Our Saviour Jesus Christ himself taught to his Apostles and Disciples and which the Comforter doth continually teach the Holy Servants of God ever since and by what is written by this Author it may be believed that both the same Wisdom may be attained now and the same Power of the Holy Ghost by which they speake and wrought their Miracles and the Cause discerned why scarce any hath been wrought for so long a while yes men will believe that greater things shall be done as our Saviour tells the Apostles then they saw him do for it will appear that the Power in one Man even of one Thought in a Man is able to change the whole Universe in a Moment This Power was in part in the Prophets and Apostles who could raise the Dead and when the time appointed is come that all the Dead shall rise that Power will do it though it should be but as a Grain of Mustard-Seed in one Man and restore the whole Creature to the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God Surely it will be worth our pains to find such wisdom as this By the study of these Writings men may come to know every one according to his condition property and indination how all the real differences of Opinions of all sorts may be reconciled even the nicest Differences of the most Learned Criticks in all Ages that which seemeth different in the Writings of the Profound Magical Mystical Chymick Philosophers from that which we find in the Experimental Physicians Philosophers Astronomers may be reconciled by Considering what this Author Teacheth that the Names which were given to the Seven Planets do signifie the seven Properties of the Eternal Nature and are the cause of all those things which are by Experimental Men accounted the first and deepest causes of all Also thereby the differences in Religion may be so reconciled that the Minds and Consciences of all doubting persons may be satisfied about Predestination Election Creation Corruption Salvation and Restoration so clearly that all will love one another that hard Lesson to love our Enemies will be readily learnt and Men will quickly Contribute to the studying that one necessary thing that Treasure hid in the Field that Gold of the Kingdom of Heaven that Precious Pearl that All in All Faith and Love and Christ and God when they shall perceive that all this lyeth hid in every Soul in one Measure or other and may be found and the way set down so plain that every Soul may find it Thereby the Writings of all Men will be understood even the very darkest Mysteries conteined in the VVritings of the Prophets and Apostles will be made plain and easie to the simplest Thirsty Soul and then when that appeareth which is now hidden that Excellent Glory every one will not only see it but walk in the way that leadeth to it and so attain it in the highest Degree of every ones capacity and capability While this Wisdom is growing it will so reform the Laws the degrees in every Nation that at length the whole World will be governed in Peace to the joy of all Perhaps some will think this impossible let them consider that if they be told of a Curious City and of the incredible things that are done there by him that hath been there and seen what he relateth and he describe the way so plain that they may come thither themselves wil they not go that they may know as well as he that told them do so by this Author Read this Book diligently and seriously till you apprehend the meaning but of some part of the way he here describeth which may easily be done and you will be satisfied the things are true and that the way he sheweth is true and be able to walk in it and also be very thirsty to labour in that way more and more till you attain your whole desire and then you will keep it as the best Jewel a Memorial of all Mysteries But let every one read it themselves whether it be the highest King that sitteth upon a Throne or the meanest Maid that grindeth in a Mill or hear it read with their own Ears if they mean to partake of this so high a gift from the most High or else the Devil may easily bereave them of it J. S. To the Reader IF we knew the pretiousness of our own Souls we would confess and acknowledge with an inward feelingness the Answer to Christ's Question when he said What shall it profit a Man to gain the whole World and lose his own Soul Or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul The Soul is so pretious that Nothing can truly be valued at so high a Rate To save it is the greatest Gain to lose it is the greatest loss then who will not highly prize the study and understanding of the way to save it Christ saith He that will save his Soul shall lose it and he that will lose his Soul shall save it but who understandeth this We know it is the earnest desire of every Soul to be saved and to be happy and glorious but the way is very unknown to us poor fallen Souls for we can hardly suppose that losing will be the saving of our selves Christ also taught that the way to Glory was through many tribulations Death this way he entered into Glory and so have all the Blessed from the beginning of the World and can no otherwise to the end thereof but how shall a Soul know the way to lose and deny it self so that it may assuredly attain Eternal Salvation Let it listen in its Heart and Conscience inwardly to that Teacher which it shall find there who is God himself We have the Testimony of Moses for this who told the Israelites The Word the Commandment is nigh thee in thy Heart and in thy Mouth not the outward but the inward Heart and Mouth As also the Apostle Paul saith to the Romans That Christ the Eternal Essential Word of God the Word of Faith which they the Apostles preached is nigh us in our Hearts and in our Mouths and in another place he saith Do you not know that Christ is in you except you be past reproof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 improbi Futhermore the Apostle John saith that God is love and he that loveth God dwelleth in him and he in God which we all perceive is true for in him we live and move and have our Being And this may be known though the Apostle Paul had not said so much for one of the Poets of Old spake what he knew and said We are all of his Off-spring as the Apostle mentioneth it Nay we all know that be that doth well is the Servant of God but he that doth Evil is the Servant of the Devil who ruleth in his Heart And though there is none that doth Good no not one nor can do of himself while he is in this Mortal-Life yet through Christ in him he
Nature for the Divine Mystery of the Trinity standeth above and the Mystery of Nature beneath each Circle signifieth one Person of the Deity in the first Mystery Of the O. Numb 4. and of Principle and of Fire Numb 7. 175. The O with Number 4. signifieth the Ground of the Mystery viz. the Geniture or Birth of the Heart or Word of God which the first will viz. the A in the Looking-Glass of Wisdom compriseth and holdeth it in self as a Ground of its substance For the O signifieth also the Eye of the Looking-Glass of Wisdom for in the Wisdom is the Eternal Word comprised which manifests or revealeth it self through the Principle of the Fire in the Light World Go from the O about that Circle and so thou findest beneath Principle and Fire Number 7. Of V Numb 5. and of Substance Numb 8. 176. The V with Number 5. signifieth the Spirit of the Mystery without or besides Nature viz. the first eternal profound groundless or unsearchable Will-Spirit which originateth out of the Will and in the Power or Vertue of the Word in the Great Mystery and goeth forth out of the Will and Word and its Exit maketh Substance viz. Wonders of the Power Colours and Vertue whereas yet in the Mystery of the Profundity Groundlesness or Unsearchableness without or besides Nature no colours are apprehended for they lye all in ONE and it is the twinckling of a great Wonder and that is called a Substance of the Wonder Go about from V on that Circle and thou findest beneath at Number 8 Substance signifying that all Substance is beneath the Spirit of the Number Three or Trinity and that men must alwayes distinguish Substance from the Deity 177. For in Substance originateth Nature with its seven Forms for the Number Three is only a Spirit in Substance and yet there is also no Substance without the Number Three for the Desire of the Number Three is the Eternal Magia and maketh Substance it bringeth into a ground according to the Model which the Spirit openeth in the wisdom out of her is the Creation proceeded according to the Model of the virgin-like Wisdom Further Information Concerning the First Principle and the Mystery of the Beginning in the Creation and of the Dark World how the Angle or Point of the Cross with Number 9. at the left with its upper and neather Space is understood Of FATHER Number 9. 178. Number 9. there standeth before the Angle or Point of the Cross FATHER and before that the Abysse signifying the Mystery of the Father without or besides Nature for with the Angle of the Cross Nature beginneth The first and Greatest Mystery is the Abysse where the Nothing introduceth it self into a will which is called FATHER or the Original to somewhat Out of the Mystery of the Father is the Creation through Nature originated A Man is here to understand the Eternal Nature with its Seven Forms with or by this Mystery Soul Numb 10. 