only in the Impression in the cold Sulphur in the sharpness of the Wrath it turneth to a false desire viz. to a false Love which is contrary to the meeknes for its desire is Saturn and Mars 2. It putteth forth its Sun understand its luster of life in Mars and the warming Light which also receiveth its fiery sharpness in the Impression in Sulphur from Mars bringeth its desire again into the liberty viz. through the dying in the Fire through the anguish It doth wholly and freely give it self forth in the dying of the Fire and forsaketh the property of the wrath 3. And so it becometh a Generall joy and not its own only even like the Sun that giveth forth its shining Lustre Universally the Sun-shine is neither hot nor cold only Mercury in the Spirit of the great World doth make in Mars and Saturns property a heat therein for the Sun doth enkindle their desire whereupon they grow so very hungry eager desirous and operative that even a Fire is found to be in the Light which heat is not of the Lights own property but of the Soul of the great Word which doth so sharpen the pleasant Light in its Splendor that it is unsufferable to the eye 4. And we are highly to consider and know that if another Fire-desire which is not like unto the outward life in Mercury would rule in the Austere wrath of the outward Nature that then it would be an Enmity contrary to the Austere cold bitter and fiery Dominion and Life and that they would exalt or exasperate their wrath eagerly desiring to be rid of it Even as it so came to passe when the Divine Love desire did manifest it self with its great meeknesse to the false cold proud and austere Fire desire of the Saturnalites Martialists and especially of the false Mercurialites It was a great Opposition and Enmity to them that Love should rule in the Death of Poyson and dwell therein this they could not not would not endure for Heaven was come into Hell and would overcome the Hell with Love and take away its might as it is to be seen in the person of Christ he loved them and did them all manner of good and healed their plagues or diseases but in that he was not arisen from their wrathful might and that he said he was descended from above and was Gods Son this was unsavory to the cold hot Fires might even that he should rule with Love over them 5. Even thus it goeth in the Philosophick Work when the wrathful Forms of the Earthliness viz. the outward Saturn Mars and Mercury do see the Heavenly Champion with the Virgins property among them and perceive that he hath far another desire then they then they are angry in themselves for the Love-desire when it glimpseth on the Fire-flagrat doth awaken their Fire-flagrat and then the wrath proceeds forth from the Anxiety into Love where-from ariseth a Deaths-flagrat in the Love but being there can be no death therein the Love condescendeth in the Fire-flagrat and giveth forth or distuseth it self into their desire and leaveth its Essence so that in their desire they reach after its Property in the Deaths-flagrat this is a poyson to Death and a pestilence unto Hell and in this Property Death was deprived of its power in the Humanity For Christ when as he shed his Heavenly blood in the Flagrat of Death and left it in Death the wrath of God was driven to retain the Heavenly Love-essence in it self Even there the Fire-desire in the enkindled Humanity was changed into a Love-desire and out of the Anguish of Death proceeded a Joy and strength of Divine Power 6. But I will hereby give the Wel-wisher fundamentally to understand how it went with Christ and how in like manner it goeth with his Philosophick Work both have wholly one process Christ overcame the wrath of Death in the Humane property and changed the Anger of the Father into Love in the humane property the Philosopher likewise hath even such a Will he willeth to turn the wrathful Earth to Heaven and change the poysonful Mercury into Love therefore observe us here aright we will not here write parabolically but wholly clear as the Sun-shine 7. God would change the Humanity after that it was become Earthly and had awakened the poysonful Mercury in the Love-property which poysonful Mercury had devoured the Love and changed it into it self again in to the Divine Heavenly property and make Heaven of the humane earth of the four Elements only one in One desire and change the wrath of God in the humane property into Love 8. Now his Anger was a might of the Fire and Wrath and was inflamed in man and therefore there must be right Earnestnesse to withstand the same and change it again into Love the Love must enter into the Anger and wholly give it self in unto the Wrath it would not be enough that God should remain in Heaven and only aspect the Humanity with Love it could not be that the Anger and Wrath should thereby yeeld up its might and strength and freely give it self unto the Love as the Fire is not made better by the light it still holds its wrath for all that in it self but when a meek Essence as water doth come into the Fire then the Fire goeth out 9. Even so Heavenly Divine Essentiality understand Heavenly water which the Tincture of the Fire and Light doth change into Blood must enter into the wrathful Fire of God and become the Fires food so that the Fire of God might burn from another Essence for water could not have done it the Fire doth not burn in the Water but the meek oleous property of the Fire and Light in the Essence of Divine meekness in the Love-desire that did effect it 10. The humane Fire-life doth consist in the Blood and therein ruleth the wrath of God now another Blood which was born out of Gods Love-essence must enter into the Angry humane Blood they must go both together into the death of the wrath and the wrath of God must be drowned in the Divine Blood and therefore the outward Humanity in Christ must dye that it might not any more live in the Wraths property but that the Heavenly bloods Mercury viz. the Speaking Word might alone live in the outward Humanity and solely rule in peculiar Divine Power in the outward and inward Humanity that the Self might cease in the Humanity and Gods Spirit might be All in All and the Self only his Instrument whereby he maketh what he pleaseth that I say the Self hood might be solely Gods instrument and wholly in Resignation for God hath not created man to be his own Lord but his servant He will have Angels under obedience and not Devils in their own Fire-might 11. Now when as His Love would give it self into Death and deprive Death of its might then the two Worlds viz. the Fathers Fire-world with
Souls spirit would live that is burn 22. Thus by Gods Curse or withdrawing the Heavenly Body was shut up and the Anger-Source set open and so the Heavenly Body lieth still shut up but seeing Man by the Eternal Mercury that is by the Word of Divine Power was in one part formed out of Eternity into Body and Soul none could disclose the Poyson-death and destroy the mortal Mercury and change it again into the Lights-Source viz. into the Source of the divine Joyfulness save only the very divine Mercury viz. the Power and the Word of Life it self for the Serpents poysonful earthly property was manifest and stirred up in man therefore when Gods Word did pity the Corruption of man and did again embrace him he said The Seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head and thou understand the Serpents poyson or fire shalt sting him in the Heel 23. Herein now lieth the Philosophers Stone to know how the Seed of the Woman bruiseth the Serpents Head which is done in the Spirit and Essence Temporally and Eternally the sting of the Serpent is Gods Anger-fire and the Womans Seed is Gods Love-fire which must be again awakened and illustrate the Anger and deprive the Wrath of its might and put it into the divine Joyfulness and then the dead Soul which lay avalled in Gods Curse doth arise when the poysonful Mercury which resembleth Gods Anger is Tinctured with Love then the Deaths Anguish in Mercury is changed into the highest Joyfulness and Desire of Love which doth again make a Love-essence in it self viz. an heavenly Body out of the earthly when Mercury is changed into an heavenly Source it desireth no longer or more the earthly mortal Life it desireth not the four Elements but only the One wherein the four are contained as it were avalled as the Light holdeth the Darkness avalled in it self and yet the Darkness is in it but not manifest in the Light as God dwelleth in Time and the Time comprehends him not unless it be translated and wrapt up into Eternity that the divine Light doth again shine in its Source and then the Time is manifest with its Wonders in the Eternity 24. On this wise also is the Process of the Wise men with the Precious Stone There is no nearer Consideration of the same then to consider and know how the Eternal Word viz. the heavenly divine Mercury in the divine Power is become man and slain Death and the Anger in man viz. changed the Mercury into the divine Joyfulness whereby the humane Mercury which before lay shut up in Gods Anger viz. in the Source of Death doth with its new enkindled Desire which now is called Faith in the Holy Ghost attract divine Essentiality viz. Christs Body unto it self and setteth it self in divine Power and Light above the Anger of God and the Poyson of the Serpent and bruise the head of the Anger viz. the poyson of Death with the Life of divine Joyfulness that is the Anger was Master but in the Light it became a Servant which now must be a cause of the Joyfulness as it is most plain clear and manifestly made known and shewn unto us in the Mercurial Life 25. Now observe the Process and meditate thereon ye dear Children of Wisdom and then ye shall have Enough Temporally and Eternally do not as Babel doth which tickleth and comforteth it self with the Philosophers Stone and boasteth of it but keepeth only a gross Masons-Stone shut up in Poyson and Death in stead of the precious Philosophers Stone what is it for Babel to have the Stone when as it lieth wholly shut up in Babel It is as if a Lord bestowed a Country upon me which indeed was mine but I could not take possession of it and remained still á poor man for all that and yet I boasted of the Dominion and so had the Name and not the Power Even thus it goeth with Babel about the precious Stone of the New-birth in Christ Jesus 26. In the Sweet Name Jesus Christ the whole Process is contained what and how the New-birth is out of Death into Life which is very clearly understood in the language of Nature for the Name Jesus is the property of the free Lubet of Eternity which yeelds it self into the Centre of the Pregnatress viz. into the Fathers property and figurizeth it self in the Centre in the Fathers property viz. in the Fathers Fire to a word of Eternal Power 27. Understand the Father viz. the Fathers fiery Forms do figurate shape this divine Voyce essentially in it self in the Lubet of the Liberty that is the Fathers fiery property maketh it self in the divine Essence of the eternal Love to a Mercury of Ioyfulness for the Fathers property is the Fire-source and the Sons viz. the eternal Lubets property is the Love-source and yet also there would be no Desire of Love if the Fathers Fire did not enkindle it and make it moveable viz. denrous from the Fire ariseth the Desire 28. The Father of all Essences begetteth this holy Desire through his Fire-source which is now his heart of Love which giveth in his Fire the shining Lustre and Splendor even there the Wrath in the Fires-property dyeth from Eternity to Eternity and is changed into a Love-desire 29. Thus observe it the free Lubets property is here in the Fires property called Christ which signifieth in the language of Nature a Potent Champion depriving the Wrath of its Power a Shine of the Light in the Darkness a Transmutation where the Love-Lubet ruleth over the Fire-Lubet viz. over the Wrath the Light over the Darkness Here the Seed of the Woman understand of the free Lubet in which there is no Source bruiseth the Head of the Wrath of the Eternal Nature viz. of the Eternal Desire for the Fires property is rightly called the Head for it is the Cause of the Eternal Life and the Liberty viz. the free Lubet or the Nothing is rightly called the woman for in the Nothing viz. in the Liberty of all Source consists the Birth of the Holy Trinity of the Deity 30. Now the Fire giveth Life and the free Lubet giveth Essence into the Life and in the Essence is the Birth where the Father viz. the Eternal Ground begetteth his Essence viz. his Heart out of the Abyss in Himself that is out of the Abyss in Himself into a Byss the Son is the Fathers Byss Thus the Father remaineth in Himself as touching his own property only the Byss of the Eternal Nature and the Son remaineth in the Father the Byss of the Power and Kingdom of Ioy a resemblance whereof you see in the Fire and Light And thus the Son Tinctureth the Father with the Liberty viz. with the Nothing and the Father Tinctureth the Son the Nothing that there is an Eternal Life therein and no more a Nothing but a Sound or Voyce of the Manifestation of the
for the Meekness is like a Stilness but the Source of Anguish sublimeth it and turns into a pleasant laughter also the Anguish viz. the Darkness is the death and destruction of the Oyly property for if it gets the upper-hand in the oleous property it takes possession of the Corpus and turns the Oyl into a poysonful Source viz. into a dark Spirit or Body wholly earthly as Adam was when he Imagined into the Evil. 9. And yet we do not acknowledg that the Oleous property doth take any Poyson-Source into it self but Mercury viz. the Fire-Life insinuates it self into the Anguish and poysoneth the Essence of Time which the outward Mercury it self maketh in its own Desire that is he departeth from the inward oleous Essence and then the Internal Being remaineth immoveable in it self and the Essence and Spirit of Time do Se Ver from the Essence and Spirit of Eternity and yet there is no parting or dividing but both Principles remain in One Essence whereas there be two Essences but the one comprehends not the other as Eternity doth not comprehend Time for thus also Adam and Eve dyed the Souls Mercury departed with its Imagination from the Essence of Eternity into the Essence of Time viz. into the Anguish source and then the Essence of Eternity lost its Leader which Christ restored again by the divine Word or Mercury so that the Essence of Eternity which in Adam was forsaken of the Souls Mercury obtained the Life again 10. And thus we know that the Essence of Eternity lieth hid in the Anxious Mercury as in the Fortress of Death and our writing and teaching is to shew how a man may bring the poysonful Mercury with its Desire so far as to enter with its Desire again into the Essence of Eternity viz. into the Enclosed and re-assume the Essence of Eternity for a Body and with the same Tincture the Essence of Time and reconcile them in One that the whole Corpus of the inward and outward World may be only One that so there may be only one Will in the Spirit viz. a Love-Hunger and this Hunger doth then make unto it self only one Essence and then every Spirit eateth of its own Essence or Body so that afterward no Evil Will can arise any more therein 11. Thus we understand that Joy and Sorrow Love and Enmity do originally arise through Imagination and Longing for in the Inclination or earnest Desire towards God viz. the Free Love the Kingdom of loy doth arise in the midst of the Anguish of Death and if the Desire departeth our of the free Love into the Anguish of Death viz. into the Source of Darkness then is the Desire filled with the Source of Death and so Mercury worketh effectually in the Source of Death 12. Thus we declare with ground that there is nothing so bad but there lieth a Good therein but the Badness is not capable of the Good also there lieth in the most poysonful Mercury the greatest Pearl and Jewel if his poysonful Will may be introduced into the same then he himself manifests the Pearl for he changeth himself as is to be seen in the Earth where Mercury seeks its Pearl and turns it in the Oar to Gold and to other Metals according as the Sulphur is in each place 13. For there is a continual Combate in the Earth the Eternity travels with Longing through Time to be free from Vanity and in its Longing it giveth it self to Mercury as to its Life and Faber and when Mercury obtains it in his Hunger he becomes joyful and maketh this free Luber Corporeal in him and there ariseth Gold and Silver together with other Metals and good Herbs all according to the powerful Efficacy of each Place As the Boyling is in each Place so likewise is the Metal all according to the Property of the seven Forms of Nature that Form which is chief in a place according to the same Property groweth a Metal also Herbs and Trees 14. Here the Physicians must observe that they learn distinctly to know what kind of property is the strongest in each thing wherewith they would Cure if they do not know it they will oftentimes give their Patients death Also they must know that they are to understand and very exactly to know the property of the Patient which of the properties among the seven Forms of Nature is the Mercury in Sulphur for such a Salt he also maketh Now if the Physician giveth him a contrary Salt Mercury is only thereby the more vehemently enraged and made more venomous but if he may obtain his own Salt according to his own property after which he hungereth then he rejoyceth and readily quitteth his Poyson-Source in Mars his Fire But the Right Physician hath another Cure he first bringeth his Mercury wherewith he will Cure out of Deaths-Anguish into the Liberty He may well Cure the other is dangerous and uncertain if he doth happen to cure it is by chance and very unconstant and cannot cure any disease fundamentally for the outward Mercury is shut up it cannot reach no further then into the four Elements into the mortal-Essence it is able to do nothing in the Sydereal Body but if it be turned and introduced into the Love as is before mentioned then it toucheth the very Root and Ground and reneweth it even to the Divine Power in the Second Principle 15. We have an excellent Resemblance of this in the blooming Earth on the Herbs for in the Earth Mercury is earthly and venomous but when the Sun tinctureth him then he reacheth after the Suns Power after its Light and bringeth it into his Hungry fiery Mars desire into his Salt viz. into his Corporeal Essence viz. into Sulphur which is his Mother and wheels it about with his Rotation in the Essence as if he also boyled and then the Liberty viz. the highest Power reacheth after its Property viz. after the Solar Property and apprehendeth Mercury also along with it 16. Now when Mercury tasteth the Heavenly Being in it self it grows exceeding desirous after the Power of Love and draweth the same into its Desire whereupon it changeth it self and its Salt so also its Mother the Sulphur into a pleasant Source and now if the Liberty be so introduced into a Moving Life with Mercury then it is very full of Joy and springeth up in its Joy as a light from the Fire and putteth forth through the Sulphur-spirit in the Salt Thus is the growing of the Root and thence the Root geteth such a pleasant smell and taste for in the Original the Salts sharpness in the first Impression from Saturn is a sharpness of Deaths Anguish and here it is turned to a pleasant Power for all taste in Herbs in Salt 17. Thus understand us further about the Root in the Earth when the inward Power of the Liberty in Mercury his Property which now is changed doth thus force it self forth
its refreshment in Love then all the seven Forms do manifest themselves in this Property as came to pass in the Process of Christ in his Miracles but as yet they are not perfect in the operation of their Properties manifestation 19. The Universal is not yet there until all seven do give their Will into One and forsake their property in the Wrath and depart from it with their Will and take into them the Loves-property they must take in the Will of the Nothing that their will be a Nothing and then it can subsist in the Wrath of the Fire and there is no further Turba therein for so long as the Desire of the Wrath is in the Form it is adverse and opposite unto the second Form and enflameth the second Form with its wrathful property that is it striketh the Signature of the second and awakeneth it in the Wrath and then the voyce or sound of the second enkindleth the first Forms property in Mercury and so no Form can attain unto any perfection that it might enter into Love 20. Therefore the Artist can effect nothing unless he gives a Meat unto the Forms which they all do desire and love to eat wherein there is no Turba now the Properties cannot eat being their mouth is frozen up in the Impression of Saturn the Artist must first open their mouth and make them alive in their Zeal that all the Forms may be hungry and then if there be Manna they do all eat together thereof and so the precious grain of mustard-seed is sown 21. Now when Mercury doth thus awake from the Death of the Impression of Saturn and gets Manna into the mouth of his property of the poysonful Deaths-Source then ariseth the Flagrat of the Kingdom of Joy for it is as a Light which is enkindled in the Darkness for the Joy or Love springeth up in the midst of the Anger Now if Mercury apprehends the glimpse or aspect of the Love in Mars then the Love dismayeth the Wrath and it is as a Transmutation but it is not fixt and stedfast and as soon as this cometh to pass the Angelical Properties do appear in view and ken The Process in the Temptation 22. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness and the Devil came unto him and tempted him When the Soul of Christ did hunger the Devil said unto Jesus Open the Centre in the Stones that is the Impressed Mercury and make thee Bread eat the Substance of the Souls property what wilt thou eat of nothing viz. of the speaking Word Eat of the expressed Word viz. of the property of Good and Evil and then thou art Lord in both this also was Adams bit wherein he did eat Death Then said Christ Jesus Man liveth not by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth from the mouth of God 23. Mark Whence had the Person of Christ the Will that he would not eat with the Souls Hunger of the Bread which could have been made of stones which he could well have performed Or how had it been if the Hunger of the humane Property had after the Unction of Baptism here eaten in the Temptation of the Mercury in the Impression of Death viz. of the Sulphur of the expressed Word in which was the Anger and from whence the Love was fled as it is so in the earthly Property 24. Observe The Will and Desire to eat of the Speaking Word came into the Souls property from the Motion of the Deity when as the same had moved it self in the Soulick Essence shut up in Death in Mary his Mother in her Essence or Seed and introduced the Aspect of the Eye of God in the Love into the dead Souls Essence and had manifested the Love in Death then one Divine Property desired the other and the Desire of the bodily Hunger to eat of Gods Bread or Essence came from the Baptism When the Water of the Body which in the Impression of the Substance was enclosed in Death did taste the Water of eternal Life in the holy Spirit viz. the holy Spirits Corporality or Essentiality in the Baptism then the Incentive of the divine Hunger of the Ardent Desire after Gods Essence did arise in the flesh as a divine Hunger a glimmering or shining Incentive of Divine Property 25. Now the Man Christ must hereupon be tempted in Body and Soul of which he would eat on one part the Expressed Word of Love and Anger was represented before Body and Soul in which the Devil would be Lord and Master and rule therein omnipotently and on the other part the Speaking Word in the Love property was only represented to the Soul and Body 26. Here now began the Combate which Adam should have undergone in Paradise for on one side Gods Love-desire which had manifested it self in the Soul did eagerly attempt the Soulick and bodily property and introduced its Desire into the Souls property that the Soul should eat thereof and give the Body Manna thereof and on the other side the Devil in Gods wrathful property did assault in the Souls property and brought his Imagination into the property of the first Principle viz. into the Centre of the dark World which is the Souls Fire-life 27. Here was the Contest about the Image of God whether it would live in Gods Love or Anger in the Fire or Light for the property of the Soul as to its Fire-life was the Fathers according to the Fire-world and being the Soul in Adam had quenched the Light-world the Light-world was again incorporated with the Name Jesus which came to pass in the Conception of Mary 28. Now it was here tryed in the Temptation of which property man would live whether of the Fathers in the Fire or of the Sons in the Light of Love Here the whole property of Christs Person was Tempted The Devil said as he had also said unto Adam Eat of the Evil and Good Hast thou not Bread then make Bread of Stones why dost thou Hunger so long in thy own Property Then said the Divine Desire Man liveth not of Bread alone but of Every Word of God 29. Thus the property of the fiery Soul resigned it self with its Desire into the Love viz. into the Speaking Words property and the fiery Desire did eat Manna in the Love-desire O ye Philosophers observe it well when this was done the Love transmuted the fiery property into its Love-property here the Father gave the Fire-Soul unto the Son understand the fiery property of the Expressed Mercury to the Speaking Mercury in the Light for Christ also said so afterwards Father the men were thine and thou hast given them me and I give unto them Eternal Life 30. Here Gods Love gave the Eternal Love-Life to the Corrupted Humanity the Love did wholly give it self in unto the Fire-wrath and transmuted the Wrath of the Soul into a Triumphant joyful Love but if the Souls and Bodies property had obeyed the Devil in Gods
