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—…
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
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
the Glorified Body of Jesus that is able to subdue every thing unto it self This verily is that Kingdom which is so much talked of and so little every where understood but less still pressed after which is in this Book and in that also of the Revelation of Revelations Published now ten years Ago so Essentially and Fundamentally declared as nothing Higher nothing Deeper can upon this Subject be ever laid down whether in Time or in Eternity And because Solomon whose Reign was as a faint Sketch or Type of the Glorious Reign of the true Jedidiah or Beloved of the Lord built himself a Royal Palace in Lebanon which was a fruitful and a well-watered Soil and most beautiful for its scituation where he made Gardens and Orchards planting in them Trees of all the variety of most excellent Fruits also Cedars and Fir-Trees for Building with great Water-works Pools of Water and Fountains with a fair Tower also looking toward Damascus and with a Vineyard of Red-wine where he entertained his Shulamite Queen and her Honourable Women Therefore is the Palace or Mansion-house of the Great KING the true Solomon or Prince of Peace here Parabolically represented to be raised up as in a New Lebanon whereinto the Tabernacle of the Eternal Wisdom coming down from God out of Heaven with all its Furniture is brought and the Children of the Lamb's Bride are figured out to grow up by the sides of this House as the Branches of a fruitful Vine or as so many several Lillies from one Stock or Olive-Plants from one Root according to the manifold proportion and diversity of the Divine Seed cast into the Ground of Nature by the Great Seedsman Whence the expected Kingdom of the Messiah in Restored Nature which is called the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven is according to the Spirits Mystical Dialect compared to a Vineyard to an Olive-yard to a Garden of Lillies and to a Corn-field and is expressed by the various figurations of a New Eden of a New Canaan of New Heavens and New Earth of Fountains and Trees and Plants of all sorts of Canals Aqueducts and Rivers of Pleasure of Tents Palaces and Temples of a Mountain of a Rock and of a City of Sion Lebanon and the Hills of Spices of new found Countries descended out of the Heavens or by the Creating Word in the Divine Magia made to appear as a new Sharon and a new Havilah and a Beulah of Jerusalem of Bethel and of the Southland of Etèrnity of the Pleasures and Grandeur of a Rich Powerful and Wise Prince such as Solomon and of all the Badges of Royalty and Scenes of Magnifiâ—…t Glory that do as in a shadow precede attend or follow the Marriage and Reception of a Royal Bride But this Heavenly Kingdom this Marriage-supper of the KING this Inauguration and Coronation of the Lamb and of his Bride to the Kingdoms of the Earth and to the lost Dominion and Soveraignty over the whole Six days Work is not to be expected but after very great and mighty Preparations many forerunning Signs of the Son of Man coming to us in his Fathers Glory and the Six Ascending Steps to the Throne of the Great Solomon All which are most difficult to pass so that few if any have been able in many Centuries to hold out to the last Degree or Ascension-step to this Throne But they have fell short of the PHILADELPHIAN Crown and of the high Prerogatives thereof viz. the being made Pillars and Principal Supporters in the Descending Temple of the Most High God the bearing the Name of JEHOVAH by an Essential communication of the Properties Powers and Dignities of their Eternal Father opened to such in JESUS and by a most Real Intimate and Vital Penetration of that most glorious wonderful Name burning in the Bush of their Humanity and putting forth it self in Imperial Acts and Deeds Their bearing the Name of the New Jerusalem-Mother that Free-woman which is above and demonstrating livelily its Inscription by an utter defacing of that of the Mother of Babylon and of the Beast upon which she rides and by a Majestick environing Brightness as of the Sun a subduing the Moon with all that is sublunary and mutable under their Feet and a wearing upon their Heads a Crown of Twelve Stars wherein so many Royal Pre-eminences and Ghostly Powers are contained The bearing the Names of the Foundations of this City the Names of the Tribes of Israel and the Names of the Apostles of the Lamb and the bearing lastly the New Name of Jesus that â—…o Man knoweth but he himself who with his own Finger hath written it on their Vestures and on their Thighs that so in all things they may be made like unto him their head-Head-Life by the all-powerful working of His Spirit with which they are sealed There are but few found who have so much as an Ear to hear what the Spirit saith to this Church of Philadelphia the First-fruits of the Lamb or even but to receive the Promises of the Holy and True One who is now at this instant with the Key of DAVID Opening gradually this blessed state in a few chosen Names so that none shall ever shut it more And he is shutting up in such the Dark Abyss and wrathful depraved Nature so that it can never be again Opened But still fewer are they who have not only an Ear to hear but also an Heart and Hands to Act whatever the Spirit saith and who dare to adventure on to the laying hold of such a weighty Crown as is that of the First-born And even of those that do so adventure forward for this most High Prize some do stop having attained to the First Degree others rest in the Second and others in the Third as thinking that they are already got to the Sixth and so want nothing but to be taken presently to sit with their Lord in his Throne Some are willing at the end even of the first days work of Regeneration or Spiritual Creation to enter into their Sabbath and without having passed the Works of the other Five Days to sit contented with the first productions of Divine Light upon the Soul Some who have beheld one or two or perhaps three Signs of the coming of the Son of Man have not had patience longer to wait for all the Signs but have thence peremptorily concluded â—…hat he was come to them and that his Kingdom was in them before a Redemption has been wrought out from the lapâ—… Nature or before the very Head of the Serpent has been bruised in them and slain by the Virgin Seed of the Wisdom of God in the meek Second Holy Principle of Light and Love which by the Inspired Penmen of Old is expressed by that most soft and yet most victorious Name JAH Hallelu-JAH For the prevention therefore of all such Miscarriages and for the undeceiving of those who think it a light thing to be a King's Son or a King's Daughter it
further shewed me that place where she would make ready this savoury Meat which was in the fiery Essence of my Spirit Which in very deed I did feel going to work in her own kindled Furnace where she shewed me her Golden Pot. No Vessel was to be used but of that pure Metal wherein was ordered all the several Ingredients which I implored her Friendship to let me see which was granted unto me who owned that her Fear was with me and hitherto I had observed her Charge and her Secrets should be with me and that I should know such things from a deep Ground as had not been broken up of late Ages if I could bear that hot fiery Furnace which should boil away the Scum of all that which of the earthly part had yet its remainder with me Which Counsel begot this Exploration with my Mother as fearing I should not come up to these her pure and high Accomplishments Disponding therefore I said Oh my Mother-Wisdom the terms of thy Requirings are hard considering I constrained am to reside in the Out-Birth of a Mortal Shadow where Millions of Spirits do me tempt to keep me from this high and noble Ascent What an overturning must here be made that so a Renewing may be on the face of my old Earth Which Renovation well answers to that Scripture We shall not all dye but suffer a Change or Translation Oh how little did I understand till Wisdom unsealed and opened her Testimony lighting my Lamp from her Seven Pillars of Fire which now go before me that my Way may no more be dark Who hath made good her Promise for I felt her strong Impulse and her Furnace prepared burning as an Oven By which I well know what that Word of Record means The Day comes that shall burn as an Oven She told me She was now come to make ready the Venison that I might have access to God my Father with it while I was pondering seeing only the Vessel and the Fire with Isaac I was ready to say Where is the Lamb Then uttered she this Word Thou thy self must be this Paschal Lamb which must be slâ—…in Then was I taught to say or pray strike upon that Life-Vein which may abundantly return again thus yielding my self up to Love's Flaming Sword I felt a separation was made Oh how sweet is it to feel the Life's Blood run into the Founâ—…ain of that Godhead from whence it â—…ame Let none henceforth fear in the â—…ord to dye for Life shall spring again â—…s to one that awaketh out of a Sleep inâ—…o another Principle or begotten into New World in which with other Inâ—…abitants with whom I now my Conâ—…ersation have in the Light of the â—…eity I do dwell O dear Sophia what â—…m I that hitherto thou hast me brought â—…at I should know of thy Magick-Art â—…d from thy holy Flames to be inspiâ—…d which foreruns the Day of Penteâ—…ost which shall known again be to â—…ose who follow hard the Prize to â—…ke This feeling the Divine Power â—…d me touched as the Key that unlockâ—… the Gate of the Eternal Deep I furâ—…er emboldned was to ask my Mother â—…isdom how and when she would comâ—…ound that savoury Meat on which the â—…essing entailed is for I as one impatiâ—…t am till the Birth-right confirmed be me Upon which there was presentâ—… as in a Charger a Kid lying in a Comâ—…sition Liquor of Milk Oil and Blood â—…th several Spices as Spikenard â—…yrrh and Cinnamon giving forth strong Odours Then Wisdom called to me O go and see what I have compounded and prepared a Banquet-Feast whereto as thy Father will come down with his dear Son thy Elder Brother and I thy Mother and will hereof take and feed so that the Fountain of Jacob may be thy Blessing which the Eternal Father accordingly pronounced saying From the Upper and Supercelestial Planets let thy Eternal Nativity again renew as from its own Originality by which the lower Constellations and Elements shall to these subjected be and bow as a Globe upon which thy Feet shall stand and both the upper and neather Springs command The Dews of Heaven and the Fat Things of the Earth shall together upon thee meet This is the Fulness of all Blessings wherewith the Triune Unity do thee greet Henceforward now observe and obedient be to what shall be further Communicated to thee After this my Spirit still attended eagerly longing to lay my Mouth tâ—… Wisdom's Breast from which the Worâ—… of Life so sweetly did flow Then shâ—… with her Flaming Heart did present heâ—… self to me Out of which Heart sprouted forth a Tree with Twelve Branches having upon the Root of it engraven GOD is the Pith Life and Virtue that maketh the Heart thus Fruitful in various opening and quickning Powers giving forth according to each Branch a different and peculiar Fruit. Then said she to me Here doth lie the Mystery do thou it come and see how out of the Flames these Branches put forth green and palpable Fruits that are not yet grown yet thou with Patience must still wait till to perfection of ripeness they be grown in thee then of the first Fruits of this Tree thou shalt bring to thy God as an Offering who will accept it as a pure Offering that will draw down the Life's Blessing read and see what engraven is for thee and let thy Mind be staid a while till thou to this ripe Age shall arrive and comforted be that this shady Heart as a fruitful Vine shall overspread within the Walls of thy Mind a River of Oyl shall here out-spring which will make thy Flames burn still till so hot the Furnace may come to be which as the Sun for vehemency shall transmute this Fruit to a Golden Colour Then thou with savoury Meat to thy God shall come who will himsef feed upon their pleasant Fruit which nourished has been from the Life's Blood Come now and into Love's deep descend with me that thou mayst know the various operation of this Tree and every Branch thereof namely as the living sense shall spring in thee according to which thy lot will be as relating to the Blessing promised the which will require perseverance still in the Faith till to perfection in Colour this Fruit be brought No other charge I shall leave with thee but to abide within this shady Rock where Love's Flames shall be thy Food continually Oh how pleasant is it here to be all encircled with Love's flaming Breast January the 22d 1674. VVIsdom's Word opened yet again to me saying Arise swiftly follow me I will shew thee Greater Things then what hath yet been known to thee Whereupon I felt a mighty attractive Power drawing up my Spirit for Ascension but surprized I was with a potent Enemy which did me encounter highly charging me with a breach to Nature's Laws and how I stood obligatory to her in as much as I had an outward Body which I ought to take in the Sense of its
