Kingdoms in One parting themselves thus by the sinking down through Death 244. Therefore would the Devil be above God and therefore God became Man that he might bring the Soul out of the fierce Wrath through Death into another Life into another World which yet standeth in the First but they turn their backs as this Figure standeth and the Cross standeth between both the Principles and goeth out of the Fire-Life into the Light-Life 245. Beloved Sir understand us thus the Soul originateth in the Fire-Life for without the fire source or fountain quality no spirit doth subsist and it goeth with its own self will out of it self forth through Death that is it esteemeth it self as dead and sinketh down in it self like Death and so falleth with its will through the fires Principle into God's Light-Eye and then it is the holy Spirits Chariot on which he rideth 246. But when it will go of it self it then continueth in its own Fire-Nest in the Original where it was awakened like Lucifer for it was awakened at the beginning Point of the Cross at the left as in this Figure is to be seen that is its original as shall be further mentioned 247. The Soul is a total Figure of a Cross and is like a Cross-Tree according to the outward Image of the Body the Body having two Arms which signifie two Principles the Body standing in the midst as a whole Person the Heart is the First Principle the Brain the Seond the Heart hath the Soul and the Brain the souls-Souls-Spirit and it is a new Child and yet not a new one the Stock is from Eternity but the Branches are born or generated out of the Stock 248. Though indeed it hath not been a Soul from Eternity yet it hath in the Virgin of the Wisdom of God upon the Cross from Eternity been known and in the Root belongeth to God the Father and in the Soul to God the Son in the Will to God the holy Spirit 249. And being it could not stand in the Father in its will when it would rule in its will and thereby fell into the fire of the fierce Wrath therefore the Father gave it to the Son and the Son took it into himself and became in it a Man and brought it again with or by the word Fiat into the Majesty into the Light For the Son introduceth it through the Angel and Death again into the Eye of Holiness at the right into another World in God to the Angels of which here-following shall be mentioned further 250. Now come we again to the Sixt Form of Fire and it is to be known why we set the Cross here which else is the Tenth Number accounting according to the order or way of Reason but according to the two Principles the Eye appearing parted the Cross belongeth to the place between the fift and the sixt Form wherein Light and Darkness part 251. But know that God is the Beginning and the End therefore we set the Cross according to reason at the End for there we go through Death into Life it is our Resurrection 252. The Tenth Number 10. is again the first and also the last and beyond through that is Death and after or beyond Death the Hell that is the fierce Wrath of Darkness that is externally without or beyond the Cross for it falleth again into the A and in the A is the Creator into which Lucifer would have flien back but was thrust out into the Darkness and there is his Kingdom in the Source or Torment 253. You should understand us thus that we by the Twofold Eye understand one round Globe thus partible or each half divided assunder and turns away from the other where the Cross is standing from Eternity within it A man cannot fully describe it with any pen or pencil for it is so in one another it is but ONE only yet TWO the Spirit understandeth it only and whosoever doth not enter into the Regeneration through the Death upon the Cross as viz. into Gods Body he understandeth not this and let him leave it uncontrouled or he will be a Maker and Controuler-Devil We would have the Reader faithfully warned and it is in earnest Sincerity and true Zeal 254. For this Figure hath All or total Ground or the Foundation of All things as deep as a Spirit is in it self and is not apprehensible or knowable to the Reader without Right or True Eyes also a man cannot set it down in due exact Order aright with any words for the first is also the last and the middle goeth through All yet is not known or apprehended but IN it self Therefore searching is not the chief or most especial means to know or apprehend the Mystery but to be born or generated in God is the right Invention or finding for without that is Babel 255. All lyeth in the Will and in the earnest Sincerity that the Will enter into the Magia for the Eternity is magical All is out of the Magia come into Substance for in the Eternity in the Abysse is Nothing But that which is is the Magia 256. And out of the Magia existeth Phylosophy which searcheth out the Magia and seeketh therein and findeth Astrology Eternally and Astrology seeks again its master Preceptor or Teacher and Maker Composer or Producer viz. A stronomy the Sulpher the Mercury which hath a Principle of its own and the third Magia is therein viz. the Medicus the Physician who seeketh the Corrupter or Disease and will heal or cure it but he findeth the fourth Magia viz. the Theologus the Divine who seeketh the Turba in all things and will heal the Turba but he findeth the Eye of the first Magia and there he seeth that all is the wonder of the Magia and there he leaveth seeking and becometh a Magus in the first Will for he seeth that he hath all power to find to make what he will and there he maketh of himself an Angel and continueth in himself and thus he is free from all others and continueth standing Eternally This is the highest Ground of the Substance of all Substances 257. And though indeed the Whore at Babel will not relish this therefore we say with good ground that Babel in her Children are in Magick Philosophy Astrology Astronomy Medicine or Physick and Theology or Divinity born or generated of Whoredom 258. Babel is the true Child of none of these she is a perverse stubborn obstinate Bastard we have apprehended or known her in the A and O by searching of her Philosophy and Astrology and have found her in all Looking-Glasses to be a Whore who committeth Whoredom in all Looking-Glasses 259. She saith She is the Eye but she hath a false or adulterous Eye that glanceth out of or from her Whoredom out of Pride Covetousness Envy and Anger and her seat in the Magia is the averse back-turned left Eye She
Eyes which stand back to back as we have made the Figure above with a twofold Rain-bow where the Cross goeth or pierceth through both and in the midst between the Bows one Arm or Point of the Cross reaching up aloft which signifieth a Sprout through the Fire through the Anguish viz. through Death and yet it is no Death but an Exit out of it self into another source or fountain quality where it standeth thus before the two Bows in the midst as a sprout out of the Cross 4. And the Arm of the Cross at the Right hand signifieth its Spirit which entereth into the Light of the Majesty and putteth on to the Soul viz. to the Center Divine Substantiality 5. And the Arm at the left of the Cross signifieth its Original in the Fire and holdeth or containeth in it the first Principle that it belongeth to the Father and standeth in the Original Eye in the strong and stern power and might as a Lord and Potentate or Ruler of Nature 6. And the under Part or Arm of the Cross signifieth the Water viz. the Humility or the Death so to resemble it that it should not rule in Fire nor kindle that but sink down in it self and under it self before God's Majesty and accompt it self as dead in its will that God might live in it and the holy Spirit conduct its Regiment or Government that it may not do what the Will of the Turba in the Fire willeth but what the Will in the Light willeth 7. Therefore should its Will sink down under it self into the meek Humility before God and so it goeth out from the Turba of the Fire for its Will is not therein and so also there can no Imagination be acted out of which that Looking-Glass can be born or generated so that it can behold and apprehend it self experimentally in the Fire that it is Lordly whence it becometh proud arrogant or stubborn and will rule it self in or according to its own might or power as Lucifer did and Adam in Paradise 8. Understand us aright thus The Soul in it self is a Globe with a Cross with two Eyes one Holy Divine and one Hellish Wrathful one in the Cross this it should shut up and rule hiddenly through the Anguish viz. through Death in the Second Principle therewith in the Love 9. And if it conceiveth or apprehendeth the Love then is the fierce wrathful Fire as it were dead and imperceptible But it is the Joy-Life of Paradise else in the Meekness would be no Life and Government or Dominion if the Fire did not give it self thereinto but it would remain the still Eternity without Substance for all and every substance or thing existeth in the Fire 10. And thirdly the Soul is formed according to the Total Body with all its Members 11. Which understand thus The Soul is the Stock viz. the Root which appeareth like the Center of the Number Three as an Eye a Globe a Cross and then its will which originateth our of the Eternal Will is a Spirit which the right or true Soul hath in its power and that Spirit openeth the Essences in the Fire and Water 12. So that its whole Form appeareth like a Tree with many Twigs Branches and is distributed into all the Branches of the Tree 13. Which is thus to be understood the Spirit distributeth them into the whole Body understand in the Tincture into all the Members they are all its Branches it appeareth in its Spirit no