I must do further in â—…ou till throughly ye be assimulated inâ—…o me Oh it is a mighty thing for me â—…our Jesus back again with my Life's Blood to return and shed it abroad into such full Streams as may engender the Eternal Body of the Love to which the mighty influencing Word of Wisdom determines to bring and make you perfect in Now then decry all reluctancy down which yet may be found stirring against this Perfect thing For this my Rising Body will clear it self from all Weaknesses and Imperfections to which end I do again descend into Nature to raise this Seed and to cloath it upon with my own Spiritual Body Which must be put on jointed and knit together by Organical Properties and Powers and by Spiritual Sinews and Veius of Life running here throughout all created and formed of Pure and Divine Matter This is the New Creature into which God the Holy Ghost will breath again and operate freely and will never more be under any clog or evil strangling Power from any dark Magick For all by and through dying into me are acquitted of that Nature I as a new Lily Flower out of thee will spring and out of that inward Ground which hath been thus tinctured and watered with my all-cleansing Blood that purifies from all that is corrupt the Pearl shall be â—…ound May the 11th 1676. This Morning I awakned from a Voice echoing within saying I am come Proâ—…hecies to fulfil With that I felt someâ—…hing into me enter and it filled me and â—…ll my parts in such a sacred manner â—…hich gave me to believe that the new â—…ompacted Body which had been openâ—…d and promised was now stirring and giving proof of its Real Existency and â—…rowing within me to bring forth that Perfect Life without the stain of Sin Referring to that Scripture Knowing â—…hat Christ being raised dyeth no more for through that Death Sin was finished So likewise it was shewed me that we were thus to reckon our selves freed and â—…ead through this living Body felt â—…nd smelt as a Spicy Balsam diffused by â—…he Spirit of Jesus From these words â—…peaking thus This Body is my Everlastâ—…ng Birth of Life that once coming to â—…e quickened shall never dye more For â—…hough there was a falling away and dying from out of Paradise and froâ—… that pure Birth there grew a deformeâ—… change Yet now fear not since a tryeâ—… Stone for a Foundation of Eternal Lifâ—… is laid in you who chosen Witnesses arâ—… of my Risen Body Which shall iâ—… like manner give proof in a Numbeâ—… known as it did in that Age when particularly was manifested to the Worlâ—… in the Singularity but now henceforâ—… expect me to appear in the Plâ—…rality to act over the same perfect Liâ—… again in such who are predestinateâ—… thereunto from the choice Love oâ—… God the Father Who by Wisdoâ—… doth bring forth again this New â—…tion in the express Likeness of me theâ—… first born Jesus Who by pure diffusinâ—… and Incarnating my self in you caâ—… thereby save and redeem you out oâ—… and from All Sin so as to be spotless 〈◊〉 immaculate even as I was hereby restoring storing to you your lost Virginity May the 12th 1676. I Perceived the whole drift of the â—…ord of Wisdom was now to impress to us the perfect Nature of Jesus for 〈◊〉 essential growing in us to be felt in â—…e quickening powerful stirrings that 〈◊〉 we might know in our selves the â—…rd to be risen For it was said to me â—…ear O ye whom I have seen careful to â—…ther in all your scattering Loves to â—…pty them into me as a Proof that ye â—…ll enter your selves into no other beâ—…es Who to you will not be a â—…ad but living Tomb out from which 〈◊〉 shall have Bodies come forth in Orâ—…nical Powers with all the Senses reâ—…wed as the effect of your Resurrection â—…te For verily as I was in this World â—…ye are by the same Spirit in the like â—…rity to honour the Father and me 〈◊〉 abâ—…tement hereof can be allowed you desire to come up unto the same â—…ity to be near the Father's Throne â—…jesty where I am to fix you near â—…me If you will now remember to â—…d fast by that Globe and with me Ascend by every Link demonstrated by that Golden Chain ye shall pass through all Centers and Worlds most conqueringly As I am risen in you that most powerful and Aiery Body which indeed hath hereby made you only meet for the Heavenly Company and Society shall accordingly in you arise Neither doubt ye who appointed are to wear the White Robes of the Resurrection While ye do yet appear in mortal Shapes that it shall still so cloud and hide this my Celestial Body but that like thâ—… Sun it will break forth in its mighty force and strength of Glory through the visible dark Body For this Life musâ—… not be stifled but shall display it selâ—… most free in and after the same manner and way that is Recorded of me nay and that too more abundantly Foâ—… I have the Patent by the Father noâ—… sealed to give forth mighty Powers anâ—… Gifts whereby Bodies that are framed and brought into my Model of Perfection shall be new and fresh Witnesses oâ—… those attending Powers that shall givâ—… sufficient Proofs that I am again Riseâ—… Therefore fix your Eyes stedfastly oâ—… me and look after my Life for I aâ—… the same that was Visible and am now drawing you after me May the 18th 1676. Wisdom's Star with its Bright Glance gave notice to us where we might come to congratulate the Pure and Wonderful Birth of our Saving Jesus Which coming to behold as the effect of that late preceding Dying into him from which a Birth so suddainly did spring and therefrom did witness a most sweet and pleasant Existence growing from the Life-Tree which is rooted in the deep rich Soil of the All-Eternity These were the Glad-tydings which to my Ears were sounded with these Words Come enter into your self view and see that the Life-Birth hath wrought out it self God-Man fully Great care and charge of this young Plant you are to take and to nurse it up with its own Virgin-Milk and ye must not dare henceforth ever to lay it to any other Breast â—…pon its Life-Preservation For this â—…mmixed Birth is designed to be brought â—…p by the Incorruptible Word which must feed it up until it be wise and all knowing and impregnably strong and get about it all its defensive Armour Without which there is no living where such abounding of Evil is hourly scattering their malignant Influences All former Births have been too weak to encounter with the strong and subtle Leviathan who hath this World so much his Friend to plunge poor fallen Spirits into his Gins and no way there is to escape his Wiles Assaults and Temptations but by entring through this new living Birth-Gate Which is contracted from that High Pure Elementary Substance and therefore must always
then in all former Ministrations whatever Oh now then to my Call and Cry within you take special Recognizance it is my Elijah's Voice that the Way of the Holy Ghost might be made plain and strait Take heed no Lyon or Wolf so much as once set their Foot on it Make your Watch still strong for slimy muddy Pits are on each hand the great Levia than there doth under Water lie waiting to see if here you do set your Feet awry For this subtle Serpent doth well know hereby all former and present Prophecyes will be prolonged if not cut off So that if by any means he could Ingulf you within this noisome Pit where all devouring Fish of Prey do lie which still would be eating out your Belief and Confidence in what do's lie beyond the Border of the Senses he will not fail to do so Because it is not for the gross but for the pure and immaculate Eye only to espy those Celestial Glories Whereof not only to the Sight I do here you my beloved Lambs invite but come I say and tast what in my upper Banquetting-House is to be found to which ye yet so high never ascended where the Ghostly Body upon the Crystalline Sea is set But stay yet ye must and ye must it not touch with unwashen Hands with strong scented Oil your Finger must drop while in this Dish ye them dip to give proof ye are a prepared Guest who have put on the Bridegroom your Robe this will be your Tickets Testimony that right you have to eat of this choice Mess which only for the Bride and Bridegroom are set forth Though with many sweet and pleasant Fruits I have out of my Paradisical Garden you fed and with the Spirit of the Vine I have your Thirsts often satisfied yet none like or to be compared to this Therefore it is reserved as the strong Meat which only those that are come to ripe and perfect Age can bear thereof to eat Therefore go thy way and be comforted that ye are entred into Love's Eternal Calendar and may assuredly of this last and great Gift partake as ye shall in the bright Temple grow reaching to the full Stature of your Jesus To which Coming fear not but your Father will equally dispence the Holy Ghost as his free Benevolence Grow grow get up to this high Nativity with all speed The Most High hath great need of such worthy high Disciplined Spirits to go forth bearing the Heavenly Trophy and Banner of Glory which may take away fallen Nature's reproach How much will it be the joy of Wisdom your Mother to see you come up through all Tribulations to inherit the Antient and Royal Seat near unto that Great King your Prince and Personal Saviour through the introducing of his pure Spirit and Nature without which ye never had been capable of so high a Calling as to have fellowship with him not only in the Knowledge but in the joint Possession without any defraud as ye shall see impartially when this Ghostly-Dove with her Cherubin-Wing doth with all Power upon you rest so as no more from you ever to flye or withdraw O run hard still cry knock and call I will assure thee from the Word of a God it shall abundantly answer to all A Memorandum March the 13th 1675 6. FRom the 6th of this present to the 13th I have been exercised in great Conflicts upon and through a sudden surprize upon the mortal part of my Companion and Fellow-Labourer in that Paradisical Husbandry he being smote and struck as with a Leviathian Dart upon his Animal and Vital Spirit the first time was on the Monday being abroad upon his returning home which went over again The next Day about the same time a Feaver took him and in great Violence ceased on his Heart and so he wrestled a good space of time in great Anguish which so affected me that I drew in and awakned a great Travel for his escape from these Sorrows of Death which had so ceased upon him I having had some warning of an imminent Danger and Peril which I saw the Night before he was first affâ—…cted and came down to advertise him hereof before he went from home As thus there was a deep Pit with great Swelling Waters under which the subâ—…il Levia than with his outstretched Jaws did lie to grasp in such as near there did walk Now the Doctor with my self being that way to pass I heard a word uttered Be ware come not too near it is a dangerous place Upon which I watchful was and took good heed and avoided it that the Doctor might not therein be ingulphed but draw off with all speed Which did predict there was some Danger nigh this being the Pit of Death as by the effect thereof soon did shew it self But the mighty Jehovah hereunto a Counter-check did give to reverse what the destroying Angel was upon executing For this second assault was very grievous being upon Tuesday which did abide on his vital Spirits from 4 in the Afternon till 10 at Night In which interim a Daniel's Spirit did come down which in us did Pray with mighty fervency winged up by Faith as knowing that in this ascending Power stood our help For after I had ceased and the Doctor began to Pray I saw a bright Star dance about his Bed and a Word came with it unto me I have heard and I will deliver for my own Name sake out of the present Jaws of Death This was a signal Evidence that Saving Health was near and that in this Hour of Exercise Jesus with his Healing Vertue would appear which soon after was witnessed So the Pains for that time were asswaged and he slept that Night and the next Day had respite So as we did hope this Storm was gone over But on Wednesday Night he found himself ill again So together we did seek the Lord for his Counsel whether or no he might venture upon some outward means to help to remove that violent Humour which by that strong Leviathan would have grasped away his Life For without permission from the Court and College of our Spiritual Physicians we dared not to adventure because we had committed the whole Cure of this deadly Wound to those All-healing Soveraign Powers While then we were supplicating and soliciting to know the Mind of Wisdom â—…erein this Word came It is suffered â—…n condescention to the instability of â—…our Faith however by Grace the corruptible Drugs shall be changed in their Constitution and Quality for else they in this case could not be available For know that my secret Medicine must be the Preparative Then after this the Doctor was free to take a Powder which gave him two or three Vomits and Purgations On Thursday Morning after which he was very cheerful and thought himself to be eased of his weight and talon which had so terrified him but after he had Dined it beset him again more fiercely and violently then at
