exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES by which Europe hath been compassed about until the end of seven Months and five days though in the time of the sounding of those Trumpets the Winds have been suffered to blow on the Earth by those that have held their corners as four Angels standing on the four Corners of the same and the Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of Gods wrath in the Plagues of those Vials is to be poured forth and is come L. And the Creature Mankind imbodyed in this third Principle in which he is called the Microcosm or little World is that third part of the Macrocosm or great World as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter or fourth part of the Worlds where those Tryals are manifest under which the Lyon came first forth with four Wings of the Foul on his Back in which were Golden Fethers with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing while the striving continued between the four Winds of the Heavens on the great Sea and from the loss of dominion therein in the plucking of the Lions Wings wherein came forth four other Beasts and took head in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed the Kingdoms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same LI. Until the great Bear or Leopard who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings had them also taken away and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding and through those four first Beasts that now have taken unto them each of them the six Wings of the Cherubims every one in their order calling to come and see the Mystery of what is come forth to the Tryal of the Year Month Day and Hour over which they have Power and Dominion in their Angels the Glory of the Father is hallowed having in each Wing two thousand Fethers and names of Men which makes the Glorious Hoast of God in the Heavens Numerable in their Tribes and according to the Families of those scattered Nations over the face of the whole Earth LII Which are the dispersed Army of God and goodly company of that Mighty Hoast in the four Wings of the living Creature by which they stand figured forth 144000. of the first Body in which God hath his sealed Number of Instruments that are engaged in the Lamb's Battel as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed out of the great River over which the winds of the Heavens have striven and blowed while their destroying Power was bound LIII But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels to be with-held from blowing and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind by the Prophesie of the Witnesses or sounding of the Trumpets of God committed to the Angels and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts called Locusts and they have overspread the same in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens to with-hold them from blowing as oft as they please because God will not alwayes strive with Man who is but flesh LIV. And when the Earth is quiet and still according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN for the space of half an hour and the Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh then remember what I say for before this day there hath come Wars and rumours of Wars and the smoake of the torment of those Men on whom Judgment hath rested under the Power of the Beast shall be seen known to be the SEAT of the Beast in a fourth part of the great World that hath yet hitherto escaped Death in what came on that third part thereof in the little World Mankind like the fume of a boyling Furnace whence hath ascended the thick Cloud of Darkness that filleth the Heavens and the Power of the DRAGON who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast for the time he remained bound in the bottomless Pit But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto for the awakening and rising up of three therein that do bear witness for GOD of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great CITY of the Worlds LV. And into those Kings of the East that have their Power again revived and their Heads healed which is a second Beast come out of the Earth with two Horns of a Ram pushing three ways to wit West and North and South shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast Dragon and Whore like Frogs through the drying up of the Waters in the great River EUPHRATES in the Worlds Sea they shall come over the same and into the place where God hath settled his glorious City and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land between the Seas but the end shall come with an over flowing Scourge and great Flood and out of the Mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall great things be performed and done LVI Yea all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof recorded in the Heavens by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place for God is not to be limitted to time and place in his Work or to the prescription of men but he hath a time and season for every work according to which he hath determined and decreed an order wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass according to the measure by which they are measured and weighed in their day and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Fathers hands until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven in that which communicateth the sence thereof unto and in the World in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the World unto the good will and pleasure of the Father LVII And the Star that is fallen from Heaven as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit I have beheld and do see the returning of such torment come on those men that have the Beasts mark on his Seat
Head which was healed up again by the coming forth of the Ram from the EAST who pushed three wayes after I had beheld five Horns fallen from a fourth Head that stood in the midst of five and unto this Beast did the Dragon give up his Power and also the first Beast and the WHORE which were the three Ribs in the Mouth of the Bear in the NORTH and they became three unclean Spirits like Frogs that entred this second Beast who caused the Image of the Beast to be again revived and to be worshiped that all men might receive his Mark else were they not to buy and sell with the Nations of the Earth who received his Mark and Names and Number on their right Hand or forehead and they were angry with those that could not bow down with them LIX And this was the Spirit of Devils working Miracles in the Name of God and thereby they caused the Generations of the World to fear and dread for the Nations of the Earth repented them not of their great evil and wickedness and sorceries and thefts and murders and worshiping of Devils and bowing down unto Graven Images and of all Idolatry and Uncleanness notwithstanding those afflictions that were come into the Worlds But a second Thunder also thundred from the Throne of God and the Lamb which came into the Temple of God wherein God had placed a Government over Nature in those four forms of the Beast and all Foundations in HEAVEN and EARTH were shaken for the preparing and raising up a Ground for that immoveable Rock and Foundation of many Generations LX. And a third Thunder also thundered from the great River Euphrates out of which those four destroying Angels of God were loosed by which those afflictions came on a third part of those Men who had not on them the Seal and Mark of God and the Lamb in whom a ground was awakened and raised up which made sensible of that which was come into those parts of the Worlds And a fourth Thunder thundered also from the Wilderness in which the Woman had remained travelling in sorrow for the forty two Months wherein the Holy CITY was given into the Gentiles hands to be troden under foot wherein the great DRAGON stood before her ready to devour that for which she was in Travel which was a Man-Child who was to Rule the Nations of the Earth in a Rod of Iron whom he sought to destroy CHAP. VI. Describing the Nature of the WORLDS in their raised and renewed state through a Restauration of the Heavens c. LXI AS I came to behold the daughter of the NORTH returning from the Wilderness in which was her travel and hard labour I saw TWINS of which she was delivered therein and the Children were nourished for the space of forty dayes by the WOLF who had fled thereinto wherein they became great And the Queen of the SOUTH who was come out of her own Land wherein she had been fruitful and was exalted in the Bulls Eye being delivered of a FEMALE Child her Seed was dispersed into the North and over the four Quarters in the World wherein the Waters had prevailed over the Earth LXII And as she came to settle her self in the pleasure and ease of the Flesh and to delight her self in the Worldly Spirit wherein she sought satisfaction she overlaid and slew the Fruit of her Womb in the Seed of Life through a drousiness and carelesness that came over her Spirit whereby she became dead while she lived and there appeared the form of two Children sporting themselves in the Field of the World for they vvere scattered from the House of NATURE vvhom the EAGLE beheld from his Nest and the one of them vvas caught by the Eagle who envied the Eye of the Child and by his Bill vvhich vvas renevved he pierced the sight of the BABE and made it blind but he vvas frighted avvay vvhile there vvas yet life in the Child LXIII And the Women met in the Wilderness vvherein the Queen of the South sought to compass a Man in the Seed of Life under the Povver of the North Wind because of the Brass Belly in vvhich the ETHIOPIAN vvas separated that had cured the Wound of those that had looked upon it the Remnant of vvhose SEED vvere multiplyed over the Quarters of the World that had escaped the sting of the Serpent in that WILDERNESS vvherein Generations had perished and the Face of God vvas tovvards his Israel to gather and deliver them from the Hand of the ASSYRIAN the second time LXIV For as those Women were sound striving about the living Child who had escaped the fury of the EAGLE though it grew blind under the same there arose the wisdom of a King in Israel to decide the matter through sound JUDGMENT that divided things aright for the distinguishing of the true Mother whose Bowels yearned in tenderness over the Birth in the time it stood under the censure of Separation wherein the HARLOT manifested her cruelty And the venom rested in the Eye of the Eagle like unto the poyson of Asps though therein he grew sharp and quick-sighted while his Wings overspread the Body of Nature in the Heavens from whence I beheld him exalted in the Air with two Heads in which the Seed of the North prevailed though the Daughter of the South enlarged the dominion of what proceeded from the Female Child and she was established Queen in that strange Land LXV And I beheld how the Image that had fallen in the Earth grew secretly invisible under the power of Corruption which increased its strength in the changeable wayes and courses of the WORLD wherein the Head of the RAM stood exalted in the fiery triplicity of the Aerial Heavens compassed about under the Waters that suffered the Power of Corruption over which the Heavens were moved while from the Neck downward the Body of the Earth strove to reign in dominion over its Head and in the Heart of the Earth was inkindled a flame from the Fiery Heavens as it stood moved about in the midst of the Body of Nature which had the lower parts of the BEAST downward but the Legs of a Man which stood at a distance in the form of the Letter A as from the Shoulders upward there did reach toward the Heavens the form of the Arms of a Man and both Arms and Legs were partly Iron and partly Clay LXVI And among the forms of all buildings which I had seen erected from the Heavens and standing in the Nature of the WORLD I beheld until the Temple that in its first appearance was very glorious was defiled with the Nature and Spirit of the WORLD and it became the seat of the Beasts which inlarged its power in that which overspread the Foundation of the Earth wherein the great City that I had seen had begun to rest and settle its first glory in which the Worlds were planted and the weight thereof was the structure of the Temples
the Heavens I beheld a prepared Ground unto which the Gates of Eternity were opened and from the Elemental being in which four Gates were opened into the Worlds whence strove the four Winds of the Heavens I beheld the coming forth of the four Beasts in the seven forms of Nature wherein their Power was first manifest after whom arose those other four Beasts in the dispersing abroad of the powers of Nature through the plucking of the Wings from the LYON XXXVIII Wherein the Power of the RAM in Nature who came forth first exalted through the plucking off the LYONS Wings and dispersing abroad of the power of five Kings that were fallen had his HORNS first broken in the separated power of the Heavens under the striving of their four Winds and he is the last Power in Nature under which the Heads of the Beast have been healed XXXIX For through the appearance of the ANGEL of God in the forms of Nature I beheld how the whole Earth was lighted with the Glory of that which is broken forth into the Worlds and there came unto me one of those seven Angels of God who had the Golden Vials that were filled with the seven last Plagues even the wrath of the Lamb ready to be poured forth on the wicked and ungodly world and he talked with me as doth a Man with his Friend and said unto me This is the Mystery of that first Beast thou sawest come forth with five Heads and nine Horns XL. These are nine Kings five against four who served and were subject to one King twelve years and in the thirteenth year they rebelled and in the fourteenth year his power was again revived in what had received that deadly wound wherein was broken the first five Horns from the fifth Head of the BEAST whose Seat was in MALE called ELAM in the Hebrew Tongue which you read backward and his Name is KEDORLEOMAR in SHINAR of BABYLON where is the VOICE of an ANGEL I-AM-RAPHEL revealed in TIDAL LAD it KING of Nations XLI This therefore is the Mystery of all those Beasts and of what thou hast seen come forth according to the times in the Vision for which it hath wrought the LYON is the Heart of that Nature in which the first ADAM was Created from whence the RAM in Nature hath Head and Face which is the first House among the Mansions in the Heavens of the Father's Glory and the CALF is the Neck and Throat of Nature which is the second House of the Fathers MANSIONS in the Heavens whence the scape GOAT took form through the bended KNEES of what descended from the Heavens in the state of subjection under which Nature was framed XLII And in those two first Houses of the Heavens wherein the Glory of the Sun and Moon of the Son of Man in the FIRST ADAM was exalted the fiery Heavens had tinctured the forms of Nature in the double Bodied being through a separation made between Day and Night wherein the Man was oppressed that bore the weight and burthen of the wrong in the Fall on the shoulders of the created Body over-ruled through its two great Lights whereby his ARMS were spread abroad as the appearance of his form wrought in the Clouds of the Heavens whence those Beasts did both ascend and descend XLIII Which stood manifest on the EARTH whence the HEE-GOAT ascended through the Mans sufferance who had the face of the third Beast among those forms in Nature for the Arms and Shoulders of Nature is the third House of MANSIONS in the Heavens as the fourth BEAST in the forms of Nature with the face of an EAGLE wherein the four Angels are exalted on the Earth in the sounding of those Golden Trumpets out of the TEMPLE by their ANGELS in their forms of Nature CHAP. VIII Describing the Ground in Nature wherein other BEASTS took Form then those FOUR in which the Creation of God was FIRST planted in its Government over the BODY wherein Man hath a Being XLIV THe IMAGE of God in which was the Mans Dominion had power over all those Earthly FORMS in Nature though as ADAM was created an earthly Man he was of the Earth earthly for that was first which is earthly and yet in the similitude he bore of his Maker there was a Government settled to rule and have authority over the Nature of the BEAST which made subject to Vanity and a Power of Corruption through a Generation and Generations that liked not to retain the KNOWLEDGE of God in their MINDS XLV Therefore did they change the Image of God into Gold and Silver and four-footed BEASTS and creeping things with Wood and Stone and things graven out of the Invention of Man which they have fallen down unto and worshipped because after they knew God or rather were known of Him this MYSTERY of Iniquity began to work HIDDENLY wherein they were given up to a reprobate sense in the UNBELIEF of the Truth that caused the Condemnation XLVI And their DAMNATION slumbereth not who believe a Lye to the marring of that Form in which the MAN was an Image of his Maker This therefore is prefigured forth to thee that thou mayest apprehend the Generation of MEN on whom God hath set a Mark according to the IMAGE they bare to distinguish them in their NATURE And as the LION whose Government is in the HEART of Nature and CALF whose government in Nature is the Neck and Throat of the untamed Will that acteth the BODY are the FIFTH and SECOND Houses of those Mansions from whence the SUN is moved and wherein the MOON is EXALTED so the RAM and HE-GOAT who are the FIRST and TENTH Houses among the FORMS in Nature are those BEASTS in Nature wherein a falsified Glory entred those FORMS in which the MAN lost Dominion though the Light of the SUN of his day was and is Exalted in that FIRST House as it fell in the TENTH XLVII And therefore in the sinking State under which those forms of Creation continued Light was Exalted in the Reins of Nature which is the SEVENTH House whence came forth and appeared the Face of that THIRD BEAST like a MAN with the BALANCES in his Hands whereby every thing was weighed and tryed by just Measure though under him lurked the Form of a Leopard or great Bear with four wings of a Fowl on his Back and through him sprung up FOUR notable HORNS on the HEAD of the GOAT in the dispersing abroad KINGDOMS of the EARTH under the FOUR Winds of the HEAVENS XLVIII But in the dividing of the Heavens whence came to be exalted the Spirit of Sound and Tone uttering its Voyce in the sound of seven golden Trumpets as the WOLF or little BEAR that hath for his Seat the Breast of Nature which is the fourth House among the MANSIONS in the Heavens got before the LYONS Face who is the Heart of Nature in that fifth House of Mansions wherein the SUN hath its seat the Moon came to exalt
