Our Saviour Jesus Christ himself taught to his Apostles and Disciples and which the Comforter doth continually teach the Holy Servants of God ever since and by what is written by this Author it may be believed that both the same Wisdom may be attained now and the same Power of the Holy Ghost by which they speake and wrought their Miracles and the Cause discerned why scarce any hath been wrought for so long a while yes men will believe that greater things shall be done as our Saviour tells the Apostles then they saw him do for it will appear that the Power in one Man even of one Thought in a Man is able to change the whole Universe in a Moment This Power was in part in the Prophets and Apostles who could raise the Dead and when the time appointed is come that all the Dead shall rise that Power will do it though it should be but as a Grain of Mustard-Seed in one Man and restore the whole Creature to the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God Surely it will be worth our pains to find such wisdom as this By the study of these Writings men may come to know every one according to his condition property and indination how all the real differences of Opinions of all sorts may be reconciled even the nicest Differences of the most Learned Criticks in all Ages that which seemeth different in the Writings of the Profound Magical Mystical Chymick Philosophers from that which we find in the Experimental Physicians Philosophers Astronomers may be reconciled by Considering what this Author Teacheth that the Names which were given to the Seven Planets do signifie the seven Properties of the Eternal Nature and are the cause of all those things which are by Experimental Men accounted the first and deepest causes of all Also thereby the differences in Religion may be so reconciled that the Minds and Consciences of all doubting persons may be satisfied about Predestination Election Creation Corruption Salvation and Restoration so clearly that all will love one another that hard Lesson to love our Enemies will be readily learnt and Men will quickly Contribute to the studying that one necessary thing that Treasure hid in the Field that Gold of the Kingdom of Heaven that Precious Pearl that All in All Faith and Love and Christ and God when they shall perceive that all this lyeth hid in every Soul in one Measure or other and may be found and the way set down so plain that every Soul may find it Thereby the Writings of all Men will be understood even the very darkest Mysteries conteined in the VVritings of the Prophets and Apostles will be made plain and easie to the simplest Thirsty Soul and then when that appeareth which is now hidden that Excellent Glory every one will not only see it but walk in the way that leadeth to it and so attain it in the highest Degree of every ones capacity and capability While this Wisdom is growing it will so reform the Laws the degrees in every Nation that at length the whole World will be governed in Peace to the joy of all Perhaps some will think this impossible let them consider that if they be told of a Curious City and of the incredible things that are done there by him that hath been there and seen what he relateth and he describe the way so plain that they may come thither themselves wil they not go that they may know as well as he that told them do so by this Author Read this Book diligently and seriously till you apprehend the meaning but of some part of the way he here describeth which may easily be done and you will be satisfied the things are true and that the way he sheweth is true and be able to walk in it and also be very thirsty to labour in that way more and more till you attain your whole desire and then you will keep it as the best Jewel a Memorial of all Mysteries But let every one read it themselves whether it be the highest King that sitteth upon a Throne or the meanest Maid that grindeth in a Mill or hear it read with their own Ears if they mean to partake of this so high a gift from the most High or else the Devil may easily bereave them of it J. S. To the Reader IF we knew the pretiousness of our own Souls we would confess and acknowledge with an inward feelingness the Answer to Christ's Question when he said What shall it profit a Man to gain the whole World and lose his own Soul Or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul The Soul is so pretious that Nothing can truly be valued at so high a Rate To save it is the greatest Gain to lose it is the greatest loss then who will not highly prize the study and understanding of the way to save it Christ saith He that will save his Soul shall lose it and he that will lose his Soul shall save it but who understandeth this We know it is the earnest desire of every Soul to be saved and to be happy and glorious but the way is very unknown to us poor fallen Souls for we can