with the Stars and Elements as an Extern Birth out of the Mother of all Essences all which proceeded out of the Eternal Beginning and took a Temporal Beginning for here we are to consider that the Eternal Pregnatress moved it self and enkindled its own Form or Similitude where then the one became Corporeal in the other but afterward God created the Earth which we are thus to consider of c. 33. The first desire to Nature impresseth it self and introduceth it self with the Impression into three Forms viz. into Sulphur Mercury and Sal and in the Impression all become rising and moving which is not in the Still Nothing and so forceth it self even into the highest Anguish even unto the Salnitral Flagrat where then is the Original of the Fire Thus the Source whirleth in it self as a boyling of water upon the fire for the Austere Desire is attractive and the fiery is expulsive which is a Sulphur and the Astringent Attraction is a wrathful Sting or Compunction viz. a Contrition and yet it is held by the Austereness that it cannot move away whereupon it is painful and causeth pain as if it were wheeling or seething which yet is only Spirit without Essence which cometh to pass in Mercury and is Mercury his own form 34. And there is the Separation of two Wills viz. one remaineth and is the very anxious Essence being it originally ariseth from the Desire the other which ariseth out of the Lubet of the Liberty retireth back again into it self into the Liberty and yet there is no parting sundering or dividing from one another but thus it goeth one with another all along through the enkindling of the fire through the Salnitral Flagrat where with the enkindling of the fire the death is effected in the wrath of the fire where the Source dyeth and yet there is no death but a likeness of death and yet the real eternal and temporal Death is in that wise even there the Liberty apprehendeth it self in it self and the Death or Flagrat falleth down into the Liberty as impotent and freely resigns it self and the Spirit viz. the Source understand the very sharp fiery anxious Source becomes material and retaineth only an essential working like to an impotent desire and in the enkindling of the fire in the Salnitral Flagrat each Property severeth it self in it self and the whole Materia is particularized viz. to metals stones and earth 35. The highest Metal as Gold ariseth from the Liberty which is comprized all along in the Flagrat in the Astringent Impressure and it is not free from the Materia of the Rest for all is comprized or enwrapt up together but being the Liberty with the Sul or Lights property is comprized or comprehended therein also thereupon Sul is expulsive to the manifestation of it self as 't is the property of the Liberty so to be Hence it comes that metals grow and not the gross hard stones which are too hard comprized in the Impression out of the wrathful Essentiality and have too little Sul in them 36. But as concerning the precious Stones with their radiant Lustre and great Vertue the same have their Original in the flash of the Fire where Life and Death Separate as when one part by reason of the dark Essentiality descends and the other by reason of the Liberty ascends and yet all is brought into Essence in the Flagrat so that the same flash or glance becomes also material in the Flagrat and therefore they are hard and of a blinking glance like an Eye for so also is the original of the Eye or Sight in the Womb when the Life enkindleth all according to the Right of Eternity 37. And therefore they are of so great Power Efficacy and Vertue in that they are so nigh to the Deity and bear the incorporated Names of the divine Power in them as also Gold is nigh unto the divine Essentiality or heavenly Corporality if man could open or disclose the dead Body and reduce it to a flying moving Spirit which only can be effected through the Divine Motion then it should be seen what it could be which no Reason beleeveth or understandeth without divine Sight or Vision 38. Further we are also to consider of the other Metals and Minerals which in like manner do thus take their Original but in the Salnitral Flagrat each property is severed as we see that the property of the Fire and Light is divers and all from the first Impression where before the Impression the Lubet and Desire of the Liberty stand mutually in each other as a Chaos a Complexion of great Wonders where all Colours Powers and Vertues are contained in this only CHAOS or Wonder-Eye which CHAOS is God himself viz. the Being of all Beings who thus manifesteth himself in Particular Beings with the Eyes of Eternity each Materia is an Essence according to the Spirit whence it was generated and if it be enkindled in the Fire it yeeldeth likewise such a Light as the Spirit is in the Essence 39. And thus also we are to consider of the Metals what kind of Spirit each of them hath such a Glance and Lustre it yeeldeth and also such a Body it hath 40. As the mind acteth and moveth the thoughts and senses from the highest to the lowest and comprehends and commands by the thoughts from the highest to the lowest even so the Eternal Mind hath manifested it self from the highest Majesty even to the lowermost meanest or outermost thing viz. unto the greatest Darkness and this World with the Sun Stars and Elements and with every Creatural Being is nothing else but a Manifestation of the Eternity of the Eternal Will and Mind and as it was in the beginning so it still standeth in its Sude and Vegetation and so it still putteth forward to Light and Darkness to Evil and Good and all things consist in these first three Forms viz. in Sulphur Mercury and Sal as one degree orderly after another for so likewise