THE Revelation OF GOD his GLORY SOUNDED FORTH For the opening the Mystery of the Seven SEALS on the Book of the WONDERS of GOD in the hand of the ANGEL BEING A True and Faithful TESTIMONY Of the Enochian Prophecie Of the Rise and Fall of ANTICHRIST And of the Restauration of ZION to its Primitive Glory London Printed in the year 1665. The EPISTLE To the READER I. LEt the Impartial Reader seriously weigh what is herein set down and rashly pass no Sentence on a Work of this concernment neither scruple at the Form and Method in which it is come forth to the view of all sorts of Spirits wherein I cannot expect so kind entertainment in matters of such nature as to have all Men speak well of it or of me therein because then had I my Reward with men II. For my whole and sole aim and intention in this work as far forth as I know and am made sensible of my own frame and temper of Spirit is and hath been other ways grounded and founded in Truth than to seek other Honour and Glory than what is of and cometh from GOD wherein I have a Witness both in Heaven and Earth which I might call to bear Record with and for me that I considerately love not vain ostentation or to boast over the Weak by soaring aloft out of the reach of their Capacities that something else than the Spirit of GOD should be exalted in the Temple and Throne of Gods DIGNITY III. Because then might I expect that God should glory over me in the WORK of DESTRUCTION Though I know in the following Treatise much is come forth in an unpleasant form and dress to the curious search of some that may count themselves wise and it will be accounted at the first sight thereof rather FORM and SHADOW then SUBSTANCE and many will be ready to judge the truth of its Concern locked up in SIMILITUDES and sealed in an unknown Tongue in that through good Experience of the Enemies Work I am taught not to be too prodigal in opening Terms wherein some have suffered and come to a loss by such means and the Truth it self is thereby made of low esteem in the EYES of many proud and haughty Ones IV. Therefore have I employed my Endeavours under the workings and motions of the Spirit of God wherein many Mysteries of truth pertaining to the Establishment of his Kingdom have been revealed in and unto me that I might leave no room for contention to feed the snarling nature of those dogged qualities in such that are gon out of the patience and content of God where the Charity of Life is abounding wherein Covenant is kept with the LORD in that Spirit which particularly openeth and revealeth the Mysteries of Truth in all to whom it pertaineth to know the same V. And though such that hunger after Advantages in that SWINE-like Nature which is ready to return again and rend those that cast their Pearls before them are in the nature of the Harlot who is not to be fed with the portion of a true Matron neither is Childrens Bread to be cast before them in that adulterating spirit which openeth the Quiver out of which the Darts of Disdain are sent forth do fly abroad and yet shall not the Truths of God always continue clouded or obscured in silence as a Treasure hid in the EARTH VI. But the Time is come that the oppressed Life hath gathered strength and the groans of the Sufferer have made way for the resurrection of the slain and the Poor and Despised doth and will arise over all the contempt it hath met withall in its Way onward to the Land of REST and the Disdainful are ashamed to see the Beggar taken from off the Dunghil and such exalted in the Favour of God that were of low degree in the Eyes of the Admirer of the Persons of Men because of advantage who have said Sit thou here and be my Footstool since thou hast no Gold Ring nor gay Garment else depart and be thou warmed and fed but therefore are the Rich afflicted and the Full are given up into the Tormentors hands VII For a Day is already appeared in which the simple have been preserved in their Way and they shall grow in the Favour both of God and Man through all opposition they meet with by the fierce and cruel HUNTERS for their Prey And those that have said Come up higher and sit thou here because of thy covering and out-side Garment shall themselves be seen naked and hungry and in want of all things and many shall behold their shame for they shall no more wear a rough Garment to deceive or through austerity appoint places to such that may serve their Interest but the Voyce of the LORD shall be heard in the EARTH calling and inviting many to the great and last Supper of the LAMB who shall have on the Wedding Garment of a meek and quiet Spirit which is of great price with the Lord. VIII And this covering will never prove too narrow neither shall it be ripped off though such may come up in an appearance of Glory to manifest the end of the Worldly Sentence that is gone out against them but seeing fiery tryals are come wherein all Foundations are to be searched into that every Birth may live in and receive the Reward of that which it hath been sown in and to and that it may appear whether they can indure and hold out in the time of affliction Blessed are all they that have found out and are builded on the unmoveable and lasting Rock of Ages and Foundations of many Generations that have passed before them for I have seen many good beginnings in the Work of God wherein his Grace and Love was and is sufficient to perfect and finish the same had it been trusted to wholly and fully IX But such that have leaned to their own understandings have given heed to lying Vanities and have forsaken the FOUNTAIN of endless Mercies and Refreshments having still that of their own reserved which they are very loth to part from that separates between GOD and them these have begun well but who hath hindered them that they are so ready to sit down by the VVay in a false Peace and Rest wherein they come short of perfect Satisfaction in God looking on a self-sufficiency in something done as an Act of the Creature without the assistance of the Spirit of GOD to keep in the way of Peace X. For their beginning was in and by the Spirit of GOD why then seek they to be perfect by the Flesh and in a Name of Profession of Truth while they have the approbation of such that have convinced the Understanding of that which is Truth in the Judgment of Creatures but in a time of the tryal of their Faith the ends of the World are manifest before them and then is there a running to and fro to increase the Knowledge of the WORK of GOD
SEEDS ingendrings opened the Gates of Glory into an inward world where the Kings Daughter was whom I saw all Glorious within XII And the separation that was made betwixt those Waters was a Power of firm glory in its working frame as a FIRMAMENT placed in the out-spread Air wherein every thing came forth in its DUALL number through divided qualities and the name of the SECOND DAY was called EXPANSUM or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of what came thus forth in the out-spread Firmament CHAP. II. A Description of the DIURNAL Motion in the Wheels in the coming forth of all forms in Nature into manifestation XIII THus beheld I the form of the Heavens like unto WATERS but of a more CHRISTALLINE and transparent brightness than the SUBLUNARY Waters for they were not Waters of such a gross and terrene Body as is centered in and on the EARTH in the harshness and astringency of depraved Nature fallen under the power of Corruption but they had a peculiar quality in the HEAVENS through the work of Separation in the Principles of the WORLDS being of an enlightning Nature in which the POWERS of all Caelestial Bodies were moved and BURNED over me as an inkindled flame mentained in the UNCTUOSITY of the lifes Operation in the Body of Nature XIV For the ground of all being in the Creature and Creation of God in its sinking condition became corruptible EARTH in the fallen state and condition of the imbodied being of Creatures and Things wherein the Earth centered and setled its rest in the Creature of God in what stood in and out of the WATERS and out of the Bowels of the Earth issued FOUNTAINS and Rivers of Waters which ran in the several Streams and Channels of the Earths 〈◊〉 thus faln under the power of Corâ—â—â—â—…on And the whole returned and met in the Ocean Seas which became the Womb of Nature in that they stood in the wide and open courses of the Earth and Worlds which notwithstanding was drawn up into the Heavens through a purgation by fire XV. But as all PROPERTIES and Principles came into the Womb of Nature in which the contest wrought betwixt THREE that laboured to come forth imbodied in form in the creaturely being I beheld the Womb of Eternity shut against the Third and LAST that was in the cause of such strife and contest who notwithstanding wrought up his way to come first forth out of the Womb of Nature XVI And in the Heavens I beheld the form of a great RED DRAGON sucking into his Belly the HEART of these Waters which was their Fatness and Unctuosity like a River of OYL wherein was an inkindled fire that burnt inwardly and was mentained and strengthened by the oyliness and fatness thereof together with the combustibleness of the material qualities ingendred under the Power of Corruption for destructions sake XVII And in the light of what continued thus burning and inflaming I beheld an innumerable company of divided ESSENCES which shined in the Heavens like STARS above and PLANTS beneath wherein was a tincture that wrought and moved in the Essence of each the one in and by the other as the Wheels wrought one in the other for TWO DAYES XVIII For in the contest in the Heavens were THREE though onely TWO came forth imbodied in the creaturely being out of the Womb of Nature so incorporated into form under the power of corruption fallen and sunk that wrought up their way out of all the powers of the Heavens so to come forth XIX And after the finishing of the third DAY which was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 BEGOYM because of what came forth in the Dual number I beheld a perfect separation made in the WHEELS motion betwixt that which is DIURNAL and NOCTURNAL which was the motion in and of the inward Wheels for in the Wheels was both a Diurnal Annual Motion and in the Power that wrought up its way and work through the course in and of Nature All Principles of Nature came forth in their separated and divided being XX. In which I beheld FOUR large hours in the day each hour containing three computed hours of the natural day And in the NIGHT were FOUR Watches in the which the ANGEL and the Watcher came down and the order of the Night-Watch I beheld from the evening of the Day until the first Cock-Crow which was after the conclusion of the FIRST WATCH XXI At length I beheld until a perfect separation was made in the Wheels and between PRINCIPLE Principle in the WORLDS And in the SECOND WATCH of the Night which was Mid-night an ANGEL and a WATCHER came down before me in the form and appearance of a MAN and with an Iron Instrument he smote me on the HEAD with both Hands for he had the Face of a good man and lifted up both hands to smite me XXII And I submitted to the Hand and stroak of the Watcher and lay DEAD IN MY BLOOD until the Night-watch was over wherein the HOLY ONE came down for it was the hour of the Bridegrooms awakening and the coming of the Son of Man and the conclusion of the second Watch was when the COCK had crowed TWICE and in the DAWNING of the DAY the Womb of the MORNING was opened in and before me and after the THIRD Cock crow all Powers in the Heavens were shaken and the Body of Nature was taken in a trembling state and condition for it was the conclusion of the Third Watch. XXIII Wherein all self-confidence became judged to be the TRUTHS denyal and resistance after the Cock had crowed Thrice because the day began to DAWN the DAY-STAR to arise in the Heart of the inward Worlds whereby the stumblings had been raised by that which became a ROCK of OFFENCE to both the Houses of ISRAEL XXIV And the FOURTH COCK-CROW was after the Dayes breaking forth wherein the Rock and Foundation of true confidence in God was raised up by turning Satan behind the back of God's Glory in the renewed day of the Son of Man which brought forth the Keys of him that unlocked the Treasury in the Heavens After the building of the CHURCH of God became setled on that raised Rock on which the LYON was made to tremble by the Crowing of the Cock before the Day dawned CHAP. III. Wherein the effects of the four large Hours of the Day and the four Watches of the Night in the inward Worlds are described XXV AND in the HEART of the WATERS which became like an inkindled flame burning in the order of the Eternities holy Will and working Power was HARSHNES in what wrought for Separations sake like unto Fire mingled with Blood in a Mystery which became bound in the form of the Heart of a LYON under which I saw the Bowels of Creation also comprehended in a state of Darknesse to the VIRGIN in Nature who sat mourning as one disconsolate with an EAR of WHEAT in her right Hand and the cry was from a
without any consideration of a dividual Will in Creatures though sinking fallen from the glory of the Creator of all forms in Nature so subjected under a state of Corruption XLI And as the FIFTH day became subjected unto the Government of that under whose power all forms in Nature were brought forth I saw a THIRD PART of the Stars in the Heavens moved from the WEST to the EAST for the Glory of the Sun in the midst of the Heavens suffered the Motion of what drew TWO and as it were both WAYES as the Clouds of Darkness came to intermix their darkning quality in the Air between the Original Cause and Center of such Glory in its shining Properties and Virtues and the Creatures sence wherein the Lustre became apprehensive XLII And God beholding all Forms in Nature in the state of Subjection wherein they were placed in Creation as labour came to be felt coming up into the Body of Nature after Gods forming and finishing of Work on all that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity he became moved for his Creatures sake that second time which creature remained subject in the ground of the Lifes first motion to the unmoveable power from which SELF could not separate him without the yielding of his own WILL. XLIII But the MAN in divided qualities who was thus made Keeper of the Vineyard of his Brethren came forth as a WAY-FARING Man and Pilgrim in the Earth whose Face was exalted in the Principle and Region of AIR and in the World was his Body afflicted wherein he lost his way as a stranger to his Journeys end though attainable and sought it with Tears for Rests-sake XLIV Yet for FORTY DAYES was he tryed in that state whether or not he could live without the food of that which drew the LIFE under the power of corruption And for FORTY WEEKS was the form of Nature subjected for Generations sake after it became thus degenerated into its Principle for the replenishing the Earth anew in the state under which the Worlds were fallen XLV For all that came forth from the Womb of Eternity in FIVE DAYES took form from the Womb of Nature on the FIFTH day of Gods Glory in the Body of Creation and came forth imbodied in the Creaturely form whereby it was separated in its own Region and being as a peculiar SOURCE in the SPHERE wherein it was brought forth thus imbodied in form over which the WHEELS moved in their SEVEN TURNS and overturnings XLVI And all properties in the outward Wheel came forward in the Annual Motion thereof but that which came forth in its DIURNAL Motion went BACKWARD from the first moving cause of all beings in Creatures and things though it was also forward in the course and race which it had to run which in reference to the INWARD WHEEL was SIDEWAYES from EAST to WEST whereby the Wheels came to move through the whole frame of the Heavens both EAST WEST NORTH and SOUTH in its course which was of thirty years of thirty months of thirty dayes and thirty hours XLVII But the course in the Inward Wheel was of TWELVE YEARS making a separation of all that came forth in the twelve hours of the day in the light whereof it was given for man to work and TWELVE HOURS of the night that came stealing on Men and all other Creatures wherein no man can work and of the Twelve MONTHS of the year whereby the hours of the day became multiplied into their number separating between Winter and Summer XLVIII And this was the ground of all ANNUAL Motion in the Wheels which from the fifth day came FIVE YEARS forward wherein God had glory in the work of Separation in its divided Properties and Qualities that made SEVEN REVOLVES in a Week a Month and a Year of a natural Day of TWELVE HOURS divided from the night CHAP. V. Describing the Government of Nature as it was brought forth under the Power of four Forms in the first FOUR BEASTS XLIX THen I saw until the BEAST himself had taken unto him FIVE HEADS and NINE HORNS on each Head was a Horn but on the Head in the midst of the four which was the fifth Head were FIVE Horns and over his Heads and Horns past THIRTY-FIVE DAYES and a course in the Moon was exalted for a season but the Beast was driven EASTWARD and he came forth again and received a Wound on the Head which was in the midst but the Wound was healed up and he was driven from the Face of the Earth and I said Whither is he gone To which the Angel replyed He is gone into the EAST until THIRTY DAYS divide what cometh forth in FIFTEEN YEARS L. But Day and Night being separated in both Worlds in which the Two great Lights were moved about in their over-ruling Power the glory of the Power of Supremacy in GOD became manifest in both grounds to wit the ground and cause of both the DAY and NIGHT for the man whose Face was exalted in the Principle of Air in the Heavens magnified the sufferance of God by his Spirit for a season against the Creature and Creation of God which became a MARR'D IMAGE of the IDEA in all Forms in Nature though it was the Workmanship of his Hands LI. And the Glory and Lustre of all STARS distinguishable in their Operation and Qualities over Coelestial and Terrestrial Bodies became exalted forms which had TINCTURE among the dignified Virtues in Natures Course and Bond of Equality in Government out of which the DRAGON made up his Tail in the division of the Heavens which were moved about and drew the Creature under the power of Destruction LII Though the Body of Light and Glory through which the Suns Lustre came thus to shine was and is UNMOVEABLE except thus in its suffering wherein it did move as it was MOVED and no otherwise for it was not moveable from the Eternal CENTRE in all beings which is unalterable but from or in Nature whereby the fulness of all glory remained incomprehensible but the WORKER was therein apprehended in a shaddow and the glory of God seen darkly as in a Glass LIII For after all forms in the work of Creation were finished according to what I saw come forth out of the Womb of Eternity the WHEELS came to move over these forms in Nature which stood subject to the Power of God in the CHANGE which was come into the WORLDS and the name of the FIFTH DAYES work in God was in the Heavenly Language the ORB of MAHALALEEL in which the QUINTESSENCE of life strove in a Mystery among the forms of Nature LIV. But as the Worlds continued sinking in their state and condition wherein I beheld all things and Creatures thus brough forth that THIRD which aboad exalted in the Region of Air could not come into form in that creaturely being without great hurt and wrong to the Body of Nature therefore were all forms in Nature corrupted into MONSTROUS SHAPES