hardly suppose that losing will be the saving of our selves Christ also taught that the way to Glory was through many tribulations Death this way he entered into Glory and so have all the Blessed from the beginning of the World and can no otherwise to the end thereof but how shall a Soul know the way to lose and deny it self so that it may assuredly attain Eternal Salvation Let it listen in its Heart and Conscience inwardly to that Teacher which it shall find there who is God himself We have the Testimony of Moses for this who told the Israelites The Word the Commandment is nigh thee in thy Heart and in thy Mouth not the outward but the inward Heart and Mouth As also the Apostle Paul saith to the Romans That Christ the Eternal Essential Word of God the Word of Faith which they the Apostles preached is nigh us in our Hearts and in our Mouths and in another place he saith Do you not know that Christ is in you except you be past reproof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 improbi Futhermore the Apostle John saith that God is love and he that loveth God dwelleth in him and he in God which we all perceive is true for in him we live and move and have our Being And this may be known though the Apostle Paul had not said so much for one of the Poets of Old spake what he knew and said We are all of his Off-spring as the Apostle mentioneth it Nay we all know that be that doth well is the Servant of God but he that doth Evil is the Servant of the Devil who ruleth in his Heart And though there is none that doth Good no not one nor can do of himself while he is in this Mortal-Life yet through Christ in him he
the Figure before them that so there may be no denyal for the Spirit tryeth with the Turba Soul Spirit and Flesh here all is manifest 74. The Kings and Princes shall give an account of their Subjects how they have governed and protected them what Government they have exercised why they have taken away the lives of Many in Tyranny and shed innocent Blood why they have made War for their Covetousness and pleasure sake 75. In like manner other Superiours why they have intruded themselves and have set themselves up for Lords over the simple oppressed and squeezed them and taken away their sweat and labour from them and Consumed it in Pride 76. Now will the Root of every thing be enquired after whence it comes and out of what it is grown whether it bear God's Ordinance and whether it Originateth in the Heavenly Fiat or in the Hellish out of the Anger there shall every one give an account of his State and Condition whether he have intruded out of Coverousness and Pride and made himself a Lord and Master or whether his Government be ordained of God 77. There see O ye Worldly Rulers ye Potentates whether ye be God's Ordinance whether ye sit in a right and true Divine Ordinance what you do with the miserable and needy now they stand before your eyes and complain of you that you have been the Cause of their sins and of all their Evil 78. For there one will cry and complain against the other that he hath caused him to commit such and such abominations and will curse him the Inferiour the Superiour the Superiour his Superiour the Prince his false or wicked Counsellours the Counsellours the Priests who have not reproved their Courses but soothed and flattered them for advancement and honours sake 79. Oh how will you now subsist ye high Schools and Doctors all you that have sitten in Christ's Sear that you have so contended about Christ's Cup about his Honour Glory Doctrine in your Pride and have irritated or stirred up and constrained the Princes of your Countreys who are the Ordinance of God to Wars and Blood-shed for your Words sake which you your selves have forged 80. Where is now Christs Spirit in the Love which saith Love one another thereby men shall know that you are my Disciples where is now your Love see your Bloody provocations wherewith you have involved them in War and led the World astray from Love and Condescention 81. You have made Rents and Divisions so that Kings have divided and been at Enmity for your Pride sake in that you have drawn Christ's Word about by the Hair and not considered whether you have Christ's Spirit and Will or no there you above all others shall give a severe account for you have known the Lord's Will and have not done it you have run and intruded your selves into Christ's Office only for Gain Favour and Honour sake you have not regarded God's Spirit therefore the Spirit calleth you Babel a Confusion of all that live 82. You have set the whole World at Odds you should teach them Love and you have taught them strife and Contention so that one Brother hateth and persecuteth the other for your contrivance sake how is the Name of Christ despised for your Contentions sake whither will you go and where will you abide when the whole World shall