substance 10. II. One other is called the filial substance the Sonne the Birth the Word Speech the in-and-out-speaking Substance of the Paternal Substance of the Father the Generator of the Power of the Triune Total Perfect Deity 11. III. One the Third is called the Spiritual Living Substance the Spirit the Life the Exit in and out of the Paternal Filial Substance Power Word or powerfull word of the Triune Total fulnesse of the Father and of the Sonne or in the Father and the Sonne the totall holy Spirit and Eternall Life in Power and Word Father and Sonne of the whole Triune Deity 12. And this most holy Triune Deity Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Holy Spirit are and remain from Eternity in Eternity undividably ONE before in and after the Birth one only GOD and one only LORD over all through all and in all that set their faith and trust in Divine working and dominion therein 13. And this Triune God Power Word and Life Father Sonne and Spirit in Eternal UNITY hath generated to himself the Medium of his most holy Substance from Eternity the Word to his Sonne and Glance of his totall divine fulnesse and begotten him to his most holy Triune Deity 's highest praise and honour 14. And presented it to the most holy Glorious Throne Glance and Expresse Image of his Total holy Divine Triune Fulnesse and invincible confirmation in the Love of the Divine Fulnesse which the Triune highly praised God hath trusted with him and his Paternal Substance in and with the Word and Spirit in Eternal Eternity for a Wife and Mother of his own Triune Substance of his Sonne and Word from Eternity in Eternity in and with himselfe 15. And united to the Eternall Genetrix and betrothed or promised to in and with this most holy Triune Divine Substance to an unity this from Eternity most holy Birth of God CHRIST JESUS The Triune highly praised God is all that himself which to the Total Deity to its highest praise and honour is ascribed and appropriated from Eternity also remaineth peculiarly so in it self to its Eternal stability 16. Viz the Eternal Substantial Eternal stedfast unalterable Love Righteousnesse Wisdome Truth Mercifulnesse Humility Patience Long-suffering Holinesse Purity Innocency and in brief all vertues of the Deity which through the Power Word and Spirit the most holy Triune God from Eternity in Eternity may or can be expressed 17. Yes all whatsoever may be called good and profitable and serviceable in Heaven and Earth and be apprehended with or by the Triune God that is this most holy birth of God self-subsistingly Substantially from Eternity in all Eternity 18. Now Thirdly what this most holy Triune Divine Births acting and working was before the Fall of Man the Holy Scripture witnesseth thereof in many places here and there that through this most holy Triune Birth of God CHRIST JESUS not only all Creatures Heaven and Earth and all that liveth and moveth therein was made and is proceeded But that this most holy Triune Birth of God is also in it self Co-Creatour Generator Bringer forth Worker yes himself in the Creating was the Will and operative substantial self-subsisting Deed yes all in all so that he was not only the Creator Eternal Father and Generator of all Creatures whatsoever they may be called but also of Angels and Men. 19. Now Fourthly what this Holy Eternall Birth and Sonne of God the whole Fullnesse of the Deity came to be after the Fall of Man and is henceforth now and to Eternal Times and remaineth to be unchangeably the Testimony of the Holy Scripture mentioneth in several places very much 20. That this Eternal Divine Triune Birth and Sonne of the Triune Deity to the Comfort of whole Mankinde to the Redemption and Renovation of the same after their horrible Fall losing of all their Glory received and inbreathed from God in his holy breath and renewing regenerating and changing out of the Dead damnable Substance of Sathan into the Holy unfadable immaculate untransitory Inheritance of the Eternall God and most holy Glorious Eternally enduring Life and Substance of Eternal Happinesse or Salvation 21. Not only of fallen Man through the Anger and just Curse of God for Sinnes sake thrown into Eternal Pain and Torment but also of all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures which are set and ordained by the Lord for the service of the Created Man in his Innocency in which respect they also after the Fall of Man for the same Mans sake by the Anger and Curse of God were come and brought into an unstedfast troublesome miserable pittifull state and changeable sorrowful perishable transitory Substance or thing 22. For the Comfort and Salvation of all these and the restoring of the losse of all the Glory and Holinesse this Sonne of God Eternally Born out of God out of meer Grace and Mercy in the Love of the Divine Voyce wherewith this Triune God loved the whole world with all its Generations or births not only hath foretold and promised to Man and the aforesaid heavenly and Earthly Creatures first for a Redeemer through this Triune Deity 23. But also hath livingly substantially operatively and actively in the Regeneration and assuming of the Humane Flesh and Bloud in the Body or womb of the Virgin MARY God and Man in one person visibly palpably and substantially here upon Earth Regenerated and presented 24. As then this Triune highly praised Sonne of God and Man in one holy Visible and palpable Person hath rescued and redeemed not only whole Mankind all truly faithfull Men wholly perfect through this his holy Incarnation or becoming Man innocent suffering and dying Resurrection and Ascention into Heaven from all sinnes and the totall Satanicall Diabolicall and Mortall Substance 25. But also all Called Elected truly Faithfull who from their hearts trust and beleeve in this Redeemer as or according to their Redemption from all sinne unrighteousnesse Death Devill and Hell and the treacherous World the Lust of the Eyes and of the flesh and with their whole Person yes with every true Beleever especially among Men and Women Kind wholly Espoused with himself his totall most Holy Perfect divine substance in the Unity of the Humane Body and Soul 26. Hath united and betrothed himself and bound himself to an unseperable UNION in Eternity in the Love so that this whole truly faithfull Mankind in Generall and every Man and Woman kind in Particular in speciall he himself calleth his own Divine Substance and full or entire Love which before in Vnbeleef was not his of Substance and his Love 27. So that now this Elect truly faithfull holy Church together and also every person in particular in with and through this most holy espousall and uniting with Christ the Triune highly praised God are NOT two severall Persons two Substances and two Loves 28. But through with and in the most holy Union ONE good holy Divine unblameable Eternall stedfast Substance one Divine one Christian one
marryed people might learn to distinguish the holy in the Love from the beastiall and learn in this work to remain Modest Chast and Temperate before God and Man 11. And not as a burning Lustfull Bull to which brutish work this Authour openeth a wide Door while he calleth it totally holy and so at last in his holy giving forth All shame would be extinguished 12. Whereas yet the understanding and also Nature testifieth that an Abomination hangeth to it which is not quite holy before God in respect that also Nature it self together with the Soul is ashamed of it which ought well to be considered and how the poor Soul which appeareth by the Eyes is ashamed before its Bridegroome CHRIST that it now after the Fall must propagate it self after such a Beastiall Manner like other Beasts 13. For this cause I will unfold it that marryed people may learn to know themselves and that this Authour might not make them So totally blind and they live in abomination before God as Beasts without any knowledg thereof unlesse for this I would not particularly oppose him in this Article for holy people should get also holy children which yet miserably often faileth as is apparent to our Eyes 14. We know what Moses saith That God said Let us make Man an Image that is like us He saith not TWO Images but ONE Image that is like us 15. God is according to the Fire and Light but ONE substance viz according to the Fires and Lights Tincture in the Eternall Nature he is also but ONE substance And that he is and is called Father and Sonne yet he is therein also but ONE substance 16. But manifested in TWO Principles viz with the stern Fire-world according to the Fathers Property and according to the Light and Love-world in the Sonnes Property And yet is but ONE only substance undivided but ONE God as Fire and Light is ONE 17. Thus he hath also created his Image Man according to his similitude out of his out-spoken substance out of ALL into ONE substance into one only Image and also inbreathed the Spirit of all the THREE Principles into ONE only Spirit 18. All the Three worlds viz The Eternall dark cold fiery viz the Eternall Nature as also the Eternall Light fiery together with the substance thereof viz the pure Element and therein the Paradise for also the outward Four Elementary and Syderiall world with its substance were in this created Image but One in like or Equall Concord or agreement 19. Man was and is the Inward and outward world the Inward World is the Heaven wherein God dwelleth thus was Man upon Earth in Heaven the Inward and outward was ONE the Inward manifested it self in the outward viz God in the Time the Outward is the Time that was in Man swallowed up in the Eternity but it was manifested in it self not totally for the Dominion but for the wonder of the Dominion of the Divine World 20. The Outward World knew it selfe not in the Time but it wrought in it selfe as an Instrument of the Master The outward Sulphur and Mercury of the Body were manifested in the power of the inward Spirituall Sulphur and Mercury The Tinctures of both were manifested in one another as One the Spirit wrought through the Time and that was a Paradise where neither heat nor cold might be manifested 21. The Life of Both worlds viz the Heavenly Holy in the Pure Element and also the outward in the Four Elements were but One only Life and that was a Similitude according to God viz an Expresse Image 22. For God dwelleth in the Time and the Time is not manifested in him but before him as a similitude it is IN him in the dominion all one The Time is servant and his work it liveth in it self but God is the Life of Time But in comprehensible to Time the Time ruleth not in God but it is in him as an Instrument wherewith he ruleth and maketh or worketh 23. But now understand us concerning the Soul The Soul is not out of the Temporary or Time-Nature the Time-Nature is but its dwelling-house even as an Instrument with which it maketh or worketh It hath in it self the Center to the Fire and Light world and out of the Center it became inbreathed into Adam by the Holy Spirit in the Moving of the Father out of the Three Principles 24. And this is its Fall and Sinne that it hath through its mighty desire manifested the Properties of the Dark World in the Center of the Eternall Nature which was done through Imagination in that it introduced its Lust into the Instrument of Time viz into the Outward world 25. And would try how it relished when the Equality of agreement went forth or away one from another so that Evill and good were Manifested each in it self it lusted to eat of the relish of both and thereby be omniscient and suttle as Lucifer in like manner so perished who lusted after the dark Center in the Fire-birth and awakened that in his desire that so the like concordance or equall agreement in him might be Manifested in an awakening of all Properties whence Lust and falshood or wickednesse existed to him 26. For if the Lifes forms viz the Forms of the Eternall Nature were manifest every One in it self then there is a great Enmity for every one will rule every One hath its own will and if this were not then there would be neither perceptibility nor finding but an Eternall stillnesse 27. But now the Lifes formes should not be manifested in the qualifying or operating each pressing forth but instanding in equall agreement like a Tuned Lute and the Spirit which was brought forth out of this equall agreement by Gods Spirit was also in equall agreement viz the Spirit of the Soule as the Aire out of the Fire that should enter into the Sound of God and strengthen it self in the power of the Light and with that very power strike the Cittron of the Lifes forms 28. But that it did not but it entered into own will and reached after the Center of the Lifes forms and awakened the same it would it SELF be GOD and made it self a dark Devill according to the first impression in the Fiat of its Property out of which in this world are evill poysonous worms and beasts come to be according to the outward Impression and that is the reall Fall of the Devill as also of Adam 29. But that we may render it better intelligible concerning Adam as also concerning his Wise Adam was a totall entire Image of God when God had created him then he was Man and Wife and yet neither of them but a modest Virgin in the Similitude of God 30. He had the Fires Matrix and also the Lights Matrix out of which through the Element water becometh generated through the dying in the Fire He had the Fires and Lights Desire in him viz the Mother of the Love
