rolled or turned once about and accordingly there pass'd the Time of one Revolution or of One Day which containeth Twenty Four Hours 6. In the Duration of the Second Day began the sharp separation and the incomprehensible Cliff between the Wrath and the Love of Light was made and so King Lucifer firmly strongly or fast bolted up into the House of Darknesse and was reserved to the final Judgment 7. And so also the water of Life was separated from the water of Death yet in that manner as that they hang one to another in this Time of the world as Body and Soul and yet neither of them comprehend the other but the Heaven which was made out of the midst or center of the water is the Cliffe between them so that the comprehensible or palpable water is a Death and the incomprehensible or impalpable is the Life 8. Thus now the incomprehensible spirit which is God ruleth every where in this world and replenisheth or filleth all and the comprehensible hangeth or dependeth on him and dwelleth in the Darkness and can neither see hear smell nor feel the incomprehensible one but seeth the works thereof and is a Destroyer of them 9. And now when God had bound up the Devill in the Darknesse through the closure of the Heaven which Heaven is every where in all places then HEE began again his wonderful Birth or Geniture in the seventh Nature-spirit and all generated again as it had done from Eternity 10. For Moses writeth thus And God said Let the Earth send forth Grasse and Herbs that yield a Seed and the fruit Tree yielding or bearing fruit after its kind and which hath its own seed in it self upon the Earth and it was so done And the Earth sent forth grasse and the herb that yieldeth seed each after its kind and the tree yielding fruit and which hath its seed in it self every one according to its kind and God saw that it was good And so out of Evening and Morning the Third Day came to be Gen. 1. v. 11 12 13. 11. This indeed is very rightly and properly described but the true ground sticketh hidden or concealed in the Word and hath never been understood by Man For Man since the Fall could never comprehend or apprehend the inward Birth or Geniture to perceive How the heavenly Birth or Geniture is but his Reason lay captivated in the outward comprehensibility or palpability and could not penetrate and presse through Heaven and see the inward Birth or Geniture of God which also is in the corrupted Earth and every where in all Places 12. Thou must not here think that God hath made some New thing which never was before For if that were so then there had been another God which is not possible to be For without or besides this one onely God nothing is at all for the Gates of Hell are not any where without beyond or absent from this one onely God onely there is a Partition or distinction between the love in the light and the kindled wrath in the Darknesse so that the one cannot comprehend the other and yet hang one to another as one Body 13. The Salitter out of which the Earth is come to be was from Eternity and stood in the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit which is the Naturespirit and the other six have generated the seventh continually and are incompassed or surrounded therewith or lie captivated or inclosed therein as in their Mother and are the power and life of the seventh just as the Astrall Birth is in the Flesh. 14. But when King Lucifer had stirred the wrath in this Birth or Geniture and had with his loftinesse brought the Poison and Death into it then in the wrathful Birth in the fiercenesse or Sting of Death such Earth and Stones were Generated 15. And upon this now ensued the Spewing out thereof for the Deity could not endure such a Birth or Geniture in the Love and Light of God but the corrupted Salitter must be driven together in a Lump and Lord Lucifer also with it so then presently the innate Light in the corrupted Salitter went out or extinguished and the closure of the Heaven between the Wrath and the Love was made that so such Salitter might be generated no more and that Heaven might hold the Wrath in the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature captive in the Darknesse and be an Eternal Partition or separation between them 16. But this being accomplished in the Two Dayes then on the Third Day the Light rose up in the Darknesse and the Darknesse together with the Prince thereof could not comprehend it 17. For there out of the Earth sprung up Grasse and Herbs and Trees and there now also it standeth written thus Each according to its kind Gen. 1. v. 12. In these words lyeth the Kernel of the eternal Birth or Geniture hidden or concealed and cannot be comprehended or apprehended by or with Flesh and Blood but the Holy Ghost through the animated or soulish Birth must kindle the Astrall man otherwise he is blind herein and understandeth nothing but concerning Earth and Stones also Grasse Herbs and woodden Trees 18. But now is it written here God sprach said Let the Earth bring forth Grasse and Herbs and fruitfull Trees Observe here 19. The word Sprach Said is an Eternal word and was before the times of the wrath from eternity in this Salitter when it stood yet in the heavenly form and life and now also it is not quite dead in its Center but only in the comprehensibility or palpability 20. But now when the Light rose up again in the outward comprehensibility or in Death then the Eternal Word stood in its full Birth and generated the life through and out of Death and the corrupted Salitter brought forth fruit again 21. But being the eternal word must qualifie mix or unite with the corruption in the Wrath thereupon the Bodies of the fruits were Evill and Good For the outward Birth or Geniture of the fruits must be out of or from the Earth which is in Death And the spirit or life must be out of the Astral Birth which standeth in Love and Wrath. 22. For thus stood the Birth or Geniture of Nature in the Time of the Kindling and was thus together incorporated in the Earth and must also in such a Birth spring up again For it is written that the dead Earth should let the Grasse and Herbs and Trees spring up each according to its kind Gen. 1. 12. that is according to the kind and quality as it had been from eternity and as it had been in the heavenly quality kind and form For that is called its own kind which is received in the mothers Body or Womb and is its own by right of Nature as its own peculiar Life 23. Thus also the Earth brought forth no strange Life but even that which had been in it from eternity And as before the time of the wrath
Death be severed from it 120. But it hath its Life in its Seat and that cannot be taken from it but Death hangeth to it in the outermost Birth or Geniture as also the wrath in Death for the Wrath is the life of Death and of the Devill and in the wrath standeth also the corporeal Being or the Bodies of the Devils but the dead Birth or Geniture is their Eternall Dwelling House The Depth in the Circle of the Birth or Geniture Now one might Ask What manner of substance hath it or what is the condition thereof that the Astral Birth of the Earth did begin its qualifying operating and generating one Day sooner then the Astral in the Deep above the Earth seeing the fire in the Deep above the Earth is much sharper and easier to be kindled then the fire in the Earth and seeing also that the Earth must be kindled by the fire in the Deep above the Earth else it can Bear no fruit Answer 121. Behold thou understanding Spirit the Spirit speaketh to thee and not to the dead spirit of the flesh Open the Door of thy Astral birth wide and elevate that one Part of the astral Birth in the light and let the other in the wrath stand still and take heed also that thy animated or soulish spirit do wholly unite with the Light 122. And so when thou standest in such a form then thou art as Heaven and Earth is or as the whole Deitie is with its Births or Genitures in this world 123. But now if thou art not thus then thou art blind herein though thou wert the wittiest and wisest Doctor that ever could be found in the world 124. But if thou art Thus then raise up thy spirit and look through thy Art of Astrology thy deep sense and measuring of Circles and see if thou art able to apprehend it It must be born IN THEE Else thou gettest neither Grace nor Art 125. If the Eyes of thy Spirit shall stand open then thou must generate thus else thy Comprehensibility is a Foolish Virgin and it befalls thee as if a Limner should offer to pourtray the Deity on a Table and tell thee It is made right the Deity is just so 126. Then the Believer and the Limner are both alike both of them see nothing but only wood and Colours and the one blind leadeth the other surely thou art not to fight here with Beasts but with Gods Now Observe 127. When the whole Deitie in this world moved it self to the Creation then not onely the one part did Move and the other rest but all stood joyntly in the Mobility Even the whole Deep so far as Lord Lucifer was King and so far as the place of his Kingdom reach'd and so far as the Salitter in the wrath-fire was kindled 128. The motion of the three Births lasted the length of six Dayes and Nights wherein all the seven Spirits of God stood in a full moving Birth or Geniture as also the Heart of the spirits and the Salitter of the Earth turn'd about in that while six times in the great wheel which wheel is the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of God and at each turning about or Diurnal Revolution there was generated a several special fabrick or work according to the innate Instant qualifying or fountain spirits 129. For the First qualifying or fountain spirit is the Astringent cold sharp and hard Birth or Geniture and that belongeth to the first Day in the Astrall Birth or Geniture the Astrologers call it the Saturnine which was performed on the First Day For therein the hard dry sharp Earth and Stones came to be and were incorporated or compacted together moreover then was also generated the strong Firmament of Heaven and the Heart of the seven spirits of God stood hidden in the hard sharpnesse 130. Astrologers appropriate or attribute the Second Day to Sol or the Sun but it belongeth to Jupiter to speak of it Astrologically for on the second Day the Light brake forth out of the Heart of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits through the hard quality of the Heaven and caused a mitigation or allaying in the hard water of the Heaven and the light became shining in that meeknesse and allay 131. And then the meeknesse and the Hard water separated themselves asunder and the hardnesse remained in its hard place as a hard Death and the meeknesse or softnesse penetrated through the Hardnesse in the power of the Light 132. And this now is the water of Life which is generated in the Light of God out of the hard Death And thus the light of God in the sweet water of Heaven brake through the astringent and hard dark Death and thus the Heaven is made out of the midst or Center of the water 133. The hard Firmament is the astringent quality and the gentle Mild or meek firmament is the water in which the Light of Life riseth up which is the Clarity or Bright Light of the Sonne of God And in this manner or form also the knowledge and the light of life riseth up in Man and the whole light of God in this world standeth in such a Form Birth and rising up 134. The Third Day is very rightly attributed to Mars because it is a bitter and a furious raging and stirring spirit In the third Revolution of the Earth the bitter quality rubb'd it self with the astringent Understand this thing rightly 135. When the Light in the sweet water did penetrate through the astringent spirit then the fire flash terrour or crack of the Light when it kindled it self in the water rose up in the astringent and hard dead quality and made all stirring from thence existed the 〈…〉 136. Now I speak here not onely of the Heaven above the Earth but this stirring and Birth or Geniture was also in the Earth and every where 137. But being the heavenly fruits before the time of the wrath sprung up onely in this stirring of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits and vanish'd or passed away again by their stirring and so changed or altered themselves therefore on the third Day of the Birth or Geniture of the Creation they sprung up also through the stirring of the fire-flash in the astringent quality of the Earth 138. And though indeed the whole Deity is in the Center of the Earth hidden yet the Earth could not for all that bring forth heavenly fruit for the astringent quality had shut and barred the hard Bolt of Death upon it and so the Heart of the Deity remained hidden in its meek and Light Heaven 139. For the outermost Birth is Nature and that ought not to reach back into the Heart of God neither can it but is the Body in which the qualifying or fountain spirits generate themselves and shew forth and manifest their Birth or Geniture by their fruits The Two and Twentieth Chapter Of the Birth or Geniture of the Starres and Creation of the Fourth Day 1. HEre now is
