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—…
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
Mortal Shame Here Re-aspiring from their humble Vale To meet the inclining vigorous scented Male In their Dewie Fruitful Bed Their Sharon Rose the Virgin Lilies wed Whom as with strict Embrace inwrapt They lock within their Flowery Lap A Stock of Graces numberless proceed A Spring of lesser Beauties breed The clear tralucent Forms all Shade disdain Disclosing freely to be seen The Wonder-World within Each Argent Nerve and ev'ry Azure Vein The beauteous Love-Eye burning in the Heart From whence Loves Centres endless multlply As thick-set Spangles of the Sky Raising a Sting of Joy in ev'ry Part. In ev'ry Point a Venus bright Each Star a World of new Delight Opening an unexhausted Spring of Bliss Each Nymph her self a Paradise So fine so pliant the external Mould That ev'n therein the brighter Soul With all its Graces Train Imprints it self distinct and plain And as in Fabled Streams Where Silver Currents roll On Orient Pearl and Sands of Gold Displays her rich inestimable Gemms Which free exposed to view In their untarnisht native Hue Reflex thrâ—… Bodies Chrystalline In their transparent Mirror shine But deeper yet and more amazing Fair Out-shines out-flames thro' her Express the Only Sons refulgent Character Now now ye Paradisial Nymphs appear The Virgin Queens Attendant Graces Deâ—…r Arise arise and shine Illustrious Brigade Of Heroines Divine In Terrible-Majestick-Gay Parade With Orient Beams of Light Scatter the miâ—…y Gloom of Night And banish every black Infernal Shade Arise and shine Illustricuâ—… Heroines Cherubick Phalanx bright of Amazons Divine Arise Arise and Shine Hast Hast away And let your well-trim'd flowing Tresses fair Waving in wanton Ringlets Gild the Air Ont-beaming Sun-bright with pellucid Ray And as they loosely move Fan'd by fresh Odorous Gales of Love With Heavens warm Gentle-breathing Zephirs Play Hast to Proclaim The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day Amen Hosanna Hallelujah Hast to Proclaim The Period-Circle Full of Endless Faâ—…e The Great the Good the Now-Revolving Day For this we shout aloud we sing we pray Amen Amen Hosanna Hallelujah Hero's fall back again Lead up the Virgin Train And Hand in hand as Love-pair'd Twins advance In Sacred well-pac't Mystick Dance Tracing on holy Ground Circling Jehovah's Altar round Where Ay Love-Incense burns Goodness and Grace abound Whence Living Coals out-fly Generate and multiply Seraphick Ardors ev'ry way to impart To each bright-flaming and Love-melting Heart The quick Celestial Fire 's Straight their Sweet-warbling Tongues inspire While ev'ry Voice and ev'ry Trumpet sings Glory to the Returning King of Kings Lov 's Golden Aera Now Now Now begins Now Now in ev ry Breath in ev'ry sound The Universe around Loves Everlasting Gospel rings Glory to the Returning King of Kings Loves Glerious Aera Now Now Now begins Fresh springing still th' Inspir'd Harmonious Vein Tunes up to higher Key and loftier Strain In more Inchanting Layes Varying new Hymns of Praise Jointly th' ascending Voice and Soul to raise Ev'n till they both aspire And join with the Seraphick Quire And under Gods bright Eye In Influence serene they lie Dissolv'd in Rapturous Hallelujahs As that sweet little Chorister that flies And singing mounts the Skies Till all his Breath and Song be spent Then down he falls in sweeter Languishment So do Angelick Souls in Sounds aspire They mount and Sing Upon the Doves bright Wing That gently fans and feeds th' Ethereal Fire All Emulous to win the steep Ascent The mighty Mountains Seven Those Lilie-deckt and Rosie-flowring Hills Form'd by th' All-bounteous Hand of Heaven Its Darling Sons with meer Delight to fill Till in Melodious Ravishment Their Powers their Voice their very Soul be spent The Light Becomes too blazing bright The Bliss Unsufferable is Then down with speed they take their humble flight In Adoration deep yet but retire Tâ—… embrace more Near and be exalted higher Now Loves last sweetest Mystick Death to try Rapt in sublime Exstatick Joys Expire Intranc'd and Silent lye Thus in soft languent Slumbers sweet true Sleep That Rests in Gods Abyssal Deep The rest in Visionary Dreams they See They Tast they Feel What is unknown Immense Unspeakable Proclaim Proclaim the Mighty Jubilee That sets each world of Captives free Proclaim Proclaim aloud the Mighty Jubilee O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread its Fame thâ—… Woods and Hills 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 ELCHAJAH's Praise Peace to all Worlds dear Love to Man to God hiâ—… Honour duâ—… O may through me the mighty Trumpet sound And spread his Fame the Woods and Isles and Seas And Heaven and Earth around Too long too long the wretched World Lies wast in wild Confusion hurl'd Unhing'd in ev'ry part each Property Strugling disrang'd in fiercest Enmity The whole Creation Groans And Labouring with Perpetual Toil In Man's Rebellion vile Her own Hard Fate bemoans But now shall Natures Jaâ—…r Cease her Intestine War Now shall the long Six working Days of Strife â—…ttain their Line and to their Crown arrive At last set free In peaceful Rest of Sabbath true Heav'n and Earth created new â—…o Celebrate a Universal Jubilee Concord divine now meets in ev'ry Part. And Love subdues and Reigns in ev'ry Heart Ore all In Summ or Individual Triumphant Harmony Triumphant Love In Sweetest Unity Combin'd together move Ev'n from the Zenith high Of the clear boundless Empyrean Skie The Throne of God â—…own to Earth's inmost Central deep abode â—…ll is Concent and perfect Amity All in Proportion due In Weight and Number true Ev'n from the Zenith high Th' All-radiant Throne of God â—…own to Earths inmost central 〈◊〉 Abode â—…othing but Love but Love and Harmony â—…here every Voice and every Trumpet sings â—…lory to the Eternal King of Kings â—…oes Golden Aera now now now begins Now now in every Breath in every Sound The Universe around Her Everlasting Gospel â—…ings â—…lory to the returning King of Kings â—…ves Glorious Golden Aera now now now begins Now harmless thro the Skie â—…et the sweet whisking treble Lightnings fly Full Base frm Shoar to Shoar Shall in deep Thunders Roar â—…ot Death not Horror now but Melody Now Mighty Bard sing out thy Sonnet free Nor doubt it true shall be Come Thou and joyn Thy loud Prophetick Voice with mine `` Ring out ye Chrystal Sphears `` Now bless our Humane Ears For ye have Power to touch our Senses so `` Now shall your Silver Chime `` Move in Melodious time And the deep Base of Heav'ns great Orb shall Blow From the bright Zenith high Of the clâ—…ar boundless Empyrean Skie From the All-radiant Throne of God Down to Earths inmost central deep Abâ—…de Nothing but pure Concent and Unity All in Proportion due In Weight and Number true All Universal Love and Harmony This Globe Terrene no longer turn'd Askanee Hitch't in her Poles shall now direct advance And thro
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
still questioning whether she was a distinct Being from the Deity or no Which while in this debate within my Mind there came upon me an overshadowing bright Cloud and in the midst of it the Figure of a Woman most richly adorned with transparent Gold her Hair hanging down and her Face as the terrible Crystal for brightness but her Countenance was sweet and mild At which sight I was somewhat amazed but immediately this Voice came saying Behold I am Godâ—… Eternal Virgin-Wisdom whom thou hasâ—… been enquiring after I am to unseal thâ—… Treasures of God's deep Wisdom unto thee and will be as Rebecca was unto Jacob a true Natural Mother for out oâ—… my Womb thou shalt be brought forth after the manner of a Spirit Conceived and Born again this thou shalt know by a New Motion of Life stirring and giving a restlesness till Wisdom be borâ—… within the inward parts of thy Souâ—… Now consider of my Saying till I return to thee again This Vision took great Impression on me yet I kept it for the present hid but it Operated so much upon me as indeed I was incapable to converse with any Mortals which was taken notice of that some extraordinary thing had happened for the which I begged my Friends excuse and desired that she would give me the liberty to be much alone and to walk in