Spirit so divine as shall out-dâ—… all the Children of Time Now watchful be call over all my Charge obserâ—… my Word start not herefrom and lo I will abide still thy Friend and Bride May the 29th 1675. Wisdom's Pilgrim being ecchoed up setting her self as a Clock-Work upon its going motion still witnessing something strongly winding up the Eternal Springs thereof that Times number might not slack or stop urging still to one Gate after another the Hand of Power to unlock being raised up to a higher approach and nearness to the Allinfluencing Deity with whom in the Night Repose when deep Sleep had overtaken my Animal Part my Spirit was wrapped up in high Conjunction and Fellowship with the Triune Majesty the Joy and Pleasure of which was so great that when I awaked a Hymn of Praise was given me to land and magnifie the Love which had after this manner visited me drawing up out of the Body so wonderfully sweetly who lay here powerfully in Love's Arms arrested kept for some Hours in this warm Bosom-Harbour where the Spirit inquired further about these weighty and Heavenly Matters which with great pressing Urgency received this resolve as relating to those things manifold which by the Mouth of Wisdom have been foretold Who again encouraged me to hope and wait for the Day was not far off in which I might see the All-filling Body of the Glory which would be the end of former and latter Prophecy whereunto I yet did well to take heed because it was the Life's Food which for the present time might not only afford Support to me but others who with me shall wing up their Lord to meet all Crystalline having no Spot nor Stain to such he will appear and number them among the Holy Train to bear the Father's Name inspiring and shewing to me there was various Passages which yet I was further to venture and believe the entrance into which should yet be more amazing to the intellectual Mind which shall into its own Deep descend to bring up still what will Water the Garden that it may be always Summer and Spring Where I earnestly invocated this might also be the Portion of my selected Friends who in this Holy Ministry were choosing to wait with me that they might clear single and of a perfect Spirit appear before the bright All-piercing Eye of the Virgin Wisdom who to our God maketh nigh Further I did see into the Mystery of ascending Spirits what Qualifications thereto was required who are to be Spiritual Flames blown upon by a constant soft breath of Air from the Holy Power which letteth in nothing which putrifies or is gross and heavy none could mount up that had the least Weight hanging upon them the Word did express there must be a due Proportion Light and Purity answering to each other the Mind that would associate with God must carry a distance to drossy carnal Spirits and all of that Nature according to the high Birth of a Spirit you shall know it by the Holy Greatness which it will have not knowing how to be familiar with what is not of the same high extraction with it self Wisdom is very Jealous least any of her Family should walk out of her Order therefore that in her Love-Favour you may all abide to whom this Word of Counsel shall come that to the Virgin of the Lamb be you Loyal that in your ascending Prayers you may meet with no denyal July the 16th 1675. The Light Orb opened and all overspread me thereby dispelling every Foggy Mist so that it brought to my remembrance the Lord's Day which John saw and had all his Revelations in who was said to be in the Spirit And truly after such a manner must every one be seized that is drawn up into the Mount of Divine Vision to hear what God the Lord hath of his Mind to give forth Which will only be entrusted with such whose Spirits are fled and departed out of all Animal Sense which is gross heavy and ponderous But for a Spirit that would be All-seeing and intelligent in matters Supernatural to be uncloathed of all Earthly Materials it is certainly required as through great and free Love I have been a Witness of in all Conferences and mutual Society with the Fountain Sourse of all Spirits For never could I hear feel see or tast the Powers and Joys of the Light Kingdom till I was passed out of the Cloudy Pillar of mine own benighted Reason which many times set so hard upon me as I often feared that I should be violated out of all that which Divine Wisdom had presented to me for an Encouragement to those who shall by Faith overcome not in part but in whole triumphing over all Worlds Which is to be effected as hath lately been shewn to me upon some debate with the World of Wisdom my dear Counsellour who taking notice of some fresh Exercise that my Spirit was in animated me thus Be strong be resolute acquit thy Doubting Mind for therein lieth the danger for as much as no mighty Work can be effected either in by or through thee until there be a full close and joint Consent of all the internal Faculties and Powers Therefore are there all choice Ingredients requisite for the making up of this Almighty precious Faith and such as are not to be found in every Ground For thou art to know that there are different Soils in the Inward Heart of Man's Earth as well as in the outward some being for one Grain some for another and all making together for the Increase of that Treasury which is to be brought into the Eternal Granary Wherein every ones Work shall be proved and all Metals tryed of what sort they are Now as to this which is the most weighty of all Seeds and in Truth the Root of all there being no Fruit but what putteth forth from this Tree of Faith from which the Holy One can tast any Sweetness as it is written Without Faith there is no possibility of pleasing God thou must therefore dive and search deeply for in the Essence of the Deity this Grain of Gold is only to be found And if it should not drive forth it self in all its united Force and Powers it would never be reached to But in that Ground where this Plant is deeply rooted it will put forth as from a flowing bubling Fountain which Water of Life mingleth with the Golden Mould and so maketh the Composition of this high extracted Mineral which hath done and will yet do all the Miraculous Things in and through Nature but it will suffer no check nor contradiction from Nature Such is the absolute and uncontrolable Soveraignty hereof that it will not admit of any Questioning Spirit to set footing within its Gates Here must be no Asking How can This or That come to be If Abraham had made any of these kind of Objections he had frustrated all his Friendship with God who put him surely upon as hard
Work for we should be tryed and if we were not perfect in One Accord it could not prosper in our Hand and then it were better to engage singly if not clear and cordial as one Then was brought before me something of a staggering which would be very hurtful if at any time it should in either of us prevail before we obtain the fixation in the Body of the Power for it was shewed me there would not want strong belingrings to weaken our Hands in the Work for the whole stress lay upon following and cleaving to our Guide and keeping to the Paradisical Laws which in the Ministration of the Spirit can only be fulfilled Now these things sinking deep upon my Spirit drew forth many Inquiries and Heart-searchings and Suspitions least the Work should in any wise be impeded for I saw the Dragon upon his violence to snatch at the Birth which made me cry O save it out of his Hands and carry us out of his reach Then Wisdom spake this Word No place out of danger but the Ark and Tabernacle where your Strong Hold is the Sanctuary which is provided foryour Refuge Then did I apply my self to ask how long it should be before we might herewith be invironed that so we might no longer be in Fear and Jepordy It was replyed That it is much in our Power both to hasten or to prolong it there was a possibility of a quick Work to be made of it if we would follow it fully intirely with all Might for it was of that nice difficult curious Nature that every Interruption detarded it God could make a Tabernacle to descend ready finished upon thee but it is his pleasure to give thee the Honour of the Workmanship and Building hereof that thou mayst hear and learn of Wisdom how to form and bring forth this inclosed Tent for the God of Jacob to dwell in Then this Query did rise up further in me But seeing the manner of this curious Work O Wisdom is to be effected by a Spiritual Magician who by a Vertual Power must do all in it how can we be capable hereof till we come to be made such For who can make themselves so sublime and perfect as to reach to so high a degree of Wisdom as is required in this Work Truth it is O impotent Spirit without me thou hast no sufficiency therefore this understand I do not insist or require thee to set upon this Matter of so great Consequence nakedly in thy own strength for then soon an abortive thou wouldst make This doth require as great a Skill and Power as the first Heavens and Earth with all the Hosts that did belong unto them which were generated through the deep Spirit of Wisdom's Understanding So know I do call upon this Original Breath infused from my Essential Power and Life which resleth in the Cell of thy Eternal Mind till it be awakned by my Voice sounding as a Trumpet saying Come forth and gird on thy Spiritual Powers and follow me where thou shalt see in what Holy Affairs and Spiritual Work I will employ thee knowing the Gift of Ability which already is given unto thee which now is required to be stirred up to the utmost sufficiency thereof to join the Chariot of thine Internal Spirit with me and so be the Wheel within mine doing only what you see me do who am risen out of thy deep Central Earth all things anew to create Seven Pillars hewn out in the first place here must be for this Perfect Sanctuary all Crystalline out from that Rock which is the Eternal Jasper-Stone Next is that fine-twined Linnen which for Curtains about this Tent is ordered to be imbroidered by the Golden Thread and wrought by the Needle of my Eternal Spirit In the third place it is to be paved all with Molten Gold from that Everlasting Mountain which thou didst see the Covering also of the same Orential Gold must be All which though Metaphorically I do them thus present to thee yet all shall be accomplished in a perfect Mystery as the Deity shall all over-shadow thee who long hath waited this Tabernacle to see perfected in thee that so the Covenant within the Ark might find a place of Security Here thy God will choose to put his Name only Where nothing must come near that is defiling And therefore appointed are over the Thronely Mercy-Seat flaming Cherubims this Holy Place to guard Whose cry is only Holiness to the Lord Most High who within this Tent defires with thee to dwell and with Power Majesty and Glory it to fill but know that here God will admit none into this seperated Court to come but the High-Priest which hath the Crown of the Anointing Oil therefore consider the wonderful Purity that is required when thou comest near to thy God to inquire who will from between the Flaming Seraphims commune with thee in all Matters and Things in which thou art to receive Commands For now the real sum of all that which is required in this thy approach is purity in the highest degree that can be extracted from that Original Sourse out from which floweth the Golden Streams of All-Holiness which will be found within thy self and in their rising so cleanse and sanctifie them all over as therefrom this Holy Tabernacle will it self form and grow upon thee till it shall have swallowed up all foregoing Tabernacles as Aaton's Rod did devour the rest of the Magicians Powers So know that God will be and live intirely to himself within thee as his perfect Tent enduring no Vessel or Instrument or Spirit to come here but what hath the Inscription of Perfect Holiness upon it For who may here ascend but what can dwell in a Flaming Pillar of Fire and not be consumed and be able to say Evermore let me in this sweet aimable pleasant Fire O God with thee abide till I know nothing within me stirring but the Ark of thy Strength and the Power of thy Omnipotency which will be and is the finishing Glory of thy Sanctuary Where unutterably and perpetually my Spirit may be folded up as in an unknown Reservatory within this Holy Place of Purity In order to the attainment of which Perfect State this Word I heard Abstain thou from all Meats which are offered unto Idols and feed upon nothing which is Common or Unclean which is not purged by the Fire that burneth upon my Altar a true Fast ye are to keep in your Spirits from the gross creeping Things and flying Fowls of Imaginations that are apt to flutter in the Air of your Minds and would feed upon that which is hurtful making ye Infirm and Weak for this Tabernacle-Work For as ye are called and chosen to the Order of the Holy Priesthood there to attend instantly Day and Night maintaining the Fire upon the Altar from the pure Spikenard which is to be made up of all Spices into a perfuming Oil this is thy Service to cast herein Fuel or
