you may understand it well enough in all the other Questions what is to be done and it is explained enough 5. We dare not answer concerning future things otherwise then after a Magical Manner and the Cause is this the Future VVonders are all seen in the Turba and if the Spirit seeth them then it speaketh clearly out how the Turba is loaded with Evil or Good 6. But it seeth that all is mixed for God is become Man and setteth forth his Mercy every where in the Anger and hindereth the Perdition and therefore must the Prophet now speak Magically and not with plain VVords for it cometh to pass many times that a thing that is Evil in the Substance yet there groweth suddenly a small Twig or Branch out of it which breaketh the Turba and so there cometh a Conversion into it 7. Therefore God causeth you to be admonished that you should subdue and resist the Heaven of the Firmament and then often the Evil which the Firmamental Heaven sheddeth abroad becometh turned into that which is Better 8. Else if all must needs come to pass which the Firmamental Heaven hath Men would need no Teaching but it would all be a certain stedfast and Eternal Calender 9. You know very well what Daniel Ezekiel as also David Mentioneth in his Prophecies especially the Revelation of Jesus Christ there ye have all lying in them whatsoever is to be done they have spoken Magically of things to come 10. But in our Writings ye have them clearer for the time is now nearer the End and the Beginning hath sound the End therefore it appeareth clearer what shall be done at the End 11. And I would have you directed to the other Questions where you shall find enough concerning it for the Evil VVorld is not worthy of a round clear explanation for alwayes the Great Mystery is touched thereby which belongeth only to the Children of God for God would not have men cast Pearls before Swine but to give Food to the Children 12. Thus do you also it lyeth not in this that the Mystery should stand under a Worldly Protection or Patronage that is a Folly and God would thereby be rejected as if he were not able enough to Protect it 13. You ought not to seek the Mystery among those in power or rely upon them above others for there cometh a Turba suddenly thereinto viz. by a Law and then is God's Spirit as it were bound or tyed up and that thing becometh an Antichrist 14. Look upon Israel when they rejected Samuel and their Judges and supposed when their Teaching stood under a worldly Arm and Power and that they had a King then they would keep their Law as it came to pass that their King introduced the Turba thereinto and made Calves for the Service and VVorship of God and compelled the Congregation or People to Honour and VVorship those Idols this we say from a good meaning 15. And we give you no Answer to this Question particularly by it self you will find enough of it in the other Questions for we ought to do no otherwise The Nine and Thirtieth Question What and where Paradise is with its Inhabitants 1. THis hath been explained to you in the Enochian Life that it is in this World but in the Mystery as it were swallowed up whereas yet in it self it is not altered It is only withdrawn from our Eyes from our source or quality else if our Eyes were open we should see it 2. Nay God in his Number Three is with us how then should Paradise be lost indeed we have lost the quality or source and fruit of it in the outward Life as the Devil lost God when he with his own self will went forth as a proud arrogant Spirit and would be Lord so it hath gone with us 3. When Adam would have Eaten of the Earthly Fruit Evil and Good then he gat also an Earthly Life Evil and good and became thrust out of the fair delightful Garden of Paradise where Heavenly Fruit grew into the outward Life 4. Many have written wonderfully of Paradise but their blindness appears now in the Day Light whom yet we shall not contemn for they have been seekers every Age hath had its seekers who have sought the Mystery but it hath been a long time very dark in Babel 5. Now within two hundred years it hath begun to open it self again wherein Antichrists Fall hath been discovered where Men have begun to storm Babel on One side but the strong Fort in Babel standeth firm still Men have revealed or manifested the Whore indeed but her Beast is but the more grown 6. Therefore there is yet a Wonderful time at hand which shall change all Many high Mountains and Hills shall be made a plain Field and a Fountain shall flow out of Sion wherein the Miserable shall drink and be refreshed 7. And they shall be led to Pasture with a staff and the Shepherd will rejoyce with his Sheep that God is so Gracious 8. For Silver and Gold is as common as in Solomons time and his Wisdom Ruleth over the Face of the Earth this is a Wonder The Fortieth Question Whether Paradise is Alterable and what shall be afterwards 1. AS little as God is alterable so little also is Paradise alterable for it is a part of the Deity when the outward Dominion shall pass away then will in the Place where this world now standeth be meer Paradise For there will be an Earth of Heavenly Substantiality which we may be able to dwell in Through and through 2. At the Last Judgement Day we shall not fly away from the Place of this World but continue so in our Native Countrey and go home into another World into another Principle of another source or quality 3. For there will be no Frost nor heat also no Night and we shall be able to go through the Heavenly Earth through and through without dividing or disturbing any thing 4. This Earth will be Like a Cristalline Sea wherein all the Wonders of the World will be seen all very Transparently and God's Glance Lustre or brightness will be the Light therein and the Holy Jerusalem the Great City of God where Men shall offer to God the Calves of their Lips there will be Paradise And the Tabernacle of God with Men For it is Written Behold I make all things New a New Heaven and a New Earth so that Men shall not regard the Old any more in that will the fair bright City of God with the Wonders and Wisdom stand and the Temple of God the New Jerusalem will stand upon the New Earth which is prepared and made ready out of God's Power and Wonders 5. ALL whatsoever the Prophets have written will there be fulfilled for God's Word and Wonders will spring and grow as Grass upon the New Earth 6. There is no more Death also no fear or sorrow or sadness No sickness No Superiour
but not matter else that which is drawn in will be darkness to thee 20. Let the Devil behind thee roar before thy left Eye he cannot enter in unless thou lettest thy Eye take in matter 21. Thus wilt thou when thy earthly Body breaketh see all the wonders in the left Eye with the right which thou hast made or acted and found here in this life-time and so when the earthly Body falleth away then is also thy left Eye free from the Nature of the fierce wrath 22. And though it hath Nature for it is Nature it self which awakeneth and retaineth the wonders yet it standeth then with the wonders in the Eternal Liberty being it hath let in nothing of matter therefore it is free 23. And Nature with the Wonders is a fire-sharpness and layeth hold of the Eternal Liberty and so maketh Majesty in the Liberty in the Wonders from which the right Eye which accounteth it self here in this life as dead becometh enlightened and rejoyceth it self Eternally with the left Eye in the Majesty of the highly joyous Kingdom and eternally seeth God with BOTH Eyes 24. This is one Gate whosoever rightly in the spirit apprehendeth seeth THIS he seeth ALL whatsoever God IS and CAN do He seeth also therewith or thereby through Heaven Hell and Earth and through the Substance of all Substances and is the whole Scripture of whatsoever hath been written from the beginning of the world but it is a pretious sight the Old Man knoweth it not he seeth it not but the New Man born or generated in God 25. But being we are so hard to be understood by the purblind mind therefore we will render it more simply behold when thou wilt with thy Soul see God's Light and wilt that it be enlightened from God then do it thus 26. Thou art in this World and if thou hast a lawful honest Calling or Employment without falshood or wickedness continue therein work labour trade and manage it as necessity requireth seek Wonders both in the Elements and in the Earth be it in what Art Science or Employment it will it is all God's Work seek in the Earth Silver Gold make artificial works thereof build till plant it is all to God's Deeds of Wonder 27. But listen to this A. B. C. thou should not suffer thy spirit to enter thereinto fil or satiate it self therewith make a Mammon of it and to set thy self therein as in a Darkness else it is but God's Fool therein and the Devils mymmick Ape and setteh its will therein 28. And thy noble Image becometh altered according to thy Imagination in the Spirit according to thy will which