near approaching in the which the Earth should cast forth the Dead that have been buried in the Body of Sin For this end a terrible Blow and Stroke upon the Nations of the Earth will fuddenly come God saith he is wearied out with the Sinful Abomination of this World to which he purposeth shortly to put an end For it hath accordingly been sounded in my inward Ear that the Ends of all Sinful Worlds are by the great Creator of them now determined Upon which saying I queried in Spirit with my LORD in what other Worlds besides this Visible and known World the Evil of Sin did yet remain Whereupon it was replied that such as go out of this World in their gross and unmortified Earthly Life without Clarification obtained through the Water of Regeneration and the Blood of Christ shed in them and so Attoning for Sin and Trespasses which not being entirely done away before they go out of this Life will still abide with them in their nature and quality after Death do pass into such Worlds Stations or Centres which are most agreeable and natural to them and do accordingly bear great varieties and sundry degrees of Punishments proportioned to the Impurity that is left in them For as much as Sin dieth not totally with the Body except while in it there hath been a Dying to it by the Spirit of Righteousness spreading over it So that from hence a Cry doth go forth to all Nations Peoples and Languages to Purge out the corrupt Leaven of Sin that it may not go with them into that World or Worlds where their Lot may be § 3. For it hath been revealed unto me that there are several Regions or Worlds that do receive the Souls of all Degrees and Ranks to the Number Eight The First of these is this Mortal Visible World The Second is the Astral or Aerial World The Third is the Waterish Elementary World And the Fourth is the Fiery Dark World These are all the Worlds where Sinful Lustings may be with Punishments answerable till Sin shall expire therein through the Meditorship and Propitiatian of CHRIST the Almighty Redeemer For into the next Four Worlds nothing of Evil or Sin can enter or in the Inhabitants of them dwell The First of these is the Paradisical World being all Coelestial and a very pleasant State where there is a growing up to higher degrees of Perfection to compleat us for the Kingdom of Mount Sion Where Christ's the Lord's Kingdom is in great Magnificence with all the Angelical Principalities under him and with the Elders as Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles The Third Heavenly World is the Royal and Principal Seat of God the Father with the Eternal Virgin Wisdom and the Seven Spirits This bears the Title of the Great City called the New Jerusalem where the Glassy Sea doth encompass about Then above this is that World called the Still Eternity Out of which were generated all of these Worlds above-mentioned Of all which I must give an account according as I have had them shewed and opened from the deep Centre and Original Being of them I did not know when I published my two last Treatises that of the Enochian Life and the other of the Paradisical Laws that my God would ever have had made use of me any more in this kind the Day of my Life being so far spent and growing to its evening Rest. But my LORD doth still follow me with fresh Revelations and Inkindlings from his own immense Deep which run as a Fiery Stream through me so that I find there is no resisting this all-driving Power by which hidden and unknown Worlds must be made manifest in this last Age of Times § 4. But before I go upon this large and copious Matter it will be proper to Answer a grand Objection that is expected to be cast in upon the Reading hereof Namely Since the Holy Scripture maketh no mention of such Variety of Worlds how shall we give credit hereunto In Answer to this it is given from him who Was and Is and Will be the true Inspirer to open new Volumes of his Mind which are not to be less reputed and credited than the foregoing Scriptures The Old Testament having been appropriated to the Ministration of the Father the New to the Son now the Third Day is come in which the Holy Ghost will have His which will Excel all before it to Unseal and Reveal what yet never was known or understood that will be communicated to and by such as are in an extraordinary manner sanctified and set a part for this holy Function For from this Spirits Day must go forth a New Spring of things yet to be revealed both as to the Present and Future State that hath lain hid within these mentioned Worlds The Account of which I am more particularly to give according as it hath been shown to me from the Spirit of Inspiration For I write here from no other Ground than what the Spirit of CHRIST in the Glass of Wisdom hath presented to mine Inward Eye which pierceth into the Deep of God's Mind And which is no longer to be concealed for the Holy Unction is given for this end to drop his golden Oil which will dissolve all those Seals that have stood so long for an hiding and shutting up of those Mysterious Truths that a Commission is now given to bring forth in order to their being proclaimed and inscribed upon the Pillars and Temple of God's House Whether believed or not it must stand as the Engraving of God's Hand § 5. The First in Order is this