the Abominable Devils and do what the Abominable Prince Lucifer will The Eighth Chapter In what manner God forgiveth sinnes and how a Man becometh a Child of God 1. MY beloved seeking and desirous Minde thou that Hungerest and Thirstest after Gods Kingdom Mark the Ground I pray thee what is shewed to thee 2. It is not truly so easie a thing to become a child of God as Babol Teacheth where Men bring Consciences into the History and so tickle and flatter them Courtlike with Christs sufferings and Death where Men teach forgiveness of sinnes Historically 3. Like a worldly Judicatory where ones faults are remitted him of Grace though he plainly abide wicked in his heart 4. It is clean otherwise here God will have no dissembling Hypocrites he taketh not sinne from us in such a manner in that we cleave to the knowledge and Comfort our selves with the suffering of Christ and yet in the Conscience abide in the Abominations 5. It is said Ye must be born a New or else ye shall not see the Kingdom of God 6. He that will tickle himself with Christs suffering and Death and appropriate the same to himself and yet with his willing will abide unregenerated in the Adamical Man doth like one that comforteth himself that his Lord will bestow his Land upon him without considering that he is not his Sonne whereas he hath promised that he wil bestow it onely upon his Sonne so it is also here 7. Wilt thou possess the Land of thy Lord and have it for thy proper own then thou must become his right and true Sonne For the Sonne of the Maid servant shall not inherit with the free the Sonne of the History is a stranger 8. Thou must become born or generated of God in Christ that thou mayst be a bodily Sonne and then thou art Gods child and an heir of the sufferings and death of Christ 9. And Christs Death is thy Death his Resurrection out of the Grave is thy Resurrection his Ascention into Heaven is thy Ascention into Heaven and his Eternal lifes Kingdom is thy Kingdom 10. In that thou are his right true Sonne born of his flesh and bloud so thou art an heir of all his Goods else thou canst not be Christs Child and Heir 11. So long as the Earthly Kingdom sticketh to thee in thy Image so long thou art the perished Adams Earthly Sonne no flattering hypocrisie will help give as many good words before God as thou wilt yet thou art but a strange Child 12. And Gods goods do not belong unto thee so long till thou comest with the lost Sonne to the Father again with a right true sorrow and repentance for thy lost Goods of inheritance 13. Thou must go forth with thy willing-spirit out from the Earthly Life and break or destroy the Earthly willing which is woful to the Mind and willing-spirit to forsake the treasure it possessed wherein the willing-spirit became generated and must enter into Gods willing 14. And there thou sowest thy Seed in Gods Kingdom and art new born in God as fruit which groweth in Gods field for thy willing receiveth Gods power Christsâ—Body and the New Body in God groweth to thee 15. And then thou art Gods Childe and Christs Goods belong to thee and his Merits are thy merits his Suffering Death and Resurrection is all thine thou art a Member of his Body and his Spirit is thy Spirit He leadeth thee upon right Paths and all that thou dost thou dost to God 19. Thou sowest in this world and reapest in the Heaven of God thou art Gods Work of Wonder and openest in the Earthly Life his Wonders and drawest thy selfe with thy willing-spirit into the Holy Mystery 17. Mark this ye Covetous ye Proud ye Envious ye false Judgers ye wicked Malicious which introduce your willing and desire into Earthly Goods into Money and Plenty into pleasure and the voluptuousness of this Life and esteem Money and Goods to be your Treasure and set your desire therein and yet for all that will be Gods Children 18. Ye stand and dissemble before God â—e shall forgive you your Sins but ye abide with your Image in Adams Skin in Adams Flesh and so Comfort your selves with the Sufferings of Christ and are but dissemblers ye are not Gods Children 19. Ye must become born in God if ye would be his Children else ye deceive your selves together with your Hypocrites or dissemblers who paint before you a Glistring Colour 20. They Teach and are not known of God not sent to Teach they do it for their Belly and for worldly honours sake and are the Great Where at Babel who flatter God with their Lips and with the heart and willing-spirit they serve the Dragon at Babel 21. Beloved Mind wilt thou be the Chlide of God then prepare thy selfe for affaults and for Tribulation it is no light and soft entrance into the Childs Life especially where Reason lyeth captive in the Earthly Kingdom 22. It must be broken and the willing must go out from Reason it must sow it selfe into Gods Kingdom in lowly obedience as a Grain is sown in a field or soyl it must in Reason make it selfe as it were dead and give it self up to God and so the New fruit groweth in Gods Kingdom 23. Thus that Man standeth in a Three-fold Life and all belongeth to God 24. The Inward fiery Essences of the first Principle become incorporated with the New body in Christ so that they flow up in Christs Flesh and Bloud out of Gods willing and their Fire is Gods Fire out of which the Love meekness and humility burneth 25. Where the Holy Spirit goeth forth and helpeth him to stand out the Battel against the Earthly Reason also against the pâ—rished corrupt Flesh and the willing of the Devil his Yoak of the earthly willing becometh lighter to him but he must in this World abide in the strife 26. For to the Earthly Life belongeth sustenance that he must seek and yet ought not to hang his willing and heart thereupon 27. It must Trust God and his earthly Reason passeth alwaies into doubting it will faile him it will needs alwaies see God and yet cannot for God dwelleth not in the Earthly Kingdom but in himself 28. Thus must Reason being it cannot set God be compelled into Hope 29. There then Doubting runneth Counter against Faith or Believing and would destroy the Hope and therefore must the Earnest willing with the right true Image strive and fight against the Earthly Reason there is woe and it often goeth sadly 30. Especially if Reason looketh after the Course of this World and so its willing-spirit as it were foolish hath respect towards the Course of this world There it is said be sober watch fast and pray that is that ye may Tame the Earthly Reason and make it as it were dead that Gods spirit may find place in you 31. If that
Tincture is the Matrix which was Impregnated with the substantiality viz with Sulphur in the Fire which yet in Venus's Water cometh to Beeing or Substance 10. The Fire Tincture giveth Soul and the Lights Tincture giveth Spirit and the Water viz the substantiality giveth Body and Mercurius viz the Centre of Nature giveth the wheele of the Essences and the Great life in the Fire and Water heavenly and Earthly and the Sal or Salt Heavenly and Earthly holdeth it in the Beeing or Substance for it is the Fiat 11. For as Man hath the Outward Constellation or Astrum in him which is his Wheel of the outward worlds Essences and Cause of the Minde so also he hath the Inward Constellation or Astrum of the Centre of the fiery Essences as also in the second Principle he hath the Light flaming Divine Essences 12. He had the whole Magia of the Beeing of all Beeings or Substance of all Substances in him it was the possibility in him he could generate Magically for he loved himselfe and desired his likenesse again out of his Centre As he was Conceived from Gods desire and brought forth by the Genetrix in the Fiat so should he also have brought forth his Angelical or Humane Hoast 13. But whether they should all have been generated out of One viz out of that one Princely Throne or successively all one out of another is not needfull to be known for the limit is broken we have enough in the Knowledge in that we know what we are and what our Kingdom is 14. Indeed I find in the Deep in the Centre that one should have proceeded out of the other for the Heavenly Centre hath its Minutes as well as the Earthly