pleasure beyond what Adam though hâ—… had continued in his first Image of Pâ—…rity could not without a remove tâ—… such kind of Felicities as these eveâ—… have reached Now then I say to yoâ—… upon whom this Light hath glanceâ—… keep your constant Pace with it closâ—… and follow hard upon it and doubt noâ—… but it will bring you to that pure Whiâ—… Throne of your everlasting Dove Brides in the Heavenly Cirle to ride June the 1st 1676. AFter the Opening and Interpretation of the Vision of the Globes of Light that moved with me where-ever I went a Voice run through me crying The End of all Things is at hand Watch therefore and Pray Upon which Word I pondered and drew near in my Spirit to that burning Center from which the Voice did go forth where I did further sound the meaning of that Cry which ecchoed still saying Come and see the first created Light begins upon its Eclipse to be For the evil corrupted Birth of Life had sent up such Fumes and Unsavoury Incense as must needs darken the first Heavens and Earth that away they must flee before the New Foundation-City ye can enter into Therefore to thee let it not seem harsh or terrible that an end of all things which came in through Mortality of Time is determined for absolutely despoiled of all false glittering vain Glory and Light must be that City which is only built upon a Sandy Foundation Which hath indeed according as it is written deceived and made drunk all Nations with its adulterated Wine As the Heavenly City is compacted and made up of choice pure polished and living Stones so again is Babylon of dark muddy course and earthly Metals ponderous Bodies Inhabitants that know an higher Sphear Out from which I am with a strong mighty Hand bringing you my Elect Stones therefore up hast out and fly away upon the Wing of my Eagle-Spirit touch tast mingle no more with her Sorceries a new state and place is prepared for you Scorn and deny all her charming Delicacies for Vials of Wrath upon all will be poured out that are in combination with this Harlotry City though it be as a Mountain at present that hath filled the whole World and enticed its Inhabitants with her Whorish Attire yet in one hour all shall blasted Therefore with fear draw off others whom you see yet in her strong-holds do stay that have not their Eyes opened their danger to see in holding such mutual Compliances with that which is so subtle and deceivable Of which cease not to warn them practically as Noah did when he his Ark prepared and went into it then all the World did lie in their Unbelielf which was a Figure of what is now approaching nigh tho' after another method For the second Revelation will now work and an end of all Flesh as Grass is come before the Alpha and the Omega June the 20th 1676. Having suffered for some Space of Time a Protraction of those Emanations and wonted Manifestations that still did meet me in my close and abstracted Attendance upon that sweet Intelligencing Spirit of JESUS it returned now so much the more strongly upon me to remind me of the Work and Calling which my Friend and I had so solemnly put our Hands to even the Plow which prepareth for the Seed of the Kingdom to spring forth through the Spiritual Inclosure Which I well experience is not to be given over until the end of the growth For when all in our Field shall white unto the Harvest be then the Sickle or Sword of the Spirit cometh forth to reap and gather us into the Everlasting Store-house under the Care and Custody of our Fore-runner JESUS From whom I had about this time many Calls and Cautions to strike up the Sail of Faith and to watch against all those subtil Spirits which would break in to cancell the Seals thereof which are the Evidence of what is not at present seen or yet come to be enjoyed Moreover it was shewn me the Danger that we were in this Particular liable to through the least crack or breach upon our Faith's Seal By which alone the Magia worketh and raiseth Powers from that Original Might Upon which Center there is yet such a strong Inclosure as no Creaturely Being can break open because its Signature is compounded and made up of all contrary Properties degenerating wholly from this mighty Engineer of Faith which worketh all through and in the Central Fire of Love O who can here work till fully uncloathed of the gross cloathing of the Animal Sensitive Life so as to reach to this Original Wisdom and Might which was existent in the first Paradisical Adam who lost it by the Sin entering in and can only be regained again through the extinguishment of it and the Dying out therefrom Totally Which gives a full Answer to those Objections which so pestered my Mind and which I Recorded in Writing June the 5th receiving Satisfaction now again herein upon a fresh waiting and inquiry Which after this manner spake in me Thy Queries O searching Spirit are to be resolved by and from the manifold Wisdom with whom all Secrets are hidden until the Spirit of Faith arise to find them out This having Opened during a Remove of the Doctor from the Author was not found in his Copy Whence also the Objections herein referred to upon the 5th of this Month are not to be recovered as neither is whatever else may relate to this matter during this Interval until the last Day of this Month. That which next follows is likewise from the Authors own Hand June the 30th 1676. Wisdom Now as to the Necessity of the Use of all thy Rational Properties it is good in its Kind meet and suitable for the Degenerated Estate to guide and govern the Outward Terrestrial Man as the Head Principality of this Visible Kingdom unto which Wisdom and Scepter all Nations do bow But knowest thou not what it was that withdrew as soon as this awakened and got the Headship Should I open thine Eyes to see all at once what came in hereby thou wouldst not but disdain and quite fall out with thy Rational Man so as never to it to be reconciled again For the Coming in of That was the Going out of the pure Magical Might and Power which should have been retained after the Similitude of God the Creator who designed to Generate Spirits to live in his own Property of Princely Purity and Power to his Honour and not to his and your own Reproach as is now too manifest For alas there is now quite Another Thing gotten in then what was found in the Beginning which Reason protects and is a Wall of Defence about maintaining its Soveraignty without Check or Controll so long as the Beasts Reign is to endure Which shall be put an end to by degrees and first in some chosen Witnesses hereto allotted who after Sion's Freedom do at this time importunately look and weary are
me concerning him He is a Son of Obedience Therefore meet with thee to prosecute the Spirits design in this visible Earth Then received I only this further Charge to keep the inward Court of our Minds all pure and clear as we love to entertain the Spirit of our Jesus there Who soon did scent every unsavoury Breath that did blow in this Garden which should be all perfumed from the Celestial Powers and Planets that are all to be blown up from his own Savours and sweet Perfumes So that our dear Lord and Spirit might thereby be refreshed in us and that continually October the 8th 1676. Some part of this Night sweetly passed in Contemplation and Prayer toward the Morning I saw in Vision a bright round Ball pourtraid like a Man's Face breaking through a Cloud and immediately two Stars broke through after it which were very bright and blazing The Interpretation of which I waited fo in my Spirit for no Representation is without his Signification unto me But the Lord did not that day explain iâ—… to me but I did feel an impregnative Virtue fill me from that time till the Afternoon Being then met to breath each one from his Gift as the Dr. was speaking the Word said in me Blessed is the Glory of the Lord which makes its remove from place to place that the Tabernacle-Body may bear witness to this Glory Which verily was felt and discerned in this very juncture of time For the most Holy did leave the Impress of his Glory upon us for it did run as Lightning through my inward parts Thus our Jesus makes his Pace swiftly to us to give often refreshing to our Hearts Hereby lifting us up from the Earth by the Spirit of his Eagle-Might which presseth into the Heavens there ever to live in the Bosome Loves Rest. October the 9th 1676. But still I was in great Concern to understand