Corporeal Visible World in which we now live Where good and evil Births have been produced from Adam and so still shall go on to be procreated till the Numbers shall be finished and filled up that are indeed as to us numberless but numbred by God Here is laid a Foundation for his manifold Wisdom in a wonderful way and manner to be made manifest from this first ground of Natural Generation Which Births after a limited time must pass through the Death of the Elementary Body to such Regions as their Lot will fall to § 6. As for such Ranks of Souls that do dye Unregenerated these having no part in CHRIST and having lived ignorant and as without God in this present World do go to their own direful Place within the Circumference of the Evil Worlds where they will be proved and tried till the general Restitution of all Lapsed Worlds by the Mighty God and Saviour shall come to be effected But of this we will not further now insist having elsewhere more largely declared it § 7. Now therefore beginning from below I proceed to make known to the true Simplified Inquirers what the First and Lowest of these Worlds or Elements is This is entitled the Dark Hellish World and by the only Supream Creator and Judge is allotted a Receptacle for Lucifer and the rest of the Apostatized Angels of that Hierarchy It may be also
the Original Matter of it doth lye they may and do wear out their Cloaths and go naked away without being Cloathed upon with this Spiritual Body Without which there being no getting up so high as to face the Throne Majesty they must abide in Centres of low Degree till they can put on Christ's Resurrection Body Which is the Royal Robe that the Virgin Bride with all her Off-spring do appear in at the Festival Day in which the Marriage shall be Solemnized The First-fruits of it are given as Tokens and Pledges to Wisdom's Children by CHRIST now in the time of his Betrothment unto the Pure in Spirit who keepeth their Virgin Mind undefiled who will as a most intimate Lover make frequent Visits bringing unto them choice and spiritual Food that the Espoused may Banquet with him while the Cup of Love is still renewed and filled as fast as it is drunk in O is not this Ravishing Love of our Immanuel that doth make it out to this degree considering that we are yet but in our Minority and carrying the mean appearance of a Mortal Shade From out of which such a Pull and Shake he will in his time give as shall make the vile and gross Image which we bear to be more fine than the Ophir Gold by the means of that Superior Element that will with our Minds so Qualifie and Commingle as the Light so as to arise thereby in a shining Lustre for to come up unto the unity of the Lord's Glory § 18. Now having given you an Account of the Seven Worlds with the Inhabitants assigned to fill them up I proceed on to the Eighth which is the Beginning and the Highest of all Worlds called the Still Eternity This there is no way possible for any one to describe or give account of but by being taken up into it From which there is a freedom to give a Description according to what hath been seen in this World by a Spirit thither Translated It may be most properly entitled the Highest Court or Principality of the Tri-Un Majesty The Scituation of it is founded upon an Abyssal Deep where from an inaccessible Light doth generate and spread it self without bounds as a vast Globe of Eternity God is here to be known and understood abstractedly from Eternal Nature as abiding in his own Simplified Deity before either the Angels or other Creatures were Created Here the Holy Trinity dwelt in the meek Stilness enjoying themselves before they brought forth any Image or Likeness to themselves For in this high and lofty Sphere no Figures of Glory could be seen though great Powers did move here and variety of Wonders did appear sending forth a Majestick Awefulness § 19. Q. But it may be demanded What the Wonders of this World are since there is nothing of Figure in it to be beheld neither the Father nor the Son nor the Holy Ghost in any Distinction for to be known Ans. It is verily so yet there is a Consubsisting of the Blessed Trinity in each other The Fulness of the Godhead dwelleth here Unbodily with his Virgin Wisdom and the Seven Spirits All which do here open themselves from an Infinite Source and from thence all the Creating Powers do flow forth For this is the Abyssal World from whence all other Worlds were Created § 20. Q. It may be further Queried What further Wonder did you here see Ans. A glorious and wonderful Element was seen with numberless Sparks of Light As this outward Air or AEther is full of Stars so this Element was bespangled with Lights Upon the Inquiry of the Spirit that was there caught up what these might be It was answered That all these were Simplified Spirits that were ordained to garnish that Globe and to attend there the Tri-Un Deity from whom they are Generated evermore watching the Eye to see when it would send them forth to assume or take up Bodies being all pure meek and mild Spirits which do perfect whatsoever and wheresoever they enter These are the Spirits that will sublime and make Bodies to become All-Divine § 21. Q. Then was it further asked by this Translated Spirit Whence their Birth was Ans. It was Answered From