6º how metals stones and other creatures in the earth are generated 7º How the birth of life is and the corporeity of all things 8º Also what the true heaven is in which God and his Saints do dwell 9º And what the wrath of God is and the Hellish fire 10º And how all is become kindled and enflamed In brief How and what the Being of all Beings is 37. The First Seven Chapters treat very plainly and comprehensibly of the Being of God and of Angels by similitudes that the Reader may from one step to the other at last come to the deep sense and true ground 38. In the Eighth Chapter beginneth the depth in the Divine Being and so on the further the deeper 39. One thing is often repeated and still more deeply described for the Readers sake and by reason of my slow and dull apprehension 40. That which you do not find sufficiently explained in this book you will find more clearly in the second and third 41. For corruption is the cause why we know but in part and have not perfect knowledge at once 42. Yet this Book is the WONDER of the World which the holy Soul will understand well enough Thus I commit the Reader into the meek and holy Love of God The First Chapter Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature of both the Qualities the Good and the Evil. 1. THough Flesh and Blood cannot conceive or apprehend the Being of God but the Spirit only when enlightned and kindled from God 2. Yet if a man will speak of God and say What GOD is Then I. A man must diligently consider the Powers in Nature II. Also the whole Creation Heaven and Earth III. The Stars the Elements and the Creatures which are proceeded from them As also the holy Angels Devils and Men moreover Heaven and Hell Of the Two Qualities in One. 3. In this Consideration are found Two Qualities a Good one and an Evil one which are in one another as One thing in this world in all Powers in the Stars and the Elements as also in all the Creatures and no Creature in the Flesh in the Natural Life can subsist unlesse it hath the Two Qualities What a QVALITY is 4. Now here a man must consider What the word QVALITY meaneth or is A Quality is the Mobility boyling springing and driving of a thing Of Heat 5. As for Example Heat which burneth consumeth and driveth forth all whatsoever cometh into it which is not of the same property and again it enlightneth and warmeth all cold wet and dark things it compacteth and hardneth soft things Of Light and Fiercenesse 6. It containeth likewise two other kinds in it namely 1º Light and 2º Fiercenesse of which take notice in this manner The light or the heart of the heat is in it self a pleasant joyfull Glance or Lustre a power of life an inlightening and glance of a thing which is afar off and is a piece or source of the heavenly Kingdom of Joy 7. For it maketh all things in this world living and moving all flesh trees leaves and grasse grow in this world in the power of the light and have their life therein viz. in the Good 8. Again it containeth also a fiercenesse or wrath which burneth consumeth and spoileth this wrath or fiercenesse springeth driveth and elevateth it self in the Light and maketh the light moveable 9. It wrestleth and fighteth together in its two-fold source as one thing It is also one thing but it hath a double source The light subsisteth in God without heat but it doth not subsist so in Nature 10. For all Qualities in nature are one in another as one Qualitie in that maner as God is all and as all things descend and come forth from him For God is the Heart or fountain of Nature from him cometh all 11. Now the Heat reigneth and predominateth in all powers in Nature and warmeth all and is one source or spring in all for if it were not so the water would be too cold and the Earth would be congealed and there would be no Ayr. 12. The Heat is predominant in all in trees herbs and grasse and maketh the water moveable so that through the waters Springing out of the earth there groweth herbs and grasse and it is therefore called a Quality because it operateth moveth and boyleth in all and elevateth all 13. But the Light in the Heat giveth power to all qualities so that all groweth pleasant and joyful Heat without Light availeth not the other qualities but is a perdition to the Good an evil source or Spring for all is spoiled in the fiercenesse or wrath of the Heat Thus the light in the heat is a quick Spring or living fountain into which the Holy Ghost entreth but not into the fiercenesse or wrath 14. Yet the heat maketh the light moveable so that it springeth and driveth forth as is seen in winter when the Light of the Sun is likewise upon the earth but the hot Rayes of the Sun cannot reach into the earth and that is the reason why no fruit groweth Of the qualification of the Cold Quality 15. Cold is a Quality also as well as Heat it qualifieth or operateth in all creatures whatsoever come forth in Nature and in all whatsoever doth move therein in Men Beasts Fowles Fishes Worms Leaves and Grasse 16. And Heat is set in opposition unto it and qualifieth therein as if it were one and the same thing but it opposeth the fiercenesse or rage of the Heat and allayeth the Heat 17. It containeth also two sorts or Species in it which is to be Observed viz. It mitigateth the heat and maketh all things pleasant and is in all creatures a quality of life for no creature can subsist without cold for it is a springing driving Mobility in every thing 18. The other kind or Species is Fiercenesse for where it getteth power it suppresseth all and spoileth all even as the Heat doth no life can subsist in it if the Heat did not hinder that The fiercenesse of Cold is a destruction to every life and the house of Death even as the Hot fiercenesse also is Of the qualification of the Ayr and the Water 19. Ayr hath its original from Heat and Cold â—or Heat and Cold work powerfully and replenish all whereby is caused a lively and stirring motion but when cold allayeth or mitigateth the Heat then both their qualities are rarified and made thin and the Bitter quality drawes them together so that they become Dewey 20. But the Ayr hath its original and greatest motion from Heat and the water hath it from cold 21. Now these Two Qualities wrestle continually one with another the Heat consumeth the water and the Cold condenseth or crowdeth the Ayr. Now ayr is a cause and the spirit of every life and motion in the world be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables all whatever is hath its life from the Ayr and nothing can
Earth 34. The Flesh signifieth the Earth and is also from Earth 35. The Blood signifieth the Water and is from the Water 36. The Breath signifieth the Ayr and is also Ayr. 37. The Wind-Pipe and Arteries wherein the Ayr qualifieth or operateth signifieth the Deep betwixt the Stars and the Earth wherein fire ayr and water qualifie in an elementary manner and so the warmth the Ayr and water qualifie also in the Wind-Pipe and Arteries as they do in the Deep above the Earth 38. The Veins signifie the powerfull flowings out from the Stars and are also the powerful outgoings of the Stars for the Start with their powers raign in the Veins and drive forth the Forme shape and condition in Men. 39. The Entrails or Guts signifie the operation of the Stars or their consuming of all that which is proceeded from their power for whatsoever themselves have made that they consume again and remain Still in their vertue and power and so the Gutts also are the consuming of all that which man Thrusteth and stuffeth into his Gutts even all whatsoever groweth from the power of the Stars 40. The Heart in man Signifieth the Heat or the Element of Fire and it is also the Heat for the Heat in the whole Body hath its Original in the Heart 41. The Wind-Pipe and Arteries signifie the Element of Aire and the Aire ruleth also therein 42. The Liver signifieth the Element of water and it is also the water for from the Liver cometh the Blood in the whole Body into all the Members The Liver is the Mother of the Blood 43. The Lungs Signify the Earth and are also of the same Quality 44. The Feet Signify near and afar off for near and afar off are all one in God and so man by means of his Feet can come and go near and far off let him be where he will he is in Nature neither near nor afar off for in God these are one thing 45. The Hands signifie Gods Omnipotence for as God in Nature can change all things and make of them what he pleaseth so man also can with his Hands change all that which is grown in Nature and can make with his Hands out of them what he pleaseth he ruleth with his Hands the Work and Being of the whole Nature and so they very well signifie the Omnipotence of God Now observe here further 46. The whole Body to the Neck signifieth and is the round circle or Sphear of the Starres as also the Deep within or between the Stars wherein the Planets and Elements reign 47. The Flesh signifyeth the Earth which is congealed and hath no motion and so the flesh in it self hath no Reason Comprehensibility or Mobility but is moved only by the power of the Stars which raign in the flesh and veins 48. No more could the earth bring forth any fruit neither could there grow any Metals as Gold Silver Copper Iron or stones if the Starrs did not work in them neither could there grow any Grasse without the operation of the Starts 49. The Head signifieth Heaven the same is grown on the Body by the veins passages and going forth of powers and so all the powers come again from the Head and Brain into the Body into the fountain-veins or Arteries of the flesh 50. Now Heaven is a pleasant Pallace of joy wherein all the powers are as in the whole nature in the Starrs and Elements but not so hard working and Springing For every power of Heaven hath but one Species kind or form of power Springing very bright and meek not promiscuously Evil and Good one in another as in the Starrs and Elements but very pure 51. It is made out of the Midst of the waters but not qualifying in such a manner as the water in the elements for fiercenesse or wrath is not therein However Heaven belongeth to Nature because the Stars and Elements have their original and power from the Heaven 52. For Heaven is the Heart of the water as in all creatures and in all that which is in this world the water is the Heart thereof and nothing can Subsist without water be it in the flesh or out of the flesh in the Vegetables of the earth or in Metals and Stones in every thing the water is the kernel or the Heart of it 53. And so Heaven is the Heart in Nature wherein all the powers are as in the Stars and Elements and it is a soft supple and meek matter of all powers as the Brain in mans Head is 54. Now Heaven kindleth with its power the Stars and Elements so that they move and work And so the Head of man is also like Heaven 55. For as in Heaven all powers are meek and full of joy And as Heaven hath a Closure or Firmament above the Starrs and yet all powers go forth from Heaven into the Stars so the Brain also hath a Closure or Firmament between it and the body and yet all the powers go forth from the Brain into the Body and into the whole man 56. The Head Containeth the five Senses viz. Seeing Hearing Smelling Tasting and Feeling wherein the Stars and Elements qualify and therein existeth the Sydereal or Heavenly Starry or Astral and Natural spirit in Men and Beasts in this floweth forth Good and Evil for it is the House of the Stars 57. Such power the Stars borrow from Heaven that they can make in the flesh a Living and moving Spirit in Man and Beast The moving of the Heaven maketh the Stars moveable and so the Head also maketh the Body moveable 58. Now open here the eyes of thy Spirit and behold God thy Creator Question Here Now the Question is From whence hath Heaven or whence Borroweth it this power that it causeth such Mobility in Nature Answer 59. Here you must Lift up your Eyes Beyond Nature into the Light-holy Tryumphing divine power into the unchangeable holy Trinity which is a triumphing Springing moveable Being and all powers are therein as in Nature 60. For this is the Eternal Mother of Nature of which Heaven Earth Stars Elements Angels Devils Men Beasts and all have their being and therein ALL standeth 61. When we nominate Heaven and Earth Stars and Elements and all that is therein and all whatsoever is above the Heaven then thereby is nominated the Totall God which hath made himself Creaturely in these above mentioned Beings in his power which goeth forth from him 62. But GOD in his TRINITY is unchangeable and whatever there is in Heaven and upon Earth and above the Earth hath its Spring Source and Original from the Power which proceedeth from God 63. Yet you must not therefore conceive that in God there is Good and Evil for God Himself is the Good and hath the Name from good which is the triumphing Eternal Joy only all the powers proceed from him which you can search out in Nature and which are in all things Question 64. Now perhaps you may say Is there not
good and Evil in Nature and so seeing every thing cometh from God needs must then the Evil also come from God Answer 65. Behold there is a Gall in mans Body which is poison and he cannot live without this Gall for the Gall maketh the Astral spirits moveable joyous triumphing or laughing for it is the source of joy 66. But if it be inflamed or kindled in one of the Elements then it spoileth the whole Man for the wrath in the Astral spirits cometh from the Gall. 67. That is when the Gall overfloweth and runneth to the Heart then it kindleth the Element of fire and the fire kindleth the Astral spirits which raign in the Blood in the veins and in the Element of Water and then the whole Body trembleth by reason of the wrath and the poyson of the Gall. 68. And such a source hath Joy and from the same substance as also the wrath That is when the Gall in the Loving or Sweet quality is inflamed in that which man is in love withall then the whole body trembleth for joy in which many times the Astrall spirits are affected also when the Gall is overflown and is kindled in the Sweet quality 69. But it hath no such Substance in God for he hath not flesh and blood but he is a Spirit in whom all powers are as we pray in the Lords Prayer Thine is the power John 4. 24. Matth. 6. 70. And as it is written of him in Isaiah 9. He is Wonderful Counsel Power Champion Eternal Father Prince of Peace 71. The Bitter quality is in God also but not in that manner as the Gall is in Man but it is an everlasting power in an elevating triumphing spring or source of Joy 72. And though it be written in Moses I am an angry zealous God Exod. 20. Deut. 4. 24. yet the meaning of it is not that God is angry in himself and that there ariseth a fire of anger in the Holy Trinity 73. No that cannot be for it is written against those that hate me in that same Creature the fire of anger riseth up 74. But if God should be angry in Himself then the whole Nature would be on fire which will come once to passe On the Last Day in Nature and Not in God but in God the triumphing Joy will burn it was never otherwise from eternity nor will it Ever be otherwise 75. But now the elevating springing triumphing joy in God maketh Heaven triumphing and moveable and Heaven maketh the Stars and Elements moveable and the Stars and the Elements make the Creatures moveable 76. Out of the Powers of God are the Heavens proceeded out of the Heaven are the Stars out of the Stars are the Elements out of the Elements are the Earth and the Creatures come to be 77. Thus all had its beginning even to the Angels and Devils which before the Creation of Heaven Stars and the Earth were proceeded out of the same power out of which the Heaven the Stars and the Earth were proceeded 78. This is a short Entrance or Introduction shewing how the Divine and Natural Being is to be considered Henceforth I will describe the true Ground and Depth concerning What God is and how all things are framed in Gods Being 79. Which indeed hath been partly concealed from the beginning of the World to this time and Man with his Reason could not comprehend it 80. But seeing God is pleased to reveal Himself in Simplicity in this last Time I shall give way to his Impulse and Will I am but a very little Spark of Light AMEN The Third Chapter Of the most blessed Triumphing Holy Holy Holy Trinity GOD the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost ONE onely God 1. COurtâ—ous Reader here I would have you faithfully admonished to let go your Opinion and Conceit and not to Gaze after the Heathenish wisdome nor be offended at the simplicity of the Authour for this work comes not from his Reason but from the impulse of the Spirit 2. Onely be thou careful to get into thy spirit the Holy Ghost which issueth forth from God and He will lead thee into all truth and reveal Himself unto thee 3. And then thou wilt see well enough in his Light and Power even into the holy Trinity and understand those things which are written hereafter following Of GOD the FATHER 4. When Our Saviour JESUS CHRIST taught his Disciples to pray he said When ye pray say thus Our Father which art in Heaven Matth. 6. 5. The meaning is not as if Heaven could comprehend encompasse or contain God the Father for itself is made by the Divine power for Christ saith My Father is greater then all Joh. 10. 29. 6. And God saith in the Prophet Heaven is my Throne and the Earth is my footstool Esa. 66. What house would you build for me I compasse the Heaven with a Span and the Earth with three Fingers Esa. 40. 12. Also I will dwell in Jacob and Israel shall be my Tabernacle Psal. 135. 4. Syrac 25. 13. 7. But in that Christ calls his Father a Heavenly Father his meaning is that his Fathers lustre and power appeareth and shineth very bright and pure in Heaven and that above the circle or incloure which we behold with our Eyes and which we call Heaven doth appear the totally Triumphing Holy Trinity The Father Sonne and Holy Ghost 8. Christ also thereby distinguisheth his Heavenly Father from the Father of Nature which is indeed the Stars and the Elements these are our Natural Father out of which we are made and by whose impulse we live here in this world and from whence we have our food and nourishment 9. But God is therefore Our Heavenly Father in that our Soul continually longeth after him and is desirous of him yea it thirsteth and hungreth continually after him 10. The Body hungreth and thirsteth after the Father of Nature which is viz. the Stars and the Elements and that Father also feedeth and nourisheth the Body 11. But the Soul thirsteth after the heavenly Holy Father and he also giveth meat and drink to it feeding it with his holy Spirit and the spring source or fountain of joy 12. Yet we have not two Fathers but only One for Heaven is made by his Power and the Stars out of his Wisdome which is in him and proceedeth forth from him Of the Substance and Property of the Father 13. When we consider the whole Nature and its property then we see the Father 14. When we behold Heaven and the Stars then we behold his eternal Power and Wisdom so many Stars as stand in the whole Heaven which are innumerable and incomprehensible to Reason and some of them are not visible so manifold and various is the Power and Wisdome of God the Father 15. But Every Star in Heaven Differeth in its power and Quality which also maketh so many Distinctions in and among the Creatures upon the Earth and in the whole Creation 16. But all the Powers which
are in Nature proceed from God the Father All Light Heat Cold Ayr Water and all the powers of the Earth Bitter Sowre Sweet Astringent Hard and Soft and more then can be Reckoned all have their beginning from the Father 17. Therefore if a Man would liken the Father to any thing he should liken him to the Round Globe of Heaven 18. Thou must not conceive here that the very power which is in the Father standeth in a Peculiar severed or divided part and place in the Father as the Stars do in Heaven 19. No! but the Spirit sheweth that all the powers in the Father are one in another as one power 20. A Resemblance Image or Figure whereof we have in the Prophet Ezekiel the 1. Chap. Who seeth the Lord in the Spirit and resemblance like a wheele having Four other wheels one in another the Four being like one another and when they moved they went Strait forward which way soever the Wind did sit or Blow and that way they went all forward having no cause of returning 21. And thus it is with God the Father for all the powers are in the Father one in another as one power and all powers Consist in the Father in an unsearcheable Light and Clarity or Brightnes and Glory 22. Yet thou must not think that God who is in Heaven and above the Heaven doth there stand and hover like a power and quality which hath in it neither Reason nor knowledge in it 23. As the Sun which turneth round in its circle and shooteth forth from it self Heat and Light whether it be for benefit or hurt to the Earth and Creatures which indeed would be for hurt if the other Planets and Stars did not hinder 24. No! the Father is not so but he is an All-mighty All-wise All-knowing All-seeing All-hearing All-smelling All-feeling All-tasting God who in himself is meek friendly gracious merciful and full of Joy yea Joy it self 25. And he is thus from Eternity to eternity unchangeably He never changed himself in his Being neither will he change himself in all Eternity 26. He is proceeded or born of nothing but Himself is all in Eternity and all whatsoever is is come from his power which from Eternity goeth forth from him 27. His Immensenesse Heighth and Depth no Creature no not any Angel in Heaven can search into it but the Angels live in the power of the Father very meekly and full of Joy and they alwaies Sing in the power of the Father Of GOD the SONNE 28. If a Man will see God the Sonne he must once more look upon natural things otherwise I cannot write of him the Spirit indeed beholdeth him but that can neither be spoken nor written for the Divine Being consisteth in power which can neither be written nor spoken 29. Therefore we must use Similitudes if we intend to speak of God for we live in this world as men who know but in part and are made of that which is but in part Therefore I cite the Reader into the life to come where and when I shall speak more properly and more clearly of this high Article 30. In the mean while the loving Reader is to attend to the sense and meaning of the Spirit and then he will not fail to get a little refreshing if he hath but any hunger in him Now Observe 31. The Turks and Heathens say God hath no Sonne Set Open your Eyes wide here and do not make your selves stark blind and you will see the Sonne 32. The Father is all and all power Subsisteth in the Father He is the Beginning and the End of all things and besides and beyond him is nothing and whatever is is from the Father 33. For before the beginning of the Creation of the Creatures there was nothing but only GOD and where there is nothing out of that nothing will be All things must have a Cause or Root or else Nothing will be 34. Yet you are not to think that the Sonne is another God then the Father Neither should you think that the Sonne is without or besides the Father and that he is a severed part or divided piece as when two men stand one by another where one comprehendeth not the other 35. No! the Father and the Sonne is not of such a substance or such a kind of thing for the Father is not an Image to be likened to any thing but the Father is the fountain of all powers and all the powers are one in another as one power and therefore he is said to be ONE onely GOD. 36. Otherwise if his powers were divided then he were not Al-mighty but now he is the Self-subsisting All-mighty and All-powerful God 37. And the Sonne is the Heart in the Father all the powers which are in the Father are the propriety of the Father and the Sonne is the Heart or the Kernel or Pith in all the powers in the whole Father and he is the cause of the springing Joy in all powers in the whole Father 38. From the Sonne who is the Fathers Heart in all his powers the Eternal Joy ariseth and springeth in all the powers of the Father such a joy as no eye hath seen nor ear heard neither hath ever entred into the Heart of any Man as St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 2. 9. 39. But if a man here on Earth be enlightned with the Holy Ghost from the fountain of JESUS CHRIST so that the spirits of Nature which signifie the Father be kindled in him then there ariseth such a Joy in his Heart and it goeth forth into all his veins so that the whole body trembleth and the Soulish animal spirit triumpheth as if it were siting in the holy Trinity which is understood onely by those that have been Guests in that place 40. And this is but a Type or Glimpse of the Sonne of God in Man whereby Faith is strengthened and preserved for the joy cannot be so great in an earthen vessel as in a heavenly wherein the perfect power of God is fully Now here I must write a Similitude 41. I will shew thee a Similitude in Nature signifying how the holy Being in the holy Trinity is 42. Consider Heaven which is a round Globe having neither beginning nor end but its beginning and end is every where which way soever you look upon it and so is God who is in and above the Heaven he hath neither beginning nor end 43. Now consider further the Circle or Sphear of the Stars they denote the various Powers and Wisdome of the Father and they are made also by the Power and Wisdom of the Father 44. Now the Heaven the Stars and the whole Deep between the Stars together with the Earth signifie the Father 45. And the Seven Planets signifie the seven Spirits of God or the Princes of the Angels among which also Lord LUCIFER was one before his Fall which all were made out of the Father in the beginning of the creation of Angels before the
this world in the qualifying or fountain spirits of God is quite extinct no there is onely a duskishnesse or dimme Obscurity upon it so that we cannot apprehend it with our corrupted Eyes 101. But if God did once put away that duskishnesse which moveth about the light and that thy eyes were opened then in that very place where thou standest sittest or lyest thou shouldest see the glorious Countenance or Face of God and the whole heavenly Gate 102. Thou needest not first to cast thine eyes up into Heaven for it is written The word is near thee viz on thy Lips and in thy Heart Deut. 30. 14. Rom. 10. 8. 103. Yea God is so near thee that the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity is done or wrought even in thy heart yea all the Three Persons are Generated in thy heart even God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost 104. Now when I write here concerning the midst or Center that the fountain of the Divine Birth or Geniture is in the midst or Center the meaning is not that in Heaven there is a peculiar or severall place or a peculiar several Body wherein the fire of the divine life riseth up out of which the seven spirits of God go forth into the whole Deep of the Father 105. No but I speak in a corporeal or Angelical or Humane way that the Reader may the better understand it in such a manner as the Angelical Creatures were Imaged or framed and as it is in God every where universally 106. For thou canst not nominate any place either in heaven or in this world wherein the divine Birth or Geniture is not thus be it in an Angel or Holy man or any where else 107. Wheresoever one qualifying or fountain spirit in the divine power is touched or stirred let the place be where or thing what it will except in the Devils and all wicked damned Men there is the fountain of the divine Birth or Geniture clearly at hand and there already are all the seven qualifying or fountain-Spirits of God 108. As when thou wouldst make a spacious creaturely circumscribed circle and hadst the whole Deity peculiarly apart therein Then Just so as it is generated in a Creature so it is also in the whole Deep of the Father in all places and parts thereof and in all things Note 109. And in such a manner is God an All-mighty all-knowing all-seeing all-hearing all-smelling all-feeling God who is every where and proveth the Hearts and Reines of the Creatures 110. And in such a manner Heaven and Earth is His Also in such a manner all the Devils together with all wicked Men must be his Eternal Prisoners and in the Salitter which they have corrupted and kindled in their Place or Space must endure eternal Pain and Torment and moreover Eternal shame and Reproach 111. For the Total glorious face of God together with all the holy Angels will shine bright and gloriously above them and under them and round about them on Every side 112. And all holy Angels together with all holy Men will eternally triumph above them below them and round about them and for great Joy delight and Pleasantnesse sing of Gods Holinesse of their Royall Kingly Government or Regiment and of the gracious amiable blessed fruit of the heavenly Spring or Vegetation and that wil go forth according to the qualities of the seven Spirits of God in many various Voices 113. On the contrary the Devils with all wicked Men will be forced into a Hole where a hellish stinck will burn boyl and rise up and the hellish fire and hellish coldnesse and bitternesse will burn after the manner of the kindled spirits of God eternally in their Body as also in their Courts Dominions Regions Space or Circumference 114. Nay if they could be lock'd in or barred up into a Hole that the angry face of God might not touch them then they might be Quiet and contented and would not be necessitated to endure eternal Ignominie shame and reproach 115. But here is no help their Torment encreaseth and becometh but the greater the more they bewail it the more doth the hellish fiercenesse or wrath kindle it self they must lye in Hell as dead Bones like sindged scorched Sheep in the fire their stink and abomination gnaweth them 116. They dare not lift up their Eyes for shame for they see in their Circumference Courts or Regions nothing else but onely a severe Judge and above them and on all sides of them they see the Eternal Joy 117. Not that they apprehend and behold it but they have a kind of knowledge thereof in the Center 118. Here is Lamentation and Woe Yelling and crying and no deliverance it is with them as if it did continually Thunder and Lighten tempestuously 119. For the kindled Spirits of God generate themselves thus I. First the hardnesse generateth a hard raw rough cold and astringent quality II. Secondly the sweetnesse is grown faint like a glowing coal when there is no more sap in the wood that Gaspeth and there is no refreshment for it III. Thirdly the Bitternesse teareth like a Hot Plague and is as Bitter as Gall. IIII. Fourthly the Fire burneth as a fierce wrathful Sulphur V. Fifthly Love is an Enmity here VI. Sixthly the sound is a meer Beating Rumbling or Cracking like the noise of a fire breaking forth out of a hollow place as if it were great Claps of Thunder VII Seventhly the Circuit Region Court or Residence of the Body is a house of mourning 120. Their food is abomination and groweth from the fiercenesse of all qualities Lamentation and woe and that for Ever without End there is no Time there Another King sitteth on their Throne which keepeth or holdeth a Judgment for Ever they are onely his Footstool 121. O Beauty Pleasure and Voluptuousnesse of this world O Riches and proud Statelinesse O Might and Power Thy unrighteous Judgment and great Pomp with all thy pleasure and voluptuousnesse lyeth all together on a Heap and is become a hellish Fire 122. Now eat and drink now trim and dresse thy self therewith and domineer therein thou fair Goddesse how art thou become a whore and thy shame and reproach continueth for ever The Eleventh Chapter VII Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power 1. THe Seventh Spirit of God in the Divine Power is the Corpus or Body which is generated out of the other Six spirits wherein All heavenly figures subsist and wherein all things Image and form themselves and wherein all Beauty and Joy riseth up 2. This is the very spirit of Nature yea Nature it self wherein apprehensibility or comprehensibility consisteth and wherein all Creatures are formed in Heaven and on Earth Yea heaven it self is therein formed and Naturality in the whole Deity consisteth in this Spirit 3. If it were not for this Spirit there would be neither Angel nor man and God would be an unsearchable Being subsisting onely in an unsearchable
flesh but riseth up like a flash of lightning even as fire flashes and sparckles out of a Stone when a man strikes fire upon it 132. But when the flash is caught in the fountain of the Heart then the Holy Ghost riseth up in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits into the Brain like the Day-break Dawning of the Day or Morning Rednesse and therein sticketh the mark Aime or scope and knowledge 133. For in that light the one seeth the other feeleth the other smelleth the other tasteth the other and heareth the other and is as if the whole Deity did rise up therein 134. And herein the spirit seeth into the depth of the Deity for in God near and afar off is all one And that same God of whom I write in this Book is as well in his Ternarie in the Body of a Holy soul As in Heaven 135. From this God I take my knowledge and from no other thing neither will I know any other thing then that same God and the same it is which maketh that assurance in my spirit that I steadfastly believe and trust in him 136. And though an Angel from heaven should tell this to me yet for all that I could not believe it much lesse lay hold on it for I should alwayes doubt whether it were certainly so or no But the Sun it self ariseth in my spirit and therefore I am most sure of it and I my self do see the proceeding and Birth of the holy Angels and of all things both in heaven and in this world 137. For the Holy Soul is one spirit with God though indeed it is a Creature yet it is like to the Angels Also the Soul of Man seeth much deeper then the Angels for the Angels see onely to the heavenly Pomp but the Soul seeth both the Heavenly and the Hellish for it liveth between both 138. Therefore it must undergo many hard Bangs and pinches and must every day and hour wrestle and struggle with the devill that is with the hellish qualities and so it liveth in great danger in this world and therefore this life is very well called the Valley of misery full of anguish a perpetual hurliburly pulling and haling worrying warring fighting struggling and striving 139. But the cold and half-dead Body doth not alwayes understand this fight of the Soul The Body doth not know how it is with it but is heavy and anxious it goeth from one room or businesse to another and from one Place to another it seeketh for ease and rest 140. And when it cometh thither where it would be yet it findeth no such thing then doubtings and unbelief fall in between and come upon it sometimes it seems to it as if God had quite cast it off but it doth not understand the fight of the Spirit how the same is sometimes down and sometimes gets aloft 141. And what vehement and furious warre and fight there is betwixt the hellish and heavenly Quality which fire the Devils Blow up and the Holy Angels Quench it I leave to every Holy Soul to consider of 142. Thou must know that I write not here as a Story or History as if it were related to me from another but I must continually stand in that Combat or Battle and I find it to be full of heavy strivings wherein I am often struck down to the ground as well as all other Men. 143. But for the sake of the violent fight and for the sake of the earnestnesse which we have together this Revelation hath been given me and the vehement driving or impulse to bring it so to passe as to set all this down in Paper 144. But what the Totall sequel is which may follow upon and after this I do not fully know onely sometimes future Mysteries in the depth are shewed to me 145. For when the flash riseth up in the Center one seeth through and through but cannot well apprehend or lay hold on it for it happeneth to such a one as when there is a Tempest of Lightening where the flash of fire openeth it self and suddenly vanisheth 146. So it goes also in the Soul when it presseth or breaks quite through in its fight or Combat then it beholdeth the Deity as a flash of Lightening but the source quality or fountain of Sins covereth it suddenly again For the Old Adam belongeth to the Earth and doth not with this flesh belong to the Deity 147. I do not write this for my own Praise but to that end that the Reader may know wherein my Knowledge standeth that he might not seek that from me which I have not or think me to be what I am not 148. But what I am that all men are who wrestle in JESUS CHRIST our King for the Crown of the Eternal Joy and live in the Hope of Perfection the beginning whereof is at the Day of the Resurrection which is now shortly near at Hand which in the circle of the rising or Horizon of the East in the flash is very well to be seen in which Nature sheweth it self as if it would be Day-Break 149. Therefore take heed that you be not found asleep in your Sinnes surely the prudent and the wise will take notice hereof but the wicked will continue in their Sins 150. They say What ayles the Fool when will he have done with his Dreaming This is Because they are asleep in fleshly Lusts Well well you shall see what kind of Dream this will Bee 151. I would fain take ease and rest in my meeknesse if I were not put upon this work but that God who hath made the world is too strong for me I am the work of his Hands he may set me and place me where he will 152. And though I must be a by-word and Spectacle of scorn to the World and Devils yet my hope is in God concerning the Life to come in Him I will venture to hazard my self and not resist or strive against the Spirit Amen The Twelfth Chapter Of the Nativity and proceeding forth or descent of the Holy Angels as also of their Government Order and Heavenly joyous Life 1. VErbum Domini The Word of the Lord comprised the Qualifying or fountain-spirits by the Fiat that is the saying Let there be Angels into a will and that is the Creation of the Angels Question 2. Now the Question is What is properly an Angel Answer Behold when God Schuff created the Angels then he created them out of the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit which is Nature or the Holy Heaven 3. The word Schuff Created thou must understand thus as when a man sayes drawn together or driven together as the Earth is driven or Compacted together In like manner when the whole God did move himself then the astringent quality drew or drove together the Salitter of Nature and dryed it and so the Angels came to be now such as the Quality was in every place such also was the Angel
