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A28515	Aurora, that is, the day-spring, or dawning of the day in the Orient, or morning-rednesse in the rising of the sun, that is, the root or mother of philosophie, astrologie, & theologie from the true ground, or a description of nature ... all this set down diligently from a true ground in the knowledge of the spirit, and in the impulse of God / by Jacob Behme, Teutonick philosopher ...; Morgenröte im Aufgang. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1656 (1656)	Wing B3397; ESTC R16924	342,885	672

joy 23. Where then should the Father else place them but before the Gate of his Heart Doth not all joy of Man which is in the whole man arise from the fountain of the Heart so in God also then there ariseth the gyeat joy out of the fountain of his Heart 24. And therefore hath he created the Holy Angels out of himself which are as it were little Gods answerable to the Being and qualities of the whole God that in the power should Act forth the praise and sing and ring forth in the power and increase the arising joy from the heart of God 25. But the Splendor and the power of the Sonne of God or heart of God which is the Light or source and fountain of joy taketh up his fairest and most joyfull original in the center or midst of these kingdoms and shineth into and through all the Angelical Gates 26. Thou must understand this properly what the meaning of it is for when I speak by way of similitude and liken the Sonne of God to the Sun or to a round Globe it hath not that meaning as if he were a circumscriptive fountain which can be measured or whose depth beginning or end could be fathomed I write so only by way of similitude till the Reader may come to the true understanding 27. For the meaning is not here that the Sonne of God should be generated only in the Center or midst of these Angelical Gates and no where else without beyond or besides these Angelical Gates 28. For the powers of the Father are every where from and out of which the Sonne is generated and from which the Holy Ghost goeth forth how should he then be generated only in the Center of these Angelical Gates 29. This therfore is the only gronnd and meaning that the Holy Father who is ALL would have in these Angelical * Gates his most joyful and most richly loving Qualities out of which the most joyful and most richly loving Light Word heart or fountain of powers is Generated and therefore hath created his Holy Angels in this place for his joy honour and Glory 30. In the Abyssal or bottomlesse Eternity indeed it is in one place as well as in another but where there are no Creatures it cannot be known but by the Spirit in its wonders 31. And this is the Select place of the glory of God which God the Father in himself hath made choise of wherein his Holy WORD or heart is generated in highest glory Clarity or brightnes power and tryumphing joy 32. For Observe this Mystery The Light which is generated out of the powers of the Father which is the true fountain of the Sonne of God is generated also in an Angel and a Holy Man so that in the same light and knowledge he tryumpheth in great joy 33. How then is it that he should not be generated every where in the whole Father For his power is ALL and every where even there where our heart and sences or Thonghts cannot reach 34. And so Now where the Father is there is also the Sonne and the Holy Ghost for the Father every where generateth the Sonne his holy WORD power light and sound and the Holy Ghost goeth every where forth from the Father and the Sonne even within all the Angelical gates and without besides or beyond the angelical gates also 35. Now if a Man likeneth the Sonne of God to the Globe of the Sun as I have often done in the foregoing Chapters that is spoken in the way and manner of Natural similitudes and I was constrained to write so because of the mis-understanding of the Reader that so he might raise his Sense or Thoughts in these natural things and climbe from step to step from one degree to another till he might come into the high mysteries 36. But it hath not this meaning that the Sonne of God is a circumscribed compacted figured Image like the Sun 37. For if it were so then must the Sonne of God have a beginning and the Father must have generated him at once and then he could not be the Eternal Almighty Sonne of the Father but were like a King who had yet a greater King above him who had generated him in Time and in whose power it were to alter and to change him 38. This were such a Sonne as had a beginning and his power and splendor were like the power of the Sun which goeth forth from the Sun the Body or Globe of the Sun standing still in its place And if this were so then indeed one Angelical Gate would be nearer to the Sonne of God then another 39. But here I will shew to thee the highest Gate of the divine Mystery and thou needst seek no higher for there is no higher Observe 40. The Fathers power is all in and above all Heavens and the same power every where generateth the Light Now this ALL-POWER is and is called the all-power of the Father and the Light which is generated out of that all-power is and is called the Sonne 41. But it is therefore called the Sonne in that it is generated out of the Father so that it is the Heart of the Father in his powers 42. And being generated so it is another Person then the Father is for the Father is the power and Kingdom and the Sonne is the Light and Splendor in the Father and the Holy Ghost is the moving or exit out of the powers of the Father and of the Sonne and formeth figureth frameth and Imageth all 43. As the Ayr goeth forth from the power of the Sun and Stars and moveth in this world and causeth that all creatures are generated and that the Grasse Herbs and Trees spring