God the Father in Conjunction with the Eternal Virgin Wisdom who brought them forth Upon this I was advised how that these Spirits are reserved in this High Globe till Wisdom's Day upon this Visible World should as the Morning-Star break forth Then are they to go forth to multiply and make a Princely Host God's Wonders throughout all Nations for to display that so this World of Misery and Mortaüty may see a more Happy Day from the Operation of this Eternal and Meek Stilness which will infuse their Powers and qualifie with Souls that from before all Worlds were preordained to be Spirited after this kind by the means of simple Abstraction answerable to the Production of these Pure and Eternal Spirits that fill up this Globe of the Majesty of the Tri-Un God who generated them out of himself before the Creation of Angels or of any other Beings For these Spirits are the First-born from out of the Womb of the Eternal Virgin as hid in God before there was any Figurative Manifestation They will enter therefore into holy Souls with such penetrating Powers as shall give another habit of Mind casting it into an Eternal Stilness and quieting all the Working Properties in the Region of Nature No awakening or stirring up there shall then be of the Soulish Essence from its Conjunction with the Body for that the Property of these Spirits is to do and act all in a still and silent way and from thence the greatest Power and Force shall most effectually go forth For it was told me that as these Spirits of Light naked and unbodied did fill up the Globe of the Unbodily Majesty in Trinity so it should come to pass in the full Age of time when Wisdom's First-born shall be made manifest that this World or Globe should then descend and open in the Virgin Off-spring of Wisdom By whom alone the mighty Deeds and Works will be made apparent so that it may be discerned that they are wrought in God only All Counterfeit Actings of this kind will fall down as Dagon before the Ark so that no dark Magia shall be able to stand For in this Day all faces of a covering shall be rent away that so the true and right Acting Spirit may be known Now in this new Modification which is a Passiveness in Spirit Soul and Body so as no other motion of Life may be but from the Tri-Unity that may beget pure and simplified Spirits as numberless as our Thoughts these holy mild and all-quieting Spirits may multiply in Souls accordingly prepared for them For it hath been further shewed to me that the very Images of the Mind should be all of a Deified Stamp and of a most deep Engraving from the most High Majesty Thus it is given to let you understand that
understand our own Eternal being we cannot know God the Being of all Being For as we are the inbreathed Soul from God we live in his Effence Which is the Glass through which we may see and know the invisible Deity and thereby also know our selves as we consist of the higher Principles and Worlds above as likewise of those Below For they all Qualify with the Immortal and also with the Elementary Part in us for most wise and wonderful Ends. O how great is the Mysterious Greatness of the Soul that lieth vailed covered and unknown to it self The Body of out ward sensibility thuts it up from understanding its own Power as it is an Essence derived from God and an out-flowing Breath from the Most High Majesty The Earthy Life bindeth it down in all Men until Christ in Spirit do enter in to make it free in his own Liberty by quickening the Dead Effence of these Principles of Light Love and Power And by this the Soul is restored to its pre-existing and true Nativity in God which is apt to be forgotten if not continually revived in the Mind In which being exercised it will put a check and awe upon it from the consideration of what it is and to whom it must return as to its Eternal Centre Being come to the Conclusion of this Subject I must be permitted what I am in Commission for from the High and Heavenly Court to leave this word of Caution and Exhortation to all them who would full Redemption see and would be glad to be set free from all fears doubts and concerns upon that account Watch against all Cavils and Commotions that are apt to arise in the mind by way of opposition to the pure Inspiration of the Holy Spirit O! grieve it not either in your selves or in any other remembring that you have it for a Counsellor and Comforter and for a Key to open the Heavenly Worlds unto you and to give you an inheritance in them The assurance whereof will be perfect Joy Peace and Glory as some do truly witness and do give it forth their experience who do therefore advise and exhort all to whomsoever this Treatise may come whether in this Nation or in any more remote Places where God is pleased to have it Published that they seriously Study and soberly Ponder upon what by the Wisdom of God hath here been unvailed and declared For it is a Seal broken up that doth belong to this present Age wherein knowledge is to increase in order to prepare for the Great Day that hath been Prophesied of concerning the Daughter of Sion's Kingly Dominion O come forth be no longer hid ye precious Stones of Sion whithersoever scattered and dispersed Whether near or far off at Home or beyond the Seas where-ever ye lye hid come forth To you the