is in Covetousness thou losest God's Image for it is Magical it is as subtile as a Spirit and much subtiler yea much subtiler and thinner than the Soul it self 29. It is as God is who dwelleth in the Eternal Liberty unapprehended by any thing for it is thinner or purer then any thing and so is also thy noble or pretious Image which yet standeth in Heavenly Flesh and Blood and is the Substantiality out of or from God's Body 30. It is Christ's Flesh and Blood and thy Soul dwelleth therein it is the Fire of the Majesty therein 31. And the holy Spirit sitteth in the Heart of the Image and goeth out of the Image forth with Voices Languages Wonders Songs and Sounds Into this Image thou bringest thy Wonders if thou art true and faithful and do it thus 32. Put thy left will into the work which thou dost and consider that thou art God's Servant in the Vineyard of God and labour faithfully and put thy right will into God into that which is Eternal and see that thou be at no time secure or careless but consider that thou art only in thy day labour and shouldst continually listen to have the voice of the Lord calling thee to come home give Reason no place to say this is my Treasure it is mine own I have enough or I will get or gather much that I may come to honour in the World and leave much to my Children 33. Consider that thy Children are God's Children and thou God's Servant that thy work is God's work and that thy Money Goods Labour and Blood standeth in God's hands 34. He may do with them what he will when he calleth thee to go home into thy own Country then he may take thy Labour and give it to another 35. And give thy heart no place to introduce into thee the Will-spirit of High-mindedness into the Image 36. Sink down thy Will-spirit alwayes into Humility before God and so thy Image goeth alwayes in the Humility with thy will into God's Majesty and thy Image becometh continually enlightened with the high-triumphing Light of God 37. O how chearful is the Soul when its Anguish Source or Quality of the Fire tasteth Gods Light how very friendly kind and courteous is it how it boweth it self before God! Thus standeth the Soul and also the Image in the Spirit all three one in another for it is a Substance according to the holy Trinity 38. Thus my beloved Brother we give you in answer to this Question that the Soul can no otherwise be enlightened than thus this is its enlightening It is in this world and also in God it is here in this life a Servant to the Wonders of God those it should open with one eye and bring them with the other into the Beginning before God and put all its substance and doings into God's Will and by no means say of any thing in this world this is mine I am Lord over it for it lyeth if it say so 39. It is all God's it self is Servant and should converse in Love and Humily towards God and its Brother for its Brothers Soul is a Fellow-Member of it self its Brothers Joy in Heaven with God is also ITS Joy his Wonders are ITS Wonders for in Heaven God is all in all He filleth all 40. The holy Spirit is the Life in all there is mere joy no sorrow is there known there all is God's and all belongeth to the Image of God there all is common and universal one rejoyceth at anothers vertue and power charity or glory brightness and beauty there is no grutching or envy all that remaineth in Death and in Hell 41. Therefore ye Elect Children of God Regenerated in Christ take this into consideration go out from Covetousness and own Self-will ye have been a long time lead blindfold in Bable go out from her ye are called with a strong loud voice it will shortly awaken or raise the Dead let it prevail with you that you may attain Eternal Joy in God 42. The Spirit signifieth clearly that whatsoever will not grow forth together with the new Sprout that springeth forth in the Mother shall and must go into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone together with the Dragons Whore in Babel 43. It is a
which receiveth the Light and the harsh astringent Earth not 19. Also ye have in FIRE a sufficient apprehension of the Substance of all Substances for ye see that the Fire burneth out of a harsh astringent tart matter for it is the sharp Desiring which thus as a great Anguish entereth into it self and graspeth after the Liberty whereby it catcheth the Liberty as a flash and with the Lightning kindleth it self so that it burneth or flameth 20. And though in the Eternal Substance no such Fire is to be understood as shineth in the Outward yet it is so in the Inward in the harsh astringent Desiring and the outward remaineth a darkness therefore is the Eternal Fire in the outward dark and within in it self in the will of the Eternal Liberty it is a Light which shineth in the still Eternity 21. Now we understand in the Fire Ten Forms which are all generated in the Will and are all the Eternal Wills propriety therefore we rightly say it is God's and the Liberty which hath the will is GOD himself for it is the Eternity and nothing else The First Form 22. First Thâ—â— there is the Eternal Liberty which hath the Will and is it self the Will Now every will hath a seeking to do or to desire somewhat and in that it beholdeth it self and seeth in it self in the Eternity what it self is it maketh to it self the Looking-Glass of its like and then it beholdeth it self what it self is and so finding nothing else but it self it desireth sit self The Second Form 23. The Second-Form is that it is Desirous and yet hath nothing but it self therefore it s desiring draweth the Model of its will in it self and impregnateth it self so that a darkness or overshadowing cometh to be in the will which the will yet would not have but the Desiring the Seeking maketh it and there is nothing that can consume or drive away the Desiring 24. For that which is before the Desiring beyond or besides the seeking is Free and a Nothing and yet it Is but if it were any thing apprehensible or comprehensible it were a Substance and stood again in a substance that did afford it But being without Substance it is the Eternity that is the GOOD for it is no source or pain and hath no alteration or change but is a Rest and an Eternal Peace 25. But seeing the great Space is without ground or foundation where is no number nor end and also no beginning therefore it is like a Looking-Glass It is ALL and yet also as a NOTHING it beholdeth it self and yet findeth nothing but an A that is its eye AVge 26. AV That is the Eternal Original that something is for it is the Eternal Beginning and the Eternal End Thus the Abysse seeth in it self and findeth it self 27. The A is below and the V is above and the O is AVge the Eye and yet is in it self no Substance but thus is the Original of Substance there is neither below nor above onely its Looking-Glass in the AV is thus a seeing 28. But since there is no ground therefore its Looking-Glass is such an O Eye AVge For God himself saith in the Apocalips I am A and O the beginning and the end the first and the last 29. Observe this according to its pretious intimate sublimity for we speak not here in Nature in a form but in the Spirit above Nature in Character GOTTes in God's Character or Letter T. 30. The O is GOTTes AVge God's Eye the Eye of Eternity that maketh and is a Looking-Glass and is a round circle like a globe ⊙ not a ring O. Since we cannot otherwise describe it thus understand hereby the Globe ☉ of the Eternity wherein standeth the ground of Heaven and Earth and of the Elements together with the starry Wheel or Sphere 31. For that is a Globe ☉ like an eye and is God's Wonder-Eye wherein from Eternity all Substances or things have been seen or discerned but without substance as in a Looking-Glass or Eye for the Eye is the Eye of the Abysse of which we have no pen or tongue to write or speak only the Spirit of Eternity bringeth the Souls eye thereinto and so we see it else it would remain in silence mute and undescribed by this Hand 32. Thus there is in the Eternity such an Eye which is God himself and yet is not called GOD but Eternity yet as to the Eye is A and O. Before the A there is NOTHING and in the O there is ALL and in the A and O beginning and end therefore we fundamentally apprehend that in the O there is a Will and the Will is the O it self and maketh the A viz. the eternal beginning of the Seeking so that the Abysse beholdeth it self and so in it self maketh a Form like a Globe ☉ 33. For the Eye findeth no ground or foundation therefore it closeth it self up as in a Looking-Glass into a round Globe so that it is the Eternities similitude that can it self find it self for in the Abysse there is no finding for there is no place or limit but only the Abysse and when thus it findeth it self in the Eye yet then it findeth nothing but the Eye that is the Globe 34. Now the Eye maketh the Globe and is the Globe and all this is together in the Will to seek it self and so to see what the Eternity