penetrate suddenly one into another driving hard rubbing and thronging crowding or sqeezing then the sweet water would be squeezed out and the fierce heat would be kindled and then would rise up the fire of the seven spirits as in Lucifer 112. This is now the true Birth or Geniture of the Deity which hath been so from eternity in all Corners and Places whatsoever and abideth so in all Eternity 113. But in the Kingdom of Lucifer the Destroyer it is otherwise as I have written above concerning the fiercenesse and in this world which is now half kindled also it is likewise after another manner and will be so till the day of the Restitution of which I shall write when I treat concerning the Creation of this world 114. Now in this glorious lovely and heavenly Salitter or divine Qualities the Kingdom of Lucifer also was created without any greater motion then the other 115. For when Lucifer was created he was altogether perfect and was the fairest Prince in heaven adorned and indued with the fairest clarity or Brightnesse of the Sonne of God 116. But if Lucifer had been spoiled or destroyed in the moving of the Creation as he pretendeth then he had never had his Perfection beauty and clarity but would have been presently a fierce dark Devill and not a Cherubin Of the glorious Birth and beauty of King Lucifer 117. Behold thou murtherous and lying spirit here I will describe thy Royall Birth how thou wert in thy Creation how God created thee and how thou becamest so beautiful and to what end God created thee 118. If thou sayst any other thing then this which Heaven and Earth and all the Creatures testifie then thou Lyest nay the whole Deity testifieth against thee that God created thee for his praise out of himself to be a Prince and King of God as he did Prince Michael and Prince Uriel Now Observe 119. When the Deity moved it self to Creation and would form Image or frame Creatures in its Body it kindled not the qualifying spirits else they would have burnt Eternally but it stirr'd them very gently or softly in the astringent quality 120. That drew or attracted the Divine Salitter together and dryed it so that it became a Body and so the whole divine power of all the seven qualifying or fountain-spirits of that place or Room as far as that of the Angels reached was captivated in the Body and became the propriety of the Body which neither can nor shall be destroyed again in Eternity but shall remain the Bodies propriety or proper own in Eternity 121. Now the captivated or incorporated power of all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits had its propriety in the Body and is risen in the Body and hath generated it self in the same manner as the Deity generateth it self from all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits 122. One quality hath alwaies generated the other alike and none of them have vanished or gone out of sight just as it is in the whole Deity and then the whole Body as it is also in the Ternarie generated it self just as the Deity generateth it self without or distinct from the Body in the Ternarie 123. But this I must mention here viz. that Lucifer the King was incorporated together out of his whole Kingdome as the Heart of the whole place or Room thereof so far as his whole Angelical Hoast or Army reached when it was created and so far as that circumference or circle Region or Quarter reach'd wherein He and his Angels became a creature and which God before the time of Creation had enclosed or concluded as a Room or Space for a Kingdom whose circuit or Extent comprehendeth Heaven and this world as also the Deep of the Earth and of the whole Circle Sphear or Circumference of this whole world of the Heavens and Stars 124. And according to the qualities were his qualifying or fountain Princes created which are his Kingly Counsellours and so also were all his Angels created 125. Yet you are to know that every Angel hath all the seven spirits in him but one of the seven is chief or principal Now behold 126. When the King was thus incorporated or compacted together as one comprehending his whole Kingdom then instantly the same hour and in the same Moment when he was incorporated or compacted together the birth of the Holy Trinity of God which he had for a propriety in his Body Understand in the Liberty not essentially but as the fire shineth forth or gloweth through the Iron that is flaming hot and the Iron remaineth Iron still or as the light replenisheth or filleth the Darknesse the dark source or quality being changed into Light and so becometh joyful and yet in the Center remaineth a darknesse which is understood to be Nature for a spirit is repleninish'd onely with the Majestie rose up and generated it self without distinct from the Creature in God 127. For in the driving together of the Body presently likewise rose up the Birth also in great triumph as in a New-born King in God and all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits shewed themselves very joyful and triumphing 128. And instantly in the same Moment the light was generated and rose up out of the seven spirits in the Center of the heart as a new-born sonne of the King which also instantly in a Moment clarified or brightened the Body of all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits from the Center of the Heart and externally from without the light of the Sonne of God clarified or brightened it 129. For the Birth of the new Sonne in the Heart of Lucifer also penetrated through the whole Body and was glorified from the Sonne of God which was without distinct from the body and was friendlily welcommed with the greatest Beauty of Heaven according to the Beauty of God the Sonne and it was to him as a loving Heart or propriety with which the whole Deity qualified or operated 130. And then instantly also the spirit of the new born sonne in the Heart went forth from the light of Lucifer through his Mouth and united qualified or cooperated with the holy Spirit of God and was with highest Joy received and embraced as a dear little Brother 131. Now here standeth the Beautious Bride what shall I write of her now was she not a Prince of God as also the most beautiful moreover in Gods love also and as a dear Sonne of the Creatures Of the horrible proud and henceforth doleful Lamentable Beginning of Sin The highest Depth Observe here 132. When King Lucifer was thus fairly gloriously Beautiously highly and holily framed or built he should surely have now begun to praise honour and magnifie his Creatour and should do that which God his Creator doth 133. Viz. God his Creator qualifieth or operateth very meekly lovingly and Joyfully and one qualifying or fountain-spirit of God alwaies loveth the other and bringeth its affection into the other and alwaies helpeth the other to
again and fashioned according to that form which they were in from the beginning of the Creation 74. Only the two qualities good and bad which have been in Nature one in another were separated and the bad one was given to the prince of malice and wrath or fiercenesse for an eternal habitation and that is called Hell or a Rejection which in eternity no more apprehends or toucheth the good quality but is an oblivion of all good and that unto its eternity 75. In the other quality stood the Tree of eternal Life and its source and off-spring descended from the holy Trinity and the Holy Ghost did shine into the same And all men came forth which descended from the loynes of Adam who was the first man Each in its vertue and in that quality in which each did grow on earth 76. Those that on earth had eaten of the good Tree which is called JESUS CHRIST in them did dwell the Mercy of God unto eternal joy they had in them the power of the good quality they were received into the good and holy quality and they sung the Song of their Bridegroom each in his voyce according to his own Holinesse 77. But those that were born in the Light of Nature and of the Holy Ghost and on earth never fully knew the Tree of Life but were grown in its power which overshadowed all men upon earth as very many Nations Heathens and Babes which were also received into the same power wherein they were grown and wherewith their spirit was cloathed and they sung the song according to their power and measure in the noble tree of eternal life for every one was glorified according to his power vertue measure and proportion 78. And the Holy Nature Generated joyfull heavenly fruit even as on earth it had generated fruit in both the Qualities which were both good and bad so now it did generate heavenly fulnesse of Joy 79. And those men that were now like Angels did each eat the fruit of his Quality and they sung the song of God and the song of the Tree of eternal life 80. And that was in the Father as a holy Sceane a triumphing joy for to that end all things at the beginning were made out of the Father and now they abide so to all eternity 81. But those that were grown on earth in the power of the tree of wrath that is which the fierce quality had overcome and were withered in the wickednesse of their spirit in their Sins all those came forth also each in his power or faculty and were received into the Kingdom of Darknesse and each was indued in that power in which he was grown up and their King is call'd Lucifer viz. one expell'd or driven forth from the Light 82. And the hellish quality brought forth fruit also as it had done upon earth onely the good was severed or parted from it and therefore it brought forth fruit now in its own quality And these Men also which were now like the spirits did each eat the fruit of his quality and so did the Devils also 83. For as there is a difference in men upon earth in their qualities and all are not of one Quality Condition or Disposition even so among the rejected reprobate spirits and so in the heavenly pomp in Angels and Men and that lasteth unto its eternity AMEN 84. Courteous Reader This is a short information concerning the two Qualities in Nature from the beginning to the end how there arose from thence two Kingdoms a heavenly and a hellish and how they stirre in this time and strive one against another and what the issue of it will be in the time to come The Contents of this Book by way of Introduction To this Book I have given this Name viz. The Root or Mother of Philosophie Astrologie and Theologie And that you may know what this Book doth treat of Observe I. 1. In the Philosophie is treated concerning the Divine power I. What God is II. How in the Being of God is created Nature the Stars and the Elements III. From whence every thing hath its Original IIII. How Heaven and Earth were created V. How Angels Men and Devils were created VI. How Heaven and Hell and whatever is creaturely were created and what the Two Qualities are in Nature All out of a true ground in the knowledge of the Spirit by the impulse and motion of God II. 2. In the Astrologie is treated I. Of the powers of Nature of the Stars and of the Elements II. How all Creatures proceeded from thence III. How the same do impell and rule all IIII. And work in all and how good and bad is wrought by them in Men and Beasts V. Whence it cometh that Good and Bad is and raigneth in this world VI. Also how the Kingdom of Heaven and of Hell consisteth therein 3. My purpose is not to describe the course place and Name of all Stars and what their Annual Conjunction Opposition Quadrat is or the like what they yearly and hourly operate which by a long processe of time hath been observed by the wise skilful and Expert Men who were rich and large in spirit by their diligent contemplation observation deep sense Calculation and Computation 4. Neither have I studied or learned the same and I leave that to the Learned to discourse of but my intention is to write according to the Spirit and sense and not according to Speculation III. 5. In the Theologie is handled I. Of the Kingdom of Christ of what condition the same is II. How it is set in opposition to the Kingdom of Hell III. How in Nature it fighteth and striveth against the Kingdom of Hell IIII. How men through Faith and Spirit are able to overcome the Kingdom of Hell and triumph in Divine power and obtain eternal salvation and all this as a victory in the Battel V. Also how Man through the operation or working in the hellish quality casts himself into perdition VI. And what the issue of both will be at last 6. The Supream Title is AVRORA That is The Dawning of the Day in the East or Morning-Rednesse in the Rising of the SVN And is a secret Mystery concealed from the wise and prudent of this world which themselves shall shortly be sensible of but to those which read this book in singlenesse of heart with a desire after the holy Spirit who place their hope onely in God it will not be a hidden secret but a manifest knowledge 7. I will not explain this Title but commit it to the judgment of the impartial Reader who wrestleth in the good quality of this world 8. Now if Mr. Critick which qualifieth or worketh with his wit in the fierce quality gets this book into his hand he will oppose it as there is alwayes stirring and Opposition between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Hell I. First he will say that I ascend too high into the Deity which is not a meet thing
and so then it reciprocally maketh all the powers in the Father living and moving and through that Spirit are all the Angels formed and Imaged out of the Fathers Powers 143. And that Spirit preserveth and supporteth all formeth all all vegetation colours and Creatures both in heaven and in this world and above all the Heaven of Heavens For the Birth or Geniture of the Holy Trinity above all is thus and no otherwise neither will it be otherwise in all Eternity 144. But when the fire is Kindled in a Creature that is when a Creature elevateth it self too high or too much as Lucifer and his Legions did then the light extinguisheth or goeth out and the fierce wrathfull and hot source the source of the hellish fire riseth up that is the Spirit of the fire riseth up in the fierce Quality 145. Observe here the Circumstances how this is done or how it can come to be done Therefore consider an Angel is formed figured composed or compacted together out of all powers as I have described it at large 146. Now when he elevateth himself he elevateth himself first in the astringent quality which he gripeth close together as a woman which is in travel and presseth himself whereby the hard quality becometh so hard and sharp that the sweet water can force or prevail with it no more and so can rise up no more meekly or mildly in the Creature but is captivated and dried up by the astringent quality and changed into a hard sharp fierce Coldnesse 147. For it becometh too empty and dry by the astringent contraction and loseth its bright lustre and its unctuosity fatnesse or Oylinesse wherein the light Spirit riseth up which is the Spirit of the Holy angelical and divine life becometh so hard compacted and pressed together by the astringent qualitie whereby it is dried up like sweet dry Wood. 148. And so when the bitter quality riseth up in the exsiccated or dryed sweet quality then cannot the sweetnesse mollifie it and imbibe it with its sweet light-water because it is dried up 149. And there the bitter quality raveth and rageth and seeketh for rest and food and finds it not and moveth or boyleth in the Body as a faint Poyson 150. And now when the heat kindleth the sweet quality and would mitigate its heat in the sweet water whence it riseth up and shineth in the whole Body there it finds nothing but a hard dry sweet source or quality there is no sap or moisture it being quite exsiccated or dryed up by the astringencie 151. Then it kindleth the sweet source or quality with an intent to be refreshed but there is no sapp left only the sweet source or quality is now burning and glowing even as a hard dryed or burnt stone and can no more kindle its light and so the whole Body remaineth now a Dark valley in which there is nothing but a fierce hard coldnesse in the astringent quality and in the sweet a hard glowing fire only wherin the fierce Wrathful heat riseth up in all Eternity and in the bitter quality there is a raving raging stinging and burning 152. And thus you have here the true description of an Expulsed Angel or Devill as also the Cause thereof and that not written in a similitude only but in the Spirit through that power out of which all things are come to be 153. O man behold thy self herein look before thee and behind thee it is not in vain 154. This great History or Action how it came to passe and how it went you will find it at large concerning the Fall of the Devill V. Of the Fifth Circumstance or Species 155. The Fifth Quality or the fifth Spirit of God among the the Seven Spirits of God in the Divine power of the Father is the gracious amiable blessed friendly and joyful Love 156. Now observe what the fountain of the gracious amiable blessed and friendly love of God is Observe it exactly for it is the very Pith Marrow or Kernel 157. When the heat in the sweet quality riseth up and kindleth the sweet source fountain or spring then that fire burneth in the sweet quality now seeing the sweet quality is a thin or transparent lovely pleasant sweet fountain or spring-water it allayeth the heat and quencheth the fire and so there remaineth in the sweet fountain spring of the sweet water only the joyful light 158. And the heat is only a gentle soft warming even as it is in a man which is of a Sanguine Complexion wherein also the heat is only a friendly cheerly warming if the party liveth temperately and keepeth a due Measure 159. That friendly Courteous Love-Light-fire goeth along in the sweet quality and riseth up into the bitter and astringent quality and so kindleth the bitter and astringent quality feeding them with its sweet Love-sap refreshing quickning and enlightning them and making them living or lively cheerfull and friendly 160. And when the Light-love-power cometh at them so that they taste thereof and get its life O there is a friendly Meeting Saluting and Triumphing a friendly wellcoming and great love a most friendly and gracious amiable and blessed kissing and well relishing taste 161. There the Bridegroom kisseth his Bride O gracious amiable Blessednesse and great love how sweet art thou how friendly and Courteous art thou how pleasant and lovely is thy rellish and taste how ravishing sweetly dost thou smell O noble light and bright glory who can apprehend thy exceeding Beauty how comely adorned is thy love how curious and dainty are thy colours and All this Eternally who can expresse it 162. Or why and what do I writeâ— whose Tongue doth but stammer like a child which is learning to speak with what shall I compare it or to what shall I liken it Shall I compare it with the love of this world No that is but a meer dark valley to it 163. O Immense greatnesse I cannot compare thee with any thing but only with the Resurrection from the Dead there will the love-fire rise up again in US and embrace Man courteously and friendly and re-kindle again our astringent bitter and cold dark and dead Quality and embrace us most friendly 164. O noble Guest O why didst thou depart from us O fiercenesse wrath and astringency or severity thou art the cause of it O fierce wrathfull Devil O what hast thou done who hast sunk down thy self and beautiful bright Angels into darknesse woe woe for Ever 165. O was not the gracious amiable blessed and fair Love in thee also O thou High and Lofty minded Devil why wouldst thou not be contented wert thou not a Cherubin and was there any thing so beautiful and bright in heaven as thou what didst thou seek for wouldst thou be the whole or Total God didst thou not know that thou wert a Creature and hadst not the Fan and Casting shovel in thy own hand or Power 166. O why do I pity thee thou stinking Goat O
his necessity becommeth enlightned and kindled by the Holy Ghost As the Sun kindleth the cold heat in a Tree or Herb whereby the cold chilled Heat becometh living Now Observe 64. As the members of Mans Body love one another so do the spirits also in the Divine power there is nothing else but a meer longing desiring and well liking acceptation as also a triumphing and rejoycing the one in the other for through these spirits cometh the understanding and distinction in God in Angels Men Beasts and Fowles and in every thing that liveth 65. For in these Five Qualities riseth up the seeing smelling tasting and feeling and so a Rational spirit cometh to be 66. As when the light riseth up then one spirit seeth the other 67. And when the sweet spring or fountain water riseth up in the light through all the spirits then the one tasteth the other and then the spirits become living and the power of life penetrateth through all 68. And in that power the one smelleth the other And through this qualifying influence and penetrating the one feeleth the other 69. And so there is nothing else but a Hearty loving and friendly aspect or seeing curious smelling a good relishing or tasting and lovely feeling a gracious amiable blessed kissing a feeding upon and drinking of one another and lovely walking and conversing together 70. This is the gracious amiable blessed BRIDE which rejoyceth in her BRIDEGROOM herein is love joy and delight here is light and brightnesse or clarity here is a pleasant and lovely smell here is a friendly and sweet taste 71. And this for ever without End How can a Creature sufficiently rejoyce therein O Dear love and gracious amiable blessednesse Surely thou hast no End No man can see any End in thee thy profound Deep is unsearchable thou art every where all over thus onely in the fierce Devil thou art not thus they have spoiled and perished thee in themselves Question 72. Now thou wilt say Where then are these gracious amiable and blessed spirits to be met with Do they dwell onely in themselves in Heaven Answer 73. This is the other open Gate of the Deity here thou must set thy eyes wide open and rouze up or awaken the spirit in thy half dead heart for this is not an Obscure Fiction Contrivance or Phantasie Observe 74. The Seven Spirits of God contain or comprehend in their circumference and space Heaven and this world also the wide breadth and depth without and beyond the heavens even above and beneath the world and in the world yea the whole Father which hath neither Beginning nor End 75. They contain also all the Creatures both in heaven and in this world and all the Creatures in heaven and in this world are imaged fashioned or framed out of these spirits and live in them as in their own propriety 76. And their Life and Reason is generated in them in such a manner as the Divine being is generated and also in the same power 77. And out of and from the same Body of the seven Spirits of God are all things made and produced all Angels all Devils the Heaven the Earth the Stars the Elements Men Beasts Fowles Fishes all Worms Wood Trees also Stones Herbs and Grasse and all whatsoever is Now thou wilt ask Question 78. Seeing God is every where and is himself All How cometh it then that there is in this world such Cold and Heat such biting and striking among all Creatures and that there is nothing else almost but meer fiercenesse or wrath in this world Answer 79. The cause is that the first four Forms of Nature are one at Enmity against the other without the light and yet they are the causes of Life 80. Behold here the wickednesse and malice which is the Cause viz. when King Lucifer did sit in his Kingdom like a high-minded proud Bride then his Circuit Circle or Orbe contained or comprehended the place or space where now the Created Heaven is which is made out of the water 81. And the place also of the created world even unto heaven as also the Deep where now the Earth is that was all a pure and holy Salitter wherein the Seven Spirits of God were Compleat and Pleasant as now in Heaven although they are still compleat and full in this world But observe the Circumstances rightly 82. When King Lucifer elevated himself then he elevated himself in the seven qualifying fountain-spirits and kindled them with his elevation so that all was wholly burning and the astringent quality was so hard and Compact that it generated stones and was so cold that it made the sweet spring or fountain-water turn to Ice 83. And the sweet spring water became very thick brittle and as in many pieces and the bitter quality became very raging tearing and raving whence Poyson arose aloft and the fire or heat was violently and zealously or fervently burning and consuming and so there was a very great distemper and confused Mixture 84. Upon this King Lucifer was thrust out of his Royal Place or Kingly Throne which he had in that Place where now the created Heaven is and thereupon instantly ensued the Creation of this world 85. And the hard Brittle matter which had wrought forth it self in the kindled seven qualifying or fountain-spirits was driven together from whence the Earth and Stones came to be and after that all the Creatures were created out of the kindled Salitter of the seven Spirits of God 86. Now the qualifying or fountain Spirits became so fierce and wrathfull in their kindling that the one continually spoileth the other with its evill naughty quality or source and so also now do the creatures which were made out of the qualifying or fountain spirits and live in the same impulse the one biting beating worrying and annoying the other all according to the kind or disposition of the Qualities 87. Upon this now the Totall or Universall God hath Decreed the Last Judgment wherein he will separate the Evil from the Good and set the good again in the meek mild and Pleasant delight as it was before the horrible kindling of the Devill and will give that which is fierce or wrathfull to King Lucifer for an Everlasting Habitation 88. And then there will be two Parts or divisions of this Kingdom the one Men will get with their King JESUS CHRIST the other the Devills shall have with all ungodly Men and wickednesse 89. This is a short Introduction that the Reader might the better understand the Divine Mystery concerning the Fall of the Devil and concerning the Creation of this world you will find all more at large particularly described Therefore I would have the Reader admonished that he read all in order and so he will come to the true ground 90. It is true that from the beginning of the world it was not so fully revealed to any Man but seeing God will have it so I submit to his Will and will see
Question 74. Thou askest How can a man quench this kindled fire Answer 75. Hearken Thou hast the sweet water in thee pour that into the fire and then it goeth out if thou letst it burn then it consumeth in thee the Sap that is in all the seven qualifying or fountain Spirits so that thou wilt become dry 76. When that is done then thou art a hellish fire-Brand and a Billet or Faggot to lay upon the hellish fire and then there is no remedy for thee Eternally 77. But when thou lookest upon a thing which thou lovest and awaknest the spirit in thine heart then thou kindlest the fire in thine heart which burneth first in the sweet water like a Glowing coal 78. And whilst it is but glimmering it is only a gentle soft longing delight or pleasing Lust in thee and doth not consume thee but if thy heart be in a greater commotion and thou kindlest the sweet quality or fountain so that it becomes a burning flame then thou kindlest all the qualifying or fountain spirits and then the whole body burneth and so Mouth and Hands fall on to work 79. This fire is the most dangerous and hurtful and hath spoiled Most since the world began and it is a very hard matter to quench it for when it is kindled it burneth in the sweet water in the flash of Life and must be quenched through Bitternesse which is scarce a water but much rather is a fire 80. Therefore also there followeth a heavy sad sorrowful Mind when one is to forsake that which burneth in his Love-fire in the sweet fountain water 81. But thou must know that thou in the Government of thy Mind art thine own Lord and Master there will rise up no fire to thee in the circle or whole circumference of thy Body and Spirit unless thou awaknest it thy self 82. It is true all thy spirits spring and move in thee and rise up in thee and indeed alwaies One spirit hath more power in thee then another 83. For if the Government of the spirits were in one man as in another then we should all have one will and form but they are all seven in the power of thy compacted incorporated spirit which spirit is the SOUL 84. It hath in it the first principle the spirit of the soul hath the second and the Astral or starry spirit in the Elements hath the Third viz. this VVorld 85. Now if a fire riseth up in one qualifying or fountain spirit then that is not concealed or hidden from the soul It may instantly awaken the other qualifying or fountain spirits which are contrary to the kindled fire and may quench it 86. But if the fire will be or become too big then hath the soul a Prison wherein it may shut up the kindled spirit viz. in the hard astringent quality and the other spirits must be the Gaylors till their wrath be allayed and the fire be extinguish'd Observe what that is 8. When One qualifying or fountain spirit driveth thee too strongly or presseth thee too hard to a thing which is against the Law of Nature then thou must turn thine Eyes away from it if that will not help then take that spirit and cast it into prison 88. That is Turn thy heart away from temporall Pleasure and voluptuousnesse from fulnesse of eating and drinking from the Riches of this world and think that To day is the last Day of the End of thy Body turn away from the wantonnesse of the world and call earnestly to God and yield or submit thy self to Him 89. When thou dost so then the world mocketh thee and thou are a fool to them But bear this crosse patiently and let not the imprisoned spirit get out of Prison again but trust in God and he will set upon thee the Crown of the divine Joy 90. But if the spirit breaketh out of Prison then put it in again make good thy Part against it as long as thou livest and if thou gettest so much advantage that it do not wholly kindle the source or fountain of thy heart whereby thy soul would become a dry firebrand of wood each fountain or source having yet its Sap when thou departest from hence 91. Then will not that kindled fire at the Last Judgment Day hurt thee nor will it cleave or stick in thy Sappy-spirits but after this anxious afflâ—ction and trouble thou wilt be in the Resurrection A triumphing Angel of God Question 92. But now thou maist say Is there in God also a contrary Will or Opposition amongst or between the spirits of God Answer 93. No though I shew here their earnest Birth how earnestly and severely the spirits of God are generated whereby every one may very well understand the great earnest severity of God 94. Yet it doth not therefore follow that there is a disunion or discord amongst them For the very innermost deepest Birth or Geniture in the heart or kernell is onely and altogether so which no creature can apprehend in the Body but in the flash where the hidden spirit is generated there it will be apprehended for that is also generated in such a manner and in such a power as is here mentioned 95. But unto me is opened the Gate of my Mind so that I can see and discern it else it would indeed remain concealed with and hidden to me till the day of the resurrection from the dead yea it hath been concealed from all men since the beginning of the world but I submit my will to Gods Will let him do what he pleaseth 96. In God all the spirits do triumph as one spirit and one spirit alwaies mitigateth and loveth the other and so there is nothing but meer Joy and Delight but their severe Birth or Geniture which is effected or done in secret must be so for life understanding and Omniscience is thus generated and this is an eternall Birth or Geniture which is never otherwise 97. Thou must not think that perhaps in Heaven there is some manner of Body which onely is thus Generated which above all other things is called God 98. No but the whole Divine Power which it self is heaven and the Heaven of all Heavens is so generated and that is called GOD the Father of whom all holy Angels are generated and live also in the same power also the spirit of all Angels in their Body is alwayes continually and eternally thus generated in like manner also is the Spirit of all Men. 99. For this world belongeth as well to the Body or Corpus of God the Father as the Heaven doth but the spirits which are in the locality or space of this world were kindled through King Lucifer in his elevation so that all things in this world are as it were half Faint and Dead And therefore it is that we poor men are so very much blinded and live in so great and desperate Danger 100. Yet thou must not therefore think that the heavenly light in
Observe the depth 4. There are seven Spirits of God all these seven have moved themselves and the Light therein hath moved it self also and the Spirit which goeth forth out of the seven Spirits of God hath moved it self also 5. Now the Creator intended according to his Ternarie to create three Hoasts not one from another but one by another as in a circle or sphear 6. Now Observe as the Spirits were therein in their moving boyling or rising up so also were the Creatures In the midst or Center of each Hoast was the Heart of each Hoast incorporated or compacted together out of which an Angelical or Great or Chief-Prince proceeded or came to be 7. And as the Sonne of God is generated in the midst or center of the seven Spirits of God and is the life and heart of the seven Spirits of God so there was one Angelical King created in the midst or center of his circumference sphear extent or Region out of Nature also out of Natures Heaven out of the power of all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits and that now was the heart in one Hoast and had in him the quality might power and strength of his whole Hoast and was the fairest amongst them or of them all 8. Just as the Sonne of God is the heart and Lif and strength of all the seven Spirits of God so is also that one King of Angels in his Hoast 9. And as there are seven principal qualities in the divine power out of which the heart of God is generated so there are also some mighty Princely Angels created in each Hoast according to each Head or chief quality The number of which I do not exactly know and they are with or near the King Leaders of the other Angels 10. Here thou must know that the Angels are not all of one quality neither are they equal or alike one to another in Power and Might Indeed every Angel hath the power of all the seven qualifying or fountain-spirits but in every one there is somewhat of one Quality more predominant and strong then another and according to that quality is he glorified also 11. For such as the Salitter was in every place at the time of Creation such also was the Angel that came forth and according to that quality which is strongest in an Angel he is also named and glorified 12. As the Flowers in the Meadowes do every one receive its colour from its quality and is named also according to its quality so are the Holy Angels also some are strongest in the astringent quality and those are of a Brownish Light and are nearest of Quality to the Cold. 13. And so when the Light of the Sonne of God shineth on them then are they like a brownish or Purple flash of Lightening very Bright and clear in their quality 14. Some are of the quality of the Water and those are light like the holy Heaven and when the light shineth on them then they look like to a Crystalline Sea 15. Some are strongest in the Bitter quality and they are like a green Pretious stone which sparkleth like a flash of Lightening and when the light shineth on them then they shine and appear as a Greenish Red as if a Carbuncle did shine forth from it or as if the Life had its Original there 16. Some are of the Quality of Heat and they are the Lightest and brightest of all Yellowish and Reddish and when the Light shineth on them they look like the flash or Lightening of the Sonne of God 17. Some are strongest in the quality of Love and those are a Glance of the heavenly Joyfulnesse very light and Bright aud when the light shineth on them they look like Light-Blew of a pleasant Glosse Glance or Lustre 18. Some are strongest in the quality of the Tone or Sound and those are Light or bright also and when the Light shineth on them they look like the rising of the flash of Lightning as if some thing would lift it self aloft there 19. Some are of the Quality of the totall or whole Nature as a General mixture and when the light shineth on them they look like the holy Heaven which is formed out of all the Spirits of God 20. But the King is the heart of all the qualities and hath his circumference Court Quarters or Residence in the midst or Center like a fountain And as the Sun standeth in the midst among the Planets and is a King of the Stars and the heart of Nature in this world so great also is a Cherubin or King of Angels 21. And as the other six planets with the Sun are Leaders of Hoasts and give up or submit their will to the Sun that it may raign and work in them so all the Angels give up or submit their will to the King and the Princely Angels are in Councel with the King 22. But thou must know here that they all have a Love-will one to another none of them grutcheth the other his Form and Beauty For as it goeth among the spirits of God so it goeth among these 23. They all have joyntly and equally the Divine Joy and they equally enjoy the heavenly Food therein there is no difference 24. Only in the Colours and strength of power there is a difference but no difference at all in the perfection for every one hath in them the power of all the spirits of God therefore when the light of the Sonne of God shineth on them then each Angels quality sheweth it self by the Colour 25. I have reckoned up onely some few of the forms and colours of them but there are a great many more that might be written down which I will omit for brevity sake 26. For as the Deity presenteth it self infinitely in its rising up so there are insearchable many varieties of colours and forms among the Angels I can shew thee no right similitude of it in this world but in the blossoming field of flowers in May which yet is but a dead and Earthly Type of the Angelical Joy Question 27. Now it may be asked What then is it which the Angels do in heaven or why or to what End and purpose hath God created them Answer 28. Ye greedy covetous griping persons may observe this you who in this world seek after Pride State dignity Honour Fame Glory Power Money and Goods and squeeze out the sweat and blood of the poor oppressed and distressed and spend their Labours upon your Gallantry bravery and statelinesse and think your selves Better then plain and simple Lay-vulgar people and suppose it is that God hath created you for Question Why hath God created Angel-Princes and hath not made them all Equall or alike Answer 29. Behold God is the God of Order and as it is goeth and boyleth in his Government in himself that is in his Birth or Geniture and in his rising up so also is the order of the Angels 30.