179. At the Angle or Point of the line standeth Soul Number 10. signifying the Original of the Eternal Spirits viz. Angels Souls of Men the Angle or Point signifieth the Center in Nature where the Threefold Spirit revealeth or manifests it self with or by Nature signifying the Magick Fire in the Fathers Property out of which the Angels have their Original as also the Souls of Men. 180. A man should here understand the Ground and Original of an Eternal Spirit for nothing is Eternal unless it hath its orsginal out of the Eternal Magick Fire This Original is not understood to be the true or right Spirit but to be the Center viz the Cause of the Spirit Souls Will Numb 11. 181. Every true or right Spirit is understood with the understanding in the Light of Life for in the Fire there can be no right or true understanding but in the desire of the Light Therefore must the fiery Will turn it self to the Heart of God viz. to the Power or Vertue of the Light and understanding as here is to be seen where upon the line of the Cross standeth the Souls Will marked with Number 11 and there it receiveth Power and Vertue from the Heart of God and is generated or born an Understanding Spirit Will Numb 12. and Soul N umb 13. 182. For it receiveth the Power or Vertue of the Light in the Meekness and Humility and goeth with its Will-Spirit viz. with the noble or pretious Image Similitude of God through the Power or Vertue of the Heart into the second Princiciple viz. into the Light World as here at the right beyond the Heart in the other or second Circle is to be seen where standeth Will Number 12. and then Soul Number 13. signifying how the Soul out of the fires source or quality out of the Fathers Property entereth into the Sons Power or Vertue and Property and dwelleth in the Divine Power or Vertue in the Light-world HOLY SPIRIT Numb 14. 183. Without or beyond the Angle or Point of the Cross standeth HOLY SPIRIT Number 14. signifying the holy Spirit which from Eternity originateth in the Will of the Father at the left at the Angle or Point Number 9. and bringeth it self through Nature through the Heart and Divine Power or Vertue at the right without or beyond Nature also through the Angels or Souls-Spirits Power or Vertue forth and dwelleth in the Liberty in the Glance of the Power or Vertue and Majesty and is in Nature yet of Nature unapprehended but only in the Divine Power or Vertues Property Image Numb 15. 184. Beyond the word HOLY SPIRIT Number 15. standeth Image also without or beyond Nature signifying that the noble or pretious Image sprouteth forth out of the Souls Fire as a Blossome or Flower out of the Earth and hath no feeling or sense of the Pain of the fiery Property for the Fire standeth in it as it were swalowed up and yet it is there but in another source or fountain quality viz. a desire of Love a light-flaming Fire in Divine Property Abysse Numb 16. 185. Beyond Image standeth Abysse Number 16. signifying that the right true Image standeth in the Abysse without or beyond all source or pain and dwelleth in Nothing but only in it self with or through it GOD. Therefore there is Nothing that can find touch or break it but only the Divine Power or Vertue for it standeth not in Nature although indeed with the Root it proceedeth from Nature and yet it is another thing as an Apple is another thing than the Tree though it stand upon the Tree and receive power and vertue from the Tree and yet the Sun giveth it also power and vertue So also the Divine Sun viz. the Majesty giveth the Image power and vertue Of the Word Omnipotence Numb 17. and Wrath Numb 18. 186. Further at the left standeth Number 17. Omnipotence and it standeth also without or beyond the Circle signifying the Fathers
of Christ for it hath lost body and substance and standeth naked and bare without Divine Substance or Body in God's Mercy or Compassion in the Divine Tincture viz. in the Ninth Number Number 34. and waiteth for the last Judgment wherein God will in the Tincture bring and restore again whatsoever Adam lost but its here-acted works will not go or pass through the Fire but the dark Magick Fire hath swallowed them up into its Mystery into the Dark World Let this be said to thee O Man Souls Eternal Habitation Numb 35. 201. After Ninth Number standeth the Souls Eternal Habitation Number 35. signifying that these escaped Souls are notwithstanding in God in the Angelical World but without their works and cannot so highly attain the Glance or Lustre of the Majesty as those Souls which have here cloathed themselves with God's Power and Vertue The word Habitation goeth into the Liberty without or beyond Nature as also above Image doth for the Soul must stand in Nature but the Images Habitation is without or beyond Nature in the Divine Liberty Angelical World Numb 36. 202. Without or beyond this Habitation standeth the Angelical World Number 36. signifying the Angels Courts and Quires or Princely Thrones in the Liberty of the Divine Majesty where yet their root also standeth IN Nature but is not apprehended Proud Devil Numb 37. Will of the Devil Lucifer Numb 38. 203. At the left in the upper space Number 37. standeth Proud Devil or stubborn Devil with two Lines one reaching up upon the Character or Letter O Number 4. and the other reaching up above the Great Mystery of the Number Three where standeth Will of the Devil Lucifer Number 38. 204. Here is the Devils Fall to be considered he hath brought his proud or stubborn Will up from the Line or Stroak of the Cross aloft and hath willed to rule over or above the Mystery of the Divine Wisdom in wit and cunning suttlety and fierce wrath in the Fires might or power and to kindle the Mystery of the Number Three that he might be Lord As indeed he then kindled the Substantiality in the Mystery whence Earth and Stones have come to be and hath willed to fly out above the Mystery of the Number Three Number 38. as still at this day he desireth to fly out above the Angelical Princes-Thrones Abysse of the Dark World Number 39. Eternal Hell of Devils Number 40. 205. And upon this hath followed his thrusting out from the Divine Mystery so that he is Thrust out from the Superiour Thrones into the Dark Magick fire and is Thrust down below that is into the Abysse of the Dark world For he must dwell externally without the Principle in the Fire-crack viz. in the first Three Forms to Fire in the Anguish there he hath his Hell as below at Number 40. is to be seen and thereinto also the Damned souls fall back so that Eternally they cannot see or behold God The second Cross Line upwards thus †206. Over the line Number 1. above aloft standeth Abysse Eternity signifying the Liberty without or beyond the Principle and thereby is understood the Mystery of the Eternity wherein every Creature standeth in its source or fountain Quality in its own Fire be it in Darkness or Light and hath therein no other Light than shineth within it which light also it apprehendeth Externally without it self there are Both worlds viz. the Light-world and Dark-world are there in one another But the Light becometh not attained unless a creature be capable of it 207. There are Angelical Thrones which we know nothing of Experimentally our knowledge reacheth but only into the Extent of the Place of this world so far as the kindling in the Creation reached and of THAT is this wheel made with the Cross SON Numb 41. and of the Heart 208. Above the upright Line standeth SON and at the Left Angle or Point Number 9. FATHER and at the Right Line Number 14. HOLY SPIRIT signifying the Birth or Geniture and Persons of the Holy Trinity The Heart in the Cross is the Center and ♡ signifyeth the Eternal Band of the Ternary 209. The Word SON Number 41. signifieth the WORD which the Eternal FATHER continually and from Eternity speaketh in the Light and Dark world according to each worlds source or fountain Quality or Property 210. But in that the Three Persons at the Cross are free and touch not the Line it signifieth that God is free from Nature and not in the apprehension of Nature but he dwelleth in himself indeed in Nature but unapprehended by that which doth not give up it self into Him Of the Heart in the Cross 211. The Heart in the Cross signifieth that God's Heart hath manifested it self in Nature by or with the Principle of the Fire whence the Majestick Light originateth Secondly It signifieth the Manifestation or Revelation in the Humanity wherein God's Heart hath manifested it self by or with a Humane Heart and how that Humane Heart hath attained the comprehension of the Holy Trinity As indeed it is the Center in the Cross by which a Man is to understand the Inward Man viz. the Inward Heart 212. And you see that the HOLY SPIRIT at the Right on or in the Line and at Number 14. goeth forth from the Heart into the Light World signifying that the Holy Spirit dwelleth in the Regenerate or New born Heart viz. in the Image and continually introduceth the Images Will into the Divine Light-world And as this Heart in the Cross is united with the Holy Ternary so must the Humane Heart understand the Inward-Man be united with the Deity that God may be in it All in All its Will and Deed. 213. But that the word SON Number 41. above the Cross Line a loft standeth distinguished from the Heart signifieth that the Man Christ is become Lord over all and is the King over this Circle for God hath manifested himself in the Humanity and this Man compriseth the whole Divine Substance in himself for within him and Externally without him is one and the same fulness One God and Divine Substance there is no other place where we can be able to apprehend God then in the Substance of Christ there is the whole fulness of the Godhead or Deity Bodily or Corporeally Heaven Number 42. 214. The Word Heaven on the upright Cross-line Number 42. signifieth that the Heaven is in the Man Christ and also in us and that we must through his Cross and Death go to him into his Heaven which himself is for on the Cross is Heaven become opened to us again or New-born and Regenerated to us Secondly It signifieth that the right or true Divine Heaven is an Habitation of the Divine Desire viz. of the Divine Magia therefore it is called not aningoing but an ingeneration of God's Fire into Divine Substantiality and that even only on the Cross viz. through and in the Birth or Geniture of the Holy