working Properties which are variously manifested according as in the Glass of God's Wisdom is known The one great and principal Instrument to turn wind move â—…nd â—…ct all by is the strong Arm and nimble swift Spirit of Faith to whom nothing wiâ—…l be hard or mysterious to find out This Hâ—…nd of Faith hath an Eye that is fiâ—…ed in the Palm of it so as it hath a piercing Sight to see what was is and must further be yet wrought till the whole Science of the Eternal Mystery shall be understood and wrought out Here then is required to learn of thy Jesus all that which was acted forth in his Humâ—…nity there hath been a great default and hanging off as if it were a Criminal thing to expect or make out for the same Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding whereby the same Life might reign in Power again Whereas much more is to be looked for because he that was dead liveth evermore to see greater things then those now to be accomplished in them in this Age that in the unfeigned Faith and steady Eye shall search deep to know what their part and share with him will be in that most high and singular Profession Which none can come to imitate till truly simplified as new-born Babes Oh that is the great thing to come to be little again pretending to know nothing but as its Knowing shall proceed from that Prophet which is risen to destroy and nullifie all other Traditional Teachings Which are far too short to find out what in the Arcanum of the Holy Ghost doth lie hid which will open the Heavenly Depths Whereof a Witness thou mayst be if thou canst stop thy Ears to those many false charming Cries of which beware lest thou be swayed by the Multitude Who will assault the Will of thy potent Might which is as in the place of Pilate that hath power to reserve or release to kill or save alive Take heed of Pilate's Spirit who fearful is to displease the great thronging out-cry of People thereby preserving Barabbaâ—… the seditious false and faith-murthering Life to crucifie Jesus the inspirating Word of Truth and Spirit of Prophecy If thou makest this Choice and be only owning its Authority then he will be free to train thee up to know every degree of the High Calling which may make thee of mighty ability when once fully understood Fear not but it shall surpass and outvy all low Earthly Employs that hitherto have vaunted high above all that is called the New Creation working Property But now arise I will and set afoot this new Mysterious Calling that hath not yet been understood but it shall be revealed only to those who shall be thus wise in Heart to suffer their Ears to be bored through so as my Counsels to hear and retain without demurr or doubt Thus and after this manner did I hear the Bridegroom's Voice sweetly alluring to impress his own likeness which gave me boldness to retort back again upon him with the freeness of Espoused Mate to offer what lay upon my Heart Oh thou Celestial Joy of the Internal Part how is it that thy Calls are thus day by day renewed What more is to be done till thou the working motion in Nature dost absolutely raise anew to be all in all in mighty Supremacy according to the moving of the last finishing Mystery that God the Holy Ghost may expresly swallow up all our Mortality Thou hast said We have long enough dwelt in the first Mount and bid us pass on till we this Day of the Bridal Glory see but hast not shewn me when or how it must be obtained or who they are that shall the first Fruits here bring to thee Oh! I want a clear and full description hereof my dear Jesus Then should I be of one fixed Mind and delivered from all Jeopardy if once sealed up to be privy to the Secrets that still are shut up within thee Who must be the Revelation of that which my Spirit hath desired with desire to see before I lay aside the Corporality Oh! now then in plainness déclare to me the Particulars of my High Calling which thou hast said we must follow thee in July the 28th 1676. Here follows that which opened upon this my Inward Communing with the Spirit of the LORD JESUS True O Soul I have strongly moved thy Will towards me yet thou art upon the Jealousie as if I kept much hid from thee Now as to that thou must be subjected and always allow me my prerogative to open and to shut to reveal or to conceal who know my own Times and Seasons best when and to whom to break open my Seals that so knowing in my Book of Life who those may be that shall persevere and look not back but are waiting for the fulfilling of all my pleasure But know that to thee much hath been given the Dew hath lain upon thy Branch while others have been dry and thy Fleece hath been watered and yet thy expectation may be much more abundant in and from him who is the Alpha and Omega Who is now from Heaven revealed for this end to instrnct you who are seeking to be fellow workers with me for the bringing to pass that which will Crown the Love Labourers herein who can with me endure to bear the burthen and heat of the Day then for a Reward expect the Golden Penny will come in the Mouth of the Dove Who then will make all Labours to cease for the Everlasting Gospel will run through those who shall give themselves to be faithful Workers Therefore be apt wise and diligent now to every Rule which shall be revealed unto you who have chosen the same Calling with me and you may know Effects answerbly The first Rule You are called out of this Babylonish Country into the Land of Immanuel where in the first place you are to learn the Language of that Country among the Divine Magicians and Spiritual Natives there and then in the next place to understand the Manufactory how to deal and traffick in that high Merchandize of the Pearl of the Kingdom with all the Precious Stones of value as the Bdellium and Onyx which this Land doth afford The second Rule You are called to Trade from that Stock and Golden Coin which bears my Image and Superscription that will procure all the Precious Goods of this Heavenly Country For it is Expedient that you should be made skilful in and understand all these weighty Things that may be serviceable to your self and those that are in the same Calling and Vocation united with you And I would not have you after the Manner of the World to go on Trust upon anothers Talent but to Improve your own which I have committed to you The third Rule Seeing now your JESUS hath furnished you with a good Stock the Golden Mine being set open to you you may Adventure to Buy and to lay up in Store as a true Joseph the sevenfold Increase of
the Corn of Heaven that in all times of Famine may replenish thee with all the Heavenly Family that in this High Calling numbred with thee shall be The fourth Rule Now further on thou must proceed till thou reach to a larger Patrimony yet which is to Adventure upon that Vinyeard which enclosed is with Love's Flaming Wall where the Red Wine doth flow out of the Grape For this also thy Purchase must be Vessels prepare thou not a few for it will run till thou canst no more find to bring The fifth Rule Now all this Treasury Imbarked must be and quick Sail upon the Floating Sea which is the pure Love-Deity must have and here fear not to be robbed by any Pirate while I your Pilot shall present with you be to Land you safe upon your Spiritual Goods here and taking New Lading in to make still fresh Returns for the Universal Profit and Benefit to all those that have Dependency and Need of such Relief Afterward this Manuduction ceasing another opened in this wise July the 29th 1676. This Night I was much in Prayer and Contemplation according as the Center cast up variety of Spiritual Matter to exercise my Internal Powers as sometimes offering this and that for to be resolved in by the Word of Wisdom Which I knew was nigh unto me Then finking down into the unknown Deep where the unmixed thing might open which I did both feel and hear even to a Soul satisfying pleasure this Word spake to me thus as in all Cases and Matters of doubt Whither should ye go have not you found that within you is the Ark of Enquiry To which ever more do you give great heed which shall fill all your Treasures that so no Famine of the Food of Life shall ever be known in your Habitation For the Tree thereout will spring whose Fruit is ever thereupon to be found because its Root is in Oily Ground all from the depth beneath answering to the Fountain from above which meets together in the God of Love from whom the Word of Truth doth richly flow July the 30th 1676. This Day being filled with great Zeal Love and Power finding Faith mightily raised to believe that some good thing was nearer to be revealed to us that were diligent and servent in Spirit While we were met together in our private Exercises the Powers did open and stir In which interim I saw in the Spirit of my Mind one in the Figure of a Man but not in gross Corporality but rather like a Seraphick or as a flâ—…ming Body pouring out a Vial of Oyl in the colour of Amber upon our Heads Which Sight was a satisfying Resolve to the large and big expectation for the pouring out of the Spirit This Word attending it wait still for with this ye are to be filled preserve it pure in your Vessels and it shall never cease to run so long as your Needs require For this is the inspirating Power that will fill with Ghostly Might to do the Father's Will Great Michael-like who may proclaim that he is come to give and shed abroad of this Oyl that will give Light and Joy all full and sweet August the 5 th 1676. THis Morning I heard this Word saying to me Ye have compassed this Mount long enough Which was opened to me further as thus you have gone your Rounds and are come unto the measures of the Second Temple-Worship which is the Holy Place ye are compassing the most Holy City also which is the higher Court but ye have not yet found entrance into it But now to this Holy of Holies draw you near each one with his Golden Trumpet and do not fear for the Oyl of Faith must run to make a clear and certain Sound at which the Heavens may rend and open wide that ye may read and see what within the most Holy do lie Now as you have served in the due order and course of the New Testament Ministration with an Eye to what this will bring up further into For the Ark of this Covenant can rest in no place till it be fixed in the beloved City which presseth hard until it comes to the Rivers of Broad Waters that run pleasantly within Mounts or Walls Which is that restless rising that ye feel stirring that makes after its own place Now as you have been upon your daily Offerings and Services in this second place of Tabernacle-Service which for its time during ye have done well to obeserve yet from hence you must make a Remove to a more excelling Habitation Where you may come to possess what Prophecies Prayers Revelations and Faith expectations have hitherto detained you in But you will say how shall we arrive hereunto for this is a great and wonderful state we know not whither it may be decreed for our Age As to this matter of doubt consider there is no date of Time determined though known seen in the all-knowing Eye of the Detty when and upon whom the Godhead Power shall descend and ascend to fuâ—…fil all general and particular Revelations and Prophecies Therefore here is all Liberty and Scope for Faith to stretch forth and put in for its right having a Propriety in this high and super-eminent thing according to the free donation of Grace which hath and shall still abound towards thee Now then be assured that no Bar shall stand before you that ye may not summon in and call up Power to break down whatever is Opposite so that ye may raise the Eagle-Body by Spiritual Force and Might that only can mount up to take this worthy Prey that shall decide all Controversies that do arise to cast in fear and doubt Awake call up and gather together all those Celestial Powers which within thy Heavenly Orb do dwell For they must go forth as the Lord's Hosts in their Day to lay close Siege and by a wise Spiritual S ratagem to scale the Walls of the most Holy Place that so thou mayst have entrance for it is allotted that by meer Conquest the Prize within this City will be taken Now then raise up all the Internal Force you are able to make and set upon storming it violently sounding forth the seven Trumpets from all the Seven-Throne Spirits which are fiâ—…led with Oily Power and will be of mighty conquering force to Alarm down that last reserved Almighty outgoing Breath which doth bring absolute Soveraignty in all Heavenly 〈◊〉 renewing that Eveâ—…lasting Morning which from the Antient of Days did spring when all the Sons of God shouted for Joy and as Stars of Glory did siâ—…g knowing nothing then of Mortality or Sin To which state ye by this Life-quickening Ghost are to be reduced again that so in the Primiâ—…ive Angelical Figure you may appear as mighty Oâ—…es to act according to what you have by Conquest obtained within this Seraphick Kingdom through Love's violent onset Where ye shall then be confirmed Denizons having all freedom to exercise your Heavenly Calling