the outward visible World and also the Divine Love-world with the Divine Heavenly essentiality that is with Heavenly Flesh and Blood and also with corrupted flesh and blood were formed into one Person God became man and made man to God the Seed of the Woman viz. of the Heavenly Virginity which disappeared in Adam and also corrupted mans Seed in the Anger viz. Maries Seed were formed into one Person which was Christ and the Seed of the Woman viz. of the Virgin of God understand the Heavenly Essentiality should bruise the head of the Serpent understand the wrath of God in the Corrupted man the head is the might of Gods Anger the Divine man understand the Divine property should change the earthly into it self turn the earth to heaven 12. Now when the Person was born Heaven stood in the earth of man Now the Incarnation could not have done it alone there must be yet after this another Earnestness for so long as Christ walked on the Earth the Humanity which was from Maries property was not almighty but the Humanity from God was omnipotent they were set opposite one against the other in two principles yet not shut up but both manifest in each other the Love against the Anger and the Anger against the Love 13. Here now was the Tryal of the Combate one with another whence also proceeded the Temptation of Christ and when the Divine World overcame then the great Wonders brake forth through the outward Humane World but all this could not accomplish it there must yet be a greater earnestness the Humane Property viz. the expressed Word was yet stirring in the inflamable Anger the Humane Sulphur must be changed into the Heavenly viz. into the Heavenly part and thereupon the Humane Self viz. the expressed Mercury was astonished when upon the Mount of Olives the Heavenly world in the Love did wrestle with the Anger in the Humane world viz. with the Self-hood so that the person of Christ did sweat bloody sweat even there the one was dismayed at the other the Love at the horrible death whereinto it should and must wholly yeeld and give in it self with the Divine Essentiality and be swallowed up by the Anger and the Anger was dismayed at its death in that it must lose its might in the Love 14. Hence the whole Person of Christ said Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me yet not as I will but thy will be done The Love-world in Christ said Can it not be but that I must drink down the cup of thy Anger then thy will be done And the Anger said If it be possible let this Cup of Love pass from me that I may revenge my self rage in the wrath of man for his disobedience sake as God said to Moses who stood in the Spirit of Christ as a Type of Christ before God Let me alone that I may devour this disobedient people But the Name Jesus which had incorporated it self in Paradise with the promise of the Womans Seed in the Aim of the Humane and Divine Covenant would not suffer him for the humility of the Name Jesus hath always inter posed against the wrath of the Father against his Fires property that his Fire might not enkindle the half poysonful Mercury in man save only at sometimes when Israel walked wholly in the wrath and disobedience as is to be seen by Corah Dathan and Abiram and by Elias 15. So it was here on the Mount of Olives the Anger would live in the Fires might in man and the Name Jesus put it Self into the Anger and here there was no other remedy but that the Name Jesus in Divine Love and Heavenly essentiality must wholly resign up it self to be devoured by the Anger the Son must be and was obedient to the Angry Father even to the death of the Crosse saith the Scripture 16. The dear Love-humility and meekness did suffer it self to be scorned mocked spit upon and Judged by the Anger that is the Jews must execute the justice of God for by mans self-action sin was committed and by mans self-action Death and Sin must be blotted out Adam had introduced his Will into the poyson of the outward Mercury even so must Christ viz. the Love freely give up its Will also into the same poysonful Mercury Adam did eat of the evil Tree Christ must eat of Gods Anger and as it went inwardly in the Spirit so likewise outwardly in the Flesh and even so also it goeth in the Philosophick work 17. Mercury in the Philosophick work betokeneth the Pharisees he will not endure the Love-child when he seeth it he gives it trembling and anguish and Venus also stands dismayed at the poyson of the angry Mercury they are in one another as if sweat did drop from them as the Artist shall see 18. Mars saith I am the Lord of Fire in the body Saturn is my strength and Mercury is my life I will none of this Love I will devour it in my wrath this betokeneth the Devil in the anger of God and being he cannot do it he raiseth up Saturn viz. the Impression which signifieth the worldly Magistracy and reacheth therewith after Venus and yet cannot get her into him for she is to him a poyson unto Death This Mercury also can much less endure for the Love took away his Dominion as the High Priests thought that Christ would take away their Government because he said that he was Gods Son 19. Thus Mercury is vexed at the child Venus for Venus hath wholly discovered her self and freely given up her self they may do now what they please she will go even into the Dragons mouth he shall only but open his jaws and this Mars in Mercury doth not understand but they take the fair child and shoot their venomous Darts against it and bind it with Saturns Might in their wicked bands as the Artist will see how they surround Venus her colour 20. Mars brings it first unto Mercury being he is the life as before the High Priest who must examine and prove the fair child but he doth hate it he cannot reach into the heart after its Love-will he doth only judg it externally because it is not of his property that it standeth forth with such a form as the Mercury himself and yet hath another Power Vertue and Will 21. But being there is another Mercury which liveth in its Love in the Child Venus therefore he cannot kill it but brings it unto Saturn as the Jews brought Christ from Caiaphas to Pilate who signifieth Saturn who also taketh the Child But seeing that he is a Lord of the Impression viz. of the darkness therefore he careth not at all for the property of the Child but for the Dominion only he seizeth on the Child with the dark Impression and strips it of its fair Venus garment and when Luna with the white splendor of the Sun seeth this then she hideth her self as the Disciples of
according to the time viz. according to the Humanity 77. When Adam was in the Image of God and was neither Man nor Woman but both He stood forty days in Paradise without wavering and when he fell he stood even untill the third day viz. forty hours in the Sleep even till God did make or build the Woman out of him Thus Israel must be tempted forty days on Mount Sinai whether it would live in the obedience of God under the Wonders and mighty Acts and when as it could not be God gave them the Law of His Covenant as a Looking-glass of that which was promised in the Covenant therefore the temptation of the body was upon them forty years that the body must eat Manna to try whether Man could be remedied when as the body or outward person could not stand then Joshuah brought them through the water with the Covenant of the Type where Israel must serve with Sacrifices in the Covenant in the Type of the Final accomplishment until the time of Restitution came in and then the Valiant Champion in Battel stood 40. days in the Wilderness of the temptation and stood out the first Tryal of Adam in Paradise and the three hours of darkness on the Cross are the three hours of the Temptation of Christ when the Devil tempted him And again the forty hours of Christ in the Grave are the forty days of Adam in Paradise and the forty days of Moses upon the Mount and the forty years in the Wilderness and the forty days after the Resurrection before the Ascention are even one and the same and now when the Champion had stood out Adams Tryal the Soul was tempted forty days in the Humane property whether it would eat of Gods Word and live in full Resigned obedience in the Will of God and be a true Image Likeness and Similitude of the Divine Power in the Unsearchable Eternity according to the Trinity of the Deity 78. In the like manner let the Philosopher observe us that the essence of time doth also stand in such a property for man was created out of the Essence of time into an Image as an extract of all essences a compleat Image and likeness according to Time and Eternity ruling and standing in the Time and in the Eternity as an Instrument of the great infinite God with whom by and with his Spirit he would make and do what he pleased 79. Now man is the Instrument of God with or by whom he doth manifest his hiddenness both in his own Humane property viz. in the Essence and Image of God and then also through man as with the Instrument in the Mother of all Beings as in the Grand Mystery viz. in the Soul of the great world 80. Man hath power so far as he goeth as an instrument of God in Divine obedience as his Spirit doth guide and lead him that he can introduce the Earth which standeth in the Curse of God into the Benediction and make of Deaths-anguish the highest triumphant joy in the outward Pregnant Mother but he himself doth it not only his will doth labour with the understanding therein and doth conjoyn the Compacta which belong together as Life and Death which stand opposite to one another these he must joyn together and bring them into one by such an art as Time and Eternity are united by and in the man Christ and by him all those which give their will thereinto 81. He will see in his work all whatsoever God did in the Humanity when he brought it again into the Universal viz. into Paradise He will see how the Wrath devours and swallows up the fair Venus into his pricking thorny essence and how Venus doth fully yeeld in her self and how the Wrath also dyeth away in Venus and becometh wholly dark and black as a Coal for death and life do lie together both in the Death viz. in the obedience of God they both hold still unto him and suffer the Spirit of God to make of and with them what it pleaseth who introduceth them again into the Eternal will of God whereto he at first created them and thus the Essence standeth again in the beginning in the Order as God created it It must only stand in its Impression in the Verbum Fiat viz. in the Divine making until the day of Gods Separation when God will change the Time again into the Eternity 82. And when Jesus had drunk the cup and tasted the Vinegar mixed with Gall in the outward man and inwardly in the Love-property viz. in the Virgin the wrathful Anger of God then said the whole man Christ My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For Gods Speaking Word stood still now in the Humane property and the new-born essentiality which was dead in Adam and was again quickned in Christ did cry with the same My God my God wherefore hast thou forsaken me For the Anger of God was by the Souls property entred into the Image of the Divine Essentiality and had devoured the Image of God 83. Here now the Image in the Creature of the Soul cryed My God my God wherefore hast thou for saken me for the Humane Image which disappeared in Adam and was again revived in Christs Incarnation should bruise the head of Gods Anger in the Fire-soul and change its Fire-might into Sol and now the Speaking Word of God did here forsake it and it fell into its souls wrath where it felt Gods Anger for the Speaking Word did so bring it through the Anger into Death and out of the Death again into the Solar life understand into the Eternal Sun 84. Like as the Candle dyeth in the Fire and out of that death the light power proceedeth viz. the great painless life so out of Christs dying and death the eternal Divine Sun should and must arise in the Humane property but the Selfness of the Humane property viz. the Souls own Self will to live in the Fires might must here dye and be drowned in the Image of Love and the Image of Love must also resign and give it self in unto the Wrath of Death that so all might fall down into death and arise in Gods will and mercy through death in the Paradissal Source in the Resignation that Gods Spirit might be all in all Hells eye must see through the Love as the light shineth out of the Fire and the Fire from the Darkness and the Darkness taketh its Original from the Eternal desire 85. And as Adam changed the likeness of God into the dark Deaths form so God did again change the likeness through his Fire-wrath out of Death into the Light he drew forth the likeness again out of death as a blossome groweth from the harsh Earth 86. Thus it goeth likewise in the Philosophick work Venus is forsaken when she receives the three wrathful properties into her self in wrath their wrath viz. the death doth devour her life whereupon she loseth
we are to consider of the Creation of this World that the whole Essence of Eternity hath moved it self in the Place of this World and the whole Form was Enkindled and Sirred and that in the desire to Manifestation and there the Generation divided it self in the Flagrat of the enkindled Fire into four parts viz. into Fire Water and Earth and the Ayr is its moving Egressive Spirit as is to be considered in Sulphur which consists in these four things 3. In like manner also the Astrum is thus Generated out of the first Mother and All put together is only one Body and it All taketh its rise from the inward Spirit as a hand or foot groweth forth from the inward Centre and hath already its fashion in the Centre viz. in the first operation and so only groweth into a form as the spirit is 4. The First Mother of all Things viz. the Lubet with the Desire doth especially introduce it self into Seven Forms and yet continueth stedfast in three only but manifests it self in Seven Forms 5. As the first Form is Astringent viz. an Austere Attraction which is a Cause of Coldness and Salt and all Corporality 6. The second Form is the Compunction viz. the Drawing or Motion and causeth the Feeling also Pricking Aking Tormenting the Affection of bitterness enmity and friendliness joy and sorrow 7. The third Form is the Great Anguish in the Impression which causeth two Wills viz. one to the Fire to the highest sharpness and the other to the mortifying and dying in the Fire where the Will of the free Lubet falleth down to the Wrath in the Fire and again goeth into it self and maketh a Lustre in the Fires sharpness 8. Now the fourth Form is the Fire it self viz. the first Principle in the Life with which the dark and light World do Sever also in this Flagrat all Material Separations are effected and the Corporality and Multiplication beginneth according to the Property of the first Eternal Mind viz. according to the Essentiality a mortal Ens and according to the free Source a living Ens. 9. The fifth Form is now the second Desire which is done after the Separation and that according to two Properties viz. one according to the Lubet of the Liberty out of the Light which is the highest Love-desire and the other according to the Fires Lubet which leadeth its Life of its Essence in the Love in the Light whence the Joyfulness and every true Life ariseth 10. The Love giveth Essence for it is expressive and yeelding viz. it self for God giveth himself to every Essence and the Fire is receptive for it needeth Essence in its wrathful Hunger else it extinguisheth and then the Lustre of the Light would go out and the Desire of Love would cease for the Fire maketh the Light desiring viz. of the Joyfulness for if the Fire dyeth the Light waxeth dark and Love turneth into Anguish as may be conceived of in the Devils 11. The sixth Form ariseth from the Turning Wheel before the Fire where the Multiplication of the Essence ariseth out of the property of Mercurius in the Salnitral Flagrat with the enkindling of the Fire one Form is introduced into another and if now the Love-desire penetrateth all the Forms then all the Forms grow very desirous the one after the other for the dear lovely child Venus is in all 12. Here beginneth the Taste Smell Hearing Seeing and Feeling and Speaking for the Light doth open another Principle of another Source and filleth All and here springeth up the Life in Death viz. the Love in the Anger the Light shineth in the Darkness here the Bridegroom embraceth his Bride and God himself resisteth his Anger viz. the Wrath of Nature and in this Form all Speeches Understanding and Senses do arise and the True real Life of all Creatures so also the Life in the Vegetables viz. Trees and Herbs in each thing according to its property c. 13. The seventh Form ariseth from all the other and is the body mansion-house or food of the other and it s thus effected when the other Forms do taste each other in their mutual Penetration in the Love-desire then in each Form there is an hunger or desire after the Love viz. after the Light now each Hunger or Desire is forth-reaching after the thing it doth desire and eagerly attracteth the property of the thing desired and thus out of two one Essence is made viz. out of the Hunger and that which the Hunger desireth for this Hunger doth not stand in Death it doth not any more aval or enclose up it self in Death unless it be too great and the Imagination in the Hunger be too great and the Hunger cannot obtain that same thing then it choketh as many times a child is so choked or smothered in the mothers womb if this Form be enkindled in another Form to eat of some external thing whereupon the mother grows so ardent in longing and if she cannot get it the child also cannot get it now it choketh in the Hunger or else a member is spoiled whence the Hunger did arise 14. The first Hunger in the Centre before the Fire is a spiritual Hunger which maketh the dark World and the Hunger of the free Lubet maketh the light World both which are only Spirit until they pass both together through the enkindling of the Fire where then they are mortified to the Spirit and are a likeness of the first Spirit viz. a manifestation of the incomprehensible Spirit which is called God in Love and Anger in a two-fold Source thus each standeth undivided in it self viz. God in the Time and the Time in God and the one is not the other but they come from One Eternal Original thus the Temporal Spirits-hunger giveth a Temporal Body and the Eternal Spirits-hunger affordeth an Eternal Body and are both mutually in each other and yet are distinct 15. The seven Forms do make them a Body according to their Hunger out of their own Property therefore all whatsoever the Spirit hath in all Propertises lieth in the Body 16. Further we are to know that there is a Severation made in the Creation of this World for this is to be seen in the Sun and Stars so likewise in all Creatures also in Metals Stones and Earths for this same is the manifestation of God 17. We see in the Firmament seven Planets and in the Earth seven Metals which are fixed and also seven Planets only which are fixed in their property the rest are Minerals and so of the Stars and as the Planetick Orb hath its predominant Stamp or Influence so is also the Birth of each thing 18. As the Deity viz. the divine Light is the Centre of all Life so also in the manifestation of God viz. in the Figure the Sun is the Centre of all Life in the highest Life the highest things have taken their beginning and so forward successively