Good Upon which no Corrupter ever came or could come or with any of these Springing Essences was ever mingled hereupon By the Serpent no Poysonable Rays were ever here at all scattered it is a Place which ever from his Eye was hid by the Divine Constellations All which Plants here thou dost see from one Seed do after their kind thus multiply in this Variety Now for the Holy Ointment which I would give thee skill to make Go first to that Bed where the pretious Thyme is included and take there seven Handfuls thereof then take the like quantity of the Baulm of Hope and of the Sweet Majoram of Patience according to the same perfect number as the two former To these let there be also added the Spirit of Mints Power the Eye-bright of All-seeing the Rue of Fortitude and the Hyssop of Purity These do thou gather when the Sun-Beams are in their greatest heighth and Influence and extract the Juice out of them and so dissolve it with the Kidney-Fat of a choice Deer that must be slain on purpose for this use This thou wilt know is to be obeyed and yielded to though it be even thy dear Sensitive Life which for this Composition must be dissolved the Death of which is only Serviceable for so Secret an Use. Hereupon a soft gentle Fire from the Altar is to be taken and then diffuse in the Golden Vessel of the pure Humanity and thou shalt see what a fragrant Restorative Ointment this will come to be whereby all Cures shall be wrought Practitionally the Knowledge of this Art being engrafted in thee as a Natural Scyon co-inherent within thy inward parts to transmute and make all that which was of a divided Property to be of one pure and rarified Sort and Constitution as relating to the healing part which through the whole Manhood is to disperse it self to settle all again in its first Primitive Order Then again here is another secret greatly requisite to be learnt as the Spicy Oil which is the Spirit of Spirits extracted and drawn out from the Seven Spirits mentioned the Ingredients to this are deep and worthy of Inquiry which cannot be illustrated but by way of Metaphorical Description which the wise and apt under Wisdom's Manuduction will soon understand for that all the Materials are lying or growing so close about thee within this Physical Garden which may be called the Eflux of the Deity which evaporateth through every Plant and Tree which groweth here from and by which ye may understand the high and precious Quality of whatever you shall a Composition make out Hereupon did arise a Query Whether it might not be as effectual to take of these Plants and Trees as they naturally grow in themselves for an healing Balsom and Liquor for the restoring of Life without mingling them in a Confectionary way To this I was answered thus by the holy and profound Artist that said Through the uniting of many Spirits Powers and Vertues into one sublime Substance there is produced an Almighty Force and Strength which would not be while they continued in their separated Essences but through the Coagulation by the Hand of Wisdom into one Quintessence it would have its vigorous penetration as in the accomplishment hereof ye may witness if ye wax not saint but persevere with all diligence and not be turned aside though you do meet sometime with the Waters of Strife but hold out or all is lost which already is wrought For I would not that either of you who so voluntarily your selves to me have bound should grow weary till I your Work have crowned having chosen you out of my Olive-Ground to sprout that so ye may to each other empty forth what I your Fountain have blessed you with as a fruitful Womb to bring forth even that mighty Lordly Sprout which will make your Heavens and Earth to shout and all the Hosts of them to praise and celebrate the Rising Star from the East therefore with all fear and care go on and persevere till that all things shall be put under him who is born in you the King of Salem against whom great Conspiracies will be but as he in you shall grow up he shall them all defeat through the Crown of this anointing Oil which I am to shew thee how to make First then come with me into my secret Lebanon where the Beds of Spices are and take thee seven Ounces of the Mace of Grace of like quantity of the Spikenard of Love the Camphore of Peace the Heart-cheering Cloves of the Saffron of Joy the Noble Frankincence of all Faith the Myrrh of Triumphant Victory the Casst of a Sound Mind and Perfect Heart Take all these and put them under the grinding Wheel which maintaineth its uncessant working Motion within thee till they come to be an Oily Substance mixed into one perfect Lump then diffuse all in the Juice of the Pomegranat for a certain time adding hereunto the Powder of Gold of Pervilium which is to be mixed with the Magistery of Pearl and the Ruby-Spirit all which close in a pure Crystalline Bottle into which nothing ever before was put and set it constantly under the Sun-shine of thy Heavens for the perfect Clarification thereof Which at the tenth number will attain to the full height of a Life-quickning Spirit Having taken good notice of this Mysterious Receit I lay'd it up in me as a Precious Jewel resolving to follow the Rules of this Intrinsick one and to make an experiment hereof if by any means it might be brought to a Triune Body of such sublimity All which must be wrought in the Tent of the Virgin-Wisdom where no soiling thing must interfere while this Composition is in doing And only Sanctuary Instruments I did see must be used here Having then order to discharge all out of this Celestial Place no Servant which appertained to the old and first Tabernacle I durst to admit for my aid or help or in any service therein to imploy Now all that are to rest within this Place where the Glory of the Majesty does it self unfold with the first Balsam must be anointed thus to me it was declared Oh the great Purity that I did see was required in ministring about these Holy Things it cutteth off quite from all Intermedlings in a putrified Earthly State the Eye so single and clear is through this Ointment purifying it that it cannot bear any more to behold in it self either Spot Blemish or Wrinkle knowing well none else in the Tabernacle of God's Holiness with him can live Therefore in the Oil of Consecration I am appointed for to abide and to drink of this Liquor of Life which suddenly may ready be through the diligent Hand that prepareth it as I do both feel and see which maketh my Spirit so intent hereupon that while the great Artist is at work I know not how my Eye to take off that so I may be able and skilful after the same manner
set-time is accomplished for the Bridegroom's appearance unto us observing for my forwarning that upon or near the time of such invading and disquieting Spirits conspiracy I am foreshewn it in way of Vision As thus being in the Night season impulsed to breath out some Spiritual Ejaculations falling into a slumber after I found somewhat grasp in upon me and struggle to take away my Life having great Wrath and Indignation against me so as I gave up thinking they would have mastered me and bereaved me of Life but the Holy Watcher was with me and prevented all Designs against me setting at that time a Pavillion Guard of Angels to rescue me from the malitious Power that was by the Spirit of Wisdom to me unfolded Who verified that many should be the evil Eyes that would watch us both and rejoice if they might see our Chariot-Wheels stop and our Hopes overturned Therefore the Cry out and from the Holy Place is Hold out be strong give no place nor quarter to the Beast nor to his Train for your Jesus is coming to take his Kingdom and then you shall over all in like Personality co-jointly with him Reign With these and such manner of initiating Supportations still I found us attended that our Faith might hold out and in our Earth be found when the last Trumpet shall be given for to sound which in our Day we may hear if we can see that in our Ground and Field the fruitful Ear is sprung up and looketh all White and Ruddy for to be taken and laid up with that Fiâ—…t Sheaf that is entred before us Not omitâ—…ing an other forerunning Discovery of the continued War like to be still held against the resolved Pilgrim to its Jerusalem persuing Three Nights after this last Combat I saw a Lamb come up where I was setting in my Chamber and run under my Bed and there followed two Dogs which chased it and would no where let it be quiet So it came out to me as for pity and shelter then I bestirr'd my self to take these two Molesters and at last I conquered and made them cease hunting this innocent Lamb shutting them up Then this chased meek one came and put its Head into my Bosom for Rest after its weariness Much from this was shewed me and I well know is to have its daily Accomplishment and therefore in this way is it manifested for Advertisement unto us who are thus far in the process of Jesus ingaged that we should not by any of these things be terrified or amazed while we see the Trophy of Victory concludes the Hellish Tragedy very comfortably March the 5th 1675 6. THis Ghostly Ministration in the Prepared Tabernacle being all now in my Eye knowing nothing else would glorifie Jesus his Ministry The following Manifestation hereof was after this manner pesented unto me A large Fowl which had hatched two Birds I did in that Figure behold till they were grown to be somewhat fledged and able to look out for Food but not able to encounter the cold Blasts nor the Northen Winds blowing very contrary and sharp upon them which made them shrink for want of fresh shelter while now they were thus driven to and fro the Birds of Prey watched narrowly them to devour But away with speed was sent a fluttering Dove with out-spreading Wings over these to hover to deliver them from the Kites Claws which was just fastening upon the one who was not so strong to run as the other who had got it self immediately under the Dove's Wing for shelter Then sayâ—… I a Hand snatched up the other Bird and put it under the Wing of the Dove who with a swift Flight vanished with them into the Invisible Orb of Light March the 6th 1675 6. This Vision was a plain demonstration of the third and last fixed State of the Holy Ghost who for our succour and relief will come to safe guard and carry us up to our prepared Kingdom as it was revealed to me that all former Ministrations would decrease and unto us cease Though Wisdom did conceive us in her Womb and did bring us forth and so passed us over in our Minority to our Jesus we by him having attained to a more grown State he doth transmit us over to the care and charge of the Holy Ghost where only we shall find winged Power and Shelter and who will be a glorious Banner over us Till which we cannot expect to act impregnantly in the Wonders of the high Eternity who hath therefore given to us a new charge that we may press hard and most vehemently pursue this day of Pentecost Which will bring in Omnipotency to concur and go along with the pure begotten Will. Oh then we shall take scattering Coals of Fire from this Holy Altar-Power which shall introduce a mighty Flaming Breath from the Golden Stone Within that will dissolve melt down and bring forth the clear Temple-Form wherein sits the pure Dove with her Virgin Bride who will soon make back to drive from us the strong force of all violent Tydes that so we may upon all Seas float God like and ride God-like upon the Wing of the Dove out of Visible Nature's Eye Where with Joy we solemnly do each other greet being invited by the Governour of this Holy Feast to set down as joint Conquerors with him to partake of what shall be brought forth in the great Day of the Lamb and Bride meeting together When the New Wine out of the Fountain-Grape shall run down the New Jerusalem Streets when all the Store and Treasure Chambers shall stand open and nothing shall be sealed up more from us Who under the covert Wing of this swift mounting Dove are brought For the which the Spirit of Jesus hath most truly brought us thus far as cauâ—…e we have to hope in that already I do feel something in me to move with a Cry still running through me The Lord your Bridegroom is coming Which Word as a Cordial-draught is given to renew both Strength and Spirit Again as we were waiting together in and upon our Temple-Service this Word came unto me Behold the effect of every Vision is at hand spare not to strengthen your Tabernacle-stakes and to fix your Temple-Pillars for it shall be said from this place Blessed is the high Throne-Glory who must prepare a Seat for this Holy One and strictly watch ye that no unhallowed thing enter in into this separated place For you know not how suddainly the transmuting Ghostly Powers will spring out of its own Eternal Ground Who soon will scent and smell if any of the old leavened and putrified lump there be remaining Therefore the cry so often in thy inward Land doth sound that so no unclean thing may there be found and that all Earthly stuff may be thrown out of it For the Holy Ghost is appointed in this new raised Temple to officiate and all perfect Service to be performed at a higher rate more Seraphick and Purer