are the Quires of the Spirits also of the Stars Trees Herbs and of all kinds whatsoever have been and are so also the inward Heavenly Quires with their distinction CHAP. IV. Of the Birth of the Stars and four Elements in the Metalline and Creatural Property 1. AS is before mentioned All Things proceed out of One only Mother and sever themselves into two Essences according to the Right of Eternity viz. into a Mortal and an Immortal into Life and Death into Spirit and Body the Spirit is the Life and the Body is the Death viz. a House of the Spirit as the holy Trinity standeth in the Birth so also the extern Birth There is likewise Essence and Spirit in Heaven a figure whereof we see in this outward World where there are four Elements and yet there is but one only Element which severs it self into four Properties viz. into Fire Ayr Water and Earth as is above mentioned 2. For so
the Expressed Word must have a Tincturation from the outward expressed Love and Light unless the Will-spirit of the Soul doth wholly re-enter into the inward hidden Man and be again transmuted and then the Cure may be again introduced into the outward Man being the through-shining Love of God in the Light which is exceeding precious 71. But now this Herb is rarely to be found upon the Earth for men do eat only of the forbidden Tree therefore the Poyson of the Serpent doth so spring up in them in the Wrath of the eternal and external Nature so that they must also have an external Cure for their Serpents Poyson in the outward Mercury 72. It is indeed Possible for a man to live without sickness but he must bring the divine Tincturation from the inward Man through the outward which is very difficult to do in the World for the outward Man liveth amongst the thorns of Gods Wrath which gall and sting him on every side and blow up the Wrath of God so that it burneth in the outward Man and then the Tincturation of Gods Love may not continue there it is indeed there but not in the outward enkindled Abominations but it dwelleth in it self like as the Light dwelleth in the Darkness and the Darkness comprehends it not also knoweth nothing thereof but when the Light is manifest in the Darkness then is the Night changed into Day 73. Thus it is likewise with Man of what Light Man liveth of that also cometh his Cure if he liveth in the outward World then the outward Goodness and Love viz. the outward Jupiter and Venus with the Sun must be his Cure or he remaineth in the Angry Mars and in the poysonful Mercury in the earthly Moon captived in the Impression of Saturn viz. in the earthly Sulphur which however is made manifest and awakened in the outward Man by Adam for whose sake the outward Man must dye putrifie and so enter again into the Nothing viz. into the End or as I might better say and signifie it into the beginning of the Creation into the Essence out of which it went and departed with Adam CHAP. X. Of the inward and outward Cure of Man 1. LEt the Lover of God understand us aright We do not go upon an Historical Heathenish Conjecture but only and alone upon the Light of the outward Nature both Suns shine unto us Understand us aright and see how God hath Cured Man when the Poyson of the Serpent and Devil held him imprisoned in Death and how he yet still cureth the poor Soul captivated in Gods Anger the like Process also must the Physician keep in curing the outward body 2. The divine Light and Love was extinguished in Adam because he Imagined into the Serpents property viz. into Evil and Good so that the Poyson of Death began effectually to work in Mercury and the Source of Anger was inflamed in the eternal Mars and the dark Impression of the eternal Natures property took possession of him his body became Earth in the dark Impression in the Poyson of the enkindled Mercury and was an enmity against God he was utterly undone and there was no remedy for him by any Creature neither in Heaven nor in this World the wrathful Death captivated him in Soul and Body 3. Now how did God do to Cure him and Tincture him again did he take a strange thing thereunto No! He took the Likeness and cured him with that what was corrupted in him viz. with the divine Mercury and with the divine Venus and with the divine Jupiter understand in Man was the Expressed Word which I call the Eternal Mercury in Man for it the true ruling acting Life it was inspired or in-spoken into Mans Image which God created out of his Essence into an Image according to God as into a Creatural Image which was the Soul with the Property of all the Three Worlds viz. with the World of Light and Understanding which is God and with the Fire World which is the Eternal Nature of the Father of all Beings and with the Light Love-World which is Heavenly Corporality for in the Love-desire is the Essence viz. the Corporality 4. The Desire of Love is Spirit and is the Heart of God viz. the right divine Understanding In the Love-Essence Mercury is Gods Word and in the fiery Nature he is the Wrath of God the Original of all Mobility and Enmity also of Strength and Omnipotence the fiery Property maketh the Light viz. the Liberty desirous so that the Nothing is a Desire and this Desire is the Love of God which Adam did extinguish in him for he Imagined after Evil and God that is after Earthliness the Earthliness came forth into a Being both out of the Wrath and out of the Love-Being and that through Gods Motion that the Wonders of the Abyss and Byss might be made manifest that Good and Evil might be made known and manifest and this Adam being the Image of God should not do for God had created him unto his Image He should have Tinctured the Fire-World and outward World with the Word of Love that so none of them should be