commissioned to act in this last Seene of Wonders in the wonder-City that shall be all compacted of pure Spirits Hear and see ye shall be planted there as the great Cannons for these Powers will multiply as a great Host which can cut off this visible World at one stroke This is the great reserve to be given as a Reward to the suffering Conquerors The fifth Thunder cryed Now unseal the Tabernacle-Testimony let the eternal Gospel of Love and Peace go forth in the cloven Tongue which can only speak out what springs from the original Law of restored Nature to its primary Purity out of the Fountain of the Deity Behold these are the separated and anointed Ones who have this Gospel-Dispensation as a perpetual rising spring proceeding from the holy Spirit who can indeed absolve and pronounce Remission of Sins For Power will rest upon those who can conveigh the New-Testament-Blood to heal and deliver from the infective Root of Sin not in a painted formal Imitation but there shall go forth a Fire-breath to send this healing Gospel into the very Center-Root of the sick and sorrowful in Spirit who under the wound of Sin have laid long for Cure To which true Royalty and Priesthood some shall be more eminently ordained for the gathering in of those who lie under the Babylonish Rubbish who shall be raised through the out-going Might of the everlasting Testimony in the Blood of the Lamb's Life which is the known Character that only shall be given to them The Declaration of the sixth Thunder was thus represented to me I saw one holding forth a Saphire Signet or sealing Stone with which were to be marked all the Free-born that do belong to the New-Jerusalem for none but such as are marked can have right to the vast Riches which are concentred in Wisdom's Bank who to this day hath locked up the Brides Dowry and will not part with it till she can come with this Seal upon her Heart which is now brought out to put the highest impress of saphire-Saphire-Glory and Purity that may signifie that the Lamb's Bride is all thus dignified Oh! who shall henceforth detain those Riches Wealth and Honour which have been treasured up from before the Foundation of the World For all must now be given up to her command whether it be in Heaven or Earth or in the glassy Sea whether in Heights or in Depths or in any of the Eternal Sphears The sealing Name is every where the Authority that must set all open which hath been locked up hitherto because none could bring alone with them the Seal which is now freely brought down of God's own ingraving and therefore can never be counterfeited for it bears the lively Portraiture of Father Son and Spirit to whom all Riches Power and Glory are given The last Thunder comes in great Power to declare the Great Day of the Marriage-Feast of the Lamb The Fountains run now with that Spirit Wine that was in the Grape before all Time the choice and precious Fruits ripened by the Serene and Pure Elements are prepared and the Table is covered with all Replenishments that God himself can set out to express the Content and Joy he takes to see this consummating Day wherein I saac hath brought home his Rebecca into God the Father's and Jerusalem's Glory where henceforce a perpetual Feast of Joy forever is to be kept Angels now sound your Trumpet-Songs because the Harvest is reapea and God's Kingdom come The Lamb and Bride are now met to maintain a living Fame in another Creation The Redemption is finished Salvation is witnessed and the Mystery of God is unsealed The Harpers are summon'd to the Holy Quire with their Sounds and fiery Tongues that may proclaim the Lamb hath given up the Kingdom consisting of perfect Spirits that God only may be the top covering of great Majesty Strength Wisdom and Glory in and over all the Inhabitants of this Holy City which beareth this Name The Almighty creating Power â—â—â—ileth and taketh up his abode here Henceforth bless the Lord on High It s he that hath unsealed Treasures richly What can them hide from the Spirit 's Eye That pierced have into the Heart of the Deity Tribute-Offerings pay to our God and King Who hath revealed Wonderful Things Oh what Seraphick Sounds do I hear Are they not the Thunders of the Coelestial Sphear Calling for an attentive Ear Spirit to hear o're Which as the Doors be to the Golden Ore Where vast Treasures land up are in store But sound are only by Spirit 's Pore This is the state in which the Souls blest Eye May see God without Thought intellectually Though Speech and Converse away may fly The thunder of his Power abides essentially This is the Day we rejoyce to see Even the acting Power of the Deity What is it but the fiery piercing Eye That can the unsealed Book untye Wherein the perfect Number Seven lie Blessed is that Power from on High That hath struck the Crystial Rock From whence the Thunders did fly I feel the gushing in of Crystial Springs That whirleth as upon Cherubim Wings No more to look down to Earthly Things The Glass so clear through which I see Beholding glorious Objects variously That snatched away before I am awake Pass we on to the Sea of Glass Through all Worlds we make our Pass Brought we are to our own Land Where all Wonders in order stand Rewing what the Mortal cannot endure Even those Coelestials that are ever pure Blessed are those in whom the wonder Of the seven Thunders uncloaked be That feel that see that possess God in Unity Raised high into the Heart of the Deity Whereout Spring secret pleasant things That swallows up in Joy that hath no end Thus were the seven Thunders opened and interpreted to me from the springing Word upon which I closely waited and witnessed felt a sweet precious anointing and refreshing Joy to come in from every Thunder-Cry Oh! this is so great so weighty and rich and such surprizing Goodness which in this Book of Life is found which is now unsealing that no other things any more ought to be minded by us Thus the triumphant King and Conqueror who is possessed of all these Royal Powers and Dignities that are infolded in these seven Thunders hath given his Word that none of these shall fail in any one that hath the mark of the seventh Conquering-Seal broken up in themselves to whom joynt-power and authority will be given in order to the beginning of that Reign which is to be settled here on Earth according to the Prophecy in John's Revelation which presseth hard upon me from the Fiery Cloud that circles round my Spirit for a defensive Banner which will let nothing of the eclipsing dark Principle come in whilst the Center deep from the Soul 's fiery Essence opens and the bright Streamers from the Heart of the glorified Jesus who meets me in such a peaceable Love-paved-Walk