is which becometh manifest or revealed in the Eye 35. For the Eye maketh a beginning and an end and yet there is nothing that affordeth it but in giveth or affordeth it self and is from Eternity in Eternity and the Eternity it self it toucheth nothing for it is in nothing but in it self 36. Now being there is a Will which is the Eye which holdeth or retaineth the eye therefore that holding is a Desiring viz. of the Eye and so the Desire is attracting into the Eye and yet nothing is there but the Eye and the Desiring only draweth it self in the Eye and impregnateth the Eye with that which is attracted so that it is full and yet is nothing but a darkness of the free Eye although the Eye becometh not dark but the Desiring in the Eye impregnateth it self in it self 37. The will of the Eye is still or quiet and the desiring of the will maketh it full and the Eye remaineth free in it self for it is from Eternity free and that we call the Eternal Liberty in all our Writings The Third Form 28. Now a Desiring is sharp and drawing and maketh the third Form viz. a stirring in it self and is the original of the Essences that in the Eye and Will Essences are 39. And yet the Will cannot endure that it be drawn for its own right property is to be still and hold or retain the Eye in the Circle in the Globe and yet cannot defend it self from the drawing and the
great Mystery 101. For if there were no Fire there would also be no Light and also no Spirit and if there were no Spirit that did blow up the Fire then the Fire would smother and extinguish and would be a Darkness and so one without the other would not be thus they belong both to one another and yet they sever one from the other but without flying away and yet there is a flying of the Spirit 102. To be understood thus look upon a glowing red hot Fire First There is the Matter out of which it burneth and that is the astringent austere source attracted bitter Substance which standeth in an anguish Source or Quality whether it be wood or whatsoever else which is a dark Body 103. Now when that is kindled then a Man sees three Principles 1. The Wood in the Darkness with the outward Source or fountain Quality of this World 2. Which also hath its life else it would not take fire 104. Now the Fire hath a fierce wrathful astringent or sour strong or stern bitter thirsty desirous Source or Quality a devouring Consuming and the Great Bitterness is its right Life a rager and a wakener that hath all Essences of Life in it and is also the power of the Life and of the Driving forth else there would be no Burning 105. And that maketh the great Anguish-seeking after the Liberty and in the Fire it attaineth the Liberty for it consumeth in the fierce wrath the Darkness and also the Matter of the Fire from which the Fire burneth 106. And here we apprehend the One only Spirit which parteth it self into Two Principles into Two Spirits yet not assunder but one flying from the other and yet the one comprehendeth not the other and one is the Life and Cause of the other 107. And therefore it is Two Principles since it giveth or affordeth a twofold Source or fountain Quality and Life and is but one Root which affordeth that the one giveth Life the other giveth food to the Life and this is a wonder and yet Not a wonder for there is nothing that it self can wonder at for it is it self all things in One Substance 108. Now behold the Fire is first the seeking to draw into it self that is the Substantiality the Phur for the Seeking maketh that in the Desiring in respect of its drawing else Nothing would be and the Drawing is the bitter sting a Breaker which cannot endure the Substantiality nor will not endure it and that not willing to endure is an anguish in the will to over-power the Substantiality with the bitter Sting and the Anguish penitrateth or presseth into it self and reacheth after the Liberty and the Liberty is esteemed a Light in respect of the Darkness 109. Now the Anguish is a horrible Sharpness and thus is the Liberty captivated and sharpned so that it is a Fire-flash of Lightning and the Anguish Will in the sharpness of the bitter Flash of Lightning consumeth the Substantiality be it wood or any thing else 110. And when it hath consumed it then is the Anguish again a Darkness and the Flash of Lightning remaineth hidden in it self again and is an extinguishing and the Anguish is in the Darkness viz. before the flash of fire and standeth now in a terrible Source or fountain Quality where the Bitterness in respect of the rough attracting becometh continually generated the more terrible 111. Now observe this is thus according to the outward Principle of this World as is undeniable before our eyes and so then there is in the Eternity such a continual subsisting Substance which we demonstrate to you thus Observe and consider the Depth and read here diligently 112. The sinking down of the Anguish in the eternal Darkness is an eternal Hunger and Thirst and an eternal Desiring and the Darkness in it self attaineth in the Eternity Nothing that it can have out of the Eternity for its satiating or fulfilling therefore it is rightly the very Hunger and Thirst of the Abysse of Hell and of the Anger of God 113. But the will in the Anguish being it can reach or find nothing it maketh to it self a figure and a similitude in the Desiring with the stern strong drawing and the strong astringent bitter dark Substance is the material Similitude it self it devoureth it self and is it self the Matter of the Fire that so the Eternal Flash continueth perpetually and the fierce Wrath is continually eternally ever burning and burneth eternally out of the Darkness and hath its own Life it it self viz. the bitter Sting of the Anguish which raveth and rageth and is the stirring and original of the Life and that is a Principle 114. And understand herein the Eternal desirous seeking an Eternal Covetousness and yet having Nothing but it self an Eternal Envious Enmity a seeking of the Essences wherein then the innumerable and unsearchable Multiplicity in the Will is continually generated and an eternal craftiness or subtilty a continual climing up in the Hunger and an eternal finding in the Will as namely of the Similitude of its desiring the Similitude of the Essences and in the Flash that is revealed or manifested for the Flash raiseth up it self Eternally above the Darkness and in the Flash are the Essences and are continually brought into the Will 115. Thus is the Fire-will a seeking of the rising Pride a contemning of the Darkness it contemneth its own Root it is a covetous one and willeth to devour more then it hath or then is its right It hath all Lust for the desirous Essences become revealed or manifested in the fire and thence it comes that in every will of every Essence there is again a Center of a whole Substance 116. And that is the Cause of the Creation of this World in that the Model hath thus appeared in A Looking-Glass from Eternity and hath stood in the Eternal Essences in the Figure as in a Vigin without generating and hath been seen in the Light of God And thence originateth the Matter of the Earth of the Stars and Elements also all Art Wit or Ingenuity Craft or Subtilty Deceit Falshood Covetousness and high-mindedness in the Creatures of this World 117. For this World is a material seeking out of the Eternal and is in the Creation viz. in verbo Fiat in the word Fiat through the water-Water-Heaven become material and palpable as is to be seen in Earth and Stones And the Firmament with the Elements is still the seeking and seeketh the Earthly for it cannot reach back into the Eternal 118. For every substance or thing goes forward so long till the End findeth the Beginning then the Beginning swalloweth up the End again and is as it eternally was except this that the Model remaineth for the Model is out of the Eternal out of which the Creation went forth into a Substance like the Wonder-Eye of God 119. Also it is mentioned to you that the Spirit-Air thus originateth out of the bitter eternal