otherwise than as the whole Man with all Members 14. And herein it is also the right true Image of God for the Holy Spirit dwelleth in the Spirit if it be true and faithful if not the Devil dwelleth therein to which soever it giveth up it self or inclineth it self whether to Covetousness and High-mindedness or to Love and Humility that 's own it is 15. But if it persist in Abomination and loseth God then it loseth the Cross and its Eye is a Hellish Eye whereby the Turba introduceth the Form Shape and Model of an Abominable Beast into the Eye into the Will and Spirit 16. Therefore did Christ call the Pharisees Serpents and Generation of Vipers for so stood their Figure before him in their Spirit in respect of their Pride State and Covetous Will that they would be Lords and not Servants of God in Love and Humility 17. And thus also standeth the Figure of Antichrist in Babel as a Dragon with Seven Heads which are seven Spirits upon which its Hypocritical Spirit rideth in Mans Image into the Abysse it will needs be an Angel and yet is a Monster in respect of a right true Child of God it beareth the Name indeed but its Heart is that Beast in the Revelation of John It would have God and the Devil too and therefore is such a Monster as is like a Man and yet hideth the Devil in and under it self 18. O Child of Man fly away the door is open the Turba is come which will destroy the Image if you will not go away you must along with it there is neither counsel nor remedy but only to seek the right and true Image in the Love or else there is nothing further to be expected but necessity and calamity and death saith the Spirit of Wonder 19. This now is our direct Answer That the Soul in the First Principle according to the Original hath the Form of an Eye and yet twofold like a Heart wherein the Cross standeth 20. And in the Second Principle it is a Spirit and a total intire Image such a one as the outward Man is 21. And in the Third Principle it is a Looking-Glass of the whole World all lyeth therein whatsoever is in the Potentiality of Heaven Earth even the Properties of all Creatures for that Looking-Glass is as the Firmament and the Stars and Constellations 22. It is such a Crown as that and therein standeth the Outward Mans Number the end and termination of his Life withal Prosperity and Adversity if the outward Life be ruled by the Spirit of this World The Sixth Question What the Ability or Potentiality of the Soul is 1. IT is apprehensible to us that whatsoever cometh out of the unsearchable Profundity and is the Ground of it self that it is able to do all things for it is its own Substance and maketh it self 2. And though indeed the Soul be a Twig or Branch sprung out of this Tree yet it is now come into the Being of a Creature and is its own it is now an Image of the whole and a Child of the whole for when a Child is generated or born then is the Mother and the Child Two they are two persons but whilst it is yet in the Seed in the Mother then the Seed is the Mothers and the Mother hath dominion over it for when the Child is generated then it hath its own life in it self and hath the Center of Nature in its own Form
l. 7. for †r. * v. 190. l. last r. own self Are and wit v. 216. l. 10. Marg. r. half Circles l. 12. f. one r. on v. 222. l. 17. f. world r. word v. 253. l. 2 r. * One Margin * l. 5. f. turns r. turned v. 254. l. 1. r. or the total l. 19. Marg. l. 7. for parts r. Parrots v. 256. l. 7. r. Sulphur l. 9. r. Magia v. 257. l. 4. f. Magiâ—k r. Magick v. 260. l. 4. f. beareth r. boweth v. 278. l. 5. f. right r. Light v. 287. l. 5. r. Christs Flesh v. 327. l. 8. r. God put out the Inward Q. 4. v. 9. l. 2. f. breatheth r. breathed q. 6. v. 10. l. 8 f. Natue r. Nature q 6. v. 14. l 4. f conanteth r concenteth v. 15. l. 4. Marg. f Stolyen r Stoltzen q. 7. v. 9. l. 5. Marg f Wondelt r Wandeit q. 11. v. 5. l 4. f Carnal r Councel 16. f Prime r Prince q. 11. v. 6. l 4. r Mymick q. 12 v 27. l 2. r shouldst l 3. r. to fill q 12 v 32 l 9. f have r hear v 40 l 6 f Charity r clarity q 14 v 13 l 4 r Self-Desire q 17 v 19 l 2 f yet r let v 20 l 2 f the r Thee l 6 f them r thou v 11 l 4 r to and depend v 25 l 3 r the Harvest q 18 v 5 l 1 f they r then l 6 f one r and. v 11 l 4 r receiveth q 21 v 3 l 1 f Seeketh r Seeth v 23 l 5 r taken in q 23 v 7 l 4 r thereby v 10 l 11 f ceaseth r seiseth q 24 v 17 l 4 r Chest we say q 26 v 19 l 7 f their r them v 22 l 2 r acteth q 30 v 17 r of the world v 39 l 3 f breaking r breathing v 50 l 8 r such short words or answer r 56 l 7. f been r heere q 32 v 15 l 3 f Megia r Magna v 20 f keep r know q 35 v 1 l 5 r herein v 6 l 3 r Distinguish v 37 l 2 r Self up q 36 v 18 l 2 Marg. f Wasâ—er r Wasser v 26 l 3 f and r as q 37 v 5 l 4 f winking r working q 40 v 10 l 5 r Lises-Essences Appendix v 6 l 5 r it is v 29 l 3 r Imaged v 31 l 9 r or is v 33 l 5 r Imaging v 34 l 1 f Men r Man The TABLE of the Forty Questions 1. WHence the Soul existed at the beginning 2. What the Souls Essence Substance Nature and Property is 3. How the Soul was created to the Image of God 4. What the Souls breathing in was and when it was effected 5. How the Soul was properly formed and fashioned 6. What the Souls power or ability is 7. Whether the Soul be corporeal or not corporeal 8. In what manner the Soul cometh into Man or into the Body 9. How the Soul doth unite it self with the Body 10. Whether the Soul be Ex Traduce and propagated humanely and corporeally or every time new created and breathed in from God 11. How and in what place the Soul is seated in Man 12. How the enlightening of the Soul is 13. How the Soul feeds upon the Word of God 14. Whether such a new Soul be without sin 15. How Sin cometh into the Soul seeing it is God's Work and Creature 16. How the Soul is kept in such union or connexion both in the Adamical and Regenerate Body 17. Whence and wherefore the opposition of the Flesh and Spirit is 18. How the Soul departs from the Body in the Death of a man 19. Whether the Soul be mortal or immortal 20. How the Soul returneth to God again 21. Whither the Soul goeth when it parteth from the Body be it happy or unhappy 22. What every Soul doth whether it enjoyeth or rejoyceth it self till the Day of the Last Judgment 23. Whether the wicked Souls without difference in so long a time before the Day of Judgment feel any ease or refreshment 24. Whether mens wishes benefit them or sensibly come where they are 25. What the Hand of God and the Bosom of Abraham is 26. Whether the Souls departed take care about men their friends children and goods and know see like or dislike their undertakings 27. Whether they know understand this or that art or business whereof in the body they had good skill 28. Whether also they can certainly know and get any more skill in Divine Angelical Earthly and Diabolical things than they had in the Body 29. What their Rest Awakening and Clarification is 30. What the difference ef the livings and deads Resurrection of the Flesh and of the Soul is 31. What kind of new glorified Bodies they will have 32. What furthermore in the other life their form condition joy and glory is 33. What kind of matter our bodies will have in the other life 34. Of the miserable and horrible condition of the damned Souls 35. What the Enochian life is and how long it will continue 36. What the Soul of the Messiah or Christ is 37. What the Spirit of Christ is that was obedient which he commended into his Father's hand 38. Of those things which shall be done at the End of the World 39. What and where Paradise is with its Inhabitants 40. Whether it be mutable and what it will come to be hereafter The PREFACE of J. B. to Dr. Belthasar Walter BEloved Sir and my good Friend it is not possible for Reason to answer to your Questions for they are the greatest Mysteries which are alone known to God 2. For as Daniel faith to King Nebuchadnezzar That which the King asketh and desireth of the Learned Chaldeans Astrologians and Wise men is not in their power only the God of Heaven can reveal or manifest the hidden Thing It is not in my Reason to answer the King but that the King may perceive the Thoughts of his heart God hath revealed it not that my Reason is greater than of all them that live 3. So say I also to you you shall be answered not that my Reason is greater than of all them that live but that you might perceive and obtain the thoughts of your heart your earnest seeking and desiring it is given to me to answer you 4. And you should not in such a way so eagerly seek after such things for it standeth in no outward Reason but to the Spirit of God nothing is impossible and seeing we are the Children of God and in Christ born again in God surely the Son must needs see very well what the Father doth in his house's and also learn his skill and work 5. And seeing we our selves are the Mysteries of God shall we not so much as look upon them as if we ought not to meddle with such Mysteries as Antichrist in folly forbiddeth us for none apprehendeth any thing of God's Mysteries unless it be given to him
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