procreated heavenly Essence according to both Eternal Principles 6. But now Man was created Good and Perfect according to and out of all the three Worlds as an Image of the Deity in whom God dwelled and was even that Essence what God is according to Eternity and Time in all the three Worlds but a Creature with a beginning as to the Creature and dyed through Lubet as to the Heavenly and Divine Essence For the inward Lubet which was generated in the Center viz. in the fire wherein stood the Life in the Divine Essentiality that is that which enkindled the Essence of the divine Meekness wherein the Joyfulness or the Angelical Form consisteth that I say turned it self from the inward Lubet of the Liberty and Eternity into the Time viz. into the Extern Birth into the Planetick Property it departed out of the Pure Divine Element into the four Elements Thus the inward Divine Essentiality or inward Corporality did no longer retain any Leader or Life and this was the death for the Souls fire proceeding from the Fathers Property turned it self away from the Sons Property in which alone the Divine Life consists 7. Thus the Property of the Soul remained naked onely and alone with its Will in the outward Sulphur and the inward disappeared and continued stedfast in the Eternal Unchangeableness as in an Eternal Nothing wherein there was no more any Effecting or working Efficacy to bring to pass 8. Thus Man with his outward Body lived barely and meerly to the Time the precious Gold of the Heavenly Corporality which tinctured the outward Body was disappeared and so the outward Body stood barely and alone in the Life of Natures Desire viz. in the Souls fiery Property understand in the Form and Property of Mars viz. in the Wrath of God who is the Wrath in Sulphur viz. the Property of Gods Anger and the dark World but being the outward Body was created out of the Time therefore the Time viz. the Constellation with the four Elements presently obtained the dominion in him and the divine Property viz. the Desire of the Deity which Ruled and Tinctured Time so that there was a holy Life in the Creature out of the Time was vanished it s own peculiar Love in the divine Desire was turned to water and it became blinde and dead in the Will and Desire of God and the Soul must help it self with the Suns Light 9. But being that Time hath Beginning and End and the Will with the Desire hath given up it self to the Temporal Leader therefore the Dominion of Time destroyeth its own contrived spirit and so the Body also dyeth and passeth away and this is that which God said to Adam That he should not eat of the Tree or Plant of the Knowledg of Good and Evil of both Properties lest he dyed as it also came to pass he dyed in the Sulphur The Sul in the Kingdom of God viz. the Lubet of the divine Liberty out of which the Light of God shineth and in which the divine Love viz. the Love-fire burneth did disappear and withdraw from him 10. Now there was no remedy for him unless Gods Desire entered again into his dead Sulphur that is into his mort Sul viz. into the dead or mortified Essentiality and again enkindle it with the Love fire which came to pass in Christ and there the Heavenly Body wherein Gods Light shineth did again arise But if this must be effected then the Love-desire must again enter into the Desire of the Enkindled Anger and quench and overcome the Anger with the Love the divine water must enter again into the Souls burning fire and quench the wrathful death in the Astringent Fiat viz. in the Desire to Nature that the Love-desire which desireth God might be again enkindled in the Soul 11. For Mans Happiness consists in this that he hath in him a true Desire after God for out of the Desire springeth forth the Love that is when the Desire receiveth the Meekness of God into it self then the Desire immerseth it self in the Meckness and becomes essential and this is the Heavenly or Divine Essentiality or Corporality and therein the Souls-spirit which lay shut up in the Anger viz. in Death doth again arise in the Love of God for the Love Tinctureth the Death and Darkness that it is again capable of the divine Sunshine 12. And as this is done in Man so likewise it is in the Transmutation of Metals the Sulphur is shut up in Saturn viz. in the Death and yet there is no Death but a Vegetative Life and the outward Mercury is the Life thereof Now it the Metalline Body shall come to the Highest Perfection then it must dye unto the External Dominator viz. to the Elements and come again into such a Sulphur as it was when as yet it had not the four Elements on it but lay onely in the Element in unity 13 But now none can reduce it into such a Body save he onely which hath generated He that hath given it the four Elements He Alone can take them away and He that at first made it Corporeal He must aval it into himself and transchange it in himself into another Body and this is the Sulphur which hath Mercurius as its chief Faber in it self He must again take it out of dark Saturns bowels in the Fiat and introduce it into his own and with his own Fire separate the four Elements from it and reduce it into one as God at the last Day will in the Enkindling of his own Fire separate the Essence of the four Elements from the Pure Element that the eternal Corporality in the Pure Element may Arise and spring forth and as in the death of Man the four Elements do sever from the true Man who is the Element of God and the Heavenly Body remaineth onely in it self even so it goeth in the Transmutation of Metals Process 14. The Body lieth shut up in a disesteemed Form in Saturn not wholly in Saturns Property in a dark colour marked with Mercurius its Father and Sol its Mother clothed with Saturn and manifest with the Life of Mars but its Mother is not outwardly manifest and known on it unless its Faber be enraged with its own Iniquity which yet cannot be except an Alienate be applyed whereby its Propriate is enraged and then if his Anger be set on a fire or fury he becometh so very hungry and thirsty and yet can finde no refreshment in it self then it seizeth on its Faber who hath made it and fighteth against its Creator as the earthly wicked man against God so long till he devoureth and consumeth himself as a fiery pestilent Poyson consumeth the Body unless you remedy stay and allay its hunger yet there is none that can still this horrible Hunger but God himself who hath made him and if he assists not in due time then the Hunger in the Wrath
consumes the Body and puts it into the eternal Darkness 15. This Hunger desireth nothing but the Mercy of God that he might be freed from the Anguish of Hell but this he cannot obtain of himself for he is shut up in the Anger of God and his dear Mother which nursed him in the beginning is also shut up in Death but if God sheweth his Grace and gives him again of his Love then the Anger is dismayed at the Love and this is a Flagrat of great Joy for he again tasteth the sweetness of his dear Mother and then he knoweth full well that he hath been so vile and wicked and repenteth of his Iniquity and will turn and mortifie the old Adam and cast it away from him 16. So the Artist taketh him presently away with the old Adam from the strange Anger and layeth him in a soft bed for the old Adam is sick and will dye and then his own Faber in the old Adam is in the Love of God which destroyed the Anger and will make a young childe and rejoyceth in the childe and the old Adam grows sick and weak wholly dark and swart and dyeth and the four Elements go out from him with their colours so the Faber gives him even Leave to go and continually laboreth on the new Body which shall arise from Death and none seeth his labor for he worketh in the dark 17. But the Artist takes no care about the work but giveth the Faber his own food till he seeth that a Vegetative Life appeareth in the dark Death with a new colour out of the black and then when the new Man is ready the Artist cometh and brings the Soul and gives it the Faber at which the Faber is dismayed that another Life cometh into him and he puts the Soul into the new Body and goeth inwardly in the Anger Thus the new Man ariseth in great Power and Glory from Death and bruiseth the Head of the old Serpent in the Anger of God and passeth through the Anger and the Anger can do him no harm at all Whoe'er thou art that hereunto art born Thou hast a chosen work no way for lorn CHAP. VI. How a Water and Oyl is generated and of the difference of the Water and Oyl and of the Vegetable Life and Growth 1. ALl Life Growth and Instigation consist in two things viz. in the Lubet and then in the Desire the Lubet is a free Will and as a Nothing in comparison to Nature but the Desire is as a Hunger in the Desire ariseth the moving Spirit viz. the Natural and in the Lubet the Supernatural which yet is Natures but not out of its own property but out of or from the property of the Desire 2. The Desire is the Instigation of the Essence viz. an Hunger and the Lubet is the Hungers Essence which it taketh into it self for the Desire is only an hungry Will and it is the natural Spirit in its Forms but the Lubet is out of the Liberty for God is desire-less as concerning his own Essence in so much as he is called God for he needeth nothing All is his and he himself is All. 3. But he hath a Lubet-will and he himself is the Will to manifest himself in the Lubet yet in the free affection-less Lubet no manifestation can be effected for it is voyd of Desire it is as if 't were nothing in respect of Nature and yet it is All but not according to the Desire viz. according to Nature but according to the satisfying of Nature it is the satisfying of the hungry Desire viz. of Nature it freely and willingly gives it self into the Hunger of Nature for it is a Spirit without Essence and Desire wholly free as a Nothing but the Desire doth essentialize or materiate it in it self and that according to two Properties viz. one according to the Eternal Liberty which is free from the Source and the other according to the Desire which giveth a vegetative Life viz. a growing or a giving forth it self 4. The Free Essence is and giveth an Oyl and the Desires property giveth a Life of the Oyl the Oyl is a Light and the Desires property giveth to the Light the Essence viz. the Fiery property so that the Light shineth as is to be seen in the Fire and Light and the free Lubet remaineth yet a free Will in it self but giveth its Meekness viz. a free Resignation into the Desire that it cometh to Essence and Lustre its Will is only good it hath no other Desire save only to be good meek and pleasant there is also no other possibility therein for it is as a Nothing wherein no disturbance or Source can be but it is the Meekness it self 5. But being it cannot be a Nothing by reason that it is a Cause and Beginning of the Desire therefore it giveth it self freely as the Sun-shine freely gives it self into every property and the Desire conceiveth or taketh this free Lubet viz. the Lustre or shine of the Abyss of Eternity into it self and makes it in it self into Essence according to its property so much property as is in the Desire so much also there is of Essence and we are to consider that when the free Lubet doth give in it self into the Hunger of the Desire that the Desire then maketh out of the free Lubets property a Similitude according to the Liberty which is as if 't were nothing and yet is this is a Water and Oyl 6. But seeing the Desire that is the Hunger is filled with the free Lubet it maketh its own property in the Essence of the Liberty also to Essence its Essence is Water and the Essence of the free Lubet is an Oyl Thus a two fold Property ariseth in one only Spirit viz. a fiery Property according to the property of the Desire and a joyful or Lucid Property according to the Liberty 7. The fiery giveth in its Essence viz. in its Water a sharpness from the austere Desire which is saltish or a Salt and from the fiery Anguish a Brimstone whence in the Impression and Creation of the World are made stones earth and metals so also the Elements and Stars all according to the forms in the Desire and the oleous property giveth its Meekness viz. a Love-Lubet wherein the fiery is impressed with the Desire and maketh Corporality and the oleous giveth it self out in its Meekness and maketh the Vegetable Life viz. a springing and growing in the fiery Impression whereinto the Fire must give its Essence and Instigation viz. the vehement Compunction in the Attraction of the Desire which is the Severator in the Corporality viz. the Distinguisher Carver and Causer of the Essence and Multiplicity or Variety 8. Philosophers have called this Form Mercurius from the anxious inciting Sphere which is the Cause of all Life and Motion and a Faber in the oyly and watry Property 9. Thus we are
Eternity 31. Thus dear Philosophers observe here the Ground how you should Tincture seek not the Son without the Father to Tincture therewith it must be one Body the Serpent-bruiser lieth therein aforehand for the Seed of the Woman hath not bruised the Serpents Head without the Humanity but in the Humanity The Source of the divine Lubet understand of the Love manifested it self through a Resurrection in the humane Essence and became manifest in the humane Life and Tinctured the Wrath of Death with the Blood of the divine Tincture and there the Wrath of Death was changed into a Source of divine Love and Joyfulness Thus the Love bruised the Head of the Anger and the oleous Poyson in Mercury and deprived the Wrath of its Dominion and sublim'd the Wrath into the highest Ioyfulness even there the Anger and the astringent cold Death were made open shew of in a fiery Love then it was said Death where is thy Sting Hell where is thy Victory God be thanked who hath given us Victory 32. Now it behoveth the wise Seeker to consider the whole Process with the Humanity of Christ from his Opening in the Womb of his Mother Mary even to his Resurrection and Ascention and so he may well find the Feast of Pentecost with the joyful Spirit wherewith he may Tincture Cure and Heal whatsoever is broken and destroyed We declare it in the ground of Truth as we have highly known it for a Rose in the time of the Lilly which shall blossom in May when the Winter is past for blindness unto the wicked and for a light unto the Seeing 33. God be for ever praised who hath granted us eyes to see through the poysonful Heart of the Basilisk and see the day of Restitution of all whatsoever Adam lost 34. Now we will come unto the Process of Christ and go with him out of Eternity into Time and out of Time into Eternity and bring again the Wonders of Time into Eternity and openly set forth the Pearl for Honour unto Christ and scorn unto the Devil He that sleepeth is blind but he that waketh seeth what the May bringeth 35. Christ said Seek and you shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you Ye know that Christ signifieth in a Parable concerning the wounded Samaritane how he fell among murtherers which beat him and wounded him and pulled of his clothing and went away and left him lie half dead until the Samaritane came and took pity on him dressed him and poured Oyl into his wounds and brought him into the Inn This is a manifest and lively Representation of the Corruption of Man in Paradise and also of the Corruption of the Earth in the Curse of God when Paradise departed from it 36. Now wilt thou be a Magus then thou must become the Samaritane else thou canst not heal the wounded and decayed for the body which thou must heal is half dead and sorely wounded also its right garment is torn off so that it is very hard for thee to know the man whom thou wilt heal except thou hast the eyes and will of the Samaritane and seekest nothing else thereby but to restore the loss of the wounded 37. Now consider the Eternal Word manifested it self in Adam with divine living Essentiality with the Heavenly Mercury but when the Souls-fire in Adam by the infection of the Devil poysoned the Wills spirit in Adam and introduced it through the property of the Serpent into earthly deadly lust then the Heavenly Mercury of the Heavenly Essence withdrew that is the Souls-will departed from it with its Desire and introduced his Hunger into the earthly mortal Essence viz. into the property of the cold Mercury which had made Stones and Earth Adams spirit would prove this Mercury and have the knowledg in evil and good and so this Mercury of the four Elements forthwith drew him into its Poyson and effectually wrought in him and robbed him of the Divine Property stung and wounded him with Heat and Cold and made him half dead and stripped him of his Angelical Rayment viz. the garment in the pure Element where the Heavenly Source penetrateth the four Elements and tinctured them in Adams body then he needed no other garment for Heat and Cold were as it were swallowed up in him as the Day holdeth the Night swallowed up in it self and yet the Night dwelleth in the Day but it is not manifest Thus it went with Man when the property and Source of the Night seized on him then it domineered in him and thus it went also with the Earth when God cursed it 38. Now wilt thou be a Magus then thou must understand how to change the Night again into the Day for the Source of the Night viz. of the Darkness is the Anguish-Source of Death and the Source of the Day viz. of the Light is the Life and the Lustre in the Life now Christ hath again enkindled this Shine in the Humanity and quickened man again in Himself Now if thou wilt Tincture then thou must change that which is shut up and closed in the Death of the Night again into the Day for the Day is the Tincture and yet the Day and Night lie in each other as one Essence 39. Now saith Reason How may I begin to do it Look upon the Process how God began with the Humanity when He would Tincture the same 40 Christ came into this World in the shut-up humane form and brought into the enclosed Fortress of Death the Tincture of Life viz. the Deity He came into the World as a Pilgrim in our poor form He became ours that he might Tincture us in Himself But what did he Did he live in Joy Did he behave and carry himself as a Lord No He entered into Death and dyed and put away the Nights-Source in him through Us But how did he do it He assumed the Essence of our Soul and Body unto the divine Essence and quickened our Essence with the divine that our Essence entered again with its Will and Desire into the divine Essence and then the Heavenly Fiat was moved again in the Humanity for the Humanity inclined it self again into the Liberty viz. into the free Lubet of the Deity 41. This being done the man Christ was tempted forty days so long as the first Adam was alone in Paradise and was tempted then the outward earthly food was taken from him and the Humanity must eat with its Desire of Gods Essence there was represented unto him all whatsoever the first Adam had Amused himself in and whereinto he Imagined and wherein he was captivated as in the Death of the Night This the Devil being a a Prince of this World now represented unto him in the property of Death as he had represented it unto Adam through the Serpent whereon Adam and his wife did amuse themselves and entered thereinto with the Imagination 42. Now behold What did Christ do when he
the Expressed Word must have a Tincturation from the outward expressed Love and Light unless the Will-spirit of the Soul doth wholly re-enter into the inward hidden Man and be again transmuted and then the Cure may be again introduced into the outward Man being the through-shining Love of God in the Light which is exceeding precious 71. But now this Herb is rarely to be found upon the Earth for men do eat only of the forbidden Tree therefore the Poyson of the Serpent doth so spring up in them in the Wrath of the eternal and external Nature so that they must also have an external Cure for their Serpents Poyson in the outward Mercury 72. It is indeed Possible for a man to live without sickness but he must bring the divine Tincturation from the inward Man through the outward which is very difficult to do in the World for the outward Man liveth amongst the thorns of Gods Wrath which gall and sting him on every side and blow up the Wrath of God so that it burneth in the outward Man and then the Tincturation of Gods Love may not continue there it is indeed there but not in the outward enkindled Abominations but it dwelleth in it self like as the Light dwelleth in the Darkness and the Darkness comprehends it not also knoweth nothing thereof but when the Light is manifest in the Darkness then is the Night changed into Day 73. Thus it is likewise with Man of what Light Man liveth of that also cometh his Cure if he liveth in the outward World then the outward Goodness and Love viz. the outward Jupiter and Venus with the Sun must be his Cure or he remaineth in the Angry Mars and in the poysonful Mercury in the earthly Moon captived in the Impression of Saturn viz. in the earthly Sulphur which however is made manifest and awakened in the outward Man by Adam for whose sake the outward Man must dye putrifie and so enter again into the Nothing viz. into the End or as I might better say and signifie it into the beginning of the Creation into the Essence out of which it went and departed with Adam CHAP. X. Of the inward and outward Cure of Man 1. LEt the Lover of God understand us aright We do not go upon an Historical Heathenish Conjecture but only and alone upon the Light of the outward Nature both Suns shine unto us Understand us aright and see how God hath Cured Man when the Poyson of the Serpent and Devil held him imprisoned in Death and how he yet still cureth the poor Soul captivated in Gods Anger the like Process also must the Physician keep in curing the outward body 2. The divine Light and Love was extinguished in Adam because he Imagined into the Serpents property viz. into Evil and Good so that the Poyson of Death began effectually to work in Mercury and the Source of Anger was inflamed in the eternal Mars and the dark Impression of the eternal Natures property took possession of him his body became Earth in the dark Impression in the Poyson of the enkindled Mercury and was an enmity against God he was utterly undone and there was no remedy for him by any Creature neither in Heaven nor in this World the wrathful Death captivated him in Soul and Body 3. Now how did God do to Cure him and Tincture him again did he take a strange thing thereunto No! He took the Likeness and cured him with that what was corrupted in him viz. with the divine Mercury and with the divine Venus and with the divine Jupiter understand in Man was the Expressed Word which I call the Eternal Mercury in Man for it the true ruling acting Life it was inspired or in-spoken into Mans Image which God created out of his Essence into an Image according to God as into a Creatural Image which was the Soul with the Property of all the Three Worlds viz. with the World of Light and Understanding which is God and with the Fire World which is the Eternal Nature of the Father of all Beings and with the Light Love-World which is Heavenly Corporality for in the Love-desire is the Essence viz. the Corporality 4. The Desire of Love is Spirit and is the Heart of God viz. the right divine Understanding In the Love-Essence Mercury is Gods Word and in the fiery Nature he is the Wrath of God the Original of all Mobility and Enmity also of Strength and Omnipotence the fiery Property maketh the Light viz. the Liberty desirous so that the Nothing is a Desire and this Desire is the Love of God which Adam did extinguish in him for he Imagined after Evil and God that is after Earthliness the Earthliness came forth into a Being both out of the Wrath and out of the Love-Being and that through Gods Motion that the Wonders of the Abyss and Byss might be made manifest that Good and Evil might be made known and manifest and this Adam being the Image of God should not do for God had created him unto his Image He should have Tinctured the Fire-World and outward World with the Word of Love that so none of them should be manifest in him like as the day holdeth the night avalled in it self 5. But by false Imagination he hath awakened and manifested the dark and poysonful Mercurial Fire-World in him so that his bodily Essence of the dark Impression is fallen unto the evil Part in the poysonful Mercurial Property and the Soul is become manifest in the Eternal Nature in the Fathers Fire-property viz. in the poysonful hateful Mercury according to which God calleth himself an angry zealous God and a consuming fire 6. Now to help and restore this again viz. the Image of God God must take the right Cure and even the same which Man was in his innocency But how did he effect it Behold O Man behold and see open thy Understanding thou art called 7. He introduced the holy Mercury in the Love-flame viz. in the fiery Love with the Desire of the divine Essentiality or after the divine Essentiality which Desire maketh divine Corporality in it self again into the Expressed Word viz. into the Mercurial Fire-Soul understand into the Souls Essence in the Womb of Mary and became again that same Image of God He Tinctured the Poyson viz. the Wrath of the Father of all Essences with the Love-fire He took only even that same Mercury which he had breathed into Adam for an Image and formed into a Creature He took only that same property yet not in the Fires property but in the burning Love He did with the Love introduce again the Light of the Eternal Sun into the humane property that he might Tincture the Wrath of the enkindled Mercury in the humane property and inflame it with Love that the humane Jupiter viz. the divine Understanding might again appear and be manifest 8. Ye Physicians if ye here understand nothing then ye are captivated in the Poyson of