Golden Bells from the four Eternal Worlds do Sound out their Alarum to draw you into them where as to your own People and Native Countrey ye may to the Feasts of Tabernacles come sitting down together in Joy and evermore celebrating this Marriage Feast in the Unity of Love where the Author of this Treatise would in the Spirit meet and so never cease to congratulate you as fellow Citizens and there to eat with you the Feast of Love A Further MANIFESTATION Concerning the Four HEAVENLY VVORLDS ACCORDING To the Experimental Process that some have passed through I. OF PARADISE § 1 INTO Paradise my Spirit-doth first take its Flight where all things are in good Order and the same flowing State as before Adam had lost his Virgin Mate Paradise is now stock'd again with such as have waded through the floating Sea of Sin and Mortality in order to the putting on that Image of purity which is to the Children of the Resurrection given by JESUS For not the least Guile or Fault may be found in any of the Inhabitants of this place My Spirit doth see here all in wonderful Harmony And this Word was heard from the High and Lofty one saying With the Risen from the Dead I will dwell though this Principle of Paradise be allotted to them for a certain time to be a separated Mansion until all be gathered up into the superiour Kingdom of Mount Sion and of the New Jerusalem Thus did I hear the good news that all is Rich and flourishing within the Paradisical Kingdom Nor is there any decay since Adam's Day but Increase and Augmentation is daily through the Resurrection of the Spiritual Man § 2. After this the Spirit of Wisdom said to me These things whereof an account hath been given to you may be declared of the Local Place of Paradise Whereinto Spirits separated by Natural Death putting off their Mortal Earthly Bodies do enter and there put on their Virgin Body Which doth prepare them to meet the Bridegroom who from thence fetcheth them up to Mount Sion These are such who in this very time have fought the good Fight of Faith and had very near overcome this World What is lacking to make them fully Perfect is to be done in this Paradisical place where they are appointed to stay till all their Bridal Trimming be finished and they find that they can pass the Way to the Tree of Life through the Flaming Cherub who remaineth still a Guard upon that Figurative Tree In this place Holy Angels do also wait by their Course to Minister unto those who do come here as the Designed Heirs of that more Glorious State which is revealed in Sion This is some part of those good things which doth belong to your Eternal Father but now I shall open to thee a further Mystery which is what may be entred upon in this very Life Time For there is a Mystical Paradise as well as a Local which Springs Metaphorically opening from a pure Magical Centre This will amount to thy present Peace and Joy Wait I say to feel that now that thy Spirit may give a Seal with me that thou hast receiv'd the Anointing and that thou dost walk with thy Spiritual Man in this Paradise where thou often dost hear the Eccho of thy Bridegroom's Voice calling thee still to hast the getting on all that which will make thee look Sweet and Amiable in his Eyes and the obtaining of the fragrant Sweets that may perfume and scent thee that so all thy Garments may smell of these Beds of Spices upon which thou mayest stretch thy self Here a while confined be to dwell after the manner of a Spirit in a Spiritual Body till thou shalt all of this Visible Orb overcome and much excel all Creatures in it as having the Tree of Life to live upon Which is that which will airify and put upon thee a most Transparent Body for they who do daily feed upon it shall be in good deed transmuted by it Behold to thee this Gate of Paradise doth stand open and whatsoever of the things of God is there thou hast a right not only to know but them as
come to that Heighth as even to a Perfect Jasper Purity which will whatever it toucheth turn into its own Source Light and Power This is the White Stone to which the Bride of the New Jerusalem will be joyned and which will be hung in her Crown Therefore after nothing less ye beloved ones do ye aspire And say not in your Hearts How can this be Let that be cast upon your God's All-sufficiency that by Wisdom's Stone will do High Mighty and Marvelous things through them with whom it shall be found that only shall have the honour of bringing the Jerusalem down to be seen within this Orb. For in such in whom the Stone of Wisdom is sown and grown up are the Lookers and the Expectors to see this wonderful Time Others who believe nothing of it will stand without this City amongst the Worshippers of the Beast none of whom can Traffick or Merchandize amongst the precious Foundation Stones Which are the Purchase of the Lamb for his Conquering Tribe to follow after him with Palms of Victory over all fears and doubts that spring from Unbelief which hath kept numberless out and stopped their Ascending up hither § 3. Now to you who through the Agate Windows of this walled City are given to look in know that it is granted for no other end but to take your Eye and to draw your whole Spiritual Body herein It is not to Tantalize you or to let you see only the Tree of Vertue and not hereof