the silent VVoods where I might contemplate what had so lately happened Now after three days sitting under a Tree the same Figure in greater Glory did appear with a Crown upon her Head full of Majesty saying Behold me as thy Mother and know thou art to enter into Covenant to obey the New Creation-Laws that shall be revealed unto thee Then did she hold out a Golden Book with three Seals upon it saying Herein lieth hidden the deep Wonders of Jehovah's Wisdom which hath been sealed up that none could or ever shall break up but such as of her Virgin-Offspring shall appear to be who will her Laws receive and keep as they shall spring daily in the New Heart and Mind This Appearance and Words was wonderfully sweet and refreshing in my Soul at which I bowed and prostrated at her Feet promising to be obedient to all her Laws So the Vision shut up for that time Pondering this in my Heart with great comfort that this Day-star had visited me from on high I returned to London to my own Habitation retiring my self from all my Acquaintance saving one Person that was highly Illuminated who encouraged me still to wait upon this Vision for he was acquainted with somewhat of this kind So after six days the Vision appear'd again with a Train of Virgin-Spirits and with an Angelical Host and called to me to come and see the Virgin Queen with her first-born Children asking me Whether I was willing to be joyned amongst this Virgin Company At which I reply'd All willing to offer up my self most free Then immediately I was encompass'd about with this Heavenly Host and made a Spirit of Light Then these Words from the Virgin proceeded saying I shall now cease to appear in a Visible Figure unto thee but I will not fail to transsigure my self in thy mind and there open the Spring of Wisdom and Understanding that so thou mayst come to know the only True God in and by the formation of Christ the anointed Prophet in thee that shall reveal great and wonderful things unto thee that are to be made known and publick in its time and day Therefore be watchful and to thy Mother Wisdom's Counsel give good heed and thou shalt greatly prosper and succeed the Prophets and Apostles to perfect what was left behind for compleating as to Christ the Fulness of God's great Mystery So go on and nothing fear or doubt for I thy Glass for Divine Seeing shall evermore stand before thee Then my Spirit replyed According to thy Word let all this be fulfilled And so this Glory withdrew but an inward Glory did my Heart sill for a burning Love to all of those Heavenly Beings did kindle within my Heart vehemently In the Month of August THe Mind of Wisdom thus opened it self in me as I waited in my Spirit upon her she did shew me what Key would open the Great Mystery which lay deeply hid in my self It was wrought and carved out of such pure Gold as had passed through many Fires many Keys I had tryed but could not turn in this secret enclosed Lock but still it shut upon me though I thought I had that Key which was compounded of such Metals as would have made its entrance as Love Faith Patience Humility which with strong Supplication and Prayer I presented as the Key oâ—… the work All which was too short tâ—… reach it Whereupon I was put to loss altogether to seek how this Gatâ—… should be opened having compasseâ—… the Holy City and waited and trye every way where I might find Passage Circling from one Path to another froâ—… Prayer to Prayer and from Faith to Faith so that in good earnest I began to consider I had not found this wonderful Key for want of which I might run out in wast all my days and grope as in the dark yet never find the Door which opens into my true Shepherd's Fold Whereupon being cast into a deep astonishing silence and stillness the Word of Wisdom thus opened it self unto me Oh thou deep searching Spirit marvel not thou hast been so long frustrated for as to thy present state and dispensation thou couldst never reach me to all Eternity for my Birth in thee lies deeper then thy present Gift of Faith and Prayer can open thou hast with many others been in a great mistake But in as much as thou â—…wnest and bewailest thy unskilfulness I will make known to thee what Key will turn this great Wheel of my Wisdom so as it may move and manifest it self in thee through all thy Properties if thou canst bid up to the Price of it For understand that it is compounded of all pure Gold subsisting in a burning Furnace of many Fires And although this wonderful Key is of Wisdom's carving out and her free gift yet Oh thou seeking Spirit she will cost thee very dear if ever thou obtainest her Yet she goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her and will shew her self within the Walls of the Mind and meet them in every thought that waits for her Laws and Counsel and brings a Kingdom which will be well worth thy selling all for But the great thing saith Wisdom now is to discipline and make thy Spirit a cunning Artist to give it Knowledge of what Matter in Number Weight and Measure this pure Key is made up of which is all pure Deity in the Number THREE which is weighty indeed being one exceeding weight Glory sitting in the Circle of the Heavens within Man's Heart measuring with the Line of his Power the Temple and inward Court with the Worshippers therein This is
VVisdom's Key which will make our Hands drop with sweet smelling Myrrh upon the Handle of her Lock Which while I was opening her Privy-Door with this Key my Soul failed within me and I retained no strength my Sun of Reason and the Moon of my outward Sense were folded up and withdrew I knew nothing by my self as to those working Properties from Nature and Creature and the Wheel of the Motion standing still another moved from a Central Fire so that I felt my self Transmuted into one pure Flame Then came that Word to me This is no other then the Gate of my Eternal Deep canst thou subsist in this Fiery Region which is Wisdom's Mansion where she meets with holy abstracted Spirits and gives forth a fiery Law which if thereunto thou canst give heed so as to come up to her Requirings then no Secret shall be with-held from thee Thus far am I admitted to come into the entrance of her House where I must stop till I hear further from her Now as I was attending to obtain a fresh Visit being entred into this first Mansion of her House to hear and learn further she said on this wise That I was greatly beloved and she would be my Mother and so should I own her and call her who would now be to me as Rebecca was to Jacob to contrive and put me in a way how I should obtain the Birth-right-Blessing For if I would apply my self to her Doctrine and draw my Life's Food from no other Breast I should then know the recovery of a lost Kingdom At which Salutation I was dissolved and melted the fervent heat of this Love strongly impulsing me to a resolve for to obey her in all things VVhich pure Oil from Wisdom's Vessel stopping it opened again not till October the 20th in the Morning-Watch then heard I her Voice thus Sequester and draw out of thy Animal Sensitive Life that is too gross I cannot appear till that disappear There must be Spirit with Spirit Light with Light No sooner had I this caution but I felt Power which suspended the active busie mind which for a time was expired into silence Know then said the same Voice thou shalt supplant thy Brother Esau who according to the Figure is a cunning Hunter in the out-birth and field of Nature While he with his subtilty seeking it abroad in the wild Properties of the External Region I will now help thee to it â—…ear at Hand even in thy own enclosed Ground There the true Scape-Goat feeds of which I will make savoury Meat such as God thy Father loves Hearing this Salutation from my late known Mother I was deadly ravished in the Spirit in the Light of the Lord and feared to return to the dark House of my outward Senses again which opened a Spring of Intercession in me that as one of the Friends of the Bridegroom I might hear his Voice still which indeed was so pleasant and swâ—…t as I could well have admitted of a dissolution of my Elementary Being rather than this Conference should not still be maintained with this renowned Pearl of Wisdom But I have learned to observe her Time and Seasons I witness her opening as in the twinkling of an Eye a pure bright