the meaning of the Sun-like Face and Stars which I saw the Night past So putting my self in an holy awful posture for the Spirit to place me unitedly to himself to understand and know as it self did know the simple Mind of the Deity It was thus revealed to me that suddenly there would break out of the dark beclouded Night of our World an open bright Face that should not speak to us in a deep unknown Spirit but Mouth to Mouth When we shall be generated as Stars from this Ghostly Body of Glory Who plainly testified such a Remove would be made If we will be constant to the Spirit our assigned Guide and Mate Who will arise in us unto this high degree and state as to swallow us up into this shining Face so that no Cloud shall be betwixt the Majesty of Glory and us For as our Jesus is so this rising Spirit of Glory will bring us into the same Transfiguring Body of Glory October the 10th 1676. The Ministration of Elisha As I was casting my self this Morning into my wonted posture of interiour Silence to hear and see what would arise out of the Spirit 's deep I was before I was aware surprised with a Natural Sleep but suddenly awaked with this Voice Search and see what is recorded for thee in 2 Kings 4. throughout not knowing as to my own rememberance what therein was contained till I looked Wherein was the Declaration of what great and marvellous things Elisha wrought eminently as nothing of the New-Testament-Ministration did them exceed So when I had perused them I asked and enquired by that inspiring Spirit who was nigh what Portion therein was for me that was thereunto pointed for to look earnestly seeking a plain understanding herein which through favour I did obtain after some space of time October the 11th 1676. This Word opened in way of Resolve Know O Soul thou hast this Elisha-Spirit with thee of which great Improvement may be made If thou canst know how to draw him out it will be possible to multiply manifoldly Therefore I thy Jesus directed thee to view the excellency of this Spirit and to provoke thee to ask a numeration of this to lay out upon my account so far as may reach to the glorified state of my new exalted Humanity As to the first part of Elisha's ability of Spirit which took in a sympathizing sence of the poor Widow's cry unto him This thou mayst read inwardly as thy own deplorable condition who hast often cryed to thy Prophet of the Oppression of this cruel Creditor the Prince and Spirit who rules in the evil World that would have taken thy two Sons both for Bond-men Who are to be understood as they relate to thy inward and outward Man to imbondage both and hold them in perpetual Captivity as Debtors through the degenerated Principle to the Law of Sin which makes obnoxious to the Curse of Servitude to this wicked Usuper From which my Elisha Spirit is to come to set free through the additional Blessing of Increase out of that Pot of Oyl that is found before-hand in thee but of no sufficiency to redeem out of the Creditor's thraldom till the Spirit of Multiplication do take Knowledge and Compassion to shew what will buy thee out of all the World's Servitude Wherein thou hast known such Perplexities and tyrannical Thraldoms that have constrained thee to look out for Liberty Now then hearken to my Counselling Word ye who do agree as united Spirits to break this Yoke from off your Neck resolving no longer to be under Tribute repair to your Prophet Elisha and only make him privy to all your Necessities Let the Prophet's Widow in this case be the Pattern in thy Eye and in all Extremities fly to no other Call upon this Elisha-Spirit for he is to be raised from the dead to work mighty Deeds First in the hidden Man of the Heart which prepareth for the working through the outward part every Vessel must be cleansed within before the Golden Oyl of the Almightiness will fill them When this is perfect and purely done shut the Door upon thee and thy two Sons and let none come in to spy For the Foundation-matter for Miracles to work upon will run from a most secret hidden Vein The method here of will be quite changed as to what was in the days of Elisha Who though he acted parallel with thy Jesus in the days of his humane state of Minority not having reached the Coronation-Glory could not till then set afoot this New Ministration that openeth from the Line of the Holy Ghost Who is that full grown Vein of Life which hath so long under Ground been hid because of which no miraculous thing hath of these last days been wrought For none hath cared with my Spirit to plunge so deep and therefore it is for a while to lie hid till they have found out the right Needle which may pierce this third Vein that proceedeth from the Godhead The Life-Blood of which will be the running multiplying Oyl which is costly indeed thou needst not crave
the Glorified Body of Jesus that is able to subdue every thing unto it self This verily is that Kingdom which is so much talked of and so little every where understood but less still pressed after which is in this Book and in that also of the Revelation of Revelations Published now ten years Ago so Essentially and Fundamentally declared as nothing Higher nothing Deeper can upon this Subject be ever laid down whether in Time or in Eternity And because Solomon whose Reign was as a faint Sketch or Type of the Glorious Reign of the true Jedidiah or Beloved of the Lord built himself a Royal Palace in Lebanon which was a fruitful and a well-watered Soil and most beautiful for its scituation where he made Gardens and Orchards planting in them Trees of all the variety of most excellent Fruits also Cedars and Fir-Trees for Building with great Water-works Pools of Water and Fountains with a fair Tower also looking toward Damascus and with a Vineyard of Red-wine where he entertained his Shulamite Queen and her Honourable Women Therefore is the Palace or Mansion-house of the Great KING the true Solomon or Prince of Peace here Parabolically represented to be raised up as in a New Lebanon whereinto the Tabernacle of the Eternal Wisdom coming down from God out of Heaven with all its Furniture is brought and the Children of the Lamb's Bride are figured out to grow up by the sides of this House as the Branches of a fruitful Vine or as so many several Lillies from one Stock or Olive-Plants from one Root according to the manifold proportion and diversity of the Divine Seed cast into the Ground of Nature by the Great Seedsman Whence the expected Kingdom of the Messiah in Restored Nature which is called the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven is according to the Spirits Mystical Dialect compared to a Vineyard to an Olive-yard to a Garden of Lillies and to a Corn-field and is expressed by the various figurations of a New Eden of a New Canaan of New Heavens and New Earth of Fountains and Trees and Plants of all sorts of Canals Aqueducts and Rivers of Pleasure of Tents Palaces and Temples of a Mountain of a Rock and of a City of Sion Lebanon and the Hills of Spices of new found Countries descended out of the Heavens or by the Creating Word in the Divine Magia made to appear as a new Sharon and a new Havilah and a Beulah of Jerusalem of Bethel and of the Southland of Etèrnity of the Pleasures and Grandeur of a Rich Powerful and Wise Prince such as Solomon and of all the Badges of Royalty and Scenes of Magnifiâ—…t Glory that do as in a shadow precede attend or follow the Marriage and Reception of a Royal Bride But this Heavenly Kingdom this Marriage-supper of the KING this Inauguration and Coronation of the Lamb and of his Bride to the Kingdoms of the Earth and to the lost Dominion and Soveraignty over the whole Six days Work is not to be expected but after very great and mighty Preparations many forerunning Signs of the Son of Man coming to us in his Fathers Glory and the Six Ascending Steps to the Throne of the Great Solomon All which are most difficult to pass so that few if any have been able in many Centuries to hold out to the last Degree or Ascension-step to this Throne But they have fell short of the PHILADELPHIAN Crown and of the high Prerogatives thereof viz. the being made Pillars and Principal Supporters in the Descending Temple of the Most High God the bearing the Name of JEHOVAH by an Essential communication of the Properties Powers and Dignities of their Eternal Father opened to such in JESUS and by a most Real Intimate and Vital