Cry Wo wo on you 83. Here the Angels will be the Dividers these will seperate them into two Heads and set the Honest and Godly at the right and the evil and wicked at the Left viz. at the Anger-Eye For the right is here called the Lights Principle and the Left the fires Principle 84. And there will the Judgment be set all the Great Shepherds which God hath sent for Lights into the World who have reproved and taught viz. the Patriarchs concerning the Promise of Christ together with the Prophets and Apostles at the right hand of the Judgement and Moses and all teachers of the Law at the left hand of the Judgement 85. For Moses and Elias have the Fire-Sword together with all highly worthy Teachers of the Law and require God's Justice and Righteousnesse and those at the Right God's Mercy 86. And in this hour is the Last Day of the Judgement when the Judge will say Come ye Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Beginning for I have been hungry thirsty naked sick and in Misery and you have served or Ministred unto me 87. And to the wicked Crew Away ye Cursed I know you not into the Eternal Fire For I have been hungry thirsty sick naked and in Prison and ye have not served or Ministred unto me 88. And then they will excuse themselves as to the Judges Person Lord we have not known thee and he will say what you have not done to my Children in Misery you have not dono unto me 89. And here will the Spirit of God first move himself to Justice in all the Three Principles and awaken the Center of Nature that it may burn in the Anger-Fire for All will stand in the Fire both Heaven Earth and the Firmament 90. And the Turba will swallow up the Earthly World into the Fire and set it in that condition again as it was before the Creation onely the Wonders remain standing in both Principles the Third passeth away all to the Wonders which will be set in the Beginning again 91. And there will the Earthly Life with the Earthly Body fall away and the fire will consume them 92. And in the Righteous will the Glorious bright Paradisical Body passe through the Fire with its Wonders or Works which will follow after it and that which is false or wicked will remain in the Fire 93. And they will be snatched through the Fire in the twinckling of an Eye although the Fire will not take hold of them as little as the Fire can detain the Light or the Wind so little also can it hold the Light of the Holy Men or Saints for they can dwell in the Fire without feeling any pain 94. And then instantly with the kindling of the Fire is God's Majesty prepared and the Paradisical Life into which they go as Children and live Eternally with their Father in one Love in a simple Loving Childs Life and there is a Communion of Saints or Holy Ones 95. No Dayes and Nights for the Sun passeth away and the Stars pass away and their Wonders only stand in the great Magia to the Honour and Glory of God thus they will sever themselves 96. The wicked must also go into the Fire and their Earthly Life also fall away and in their Spirit will be seen their Vizard-Image according to all manner of Abominable Beasts like the Devils 97. For they dwell in one and the same Principle and Luoifer is their Great-Prince whom they have here served and ministred unto and it was so that they did hang to their flattering Hypocrites
Nature for the Divine Mystery of the Trinity standeth above and the Mystery of Nature beneath each Circle signifieth one Person of the Deity in the first Mystery Of the O. Numb 4. and of Principle and of Fire Numb 7. 175. The O with Number 4. signifieth the Ground of the Mystery viz. the Geniture or Birth of the Heart or Word of God which the first will viz. the A in the Looking-Glass of Wisdom compriseth and holdeth it in self as a Ground of its substance For the O signifieth also the Eye of the Looking-Glass of Wisdom for in the Wisdom is the Eternal Word comprised which manifests or revealeth it self through the Principle of the Fire in the Light World Go from the O about that Circle and so thou findest beneath Principle and Fire Number 7. Of V Numb 5. and of Substance Numb 8. 176. The V with Number 5. signifieth the Spirit of the Mystery without or besides Nature viz. the first eternal profound groundless or unsearchable Will-Spirit which originateth out of the Will and in the Power or Vertue of the Word in the Great Mystery and goeth forth out of the Will and Word and its Exit maketh Substance viz. Wonders of the Power Colours and Vertue whereas yet in the Mystery of the Profundity Groundlesness or Unsearchableness without or besides Nature no colours are apprehended for they lye all in ONE and it is the twinckling of a great Wonder and that is called a Substance of the Wonder Go about from V on that Circle and thou findest beneath at Number 8 Substance signifying that all Substance is beneath the Spirit of