subtil swift Spirit a working Motion a Circling Fire a penetrating Oil. November the 10th 1673. IN the Morning about the fifth Hour my Spirit was called forth to attend Wisdom's Oracle again to know further into that mysterious thing she discoursed with me in order to the obtaining the Birth-right-Blessing Oh thou Fiery Soul know thy self now out of thy own Creaturely Being Whereupon I was environed with sweet burning Flames which devoured and consumed all thâ—… Bryars Thorns and accursed Emanations that did offer to put forth So thaâ—… Scripture was witnessed feeling God'â—… being a Wall of Fire which separateâ—… the Earthly part from the Heavenlyâ—… Tâ—…en uttered Wisdom her Voice Oâ—… thou sollicitous Spirit I am now comâ—… to shew thee what is required of thee aâ—… in the beginning of my parling I Shunneâ—… not to declare what it would cost theâ—… to purchase the Key that unlocks thâ—… Gate which gives thee entrance into that pure and transparent City wherâ—… thou art to be an Inhabitant in the Lamb'â—… Nature for ever I tell thee God requires an Offering from thee as he did of Abraham there is no sparing any part an whole Burnt-offering through the Eternal Spirit must be given up Understand me thus thou hast an Earthly Principle that hath dilated and overspread thee and got into dominion and covered thee safe from my Heavens within thee but these Thrones and Powers must be cast down their Place must be found no more Thou hast made great Complaints for want of constant near Alliance and Freedom with God thy â—…reator but marvel not the Cause lies â—…ere in dying yet thou art not totally â—…ead This is the first Baptism thou art 〈◊〉 know and how many have herein falâ—…n short in not giving their earthly Self Thorough-wounding and killing Blow â—…herefore to thee O beloved of thy â—…other Rebecca I commend to thee my â—…aming Sword be thou now valiant â—…d let it do full Execution in the Camp 〈◊〉 Nature slay utterly Old and Young â—…hatever in thee bears not my Mark and â—…ame which is my Image Few in this â—…tter Age have come thus far Thereâ—…re I have had so little pleasure to inâ—…bit with and to reveal my self to the â—…hildren of this Generation in that a â—…re Crystalline Mind is so rarely to be â—…und and in no other will thy God â—…pear Therefore hear and learn of â—…e who well knows what will qualifie â—…ee for the reception of thy Fountain-â—…ght and Joy which may be an abiding â—…riend and Comforter to thee which â—…as the Heritage of Jacob thy fore-â—…nner in the Line and Blessing Now â—…aving made known what thy Offering to be which is one remove that makes way for the return of thy Bridegroom the second thing required is the Venison that must be presented to thy Father that he may eat thereof that so the Love from his Heart may flow into thee wherein the Blessing will be known but of this thou shalt have my Counsel as thou art faithful in answering to this preparative Work At these Sayings of my Mother I well pondered all tending to the refining me out of my Earthly Life seeing I must offer it up and that time of my departure out of the first Principle is drawing nigh upon me as Wisdom has plainly shewed me that though I had come with many Offerings yet till all was consumed by that one whole Burnt-Offering I could not be made perfect in the Virgin-State where Christ's Second Birth in pure Spiritual Humanity should appear in me Which Wisdom told me was the true and right Venison that God my Father would receive from my Hand who could savour no other Meat Offering but what should be made up and dressed by the Hand of Virgin-Wisdom who
Work for we should be tryed and if we were not perfect in One Accord it could not prosper in our Hand and then it were better to engage singly if not clear and cordial as one Then was brought before me something of a staggering which would be very hurtful if at any time it should in either of us prevail before we obtain the fixation in the Body of the Power for it was shewed me there would not want strong belingrings to weaken our Hands in the Work for the whole stress lay upon following and cleaving to our Guide and keeping to the Paradisical Laws which in the Ministration of the Spirit can only be fulfilled Now these things sinking deep upon my Spirit drew forth many Inquiries and Heart-searchings and Suspitions least the Work should in any wise be impeded for I saw the Dragon upon his violence to snatch at the Birth which made me cry O save it out of his Hands and carry us out of his reach Then Wisdom spake this Word No place out of danger but the Ark and Tabernacle where your Strong Hold is the Sanctuary which is provided foryour Refuge Then did I apply my self to ask how long it should be before we might herewith be invironed that so we might no longer be in Fear and Jepordy It was replyed That it is much in our Power both to hasten or to prolong it there was a possibility of a quick Work to be made of it if we would follow it fully intirely with all Might for it was of that nice difficult curious Nature that every Interruption detarded it God could make a Tabernacle to descend ready finished upon thee but it is his pleasure to give thee the Honour of the Workmanship and Building hereof that thou mayst hear and learn of Wisdom how to form and bring forth this inclosed Tent for the God of Jacob to dwell in Then this Query did rise up further in me But seeing the manner of this curious Work O Wisdom is to be effected by a Spiritual Magician who by a Vertual Power must do all in it how can we be capable hereof till we come to be made such For who can make themselves so sublime and perfect as to reach to so high a degree of Wisdom as is required in this Work Truth it is O impotent Spirit without me thou hast no sufficiency therefore this understand I do not insist or require thee to set upon this Matter of so great Consequence nakedly in thy own strength for then soon an abortive thou wouldst make This doth require as great a Skill and Power as the first Heavens and Earth with all the Hosts that did belong unto them which were generated through the deep Spirit of Wisdom's Understanding So know I do call upon this Original Breath infused from my Essential Power and Life which resleth in the Cell of thy Eternal Mind till it be awakned by my Voice sounding as a Trumpet saying Come forth and gird on thy Spiritual Powers and follow me where thou shalt see in what Holy Affairs and Spiritual Work I will employ thee knowing the Gift of Ability which already is given unto thee which now is required to be stirred up to the utmost sufficiency thereof to join the Chariot of thine Internal Spirit with me and so be the Wheel within mine doing only what you see me do who am risen out of thy deep Central Earth all things anew to create Seven Pillars hewn out in the first place here must be for this Perfect Sanctuary all Crystalline out from that Rock which is the Eternal Jasper-Stone Next is that fine-twined Linnen which for Curtains about this Tent is ordered to be imbroidered by the Golden Thread and wrought by the Needle of my Eternal Spirit In the third place it is to be paved all with Molten Gold from that Everlasting Mountain which thou didst see the Covering also of the same Orential Gold must be All which though Metaphorically I do them thus present to thee yet all shall be accomplished in a perfect Mystery as the Deity shall all over-shadow thee who long hath waited this Tabernacle to see perfected in thee that so the Covenant within the Ark might find a place of Security Here thy God will choose to put his Name only Where nothing must come near that is defiling And therefore appointed are over the Thronely Mercy-Seat flaming Cherubims this Holy Place to guard Whose cry is only Holiness to the Lord Most High who within this Tent defires with thee to dwell and with Power Majesty and Glory it to fill but know that here God will admit none into this seperated Court to come but the High-Priest which hath the Crown of the Anointing Oil therefore consider the wonderful Purity that is required when thou comest near to thy God to inquire who will from between the Flaming Seraphims commune with thee in all Matters and Things in which thou art to receive Commands For now the real sum of all that which is required in this thy approach is purity in the