Deceive and belye one another and tear the Bread out of others Mouthes for very greedinesse and great Covetousnesse neither should one outbrave another in Statelinesse Fashions and deportment and so despise another who cannot use his slie crafty subtile Devillish Policy and Tricks 54. O no the Angels in heaven do not so but they love one another and rejoyce in the Beauty and lovelinesse of others and none esteemeth or accounteth himself excellenter then the other but every one hath his Joy in the other and rejoyceth in the others fair Beauty comely form and Lovelinesse whence then their love one towards another riseth up so that they lead one another by the Hand and friendlily Kisse one another Observe the Depth 55. As when the flash of life riseth up in the Center of the Divine power wherein all the spirits of God attain their Life and highly rejoyce there is a loving and Holy Embracing Kissing Tasting Touching or Feeling Hearing Seeing and Smelling So also there is among the Angels when the one seeth heareth feeleth or toucheth the other then there riseth up in his heart the flash of Life and one spirit embraceth the other as it is in the Deity Observe here the Ground and highest Mystery of Gods Angels 56. If thou wilt now know from whence their Love Humility and friendlinesse cometh which riseth up in their heart then Observe that which followeth 57. Every Angel is Constituted as the whole Deity is and is as a little God For when God constituted the Angels he constituted or framed them out of Himself 58. Now God is the same in one place as he is in another God is every where the Father and Sonne and Holy Ghost 59. In these three Names and Powers standeth Heaven and this world and all whatsoever thy heart can think upon and though thou shouldst draw a little Circle which thou canst hardly look into or which thou canst hardly discern even lesse then the smallest Point thou canst imagine yet even in that is the whole Divine power and the Sonne of God is generated therein and the Holy Ghost therein goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne if not in Love then in wrath as it is written with the holy thou art Holy and with the perverse thou art perverse Psal. 18. 26. 60. They which stir up the wrath of God upon themselves which wrath standeth also in all the spirits of God in that place where it is awakened stirred up or provoked On the other side where the love of God is awakened or stirred up there it standeth also in the full Birth or Geniture of the whole Deity of or in the place or thing wherein it is awakened 61. And herein there is no difference the Angels are created one as well as another all out of the Divine Salitter of the heavenly Nature onely this is the difference betwixt them that when God constituted them each Qcality in the great Motion stood in the highest Geniture or rising up 62. Hence it is come to passe that the Angels are of various and Manifold Qualities and have several colours and Beauties and yet all out of or from God 63. Yet every Angel hath all the qualities of God in him but one of them is strongest in him according to which he is Named and glorified in that Quality 64. Now as the qualities in God alwaies generate raise up and heartily Love the one the other and the one alwayes getteth its life from the other And as the flash in the sweet water riseth up in the heat from whence the Life and the Joy have their Original so it is also in an Angel his internal Birth or Geniture is no otherwise then that which is distinct from him or without him in God 65. And as the Sonne of God without or distinct from the Angels is generated in the middle or Centrall fountain Spring in the heat in the sweet water out of or from all the seven spirits of God and re-enlighteneth back again all the seven Spirits of God whence they have their Life and Joy 66. So also in like manner the Sonne of God in an Angel is generated in the Angels middle or centrall fountain Spring of the heart in the heat in the sweet water and re-enlightneth back again all the seven qualifying spirits of that Angel 67. And as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and formeth Imageth figureth or frameth and loveth All even so the Holy Ghost goeth forth in the Angel into his fellow Brethren and Loveth them and rejoyceth with them 68. For there is no difference between the Spirits of God and the Angels but only this that the Angels are Creatures and their Corporeal Being hath a beginning but their power out of which they are created is God himself and is from Eternity and abideth in Eternity 69. Therefore their agility is as nimble and swift as the Thoughts of a Man where ever they would be there also they are Instantly moreover they can be Great or Small as they please 70. And this is the true Being of God in Heaven yea Heaven it self If thy Eyes were opened thou shouldst see it plainly and clearly on Earth in that place where thou art at present 71. For seeing God can let the spirit of Man see it which is yet staying in the Body and can reveal or manifest himself to him in the flesh surely he can well do it also when he is out of the flesh if he pleaseth 72. O thou sinful House of this world how art thou encompassed with Hell and Death awake the hour of thy Regeneration is at hand the Day-breaketh the Day-spring Dawning or Morning-Rednesse sheweth it self 73. O thou Dumb and Dead world why dost thou require or demand Signes and Wonders Is thy whole body chilled and benummed wilt thou not awake from sleep 74. Behold a great sign is given Thee but thou sleepest and seest it not Therefore the Lord will give Thee a sign in his zeal or Jealousie which thou hast awaked and provoked with thy Sins Of the whole Heavenly delightfulnesse of all the Three Kingdomes of Angels 75. Here the Spirit sheweth that where every Angel is constituted stated or settled there that Place in the heavenly Nature wherein and out of which he is become a creature is his own seat which he possesseth by Right of Nature as long as he abideth in Gods Love 76. For it is the Place which he hath had from Eternity before he was become a Creature and that Salitter stood in the same place out of which he existed and therefore that seat remaineth to him and is his by right of Nature as long as he moveth in Gods Love 77. But thou must not think as if God were tyed to it and cannot or may not expell him from thence if he should move or stirre otherwise then God had constituted settled or stated him at first 78. For as long as he abideth in obedience and in love
one be Richer now adayes then the other then the Poorer Man is counted the Fool and if he can wear but better and more fashionable Clothes or Apparel then his Neighbour then the poorer man is no more worthy or good enough to be in his Company 97. And so the Old Song is now adayes in full force and Practice which is this Der Reich den Armen Zwinget Und Ihm sein sweisze aboringet Dasz nur sein Grosshe Klinget The Rich man doth Constrain the Poor And Squeezeth out his Sweat so sore Thaâ—'s own great Wealth abroad may roar These Angels also are invited as Guests to the next Chapter for their Looking-Glasse to see themselves in IIII. 98. Fourthly There is for the generality such a devillish pride and statelinesse and such over-topping one another such despising belying entrapping circumventing over-reaching cheating deceiving betraying extorting Usury coveting envying and hating one another that the world burneth now as in the hellish fire Woe woe for Ever 99. O World where is thy Humility where is thy Angelical Love where is thy courteons friendlinesse At that very instant when the Mouth saith God save thee then if the Heart were seen it might be said Beware look to thy self for it bids the Devil take thee 100. O thou Excellent Angelical Kingdom how comely dress'd and Adorned wert thou once how hath the Devill turn'd thee into a murtherous Denne Dost thou suppose thou standest now in the flower of thy Beauty and Glory No! thou standest in the midst of Hell if thine Eyes were but opened thou wouldst see it 101. Or dost thou think that the Spirit is drunken and doth not see thee O it seeth thee very well thy shame standeth quite naked before God thou art an unchast wanton lascivious woman and goest a whoring day and night and yet thou sayst I am a chast Virgin 102. O how fair a Looking-Glasse art thou in the presence of the Holy Angels do but smell to thy sweet Love and Humility doth it not smell or savour just like Hell All these parties are invited as Guests to the following Chapters Of the Kingly Primacy or of the power and Authority of the Three Angelical Kings 103. As the Deity in its Being is Threefold in that the Exit out of the seven Spirits of God sheweth and generateth it self as Threefold viz. Father Sonne and Holy Ghost One God wherein the whole Divine Power consisteth and all whatsoever is therein and they are the Three Persons in the Deity and yet are not a divided Being but in one another as one 104. So also when God moved himself and Created the Angels there came to be Three speciall Angels out of the best Kernel of Nature out of the Being of the Ternary in the Nature of God and in such power authority and Might as the Ternary in the seven Spirits of God and is again the Life and Heart of all the seven Spirits 105. And so also the Three Angelical Kings each of them in the manner kind and Nature of his Hoast or Army is risen up and is a Natural Lord of his Place or Region over the Regiment or Dominion of his Angels but the Ternary of the Deity retaineth that Place which is unalterable or unchangeable to it self and the King retaineth the Dominion of the Angels 106. Now as the Ternary of the Deity is one only Being or Substance in all Parts in the whole Father and is united together as the Members in Mans Body and all places are as one Place though one place may have a different condition frame and Constitution distinct from the other as also the members of men have yet it is the Body of God 107. So also are the Three Angelical Kingdomes united one in another and not each severed asunder No Angelical King ought to say This is my Kingdome or that there ought no other King to come thereinto though indeed it is his first beginning original natural inheritance and remaineth also to be his yet all other Kings and Angels are his true Naturall Brothers generated out of or from one Father and do inherit their Fathers Kingdom 108. And as the qualifying or fountain Spirits of God have each of them the Natural seat or possession of its Birth or Geniture and retaineth its Naturall Place to it self and yet is together with the other spirits the one only Spirit so that if the other were not that would not be neither and thus also they rise up One in the other 109. So it is also with the Chief or Principall of the Holy Angels in his Constitution and is in no other manner then as it is in God and therefore they live all friendlily peaceably and blessedly one with another in their Fathers Kingdom as loving dear brethren there are no Bounds or Bars how far any should go and how far not Question Upon what do the Angels walk or upon what do they stay or set their Feet Answer 110. I will here shew thee the right Ground and it is no otherwise in Heaven then as thou here findest in the letter for the Spirit looketh into this Deep very unremoveably or steadfastly also it is very apprehensible 111. The whole Nature of the Heaven standeth in the power of the seven qualifying or fountain-spirits and in the seventh consisteth Nature or the apprehensibility of all the Qualities this now is very lightsome and solid as a Cloud but very transparent and shining like a Crystalline Sea so that a man can see through and through it all Yet the whole depth upward and downward is wholly thus 112. Now the Angels also have such Bodies but more dry and close compacted or incorporated together and their body also is the kernel of or out of Nature even the best or fairest splendor and brightnesse of or out of Nature 113. Now upon the seventh spirit of God their Foot doth stay which is solid like a Cloud and clear and bright as a Crystalline Sea wherein they walk upward and downward which way soever they please For their Agility or Nimblenesse is as swift as the Divine-power it self is yet one Angel is more swift then another and that answerably according to their Quality 114. In that seventh spirit of Nature rise up also the Heavenly fruits and colours and whatsoever is apprehensible or comprehensible and is like to such a Forme or manner as if the Angels did dwell betwixt Heaven and Earth in the Deep where they ascend and descend and where ever they are there their foot resteth as if it stood upon the Earth 115. Antiquity hath represented the Angels in Picture like Men with Wings but they have no need of any Wings yet they have Hands and Feet as Men have but after a Heavenly manner and kind 116. At the Day of the Resurrection from the Dead there will be no difference between the Angels and Men they will be of one and the same kind of forme which I shall shew plainly in its
Body he had it for his own propriety which while it shone with or agreeable to the Light of the Sonne of God which was Externally without or distinct from him they both qualified incorporated and united together as one thing though they were two yet they were bound or united together as Body and Soul 140. And as the light of God raigneth in all the powers of the Father so he also did raign in all his Angels as a mighty King of God and did wear on his Head the fairest Crown of Heaven 141. Here at present I will leave him a little scope because I shall have so much to do concerning him in the second Chapter Let him prance a little yet here in the Crown it shall suddenly be plucked away from him Of the third Angelical King called URIEL 142. This gracious amiable Blessed Prince and King hath his Name from the Light or from the flash or going forth of the Light which signifieth rightly God the Holy Ghost 143. For as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Light and formeth figureth and Imageth all and raigneth in all such also is the power and gracious amiable blessednesse of a Cherubin who is the King and heart of all his Angels that is when his Angels do but behold him they are all then affected and touch'd with the will of their King 144. For As the will of the heart affecteth and stirs all the members of the Body so that the whole Body doth as the Heart hath Decreed or concluded Or as the Holy Ghost riseth up in the Center of the Heart and enlightneth all the Members in the whole Body so the Cherubin with his whole Glance or Lustre and will affecteth all his Angels so that they all are together as one Body and the King is the heart therein 145. Now this glorious and Beautiful Prince is Imaged and framed according to the kind and quality of the Holy Ghost and is indeed a glorious and fair Prince of God and is united with the other Princes in Love as one heart 146. These are now the Three Princes of God in the Heaven And when the Flash of life that is the Sonne of God riseth up in the middle or central circle in the qualifying or fountain spirits of God and sheweth it self triumphantly then the Holy Ghost also riseth upward triumphantly In this rising up the Holy Trinity also riseth up in the heart of these three Kings and each of them triumpheth also according to his kind and Quality 147. In this rising up the Armies or Companies of all the Angels of the whole Heaven become triumphant and joyfull and that Melodious TE DEUM LAUDAMUS WE PRAISE THEE O GOD riseth up 148. In this rising up of the heart the Mercurius in the heart is stirred up or awakened as also in the whole Salitter of Heaven there riseth up in the Deity the miraculous wonderful and fair Beautiful Imaging of heaven in several manifold various colours and manners and each spirit presenteth it self in its own peculiar form 149. I can compare it with Nothing save onely with the most Pretious Stones or Jewels as Ierubin Cherubins c Delfin Topazes Rubie's Emeraud's c Topaze's Onix'es Saphir's Diamonds Jasper's Jacinct's Ametist's Beril's Sardis'es Carbuncles and such Like 150. In such manner and Colours the Heaven of Gods Nature sheweth or presenteth it self in the rising up of the spirits of God and now when the Light of the Sonne of God shineth therein then it is like a Bright clear Sea of the colours of the above-mentioned Pretious Stones or Jewels Of the wonderful proportion alteration or variation and rising up of the Qualities in the heavenly Nature 151. Seeing then the Spirit giveth the form and manner of Heaven to be known I cannot chuse but write it thus down and let his will be done who will have it so 152. And although the Devil will raise scorners and mockers to vilifie it I do not much regard that I am satisfied with this gracious amiable and blessed Revelation of God they may mock so long till they find it by experience with Eternal Shame then the fountain of woe Lamentation and sorrow will surely Gnaw them 153. Also I have not gone up to Heaven and beheld it with my fleshly Eyes much lesse hath any told it me For though an Angel should come and tell it me yet I could not apprehend or conceive it without enlightening from God much lesse believe it 154. For I should alwayes stand in Doubt whether it were a good Angel sent of God or no seeing the Devil can transform or cloath himself in the form of an Angel of light to seduce Men 2 Corinth 11. 14. 155. But because it is generated in the Center or Circle of Life as a bright shining light like unto the heavenly Birth or rising up of the Holy Ghost with a fiery driving or impulse of the spirit therefore I cannot resist or withstand it though the world alwaies make a mock of me for it 156. The Spirit testifieth that there is yet a very little time remaining and then the Flash in the whole circle of this world will rise up to which end this spirit is a fore-runner Messenger and Proclaimer of the Day 157. And then whatsoever man is not found in the Birth of the Holy Ghost at that time in him the Birth will never rise at all but he abideth in the quality or source of darknesse as a dead hard Flint stone in which the source or quality of fiercenesse wrath and corruption riseth up Eternally 158. And there he will be a mocker eternally in the Birth of the hellish Abomination for whatsoever quality the Tree is of such also is its fruit 159. Thou livest betwixt Heaven and Hell into whichsoever thou sowest in that thou shalt reap also and thar will be thy food in Eternity If thou sowest scorn and contempt thou wilt also reap scorn and contempt and that will be thy food 160. Therefore O child of Man have a care trust not too much upon worldly wisdome it is blind and is born blind but when the flash of life is generated therein then it is no more blind but seeth 161. For John 3. 7. Christ saith You must be born anew or else you cannot enter into the Kingdome of heaven 162. Truly it must be generated in such a manner in the Holy Ghost which riseth up in the sweet spring or fountain-water of the heart in the Flash 163. And therefore hath Christ ordained or Instituted the Baptism or New Birth or Regeneration of the Holy Ghost in the Water because the birth of the light riseth up in the sweet water in the Heart 164. Which is a very great mystery and hath been also kept secret from all men since the beginning of the world till now which I will demonstrate and describe plainly in its due place Now Observe the Form and
look upon HIM perhaps thou mayst be made sound or whole again 61. But stay a little another sitteth on thy Throne He is kissed and he is an obedient sonne to his Father and doth as the Father doth 62. Stay yet a little while and the Hellish fire will kisse thee in the mean while make much of this Latine till more groweth out of it thou wilt suddenly lose thy Crown Now one might Ask What then in Lucifer is properly that Emnity against God for which he was Thrust and driven out of his place 63. Here I will shew you exactly the Pith Kernel and Heart of Lucifer and then you will see what a Devil is or how he is become a Devil Therefore take heed and do not Invite or Entertain him as a Guest for he is the Arch-sworn Enemy of God and of all Angels and Men and that in his Eternity 64. Now if thou understandest and apprehendest this aright then thou wilt not make of God a Devil as some do which say God hath created the Evil and that his will is that some men should be Lost which men that so say help to encrease the Devils Lies and bring upon themselves the severe Judgment by their perverting Gods truth and so turning them into Lies Now Observe 65. The whole Deity hath in its innermost or beginning Birth in the Pith or kernel a very tart terrible sharpnesse in which the astringent quality is a very horrible tart hard dark and cold attracting or drawing together like winter when there is a fiery bitter cold frost when water is frozen into Ice and besides is very Intolerable 66. Then think or suppose if in such a hard Winter when it is so cold the Sun should be taken away what kind of hard Frost and how very rough fierce and hard darknesse would it be wherein no life could subsist 67. After such a manner and kind is the astringent quality in the innermost kernel or Pith in it self and to it self alone without the other qualities in God for the austerenesse or severity maketh the attracting or drawing together and fixation or Glutinousnesse of the body and the hardnesse dryeth it up so that it subsisteth as a Creature 68. And the bitter quality is a tearing penetrating and cutting bitter quality or source for it divedeth and driveth forth the hard and astringent Quality and maketh the mobility 69. And betwixt these two qualities is heat generated from its hard and fierce bitter rubbing tearing and raging which riseth up in the Bitter and hard quality as a fierce wrathful kindling and presseth quite through as a hard fiery Noise 70. From whence existeth the hard Tone and in that rising up or climbing it is invironed and fixed in the astringent quality so that it becometh a Body which subsisteth 71. Now if there were no other quality in this Body which could quench the fiercenesse of these four qualities then there would be a perpetual Emnity therein For the bitter would be against the astringent in that it stormeth and teareth so vehemently therein and breaketh open the astringent 72. And then the astringent also would be against the bitter in that it attracteth draweth together and holds fast the bitter captive that it could not have its own course 73. And the Heat would be against both in that with its fierce wratful kindling and rising up it maketh all hot burning and raging and is fully or totally against the cold 74. And so the Tone would be a great Emnity in all the other in that it penetrateth forcibly through all like a Tyrant 75. And thus this is the very deepest and innermost hidden Birth of God according to which he calleth himself an angry zealous or Jealous God as may be seen by the Ten Commandements on Mount Sinai Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 76. And in this quality standeth Hell and Eternal Perdition as also the eternal Emnity and murtherous Den and such a creature the Devil is come to be 77. But now seeing he is a sworn Arch-enemy of God and though indeed the Disputants and Helpers of the Devil will needs force it so in arguments that God willeth the good and also the evil and that he hath created some men to Damnation therefore and thereupon the Spirit of God citeth them upon pain of eternal Emnity to come before this Looking-Glasse wherein their Heart shall be laid open and they shall see what God is and who the Devil is or how he is become a Devil 78. If thy heart be not bolted and barred up in death through thy stubborn wilfulnesse aed Blasphemy and drown'd in horrible sins purposing not to desist from them or leave them then awake and behold I take Heaven and Earth also the Stars and Elements and all the Creatures and Man himself also in his whole substance to witnesse and so I will prove it also plainly and clearly in its due place with all these forementioned things especially when we come to treat of the Creation of all the Creatures 79. If these things will not give thee satisfaction then pray to God that He would open thy Heart and then thou wilt know and see Heaven and Hell as also the whole Deity with all its qualities and then no doubt thou wilt forbear and justifie the Devil no more I am not able to open thy heart for thee Now observe the true Birth or Geniture of God 80. Behold as I have mentioned above the Birth or Geniture of God in its innermost Being in these four qualities is thus Sharp or Tart. Thou must understand it exactly 81. The astringent quality is thus sharp in its own proper quality in it self but it is not alone or without the other neither is it generated of or in it self as being wholly free but the other six Spirits generate it and they also hold it by the Reins and may let their Reins and authority go as far only as they please 82. For the sweet spring or fountain water is suddenly a whip scourge or Lash upon the astringent quality and mitigateth softneth or suppleth it so that it groweth very thin gentle mild and soft as also very Bright 80. But that it is thus sharp in it self is to the end that a Body may be Imaged or framed through its attracting or drawing together otherwise the Deity would not subsist much lesse a creature 84. And in this sharpnesse God is an All-comprehensible and all-fixing or all-fastning sharp God for the Birth Geniture and sharpnesse of God is thus every where 85. But if I shall describe the Deity in its Birth or Geniture in a small round circle in the highest Depth then it is thus In a Similitude 86. As suppose a WHEEL standing before thee with seven wheeles one so made in the other that it could go on all sides forward backward and crosse wayes without need of any turning back or stopping 87. And in its going that alwayes one wheel in its turning about
the light in the second principle and the third in the spirit of this world in the Aeriall and Astrall source 119. When the astringent or harsh quality as the Father formeth the Word or Sonne or Spirit then it stands captive in the Center of the Heart and is examined or tryed by the other spirits whether it be good or no. Now if it please the fire then the fire letteth the flash in which the Bitter spirit standeth go through the sweet water wherein it conceiveth the Love and goeth therewith into the astringent Quality 120. Now when the flash returns with the Love into the astringent quality again together with the new generated spirit or will then the astringent quality rejoyceth in the New young Sonne and elevateth it self 121. Then the Tone layes hold thereon and goeth forth therewith at the Mouth Eyes Ears and Nostrills and executeth that which is decreed in the councel of the seven spirits for as the Decree of the Councel is so also is the spirit and the Councel can alter the same as it will 122. Therefore the original Lust sticketh in the circle of the Heart in the Councel of the seven spirits and as they generate the spirit so also it is 123. And so in this manner Lord Lucifer brought the Deity into Anger and Wrath that is Kindled the Eternal Nature according to the first principle Being he together with all his Angels as a malicious Devil fought or strove against the Deity intending to bring and subdue the whole Circumference Circuit or Region under his innate Spirits that they should form frame figure and Image all and the whole Circumference Region or Extent should bow yield and suffer it self to be ruled and formed by the kindled sharpnesse of the innate spirits 124. And as this hath a Being or substance form or condition in Angels so it hath also a being substance form or condition in Man Therefore bethink and consider your selves you that are proud covetous theevish Extorting Usurers calumniating Blasphemous Envious and Whorish or Lascivious what manner of little sonne or Spirit you send into God The soul was originally comprehended in the Eternal Nature with the Word Fiat which is Gods Nature according to the first Principle and eternal Original of Nature and if it kindleth it self in the Originall then it kindleth Gods wrath in the eternal Nature Objection Thou wilt say We do not send this into God but only into our Neighbour or into his work which we like and have a Mind to Answer 125. Now shew thou me any Place to which thou sendest thy Covetous or Lustful spirit be it to Man Beasts Garments Fields Money or any thing whatsoever where God is not from him is all and he is in all Himself is All and he upholdeth and supporteth all Objection Then thou wilt say But he is with his Wrath in many things which are so hard and Evill that they are not suitable to or capable of the Deity Answer 126. Yes dear Man all this is true The wrath of God is certainly every where all over In Silver Gold Stones Fields Garments Beasts and Men and all whatsoever is comprehensible and palpable otherwise they would not be so hard and harsh to be felt as they are 127. But thou must know that the kernel of Love also sticketh in all in the hidden Center unlesse it be too too altogether Evill and so Evill a thing Man hath no liking to at all neither God possesseth all onely as to Nature He is not the essence He possesseth himself Or dost thou think thou dost well if thou bathest or soakest thy self in Gods wrath take heed that it doth not kindle thy Body and Soul and so thou wilt burn therein eternally as befell Lucifer 128. But when God shall bring forth the hidden things at the End of this time then you will discern in what Gods love or wrath hath been Therefore have a care and take heed and turn thy Eyes from Evil or else thou undoest thy self and so bringest thy self into Perdition 129. I take Heaven and Earth to witnesse that I have performed here as God hath revealed it to me that it is his Will 130. Thus hath King Lucifer in his body turned the sweet water into a sowr sharpnesse intending therewith in his haughty-mindednesse to rule in the whole Deity 131. And he hath brought it so far to passe that in this world with that sharpnesse he reacheth into the heart of all living Creatures as also into vegetables leaves and grasse and into all other things as a King and Prince of this world 132. And if the Divine Love were not yet in the whole nature of this world and if we poor Men and Creatures had not in and about us the Champion in the Fight we should all perish in a Moment in the hellish horrible Abominations 133. Therefore we sing very rightly thus Mitten wir im Leben seynd Mit dem Todt umbfangen Wo sollen wir dan fliehen hin dass wir Gâ—ad erlangen Zu dir Herr Christ alleine Daist nun Der Held im streit Zu dem wir fliehen musien Welcher i st unset Konig JESUS CHRISTUS In the midst of this our Life Death doth us round embrace whither shall we flie away that we may obtain Grace To thee Lord Christ alone This is the Champion in the Fight To Him 't is we must flie Who is Our King JESUS CHRIST 134. He hath the Fathers Love in him and fighteth in Divine Power and Might against the kindled hellish Abomination To Him we must flie and he it is that preserveth and retaineth the Love of God in all things in this world else all would be lost and perish But hoâ—â— wart and belt 〈…〉 Doth ein Kleine Zelt 〈◊〉 des Tenfels Reich danâ—â—t leit Now Hope pray and wait But a small Time and then strait Th' Devill 's Kingdom will be quite down laid 135. Ye Philosophers and Jurists or Lawyers that make God to be as a Devill in saying That He willeth Evill bring in your Plea and answer once more here and try whether you can maintain your Cause to be just if not then the sowr sharp Tart spirit in Lucifer shall be also condemned as a Destroyer and the enemy of God and of all his heavenly Hoasts and Armies The Fifteenth Chapter Of the Third Species kind or form and manner of Sinnes beginning in Lucifer 1. THe third Spirit in God is the Bitter Spirit which existeth in the flash of Life for the flash of Life riseth up in the sweet water through the rubbing or fretting of the astringent and hot quality but the body of the flash abideth in the sweet water subsisting very meekly as a Light or heart and the flash is very trembling and by the terrour and fire and water and astringent spirit it becometh bitter through the original of the water in which it riseth up 2. And that flash or raging terrour or bitter spirit
the light of God but the inward spirit which is loaden therewith against its will shall be set again in its first House 61. The last following pressure ang signifieth that the innermost spirits in the corruption are not altogether pure and therefore they need a sweeping away purging or consuming of the wrath in the fire which will be done at the End of this Time 62. The word Schuff conceiveth it self above and under the Tongue and shutteth the Teeth in the upper and lower gummes and so presseth it self close together and being held together and spoken forth again then it openeth the Mouth again swiftly like a Flash 63. And this signifieth the astringent spirit 's strong driving together of the corrupted Salitter as a Lump on a Heap 64. For the Teeth retain the word letting the spirit go forth leisurely between the Teeth And this signifieth that the astringent quality holdeth the Earth and Stones firmly and fast together and yet for all that letteth the spirits of the Earth spring up grow and bear Blossoms out of the astringent spirit which signifieth the Regeneration or Restitution of the spirits of the Earth 65. But that the Mouth is swiftly opened again after the word is Ended it signifieth concerning the Deep above the Earth that God the Lord will neverthelesse dwell there and reserve his Regiment for himself and hold the Devil as a Prisoner in the wrath-fire 66. The word GOTT conceiveth it self in the midst or Center upon the Tongue and is thrust thither out of the Heart and leaveth the Mouth open and stayeth sitting on its Royall Seat and soundeth without and within but when it is spoken forth then it maketh another pressure between the upper Teeth and the Tongue 67. And this signifieth that when God created Heaven and Earth and all the Creatures he neverthelesse remained in his Divine Eternal Almighty Seat and never went away from it at all and that HEE alone is ALL. The Last pressure signifieth the sharpnesse of his spirit whereby in a Moment he effecteth all in his whole Body 68. The word Himmel conceiveth it self in the Heart and is thrust forth to the Lips there it is shut up and the syllable mel setteth the Lips open again and is held on the middle of the Tongue and so the Spirit goeth forth on both Sides of the Tongue out of the Mouth 69. And this signifieth that the innermost birth is become shut up from the outermost by the horrible Sins and is incomprehensible to the outward corrupted Birth or Geniture 70. But being it is a word with a Twofold syllable and that the second syllable mel openeth the mouth again it signifieth that the Gates of the Deity are become opened again 71. But that by the word or syllable mel it is conceived again upon the Tongue and held fast with the upper Gumms and that in the mean while the spirit slippeth forth on both sides of the Tongue 72. This signifieth that God would again give to this corrupted Kingdome or Place in God a King or Great Prince who should open again the innermost Birth or Geniture of the clear and Bright Deity and thereby the Holy Ghost should go forth on both sides that is out of the innermost Depth of the Father and of the Sonne and should go forth again into this world and should new regenerate this world again through the New King 73. The word und conceiveth it self in the Heart and is staid and compacted or incorporated by the Tongue on the upper Gummes but when it is let loose it maketh another pressure from the Heart out at the Mouth 74. Now this signifieth the difference or distinction between the Holy and the Earthly Birth or Geniture This syllable cometh indeed from the Heart but is staid by the Tongue on the upper Gummes so that one cannot yet perceive what kind of word it is And this signifieth that the earthly and corrupt Birth or Geniture cannot lay hold on or apprehend the innnermost Birth or Geniture but is foolish and silly 75. The last pressure from the Heart signifieth that it will indeed qualifie mix or unite with the innermost Birth or Geniture in its sensibility perception or Thoughts but cannot apprehend it in its Reason therefore this syllable or word alone by it self is Dumb and hath no signification or understanding in it alone but is used onely for distinction sake with some other word 76. The word Erden is thrust forth from the Heart and is conceived on the hinder part upon the Tongue at the hinder Gummes and trembleth the Tongue is used about the first syllable Er yet not steadily but it recoiles inward at the neather gummes and croucheth as it were before an enemy trembling 77. The other syllable den is conceived by the Tongue and the upper Gumms and leaveth the Mouth open and the spirit of formation goeth forth at the Nostrills and will not go forth together in this word out at the Mouth and though it carrieth forth somewhat indeed along with it yet the true Tone or Noise of the true spirit goeth onely forth through or at the Nostrils or Organ of Smelling This is a great Mysterie 78. The word or syllable Er signifieth the kindled astringent and bitter quality the earnest severe wrath of God which trembleth at the hinder part of the Gummes before which the Tongue is as it were afraid and croucheth at the neather gums and flieth as it were from an Enemy 79. The word or syllable den conceiveth it self on the Tongue again and the spirit attracteth the power and vertue out of the word and therewith goeth forth another way at the Nostrills and so goeth therewith up into or towards the Brain before the Royal Seat And this signifieth that the outermost Salitter of the Earth is eternally rejected from Gods Light and Holinesse 80. But that the Spirit layeth hold on the power and vertue of the word and goeth another way through the Nostrills into the Brain before the Throne of the Senses or Thoughts it signifieth that God will extract the Heart of the Earth from the wrath of wickednesse and use it to his eternal Royal Praise Observe 81. He will extract from the Earth the Kernel and the Best or the Good Spirit and will Regenerate it anew to his honour and Glory 82. Here O Man consider thy self well and mind What manner of seed thou sowest into the Earth the very same will spring up and bear Blossoms and fruit for ever either in the Love or in the Wrath. 83. But when the good shall be separated from the Evil then thou wilt live in that part which thou hast laboured for here be it either in Heaven or in Hell-fire 84. In what soever thou endeavourest Labourest and actest here into that thy Soul goeth when thou Dyest 85. Or dost thou think that my spirit hath suck'd this which I have set down here out of the corrupted Earth or out of an
Old Felt Hatt or Old Shoe 86. Truly no for the spirit at this Time of my description and setting it down did unite and qualifie or mix with the deepest Birth or Geniture of God in that I have received my knowledge and from thence it is sucked not in great Earthly Joy but in the anxious Birth or Geniture perplexity and Trouble 87. For what I did hereupon undergo suffer and endure from the Devill and the Hellish quality which as well doth rule in my outward Man as in all Men whatsoever this thou canst not apprehend unlesse thou also Dancest in this Round 88. Had not our Philosophers and Doctors alwaies plaid upon the Fiddle of Pride but on the Musicall Instrument of the Prophets and Apostles there would have been far another knowledge and Philosophy in the world 89. Concerning which in regard of my imbecillity want of Literature or Learning and study as also the slownesse and dullnesse of my Tongue I am very insufficient but not so slender in the knowledge Only I cannot deliver it in profound Language and the Ornament of Eloquence but I rest contented with my gift I have received and am a Philosopher among the Simple Concerning the Creation of the Light in this world 90. Here shut the Eyes of thy Flesh a little for here they will profit thee nothing being they are blind and dead and open the Eyes of thy spirit and then I will rightly shew thee the Creation of God Observe 91. When God had driven the corrupted Salitter of Earth and Stones which had generated it self in the outermost Birth by the kindling together on a Heap as in a Lump then for that cause the third Birth or Geniture in Nature in the Deep above the Earth was not pure and Bright because the wrath of God did yet burn therein 92. And though the innermost Birth or Geniture was light and Bright yet the outermost which stood in the wrath-fire could not comprehend it but was altogether dark 93. For Moses writeth in Genesis 1. Und es war Finster auff der Tieffe And it was Dark on the Deep The word auff on signifieth the outermost Birth or Geniture and the word in signifieth the innermost Birth or Geniture 94. But if the innermost Birth had been dark then the wrath of God had rested in this world Eternally and it would never have been Light but the wrath hath not thus touched or reached the Heart of God 95. Therefore He is a sweet friendly Bounteous Good Meek Pure and Mercifull God according to his Heart in the innermost Birth or Geniture in the place of this world and still continueth to be so and his meek Love presseth forth from his Heart into the outermost Birth or Geniture of the wrath and quencheth the same and therefore Sprach Er he said Er werde Licht Let there be Light Here observe the sense in the Highest Depth 96. The word Sprach or said is spoken after the manner of Men Ye Philosophers open your Eyes I will in my simplicity teach you the Sprach Gottes the Speech Speaking or Language of God as when he saith a thing and indeed it must be so 97. The word Sprach conceiveth itself between the Teeth for they bite or joyn close together and the spirit hisseth forth through the Teeth and the Tongue boweth or bendeth in the middle and setteth its forepoint as if it did listen after the hissing and were afraid 98. But when the spirit conceiveth the word that shuts the Mouth and conceiveth it at the hinder gums upon the Tongue in the hole or hollownesse in the bitter and astringent Quality 99. And there the Tongue is terrified trembleth and croucheth to the neather Gums and then the spirit cometh forth from the Heart and closeth the word which conceiveth it self at the hinder Gums in the astringent and bitter quality in the wrath and goeth forth mightily and strongly through the fiercenesse as a King and Prince and also openeth the mouth and ruleth with a strong spirit from the heart through the whole Mouth within and also without the Mouth and maketh a mighty and long syllable as a spirit which hath broken the wrath 100. Against which the wrath with its snarling in the astringent and bitter Quality at the hinder gums in the hollow on the Tongue struggleth and keeps its right to it self and keepeth its seat in its Place and lets the meek spirit come forth from the heart through it and thundreth with its snarling after it and so helps to form or frame the word yet with its thundring cannot get away from it seat but abideth in its hollow Hole as a Captive Prisoner and looketh terribly This is a great Mysterie 101. Here observe the sense and meaning if thou apprehendest it then thou understandest the Deity a right if not then thou art yet blind in the Spirit 102. Judge not else here thou runnest counter against a strong Gate and wilt be imprison'd if the wrath-fire catcheth thee then thou wilt remain eternally therein 103. Thou Child of Man Behold now how great a Gate of Heaven of Hell and of the Earth as also of the whole Deity the spirit openeth to thee 104. Thou shouldest not think that God at that time did speak in that way as Men do and that it was but a weak impotent word like Mans word 105. Indeed Mans word conceiveth it self just in such a form manner proportion quality and correspondency onely the half dead Man doth not understand it And this understanding is very noble dear and pretious for it is generated onely in the knowledge of the Holy Ghost 106. But Gods Word which He spake then in power hath encompassed Heaven and Earth and the heaven of heavens yes and the whole Deity also 107. But it frameth ann conceiveth it self first between the Teeth closed or clapp'd together and hisseth which signifieth that the Holy Ghost at the beginning of the Creation went through the firmly closed wall of the Third and outermost Birth or Geniture which standeth in the wrath-fire in this world 108. For it is written And it was dark on the Deep and the Spirit of God moved on the water The Deep signifieth the innermost Birth or Geniture and the darknesse signifieth the outermost corrupt Birth or Geniture in which the wrath burned The water signifieth the allaying or Mitigation of the spirit 109. But that the spirit doth hisse through the Teeth it signifieth that the spirit is gone forth from the heart of God through the wrath but that the Teeth remain closed together whilest the spirit hisseth and do not open themselves it signifieth that the wrath hath not comprehended or reached the Holy Ghost 110. But that the Tongue doth crouch towards the neather gums and is sharp at the point and will not be used about the hissing it signifieth that the outward Birth or Geniture together with all the Creatures which are therein cannot comprehend or reach to apprehend the holy