Penetration of that most glorious wonderful Name burning in the Bush of their Humanity and putting forth it self in Imperial Acts and Deeds Their bearing the Name of the New Jerusalem-Mother that Free-woman which is above and demonstrating livelily its Inscription by an utter defacing of that of the Mother of Babylon and of the Beast upon which she rides and by a Majestick environing Brightness as of the Sun a subduing the Moon with all that is sublunary and mutable under their Feet and a wearing upon their Heads a Crown of Twelve Stars wherein so many Royal Pre-eminences and Ghostly Powers are contained The bearing the Names of the Foundations of this City the Names of the Tribes of Israel and the Names of the Apostles of the Lamb and the bearing lastly the New Name of Jesus that â—…o Man knoweth but he himself who with his own Finger hath written it on their Vestures and on their Thighs that so in all things they may be made like unto him their Head-Life by the all-powerful working of His Spirit with which they are sealed There are but few found who have so much as an Ear to hear what the Spirit saith to this Church of Philadelphia the First-fruits of the Lamb or even but to receive the Promises of the Holy and True One who is now at this instant with the Key of DAVID Opening gradually this blessed state in a few chosen Names so that none shall ever shut it more And he is shutting up in such the Dark Abyss and wrathful depraved Nature so that it can never be again Opened But still fewer are they who have not only an Ear to hear but also an Heart and Hands to Act whatever the Spirit saith and who dare to adventure on to the laying hold of such a weighty Crown as is that of the First-born And even of those that do so adventure forward for this most High Prize some do stop having attained to the First Degree others rest in the Second and others in the Third as thinking that they are already got to the Sixth and so want nothing but to be taken presently to sit with their Lord in his Throne Some are willing at the end even of the first days work of Regeneration or Spiritual Creation to enter into their Sabbath and without having passed the Works of the other Five Days to sit contented with the first productions of Divine Light upon the Soul Some who have beheld one or two or perhaps three Signs of the coming of the Son of Man have not had patience longer to wait for all the Signs but have thence peremptorily concluded â—…hat he was come to them and that his Kingdom was in them before a Redemption has been wrought out from the lapâ—… Nature or before the very Head of the Serpent has been bruised in them and slain by the Virgin Seed of the Wisdom of God in the meek Second Holy Principle of Light and Love which by the Inspired Penmen of Old is expressed by that most soft and yet most victorious Name JAH Hallelu-JAH For the prevention therefore of all such Miscarriages and for the undeceiving of those who think it a light thing to be a King's Son or a King's Daughter it
want Empyreal Flame Through whose clear Stile in each Transparent Line Thy rough cut well-set Polisht Diamonds shine Each Page outstreaming Light kindling Love Divine All Barrs remov'd at last Heavens Dawn appears The Virgin blushes round the Hemispheres Shedding Celestial Rosie Tincture pure From Sharon's Spicy Beds of radiant Hue Mixt with her own fair Lilies Silver Dew The Morning-Star true Venus high Aspires Darting on ev'ry side unblam'd and free Her gracious glittering lambent amorous Fires Bright Morning-Star of Gods Eternal Day For this we shout aloud we Sing we Pray Amen Hosauna Hallelujah Ah dear Divine Urania now be kind Speak thou and leave the wretched Man behind THE Glorious Aera Now Now Now begins Now Now the Great Angelick Trumpet sings And Now in ev'ry Blast Loves Everlasting Gospel Rings The Glad Triumphant Sounds Through Vales ore Hills rebound Glory to the Eternal King of Kings Glory to the Eternal King of Kings The Glorious Aera Now Now Now begins O may through me the Mighty Trumpet sound And spread its Fame the Woods and Plains The Isles and Seas around Let Sportful Eccho's play And Dancing all the way Swell and Intune the trembling Sounds anew All well-tun'd Voices raise To Great Elchâ—…jahs Praise Peace to All Worlds Dear Love to Man to God his Honour due O may through me the Mighty Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Hills and Plains Tho Isles and Seas around Proclaim aloud the mighty Jubilee That sets each World of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim the mighty Jubilee Let all the Heavenly Nine Wreath Arm in Arm entwin'd All in one high Love-labour'd Song agree Let Muse and Grace combin'd With Harmony Divine In sweetest Consent perfect Unity Melodious Voices joyn Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets whole Worlds of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim aloud the Mighty Jubilee Hail Morning-Star of God's Eternal Day For this we shout aloud we Sing we Pray Amen Hosannah Hallelujah O Bless the Dawn salute the Morning-Star Thrice bless the happy Womb that bare Sophia's Darling Child Lustrous All-charming Mild Bless Bless and Kiss the Daughter fair And for the Nuptial Bowers prepare Of God's Eternal Bride Bless bless the happy Lovers by her side Arise ye Lovers true Arise arise ye wondrous few Apparitors Divine ordain'd fore-sent Heavens beauteous Virgin Queen To attend and Usher in The Mother to Adore the Bride to Complement Blest Virgin Mother Bride in One Thrice sacred Band of Love and Mystick Union Arise arise ye wondrous few Arise ye Lovers true Long in in glorious Ease obscur'd ye lie Despis'd neglected yet neglecting too Nor caring what the Impious trifling World Could either say or do Orelookt by Man yet Lov'd and favouâ—…d high In Heavens Regard and God's Auspicious Eye Whom neither high Preferments Charm can move Ambition Fire or Beauty prompt to Love And yet to Love most true Out of the Everlasting Virgin 's Womb Sons of the Morn already born anew Born into Time And Wing'd at will to ascend the Aetherial Clime Angelick Men Imbodied Seraphim All Captives to the blest Sophia's Charms Thro Wisdoms Mazes bright Wandring in Tracks of Light By her still guided and exempt from Harms Still kept From mazy Errors tangling step From Paths untrue By her fair Silver-twin'd Mercurial Clue Dear Captives to the bright Sophia's Charms And yet more loudly to proclaim Transcendent Love's and Beauties Fame Long wrapt in the Divine Urania's Arms. Wrapt in the Dear Divine Urania's Arms Plundring her Sweets and Risâ—…ng all her Charms Ye wondrous few arise God's Heralds true throw off your mortal Guise Now lift your sweet loud speaking Trumpets high Now let your â—…ocund Levets fill the Sky Tell tell the drowsie World their God is Nigh Now let Eternal Song unbounded flow With Torrent deep serene Majestick flow Disdaining Arts Controll Like Heavens full spangled Canopy Most Nice and yet most Free Rang'd by Dame Nature's artful Liberty Let evr'y Point a Star each Line In Constellation shine Each Living Word a Soul In Thousand differing wayes Varying to God new Praise Now Now let your Inspir'd Seraphick Strains In mighty Numbers Roll. Proclaim proclaim the Gracious Jubilee And set the Sin-bound Captives free Proclaim proclaim the gracious Jubilee O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread its Fame the Woods and Plains The Isles and Seas around Let Sportful Eccho's play And dancing all the way Swell and Inâ—…une the trembling Sounds anew All well-tun'd Voices raise To great ELCHAJAH's Praise Peace to all Worlds dear Love to Man to God his Honour due O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Hills and Plains The Isles and Seas around And ye fair Virgin-Daughters of the Morn â—…on's first Blossoms from New Salem born High Paradisial Nymphs appear The Virgin Queen's attendant Graces dear Hast hast away And joyn your Powers unanimous to Proclaim The Wondrous Year The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day Full Period-Circle bright of Endless Fame Ye Paradisial Nymphs appear The Virgin Queen's Attendant Graces Dear Sions first Blossoms from New Salem born Rise ye fair Virgin-Daughters of the Morn Arise and Shine Illustrious Troop of Heroin s Divine Celestlal Amazons untaught to yield With Heaven-Aspiring Ardors sprightly vigor filled In this The Virgin 's Day most forward bent Zealous their very