Trinity Pure Element Number 34. 215. The word Pure Element on the Crosse's upper Line Number 43. signifieth the inward world out of which this outward with the Four Elements is become generated forth and standeth in the Inward Root in the Substance thereof Holy Spirit Num. 44. Son Num. 45. 216. Moreover it is to be observed exactly how the Words stand begin and end for they begin on the outward Circle at the Left where above Number 5. the Holy Spirits Character or Letter V. standeth and beneath Number 8. Substance and goeth through the two Circles at the Right even into the second Space which signifieth the Pure Divine Elements Original its indwelling and Substance whence it Originateth viz. from the Spirit of the Eternal Mystery in the Divine Substantiality viz. in the Substance of the Great Mystery and yet is only manifest or revealed in the second Principle viz. in the Substance of the Son and Holy Spirit as above one the Circle at the Right is to be seen Number 44. and 45. Father Numb 46. Holy Spirit of Divine Wisdom and Understanding Numb 47. 217. The Pure Element is the working in the right true Heaven and shutteth it self in and out with or by the Cross it is the springing or flowing moving in the Fire and Light-Heaven from or by with the Divine Substantiality understand Substance and not the Spirit of God is a life for it reacheth not into the Substance of the Father Number 46. where beneath on the Circle standeth Divine Wit or Understanding for the Element giveth or affordeth not divine Wit but the Holy Spirit Number 47. giveth Divine apprehension knowledge or skill and wit or understanding 218. The Element is a Substance in respect of the Deity as the Life in the flesh is understood to be in respect of the Soul For the Tincture is higher and giveth the ENS of the Spirit wherein the Light-Fire is understood Humanity Flesh Numb 48. 219. Under the word Pure Element standeth at Number 27. on the stroak of the upper Line of the Cross Death and the word beginneth laying hold on the left Circle and goeth through the Cross through the first right Circle There observe both the outward Circles at the left and at the right above and beneath and then thou wilt soon find what the right or authority of Death is and how it is the dying source or fountain quality in the Magick Fire and holdeth the Substantiality captive in itself as at the left beneath at Number 8. at the right beneath at Number 4. 8. is to be seen and then above on the same Circle at Number 44. and at the left above at Number 5. there a man seeth how the spiritual Life goeth and sprouteth forth through the Death and possesseth the highest Circle For all whatsoever willeth to reach or attain the Divine Life must go through the Dying Magick Fire and stand or subsist therein as the Heart on the Cross must and doth stand or subsist in the Fire of God 220. Further it is to be known that we in Adam have turned our selves away from the Cross and are with the Desire of Lust or Pleasure gone with our will above the Cross at Number 23. into an Own self Rule or Government and now Death hath captivated us in it self therefore we must now sink down out of Death on the Cross at the Line of Christ again into the Heart and become new born or regenerate in the Heart else Death holds us captive in it self For now Death standeth on the Cross-Line but at the Judgement it shall be given to the Dark World For our Will must now enter through Death on the Cross into Rest but the outward Cross shall be taken away and then Death is a spectacle or scorn and derision 221. Thirdly it signifieth that the Life of God in Christ bare * Death as a shew or spectacle of Triumph on the Cross when Death became broken on the Cross in the dying of Christ where the Life sprouted through Death and the Heart gave up or yeelded it self into the middle viz. into the Center as victorious Lord or Conquerour of Death Paradise Numb 49. 222. Under the Heart at Number 49. standeth Paradise the Word beginneth at the left on the outward Circle where above at Number 5. is marked the Spirit of the Great Mystery of the Profundity or unsearchableness of Eternity viz. V. and it goeth through the Cross at the right through all the Three Circles even into the Liberty this signifieth the constitution or existence of Paradise it originateth in the Mystery of the Eternity and prouteth through the outward and also hrough the Light World hidden in the outward World and manifested or revealed in the second Principle in the Light World as therefore the World penetrateth through all the Three Circles shewing the humane Bodies original Divine Substantiality Numb 50. 223. For in or at this place out of this substance Adams Body understand the outward Body was created according to the Third Principle and the inward Body understand the Images Body out of the Divine Substantiality as at the right near Paradise is marked with Number 50. Christ Flesh Numb 51 52. 224. That very Divine Substance understand Substance not Spirit is included in the Wisdom of God and therein is the heavenly Tincture For God's Word that became Man brought this Substance into Mary into her in Death inclosed Substantiality viz. into the Images Body and thereby God and Man became One Person 225. For this Flesh is Christs Flesh according to the Heavenly part therefore beyond Substantiality standeth Christ's Flesh Number 51 52. Christ bare such Flesh in the Inward Man as Adam had before his Eve was when he stood in the Divine Image in Purity Therefore can no Man go into Paradise unless he attain that Flesh again that Adam had before the Fall and Christ attained in the becoming Man or Incarnation Therefore must we all become born out of the Heart upon the Cross and put on Christ Mystery Numb 53. 226. Under Paradise Number 53. standeth Mysterium Mystery and the word beginneth at the left in the second Circle where above on the same Circle Number 4. the Character or Letter O standeth and beneath Principle and Fire Number 7. and goeth to the right through the Cross through the first Circle at the right This signifieth rightly and exactly Mans Creation according to the Body 227. For the Body is a Mystery taken out of the inward and outward World from above and from beneath understand out of the Earths Matrix This is the Earths Matrix out of this Mystery was it created and a Man seeth how it was created out of the inward and outward Substance viz. out of the dark and light World and is mixt with evil viz. with fierce-wrath and also with Good Wonder Numb 54. Angel Numb 55. Spirit Numb
but the will taketh its Substance doings or works along into it self for they stand in the New Body and follow after it therefore a Man should consider what he doth in this Life The Ninth Form of Fire The great earnest Severity 319. Thus we understand that all proceedeth out of the Beginning and so one goeth out of the other and we understand how the Fire is a cause of the Life and how the Life divides it self into two parts and yet breaketh not but only the outward Life which falleth home back to the Turba which breaketh or destroyeth it therefore we ought to consider wherein it is that the Eternal Life consisteth what its preservation is that the Body breaketh not for Substantiality hath a beginning 320. And yet we can say with good ground that no End is therein for it must have a Ground else it belongeth to the Turba which findeth the Limit the Eternal Body must stand in no Limit but be free in the Abyss in the Eternal Nothing else there would be another substance or thing again in that substance or thing which would cut that assunder and make a Limit 321. It is said before how all must go or pass quite through the Fire that will endure Eternally for that which remaineth in the Fire the Turba taketh that there is no spirit created in the Fire that it should remain in the Fire 322. Only the Turba hath captivated mary of them but not from or by God's will or purpose for God's will is only Love but the Turba is his Anger-will which hath with its vehement hunger brought a great Kingdom of its Manifestation or Revelation into his wonders viz. the Devils and wicked Souls of Men. 323. But being the Eternal Life standeth in Meekness and hath no Death nor Turba in it Therefore we must needs say that the Soul and Spirit stand not in the Turba especially the Soule Body else the Turba would break or destroy it 324. To be understood as above mentioned thus that the Will in the Anguish-source or quality in the Fire understand the Souls Will sinketh down into it self viz. into Death and should not live in the Fire and then that very Will falleth into another will viz. into the Beginning or to express it