of the corrupted Earth and quencheth its wrath whereby in the Astrall Birth or Geniture all standeth in the Life and so the Earth generateth the Life through the Death The Gate of the Mystery 38. But that there is a Firmament between the Waters which Firmament is called Heaven it hath this understanding or meaning 39. The whole Deep from the Moon to the Earth standeth all with its working in the wrathfull and comprehensible or palpable Birth or Geniture for the Moon is the Goddesse of the palpable Birth and so the House of the Devills of Death and of Hell is in the circuit orb or Extent between the Moon and the Earth 40. Where therefore the fierce wrath of God in the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Deep becometh daily kindled and blown up by the Devills and all wicked Men through the Great Sins of Man which still qualifie mix unite or co-operate with the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Deep 41. Now Therefore God hath made the Firmament which is call'd Heaven between the outermost and innermost Birth and that is a Partition or division between the outermost and innermost Birth or Geniture 42. For the outermost Birth of the water cannot comprehend the innermost Birth of the water which is called Heaven and which is made out of the midst or Center of the water Heaven is the Firmament viz. the fire-Sea or Sea-of-Fire out of the seven spirits of Nature out of which the Stars as a Quintessence were concreted incorporated or created by the word FIAT And it hath or containeth both fire and water and hangeth in it self inwardly on the first Principle and shall bring its wonders with or as to the figure of them into the Eternal but its Birth or Geniture fadeth or passeth away 43. Now the innermost Birth of Heaven reflects strongly upon the Earth and holdeth the outermost water upon the Earth together with the Earth also strongly captive 44. And if that were not then with the Revolution of the Globe of the Earth the water would be divided or dissolved again also then would the Earth Crumble break and moulder away in the Deep and all would be a Chaos again 45. But now therefore that Firmament between the outermost palpable water and the Inward holdeth the Earth and the palpable water Captive But now thou mayst Ask What is the fire then a Firmament of that Heaven which I can neither see nor apprehend Answer 46. Yes It is the Firmament between the clear Deity and the corrupt Nature which thou must break through when thou intendest to come to God and it is that very Firmament which doth not quite stand in the wrath neither is it altogether or perfectly pure concerning which it is written the very Heavens are not pure in the sight of God as in Job 15. 15. and at the last Judgment Day the wratn will be purged from them For it is written Heaven and Earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away saith Christ Matth. 24. 35. Mark 13. 31. 47. Now that impurity in that Heaven is the wrath but the purity is the word of God which he once spake saying Let the water under the Firmament be separated from the water above the firmament Gen. 1. And that Word standeth and is comprised in the firmament of the water and holdeth the outward water together with the Earth captive or fixed The Gate of the Deitie Observe here the hidden Mystery of God 48. When thou beholdest the Deep above the Earth thou oughtest not to say that it is not the Gate of God where God in his holinesse dwelleth No no think not so For the whole holy Trinity God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost dwelleth in the Center under the Firmament of Heaven but that very Firmament cannot comprehend him 49. Indeed all is as it were one Body the outermost and inhermost Birth together with the Firmament of heaven as also the Astrall Birth therein in and with which the wrath of God also qualifieth mixeth and uniteth but yet they are one to another as the Government frame or constitution in Man 50. The Flesh signifieth 1o. The outward Birth or Genitute which is the House of Death 2o. The second Birth or Geniture in Man is the Astrall in which the Life-standeth and wherein Love and wrath wrestle one with another And thus far Man himself knoweth himself for the Astrall Birth generateth the Life in the outermost that is in the dead Flesh 3o. The Third Birth is generated between the Astrall and outermost and that is called the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture or the Soul and is as Large as the whole Man 51. And that Birth or Geniture the outward Man neither knoweth nor comprehendeth neither doth the Astrall comprehend it but every qualifying or fountain spirit comprehendeth only its innate or instant Root which signifieth or resembleth the Heaven 52. And that animated or soulish Man must presse through the Firmament of Heaven to God and live with God else the whole man cannot come into Heaven to God 53. For every Man that desireth to be saved must with his innate instant Births or Genitures be as the whole Deity with all the three Births in this world is 54. Man cannot be absolutely or wholly pure without wrath and sin for the Births of the Depth in this world are not fully pure before the Heart of God Job 15. v. 15. but alwayes Love and wrath wrestle one with another whence God is called an angry zealous God Exod. 20. 5. Deut. 5. 9. 55. Now as man is in the Government or Order of his Nativity Birth or Geniture Just so also is the whole Body of God in or of this world but in the water standeth the meek Life 56. As I. First in the outward Body of God in or of this world there is the congealed astringent bitter and Hot Death in which the palpable water is also congealed and Dead 57. And therein now is the Darknesse wherein King Lucifer with his Angels as also all fleshly or carnal wicked Men lye captive even with or in their living Bodies as also the Separated spirits of damned Men. 58. This birth can neither see hear feel smell nor comprehend the Heart of God but is a Foolish Virgin which King Lucifer in his Pride hath caused to be so 59. And II. The second Birth is the Astrall which thou must understand to be the Life of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits wherein now the Love and the wrath is against one another and therein standeth the upper water which is a spirit of the life and therein or between is the Firmament of Heaven which is made out of the midst or Center of the water 60. Now this Birth or Geniture presseth through the outward congealed Birth quite through Death and the Astral Life in the death that is in the congealed Earth Water and Flesh of the Beasts and of Men also of the Fowls Fishes and
Worms or Creeping things 61. And the Devil can reach half into this Birth so far as the wrath comprehendeth or reacheth and no deeper and thus far goeth his dwelling and no Deeper therefore the devill cannot know how the other Part in this Birth hath a Root And so far Man is come in his knowledge from the Beginning of the world to this time since his Fall But the other Root called the Heaven the spirit hath kept that hidden and concealed from Man till this Time Left the Devill should have learned it from Man and should have strowed Poison into it for Man beforehis Eyes 62. This other Part of the Astrall Birth which standeth in the Love in the sweet water is the Firmament of Heaven which holdeth the kindled wrath together with all the Devils captive For they cannot enter thereinto and in that Heaven dwelleth the Holy Spirit which goeth forth from the Heart of God and striveth or fighteth against the fiercenesse and generateth to himself a Temple in the midst in the fiercenesse of the wrath of God 63. And in this Heaven dwelleth the Man that feareth God even with and in the living Body for that Heaven is as well in Man as in the Deep above the Earth And as the Deep above the Earth is so is Man also both in love and wrath till after the departure of the soul but then when the soul departeth from the Body then it abideth either only in the Heaven of Love or only in the Heaven of Wrath. 64. That Part which it here hath comprehended in its departure that is now its Eternal permanent incessant dwelling House and from thence it can never get for there is a great * Cliff between them and the other as Christ speaks of the Rich man Luk. 16. 26. 65. And in this Heaven the Holy Angels dwell amongst us and the Devils in the other Part And in this Heaven Man liveth between Heaven and Hell and must endure and suffer from the fiercenesse many hard Blowes Temptations Persecutions and many times Torments and Squeezings 66. The wrath is called the Crosse and the love-Love-Heaven is called Patience and the spirit that riseth up therein is called Hope and Faith which qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with God and wrestleth with the wrath till it overcometh and getteth the victory 1 John 5. 4. 67. And herein lyeth the whole Christian doctrine He that teacheth otherwise doth not know what he teacheth for his doctrine hath no foot ground or foundation and his heart alwaies tottereth wavereth and doubteth and knoweth not what it should do 68. For his spirit alwaies seeketh for Rest but findeth it not for it is impatient and alwaies seeketh after Novelties or some New thing and when it findeth somewhat it tickleth it self therewith as if it had found some new Treasure and yet no stedfastnesse stability or certainty in him but he seeketh continually for Abstinence or for a Diversion 69. O ye Theologists the Spirit here Openeth a Door Gate for you If you will not now see and feed your Sheep and Lambs on a green meadow but on a dry seare Heath you must be accomptable for it before the severe earnest and wrathfull Judgment of God therefore look to it 70. I take Heaven to witnesse that I perform here what I must do for the spirit driveth me to it so that I am wholly captivated therewith and cannot be freed from it whatever may befall me hereafter or ensue upon it The Holy Gate 71. III. The Third Birth or Geniture in the Body of God in or of this world is under the firmament of Heaven hidden or concealed and the Firmament of heaven qualifieth mixeth or uniteth there with but yet not fully Bodily but creaturely as the Angels and the Soules of Men do 72. And this Third Birth or Geniture is the Almighty and Holy Heart of God wherein our King Jesus Christ with his natural Body sitteth at the right hand of God as a King and Lord of the whole Body or place of this world who encompasseth holdeth and preserveth all with his Heart 73. And this Firmament of Heaven is his Throne or footstool and the qualifying or fountain spirits of his natural Body rule in the whole Body of this world and all is tyed bound or united with them whatsoever standeth in the Astral Birth in the Part of Love The other part of this world is tyed bound and united with the Devill 74. Thou must not think as Johannes Calvus or Calvinus thought which was that the Body of Christ is not an Almighty Being and that it comprehendeth or reacheth no further then a little Circumscribed Place wherein it is 75. No thou child of Man thou errest and dost not rightly understand the Divine Power Doth not every man in his Astrall qualifying or fountain Spirits comprehend the whole place or Body of this world and the place comprehendeth Man it is all but one Body onely there are distinct Members 76. Why then should not the qualifying or fountain spirits in the naturall Body of Christ qualifie mix or unite with the qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature Is not his Body also out of the qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature and his heart animated or become soulish from or out of the third Birth or Geniture which is the Heart of God which comprehendeth all Angels and the Heaven of Heavens even the whole Father 77. Ye Calvinists desist from your Opinion and do not Torment your selves with the comprehensible or palpable Being for God is a Spirit John 4. 24. and in the comprehensibility or palpability standeth Death 78. The Body of Christ is no more in the hard comprehensibility or palpability but in the Divine comprehensibility or Palpability of Nature like the Angels 79. For our Bodies also at the Resurrection will have no more such hard Flesh and Bones but be like the Angels and though indeed all forms and powers shall be therein and all faculties and Members even to the Privy Parts and these shall be in another manner of form and so also the Entralls and Guts and yet we shall not have the hard comprehensibility or Palpability 80. For Christ saith to Mary Magdalen in Joseph's Garden at the Sepulcher after his resurrection Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my God and to your God Joh. 20. v. 17. As if he would say I have not now the Bestial Body any more although I shew my self to thee in my form or shape which I had otherwise thou in thy bestial couldst not see me 81. And so during the Fourty Dayes after his Resurrection he did not alwaies walk vifibly among the Disciples but invisibly according to his heavenly and angelical Property but when he would speak or talk with his Disciples then he shewed or presented himself in a comprehensible or palpable manner and form that thereby he might speak natural words with them for the corruption cannot comprehend or apprehend the Divine
words or things 82. Also it sufficiently appeareth that his Body was of an angelical kind in that he went to his Disciples through the Doors being shut John 20. 19. 83. Thus thou must know now that his Body qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with all the seven spirits in Nature in the Astrall Birth in the part of Love and holdeth Sin Death and the Devill captive in its wrath-Part 84. And thus thou now understandest what God made on the Second Day when he separated the water under the Firmament from the water above the Firmament Thou seest also How thou art in this world every where in Heaven and also in Hell and dwellest between Heaven and Hell in great Danger 85. Thou seest also how Heaven is in a Holy man and that every where wheresoever thou standest goest or lyest if thy spirit do but qualifie or co-operate with God then as to that Part thou art in Heaven and thy Soul is in God Therefore also saith Christ My Sheep are in my Hands no man can pull them away from me John 10. 86. In like manner thou seest also How thou art alwaies in Hell among all the Devils as to the wrath if thy Eyes were but open thou wouldst see wonderfull things but thou standest between Heaven and Hell and canst see neither of them and walkest upon a very Narrow Bridge 87. Some Men have many Times according to or in the Sidereal or Astral spirit entred in thither being ravished in an Extasie as men call it and have presently known the Gates of Heaven and of Hell and have told shewed and declared how that many men dwell in Hell with or in their living Bodies or with their Bodies alive And such indeed have been scorned derided or laugh'd at but with great ignorance and indiscretion for it is Just so as they declare which I will describe also more at large in its due place and shew in what manner and condition it is with them 88. But that the water hath a Twofold Birth I will here prove it also with or by the Language of Nature For that is the Root or Mother of all the Languages which are in this world and therein standeth the whole perfect knowledge of all things 89. For when Adam Spake at the first he gave Names to all the Creatures according to their qualities and innate Instant Operations vertues or faculties And it is the very Language of the totall universal Nature but is not known to every One. For it is a hidden secret Mystery which is imparted to me by the Grace of God from the Spirit which hath a Delight and Longing towards me Now Observe 90. The word Wasser water is thrust forth from the Heart and closeth the Teeth together and passeth over the astringent and Bitter qualities and toucheth them not but goeth forth through the Teeth and the Tongue contracteth and rouzeth up it self together with the spirit and helpeth to hisse and so qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the Spirit and the spirit presseth very forcibly through the Teeth But when the spirit is almost quite gone forth then the Astringent and Bitter spirit contracteth and rouzeth up it self and afterwards first qualifieth with the word but yet it sitteth still in its seat and afterwards jarreth mightily and strongly in the syllable ser. 91. But now that the Spirit conceiveth it self at the Heart and cometh forth and closeth the Teeth together and hisseth with the Tongue through the Teeth it signifieth that the Heart of God hath moved it self and made a closure round about it which is the Firmament of Heaven Also as the Teeth do shut and close together and then the Spirit goeth through the Teeth so also the spirit goeth forth from the heart into the Astrall Birth or Geniture 92. And as the Tongue frameth it self for the hissing and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the spirit and moveth therewith so the soul of Man co-Imageth or frameth it self with the Holy Spirit and qualifieth operateth or uniteth therewith and presseth joyntly together in the power thereof through Heaven and ruleth together also therewith in the Word of God 93. But that the Astringent and Bitter qualities awaken behind afterwards and co-image afterwards to the framing of the word it signifieth that indeed all is as it were one Body but the Heaven and the Holy Spirit together with the Heart of God hath its proper Seat to it self and the Devill together with the wrath of God can neither comprehend the Holy Spirit nor the Heaven but the Devill together with the wrath hangeth in the outward Birth in the word and the wrath helpeth to Image all in the outermost Birth in this world whatsoever standeth in the comprehensibility or palpability Just as the astringent and bitter qualities rouze themselves behind afterwards to the framing of the word and qualifie operate or unite therewith 94. But that the spirit first goeth over the astringent and bitter qualities unperceived it signifieth that the Gate of God is every where in this world all over wherein the Holy Ghost ruleth and that the Heaven standeth open every where even in the midst or center of the Earth And that the Devill no where can either see comprehend or apprehend the Heaven but is a grumbling and snarling Hell-Hound which afterwards first cometh out from behind when the Holy Ghost hath built or raised to himself a Church and Temple and destroyeth it in the wrath and hangeth behind at the word as an Enemy who will not endure that a Temple of God should be raised or built in his Land or Country whereby his Kingdom might be lessened or diminished The One and Twentieth Chapter Of the Third Day 1. ALthough the Spirit in the Writings of Moses hath kept the Deepest Mysteries secret hidden and concealed in the Letter yet all is so very regularly described that there is no Defect at all in the Order thereof 2. For when God through the Word had created Heaven and Earth and had separated the Light from the Darkness and had given a place to each of them then presently each began its Birth or Geniture and qualifying or working 3. On the First Day God drave together or compacted the Corrupt Salitter which came to be so in the kindling of his wrath I say God then drave it together or Created it through the strong spirit for the word Schuff created signifieth here a Driving together or Compaction 4. In this driving together or compaction of the corrupted wrath Salitter was King Lucifer also as an Impotent Prince together with his Angels driven into the Hole of the wrath Salitter into that place where the outward half dead comprehensibility is generated which is the place or Space between the Nature-Goddesse the Moon and the Dead Earth 5. Now when this was done the Deep became clear and with the hidden or concealed Heaven the Light was separated from the Darknesse and the Globe of the Earth in the great wheel of Nature was
Death be severed from it 120. But it hath its Life in its Seat and that cannot be taken from it but Death hangeth to it in the outermost Birth or Geniture as also the wrath in Death for the Wrath is the life of Death and of the Devill and in the wrath standeth also the corporeal Being or the Bodies of the Devils but the dead Birth or Geniture is their Eternall Dwelling House The Depth in the Circle of the Birth or Geniture Now one might Ask What manner of substance hath it or what is the condition thereof that the Astral Birth of the Earth did begin its qualifying operating and generating one Day sooner then the Astral in the Deep above the Earth seeing the fire in the Deep above the Earth is much sharper and easier to be kindled then the fire in the Earth and seeing also that the Earth must be kindled by the fire in the Deep above the Earth else it can Bear no fruit Answer 121. Behold thou understanding Spirit the Spirit speaketh to thee and not to the dead spirit of the flesh Open the Door of thy Astral birth wide and elevate that one Part of the astral Birth in the light and let the other in the wrath stand still and take heed also that thy animated or soulish spirit do wholly unite with the Light 122. And so when thou standest in such a form then thou art as Heaven and Earth is or as the whole Deitie is with its Births or Genitures in this world 123. But now if thou art not thus then thou art blind herein though thou wert the wittiest and wisest Doctor that ever could be found in the world 124. But if thou art Thus then raise up thy spirit and look through thy Art of Astrology thy deep sense and measuring of Circles and see if thou art able to apprehend it It must be born IN THEE Else thou gettest neither Grace nor Art 125. If the Eyes of thy Spirit shall stand open then thou must generate thus else thy Comprehensibility is a Foolish Virgin and it befalls thee as if a Limner should offer to pourtray the Deity on a Table and tell thee It is made right the Deity is just so 126. Then the Believer and the Limner are both alike both of them see nothing but only wood and Colours and the one blind leadeth the other surely thou art not to fight here with Beasts but with Gods Now Observe 127. When the whole Deitie in this world moved it self to the Creation then not onely the one part did Move and the other rest but all stood joyntly in the Mobility Even the whole Deep so far as Lord Lucifer was King and so far as the place of his Kingdom reach'd and so far as the Salitter in the wrath-fire was kindled 128. The motion of the three Births lasted the length of six Dayes and Nights wherein all the seven Spirits of God stood in a full moving Birth or Geniture as also the Heart of the spirits and the Salitter of the Earth turn'd about in that while six times in the great wheel which wheel is the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of God and at each turning about or Diurnal Revolution there was generated a several special fabrick or work according to the innate Instant qualifying or fountain spirits 129. For the First qualifying or fountain spirit is the Astringent cold sharp and hard Birth or Geniture and that belongeth to the first Day in the Astrall Birth or Geniture the Astrologers call it the Saturnine which was performed on the First Day For therein the hard dry sharp Earth and Stones came to be and were incorporated or compacted together moreover then was also generated the strong Firmament of Heaven and the Heart of the seven spirits of God stood hidden in the hard sharpnesse 130. Astrologers appropriate or attribute the Second Day to Sol or the Sun but it belongeth to Jupiter to speak of it Astrologically for on the second Day the Light brake forth out of the Heart of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits through the hard quality of the Heaven and caused a mitigation or allaying in the hard water of the Heaven and the light became shining in that meeknesse and allay 131. And then the meeknesse and the Hard water separated themselves asunder and the hardnesse remained in its hard place as a hard Death and the meeknesse or softnesse penetrated through the Hardnesse in the power of the Light 132. And this now is the water of Life which is generated in the Light of God out of the hard Death And thus the light of God in the sweet water of Heaven brake through the astringent and hard dark Death and thus the Heaven is made out of the midst or Center of the water 133. The hard Firmament is the astringent quality and the gentle Mild or meek firmament is the water in which the Light of Life riseth up which is the Clarity or Bright Light of the Sonne of God And in this manner or form also the knowledge and the light of life riseth up in Man and the whole light of God in this world standeth in such a Form Birth and rising up 134. The Third Day is very rightly attributed to Mars because it is a bitter and a furious raging and stirring spirit In the third Revolution of the Earth the bitter quality rubb'd it self with the astringent Understand this thing rightly 135. When the Light in the sweet water did penetrate through the astringent spirit then the fire flash terrour or crack of the Light when it kindled it self in the water rose up in the astringent and hard dead quality and made all stirring from thence existed the 〈…〉 136. Now I speak here not onely of the Heaven above the Earth but this stirring and Birth or Geniture was also in the Earth and every where 137. But being the heavenly fruits before the time of the wrath sprung up onely in this stirring of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits and vanish'd or passed away again by their stirring and so changed or altered themselves therefore on the third Day of the Birth or Geniture of the Creation they sprung up also through the stirring of the fire-flash in the astringent quality of the Earth 138. And though indeed the whole Deity is in the Center of the Earth hidden yet the Earth could not for all that bring forth heavenly fruit for the astringent quality had shut and barred the hard Bolt of Death upon it and so the Heart of the Deity remained hidden in its meek and Light Heaven 139. For the outermost Birth is Nature and that ought not to reach back into the Heart of God neither can it but is the Body in which the qualifying or fountain spirits generate themselves and shew forth and manifest their Birth or Geniture by their fruits The Two and Twentieth Chapter Of the Birth or Geniture of the Starres and Creation of the Fourth Day 1. HEre now is
clear Deitie though indeed it is there and in them but thou seest and comprehendest with thy Eyes First Death and then the Wrath of God and the Hellish fire 12. But if thou raisest thy Thoughts and considerest where God is then thou apprehendest the Astral Birth or Geniture where Love and Wrath move one against another but when thou drawest up the Faith in God who ruleth in holinesse in this Government or Dominion then thou breakest thorough Heaven and apprehendest or layest hold on God at his holy Heart 13. Now when this is done then thou art as the whole or totall God is who himself is Heaven Earth Stars and the Elements and hast also such a regiment or Dominion in thee and art also such a Person as the whole God in the place of this world is Now thou sayst How shall I understand this for the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Hell and of the Devill are distinct one from another and cannot be one Body Also the Earth and Stones are not God nor the Heaven Stars and Elements much lesse can a Man be God for if so he could not be rejected by God Here I will tell thee the ground of all by degrees one thing after another therefore keep the Question in Mind Of the Astral Birth or Geniture and of the Birth or Geniture of God 14. Before the Times of the created Heavens the Stars and the Elements and before the creation of Angels there was no such wrath of God no Death no Devil no Earth nor Stones neither were there any Stars but the Deitie generated it self very meekly and lovingly and formed framed and figured it self in Ideas shapes and Images which were incorporated according to the qualifying or fountain spirits in their generating wrestling and rising up and passed away again also through their wrestling and figured or framed themselves into another form or condition all according to the primacy or predominancy of each qualifying or fountain spirit as you may read before 15. But observe here rightly the earnest and severe Birth or Geniture out of which the wrath of God Hell and Death are come to be which indeed have been from Eternity in God but not accensible nor elevable 16. For the whole or Totall God standeth in seven Species or Kinds or in a sevenfold Form or Generating and if these Births or Genitures were not then there would be neither God nor Life nor Angel nor any Creature 17. And these Births or Genitures have no Begining but have so generated themselves from Eternity and as to this Depth God Himself knoweth not what He is For He knoweth no Beginning of himself also he knoweth not anything that is like Himself as also he knoweth no End of himself 18. These seven Generatings in all are none of them the first the second or the Third or Last but they are all Seven every one of them both the first second third fourth and last yet I must set them down one after another according to a creaturely way and manner otherwise thou couldst not understand it For the Deity is as a Wheel with seven wheels made one in another wherein a man seeth neither Beginning nor End Now Observe I. 19. First there is the Astringent quality which is alwaies generated from the other six Spirits which in it self is hard cold sharp like Salt and yet farre sharper For a Creature cannot sufficiently apprehend its sharpnesse seeing it is not singly and alone in a creature but according to the manner and kind of the kindled Hellish quality I know How it is This astringent sharp quality attracteth or draweth together and in the Divine Love holdeth or retaineth the forms and Images and dryeth them so that they subsist or are fixed II. 20. The Second Generating is the Sweet water which is generated also out of all the six spirits for it is the Meeknesse which is generated out of the other six and presseth it self forth in the astringent Birth or Geniture and alwaies kindleth the astringent again and then quencheth and matigateth it that it be not too much astringent as it might be in its own sharpnesse if it were not for the water III. 21. The third Generating is the Bitternesse which existeth out of the fire in the water for it rubbeth and vexeth it self in the astringent and sharp coldnesse and maketh the coldnesse moveable from whence mobility existeth IIII. 22. The Fourth Generating is the fire which existeth from the mobility or rubbing in the astringent spirit and that is now sharp burning and the bitter is stinging and raging But when the fire-spirit rubbeth it self thus ragingly in the astringent coldnesse then there is an anxious horrible quaking Trembling and sharp opposite contentious generating Observe here the Depth 23. I speak here as to the kind and manner of the Devil as if the Light of God had not yet kindled it self in these four kinds and as if the Deitie had a beginning I can no other or nearer way offer it to your Judgment that you may understand it 24. In this Fourth rubbing is a very hard and most horrible sharp and fierce coldnesse like a refined melted and very cold salt-water which yet is not water but such a hard kind of power and vertue as is like Stones 25. There is also therein a raging raving stinging and burning and that water is continually as a Dying Man when Body and Soul are parting asunder a most horrible anxiety a woful painful Birth or Geniture 26. O man here consider thy self here thou seest from whence the Devil and his fierce Wrathful Malice hath its original as also Gods Wrath and the Hellish fire also Death and Hell and eternal Damnation Ye Philosophers observe that 27. Now when these four Generatings rub themselves one upon another then heat gets the Primacy and predominancy and kindleth it self in the sweet water and then instantly the Light riseth up Understand this rightly 28. When the Light kindleth it self then the fire-terrour or crack cometh forth first as when you strike upon a Stoâ—â— the fire-crack is first and then the light first â—â—â—ceiveth it self from the fire-crack 29. Now the fire-crack in the water goeth through the astringent quality as maketh it moveable but 〈◊〉 light generateth it self in the water and becomes shining Light and is an impalpable meek and most richly loving Being which neither I nor any other Creature can sufficiently write or speak of but I stammer only like a Child which would fain learn to Speak 30. That same Light is generated in the midst or Center out of these four Species out of the unctuosity or fatnesse of the sweet water and replenisheth the whole Body of this Generating But it is such a meek pleasing well-doing well-smelling and well-tasting Relish that I know no similitude to liken it to But where Life is generated in the midst or Center of Death or as if a Man did sit in a huge scorching hot flaming fire and
contracting and retentive and formeth and contracteth the Birth together and maketh the Birth thick or solid so that out of it Nature commeth to Bee and hence Nature and comprehensibility hath its original in the whole Body of God 51. Now this Nature is as a dead unintellectual Being and standeth or consisteth not in the power of the Birth or Geniture but is a Body wherein the power generateth 52. But it is the Body of God and hath all power as the whole Geniture hath and the generating spirits take their strength and power out of or from the Body of Nature and continually generate again and the astringent spirit continually compacteth or draweth it together and dryeth it and thus the Body subsisteth and the generating spirits also 53. Now the other Birth or Geniture is the Water which taketh its original in the Body of Nature Observe 54. Now when the Light shineth thorough the astringent contracted Body and mitigateth it then the mild beneficient well-doing generateth it self in the Body and then the hard power groweth very mild and melteth as Ice in the Heat of the Sun and is extenuated or rarified as water is in the Ayr and yet the stock of Nature as to the heavenly comprehensibility remaineth standing 55. For the astringent and fire-spirit holdeth it fast and the meek water which melteth from the Body of Nature in the kindling of the Light that goeth through the severe and earnest cold and fiery Birth or Geniture and is very sweet pleasant and lovely 56. Whereby now the earnest and austere Birth or Geniture is refreshed and when it tasteth thereof it groweth capable to be raised up and rejoyceth and also is a joyful rising up wherein the life of Meeknesse generateth it self 57. For this is the water of Life wherein the Love in God as also in Angels and Men generateth it self For it is all of one sort of Power Vertue and Birth or Geniture 58. And now when the Births or Genitures of the powers taste the water of Life then they quake or Tremble for very Love and Joy and that trembling or moving which riseth up in the midst or center of the Birth or Geniture is Bitter For it riseth up swiftly out of the Birth when the water of life cometh into the Birth or Geniture like a Joyful leaping or springing up of the Birth 59. But being it riseth up so swiftly that the Birth elevateth it self so suddenly before it be fully affected with the water of life thereupon that terrour or crack keepeth its bitternesse which it hath out of or from the austere Birth for the beginning or incaptive Birth or Geniture is very austere cold fiery and astringent 60. Therefore also is the terrour or Crack now so swelling and trembling for it moveth the whole Birth and rubbeth it self therein till it kindleth the fire in the hard fiercenesse from whence the Light taketh its original And then the trembling crack becometh enlightned with the Meeknesse of the Light and goeth in the Birth or Geniture up and down and crosse-wayes both upwards and downwards like a wheel made with seven wheels one in another 61. In this pressing through and turning about existeth the Tone according to the Quality of each spirit and alwaies one power affecteth the other for the powers are as loving Brethren in one Body and the meeknesse riseth up and the spirit generateth and sheweth it self infinitely 62. For that power which in the turning about sheweth it self the strongest in the generating according to that power manner and colour the Holy Ghost also imageth shapeth or frameth the figures in the Body of Nature 63. Thus thou seest that none of the powers is the first also none the second third fourth or Last but the last generateth the First as well as the first the Last and the middle most taketh its original from the Last as also from the First as well as from the Second Third or any of the rest 64. Thou seest also that Nature cannot be distinguish'd from the powers of God but is all one Body 65. The Deitie that is the holy power of the Heart of God is generated in Nature and so also the Holy Ghost existeth or goeth forth out of the Heart of the Light continually through all the powers of the Father and figureth all and Imageth or frameth All. 66. This Birth or Geniture is now in Three distinct Parts every one being several and Totall and yet neither of them is divided asunder from the other The Gate of the Holy Trinity 67. The whole Birth or Geniture which is the Heaven of all Heavens as also this world which is in the Body of the whole as also the place of the Earth and of all creatures and whatever thou canst think on all that together is God the Father who hath neither beginning nor end and wheresoever and whatsoever thou thinkest upon even in the smallest circle that can be imagined is the whole Birth or Geniture of God perfectly incessantly and irresistably 68. But if in a Creature or in any Place the light be extinguisht then is the austere Birth or Geniture there which lyeth hid in the Light in the innermost kernel And this now is One Part. 69. The second part or the second Person is the Light which is continually generated from or out of all powers and enlightneth again all the powers of the Father and hath the fountain of all powers But is therein distinguish'd from the Father as a singular Person in that it cannot comprehend the Birth or Geniture of the Father and yet is the Fathers Sonne which is alwaies generated from or out of the Father An instance whereof you have in all the kindled Fires in this world do but consider of it 70. And the Father loveth this his onely begotten or innate Sonne therefore so heartily because he is the Light and the meek beneficent well-doing in his Body through whose power the Fathers Joy and Delight riseth up 71. Now these are two Persons and neither of them can apprehend retain or comprehend the other and the One is as great as the other and if either of them were not the other could not be neither 72. Observe here ye Jews Turks and Heathens for it concerneth you to you here are opened the Gates of God harden not your selves for now is the acceptible time 73. You are not forgotten of God at all but if you convert then the Light and Heart of God will rise up in you as the bright Sun at Noon-day 74. This I write in the power and perfect knowledge of the great God and I understand his will herein very well For I live and am in him and spring up with this work and Labour out of his root and stock and it must be so Onely take thou heed if thou blindest thy self then there is no Remedy more neither canst thou say thou knewest not of it therefore arise for the Day breaketh 75. The third diversity or