manifest in him like as the day holdeth the night avalled in it self 5. But by false Imagination he hath awakened and manifested the dark and poysonful Mercurial Fire-World in him so that his bodily Essence of the dark Impression is fallen unto the evil Part in the poysonful Mercurial Property and the Soul is become manifest in the Eternal Nature in the Fathers Fire-property viz. in the poysonful hateful Mercury according to which God calleth himself an angry zealous God and a consuming fire 6. Now to help and restore this again viz. the Image of God God must take the right Cure and even the same which Man was in his innocency But how did he effect it Behold O Man behold and see open thy Understanding thou art called 7. He introduced the holy Mercury in the Love-flame viz. in the fiery Love with the Desire of the divine Essentiality or after the divine Essentiality which Desire maketh divine Corporality in it self again into the Expressed Word viz. into the Mercurial Fire-Soul understand into the Souls Essence in the Womb of Mary and became again that same Image of God He Tinctured the Poyson viz. the Wrath of the Father of all Essences with the Love-fire He took only even that same Mercury which he had breathed into Adam for an Image and formed into a Creature He took only that same property yet not in the Fires property but in the burning Love He did with the Love introduce again the Light of the Eternal Sun into the humane property that he might Tincture the Wrath of the enkindled Mercury in the humane property and inflame it with Love that the humane Jupiter viz. the divine Understanding might again appear and be manifest 8. Ye Physicians if ye here understand nothing then ye are captivated in the Poyson of
and the Rain-bow upon which Christ sitteth in judgment in the expressed Mercury 71. The nature of this splendor ariseth out of the impression of Saturn the good Jupiter doth give himself forth to be seen in such a manner as God will change the World and transform it again into Paradise for this is the Understanding in the Expressed Word even as Christ hath made the foolish rude ignorant people truly wise and knowing in divine reall heavenly joviall understanding and knowledg 72. In the fourth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings which is the Mercurial in the wheel of the nature of life Christ made the deaf to hear the dumb to speak and cleansed the lepers from the poyson of Mercury All apoplexies the French or poisonful pox and sores do arise from the Saturnine water in Mercury which water is called Phlegma all which Christ healed in the Form or Signature of the young man and Virgin for the Eternal Virginity had espoused it self with the young man viz. with the humanity 73. This cometh to pass also in the Philosophick work the Artist will see how the Heaven severs it self from the Earth and how the Heaven doth again sink into the Earth and changeth the earth into a heavenly colour he wil see how Mercury purifieth the matter and how the purified colours will appear in Antimony in their property and how the Wonder proceedeth on 74. In the fifth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings Christ expelleth the Devils out of the Possessed and healed the deaf in this form and property 75. This likewise the Artist will see in the Philosophick work how Jupiter in Mercury will drive up a black twinkling fiery vapour out of the matter which sticketh on like foot for it is a hunger of the poyson in Mercury and is very rightly compared to the Devil for it is of his property 76. In the sixth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings viz. in the wheel of Life called Venus Christ loved his Brethren and Sisters according to the Humanity and washed his Disciples feet and loved them even to the deepest exinanition and gave his life into the wraths property even unto death for them and manifested himself among them that he was Christ and when they perceived that the King was come that should deprive self-will of its might and Dominion and destroy the Devils Kingdom then they cryed out and said We have no King but Caesar they took him in the dark night into their power bound him and brought him before their Councel mocked him whipped him and beat him stripped him of cloaths and hung him on the Crosse. 77. This Also the Artist will see very powerfully in the Philosophick Work for so soon as the dark fiery steam viz. the material Devil goeth from the matter then Virgin Venus appeareth in her virginity very glorious and beautiful for it betokeneth Christs Love who did so humble himself and manifested his Love in our Humanity then the Artist thinketh that he hath the philosophick Child that he hath now the fine Morsell but he danceth with the Jews who thought when as they had taken Christ Now we have him we will keep him well enough Thus thinketh he also it is finished and receiveth the Child and when he beholds it in the Tryall then he hath Venus a Woman and not the Virgin with the Tincture of the Fire and light and is deceived by the woman 78. Now observe aright what do the properties viz. Saturn Mars and Mercury when as they see the Child viz. the Champion in Royall Colour and find that he manageth no externall Dominion and Royalty with Power and Authority as they do but will only rule with Love in their poysonful Fire-might They will not suffer him 79. For Saturn signifieth the worldly Dominion and Mercury the Spiritual dominion viz. the Pharisees and Mars signifieth the Devil these three would not endure Christ among them for he said that he was a King of Love and the Son of God and was come to deliver his people from Sin then thought the Devil sure this rhimes not well thou wilt lose thy Kingdom and the worldly Magistrate thought Is this a King and Gods Son then he will take away our might this doth not at all like us and the Mercurial Priests thought this man is too mean for us we will have a Messiah who may bring us unto worldly Dominion and make us to be High and rich in the world that we may alone possels the honour of the world we will not receive him he is too poor for us we might so lose the favour and respect of the worldly Magistrate and should be much damaged we will rather abide in our Power Respect and Authority and abandon this beggarly King with his Love-kingdom in like manner as yet to this day they are so minded and serve his Messengers so whom he sendeth 80. