been understood All which shall be made good when the Soul shall be brought forth as a well tuned Instrument new strung and qualified in the deified man where the holy Spirit moves every Property according to the central Wheel in its new begotten Form which is set free to run its Races in the Sphere of Light where weak Mortality with its sinful Essences are out-run and left behind in the Fall Let not this seem strange or impossible for in the Deep a Mean is found for the bringing forth of this long buried Seed which hath long waited to arise in its original Body of essential Perfection and harmoniz'd Powers that it may appear that God is come to move and shew himself in the Covenant of his Love according to the Preordination in the heart of Christ for by him we do obtain this Resurrection in order to all the following Glories which the holy Spirit shall bring with him even so Anon. This Instruction being so immediately from the Lord carried great weight with it and made me resolve to wait upon the working Power in my inward Deep for the reducing of every divided Property to Unity for I was fully convinced that this Uniformity must be the Temple in which the holy Spirit will appear for the bringing of all working Powers to a heavenly Consort and Agreement I sate upon this day by day and as I found great drivings thereunto from the South Wind of Heaven so strong Storms were raised from the North with roaring Seas that lifted up their Waves to scatter and make void this holy Enterprize in injecting divers Temptations that such a thing as this could not hold or abide but would have its Overturnings and Changes for that nothing less than a God can always be in an equal Temperature and that this was rather the full effect of the holy Spirits coming than a Preparation for it Thus was I puzled and tossed to and fro in my Mind as if I were put upon that which could never be brought about or carried through to the desired End But the Lords Word was mighty and powerful to press me forward to this sweet and well ordered Composure of Mind to abide in an equal Temperature notwithstanding all that might come in to discourage me whether from those visible things or from the dark Principality which is much more hurtful in regard that they as Spirits can shoot in their Darts before we are aware so that this bath been my watchful Exercise for some days to resist what would have done Violence to that which in Concord and Peace would ever unshaken remain The holy One according to his friendly way and manner of Visitation did after all this exceedingly comfort and strengthen me to maintain his right of Conquest over all that which yet is left to vex and awaken Anxiousness or any Fear or Turmoile in the Soul My Jesus thus spake Consider and know thou art to hold fast what I have purchased by the fore-passed Death in thee as having assumed that Body of Sin to offer it up for a consuming Sacrifice once for all as was shewed in the Type of the visible Body which is now done again in the invisible So that you are to reckon and account your sins virtually done away they can claim no Law either to reign or condemn Look upon all Motions of this kind to be at the check of the Spirit who hath again quickned the dead and will no more give way to that which came in to flesh for to destroy And therefore let none pretend a necessity of continuing in that which hath brought in Confusion and Disagreement seeing a Redeeming Spirit is come down to renew and gather in the lost again to the divine Beeing from whence they did proceed at first pure as God is pure to which degree of Perfection that we may be restored again is the end of Christs Mediatory Office not only without but within us where the Body of Sin hath been yielded up for an Offering This confirming Word Christ the Lord who is arising left with me for them who have been in the Death with him that we henceforth may know our selves in him to be acquitted and released from all Claims which the evil Powers and Properties can make for upholding that Kingdom where the Beasts Throne is which consists of envy wrath strife from all which by an eternal Decree of the Lord Jehovah you are set free and brought into the Harmony of that Kingdom where the springing Joy from the Peace of God doth run as a River that hath its Division through all Properties for to bring them to the heavenly Unity whereby the Creature is set free from the Bondage of Sin and a wafaring Life according to the Pattern seen in the Mount of Vision to which my Spirit hath been oft taken up to see the wonderful Plat-form of the New-Jerusalem The Vision of the New-Jerusalem The Lord took me away from my mortal part and shewed me the Scituation of this great Glory and said Behold and see the Pattern of the heavenly Houses and Mansions which make up the New-Jerusalem where the Glory of the One only God doth fill all with the essential Light and Splendor of his divine goodness I shall as I am able describe what I did see in the Heavens of this Mother-City for so it was named to me who is to bring forth her first and free-born to replenish the New Earth and Heavens It appeared as a City sounded upon one square Stone whose Dimensions were very large It was all paved with light flaming Colours appearing like so many various sparkling Stones inlaid on the great Foundation Stone which gave forth a luster as if so many bright Suns had been there Towards the Verge or out-side of this square Stone were seen many Seraphick Bodies wreathing Arm in Arm and several rows of various spiritual Forms of different Ranks and Stature These Rews appeared like the Stories of a building which were carried up higher higher in a square Figure till it was wonderful high upon the Heads of the most inward glorified Bodies a Covering was spread by one more Diaphanous and of greater splendor than all the rest the Height of his Person was higher by the head then all the other who called to me out of this most glorious Building To take good heed of all I had seen for it had a further meaning which I was to have revealed when driven by the Spirit into the light Mystery where all deep things do open Oh my dear Lord be thou an All-springing Testimony within and from this New-Jerusalem My Spirit being drawn out for a further Enquiry concerning this New-Jerusalem state what the Appearance of it to us did signifie for this present time the Foundation Stone thereof gave forth this Word That such a City the mighty Cyrus would himself be the Founder of upon the visible Stage of this World although there be little appearance
all places and companies became very tedious and unpleasant to me where I was prevented of feeding the flame of my Love from the beautifical enjoyment of his presence The truth is I had sucked in such a sweet Savour through a most intimate Friendliness to which my Lord condescended for the Joy and Love-delight of my Soul that I could scarcely admit the giving my Conversation to any in whom I could not see his all-aimable Spirituality for which alone I reserved my self For indeed I could willingly have attended it day by day continually without any intervening Night But my Bridegroom after all this ingratiating of himself to me did often prove those two great Witnesses in me of Faith and Love which as two twins did grow up out of the fresh Sharon which was renewed within from whence they did with great strength and loveliness spring But many hard Encounters and rude Assaults they were fain to bear and first in this respect my Lord Jesus having begotten his own lively Signature in me by his often appearing and so passing in himself as an Essential rising Body that naturally cared only to move and act in the Sphear of High and Heavenly things and at no time to be found out of that Circumference in which to be thwarted and prevented was my very great tryal having reference only to God in this matter on whom my Faith and Love was exercised for having all outward vacancies and advantages that might cherish and nourish up this Lilly-Birth according to its native kind which neither could agree to go out into the gross muddy and infectious Air of this noysom Keder or Worldly Region But so it was that my Lord suffered it thus by reason of many temporal necessities wherein I was constrained to spend my time which should wholly have been employed upon a more worthy and considerable account than to serve the Table of the outward Man which I looked upon as very low and mean in comparison of that High-born Heir whom I carried as an invisible Glory under the Vail of contemptible Corporeity And upon this consideration God tried his own begotten Love whether it would hold out under all damps checkings and suppressings both inward and outward which it met withal for I apprehend I had so great an interest and hold of the Almighty that it had been an easie thing to have had all needful things to come to serve the free born Spirit and not be engaged in the Toil and servile Care after the Rudiments of the present fallen and self-ingrossing Generation the Customs and manner of which my Spirit had long since been made to descent from in obedience to the Law of Faith which I continue to keep up unto expecting all Income of Blessing there-from And though hitherto the Lord hath exceedingly proved me herein yet now the thousand-fold is beginning to break in even by that pure and only Love-dominion which I do feel opens in the highest leavening Property for it reacheth to the Bounds of the everlasting Mountain of God's immutability of Love from whence it springs And what may it not multiply and produce as it goeth on still conquering all Enmity where-ever it meets it as having overcome it in its own soulish Essence and so may do the same in others who groan and travail for the same being but weak in Love and so not able to out-wrastle Love's opposite This is and will be the signal Motto whereby that perfect thing called Charity will be known which seeketh not its own Dignity and Tranquility in heavenly Places there to reign in the Love alone but most ardently seeks it for its fellow-Members even when rejected and fought against for this is the new Gospel-Law so urged and pressed by the Lord and his Apostles in their day as knowing it was the only means to plant us again in our own pure eternal beginning where nothing but perfect Love was known Oh! this is of such import and weight as I cannot but from the feeling sense hereof set forth the exceeding Sweetness that is to be found in it when it comes of a Conqueror as having been tryed by God himself and by our fellow Disciples which is more piercing than any Tryals from others Yet all this will not quench the right Spirit which is tinctured with the God-head flame of Love It is so strong that it works over all Choakings and Water-Floods that would drown it Thus having given a most true and experimental Account how the Kingdom of Love came to reign in Dominion for all Shakings of this pure Plant rooted and fastened it as an invincible Rock as in reference to God the Beeing of Love so likewise towards all my fellow-Members growing up in all their various degrees in this Body of Love fulfilling that Royal Law which is to love one another from a pure Heart not superficially or feignedly but with such a Love as wherewith God our Father hath loved us who caused his Love to enter in our Enmity and did thereby slay it and reconcile a depraved Nature which stood out in all Refractoriness against his Grace and Kindness Now after this sort we are to love one another even where we meet with Reluctancy and Gain-sayings to the killing and opposing of this pure thing yet Charity that is begotten of God in us will suffer and bear and rise up a Conqueror through all Beatings and Quenchings And truly whosoever hereunto arrive and can fixedly keep upon the Throne and uncessantly Reign over all Assaultings and Contradictions of this kind in themselves and out of themselves they may well and really conclude that the perfect thing is come that will redeem from all Evils even from the wrathful Root of Enmity from whence all Self-Love Envy Haughtiness Covetousness and Bitterness do proceed Now Love's-Birth rising in its strong Might in the Soul as that eternal anointed Christ who is come to condemn Sin in our Flesh yea the very Root and Source of all Sin and we shall certainly know the falling away of the Man of Sin thereby for Love is that which irrecoverably sinks him into his own bottomless Lake from whence he can never rise any more But it may be said this is a rare and wonderful thing indeed But is it attainable during this time of Mortality Yea assuredly or else the Lord Christ would never have urged it and commanded it so frequently both in leaving it as his last Charge and suming up the whole Law of Perfection in love to God and our fellow-Members preaching the same Doctrine by his Spirit in the Apostles after his Ascention according as it is by St. John and St. Paul abundantly recorded Read their Epistles and you will find what an Eminency is put upon this Gift more than all others Now the holy Ghost brings in Charity as distinct and more excellent than them all The holy Inspiration thus opened it That Charity is of that high Extraction and so purely descended that