blessed friendly and Mercifull Love of God The Divine Mystery Page 159 What remains hidden since the Beginning of the world Page 161 The Wrath the Original of Hell-fire Page 164 Chapter X. Of the Sixth Qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Sound Page 176 What in Men shall arise in Heavenly Joy or in Hellish Torment The Salitter Page 184 How a Man may Quench the kindled Wrath of God in this Life in himself Page 190 How neer God and the whole Trinity is to us Page 195 196 Chapter XI Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Divine SALITTER Page 200 The Holy Gate What the Father the Sonne and the Holy Spirit is Whom We Christians worship Page 206 207 What the Law of Nature is Page 208 Why He only that sinneth shall be punished Page 209 The Prerogative of Christians Page 210 Of the Word SALITTER Page 218 How the Imaging in Nature is Page 220 How our Life is a perpetual warfare with the Devil Page 224. Chapter XII Of the Birth or descent of the Holy Angels as also of their Government Order and heavenly joyous Life Page 230 What the Angels do when they sing not What do they Talk of Who they are like Page 238 239 What Heaven it self is Page 244 What the Angels walk upon Page 254 Of MICHAEL Page 256. Of LUCIFER Page 259 Of Lucifer's Creation Page 260. Of URIEL Page 261 The Beauty of Heavenly Forms Likened to Pretious Stones Page 263 Why Baptisme Instituted in the water Page 265 How the Wisdom of God is Incomprehensible Page 266 Chapter XIII Of the Horrible Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer Page 268 What the fountain of the First Sin of the Angels is Page 269 Where the fault lyeth that Lucifer is become a Devill Page 280 The Eternal Geniture of the Deity Page 290 The Beginning of Sinne. Page 293 Chapter XIV How Lucifer who was the Beautifullest Angell in Heaven is become the most horrible Devil Page 302 The cause that God Created Angels Page 305 Of the Eternal Enmity Page 316 Seven sources of Sinne and the Eighth the house of Death Page 318 Of the first source Page 320 What the Eternal Sport of God was before the Time of the Creation of the Angels Page 322 Of the second source of Sinne 's beginning Page 327 How God possesseth all and yet no Creature is He. Page 334 Chapter XV. Of the Third Species or spirit of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer Page 336 What Lucifer knew before his Fall Page 339 When the End of this Time will be Also of the Fourth Species of Sins beginning Page 342 Of the Sting of Death Page 345 What the Comprehensibility is Page 346 Of the Fifth manner of Sin 's beginning Page 348 Of the Sixth Form of Sin 's beginning Page 352 Of the Old Serpent Page 354 Chapter XVI Of the Seventh Kind of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer and his Angels Page 357 Of Sorcerers and Witches Page 358 Wherein Naturality consisteth Page 359 Of the mourning house of Death Page 364 That God willeth not Evil nor can do Page 365 Of Pride Covetousnesse Envy and Wrath. Page 378 to 380. The final Condemnation Also of the last Fight and Expulsion of Lucifer and all his Angels Page 381 What will be called the Burning Hell Page 385 Chapter XVII Of the miserable state and Condition of the Corrupt perished Nature and Original of the four Elements instead of the holy Dominion of God Page 386 What is called the Wrath of God Page 387 How a Comprehensible is come out of an Incomprehensible Page 389 How the Devil still presents the Swine-Apples of Paradise before the Soul Page 393 Chapter XVIII Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth And of the first Day Page 394 Why Man in this World so loveth Gold Silver and Pretious Stones Page 398 How shall I understand My self according to the Threefold Geniture in Nature Page 399 An Exposition of the first Verse of the first Cha. of Genesis according to the Language of Nature Page 405 Into what the Soul Goeth when we Dye Page 411 Of the Creation of the Light in this world Page 413 Whence fightings among all Creatures have their Original Page 418 What Light was before the Sun and Stars Page 423 Chapter XIX Concerning the Created Heaven And of the Form of the Earth and of the Water is also concerning Light and Darknesse Page 424 From what Light this Authour hath his Knowledg Page 428 How it was that Jesus Christ could take the Devil Death and Hell captive Also in what Heaven he sitteth at the Right hand of God Page 433 Where shall the wrath of God become at the End Page 435 Concerning the Form of the Earth Page 438 Why the Earth is so Hilly Rocky Stony and Uneaven Page 441 Of Day and Night Page 443 Of Morning and Evening Page 446 Chapter XX. Of the Second Day How God separated the Waters beneath the Firmament from the Waters above the Firmament Page 456 We should strive against the Malice and Wickedness that is in our Hearts Page 460 What the Moon or Luna is Page 465 How the Heavens are not pure in Gods sight Page 466 In what Heaven the Man that feareth God dwelleth Page 470 How Christ could go through the Doors being shut Joh. 20. 19. Page 474 Chapter XXI Of the Third Day Page 479 The Diurnal Motion of the Earth Page 479 Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth Page 485 How Man's hope standeth in God Page 488 How Sins are the Cause that the Deity is hidden from us Page 494 Of the Seven Spirits of God and of their Operation in the Earth Page 496 Why the Astral Birth of the Earth did begin a Day sooner then the Astral Birth in the Deep above the Earth Page 506 Whence Mercy Existed Page 509 Chapter XXII Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars and Creation of the Fourth Day Also the Reason of the Title Dawning or Morning-Rednesse Page 510 511 Why the Spirit of Nature it self will open the Door Page 515 What the Stars are Page 517 Sixteen Questions asked the Doctors Page 519 How this work is the Holy Ghost's Dear Revelation Page 523 Of the Earth Page 529 Of the Vegetations of the Earth Page 530 Of the Mettals in the Earth Page 531 Chapter XXIII Of the Deep above the Earth Page 538 Of the Astral Birth or Geniture and of the Birth or Geniture of God Page 541 The Severe Geniture of the Wrath of God cannot be accensible nor Elevable in God Page 542 What is called the Animated or Soulish Birth Page 548 Of the Beeing of the Deity and of the Three Persons Also whence the Living and Rationall Spirit existeth Page 551 What is the Water of Life Page 553 The Gate of the Holy Trinity Page 555 Of the Kindled Nature Page 565 Chapter XXIV Of the Incorporating or Compacting the Stars Page 565 Out of what the Stars are come to be Page 568
servants ye are to whom ye obey either to sinne unto death or to the obedience of God unto righteousness Rom. 6. 16. 15. But because man hath an impulse or inclination to both he may lay hold on which he pleaseth for he liveth in this World betwixt both and both Qualities the good and the bad are in him in which soever man moveth with that he is indued either with a Holy or a Hellish Power For Christ saith My Father will give the Holy Ghost to those that ask him Luk. 11. 13. 16. Besides God commanded man to do good and did forbid him to do evill and now doth daily call and preach and exhort man unto good Whereby we see well enough that God willeth not evil but his Will is That His Kingdom should come and his Will be done on earth as it is in heaven Now since man is poisoned through sinne that the fierce wrathful quality as well as the good reigneth in him and is now half dead and in his grosse ignorance can no more know God his Creator nor Nature and its operation yet hath Nature done its best endeavour from the beginning till now to which God hath given his Holy Ghost so that it hath at all times generated wise sholy and understanding men which did learn to know Nature and their Creator who alwayes in their Writings and Teachings have been a Light to the World whereby God hath raised his Church on Earth to his eternal praise Against which the Devil hath raged and spoiled many a noble Twigg through the wrathfull fierceness in Nature whose Prince and God he is 17. For Nature hath many times prepared and fitted a learned judicious man with good gifts and then the Devil hath done his utmost to seduce that man and bring him into carnal pleasures to pride to a desire to be rich and to be in authority and power Thereby the Devil hath ruled in him and the fierce wrathfull Quality hath overcome the good his Understanding his Knowledge and Wisdome hath been turn'd into Heresie and Errour who hath made a mock of the Truth and been the Author of great Errours on earth and a good Leader of the Devils Host. 18. For the bad quality in Nature hath wrestled and doth still wrestle with the good ever since the beginning and hath elevated it self and spoiled many a noble fruit even in the mothers Womb as it plainly appeareth first by Cain and Abel which came from one womb Cain was from his mothers womb a despiser of God and proud but Abel on the contrary was an humble man and one that feared God 19. The same is seen also in the three sons of Noah as also by Abraham's sons Isaac and Ismael especially by Isaac's in Esau and Jacob which struggled and wrestled even in the mothers womb therefore said God Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated Gen. 25. which is nothing else but that both qualities in Nature have vehemently wrestled one with another 20. For when God at that time moved in Nature and would reveal himself unto the world through righteous Abraham Isaac and Jacob and would raise a Church to himself on earth for his glory then in Nature Malice also moved and its Prince Lucifer Seeiâ—g there was good and bad in man therefore both Qualities could raign in him and therefore there was born at once in one womb an evill and a good Man 21. Also it is cleerly seen by the first world as also by the second even unto the end of our time how the Heavenly and Hellish Kingdom in Nature hath alwayes wrestled one with another and stood in great travel even as a woman in the birth This doth most cleerly appear by Adam and Eve For there grew up a tree in Paradise of both Qualities of good and bad wherewith Adam and Eve were to be tempted to try whether they would hold out in the good Quality in the Angelicall nature and form For the Creator did forbid Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit but the evill quality in Nature did wrestle with the good and brought Adam and Eve into a lust and longing to eat of both Thereupon they presently became of a beastial form and nature and did eat of good and bad and must increase and live in a beastial manner and so many a noble twigg begotten or born of them perished 22. Afterward it is seen how God did work in Nature when the Holy Fathers in the first world were born as Abel Seth Enos Kenan Mahaleel Jared Henoch Methusalah Lamech and Holy Noah These made the Name of the Lord known to the world and preached Repentance for the Holy Ghost wrought in them 23. On the contrary the Hellish God also wrought against it in Nature and begot Mockers and Despisers first Cain and his Posterity and it was with the first world as with a young tree which groweth is green blossometh fairly but bringeth little good fruit by reason of its wild Nature So Nature in the first world brought forth but little good fruit though it blossomed fair in wordly knowledge and luxury or wantonesse which could not apprehend the Holy Spirit who wrought in Nature then as well as now 24. Therefore said God It repents me that I have made man Gen. 6. 6. and he stirred up Nature so that all flesh dyed which lived on dry Land excepting the root and stock that remained in vertue and so he hath hereby Dung'd the wild Tree and manured it that it should bear better fruit But when the same sprung up again it brought forth also good and bad fruit again Among the sons of Noah there were found again Mockers and Despisers of God and there hardly grew any good branch on the tree which brought forth any holy and good fruit the other branches were bearing also and brought forth wild Heathens 25. But when God saw that man was thus dead in his Knowledge He moved Nature again and shewed unto man how there was good and bad therein that they should avoid evill and live unto the good and he caused fire to fall down out of Nature and fired Sodom and Gomorah for a terrible example to the world But when the blindnesse of men grew predominant and refused to be taught by the Spirit of God he gave Laws and Precepts unto them shewing how they should behave themselves and confirmed them with wonders and Signs lest the knowledge of the true God should be quite extinct But for all this the light did not manifest it self for the darkness and wrathful fierceness in Nature struggled against it and the Prince thereof ruled powerfully 26. But when the Tree of Nature came to its middle age then it began to bear some mild and sweet fruit to shew that it would henceforth bear pleasant fruit Then were born the Holy Prophets out of the sweet branch of the tree which taught and preached of the light which hereafter should overcome the wrathful fierceness in Nature