Properties Right and then must the Body set to its strength as a Servant and accomplish the Poysonswill and wrangle and contest with his Adversary and beat him or be beaten of him let it be either by hand-blows or words it is all in this Property and Desire of this poysonful Mercury 40. Hence ariseth all War and Contention namely from the Dominion of Gods Anger in the Corrupt and Enkindled Mercury of the Expressed Word which doth so act its delight and sport in the poysonful Wraths and dark Worlds property in Man 41. Therefore the Warrior is a Servant of Gods Anger He is the Ax wherewith the Angry Husbandman cuts up his Thorns and Bryars from off his ground He is the chief Worker and Accomplisher of the wrathful Anger of God Gods Anger according to his Fires property will have it so and not his Love and he that suffers himself to be made use of thereunto he serveth the Anger of God according to the dark and Fire-worlds-desire and property which in the heavy Fall of Adam hath manifested it self in the humane property and brought Man viz. the Angelical Image into an half devilish Vizard and Likeness in which property and Image of his Will in the Expressed Creatural Mercury or vital Word he cannot inherit Gods Kingdom but must be born a new in his Mercury and Will with and in Christ in Gods Love viz. in the holy Speaking Mercury and Word of Life that a new obedient Will wholly resigned into Gods Love may proceed from his Creatural Mercury which neither wills or acts any thing but what the Will of the Speaking Divine Mercury willeth who in his Self-hood and selfish Arrogation in his own Will is as Dead that he may be the Instrument of the Great God whereby he should act work and do how and what he pleaseth and then is God All in All in him his Will and Deed and he is a Branch in the Great Tree which draweth Sap Power and Life from the Tree of God and groweth and liveth in him and bringeth forth his fruit then is the Mercury of the humane Life a procreated or expressed fruit which groweth upon the Paradise-Tree of God and giveth forth its Note and Sound and striketh the Signature in the Speaking Word of God viz. Gods Harp and Lute in his Praise to which end man is created not that he should needs play upon the Instrument of Anger and Death according to the Devils will 42. The Devil hath given himself to be such a Lutanist who contriveth and helpeth to act and drive on the Play in the Wrath viz. in the Darkness He is the Instrument and Actor in the Wrath of the Eternal Nature which hath its effects and atchievements with him and in him as its Instrument The like also must the wicked man do as Saint Paul speaketh thereof The holy man is unto God a sweet Savour unto Life and the wicked a sweet Savour unto Death All whatsoever doth live and move must enter into the Glory of God one worketh in his Love the other in his Anger All is generated and created in the Infinite Being to the manifestation of the Infinite great God out of all the Properties of Evil and Good Creatures were brought forth by the Will of the Speaking Word for the property of the Darkness and the Fire was as well in the Speaking as the property of the Light and therefore there are evil and good Creatures 43. But the Angels and Men were spoken forth in the Image of Gods Love they ought not to speak and incline their Will into the Fire and dark Word and introduce their Desire thereinto also not at all will to be their own but continue stedfast in the Resignation in the Speaking Will of God as a form of the Speaking Will and bear no inclination to any thing save only unto the Speaking in which Figure they stand as an Image or Platform of the Expressing as a spoken Word wherewith the Speaking Word doth behold it self in its own likeness whereby it doth there manifest the Eternal Knowledg of the Eternal Mind and setteth the Spirits Will into a Form and playeth therewith 44. As a Limmer that pourtrayeth his own Image and doth thereby behold what he is and how his form and feature is or as a Musician doth compose a curious Lesson or Song and so playeth and melodizeth with his Life and Will of Life viz. with the Sound of his own Lifes Mercury in the Tune of the Song or upon some Musical Instrument as it is agreeable to his Life 's Mercury wherewith his vital Mercury doth joy and delight it self 45. Thus likewise God created us to his Love-Consort unto his Joy and Glory whereby he exalteth his Speaking Eternal Word or playeth in the same with us as with his Instrument 46. Therefore when this melodious Instrument was broken in its Sound by the wrathful Might of his Anger that is when Mans Image would play in its own Might both in Evil and Good in Love and Anger viz. in its own self-will and would not yeeld it self to be used whereunto the Speaking Word had created it and departed out of Resignation into an Arrogation of Self and would play as it self pleased now good then bad Then this Instrument was against the Love of God in which no voyce breath or inkling of Anger is manifest or can be as in the light of the Fire no pain of the Fire is manifest 47. For the Will of the humane Mercury went out from the Will of the divine Speaking Word into its own self-will Thus it fell into the Centre of the Pregnatress of all Essences viz. into the Anguish Poyson and Death where Gods Anger viz. the Speaking in the Wrath took possession of it Here now was our distress we were forlorn Opprest in wrathful Death and woful Scorn If God had not restored us again We should have still been tumbling in Deaths pain 48. Thus dear Reader it is clearly set before you wherein Christ was tempted namely whether the Soul and the whole Man viz. the Image of the Speaking Word after that God had introduced the Spark of his Love again into the humane Property and freely given in it self again with the Love into it would now again enter into its first place and be Gods melodious Instrument in his Love or not or whether it would be a selfish Arrogator in its own Will and do what it s own Speaking would bring forth in the Enkindled Mercury of its Life whether it would suffer Gods Will to strike the Signature upon its Instrument or the Anger of God to strike it as before came to pass viz. in the First Adam 49. Here it was tryed Therefore said the Devil viz. the Organist in Gods Anger unto Christ That he should fall down and worship him and then he would give him all Dominion Power and Glory he should and might do what he please he should live and
delight in his own self-will he should only give the Devil his Will and forego Resignation and depart out of Gods Mercy and Love-will and if this had come to pass then had the fair Instrument been once again broken and the humane Melody in Gods Love and Deeds of Wonder had ended but Christ said Get thee hence Satan it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him only Then the Devil left him and the Angels came and ministred unto him The Magical Process 50. Herein as 't is already mentioned at large the Magus must well consider his purpose and intent not desiring with the Covetousness of the Devil to possess the earthly Kingdom also not to fly or cast himself down from the Temple much less to work out his intent from the stones he must think that he is Gods Minister and Servant not a selfish Lord of whom becomes a fool If he will help the poor Captive shut up in the Anger of God out of the bands of Darkness wherein he is swallowed up in the Curse of the Earth and deliver him from the Anger of God then he must think and well observe how God with his Entrance viz. into the Humanity hath redeemed him he must very exactly and intimately consider the Temptation of Christ not blindly grope after it with outward manual Art and think with himself I have a dead Stone before me it neither knoweth or feeleth any thing I must per-force set upon it that I may compel it and take its lewel which it hath hidden in it 51. He that doth so is a Fool and goeth on in his own self-will and is altogether unfit for the work let him not meddle with it we desire faithfully to admonish him that if he will seek aright then let him consider the Process of Christ how God hath again regenerated the universal shut up in Death in the humane Property 52. For God did not take Man as he lay closed up in Death and cast him into a furnace and melted him in the Wrath as the false Magus doth but he gave his Love first into his humane Essence and baptized the Humanity afterward he brought him into the Wilderness and set the Devil opposite to him not into him he let him first fast and hunger forty days and gave no outward food to the Humanity he must eat of his Life 's Mercury that God might see whether the Humanity would bring its Desire into God and when the Humanity introduced its Desire into the Deity and received the Manna then he let the Devil set upon the Humanity who introduced all his Subtlety and desires into the Humanity and tempted him Dost thou not understand any thing here What shall I say more unto thee If thou beest a beast then I give thee not my Pearl it belongeth to Gods Children 53. God must become Man Man must become God Heaven must become One thing with the Earth the Earth must be turned to Heaven if you will make Heaven out of the Earth then give the Earth the Heavens food that the Earth may obtain the Will of Heaven that the Will of the wrathful Mercury may give it self in unto the Will of the Heavenly Mercury 54. But what wilt thou do wilt thou introduce the poysonful Mercury which hath only a Deaths Will in it self into the Temptation as the false Magus doth Will you send one Devil to another and make an Angel of him In deed and in truth I must needs laugh at such folly If thou wilt keep a corrupt black Devil how dost thou think to turn the Earth by the Devil to Heaven Is not God the Creator of all Beings Thou must eat of Gods Bread if thou wilt transmute thy body out of the earthly Property into the heavenly 55. Christ said He that eateth not the flâ—sh of the Son of man hath no part in him And saith further He that shall drink of the water that I shall give it shall spring up in him to a fountain of eternal life Here lieth the Pearl of the New-birth It is not enough to play the Sophister the grain of Wheat bringeth forth no fruit unless it falleth into the Earth all whatsoever will bring forth fruit must enter into its Mother whence it came first to be 56 The Mother of all Beings is Sulphur Mercury is her Life Mars her Sense Venus her Love Jupiter her Understanding Luna her Corporal Essence Saturn her Husband You must reconcile or lovingly betroth the Man with the Woman for the Man is Angry yet give him his dear Spouse into his Arms but see that the Spouse be a Virgin wholly chaste and pure for the womans Seed shall break the Serpents Head viz. the Mans Anger The Virgin must be in real Love without any falshood or unfaithfulness a Virgin which never touched any man in Anger according to his manhood for the pure Deity doth so espouse it self in clear Love with the Humanity even as Mary said Be it unto me as thou hast spoken for I am the Lords handmaid and so the Humanity assumed the Diety and also the Deity the Humanity 57. The chast Virgin signifieth in the Philosophick work the clear Deity the Humanity is Mercury Sulphur and Salt both heavenly and earthly the Heavenly property is disappeared and as a nothing the deadly property in the wrath is stirred up and liveth to the Anger and in the properties of the Anger the Humanity both in Adam and in Christ was tempted Dost thou ask wherewith Resp. with the like opposite in the wrath even with such a Devil as had all these properties in him as a Potent Prince in all the properties of the Anger 58. The properties in Sulphur were tempted with the likeness of the Sulphur in the Sulphur or from the Sulphrous property the Temptation did come and arise and its forms are three as one in the Impression which the Philosophers call Saturn which the Humane Spirit or Will should open in Venus property and therewith satiate or feed its hunger viz. the Fire the other property was that he should live in his own awakened and opened Venus out of Saturns property and aspire in Self-will 59. The third property was he should introduce his will through the Awakened Love-desire again into the Centre viz. into the Sulphurean Mother which ariseth in the Impression in the Anguish and this he would not do but the first Adam did it and therefore God when he would help him Tempted him in the Sulphur viz. in the first Mother to the Humanity and suffered a wrathful Devil which was enkindled in the Sulphur to tempt him with his enkindled malignity and malice in the Sulphur Dost thou not understand this what then shall I say more unto thee 60. Sulphur is the womb whereinto we must enter if we would be new born Nicodemus said well how can one being old enter into his mothers womb and be born again But Christ said Except you be
converted and become as Children you cannot see the Kingdom of Heaven The Self-wil must enter again into the First Mother which brought it forth viz. into the Sulphur by the Will understand Mercury 61. But now who will perswade it to do so for it is become a Self-thing and must enter again into the Mother and become Nothing this seemed a strange wonderful thing to Nicodemus but the Lord said unto him The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but thou knowest not from whence it cometh or whither it goeth even so is every one that is born of God Behold who perswaded the Will of Christ in his Humanity for to enter again with the Will into the Filiation or Adoption as it were into the Mothers Womb and eat Nothing forty days and would also eat nothing but remained in full stedfast Resignation in the Mother Did not the Deity do it which was entered into the Humanity 62. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick Work therefore let the Artist well observe and rightly understand us he must seek the evill stubborn Child which is fled from the Mother and entered into the Centre and would be a Self-thing or it s own only in Saturn for the wrath of God hath shut him up with its Impression in the chamber of Death 63. Not that he hath made him to Saturn but he holdeth him shut up in the Saturnine death the same he must again take and bring into the Mothers Womb and then send the Angel with a Message unto Mary and tell her she shall bring forth a son whose name shall be called Jesus and if the Mother shall yeeld her consent thereunto and receive the Name Jesus then the new Humanity shall begin in the Mother with the new Child in the old Apostate captivated in the Anger of God and the Name Jesus will first give in it self unto the Dead Child which lay captivated in Saturn and eagerly draw the Will of the Evil dead child unto it self this is the fair Bride which sheweth her Crown of Pearl unto her Apostate Bridegroom he should but again receive her and she would again give him her love Now if the Apostate youth shut up in death doth again receive her then is the Artist well prepared and counted worthy by God to finish his purpose Now will the Bride love the Bridegroom and a Virgin bring forth a Son at which all the World will wonder the Virgin shall embrace the Man but he is a Man and not a Woman and hath the Virgins heart 64. Now he must be tempted whether or no he will live in Virgin-like Chastity and in full Resignation of his Will to God for he must be a Valiant Champion and destroy the Devils Fortress of Prey which he hath in his Mother in seven Kingdoms then let the Devil set his Mothers House on fire with his wrath and tempt him he will now well enough defend himself with Christ against the Devil 65. This being done the young man with his Virgin-like heart will wholly give himself up unto the Mother when as the Tempter comes and assaults him and the Mother will wholy swallow him up into her self through the Devils wrath He giveth himself forth wholly out of his own Will into the Nothing Now thinketh the Artist with himself I have lost all that he hath lost Heaven for he seeth nothing and doth not consider that a Virgin hath now brought forth but let him have Patience that which is impossible to the Artist that is possible to Nature after the night it is day when the Tempter hath finished all his Temptations then cometh the Sign or Appearance of the Angels then the Devil which hath tempted him must depart 66. Let the Artist well observe this and pack away the Devil and suffer the young man with his Virgin-like Heart to lie in his Bed and eat his former food for he is now become a Physician of his Sisters in his Mothers house he will do great Wonders in all the seven Kingdoms of his Mother which are the seven Forms of Life as Christ hath done 67. As in Saturn he will raise the dead understand he will awaken the dead Essence which held him captive in his former Prison for the shall turn or make the Earth to Heaven Even as the Virgin hath raised up his Will out of the Anger in the Love and made him a Wonder-worker so must he also awaken with his Will which is united unto the Virgins Heart the Form or Signature in his Mothers womb whence she hath brought forth him and all her Children and enkindle it with the Virgins and his Love-desire This is effected and done in the Sulphur of Saturn in the young mans own personal Property and in his mother for before the espousing of the Virgin the heavenly Essence of the young man lieth shut up in Death for when God cursed the Earth then the heavenly Paradisical Body disappeared and the Impression of Saturn took it in possession until the Restitution where God shall restore that which is hidden that Paradise doth again spring forth afresh in the Expressed Word or that the Artist doth open the same in a Part by Gods permission 68. In the second Kingdom of the Mother viz. in Luna he shall also do Wonders for Jesus fed with five Barley loaves five thousand people this is the working in the Essentiality or Corporality He turned water to wine These and the like do all belong unto the Lunar property where the Champion with his Virgin doth open Paradise and feedeth the Body where nothing is where the outward Mercury hath not laboured and wrought Thus the Forms in the Lunar property do open themselves as if they are Paradisical even then the Artist thinketh I am nigh unto it but he is yet far off from the End 69 In the third Kingdom of the Mother viz. in Jupiter Christ did make the Babes and Ignorant of a very weak and mean capacity Knowing and Understanding viz. of poor Fishermen Carpenters and the like Mechanicks he made Apostles and the most understanding men of all and also of poor disrespected vilified people as of women and simple ones he made faithful devout dear godly children who apprehended in themselves the Universal without any Art 70. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick work the essentiality which lieth disappeared in death where the Mercury is wholly earthly cold and impotent doth now arise in power as if the whole Being and Essence were become a new life at which the Artist doth wonder and marvelleth what it is or how it hapneth and yet doth also exceedingly rejoyce that he seeth the Divine Power to spring forth before his eyes in a half dead Essence and that in the Curse of God he seeth all the four Elements each apart and seeth how the Wisdom of God doth represent it self therein as an harmony of joy and seeth all colours