been understood All which shall be made good when the Soul shall be brought forth as a well tuned Instrument new strung and qualified in the deified man where the holy Spirit moves every Property according to the central Wheel in its new begotten Form which is set free to run its Races in the Sphere of Light where weak Mortality with its sinful Essences are out-run and left behind in the Fall Let not this seem strange or impossible for in the Deep a Mean is found for the bringing forth of this long buried Seed which hath long waited to arise in its original Body of essential Perfection and harmoniz'd Powers that it may appear that God is come to move and shew himself in the Covenant of his Love according to the Preordination in the heart of Christ for by him we do obtain this Resurrection in order to all the following Glories which the holy Spirit shall bring with him even so Anon. This Instruction being so immediately from the Lord carried great weight with it and made me resolve to wait upon the working Power in my inward Deep for the reducing of every divided Property to Unity for I was fully convinced that this Uniformity must be the Temple in which the holy Spirit will appear for the bringing of all working Powers to a heavenly Consort and Agreement I sate upon this day by day and as I found great drivings thereunto from the South Wind of Heaven so strong Storms were raised from the North with roaring Seas that lifted up their Waves to scatter and make void this holy Enterprize in injecting divers Temptations that such a thing as this could not hold or abide but would have its Overturnings and Changes for that nothing less than a God can always be in an equal Temperature and that this was rather the full effect of the holy Spirits coming than a Preparation for it Thus was I puzled and tossed to and fro in my Mind as if I were put upon that which could never be brought about or carried through to the desired End But the Lords Word was mighty and powerful to press me forward to this sweet and well ordered Composure of Mind to abide in an equal Temperature notwithstanding all that might come in to discourage me whether from those visible things or from the dark Principality which is much more hurtful in regard that they as Spirits can shoot in their Darts before we are aware so that this bath been my watchful Exercise for some days to resist what would have done Violence to that which in Concord and Peace would ever unshaken remain The holy One according to his friendly way and manner of Visitation did after all this exceedingly comfort and strengthen me to maintain his right of Conquest over all that which yet is left to vex and awaken Anxiousness or any Fear or Turmoile in the Soul My Jesus thus spake Consider and know thou art to hold fast what I have purchased by the fore-passed Death in thee as having assumed that Body of Sin to offer it up for a consuming Sacrifice once for all as was shewed in the Type of the visible Body which is now done again in the invisible So that you are to reckon and account your sins virtually done away they can claim no Law either to reign or condemn Look upon all Motions of this kind to be at the check of the Spirit who hath again quickned the dead and will no more give way to that which came in to flesh for to destroy And therefore let none pretend a necessity of continuing in that which hath brought in Confusion and Disagreement seeing a Redeeming Spirit is come down to renew and gather in the lost again to the divine Beeing from whence they did proceed at first pure as God is pure to which degree of Perfection that we may be restored again is the end of Christs Mediatory Office not only without but within us where the Body of Sin hath been yielded up for an Offering This confirming Word Christ the Lord who is arising left with me for them who have been in the Death with him that we henceforth may know our selves in him to be acquitted and released from all Claims which the evil Powers and Properties can make for upholding that Kingdom where the Beasts Throne is which consists of envy wrath strife from all which by an eternal Decree of the Lord Jehovah you are set free and brought into the Harmony of that Kingdom where the springing Joy from the Peace of God doth run as a River that hath its Division through all Properties for to bring them to the heavenly Unity whereby the Creature is set free from the Bondage of Sin and a wafaring Life according to the Pattern seen in the Mount of Vision to which my Spirit hath been oft taken up to see the wonderful Plat-form of the New-Jerusalem The Vision of the New-Jerusalem The Lord took me away from my mortal part and shewed me the Scituation of this great Glory and said Behold and see the Pattern of the heavenly Houses and Mansions which make up the New-Jerusalem where the Glory of the One only God doth fill all with the essential Light and Splendor of his divine goodness I shall as I am able describe what I did see in the Heavens of this Mother-City for so it was named to me who is to bring forth her first and free-born to replenish the New Earth and Heavens It appeared as a City sounded upon one square Stone whose Dimensions were very large It was all paved with light flaming Colours appearing like so many various sparkling Stones inlaid on the great Foundation Stone which gave forth a luster as if so many bright Suns had been there Towards the Verge or out-side of this square Stone were seen many Seraphick Bodies wreathing Arm in Arm and several rows of various spiritual Forms of different Ranks and Stature These Rews appeared like the Stories of a building which were carried up higher higher in a square Figure till it was wonderful high upon the Heads of the most inward glorified Bodies a Covering was spread by one more Diaphanous and of greater splendor than all the rest the Height of his Person was higher by the head then all the other who called to me out of this most glorious Building To take good heed of all I had seen for it had a further meaning which I was to have revealed when driven by the Spirit into the light Mystery where all deep things do open Oh my dear Lord be thou an All-springing Testimony within and from this New-Jerusalem My Spirit being drawn out for a further Enquiry concerning this New-Jerusalem state what the Appearance of it to us did signifie for this present time the Foundation Stone thereof gave forth this Word That such a City the mighty Cyrus would himself be the Founder of upon the visible Stage of this World although there be little appearance
of it as yet because the Elect Stones are at present lying amongst the Rubbish of Confusion who in due time are to be linked together to make up a strong City of Defence through the Gates of which no unclean Vessel shall pass nor whatsoever is Lame or Blemished according as was seen in the Pattern This the Lord will effect by his Might and Spirit and establish this City on Mount-Zion at which the whole World shall Tremble Whilst the Lord was communing with me about this heavenly City I saw it descend and cover the whole Earth and all those who were not prepared to enter and who could claim no Birth-right freedom in this Mother-City did flee away by Multitudes Heaps upon Heaps to hide themselves from the bright Splendor of the divine Body with the anointed head in the midst of it The Glory was so great that we can only give an Eclipsed account of what was seen But as the descent of this Magnificence did terrifie and cause above three parts of the World to flee away as having an irreconcileable Enmity to Spirits and Bodies of such Purity so on the other hand I saw a Numerous Company gathered to it from all Quarters the Trumpet-shout of Jerusalems great King calling them in from all parts they were all the first-born of this Mother-City who well knows her own calling them by that Name which is impressed upon them in flaming Characters of Love Multitudes of this kind encompassed the holy City but few were admitted to the Seraphick wreathe even those only who had put on the glorified Body Whereupon I asked Why those who were called and had the Name of the heavenly City upon them were not received in And the Lord said That those who were taken into the Glory had finished their inward Transformation to the utmost Perfection waiting only for the Consumation of the Nuptial