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick work when Venus manifesteth her self with Love viz. in her own property in the three wrathful forms viz. in Saturn Mars and Mercury they can by no means endure it for it is wholly against their austere dark fiery might but especially against the poyson of Mercury they flash and lighten against Venus and shoot their rayes viz. the Mercurial poysonful rays upon her as the Pharisees did upon Christ. In the mean while Jupiter and Luna hold with Venus and give their power to Venus for Venus doth here stand forth in the power of Jupiter at this the Pharisees laugh and think with themselves we are wise enough already what need we knowledg and understanding we will have might and honour and Luna signifieth the multitude of Lay-men who stuck to Christ while it went well with him so doth Luna in the Philosophick Work to Venus in her Lustre so long as Saturn Mercury and Mars do not meddle with and assault her but when the Power of wrath cometh then Luna changeth her Will viz. the colour and looketh ariseth and cryeth also with the rest the Crucifige this the Artist will see if he be chosen and accounted worthy of God for the work CHAP. XI Of the processe of Christ in his suffering death and Resurrection Of the wonder of the sixth Kingdom in the Mother of all Beings How the Consummatum est was finished and how likewise it is symbolically accomplished in the Philosophick work 1. THis now is thus to be considered we are to know that the Essence of this world together with man doth consist in two properties viz in Fire and Light that is in Love and Anger Now the Fire is two-fold and the Light is also two-fold viz. a cold Fire from the Impression and an hot Fire from the Speer of Mercury in Sulphur and so likewise there is a cold Light from the cold Fire and a warming Light from the hot Fire the cold Light is false and the hot Light is good not that it is false in its property
converted and become as Children you cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven The Self-wil must enter again into the First Mother which brought it forth viz. into the Sulphur by the Will understand Mercury 61. But now who will perswade it to do so for it is become a Self-thing and must enter again into the Mother and become Nothing this seemed a strange wonderful thing to Nicodemus but the Lord said unto him The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but thou knowest not from whence it cometh or whither it goeth even so is every one that is born of God Behold who perswaded the Will of Christ in his Humanity for to enter again with the Will into the Filiation or Adoption as it were into the Mothers Womb and eat Nothing forty days and would also eat nothing but remained in full stedfast Resignation in the Mother Did not the Deity do it which was entered into the Humanity 62. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick Work therefore let the Artist well observe and rightly understand us he must seek the evill stubborn Child which is fled from the Mother and entered into the Centre and would be a Self-thing or it s own only in Saturn for the wrath of God hath shut him up with its Impression in the chamber of Death 63. Not that he hath made him to Saturn but he holdeth him shut up in the Saturnine death the same he must again take and bring into the Mothers Womb and then send the Angel with a Message unto Mary and tell her she shall bring forth a son whose name shall be called Jesus and if the Mother shall yeeld her consent thereunto and receive the Name Jesus then the new Humanity shall begin in the Mother with the new Child in the old Apostate captivated in the Anger of God and the Name Jesus will first give in it self unto the Dead Child which lay captivated in Saturn and eagerly draw the Will of the Evil dead child unto it self this is the fair Bride which sheweth her Crown of Pearl unto her Apostate Bridegroom he should but again receive her and she would again give him her love Now if the Apostate youth shut up in death doth again receive her then is the Artist well prepared and counted worthy by God to finish his purpose Now will the Bride love the Bridegroom and a Virgin bring forth a Son at which all the World will wonder the Virgin shall embrace the Man but he is a Man and not a Woman and hath the Virgins heart 64. Now he must be tempted whether or no he will live in Virgin-like Chastity and in full Resignation of his Will to God for he must be a Valiant Champion and destroy the Devils Fortress of Prey which he hath in his Mother in seven Kingdoms then let the Devil set his Mothers House on fire with his wrath and tempt him he will now well enough defend himself with Christ against the Devil 65. This being done the young man with his Virgin-like heart will wholly give himself up unto the Mother when as the Tempter comes and assaults him and the Mother will wholy swallow him up into her self through the Devils wrath He giveth himself forth wholly out of his own Will into