highest degree that can be extracted from that Original Sourse out from which floweth the Golden Streams of All-Holiness which will be found within thy self and in their rising so cleanse and sanctifie them all over as therefrom this Holy Tabernacle will it self form and grow upon thee till it shall have swallowed up all foregoing Tabernacles as Aaton's Rod did devour the rest of the Magicians Powers So know that God will be and live intirely to himself within thee as his perfect Tent enduring no Vessel or Instrument or Spirit to come here but what hath the Inscription of Perfect Holiness upon it For who may here ascend but what can dwell in a Flaming Pillar of Fire and not be consumed and be able to say Evermore let me in this sweet aimable pleasant Fire O God with thee abide till I know nothing within me stirring but the Ark of thy Strength and the Power of thy Omnipotency which will be and is the finishing Glory of thy Sanctuary Where unutterably and perpetually my Spirit may be folded up as in an unknown Reservatory within this Holy Place of Purity In order to the attainment of which Perfect State this Word I heard Abstain thou from all Meats which are offered unto Idols and feed upon nothing which is Common or Unclean which is not purged by the Fire that burneth upon my Altar a true Fast ye are to keep in your Spirits from the gross creeping Things and flying Fowls of Imaginations that are apt to flutter in the Air of your Minds and would feed upon that which is hurtful making ye Infirm and Weak for this Tabernacle-Work For as ye are called and chosen to the Order of the Holy Priesthood there to attend instantly Day and Night maintaining the Fire upon the Altar from the pure Spikenard which is to be made up of all Spices into a perfuming Oil this is thy Service to cast herein Fuel or
Food for this Holy Fire to Feed upon then all Offerings passing through this Fire are made acceptable because of the Perfume and Confectionary Art of the Most High and True Chymist that maketh this Eternal Composition giving it into thy Hand to maintain the Celestial Fire with Out from which expect the Cloven Tongue must issue forth for it is the Spicy Flame which inspireth with the Holy Ghost nothing goeth beyond or is like to this Oyl of Composition for it contains all the Soveraign Vertue of the Holy Godhead it is of the highest most subtil Tincturing Property that it can pass and penetrate through all things the Extraction being from the Arabian Spices of all sorts mingled with the Spirit of Gold which makes it of a wonderful sublime and vertual Power With this Oil the Tabernacle with all that doth appertain to it must be herewith anointed as the Testimony Altar and Ark. As in the Type so in the Anti-type look thou for it it being of that infinite value that a greater Gift cannot be given and as I have directed and given Wisdom to model out the Sanctuary and Ark of my Presence so likewise Skill and Understanding iâ—… this high and most wonderful secret to make thee a Confectioner which iâ—… the highest Art attainable whereby thou wilt become a Physician to thyâ—… self and others But this requires great Heedfulness Purity and Watchfulness with Love and Faithfulness to enter upon it with all Earnestness making it thy absolute Profession and Calling not regarding nor minding any one thing else but keeping close within the Rounds of my Sanctuary where the Basket of Blessing and Store is for thee to live upon Oh that there were such a Heart in thee as would believe rest and trust herein and not look out besides me then shouldst thou know the length and strength of Jehova's Arm what it should work act and do in defiance to all Reason's false Prophets which would not have thee break off from that rusty Canker-eating Chain which hath linked the whole Earthly Inhabitants together living upon one common Store not being able to trust to me beyond what their Eye of Sense doth see which is no less than a fine spun piece of Idolatry even among the Reformed Party My All-piercing Eye this doth see doth hereof still give Warning to thee and him that solemnly with thee in an Holy Convocation and Priestly Seperation hath engaged that in keeping of my Charge ye may my anointed Cherubs be on which my Tabernacle may rest in its All-flaming Glory and make your way up to Sion and the Free Jerusalem the City and Mansion-House of God your Law-giver and King All which may be witnessed from within as the diving still deeper within the Circumference of your own Heavens the pleasant Sea of Fire and Glass over to pass that ye may know the swift Sail through the forcible Power of the mighty Ark of my Strength within thee to cut off the flowing Tides of Sense with which in your Journey on ye may meet Therefore venture ye not one Step to set or one remove to make till you feel Power your Ark to raise which commandeth all whatever it be to obey For it is the Anointed of the Lord that is to go before his Way to prepare all Mountains in its way to level and to bring down and all Seas to dry up and all Worlds of Enmity to subdue O great is the Force Strength and Majesty hereof with whom it is as a Risen Body moving in its Oily Vertue It is thy impregnable Fort and Tower out from it do not thou go but as an Apprentice here Bind thy self for to abide and then in the High Spiritual Craft of the All-eternal Mystery thou shalt be taught and this unparallel'd Composition of the Physical Elixir and of the Ointment of Life how to make shalt be instructed But in the First place a Covenant of Secrecy thou art to enter into not to Reveal it to any except to thy Fellow Apprentices who called are with thee to work in the same Art Then Secondly Thou art to fulfil the Term and Time hereof in Truth and Patience unweariedly till thou comest to be as Exact and Perfect as thy Teacher is this Oil both to make and then to keep in the Alablaster-Box of perfect Nature Now I shall direct thee next how this is to be done and that by way of Similitude Know then that there is a secret hidden Garden within that Land called Beulah in which grow all Physical Plants which the River Pison doth Water It is a temperate Climate neither too Hot nor too Cold and the Sun never goeth down there For there is no Night but one perpetual Day in the borders of this Blessed and Beautiful Land And here do grow all sorts of Herbs that have such a vigorous Seed of Life in them that their Life never doth fade Here also groweth every kind of Spicy Trees which through the Exhaling Sun through the rest of the Divine Planets do produce a mighty strong Frangrancy infomuch that none into this Place can come but Seraphical Ones who are used to this pure Climate Here are hid within the Bowels of this Holy Ground the Veins of pure Gold with all Oriental Pretious Stones Behold I have now described to thee the Place out of which the Confection and Matter of this Magestery Oil or Ointment is to be made But thou wilt say This is a Sealed up Place none here can come it is a Garden so richly furnished that who is it amongst Mortals who with the Key may herewith be entrusted Although into Paradise my Spirit is admitted yet into this All lustrous Privy-Garden I could have no entrance True it is that hitherto it hath been concealed because it was not proper for thee herein to come until entred thou hadst to be Wisdom's Royal and Professed Physician withal taking the Degree of her High Philosopher to know the Nature of her Stone The Matter whereof within this Garden hath it self hid Come gird up thy Spirit put on the Sandals upon thy Feet cast over thee the pure Garment of the Cherubin-work and follow me into this Secret Place The Door-keeper here doth well know my Voice to the Call of Wisdom he will open thou shalt see Which indeed to me accordingly was made good for my Intellectual Spirit was hither presently moved and made to pass where in Reality though after a Spiritual Manner I did come with my Guide into thy unknown Plantation Where Magically I did espy Beds of Herbs and of Flowers in great order they did grow in a rarisied Beauty and their Lustre they did cast to attract mine Inward Eye Then in great and holy Awe I did to my Mistress of the Physical Art my self apply Who then said to me Take good heed and gather thou there where I shall express to thee for thou art come where the real and choice Simples do grow out of the All-Essential