and grow and causeth all whatsoever is in this world to be 44. So the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and moveth or acteth formeth or frameth and Imageth all that is in the whole God 45. All growing or vegetation and forms in the Father arise and spring up moving in the Holy Ghost therefore there is but ONE only GOD and three distinct Persons in one divine Being Essence or substance 46. Now if a Man should say the Sonne of God were an Image circumscriptive or measureable like the sun then the Three Persons would onely be in that place where the Sonne is and his splendor or shining would be without or beyond him and as gone forth from the Sonne and the Father would be One onely Externally without or besides the Sonne and then the power of the Father which would be afar off and wide distant from the Sonne would not generate the Sonne and Holy Ghost externally without and beyond the Angelical Gates and so there would be an un-almighty Being Externally without or besides this place of the Sonne and moreover the Father would be a Circumscribed or measurable Being 47. Which is not so but rhe Father every where generateth the Sonne out of all his powers and the

servants ye are to whom ye obey either to sinne unto death or to the obedience of God unto righteousness Rom. 6. 16. 15. But because man hath an impulse or inclination to both he may lay hold on which he pleaseth for he liveth in this World betwixt both and both Qualities the good and the bad are in him in which soever man moveth with that he is indued either with a Holy or a Hellish Power For Christ saith My Father will give the Holy Ghost to those that ask him Luk. 11. 13. 16. Besides God commanded man to do good and did forbid him to do evill and now doth daily call and preach and exhort man unto good Whereby we see well enough that God willeth not evil but his Will is That His Kingdom should come and his Will be done on earth as it is in heaven Now since man is poisoned through sinne that the fierce wrathful quality as well as the good reigneth in him and is now half dead and in his grosse ignorance can no more know God his Creator nor Nature and its operation yet hath Nature done its best endeavour from the beginning till now to which God hath given his Holy Ghost so that it hath at all times generated wise sholy and understanding men which did learn to know Nature and their Creator who alwayes in their Writings and Teachings have been a Light to the World whereby God hath raised his Church on Earth to his eternal praise Against which the Devil hath raged and spoiled many a noble Twigg through the wrathfull fierceness in Nature whose Prince and God he is 17. For Nature hath many times prepared and fitted a learned judicious man with good gifts and then the Devil hath done his utmost to seduce that man and bring him into carnal pleasures to pride to a desire to be rich and to be in authority and power Thereby the Devil hath ruled in him and the fierce wrathfull Quality hath overcome the good his Understanding his Knowledge and Wisdome hath been turn'd into Heresie and Errour who hath made a mock of the Truth and been the Author of great Errours on earth and a good Leader of the Devils Host. 18. For the bad quality in Nature hath wrestled and doth still wrestle with the good ever since the beginning and hath elevated it self and spoiled many a noble fruit even in the mothers Womb as it plainly appeareth first by Cain and Abel which came from one womb Cain was from his mothers womb a despiser of God and proud but Abel on the contrary was an humble man and one that feared God 19. The same is seen also in the three sons of Noah as also by Abraham's sons Isaac and Ismael especially by Isaac's in Esau and Jacob which struggled and wrestled even in the mothers womb therefore said God Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated Gen. 25. which is nothing else but that both qualities in Nature have vehemently wrestled one with another 20. For when God at that time moved in Nature and would reveal himself unto the world through righteous Abraham Isaac and Jacob and would raise a Church to himself on earth for his glory then in Nature Malice also moved and its Prince Lucifer Seei●g there was good and bad in man therefore both Qualities could raign in him and therefore there was born at once in one womb an evill and a good Man 21. Also it is cleerly seen by the first world as also by the second even unto the end of our time how the Heavenly and Hellish Kingdom in Nature hath alwayes wrestled one with another and stood in great travel even as a woman in the birth This doth most cleerly appear by Adam and Eve For there grew up a tree in Paradise of both Qualities of good and bad wherewith Adam and Eve were to be tempted to try whether they would hold out in the good Quality in the Angelicall nature and form For the Creator did forbid Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit but the evill quality in Nature did wrestle with the good and brought Adam and Eve into a lust and longing to eat of both Thereupon they presently became of a beastial form and nature and did eat of good and bad and must increase and live in a beastial manner and so many a noble twigg begotten or born of them perished 22. Afterward it is seen how God did work in Nature when the Holy Fathers in the first world were born as Abel Seth Enos Kenan Mahaleel Jared Henoch Methusalah Lamech and Holy Noah These made the Name of the Lord known to the world and preached Repentance for the Holy Ghost wrought in them 23. On the contrary the Hellish God also wrought against it in Nature and begot Mockers and Despisers first Cain and his Posterity and it was with the first world as with a young tree which groweth is green blossometh fairly but bringeth little good fruit by reason of its wild Nature So Nature in the first world brought forth but little good fruit though it blossomed fair in wordly knowledge and luxury or wantonesse which could not apprehend the Holy Spirit who wrought in Nature then as well as now 24. Therefore said God It repents me that I have made man Gen. 6. 