the Nothing Now thinketh the Artist with himself I have lost all that he hath lost Heaven for he seeth nothing and doth not consider that a Virgin hath now brought forth but let him have Patience that which is impossible to the Artist that is possible to Nature after the night it is day when the Tempter hath finished all his Temptations then cometh the Sign or Appearance of the Angels then the Devil which hath tempted him must depart 66. Let the Artist well observe this and pack away the Devil and suffer the young man with his Virgin-like Heart to lie in his Bed and eat his former food for he is now become a Physician of his Sisters in his Mothers house he will do great Wonders in all the seven Kingdoms of his Mother which are the seven Forms of Life as Christ hath done 67. As in Saturn he will raise the dead understand he will awaken the dead Essence which held him captive in his former Prison for the shall turn or make the Earth to Heaven Even as the Virgin hath raised up his Will out of the Anger in the Love and made him a Wonder-worker so must he also awaken with his Will which is united unto the Virgins Heart the Form or Signature in his Mothers womb whence she hath brought forth him and all her Children and enkindle it with the Virgins and his Love-desire This is effected and done in the Sulphur of Saturn in the young mans own personal Property and in his mother for before the espousing of the Virgin the heavenly Essence of the young man lieth shut up in Death for when God cursed the Earth then the heavenly Paradisical Body disappeared and the Impression of Saturn took it in possession until the Restitution where God shall restore that which is hidden that Paradise doth again spring forth afresh in the Expressed Word or that the Artist doth open the same in a Part by Gods permission 68. In the second Kingdom of the Mother viz. in Luna he shall also do Wonders for Jesus fed with five Barley loaves five thousand people this is the working in the Essentiality or Corporality He turned water to wine These and the like do all belong unto the Lunar property where the Champion with his Virgin doth open Paradise and feedeth the Body where nothing is where the outward Mercury hath not laboured and wrought Thus the Forms in the Lunar property do open themselves as if they are Paradisical even then the Artist thinketh I am nigh unto it but he is yet far off from the End 69 In the third Kingdom of the Mother viz. in Jupiter Christ did make the Babes and Ignorant of a very weak and mean capacity Knowing and Understanding viz. of poor Fishermen Carpenters and the like Mechanicks he made Apostles and the most understanding men of all and also of poor disrespected vilified people as of women and simple ones he made faithful devout dear godly children who apprehended in themselves the Universal without any Art 70. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick work the essentiality which lieth disappeared in death where the Mercury is wholly earthly cold and impotent doth now arise in power as if the whole Being and Essence were become a new life at which the Artist doth wonder and marvelleth what it is or how it hapneth and yet doth also exceedingly rejoyce that he seeth the Divine Power to spring forth before his eyes in a half dead Essence and that in the Curse of God he seeth all the four Elements each apart and seeth how the Wisdom of God doth represent it self therein as an harmony of joy and seeth all colours
only in the Impression in the cold Sulphur in the sharpness of the Wrath it turneth to a false desire viz. to a false Love which is contrary to the meeknes for its desire is Saturn and Mars 2. It putteth forth its Sun understand its luster of life in Mars and the warming Light which also receiveth its fiery sharpness in the Impression in Sulphur from Mars bringeth its desire again into the liberty viz. through the dying in the Fire through the anguish It doth wholly and freely give it self forth in the dying of the Fire and forsaketh the property of the wrath 3. And so it becometh a Generall joy and not its own only even like the Sun that giveth forth its shining Lustre Universally the Sun-shine is neither hot nor cold only Mercury in the Spirit of the great World doth make in Mars and Saturns property a heat therein for the Sun doth enkindle their desire whereupon they grow so very hungry eager desirous and operative that even a Fire is found to be in the Light which heat is not of the Lights own property but of the Soul of the great Word which doth so sharpen the pleasant Light in its Splendor that it is unsufferable to the eye 4. And we are highly to consider and know that if another Fire-desire which is not like unto the outward life in Mercury would rule in the Austere wrath of the outward Nature that then it would be an Enmity contrary to the Austere cold bitter and fiery Dominion and Life and that they would exalt or exasperate their wrath eagerly desiring to be rid of it Even as it so came to passe when the Divine Love desire did manifest it self with its great meeknesse to the false cold proud and austere Fire desire of the Saturnalites Martialists and especially of the false Mercurialites It was a great Opposition and Enmity to them that Love should rule in the Death of Poyson and dwell therein this they could not not would not endure for Heaven was come into Hell and would overcome the Hell with Love and take away its might as it is to be seen in the person of Christ he loved them and did them all manner of good and healed their plagues or diseases but in that he was not arisen from their wrathful might and that he said he was descended from above and was Gods Son this was unsavory to the cold hot