enkindled Sparks encreasing to Flames which are to consume all envy wrath as Stubble and Dross The Trumpet sounds from Mount-Zion and waxeth louder and louder we daily hear it from which we have declared the most excellent things concerning the eternal Love-fellowship in Gods own clearness in which no spot of Darkness is to be found You will say Where are such to be found according to this degree which you have here described All vsiible Churches and Societies are far too light when weighed with this golden Grain and Shekel of the eternal Sanctuary We know it to be so from the all-piercing Eye which doth try all degrees of Love and it may be universally bewailed that so much superficial formal and dead Love is found both to God and one another Hence we do not wonder that the Bridegroom makes no more haste his Bride wanting as yet her full Vesture or Robe of pure Charity without which she can never be said to be ready for this is to be all her Glory both within and without and to adorn her for love and delight Therefore all Preheminence and Honour give to Love taking all care to nourish it up in God and there abound in it towards one another This high pure and mystical Unity of Love hath been yet very little understood and less practised that Leaven-born-society is much scattered Where is Love's paved habitation to be found in which fervent Charity doth wholly act and move loving and admiring as God appears and looks forth through the Lettice of Humanity in each one Oh! how should it draw out and open the Springs of Love as God himself who is the Spirit and Life of Love which moveth and riseth in holy Souls And therefore it becomes us to be tender of it not to grieve it or quench it in one another for that may cause it to sink and dye away in our selves and then the very Ark of our strength departs from us and the heat and vigour of all spiritual Life declines with it Upon which consideration O ye Heaven-born out of the Womb of eternal Love where-ever dispersed let your Gatherings be to this lifted-up-Standard where Love's Kingdom is known and possessed in all Peace Joy and Tranquility The Trumpet from Mount-Zion doth found to call you away from all worldly drossy perishing Loves which are not Supersensual and Coelestial nay further from all luke-warm supperficial Loves for Love's workings must be fervent strong and immutable for the making meet for the rising and abiding Powers of the holy Ghost to work from All which will be brought out of the firey Furnace of Love for the great and mighty things that give Testimony of Christ's Kingdom in his Saints being come for it will surely open from this Center Now who-ever ye are that feel the touch of this Coelestial Fire-Stone send forth your warming Sparks to set one another in an holy Flame know your own Mother's Children hide not your selves from them be no longer Strangers towards them sind them out from North to South revive yet once again the Apostolical knot and band of unfeigned Love that may fore-run the Bridegroom's return to dwell amongst us that so we may no longer Fast and Mourn but be ever feasted with Love's multiplyings from the Fountain-Deity Even so confirm it O Lord Jesus accordingly Oh God! inspire with thy Love-Fires That we may abide with Angelical Quiers The Lamb's Trump doth sound to call us up To drink of this Love-flaming Cup The Spirit thereof doth so sweetly burn That Mortals into Seraphims doth turn Is not this the transforming thing Which to a God-like Beeing will bring Oh Charity What can be said of thee Dost thou not proceed from the Deity Henceforth I must proclaim Love's Fame To all that bear that living Name Who would not in love be with Love also For its force is greater than all Foe How doth it expel all Fears that they fly Because of sweet Peace and Serenity Love born of God Heir to all Goods Steward of his House giving out Food Is not this the one only excellent thing Which will fetch out the Serpent's Sting Nay more than this I clearly see Love will enter the secret of the Deity Where ye will see Love a burning Lamp Upwards flying never choked or dampt Wind we up our Angels to God above Where we may drink our fill of Love And feast on those fat and pleasant things That are within the Gardening Springs Where the everlasting Gates open stand For such as be united in Love's hand Come enter then as Charriot burning Flame Into that holy Place which known is by Name We feel Love like a bubbling Spring Which make us the new Song ever sing All Praises we will give to Elohim Who rideth on the Seraphims Floods of Joy with Coelestial Praise Shall now out-flow to the Ancient of Dayes For while we feel and taste Love's Fire It doth extinguish all earthly Desire Let thy Love stream forth as a Shower Let it flow forth in Life and Power This is the thing that is most pure It can all of our Desires fully cure Oh! let the Kingdom of this Love come That we may reign with God the Son In everlasting Love's sweet Harmony Hereby conquering all of the Enmity Love is the Lamb 's pure Virgin-Bride She is all Fair and Comly So sweet so mild and ravishing in his Eye That in his Love-imbraces she must lie There possessing such pure Coelestial Joy As none can know nor come to annoy A Bed of Rest here for her is found That makes Love's-Trumpet ever found Having passed through Love's Region and Dominion we are come to set forth according to the Gift still bestowed upon us the glorious state of the everlasting Priesthood of Christ carried on in his most holy Temple Body and heavenly Sanctuary which is framed for it by the Love-Power and Wisdom of the Most-High who will have a Kingdom of Priests elected and set apart for this purpose To draw near in full assurance of acceptance with him in all their holy Offerings each one from their consecrated Tabernacle to minister to the mighty Jehovah For the which is required a special Ordination which none can be capable of but such as first are all purified in the burning Springs of Love that so they may become Holy Merciful and Compassionate to intercede for the Ignorant and such as are turned aside from the tract of the just and perfect One. Now then to be called anointed of God to this holy Function is the greatest spiritual Dignity and Honour that can be conferred upon the Love-Flock it excels both the Prophetical and Kingly Dominion all which intrinsically do agree together only the Priestly Office doth out-shine in Glory being the last and finishing Ministration which shall reconcile and gather into the Unity with the most holy and ever blessed Trinity where fixation within the Temple-Body of the holy Ghost shall ever more be enjoyed Now in
THE REVELATION OF Revelations Particularly as an ESSAY Towards The Unsealing Opening and Discovering THE Seven Seals the Seven Thunders and the New-Jerusalem State The which have not hitherto so far been brought forth to light except by the Spiritual Discerner to any degree of Satisfaction as to the understanding of the grand Mystery Published by J. L. the Author of the Heavenly Cloud made mention of particularly in the Preparatory Epistle to that late Theosophick Piece Entituled Theologia Mystica A Work never Extant before Rev. 5. 9. And they sang a new Song saying Thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof 1 Cor. 1. 10. For God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit 's for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God London Printed and Sold by A. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch Also by J. Lead at the Carpenters in Bartholomew-Close and at Book-sellers in London and Westminster 1683. H. LION To the living Stones gathered and to be gathered to Christ the Foundation Stone where-ever hid scattered and dispersed who are elected in God for the New-Jerusalem-Glory and Mount-Zion-Church all Love Grace Peace and Joy be multiplied from him who was is and is to come THe Establishment of the restored Sion-Church cannot be by Man or after Manly Wisdom but by the holy Spirit which Christ our Prince and Saviour hath sent in his own Name to build upon the Foundation of the Father and the Son a Rock indeed which remaineth steady and unshaken from Time to Eternity And indeed who else is found sufficient for the gathering and building of these holy Temple-Stones that are to be fitly compacted together to make up this glorious Church that may be presented all fair without Spot as becomes the Spouse and Bride of the Lamb which you will find the whole subject of the following Revelations tend to even to the bringing out of all that are found in Lifeless Forms into the very substantial Life and Ministration of the holy Spirit where the Increase and growing up is known into that Body in which God will move and work all for the which end all Prophecies that have been from the foundation of the World may have their fulfilling in this last Age for the which good Assurance is given from the fresh springing of the Word of Wisdom that may produce a sealed Commission not only in Letter but from the feeling fiery-breath of the true Unction which is the living Epistle by which alone I desire to be made known to you and from thence do send pure Love-greeting to them whose Ears are opened to hear and receive what the Spirit of Truth hath declared and unfolded in this little Volumn which now is presented to publick view contrary to the intent and purpose of the subordinate Author hereof who as I was waiting in my continued course and order upon the heavenly showring and to feed and be refreshed in this all-fruitful and pleasant Pasture being satisfied here to take my lengths and breadths in all free conference with the Lord the Spirit whom I did well know by his inward flaming Body which at certain times did stir and rise and then I could hear and distinctly know the Voice of his Mouth which came as a soft melting Fire-breath and said Record what since October 1679. hath been seen heard tasted and felt and shun not to declare it for it hath a peculiar service on Gods behalf to do though at present hid from thee only observe and be watchful and I will certainly Follow this at the Heels And thus you may perceive under what constraint I am and by whose Commission these deep and mystical Revelations are now published who fore-sees what effects they are to have and what Souls and Spirits are to be touched and enkindled from the same burning-Ray which will surely over-shadow the believing And for the doubtful I have only this Caution and that from the holy and just One. That henceforth they cease from rash and uncircumcised Judgment which doth arise from the rational Will and Spirit and above all to put on the meek simple and child-like Spirit and so cease to be injurious to their own Souls for nothing is more prejudicial to the growing and springing Life and Light than to give way to Incredulity and an evil Suspition raised from the dark Mists of Sense and worldly Wisdom which can never reach the deep things of the Spirit Therefore if there be any force power or authority in that Word of Life that was from the beginning and is now come to bear his own living Record in our day which Word and Spirit of Truth and Wisdom let none resist but open the everlasting Doors of their Souls and Minds for to take it in and so you will of the lively Hope partake and bear the true and living Testimony with us That the Morning Star is risen for to lead us out of our selves where nothing but Darkness is and where the fallen Spirits keep their strong Hold binding and putting out the Eyes of Sampson the Nazerite the figure of the eternal Spirit which is in all the Sons of Adam against which the grand Apollyon hatcheth his treacherous Conspiracy for he hath great Indignation against us because such Love Grace and Goodness hath now abounded to us in Christ Jesus our Lord who is come to offer himself an effectual Salvation in all there is not a Door that he passeth by but that at one time or other he knocks at it and would find entrance in to redeem and fetch out his own eternal Spirit from under Bondage Death and Misery But such are the subtil Wiles of that Enemy of all Mankind that he provides a Dalilah for some to steal and draw away their Minds and to seduce their more Noble part to that which is vile base and sensual And then another more subtil Bait he casts out for those who are mortified and have escaped those worldly Charms and are come to a sober and lawful use of the things of this Creation and yet are held Captives through the Multiplicity of Mortal Cares Businesses and Concerns for the outward Man whereby they are so overcharged and weighed down in their Spirits that they cannot get up to shake off this carthly Dust to walk with God in Enoch's state not observing that counsel of the Lord Christ First to seek the Kingdom of Heaven and with all getting to get Wisdom The contrary to which is most universally practised in making sure first of the Beasts Kingdom and the perishing Mamon of Unrighteousness and then if the Kingdom of Heaven will fall in and be added to them it shall be welcome but alas this will not do Christ will not be served last Wherefore let not the Serpent beguile any who seek the Pearl of Christs Kingdom but be wise to avoid the choaking Earth and drowning Floods and trust the Lord upon his Word who will certainly make