the Father hath given the power to CHRIST through the JESUS for he to whom a thing is given hath not had it from Eternity nor made it himself but he that hath himself made a thing to him it can not be given 28. Hath CHRIST made all things in himself understand in the CHRIST and out of himself then nothing can be given to him but he hath had it from Eternity and there is no giving 29. But he saith all power was given to him of his Father Now if the power be given of the Father to this Sonne viz to this CHRIST then must a Man think that the power that is given originateth in the Fathers Will. 30. For that which is given was not from eternity like or equall with the Gift in the Giver Indeed the Dear Name JESUS had it from Eternity for he had an Eternall Originall in the Eternall Ever speaking Word 31. He is the Name of the First-Born of the Father from Eternity whose out-going and beginning is from Eternity as the Angel said to Mary which Name in the Word which Created all things and generated all things in Mary in the Humane and Divine Essence and Substance became Flesh both a Heavenly and Humane Flesh which dwelleth both in Heaven and on Earth at once Joh. 3. 32. Which in the holy Trinity was from Eternity the Second Person of the Divine Substance and Eternally generated of his Father also in Eternity also still in CHRIST becometh ever and eternally generated of his Father 33. Not that CHRIST becometh continually generated that is once become generated in Man but the Eternall Word in CHRIST becometh from Eternity in Eternity ever generated from the Father 34. For CHRIST said to Philip Dost thou not beleeve that the Father is in Me and that I am in the Father for the Words which I speak are not Mine but the Fathers that dwelleth in Me. 35. They were not Christs Words but the Fathers viz the Fathers Sound and Eternall Voyce which had manifested it self in the Humanity Therefore said the Humanity the Words are Not Mine but the Fathers Words wherein and wherewith he hath assumed the Humanity 36. The Humanity is Eternally under the Deity in the assumed humanity in THAT the Word became Flesh the Name Christus or CHRIST originateth as a Saviour of the Flesh and of the Soul and not out of the humane fleshly property but out of the Name JESUS in the Word of the Father of all things or Substances 37. Now if I will speak of the Holy Trinity then I say not That the Divine Love is an Exgenerated Substance and a Mother of God or a Woman or Wife of God as this Authour Conceiteth as if the first begotten which he calleth CHRIST were generated out of the Mother of his Voyce and Love 38. The Eternall Word or the first begotten out of the Father from Eternity is it self the generating of the Love for from him and the Father goeth forth the Holy Spirit 39. The Eternall Wisdome is the Out-generated or out-spoken Substance as a Looking-Glasse and Ornament of the Holy Trinity in which the Power Colours and vertues of the Deity become Manifest and in which the Spirit of God hath seen ALL things from Eternity 40. Both according to the Fathers Property in which he calleth himself an Angry Zealous or Jealous God and a Consuming Fire in which Property is generated the Darknesse and source or quality of pain or Torment as also Nature and all Spirits and all whatsoever liveth in the Sulphur and Mercury both according to the Eternall Spirits and according to the Temporary Spirits 41. And then according to his Love and the Property of the Eternall Light according to which Property the Name GOTT God viz the GUTE or Good Originateth from Eternity in which the Name JESUS Originateth from the Eternall Light viz from the Creatour of the Humility or of the well-willing in it self as the Meeknesse of the Light Originateth in the Fire and bringeth along with it another Will of another quality then the Fire according to which God Calleth himself a Mercifull and Good Munificent God 42. Thus the Name JESUS is the first Eternall Originall to Gods Mercifulnesse Therefore saith Saint Paul We were foreseen or Elected in CHRIST JESVS before the Foundation of the World was laid For in the Fathers Anger was the Fall known and in the Name JESUS in his Love was CHRIST as a Redeemer from the Anger known 43. For To God are all his works knowne from Eternity the Good and the Evill The Evill is become known in his Anger the Good in his Love 44. That same Eternall God in Trinity hath Created all things with and through the Eternall Word which is his Mouth and the Sound of his Voyce out of himself out of BOTH Properties out of the Anger as out of the Eternall Nature and then out of the Love as a Healer or Saviour of Nature into Substance 45. Understand God in the Trinity is a Spirit and no Substance But in the Word of his Sound he hath in his Desire introduced it into Substance His desire is the Fiat which originateth in verbo Domini in the Word of the Lord viz an Eternall Desire 46. God in himself is the Eternall Longing Delight of the Liberty free from all things or Substances but with his Desire out of the Longing Delight as out of the Eternall Fires-Property he hath Created all Spirits viz the Angels and Souls of Men In which Fires-Property the Center of the Light in all Angels with the Fire of the Anger stood in Equall Ballance Harmony or Temper 47. For when God once moved himself to the Creation then he moved himself according to ALL whatsoever himself was in all things especially according to the Eternall Wisdome in which the Form of the Creation was seen from Eternity in the Fire and Lights Glance in the Spirit of God according to Love and Anger according to Darknesse and Light 48. The Creation is nothing else but an out-breathing or out-speaking of his Substance Whatsoever GOD is in the Nature of the Fire and then also in the Eternall Liberty of all sources or qualities that hath the Free Longing delight introduced into a Desire and impressed into a Moving Substance 49. The Desire viz the Fiat of all things or Substances Originateth in that the Vnchangeable God viz the Abysse hath once Moved it self in the Eternall Longing Delight where then Time began 50. All Angells and Creatures which are Created to Eternall Life are all of them comprised in the Out-breathing of the Father through the Word in the Desire as in the Moving in the Fiat and in a Model of the Eternall Longing Delight as the Eternall Spirit in the Wisdome hath comprehended it in its wonders become Created into an Image of the Longing Delight and there remained in all things the possibility to Good and Evill according to the whole Divine Property
from the Fire and Light 71. And Man viz the Image of God should not be such a Calfe as not to know and learn to understand his Fathers house nor should he indeed forbid THAT as this Authour doth in his Explanation to whom that God would give a better apprehension is my hearty wish and desire 72. Concerning Mans Originall Moses telleth us God said Let us make Man an Image of us which may rule over all that is upon the Earth c. And saith further God Created man in his Image yes to the Image of God Created he him 73. This now is very rightly spoken but the Explainer is here a Wrester or Perverter and understandeth it not Whereas yet he accounteth he hath spoken out of the voice of the Holy Trinity and giveth forth his matters for totally Divine without blemish but to this time yet he hath not heard the divine voyce nor apprehended it in the Sound but only the voyce of the out-spoken Word in Evill and Good in his own Reason and Self-hood Saint Paul saith Man was foreseen or elected in Christ before the Foundation of the world was laid In this lyeth the Kernell before the times of this world the Modell of Man was known in the Eternall wisdome as an out-breathing of the Word from the Fire and Light as a Form in the Divine wisdom but stood in No Creature or Image but after a Magick-kind as an Image appeareth to One in a Dream which is without Substance 75. Thus is the Appearance in the Universall out-breathed out-spoken-substance in the Spirit of God which hath known all things according to every ones property viz according to the Anger of the Fires property in the Darknesse and in the Light in the Love 76. For the Flash of the Creation out of the Great-Mystery was seen in the wisdom in Evill and Good according to the property of BOTH Desires as an Eternall Contrary 77. The Anger viz the Dark-world hath in its desire seen the Image or similitude of God and so also hath the Love in its free longing delights desire Not that the property of the Love plungeth it self into the Anger and beholdeth it in the Anger but each property IN it selfe 78. Therein hath the Spirit of God which eternally goeth forth out of the Fathers Fire and Light known the Fall in the Anger of God so that when this Image of the Figure of God should become created into a living substance it would be also drawn by the fierce wrath and loose its Glory 79. Here in this Place hath the CHRISTUS or Christ in the Name JESUS as a will to the CHRISTUS set it self towards the Similitude of God and given the Will thereinto out of the JESU into the Created humanity to be a Christus or SAVIOUR 80. And in this Will was created the Similitude of God MAN in the Time viz on the Sixt day of the Creation into an Image out of a Masse or Extract of all the Creation of this worlds Substance as also out of the heavenly worlds substance 81. Out of the out-breathed or out-spoken Substance of the Eternall Word and become formed in verbo Fiat in the word Fiat according to the Similitude of the Eternall Mystery and the Eternall birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity into an Image 82. Into which God the Father through the Word or Divine Sound with his Spirit hath introduced the Spirit of Life out of all the Three Principles viz out of the Fire-Light-and outward-World 83. Viz First The Fire-Spirit of the First Principle out of the Eternity out of the Fathers Property which is the true Soul 84. And Secondly the Lights Source or Quality and Spirit out of the voyce of the Love which is the Noble Image of the Deity each standing in its own Principle and governing its world 85. Thirdly The Spirit-Aire in like manner inbreathed from without into his Nostrills 86. So that Man is a living Spirit of all the Three Principles according to the Similitude of God as God himself is all in all but with the true Deity viz with the Good is known or comprehended by nothing but by his Similitude viz whatsoever is generated out of the GOOD and standeth therein 87. Now understand me aright As God in his Light in the Holy Light world shineth through ALL and tinctureth all and bringeth it from the Fiery Property into the power of the Joyfulnesse and with the same power also presseth through the outward world through all things and giveth all things power and life 88. And yet the Substance IN which God worketh is not called God though it hath a working from the out-breathed Mystery in it self in which the Vegetative or growing Life standeth viz a Sulphury and Mercuriall seething which in the Salt of the power becometh Corporeal viz an own self Fiat or Generating like an Impression according to the Property of the Eternall Spirituall Mystery as a Manifestation or Revelation thereof 89. Thus also was the Similitude of God Man in his innate station and thus from God Created out of the Substance of all Substances into an Image according to the Substance of all Substances and that even in his understand in Mans Image which was known from Eternity in the wisdom viz in the Glimps of the out-breathed shining of the Divine Revelation or Manifestation in that kind and manner as the Spirit of God hath seen all things in his wisdome from Eternity 90. This Image was not a Substance but a will to a Substance which with its root and originall stood in the Name JESU viz in the Humility of God where it introduced it self out of the Fire into the Light viz into the Good 91. And in this Place although it is no place where the Meek Love-Will goeth forth out of the Property of the Fathers Fire into the Light and Joyfulnesse or kingdome of Joy and compriseth and includeth in it self an own self Center of the Will and desire Originateth from Eternity the Name of the SONNE of God viz the first born of the Father from Eternity before all Creatures and here is called the Fathers Heart and Love and out of this Love goeth the Holy Spirit forth from the Father and the Sonne and is the Fathers Love-Flame 92. Understand us thus In that very Will which is out-breathed or out-spoken out of the Holy Name JEHOVA or JESUS out of the Speaking Eternall Word of the Father into the wisdome of God as a Glance of the knowledge or Representation of the Spirit like a Looking-Glasse was man created into an Image out of the heavenly and earthly Elementary Substance out of the out-breathed substance of Eternity and out of the Substance of Time standing one in another as the Eternity standeth in the Time and neither is the other and yet not divided asunder but only as through a Principle 93. The Substance of Eternity is the pure Element in which the vegetative
Woman 116. And by the Fall we are to understand nothing else but that the Earthly property which before stood as it were swallowed up in the Paradise manifested it self in the Souls Desire whence Heat Cold and the poyson Life of all Contrariety and Opposition took or gat the Dominion in the Body and the fair or bright heavenly and Paradisicall Image disappeared 117. For the Soul as a Fire-Life generated out of the Fathers Property went out from the Element of Paradise into the Four Elements and there the Paradisicall Sulphur in the holy Element lost its Life and the Substance disappeared 118. And that was a dying of Paradise the Soul dyed to Gods Light and went into its self-hood into its own propriety It would be a self-Lord to know Good and Evill and Live in both it dyed to God and awakened upon the Earthly World and lived to the Will of the Devill viz to the stern Anger of God in meer Anxiety Lamentation Misery Toyle and necessity as we poor Children of Eve now see and Feel in us 119. But here I am to informe the Reader concerning the perfect Creation of Man and what the errour and insufficient understanding in the Expositour of the Poynts of Conclusion is in this place as was above mentioned 120. I say the same as he saith in this That MAN in his Image viz in Gods Image was Created wholly perfect to Eternall Life in Paradise I say also to the Image of God it is true as to BOTH For in the Eternall Image which was only a shining or Looking-glasse of the Image in the Name and in the Eternall Birth or Geniture of JESUS or JEHOVA was the Image of the Three Principles Created and Created to the Image or Similitude according to the Three Worlds as an Image of Gods Substance of all Substances out of and in ALL things or Substances 121. But as God Ruleth over and in All and no THING is God for in his Gloriousnesse he is as a Nothing and yet is the Life in all so should this Image stand in the Resigned Life of God as an Instrument of God in which the Spirit of God doth what HE will 122. He Created him not a Lord but a Servant a Lute or Instrument of Musick I cannot say that Man was Created out of the Divine Voyce and out of the Center of the Heart of God as this Author very wrongfully puts himself into the Holy Trinity 123. No No an Instrument is not the Master the Master cannot make an Instrument wholly like himself God cannot make another God wholly like himself Out of his Eternall Mystery indeed he can make to himself an Image according to his Likenesse for a Sport of Joy as a Master of Musick doth an Instrument which yet maketh such a Melody as the Master will but such another Master as himself is he maketh not but only of or out of himself 124. Therefore seeing God is a Spirit and no Substance also not Nature therefore Man is not God but his Life is sounded forth out of Gods Life yet understand out of the THREE Principles 125. Not that the Life is God himself else if it should fall and become a Devill as Lucifer did then had God become a Devill 126. The humane Life is the out-spoken Word in which the speaking Word inhabiteth either in Evill or Good as the Out-spoken Word draweth a Property out of Gods Harmony or Concord into it self As a people are such a God they have also in them and yet it is but the ONE only but he manifesteth himself in ALL and every Life according to the Lifes Desire in good or evill 127. First Therefore the strife or Controversie between me and that Authour is this That he casts or Confounds all one in another and giveth forth no right or Direct Understanding and sets himself so finely as a Creature in the holy Trinity in the first Born or begotten before all Creatures Therefore he concludeth the Creation in the CHRIST But he erreth he should conclude it in JESU or JEHOVAH in the Eternall Word of the Father as Saint John doth in the First Chapter 128. He should make for me no Woman of the Genetrix of God wherein Christ is borne or generated from Eternity but he should say out of or according to the Scripture that the Father generateth the Word and that the Word is the Voyce of God and the Second Person in the Deity and that the Holy Spirit goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne 129. It is not Supposition or an Opinion that will doe it and to set himself up therein as a Fair Bride which yet sticketh full of Sinnes and evill affections but to humble ones self before God and be submissive to him and not say Here is the Lord viz the Voyce of the holy Trinity out of Gods Heart sounding No that we will not grant to this Authour He should continue in the Harmony and hear what kind of Note the Lord in the Tang of the Harmony bringeth forth in the Creature as the Lord Soundeth 130. And though it had been at the Best that likely the glimps of the Holy Spirit had permitted it self in his Harmony of his Tone to be heard yet he should say Lord I am an unprofitable Servant Thou dost what thou wilt 131. Not say I will and shall speak to you out of Gods Heart out of the Voyce of the Holy Trinity that hath no Angel or Prophet done but they have all of them only said that the LORD had laid his Word in them to make known to them the Word of the Lord For the Prophet saith only Thus saith the LORD he accounteth himself only an Instrument to whom is commanded what he shall speak 132. He saith not I am the Woman the Bride of the Voyce of God I will speak in and out of Gods Heart My Sound is Gods Voyce but he beareth Gods Sound in his own humane Voyce and the Spirit of God soundeth only in the humane Voyce when and how he will which Man should not assume to himself as his proper own but stand before him in fear and trembling and lend his humane Voyce for an Instrument Not say I have aforehand apprehended what the Spirit of God will speak unlesse he have an expresse Command by word of Mouth 133. The Name JESUS which in the Humanity is also become CHRIST that standeth within in the Holy Trinity It standeth in its own Principle in the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity and not in the Power or Authority of the Creature 134. Yet Christ saith If I Witnesse concerning my Self my Witnesse is nothing but it is my Father in me that witnesseth concerning me that I am come forth from God I am proceeded forth from God and come into the World again I leave the World and goe to the Father 135. He saith not I that is in my humane self-hood am the Voyce of God I speak
