but not matter else that which is drawn in will be darkness to thee 20. Let the Devil behind thee roar before thy left Eye he cannot enter in unless thou lettest thy Eye take in matter 21. Thus wilt thou when thy earthly Body breaketh see all the wonders in the left Eye with the right which thou hast made or acted and found here in this life-time and so when the earthly Body falleth away then is also thy left Eye free from the Nature of the fierce wrath 22. And though it hath Nature for it is Nature it self which awakeneth and retaineth the wonders yet it standeth then with the wonders in the Eternal Liberty being it hath let in nothing of matter therefore it is free 23. And Nature with the Wonders is a fire-sharpness and layeth hold of the Eternal Liberty and so maketh Majesty in the Liberty in the Wonders from which the right Eye which accounteth it self here in this life as dead becometh enlightened and rejoyceth it self Eternally with the left Eye in the Majesty of the highly joyous Kingdom and eternally seeth God with BOTH Eyes 24. This is one Gate whosoever rightly in the spirit apprehendeth seeth THIS he seeth ALL whatsoever God IS and CAN do He seeth also therewith or thereby through Heaven Hell and Earth and through the Substance of all Substances and is the whole Scripture of whatsoever hath been written from the beginning of the world but it is a pretious sight the Old Man knoweth it not he seeth it not but the New Man born or generated in God 25. But being we are so hard to be understood by the purblind mind therefore we will render it more simply behold when thou wilt with thy Soul see God's Light and wilt that it be enlightened from God then do it thus 26. Thou art in this World and if thou hast a lawful honest Calling or Employment without falshood or wickedness continue therein work labour trade and manage it as necessity requireth seek Wonders both in the Elements and in the Earth be it in what Art Science or Employment it will it is all God's Work seek in the Earth Silver Gold make artificial works thereof build till plant it is all to God's Deeds of Wonder 27. But listen to this A. B. C. thou should not suffer thy spirit to enter thereinto fil or satiate it self therewith make a Mammon of it and to set thy self therein as in a Darkness else it is but God's Fool therein and the Devils mymmick Ape and setteh its will therein 28. And thy noble Image becometh altered according to thy Imagination in the Spirit according to thy will which is in Covetousness thou losest God's Image for it is Magical it is as subtile as a Spirit and much subtiler yea much subtiler and thinner than the Soul it self 29. It is as God is who dwelleth in the Eternal Liberty unapprehended by any thing for it is thinner or purer then any thing and so is also thy noble or pretious Image which yet standeth in Heavenly Flesh and Blood and is the Substantiality out of or from God's Body 30. It is Christ's Flesh and Blood and thy Soul dwelleth therein it is the Fire of the Majesty therein 31. And the holy Spirit sitteth in the Heart of the Image and goeth out of the Image forth with Voices Languages Wonders Songs and Sounds Into this Image thou bringest thy Wonders if thou art true and faithful and do it thus 32. Put thy left will into the work which thou dost and consider that thou art God's Servant in the Vineyard of God and labour faithfully and put thy right will into God into that which is Eternal and see that thou be at no time secure or careless but consider that thou art only in thy day labour and shouldst continually listen to have the voice of the Lord calling thee to come home give Reason no place to say this is my Treasure it is mine own I have enough or I will get or gather much that I may come to honour in the World and leave much to my Children 33. Consider that thy Children are God's Children and thou God's Servant that thy work is God's work and that thy Money Goods Labour and Blood standeth in God's hands 34. He may do with them what he will when he calleth thee to go home into thy own Country then he may take thy Labour and give it to another 35. And give thy heart no place to introduce into thee the Will-spirit of High-mindedness into the Image 36. Sink down thy Will-spirit alwayes into Humility before God and so thy Image goeth alwayes in the Humility with thy will into God's Majesty and thy Image becometh continually enlightened with the high-triumphing Light of God 37. O how chearful is the Soul when its Anguish Source or Quality of the Fire tasteth Gods Light how very friendly kind and courteous is it how it boweth it self before God! Thus standeth the Soul and also the Image in the Spirit all three one in another for it is a Substance according to the holy Trinity 38. Thus my beloved Brother we give you in answer to this Question that the Soul can no otherwise be enlightened than thus this is its enlightening It is in this world and also in God it is here in this life a Servant to the Wonders of God those it should open with one eye and bring them with the other into the Beginning before God and put all its substance and doings into God's Will and by no means say of any thing in this world this is mine I am Lord over it for it lyeth if it say so 39. It is all God's it self is Servant and should converse in Love and Humily towards God and its Brother for its Brothers Soul is a Fellow-Member of it self its Brothers Joy in Heaven with God is also ITS Joy his Wonders are ITS Wonders for in Heaven God is all in all He filleth all 40. The holy Spirit is the Life in all there is mere joy no sorrow is there known there all is God's and all belongeth to the Image of God there all is common and universal one rejoyceth at anothers vertue and power charity or glory brightness and beauty there is no grutching or envy all that remaineth in Death and in Hell 41. Therefore ye Elect Children of God Regenerated in Christ take this into consideration go out from Covetousness and own Self-will ye have been a long time lead blindfold in Bable go out from her ye are called with a strong loud voice it will shortly awaken or raise the Dead let it prevail with you that you may attain Eternal Joy in God 42. The Spirit signifieth clearly that whatsoever will not grow forth together with the new Sprout that springeth forth in the Mother shall and must go into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone together with the Dragons Whore in Babel 43. It is a