again and fashioned according to that form which they were in from the beginning of the Creation 74. Only the two qualities good and bad which have been in Nature one in another were separated and the bad one was given to the prince of malice and wrath or fiercenesse for an eternal habitation and that is called Hell or a Rejection which in eternity no more apprehends or toucheth the good quality but is an oblivion of all good and that unto its eternity 75. In the other quality stood the Tree of eternal Life and its source and off-spring descended from the holy Trinity and the Holy Ghost did shine into the same And all men came forth which descended from the loynes of Adam who was the first man Each in its vertue and in that quality in which each did grow on earth 76. Those that on earth had eaten of the good Tree which is called JESUS CHRIST in them did dwell the Mercy of God unto eternal joy they had in them the power of the good quality they were received into the good and holy quality and they sung the Song of their Bridegroom each in his voyce according to his own Holinesse 77. But those that were born in the Light of Nature and of the Holy Ghost and on earth never fully knew the Tree of Life but were grown in its power which overshadowed all men upon earth as very many Nations Heathens and Babes which were also received into the same power wherein they were grown and wherewith their spirit was cloathed and they sung the song according to their power and measure in the noble tree of eternal life for every one was glorified according to his power vertue measure and proportion 78. And the Holy Nature Generated joyfull heavenly fruit even as on earth it had generated fruit in both the Qualities which were both good and bad so now it did generate heavenly fulnesse of Joy 79. And those men that were now like Angels did each eat the fruit of his Quality and they sung the song of God and the song of the Tree of eternal life 80. And that was in the Father as a holy Sceane a triumphing joy for to that end all things at the beginning were made out of the Father and now they abide so to all eternity 81. But those that were grown on earth in the power of the tree of wrath that is which the fierce quality had overcome and were withered in the wickednesse of their spirit in their Sins all those came forth also each in his power or faculty and were received into the Kingdom of Darknesse and each was indued in that power in which he was grown up and their King is call'd Lucifer viz. one expell'd or driven forth from the Light 82. And the hellish quality brought forth fruit also as it had done upon earth onely the good was severed or parted from it and therefore it brought forth fruit now in its own quality And these Men also which were now like the spirits did each eat the fruit of his quality and so did the Devils also 83. For as there is a difference in men upon earth in their qualities and all are not of one Quality Condition or Disposition even so among the rejected reprobate spirits and so in the heavenly pomp in Angels and Men and that lasteth unto its eternity AMEN 84. Courteous Reader This is a short information concerning the two Qualities in Nature from the beginning to the end how there arose from thence two Kingdoms a heavenly and a hellish and how they stirre in this time and strive one against another and what the issue of it will be in the time to come The Contents of this Book by way of Introduction To this Book I have given this Name viz. The Root or Mother of Philosophie Astrologie and Theologie And that you may know what this Book doth treat of Observe I. 1. In the Philosophie is treated concerning the Divine power I. What God is II. How in the Being of God is created Nature the Stars and the Elements III. From whence every thing hath its Original IIII. How Heaven and Earth were created V. How Angels Men and Devils were created VI. How Heaven and Hell and whatever is creaturely were created and what the Two Qualities are in Nature All out of a true ground in the knowledge of the Spirit by the impulse and motion of God II. 2. In the Astrologie is treated I. Of the powers of Nature of the Stars and of the Elements II. How all Creatures proceeded from thence III. How the same do impell and rule all IIII. And work in all and how good and bad is wrought by them in Men and Beasts V. Whence it cometh that Good and Bad is and raigneth in this world VI. Also how the Kingdom of Heaven and of Hell consisteth therein 3. My purpose is not to describe the course place and Name of all Stars and what their Annual Conjunction Opposition Quadrat is or the like what they yearly and hourly operate which by a long processe of time hath been observed by the wise skilful and Expert Men who were rich and large in spirit by their diligent contemplation observation deep sense Calculation and Computation 4. Neither have I studied or learned the same and I leave that to the Learned to discourse of but my intention is to write according to the Spirit and sense and not according to Speculation III. 5. In the Theologie is handled I. Of the Kingdom of Christ of what condition the same is II. How it is set in opposition to the Kingdom of Hell III. How in Nature it fighteth and striveth against the Kingdom of Hell IIII. How men through Faith and Spirit are able to overcome the Kingdom of Hell and triumph in Divine power and obtain eternal salvation and all this as a victory in the Battel V. Also how Man through the operation or working in the hellish quality casts himself into perdition VI. And what the issue of both will be at last 6. The Supream Title is AVRORA That is The Dawning of the Day in the East or Morning-Rednesse in the Rising of the SVN And is a secret Mystery concealed from the wise and prudent of this world which themselves shall shortly be sensible of but to those which read this book in singlenesse of heart with a desire after the holy Spirit who place their hope onely in God it will not be a hidden secret but a manifest knowledge 7. I will not explain this Title but commit it to the judgment of the impartial Reader who wrestleth in the good quality of this world 8. Now if Mr. Critick which qualifieth or worketh with his wit in the fierce quality gets this book into his hand he will oppose it as there is alwayes stirring and Opposition between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Hell I. First he will say that I ascend too high into the Deity which is not a meet thing
subsist without ayr whatsoever moveth and is in this world 22. Water also Springeth in every living and moving creature in this World in the water consisteth the Body of every thing as the Spirit consisteth in the Ayr be it in animals or vegetables 23. And these two are caused by heat and cold and qualify or mix and operate together as one thing 24. Now in these two qualitis two other Species or kinds are to be observ'd viz. a living and a dead operation The Ayr is a living quality if it be temperate or moderate in a thing and the Holy Ghost reigneth in the Calmnesse or Meeknesse of the Ayr and all the creatures rejoyce therein 25. But there is a fierceness or wrath also in it so that it killeth destroyeth by its terrible disturbance But the qualification taketh its original from the fierce disturbauce or elevation so that it moveth and driveth in every creature from whenee life hath its originals and doth exist and therefore both of them must be in this life 26. The Water also hath a fierce deadly Spring for it killeth consumeth and so all things that have a life and Being must Rot and perish in the water 27. Thus is the Heat and the Cold a cause and original of the Water and of the Ayr in which every thing acteth and standeth every life and mobility standeth therein Of which I shall write plainly Concerning the Creation of the Stars Of the Influences of the other Qualities in the Three Elements Fire Ayr and Water Of the Bitter Quality 28. The Bitter quality is the heart in every life for as it draweth together the Water in the Ayr and also dissipateth the same so that it becometh separable so also in other Creatures as in vegetables of the Earth For Leaves and Grasse have their green colour from the Bitter quality 29. Now if the Bitter quality dwelleth meekly and Gently in any Creature then it is the Heart or joy therein for it dissipateth all other Evil Influences and is the beginning or cause of joy or of Laughing 30. For being moved it causeth the Creature to tremble and be joyful and raiseth it up in its whole Body for it is as it were a glimpse or Ray of the heavenly joyfulnesse an elevation of the spirit a spirit and power or vertue in all vegetables of the Earth and a mother of the life 31. The Holy Ghost springeth moveth and driveth vehemently in this quality for it is a part of the heavenly joyfulnesse as I shall demonstrate afterward 32. But it hath also in it another Species or kind namely the fiercenesse or wrath which is the very House of Death a Corruption of all Good a perdition and destruction of the Life in the Flesh. 33. For if it be elevated too much in any creature and be inflamed in the Heat then Flesh and Spirit separateth and the Creature loseth its Life and must Die for it move to and kindleth the Element of Fire for in the great Heat and Bitternesse no Flesh can subsist Of the Sweet Quality 34. The Sweet Quality is set opposite to the Bitter and is a gracious amiable blessed and pleasant quality a refreshing of the Life an allaying of the Fiercenesse it maketh all pleasant and friendly in every Creature it maketh the Vegetables of the Earth fragrant and of good taste affording fair yellow white and ruddy Colours 35. It is a glimpse and source of meeknesse a pleasant Habitation of heavenly joyfulnesse a House or Mansion of the Holy Ghost a qualification of Love and Mercy a joy of the Life 36. But on the other side it hath also a fierce or wrathful source a source of Death Corruption For if it be kindled in the Bitter Quality in the Element of Water then it breedeth diseases and the botchey Plague or Pestilence and corruption of the Flesh. 