better into the Free Eternity into the Eternal Nothing where there is no source or quality or pain nor nothing that can either give or receive it 325. But now there is in the sunkdown will no dying for it is gone out from the fiery Beginning in the Eye and so bringeth its Life into another Principle and dwelleth in the Liberty and yet hath all Forms of the Essences out of the Fire in it self but unperceptibly for it is gone quite out from the Fire 326. Therefore its Life of its Essences are in the Liberty and is also desirous and receiveth in the Desiring into its Essences the Power or Vertue of the Light which shineth in the Liberty that is Power or Vertue without Turba for that Fire is only Love which consumeth not but continually desireth and satiateth so that the will of the Soul attracteth a Body 327. For the Will is a Spirit and the Soul is the great Life of the Spirit which upholdeth or preserveth the Spirit thus the Soul becometh indued with Power and Vertue and dwelleth in Two Principles as God himself doth and according to the outward in Three Principles and is the Similitude of God 328. The inward Water in the Spirit of the Soul is the Water of the Eternal Life concerning which Christ saith Whosoever drinketh of the Water that I give him he will never thirst more this is that Water 329. The Substantiality of the Spirit which becometh put on to the Soul is Gods Christs Body concerning which he saith Whosoever eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood continueth in Me and I in Him 330. But the right true Life in the Light of the Majesty in the Ninth-Number is the Virgin Tincture it is a Fire and yet not a Fire it burneth but consumeth not it is the Love the Meekness the Humility this is God's Life the Holy Souls Life an uncorruptible Life and an unsearchable Life for it standeth in the Abyss in it self there is a Center therein which Center is its First Life and yet it doth not comprehend it as the Fire doth not comprehend the Light 331. Thus the Ninth Number is the Life in the Fire of God and is called the Life in the presence of the Number Three As an Angel which standeth before the Cross to or for God's Deeds of Wonder and to or for the Manifestation of the Heavenly Honour and Glory The Tenth Number and Form of Fire The Gate into the Holy Ternary 332. We know in Reason that where there is a Root therein also is a desirous will as viz. the Noble Tincture which driveth upwards and forwards and seeketh a Similitude according to its Form 333. The Tincture is a Virgin and is known or apprehended in God's Wisdom in the Wonders It is no Genetrix but an opener or manifester of the Wonders which stand in the Wisdom it seeks no Looking-Glass but meerly openeth or discovereth the Essences that so a total Similitude may generate or produce it self out of the Essences it driveth the Twig or Branch out of the Tree 334. This we understand as to Angels and Souls which are proceeded out of God's Essences out of the total Tree the Angels out of two Principles and the Soul with the Body of the outward Life out of Three Principles And therefore Man is higher dignified than the Angels if he continue in God 335. And in the Tenth Number upon the Cross are the Angels and Souls awakned and become corporised in the Heavenly Substantiality although the Tenth Number belongeth to the place between the Fift and the Sixt but in a Globe to be understood so that the Heart is in the midst in the Center which is God's Heart that is God's Word the Power and Vertue in or of the whole Tree as the Kernel or Pith in the Wood hath the Essences Vertue or Condition of the whole Tree 336. Thus God is a Spirit and the Word is his Heart which he speaketh forth out of all Powers or Vertues and Wonders therefore Isaiah calleth it * Wonder Council Power Prince of Peace viz. a Pacifier of the Anger and an Eternal Power of Wonders a Counsellour of the Genetrix 337. For the Word upholdeth or preserveth the Center of Nature is a Heart and Lord of Nature it is the Genetrix in God's Eye a Giver of the Power and Vertue and the strength of the Omnipotence It holdeth the Fire-Center captive with the Love-Fire so that it must be dark in it self and the Word hath only the Light-Life 338. We cannot apprehend the Tenth-Number any otherwise then that it is a Cross and is the Original of the Substance of all Substances which Substance parteth it self into Three
with its Will Property be directed and inclined to be in God 5. But all Properties lye in it it may awaken and let in what it will and whatsoever then it awakeneth and letteth in that is acceptable to God if it stand converted with its will into Humility and into Obedience into God's Love then may it do what wonders it will it standeth or serveth all to Gods Honour and Glory The Third Question How the Soul is created to the Image of God 1. IT is clearly shewn that the Number Three with all the Three Principles hath pleased or longed to have a Total Similitude in Substance and Property according to the Sustance of all Substances 2. And the pleasure or longing to have that hath become awakened in Gods Heart as a Great Wonder 3. And that awakening was the harsh or astringent Fiat viz. the desirous attraction which hath drawn out of ALL into ONE and is become an Image according to the Similitude of God according to Heaven and this World and also according to the Anger-World It hath created all viz. the Total Fiat in verbo Domini in the Word of the Lord out of God's and out of the Anger-Kingdom 4. And as there is nothing higher than the Soul so there is nothing that can break it for all is under it and in it it is a child of the Total Substance of all Substances Thus it was created The Fourth Question What the Breathing in of the Soul is and when it is done 1. EVery Spirit without a Body is raw or void and knoweth not it self therefore every Spirit desireth a Body for its food and for its habitation 2. Now being God had before the Soul created the Third Principle as a Looking-Glass of the Deity therefore was the Looking-Glass clearly appendant to the Eternal for it was generated out of the Eternal Wonders and so created Therefore also the Third Principle would not leave the Soul free being it also was created out of God's Wonders and stood in the Beginning as a Figure in God's Wisdom and desired seeing it was material that it also might have a material Similitude in or on the Soul so stirred up in the Souls Creation also its Spirit together in the Fiat 3. And there was the outward Image according to the Spirit of this World laid hold on by the outward Fiat and became a Body created out of the Earths Matrix A Mesch a Mixture a Red Earth consisting of Fire and Water 4 And the Heavenly Matrix longed also after the Soul and would that the Soul should bear its Image and with the Bodies creation laid hold of its own Fiat and did create before the earthly Fiat created that was the First for out of the Center of the Word went the Fiat forth with the Word thus was the Third Principle Created in the Second 5. The Virgin-Wisdom surrounded the Souls Spirit first with heavenly Substantiality with heavenly Divine Flesh and the holy Spirit gave the heavenly Tincture which made heavenly Blood in the Water as in our Third Book is mentioned at large 6. Thus stood the inward Man in Heaven and its Essences were Paradisical its glance in the inward Eye was Majesty an incorruptible Body that could understand God's and the Angels Language the Language of Nature as is to be seen in Adam that he gave all Creatures their Names every one according to its Essence and Property he stood thus in the outward Image and yet knew not the outward Image by Experience as indeed the outward Body hath no apprehension 7. In this Twofold Body which was created on the Sixt Day on the Sixt hour of the Day even in the Hour when Christ was hanged on the Cross was the Kingly or Royal Soul after the finishing of the Body breathed in by the holy Spirit into the Heart into the holy Man into its Principle like an awakening of the Deity 8. The Third Number hath moved it self with the Souls breathing in for it was upon the Center in the Seed as a sprout of the springing of the Essences thus it was breathed in into the inward Center into the inward Man into the Heavenly Heart-blood into the Water of the Eternal Life with all the two inner Principles 9. And the Outward Spirit viz. the Air with the total outward Principle with Stars and Elements hung to the Inward and the outward Spirit breatheth into him its life together also with the Soul through the Nostrils into the Heart into the outward Heart into the Earthly Flesh which yet was not so Earthly for it became corporeal out of the Matrix out of the seeking out of which the Earth came to be 10. Thus the Holy Spirit rode upon the Souls Chariot upon the Inward Majestick Will and moved upon the Water for the Water comprehended him not therefore he moved upon it and in it it is all one and the Soul did burn or flame out of the Heart-blood as the Light out of a Candle and went through all the Three Principles as a King over his Country or Dominion 11. It could potently rule over the outward Principle if it were with its will entered again into the Heart of God into the Word of the Lord. 12. Also the Source or Quality of the fierce Wrath did thus together press in with the Breathing in viz. with the Original of the Soul 13. And the Soul could not otherwise continue to be God's Image unless it continue in Humility and Obedience and incline or set its will into God's Will wherein it was an Angel and God's Child else there was great danger for a Creature to over-power two Principles viz. the Angry and the Outward which was generated out of the Anger 14. Therefore its Temptation was not the mere biting of an Apple and hath endured for a few hours only but Forty Dayes so long as Christ was tempted in the Wilderness and even by all the Three Principles and Israel in the Wilderness when Moses was Forty Dayes upon the Mount when they also stood not but made a Calf The Fifth Question How the Soul is peculiarly formed and fashioned or framed 1. VVHen a Twig or Branch groweth out of a Tree then its Fashion or Shape is from the Tree it is not the Stock or the Root but yet its Form is like the Tree So also when a Mother breedeth a Child it is an Image of her 2. And that cannot otherwise be for there is nothing else that can make it otherwise unless it be fallen back home to the Turba which often awaketh a Monster according to the Spirit of this World according to its beginning or inceptive Maker viz. the Moon where the Fiat maketh a Moon-Monster in the Turba 3. Thus we are to apprehend and know in what Form it is viz. of a round Globe according to God's Eye through which the Cross goeth or pierceth and parteth it self into two parts viz. into Two