and the Rain-bow upon which Christ sitteth in judgment in the expressed Mercury 71. The nature of this splendor ariseth out of the impression of Saturn the good Jupiter doth give himself forth to be seen in such a manner as God will change the World and transform it again into Paradise for this is the Understanding in the Expressed Word even as Christ hath made the foolish rude ignorant people truly wise and knowing in divine reall heavenly joviall understanding and knowledg 72. In the fourth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings which is the Mercurial in the wheel of the nature of life Christ made the deaf to hear the dumb to speak and cleansed the lepers from the poyson of Mercury All apoplexies the French or poisonful pox and sores do arise from the Saturnine water in Mercury which water is called Phlegma all which Christ healed in the Form or Signature of the young man and Virgin for the Eternal Virginity had espoused it self with the young man viz. with the humanity 73. This cometh to pass also in the Philosophick work the Artist will see how the Heaven severs it self from the Earth and how the Heaven doth again sink into the Earth and changeth the earth into a heavenly colour he wil see how Mercury purifieth the matter and how the purified colours will appear in Antimony in their property and how the Wonder proceedeth on 74. In the fifth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings Christ expelleth the Devils out of the Possessed and healed the deaf in this form and property 75. This likewise the Artist will see in the Philosophick work how Jupiter in Mercury will drive up a black twinkling fiery vapour out of the matter which sticketh on like foot for it is a hunger of the poyson in Mercury and is very rightly compared to the Devil for it is of his property 76. In the sixth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings viz. in the wheel of Life called Venus Christ loved his Brethren and Sisters according to the Humanity and washed his Disciples feet and loved them even to the deepest exinanition and gave his life into the wraths property even unto death for them and manifested himself among them that he was Christ and when they perceived that the King was come that should deprive self-will of its might and Dominion and destroy the Devils Kingdom then they cryed out and said We have no King but Caesar they took him in the dark night into their power bound him and brought him before their Councel mocked him whipped him and beat him stripped him of cloaths and hung him on the Crosse. 77. This Also the Artist will see very powerfully in the Philosophick Work for so soon as the dark fiery steam viz. the material Devil goeth from the matter then Virgin Venus appeareth in her virginity very glorious and beautiful for it betokeneth Christs Love who did so humble himself and manifested his Love in our Humanity then the Artist thinketh that he hath the philosophick Child that he hath now the fine Morsell but he danceth with the Jews who thought when as they had taken Christ Now we have him we will keep him well enough Thus thinketh he also it is finished and receiveth the Child and when he beholds it in the Tryall then he hath Venus a Woman and not the Virgin with the Tincture of the Fire and light and is deceived by the woman 78. Now observe aright what do the properties viz. Saturn Mars and Mercury when as they see the Child viz. the Champion in Royall Colour and find that he manageth no externall Dominion and Royalty with Power and Authority as they do but will only rule with Love in their poysonful Fire-might They will not suffer him 79. For Saturn signifieth the worldly Dominion and Mercury the Spiritual dominion viz. the Pharisees and Mars signifieth the Devil these three would not endure Christ among them for he said that he was a King of Love and the Son of God and was come to deliver his people from Sin then thought the Devil sure this rhimes not well thou wilt lose thy Kingdom and the worldly Magistrate thought Is this a King and Gods Son then he will take away our might this doth not at all like us and the Mercurial Priests thought this man is too mean for us we will have a Messiah who may bring us unto worldly Dominion and make us to be High and rich in the world that we may alone possels the honour of the world we will not receive him he is too poor for us we might so lose the favour and respect of the worldly Magistrate and should be much damaged we will rather abide in our Power Respect and Authority and abandon this beggarly King with his Love-kingdom in like manner as yet to this day they are so minded and serve his Messengers so whom he sendeth 80. Thus likewise it goeth in the Philosophick work when Venus manifesteth her self with Love viz. in her own property in the three wrathful forms viz. in Saturn Mars and Mercury they can by no means endure it for it is wholly against their austere dark fiery might but especially against the poyson of Mercury they flash and lighten against Venus and shoot their rayes viz. the Mercurial poysonful rays upon her as the Pharisees did upon Christ. In the mean while Jupiter and Luna hold with Venus and give their power to Venus for Venus doth here stand forth in the power of Jupiter at this the Pharisees laugh and think with themselves we are wise enough already what need we knowledg and understanding we will have might and honour and Luna signifieth the multitude of Lay-men who stuck to Christ while it went well with him so doth Luna in the Philosophick Work to Venus in her Lustre so long as Saturn Mercury and Mars do not meddle with and assault her but when the Power of wrath cometh then Luna changeth her Will viz. the colour and looketh ariseth and cryeth also with the rest the Crucifige this the Artist will see if he be chosen and accounted worthy of God for the work CHAP. XI Of the processe of Christ in his suffering death and Resurrection Of the wonder of the sixth Kingdom in the Mother of all Beings How the Consummatum est was finished and how likewise it is symbolically accomplished in the Philosophick work 1. THis now is thus to be considered we are to know that the Essence of this world together with man doth consist in two properties viz in Fire and Light that is in Love and Anger Now the Fire is two-fold and the Light is also two-fold viz. a cold Fire from the Impression and an hot Fire from the Speer of Mercury in Sulphur and so likewise there is a cold Light from the cold Fire and a warming Light from the hot Fire the cold Light is false and the hot Light is good not that it is false in its property
Christ fled and the enraged rude multitude also who did highly presume to stand by him in the Crosse and Persecution but in earnest they flye for Luna is unconstant she hath not Sols heart in the Love-flame and Saturn with his thorny impression putteth the Sulphur upon the child viz. the Mother of all Beings with the purple-coloured rayment of her own peculiar property in which the wrath of Mars is couched and harboured 22. When Mars viz. the Devils crew and Mercury also viz the self pride of life doth see that Venus hath her royall Garment on understand the Purple-robe of Saturn and Mercury in Sols colour mingled with fiery Mars and adorned in Mercury's sulphur-colour in the open blaze as a shining Lustre for so is the Materia according to the colour of the venereal property which the Artist must well observe he then will clearly see as it is mentioned 23. When Mars Mercury and Luna also seeth this then they cry Crucistge away with Him he is a false King in our Garment he is a man as we are and will be God that is they cast their poysonful desire through the purple garment upon the child and so the Artist will see that the Child will appear in his own form as if it were full of streaks from the poysonful rays of Mercury and Mars which they lay upon the Child through the impression of Saturn as Pilate whipped Jesus the Artist will see the prickly Crown of Thorns standing very sharp with its point upon the property of the Child also he will see how that Venus doth not at all move her self but standeth still and suffers it self to be so done unto 24. Further we are to understand how that Adam had taken on him a cold false Love and therewith so shewed himself before God as if he were in peculiar Dominion and Will and moreover Gods Child whereas he did but mock God therewith for so the Love desire doth appear when it is captivated in the impression of death 25. Thus must the second Adam Christ take all this upon him and enter into the same ignominy and scorn and be cloathed with a purple garment as a King of this World and be mocked therein for Adam had put on the purple garment of the outward Worlds Self-might in the splendor of self-hood and here it was made open shew of before the Anger of God and the white garment which Herad put upon Christ for to mock him in signifieth and is the cold false Love as a cloak of falshood wherein man pranketh as if he were an Angel and so puts upon himself Christs purple mantle with his white robe and covereth himself with Christs pure snow-white garment viz. with his Suffering and Death and yet holdeth and harboureth the man of falshood viz. the false Love under a vail 26. Now Christ must set forth this Figure and it was represented on his body for he should overcome and slay the man of fashood which lay in the Humane property and so it was fully represented before God Christ must be termed and reviled for such an one as Adam was the innocent must take the blame upon him 27. And thus it goeth in the Philosophick work when the curse of Gods anger which is in the Earth is to be changed into Love for seeing Mercury sets the Child of Love before Saturn and Saturn cannot nor may not try it therefore he puts upon it the purple-coloured Garment with stripes underneath and sends it before Sols splendor which glimmereth in Mars and the Sun puts upon it its white colour viz. the Lunar and then the purple colour vanisheth and the Child standeth in the Lunar white simple colour very despicable without Lustre the Sun would fain see this Child to shew forth its golden colour for it perceiveth there is a Solar vertue in the Child therefore it giveth it the white colour from the property of the Eternall liberty the Child should but give the power of the Fires Centre thereunto viz. the Divine might and then it would be like the Sun and would be a Lord over the Sulphur of Mars and Mercury yet only a Lord over the outward worlds Essence a Governour in the wrath as Sol is the like 28. But Christ said to Pilate my Kingdome is not of this world and would not answer Herod any thing in this white rayment when he put it on him nor in the Purple robe for the Purple robe and the white rayment also were both false and were put upon him for to disgrace and mock him because Adam had put them on and proudly pranked therein with falshood Christ might not do any signe therein before Herod although he desired it Hereby the shame of man who was an Image of God and yet had made himself a false King was represented before Gods Face as the poor Sinner confesseth and setteth forth his abominations before God when he setteth upon abstinence and repentance 29. Thus Christ represented unto his Father the Abominations or sins of man in this false Garment and stood before him as an Ignominy and confessed the Sins of man unto his Father in the stead and place of all men and when his Father beheld him through his Imagination in this Garment he would none of this robe therefore Pilate must pull it oft from Him again and set Him before the Jews in His own form but they cry away away with him be must be put to death For so his Father would that he should give himself up to Death in his wrath and drown the same 30. And Pilate condemned him to death for he would not acknowledg him for a King so it also goeth in the Philosophick Work Saturn will not receive the Child for it is not of his property and Mars and Mercury likewise will not have it in its property but what do they do the Child is among them they would fain be rid of it but yet cannot They grow angry and enraged as the Jews against Jesus and take the Child into their Arms viz. into their false poysonful angry desire and will murther it and quite sting and pierce through the Materia of the Child with their sharp fiery and poysonful rayes viz. with three sharp nails 31. One whereof is Saturn viz. the Impression of the dark World betokening the wrath of the dark World The other is Mars which signifieth the Devil viz. the Serpents property in the Anger of God The third is Mercury which signifieth the false life viz. how the wrath of God is enkindled in the expressed Word in the Humane property 32. These three nails they pierce through the property of the Child Thus Venus viz. the Essence of Love doth wholly yeeld it self into the three Murtherers and wholly forgoeth its jovial life as if it did dye and the Mercurial life of the Humane property understand the Childs power falleth also unto the three Murtherers in its Mothers house viz. into the Corporal Essence
wherein the young man received his Virgin wherein God became man 33. Now when the Heavenly body and also the Earthly do thus yeeld unto these three Murtherers then appeareth the Image of John and Mary by the Cross as a Type for the young mans life and also the Virgins in the young man hath freely surrendred and given forth it self and now the two properties viz. the Divine and Humane do divide themselves in the form of each power which the Artist may see if he hath the eyes and understanding thereunto 34. And here when Saturn with his Impression and dark sharpness and Mars with his wrath and Mercury with his poyson-life do powerfully enter into the property of Venus then the Wrath doth force it self into the Love and the Love into the Wrath essentially mixed as assimulating one into each other here the wrathful Death is dismayed at the Love so that he in dying falleth into Impotence or a Swoon for it loseth the might of the Wrath and the Love is and standeth also in the Source of the wrath in Deaths flagrat as impotent or in a swoon and giveth it self forth wholly into the flagrat or stroke of Death and even then the Heavenly Essence viz. the Heavenly Blood floweth forth from it into the property of the third Principle viz. of the young man Here the Virgin giveth her Pearl to the Young man for a propriety and God and Man become one 35. For the Virgins blood out of the Divine Essentiality doth here now drown with its Love-essence the Young-mans blood viz. the Self hood the three Murtherers do surrender their life in the blood of the Virgin and then the red glee from the Fire and also the white from the life of the Champion do arise up together viz. from the Wrath the Life and from the Love the Meekness and both viz. the life of the Anger and the life of the Love do ascend together as one only life for in death they become one The Death dyeth away in the Love and becometh in the Love the life of the Divine Kingdom of joy for it is not a dying but a free surrendring of its Power Might and Will a Transmutation the Virgins blood changeth the Humane dead as to God into an Heavenly blood the life of the Young man dyeth and the life of the Deity remaineth sixt and stedfast for it standeth in its property in the Nothing 36. And here thou dear Seeker when thou seest the crimson-coloured blood of the Young man to arise out of Death with the Virgins white blood then know that thou hast the Areanum of the whole World and a treasure in this valley of misery which surpasseth the value of gold take it and esteem it more excellent and soveraign then that which shall again arise from Death if thou beest born of God then thou wilt understand what I mean 37. For this is the Type of Christ shewing how Christ hath drowned sin and the enkindled Anger of God in the Humane property it is not only an Offering for then Moses had accomplished it it is not a bare verbal forgiveness as Babel teacheth no no the Humane Will must from all its Powers enter into this death into this blood viz into the Highest Tincture 38. The Purple-robe which Christ wore could not do it the white hypocritical Pharisaical Priests coat could also not effect it no flattery or demure hypocrisie availeth here no comfortings soothings or giving God good words are effectual here the crafty malignant man must be mortified in Christs blood he must be drowned in the Virgins blood The seed of the Woman must bruise the head of the Serpent the Will must wholly disclaim and depart from its selfness and become as an ignorant Child and wholly enter into Gods Mercy into the Virgin-like blood of Christ that sin and the poysoned Mercury may be drowned in its Mars that the white Lyon may arise for the Lyon which now appeareth in the white colour in Crimson red is the Mercury of life viz. the expressed Word viz. the Soul which before was a wrathful Devil in its self-hood ruling and domineering in the Anger of God in the three forms of the poyson-source viz. in Saturn Mars and Mercury now it is the white scarlet-coloured Lyon from the House of David and Israel fulfilled in the Covenant of promise NE. 39. But that we may give satisfaction unto the Wel-wisher we will further shew him the whole ground even unto the Resurrection of Christ when the Jews had hung Jesus upon the Cross and He had shed His Humane and Heavenly Divine blood and drowned the Turba in the Humane blood then Jesus said Father forgive them for they know not what they do 40. When Jesus had broken Death in the Humanity and took away Self he did not then wholly cast away the Humane property wherein Death and the Anger of God was but then he did first truly assume it Understand he even then did truly take the outward Kingdom into the inward for the outward Kingdom was begotten as a Wonder out of the Eternal Wisdom in the Speaking Word and spoken forth into a form as a manifestation of the Deity in Love and Anger in Good and Evil so that Jesus would not that the outward Type of the wonders in the likeness of God should perish or quite vanish but the Wrath which had over powered the love in man should be forgiven that is it should be given into the Nothing viz into the Liberty that it might not be manifest in its own Self-property it must be Servant and only a Cause of the fiery Love and Divine joyfulness nothing should perish or be lost in man for God had created him unto his Image 41. Thus let the Philosopher observe that when the three Murtherers viz. Saturn Mars and Mercury do sink in the Crimson-coloured blood of the Lyon they do not perish but they are pardoned that is their wrath is changed into a Love-desire viz. out of Venus into Sol for when the fiery desire entereth into the watery desire then a shine viz. a glorious splendor doth arise from and in the Fire for Venus is white and the Fire-desire is red 42. Here now it is changed into one colour which is yellow that is white and red both in one colour which is the Majestical Lustre for when Mercury is changed into the power of joy then ariseth the Multiplication he changeth his Mother wherein he lay shut up in death into Sol he maketh the Earthly Heavenly in one property as the Virgin was for here the Virgin loseth her Name for she hath given her Love and Pearl unto the Champion who is now called here the white Lyon as the Scripture speaketh of the Lyon of the House of ISrael and David who should demolish the Devils Kingdom and destroy Hell that is break the Anger of God and change it into Love 43. This Champion or Lyon is no Man or Woman but
he is both the Tincture of the Fire and Light must come into One viz. of the Essence which is Venus and of the Spirit which is Mars in Mercury the Fathers Love and Anger must become one thing and then this one thing is called the Kingdom of joy so long as it is separated there is in the thing only anguish and torment and meer desire but when it burneth in one Will it is a joyful proceeding forth from it self and this Egressive out-going property is called the Holy Ghost viz. the life of the Deiry 44. Therefore know that the Virgins and Young mans blood must be both shed together that the Fire-Lyon might dye which was manifest in the Humane property that the Love of the Virgin might change his wrath in her dear Love-blood into her property and obtain the Soul from the Young man for in Adam the Virgin did disappear for the Soul departed out of its Love-will out of the Resignation into its own and became disobedient unto God 45. Here the Virgin doth again take the Soul into her Self and giveth it her Crown of Pearl as unto a Noble Champion and calleth him in his own Name the white Lyon or Champion O ye children of men observe it I beseech you open the Gates of the World in your heart Open them wide that the King of glory may come in even the great Champion in Battel who hath deprived Death of its might and destroyed the Hell in Gods Anger and made of the World Paradise 46. O ye wise Seekers how doth the Lord open his windows wherefore do ye sleep in the desire of muchness in your covetousness which is multiplyed in the Wrath Do but enter only into the Divine Resignation you may partake of that which the Powers of Heaven are able to afford If you do but forsake your Selfness then the Earth shall become Heaven to you saith the Spirit of Wonders but you shall not obtain it in your wicked wayes and coverous doings 47. And when Jesus through the shedding of his Blood had given the Wrath of God in Man unto the Love that the Father had received the Love in the Humane property into the Wrath then the Kingdom of the Devil in the Wrath and the Kingdom of Love did forthwith part asunder they were divided and this Figure did hang with Christ on the Cross viz. the wicked mocker at the left hand who reviled Jesus and was not capable of his blood-shedding and the other at the right hand who was converted from his sins unto Jesus and said Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom to whom Jesus answered Verily to day thou shalt be with me in Paradise 48. Thus we are rightly to consider that when the wrath of God is drowned in the blood of Christ so that it changeth its might into Love that even then Paradise is again open for when JESUS had tinctured the Humane Blood which was corrupted in Sin with the Virgins blood in the Love then the Virgin received the Man-hood viz. the Self-hood into her Virgins Love This was the Paradise and an Habitation of God with and in Man where God dwelleth in the Humanity and is All in All in it 49. Thus it falleth out also in the Philosophick Work when Mars and Mercury do dye according to the property of the dark Impression of Saturn then Venus taketh them into her Love-blood and Venus giveth her Love into the poysonful Fire-desire Shee wholly giveth her self in unto the Fire of MARS in MERCURY yea she yeeldeth her self fully to be their own but seeing Mars and Mercury become impotent as to the might of the Fire and poyson in the Love the Love and Anger do thereupon change themselves into one Essence into one desire and here when the Fire viz. the Fire desire doth give in its desire unto the Love then saith the Love To day thou shalt be with me out of thy Fire-anguish in Paradise viz. in joy that is thou shalt be changed in me and here Venus getteth the Soul in the Philosophick work so that Mars and Mercury become her Soul and the strife ceaseth for the Enmity is appeased and quelled and thus the Child subsists in the Fire immovably without any change for Mars doth not at all annoy it and so likewise Mercury and Saturn burrs it not for they are in the Child at the end of Nature where there is no Turba any more 50. Mercury is very pure in Saturn he hath no more poyson whereby to make soil or rust in the Water viz. in the Salt of Saturn and let the Philosopher and Divine also well observe this that in Paradise there is a perfect life without any shadow of change also without any false evill desire and a continual day where the Paradisical man is clear as a transparent glass in whom the Divine Sun shineth through and through as Gold that is throughly bright and pure without any spot or foulness 51. And when Jesus knew that all was finished he seeth his Mother and John his Disciple standing by under the Cross and saith unto his Mother woman lo this is thy Son and to the Disciple Behold thy Mother and forthwith the Disciple took her unto his own home 52. This is an excellent Type how Christ hath forsaken this World viz. the Humane Self-hood and is again gone unto the Father for he saw his Mother according to this World and his Disciple viz. his Unkle according to the outward Humanity from his Mothers side and yet said unto his Mother Woman hehold there is thy Son I am no more thy Son according to my outward Humanity it is changed into Gods Son and is no longer of the World but it liveth to God but seeing thou art to be yet in the World take John who is not yet changed to be thy Guardian and thou John take thy Mother and he presently took her unto himself 53. This is the Type of the Christian Church upon Earth for we the poor Children of Eve are not presently wholly changed according to the outward man but we must also pass into death and putrifie that the wrath also in the flesh may rot and putrifie and the Spirit might rest in the death of Christ until the General Resurrection and Transmutation of the outward man in which the Earth of man shall be transformed into Heaven and the Mirrour or Type of the Wonders shall appear therein 54. Thus he commanded his Disciple to take care of his Mother His Mother is the Christian Church upon Earth wherein the Children of God are begotten according to the Spirit whom he should take care for and guide and lead them untill the number of the Humanity out of the Flesh shall be accomplished and then the Spiritual body shall arise and shall be proved in Christs death in his Entrance into the Anger where he changed the Anger into Love and the Kingdom with the Source of darknesse shall be Separated from it 55.