37. But if it be kindled in the Heat and Bitterness then it infecteth the Element of Ayr whereby is ingendred a suddain spreading Plague and suddain Death Of the Soure Quality 38. The Soure Quality is set opposite to the Bitter and Sweet and is a good temper to all a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and sweet qualities are elevated too much it is a longing delight in the Taste a pleasure of life a stirring Boyling flowing joy in every thing a desire longing and lust of joyfulness a still Joy or habitation of the Spirit thus it is a temperature to all living and moving creatures 39. It containeth also a source of evil and corruption For if it be too much elevated or stirreth too much in any thing so that it be inflamed then it engendreth sadnesse and Melancholy 40. In the water it causeth a stinck putridnesse and ranknesse a forgetfulnesse of all good things a melancholy or sadnesse of life a House of Death a Beginning of Sorrow and an End of joy Of the Astringent or Saltish Quality 41. The Saltish quality is a good Temperature in the bitter sweet and soure making every thing pleasant it opposeth the rising of the bitter Quality as also of the sweet and soure lest they should be inflamed it is a sharp quality a delight in the taste a source of life and joy 42. It containeth also fiercenesse and corruption Being inflamed in the fire it engendreth a hard tearing and stony nature a fierce wrathful source a destruction of life whereby the Stone or Gravel is engendred in the flesh causing great pain and torment to the flesh 43. But if it be inflamed in the water then it engendreth in the flesh scabs sores pox leprosie and is a mourning house of Death a misery and forgetting of all good things The Second Chapter An Introduction shewing how men may come to apprehend The Divine and Naturall Beeing And further of the two Qualities 1. ALl whatsoever hath been above mentioned is therefore called Quality because it qualifieth operateth or frameth all in the Deepe above the earth also upon the earth and in the earth in one another as ONE thing and yet hath severall distinct vertues and operations and but one mother from whence descend and Spring all things 2. And all the creatures are made and descended from these qualities and live therein as in their mother and the earth and Stones descend or proceed from thence also and all that groweth out of the earth liveth and Springeth forth out of the vertue of these qualities no rational man can deny it 3. Now This two-fold Source Good and Evil in every thing is caused by the Stars for as the Creatures in the Earth are in their Qualities so also are the Stars 4. For from the two-fold Fource every thing hath its great Mobility running Springing driving and growing For meeknesse in nature is a Still Rest but the fiercenesse in every power maketh all things moveable running and Generative 5. For the driving qualities cause a lust in all creatures unto evil and good so that every
are in Nature proceed from God the Father All Light Heat Cold Ayr Water and all the powers of the Earth Bitter Sowre Sweet Astringent Hard and Soft and more then can be Reckoned all have their beginning from the Father 17. Therefore if a Man would liken the Father to any thing he should liken him to the Round Globe of Heaven 18. Thou must not conceive here that the very power which is in the Father standeth in a Peculiar severed or divided part and place in the Father as the Stars do in Heaven 19. No! but the Spirit sheweth that all the powers in the Father are one in another as one power 20. A Resemblance Image or Figure whereof we have in the Prophet Ezekiel the 1. Chap. Who seeth the Lord in the Spirit and resemblance like a wheele having Four other wheels one in another the Four being like one another and when they moved they went Strait forward which way soever the Wind did sit or Blow and that way they went all forward having no cause of returning 21. And thus it is with God the Father for all the powers are in the Father one in another as one power and all powers Consist in the Father in an unsearcheable Light and Clarity or Brightnes and Glory 22. Yet thou must not think that God who is in Heaven and above the Heaven doth there stand and hover like a power and quality which hath in it neither Reason nor knowledge in it 23. As the Sun which turneth round in its circle and shooteth forth from it self Heat and Light whether it be for benefit or hurt to the Earth and Creatures which indeed would be for hurt if the other Planets and Stars did not hinder 24. No! the Father is not so but he is an All-mighty All-wise All-knowing All-seeing All-hearing All-smelling All-feeling All-tasting God who in himself is meek friendly gracious merciful and full of Joy yea Joy it self 25. And he is thus from Eternity to eternity unchangeably He never changed himself in his Being neither will he change himself in all Eternity 26. He is proceeded or born of nothing but Himself is all in Eternity and all whatsoever is is come from his power which from Eternity goeth forth from him 27. His Immensenesse Heighth and Depth no Creature no not any Angel in Heaven can search into it but the Angels live in the power of the Father very meekly and full of Joy and they alwaies Sing in the power of the Father Of GOD the SONNE 28. If a Man will see God the Sonne he must once more look upon natural things otherwise I cannot write of him the Spirit indeed beholdeth him but that can neither be spoken nor written for the Divine Being consisteth in power which can neither be written nor spoken 29. Therefore we must use Similitudes if we intend to speak of God for we live in this world as men who know but in part and are made of that which is but in part Therefore I cite the Reader into the life to come where and when I shall speak more properly and more clearly of this high Article 30. In the mean while the loving Reader is to attend to the sense and meaning of the Spirit and then he will not fail to get a little refreshing if he hath but any hunger in him Now Observe 31. The Turks and Heathens say God hath no Sonne Set Open your Eyes wide here and do not make your selves stark blind and you will see the Sonne 32. The Father is all and all power Subsisteth in the Father He is the Beginning and the End of all things and besides and beyond him is nothing and whatever is is from the Father 33. For before the beginning of the Creation of the Creatures there was nothing but only GOD and where there is nothing out of that nothing will be All things must have a Cause or Root or else Nothing will be 34. Yet you are not to think that the Sonne is another God then the Father Neither should you think that the Sonne is without or besides the Father and that he is a severed part or divided piece as when two men stand one by another where one comprehendeth not the other 35. No! the Father and the Sonne is not of such a substance or such a kind of thing for the Father is not an Image to be likened to any thing but the Father is the fountain of all powers and all the powers are one in another as one power and therefore he is said to be ONE onely GOD. 36. Otherwise if his powers were divided then he were not Al-mighty but now he is the Self-subsisting All-mighty and All-powerful God 37. And the Sonne is the Heart in the Father all the powers which are in the Father are the propriety of the Father and the Sonne is the Heart or the Kernel or Pith in all the powers in the whole Father and he is the cause of the springing Joy in all powers in the whole Father 38. From the Sonne who is the Fathers Heart in all his powers the Eternal Joy ariseth and springeth in all the powers of the Father such a joy as no eye hath seen nor ear heard neither hath ever entred into the Heart of any Man as St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 2. 9. 39. But if a man here on Earth be enlightned with the Holy Ghost from the fountain of JESUS CHRIST so that the spirits of Nature which signifie the Father be kindled in him then there ariseth such a Joy in his Heart and it goeth forth into all his veins so that the whole body trembleth and the Soulish animal spirit triumpheth as if it were siting in the holy Trinity which is understood onely by those that have been Guests in that place 40. And this is but a Type or Glimpse of the Sonne of God in Man whereby Faith is strengthened and preserved for the joy cannot be so great in an earthen vessel as in a heavenly wherein the perfect power of God is fully Now here I must write a Similitude 41. I will shew thee a Similitude in Nature signifying how the holy Being in the holy Trinity is 42. Consider Heaven which is a round Globe having neither beginning nor end but its beginning and end is every where which way soever you look upon it and so is God who is in and above the Heaven he hath neither beginning nor end 43. Now consider further the Circle or Sphear of the Stars they denote the various Powers and Wisdome of the Father and they are made also by the Power and Wisdom of the Father 44. Now the Heaven the Stars and the whole Deep between the Stars together with the Earth signifie the Father 45. And the Seven Planets signifie the seven Spirits of God or the Princes of the Angels among which also Lord LUCIFER was one before his Fall which all were made out of the Father in the beginning of the creation of Angels before the
quality is in God But in God all is Spirit 17. The quality of water is not of such a running and Qualifying condition or maner in God as it is in this World but is a Spirit very bright cleare and thinne wherein the Holy Ghost riseth up a meer power 18. The bitter Quality Qualifieth in the sweet astringent or harsh and sowre Quality and the Love riseth up therein from Eternity to Eternity 19. For the Love in the Light and clarity or Glorious Brightnes goeth forth from the Heart or Sonne of God in all the powers of the Father and the Holy Ghost moveth in them all 20. And this in the Deep of the Father is Like a Divine SALITTER which I must needs liken to the Earth which before its corruption was even such a Salitter 21. But not so Hard Cold Bitter Sowre and Dark but like the Deep or like Heaven very clear and pure wherein all powers were Good fair and Heavenly But that Prince Lucifer thus Spoiled them as you shall perceive here following 22. This Heavenly Salitter or powers one in another generate Heavenly joyful fruits and colours all manner of Trees and Plants on which do grow the fair pleasant and lovely fruits of life 23. There Spring up also in these powers and vertues all manner of Blossoms and Flowers with fair Heavenly colours and smells 24. They are of Several Tastes each according to its Quality and kind very Holy Divine and full of joy 25. For every Quality beareth its own fruit as it is in the corrupted murtherous Den or dark Valley and Dungeon of the Earth there spring up all manner of Earthly Trees Plants Flowers and Fruits 26. Also within the Earth Grow curious pretious Stones Silver and Gold and these are a Type of the Heavenly Generating or Production 27. Nature Laboureth to its utmost diligence upon this corrupted Dead Earth that it might generate Heavenly forms and Species or Kinds but it generateth only Dead Dark and Hard fruit which are no more then a meer shadow or Type of the Heavenly 28. Moreover its fruit is altogether fierce or biting Bitter Sowre astringent or harsh and Hot also Cold hard and naught they have Scarce any spark or spice of Goodnesse in them 29. Their Sap and spirit is mix'd with hellish quality their scent or smell is a very stink thus hath Lord Lucifer caused them to be as I shall clearly shew hereafter 30. Now when I write of Trees Plants and Fruits you must not understand them to be Earthly like those that are in this world for it is not my meaning that there should grow in heaven such Dead hard Trees of wood or such stones as consist of an earthly Quality 31. No but my meaning is heavenly and spiritual yet truly and properly such I mean no other thing Then what I set down in the Letter 32. In the Divine Pomp and State are especially two things to be considered first the Salitter or the Divine powers which are moving springing powers 33. In that same power groweth up and is generated fruit according to every quality and species or kind viz. heavenly Trees and Plants which without ceasing bear fruit fairly blossom and grow in divine power so Joyfully that I can neither speak nor write it down 34. But stammer it like a child that is learning to speak and can by no means rightly call it as the Spirit giveth it forth to be known 35. The second form or property of Heaven in the divine pompe or state is Mercurius or the Sound as in the Salitter of the Earth there is the Sound whence there groweth Gold Silver Copper Iron and the like of which men make all