the Letter and doth but talk Historically and hath not yet attained the Spirit of Christ to the Revelation or Manifestation thereof 56. As his reproaches and disgracefull writings many whereof he hath sent abroad sufficiently prove that no true Love-Spirit is generated in him and that it is not Christ inwardly and outwardly but Adoms Pride and State together with a conceit or supposition which perswadeth IT selfe that it is Christ and seduceth the innocent Hearts 57. Therefore I would have the Reader Christianly warned and in Love not to account himself Holy Perfect and immortall for though likely it is so that the Prodigal lost Son cometh to the Father and that his Father receiveth him again with Joy and putteth on him a new Garment and putteth the Seal-Ring in Christs Death on to the hand of his Soul 58. Yet is the Garment only put on to the Virgin that it should as a Noble Ministresse or Maid of Honour to its Bridegroom the Soul draw the Soul thereinto that it may give its Love thereinto and continually break the head of the old Serpent viz the Evill Will 59. For the Womans Seed should break the Serpents head that is the Noble Virgin in Christs Life and power awaken and rise again be New born to Life that should change the Souls viz the Fire-Spirits Evill Will with its Love and turn the Anger of the Fire and Poyson into a Love hunger and with-stand or oppose the hunger desire of the Flesh in false or evill Lust Till the Flesh falleth away or deceaseth 60. And then the Mystery of the Flesh viz the Sulphur Mercurius and Sal falleth into the Eternall Mystery out of which it was created in the Beginning viz into the Word Fiat the Four Elements dye and consume and the Quintessentia or Fifth Essence passeth into the Mystery of God into the Fiat to the Holy Resurrection of the Flesh according to the tenure of our Christian-Faith which is true 61. So that then the whole Image shall again be in one and as at the beginning as God created it to his Image and no otherwise neither more nor lesse Gods purpose must stand he created Man to be in the PARADISE into which he shall go again and eternally remain therein 62. But the Wicked whom the Anger devoureth they are Eternally bereaved of their Noble Virgin-like Image which dyed in Adam and get instead thereof on to the Soul an Image of the fierce wrathfull dark worlds Substance according to their here temporall hunger which they had in their malicious wicked pleasure and voluptuousnesse 63. As also Lucifer hath lost his fair bright Angels Image and now appeareth in the Figure or Shape of an abominable Worm and Beast for he hath given himselfe up into the Center he can figure or shape to himself an Image HOW he will 64. For he thirsted after that also that he might be a self Lord of his own and Maker of his form or shape Adam also did almost aim at that but in the outward Principle the might or power is NOT though the Serpent perswaded Eve that she should be wise and know all things but it came not to passe The Third Text. Now followeth the Text. Esaiah 54. 5. He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband the Lord of Hosts is his Name and thy Redeemer the Holy One in Israel who is called the God of All the World Hereupon followeth the Explainers Exposition to the Sender of these Texts 1. THis Text you mention therefore that you may receive the explanation thereof how it is and what kind of thing is the union of Christ the Man or Husband and highly praised Triune God whose Name is called the LORD of Hosts and the Redeemer of the Wife or Woman and the Holy One in Israel who is called the God of all the world and also what kind of thing is his Wife or Woman and united whole humane Person of all the Called Elected truly faithfull Christians both of Masculine and Feminine Sex 2. Thereupon with Christ the Triune highly praised God and Eternall Endlesse unchangeable most holy Wisdome and Truth this is sent you in writing for a visible or evident manifestation or Revelation and palpable confirmation to the truly faithfull desirous hearts with Christ the Triune highly praised God to be perfectly united and to remain in all Eternity inseparably united to the highest praise of the Triune highly praised God this is in and with Christ for a holy consideration here set down and pourtrayed before your Eyes 3. And First as to what belongs and concerns the Man or Husband CHRIST the Triune highly praised LORD of Hosts and Redeemer of all Mankind but especially of the Faithfull and the Holy Ones in Israel that is of all the truly Faithfull even their Lord and the God of all the World And therein to speak of I. First His Birth and Originall II. Secondly His Substance what he is according to his first Birth before all Creatures III. Thirdly What the Action and operation of his first Birth was yet before the Fall of Man IV. Fourthly What he became after the Fall of Man and IS henceforth now and to Eternal Times and remaineth so unchangeably 4. Hereupon now followeth this holy Divine or Deicall instruction First As concerning the Holy Birth original and out-going from Eternity in Eternity of this holy Man or Husband he is from Eternity generated or Born out of the Triune Eternal highest Good the Eternall God and Father through this Triune highest Eternall Good the Triune highly praised God himself with through and out of his most holy self-subsisting substance 5. And begotten to the most holy expresse Image Glance and shining most holy Substantial Glory of the Totall Divine fullnesse of the Totally most holy Triune Divine Substance before all Created and uncreated things 6. Secondly As concerning this holy Mans or Husbands substance what he is according to his first Birth before all Creatures it shall be signified and mentioned that according to the information to the first Question he is totally like the Triune Generator and Father of the whole Triune perfect substance out of which he hath Generated from Eternity this his Tri-une Sonne of his whole perfect Substance and remaineth in with and through the same in Eternall unseparable Triunity wholly perfect 7. Chiefly and Principally as to what the most holy and most Glorious in the most holy Triune totall Divine in Eternity inseparable fullnesse of the Deity is and remaineth from Eternity in Eternity therein unchangeably and unaltered to the highest praise and Eternall honour thereof 8. There is and shall be from Eternity in Eternity Three found to be therein whence also the whole Divine fullness is called a Triune Divine Substance yes the Totall holy Triune GOD himself 9. I. One of them is called the Paternall Substance the Father the Generator the Power of the Triune Totally perfect Divine or Deicall
in the united substance he united his coming substance with the Humane substance understand with the heavenly humane substance 29. For when God Created his Image Adam wherein he dwell and manifest or reveale himselfe then could his holiness be manifested in NO other substance THEN in the Heavenly holy in the pure Element and Paradise 30. This he received againe in Marys Seede into his holy living substance and in that substance was Christ in the Faith of Mary become conceived by the Holy spirit for the Faith which demerseth it selfe into Gods will that demerseth also the seede in the Covenant into the holy Living substance 31. Here againe was the living holy conjunction with or betweene the Substance of Mary and of God and in this united substance Sprouted the Rod of Aaron forth that was the deepest Love of God in the Center of the Holy Trinity whose Name is called JESUS 32. Now observe further in this Seed of Mary which disappeared in it selfe and was not manifested to the Soul lay in in the soulish property but according to the feminine property in Venus'es Matrix according to the first Principle according to the Fathers property Manifested viz a living Essence in the seede of Mary 33. Which Essence otherwise in the Masculine Conjunction with the Springing up of the life in the Exit of the Fourth Month affordeth a living Creaturely Soul This soulish seede hath also received to its selfe the Divine Word but in its owne in the soulish seedes Principle 34. For the soulish seede hath alwayes the First Principle according to the Fathers property according to the Fire-world and the Second Principle hath the Sonnes property according to the Light-world 35. Yet now the Father is another Person then the Sonne And so it is here also to be known or acknowledged the soulish property hath its originall from Adam out of the Eternall Nature out of the First Principle it hath the Center to the inward and outward Nature and it is it selfe that in it selfe in its lifes Formes for a Fire and Light 36. This soulish property hath the Name JESUS receiv'd to it selfe after a Creaturely kinde and manner as an Eternall Espousall but NOT so to understand that the holy power JESU and the soules Naturall substance and ONE in the Essence 37. As little as fire and light are one though indeed they stand in One Birth yet they have a twofold source or quality Thus truly in JESU the source or quality is totally Holy and God himselfe but in the soules property lay the Worme of the Kindled Anger of God which God with this his holy Love out of JESU would quench and put to death 38. And in this soulish property was the Abomination existed whereinto the Devills Imagination had woven it selfe This soulish property was tempted in the wilderness to try whether it would totally give it selfe up into JESUS viz. into Gods love and eate of Gods Holiness 39. And in this Abomination of the soule in which the lifes forms were Elevated and gone forth out of the equall agreement every Forme into its proper owne out of which the Enmity and opposite will existed hath CHRIST shed his holy Blood of the Image of the holy heavenly substantiality and introduced it thereinto with the sweete love JESUS whence the fierce wrath in 〈◊〉 lifes Formes of the soule in the Angry Fathers property became drowned 40. For when the altogether sweete Love in the Holy Blood gave it self up into the fierce wrathfull anger of the soule then the fierce wrath trembled or shook before this great Holiness Sweetness and Love so that its owne right brake in the Trembling Crack to peeces and became transmuted into the Kingdome of Joy 41. So that the Anger became transmuted into another Will and all properties of the self-hood of the Eternall Nature in the self-hood became all ONE in this sweete Love for the Love fulfilled or satisfied them all 42. And then the abomination and the Enmity against Gods holiness Ceased for the abomination had dyed in the Crack or terror of Death which rose up into the Joyfulness and now the soules Will was called LORD GOD Thee will we praise 43. Now understand us Further With the receiving of the soulish property JESUS also hath received or assumed the outward humane Fleshly substance in the seede of Mary viz. the outward Humanity the Third Principle 44. But not into the Image or into the seede of the holiness in JESU but after the Manner as God is in the World and yet the World is not God but they hang in ONE substance one to another and yet they sever themselves in themselves in TWO Principles 45. The soule hangeth to the outward World to the Flesh the neerest for the Soule hath 〈◊〉 THREE Principles if it be Holy if not then it hath only â—WO manifest to it and the Holy is hidden to it 46. And in the outward fleshly seede lay the Death and the abomination before Gods holiness THAT became as a Curse banged to the Crosse and the death of Sinne in this abomination became drowned with the holy Blood and the Outward Mystery of the outward Body and Life Redeemed from the abomination and Curse and totally Sanctified and changed into Gods unblemished Image 47. In this outward Flesh lay the Evill childe which Adam generated when he dyed as to God here the evill childe became taken in againe into Gods Love for Isaiah sayth Hee tooke ALL Our sinnes UPON himselfe not into himselfe not into the JESUS or CHRIST whâ— was manifested in the holy Image but UPON himself in the perished or corrupt Adam 48. The accursed Adam HUNG to the Crosse as a Curse and THAT Jesus Christ REDEEMED with his Innocent suffering and with the shedding of his Blood Adams Body dyed on the Crosse and CHRIST borne out of IESU in the Womans sanctified seede Tinctured it and sprinkled it with his precious Love bloud 49. At which the Curse in the EARTH trembled or quaked because this Judgement came upon it And the SUN did hide or withdraw its shining at or for this Judgement of this Holiness at or before this NEW shining Sun From the Sixt Houre to the Ninth which is and signifieth Adams sleepe when he slept in the Sixt Houre and in the Ninth Houre that is on the THIRD Day of the outward World awakened or arose with his now prepared WIFE or woman 50. Now in the Ninth Houre the outward SUN with its shining Sprung forth or arose againe and in the Death of Christ the Paradisicall SUN arose or sprung forth which Adam in Christs Resurrection discovered or beheld againe 51. Now observe us Further concerning Marys BLESSING For the Angell sayd to her Thou blessed among all Women the LORD is with thee 52. In this Mary stood the highly blessed limit of the Covenant of God through which all the Holy Patriarchs and Prophets have spoken viz. through Gods voyce which causeth