6. and he stirred up Nature so that all flesh dyed which lived on dry Land excepting the root and stock that remained in vertue and so he hath hereby Dung'd the wild Tree and manured it that it should bear better fruit But when the same sprung up again it brought forth also good and bad fruit again Among the sons of Noah there were found again Mockers and Despisers of God and there hardly grew any good branch on the tree which brought forth any holy and good fruit the other branches were bearing also and brought forth wild Heathens 25. But when God saw that man was thus dead in his Knowledge He moved Nature again and shewed unto man how there was good and bad therein that they should avoid evill and live unto the good and he caused fire to fall down out of Nature and fired Sodom and Gomorah for a terrible example to the world But when the blindnesse of men grew predominant and refused to be taught by the Spirit of God he gave Laws and Precepts unto them shewing how they should behave themselves and confirmed them with wonders and Signs lest the knowledge of the true God should be quite extinct But for all this the light did not manifest it self for the darkness and wrathful fierceness in Nature struggled against it and the Prince thereof ruled powerfully 26. But when the Tree of Nature came to its middle age then it began to bear some mild and sweet fruit to shew that it would henceforth bear pleasant fruit Then were born the Holy Prophets out of the sweet branch of the tree which taught and preached of the light which hereafter should overcome the wrathful fierceness in Nature

Holy Ghost goeth every where forth from the Father and the Sonne and so there is but ONE onely God in one Being with three distinct Persons 48. Of which you have a similitude in the pretious Gold-Oar or a Gold-Stone unseparated First there is the matter that is the Salitter and Mercurius which is the Mother or the whole stone which generateth the Gold every where in the whole Stone and in the Gold is the glorious power or vertue of the Stone 49. Now the Salitter and Mercurius signifie the Father the Gold signifieth the Sonne and the power or vertue signifies the Holy Ghost in such a manner also is the Ternarie in the holy Trinity onely that all moveth and goeth forth therein universally 50. Men find also in a Gold stone a little bit of it in some place wherein there is more and purer Gold then in another not discerned though there is Gold in the whole stone or Oare 51. Thus also is the Place or Space in the Center or midst of the Angelical Gates a more pleasant more gracious amiable and blessed Place to the Father wherein his Sonne and Heart is generated in the most richly and fully loving manner and wherein the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne in the most richly and fully loving manner 52. Thus you have the right ground of this mystery and you ought not to think that the Sonne of God was generated of the Father at once at a certain time as one that hath a beginning and that he standeth now as a King and will be worshipped 53. No this were not an Eternal Sonne but one that had a beginning and were under beneath or inferiour to the Father that had generated him 54. Neither would he be all-knowing for he could not know how it was before his Father had generated him 55. But the Sonne is allwayes generated continually from eternity unto eternity and reshineth alwayes continually from eternity into the powers of the Father again whereby the powers of the Father are alwayes from Eternity to Eternity continually impregnated with the Sonne and generateth him continually 56. Out of which the Holy Ghost continually Existeth from eternity to eternity and so continually from eternity to eternity goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne and hath neither Beginning nor End 57. And this Being is not onely so in one place of the Father but every where in the whole Father who hath neither beginning nor end into which no creature can reach with its Senses or thoughts Of the Nativity or Geniture of an Angelical Kings and how they came to be 58. This also is more fundamentally described in the Second and Third Book 59. The Person or Body of a King of Angels is generated out of all the qualities and out of all the powers of his whole Kingdom through the moving boyling spirit of God and therefore such a one is their King in that his power reacheth into all the Angels of his whole Kingdom and he is the Head or Throne-Angel And such a one was Lord Lucifer also before his fall 60. And this also is more fundamentally described in our second and third book viz. in The three Principles of the Divine Being And in the Threefold Life of Man Of the Ground or Foundation and Mystery 61. If a man will find out the mystery and deepest Ground he must diligently and exactly view and consider the Creation of this world the Government or Dominion and order or Ordinance as also the Qualities of the stars and the elements 62. And although these are of a corrupted and twofold Being which is not living nor hath understanding for it is but the corrupt Salitter and Mercurius in which King Lucifer kept House wherein is both Evil and Good though it be indeed the reall power of God which before its corruption was bright and pure as now it is in Heaven 63. This power of the Stars and Elements did the Creator after the horrible fall of Lucifers Kingdome frame and put into such order again as the Kingdome of the Angels stood in