manner of Musical Instruments for founding or for mirth as Bells Organ Pipes and other things that make a sound Also there is likewise a Sound in all the creatures upon earth else all would be in stillnesse and silence 36. By that sound in Heaven all powers are moved so that all things grow Joyfully and generate very beautifully And as the Divine power is manifold and various so also the sound or Mercurius is also manifold and various 37. For when the powers spring up in God they touch and stirre one another and move one in another and so there is a constant harmony mixing or Consort from whence go forth all manner of colours 38. And in those Colours grow all manner of Fruits which rise or spring up in the Salitter and the Mercurius or found mingleth it self therewith and riseth up in all the powers of the Father and then sounding and Tunes rise up in the heavenly joyfulnesse 39. If you should in this world bring many thousand kinds of musical Instruments together and all should be tuned in the best manner most artificially and the most skilful Masters of Musick should play on them in consort together all would be no more then the Howlings and barkings of Dogs in comparison of the Divine Musick which riseth up through the Divine Sound and Tunes from Eternity to Eternity 40. Further if thou wilt consider the heavenly Divine Pomp State and Glory and conceive how it is and what manner of Sprouting Branching delight and joy there is in it 41. View this world diligently and consider what manner of fruit sprouts branches and encreases groweth out of the Salitter of the Earth from Trees Plants Herbs Roots Flowers Oyles Wine Corn and whatever else there is that thy heart can find out all is a Type of the heavenly Pomp. 42. For the earthly and corrupt nature hath continually laboured from the beginning of its Creation to this day to bring forth heavenly forms or shapes in the Earth as also in Man and Beasts as men very well see that every year New Arts are invented and brought to Light which hath been constantly so from the beginning to this time 43. But yet Nature hath not been able to bring forth heavenly power vertue and qualities therefore its fruit is half dead corrupt and impure 44. You must not think that in the divine pomp there cometh forth Beasts Worms and other creatures in flesh as in this World they do No but I mean only the wonderful proportion power vertue and comelinesse of feature in them 45. And Nature laboureth with highest diligence to produce in its Power heavenly figures shapes or forms as we see in Men Beasts Fowles and Worms as also in the encrease or growth of the Earth that all things are done shew and appear most curiously Artificially and delicately 46. For Nature would fain be delivered from this Vanity that it might procreate heavenly forms in the holy Power 47. For in the Divine Pomp likewise go forth all manner of Sprouting and Vegetation of Trees Plants and all manner of fruit and every one beareth its own fruit yet not in an earthly quality and kind but in a Divine quality form and kind 48. Those fruits are not of so dead hard bitter soure and astringent a
Reason 116. And then man first knoweth what the Devill is how much an Enemy he is to him and how great his power is also how he must fight with him very secretly every day hour and Moment 117. Which thing Reason or the outward Birth or Geniture of Man without the experience of this fight or battle cannot comprehend for the Third or outermost Birth or Geniture in Man which is the carnal or fleshly Birth and which man through the first Fall in his Lust hath raised and prepared for himself is the Devils Castle or Fort of Prey or Robbery and dwelling house wherein the Devill as in a Bull-waâ—â— fighteth with the Soul and giveth it many a Hard thump upon its Breast which goes to the very Heart 118. Now this Birth of the Flesh is not the Mansion House of the soul but in its strife it goeth in with its Light into the Divine power and fighteth against the Murther of the Devil 119. On the other side the Devil with his Poison shooteth and darteth at the seven qualifying or fountain spirits which generate the soul intending to destroy and to kindle them that thereby he may get the whole Body for his own propriety 120. Now if the soul would fain bring its light and knowledge into the Humane Mind then it must fight and strive hard and stoutly and yet hath a very narrow passage to enter in at it will be often knockt down by the Devill but it must stand to it here like a Champion in the battel And if it now gets the Victory then it hath conquered the Devill but if the Devil prevails and gets the better then the soul is captivated 121. But being the fleshly Birth or Geniture is not the soul 's own proper House and that it cannot possesse it as an Inheritance as the Devil doth therefore the Fight and Battel lasteth so long as the House of Flesh lasteth 122. But if the House of Flesh be once destroyed and that the Soul is not yet conquered or vanquished in its House but is free and unimprisoned then the fight is ended and the Devil must be gone from this spirit Eternally 123. Therefore this is a very difficult Article to be understood nay it cannot be understood at all unlesse it be by experience in this fight though I should write many Books thereof yet thou wouldst understand nothing of it unlesse thy spirit stand in such a Birth of Geniture and that the knowledge be generated in thy self otherwise thou canst neither comprehend nor believe it 124. But if thou comprehendest this then also thou understandest the strife or the Fight which the Angels held with the Devils for the Angels have not Flesh nor Bones no more have the Devills 125. For their Bodily or Corporeal Birth standeth onely in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits but the animated or soulish Birth in the Angels uniteth mixeth or operateth with God but it is not so in the Devils 126. Therfore thou must here know that the Angels with their animated or soulish Birth in which they qualifie and unite with God have striven and fought in Gods power and Spirit against the kindled Devills and turn'd them out from the Light of God and driven them together into a Hole that is into a narrow Court Quarter or Compasse like a Prison which is the place or space in upon and above the Earth up to the Moon who is a Goddesse of the Earthly Birth or Geniture 127. So far reacheth their Extent now till the Last Day and then they will get a House in that Place where the Earth now is and standeth That is in the outermost Birth in the Darknesse wherein they reach not the second Principle and source or fountain of the Light and this will be called the burning Hell 128. Lord Lucifer wait for it and in the mean while take this for an assured Prophesie concerning it for thou wilt get the kindled Salitter in the outermost Birth or Geniture which thou thy self hast so prepared and fitted to be thy Eternall House to dwell in 129. But not in such a form as it now standeth but all will be separated in the kindled wrath-fire and the dark hot cold rugged hard bitter stinking relicks dregs or drosse will be left thee for an eternal Inne and Lodging 130. And thou wilt be such an Eternal Almighty God therein as a Prisoner in a deep Prison or Dungeon where thou wilt neither attain nor see the Eternall light of God But the kindled bitter wrath of God will be thy Grate Bolts and bounds out of which thou canst never Get. The Seventeenth Chapter Of the lamentable and miserable State and Condition of the Corrupt perished Nature and Original of the four Elements instead of the Holy Government of God 1. ALthough God be an Eternal Almighty Regent or Governour whom none can resist yet Nature in its kindling hath now gotten a very monstrous strange government such as was not before the times of the wrath 2. For the six qualifying or fountain spirits did generate the seventh Nature-spirit before the Times of the wrath in the Place of this world very meekly and pleasantly as is now done in heaven and not so much as the least spark of Wrath or Anger did rise up therein 3. Moreover all was very Bright and light therein neither was there need of any other Light but the fountain or well-spring of the Heart of God enlightned all and was a light in all which did shine every where all over incessantly without any obstacle For Nature was very rarified and thin or Transparent and all stood meerly in power and was in a very pleasant lovely Temper 4. But as soon as the fight began in Nature with the proud Devil then in the seventh Nature-spirit in the Court Region or Extent of Lucifer which is the place of this world all gat another form and operation 5. For Nature gat a Twofold source and the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature was kindled in the wrath-fire which fire now is called the wrath of God or the burning Hell Note 6. Here is required most Inward Sense or Perception to understand this for the place where the Light is generated in the heart only comprehendeth it the outward Man doth not comprehend it at all 7. But behold when Lucifer with his Hoast or Army stirred or awakened the wrath-fire in the Nature of God so that God was moved to anger in Nature in the place of Lucifer then the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature gat another quality which was very Fierce Astringent Cold Hot Bitâ—â—â— and Sâ—wr 8. The moving or Boyling spirit which before qualified or operated very meekly in Nature that became in its outermost Birth or Geniture very elevating and terrible which now in the outermost Birth is called the Wind or the Element of Ayr in regard of its elevation or expansion 9. For when the seven spirits kindled themselves in their outermost Birth or Geniture then
they generated such a violent moving spirit and so the sweet water which before the times of the wrath was very rarified and thin and incomprehensible grew very thick and elevated and swelled and the astringent quality grew very sharp and Cold-firie or fierce-cold for it got a strong attracting together like Salt 10. For the Salt-water or Salt which still to this Day is found in the Earth hath its original and descent from the first kindling of the Astringent Quality and so the Stones also have their beginning and descent from thence as also the Earth 11. For the astringent quality now attracted the Salitter very strongly together and dryed it whence the bitter Earth is proceeded but the Stones are from the Salitter which at that Time stood in the power of the Tone or Tune 12. For as Nature with the working wrestling and rising up of its Birth or Geniture stood in the time of the kindling Just such a Matter attracted it self together Now it may be Asked How then is a comprehensible or palpable Sonne come to be out of an incomprehensible Mother Answer 13. Thou hast a Similitude of this in that the Earth and Stones are proceeded out of the incomprehensibility 14. For behold the Deep between Heaven and Earth is also incomprehensible and yet the Elementary Qualities at sometimes generate living comprehensible flesh therein as Grashoppers Flyes and Worms or creeping things 15. Which is caused by the strong attracting together of the qualities in which attracted Salitter the life is suddenly generated For when the heat kindleth the astringent Quality then the life riseth up for the Bitter quality stirreth it self which is the original of life 16. So in like manner the Earth and Stones have their descent for when the Salitter kindled it self in Nature then all became very rugged thick and dark like a thick dark Mist or Cloud which the astringent quality dryed up hard with its coldnesse 17. But being the Light in the outermost Birth was extinguished the Heat also was captivated in the Comprehensibility or palpability and could no more generate its Life from thence Death did come into Nature so that Nature or the corrupt Earth could no more help it and thereupon another creation of Light must needs follow or else the Earth would have been an Eternal undissolvable Death but now the Earth generateth or bringeth forth fruit in the power and kindling of the created Light Now one might ask What is the condition then of this Two-fold Birth or Geniture Is God then extinguisht in the kindling of the wrath-fire