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A49865	The Enochian walks with God found out by a spiritual-traveller, whose face towards Mount-Sion above was set ... : with an experimental account of what was known, seen, and met withal there, as to an essay to a further revelation of an immense and infinite latitude of God's love ... / written by Jane Lead, in this year 1694.	Lead, Jane, 1623-1704.; Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812.	1694 (1694)	Wing L783; ESTC R41367	40,105	47

that makes the Soul fly so High that nothing of the crawling Earth worms can reach to molest or hurt it The sixth Divine Power that attends the Traveller is the Live-Coal of Flaming-Love that so vehemently Longeth to arrive to the visional Fruition of GOD and CHRIST with all the glorified Train of Blessed and Perfect Spirits This Love-Gale is so Mighty strong that it makes the Soul pull up and run swiftly in this Race Seventhly That which doth most compleat this Holy Guard is Impregnable Strength and Power for if GOD did not take care to Fortify the travelling Soul with His own Invincible strength there were no possibility to reach this Mark of the New-Jerusalem-State but Christ the Lord takes good care and will not omit to provide Munition-strength for accomplishing this Heavenly Journey for Christ the Lord longeth more to see the Soul-traveller safely landed in his own Bosom of Love than the Souls desire is to appear before him So by this mutual Love-Agreement the Everlasting Knot of Marriage-Union will be tyed when there once it is arrived Now then by this time you see what the Company is that will support the Soul in its Travels but the Chief of all is Christ in Spirit that walks in This Holy qualified Soul as in the midst of the Seven Golden Candlesticks The second Proposition is what Stages or Rests that may be allowed the weary Traveller to take up in a while which are Three This second Days Journey is more easy and refreshing the Walks gives a sweet Smell from the Evangelical Promises giving assurance by the Atoning Blood of the Covenant that all Guilt of Sin is obliterated whereby the Soul is Incouraged and Comforted But from this it passeth on to a Second Rest which is the Record and Seal of the Spirit That which was now from the General Promises Literal is not to be staid in Christ in Flesh withdraws and will be known no more in That Figure but in the All-filling Power and Presence of Spirit whereby the Soul shall know him in Her-self So He does then become Salvation to the purpose No outward Application of Christ is of That Availance as a Christ within who pours in His Saving-Name as Oyntment which performs the Cure of the lapsed State of the Soul because an inward Disease must have an Intrinsical Medicine that may penetrate through the Inward Parts that all may be made whole This is the intended Redemption by Christ and nothing less will set the Soul to Rights again so as to give it Boldness to come to appear before That great Assembly of Perfect-Spirits Mount Sions-Kingdom Now we proceed to the third Rest which is yet more pleasant because it is Paradisical As the Travellor passeth through this Country there are various delightful Entertainments Ministring Angels and Spirits that in This Divine Principle do meet the Soul There also are the Sharon's Walks adorned with the Spicy-Beds that gives forth their Ravishing Odours This sometimes opens in the Soul with Sweet-Tastes and Refreshing Draughts for the Godhead Diffuseth it self through All of That Climate so as many Spirits are made vigorous and Joyful knowing nothing but an All-filling Sweetness all calm and still in the mind free from the terrifying Cares and Combustions of this World though in it yet forgotten by it at least during the time it is round beset with this Light and Heavenly Paradise so that the Soul is afraid to be disturbed as to the lower Descent into mortal things again Now we come to the third particular which is the last remove that bringeth up to That Mount-Sion which is mentioned in the Hebrews Thus the unwearied Soul goeth on from strength to strength and is now come to the Fourth particular That is to the Arrival to appear before GOD in Sion This is a High and Glorious Arrival This is a Rest never to be disrested of Now open do the everlasting Gates to receive the faithful Traveller that hath held out its Probation-State It further remains to give you an account as the fifth particular of the Traveller's welcome up There The first Appearance are the Angelical Order that stands before the Throne who commanded are to Usher in the Arrived bringing forth the Royal Robe which is all Pure and Light without spot of the Fallen-Night which giveth the Soul an Holy Boldness to appear in That New World or Principal of Light as becomes all manifest So as Christ the Kingly Priest doth to the Soul Appear and as a Bridegroom Greets it with such a kind of Love-Gratulations as followeth My Bride and Spouse I joy to see thy Soul in my Righteousness and that thou hast past through a dangerous Evil Tempting World and hast escaped with That tender Life of Mine in Thee by which thou art come up a Conquerour here and now behold and view the Glo●y of my Kingdom which the Father hath placed me in and over all Principalities Powers and Dominions both in the Heights above and in the Earth below so as I can give to whom I will