any time before the extremity being so great as he desired to be released by Death as the greatest kindness which he could in this hour of Extremity of his Heavenly Father seek and request for At this sudden onset upon him I was somewat staggered for the Black Cloud of Death seemed all over to cover him which seemed to make void and frustrate those Words and Tokens I had received for his Restoration on the Tuesday Night before But in this juncture of time I felt a Power upon me to descend that made me Pray as in an all-Bloody-Agony and a mighty Strife betwixt Fear and Faith was in me But the strong Angel of Faith prevailed and I felt something move that was all aiery mighty and swift to overcome and conquer and which would not permit to give him up to what he himself desired Then had I a sight of all the dark afflicting Powers to be put under his Feet and that they should no longer over his mortal part have power The Relation of which I did to him declare but such was his anguish that at that time he could nothing from me hear So this Day and Night was passed away in this terrible Conflict All Night I retired from him wrestling with my God on his behalf waiting and watching what the issue of this trial would be For I do not know that I ever was in any one thing more proved because of the Word that came that he should be saved from Death Towards the Morning this Word came to me God is not a Man that he should repent or reverse what he hath spoken as to him for whom thou hast prayed Then coming to him I found him yet Ill. Then had I another Word all that Day followed me saying I am come to give him Life and that more abundantly therefore let thy mind hereupon be stayed So I saw the good Hand of our God was near and did the whole Cure and after this Bleeding he found a great alteration although before that his Extremity was much mitigated but not so sensibly taking it away as he now in himself did see So that by the Counsel of Wisdom he was hereunto directed most expresly to whose sight the Malady was only conspicuons all outward Physicians in their sight would have been too short and their power too weak and had been befooled and frustrated if any expectation had been thence For the Word for immediate Healing still followed close one upon another as matter of doubt arose Again the Word thus spake O faithless and unbelieving have I not said I will make him perfectly whole Which was the last Confirmation that I had on his behalf as to his outward Recovery Upon which I fully rested and was quieted as to him who from this time recruited his Natural Force and Strength which was abated more then he himself was sensible of But gradually he shall grow to his former strength again as a Monument of Praise to him who had renewed his Life and Being which the Princess of this World did War against with all the poysonable Influences of the lower Elements concurring and triumphing that their Mortal Robe was wrought out in him For the Dragon did see he would much more be a prosessed Enemy than ever to all his strong Holds and Territories But Wisdom's Antidore of such an high extracted Composition was made up that it expelled all his poysonable Influences she coming in with her Adjuring Power and unresistible Spell saying O Death I will be thy Death Thus the Victory was obtained through the Life-Blood â—…prouting fresh from the Fountain God-â—…ead Praise Praise Glory Glory all in us all round about us go forth with Acclamations and Thanks-giving-Offerings for such a signal Deliverance as we have been madâ—… Witnesses of which for our future Encouragement Jehovah hath wrought March the 15th 1675 6. After all this coming into my solitary composure of Spirit waiting upon my Temple-Office and Service where I met with a bright encompassing Cloud the Tabernacle-Witness rose and spake thus in me I have now answered to thee the desire of thy Heart who pressed me hard to give thee a Sign to effect somewhat through the operating force of Faith that it might work to a Deed and Wonder Behold and see this in the reviving and restoring thy Friend's dead Body which is to be great and marvellous to each Spiritual Eye For know all this restoration was managed by my Omnipotency that ye might not doubt the Root of this all sprouting Power will yet further work out and that youâ—… Prince and Saviour may yet live again that hath been so long slain Expecâ—… him he is at hand to take now foâ—… himself in you a Kingdom wherein thâ—… peaceable Reign shall be by this Solomaâ—… And the Holy Temple must be Built by Wisdom's Hand that the most Holâ—… Dove Hereupon may descend most swiftly to rouse and raise up the dead Seed which asleep is yet in Jesus therefore know as a Type of this was this late raised Man who through great Strife hath obtained his Life Now the same strong Angelical Powers that here did move in thee on his behalf must doubled be upon you both for the drawing down the Riding Power and Triumphing Birth of this more excellent Life of the Holy Ghost March the 16th 1675 6. The Dâ—…ctor being much recover'd and the Mountain and heavy Talon of Death removed he was very sweetly Spirited on the Lord's Day and carried out in Prayer speaking singing A few of us meeting together did own that day his Signal Deliverance The next day being Munday in the Forenoon waiting together I had this Word put into my Mouth immediately and unexpectedly As verily as ye have been Witnesses of my Power in plucking him out of the Pit of Death and guarding him from the violent Executioner thereof so this shall be a Sign that ye shall ascend up into the House of the Lord even the Holy Mountain of that God who hath in this hour of distress appeared and ye shall surely inherit the precious things that your Eyes shall there see Which have been long laid up in store to be given to such as can ascend with their bright Temple-Bodies which are now to be your Change of Rayment that ye may in this Holy Place both meet and know I am and will be unto you what yet cannot be conceived or believed Therefore to the charge of Wisdom expresly keep and ye shall see what the issue of being obediâ—…nt to the Law of her Mouth shall be who would not that ye should have less Purity Power and Dignity then your Jesus who is exalted and hath the Command to give and take whatever doth lie in the Father's vast Treasury Know then no less freedom ye shall have with Wisdom in her secret Stores who nothing will or can deny to conquering Spirits who through all Throngs do push and through all Armies do pass and will not be fearful or so
sure binding and a Wedlock-tye betwixt bright raised Spirits and me till the Great Day of the Visible Marriage shall be Solemnized in the Free Jerusalem Till which hold ye fast and take good heed that not one of these Links on your parts be broken if but from any one of these ye should unlink ye would fall down by the way and never to me ascend But I know that Wisdom is thy Friend who will not suffer thee to break from me She is a busie Agent still to spur thee on her Law of kindness is found to me thy Jesus in thy Heart which will give an Ascending Might that so ye may come down again in a flaming Body of Light Which is the only design of Wisdom that blessed Engineer who by these Golden Links draweth you continually nearer to her City This was further Opened in the Seven following Days by Wisdom but the Copy is here Deficient May the 1st 1676. The New Book Opened Or the Everlasting Gospel of JESUS THis Morning my Spiritual Informer came and presented to my view a Book wherein great and hidden Secrets were writ telling me here was neither Parable nor Allegory but the plain Doctrine of the Everlasting Gospel Into which it was said it is given thee to look for it is an Epistle of good-will and love to thee and thy fellow Waiter that ye may come to a right and genuine understanding of those weighty things which lay concealed under the Vail of the Letter The summ of which is the Incarnation Dying Rising Ascending and Glorifying of thy Jesus All which being finished in his own Personality I now look to see that all should be actually wrought in you to which end I have poured out of my Spirit upon you which may bring you up through all to me Read then and see in Wisdom's Glass what is contained in this Book for a further instructing of thee into a Gospel Death and Rising into Victory Many are the Deaths ye have passed over and I grant every Death hath brought forth a rising Body so that ye are come so far as to bear the very Image of the Heavenly Man in which the Life-Seed doth spring But this is not all you are to aspire unto but you are here to dye with Jesus For in all those foregoing Deaths you had not that fellowship as ye shall have with me when I am grown up in you For I the Just One died for the Unjust so I must Personate this dying again in you after a Paradisical manner sowing my own pure Grain and Seed into the Mount Sion Ground For as it is said such as the Seed and Soil is such a Body in the Resurrection it will be and such a Body it will produce And although you come thus to dye in the Lord I mean in your Lord Jesus Christ in whom your Life lies safe and inoculated there will be no danger And while you are sowing here be not as others without Hope for indeed you sow not that Body which shall be to the account of a Bare return as Spirit for Spirit or Body for Body For though it was sown a single Seed yet it shall be various and manifold though the Seed is sown contemptible yet it shall rise honourable and though sown as weak yet it will rise mighty in strength So mighty potent strong and honourable this Resurrection will be as it will bring forth the Seed sown with another manner of Body then what hath yet been known For ye shall know all Blessedness indeed by thus dying into me fear it not therefore but valiantly spill your Life and mingle it with me then shall ye know a cessation to your own busie-acting Properties For that Spirit which dyeth into me ceaseth to Sio sweetly sleeping and slumbering in Sion's Golden Dust till I my secret Trump shall sound with the Vial of Life quickening Oyl poured in which shall make the dead in you to come forth with an unchangeable habit and form of the Holy Ghost of which I speak I will after this manner raiâ—…e up at the last Day which day to thee is very near if thou canst sink and dye so totally into me who do promise to thee long here lay buried thou shalt not be This is the Connexion to the former Part. Before I the LORD will move again to the finishing of the last glorious Mystery the first that can dye thus into me shall rise as the first Fruits out of me into a Body Celestial and mighty Powerful For my Seed shall never Corruption see it shall soon rise into a Mount Sion Body Lay but the Ground-work hereunto sure and ye shall see and feel another Spirit and another Form after this passive Sleep For after it ye shall awake in that Image which shall be no more despised being all compleat and giving proof of my Resurrection and Life Oh blessed are they who can say that they were dead in me and are alive evermore to Reign with me in my Kingdom waiting for me their Lord from Heaven to bring them thither For in this new risen Body I shall not be ashamed of thee it is so Signatured into the Father's Nature of Purity that in it thou mayst freely ascend to me Where I will in the Light Airy Region meet with thee and bring thee through all the Pearly Gates O come resign and dye know me no more out of this Dying and Resurrection State Thus Death is not Metaphorically but Really the last Enemy that is to be destroyed Here Sing ye may that dwell in Sion's Golden Mold and triumphantly Cry Oh Death by this Spiritual dying I am mortally become thy Death and so swallowed up as you can nothing of it see Go go preach thou this for the Everlasting Gospel to such as have an Ear to hear it rejoyce and give Glory to God on high Now when the Hour of this Judgment shall fully come by ushering in the New Jerusalem freedom through the Streets of Nature This Gospel Ministration which is all Love Grace Mercy and Peace by those shall then be proclaimed who do partake of this Resurrection as the first Fruits They shall be honoured with this Message to all those who in this Noah's Age are asleep in their dark Prison-Houses For an Almighty Voice I in you my Sion-born Spirits will utter forth to call in more to know this Death-Liberty and Life-Resurrection and Ascension into all Fellowships and free Communions with the High Eternity and Me the chief Head of all Sion's new risen Body Whereunto being come no other Banner will I display there but that Love which casteth out all Bondage and Fear May the 6th 1676. In the Morning being the first Day pondering and considering this last Opening which shewed me the necessity of dying into my Jesus and of sowing the Seed of my Eternal Spirit as an unmixed Grain sifted from all Chaffiness or Cockle or any such thing for to twist about it Thus the Word said