gave his Humanity Gall and Vineger to drink and when he tasted it he would not drink it 66. Here is again the outward Type shewing how it went inwardly The name Iesus viz. the Love of God which was entered into the Humanity and had espoused it self thereunto did thirst in the Love-desire after the corrupt Humanity and would fain tast the pure water of the Humanity in it self but the wrathful Anger of God which was enkindled in the Humane property did give it self in with the Humane property unto the thirst of the Love desire and when the Love-desire tasted of it it would not drink it but sank down into it as wholly resigned or freely yeelded and did unite and very essentially incline it self into the Anger of God as a full and perfect obedience and fully and freely given over as a peculiar propriety thereinto 67. This was now the Flagrat of the wrath that the Love should so come into it whereupon the Earth trembled and the Rocks clove asunder for so the Death was dismayed at the Life and here the Awakened Wraths property did SeVer it self into the Centre viz. into the First Principle into the Fireâ—root and now from the Centre there proceeded forth the hunger to the New-birth in the Humane property of the hunger unto Death was made an hunger unto Life for the Love tinctured the Anger that the Fireâ—desire to the dark Impression became a desire of Life 68. Understand it here aright God the Father who gave his dear Heart into the Humanity to help mankind did now thirst after the Humanity viz. after his heart or word of Power and the Deity in the Humanity viz. the heart of the Father did thirst after the Father and the Love or the Essence of the Light did thirst after the Fires Essence for the Fires or Souls Essence in Adam was departed out of the Love-essentiality wherein the Paradise did consist into a Selfness and was become disobedient unto God and thereupon the Essence life and being of the Light and Love did dye in its Growing that is it did wither as to the Vegetative life or Heavenly growth blooming and Sense of the Paradissal Source and did awake and arise to the Earthly World 69. Here the Father brought the Soul which was entered into his Wrath and had manifested its self in his Anger again into the Love viz. into the disappeared Paradisical Image and here the dark World was dismayed in Deaths Flagrat at the Fire-Flagrat which arose up in Love in the Death as a joyful Flagrat which Joy-Flagrat entred into the dead Bodies of the Hopers of Israel who did hope upon the Messiah as a sound of the power of God and did awaken them from death 70. This Flagrat rent in twain the Vail in the Temple viz. the Vail of Moses which hung before the clear face of God so that man could not see God and therefore he must serve him with an Offering and Type of this Final Discovery in which God did manifest himself again in the Humanity This Flagrat broke the Type in the Offerings and Sacrifices and manifested the clear face of God and united the Humane Time with Eternity 71. All whatsoever the Jews did outwardly unto Christ the same was a Type of the inward viz. how it went between God and the Humanity viz. between the Eternity and Time the Jews gave Jesus Gall and Vineger in his Thirst both these properties are a Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn viz. in the Impression this is even the Type and full resemblance of the Souls property as it is in it self alone devoid of the other Love-properties 72. God gave this property of the Soul again into his Love the Death into the Life the disappeared Love-essence which the Word of God had assumed to it self in the Essence and Seed of Mary and quickned to life he gave into the Anger 's property into the Souls essence viz. into the Centre of the Fire and dark World whereupon the Soul-like Fire and dark world became an exceeding Triumphant joyful Paradisical life and here the Champion upbraided Death and Hell viz. the dark World in the Soul and said Death where is thy Sting now in man Hell where is now thy victory in the Wrath of the poyson-Source in the expressed Word or Mercury all is now dead O Death I am to thee a Death Hell I am to thee a Conquerour thou must serve me for the Kingdom of joy Thou shalt be my Servant and Minister to the Kingdom of joy thou shalt enkindle the flames of Love with thy Wrath and be a Cause of the Spring in Paradise 73. Thus we give the Philosopher to understand our sence and deep ground in Nature who desireth to seek and open the disappeared Essence of the Earth which lyeth shut up in Death viz. in the Curse of God the Vail of Moses hangeth also before him and a very right earnestness is requisite for to rend the Vail in twain that he may be able to see the face of Nature otherwise he is not fitted thereunto 74. And as it went in the Humanity of Christ betwixt Gods Love and Anger and both were transformed into One so likewise it is in his Work of Nature the poysonful Mercury in the Sulphur of Mars and Saturn giveth its Lunar Menstruum viz. the greatest poyson of the dark Source into Venus's property when Venus thirsteth after the Fire of Love then Mercury giveth his poyson into the thirst of Venus and Venus's thirst giveth it self wholly unto the poyson as if it dyed it wholly yeeldeth up its desiring life whereupon ariseth the great darkness in the Philosophick Work for the Materia becometh as black as a Raven for Venus hath resigned its life whence the glance or splendor doth arise as it is to be seen by Christ that the Sun lost its light and there was a great darkness contrary to the common Course of Nature 75. For when the inward Sun gave in it self unto the Anger viz. into the darkness of God then the outward Sun which receiveth its power and lustre from the inward as a glass or resemblance of the inward could not shine for its root from whence it shineth was entered into the darkness in the place of this World and would turn the darkness in the Curse of God into light viz. it would make the place of this world again Paradise 76. Thus likewise the Sun of the outward World which is a Figure of the inward all essential Sun must stand still with its Splendor in the darkness from the sixth hour unto the ninth which is even the time of Adams sleep when he entered with the desire into the Centre of the Eternal Nature viz. into the Birth where the Love and Anger do part themselves into two Centres and would prove the cold and hot Fire which took him and did powerfully work in him Here are three hours according to the Ternary and in the Grave three days
the colour and yet becomes a Death to the three forms in the Wrath for she drowneth Death with Love Thus the Life is made a death to death viz. to the Wrath and now they both do lie in the will of the Eternal Nature viz. in the Verbum Fiat which proceedeth with them the Divine way in manner as it proceeded forth into Essence in the beginning of the Creation for in the beginning Paradise viz. the Universal was manifest and the Love shone through the Death or Anger Even so it must be again Venus must become the Eye or Sight in the Wrath and then of Saturn Mars and Mercury there will be a Jupiter Mars becomes Sun and Saturn Moon and so Mars shineth with the Sun out of Saturn in Luna from Venus's eye and all Seven are only one Thus the strife hath an end and all is accomplished until the Resurrection of the body 87. And when Jesus had drunk the Cup and said My God why hast thou forsaken me then he said All is finished understand the work of mans Redemption and said further Father into thy hands I comit my Spirit and towed his head and gave up the Ghost Here the whole life of Christ resigned it self into the Fathers desire viz. into the Will of the Eternal Nature and fully gavein the Will of his Self-hood viz. his creatural will again into the Centre viz. into the first Mother whence the Soul-like Creature was produced that is into the grand Mystery of Eternity the Self-will must again enter into Natures End so that the selfness may wholly dye that Gods Eternal Will and Spirit may be and do only All in All in the Humanity and that the Creature might afterwards be alone his Instrument wherein he might do and work according to his good pleasure and thus God the Father hath in Christs death and entrance into our Humanity again received our self-hood into his Will and that this might be he first tinctured the Humanity with the Deity that the Humanity might be a pleasant sweet savour and offering to him in his power for afore death lay before it 88. Here the Love destroyed Death and opened the fast Seal that the Will might again enter into that which it was before it was the creature and even so we all must follow him upon the path which he hath made open for us none can see God unless God become first man in him which is brought to pass in Faiths desire and even then the Corrupt Will which is apprehended in the Death and Anger of God and which bloometh in the earthly essence and bringeth forth fruit unto death be wholly mortified and fall into the free Resignation into the Will and mercy of God and then the own will is with and in Christ at Natures end in the Grand Mystery of God viz. in Gods hands Gods hands are the Eternal desire or the Eternal will which is Unchangeable thus the Creatural Self-will dyeth it entereth wholly into the Nothing that it might no more live to it self but unto God 89. Thus it falleth out also in the Philosophick work when the Artist hath first seen great wonders which the Creatural and Natural will hath wrought in the power of Venus insomuch that he supposeth that he is nigh thereunto Even then Nature doth first dye in his work and becomes a dark night unto him the property and power of all the forms must give forth themselves from their Centre and fall unto Natures End all do freely yeeld over themselves as one dead Essence and there is no longer any effectual working therein all is divided in the Crown into the Thousand number and then it is again in the mystery at Natures End as it was before it came into the Creatural Being understand the Essential desire viz. the expressed Mercuty must again come unto the End of its selfness and resign it self into the Speaking Word 90. The Corporall Essence remaineth in the Centre of the four Elements until the judgment of God which now at Death standeth in the Centre of Sol viz. in the Compaction of Venus and Mercury which Compaction at Death falleth wholly into one thing viz. into one power of Jupiter that is into the Centre of the Liberty for here the desire to cold and heat goeth out all Earthly will and desire of the properties dyeth and there is no more any hunger after the Earthly or Deaths property CHAP. XII Of the Seventh form in the Kingdom of the Mother how the Seventh Kingdom viz. the Kingdom of the Sun is again opened and made alive set forth in Parable or by way of Similitude of Christs Resurrection 1. WE are not to think that when Christ dyed the natural Death in the Humane property that he dyed as to his creatural Soul much less as to the Deity also he did not disappear or dye in the Heavenly Essentiality and in the Heavenly Tincture this cannot be only the Will and Dominion of Self viz. of the outward World which domineered in man unto the own Will and own powers of the Selfish creature wherein man was disobedient to God I say he gave that wholly into the Fathers hands viz. into the End of Nature into the Fathers great Mystery not that it should be dead but that Gods Spirit might alone be the life thereof that the Divine Dominion might be in Christs Person that the Eternal Father might Rule and Reign with his Eternal Spirit in his Image and therefore God hath determined to keep the last judgment by this Jesus 2. Now the Creature of Christ doth not it alone but God in his Image through the Creature in the Dominion of his Eternal Spirit of all the three Principles which is the life and Dominion of every Being in each thing according to its property 3. And understand us aright when Christ dyed on the Cross the Name Jesus did not also dye which destroyed Death and Tinctured the expressed Word viz. the Form of the Deity or the Formed Word viz. the Soul with Love No it cannot be the Eternity doth not dy only the Spoken Word which standeth again in the desire of the Speaking viz. in the Fiat which changeth it self in its own Speaking viz. in the Self-desire and bringeth its own Sound into another form and Source then the Speaking Word had spoken it set it forth with the Verbum Fiat into a Form Signature and Will as Lucifer with his Royal throne and Adam also did when they both departed out of Resignation into Self hood the Instrument would be Master 4. The outward working Sensitive life wherein the Anger of God was set on fire did wholly dye away not that it should be a Nothing but it fell into the Nothing viz. into Gods Will into Gods working and feeling quite from the Will of the outward World which is evill and good so that it might no longer live to the World viz. to the Astrum in the walm of the
four Elements but to the Eternal Fathers Nature in the walm of the pure Divine Element the life of the outward world dyed 5. Thus the true Humane Life fell forth-with again into that place whence Adam had brought it viz. into Paradise whereupon Christ said to the Thief To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise it fell into Adams death whereby he dyed unto Paradise and sprang up in Adams Death as a new creature out of the old like as the branch springeth from the Corn and this it did from the might and power of the Speaking Word which of grace was entered with living essentiality into the disappeared Heavenly Essentiality of man and had freely given it self into the Centre of the Soul-like nature and also into the wrath of the Anger and Death in the Flesh and changed the Anger into Love and tinctured the corrupt blood in the Anger with the Love 6. The Divine Tincture Tinctured the Humane the Divine Sun entered into the Humane the Divine Sun entred into Adams night viz. into Adams sleep Gods Sun with the Name Jesus entred with Adams Soul and Humanity in Christs person into death understand into Adams sleep 7. When Christ dyed then Adam dyed also to his Self-hood in Christs death the Name Jesus was in Christ the Serpent-stroyer in Adams Humanity Christ entered into the Image of the first Adam so that the first Adam in the Humanity of Christ did become the same Christ and Serpent-stroyer indeed not in the same Creature but in the same Souls and Bodies property 8. The first Adam fell into Sleep viz. into the impotence of the Divine World and dyed in the death of Death the second Adam entered into the death of Death and took the death of Death captive in Himself viz. in the Humanity of Adam He was a death to Death and brought forth the Life out of Death into the Eternal Liberty He arose in the Divine Omnipotence in the Essence of the first Adam Gods Spirit in the Speaking Eternal Word brought forth Adam out of death in Christs Humanity Adam did arise in Christs Humanity and all the Children of Adam which are partakers of Christs Kingdom do arise in Christ all in Christs Flesh and Blood Soul and Spirit but every one in his Creature which he hath had here and mortified in Christs death 9. Every one is a particular twig but there is only one Tree which is Christ in Adam and Adam in Christ only One not two only one Christ in all Christians so that I may say If I be dead in Christ unto the World I am the same Christ viz. a branch on the same Tree 10. But seeing that I in the outward man do yet live in my Self-hood therefore I must also dye with the outward man in Christs death and arise and live in him Now therefore I live with the Will of Faith in the mind in Christ and am a Christian in the Will of the Mind in the desire of Faith and receive Christ with his Humanity into my Will and cast my Will into his death and thus my inward man is also dead in Christs death and liveth no longer to Self-hood but I am resigned in him and lie buried in his death but being He is arisen in Gods Will I also live in His Resurrection in Him but my Earthliness in its Selfness liveth to the Earthly World until it also dyeth quite to Self-hood and entereth into the Resignation and Putrifaction and then Christ will awaken it through my inward man which now liveth in Him 11. Like as he is arisen from the Dead even so shall I who shall dye to the Earthliness in Him viz. in my first Father Adam in the Name Jesus as a Christian in Christ my twig withered in Sin on the Tree shall obtain strength and sap in the Name Jesus to life I shall and must spring forth afresh with my Humanity in Him as in my Stem who is become a Heart and Power in my Father Adam and bring forth fruit to the praise of God 12. My Will-spirit which now is in Christs Humanity and liveth in Christs Spirit that shall in Christs power give Sap to the dry tree that it shall again arise at the last day in the sound of the Trumpet of the Divine Breath in Christs voyce which also is my voyce in his Breath and spring afresh in the Tree Christ viz. in Paradise the Paradise shall be in me all whatsoever God hath and is shall appear in me as a Form and Image of the Divine Worlds being all colours powers and vertues of his Eternal Wisdom shall be manifest in me and on me as on his likeness I shall be the manifestation of the Spiritual Divine World and an instrument of Gods Spirit wherein he maketh melody with Himself with this Voyce which I my self am as with his Signature I shall be his Instrument and Organ of his expressed Word and voyce and not only I but all my fellow-members in the glorious Tuned Instrument of God we are all strings in his Joyful Consort the spirit of his mouth doth strike the tune and note on our strings 13. And therefore God became Man that he might again repair his glorious Instrument which he has made for his praise which perished as to him and would not sound according to the desire of his joy and Love and did introduce again the true Love-sound into the strings yea he hath introduced the voyce which soundeth in his presence again into us viz. into his Instrument he is become that I am and hath made me that which he is so that I may say that I am in my Resignation in him his Trumpet and the sound of his Instrument and Divine voyce at which now I do rejoyce in all my fellow-strings and voyces which with me are tuned and set as an Eternal work unto the praise and glory of God 14. Thus know ye now my Fellow-voyces in the praise of God that I sound with my string played upon in the Spirit upon and in your Note and thus sing I unto you that whatsoever Jesus hath done through the Christ viz. through his and my Humanity the same he doth yet to day in me and in all my fellow-members he dyed to my Self-hood in his death and I also dye to my self-hood in his death He is given up to his Resignation in God his Father and God his Father hath araised him up with the spirit of his mouth in him and set him forth for the Royal Image according to the holy Trinity through and with whom God will judg all things in the place of this World 15. Thus God also hath awakened in him my Spirit and Soul through his Spirit in the great Name Jesus in Christ so that I in my Resignation in him need not to dye for he dyed in me and for me his death in that he is arisen from death is become my Eternal life so that now I live in his
do dye in the blood of Venus in the Philosophick work and do both enter together into Death and arise both together in one Love in one Will. 26. Therefore let the Artist observe the Tincture it is more noble and precious for mans use in this valley of misery then the body which ariseth in the Tincture for the Spirit is the life the body is only a Figure of the Life and the blood is a mansion of the Spirit 27. The Artist must well observe this in the blood of the young man when his Pearl giveth it self to the three Murtherers that it also sheddeth its blood in and with the young mans then the Champion standeth in Hell and disclaimeth the Humane Self-hood then the white Lyon appeareth upon his Crimson-coloured Beast even there lyeth the Cure of sickness and the death of death 28. The body is dissolved in the blood of Love in the Death out of the Earthly into an Heavenly property The Tincture gives it self into the new body and afterwards when the body ariseth in Sols splendor it doth also forsake its will it resigneth it self wholly into the bodies essence and becomes its beauty splendor and colour which the Artist can never separate for they are together in the fifth Essence viz. in the mystery of the Verbum Fiat and do belong to Gods motion of the final day of Separation in this time unto his own manifestation unto his honour and deeds of wonder but after this time to the crystalline world in the glassie Sea before the ancient in the Apocalyps A brief Summary of the Philosophick WORK 29. Our meaning might seem very difficult unto the Reader in that we go so far about and shew Christ all along therein at which let no man wonder we do not seek gold or any Temporal goods thereby and drive man into vain curiosities we speak only with the Children whom God hath chosen thereunto for the Time is born where that which is lost shall be again found yea not only the Universal for the body of this World but also for the Soul 30. The Process is very short in both and it is only of one property which is thus the Tree understand the Life is divided into seven Forms now the curse of God is come into the seven Forms so that they are in strife and enmity and one Form doth annoy the other and can never agree unless they all seven enter into Death and dye unto the Self-will Now this cannot be except a Death comes into them which breaks all their will and be a death unto them as the Deity in Christ was a death to the Humane Self-hood and the seven Forms in the Humane Life thus is it here also the Humane Will was changed in Christ into the Eternal Sun viz. into the Resignation in God even so must all the Forms in the Philosophick Work be changed into one viz. into Sol Seven must become one and yet remain in Seven but in one desire where each Form desireth the other in love and then there is no more any strife and contest 31. Therefore let the Artist but consider how he may give death to the death with the pure life and how he may awaken the dead and disappeared life which is Heavenly and lyeth hidden and captivated in the Curse so that it may again receive the Fire-soul and if he doth but bring it so far it worketh of it self 32. When the Virgin doth again receive her Bridegroom who hath been faithless then he is prepared and fitted to the work otherwise he is no way at all fitted but all is in vain and to no purpose which he attempteth there is not any possibility for the Heavenly Image according to Gods likeness in man to be otherwise helped and restored after that the Fire-soul had entred into its self-hood unless the Spirit of God did introduce it self into the disappeared Image viz. into the Heavenly Essentiality and give it self in with the same Image awakened in it into the Souls Fire viz. into the wrath of Death and be a death to Death viz. to the wrathful anger of God that it might be drowned in the Love in the blood of the Heavenly Essentiality and although there could be no parting nor dying yet there was a dying of the Wrath so that the Wrath was changed into a joy and Love 33. Even thus the Artists Work is exactly and throughout no otherwise For Man was created out of all Beings out of the Heaven and Earth but when he became wholly earthly and the Curse seized on him the Curse also came over the earthly Being whence Man was made Thus the Heaven was shut up from man and the Heaven also was shut up in the Earth in Metals Trees and Hearbs in the food of Man and whatsoever belonged to his Ornament and Delight 34. The soul of the Earth viz. the property of the Fire of the first Principle is entered into its self-hood viz. into Gods anger now the Heaven is hidden in it therefore the Artist must in his Work reduce the Soul in the Curse and the Heaven again into One He must introduce the Soul again into Heaven or else there is no possibility now he cannot bring the Soul in its iniquity into Heaven for it will not and therefore he must bring the Heaven into the Soul and wholly give in the Heaven to the Soul that the Soul may eat of Heaven will she or nill she the Heaven must be as Death in the Soul so that the Soul cannot get rid of it how angry soever she be and vehemently rage against it until she be overcome in her wrath and entereth with the Desire into Heaven viz. into the disappeared Essence and willeth to murther it as the Jews Christ and if she so entreth into the Heavenly Essence then the Image of the Heavenly Essence falleth into the jaws of the Murtherer 35. Thus when the Heavenly Essence giveth its desire unto the Murtherer the Murther is dismayed at the Dear Love-life and ariseth in the Flagrat in the dismayment in the Heavenly Essentiality thus the disappeared Essence doth again receive the Fire Flagrat into it self and wholly uniteth it self with the Fire-life and so the Fire must burn in the Love and Meekness and forego its right in the Centre as the Light which shineth from the Fire thus and no otherwise the Heavenly Essence obtaineth its life and as a Fire doth through-heat an iron that it appeareth as if it were meer Fire and it is so but the iron doth still retain its substance even so the disappeared Essence viz. the Heaven is manifest in the poysonful Mercurial and Martial Fire-soul and maketh of Seven Wills only one and yet Seven remain but the Enmity ceaseth 36. This is a Universal which also changeth the Enmity or Malignity of all Diseases in the Humane body into one Will into unity So that the raging and raving viz. the seven