clear Then Celestial Food ye shall know through this Virtual Consubstantiation of which none shall have right to partake but the Bridegroom and his Mate Therefore do not think that I am slack in coming for to reap I wait in Long-suffering with you till I become a pure hardned Grain in you and so become Heavenly Bread to satisfie the Life that is born out of the Mystery Whereof you are of the Number appointed to grow up a pure Body for the holy Air to pass through August the 15th 1676. This Word came which was often repeated in me Arise Jonah's Gourd must fail though it was appointed for your succour and shelter for its appointed Season as a Shadow from the Heat Wind and Storm Which was thus made out to me with respect to the present Gospel-Ministration as it stood in divers Services though of the Lord 's own Institution which carries a great force with it consisting of pure and Spiritual Exercises offering up by Prayers and other constant Oblations which have been too short because transient Powers have only opened therefrom wherein hath been some Refreshing yet rest not hear for some better thing is provided for you whose expectation must still run higher looking to obtain that fixed Body that can dwell among the Heavenly Quire going out and in by Commission from your Great King whom only you are to fear and hasten to Then again this secret Word sprung What toil you here Have you not heard that there is a Jubile Year wherein you are called to return to the Land of your Possession to enjoy what is laid up in store which was sown in the sixth Year of your Immanuel who was such a fruitful Grain as thereby ye may obtain a Sabbath of Rest eating of the old Store till the third Year which will renew all things again to that Increase which never yet hath been Also this Scripture was spoken to me Ye shall not go through the Cities of Israel till the Son of Man come again Matth. 10. 23. Which thus opened it self Ye have had many Removes in your Israel Dispensations yet you have not gone through all there is one strong hold that is to be taken Which being enter'd into you will soon see your Son of Man so to appear as ye shall not know him from the Son of the Most High God in Humanity glorious and clear riding upon the Heavenly Sphear Also this Word came unto me The Golden Pot within shall still be filled with Manna it is for the Priest alone to feed thereof within the Holy Place Where the Golden Bowl of Oyl shall also out flow to those that can come near it with their Consecrated Body which scented is with the pure Unction August the 16th 1676. Being very inquisitive with that strong Rock from whence I expected still new Aid Counsel and work of Direction for going forward in the Process with our Jesus till we were entred into the Land of Rest Life and Liberty and it being made now all my Care and Concern to keep journeying on making riddance of all that would hinder our ascending Might In order to the prosecution thereof this Word came to me Knowest thou not that the most principal City is yet to be inhabited by you which can only be entred upon by Conquest Now what less then the Spirit of Courage Might and Valour which did rest upon Othniel will serve you in this matter For the taking of this strong City by Conquest a Reward will be given by faithful Caleb the good Heart who here represents the Eternal God and Father Who engageth to give Achsah who is his only Virgin Daughter unto Othniel who is the Man of War the strong Michael who feareth not but he shall still overcome to whom is given the utmost Ends of the Earth for his Inheritance Moab shall be his Wash-Pot and over Edom the Most High will rule Oh Lord it is most true thy Power and Soveraignty is not to be questioned I know thou canst do all things but what is this to me till this Mighty Man of Valour do arise to bring me into this strong City or the City of Strength wherein will be all our defence Thou hast said Go on to possess what yet remains behind pointing to this Walled Place that is fenced round with Bull works by which we who have often made any Attempts against her here have as often been repelled How and by whom can we make this Enterprize if thou Oh mighty Othniel dost not undertake this for us A necessity there is I do see for thee to assume and to take in us the strong Battel-Ax of Faith's Magnanimity that will force the most Mighty to yield Oh how long must we War before the Bride shall come for to be our own in the New Jerusalem City Ah sweet Jesus speak comfortably to us hereto to whom it hath been said Ye look for her who never can in this Life-time be here enjoyed August the 19th 1676. This Reply was given to me Oh why should ye hearken to any thing that would quench and kill your Faith For Diffidence hath been the grand Stop and Hinderance for how can that possibly be obtained which cannot be believed in By which great Absurdities are committed against the whole Trinity whose Faithfulness and Truth must hereby be nullified and all those Promises made of no effect which are of standing Record But they will not any Credit hereunto give then which nothing more can take off from this further process as who else might have reached to all that hath been predicted had there been but found in any that All-Golden Grain of Faith so strong till it had cast out all Fear and Doubting which makes the true Masculine Spirit that is for the taking of the most weighty Prize that is in the Kingdom of Heaven Who willingly suffereth such noble Violence and would rejoice to be so entred upon If it might find any so resolved in this present time I will assure thee there it no Prohibition against the possession of this Royal thing which I have so often to you propounded Which stands free to yield to them who through Faith's Stratagem can enter through the Gates of this Jerusalem You well know what force will be effectual which I still incite and call upon you to improve summoning in all your Army The Seven Throne-Spirits will be your aid but be sure to set Love's Flaming Streamer and Faith's challenging Banner in the fore-front of all because they are of greatest Potency which will bring a dread with them upon the fearful and unbelieving Spirits because terrible to them is this Army of Banners Who the first Onset will make with and by the sound of our Trumpet which yet hath never been heard to sound For which wait ye till it shall be given into your Hands August the 20th 1676. This Word visited me with a mighty inward Cry Let the old Creature dye and pass away Bury this
of Knowledge and Skill in all True Learning and Solid Wisdom that they may be found ten times better and more Skilful than all the Magicians and Men of Faâ—… that are in the Universities throughouâ—… 〈◊〉 Europe For when Wisdom's Key is obtained and her Book unsealed in any according to the Process here described then may all the Depths of Philosophy as well as of Divinity and all the Hidden Treasury of Wisdom in All Worthy Arts and Sciences be successively broken up And thus as from one Foot of the Rhodian Coloss which is to This Day preserved every one that is but skilled in the Proportions of the Human Body can exactly Calculate what the Whole should be and Know thence how to frame one accordingly so every one to whom God has given some good degree of Understanding in the Symmetry and Proportions of the Spiritual Body will notwithstanding any Intervening Breaches or Abrupt Transitions be able hence to Frame some suitable Idea of the whole Design and Oeconomy of God in the Manifestation of his Kingdom to Separated and Virginiz'd Souls Now the Manifestation of this Divine Kingdom is Various in Several Persons and in the same Person at several Times Whence this Variety in the Descent of the Heavenly and Ghostly Powers whether in this Principle or in another and of the Joys of the World to come is here not unfitly Symboliz'd out by a Garden or Paradise as it was by the King thereof himself in his truly Gracious Answer to the Penitent Thief And yet more Expressively is this Flourishing State of the Lamb's Elect Bride Cipher'd to us by a Fountain of Gardens or Paradises planted with all Trees of Frankincense Myrrh and Alloes and with all the chief Spices out of which the Royal Ointment is prepared for the Consecration of such Priestly Kings as are to Reign upon the Earth in the Lamb's Nature and Name Which shall make all the Wild Beasts of the Forest to fly into Dens and Lurking Holes and every Venemous Creature to hide it self from the Great Attick Iomin in his Representatives and from the Fiery Stream issuing out of his Mouth by which the Spirit of Antichrist that Huge Leviathan shall be utterly Destroyed So will the Kingdom of Christ manifest it self by a Gradual but Total overthrow of that of Him who has Usurped all the Kingdoms of the Earth until all that which he has caused to be as a Wilderness by the Blast of his Poisonous Breath be again Renewed and made to be as the Garden of God filled with Wells of Living Water and Streams from the Upper Lebanon A Garden giving forth all the Variety of Flowers and Fruits of Life according to the Seasons and according to every ones Essential Ground and Internal Soil a Garden in which there is not any mixt Tree existing from the Root of the outward Elements containing Good and Evil Truth and Falshood Light and Darkness but all whose Trees are Trees of Life all whose Plants are Plants of Righteousness all perfectly Good and True All-beautiful and Lustrous How various the Manifestation of this Lebanon-Kingdom will be no Pen can describe no Tongue can express That is Various indeed but the Manifester all the while is but One and the Essential Word of God which is the Worker of all these things is most Uniform The Manuductions Illuminations and Inspirations are very different but still there is but one Way one Light and one Spirit one Lord and one God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and of us all who in these last Days is about to appear yet more fully to us by his Son setting him Openly upon his Holy Hill Thus he who is the Abyssal Unity of all Beings clotheth himself as with several Names râ—… forth in several Powers weareth on his Head several Crowns and glanceth from his Eyes several Lights And yet there is but One Crown One Power and One Name as there is but One Light which diffuseth it self in all the variety of Colours Which Unity and Variety of Light is well to be heeded in the Reading of this Book and of all other Spiritual Treatises whatever of what Rank or Degree soever they be For God sometimes appears in the Darkness and yet in that Darkness there is Light again he appears in the Light and yet Darkness may be mixed with this Light till the Perfect Day do spring from on High Thus he appears to some at a distance as in a great and strong Wind to others in an Earthquake in both which Formes he eminently manifested himself through some about the Beginning of the Last Century Then after this approaching still nearer he apppears to a third sort in the Fire as at this very Day he powerfully doth to some that are known to Wisdom's Disciplehood And lastly he demonstrates his Presence to some as to this his Chosen Vessel in a still small Voice and in a sweet gentle lambent Flame Sometimes God manifests himself to the Eye or Ear of the Receptive Heart according to the several Properties Operations and Influxes of this or that Name which he puts on of this or that Attribute which he communicates of this or that Sphere in which the Living Wheels of the Creatures before the Throne of God do move Thus was he manifested to the Unregenerate Spirit of Balaam according to the eficacy of the Name Shaddai who saw the Vision of him in this Similitude or Vesture falling into a Trance And this is the lowest sort of True Divine Prophesie Then was he Manifested unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the Name of El-Shaddai which is a much higher Degree than the former as that whereby is expressed not only the Paternal Property in the Absolute Soveraignty of his Will but also the Meek Love-Principle co-joined with it in a Federal Rite After this he was manifested under the Law at sundry Times and in divers Manners by the Most Essential and Great Name of the Covenant Jehovah but still according to the variety of the Vessel and its fitness to receive the Emanations thereof either in a High or Low Degree Then lastly he was made known under the Gospel to the Apostles to the Evangelists to the Prophets and to other Ranks mentioned in the Apostolical Epistles by the Name of Jesus which Name doth Unseal and Open that of Jehovah whence the Miraculous Powers did so abound in the Early Days of the Church while there was Faith in this Name But still it is the same One Holy and True God that revealed himself both to the Vile Son of Beor and to the most Heroick Father of the Faithful though not by the same Name And he is nevertheless One and having Appeared after Manner and in that Name to the Proâ—…hets of Old and then speaking after another Manner and by another Name â—…n their Successors the Prophets Neither would he be the less so should he even speak to us after another Manner than he hath yet spoken