56. 228. But Man was out of the Mystery created an Image and Similitude of or according to God to or for God's Wonder Therefore at the right Number 54. standeth Wonder For he was a Wonder of all things or Substances a Lord of All things or Substances taken out of all things or Substances and was in the Inward Image an Angel As next Wonder in the Liberty standeth Angel Numb 55. For his Spirit dwelleth in the Liberty of God viz. in the Majesty as beyond the word Angel Number 56. Spirit standeth Which all signifieth the right or true Man viz. the First before the Fall and the second in Christ into which he must enter again or is rent or separated from God Four Elements Numb 57. 229. Under Mystery Number 55. standeth Four Elements they begin at the left on the outward Circle and go to the right through the Cross through two Circles signifying the outward World which originateth as an Out-birth out of the inward Substance on the outward Circle and bringeth its Wonders into the Mystery first into the second Principle into the first two Circles for they shall not go with their Substance into the Liberty through the Third Circle at the Right but pass in the Principle into the Mystery and in the Principle be tryed or purged in the Fire For there is the Limit of Separation The Souls Joy in Ternario Sancto Number 58. 230. Above on the second Circle at the Right Number 45. standeth Son the same is the Judge and Separator and beneath on the same Circle Number 58. standeth Souls Joy in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary signifying that the Soul shall have joy in its works which it hath wrought in the Four Elements to the Praise and Glory of God which it hath introduced into the Angelical World into the Mystery For the Four Elements stand with their Root in the Great Mystery 231. And were the Earth not come into such a perished Condition and that the Devils Poyson and kindling or inflamation had not been done it were still one and the same Substance with or in the other Three Elements as indeed it is now in the Heavenly Substance Spiritual Bodies Habitation Num. 59. 232. This Bit hath Adam swallowed down into himself and thereby Lost his Angels Form For the Four Elements should stand hidden in him and he should live only in the One Element in Gods Power and Vertue and know or experiment nothing of the Evil As at the Right in the Liberty Number 59. standeth the Spiritual Mans Habitation there should the Images Body dwell viz. the Souls Body but that became hindred from it it must now under the Earth and become included or shut up in the Earthliness Earth Number 60. 233. Under the Four Elements standeth Earth Number 60. signifying that the Earth is wholly fallen back to the Inner World For the word toucheth neither the Left nor the Right Circle it is as a Death but the Cross goeth through it signifying its Restauration or bringing again to what it was that the Humane Earth is new-Born or Regenerated on the Cross and that the Heavenly and Divine Substance shall be severed from the Dark worlds Substance through the Fire of God where then shall be new Earth in a Heavenly Source or Fountain Quality Form Essence and Property and that which is hidden in the Earth in the Heavenly Part shall sprout or spring again Further is to be Considered that the Earth standeth thus upon or in the Abysse for it reacheth no Principle therefore it must pass away or vanish Earthly Man Numb 61. 234. Underneath standeth Number 61. Earthly Man where the Cross goeth through the midst of the Word which signifieth the fallen Earthly Man who is fallen under and into the Earth that is he is fallen home or back to the Earth and the Cross parteth or separateth the words Earthly and Man for Man shall again become separated from the Earth and enter into his Eternal Part either into the Light or Dark world Wonder Number 62. 235. Under the Cross Line standeth Number 62. Wonder signifying that the evil Wonder also the Evil part of the Earth shall in the Judgement of God when God will make separation fall home or back to the Abysse of Darkness and that shall be to All Devils and Evil Men their Earth on which they shall dwell one among another for the Abysse standeth under it below at Number 1. Babel Number 63. 236. Near Wonder standeth Babel Number 63. signifying how Babel is only a Wonder of the Abysse and worketh only Wonders in the Abysse Own Reason in Babel Numb 64. 237. Further above under the Circle at the Right after Earthly Man Number 64. standeth Own or self Reason in Babel which goeth round about the outside of the Circle of the Second Principle and goeth in own self Authority under the Divine World backward and supposeth She is in God and serveth or worshippeth him but is without God in self She or it Teacheth and doth only its own Things or Matters for it self for its own Ends it Ruleth the outward world in own self Reason without Gods Spirit and Will only according to its own Will Therefore it goeth about the Light world dissembling in Hypocrisie and giveth God good Words and continueth only without God upon or in the Abysse and thereinto also it falleth back and entereth Wonder of the Great Folly Num. 65. 238. Under Own Reason Number 65. standeth Wonder of the Great Folly signifying Babel who hath found all Art Suttelty and Cunning Politick Devices and Lost it self It seeketh Gold and loseth God it taketh Earth for Gold Death for Life and that is the Greatest Folly that is found in the Substance of All Substances as is sufficiently mentioned in other Places The Conclusion 239. Thus we see when we are at home not in this World but in the two inward Worlds in which soever we labour here into that we enter when we die we must Lose the outward we must only be new-born or Regenerated on the Crosse 240. Babel hath turned it self wholly away from the Crosse which signifieth the Proud own self Reason-Wise Subtle Men who rule and order themselves in or according to the Wit or Ingenuity of Folly 241. The Earthly Man on the Crosse Number 61. signifieth the simple heap or company which yet hang to the Crosse of Christ and become at length new-born or regenerated through the Crosse 242. But Reason hath even rent and torn it self off from the Cross in its own self Pleasure and Voluptuousnesse in its own Pomp Might or Power and Laws and that is a Wonder of Folly which even the Devils do scorn and deride 243. This the Reader should further consider of for there lyeth much under it it hath the understanding of all the Three Worlds See thy self therein it is a right true Looking-Glass for the Number Three is a Cross and hath Two
Eyes which stand back to back as we have made the Figure above with a twofold Rain-bow where the Cross goeth or pierceth through both and in the midst between the Bows one Arm or Point of the Cross reaching up aloft which signifieth a Sprout through the Fire through the Anguish viz. through Death and yet it is no Death but an Exit out of it self into another source or fountain quality where it standeth thus before the two Bows in the midst as a sprout out of the Cross 4. And the Arm of the Cross at the Right hand signifieth its Spirit which entereth into the Light of the Majesty and putteth on to the Soul viz. to the Center Divine Substantiality 5. And the Arm at the left of the Cross signifieth its Original in the Fire and holdeth or containeth in it the first Principle that it belongeth to the Father and standeth in the Original Eye in the strong and stern power and might as a Lord and Potentate or Ruler of Nature 6. And the under Part or Arm of the Cross signifieth the Water viz. the Humility or the Death so to resemble it that it should not rule in Fire nor kindle that but sink down in it self and under it self before God's Majesty and accompt it self as dead in its will that God might live in it and the holy Spirit conduct its Regiment or Government that it may not do what the Will of the Turba in the Fire willeth but what the Will in the Light willeth 7. Therefore should its Will sink down under it self into the meek Humility before God and so it goeth out from the Turba of the Fire for its Will is not therein and so also there can no Imagination be acted out of which that Looking-Glass can be born or generated so that it can behold and apprehend it self experimentally in the Fire that it is Lordly whence it becometh proud arrogant or stubborn and will rule it self in or according to its own might or power as Lucifer did and Adam in Paradise 8. Understand us aright thus The Soul in it self is a Globe with a Cross with two Eyes one Holy Divine and one Hellish Wrathful one in the Cross this it should shut up and rule hiddenly through the Anguish viz. through Death in the Second Principle therewith in the Love 9. And if it conceiveth or apprehendeth the Love then is the fierce wrathful Fire as it were dead and imperceptible But it is the Joy-Life of Paradise else in the Meekness would be no Life and Government or Dominion if the Fire did not give it self thereinto but it would remain the still Eternity without Substance for all and every substance or thing existeth in the Fire 10. And thirdly the Soul is formed according to the Total Body with all its Members 11. Which understand thus The Soul is the Stock viz. the Root which appeareth like the Center of the Number Three as an Eye a Globe a Cross and then its will which originateth our of the Eternal Will is a Spirit which the right or true Soul hath in its power and that Spirit openeth the Essences in the Fire and Water 12. So that its whole Form appeareth like a Tree with many Twigs Branches and is distributed into all the Branches of the Tree 13. Which is thus to be understood the Spirit distributeth them into the whole Body understand in the Tincture into all the Members they are all its Branches it appeareth in its