the Turba and in Eternity reacheth not to God also it knoweth nothing of him but is a Life according to the Essence Property of the Parents 13. Where yet it doth not reach to the kindling or burning for the Soul had not it self acted or committed sin but is a fountain-quality-Spirit without self-desire and wonders like the flame of Brimstone and like an Ignis Fatuus which cannot reach to God but remain so between Heaven and Hell in the Mystery till the Judgment of God which will gather in its harvest and give every thing its right and true place of Repository 14. Though perhaps our learned Masters in this may have another kind of Philosophy but we enquire not after their Art we have eyes they have Arts we speak what we see 15. Thus we give you to understand that no Soul is generated or born into this world without sin how honest vertuous and godly soever the Parents are for it is conceived and bred forth or hatched in earthly Seed and bringeth the Turba of the Body along with it and that hath also surrounded the Soul 16. Therefore in the Old Testament God made a Covenant with the Children in Circumcision and so ordered in the Covenant that they must shed their Blood and drown the Turba of the the Soul therewith 17. And in the New Testament there is the Baptism wherein the holy Spirit with the Water of Life washeth off the Turba of the Souls water that it may come to God and become God's Child 18. But if any will say that every one that hath not baptism as Jews and Turks and other People with whom is not the knowledge thereof who have not the Candlestick among them that they are all rejected of God although they never so vehemently press with their teaching Life and Death into the Love of God that is a phancy and Babel-like spoken without knowledge 19. Blessedness and Salvation lyeth not alone in the outward Word but in the Power and Vertue Who will exclude those that enter into God 20. Is it not Babel who seduceth and confoundeth the whole world so that they have devided People into Opinions and yet in their wills go but one way who is the Cause of this but the Antichrist when he drew the Kingdom of God into his might authority and power and made fictions concerning the Regeneration of which when it comes to be day the very Children will be ashamed of them 21. A Man may say with good ground that Antichrists Doctrine is a fighting with a shadow as in a looking-glass and a falshood and wickedness of the Serpent which continually beguileth Eve 22. Thus it is apprehensible to us that no Soul cometh into this world without Sin every one bringeth the Turba along with it for if it were without Sin then it must dwell in a totally pure body which hath no evil will or inclination at all in which there is no earthly seeking or desire 23. But thus indeed is every body and soul tyed and united together till the Turba findeth the Limit of the Body and then the Turba seeketh the works or actions of the Body as hath been mentioned above The Fifteenth Question How Sin cometh into the Soul being it is God's Work and Creature 1. IT is in such a manner as is above mentioned The Turba together with the earthly seeking came along with it into this world and so the Soul becometh vehemently drawn by two parties first by the Word of the Lord which is passed into the middle which there of Love is become Man or incarnate that draweth the Soul continually into God's Kingdom and setteth the Turba before the eys of the Soul so that the Soul seeth in Nature what is false or wicked and sin and if it suffereth it self to be drawn then it becometh regenerated in the Word so that it is God's Image 2. And secondly the Turba also draweth the Soul mightily with its bands and bringeth the Soul continually back into the earthly seeking or longing especially in youth when the earthly Tree sticketh full of green sprouting driving Essences and Poyson and then the Turba thus flyeth strongly or mightily in so that many a soul in eternity cannot become freed and loosed from it 3. A thing which is from two beginnings which stand in equal ballance or weight doth by putting in more weight on the one part sink down be it either by evil or good 4. Sin maketh not it self but the will maketh it it cometh from the Imagination into the Spirit and then the Spirit goeth into a thing and becometh infected from the thing and so the Turba of that thing cometh into the Spirit and destroyeth first the Image of God 5. And then it goeth further seeketh deeper and so it findeth the Abysse viz. the Soul and seeketh in the Soul and so it findeth the fierce wrathful Fire by which it mixeth it self with the thing introduced into the Spirit and so now sin is totally generated or born and so now all is sin which desireth to bring that which is outward into the Will 6. The will should simply or singly be inclined and exercised in Love Meekness as if it were a nothing or dead it should only desire God's Life that God may work act or create in it and whatsoever it doth besides its will should be inclined or intended so as to do it for God 7. But if it put its will into the Thing or Substance then it bringeth that thing or Substance into the Spirit which possesseth its Heart and so the Turba becometh generated and the Soul captivated with that Thing 8. Thus we give you for an answer that no Soul cometh pure and clean out of the Mothers body or womb be it begotten by holy or unholy Parents 9. For as the Abysse and Anger of God as also the earthly world do all cleave to and depend on God the Father and yet cannot apprehend or touch his Heart and Spirit so it is also with the Child in the Mother Body or Womb. 10. If it be begotten of godly pious Parents then each Principle standeth in its own part by it self when the Turba taketh the earthly Body then the Heaven taketh the Spirit and so the Majesty filleth the Spirit and so the Soul is in God and is free from pain 11. But while the Soul sticketh in the Earthly Life it is not free and it is because the Earthly Spirit continually bringeth its Abominations with its Imagination into it and the Spirit must continually stand in strife against the Earthly Life The Sixteenth Question How the Soul both in the Adamical Body as also in the New-born or Regenerate Body is held or preserved in such union together 1. VVE have mentioned above that there are Three Principles which moreover are all Three in the Soul and stand in one another as one thing and we offer you this that the strife in the Soul beginneth in the Seeds while they yet