Law of Sin hath Dominion so long as he liveth So from hence the Spirit did testifie that nothing less then a Thorough Death would put me into a Capacity of this Marriage with the Lamb. For he will match himself only to a Virgin Spirit incorporating and thereby changing into his own pure Humanity and this is a Begetting into a Living Substance which springeth through the Death of the Old Which as the Grain that dissolveth in the Earth and generateth a New Body so in like manner doth the New Creature spring forth which indeed is Christ our Life whose appearance will put an end to Sin in us Now what brought in the Curse the Care the Toil and the Impotentcies which distress poor Man in this his fallen estate but a Deviation from his God And while in this state he stands as a Debtor to Sin being under the Dominion of it this maketh him obnoxious to all the Calamities which do attend those that live in Bodies Elementary But now to hear of a Possibility of a Putting off of this Body of Sin this is good Tidings indeed and verily the Prophet which is risen in me hath prophesied that such a Day is at hand And that I shall be a Witness of Jacob's Star arising and shall see for my self and not for another Then shall that saying be fulfilled Death is swallowed up in Victory even the Death of that First Husband who so long hindred my Marriage with the Lamb. Who by a New Law from Mount Sion hath set me free from the Law of Sin and Death Be astonished O ye who are Wounders and Despisers of this Grace which I now see is near to be Revealed For the Garments of the Bride are making ready and it is granted to me to see in whose hand they be O Wisdom to thee is committed only the Ordering of this Wedding Garment which of divers Colours shall be that known from all others may be the King's Daughter who under thy Teaching and Discipline is committed April the 20th 1675. The Shulamits Debate Expostulation with Wisdom OH my Mother how is it that thou hast shewed me of the Glory of thy House and of the Honour Riches and Dominion of thy Kingdom and hereby hath allured and drawn the Spirit of my Mind that I cannot turn my Eye from thee my Senses being refined and with thy Life close touched that I altogether incapable am to join to Baal or to immerse my self with the druggy polluted Life of this outward Principle which hath no consistency with that transparent state where unto thou hast called me with thee to have my Conversation as one that hath obtained Grace to be sirnamed by thee and admitted into the secret of thy Counsel in order to some peculiar Service for thee If so why is it I am yet straitned in force and power What signal mark do I bear to demonstrate my holy and consecrated Calling to wait in thy Pavilion What Commission have I from thee to shew whereby all unbelieving and gain-saying Spirits may be convinced and put to silence true it is I have had free Communications through Transportation of my Spirit but what is this without fixation and Seal of the Power which may bear Record of its own Omnipotency working forth to redress all Maladies and Grievances seeing I have taken upon me to plead suffer me yet a little to empty and unload my self to thee whom I well know to have the tender working Bowels of a Mother and numbrest all my Complaints the first Argument is from thy free choice of me calling me out of all Nations Tongues and Peoples no more to know my Fathe'rs House or the Land of my Earthly Nativity but to renounce and seperate from all attending thy Appointments only at whose Knee I have been for some time brought up to hear and learn the manner of the worship of my God which is expected in a different Living All-Powerful Ministration which to know is indeed Life but to act forth from that Life brings the Joy Peace and Glory which will be the Renown of Wisdom's Nursery among whom I have thus far found favour as to have her Friendly Salutations with Word upon Word sealing Instructions to me but this is not enough Oh the Spirit and Breath that goeth forth with all Influencing Powers to create new Forms of things this I know will give the express signature of a Godlikeness putting forth through Nature's contemtible Appearance Here is surely a matchless Glory to break forth the highest Mystery which was ever unveiled the best and choicest of all Wisdom's Treasury yet to be brought out for such as pursue and make it their only one Interest minding and regarding nothing else Oh my Mother while herein have I busied my self in putting and throwing off all Weights that I might come a naked Spirit unto thee How have the pernitious Necessities cryed for the out-part to have Right done it to act and work and plot in Reasons Counsel-House as the manner is of all which live in the gross Animal Body is known to thy all-viewing Eye which runneth to and fro and what my Conflicts have been and still are while I have studied to evade and make my escape through the Throng of Worldly-Wise Reasons Guard who have by order of their great Prince watched me in every going out and in when with my only Friend I would my Time secretly in all sweetness spend contrivance hath not been wanting to draw me down to wear again the dark Linsywolsey-Gown I being well aware through divine caution These are the Pirats that have lain in wait for me to take what Substance is with me embarked So that Perils on all kinds do beset but this my Ark above all Waters doth keep floating a Man of War is within which will keep this Vessel from being a Prize to the subtil Man of Sin pitched within and without by Wisdom's Skill no fear of leaking while I thy bottom am so saith the Amen Thus encountring fresh with Temptations and strong Gusts from the cold North which I feel many times blow so sharp as if they would put back the Spring from coming on upon which only my Hope is entertained which keeps up my Spirit from fainting Thus while I was pleading and pressing hard for the finishing Power to come down that might put an end to all Strife whioh is from the Root of Sin Here is a Break by the loss of the Original Therefore O Shulamite do not thou judge thy Furnace to be too hot it well becomes thee the same with thy Lord in all things to be who in thee beareth and endureth and suffereth Were it not that hadst high Conjunction with the Deity thou wouldst not stand in that Enmity universally to what from the Root of Iniquity doth spring How much better is it to be numbred with thy Jesus amongst the Transgressors and to bear the Sins of others rather then thy own that the Evil One may
subsist answerably upon its own native Food O let it not seem strange that this Life-Birth of Jesus is now upon its rising again it will be defended and protected by the conquering Right of the Mighty Alpha who will have regard unto this Kingly Heir while he is in his Young and Infant state that he may not be bereaved of his Kingdom There is no fear of this last high and perfect Birth to be hereof supplanted because the Foundation-Seal is upon it which is the Lord that quickening growing Life and Spirit that makes all that is not for it to fly away before it May the 19th 1676. Now knowing in my self another Spirit acting and moving in this new begotten Birth I was now apt for Phylosophick teaching in the all hidden Magia of Wisdom's Secrets In which this holy born Thing might attain skill and understanding as being thereunto constituted For as its Birth is from Mount Sion high great pure and Spiritual so must its Learning and Education answer thereunto No Tutour Teacher or Governour to it must be but what out of the Royal City the New Jerusalem doth come from thence by God the Father's Commission Who will new string our Tongues so as the Stammerer shall speak in that one pure Language which is only understood by Jesus and the Brotherhood Oh the Spirit of this New Creature dives deep and is of a piercing Understanding and of a quick Ear. Now upon this Birth 's opening and shewing it self as the true Nazarite it was set much upon my Heart and great awfulness was upon us who were Witnesses of this rising Birth how to carry it and behave our selves towards it So we sought earnestly by Prayer to be directed in the management thereof as desiring to answer this great Love-Gift according to the requiring of the gracious Donour This was my Morning consideration after which being much kept waking in the Night about it I fell into a slumber about the Morning and here was presented unto me a Book open and a Finger pointing to me to read it being very fair and legible Which I engaged my Mind to understand the meaning of but it seemed to be written in another Language then I had yet learned and so I could make nothing out of it But when I awaked and had waited a while in the interiour Silence it was said to me This was the Book of Prophecy which could not literally be read but it was given forth for the new living Birth to feed on it and to be eating it down and so ye shall feel it become a springing Source bringing forth deep precious and weighty things After this way and manner the holy Birth shall be disciplined and thus taught by a secret intrinsical mingling and conveying Power that shall all other Teachings drown nullifie and obliterate This shall only be of force and authority according as it was with Jesus who only is to be your Precedent of whom by way of derision it was said How comes this Man to be so understanding and knowing seeing he never was learned He being poorly and meanly Educated as they judged and not come up so high in their Form as to be bred up a Scribe therefore it was admiration to them how he came by that Wisdom and Knowledge Which so outvied all and made them astonished when they reasoned with him He brought forth all his Sayings from this deep central Birth of the holy overshadowing Breath-Power which issued continually affording still fresh and new Matter Now then to you who have partaken of the same Life and Birth with your Jesus and are come to feel this Word of Life stirring within you ye are charged to live by this Word which is the Book of Life incorporating it self in you Mistrust not but you will find enough herefrom to nourish and strengthen all your Internal Senses Expect no less in this Birth of Life then what was manifest in your Jesus the same budding Fruits there will be from the same Spirit as ye grow up in it Fear not but the anointing Powers and Gifts will open and flow as Antecedents belonging hereunto And whereas you have desired to know how you may manure this holy Birth You are required to bring him into the Temple of the Lord and there to dedicate him up in the Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood Whose growth will be great and signal in the Courts of Holiness for evermore May the 20th 1676. This Morning this Word run through me and still cried in me Knowest thoâ—… what a Treasure thou standest charged withal Consider the high worth oâ—… this Birth and give all Attedance to it wait upon it and minister to it as youâ—… great Prince and Saviour For behold it is come to Redeem you out of all Siâ—… and Thraldom and will be a growing Tree of all fruitful Boughs excellently and richly laden Therefore be choice of it and tender it as the very Apple of your Eye and permit nothing to offend it Your Will-Spirits who from the high Eternity are tinged are commanded to Watch and Ward about it and to unite entirely with this perfect thing For it is a Stone out of the Sion Rock that will be your Covering of Strength and Salvation and the opening of the Store-house of all Blessings to run out freely It is but natural for you to grow and spring out of this Central Birth operating from within Your charge is only to attend this Altar-Fire and the pure Celestial Oyl that is the Free-will which the holy flaming Body doth subsist of from the Everlasting Mountain of Holiness distilling down to your Hands Therefore your only Business is to wait to take it in and upon this Holy Altar to pour it That so hereby it may become a very strong sweet and savoury Meat to the nourishing of the pure part which must be one with it through our being turned into a Golden perfect lump So solid and stable it must be as neither Clay Iron Brass or Tinn may or can here penetrate in No contrary Metals can run into this pure Body or what is not of its own high extracted Matter Therefore now this thing consider well and suffer this Lily Birth alone by it self to dwell undisturbed in the Sacred Temple till grown out of all Fear and Jeopardy to the state of Eldership to which full grown Body and Head the Crown is made only fit May the 22d 1676. These Internal Openings and Manuductions following me still so as they would hardly give room for any thing of a Worldly Sense to enter in contrary Seeds in my inward Ground could not be born there being something in me that was now grown so strong as to resist and throw out all other light and scruffy Grain For my Granary must be reserved for the one pure Birth-Seed according as my Jesus hath his Mind to me revealed Who said expresly Come come shut up the Grates and Windows of thy low carnal earthly Senses by which the