the Turba and in Eternity reacheth not to God also it knoweth nothing of him but is a Life according to the Essence Property of the Parents 13. Where yet it doth not reach to the kindling or burning for the Soul had not it self acted or committed sin but is a fountain-quality-Spirit without self-desire and wonders like the flame of Brimstone and like an Ignis Fatuus which cannot reach to God but remain so between Heaven and Hell in the Mystery till the Judgment of God which will gather in its harvest and give every thing its right and true place of Repository 14. Though perhaps our learned Masters in this may have another kind of Philosophy but we enquire not after their Art we have eyes they have Arts we speak what we see 15. Thus we give you to understand that no Soul is generated or born into this world without sin how honest vertuous and godly soever the Parents are for it is conceived and bred forth or hatched in earthly Seed and bringeth the Turba of the Body along with it and that hath also surrounded the Soul 16. Therefore in the Old Testament God made a Covenant with the Children in Circumcision and so ordered in the Covenant that they must shed their Blood and drown the Turba of the the Soul therewith 17. And in the New Testament there is the Baptism wherein the holy Spirit with the Water of Life washeth off the Turba of the Souls water that it may come to God and become God's Child 18. But if any will say that every one that hath not baptism as Jews and Turks and other People with whom is not the knowledge thereof who have not the Candlestick among them that they are all rejected of God although they never so vehemently press with their teaching Life and Death into the Love of God that is a phancy and Babel-like spoken without knowledge 19. Blessedness and Salvation lyeth not alone in the outward Word but in the Power and Vertue Who will exclude those that enter into God 20. Is it not Babel who seduceth and confoundeth the whole world so that they have devided People into Opinions and yet in their wills go but one way who is the Cause of this but the Antichrist when he drew the Kingdom of God into his might authority and power and made fictions concerning the Regeneration of which when it comes to be day the very Children will be ashamed of them 21. A Man may say with good ground that Antichrists Doctrine is a fighting with a shadow as in a looking-glass and a falshood and wickedness of the Serpent which continually beguileth Eve 22. Thus it is apprehensible to us that no Soul cometh into this world without Sin every one bringeth the Turba along with it for if it were without Sin then it must dwell in a totally pure body which hath no evil will or inclination at all in which there is no earthly seeking or desire 23. But thus indeed is every body and soul tyed and united together till the Turba findeth the Limit of the Body and then the Turba seeketh the works or actions of the Body as hath been mentioned above The Fifteenth Question How Sin cometh into the Soul being it is God's Work and Creature 1. IT is in such a manner as is above mentioned The Turba together with the earthly seeking came along with it into this world and so the Soul becometh vehemently drawn by two parties first by the Word of the Lord which is passed into the middle which there of Love is become Man or incarnate that draweth the Soul continually into God's Kingdom and setteth the Turba before the eys of the Soul so that the Soul seeth in Nature what is false or wicked and sin and if it suffereth it self to be drawn then it becometh regenerated in the Word so that it is God's Image 2. And secondly the Turba also draweth the Soul mightily with its bands and bringeth the Soul continually back into the earthly seeking or longing especially in youth when the earthly Tree sticketh full of green sprouting driving Essences and Poyson and then the Turba thus flyeth strongly or mightily in so that many a soul in eternity cannot become freed and loosed from it 3. A thing which is from two beginnings which stand in equal ballance or weight doth by putting in more weight on the one part sink down be it either by evil or good 4. Sin maketh not it self but the will maketh it it cometh from the Imagination into the Spirit and then the Spirit goeth into a thing and becometh infected from the thing and so the Turba of that thing cometh into the Spirit and destroyeth first the Image of God 5. And then it goeth further seeketh deeper and so it findeth the Abysse viz. the Soul and seeketh in the Soul and so it findeth the fierce wrathful Fire by which it mixeth it self with the thing introduced into the Spirit and so now sin is totally generated or born and so now all is sin which desireth to bring that which is outward into the Will 6. The will should simply or singly be inclined and exercised in Love Meekness as if it were a nothing or dead it should only desire God's Life that God may work act or create in it and whatsoever it doth besides its will should be inclined or intended so as to do it for God 7. But if it put its will into the Thing or Substance then it bringeth that thing or Substance into the Spirit which possesseth its Heart and so the Turba becometh generated and the Soul captivated with that Thing 8. Thus we give you for an answer that no Soul cometh pure and clean out of the Mothers body or womb be it begotten by holy or unholy Parents 9. For as the Abysse and Anger of God as also the earthly world do all cleave to and depend on God the Father and yet cannot apprehend or touch his Heart and Spirit so it is also with the Child in the Mother Body or Womb. 10. If it be begotten of godly pious Parents then each Principle standeth in its own part by it self when the Turba taketh the earthly Body then the Heaven taketh the Spirit and so the Majesty filleth the Spirit and so the Soul is in God and is free from pain 11. But while the Soul sticketh in the Earthly Life it is not free and it is because the Earthly Spirit continually bringeth its Abominations with its Imagination into it and the Spirit must continually stand in strife against the Earthly Life The Sixteenth Question How the Soul both in the Adamical Body as also in the New-born or Regenerate Body is held or preserved in such union together 1. VVE have mentioned above that there are Three Principles which moreover are all Three in the Soul and stand in one another as one thing and we offer you this that the strife in the Soul beginneth in the Seeds while they yet
can desire to do well and be sorry when he hath been drawn away to do evil by the Lusts of his own Heart by which the Devil tempteth us to do Evil but if we will resist the Devil he will flie from us if we will leave off to do evil and desire trie and learn to do well without doubt we shall be able through God that dwelleth in us and then he will teach us all things and lead us into all Truth by his Spirit All this we shall fully understand and all Mysteries when God shall manifest himself in us if we earnestly desire it with all Humility self-denyal losing of Our Souls and being Nothing in our selves for then God will be All in All and nothing is impossible with God All this and much more hath the Author of this Answer to these Questions concerning the Soul found true and hath out of his inward Mystery manifested many things in this and other Writings of his the knowing whereof will be exceeding useful to the furtherance of the Salvation of every Soul which when I had read I was very much satisfied in my own Soul and do desire that others may be made partakers of them so far as lyeth in me I have therefore taken in hand to put this Treatise into English which I chose to do rather out of the Original then out of any Translations because they many times come short of the Authors own meaning and because I found many Errours in some of them and he is so deep in his Writings that we have need to desire that our Souls may be put into such a condition as his was in else they cannot be fully understood But the same God that satisfied his desires will satisfie ours if we cast our selves upon him in Our Souls and let him do with us what he pleaseth Concerning the Author I have now published the Brief Translation of his Life written in High-Dutch by Abraham Van Frankenberg who was long his acquaintance and continued so till his death The Relation is as followeth A brief Account of the Life and Conversation of Jacob Behme afterwards by Learned Men in Germany called Teutonicus Written in High-Dutch by Abraham van Franckenberg one very much acquainted with him JAcob Behme was born in the year 1575. at Old Seidenburg distant about two Miles from Gerlitz a City in Upper Lusatia highly Esteemed by Learned Men His Parents were Jacob his Father Vrsula his Mother both Countrey people In his youth he kept Cattel and at length by advice of Friends was sent to School where he learned to Read and Write together with the Fear of God afterwards was put to the Handicraft Trade of a Shoomaker when he became Master of his Trade in the year 1594. he marryed a Maid one Catharine the Daughter of John Kunshman a Butcher of Gerlitz with whom he lived quietly and well for thirty years together and had four Sons that learned Handicraft Trades Being from his youth inclined to the fear of God and very diligent in frequenting to hear the Preaching of Sermons he was at length stirred up by that saying and promise of our Saviours Lube 11. 