Hero's to prevent In Terrible-Majestick-Gay Parade Hell 's fierce Imbattel'd Legions first t' Invade With Orient Beams of Light Scattering the Misty Gloom of Night And chasing every black Infernal Shade Arise and Shine Illustrious Heroines Cherubick Phalanx bright of Amazons Divine Arise Arise and Shine Yet tho' deep skilled in Spirits War-like Arts Nature has fram'd Love Arm'd ye too too free â—…ar deeper Wounds to give and nobler Darts To fix in pure and captivated Hearts In whose High-tinctur'd Forms harmonious move The fiery quick Serpentine Energy Charm'd by the mildness of the Peaceful 〈◊〉 Inviting still to Love Contraries here agree In strictest Unity Each other to improve The fierce and powerful Sting and lofty Spire Co-mingling to exâ—…t the Amorous Fire You at whose Presence Mortal Beauty must Abscond and in Confusion kiss the Dust. Beauties too flaming Bright To be endur'd by Humane Sight Which but unveil'd would quench the Inferiour Outward Light The Glances of whose Eyes are Lucid Beams In-drawn from the All-radiant One Divine Superca Iestial Sun Where his full Streams Pointed in Central Union Himself produce in Lustrous Image fair Of his Belov'd Eternal Son Henee darting ev'ry way In each reflecting subdivided Ray The little Loves intranc't With innocent and wanton Dance Thousand enshrin'd celestial Cupids play From whose Coralline Lip Angels their Spicy Draughts of Nectar sip Quick darting the divine Love-flaming Kiss In free Enormous Bliss In whose fair Cheeks the Tinctures pure combine The matchless Diamonds sparkle Paler Bright And in their Orbs of Light Enchase the Glittering Rubies Sanguine Flame In radiant Blush of Modesty Divine Exempt from
the liquid Aether dance And on her Axle Spin In an Harmonious round Breathing Substantial Dense imbodied Sound Then shall surcease the Ungrateful Din Of jarring Sphears and clashing Orbs around While this Wonder-Machine Engine of Harmony divine Shall through the Ecchoing Welkin play And every where Its melting Air In clear Triumphant Sounds convey Into each obvious rowling Sphear Mingling her Ringing Atmosphere Which as it springs Still more transparent bright and sounding clear At first divides in lesser Rings Compacted close in Voice acute and shrill More to the Surface near Then wider Waves Indented till The Circles swell the Sounds begin to fill Still Wid'ning more and more Till with deep Gamut Roar In full mouth'd Peals Orb within Orb resound Here in Epitome Shall the vast Heavenly Sphears collected be And down through them transmit their Harmony Each Sphear each Star shall now dispence With Passage free in direct line And full Aspect Benigne It s various Powers and proper Influence Which in Her hallow Womb This Globe shall deep Intomb Where from her Central working Urn They shall arise and into Body turn And shoot from Centre to Circumference Her Caverns dark must now enlightned be Unfetter'd free As one transparent vast self-moving Wheel Of liquid Crystal open to Reveal Her rich innumerable Stores Her various Wonders great and her own Acting Powers These upward move and on the Surface play Adorn'd all Beauteous Bright Amazing Gay And there Themselves in Radiant Flowers Fruits Metals Gems display All Living Breathing sounding free Into the All-uniting Element The One Capacious Air Blowing from ev'ry Pipe a Different Harmony Still from the Lower Circlets upward sent `` Thus every grateful Note to Heav'n repays `` The Melody it Lent Thus from Earth's inmost Central-deep Abode Ev'n to the Zeinth high Of the clear boundless Empyrean Sky To the All Radiant Throne of God All is Conâ—…ent and perfect Unity All in Proportion dâ—…e In Weight and Number true In ev'ry Motion ev'ry Sound The Universe around All is Triumphant Love and Harmony Thro' All the Heav'nly Dove Breaths Hen Eternal Love Collecting ev'ry various Tone All Acts all Powers all Hearts in One Center'd in Beatifick Union Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets each world of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee Let all the Heav'nly Nine Wreath Arm in Arm entwin'd All in One high Love-labour'd Song agree Let Muse and Grace combin'd With Harmony Divine In sweetest Concent perfect Unity Melodious Voices Joyn. Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets each World of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim aloud the mighty Jubilee O may thro' me th' Awakening Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Isles and Seas And Heaven and Earth around Let Sportful Eccho's play And dancing all the way Swell and Iâ—…tune the trembling Sounds anew All well-tun'd Voices raise To great ELCHAJAH's Praise Peace to all Worlds dear Love to Man to God his Honour due O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread His Fame the Woods and Isles and Seas And Heav'n and Earth around While ev'ry Voice and ev'ry Trumpet sings The Glorious Aera Now Now Now begins Now now th' Angelick Trump His Message brings And now in ev'ry Blast Loves Everlasting Gospel rings The glad Triumphant sounds Thro' Spheres and Worlds rebound Glory to the Returning King of Kings Glory to the Returning King of Kings The Glorious Aera now now now Begins For this we shout aloud we Sing we Pray Amen Hosannah HALLELUJAH HAst now my Soul and lay thy humble Ode Low at the Feet of thy Returning God Make hast to Welcome Heaven's Eternal Queen She is by some already seen Come here to Live And ere 't is long to Appear Transfus'd in Her Great Representative Sure when she leaves the blissful Seats above And comes to Teach and Give us too Celestial Love None can the Rebel play To that dear Scepters sway She thinks none here can Disaffected prove Great Hero's ye must now give way And learn a Female General to obey Led on to mighty Deeds and vast Renown To Eternal Glories Crown By the Divine Illustrious Deborah The High-born Beauteous Amazonian Queen Immortal Heroine Of all the Virgin Train most dazling fair Mother of All and All compriz'd in Her Who ere She Dies Up to Mount Siâ—…n's blissful state arrives And in Her Age On the Celestial Rosie Bed Of fragrant Spices lies True Phâ—…e who in Heav'nly Flames Revives To Her Heav'ns lofty Virgin condescends familiar Unlocks Her Secret Cabinet and shows Where Her inestimable Pearl is hid Where run the Golden Mines so long forbid To Purblind Mortals Where the Unction flows Divine and where Lost Paradise on Earth Restor'd Immortal springs and fairer grows She teaches Her how to Project alone The Divine Magick-wonder-working Stone But that to purer Souls as free she may Her Secrets Wisdom Stone convey To fix the true Ascension Ladder high That leads directly to the Sky The rising Cherub Soul ev'n here to Glorify And to Proclaim the Gospel Pure Wonders unknown of Gods surprizing Love Which Firm and Sure Spight of fierce Demons Hate or Sins controul For ever shall endure To Her she gives all free Her Privy-Garden Key That leads us to the Still Eternity Which only is The true Transcendent Virgin-Paradise Whence she such Flowers of various Kind and Hue Imbalm'd in Odorous Heav'nly Dew Into her own Spicy Garden brings In which each Flower Indued with multiplying Power Pregnant becomes of Thousands more Hence th' unexhausted Fountain of fresh Gardens springs Here living Trees their glittering Armâ—… extend Apples of Gold the Silver Branches bend Plenty Luxuriant without End Here round the Oak of Strength entwines The softer Amorous Eglantine Which hitherto tho' wild and barren-wast Here bring their proper Fruits too high for Mortal tast The stately Elm still Weds the creeping Vine Whose Branches wide-Embrac'd prosusely Pour Their large Escolian-clâ—…er'd Dower The Princely Cedars Heaven aspiring Clime And fit to build the Presence-Ark Divine Th' Incorruptible Trees of Sbiâ—…tim Nor wants Improv'd that Indian Wonder-Tree All Spices in Bpitome Whence we the true Perfumes and Incense bring To Ingratiate and Attone the Offended King Ev'n till the Savour of our Ointments move The Bridegroom dear to grant his Love Amidst the Trees of Faith and Life aspire Most Virtuous-rich and Goodly to behold O see 'em Blooming fair With Orient Pearl and pure Ambrosial Gold Hail Blest Elysian-flowery fruitful Vale Eden transplanted new Here Blushing Roseâ—… Lilies Love-sick Pale High-Purpled Mourning Violets humbling low With Pinkt Carnatians of collected Graces grow Here is the Sun-Flower true Of steady fixâ—… Love-Contemplation high That from th' Eternal Sun ne're turns its Eye Here the Dove-Gales in Gentle Zephirs Blow Here Sions Golden Rivers boundless flow Pure Nectaro-Ambrosial Streams that spring With Quintessential Element Divine And the New Kingdoms Flaming Wine From the clear Glassy Sea Loves Ocean bring These are the Gardens of Mount Lebanon