Light of the Mortal Day doth enter in to rule according to the manner of this World's Inhabitants Know ye your selves who have my new living Birth upon you Impressed you are under the Charter and Laws of the Jerusalem free born from above and not from beneath though in the World yet not of it This Birth of Life is a meer Stranger all its care is to keep it self that the Evil One may not touch him nor mislead him through introducing his false Light into you as his Rational Star within this low Orb to bind you under these Planets that rule over the fallen outward Birth Which now you are to reckon your selves freed from by this Aurora the Morning Birth of this great and Everlasting Days-Man The Light that now is breaking open upon you is to give a sight into that City and new Creation to which ye do belong For ye are under quite another kind of Government having taken upon you that high Apostolical Profession which enters you into and makes you partakers of that high calling For here is a Spiritual Service and Employ allotted for every Sion born Spirit so soon as they are grown up to the understanding part As the outward rational Spirit and Body as soon as grown up and capable of Traffick and Commerce are their own Crafts-Masters in and over things Temporal by which Corporalities do subsist Even so likewise see what Calling the great High-Priest and Apostle took upon him as our Pattern so soon as he was grown up in Wisdom and Ability so as to take upon him the Office and Function whereby he might set upon the Work and Business for which he was sent into the World by God the Father Who never was found sloathful or negligent in Spiritual Business for he was always found in Spiritual Action working the Works of his God and Father in his Day May the 23d 1676. Who now hath also imprinted the Name Jesus in you as the Mark for you to follow the same honourable and high Calling whereby ye may obtain a rich and plentiful Spiritual Livelihood therefore be vigilant and always upon the right hand Industry through which will be blessed Income Eternally A Vision seen by me in the Night after my first Sleep I saw one as in a Figure of a sprightly Youth presenting himself near my Bed-side which amazed me and I was afraid to take knowledge of him who made out to me as if he would draw my Aspect to him but I could not find any Power for Speech with him This disappearing another in taller Stature and more Manly Countenance drew upon me seeming to desire Familiarity with me and then I looked when this Appearance would have spoke but it was passive and silent only pleasant in its Countenance who on a suddain withdrew Then again was a presentation of a Person in a middle Stature comely sweet and amiable for attraction yet I being bounded in my Spirit was hindred otherwise I could have run with my Spirit into him After this I was drawn to consider in my Mind of this threefold Appearance Then it was thus spoken in me thou hast Imagically seen the threefold degree of the Immaculate Life-Birth-Growth which it must reach in you who are designed to Personate your Jesus in his full grown state here upon the Earth It is a high Prerogative to attain to all these Degrees for where is there any in this last Age past or present that have seen my antient Prophecy made good which is that there shall not be in my City and Mountain of Holiness an old Man that hath not fulfilled his days that is hath not reached to the express Degree of me their full grown Head Many indeed have in my Birth been Quickened and their outward Figure been extinguished before they have brought forth the Life into visible Manifestation Others again have attained to the Breaking forth so as that they have seen and handled the Word of Life but still in the Infancy of days Others may have reached so far as that Youthful state which was in the first Idea shewn to thee In which as in a Glass ye may see your own present state But oh here you are not to stay or trifle out your time like Children to play it away but now putting away all Childish knowledge and understanding to grow now in every part from my vigorous Heart's Birth infusing its strength through you and growing up to that compleat Structure and Image which is after God in the Perfection of Holiness Know ye that you cannot tell till you come into the strong Man's state what ye shall be able to do work and act You will find Power and Might from a full grown Body to subdue and bring all Creatures and Worlds under in which will consist the great Soveraignty of my Kingdom that comes into none till they know the second remove into the Young Man's understanding Degree through which the World is conquered as it stands in the Property of Sin and in its enmity to God Come up my Children dear let me meet you growing up in this second Birth Degree perfect pure and clear then I will appear to you in my Last grown state in my Ghostly Body which when you see not only like to me but that ye be the same with me in it then ye shall see the days of the Son of Man For the Ascending Might is to bring down this Dove flaming Body Saphire-like Which is the only defensive Weapon of War that will make all Spirits stand in awe of you and the glittering Sword of the Spirit out of my Mouth shall make all your Enemies backward for to fall By me ye shall trample and miraculously over them as ye knit Power with Power and Might with Might from this Body of Light which fed is from the Blood of my Life You now hereby do see what the Hope of your Calling is be hourly exercised herein work hard in the Fiery Furnace which is kindled within out from which you may expect that pure strong bodied Spirit will come which will really translate you into the Mount Sion state with me your beloved Dove-Mate May the 25th 1676. A Vision which I saw in the Night This appeared as I was walking in a green Pasture with one or two with me only for repass suddenly within a Bow-shot there was manifested a pleasant calm Sea which seeming so near I said to them with me Come let us go and set down by the side of it where I also saw a heap of Precious Stones and I heard a Voice say There is a great Treasure and Valuable Things are there hid Then I resolved thither to make with all speed but when I came to set forward neither I nor they with me could go there were such Bogs and Quick-sands that none of us durst adventure For somewhat reflected and said in me You cannot go till you be shod with the Golden Sandals these you must have before
Concerns to be brought before me and administred unto as occasion requires by this Life-Breath which I have so secretly infused Where-ever I bestow this Gift it gives a sufficiency from it self to do and act all that is above and beyond a Creaturely Power For it is of an Eternal Almightiness proceeding from the Father of Spirits who generateth what is like himself essentially into me the First Born of this Second Creation That henceforth the Power of Donation might rest with the Principal Head to pass and convey my self in Spirlt And I see the way of Holiness made for this pure inspiring thing to walk in which must find an Habitation suitable to its own Purity that so all may be at an agreement Then in mutual Loves and Joys my Spirit conversant is and will take in the Sence of all the Grievances and report them unto me Who now have all that is the Father's infinite Stock of Life to enrich with Wisdom Honour and Dignity at my pleasure I long and wait to have it drawn out from me therefore now make use of this all-searching Spirit whom thou mayst make a Friend of that may advance thee to a high estate even in this present time wherein thou art spinning out as others Times Mortality which hitherto hath brought forth very little of this Life's Treasury No eminent thing hath yet been wrought for to illustrate and make me shine through the Cloudy Body where through I would manifest again the Name Jesus Come O thou Complainent rise out of thy fainting disponding Bed and stir up this Gift which is with you work and keep Pace with it All must be broght to pass by the diligent Hand of this Spirit uniting with thy Spirit and thy Spirit with this Spirit who will work all in all in thee September the 23d 1676. Being in deep Meditations I was saying in my self Oh that I were beloved of my Jesus with that Love with which he loved John To whom he did appear so as it is written by which his Spirit was drawn to hear and see those wonderful things that are to us reported of Ah Lord why wilt thou not give me to lie as near thy Heart as he and as close at thy Feet as the beloved Mary that I may drink in every Word which falleth down from thy precious Lips out from which are the very Issues of Life While I was thus pleading and invocating there was presented a Triangle-Heart clear as Crystal that you might see through them linked thus 1. The Heart of Love 2. The Heart of Joy 3. The Heart of Peace 4. The Heart of the Bride 5. 5. 5. The Golden Chain with Seven Links 6. 6. 6. The Communications of the Hearts 1. 2. 3. to the Heart 4. Then heard I this Word Here is place for a Pure Heart within this Triangle Heart of the Deity for to joyn Then I saw another Heart within the Circle to spring with many more which were still generated herefrom all White and Crystalline but they were without the Chain this only one was within Then I enquired what Heart this was which was so nearly admitted It was Answered It is that Heart which through mighty ardent strong force of Love hath broken through and got into this Secret Enclosure Where it hath great opportunity and advantage to search and know what from this threefold Heart doth flow Which have their several diffusions according to their Titles The first was under the denomination of Love The Second was Joy The Third Peace All which agreed to empty themselves forth upon this other Heart which had pressed in for Shelter And what-ever Heart can abide within this Circle may attract strong infusing Powers that are all pure and vital to act in the Triangle-Might From this Idea I had great and full Confirmation that the Heart of the Trinity was most free and ready to embrace and receive them who of one Spirit and Heart were together fixed to break through the Golden Chain so as none might be nearer to the Heart of the Trinity then such who have rent and divided from all Creaturely Hearts that so they might know what from this Triangle-Heart of Love Joy and Peace doth ever flow September the 24th 1676. This Morning I was much upon the Consideration when I should begin to work in the Name Jesus as I did believe in it and had Promises from it Now this was all in my Eye to have the Spirit manifested for Activity For I know this only would be profitable as it refers to the Glory of the Most High when Works do express the working Source that is opened from the Deity Being with my God very urgent on this matter according to the impulse upon me from the Expediency that I saw for the Life to work out this way in variety according to the measure of the Gift of the operation of the Power This Word of Counsel and Caution sprang Oh thou whom I see restless and tossed to and fro in thy Mind no rest thou art indeed to find till thou comest to the working Mines For there is the Tryal and Probation who can be skill'd to work in the Furnace of an hot burning Sphear which is not remote but very near Henceforth know O thou fluttering Dove-Spirit that I have not left thee without a weighty and rich Talent which is in thine own Custody though it lieth deep with a threfold Cover upon it which must be unfolded before thou canst see this precious thing The first is the gross dark Mould of this Earthly Climate which is very stifling to this pure thing The second is the strong binding Reason that lieth as a Mountain weight upon it The third is the low natural Senses which multiply as the Sand upon the Sea-shore flowing in to stop and discourage thee from this great Attempt and worthy Service Which if once fully set upon with a Resolution to go through these Three Removes thou wilt then come to the Golden Wedge which will make thee great rich and mighty in the pure Ghostly working Property I your Jesus do tell you faithfully where the subject matter doth lie to work upon Your Complaint hitherto hath been to me as if I had carried away all the Stock and Treasury and ingrossed it to my own proper use or reserved it only for you till you had slipped out of the Body But know it is otherwise do but knit and joyn all your Force and Power with my deep Fathoming Spirit which is given to you and he will find and also work out what concerns your Freedom and Investment to the high and self-same dignified Glory with me Hither towards ye have indeed prayed and sought and believed and hoped but ye have not wrought in the Furnace where this Golden Wedge is to be all melted down to run into every part of your Body as the Life-Blood doth in your Veins Then you will know that unquenchable and fixed Efflux of the Spirit that will