in Christs death and put on HIS Resurrection out of the GRAVE That the Man which dyeth according to Flesh in the Limit which God hath set or appointed viz at the Last DAY should ARISE out of Christs Death 79. He hath given us his Death and Buriall for a REST where the OUTWARD Body resteth from the working of vanity as in a meek soft Sleep 80. But what this Authour sets down concerning the opposition of the totall fleshly Man that the Earthly Man which he calleth the Serpents Seed despiseth contemneth derideth and persecuteth Christ in his Members and continually crucifieth and putteth them to death together with Christ that is so and cannot otherwise be 81. For when Christ is become born then the Man of Sinne in his self-hood MUST dye the Faithfull Man becometh himself an Enemy of his own Sinnes in the Flesh the Faithfull Man according to the Heavenly Substance is indeed yea undeniably the Bride of CHRIST in whom Christ dwelleth that I contradict not 82. But that this Authour sets it down that Christ was born a poor despised Infant in the highest Lowlinesse out of MARY and yet was equall in the Height of the Triune God and LORD there he should better explain it and shew wherein he is the Triune God and LORD 83. Not according to the Creature viz according to our Flesh and Soul which is Eternally under or beneath God but according to his Divine and according to the Heavenly Substantiality and Corporeity wherewith he came from Heaven and took our Substance upon him 84. The divine Substance is unmeasurable BOTH according to Spirit and Corporeall Substance but our humane Substance is measurable to our humane Substance the Power or Authority is given but to the divine nothing CAN be given 85. God will judge the humanity through the voyce of the humanity of Christ so that the humanity of Christ according to our humanity is the Instrument to do it with Not that our humanity in Christs Person and Creature hath the power or authority out of it self 86. It is a given power or authority from the Father As Christ himselfe saith ALL Power or Authority in Heaven and upon Earth is given me of my Father Matth 28. Not to the self-hood of the Creature that the Creature is as Omnipotent and self powerfull as GOD but that the CREATURE is the Instrument whereby the Spirit of God will Judge and separate ALL things 87. The Spirit of the Holy Trinity IN the Creature is the will and the Creature is the Instrument of performance as through a cleer visible open Image and Substance seeing God hath manifested himself through the Creature therefore through the Creature also he produceth a Manifested or revealed authority or power and Dominion 18. As an Artist fitteth an Instrument of Musick and himself strikes or playes upon it that it may sound and give melody to him SUCH as he would sain HEAR Thus also in like manner the Creature is Gods Instrument upon which God striketh or playeth and hath introduced his own sound out of the divine voyce into this Creaturely Lute which soundeth and Melodizeth to him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 will 89. This Lute doth not play upon it self for CHRIST saith also All whatsoever the Sonne seeth the Father do that the Sonne doth also And the word which I speak to you is not mine but the Fathers who dwelleth in me Also I and the Father are One but the Father is greater than I. 90. The Father is the Eternall Beginning and the Sonne is the Eternall Begun viz the Manifestation of that Spirit which is called Father and the Holy Spirit is that which the Father through the Sonne Manifesteth with the Eternall outspoken wisdome out of the sound which the Father with the Sonne Generateth 91. The Sonne is the Fathers sound or word and the Creature is the cleer or Loud manifested word through which the Father in the Eternall Generating of his holy word soundeth or speaketh 〈◊〉 hear the Creature viz the voyce of the Person CHRIST then I hear what the Father in his holy sound in the exit of his Holy Spirit manifesteth and expresseth in and with the Creature 92. Here it is not called beloved Woman or Wife with or as to the Creature but Gods Image Gods Manifestation Gods manifest Dominion Gods own Doing or self-acting viz the invisible and incomprehensible acting through a visible comprehensible image and Substance of his own propriety 93. For without God there is Nothing HE alone is ALL but all whatsoever is perceptible or comprehensible that is only an Image of the Invisible Divine Substance wherewith the Invisible hath Manifested or revealed it self 94. Therefore the Creature should NOT say of it self that it self is any thing but introduce its ability into THAT out of which it is originated that it may be the Omniscient Gods work and play or Melody in his Love that it may do what he will and SO God be ALL in ALL. 95. And if God will do any thing through his Creature and manifest his will then speaketh not the Creature from or of it self but saith Thus saith the LORD thus hath the Lord spoken this is the Command of the Lord and not esteem it self at all to be the speaking Word or divine Sound also not say with this outward Body that the outward Body is espoused with Gods Holinesse as this Authour sets it down 96. The inward Man is indeed together with or in Gods Harmony through which God soundeth and Singeth and is a Wedding-Place or City of God but all whatsoever is Creaturely is tinder or beneath that which hath made the Creature The Creature is Gods Artifice or workmanship which he hath made through his wisdome for it is the Nature it standeth in the Principle viz in a Beginning but God standeth in NONE God is without all Beginning his desire maketh Beginning 97. But what this Authour saith concerning the woman of Faithfull Flesh and Bloud is not spoken plain enough to be understood For Flesh and Bloud beleeveth not but the Spirit Flesh and Bloud is a House of the Spirit 98. And what he also setteth down concerning the Man CHRIST who is in the Marriage with the Woman cannot at all be spoken of the outward Flesh and Bloud of this Life time for Christ is himself the Woman and the Man God and Man 99. Of the Inward Man it may WELL be spoken that is in the Marriage with Christ but the Outward is in the Marriage with the Outward World and with the vanity and Sinne as also with Death and Corruptibility weaknesse sicknesse and Misery THAT is called Eve and not the Marriage City of God in Gods holinesse as this Authour saith it is 100. But a waste Tabernacle wherein the Spirit is perished understand the Outward Spirit which dwelleth in Flesh and Bloud not that we would or should DESPISE the Spirit viz the Soul of the Great
passe from me and he prayed to God so that he sweat a bloudy sweat 4. Also when he would do Wonders or Miracles and Signes then he prayed his Father to hear him as may be seen by his raising Lazarus from Death Moreover it is written also that God will give his honour to no other Also I only am the LORD and GOD Also God is one only God and none Else 5. Therefore his Title and Introduction to the Person for whom he sets forth the Explanation is instantly very Erroneous and he will answer in the Perfect power of the Omniscience in and out of the Holy Trinity and esteemeth himself like God in every thing or substance and sets himself up as if he were God himself 6. He will in Christ with his totall humane substance outwardly and inwardly in all Saints be and know that which no Creature can know or do or be but the Spirit of God only which IN Every Man bloweth up the knowledge and imparteth to every one his own measure according to his gifts as be will not as the Creature willeth 7. But this man saith He will answer out of Christ out of his Eternall Wisdome out of the Heart and Mouth of God out of the holy Trinity 8. And though he had a divine command for it which a Man may very well doubt of and come to us in an Angelical Embassie yet he could NOT speak to us out of the Manifested or revealed sound or voyce of the Holy Trinity out of Christs self-subsisting Person but out of his Creature in divine Power through the Creaturely and humane Property in that kind as all men from the beginning of the world to this time have spoken 9. And though Men may with truth say that Gods Spirit speaketh through the Humane sound yet men should give the honour to God and not ascribe it to himself For it is written God will not give his honour to another he hath given it to his Son JESUS CHRIST to whom alone he hath given the holy Spirit in the Eternall Word without Measure and to no other 10. Whence Christ saith Matth 28. All power in Heaven and on Earth is given to me of my Father which no other Man while he liveth in this world dare say concerning his creaturely Humanity that he hath all power in Heaven and on Earth but only this JESUS whose out-going hath proceeded from Eternity 11. Also this JESUS CHRIST said when he would depart from us If any shall come and say he is Christ that we should not beleeve it and prophesied to us that Many false Christs and Prophets would arise after him of whom we should beware 12. Therefore it is very suspicious to us that this man will of himself speak out of the Heart and Mouth of the Holy Trinity for the Creature should humble himself before God and by no means say that he is God himself but a created work and Image of his Likenesse with whom God may do what he will 13. Further He speaketh of the Originall and Creation of Man so wonderfully that he cannot shew it in the Holy Scripture nor in the Light of Nature and there belongeth clean another Explanation to it 14. Yes he speaketh also of Christ so strangly that in briefe it appeareth to be no sufficient intelligible Explanation he saith CHRIST is from Eternity the expresse Image of God in the Divine Mother of his Love generated or born out of the voyce of the holy Trinity and so maketh a difference between the first born before all Creatures and the Holy Trinity and yet will have him also dwelling in the Holy Trinity 15. So he makes very wonderfully FOUR Persons as it should seem in the Deity as if the holy Trinity had from Eternity generated in it self some other Similitude and Image in which birth or geniture he also will have the Humane Originall from Eternity and so wonderfully blendeth one thing with another that a Man can not understand what God is and what Creature is 16. He saith God hath Created all Heavenly and Earthly Creatures in that first begotten or born Sonne of God and begotten the Sonne out of the Greatest Substance even to the least from Eternity out of God he understandeth thereby out of the Holy Trinity 17. And maketh all things one in another as a whirling Wheele so that a Man cannot understand out of what the Creaturely Originall is seeing he concludeth all without distinction in Christ and so setteth the Name of CHRIST as proceeding from Eternity 18. And saith that God hath brought forth all things in Christ and then he must also have brought forth all Evill venomous poysonous Worms and Beasts in Christ as also Darknesse and the hellish quality source or Torment and all whatsoever liveth in such a property 19. John saith in the first Chapter At the Beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and God was the Word the same was in the beginning with God through that he hath made all things that were made and without it was nothing made that was made John saith God was the Word and in him was the Life of Men. 20. He saith NOT At the Beginning was CHRIST but the Word that very Word became Man in the Virgin Mary that was Christ which quenched the Anger of his Eternall Father in the humane property through the Christ and the Crusher or bruiser of the Serpent and destroyed the Devills Den of Robbery in the humane property 21. When the Angel Gabriel came to Mary and brought her the Message That she should be impregnate and bear a Sonne whose Name she should call JESVS whose out-going is from Eternity to whom God the Father will give the Throne of his Father David 22. He saith NOT there whose Name you shall call JESUS CHRIST but only JESUS whose beginning and Exit is from Eternity but the Name CHRIST existed in the JESUS when he possessed the Throne of his Father David and brake the Head of the Serpent and shed his Heavenly Bloud into the Fathers Anger and quenched the same in the humane property with divine Love 23. There he obtained the Name CHRIST as a Healer of the Soar or the Anoynted of God a breaker through Death a victorious Prince over Hell Death and the Devill 24. No Creature is Created or made in the CHRIST but he in the Regeneratour of the humane property he bringeth the humane Life out of Death and generateth that in CHRIST through the Name JESUS in the divine Power anew and to be the Child of God 25. For CHRIST is the Mother of the Regeneration and not the Creatour of All things in which all things lye inclosed 26. The CHRIST is become Man but the JESUS in the CHRIST is the Creatour of all things 27. The CHRIST saith To ME is given all power both in Heaven and on Earth he saith not from Eternity God
or growing Life is a Paradise and the substance of Time are the four Elements in which the Constellations make a seething and Life viz an Earthly Mortall Paradise 94. For the earthly seething hath its Originall in the Mystery where the Fires and Lights Property divideth it self into two Principles each in it self and therefore it is Evill and Good out breathed out of Gods Love and Anger 95. And that out-breathed Property God moved in the beginning of Time and introduced it into a Desire which hath thus generated Earth and Stones in the Desire of the Impression according to the property of the Dark Fire and Light World and Sulphur Mercury and Sal were the properties of that desire and in that regard those very Properties are the Life of all Elementary Substances or Things 96. And understand us aright In these Properties we have the Oyle in all Things that is the Similitude of the heavenly Lights Property from the Good Out of this Substance hath the Outward Body out of the Third Principle been comprehended in the word Fiat and in the Second Principle in the Angelicall World hath the Pure Element been comprehended in the Paradisicall Sulphur Mercury and Sal of the Power 97. That was now the Body which God Created in his Image and Likenesse understand in the Humane Image which God hath seene from Eternity in his out-breathed Glimps of the Wisdome in the Looking-Glasse 98. In which Looking-Glasse he impressed the Substance out of the two Principles in the word Fiat and Created it into an Image and introduced or in-breathed the out-breathed Sound or Voyce of his Word out of all the Three Principles to be a Soul and Spirit to be a Life understanding and Regiment or Dominion out of the Sound of his Mouth viz a Fire Light and Aire Spirit both out of the Eternity and Time that was the Image of God Of his Regiment or Dominion 99. AS the Light is the Regiment or Dominion in all or every Life and that very Light of Life burneth and shineth out of the Oyle of the Sulphur Mercury and Sal of the power as no understanding Person can deny so in the Inward Man which was Created out of the Second Principle viz out of the pure Element burned the pure Paradisicall Sulphur and Mercury and in that pure Fire-burning or Life totally without blemish shone Gods true Light 100. For the Name JESUS had incorporated it self together in the Image of the Eternity as a future CHRIST which would become a Saviour to Man and out of the dying of the Anger generate him anew againe in the pure Sulphur of the divine and Paradisicall Power 101. Understand this aright The pure Element in the Holy Sulphur pressed through and through the Outward Man and took the Four Elements into its power Heat and Cold were in the Flesh not manifest they were indeed in the Sulphur Mercury and Sal of the Body But while Gods Light shone therein they were in equall accord so that neither of them might be manifested above the other 102. For All the desires in the Mercury viz in the Cold and Hot Fire-wheel stood in the Light and were wholly enlightened through and through and their desire was a Paradise of Joyfulnesse or the Kingdome of Joy No enmity of Nature was manifest in them 103. Just as God the Father is called a fierce wrathfull