the Number Three or Trinity and that men must alwayes distinguish Substance from the Deity 177. For in Substance originateth Nature with its seven Forms for the Number Three is only a Spirit in Substance and yet there is also no Substance without the Number Three for the Desire of the Number Three is the Eternal Magia and maketh Substance it bringeth into a ground according to the Model which the Spirit openeth in the wisdom out of her is the Creation proceeded according to the Model of the virgin-like Wisdom Further Information Concerning the First Principle and the Mystery of the Beginning in the Creation and of the Dark World how the Angle or Point of the Cross with Number 9. at the left with its upper and neather Space is understood Of FATHER Number 9. 178. Number 9. there standeth before the Angle or Point of the Cross FATHER and before that the Abysse signifying the Mystery of the Father without or besides Nature for with the Angle of the Cross Nature beginneth The first and Greatest Mystery is the Abysse where the Nothing introduceth it self into a will which is called FATHER or the Original to somewhat Out of the Mystery of the Father is the Creation through Nature originated A Man is here to understand the Eternal Nature with its Seven Forms with or by this Mystery Soul Numb 10. 179. At the Angle or Point of the line standeth Soul Number 10. signifying the Original of the Eternal Spirits viz. Angels Souls of Men the Angle or Point signifieth the Center in Nature where the Threefold Spirit revealeth or manifests it self with or by Nature signifying the Magick Fire in the Fathers Property out of which the Angels have their Original as also the Souls of Men. 180. A man should here understand the Ground and Original of an Eternal Spirit for nothing is Eternal unless it hath its orsginal out of the Eternal Magick Fire This Original is not understood to be the true or right Spirit but to be the Center viz the Cause of the Spirit Souls Will Numb 11. 181. Every true or right Spirit is understood with the understanding in the Light of Life for in the Fire there can be no right or true understanding but in the desire of the Light Therefore must the fiery Will turn it self to the Heart of God viz. to the Power or Vertue of the Light and understanding as here is to be seen where upon the line of the Cross standeth the Souls Will marked with Number 11 and there it receiveth Power and Vertue from the Heart of God and is generated or born an Understanding Spirit Will Numb 12. and Soul N umb 13. 182. For it receiveth the Power or Vertue of the Light in the Meekness and Humility and goeth with its Will-Spirit viz. with the noble or pretious Image Similitude of God through the Power or Vertue of the Heart into the second Princiciple viz. into the Light World as here at the right beyond the Heart in the other or second Circle is to be seen where standeth Will Number 12. and then Soul Number 13. signifying how the Soul out of the fires source or quality out of the Fathers Property entereth into the Sons Power or Vertue and Property and dwelleth in the Divine Power or Vertue in the Light-world HOLY SPIRIT Numb 14. 183. Without or beyond the Angle or Point of the Cross standeth HOLY SPIRIT Number 14. signifying the holy Spirit which from Eternity originateth in the Will of the Father at the left at the Angle or Point Number 9. and bringeth it self through Nature through the Heart and Divine Power or Vertue at the right without or beyond Nature also through the Angels or Souls-Spirits Power or Vertue forth and dwelleth in the Liberty in the Glance of the Power or Vertue and Majesty and is in Nature yet of Nature unapprehended but only in the Divine Power or Vertues Property Image Numb 15. 184. Beyond the word HOLY SPIRIT Number 15. standeth Image also without or beyond Nature signifying that the noble or pretious Image sprouteth forth out of the Souls Fire as a Blossome or Flower out of the Earth and hath no feeling or sense of the Pain of the fiery Property for the Fire standeth in it as it were swalowed up and yet it is there but in another source or fountain quality viz. a desire of Love a light-flaming Fire in Divine Property Abysse Numb 16. 185. Beyond Image standeth Abysse Number 16. signifying that the right true Image standeth in the Abysse without or beyond all source or pain and dwelleth in Nothing but only in it self with or through it GOD. Therefore there is Nothing that can find touch or break it but only the Divine Power or Vertue for it standeth not in Nature although indeed with the Root it proceedeth from Nature and yet it is another thing as an Apple is another thing than the Tree though it stand upon the Tree and receive power and vertue from the Tree and yet the Sun giveth it also power and vertue So also the Divine Sun viz. the Majesty giveth the Image power and vertue Of the Word Omnipotence Numb 17. and Wrath Numb 18. 186. Further at the left standeth Number 17. Omnipotence and it standeth also without or beyond the Circle signifying the Fathers