Glory but that the rest though far gone in true Regeneration could not be admitted until their Redemption were perfectly wrought out to the end that no flaw may be found in the Stones that are to constitute this divine Building but as any shall arrive to this degree of Perfection so this City shall descend and take them in Hereupon followed a further discovery to let me know the Royal Freedom of the spiritual Seed proceeding from the New-Jerusalem as the Virgin Bride of God who though come down into this visible Birth of Time yet was before all Time in the Substantiality of spiritual Essence by whom the renewed fruitfulness of this free Birth shall in this last Age of the World be made manifest which was the joyful Message which sounded in my Heavens with what is further to be declared for our Consolation It was thus laid before me That the Jerusalem from above hath been these many Ages travelling to bring forth her first and free-born according to that divine Likeness whose Descent is not to be found within the verge of Time For here the Gate of Gods deep hath been opened to let us in to see the wonderful Mystery that was fore-ordained to work through all the Vicissitudes of Time since the first Creation Now then let us consider what the first Plant of Paradise was from whence we are all sprung it was but a flower from the Earth for out of the Dust of the Earth the Lord God created man and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life and man became a living Soul which was pure as immediately proceeding from the most Holy But how soon did this Glory fade and return to Earth again whereas if he had kept his first Estate he would have been advanced to higher degrees of Perfection and become fruitful in Gods Virgin off-spring All which Design for a limitted time was overturned but the Foundation of Gods Election stood so firm in the Essentiality of the out-breathed Word which was the Light of Adam's Life in the Center of Immortality that the same Word will restore all again according to the first gracious Intent of the wise Creator whose purposed Grace shall renew the face of all things that have been marred in the first Adamiral Image But though so desperate a Fall hath overtaken the whole Creation yet is it but as the fading or cropping of a flower whose eternal Root remaining will put forth and spring a-fresh in a more glorious Beauty and Figure than the first ever had For though by one mans Disobedience all are made subject to Death and the Curse which is the bruising of the Heel yet the Head-Life remains which will recover raise and make all sound again for in this promised seed the faded Life will be quickned according to the Election of Him who will hereby more Eminently make known the Riches of his Grace and Glory in his Vessels prepared thereunto For though there be in all men an holy seed remaining whereby they are in a possibility of recovery yet because all have not an Heart to improve this Talent it continues an unprofitable dead Seed to many notwithstanding all are called To take of the Water of Life freely that by its quickning Virtue the buried Seed may be raised to a new Life in a Body of its own kind which Seed through many Deaths does renew its never fading Flower of Life for a higher degree of Glory in the New Jerusalem state of fixation Now from what hath been said we are informed that there is an Elect Number which is to make up the New Jerusalem-Bride here upon Earth who shall finish the Mystery of the Seventh Seal and be all instated in that Kingdom which the Alpha and Omega hath designed for his Virgin-Bride before Paradise or this World were And that I might know that this design and unchangeable purpose of God is still going on there was shewed me a clear White Stone in which were engraven numberless Names all ordained to make up the Glory of this City of God which shall be the Praise and Admiration of the Heavens and a dread and amazement to the Earth for the Revelation of it will bring a Wo upon them who have no part in it This the Lord himself did signifie saying Henceforth know your Free-Birth Name and Place in this City and be not fearful or unbelieving but travel on in the assured Hope that shall not be made ashamed for the everlasting Father hath prepared for you this City of which I am the Builder in you The hand of the Lord was strong upon me still and took me up into an high and lofty Place where I saw a burning Furnace which appeared all Blew like the airy Clouds and the Lord walking in it to and fro who said See whether thou canst make thy Pass to me and abide in this pure everlasting burning Region which is the Spirits purging Fire which will devour whatsoever is not of the same Essentiality with me Upon which I replied Ah! my Lord I am free to make my Pass to thee but how
greet them whom we discern to be of a high and lofty stature having shot forth their Branches in great lustre and glory as having got beyond all declarative Revelations and Teachings as not receiving or needing any but what their own center of Light will supply them withal here-from inclining to slight what lies in bank and store with their fellow-Labourers for this same Treasure to such this word is sent that they carry it in great humility and lowliness of Mind prefering each ones gift before or as their own maintaining all sweet and lovely Fellowship with those of lower or higher degrees in mutual Concord and Harmony for the maintaining a holy Fraternity and spiritual Neighbourhood although each Saint may have a full Provision and plentiful Portion of Spirit in themselves so as they have no dependance on another yet love is freely communitive and disperseth it self in great variety so as what one Saint is gifted and furnished with the other may want of that sort and kind and so a heavenly Traffick and Correspondency may be maintained feeding and feasting with each other on the various Fruits as all springing from one Stock and Tree of Life for it is experienced that much increase of the holy Anointing hath flown forth by the converse and declaration of divine Inspirations from one Saint to another the which hath begotten a new and spiritual Generation as in former Ages so in this sending forth divine sparks of Light and Love for the gathering in of the holy priestly Train that are to make up the Temple-Glory till the which shall come to be compleated there will be all need of this holy in spiring Breath to be breathed from one to another whether by vocal Voice inspeaking or converse as the holy Spirit shall go forth in its various operations for the edifying of the Body of Love for a holy Convocation to the Lord. In the hopeful Expectation of which I have been driven to disclose these great and deep secrets being assured That this Generation shall not pass away before there shall be a fulfilling of what hath been revealed prophecied of in this little Tract and blessed are they that shall have their lot and portion herein There is a rich Bank yet behind from whence the oily Springs do fill that may be emptied forth when Vessels are made more fine and ready thereof to take in for the which we shall wait and seek to find some such for to partake of that rich and weighty Prize that yet lieth in the secret eternal Mine for there is Vally deep which under the Water of Life doth lie that will bring forth the fruitful Olive Plants that shall be there fed and nourished hiddenly till of a strong and full grown stature in Spirit and Power they may come for to be then will they shew themselves