13. Your Heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him for it and because of the very many Controversies in Religion about which he could not satisfie himself he was moved in simplicity of Heart or Spirit inwardly earnestly and uncessantly to pray or ask seek and knock that he might know or apprehend the truth whereby then according to the Divine Drawing and will in the Spirit or Heart he was rapt into the Holy Sabbath wherein he continued seven whole dayes by his own Confession in highest Joy Afterwards when he was come to himself and having put off the folly of Youth he was driven by Divine Zeal vehemently to reprove all scandalous reproachful and blasphemous Speeches and withdrew from all unseemly matters and actings with earnestness for Love to Vertue By which way and Life being contrary to the course of the world he became but their scorn and derision During which time he mentained himself with the labour of his hands in the sweat of his Brows till the beginning of the sixth Seculum or Age viz. Anno 1600. when he was a second time touched by the Divine Light and by a sudden Glimps of a Pewter Vessel he was introduced into the Inward Ground or Center of the Hidden Nature He not being yet sufficiently satisfied with this went forth into the open fields and there perceived the wonderful or wonder-works of the Creator in the Signatures Shapes Figures and Qualities or Properties of all created things very clearly and plainly laid open whereupon being filled with exceeding Joy kept silence praising God and so contentedly satisfied himself therewith for a while But according to God's Holy Counsel and Determination who manageth his works in secret about Ten years after viz. in the year 1610. by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit he was a third time stirred up and renewed by God whereupon being so enlightned with such great Grace bestowed upon him he could not put it out of his mind nor strive against his God therefore did by small means and without the help of any Books but only the Holy Scriptures write secretly for himself these Books following viz. 1. Anno 1612. the first Book called Aurora the Morning Redness or Rising of the Sun and being complained of to the Magistrates of Gerlitz for being the Author thereof the Book was taken and laid up in the Councel House with command to him that he being an Ideot or Layick should from thence-forth forbear such writing of Books which did not belong to his condition and employment upon which he abstained for seven years but after that being in like manner stirred up again by the moving of the Holy Spirit and being exhorted to it by the entreaty and desire of some people that feared God he took Pen in hand again and went on to write and perfected with good leasure and deliberation these that follow 2. Anno. 1619. The second Book concerning the Three Principles with an Appendix concerning the Three-fold Life-of Man 3. Anno. 1620. A Book of the Threefold Life of Man 4. The Answer to the Forty Questions of the Soul proposed by Dr. Balthazer Walter in the first Chapter whereof is contained a Treatise of the Reversed Eye or Philosophick Globe with an Appendix concerning the Soul the Image of the Soul and the Turba or destroyer of the Image 5. Three Books First 1. of the becoming Man or Incarnation of Jesus Christ Second 2. Of the Suffering Dying and Resurrection of Christ Third 3. Of the Tree of Faith 6. A Book of the small six Points and a Book of the Great Six Points 7. A Book of the Heavenly and Earthly Mystery 8. A Book of the Last Times or of the 1000. years Sabbath being two Epistles to Paul Keym. 9. Anno. 1621. De Signature Rerum of the
signification of the Signs or Marks of All Things 10. A Consolatory Book of the four Complexions 11. An Apology to Balthasar Tilken concerning the Aurora and another to him concerning Predestination and the Person of Christ and of Mary 12. Considerations upon Esaias Stiefells Book 13. Anno. 1622. A Book of True Repentance 14. A Book of True Resignation 15. A Book of Regeneration or the New Birth 16. Anno. 1623. A Book of the Predestination and Election of God 17. An Appendix to the Predestination being A Compendium of Repentance 18. The Mysterium Magnum or the Great Mystery being an Exposition upon Genesis 19. Anno. 1624. A Table of the Three Principles or a Key to his Writings written to Godfried Frewdenhammern and John Hausern 20. A little Book of the Supersensual Life 21. A little Book of Divine Vision 22. A Book of the Two Testaments of Christ viz. Baptism and the Lord's Supper 23. A Dialogue or Conference between the Enlightned and unenlightned Soul 24. An Apologie for the Book of True Repentance upon a Pamphlet of the Primate of Gerlitz Gregory Richter 25. A Book of 177. Theosophick Questions 13 and part of the 15th Answered 26. An Extract out of the Mysterium Magnum 27. A Prayer Book called the Holy Week 28. A Table of the Divine Manifestation or an Exposition of the Three-fold World to John Sigismund of Sigismund and to Abraham van Frankenberg being at the End of an Epistle concerning the True and false Light 29. A Book of the Errours of the Sects of Ezekiel Meths to A. P. A. or an Apology to Esaias Stiefel 30. A Book of the Last Judgment 31. A Book of several Letters written at several times 32. A Clavis or Key of his Writings being the Exposition of some words The Books which the Author finished nor are marked thus In these he hath left so Noble and Pretious a Talent and Treasure for the setting forth God's Honour and Glory and for the promoting Man's Salvation both for the present and for the future times that since the times of the Apostles higher and deeper grounded Mysteries concerning the Deity have scarce been revealed his acquaintance for the most part was with Godly Learned People and such as were experienced in the knowledge of Nature with whom he conversed as also with some of the Noble men of Lusatia and Silesia in all fear of God though some of the Common Preachers have not forborn as their usual manner is to cast forth their venom against his Writings and to stir up the Rude and foolish People with all manner of Reproach and Scandal yet the Truth liveth still and hath prevailed and will at length Tryumph in secret But he the blessed Jacob Behme the Teutonick at Gerlitz in his House near the Water-side of the River Neisse Anno. 1624. the 18. Day of the Month of November new-stile about the sixth hour in the Morning being the 24. Sundy after Trinity after he had heard most exceeding lovely sweet Musick without his Chamber and being refreshed with the Holy Use of the Testament of Christ at his Supper his Sons and some Good Friends praying and weeping about him with these his last and Comfortable Words Now go I hence into Paradise Meekly and gently sighing blessedly departed in the fiftieth year of his Age. After the Preaching of the Funeral Sermon he was buried in the Church-yard at Gerlitz upon the Grave a Wooden Cross was set with this Mystical three-fold Figure graven upon it viz. An Eagle with a Lilly-Twig A Lyon with a Sword A Lamb with a Mitre The Superscription over the Cross was this V. H. I. L. I. C. I. V. That is Vnser Heil Im Leben Jesu Christi In Vns. In English thus Our Salvation is In the Life of Jesus Christ In Vs. Which was J. B. Motto or usual speech and Superscription in his Letters Also these words were the Inscription of the Cross Born of God Dead in Jesu Sealed with the Holy Spirit Resteth here Jacob Behme of Old Seidenburg Note 1. The Southern Eagle stood upon a high Rock and with one foot trod on the Head of a Serpent and with the other held a Palm and with its Beak received a Lilly-Twig reached forth-out of the Sun 2. The Northern Lyon was Crowned and signed with a Cross and held in the Right foot before a fire-flaming-Sword and in the Left a fiery Heart and rested with the hough or hinder part of the Right Foot behind upon a Cube and with the Left upon a Globe 3. The Lamb with a Mitre walked meekly and quietly between them both in the Meadows and by the Brooks and Rivers of Grace His Seal or Stamp was a Hand out of Heaven with a Lilly-Twig In the Memorial Books of good friends he used to write these Verses Text. Weme Zeit i st wie Ewigkeit Und Ewigkeit wie die Zeit Der i st befreyt von allem streit Englished To whom Time is as Eternity And Eternity as Time He is freed from all strife The outward Form of his Body was almost of no Personage he was lean and little of Stature with a Fore-head very much inbowed high Temples somewhat Hawk-nosed his Eyes were Grey and very Azure otherwise as the Windows of Solomons Temple he had a short thin Beard a small shril Voice an amiable pleasing Speech He was modest in his Behaviour humble in his Conversation and meek in Heart his highly enlightned Spirit is to be discerned by his Writings in the Divine Light The following Relation was taken out of a Memorial of Michael Curtz concerning what happened at the Departure of the Blessed Jacob Behme ON Sunday November 18. early in the Morning he called his Son Tobias and asked him If he heard the Excellent Musick he said No then he spake that the Door should be opened that the singing might be the better heard afterward he asked what the Clock had stuck and was told it had struck Two he said It is not yet my time three hours hence is my time In the mean while he spake these words once O thou strong God of Hosts deliver me according to thy Will O thou Crucified Lord Jesus Christ have Mercy upon me and receive me into thy Kingdom When it was near about six he took leave of his Wife and Sons blessed them and said Now go I hence into Paradise He did bid his Son to turn him about sighed deeply and so very meekly and quietly departed from this World PREFACE Then followeth in the former Preface Printed 1647. Thus. IF it were not for the great Fruit that I conceive may grow to every one that studieth it I should be sorry that I am the Instrument to make such things known in my Native Language and much more unwilling it should be published to the view of so many various Minds as are now sprung up But my hope is Goodness will get the upper Hand and that the Fruits of the Spirit will prevail to the subduing of the Lusts