which always strike where the Wheele with all the Three Principles always goeth and always one wonder openeth it selfe after another 15. Thus was Mans Image also found and contrived wherein the wonders lie without number they should be opened by the Humane Hoast 16. And clearly in Time one Greater Wonder is opened in one then in another all according to the Heavenly and Earthly Birth and wonderful Variation or Alteration as is done also at this very day that in One more Art and understanding of the Wonders lyeth then in an other 17. Therefore I conclude that one man should have been generated and proceeded from another for the sake of the Great Wonders and for the pleasure delight and joy of Man wherein a Man would have brought forth his like 18. Thus should the Humane Generations have stood in the Generating till God had set the Third Principle of this World again in its own Ether 19. For it is a Globe with Beginning and End for the beginning reacheth to the End that the last may passe into the First thus all is finished ond entire 20. And then will the Middle again be cleared and goe again into that which it was before the Times of this world even all but the Wonders which continue in Gods wisdom in the great Magia standing as a shadovv of this World 21. Now seeing Adam was so Glorious an Image moreover in the sted and place of extruded Lucifer the Devil would not allow or afford him that but Envied it vehemently and set his Vizard and Imagination alwayes before Adam he slipt also with his Imagination into the Earthlinesse of the fruit and Imagined or represented before Adam as if Great Glory did stick in his enkindled Earthliness 22. Though indeed Adam did not know him for he came not in his own Form but the forme of the Serpent as in the form of a Sumptuous Beautiful Cunning Beast and Managed his Apish Sport like a Fowler who deceiveth the fowles and so catcheth them 23. So did he also he infected the Earthly Kingdom with his disease and venome of Pride and halfe killed it as is to be seen in Earth and Stones which though so very much diseased venomed and full of vanity yet would very fain be loosed from the vanity 24. And when it found that Adam was a child of God and had the Glory and the Power then it Imagined or longed vehemently after Adam together with the Kindled Anger of God that also Imagined or longed after Adam to delight it selfe in this living Image 25. All drew Adam and would have him the Kingdom of Heaven would have him for he was created for it 26. Also the Earthly Kingdom would have him for it had one part in him it would be his Lord seeing he was but a Creature 27. Also the fierce wrath set open its Jawes and would be Creaturely and substantial to satiate its great fierce hunger 28. And thus stood Adam in the Trial or Proba for forty Dayes so long as Christ was tempted in the Wilderness and Israel on Moant Siâ—â—i when God gave them the Law to see whether it were possible that this people could in the Fathers source or quality in the Law stand before God 29. And whether Man could have continued in Obedience so as to have set his Imagination upon God so that God should not have needed to become Man for which cause God did such wonders in Egypt that man might see that there is a God and so love and feare him 30. But the Devil was a lyar and deceiver and seduced Israel so that they made a Calf and worshipped it for God now seeing it was not possible for Israel to stand therefore * Moses came from the Mountain with the Tables upon which the Law was written and brake them and slew the worshippers of the Calf 31. So also must not Moses bring this People into the promised Land it could not be JOSUA and lastly JESUS must do it who stood in the Temptation before the Devil and the Anger of God who overcame the Anger and brake Death in peeces as Moses did the Tables of the Law 32. The first Adam now could not stand though the Kingdom of God stood before his Eyes and he in Paradise yet Gods Anger was so very much inflamed that it drew Adam for he was too much kindled in the Earth through the Devils Imagination and strong willing 33. Now saith Reason Had the Devil so great Might yes deare Man Man had it also he can throw down Mountains if he entereth strongly with his Imagination 34. The Devil was also out of the great Magia of God and a Prince or King of this Throne and Entered into the strongest Might of the Fire in a will and entention to be a Lord over all the Hoast of Heaven 35. Thus the Magia became kindled and the Great Turba Generated that had wrestled with Adam to try whether he would be strong enough to possesse the Devils Kingdom and to rule in the same with other Sources or Qualities 36. This Adams Rational Spirit did not understand but the Magick Essences strove against one another whence the whole Lust and the will did exist till Adam began and Imagined after the Earthliness and would have
must enter in through the same path which he hath made he must enter into the death of Christ and so in Christs Resurrection he entereth into the Light-world 60. Even as we know that the Eternal Word of the Father which is the Fathers heart becometh generated from Eternity to Eternity out of the fierce wrath of the Death of Darkness through the Fathers Fire and is in himself the right Center of the Holy Trinity and is out of himself together with the outgone Holy Spirit the Light-flaming Majesty or Light-world 61. Thus also in like manner and property must we with our Hearts Senses or Thoughts and Minds go forth out of the harsh astringent stern and Evil or malignant Earthliness out of our selves out of the perished or corrupted Adamical Man and with our earnest severe willing and doing slay him 62. We must take upon us the Old Adams Cross which hangeth to us while we live and must upon and in the Cross go into the Center of Nature into the Triangle and be born anew again out of the anxious wheel if we will be Angels 63. But seeing we were not able to do this therefore hath Christ given himself into that veâ—ry Center of the fierce wrath and broken the fierce wrath and extinguished it with his Love 64. For he brought heavenly divine substantiality into that very fierce wrath into the Center of the Anguish-Chamber and extinguished the souls anguish-fire viz the fierce wrath of the Father of the fiery world in the soul so that thus Now we fall no more home to the fierce wrath 65. But when we give up our selves into the Death of Christ and go forth out of our selves out of the Evil Earthly Adam then we fall in Christs death into the Path or way which he hath made or prepared for us we fall into the Bosome of Abraham that is into Christs Armes who receiveth us into himself 66. For the Bosome of Abraham is the unshut light world in the death of Christ it is the Paradise wherein God Created us 67. And now the Matter lyeth in this Not that we be Lip-Christians or Mouth-Christians and pourtray and represent Christs death before us and remain wicked in heart spirit and soul but that we very Earnestly with Mind and Thoughts with willing and doing go forth out of the evill Inclinations or Injections and strive and fight against them 68. And though they evidently cleave and hang to us yet we must daily and hourly slay that evâ—â— Adam as to his willing and doing â— we must do that which we would not willingly do 69. We must deny our earthly Evil life it self and put on Christs life in us and then the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violens take it to themselves as Christ said 70. Thus we become impregnated with the Kingdom of Heaven and enter thus into Christs death with the living Body and receive the Body of Christ viz the divine substantiality we carry the Kingdom of Heaven in Us. 71. And thus we are Christs Children Members and heirs in Gods Kingdom and the express reflex Image of the Holy divine World which is God the Father Sonne and Holy Spirit and the same Holy Trinitys substantiality 72. All whatsoever becometh generated and opened out of the wisedom or substantiality is our Paradise and nothing dyeth to or in us but onely the dead Adam the Earthly Evil one whose