If thou canst thus sow thy self singly and purely into me as into the Heart of Sion's rich Soil and there passively a while lie as in thy Tomb and unknown Sepulchre Where none after This method have of latter days been before thee not knowing or understanding the Mystery of This reposing Death then accordingly will an unmixed glorified yea deified Body arise with all rarified Senses Powers and operative Faculties meet for all Heavenly Employment and Service which can no more be drawn downward to mind inferiour matters or things These impressing Savings dropping from the Lips of my Jesus caught my Spirit into the pleasant dying and dissolving part For this kind of Death was not so grim nor terrible to me as what had formerly passed upon me Yet somewhat of a Spiritual conflict was awakened in me and the Powers of my Heavens were at strife about the laying down of this more refined Life For I found some sharp contest with an opposite Power who said What will you further dye and cease from now that the perfect thing is sprung in you Will you have all now of this Holy Nature sink down and bury it in Paradisical Ground sowing only in Hope that it will arise a Body and fair Lily in the Tower of sion This Objection met my Spirit as if I were herein to do a superstuous act but still to Wisdom's Word I adhered Which followed me all the Day long bringing a Scripture to me out of Isa. 26. Thy dead Men shall live together with my dead Body they shall rise Ver. 19. Awake sing ye that dwell in the Dust. From hence was shewn me the present sweet fellowship with my Jesus in this his own Body that is to be our Grave and embalmed Tomb whereby we are to be so Spieed with his Deified Humanity as to see no Corruptibility being called out to empty and spill our whole Life into him This being the publick Day of our Meeting my Spirit was with this new Matter filled but I quenched and stopped the going forth of it and spoke out little of this Secret Which I know would have gone forth with Mighty Powers attending it But some being there that would not happily have digested this new broached Matter I did for fear stop it though it stifled the Breath of Power and thereby was hurtful both to my self and to others Which verified to me that Word Quench not the Spirit despise not Prophecying Which I shall henceforth be cautious of and correspond with according to my Power and inspiring Breath Going afterwards to my Night's Repose I had a mighty disturbed Sleep being in a Place where I saw only the Doctor and my self where did arise out of a burning Lime-Pit a suffocating Smell which was so offensive that I told him we must make all hast out here or we should be stifled such great heaps of Chalk-Stones lay on every side as we could make but slow Pace out neither could I see what way to pass by till on a sudden a Gate opened and a Person called us to come and put forth his Hand â—…o help us over those great Stones that lay in our way so coming out into a Place where we met to worship and praise our God among our own selected Number But while we were in our Spiritual Exercise I saw one amongst us as a mocking Ishmaelite thrusting out a great pair of Lips and deriding our Powers with that I was stirred up in Spirit to go to that Party and give a rebuke and they became ashamed thereat and was Speechless for I was made to discover their Nakedness After this I fell asleep and about Break of Day I was awakened with these Words The Trumpet out of Sion soundeth to call forth the Dead in Jesus awake awake ye that sleep in Sion's Dust. This Alarm much eased my Spirit and drew it into an inward waiting for I know there would somewhat follow if watched thereunto keeping and abiding in the still Rest and waiting from under this Altar to be raised by that Life quickening Spirit that I do feel stir and eccho again to my Cry from under the Altar May the 8th 1676. This Morning being wholly attentive to my Lawgiver for further Manifestation Impowerings and Inspeakings I found Mary Magdalen's restless Spirit with me to attend the Sepulchre of my Lord from which I could not go Knowing well what I had sown into that Holy Ground from whence I expected a good Return While looking and expecting I saw nothing but a bare empty Tomb left here no Jesus was at present to be found Which brought a damp and heaviness upon me but mourning in Hope the Angel that rolled away the Stone did speak Comfort to me saying Though thy Lord into whom thou didst shed thy choicest Life-Seed and didst sow all thy Love-Spirit is now fled from thy sight and thou art hereat amazed be of good cheer he will not leave thee a restless Seeker here No sooner were these Words pronounced to me but I heard another Voice within me sound saying Hail O Mary why dost thou fear I know I know thou hast entrusted me with all thy Life-Treasury therefore in great Jeopardy I did see thee lest I should not again descend unto thee Then wouldst thou have counted me as a Thief and Robber to go away with all thy Life Spirit Power and Strength leaving thee void empty and distressed But now thou shalt know that I am returned again to thee to give thee a Resurrection with my self For I see thou canst not live without me therefore Ascend thou shalt in Spirit to be with me that thou mayst not only behold me in my Glory but know thy self also with me as a Partaker of the same Glory Only satisfie thy self that for a time some Intervals may be because of thine Abiding still in an Elementary Body which may be a Cloud upon thee But yet as often as it is possible allowing the Circumstances that do attend Corporeity exhale I will thy Superiour Part and Spirit up to me Therefore be not dismayed though there may happen many Assaults and Attempts that will make War against this Resurrection-State Which Offences will come in through the withdrawing of this inspiring Unction Whose Power is arising yet again for reforming all these Abuses and Ecclesiastical Disorders in my Visible Church Militant Therefore be not snipped in thy Hopes but be thou of good Courage who have for this Pearl of the Holy Ghost hard and unweariedly sought and art upon the growing Body for it For who so worthy thereof shall be as those who gradually shall through all Sufferings Dyings Risings Ascendings come up through all a Conqueror to me Verily I say if â—…ye shall in such a raised Spirit appear to me in Mount Sion you shall have free Liberty to take what you will out thence â—…s Co-partners with me in the Kingdom of the Father's Soveraignty whereto I â—…m by all this calling you up Therefore see see what
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
you can set sure footing to go over to this Ocean Sea therefore stay a while and provide them and then you will not slâ—…de Considering this in the Morning and knowing that all Presentations of this Magical Nature have their certain Effects which I have observed ever since I came under the Discipline of the Word of Wisdom who hath been my Glassy Eye to spy out things within that Ocean and having now from this new subject matter to exercise my Spiritual Senses in laying aside the Garment of my outward Sense which to the Intellectual Understanding is the great Impediment the Glass which represented these things became altogether Clear in me so that in seeing I did see being divested of all outward Covering For which Cause the Spirit of Wisdom doth take advantage when the External Reason is laid asleep and the Animal Sense drowned even then by Internal Idea's to manifest the Objects of the Inward Worlds Which was God's method for the discovery of his Mind in foregoing Ages or by any other way for the busie working of the Astral Mind of Reason is the greatest Let to Divine Vision this I can give witness to Therefore this Command I often have received from the Most Holy Inspirator to unstrip her from her dark Leaden Body which hath not the true Organ of Sight The holy bright Aiery Spirit can admit of no such clog it is like Saul's Armour to the nimble sprightly David it must be thrown off For there is for this an absolute necessity for such as will hold any free Parly and Conference with their now glorified Jesus they must come to be in the Spirit as John was when he in Vision saw and talked with him who was for that time without any touch or feeling any weight of his gross Corporeal Senses for he dyed out of them as he saith he was as one dead which made way for the opening of this New World's Scene and unclasping that Book of Revelation which before was hid and concealed But here riseth an Objection Who can fall into such a Trance and Sleep at any time when they would enjoy such close free manner of Communion with the High Principality of Glory The Eternal Word of Wisdom doth give this Answer to this Query True it is that no Natural Person can fall into this Divine and Spiritual Lethargy so as to still and quite suspend all operation of the Ratinoal Faculties for through these the fallen Birth-Life moves and acts and can never do Violence upon it selâ—… to seek its own Destruction for this iâ—… most Unnatural But where there is another Life Birth introduced and risen in opposition to this and that can prove its lawful descent out from the Eternal Womb of the Virgin-Body This may take authority and arise in its Magical Might and depress the Sensitive Life that hinders and clouds and keeps one back from these Seraphical Sights Now I say to this pure Essential Thing begotten by the Holy Breath and infused in let that potent Will which is free enter in and be one with this pure Conception then ye will soon master the Contrariety If at any time the Starry Birth in you should be unruly then make use of that precious Stone which into your Custody is put that can and will if put forth dash and crumble all into Dust which shall henceforth either within thy own Precinct or without make attempts against this high Birth state Which grow must still till it fills with Power every part to act a Tragedy upon the Serpent and all his fallen party that strives so hard and would have cut off the Tide and Stream which from the Sea thou didst steer and run so free that no Gally could be swifter then this strong Arm which as a Boat hath wafted thee over where now sit down and wait upon my Love-Ocean Heart This seems to be a Digression from that Thing Represented which is now returned to upon the Third Day after May the 28th 1676. I saw again in a Vision a Stream from this pleasant calm Sea of which I mentioned that for want of being suitably shod we could not pass over to it which gave much Exercise to my Mind thereby stirring up matter of Enquiry and Intercession to my God pleading from the Spirit of Jesus why that Gulph should remain betwixt this Ocean-Treasury and us Who had now declined and turned our Faces from all Things Terrestrial that so we might come to possess what Wisdom's Glass had opened of this Scene of Glory This being the Matter of my Contemplation after which in the Night falling into a Transical Sleep of a suddain I found my self in a Boat that did run with the greatest swiftness that neither the Bogs nor Quicksands which formerly I saw could stop it For the Waters from the Sea had risen high over all bringing me safe and secure to this Sea-shore where I was to sit down fixed upon the Mountain of Precious Stones there to choose and pick out what was of greatest value And when I came to my Spiritual Sense waiting for the Interpretation of this Vision it thus spake in me The Ocean Sea which thou didst see doth present God the Immense Deity who contains all full rich and weighty Substance and Treasury who by no Corporeal Spirit could ever be reached for there was a Gulph and Eternal Separation between as this boggy miery Passage did present thereunto But only by Sion born Spirits whom I have seen in the true Sorrow and Mourning because hereunto they could no Path find for sure footing whereby might be attained this rich Mine where all the desirable Good doth lie Now in tenderness and compassion unto thy sorrowful Spirit this Arm and Stream hath risen which represents thy Jesus who from the Ocean-Love of the Immense Deity doth to thee flow to bring thee back to the Head-Fountain where thou mayst come to know God the Holy Ghost covering thee as the Waters do the Sea till when upon this Jesus fix who this lovely Mountain of all Precious Substance is Where be thou sure now to look turning over every Stone till thou come to find that only Saphire Stone which will change gross Mettals into bright transparent Gold and shine through dark Bodies a flaming Light These things presented are to the Eternal Eye so to speculate upon as thereby thy whole Mind may be transmuted over hereunto in order to the fulfilling of what in Vision thou hast seen May the 29th 1676. O how unutterable was it What Joy did I feel upon this secret Parley which my dear Immanuel whose Words like Butter and Oyl did distil so that hereby was lifted up the Banner of my Hope that possibly we might yet live to see the Day of the Holy Ghost who out of his Mountain-Treasury is for to come to put an end to all Sin and mortal frail Impotencies under which we do yet groan looking and hastening for this Perfect Thing to come which will