in the place of this world so that nothing is there else but a meer wrath-fire or is the One onely God become a Twofold God Answer 18. Thou canst not better comprehend apprehend or understand this then in and by thy own Body which through the first fall of Adam with all its Birth or Geniture fitnesse faculties and will is become just such a House 19. First thou hast the Beastial Flesh which is come to be so through the Lustfull longing Bit of the Apple for it is the House of Corruption For when Adam was made out of the corrupted Salitter of the Earth that is out of the Seed or Masse or Lump which the Creator extracted out of the corrupted Earth he was not then at first such flesh else his Body had been created Mortall but he had an Angelicall powerfull Body in which he should subsist Eternally and should eat Angelical fruit which did grow for him in Paradise before his fall before the LORD cursed the Earth 20. But being the Seed or Masse or Lump out of which Adam was made was somewhat infected with the corrupt disease or malady of the Devill Adam therefore long'd after his Mother that is to eat of the fruit of the corrupted Earth which then in its outward comprehensibility was become so Evil and in the wrath-fire was become so hard palpable and comprehensible 21. But being Adams spirit long'd after that fruit which was of the Quality of the corrupted Earth therefore also Nature formed or framed such a Tree for him as was like the corrupted Earth 22. For Adam was the Heart in Nature and therefore his animated or soulish spirit did help to Image fashion or frame this Tree of which he would fain eat 23. But when the Devill saw that the Lust was in Adam then he stung lustily and briskly at the Salitter in Adam and infected the Salitter out of which Adam was made yet more and more 24. And now then it was time that the Creator should frame a wife for him which afterward set the Sinne on work and did eat of the evill or corrupt fruit Else if Adam had eaten of the Tree before the woman had been made out of him then it would have been far worse then it is 25. But being this requireth a high and deep Description as also requireth much Room therefore seek for it concerning the Fall of Adam where you will find it largely described So now I return to the forementioned Similitude 26. Now when Adam did eat of the fruit which was Good and Evill then he suddenly gat such a Body also The fruit was corrupt or perished and palpable as to this day all fruits now on Earth are and so such a flesly and palpable or comprehensible Body Adam and Eve gat instantly 27. But now the flesh is not the whole Man for this flesh cannot comprehend or apprehend the Deity else the flesh were not Mortal and corruptible or fading and transitory for Christ saith John 6. 63. It is the Spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing 28. For this flesh cannot inherit the Kingdom of heaven neither but is only a Seed which is sowen into the Earth out of which will grow an impalpable or incomprehensible Body such as the first was before the Fall But the Spirit is eternal life which uniteth qualifieth or mixeth with God and comprehendeth the internal Deity in Nature 29. Now as Man in his outward Being is corrupted and as to his fleshly Birth or Geniture is in the wrath of God and is moreover also an Enemy of God and yet is but one Man and not Two and on the other side in his spiritual Birth or Geniture he is a Child and Heir of God which ruleth and liveth with God and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the innermost Birth or Geniture of God Thus also is the Place of this world come to be 30. The outward comprehensibility or Palpability in the whole Nature of this world and of all things which are therein standeth all in the wrath-fire of God for it is become thus through the kindling of Nature and Lord Lucifer with his Angels hath his dwelling now in the same outward Birth or Geniture which standeth in the wrath-fire 31. But now the Deity is not separated from the outward Birth or Geniture so as if they were Two things in this world if so Man could
the light of God but the inward spirit which is loaden therewith against its will shall be set again in its first House 61. The last following pressure ang signifieth that the innermost spirits in the corruption are not altogether pure and therefore they need a sweeping away purging or consuming of the wrath in the fire which will be done at the End of this Time 62. The word Schuff conceiveth it self above and under the Tongue and shutteth the Teeth in the upper and lower gummes and so presseth it self close together and being held together and spoken forth again then it openeth the Mouth again swiftly like a Flash 63. And this signifieth the astringent spirit 's strong driving together of the corrupted Salitter as a Lump on a Heap 64. For the Teeth retain the word letting the spirit go forth leisurely between the Teeth And this signifieth that the astringent quality holdeth the Earth and Stones firmly and fast together and yet for all that letteth the spirits of the Earth spring up grow and bear Blossoms out of the astringent spirit which signifieth the Regeneration or Restitution of the spirits of the Earth 65. But that the Mouth is swiftly opened again after the word is Ended it signifieth concerning the Deep above the Earth that God the Lord will neverthelesse dwell there and reserve his Regiment for himself and hold the Devil as a Prisoner in the wrath-fire 66. The word GOTT conceiveth it self in the midst or Center upon the Tongue and is thrust thither out of the Heart and leaveth the Mouth open and stayeth sitting on its Royall Seat and soundeth without and within but when it is spoken forth then it maketh another pressure between the upper Teeth and the Tongue 67. And this signifieth that when God created Heaven and Earth and all the Creatures he neverthelesse remained in his Divine Eternal Almighty Seat and never went away from it at all and that HEE alone is ALL. The Last pressure signifieth the sharpnesse of his spirit whereby in a Moment he effecteth all in his whole Body 68. The word Himmel conceiveth it self in the Heart and is thrust forth to the Lips there it is shut up and the syllable mel setteth the Lips open again and is held on the middle of the Tongue and so the Spirit goeth forth on both Sides of the Tongue out of the Mouth 69. And this signifieth that the innermost birth is become shut up from the outermost by the horrible Sins and is incomprehensible to the outward corrupted Birth or Geniture 70. But being it is a word with a Twofold syllable and that the second syllable mel openeth the mouth again it signifieth that the Gates of the Deity are become opened again 71. But that by the word or syllable mel it is conceived again upon the Tongue and held fast with the upper Gumms and that in the mean while the spirit slippeth forth on both sides of the Tongue 72. This signifieth that God would again give to this corrupted Kingdome or Place in God a King or Great Prince who should open again the innermost Birth or Geniture of the clear and Bright Deity and thereby the Holy Ghost should go forth on both sides that is out of the innermost Depth of the Father and of the Sonne and should go forth again into this world and should new regenerate this world again through the New King 73. The word und conceiveth it self in the Heart and is staid and compacted or incorporated by the Tongue on the upper Gummes but when it is let loose it maketh another pressure from the Heart out at the Mouth 74. Now this signifieth the difference or distinction between the Holy and the Earthly Birth or Geniture This syllable cometh indeed from the Heart but is staid by the Tongue on the upper Gummes so that one cannot yet perceive what kind of word it is And this signifieth that the earthly and corrupt Birth or Geniture cannot lay hold on or apprehend the innnermost Birth or Geniture but is foolish and silly 75. The last pressure from the Heart signifieth that it will indeed qualifie mix or unite with the innermost Birth or Geniture in its sensibility perception or Thoughts but cannot apprehend it in its Reason therefore this syllable or word alone by it self is Dumb and hath no signification or understanding in it alone but is used onely for distinction sake with some other word 76. The word Erden is thrust forth from the Heart and is conceived on the hinder part upon the Tongue at the hinder Gummes and trembleth the Tongue is used about the first syllable Er yet not steadily but it recoiles inward at the neather gummes and croucheth as it were before an enemy trembling 77. The other syllable den is conceived by the Tongue and the upper Gumms and leaveth the Mouth open and the spirit of formation goeth forth at the Nostrills and will not go forth together in this word out at the Mouth and though it carrieth forth somewhat indeed along with it yet the true Tone or Noise of the true spirit goeth onely forth through or at the Nostrils or Organ of Smelling This is a great Mysterie 78. The word or syllable Er signifieth the kindled astringent and bitter quality the earnest severe wrath of God which trembleth at the hinder part of the Gummes before which the Tongue is as it were afraid and croucheth at the neather gums and flieth as it were from an Enemy 79. The word or syllable den conceiveth it self on the Tongue again and the spirit attracteth the power and vertue out of the word and therewith goeth forth another way at the Nostrills and so goeth therewith up into or towards the Brain before the Royal Seat And this signifieth that the outermost Salitter of the Earth is eternally rejected from Gods Light and Holinesse 80. But that the Spirit layeth hold on the power and vertue of the word and goeth another way through the Nostrills into the Brain before the Throne of the Senses or Thoughts it signifieth that God will extract the Heart of the Earth from the wrath of wickednesse and use it to his eternal Royal Praise Observe 81. He will extract from the Earth the Kernel and the Best or the Good Spirit and will Regenerate it anew to his honour and Glory 82. Here O Man consider thy self well and mind What manner of seed thou sowest into the Earth the very same will spring up and bear Blossoms and fruit for ever either in the Love or in the Wrath. 83. But when the good shall be separated from the Evil then thou wilt live in that part which thou hast laboured for here be it either in Heaven or in Hell-fire 84. In what soever thou endeavourest Labourest and actest here into that thy Soul goeth when thou Dyest 85. Or dost thou think that my spirit hath suck'd this which I have set down here out of the corrupted Earth or out of an