willing we here nevertheless have continually broken and destroyed to whom we are become Enemies 73. Our Enemy onely departeth from us he must go into the fire understand into the Essential fire viz into the Four Elements and into the Mystery and must at the End of this Time be tryed through the fire of God and our Wonders and Works must be presented to us there againe whatsoever the Earthly Mystery hath devoured and swallowed up into it self that it must give up again into the fire of God 74. And yet not such an Evil one or substance but the fire of God devoureth the Evil and giveth us such a one for it as we here in our Anxious seeking have sought or desired 75. For as the fire deuoureth the substantiality but giveth Spirit for substance so shall our Works in the Spirit and Joy out of the fire of God be presented and set before us as a clear fair Looking-Glass like the wonders and wisdome of God 76. Let this be manifested or revealed to you dear Children for it is become highly known suffer not your selves to be so tickled with Christs death and to pourtray or paint the same before you as a work done and that it is enough for us when we know and believe that it is done for us 77. What doth it avail me that I know a Treasure lyeth hid deepeâ— and that I dig it not out it availeth nothing to Comfort and flater in hypocrisy and with the Mouth to give good words and fine babling but yet keepe Wickednesse in the soule 78. Christ saith Ye must become born anew or else ye will not see the Kingdom of God we must Convert and become as a Child in the Mothers body or womb and be generated or born out of divine substantiality 79. We must put a New Garment on to our soul viz the Mantle of Christ the Humanity of Christ else no flattering Hypocrisie availeth 80. It is all Lying which the Mouth-Cry saith which pourtrayeth Christ before our Eyes as that he hath done it for us and that we should onely comfort our selves with it and thereupon do walk in the old Adam in Covetousness high-mindedness and falshood in the Lusts of Evil and Maliciousness it is the Antichristian deceit of the false Spiritualty or Clergy of whom the Revelation warneth us 81. It all availeth nothing that we flatter our selves and tickle our selves with Christs suffering and Death we must enter into it and be like or conformable to his Image and then is Christs suffering and death profitable to us 82. We must take his Cross upon us and follow him quench the Evil Lusts and slay them and alwaies readily and earnestly will and desire that which is well and then we shall plainly see what Christs foot-steps are 83. When we shall strive and fight against the Devill the Old Adam and the Evil world against Earthly reason which desireth onely pleasure and voluptuousness then Christs Cross becometh rightly laid upon us for the Devil is it the world is it and our Evil Adam is it that we must fight against all these are our Enemies 84. And there must the New Man stand as a Champion and fight in the Footsteps of Christ 85. O how innumerable many Enemies will he there awaken and stirre up which will all fall upon him and this may indeed be called fighting for the Thorney victorious Garland or Crown of Christ as a Conquerour and yet onely be continually despised
blood be put on as it was when God Created it in Paradise in the Eternal 16. Whereby then we clearly known that God hath not created us in such flesh and blood as wee now beare upon us but in such flesh and blood as to the willing in the New birth is put on 17. Else it would instantly before the Fall have been Earthly and Corruptible what should my Conscience blame or accuse me for that wherein God had Created me Or what should it desire other then what it was in its own substance 18. Thus we necessarily find it clear that there is yet another substance in our flesh which groaneth sigheth and panteth after that which yet now is not 19. Being then that it sigheth and panteth after that which ye now is not therefore it must needs have been so in the beginning of its being and substance else there would be no sighing or longing in it after another thing 20 For we know that Every substance sigheth after that out of which it had its first Original and so our will sigheth after such a flesh as God Created which may subsist in God not after an earthly transitory one in source and quality but after a permanent one without source or quality 21. Whereby we clearly understand that we are gone forth out of the Eternal into the Corruptible that we have attracted or contracted the Matter to the Limus and are become Earth whereâ—s yet God had extracted us out thereof as a Mass and introduced his Spirit thereinto with the Eternal 22. For Adams Imagination hath drawn the Earthly source or quality of the Stars and Four Elements into the Limus and the Stars and Elements have drawn in the longing Malady of the Earth and thus the heavenly Matter of the heavenly Flesh became Earthly 23. For the Spirit of God which was breathed in from the Word Fiat into the Limus out of Gods Heart which had heavenly substantiality heauenly flesh and blood on it that should rule Adam according to the heavenly divine property 24. But being the Devil when he sat in Heaven had infected the Limus so now he did to it also this wickedness and infected it with his Imagination so that it began to Imagine or long after the perished Malady or seeking of the Earthly source or Quality whence he became captivated by the Kingdom of this perished world which drew in into the Limus as a Lord. 25. And Now the Image of God became perished and fell into the Earthly source or quality 26. But being the heavenly Spirit was in the perished Earthly Sulphur the heavenly glance of the divine Fire could not so subsist in the burning for the Eternal fires Light subsisteth in the Liberty without or beyond the source or quality 27. But being the water of the Liberty which was the food of the Eternal fire became Earthly that is filled with Earthliness and that the Meek love became infected with the Earthly evil Longing and Malady 28. Therefore could not the Eternal fire burn also give no Light but it Glowed thus in the Earthly flesh as a damped fire that cannot burn for moâ—sture 29. That very fire Gnaweth us now it alwaies blameth or accuseth us and would fain burn and receive heavenly Substantiality therefore it must devour and swallow up the earthly source or quality into it selfe viz the Earthly Imagination wherein the Devils longing Malady mixeth it slfe 30. Thus it also becometh Evil and draweth us Continually to the Abyss into the Center of Nature into the Anguish-Chamber out of which it went forth in the Beginning 31. Thus thou seest O Man what thou art and whatsoever thou further makest out of thy selfe that thou wilt be in Eternity and thou seest wherefore thou must break Corrupt and dye for the Kingdom of this world passeth away 32. Yet thou art not in thy outward substance so potent to continue in that Kingdom even to its Eternity but thou art impotent or weak therein and lyest meerly therein in a Constellation or Astrum which hath the Configuration or Course wherein thou in flesh and blood or the Earthly substance in the Mothers body or Wombe art flown forth 33. Thou art so impotent or weak in the outward life that thou canst not prevent thy Constellation or Astrum thou must go into the Corruption or breaking of thy Body when the Constellation leaveth thee 34 And there thou seest undeniably what thou art viz Dust of the Earth Earth full of stincking rottenness even while thou livest a dead Carcass while thou yet livest 35. Thou livest to the Configuration and Elements they rule and drive thee according to their property they give thee employment and Art and when their Seculum time or season or period is run about that thy Constellation under which thou wert Conceived and born to this world is finished then they let thee fall away 36. And then thy body falleth home to the four Elements and thy spirit which leadeth thee to the Mystery out of which the Astrum or Configuration became generated and wilt be here reserved to the Judgement of God where