gods Will to the Creature was only One viz. a general Manifestation of the Spirit as each Creature was apprehended in the property of the Eternal Mystery yet Lucifer was apprehended in the good Angelical property which plainly testifieth that he was an Angel in Heaven but his own incorporized Will-spirit forced it self into the wrathful Mother for to awaken the same in it and thereby to be a Lord over every created Being now the Will-spirit is free it is the Eternal Original let it do what it will 27. Therefore we are to know this and it is no otherwise that the Will-spirit which taketh its Original out of Love and Anger out of both Eternal Principles hath given it self in to the Wrath whereby the Wrath hath powerfully got the upper hand and Dominion and put it self out of the Equal Harmony into a dissonancy or discord and so he must be driven into his Likeness this is his fall and so it is also the fall of all evil men 28. Now Self-Reason alledgeth the Scripture where it is written Many are
26. What is the Heaven created out of the midst of the Water and what is the Separation of the Water above the Firmament from the Water underneath the Firmament 27. What is the Ground of the Male and Female Kind in the Essence of this World whence is the Conjunction and Desire arisen could not the same be effected in one only Ground without distinction of Sex 28. What are the Principles in the Spirit of this World from the uppermost to the lowermost Being 29. What is the Sperm of the Generation of all things 30. What is the difference of the Sperm betwixt Metals Stones and Vegetables viz. Herbs Trees and earthly things 31. How is the same Copulation and Conjunction of the Female and Male nature effected whence their Seed and Growth ariseth 32. What is the Tincture in the Spermatick Nature whence the Growth and Lustre ariseth 33. Out of what are all the Creatures of the mortal Life sprung forth and created 34 What was the Archeus and Separator of their Nature and Property which formed them and still to this day formeth them ' 35. What are the six work-days of the Creation and the Sabbath 36 What is the difference of the mortal Creatures and what is their Chaos wherein each Kind liveth and wherein they are distinct and Severed one from another 37. To what End or wherefore were the mortal Creatures created 38. Whence was man Created as to the Body 39 What was the Inspiration whereby man became a living Soul ' 40. What is the Immortal Life in Man and what is the outward Life of this World in him 41. What is the IDEA or exact Image of God in Man wherein God worketh and dwelleth 42. What was Paradâ—se wherein God created Man Is the same changeable and a Creature or doth it stand in the Eternal Ground 43. Wherefore did God create at first but one man and not forthwith a man and woman together as he did the other kinds of Creatures 44. Was the first man in such Habit created to eternal Life or to Alteration 45. In what Image or Likeness was Adam before his Eve In what form and fashion was he when he was neither Husband nor wife but both 46. Had Adam before his Eve Manlike members and such bones stomack guts teeth and all that we now have 47. If that Adam was such a one as we are now how should he in such manner and condition have been able to Stand without Suffering and Corruption 48. What should have been Adam's Eating and Drinking in a Paradissical manner without care distress and sorrow if he had stood out the Tryal 49. Should Adam in Paradise have eaten such fruit as the Heavenly Eating shall be after this time or of what should he have been Able to eat Where should the same have continued seeing all the Beings of this World are earthly and transitory and he only was an eternal heavenly Image and needed not the Vanity 50. Did four Elements also rule in Adam in his Innocency or but one only in the likeness of the four Elements did he also before he fell feel Heat and Cold 51. Should any thing have been able to have killed or destroyed Adam 52. What should have been Adams condition and estate upon the Earth what should he have eaten if he had continued in Paradise ' 53. What was the Earth with its fruits before the Curse when it was called a Paradise 54. Should the Propagation have been effected without Man and Woman seeing in the Resurrection of the dead they shall not be man nor woman but like to the Angels of God in Heaven Mat. 22. 30. 