zealous or Jealous God and a Consuming Fire and indeed he is so in these properties But in his Light in the Love-desire viz in his first begotten from Eternity which is his Beloved Heart none of them doe become manifested or revealed 104. According to this Heart he calleth himself GOD for he is in this the GOOD and according to the Fire he calleth himself Anger and according to the Desire to the Fire-Life as to the Revelation or Manifestation of the Generating where the free Longing delight introduceth it self out of the Nothing into Somthing viz into an Impression of the Desire he maketh the Nature and the dark World out of which Properties Sulphur Mercury and Sal exist 105. As in our Book of the Signature of things concerning the Originall and Marking of the signification of all things or Substances is expressed largely highly and intelligibly To which for the Readers better understanding he is referred and here I will let it passe in brief Concerning the Fall of Man 106. THe Will-spirit of the Soul out of the Fires Property hath listed up it self into the Earthly desire where Evill and Good were in the Center of the hiddennesse under the Paradisicall source or quality one among another but in equall accord and introduced it self into a desire of Evill and Good to manifest the same in it self 107. Moreover the Devill gave it cause to doe so who introduced his desire or Imagination into the evill part viz into the fierce wrathfull fiery Mercury in its property wherein the Poyson and Anger-Life standeth whence the poyson-Life began to hunger after the Similitude of its property 108. Then came the Commandement of God and said to the Soul eat not of the Tree of Vegetation of the knowledge of Good and Evill else thou dyest to the holy divine Life in the pure Sulphur and Element of the Substance and the day that thou wilt eate thereof thou wilt dye the Death 109. For in the poysonous Mercury according to the property of the Fathers Anger was the dying Life which before was not manifested or revealed but through the Devills Imagination became stirred and introduced into the Desire of the Similitude 110. Thus know that we have truly and highly apprehended that the Tree of Temptation is grown up through this power of the hunger after the apprehension of Evill and Good to know it but yet a man can NOT say that it was ANOTHER Tree or Vegetable then the rest only the Earthly Source or quality in Evill and Good was manifested or revealed in it 111. In the other Trees and Vegetables the holy paradisicall Mercury pressed through all and the Properties were in equall accord and the evill of Heat and Cold was not manifested but in this Tree the properties of Heate and Cold in the poysonous earthly Mercury were manifested 112. Which the hunger of the Soul caused For the Soul was a Sparkle out of the great Omnipotency of God whence Christ said to us If it would be born or generated of God again in the Faith then it might say to the Mountaine lift thy self up and cast thy self into the Sea and it would be done 113. How then would it not when it stood in the strong Might of God be able to bring forth the Properties in the Tree 114. To which the Devill in the Serpents Property laid it self and perswaded Eve that she should be Wish if she did eat of Evill and Good 115. Which hereafter shall be explained in the Question how The Woman cometh from the Man and the Man from the
entered into Spirit and Substance and here is God rightly understood in TRINITY 38. Viz The Father in the First Originall from Eternity in the Fiery and dark Substance and yet is no Substance but spirit out of which Substance the Impression of Nature viz an inward eternall Spirituall Sulphur Mercurius and Sal of all Power originateth also the originall of all Creaturely Life which is generated out of the Eternity viz Angells and Souls and the Spirits of the Third Principle in the out-birth of the Inward viz all earthly Creatures 39. And in the Second Principle wherein the Light Power and understanding with the Love-Will becometh generated out of the Eternall Father HE is rightly called God For the Father is in the Light viz in the Sonne in his Eternall first Birth or Geniture Manifested in the Love 40. And here he is called Mercifull and in that the Free Will of the Anger entereth through the Transmutation of the Pain into Love and Joy he is called JEHOVAH and with that Longing Delight of the Relish or tast of the penetrating through he is called JESUS as the Spirit in the Language of Nature giveth us sufficiently to know and the Tincture of the Fire and Lights Glance giveth in the Properties the Colour viz a Manifesteresse of the Power 41. Thirdly the Exit of the Power viz the true Life viz the Eye of God in the Father of the Fire and in the Father of the Light in the First Born is the out-going Sound viz a Flame of the fiery Love-desire a Formour of the Eternall Will a Blower up of the Fire and constant kindler of the Light of the Love viz of its own Substance out-going from the Father of the Fire and Light as a Constant Exhalation or out-breathing wherein the Father generateth forth the Sonne out of himself Thus the Spirit viz the POWER of the Sound or Word in the out-breathing goeth forth and that is now the God JEHOVA in the Trinity 42. Fourthly That which is out-breathed which the Father in the Sonne through the Sound of the Word or Voyce breatheth forth out of the Spirit is the Eternall Wisdome and Omnisciency for therein becometh Manifest whatsoever God is in his Deep 43. The Wisdome is Gods Manifestation and the Holy Spirits Corporeity the Body of the Holy Trinity and this whole Name in one Eternall Substance manifesteth it self through the Wisdome and is called the LORD of Hoasts or Lord ZEBAOTH 44. We have no other Language to Expresse this with only the Spirit of God in Man in its own Principle which searcheth the depths of the Deity that understandeth it in it self but we stammer childishly thereof so far as the outward Tongue or Language is able to lift up it self and commit this here to every Soul in its Apprehension for here is no Beginning nor End neither place nor Limit but the Manifestation of the Abysse in a Bysse or Ground 45. But as concerning the words or that clause of the verse which the Prophet annexes And thy Redeemer the Holy one in Israell who is called the God of all the would 46. With these words the Prophet looketh distinctly forward upon CHRIST and divideth these words from the First saying and thy Redeemer and therewith looked upon the humane Misery viz. upon the Second MAN who should new regenerate us in himself and Redeem us from the Anger of God 1 John 5 That the same should then be called the God of all the World 47. The Prophet sets it down first He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband and afterward he sets it down thus and thy Redeemer the holy One in Israel 48. The First Man viz the Creator he calleth Lord of Hoasts or Zeboath and the Second he calleth the Redeemer and holy One in Israel who is called the God of all the World Understand out of the Zebaoth cometh the Name to the Redeemer THAT he is called the God of all the World and this Name ariseth in the JESU with the Moving of JEHOVA 49. Viz CHRIST became manifested out of JESU in the Limit of the Covenant as a God and Judge of all the World To whom the Father hath given the Judgment of the World 50. Therefore the Expositour shall not perswade me to set the Second Man viz the Redeemer in Israel in the Creation For the Prophet saith He who hath made thee is thy Man or Husband the Lord of Hoasts or Zebaoth is his Name and thy Redeemer and the holy One in Israel whom the Lord of Hoasts or Zebaoth manifested to Man for Redemption and gave to him for Regeneration he is called the God of all the World 51. For therefore hath God manifested him that he should seperate the Evill and the Good as a GOD of all things or Substances of this World for all Prophets have prophesied concerning THIS God CHRIST that he should be manifested and generated in the Flesh out of the Eternall Originall of the Word of the Divine holy Voyce 52. And therefore this Author shall not perswade me to set him as Creatour of all things or Substances For when the World was created then was he hidden in the Word of the Divine Power the World is become created through the Word out of which Christ is generated or Born Joh. 3. 53. For John saith in the Beginning was the WORD he doth not say CHRIST but all things were made by it and without it was nothing made that was made and though indeed all which is spoken of the Word may also be spoken of Christ yet men should distinguish that men might know what God and the person of Christ are and the Office of each of them 54. This Author Cooketh or Minceth all together that Men cannot understand what the Office and Substance of each of them is and how the Originall of the Word and of the Person of Christ should be distinguished and what God and Creature is 55. He wrongfully concludeth the CREATION in Christ he should conclude the END of the World in Christ and not the BEGINNING though indeed Christ was from the Word in Eternity yet he was not called CHRIST but JEHOVAH or JESUS 56. And for Mans and this Worlds sake JESUS hath manifested the CHRIST out of himself and that in the Time and not from Eternity as a high Priest and King of Men who is a Prince of God 57. We ought not to speak otherwise of him for he hath in this World spoken no otherwise of himself and ascribed all Power to his Father For he said indeed he was come forth from God and come into the World and that was indeed done in Time and not from Eternity 58. Though indeed he was in the Eternall Divine Birth or Geniture yet he hath only in Time manifested himself out of God in the World and not in the Creation of all things or Substances 59. Thus also CHRIST is NOT the Saviour and Redeemer of the Angels
Humane Wife or Woman IV. And Fourthly How also this Feminine Man or Masculine Wife or Woman One in Eternity cometh out of the Divine Humane Eternity Unity and hath its Eternall beginning in God without End and without ceasing keepeth it in Eternity with and in God in Eternall Unity The First Point Of the Fourth Text. I. 1. NOw concerning the divine Good wife or woman which cometh from Christ her only Lord Husband or Man and God and hath her original out of him according to a Divine humane Manner that is a faithfull Body and Soul or the faithful Souls Body in indivisible unceaseable Unity 2. Not begotten out of the perished Substance of the fallen Adam and naked fleshly Lust and perdition of the whole Substance of the fallen Man and proceeded to the Light and become visible but through Christ the Triune divine Substance generated from Eternity 3. It is a totall New through Faith prepared Divine good Man in Body and Soul yes out of Christ the expresse Image of the Totall holy Divine Triune good Substance yes proceedded forth through himself and in the world become manifested to the Faith and in the Faith visibly apparently corporeally and palpably A True Good Divine Holy Faithful Visible and Comprehensible to all the truly Faithfull 4. But to the unfaithfull wicked perished in Sinne persevering Adamical world an Invisible Incomprehensible Man participating of all good holy divine Properties in and with Christ the Triune highly praised God the Husband or Man in Eternal undivisible Unity operatively and substantially and according to his own kind and property a visible holy truly faithful divine good MAN Here followeth my answer upon this first Point together with an Explanation of the right understanding 1. JAcob Behme saith we would fain see a cleer demonstration in the outward visible operative comprehensible substance since it hath not yet proved it self in any Man since Adams Fall and yet this Man speaketh of a visible palpable operative substance which is totally divine Perfect and without blemish of Sinne which worketh meer holy unblameable works in Gods Love-will 2. But seeing the Holy Scripture speaketh in No place of such a thing that such a one hath been after the Fall who hath been born totally Holy without blemish but without difference all are concluded under Sinne as it is written They are all Sinners and want the Glory which they should have with God 3. And yet this man giveth himselfe forth That he is so totally and altogether God in Christ and the Glorious Antitype of this New Bride of Christ and yet likewise no Man can say that hath been present with him that he is any otherwise then all other sinfull Men are 4. And therefore from his giving forth we are not at all assured but desire that he would powerfully and effectually shew it in himself that Men might with truth see that God hath done some speciall thing in him that it is so as he saith but seeing we yet all of us find our selves in no such Perfection and cannot say so of our fleshly Birth or Geniture for we should be found as Lyars before God if we did come before him and say we were come holy and totally righteous from our Mothers womb and if he should prove us and find us faulty then he would not suffer it to avail us 5. In Our Father CHRIST teacheth us we should pray to God and say Lead us not into Temptation for if he should tempt us we should not be found pure and it might well be as Isaiah saith From the Crown of the Head to the Sole of the Foot there is no soundnesse in thee but meer wounds botches and putrified sores which cannot be healed 6. Also Christ had in vain taught his Disciples to pray Forgive us our Trespasses IF they had had none Also men find from the beginning of the world in the Old and New Testament how very often honest people have begotten evill children thus without doubt the possibility hath yet been with none that they have begotten Children meerly out of CHRIST like this Authour I would fain see his Wife Children whether they have another skin on since they are so Holy 7. I have been told how partly they are finely uncircumcised but if their Holinesse were hidden from us then that were good counsell and advice that Men should keep them by themselves that they might not mixe with the sinfull children of Adam but get children among themselves only and raise up a NEW World 8. Then men might justly call that People SION and a marriage State and say Here is the Lord but since it sheweth not it self yet in the work in power and Life therefore we are not yet sufficiently assured of this Bride for a good discourse or Romance without Life doth not assure us 9. But that he saith Men can NOT see the Holy People that is very wonderfully spoken For was not Christ himself AFTER his Resurrection in the Flesh SEEN Shall we then beleeve without the power of the proof seeing it is without the Ground of the Scripture therefore it will be very hard to perswade us 10. Who will assure us this when Saint Paul saith If an Angell from Heaven should command bring another Gospel then he brought let him be accursed and he neverthelesse in his Epistle hath concluded all under Sinne and hath spoken of a twofold Man that If he sinneth yet he doth it Not but the Sinne in the Flesh doth it Also with the Flesh he serveth the Law of Sinne and with the will out of Christ he serveth God 11. And Saint Peter saith It is signified unto me that I must lay off this Earthly Tabernacle Therefore we cannot be assured of this totall holy Perfection upon Earth Outwardly and Inwardly in the totall humane Substance without feeling Experience 12. And though this Man speaketh plainly SO of himself yet we beleeve him not unlesse he assureth us of it in Power for it might probably be only an Imagination and not in Deed or in Substance and then we were very silly people that we should without ground and assurance so proudly present our self before God as if we had NO Guiltinesse I suppose it would be fine humility before God for a stinking loathsome Sinner to present himself before God and say I am Holy and am GOD himself in Divine Omnipotency I cannot Erre nor Sinne. 13. Dear Brethren look to it it is not farre from this nor is much wanting that a new Antichrist is generated or Born Germany hath certainly with its security caused it in that men live so securely or carelesly under Christs Purple-Mantle and tickle our selves with Christs sufferings and do but only fatten or 〈◊〉 the Man of Sinne under it and this is a certain Image of humane security and negligence in that we boast we are good Christians 14. And say we are Christs Children and moreover Holy and will