God will prove and try all through the fire of his Might 37. Thus thou must Moulder away and become Earth and a Nothing all but the spirit which is proceeded out of the Eternal which God introduced into the Limus therein consider what thou art even a handful of Earth and a source or quality-house or tormentive Workhouse of the Stars and Elements 38. Wilt thou not have thy soule or Eternal Spirit which is given thee from the Eternal highest Good here in this time kindled again in the Light of God so that it becometh born again in the Light out of the divine substantiality then it falleth in the Mystery to the Center of Nature viz home again to the first Mother into the Anguish Chamber of of the first four forms of Nature 39. There it must be a Spirit in the dark anguish source or quality with all Devils and devour that which it hath in this world introduced into it selfe that will be its food and life 40. But being God would not have it thus with man his similitude and Image therefore he himselfe is become that which poor Man was come to be after that he was fallen out of the divine substantiality out of Paradise that he might help him again so that Man hath in himself the Gate of Regeneration that he can in the souls fire become born again in God 41. And that the same souls fire draw into it selfe divine substantiality again and fill it selfe with the divine Love-source from which the divine Kingdom of joy becometh born again and that the souls fire bring forth the Holy spirit again as is afore mentioned 42. Which went forth out of the souls fire and that the Adamical flesh might draw back the ungodly willing so that the poor soul might not be filled again with the Earthly and devillish
one in another one not comprehending the Other viz One in the fierce wrath of the fiery Nature in the water of the Poyson and Anguish source or Quality wherein the Devil dwelleth 56. And then one in the Light wherein the water of the Light is sunck down out of the Anguish into the Eternal Liberty which the Poyson-water cannot apprehend or reach 57. And yet is not severed asunder but onely through the Death where it divideth it selfe into two Principles and so severeth it selfe into two Lives viz one in the Anger and the other in the Love which Life is known to be the right Life 58. And herein sticketh the ground that as we with Adam went out of this Life into the Outward Life wherefore also God became Man so he must introduce us through this death through and out of the fierce wrathful source or quality out of the fire-Anguish-life through the Death into the Light-and Love-life again 59. Whereas yet the Gates of Death were in the wrathfulness shut up in the humane soul so that the soul stood in the Anguish source or quality in the inward Nature in the fire of the Poyson viz in the water of the Anguish 60. And there hath the Prince Christ broken the Look Fort or Barre of Death and is with his humane soul sprouted forth through the Death into the Light of God again and so now his Light-life leadeth Death captive and so it is become a Reproach and Scorn 61 For with the Lock Fort or Barre Lucifer thought to be a Lord and Omnipotent Prince 62. But when the Lock Fort or Barre became broken then the Power of the Deity in the Light destroyed his Kingdom and there he became a Captive servant for Gods Light and the Water of Meekness is his Death for the Anger becometh killed or mortified therewith 63. Thus is the Light and the Love entered into the Anger together with the Paradise-Element and the water of the Eternal Life and Gods anger is become quenched 64. And so now Lucifer abideth in himself in an anxious fierce wrathful fire-source where his Body is a Poyson a source of Poyson-water 65. And thus is become thrust out from Gods fire into the Matrix of the Eternal Nature viz. into the stern harshness which generateth the Eternal darkness wherein he manageth the very stern dominion in the Anxious Mercurius and so is as a Reproach or Out-cast 66. Who in his Original was a Prince but now is no more then an Executioner a Base Slave which must be there in Gods fierce wrath as a Hangman who punisheth the Evil when he is commanded by his Lord to do so he hath no further power 67. Although yet he is a deceiver that he might entrap many and that his Kingdom may be great that he may have many and not stand in reproach with so few 68. As a Whore thinketh if there were many Whores then I should not be a Where alone I am as others are thus he also desireth a great Tribe or Genealogy that thereby he may reproach God 69. For he alwaies attributeth the blame and fault to God that he is fallen as that bis wrath hath so drawn him and thrust him into such a willing of Pride and state so that he stood not 70. Thus he supposeth if he did draw many to him that his Kingdom would be great and so should get more to him that would do as he doth and Curse God but justifie himself that is his strength and pleasure in his dark harsh anguish where he continually stirreth up the fire in himselfe and flyeth out above the Thrones and so holdeth himself still to be a Prince and King 71. And though he be indeed Evil yet he is a Prince in his Legions in the Anger in his Creature but With the Anger without his Creature he hath not power to Act therein he must abide as an impotent captive 72. Thus understand the Life in two forms viz one according to the fire of Nature and the other according to the fire of Light which fire bunreth in the Love wherein the Noble Image of God appeareth or shineth 73. And we understand herein that the willing of Man should enter into Gods willing and so he goeth in Christs Death with Christs soul through Death into the Eternal Liberty of God into the light Life and there he is in Christ with God 74. And the Third Form of Life is the outward Created Life from or out of this world viz from the Sun Stars and Elements 75. Which Gods spirit with or by the Spirit of the Great world to Adam breathed into his Nostrils wherein then also he became an outward soul which moveth or swimmeth in the Bloud and Water and burneth in the outward kindled Fire viz in the warmth 76. That same outward Life should not gripe into the Image in the Inward Life also the Image should not let in that into the inward Light which shineth through Death and sprouteth with its power into the Eternal Liberty for the outward Life is onely a similitude of the inward Life 77. The Inward Spirit should onely in the outward Looking-Glass open the Eternal Wonders which in Gods wisdome were become discovered in the Abyss in the divine Magia and bring them to a figured Looking-Glass viz to a Looking Glass of Wonders to Gods honour and to the Joy of the Inward Man generated or Born out of God 78. But its will should not go into it to draw in the outward wonders into the Image as we now with Lamentable Misery know that Man draweth in and Imageth to himself an Earthly treasure into the Mind and so destroyeth the pure Image of God in the second Principle 79. For his willing spirit goeth into the Earthly Substance and bring th his Body wherein the Image standeth into the Earthly Substance viz into the Earthly Treasure into an Earthly Vessel or Comprehension 80. And now the Image through the Imagination becometh also Earthly and goeth again into Death and looseth God and the Kingdom of Heaven for his willing-spirit sticketh with the Body in the outward Life 81. And now the outward Life must die and break or Corrupt that the Created Image according to the Inward Kingdom may appear and shine 82. And thus the willing-spirit sticketh with the Body in the outward Wonders and bringeth them in the dying of the outward life along with it self before the Judgement of God 83. And there shall the willing-spirit go through the fire and the Image shall be tryed through the fire and all that is Earthly must be burned off from the Image it must be pure and Immaculate or without spot 84. As the Light subsisteth in the Fire so must willing-spirit also subsist in Gods Fire and if there it cannot go free through the fire of God through Death then will this Image be spewed out into the Eternal Darkness 85. And this is verily the heavy Fall of Adam that he hath