to the true Israel of God universally that the Priestly Kingdom may come for to spread and flourish every where in power and great glory sealed with Mission of the holy Ghost acting and going forth in signal miraculous working Powers for confirmation of the truth of this Dispensation in such a way as none shall resist nor any dark Magician shall be able to counterfeit for so strong and impregnable is the Foundation of this Temple-body of glory that neither Dragon Beast or false Prophet shall be able it to undermine it being built and compact together of precious Saphire Stones transparent for Beauty and Glory the Jasper Stone being both Foundation and Covering thereon then will the shout of a King be heard in the Land of Salvation Oh! ye holy and elect of God where-ever you have been hid appear if you have put on your anointed Shield promote and help forward this royal Priesthood wherein the lively express of the holy Ghost is to be manifested Oh! that some fitch might be known that hereto do give themselves and mind no other thing as the Lords approved Work-men that may come to build up the inward Priestly Temple whose Furniture and Glory shall be the Gifts and Powers of the holy Ghost And now what have I more to do but to wait in hope that the pure flaming Spirit may henceforth go forth to gather in this Priestly Host who as in a reathed Chain of Love united may be inseparable that so we may come to take our degrees of Prophets Priests and Kings for the making good what hath been in this Treatise revealed which though in the form of a dead Letter yet O God as the Auther hereof did in the writing meet with a mighty flow of the anointing Presence so let the same out-flowing Spring accompany such whom thou hast ordained to be taken into this holy Priestly Order to which give thy Amen O great High-Priest to whom the Glory hereof doth belong Even so let that Kingdom come into this World that shall consist of Kings Priests and Prophets with all such Righteous Plants let the whole Earth be plantd for Joy and Praise to him who is the Antient of Days Hellelujah to him who is KING of Kings THE END As you may see in the Book entituled The Heavenly Cloud by the same Author Meaning the Book of the Heavenly Cloud Acts 1. 4. Ephef 1. 10. Rom 6. 14. Rev. 11 10. Rom 5. 12 Gen 3 5. Isa. 55. v. 1. The opening of the first Seal Rev. 6. v. 1 2. The opening of the second Seal Rev. 6. v. 3 4. The opening of the third Seal Rev 6. 5 6. The opening of the fourth Seal Rev. 6 7 8 Paâ—â—icular experiences coâ—â—â—rning this seal opening The open ing of the fifth Seal Rev. 6 9 10 11. The opening of the sixth Seal Rev. 6 14. to the end chap 7. Rev. 2. 3. The seventh Seal shown by way of Vision some space of time after the opening of the other Seal The seventh Seal is included in the seven Thunders opening as the effect of this Seal The frst Thunder The second Thunder The third Thunder The fourth Thunder The fifth Thunder The sixth Thunder The seventh Thunder January 2d 1682. So soon as desired that is to be understood carried up in a Spiritual Transportation First Property Second Property Third Property Fourth Property Fifth Property Sixth Property of the Soul Seventh Property Rev. 121. Meaning Wisdom who is God's esposed Virgin For this Virgin-Nativity see into she Wisdom of Sedemon Chap. 6. 7. Which five Gates were the 5 Sences spoken of before Now proceed we to the following Gates By Sophia is meant Virgin-Wisdom See Rev 18. 11 12 c. The word Magia is the created Power of the-Holy Ghost so to be undestood as often as named A weighty Expression from Emmanuel Methinks I hear some say This is such a new Model as is wonderful strange Pray open the Mystery of it yet more fully Answer I only can give out what the Measuring Line of the Spirit hath fathomed and no more Magia is the Faith of the operation of the Holy Ghost A fresh Prophetical opening upon this subject Seven days of Solitude from all of mortal Society as might be avoided The which hath induced the Author to publish these divine Secrets Col. 3 12. The General Epistle of John ch 16. 17. ch 4. 7. 8 â— 10 11. That is Love's Infancy before it grows strong For the Kingdom was here delivered up and God became all in all Which Body is the Ark of the living presence soto be understood Mal. 18. 18. Joh. 20. 23. That is by incorporation with Christ their sinless Life all Purely acting in them How blind to time must that eye be Who would see the glories of Eternity Sure those who Heaven most desire They from all of the Earth do most retire
Beast did rise is a terrible tossing working Sea where all the worldly Spirits drive their Traffick for to make Babylon pompous and great who ever loves the Earth and are admirers of the Beast who gives Riches and worldly Honours to such as serve him but oh come here and see how he must fall with his whole Hierarchy Wherefore let none trust to his Kingdom which in one day shall be made desolate through the fiery Judgments Here are two Seas at strife one against the other turn your Eyes inward you who are the Lamb's Warriors and witness bear to these two Seas meeting within the Ground of Nature The Sea of the Beast contains great abundance of Riches according to its perishable kind besides there is an overflow to the Merchants of it that are in a free Trade to uphold that worldly Kingdom wherein all Nursery of Sins-Wuchcraft is maintained But according as I was called upon to come and see how the Beast and all his rich trafficking-Sea is to be dryed up as the Lamb of God shall fill his Vials from out of this glassy Sea and pour them upon it when all its Pomp and Riches shall sink as a Mill stone never to rise again Oh? at this let all our Nations rejoyce within us as this Vision is fulfilling Now follows another great Mystery which I was called upon to look into concerning the seventh Seal wherein lies hid the Reward and rich Price which though not yet given in Possession yet the Holy One hath seen it expedient to reveal it by breathing sorth this Word in me saying Come thou apart and Sanctifie a Fast tonelling nothing of the Leaven which is found in the House of fallen Nature abstain from any other Cup but what I the Anointed shall sill unto thee from the burning Sea of Glass which will be a Lamp to give Light and perfect Knowledge in the most hidden things that everlasting Wisdom hath hitherto sealed up For to you who are come to the sixth Seal and to your burning Elements in the heat of that melting Furnace these further Secrets are disclosed for the Consolation who shall hold out in this last Battel-Race for Conquest Therefore put on your Life-Armour day by day and continue in the Fight for joy of that which is now revealed as your Reward taking all care to abstain from the Leaven of Imaginations which may stop the Sluce of Revelation in its Purity The empty Bowl with light burning Oyl began to come in and became a rising Spring which did give light to the dark Socket of my Understanding within and the first thing that was shewed me was an open Book written within and every one of the seven Seals broken and it was in the Hand of the God-head-man who said Come and read what the seven Wonders which my faithful Witness did declare of in his day of Revelation which were then to be sealed up because the Day of their fulfilling was so far off But now in this present time there hath been such a servent heat of flaming Intercession which hath made all these Seals to melt away that the Secrets contained in the Book might be opened and made known