and St. James saith chap. 1. 17. Every good and perfect Gift cometh from above from the Father of Lights in whom there is no alteration nor shadow of change 6. But seeing you seek these things so vehemently you are even become the cause of finding them for God giveth his Mysteries both by means and without means but that none might boast he oftentimes useth very mean people in it that it may be known to come from His Hand 7. You shall be answered with a very firm and deep Answer yet comprized in brief not according to outward Reason but according to the Spirit of Knowledge 8. And though I could have fully demonstrated these things and set them down in a larger description yet seeing they are all plentifully enough described and explained in my other Writings I pass them ever now briefly for the delight of the Reader and that this may be a brief Memorial of the great Mysteries 9. But he that desireth to know these things fully and from the ground of them let him seek in the foregoing Writings especially in the Third Part where he hath the whole ground of the Divine Substance as also of the Creation of all things of that which is Eternal and also that which is temporary or transitory and how all hath come to be and act as it doth and what it will come to be at last 10. Wherein lyeth the Mysterium magnum the great Mystery so far as a Creature is able to apprehend or bear Thither I would have you directed for further Explanation and commend me to you in Christ into the Brotherly Love Anno Christi 1620. Jacob Beheme Called Teutonicus The First Question Whence the Soul Existed from the Beginning of the World 1. VVE have sufficiently in the Second and Third Book explain'd the Mystery of the Soul by the Three Principles of the Divine Substance where we have described the Eternal Centre of the Eternal Nature as also the Number Three of the Divine Substance with many circumstances and what Eternity hath ever been and how the beginning of the Creation came to be what an Angel and Soul is as also the heavy Fall of Lucifer and then both the Mothers that have so brought it forth the one generating the Heavenly Substantiality the other the Hellish Abomination also of Light and Darkness 2. Therefore in this Treatise we are not so very easily to be understood unless the Third part of our writings have been read and apprehended 3. Although that Apprehension doth not at all consist in humane power yet the way to it is very faithfully shewn so that if any have a mind to attain it if he will follow our counsel and advice therein he will well get a leader and directer that will shew him the Key the Mysterium magnum the great Mystery to the noble Stone Lapis Philosophorum the Philosophers Stone and to all Mysteries let none account it impossible for with God All is possible whosoever findeth God findeth ALL with and in HIM 4. Ye know from or in Reason that all things are sprung and come forth out of the Eternity and the Scripture telleth you In God are All things in him we live and move and we are all of his Off-spring 5. And though indeed we cannot say of God that the pure Deity is Nature but Majesty in the number Three yet we must say that God is in Nature though Nature doth not contain or comprehend him as little as the Air can contain or comprehend the glance or shining of the Sun yet we must needs say that Nature is generated in his Will and is a Seeking proceeded out of the Eternity 6. For where there is no Will there is also no Desiring But there is in God an Eternal Will which is Himself to generate his Heart or Sonne and that Will maketh the stirring or the exit out of the will of the heart which is a Spirit so that the Eternity standeth in Three Eternall Forms which are called Persons as we have very exactly explained it in the third Book 7. And since we see and know that there is not only Light and Majesty but also Darkness as is plain before our eyes 8. Therefore we ought to know from whence Darkness originateth for in the Eternity without or besides Nature no Darkness can be for there is nothing that can afford it we must only look into the Will and into the Desiring for a Desiring is an attracting 9. And whereas yet in the Eternity it hath nothing but only it self it attracts it self in the Will and maketh the Will fall and that is its Darkness 10. Whereas otherwise if it were not desirous it would be nothing but an Eternal stillness without Being or Substance the attracting therefore maketh Mobility and Essence which otherwise in the stillness cannot be and therefore also it maketh austere astringency hardness and grosness as also sharpness 11. Yet we cannot say neither that the Darkness swalloweth up the Light viz. the Eternal Liberty for that which is Eternal suffereth not it self to be altered or changed but we must say that Light and Darkness are IN One another 12. Now the Light is good and hath pleasant vertue or power and the Darkness hath austere or astringent hard cold and the Wills Desiring maketh Essences and attracting that is a stirring in the hardness thus the attracted stirreth from the drawing and is a whirling whereby in the sharpness Light and Darkness become mingled 13. And thus we are to consider how the free Light in the sharp stirring in the Substance is also sharpned where we understand the Fire flash of Lightning and the earnest severity and yet cannot say that any rending asunder is there 14. For that which is Eternal from no beginning hath no parting of one from another but standeth as a Wheel that generates it self in it self as you have a similitude of it in the Mind of a man where there is indeed a will of rising and flying but no departing away and the greater the will is the greater also is the substance and the more potent is the matter or the thing represented seeing it is sharpned 15. Thus seeing the still liberty which is neither Light nor Darkness becometh sharpned in the sharp desiring attracting so that it appeareth as a flash of Lightning that shineth 16. Therefore also we cannot say that the Liberty holdeth or captivateth the Light for from Eternity it hath had nothing but we may well say that the Light and the Glance shineth in the Liberty 17. For that which is free letteth in the Light but that which is not free as the harsh or austere astringency which maketh Darkness and is Material spoken after a spiritual manner that receiveth not the Light 18. But we may well say that which is meek and not holding or contracting receiveth the Light as ye see in water
filling for it hath nothing whereby it can defend it self but the Desiring 40. And here originateth the Eternal Enmity and opposite Will The Will willeth not to be dark and yet its desiring maketh it dark it endureth the stirring readily for it is its manifestation or revelation but the in drawing and darkning it doth not love though indeed the Will becometh not drawen nor darkned but the Desiring in the Will impregnateth it self 41. But now being the Desiring sticketh in the darkness therefore there is a great Anguish for it becometh stirred and drawn and also darkned and vexeth it self in it self and desireth the Liberty and draweth so eagerly after the Liberty and willeth to draw it self into the Liberty and yet maketh it self onely the more eager rough and hard and is like a horrible sharpness which is consuming viz. of the Darkness 42. For it graspeth the Liberty into it self but is so sharp that it appeareth in the Liberty as a flash of lightning which consumeth the darkness together with the eagerness Therefore saith God I am a consuming Fire 43. Here understand how all Matter standeth in the right Fires Might and how the Floar shall once be purged for that is the original of the Fire which hath ALL Might and Power for it consumeth whatsoever the desire hath made be it Stone or Earth for it is the sharpness of the Eternal Liberty and giveth or affordeth Centrum Naturae the Center of Nature 44. But that you may search yet deeper know that the Fire in it self originally standeth in Three Forms viz. First In the Desiring And then secondly in the Matter of that which is attracted viz. in the Darkness in which is Substantiality from the attracting And Thirdly In the Anguish-source or Pain The Fourth Form 45. And the Fourth Form maketh it self viz. the Flash of Lightning for the Liberty causeth that and that is the kindler of the Anguish-source for the Desiring in the Darkness willeth only to have the Liberty and the Liberty being a light without shining is therefore like a very deep Blew Colour mixed with Green so that it cannot be discerned plainly what colour it is of for all Colours are in it and the Desiring in it self in its eager anguish and sharpness breaketh the colours and maketh in it self the terrible consuming Flash of Lightning and changeth it according to the Anguish so that it becometh Red. 46. Yet the Liberty in the Desiring suffereth not it self to be bound or held but altereth it self from the Red flash of Lightening in the Light into a glance of the Majesty and that is in the Liberty an exulting great Joy 47. For in the Light the Eye becometh manifested or revealed as also the Substantiality in the Will where then it becometh apprehended what Light or Darkness is And thus the Eternity becometh apprehended And thus originateth God's Holiness into wonders continually evermore and from Eternity and hath neither limit nor beginning for it is an Eternal Beginning comprised and framed into Nothing but into the Wonders which are its own substance wherein there is neither limit nor number 48. And thus in the still Eternity is nothing apprehended but the glance of the Majesty and the Spirit which is generated in the Will and is the Government in the Majesty 49. Beloved Sir and Friend understand the sence aright we mean not that the Birth or Geniture taketh hold of the Liberty externally without it self but in it self in the Center it taketh