his Mothers womb out of heat and cold out of himself 32. As the Love proceeding from the heart of the Father which is his Son doth withstand the Anger of the Father whereby the Father is merciful Even so likewise it is in the expressed Word oâ— Mercury 33. Now understand it thus I do not-mean that the cold poyson of Mercury should be or could be resisted with the enkindled heat no but if the cold poyson be enkindled then the Remedy must be from the same likenss but it must be first freed from the coldness viz. From the enflamed cold wrath and brought into meekness and then it doth also still and appease the hunger of the colds desire in the disease of the Body For if enkindled heat be administred to the enkindled cold then the cold is dismayed or Flagratized at the Heat and falleth into a Swound viz. into Deaths property and so the Heat becomes in this Deaths property a poyson life viz. an anxious Sting and the Mercurial wheel runneth into Sadness viz. into Sickness or a crasie dotage wherein all jâ—y is forgotten 34. For if the life shall subsist in its own Right then the Heat and Cold must stand in Equality that so they may accord one with another and no enmity or disaffection be at all in any of them the one must not exceed or over top the other but they must stand in one Will for the enkindled Cold desireth no Heat but only likeness Every hunger desireth only likeness for its food but if the hunger be too strongly enkindled in the cold such a Cure is not to be given it which is so enkindled indeed it must be in as high a degree in the cold but the violent force must be first taken away from it so that it may be only as the Mother which generates it not according to the enkindled poyson-source but according to the Mothers Joy and so the sickness viz. the Poyson in the Anguish will be likewise changed into such a Joy and so the Life doth receive again its first property 35. The raw opposite Body doth not belong unto the Cure but its Oyl which must be mollified with its own Love understand with a meek Essence which also belongeth unto the same property for the seven Forms of Nature are only one in the Centre therefore that Oyl must be brought so far in the Wheel till it entreth into its highest Love-desire and then it is rightly fit for Cure for there is nothing so evil but it hath a good in it and that very good doth resist its evilness or poysonful malignity 36. Thus also in the same sickness it may withstand the enkindled Wrath in the body for if the cold Poyson be enkindled in the body then its good falleth into faintness and if it cannot obtain the likeness of its Essence for its help it remaineth in faintness and then the enkindled Wrath also doth forthwith consume it self and falleth also into faintness and so the natural death is in both and the moving life in the body ceaseth but if it doth attain the likeness then it gathers strength again and the enkindled Hunger of the Disease must cease 37. In like manner also we are to consider of the Heat which needs no cold property but the Likeness yet it must be first freed from the Wrath of the same Likeness and brought into its own highest Joy and Good so that this Likeness doth not effectually operate either in Heat or Cold but in its own Love desire viz. in its Best Relish and so it will bring the Heat in the body into such a Desire All corruptions in the body proceed from the Cold if the Brimstone be too vehemently enkindled by the Heat then the Right and Property of the Cold dyeth and entreth into Sorrow 38. Mercury is the moving Life in all and his Mother is Sulphur now the Life and Death lie in Sulphur viz. in the wrestling Mercurial Wheel In the Sulphur there is Fire Light and Darkness the Impression causeth Darkness Coldness and Hardness and also great Anguishment and from the Impression of the Attraction Mercury doth take his rise and he is the Sting of the Attraction viz. the motion or disquietness and ariseth in the great Anguish of the Impression where Coldness viz. a dark cold fire by reason of the Hardness doth arise in the Impression and in the Sting of Anguish viz. in the Disquietness an hot fire doth arise 39. Now Mercury is the Wheel of Motion and a stirring up of the Cold and Heat and in this place it is only a painful aking Source in Heat and Cold viz. a cold and hot fiery Poyson-anguishment and forceth forward as a Wheel and yet it is a cause of Joy and all life and motion but if it shall be freed from the Anguish and introduced into the Joy then it must be brought forth through Death 40. Now every sickness and malady is a Deaths property for Mercury hath too much enkindled and enflamed himself either in Heat or Cold whereby the Essence or Flesh which he hath attracted to himself in his Desire viz. in his Mother in the Sulphur is burnt whereby the Earthliness ariseth both in the Water and Flesh Even as the matter of the Earth and Stones viz. the Grossness of the same is nothing else but a burnt Sulphur and Water in Mercury his property where the Salniter in the Flagrat of the Mercurial Wheel whence the manifold Salts do arise is burnt or too vehemently enflamed whence cometh the Stink and evil Taste 41. Otherwise if the Mercury did so effectually operate therein in the Oyl of Sulphur that he might be brought through the Death of the Impression from the Heat and Cold then the Earth would be again in Paradise and the Joy-desire would again spring or bloom afresh through the Anguish of the Colds Impression and this is the Cause that God layd the Curse upon the Earth for the Mercurial Wheel was deprived of its Good viz. the Love-desire which ariseth in the Eternal Liberty and manifesteth it self with this Mercurial Wheel through Cold and Heat and proceedeth forth through the fire and maketh a Shine of the light and the Curse was brought thereinto which is a withdrawing of the Love-desire 42. Now this Mercury being a Life in the Sulphur of its Mother doth stand in the Curse viz. in the Anguish of the Heat and Cold and maketh in his Flagrat or Salnitral Walm continually Salts according to such property as he is in each place and as he is enkindled in each Body these Salts are only the Taste in the seven Properties 43. Now if the Mercury be too vehemently enkindled in the Cold then he maketh in the Salnitral Flagrat in his Mother in the Sulphur a cold hard Impressive Salt whence Melancholy Darkness and Sadness do arise in the Life of Sulphur for look what Salt is in each thing even such a lustre of
high Spirits as Angels and Souls of men which stand in the first Principle in them the Element is incitable In the life of the third Principle it standeth still and is as a hand of God where he holdeth and governeth the four Elements as an Exit or Instrument wherewith he worketh and buildeth 54. Now every property of nature doth in its hunger take its food out of the four Elements as the hunger is so it taketh a property out of the Elements for the four Elements are the body of the properties and each Spirit eateth of its own body 55. First There are the Sulphurean properties according to the first second Impression viz. according to the dark astringent and anxious Impression and then according to the Love-Impression in the Light viz. according to evil and good 56. The dark hunger desireth essence according to its property viz. Earthly things all whatsoever resembleth the Earth and the bitter hunger desireth bitter Raging stinging and pain it receiveth into it self such an Essence as the poyson-source out of the Elements and the hunger of Anguish desireth anxious hunger viz. the Anguish in the Brimstone also the melancholy taketh the desire to dye and continual sadness and the Fire-flash receiveth into it Anger Aspiring ambition pride a desiringness to destroy all and make it subject to it a desire to domineer in and above all to consume all and to be Peculiar and it taketh the bitterness from whence the Flash ariseth to Envy and Hatred and the astringency to Covetousness and the Fire to Anger and Indignation 57. Here is the true desire of Gods anger and all Devils and of all whatsoever is against God and Love and this hunger draweth such an Essence into Self as it is to be known searcht out in the Creatures and in the Herbs also 58. Now the Fire flash is the End of the first desire viz. of the dark nature and in the Fire the dying of the first hunger and Will beginneth for the Fire consumeth all grossness of the first Forms and casts them into death and here is the Se Veration of both Wills viz. the one which entreth back again into the property of Death and is a Will in the life of the dark Desire as the Devils have done who would domineer in the Fire flash in the Salnitral Sude over Time and Eternity but they were driven back by the Spirit of God and spewed forth out of the Love desire as an abomination and thus also it hapneth here to the wicked soul of man whereupon the Election followeth here is the Aym or scope of the Electrion of grace of which the Scripture speaketh that God knoweth his and here the Eternal Lubet of Gods liberty apprehendeth the Will-spirit which is arisen in the dark Centre and brings it through the dying in the Fire into the Element 59. In the Salnitral Flagrat lyeth the Possibility backwards and forwards If the will of the Desire goeth back then it is as to the Kingdom of this World earthly and as to the Kingdom of the Eternal World it is in Gods Anger and cannot see God unless it be converted and entreth into the Dying in the Fire and wholly dye to its Selfness and enter into the Resignation of the Eternal Will in the Salnitral Flagrat into the Element viz. into the Heavenly Essentiality and Corporality so that the Hunger may eat of the pure Element and then it hath further no other desire for it is in the Fire dead unto the austere dark hunger which is evil thus from the dying in the Fire ariseth the light for here the Liberty is enkindled that it becomes also an hunger and a desire this is now a Love-desire a Love-hunger 60. In the outward World it is the light of the Sun in the four Elements and it is the bestial Love-desire viz. after the Sulphurean body and Essence whence the copulation and multiplication doth arise viz. the Vegetative life and from the Mercury in the Salniter wherein the sensible life is therein the Astrum giveth the Reason in the Animals from the properties of the Salniter 61. For the whole Astrum is nothing else but a Salniter in the Verbum Fiat in the motion of the Being of all Beings in the fiery Flagrat comprehended in the properties of the Salts wherein all the powers of the Element do stand as an extern birth which do continually boil in the four Elements as a Salnitral Salt and do introduce their property in their desire fn the four Elements into the essence of Bodies as is to be seen in Trees Herbs Grass and all growing things 62. Thus understand us further concerning the second Centre which is manifest in the dying of the Fire in the Light whereby the Abyss of Gods liberty doth introduce it self into the Byss of Nature both with the inward world in the Kingdom of Heaven in the eternity and then also with the outward Kingdom in the Time 63. Now all this hath also the properties of the Desire and taketh its Original from the first Principle viz. from the first Centre and there is yet no right dying in the Fire the dark Essence only dyeth and the Will-spirit goeth forth with the eternal Will to Nature again out of the fiery Death in the light it is only a transmutation of the Spirit so that an hunger ariseth out of the Liberty and this Hunger is a Love-desire as to the soul of Man it draweth Essence from the Element of God viz. in the Divine Salniter it taketh the divine Salts or Powers into it self and as to the outward Worlds Desire it draweth the Oyl out of the Sulphur into it self in which Oâ—â— the outward Life burneth and so it is likewise in the Vegetables and Metals and whatsoever else 64. The Sun maketh the outward Transmutation and the divine Light in the Souls property maketh the inward according as each thing standeth in its degree so doth its Hunger reach a property Those which are in the Time receive a property from the Time and those in Eternity likewise out of Eternity The Hunger which proceeds from Eternity eateth of the Eternity and that which is of the Time eateth of the Time The true Life of all Creatures eateth of the Spiritual Mercury viz. of the sixth Form where all Salts are essentially the Spirit eateth of the five Senses for they are the Spirits Corporality and the Body viz. the Vegetable Life eateth of the Essence of the Sulphur and Salt for Christ saith so also Man liveth not by bread only but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God 65. Now the sixth Form of Nature is the expressed Spiritual Word and the Speaking Word therein is the Eternal Word In the first Impression in the Darkness it is the Word of Gods Anger and in the outward World it is the poysonful Mercury viz. a Cause of all Life and Stirring of all Tones and Sounds Now every Property eateth of
into the deepest Humility before him it suffereth and doth all things readily only that it might but receive grace it is willing to take the Cross of Christ upon it self and regardeth not at all the scorn of all the World in its Self-hood but continually presseth forward into Christs Love-desire this Desire doth only grow out of Christs Death and out of his Resurrection in God and bringeth forth fruit in Patience which are hidden in God of which the earthly man knoweth nothing for it findeth it self in its Self-hood 29. A true Christian is a continual Champion and walketh wholly in the Will and Desire in Christs Person as he hath walked up and down upon the Earth Christ when he was upon the Earth desired to overcome Death and bring the humane Self-hood in true Resignation into Divine Obedience and this likewise a Right Christian desireth to do he desireth continually to dye to the Iniquity of Death and Wrath and give himself up to Obedience and to arise and live in Christs Obedience in God 30. Therefore dear Brethren take heed of putting on Christs Purple mantle without a Resigned Will the poor Sinner without Sorrow for his Sins and Conversion of his Will doth only take it in scorn to Christ Keep you from that Doctrine which teacheth of self-ful Abilities and of the works of Justification 31. A true Christian is himself the great and anxious Work which continually desireth to work in Gods Will and forceth against the self-ful Lusts of Self-hood and willeth continually so to do and yet is many times hindered by Self-hood He breaketh Self-hood as a Vessel wherein he lieth captive and buddeth forth continually in Gods Will-spirit with his Desire Resigned in God as a fair blossom springeth out of the Earth and worketh in and with God what God pleaseth 32. Therefore let the true Christendom know and deeply lay to heart what is now told and spoken to her viz. that she depart from the false Conjecture or Opinion of comforting without conversion of the Will it is only an outward expressed form of the New birth a Christian must be one spirit with Christ and have Christs Will and Life in him the form doth not renew him neither comforting or giving good words doth at all help or avail but a mortifying of the evil imbred Will which is Gods child and born out of Christs death no other Will attaineth Christs Inheritance my much knowing doth not also do it the Heardsmen in the Field is as near to me as the Doctor no wit or subtle art in Disputation about the way of God doth help or avail any thing thereto it is only a let and hinderance the true Will entreth into the Love of God and his Children it seeketh no form but falleth down before its Creator and desireth the death of its false Self-hood it seeketh the work of Love towards all men it will not flourish in the Worlds scorn but in its God its whole life is a meer repentance and a continual sorrow for the evil which cleaveth unto it It seeketh no glory or applause to shew it self but liveth in humility it acknowledgeth it self always as unworthy and simple its true Christianity is always hidden to it in its self-hood He saith I am in myself-hood an unprofitable Servant and have not as yet begun to do or work repentance aright He is always in the beginning to work repentance and would always fain reach the gates of the sweet grace he labourech thereto as a Woman in Travel laboureth to bring forth and knows not how it fareth with him the Lord hideth his face from him that his working may be great towards him He soweth in anguish and tears and knoweth not his fruit for it is hidden in God as a painful Traveller goeth a long way ayming at his wished for journeys end so also he runneth after the far mark of his rest and findeth it not unless his Pearl doth appear unto him in its beauty and embraceth him in its Love If it again departeth from his Self-hood then ariseth sighing and sorrowing again with continual Desire and one day calleth another the day the night and the night the morning and yet there is no place of Rest in the Earthly Self-hood save only in the fair Solar lustre of his precious Pearl when the Sun ariseth to him in the Darkness then the Night departeth and all Sorrow and Anguish fly away 33. Therefore dear Brethren learn to take heed and beware of Contention where men contend about the literal Form A true Christian hath nothing to contend for for he dyeth to his Reasons desire he desireth only Gods knowledg in his Love and Grace and letteth all go which contendeth and striveth about the Form for Christs Spirit must make the Form in Himself the outward Form is only a guide God must become Man or else Man becomes not God 34. Therefore a Christian is the most Simple or plainest man upon the Earth as Esaias saith who is so simple as my Servant All Heathens desire Self-hood and do teer and devour one another for the Authority and Honours but a true Christian desireth to dye to them he seeketh not his own but Christs honour All whatsoever contends about Self-hood viz. about the self ful honour and pleasure of this Life the same is Heathenish and far worse then Heathenish yea like the Devil who departed from God into a Self-fulness Let it cover it self with Christs mantle as much as ever it will yet the man of false Self-hood is lodged under it if he will be a Christian then he must quite dye to Self-hood that the same may only hang unto him from without as a Garment of this World wherein he is a Stranger and Pilgrim and always consider and think that he is but a servant in his high Office and serveth God therein as a Servant and not be his own Lord and Master 35. All whatsoever doth Lord it self without Gods call and appointment the same is from the Devil and serveth the Devil in his own Power and Form defend and flatter thy self as much as thou wilt it doth not avail before God thy own heart accuseth thee that thou art a false branch thy Nobility and Highness doth not at all avail or help thee in the Sight of God If thou dost not thereby drive Gods Order thy Office is not thine but Gods If thou walkest falsly therein then thy own judgment is upon thee and condemneth thee to death thou art a Servant and although thou beest a King yet thou servest and must enter with the poorest into the new birth or else thou shalt not see God 36. All self-ful assumed or arrogated Laws and Authority wherewith the poor are vexed and oppressed do all come from Self-hood whose Original is in the expressed form which hath with the Form introduced it self into a Self-hood and extroduced it self quite from God Whatsoever doth not serve in a Servants Office before