Where Wisdoms Temple can be raised alone By the True second Solemâ—…n Whose Glorious Representative shall here Become its Mighty Founder Himself most radiant and Head Corner-Stone Next to th' Eternal One Hail Great and Powerful CYRUS Thou art He Forenam'd and Chosen from Eternity True Hyacynth who to thy Jasper Bright Loves charming Queen shalt evermore unite Mingling thy Streams of Power with Rays of Light Hail Glorious King DAVID and MARY One Hail Types of Greater Glories yet to come Hail Pledges of the Blest MILLENIUM Blest Pair 't is Now Now you begin your Days when the Divine SOPHIA Sings your Praise The Rose and Lilly of th' Imperial Crown The Flower and Beauty of the Heavenly Throne The V and M of the Creation Blest Pair thrice happy now begins your Days When the Divine Sophiâ—… Sings your Praise Hail Glorious King DAVID and MARY One Hail Types of Greater Glories yet to Come Hail Pledges of the BLEST MILLENIUM Hail Powerful Beauteous Kind Harmonious V. M. Arise arise ye glittering Temple Stones Arise ye Precious Twelve Foundations Hast and your Ravisht Souls in one combine All in One Heart One Life One Glory shine To Raise of Spirits all compact and Pure Wisdom's Magnificent Immortal Structure Each Princely Pillar Generating more Story on Story rais'd with Golden Spires Waving their Streamers of Celestial Fires While the true Doves from ev'ry distant Shoar To the Love-Windows fly and Add their Store Till to the Heavens they Build her Lofty-Tower Then down in Love the very Heavens shall Bend Then shall the Still Eternity descend And shouts of Victory the Skies shall rend With full-ton'd Acclamation-Anthems clear And Love Congratulations Dear Thus down in Love the Heavens themselves shall bend Thus shall the New Jerusalem descend And God shall Tabernacle Here with Men World without End And here at Rest Heav'ns Glorious Virgin Queen â—…n all her Darling Beauties Charms Divine Majestick Port and Glories unconfin'd Sits on her Royal Throne in her high Faâ—…e Enshrin'd And in the Mirror of her Heavens so clear Presents her Lustrous Son in whom Express Outshines the Glory of his Father Dear â—…n and through All the Eternal Peaceful Dove Out-pours the Burning Sea of Everlasting Love â—…hile loud each Arch-Angelick Trumpet Sings Glory to the Eternal King of Kings While ev'ry Breath and Sound The Ecchoing Spheres and Worlds around 〈◊〉 Universal Hallelujah Rings Glory to the Returning King of Kings â—…or this we Shout aloud we Sing we Pray â—…MEN HOSANNA HALLELUJAH MEAN while we turn our Eyes and Ears attent To Heavens Embassadress to Mortals sent â—…o shew her Virgin Mother's Love-Intent Through her a sweet Inchanting Ray she flings â—…nd purer Souls Inviting Thus Divinely Sings Now Open wide ye Everlasting Doors And swiftly Fly the Winged Hours â—…ill your Great Lebanon Prince the Mighty King In Solemn Triumph enter in All your Fresh Springs with Heavenly Dews to fill Flowing from ev'ry Spicy Quill That you may Drink those Nectarine Draughts so pure To Effect the Universal Cure Quint-Essence streaming from the Godhead Source So Ravishing sweet of such high Force As to transmute Man's Earth and drossy Mold To Pearly Beauty Living Gold Crown'd with the Sun and Star-bright Glory high Clear Substance of a Deity Thus meetly Qualified and All Divine Companions to the Glorious Trine Such Heavenly Virgin Soulâ—… shall freâ—… Command The Treasures of their Nat vs Land Those hidden Mines whose Springs of Golden Ore Shall decaid Nature full Restore Fountains of â—…ebanons Generated free Shall from this Golden Ocean be The Rapturous Joys whereof no Tongue can tell But Godhead-Plants that in it dwell Who under th' shady Rocks high Banner grow Whence Love 's spic'd Liquors ever flow O come and tast what Pleasures here abound Where would ye move in Endless round You must from Dross Refine and Mount away Mingling no more with Earth and Clay But as New-Risen Souls make your Ascents To dwell in Lebanon's Golden Tents O England Hear thy Genius loudly Call O Hear and ere'tis fixt Prevent thy Fall Of Heaven thou most Abhorrd thou dearest Lov'd Whom one by True Poetick Instinct mov'd Well Jews has call'd `` A moody Murmuring Race `` As ever tried th' extent and stretch of Grace Ah stop take heed heed leâ—… thou so Head-strong move As ev'n to 〈◊〉 the very Câ—…in of Love Still with Godâ—… Prime â—…ulgent Fâ—…vour Bleâ—… And Prov'd as 〈◊〉 by bitter Plagues distrest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 spare Yet cannot thee forgo O how 〈◊〉 â—…ary teaâ—… how His Comâ—…ssions slow Maâ—…k thy mild Saviour well how once he stood Shedding at Saleâ—… Gates his tender Flood Ore thee again He Mourns in Tears in Sighs Wrung from his Bleeding Heart and Melting Eyes Once more from the Exuberant Mercy-Store A Glorious Day shall â—…ouch Fair Alblon's Shoar Take Heed Prepare for if thou wilt not see The Visitation Day-spring offer'd Thee If thou neglect the STAR that will Appear First Rising Glorious in thy Hemisphere Thou of thy Birth-right wilt Suplanted be And Heavens full Shower of Blessing pass from thee The Morning-Star despis'd must Glide away And to a better Land its chearing Beams display Then at thy Loss and Folly for a while Shall the Fair-sprouting German Lilly smile Yet kind and free Assist thy Labouring Toil. Then Britain then Prepare for Scenes of Woe Then Nilus shall the wicked Land Ore-flow A a's Stately Pride must tumble down And B b's Lofty Towers must Kiss the Ground Then Happy who in Goshen's fruitful Land Sheltred beneath th' Almighties Wing shall stand In â—…afety Peace and Plenty at Command Till the short Gloomy Day be past and gone And soon another Brighter Morning Dawn Gods Hand and Will shall be too Glaring plain Longer to meet Neglect or bear Disdain Jealous provok't with Emulation-Fire Again shall British Piety Aspire As it sunk Low so shall it now Rise Higher His First-born God in Thee again shall Own And pour the Vast the Double Blessings down And England's Monarch High shall wear the Nations Crown The Fivefold-Portion-Right belongs to Thee Then shall the Land from Curse and Toil be free And England Benjamin Restored shall be Onesimus A Garden of Fountains c. OR Divine Openings and Revelations since the Year MDLXX The First Vision that appeared to me was in the Month of April 1670. Which was on this wise BEing my lot at that time to visit a Friend in a Solitary Country-place where I had great advantage of Retirement often frequenting lonely Walks in a Grove or Wood contemplating the happy State of the Angelical World and how desirous I was to have my Conversation there my thoughts were much exercised upon Solomon's Choice which was to find out the Noble Stone of Divine Wisdom for by acquainting my self with her all desirable good in Spiritual things would meet upon me The Report and Fame that Solomon gave of Wisdom did much excite me to seek her Favour and Friendship demurring in my self from whence she was descended