hold of it self in it self and maketh Majesty in it self and yet there is no barring in but is as when out of Death or Nothing a life cometh to be that thus dwelleth only in it self and that is called a Principle and that wherein it dwelleth is called Nature and hath Seven Spirits or Forms as is to be seen in our Second and Third Book 50. Yet the Principle hath but one Spirit which is the life of the Principle and hath also but one Will which is the filling of the Eternity with the glance of the Majesty 51. For the Principle is the power or vertue generated out of the will of the Eternity and the entrance or eternal beginning of the Power is the Powers Life and Spirit which bringeth the Essences of the Genetrix and openeth the Original of the Majesty 52. And the whole Eye which hath thus comprised or framed it self into a Looking-Glass in the A and O is ALL it is the Eternity and bringeth forth in it self in the Eye the Majesty which is the heart and power or vertue of the Eye and also bringeth forth the Spirit which in the heart goeth forth out of the Power out of the fiery-light-flaming Essences 53. Thus you understand the holy Number Three in one Substance that the Father is the Eternity without ground where is NOTHING and yet there is ALL and in the Eye of his glance or lustre he seeth himself that he is All and in the Power of the Majesty he feeleth himself and tasteth himself and smelleth himself that he is GUT GOOD that is that he is GOTT GOD although the T viz. Weightiness originateth in the Center 54. And in the Spirit is the stirring in the Power and the Multiplicity without ground and number wherein an eternal unsearchable Multiplicity doth exist and all in the Power 55. For that which hath no ground hath no number and is no closing up or comprehension or shutting in and that which is within it self is not apprehensible out of it self but as to the Spirit it is feeling indeed Thus the Inward driveth forth out of it self and manifesteth or revealeth it self in Figures else God would NOT be known or apprehended 56. Thus God is together ONE Spirit and standeth from Eternity in THREE Beginnings and Ends and only in himself There is no place found for Him and he hath also nothing in himself that is like unto Him also there is Nothing that can seek or manifest any thing more than HIS Spirit which alwayes it self from Eternity in Eternity manifests it Self 57. He is an Eternal Seeker and Finder as viz. of himself in great Wonders and what he findeth he findeth in the great Power he is the opening of the Power nothing is like unto Him and nothing findeth him but what inclineth or giveth it self up in him that goeth into him that which denyeth it self that it is then is God's Spirit therein ALL for it is A will in the eternal NOTHING and yet is in ALL as God's Spirit it self is 58. And this My beloved Sir is the Highest Mystery and therefore if you will find this seek it not in me but in your self but not in your Reason that must be as dead and your desirous will in GOD and so it is the will and deed in you and so the Spirit of God bringeth your will into it self and so you may well see what GOD is and what Spirits
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-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
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
but not matter else that which is drawn in will be darkness to thee 20. Let the Devil behind thee roar before thy left Eye he cannot enter in unless thou lettest thy Eye take in matter 21. Thus wilt thou when thy earthly Body breaketh see all the wonders in the left Eye with the right which thou hast made or acted and found here in this life-time and so when the earthly Body falleth away then is also thy left Eye free from the Nature of the fierce wrath 22. And though it hath Nature for it is Nature it self which awakeneth and retaineth the wonders yet it standeth then with the wonders in the Eternal Liberty being it hath let in nothing of matter therefore it is free 23. And Nature with the Wonders is a fire-sharpness and layeth hold of the Eternal Liberty and so maketh Majesty in the Liberty in the Wonders from which the right Eye which accounteth it self here in this life as dead becometh enlightened and rejoyceth it self Eternally with the left Eye in the Majesty of the highly joyous Kingdom and eternally seeth God with BOTH Eyes 24. This is one Gate whosoever rightly in the spirit apprehendeth seeth THIS he seeth ALL whatsoever God IS and CAN do He seeth also therewith or thereby through Heaven Hell and Earth and through the Substance of all Substances and is the whole Scripture of whatsoever hath been written from the beginning of the world but it is a pretious sight the Old Man knoweth it not he seeth it not but the New Man born or generated in God 25. But being we are so hard to be understood by the purblind mind therefore we will render it more simply behold when thou wilt with thy Soul see God's Light and wilt that it be enlightened from God then do it thus 26. Thou art in this World and if thou hast a lawful honest Calling or Employment without falshood or wickedness continue therein work labour trade and manage it as necessity requireth seek Wonders both in the Elements and in the Earth be it in what Art Science or Employment it will it is all God's Work seek in the Earth Silver Gold make artificial works thereof build till plant it is all to God's Deeds of Wonder 27. But listen to this A. B. C. thou should not suffer thy spirit to enter thereinto fil or satiate it self therewith make a Mammon of it and to set thy self therein as in a Darkness else it is but God's Fool therein and the Devils mymmick Ape and setteh its will therein 28. And thy noble Image becometh altered according to thy Imagination in the Spirit according to thy will which is in Covetousness thou losest God's Image for it is Magical it is as subtile as a Spirit and much subtiler yea much subtiler and thinner than the Soul it self 29. It is as God is who dwelleth in the Eternal Liberty unapprehended by any thing for it is thinner or purer then any thing and so is also thy noble or pretious Image which yet standeth in Heavenly Flesh and Blood and is the Substantiality out of or from God's Body 30. It is Christ's Flesh and Blood and thy Soul dwelleth therein it is the Fire of the Majesty therein 31. And the holy Spirit sitteth in the Heart of the Image and goeth out of the Image forth with Voices Languages Wonders Songs and Sounds Into this Image thou bringest thy Wonders if thou art true and faithful and do it thus 32. Put thy left will into the work which thou dost and consider that thou art God's Servant in the Vineyard of God and labour faithfully and put thy right will into God into that which is Eternal and see that thou be at no time secure or careless but consider that thou art only in thy day labour and shouldst continually listen to have the voice of the Lord calling thee to come home give Reason no place to say this is my Treasure it is mine own I have enough or I will get or gather much that I may come to honour in the World and leave much to my Children 33. Consider that thy Children are God's Children and thou God's Servant that thy work is God's work and that thy Money Goods Labour and Blood standeth in God's hands 34. He may do with them what he will when he calleth thee to go home into thy own Country then he may take thy Labour and give it to another 35. And give thy heart no place to introduce into thee the will-Will-spirit of High-mindedness into the Image 36. Sink down thy Will-spirit alwayes into Humility before God and so thy Image goeth alwayes in the Humility with thy will into God's Majesty and thy Image becometh continually enlightened with the high-triumphing Light of God 37. O how chearful is the Soul when its Anguish Source or Quality of the Fire tasteth Gods Light how very friendly kind and courteous is it how it boweth it self before God! Thus standeth the Soul and also the Image in the Spirit all three one in another for it is a Substance according to the holy Trinity 38. Thus my beloved Brother we give you in answer to this Question that the Soul can no otherwise be enlightened than thus this is its enlightening It is in this world and also in God it is here in this life a Servant to the Wonders of God those it should open with one eye and bring them with the other into the Beginning before God and put all its substance and doings into God's Will and by no means say of any thing in this world this is mine I am Lord over it for it lyeth if it say so 39. It is all God's it self is Servant and should converse in Love and Humily towards God and its Brother for its Brothers Soul is a Fellow-Member of it self its Brothers Joy in Heaven with God is also ITS Joy his Wonders are ITS Wonders for in Heaven God is all in all He filleth all 40. The holy Spirit is the Life in all there is mere joy no sorrow is there known there all is God's and all belongeth to the Image of God there all is common and universal one rejoyceth at anothers vertue and power charity or glory brightness and beauty there is no grutching or envy all that remaineth in Death and in Hell 41. Therefore ye Elect Children of God Regenerated in Christ take this into consideration go out from Covetousness and own Self-will ye have been a long time lead blindfold in Bable go out from her ye are called with a strong loud voice it will shortly awaken or raise the Dead let it prevail with you that you may attain Eternal Joy in God 42. The Spirit signifieth clearly that whatsoever will not grow forth together with the new Sprout that springeth forth in the Mother shall and must go into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone together with the Dragons Whore in Babel 43. It is a