Spirit no otherwise than as the whole Man with all Members 14. And herein it is also the right true Image of God for the Holy Spirit dwelleth in the Spirit if it be true and faithful if not the Devil dwelleth therein to which soever it giveth up it self or inclineth it self whether to Covetousness and High-mindedness or to Love and Humility that 's own it is 15. But if it persist in Abomination and loseth God then it loseth the Cross and its Eye is a Hellish Eye whereby the Turba introduceth the Form Shape and Model of an Abominable Beast into the Eye into the Will and Spirit 16. Therefore did Christ call the Pharisees Serpents and Generation of Vipers for so stood their Figure before him in their Spirit in respect of their Pride State and Covetous Will that they would be Lords and not Servants of God in Love and Humility 17. And thus also standeth the Figure of Antichrist in Babel as a Dragon with Seven Heads which are seven Spirits upon which its Hypocritical Spirit rideth in Mans Image into the Abysse it will needs be an Angel and yet is a Monster in respect of a right true Child of God it beareth the Name indeed but its Heart is that Beast in the Revelation of John It would have God and the Devil too and therefore is such a Monster as is like a Man and yet hideth the Devil in and under it self 18. O Child of Man fly away the door is open the Turba is come which will destroy the Image if you will not go away you must along with it there is neither counsel nor remedy but only to seek the right and true Image in the Love or else there is nothing further to be expected but necessity and calamity and death saith the Spirit of Wonder 19. This now is our direct Answer That the Soul in the First Principle according to the Original hath the Form of an Eye and yet twofold like a Heart wherein the Cross standeth 20. And in the Second Principle it is a Spirit and a total intire Image such a one as the outward Man is 21. And in the Third Principle it is a Looking-Glass of the whole World all lyeth therein whatsoever is in the Potentiality of Heaven Earth even the Properties of all Creatures for that Looking-Glass is as the Firmament and the Stars and Constellations 22. It is such a Crown as that and therein standeth the Outward Mans Number the end and termination of his Life withal Prosperity and Adversity if the outward Life be ruled by the Spirit of this World The Sixth Question What the Ability or Potentiality of the Soul is 1. IT is apprehensible to us that whatsoever cometh out of the unsearchable Profundity and is the Ground of it self that it is able to do all things for it is its own Substance and maketh it self 2. And though indeed the Soul be a Twig or Branch sprung out of this Tree yet it is now come into the Being of a Creature and is its own it is now an Image of the whole and a Child of the whole for when a Child is generated or born then is the Mother and the Child Two they are two persons but whilst it is yet in the Seed in the Mother then the Seed is the Mothers and the Mother hath dominion over it for when the Child is generated then it hath its own life in it self and hath the Center of Nature in its own Form
have God and to know him and lose that again it were better to lose the World and the Outward-Life then to Lose God and the Kingdom of Heaven 7. It is not a thing to be dallied with to be disobedient to God see what befel Corah Dathan and Abiram about Moses the same will befal the Disobedient and Scorners 8. Indeed the Scorner feeth not his punishment presently but his Turba taketh it in now hath he laughed any to scorn in derision and would fain be freed or released from the Turba thereof then he must in Sorrow Lamentation grieve before God for it or else he will bring his scorn along with him into the Anger-Fire and that will Eternally gnaw him this we would have said for a Warning 9. For here we write of an earnest or severe business it is not to be slighted be not led astray God will not suffer himself to be mocked or scorned the fierce wrathful Anger is in his Might and Power he hath Hell and Heaven in his Power 10. The last Judgment is an Earnest or severe work but being we are to set down the Resurrection of the Dead therefore we must write the Manner of it how it shall be performed in what power this world shall pass away and the Dead arise it will be earnest or severe let none slight it we will speake of the ground of it 11. And think not that it is a Conceit it becometh generated out of the Turba upon your Crown the Turba of your own Spirit telleth you that for the End hath found the Beginning thus the whole Substance Matters or Works of the World stand in the Middle in the Light and out of that goeth your Prophet viz. out of your wrought Wonders or practised works 12. For it is not the Spirit of the Turba that will govern but the Spirit of Christ it hath overcome Death and taken the Turba captive He lead-leadeth Captivity Captive as a Conquerour 13. But the Turba will execute the Judgement or Justice for it is God's Servant in the Anger not his Lord but Servant therefore the Thunder which will terrifie the Earth goeth out of the Mouth of God which will kindle or inslame the Firmament and the Elements 14. The last Judgement belongeth to the Judge Christ together with the Holy Spirit For here will the Eternal Spirits Center stir it self which also hath parted it self into Three Principles viz. One in the Anger-Spirit and One in the Divine Love-Spirit and One in the Air-Spirit of the outward World 15. The last moving belongeth to him he is in Christ's Mouth according to the Deity and according to the Anger in the Hellish anguish source quality or Torment and according to the Wonders in the Spirit of this World 16. He was the Work-master of All Things or Substances and he it is also that will give to Every work its Eternal Lodging and gathereth every thing into its Barn 17. For he hath many helpers for the Angels shall sever and seperate all things and then will the Mouth of God the Father with the Word of the Lord through the Mouth of Christ speak the Sentence and then Beginneth the burning World and the Entrance of Every thing into its Barn and Reservatory 18. For the Reservatories will be manifold not only two viz. in two Principles yet in two Principles but in many distinctions all according to the several power and vertue 19. For every work standeth in a Magick Principle as a several distinct Wonder both in the Heaven and in the Hell every one according to its Spirit and so will its Form or Condition be and appear according as it is good or evil and so will its Power and Vertue be like the Flowers or Blossoms of the Earth in their Varieties and so will Man also have Joy and Glorification all according to his here-wrought acted Substance or Works 20. But we understand Substance or Works of Faith the Power and Vertue in the Love-Substance or Works not of the outward works for all shall be presented or set forth in the Figure in the Wonders and that will be so with its Beginning and Circumstances 21. When the Last Judgment Day shall Dawn then all shall open it self once more viz. the Third Time the Deity in all forms in Love and Anger then will all stand equally manifested at once and visibly before all Creatures and that is done thus 22. The Beginning of the Creation in the Word Fiat hath included this World as a Model in it self and founded the limit wherein now the Wonders are become included which should be manifested or opened in the middle and in the time and come to Substance or Effect which were seen from Eternity in the Wisdom of God's Magia and so those Wonders are then all in the Substance or Work and then the Limit is at hand and no time of seeking more for it is finished whatsoever God hath in his Eternal Councel that he hath comprised and opened in a Time 23. And now is the End of Time and the beginning hath then found the End and the End is then the beginning passeth again into that which it was from Eternity 24. But the middle in the time with its opened wonders remaineth Eternally in the beginning and in the End as an Eternal Middle with its Wonders viz. with Angels and Men in their Substance or Works as also the Figures of all Creatures as also all Creatures and all whatsoever hath become Essential at any time the Earth with its Mettals Stones and all material Substances things or works as also Trees Herbs and Grass all of them stand in the Figure in the middle and in the Wonders but without such Essences and Life as they have here 25. For no Beast cometh again but its Figure in the Magia remaineth standing for it is originated out of the Eternal Looking-Glass therefore also it must now when the outward Earthly Looking-Glass breaketh stand in the Eternal as a Wonder to Gods Honour and Glory 26. And these very Substances belong all to Paradise for it will be the Holy Paradise wherein the Heavenly Elements will bear Substantial palpable Fruits 27. And as we here in this Life account the Fruits of the Earth out of its Essence as dead things without understanding so will also the Beastial and Earthly Images of this world appear as dead Substances things or works as also all other Creatures Substance or Work it shall stand as a shadow but the Paradise hath and beareth Fruit out of the Eternal Lifes Power and Vertue viz. out of God's Essences 28. This all which for the most part lyeth hidden to us is included in the word Fiat in the beginning and End and lyeth therein as a great VVonder 29. And now will the Spirit of the first Creation move all the Three Principles and before that is done the VVord of God compriseth it self with or by that Spirit like an Elevation or Manifestation of