hitherto would not hereunto put you till Wisdom's Spirit in highest measure be grown up for the management and carrying on of so high and mystical a part which excels and transcends all Buildings whatever that have gone before your Temple and Sanctuary Purity all inferiour is to this That which was lacking in them must be perfected here in this by this descending and all-compounding Glory which meets all in one here where now are descried the Lame the Blind and the Halt none of whom are so much as to look within this high Mountain of Holiness upon which the Glory resteth Neither can any come hither who bring not their twelve tried Foundation-Stones along with them To which end the Spirit which revealeth all secret deep things doth give for the manifestation here of unto thee That thou mayst know what maketh thee further meet to inherit this City which hath such transparant Foundations For so unvariable is Wisdom's Heart of Love that hath moved the Chariot-Wheels of thy Spirit and brought thee thus far even to the Gate and entrance of this magnificent place as by no means here to be shut out where ye are designed Marriage If ye can all over conquering first ascend to the Rock where these wonderful Precious Stones are to be found â—…oth for Foundation and Garnishing See then here whether the flight of thy Spirit must be namely to Wisdom's Treasure-House whom all must be fetched down for the City building Here carried up thou must be in thy Spirit not only to see in Vision or in bare Idea's these Stones of Glory but to have them put upon thee as thy Breast-plate row upon row with the engraving of that new Name which giveth sound Judgment and perfect Sight and Understanding into all Visibles and Invisibles This is a great estate which I am now setting before you and also bringing into yoâ—… as ye shall be able to bear the Glory of it which will be all Consuming to the existency of your present Heavens and Earth Which can no longer abide but they must fall away and flee at the bright rising of this Sion-Beauty in Crystalline Appearance and Celestiaâ—… Cloathing Rejoyce ye O my Dovâ—… Spirits in what I am about to createâ—… and to lay in you anew such Foundations as shall make my Name the Pranâ—… in these New Heavens and Earth upoâ—… which my beloved City shall be placed In order to this ye must suffer the Plumâ—…met-Line in the Guardian Angels Hanâ—… to measure the height length anâ—… breadth of this walled City each onâ—… within your own New Earth The Duâ—… of which must be all fanned through thâ—… Sieve of immaculateness which will 〈◊〉 no mixture of old Earth pass througâ—… The Heavens that now must be in yoâ—… circling Clarification continually must be pure bright and without mixture For consider for whom this City is prepared and builded is it not for one who is terrible in Holiness and Purity and that only can dwell with what is like himself Behold now and hear that Word again saying I decree all things in ye New as chosen Testators of this my will and as my front Battellers and primary Builders working according to the Law-giver and Rule-setter whose Eye and Hand shall prove it self great and mighty as ye shall thereupon rest immediately for all counsel and aid and shall thereto still â—…lye for Wisdom April the 5th 1676. In the Night-Vision I with another Person were to make a new remove to some place which we had no knowledge of being under a strict limitation thereto to hasten The way which we were to pass I saw as a fiery Oven which when we came at put us to a stop then waiting and looking on it a while the Flames died and soon were vanished Then the guiding Word said Pass on fear not the place is not now too hot to set your Feet upon which after some debate with our selves we ventured through Then was presented to our view a Knot of all Precious Stones as if they had been taken out of a Rock truly they were for Colours and Brightness and Sparkling so excelling so wonderful Transparent as all and the highest of what can be illustrated out from this Creation is but a gloomy shadow hereunto The glance was sudden and soon passed out of my view only pointing and leaving a great Impression as to the late Manifestation and the moving forward to the Jerusalem-Work Which yet required a higher and more Seraphick ascending up of our Spirits then hitherto hath been which I was in great Jeapardy about both for that others and also for my own sufficiency and spiritual ability to go forward and through paved Spirits to follow on For the Vision shewed me we should meet with hot work but that it would be allayed and overcome for us After which I saw our way made to pass through Waters before we could come to this City That Word still saying Only believe and I will pass on before you proclaiming my Name and opening to you the Foundation of it from whence your strength shall arise and your pregnant Power shall be known Who now then must be your Master-Builder to instruct you in this your Foundation-Work but that Wisdom which was with Jehovah from everlasting who gave Being and Existency according to the Spiration of the Eternal Will even so in like manner must this moving Will-power again go forth for the removing and undoing what the dark Fire enkindled Properties have done racing and pulling down that Babylonish Building to the Ground that its place may be found no more nor yet its turbulent Sea For I am making away for you out of all these first desolate part of things your Hands with me I require you to put and so you shall stop and prevent the Flood-Gates of the Beast and of the Serpent's fury Come now and I will shew you where all these Foundation-Stones do lie look see within the compass of your new Earth and of the burning Glassy Sea treasure-matter for this Foundation Building here ye may espy Therefore the Golden Plummet of my Spirit shall be given to you that so ye may be able not only to sound but also to bring up what lieth couched here beneath The first Stone which the Spirit drew up to view was a bright Saphir upon which was engraven the great Name Jehovah Shammah The second was an Onyx-stone with Everlasting Wisdom written upon it The third was a Beril presenting the Flaming and Ghostly Breath issuing forth in sparkling power The Second Row the first is the Jasper which is all Light sparkling like to the Diamond upon this is engraven the Express Word or Image of God The second Stone of this second Row is a Sardius it is a Sardine-stone which represents the Virgin Purity as meet to unite to the Jasper The third Stone of this Row is an Amethyst upon which is engraven the highest degree of Seraphick Love that cements all in one The third
of being Tributaries to these Usurped Powers From which nothing can you Totally free but Total Death after that way of Spiritual Dying which both Mystically and Magically by and through the Heavenly Constellations doth operate This is a Death worthy of all Acceptation indeed which at once shall put an End to all Earthly Sense and Sin Then room there is O Soul for the Superiour Life to come in which shall reign as God enthroned in Nature's Kingdom that is restored to its first Institution First Breath then take and saint not but forward to the Mount of Olives go the Mountain is indeed high to which you are to ascend but my holy Gales shall drive you on that so you may come thither to sup with the Lamb. A Sheet is here wanting July the 8th 1676. THis Morning after some private Ejaculations to the Throne Majesty this Word came unto me Will ye actually deny your Active Life as you denyed passively your passive Life Even that Life which ye so often have decryed down because it is found in that room from whence proceeds all Unbelief and Deceiveableness of Unrighteousness which naturally generateth those Essences from whence the Thoughts that are light and evil do spring The great conquest will be to put a stop to these till thou hast found the way utterly to undermine and for ever to bind them Yet thou shalt be allowed warranted and justified to stifle them before they can come to a Birth Though Reason may tell thee this would be as a new Entity and that it would straitway overturn and overthrow thy breathing Existency yet give thou not any ear to such Objections that are cast in from that Principle perhaps then no more in a Creaturely Being thou canst be known Well admit it and suffer thy Creaturely Self thus far for to expire as to the imaginary Life be assured that all Peace and Safety hereby will accrue For by this silent Vacancy another Source will open All dyings thou hast indeed gone through to this which is the main Head-Vein which doth lie so deep under Ground thereby preserving under it self hidden even from the Vultur's Eye Oh this Original Root is that which must be struck at Up and Out with it and overturn it and thou wilt see what doth lie in the depth beneath it to wit every precious thing which without care or toil will voluntarily spring when this imaginary Root is quite cast out For the croppings of this Evil Seed will never free thy inward Ground Come then and descend with me and I will shew thee where this Grand Enemy doth lurk who unconceivably doth send forth those dark Fumes which hath hitherto prevented the overflowing Breath of the Holy Ghost If then thou canst not to a cessation from every unruly motion come which works from the Astral Spirit then try the Power and Might of that Spirit which in thee doth reside and cross these strong Tides and through all break and leave behind the Flowings of Jordan and look not back