things but if they love themselves more then God in them then their Perdition is of themselves Hath not God shed abroad his Love in our Hearts Can any rightly say Lord Lord but by the Holy Spirit And are not the Father the Word and Spirit which bear record in Heaven One And do not the Spirit the Water and the Bloud which bear record on the Earth agree in One Also is not the Kingdom of Heaven within us And doth it not consist in Peace Righteousness and Joy in the Holy Ghost and then must not all needs be in us And we may thereby apprehend and understand it rightly though yet we know it not nor ever read it or though it had not been related in the Holy Scriptures How many Thousand Endless Mysteries are Treasured up in the hidden wisdom of God in Christ and in him in us when we find him and partake of him in him we have them all and from his fulness receive Grace for Grace how narrowly therefore should we search and observe the exact words of the Scripture which so surely as an Index point us to these invaluable things and use that powerful word in our Hearts by which hearing Comes and direction and power of understanding those things not onely which are expressed inwardly or outwardly but even whatsoever is hidden in Christ in whom all fulness dwels and then can any thing be impossible to be apprehended or known by a Soul that hath the very Thing in it self where nothing can be hid from its inward Eyes And since God worketh in us both to wil and to do why refuse we to will and to do by hearkening and yeelding to the Lusts of our own Hearts being Servants in Obedience to the Evil and not of God who is likewise in us with his Grace fulness we thinking nevertheless that we can neither will nor do endeavouring to bring Scripture to prove it to the quenching of the Spirit the manifestation whereof is given to every one to profit withal and this is effected in those that understand not how to satsfie themselves in the meaning of those Scripture Arguments that are alledged for proofs not considering that God worketh in us to be able through him in us so that there is himself his power and ability in our Selves though not Self-ability as of our selves for the Most Holy Man born of the fleshly Seed of Father and Mother of himself as of himself is not able to think a Good Thought but there is none so wicked except he be altogether uncapable to desire Conversion and so is a Devil but doth at some time or other in this life think a Good Thought which testifies the good work of God in his-heart and soul and is the stirring of the Divine Word therein in which is Light but Men love darkness rather then Light though it Ever Eternally shone in the Darkness and is the very light of their life in them and that because their Deeds are Evil and they will not follow to will and do according to it which is the Obedience to the divine Light in them though God hath given even his whole self unto them to Convert them wherein they are able to do all things through Christ that strengtheneth them and yet will not but neglect so great Salvation And these Comfortable words expressed in the holy Scriptures are faithful and the Things certain and undeniably true though the Scriptures had never made mention of them and are all of them to be discerned known and throughly understood in the Things themselves by and in every Soul but our want is that we seek not The Consideration whereof should move us earnestly to labour to understand more and more where and how that word is to be found felt seen and known as this Book doth exceedingly help us that we may infallibly Experimentally and understandingly Testifie unto the Truth of the Holy Scriptures by the through Examination of the Things it speaketh of seeing the Scripture directs to that which is to be understood no way but in the Things themselves as all that is written of is to be known Experimentally whether it be Natural or Divine solely by comparing the writing by and with the Things else all is but a Notional and Imaginary Supposition or Opinion without understanding but by the knowing of Things we should by degrees cease from Contention and rightly certainly and infallibly know God and the Wonders he hath wrought and can and will work in all things especially in the Souls of Holy Men some of whom out of the good hidden treasure of the living word in the Heart have committed to writing those few things conteined in the Scriptures being few in respect of the Infinite Depths of the Deity and so proceeding forward from Grace to Grace from Knowledge to knowledg we may attain to the measure of the fulness of the stature of a Man in Christ and not be alwaies children in understanding but even strong Men in Christ The Apostle Johns words If we say we have no sin we deceive our Selves May they be taken as meant speaking of others and not himself included what then shall we think was become of his Earthly Old Adam of his outward Flesh and Bloud wherein he was Mortal had he not that when he said so that he might justly exclude himself from having any sinne as having laid of this life and body he might have done having the new heavenly Body and not the old Earthly one about him at all in which Mortal flesh and Bloud onely which Christ himself took of the Seed of the Virgin Mary he became Sinne for us and could die else it had not been possible as is largely cleared in this Treatise Though if there be no Consent of the Soul it may truly be said by any one with the Apostle Paul It is no more I that do the Evil which I would not but Sinne that dwelleth in me Yet of this Mortal Corruptible Flesh which dyeth and remains in Corruption in the Grave and will not be changed till the General Resurrection of all the Dead at the last day of that it may be always said as he likewise saies of himself after he was rapt into the Third Heaven and not of others onely I know that in me that is in my Flesh dwelleth no Good thing And that is it in which Evil was present vvith him vvhen he vvould do Good for vvith his Flesh he served the Lavv of Sinne Can any serve God with his Flesh but vvith the Mind he can and doth vvhen he vvilleth the Good Yet vvhy are the Mysteries of the Bible so little understood but because we apprehend not that God and Christ and the Holy Spirit and all Graces as also Sinne are invvardly in Every soul the flesh lusting against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh in every one and so the love and vvrath of God is in all things either hidden or manifested and that all
thence forward he lived to this world and not to God 23. But if he entered with his will-spirit into God then the will-spirit would attain the Noble Image again and according to the Image would live in God and according to the Beastial property would live to this world 24. Thus he was in Death and yet was living and therefore Gods word Became Man that it might unite him into God again that he might be totally born again in God 25. VVee are to conceive of the Paradisical Image thus we say and apprehend that Adam was Created Good pure and immaculate as was also Lucifer and his Hoasts 26. He had pure eyes and that Two-fold for he had both kingdoms in him viz Gods Kingdom and the Kingdom of this world 27. But as God is Lord over all so should Man also in the power of God be Lord over this world for as God ruleth in all and presseth through all imperceptibly to the Thing so could the hidden divine Man press into all and see all 28. Indeed the outward was in the Outward but he was Lordâ—ver â—ver the outward it was under him it could not subdue him he could break the Rocks without any prejudice to him 29. The Tincture of the Earth was wholly known to him he should have found out all the Wonders of the Earth for to that end he was also created in the outward that he should manifest in figures and produce into work what was seen in the Eternall wisdome for he had the Virgin wisedome in him 30. Gold Silver and the Pretious Metalls are indeed also out of the Heavenly Magia thus inclosed and shut up by or with the kindling they are