that is done in the twinckling of an eye 281. For the Water in the Deep originateth from the Fire yet not from the fierce Wrath but from the Light for the Light goeth forth from the Fire and hath its own seeking or longing it seeketh to it self a Looking-Glass that it may behold it self and have it for a habitation and draweth it in the Desiring into it self and dwelleth therein and that which is drawn in is Water which apprehendeth the Light else the Deep of the World would not apprehend the Light if the Light did not dwell in the Water the Water is the fulfilling or satiating of the Light in its desiring 282. And the Water seeketh again a Looking-Glass and willeth to have a habitation which is Flesh as ye see that the Water receiveth the glimps or shadow of all Substances or Things in their Body so that the Body it self is represented in the Water which is because the seeking of the Fire hath taken hold of it 283. Further herein is seen the End of Nature for the Eye findeth its Life in the Water and thus it goeth back into the seventh Form and seeketh its Body in the Water and there is further no desire more in the outward this Body desireth no other Body more in the outward but it looketh back after its mother of which ye have a right and true Example in a Looking Glass which is Fire and Water and that receiveth the Image very clearly 184. And thus ye see that the End goeth back again and seeketh the Beginning and nothing further in the outward for this World is at the limit and is included in a Time and runneth on to the Limit and then the End findeth the Beginning and this World standeth as a Model or as a Looking-Glass in the Beginning Let this serve you to the finding of the Mystery and remit your self rightly into the Beginning that ye may be apprehended or known to be a wonder in God's Love 285. And thus ye are to know that the the second Form of the Water consisteth in the Spirit it is its Fathers Looking-Glass its Makers which dwelleth in the Spirit and is found only by its Maker it self findeth not it self for so long as a thing goeth forward externally there is no finding in the Inward internally only the Spirit which dwelleth in the Inward findeth it self in the Outward 286. But the outward Life findeth not the inward unless it have the inward Spirit then is the finding and it is done according to the inward Spirit and then the outward Life speaketh of the inward and yet knoweth it not only the inward Spirit filleth the outward so that the outward is a Mouth and the inward hath and produceth the Word so that the inward Kingdom standeth manifest in the outward in the sound and that now is a wonder 287. The inward is a Prophet and the outward apprehendeth it not but if it do come to apprehend it then it hath God's Substantiality in it viz. God's Flesh Christ 's Flesh the Virgins Flesh and yet the Prophet standeth or consisteth in the Spirit but that Flesh conceiveth its Power or Vertue and assureth the outward Man that he doth even that which his Maker willeth as indeed this Pen is in such a condition and no otherwise 288. Thus we apprehend the ground of this World that it is a Figure of the inward according to both Mothers that is according to both Fires viz. according to the Fire of fierce Wrath and according to the Fire of the Light as the Model viz. the Looking-glass of the Light of Eternity is the Sun and the Looking-Glass of the fierce Wrath is the outward Fire and the Substantiality of both is the Water and the Earth the Earth is the fierce Wraths Substantiality the Water the Lights the Air the Eternal Spirits which is called God the holy Spirit 289. Yet ye are to know that this World is not the Substance of the Eternity but a Figure a Looking-Glass therefore it is called a Principle of or by it self because it hath a peculiar Life of its own and yet standeth in the Magick Seeking of the inward 290 The Word Fiat is the Master of the outward for it holdeth the outward in its conceived or framed Looking-Glass it is not the Looking-Glass it self but a Similitude in which its Spirit discovereth it self in deeds of Wonder to behold the Wonders of Both Fires viz. of the Wrath and of the Love and thus continually bringeth the Substance of all Substances into the Beginning And therefore is this World turning as a Wheel or Orb for the End seeketh continually the Beginning and when it findeth the Wonders then the End giveth the Wonders to the Beginning and that is the Cause of the Creation of this World 291. The Life of all and every Creature is a Wonder before the Beginning for the Abyss knew nothing of it and the beginning of the Eye findeth it all and setteth or placeth the