of the corrupted Earth and quencheth its wrath whereby in the Astrall Birth or Geniture all standeth in the Life and so the Earth generateth the Life through the Death The Gate of the Mystery 38. But that there is a Firmament between the Waters which Firmament is called Heaven it hath this understanding or meaning 39. The whole Deep from the Moon to the Earth standeth all with its working in the wrathfull and comprehensible or palpable Birth or Geniture for the Moon is the Goddesse of the palpable Birth and so the House of the Devills of Death and of Hell is in the circuit orb or Extent between the Moon and the Earth 40. Where therefore the fierce wrath of God in the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Deep becometh daily kindled and blown up by the Devills and all wicked Men through the Great Sins of Man which still qualifie mix unite or co-operate with the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Deep 41. Now Therefore God hath made the Firmament which is call'd Heaven between the outermost and innermost Birth and that is a Partition or division between the outermost and innermost Birth or Geniture 42. For the outermost Birth of the water cannot comprehend the innermost Birth of the water which is called Heaven and which is made out of the midst or Center of the water Heaven is the Firmament viz. the fire-Sea or Sea-of-Fire out of the seven spirits of Nature out of which the Stars as a Quintessence were concreted incorporated or created by the word FIAT And it hath or containeth both fire and water and hangeth in it self inwardly on the first Principle and shall bring its wonders with or as to the figure of them into the Eternal but its Birth or Geniture fadeth or passeth away 43. Now the innermost Birth of Heaven reflects strongly upon the Earth and holdeth the outermost water upon the Earth together with the Earth also strongly captive 44. And if that were not then with the Revolution of the Globe of the Earth the water would be divided or dissolved again also then would the Earth Crumble break and moulder away in the Deep and all would be a Chaos again 45. But now therefore that Firmament between the outermost palpable water and the Inward holdeth the Earth and the palpable water Captive But now thou mayst Ask What is the fire then a Firmament of that Heaven which I can neither see nor apprehend Answer 46. Yes It is the Firmament between the clear Deity and the corrupt Nature which thou must break through when thou intendest to come to God and it is that very Firmament which doth not quite stand in the wrath neither is it altogether or perfectly pure concerning which it is written the very Heavens are not pure in the sight of God as in Job 15. 15. and at the last Judgment Day the wratn will be purged from them For it is written Heaven and Earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away saith Christ Matth. 24. 35. Mark 13. 31. 47. Now that impurity in that Heaven is the wrath but the purity is the word of God which he once spake saying Let the water under the Firmament be separated from the water above the firmament Gen. 1. And that Word standeth and is comprised in the firmament of the water and holdeth the outward water together with the Earth captive or fixed The Gate of the Deitie Observe here the hidden Mystery of God 48. When thou beholdest the Deep above the Earth thou oughtest not to say that it is not the Gate of God where God in his holinesse dwelleth No no think not so For the whole holy Trinity God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost dwelleth in the Center under the Firmament of Heaven but that very Firmament cannot comprehend him 49. Indeed all is as it were one Body the outermost and inhermost Birth together with the Firmament of heaven as also the Astrall Birth therein in and with which the wrath of God also qualifieth mixeth and uniteth but yet they are one to another as the Government frame or constitution in Man 50. The Flesh signifieth 1o. The outward Birth or Genitute which is the House of Death 2o. The second Birth or Geniture in Man is the Astrall in which the Life-standeth and wherein Love and wrath wrestle one with another And thus far Man himself knoweth himself for the Astrall Birth generateth the Life in the outermost that is in the dead Flesh 3o. The Third Birth is generated between the Astrall and outermost and that is called the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture or the Soul and is as Large as the whole Man 51. And that Birth or Geniture the outward Man neither knoweth nor comprehendeth neither doth the Astrall comprehend it but every qualifying or fountain spirit comprehendeth only its innate or instant Root which signifieth or resembleth the Heaven 52. And that animated or soulish Man must presse through the Firmament of Heaven to God and live with God else the whole man cannot come into Heaven to God 53. For every Man that desireth to be saved must with his innate instant Births or Genitures be as the whole Deity with all the three Births in this world is 54. Man cannot be absolutely or wholly pure without wrath and sin for the Births of the Depth in this world are not fully pure before the Heart of God Job 15. v. 15. but alwayes Love and wrath wrestle one with another whence God is called an angry zealous God Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 55. Now as man is in the Government or Order of his Nativity Birth or Geniture Just so also is the whole Body of God in or of this world but in the water standeth the meek Life 56. As I. First in the outward Body of God in or of this world there is the congealed astringent bitter and Hot Death in which the palpable water is also congealed and Dead 57. And therein now is the Darknesse wherein King Lucifer with his Angels as also all fleshly or carnal wicked Men lye captive even with or in their living Bodies as also the Separated spirits of damned Men. 58. This birth can neither see hear feel smell nor comprehend the Heart of God but is a Foolish Virgin which King Lucifer in his Pride hath caused to be so 59. And II. The second Birth is the Astrall which thou must understand to be the Life of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits wherein now the Love and the wrath is against one another and therein standeth the upper water which is a spirit of the life and therein or between is the Firmament of Heaven which is made out of the midst or Center of the water 60. Now this Birth or Geniture presseth through the outward congealed Birth quite through Death and the Astral Life in the death that is in the congealed Earth Water and Flesh of the Beasts and of Men also of the Fowls Fishes and
and bear Heavenly fruits again 26. But the death of the Earth and the wrath therein should be Lord Lucifers eternal House after the accomplishing of the new Birth or Geniture in the mean while Lord Lucifer should lie captive in the Darknesse in the Deep above the Earth and there he is now and may very shortly expect his Portion 27. And that this New Birth or Geniture might be accomplished whether the Devil will or no the Creator hath therefore in the Body of this world generated himself as it were creaturely in his qualifying or fountain spirits and all the Stars are nothing else but Gods powers and the whole Body of this world consisteth in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits 28. But that there are so many Stars of so manifold different effects and operations it is from the Infinitenesse which is in the efficiency of the seaven spirits of God in one another which generate themselves infinitely 29. But that the Birth or the Bodys of the Starrs doe not change or alter in their seat but do as they did from eternitie it signifyeth that there shall be a constant continued Birth or Geniture whereby the benumm'd Body of the Earth should continually and constantly in one uniform operation which yet standeth in the infinitenesse be kindled againe and generate it selfe a new and so also should the House of darknesse of the Deep above the Earth whereby the new Body might continually and constantly be generated out of Death till time should be accomplished and the whole new borne Body Now thou wilt object and say Then sure the Starrs are God and they must be honoured and worshipp'd as God 30. The wise Heathen also came to this who indeed in their sharp or acute understandings far excelled our Philosophers but the right Door of knowledge hath remained yet hidden to them 13. Behold the Starrs are plainly incorporated or compacted out of or from God but thou must understand the difference between them for they are not the Heart and the meek pure Deitie which man is to honour and worship as God But they are the innermost and sharpest Birth or Geniture wherein all things stand in wrestling and fighting wherein the Heart of God alwaies generateth it self the Holy Ghost continually riseth up from the rising of the Life 32. But the sharp Birth or Geniture of the Starrs cannot apprehend the Heart of God again nor the Holy Ghost but the Light of God which riseth up in the anxiety together with the moving of the Holy Ghost remaineth free to it self as the Heart and ruleth in the mid'st or center of the Closure of the hidden Heaven which is from â—r out of the Water of Life 33. For from the Heaven the Starrs have their first kindling and are onely as an instrument which God useth to the Birth or Geniture It is Just such a Birth as is in Man the Body is even the Father of the soule and when the Body standeth in the anguishing Birth or Geniture of God as the Starrs doe and not in the fierce hellish Birth then the soul of Man qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the pure Deitie as a Member in or of his Body 35. Thus also is the Heart or Light of God alwaies generated in the Body of this world and that generated Heart is one Heart with the eternal beginning lesse infinite Heart of God which is in and above all Heavens 36. It is not only generated in and from the Starrs but in the whole Body of this world but the Starrs alwaies kindle the Body of this World that the Birth or Geniture may subsist every where But here thou must well observe this 37. The light or the Heart of God taketh not its original barely from the wild rough Starrs where indeed Love and wrath are one in another but out of or from the Seat where the meek water of Life is continually generated 38. For that water at or in the kindling of the wrath was not apprehended by Death but subsisteth from eternity to eternity and reacheth to all the Ends and Parts of or in this world and is the water of Life which breaketh through Death out of which the new Body of God in this world is built 39. But it is in the Stars as well as in all Ends corners and places but not in any place comprehensible or palpable but filleth or replenisheth all alike at once It is also in the Body of Man and he that thirsteth after this water and drinketh thereof in him the light of life kindleth it self which is the heart of God and there presently springeth forth the Holy Ghost Now thou Askest How then do the Stars subsist in Love and Wrath Answer 40. Behold the Stars are risen or proceeded out of the Kindled House of Gods wrath as the mobility or stirring of a Child in the Mothers Body or Womb in Three Months But now they have attained their kindling from the eternal benummed water of Life for that water in Nature was never dead 41. But when God moved himself in the Body of this world then on the third Day the anxiety in the birth of this world rubbed it self from whence the fire-flash existed and the light of the Stars kindled it self in the water of Life 42. For till the third Day from the time of the kindling of Gods wrath in this world Nature in the anxiety was a dark valley and stood in Death but on the third Day the life brake through Death and the New Birth began 43. For so long and not an hour longer the new born King and Grand Prince of this world JESUS CHRIST rested in Death and hath born or generated the first three Dayes of the Creation of Nature and that very Time in Death to Light again that this time might again be one Time with the Eternal Time and that no Day of Death might be between and that the Eternal Love and the new born or Regenerated Love out of the new Body of Nature might be one Eternal Love and that there might be no difference between the eternal Love and the new-born or regenerated Love but that the new-born Love might reach into the Being or Substance which was from Eternity and it self also be in Eternity 44. Thus the new-born Love which rose out of the water of Life in the light in the Stars and in the whole Body of this world is wholly bound and united with the eternal beginning lesse infinite Love so that they are one Heart and one Spirit which supporteth and preserveth all 45. In this kindling of the Light in the Stars and Elements the Birth of Nature did not thereupon wholly transmute or change it self into the holy Meeknesse as it was before the Time of the wrath so that the Birth of Nature is now altogether holy and pure No but it standeth in its sharpest austerest and most anxious Birth wherein the wrath of God uncessantly springeth up like hellish-Fire 46. For