Fires might even that he should rule with Love over them 5. Even thus it goeth in the Philosophick Work when the wrathful Forms of the Earthliness viz. the outward Saturn Mars and Mercury do see the Heavenly Champion with the Virgins property among them and perceive that he hath far another desire then they then they are angry in themselves for the Love-desire when it glimpseth on the Fire-flagrat doth awaken their Fire-flagrat and then the wrath proceeds forth from the Anxiety into Love where-from ariseth a Deaths-flagrat in the Love but being there can be no death therein the Love condescendeth in the Fire-flagrat and giveth forth or distuseth it self into their desire and leaveth its Essence so that in their desire they reach after its Property in the Deaths-flagrat this is a poyson to Death and a pestilence unto Hell and in this Property Death was deprived of its power in the Humanity For Christ when as he shed his Heavenly blood in the Flagrat of Death and left it in Death the wrath of God was driven to retain the Heavenly Love-essence in it self Even there the Fire-desire in the enkindled Humanity was changed into a Love-desire and out of the Anguish of Death proceeded a Joy and strength of Divine Power 6. But I will hereby give the Wel-wisher fundamentally to understand how it went with Christ and how in like manner it goeth with his Philosophick Work both have wholly one process Christ overcame the wrath of Death in the Humane property and changed the Anger of the Father into Love in the humane property the Philosopher likewise hath even such a Will he willeth to turn the wrathful Earth to Heaven and change the poysonful Mercury into Love therefore observe us here aright we will not here write parabolically but wholly clear as the Sun-shine 7. God would change the Humanity after that it was become Earthly and had awakened the poysonful Mercury in the Love-property which poysonful Mercury had devoured the Love and changed it into it self again in to the Divine Heavenly property and make Heaven of the humane earth of the four Elements only one in One desire and change the wrath of God in the humane property into Love 8. Now his Anger was a might of the Fire and Wrath and was inflamed in man and therefore there must be right Earnestnesse to withstand the same and change it again into Love the Love must enter into the Anger and wholly give it self in unto the Wrath it would not be enough that God should remain in Heaven and only aspect the Humanity with Love it could not be that the Anger and Wrath should thereby yeeld up its might and strength and freely give it self unto the Love as the Fire is not made better by the light it still holds its wrath for all that in it self but when a meek Essence as water doth come into the Fire then the Fire goeth out 9. Even so Heavenly Divine Essentiality understand Heavenly water which the Tincture of the Fire and Light doth change into Blood must enter into the wrathful Fire of God and become the Fires food so that the Fire of God might burn from another Essence for water could not have done it the Fire doth not burn in the Water but the meek oleous property of the Fire and Light in the Essence of Divine meekness in the Love-desire that did effect it 10. The humane Fire-life doth consist in the Blood and therein ruleth the wrath of God now another Blood which was born out of Gods Love-essence must enter into the Angry humane Blood they must go both together into the death of the wrath and the wrath of God must be drowned in the Divine Blood and therefore the outward Humanity in Christ must dye that it might not any more live in the Wraths property but that the Heavenly bloods Mercury viz. the Speaking Word might alone live in the outward Humanity and solely rule in peculiar Divine Power in the outward and inward Humanity that the Self might cease in the Humanity and Gods Spirit might be All in All and the Self only his Instrument whereby he maketh what he pleaseth that I say the Self hood might be solely Gods instrument and wholly in Resignation for God hath not created man to be his own Lord but his servant He will have Angels under obedience and not Devils in their own Fire-might 11. Now when as His Love would give it self into Death and deprive Death of its might then the two Worlds viz. the Fathers Fire-world with
26. What is the Heaven created out of the midst of the Water and what is the Separation of the Water above the Firmament from the Water underneath the Firmament 27. What is the Ground of the Male and Female Kind in the Essence of this World whence is the Conjunction and Desire arisen could not the same be effected in one only Ground without distinction of Sex 28. What are the Principles in the Spirit of this World from the uppermost to the lowermost Being 29. What is the Sperm of the Generation of all things 30. What is the difference of the Sperm betwixt Metals Stones and Vegetables viz. Herbs Trees and earthly things 31. How is the same Copulation and Conjunction of the Female and Male nature effected whence their Seed and Growth ariseth 32. What is the Tincture in the Spermatick Nature whence the Growth and Lustre ariseth 33. Out of what are all the Creatures of the mortal Life sprung forth and created 34 What was the Archeus and Separator of their Nature and Property which formed them and still to this day formeth them ' 35. What are the six work-days of the Creation and the Sabbath 36 What is the difference of the mortal Creatures and what is their Chaos wherein each Kind liveth and wherein they are distinct and Severed one from another 37. To what End or wherefore were the mortal Creatures created 38. Whence was man Created as to the Body 39 What was the Inspiration