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
exchanged Here only is the Place for the Bridegroom and his Bride after long Exile to meet again Oh then be wise and for your Bridal Spirit and Garment of Power undeniably wait None out of this Treasure-City can ever it obtain for in this Sion must all be born again after many other preceding Births which fore runs this great and last Transmuting Birth Which to that Perfection is brought that no desire there will be for to see another change then what this Jerusulem-state will translate thee into For which cause I have it to thee shewn that ye might here into enter in in that I see your Minds so refined that ye disdain among Beasts any longer to live and feed Come O ye blessed of my Father who out of these Prison-Walls and defiled Pastures shall steal and depart away as who are no more to touch with that which makes this City from you to shut it self up I have this 1600 Years expected still Comers up to me into my Personal Glory here But few have made their way all clear unto me not having skill or known the Art of dying to the Earthly part fully and totally Half dead and half alive many have so far tryed and therefore could no entrance find here because a putrified part still was found Which hath made me so unknown and to such necessitated ones to carry it strange they not considering the Disproportionableness of my present state and how that I am iâ—…stated in the highest degree of the Father's Glory of Purity that so if even my Affectons and Heart were touched to descend upon any that ardently seek Personal Union and Manifestation with me yet it would not be permitted till this Mount Sion-Birth is brought forth which makes the high Clarification and all Perfection of Beauty desirable without exception to the everlasting Father of perfect Spirits Who willeth that I should take none into the inward secret Court where all Dignities and Princely Throne-Powers and Glories are till throughly purified and cloathed upon with the Jasper-stone This anointed Cherubin-covering hath been scarcely put on therefore they could not come up to bring down the Everlasting Kingdom which must again to a certain Number be restored Blessed are they who shall know it in their Day looking hereunto and waiting for it within the Jerusalem-Walls where this new Off-spring and Generation must be born Yea Blessed are ye my Beloved and those that are with you United in Me for the Bringing down of this Happy Day upon the Earth April the 27th 1676. His further Admonition In or about Break-of-Day I prayed as the present state of things were shewn me and matter therefrom given me I never felt a greater Efflux of Spirit Power Joy and Peace came into me then did at this season which opened that Word and made it known in its Living Witness saying Now feel and tast what the Kingdom of God is it is made to thee a Substantiality and shall out-flow according to its working Property Henceforth then in Wisdom's Balance weigh and consider every thing you say that your Words may no more be Naked but cloathed with the Guardian Power Which will come to be of great Consequence as managed in Dove-Simplicity and shall defeat the Serpent's Subtilty Who strong Poyson had for thee prepared but could no way send it in thy Vessel being with the Antidote Liquor and juice of Life before-hand filled Which still take thou care to keep brim-full that so nothing which is of crude anxious Nature into thee may come upon thy Ascension which is to bring down another Spiritual Form For I see it is time and expedient that to my Jerusalem Waiters I should appear to bring them up where new Robes and Vestures are fitted out for the new-born Inhabitants to wear That so without a Vail upon my Face I might to you plainly speak for I have no pleasure to carry it at this distance towards you could you bear but the â—…ight of my terrible Crystalline Glory which I am so deeply ingulphed withal that I cannot be conversant after that way and manner which I was before I ascended into this high Throne-Power and Heavenly Place conversing with those for whom I went to prepaâ—… Mansions for in my Father's House a much highâ—…t Purity I now require in such who are to be my fellow Associates then what was existent in that day This is a new Law not understood and will be only received to a small number for know that to thee I will this thing reveal what Wisdom is about to do in order to the bringing the Bridegroom and Bride together For while the Bâ—…ide is found unready and all undressed and out of the Jerusalem's Glory I could in no wise acquaint my self with her otherwise then by Secretaries and influencing Breathings to let her know by these what she must further be wrought into for more minute Sight and Knowledge with me her designed Bridegroom and Mate April the 28th 1676. The Love-Chain According as the Living Word who spake thus by way of Prophecy in me did further by Similitude present it self as thus A Golden Chain in Links was let down from the high Throne Sphear where Jesus in the Love-Kingdom reigns This Chain had a Golden Ball at the end and the Voice said Hold fast if thou wilt come up unto me if thou shouldst gad abroad with thy Mind or Eye and let this slip out of thy Hand then thou wilt be prevented of cohabitation with me in my Princely Glory For this is the strong Power of Might which brings the Bridegroom and the Bride together Every Link in this Chain hath its proper use and service Wisdom is the great Engineer which did this contrive for my Spouse and I to meet and each other to greet While then in the Heavens I must be contained this Chain shall descend still to help up such as are risen out of the dark Night dress of a corruptible Life into a Body of Light This Chain is of so high a refined Mettal that it admits of no Hand to lay hold of it but the pure Lily Hand which is strong in Faith who is perswaded that this Love-Chain is sufficient to bring one up after the manner of Elijah's Chariot Who was mighty in Faith and so brought down this Ascending Chariot by this Chain of divers Links But he had first ascended by it as appeared being one who had power with God upon all occasions even to shut and open the Heavens when he pleases what else are these Links of drawing Powers but this Elijah's Spirit of Prophecy and Prayer of Faith perfect Love Patience Hope Weekness Long-suffering Peaceableness Temperance and immutable Perseverance These are the Link-fastening tyes on your parts Then that which answers on mine are these Light Greatness of Power and Might Love Grace and Good-will Kindness Pity and all Tenderness without variableness with the watchful protecting and safe-guarding Eye which shall maintain all this for a
If thou canst thus sow thy self singly and purely into me as into the Heart of Sion's rich Soil and there passively a while lie as in thy Tomb and unknown Sepulchre Where none after This method have of latter days been before thee not knowing or understanding the Mystery of This reposing Death then accordingly will an unmixed glorified yea deified Body arise with all rarified Senses Powers and operative Faculties meet for all Heavenly Employment and Service which can no more be drawn downward to mind inferiour matters or things These impressing Savings dropping from the Lips of my Jesus caught my Spirit into the pleasant dying and dissolving part For this kind of Death was not so grim nor terrible to me as what had formerly passed upon me Yet somewhat of a Spiritual conflict was awakened in me and the Powers of my Heavens were at strife about the laying down of this more refined Life For I found some sharp contest with an opposite Power who said What will you further dye and cease from now that the perfect thing is sprung in you Will you have all now of this Holy Nature sink down and bury it in Paradisical Ground sowing only in Hope that it will arise a Body and fair Lily in the Tower of sion This Objection met my Spirit as if I were herein to do a superstuous act but still to Wisdom's Word I adhered Which followed me all the Day long bringing a Scripture to me out of Isa. 26. Thy dead Men shall live together with my dead Body they shall rise Ver. 19. Awake sing ye that dwell in the Dust. From hence was shewn me the present sweet