Spirit of this World 19. By which then the Image in the Spirit becometh attered all according to what is contained in the Will which the Soul hath framed or contrived or brought forth out of the Center also out of the Fierce Wrath into the Light viz. according to the Imagination 20. And we give you to understand that the Spirit can alter it self in this Time of the Body which is done without its knowledge or apprehension through the Imagination viz. through the seeking Lust or Longing Pleasure and Delight where the desiring figureth such a Form in the Souls Will as the lust or longing Pleasure is to Evil or Good 21. And we say that the pure Soul is not corporeal but there groweth a Body in the Tincture either heavenly or hellish and yet it is no palpable body according to the outward but a Power-Body God's Body Christ's Heavenly Body heavenly Flesh which Christ giveth us to eat in his Testament 22. It is a Body which the Turba cannot touch or apprehend it is immortal unfadable comprised in Nothing but only in the noble or pretious Tincture which is without substance and this body is to the outward Flesh incomprehensible 23. But the Outward Spirit if the Soul do not hinder it but letteth it in bringeth its Imagination thereinto and covereth vaileth or obscureth it so that another strange Image cometh to be in the Spirit in the Tincture according to the contents or condition of the longing Pleasure or lust viz. a Covetous of a Wolf an Envious of a Dog a Proud of a Horse Peacok or other Beast or living Creature also of Toads Adders Vipers Serpents other Worms or creeping things which Image God's Spirit so long as it standeth or continueth so doth not receive or accept 24. And therefore Christ saith You must be born anew of Water and the Spirit if you would see the Kingdom of God and therefore God became Man and brought the divine Image again into the Souls Tincture being it was perished in Adam so that now we must be born anew in Christ if we will see God 25. And this is done through the Imagination or Faith or Believing for believing is eating of God's Body and every Body groweth by eating 26. And the New-Birth is not in such a Manner as Babel teacheth her Matters are only a Looking-Glass of the right and true way into God which Looking-Glass must be broken For Moses his cover or vail is done away we should see further with clear Paradisical Eyes understand thus much ye Children of God The Eighth Question In what Manner the Soul cometh into Man or into the Body 1. THis Question I understand of the Souls Propagation For how it came into Adam Moses telleth you and it is mentioned above but because you ask concerning its Propagation how it cometh into a Child in the Mothers Womb we must put on another Habit or Garment 2. In our Third Part it is written very exactly and at large with many Circumstances concerning its Propagation how Adam was created in an Image He was Man and Woman before his Eve he had the fires and waters Tincture that is Soul and Spirit and should have generated his like an Image of himself out of himself through his Imagination and own Love and this he could have done without disrupture 3. For as it is above mentioned that the Soul hath such might or ability to change the Body into another Form so it hath also had ability to generate a Branch out of it self according to its Property if Adam had stood out the tryal or Proba 4. But being he imagined after or desired the Omnipotence and let the Spirit of this World into the Soul into the Tincture and the Serpent and gazed on the Earthly Fruit longing to eat of Evil and Good then also his Tincture conceived such an Image viz. a Monster which was half earthly thereinto also instantly the Turba insinuated it self and sought the Limit 5. Thus the noble or pretious Image was found in the Earthly where then Fragility Corruption and Death Began and Adam could not then generate for his Omnipotency was lost 6. And would indeed for ever have been lost if the Heart of God had not suddenly with the Word of Promise turned in it self into Adams Soul which so preserved it that so Adams Image must break and the Soul with the heavenly Body sink down through Death into the New-Life where its Spirit became renewed again 7. Thus Adam fell into inability into sleep and the other or second Creation began for God took the Waters Tincture as in a Twig or Branch out of Adams Soul and a Rib out of Adam and the Half Cross in Adam and framed a Woman out of it 8. As ye know that the Woman hath the one half Cross in her Head and the Man the other for in the Head in the Brain dwelleth the Souls Spirit out of which God hath taken a Branch viz. a Child out of Adams Souls Spirit and given it to the Woman that she should not generate or bring forth Devils 9. And the Man hath the Fires Tincture viz. the right true Original of the Life 10. And therefore hath the Woman gotten the Matrix viz. Venus's Tincture and the Man the Fires-Tincture understand the Woman hath the Lights-Tincture which can awaken no Life the Life standeth in the Fires-Tincture 11. But now being it could not be otherwise they must propagate in a Beastial Manner in Two Seeds the Man soweth Soul and the Woman Spirit and is being it is sown in an Earthly Soyl or Field conceived or hatched after the kind and man-of all Beasts 12. And yet nevertheless all the Three Principles are in the Seed but the Inward is not knowable or apprehensible to the Outward for in the Seed there is no living Soul but when the Two Tinctures come together then it is wholly in Substance for the Soul is in the Seed Essential and in the Conception or Hatching it becometh Substantial 13. For so soon as the Fire is struck up by Vulcan then is the Soul in the Substance wholly perfect and presently the Spirit goeth out of the Soul in the Tincture forth and draweth the outward Dominion viz. the Stars with or by the Air. 14. And thus is an Eternal Child and and hath also the frail or corruptible Spirit with the Turba hanging to it which Adam through his Imagination took in 15. And there the Turba instantly seeth the Limit in the Spirit of this World and will enter into the limit then is the Body old enough as soon as the Soul hath its Life to dye also many a Soul perisheth in the Essence while it is a Seed in the Sulphur 16. But you are to observe this that the Man hath the Fires Tincture and the Woman the Lights Tincture in the Water viz. Venus's Tincture as is to be understood by both their vehement Imagination one towards another for
the Seed in the Essence seeketh vehemently the Life the Masculine in the Feminine in Venus and and the Feminine in the Fire in the Original of the Life As we have very clearly explained it in the Third Part to which we refer the Reader 17. And we give you for Answer that the Soul cometh not at all or is breathed in from without into the Body but the Three Principles have each of them its own workmaster the one forgeth or striketh Fire in the Center and maketh the Center of Nature and the other Tincture and Fire and the Third Mysterium Magnum the Great Mystery Earthly 18. And yet is nothing new but the Seed of Man and of Woman is that very thing and in the Mixture it becometh conceived or hatched there groweth only a Twig or Branch out of the Tree The Ninth Question In What Manner the Soul uniteth it self with the Body 1. THis is explained above that all the Three Principles are in one another and they generate a Child like themselves all stand one in another till the Turba breaketh the Body and then the Soul standeth in the inward Body viz. in God's Body or if it be false or wicked it is in the Turba which giveth it a Body according to the Imagination all according to the the here-acted or committed Abominations 2. The Soul standeth in the Blood of the Heart there it hath its seat and original the outward Water and Blood mixeth it self but it doth not wholly captivate the Water of the Blood but with the Imagination it is captivated 3. Indeed it naturally captivateth the inward Water but the Light of the Majesty together with the Lights-Tincture it captivateth