whereby man became a living Soul ' 40. What is the Immortal Life in Man and what is the outward Life of this World in him 41. What is the IDEA or exact Image of God in Man wherein God worketh and dwelleth 42. What was Paradâ—se wherein God created Man Is the same changeable and a Creature or doth it stand in the Eternal Ground 43. Wherefore did God create at first but one man and not forthwith a man and woman together as he did the other kinds of Creatures 44. Was the first man in such Habit created to eternal Life or to Alteration 45. In what Image or Likeness was Adam before his Eve In what form and fashion was he when he was neither Husband nor wife but both 46. Had Adam before his Eve Manlike members and such bones stomack guts teeth and all that we now have 47. If that Adam was such a one as we are now how should he in such manner and condition have been able to Stand without Suffering and Corruption 48. What should have been Adam's Eating and Drinking in a Paradissical manner without care distress and sorrow if he had stood out the Tryal 49. Should Adam in Paradise have eaten such fruit as the Heavenly Eating shall be after this time or of what should he have been Able to eat Where should the same have continued seeing all the Beings of this World are earthly and transitory and he only was an eternal heavenly Image and needed not the Vanity 50. Did four Elements also rule in Adam in his Innocency or but one only in the likeness of the four Elements did he also before he fell feel Heat and Cold 51. Should any thing have been able to have killed or destroyed Adam 52. What should have been Adams condition and estate upon the Earth what should he have eaten if he had continued in Paradise ' 53. What was the Earth with its fruits before the Curse when it was called a Paradise 54. Should the Propagation have been effected without Man and Woman seeing in the Resurrection of the dead they shall not be man nor woman but like to the Angels of God in Heaven Mat. 22. 30. 55. How could it have bin possible that a man woman should have continued Eternally will God change these Creatures of men seeing in the Life eternal they shall be like to the Angels was Adam also in the beginning created in the same Angelical Form or in another Form or Image then he shall arise in and live for ever 56. What were the Trees in Paradise which were pleasant to behold and good to eat 57. What was the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledg of Good and Evil each in its Power Essence and Property 58. Wherefore did God create this Tree seeing He knew well that man would offend thereby 59. Wherefore did God forbid man that Tree what was the cause 60. Wherefore should man upon the Earth Rule over all the Beasts how and to what End could that have been 61. Wherefore did God say It is not good that man should be alone whereas in the beginning he lookt upon all his works and said They are very good yet of man he saith 'T is not good that this man should be alone wherefore was it not good 62. Wherefore caused God a deep sleep to fall upon Adam when he built a woman out of his Rib what doth it mean 63. How was the woman made out of Adam what doth the Rib taken out of his side signifie of which God made his wife as Moses writeth 64. Did Eve also receive a Soul and Spirit from Adams Soul and Spirit or a new strange one peculiarly given of God 65. How was the parting of Adam into the woman effected 66. Why did Adam presently take his Eve to him and said that she was his flesh how could he know her 67. What was the Serpent on the Tree of the Knowledg of Good and Evil which deceived Eve 68. Why did the Serpent perswade Eve and not Adam to the Lust to eat of the fruit what was the fruit whereby they did both eat Death 69. What was the Sin and how came it to be a Sin that the same is an Enmity of God 70. Why did not God hinder it from being effected being he did forbid it them 71. How were the eyes of Adam and Eve opened that they saw they were naked which before they knew not 72. What was Adams and Eves shame that they hid themselves behind the Trees of Paradise whence came their fear and terror 73. How did Adam and Eve really dye in the Fall to the Kingdom of Heaven and Paradise and yet live naturally to this world 74. What was the Voyce of God in the Word when the day grew cool How did God recall Adam how is this to be understood 75. What is the Seed of the Woman and the bruising of the Serpent what did God speak again into them was the same nothing else but an outward Promise or an Incorporation of the effectual working Grace 76. What is the Curse of the Earth what is thereby brought to pass 77. How was Adam and Eve cast out of Paradise into this world what was the Cherub with the Naked Sword before Paradise 78. Wherefore was the first man born of a woman a Murtherer 79. What was Cains and Abels offering wherefore did they offer what did they Do thereby 80. Wherefore was Cains Murther for the offering sake what is the ground of it what