55. How could it have bin possible that a man woman should have continued Eternally will God change these Creatures of men seeing in the Life eternal they shall be like to the Angels was Adam also in the beginning created in the same Angelical Form or in another Form or Image then he shall arise in and live for ever 56. What were the Trees in Paradise which were pleasant to behold and good to eat 57. What was the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledg of Good and Evil each in its Power Essence and Property 58. Wherefore did God create this Tree seeing He knew well that man would offend thereby 59. Wherefore did God forbid man that Tree what was the cause 60. Wherefore should man upon the Earth Rule over all the Beasts how and to what End could that have been 61. Wherefore did God say It is not good that man should be alone whereas in the beginning he lookt upon all his works and said They are very good yet of man he saith 'T is not good that this man should be alone wherefore was it not good 62. Wherefore caused God a deep sleep to fall upon Adam when he built a woman out of his Rib what doth it mean 63. How was the woman made out of Adam what doth the Rib taken out of his side signifie of which God made his wife as Moses writeth 64. Did Eve also receive a Soul and Spirit from Adams Soul and Spirit or a new strange one peculiarly given of God 65. How was the parting of Adam into the woman effected 66. Why did Adam presently take his Eve to him and said that she was his flesh how could he know her 67. What was the Serpent on the Tree of the Knowledg of Good and Evil which deceived Eve 68. Why did the Serpent perswade Eve and not Adam to the Lust to eat of the fruit what was the fruit whereby they did both eat Death 69. What was the Sin and how came it to be a Sin that the same is an Enmity of God 70. Why did not God hinder it from being effected being he did forbid it them 71. How were the eyes of Adam and Eve opened that they saw they were naked which before they knew not 72. What was Adams and Eves shame that they hid themselves behind the Trees of Paradise whence came their fear and terror 73. How did Adam and Eve really dye in the Fall to the Kingdom of Heaven and Paradise and yet live naturally to this world 74. What was the Voyce of God in the Word when the day grew cool How did God recall Adam how is this to be understood 75. What is the Seed of the Woman and the bruising of the Serpent what did God speak again into them was the same nothing else but an outward Promise or an Incorporation of the effectual working Grace 76. What is the Curse of the Earth what is thereby brought to pass 77. How was Adam and Eve cast out of Paradise into this world what was the Cherub with the Naked Sword before Paradise 78. Wherefore was the first man born of a woman a Murtherer 79. What was Cains and Abels offering wherefore did they offer what did they Do thereby 80. Wherefore was Cains Murther for the offering sake what is the ground of it what
Type are these two Brothers 81. In what Grace was the first World saved without the Law what was their Justification 82. Was Cain condemned for his sins what was his doubt or despair of Grace 83. Why did God make a mark on Cain and said He that slayeth Cain His blood shall be avenged seven-fold 84. VVherefore said Lamech Cains Successor to his VVives Zilla and Ada Lamech shall be avenged seventy and seven-fold what doth this mean and signifie 85. VVhat was the greatest Sin of the first world 86. VVhat is the Henochian life what is become of Henoch so also of Moses and Elias 87. VVhat doth Noah's Flood Typyfie and point out 88. VVhat doth Noah's Drunkenness signifie by reason whereof he cursed his Son Ham 89. VVhat is the Tower of Babel and wherefore were the Speeches there altered 90. VVhat was the Covenant with Abraham concerning the Blessing and also the Circumcision 91. VVhat Figure is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha how was it effected 92. VVherefore was Lot's wife turned to a pillar of Salt how is it to be understood 93. VVherefore did the Daughters of Lot lie with their Father and first made him drunk that they might be with child by their Father whence arose two potent Nations what doth this Figure signifie 94. What doth the Figure of Moses signifie that he must be drawn out of the River and be preserved to such a Great Office 95. Why did the Lord appear to Moses in a fire-flaming bush when he chose him 96. From what power did Moses do his wonders before Pharaoh 97. What Figure is the departure of the children of Israel out of Aegypt 98. VVherefore must Moses remain forty days upon the Mount Sinai when God gave him the Law 99. VVhat is the Law in one Sum 100. VVhat were the offerings of Moses How was Sin blotted out and appeased through these offerings 101. What is the Ground of the Prophetical prophecyings By what knowledg and Spirit did the Prophets in the Old Testament prophecy 102. VVhat is Christ of whom the Prophets prophecyed in the Old Testament 103. VVhat was John Baptist Christ's fore-runner 104. What kind of Virgin was Mary in whom God became Man before she conceived 105. Why must Mary be first espoused to Joseph before she conceived of the Holy Ghost 106. How was God viz. the word made Flesh what did he assume from man 107. Why would God become Man could not he forgive man his sins without being incarnate 108. How was the Union of the Deity and Humanity brought to pass in this Incarnation 109. How was Christ born of Mary unto this World without the breach of her Virginity how could Mary after the Birth be a Virgin 110. Wherefore did Christ walk forty years upon the Earth before he took his Office wherefore did he encrease in Age and favour with God and Man when as he was himself God and needed no Growing or Encreasing 111. Wherefore