raigneth with God in his Heaven 68. For the earthly Body which thou bearest is one Body with the whole kindled Body of this world and thy body qualifyeth mixeth or uniteth with the whole body of this world and there is no difference between the Stars and the Deep as also the Earth and thy Body it is all one Body This is the only difference thy Body is a Sonne of the whole and is in it self as the whole Being it selfe is 69. And now as the new Body of this world generateth it selfe in its Heaven so the new man also generateth himselfe in his Heaven for it is all but one Heaven wherein God dwelleth and therein thy new man dwelleth and they cannot be divided asunder 70. But if thou art wicked then thy Birth or Geniture is not capable of Heaven but of the wrath and remaineth in the other part of the Astral Birth or Geniture wherein the earnest and austere fire-source riseth up and bolts it up into Death so long till thou breakest through Heaven and livest with God 71. For instead of thy heaven thou hast the wrath-Devil sitting there but if thou breakest thorough then he must get him gone and the Holy Ghost ruleth and reigneth in that Seat and in the other Part viz. the fiercenesse the Devil tempteth thee for it is his Nest and the Holy Ghost opposeth him and the new man lyeth in his own Heaven hidden under the protection of the Holy Ghosâ— and the Devil knoweth not the New man for he is not in his House but in Heaven in the Firmament of God 72. This I write as a Word which is Generated in its Heaven where the Holy Deity alwaies generateth it self and where the moving spirit riseth up in the Flash of Life even there this Word and this knowledge is generated and risen up in the Love-fire through the Zealous spirit of God 73. I know very well what the Devil intendeth for that Part of the earnest and austere Birth or Geniture wherein Love and wrath are set opposite one to another seeth into his very Heart For when he cometh with his fierce and hellish Temptation like a fawning Dogg then he setteth upon us with his wrath in that part wherein the austere Birth or Geniture standeth and therein the Heaven is set in opposition to him and there the fair Bride is known 74. For he stingeth through the Old Man with an intent to spoyl or destroy the New but when the new riseth against him then the Hell-Hound retireth and then the new Man feeleth very well what device the Hell-hound hath darted or spit into the astral Birth and then is it time to Purge and scour it out 75. But I find that the cunning'st Devill is set against me he will raise scorners and mockers who will say that I intend by mine own conceit to grope dig deep and search out the Deitie Yes Mr. Scorner thou art indeed an obedient son to the Devil thou hast great cause to mock Gods children as if I were able in mine own power to fathom the depth of the Deitie No! but the Deitie searcheth the Ground in me Or dost thou think that I am strong enough to stand against it 76. Indeed thou proud Man God is a very meek simple and quiet still Beeing and groapeth not in the Bottom of Hell and Death but in his Heaven where there is nothing but an Unanimous meeknesse therefore it is not meet for me to do so 77. But behold it is not I that have made way for this but thy desire and highly raised lofty Lust hath moved the Deitie to reveal to thee the desire of thy Heart in the highest simplicity in the greatest depth that it may be a witnesse against thee and denunciation of the earnest severe Day of God 78. This I speak to thee as a word of the earnest Severity of God which is generated or born in the Flash of Life The Five and Twentieth Chapter Of the whole Body of the Stars Birth or Geniture that is the whole Astrologie or the whole Body of this World 1. THe learned and highly experienced Masters of Astrology or the Starry Art are come so high and deep in their understanding that they know the course and Effects of the Stars what their conjunction influence and breaking through of their powers and vertues denoteth and produceth and How thereby wind rain snow and heat is caused also Good and Evill Prosperity and Adversity Life and Death and all the drivings and agitations in this world 2. And indeed it hath a true foundation which I know in the spirit to be so but their knowledge standeth onely in the House of Death in the outward comprehensibility or palpability and in the beholding with the Eyes of the Body but the root of this Tree hath hitherto remained hidden to them 3. Neither is it my purpose to write of the Branches of the Tree and to invert or disprove their knowledge neither do I build upon their Ground but I leave their knowledge to sit in its own seat being I have not studyed it but I write in the spirit of my knowledge concerning the root stock Branches and Fruits of the Tree as an industrious and laborious Servant to his Master in discovering the whole Tree of this world 4. Not with an intent to set any new thing on foote for I have no command to do so but my knowledge standeth in this Birth or Geniture of the Stars in the Midst or Center where the Life is generated and breaketh through Death and where the moving spirit existeth and breaketh thorough and in the impulse and moving thereof I also write 5. Also I know very well that the Children of the flesh will scorne and mock at me and say I should look to my own Calling and not trouble my Head about these things but rather be diligent to bring in food for me and my familie and let those meddle with Philosophy that have studyed it and are called and appointed to it 6. With such an attempt the Devill hath given me so many assaults and hath so wearyed me that I have often resolved to let it alone but my former purpose was too hard for me For when I took care for the Belly and to get my Living and resolved to give over this businesse in hand then the Gate of Heaven in my knowledge was bolted up 7. And then my soul was so afflicted in anxiety as if it were captivated by the Devill whereby reason gat so many checks and assaults as if the Body were presently to fall to the ground and the spirit would not give over till it brake thorough againe through the Dead or Mortall Reason and so hath broke open to peeces the Door of darknesse and hath gotten its seat again in the stead thereof 8. Whereby I understand that the spirit must be tryed through the Crosse Affliction and I have not failed of bodily Temptation but was faine alwayes to
the Heart of God and qualified mixed or united with the same and the astringent spirit drew the Masse together and there was cleerely a Birth or a will or desire to the producing of a whole creature just as the Seede in Man is 116. But now the Firmament of Heaven that is between the Heart of God and the kindled hard Chamber of Death was closed or shut up else the Life in the Masse had suddenly kindled it selfe 117. For the firmament was within in the Masse as well as without distinct from the Masse which is the parting mark or limit of separation between the Heart of God and the fierce Devills 118. Therefore the word or Heart of God must blow up the movingâ—spirit in the Masse which was first done but on the sixt Day for very assured causes 119. For if Heaven had not as a Firmament been shut up in the Masse between the Heart of God and the corporeal qualifying or fountaine spirits of the Masse then the Masse might have kindled the Soul from or by its own power as it was with the Holy Angels 120. But it was to be feared that it would come to passe as it did with that faire little Son Lucifer being the corporeal qualifying or fountain spirits in the Masse were kindled in the wrath-fire 121. Therefore Heaven must be a Firmament between the sparkle which had conceived from the Heart of God in the first Glance that though the Body might happen to perish yet the holy Seed might remaine which is the Soul which qualifyeth mixeth or uniteth with the Heart of God out of which a new Body might come to be when the whole God should kindle againe the Deepe of this world in the Light of the Heart of God and just so it is come to be with the Body The Love of God have mercy and take pitty on it 122. The deare man Moses writeth that God made Man out of a Clod of Earth as the Learned have rendred it But Moses was not present when it was done 123. But this I must needs say that Meses hath written very right but the true understanding or meaning out of what the Earth proceeded remained hidden to Moses and them that have come after him in the Letter and the spirit hath kept it hidden to this very time 124. It was also hidden from Adam while he was yet in Paradise but now it will fully be revealed for the Heart of God hath set upon or assaulted the Chamber of Death and will shortly breake quite thorough 125. And therefore in these our present times some Beames of the Day will more and more break thorough in the hearts of some men and make known the Day 126. But when the Dawning or Morning Rednesse shall shine from the East to the West or from the rising to the setting then assuredly time will be no more but the SUN of the Heart of God riseth or spriugeth forth and RA. RA. R. P. will be pressed in the Wine Presse without the Cittie and therewith to R. P. 127. These are hidden mystical words and are understood onely in the Language of Nature 128. Mises writeth very right that Man was created out of the Earth but at that time when the Masse was held by the word then the Masse was not Earth But if it had not been held or kept by the word then at that very houre it had become Black Earth but the cold wrath-fire was in it already 129. For at the very houre when Lucifer elevated himselfe the Father was moved to wrath in the qualifying or fountain spirits against the Legions of Lucifer and the Heart of God hid it selfe in the Firmament of Heaven where the Salitter effect product or Fabrick of the corporeity was burning already for without or distinct from the Light is the dark Chamber of Death 130. But the Masse was held or kept in the Firmament of Heaven that it might not be congealed for when the Heart of God Glanced on the Masse with its hot Love then the unctuositie or oyle in the Masse which rose up out of the water through the fire out of which the Light riseth up and out of which the Love-Spirit riseth up caught hold of the Heart of God and was impregnated with a young Sonne 131. And that was the Seed of Love for one Love embraced the other the Love of the Masse embraced and conceived from the Love out of the Glance of the Heart of God and was thereby impregnated and this is the Birth or Geniture of the Soule and as to this Sonne Man is the Image of God 132. But the qualifying or Fountain spirits in the Masse could not presently be kindled thereby from the Soul for the Soul stood only in the seed in the Masse hidden with the Heart of God in its Heaven till the Creator blew upon the Masse and then the qualifying or Fountain spirits kindled the Soule also and then both Body and Soul lived equally together 133. Indeed the Soul had its Life before the Body but it stood in the Heart of God hidden in the Masse in Heaven and was a kind of holy Seed qualifying mixing or uniting with God which is Eternal incorruptible and undestroyable for it was a new and pure Seed for an Angel and Image of God 134. But the Fabrick effect or product of the whole Masse was an extract or attraction of the word of God out of the Fabrick or effect of the qualifying or fountain Spirits or of the Salitter out of which the Earth came to be 135. This extract was not yet become Earth though it was the Salitter of the Earth but was held or kept by the word 136. For when the Love-Spirit out of the Heart of God Glanced on the Salitter of the Masse then the Salitter did catch hold of it and conceive from it and was impregnated in the Center of the Soul and the word stood in the Masse in the Sound but the Light abode in the Center of the Masse in the Firmament of Heaven standing hidden in the unctuous oile of the heart and did not move it selfe forth out of the Firmament of Heaven in the Birth of the qualifying or fountain Spirits 137. Else if the Light had kindled it selfe in the Birth or Geniture of the Soul then all the seaven qualifying or fountain Spirits according to the eternall Birth-Right of the Deitie had triumphed and qualifyed mixed or united in with the Light and had been a Living Angel but being the wrath had cleerely already infected the Salitter therefore that danger was to be feared which befell Lucifer Now it may be Asked 138. Why were not many Masse's Created at this time out of which instantly at once there might have been a whole Angelical hoast or Army instead of fallen Lucifer 139. Why should there be so long a time of stay in the wrath 140. And why should the whole Hoast or Army be generated out of that one Masse in so very long a
blessed friendly and Mercifull Love of God The Divine Mystery Page 159 What remains hidden since the Beginning of the world Page 161 The Wrath the Original of Hell-fire Page 164 Chapter X. Of the Sixth Qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Sound Page 176 What in Men shall arise in Heavenly Joy or in Hellish Torment The Salitter Page 184 How a Man may Quench the kindled Wrath of God in this Life in himself Page 190 How neer God and the whole Trinity is to us Page 195 196 Chapter XI Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power The Divine SALITTER Page 200 The Holy Gate What the Father the Sonne and the Holy Spirit is Whom We Christians worship Page 206 207 What the Law of Nature is Page 208 Why He only that sinneth shall be punished Page 209 The Prerogative of Christians Page 210 Of the Word SALITTER Page 218 How the Imaging in Nature is Page 220 How our Life is a perpetual warfare with the Devil Page 224. Chapter XII Of the Birth or descent of the Holy Angels as also of their Government Order and heavenly joyous Life Page 230 What the Angels do when they sing not What do they Talk of Who they are like Page 238 239 What Heaven it self is Page 244 What the Angels walk upon Page 254 Of MICHAEL Page 256. Of LUCIFER Page 259 Of Lucifer's Creation Page 260. Of URIEL Page 261 The Beauty of Heavenly Forms Likened to Pretious Stones Page 263 Why Baptisme Instituted in the water Page 265 How the Wisdom of God is Incomprehensible Page 266 Chapter XIII Of the Horrible Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer Page 268 What the fountain of the First Sin of the Angels is Page 269 Where the fault lyeth that Lucifer is become a Devill Page 280 The Eternal Geniture of the Deity Page 290 The Beginning of Sinne. Page 293 Chapter XIV How Lucifer who was the Beautifullest Angell in Heaven is become the most horrible Devil Page 302 The cause that God Created Angels Page 305 Of the Eternal Enmity Page 316 Seven sources of Sinne and the Eighth the house of Death Page 318 Of the first source Page 320 What the Eternal Sport of God was before the Time of the Creation of the Angels Page 322 Of the second source of Sinne 's beginning Page 327 How God possesseth all and yet no Creature is He. Page 334 Chapter XV. Of the Third Species or spirit of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer Page 336 What Lucifer knew before his Fall Page 339 When the End of this Time will be Also of the Fourth Species of Sins beginning Page 342 Of the Sting of Death Page 345 What the Comprehensibility is Page 346 Of the Fifth manner of Sin 's beginning Page 348 Of the Sixth Form of Sin 's beginning Page 352 Of the Old Serpent Page 354 Chapter XVI Of the Seventh Kind of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer and his Angels Page 357 Of Sorcerers and Witches Page 358 Wherein Naturality consisteth Page 359 Of the mourning house of Death Page 364 That God willeth not Evil nor can do Page 365 Of Pride Covetousnesse Envy and Wrath. Page 378 to 380. The final Condemnation Also of the last Fight and Expulsion of Lucifer and all his Angels Page 381 What will be called the Burning Hell Page 385 Chapter XVII Of the miserable state and Condition of the Corrupt perished Nature and Original of the four Elements instead of the holy Dominion of God Page 386 What is called the Wrath of God Page 387 How a Comprehensible is come out of an Incomprehensible Page 389 How the Devil still presents the Swine-Apples of Paradise before the Soul Page 393 Chapter XVIII Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth And of the first Day Page 394 Why Man in this World so loveth Gold Silver and Pretious Stones Page 398 How shall I understand My self according to the Threefold Geniture in Nature Page 399 An Exposition of the first Verse of the first Cha. of Genesis according to the Language of Nature Page 405 Into what the Soul Goeth when we Dye Page 411 Of the Creation of the Light in this world Page 413 Whence fightings among all Creatures have their Original Page 418 What Light was before the Sun and Stars Page 423 Chapter XIX Concerning the Created Heaven And of the Form of the Earth and of the Water is also concerning Light and Darknesse Page 424 From what Light this Authour hath his Knowledg Page 428 How it was that Jesus Christ could take the Devil Death and Hell captive Also in what Heaven he sitteth at the Right hand of God Page 433 Where shall the wrath of God become at the End Page 435 Concerning the Form of the Earth Page 438 Why the Earth is so Hilly Rocky Stony and Uneaven Page 441 Of Day and Night Page 443 Of Morning and Evening Page 446 Chapter XX. Of the Second Day How God separated the Waters beneath the Firmament from the Waters above the Firmament Page 456 We should strive against the Malice and Wickedness that is in our Hearts Page 460 What the Moon or Luna is Page 465 How the Heavens are not pure in Gods sight Page 466 In what Heaven the Man that feareth God dwelleth Page 470 How Christ could go through the Doors being shut Joh. 20. 19. Page 474 Chapter XXI Of the Third Day Page 479 The Diurnal Motion of the Earth Page 479 Man is made out of the Seed of the Earth Page 485 How Man's hope standeth in God Page 488 How Sins are the Cause that the Deity is hidden from us Page 494 Of the Seven Spirits of God and of their Operation in the Earth Page 496 Why the Astral Birth of the Earth did begin a Day sooner then the Astral Birth in the Deep above the Earth Page 506 Whence Mercy Existed Page 509 Chapter XXII Of the Birth or Geniture of the Stars and Creation of the Fourth Day Also the Reason of the Title Dawning or Morning-Rednesse Page 510 511 Why the Spirit of Nature it self will open the Door Page 515 What the Stars are Page 517 Sixteen Questions asked the Doctors Page 519 How this work is the Holy Ghost's Dear Revelation Page 523 Of the Earth Page 529 Of the Vegetations of the Earth Page 530 Of the Mettals in the Earth Page 531 Chapter XXIII Of the Deep above the Earth Page 538 Of the Astral Birth or Geniture and of the Birth or Geniture of God Page 541 The Severe Geniture of the Wrath of God cannot be accensible nor Elevable in God Page 542 What is called the Animated or Soulish Birth Page 548 Of the Beeing of the Deity and of the Three Persons Also whence the Living and Rationall Spirit existeth Page 551 What is the Water of Life Page 553 The Gate of the Holy Trinity Page 555 Of the Kindled Nature Page 565 Chapter XXIV Of the Incorporating or Compacting the Stars Page 565 Out of what the Stars are come to be Page 568
for me to do II. Then Secondly he will say that I boast of the Holy Spirit I had more need to live accordingly and make demonstration of it by wondrous Works or Miracles III. Thirdly he will say that I am not learned enough IIII. Fourthly he will say that I do it in a vain-glorious way V. Fifthly he will be much offended at the simplicity of the Author as it is usual in the world to gaze onely upon high things and simplenesse is a scandal and offence unto it 9. To these partial worldly Criticks I set in opposition the Patriarchs of the first world which were mean despised Men against whom the world and the Devil raged as in the time of Henoch when the holy Fathers preached powerfully of the name of the Lord they did not ascend with their Bodies into Heaven and yet beheld all with their Eyes Only the Holy Ghost revealed himself in their Spirits 10. Afterward it is seen in the next world among the holy Patriarchs and Prophets all which were mean simple Men and some of them were Herds-men 11. Also when the MESSIAS CHRIST the Champion in the Battle in Nature assumed the humanity though hee was the King and Prince of Men yet he kept himselfe in this world in a low estate and condition and was a Stranger to the world And all his Apostles were poor despised Fisher-men 12. Nay Christ himselfe returneth thanks to his heavenly Father that he hath concealed it from the worldly wise men and revealed the same to Babes Math. 11. 13. Besides it is seen how they also were poor Sinners having both the impulses of good and of bad in Nature And yet they reproved and preached against the Sinnes of the world yea against their own Sins which they did by the impulse of the holy Spirit and not in vain glory 14. Neither had they any Ability from their own strength and power to teach of Gods Mysteries in that kind but all was by the impulse of God 15. So I can say nothing of my self neither nor boast or write of any thing save this that I am a simple man and besides a poore sinner and have need to pray daily Lord forgive us our sins and say with the Apostle O Lord thou hast redeemed us with thy Blood 16. Neither did I ascend into heaven and behold all the works and creatures of God but the same heaven is revealed in my spirit so that I know in the spirit the works and creatures of God 17. And besides the will to that is not my natural will but it is the impulse of the Spirit and I have endured many an assault of the Devil for it 18. But the spirit of man is descended not only from the Starrs and Elements but there is hid therein a spark of the light and power of God 19. It is not an empty Word which is set down in Genesis the 1. ch v. 27. God created man in his own Image in the Image of God created hee him First it hath this sence and meaning viz. that he is created out of the whole Being of the Deitie 20. The Body is from the Elements therefore it must have Elemental food 21. The Soule hath its Original not only from the Body though it be in the Body and hath irs first beginning in the Body yet it hath its source also from without in it by and from the Ayr and so the Holy Ghost ruleth in it in that maner as he replenisheth and filleth all things and as all things are in God and so God himself is all 22. Seeing then the Holy Spirit in the Soule is creaturely viz. the proprietie or Portion of the Soul therefore it searcheth even into the Deitie and also into Nature for it hath its Source and descent from the Being of the whole Deitie 23. When it is kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost then it beholdeth what God its Father doth as a son beholdeth what his Father doth at home in his house 24. It is a Member or child in the house of the heavenly Father 25. And as the Eye of man seeth even unto the Stars from whence it hath a finite original and begining So the soul also seeth even into the Divine Being wherein it liveth 26. But the Soul having its source also out of Nature and that in Nature there is good and bad also in that man hath cast himself through Sin into the fiercenesse or wrath of Nature so that the soul is daily and hourly defiled with Sins therefore it knoweth but in part 27. For the wrath or fiercenesse in Nature raigneth now also in the soul. But the Holy Ghost doth not go into the wrath or fiercenesse but raigneth in the source of the soul which is in the light of God and fighteth against the wrath or fiercenesse in the Soul 28. And therefore the soul cannot attain unto any perfect knowledge in this life till at the end when light and darknesse are separated and wrath or fiercenesse is with the Body consumed in the Earth and then the soul seeth clearly and perfectly in God its Father 29. But when the soul is kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost then it triumpheth in the Body like a huge fire which maketh the heart and reins tremble for Joy 30. But there is not presently a great and deep knowledge in God its Father but its love towards God its Father triumpheth thus in the fire of the Holy Spirit 31. But the knowledge of God is sowen in the fire of the Holy Ghost and at first is as small as a Grain of Mustard seed as Christ makes the comparison Matth. 13. afterward it groweth large like a tree and spreadeth it self abroad in God its Creator 32. Just as a Drop of water in the Ocean cannot avail much but if a great River runneth into it that maketh a greater commotion 33. But the time past present and to come as also depth and heighth near and afar off is all one in God one comprehensibility 34. And the holy Soul of man seeth the same also But in this world in part only it happeneth some times that it seeth nothing at all for the Devil doth assault it furiously in the fierce wrathful source which is in the soul and oftentimes covereth the noble Mustard seed and therefore Man must alwayes be in fight and war 35. In this manner and in this knowledge of the Spirit I will write in this book concerning God our Father in whom are all things and who himself is all And will handle how all is become distinct and creaturely and how all driveth and moveth in the whole tree of life 36. Here you shall see the 1º true ground of the Deity 2º how all was One Being before the Time of the world 3º how the holy Angels were created also and out of what 4º Also how the terrible Fall of Lucifer together with his Legions hapned 5º How Heaven Earth Stars and the Elements were made
or Pith of Nature to be his Angel and Similitude and God Ruleth in man with his holy Spirit so that Man can Speak discourse distinguish and understand all things 103. But a Beast is made of the wild Nature of this World the Stars and Elements have generated Beasts through their motion according to the will of God 104. And so the spirit in Birds Fowles and Wormes Existeth also and all hath its three-fold source in similitude to the Ternary in the Deity 105. And you see also the Ternarie of the Deity in Wood and Stones as also Herbs Leaves and in Grasse only these are all Earthly 106. However Nature Generateth nothing be it what it will in this World and though perhaps it should stand or continue but scarce a Minute yet it is all generated in the Ternarie or according to the similitude of God 107. Now Observe In either wood stone or herbs there are three things contained neither can any thing be generated or grow if but one of the three should be left out 108. I. First there is the Power from which a Body comes to be whether wood stone or herbs II. After that in the same there is a Sap in that thing which is the Heart of the thing III. And thirdly there is in it a springing flowing Power Smell or Taste which is the spirit of the thing whereby it groweth and encreaseth Now if any of these three fail the thing cannot subsist 109. Thus you find in Every thing a Similitude of the Ternarie in the Divine Being look upon what you will let no man make himself so stark blind as to think otherwise or to think that God hath no Sonne and Holy Ghost 110. I shall make this more plain and clear when I come to write of the Creation for I do not borrow of other men in my Writings And though indeed I quote many Examples and Testimonies of Gods Saints Yet all is written by God in my Mind so that I absolutely and infallibly believe know and see it yet not in the flesh but in the spirit in the impulse and motion of God III. It is not so to be understood that my Reason is greater or higher than all other mens living but I am the Lords Twigg or Branch and am a very mean and little Spark of his he may set me where he pleaseth I cannot hinder him in that 112. Neither is this my Natural will that I can do it by my own small ability for if the Spirit were withdrawn from me then I could neither know nor understand my own Writings and I must on every side fight and struggle with the Devill and lye open to temptation and affliction as well as other men 113. But in the following Chapters you will soon see the Devil and his Kingdom laid naked his Pride and Reproach shall suddenly be discovered The Fourth Chapter Of the Creation of the Holy Angels An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven 1. THe Learned and almost all Writers have very much Cumbred and troubled their Heads mightily to search contrive and conceive in Nature and have brought forth many and sundry Opinions concerning How and Of what the Holy Angels were framed And on the other side what that horrible Fall of the Great Prince Lucifer was or How he became so base a wicked and fierce wrathful Devil From whence that Evil Quality should Spring or What drove him to it 2. And although this ground and great Mystery hath remained hidden from the beginning of the world and that humane flesh and blood is not able to conceive or apprehend it 3. Yet God who created the world will reveal himself now at the End and all great Mysteries will be manifested or revealed to intimate that the great Day of Revelation and the Final Judgment is neâ—â— and daily to be expected 4. On which will be restored again all that which hath been lost through Adam and in which the Kingdome of Heaven and the Kingdom of the Devill shall be severed asunder in this world 5. But How all this will be done God will reveal in the highest plainesse and simplicity so that no man will be able to Oppose Him 6. Therefore every one should lift up his Eyes for his Redemption draweth near And not seek after base covetousnesse pride and wanton luxurious statelinesse supposing it the best life to be Here whereas in their luxury they sit in the midst of Hell to wait upon Lucifer as his Guard 7. Which themselves shall suddenly be sure to see with great terrour anguish and eternal despair as also to their shame and scorn whereof the Devils are a terrible Example who were once the fairest and brightest Angels in Heaven as I shall reveal write and manifest here following I will suffer Gods impulse I am not able to withstand it Of the Divine Quality 8. Since thou hast perceived in the Third Chapter the Ground of the Ternarie in the Divine Being I shall here shew plainly the power and operation as also the Qualities or qualification in the Divine Being or from what the Angels were properly and peculiarly created or what their Body and Power is 9. And as I said before All the powers or vertues are in God the Father and no man with his sense and thoughts can reach to apprehend it But in the Stars and the Elements as also by all the creatures in the whole creation of this World a Man may clearly know it 10. All power and vertue is in God the Father and proceedeth also forth from him as Light Heat Cold Soft Gentle Sweet Bitter Sowre astringent or harsh sound or noise and much more that is not possible to be spoken or apprehended All these are in God the Father one in another as one power and yet all these powers move in his Exit or going forth 11. But the powers in God do not operate or qualify in that maner as in Nature in the stars and Elements or in the creatures 12. No you must not conceive it so For Lord Lucifer in his Elevation made the powers of impure Nature thus burning bitter cold astringent soure dark and unclean 13. But in the Father all powers are mild soft like Heaven very full of joy for all the powers tryumph in one another and their voice or sound riseth up from Eternity to Eternity 14. There is nothing in them but Love meeknesse mercy friendlinesse or courtesie even such a tryumphing rising source or fountain of joy wherein all the voices of Heavenly joyfulnesse sound forth so as no man is able to expresse it nor can it be likened to any thing 15. But if a man will Liken it to any thing it may nearest be Likened to the Soul of Man when kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost 16. For then it is thus joyful and tryumphing and all powers rise up in it and tryumph and so raise the Bestial Body that it trembleth this is a true glimpse of the divine Quality as the
relish for food nor do they rot and grow stinking as those in this world do but all consist in holy Divine power 49. Their Constitution or composition is from Divine power from the Salitter and Mercurius of the divine pomp and are the food of the holy Angels 50. If mans abominable Fall had not spoiled it he would have been feasted in such a manner in this world and have eaten such fruit as indeed they were presented to him in Paradise in a twofold manner 51. But the infectious Lust longing and Malady of the Devil who had infected and spoiled the Salitter of which Adam was made that brought Man into an Evil Longing or Lust to eat of both the Qualities the Evil and the Good whereof I shall write clearly here following and demonstrate it Of the Creation of Angels 52. The Spirit sheweth plainly and clearly that before the Creation of the Angels the Divine Being with its rising and qualifying was from eternity and remained so in the Creation of Angels as it is also at this day and will so continue in and to Eternity 53. And the Space Room or place of this world together with the creaturely heaven which we behold with our eyes as also the Space or Place of the Earth and Stars together with the Deep was in such a form as now at this day it is in aloft above the Heavens in the Divine Pomp. 54. But was the Kingdom of the Great Prince Lucifer in the Creation of the Angels Understand according to the second Principle out of which he was thrust forth into the outermost which also is the very innermost of all 55. Who by his proud elevation in his Kingdom â—indled the qualities or the divine Sâ—litter out of which he was made Understand the Center of his Nature or the first Principle and set it on fire 56. Supposing thereby he should grow hugely and highly light and qualifying above the Sonne of God but he became a Fool therefore this place or space in its burning quality could not subsist in God whereupon the Creation of this world ensued 57. But this world at the End in Gods appointed Time will be set again to its first place as it was before the Creation of Angels and Lord Lucifer will have a hole or dungeon for his eternal habitation therein and he will remain eternally in his kindled quality which will be an eternal base filthy reproachful Habitation an empty void dark valley or dungeon a hole of fiercenesse or wrath Now Observe 58. God in his moving created the holy Angels at once not out of a strange matter but out of himself out of his own power and eternal wisdom 59. But the Philosophers had this opinion as if God had made the Angels only out of the light but they erred therein for they were made not only out of the light but out of all the Powers of God 60. And as I have shewed before there are two things especially to be observed in the Deep of God the Father first the power or all Powers of God the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost are very lovely pleasant and various and yet are all One in another as one power 61. And as the powers of all the stars rule in the Ayre so also in God but every power in God Sheweth it self with its operation severally and distinctly 62. Then afterward the Sound is in every power and the Tone or tune of the Sound is according to the quality of every power and therein consisteth the total Heavenly Kingdom of Joy and so from this divine Salitter and Mercurius all Angels are made viz. out of the Body of Nature Question 63. But thou mayest here ask How are they made or generated or in what way and manner Answer 64. If I had the tongue of an Angel and thou hadst an Angelical understanding we might very finely discourse of it But the Spirit only doth see it and the tongue cannot advance towards it For I can use no other words then the words of this world but now the Holy Ghost being in thee thy Soul will well apprehend it 65. For behold the totall holy Trinity hath with its moving Composed compacted or figured a Body or Image out of it self like a little God but not so fully or strongly going forth as the whole Trinity yet in some measure according to the extent and Capacity of the Creatures 66. For in God there is neither beginning nor end but the Angels have a beginning and end but not circumscriptive apprehensive palpable or conclusive for an Angel can sometime be great and suddenly little again their alteration is as swift as mans thoughts are All qualities and powers are in an Angel as they are in the whole Deity 67. But thou must rightly understand this They are made and compacted together or figured out of the Salitter and Mercurius that is out of the exit or excrescence 68. Consider this Similitude Out of the Sun and Stars go forth the Elements and they make in the Salitter of the Earth a living spirit and the stars remain in their Circle or Sphear and that Spirit likewise getteth the quality of the starres 69. But now the Spirit after its compaction is a severed distinct thing and hath a substance of its own as all the Stars have and the stars also are and remain severed and distinct things each of them is free to it self 70. Neverthelesse the quality of the Stars reigneth in the Spirit yet the Spirit can and may raise or demerse it self in its own qualities or may live in the influences of the stars as it pleaseth for it is free for it hath gotten the qualities which it hath in it self for its own 71. And though it had them at the beginning from the stars yet they are now its proper own Just as a mother when she hath the seed in her self as long as she hath it in her and that it is a feed it is hers but when the seed is become a child then it is no more the mothers but is the childs proper own 72. And though the child be in the mothers house and the mother nourisheth the child with her food and that the child could not live without the mother yet both the Body and the Spirit which are generated out of the mother are the Child 's proper own and it retaineth its corporeal right to it self 73. And in this manner it is with the Angels they are also all composed framed or figured out of the Divine Seed but every one hath his own Body to it self though they are in Gods house and feed on the fruit of their mother out of which they were made yet their Bodies are their proper own 74. But the quality Externally without them or externally without their Bodies viz. their mother is not their propriety as also their mother is not the childs propriety also the mothers food is not the and then we shall get the Angelical Clarity
Beginning and End 13. And in the Head is the divine Councel-Seat or Throne and it signifieth God the Father and the Five Senses or qualities are the Counsellours which have their influences out of the whole Body out of all the powers 14. Now the Five Senses alwayes sit in Councel in the Power of the whole Body and when the Councels Decree is concluded then the compacted or concreted Judge speaketh it out into its Center or midst of the Body as a WORD into the Heart for that is the fountain of all powers from which also it taketh its rise 15. Now it standeth there in the Heart as a self-subsisting Person composed out of all powers and is a Word and signifieth God the Sonne and now it goeth out from the Heart into the Mouth on to the Tongue which is the sharpnesse and that so sharpeneth it that it soundeth forth and is distinguished according to the Five Senses 16. From what Quality soever the word taketh its original in that quality it is thrust forth upon the Tongue and the power of the distinction or difference goeth forth from the Tongue and that signifieth the Holy Ghost 17. For as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and distinguisheth and sharpneth all and effecteth or produceth that which the Father speaketh through the Word 18. So also the Tongue sharpneth articulateth and distinguisheth all that which the Five Senses in the head bring through the heart on to the Tongue and the Spirit goeth forth from the Tongue through the Mercurius or Tone in that place as it was decreed or concluded by the Councel of the five Senses and executeth it all Of the Mouth 19. The Mouth signifieth that thou art an un-allmighty Sonne of thy Father whether thou art an Angel or a Man For through the Mouth thou must draw into thee the power of thy Father if thou wilt live 20. An Angel must do so as well as a man though indeed he needs not to use the Element of Aire in that manner as a man doth yet he must attract into himself through the Mouth the Spirit from which the Ayr in this world existeth 21. For in Heaven there is no such Ayr but the qualities are very meek and joyful like a pleasant cheering Breath of wind and the Holy Ghost is among all the qualities in the Salitter 2nd Mercurius 22. And this the Angel also must make use of or else he cannot be a moveable creature for he must also eat of the heavenly fruit through the Mouth 23. Thou must not understand this in an earthly manner for an Angel hath no Guts neither Flesh nor Bones but is constituted or composed by the Divine power in the shape form and manner of a man and hath all members like Man except the Members of Generation and the Fundament or going out of the Draffe neither hath an Angel need of them 24. For Man gat his members of Generation and Fundament first in his dolefull and lamentable fall An Angel sendeth forth nothing but the Divine power which he taketh in at his Mouth wherewith he kindleth his heart and the heart kindleth all the members and that he sendeth forth from himself again at the Mouth when he speaketh and praiseth God 25. But the heavenly fruits which he eateth are not earthly and though they are in such a form and shape as the earthly are yet they are meer Divine power and have such a pleasant Lovely Taste and Smell that I cannot liken it to any thing in this world for they Taste and Smell of the Holy Trinity 26. Thou must not think that they are there only as it were a Type or shadow of things no for the Spirit sheweth plainly that in the heavenly pomp in the heavenly Salitter and Mercurius do grow Divine Trees Plants Flowers and all sorts of whatsoever is in this world but as a type and resemblance And as the Angels are so are the vegetation and fruits all from the Divine power 27. These heavenly Sprouts and Springings thou must not wholly liken to this world For there are two Qualities in this world a Good and an Evil and many things grow through the power of the Evill quality which doth not so in Heaven 28. For Heaven hath but one form or manner nothing groweth there which is not good Only Lord Lucifer hath deform'd and dress'd this world in that manner And therefore was Mother Eve ashamed when she had eaten of that which was dress'd by the Evil quality in like manner also she was ashamed of her members of Generation which she had caused by biting of this Apple 29. The Angelical and Heavenly fruit hath not such a substance indeed it is most certain and true that there are all manner of fruits in heaven and not meerly Types and Shadowes also the Angels pluck them with their Hands and eat them as we do that are Men but they need not any Teeth to do it withall neither have they any for the fruit is of a divine power 30. Now all this whatsoever an Angel maketh use of which is Externally without him for the supporting of his life is not his corporeal propriety as if he had it by a Natural right but the Heavenly Father giveth it them in love 31. True it is their Body is their own propriety for God hath given it to them for a propriety Now whatsoever is given to any for his own or for propriety that is his by right of Nature and he doth not deal righteously which taketh it from him again unlesse upon condition and agreement And thus God doth not neither and therefore an Angel is an eternal incorruptible Creature which standeth or subsisteth in all Eternity 32. But what would the Body profit him if God did not feed it for then it would have no mobility and would lye still like a dead Block Now therefore the Angels are obedient to God and humble themselves before the powerful God they honour laud and praise him in his Great Deeds and Works of Wonder and sing continually of Gods Holinesse Because He feedeth them Of the Gracious Blessed and Joyfull Love of the Angels toward God from a true Ground 33. The right Love in the divine Nature cometh from the fountain of the Sonne of God Behold thou child of man let this be told thee the Angels know already what the right Love toward God is but thou needest it in thy cold Heart 34. Observe when the gracious amiable blessed Joyful Glance and Light together with the sweet power out of the Sonne of God shineth into all powers in the whole Father then all the powers are kindled by the Gracious amiable blessed lovely Light and sweet power in a triumphing and joyful manner 35. So also when the Gracious amiable Blessed and joyful Light of the Sonne of God shineth on the loving Angels and casteth its Beams into their Heart then all the powers in their Body are kindled and there riseth up