Resurrection walk forty days upon the Earth ere he went to Heaven 141. What is Christ's Ascention that he went up visibly whither is he gone and where is he now 142. What do the two men in white Apparel signifie who said Yee men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into Heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall come again in like manner as you have seen him go into Heaven 143. Wherefore must the Disciples of Christ yet wait forty days for the sending of the Holy Ghost why was it not done presently 144. Why must the Disciples wait and remain together in one accord till the Holy Ghost came 145. What is the Feast of Pentecost How was the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit effected and how was the band of tongues loosed in the Disciples of the Lord 146. How is the Diversity of tongues to be understood in them that they at one and the same time spake all Speeches together in one only Sence that all Nations could understand them 147. What profit is this pouring forth of the Holy Ghost unto us and what benefit is Christ's Death Resurrection Ascention unto us how may the same also be wrought and brought to pass in us 148. What is both the literal word and the living word Christ in this Diffusion or Effluence how are they distinguished seeing they did not all hear the Holy Ghost teach out of the mouth of the Apostles For some said They are full of wine These indeed did hear the words of men but not Christ Teaching in his Resurrection 149. How doth Christ himself teach present in the Office of Preaching and yet sitteth at the Right hand of the Power of God or by whom doth Christ teach what is a Shepheard in the Spirit of Christ and a Letter-teacher without the Spirit of Christ each in his Office 150. What is the office of the Keys Mat. 20. How can the same be rightly used or who is worthy and capable of this office of the Keys How is this to be understood Doth Christ himself hold them in the Office or Function and is he himself the Function or hath he given man liberty that he may forgive Sins without the Spirit of Christ or how is the same effected 151. What is the Testament of Christ with the last Supper with Bread and VVine How is Christ really enjoyed what Flesh and Blood is it and what is the mouth to it 152. Where is the place in Man wherein Christ's Flesh and Blood remaineth as he himself saith John 6. whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood he remaineth in me and I in him Also If ye shall not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood then ye have no life in you 153. How is and becometh man to be a branch on the Vine of Christ How doth Christ dwell in him and yet sit at the right hand of God in Heaven How can he also sit in Man at the right hand of God and yet the outward man is not the same 154. What kind of Christian is a Titular Christian without Christ who only comforteth himself and applyeth the merits of Christ to himself but is not regenerated of Christs Spirit and liveth bestially Doth Christ also belong to him in such working or Doing Or what doth he receive in the Supper of Christ 155. Can the Flesh and Blood of Christ be enjoyed of the faithful without the Testamental Order and Use or how may it be effected 156. VVherefore did Christ ordain and institute this Testament and said That so often as we do it we should do it to his Remembrance To what profit and use is it administred with Bread and VVine and not without the same or can it also be enjoyed without Bread and VVine 157. Is the true real Testamental Enjoyment strictly bound to the first Apostolical use or have men power to alter that order as it is come to pass 158. Is the Testament also powerful and effectual in the changed Order or no 159. What do the Learned when they revile and reproach one another for the exceeding precious Testament of Christ and for the Covenant of Grace and give one another over unto the Devil for the same Do they officiate the Function of Christ Is it right or wrong Do they this as the Ministers of Christ or whom do they serve by doing thus 160. VVhat is the true mark of a right Christian upon the Earth whereby is he distinguished from a titular Christian 161. VVhat is properly and exactly a Christian within and without How is he a Temple of the Holy Ghost â—n whom the Kingdom of God is manifest inwardly How doth he walk also both in Heaven and upon the Earth 162. VVhat is the Anti-christ upon the Earth in Christendom 163. VVhat is Babel the Beast and the whore in the Revelation 164. VVhat is the destruction of the Beast and how shall the same Seven-headed Beast be cast into the bottomless pit or Abyss 165. How doth Christ then take possession of the Kingdom when this Beast is slain 166. What is the true Regeneration in the Spirit of Christ is the same wrought in this life-time or after this life-time 167. What is the dying of a true Christian what dyeth in him 168. What is the Dying or death of a wicked man being the same is called an Eternal dying 169. Whither goeth the Soul when it separates from the Body be it saved or not 170. What do the Souls Do and what is their life until the last day 171. What is the last Judgment or how shall the same be effected 172. How is the Resurrection of the Dead what is that which ariseth 173. How shall this World perish or pass away and what remaineth of it 174. What shall be after this World when God shall be All in All Where all Dominion and Authority shall be put down 2 Cor. 15. 24. 175. What shall the Saints and Damned Do and not do 176. Where shall Hell be and also the Eternal Habitation of the Saints 177. What shall be the Eternal joy of the Saints and also the Eternal pain of the wicked or may there be an alteration The Authors Preface unto these Questions Reader IT is written The natural man understands nothing of the Spirit of God it is a foolishness unto him he cannot apprehend it and it is also written The Spirit of God searcheth all things yea the depths of the Deity Now if Mr. Wiseling without Divine Light should undertake to clear and expound these Questions he shall not be able to do it nay perhaps he may esteem it a sin to ask such deep questions being he himself cannot understand them Therefore we bid him to let them alone and leave them for those to whom Gods Spirit which search all things through the spirit of man shall give the understanding being it is an Impossibility unto him and also seems