in the Divine pomp before his fall 64. Only thou must not think that the Angelical Kingdom with its creatures were so rolled wheeled and tur●'d round about as now the Stars are which are only powers and in regard of the birth or geniture of this world are thus wheeled or turn'd about whose birth or geniture standeth in the moving boyling anguish in Evil and Good in Corruption and Redemption till the End of this enumeration or the Last Day Now Observe 65. The Sun standeth in the Center or Midst of the Deep and is the light or heart which proceeded out of all stars For when the Salitter and Mercurius before the Creation of the world in the Kingdome of Lucifer became thin or dim and bad qualified one with the other then God extracted the Heart out of all the powers and made the Sun thereof 66. And therefore the Sun is the most shining and brightest of all and re-enlighteneth all the starres again all the stars work in its Power and it self hath the power of all the stars it kindleth all the powers of the stars with its splendour and heat and so every Star receiveth from the Sun according to its power and condition or Kind 67. Thus also is the Frame and Constitution of the Angelical Kingdom The Sun signifieth the Supreamest Throne-Angel the Cherubin or King in an Angelical Kingdom such a one as Lord Lucifer also was before his fall He had his seat in the Center or Midst of his Kingdom and raigned by his power in all his Angels 68. As the Sun ruleth in all the powers of this world in the Salitter and Mercurius that is in softnesse and hardnesse in sweetnesse and ●owrnesse in bitternesse and astringency in heat and cold in Ayr and Water 69. As is apparent in Winter when there is so hard Cold or Frost that the water becometh Ice though the Sun shineth somewhat warm through all the cold frost yet for all its beams by which it shineth on them it freezeth into Snow and Ice 70. But here I will shew thee the right Mystery Behold the Sun is the Heart of all powers in this world and is compacted framed or composed out of all the powers of the stars it re-enlightneth all the stars and all the powers in this world again and all powers grow active operative or qualifying in its Power 71. Understand it Magically for it is a Mirrour Looking-Glasse or Similitude of the Eternall world 72. As the Father generateth his Sonne that is his Heart or light out of all his powers and that light which is the Sonne generateth the life in all the powers of the Father so that in the same light in the Fathers powers goeth forth all manner of growing vegetation springing Ornaments and Joy of such a condition is the Kingdom of Angels all according to the Similitude and Being of God 73. A

compacted together then the Ideas figures shapes or forms which through the qualifying or operating of the Spirits of God in Nature rise up and also through the moving of the spirits vanish or passe away again that their light in their hardnesse should shine the clearer and Brighter and that the Tone of the Body should sound the clearer and shriller whereby the joyfulness should increase the more in God This was the cause that God created Angels 14. But that it is said the Angel generated a new Light or a new Spirit that is thus to be understood 15. When the qualifying or fountain Spirits were incorporated or compacted together then the light shone much brighter and clearer in the Body and from or out of the body then it did before in the Salitter for there then rose up a much clearer and brighter flash in the body then before whilest the Salitter was Thin and Dim 16. And therefore the qualifying or fountain spirits also became stately and Proud and supposed they had a much fairer little sonne or Light then the Sonne of God was and therefore they would also the more earnestly and eagerly qualifie or operate and elevate themselves and so despised the qualifying or Acting which is in God their Father and the Birth of the Sonne of God as also the Exit or going forth of God the Holy Ghost and supposed they could do it because they were so gloriously incorporated or compacted together therefore they would now exalt them●elves gloriously and stately and shew forth themselves as if they were the most fair and Beautious Bride of Heaven 17. They knew very well that they were not the whole or Totall God but were onely a piece or part thereof they also knew very well how far their Omnipotence reached or extended and yet they would no more have their Old condition but would be higher then the whole or Total God and supposed thereby they should have their place Region Quarters or Court above the whole or Total Deity above all Kingdoms whatsoever 18. And therefore they elevated or extol'd them●elves intending to kindle or enflame the whole God and to Govern or rule the whole God by their power and might All forms and Ideas should rise up in the qualifying and acting of their Spirit He would be Lord of the Deity and would not endure any Corrival 19. Now this is the Root of Covetousnesse Envy Pride and Wrath For in the fierce qualifying or acting and boyling rose up the wrath and burnt like fire of Heat and Cold and was also bitter as Gall. 20. For the qualifying or fountain spirits had no outward impulse upon them gotten into them but the impulse to Pride elevated it self within the Body in the councel of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits these agreed and united in a compact that they would be God alone 21. But because they could not begin it in their Old seat and so bring it to effect they therefore dissembled or playd the Hypocrite together and flatter'd one with another and so combined intending to extoll themselves against the Birth of God and would needs qualifie or work in the highest depth and then nothing could be like them being they were