of being Tributaries to these Usurped Powers From which nothing can you Totally free but Total Death after that way of Spiritual Dying which both Mystically and Magically by and through the Heavenly Constellations doth operate This is a Death worthy of all Acceptation indeed which at once shall put an End to all Earthly Sense and Sin Then room there is O Soul for the Superiour Life to come in which shall reign as God enthroned in Nature's Kingdom that is restored to its first Institution First Breath then take and saint not but forward to the Mount of Olives go the Mountain is indeed high to which you are to ascend but my holy Gales shall drive you on that so you may come thither to sup with the Lamb. A Sheet is here wanting July the 8th 1676. THis Morning after some private Ejaculations to the Throne Majesty this Word came unto me Will ye actually deny your Active Life as you denyed passively your passive Life Even that Life which ye so often have decryed down because it is found in that room from whence proceeds all Unbelief and Deceiveableness of Unrighteousness which naturally generateth those Essences from whence the Thoughts that are light and evil do spring The great conquest will be to put a stop to these till thou hast found the way utterly to undermine and for ever to bind them Yet thou shalt be allowed warranted and justified to stifle them before they can come to a Birth Though Reason may tell thee this would be as a new Entity and that it would straitway overturn and overthrow thy breathing Existency yet give thou not any ear to such Objections that are cast in from that Principle perhaps then no more in a Creaturely Being thou canst be known Well admit it and suffer thy Creaturely Self thus far for to expire as to the imaginary Life be assured that all Peace and Safety hereby will accrue For by this silent Vacancy another Source will open All dyings thou hast indeed gone through to this which is the main Head-Vein which doth lie so deep under Ground thereby preserving under it self hidden even from the Vultur's Eye Oh this Original Root is that which must be struck at Up and Out with it and overturn it and thou wilt see what doth lie in the depth beneath it to wit every precious thing which without care or toil will voluntarily spring when this imaginary Root is quite cast out For the croppings of this Evil Seed will never free thy inward Ground Come then and descend with me and I will shew thee where this Grand Enemy doth lurk who unconceivably doth send forth those dark Fumes which hath hitherto prevented the overflowing Breath of the Holy Ghost If then thou canst not to a cessation from every unruly motion come which works from the Astral Spirit then try the Power and Might of that Spirit which in thee doth reside and cross these strong Tides and through all break and leave behind the Flowings of Jordan and look not back but forward do thou pursue and keep up to thy Region high and as an Eagle Spirit bear up most mightily no more returning to take up any weight of earthly stuff which in the Imaginary Mind doth lie But away away ascend with thy Jesus unto another Principality where other Presentations will all thy Senses employ when once thou hast forgot and lost this World out of thy Eye and Heart What other meaning dost thou think those Words do bear which are upon old Records which saith Except ye deny relinquish and suffer the loss of that Life which is bundled up tied and knit together with the stringing Sinnews of the imaginary Mind ye cannot enter into Life into the Life of God and Christ which to know is Life Eternal Therefore it is again said That none can receive the Kingdom of God till they can come to be as a little Child that is new born who is passive having no thoughts of reluctancy working to hinder the opening the Everlasting Kingdom of the Light Joy Love Power and Peace Wouldst thou know why so few have got entrance here It is because they could not untwist nor get from under this binding Cord of the Natural flowing Cogitations which beset the Spirit every way holding it under a most slavish Captivity Yet is it not perceived but by most it is believed that this whirling Wheel must run round of absolute necessity and there is no way for it to be avoided while subsisting in a Body of Elementary Corporality True O Spirit those who in this gross state only care to be do walk and abide with and amongst those which are of their own likeness relishing and corresponding with what doth proceed from this unsavory part But from you I your Lord expect another thing who have taken the Vow of a Nazarite's Life upon you invocating me so often for a remove and translation into the same Life and Liberty with me your forerunning President Now then I must plainly make known to you the Mind of God and your Father which is to Famish all those numerous and multiplying Essences which mutiny against the Eternal Stillness and Eternal Nothingness where the all sublime Goodness and Everlasting Rock of Power is to be seen felt and known Verily this is the way I can only describe to thee and those who the mark of this high Calling would reach and would be traffickers within the Holy City which is all Crystalline Through which none can pass that hath the least Lumber of imaginary stuff yet hanging upon him Now weigh these Sayings for they are from the Yea and Amen who hath good-will to make riddance of all those superfluous Thoughts that have been as the gulph separating Principle To which thoughts by one act God moving in the Mystery of the Fiat yet once again will put an end quite to them For a New Heart will be created out of which will flow continually such a choice Treasury answering to the Sight of the Flaming Eye July the 16th 1676. A Vision of God's Flaming Eye This Morning as I was in my Spirit let down into the deep Abyss attending the pure Openings from that Central generating Source or Fountain Life In a moment there appeared to me an Azure blue Firmament so Oriental as nothing of this in this Visible Orb could parallel with it Out of the midst hereof was a most wonderful Eye which I saw Sparkling as with Flaming Streams from it Which I am not able to Figure out after that manner in which it did present it self unto me But according to this Form it was as much as I am able to give an account of it it was thus or after this manner There was a Flaming Eye in the midst of a Circle and round about it a Rainbow with all variety of Colours and beyond the Rainbow in the Firmament innumerable Stars all attending this Flaming Eye From which the Word said the Earth and Heavens shall
flye and nothing abide but what can live in this Eternal Eye as ministring Stars of Glory before the Throne of him who like to this Circling Eye which thou hast seen hath neither Beginning or End A. The Eye B. The Globe of Light C. C. C. C. C. The Flames D. The Rainbow E. The One Element F. The Supercelestial Moon After this Word it disappeared leaving its Flaming Influences upon my Heart And further of this secret Vision he did say he would it impart as I for its Manifestation did wait and the signification hereof should come to be witnessed by that rising Birth which is called up to this Globe among these Stars to fix in this more excelling Firmament July the 17th 1676. The Interpretation of the Vision or of the Flaming Eye This Vision of the Flaming Eye is given for to see that which is worth pondering for thy pure Mind continually For glorious Idea's will multiply that hereupon all thy Senses may be employed in such sweet Rarifiedness wherein there is no danger of Excess While this Vein from the Heart of God in thee doth run it will feed that which doth come from the pure Font and hereby stop the running issue of the Imaginary part Which I will assure thee will compleat the Victory because it strikes at Sin 's Originality which had its beginning from the Conceptive part of the Heart there it came it and there it must be banished out Then it will be a New Heart in which the Flaming Eye will fix Which in Vision thou didst see with its innumerable Stars in the Firmament which are generated from this Globe-Eye so unmerously will holy and pure Cogitations from hence arise and so habitual strong and forceable as to out-pass all strange Essences that would come therein again to lodge Therefore within this Circling do ye abide that so you may keep out all evil Motions which the Serpent knows are the Foundation-matter of his Kingdom and will sting you with them if ye do not fully exclude them Which ye no way can till ye hasten away and with your Spirit fly to this bright Firmament where this Eye all Dangers will for you espy and know all secret Mysteries making you wise in that one great needful thing which will make all strait that crooked and out of the way is For such is the property of this Fire piercing Eye that it will look through the Host of the whirling Imaginations and put them to a stop that so they may not persue as to overtake those that are upon Faith's flying Banner on which keep till it hath brought you within Zion's Gates This great and weighty thing concerning Cessation and Annihilation of all fruitless Imaginations was still the Call within me to come into the Believing Rest for that this was the true dying into Jesus which passive Life is the pure Mother out from which the Birth of the God-acting-Life is to be expected For the Faith of the co-operating Power worketh here all in all The New Heart being replenished with ministring Powers suitable hereunto that will perfectly bring things to pass as the Mystery is moved in its own Sphear driving on by the mighty force of this Birth of Faith Which produceth great and marvellous things according to the sublime Nature of it For it hath no other ground to go upon but the absolute Co-eternal Deified Will which Will willeth in the New created Heart as in its own Royal Seat July the 18th 1676. This Morning I was in great Heart-searchings about this precious Lily of Faith if I could by the sight reflecting from the Eternal Eye it any where espy Querying thus with my Lord Jesus Ah Lord if the right Plant be in me as it was found in thee why doth it not act forth Where are the Signs which should follow as the Seal of Believing What makes the Birth of it stick thus long whose going forth must make way for the Holy Ghost Tell me Oh thou inspiring Word why hath it had a Name to live and yet hath been as dead For it hath not been Justified by such mighty Heroick Works as in the foregoing Ages did bear witness to it And this hath made it as a Body without a Spirit actless and fruitless Thus I earnestly expostulated that if we had it existing in us then we might have skill to use and manage it for the reviving of this worthy and unknown thing which hath been a Stranger in the Earth but is now a stirring in our Heavens and a turning up the Mould that hath from our Eye this all-precious Grain hid Where then doth it lie said the blessed Alpha to me thou hast to the heights for it ascended and for it hast sounded into the Depths but thy Aim hath been too â—…ort to reach it and thy Eye too dim for to espy it though it is so nigh Yet not known to any till they do retain the bright glance of the Flaming Eye which hath not only the specious Faculty but the streaming Power of Might to bring back again this worthy Champion that hath been by the combining Powers of Reason put unto flight Which so soon as Tydings come that they are dead who so wickedly have conspired against Faith's life then it will return again and appear on the Earth mighty and supream to open the Door for the Holy Ghost to enter in Then this Mystery of Faith will be finished To which ye are directed that by contending for it ye may obtain it unto Victory July the 19th 1676. As we this Morning were in our Spiritual operative Powers each one bringing forth out of the Treasury the Doctor being much carried out upon the Subject of Faith it was spoken to me This is the Ministry which goeth before to make way for the Holy Ghost And I saw as a Confirmation hereof a Flying Banner passing swiftly by as a Trophy of Faith's Victory Which each one must bear before the Day in which the Holy Power will shower upon us till which in one Spirit of Faith we were directed to wait together After which also a Word run through me There is need enough to provoke each other hereunto For the Day is now nearer then when first ye did set upon this Believing Oh now let us go through that we may reach to all the Degrees of Faith which will assuredly make up our fallen Breach For this is the Power that will make us all whole as the true Weapon-Salve which is anointed by the Hand of our dear Jesus to smooth and make ready for the Flying Banner of the Holy Power for to descend into us who in this Faith do wait within the secret Gate of the New Jerusalem state where into by no means must we bring any Spirit that may make mutiny for to break the holy League which must be still maintained with him who is the Covenant Who hereby reneweth our Peace and Joy in believing without annoy or staggering which hinders the purchase