This Living Book which was presented to my view to read was the glorified Person of the Lord Jesus who did now appear to reveal what was sealed up in the seven Thunders His presence was not terrible as appearing under the Vail of pure Humanity where he hides me as in the Clifts of his own Spiritual Body whilst he talketh with me who thus said Thou art come to a deep Knowledge for here the greatest Good highest Beeing stands unsealed to the introverted Eye of thy Spirit that can enter into the Light of Eternity where the Looking-Glass of all Mysteries does stand open Now the cry of the first Thunder was this Behold how the six dayes Creation is come to its limit and Man ceaseth to be being returned into the Eternity of his own Spirit there to rest in God while the Number of the Beast is summed up and his Kingdom furnished with the Ordinances of Day and Night which take place in this changeable Element from whence the Craft and Subtilty of Reason doth arise to uphold and maintain the lapsed earthly Life All which there will be no further need of according to what the second Thunder doth utter The second Thunder uttered as follows Come and see who out of the Bed of passive stillness do now arise and come forth all new and immortalized to rule as Gods in an immutable Creation These are they who have been exercised in great Tribulation and lain as dead under the Seals but they are come to live and take the Lamb's Power to reign in Gods Omnipotency which is the only Instrument they shall play upon to subdue all inwardly and outwardly For they are now put in Commission under him who is come to judge the Quick and Dead and to remove all things wherein the Serpents Brood hath been nourished The cry of the third Thunder is this Ho! come ye whose Names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life The way is all cleared and the great River Euphrates is dryed up for to give Passage to the Holy Land where the Tree of Life shall meet you with its flowing Fruits whose savour leaves a perpetual Sweetness and such a strength of Joy as will make you know the Feast of Tabernacles it come indeed with God alone for to celebrate and keep The Walls all ranged are with Seraphims that are appointed for your Guard to usher you into an higher Sphear and more magnificent place than this which was the Seat of the first Paradisival Man where you are to make but your forty dayes stay For an higher Orb doth descend as a Cloud to take up the Elders that have their Throne-Seats prepared in the great Jerusalem City which is the settled Rest where no more removing is feared for there is an indissolvable Link all fixed in a Co-operating Power which never shuts up The fourth Thunder opened thus unto me by way of Vision I saw seven Golden Candlesticks branched out from a Suid of Gold and each Socket appeared empty and there came one in the appearance of a Jaspher-light and poured in some sparkling Liquor and there arose a shining burning which sent forth Flakes of light very numerous running up and down like Lightning so as nothing could contain them nor prevent them from going whither they would then was it cry'd in my hearing What hast thou seen but the great Wonder of the fourth Thunder disclosing the fiery Lamps that are appointed to be fixed in renewed Nature which are so impowering that on whomsoever they rest they may act and do whatsoever they will into For the Concord of these seven Spirits is of that force as they can save or destroy bind or loose they are the seven proper Powers that must make out who are God's Co-deified Ones and
on the Earth The Elect shall reap and long enjoy the creating Works of their own Hands for with no less Power shall the Representatives of Christ the Lord be invested This declared must be throughout all Worlds that Christ will appear in his Saints that are risen again to bear the Tropky of a Death-Conquering Power Now the next enquiry is When is the time that this may be expected because hitherto there is but very small appearance of any such thing that is Who is it qualified in such a high degree as this heavenly Kingdom requires Who are willing to be Beheaded and through Death to be made partakers of this Reign But yet notwithstanding all these Objections of Fear Unbelief and the whole throng of discouraging Spirits of the sensible Life whose cry is Who is able to suffer all this Faith and Love are given to the worthy pretenders to this Kingdom whereby they are carried as with Wings over all the Floods of Fear and Discouragement neither shall they want either Resolution or Valour to wade through the greatest opposing Difficulties who are designed for it and found in the Lamb's Roll. A double and trebble portion of his Spirit the Lord hath said he will add to them who first shall abrogate the Law of Sease which hath been the chief hinderance of his Kingdom which therefore is to be made void because it diverts the Soul from fetching all its Supplies from the Rock neither can Faith arrive to its full strength till Sense be led into captivity and cast into a dead Sleep Now as to the time of the Lord's Reign when it shall be you will be apt to say That this is an unknown thing and that none can prefix the time It is true that many have Calculated and puzled their Spirits about it in vain But if we will know how near the time is we must not look without us but in the unsealed Book of Life within us there you will find the fore-going Signs which are first to be accomplished in your own Heavens and Earth We may try and prove our selves by what hath been already revealed from the seven Seals and Thunders how near the Kingdom of our Lord is approached unto us Let each of us examin our selves how far the preparative work is advanced in us We see what the Beast and Dragon's Kingdom must suffer in us to make way for this Reign which cannot be established till all this Trash be taken out of the way Therefore we shall only know the time by such an one who shall give the first deadly stroke and come forth a Conqueror over the whole sensitive Life and this outward Kingdom which stands divided between Good and Evil in such an Overcomer as this my Jesus expressed he would appear and personate a Kingly Reign and that we are not to look out for any other Sign at this time but the Manifestation of this conquering Life And further said There would go forth an Arrow from the Word of Revelation which should so closely stick in some as to pierce through the Heart of the Beast who hath warred to hinder the Lord's triumphant Reign in his Saints By all which it is clear that there is no surer sign of the approaching Personal Reign of Christ than to see the Beast wounded to the Heart for no sooner will the Beast be removed but his Kingdom will appear whose right it is to rule in Heaven and Earth Who is it now that will suck in the Marrow of these precious things which is the dropping Oyl which distills from the Olive-Tree to make our way smooth light and clear and to preserve us from being daunted though our Portion should be a draught of Blood for the life of the Beast must be taken away before the Lord appear in us like himself in Power Glory and Majesty Oh! what Drawings and Desires may these weighty sayings from the Lord enkindle in us from his coming to reign in absolute dominion within us The Word came to me Run hard there is a rich Prey to be taken by treading down of the Beast which may be taken if pursued to the Victory Wherefore be valiant in the Faith for all Might is in God to overcome whatsoever opposeth