the Figure before them that so there may be no denyal for the Spirit tryeth with the Turba Soul Spirit and Flesh here all is manifest 74. The Kings and Princes shall give an account of their Subjects how they have governed and protected them what Government they have exercised why they have taken away the lives of Many in Tyranny and shed innocent Blood why they have made War for their Covetousness and pleasure sake 75. In like manner other Superiours why they have intruded themselves and have set themselves up for Lords over the simple oppressed and squeezed them and taken away their sweat and labour from them and Consumed it in Pride 76. Now will the Root of every thing be enquired after whence it comes and out of what it is grown whether it bear God's Ordinance and whether it Originateth in the Heavenly Fiat or in the Hellish out of the Anger there shall every one give an account of his State and Condition whether he have intruded out of Coverousness and Pride and made himself a Lord and Master or whether his Government be ordained of God 77. There see O ye Worldly Rulers ye Potentates whether ye be God's Ordinance whether ye sit in a right and true Divine Ordinance what you do with the miserable and needy now they stand before your eyes and complain of you that you have been the Cause of their sins and of all their Evil 78. For there one will cry and complain against the other that he hath caused him to commit such and such abominations and will curse him the Inferiour the Superiour the Superiour his Superiour the Prince his false or wicked Counsellours the Counsellours the Priests who have not reproved their Courses but soothed and flattered them for advancement and honours sake 79. Oh how will you now subsist ye high Schools and Doctors all you that have sitten in Christ's Sear that you have so contended about Christ's Cup about his Honour Glory Doctrine in your Pride and have irritated or stirred up and constrained the Princes of your Countreys who are the Ordinance of God to Wars and Blood-shed for your Words sake which you your selves have forged 80. Where is now Christs Spirit in the Love which saith Love one another thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples where is now your Love see your Bloody provocations wherewith you have involved them in War and led the World astray from Love and Condescention 81. You have made Rents and Divisions so that Kings have divided and been at Enmity for your Pride sake in that you have drawn Christ's Word about by the Hair and not considered whether you have Christ's Spirit and Will or no there you above all others shall give a severe account for you have known the Lord's Will and have not done it you have run and intruded your selves into Christ's Office only for Gain Favour and Honour sake you have not regarded God's Spirit therefore the Spirit calleth you Babel a Confusion of all that live 82. You have set the whole World at Odds you should teach them Love and you have taught them strife and Contention so that one Brother hateth and persecuteth the other for your contrivance sake how is the Name of Christ despised for your Contentions sake whither will you go and where will you abide when the whole World shall Cry Wo wo on you 83. Here the Angels will be the Dividers these will seperate them into two Heads and set the Honest and Godly at the right and the evil and wicked at the Left viz. at the Anger-Eye For the right is here called the Lights Principle and the Left the fires Principle 84. And there will the Judgment be set all the Great Shepherds which God hath sent for Lights into the World who have reproved and taught viz. the Patriarchs concerning the Promise of Christ together with the Prophets and Apostles at the right hand of the Judgement and Moses and all teachers of the Law at the left hand of the Judgement 85. For Moses and Elias have the Fire-Sword together with all highly worthy Teachers of the Law and require God's Justice and Righteousnesse and those at the Right God's Mercy 86. And in this hour is the Last Day of the Judgement when the Judge will say Come ye Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Beginning for I have been hungry thirsty naked sick and in Misery and you have served or Ministred unto me 87. And to the wicked Crew Away ye Cursed I know you not into the Eternal Fire For I have been hungry thirsty sick naked and in Prison and ye have not served or Ministred unto me 88. And then they will excuse themselves as to the Judges Person Lord we have not known thee and he will say what you have not done to my Children in Misery you have not dono unto me 89. And here will the Spirit of God first move himself to Justice in all the Three Principles and awaken the Center of Nature that it may burn in the Anger-Fire for All will stand in the Fire both Heaven Earth and the Firmament 90. And the Turba will swallow up the Earthly World into the Fire and set it in that condition again as it was before the Creation onely the Wonders remain standing in both Principles the Third passeth away all to the Wonders which will be set in the Beginning again 91. And there will the Earthly Life with the Earthly Body fall away and the fire will consume them 92. And in the Righteous will the Glorious bright Paradisical Body passe through the Fire with its Wonders or Works which will follow after it and that which is false or wicked will remain in the Fire 93. And they will be snatched through the Fire in the twinckling of an Eye although the Fire will not take hold of them as little as the Fire can detain the Light or the Wind so little also can it hold the Light of the Holy Men or Saints for they can dwell in the Fire without feeling any pain 94. And then instantly with the kindling of the Fire is God's Majesty prepared and the Paradisical Life into which they go as Children and live Eternally with their Father in one Love in a simple Loving Childs Life and there is a Communion of Saints or Holy Ones 95. No Dayes and Nights for the Sun passeth away and the Stars pass away and their Wonders only stand in the great Magia to the Honour and Glory of God thus they will sever themselves 96. The wicked must also go into the Fire and their Earthly Life also fall away and in their Spirit will be seen their Vizard-Image according to all manner of Abominable Beasts like the Devils 97. For they dwell in one and the same Principle and Luoifer is their Great-Prince whom they have here served and ministred unto and it was so that they did hang to their flattering Hypocrites
the Fire only the Turba with the Introduced Abominations plagueth it there is an Eternal Despair in them and therefore they are also God's Enemies 8. Whatsoever belongeth to Blasphemy and Cursing that is their best power and vertue they devour Hellish Brimstone and Abominations For their Fruits are such manner of things a kind of Matter that is outwardly fair and inwardly meer fierce wrath and as they have been such flattering Hypocrites upon Earth therefore also their Heaven giveth them such Bread to Eat 9. They are at Large shut up in Nothing they may go as Deep as they will yet it is every where the Abysse and the Darkness and yet they are but in their First Place the Deeper they desire to swing themselves the Deeper they Fall and yet are no where at an End or at the Ground or Bottom 10. Their Number is no Humane Number their delight is a stink of Fire and Brimstone because of their Cursed Blasphemy that they were Angels and now Devils when they consider themselves then first riseth up the gnawing Worm that Devoureth and Tormenteth them 11. What should a Man write of their Cursedness they are filthy Evil Beasts all that they have practised upon the Earth that followeth after them and that they would also do there they swallow down Abomination and Cursing without Measure a Man cannot apprehend their Dominion better then by the Antichristian Horse and by Cursing blaspheming Men which are Mad with Cursing though it be but a Looking-Glass in respect of the Hellish Abominations and we will not further mention them for they are not worthy to be named The Five and Thirtieth Question What the Enochian Life is and how long it