to our outward Reason 9. But we will now once more teach another A. B. C. All have not Christ's Flesh on them in this World hidden in the Old Adam indeed of very many scarce one onely the Regenerate who are gone forth from their own Will into Gods Will in whom the Noble and Precious Grain of Mustard Seed is sown there a Tree is sprung up and grown 10. Most Souls go from the Body without Christ's Body but they hang by a Threed and are in their Faith at last entered into the Will which Souls are indeed in the Spirit in the Image but not in the Flesh 11. They wait for the last Judgement Day wherein the Image viz. the Body will go forth out of the Grave out of the first Image for God will awaken or raise it up through Christ's Voice even that Image which Adam had in his Innocency which is sprouted or grown with or by Christ's Blood 12. But the Earthly Body shall not touch it that must also in the Turba come before the Judgement but after the Sentence of the Judgement the Turba swalloweth it up and the wonders only remain standing 13. Understand us aright thus Those Souls which must thus wait for their Bodies at the Last Judgement Day they continue with their Bodies in the still Rest without feeling any pain till the Last Judgement Day but in another Principle 14. They have in the Earth no Darkness also no Majesty but they are in the One onely still-Liberty in Rest without pain without touching of the Body 15. But they see their Wonders yet they perform nothing in them for they wait upon God and are in Humility for they are sunk down through Death and are in another World but there is yet a Cliff or Gulf between them and the Holy Souls in Christs Flesh and Blood yet not a Principle for they are in one and the same Principle 16. But a Spirit without a Body hath not that Might or Power as that Spirit which is in the Body therefore they are in the Rest they are under God's Altar 17. When the Last Judgement Day cometh it will then go forth and eat of God's Bread and put on God's Body as is mentioned in the Revelation of John where the Souls in white Garments under the Altar say Lord when avengest thou our Blood and it is said to them that they should rest a little while till their Brethren come to them which shall be slain for the Witness of Jesus 18. But the wicked Souls have another place viz. in the most innermost which also is the most outermost in the Darkness those Souls dare go no whither they remain directly with the Body in their Substance or Doings but not in this World also they do not touch the Earth 19. They are indeed powerful over the Earth they can open it without Substance or Labour and Feeling but the outward principle they have not they are not powerful enough over the outward Spirit and yet it can a long time play jugling Tricks in the Sydereal Spirit 20. As many of them appear again in the Starry Spirit and seek rest or Abstinence also cause much terrour and hurliburly in Houses all which they do through the starry Spirit till that be consumed and then its Pomp lyeth in the Darknesse and expecteth the Last Judgement 21. Our Babel saith it is the Devil which goeth about so in the form or shape of the Soul indeed there are right Devils enough with a Damned Soul but it is not a very Devil such a one as is in the Abysse and very readily plagueth the Soul in the time of the Body in the Abysse of the Soul 22. Though indeed it is not difficult for him to put on a Deceivers Hypocritical Garment he can easily put on an Outward Garment to seduce and to terrifie Man 23. But this we must complain against Babel that she is so altogether blind and hath so little knowledge of God she hath cast away the true Magia and Philosophy and taken in the Antichrist now she wanteth Wit Ingenuity or Understanding she hath Art but only Wit and Understanding faileth her and breaketh she hath broken the Looking-Glass and seeth with Spectacles 24. What shall a man say the world is blindfold men draw it into a Snare and lead it captive and it seeth it not and it were indeed free if it did but see it there is wicked knavish Cunning in the String men bind it with Thou wilt soon become seeing it is bright day only Awake thou keeper of Israel 25. Thus beloved Friend be informed of this that there is great difference of Place and Condition among Souls all according to that into which a Soul is entred Is it holy and born anew or Regenerate then it hath a Body which waiteth only for the Wonders of the Body at the last Judgement Day it hath comprised them clearly already in the Will but they shall stand before the Judgement at the Last Day All Souls the Good and the Evil every one shall receive its Sentence and Wages 26. The Holy shall be set in the sight of the Wicked that they may see and tast the Causes of their Source and Torment 27. If any shall conceit a several place or space where they shall sit one among another that is quite contrary to the Magia every one is in its own Land Soyl or Countrey and not bound to the place of the Body but it may be where it will and and then wherever it is it is there either in God or in the Darkness 28. God is every where and the Darkness is also every where the Angels are also every whery every one in his own Principle and in his own source or quality 29. The Conceits of outward Reason without apprehension and knowledge of the Principles is a fighting with a shadow in a Looking-Glass If I did ask a Thousand times and should be alwayes answered something concerning God if I were but still in Flesh and Blood I should look upon it as Babel doth which supposeth the Soul goeth up into a Heaven above the Stars I know nothing yet of that Heaven and I can well forbear being there 30. It is indeed above and there are the Angelical Prince-Thrones but this Eye of this Aether is OUR Principality and our Kingdom 31. Indeed it is all one with them that are in the UPPER Heaven and with them that are in OURS but our Creation and Substance or Doings is in our Aether A Soul may well go thither if it desireth it will be very lovingly received and entertained by Gods Angels 32. For there is the same Substance of God with them as with us and this only is the difference that they have Angelical works among them wholly pure without spot or Blemish and we have the Great Wonders therefore they delight also to be with us and they are besides that Our Ministring Servants during the Life of