of a seventh Man in his Nation wherein the Bow-man was concerned for he rode in the Chariot of NATURE as a great PROPHET who continued a just year and was not for God took him to himself in the Revolution of the Heavens until the times of Restitution came for the delivering up of what had been retained in a Mystery and through the loosening of the Angels in the great River Euphrates the Bow-Man came forth manifest in the house of the Angels Exaltation to wit the ninth House of Mansions in the HEAVENS LXXXIII And the eighth Day of the eleventh Month the Woman again conceived and brought forth an Eighth Man formed in his Nation who saw the end of the old and first Worlds And after the revolution of the Second Year I beheld the Moon regaining strength and glory from the course of the Sun from which she borrowed her light And on the second day of the fifth Month of the third year the Moon was strong in her own House of Exaltation whereby the Sun suffered a third Eclipse on his coming into the Heart of Nature which is the House wherein he glorieth as his own LXXXIV And the Woman was delivered of a ninth Man in his Nation for the bringing forth of whom the first seven were destroyed in their Nations yet in him was a Seed preserved to replenish the Earth anew and into the renewed Habitation of Wonders in the Translations of the Body of Nature working among the forms of Creation the substance was taken and gathered but from the Heavens was a Voice The young Mans wound hath cured my hurt CHAP. VIII Describing the wonderful operation of the Vision in the opening of the Heavens testified through the Judgement of God against what came forth imbodied in Form in those seven Nations LXXXV THrough the striving of three Nations from the Womb of Eternity two Generations of Men continued labouring under what was degenerated into the imbodied FORM for Generations-sake And between those three was two Months for the separation of each in their Revolution wherein the Virgin in Nature suffered by the power of Death that entred the Creation of God LXXXVI On the last day of the Seventh Month of the third year died the first Man that became imbodied in FORM from the Womb of Nature as the Virgin in Nature lost her Crown and the Woman also come to suffer Death in Two Generations of Men concerned in the contest in the Heavens but the cause of such pangs and sufferings that rested on the Body of Nature was a fallen ground in the Earthly Principle which stood in and out of the WATERS as a fourth part of the Elemental Worlds and it was the last FORM under the power whereof the Life of the Creature remained suffering LXXXVII For the Seventh FORM in Nature that became imbodied in the Creaturely being was exalted on the Earth which proceeded from the FIERY Heavens from whence the Man took his dominion who was taken up unto God and was not on the last Day of the ninth Month of the third Year And the THIRD that proceeded from the Man imbodied from the Womb of Eternity and that took being amongst the Forms in Nature died in that FIRST Principle after the conclusion of the Eleventh Month and was dissolved in the Earth LXXXVIII But those Two by whom the Woman in Nature came to suffer Death who were slain by the hard labour under which the Creature and Creation of God remaineth groaning died also in the Earth in the Fourth Year The One on the Sixteenth day of the Second month The Other on the sixteenth day of the Fourth month And a Fifth Man imbodied in Form died on the Thirteenth day of the Twelfth month The Sixth on the nineteenth day of the Seventh month of the Fifth year And the Seventh on the Twenty-fourth day of the Seventh month which from the finishing of God's Work into that wonderful frame in the Generation of the Heavens was the Seventeenth day of the seventh month LXXXIX For that which came Seven dayes and seven years Forward in the motion of the WHEELS was brought under five months tryal both by WATER and by FIRE being that which came forth manifest in five Dayes and grew up under the Revolution of Seven Months as the forms of Nature were moved backward under the power of Destruction that through the dissolution of that which came into being fallen under the power of Corruption that which is Heir of Immortality might arise and come to possess a Crown of Rejoycing in God through the work of Restauration of those forms in Nature into their Eternal Existence that have a substantial being in the first forming cause of an IMAGE to the work of Creation XC And while the VISION of God was on me and the ANGEL of God was talking with me I saw the Man that was driven out of the Garden of God which is the Glory of the World in its Paradise came again onward in the way from which he went towards the rest of SELFS Annihilation that had caused the bodily form to come under the power of death who notwithstanding that he remained imbodied in Principles fallen and sunk under the power of Corruption and Destruction in the forms of Nature did yet abide in the WORLD and the World in him until Paradise that was lost and died from him and he from it began again to spring up in the place and condition wherein he was put as considered in that state XCI And from the Heavens I heard a Voice Death and Destruction I am become thy Grave and O Grave I am become thy Plague But dread and fear compassed me about as with a Garment for the miraculous workings of the Power of God in the Vision had bended me until all faculties of my mind became subject to that invisible sence from whence my Spirit received the Illuminations of that which sought to come forth though for a tryals sake to my patience the understanding of that which came up in the MOTION was oft-times sealed before me after I began to write thereof XCII For as I was amongst a number of people assembled to wait upon the Lord I was taken in a TRANCE and my knees smote together trembling because of the fear of God in my Heart and the terror of his Judgments on my Spirit But on that same night as I lay on my Bed I saw the form of a GREAT MAGISTRATE and the Honour and Respect which he had was different from all the powers of the Earth for before him went the form of DEATH as a man walking on his Feet and about him were great Attendance sounding Bells on every side and they continued thus to ring these little Bells till he ascended a place of Judicature where he had great reverence and respect XCIII And amongst the crowd that bended to his power I was acted in the like posture and being otherwise convinced in my Spirit I was smote with great dread
and sought ease by weeping and mourning and coming to sit down by the side of a Wall I was awakened in a sence of the Agony which was upon me after which the glory of the SUN through which I beheld the Wonders of God in the Vision came out of the HEAD of Natures Government descending towards its HEART which was like the Heart of a LYON the Glory of which SUN was exalted in the Head and Face of a RAM amongst the forms of Nature XCIV And in the night season being perfectly awakened I was brought into an inclosed ground which was very dark wherein boisterous storms and tempests were arisen for I was led somewhat out of my way in the conflict and drew towards a little Town near my way wherein I was cruelly dealt withal and though it was late in the night yet I gave up in patience and drew towards a heap of straw in the way-side whereon I lay down to rest me XCV And by the excess of Rain which began to fall I was driven to leave that place also and went into the Fields again where there brake forth before me a WHITE LIGHT in the shape of a SHEEP so far as I could discern it which being round about me in a flame did surprize me with fear whereby the form of the ANGEL vanished and before him went a noise like the crackling of the rotten Hedge which left me much in amazement so that I could not find the way out of the Field or Inclosure in two hours time till I had given up in my mind and forgiven those that thrust me out after which I found my way and came quietly to the Journeys end XCVI After which the Angel of God led me about the circumference of the Worlds to behold the surface thereof and he brought me into a green Field where I saw the frame and form of the HEAVENS and of the Natures of all Creatures in the Worlds and the WHOLE was like unto WATER And there were a THOUSAND Hills and a Thousand Springs of Water And in the same manner as I was acted under the exercise of the Vision so appeared the form of the Worlds wherein came forth a great Number of WOMEN who at last were reduced into SEVEN and each of them sought to lay hold on me but I fled in great fear and lost the sight of the Angels Glory for a time CHAP. IX Declares how I was exercised under the Power of the Vision XCVII AS I was carried by the Spirit of the Lord into a great WILDERNES the Angel of God by whom the Forms of Nature were thus awakened in me brought up the appearance of that Wilderness-state into manifestation in which the Woman continued labouring in the Heavens which Heavens did multiply all forms in Nature into their number and order in which the power of Creation in individual Bodies was separated in its being into two third parts of such forms and the seventh part of the Worlds became corruptible Earth XCVIII From which one THIRD PART thereof was dryed up on the third day wherein Nature had its operation over all Bodies brought into Form in the Work of CREATION which was the TENTH PART of that which remained under the exercise of TRYALS both by FIRE and by WATER and the two third parts of those WATERS were comprehensible in their Qualities from the fiery Heavens whence the circumference of the out-spread Firmament was filled with Airy Bodies and the Earth and Waters were replenished with living Creatures which came under the refining power of those renewing Faculties and Virtues in the forms of Nature imbodied from those WATERS XCIX But what came thus forth in seven natural dayes came under tryal in the operation of three essential days wherein the power of God was manifest for the recovering of a SENCE in the Creature of that work wherein God doth glory and is praised which is the Resurrection of the Just in the first and last power of Creation wherein Majesty is Exalted and therein was manifest A restauration to all forms in NATURE fallen in the WORLDS wherein the MAN who had caused destruction to the Body of Nature was called to account in the Tryal while suffering remained in that third PRINCIPLE in which he was imbodied C. And as the WATERS were gathered together in their Course into the seventh part of the WORLDS which had form in the Earth those two living Creatures called BEHEMOTH or HENOCH Leviathan were separated into their being because it was so ordered in Wisdoms Counsellings that they could not both live together in one place But according to the operation of the day in Nature in which they were brought forth they possessed each part of the Worlds wherein the great WHALE had dominion in the moist part thereof and the Behemoth caused the Image of Giants in the forms of Nature brought forth in Woman in the coming down of the Watchers into the Creaturely conceivance through that which possessed the Earth CI. For in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters living Creatures were multiplied in Airy Bodies from those Fiery Heavens which Creatures possessed that third part of the Worlds in which the Waters were dryed up from the Earth sixty thousand furlongs in its circumference which is the fourth part of what remaineth measurable in the forms of Nature wherein one third part of the Waters is comprehended CII And as the way and course of what was Generated from the HEAVENS above and Earth beneath was traced in the HEIGHTS and DEPTHS of the WORLD there appeared pourtraied forth through the motion of the Wheels in the Vision a GREAT CITY built on seven Mountains which were seven Foundations on which it setled and the Mountain in the Midl of the Seven which was the Seventh stood higher then the rest on which was built and founded the tenth part of the City which I thus beheld CIII In which place it was compassed about with Fowls of the Air and wild Beasts of Prey wherein the Enemy who is the power of Destruction went about continually seeking to betray and devour but I could not conceive that those BRUIT Creatures did build and rear up the Foundation of that City therefore I concluded in my mind that some Men had been there to build its Foundation though their Houses were left unto them DESOLATE And as I was thus musing in my mind concerning these things I came to apprehend my self a wayfaring Man and a wanderer in the World groaning in Spirit to see the issue of what was thus visioned for I came again to behold the form of the Woman in the Heavens that continued in labour and travel in that Wilderness-state until the time of her deliverance was come CIV And as she had conceived the Birth of Life under the power of contrariety that wrought in the HEAVENS through two Nations on which the blessing of God began to rest the Woman prevailed in the World for their bringing forthout of the
the Vegitative Being wherein the TREE of LIFE came to bear twelve sorts of FRUITS changing its Fruit every Month until its Leaves came to heal the NATIONS CXXXIV For that which divided between Principle and Principle in the Worlds said let there be light in the Firmament of the Heavens wherein the Waters are gathered together unto their own PLACE and Light shined from the Firmament of the Heavens in those Waters in the Seperation of all darkening Qualities into its NIGHT of Obscurity which notwithstanding was over-ruled in the hour of Darkness until the second great Light broke forth in the subjected Qualities of that Spirit in the Body of Nature by which the Night hath been ruled CXXXV And those VESSELS that were fitted and prepared for the use of the Creator from the Heavens were ordained to the service of the LORD and MASTER by whom they were imployed and it was the Creators Glory to suffer them to be raised up whatever dishonourable uses they were imployed to which falling under the rage and fury of the ENEMY that first prevailed over the World by those Waters the Vessels in which were God's Tents were notwithstanding preserved and discharged of their Burdens in the manner following through all opposition in the fury of what the Waters were raised unto CXXXVI And whatever the body of Nature travelled under the WOMAN was eased of in the discharge of what was carried on the Waters to a HAVEN of REST of the burthen whereof the Heavens were discharged in the strength of the Storm or according to the decrease of the Waters wherein a third part of those Vessels which were drawn towards the SOUTH came under a Tryal by fire and the seventh part of the Earth was tryed by Waters but that other third part that was drawn towards the NORTH was reserved to a Tryal in the third and last day by the strength of Judgment in both CXXXVII Of the first Vessel the Heavens were eased and unburdened on the first day of the ninth Month whereby the World was first planted in that which hath overspread its QUARTERS and the time wherein I beheld the Heavens to be discharged was two dayes after the last quarter of the Moon in the eight month whereby the Work of God in the seven dayes wherein it was finished and setled recovered the Ides of that Month after new Moon and on the last day of the ninth month which was the first day after the first quarter of the Moon the Heavens were unburdened of a Second NATION in bodily Form into that second Vessel And in the conclusion of the ninth Month called KISU because it did bring Tempests before it the Waters were fallen back in the Degrees whereunto it overflowed by measure CXXXVIII And on the third day of the eleventh month vvhich vvas the third day after new Moon the Heavens vvere unburdened of a third Vessel but the tenth month being concluded vvhich vvas called THEBET because of comfort in bad times Israel began to forget the dayes of her MOURNING for the name of the Angel of God vvas called HEBER that had the conduct of that third Vessel and the name of that eleventh month vvas called SHEBAT because a Judge vvas brought up in that Vessel in the midst of the seven that svvayed the Scepter in ISRAEL CXXXIX And on the second day of the twelfth month vvhich vvas two dayes after new Moon the Earth and Worlds became divided in the dispersing abroad of the Waters vvhich continued decreasing until the end of seven months vvhereby the tops of the Mountains vvere beheld and the Worlds came forward to their day of Tryal vvherein the WATERS setled about the form of the Earth CXL For from the time that the WATERS decreased I measured them up to the Neck of the GIANT in the Forms of Nature after the measure of a Man which is the Angel And I observed their order in the falling back wherein the first Head of the River called PISON compassed about the Land of HAVILAH into which fell the Golden Head of the Image after the River was divided into four Heads And thence came forth the ASSYRIAN in the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations that came out of the seven Vessels according to the seven Months of the YEAR in which the WATERS decreased wherein the Revolution of all Powers in Nature thus imbodied came under a second Tryal by Fire CXLI And according to the NATURE of the EARTH in which the Worlds were setled in their sinking condition there was GOLD and BDELLIUM and the ONIX STONE and that Gold was good for it was Gold of OPHIR wherein was discovered the Beauty and Luster of what first fell in the WORLDS backward course and now was come forward for manifestation sake And under the second Head of the River called GIHON which compasseth about the Land of Ethiopia that hath its Spiritual signification among the Names in Nature fell the Silver Breast of the Image CXLII But on the fifth day of the first month which was five days after new of the Moon a fifth Vessel came forward in which the Heavens were unburdened of that which came forth manifest in the Line of Blessing to the discharge of the Powers of NATURE in God for whom the Bowels of the Earth were torn up that the replenishing forms in Nature might over-spread it in the New Created Being and the name of the twelfth month was called ADAR because of an excelling Governour that came forth to sway the Scepter in Israel CLXIII And on the fourth day of the second month which was five dayes after new Moon a sixth Vessel was unburdened in the Heavens through the discharge of the Power of God in the Body of Nature and he came forth under the conduct of a strong ARM wherein was displayed from the Heavens a Banner flying and the name of the first month was called JEHOVAH NISSAN but among the forms in Nature it had a name in the Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of the Green Ear. CXLIV For on the third day of the third month which was the fourth day after new Moon there was beauty on the new Created EARTH among the Forms in Nature because of the Flowers that did shine bright in the finishing of that second month which was called ZIV. because of the lustre in the Heavens but in the Earth it is Jar because of the Vail and Covering preceeding And I turned me towards the place in which I beheld the Form of the Image and I beheld the falling of the BRAS BELLY under the third Head of the River called HIDEKEL and there was nought remaining but the stumps of the Image which fell under the fourth HEAD of the River called EUPHRATES in which it was bound down in my sight with an Iron Bond for the stumps remained in the Earth until seven times past over my Head in which the Wheels were moved about in their seven Turns and overturnings THE SECOND PART With