to Possess with me Ioy for Ioy and Glory for Glory with me as I have received of my Father so freely I give to thee and as many as from an evil World shall break and get away and in a Pure Naked-Spirit in Loves flame Thus ascend Ask now Oh Spouse of Mine what it is that I should further for the do I give Thee Liberty to ask most free for thou hast found favour both with the Father and me Whereupon the arrived Traveller-worships and Bows before the Throne of GOD and the Lamb and in great Humility doth make this Reply saying in the Language of the Spirit Oh my Lord I am come up to this degree but sensible I am it is all of Benignant-Grace and Love from my GOD and Father and thy Spirit O Lord Christ that my Conduct and Guardian-strength hath been in This my Journey One great proof I have had of a mighty Strong Guard with continual supply from Thy Fountain-Heart or else I had fainted and failed by the way The consideration of it takes such deep Impression upon me that I am at a loss and know not wherewith to pay my Debt-Offering of Thanksgiving unto thee my God and King only accept of what I have which is beyond all Sounds of words that are too finite to express praises for such Boundless Goodness which my Spirit hath tasted so largely Hence it is now that I do study to offer That unto Thee which hath been refined and purified by the Spirit of Love-burning given from Thee unto me This then which is of Thine Own receive for I joy to pass it all away as my true Thanksgiving-Offering unto Thee No part shall I keep back from Thee had I ten thousand Immaculate Lives to give up to Thee all would be too little to run their strength of Love into Thee who hath wrought out so great a Redemption for me And now my Lord seeing I am thus

Celestial Globe of Eternity while its outward body remains in time This is known to some For as there was an outward personal going up to the visible Jerusalem to eat the Feast of the Passover which was a Type of That great Day of the Feast which is now kept the in New-Jerusalem above where the Lord Christ in his Spiritual Humanity doth appear keeping up the solemnity of That Spiritual Feast with the body of his Saints There and sometimes doth admit of pure Spirits that yet in the body of visible Flesh are to come up for to view the stately Order and Government of That Feast and to taste thereof This is the true eating of the Supper of the Lamb and drinking the Royal Wine of the New-Testament with Christ in his Kingdom which puts an end to all Symbolical Ceremonies Blessing Joy and Glory we may pronounce to all which Called and Invited to come up to feed upon This Pascal Lamb. They will never care nor desire to go out here to take up in lower Administrations for This is the Sum and Substance of all to feed upon the Quintessential Body and pure Blood of the Grape that as often as it presseth it self out it filleth again for a continual emptying forth so that none that is come up here may Thirst any more This is the True Feast of Tabernacles which I have here described to you for no one can go up here without putting on their Tabernacle-Body which is the flaming Heart of the Holy-Ghost But now methinks I hear some say at the Reading of This Oh! You have mentioned a high and lofty State which is as a new thing that hath not been declared as that in this present Life there should be found any to ascend to the New-Jerusalem to feast and worship GOD There This you will say belongs to the Enochian Life but That Age of the World is not yet come so as to know a Translated State We grant it that it is not common only peculiar to some that in Enoch's Spirit are raised to walk with GOD and so are taken up in the Spirit wholly But we may hope This day of the Spirit is coming on whereby it shall be known more universally in the which Angelical Spirits shall ascend and That Divine Princicple shall open that now hath been so long shut up Then you will know a New-state of Living that you never knew before for it will turn the Love of all mortal Things out of the Hearts-door This will in very deed be known Seeing we have thus far proceeded in opening This Divine Mystery we shall not stop here but go on to reveal and communicate to such as desire to be Fellow-Travellers with me to This Holy City the New-Jerusalem the Track having been shewed unto me not by Vision only as in past times In my printed Book of Divine Revelation There you may see what I had by way of Vision Printed in 1683 but now the Spirit hath moved it self in another degree to bring forth Vision into an Essential Fruition which ratifieth That Scripture Psal. 84. Verse 7 They shall go from strength to strength each one appearing before GOD in Sion Now This I find is to be taken in a two-fold Sense as to That part which is to appear before GOD in Sion The first is while yet in the body of Corporiety The second is when stept out of it so as no more to return again to it Now hence I yet not I but the Spirit of my JESUS shall lead you on to the first part knowing well the way and have taken the measures thereof by the Measuring-Line in the Hand of an Angel unaccountable to any but the Travellers thereto Some heads and propositions I shall lay down in order hereunto that our Fellow-Travellers may not fail to find sure footing The First is what Preparation or Qualification will be requisite for such intended Travellers Secondly What