be distinguished from other People therefore God sheweth us in this Image that we stand with the Mouth trimmed and adorned before him but the Spirit is a false or wicked Man As this Authour saith We should call our selves Holy and deny the Earthly Name and firmly beleeve we are NO Sinners but God in Christ born Totally Holy 15. And when this seeming Holy World existeth then is the knowledge or acknowledgement of Sinne totally Dead and although God should blame us yet would the flattering Hypocrite Murmure against God and say he did him wrong and then is the enmity against God generated and Sinne totally blind 16. No Man would know more of Sinne and though likely we were totally sinfull before God yet then is the time of which Christ said Dost thou suppose that when the Sonne of Man shall COME that he shall find FAITH on the Earth there would be NO Faith in Power but only meer Faith of a History so that we will not beleeve if any should charge us as guilty of Sinne thus there would be a fine secure negligent or carelesse SION like Life 17. Whatsoever we did then it were all Good there would be accounted no Sinne in the world none would be said to have sinned Christ must do all and though many were very Theeves yet no MAGISTRACY or Government would be usefull for CHRIST ruleth all in all 18. Where there is no Sinne there is also no punishment then also men would need no Superiour to Judge for every one judgeth himselfe and whatsoever he doth that doth God through him which indeed would run contrary to the Angellicall Government and against the Government of the Inward and Outward Nature 19. I admonish all Readers of His writings very sincerely from a true heart as a brother for our eternall salvations sake diligently and well to ponder and consider what is hidden under this giving forth the bring Holy and how the Devill thinketh to take us with a New 〈◊〉 seeing he perceiveth that his smoak-hole shall be manifested 20. Therefore will he now drive us wholly forth from the acknowledgement of Sinner that we should be wholly secure or negligent and understand no Sinne more and supposeth that we in our present evill life which we have shall finely learn to cover our selves With Christs Purple Mantle and introduce us totally into security and carelesness and so keep us from the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of Sinnes and entrap or take US all 21. But dear Brethren observe and convert or turn away from security and acknowledge your selves to be the lost and returning Sonne to the Father and say continually you have shamefully spent your inheritance and that the Father hath received you again for his Sonne he hath done it of Grace and Favour 22. Be not proud again say not to the Father divide the inheritance between us continue only in humility under the servitude of a Sonne as CHRIST hath set before us in his Similitudes or Parables if God will effect any thing New with us he will well manifest it with power we suppose words without demonstration are too little in so high a matter whereon salvation and blessednesse depends 23. But therewith I set before the Reader the true ground what Adam and Christ are in ONE Person and which Man is without Sinne therefore Mark this which followeth 24. The Kingly Prophet of God David Was a man after Gods own Heart as the Scripture testifieth of him in whom was the Spirit of God and he prophesied of Christ but he said In Sinne was I born in Sinne did my Mother conceive me which also manifested it self in him so that he had neer the Spiritual Man also a sinfull Man IN him which was a Murtherour and an Adulterour as the like may be seen in the Patriarchs 25. But who will now say of David that he was not holy Seeing he was a Man after Gods Heart who also will say that his Murther and Adultery was without Sinne The Man that in David was a Prophet THAT was no Sinner but that which was a Murtherer was a Sinner and yet it was but one only MAN in one Person but in two Properties viz one Heavenly and one Earthly 26. The Spirit of God speaketh of things to COME and of CHRIST concerning the Heavenly Property and the fleshly desire into which the Devill introduced his desire speaketh out of the Earthly Property out of the Earthly cursed Life viz out of the Murther and Vnchastity 27. In ALL men lyeth the Heavenly Image which disappeared in Adam but it liveth in one and in another it is Vnlively That Heavenly Image viz the second Principle is that out of which CHRIST was conceived and born out of JESUS 28. For God is in all places but not Manifest in all things but if he manifesteth himself in the disappeared Substance then is Christ born who dwelleth in his Principle and the Earthly Man of the Earthly part in the Curse of God dwelleth in its own Principle in it self 29. The Spirit of Christ dwelleth in the inward Substance of the disappeared Image from the Divine worlds Substance that dyed in Adam and the Elementary Spirit dwelleth in the Four-Elementary Flesh 30. The Spirit of Christ hath Spiritual Flesh for it taketh the Spiritual Flesh which dyed in Adam on again for a Body and Maketh it living THAT is in its Flesh holy but the outward Spirit of the four Elements in the Earthly Flesh is longing after falshood and wickednesse and bringeth its Lust against the Inward Man for the Devil sifteth it 31. And that is it which the Scripture saith The Flesh lusteth against the Spirit understand against the inward Divine Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh And God said to the Serpent in the Outward Flesh of Adam I will put Enmity between the Seed of the Woman and of the Serpent 32. The Inward Spirituall Flesh is Heavenly the Devill cannot possesse that for if the Soul forsake that and go out from it then is THAT vanished or disappeared and as a Nothing In the wicked it is as a Nothing 32. But when the wicked turneth himself to God and turneth the Will of the Soul to God then is Christ out of the disappeared Seed born a Man and is set before the Devill in the outward Flesh for a Crusher or Bruiser of the Serpent which hindreth and breaketh the Will of the evill Flesh so that Sinne is NOT committed 34. And THEN there is a constant Enmity Christ Governeth in his Heavenly Flesh through the outward and striketh the Outward Lust to the Ground then cometh the Anger of God in the Center of the Soul and will also have its fierce wrathfull Government and the Devill with the false or wicked Lust crouds himself thereinto 35. And the Elementary Spirit hungers constantly after its Mother the Elements and then the Devill bringeth the Lust aloft and wheeleth the desire about then the Hand
disappeared Substance the Father of all Things or Substances striketh up the sparkle of his divine power and if it be so that the Soul also in the drawing of the Father hungreth after it the sparkle beginneth to glimmer 54. And is first small as a grain of Mustard-seed as Christ saith and if the Soul persevereth and introduceth ITS Will and hunger continually into THAT Glimmering Tinder then he bloweth the Holy Fire up in its desire so that it glimmereth very much whence the soul getteth great hunger 55. Now if it be so that the Soul casteth away its self-hood and desireth totally to cast away the fals-hood or wickednesse of the Devill and in earnest strife with earnest Prayer and giving up it self enter into the Love-Fire then the Love-fire apprehendeth the Souls Desire and one Fire becometh kindled in the other for the Soul is the Fathers Fire and the sown Love-Fire is the Sonnes-Fire 56. And now cometh the lost Sonne viz the soul again into the Fathers Love and the Great Joy in Heaven beginneth so that the Angels rejoyce more than at Ninety Nine righteous that need no Repentance 57. And at this Place in this conjunction the Noble Virgin viz the Good Wife or Woman taketh its Bridegroom the Soul again into the Triumph of the Divine Kingdome of Joy and giveth its Bridegroom the Garland of Pearles 58. Not totally for its own propriety of its substance No there are Two Principles God remaineth God in himselfe but the Divine Light bringeth the Virgins-Spirit out of the Love-fire into the Souls-Fire and kindleth the Souls-Fire also so that the Virgins-Light shineth IN its Bridegroom viz the SOULS Light 59. And here is Christ in the Wifes or Womans seed become Man viz in the second Principle out of Gods Light-and-Love-world and what is here done and what kind of Joy is at this Espousall and Wedding we have no words to write but I wish the Lover of Christ may experiment it For the outward Naturall Man beleeveth US not unlesse himself hath been at this wedding which is kept both in Heaven and on Earth sufficiently to be understood by those that are OURS 60. But know this As Fire blazeth through Iron whence the Iron is a meer Fire-Source or of a fiery Quality and yet remaineth in it selfe in its Substance Iron as well at one time as at another and is never Fire in its own self-property and yet is Fire But the Fires Might standeth not in the Iron but it giveth only its Nature to it as an Instrument or a Body wherein the Fire blazeth 61. Thus understand us also as to GOD and the CREATURE The Fire when it blazeth in the Iron signifieth the Soul when it is kindled in Gods Light and the Light and the Shining of the Fire signifieth the Holy Fire and the Virgin the Power of the Light is the Pearly-Garland whereof I write in my writings THAT the Virgin giveth not to the Fire-Soul viz to the Originall of the Fire to be ITS own 62. But it sets the same upon it and presseth the same into its heart but it cannot comprehend it as its proper owne as the Fire cannot comprehend the Light and yet the Light shineth out of the Fire the Fire hath another Source or Quality then the Light the Fire is Father and the Light is Sonne and yet they make two Principles one IN another 63. Thus know That the Creature is not God it remaineth Eternally under God but God blazeth through it with his desire of the Love-Fire viz with his Light and shining and that very Light the Soul viz the Man reteineth so long for its own as the Will remaineth in Gods Light 64. But if it enter again in its own propriety viz in the Center of its originall in its own Might out of the Resignation into selfhood then the Virgin taketh away this Pearly-Garland from the Soul for the Soul viz its Bride-groom is run away from its Spouse Christ viz from its Love-fire and become perjured 65. Then goeth the Soul in the outward Flesh into the Devils Net in the dark restraint and seeketh its own Place and rest but findeth nothing but the Beastiall Pleasure of the Flesh with which it Pampereth it self 66. But the Noble Virgin calleth it continually to return again if it come again then it is well and readily received but the first wedding is not kept again there is indeed a glorious welcome but not like the first Espousall we speak as we know 67. But if the Bridegroom viz the Soul cometh not again then Christ taketh its Garland which he gave the Virgin for a Life again from it then it remaineth in ITS Nothing without Source or Quality as disappeared or faded and Eternally not perceptible nor visible to the Soul 68. And the Soul remaineth in its anxiety if the Soare be in it at the End of the outward Body in that regard it standeth in Eternall shame and scorn that it hath lost ITS Kingly Crown and is driven out from the Kingdom of God as an Evill doer or as a perjured Person from its most beloved Bride and Virgin 69. Further also know this that Gods Light suffereth NOT it self to be sowen forth abroad into the Flesh the Mother or Tinder to the Light is indeed sown but standing within IN its Principle the outward world is not God nor will it in Eternity be called God but only a Substance wherein God manifesteth himself viz a †Similitude of the Holy Divine Heavenly Substance in which God worketh 70. When a Woman is impregnate from a Man and generateth a Childe THAT although likely it cometh from holy Parents is not Wholly CHRIST from within and without as this Authour conceiteth without ground of Truth out of his obscurity 71. CHRIST viz the WORD is indeed a glimmering Mother or Tinder according to the Property of the true Image which is propagated in all Men as a possibility but NOT in the outward Flesh in this worlds Substance but in the second Principle and the Soulish Property is in the first Principle each dwelling in it selfe 72. Therefore hath Christ instituted the Baptisme and Espoused himself with the Mother or Tinder to Souls with this Covenant that though the Mother or Tinder did not come to a burning Light and that the Child should dye even in its Mothers Body or Womb yet neverthelesse the Soul would be in Christs Arms in which he would kindle HIS Light 73. And though holy Parents beget Children if I did look upon them I would not say here standeth or goeth in this Child Christ it is wholly Christ HE is indeed IN the Childe but in his own Principle and in the Childs Property as a Glimmering Mother or Tinder on the Band of Christ but the Soul of the Childe is also on the Band of the Fathers anger in the property wherein Adams Soul hath broken it self off from God 74. The Properties of the Soul stand not in