be all Virtue and meer Power to work and act according to its sublime Constitution that by virtue of this dissolving Stone will put forth to do marvelous things Which may be revived after a more wonderful way then yet in and through frail Humanity have been existent Oh now then seeing that is made known unto you where the Treasure doth lie and that you have my Spirit not only to espy but to work hand to hand with you mightily Therefore resolve as in one Spirit ever fixed to be to break up that which doth lie upon this Princely thing each one in your selves to whom this Secret is revealed Do not only Pray and wait but War and work together till ye have wrought out this imprisoned Power that may yet be exalted upon the Throne of Sovereignty For verily no better then a violent unjust deposing of your and my Spirits reign hath been Call and engage all Might and Force to recover his Kingdom again that ye may sit in the Place of Judicature and have all Nations come in at your Beck All which by meer Conquest you must effect if to the Crown and Dominion ye seek to get I shall now leave with you this worthy and all desirable Jewel to the courage and liberty of your own potent Will and my Spirit shall not fail to assist you with all its Armoury So that ye may have Victory over that which would still enslave and confine you within the compass of Mortality with all its appertaining Enormities which this Stone upon its breaking through will certainly free you from Now as there is a strong Guard of Rational and Sensitive Spirits which do multiply out of the Earthly Center so be of good chear that this one Spirit shall multiply to the Thousandth Number and stand up as a mighty Army to win the Field where this Golden Mine is reserved As mighty Worthies march ye forward hold out the bloody Cross of Defiance spare nothing which doth plead for the first fallen Creation because nothing of it can subsist with this pure Stone but what is Crysolyte All my dear Jesus hasten this Stone out of this Burning Furnace in my Altar-Heart September the 29th 1676. This Night approaching to Morning great Spiritual Travail came upon me and I was in Soul-heaviness through the sharp Pangs which I was overtaken with For I felt the Birth strong to make way for its deliverance mighty throws of the Spirit did work and I therewith co-working was that if by any means I might embrace the first-born of Might to whom the Throne-Power and Government was to be established While I thought on these things my Spirit thus burst out Ah my Lord I have often been in these strong travelling Cries but yet too feeble am to bring forth that which is to be the Ruler of Nations even he who is to be cloathed with Royal Glory Strength and Majesty to attend the Throne of the Deity who will admit only such dignified Spirits there to resort and dwell who are born again of equal quality within so as it may be no Robbery to derive from thee O God this Fire-Birth which makes the pure Nazarite Whose Proceeding as also Working forth must be from that everlasting Womb of Eternity which does miraculously introduce it self into a poor despicable Corporeity which is not perceived till it cometh to a full grown Body impregnated with Life in every part and so growing till it comes to its full Birth-hour which I did believe was after the manner of a Spirit to be effected For this Word was expresly spoken to me Fear not thou shalt have this same also which shall be caught up and nourished for a certain time and then shall come again to thee For while he is a Babe and in Minority Dangers and Perils will beset him from this envious World Therefore his Birth must be hidden and concealed and there needs to be no Proclamation of it because none but Spiritual Powers and Invisible Hosts were called forth to be privy to this secret Birth Then I beheld till I saw the Virgin who travelled to ascend after the Child being overshadowed by a White Cloud therein wrapped up out of sight freed from all Malice and Despight being kept and for while reserved within the Eternal Circle of Light Then the Voice in me cryed and said Behold that which thou hast seen to ascend out of the Forms of Nature shall again descend in a full grown God-Manhood to accomplish all that hath been predicted and declared by the Spirit who hath searched out the Depths of the Birth of Wisdom Then upon this was revealed and presented to me the Figure of a Lamb all white having Seven Heads upon which were Seven Crowns like Garlands with fresh Roses and Lilies And one riding in the similitude of a Woman cloathed with a Flaming Garment like the Sun for Glory and Brightness with a Cup of Pearl-Royal in her Hand filled full of flaming Liquor of Gold Then the Spirit said This is the Lamb and the Bride which shall the Dragon and the Beast with all his horned Power ride down with all his Mark and Name which the whole World hath worshipped and admired He hath had long his Time to impose strange Laws and Injunctions and hath been in Universally obeyed Whose Sorceries Witchcrafts and Deceits have worn out many Generations who were ignorant of the Depths of this subtle Serpent and who hereby have died short of their Kingly Crown The seducing Prophet perswading them that they were under a necessity of owning this false usurped Power and Authority which so well agreed and answered to the Apostatized Life of Sensuality But oh to you whom I have seen Revolters from this strange King and his Government I the Spirit of Jesus am sent to declare to you the Father's Love and Intent Whose Heart is set to redeem you from all Sins oppressing Tyranny from the World's Spirit and all that is Rudimental I have sought out for such as for my purpose might be who are resolved to deny and throw off all weights and thronging Spirits that would traffick within my Holy Place For assuredly I do of such take special notice who do forsake all this low Oâ—…b for me to follow my new revealed Tracks Then cryed my Spirit since O my Lord I have thus far found Grace in thy sight give me to understand the meaning of this last Representation to wit of the Seven Crowned Lamb with the Effigies of a Woman riding on him So this was opened unto me by the divine Intelligencing Spirit which informed me that the Lamb which I saw with Seven Crowns signified Jesus who yet never assumed his Reigning Power on the Earth for any duration For while he was Personally in the World he was under Suffering and Reproach and ever since he hath been vailed and obscured in his Spirit the Earthly part hath yet been too hard in the Lamb's Warriours But now to any such in whom the Virgin
deeper Mystery yet as it both presents Deity and Humanity thus interwoven together To shew how your Humane Will-Spirit must be wrought into this All-deified Spirit which to the ground-form of Silk gives the shine and glory in the variety of Flowers embossed thereupon according to the similitude which to thee was let down with the engraving of the Sacred Name that is that Princely Cloathing upon which is written Salvation Strength and Honour the unparalled Workmanship of the Spirit of Glory that now to you my elected Ones is come to call in the assistance of your Wills to work and joyn with him in all Power and Might till ye come to be inlaid into his Deâ—…fied Being and thus curiously wrought without the least default For not one wry Stich must be found in this Covering but all according to the perfect Rule seen in the Pattern Know I Jesus have sent my Spirit into you to work in Secresie this all-covering Tent. It will be Business enough to keep Pace and to follow the Hands of these working Powers that never will be idle calling still to the Spirit of your Wills to comply and for to hold out with it steadily For this is a Work which must be stuck to it will admit of no Nightslumbering the Furnace is to be kept in a constant heat for the Golden Thread which enterweaves with the Silk is still to be drawn out of the central Fire Oh now ye who have pried after this rich Covering of the Spirit you see whereunto you must give your selves that this all glorious Covering of the Spirit may rise and shine upon you that so ye may enter my Everlasting Courts with Confidence and Joy Where your Bridegroom will greatly rejoyce over you when ye are thus cloathed upon with the bright Body of the holy Sparkling Saphire Into which suffer my Spirit to work you that I may with freedom own receive and enjoy you as my all-lustrous Bride Even so Oh holy One prosper thy Work in us October the 21st 1676. In the Night I had this Representation of a Vine upon a Wall which was very fruitful but not come unto its full ripeness There appeared several sorts of Fruits besides Grapes all springing from the Vine-Root Which while viewing there came a cluster of Caterpillars with black Heads fastening upon the young sprouted Fruit to eat it off in this its Minority At which sight I was much concerned how to prevent the marring of such choice Fruit. After I came to weigh and consider the thing in the Spirit 's understanding the Word of Revelation opened and said This Vision was for caution and warning unto us who were now incorporated into that Vine-Root to bring forth Fruits according to what the Spirit hath sowed and watered so as they begin to consubstantiate into Fruit. Whereunto we coming to this first primary putting forth great danger does attend this new crop of the Spirit though they seem as harmless inconsiderable Worms yet they unconceivably destroy and eat and suck away the very Juice of the Grape leaving only the empty Husk For which cause saith the Spirit I have this warning given lest ye should not be heedful enough of this my painful Husbandry which I have brought forth in you For these little Foxes and crawling Worms are as pernicious to my new planted Nursery as those greater Beasts of Prey Therefore ward and watch keep all Invasions of this kind out when ever they do set upon thee and would assault to snip away my first Fruits Then take to thee speedily the Bucket of Faith and let down into me who will open the Heavens to bring down Showers that shall wash and scatter away these devouring Caterpillers out of thee October the 21st 1676. It was further shewn me as I was in Prayer upon this occasion how our Vineyard might be kept each one from being preyed upon This Word was shot in from the Lord upon me Keep thy Eye upon this new springing Lily sit under the Shadow of it and go not out from it It s fruitfulness will befriend thee when this World with all its fruitfulness shall be as a dry Tree Therefore make it thy only Shelter and Stay for the Essential Power of the Deity floweth forth as the Spirit in thee can draw it forth That then ye may fully scent this Flower of Lise and live upon it day by day then thou needst not wander from the Spirit 's Tent. Who hath sufficiency to keep thee if thou couldst go forward and work with him in this Magia Calling Which divine Skill and Art hath been hid from the whole Creation and a false Craft hath stolen away the Heart universally While this hath been hid under the Seven Seals and none worthy found to break open this deep Magia Ground where that weighty Gold is that will buy out thousands of such drossy Worlds in which all ignorant and earthly Inhabitants do trade But to you that separate and are willing by me to be perswaded to find out that old antient Vocation where neither Curse Sorrow nor Pain do attend which was and is to be renewed again to such as can get free from this Principle and live in defâ—…nce to it as not fearing nor caring evermore to make friendship with it there is a better Store upon the opening unto you To whom I am as a fore-runner upon this account sent to assure you there are such precious things given by the Father into my Hand as ye shall not need to sue to this World for its favour For the time is nigh wherein the now despised shall be described what they are October the 25th 1676. Through the abundant Openings out from the Light of that Day of the Lord encompassing my Intellectual Part filling me as a burning Lamp within shewing still some one thing or other new upon which I cryed and said Ah my God what will all this Knowledge and Light with me amount unto For to know deep and secret things is both sweet and pleasant whether they be for present or future Existency But this is not to be all my Dowry though they are of great use and service yet here I cannot stay neither dare I take up fulness of Joy there is something else yet behind which must fill this Heavenly Body of Light Oh that one weighty Drop that I do see ready to fall off on that bright Saphire Body will be the Birth-Seed that extendeth not only to Will but to perform and do what it sees in the Light When this shall drop the Nature as it stands in the Line of the Fall with the weight thereof shall be broken and dissolved for no patch of Clay upon this Gold is evermore to be seen as it was declared to me Who upon this Expostulation further said and brought this Word with a fresh application unto me saying As the Father hath Life in himself so hath he given the Son to have Life in himself also which Words in John