Although yet there is Fire in the Center from whence the Majesty Originateth but that will not be afforded the Devils they will be thrust out into the darkness where will be howlnâ—g and gnashing of Teeeth where there is more Frost then Heat The Three and Thirtieth Question What kind of Matter our Bodies shall have in the other Life 1. MY Beloved Friend this is a hard Question which the outward Man should do well to let alone and not meddle with it for it is not worthy of it 2. Ye know very well that God is become Man and hath taken upon him our Flesh Blood and Soul But now saith Christ I am from above none goeth to Heaven but the Son of Man which is come from Heaven and who is in Heaven 3. Understand ye that which he saith that he was then in Heaven he spake not only of his Deity viz. of the Word but of the Sonne of Man of the Word that became Flesh that is now to be considered by us for in that Flesh and Blood we shall live Eternally and must have Christs Body if we will subsist in God 4. Yet we know of no other Body that we shall have but our Own out of the Old Body as the Blade groweth out of the Grain and such a Body also Adam had in the Creation but he became captivated by the Kingdom of this World so that he became Earthly and that was his Fall and that caused God that he divided Adam and framed a Woman out of him as is written very largely in our Third Book 5. Now we know very well that Adam was a Chast Virgin before his Eve was before his sleep and afterwards became a Man like a Beast with deformity which we at this day are ashamed of in the presence of God that we have beastial Members for propagation 6. Yet now Adam had the Virgin of the Wisdom of God in him but when he fell then it remained standing in its Principle and Adam went out from it 7. And know that Christ is in that very Virgin in the Earthly Mary Incarnate or become Man for the Word of the Lord brought that with it in Maries Body or Womb. 8. And understand us thus that Christ is become Flesh in the Water of the Eternal Life which the whole Deity filleth and even in the Essences of the Earthly Mary 9. But Mary was blessed with the Heavenly-Virgin so that Christ became Man in a pure Vessel and so the outward Man hung to him 10. For it was for the sake of the Soul which he assumed from Mary that he must take Maries Flesh but in the Blessing of the Heavenly Virgin 11. The Tincture of the Blood in the Heavenly Virgin was Heavenly for an Earthly had not been able to go through the Anger of God and Through Death also it had not had might or ability to have arisen out of the Grave 12. The Word that became Flesh had the Water of Eternal Life it was out of God's Majesty and yet also in Maries Blood here we refer you further to our Third Book viz. of the threefold Life there it is written of at Large 13. Thus we intimate to you that we shall have a Body in flesh and Blood a Body as CHRIST had for Christ is with his Incarnation or becoming Man also born in US Men. 14. When we become New-born out of the Spirit and Water then are we in Christs Spirit new born out of Christs Flesh and Blood 15. We put on Christ Christ is born in the Converting Sinner and he in Christ becometh God's Child and that very Body shall we have in Heaven 16. Not gross Beastial flesh as we have in the Old Adam but subtil Flesh and Blood such Flesh as can go through Wood and Stone unhurt by the Stone as Christ entred in to his Disciples through the shut-Door that is a Body in which no Turba or fragility is for Hell cannot lay hold of it it is like and conformable to the Eternity and yet is very true Flesh and Blood that our Heavenly hands do handle feel and take hold of a visible Body as here in this World 17. We offer to your Consideration how such a Body as we here carry about us would be capable of God's Majesty It must needs therefore be such a Body as is like the Majesty so that the Majesty can give light and shine out of the Body out of the Tincture and Water of Eternal Life 18. We shall here indeed be silent to Reason but to our Brethren Intelligible enough it belongeth to the Children a Wolf would have his Mouth filled with a piece of Flesh that he may devour into his Guts of such a One we speak not but of such a one as Christ hath given us in his Testament and left us at Last which is that he will remain with us Eternally we in him and he in us 19. Thus we say that we shall have Christ's and God's Body which filleth the Heaven not that we shall stick in his Creature but be one with another as members Brethren and Children It is all ONE Life in US not Mortal all out of the Eternal nothing that beginneth but only the Wonders our Substantiality is come to be out of the Eternal we are as Gods God's right and true Children out of his Essences in Body and Soul The Four and Thirtieth Question Of the Lamentable Horrible Miserable Condition of the Damned 1. THis is also sufficiently mentioned above for God's Anger is their Habitation in the Darkness their Light shineth out of their Fiery Eyes that glimmer out of the Fire-flash else they have no Light for they dwell in the outermost and fly out of Highmindedness above the Thrones as Potent Commanders and yet one otherwise then the other all according as his Spirit is 2. For a Dog acts in a Dogish manner a Wolf in a Wolfish also a Horse a Fowl Todes Serpents after their Manner but they are all flying and swift as a Thought 3. They have yet their Joy in their Abominations and that is their best Joy that they reproach God and say that they are Fire-Spirits and God a Light-Spirit 4. Their boast is alwayes of their strong fires Might as a Dragon that spitteth Fire so also they they seek Perdition and find Abomination 5. Also Fruit groweth to them out of their Principle all according to the Abominations of their Will 6. They have a sport like that of Fools that spit fire out of Rockets Jugling and Fooling is their pastime though indeed there is no Time and also after the Last Judgment Day no fear more of any other Source or Quality or Torment then they have but their whole Life is a continual fear a Horrour and Lamentation every one hath his Works in the Figure what he hath here done and then it awakeneth the Turba and rideth in the Fire 7. The Soul hath no feeling for it is without