signal Demonstration by opening the divine Magia whereby the holy Spirit comes to act in his own place viz. in the ascended Body of the Resurrection from thence to go forth and work his Wonders such as yet were never wrought which will be the Introduction into the fixed Glorification for to be Co-centred in the ascended triumphant Spirit the Glory of which is attributed to the Lamb of God of whom it is said That he is worthy to receive Blessing Wisdom Power Strength and Glory for the effecting of so full and perfect a Redemption all which shall be assigned to the glorified in Christ who in the Royal unchangeable Priesthood shall be confirmed as going up from Glory to Glory till swallowed up in Glory Power Might and Excellency the manner of which is defined as the Close of all that hath been treated of in this Book as the finishing Testimony which at present was given me from the Lord of Glory Therefore so receive them in Faith and Love for this is the day of Gods Revelation who sends forth this as a fore-going Harbinger who according to his Promise will soon follow to fulfil all the rich and precious Things prophested herein and therefore calleth upon his scattered Stones to get together to Harmonize in the Eternal Light Love and Purity provoking each other to go on forward in this four-fold Process of our Lord Jesus arising out of this long Night of Slumber for the Day is broken and the Morning-Star may be discerned Consider to what a Life of Glory and Immortality ye are called it is great and wonderful indeed yet know the East-Gate now will open to those that earnestly knock thereat so that there is a certain possibility to get up unto all these Degrees of Glory Wherefore let none doubt but be girded with the Omnipotency of Faith which will rid the way swiftly leaving all unbelieving Loyterers behind A Race we have to run some may not be yet set out others newly engaged and others a good way in the Race but blessed are they who shall at the Price first come that so they may return to strengthen and encourage their Companions in the Race who may see the Rosie-Garland of Victory in their Hands and the Diadem of precious Stones as the Price which they have won which doth well deserve to be run hard for not delaying so much time as to look behind being once set out but so run that we may obtain But it may be questioned Who and where those are which are so resolute and strong in Spirit as to hold out to the end of the Race For this none can be found indeed but such as are arisen with Christ from the dead he is must become the Racer in us for all other Legs we run with will soon tire and be weary therefore set not out till Christ your Life and Strength be risen as a Gyant refreshed to run out this conquering Race where ye may come to lie down under the encompassing Glory as in an everlasting pleasant Shade possessing all those high and wonderful Immunities Glories Crowns Joys Gifts Powers in the Holy Spirit who will magnifie his Office in acting and working all in the Body of the Resurrection concerning which I shall no further enlarge but refer you to what is treated of in the former and this the following Revelations I shall now cease and shut up all in that springing Fountain from whence this bundle of Revelations did proceed having a good Hope and certain Perswasion that the Lord will be with his own Testimony in a light Ray spreading over all the Darkness of those Minds that shall attend and receive without Prejudice what is written though to some it may appear Obtruse Deep and Mystical and hard to be understood yet to others who are come under the teaching of the same Unction it will appear plain and easily apprehended and that the Spirit will bear record with us of what was and is and yet is to come Now the things yet to come is that Powerful and Princely Reign unto Glorification which hath long been prophesied of and now again with an Affirmation that the Lord will suddainly be upon us to take unto him his Kingdom which nothing of the Beasts Reign shall mingle Oh! Holy Precious and Elect let us not Sleep but set our Morning-Watch for Tydings are come to make all things ready for him Let it appear who the Wise Virgins are by their making themselves ready to meet the Lord not only for a Visit or Salvation but for an Eternal Marriage and an un-interrupted Nuptial Fruition and so to be ever with the Lord or rather the Lord to be ever with us as his dear Bride perfectly redeemed from the Earth as it becometh her thus Holy and Blameless to be found for the everlasting Priestly Celebration and Holy Ministration in no other Temple but what is called God and the Lamb where the only true Spiritual Worshippers are found and from whence our Praise-Offerings will spring as from the bright Sphere of Glory that swallows up Darkness Death Sorrow Contempt and the Curse in a full and total Victory for the Hopes of which and first budding Fruits now shall conclude with high Acclamation Glory Salvation and Praise to God and the Lamb that cometh to Reign evermore even so and Amen Known to be Yours in the unsealed Book of Life which none can shut again J. ☞ Lead and E. H. follows The Introduction IT was in my purpose to have suspended as yet any further manifestation of the Revelation that still followed me and would have hid the golden Talent only for an encrease in its own invisible Ground from whence it open'd at first till such time is it might come forth in the multiplying Number of the holy Spirit to seal up the glory of all that had gone before in Vision and Prophecy but Christ the bright Banner of Glory stood before me and said Keep in Record the Journal of the now raised Life according to the Profession then art going on in and know that what hath and it further to be revealed shall be sealed with a mighty Witness conquering all Opposition where-ever it shall rise Wherefore go on and forbear not writing for it shall be as the unclouding of the present dark Day and many shall come in at the brightness of its rising though it now seems to be under an Eclipse Thus was I afresh enkindled from the All-pierciug Word of my Lord who knows for what end he moves me horeunto tho I still objected against it as fore-seeing no Passage for such high Mysteries nor likelihood of their Reception in that Love which is void of censuring and therefore would rather have hid these heavenly things in their own Centre But seeing it hath pleased the Lord to over-rule my Resolution I shall be obedient to his Word as believing it may extend to the benefit of some who are known to himself who will not difesteem
of it as yet because the Elect Stones are at present lying amongst the Rubbish of Confusion who in due time are to be linked together to make up a strong City of Defence through the Gates of which no unclean Vessel shall pass nor whatsoever is Lame or Blemished according as was seen in the Pattern This the Lord will effect by his Might and Spirit and establish this City on Mount-Zion at which the whole World shall Tremble Whilst the Lord was communing with me about this heavenly City I saw it descend and cover the whole Earth and all those who were not prepared to enter and who could claim no Birth-right freedom in this Mother-City did flee away by Multitudes Heaps upon Heaps to hide themselves from the bright Splendor of the divine Body with the anointed head in the midst of it The Glory was so great that we can only give an Eclipsed account of what was seen But as the descent of this Magnificence did terrifie and cause above three parts of the World to flee away as having an irreconcileable Enmity to Spirits and Bodies of such Purity so on the other hand I saw a Numerous Company gathered to it from all Quarters the Trumpet-shout of Jerusalems great King calling them in from all parts they were all the first-born of this Mother-City who well knows her own calling them by that Name which is impressed upon them in flaming Characters of Love Multitudes of this kind encompassed the holy City but few were admitted to the Seraphick wreathe even those only who had put on the glorified Body Whereupon I asked Why those who were called and had the Name of the heavenly City upon them were not received in And the Lord said That those who were taken into the Glory had finished their inward Transformation to the utmost Perfection waiting only for the Consumation of the Nuptial Glory but that the rest though far gone in true Regeneration could not be admitted until their Redemption were perfectly wrought out to the end that no flaw may be found in the Stones that are to constitute this divine Building but as any shall arrive to this degree of Perfection so this City shall descend and take them in Hereupon followed a further discovery to let me know the Royal Freedom of the spiritual Seed proceeding from the New-Jerusalem as the Virgin Bride of God who though come down into this visible Birth of Time yet was before all Time in the Substantiality of spiritual Essence by whom the renewed fruitfulness of this free Birth shall in this last Age of the World be made manifest which was the joyful Message which sounded in my Heavens with what is further to be declared for our Consolation It was thus laid before me That the Jerusalem from above hath been these many Ages travelling to bring forth her first and free-born according to that divine Likeness whose Descent is not to be found within the verge of Time For here the Gate of Gods deep hath been opened to let us in to see the wonderful Mystery that was fore-ordained to work through all the Vicissitudes of Time since the first Creation Now then let us consider what the first Plant of Paradise was from whence we are all sprung it was but a flower from the Earth for out of the Dust of the Earth the Lord God created man and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life and man became a living Soul which was pure as immediately proceeding from the most Holy But how soon did this Glory fade and return to Earth again whereas if he had kept his first Estate he would have been advanced to higher degrees of Perfection and become fruitful in Gods Virgin off-spring All which Design for a limitted time was overturned but the Foundation of Gods Election stood so firm in the Essentiality of the out-breathed Word which was the Light of Adam's Life in the Center of Immortality that the same Word will restore all again according to the first gracious Intent of the wise Creator whose purposed Grace shall renew the face of all things that have been marred in the first Adamiral Image But though so desperate a Fall hath overtaken the whole Creation yet is it but as the fading or cropping of a flower whose eternal Root remaining will put forth and spring a-fresh in a more glorious Beauty and Figure than the first ever had For though by one mans Disobedience all are made subject to Death and the Curse which is the bruising of the Heel yet the Head-Life remains which will recover raise and make all sound again for in this promised seed the faded Life will be quickned according to the Election of Him who will hereby more Eminently make known the Riches of his Grace and Glory in his Vessels prepared thereunto For though there be in all men an holy seed remaining whereby they are in a possibility of recovery yet because all have not an Heart to improve this Talent it continues an unprofitable dead Seed to many notwithstanding all are called To take of the Water of Life freely that by its quickning Virtue the buried Seed may be raised to a new Life in a Body of its own kind which Seed through many Deaths does renew its never fading Flower of Life for a higher degree of Glory in the New Jerusalem state of fixation Now from what hath been said we are informed that there is an Elect Number which is to make up the New Jerusalem-Bride here upon Earth who shall finish the Mystery of the Seventh Seal and be all instated in that Kingdom which the Alpha and Omega hath designed for his Virgin-Bride before Paradise or this World were And that I might know that this design and unchangeable purpose of God is still going on there was shewed me a clear White Stone in which were engraven numberless Names all ordained to make up the Glory of this City of God which shall be the Praise and Admiration of the Heavens and a dread and amazement to the Earth for the Revelation of it will bring a Wo upon them who have no part in it This the Lord himself did signifie saying Henceforth know your Free-Birth Name and Place in this City and be not fearful or unbelieving but travel on in the assured Hope that shall not be made ashamed for the everlasting Father hath prepared for you this City of which I am the Builder in you The hand of the Lord was strong upon me still and took me up into an high and lofty Place where I saw a burning Furnace which appeared all Blew like the airy Clouds and the Lord walking in it to and fro who said See whether thou canst make thy Pass to me and abide in this pure everlasting burning Region which is the Spirits purging Fire which will devour whatsoever is not of the same Essentiality with me Upon which I replied Ah! my Lord I am free to make my Pass to thee but how
shall I get rid of this Body I would fain exist in that pure Essence with thee where nothing of this lump of Earth might prevent my constant Walks in those high Places with thee whose presence will make these outward Elements to flee away from the superior Spirit The Holy One replied Be not troubled at thy Binding Mortality for I will descend in this fiery Cloud into thee as a baptizing Fire which shall take away the gross Impurities of the Senses that thou mayst be clarified in order to thy Codeification which will manifest the out-spreading Name of thy Emmanuel whereby thou shalt receive Power to ascend through Fire and Air and continue that all-desireable freedom of Communion with the holy Trinity And though none in a Body of Flesh and Six can come up to me yet Grace Pity and Love do move to descend in the Spirits flaming Cloud to make the way free that such may have a Pass who account no Place their Rest or Dwelling besides me Wherefore pursue and watch to drink in of this pure Spirit of Burning which will clear and take out of the way whatsoever hath kept from ascending into the Holy City Whilst these Words were in spoken from the Anointing I felt a sensible rising and spreading over all my Heart Head and Body as if all were covered with a Cloud of Sun-heat giving out light by which I could soe what was inwardly done as well as feel it Then it was further spoke in me that I should take notice that this was also the bright Garment of the Sun Such is the Nature of this secret flaming Matter that it seeds strengthens and clarifies a naked Spirit all at once Then was I inquisitive to know the Substance or Ground of it but it was replyed Meddle thou not with that only receive it passively and Co-operate with it when it ariseth and then walk with and draw in the feeding Fire and Air and when it resteth in its own place rest thou with it and be assured it will not leave thee till it have concentred thee in the Deity This light flaming Cloud encompassing me gave this further Revelation to shew what the Holy One is about to do in order to the laying of the Foundation of this strong City in which the mighty God will pitch his Tabernacle and settle his Rest forever Many Types Images and foregoing Figures of this Jerusalem have been given through the several Ages of the World but the Heavenly Thing it self hath not been brought forth as no wt will be because the set time approacheth For the trying burning Furnace is kindled and the Wind of the Almighty forcibly blows