lasteth 1. THis is also above Humane Reason and which no outward Reason can Comprehend but seeing it is born or generated therefore it shall stand open for there stick such Mysteries here that the World cannot comprehend and we shall not mention them at large for it hath its limit how far it shall go for in this Time shall Wonders be done upon Earth for which cause our speech is taken from us that we must be silent 2. Yet we shall shew what kind of Life it is or whither Enoch is gone as also Elias and Moses It is no Conjecture we speak what here is given us we shall further be silent and not believe Reason it is a Fool herein 3. And we may well mention this for the Time is Born that Enoch speaketh and Elias worketh Wonders which Babel shall try by Experience For Moses hath Horns and yet is a Patient or Meek Lamb. 4. O how wouldest thou rejoyce if thou wouldst go amongst Moses Flock for he hath a good Message or Embassie rejoyce ye Heaven and be merry ye Earth for Enoch is in the field and keepeth his Flock 5. What will Elias do He had a white Garment on and was with Christ on the Mount and spake to him concerning the finishing the Redemption of Mankind and spake to him also of the Entrance into Paradise and of the final Deliverance from the Driver or Persecutor 6. He that is born Blind seeth Nothing how can a Lame Man run to the limit for the Prize and a Deaf Man distinguishâ—â—â—… Words and Languages Doth not the Sun shin all the Day and yet the Mole remaineth blind still Will Babel then come to see We say she is a Scorner and therefore also she must be blind though the Sun shineth to her 7. How can any see what is in TWO Worlds that dwelleth alwayes but in ONE Or is it not Art and Wit that hath understanding that can search the Deep Gates But it flyeth aloft like a Wind that holdeth nothing and yet maketh such a Bluster so also Babel 8. When we will speak of the Enochian Life we must consider the Scripture and see who Enoch was and what Life he lead and then we may soon find where he is and what his going away and taking up is 9. The Scripture saith his Father was called Jared if you understand the Language of Nature you had the whole Ground 10. And Enoch begat Methusalah who attained the Highest Age of any Man and after he had begotten him he continued in a Godly or Divine Life till the Lord took him into his Principle 11. And we are not so to understand it as if he were wholly perfect in the Light of God's Majesty and should not appear at the Judgment Day He is indeed in God without necessity and Death also in God's Love but in the Birth of God's Principle for he had also Adam's Flesh 12. So you know very well that the outward Kingdom with the Earthly Flesh belongeth to the Turba though indeed he had in the outward Body the Body of God's Wonders as to which he was taken up into the Mystery so that the outward Body was as it were swallowed up of the Mystery 13. But now must the Mystery give up again all whatsoever it hath swallowed up as ye know that at the End it shall present the outward Body with all Substances or Works before the Judgment of God so also is the Turba still in the outward Body with the Wonders which shall be manifested and tryed in the Fire 14. Seeing then Enoch is taken up with Body and Soul with both Bodies therefore his outward Body is in the Mystery and the inward Body is a Heavenly Mystery in the Arcanum or hiddenness and so he liveth in two Mysteries invisibly and incomprehensibly to the outward World as we give you to understand that Paradise is still at hand and not vanished but is as it were swallowed up by the Curse of God and lyeth yet as a Mystery uncorrupted in the Curse 15. For we can with good ground of Truth say that Paradise is still upon Earth but we are not therein yet Enoch is therein but he hath still the Body of the Turba in the Mystery and in the Heavenly Mystery he hath God's Body a Paradisical Body that is capable of Paradise thus he is a Wonder and is a Prophet on the Crown at the limit of the Wonders 16. For ye know the Scripture saith that after he begat Methuselah the Man of the highest Age that afterwards he continued in a Divine Life and that is significant 17. Methuselah sheweth the end of the Wonders of this World and Enoch in his Divine Life after the Birth of Methuselah sheweth as to his Three hundred years the opening of the Wonders and the open Ministry viz. a preaching of Righteousness whereby every one hath his Turba shewen him and the End of the Wonders of this World is shewed viz. God's punishment and reward to the Good 18. And the Time after Enoch wherein Enoch lived till the Number of the Crown when Enoch with his Preaching was taken up sheweth that the Enochian Light which appeared in his Time will pass again into the Principle and will seek the Earthly Body of Enoch and it will be
this Plant in the Highness and Exaltation of the world for you cannot you are a Mystery to them The Spirit it self seeketh the Beginning look to it flatter none for the Beginning is Paradisical that the impure come not into the pure and at last the Serpent beguile Eve again 299. Let there be no fair gloss in you but speak roundly or sincerely with your Mouth with Yea and Nay also fear not for that which is Eternal remaineth standing and it is only the filth and vanity that causeth that the Turba together insinuateth it self as a breaker or corrupter have a care of that for the Old Serpent is suttle that ye may be pure in the Beginning and in the End 300. For this work suffereth not much Glossing upon it hath a clear ground also it belongeth not to the Turba but in and to the Beginning of the Clarity or bright Transfiguration or Glory Therefore take heed of those who are born or become of a wolfish disposition whose Spirit is a suttle Serpent this we speak out of Good will towards you 301. Every thing that beginneth it self is sought of the Beginning for the Beginning seeketh through the Deep and willeth to find the ground If now the Beginning do find the ground that there be a limit in a Thing then the Beginning slips into the limit and leaveth or forsaketh the first and seeketh further so long till it findeth the Abyss and there it must stand in it self and can go no further for there is nothing more 302. But if the first be forsaken of the Beginning then it is fallen home to the Turba which breaketh it and maketh it again what it was in the Beginning 303. And then if the Thing be broken then the Turba standeth naked without a Body and it self also seeketh it self and findeth it self but without Substance and then it entereth into it self and seeketh it self even in the Abyss and then the first Eye becometh found out of which it became generated 304. But being it is bare and raw without Substance therefore it is put back or home to the Fire for it putteth it self therein and is in the Fire a Desiring viz. to seek its Body again and so the Fire of the Original becometh awakened 305. And hereby apprehend we the last Judgement in the Fire and the Resurrection of the Flesh for the Turba in the Fire is desirous of the Body which it hath had but was broken in the limit and its desiring was the Bodies Life viz. the Soul 306. Therefore being the Fires are TWO the Turba also must be apprehended in a Twofold Form or Kind viz. in a corruptible Body and in an incorruptible Body viz. one in the fierce wrathful Fire and one in the Light-Fire wherein or whereby we understand God's Body and in the fierce wrathful Fire the Earthly Body which the Turba corrupteth or breaketh for it findeth its Limit 307. Therefore now the Eternal Fire in God's Eye is to be understood both the fierce wrathful and also the Light-Love-Fire And we give you to understand that the Spirit without a Body must remain in the fierce wrathful Fire for it hath lost its Substantiality the Turba hath swallowed it up in the Fire 308. But the Spirit with a Body which the Turba is not able to devour remaineth Eternally in the Substantiality in God's Body wherein his Spirit standeth viz. the Body in the Love of God which is the hidden Man in the Old Adamical which there hath Christ's Flesh in the corruptible or fragile Body 309. Thus we understand the Soul to be an awakened Life out of God's Eye its Original is in the Fire and the Fire is its Life and so if it goeth not out from the Fire with its Will and Imagination into the Light viz. through the fierce wrathful Death into the Second Principle into the Love-Fire then it remaineth in its own Original Fire and hath nothing but the Turba for a Body viz. the astringent fierce Wrath a desiring in the Fire a consuming and a hunger and yet an Eternal Seeking which is the Eternal Anguish 310. But the Soul which with its desirous will entereth into it self and in its reason that is in its desiring sinketh down and seeketh not it self but God's Love is in its Fire as it were dead for its will which awakeneth the Fire is dead to the Fire-Life and is gone