fellowship with my Jesus in this his own Body that is to be our Grave and embalmed Tomb whereby we are to be so Spieed with his Deified Humanity as to see no Corruptibility being called out to empty and spill our whole Life into him This being the publick Day of our Meeting my Spirit was with this new Matter filled but I quenched and stopped the going forth of it and spoke out little of this Secret Which I know would have gone forth with Mighty Powers attending it But some being there that would not happily have digested this new broached Matter I did for fear stop it though it stifled the Breath of Power and thereby was hurtful both to my self and to others Which verified to me that Word Quench not the Spirit despise not Prophecying Which I shall henceforth be cautious of and correspond with according to my Power and inspiring Breath Going afterwards to my Night's Repose I had a mighty disturbed Sleep being in a Place where I saw only the Doctor and my self where did arise out of a burning Lime-Pit a suffocating Smell which was so offensive that I told him we must make all hast out here or we should be stifled such great heaps of Chalk-Stones lay on every side as we could make but slow Pace out neither could I see what way to pass by till on a sudden a Gate opened and a Person called us to come and put forth his Hand â—…o help us over those great Stones that lay in our way so coming out into a Place where we met to worship and praise our God among our own selected Number But while we were in our Spiritual Exercise I saw one amongst us as a mocking Ishmaelite thrusting out a great pair of Lips and deriding our Powers with that I was stirred up in Spirit to go to that Party and give a rebuke and they became ashamed thereat and was Speechless for I was made to discover their Nakedness After this I fell asleep and about Break of Day I was awakened with these Words The Trumpet out of Sion soundeth to call forth the Dead in Jesus awake awake ye that sleep in Sion's Dust. This Alarm much eased my Spirit and drew it into an inward waiting for I know there would somewhat follow if watched thereunto keeping and abiding in the still Rest and waiting from under this Altar to be raised by that Life quickening Spirit that I do feel stir and eccho again to my Cry from under the Altar May the 8th 1676. This Morning being wholly attentive to my Lawgiver for further Manifestation Impowerings and Inspeakings I found Mary Magdalen's restless Spirit with me to attend the Sepulchre of my Lord from which I could not go Knowing well what I had sown into that Holy Ground from whence I expected a good Return While looking and expecting I saw nothing but a bare empty Tomb left here no Jesus was at present to be found Which brought a damp and heaviness upon me but mourning in Hope the Angel that rolled away the Stone did speak Comfort to me saying Though thy Lord into whom thou didst shed thy choicest Life-Seed and didst sow all thy Love-Spirit is now fled from thy sight and thou art hereat amazed be of good cheer he will not leave thee a restless Seeker here No sooner were these Words pronounced to me but I heard another Voice within me sound saying Hail O Mary why dost thou fear I know I know thou hast entrusted me with all thy Life-Treasury therefore in great Jeopardy I did see thee lest I should not again descend unto thee Then wouldst thou have counted me as a Thief and Robber to go away with all thy Life Spirit Power and Strength leaving thee void empty and distressed But now thou shalt know that I am returned again to thee to give thee a Resurrection with my self For I see thou canst not live without me therefore Ascend thou shalt in Spirit to be with me that thou mayst not only behold me in my Glory but know thy self also with me as a Partaker of the same Glory Only satisfie thy self that for a time some Intervals may be because of thine Abiding still in an Elementary Body which may be a Cloud upon thee But yet as often as it is possible allowing the Circumstances that do attend Corporeity exhale I will thy Superiour Part and Spirit up to me Therefore be not dismayed though there may happen many Assaults and Attempts that will make War against this Resurrection-State Which Offences will come in through the withdrawing of this inspiring Unction Whose Power is arising yet again for reforming all these Abuses and Ecclesiastical Disorders in my Visible Church Militant Therefore be not snipped in thy Hopes but be thou of good Courage who have for this Pearl of the Holy Ghost hard and unweariedly sought and art upon the growing Body for it For who so worthy thereof shall be as those who gradually shall through all Sufferings Dyings Risings Ascendings come up through all a Conqueror to me Verily I say if â—…ye shall in such a raised Spirit appear to me in Mount Sion you shall have free Liberty to take what you will out thence â—…s Co-partners with me in the Kingdom of the Father's Soveraignty whereto I â—…m by all this calling you up Therefore see see what
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
a fruitful Womb always bringing forth that which may grow up to the Ghostly Fountain-Body To which giving heed thou mayst at the Mouth thereof set and draw up Water of Life I say of Life abundantly Fourthly Oh then love to live within thine own Fountain which is blessed desire not to taste of any other which may be Salt or Sweet or of a Mixed property Fifthly Wait upon the Effusion of this rising Sanctuary-River which will run till it become broad all over Which is the right and true covering of the Spirit Under this no evil surmisings can dwell all of that Nature hereout will be expelled at the opening Source of the holy Ghost Sixthly This is the true and everlasting Sign that shall no more be worn out nor be cut off but it shall be a sure Nail fastened within for the more signaâ—… and lasting Impression That thou maysâ—… see all shadowy Ministrations of little use and service to the Substantial thing Which will grow from the pure rarified Mind that hath got victory from superfluous Thoughts from which do thou divide and then another Spirit within thee will reside Seventhly Having considered thus the Immutability and Unchangableness of this substantial Thing growing from the pure Mind and of all the Thoughts therefrom arising and also considering the great Mutability and Instability of whatever groweth and proceedeth from the Imagination it remaineth that thou wholly divide and seperate thy self from every vain superfluous mutable and Imaginary Thought looking up only to receive such Idea's into thee as are Solid Necessary Immutable and Spiritual According to which thou art to try examine and prove whatever would enter into thy Heart and accordingly to Acquit or Reject them if thou wouldst remember to keep a true and perfect Sabbath unto thy Lord rising in his Spirit from all that is Earthly Elementary and Imaginary September the 6th 1676. My Friend being at Prayer my Spirit ardently joyning therewith This Word in the Heavenly Orb was spoke What shall be done for these diligent Seekers and Heaven-violaters who for the Kingdom thus persue Upon which Word pausing and finding that within my self to Echo hereunto I waited to hear what Answer would follow hereupon I then in my Spirit saw there was a demurr or consultation thereupon but had not at that time any positive Answer from the Lord. September the 7th 1676. In the Night I awaked upon some Voice that was uttered but could not remember what it spake And then I saw a Book that was opened of an unknown Print that I could not read it which also passed out of sight Then was this Word sounded forth Here are the Children of the Bride-Chamber who to me do cry for stronger Meat they have weaned themselves from the nutriment of the Breast telling me they can digest Spiritual Flesh. Then was let down a Charger to me with a Lamb that had been slain and the Word said Take hereof and eat this is Paschal Meat Then said I Lord not so this is raw and undressed who can feed hereof Then this was drawn up and behold one as in the Figure and Stature of a Man but not in a fleshly Image only the fashion of a Man all bright as the Body of Heaven for clearness out of his Mouth went a white Mist or Breath having seven Pipes or conveying Powers one of each side and another