and of the Anger according to the Principles 31. The Life stood in a Conjunction of continuall inward joyfull desire of one in another the Fire loved the Light viz its meekning and beneficence and the Light loved the Fire viz its Life and Father as God the Father loveth his Sonne and the Sonne the Father in such a Manner or Property 32. And in such Love-Desire viz according to Fire and Light in which desire also the dark impression with its hunger hath intermixed it self God hath generated Substance The impression in the Desire is his Fiat which he leadeth with the voyce of his Fire and Light viz his making or working 33. Thus also in his Image Man was the Fire Mitrix and the Lights desire in great richly Joyfull Eternall Conjunction or as I may somewhat explaine it when TWO desires meet together as a great richly amiable relish and the Impression viz the Fiat maketh this Conjunction hard or loud sounding as the Tone of a word wherein the cleer founding richly joyfull Life standeth in the Feeling Tasting Smelling Seeing and Hearing as an amiable manifestation of the Eternall stillnesse 34. And as this is to be known concerning the Spirit-Life so also in the Flesh-Life for what the Spirit in the Three Principles is in it self In Word and Power that the Flesh in it self is in the Substance thereof 35. The Flesh hath the Tincture of the Fire and Light in it self to such a Glorious Conjunction and relish and the Fiat viz the Impression is also the Middle or Means of the desire in the Flesh and maketh the relish substantial whence vegetation or growing existeth 36. Yet now Adam was but ONE and standing in such great Glory as a totall Similitude according to God in Operation Life and generating as God had generated all things out of his UNITY 37. And in the FLAT which was in all things he had created to himself his Image according to the Property that is nothing else but in the impression of the Fiat in that Conjunction he manifested that very Lust or Longing delight with the Impression Now if Adams Soul in its self hood had entred with its Spirit into the word of the Holy power of God and had not awakened the self hood in the Fiat and had strengthned it self in Gods holy power in the desire viz in the Impression 38. THEN had the Impression viz the Fiat again formed a Similitude in Spirit and Substance in it selfe THEN might Adam have generated magically after a divine manner as God generated the Creature and set it forth VISIBLY 39. For the Matrix of the possibility was in him but when the Souls will viz the out-going Spirit brake it selfe off from Gods power and went into the Fiat into its Center into own Lust to tast evill and good and went out of the Resignation into self-hood then went also the Conjunction in the flesh into such a desire and hungred after the Mother out of which it was created and the hunger was just in such a Propertie as it was in the Spirit 40. And with this hunger of the Spirit and of the Flesh was the vanity in the Center manifested through the FIAT For the Fiat impressed the desire so that the vanity in the substance of the Flesh came and was manifested then all was done concerning the fair Image for the vanity loved it selfe it would not enter into Gods Love viz into the Holy power also it could not for God receiveth NOT that for a Childe 41. Now when this was done God saw the Fall as indeed he had known it before and in that regard he saw and fore-saw Man in the Center of his Heart in the Love Desire determining to move himself in the Center of his Love in the Humane Image and to set the CHRIST in JESUS or out of JESUS viz the greatest humility out of God in this Middle between God and the Creature 42. Then said God in himself as Moses saith It is not good that this man should be alone for he had cleerly lost the divine Might to generate Magically out of himself through ONE We will make a fellow Companion or Help to be about him 43. He Adam could now not generate Magically for he was cleerly passed into the Lust of self-hood had he kept GOD for a Help then he had been able but seeing he could not therefore said God It is not good in the beginning it was good indeed but in the Lust it was not good 44. For in God alone standeth the ability out of which Adam was gone with the lust into self-hood for the Fathers Anger turned it self together in the Fiat aloft and would be Creaturely whence the Lust after Evill and good existed viz after darknesse Fire and Light and the substance of all these 45. And now when the Verbum Fiat the Word Fiat stood in Adam in the desire and impressed the Property in the Lust into a substance of its Similitude then appeared the Magicall Image viz the Similitude according to Adam in the Spirit but the ability of the Creature was gone for it stood in the self hood then sunk the self-hood down in unability 46. Now then said Moses And God suffered a deep sleep to fall upon him seeing he was gone from God into the self-hood therefore God let him fall into unability viz into sleep he let it be done that he fell into unability for in the self-hood he was in the Fires-might even become a Devill and so was not able but he slept and this Sleep is CHRISTS Rest in the Grave 47. Dear Brethren observe it well it is become highly known not in Conjecture and Conceit but in Terrario sancto in the Holy Ternary according to Gods Counsell and Will 48. The Sleep signifieth Death viz a destruction of this outward Dominion for as the outward World in its self-hood and Dominion cannot stand Eternally but must go again into the beginning into the Eternall divine Dominion and totally break to pieces in its self-hood and be purged and tried through Gods Fire 49. So must also the Outward Mystery of Man in the self-hood break to peeces and enter again into the Magick Image into Gods Willing Working and Living 50. And understand us here right The Woman viz Venus'es Matrix from the Light Aire and Water out of Adams Essence became in Adams Sleep viz in the unability impressed in the Fiat as a Mother to the Propagation wherein the Fire in the Property of the Love-Desire viz in the Center of the Transmutation of the Fire into Light became comprehended in the Fiat 51. But the awakened vanity in the desire of the Fiat in the own self-hood of the Souls will was cleerly stirring and manifested in the Lust the Magick Birth was lost therefore God through the Fiat took a Rib in Adams side according to the Impression of the power of Adams Soul and Spirit in the Sulphur Mercury and
the Fiat viz in the hunger of the desire Material and originateth out of the power of the Flesh and of the Spirit both of the Man and of the Woman 93. In the Man the Spirit is fiery that soweth the Fiery Tincture in the Woman the Spirit is watery according to the Light that soweth the Spirits Tincture in the Inward Kingdome the Image of the faded Substantiality and in the outward the Aires property out of the abomination of the Earthlinesse 94. Her seed is in the outward totally Cagastrish or drossy but if She be Holy then it is in the Inward according to the saded Image Iliastrish that is halfe Paradisicall for it beareth the Rose-Garden wherein God became Man it beareth according to the second Principle the house of PARADISE but in the Outward Principle it beareth the Childe of the existed abomination out of Adams Lust and in the Third Principle viz in the Earthlinesse it beareth the Dying viz the Death and Earthlinesse 95. The Man beareth in his Seed in the first Principle the Fire-world viz the Fathers Property out of which the Father manifesteth his Sonne viz his Love viz Venus'es Matrix that is the second Principles Property in him but in his Seed not manifested but only as a Glimmering Tinder or Mother so far as he is holy and in the Third Principle he beareth in the Sulphur and Mercury in his Seed the awakened Anger of God in which the abomination against God existed and became Manifested in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Womans Property 96. These Properties become with the Seeds of Man and Woman in the Conjunction brought into ONE there the TWO Tinctures receive one another in great Joyfulnesse as it is found by experience when the Seed goeth forth How the Tincture lifteth up it self in Joy whence mans Life is moved as a Joyfull aspect enough understood by those that are OURS 97. And the Two Tinctures espouse themselves thus instantly in the Sulphur of the Seed into One and awaken the Mercury viz the Work-master of the Life so that he laboureth in the Seed and awakeneth the Lifes forms in the Sulphur 98. And if the Mercury be not potent enough then it draweth the Mothers Menstruum to it self and bringeth it into the Seed of the Conjunction then it maketh the Seed in Menstruo to be FLESH in which yet there is a materiall poyson and the great abomination against the holynesse and purity as is sufficiently understood by all Lovers of Mysteries what kind of poyson lyeth in the Menstruum which desttoyeth and poysoneth any tender plant of the Earth as is undenyable 99. Now in this Menstruum and poyson is the Seed come to be Flesh and both the Tinctures are therein and have their nourishment from their Substance and the true Life in Soul and Spirit existeth out of THAT 100. Where now in this is the totall holinesse without blemish according to this Authour Let him shew it me here and then I will esteem him for the Bride of Christ as he will needs be so in his outward Flesh 101. The Scripture saith Man is sown in dishonour but riseth up in power Here is understood the second Principle in which the Word of Life standeth together in that Espousall but not in the Evill sinfull Flesh which is full of kindled affections and false or wicked desires 102. But if the Seed be of wicked Parents then is the Mother Tinder in the second Principle not stirring but if the Parents be Holy then is the Seed manifested in the Threefold Life viz in the Threefold Essence but if not then is the Divine Mother or Tinder not Manifested according to the Love-power but onely according to the Anger and according to the outward world 103. And though it be so that honest marryed people beget children and joyn themselves together with Love-desire yet it hath NOT this meaning or understanding That the Imagination or Desire of Man and Wife is holy and that Christs Spirit driveth on the Imagination as this Author supposeth Indeed the Noble Soul is ashamed of it 104. The Imagination ariseth out of the Tinctures which kindle the Mercury with their Lust and the Mercury kindleth the Spirit of the Life and now existeth the Lust and Will in the Heart viz a vehement desire the tenderer the Complexion is the Nobler also is the Tincture in its sweet desire 105. But if also it be shot with a fiery Dart in Venus'es desire then is the Life kindled so that it is as it were more than halfe Mad with Love Thoughts and yet knoweth not what is happened to it 106. Must all this now be holy then would the Secret WHOREDOMES where oftentimes one vehemently and fierily loveth anothers Wife and in like manner one Woman anothers husband and so is shot with this Dart be also Holy also when two young persons look upon one another whence instantly Venus shooteth with her fiery Dart then must that also be Holy whereas indeed the Dart often goeth forth in false or wicked Lust 107. And though it be at the best yet it is a thing that is in all Beasts it is Naturall Men find some Beasts that are even ashamed of it wherein it appeareth that Nature it self is ashamed of it and when men will give it the best and rightest name then it is called an abomination before Gods holinesse being a thing existed out of Sinne through Adams-Fall which indeed is boarn with all under divine patience seeing it cannot be otherwise of which we could take many Examples in the Holy Scripture 108. Look upon the people Israel when God would give them the Law at Mount Sinai and manifest or reveal himself with his voyce then he commanded the Young People which were loaden with such burning Lust to abstain from their WIVES and that pointed not only at the Marriage work but also at the * Imagination 109. When David came to Nob to the Priest Abimelech and there was no Bread but the Holy Bread the Priest said to David if the young Men had abstained from Women then would he give to them and David said the Women were left these Three dayes 110. Herein Men have a very cleer example that even the People of David ought not to eat of the holy Bread if they had touched Women then were they unclean and David had shut up the Women therefore from the Young Men that they should not be Made unclean with the Women through burning and Lust for they were in the warres that they should not be an abomination before God and so God suffer them to fall in Battell 111. And Saint Paul saith 1 Corinth 7. 5. concerning Marryed persons That they should not depart one from another unlesse it be with both their consent that they may apply themselves unto Prayer Saint Paul meaneth that Men should FORBEAR the Marriage work when they will Repent viz enter into true sorrow with Prayer before God It is just
the Holy Trinity hath been hidden to all Creatures and yet is through the second moving of the Deity as a holy sweet Love-Sun become manifested 15. I must not say that in the Person CHRIST viz in the Man according to his humanity according to that part which he hath on him from us Men from our Body and Soul that is on to the Deity on to the Divine Substantiality or Heavenly Corporeity taken on to him That the Creature is ceased and taken up or that the Creature Soul and Body from us Men is unmeasurable 16. No for such a One is not our Eternall High Priest which I could never more see in the Form of Man for the Men when he went to Heaven said Ye shall SEE this JESUS come again as he is Ascended 17. Only the Deity in him and the Christ understand the divine property together with the Heavenly divine substantiality wherewith he saith John 3. 13. He was come from Heaven THIS is uncreaturely and yet IN every Man as an own Sun yet only in one point which shineth forth out of the fountain of this Sun indeed from no place or space but the place of this holy revelation or Manifestation is in ALL Men the Center of the Originall 18. This SUN is in all Men but this Sun is not revealed or manifested in all Men but only in the Desire to the Point which is CHRIST which point is JESUS out of JEHOVA 19. But concerning the Holy woman or wife which this Authour mentioneth which is holy and PERFECT wherein the Man CHRIST becometh generated needeth also a farre other Explanation 20. And though he sets down the Holy Christianity to be the woman or wife which I blame not yet a Man must not speak that concerning the outward Earthly Man for the Earthly Man is not Christs Spouse or Wife but the inward Spiritual which faded or disappeared in Adam the Heavenly which Christ as viz the Holy SUN vivifieth 21. But this Authours writing is altogether Contradictory and runnes counter against it selfe for here in this Point he writeth of this Spouse or Woman and Body thus which he NOT outwardly prepareth createth and maketh new but in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart from the beginning of the world instantly after the Fall in Grace Love and Mercy yes in the Faith espouseth betrotheth and uniteth to himself and prepareth it for his Eternall Rest In like manner also this holy Man CHRIST JESUS the Innocent Lamb of God yes the Triune highly praised Sonne of God God himself which was slain from the beginning of the world IN all Faithfull and Saints according to the Testimony of the Scripture 22. Before this Authour hath set down in another place that if CHRIST became manifest or revealed in Man then Nature falleth Totally away Now he sets it down that CHRIST in the Inward Center and middle of the Heart hath from the beginning of the world espoused and united himself with the Saints in the Faith which indeed were true if he did not speak it concerning the Man CHRIST but concerning the Promised CHRIST in the Covenant which first in Time fulfilled the Covenant 23. For Not CHRIST the Man who in the Time in the Limit of the Covenant manifested or revealed himselfe was slain in the Holy Patriarchs but the Children of Faith in whom the Covenant became manifested 24. CHRIST hath once given and offered up his holy Life in the sweet Love to his Father into his Anger which was manifested in the Humane Property and with the Love broken the Anger to pieces He hath not dyed in ALL the Saints from Adam to this time and suffered himself to be slain and put to death Only the Children of the Faith of the Covenant have suffered themselves to be put to death according to the MAN of SINNE that the word of Life in the Covenant in them might put on the new promised Life which would manifest it self in the Covenant with the future Sun of the New Life in the Spirit of the Covenant 25. So that when Christ would manifest himself in the Covenant in the Flesh he also in that Covenant which had manifested it selfe in them would be manifested in them with the divine Substantiality viz with Christs heavenly Flesh 26. For even after the Resurrection of Christ when he had assumed the Humanity and slain death it was not CHRIST that dyed any more in his