Decree but by famishing the Earthly Life with all that pertains thereto casting out the disobedient Vashti that so such a Virgin might be sought out as might please the King and upon all occasions might have his Ear. Now Esther is only to speak what Mordecai the Divine Life puts into her mouth Words of Wisdom to out-do all the Serpent's subtilty This prudent Mordecai fore-sees for Esther all dangers that are like to accrue gives present notice that so Evils may be escaped before they do overtake Oh here through this Similitude how freely and plainly did the most Holy Spirit reveal what lay hid in the Mystery further advising us to prepare a Banquet after the touch of the Golden Scepter which gives the Token of Acceptance Mordecai contrives with Esther jointly what Provision to make only knowing what the Royal Court fare is bringing in those choice things which the King feeds upon So that this Banquet consists all of Fruits but not raw or gross ripened from this old Element but such as are preserved with all sweet restorative Spices fetched from the Land of Havilah where the Golden Liquor flows and the sweet Canes do grow The Wine to this Feast all answerable hereunto refined from the Lees served out of that one Golden Cup that none ever drank out of but the great Donor of the Feast who will only receive it from the Hand of the Bride Then said the Spirit to this Bride All things are now ready invite the King and your God unto this Supper Your Banquet thus ordered you need not doubt of the King's company and though the proud Haman-Spirit may here intrude yet fear not for his doom will be suddenly given Oh Esther who art in great favour with the King put forward and spare not to ask that now thy Life may be forthwith given unto thee in a Princely Subsistency All that is in thy Heart at such a time as this may verily be answered and thou go away with Joy of Heart not that only thy Accuser is cast out but thou art come near to the Scepter of the Kingdom to live without toil or bryarly Cares Thus did the Spring-Unction make it applicable to us by reiterating all this over again that so hereby we might be assured whereunto this Golden Scepter let down by the Hand of the King would bring us who in an Esther-like Spirit of Humility and Faith do draw near to it It was also further noted to me from the Spirit that when-ever we had these Tabernacle-Feasts and the presence of Glory in it we should not get only a Promise to alter the Hand-Writing that had gone out against us but to press such Arguments as thereby to overturn the whole state of our Captivity under the Babylonish Haman-Spirit and to get Letters written and sealed in the King's Name Which will give the Authority and Credit in this our Enemies Land to stand for our Lives and to have defence even the Omnipresence of Strength granted out of the King's Armory to do what we would in the Spirit of Mordecai that goes in and out in the presence of the King Who with Esther the Bride hath won the Day which is Light Gladness Joy and Honour to the Lamb and Bride October the 28th 1676. The Spirit of Jesus made this further Observation out of this History unto us from Mordica's great Princeliness of Spirit who knowing he was of the blessed Seed though at present under Captivity still maintained his Integrity trusting in the God of Abraham and would bow down to no other though Haman was great and potent having Power by permission from the King to save or destroy From hence the living Word iâ—… me said According to this Example follow ye this my faithful Mordecai Spirit from whom and into whom you are born though for probation suffered to be carried to dwell in Babylon where tempted ye have been because you have had no Power or Might to rule or deliver your selves while that Haman's insulting Spirit of Reason was yet alive within you who represents the Strength and mighty Fortitude of Reason that can plead such inducing Arguments as carry a mighty sway complaining of the strange and different Laws of my Spirit after the manner of Haman Whose Spirit is alive at this day to deceive with all subtilty and now his Wrath and Rage is the more enkindled against ye because ye have slighted and refused to bow and own his Lordliness Who does exalt himself in Name and Nature that so none must live in his Land but such as will worship him as God But you in whom my Life Mordecai hath stirred maintain your Heavenly stateliness in this matter stoop not though your Life is to be cut off with all the Comforts Privileges and attending Honours of it Fear none of these things remember Mordecai's Reward shall assuredly be yours The great King of Heaven like Ahasuerus hath given this World's Preferments into the Power of the great Haman's Spirit of Reason who is a Prince does reign over all that your God may see who will hold out in their Integrity in refusing to be under the Laws though none greater in this visible Kingdom then he Now this History I have taken up and applied to you to observe in every Tittle that you with me your Jesus may come to Royal Honour and Dignity by refusing the Beast and the Dragon's allurings from this visible Babylon And by adhering with Esther in all sweet Humility to the Masculine Spirit of my undaunted Mordecai Thus ye shall rise unto Strength Glory and Immortality October the 29th 1670. This Morning this Word so soon aâ—… I awaked saluted me saying Arise anâ—… call upon thy God who giveth theâ—… what to ask From which I preferreâ—… my Requests finding a pressure of aâ—… ascending Power that carried my spiriâ—… to view a Place that was with variety of Colours paved and there I saw a Woman standing of so amiable a Counteâ—… the Complexion so unutterablâ—… pure for fineness and clearness of Skin as no mortal Image must compare therewith While I was in admiration hereof a Voice spake Oh Esther what iâ—… thy Petition thy Beauty hath ravisheâ—… my Eye Thy Place is to abide in my Royal Court. A little space after thiâ—… I found my self mounted upon a Horseâ—… to be carried whither I knew not buâ—… I was not concerned at all for I was fuâ—…lly satisfied in my Guide I heard a Cry after me to detain and prevent my going forward but the Person that took me up said Be still and give no Ear. These are but the Screeh-Owls of the Night and Birds of prey which would stop and steal our Treasure from us So I was carried on with great swiftness into a secret solitary way from out of the sight and noise of all active Creaturely Inhabitants For it was said Thus it must be if you will see a New Creation with the replenished Life Plants that grow there all-flourishing and clear
it given me to understand the several Offices and Business belonging to each one of these to make ready for the Birth-Day and to protect this High-born One from the raging Floods the tempstuous Winds of the Adversary The Spirit 's Work is to reprove convince exhort counsel caution and comfort in order to the carring on this great Affair The work of the Water is another witness as you find it in you as a bubling Pool cleansing every part within that so not the least defect may be found in the Matrix whereout the Birth must open Then the Blood is a great Testimonial Witness and Evidence as in a mystical manner conveyed tasted and drunk down by them that do carry the matter of this Birth for it doth produce a vigorous Life that will be known and felt to refresh both Mother and Babe So keeping all these in their several acting-Properties they will be the clear evidence unto thee that the Ghostly Birth is working out it self Therefore with these three let thy Will-Spirit agree hereunto to throw out every misconceived thought For now all things must be new again by the Father Word and Spirit through this new Birth wrought That ye may come to a mighty Record among the New Jerusalem Stones where all are waiting this rising day to see because it will fix in thee an unknown Liberty both in Spirit and Body November the 21st 1676. It was also further expresly opened unto me that we were at present brought thus far as to witness these three as Spirit Water and Blood being Witnesses in our Earth which did fore-run the Ministration of the Holy Ghost For they must go before as the Ministration of Jesus who came by Water Blood and Spirit that is Death Life and Resurrection from which he passed and so must we As he did bear our Record in Heaven which will be a different thing though agreeing to one and the same end as thus the three first make way as the Water-Baptism into the Death the Blood into the Life the Spirit quickneth and giveth a Body of the Resurrection So the Ministration of Jesus hath its twofold Use upon us in order to the second thus which are to bear Record as the Father Word and Holy Ghost in our Heavens So here is to be understood the rising Degree or changing from Jesus in Spirit to that degree of Unity of Father Word and Holy Ghost all which agree to enter into a Virgin Mind thus prepared and in it after a high Mystical mauner themselves conceive so as to include them as one only Being contracting the Virgin-Will and Spirit with it self hereby becoming one inbred with it as that Heir who was darkly prophesyed of in Micah's day who said the glory of Israel was to come unto the Adullam the very pure Tabernacle of the Virgin-Nature born again of Water Blood and Spirit so made indeed a meet reception for this holy thing to be sealed up as in an unknown Pavilion or hiding Place of Strength which must be till it hath attained every measure and part to the growing big and filling up the Birth 's place with Breasts full of Milk the Spring Word of the Spirit diffusing into them the natural course of the Bloody Issue of Sin also stopping all which will be evident Signs unto you that are still apt to be questioning whether this Ghostly Birth is in you forming Therefore be still and wait for that great travelling hour that is to come upon ye before which sometimes ye will be in Pains and Heaviness because ye may meet with many a throw of Temptation all which will work the Birth forward therefore be not dismayed Oh Daughter of my Zion so long as thou walkest steadily not going out of Sion Court where you are to wait at my Council-Board to enquire what shall fore-run and be in that travelling Hour which will make great Spoil of the Mortal Shell which must break away at this great Birth-day Therefore look and expect this will make a mighty alteration for the Heavens will rend that the Throne-Spirits and Powers may descend as helps and Guardian defence and Witness-bearers to this Sion-Birth For which great Provision is aforehand to be made to answer to the greatness of the Sion state all of the rich concealed Furniture and Golden Cups Pots and Vessels at such a time as this will be brought out with all the rich Robes for those to wear who do attend upon this Birth Great and mighty Preparations thou dost see are hereunto expedient for to be Because this World is so blind ignorant and unbelieving that it will be no less needful to rebuke by all high and Spiritual Magnificency in the very height of Sion Glory and to outvye hereby not only vain pompous Glory but those Abominations and false exalted Lighâ—… set up in Temple-Worships as no better then false Births Coverings which will not be removed till this mighty Standard of this Holy Ghost come to be lifted up and set upon the top of Sion-Hill in Visibility November the 22d 1676. I saw as a Preludium of this rising Birth of the Holy Ghost a bright Firmament opne and all dignified with splendorous Stars some much more blazing then others And one Star encreased so great as it became like the Body of the Sun Which Vision was thus opened unto me after some days being called over in me by a fresh vivification of Spirit that shewed me that the one Star which I saw so suddenly encrease to that largeness as the very Body of the Sun it was the Virgin-Woman that was all to be encompassed with the Birth Light of the Holy Ghost which would arise out of that Orb at which the rest of the Stars that did encompass it should shout for Joy and be Witnesses â—…hereof at the opening of this greater Day-Star which should enlighten the whole Earth Oh this left great Amazement in me provoking to some travelling Sorrows for to see this mighty Wonder â—…rought forth as in Vision so existently in that Star who is hereunto by the Omnipotency elected A further Confirmation hereunto was the Idea of an Ark that was shut up floating up and down not upon muddy troublesome Waters which once covered all Mountains and Hills whenas the Deluge was upon the Old World but these Waters were pure and healing like the Waters under the Threshold of the Sanctuary that where-ever they came quickned unto Life And it was said to me Behold the Dove is in the Ark and will be this place of broad Waters that shall cover the Earth no more to kill or destroy but to save alive according to the New Covenant that all shall know God from the least to the greatest When out of this Ark the Dove shall flye with the Everlasting Gospel as the Olive-Branch which carrieth in it that oily Property we will kindle a sweet Fire that can mix with these pure Waters and not bâ—… quenched but still maintain servent heaâ—…