another thing then Earth Man loveth that well and useth it for his maintenance but he knoweth not its ground and Original it is not in vain loved by the Minde it hath a high Original if we would consider of it 31. But we are justly silent of it here seeing Man wthout that loveth it too much and thereby withdraweth himselfe from the spirit of God 32. One should not love the Body more then the Spirit for the Spirit is the Life this we give you to understand in a similitude and are silent of the Matter with the ground and Original thereof 33. But know this that it was given to Man for his Sport and Ornament he had it by the right of Nature it was his understand the outward Bodyes for the outward Body with its Tincture and the Metalline Tincture are near a kind 34. But when the Tincture of the outward Body was destroyed by the Devils Evil longing then the Metalline Tincture hid it selfe also from the Humane and became an enemy to it for it is purer then the perished in the outward Man 35. Let this be manifested to you ye Seekers of the Metalline Tincture If you would find the Philosophers stone then apply your selves to the New Birth in Christ else it will be hard â—or you to apprehend it for it hath a great agreement with the heavenly substantiality which if it were released from the fierce wrath would be very well seen 36. It s lustre signifieth somewhat so that if we had paradisicall eyes we should well apprehend it The Minde sheweth it us indeed but the understanding and full knowledge is dead as to Paradise 37. Therefore seeing we use that Noble thing to the dishonour of God and to the destruction of our selves not to honour God thereby and to enter with our Spirit into the Spirit of God but leave the Spirit and cleave to the substantiality therefore is the Matalline Tincture become a Mystery for we are become strangers to it 38. Man was created that he should be a Lord of the Tincture and it was subjected to him and he became its servant and also strange to it therefore now he seeketh in Gold and findeth Earth 39. Because he forsook the Spirit and went with his Spirit into the substanâ—iality therefore the Substantiality hath captivated him and shut him Up in Death so that as the Tincture of the Earth lyeth shut up in the fierce wâ—ath till the Judgment of God so also the spirit of Man lyeth shut up in the Anger unlesse he go forth and become generated in God 40. For the Devil would be Chief Great Prince with his fierce wrath in the heavenly substantiality therefore it was shut up from him and became Earth and Stone so that he is not Prince but a Captive in the Anger and the substantiality profiteth not him for he is Spirit 41 He contemneth the Heavenly Substantiality and kindleth the Mother of Nature viz the Astringency or Fiat which instantly made all palpable and Corporeal which Gods Spirit created or compacted together 42. And yet it was well or easie to be known to Man he could well release the Tincture and bring forth the Pearl to his Sport or Scene and Joy and to the Manifestation of Gods Glory and Deeds of wonder if he had continued in Innocency 43. As to Mans-Eating and Drinking whereby he should give his 〈◊〉 nourishment and substantiality it was thus 44. He had a two-fold fiâ—e in him viz the Souls fire and the outward fire of the Sun and Constellaâ—ions or Astrum Now every fire must have Brimstone on Beeing and Substance or else it subsisteth not that is it burneth not Concerning which we have sufficient understanding in the Divine Beeing or Substance what the nourishment of Man was 45. For as is mentioned above the souls fire is fed with Gods Love meekness and substantiality together with whatsoever the word viz the Divine Centre bringeth forth 46. For the soul is out of the Eternal Magick Fire which must also have Magick food viz by or with the Imagination 47. If it hath Gods Image then it Imagineth in Gods Love in the Divine substantiality and eateth of Gods food of the food of the Aâ—gels 48. But if not then it eateth of whatsoever it imagineth in or of whatsoever the Imagination entreth into whether it be of the Earthly of hellish source or quality and into that Matrix also it falleth indeed not with its substance but is filled therewith and that beginneth to qualitie or operate in it selfe as poyson doth in the flesh 49. Also it is sufficiently to be known by us in the food of the Outward Body thus The outward Man was indeed yet he was as it were half swallowed up by the Inward the Inward ruled throughout and thus every life took of its own food 50. Viz the Image of God or the Souls Spirit and Image did eat of the Divine heavenly substantiality the outward body did Eat of the paradisicall fruit in the mouth and not into the Body for as the outward Body stood halfe swallowed up in the Inward so was also the fruit of Paradise 51. The Divine substantiality sprouted through the Earthly and had halfe swallowed up the Earthly in the Paradisical fruit so that the fruit was not
earthly fruit 37. There all was done then his Noble Image which should eat onely of the word of the Lord became infected and Obscured 38. And so then instantly grevv the Earthly Tree of Temptation for Adam had desired it and given way for it 39. Then Adam must be tempted to try whether he could stand for the stern Commandment came from God 40. And God said Thou shalt Eat of every Tree in Paradise but of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evill thou shalt not eat for the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the Death that is dye to the Kingdom of Heaven and become Earthly 41. And Adam knew the Commandement well and also did not eat thereof but he Imagined thereinto and was captivated in his Imagination also quite powerless also faint and weak till he was overcome then he fell down and slept 42. Thus he fell home to the Magia and his Glory was at an End for the sleepe signifieth Death and a being overcome for the Earthly Kingdom had overcome him it would rule over him 43. The Kingdom of the Starres would have Adam and bring forth its Wonders by him for there was no other Creature so highly graduated and dignified as Man which could attain the Kingdom of the Starres 44. Therefore Adam was drawn and rightly Tempted to try whether he could be a Lord and King over the Starres and Elements 45. The Devill was busie he supposed he should overthrow Man and bring him into his power whereby this Throne would at last remain to be his Kingdom 46. For he knew well that if Man should go forth from Gods will that he would be Earthly and he knew also well that the Abysse of Hâ— ll stood in the Earthly Kingdom and therefore he was now so busie 47. For if Adam had generated Magically then he had continued in Paraâ—ise upon Earth and that the Devil did not like he was not able to endure that it did not relish with him in his Kingdom for it did not smell like brimstone and fire but like Love and Sweetness Then thought the Devil if thou Eatest not of that Plant then I my selfe shall not continue a fiery Lord. 48. Thus the Fall of Adam stuck wholly in the Earthly Essence and lost the heavenly Essence out of which the divine Love floweth and he attained the Earthly Essence out of which wrath Malice poyson venome sicknesse and Misery floweth and lost the Heavenly Eyes 49. Also he could no more eat after a Paradisical Manner but he Imagined after the forbidden fruit wherein Evil and Good were mixed as at this day all fruits on Earth are mixed 50. Thus the four Elements became stirring and qualifying or working him for his will with its Imagination took the Earthly Kingdom in the Souls fire for a Lodging 51. Thus he went away from the Spirit of God into the Spirit of the Starres and Elements that received him and rejoyced it selfe in him for it was now living and mighty in him before it must be in subjection and servitude but now it gat the Dominion 52 There the Devil made merry and derided God but he knew not what lay behind he knew not at all of the Crusher of the Serpent who should take away his Throne and break his Kingdome in peeces 53. Thus Adam sunk down into sleepe in the Magia for God saw that