out from it self into the Love-Fire that Soul is fallen home to the Love-Fire and hath also the Love-Fires Body for it is entered thereunto and is a great Wonder in God's Body and it is no more it self for it hath killed its will and so its Turba also is as it were dead and the Love-will filleth or satiateth the Fire of the Original and therein it liveth Eternally 311. But those Souls which have awakned the Turba they have lost the Image For the Turba hath swallowed THAT into it self and therefore those Souls get or acquire in the Anger and in Hell Beastial Images according as the Turba is in them as Lucifer got a Serpents Image all according as the Will or Mind hath here been figured or framed so it standeth then naked and apparent 312. For the fierce wrathful Turba seeketh continually the Image and findeth it not therefore it figureth or frameth the Image according to the Will for the earthly Desire sticketh in the Will and such an Image standeth now in God's Wonders in the Eye of the fierce wrathful Principle 313. And here we understand the eighth Form to be the Turba which seeketh the Image and if it findeth the Limit it breaketh it and goeth into it and seeketh further into it self and findeth at last the Abomination of that which the Soul had done here in this life 314. And then we understand here the Fire which at the End shall purge the Floar and the earnest severe Judgement And we understand how every Fire will receive its Substance from the Turba and what that is 315. Where then the Fire will swallow up the Earth and draw the Elements with the Wonders in them into the Beginning where then the First will be again and the Elements in One And every thing will set forth its wonders there every thing in its own Fire into which the Will is entered 316. Let this be said to you ye Children of Men it concerneth you for No Beast is come out of the Eternal Beginning but out of the Model of the Eternal and in its Spirit reacheth not the Eternal as the Soul of Man doth 317. Also the corrupt or perished Body cannot possess the Eternal it is fallen home back to the Turba but the New Man generated or born in God will possess the Eternal for it is gone forth from the corruptible and hath put on God in Christ which hath God's Body in the Old Body 318. The earthly source or fountain quality the Turba taketh that along with it the outward Body from the Earth remaineth with the Earth
but the will taketh its Substance doings or works along into it self for they stand in the New Body and follow after it therefore a Man should consider what he doth in this Life The Ninth Form of Fire The great earnest Severity 319. Thus we understand that all proceedeth out of the Beginning and so one goeth out of the other and we understand how the Fire is a cause of the Life and how the Life divides it self into two parts and yet breaketh not but only the outward Life which falleth home back to the Turba which breaketh or destroyeth it therefore we ought to consider wherein it is that the Eternal Life consisteth what its preservation is that the Body breaketh not for Substantiality hath a beginning 320. And yet we can say with good ground that no End is therein for it must have a Ground else it belongeth to the Turba which findeth the Limit the Eternal Body must stand in no Limit but be free in the Abyss in the Eternal Nothing else there would be another substance or thing again in that substance or thing which would cut that assunder and make a Limit 321. It is said before how all must go or pass quite through the Fire that will endure Eternally for that which remaineth in the Fire the Turba taketh that there is no spirit created in the Fire that it should remain in the Fire 322. Only the Turba hath captivated mary of them but not from or by God's will or purpose for God's will is only Love but the Turba is his Anger-will which hath with its vehement hunger brought a great Kingdom of its Manifestation or Revelation into his wonders viz. the Devils and wicked Souls of Men. 323. But being the Eternal Life standeth in Meekness and hath no Death nor Turba in it Therefore we must needs say that the Soul and Spirit stand not in the Turba especially the Soule Body else the Turba would break or destroy it 324. To be understood as above mentioned thus that the Will in the Anguish-source or quality in the Fire understand the Souls Will sinketh down into it self viz. into Death and should not live in the Fire and then that very Will falleth into another will viz. into the Beginning or to express it better into the Free Eternity into the Eternal Nothing where there is no source or quality or pain nor nothing that can either give or receive it 325. But now there is in the sunkdown will no dying for it is gone out from the fiery Beginning in the Eye and so bringeth its Life into another Principle and dwelleth in the Liberty and yet hath all Forms of the Essences out of the Fire in it self but unperceptibly for it is gone quite out from the Fire 326. Therefore its Life of its Essences are in the Liberty and is also desirous and receiveth in the Desiring into its Essences the Power or Vertue of the Light which shineth in the Liberty that is Power or Vertue without Turba for that Fire is only Love which consumeth not but continually desireth and satiateth so that the will of the Soul attracteth a Body 327. For the Will is a Spirit and the Soul is the great Life of the Spirit which upholdeth or preserveth the Spirit thus the Soul becometh indued with Power and Vertue and dwelleth in Two Principles as God himself doth and according to the outward in Three Principles and is the Similitude of God 328. The inward Water in the Spirit of the Soul is the Water of the Eternal Life concerning which Christ saith Whosoever drinketh of the Water that I give him he will never thirst more this is that Water 329. The Substantiality of the Spirit which becometh put on to the Soul is Gods Christs Body concerning which he saith Whosoever eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood continueth in Me and I in Him 330. But the right true Life in the Light of the Majesty in the Ninth-Number is the Virgin Tincture it is a Fire and yet not a Fire it burneth but consumeth not it is the Love the Meekness the Humility this is God's Life the Holy Souls Life an uncorruptible Life and an unsearchable Life for it standeth in the Abyss in it self there is a Center therein which Center is its First Life and yet it doth not comprehend it as the Fire doth not comprehend the Light 331. Thus the Ninth Number is the Life in the Fire of God and is called the Life in the presence of the Number Three As an Angel which standeth before the Cross to or for God's Deeds of Wonder and to or for the Manifestation of the Heavenly Honour and Glory The Tenth Number and Form of Fire The Gate into the Holy Ternary 332. We know in Reason that where there is a Root therein also is a desirous will as viz. the Noble Tincture which driveth upwards and forwards and seeketh a Similitude according to its Form 333. The Tincture is a Virgin and is known or apprehended in God's Wisdom in the Wonders It is no Genetrix but an opener or manifester of the Wonders which stand in the Wisdom it seeks no Looking-Glass but meerly openeth or discovereth the Essences that so a total Similitude may generate or produce it self out of the Essences it driveth the Twig or Branch out of the Tree 334. This we understand as to Angels and Souls which are proceeded out of God's Essences out of the total Tree the Angels out of two Principles and the Soul with the Body of the outward Life out of Three Principles And therefore Man is higher dignified than the Angels if he continue in God 335. And in the Tenth Number upon the Cross are the Angels and Souls awakned and become corporised in the Heavenly Substantiality although the Tenth Number belongeth to the place between the Fift and the Sixt but in a Globe to be understood so that the Heart is in the midst in the Center which is God's Heart that is God's Word the Power and Vertue in or of the whole Tree as the Kernel or Pith in the Wood hath the Essences Vertue or Condition of the whole Tree 336. Thus God is a Spirit and the Word is his Heart which he speaketh forth out of all Powers or Vertues and Wonders therefore Isaiah calleth it * Wonder Council Power Prince of Peace viz. a Pacifier of the Anger and an Eternal Power of Wonders a Counsellour of the Genetrix 337. For the Word upholdeth or preserveth the Center of Nature is a Heart and Lord of Nature it is the Genetrix in God's Eye a Giver of the Power and Vertue and the strength of the Omnipotence It holdeth the Fire-Center captive with the Love-Fire so that it must be dark in it self and the Word hath only the Light-Life 338. We cannot apprehend the Tenth-Number any otherwise then that it is a Cross and is the Original of the Substance of all Substances which Substance parteth it self into Three