together that it becomes natural and creatural to speak in an Angelical way 106. Now being drawn together it looketh like Azure or Skie-colour Blew but when the light or flash riseth up therein then it looketh like the pretious Jaspis or Jasper stone or as I may call it in my language a Glassie Sea on which the Sun shineth and that very clear and Bright 107. But when the bitter quality riseth up therein then it divideth and formeth it self as if it were alive or lively or as if the Life did rise up there in a greenish flourishing manner and form like a Green Flash of Lightening to speak after the manner of men even so that it dazleth a mans Eyes and blindeth him 108. But when the Heat riseth up therein then the Green form inclineth to a half Red or Ruddy form as when a Carbuncle stone shineth from the Green flash or Beam of Light 109. But when the Light which is the Sonne of God shineth into this Sea of Nature then it getteth its Yellowish and Whitish Colour which I cannot compare with any thing but you must be content to stay or tarry with this aspect or vision till you come into the other Life 110. For this now is the true Heaven of Nature which is out of or from God wherein the Holy Angels dwell and out of which they were created in the beginning 111. Behold now when the Mercurius or Tone in this Nature Heaven riseth up there the Divine and Angelical joyfulnesse riseth up for therein rise up Forms Imagings Colours and Angelicall Fruits which blossome curiously grow spring flourish and stand in Perfection as to all manner of Bearing or fruit Trees Plants and springing growths of a Gracious comely lovely amiable blessed prospect vision or sight to be looked upon with a most delicious lovely pleasant Smell and Taste 112. But here I speak with an Angels Tongue thou must not understand it Earthly like to this world 113. It is with Mercurius in this manner or form also thou must not think that there is any hard beating striking toning or sounding or whistling and Piping in the Deity as when one taketh a Huge Trumpet and Bloweth in it and maketh it to Sound 114. O no Dear Man thou half dead Angel that is not so but all is done and consisteth in power for the Divine Being standeth in power but the holy Angels sing ring and Trumpet forth with clear and shrill sounding for to that End God hath made them out of himself that they should encrease and multiply the Heavenly Joy and therefore were the Angels made out of God 115. Also such an Image was Adam as God created him before his Eve was made out of him but the corrupted Salitter did wrestle with the Well-spring of Life in Adam till it overcame And so Adam became faint which made him fall into a Sleep Here he was undone And if the Bamhertzigkeit or the Mercy of God had not come to help him and made a woman out of him he should have continued still asleep Of this we will speak in its proper Place 116. This as in mentioned above is that fair Bright and holy Heaven which is thus in the Totall Deitie which hath neither Beginning nor End whither no Creature with its sense can reach 117. Yet thou shalt know this that alwaies in a place suddenly one quality sheweth its self more powerfully then the other suddenly the second prevaileth suddenly the third then suddenly the fourth suddenly again the fifth suddenly the sixth then again suddenly the seventh 118. Thus there is an Eternal wrestling working and friendly amiable rising up of Love where then in this rising up the Deity continually sheweth it self more and more wonderful more incomprehensible and more unsearchable 119. So that the holy Angels cannot sufficiently enough rejoyce themselves nor sufficiently enough converse walk and most lovingly sport therein nor sufficiently enough sing that Te Deum Laudamus We praise thee O God in Halelujah's as to each quality of the Great God according to his wonderfull Revelation and Wisdome and Beauty and Fruit and Form 120. For the qualities rise up Eternally and so there is not with them or among them either Beginning Middle or End 121. And although I have written here how all is come to be and how all is framed formed and Imaged and how the Deity riseth up yet for all that thou must not think that it hath any Rest ceasing or extinction and that afterward it riseth up thus again 122. O no but I must write in part or by pieces for the Readers better understanding that he might thereby apprehend somewhat and so attain the Sence and Meaning thereof 123. Neither must thou think that I have climbed up aloft into Heaven and beheld it with my carnall or fleshly Eyes O no hear me thou half-dead Angel I am as thou art and have no greater light in my outward Being then thou hast 124. Moreover I am a sinful and mortall man as well as thou and I must every day and hour grapple struggle and fight with the Devill who afflicteth me in my corrupted lost Nature in the fierce or wrathful quality which is in my flesh as in all Men continually 125. Suddenly I get the better of him suddenly he is too hard for me yet for all that he hath not overcome or conquered me though he often getteth the advantage over me for our life is as a perpetuall warfare with the Devill 126. This Strife and Battle is about that most High Noble Victorious Garland till the corrupted perished Adamical Man is killed and dead in which the Devill hath an accesse to Man 127. Of which the Sophister will know nothing for he is not generated of God but is born of Flesh and Blood and though indeed the Birth standeth open for and towards him yet he will not enter for the Devil withholds him God blindeth None 128. If he buffetteth me then I must retire and give back but the Divine power helpeth me again then he also getteth a Blow and often loseth the day in the fight 129. But when he is overcome then the heavenly Gate openeth in my spirit and then the spirit seeth the Divine and heavenly Being not externally without the Body but in the fountain or well-spring of the Heart there riseth up the flash in the sensibility or Thoughts of the Brain and therein the spirit doth contemplate or meditate 130. For Man is made out of all the powers of God out of all the seven Spirits of God as the Angels are also But now seeing Man is corrupted therefore the Divine Birth doth not alwayes spring qualifie or operate in him no nor in all men neither And though indeed it springeth in him yet the high light doth not presently shine in all men and though indeed it doth shine yet it is incomprehensible to the corrupted Nature 131. For the Holy Ghost will not be caught held or retained in the sinful
Now as there are in him chiefly seven qualities whereby the whole Divine Being is driven on and sheweth it self infinitely in these seven qualities and yet these seven qualities are the Chief or Prime in the infinitenesse whereby the divine Birth or Geniture stands eternally in its Order unchangeably 31. And as in the Midst or Center of the seven Spirits of God the heart of Life is generated whence the divine Joy riseth up thus also is the order of Angels 32. The Angel-Princes were created according to the spirits of God and the Cherubin according to the heart of God And as the divine Being worketh so also do the Angels 33. That quality which riseth up in Gods Being and chiefly sheweth it self in its working as in the rising up of the Tone or Tune or of the divine working wrestling and fighting that Angelical Prince which is most strongly addicted to that Quality begins in his Rank or File and Round with his Legions with singing ringing forth dancing rejoycing and Jubilating 34. This is heavenly Musick for here every one singeth according to the voice of his quality and the Prince leadeth the Qâ—ire or Chorus as a Chantour or singing-Master with his Scholars and the King rejoyceth and Jubilateth with his Angels to the honour of the great God and to the encreasing and multiplying of the heavenly Joyes and that is in the Heart of God as a Holy Sport or Scene and to that end also are they created for the Joy and Honour of God 35. Now when the heavenly Musick of the Angel riseth up then in the heavenly Pomp in the Divine Salitter there rise up all manner of Vegetations Springings or Sprouts also all manner of figures shapes or Ideas and all manner of colours for the Deity presenteth sheweth or discovereth it self in endlesse and unsearchable varieties of kinds colours Ideas forms and Joyes 36. Now that qualifying or fountain-Spirit in the Deity which doth shew it self then in a singular manner with its rising up and Love-wrestling as having become the Prince or Chief of them that very Angel-Prince belonging to it beginneth instantly his heavenly Musick with his own Legions according to his Quality with singing ringing forth Piping melody and in all the manners of heavenly Skill and Art which riseth up in the Spirits of God 37. But when the Center in the Midst riseth up that is when the Birth or Geniture of the Sonne of God sheweth it self in a singular manner as a Triumph then there rise up the Musicks melodies or Joyes of all the three Kingly Governments or Royal Regiments of the whole Creation of all the Angels 38. What manner of Joy this must be let every Soul consider I in my corrupted nature cannot apprehend it much lesse can I write it 39. By this song I invite or Cite the Reader unto the other Life there himself will be also of that Quire or Chorus and then first will he give credit to this spirit what he doth not understand here that he will have there apparently in his view 40. Thou must know that this is not forged out of a Stone but when the flash riseth up in the Center then the Spirit seeth and knoweth it 41. Therefore look to it and be not too scornfull in this Place else thou wilt be found a scorner and mocker before God and then well mayst thou fare as King Lucifer did Now it may be asked Question What do the Angels then when they sing Not Answer 42. Behold What the Deity doth that they do also When the Spirits of God lovingly generate one in another and rise up one in another as in a loving saluting Embracing kissing and feeding one another in which Taste and Smell the life riseth up and the eternal refreshing of which thou mayst read before at Large 43. Then the holy Angels also walk and Converse one with another friendlily graciously amiably and blessedly in the heavenly Circumference or Region and do behold the wonderful and pleasant form or prospect of heaven and eat of the gracious amiable blessed and delicate fruits of Life Now thou wilt Ask Question What do they Talk of one with another Answer 44. Behold thou Pompous stately lofty and Proud Man the world is even too narrow for thee here and thou thinkest there is none like thee or Equal to thee bethink thy self in this whether thou hast in thee the manner quality or condition of an Angel or of a Devill To whom now shall I liken the Angels 45. I will liken them to little children which walk in the fields in May among the flowers and pluck them and make currous Garlands and Poseys carrying them in their hands rejoycing and alwayes talk together of the several forms or shapes of curious flowers leading one another by the hand when they go to gather flowers 46. And when they come home they shew them to their Parents and they also rejoyce in their children and are merry and cheerly with them 47. So do the Holy Angels likewise they take one another by the Hand and walk together in the curious May of heaven and parly or talk of the pleasant and fair Spring or fruits in the heavenly Pomp and feed on the delicate blessed fruits of God and make use of the beautiful heavenly Flowers for their play or sport in their Scenes and make curious Garlands and rejoyce in the delicious pleasant May of God 48. Here is nothing but a Cordial or Hearty loving a meek and gentle love a friendly courteous discourse a gracious amiable and blessed Society where the one alwaies delighteth to see the other and to honour one another 49. They know of no malice cunning subtlety or deceit but the divine fruits and pleasant lovelinesse are common among them one may make use of these things as well as the other there is no disfavour or hatred no Envy no contrary or opposite will but their hearts are knit together in Love 50. In this the Deity hath its highest Delight as Parents have in their children that its dear and beloved children in heaven behave themselves so well and so friendlily for the Deity in it self playeth or sporteth also thus one qualifying or fountain-spirit in the other 51. And therefore the Angels can do no other then their Father doth as also our Angelical King JESUS CHRIST testified when he was with us on earth as it is written in the Gospel where he saith Verily the Sonne can do nothing of himself but what He seeth his Father do that the Sonne doth also John 5. 19. Also if you do not convert aud become like children you cannot come into the Kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 3. 52. Whereby he meaneth that our hearts should be knit together in Love as the Holy Angels of God are and that we should deal friendly courteously and kindly one with another and love one another and prevent one another in kindnesse and respects as the Angels of God do 53. Not that we should
the Place is his by right of Nature but when he elevateth himself and kindleth that place in the wrathful fire then he sets his Fathers House on fire and becomes a contrary will or opposite to the Place out of which he is made and maketh TWO out of that which was ONE before his Elevation 79. Now when he doth so then he keeps his corporeal Right of Nature to himself and that Place also keepeth its own to it self but seeing the Creature which hath a beginning will oppose or set it self against the First Being which was before the Creature was which had no beginning and will needs spoil the Place which is none of its making wherein it was created a creature in the Love and will turn that love into a wrath-fire then it is equal and just that the Love should spew up the wrath-fire forth together with the Creature 80. From hence also the RIGHTS in this world exist or have their original For when a sonne resisteth his Father and striketh his Father then he loseth his Fatherly or Paternal inheritance and his Father may thrust him out of his House but so long as he continueth in obedience to his Father the Father hath no right authority or Lawfull Power to Dis-inherit him 81. This worldly Right taketh its original from Heaven as also many other worldly Rights which are written in the Books of Moses take their begining and original from the Divine Nature in Heaven which I shall demonstrate plainly in its due place from the true ground in the Deity Now one might Object and say Objection Then an Angel is fully bound and tyed to that place in which he is created and must not stir nor can stir from thence Answer 82. No as little as the Spirits of God are or will be tyed in their rifing up that they should not move one among another so little are the Angels also tyed to their place at all 83. For as the spirits of God rise up continually one in another and have a Sport or Game of Love in their Birth or Geniture and yet every spirit keepeth his natural seat or place in the Birth or Geniture of God wherein it never cometh to passe that the Heat is changed into the Cold or the Cold into the Heat but each keepeth its natural place or Posture and the one riseth up in the other from whence the life hath its Original 84. So the Holy Angels move walk or converse in all the three Kingdoms one among another whereby they conceive or receive their conceptions one from the other that is from the others Beauty comely form friendlinesse courtesie and vertue every one receiveth his highest joy and yet each keepeth his naturall seat or Place in which he is become a creature for his own propriety 85. Like one in this world that when he hath a dear and near kinsman which returns home from forraign Parts of the world whom he had a very hearty desire and earnest longing to see there is joy and friendly saluting and bidding welcome also a friendly loving discourse or conference between them and so he treateth this loving and wellcome Guest in the best manner that he can yet this is but cold water in respect of the Heavenly 86. And thus the Holy Angels do one towards another when the Army or Company of one Kingdome cometh to the other or when the Army or Company of one princely Quality cometh to an Army or Company of another princely Quality there is nothing but meer loving Entertainment saluting and embracing reception a very gracious amiable and blessed discourse and friendly respect a very gracious amiable blessed and loving walking and playing together a most chast and humble exercise a friendly kissing and leading one another up and down here beginneth the lovely Quire and set Dancing 87. Like little Children when they go in May to gather flowers where many often meet together there they talk and confer friendly and pluck or gather many sundry sorts of flowers 88. Now when this is done they carry those flowers in their Hands and begin a sportfull Dance and sing from the joy of their Heart rejoycing Thus also do the Angels in Heaven when the Forraign Armies or Companies meet together 89. For the corrupted Nature in this world labours in its utmost power and diligence that it might bring forth heavenly forms and many times little children might be their Parents School-masters and Teachers if Parents could but understand or would but take notice of them But now adayes the Corruption is Lamentable both with Young and Old and the Proverb is verified Wie die Alten Sungen So Lerneten die Yungen As the Old ones Sing So th'Young Learn to Ring 90. By this high humility of the Angels the Spirit admonisheth the children of this world that they should view and examine themselves whether they bear such a love one to another whether there be such humility among them what kind of Angels do they think they are and whether are they like to these or no Being they have in them in possession the third Angelical Kingdome 91. Behold the Spirit will here a little present before thy Eyes what manner of love humility and courteous friendlinesse there is in thee thou fair Angelical Bride behold I pray thee thy Dresse Ornament and Attire what excellent delight and pleasure may thy Bridegroom take in thee thou beloved Angel that dancest daily with the Devil I. 92. First If one be now adayes a little prefer'd or advanced and getteth but a little while into an Office then others are no more so good as he or fit for his company that are in no preferment he counteth the vulgar or Lay-Man his Footstool he instantly endeavoureth by cunning and craft to get the vulgar or Lay-mans Goods under his disposing if he cannot compasse it by Tricks and designs then he doth it by force to satisfie his high mindednesse 93. If a simple man cometh before him that cannot place his words handsomely then he taketh him up short as if he were a Dogg and if he hath any businesse before him then he regards only those that are of worldly Esteem and lets them carry the cause Right or Wrong Take heed friend what manner of princely Angel indeed thou art Thou wilt find it well enough in the following Chapter concerning the fall of the Devil that will be thy Looking-Glasse to see thy self in II. 94. Secondly If one now adayes hath learnt more in worldly Sciences or studied more then the vulgar or Lay-man in an instant no vulgar or Lay-man is to be compared to him because he cannot Expresse himself or speak according to Art he hath no skill in the others proud Gange and Garb. 95. In brief the Simple plain man must be his Fool whereas he himself is indeed a Proud Angel and is 〈◊〉 Love but a dead Man This sort of Party 〈…〉 have its Looking-Glasse in the following Chapter III. 96. Thirdly If
Posture of Heaven 165. When thou beholdest this world thou hast a Type of heaven I. The Stars signifie or denote the Angels for as the stars must continue unaltered till to the End of this Time so the Angels also in the Eternal Time of heaven must remain unaltered for ever 166. II. The Elements signifie or denote the wonderfull proportion variety change and alteration of the form and posture of Heaven For as the Deep between the Starres and Earth alwaies alter and change in their form suddenly it is fair bright and Light suddenly it is lowry and dark now wind then rain now snow suddenly the Deep is Blew or Azure suddenly greenish by and by whitish then suddenly again Dusky 167. Thus also is the change and alteration of Heaven into many several colours and forms but not in such a manner and kind as in this world but all according to the rising up of the Spirits of God and the Light of the Sonne of God shineth therein Eternally But the rising up in the birth differs in the Degrees more at one time then at another And therefore the wonderful wisdome of God is incomprehensible 168. III. The Earth signifieth or denoteth the Heavenly Nature or the seventh * spirit of Nature in which the Idea's or Images forms and Colours rise up 169. IIII. And the Birds or Fowles Fishes and Beasts signifie or denote the several forms or shapes of figures in Heaven 170. Thou art to know this for the spirit in the Flash testifieth the same that in Heaven there arise all manner of figures or shapes like the Beasts Fowles Birds and Fishes of this world but in a heavenly form or manner clarity or brightnesâ—e and kind as also all manner of Trees Plants and Flowers 171. But as they rise so they go away again for they are not incorporated or compacted together as the Angels are for these figures are so formed in the Birth of the rising qualities in the spirit of Nature or Nature-spirit 172. If a figure be Imaged in a spirit so that it it subsisteth and if another spirit wrestleth with this aud gets the better then it comes to be divided and indeed changed or altered all according to the kind of the qualities And this is in God as a holy Sport Play or Scene 173. Therefore also the Creatures as Beasts Fowls or Birds Fishes and Worms in this world are not created to an Eternal Being but to a transitory one as the figures in Heaven also passe away 174. This I set down here onely for a manuduction or introduction you will find it described more at large concerning the Creation of this world The Thirteenth Chapter Of the terrible dolefull and Lamentable miserable Fall of the Kingdome of Lucifer 1. I Would have all proud covetous envious and wrathfull men invited to look into this Glasse and there they will see the original of their pride covetousnesse envy and wrath also the issue and final requital or wages thereof 12. The Learned have produced many and various Monsters concerning the beginning of Sin and Original of the Devil and scuffled one with another about it every one of them thought he had the Axe by the Handle yet it continued hidden from them all till this very time 3. But since it will henceforth be fully revealed as in a clear Looking-Glasse therefore it may well be conceived that the Great Day of the Revelation of God is now near at hand wherein the fiercenesse and the kindled fire will be separated from the Light 4. Therefore let none make himself stark blind for The time of the Restitution of whatsoever man hath lost is now near at Hand the Day Dawneth or the Morning-Rednesse breaketh forth It is high Time to awake from sleep Question Now it may be Asked What is the source or fountain of the first Sin of Lucifers Kingdom Answer 5. Here we must again take in Hand the highest depth of the Deity and see Out of what King Lucifer became a Creature or what was the first source or fountain of Evil or Malice in him 6. The Devil and his crew continually excuse themselves and so do all wicked men which are begotten in corruption saying God doth them wrong in thrusting them out or rejecting them 7. Nay this present world doth dare to say that God hath Decreed or concluded it so in his predestinate purpose and counsel that some men should be Saved and some should be Damned and say to that end also God hath rejected Prince Lucifer that he should be a spectacle of Gods wrath 8. As if Hell or Malice and Evil had been from Eternity and that it was in Gods predestinate purpose that Creatures should and must be therein and so they pull and hale and bestir themselves to prove it by Scripture though indeed they neither have the knowledge of the true God nor the understanding of the Scriptures though some erroneous things also are brewed from the Scriptures 9. Christ saith the Devil was a murtherer and Lyar from the beginning and did not stand in the Truth John 8. 44. But being these Justifiers and Disputers assist the Devil so stedfastly and pervert Gods truth and change it into Lies in that they make of God a thirsty and fierce wrathful Devil and such a one as hath created and still willeth Evil and so all of them together with the Devil are joyntly murtherers and Lyars 10. For as the Devil is the Founder and Father of Hell and Damnation and hath himself built and prepared for himself the Hellish quality to be his Royal Seat so also such Writers and Scriblers are the Master-Builders of Lies and Damnation who help to confirm and Establish the Devils Lies and to make of the Merciful loving and friendly God a murtherer and furious Destroyer and so pervert and turn the truth of God into Lies 11. For God saith in the Prophet As true as I live I have no delight or pleasure in the death of a Sinner but that he turn and live Ezek. 33. 11. And in the Psalms it is thus thou art not a God that hast pleasure in wickednesse Psal. 5. 5. 12. Besides God hath given Lawes to man and hath forbidden the Evil and commanded the Good Now if God would have the Evil and also the Good then he should be at Odds with himself and it would follow that there would be destruction or destructivenesse in the Deity one quality running counter against the other and the one spoiling and corrupting the other 13. Now how all this is come to passe or how Wickednesse hath taken its First Source original and beginning I will declare in the highest simplicity in the greatest depth 14. To which End the spirit inviteth and citeth summoneth or warneth all men that are seduced into Errours by the Devil that they come and present themselves before the Looking-Glasse of this School wherein they shall see and inspect the murtherous Devil into his very heart 15. Then he
in it 153. Thus now the Heat kindled the dryed water and the light could no more elevate and kindle it self for the water was dryed up and was quite consumed by the fire or great Heat 154. The meaning is not here as if the spirit of the water were swallowed up or devoured which dwelleth in all the seven qualities but its Quality or upper place or predominancy was changed into a dusky hot and sour Quality 155. For here in this place the sour quality hath taken its first original and beginning which now also is inherited in this world which is not in Heaven in God after such a manner at all nor in any Angel for it is and signifieth the house of affliction trouble and misery and is a forgetfulnesse of all Good 156. Now when this was done the qualifying or fountain spirits rubb'd themselves one upon another in that manner and way as I have mentioned above concerning the Figure of the Sevenfold wheel for they use thus to rise up one in another and to taste one another or to affect one another from whence life and love existeth 157. Now in all the spirits there was nothing else but a meer Hot Fiery Cold and Hard corruption and so one evil quality tasted the other whereby the whole Body grew so very fierce and wrathfull for the Heat was against the Cold and the Cold against the Heat 158. And so the sweet water being dryed up the bitter quality which existed and was generated by the first flash when the light kindled it self rose up in the Body through all the spirits as if it would destroy the Body and so raved and raged like the rankest or worst Poison 159. And from thence existed the first Poison wherein we poor men now in this world have enough to chew upon and thereby the bitter poisonous Death is come into the flesh 160. In this raging and tearing now the life of Lucifer was generated that is his dear little sonne in the circle or center of his heart and what manner of life and dear little sonne came to be I offer to any Rational Soul to consider of 161. For such as the Father was such was the Sonne also viz. a dark astringent Cold hard bitter hot sour stinkiug fountain or source and the Love stood in the Bitter quality in its penetrating taste and relish and became an emnity against all the qualifying or fountain spirits in the Body of the high minded arrogant King 162. Thus the Tone rose up through the penetrating of the bitter quality through the heat and dryed water and through the astringent hard quality into the heart into the little new dear sonne 163. And here the spirit went forth and as He was generated in the heart so he went forth now at the Mouth but how welcome a Guest he was before God and in God also before the Holy Angels of the other Kingdoms I leave to thee to consider of 164. He should now have united with the Sonne of God as one Heart and one God Alas for ever Who can write or expresse this sufficiently The Fourteenth Chapter How Lucifer who was the Beautiousest Angel in Heaven is become the most horrible Devil The House of the murtherous Denne 1. HEre King Lucifer pull thy Hatt down into thy Eyes lest thou shouldst see how man will take off thy Crown away from thee thou canst no more Rule in Heaven stand still a little while we must first view thee and observe what a Beautious fair Bride thou art and whether the filth of thy whoredom may not be cleansed and washed away from thee that thou mayst be fair again we will a little describe thy chastity and vertue 2. Come on ye Philosophers and ye Lawyers and Advocates that justifie and defend King Lucifer Come near and bring him to the Barre whilest he hath yet the Crown upon him for here we will hold a Court of Judgment against Malefactours for him If ye can maintain his cause to be right then he shall be your King if not then he shall be turn'd out and cast down into Hell and another shall get his Royall Crown who will Govern Better then He. Now Observe 3. When Lucifer had thus horribly spoiled and destroyed himself all his qualifying or fountain spirits were Emnity against God for they all qualified or acted much otherwise then God and so there came to be an eternal Emnity betwixt God and Lucifer But now it might be Asked Question How Long did Lucifer stand in the Light of God The Depth Answer 4. When the Royall Body of Lucifer was incorporated or compacted together in that very Hour the Light kindled it self also in Lucifer 5. For as soon as his qualifying or fountain spirits in the framing of the Body began to qualifie or operate and to generate themselves according to the right of Nature then rose up the flash of life in the heart in the sweet spring or fountain water and so the Royall Body was ready furnished or compleat and the spirit went forth in the heart from the light through the mouth into the Heart of God 6. And so he was a most exceeding beautifull Prince and King and very dear and acceptable to the Divine Being and was received and embraced with great Joy 7. In like manner also the spirit went forth from the heart into all qualifying or fountain veins of the Body and kindled all the seven spirits and so the Royall Body was glorified in the twinkling of an Eye and there he stood as a King of God in an unsearchable clarity or Brightnesse transcendently excelling the whole heavenly Hoast or Army 8. Now in this clear and light flash the seven qualifying or fountain spirits were instantly affected as a man kindleth a fire for they were affrighted at the terrible clarity or brightnesse of their spirit and so instantly at the first flash suddenly became highly triumphing rising aloft extream stately and over-joyful and so moved themselves towards a higher Birth 9. But if they had continued in their seats and had qualified or operated as they had done from eternity then that high Light had not hurt them 10. For they were not new spirits made of any new thing but they were the Old spirits which had no beginning which had been in God from Eternity and knew very well the Right of the Deity and of Nature how they should move and stir 11. Also when God figured or framed the Body together he did not aforehand destroy the qualifying or fountain spirits but figured or framed the Body of King Lucifer together out of the kernel of that which was the best wherein was the best knowledge of all 12. Else if the qualities had been dead aforehand they had had need of a new Life and it wonld have been in doubt whether the Angels could have subsisted Eternally Conceive it aright 13. God created Angels out of himself therefore that they might be harder and dryer incorporated or
compacted together then the Ideas figures shapes or forms which through the qualifying or operating of the Spirits of God in Nature rise up and also through the moving of the spirits vanish or passe away again that their light in their hardnesse should shine the clearer and Brighter and that the Tone of the Body should sound the clearer and shriller whereby the joyfulness should increase the more in God This was the cause that God created Angels 14. But that it is said the Angel generated a new Light or a new Spirit that is thus to be understood 15. When the qualifying or fountain Spirits were incorporated or compacted together then the light shone much brighter and clearer in the Body and from or out of the body then it did before in the Salitter for there then rose up a much clearer and brighter flash in the body then before whilest the Salitter was Thin and Dim 16. And therefore the qualifying or fountain spirits also became stately and Proud and supposed they had a much fairer little sonne or Light then the Sonne of God was and therefore they would also the more earnestly and eagerly qualifie or operate and elevate themselves and so despised the qualifying or Acting which is in God their Father and the Birth of the Sonne of God as also the Exit or going forth of God the Holy Ghost and supposed they could do it because they were so gloriously incorporated or compacted together therefore they would now exalt themâ—elves gloriously and stately and shew forth themselves as if they were the most fair and Beautious Bride of Heaven 17. They knew very well that they were not the whole or Totall God but were onely a piece or part thereof they also knew very well how far their Omnipotence reached or extended and yet they would no more have their Old condition but would be higher then the whole or Total God and supposed thereby they should have their place Region Quarters or Court above the whole or Total Deity above all Kingdoms whatsoever 18. And therefore they elevated or extol'd themâ—elves intending to kindle or enflame the whole God and to Govern or rule the whole God by their power and might All forms and Ideas should rise up in the qualifying and acting of their Spirit He would be Lord of the Deity and would not endure any Corrival 19. Now this is the Root of Covetousnesse Envy Pride and Wrath For in the fierce qualifying or acting and boyling rose up the wrath and burnt like fire of Heat and Cold and was also bitter as Gall. 20. For the qualifying or fountain spirits had no outward impulse upon them gotten into them but the impulse to Pride elevated it self within the Body in the councel of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits these agreed and united in a compact that they would be God alone 21. But because they could not begin it in their Old seat and so bring it to effect they therefore dissembled or playd the Hypocrite together and flatter'd one with another and so combined intending to extoll themselves against the Birth of God and would needs qualifie or work in the highest depth and then nothing could be like them being they were together the most Mighty Prince in God 22. The Astringent quality was the first Murtherer flatterer and Hypocrite for when it saw that it generated so fair and bright a Light then it compressed it self together yet harder then God had created it to be intending to be much more terrible and to draw together all in its whole Region Circuit or circumference and keep it fast as a stern severe Lord 23. And so in a degree then it had Effected somewhat from whence Earth and Stones have their Original which I will write of when I treat concerning the Creation of the World 24. The Bitter Quality was the second Murtherer which when it rose up in the Flash did tear with breaking and great Power in the Astringent quality as if it would break the Body in pieces 25. And the astringent quality permitted it or else it was very well able to have stayd and captivated the Bitter spirit and to bathe or steep it in the sweer-water till his high mind had been allayed and gone But it would needs have such a little Brother because it was so serviceable to its turn Else being the bitter spirit taketh its original from it as it were from its Father it could well have stopped or hindred that 26. The Heat is the third Murtherous spirit which killed its Mother the sweet water but the astringent spirit is the cause thereof for by its stern severe attracting together and hardening it hath thus vehemently awakened and kindled the fire by the bitter Quality for the fire is the Sword of the astringent and Bitter quality 27. But being the fire riseth up in the sweet water therefore it self hath the whip or scourge in its own power and might have stayd or kept back the astringent quality in the water but it also became a flatterer or hypocrite and dissembled with the great quality viz. the astringent and did help to destroy the sweet water 28. The Tone is the fourth Murtherer for it taketh its ringing sound in the fire in the sweet water and riseth up very gently and lovely in the whole Body 29. Yet it did not so here but after it was risen up in the water in the astringent quality it rose up so furiously like a Thunder-Clap whereby it would prove and shew forth its New Deity And so the fire rose up as when there is a Tempest of Lightning intending thereby to be so great as to be above all things in God 30. And this they practised so long till they had murthered their mother the sweet water and therein the whole Body became a dark valley and there was no more remedy or Council in God that could help here For Love was turn'd into Emnity and the whole Body became a black dark Teufel Devill 31. Of the word Teufel Teu hath its origiginal from hard beating Drumming or Thumping and the word or syllable fell hath its originall from the falle fall and so Lord Lucifer is called Teuffel Devill and is no more called a Cherubin or Seraphin Here it may be Asked Question Could not God have hindered and prevented the Pride of Lucifer that he might have abstained from his high-mindednesse Answer 32. This is a high Question on which all those lay hold that justifie and plead the Cause of the Devil but they are all Cited to appear at the Court of Justice held for Tryal of Criminal Malefactours let them have a care how they plead for their Master else the Sentence of Judgment will be pronounced against him and he will lose his Crown The wonderfull Revelation 33. Behold King Lucifer was the Head in his whole Region Circuit or Circumference also he was a mighty King and was created out of the kernell or marrow of his whole