did Christ suffer himself to be baptized of Iohn with water when as he himself was the baptisme and the Baptizer who should baptize with the Holy Ghost 112. Wherefore must Christ be tempted forty days after his baptisme in the Wilderness what doth it mean that a God-man should be tempted and wherefore must the Devil tempt him before he began his works of Wonder 113. How was Christ in Heaven and upon the Earth at once 114. Why did Christ Teach before the People of the Kingdom of Heaven in Parables 115. Wherefore did not Christ himself set down his Gospel in writing but only Taught it and left it to his Apostles afterward to write down 116. Wherefore must even the High Priests and Scribes who taught the People gainsay and oppose Christ being always bent to reproach and slay him why must not the worldly Magistrate do it or the common Crue 117. Why was there such a process of Revilings Mockings and Scourging kept with Christ before his Suffering wherefore did God so suffer it to be done 118. Wherefore must even the Teachers of the Law bring Christ to be condemned and yet he must be killed by the Heathenish Magistracy 119. Wherefore must Christ suffer and dye Did God require such an Avengement for to be reconciled and could not he otherwise forgive Sin 120. What is the Figure of the two Murtherers which were hanged with Christ upon the Cross and wherefore must Christ dye upon a wooden Cross and no otherwise 121. How did Christ with his dying flay Death upon the Cross how was that brought to pass 122. Wherefore must Christ be nailed to the Cross and wherefore was Christ's side opened with the Spear from whence ran forth water and blood what doth this signifie in the Figure 123. Wherefore must Christ be reviled upon the Cross 124. Was the Divine Power also in that Blood which he shed forth upon the Earth 125. Wherefore did the Earth tremble when Christ hung upon the Cross 126. What doth the Darkness signifie which at that time came above the ordinary course of Nature 127. Wherefore did Christ in his death commend his Soul into his Fathers hands what is that hand of the Father 128. Wherefore did some convert themselves and Return when they saw those things which were done at the death of Christ and not the High Priests wherefore must they remain blind and hardned as to that work 129. What is the Descending of Christ into Hell where he overcame Death and the Devil 130. How did Christ preach to the Spirits which believed not in the days of Noah 131. What doth Christs Rest in the Grave signifie that he must lie forty hours in the Grave 132. Wherefore must Christ's Grave be guarded with Watchmen what doth it Typifie that the High Priests would withstand and oppose Gods Might and keep Christ in the Grave 133. Wherefore doth the Evangelist say That the Angel rouled away the Great stone from the door of the Sepulchre could not Christ otherwise have risen out of the Grave 134. What is the Power of Christ's Resurrection through death How hath he triumphed over Death in his body what hath he thereby done 135. What Gate hath Christ opened through Death in our Humanity into the Anger and Righteousness of God through which we may enter into God How is this effected 136. What doth the journey or Pilgrimage of the two Disciples from Jerusalem to Emaus signifie where they did bemoan themselves and lament in Great Anguish for their Master and yet Christ walked with them asked them questions and taught them and yet they knew him not 137. Wherefore did Christ first appear after his Resurrection to a Woman and not to the Disciples 138. Wherefore did Christ after his Resurrection eat with his Disciples of the broyled Fish and went in unto them through a shut door and taught them 139. Wherefore did not Christ after his Resurrection shew himself to Every one but only to some 140. Wherefore did Christ after his
Resurrection walk forty days upon the Earth ere he went to Heaven 141. What is Christ's Ascention that he went up visibly whither is he gone and where is he now 142. What do the two men in white Apparel signifie who said Yee men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall come again in like manner as you have seen him go into Heaven 143. Wherefore must the Disciples of Christ yet wait forty days for the sending of the Holy Ghost why was it not done presently 144. Why must the Disciples wait and remain together in one accord till the Holy Ghost came 145. What is the Feast of Pentecost How was the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit effected and how was the band of tongues loosed in the Disciples of the Lord 146. How is the Diversity of tongues to be understood in them that they at one and the same time spake all Speeches together in one only Sence that all Nations could understand them 147. What profit is this pouring forth of the Holy Ghost unto us and what benefit is Christ's Death Resurrection Ascention unto us how may the same also be wrought and brought to pass in us 148. What is both the literal word and the living word Christ in this Diffusion or Effluence how are they distinguished seeing they did not all hear