he could not stand therefore he said 54 It is not Good that this Man is alone we will make a helpe for him that may be with him through whom he may propagate and multiply 55. For he saw the Fall and came to Help him in another way for he would not that his Image should perish Reasons Objection 56. Reason saith First Why did God suffer the Tree to grow by which Adam was Tempted therefore sure it must needs be his will that Adam should be Tempted 57. Secondly Thus will Reason also impute it to Gods will and supposeth that God willed that Adam should Fall Thirdly That God willeth to have some Men to be in Heaven and some to be in Hell else he could have hindered the Evil and have kept Adam so that he had continued Good and in Paradise 58. Thus also the present World Judgeth for it saith if God had not made Evil nothing had been Evil seeing all hath proceeded from him and he alone is the Creator who hath made all and so he hath made Evil and Good else it would not be so this will reason strictly Maintain 59. Also it thinketh if that had not been which the Devil and also Man have looked upon and Gazed and are become Evil then the Devil had continued an Angel Man in Paradise Answer 60. Yes dear Reason now thou hast the white and the Hub right thou canst not fail if thou art not blind 61. Hearken Why dost thou not say to the Light why Sufferest thou the Fire to be How pleasant wouldst thou be if thou diddest not dwell in the Fire I would pitch my Tent with thee but thou dwellest in the Fire and so I cannot 62. Say now to the Light go out from the Fire and then thou wilt be good and pleasant and if the Light follow your direction you will finde a great Treasure O how would you rejoyce if you could dwell in the Light and the Fire not burn you 63. Thus farre goeth Reason but look upon it a right with Magick Eyes understand with Divine and also with Natural Eyes then this shall be shewn you unless you are altogether Blinde and Dead 64. Behold I offer it to your understanding in a similitude Seeing Reason is Foolishness and understandeth Nothing of the Spirit of God I will so set it down as if I had power and were able to take away the Light from the Fire which yet cannot be and see what would follow upon it 65. Behold If I take away the Light from the Fire then First the Light would loose its Essence out of which it shineth Secondly It would loose its Life and be Impotent Thirdly it would be captivated by the Darkness and overpowred and be exinguished in it selfe and become Nothing for it is the Eternal Liberty and an Abyss while it shineth it is Good and when it extinguisheth it is Nothing 66. Now behold further what would remain of the Fire if I should take away the Light and Lustre from the Fire Nothing but a dry hunger and a Darkness it looseth the Essence and source or quality it hungreth and yet is nothing the Sulphur which it had is a Death it consumeth it selfe while there is any Essence left and when there is no more it becometh Nothing an Abyss wherein there is not the least footsteps or remainder of Any thing 67. Now dear seeking Minde conceive of it but thus God is the Eternal Light his power and source or quality dwelleth in the Light the Light causeth Meekness and out of the Meekness cometh Being or Substance that
Nature 18. O Blindness that we know not our selves O thou Noble Man if thou knewest thy selfe who thou art how woulst thou rejoyce How woulst thou give the Devil his Arrant to be gone who day and night endeavoureth to make our Minde Earthly that we should not know our true Native Country out of which we are gone forth 19. O miserable Corrupted Reason if thou knewest but one little sparke of thy first Glory how wouldst thou pant after it 20. How very amiable and blessed is but the glimps of the divine substantiality How sweet is the water of the Eternal Life our of Gods Majesty 21. O! Most worthy Light draw us into thee again we are now with Adam fallen asleep into the Earthly source or quality O! come thou most worthy Word and awaken or raise us up in Christ 22 O! thou most worthy Light for thou art indeed appeared destroy and break now the Devils Power which holdeth us captive break the power and Might of the Antichrist and of Covetousness and deliver us from the Evil one 23. Awaken and raise us up O Lord for we have long slept in the Devils Net in the Earthly source or quality let us yet once see thy salvation 24. Bring forth the New Jerusalem It is Day why should we sleep in the Day 25. O! Come thou breaker through Death Thou Powerful Saviour and Conquerour and break in pieces the Devils Kingdom upon Earth Give us Poor sick Adam yet a Cordial draught out of Sion that we may refresh us and go into our true Native-Country 26. Behold all Mountains and Hills together with the Vallies are full of the glory of the Lord it springeth up as a sprout who will hinder it Hallelujah 27. Now when Adam was fallen asleep he lay in the Mystery as in Gods Wonder what it did with him that was done 28. Thus the incorporated or Imaged Name JESUS moved the Fiat again in two Forms viz in both the Tinctures of the Fire and of the Water 29. For this first Image was now fallen home to the Name JESUS in the word of Life and so now the word of Life was the Second Creator understand with the incorporated or Imaged Name JESUS which would become Man that severed the two Tinctures one from another viz the Tincture of the Fire and of the Light 30. Yet not wholly in the power but in the substantiality for i◠the Substantiality of the Tincture of the Light was the Sulphur of Venus of the Love in which Adam should and could impregnate himselfe The Fires Tincture gave soul and the Lights Tincture gave Spirit 31. Viz an Image according to the outward Image the fire-Life Imagined after the Light-life and the Light-life after the Fire-life viz after the Essential power out of which the Light shineth 32. This was in Adam but One for he was Man and Wife 33. And the word of Life took the Tincture of Venus with the heavenly and earthly Fiat from Adam also a Rib or Bone out of his Side as also the half Cross in the Head 34. Which is the Character of the Holy Trinity Marked by the word of Life viz with the Severe Name of GOD GOTTES which beareth such a Character T. 35. T signifying the Cross of Christ on which he should suffer Death and New regenerate Adam again and in the Name JESU introduce him in Ternarium Sanstum into the Holy Ternary 36. All these the Fiat took into it selfe together with all Essences of the Humane property as also the property of the souls Fire but in Venus's Tincture not according to the might and strength of the Center and Separated it into the whole form of Man 37. Thus was the Woman built with all Members of the feminine properties as they still have them For the Spirit of the great world Spiritus Majoris Mundi had now the strongest Fiat and figured the woman in such a form as it could in possibility 38. For the Angelical Form was gone the propagation must now be in A Beastiall Manner 39. And so also there was given to Adam being he was fallen home to the Earthly Magia a beastial form and shape of Masculine Members and Adams generating was given to the Fiat and that maketh a similitude of him out of him 40. If he had continued heavenly Minded then he had himself generated heavenly but now the Earthly Fiat did it and his outward body hecame a Beast he lost also the heavenly wit or understanding and the Power of the Omnipotency 41. Beloved Reader thus thou art to know that the Second Adam Christ hath not in vain suffered himselfe to be Crucified and with a Speare to be pierced in his side nor hath in vain shed his blood here lyeth the Key 42. Adam was broken in the Side by the Rib for the Woman into that very Side must Longinus's Speare with Gods fierce wrath come for it was come into Adam and out of Maries earthliness into Christs Side also 43. And the Blood of Christ must drown the fierce wrath and take it away from the First Adam for the Second Adam had also Heavenly blood that must drown the Earthly Turba that the first Adam might be whole again 44. Let this be told you ye Children of Men