together the most Mighty Prince in God 22. The Astringent quality was the first Murtherer flatterer and Hypocrite for when it saw that it generated so fair and bright a Light then it compressed it self together yet harder then God had created it to be intending to be much more terrible and to draw together all in its whole Region Circuit or circumference and keep it fast as a stern severe Lord 23. And so in a degree then it had Effected somewhat from whence Earth and Stones have their Original which I will write of when I treat concerning the Creation of the World 24. The Bitter Quality was the second Murtherer which when it rose up in the Flash did tear with breaking and great Power in the Astringent quality as if it would break the Body in pieces 25. And the astringent quality permitted it or else it was very well able to have stayd and captivated the Bitter spirit and to bathe or steep it in the sweer-water till his high mind had been allayed and gone But it would needs have such a little Brother because it was so serviceable to its turn Else being the bitter spirit taketh its original from it as it were from its Father it could well have stopped or hindred that 26. The Heat is the third Murtherous spirit which killed its Mother the sweet water but the astringent spirit is the cause thereof for by its stern severe attracting together and hardening it hath thus vehemently awakened and kindled the fire by the bitter Quality for the fire is the Sword of the astringent and Bitter quality 27. But being the fire riseth up in the sweet water therefore it self hath the whip or scourge in its own power and might have stayd or kept back the astringent quality in the water but it also became a flatterer or hypocrite and dissembled with the great quality viz. the astringent and did help to destroy the sweet water 28. The Tone is the fourth Murtherer for it taketh its ringing sound in the fire in the sweet water and riseth up very gently and lovely in the whole Body 29. Yet it did not so here but after it was risen up in the water in the astringent quality it rose up so furiously like a Thunder-Clap whereby it would prove and shew forth its New Deity And so the fire rose up as when there is a Tempest of Lightning intending thereby to be so great as to be above all things in God 30. And this they practised so long till they had murthered their mother the sweet water and therein the whole Body became a dark valley and there was no more remedy or Council in God that could help here For Love was turn'd into Emnity and the whole Body became a black dark Teufel Devill 31. Of the word Teufel Teu hath its origiginal from hard beating Drumming or Thumping and the word or syllable fell hath its originall from the falle fall and so Lord Lucifer is called Teuffel Devill and is no more called a Cherubin or Seraphin Here it may be Asked Question Could not God have hindered and prevented the Pride of Lucifer that he might have abstained from his high-mindednesse Answer 32. This is a high Question on which all those lay hold that justifie and plead the Cause of the Devil but they are all Cited to appear at the Court of Justice held for Tryal of Criminal Malefactours let them have a care how they plead for their Master else the Sentence of Judgment will be pronounced against him and he will lose his Crown The wonderfull Revelation 33. Behold King Lucifer was the Head in his whole Region Circuit or Circumference also he was a mighty King and was created out of the kernell or marrow of his whole

Spirit which goeth forth out of the innermost Birth or Geniture out from the Heart of God neither can they hinder him by their power 111. For he goeth and penetrateth through all shut or closed Doors Closets and Births and needs no Opening of them as the Teeth cannot stay or hinder the spirit or breath from going or passing through them 112. But that the Lips stand open when it is come hissing through the Teeth it signifieth that he with his going forth out of the Heart of God in the Creation of this world hath opened again the Gates of heaven and is gone through the Gates of Gods wrath and hath left the wrath of God strongly shut and bolted up and hath left the Devil his eternal kindled wrath-house close locked up out of which he cannot come Eternally 113. It further signifieth that the Holy Ghost in like manner hath an open Gate in the wrath-house of this world where he may drive and perform his work incomprehensibly as to the Gates of Hell and where he gathereth or congregateth a holy Seed to his eternal Praise against or without the will of the strong fast shut hellish Gates and altogether incomprehensibly as to them 114. But as the spirit effecteth his going forth and his conceived or intended will through the Teeth and yet the Teeth do not stir nor can comprehend the will of the spirit so the Holy Ghost also without the apprehension or comprehension either of the Devill or of the wrath of God buildeth or erecteth continually a holy Seed and Temple in the house of this world 115. But that the whole word Sprach said formeth or conceiveth it self at the hinder gummes on the Tongue in the hollow hole in the Center of the astringent and bitter quality and snarleth it signifieth that God hath conceived or framed the place of this world at the heart in the midst or Center of it and hath built to himself again a house to his praise against all the grumbling murmuring and snarling of the Devill in which he ruleth with his Holy Ghost 116. And as the spirit goeth forth from the heart through the grumbling murmuring and snarling of the bitter and astringent quality very strongly and powerfully and with its going forth ruleth in the astringent and bitter quality incomprehensibly as to the astringent and bitter quality as a potent King so also the