the Holy Ghost teach out of the mouth of the Apostles For some said They are full of wine These indeed did hear the words of men but not Christ Teaching in his Resurrection 149. How doth Christ himself teach present in the Office of Preaching and yet sitteth at the Right hand of the Power of God or by whom doth Christ teach what is a Shepheard in the Spirit of Christ and a Letter-teacher without the Spirit of Christ each in his Office 150. What is the office of the Keys Mat. 20. How can the same be rightly used or who is worthy and capable of this office of the Keys How is this to be understood Doth Christ himself hold them in the Office or Function and is he himself the Function or hath he given man liberty that he may forgive Sins without the Spirit of Christ or how is the same effected 151. What is the Testament of Christ with the last Supper with Bread and VVine How is Christ really enjoyed what Flesh and Blood is it and what is the mouth to it 152. Where is the place in Man wherein Christ's Flesh and Blood remaineth as he himself saith John 6. whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood he remaineth in me and I in him Also If ye shall not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood then ye have no life in you 153. How is and becometh man to be a branch on the Vine of Christ How doth Christ dwell in him and yet sit at the right hand of God in Heaven How can he also sit in Man at the right hand of God and yet the outward man is not the same 154. What kind of Christian is a Titular Christian without Christ who only comforteth himself and applyeth the merits of Christ to himself but is not regenerated of Christs Spirit and liveth bestially Doth Christ also belong to him in such working or Doing Or what doth he receive in the Supper of Christ 155. Can the Flesh and Blood of Christ be enjoyed of the faithful without the Testamental Order and Use or how may it be effected 156. VVherefore did Christ ordain and institute this Testament and said That so often as we do it we should do it to his Remembrance To what profit and use is it administred with Bread and VVine and not without the same or can it also be enjoyed without Bread and VVine 157. Is the true real Testamental Enjoyment strictly bound to the first Apostolical use or have men power to alter that order as it is come to pass 158. Is the Testament also powerful and effectual in the changed Order or no 159. What do the Learned when they revile and reproach one another for the exceeding precious Testament of Christ and for the Covenant of Grace and give one another over unto the Devil for the same Do they officiate the Function of Christ Is it right or wrong Do they this as the Ministers of Christ or whom do they serve by doing thus 160. VVhat is the true mark of a right Christian upon the Earth whereby is he distinguished from a titular Christian 161. VVhat is properly and exactly a Christian within and without How is he a Temple of the Holy Ghost â—n whom the Kingdom of God is manifest inwardly How doth he walk also both in Heaven and upon the Earth 162. VVhat is the Anti-christ upon the Earth in Christendom 163. VVhat is Babel the Beast and the whore in the Revelation 164. VVhat is the destruction of the Beast and how shall the same Seven-headed Beast be cast into the bottomless pit or Abyss 165. How doth Christ then take possession of the Kingdom when this Beast is slain 166. What is the true Regeneration in the Spirit of Christ is the same wrought in this life-time or after this life-time 167. What is the dying of a true Christian what dyeth in him 168. What is the Dying or death of a wicked man being the same is called an Eternal dying 169. Whither goeth the Soul when it separates from the Body be it saved or not 170. What do the Souls Do and what is their life until the last day 171. What is the last Judgment or how shall the same be effected 172. How is the Resurrection of the Dead what is that which ariseth 173. How shall this World perish or pass away and what remaineth of it 174. What shall be after this World when God shall be All in All Where all Dominion and Authority shall be put down 2 Cor. 15. 24. 175. What shall the Saints and Damned Do and not do 176. Where shall Hell be and also the Eternal Habitation of the Saints 177. What shall be the Eternal joy of the Saints and also the Eternal pain of the wicked or may there be an alteration The Authors Preface unto these Questions Reader IT is written The natural man understands nothing of the Spirit of God it is a foolishness unto him he cannot apprehend it and it is also written The Spirit of God searcheth all things yea the depths of the Deity Now if Mr. Wiseling without Divine Light should undertake to clear and expound these Questions he shall not be able to do it nay perhaps he may esteem it a sin to ask such deep questions being he himself cannot understand them Therefore we bid him to let them alone and leave them for those to whom Gods Spirit which search all things through the spirit of man shall give the understanding being it is an Impossibility unto him and also seems