up the Flames thereof in the center of the Soul of every one who are the Elect Members of this Holy Corporation Now is the time for the Spirit of Burning and Judgment to prepare each Stone which is designed for this super-excellent Glory No connterfeit Gold or reprobate Silver can pass through this Furnace which is ordained to prove whatsoever comes to be built on this Foundation The mighty King sends forth his Decrees to fulfil the ancient Prophecies concerning the return of the long Captivity of these who belong to this Mother-City that they may know their original freedom and no longer abide as Captive-Exiles among the Babylonians in Confusion and Reproach And what sign will the Lord give for this but by loosing the last Seal under which doth lie the rich Bank and vast Treasury of Wisdom Spirit and Power which shall so vigorously carry on this New-Jerusalem-Building that all the Powers which the Dragon and Beast can raise by their Agents visible and invisible shall but turn to their Shame and Confusion when the Lamb ariseth to open the Seventh Seal under which the most precious things even that fine transparent Matter lies hid to be manifested in due time for the beautifying of this divine Building But here an Objection may arise and question this revealed Grace and proclaimed Liberty to the Children of the Captivity who are now called to sit upon this heavenly Building which is this That the time is not yet and that the last Seal is not so near breaking open and who is it that can give a Sign for a Testimony that this Decree is already gone forth To all which the Spirit of Truth gives this Answer who best knows what he hath wrought in order hereunto in the Central Deep of some Elect Vessels who are not to make any out-cry until the Mystery be fully finished in them know that the time is at hand wherefore let none look afar off or run out from themselves and neglect their own Vintage at home but regard how near the Grape is to ripeness which contains the Wine that is to be drunk at the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb who charges it as a great over-sight upon those that are Regenerate that they have put this Day afar off not discerning the Lords Body who is quickned from the dead in them who are passed from Death with him and so are put in Subordinate Commission with the Lamb to break open all those Seals which shall make way for the descent of the Holy City For what in John's Revelation is mentioned concerning these things is very obscure and mystical and there is no fathoming of it to the utmost until the Lord himself come with the Plummet-Line of the Holy Spirit to measure out the meaning Though there are some who have been favoured with this Light of Revelation by means of which they understand what lies hid under those Allegorical Expressions and through the opening of the Seals have discovered those rich Jewels which were concealed under that dark Covert the opening of which Seals I shall set down in order according as it was acted in my own particular through my Soul 's waiting with the Lamb's-rising Power in a particular experience of my own in the divine Mystery At the opening of the first Seal the Spirit of Faith came forth to encounter with the fearful and unbelieving Spirits that set before me an Impossibility of ever reaching to a Paradisical Purity and Mount-Zion-Dignity and was kept under a great Fear and Perplexity under the dominion of Unbelief until this first Seal was broke open for thereupon the strong Lyon of the Tribe of Juda set me free to run the Race of Faith unto the end giving in this Caution to take care to be well mounted on this Horse of the Spirit of Faith and to hold fast to him who rides on it who hath the conquering Bow in his Hand to shoot his Arrows into those unbelieving Spirits that would still keep us in Doubts and Perplexity At the opening of the second Seal all Peace Pleasure and Joy were taken away from the Earthly Life and withal such a Light broke forth which made me see the vile Abomination of an earthly state compared with the Perfection of the Divine Life so that now I rejoyc'd in nothing more than
find it self in another form of Life and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality before Jehovah's Throne attend 〈◊〉 to know the counsel and decrees of the Soveraign Majesty under whom is mannaged all inferior Government which shall be committed to those who reign with Christ the Lord Oh! this will be a wonderful time indeed For while the Lord is opening these things to me I am as one sunk into the Abyssal Ground where I am as nothing till he put forth a piercing Ray from his flaming Eye to fetch my Spirit up again who thus spake unto me Stand thou up and hear and declare the new Model of my Reign and let it be published for it is time to awaken those who are ordained for the first Resurrection that they may no longer sleep in the day break of my appearance And do thou solemnly see thy Heart to the great Immunities that are revealed not only for speculation 〈◊〉 for sulfilling where great Earnestness shall be found Thus the 〈◊〉 One set home his Word and causeth it to pass through a Vessel that is nothing to be accounted of whereat my self stands amazed what should move the Lord thus to appear and hold such a free Converse and leave such weighty things in trust with me Oh! What can be said but that it is the Good-will and Pleasure of my Christ and King who will change Tin and Dross into Gold as it pleaseth him The Fifth Property of the Holy Ghost is that whereby the Soul gets free from the striving Elements and comes to Rest and Peace all Wars and Combates ceasing The Soul having got up these four ascending Steps towards the Throne can now look down like a Tower of strength terrible to all the lower Inhabitants round about It is a Palace compacted within it self knowing nothing but a serene Peace and Concord neither Dragon nor Beast do so much as attempt to come here for Love and Peace is their Hell and Torment Christ's personal Reign in his Saints consists of Peace Power Love Joy the holy Ghost moveth in the mild and meek Property from the Water of Life that captivates the Enmity and Strife and shuts up the dark Center with all its Spirits This carries a two-fold meaning for first it is to be understood of that Love and Peace which possesseth the whole inward Hemisphere of the Soul and in the next place of the same Love flowing forth and diffusing it self through all the Subjects of that peaceful Kingdom which Christ will establish in the high Angelical Harmony of Love The Sixth out-flowing Property is the Omnipotence of God exerted in the renewed part in an absolute and Almighty Dominion that admits of no controule Here is no need of going out to borrow Gifts or Powers which are now fixed in the Soul to manifest the Wonders of the Magia which hath been shut up in Wisdom's Principle whose Virgins Crown of Power is sent down as a signal Testimony of the Kingly Reign that must prevail over all the Earth The bright flaming Standard of Christ's Personality will be of that Magnificence as to draw home the dispersed and scattered Flock which hath suffered Violence in this Babylonish Kingdom A Jubile will be proclaimed by them to whom this Dominion shall first come They the Head-Kings and Leaders are appointed to shine forth as Stars that shall bear such sway in God's Omnipotency as shall make all the Elect to haste and fly to this Kingdom as Doves to the Windows where all occasions of complaint about the Necessities of Life shall be cut off because Wisdom's Store-house shall from the Inherent Omnipotency abundantly supply whatsoever is needful of this kind The Paradisical lost Power shall be restored in a higher degree than ever to the end that Self-Love and Propriety may be taken away which cannot enter into Christ's Kingdom for the Lord hath averred That none who are thus spirited shall ever his Kingdom inherit The vast and inexhaustable Treasure of divine Riches cannot be enjoyed in Propriety but only in Loves Communion The Seventh and last Property of the holy Ghost that gives witness to Christ's Reign doth consist in a Life of Praise Exaltation which goeth forth in the Angelical Tongues Powers and Sounds of so many persumed Offerings paying an everlasting Love-Tribute of Joy to the Antient of Dayes by and in whom they are come to reign over all Kingdoms in this World in Christ's personal Power The New Hallelujahs from the Fire-breath of the Holy Ghost shall be the Holy Sport and Coelestial Play of the Children of this Kingdom All their Works shall speak forth the Praises of the Most High for Wisdom's Spirit will act so high and in such a mysterious manner as hitherto hath not been known all which miraculous Powers have been reserved to make up the Glory of Christ's second coming in his Representatives here on Earth For if the Lord should not in this manner demonstrate his God-head-Power in his Saints they would be set very light by and it would be a vain thing to assume the Title and Name of Kings without anointing Power suitable to it No Dominion whether inward or outward can be maintained without Loves-Omnipotency And truly my Lord hath assured me that he hath made large and full Provision for this Day who upon some private Objections of my own said to me Be thou nothing doubtful concerning all the great Things of my Kingdom which have been opened to thee from the Center of Light they have been revealed for a ground of Faith The Head of the Dyal is moving towards the fixed Hour which will manifest all these working Powers of the holy Ghost Wherefore do not streighten thy self nor any to whom this Word shall come but run out in a spacious large Belief answerable to Loves-Power and the ability of the object to whom the Eye of Faith is directed For wonderful things are upon the Wheel by which you may know it is high time to put forth your Hands to raise and awaken that which hath been so long asleep This was the concluding Word of Counsel from the Lord. The fore-going Properties is that which makes way for the Reign of Christ in personal Power and Glory which is now the great thing to be waited for as the End and Consummation of all that hath been revealed in the bare discovery of which we are not to rest but we are to press forward to enjoy the Fruit or Product of it in the inward Center where Christ will be manifested in his Personal Glory and Power For the driving seeking Spirit will not be at rest till it can put on its Resurrection-Body It knows that hitherto notwithstanding all its Refinings and Dyings to sinful Self and the World it yet remains a naked Spirit which must return into the Virgin-Womb of Eternity there to be regenerated into an heavenly Corporeity from the one holy Element out of which Christ's holy Personality is taken This is the
spring The Virgin feels her self in the Centre of the Deity she handles what doth not appear to be tangeable viz. Breath Spirit Fire and Air in all these her feeling-motion is in great Serenity A Center-Life that burneth from the Mirror of the Deity boyles Love up to that height as nothing is felt but Pleasure and ravishing Delight it is the Heat and Blood that runs through every Vein of the Virgin-Body and is an Antidote against all Fear and Pain which is felt in the mortal Sense Oh! what Deaths Akings and Griefs have we felt in our Souls as well as in our Bodies our Minds being in continual Anxiousness and Trouble to see what we are fallen into I speak of such who have been touched with the Fire-Stone of the Virgin which must go before her healing Medicine And blessed are they who have first known the painful feeling under her severe Discipline for such shall be her polished Pillars on which she will engrave her Virgin Name as he saith who is the true and faithful Witness who is come to take off the Virgins Vail that we may see her in the Glass of perfection and come to know and feel her not as distinct and a-part from us but all Virginized in her essential Deity that the joyful feeling in breath of Fire and Air may be witnessed and then we shall see what shall follow the Harmony of these Sences which is the Character of the Virgin-Nature the Pattern we are to try our selves by for which end we are also called to look into her Mirror that so it may stir up all favour of desire in us to have those Sences in their excellency awakened in us Oh great Goddess and Queen of all Worlds wilt thou after so long a time of Desertion once appear again Who is it that hath entreated thy Favour and gained a Promise from thee of a Visit though this be too short because nothing now will satisfie unless thou bestow thy self with all thy divine Sences as a co-deified Life to shew that thou art now prevail'd upon to joyn with the Redeeming Blood to restore thy own Virginity where thou findest Humility and Importunity in that Personality which is all beloved of the highest Wisdom and only Spouse of God know and remember us who are brought to thy feet and have been under thy severe Discipline therefore allot thy self to be our Garland and Crown Now we are advanced one step higher towards Wisdom's heavenly Throne from whence her Golden Scepter is stretched forth to lay hold on which passeth through and beyond every elementary Cloud which the sensitive Life hath raised so as we could not see our way to that sparkling Rock of the Deity for which cause the bright Sun now shines from her eternal Orb through the dark Clouds that we might see every ascending degree twisting and winding so intricately that without a Guide expresly sent down from that Sphear there is no possibility ever to come to any one of her Gates which lead to the New Jerusalem These are set before me to be in number Twelve five of which were spoken of in the fore-going Chapter and now we repair to her Oracle as our Guide for the revealing of the other seven Gates together with the Way which leads from one to to the other where the hidden Track of the Virgins Way may be found treading upon that unknown ground under which is found a rich and precious Stone from which the