not touch nor tast but ye are evermore to live upon it When ye as fixed Inhabitants shall no more go out this Tree will be Food of most high Virtual Strength Power and Spirit This Word then I will only drop and leave with you to wait in pure Love Patience till for this last Remove the Stone Within do Compleat you through its All-Tincturing Power The STILL ETERNITY § 1. As I was considering the high and weighty Work whereunto we are called my Spirit was immediately caught up into an High Region that was all Calm and Still where I saw no Figures or Images But there was a wonderful Light which Flowed into me like a River Then it was opened in me that this was the Creating Light from whence all Beings did proceed that what was now expected as a New Creation must be brought forth from the Stilness of this Light with which the Soul's Essence must be Mingled And that from this Union the Variety of the Wonders should be produced in the World § 2. It was further said to me that I had been long driven to hit the furthest Centre of all Centres but the Plummet Line of my Spirit was too short to Fathom that deep Gulf which was in a Visional Figure some Years ago shewn to me This being led by the Spirit to call to mind there came before mine internal Eye a Deep Abyss that opened it self and Streamed forth with such a commixture in all variety of Colours of Precious Stones so dreadfully Sparkling and Glorious that no other but a simple and abstracted Spirit could behold it and much less enter into and so be Mingled with it according as I was both times invited and called to § 3. This Second time it was renewed to me by an Internal Opening from which it was given me to understand that this God-head-Gulf was now broken up for a Streaming forth with that high mixed Matter which would Deify and Tincture the Soulish Essence that had been under the Depravity Then it was said to me by the Spirit that this was the true and right Baptism into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost by which the Soul would return to its first Original and then would know it self to have Power in GOD as his Virgin Heart and Spouse to do and act agreeable unto so high an Unity This is the Summity of all Depths that can be searched into Do but study this and the Eternal Abyssal World will from its Stilness come to Qualify with and Operate in you in order to the wished-for Transmutation Hereby will you into all Wisdoms's Treasures be admitted and the Walls about your habitation shall be the Rock of Fire-Stones in which Munition Strength your Hiding shall be as in God's ownSecrecy until you go forth to Proclaim another Day of PENTECOST AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION WHICH By a Noble and Worthy Inquirer was upon his own Experience sent to be RESOLVED To Answer a Query Why such Departed Souls that are detained in the Middle Regions do often attract and draw their near Relations and Friends to be with them This you must know proceeds from a most intimate Unity that was betwixt them while Living whence not having Center'd their Loves higher than what was Elementary the Deceased may have much power to draw away the Life of such out of the Body Of which kind some Instances have been known Let this therefore be a good Caution to all dear and near Relations to carry up their Love to one another beyond what is but Creaturely But this know that no Departed Spirit can have any force or power over the Living without they be such as are of Low Birth under the Laws and Rudiments of this World and the Constellations of the Starry World But as for them who are got up higher by the supernatural Birth they are out of danger to be reached by any Departed Spirits For such are above their Influence as making GOD their Centre only It hath been shewed to me also that there is a great Congruity betwixt the highest Degrees of Saints departed into the Mount Sion and Jerusalem Principle with such here as have attained to that high Birth which can reach their Principle Now this sort act quite after another kind they do not so much covet to draw them out of the Body as to Influence and bring down their Gifts and Powers into Manifestation in and through those whom they stand in such Love-Unity with These Perfect Spirits in the Separated order do well know and take notice who are most fitly Qualified though in Bodies Elementary for Immersement vvith them and do thereby communicate and disperse the Light of New Revelations into this Lower Princiciple that so the Inhabitants herein may come hereby to Enlightened and Transformed For these Blessed ones above do with much longing wait for their Kingdom to be Opened and spread among Mortals till Immortality shall swallow up all in its own Everlasting Light and Life This I thought meet to superadd to the foregoing Subject as the Opening renewed in me from Wisdom's Centre As now being under a Commission to keep nothing back that may serve for the Information or Satisfaction of Wisdom's Meek and Lowly Children who are restless Inquirers to learn and understand what in this Her Rising Day is to be Proclaimed to the whole Earth FINIS * The Revelation of Revelations p. 39 to 56. The Enochian Walks p. 26. The Laws of Paradise in the Preface p. II 47. a Laws of Parad conclusion Sep. 13. 1695.