Members in the Christians or was slain but Adam in Christs Death that Christs Spirit in the Soul and the holy Man might Live When Christ becometh born then should the Man of Sinne continually Dye till at last when the Outward body departeth it WHOLLY ceaseth 27. But if Christ the Lamb of God were become slain in the Old Patriarchs then the reconciliation was performed IN them and then it cometh not solely and onely from the Sonne of MARY 28. Abel was NOT the Lamb of God which was slain for Sinne Christ dyed not in Abel but in the BODY which he received from MARY 29. Abel and all the Martyrs dyed as to their own Bodies for the sake of the Covenant which opened it self in them they were slain and dyed as to their sinfull Adamicall Body and not as to the Holy Body which was shut up in the Covenant which Christ when he would manifest himself in the Covenant would manifest it to be an Eternall Life and holy Flesh in which he would dwell and be the power and Life thereof 30. When the Holy Scripture saith CHRIST was slain in the Saints then it understandeth then Members of the Body of CHRIST according to Christs humanity which HE the Christ assumed It understandeth not the Triune God that should suffer it selfe to be slain from the beginning of the world for doubtlesse God cannot dye That which dyeth is only the Body of Christs Members according to the humane Creature and not according to the Spirit of Christ 31. The Spirit of Christ hath therefore manifested it self in the Humanity and slain Death in his assumed Body that the Gates of Life in us should be opened for if I be murthered for the sake of Christs Name and the Testimony thereof then doth not Christ dye in me but Adam dyeth in Christs death and Christ in my dying becometh first rightly manifested 32. My dying is Christs Resurrection in ME for I dye away to the sinfull self-hood or Nothingnesse and live to the Resignation in the Spirit of Christ 33. Therefore this is a voyd and groundlesse thing that this Authour writeth that the Man Christ the Innocent Lamb of God God himself which from the beginning of the world according to the Testimony of the Scripture was slain in all the Saints and faithfull c. 34. The Triune God is not from the beginning of the world slain in his Saints the Scripture saith not so but the Faithfull Men were slain for Christs sake and NOT the Triune Christ IN them
alwayes by the Serpents seed the unfaithfull wicked world slain persecuted despised scorned and put to Death in which regard also the Death of all Saints was before the Lord very highly dearly and preciously Esteemed 13. So he hath also in his divine fullnesse and perfect Seed and word of God the pure faithfull womans and Virgins Sonne God and Man in one Person the right Seed Sonne and Word of God of the perfect faithful Flesh and Bloud the totall persecution enmity hatred and envy of the abominable Satanicall Serpents Seed of the wofull Devill substantially united in all unfaithfull unrepentant children of the world hath taken upon him for the sake of the redemption of all the faithfull of his body and holy woman 14. And through his innocent suffering and dying hath paid the penalty and debt of all the Sinnes of the world on his most holy body and woman reconciled it with the Deity in himself overthrown all Enmity between God and Man and in and according to this his most holy totall or UNIVERSALL Redemption through his guiltlesse Crosse with and in divine union through God and out of the infancy to a perfect Man presented himself to his totall holy Church or Congregation 15. In and with which he now according to his most holy prediction Hosea 2. I will Espouse my selfe with thee in Eternity I will betroth my self with thee in Grace and Mercy Yes in the Faith I will unite and bind my self with thee with this his holy unreproveable undefiled Church and perfect Bride and most holy Sulamith Canticles Reconcileth and espouseth in Eternity 16. In which he now according to his own most holy revelation of himself here upon Earth Esaiah 9. The Eternal Father in an undivided Person God and Man ONE Eternall Generatour TRIUNE God and Lord yes ALL in ALL his beloved totall perfect Bride his holy body and woman wherein he Eternally generateth his holy Seed his holy Word Will Work and Performance substantially livingly and powerfully 17. And to his Eternall praise laud and honour in this his holy Church holy Jerusalem and perfect City of the perfect appearing divine Peace which is kept in Heaven but now on Earth in this ending ceasing Last time of the world manifesteth himself in the Eternall Unity of his body and woman the undefiled untransitory unfadable Inheritance 18. And the receiving his holy kingdom and Dominion according to the Testimony of the Holy Scripture Dan 7. under the whole Heaven in his Saints his united woman and Eternally ruling it to be openly proclaimed 19. The Bride the Woman of all faithfull Flesh and Bloud according to the Testimony of the Scripture Revelations 22. hath called Come LORD JESU the Bridegroom and Man Christ appeareth and saith in the unity of his Wife or Woman Here I am Here I am Here will I dwell this is my Rest Eternally 20. Here thou wilt with the beloved woman of all faithfull Flesh and Bloud in divine unity of thy Man with this Scripture Explanation for further holy consideration in and with thy united Bridegroom according to thy desire for Love and divine will acknowledge and receive this 21. In which the Triune highly praised Sonne and Word of God the fullnesse of the Deity generated from Eternity the most holy seed of the Woman from the beginning of the World after the Fall of Adam and Eve as also the regenerated new faithfull flesh and bloud the woman in that which is in Part and perfect holy substance is discovered to thee and manifested to the Eternall and in Eternall unchangeable Union 22. NOT Tinctured according to the Cabalisticall Theophrasticall Roso-Crucian kind and transmuted out of the unfaithfull Substance into the Faithfull 23. But according to the Testimony of the Scripture a New Birth not out of the old sinfull Substance but in the Center and inward Heart in the Love of the divine voyce a new beginning a New Heart a New Flesh and Bloud a New faithfull Person as to Body and Soul a Faith not born out of the unbeleef but out of God 24. A Body a Woman a Man an unity of the Woman a Seed a faithfull visible good Substance of God A Christ a Lord a God a Spirit Substantially opperatively livingly powerfully and actively the self-subsisting Eternall ONE onely blessednesse or salvation an undefiled unfadable untransitory inheritance reserved in Heaven 25. But now in this Last Time revealed or manifested to all over all through all and in all faithfull with himself the Triune Eternall God an Eternall REST and holy City and habitation of the highest of all and lowest of All in Heaven and upon Earth which is and is called in All Eternall Eternity according to the Testimony of Scripture of Ezekiel the last Chapter A Wedding City Here is the LORD Psal 48. 1 2. Very greatly and highly to be praised is The Mountain SION the fair Branch with which the whole Land is Comforted Yours alwayes willingly A. V. E. Esaiah Stiefell HEre followeth My Answer upon this Fourth Point of the Fourth Text. 1. T Fourth Point I would even leave unexplained if it were produced by the Authour in a right understanding but he jumbleth all together and sticketh his erroneous meaning therein and maketh much more a Confusion of it then a right explanation But seeing I have explained the contents of it above almost in every particular I will therefore only expound the chief matters and extract the Erroneous Opinions out of his Confusion for the sake of the Reader 2. Concerning the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ concerning which the Authour here mentioneth That the Seed of the Holy Trinity in the Totall divine Substance is become Man or Incarnate in the Totall Holy Perfect totally united with the Deity virgin MARY and hath taken HER Flesh and Soul upon him and so made MARY the Genetrix of God viz the holy word of God as he writeth and that MARY was before new born in the Faith e er she was impregnate or with Childe with the Saviour 3. This needs yet a sharper explanation and exposition and it had stood this Master in hand that will needs be Perfect and Omniscient to have unsolded this Mystery and not to have confused it so that a man cannot know what he understandeth thereby but only that a Man may see his secret in sown Grain or Seed spring up therein 4. He will not herewith satisfie the seeking Mind which enquireth after the Ground and lead him into the Center of Nature he must put on other Stieffeln or Bootes if he will ride with Christs Spirit over Death and Hell and say how Gods Anger is quenched Death broken to peeces and the Devills Kingdome IN Man destroyed 5. His explanation is much more erroneous and an obscuring the understanding of the seeking Mind than an Expounding He hâ—nteth some high Points concerning the manner of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ and produceth none 6.
both as to Light and Darknesse 51. And yet we are not so to think that a Spirit or Angell is it self the Out-breathing of the Eternall Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity in the Divine Voyce But it is the out-spoken Word as a Model and Image of the speaking Word a fitted Instrument of the Spirit of God through which the Spirit of God as by his fitted Instrument playeth or melodiseth and soundeth 52. So far as the Instrument remaineth standing in its fitted Order as with the Desire of the Fiat which standeth in all Angells as the Angells proper own wherewith the Will of the Angell may lift up it self into the Good viz into Gods Love or into the Anger and introduce it self into the Figure and Tang thereof then is the sound of the Word out of the Fathers Love and Anger out-breathed and become introduced into an Image in verbo Fiat in the Word Fiat 53. As is to be seen how some Prince-Angels give up themselves with the Desire into the Love and some as Lucifer into the Anger viz into the Desire of the Fiat and Created or Extracted a Will in the Desire of the Anger in the Fires Might to Live and to Rule according to the Fathers Anger Property and thus to domineer over all Principalities of Angels over the Love in the fierce wrathfull Fires Might whence followed upon him his thrusting out by the Word Fiat into the Darknesse of Gods Anger 54. Thus we can not say of the Creation of all things or Substances that the Eternall Substance of the Ternary or number Three hath thus formed it self into an Image of an Angell but in the Eternall Desire which hath Originated it selfe in the Longing delight of the Deity through the Moving of the Father of all things or Substances as an ETERNALL Nature and a Revelation or Manifestation of the Eternall hidden Nature 55. In that Eternall beginning-lesse Nature viz in the All-being All-substantiall working of the Great Mystery have the Angells and Souls of Men received their Originall in the Eternall Out-spoken Word in the Eternall Wisdome of God according to Love and Anger 56. For if they had Originated only in the holy voyce of God viz in the One only Love then they could not have attracted or framed in themselves any Will to the Anger or if the Love-Will of God in the Angels were fallen then it would have this understanding that God in the Creature had fallen and become a Devill which were abominable to be spoken 57. No Creaturely Spirit can subsist in the Creature without the Fire-world for even the Love of God would not be if his Anger or the Fire-world were not in him The Anger or the Fire of God is a cause of the Light and of the power strength and Omnipotency 58. But in the Love the Fire dyeth and transmuteth it self into the Kingdome of Joy for at the End Death originateth which is as a dying in the Fire out of which dying the Light as another source or quality originateth viz a Desire of Love which is called Gods Mercifullnesse or the Divine Kingdome of Joy the Life of Holinesse without source or pain goeth from the dying in the Fire sorth as a Glance of the Majesty a Glance of the Liberty 59. This dying Lucifer contemned he would Live and Domineer in the Fires Regiment in the Self-hood so he became also driven forth out of the Fire back into the Root of the Fire viz into the darknesse 60. Every Angell and Soul which will live in Gods Light and Power must DYE to the Self-hood of the Fires Dominion in the Desire and wholly immerse or cast himself with his own Propriety into Gods Will viz into the Divine Sound and dye to the own self Will in the Fire but bud or sprout forth in the Light of Love in the Resignation into Gods Sound or Word as a fruit of the Love of God that Gods will-spirit may rule and guide his Life 61. And that the holy Tincture of the Fire and Light may be the Glance of the shining of his Life out of which again Divine Will and Desire Originateth that the same Life may be able to live in the Power and vertue of the Wisdome of God to behold it self therein and frame or attract a Divine Will therein 62. Which Wisdome is the Angells Food out of which they generate to their Creatour Eternall Praise that Gods Joy play or-Melody in the Angelicall Voyce may be an Instrument of the Spirit of God all directed into the Harmony of the Divine Kingdome of Joy 63. For every Prince-Angell beareth the Name of the Great God every one according to his property as a peculiar Instrument directed into the Praise of God in the Divine Sound 64. In like manner we are not so to think of the Creation of Heaven and of the Earth that the Heaven and the World with its Substance or Matters are Created out of Gods holy Voyce or Word but IN the Voyce and through the Word 65. Not out of the Sound of the Divine property but in the word Fiat viz in the Impression of the Eternall Mystery of the Eternall Fire-and-Lights Desire and entered into a Substance according to the fires and Darknesses Property as also according to the Lights Desire viz according to the Free Longing delights Property as a Revelation or Manifestation of Evill and Good of Joy and also of pain and Torment 66. All which is undeniably before our Eyes and the whole Creation convinceth us thereof whereby men know that in ALL things there is Good and Evill for which things sake the Last judgment of God is appointed viz a Day of Separation wherein all shall again enter into its beginning 67. This visible World is a Similitude of the Eternall Mystery out of which Joy and Sorrow Light and Darknesse originateth through which Eternall Mystery the Spirit of the Ternary in the Trinity manifesteth or revealeth it selfe and introduceth it self into Three Principles 68. Viz First into the Dark Cold and Fire World viz into an Abysse of the Mystery And then Secondly into the divine Light World of the Kingdome of Joy And Thirdly with or by a Similitude of the Dark Fire and Light World viz with or by this outward visible and Elementary World 69. In which it generateth the Image of the Eternall World in Evill and Good as is to be seen in all living Creatures of this world as also in the Starres Elements Hearbs and Trees how all is contrary one o the other and yet the Birth or Geniture of all Life standeth in such a Contrary 70. Every Life standeth in Evill and Good viz in Poison and Oyle out of which the Life in the Fire burneth or shineth which ALL is a similitude of the Eternall Birth or Geniture of the Mystery of all Substances or of every thing also Men see the similitude of the Holy Trinity in every Life viz the Fire Light and proceeding Aire