highest blessing will abound The Way to the first of these seven Gates is very solitary and lonely it is very rare to meet with two agreed to hold out in it to the end it is so full of rending Thorns and affrighting wild Beasts for herein lies the design of the horned Beast to scatter and divide such who are agreed to travel in Wisdoms Path Also the Nimrod Hunters of this World send out after them either to divide or bring them back again These are the Oppositions we may expect in this Way against which we must be provided and fore-armed that our entrance by this Gate may not be prevented The Inscription of this Gate is Abnegation or Renunciation of this outward Principle The first Question which is asked by the Angel who keeps this Gate is Are you come away as Strangers and Pilgrims Will you no more return to the Traffick of Babylon For the Prince of this City will only admit of such as shall abjure all Commerce with the Merchants of Tarshish though by this means all earthly Riches are gained to keep up a Worldly Reputation and Fame but the Angel of this Gate will have good Assurance that whoever comes up hither be quite broken off from and have no further dealing with the Harlot daughter of Sidon who hath deceived the Kingdoms of this World with her Sorceries Whoever they be that get through this streight Gate for them a sure and good Foundation is laid to walk forward towards the second Gate But here another thing is to be considered before entrance can be given for this Angel is charged not to take any ones single Security but enquires whether Christs Spirit in them and his Person for them will stand engaged to perform all this Agreement For she dares not trust the Soul upon a single Promise though fervent and unfeigned and full of good Will yet it is not sufficient if he be not able to maintain the Gate ground against his Enemies that will attempt to circumvent him Therefore we that are come hereunto are to give in the Name of our Security and so pass on freely to the second Gate The second Gate is called the wrestling or struggling Gate it is the Gate of Probation before it stands a Center-Gulf Here will rise what will countermand the Pilgrim back again into the worldly Principle which he had abjured and left behind Wisdom stands by her Angel to call and invite to come through but the Gulf swells so very high that it appears impossible to get over Legions of Spirits here do follow crying out What mean you to run so great a hazard as to have a place where is store of all good things for Supply and Maintenance Thus Temptations and Assaults will beset the Pilgrim threatning hard and bitter things to him who is a seeking his own Native Country and original Virginity and endeavours with great wrestling to get rid of all these knawing Vipers What! say they will you turn quite away from those pleasant Joys in which others live spending their days in Gods Love and Peace and therein rest contented not attempting the passing of this Gulf till the limit of your Life requires it All this and much more will press in to turn away the Soul from pursuing after its Virgin Crown and therefore this Gate is called the Probation Gate Now if the Spirit of Christ be so powerful in the Soul as not to regard these Temptations being resolved to venture through the fiery Gulf that
Soul will win the Virgins Heart For here indeed is manifested a full proof of Love's affiance by coming out from and renouncing all the Charms of the Daughter of Babylon who hath used all her Art to fright her from attempting ever to enter this Gate She hath through all Ages rescued from the Serpent's twisting toil and brought many back to enter into her Gates again Wonderful it will be to see any one come of a Conquerour here for this is the most perilous Gate because of the Gulf which stands before it The mortal Spirit whose Affection is joyned to gross Elementary things cannot pass this Gulf without suffering loss it is a Life that cannot be saved but must be swallowed up But Christ our Life will swiftly pass through as a fiery Charriot and the naked Soul with him who hath resisted all those Temptations which would have hindred his entrance into this Gate which is the very winning of that Field where Wisdom's Gold of Opher and unknown rich Substance doth lie Oh! who is it that will hold out the Encounter at this Gate It may be truly said That many have striven to enter but because they would or could not leave behind all mortal Burthens and come quite naked out of Babylon they were not able to enter This is that which hath dis-enabled many to enter and will continue to do so except the Christ of the mighty God enable us to pass and then we shall with freedom and ease come up to the third Gate The third Gate is Translation by Fixation in Wisdom's Land or Principle The Center of the Virgin Wisdom may often open and take up the Soul and Spirit into it and then be shut again and the Soul let down into Babylon's Principle This I say may happen often before the Soul comes to be fixed in Wisdom's Orb. But when the Soul is fixed in the Heavenly sprouting life of its Emmanuel and translated into a pure Nazarite Virginity which knows nothing more of the fallen Birth Here the Soul stands in another Principle having got firm footing in Wisdoms Land Here a goodly Lot is cast for the conquering Soul who will find all riches stand before her in Wisdoms Treasury without either bounds or limits Whatsoever is of use or service is there laid down at the feet of a translated Spirit as the return of her Adventure and Trust in that day whilst she was under the Temptation of the glistering Stars of this Elementary Region all whose Promises were but as a snare and bar to keep from knowing this high Translation Oh! what a welcome Feast do I see already prepared within this Gate to satiate both the Eye and Taste The Virgin comes and salutes the Soul with a Loves entercourse saying Come now and inherit Substance with me ye who have been in weary Travel to attain this fixation Gate I behold you in the face of the Bridegroom by whose means you are arrived here Now in his Name ask and have See now what Honour and Preferment you shall have in my Kingdom which will recompence a thousand Fold for the loss you have sustained in the World from whence you are come out As you did give credit to me upon the Word of my Testimony and the fame which was brought to your Ear though as yet you possessed nothing of what 's intended for you But here is now what will weigh down and recompence all your Sufferings when you resisted manfully those busie Spirits that would have blocked up your way but in strong Faith you have broke through all Let your Victory be assigned to him who hath the opening Key for to let in from Gate to Gate All this is from the dropping Lips of Sophia and her Bridegroom who now stand ready to open the fourth Gate The fourth Gate is called the Bountiful Gate From hence the richest Gift is brought forth that ever hath been received since Adam lost his Virgin who now here gives her self again to the Soul Oh great is this Benignity who could ever have hoped for such degrees of Advancement after so long a day of Desertion night of Apostacy An Eccho sound we now do hear that she will appear in her Bounty But to whom shall this Gate open stand to receive this Liberality from her hand Is it not for Ruth who hath forsaken the Moabitish Land and come to be fixed there whence her eternal Nativity is derived where she is no sooner arrived but she is decked with all the Virgins Ornaments which are the various Accomplishments in all supernal Powers and high Abilities to act in a divine Omnipotent manner whether in a corporeal form or out of it as shall be judged moet with reference to Place Time or Persons and according to the Region where the Bridegroom with his Bride shall be whether in the Heights above or Depths beneath where his and her rejoycing shall be in each other through the breaking opening of the Center from whence the Virgin-Tincture as a warm Fire-blood doth flow in every Vein a nourishing Life is felt passing through every sense This is that Gift which the Virgin will bestow upon the fixed Soul for a greater Manifestation of God's manifold Wonders throughout the habitable part of this Earth where the whole Trinity in Wisdom will assume a Virgin-humanity to bring all what hitherto hath been confused into-order again The Government of the bruitish Spirit must give way to her day who comes to overturn all Merchants with their Merchandize No Wares of the Assyrian shall be brought through her Gates neither shall any Sale of the Harlot's goods be mingled with her Treasures but a vast separation there shall be as between Paradise and this World where all things stand in an anxious Birth but that other Sphear is blessed with a perpetual Spring of all pleasant things which we shall know and understand in their variety in the next Gate which now we are by the steady hand of Christ led up to that we may see the utmost Latitude of Wisdom's inward City and come to know all the goings in and comings out at these Mystical Gates The fifth Gate bears the Title of Wisdom's Factory of all that is mannaged by her Magia from her own stock and Principle being very different from all the Merchandize which is used in this visible World which is wholly shut out of her Gates for none can drive an earthly Trade but such as bear the Mark and Number of the Beast here in this outward Principle Wherefore Wisdom will take none to be her Factors but those who have renounced all Babylonish Trade which is maintained by bearing the Mark of the Beast from the introduced subtilty of Reason A new and wonderful Way is prescribed to them who shall have the Mark and Name of the Virgins white Stone by which they shall be impowered to drive a free and mighty Trade within this heavenly City which shall make all Babylon's Wares grow
which we shall come fully to know and to understand as we are made one in the holy Ghost then may we go forth safe and secure in the Magick VVill to glorifie the great Elohim whether in Body visible or invisible all is and shall be acted forth according to the fore-sight of the Magical Globe-Eye and carried on in and through the operation of the holy Ghost in impotent and despicable Vessels in the Eye of the world These are they whom God will take into his high School of divine Wisdom there to be brought up in the deep VVisdom and to be so perfectly accomplished as that nothing may be beyond their art and skill to perform to exalt and magnifie their God and King by whom alone they shall be enabled to do all marvelous things Now from the fore-going Rales we are taught to drown the many VVills that have been generated from the mixed Essence of the Soul and to loose them in the Abyssal-Deep from whence then may spring the Virgin-Will that never was in Bondage to any thing of degenerate Man but stands free and clear in Conjunction with Almighty Power which will most certainly produce answerable Consequences as kept fixed in the Socket where the burning Oyl of the holy Ghost flames out in sparkling Magick operating here and there upon Persons and Things for Change and Renovation yet none can pierce the way but such as are become Masters of his high Art I know nothing more worthy for the single Eye to look into and contend for than the Magia of Faith which was once delivered unto and exerted by the Saints of former Generations and why we should give it for lost now I see no cause but should be earnest for the reviving of it and calling it up from the Dead I shall not here determin whether for want of this Power we may not lie under the charge of having lost our first Love but sure I am that this Magical Power of Faith is in a manner quite lost for the re-attaining of which the holy Ghost is awakening Wisdom's slumbering Virgins And therefore the Lord hath appeared in his own glorified Humanity to reveal these Mysteries and that by one who is as the smallest Dust that lies under the trampling Power of the earthly Wise and those that are mighty in Reason Yet here the Way is laid open to attain to this All-powerful Activity in the Magia of the holy Ghost to encourage provoke us to set upon the work giving Praise unto him who hath been pleased to reveal where the Key of the Magia doth lie which will open that Treasury that can fully enrich all impoverished Souls Wherefore it is worth the lending our Ear to Wisdom's renewed Call and Cry and no longer to delay but hasten to get through all her Gates and to be Planters of a new Paradisical Earth through the Magical Operation of the holy Ghost which is the absolute imployment and business of some known to God who if they continue faithful shall never have reason to be ashamed or repent of their being engaged therein notwithstanding they may meet with great Treats and Sufferings at first from Nabal the churlish Spirit of this World that can love or favour nought but what is of its own liking But Wisdom's Children shall be able to set themselves free as they become Studients in the Art of this divine Magia Rebecca the true Virgin-Mother is ready to give such advice as will supplant Esau that Jacob may carry away the Blessing Oh! what is like to the Magical Stone for the bringing in of a superabundant encrease from the right golden Grain by which all excellent and perfect things did at first spring At the return of which a new and marvelous Change every where will appear in the highest Unity and Community in all those Coelestial Immunities which the Most-High is invested withal Thus having brought forth in some part what hath been showered down from the heavenly Powers at several Seasons upon me with a command to publish it I have nothing more but to Pray we may obey all these precious Rules A further Revelation upon the last subject which I thought had been concluded but the running Oyl doth spring a fresh for an addition that so all help might be ministred by way of manuduction to such high spirited Souls as shall resolve to separate themselves that they may be meet to intermeddle