Model in it self so that it hath an Eternal Number and recreateth it self in the Number of the Wonders The Eighth Form of Fire 292. Seeing thus there is ONE Substance in TWO Forms one that taketh on an unsearchable Beginning in it self and holdeth it Eternally and another that is the Eternal Model which compriseth and with its Body is included in a limit therefore we are to consider of the Turba which breaketh the included comprised Life again and setteth the Model of the comprised Wonders in the Beginning and presenteth such things to the Beginning as were not from Eternity but came to be in the comprised Time 293. Beloved Friend to you and such as you are who seek the Beginning is this thing shewn for your Mind is our Mystery seek it in U S not in ME I the outward Man have it not but the Inward in the Virgin in which God dwelleth THAT hath it and that calleth it self twofold 294. My outward Man is not worthy of the Mystery but God hath so ordained it that he might manifest or reveal it to you by means that you might know him by Means and not say it is from my own wit and understanding 295. And seeing you are a learned Person you should know that God loveth also the silly and despised of this World if he seek God as indeed I have done and that the right and true finding or invention sticketh not in Art but in Gods Spirit and Will 296. For this hand is simple and accompted foolish in the esteem of the World as you know and yet there lyeth such a hidden secret or Arcanum therein as is unsearchable to Reason 297. Therefore have a care pour Oyl into the Wounds that desire or require healing and consider well what Christ saith How hard it is for a man to enter into the Kingdom of God who is captivated with cares of the Belly in Might or Potency and Honour 298. You will not find
and Terrour ceaseth on them they had rather let that thought alone and recreate themselves with high-mindedness 11. And that is also a Wonder and the Greatest Wonder of all how out of an Angel such a furious Devil is come to be 12. Thus is the Might and Power of the Anger in God become manifested for God hath manifested himself according to both Eyes viz both in Love and Anger and Man standeth free he may go into which of them he will God casteth none into Anger the Soul casteth it self thereinto 13. But know this that the Anger hath set its Jaws wide open and draweth mightily and would devour all for it is the Covetousness and Pride above humility 14. And so the Love and Humility have also set open their Jaws and draw with all their Power and Vertue and would draw all into Love into Heaven 15. Now into which soever the Soul departeth there it is and in that it groweth be it either in Love or Anger in that Tree it standeth and from thence is no deliverance in Eternity here in this Life the Soul is and standeth in the Angle in the Ballance or even weight and can if it have been Evil become regenerate in the Love But when the Angle or Ballance breaketh then it is past recovery it is afterwards in its own Countrey in its own Principle 16. Now who shall break or destroy that which is Eternal where no breaker or destroyer can be found for it is its own Maker or Framer whence will another Turba come when a thing is in the Eternity where there is no limit more 17. And that yet you may see that God willeth not the Evil he causeth his Will to be made known He sendeth you Prophets and Teachers and giveth them his Spirit that they may warn you now if you will not Convert then you let the Anger withhold you which is also your Wages your Kingdom 18. It is grievous to you that you should be snatched from your own will from your Pleasure and Voluptuousness your Pride your sumptuous delicate Life go to so will the Hellish Dregs hereafter relish pleasingly also 19. We teach you the Cross and the Devil teacheth you pleasure now you may lay hold of which you will and that you will have whether it be Love or Anger 20. We labor for you and you despise us what should we do more for you are we not your very slave If you will not convert away and take that which is yours with you and we will take that which is ours and so we are Eternally parted 21. We will still work in our Day-Labour and do what we are Commanded to do in the Harvest we shall come one before another and there you will know us and do that to your selves which you had done unto us here this we should not hide from you but speak what we see The Four and Twentieth Question Whether Mens Wishes profit them any thing or sensibly come where they are or not 1. MY beloved Friend look upon the Rich Man and Poor Lazarus and so you shall find that there is a Great Cliff or Gulf between them and us so that those that would with their Prayers and Will go to them cannot neither can they come to Us there is a Principle between us 2. The Prayers and Wishes of the Righteous