at the Navel where somewhat was as the Form of a Belly but all after a very lustrous manner Out of his Mouth went forth pure Breath and Air then out of the Pipes that were fixed on the Breasts sprouted Milk Then from the Heart went forth Streams of Blood and upon one side grew out a Branch bearing Olive-Berries then a Stalk which did bear some kind of large solid Grain Then on the other side from the Navel-Pipe did spring clear Crystal-Water After this manner did this Spiritual Body appear and said to me Draw near for this is the great Day of the Feast where the Spiritual Body doth convey it self in variety Here is high spirited Blood and Flesh for the strong in Spirit to digest Whoever can on this my Body feed Of no perishing thing he will have need September the 8th 1676. The Interpretation of the former Vision The Representation of this former Conveying Body of my Lord Jesus did not only affect my in-seeing Eye but by it I found my Life-Spirit fed succoured and strengthned The very sucking down these Spiritual Sweets as compounded all at one draught had their operative Power for some hours after And again this Morning they did plentifully give out themselves after the manner of a Conduit that hath many Pipes at once springing yet all in their Order and as soon as one stops another opens Oh who can of these deep Manifestations judge but such as are overtaken with these Golden Floods that from the glorified Body do thus open for the nourishing up of every part till we answer hereunto in a perfect lustrious Body like to like Which my Spirit prayed vigorously for seeking also to have a clear understanding of this Vision waiting in great and pure awe for my Immanuel to give me his Mind herein Who said to me By this is shewn thee what the Counsel of the Trinity hath determined to do for you that have out-grown the Child's Food Here are new and fresh sprouting Powers which will make my imbreathed Spirit grow into a Body As a Nazarite it is to be who must wait continually hereupon and must be under a restraint so as only to take in what these Pipes shall give forth that so the pure Crystalline thing may live in you which will Leaven you throughout Whereby the Most High and wonderful Consubstantiation will be effected to the glory of the New Creation Then I further queried about the Book and the Lamb which was first presented to feed upon It was said as to the Book though opened none could it read because we were not come to such a growth of understanding as being such as are newly weaned from the Breast Then it was opened to me concerning the Lamb that it was the Dying Dispensation which did go before the rising Living Body which quickens and brings to Life again as it is written I am the Lamb slain that is risen and do live to feed my Flock for evermore from that Body wherein is the chiefest store Then it was revealed to me that the Book which I saw opened was and still should have been sealed up had not the Lamb in me over Death prevailed but now the Seals are undone and it is given to the Redeemed for to look into it though not learned yet high enough to comprehend those great and wonderful things which are reserved for the full grown Spirit Who understands all of the high Tongue and Seraphick Canaan Language in which we shall be taught as we are strong and have aptness of Ability to take in from this sevenfold Fountain-spring of which
Decree but by famishing the Earthly Life with all that pertains thereto casting out the disobedient Vashti that so such a Virgin might be sought out as might please the King and upon all occasions might have his Ear. Now Esther is only to speak what Mordecai the Divine Life puts into her mouth Words of Wisdom to out-do all the Serpent's subtilty This prudent Mordecai fore-sees for Esther all dangers that are like to accrue gives present notice that so Evils may be escaped before they do overtake Oh here through this Similitude how freely and plainly did the most Holy Spirit reveal what lay hid in the Mystery further advising us to prepare a Banquet after the touch of the Golden Scepter which gives the Token of Acceptance Mordecai contrives with Esther jointly what Provision to make only knowing what the Royal Court fare is bringing in those choice things which the King feeds upon So that this Banquet consists all of Fruits but not raw or gross ripened from this old Element but such as are preserved with all sweet restorative Spices fetched from the Land of Havilah where the Golden Liquor flows and the sweet Canes do grow The Wine to this Feast all answerable hereunto refined from the Lees served out of that one Golden Cup that none ever drank out of but the great Donor of the Feast who will only receive it from the Hand of the Bride Then said the Spirit to this Bride All things are now ready invite the King and your God unto this Supper Your Banquet thus ordered you need not doubt of the King's company and though the proud Haman-Spirit may here intrude yet fear not for his doom will be suddenly given Oh Esther who art in great favour with the King put forward and spare not to ask that now thy Life may be forthwith given unto thee in a Princely Subsistency All that is in thy Heart at such a time as this may verily be answered and thou go away with Joy of Heart not that only thy Accuser is cast out but thou art come near to the Scepter of the Kingdom to live without toil or bryarly Cares Thus did the Spring-Unction make it applicable to us by reiterating all this over again that so hereby we might be assured whereunto this Golden Scepter let down by the Hand of the King would bring us who in an Esther-like Spirit of Humility and Faith do draw near to it It was also further noted to me from the Spirit that when-ever we had these Tabernacle-Feasts and the presence of Glory in it we should not get only a Promise to alter the Hand-Writing that had gone out against us but to press such Arguments as thereby to overturn the whole state of our Captivity under the Babylonish Haman-Spirit and to get Letters written and sealed in the King's Name Which will give the Authority and Credit in this our Enemies Land to stand for our Lives and to have defence even the Omnipresence of Strength granted out of the King's Armory to do what we would in the Spirit of Mordecai that goes in and out in the presence of the King Who with Esther the Bride hath won the Day which is Light Gladness Joy and Honour to the Lamb and Bride October the 28th 1676. The Spirit of Jesus made this further Observation out of this History unto us from Mordica's great Princeliness of Spirit who knowing he was of the blessed Seed though at present under Captivity still maintained his Integrity trusting in the God of Abraham and would bow down to no other though Haman was great and potent having Power by permission from the King to save or destroy From hence the living Word iâ—… me said According to this Example follow ye this my faithful Mordecai Spirit from whom and into whom you are born though for probation suffered to be carried to dwell in Babylon where tempted ye have been because you have had no Power or Might to rule or deliver your selves while that Haman's insulting Spirit of Reason was yet alive within you who represents the Strength and mighty Fortitude of Reason that can plead such inducing Arguments as carry a mighty sway complaining of the strange and different Laws of my Spirit after the manner of Haman Whose Spirit is alive at this day to deceive with all subtilty and now his Wrath and Rage is the more enkindled against ye because ye have slighted and refused to bow and own his Lordliness Who does exalt himself in Name and Nature that so none must live in his Land but such as will worship him as God But you in whom my Life Mordecai hath stirred maintain your Heavenly stateliness in this matter stoop not though your Life is to be cut off with all the Comforts Privileges and attending Honours of it Fear none of these things remember Mordecai's Reward shall assuredly be yours The great King of Heaven like Ahasuerus hath given this World's Preferments into the Power of the great Haman's Spirit of Reason who is a Prince does reign over all that your God may see who will hold out in their Integrity in refusing to be under the Laws though none greater in this visible Kingdom then he Now this