Souls own Substance or Doings and VVill also the Soul of a Neighbour goeth no further with him though that is not the Soul but the Souls Spirit that doth this then into Death where the Anger severeth it self where it is freed from the fierce VVrath and then the Spirit passeth or entereth again into its Soul 13. Here in Popery much Jugling hath been contrived with Masses for Souls only for the sake of Money but it hath been a Gross deceit of the Babylonish Priests for earnestness is required to strive with and Overcome the Anger of God 14. VVe say assuredly and readily acknowledge it that the Congregation of Christ hath great Power and Authority to Ransome such a Soul if it be fervent and do it with earnestnesse as it was done in the first or Primitive Churches when they had Holy People Holy Priests whose Service and Ministry was Earnest 15. They have indeed effected somewhat but not in such a kind and way as the Pope Boasteth that he hath the Key he can let a Soul out with his Blessing when he will if a man will give him Money but that is a Lye 16. Is he HOLY then he beareth the Great Mystery and is Christ's Shepherd over his Sheep and then he shall with the Congregation in Great Earnestness press into God in great Humility and come to the Place of the Poor Soul but NOT for Money 17. In Money there is alwayes Covetousness and it never reacheth the Earnest Principle the Prayer of the Covetous entereth into his Chest we say that all whatever is done and administred in the Churches of Christ for Money belongeth to Antichrist in Babel for they hang their Hearts upon it it were better Men did give them Meat and Drink and other Necessaries and no Money and then they would not so set their Hearts upon it 18. VVhat can that Spirit seek and find in the Mystery which is not it self in the Mystery O there is a great deceit herein when it comes to be Day you will see that it is so you are still in Darkness in the Mystery Babel hath so blinded you 19. And therefore it is that you have looked upon Art and Favour and not upon God's Spirit are not exceeding errours and strong delusions come upon you that you believe lying Spirits who speak in Hypocrisie and Deceit and ye depend hang and cleave to them and commit Hyprocrisie with Errour and exercise flattery with delusion See what the Revelation of John and Daniel say to you It is Day the VVages will soon follow 20. You have now Teachers which suppress and throw to the ground the First or Primitive Church with its Spirit prove and try them and you will find that for the most part they are VVolves and Harlots which first sprung up and were generated in the Primitive Churches when Men slept and they will indeed devour the VVhore 21. But prove and try them they are VVolves sent from the Turba they must do it God suffers it to be done and will have it done that so he may with one Besom sweep out the other but they are Besoms and will after the finishing of the VVonders of the Anger be given up to the Turba together 22. Suffer this to be said to you by this Spirit it is your Own Prophet it is generated out of your Turba upon the Crown awake or else you must thus be devoured by one another 23. For No stranger consumeth you but your own Turba which is come to the Limit boast not your selves of a Golden Time it is a Time of Wonders The Five and Twentieth Question What the Hand of God and the Bosom of Abraham are 1. THis is indeed sufficiently explained already for it is the All-Substantial or All-Being every-where-presence of God but in its own Principle as the Rich Man who was in Hell could not prevail with Abraham to send Lazarus to him with a Drop of Cold Water to cool his Tongue in the Flames Abraham said there was a great Cliff or Gulf between them that is a whole Principle 2. The Bosom of Abraham is thus to be understood Abraham was the Father of the Faithful and God gave him the Promise that in his Seed all People of the Earth should be Blessed this was to be understood in the Messiah Christ who would become Man in the Faithful and as in Abraham's Seed he became Man so he would also become Man in the Children of the Faithful and bless them 3. And this is now the Holy Christian Congregation generated in Christ that is the Bosom of Abraham we are in Christ all one Body and to Abraham was the Promise Given he was the Patriarch or Arch-Father and we are all become generated in that Promise understand in the New-birth in Christ and are in that Bosom which taketh us into it 4. When we through earnest Repentance enter into Abrahams Promise then we go into the Bosom of Abraham viz. into Our Promise and in the Bosom of Faith Christ becometh generated or born in Us and that is the Fulfilling 5. Thus we are in Humility with Lazarus in the Bosom of Abraham for Christ is Abraham and to Abraham was Christ Promised now he hath him and we with him and thus we come into his Bosom and are his Children in the Promise and CHRIST is the Fulfilling 6. Thus we sit in the fulfilling in the Bosom of Abraham and are Abraham's Seed according to the Spirit Here ye blind Jews open your Eyes what did Abraham in the Circumcision signifie nothing else but that Sin should in the Blood and Death of Christ who shed his Blood for the Children of the Faith of Abraham be drowned and in that Blood as in a Heavenly Tincture become Regenerate again 7. Abraham and his Children drowned Sin in their Blood in the Faith on Christ who in their Blood was to become Man and now it is fulfilled and therefore hath God set the Seal of Faith in the Substance and now we are and should be born a new or Regenerate in the Real Blood of Christ 8. Christs Blood taketh away the Turba from us and we rise again in his Blood as a New Man out of the Old and bear or carry Christ's Image Christ's Flesh and Blood in us in Our Image if we are the Children of Abraham and Not Ishmaels 9. For to Isaac belong the Goods of the Image of the Body of Christ the Circumcision is Ishmaels for he converseth about Works but the Goods are Isaac's and Ishmael shall at Last dwell in Isaac's Tents but the Kingdom belongeth to Sem. 18. Not out of Merit by works have we Isaac's Goods but out of Grace out of Gods Love we cannot attain it with the work but in the Faith in the Will and Deed in the Entering in 11. But he that entereth into a Dominion which is not his own by the right of Nature he entereth into it by the Grace
the Deity 30. For the Spirit stirreth up the Turba of all things or Substances in all the Three Principles and then in one hour all will stand manifest whatsoever is in Heaven Hell or this VVorld 31. For the Turba stirreth up all things substances or works of all Creatures and all will be visible whatsoever is in Heaven or Hell and every one will see the work of his Heart good or Evil. 32. And in this hour appeareth also the Judge Christ upon the Bow of the Number Three like a Rain-Bow for according to the Principle of this VVorld it is a Natural Rain-bow but according to the Principle of God it is the Number Three The Cross with a Doubled Rain-bow one part whereof standeth turned into the Inward Principle viz. into the Abysse of the Anger there he sits upon God's Anger and that the Devils and all wicked Men shall see 33. For that Bow is included in all the Three Principles and this Judge Christ sitteth upon and in the Omnipotence of the Eternity above all whatever is called Substance or Thing 34. And there will rise up the lamentable horrour of all Devils and wicked Men and they will tremble yell and cry and say to the wise Virgins give us some of your Oyl comfort us a little and teach us what we should do give us some of your Holiness that we may stand before the Angry Countenance of God for the Eye of Hell standeth wide open whither shall we fly from this Anger 35. And the wise Virgins viz. the Children of God will say Away to your Sellers and buy of them we have Oyl only enough for us lest you and we both want away to your Hypocrites Flatterers and Deceivers who have tickled your Ears with Hypocrisie for your Money buy of them we have need of ours have we not been your Fools Now away with the Glistering of your deceit and Hypocrisie we will not make our selves partakers with you lest we suffer what will come upon you 36. There will they stand in great horrour yelling and Crying to the Judge Christ but his Anger-Eye with their Turba gripes them in the Heart quite through Spirit and Flesh through Marrow and Bones for the Soul is in the Turba with the moving of God clearly stirring in the fierce VVrath 37. And then for very Anguish they will fall to the Earth and one part of them will bite their Blasphemous Tongues the Proud will say O ye Mountains fall on us and ye Hills cover us from this Eye of the fierce wrath they will creep into the Holes into the Cliffs of stony Rocks and Mountains to shelter them they would fain put themselves to Death and yet there is no more Death they use VVeapons to put themselves out of the Body but there is no dying there but only fierce VVrath and Anger 38. In this horrour will all buildings in the World fall down for the Earth will Tremble as shaken with Thunder and the horrour will be in all and every Life every one according to its source quality or pain A Beast hath no such source or quality or pain as the Soul only it is affraid of the Turba 39. And in this Elevation and moving all the Waters will flow up above all high Mountains that there will be no breaking upon the Earth it will be so high as if they were all consumed for they will all be comprised in the Anger in the