penetrate into Heaven and not into Hell also the Scripture saith Out of Hell there is not Redemption they lie in Hell as Dead Bones they Cry and none heareth them No Prayer availeth them at all 3. And though many Pray for the Damned Souls yet their Prayer continueth in their own Principle and goeth into Heaven not into Hell out of Hell there is no Recalling saith the Scripture 4. Ye know what Christ said to his seventy Disciples When ye enter into a House Salute that House if the Child of Peace be in it then will your Wish and Salutation rest upon him if not then your Wish returneth to you again so it is also there 5. No good Wish goeth into Hell but it is thus if the Wicked leave much falshood wickedness and deceit behind him so that Hell Torment is wished to him in the Grave that goeth to the wicked Soul that is the Wish that cometh where they are that they must swallow up into themselves from their here-made acted or committed Abominations that is their food which the Living send after them 6. But yet very wrongfully and it doth not belong to God's Children to do so for they sow thereby into Hell into God's Anger they should have a care that they do not reap the same in the Harvest which they have sown assuredly if Repentance and Conversion be not exercised it will be no otherwise 7. Further we offer you this according to our apprehension in the Spirit not according to the outward Man in Conceit and Opinion but according to our Gift that it is with the Soul which thus hangeth by a Threed and yet at the last in the End entereth into sorrow and so layeth hold on the Kingdom of Heaven by a Threed where Doubting and Believing is mixt it is with such a Soul in this manner that a Hearty Prayer and Wish cometh to them which with total Earnestness presseth to the poor captive Soul into its source quality or pain 8. For that Soul is not in Hell also not in Heaven but in the Gate in the Midst in the source or quality of the Principle where Fire and Light part and is detained by its Turba which continually seeketh the Fire and then that comprehended little Twig or Branch viz. the weak Faith sinketh down in it self and presseth after God's Mercifulness and giveth it self patiently into the Death of the sinking down out of the Anguish and that sinketh down out of the source quality or pain into the Meekness of Heaven 9. And though many a Soul be deteined a competent time yet can the Anger not devour that little Faith but must at last let it go 10. But what that is I leave to them to try who wilfully and obstinately persevere or continue in sin till their End and will then first be Blessed then the Priest must make him Blessed he should consider it 11. But this we say that a Mans Hearty fiery or Zealous Prayer cometh to them for a Faithful Earnest Prayer hath Might and Power to break open the Gates of the Deep it breaketh open a whole Principle and seeketh or searcheth and if there be any thing therein that its Will or Mind is capable of then it taketh hold of that viz. the Poor Soul in its sin source quality or pain layeth hold on its loving Brothers divine Earnest Will so that it becometh strengthened and can sink down out of the Anguish in his Brothers Spirit and Will through Death and attain God's Kingdom 12. But into its Glorification he cannot help it for that shineth out of the
the Fire-source or quality viz. Red and therein the power and vertue viz. Sulphur and the other as a Thin Meekness and yet Substantiality viz. Water which the desirous Tincture draweth and turneth into one in a thing so that it becometh Blood 11. Now in the Blood is the Original of the Fire viz. the Warmth that is a Tincture a Life and in the power and vertue of the Tincture goeth forth out of the Thin Water of Life the power and vertue out of the power and vertue and the vertue and power receiveth that going forth or exit continually again and that going forth is free from the Fire and also from the power and vertue for it is going forth and yet is generated out of the Power and Vertue 12. And this is now the right and true Spirit that becometh generated out of the Soul wherein the Image of God with the Divine Virgin of the Wisdom of God standeth for in the Spirit lyeth all Wit or Ingenuity Wisdom and Understanding it hath the THOUGHTS and the Noble or Precious Life which uniteth it self with God and is so subtile that this Spirit CAN and may enter into God 13. And then if this Spirit do give it self up into God and casteth away its Souls Fire-pomp and Wit then it attaineth God's Image and God's Body for it goeth with the Will into God and dwelleth with Power and Authority in God Thus it hath God's Substance on it or in it and is without this World in the Life of God 14. But being this Spirit out of the Center of Nature first originateth out of the Fire-Life though it is not the Fire-Life but its Spirit