of God's Spirit and they were prepared in time that came up in the Hours of the day and dayes of the Month and months of the year into Number and Order wherein the substance of what Nature was ordained to manifest is become measurable and intelligable XXIV For herein is made manifest a Government springing up from the Head and Heart and Womb of Nature through which the Body of Nature was placed in subjection to an unchangeable and everlasting Power of renewing in God whereby I came to discern of those three in Heaven that bear Record to wit the FATHER and Creator of all Spirits and Principles of Nature into being and the WORD through which the Creature was brought into the lovely form of Sonship and the Holy Ghost which is the Power of the Word in the Creature as he is acted in the Will of the Creator and these three are one witness for God in the Heavens as a Sun of that Glory whereby the Creation of God is enlightned CHAP. III. Describing the Forms of Nature as they are wrought up in the the changings of the renewing Power in God XXV AND this was manifest in Terrestrial Bodies through the three that bear Record on EARTH to wit the Spirit of God which first breathed on the WATERS which is a power of all individual Spirits in Natural Bodies formed and the Waters themselves on which it thus breathed and the BLOOD inkindled in the fire of Life through which those Waters do ebb and flow to the Creature that hath the imbodied being of Soul and Spirit And those three also agree in one and are one Witness for God in Terrestrial Bodies wherein the MOON hath prevailed to dignifie her course that turneth Waters into the Blood of the Spirit of Life in that borrowed light wherein she hath exercised her dominion under the Power of Corruption XXVI This therefore did I observe in the Motion of the WHEELS that the ground of their Motion was everlasting whereby that which had not any beginning in the Will and Wisdom of Eternities Power of Existence took being in time and place wherein every thing that was created into Form became conceiveable and comprehensible in the imbodied being of NATURE as it stands thus fallen under the Power of Corruption wherein the Work of God hath been narrowed to the sence of the Creaturely capacity and from the CENTRE in which is an eternal stilness will every man receive his reward according to his WORKS and to what he hath sown in the Body of Nature thus fallen under the tryals of a cross to the Creaturely affection XXVII Though every thing is brought forth in its order which is again to be reduced into its Center as all Powers of Nature come to run their race in what is awakened and come forth in time and place to the judgment of Eternity against all such Powers of Darkness wherein I beheld the EARTH standing in and out of the Waters from whence the Light shined in each principle in which the separation was made between the Darkness which was expelled from the new Created Forms in Nature and driven into its Center wherein the Creation remained groaning under its NIGHT of sorrow as in the fallen Properties that proceeded out of the Womb of Nature in which Self became imbodied in the Creature of God which was and is the cause of the fall and of all degeneration in Spirits and Properties of Nature in those Principles XXVIII And out of this EARTH sprung up all that lay hid under the Power of Corruption thus formed into being in time and place which was a fourth part of the WORLDS in form as its two third parts were separated into the Waters above and under the Firmament resting under the Government of those four Beasts in the forms of Nature over which the Wheels moved their third turn separating between all Creatures that abode in the Region of Air and those that rested on the EARTH and in those Waters under the Firmament who were enlightned by the three Glories of the Father that shined from the Heavens above the Firmament wherein the Worlds stood manifest in their renewed Principles after this third turn of the Wheels XXIX For the Seal of God being on his peculiar Number of faithful Ones though little in the Eye and esteem of the World a Cloud of Darkness remained over the day in which they had glory until the seventh Seal of God was taken off from the Book of Life in which their names were written among the WONDERS of God whereby I beheld each Beast in the Forms of Nature take unto him six Wings in which were six thousand Feathers and six thousand Names of Men on each Wing and on each Beast were thirty six thousand Feathers and names of Men which became a great Army in the Heavens of one hundred forty four thousand names of Men according to the four Wings of what came forth first manifest on the Back of the LYON wherein each Wing of the Army in the Heavens was dispersed to its Quarters on the Earth And the Wheels were moved about in their fourth turn over all Principles in Nature thus come forth into form in its time of Tryal XXX Which was very miraculous to behold that through all this striving and contest in the Heavens not one Fether of those Beasts was diminished though the Wings of the Beasts in those forms of Nature were suffered to be pluckt and were taken from off the Back of those living Creatures on which they sought to rest and settle And after an Angel of the Sun came forth in the Glory of the Son of Man there stood a second Angel of God who daily ministreth at the Altar of God hath power over FIRE and he rode on a WHITE Cloud and I heard a voice from the Heavens the number of Gods chosen are Sealed and they are faithful Witnesses and Followers of the LAMB and I beheld out of the Temple of God Trumpets sounding forth Praises and Hallelujahs to him that Rules and sits on high until the four Angels of God became loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES and stood on the four Corners of the Earth and held the four Corners of the Winds from blowing XXXI But the Earth was exercised with great afflictions and the Waters also and all that lived therein and moved thereon were come under sore Tryals in one third part thereof and the cry was very grievous because of the burning Coals that were taken from the Altar of God and flung on the Earth which caused Tempests therein and from the Heavens proceeded Thunders and Lightnings and great Hail after all motion therein began to cease and that I had beheld a silence in the Heavens for the space of half an hour XXXII For as the WINDS of the Heavens were at rest wherein the Spirit of God ceased to strive any more with his Creature neither suffered the breath of its Almighty Power to blow any more on
as it is in themselves though many have learned in this day to adde to their Faith Vertue and Patience and all good Fruits of the Spirit of God because of the Experience of the Work of Faith which through Patience they are kept in the sence of in the midst of Fiery Tryals and they hold fast the begettings of God thereby in a confidence of good in him XI And then as they increase in Knowledge it is on a good ground and foundation that hath learned them to rejoyce in the FLAMES of DEVOURING FIRE whose devouring QUALITY cannot reach their SENCE with any BITTERNESS of its Sting but through Patience and Submission thereto it is made sufferable and the Cross is made easie therein and the BURDEN light because of a quenching property in that love against whatever maketh the Judgement of God to be unsufferable Torment to his Creature for part of their Knowledge is that it is not only given them to believe but to suffer for the namesake of God though in the beginning of the Work of Faith the belief that was wrought by the Spirit of God in them is a Convincer of sin under which there was and is a suffering in the nature that hath contracted the guilt thereof on the Soul by unity of Spirit therewith even the Spirit and God of the World XII Further knowing and being perswaded in patience to wait for the perfecting of the Work of God in the Heart in that Faith and belief of the love of God therein shed abroad that they are kept sensible of a good experience of the Work thereof having the Testimony of a good Conscience to manifest the same in the World these can shew their Faith by its Works and have a birth thereof that makes not ashamed of a good CONFESSION among Men and the fained Humility and appearances of Love from the untimely Fruit of the Womb that can never come to see the glory of the Sun of this day withereth in its way for that which can indure and hold out to the End worketh by the love of God that hath begotten into a lively hope concerning the Resurrection from the Dead having a Life tinctured in the Souls reach after true Charity in God and Love unfained which is the highest attainment in a Christians state and the greatest Gift that can be attained by men under the Bond of Perfection XIII Sealing the Work in which God doth glory and delight in that which is made able to pass through the stroke of Death to leave an Earnest of the expectations of the Creature after the day of Redemption in that which is much more pretious than that of Gold that perisheth But how have I seen many in this day loading themselves with the Fancy and Imaginations of their disquieted Mind and then being burdened with a Fear and Jealousie that ariseth from the Unbelieving Heart and distrustful ground they are ready to cry out of the Burden of the Lord whereas their own words and thoughts are become their Burden who have taken that on them which God never layd on them and yet they make the concern for the Lords sake that lays no more on any than they are made able to bear in the Life of Patience XIV And in this ground stand all the several Separations and hasty receivings into Fellowships with sudden hands laid on Proselytes for herein is the ground of prejudice swayed by the creaturely affection yet in this mind may be maintained a fierce and fiery Zeal for the opiniatedness that may often call for fire to come down from Heaven and to have Vengeance and Plagues speedily executed on such against whom their Spirit is bent for having wished evil in their Hearts and mischief against the Persons of such towards whom they cannot admit of any CHARITABLE thoughts they proceed in a hasty Prophecy of their utter confusion and then would they rather that both Soul and Body of the subject over whom they seek to be avenged in that rejoycing should for ever perish than that they should be found False Prophets so evil a thing it is to be engaged in a Spirit of Enmity and Envy XV. But such Extremities many have this day put themselves on through rash censure and then run back to former Ages and Generations of the World for a President and Example to help them out as they think whereby they oft are ready to plead the lawfulness of cursing their Adversary who standeth not justified in their sight and approbation because ELISHA was once acted in that Ministration through the heat and zeal of his Spirit it being so far from their nature to live in that which is wayting for the Worlds redemption from sin and reconciliation to God that they rather strengthen their FURY in the expectation of utter Consumption and Destruction on all that cannot for wraths sake stoop to their perswasions and it is the end of such willings to see a People perish in their sins XVI Because of that mis-informed Zeal under which their Spirits are acted against the Enemies and Foes of that Cause for which they have found the life imboldened towards God according to the quickning of his Spirit as tinctured with that Power before which the Heavens have opened and do shut and in the like desire THEY are moved as was HE before whom Fifties were destroyed whose Spirit resteth Judgement on a Ground wherein God hath prepared Messengers to go before his face But considering the difference in Administrations that Zeal which runneth out after an Object to maintain the heat of Spirit against which it is enkindled is not now held and retained in the like Cause and Ground as that in which it first appeared XVII For God is gone out of that Administration as acted towards the Persons of Men in their Generations and cannot own any glory therein but as that which had a Testimony of his day in the Prophecy thereof wherein the Messengers went before his Face in a sence of that terror that was come on the Wicked World because such that wear the soft Cloathing are got into Kings Houses and they shall no more wear a rough Garment or prophesie in their Sackcloth Robes therefore whom would men go out to see since Times are come that the Sacrifice of the Rebellious savoureth of the Work of Death and there is not fire enough to kindle the combustible matter in the House on the top of which they are exalted while the Displeasure of God continueth unawakened in the Pleasure and Will of Men that bring Wood but where is the Flame of that other Spirit which God requireth even of Reconciliation to Himself in the Life of Forgiveness in that which is able to Appease and Quench the Wrath and Rage of the devouring Enemy and make Friends in the Well-Beloved Life XVIII Yet where is Love and Forgiveness enough to heap Coals of Fire on the Heads of Enemies the Gift hath been first left at the Altar and such
God I have a hand reached forth to the helpless towards whom my tender Bowels are moved that they may partake of this VISITATION which is given for the sake of many and great NATIONS This great Salvation of God being revealed to all them that are made partakers with him in the Faith of God's Elect in which the like pretious Promises do work V. To all the People of God whether gathered or ungathered my love reacheth forth though most especially to the scattered Nations over all the Earth that are the Houshold of Faith in which it is not only given them to believe but also to suffer for his Names sake whom they profess Love Mercy and Peace together with all fruits of the Spirit of God to the Brethren of him who is come to possess the Life of Patience under the sufferance of the Spirit of this World through the Revelation of JESUS the Son of God by whom the whole Glory of the TEMPLE of God was brought forth into which entered the Hoast of the Heavens the SEVENTH day wherein God came to rest in the finished settlement of that in which all labour ceased as to the working power of his Spirit in the frame of the Creature and Creation that is become the workmanship of the Father VI. I am filled I am filled with the motion of his Power in the workings up of his informing Spirit that sendeth forth its sound through an Earthen Vessel and in as much as its concern is Universal the peculiar relation and respect which it hath unto People of those Generations is the breathings of Life from a follower of the Lamb of God And the Life of the JUST in his Name that is faithful and true and full of long-suffering and that which is certified concerning these things is what will assuredly be fulfilled and shortly come to pass VII Therefore blessed are they that can read or hear and in whom there is a heart inclined to understand the MYSTERIES herein wherein the Testimony of TRUTH is confirmed amongst the CHURCHES in the Spirit of Jesus unto which Churches in the WORLDS in their divided quarters JESUS who is the Author and Finisher of the Faith of God's Elect whose Nature had glory in raising up that Body out of the Grave and from the power of Death and Destruction in three dayes is now dispersing bowels in which are the Fountains of all good that have been sealed and shut up but are now freely set open for sin and for uncleanness for Judah and Jerusalem VIII And thus saith the Antient of days the AMEN the FIRST and the LAST who hath glory in the Work of God through the Redemption of Souls up unto himself come wash and be clean for he that is faithful and true hath yet a little while a gathering Hand and Arm stretched out towards you all the Bride saith Come as hath been the Voice of the Spirit of God which by many hath been rejected But yet hear what the Spirit saith unto the CHURCHES IX Unto the Churches of ASIA and the ANGELS of these Churches saith the Beloved of God O yet gather if it be possible and behold the Wing of Mercy and everlasting Salvation hovering over you your works have been tryed in the fire and hitherto they have not made weight in the Ballance of Gods Sanctuary neither are they able to stand before him but are like the STUBBLE in his way and are driven before the Bow of his Fury X. Yea unto thy PRINCES saith the AMEN of all Glory in Heaven and Earth bend your Necks to the Yoak and learn to Plow else sorrow wil be your portion To thy PRIESTS I say Howl Lament and be threshed upon the FLOOR by him that can handle the FLAIL to thy PROPHETS I say Take the Cup and drink a mighty draught for as ye have had your fills of Pleasure on the Earth so shall you drink your full Portion