but forward do thou pursue and keep up to thy Region high and as an Eagle Spirit bear up most mightily no more returning to take up any weight of earthly stuff which in the Imaginary Mind doth lie But away away ascend with thy Jesus unto another Principality where other Presentations will all thy Senses employ when once thou hast forgot and lost this World out of thy Eye and Heart What other meaning dost thou think those Words do bear which are upon old Records which saith Except ye deny relinquish and suffer the loss of that Life which is bundled up tied and knit together with the stringing Sinnews of the imaginary Mind ye cannot enter into Life into the Life of God and Christ which to know is Life Eternal Therefore it is again said That none can receive the Kingdom of God till they can come to be as a little Child that is new born who is passive having no thoughts of reluctancy working to hinder the opening the Everlasting Kingdom of the Light Joy Love Power and Peace Wouldst thou know why so few have got entrance here It is because they could not untwist nor get from under this binding Cord of the Natural flowing Cogitations which beset the Spirit every way holding it under a most slavish Captivity Yet is it not perceived but by most it is believed that this whirling Wheel must run round of absolute necessity and there is no way for it to be avoided while subsisting in a Body of Elementary Corporality True O Spirit those who in this gross state only care to be do walk and abide with and amongst those which are of their own likeness relishing and corresponding with what doth proceed from this unsavory part But from you I your Lord expect another thing who have taken the Vow of a Nazarite's Life upon you invocating me so often for a remove and translation into the same Life and Liberty with me your forerunning President Now then I must plainly make known to you the Mind of God and your Father which is to Famish all those numerous and multiplying Essences which mutiny against the Eternal Stillness and Eternal Nothingness where the all sublime Goodness and Everlasting Rock of Power is to be seen felt and known Verily this is the way I can only describe to thee and those who the mark of this high Calling would reach and would be traffickers within the Holy City which is all Crystalline Through which none can pass that hath the least Lumber of imaginary stuff yet hanging upon him Now weigh these Sayings for they are from the Yea and Amen who hath good-will to make riddance of all those superfluous Thoughts that have been as the gulph separating Principle To which thoughts by one act God moving in the Mystery of the Fiat yet once again will put an end quite to them For a New Heart will be created out of which will flow continually such a choice Treasury answering to the Sight of the Flaming Eye July the 16th 1676. A Vision of God's Flaming Eye This Morning as I was in my Spirit let down into the deep Abyss attending the pure Openings from that Central generating Source or Fountain Life In a moment there appeared to me an Azure blue Firmament so Oriental as nothing of this in this Visible Orb could parallel with it Out of the midst hereof was a most wonderful Eye which I saw Sparkling as with Flaming Streams from it Which I am not able to Figure out after that manner in which it did present it self unto me But according to this Form it was as much as I am able to give an account of it it was thus or after this manner There was a Flaming Eye in the midst of a Circle and round about it a Rainbow with all variety of Colours and beyond the Rainbow in the Firmament innumerable Stars all attending this Flaming Eye From which the Word said the Earth and Heavens shall
flye and nothing abide but what can live in this Eternal Eye as ministring Stars of Glory before the Throne of him who like to this Circling Eye which thou hast seen hath neither Beginning or End A. The Eye B. The Globe of Light C. C. C. C. C. The Flames D. The Rainbow E. The One Element F. The Supercelestial Moon After this Word it disappeared leaving its Flaming Influences upon my Heart And further of this secret Vision he did say he would it impart as I for its Manifestation did wait and the signification hereof should come to be witnessed by that rising Birth which is called up to this Globe among these Stars to fix in this more excelling Firmament July the 17th 1676. The Interpretation of the Vision or of the Flaming Eye This Vision of the Flaming Eye is given for to see that which is worth pondering for thy pure Mind continually For glorious Idea's will multiply that hereupon all thy Senses may be employed in such sweet Rarifiedness wherein there is no danger of Excess While this Vein from the Heart of God in thee doth run it will feed that which doth come from the pure Font and hereby stop the running issue of the Imaginary part Which I will assure thee will compleat the Victory because it strikes at Sin 's Originality which had its beginning from the Conceptive part of the Heart there it came it and there it must be banished out Then it will be a New Heart in which the Flaming Eye will fix Which in Vision thou didst see with its innumerable Stars in the Firmament which are generated from this Globe-Eye so unmerously will holy and pure Cogitations from hence arise and so habitual strong and forceable as to out-pass all strange Essences that would come therein again to lodge Therefore within this Circling do ye abide that so you may keep out all evil Motions which the Serpent knows are the Foundation-matter of his Kingdom and will sting you with them if ye do not fully exclude them Which ye no way can till ye hasten away and with your Spirit fly to this bright Firmament where this Eye all Dangers will for you espy and know all secret Mysteries making you wise in that one great needful thing which will make all strait that crooked and out of the way is For such is the property of this Fire piercing Eye that it will look through the Host of the whirling Imaginations and put them to a stop that so they may not persue as to overtake those that are upon Faith's flying Banner on which keep till it hath brought you within Zion's Gates This great and weighty thing concerning Cessation and Annihilation of all fruitless Imaginations was still the Call within me to come into the Believing Rest for that this was the true dying into Jesus which passive Life is the pure Mother out from which the Birth of the God-acting-Life is to be expected For the Faith of the co-operating Power worketh here all in all The New Heart being replenished with ministring Powers suitable hereunto that will perfectly bring things to pass as the Mystery is moved in its own Sphear driving on by the mighty force of this Birth of Faith Which produceth great and marvellous things according to the sublime Nature of it For it hath no other ground to go upon but the absolute Co-eternal Deified Will which Will willeth in the New created Heart as in its own Royal Seat July the 18th 1676. This Morning I was in great Heart-searchings about this precious Lily of Faith if I could by the sight reflecting from the Eternal Eye it any where espy Querying thus with my Lord Jesus Ah Lord if the right Plant be in me as it was found in thee why doth it not act forth Where are the Signs which should follow as the Seal of Believing What makes the Birth of it stick thus long whose going forth must make way for the Holy Ghost Tell me Oh thou inspiring Word why hath it had a Name to live and yet hath been as dead For it hath not been Justified by such mighty Heroick Works as in the foregoing Ages did bear witness to it And this hath made it as a Body without a Spirit actless and fruitless Thus I earnestly expostulated that if we had it existing in us then we might have skill to use and manage it for the reviving of this worthy and unknown thing which hath been a Stranger in the Earth but is now a stirring in our Heavens and a turning up the Mould that hath from our Eye this all-precious Grain hid Where then doth it lie said the blessed Alpha to me thou hast to the heights for it ascended and for it hast sounded into the Depths but thy Aim hath been too â—…ort to reach it and thy Eye too dim for to espy it though it is so nigh Yet not known to any till they do retain the bright glance of the Flaming Eye which hath not only the specious Faculty but the streaming Power of