Turba so that in the Elements there will be nothing but Anguish 40. All high Rocks and Mountains will crumble and fall down the Stars will fall to the Earth with their strong or stern power or vertue and all this will be done in several Dayes all accordingly as the World was Created so it shall also have an End for the seeking of the Earth in its Anguish will draw the Stars to it as they have alwayes done in this time so that the Earthly Body hath drawn the seeking or influence of the Stars to it 41. For the Stars are a Magical seeking which have awakened Life so that now the Earth standeth awakened in the Creat Turba and therefore it is so hungry and thirsty that it will draw the Stars to it such an Anguish will be upon the Earth 42. But the Children of God will lift up their Eyes with folded hands to Christ and rejoyce that the Day of their deliverence is come for the Anguish toucheth them not 43. And in those dayes which are hidden in God how many belong to it for in six dayes the World with its Hosts was Created this is hidden from us the Water will find it self again and fill all deeps more then before 44. For now Death cometh with it and in that hour all Creatures except Man shall the and all the Men that have crept into the Clefts of the Rocks and Mountains will come forth again but with Anguish of their Consciences though now the Turba hath permitted that the horrour stand in Death for the falling of the Water taketh hold of the Turba 45. And then will the voice of the Holy Number Three according to all the Three Principles open it self and through the Mouth of the Judge Christ say Arise ye Dead and come to Judgment 46. This voice is the Original Eternal Spirit which holdeth or preserveth the Life of all things and hath alwayes ruled in all the Three Principles for it is the Spirit out of which all and every Life is existed and in which it standeth in Eternity which hath been the Life moving of all things in which the Beginning of Every Life hath stood as also its End and the Eternity for it is from Eternity and the Creator of all things 47. It hath two Eternal Beginnings viz. in the Fire and in the Light and the Third Beginning hath been a Looking-Glass of the Eternal viz. the Spirit of this World It hath been as a Wonder in this World and through it the Wonders are become manifested or revealed and that it is which possesseth the last Judgment its Motion is the Last 48. For in the Creation it moved the Father and in the Incamation or becoming Man it moved the Son and now the last moving and Judgment is its own it wil bring home every thing into its Eternal Place and this is done through the Voice of the Word out of the Mouth of Christ 49. And the Spirit goeth forth in God in Two Principles viz. in the Anger viz. in the Fire it goeth forth as the Earnest or severe fierce wrath of the fire-life and in the Light of the Love it goeth forth as a flame of the Divine Majesty and in the Spirit of this World as a Wonder of Life as indeed all this is undeniable 50. And if there were one that would seem to be so highly Learned as to deny it he is required to shew it in any thing we will not have any thing in this World excepted but it
shall give testimony to Us let him come when he will he ought not to for bear and say We are Mad such a short words answer are not enough we will demonstrate it to him so that he shall find himself and see who he is and though the Devil should burst for Anger yet we will set it before his Eyes 51. And being that Spirit hath the VVord Fiat viz. God's VVord with the Center of Nature out of which it hath originated from Eternity and as the Spirit of the Center goeth forth in two wayes viz. one in the Fire in the Essences of the Life 's Original in the Ground of the Souls Original and then secondly in the Light of the Fire viz. in the second source or quality which sprouteth through Death and is called God's Kingdom where in the Light it is the Flame of Love and in the Fire the Flame of Anger 52. So it will also shake the Gates of Death and awaken or raise the Dead and it hath the word Fiat in it and that Fiat is in the Soul and also in the Body and though it hath consumed the Body long agoe yet the Turba with the Wonders of the Body are remaining in the Fiat 53. And now must the Elements give the Substance or Works which they have swallowed up again to the Fiat for the Word of the Lord is therein but in its own Principle every one of them must render or give up what it hath received viz. the Earth the Body viz. the Phur and the VVater also its Essences the Air the sound of the Voice of VVords and the Fire the Essences of the Soul for it shall all be judged distinctly and sentenced 54. All words which the Mouth hath spoken which the Air hath received into it self and the Words which it hath served to make those the Air shall set forth again or represent again for it is the Looking-Glass of the Eternal Spirit the Spirit seeth all in the Looking-Glass 55. And now will Man in Heart Mind and Thoughts be proved and Judged for the Turba standeth in all Evil Malice or wickedness which is against the Love and there will not much excuse be made for every one complaineth of or accuseth himself his Turba accuseth him 56. Understand us thus that Spirit which is all in all will awaken and raise every Life that hath been immortal and with or by the Fiat give it to the Body for the Fiat draweth the Body to the Soul with all its Deeds and VVonders with all whatsoever it hath been done with Words or Works all whatsoever hath reached the Souls Abysse that must come forth 57. For in the still or quiet Eternity there shall be no Turba more and therefore shall all things or Substances be tryed by the Fire and the Turba shall remain in the Fire with all whatsoever hath been Evil and capable of the Turba unless in the Time it hath been washed in the Water of Life by the Souls Conversion else it must remain in the Fire 58. Now many having sown in the Fire will suffer loss is Christ telleth us that the works of the wicked will remain in the Fire and he will suffer loss 59. Understand us aright thus The Body which hath conversed here upon the Earth that evil perished Body which hath swallowed up that Noble precious and fair of bright Image of Paradise shall come and present it self with the Precious Image in it and give an account of God's Image 60. Now it is well with those who have Christ's Spirit they have their first Image in the word Fiat and that they must give again to the Soul and that in the Adamical Body 61. But those which have not Christ's Spirit they will stand indeed presented in the Evil Body but their Soul will have lost the right and true Image and will have an Image in their Souls-Spirit what their daily Lust or delight hath been such will their Image be 62. And in this hour will also the fierce wrathful Fiat of the Darkness present the Devils which now also shall receive their Wages and Habitation at which when they hear of it they Tremble 63. And thus will all the Dead both Evil and Good arise every one in his Two-fold Body and will have the Soul with the Spirit in the Body 64. One will have the outward Earthly Life and therein a Beastial Image in the Souls-Spirit and will have the fierce wrathful Anger 's Substantiality or Works in the Inward Image 65. And another will have the outward Body and therein Christ's Image and in the Souls-Spirit will God's Love-Spirit give Light on to these the Word Fiat draweth the right and true Adamical pure Image again 66. For the pure Image stood in God hidden in the Word which was Incarnate or became Man And now when the Soul standeth at the limit it getteth that again with the fair Virgin of the Wisdom of God 67. For the Noble and Precious Image was destroyed in Adam when the Woman was made out of him so that he only retained the Fires Tincture now each of them cometh whole home again 68. For the Woman will in the Fire of God receive the Fires Tincture so that she will be as Adam neither Woman nor Man but a Virgin full of Chastity and Modesty without Feminine or Masculine shape or Members 69. And here it will no more be as we are and say thou art my Husband thou art my Wife but they are Brethren In the Divine Magical Wonders somewhat of it will be apprehended but none will regard that but there we are all only Gods Children in a Life and Love Sport of Children 70. All this will be done before the Sentence for the Sentence will first be on the Last Day of the Judgement and the Living will not then Die but be with the Voice of God presented together before the Judgment of God 71. For the word Fiat will bring them all thither and all will be presented in its order by the word Fiat viz. a King and Emperour with his Subjects over whom he hath Ruled a Prince Nobleman Burgomaster and Superiour Magistrate each in his own Office and Employment 72. And here shall every one who have set themselves up for Shepherds of Christ without God's calling stand with the flock of their Sheep and give an account of their Doings and Doctrine whether they have been Christ's Shepherds and have pastured the Sheep or whether they have been their Belly-Shepherds here will the Spirit make enquiry after their calling and office whether they have from his Election and power or vertue entered into the Office of a Pastour or Shepherd or through Mans favour without God's Spirit and Election 73. For the Judge will say Now give an account of your Lives of your words Works Deeds and Matters or Substance then will the Turba tell every Man what his Substance or Matters have been for now will all within them and without them stand in
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