qualitie manner forme also every Life be it good or bad taketh its original thus 51. For this is the Right or Law of the Deitie that every Life in the body of God should generate it selfe in one manner or uniforme way though it be done through many various Imagings yet the Life hath one uniform way and Original in all 52. I see not this knowledge with my fleshly Eyes but with those Eyes wherein life generateth it self in me in that seat the Gates of Heaven and Hell stand open to me and the new Man Speculateth into the midst or center of the Astral Birth or Geniture and to him the inner and outermost Gate standeth Open. 53. While he yet sticketh in the Old Man of Wrath and Death and sitteth also in his Heaven he seeth through both in such a manner also he seeth the Stars and Elements For in God there is no place of hinderance for the Eye of the LORD beholdeth all 54. Now if my spirit did not see thorough his spirit then I were but a blind Stock but being I see the Gates of God in my spirit and have the impulse to do it I will therefore write directly according as I have seen it and will not regard any Mans Authority 55. Thou must not conceive it so as if my Old man were a living Saint or Angel No friend He sitteth with all Men in the house of Wrath and of Death and is a constant Enemy to God and sticketh in his Sins Wickednesse and Malice as all Men do and is full of faults defects and Infirmities 56. But thou must know this that he sticketh in a continual anxious Birth or Geniture and would fain be rid of the wrath and wickednesse and yet cannot For he is as the whole house of this world wherein alwayes love and wrath wrestle one with another and the new Body alwaies generateth it self in the midst or center of the anguish For so it must be if thou wilt be born anew otherwise no man can reach the Regeneration 57. Man is alwaies seeking here for soft Dayes of Ease for the Flesh and after Riches beauty and Bravery and knoweth not that he sitteth therewith in the chamber of Death where the Sting of wrath darteth into Him 58. Behold I tell this to thee as a word of Life which I receive in the knowledge of the Spirit in the midst or center in the Birth or Geniture of the new Body of this World over which the Man JESUS CHRIST is Ruler and King together with his Eternall Father 59. Also I receive it from before the Seat of his Throne where all Holy Soules of men stand before him and rejoyce before him That the Desire of the flesh in soft pleasingnesse to be Rich to be Handsom Beautiful Fair or to be Mighty or Potent is a very Bath or Lake of hellish Wrath into which thou crowdest and runnest as if thou wert drawn in with Cartropes for there is very great danger therein 60. But if thou wouldst know how it is behold I will tell thee in a Parable or similitude When thou art pressed according to the desire of thy Heart into Riches and Power then is it with thee as if thou stoodst in a deep water where the water alwaies standeth up to thy very mouth and thou feelest no ground under thy Feet but thou swimmest with thy Hands and struggling waverest thy self suddenly thou art deep in water suddenly above water again yet alway in a great Terrour and danger Expecting to sinck down to the bottom the water coming often into thy Mouth alwaies expecting Death by being Drowned 61. Just in this manner thou sittest and no other when thou art in the pleasures of the flesh if thou wilt not Fight thou canst not look for any Victory but thou wilt be murthered in thy soft Bed of Down For man hath a continual Hoast or Army before him which fighteth with him continually if he will not defend himself then he is taken captive and slain 62. But how can he defend himself that swimmeth in a Deep water he hath enough to do to keep himself up struggling and wavering in the water and yet neverthelesse he is there also assaulted and stormed by the Devils 63. O Danger upon Danger as our King Christ also saith It is very hard for a Rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven a Camel will easier go through the Eye of a Needle then a Rich man enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Math. 19. 24. Mark 10. 25. 64. But if any will bee new born again he must not yeeld himself to be a servant to Cove toufnesse Pride State and self-power to take delight in the will or desires of his Flesh but he must struggle and fight against himself against the Devill and against all the Lusts of the Flesh and he must think and consider that he is but a Servant and Pilgrim on Earth which must wander through many miserable Seas of danger into another world and there he will be a LORD and his dominion will consist in power and perfect delight beauty and brightnesse this I tell as the word of the Spirit Now Observe 65. The SUN hath its own Royall place to it self and doth not goe away from that place where it came to be at the first as some suppose that it runeth round about the Globe of the Earth in a Day a Night and some of the Astrologers also write so and some have undertaken to measure how far its Orb and Circumference of its supposed Motion is 66. This opinion or supposition is not right but the Earth roueth it selfe about and runneth with the other Planets as in a wheele round about the Sun The Earth doth not remaine staying in one Place but runneth round in a yeare once about the Sun as the other Planets next the Sun but Saturne and Jupiter as also Mars by reason of their great Orb circumference and great height cannot do it because they stand so high above and far distant from the SUN How it may be asked what is the SUN and what are the other PLANETS or how are they come to be 67. Behold the other Planets are peculiar Bodys of their own which have a corporeal proprietie of themselves and are not bound to any setled or fixed place but only to their Circle Orb or Sphere wherein they runne their course But the SUN is not such a Body but is only a place or Locality kindled by the Light of God Understand it aright 68. The place where the SUN is is such a place as you may choose or suppose any where above the Earth and if God should kindle the Light by the Heat then the whole world would be such a meer SUN for that same power wherein the Sun standeth is every where all over and before the time of wrath it was every where all over in the place of this world as Light as the Sun is now but
and are still kindled by the Planets and Stars from whence existeth the mobilitie and the Birth or Geniture in the whole Deepe 69. But being the Heart of the Deitie hideth it selfe in the Body of this world in the outermost Birth or Genitnre which is the corporeity thereupon the corporeity is a dark House and all standeth in great anguish and needeth a Light to shine in the Chamber of the darknesse which is the Sun and that so long till the Heart of God will move it selfe againe in the seaven spirits of God in the House of this world and kindle the seaven spirits 70. And then the Sun and Stars will returne againe to their first place and will passe away in such a forme or manner for the Heart and Light of God shall give Light and shine againe in the Corporeity that is in the Body of this world and replenish or fill all 71. And then the anxietie ceaseth for when the anxietie in the Dominion of the Geniture or Birth regiment tasteth of the sweetnesse of the Light of God so that the Heart of God triumpheth together in the Birth Regiment then all is richly full of Joy and the whole Body triumpheth 72. Which at present in this time in the House of this world cannot bee because of the fierce Captive Devill which keepeth House in the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Body of this world till the Judgment of God 73. Now here thou may'st understand Hovv the Heart of God hath the Fann or Casting shovel in its hand and vvill one Day cleanse his floor vvhich I herewith earnestly declare to you as in the knowledge in the Light of Life where the Heart in the Light of Life breaketh thorough and Proclaimeth the Bright cleare Day Of Man and the Stars 74. Now as the Deepe or the House of this world is a dark House where the whole Corporeity generateth it selfe and so is very thick dark anxicu and halfe dead and taketh its moving from the Planets and Stars which kindle the Body in the outermost Birth or Geniture from whence existeth the mobilitie of the Elements as also the figured and Creaturely being so also the Humane house of Flesh is a dark valley wherein is indeed the anxietie to the Birth of Life and it alwayes highly endeavoreth intending to elevate it selfe into the Light from whence the Life might kindle it self 75. But being the Heart of God did hide it selfe in the center or kernel therefore it cannot be thereupon the anxietiegenerateth no more but ONE Seed The House of the flesh generateth a Seed of its liknesse to the propagating of a Man againe and the House of the spirit in the instant or innate state of the seaven spirits generateth in the Seed another spirit after its likenesse to the propagating of the spirit of Man againe 76. And the House of the hidden Heart generateth also such a spirit as standeth hidden in the Body to the spirit of the House of Flesh as also to the spirit of the Astral Birth or Geniture just as the Heart of God in the seaven spirits of God standeth hidden in the spirits in the Deepe of this world and doth not kindle them till after this enumeration or account of Time is out 77. This third spirit is the soule in Man and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Heart of God as a Sonne or little God in the great immense or unmeasureable God 78. Now these three distinct Dominions or Regiments are generated in the seed which taketh its original in the flesh as I have mentioned before within three leaves from this Now observe this hidden secret Mysterie Yee Naturalists observe The Gate of the Great mysterie 79. Out of the anguishing Chamber in the Body of this world out of the seaven spirits of God are risen or sprung forth the Stars which kindle the Body of this world and out of or from the Body the fruit or seede generateth it selfe which is the Water Fire Aire and Earth 80. The Earth is the fruit of the seaventh spirit of God which is Nature or Corporiety wherein the other six spirits generate themselves againe and figure or frame the Salitter of the seaventh spirit into infinite sorts of formes or shapes so that the Earth also generateth its seed which is the fruit of vegetation as is apparent to the Eye 81. Now Mans House of Flesh is also such a house as the dark deepe of this world is wherein the seaven spirits of God generate themselves 82. But being Mans Body is its proper own and is a Sonne of the whole Body of God therefore it generateth also a proper seede of its own according to the Government or Dominion of his corporeal qualifying or fountain spirits 83. The Body taketh its food from the seed of the seaven spirits of God in the Body of the great Deepe which is Fire Aire Water and Earth 84. Of or from the Earth it taketh the Birth of the Earth or the Fruit for it is much more Noble then the Earth It is an extracted Masse out of the Salitter out of the seaventh Nature spirit 85. For when the Body of Nature was kindled by the Devill then the word or the Heart of God drew the Masse together before the corrupted Salitter was press'd together which now is called the Earth because of the hard fiercenesse or corruption 86. But when the Earth was pressed together then the Masse stood in the dark Deepe in the created Heaven betweene the anxious Birth or Geniture and the Body of the Heart of God till the sixth Day and then the Heart of God breathed the Light of Life out of or from his Heart into the innermost or third Birth or Geniture of the Masse 87. Now when this was done then in the Masse the seaven spirits of the qualities began to qualifie or operate and in the Masse the seede of the seaven qualifying or fountain spirits generated it selfe as Fire Aire and Water as in the Body of the Deepe 88. Thus MAN became a living Soul in that kind and manner as the Sun is risen or sprung forth and out of that the rest of the seven Planets 89. The Light in Man which the Heart of God â—ad breathed in signifieth or resembleth the Sunâ—hich â—hich shineth in the whole Deepe concerning â—hich you will finde more cleerely about the Creaâ—ion of Man 90. Now behold As in the Deepe of this world through the kindling of the Stars a seede is generated out of the Body of the dark deepe like the Creaturely Body so also in like manner in Mans House of Flesh there is generated a seede according to the Eternal Birth Right of the seaven qualifying or fountain spirits 91. And in the seeds there are three distinct things whereof the one cannot fathom the other and yet are in that one only seed and qualifie mixe or unite one with another as one being and is also one being and yet also three distinct things according