kind or manner of way Thirdly The several Stages or Rests by the way Fourthly Their arrival to This City of GOD. And Fifthly The Welcome and Entertainment the Travellers meets with There from all the Great Assembly of Mount Sion the Court of GOD. First then it is to be considered what this Traveller must be Not a Gross tangible Body but a Spirit that must thus take up Enoch's Walks separated and translated from a Terrestial Life to a Celestial This is our Spiritual-traveller's first alteration an Earthly Creature turn'd into a Spiritual And now we come to enter upon the way which looketh at first onset as the Valley of Baca that openeth the Floodgate of Teers and being now so environed with the Light of the Spirit that hath discovered to it an inward and outward Deformity degraded of its Angelical Image by the root of Sin in nature springing so that this Mourning and Sorrow not to be repented of And while in this first beginning-way the Soul will have many Enemies to encounter withal and Temptations from within and without and the more assaults will come because it is to rend away and leave the Walks of This Evil World and to betake it self to This New and Living-way But let not our fellow travellers be discouraged but guird up and go forward this days Journey will have its end though it may go heavily on this first day the second will be more lightsome and refreshing if it do but hold out this Probation and wrestle it out as Iacob did Then the Angels of GOD will meet the weary Traveller and accompany it throughout its way There are seven Angels or they may be called seven Spirits that are appointed to be the Guard of the travelling Soul whilst in this dangerous way I shall name them as I my self have found them a Fortitude of Strength in all my Journey on to this very Day So it may be to the Undertakers that will precisely keep to this Perfect-way The first of these Seven qualifying Spirits and Powers for a Guard is Holy Passive-Patience This is an absolute necessary Companion in this way No holding out without the Indowment of a Patient Mind that may hold out against all Contradictions and what will make offer to pull down from this High and Heavenly Walk The second is Deep or Meek Humility keeping low and humble for That secures the Traveller For GOD hath great Respect for a Soul that walketh softly and steadily The third Qualification is a Lively Hope which is as an Eye within the Soul carrying a Prospect of the Heavenly Sion That mightily strengthens it and bears it up Fourthly a Super-Celestial Wisdom that directs manages and governs the Soul as to the fittest times and seasons for Journeying on that is when to stop and when to remove on forward as the matter shall require The fifth is the Spirit of Faith This is a most Excellent Companion that carrieth through all Difficulties because it is the Evidence of Objects of things in the Heavens not visibly seen It is Wings

Principalities and Dominions and Powers in his Kingdom and to give a good assurance of being Joint-Heirs with him of the same Glory as you may see Iohn 17 and Rom. 8. all this to confirm what in every succeeding Age may be as a fresh seal'd Evidence given forth by the most Holy Spirit Oh who would not among the Number of these seal'd Ones be Sure it is worth forsaking and denying whatever of this Temporal-state of Life that may obstruct or be any Impediment to put by and hinder its holding correspondency with the Lord and the Citizens of That Heavenly Country The way to hold up these great priviledges you have had by an Experienced Traveller described Now one motive more is This that by puting on This Habit of the Spirit whereby it may be furnished with somewhat of those Antient gifts and Powers which went forth from the Lord Christ and the Apostles in their day which renewed most certainly will be as a fore-runner that the Reign of Christ upon the Earth in his Saints is drawing very near for more mighty and miraculous Power must be given in This Age to go forth as a Preludium The great Day of Christ's Appearance in the World draweth near and for This End such Deep and Inward things are revealed beforehand to make ready an Espoused Bride that may be found all fair and clear without blemish for such a Church Christ must have prepared to Entertain him upon this Earth Of this I have inlarged upon in my other Treatise published Therefore as many as this Day are big with an Expectation of Christ in his Kingdom appearing to all such lovers and waiters for it Let me commend That of the Apostle Paul's Thes. 5. Ver. 23. That you may be found accomplished with all Spiritual Gifts and Vertues and to be found of him blameless Such qualified Souls might hasten his coming for it is not the cry of Loe Here or There He will appear but to Those whom he hath by his Spirit quickned and raised up in his own Inward Spiritual Body to Them he will first appear and so go forth as Lightning every where Many are gazing to see him without but who are they that watcheth in all pureness of Heart and Mind within which will be the ready way to bring him down Who will be in very deed in this last Age the Desire of all Nations Quer. But Here meets me a Query What shall become of the foolish Virgins that are found asleep and of other Ranks and Sorts that are dead and buried in Trepasses and Sins when this last Trumpet shall sound for His Appearance Indeed