not but only through the Imagination therefore a Child is often more blessed than one that is old who hath the Devil for an Inmate 4. But there are not many born holy but only out of or from good seed where yet oftentimes according to some potent or mighty strong Constellation a fierce wrathful Turba insinuateth it self as is to be seen that often honest or godly Parents have evil Children but God knoweth who are his 5. This a Man may see by Jacob and Esau who strove in the Mothers Womb also by Cain and Abel Isaac and Ishmael and many others The Tenth Question Whether the Soul be Ex Traduce by Production and humanely Corporeally propagated or every time newly created and breathed in from God 1. IT is a high Wonder to me what kind of Understanding Philosophy the World hath that it cannot resolve this though hereby I do not blame you for I know that such Questions pass among the Learned in the Schools where Men continually dispute contend and their arrogant blindness must needs be a wonder to me that there is altogether no knowledge of God in Reason 2. Here behold your selves ye wise Men what ye are or what ye understand even nothing at all of the Mystery how will you then be Teachers a Shepherds Crook were better in your hands then for you to put on the Garment of Christ 3. O ye shall give a severe accompt for seducing the World leading it astray and yet ye boast and set up your selves as if ye were God and ascribe to your selves Divine Power Authority see what you do you shall see against whom you have kicked I fear that ye are for the most part of you in Babel awake it is day 4. But to you my beloved Friend it is answered that the Soul is not every time newly created and breathed in but is humanely propagated as a Branch groweth out of a Tree or as I may better render it as a Man setteth Grain or soweth Corn and so a Spirit and Body groweth or sprouteth out of it 5. And this only is the difference that the Three Principles are ever wrestling about Man each of them would fain have him so that many times a wonderful Turba becometh introduced while it is yet a Seed 6. But where the Parents have Christ's Flesh God's Substantiality in their Souls so that Father and Mother are so there it cannot be for Christ saith A good Tree cannot bring forth bad Fruit but the Turba can with or by Reason in this time get or enter thereinto 7. So also an evil Tree cannot bring forth good Fruit that is when the Parents are both evil and captivated by the Devil then an Evil Soul is sowen But the Principles cannot yet judge it nor the Turba cannot it is indeed an evil Child but CAN if it convert through its Imagination enter in Verbum Domini into the Word of the Lord. 8. But it is rare and seldom done that out of a black Raven a white one comes to be yet where it is halfe in halfe there it may more easily be done yet it is possible it may well be done God casteth no soul away unless it cast it self away every soul is its own judgement 9. Observe this ye evil Parents ye gather or procure Money for your Children gather or procure Good Souls for them that is more necessary for them The Eleventh Question How and in What Place the Souls seat in Man is 1. A Thing that is without Ground and yet seeketh and maketh a Ground in it self hath its original and seat in the first compaction or comprehension where it compriseth it self in it self there is the limit in the most innermost and it goeth forth out of it self and seeketh forward where then it maketh one Looking-Glass after another till it findeth the first again viz. the unsearchable limit 2. Thus also is the Soul it is comprized by God in the Heart and the VVord which compriseth it was in the Heart viz. in the Center thus it continued in the Figure and Seat as it was comprised by the Fiat and is so to this day 3. It dwelleth in the Three Principles but the Heart is its Original in the Heart therein in the inward Blood of the Heart it is the inward Fire and in the Tincture is its Spirit which hath a Glimps from the Fire for it is surrounded with the Tincture and burneth in the Heart 4. And the Spirit moveth upon the Heart in the Pit or Concavity of the Heart where the two Principles sever themselves and burneth in the Tincture as a Brimstone-Light and distributeth it self further forth in the whole Body into all the Members for the Tincture goeth through all the Members 5. But the right and true Fire-Smith in the Center sitteth on the Heart and carryeth his dominion with or by the Spirit into the Head and hath his carnal house viz. the Mind and Thoughts and the Five Prince-Counsellors viz. the Five Senses which exist out of the Five Spirits of the Original as we have mentioned in the Third Book as also in the Second and in the First 6. The Soul sitteth indeed in the inward Principle but it ruleth also in the outward viz. in the
Noah what should a scorner do with the Mystery he seeketh only for plenty to Eat and to Drink and looketh how he may satisfie his Pomp wherewith he might Ride on in Babel 42. Thus my Beloved Friend we have given you a short hint of the Enochian Life also what his Office and Condition is as also of Moses and Elias you should further consider of them as a discerning Man for we dare not speak otherwise of it also our Understanding and Will is turned into such a way of Speech and in this place at this time I am not allowed to write more fundamentally with a simple understanding 43. If God permit and that it be given to Us to write somewhat upon the first and also the second Book of Moses more may be opened for the Names that are set down of the Fathers before the Deluge or Flood belong all to the Mystery and there are Great Wonders therein when it will be Day then you shall by them apprehend the whole Course of the World The Six and Thirtieth Question What the Soul of the Messiah or Christ is 1. THis we have explained in our Third Book concerning the Three-fold Life of Man yet seeing every one that readeth this hath not that at hand also because of the Question more must be answered therefore it also shall be set down for you ask in the following Question concerning Christ's Spirit which was obedient and which Christ Commended to his Father 2. Here shall be given to the Old sick Adam a Good reviving Cordial a Medicine for Death that he may be awakened for his Mother will bear or bring forth a young Son who shall live in her Bosom and shall rejoyce at it 3. And now if we will consider of Christ's Soul we must our selves seek it and find it for Christ's Soul is a Hamane Soul conceived in Mary in the twofold Virgin 4. Though we acknowledge the outward Mortal Life in Mary for no Pure Virgin for that which is Mortal hath the Anger and the Turba which breaketh or corrupteth all purity so that no pure Virgin is born of Eve but all are her Daughters 5. And Eve her self was but half a Virgin for Adam was the other half according to the Two Tinctures wherein man appeared in a total entire Virgin and pure Love and God through him as the Original through the Creature which he made out of himself 6. And thus also in one whole or entire person there is a pure Love and Chastity for it seeketh no other Mixture it is it self the Mixture of both the Tinctures viz. of the Souls Tincture and of the Spirits Tincture and therein is power and ability that it can generate a Spirit out of the Fires Tincture which is called Soul and Spirit 7. Which Adam squandred away when he let the Earthly Life captivate him and therefore he must be broken and a Woman be made out of him which must set her Love Delight Longing and Imagination into Adams Tincture if she would be impregnate with a Soul 8. And None can say that Eve before the Touching of Adam was a pure Chast Virgin for as soon as Adam awaked out of sleep he saw her standing by him and imagined suddenly after or into her and took her to him and said This is Flesh of my Flesh and Bone of my Bone she shall be called a she-Man or Woman because she is taken out of Man 9. And she Eve also suddenly Imagined into Adam and one kindled the other in the seeking 10. And where is now the pure Chastity and Modesty It is not Beastial is not the outward Image become a Beast As is sufficiently to be seen in the Will and Substance or Doings that Man doth as a Beast and more foolishly for he hath Reason and rideth on in Reason so senslesly 11. But that it might be remedied and the Image come into One again therefore is the Word which spake the Soul forth out of God's Mouth and by the Holy Spirit breathed it into the Image become Man and is entred into the Earthly Image viz. into the Turba of Destruction 12. And you know very well that the Word hath the Water of the Eternal Life and the Fire of the Deity and out of the Fire the Tincture of the Deity and in the Tincture the Spirit of God which goeth forth out of God's Mouth and in the going forth is the Glance of the Majesty in the working of the Spirit Manifested 13. That very word is in the Virgin of the Wisdom of God and surrounded with the Eternal Wonders and that now out of the Great Love and Humility towards our Image which was destroyed to us in Adam is entered into us again and is in Mary understand in the Earthly Mary but with the Blessing become Man or Incarnate 14. The Blessing is this that to the Soul of Mary the Heavenly Virgin the Wisdom of God was put on which Adam had lost and therefore the Angel called her the Blessed a-among Women 15. No Woman from Adam to this Day had the Heavenly