History I have taken up and applied to you to observe in every Tittle that you with me your Jesus may come to Royal Honour and Dignity by refusing the Beast and the Dragon's allurings from this visible Babylon And by adhering with Esther in all sweet Humility to the Masculine Spirit of my undaunted Mordecai Thus ye shall rise unto Strength Glory and Immortality October the 29th 1670. This Morning this Word so soon aâ—… I awaked saluted me saying Arise anâ—… call upon thy God who giveth theâ—… what to ask From which I preferreâ—… my Requests finding a pressure of aâ—… ascending Power that carried my spiriâ—… to view a Place that was with variety of Colours paved and there I saw a Woman standing of so amiable a Counteâ—… the Complexion so unutterablâ—… pure for fineness and clearness of Skin as no mortal Image must compare therewith While I was in admiration hereof a Voice spake Oh Esther what iâ—… thy Petition thy Beauty hath ravisheâ—… my Eye Thy Place is to abide in my Royal Court. A little space after thiâ—… I found my self mounted upon a Horseâ—… to be carried whither I knew not buâ—… I was not concerned at all for I was fuâ—…lly satisfied in my Guide I heard a Cry after me to detain and prevent my going forward but the Person that took me up said Be still and give no Ear. These are but the Screeh-Owls of the Night and Birds of prey which would stop and steal our Treasure from us So I was carried on with great swiftness into a secret solitary way from out of the sight and noise of all active Creaturely Inhabitants For it was said Thus it must be if you will see a New Creation with the replenished Life Plants that grow there all-flourishing and clear
of Faith Now then do you receive from my Hand this Crystalline Cup wherein is the Water of Life from the Fountain Rock I do also place the Golden Pot of Manna by you that so ye may have no need to wander out but hereof freely take it will feed up unto the full grown Body of the Ghostly state Now then be wise and give no Ear to the crooked Serpent who still will be casting in his Floods of Jealousies and Fears saying What make you here in such a desart place shut out from all the pleasant things which are lawful to be enjoyed with and amongst your fellow Brethren But these his sugar'd Baits meddle ye not withâ—…l who hereby would subtilely supplant you of that good thing which yet not being seen carries with him and his worldly adherents such little esteem But be assured there is that high extracted Matter sown within you from which will rise the Star of the Wise that shall win length of days durable Riches and Honour by Strength and Dominion and shall bring in another Kingdom Therefore hold out your Wilderness-Temptation and let none out-bid you or take away the Crown from you My Words forget not the Spirit doth speak them December the 18th 1676. Upon this call into the Wilderness it is shewn that Temptations would meet us though high Manifestations of Love and Care would be here also expressed for we are appointed to give eminent proofs of Faith as the forerunners of the Sealing Ministry of the Spirit which still follows believing But we must expect many an assault as sometime upon one and the other who are entred into this abstracted dedicated state Therefore much more the vigilant Enemy doth make his onset upon us as we daily do experience As having lately some occasion to take notice of the Pulse of Faith beating low in my Spiritual associate whereby I was mutually touched and thereupon moved to invocate that our Faith might jointly be kept up or else the Birth could not be perfected as was shewn to me which made me wrestle mightily Upon which this Word was given to me for him that sometimes an Elias might despond and make request that his Life might be taken away saying as Elias also this Evil is from the Lord what should I wait any longer in expectation what am I better then my Fathers All which over-casting Clouds will happen sometimes upon ye what Faith could act higher then Elias yet now in a fainting Fit what lower Thus it was set before me concerning the Dr. my Friend's heaviness and sadness which sometimes seased him further It was given to me for his Encouragement that an Elias should yet be born through all hard onsets to open the Heavens and bring down the Blessings of Fruitfulness upon the dry languishing Earth within our selves and power to open and unloose the Seals of that Spring that shall make our solitary Habitation as the Eden of the Lord. Who will walk among the Stones of Fire and commune with us that so our Warfare may be all pleasant till Time's Number for the full Manifestation shall be accomplished for us December the 20th 1676. Being driven in Spirit to withdraw as into the Desert Mount there apart from my self to be as to the sensitive part and to all things in the earthly Consideration Knowing that herefrom I must absent if at any time I would be present with the Lord. Who for the joy and pleasure that doth flow therefrom might well invite us to wait in this blessed Wilderness Where as dead and unknown to the World we are attending to receive the high Throne Visitants who will never appear but at such times and seasons when we are able to clear our selves of this lower Sphear Such pulls in from the Sodomites by Lot's good Angel we often do meet withal who would have us dwell in the House and Tent with our Immanuel Who will make ready the Tabernacle of God himself to dwell in us as we can walk in his narrow Track and avoid the broad Way of the Sodomites As these Teachings were ministred by the Spirit unto me falling into some drowsiness which I was willing to do for the composing of my Head that was disturbed with pain by reason of a flux of Rheum While I thus reposed I heard a Voice say Awake for I have a great Secret for to reveal Which roused me out of my Sleep and immediately I saw in the Spirit this to pass before me to wit distinct Bodies nothing of fleshly Matter only like Corporeals in Figures but the Substance was as if it had been transparent Glass formed into the Idea of a Creature so clear as if nothing but Crystalline Water had filled up every part of these Bodies Then this Word did proceed as out of them Behold and see these be generated each from one and have their several Regions to walk in their appointed time December the 21st 1676. This Morning I was greatly sollicitous to understand the meaning of this Presentation which very readily and emphatically opened its Mystery as thus there were three distinct Changes which we were to pass into before the highest Degree could be attained as from Faith to Faith still higher and from Glory to Glory as the Speaking Word said in me Here see what the several states are which you must strive hard to get through here are three Births of the Spirit one still greater then the other As this observe by him who herein was your Pattern who broke through all these Births Gates making way to give an assured hope that ye may enter in by the same threefold Degree with your Jesus into every several Region till lodged for Eternity into the one fixed Element with the blessed Trinity No more Removes therefrom to make for there is your everlasting Rest but till this the process of your Jesus you must keep in your Eye and exactly follow As now consider your selves with him in the first Nativity of the Spirit wherein the Christ-like Spirit is under Sufferings lodged with Iniquity oppressed with Infirmities obnoxious to the ruling Powers of the Stars subject to the cruelty of the evil Rulers amongst Men who exercise subordinate Power under their H ad-Prince in this worldly Region Which your great high Apostle himself suffer'd under paying the whole of what-ever could be challenged from him For you must know there is a Debt due from every one which must be paid though it was answered by that publick Representative in his own Person being therefore offer'd up once for all as a visible Sacrifice and Propitiation for Sin as that which was only to shew what was still successively to run from this Line of the New Birth of Christ in the Spirit Now then there is no way to free your selves from the Tyranny of what Sin hath brought you under but by yielding unto the Death-mystical Thereby the Debt will be discharged and you set free out of all that which since the fall hath