of sorrow howling and lamentation XI I know all thy works and thy doings for the secrets of thy Heart are not hid from me thou exalted HORN of ASIA PERSIA and MEDIA are the strength of thine ARM ye Daughters of K'TURAH therefore be ye wakened in time and behold how the ASSYRIAN is broken on the right Hand and on the left XII And unto the ANGELS of the Churches Mystically in AMERICA in thee are a People whom God will yet gather to his Praise but thou wilt be broken as a Potters Vessel and turned on a fiery Hearth Thou hast of the Captivated TRIBES and scatterd-broken-off-branches bound in Chains under thy quarter let them forth for the mighty Day of God is Proclaimed and come XIII Unto the Angels of the Churches in AFRICA write what is ready to befal them in the Day and Hour of their Exaltation Since thou wast lifted up thy day is measured and when thou wast cast down thou hast been warned Yet once more hear pitty the Captives and give of thy Bread to him that cometh under the smiting of the South Wind lest when the awakened North Wind returns its blown Breath out of the Bellows of the Almighty it make thy burthen more then thou art able to bear XIV Thy Feet must tread on Mire and Clay and in like manner will Feet be set over thee But thou the darkest of Countreys I have many NAMES to be gathered out of thee therefore hasten and return when thy WORK is done and remember that thou art warned of what shall come to pass lest on the one hand thou shouldst be heightned in the day of thy Exaltation or left without information of that which will befall thee when thou art cast down for as thou dost unto others to wit the Captivity of the North so will it be done unto thee in the return of measure and weight XV. Say not any more I am strong for one of thy PRINCES is strong above thee and the Daughters of thy Land that have made up thy agreement with the King of the North will not retain the ARM nor prevail in thy strength and Dominion though thou carry away Captive the Inhabitants of that Land whose King hath reigned more years then the King of the South XVI Repent therefore quickly is the Voice of the Angel lest I come and smite thee unawares and remember when that is loosed and awakened which hath been compassed about by PISON and GIHON he that invadeth a strange Land shall place his glorious Habitation between the Seas that the scattered TRIBES may behold the Glorious City which they have been seeking and come forth into the NORTH to see a place prepared in the Kingdom by the Father for ASIA hath faln and is turned to Idols and hath given heed to lying Vanities XVII But both of you shall be purged together in a fiery Furnace until your supplication for Mercy be made able to prevail therefore let thy Princes consider for whom the controversie betwixt two great Kings doth work and thou that wert
raised up for the making known the Power of God and the Vessels fitted for destruction know that thy time is numbred to fill up the TWELVE years wherein the King was subject to K'DORLAOMER XVIII I counsel thee therefore in the Seed capable of gathering that thou come forth from among the Robbers and Spoilers of my People and let not thy horn be exalted because of the King of the North that is delivered into thy hands for a season for both your hearts have been set to do mischief and ye have spoken lies at one TABLE but that little space that is given thee to repent is to humble thee that thy Soul may live and thou not die in thy Iniquity XIX Now let him that is hungry come and let all that are thirsty come and drink a mighty draught at the Fountain of endless Mercy for this is the day of Mercy proclaimed towards a stiff-necked People a Rebellious House This is your day and hour to repent and return to God and there is not another season for Mercy or to mend that which is amiss for ye are become a wicked People but he that hath an Ear may hear though the hardned must remain in their guilt and the unclean be unclean still XX. For the spot of the LEOPARD cannot be washed off nor the skin of the Aethiopian changed and the filthy must have time to fill up their measure that it may be known that they are left without excuse who have slighted timely warning when the hour is come that they are concluded in the WILL of that which continueth filthy still The FIRST PART CHAP. I. The beginning of the REVELATION describing the Vision of the WHEEL in its Motion I. ACcording to the space of time before mentioned as I was waiting upon the Lord with my heart deeply exercised in his fear and dread the glory of what for a long season I had been visited with descended upon me in a Tempest and WHIRLWIND and I beheld until the Tempest was over yet the Whirlwind remained whilst I was taken into the Habitation of Wonders and the Glory of the Angel of God compassed me about in the form of TWO WHEELS moving one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel II. By which means I came to the sight of TWO WORLDS standing the one in the other in the manner and form of the Wheels moving the one in the other as a World within a World And while I was thus beholding the Vision thereof the Power of the LIVING CREATURES that moved in the Wheels overcame me for the Spirit of the Living Creatures that moved in the Wheels was in the Wheels and it rested on my left Arm in form of a STAR and quivered in the Blood of my Body betwixt the skin and flesh of my left Arm for many dayes continuing thus upon me III. For in that in which the Worlds were setled and sought rest there was a continuance and abiding under subjection to such Power though faln from what it was in the first work of Gods Creation of all FORMS into being for the first FIVE dayes I thus beheld it and in every of these five dayes I saw a change and alteration in the Face of the HEAVENS which was like unto WATERS IV. Whose way and course I observed until the whole frame of the Worlds became like unto a SEA of GLASSE mingled with Fire and in the midst of these Waters broke forth a CLOUD which moved up and down like a Mans HAND and the Form of a Man was wrought up through the Cloud travelling in the Heavens with his Hands on his Loyns in whom was a sence of pangs and hard labour from whence I beheld a strugling and striving on the Face of the Waters as from the WOMB of ETERNITY of TWO NATIONS to come forth into appearance and manifestation V. And from the Heavens I heard a cry of pangs and hard suffering because of the labour and travel which the Body of NATURE was subjected under for such sufferings sake which was like to the sorrow of a Child-bearing-WOMAN who had brought to the Birth but had not power to bring forth until the appointed time of deliverance from the Father was come VI. But as the Womb of Eternity became eased of its suffering and hard labour the strugling and striving rested and seized on the Body of Nature wherein the Travel remained and continued until the END of TIME and PLACE For on the Face of the Waters on which the SPIRIT of God did breath while a Cloud of darkness was over and covered the face of the mighty Deeps was hidden the form of all CREATURES thus come forth VII And the Womb of NATURE was also opened in and before me in which instant was made intelligible to my understanding the working of all forms in Nature that strove to come up in the bodily Frame and Temper that stood in the ground and cause of such suffering VIII And the NAME of the FIRST DAY was called LIGHT because in it the Light and Darkness were separated and divided and in this day came forth all that stood hidden in the Womb of Eternity in the form and likeness of WATERS that were of a distinct quality and operation in the creaturely being until the Word of God had commanded them into form through the work of Creation IX For as the division and separation of such Powers-work through the WORD of God wrought up the Will of the Worker into appearance and manifestation the WATERS had their enlightning quality and property in the separated beings shining out from the Face of that which gathered together in the Heavens from the three that therein bare Record yea and in the work of the first dayes separation which was betwixt Light and Darkness in these Waters on which the Spirit of God breathed in the light-part of the Waters which was the Face of the Heavens therein there became exalted the HEAD and FACE of a Man for a season and in the darkness or dark parts which is the dark parts thereof I saw working hiddenly the form of a FIRE-DRAKE or Serpent called Satan and the Dragon the old deceiver of mankind who was got behind God in the coming forth of his Glory in his Son or Image X. And the Waters that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity out of which sunk all forms in Nature that took being in the earthly frame and form being gathered together into one PLACE became an overflowing scourge and inundation of miseries and were like unto a great SEA which was the gathering together of all that came forth out of many Fountains and Rivers of Water XI Which thus I beheld until the SECOND DAY was passed over wherein was made a separation betwixt Waters and Waters that thus came forth out of the Womb of Eternity in a Mystery And in the Womb of Nature was the MATRIX of conception brought into a working frame wherein the SPERMATIC Vessels of the
I beheld the Worlds moved two wayes for the bringing forth of those two Nations for which the Woman was in Labour in Her two dayes Travel and there were two dayes difference between them as they thus came forth in that which brought all forms in Nature under a power of Corruption and Destruction CXVI Of the One she was delivered on the tenth day of that fourth Month and of the Other on the twelfth day of the same Month which through a backward drawing in the Worlds did cause the Month to be divided in the account of dayes for he that came first forth drew the power of the Heavens Northward whereby the second who came under the power of the Awakened South wind and whose Face was Southward drew the Worlds under the power of the Waters through which that second Man was exercised in his Dominion by the Increase and Decrease of the Waters for the full term of a Year which I beheld in the accomplishment of that sixth Year CXVII And in a Month and twelve dayes did they increase to their height though they continued prevailing on the Earth for five Months and for seven Months did they fall backward the conflict of which Year I beheld in which time I saw the form of the two Men in their Nations awakened in the Worlds and wandering in that Wilderness both under the Denomination of VAGABONDS for they appeared like Wanderers and Wayfaring Men in the Earth and there was a third Man in form that came forth in the condition of a Wanderer or Vagabond CXVIII The one of them I beheld flying from those Wild Beasts of PREY that possessed that desolate Place and that which he fled from was the danger of pernicious wayes under the Beasts power who made hast to flee out of Babylon lest he should partake of her Plagues and thus flying he sought another and better Countrey and City but the other by means of a discontent with the pleasure and delight in the state of the glory in which that City and Countrey was first Planted hunted after another and better state then that in which was the first blessing of God and so wandred from and lost its first Habitation which was defaced under the Enemies power and become fallen under the workings of corruption and darkness and thus by conforming to and complying with the Enemies Power he became really a VAGABOND from the Lord and from the Glory of his City and Habitation though in the World he may have a Habitation very Glorious and be Lord of a City in the Earth CXIX But the third that I saw bore the AFFLICTIONS and abode in the CAUSE thereof until he became hardned under the Enemies Power and suffered the sting of that which overtook him in the Wilderness which rested in the GROUND of DESTRUCTION to the first Beauty and Glory of God in the Work of Creation for having neglected his own VINEYARD whereby his BROTHER was SLAIN who was made keeper of his VIRGIN and his Garden being thereby overgrown with WEEDS and Nettles and Bryers the Thorns of Corruption he was made Keeper of the VINEYARD of his BROTHER and the Keeper of the Living LAMB of GOD and SHEEP of that everlasting sold having his Life made a Sacrifice unto GOD as Inquisition came to be made for Blood when the Voice came Where is thy Brother and he replyed Am I my Brothers Keeper CXX And so came the Man that was thus made a Steward over that which was his Brothers right as his Birth-right therein was lost and forsited over which Vineyard he was appointed as a Keeper and Dresser as a Servant in the Minority of the Heir and owner thereof in the Resurrection of that which was first and is last the Elder Brother of all that believe in the Spirit of the JUST to Challenge a SELF-INTEREST PROPRIETY therein and refused to give the Owner Due and Right but did beat the SERVANTS that were sent for the Last Fruits thereof and sent them empty away and in the end slew the Lamb and Son himself and scattered his Sheep from the Flock and Fold of Everlasting Rest which became a daily Sacrifice unto God in the suffering State and Principle to reconcile the WORLD unto himself through the destruction of the evil therein in that Nature that saith SECRETLY Come let us kill the Heir that the Inheritance may be ours CHAP. XI Describing the Nature of the World in its faln Principles through the Bondage of the Power of Corruption CXXI FOR while I beheld both these Wayfaring Men in that WANDERING conditon the WATERS did MULTIPLY in abundance and became a GREAT SEA and the Angel of God shewed me a VESSEL that was erected and built in the Heavens in four Months in which was the Pattern of that Heavenly Form which through the Government of God was manifest in the Heavens of an Angelical World in that all forms in Nature fell under the Power of Corruption and Destruction while I beheld Gods and Lords many concerned in the dominion of those THREE PRINCIPLES in Nature because of dishonorable USES in which their LORD imployed them though the whole three were comprehended in that which was built and erected in the HEAVENS CXXII And the Lord-like Mind and Spirit that could not suffer any thing to be equal with it or to ballance that self-conceit through which he sought to subject all to his own Will was betrayed and is the Betrayer from the lovely TENT of the Plain Man whereby he weighed and measured in that selfish-will what was proper to his state that would rule alone and purchase an Authority and Dominion that was absolute that he might be chief in the WORLDS though for preheminence sake he ventured the destruction of Glory in that state under the workings of which the FIRST PRINCIPLE in Nature led the Man that was first brought forth under a suffering condition CXXIII For the MAN who was become PLANTER of a Vineyard under the Power of Corruption grew slothful therein and as he was surfeited with the Fruit thereof I beheld his nakedness in the TENT wherein he was placed though self was exalted and rejoyced because of what was brought forth from the Ground of CORRUPTION that was thus tilled and torn up under the power of the Enemy for Materials wherewith the CITY was built thus pourtraied forth in the Vision therefore was that CITY called by his Name HENOCH or the Son of Man in those fallen Principles who was become a discoverer of the nakedness of that and of himself therein which was by Nature his FATHER and a Revealer of the SECRETS thereof in the Forms of Creation possessing a REGION in the Seventh Part of the WORLD that is separated from the MOYST CXXIV And this Third Principle in Man and Third Man in those three Principles who were in the cause of Destruction to the GLORY of the CITY which I saw through whom notwithstanding it became Built under that POWER of
the BOOK and on the day of the first Beast in Nature I beheld the coming forth of the great LYON that stood Rampant in the WHEELS among the forms in Nature and he called to his DAY Come and see And I beheld on the back of the LYON four Wings of a Fowl in which were thirty six thousand Fethers in each Wing and therein were written so many names of Men for the Wings were of Golden Feathers and his Face was towards the WEST VI. But on the coming forth of this first BEAST the Winds were moved and greatly strove on the face of the WATERS which were gathered together in heaps on the great SEAS And in the Night season there broke forth flashes of Lightning and Fire under the Roof of the House wherein I was exercised with the Vision of the WONDERS of God and his Glory which the PEOPLE saw but understood not the Mystery thereof and great fear fell upon them being not usually exercised with things of that Nature but I laid up all these things in my Heart until I came to know the meaning thereof VII And I cryed unto the Lord with a loud Voice What is the Mystery of all these things that I have seen For loe I am become weak and feeble like a little Child and have beheld until nought was remaining in the Heavens but a Sealed Book under the Power of a Strong Angel of God and it hath been taken to the Learned to Read but they said Lo it is Sealed and we cannot read nor open the Book or loose the Seals thereon and also to the hands of the unlearned it hath been communicated and they say We are not learned so that through the power of the Lyon it hath been shut up for a long season that hath caused weeping in the Heavens VIII And through the loosing of the Seals of God from off the Book of Wonders that was taken out of the Angels Hand at the appearance of the Lamb of God that taketh away sin from the WORLD and that was slain from the Foundations thereof that in the Fathers time he might come forth a Witness of the fulfilling of the daily Sacrifice unto God I beheld the Lamb with his seven Horns full of Eyes as the seven Spirits of God that walketh among the seven Golden CANDLESTICKS and are like unto seven Lamps of fire burning which are seven Stars in the Angel of God whose form is like unto the Son of Man and who travelled among the Churches who are saluted in their seven Angels until a second Seal on the Book became loosed in my sight IX And the second Beast with the Face and in the form of a Cherub or Calf called to his day Come and see and I beheld on the EARTH the form of a great BULL and he came at his Liberty and came towards me with Violence breaking over all bonds in his way and though I had by me a Weapon of Defence yet had I not power to use it to that end but was otherwise preserved from hurt of that Wild Beast But as the West Wind was reproved as the Waters were moved on the great SEAS by the striving