Spirit of God ruleth in the outermost Birt● or Geniture of this world in the wrath-house mightily and generateth to himself a Temple therein incomprehensibly as to the wrath-house 117. But that the astringent and bitter spirit doth so grumble and murmur when the spirit from the Heart goeth through its House and ruleth powerfully it signifieth that the wrath of God together with the Devils are in the house of this world set in opposition to the Love so that both these all the time of this world must fight and strive one against the other as two Armies in the Field from whence also wars and fightings among Men and among Beasts and All Creatures have their Original 118. But that the astringent and bitter quality conceive themselves together with the word and unite and agree one with another and yet the spirit of the Heart onely speaketh forth the word at the Mouth it signifieth that all Creatures which were onely produced and put forth by the word viz. the Beasts Fowls Fishes Worms Trees Leaves Herbs and Gr●sse were formed from the whole Body being Good and Evill 119. And that in all these there would stand both the angry and corrupt quality and also the love of God and yet all would be driven on by the spirit of Love though those two would disturb rub plague squeeze and vex one another Note 120. Whereby then in many a Creature the wrath-fire would be so very hard kindled that the Body together with the spirit will afford and produce an Eternal wrath Salitter in Hell 121. For the spirit which is generated in the Heart must in its Body walk through the midst or Center of the Hellish Gates and may very easily be kindled they are as wood and fire which will burn if thou pourest no water in among them 122. O man thou wert not created together with and as the Beasts by the word from Good and Evill and if thou hadst not eaten of good and Evil then the Wrath-fire would not have been in thee but by that means thou hast also gotten a bestial Body It is done The Love of God take pity and have Mercy in that behalf 123. But that after the conceiving and compa●●ing of the word together in the astringent quality at the hinder gums upon the Tongue the Mouth openeth it self wide and the compacted and united spirit goeth forth together at the Mouth which Spirit is generated both ou● of the Heart and also out of the astringent and bitter quality it signifieth that the creatures would live in great anguish and adversity and would not be able to generate through one Body but through Two 124. For the Astringent and bitter quality receives the power from the spirit out of the Heart and infecteth or affecteth it self therewith And therefore is Nature now become too weak in the spirit of the heart and is not able to elevate its own innermost Birth of the Heart and for that cause Nature hath brought forth a Male and a Female 125. Thus it denoteth also the Evil and Good will in the whole or universall Nature and in all the Creatures that there would be a continuall wrestling fighting and destroying from whence this world is rightly called a valley of Misery full of Crosses Persecutions Toyles and Labours For when the spirit of Creation entred into the midst and interposed its power it was fain to make and for● the Creation in the midst or center of the Kingdom of Hell 126. And now seeing the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature is Two-fold that is both Evill and Good therefore it is that there is a perpetual tormenting squeezing lamenting and howling and the Creatures in this life are subject to torments and afflictions so that this Evill World is justly call'd a murtherous Denne of the Devill 127. But that the astringent and bitter spirit sitteth still in its seat at the hinder gums on the Tongue and thrusteth forth the word at the Mouth and yet cannot get away from thence it signifieth that the Devil and the wrath of God would indeed be domineering in all the Creatures yet should not have full power in them but must stay in Prison and there would belch forth or blow into all the creatures and plague them but should not overcome them unlesse the Creatures themselves are minded to tarry there in that place or love to live in the qualities and be of the conditions of the Devill and wrath of God 128. Just as the Meek spirit of the Heart goeth througb the astringent and bitter quality and overcometh it and though it be

up my whole Heart and Mind as also all my Thoughts and whole will and resolution incessantly to wrestle with the Love and Mercy of God and not to give over unlesse he blessed me that is unlesse he enlightened me with his holy Spirit whereby I might understand his will and be rid of my sadnesse And then the spirit did break thorough 11. But when in my resolved zeal I gave so hard an assault storm and onset upon God and upon all the Gates of Hell as if I had had more reserves of vertue and power ready with a resolution to hazard my life upon it which assuredly were not in my ability without the assistance of the Spirit of God suddenly after some violent Storms made my spirit did break thorough the Gates of Hell even into the innermost Birth or Geniture of the Deity and there I was embraced with Love as a Bridegroom embraceth his dearly beloved Bride 12. But the greatnesse of the triumphing that was in the spirit I cannot expresse either in speaking or writing neither can it be compared with any thing but with that wherein the life is generated in the midst of Death and it is like the Resurrection from the Dead 13. In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all and in and by all the Creatures even in Herbs and Grasse it knew God Who he is and How he is and What his will is and suddenly in that light my will was set on by a Mighty impulse to describe the Beeing of God 14. But because I could not presently apprehend the deepest Births of God in their Beeing and comprehend them in my Reason there passed almost Twelve years before the exact understanding thereof was given me 15. And it was with me as with a young Tree which is planted in the Ground and at first is young and tender and flourishing to the Eye especially if it comes on lustily in its growing But doth not bear fruit presently and though it blossometh they fall off also many a cold wind frost and snow puffe upon it before it comes to any growth and bearing of Fruit. 