his Reign and Personal Kingdom Much and free Communication I had with the Lord this Night and a Cloud of Light appeared in me which raised my hope higher I had also many Queries satisfied Then there appeared to me a pitched Standard which reached from the Earth to the Heavens where its top was hid it resembled a strait ascending Flame and it was signified that this was the Standard of overcoming Power which no earthly Warrior would venture to engage with for its Dominion reached from the Earth to the Heavens and this Word was added Stick close to it and move not from under it for it will be a shelter from the Storm which is coming on with a flowing Sea of Troubles raised by the wrathful One whose Kingdom is Division This Motto and Inscription was given out from the sealed Book within as follows In Christ I live in Christ I dye that I may cease from Sin and beastly Properties that so the first Ground of Life may rise over all to immortalize the Reign of Christ. Words no more as empty Sails spread out shall be but become the thundering Air of an Almighty Power which is Christ in his essential Spirit who wanders from the Heights above and Depths below will in his time show Look and read the circle Line and the most marvelous things may further know and find Upon some inward Conference with my Lord about the Shipwracked-Bark of Nature which still upon the forreign Coast doth lie and is often in Jeapordy by reason of some Tides which might make the Vessel spring-a-Leek the Lord did immediately come in with these Words saying Make reflection and ponder well my Grace and Love which hath been so great as to lay in my Life so deep with thine that thou canst suffer nothing but I do call it mine Thy broken Vessel shall be renewed into its Original when all of sinsul Properties shall be drowned in the Alpha and Omega who is the beginning and end of Time and who will open the sealed Mine where the unsearchable Riches shall freely abound as in the state of Innocency where nothing of necessity or want was known All this is going on und advancing in the moving Circle of the Duty all that is required of thee is to be steady in the highest float of Earth My Spirit was let down into the deep Center and Circumserence where the personal Glory met me with whom I had great Felicity to behold the Shepherd with his Fold who friendly faluted me for though a naked Spirit I was not despised by such dignified Bodies though I was made very sensible of the want of such a glorious Body and as soon as I desired it I was forthwith imbodyed as
find it self in another form of Life and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality before Jehovah's Throne attend 〈◊〉 to know the counsel and decrees of the Soveraign Majesty under whom is mannaged all inferior Government which shall be committed to those who reign with Christ the Lord Oh! this will be a wonderful time indeed For while the Lord is opening these things to me I am as one sunk into the Abyssal Ground where I am as nothing till he put forth a piercing Ray from his flaming Eye to fetch my Spirit up again who thus spake unto me Stand thou up and hear and declare the new Model of my Reign and let it be published for it is time to awaken those who are ordained for the first Resurrection that they may no longer sleep in the day break of my appearance And do thou solemnly see thy Heart to the great Immunities that are revealed not only for speculation 〈◊〉 for sulfilling where great Earnestness shall be found Thus the 〈◊〉 One set home his Word and causeth it to pass through a Vessel that is nothing to be accounted of whereat my self stands amazed what should move the Lord thus to appear and hold such a free Converse and leave such weighty things in trust with me Oh! What can be said but that it is the Good-will and Pleasure of my Christ and King who will change Tin and Dross into Gold as it pleaseth him The Fifth Property of the Holy Ghost is that whereby the Soul gets free from the striving Elements and comes to Rest and Peace all Wars and Combates ceasing The Soul having got up these four ascending Steps towards the Throne can now look down like a Tower of strength terrible to all the lower Inhabitants round about It is a Palace compacted within it self knowing nothing but a serene Peace and Concord neither Dragon nor Beast do so much as attempt to come here for Love and Peace is their Hell and Torment Christ's personal Reign in his Saints consists of Peace Power Love Joy the holy Ghost moveth in the mild and meek Property from the Water of Life that captivates the Enmity and Strife and shuts up the dark Center with all its Spirits This carries a two-fold meaning for first it is to be understood of that Love and Peace which possesseth the whole inward Hemisphere of the Soul and in the next place of the same Love flowing forth and diffusing it self through all the Subjects of that peaceful Kingdom which Christ will establish in the high Angelical Harmony of Love The Sixth out-flowing Property is the Omnipotence of God exerted in the renewed part in an absolute and Almighty Dominion that admits of no controule Here is no need of going out to borrow Gifts or Powers which are now fixed in the Soul to manifest the Wonders of the Magia which hath been shut up in Wisdom's Principle whose Virgins Crown of Power is sent down as a signal Testimony of the Kingly Reign that must prevail over all the Earth The bright flaming Standard of Christ's Personality will be of that Magnificence as to draw home the dispersed and scattered Flock which hath suffered Violence in this Babylonish Kingdom A Jubile will be proclaimed by them to whom this Dominion shall first come They the Head-Kings and Leaders are appointed to shine forth as Stars that shall bear such sway in God's Omnipotency as shall make all the Elect to haste and fly to this Kingdom as Doves to the Windows where all occasions of complaint about the Necessities of Life shall be cut off because Wisdom's Store-house shall from the Inherent Omnipotency abundantly supply whatsoever is needful of this kind The Paradisical lost Power shall be restored in a higher degree than ever to the end that Self-Love and Propriety may be taken away which cannot enter into Christ's Kingdom for the Lord hath averred That none who are thus spirited shall ever his Kingdom inherit The vast and inexhaustable Treasure of divine Riches cannot be enjoyed in Propriety but only in Loves Communion The Seventh and last Property of the holy Ghost that gives witness to Christ's Reign doth consist in a Life of Praise Exaltation which goeth forth in the Angelical Tongues Powers and Sounds of so many persumed Offerings paying an everlasting Love-Tribute of Joy to the Antient of Dayes by and in whom they are come to reign over all Kingdoms in this World in Christ's personal Power The New Hallelujahs from the Fire-breath of the Holy Ghost shall be the Holy Sport and Coelestial Play of the Children of this Kingdom All their Works shall speak forth the Praises of the Most High for Wisdom's Spirit will act so high and in such a mysterious manner as hitherto hath not been known all which miraculous Powers have been reserved to make up the Glory of Christ's second coming in his Representatives here on Earth For if the Lord should not in this manner demonstrate his God-head-Power in his Saints they would be set very light by and it would be a vain thing to assume the Title and Name of Kings without anointing Power suitable to it No Dominion whether inward or outward