with all Wisdom and thereby be enabled to stand before the Globe-Eye of Almighty Soveraignity which is a peculiar Prerogative appropriated only to the wise and pure in heart who shall set themselves a-part to follow the Track of the divine Magia which by the holy Ghost is prescrib'd that so we may once more again stand upon Paradisical Earth with our impregnable Circle drawn about us to keep the Serpent and all his brood of wild Creatures out from us It will be well worth our waiting for every drop of pure Unction which shall now fall for fuller Instruction and be distributed forth as the Sping-Tide of the Spirit doth in us rise which was renewed in this Word Learn to live God and God shall live thee his most holy Tabernacle shall be thy Covert which shall be visible to the Sons of Men that they may know the most holy One in the waste and desolate places of the Earth with his own will dwell Urging that foregoing Rule for this end that the Magical attraction of Faith which riseth from the burning Love must bring God down to be all in all that so the Humanity may be covered over with the Tabernacle of the Deity which will be our House that cannot be dissolved though the Starry Heavens together with the four Elements and all their product do pass away for though they take their original from the holy Beeing yet they cannot abide forever because they cannot incorporate with the pure Deity Therefore they must have their time to expire when God shall descend in his most holy Tabernacle what will it be less than the rending away the vail of these visible Heavens in their first and second Administration and all shadowed Presentations and Figurations wherein some-what of Glory as a twinkling Star in this benighted Day doth appear All which have but made way for the opening of the everlasting Tabernacle where we may be clothed upon with the Magical Body of the holy Ghost that so we may know what it is to live God Oh! what weight doth this Word carry with it Let us not suffer it to go lightly off but take in what the Urim and Thummim doth advertise about this high Contaction But here may be enquired What it is that may qualifie to possess Gods living Tabernacle Verily no less is required than for us to live God and for God to live us which is the wonderful Hypostatical Union which Christ our Lord spake of in his day We shall know him in the Father and so reciprocally the Father swallowing up
down such Gifts as will all abundantly enrich more than came down in the day of Penticost for they were but the first Fruits and did but continue a little while but here is such a Shower of the Eternal Powers to fall down upon this second Call to the Jerusalem waiters as shall bring forth the Harvest of the Lord's Joy whose Spirit for the ripening of these Fruits doth work most powerful What is to be done by us but only to drink in the falling Dews and dropping Showers and to grow as Lillies that may know neither Heat nor Draught Toil nor Care Hasten oh God! and send thy Angel Reapers for some Fields do begin to 〈◊〉 White whose ripe Fruits may into thy Store-house be brought as the first Offerings for the consvmmating of all those great and mighty things which thou hast taught us in this little Volumn of thy Life 〈◊〉 Here follows a high ravishing Communion with the Trinity enjoy'd but receive it not as an Elivation but from a Spirit â—â—â—â—â—ated as into another light Region the half of which is not to be expressed which was here enjoyed Some Throne of the most Holy is now pitched in the center of the Heart of Jesus as in conjunction with my Heart from whence such issues of Life do flow which renew a perpetual Spring of Joy For the Lord pronounced the fulness of all Blessing from the circle Throne of his Presence bedewing me with the Water of Life from the glassy Sea mingled with the Fire of Love assuring me that the Curse which is annexed to fallen Nature should now flee away from God and the Lamb's Throne which Throne the Lord hath chosen me to be unto him in which the Scepter of his Kingdom should rule over all in the divine Omnipotence Upon which Thunder-cry which passed through my Heavens all Nations Tongues and Languages Spirits and Powers did give up to him who is come to fix his Throne and to create all things new and to confirm his Covenant in the newness of the Spirit and to nullifie all of the dead and fruitless-Life which stands in the Letter-Precept which could never destroy the Root of Sin It is now made known from the Word of Truth that nothing else shall ever fetch out the Serpent's Sting but the overflowing of the burning Oyl from the Sea of Glass which is broken up by the violent stroke of the holy Ghost All Sanctifications and Renewings are imperfect and changeable till this doth come to rise as a covering to make the gross Body transparent So now then we are to observe that when-ever God shall come in very deed to enthrone himself in any there will be felt this burning Sea from which the firey Lamps do proceed which guard the Throne Oh! it is the great and high attainment that a Spirit vail'd with Corporeity can look for to have God come down in his Throne-dominion and to cast down all other Thrones in which the dark firey Spirits have acted their part in the inward Tent of the Mind all which now to be destroyed and consumed by the pure flaming Throne will sufficiently witness that God's Kingdom is now got beyond Words is sprung up in a feeling Power Oh! the Joys Pleasure which my Soul doth feel in its first rising which is infinitely more precious than hath been related though by Christ's own Personality whose appearance did so variously describe the Glory of his Kingdom to me but now to come and bring it into me will in due season produce other things than what hath been believed or expected by the Staggering Fearful who have cryed The Lord doth yet delay his coming so upbraiding and beating his fellow Servant crying for Signs and Wonders without which they can own nothing But let all such slighting Spirits know that the Throne and Kingdom of the Lamb may for some considerable time be forming fashioning furnishing and enriching with Glory and all this carried on very secretly till the whole Mystery of the Kingdom be first inwardly compleated before it come to make a visible Show by a terrible acting of Wonders And know that such as are come to feel the Kingdom in its invisible Powers and the seven Lamps of Fire burning and are set down with Christ upon the Throne reigning over and judging down all Nations in themselves shall have Judgment and Power given them over all that have villified and set light by them in the day of their outward Rule and Authority whilst the suffering Lambs of God were in their Minority But careful we will not be concerning Judgment given or Dominion exercised as yet out of the Throne of the Lamb in our selves but must follow on till it be fully perfected and the Kingdom established It is the present Business of our Day to watch to have every Lamp fed from the glassy Sea that so springing in the Light Love-Flames a Chrystaline Throne may be maintained for the whole Deity For verily whilst such a thing as this is felt and witnessed there is a most ravishing Tranquility Oh! what is greater than to have Christ seated upon his Throne within us All things then must needs be in a peaceable and holy Order and blessed Subjection Happy are they whose inward Eyes are opened all this to see possess and enjoy even when retired out from all Creaturely Society and so translated into and among the Seraphick Spirits in heavenly Places Since my apartment to be alone a full Concourse doth now continually meet me even such Company as makes me spend my hours and dayes with all spiritual Mirth and Joy For I am now come in truth without Flattening or crackling Sparks that go out again unto the everlasting burning Throne of the Deity where just and perfect Spirits do use as so many lesser Flames most numerously as God's encompassing Host ministring all that may delight me So that I find I am to be reserved for God's Throne-Conversation which is as the seven dayes Feast of Tabernacles wherein nothing of servile work is to be thought upon This is a time of an holy Convocation and for celebrating the Praises of the Lamb who alone hath wrought the Victory for us Oh! what shall let now but that all within me may give the Trumpes-sound and great shout that the Lord Omnipotent is come to Reign Rejoyce ye Heavens without within and round about for the Lord Jehovah hath only done it He hath made Wars to cease and keeps the Enemy without the Gates Oh mighty Prince and Saviour thou art entred into thy Throne-rest Thou art become Lord of the Sabbath indeed and therefore thou hast Power to Eternalize it as a Memorial of thy redeeming Blood which is become the quickning and reigning Life Maintain my Love evermore in this new governing Sphere with thee for never knew I such a pleasant state as since the time thou hast brought thy Kingdom into me to rule over all in Peace and Love and keep every Spirit
in his glorified Saints and Angels It is fully assured me that God hath taken into his Eye and Love election at this very day those who shall come to sit in Princely Majesty and great Dominion in the inward Regency of the Soul conquering the thwarting motions of sin and their own Passions for Faithfulness Truth and Love to carry through here will be signs and evidence sufficient what God will further exalt unto In the interim whosoever have attained to the first Kingdom in Wisdom Sanctification and in the excelling Charity know that these will give the mighty onset for enterance into the utmost bounds of this overlasting Kingdom which we shall not think it only sufficient to pray for but to be doing all that is required for it in all comely order and fixed resolution to hold fast what we have already gotten that none may supplant us of that which will be the lifted up Crown to be seen every where upon the heads of the anointed Ones Here follows divine Openings of the Reign and Kingdom of the Love Having been exercised for some considerable time in the Prophetical Office and Ministration from the spirit of Revelation as my writings bear witness concerning the Kingdom of Christ in its suffering state first of all then in its rising up through tribulation unto victory for dominion and glorification through the Love Now the degrees which lead hereunto have been sufficiently described in The Heavenly Cloud Printed in 1680 by the Author which hath had most forcible effects for the bringing in and establishing of this Kingdom wherein and to whom this Spirit of prophesie was given for a sealing evidence that the Spirit of Truth being the Spring of those foregoing Revelations which are now to be confirmed by the present Reign of a risen Christ in some personalities which are shall be taken up for this end to shew it forth by that most excellent and perfect thing coming in which is the Love Dominion which hath exalted the same Propetical Spirit now with Christ upon the Throne and doth absolutely rule in Gods meek Love over the whole Region even to the utmost parts of the Souls inward Earth where now great peace is found the Government being carried on sereinly and calmely through the conquering Love which hath like a River overflowed the whole Earth But this was not so fully felt known and witnessed as of late The former Reign was maintained in an imperfect degree the spirits within were indeed under awe and check and unwillingly made subject to the Kingdom 's Laws that were renewed suitable to this most eminent and singular Ministration While sometime I was under it which was looked upon as sharp and severe the whole man being rein'd in very Straight would have gone forth into a reluctancy and so break all Harmony in the properties that should be found abiding in a new Model And thus indeed the Kingdom hath suffered violence and hath been hid in great strife as many Holy Souls may witness with me in the same case who are come thus far to the Dominion Which is a good and hopeful introduction to the ruling Scepter of Love in which will be found a far more pleasant and joyous Kingdom when all and every Spirit is brought over and subjected to the Love's Soreraignity in their order and place to their superior Governour to wit the Heaven-born Spirit who personates Christ upon the Throne Now to come to have every motion tinged with the fiery Love Balsom how will they run and fly at the very look of the Kingly anointed Eye where Love's rayes are so vehement as to captivate every thought to the obedience of the Lords Anointed King not in some but in all and every thing which will indeed make every Saint that hath attained hereunto walk worthy of God whose beeing consisteth in the Essentiality of Love and admitted for to be Gods fellow companion being in the center-Life of a Love dominion There must necessarily follow all Holy Boldness to come into a Christ propriety with God the Father as Heirs of all Kingdoms that are worthy of inheriting whether in the Mystery or out of it Love's Center opens through all and brings in an endless pleasure and Joy which cannot be by any worldly craft stolen away Therefore it is that most excellent thing that will heal and cure all within the Soul reconciling what was at variance whether in relation to God or to any of our fellow Members Therefore what is to be more desired or to be paralleled with I must solemnly profess that I have found such soveraign power and sweetness in the opening of this Love center that I cannot but commend it to others and seek earnestly to have more fellow-Commoners with me at Gods Table that there we may sit down together and feed upon the fruits of Love which are the Wine and Strength of the Kingdom For in very Truth I am come to witness Holy Paul's conclusion of it that it is the absolute perfect thing that works out all imperfection removing all sorrow and grief from the mind and heart For it is a strong and vehement heat that devours fear and anxity Oh! how doth it shelter and secure from all blood sucking vipers that they cannot prey upon the inward part of the Soul Because this is a love which cannot imagine into any evil thing and therefore nothing of the Serpent Venom can mingle with it which makes the Soul to know it self to be returned to its priminary concord and Virgin Simplicity But now it may be queried Whether I give forth the commendation of this High and perfect Love from Revelation or from divine and pure sensation I must acknowledge it is from both they are met together as proceeding from one Love Center which is the first glass wherein I saw the aimable Beauty and worthiness of this most excellent thing with all those advantages and great prerogatives attending it for it brings in no less than a Kingdom of sweet peaceable Amity and Love whereby I now sind an unspeakable benefit But it may be asked farther How comes this most precious and worthy thing to be wrought so essentially in the Soul as to be evermore ruling upon the Throne and as having got absolute conquest over whatsoever would stir up Trouble and Sedition In answer to this I shall give my own experience as one who hath obtained Grace of this kind after it was begotten by Species and Revelation and formed in me as a true Essential life Birth which I did sind daily grow up and encrease in Wisdom and Strength But then after that this Love was grown up to such a vehemency towards my God as known to me in the person of my Lord Christ from and through frequent visits and very intimate conversation which I did daily enjoy in an unknown and most singular way which in very Truth was so grateful and sweet that it drew up my superior vital spirit after him that