for it is become known in Ternario Sancto in the Holy Ternary and not in Supposition or Opinion it concerneth both Soul and Body take heed what you do 45. Thus now the humane propagation began in a beastial manner for Adam reteined the Limbus and his Eve the Matrix of Venus for the the Tinctures were divided 46. So now Each Tincture is an entire or total Magia viz a desirous longing wherein the Centre of Nature is generated and that in the Sulphur 47. Thus then in the Sulphur is again the desirous Magia together with the Tincture and yet can not come to Life except the Tincture of Fire come into Venus's Tincture and Venus's Tincture can awaken no Life it is too weak so that life cannot be therein 48. And both the Tinctures desire also the Life and so the vehement Imagination of Man and Wife beginneth so that the one desireth to mix with the other 49. For the power of the Essences willeth to be living and the Tincture driveth on that and desireth the same 50. For the Tincture is from or out of the Eternal Life and yet is shut in with the Substantiality and in that respect it willeth to live as it hath done from Eternity 51. And therefore the Man longeth after the Matrix of the Wise and the wife after the Limbus of the Man 52. The Woman hath a Watery Tincture and the Man a fiery the Man soweth Soul and the Woman Spirit and both 〈◊〉 flesh viz Sulphur Therefore is Man and Wife but one Body 〈…〉 together a Child 53. And therefore ought to continue together if they Once Mix for they are become one Body and whosoever mixeth with another or separateth from
flow up in it self but would remain in one souce or quality 27. Even as the Deity bringeth its Life but into ONE onely source or quality viz into the Light into the Holy Spirit and yet carrieth on his Dominion over all the Three Principles 28. Also we are to understand concerning Christs becoming Man or Incarnation that when Gods Spirit awakened again the Virgin-like Life in Mary which in the Earthly Essence lay shut up in Deaâ—h and fierce wrath then that Life hence-forward turned it self onely into the ONE onely will viz into Gods Love and gave it selfe up to the Spirit of God 29. Thus that Life became impregnated of a right virgin-like Image which should have been with Adam but was not done 30. For the one Imagination received the other Gods Imagination received the Imagination in Death and brought it to Life again that Life Imagined again into God and became Impregnated with God and became out of the Deity and Humanity ONE Person 31. The Deity hung to the heavenly Substantiality which hath ever been from Eternity with the Kingdom Power and Glory viz the Kingdom of Paradise and the Angelical World viz the Spirit and the Seaven forms in the Center of Nature as in the Third Part or Book of the Threefold Life is mentioned with all Circumstances 32. And the Humanity hung to the Kingdom of this world but when the will of the humanity gave it selfe up into the Deity then this virgin-like Image in Christ Jesus came to be onely a Guest in this world and his Deity was a Lord over this World 33. For thus it was to be in Adam also that the lesser and impotent should be subject to the greater and Omnipotent 34. But Adams will went into the less and impotent end therefore he became altogether impotent and fell downe into sleep and home again to the Creator 35. But with Christ this Image remained standing in the Divine Wisdome and the Earthly source or quality hung to it in the Office and Manner of a Servant but now no more as a Lord as it was over Adam and Mary his Mother before the high blessing opening of the Deity but as a Servant for this Image became now in Gods Spirit and Might a Lord over the Third Principle of this World Qustion 36. Now saith Reason How is it come to pass in this becoming Man or Incarnation Was then the Life so suddenly with the Point of Conception become stirring above the Naturall Course so that that Part of Mary viz the Womans seed instantly lived Answer 37. No for it was an Essential seed and became in its Natural Time stirring with Soul and Spirit as all Adams Children 38. But that part of the Deity environed with divine Substantiallty and wisdome liveth from Eternity to Eternity 39. The Deity went not to nor fro what it was that it remained to be and what it was not that it came to be 40. It gave it selfe with divine Substantiality into the Essence and Substantiality of Mary and Maries Essence and Gods Essence became one Sonne 41. But Maries Essences were Mortal but Gods Essences were Immortal 42. Therefore must Maries Essences dye on the Cross and go through Death into Life to which Gods Essences did help else it had been impossible 43. Thus Gods Essence helped us and still always helpeth us through Christ into Gods Essence and Life again 44. Thus we konw the becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ to be natural as of all the Children of Men for the heavenly divine Subsstantiality hath given it selfe with its Life into the Earthly halfe dead subtantiality 45. The Lord gave himselfe to be under the Servant that the Servant might become living and is in like manner in Nine Moneths become a perfect Man and also continueth a True God and is also after the Manner and way of all Adams Children become born into this World through that very way and passage as all Men are 46. And that therefore Not that he needed it he could have been born Magically but he would not nor should not for he was to heal our impure Birth or Geniture and Entrance into this Life 47. He should enter into our Entrance into this World and introduce us out of this World into Gods Entrance and bring us out of the Earthly source or quality 48. For if he had been generated or born Magically after a divine Manner then he had not been Naturally in this World for the heavenly Substantiality must have swallowed up the Earthly source or quality and then he had not been like us 49. How then would he have suffered Death have entred into Death and destroyed it but therefore it was not so 50. He is truely and really the Womans Seed and is entered into this World the Natural way like all Men but yet also is gone forth through death the divine way of the divine Might and Substantiality 51. He is a divine living Substantiality which subsisted in Death and destroyed and despised death and brought the halfe dead humanity through Death into Eternal Life 52. For the Earthly part which he took to himselfe out of his Mother Mary that is to or upon the divine Substance dyed away on the Cross from the Earthly source or quality 53. Thus was the Soul in the Subantiality of God and as a victorious Conquering Prince went into the Hell of Devils that is into Gods Anger and quenched it with Gods love and Meekness of the divine Love-suhstantiality 54. For the Love-fire came into the Anger-Fire and drowned the Anger wherein the Devill would be God 55. Thus was the Devil taken captive with the darkness and lost his Dominion for the sting and the Sword of the Cherubine the staying Angel was here destroyed 56. And this was the Cause that God became Man viz that he might introduce us out of Death into the Eternal Life and quench the Anger which burned in Us with the Love 57. For you must understand us aright how Gods Anger became quenched not with the Mortal Bloud of Christ which he shed upon which the Jews despised him 58. But with the Bloud of the Eternall Life out of Gods substance which was immortal which had in it the fountain of the Water of Eternall Life that became shed upon the Crosse with and under the outward Bloud and when the outward fell to the Earth then fell the Heavenly with it but yet it was immortal 59. Thus the Earth received Christs Bloud whence it Trembled and Quaked for the fierce wrath of God in it became now overcome and the living Bloud came into it which was come out of Gods Substantiality from Heaven 60. That Opened the Graves of the Saints and Opened Death and made a Path through Death so that Death was made a shew of in Tiumph 61. For when Christs Body arose from Death then he bare Death as a Spectacle or shew on his Body for its Might was broken or