it will be no desirable Day to such as these are who lived without a God and Christ and are altogether Strangers to This Heavenly Country having loved and embraced this World and made it their God Indeed a present woe is to them while Joy unspeakable to the lifting up of the Head of as many as are redeemed out of the Earth their Blissful Day is come which they have long waited for that do fly as Doves to Christ their Life But somewhat more I have had revealed unto me as to those multitude of Souls that have gone out of this Life in an Evil and Unregenerated State and yet are still going in a desparate Adventure not caring what shall become of That Immortal Spark of their Souls How direful and bewailing will it be that they have Loitered and spent away That in which they might have gained the priviledges and Love Imunities which hath been mentioned here for had they but Improved their own Talent the Increase would have been manifold to present Joy Here and much more when time with them is to be no more Let me tell them their Loss and Suffering is so great and the anguish of their Souls so deep as no Tongue can express it Therefore to the yet Living let the warning Trumpet found both to those that are in part regenerated and to them that have nothing of it begun Oh! are you not to be excluded from God's Face and from out of the Kingly Shepherds Fold thrust out while painfully you will see Them that lived in the same Tempting Region with you hath over come and are as Conquerours set down with Christ the Lord upon his Throne while you are bid to depart in to a Prison-house of utter Darkness Admit there should be a Delivery out Here at the End of all Generations and Ages Yet how numerous years may you abide in These Purging and Trying Furnaces one Day Here while in the Body would have set forward your work more than Years in those Centers where you are to be confined Therefore let This be an acceptable and seasonable Work to all of this Kind and Sort who so careless are of their Soul's Happiness the present and future State of Blessedness Now a word to Those that are in part Illuminated but yet stick in che Birth and cannot get forth the Earthly and Temporal World gives a stop to it that This Pure Life cannot rise to its Perfection The Question is How will it go with them that gets no further but dies thus short as Milions of Souls do daily out of this World depart without having put Christ on for their Cloathing without which there is no coming to be Expresly with Him in the Three Heavens An Answer to a Pertinent Question IN Answer to This Question Be it Known there are provided several-Mansions and Regions by the wise foreseeing Gracious God that knew how it would be as to This matter with the greater Number of His own Created Beings tho' he had proclaimed a Love-Redemption to All by Christ manifested in Flesh to destroy and purge Sin out of Flesh which we see is very rarely done in the time of this Life where One reacheth to This Mark a Thousand do miss it Therefore for such as were begotten by the Eternal Word and are going on in all Good willingness in their Spiritual Progress dying short of finishing it They will be allowed to be in a Paradisical Region to Ex●●●ise their Spiritual Faculties for the effecting what they were prevented and hinder'd of Here in This Life and so go on to perfect That State of Perfection that shall make them meet to make the Higher removes to reach to the Mount-Sion-State which is yet more Glorious And tho' This has not been understood or believed yet it is a Truth that I have received from a good Hand therefore I am bold to publish it for all Souls must pass through the Refining and Calcining Regions so prepared for their Purifying and according to the measures and degrees they do attain to Here in this Life Of this Kind the less they will have to do in the Life to come which will be much more Easy Therefore it is much upon me to Excite to a pressing forward that they may so run as to obtain the Resurrection-Mark while in the Body they are because it will turn

which God the Supream Majesty opened to be the Glory of it to which the lower Ranks and Orders of Spirits were sometimes admitted to worship There Thus is this Holy and Heavenly Assembly Imployed and Exercised with all variety of Motion tending to a Divine Adoration to the Rock Eternal which does multiply amongst them most Amazing and renewed Wonders which gives perpetual Matter to renew Love-Admirations So that I was given to understand that in this World was no cessation of Spiritual Vocation for out of God's infinite Depth and Fulness should Matter still renew and also with Power be endowed as fixed in the Humility all skilfully and learnedly to act and do after the manner and way of God their Life Root and Being subjected always to the Laws of of this New VVorld and Kingdom But Liberty is granted to many of this holy order that of the highest Saintship are to communicate to them who are not yet come up to their degree they may help them much in order to the bringing these their Fellow-Members higher up the great Saints will much delight in this Office and Service to their Fellow-Members for their Joy cannot be compleated until all come up unto the Unity of Love in a pure Deifick-Spirit Now to make out this there was shewn to me some chief ones in the Ministry of Love as Enoch and Abraham Iohn the Apostle