time After I had prayed I was encompassed with white waving Clouds for a good space together with this Word So shall ye your Lord in the Airy Body meet Therefore we must be all pure and clarified and constituted in and through the essential Birth of Life for the fruition and sight of the Flaming Body of Light December the 11th 1676. This Day this Word came to me I thy original Sower am come into my Garden to see what wanting is to make up the full Beauty and Glory of my Husbandry in your most refined and separated Mould I see you are careful to keep it for a higher degree of Seed as not being satisfied with what is sown and sprung up though there be many young and fruitful Plants all Plants of Righteousness Yet here is one principal Tree that is wanting in the midst of these to grow for the better feeding and establishing of these All which are worthy of acceptation to me your Spiritual Sower I am come now to that Plantation which I can call my own where the Virgin Lily of Faith and the blushing Rose of Love and Marigold of Hope and that sweet-scented Violet of Meekness and the Cordial Gilliflower of Patience and the Honeysuckle of Abnegation to all whatever proceeds from this cursed Earth all these are pleasant in my Eye Ye being found faithful anâ—… vigilant in these behold one reserve I have yet more for you who are beloved as the most principal and weighty Seed which is from the Olive-Tree a Berry hereof I bring to let fall into your selected Ground This is that from which ye may expect an Olive-Tree to spring that will feed all the rest from its oily property which will flow not by constraint but voluntarily and will all these Plants re-establish and refresh as shall be felt in you as Witness-bearers hereunto This is that Olive-tree which emptieth it self forth upon these several Plants being higher graduated and enriched containing in it the all fluent dispersive Life that ascends upward and again flows downward with oily Dews Which as a Mist Waters the whole inward Ground for a daily flowry Spring that I your Lord may walk in the midst of these fresh scented â—…lowers For as much as they were weak in themselves and apt to withdraw and dye therefore I have sown this pure Olive-Seed in the midst of them which will arise to fulfil and perfect what the several Seeds Births have left behind and short of bringing this to effect For this Life-Tree acteth all free because it hath in it self all-sufficiency not by a forced Might or constraint in Contest with a contrary Birth of Life No in this Olive-Tree there is no such dividing property it is from the one pure and perfect Essence of the Deity which never ceaseth till it hath wrought out all Contrariety whereto it comes to be a fixed Root Now then try your selves hereby for thus it will work to give proof that this Seed is of the right Olive-kind It is indeed come in you withal great Love to restore therefore as the thirsty Ground open wide for this pure Oil-Olive to drink in that so all Sin may be cleansed out of your Ground for this Original Righteousness to take place laying the old Foundations waste Whereout the false Births Seeds so plentifully did spring to which a stop must be verily be put For though every Fruit of my Garden-Plantation in you have had its opposite suffered to spring up by it yet it must be so no more after this Anointing hath throughout searched and drenched every part that belongeth to the new formation store December the 12th 1676. Being still followed with fresh Manuductions to wait for the Manifestations of what is yet but in us as the Spring I was opened in my Spirit to be very sollicitous that we might be of that account with our Lord Jesus as for to go through this Birth in all its gradual Perfections till the Holy Ghost should absolutely have a Throne in us Upon which earnestness this Word came to me Where two are agreed to prosecute what hath been predicted with the particular Love-design it shall certainly be fulfilled in its Day and in God's most glorifying season Therefore unite and strengthen each other from the Oily Might which shall upon you still encrease till that great Blessing you seek out of each one successively hath its proceeding Volatile according to the Nature of a Spirit Who out will fly no curb or restraint upon this Birth Power shall lie when found all of one sacred Matter and Mould for the holy Breath-Spirit to move and raise up to its own Aâ—…ry Sphear all in a body of Light and Spirit pure and clear This may only be called the true redeemd state that delivers out of all Fears and Sin-obnoxious Cares into the highest Liberty where all free access into Mansions of Glory may by the taking Wing from this everlasting Birth spring and so enter into the Holiest of Holies This only is possible to such who the anointed Shield of Faith do bear that will not be daunted nor quieted but ride on upon the mounting Horse of this Spirit of Faith till ye may cry over all Victory For of all that hath been said of this Birth verily this Faith is the Sum out going Power that will make the Passage and reach God's Omnipotency December the 13th 1676. In the Night I had a bright shine all about my Bed which was signified to me that as without so it should be all Light from the seven Oily Lamps that should be as a covering Flame to cloath the Virgin Woman who should be impregnated with the Birth of the most holy Seed of God Then queried I who this Woman should be It was said the Name was known and written in one that was to be of a perfect Heart meet for high and Heavenly Converse and so thereby contract a Sun-shine body of Light Crystalline and clear to wing unto the Heavenly Sphear which is the Habitation for Spirits of Light This Woman that is certified of by John in the Revelations hath not had its fulfilling Prophesie to this day therefore yet to come as it was in Spirit said to me and that the pure and perfect in Heart might come this Woman to be as the Wonder of all Wonders which hath been since Time's Creation The Birth of Jesus was great and marvellous but this shall far excell it because it will be of such high extracted Quality as no Terrestrial can or shall see its God-like-form but as its going forth may be felt and understood by Effects to be indeed the Birth of the Holy Ghost Then I further started this Question to my Lord and Spiritual Informer Whether this Birth should distinctly be manifested from this Sun-like Creature that is said to travail with it to bring it forth For this Objection arose in me that the Virgin that brought forth Jesus in a Fleshly Figure she remained still the
henceforth to you is to be a standing Rule For all other ways and means for Information and Discourse with the most Holy are now ceased God used and took up outward Figures to reveal his Mind by in former Ages and Times as by the Ministration of Angels and then by his Son who came to reveal what was meet to be known and understood in that day of his visible Appearance in the World Who could hardly bear to hear what was reported by him who would have had as little credit in the World as any now if there had not been the Sealing Power of the Godhead by which the World was convinced for Obedience to the Faith which then was required But this Ministration of Jesus shutting up what must the Just now live by in these last times Your Jesus doth not turn you over to a dead Stock to live upon as to what was done and written in his Day but transferreth you over to a lively Manifestation and fresh Openings from his Spirit 's Birth in you Whose leadings and drawings observed it will further point you to what may still be generated from Spirit to Spirit Yet in a higher Birth-Degree for that which is at first but a Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation will turn it self into a fixed Body All which proportionably is to ascend into the New Jernsalem for to bring it down in the transparent Ghostly Power For when Spirit and Body do mutually agree together and knit after the manner of that secret Formation then it seeks its own Region to dwell in For if the Trinity will appear among these low Inhabitants then a Body must for them be prepared Oh then see what the Light and Life-quickning hath yet in you to do to wit a travelling Work still that as Jesus hath had his Birthformation so now the Holy Ghost may be fully formed that so ye may not need to have a Star-Leader or depend upon this way of Revelation that now you are waiting upon For you shall know in the first Root of knowledge as God himself knoweth But in the present time the Spirit measureth out according as you are able to bear which are but as Sprinklings to what the broad Waters shall coâ—…er your Earth withal However hereunto ye do well to attend as unto the sure Word of Wisdom that shall drop in the all-healing Gold to make ready for what hath been fore-told One thing more in order I do require that seeing I have made choice of you to bear my Name mystically upon your Breast or Table-Heart where I do answer all your Enquiries that you reserve for me that most Holy Place to commune with you there alone suffering no polluted thing to enter in for to raise any fume or dark Vapour upon the Breast-Plate Stones which will ecclips the lustre of them so as no Light they will give to you for further proceeding And if they should be clouded through cold earthly Damps your way would soon be dark and at a loss ye would find your selves Therefore beware of darkening your Foundation-Light for withoâ—… great heedfulness ye may cast a Shadow upon 〈◊〉 then no certain discovery or resolve â—…an be given though ye make never so â—…rict an Enquiry This was the cause â—…nd ground of all Apostatizing in former â—…nd present Ages having stifled the â—…peaking Oracle by crouding earthly â—…uff into that which should be the seâ—…arated and consecrated place for the â—…iving Testimony thereout to open for â—…aily Instruction and Guidance Which â—…s of absolute expedience in such a danâ—…erous state where so many cross false â—…nd by-ways do offer themselves to the Eye But keep you to your own Breast-Plate of light sparkling Stones and they will give to you sound Judgment and Sion-Laws and as need is still Renew you till you in all things shall be perfected for Jehovah Shammah to fill up your Temple-Body with Glory December the 28th 1676. In the forepart of this Night I was much pondering and considering the weightiness of the Ghostly Formation how difficult a thing it was and hard to be by any brought forth though many have hard â—…ravelled for it yet there wanted both Strength and Perfection of Righteonsness which I saw we also were deficient in Therefore not sufficient to carry through such a wonderful Restorative Birth of Life But as I was complaining and owning our impotencies and unmeetness hereunto this Word came My Grace can make strong where sence of the greatest Weakness is therefore hope and believe down all Discouragements Which Word much comforted and quieted me and I fell asleep In which I saw a young Elephant that was to be bred up and it was presented to be my care and charge to feed it When I awaked it was said to me That as this Elephant for strength so we should grow to be And no burthen oâ—… weight what ever cast upon us should cause any shrinking or bowing under it For such a strong Elephant-Power should by degrees grow upon us if careful we would be here to feed up thiâ—… young Elephant which was by this Figure presented to us The Mystery hereof lying hid in us for its appointed time A Letter of Resolution in Answer to some Objections sent from a Learned Physician to the Publisher hereof upon occasion of the English Edition of The Letter to some Divines concerning the Question and may for the like reason refer to this present Work Whether God since Christ's Ascention doth any more Reveal himself to Mankind c Dear Sir I Do not at all wonder at the Difficulties that are made by the excellent â—…rson your Friend to credit those more Secret and Extraordinary Favours of God which some are Witnesses to in these Latter Days and â—…e might be were they but qualify'd to receive them For it was not but after much doubting and long Examining as I have said that I came my self to be satisfy'd in this matter and therefore I can with the less difficulty allow it in others I 'm indeed made truly sensible that Unbelief is that Sin which doth so easily Beset us and having found it to be so in my self I know how to pity it in any one else and can't but think the Warning of the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews against it to be as highly seasonable as it is little regarded It s plain enough that no other then this can be there understood as well from the Context and whole Design of the Apostle as from the entire History of the Old and New Testament For this very reason it is that we are encompassed about with such a Cloud of Witnesses who exercising the most Heroical Acts of Faith were admitted to a more immediate Conversation with the Divine Being during their Pilgrimage on the Earth and to a more illustrious Communication of his Light Love then the Presumptuous and Incredulous Spirit of Human Reasoâ—… can ever dive into that we seeking to tread in their Steps might