the Devil and what propriety or part he hath in it it goeth not naked unless it be so that the Spirit of God conduct it so that it hath him for a shield or defence so that the Devils suttlety cannot press or slip into it 25. It makes no wonder unless God's Spirit awaken or stir it up it giveth God the Honour and Glory and attributeth the might power to him it doth as a humble Child and remaineth standing under the Cross and letteth the Devil bluster over it but it self sprouteth in Humility and Meekness through Death into the Eternal Life and bringeth forth much fruit in Patience 26. Thus the Devil can do nothing to that Soul it is as it were dead to him he may with his Turba in the Earthly Life with his helpers and instruments wicked and ungodly Men make a stir and racket but he hath only scorn and derision in the presence of God for it for he is a proud arrogant spirit and would fain be above God's Wonders but an Humility can bind him or subdue him 27. In such a manner may every man escape the false and wicked Magus and also the Nigromancer for no power takes hold on them where God dwelleth As Christ in his Death overcame the Devil and Death so also we in Christ for the Word that became Man dwelleth in us and in that Word we can rule over the Devil and Hell there is no hinderance 28. Thus we give you for an Answer upon this Question that the Soul in its Original is greatly powerful it is able and can do much but only in that Principle into which it looketh or standeth is its power and might for the Devil cannot rule over God Its might or power is not given to it as a King giveth Might Power Authority or Favour to any but it standeth in Natures-right therefore we are Children of the Omnipotency of God and inherit his Goods in the Omnipotency The Seventh Question Whether the Soul be Corporeal or not Corporeal 1. A Thing which is from no Beginning hath also nothing that can give it any thing and if it be something it must seek the Beginning in it self for every spirit dwelleth in the deepest Abysse of its substance but if it must make the substance to it self it can dwell in Nothing that is strange to it but in it self in its own substance 2. When God created the Soul the holy Spirit surrounded it with the Tincture for it stood therein as to one part in it self it was raw or red as the glowing of the fire is raw or red and is surrounded with the Tincture 3. As you understand that from the warmth the growing existeth that is a driving of the Tincture which driveth the Twig or Branch out from the Root viz. out of the same Fire be it cold or hot 4. For the Darkness hath a Cold Fire so long till it reach the Anguish and then it kindleth it self in the hot as is to be seen in an Herb if it come into another quality 5. Thus we give you to understand that the Tincture is the right and true Souls Body for the Soul is Fire and the Tincture goeth forth out of the Fire which the Fire draweth again to it self and meekneth or allayeth it self therewith so that the fierce wrathful source or quality extinguisheth 6. Thus the Tincture standeth in meekness and it hath no substance or might or power in it self but the Water is its might or power there cometh out of the meekness of the Tincture water to be 7. For the Fire is desirous and where there is a desiring of the Original there is also a finding of the Original thus the Fire findeth in the Tincture Water and turneth that into Sulphur according to power or vertue of all the Seven Spirits of Nature that is a Water of Life 8. For the Tincture driveth up in the Water as a sprout and the Fire in the Abyss causeth that 9. Thus is the Water in the Sulphur of the Seven Spirits changed into the Mystery and the great Areanum or Secret lyeth therein Whatsoever God and the Eternity can do Thus the Mystery containeth Two Forms viz. Fire Water and changeth it self according to Both viz. according to the Fire into Red and according to the Tincture into White so that a clear shining or glance existeth from the Fire so that the Life seeth or knoweth it self out of which Reason and Thoughts exist and the Mind is in the Wheel or Orb of the Anguish in the Fire out of which the Essences exist 10. And thus you see what the Blood is viz. a House of the Soul but the Tincture is its Body 11. The right or true Soul hath no palpable Body which is called Soul but in the Tincture groweth the Body in the Sulphur out of Sulphur that is every Spirit of the Seven Spirits of Nature desireth Substantiality which is together Sulphur 12. For Sul is power and vertue out of the Light and Phur is power and vertue out of the Four Forms of Natures Original as in the Third Book is mentioned at large 13. Thus the Phur desireth Flesh that is a Mixture out of Fire and Water and is in the Tincture conceived and generated or born 14. And the Tincture is the growing of the Body and the Fire is an Original of the Spirit through the Tincture For in the Tincture the Souls Spirit taketh its Original which viz. the right true Image figureth according to God's Image that is according to all the Three Principles for in the Fire the Soul is no Similitude of God but in the Spirit it is the Image of God 15. For the First Soul was together incorporated with the Divine Substantiality so that it had God's Body in the Virgin of Wisdom in which the Tincture standeth this is the Angels Image 16. And I give you for Answer that as to what concerns the Soul merely and purely by which we understand not the Spirit it is a Fire-Globe with a Fire-Eye and with a Light-Eye which turn back to back and one within another as the Wheel in Ezekiel that can go on all sides though Babel have made clean another understanding upon it but a blind one without Spirit 17. But as to what concerns its Tincture out of the Light which existeth out of the Fire and Light it is a Spirit where the Original of the Soul and of the Spirit in Eternity cannot separate assunder it is an Eternal BAND and when the Blood goeth away and the Body dyeth then this Band continueth in Eternity 18. The Body as to what concerns the Soul purely belongeth not to the Substance of the Soul they are Two Substances for the Body is the Souls Looking-Glass and dwelling House also its proper portion and it is also the cause that the meer pure Soul altereth or changeth the Spirit viz. according to the Pleasure or Longing of the Body or of the
the Body and resist the Devil 33. Now being the Angels are in this World in the Holy Principle whither should the Soul then first go perhaps into Pride as Lucifer did might Babel think O no it remaineth in Humility and looketh upon Gods Wonders as God's Spirit goeth so that goeth also The Two and Twentieth Question What every Soul departed doth whether it rejoyceth or no till the Day of the Last Judgement 1. THis Question compriseth or treateth of the richly Joyful Glorious Gate to the apprehension of the Victorious Garland of the Soul 2. When a beloved Son travels abroad for Arts and Sciences and Honour into a strange Countrey afar off he often thinketh of Home and of the time of return to enjoy his Parents and Friends he rejoyceth at the thought of that day and waiteth for it with inward Joy and Longing and exerciseth himself in his affairs that he may get also Art and Ingenuity or understanding and experience wherewith he may rejoyce his Parents Kindred and Friends 3. In like manner we offer to your Mind and give you this to Consider of that the Soul without the Body hath great inward Joy and waiteth for the last Judgement Day with great inward desire when it shall get its bright fair Holy Body with the wonders again 4. Also its rest in its Will where