no defiled thing can ever enter it Its consistency is an invisible Body as thin as Air as piercing as a Flame an all-moving acting and vigorous Spirit of Power and Life that can go in and out as an invisible Breath which no mortal Eye can see only its force may be felt as a Seraphick Heat that burns as a Refiners Fire in our Corporality to the end that it may tinge it with the holy Ghost's property This is the true and faithful delienation of this perfect thing called by the Apostle Charity Where-ever this comes it makes all imperfect things flee before it but it strengthens and confirms every Plant that is sown by the Spirit and makes them appear above Ground which have long lain buried under it It is the King-flower of the whole Paradisical Spring that protects the whole transmuting all into one entire Body of Love that doth extend and give forth it self in all spiritual Bountifulness according to its high Nature and Property It is not shut up to it self upon any consideration as to what it poslesseth and enjoys for it holds nothing in Propriety whatever its Lot is but all is free to the Disciples of the same descent and birth with himself this Love cannot with-hold from any of their Necessities for it seeks not its own Then it hath also a virtual Power as made to inherit the best of Riches and Substance of the everlasting Kingdom to conveigh and freely distribute of this inexhaustable Treasury to impoverished Souls and to relieve them that are in great Distress which Power can pass in as an high virtual Balsom to heal the Wounded who are under the striking of the Scorpion-Sting of the Serpent For this Love is a ministring Flame where holy Passiveness and Humility are as the open-Door for its access and there cherish and feed it with what its present degree doth require Charity is furnished with all sorts and stores it is God's Steward upon Earth whom he dare trust with the Care of his Houshold who are in spiritual Hunger and Nakedness It is a most infallible truth that God will appoint such holy Overseers in his new-born Church that shall recover the Apostolical Spirit and Power that hath been lost out of the Earth and it shall rise as a more bright Morning Star and multiply it into a Generation that will be all lovely in which God may see himself For which end the Kingdom and Dominion is already come into some and prospering to this expected degree treasuring up now for a full Bank in store against that Day in which our Son of Man will again appear in the Heavens for the delivering up the Kingdom to the Father that so God who is Love may be all in all But in order to the accomplishing of this last and finishing Mystery there shall arise a Melchizedeck Priesthood which shall know the way into the Holiest of all concerning which we shall come to declare after this subject is finished for it springs out of Love's-Root in us For this is the most clear and undeniable witness of Truth when Light and Revelation and Life of Enjoyment meet together then Declaration carries Power and Authority with it But to return to the present thing what can be said sufficiently of it that so if possible the reign of Love might come to spread it self as a Net to gather in for the Priestly Kingdom Some other Motions may be further urged as these Would you be always in a serene quiet and peaceable Frame and Constitution of Mind so as no vicissitude working-Cross or Turbulency towards you whether from Gentiles Barbarians or Israelites all which may give nothing of Disturbance where Charity is predominant and why so This is very marvelous never to be perplexed and never to be put out of Harmony Objection But how can this agree When as our most perfect Pattern was said to be troubled and his Soul was sorrowful unto Death as also that Afflictions are not joyous for the present First We will Answer this main Objection as to Christ our Lord in his Agonies You must know that all this was on this side his Resurrection observe that and it was to shew that he had the sensible Passions of our Humanity and that he was on our behalf to feel a sinless Grief and Sorrow and to be really touched with these kind of Infirmities or else how could he make Provision through and by Love's Conquest If he had not been in Temptation and in Encounter with all Despite and Defamations but yet he maintained his own Peace which was the Fruit of Love through all and was reconciled to all the cross Dispensations that met him in the World For it was this perfect Love that carried him through to bear and suffer all things and was for our Example and Encouragement to express during the time of his humane Minority those sensible Dolours and Passions but he comes of a victorious Champion and tells us That he had overcome and assureth us That in him we shall have a most fixed and firm Peace though in the World exercised with Tribulation So from hence it is to be admitted and allowed that in the time of our Minority before Love is in its perfect degree risen it cannot be otherwise expected but we may be liable to Grief Sorrow Commotion Fears and Jealousies and so up and down in an uncertain Motion tossed to and fro in our Minds and all this because Love is but little weak and low of Stature it is not got up into the Throne of Dominion so as to govern all by the Law of Love yet such are not to be hopeless or of doubtful Mind as desponding ever to see the Resurrection of Love so as to possess its peaceable Immunities Know whoever you be that are made willing to venture the loss of all for to arrive at this Pearl of Charity that you shall most surely find it and great rejoycing there will be at the finding of this lost Groat Indeed the House of the Soul must be first throughly searched and the natural Self-love must be swept out For what is that which we must lose but even all Rubbish Filth and Dross that so our Hearts being emptied and cleansed from all these the King of Love may enter in with his full Train wherein we may know nothing but Concord Tranquility and a springing Treasury of all Goodness Wherefore let all holy and pure Minds be stirred up to wait for the dropping Dews which fall from the one eternal Element to bring this Plant of Loves Kingdom forward even unto its full height of Perfection and be tender of its first Buddings for it hath many subtil Enemies both at home and abroad It is the Heir and therefore is conspired against for can but the envious Spirits find out where its Birth doth spring they will attempt to kill it whilst it is but an Infant for which cause it must be hid in the Clefts of the
order to the revealing and making out this high and peculiar Priest-hood it is expedient I should declare in what a living figure it appeared to me or rather to somewhat which was raised up to be as a clear burning Lamp of Love which was capable of this great and marvelous sight which did open from the very God-head Beeing in whose Body of Light and Glory this Priesthood in the Heavens was clearly manifested to my Eye sight which is the ground work I shall go upon according to the express which the great Melohizedeck Priest hath set open and made teachable hereby for the benefit and service of that Holy and Royal Tribe that shall hereunto be numbred For in the present Age wherein the most precious have their Call to come out from what is vile temporary and Soul cankering against the Love minding of Earthly things and as to the more refined religious dress where the Viper of sinful Hypocrisie which hath had a fair covering spread over it in every changeable Ministration which refers to an outside Holiness till from this there be a departing and entering into Love's substantiality there can be no bearing part in this peculiar and Royal Priesthood But let us go on to describe it according to the Mount Zion Pattern which we have seen and the Words which were heard from thence The Vision of the Heavenly Tabernacle I was carried in Spirit where I saw a light flaming Glory unfolding and opening it self larger and more conspicuous and in the midst of it an Abysical Deep from whence there was a working flowing Sourse in a restless Motion flashing up transparent Matter so sparklingly glorious for Colours as if all manner of precious Stones had been comixed in the Matter then did appear numerous Persons gathered to the Glory of this flowing Sourse from the Virtue and Power that rose out of the Deep which was as the Resurrection of pure heavenly Bodies bright and clear that stood there to receive and drink in from this Abysical Deep then was it asked by that translated Spirit that saw all this What was to be understood by all this and it was answered It is the flowing of the Deity that is ever generating forth for begetting and renewing what is like to its own Beeing and the sparkling Matter that so continually flashed out was to consecrate the heavenly Order of Kingly Priests which would be the very Tabernacle-Glory upon them for this Priestly Kingdom under the highest degree of anoiming are for to be And who-ever can pure and abstractedly come up and lie near the flowing of this Abysical Deep are under the Ordination for Kingly Priests and so near to God as nothing shall them be denyed for which they shall interceed for great Power they will have within their own command for they are Spirited very high by daily drinking in this deified Matter In this Vision there was no formal Temple Tabernacle or Alter to be seen but God in his Virtual Power Light and Purity filled the numerous company that made up the Priestly Body which was termed the God-head Fraternity No particular Christ here I did see but as he was said to be the Head and the Power that made them shine as so many burning Lamps before the Throne of the Fathers all-piercing Eye of Glory There were degrees amongst this Holy Preistly fellowship some in a higher others in a lower order But the Testimony of Truth Love and Purity did open through all as one entire Ark of the Heavenly Body compacted together sounding forth New and wonderful Laud and Praises different from all others who in the Heavenly places did worship the Lord God Almighty This was a lively express and manifestation of the Everlasting and unchangeable Priesthood which the Holy Ghost will build up and appear all in it and therefore is come before hand to open the Scene of it and to give Rules to direct in the Way which leads thereunto according to this substantial ground which opens from the Central Eternity from whence all perfect things must spring out again in this faded and corrupted Region For which a most Holy and Royal Priesthood is ordained that is to be the Salt of the Earth to send forth their seasoning for Life where Putrifaction unto Death hath reigned Now we shall proceed and give forth what hath run in as a Fountain sending forth its Springs It is then assured to us by an irreversible Covenant that a Kingly Priesthood shall in this latter day stand upon the Earth An Election and Call from the Holy Ghost is going out for to effect the same who only knows where the true born Nazarites are and where the sanctified in the Water of Life do lie who will be brought out as baptized Ones into this Holy Priestly order so that it may be evident to all to know who they are and to acknowledge their Priestly Royalty each one in their various order and degree for power and eminency for which there are several Rules Characters and holy Missions that will make out where all these pure clear lively Stones are connexed together for a ruling and governing Priesthood in this visible Earth These are of the Election hereunto that may yet be hid amongst the Stuff of Babylon's confusion A David may be keeping of Sheep an Elisha Plowing with a yoke of Oxen till a special ordination come forth for anointing to a more high worthy and honourable Employ in which the business will be only to have to do with God and therefore is set apart and sanctified only for that use ceasing from all througing Cares and seculiar Services and a withdrawing from all defiling things of this kind Whoever feels the touch of the Life-coal that sets the only matter of the Souls eternal Essence a burning they will soon find what separation is made and can henceforth no more favour the low vulgar gross and Earthly concerns from all which this Priestly Function doth set free as called and anointed by the most Holy that is head of this separated Congregation therefore it is but meet that the Body should answer hereunto that as our great High-Priest is passed into the Heavens being found perfect separate from sin and Sinners so likewise all appertaining to this heavenly order will be known in their pure consecration For the Spring of the Spirit will rise from within to cleanse every instrument that must be used about the Tabernacle service because God will have nothing to come near Him but what hath Holiness engraved upon it which doth imply a coming out of what is common and defiling that nothing of this corrupting Nature may be found amongst the Priestly Tribe For these are designed and appointed to deal with God in all weighty Spiritual matters belonging to the Restoration and that may erect the New Jerusalem state in this very World Therefore there is to be an extraordinary Call of the holy Ghost for the impowering and fitting out hereunto for else it