and the Fire-Life with the Original in the Abysse standeth in the quality or source of the Anger of God therefore hath Christ not Commended this his Spirit to the Fiery-Life but to his Father into his Hands 15. His Hands are the Love Desiring wherewith he reacheth after our Spirit when we enter into him and Commit or Commend our selves to him 16. For now when his Body was to die on the Cross and his Soul was to go through Hell God's Anger then the Devil waited and thought we will surely keep him well enough in our Turba in the Fire therefore CHRIST Commended his Spirit into God 's Love 17. And thus came now the Soul of Christ with the Spirit into God's Hands comprised in the Anger-Fire in Death there Death would have held him but it was broken and made a scorn of 18. For it slew the outward Man viz. the outward Life and took it away and thought now must the Soul needs stay in the Turba but there was a stronger in the Soul viz. God's Word that took Death Captive and destroyed the Anger and quenched the fierce Wrath with the Love in the Spirit of Christ 19. That was a Poyson to Hell that the Love of God came into it and slew it in the Soul and was to Death a Pestilence and a Dying a Breaking and destroying it must now suffer that an Eternal Life grow up in it 20. Thus the Spirit of Christ took the Devil Captive and brought him out of this Souls-Fire forth into the Darkness and thrust him into Darkness out from the Souls Fire out from Gods Fire into the fierce wrathful harsh austereness and bitterness in the Cold there he may heat himself lest he freeze for Cold. 21. Consider the first four Forms of Nature and then you may be informed what the Devils dwelling house is For before Christ he held the Soul Captive in the Turba with the Fire and though clearly he doth not hold the Souls Spirit yet he had the root in the Turba but there the forbearance was commanded him and he was thrust out and brought into the Darkness and his Malice and Wickedness was thus destroyed by Christs going into Hell and Christ became his Judge 22. Thus ye have in brief described what Christs and our Spirit is viz. not the outward Life but the Spirit of the Soul not the Soul it self but its Lifes-Spirit 23. As there is in God the Holy Number Three a Distinction of Three Persons in One Substance and yet but ONE God where the Sonne hath the Spirit viz. the Life proceeding out of his Heart and Mouth and the Heart is the Flame of Love and the Father the Source or Quality of Anger and is meekned and allayed by his Son in the Love so that ALL in God is ONE Will and Substance or Deed. 24. So it is also in Man and no otherwise in one Syllable whatsoever God in Christ is that are we also in Christ in God his true Children and therefore should we also commend our Spirits into his hands and so we may also enter through Death into Life with Christ in God 25. Be not led astray and deluded by the facetious pleasant specious shews as Men hither to have been in Babel where they have conceited this and that concerning the Soul and its Spirit one thus another otherwise there is no Ground but Conceits and Opinions 26. The Understanding is generated in God not in the Schools or Universities from Art though we despise not Art for if it be generated in God it is a TEN-fold Mystery for it attaineth alwayes the Tenth Number in Wit or Understanding more then the Layick for it can of many Numbers make One 27. But it standeth not in own self ability No the Entrance upon the Cross must be in One as well as in the Other be he Doctor or Layick in God's Mysteries there are none Doctors but only Scholars yet a Learned Scholar can go far 28. Had this Hand the High Art and also this High Gift you should well see it but God would have it as it is it pleaseth him well that he might turn the Wisdom of this World into Foolishness and he giveth his power to the weak that every Life may bow before him and acknowledge him that He is Lord and doth whatsoever he will The Eight and Thirtieth Question Of those things which are to be done at the End of the World 1. MY Beloved Friend here we ought not to answer your Question also it standeth not in our Ability neither ought any to Ask for it is the secret Counsel of God and none should Esteem himself as God and know ALL before hand 2. Our knowledge standeth in God's Spirit and Will when that moveth then go you on in the Heavenly Magia and pass into the Wonders of the Earthly Now is the Prophet Born for he standeth upon the Crown and speaketh Magically concerning the Beginning of the Wonders and of its Turba and how it shall come to an End and break again and come into the First 3. For all Prophets speak out of the Turba they declare what is false or wicked and shew that which is better which goeth in God's Will 4. Therefore do not burthen us with this Question for we should be captivated by the Turba