then it seeth its works according to the kind and manner of the unsearchable Magia which it will first get in the Figure at the last Judgement Day with the New Body out of the Old 5. And it is highly apprehensible and perceptible to us but in the Spirit according to its knowledge that the blessed Souls rejoyce in their here-Exercised-Labour and do exceedingly recreate themselves in their Wonders which they see Magically For those which have brought many to Righteousness those have their wages in the Magia in the Will before their Eyes 6. Those who have suffered much persecution for the Truths sake they see their bright Triumphant Garland which they shall at the Last Judgement Day set upon the New Body 7. Those that have done much good shall have it shining in the Will before their Eyes 8. And they that have been for Christs Doctrine and Truths sake despised persecuted and slain their Tryumphal Victory is before their Eyes like one that hath overcome his Enemy in Fight and represents the Victory before his King and Prince which he hath in Great Honour and Glory where his King receives him with great Joy and keeps him by him as his faithful Assistant 9. Now what joy is in these we have no Pen to Write only we apprehend that those for the most part in this world have put on God's Body and so are in greater Perfection then the other they wait for the Last Judgement Day with Great Joy Honour and Glory when their Works in the Heavenly Figure shall pass before their Eyes and the wicked shall see against whom they have kicked 10. Every such Soul rejoyceth in great Hope before the Face of God at that which shall befall it for it apprehendeth its wages but cannot receive that without the Body for it hath done its Labour in the Body therefore it will get that again also which will follow after it in the New Body 11. For although the highly pretious Holy Souls have in this world put on Christs Body so that they stand as an Image of God in Heaven yet all their works have been made or wrought in the Old Body which was God's Looking-Glass and they shall in the Resurrection be presented to them in the Figure exactly Heavenly in their Body 12. For the first Image which Adam was before the Fall is become Regenerated in Christ and will be put on to the Soul again with its Wonders and though it hath Gods Body aforehand yet the Wonders stand in the first Image 13. But the Turba with the outward Kingdome of the outward source or quality is gone for it was a Looking-Glass and is now become a Wonder It liveth without Spirit as a Wonder and will be put upon the Soul in great clarity or Brightness from the Light of God which the Holy Souls rejoyce at exceedingly and wait for it with great longing 14. And we present to your apprehension that every blessed Soul trimmeth its lamp that it may go to meet its Bridegroom at the Last Judgement Day they renew their Wills continually and consider how they shall rejoyce in their New Bodies in the Wonders with all holy Men and Angels there is a Continual rising up of Joy in them when they think of that which is to come every one according to their vertue or capacity 15. As their works have been different upon Earth so also is their Hope for a day Labourer who hath done much service rejoyceth at his wages so also here there is a friendly Substance of Solace among them and in them 16. All scorn and blasphemy laid upon them which they were not guilty of is a great Victorious Honour and Glory to them that thus have suffered in Innocency wrongfully and put on Patience in Hope and this they have moreover that death cannot take from them nor add to them the Soul taketh along with it what it hath comprehended 17. Their often hearty Prayers well wishing and well doing to their Neighbour is their food which they eat and rejoyce themselves till their New Body shall eat Paradisical Fruit. 18. But those which have put on God's Body here they eat without Ceasing at Gods Table but the Paradisical Fruit belongeth to the Body of the Wonders which shall arise out of the Grave which was created in Paradise For it was made out of the beginning and bringeth the End with the Wonders again into the Beginning 19. And wonder not as if we speak as likely we are understood in your Eyes concerning TWO Bodies of the most holy Saints indeed there is not two of them It is but ONE consider only how God's Substantiality filleth all and that is God's Body which is in this Life put on to the holy Souls 20. For they cast their Will into God's VVill and so they receive also God's Body which filleth All their VVill dwelleth in God's Body and eateth in God's Body of God's VVord of God's Fruit of God's Power and Vertue and Christ is in God God is become Christ 21. Thus they carry about them Christs Body in God and yet nevertheless wait for their First Adams holy Body with the VVonders which shall be put on them with Paradisical source or quality 22. For God's purpose must stand he created the first Body in and for Paradise it should remain eternally therein It must go in thither again and the Soul upon the Cross of the Number Three into the Mouth of God from whence it came and and yet the whole Person with Body and Soul remaineth one in another but God filleth all in All. 23. O that we had a Humane Pen
with strangers for in Heaven we are all Brethren they have no greater care about their Children and Parents then about others unless they work and Act in God and then indeed their service of God is much more full of Joy to them but they enter not into their Turba 43. For after the Last Judgement Day the honest Parents will know Nothing of their Children that are in Hell And so it is sufficiently apprehensible to us that they now take no care about their wicked Matters or Doings The Seven and Twentieth Question Whether the Souls in Death know or understand this or that Business and Art in which they were skilled when they were in the Body 1. THis is as in the following Question all their Substance or Matters and Doings appear to them in their Will or Mind in a Magical kind or manner they see it but the Figure or Frame of them will first be given to them in the Day of the Restoration that they may be able to look upon them aright for they must first be tryed by the Fire and that which is false or wicked must remain with its Turba in the Fire according to the purport of the Word of Christ 2. But if the Question be concerning Arts whether they know them surely they know all Arts though never so Deeply founded but they dare not awaken or stir them up that they should appear in their Spirit for Arts are Generated in the Center of Nature out of the Essences wherein the