16. So also it went with this spirit the first fire was but a Seed and not a constant lasting Light since that time many a cold wind blew upon it but the Will never extinguished 17. This Tree was also often tempted to try whether it would bear Fruit and shew it self with Blossoms but the Blossoms were struck off till this very time wherein it standeth in its first Fruit in the growth or vegetation 17. From this Light now it is that I have my knowledge as also my will impulse and driving and therefore I will set down this knowledge in writing according to my Gift and let God work his will and though I should Irritate or enrage the whole world the Devill and all the Gates of Hell I will look on and wait what the LORD intendeth with it 18. For I am too too weak to know his Purpose and though the spirit affordeth in the Light to be known some things which are to come yet according to the outward man I am too weak to comprehend the same 19. But the animated or soulish spirit which qualifieth or uniteth with God that comprehends it well but the bestial Body attains onely a Glimpse thereof Just as if it lightned for this is the posture of the innermost Birth or Geniture of the soul when it teareth through the outermost Birth or Geniture in the elevation of the Holy Ghost and so breaketh through the Gates of Hell but the outermost Birth presently shuts again for the wrath of God bolteth up the firmament and holds it captive in its Power 20. And then the knowledge of the outward Man is gone and he walketh up and down in an afflicted and anxious Birth or Geniture as a woman with child who is in her travel and would alwaies fain bring forth her child but cannot and is full of Throes 21. Thus it goeth also with the bestial Body when it hath once tasted of the sweetnesse of God then it continually hungreth and thirsteth after it But the Devil in the power of Gods wrath opposeth exceedingly and so a Man in such a course must continually stand in an anxious Birth or Geniture and so there is nothing but fighting and warring in his Births or Genitures 22. I write not this for mine own glory but for a comfort to the Reader so that if perhaps he be minded to walk with me upon my Narrow Bridge he should not suddenly be discouraged dismayed and distrustfull when the Gates of Hell and Gods wrath meet him and present themselves before him 23. When we shall come together over this narrow Bridge of the fleshly Birth or Geniture to be in yonder green Medow to which the wrath of God doth not reach or come then we shall be fully requited for all our damages and hurts we have sustained though indeed at present the world doth account us for fooles and we must suffer the Devill in the power of Gods wrath to Domineer Rush and roar over us It should not trouble us for it will be more excellent Reputation to us in the other life then if in this Life we had worn a Royal Crown and there is so very short a time to get thither that it is not worth the being called a Time Now Observe 24. If thou fixest thy Thoughts concerning Heaven and wouldst fain conceive in the Mind What it is and Where it is and How it is thou needest not to swing or cast thy Thoughts many thousand Miles off for that Place or that Heaven is not thy Heaven 25. And though indeed that is united with thy Heaven as one Body and so together is But the One Body of God yet thou art not in that very place which is become a Creature aloft many hundred thousand Miles off but thou art in the Heaven of this world which containeth also in it just such a Deep as is not of any Humane Number or is Circumscriptive 26. For the true Heaven is every where even in that very Place where thou standest and goest and so when thy spirit apprehendeth the innermost Birth or Geniture of God and presseth in through the astral and fleshly geniture then it is clearly in Heaven 27. But that there is assuredly a pure glorious Heaven in all the three Births or Genitures aloft above the Deep of this world in which Gods Being together with that of the holy Angels riseth or springeth up very purely brightly beautiously and joyfully is undeniable and he is not born of God that denyeth it But thou must know 28. That the place of this world with its innermost Birth or Geniture uniteth or qualifieth with the Heaven aloft above us and so there is one Heart one Being one Will one God All in All. 29. But that the place of this world is not called Heaven and that there is a firmament or fast inclosure between the upper Heaven