I also my self do wonder much more then the Reader can wonder at this high Revelation or manifestation 54. I do not write this for my own Glory for my Glory standeth in my Hope of that which is to come I am a poor sinner as well as other Men and ought also to come before this Glasse 55. But I marvel that God should reveal himself thus fully to such a silly Man and that he thus impelleth him also to set it down in writing whereas there are many learned Writers which could set it forth and expresse it better in a more flourishing style and demonstrate it more exactly and fully then I that am but a scorn and Fool to the world 56. But I neither can nor will oppose him for I often stood in great striving against him that if it were not his impulse and will that he would be pleased to take it from me but I find that with my striving against him I have but meerly gathered stones for this Building 57. But I am climb'd up and mounted so very high that I dare not look back for fear a giddinesse should take me and I have now but a short length of Ladder to the Mark when I go upward I have no giddinesse at all but when I look back and would return then am I giddy and afraid to fall 58. Therefore have I put my confidence in the strong God and will venture and see what will come of it I have no more but one Body which neverthelesse is mortal and corruptible I willingly venture that if the light and knowledge of my God do but remain with me then I have sufficiently enough for this life and the life to come 59. Thus I will not be angry with my God though for his Names sake I should endure shame ignominie and reproach which springeth buddeth and blossometh for me every day so that I am almost enured to it I will sing with the Prophet David Psal. 73. 26. Though my Body and Soul should faint and fail yet thou O God art my trust and confidence also my salvation and the Comfort of my heart 60. Sinne hath Seven kinds forms species or sorts among which there are four speciall wellsprings or sources and the Eighth Kind or Sort is the House of Death Now Observe 61. The Seven Forms are the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of the Body viz. the Astringent Quality the Water the Bitter the Heat the Sound the Love the Nature or beginning from the other Six And when these are kindled Each spirit generateth a several Emnity against God 62. Out of these Seven are generated other four new sonnes and they together are the new God which is wholly against the old God as two professed Armies of Enemies which have sworn Eternal Emnity one against the other The first Sonne is Pride The second Sonne is Covetousnesse The third Sonne is Envy The fourth Sonne is Wrath. 63. Now let us view these in the Ground from whence all hath its Original and see how it is an Emnity against God and therein you will see what is the beginning and Root of Sin and wherefore in God it cannot be suffered or endured 64. Therefore come on ye Philosophers and Lawyers you that will maintain and undertake to prove it that God also created the Evill and that he willeth the same also that it is his predestinate purpose that the Devil fell and that many Men are Damned else he could have altered all and turned it some other way The Citation or Summons 65. Here the Spirit of our Kingdom citeth you together with your Prince Lucifer whom you defend and lustifie the third time before the final Court of Justice for Criminal Malefactours give in your answer there 66. For as to these seven Kinds or Forms and four new Sonnes the Right shall be prosecuted in the heavenly Fathers House 67. If you can prove and maintain that the seven Spirits of Lucifer have of Right and Equity generated these four New Sonnes so that they of Right and Equity should Govern Heaven and the whole Deity the King Lucifer shall be Re-inthroned again and set upon his Seat and his Kingdom shall be reâ—â—â—ed to him again 68. If not then a Hell or Hole Burrough or Dungeon shall be given to him for an Everlasting Prison and there shall He together with his Sonnes be Prisoners for Ever And you should take heed lest a Court of Justice be held and passe upon you also 69. Now seeing then you will plead the Right of the Devils Cause wherewith shall he requite you or what Fee shall he reward you with He hath nothing in his power but the hellish abomination what will then be your recompense Guesse Sir even the best of all that he hath the Best fruits and Apples in his Orchard and best perfumes and incense of his Garden Of the First Kind or Form 70. The first spirit is the Astringent or Harsh Quality which in God is a gentle attracting or drawing together a drying and cooling or refreshing and is made use of in and for the Imaging or framing of things and though in its Depth it be somewhat Sharp or Tart yet it tempereth it self with the sweet water so that it is meek soft pleasant and full of Joy 71. And when the light of the sweet water commeth into it then it willingly friendlily and freely yeeldeth up its birth thereunto and maketh it dry and shining Bright 72. And when the Tone or Tune riseth up in the Light then it also giveth up its Tone Tune and ringing sound very gently and brotherly thereunto 73. Also it receiveth the Love from all the spirits 74. Also the Heat favoureth it giving way friendly that it may be cooled and so it is a friendly will in and with all the Qualities It readily helpeth also to Image or frame the spirit of Nature and to form therein all manner of shapes figures fruits and Growths or vegetations according to the will of all the six spirits 75. It is a very humble Father to its children and loveth them heartily and playeth with them friendly for it is the right Father of the other six spirits which are generated in it and it helps to generate them all 76. Now when God constituted Lucifer with his Hoast or Army he created them out of this friendly Deity out of himself out of the Place of Heaven and of this wotld there was no other matter to make them of this living Salitter was very gently and softly attracted or drawn together without any Killing or slaying it or without any great stirring or motion 77. These Spirits thus incorporated or compacted together had the knowledge the skill and the eternal infinite er beginning lesse Law of God and knew full well I. How the Deity had generated them 78. II. They knew also well that the heart of God had the Primacie in the whole Deity III. They knew well also that they had no more for their
Geniture in vain and it will happen to thee as it did to the wise Heathens who climbed up to the very face or countenance of God but could not see it 44. The Spirit of the Soul is very much subtiler and more incomprehensible then the Body or the seven qualifying or fountain spirits which hold retain and form the Body for it goeth forth from the seven spirits As God the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne 45. The seven qualifying or fountain Spirits have their compacted or incorporated Body out of Nature that is out of the seventh Nature-spirit in the Divine power which in this Book I call the Salitter of God or the comprehensibility wherein the heavenly figures or shapes arise 46. And that is a spirit as all the rest of the seven Spirits are onely the other six are an incomprehensible Being therein for the Divine power generateth it self in the comprehensibility of the seventh Nature-spirit as it were hidden or concealed and incomprehensible to the Creatures 47. But the animated or soulish spirit generateth it self in the heart out of or from the seven qualifying or fountain spirits in that manner as the Sonne of God is generated and keepeth its seat in the heart and goeth forth from that Seat in the Divine power as the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Sonne for it is of such a subtilnesse as the Holy Spirit of God hath and uniteth qualifieth or operateth with God the Holy Ghost 48. And when the animated or soulish Spirit goeth forth out of the Body then it is one thing with the hidden Deity and is together the midst or center in the Imaging or framing of a thing in Nature as God the Holy Ghost himself is 49. An example whereof you have in this as when a Carpenter will build a curious house or Artificial piece of Architecture or any other Artist goeth about the making of some artificiall work the Hands which signifie Nature cannot be the first that begin the work but the seven Spirits are the first Workmasters about it and the animated or soulish spirit sheweth the form figure or shape of it to the seven spirits 50. And then the seven spirits Image or frame it and make it comprehensible and then the hands first begin to fall to work to make the Structure according to the Image or frame contrived For a work must be first brought to the sense before you can make it 51. For the Soul comprehendeth the highest sense it beholdeth what God its Father acteth or maketh also it Co-operateth in the heavenly Imaging or framing And therefore it maketh a description draught platform or modell for the Nature-spirits shewing how a thing should be Imaged or framed 52. And according to this delineation or prefiguration of the Soul all things in this world are made for the corrupted soul worketh or endeavoureth continually to bring forth or frame heavenly forms but cannot bring that to Effect for the materials for its work are onely the earthly corrupted Salitter even a half-dead Nature wherein it cannot Image or frame heavenly Ideas shapes or figures 53. By this you may understand what great power the spirits of the expelled Angels have had in the heavenly Nature And what manner of substance this perdition or Corruption is of How they have corrupted and spoiled Nature in heaven in their place with their horrible kindling from whence the horrible fiercenesse which is predominant in this world is existed 54. For the kindled Nature burneth still continually untill the last Judgment Day and this kindled fire fource or quality is an Eternall Emnity against God 55. But yet whether this kindled fire-spirit hath Right therein and whether God himself hath kindled it from whence the wrath-fire is existed let the Electionists or Predestinarians or those that dispute so about Election justifie it and prove it in Nature if they can if not then this fire-spirit is to be condemned also Of the Fifth kind Species form or manner of Sin 's beginning in Lucifer and his Angels 56. The fifth qualifying or fountain spirit in the Divine power is the Gracious amiable and blessed Love which is the very Glance or aspect of meeknesse and humility which is also generated in the flash of life 57. For the flash as a Crack penetrateth suddenly whereby Joy existeth and then the stock of the kindled light in the sweet water abideth standing and presseth gently after the flash through the fire even into the astringent quality and mitigateth the fire and mollifyeth softneth or suppleth the astringent quality which is also a Birth or geniture of the water 58. But when the fire tasteth the mild sweet and pliant Taste then is it mitigated and formeth it self into a meek warmth very lovingly and there riseth up a very friendly life in the fire and penetrateth the astringent Quality with this pleasing lovely gentle warmth and allayeth or stilleth the cold fire and mollifieth or suppleth the hardnesse attenuateth the thick and maketh the dark to be Light 59. But when the Bitter flash together with the astringent and fire-spirit tasteth this meeknesse there is nothing else then but a meer longing desiring and replenishing a very gentle pleasant tasting wrestling kissing and love-Birth For the severe births of all the qualifying or fountain spirits in this penetrating become very gentle pleasant humble and friendly and the very Deity rightly subsisteth therein 60. For in the first four qualifying or fountain spirits standeth the Divine Birth or Geniture therefore they must be very Earnest and strong also though they have among them too their meek mother the sweet water and in the fifth standeth the gracious amiable and blessed Love and in the sixth the Joy and in the seventh the framing Imaging or comprehensibility 61. Now Lucifer come on with thy Love how hast thou behaved thy self is thy Love also such a Well-spring or fountain as this We will now view that also and examine what manner of loving Angel thou art turned into Observe 62. If Lucifer had not elevated and kindled himself then his fountain of Love would be no other then that in God for there was no other Salitter in him then there is in God 63. But when he elevated himself intending to rule the whole Deity with his animated or soulish spirit then the stock and heart of light which is the kernel marrow or pith of love in the sweet water became a fierce and corroding crouding fire source or quality from whence in the whole body existed a very trembling burning government and Birth or Geniture 64. Now when the animated or soulish spirit was generated in this severe and astringent fire's-Birth then it pressed very furiously forth from the Body into Nature or the Salitter of God and destroyed the gracious amiable and blessed love in the Salitter for it pressed very fiercely furiously and firily as a raging Tyrant through all and supposed that it self alone was God it self alone
and brightnesse deceived him when he saw that he was the fairest and beautifullest Prince in Heaven then he despised the friendly qualifying mixing Operating and generating of the Deity and thought with himself that he would rule with his Princely power in the whole Deity all must stoop and bow to him 97. But when he found that he could not effect it then he kindled himself intending to do it some other way and so then the Sonne of Light became a Sonne of Darknesse for he himself consumed the power of his sweet water and made it to be a sowr stinck Of the Second Sonne Covetousnesse 98 The second Will was Covetousnesse which grew out of Pride for Lucifer thought with himself that he would reign over all Kingdoms as a Sole God all should bow to him he would form and frame all with his own power and besides also his beauty so deceived him that he thought he would have all in his sole possession alone 99. This Modern World should do well to speculate on this Pride and Covetousnesse and to consider How it is an Emnity against God and that thereby they go headlong to the Devill and there must have their Jawes and Throat open eternally to rob and devour and yet find nothing but hellish Abomination Of the Third Sonne Envy 100. This Sonne is the very Gout of this world for it taketh its original in the flash of Pride and Covetousnesse and standeth on the Root of Life as pricking and bitter Gall. 101. This spirit also came at first from Pride for Pride thought and said to it self Surely thou art beautifull and mighty potent and Covetousnesse thought and said to it self All must be Thine and Envy thought and said to it self Thou must kill all with thy stinging which is not obedient unto thee and thus it Stung at the other Gates of Angels but all was in vain for its power and might reach'd no further then in the Extent of the place out of which it was created Of the Fourth Sonne Wrath. 102. This Sonne is the very burning Hellish Fire and taketh its original also from Pride For when Lucifer with his hatefull and Odious Envy could not fill his Pride and Covetousnesse then he kindled the Wrath-fire in himself and roared therewith into Gods Nature as a fierce Lion and from whence then arose the wrath of God and all Evil. 103. Of which much were to be written but you will find it more apprehensibly at the place concerning the Creation For there are to be found living Testimonies Enough so that none need doubt whether the things be so or no. 104. Thus King Lucifer is the beginning of Sin and the Sting of Death and the kindling of Gods wrath and the beginning of all Evill a corruption perdition and destruction of this world and whatever evill is done there he is the first Author and Causer thereof 105. Also he is a murtherer and Father of Lies and a founder of Hell a spoyler and corrupter and destroyer of all that is Good and an eternal Enemy of God and of all good Angels and Men against whom I and all men that think to be saved must daily and hourly struggle and fight as against the worst and Archest Enemy The final Condemnation 106. But being God hath accursed him as an eternal Enemy and condemn'd him unto eternal Imprisonment where he now seeth his hour-Glasse more and more plainly before his Eyes And being his hellish Kingdom is revealed to me by the Spirit of God so I curse him also together with and amongst all holy Souls of Men and renounce and defie him as an eternal Enemy who hath often spoyled and Torn up my Vineyard 107. Moreover I defie also all his Lawyers and Helpers and will with the Divine Grace from hence forth fully reveal his Kingdom and demonstratively prove that God is a God of Love and Meeknesse who willeth not the Evill Psal. 5. 5. and who hath no pleasure in the perdition of any but willeth that all men should be helped or saved Ezek. 18. 23. 33. 11. And then I will shew and prove also that all Evill cometh from the Devil 1 Tim. 2. 4 and taketh its original from him Of the final Fight and Expulsion of King Lucifer together with all his Angels 108. Now when this horrible Lucifer as a Tyrant and raging spoiler of all that is Good shewed himself thus terribly as if he would kindle and destroy all and bring all under his Jurisdiction then all the heavenly Hoasts and Armies were against him and he also against them all there now the fight began for all stood most terribly one party against another 109. And the great Prince MICHAEL with his Legions fought against him and the Devill with his Legions had not the victory but was driven from his place as one vanquished Apoc. 12. Now it may be Asked What manner of fight was this how could could they fight one with another without weapons Answer 110. The Spirit alone understandeth this Hidden secret which must fight Daily and Hourly with the Devill the outward flesh cannot comprehend it also the Astral spirits in Man cannot understand it neither is it comprehended by man at all unlesse the animated or soulish spirit unite qualifie and operate with the innermost Birth or Geniture in Nature in the Center where the Light of God is set opposite against the Devills Kingdom that is in the Third Birth or Geniture in the Nature of this world 111. When it uniteth qualifieth or operateth with God in this seat then the animated or soulish spirit carrieth it into the Astrall for the Astrall must in this Place fight hourly with the Devill 112. For the Devill hath power in the outermost Birth or Geniture of Man for his seat is there the murtherous Denne of Perdition and the House of misery and woe wherein the Devill whetteth the Sting of Death and through his animated or soulish spirit he reacheth in into the Heart of Man in his outermost Birth or Geniture 113. But when the Astrall Spirits are enlightned from the animated or soulish spirit which in the Light uniteth with God then they grow fervent and very Longing and desirous of the light on the other side the animated or soulish spirit of the Devil which ruleth in the outermost Birth or Geniture of Man is very terrible and angry and of a very contrary or opposite will 114. And then there riseth up the striving or fighting fire in Man just as it rose up in Heaven with Michael and Lucifer and so the poor Soul comes to be miserably crushed stretched tormented and put upon the Wrack 115. But if it get the victory with its piercing penetration then it bringeth its light and knowledge into the outermost Birth or Geniture of Man for it presseth back with force through the seven Spirits of Nature which I call here the Astrall Spirits and as an assessor governeth also in the councill of
up my whole Heart and Mind as also all my Thoughts and whole will and resolution incessantly to wrestle with the Love and Mercy of God and not to give over unlesse he blessed me that is unlesse he enlightened me with his holy Spirit whereby I might understand his will and be rid of my sadnesse And then the spirit did break thorough 11. But when in my resolved zeal I gave so hard an assault storm and onset upon God and upon all the Gates of Hell as if I had had more reserves of vertue and power ready with a resolution to hazard my life upon it which assuredly were not in my ability without the assistance of the Spirit of God suddenly after some violent Storms made my spirit did break thorough the Gates of Hell even into the innermost Birth or Geniture of the Deity and there I was embraced with Love as a Bridegroom embraceth his dearly beloved Bride 12. But the greatnesse of the triumphing that was in the spirit I cannot expresse either in speaking or writing neither can it be compared with any thing but with that wherein the life is generated in the midst of Death and it is like the Resurrection from the Dead 13. In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all and in and by all the Creatures even in Herbs and Grasse it knew God Who he is and How he is and What his will is and suddenly in that light my will was set on by a Mighty impulse to describe the Beeing of God 14. But because I could not presently apprehend the deepest Births of God in their Beeing and comprehend them in my Reason there passed almost Twelve years before the exact understanding thereof was given me 15. And it was with me as with a young Tree which is planted in the Ground and at first is young and tender and flourishing to the Eye especially if it comes on lustily in its growing But doth not bear fruit presently and though it blossometh they fall off also many a cold wind frost and snow puffe upon it before it comes to any growth and bearing of Fruit. 16. So also it went with this spirit the first fire was but a Seed and not a constant lasting Light since that time many a cold wind blew upon it but the Will never extinguished 17. This Tree was also often tempted to try whether it would bear Fruit and shew it self with Blossoms but the Blossoms were struck off till this very time wherein it standeth in its first Fruit in the growth or vegetation 17. From this Light now it is that I have my knowledge as also my will impulse and driving and therefore I will set down this knowledge in writing according to my Gift and let God work his will and though I should Irritate or enrage the whole world the Devill and all the Gates of Hell I will look on and wait what the LORD intendeth with it 18. For I am too too weak to know his Purpose and though the spirit affordeth in the Light to be known some things which are to come yet according to the outward man I am too weak to comprehend the same 19. But the animated or soulish spirit which qualifieth or uniteth with God that comprehends it well but the bestial Body attains onely a Glimpse thereof Just as if it lightned for this is the posture of the innermost Birth or Geniture of the soul when it teareth through the outermost Birth or Geniture in the elevation of the Holy Ghost and so breaketh through the Gates of Hell but the outermost Birth presently shuts again for the wrath of God bolteth up the firmament and holds it captive in its Power 20. And then the knowledge of the outward Man is gone and he walketh up and down in an afflicted and anxious Birth or Geniture as a woman with child who is in her travel and would alwaies fain bring forth her child but cannot and is full of Throes 21. Thus it goeth also with the bestial Body when it hath once tasted of the sweetnesse of God then it continually hungreth and thirsteth after it But the Devil in the power of Gods wrath opposeth exceedingly and so a Man in such a course must continually stand in an anxious Birth or Geniture and so there is nothing but fighting and warring in his Births or Genitures 22. I write not this for mine own glory but for a comfort to the Reader so that if perhaps he be minded to walk with me upon my Narrow Bridge he should not suddenly be discouraged dismayed and distrustfull when the Gates of Hell and Gods wrath meet him and present themselves before him 23. When we shall come together over this narrow Bridge of the fleshly Birth or Geniture to be in yonder green Medow to which the wrath of God doth not reach or come then we shall be fully requited for all our damages and hurts we have sustained though indeed at present the world doth account us for fooles and we must suffer the Devill in the power of Gods wrath to Domineer Rush and roar over us It should not trouble us for it will be more excellent Reputation to us in the other life then if in this Life we had worn a Royal Crown and there is so very short a time to get thither that it is not worth the being called a Time Now Observe 24. If thou fixest thy Thoughts concerning Heaven and wouldst fain conceive in the Mind What it is and Where it is and How it is thou needest not to swing or cast thy Thoughts many thousand Miles off for that Place or that Heaven is not thy Heaven 25. And though indeed that is united with thy Heaven as one Body and so together is But the One Body of God yet thou art not in that very place which is become a Creature aloft many hundred thousand Miles off but thou art in the Heaven of this world which containeth also in it just such a Deep as is not of any Humane Number or is Circumscriptive 26. For the true Heaven is every where even in that very Place where thou standest and goest and so when thy spirit apprehendeth the innermost Birth or Geniture of God and presseth in through the astral and fleshly geniture then it is clearly in Heaven 27. But that there is assuredly a pure glorious Heaven in all the three Births or Genitures aloft above the Deep of this world in which Gods Being together with that of the holy Angels riseth or springeth up very purely brightly beautiously and joyfully is undeniable and he is not born of God that denyeth it But thou must know 28. That the place of this world with its innermost Birth or Geniture uniteth or qualifieth with the Heaven aloft above us and so there is one Heart one Being one Will one God All in All. 29. But that the place of this world is not called Heaven and that there is a firmament or fast inclosure between the upper Heaven
above us it hath this understanding or meaning as followeth 30. The upper Heaven compriseth the two Kingdoms that of Michael and that of Uriel and of all the holy Angels which are not fallen with Lucifer and that Heaven continueth as it was from Eternity before the Angels were created 31. The Other Heaven is this world in which Lucifer was a King who kindled the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature and that now is the wrath of God and cannot be called God or Heaven but Perdition 32. Therefore the upper Heaven includeth it self up so far in its outermost Birth or Geniture and reacheth so far as the wrath of God reacheth and so far as the Government or Dominion of Lucifer hath reached for the corrupted or perished Birth or Geniture cannot comprehend the Pure 33. That is the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world cannot comprehend the outermost Birth or Geniture of Heaven aloft above this world for they are one to the other as the Life and the Death or as a Man and a Stone are one to the other 34. And therefore there is a strong firmament or inclosure between the outermost Birth or Geniture of the upper Heaven and that of this world for the firmament between them is Death which ruleth and reigneth every where in the outermost birth in this world and this world is so bolted up therewith that the outermost Birth of the upper Heaven cannot come into the outermost Birth of this world there is a great Cliff or Gulph between them And therefore in our outermost Birth or Geniture we cannot see the Angels neither can the Angels dwell with us in the outermost Birth of this world but in the innermost they dwell with us 36. And so when we fight with the Devill they keep off his Blowes in the innermost Birth and are the Defence and Protection of the holy Soul 37. Therefore we can neither see nor comprehend the holy Angels for the outermost Birth of their Body is incomprehensible to the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world 38. The second Birth of this world standeth in the life for it is the Astral Birth out of which is generated the third and holy Birth or Geniture and therein Love and wrath strive one with the other 39. For the second Birth standeth in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of this world and is in all places and in all the Creatures as also in Man But the Holy Ghost also ruleth and reigneth in the second birth and helpeth to generate the third holy Birth or Geniture 40. But this third Birth or Geniture is the clear and holy Heaven which qualifieth or uniteth with the Heart of God without distinct and above all Heavens as one Heart also they are the one Heart which holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth the place of this world and holdeth the Devil Captive in the outermost birth in the Anger fire as an Almighty incomprehensible God 41. And out of this Heart JESVS CHRIST the Sonne of God in the Womb or Body of the Virgin Mary went into all the three Births or Genitures and assumed them really that He might through and with his innermost Birth or Geniture take the Devill Death and Hell Captive in the outermost Birth and overcome the wrath of God as a King and Victorious Prince and in the power of his Geniture or Birth in the flesh presse thorough all Men. 42. And so by this entring of the innermost Birth of the Heart of the Heaven of this world into the Astrall and outermost is JESUS CHRIST the Sonne of God and of Mary become the Lord and King of this our Heaven and Earth who ruleth and reigneth in all the three Births or Genitures over Sin the Devil Death and Hell and so we with him presse through the sinful corrupted and outermost dead Birth or Geniture of the flesh through Death and the wrath of God into our Heaven 43. In this Heaven now sitteth Our King JESUS CHRIST at the right hand of God and encompasseth or surroundeth all the three Births as an almighty Sonne of the Father who is present in and throughout all the three Births in this world in all Corners and Places and comprehendeth holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth all as a new Born Sonne of the Father in the power and upon the Seat or Throne of the once Great mighty Potent and now expell'd accursed and Damned King Lucifer the Devill 44. Therefore thou child of man be not discouraged be not so timorous and pusillanimous for if thou sowest in thy zeal and earnest sincerity the seed of thy Teares thou dost not sow it in Earth but in Heaven for in thy astral Birth thou sowest and in thy animated or soulish Birth thou reapest and in the Kingdom of heaven thou possessest and enjoyest it 45. While thou livest in this strugling or striving Birth or Geniture thou must Buckle and suffer the Devil to ride upon thee but so hard as he striketh thee so hard thou must strike him again if thou wilt defend thy self For when thou fightest against him thou stirrest up his wrath-fire and destroyest his Nest and this is then as a great combustion and as a great strong Battel maintained against him 46. And though thy Body perhaps is put hard to it and suffers pain in misery yet it is much worse with him when he is vanquished for then he roareth like a Lion which is robbed of her young whelps for the fiercenesse and wrath of God tormenteth him but if thou lettest him Lodge within thee then he groweth fat and wanton and will vanquish thee in Time 47. Thus thou hast a real description of Heaven And though perhaps thou canst not in thy Reason conceive it Yet I can very well Conceive it therefore consider Rationally and seriously upon it What God is 48. Thou seest in this world Nothing but the Deep and therein the Stars and the Birth or Geniture of the Elements now wilt thou say God is not there 'pray then what was there in that place before the time of the world Wilt thou say there was Nothing then thou speakest without Reason for thou must needs say that God was there or else nothing would there have come to be 49. Now if God were there then who hath thrust him out from thence or vanquished him that he should be there no more But if God be there then he is indeed in his Heaven and moreover in his Trinity 50. But the Devil hath kindled the Bath or Lake of wrath whence the Earth and Stones also the Elements are become so fluctuating as also cold bitter and hot and so hath destroyed the outermost Birth or Geniture 51. Whereupon now this Treatise and my whole purpose is to describe how it is come to be living and revived again and how it regenerateth it self again And from thence also in the Creatures the beastial Flesh is come to be but Sin in the Flesh is the Wrath
of God Another Question which is chiefly treated of in this Book is this viz. Where then shall the Wrath of God become Answer 52. Here the spirit answereth that at the End of the Time of this corrupted Birth or Geniture after the Resurrection from the Dead this place or space where the Earth now is will be given to the Devill for a propriety or Possession and House of wrath yet not through and in all the three Births or Genitures but onely in the outermost in which he now standeth But the innermost will hold him Captive in its might and strength and use him for a footstool or as the Dust under its foot which innermost Birth he will never be able either to comprehend or to touch 53. For it hath not this understanding or meaning that the wrath-fire should be extinguished and be no more for then the Devils also must become Holy Angels again and live in the holy Heaven but that not being so a Hole Burrough or Dungeon in this world must remain to be their Habitation 54. If Mans Eyes were but opened he should see God every where in his Heaven for Heaven standeth in the innermost Birth or Geniture every where 55. Moreover when Stephen saw the Heaven opened and the Lord JESUS at the right hand of God there his spirit did not first swing it self up aloft into the upper Heaven but it penetrated or pressed into the innermost Birth or Geniture wherein Heaven is every where 56. Neither must thou think that the Deity is such a kind of Being as is onely in the upper Heaven and that the Soul when it departeth from the Body goeth up aloft into the upper Heaven many hundred thousand Miles off 57. It needeth not do that but it is set or put into the innermost Birth and there it is with God and in God and with all the holy Angels and can suddenly be above and suddenly beneath it is not hindred by any thing 58. For in the innermost Birth the upper and neather Deity is one Body and is an open Gate the Holy Angels converse and walk up and down in the innermost Birth of this world by and with our King JESUS CHRIST as well as in the uppermost world aloft in their Quarters Courts or Region 59. And where then would or should the Soul of Man rather be then with its King and Redeemer JESUS CHRIST For near and afar off in God is one thing one comprehensibility Father Sonne and Holy Ghost every where all over 60. The Gate of the Deity in the upper heaven is no other also no brighter then it is in this world and where can there be greater Joy then in that place where every hour and Moment beautiful loving dear new born children and Angels come to Christ which are press'd or penetrated through Death into Life 61. Doubtlesse they will make large Relations of many Fights and where can there be greater Joy then where in the midst or Center of Death life is Generated continually 62. Doth not every soul bring along with it a new Triumph and so there is nothing else but an exceeding friendly well coming and Salutation there 63. Considâ—â—â—hen the Soules of children come to their Parents who in the Body did Generate them whether Heaven can choose but be there or dost thou think my writing is too Earthly 64. If thou wert come to this Window thou wouldst not then say that it is earthly And though I must indeed use the earthly Tongue yet there is a true heavenly understanding couched under it which in my outermost Birth I am not able to expresse either in writing or in Speaking 65. I know very well that the word concerning the three Births cannot be comprehended or apprehended in every Mans Heart especially where the Heart is too much steeped soaked or drowned in the flesh and bolted and Barred up with the outermost Birth 66. But I cannot render it otherwise then as it is for it is just so and though I should write meer Spirit as indeed and truth it is no other yet the heart understandeth onely Flesh. Concerning the Constitution and form of the Earth 67. Many Authors have written that Heaven and Earth were created out of NOTHING but I do wonder that among so many excellent Men there hath not one been found that could yet describe the true Ground seeing the same God which now is hath been from Eternity 68. Now where nothing is there nothing can come to be All things must have a Root else can nothing grow If the seven Spirits of Nature had not been from eternity then there woâ—â—â— no Angel no Heaven also no Earth have come to be 69. But the Earth is come from the corrupt Salitter of the outermost Birth or Geniture which thou canst not deny when thou lookest on Earth and Stones for then thou must needs say that Death is therein And on the other side also thou must needs say that there is a Life therein otherwise neither Gold nor Silver nor any Plant Herb Grasse or Vegetable could grow therein Now one might Ask Are there also all the three Births or Genitureâ— therein Answer 70. Yes the Life presseth thorough Death the outermost Birth is the Death the second is the Life which standeth in the wrath-fire and in the Love And the Third is the Holy Life An Instruction or Information 71. The outward Earth is a bitter stinck and is dead and that every man understandeth to be so But the Salitter is destroyed or killed through Death for thou canst not deny but that Gods wrath is in the Earth otherwise it would not be so astringent bitter sowr venomous and poisonous neither would it engender such poisonous venomous Evill worms and creeping things But if thou shouldst say that God hath created them thus out of his Purpose that is as much as if thou shouldst say that God himself is Evil Malice Malignity or Wickednesse Pray tell me Why was the Devil expell'd or Thrust out 72. Surely thou wilt say because of his Pride In that he would needs be above God But Guesse Sir with what he would do so what Power haâ— he to do it Here tell me if thou knowest any thing of it if thou knowest Nothing be silent and attentive 37. Before the Times of the Creation He sate in the Salitter of the Earth when it was yet Thin or Transparent and stood in a heavenly holy Birth or Geniture and was in the whole Kingdom of this world therein it was neither Earth nor Stones but a heavenly Seed which was generated out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature for therein sprung up heavenly fruits forms and Ideas which were a pleasant delightfull food of Angels 74. But when the wrath did burn therein then it was killed and destroyed in Death Yet not so to be understood as if it were therefore altogether quite dead For how can any thing in God dye totally that hath had its