Virgin put on to her but only this Mary and therefore with the Blessing she became Chast and full of Modesty for the Spirit goeth not into the Earthly it Mixeth it self not with the Looking-Glass for that cannot be that the Looking-Glass should be as the Life it self 16. Thus understand us dearly according to its precious Depth Mans Soul is out of God and out of the Eternal but Mans Body is a Looking-Glass of the Eternal Thus hath God put on to the Virgin Mary God's Virgin but in the Souls Principle not in the Earthly Flesh as if she were Deified no she must die as all mankind doth 17. And in that very Virgin hath Gods Word out of God the Fathers Heart assumed the Seed of the Woman viz. the Souls Seed and the first Images Seed which now stood so long time in the Mystery broken 18. And now God's Life came thereinto made again a whole or Entire Image for the Water of the Eternal Life out of God's Heart mixed it self with the Souls Spirit 's Water for the Spirit existeth out of the Water and the Soul is Fire 19. Thus the Word took hold of the Souls Tincture and the Holy Spirit of the Spirits Tincture viz. of the Waters Tincture and out of Both became one Soul and yet the Creature remained distinct from God's Spirit but God's Spirit dwelleth therein and so out of God's Water and Tincture and out of the Seed of Mary out of her Tincture and Water in the high Blessing came one Flesh and Blood so that a Heavenly Man Equally at once in the Earthly became Man or was Incarnate 20. So that a Man might say this is the Womans Son viz. Maries right true bodily natural Sonne with Soul and Body with Flesh and Blood and all whatsoever a Man hath and also God's true Sonne which was generated out of God's Eternal Substance from
Lord but only Christ who will dwell with us and we shall be in one Communion with the Angels Our Fruits will Spring and grow to us there according to our Desire and Wish 7. There will be no old Age there but a Man of a Hundred Years will be as a Child newly Born and live in meer delight of Love 8. All whatsoever is Joy will be sought after and which way soever one can procure Joy to another to that is his will enclined 9. We shall lead a Holy Priestly Life and all speak of God's Wisdom and Eternal Wonders for the Divine Magia hath Wonders without Number the more is sought the more is therein and that is the Multiplication and increase or procreation of the VVill of God 10. And to this End hath God manifested himself in Images Created as in Angels and Men that so he might have Joy in himself and rejoyce himself with his Lifes-Essences Eternally Hallelujah Conclusion 11. THus my beloved Friend is set down a round Answer to your Questions according to our Gifts and we exhort you Brotherly not to despise us in respect of our simple Speech and Incongruity 12. For we are not born of Art but of simplicity and speak great things with simple Words take it as a Bounty of God you will find so much therein and more then in the High Art of the Best Eloquence unless they also be born or Generated from this School whom we will not undervalue but acknowledge them for our Beloved Brethren in Christ with whom we expect Eternally to rejoyce in the Heavenly School of which we here have attained a little foretaste 13. And here Our knowledge is only in part but when we shall attain the whole perfection then will we say what God IS and CAN DO AMEN ANNO 1620. Jacob Behme A Short Summary Appendix concerning the Soul and its Image and of the Turba which destroyeth the Image Written in High-Dutch Anno. 1620 by Jacob Behme called Teutonicus Philosophus Printed in the Year 1665. Of the Soul and of its Image and of the Turba which destroyeth the Image A short Summary Appendix which in the other Books is written of more at Large and Fundamentally 1. THe Soul is an Eye in the Eternal Abysse a similitude of the Eternity a Total Figure and Image according to the first Principle and is like God the Father according to his Person according to the Eternal Nature 2. It s Essence and Substantiality as to what it is purely of it self is first the VVheel of Nature with the first four Forms 3. For the Word of the Lord with the Eternal Fiat comprised the Soul in the Eternal Will of the Father in the Center of the Eternal Nature and opened it by the Holy Spirit or blew it up as a Fire which hath lien in the Eternity wherein from Eternity stood all the Forms of the 〈…〉 and were only apprehend ed in the Wisdom in the Divine Magia as a Figure or Image without Substance from Eternity 4. Yet that thing was not Substantial but Essential and was apprehended in the Principle in the Flash of Lightning where the Fire originateth but the Shadow of it hath fashioned it self into a Figured Image in the Desirous VVill of God and hath stood before the Number Three of God in the Magia in the VVisdom of God as a similitude of the Holy Trinity in which as in a Looking-Glass God hath manifested or revealed himself 5. The Substance and Image of the Soul is to be considered in a fair Flower that springeth out of the Earth and in the Fire and Light as men see that the Earth is a Center and yet No Life but it is Essential and out of it groweth a fair flower which is not like the Earth also it hath not the Smell and Tast thereof much less its Figure and yet the Earth is the Mother of the Flowers 6. Thus is the Soul also discovered out of the Center of Nature out of the Eternal Essence with the VVord Fiat in the VVill of God and held or preserved in the Fiat so that is a Fire-Eye and a 〈…〉 of the First Principle discovered in a Creaturely Form and Substance 7. And our of this Eye is gone forth the Glance of its Fire as a Lightout of the Fire and in that Glance of its own Fire was the Eternal Image seen which is in the VVisdom of God and comprised by the VVill of the Heart of God in the second Principle understand by the VVord Fiat of the Second Principle in the Love and Power or Vertue of the Holy Trinity in which the Holy Spirit goeth forth 8. Thus is the Soul become a Total similitude and Image of the Holy Trinity where a Man is to understand the Soul to be the Center of Nature and its Fire-Life to be the first Principle but the Sprout or the Image of the Soul which is a Similitude of God groweth forth out of the Soul as a Flower out of the Earth and is comprised by the Holy Spirit for it is his Habitation 9. If the Soul putteth forth its Image understand out of the Fire Source or Quality into the Light of God then it receiveth the Light as the Moon doth the Glance of the Sun and thus its Image standeth in the Majesty of God and it self viz. the Soul in the Light of God and its Fire-source becometh changed into Meekness and desirous Love wherein it is acknowledged for God's Child 10. But being the Soul is Essential and its own Substance a Desiring therefore it is apprehensible that it standeth in two Fiats the one is its Corporeal Propriety and the other is the second Principle out of the Will of God which standeth in the Soul in which God desireth IT for his Image and Similitude 11. Besides God's Desiring is like a Fiat in the Center of the Soul and it continually frameth or inclineth the Will of the Soul towards the Heart of God for the delight or longing of God willeth to have the Soul on the Contrary the Center in the Fires-Might willeth also to have it 12. For the Life of the Soul Originateth in the Fire therefore now there is strife about the Image of the Soul and that form or quality that overcometh whether it be the Fire or the Meekness of the Love according to that is the Soul qualified or conditioned and out of the Soul such an Image appeareth as the Will of the Soul is qualified 13. And we are to know that if the Will of the Soul Altereth then its Form becometh altered also for if the quality or source of the Soul be fiery then also appeareth such a fiery Image out of it 14. But if the Soul in the Center Imagineth into the stern harshness and bitterness then its fair Image becometh captivated with the Dark harshness and infected with the harsh fierce wrath 15. And then is that fierce wrath become a Turba which possesseth the Image and destroyeth the