evermore Lord Jesus give thou us in to take September the 10th 1676. This Morning I was in a most deep inward converse with my glorified Jesus putting such weighty Questions to him as I found rise in me one was this saying Ah Lord by what shall I know that it is now thy very self that talks daily with me and that hath unsealed thy Fountain-Body to me for there is somewhat of a greater proof must yet go forth to make thee ownable and Praise-worthy where Contempt hath been poured out Now then what wilt thou for such yet further do and that thy Name may carry all through in Power and Authority according to the Example of thee our dignified Lord. Who will not in thy Redeemed scarce be known till they see the self-same Chariot come down in which thou thy self dost ride with thy Scepter and Crown throughout the created Heavens and Earth and therein to be glorified Oh for this I am pressing because nothing less then this thy great Appearance in us will overturn the Nations within and without Therefore shew us Oh Lord and answer what may make the way more clear and shining to us After these Ejaculations emptied into the Bosom of my Immanuel I saw a pure stream of Golden Colour wave up and down which pierced through me feeling a new kindled Heat from it The Eye of my Spirit saw it as thin as the Mist only as the colour of the Sun-Beams Then said the Word in me What dost thou now see but the Spirit and Breath which giveth Life to the conveying Body which thou didst see Who also shall be the harbinger from me to thee as the living Sign and Witness no greater ye will need It is that deep searching Spirit who will go and come with speed and will take and bring from my Fountain Blessing and give forth as ye shall be able to suck and draw from it as from a pure attractive Will Then shall you know it to be your Comforter and Friend who will for you search out all hidden things which are freely given by Decree This is the Spirit that is appointed to be your Overseer an holy Watcher and to find out if any thing be defective within the Temple of the most holy Body Where he must agitate for the Father and me all those high Affairs which may answer to the bringing in and establishing that desired Kingdom from which the Scepter of Love Power and Righteousness will never depart Because this fiery Mist shall still purifie the Heart and be to it a safe and defensive Guard from the Poysonable Waspish Spirits who move from the Serpent to disquiet this your peaceable dwelling within this circling Breath which from the Deity doth proceed And it is a Gift worthy of all Acceptation in deed as ye may find if you be not to it unkind by oppressing and laying Burthens on it which it cannot bear For it will take no burthen or concern upon it but what may augment the Heavenly growth and flourishing state Where it may dilate the Powers of a Supersensual Faith and Love-mounting-Life and ever of it speak Know you then for what use I do send down this ready swift Messenger not to minister about any thing which is of a worldly Sanctuary or that which worketh after the Traditions of Men in all deceiveableness of Sin whether considered in the more gross or refined part This pure Breath will fly from all Putrefaction and will be detained no longer with you then ye minister what is pleasing to it For as it receives from me to give to you so it expects to bring some pure offering from you that I may have an express of your growth and fruitfulness that so I may not repent the Watering you with this Golden Mist which may Produce a new Face of Covering upon the Earth which will be all invitable to your God and King to walk and delight himself therein finding nothing that may therein offend the Trinity The Spirit seeketh all in which he may present you a meet Habitation for the God of Love and Peace to dwell richly in his own Temple Then fear not but you will excell all Counterfeit Christs for this Spirit of Truth will search out all deep high and mystical things that are of service and use to the Reign of your King Jesus Who is to be exalted over the Earth first in those who close with his Will and Commands Then in the second place this inspiring all-breathing Life highly regard it for it is that noble thing that will not give over searching till it hath found that rich Stone which is the Introduction to the Kingdom September the 14th 1676. The Holy Incense Being in Prayer I saw somewhat like a Cloud or Vapour of Smoke rising turning into a Flame and so ascending upward Then said I Lord what meaneth this Then was replyed This is the Incense which doth scent and perfume thy Supplications All Intercessions are weak and no ways prevalent but as the Spirit entreth the secret Holy Place and doth bring down from that Altar which is fixed between the Cherubs and from thence to let fall a perfuming Coal among the spicy Odours Which are all compounded by the Artificer within the inward Sanctuary who hath the Charge of all the Holy Things Therefore it is such a principal Ointment as none is to be made like to it being so rare pure and sacred that it is not to be poured upon Man's Flesh but it will devour and consume them if they shall but go about to counterfeit the same As it was by those which offered strange Incense before the Lord. Therefore none hath Right hereunto but the most harmless holy and separated who have not defiled themselves with the Dead and creeping things of the Worldly outward Court But know and consider whereunto ye are come upon whom this Spicy Union hath fallen into whose Hand the Golden Vial is given to offer with your Prayers this cloudy pure Incense which is of a most high deified Nature The all-searching Spirit hath found out this sweet perfumed Matter for you that so ye might have success in your Altar-Oblations Oh then now with Joy enter the Tabernacle that is anointed with this perfumed Oil for ye may expect this Golden Incense upon the flaming Altar will have all prevalence Because it is derived from the Everlasting Mountain of Myrrh and Frankincense which is the most precious Fuel for your Offering which must ascend beyond the Sphear of Seraphims to reach the Heart of your great High Priest Who is set over all the lower Priesthood to view and see who in the holy Order of Consecration do keep bringing their Censers to be filled with Fire from those perfuming Coals which can be found no where but in this Altar which are exalted within the Heavens The Spirit taking and scattering these Coals that so the Earth in you may be all a flaming Light burning from this Incense Matter which
of Blessing but will seek to dispoil her from her greater more weighty and eminent Riches with her true Honours through the subâ—…le Pretences that all these by her given are provided to gratifie the outward mans Exigencies who hath need of all these things Which smooth Arguments have deluded Multitudes ingulphing them deep into an irrecoverable Pit of Perdition Of which common Snare O ye that are called and culled out to live upon another Fount and Spring take good heed it is for such as you thereof to be aware It is for you not to be here caught but still to go to Jacob's Lot observe therefore and diligently enquire when you are to depart out of Babylon and when the set-time is that your Laban's Service shall expire Now my charge unto you is that when I your Jesus expresly alarm you to take your leave of all and from all things and to make a quick dispatch after me that you linger not out your time with so many Taking of Leaves and long Salutes whereby to express so hard a Come-off from this Evil World For my Spirit will hide nothing from me but doth give a true account how your Mind and Will stands towards me He is that impartial Spirit of Truth who on both sides is faithful who does as well take of yours and snew to me as of mine to you He cannot and will not make any force without the free consent of your own Will nor treat with you any otherwise then by Love's Entreaties and those many considerable Advantages set before your true Spiritual Eye which in this Light of the anointed One ye may spy without defraud or hindrance And as for thee O Shulamite what thinkest thou doth thy God and me more disgust then when my Spirit bringeth this Report to my Ear that thou canst not yet give full credit to thy Espoused Lord and Husband without wavering My Spirit tells me that Love is not grown so perfect yet in thee as to cast out every questioning thought which makes thee so oft in Jeopardy For couldst thou undoubtedly believe in my Faithfulness and highly great and all-sufficent Responsibility to answer to all and what-ever relates to thee as thou standest in thy exiled state I say if in this perswasion my Spirit could thee fix thou wouldst openly decry down the Beast and his great Benefactor who doth sit on him to give Rewards out of the false pernicious Magick Cup and thou wouldst only look to thy own Eternal Dowry from the Hand of her who is all over cloathed with Strength Glory and Majesty thereby to cover those who are lodged in the Bridegroom's Heart True it is ye have not only witnessed a good Confession with your Lips but have also in some degree given the Sealing Proof by bringing out the first ripe Fruits O know ye who are my Garden Plants for what end are all my Golden Dews to you conveyed through my Spirit Are they not that ye may see this fruitful Tree of Life within your own Lebanon to spring both for Food and Healing Whereto ye are brought by that Spirit and Power which is in mine Elect who are given by the Father to be jointsharers with me in the third great and blessed Lot of pure Breath and Heat from the everlasting Deity Even so to us my God do them this infuse richly according to thy Word October the 6th 1676. This Word came to me saying None but my Eunuchs who are seperated and have cut themselves off from all other People can know how to sanctifie to me a Sabbath of Rest whereby they may cease from the toil of their own Hands In this Day their Strength will be to sit still to feel the all-piercing Unction that hath such a high and wonderful slight as to effect all work without cry or noise This I tell thee Oh Soul as a Secret in thy Ear for in this lieth a deep Mystery which is only known where the Train is purely laid running as out of a Spout from the all-flowing God-head into the pure Eunuch Spirit Who hath suffered a dismembring for the Life of Holy Generations sake through the secret unknown way of co-operation and essential contaction by which the holy thing that is of Ghostly Authority comes in this manner existent in and through Nature's frame to get in such who are thus qualified to shine forth as Day-Stars in the Lamb 's Celestial Firmament After the Spirit had revealed this unto me it said Who but such potent and high raised Spirits pointing to some one or other known by Name should be called out to bear his Name and to shine in Wisdom and Power as Lights before the Gentiles that thereby the Sons of Strangers and Aliens may come to joyn themselves to the Day-Spring from on High which though in the Clouds of Mortality yet known may be by the fruitful operation of the Spirit of Jesus which worketh mightily in contradiction to Reason's Eye Reserve your selves therefore still to hallow my great Name in keeping within the Walls upon which the Guardian Cherubims are set for your defence that there ye may keep my Sabbath from polluting no Burthens must there be carried through And so you will know the beginning of my Eternal Rest. October the 7th 1676. Being upon some occasion interrupted in my Spiritual Calling by touching with that which was ungrateful to the pure Spirit of Jesus he told me That he was of that Seraphick Nature that he could not delight to be where any worldly trafficking Spirits did resort having a disgust to what-ever did spring from this fallen accursed Principle And therefore it was agreed that I must keep his Temple-Habitation pure for that no reception must be there but for the Holy Trinity The outward Court where the common Senses flutter up and down is sufficient to take in what is to be considered for the Mortal Man Who also might well be cast upon the Spirits care and firmly relied upon For such in whom this is so shall grow and spring as a Sabbatical Lily without any thought how their Food and Cloathing do come in Ah! upon this my Spirit cryed Lord I have been a long while getting up my Faith to this pitch but cannot come to the degrees of this all-conquering Faith which may thrust out every tittle of an Earthly Confidence Which I well know are as the miry Rushes that have been a stop to this rising Lily which groweth no where but out of Faith's unweedy Soil Thus by way of Expostulation in Prayer I presented what the Spirit shewed to me was short and defective and did impede the success of the Work going on jointly by the Lord's undertakers Who were thus animated and counselled by his Spirit After that I had supplicated and owned the good Hand of God in joyning me to one that had a good degree of Love Courage and Constancy to go forward with a fixed Eye to the Mount of Transfiguring Glory this Word spake to