Wonders stand which they have sought in this World so much as hath been opened to them in the Mystery 3. A Soul without Gods Body goeth not into the Mystery for Art it standeth still and quiet in its Rest it feareth the Turba it giveth Glory to God 4. But the highly Enlightned Souls which carry Heavenly Substantiality in their Spirit they have the skill and knowledge of Heavenly Matters and of all whatsoever lyeth in the Mystery especially those which have been conversant in the Mystery here the other do not use to search into the Mystery 5. For every one continueth in his own Calling and Employment which he hath here loved and delighted in though indeed there be no such working or Labour there yet they have Joy in it for in Heaven there is a simple humble Childrens Life 6. Why should Men there enquire after Arts and Sciences The whole Mystery standeth Open God filleth all in all there are meer Wonders they live all in Wonders and are all the Art of God they have all great skill and knowledge but in a Paradisical simple Childrens Life The Eight and Twentieth Question Whether they have any more skill or knowledge of Divine Angelical and Earthly things and also of Devilish and can have more certain Experience and Knowledge of them then they had in the Body 1. Concerning Divine and Angelical Skill and Knowledge they have certainly much more for they are in the Principle of God and the Son seeth very well what the Father doth in his House so also the Soul seeth what is in Heaven 2. Their skill and knowledge is very various for the highest skill and knowledge is apprehended in the Majesty and there must most Souls wait till the Last Judgement Day when they shall get their New Bodies 3. But the highly Enlightned How Souls that are in God's Body and Power they have surpassing overflowing skill and knowledge of God and of the Angels for they are in the Wonders of God till their own Wonders shall be presented also to them 4. The Souls without a Body are in Heaven in God as it were Magically they awaken or stir up no Wonders but are under Gods Altar and wait for the Wonders at the day of Appearing 5. They take no care about Devilish things for that belongeth to the Angels to strive with the Devil and defend Men No Soul Imagineth into Hell it is Enmity to them The Nine and Twentieth Question What the Souls Rest awakening and Clarification are 1. THis is also clearly enough Explained its Rest is without Substance in the stilness where they are in God's Hand and no source or pain toucheth them they have no feeling of any pain but it is as one that lyeth in a sweet sleep and resteth quietly 2. Their Clarification during this time is when they think and consider of the Joy to Come then the Spirit entereth into the Majesty of God whence they have Joy and Clarity or Glory and so during all the time they trim their Lamps that they may be ready in their New Body to be received by their Bridegroom 3. There is a very sweet Paradisical Joy in them but Paradise is not stirring in them with full perfection for that belongeth to the New Body out of the Earth The First Body which God Created which Christ hath redeemed by his Death that will bring the Wonders and enter again into Paradise and be surrounded or Cloathed with God's Majesty and then is the Tabernacle of God with Men. The Thirtieth Question What the difference of the Livings and Deads Resurrection of the Flesh and of the Soul is 1. COncerning this saith Christ there shall be great difference wherefore we remit you to the Scripture for it shall all be according to the Scripture 2. But seeing this is unsearchable and unapprehensible to Mans Reason therefore I know not how to answer you more then the Scripture saith but seeing you long and desire to know these things therefore you are also in your seeking the finding and I am only the Instrument 3. And though it be given and opened to me yet it is not from my own understanding and knowledge but the knowledge standeth in the Spirit of Christ according to which this Hand calleth it self Two-fold and saith WE for it speaketh from Two Persons and two Persons say not I but We and speak of Two as a Lord that speaketh of his Person and of his Dominion 4. And so Gods Children and Servants should not say the knowledge is Mine the understanding is Mine but give the Honour and Glory to God and in their opening or manifesting the Wonders of God should speak of two viz. of the Giver and of the Receiver 5. Neither should any understand our Writing so as if the hand did boast or Glory of it self according to the Authority and worthiness of Man though indeed in Christ we are worthy but according to the Outward Man we would have no boasting or praise and honour for the Praise is Gods 6. VVe are Children of the Father and should do that which he would have us do and not hide or bury in the Earth the Talent which he hath given us for the Father will require it of Us with Increase and if nothing be increased with it then he taketh it again from him to whom he had given it and giveth it to him that hath gained much which would be a Miserable taking away from me to
Beginnings as above mentioned whereof each hath its Substance and are in one another and have no more than one Spirit 339. And in the middle of the Point is the Center which is the Cause of the Life and in the Center is the Light of the Majesty out of which the Life as another Principle existeth out of which the Tree of the Eternal Life hath ever continually grown from Eternity and the Twigs or Branches grow out of the Stock 340. Which are the Spirits of Angels which indeed have not been corporeal from Eternity but the Essences or Qualities have been in the Tree and their Image hath been discovered have appeared in the Virgin of the Wisdom from Eternity for they have been a Figure from Eternity in the Tincture yet not Corporeal but Essential without Corporisation 341. And therefore this is the greatest wonder that the Eternity hath wrought that it hath created the Eternal into a Corporeal Spirit which no Reason apprehendeth nor no Mind findeth also it is not throughly searchable or fathomable to us 342. For no Spirit can throughly search out or fathom it self it seeth its own deep very well even into the Abyss but its framer or moudler it comprehended not it beholdeth him well and searcheth into him even into the Abyss but yet it knoweth not its making all that is hidden to it and nothing else 343. For a Child knoweth its Father and Mother well but knoweth not how his Father hath made or begotten it it is also as high in Degree of Nature as its Father but it is hidden to it how it was in the Seed and though it search