similitude of God for in God is Love-Light Meekness and in this Image is Darkness Harshness and Bitterness and its Essential Quality is Fire out of the fierce wrathful Essences and so this Image as long as it standeth in such a Quality and Form in the Darkness belongeth not unto God's Kingdom 16. Further in the Fire ye have a similitude of the Soul the Soul is an Essential Fire and the Flash of the Fire maketh in it the Life the Soul resembleth a fire-Globe or a fire-Eye 17. Now the burning fire in the source or quality signifieth the first Principle and the Life whereas yet the fire is not the Life but the quality or Pain-Spirit which existeth in the Anguish of the fire which goeth forth out of the fire like Air that is the Right Fountain Quality or Source-Spirit of the fire-Life which continually bloweth up the fire again so that it burneth 18. Now the fire giveth forth a shining and Light forth out of the quality or source which dwelleth in the quality or source and shineth forth from it and yet the quality or source comprehendeth not the Light that comprehendeth not the second Principle wherein the Deity dwelleth 19. For Men apprehend that the Power and Vertue is in the Light and not in the fire the fire giveth only to the Light Essences and the Life or the Light giveth Meekness and the Substantiality viz. Water 20. Now we understand that in the Light is an amiable Life without source or pain and yet there is a source or pain in it but not perceptible it is no other then a longing Delight or Love-Desire 21. Where we apprehend that source or quality to be a Tincture in which the growing and Blossoming of flowers springeth up and yet the fire is the cause of it and the Meekness is the Cause of the Substantiality for the Love-desire in the Light draweth and retaineth it so that it is a Substance but the fires desire consumeth the Substantiality 22. And we are to conceive of the Soul thus as to what concerns the Soul solely and purely in the Center it is an Essential fire in the Eye of Eternity and yet that Eye is desirous viz. a Figure and Image according to the Wisdom of God 23. And in its desiring in its Imagination standeth the Image for the Word Fiat hath laid hold of it that it might be a similitude according to the Eternal Wisdom of God in which he dwelleth in which he may manifest himself with his Spirit and whatsoever hath been in his Eternal Wheel Orb Sphere or Globe 24. Thus the Majesty of God flameth in the Image in the Essential Fire if the Essential Fire introduceth its desire into the Majesty but if not then is the Image Row and Naked without God and the Tincture becometh false or evil 25. For the Image standeth in the Tincture and Originateth in the Tincture in the Light not in the fire source quality or pain as God's Heart or Word taketh its Original in the Light of the Majesty in the Eternal Fires-Tincture of the Father and so also doth the Image of the Soul 26. The Image dwelleth in the Fire of the Soul as the Light dwelleth in the Fire but it hath another Principle as also the Light is another source or quality then the Fire 27. Thus the right and true Image of God dwelleth in the Light of the fire of the Soul which Light the fiery Soul must frame in the Love Fountain in the Majesty through its Imagination and glving up 28. And if the Soul doth it not but Imagineth in it self in its fierce wrathful Form to the fire source quality or pain and not in the Love Fountain in the Light of God then ariseth its own source or quality of its harshness sowerness and bitterness and the Image of God becometh a Turba which swalloweth up the Image of God in the fierce wrath 29. And then the sower Fiat in the fiery Essence of the Soul figureth or frameth an Image for the Soul according to its Imagination in the Will so that whatsoever the Essential Fire of the Soul desireth that becometh Imagined in the Soul viz. Earthly Figures whereinto the Will of the Heart casteth it self and such an Image the Fiat of the Soul maketh understand according to the ability or power of the Third Principle according to the Spirit of the Stars and Elements 30. Seeing the will of the Soul casteth it self into the Kingdom of this World therefore now the outward Kingdom hath power and ability to introduce its Imagination into the Inward Principle and if the Inward Fiat discovereth that in the fire of the Soul then it becometh impregnated therewith and retaineth the same 31. And now the Soul hath a Beastial Image according to the third Principle and it cannot be broken in Eternity unless the Soul with its will goeth out again from the Earthly Lust longing or delight and press into the Love of God again and then it getteth God's Image again which can only be done in this Life while the Soul standeth is in its own Aother or soyl in the growing of its Blossom or flower Essentially and after this Life it cannot be 32. Thus we give you to understand what the Soul Spirit Image and Turba is the Soul dwelleth in it self and is an Essential Fire and its Image standeth in it self in its Imagination in its Light so far as it cleaveth to God if not then it standeth in Anxiety in the fierce wrath of the Darkness and is a Visards Image and an Image of the Devil 33. It s Turba which breaketh the Divine Image is the Essential fierce wrathfulness and it is done through the Imagination or false or wicked Love and Imagining therefore it lyeth wholly in the Imagination whatsoever a Man letteth into his desire in that standeth the Image 34. And it is highly necessary for Men continually to strive against the Earthly Reason in flesh and Blood and give up his Spirit and Will to the Mercy and Love of God and continually cast himself into God's Will and NOT account Earthly Goods or Pleasure its Treasure and so set its desire therein which destroyeth its Noble or Pretious Image for that is a Turba of the Image of God and bringeth Beastial properties into the Image 35. In sum Christ saith where your Treasure is there is your heart also and according to that will God Judge the Secrets of Mankind and seperate the clean from the unclean and give that which is false or wicked to the Turba of the fire to be devoured and that which is Holy which is Entered into God he will introduce into his Kingdom AMEN FINIS * * Inward Sabbath of Rest and satisfaction in his Soul * * Outward Reason or Reason judging on things discerned no further than by the outward senses ††Dan. 2. 26. to the 30. * * Gen. 41. 16. ††According to the Reason of the outward-man
†Shadow Representation or Resemblance * * Sphear or Globe * * Mark 10. 24. * * John 4. 14. ††John 6. 56. Isa 9. 6. * * Or Representation ††Shone forth * * Or Representation * * Joh. 1. 16. * * Rom. 8. 16. * * All outward Works are the Wonders of God in this World * * Three-fold Life * * Gen. 2. 19 20. ††Note the Hour when Christ was hanged on the Cross * * Mat. 27. 45. Mark 15. 33. * * Gen. 2. 7. * * Or a Menstruous Monster * * Or halves The halves set forward are two Eys ††††As two Halves of one whole Circled Rain-bow * * Or two Rain-Bows ††Or Goodness ††Mat. 12. 34. * * Mat. 17. 20. ††The strong desire is faith * * Or Representation * * 1 Cor. 15. 51. ††Stoltyen Obstinate o o 2. Kings 1. 10. 12. h h Exod. 7. and 8. o o Gen. 1. 6. h h Blendung o o Inventions h h Josh 10. 12 13. o o Exod. 14. 21. 10. 22. 8. 6. 16. 7. 12 c. h h Heb. 2. 14. * * Wondelt h h Three-fold-Life o o A Wheel within a Wheel Ezek. 1. 16. o o Note h h The Lord's Supper h h Three fold Life o o Gen. 2. 21. o o Gen. 2. 21. h h Or Scull o o Three-fold Life * * Reason of the Outward Man h h Mat. 7. 18. * * Acting according to selfish Reason of the outward old Adam o o Mat. 7. 18. * * Threefold Life ††Three Principles o o Aurora * * Or Sacrifice to out own Net Hab. 1. 16. * * * * Or works ††Ephes 2. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * * Curious Works of Artifice h h God's Works in Nature * * Kostet * * 1 Cor. 12. 6. chap. 15. 28. Col. 3. 11. ††Ephes 1 23. * * Rev. 18. 4. ◠◠Rev. 19. 20. h h Psal 42. 1. h h John 6. 27. * * Rom. 14. 17. h h Three fold Life * * Col. 1. 12. * * Sich in Bund Gethan * * Note Mat. 20. 8. * * 2 Tim. 4. 7. ††Or shape ††A Rose bud ††Gal. 6. 7 8. ††John 10. 34 35. ††John 3. 3. * * As Rev. 14. 13. * * The Fire-circle or the Globe makes the Heart or Desire whose Center and Circumference is all one every where * * Mat. 6. 21. * * Mat. 3. 12. * * Or Works of Wonder * * Note * * Mat. 24. 28. Luke 17 37. * * Or Works and Actual Thoughts Words and Deeds which it Exercised in this Life ††Therefore in our Fathers house are many Mansions or dwelling places or particular Houses * * Mat. 13. 31. Ch. 17. 20. Luke 17. 6. * * Their Thoughts Words and Deeds but Act nothing with them * * Rev. 6. 9 10 11. ††Astral starry or Airy Spirit * * Psal 44. 23. 121. 4 5. * * Eye or Globe ††Heb. 1. 14. ††Or Works * * Or Souldierly triumphant prize-Garland ††Substance or Matters business and employment ††Acts 9. 5. ††Mat. 29. 6. 7. * * The Heart of Gods Love shed abroad in their own Hearts * * 1 Cor. 3. 15 * * Job 15. 16. * * In Thought Word or Deed. ††* * * * Mat. 21. 34 36. * * Mat. 13. 30. ††Luke 16. 20. to 24. ††Mat. 10. 12. Luk. 6. 49. ††Barmherty igkeit Warm-heartednesse ††Tedious while ††Pfaff ††Seel-Messen Souls-Meals * * Pfaffen ††Priester ††Bapst ††2 Thes 2. 11 12. ††Rom. 11. 6. * * Phil. 2. 13. ††Herrschafft ††Joh. 8. 56. ††Luke 15. 7. * * Rom. 10. 21. ††Mat. 24. 23. Mark 13. 21. Luk. 17. 21 23. ††Luk. 15. 22 23. ††2 Tim. 4. 1. Tit. 2. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 7. ††Or Works ††Or Glorification ††Mat. 25. 6 7. ††Note Rev. 21. 3. * * Or declaring the Works of God ††Mat. 25. 25 28. ††Gal. 6. 7. ††Eph. 4. 8. ††Mat. 13. 30. ††* * Mat. 25. 8. ††Oyl of Joy and Gladness Heb. 1. 9. * * Mat. 25. 9. * * Luke 23. 30. Isa 2. 19. Hos 10. 8. Rev. 6. 19. 16. ††Luk. 21. 28. Rom. 8. 23. * * Gen. 2. 1. Exod. 20. 11. ††1 Cor. 3. 15. * * Luk. 16. 2. Mat. 12. 36. * * Mat. 13. 34 35. ††Mat. 25. 34 35 36. ††Mat. 25. 41 to 45. ††1 Cor. 15. 41. * * Ephes 1. 23. ††1 Cor. 15. 24. ††Rom. 14. 17. ††Rev. 15. 3. ††Mat. 8. 12. * * John 3. 13. * * Threefold Life ††Col. 2. 9. ††John 20. 19 26. * * John 20. 27. 1 John 1. 1. * * His last Supper ††John 6. 58. 1 Thes 4. 17. John 15. 4. * * Genests finnished ††Exod. none of it exstant * * Luk. 1. 42. * * Geist-Wasser ††The outward Reason of the Old Adam in Corruptible Flesh and Blood ††Mat. 13. 46. ††Therefore Mortifie your Members which are on the Earth Col. 3. 5. Note * * How Christ descended into Hell ††Heb. 2. 14. * * 1 Cor. 1. 20. ††Or by way of similitude ††Runden Worten ††Mat. 7. 6. * * Mat. 15. 26. ††Ezek. 38. 20. ††Rev. 4. 6. * * Or Works that have been in the World * * Note Rev. 21. 1 2 3 5. ††Rev. 21. 4. ††Ergriffen Compacted ††Or according to ††Mat. 6. 21. * * Rom. 2. 16.