whilest the spirit goeth through its Place it signifieth that the dark Night in the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world hath never comprehended the Light also never shall comprehend it in all Eternity 140. Hence it is that the Creatures see onely the Astrall Light with their Eyes else if the darknesse were not yet in the outermost Birth or Geniture then the Astrall spirit could see through Wood and Stones as also through the whole Earth and could not be hindred by any thing Just as it is in Heaven 141. But now the Darknesse is separated from the Light and abideth in the outermost Birth or Geniture wherein the wrath of God resteth till the Last Judgment Day but then the wrath will be kindled and the darknesse will be the House or Habitation of Eternal Perdition wherein Lord Lucifer together with all wicked Men which have sowen into Darknesse into the soyl of the wrath shall have their eternal Dwelling and Residence 142. But the Astrall Birth in which the natural Light now standeth and wherein the holy Birth is Generated shall be also kindled at the End of this Time and the wrath and the holy Birth shall be separated asunder for the wrath shall not comprehend the holy Birth or Geniture 143. But the wrath in the Astrall Birth shall be given to the House of Darknesse for a Life and the Wrath shall be called the Hellish fire And the House of darknesse which is the outermost Birth shall be called Death And King Lucifer shall be the God therein and his Angels and all Damned Men shall be his Ministers Officers and Servants 144. In this Devouring Gulf or Throat will rise up all manner of Hellish Fruits and Forms all according to the hellish quality and kind as in Heaven there spring up Heavenly fruits and forms according to the heavenly quality and kind 145. Thus you may understand what the Creation of Heaven and Earth signifieth and is also what God made on the first Day Though indeed the first Three Dayes were not distinguisht or severed asunder by Evening and Morning but a Time is to be reckoned and accounted as of Twenty four Hours as there is on high above the Moon such a Time and Day 146. Secondly it is also therefore counted for a Humane Day because doubtlesse the Earth instantly began its Revolution and did turn Round about once in such a period of Time while God was separating and so till he had separated the Light from the darknesse and thus it performed and finished its course the first Time The Twentieth Chapter Of the Second Day 1. IT is written thus concerning the second Day And God said Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the waters and let it be a distinction or division between the waters so there God made the Firmament and divided the waters under the firmament from the waters above the firmament and it was so done And God called the firmament Heaven and so out of the Evening and the Morning the second day came to be Gen. 1. v. 6 7 8. 2. This description sheweth once more that the Dear Man Moses was not the Original Authour thereof for it is written very Obscurely and not fnlly expressed though indeed it hath a very excellent understanding and meaning 3. And without Doubt the Holy Ghost would not have it revealed lest the Devill should know all the Mysteries in the Creation For the Devil doth not know the Creation of the Light viz. how Heaven is made out of the midst or Center of the water 4. For he can neither see nor comprehend or apprehend the Light and holy generation or production which standeth in the water of the Heaven but the Generation or production only which standeth in the Astringent Bitter Sowr and Hot Quality from whence existed the outermost Birth or Geniture which is his Royall Fort or Castle 5. The meaning is not that he hath no power in the Elementary water to possesse it for the outermost corrupted Birth or Geniture in the Elementary water belongeth also to the wrath of God and Death is also therein as well as in the Earth 6. But the spirit in Moses meaneth here quite another sort of water which the Devill can neither understand nor comprehend But if it should have been declared so long a time ago then the Devill would have learned it from Man and had without doubt strowed his hellish chaff also into it 7. Therefore the Holy Ghost hath kept it hidden almost till the last Hour before the Evening wherein his Thousand yeares are accomplished and then he must be let loose again for a little season as is to be read in the Revelat. ch 20. v. 3. After that Summer cometh the Last Winter but the Sun will shine warm yet before that Time 8. But being he is now loose from the chains of Darknesse God causeth Lights to be set up every where in this world whereby Men might learn to know him and his feats and wiles and beware of him 9. Whether he be loose or no I offer it to every one to Consider view but the world in the clear Light and thou wilt find that at present the four new Sonnes which the Devill generated when he was thrust out of Heaven do govern the world viz. 1. Pride 2. Covetousnesse 3. Envy 4. Wrath These rule the world at present and are the Devills Heart his animated or soulish spirit 10. Therefore view the world very well and then thou wilt find that it fully qualifieth uniteth and Co-worketh with these four new Sonnes of the Devil Therefore men have cause to look circumspectly to themselves For this is the Time of which all the Prophets have prophesied and Christ in the Gospel saying Thinkest thou that the Sonne of Man will find any faith when he shall come again to Judge the world Luke 18. v. 8. 11. The world supposeth that it flourisheth now and standeth in its Flower because the clear Light hath moved over it But the spirit sheweth to me that it standeth in the midst or Center of Hell 12. For it forsaketh the Love and hangeth on Covetousnesse Extortion and Bribery there is no Mercy at all therein Every one cryeth out if I had but Money Those that are in Authority and power suâ—k the very Marrow from the Bones of Men of low Degree and Rank and feed upon the sweat of their Browes Briefly there is nothing else but Lying Cozening robbing and murthering and so may very justly be called the Devils Nest and dwelling House 13. The Holy Light is now adayes accounted a meer History and bare knowledge and that the spirit will not work therein and yet they suppose that is Faith which they professe with their Mouthes 14. O thou blind and foolish world full of Devils It is not Faith to know that Christ dyed for thee and hath shed his Blood for thee that thou mightest be saved This in thee is but a meer History and knowledge
of the fruit qualifieth or uniteth with the word Therefore thy Hope standeth in God For the Astrall Birth or Geniture standeth in Love and Wrath and that in this time it cannot prevent in regard of the outermost Birth or Geniture in the Flesh which standeth in Death 43. For the dead or Mortal Flesh hath encompassed the Astrall Birth and Mans Flesh is a dead Carkasse whilest it iâ— yet in the Mothers body or womb and is encompassed with Hell and Gods wrath 44. But now the Astrall Birth generateth the animated soulish Birth viz. the Third which standeth in the word 〈◊〉 the incorporated or compacted word lyeth hiddeâ— in iâ—s Heaven The Sulphur to he production of the Soul is the first Principle in the eternall will-spirit and cometh to Life in the third Principle and so liveth between love and wrath and hangeth to born 45. But now being thou hast thy Reason and art not like the Apple on the Tree but art Created an Angel and the similitude or Image of God instead of the Expulsed Devils and knowest how thou canst with thy Astrall Birth in the part of Love qualifie or unite with the Word of God therefore thou canst in the Center in the Word set or put thy animated or soulish Birth into Heaven and thou canst with thy soul even with thy living Body in this Dead or Mortal palpability rule with God in Heaven 46. For the Word is in thy heart Deut. 30. 14. Rom. 10. 8. and qualifieth or uniteth with the Soul as if it were one Beeing and if thy Soul standeth in the Love then it also is one Beeing And thou mayst say that according to thy soul thou sittest in Heaven and livest and reignest with God Understand according to the spirit of the soul with the Image out of the animated or soulish fire 47. For the soul which apprehendeth the Word hath an open Gate in Heaven and can be prevented by nothing neither doth the Devill see the soul because it is not in his Country or Dominions 48. But being thy Astrall Birth standeth with the one part in the wrath and that the Flesh through the wrath standeth in Death thereupon the Devil in the part of the wrath seeth continually even into thy Heart and if thou lets him have any Room or place there then he teareth that part of the Astrall Birth which standeth in the Love out from the word 49. And then thy Heart is a dark Valley And if thou dost not Labour and work quickly again to the Birth of the Light then he kindleth the wrath-fire therein and then shall thy soul be spewed out from the Word and then it qualifieth or uniteth with the wrath of God and so afterward thou art a Devil and not an Angel and canst not with thy animated or soulish Birth reach the Gates of Heaven 50. But if thou fightest and strivest with the Devill and keepest the Gate of Love in thy Astrall Birth and so departest from hence as to the Body then thy Soul remaineth in the Word quite hidden from the Devil and reiâ—neth with God even unto the Day of the Restitution of that which was Lost. 51. But if thou standest with thy Astrall Birth in the wrath when thou departest from hence as to the Body and thy Soul not comprehended in the word then thou canst never reach the Gates of Heaven but into what thou hast sown thy seed that is thy Soul in that very Part shall thy Body also arise The Gate of the Power 52. But that Soul and Body shall come together again at the Day of the Resurrection thou mayst perceive so much here by the Earth For the Creator said Let the Earth bring forth Grasse and Herbs and Trees bearing Fruit each according to its Kind And then each sprung up according to its kind and grew and as before the time of the wrath it had a Heavenly Body so it got now an Earthly one answerable to its Mother 53. But it is to be considered how all was comprised in the word at the great tumult and uproar of the Devill so that all sprung up in its own Being according to its Power vertue and kind as if it had never been destroyed or altered at all 54. Now if it were thus at that Time when there was such murthering and robbing sure it will be much more so at the Last Judgment Day when the Earth shall be separated in the kindled wrath-fire and shall be living again or revived then surely it will be comprehended in the Word of Love as it hath in the same Word here generated its Fruit of Grasse Herbs and Trees as also all manner of mineral Oras of Silver and of Gold 55. But being the Astrall Birth of the Earth standeth in the Love and the outward in Death therefore will each remain in its seat and so Life and Death will sever themselves 56. And where now would the Soul of Man rather be at the day of Regeneration then with its Father that is †in the Body which hath Generated it 57. But being the Soul all the while the Body had been in Death remained hidden in the Word and being the same Word also holdeth the Earth in the Astral birth in the Love therefore it qualifieth mixeth or uniteth through the Word all the time of its hiddennesse and secreâ—ie also with its Mother the Body according or as to the Astral Birth or Geniture in the Earth and so Body and Soul in the Word were never separated one from another but live joyntly and equally together in God 58. And though indeed the Bestial Body must putrifie and Rot yet its power and vertue liveth and in the mean while there grow out of its power in its Mother fair beautiful Roses Blossoms and Flowers and though it were quite burnt up and Consumed in the Fire yet its power and vertue standeth in the four Elements in the Word and the Soul qualifieth mixeth or uniteth therewith for the Soul is in Heaven and the same Heaven is every where even in the midst or center of the Earth 59. O Dear Man view thy self for a vvhile in this Looking-Glasse thou wilt find it more largely to be read of concerning the Creation of Man this I set down here for this very cause that thou mightest the better understand the power of Creation and that thou mightest the better conceive and fit thy Self for this Spirit and so learn to understand its Language The open Gate of the Earth Now it might be Asked From or Out of what matter or power and Vertue then did the Grasse Herbs and Trees spring forth what manner of substance or condition or Constitution hath this kind of Creature Answer 60. The simple saith God made All things out of Nothing but He knoweth not That God neither doth he know what He is for when he beholdeth the Earth together with the Deep above the Earth he thinketh verily all this is not God or else he
thinketh God is not there He alwaies Imagineth with himself that God dwelleth onely above the Azure Heaven of the Stars and ruleth as it were with some Spirit which goeth forth from him into this world and that his Body is not present here upon the Earth nor in the Earth 61. And just such Opinions and Tenents I have read also in the Books and Writings of Doctors der Doctoren and there are also very many Opinions Disputations and Controversies arisen about this very thing among the Learned 62. But seeing God openeth to me the Gate of his Being in his great Love and remembreth the Covenant which he hath with Man therefore I will faithfully and earnestly according to my Gifts unshut and set wide Open All the Gates of God so far as God will give me leave 63. It is not so to be understood as that I am sufficient enough in these things but only so far as I am able to comprehend 64. For the Being of God is like a Wheel wherein many wheeles are made one in another upward downward crosse-ways and yet continually turn all of them together 65. Which indeed when a man beholdeth the wheel he highly marvaileth at it and cannot at once in its turning learn to conceive and apprehend it but the more he beholdeth the wheel the more he learneth its Form or frame and the more he learneth the greater Longing he hath to the Wheel for he continually seeth somewhat that is more and more wonderfull so that a man can neither behold it or learn it Enough 66. Thus I also what I do not enough describe in one place concerning this Great Mystery that you will find in another place and what I cannot describe in this book in regard of the Largenesse of the Mystery and my Incapacity that you will find in the other following 67. For this Book is the first sprouting or vegetation of this Twigg which springeth or groweth Green in its Mother and is as a Child which is learning to go and is not able to run a Pace at the First 68. For though the Spirit seeth the Wheel and would fain comprehend its form or frame in every Place yet it cannot do it exactly enough because of the turning of the wheel But when it cometh about again so that the spirit can see the first apprehended or conceived form again then continually it learneth more and more and alwaies delighteth and loveth the wheel and longeth after it still more and more Now Observe 69. The Earth hath just such qualities and qualifying or fountain spirits as the Deep above the Earth or as Heaven hath and all of them together belong to one only Body and the whole or universal God is that one onely Body but that thou dost not wholly and fully see and know him Sins are the cause with and by which thou in this great Divine Body Lyest shut up in the dead or mâ—â—tal Flesh and the power or vertue of the Deitie is hidden from thee even as the marrow in the Bones is hidden from the Flesh. 70. But if thou in the spirit breakest through the Death of tâ—e Flesh then thou seest the hidden God For as the Marrow in the Bones penetrateth presseth or breaketh thorough and giveth vertue power and strength to the Flesh and yet the Flesh cannot comprehend or apprehend the Marrow but onely the power and vertue thereof no more canst thou see the hidden Deity in thy Flesh but thou receivest its power and understandest therein that God dwelleth in thee 71. For the dead or mortal Flesh belongeth not to the Birth of life as that it can receive or conceive the life of the Light as a propriety but the life of the Light in God riseth up in the dead or mortal Flesh and generateth to it self from or out of the dead or mortal Flesh another heavenly and Living Body which knoweth and understandeth the Light 72. For this Body is but a Shell from which the new Body groweth The new Body groweth out of the heavenly substantiality in the Word out of the Flesh and Blood of Christ out of the Mystery of the Old Body As it is with a Grain of wheat in the Earth The Husk or shell shall not rise and be living again no more then it doth in the wheat but will remain forever in Death and in Hell 73. Therefore Man carrieth about with him here upon Earth in his Body the Devil 's Eternall Dwelling house O thou fair excellent Goddesse mayst thou not well Prance and Trick thy self therein and in the mean while invite the Devill into the new Birth for a Guest will it not profit thee very much take heed thou dost not Generate a New Devill who will remain in his own House 74. Behold the Mystery of the Earth As that Generateth or bringeth forth so must thou Generate or bring forth The Earth is not that Body which groweth or sprouteth forth but is the Mother of that Body As also thy Flesh is not the spirit but the Flesh is the Mother of the Spirit 75. But now in Both of them viz. in the Earth and in thy Flesh there is the Light of the clear Deity hidden and it breaketh thorough and generateth to it self a Body according to the kind of each Body for Man according to his Body and for the Earth according to its Body for as the Mother is so also is the child 76. Mans Child is the Soul which is generated out of the Astral Birth from or out of the Flesh and the Earths child is the Grasse the Herbs the Trees Silver Gold and all mineral Oars Now thou Askest How then shall I do that I may understand somewhat concerning the Birth or Geniture of the Earth Answer 77. Behold the Birth of the Earth standeth in its Birth or Geniture as the whole Deitie doth and there is no difference at all but onely as to the corruption in the wrath wherein comprehensibility or palpability standeth that only is the difference or distinction and is the Death between God and the Earth 78. Thou must know that all the seven spirits of God are in the Earth and Generate as they do in Heaven For the Earth is in God and God never Dyed but the outermost Birth or Geniture is dead in which the wrath resteth and is reserved for King Lucifer to be a House of Death and of Darknesse and to be an eternal Prison or Dungeon Of the seven Spirits of God and of their operation in the Earth 79. The First is the astringent Spirit and that contracteth or draweth together in the Astral Birth of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits a Masse or Lump in the Earth through the kindling of the superiour Birth or Geniture above the Earth and dryeth that up with its sharp coldnesse just as it contracteth or draweth the water together and maketh Ice thereof so it also contracteth or draweth together the water in the Earth and maketh thereof a dry
and bear Heavenly fruits again 26. But the death of the Earth and the wrath therein should be Lord Lucifers eternal House after the accomplishing of the new Birth or Geniture in the mean while Lord Lucifer should lie captive in the Darknesse in the Deep above the Earth and there he is now and may very shortly expect his Portion 27. And that this New Birth or Geniture might be accomplished whether the Devil will or no the Creator hath therefore in the Body of this world generated himself as it were creaturely in his qualifying or fountain spirits and all the Stars are nothing else but Gods powers and the whole Body of this world consisteth in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits 28. But that there are so many Stars of so manifold different effects and operations it is from the Infinitenesse which is in the efficiency of the seaven spirits of God in one another which generate themselves infinitely 29. But that the Birth or the Bodys of the Starrs doe not change or alter in their seat but do as they did from eternitie it signifyeth that there shall be a constant continued Birth or Geniture whereby the benumm'd Body of the Earth should continually and constantly in one uniform operation which yet standeth in the infinitenesse be kindled againe and generate it selfe a new and so also should the House of darknesse of the Deep above the Earth whereby the new Body might continually and constantly be generated out of Death till time should be accomplished and the whole new borne Body Now thou wilt object and say Then sure the Starrs are God and they must be honoured and worshipp'd as God 30. The wise Heathen also came to this who indeed in their sharp or acute understandings far excelled our Philosophers but the right Door of knowledge hath remained yet hidden to them 13. Behold the Starrs are plainly incorporated or compacted out of or from God but thou must understand the difference between them for they are not the Heart and the meek pure Deitie which man is to honour and worship as God But they are the innermost and sharpest Birth or Geniture wherein all things stand in wrestling and fighting wherein the Heart of God alwaies generateth it self the Holy Ghost continually riseth up from the rising of the Life 32. But the sharp Birth or Geniture of the Starrs cannot apprehend the Heart of God again nor the Holy Ghost but the Light of God which riseth up in the anxiety together with the moving of the Holy Ghost remaineth free to it self as the Heart and ruleth in the mid'st or center of the Closure of the hidden Heaven which is from â—r out of the Water of Life 33. For from the Heaven the Starrs have their first kindling and are onely as an instrument which God useth to the Birth or Geniture It is Just such a Birth as is in Man the Body is even the Father of the soule and when the Body standeth in the anguishing Birth or Geniture of God as the Starrs doe and not in the fierce hellish Birth then the soul of Man qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the pure Deitie as a Member in or of his Body 35. Thus also is the Heart or Light of God alwaies generated in the Body of this world and that generated Heart is one Heart with the eternal beginning lesse infinite Heart of God which is in and above all Heavens 36. It is not only generated in and from the Starrs but in the whole Body of this world but the Starrs alwaies kindle the Body of this World that the Birth or Geniture may subsist every where But here thou must well observe this 37. The light or the Heart of God taketh not its original barely from the wild rough Starrs where indeed Love and wrath are one in another but out of or from the Seat where the meek water of Life is continually generated 38. For that water at or in the kindling of the wrath was not apprehended by Death but subsisteth from eternity to eternity and reacheth to all the Ends and Parts of or in this world and is the water of Life which breaketh through Death out of which the new Body of God in this world is built 39. But it is in the Stars as well as in all Ends corners and places but not in any place comprehensible or palpable but filleth or replenisheth all alike at once It is also in the Body of Man and he that thirsteth after this water and drinketh thereof in him the light of life kindleth it self which is the heart of God and there presently springeth forth the Holy Ghost Now thou Askest How then do the Stars subsist in Love and Wrath Answer 40. Behold the Stars are risen or proceeded out of the Kindled House of Gods wrath as the mobility or stirring of a Child in the Mothers Body or Womb in Three Months But now they have attained their kindling from the eternal benummed water of Life for that water in Nature was never dead 41. But when God moved himself in the Body of this world then on the third Day the anxiety in the birth of this world rubbed it self from whence the fire-flash existed and the light of the Stars kindled it self in the water of Life 42. For till the third Day from the time of the kindling of Gods wrath in this world Nature in the anxiety was a dark valley and stood in Death but on the third Day the life brake through Death and the New Birth began 43. For so long and not an hour longer the new born King and Grand Prince of this world JESUS CHRIST rested in Death and hath born or generated the first three Dayes of the Creation of Nature and that very Time in Death to Light again that this time might again be one Time with the Eternal Time and that no Day of Death might be between and that the Eternal Love and the new born or Regenerated Love out of the new Body of Nature might be one Eternal Love and that there might be no difference between the eternal Love and the new-born or regenerated Love but that the new-born Love might reach into the Being or Substance which was from Eternity and it self also be in Eternity 44. Thus the new-born Love which rose out of the water of Life in the light in the Stars and in the whole Body of this world is wholly bound and united with the eternal beginning lesse infinite Love so that they are one Heart and one Spirit which supporteth and preserveth all 45. In this kindling of the Light in the Stars and Elements the Birth of Nature did not thereupon wholly transmute or change it self into the holy Meeknesse as it was before the Time of the wrath so that the Birth of Nature is now altogether holy and pure No but it standeth in its sharpest austerest and most anxious Birth wherein the wrath of God uncessantly springeth up like hellish-Fire 46. For
perceive by the curious Ornament of the budding blossoming Earth And the Creator hath therefore rebuilt and revived againe the old kindled Body into so many various powers that through this Old Life in the wrath such a new life might generate it self therein through the closure of Heaven that that New Life might have all the powers operations that ever the old had before the times of wrath that it might qualifie mixe or unite with the pure Deitie distinct from this world and that it might be One holy God together with the Deitie without distinct from this World 30. Also the New Birth blossom'd in the time of the Creation when Man had not spoiled or corrupted it but by him Nature was still more corrupted and so God cursed the Ground But being Man took hold of the fruit of the old Body thereupon the fruit of the new Body was hidden in its Heaven and Man must now behold it with the new Body and cannot partake of it with the natural Body 31. Of which I have a great longing to eate but I cannot reach to it for Heaven is the closure or Firmament between the old and new Body And therefore I must let it alone till I come into the other Life and must give my bestial Body Mother Eve's Wrath-Apples to Eate Concerning The kindling of the Heart or Life of this World 32. When God had brought the Body of this world in two Dayes into a right forme and had made the Heaven for a Partition betweene the Love the Wrath then on the Third Day the Love pressed through the Heaven and through the wrath and then instantly the old Body in Death stirr'd and moved it selfe to the Birth or Geniture 33. Eor the Love is hot and that kindled the fire-source or quality and that rubb'd it selfe in the astringent and cold quality of benumm'd Death till the astringent qualitie was heated on the third Day whereby the mobilitie or the astringent Earth became moveable 54. For all stood in the fire-crak till the fourth Day and then the Light of the Sun kindled it self for the whole Body stood in anguish or Paine in the Birth as a woman in Travell 35. The Astringent qualitie was the encompasser or incloser of the life in it now the Heat was anxious which was kindled through the Love of God and did thrust forth the astringent qualitie as a dead Body but the Heat reteined its seat in the mid'st or center of the Body and so presâ—'d through 36 But when the Light of the Sun kindled it self then the nex Circle or Orb above the Sun stood in the fire-crak for the Sun or the Light was shining in the Water and the bitternesse ascended also in the fire-crack out of the water But the light made very great haste after it and laid hold on the fire crak and there it remained standing as a Captive and became corporeal 37. In this Revolution the Planet Mars came to be whose power standeth in the Bitter fire-crak for it is a Tyrant Rager Raver and Stomer like a fire-crak moreover it is Hot and a poisonous venomous enemie of Nature through whose rising up and Birth or Geniture in the Earth all manner of Poisonous Venomous evill Wormes and Vermine are come to be 38. Buâ— being the Heat in the middle point or center of the Body was so Mighty Great thereupon it extended it self so very largely and opened the Chamber of Death so wide before its kindling of the Light that it the SUN is the Greatest Star 39. But assoon as the Light kindled it self in the heat so instantly was that Hot place caught in the Light and then the Body of the Sun could grow no bigger For the light mitigated the Heat and so the Body of the Sun remained there standing in the mid'st or center as a Heart for the Light is the Heart of Nature not the Heat But here thou must observe exactly 40. As far as the middle point or center hath kindled it selfe Just so bigg is the Sun for the Sun is nothing else but a kindled poinâ— in the Body of Nature 41. Thou must not thinke that there is any oother power or vertue in it or belonging to it then there is in the whole Deep of the Body every where all over 42. For should the Love of God through its Heaven kindle the whole body of this world through the Heate it would be every where all over as Light as it is now in the Sun 43. And now if the great Heat were taken away from the Sun then it would be One Light with God but seeing that cannot bee in this time therefore it remaineth a King and Regent in the old corrupted and kindled Body of Nature and the clear Deitie remaineth hidden in the meek Heaven 44. But the light of the meeknesse of the Sun qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the pure Deitie but the Heat cannot comprehend the light and therefore also the place of the Sun remaineth in the Body of Gods wrath and thou must not worship pray to or honour the Sun as God for its place or Body cannot apprehend the water of Life because of its Fiercenesse The Highest ground of the SUN and of ALL the PLANETS 45. And here I shall have adversaries enough who will be ready to censure mee for they will not have regard to consider the Spirit but will mind their old Rules and say Astrologers understand it better who have written of such matters and they will look On this Great open Gate as a Cow looks on a new Barn Doare 46. Deare Reader I understand the Astrologers meanings and sayings full well and I have perused their writings also and taken notice how they describe the course of the Sun and Stars neither do I despise it but hold that for the most part to be good and right 47. But that I write otherwise then they in some things I do it not out of self will or conceipt and supposition doubting whteher it be so or no I dare not make any doubt herein neither can any man instruct mee herein 48. I have not my knowledge by Study indeed I have read the order and Position of the Seaven Planets in the Books of Astrologers and find them to be very right but the Root how they came to be from what they are proceeded I cannot learne it from any Man for they know it not neither was I present when God created them 49. But being the Doores of the Deep and the Gates of wrath and the Chambers of Death also are set open in my spirit through the Love of God the spirit therefore must needs look thorough them 50. And accordingly I find that the Birth or Geniture of Nature standeth to this Day and generateth it selfe just fo as it first took its beginning and whatsoever riseth up in this world whether Men Beasts Trees Herbs Grasse Minerall Oars or what it will all riseth up in such a
it selfe in a Body for these all are one kind of Birth or Geniture 90. He that doth not know nor understand this he doth not at all know the Birth of the Stars for all concrete together is one Body Every Creature when life is once generated in it then afterwards its Life standeth or subsisteth in its Body as the Birth or Geniture of the natural Body of this world doth for every Life must be generated according to the right Law or Ordinance of the Deitie as the Deitie generateth it self continually 91. If this be rightly considered which indeed cannot be done without a special illumination of the holy God then first of all a Man findeth the astringent cold and austere Birth or Geniture which is the cause of the Corporeal Nature or of the imaging fashioning or framing of a thing 92. Now if it were not for this severe and cold sharp contracting compacting power there would be no natural or corporeall being neither could the Birth or Geniture of God subsist and all would be insearchable 93. But in this hard severe and cold power standeth the corporeall being or the Body wherein the spirit of life is generated and out of that same spirit the light and understanding is generated whereby then the senses and Tryal or Probation of all powers doth exist 94. For when the Light is generated it is generated in the midst or Center of the Body as a Heart or spirit out of all powers and there it standeth and remaineth in the place where it had its beginning and goeth forth thorough all the powers 97. For as it is generated out of all powers and hath the fountain of all powers so with its shining lustre also it bringeth the Fountain of all powers into each power from whence then existeth the tast and smell also seeing feeling and hearing as also Reason and understanding 96. Now as the originall and beginning of the life in a Creature is so is the first Regeneration of the Nature of the new Life in the corrupted Body of this world And he that denyeth it he hath not the true understanding nor any knowledge of Nature and so his knowledge is not generated in God but he is a Mocker of God I 97. For first behold thou canst not deny it that the Life in a creature existeth in the Heate of the Heart and in that Life also standeth the Light of the animated or soulish Birth or Geniture 98. Now the Heart signifyeth the Sun which is the beginning of Life in this outward Body of this world and now thou canst not say that the animated or soulish Birth goeth away or departeth from the Heart whil'st the Body standeth in the mobilitie or Life 99. No more doth the Sun go away or depart from its seat but retaines and keeps its own place as a Heart to it selfe and shineth forth as a Light or as a spirit of the whole Body 100. For its Birth also hath a beginning out of all powers and therefore with its Light and Heate it is againe one spirit and Heart in the whole Body of this world II. 101. And secondly thou canst not deny neither but that the Gall in a Creature is not existed from the Heart and yet is the mobilitie or stirring of the Heart by a Vein that goeth from the Gall to the Heart from whence the Heate existeth But it hath its first original from the flash of Life and so when the life generateth it selfe in the Heart and the Light riseth up in the water then the fire-crack goeth before which riseth up out of the anxietie of the water in the Heate 102. For when heat is so anxious in the cold in the astringent qualitie that the Light kindleth it selfe through the hidden Heaven of the hart in the corporeity then the anxious Death in the wrath of God is terifyed and departeth as a crack or flash from the Light and climeth upward very terribly trembling and timorously the Light of the Heart hastneth after it and affecteth or possesseth it and then it remaineth sitting still 103. And this is signifyeth the Planet Mars for thus it is become a Being its own quality is nothing else but a Poisonous Venomous bitter fire-crack which is risen up from the Place of the Sun 104. But now it is alwaies a kindler of the Sun just as the Gall of the Heart whence the Heate both in the Sun and in the Heart existeth and whence the Life taketh its Original in all things III. 105. Thirdly thou canst not deny but that the Braine in the Head in a Creature is the power of the Heart for from the Heart all powers rise up into the Brayne from whence in the Brayne the senses of the Heart exist The Brayn in the Head taketh its original from the power of the Heart Observe 106. After the fire-crack of the Gall or Mars was departed from the Light of Life then the power pressed out of the Heart of Life after it even into the Head into the austere quality and when the power can rise up no higher then it is stayed or captivated by the austere Birth and is dryed up by the cold 107. Now here it stayeth and qualifieth mixeth or uniteth with the spirit of life in the Heart and is a Royal seate of the spirit of the Heart for thus far the spirit of the Heart's power presseth forth and there is it approved 108. For the Brayne sitteth in the severe Birth or Geniture and in its own Body it is the meek power of the Heart and signifieth the new Birth which is new regenerated in the midst or center of the austerenesse of Death and wrath in its Heaven and presseth forth through Death into Life 109. For there the spirit or the Thoughts become a whole creaturely Person againe through the affecting or proving of all powers which in Man I call the animated or Soulish Birth 110. For when the new spirit in the Braine is well settled then it goeth to its Mother againe into the Heart and then it standeth as a perfect spirit or will or as a new born Person which in Man is called the Soul 111. Now behold as the Braine in Man is a Being and product so is the Planet Jupiter also a being and product for it hath his original from the rising up of Life from the power which is risen up out of the water of Life out of the Place of the Sun through the Light 112. And that power is risen up so high that it is caught or captivated againe in or by the austere hard and cold power and there it remaineth at a stand and by the first Revolution or going forth is become corporeal and became exsiceated or dried by the austere and cold power 113. And is rightly the Braine in the corporeall Government of this World from whence the senses and Reason are generated also all Meeknesse and wisdom in Naturall things but the right and holy spirit in Man
is generated in the hidden Heaven in the water of Life 114. The outward Jupiter is onely the Meeknesse and understanding in the outward comprehensibilitie or palpable things but the holy fountain or well-spring is incomprehensible and unsearchable or unfathomable to outward Reason For the Astral Birthor Geniture standeth with the Roote in the holy Heaven and with the Corporeity in the wrath The Six and Twentieth Chapter Of the Planet Saturnus 1. SAturn that cold sharp austere and astringent Regent takes its beginning and Original not from the Sun for it hath in its Power the chamber of Death and is a dryer up of all powers from whence Corporeity existeth 2. For as the Sun is the Heart of the Life and an original of all spirits in the Body of this world so Saturn is a beginner of all corporeity and comprehensibilitie or palpability and in the power of these two Planets standeth the whole Body of this world and there cannot be any Creature or imaging nor any mobilitie without the power of these two in the natural Body of this world 3. But Saturnes original is the earnest astringent and austere anxietie of the whole Body of this world for as in the time of the kindling of the wrath the Light in the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world was extinct which Birth or Geniture is the Nature or comprehensibilitie or the rising up of the Birth of all qualifying or fountain spirits so also the astringent qualitie stood in its sharpnesse and severest Birth or Geniture and attracted or contracted most strongly and eagerly the whole work or effect of the qualifying or fountain spirits 4. From whence then the Earth and Stones came to be and were very rightly the House of Death or the enclosing or shutting up of the Life wherein King Lucifer was captivated 5. But when on the first day the Light somwhat brake forth again through the word or Heart of God in the Root of the Nature or Body of this world as a choosing or appropriating of the Day or beginning of the mobilitie of Life then the severe and astringent Birth or Geniture obtained againe a glimpse or rising up of the life in the Birth or Geniture 6. And from that time it stood as it were in an anxious Death till after the third Day when the Love of God press'd through the Heaven of the Partition and kindled the Light of the Sun 7. But being the Heart or power of the Sun could not open the anxious Birth or qualitie of fiercenesse and wrath and temper the same especially aloft in that height above Jupiter thereupon that whole circumferenâ—e or sphere stood in a Horrible anxietie just as a woman in travel and yet could not awaken or raise the Heat because of the horrible coldnesse and astringency 8. But being the mobilitie neverthelesse was risen up through the power of the hidden Heaven therefore nature could not rest but was in anguish to the Birth and generated out of or from the Spirit of sharpnesse an astringent cold and austere Sun or Starre which is Saturne 9. For the Spirit of Heat could not kindle it selfe from whence the Light existeth and out of or from the Light through the water the Love and meeknesse exist but it was a Birth or Geniture of an austere cold and severe fiercenesse which is a dryer spoyler and enemie of meeknesse which in the Creatures generateth the Hard Bones 10. But Saturne was not bound to its place as the Sun is for it is not a Corporeal place or space in the roome of the Deepe but Saturne is a sonne which is born or generated out of the Chamber of Death out of the kindled hard and cold anxietie and is only one of the House-hold or family in that space or roome in which it hath its Course and Revolution For it hath its corporeall proprietie to it selfe as a Child when it is born or generated from the Mother Saturne indeed was Created together with the wheele when the FIAT Created the wheele but it doth not goe forth or proceed from Sol. 11. But why it did rise up thus from God out of the austere Birth and what its Office is I will mention hereafter concerning the driving about or revolutions of the Planets 12. But its height or distance cannot be exactly known But I am fully perswaded that it is in the midst in the deepe between Jupiter and the general Sphere of the fixed Stars or constellations for it is the Heart of the Corporeity in Nature 13. For as the Sun is the Heart of Life and a cause of the spirits of Nature so Saturne is the Heart and the cause of all Bodies Imagings formings and framings in the Earth and upon the Earth as also in the whole Body of this world 14. And as in Man the Skull is a contayner or incloser of the Brayne wherein the Thoughts are generated So the Saturnine power is an environer dryer and contayner of all Corporeity and comprehensibilitie or Palpability 15. And as the Planet Jupiter which is an unshutter and Generator of meeknesse and is betweene the fierce Mars and the austere Saturne and generateth the Meeknesse and wisdom in the Creatures so the Life and the Senses of all Creatures are genenerated between these two qualities especially the new Body of this world as also the new Man of which thou wilt finde more concerning the description of Man Of the Planet Venus 16. Venus that gracious amiable and blessed Planet or the kindler of Love in Nature hath its original and descent or proceeding from the Springing up of the Sun also but its condition qualitie being and proceeding or descent is thus Here observe this rightly and exactly 17. When the Love of God kindled the place of the Sun or the SUN then there sprung up first out of the anxietie out of the Place of the Sun out of the seaven qualifying or fountain spirits of Nature the terrible fierce bitter fire-crak whose Birth and principal or first original is the kindled bitter wrath of God in the astringent qualitie through the water 18. And that sprung up first in the kindling of the Sun out of the Chamber of Death and was an awakener or rouser of Death and a beginner of life and climed up aloft very fiercely and trembling till the Light of the Sun layd hold on it and affected or possessed it and there it was caught or captivated by the meeknesse of the Light and stayed from which the Planet Mars came to be 19. After that fire-crack the power of the light which at the beginning had generated it selfe out of the unctuositie or fatnesse of the water behind the fire crack instantly shot forth after it like a mighty potencie or power and took the fierce Fire-crack captive and highly elevated it selfe aloft beyond it as a Prince and subduer of the fiercenesse from whence now existed the sensibilitie of Nature or the Planet Jupiter The Gate