above us it hath this understanding or meaning as followeth 30. The upper Heaven compriseth the two Kingdoms that of Michael and that of Uriel and of all the holy Angels which are not fallen with Lucifer and that Heaven continueth as it was from Eternity before the Angels were created 31. The Other Heaven is this world in which Lucifer was a King who kindled the outermost Birth or Geniture in Nature and that now is the wrath of God and cannot be called God or Heaven but Perdition 32. Therefore the upper Heaven includeth it self up so far in its outermost Birth or Geniture and reacheth so far as the wrath of God reacheth and so far as the Government or Dominion of Lucifer hath reached for the corrupted or perished Birth or Geniture cannot comprehend the Pure 33. That is the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world cannot comprehend the outermost Birth or Geniture of Heaven aloft above this world for they are one to the other as the Life and the Death or as a Man and a Stone are one to the other 34. And therefore there is a strong firmament or inclosure between the outermost Birth or Geniture of the upper Heaven and that of this world for the firmament between them is Death which ruleth and reigneth every where in the outermost birth in this world and this world is so bolted up therewith that the outermost Birth of the upper Heaven cannot come into the outermost Birth of this world there is a great Cliff or Gulph between them And therefore in our outermost Birth or Geniture we cannot see the Angels neither can the Angels dwell with us in the outermost Birth of this world but in the innermost they dwell with us 36. And so when we fight with the Devill they keep off his Blowes in the innermost Birth and are the Defence and Protection of the holy Soul 37. Therefore we can neither see nor comprehend the holy Angels for the outermost Birth of their Body is incomprehensible to the outermost Birth or Geniture of this world 38. The second Birth of this world standeth in the life for it is the Astral Birth out of which is generated the third and holy Birth or Geniture and therein Love and wrath strive one with the other 39. For the second Birth standeth in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of this world and is in all places and in all the Creatures as also in Man But the Holy Ghost also ruleth and reigneth in the second birth and helpeth to generate the third holy Birth or Geniture 40. But this third Birth or Geniture is the clear and holy Heaven which qualifieth or uniteth with the Heart of God without distinct and above all Heavens as one Heart also they are the one Heart which holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth the place of this world and holdeth the Devil Captive in the outermost birth in the Anger fire as an Almighty incomprehensible God 41. And out of this Heart JESVS CHRIST the Sonne of God in the Womb or Body of the Virgin Mary went into all the three Births or Genitures and assumed them really that He might through and with his innermost Birth or Geniture take the Devill Death and Hell Captive in the outermost Birth and overcome the wrath of God as a King and Victorious Prince and in the power of his Geniture or Birth in the flesh presse thorough all Men. 42. And so by this entring of the innermost Birth of the Heart of the Heaven of this world into the Astrall and outermost is JESUS CHRIST the Sonne of God and of Mary become the Lord and King of this our Heaven and Earth who ruleth and reigneth in all the three Births or Genitures over Sin the Devil Death and Hell and so we with him presse through the sinful corrupted and outermost dead Birth or Geniture of the flesh through Death and the wrath of God into our Heaven 43. In this Heaven now sitteth Our King JESUS CHRIST at the right hand of God and encompasseth or surroundeth all the three Births as an almighty Sonne of the Father who is present in and throughout all the three Births in this world in all Corners and Places and comprehendeth holdeth and beareth up or sustaineth all as a new Born Sonne of the Father in the power and upon the Seat or Throne of the once Great mighty Potent and now expell'd accursed and Damned King Lucifer the Devill 44. Therefore thou child of man be not discouraged be not so timorous and pusillanimous for if thou sowest in thy zeal and earnest sincerity the seed of thy Teares thou dost not sow it in Earth but in Heaven for in thy astral Birth thou sowest and in thy animated or soulish Birth thou reapest and in the Kingdom of heaven thou possessest and enjoyest it 45. While thou livest in this strugling or striving Birth or Geniture thou must Buckle and suffer the Devil to ride upon thee but so hard as he striketh thee so hard thou must strike him again if thou wilt defend thy self For when thou fightest against him thou stirrest up his wrath-fire and destroyest his Nest and this is then as a great combustion and as a great strong Battel maintained against him 46. And though thy Body perhaps is put hard to it and suffers pain in misery yet it is much worse with him when he is vanquished for then he roareth like a Lion which is robbed of her young whelps for the fiercenesse and wrath of God tormenteth him but if thou lettest him Lodge within thee then he groweth fat and wanton and will vanquish thee in Time 47. Thus thou hast a real description of Heaven And though perhaps thou canst not in thy Reason conceive it Yet I can very well Conceive it therefore consider Rationally and seriously upon it What God is 48. Thou seest in this world Nothing but the Deep and therein the Stars and the Birth or Geniture of the Elements now wilt thou say God is not there 'pray then what was there in that place before the time of the world Wilt thou say there was Nothing then thou speakest without Reason for thou must needs say that God was there or else nothing would there have come to be 49. Now if God were there then who hath thrust him out from thence or vanquished him that he should be there no more But if God be there then he is indeed in his Heaven and moreover in his Trinity 50. But the Devil hath kindled the Bath or Lake of wrath whence the Earth and Stones also the Elements are become so fluctuating as also cold bitter and hot and so hath destroyed the outermost Birth or Geniture 51. Whereupon now this Treatise and my whole purpose is to describe how it is come to be living and revived again and how it regenerateth it self again And from thence also in the Creatures the beastial Flesh is come to be but Sin in the Flesh is the Wrath