can be maintained without Loves-Omnipotency And truly my Lord hath assured me that he hath made large and full Provision for this Day who upon some private Objections of my own said to me Be thou nothing doubtful concerning all the great Things of my Kingdom which have been opened to thee from the Center of Light they have been revealed for a ground of Faith The Head of the Dyal is moving towards the fixed Hour which will manifest all these working Powers of the holy Ghost Wherefore do not streighten thy self nor any to whom this Word shall come but run out in a spacious large Belief answerable to Loves-Power and the ability of the object to whom the Eye of Faith is directed For wonderful things are upon the Wheel by which you may know it is high time to put forth your Hands to raise and awaken that which hath been so long asleep This was the concluding Word of Counsel from the Lord. The fore-going Properties is that which makes way for the Reign of Christ in personal Power and Glory which is now the great thing to be waited for as the End and Consummation of all that hath been revealed in the bare discovery of which we are not to rest but we are to press forward to enjoy the Fruit or Product of it in the inward Center where Christ will be manifested in his Personal Glory and Power For the driving seeking Spirit will not be at rest till it can put on its Resurrection-Body It knows that hitherto notwithstanding all its Refinings and Dyings to sinful Self and the World it yet remains a naked Spirit which must return into the Virgin-Womb of Eternity there to be regenerated into an heavenly Corporeity from the one holy Element out of which Christ's holy Personality is taken This is the
But here it may be asked What manner and kind of Offerings will those first Fruits of Redemption be This is a Question which cannot be so fully answered till we are compleatly perfected in this Tabernacle which hitherto is only a rearing But what of these Immunities hath been expressed by the great Priest and opened from the Tabernacle-Testimony unto me shall be given forth for their sakes who may have right to bring in such perfect Offerings to the most holy and separated place in the day of their Restoration mutually with us who are expecting the accomplishment in all its divine Ordinances and Consecrations for the perfecting every Comer hereunto But now to define what kind of Offerings we shall bring as Priests to God they are the Fruits of the Magia in their out-flowing Operation which actually send out a most powerful Spirit from its own essential Spring of Spirit wherein God is the only pure Original of it What is sent forth to effect but a new Generation of Heavens and Earth The Magia worketh in this manner saying Let the old Tabernacle with all its shadowy Appearances pass away and be no more And it is so for the force of the out-going Spirit incorporates with the Word and makes it Essential whether it be expressed Vocally or no the Co-centred Decree passeth into and though the Spirit carrieth all Power with it either to nullifie or make void or to give a new Plantation and an heavenly splendorious Formation upon Creatures and Things for a lustrious Transformation of what is fading and dying that so Immortality may be renewed whether in Rationals Animals or Vegetables The matter of the one Element is so immerced and coagulated in a Magical Spirit that it is able to give a Life where the very Face of Death doth appear whether dead as to a Spiritual Life according to that saying And you hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sens. Who is this in the Person of Christ but the same holy Ghost in his out-going Power that through our Persons so influencing and given a Resurrection to a dead Life whether in our selves or others as cause requires Then also as to the very mortal Life to prolong it and to secure it from Pain and Sickness Yea from Death it self But this quickinmg Spirit is only appropriated to such as have dyed and suffered with Christ in the Flesh and thereby have overcome the World Therefore let none think that they can come to this degree of Power Might and Dignity till they are Born again from the Dead that is a cessation to the enkindled Life from the Stars which generate earthly Motions and Thoughts which work in a way of Sensuality from which there must be a departing in reference to those great Things which are to succeed I have been often brought to see the limit of the first Born Life that doth consist between Time and Eternity in the stirring Essences of Sin whereby I am made so wisely knowing as not grieve or to have any Reluctancy upon the sentence of a total Expiration of such an injurious Life as keeps me out of God's Tabernacle-Body where I can no more dye Whereupon the holy Ghost out of the Virgin-Body doth cry and call to such who would come to be all Magical to offer up their first-Born rational Life for a Sacrifice And then of a truth we shall bring other kind of Fruits and Offerings and no more as Tributaries and Servants to Sin Beast or Dragon but be freed through the rising Birth that will mount and fly over all those who kept the other under great Fear and Bondage but in this we shall come to be Kings in God's House and of his own Family Oh! what hath been here let down by Golden Drops from the Head-Fountain Let it O God mingle all forcibly for Life contaction with the more noble part within us that so this great and perfect Tabernacle may be according to its own secret way compacted indissolvably where we may securely dwell and nothing of Violence Oppression or Fear but receive Power from the rising Body of the holy Ghost to bear down and expel whatsoever is against us This is what the Lord hath by a signal Word averred and he will see it fulfilled as in any one such a Spirit of Resolution shall be found to go forward in this great Enterprize to encounter and rush through every Throng that would stop and put them by who are ready to venter their All for it Now somewhat may be said as to those high Ends for which God is resolved to raise his principal Magia First to redress comfort and relieve the groaning Creation which is in spiritual travail even such who are in Famin and Death in Agonies Sorrow and Heaviness through divers Temptations and the Buffetings and Wiles of Satan To these the Magical Balsom shall be given for Cure from such as are first risen in the Tabernacle-Body of God They shall bind all evil Spirits and there shall go forth a virtual Power from them to do as if Christ were in person there And in the second place this Power shall extend it self to the taking away of all outward Maladies of the Body and all Sufferings relating to Penury and Want and all Weariness Toil and anxious Care for the Needs and Requirings of the Body A further addition to the former subject Know then that as in a miraculous way this will be made as healing Waters from out of the Threshold of the Sanctuary that shall recover the dry and parched Earth to make it bud and flourish as it did before the Curse did overflow it Take it inward as to spiritual Fruitfulness or otherwise as to the outward Elementary state Great also will be the Trust that will be granted by the mighty Jehovah for mannagement for his little Flock sake and put into the Hands of some that are to be set apart as good and principal Shepherds indeed who can both let out and lay down their Life for the elect Sheep which are to be gathered in not by Sounds or Words but by a Magical Impregnation which can send in a Breath of Life to quicken what is as dead This is now what we are in a daily expectation of from the rich Furniture which will come down with the Tabernacle-Body Oh come holy Souls and let us be in a watchful posture for I do see in Spirit that the Morning of this Day begins apace to clear the bright Clouds do open the face of our Heavens appear the separating Vail is all rending away that out of the first Tabernacle we may pass and within the most holy place fixedly stay where we shall have no cause to fear that God will henceforth move away because we our selves shall be brought up to that height of Purity that all Offerings shall be most pleasant and powerful from the everlasting Flame of the holy Altar from whence ascending Powers will go up to bring