of the Winds the second Beast roared rearing himself on his hinder Legs whereby he stood upright which was terrible to behold X. And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue Then I beheld the BULL cast into a deep and dark Pit in Nature while the fourth Beast in the forms of Government in the Body of Nature was set to watch over him by the third Beast with the Face of a MAN for as the third Seal on the Book came to be loosed and taken off the third Beast called to his day Come and see And I beheld from the Face of the Heavens wherein a course of Glory in the Sun of the day of the Son of Man was comprehended in the Heart of the Lyon that night which was come into the Body of Nature was dispersed and the power of the Heavens over the forms in Nature were divided into four Parts in the coming forth of the Worlds into manifestation XI Then appeared the form of a little BEAR that arose on the LYONS side and he took three Ribs out of the Lyons side and held those three Ribs in his Mouth for a long season And from the Tail of the little Bear among the Signs in the Heavens the Power of the DRAGON was loosed and appeared among the Forms in Nature who made up his Tail out of a third Part of the Stars in the Heavens which were drawn towards the NORTH XII And I beheld until the LYONS Wings were pluckt from him and he stood on the EARTH like a Man and a Mans HEART was given unto him for out of the EAST came the form of a RAM with two Horns and his pushing was three wayes to wit WEST and NORTH and SOUTH and when he had lifted up the BULL out of the PIT he was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth And in the Heavens was the form of the WOMAN exalted in the Bulls Eye called Oculus Tauri And she had in her Hand a Crown of twelve Stars which was taken from her Head and put on the Head of the Lyon CHAP. II. Describing the Motion of the Wheels in their seven turnings over all that came forth into manifestation in the loosing of the seven Seals on the the Book c. XIII BUT as the fourth Beast called to his day Come and see through the loosing of the fourth Seal on the Book I saw the Face of an EAGLE in the Heavens in whose right Eye the form of the VIRGIN in Nature was exalted among the Forms and the second great light in the Heavens was comprehended in the Breast of a great Bear who had also the four WINGS of a Fowl on his Back And the Winds again strove on the great Seas wherein the WATERS were greatly moved in the coming forth of this fourth Beast XIV And as the MAN prevailed in the Heavens I beheld all consumed which stood under the Power of the Waters and the Name of the third Month was called SIVAN in the Nature of what was produced from the Heavens whence came a Voice from the Heart of the LYON in the fiery Heavens Let the Light shine into the Earth that that which is done may appear and be seen And the form of the Heavens stood divided in a double Relation of that which is comprehended in Day Night wherein the Day in Nature had its two-fold Operation over all forms subjected into being in that State and the Clouds of the Heavens were folded up together wherein I saw the form of the RAM coming down out of the Head of Nature descending the right Arm of the Man in the forms of Nature and there went up towards his Head the form of a HEE GOAT mighty and strong and there was labour in the Heavens for the space of sixty one
Beauty which setled that which was therein finished on those seven Mountains or high Hills that became its Foundations and they had an eighth Mountain LXVII These are the Mountains on which descended the Form of what ever was first built and erected in the Heavens setled among the forms in Nature wherein the fashions of all glory in the Worlds are decaying and are ready to pass away though it seemeth to be adorned with magnificence with Towers great and strong and its situation very pleasant and beautiful while the antient breach that hath been made thereon in its ruinated state many are seeking to prop up by worldly inventions the discovery of which is become the torment of the Worldly Spirit that hath sought a Life therein LXVIII And the Angel of God shewed me the whole frame of this building and bid me tell its Towers and count its Foundations and number its Mountains and behold its Situation that it may be said in Generations to come This is she of whom we were forwarned And while the Angel of God was thus talking with me I beheld the appearance of a living Creature that weaved out of his BOWELS the form of the Heavens and it stood in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters as between the Heavens and the Earth LXIX As to the living Creature he had eight Legs and through the Clouds of the Heavens which were over the face of the Waters he weaved out of his Bowels Coverings like unto the Spiders Web which had their course and motion according to the frame of the Worlds in their Corners and Quarters wherein his labour was in the Night in the distance of Degrees from the Sun of the Glory of the Son of Man formed in the Clouds of the Heavens which went before and came after the Sun of such Glory in which the Creation of God was first formed and brought forth who had his Star called HESPER and VESPER as Morning and Evening Stars And I beheld and hearkened until a Voice came from Heaven like unto those four Thunders which passed before me which had an interpretation among the sounds in Nature and the Voice was Over hundreds they have moved a hundred times as over ten thou movest because of Wages that have been changed ten times but over one I am once moving and the dividing of times hath discovered a time that was Mans glory to see and behold while good followed the WORLD in the state wherein it was planted though times are past in that wherein the Wheels have made a difference LXX And the fifth Thunder thundered from the New Jerusalem that descended from above out of Heaven as a BRIDE that is readily adorned for her Husband the Voice of which did reach into the great CITY that is Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord lyeth Crucified and Slain Wherein I saw the fall of that which was setled on five of those Mountains and the sixth Foundation was also shaken that the seventh might come up and be revealed and in that seventh were the seven manifest from whence the WORLDS had bubled through the renewing of all forms in Nature which were tryed by Tempests until Gods goodness came up through that which swayed the Scepter in Israel and brought forth Judgment in the power of the Heavens LXXI For those seven Mountains had the names of seven Months in the Years in which God was manifest in the work of Creation according to the Power of his WORD in Nature by which the works of Wonder in GOD are established through that which wrought in a Mystery And they are the Months in which God discovereth the going forth of the WORLDS as they have their Foundations in the EARTH setled among the forms in Nature and the Towers which setled in that which adjoyned to the Body of that Temple as Heads of the Beast had the name of the seven dayes in the Week LXXII Wherein the beginning of Beauty and Glory revealed through the Foundation in which it setled rested its ruines on ASSYRIA through which the forms of the Towers were put forth as a Banner displayed towards ASIA and the name of that first Mountain was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereon stood a Man with both hands dipt in BLOOD and in his right Hand was a Sword but I beheld until the form of the Man vanished and there was nought left but the Head and Face of the RAM wherein was erected the form of the TOWERS and from the second Mountain which had the name of the second Month called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proceeded splendor and brightness as the flowers of all increasing properties in the power of Nature and from the third Mountain which had the name of the third Month called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proceeded the Vail and Covering of Green Leaves CHAP. VII Describing the form of the Temple which setled its Foundations on SEVEN MOUNTAINS of the EARTH LXXIII ON four of those MOUNTAINS rested the Body of the Temple according to its Foundations and the names of the Months by which they were called which stood in the fourth part of the WORLD with its Corners and Quarters East West North and South according to the four Winds of the Heavens that were moved from thence with their four Angels exalted on their Towers from the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES through that which prevailed in the fiery triplicity of the Heavens over the Earth and Waters in their third part LXXIV Wherein the Vernal Quarter was Manifest in a fourth Mountain from whence all Fruits of the Earth came under fiery Tryals to the scorching and consuming all that stood on that foundation in the Ground of such a Nature whence it received the name of the 4th Month called THAMUZ and on the fifth Mountain which had the name of the fifth Month called AB was manifest the Image of Jealousie from whence proceeded the fiery Zeal of that consuming power which prevailed over the Fruits of the Earth until they became reaped after which was nought found through the appearance of a sixth Mountain which had the name of the sixth month called ELVL LXXV And in the Temple there appeared the form of a WOMAN exalted in the Heavens on whose Forehead was written JEZEBEL the Mother of Harlots and I beheld until nought was remaining but the Palms of her hands which the Dogs refused to eat yet did she reign as Queen of Nations and had power over the Kings of the Earth there appeared the Scarlet coloured BEAST on which her form was exalted who was very gloriously decked and adorned with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls and Purple and delicate aray and on her forehead was a name wrote MYSTERY BABYLON the Great the Mother of all Fornication LXXVI And she was carried into the Wilderness whither I was led by the Angel who shewed me her Cities of Refuge and there was a very great City in which the sixth Thunder thundered
hath remained joyned in one Spirit of the Beast while the Temple of God hath been defiled in such worship and bowing down to the Spirit of defilement and the glorying therein is become an incestuous BED that procureth torment because of the Resurrection in which none can remain joyned to that Spirit and possess the Glory in God's Temple who is come to destroy the defiler thereof LXXXVI For the three Angels of God that have power over that which came on the Worlds in their third part through the sounding of the seven Trumpets of God that awaken the execution of Justice from the Heavens are now manifest in the three remaining Principles that have a fourth part in their Quarter reserved to those fiery Tryals effected in that which manifesteth the end of all gloryings in the dominion of the fourth Beast in Nature LXXXVII Wherein the fiery Triplicity in the Heavens through which those Angels are revealed hath been covered as with a Cloud until the Son of Man came to be revealed riding on the White Clouds of the Heavens and cloathed with incomparable Beauty before whom three Angels have been found flying through the Heavens proclaiming the everlasting Gospel of Peace and glad tydings and the destruction of Babylon in her great CITIES which were come up before the remembrance of God warning the Inhabitants of the Earth to come forth from her and flee out of her glory lest partaking therewith they came to partake with her in those Plagues that were upon the Earth LXXXVIII These three are the Witnesses of God in Heaven filling the Heaven of Heavens with Glory in one power that comprehends all Principles in Nature which are swallowed up in its immensness Greater testimony of God hath none for since God hath a Witness on Earth how much greater is that in and from the Heavens wherein an Angel hath come forth out of the Temple in which the first Witness of God finished his Testimony and beholding the Fruits of the Earth that they are ready for gathering and that the Harvest is White he hath said unto the Angel that sitteth on the WHITE CLOUD Thrust in thy sharp Sicle because of the Harvest of the Earth which is ripe and the Earth hath been reaped until nought can be found but that which hath remained for a second Harvest and Tryal LXXXIX But he that hath lain slain in the streets of that great City in which the Inhabitants of the Earth have made merry over the crucified Life of the Lord of all Glory in Heaven and Earth is now come forth raised and exalted on that White Cloud from whence the Earth is reaped And a second Angel of God is come forth out of the Temple with his sharp Sicle in his Hand and an Angel of the Altar under which the Souls of the Righteous lie groaning saith unto that second Witness or Angel that is come forth out of the Temple Thrust in thy sharp Sicle also and reap the fruits of the Vine the Clusters of the Vine Grapes and spare not the Olive Yards XC This is he that daily ministreth before the Lord and attendeth the Altar of God with the Prayers of Saints which are daily offered up with sweet Incense put into his Golden Censer and his power is over fire by which all untimely Fruits are scorched and consumed in their third part by the bright rayes of the breaking forth of the Summer in the Sun of Righteousness which is arisen with healing in its Wings though in the passing away of the Winter and in the dispelling of Clouds of Darkness which were over and had covered the Face of the Earth the Summer is broke forth wherein many remaine unsaved from the wrath thereof to come upon the ungodly World XCI For in that which descended through the Clouds of the Air the first beauty and glory of the Temple in that which was built in the Heavens is discovered to be moveable though therein God was worshiped as in the Ark of his Testimony in the Covenant of Promise which was carried about from place to place while the Temple remained under a Cloud in which are the more lively things themselves then that in which the forms of Nature were gathered as patterns of what remained under a Cloud until the time of the restitution of all in the Heavens was come wherein hath wrought the Power and Spirit of Preparation in the Spirit of Creatures to the perfecting the Work of God and bringing into the unity of the Spirits of just Men made perfect in God until all becometh compleat in him that holdeth the HEAD unto which the Body is knit in several Joynts and Members XCII Yet in this time of ISRAELS sojourning through the Wilderness the Power of God hath been manifest to those strangers in the Earth in that strange Countrey through which they have their passage and therein have pitched their moveable TENTS though Beauty and Glory hath shined through such Vessels in the time of their preparation from transgression that came under the Judgment of the great Day of God in the ground wherein God first chose a People to himself and to be called by his Name until the Glory of the Earth is become laid wast the third and last WO is come into the World discovered in the pouring forth of those seven Vials to the utter consumption of the Spirit and Power of Darkness ruling and reigning in the God of the World wherein Death and Hell are conquered in their full strength the Enemy of all Souls vanquished and overcome in that which is come to destroy the ground of Destruction by utter dissolution XCIII And the sence of these things was manifest in the World in that which came on the Earth and great SEAS and all Rivers and Fountains of WATER and all that lived therein or moved thereon and on Sun and Moon and Stars and the seat of the Beast and great River EUPHRATES and on the Air wherein the Fruits of the Earth withered and were destroyed and the Waters became like unto the Blood of the dead and on Men fell a noysom Plague-sore and Headly Wound because of the infection of the Air wherein was Hail â—ike unto Fire mingled with Blood each being of great weight and at the appearance of God there was wrought up through the EARTH a burning Mountain under which fell the Powers of Nature in Earthly Forms XCIV And all the WATERS were dryed up in the great River Euphrates wherein the way of the Kings of the EAST was prepared who gathered themselves together into a place called GOLGOTHA in the Hebrew Tongue which is a place of dry Bones and dead Mens Sculs on whom the Spirit of God had breathed and they did live in his sight and stand on their Feet like Men and it was the Valley of Megiddon and of Hadadrimmon even the Valley of Jehoshaphat or the Valley of Slaughter where RACHEL sat weeping for her Children because they weâ—â— not and she would