and Paul with others of their Order that had golden Vials given to them to pour forth for Annointing and Healing and Peter with some of his Rank to unlock Centers and set free those who in those upper Regions wanted to be perfectly set free and in this lower VVorld also Now follows an enquiry whether there may not be a correspondency and intercourse maintained by these Holy and devout Souls who are departed this Body as to any Love or Pleasure in it living yet here such assuredly are very capable to hold and to have a holy League and very near Affinity with the glorified Person of Christ and with the heavenly Frame of Glorified Saints which have put on Bodies of Immortality for the high Illuminated Souls spirited with Christ's Spirit Here but yet abiding in Bodies Corporal they may have liberty of recourse by the Spirit into the divine and light Principle where the antient VVorthies are who would most willingly meet and confer with us about the things pertaining to our Progress to the Kingdom of Christ they are very free to discourse us in what may refer to a perfect Life that so we may be made meet to come up to them in unity of love to God as in Triune-Deity which filleth all There with a full Body of Light But it may be asked how and after what way does Spirits accompany Souls here that are Spiritual Is it by Apparition or com-mingling by Spirit In answer hereunto according to my present measure and experience I find it very rare in this latter Age that they visit Souls by visible Apparition though sometimes they may as Moses and Elias appeared to the Lord Christ since whose Ascention all of this kind is transacted more Invisible and Essential by passing in the way of a Spirit and having and influencing our Souls through which there is a sweet congruity and a reciprocal Love which is also in our Spirits towards them that hereby they often draw up to them our more Superiour Angel to be in Heavenly Places with them being very affable and friendly to shew their Princely Thrones and their delightful solaces and enjoyments they have from the perpetual motion of the Triune-Deity Now as any Soul here below do find Christ their Root of Love in them as their true Original for securing their Love first in the eternal Father and Spirit in Christ the Lord then most easily may we without being guilty of Spiritual Idolatry in this pay a veneration of Love and high respect to these great Potentates that have Power to befriend us upon many Accounts that we may need their assistance For during the time of our Probation in this Life so it is altogether expedient that we get acquaintance with the Servants in this high and Heavenly Court for they may do us many Kindnesses as they are in Offices of great trust from their head Prince and King it is made known to me that holy and good Souls have lost much as to the knowledge of Divine Arts and Holy Skillfulness to do and act forth the wonders of the heavenly Power in manifold VVisdom as Christ Moses and Elias and the Apostles in their day did Now it may be demanded what in Scripture have you to authorize this Assertion or Revelation First we bring you that of the Hebrews We are come to Mount Sion to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just Men made perfect See further hereinto Heb. 12. 21. 22. If there were no more it speaks full enough to the purpose to the confirmation that the Saints here upon Earth are allowed to come up to the Mount Sion perfect Spirits in Heavenly Places and do maintain a holy Conference mutually as there is to be Instanced in the fifth Chapter of the Revelations verse 4. How that the Elders talked with the Apostle Iohn and did show him several things Chap. 7. ver 23 24. And likewise in Daniel where Daniel asked questions and heard one Saint from the Heavens speaking one unto another for resolving of Daniel in his Enquirings so that here is a cloud of Witnesses to back it besides what of this kind is known by some in this present time and Age who do obtain and retain several of these Heavenly Intelligents whereby Knowledge is communicated and the Invisible things and objects there made manifest to such as are in Corporal Figures Now to instance somewhat relating hereunto in the first place we give you to understand whoever they be who would this Priviledge know and come to enjoy with holy Angels or separated Souls they are to be freed and sequestred in Heart and Mind from all mortal Entanglements as if they were divested of a gross Body with its Impediments and so reserving themselves in a most Inward Purity of Heart and Mind without which habit of spirituallity there is no commencing of this acquaintance with either Angels or Patriarchs Prophets or Apostles or any Evangellical Saints since those Ages for they having put on Incorruption and Glory and quite redeem'd out of the Earth they will not touch no more with such as are defiled with corruptible things now such Persons that stand thus pure and clear they may have much Assistauce from these Throne Spirits and Powers in their way and travel to their Heavenly Country for those Angelical Spirits that once liv'd in Flesh do more nearly sympathise with us in all our Infirmities and therefore all feelingly they tenderly consider our tempting-state and give themselves out most readily for our help nay they are Advocates and do remind the Lord Jesus of their Prophesies that