his Father and Mother I have not seen them neither did he acknowledge his own Brethren nor know his own Children signifying that there was a coming out from and forgetting whatsoever was of a mortal Birth and all external Bonds and Obligations It is like God's taking up of Enoch a cessation from a worldly Beeing presently follows this separate Order God will have none come near him that shall look back to the Customs Traffick and Immercements of this World though lawful to others yet not to these that are under this anointing for God who is the most high Purity soon smells an Esau-hunter and a worldly Demas with whom the holy Ghost can have no communion Nor will he take any to officiate in the holy Priestly Ministration till separated from these gross and servile things But here now follows an Objection How such shall be provided for that must discharge themselves from all secular Callings having no Propriety in the common Mammon stock and store and yet have Bodies which stand in need of Temporal things What way do you propose for their outward Subsistance As to this we refer you to what the Almighty provider and overseer hath settled as a standing Rule throughout the holy Priestly Generation that God himself is to be their Portion and Inheritance and therefore they were to have no Inheritance with their Brethren the Sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by Fire are given them for their portion How is that to be understood Thus they which wait at the Altar are to receive of the Gifts of the Altar which none other hath right to partake of There is a further meaning in this than what we have License yet to declare only thus much we may glance out in this gloomy Day that there is a Vein which runs under Ground within the holy place that to the Priests Revenue doth belong the Vulter's Eye hath it not descryed neither can any Artificer among the Sons of men this golden Mine find the everlasting precious Rock a covering is upon it and still will be till the third Rank of this high Priestly Order into manifestation shall be brought in the Conquest and sealing Power of the holy Ghost and then you will see what force Aaron the high-Priest's Rod hath to rule and pierce this long hidden Vein from whence will flow forth an inexhausted Treasury Gold and Silver in this time will be of little regard the Ingrossers of which tormented will be when they shall see their Coyn out of date For the great Melchizedeck will the absolute Monarch be and a new Coyn shall stamp which shall currantly pass through all the Earth But be this Secret what in Wisdom's Glass we have seen it is not yet our time any thing further to disclose but let us go on to the highest degree in this Tabernacle in the holiest of Beeings to pitch improving all present advantages here for in a pure Nazarite dedication This only observe If we feel in our selves such an impulsive Power from the holy Spirit strongly carrying out hereunto this will be a sign of a divine Ordination and Call hereunto We need nothing of man's Approbation or Installation to this holy Melchizedeck-Order in which Christ is to be known the same yesterday to day and forever tarrying on this everlasting Priesthood from his own eternal Loins in the spiritual Generation of which no account can be given being chosen of him hereunto before the Foundation of the World which is not to vanish away but that way may be made for the new Creation which shall consist of these three degrees of Kingly Priests However let all be cautioned not to presunie to thrust themselves into this sacred Function before the Melchizedeck-King in his true eternal spiritual Birth do spring in the Soul where true Regeneration and pure and high Illuminations have passed before in way of preparation for this Priestly-Star's rising Therefore what manner of Abnegation and holy Separation is hereunto required This one Service and Work is to be followed and minded Whoever are entred into this most high and holy Profession must cease from all other rudimental earthly Services The Temple-Service is to be mannaged by clean and Sanctified Vessels set apart for that use Now here it will be convenient to shew the Necessity of having all things ministred to such in their Attendance by those who endowed are with these worldly Goods There is an Obligation lies in special manner upon all true Israelites to bring their Gifts to those who are called out from amongst them to serve at the Altar for whom Provision should be made for their necessary supply that they may have nothing of Care or Incumbrance upon them in their first entring thereupon all which is a most acceptable Offering if any shall freely communicate upon this consideration which may not of this kind be always required for as this royal Priesthood gets up to their all powerful Degrees and princely Dignities they will have no need of any creaturely Contributions for to them the Door of all heavenly Store shall stand open from whence they shall not only have to answer their own Requirings but also those of the whole oppressed and groaning Creation Wherefore what more acceptable for the present Distress can there be then to promote and help forward this Priestly Dedication which may bring so great a Blessing upon the Earth But it may be objected How shall we know infallibly such who under this Nazarite Vow and holy Anointing are that we may minister to them of our Substance there being at this day so many rising Stars which the Serpent's Tayl hath plucked down to the Earth Know that it is a principal Gift to have an impartial Spirit of discerning in this matter before the holy Ghost comes to give the undeniable Witness but now to know them whilst they are in their Minority and suffering state going on in the process of Christ who himself was questioned and doubted of sometimes by them who were daily conversant with him the same Spirit of Incredulity and suspicious Fear may have a great Predominancy now among Christ's Disciples as not discerning the Lord returned in Spirit though yet in weakness of Flesh for the abolishing of the Sin and Curse out of it which while this is but a doing in order 〈◊〉 the holy Priesthood entring upon all aid support and encouragement ought to be ministred by those who are in more enlargement as to these outward things and to lay aside all Jealousie Fear and Suspition for it is much better to be found in the excelling Spirit of Charity which hopeth and believeth the best of things and thinketh no Evil and yet doth not take away right and found Judgment but that they may discern who the Lords true anointed Ones are There are several characters by which they may be known before they reach to the high priestly mark We will mention one or two as the fore-running ground work In the