BEAST I beheld the pleasant Field and fruitful Garden working up the form of what indured and continued patient under those fiery Tryals until they became past over though many therein did dwell on a barren Heath who could not see when good comes whereby they perished in the Night of Obscurity and worldly sorrow that overtook them in their way wherein the power of DEATH wrought and became strong in the WORLDS CXIII And in the place of the fifth Head of the Beast in the midst of four which I had beheld Wounded as it were unto death were sprung up three other Heads And the Horns on that fifth Head which had received that deadly Wound were increased through the healing up of the Wound wherein a little Horn that sprung up between the Eyes of the Beast received Voice and began to speak great swelling words against the God of Heaven and his SAINTS that dwell on the Earth and the little Horn waxed strong towards the four Winds of the Heavens wherein the BEAST appeared with seven Heads and ten Horns which had Power in in the Beast to reign with him as Kings for their hour CXIV And whereas after I had seen the fall of five Horns on that fifth Head of the Beast I beheld remaining four Heads from whence sprung up four Horns in the dispersing abroad the Kingdom and Power of the BEAST under the four Winds of the Heavens so in the reviving of his power that which became exalted in the reducing of four to its first subjection ruled over five in which the wound was received and wherein the Beast came forth first manifest and in the discovery of both the rise and fall of the BEAST though through the great Horn of the Hee-Goat who did not touch the ground until he had accomplished his design after he had power given him in the awakened fury of the West-Wind the two Horns of the RAM from the EAST were broken and stampt in pieces that great Horn was also broken when its fury was accomplished CXV Yet was the power of the four Horns on those four Heads of the BEAST bound down in the four Heads of the great River until the time of the loosing of their four Angels that stood on the four Corners of the EARTH to hold the four Corners of the WINDS from blowing on the EARTH while the little Horn was magnified whereby the third Head which sprung up in the midst of the seven recovered four Horns from that which was dispersed under those four Winds of the Heavens and on the other six Heads were manifest six Horns CXVI Thus was the BEAST more monstrous then all those other Beasts that passed before him with Iron Teeth by which he did break and stamp in pieces And his Face was like unto a Leopard with the form of a third part of the Stars in the constellation of the HEAVENS on his Back but he had the Feet of the great Bear and discovered his power through the four Heads of the great River EUPHRATES in the loosing of those destroying Angels who came first out from the WATERS but the reviving of his strength from those deceitful healings proceeded out of the Earth through the power of the RAM in Nature CXVII And in the time of the sounding of the sixth Trumpet this BEAST came forth through the loosing of those destroying ANGELS out of the great River and through those earthquakes and shakings that were come into the WORLD wherein fell that tenth part of the great City God had returned unto himself his Tenths to be eaten as a Teyl-Tree and as an Oak whose substance was in it these were the remnant of the Holy Seed who worshipped the Lord with a pure Heart even in Spirit and in Truth and whose Garments were washed White in the Blood of the Lamb. CXVIII For they came to pass through great tribulations and Tryals in their WAY because they could not Worship the BEAST nor receive his Mark but they were preserved blameless before the Lord in that hour wherein Iniquity was not found in their HEARTS neither was there guile in their MOUTHS to be uttered with their Tongue And I beheld until the sin of MANASSEH became ripened and was filled up and the high Altars in both Courts whereon had been offered Sacrifice to IDOLS and Incense burnt to strange Gods which neither we nor our Fathers have heard of were pulled down because of the God of FORCES who was worshipped neither was the desire of Women regarded CXIX And after I came to see the WOMANS deliverance from the rage and fury of the great Red DRAGON who had cast his floods of Water after her in the time and times wherein she had been helped by the EARTH and sheltered by the Wings of the EAGLE with which she had fled into the Wilderness as the Dragon came to give up his Power to this monstrous Beast the remnant of her Seed was persecuted in the World for the space of full forty dayes And wherein the Sun had gone back ten Degrees for the prolonging of Life in the Just after he came to discover and reveal the glory in which was his safety before Babylons King who wrought by subtilty and much craft whereby fifteen dayes were added to his dying state CXX Those dayes were again doubled in the renewed Zeal wherein the Favour of God was multiplyed to the purging his House and Sanctuary according to the fifty-five dayes wherein Manasseh had caused the Israel of God to err in following after Idols And for ten days the Devil had power to cast many into Prison that they might be tryed and sifted by his cunning devices until their Garments became thus made white in the Blood of the slain Lamb of God CHAP. XI Describing the Form of the WHEELS in the VISION according to their MOTION wherein are numbred the dayes that the BEAST hath yet to reign and continue on the Earth CXXI AS to the form of the Wheels as they wrought and moved one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel like unto the form of the Worlds which are moved the one within the other the WHEELS never rested but went streight forward towards Eternity wherewith they were tinctured and moved in the power thereof as though they crossed each other and yet there was no crossness in the Will and Wisdom of Eternity from whence they were moved in the power of him that first wrought and laboured in the motion thereof CXXII For all crossness that appeared in the motion thereof wrought in the Earthly ground wherein the World 's laboured to Center in a Glory below the power of Eternity from whence every thing first proceeded and was brought forth to a day of Tryal in the FRAME under which the Body of Nature was constituted to exercises from the Glory of the HEAVENS wherein the Will of the Creature was subjected to a change through vanity that entered the WORLD in a state of corruptible Glory which was
wayes through a fiery Constellation therein inkindled CXXXIV And in one of those Urns were the Names of the twelve Tribes of ISRAEL but in the other was a party-coloured Blank on which was wrote PREROGATIVE to which the ANGEL said This is Israels desire and therefore hath Benjamin had a Prerogative to be higher then his Brethren by the HEAD and his raving up hath been like an evening Wolf while Israel hath sought the Rule and Dominion of other Nations of the Heathens for from the seven Families of FATHERS the Lot resteth on an eighth Head who is discovered by his ANGEL wandring after the lost Asses who have a month to be tamed in the power over which he is set to be their KEEPER CXXXV After whom came the lowing of the OXEN and bleating of the SHEEP in the restraint of Fodder of the KING of Gods Enemies Then said I What must be done Or hath this fault been in one onely that Iniquity should rest on his TRIBE For lo Israel standeth before the ARK enquiring into the MATTER And there was in the hands of the Angel over whom inquirie was made a Signature in one Hand was a CROWN dipt in Blood and in the other Hand a ROD touched with Hony concerning which the Angel bid me chuse wherein I was covetous of both CXXXVI And while my Tongue touched the Hony it was in my Mouth sweet but immediately was the form of the ANGEL divided and there remained other Signatures in each Hand of the form of the living Creature like unto a suite of tryed Armour and Sheet in which was tyed the form of every living Creature under the HEAVENS according to the Corners of the Heavens from whence they were let down bound And as I was trying the ARMOUR finding it cumbersom as that in which I was not accustomed to wage War therefore thought I hastily to cast it off that I might take hold of the Sheet in which were those living Creatures there came a Voice from the Heavens as from the Angel whose form was again united in a Body Thou hast chosen that which will make thee a Wonder in the World CXXXVII And he yet cryed aloud The bitterness of the Miracle is in thy Belly for know thou assuredly thou hast Part and Lot in this Matter And to my astonishment the Body again revived instantly before me and it was made to stand up before my Face And there came a second Voice from the Angel Is it a time to be delighted with sweetness in the midst of Battel Or to feed on Hony while Enemies are on the pursuit And I was afraid I should die and durst not any more ask any Question in this matter But after the Voice from the Heavens became intelligible wherein an Angel of God said Arise from thy slumber thou that art glutted in that which thou hast killed and eaten for therefore is thy Head filled with Wonders CXXXVIII I beheld until the forms of all those living Creatures were again awakened before me and they came forth to make WARR in my way and before me stood the unsealed Book of Wonders which the LAMB of God had taken out of the Hand of the ANGEL for the loosing of the Seals thereon which was like unto that which I had eaten from what was tendered by the ANGEL And while I beheld the Book lifted up unto the Heavens I was mourning in Spirit and said in my Heart Wherefore hath my life been prolonged for such exercise as this For now I am become the scorn of cruel Enemies CXXXIX And I returned to the Angel of him that I had seen divided and who was again united before my Face and found him cloathed in the Armour as one riding forth to a Battel unto whom I said Boast not thy self in putting on and in thy going forth to War as may he that putteth it off and returns a Conqueror for twice hast thou deceived me let therefore my wrong rest on Thee that coverest a WOLF according to the time I have become a stranger to my own FAMILIARS when driven forth as among the BEASTS of Prey CXL My Hair was like unto the Plumes of a FOWL and my Nails like unto the Tallents of a BIRD and because of the Vow on my Head I was as one forlorn for thou hast counted the hours of my mourning and knowest the dayes wherein pleasant Bread came not into my Mouth under which my Spirit was ready to faint but let the Issue be glory to the Highest Turn again therefore my reproach I pray thee that I may know and be assured that thou hast taken notice of the innocency of my SOUL in thy sight and that thy love is yet towards me CXLI And the Angel of God again took me into the Habition of WONDERS where I heard an interpretation of the Mystery of the seven Thunders and he said unto me These have made way for the preparing a ground wherein is revealed what was opened and loosed from the BOOK in the Hand of the Angel and the time is come that nothing hidden shall remain in its secret Chamber but the Seal of God shall be taken off from the Spirit of Wonders and Truth shall have its common recourse in the fellowship that publisheth abroad the sayings and report of Wisdom Therefore prepare thee to write for thy Prayers are come up before the Lord and thou shalt yet PROPHESIE before the Nobles of the Earth and thy sayings shall terrifie Kings and mighty Men as in their appointed season they become fulfilled CXLII And unto the Angels of all Fellowships of People write these things saith the searcher of all Hearts before whom my desire hath been granted and he answereth daily my request revealing the Mystery of all depths concerning the glory of Gods Kingdom and the sum and substance of all Prophecy in Words is transferred to the sensible Reader in a Figure until the substance thereof become fulfilled on a Generation of Men through which it will be made to speak in an Universal Character of good to Nations in the generous Spirit of that love in which many suffer despite CXLIII I know your Thoughts from the greatest to the least and you all are expecting alterations and changes in the Government of Nations and state of publick affairs but believe it truly it will not come in that way you expect it who would gladly see your Enemies destroyed and utterly confounded that you might not hope in vain Alas the Life of Creatures is pretious in Gods Eye and God hath determined no other Judgment to the Wicked then that which remaineth to be the utter Consumption and Destruction of the Spirit of ENMITY in the Man of SIN by which NATIONS are oppressed under his Power whose destruction cometh to be of themselves in chusing that which leadeth and guideth under that which of necessity must fall on the World in a wicked state CXLIV But God is not the Author of all the evil and mischief that is
expected to befall NATIONS in such a Case though his displeasure may be AWAKENED against a People or Nation and in his sufferance are destroying ANGELS loosed out of the great River of the WORLDS Sea and often is he stirred up to that which he delighteth not in even to appear like unto a LYON roused up before he please and as a Giant disturbed from his sleep yet will great Alterations and changes come into the World and they will happen unto the secure like Events determined from an over-ruling Power THE THIRD PART CHAP. I. Wherein is opened the Mystery of what came forth in the Worlds in the form and frame of the Heavens from whence the Vision had power to work up its discoveries I. THE principles of ETERNITY in God or God in his eternal existence is the fire of Life burning in jealousie over his own Honour and Glory that gave being to Love in which remaineth â—he Original Center of all good from whence his preheminence is mainâ—ained in and over his Creature through that which he first inkindled â—n the Ground and Center of Nature in which is both a good and an evil But Waters are the first and all Principle in NATURE through the sinking frame of the WORLDS into and under palpability wherein EARTH took form as a third Principle in Nature separated into being on the third day from whence all Creatures became imbodied in the substantial form of Palpability II. And all separated qualities remain in the ground of substantiality while time place endureth wherein the Life of the Creature centereth in that which is come forth into its individual being among the forms of Nature according to the source it possesseth and inhabiteth for these beings are formed in and from the Earthly Principles which are separated from the Heavens in what remaineth sinking under a power of Corruption wherein threâ—… do bear record for God which are the glory of Terrestrial Bodies Essentially forming Nature into being in that which continueth breathing through the out-spread Firmament of the Atry Heavens under the Waters III. As also from the fiery Heavens from whence a third part of the Waters was dryed up from the Earth in their Principle on the third day and by a third dayes work of God therein manifest the three Glories of the Father do shine through all Celestial Bodies to wit one Glory of the SUN which is a great LIGHT to rule the DAY and another of the MOON which is the lesser LIGHT to rule the NIGHT and another of the STARS according to their differing Glories in which the over-ruling Power of the Heavens subjecteth the forms of Nature in their several Constellations that gives life to the Creatures being in the Earth IV. In this respect God is considered and become the cause of all causes in ETERNITY and ground of all being in NATURE as Palpability is the ground of Corruptibility wherein he is called a consuming and everlasting FIRE and yet as substantiality is not without the Creature he is absolutely the cause of nothing as well as of all things where nothing without God is God without Nature which is a cause of both good and evil wherein the Worlds do remain unmanifest but in Nature and wherein the work of God is comprehended in the forming qualities of that which is brought forth in the effect of labour in seven Natural days V. Therefore said the ANGEL of God these WATERS that thou sawest are those on which the multitude of the WORLDS and great Nations are moved and carried to and fro according to the course of time and tide the WOMAN remained exalted on them who allured many into those Vessels that begin to swim pleasantly over the streams of Corruption singing a Requium to their Souls that they might not remember the danger in their way wherewith they are daily beset and they are called the PEOPLE and Tongues and Nations of the Kindreds of the Earth that are divided under the four WINDS of the Heavens tossed up and down through the boysterous Storms and swelling Tempests that are again gathered together in HEAPS over the main Sea and Ocean of Trouble in which is the Lake and Bottomless Pit from whence all Monstrous shapes in Creatures are come forth to cover the Earth VI. And the Vessels that thou sawest carried thereon are those which were first built and erected from the Heavens into which the Patrons of all Earthly forms were gathered in one and were again distributed through many according to the Nature of the BEAST wherein wrought the confusion of Languages in the prevailing of the MOON over Woman in the changeable wayes and course of the WORLD under which the Heavens stand thus divided VII In seven they took Head and in ten was each Horn exalted over nine which is an intricate number among the Figures in forms of Nature wherein those seven that thou sawest come forth into the Creaturely being first imbodied under the power of Corruption are the seven forms of Nature subjected under a power in which the Heavens and Earth are multiplyed in and according to their Generations generating Nature and name to the being of each form Corporal CHAP. II. Describing the Nature of the degeneration of the WORLDS in those Principles wherein the Creature became imbodied in time and place VIII FOR answerable to the time and place wherein all Created Prinples in the forms of Nature remained sinking under a Power of Corruption working properties in the Heavens prevailed over the bodily frame to afflict it with labour according to the motion in the Wheels in which those Principles suffered and were acted and that which suffered the glory of the frame of the WORLDS to work up the gross form of Palpability in the way and course the Body of Nature became acted by a motion in the Heavens was subject to Corruption that came into time and place through the change of the frame in the Worlds IX And agreeable to the Name and Nature of those Men that were FATHERS in their Generations through whom palpability prevailed in the Waters whereby the Worlds were first overwhelmed in the deluge and overflowing scourge the glory of the World imbodied a form in Nature for the Seed of Life to work up the first Beauty of CREATION according to what was manifest in time and place wherein each day had its year multiplyed in Nature from the Heavens as each Month hath its Hour in what is divided to every particular state and condition of the Creature under which Death and Afflictions have increased their dominion over the ends of the Worlds X. And as from the Womb of Eternity the BEAST in the forms of Nature prevailed in a backward course under which the Heavens were subjected for the manifesting of each day in Nature wherein the Principles of the World were acted and wrought in a frame that discovered its revolutions so according to the years wherein the multiplicity of such forms increased the WATERS