Might to bring back again this worthy Champion that hath been by the combining Powers of Reason put unto flight Which so soon as Tydings come that they are dead who so wickedly have conspired against Faith's life then it will return again and appear on the Earth mighty and supream to open the Door for the Holy Ghost to enter in Then this Mystery of Faith will be finished To which ye are directed that by contending for it ye may obtain it unto Victory July the 19th 1676. As we this Morning were in our Spiritual operative Powers each one bringing forth out of the Treasury the Doctor being much carried out upon the Subject of Faith it was spoken to me This is the Ministry which goeth before to make way for the Holy Ghost And I saw as a Confirmation hereof a Flying Banner passing swiftly by as a Trophy of Faith's Victory Which each one must bear before the Day in which the Holy Power will shower upon us till which in one Spirit of Faith we were directed to wait together After which also a Word run through me There is need enough to provoke each other hereunto For the Day is now nearer then when first ye did set upon this Believing Oh now let us go through that we may reach to all the Degrees of Faith which will assuredly make up our fallen Breach For this is the Power that will make us all whole as the true Weapon-Salve which is anointed by the Hand of our dear Jesus to smooth and make ready for the Flying Banner of the Holy Power for to descend into us who in this Faith do wait within the secret Gate of the New Jerusalem state where into by no means must we bring any Spirit that may make mutiny for to break the holy League which must be still maintained with him who is the Covenant Who hereby reneweth our Peace and Joy in believing without annoy or staggering which hinders the purchase
it given me to understand the several Offices and Business belonging to each one of these to make ready for the Birth-Day and to protect this High-born One from the raging Floods the tempstuous Winds of the Adversary The Spirit 's Work is to reprove convince exhort counsel caution and comfort in order to the carring on this great Affair The work of the Water is another witness as you find it in you as a bubling Pool cleansing every part within that so not the least defect may be found in the Matrix whereout the Birth must open Then the Blood is a great Testimonial Witness and Evidence as in a mystical manner conveyed tasted and drunk down by them that do carry the matter of this Birth for it doth produce a vigorous Life that will be known and felt to refresh both Mother and Babe So keeping all these in their several acting-Properties they will be the clear evidence unto thee that the Ghostly Birth is working out it self Therefore with these three let thy Will-Spirit agree hereunto to throw out every misconceived thought For now all things must be new again by the Father Word and Spirit through this new Birth wrought That ye may come to a mighty Record among the New Jerusalem Stones where all are waiting this rising day to see because it will fix in thee an unknown Liberty both in Spirit and Body November the 21st 1676. It was also further expresly opened unto me that we were at present brought thus far as to witness these three as Spirit Water and Blood being Witnesses in our Earth which did fore-run the Ministration of the Holy Ghost For they must go before as the Ministration of Jesus who came by Water Blood and Spirit that is Death Life and Resurrection from which he passed and so must we As he did bear our Record in Heaven which will be a different thing though agreeing to one and the same end as thus the three first make way as the Water-Baptism into the Death the Blood into the Life the Spirit quickneth and giveth a Body of the Resurrection So the Ministration of Jesus hath its twofold Use upon us in order to the second thus which are to bear Record as the Father Word and Holy Ghost in our Heavens So here is to be understood the rising Degree or changing from Jesus in Spirit to that degree of Unity of Father Word and Holy Ghost all which agree to enter into a Virgin Mind thus prepared and in it after a high Mystical mauner themselves conceive so as to include them as one only Being contracting the Virgin-Will and Spirit with it self hereby becoming one inbred with it as that Heir who was darkly prophesyed of in Micah's day who said the glory of Israel was to come unto the Adullam the very pure Tabernacle of the Virgin-Nature born again of Water Blood and Spirit so made indeed a meet reception for this holy thing to be sealed up as in an unknown Pavilion or hiding Place of Strength which must be till it hath attained every measure and part to the growing big and filling up the Birth 's place with Breasts full of Milk the Spring Word of the Spirit diffusing into them the natural course of the Bloody Issue of Sin also stopping all which will be evident Signs unto you that are still apt to be questioning whether this Ghostly Birth is in you forming Therefore be still and wait for that great travelling hour that is to come upon ye before which sometimes ye will be in Pains and Heaviness because ye may meet with many a throw of Temptation all which will work the Birth forward therefore be not dismayed Oh Daughter of my Zion so long as thou walkest steadily not going out of Sion Court where you are to wait at my Council-Board to enquire what shall fore-run and be in that travelling Hour which will make great Spoil of the Mortal Shell which must break away at this great Birth-day Therefore look and expect this will make a mighty alteration for the Heavens will rend that the Throne-Spirits and Powers may descend as helps and Guardian defence and Witness-bearers to this Sion-Birth For which great Provision is aforehand to be made to answer to the greatness of the Sion state all of the rich concealed Furniture and Golden Cups Pots and Vessels at such a time as this will be brought out with all the rich Robes for those to wear who do attend upon this Birth Great and mighty Preparations thou dost see are hereunto expedient for to be Because this World is so blind ignorant and unbelieving that it will be no less needful to rebuke by all high and Spiritual Magnificency in the very height of Sion Glory and to outvye hereby not only vain pompous Glory but those Abominations and false exalted Lighâ—… set up in Temple-Worships as no better then false Births Coverings which will not be removed till this mighty Standard of this Holy Ghost come to be lifted up and set upon the top of Sion-Hill in Visibility November the 22d 1676. I saw as a Preludium of this rising Birth of the Holy Ghost a bright Firmament opne and all dignified with splendorous Stars some much more blazing then others And one Star encreased so great as it became like the Body of the Sun Which Vision was thus opened unto me after some days being called over in me by a fresh vivification of Spirit that shewed me that the one Star which I saw so suddenly encrease to that largeness as the very Body of the Sun it was the Virgin-Woman that was all to be encompassed with the Birth Light of the Holy Ghost which would arise out of that Orb at which the rest of the Stars that did encompass it should shout for Joy and be Witnesses â—…hereof at the opening of this greater Day-Star which should enlighten the whole Earth Oh this left great Amazement in me provoking to some travelling Sorrows for to see this mighty Wonder â—…rought forth as in Vision so existently in that Star who is hereunto by the Omnipotency elected A further Confirmation hereunto was the Idea of an Ark that was shut up floating up and down not upon muddy troublesome Waters which once covered all Mountains and Hills whenas the Deluge was upon the Old World but these Waters were pure and healing like the Waters under the Threshold of the Sanctuary that where-ever they came quickned unto Life And it was said to me Behold the Dove is in the Ark and will be this place of broad Waters that shall cover the Earth no more to kill or destroy but to save alive according to the New Covenant that all shall know God from the least to the greatest When out of this Ark the Dove shall flye with the Everlasting Gospel as the Olive-Branch which carrieth in it that oily Property we will kindle a sweet Fire that can mix with these pure Waters and not bâ—… quenched but still maintain servent heaâ—…