according to the pure Element that is there At which offer and upon the terms specified I for my self and for my travelling Friend did perfectly agree on â—…o proceed as this our Dove-Mate should us bear upon her Wing of Power Not fearing to adventure through a Desert state and to draw off from all Communions which are of this visible Sphear For another Voice in my Ear did cry Depart and come out touch nothing neither mingle your Offerings with Korah or his Company who though they may appear with Censers in their Hands yet do you not them come near for the Earth doth close upon them as their most visible dark covering From whom Away with me your flying Horse of Power October the 30th 1676. Being in my private Ejaculations this Word sounded in me All Prayings Prophecyings Speakings are of no validity but what proceed from the Head-covering which is the Miter-Crown of Purity and Power which the Unction alone for you must draw down from him who holdeth in his Hand the Seven Star-Powers to encompass you round that so no nakedness may be more found upon you For what is more empty naked and void then Words that are not touched with the Altar-Coal that giveth Impregnancy where-ever it falleth Therefore hereunto watch and go not forth in any of these ministring Services without you wrap up close this Nazarite Covering of Strength about you for want of which your Labours have been fruitless and my Spirit hath been under reproach and derision to you which shame I am come to take off from you to whom this Caution I do give not to be too hasty to run out before you have put on your Garment of strength Better it is to wait in Secresie till thy Coverting is all finished by him who in his own method moveth and worketh all effectually into whose Mold being cast ye will certainly come forth a much more refined piece of glorious workmanship for the illustration of the Spirit 's Ministration Which Wheel hath by the decree of the Almighty begun to move Now see to it and keep it still going side by side with the Spirit that is the Life-motion of it who will plunge you in to know and see yet greater things as you can keep strait course with it Then may you dive into the Seven Star-Pool which will draw out the last Trumpet-shout of a God Omnipotent for a Covering throughout to thee Who but thee oh thou Spirit in the burning Wheel canst work which for us effect quickly October the 31st 1676. Towards the First Day in the Morning I saw the Dr. as in a publick Theatre bearing a high Testimony for the Spirit in a Youthful figure and Hair grown brown and bushy Who was acted forth that he bore down many that seemed to doubt and question what he from the authority of the Spirit witnessed to Upon which it was said to me This should be fulfilled in his season upon whose rising Day wait to the fulfilling Joy From this presentation it was given me to conclude that the D. should assuredly be made an able Minister of the Spirit in some signal proof of it Which I sought my God for in reference to the Glory that would be manifested through the lifting up the Standard of this mighty defensive Spirit Whom we do begin already to feel is so busie again in us as gives good ground of hope that somewhat is to be brought forth that shall make a free and clear place for the Holy Ghost to act forth his own Power in the Humanity November the 1st 1676. THis Day upon Mr. Bromley's account the Dr. was engaged to speak in Publick whose Sails were spread and filled with Breath from the Anointing Power After which I found my Spirit much called into an inward stillness to find out the original Wheel that turns the whole Creation about As seeing all things short though they are brought forth in Spiritual Appearances they pass away as yet too weak to bring forth the transfigured state Upon which consideration I went to my Nights Repose in some heaviness of Spirit mourning after the Life-working Power to deliver me from this every surviving Hour of Temptation importuning for a naked access to the Throne of Majesty where I might have freedom to open all in plainness of Speech and to hear without any other Medium but the Spirit 's Ear what God would answer to me Upon which I had presented four moving Wheels of Flame Colour As they turned they opened a deep in the ground which still dissolved and melted away where ever they went so they kept on their circling course having at last no more ground to move upon all being burnt up before them A Seraphim with six Wings all covered them only through every Wing an Eye was seen and then the Wheels were lifted up and did ascend Then a Voice came unto me saying Mark and see what you must be turned into if you will see the bare and naked Majesty of Glory Canst thou think to bear the presence of an Immense Light that is of such a transparency without a Cherub's covering upon all thy working Wheels If thou wilt come to the heights of Zion-Glory come prepare for to be undone in thy own sensitive Life the very Pillars of the House oâ—… Nature will be shaken the keepers thereof will tremple Man must cease wheâ—… God descends into his Holy Place these flaming Coverts of the Spirit will leâ—… nothing of the Flesh inherit with it Therefore till thou dost agree to thiâ—… there can be no possibility of coming in to that great Assembly where the Mosâ—… High doth over all Worlds reign witâ—… his Train of glorified Spirits When had after this manner discoursed the result of my importunity was thus given to me I was convinced what such an access for continuation there would cost For it was shewed to me there must be down right Payment Words would not alone pass All our earthly Goodness and Godliness was to be given away for this Cherub's Covering and no longer in the Tents of Babylon to stay there to live in the midst of a People of unclean Lips Now the great thing is how this shall be brought to pass for who shall live when God doth this Yet seeing the all-knowing Spirit hath plainly hereof advertised that so to us it may not come as a surprize when these burning Wheels shall wholly undermine and consume what it finds of that putrified Earth in us Oh then I do see the six Winged Seraphim will be our Covering through which we shall behold the Lord the mighty King upon his Throne of Glory according as hath been foretold and there his mighty Voice shall hear which now sounds in our Ears from that Seraphick Sphear November the 3d. 1676. As I was introverted into my self this Morning calling over those things revealed upon the Representation of the four Wheels that eat out the Earth which it moved upon this Word moreover cryed in
Spirit is ascended into the Father's Bosom From whence may be expected thy return to bring down that Spirit which will raise that Body thro which that Signal Sign shall be manifested that can assume Authority to release what hath been in Captivity And ye shall go forth with the Scepter dominion Ye have but this one thing to effect to shew out your selves risen from the Dead Then you will find that every Breath which proceeds from you is of such force as to command the whole Heavenly Host. November the 9th 1676. As I was this Morning cast into some perplexity about the instability which I found my self incident unto that I could not keep afloat upon the broad River still to swim in the full Stream of the Spirit But some entervenings would happen to stop my pace and prevent if it might be the arrival to that most sweet and blessed Port which hath been designed for us I for this called in the High Throne-Councel to know what shall be done for us who are sensible of these petty sinkings When the Lord hath given the Word to come after him though it be upon a boisterous Sea could we steer our Course upon Faith's Boat the floating tossing Sâ—…a would soon come to be Calm But oh my staggering Spirit is not to such a steadiness come as with my Jesus all like a Spirit there to talk with him who may yet now again be seen to walk in the deep Ocean These things being the matter of my Meditation and Consultation with that Word which was to me very nigh it suddainly cryed within me thus What stability can ye come unto till the four Winds are with-held which awaken the old condemned Life in all its Essences Then was presented a Hand from under a Wing which knit up these blasting Winds that they might not hurt the new replenished Field out of which are expected the Seven Years Plenty Then hereby I saw it was only this strong Eagle-Hand which could the rough East-Wind stay that caused those swarming Flies to bâ—…z and make a noise sucking away those Honey-Dews so soon as they do fall It was also further noted to me that these Winds were of that evil consequence as to put to wreck the Sailing Ship of Faith whereby all the out-ventured stock of Life is to be brought in These four Winds were also named to me as 1 st Wormwood 2 dly War 3 dly Anguish 4 thly Destruction These being let loose did blow up the Natural Senses breathing fresh Life every moment into them So maintaining the Spiritual War For so long as the carnal low Sense liveth and is hereby revived it will be active after many a deadly stroke to nullifie that supersensual Life of Revelation that cannot take its place till these Life-breathing Winds be bound up Then was shewed me an Engraving like a Seal with the Emblem of an Olive-Tree with three branches and it was said to me When ye are Sealed with this living Print you then shall know a fixed Life These Winds can no more hurt if once they may but stop till ye are feelingly impressed with this Olive-Tree This is another manner of Life then what is subject unto Mutability For what is greater then for the Life of the Holy Trinity to be appropriated penetratingly by way of Sealing Now for this great preparation thereto is required the one pure unleavened Lump all passive without Life to receive the Impression Which accordingly was performed by the overshadowing of the Dove that gave the living Witness of being Baptize into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost By which the Contrary Winds were restrained that they could not blow up the dark Mists and Fogs any more So from hence feeling in me a pure Serene Calmness the Powers of the Eternal World did let fall sweet pleasant Dews from which the Fruitful Sharon did spring to entertain the Trinity within the circumference of this holy Ground which is now so strongly enclosed and fortified that nothing common or unclean can pass hereunto for the pure Winds from the Heavenly Element gave forth a new fresh Air all clear and bright so that in the Light thereof liberty was given for Holy Walks as in a Supercelestial Region there to take up the Souls true Central Rest. Even so sweet Jesus never let me venture out lest those perilous Winds should me overtake to unfix me out of the even Temperature wherein all stability will the Mind most safely and securely Fix November the 12th 1676. Now upon this Sealing opened and enlarged the great Mystery of the three Heavenly Witnesses which gives light to the Understanding and makes it capable of knowing and comprehending the Souls true Originality as to what it was what it is and what it is to be what it was in its first pure State then how it fell and lastly what it is to be and after what manner to be restored In which three Particulars these Witnesses do unfold themselves and bear Record but the chief and principal of these is the Third or the Restoration whereby God raiseth the Fallen Tabernacle going forth in a new Creation and Formation to produce a suitable Habitation for himself wherein the Father doth in the first place record his own Name which is demonstrated in opening a Flood-gate of Love expressed in the Gift of his Son not only to be born for us but be born in us bearing witness that we are hereby passed from the Misery Death Curse and the Wrath of God into the Liberty and Similitude of the Deity it self wherein the Righteous and Immaculate Nature of Jesus doth spring as the Lily in the Valley For it is not a bare Record or Report of these Witnesse but it is an essential Body All-Deiform which is a Record that can never be obliterated for that the Holy Ghost is the sure Pledge hereof which doth keep alive this Impression by his continued Motives and Operations So that what is Invisible in the Heavens is made Visibâ—… to the Dove Eye through which thy Soul hath its Seeing By which Seeing it is marvellously enflamed and affected with those Objects that so beautiful excellent and enamouring are that do wonderfully take the Mind off from these low Animal and Natural Things the Super-celestial Life being raised and employed altogether upon what is so ineffably Joyous and Glorious For thus the higher Heavens are brought down by this Trinity of Witnesses into the habitable part of Man's Earth November the 20th 1676. The Ternary of Witnesses upon the Earth answering to the Impression from the three Branches of the True Olive-Tree were now heard to give in severally their Testimony agreeably with that which is given in the Heavenly Places in order to the bringing about the greatest and highest of all Ministrations which is that of the Holy Ghost and to the compleating and defending of the Kingly Birth from the Virgin Woman which the Dragon ever watcheth against to destroy it And hence was