prevailed in the months thereof until the seven Mountains could be seen on which the great CITY was erected through the decreasing of the Waters in what remained falling backward for the space of seven Months XI And the CITY that thou sawest built and setled on those Mountains and high Hills which became the Foundations of all that fell into and under the palpability of WATERS is the City HENOCH which the first born of Nations erected under the power of Corruption from the ground which he became the Tiller and tearer up of when driven Eastward from the Face of the Earth and Presence of God into that Land where he took his Wife that he might call the name of his Buildings after the name of his Son for whom it was built XII For he possessed the seven forms of NATURE the number of years according to which the year increased its dayes and hath all the properties of the Heavens through a Translation wrought on the Body of Nature in what came forth mamfest in each line of the Fathers resting in LAMECH whence two Wives prevailed over the Man five years short of a sight into the destruction which prevailed over the Worlds in the state it was first planted CHAP. III. Describing the property of Enochs Prophecies XIII THose seven forms of Nature whose Characters are Figures in Hieroglyps have the property of Prophecy among the Works of Wonder which cannot be understood in the Creaturely Capacity but through the translations of ENOCH for whom the ground of conceiveability was torn up and no less power is requisite herein than that which smiteth the World in its third part of both Earth and Waters and all that lives therein or moves thereon wherein the Beast hath had his Seat as a Temple in which hath shined the glory of Sun and Moon and Stars XIV And for the revealing the true ground from whence all those glories may come again to shine in the Principles of Nature as in the beginning consumption and darkness must come before his Face who rideth in the Chariot of Nature wherein those glories are smitten in the third part until the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about the fourth part of the WORLDS over which the EAGLE hath prevailed XV. And though as those Angels stand manifest in the Heavens they are seven in number according to the seven forms of Nature through which are sounded the Mystery of God's Works of Wonders from the seven Golden TRUMPETS yet is their destroying power bound down in the four last forms only in which the Elements of Nature have spheared into Corruption for the discovery of the Lake of Fire that is hidden in the great River EUPHRATES from what is thence loosed XVI But the Witnesses hereof are only two manifested in each three Principles of both Heavenly and Earthly being in which the AIR is commanded until FIRE and WATER is become united in its ANGEL that hath one Foot on the Earth and hath his other on the great Seas for the Angel of the Waters saith It is done but an Angel of the Fire who continueth alwayes ministring before the ALTAR hath touched my Tongue with a live Coal he hath brought from thence wherein I am made able to declare of what he hath flung on the Earth XVII And beholding the seven Mountains of the Earth on which is setled the Foundations of that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Worlds in the in kindled Fire burning under its Foundations I see terrible shakings that are yet to pass through the Worlds over all buildings therein after the tenth part of the CITY is seen become fallen in the assending up of the Witnesses unto Heaven in the sight of their Enemies wherein the ten Horns of the BEAST shall hate the Whore and burn her flesh with FIRE XVIII Then shall be seen the seven Horns of the LAMB full of Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God which do walk among the seven Golden Candlesticks and the Books shall stand open on which hath been put those seven Seals that he may be known come into the Worlds that holdeth in his right Hand a Crown of seven Stars as seven golden Lamps burning before the Throne of God and the Lamb and lighting the whole Earth with his Glory in the form of the Pleiades for the seventh Trumpet shall sound forth the Mystery of what is thus unsealed over the mighty deeps which have filled the Worlds XIX And in the finishing of this great Mystery all Nations of the Earth shall be gathered to their appointed place that the Spirit and God of the World may bear the wrath of Indignation of what is poured forth on the frame of all created Principles into form without mixture which is the second Death executed in the seven last Plagues wherewith the seven Golden Vials are filled wherein God will appear in ten thousand of his Saints CHAP. IV. Describing the ground in Nature from whence the Wheels are moved about the frame of the WORLDS XX. THe seven spirits of God are moved about the frame of the WORLDS according to what doth operate and work up the way and course he is manifest through in the Seven forms of Nature which are become the Seven heads of the BEAST and the Seven Mountains of the WORLD on which the City is built wherein the WHORE doth sit exalted and therefore is God manifest in the Spirit of Judgement in those Forms of Nature that every thing may come forth tryed undeâ— the motion of the WHEELS XXI But though the BEAST hath taken Head in these forms of Nature Nature is again returning to its firsâ— subjection in the utter consumption and destruction of the power of the Dragon Beast and False Prophet ouâ— of those forms in Nature for now are the Wheels moving over the greaâ— River Euphrates on which the trumpet of God hath sounded and thence are loosed his destroying Angels which cause thunders and lightning in the Heavens XXII And the Clouds of Heaven are already tinctured with that which Ascendeth upward to prepare its motion in the Air whence his appearance is expected who judgeth the Prince thereof and casteth down the Accuser of the Just from those Airy Heavens wherein he hath been exalted though the Seven Forms of Nature which are moved about the heavens of the Worlds attend the first mover wherein the Work of God is manifest in the Seven Spirits of Nature XXIII For this center of the Inward WORLD which was thus unmovable had a power in and over all that was movable and changeable which became a cause in the motion of the WHEELS that was over-ruled by the wisdom and power of the first mover wherein all Glories of the FATHER shined in the Firmament of his POWER in which he remained unalterable and unchangeable the same without any shadow of turning or variation XXIV Yet is it only in Nature that God is become thus a cause
her borrowed Light from that fourth House which is become her seat in the second House which is her House of Exaltation CHAP. IX Describing the Properties of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature that fell in the WATERS XLIX THe Head of the IMAGE which was Gold was the LYONS four first Golden Wings wherein the strength of ASSYRIA was broken the first time in what was pluck'd from the LYON according to that which fell in the WATERS and the Silver Brest which was the two Horns of the RAM in Nature is the strength of the MEDES and PERSIANS that were broken by the Power of GREECE whereby BABYLON spread abroad her Kingdoms in the rising up of the little BEAR on the LYONS side wherein was that second great LIGHT comprehended L. But from the NORTH did he move about the Heavens through his TAYL wherein Centred the Meridian point thereof holding in his Mouth those three Ribs that were taken out of his Side in his rising up to devour much Flesh Furthermore said the Angel of God The great BEAR or LEOPARD that thou sawest is that in which a third part of the Stars of Heaven are comprehended that have fallen unto the Earth which is the brazen Belly of the IMAGE in the FORMS of Nature even the Power of GREECE in that which is dispersed under the Four Winds of the Heavens LI. This is a Power of the South Wind wherein the brass Belly of the Image remained bound down with an Iron Bond of the NORTH Strength from which it could not be loosed in the four destroying ANGELS of God until that was ripened to the Day of Destruction wherein the Wound of the BEAST had been healed up deceitfully though three Horns were plucked up by the Roots while the stumps of the IMAGE continued fallen in ASIA for the discovering of the four Heads of the Beast in which he bore the form of a Leopard or GREAT Bear but the LITTLE Horn waxed strong and became GREAT towards the four Winds of the Heavens LII For as I beheld the Throne of God placed in his Holy Habitation the Ancient of Dayes was sat thereon wherein appeared his burning Wheels and the signs in the WATERY HEAVENS discovered that which rested in their TRIPLICITY from the Zodiack whence those Houses of Mansions have their Constellations And though the RAM in Nature had the first Form in the Fiery Triplicity and was the first House of those twelve Mansions as is the CALF the first Form in the Earthly Triplicity and second House in those Mansions yet through the WHEELS the HEAVENS and EARTH were moved toward a Change throughout the seven forms of Nature in EACH Triplicity LIII Wherein the Lyon hath the Face of the first Beast among the FORMS in Nature though in his fifth House that which shineth from his Seat is exalted in the Head and Face of the Ram. But both the Created and Uncreated Beings having their generated Forms in the Body of Nature the first Form in the Airy Triplicity hath the Face of an EAGLE exalting that which is generated into the Double-Bodied-Being to be his House that is sheltered under the Wing of Favour in that fourth Beast through whom Death strengtheneth those Accidents that are drawn from the FIRST Form in the WATERY Triplicity from whence all changeable Courses do work up Life in the Brest of Nature wherein the SPIRIT of the Creature doth move which is the Candle of GOD through which Glory is put forth in those borrowed QUALITIES of Light LIV. Though from Barenness in the worldly Nature wherein the Glory of the Virgin hath been stained cancered crabbed Qualities have infected the Body whereby it hath sprung up and grew until from the second Form in the Earthly Triplicity the VIRGIN who hath sat in a dark place even the Bowels of Nature which is the sixth House in the Heavens came to put off her night Robes for the Glory of the Birth exalted in the separation of all mixt Qualities which is HEIR of everlasting Renown LV. Yet in the Watery Triplicity where in the Bodies Courses have been defiled through that which hath lain secretly lurking in the Members whereby the FORMS of Nature have power to generate an IMAGE of the Minds Delight the Womb hath opened to the Power of Death and letting in Sorrow into that which is possessed in the Eighth House whence the WORLDS are generated under a Power of Corruptian the Nature of the SCORPION stingeth in the Habitation of that second Form in the Watery Triplicity through the Pleasure under which its Subjects are allured for the multiplying of what is generated to secret content CHAP. X. Describing the MYSTERY of the Four Horses of four several Colours on which the four ANGELS that are loosed c. are come forth exalted LVI THrough the coming forth of the Son of MAN in the CLOUDS of Heaven who was cloathed with a Rain-Bow in which are all the colours of the Heavens in their pure Element as the Powers of Nature became subject to the exalted of God he rod on those CLOUDS that were dispersed abroad under the Four Winds of the Heavens as on the Rain-Bow in the Firmament whence every Angel of God is seen in his Beauty and Glory bending to the Son of his Love and Favour through whom he manifesteth the Life of Delight according to the source they possess and inhabit from the eleventh House of Mansions in the third Form of the Airy Triplicity like unto HORSE men that guide the Chariot of Nature LVII For the preparing of which DAY in its time those Goats have been suffered to come forth imbodyed in that which is loosed out of the bottomless Pit whereby the Earth hath been covered with Locusts wherein pangs have rested on those Men that have the Mark of the Beast Therefore saith the Angel of God In that third Being in the FIERY Triplicity wherein the form of the Son of Man is come forth exalted in the Clouds of Heaven through that which smiteth the EARTHLY Triplicity in its third part among the Forms of Nature the BOW Man is riding on his White Horse and over the White Clouds of the Heavens he hath spread his Glory from the North because of those flying Goats in his Way whose ratlings are like the Chariot-Wheels of the FURIOUS Drivers LVIII And in the Watery Triplicity the burning Mountain continueth in flaming from that which is cast into the Sea which doth rage and swell because of the disquiet that is come into its part of the Triplicity in that Watery Form over whom the Glories of the Heavens do not shine in that third part and wherein both Earth and Waters and all that live therein or move thereon are smitten in the aforesaid third part that resteth its torment on the seat of the BEAST into which Glory hath shined from the Heavens in the operation of those Signs of the Times LIX From whence I see great Alterations and Changes attending the
that fourth part of the WORLDS wherein the whole Earth had corrupted its way before the Lord that which bound the Nature of the Heavens from striving any more with mankind gave way to the power of destruction in a Mystery to increase its swelling Tempests over a third of the Earth out of which the forms of Nature were imbodied in the divided quarter or fourth part of the Worlds XXXIII And I beheld until the seventh year past over my Head and there appeared an Angel of the Waters whose power began to be prevalent over the South Wind and seven Kings of the South fell and the KING himself under whom the South Winds wrought was subjected by the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations of the Worlds through whom the Generations of the Heavens were multiplyed but two dayes before the expiration of the seventh year the Hands of the Angel grew weak for he went backward unto the parting of the great SEAS and brought up the Vessel that stood in the midst of the six in the front of the seventy which was born about by twelve Bulls six on the one side and six on the other XXXIV And the Sun recovered the strength and glory of that which stood still in the Heavens to manifest judgment over a backward course in its Worlds according to the degrees therein by which the Enemy prevailed over the Body of Nature to move the frame thereof under the Power of Destruction And from the expiration of the seventh year was fifteen dayes that the Vessel was subjected in the strength of the Angel for after I beheld the appearance of a second Angel with the Garment of the high Priest on whose Head was a Crown and on the Crown a Cross the form of the Crown was turned about like the Moon in its second Quarter and had two Horns like unto the Letter X wherein the Leter X stood in the midst of the Crown like unto two V A or V and A and I did read it one hundred and ten as though I had read in a Book XXXV For from the beginning of the appearance of the second Angel was seventeen dayes After which I beheld raised up out of the Earth a Wall of Brass and its Foundations rested on two and twenty Pillars that had on them two and twenty names of Men and the two and twenty Letters in the Hebrew Alphabet And on that WALL were twelve Towers on which Towers were placed twelve Angels each Tower stood between two Pillars and the Wall stood four square wherein there were three Gates on each side of the WALL But the Tower on the North-side of the Wall towards the East Corner thereof whereon was exalted an Angel who sat on a Beast in the form of an EVENING WOLF had no Pillars for its Foundations for its foundations fell in the raising up the structure of the WALL and I beheld until the Foundation of the whole was removed XXXVI And an Angel came down from his Tower on the East side of the WALL towards the South Corner thereof who was exalted on the first Beast in the forms of Nature like unto a RAM and he had made a breach on the WALL against whom an Angel who was exalted on the form of a Beast like unto an ASS smote his Foot And the Glory of the Angel on the North Corner of the Wall EASTWARD who was exalted on that Beast in the form of an Ass couching down between two burdens saw that rest was good to the heavy laden and they alighted from off those Beasts whereon they were exalted CHAP. IV. The effect of the descending of ANGELS into the Forms of Nature XXXVII FRom the middle Tower on the Wall Eastward did the Angel prevail in the HEAVENS who was exalted on a BEAST in the form of a LYON until the Angel that came from the South Corner of the Wall was held in a dark place because that self-will slew a man to dig down the Wall of Separation to ISRAEL from those Nations of the Earth that were fallen into Idolatry whereby they caused their Seed to pass through the Fire to Molech and Ashtaroth and followed the invention of the HEATHEN who thus continued worshiping in the Fire XXXVIII For wherein the West-wind prevailed I beheld the form of the Cherub set up to be Worshiped in the WILDERNES whereby the TABLES were broken that were wrote therein by the FINGER of God that his Hand might more eminently appear through that which was engraven the second time for the Angel that was exalted on this Beast came off from his Tower and there appeared another Angel that came off from his Tower on the East Corner of the Wall Southward that was exalted on a little Lyon that roared towards the North and the Woman that had on her Head a Crown of twelve Stars cast it down at the Foot of the Angel that rode on the Beast in the form of a CALF and I beheld until it was put on the Head of the Lyon XXXIX And the Woman was exalted QUEEN of the South but the Virgin Daughter of the NORTH stood afflicted in her Seed sixty one weeks and three dayes while the Daughter of the SOUTH made her self great towards the four Winds And for sixty eight weeks and four dayes I beheld the four Winds striving in the behalf of the Daughters of the North and the form of the Temple that God had builded and finished in the HEAVENS descended in a Cloud into the City that I saw erected under the Power of Destruction and in seven dayes was its Foundation setled therein in which time I beheld the form of the Wolf who was got before the Lyons Face enlarging himself in the power of the Lambs suffering whose Angel prevailed therein until I beheld the form of the Beast driven into the Wilderness in which time I saw the linnen EPHOD Worshiped XL. And an eighth Angel came off from his Tower sailing towards the Land of Rest to a Haven of Ships and there was also a ninth Angel who had in his right Hand a Cup filled with goodly dainties with which those that travelled over the Deeps were refreshed after which appeared a tenth Angel exalted on a ROE-BUCK who came leaping and skiping over the Mountains with glad Tydings to them that dwelt in the Valleys for he proved a good Hind and came home betimes giving goodly words And I beheld until there stood only TWO Angels exalted on their middle Towers North and South and I looked towards the Fields of the Earth which were white unto Harvest and ripe for the gathering XLI And the Angel led me into a Garden inclosed which was the Garden of my Beloved and I beheld how the Spiknard budded and grew up and how the Vines put forth their tenders Branches and the Pomegranet and all Spices flourished as the North Wind came thereon after the South Wind had blowed and the Daughter of the South had wandred from the Garden after the