property maketh all evill in the Darkness and in the Light it maketh all things good and in Sum all is wholly one in both Eternal Worlds but Light and Darkness SeVers them so that they stand as an Eternal Enmity opposite one to another to the end that it may be known what is Evil or Good Joy or Sorrow Love or Anger there is only a distinction between the Love-desire of the Light and the Anger desire of the Darkness 19. In the Original of the Eternal Nature in the Fathers property in the great Mystery of all Beings it is wholly One for the same only Fire is even in the Angelical World but in another Source viz. a Love-fire which is a poyson and a Fire of Anger to the Devils and to Hell for the Love-fire is a Death mortification and an Enmity of the Anger-fire it depriveth the Wrath of its Might and this the Wrath wills not and it also cannot be for if there were no Wrath there would be no Fire and also no Light If the Eternal Wrath were not the Eternal Joy also would not be in the Light the Wrath is changed into Joy the wrathful Fires Essence is mortified as to the Darkness in the wrathful Fire and out of the same Dying the Light and Love-fire arise as the Light burneth forth from the Candle and yet in the Candle the Fire and Light are but one thing 20. Thus also the Great Mystery of all Beings is in the Eternity in it self only one Thing but in its Explication and Manifestation it goeth from Eternity to Eternity into two Essences viz. into Evil and Good what is evil unto one thing that is good unto another Hell is evil unto the Angels for they were not created thereunto but it is good to the other Hellish creatures so also Heaven is evil to the Hellish creatures for it is their poyson and death an Eternal Dying and an Eternal Captivity 21. Therefore there is an Eternal enmity and God is only called a God according to the light of his Love He is indeed himself All but according to the Darkness he saith I am an angry Jealous God and a consuming Fire 22. Every Creature must remain in its place wherein it was apprehended in its Creation and formed into an Image and not depart out of that same Harmony or else it becomes an Enemy of the Being of all Beings 23. And thus Hell is even an Enemy of the Devil for he is a strange Guest therein viz. a perjured Fiend cast out of Heaven He will be Lord in that wherein he was not created the whole Creation accuseth him for a false perjured Apostate Spirit which is departed from his Order yea even the Nature in the Wrath is his Enemy albe it he be of the same property yet he is a Stranger and will be Lord though he hath lost his Kingdom and is only an inmate in the Wrath of God he that was too rich is now become too poor he had all when as he stood in Humility and now he hath nothing and is moreover captivated in the Gulf This is his shame that he is a King and yet hath fooled away his Kingdom in Pride the Royal creature remaineth but the Dominion is taken away of a King he is become an Executioner what Gods anger apprehends there he is a Judg viz. an Officer of Gods Anger yet he must do what his Lord and Master will 24. This Reason most ignorantly gain-sayeth and saith God is omnipotent and Omniscient he hath made it Even he hath done with his work as he hath pleased who will contend with the most High Yea dear Reason now thou thinkest thou hitst it right but first prethee Learn the A. B. C. in the great Mystery All whatsoever is arisen out of the Eternal Will viz. out of the Great Eternal Mystery of all Beings as Angels and the Souls of men are that stands in equal weight in Evil and Good in the Free Wil as God himself that Desire which powerfully predominantly works in the Creature and quite overtoppeth the other of that property the Creature is As a Candle purteth forth out of it self a Fire and out of the Fire the Wind which Wind the Fire draweth again into it self and yet giveth it forth again and when this Spirit is gone forth from the Fire and Light then it is free from the Fire and Light what property it again receiveth of that it is the first Mystery wherein the Creature consists is the All-essential Mystery and the other in the forth-going Spirit is its propriety and a self-ful Will Hath not every Angel it s own peculiar Spirit which is progenerated out of its own Mystery which hath its Original out of Eternity Wherefore will this Spirit be a Tempter of God and tempteth the Mystery which forth with captivates it in the Wrath as hapned to Lucifer It hath the drawing to Gods Wrath and to Gods Love in in it wherefore doth not the Spirit which is generated out of both which is the similitude of the Spirit of God continue in its place in Obedience as a Child before the Mother in Humility 25. Thou sayst it cannot it is not so Every Spirit standeth in the place where it was created in equal weight and hath its Free Will it is a Spirit with the All-essential Eternal Spirit and may take unto it self a Lubet in the All-essential Eternal Spirit as it willeth either in Gods Love or Anger whereinto it introduceth its Longing Imagination the Essence and property of that it receiveth in the Great Mystery of all Beings 26. In God the Birth is manifest in Love and Anger wherefore not also in the Creature which is created out of Gods Essence and Will out of his Voyce and Breath into an Image what property or note of the Voyce the Creature awakeneth in it self the same soundeth in and ruleth the Creature Gods Will to the Creature was only One viz. a general Manifestation of the Spirit as each Creature was apprehended in the property of the Eternal Mystery yet Lucifer was apprehended in the good Angelical property which plainly testifieth that he was an Angel in Heaven but his own incorporized Will-spirit forced it self into the wrathful Mother for to awaken the same in it and thereby to be a Lord over every created Being now the Will-spirit is free it is the Eternal Original let it do what it will 27. Therefore we are to know this and it is no otherwise that the Will-spirit which taketh its Original out of Love and Anger out of both Eternal Principles hath given it self in to the Wrath whereby the Wrath hath powerfully got the upper hand and Dominion and put it self out of the Equal Harmony into a dissonancy or discord and so he must be driven into his Likeness this is his fall and so it is also the fall of all evil men 28. Now Self-Reason alledgeth the Scripture where it is written Many are
cavil and carp at any thing but what danceth as they pipe but I value not their Censures but pity their Letter-learned mock-sciences being but the courted shadows of their own amused fancy such as these being captivated in the Mystery of Babel do Wonder only after their Beast Mammon upon which they ride in Pride and scorn any thing but what doth please and flatter them in their admired works of Covetous iniquity gilded over with seeming holiness but the Babylonish Structure of their Turba Magna-miracles will fall when it hath attained the highest limit of its Constellation and no wit of man shall be able to prop it up In the mean time the Antichrist in Babel will rage and domineer and execute the Sentence of Wrath or his own dismal doom upon himself But I will not transgress by too large a digression but come to my intent which is to explain thee some words which I have used in this Translation as Flagrat Lubet Source Sude The Translators Exposition of the word Flagrat The word in the Germane is Scbra'ck which signifies properly a Fright sudden Astonishment or Dismayment in the other Books it is translated Terrour and Crack but I have put it Flagrat from the Latin word Flagro although by it I mean not a burning but even the powerful opening of the Life or Death in the enkindling of the Fire in Nature for the Fire is the dividing bound mark wherein the life of both Principles is Opened and Se Vered the life of the first is the dying death in the darkness and the life of the Second is the living life in the Light you may perceive a Resemblance of this Flagrat in Thunder and Lightning so also in Gun powder or the like as take divers Sulphrous Salnitral minerals exactly mixt now their Powers are as I may say contracted or shut up in the Astringent dark Desire or Death but touch them Rightly with the true Fire and you will see how they will soon open disclose and flash forth and even display and stream forth themselves into divers properties colours and vertues It is even the bursting forth of the Ardent Desire in Nature It is as I may term it the Magical Fire-breath whereby the powers either of Light or Darkness are dismayed In brief it is the pregnant Eccho of the sound of Eternity every where speaking working and opening it self in Love or Anger in each thing according to its Will and Desire In some it is the horrible Flagrat to Death and in others it is the pleasant Triumphant Flagrat to Life Lubet The word in the Dutch is Lust which signifies a longing desire or list to a thing also a delight delectation or contentful joy Sometimes Imagination and Lust but because our word Lust is commonly used in the worst sense viz. for a longing after Evil and Vanity and would not properly to agree or fully express the Germane word Lust in all places I have generally translated it Lubet from the Latin word Lubitum whereby is meant the Divine beneplacitum or good pleasure by it is understood the Original to a Desire in the Eternal Nothing or Pregnant Magick Gods free wel-liking to the Desire of the manifestation of Nature and Creature without which all had been an Eternal Stilness in the Nothing This Lubet in man is the moving will to Good or Evil Light or Darkness Love or Anger Source By this is meant the first Original Qualities or Properties of both the inward Principles as they do break forth in the Sude of the Fire in the Flagrat of Love or Anger in Nature or Creature for in the Darkness the Love-Ens or Paradissical Light is shut up in Death and causeth an austere dark Source Pain Horror Torment or Disquietness and so it is the radical Property of the contentious Elements and Stars in the Curse of God and in the Light the Life of Love breaks forth and swallow up this wrathful Source of Darkness and Death and turns it into Joy or a divine Source So that by Source understand the Original Quality Property or Qualification of Evil Darkness Anger Sorrow Cursing Damnation Death Hell or the contrary to these in their divine Source or essential working Property both according to Time and Eternity Sude The word Sude is Germane and signifies a Boyling or Seething It is the Stirring of the Seven Properties in Nature arising from the Assimulation or essential co-influence of the outward and inward Sol in Sulphur whence the bloomy Vegetation of the Earth proceeds also the Generation of Metals and Mynerals doth lie therein These are some unusual Words which I have used in the rendering this Book into English not that I would make it a Strange-Lation or be a Coyner of new words to amuse the mind only but to express as well and as fitly as I could the Authors Intent and scope although I cannot say I have every where attained to the full and lively expression of the Authors meaning for as Nature did open its knowledg in him so likewise its language so that in some words there may be a proper and peculiar Idea which our English words in some places perhaps do not so fully express yet I hope none shall find the Authors Sence falsified or perverted but truly translated according to the Original Copy which I have Words they are but Vehicula rerum they are formed to express things and not bare Sounds or empty Ayrs Now He that rightly understands the ground of the Cabala and Magia and knows how the Language of Nature speaks in every Tongue may well translate this Author but the bare letter of his Writings though never so exactly translated will not give a man the understanding of them but the Spirit of Regeneration in Christ in whom the fulness of the Deity dwelleth bodily I should be glad that any one would take the Pains to amend what I have done Amiss and render them more easie to a vulgar capacity It shall be enough for me that I have made him but stammer in English with a Babes tongue God in due time may raise up those that will do them better for all things in this World come by child-like steps or gradually to their Perfection In the mean time I shall adventure to put one Book more God willing into English which is the chiefest of all his Writings if any may have the preheminence and that is the Mysterium Magnum or A deep and Theosophical Exposition upon the whole first Book of Moses called Genesis The SeVerall Names and Titles of the Authors Books collected out of his Writings and put into Seven Parts THe first Book called Aurora or The dawning of the Eternal Day was written in the year 1612. It was taken from him before it was finished and kept by the Magistracy of Gerlits with strict command to him that he should not meddle with writing Books which belonged not to his Vocation whereupon he did forbear for Seven years but
Impossible to him But unto those that Love Iesus we say and declare that they may very well be searcht out and understood and that it is no impossible thing for in a true Christian dwelleth Christ in whom all the treasures of the hidden wisdom are manifest the same Christian knoweth them only in the Spirit of Christ but not in his own self ful Nature and Ability As we also have clearly expounded and described these questions in a peculiar Book indeed briefly and yet in our other Writings largely and sufficiently enough and so I commend the Reader into the Revelation of Jesus Christ. He that this Authors Books doth read A Divine Light in 's heart doth need Or else his Reason will but stray And groap for Light in the mid-day But none will him censure or scorn That is truly of Soph-jah born For he that 's meaning understands Is freed from Anti-christ his bands And truly learns how for to see Into the Divine Mystery Eternal one the Nothing and the All Give Adam faint and sick a Cordial In his distemper'd Age and last distress Open the Treasury of thy Goodness O make his dissonant Spirits Accord And give 's the Harmony of thy true Word Amen HALLELUJAH FINIS * Being of all Beings * Or formed it self or originally put forth it self * Proceedeth from the mouth * Or Conception * His look or Physiognomy * In. * Vegetables * Made sick * Or Sting * Contraction or Constringency Love and Anger Father and Son * Thought Or sparkle of the will * In. * Or Voyces * Or God * Nature * World * Or Sting of Instigation * Raiser Enkindler or Enflames * Or Out of it self * Mysterium * Similitude Likeness or Signature * Palpable * Or Apprehendeth or Conceiveth * Or Standeth * Or To the nature of the Pregnatress * Or with * Stars * In. * Or Substance * Boyling * Or Separates it self in it self * Report Clash * Sinketh * Corpus * Corpus * Giveth yeeldeth or affordeth * Or Propriety * Or the properties out of which they were created had in them both the Eternal Worlds * Or until * Or The highest or chiefest Metals * Body * Liquid * Corpus * Boyling and growing walming and waxing * Loco * Outgoing breathing * Or In a seven-fold Form * Or sting * Stirring up or moving * The one is not the other * Or Out of * Or Mans. * Seething boyling or decoction * With. * Or Fashioneth * Or Faber * In a strange fire and yet not strange when the cloke is laid aside it needeth only its own fire †Here must be its own fire only from within from without * And it is the Tincture which Tinctureth the Body * Or Rotation * Draws it to it-self * Wheel or sphere †Attenuates destroys * Woman Wife * Lust. * Or Immobility * Or he should dye †Salvation * An upright full and unscigned Desire * Or therin * Leader d In one * Begin * Or In the Divine Love * Or upon the Love of God †Depart * Labor * Of or belonging to Nature †Being Materia or Food * Understand the free will * Affordeth produceth or maketh * Or Raging Sting * Or When. * Or Furious Wheel * According to or after †Or Out of * Dumo * Can but get * Sting * Or Taken from him * Or It. * Or Lothsomness * Or Lead †Or Through * Or The Riddle †Spoyled undone * Or In. a Or Outwards d Or Set his Desire upon the Anger h Text. Into himself * Out of it self †Or Wit or subtlety a Quickest keenest u Or Begetteth it self * Or sorm or immass d Affords yeelds produceth * Bring turn or sublimate †Or Joyfulness * Or Receiveth that which it hungreth after a Crept †Or Gods banning is a banishing * Or avalled * Part or Property * Open or exclude * Or Took his part * Through-shine irradiate * Or Works and effects * Here and for ever †Or noble Stone of the wise-men * Or Pregnant Centre * One that breaks through irresistably * Or Devoyd of all Source * Or Becomes * Corpus †Or Awakening or stirring it self up * Set. * Or Victorion fly triumphed over * Or The bloomy Spring of the Paradissical New birth in Man * Or pleasant spring †Or what shall I first do to bring it to pass †Workmaster or Faber †Or Whose Essence is in every Thing * Or Gods Being †Or Openly Text. In the ayr * Or She shall c. †And * Curdled * Or In Wedlock * Blended * Dumb senceless mute * Governor †Stand and lie * Corpus * Or Body * With or in †Or If his Poyson-Will be brought into the moving Spirit of Love * Gross Stone or stony grossness †Wrestling * Or Sude * The Mercury †Or Such a Physician hath true skill to cure * Or Seizeth on * Or By. Or Sulphur * In Brimstone * Shoot or Twig †Or In their wrestling Combate * Or Growth †Bag or Sack a Type or Resemblance * Vertue or Efficacy * Or mind †Or Womb. * Or The Sulphur * Giveth or yeeldeth †Brimstone †Or Life's * Or whereby †Or Nausea * Or Loathing * Unite or give in * Or so it is signed marked †Or Puts it self forth text glanceth forth * Or Hath the New-birth in perfect knowledg * Or Maketh †Or Take * In or with * Voyco or Harmony †Or Essence * In or by * Text wresting Power †Or Shapeth * Or Original * Perceivancy or Sensation †Or Breaking forth * Or Playeth †Or Distinguisheth the senses * Viz. the mercury * Viz. mercury * Thicken cuâ—ále * It giveth a cursing or a blessing Aspect †Stalk or Blossom * Or Of whitish buds in vegetables * In Conjunction with Saturn * Text that he stireth c. * Sublime them †Working powerful or vertual * The jovial Vertue * Ratio * Opposition †Otherwise Metalline * Or In. †Or I am an enemy * In or by †Or Water * Out-spoken †Transformed * The transforming Light of God in the dark Soul such as shined in Enock Elias Paul c. * Put its desire hunger and Imagination into the Nothing the highest Good or Omnipotence and eat of Gods Bread †Or other Forms * Or Unto †Or Lifes light * Or of * And all his begions of evil spirits †Agree or make sor * Or unto †Image or likeness * Melody harmony delight or play * Or Change †Or were * Royall Fort. Fort rampant * Or Kindred †Text Bodily †By Degrees * Or Signatures †Speculate or behold * Orb Rotation
the Devil Behold I pray the right Cure wherewith the enkindled Mercury in Mans life is to be remedied it must be a Mercury again but first enkindled in Venus and Jupiter it must have the Suns property which it attains unto by Jupiter and Venus As God dealeth with us poor men so must the outward poysonful sick Mercury be Tinctured with such an external Cure not with the dark Impression of Saturn with Cold unless it be first sweetly appeased and qualified with Jupiter and Venus that the Sun doth again shine in Saturn but with meek Love this is his right Physick whereby the Death is changed into Life yet this is only a common manual Cure which the Vulgar may learn 9. But it behoveth the Doctor if he will be called a Doctor to study the whole Process how God hath restored the universal in Man which is fully clear and manifest in the Person of Christ from his Entrance into the Humanity even to his Ascention and Sending of the Holy Ghost 10. Let him follow this entire Process and then he may find the Universal provided he born again of God but the selfish pleasure worldly glory covetousness and pride doth lie in the way Dear Doctors I must tell you the Coals are too black ye defile your white hands therewith the true unfeighned self-denying Humility before God and man doth not relish with you Therefore ye are blind I do not tell you this but the Spirit of Wonders in its manifestation 11. But we will give Direction unto the desirous Seeker who would fain see if he knew the way fitly to attain his intent for the time is at hand where Moses is called from the Sheep to be a Shepherd of the Lord which shall shortly be manifest maugre all the raging and raving of the Devil Let not the dear and worthy Christendom think being now it doth seem as if she should go to wrack and ruine that it is utterly undone No The Spirit of the Lord of Hoasts hath out of his Love planted a new branch in the humane Property which shall root out the thorns of the Devil and make known his Child Jesus to all Nations Tongues and Speeches and that in the Morning of the Eternal Day 12. Dear Brethren behold I pray the right Cure what did God with us when we lay sick in Death did he quite cast away the created Image understand the outward Part viz. the outward Corrupt Man and make wholly another new Man No he did it not although he introduced Divine Property into Out Humanity yet he did not therefore cast away our Humanity but brought it into the way or Process to the New-birth 13. What did he He suffered the outward Humanity viz. the outward Water understand the Essentiality of Venus which was shut up in the Wrath of Death to be baptized with the Water of the Eternal Essence and with the Holy Ghost that the Incentive of the outward Essentiality shut up in Death might again glow as a fire that falleth into Tinder Afterward he withdrew his outward food from the outward Body and brought it into the Desart and let it hunger and then the Spark enkindled from the Fire of God must Imagine into God and eat Manna of divine Essentiality forty days of which Israel was a Type in the Wilderness Sinai with their Manna The Essence of Eternity must overcome the Essence of Time therefore it is called a Temptation of the Devil for the Devil as a Prince in the Wrath of God did there tempt the outward Humanity and did represent all that unto it wherein Adam fell and became disobedient unto God 14. There now it was tryed whether the Image of God would stand being internally there was Gods Love-fire and externally the Baptism of the Water of Eternal Life Here the Soul was tempted whether it would be a King and an Angelical Throne in the stead of the fallen Angel and possess the Elected Throne of God in the Royal Office from which Lucifer was taken and thrust into the Darkness viz. into the Throne of Poyson and Death but seeing he did stand in that the Soul did resign and submit its Will alone into Gods Love-fire and desired no earthly food nor the earthly Kingdom Good and Evil for outward Dominion the Process to the Universal viz. to the Restoration of all that which Adam had lost did further proceed and go on He turned Water into Wine 15. Ye Physicians observe this it concerns you in your Process you must also go the same way to work He healed the sick so you must likewise make the Form in your poysonful Mercury whole and sound by the Power of the Philosophical Baptism He made the dead alive again the dumb to speak the deaf to hear the blind to see and cleansed the Lepers all this must go before that all the Forms in Mercury may be pure sound and living which Mercury himself doth make after the Baptism and Temptation as the living speaking Mercury did this in the Person of Christ the Artist cannot do it only there must be Faith for Christ also Testifieth that he could not do many Wonders at Capernaum save heal a few diseased for the Faith of the Capernaitans would not enter into the Divine Mercury of Christ. 16. So that we see there that the Person of Christ viz. the Creature could not work the Wonders in its own Power but the Mercury viz. the living speaking Word in him for the Person did cry and call into God viz. into the speaking Word and set its Desire thereinto as we may see in the Mount of Olives where he prayed that he did sweat drops of blood and by Lazarus when he would raise him up he said Father hear me but I know that thou always bearest me yet because of those that stand by I say it that they may beleeve that thou workest by me 17. Thus the Artist must not arrogate any thing unto himself the Mercury doth it self after the Philosophical Baptism work these Wonders before it doth manifest the Universal for all the seven Forms of Nature must be Crystalized and purified if the Universal shall be revealed and each Form carrieth a peculiar Process when it is to be brought out of the property of the Wrath and entered into the pure and clear Life and transmute it self into the Crystalline Sea which standeth before the Throne of the Ancient in the Revelation and change it self into Paradise for the Universal is Paradisical and Christ also came therefore into our Humanity that he might again open or make manifest the Universal viz the Paradise again in Man the Speaking Word in Christ wrought Wonders through all the seven Properties or Forms through the Expressed Word in the Humanity before the whole Universal was manifest in the Corps of the humane Property and the Body glorified 18. Even thus it is in the Philosophical Work when the Mercury shut up in Death receiveth into it the Baptism of