Unction which will take the Chair that so this holy Ordination may take place in great Soveraignity The holy and just One hath reserved his last and most wonderful sealing Testimony for to go forth from the Unity of an holy Priestly Spirit which is so far perfected as to stand no more in need of Offerings for Sin because he who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are made all one in this Ministration for if they come not to a sinless state they cannot be of this high Priestly Order because to it a Key is given which must open all the twelve Gates before-mentioned And without all Controversie great is that Power that shall be here concentred for our exalted Christ who is passed higher than the Heavens hath recovered Power to transfer himself in his divine Purity and excellent Might unto this elected Priesthood which shall be visible here on Earth This is the true Mount-Zion from whence Decrees Laws Judgments and holy Statutes shall go forth from the Urim and Thummim sound Knowledge and Understanding and the Certainty of the words of Truth hence shall proceed so that it will be a most sure and safe Oracle in all difficult Soul-cases and to determine all Doubts and Difficulties for of Old the Israel of God would not venture upon any Concern nor attempt any Design without having first enquired at the Priests Mouth who only was to give forth the Mind of God which will now be again renewed for those who are not admitted to this high Calling of the holy Priesthood for such honour these Saints shall have above the lower Ranks as being not ordained by man nor after the Law of a carnal Commandment but by the impressed Seal of the mighty God Here need no Epistles of Commendation the Powers of this Priestly Dignity will be sufficient Orators to recommend them for great Signs and Wonders will be acted forth when the Temple-Body of the holy Ghost shall come down and open it self in the Priestly Ministration every Branch of which will have its multiplying Fruits for the Praise-Offering of the Sanctuary I shall now declare what the Testimony of Truth hath spoken in me which is this That whatever God is or can do the same will appear in and amongst this Priestly Order Visions Proverbs and Similitudes must cease which as leading stars have been under the Son's Ministration this being the fulness of time in which the Father will shew himself plainly without any Figures or Shadows in the substantial Body of Power uncessantly flowing from which the New Creation must bud out in a fresh Glory and all of the old fade and dye away But here it may be objected Where are there any to be found of this Royal Priesthood who may give forth a Sealing Evidence in this present time They have indeed been long predicted of but we would fain see some really instated in this high Order For Answer to this I say there may possibly be some who are advanced to a good degree of this high state and who have passed through the first and second Order all which is an inward secret purifying work from Sin and holy Ground made ready for the Righteous Branch in its Lilly-beauty to spring which may be done without any great noise for where Christ is come to offer himself once for all then the next thing that follows is the coming of the holy Ghost to reign all in all wherefore we will believe and hope there may be some under this peculiar Ordination though dispersed and unknown who are all ready to enter upon the third Degree which is the spriritual Rule and Authority for it is no less than a perfect Regeneration that bringeth to this Gate because whoever enters here must first have shaken hands with a worldly Conversation no more touching any dead thing wherefore this state is not common or easily attained but by such who are touched by Love and anointed for this holy Melchizedeck Order of their calling to which none shall ever have cause to Repent for great are the Royalties that will follow according as hath been declared The Spirit of Prophecy spake thus to me expresly as the close of this subject saying I will chuse a Disciplehood yet upon the Earth a gain who shall know me in my inward spiritual figure as in former time I was known in a visible Humanity by Voice and Shape but now I am come to appear and walk upon invisible Earth which none but the spiritual Man understands my Speech or sees my transformed Shape to such who my chosen Disciples are I will familiarly appear for behold I upon a new Election am who the Alpha and Omega is to call together such whose Names are sound in the Crown Number Roll one by one till to the hundred and forty four Thousand for the increase manifestation of this most holy Priesthood blessed are they that shall be the first Foundation Pillars hereof so saith the Yea Amen for this will be the Virgin Church upon whom no Spot ar Wrinkle shall be found for if found faulty I cannot be their Priestly head for the case is clean alter'd of what it was in the day of my visible Corporiety which was the first dawning of my Day in which the mixed and imperfect things among my Disciplehood could not so suddenly fly away therefore a suffering state was to succeed after me that so sin by its daily dyings might expire which among my old Disciplehood in that Age great effect did take but yet deceasing before reaching to the full and perfect date of what was to be the Churches primitive state now something greater and more perfect is to be revealed after so long and cloudy a Night of Apostacy where there has been a going back instead of going forward but there is a Star that shall arise out of the same light Orb whereof it shall be said Behold Wisdom's Day through dark Clouds doth appear out of whose Virgin Womb bright Stars of Glory generated are innumerably to make up that Temple-Church all fair and christaline terrible as an Army with Banners that shall display my Strength and Power This is the Trumpet sound of Christ the Lords Spirit to such who of this high and holy Order are that they may break away from their Iron Yokes and be unbound from all Terrestrial things for to come to be received into this new Disciplehood and with the Lord to have all freedom of Speech Oh! where shall we find any that shall for this high and spiritual degree all they have and are here for to resigne that as fixed Pillars for this first born Church they may come so to be Lord Jesus it is thy golden Crook that must take hold I see for such a Priestly Ministry I shall before I conclude answer some Queries that may arise in the Minds of some as they read these Prophetical Revelations who may require some further satisfaction concerning the truth of these things
deeper into the abyss being where the greatest of Wisdom's secrets are to be known when the spirit of the Soul can after this manner steal slide away from time and mortal day then open stands that gate that given entrance to behold the glorisi'd beings to hear the languages of that light world which none else can hear but them that are got out of the noise of all other hearings into that still and silent deep where most pleasant joyful Voices and Sounds are heard which entring through the several Orgains as a siery Bresth and nothing of vocal Words is either required or needed there Now then by this you may judge that pure and unadultered revelation and vision of a true sight is not so quickly rushed into nor easily attained it is a great and peculiar Gift and also requires great watchfulness and attenders upon it if any would enjoy and hold it incorruptedly And that there may be no deceit in this matter when you come to try your own and other Spirits take this observation further with you If any one brings out a Prophecy or Revelation take notice what defensive power and guard it hath upon it The beloved John when he had all those visions and revelations he gives an account how they were seen and heard by him for saith he I was in the Spirit on the Lords day and a good proof there was of it as much as if he had said That it was neither Mans nor Mortals day that did rise and inclose upon him but the one everlasting Day or Ancient of Days in whose Light he had the glorious Prospect of heavenly things themselves Thus he was in the Spirit which was his defensive power and guard to keep out all ether trifling Spirits Observe this further it is a much different thing for the Mind and Spirit of the Soul to be caught and taken up into the spirit pure and abstractedly for then it is secured from mixtures but when the holy Spirit is come only into the Property of our Souls giving sorth lustrous Light and Revelation in speaking fluently yet hazardable to be twisted about from the self-promoting Essence that ready and apt is to dash in upon the divine inspiring as soon as it arise from its own center deep This I speak knowingly having traced through the deep Meanders before I arrived to know the true and certain way of Revelation by which now I am put out of doubt concerning the true Oracle speaking in the Soul as to my own particular watching thereunto with heedfulness for the keeping out all fluttering Spirits that have their birth and nourishment from the astaral and elementary Region that can go in and out for proving till we are got beyond their Kingdom Now indeed when the spirit of the Soul meets with such a pull up into the Spirit as the beloved Disciple then it is out of all fears but this is very rare they are high favourits that do frequently meet with such transportations but the other is more common and frequent to Saints that lovers and enjoyers are of that Ministration for whose sakes I have been impulsed to open these secret things that they may put on their impregnable strength of defence for the preserving this great immunity as the choicest of all of Gods favours and that incorruptedly as from the pure spring of the Spirit then you will find every faculty tinged with the fiery Glance of the holy Ghost as you see by the dark hard body of Iron being inclosed with Fire it is so penetrated therewith as it becomes as one and the same fire flame but you must keep and feed it there as the Salamander which always liveth in the fire after this manner doth the holy Ghost with his invisible flaming Body penetrate through the spirit of the Soul that it is encompassed with Light as the Angel which is said Rev. 19. 17. standing in the Sun all appearing as the very Sun of glory therefore highly valuable it is for any Saint to get such a clothing of the Spirit upon them for nothing of Adam's weak or impotent Nakedness can here be seen but all glory strength and power will be your habitation therefore these are gifts to be much set by and desired and not slighted or despised Now having given a plain and experimental account of this nice and difficult Point which I hope may have reached to the satisfaction of the doubtful I shall now by virtue of a heavenly Commission given me from the Lord give counsel and caution to three sorts and degrees of Persons The First of this is to them that do question Whether there be any Spirit of Prophecy or Revelation given forth since the Apostles deceased as believing all dyed with them This would be a sad and deplorable thing if God should since that Age cut off the spring of Revelation from its original that so the Sheep and Lambs of Christs flock should no more expect to be fed from the fresh springing Pastures where no footing hath been as also to drink of those flowing Rivers of Life that renew daily from the fount of the God head let such but call to mind and consider those many Scripture-Prophecies and Promises concerning the continuation of this Gift unto the very end of time both in the old and new Testament I shall mention only some of the latter John 14. 16 17 18. 2 Cor. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 2. 10 11 12 13 14. John 2. 28. Heb. 8. 9 10 11. Many more than these Scriptures could call up for confirmation of the continued run of the Spirit throughout all Ages Christ by his Spirit comforting us saying Lohe would be with his to the end of the World Now as from the Lord I beseech you not to eclipse the light of the Day-star 2 Pet. 1. 19. in your own Souls nor quench the Spirit nor despise Prophecying then may the witness of Jesus rise in you to confirm this most glorious Ministration as a burning Lamp of Revelation A word of Love-caution is to another sort of Persons who are entred into this Ministration in its first degree and are under the Spirits discipline and teaching the word of Counsel from the Father of Spirits is this That they keep precisely to the Rules and Laws of the Spirit for there will be expected from such more shining and singular Conversation shewed forth in a self-denying Life dying to all of those mortal things and sensual enjoyments that strangle and choke the fiery Breath of the holy Spirit to stop it from kindling further and deeper in the Soulish Essence that so there may be a coming up to a mighty Increase and Fruitfulness in the love and unity of the Spirit having all tenderness to support love and cherish each Olive Plant that springeth out of this Eden Garden which is watered by the holy Mists and dropping Dews of the Spirit Now to the third sort this word of Wisdom and Counsel doth