that yet it knoweth not the Time and Place nor did not for it was in the Seed in the Wonder and in the Life a Spirit in the Wonders 344. And here it is forbidden us to search further and commanded us to rest from it and to be silent for we are a Creature and should speak so far as the Creature reacheth both in the inward and outward in body and soul in God Angels and Men and Devils also in Beasts Fowls Worms in Leaves and Grass in Heaven and Hell all this we can search only our own Making not 345. Yet of that we know the Fiat and know how we are made yet we know not the first moving of God to the Creation The making of the Soul we know well but how that which hath stood fixt in its Substance from Eternity is become moveable of that we know no ground for it hath nothing that hath stirred it up and it hath an Eternal will which is without beginning and unchangeable 346. But if we should say the Angels and Souls have been from Eternity in the Spirit the Propagation of Souls will not permit that as it is before our eyes Therefore this is God's Mystery alone and the Creature should continue under God in humility and obedience and not elevate it self further for it is not altogether as God himself is 347. God is a Spirit from Eternity without Ground and Beginning but the Souls and Angels Spirit hath an Original and standeth in Gods hand the Third Number hath the casting shovle and purgeth its Floar Only Patience and Humility in Obedience is requisite else it availeth nothing to be or exist from God The Devil was also an Angel yet his highmindedness throweth him notwithstanding into the Darkness Let none climbe up above the Cross else he falleth into Hell to the Devil 348. God will have Children and not lordly ones about him he is Lord and none else of his Fulness have we received out of his Essences are we born or generated we are his right and true Children not step-children of a strange Looking-Glass also not only a similitude but children yet the Body is a similitude and the Spirit is a similitude according to God's Spirit but the right and true Soul is a Child born or generated out of God 349. God's Spirit giveth witness to our Spirits that we are God's Children not in that kind as Babel makes a rumbling noise which so would fain be God upon Earth 350. No but our selves are Children begotten of God's Seed our heavenly Body is out of or from God's Body which the holy Soul carrieth about it hidden to the Devil and to the Old Adam 351. Therefore beloved Brother in God 's Body know this clearly and it is our Answer upon your first Question Whence the Soul originateth 352. Viz. It originateth out of God from Eternity without Ground and Number and continueth or endureth in its Eternity But the beginning to the moving of the Creature which is done in God that should not be mentioned 353. Only we give or offer you this that the Number Three hath pleased delighted or longed to have Children like it self out of it self and so hath revealed or manifested it self in Angels in the Soul of Adam and passed or transmigrated into an Image as a Tree which bringeth forth Fruit and generateth a Branch out of it self For that is the right manner of Eternity and no other 354. It is not a strange or different thing but one Looking-Glass out of the other one Substance out of the other and all seek the Beginning and is all a Wonder 355. This is the entrance and we should but in brief give you summary Answers upon the Questions because you see in this description clearly all your Questions Answered yet to pleasure and accommodate the simple and such as have not our knowledge we will go through with them particularly The Second Question What the Soul is in the Essence Substance Nature Property 1. THE Souls Essences are out of the Center of Nature out of the Fire with all Properties of Nature All the Three Principles lye therein All whatsoever God hath or can do and whatsoever God is in his Number Three that the Soul is in its Essences as a Branch out of the Power and Vertue of the Tree its Substance is heavenly created out of the heavenly Divine Substantiality 2. But its Will is Free either to sink down in it self and to accompt it self Nothing but to sprout as a branch out of the Tree and to eat of God's Love or to climbe up in its Will into the Fire and be its own Tree of it self and of which soever it eateth of that it gets Substantiality viz. the Body of the Creature 3. Is Nature is the Center it self with Seven Spirits to generate or propagate with It is a Total Substance out of All Substances and a Similitude of the Number Three if it be in God If not it is the Similitude of Lucifer and of all Devils all furthermore according to their Properties 4. It s Property was in the First Soul created according to both Mothers upon which followed the Command and the Temptation that it should not suffer it self to Lust to Eat of Evil and Good but of Heavenly Paradisical Fruit only should
with its Will Property be directed and inclined to be in God 5. But all Properties lye in it it may awaken and let in what it will and whatsoever then it awakeneth and letteth in that is acceptable to God if it stand converted with its will into Humility and into Obedience into God's Love then may it do what wonders it will it standeth or serveth all to Gods Honour and Glory The Third Question How the Soul is created to the Image of God 1. IT is clearly shewn that the Number Three with all the Three Principles hath pleased or longed to have a Total Similitude in Substance and Property according to the Sustance of all Substances 2. And the pleasure or longing to have that hath become awakened in Gods Heart as a Great Wonder 3. And that awakening was the harsh or astringent Fiat viz. the desirous attraction which hath drawn out of ALL into ONE and is become an Image according to the Similitude of God according to Heaven and this World and also according to the Anger-World It hath created all viz. the Total Fiat in verbo Domini in the Word of the Lord out of God's and out of the Anger-Kingdom 4. And as there is nothing higher than the Soul so there is nothing that can break it for all is under it and in it it is a child of the Total Substance of all Substances Thus it was created The Fourth Question What the Breathing in of the Soul is and when it is done 1. EVery Spirit without a Body is raw or void and knoweth not it self therefore every Spirit desireth a Body for its food and for its habitation 2. Now being God had before the Soul created the Third Principle as a Looking-Glass of the Deity therefore was the Looking-Glass clearly appendant to the Eternal for it was generated out of the Eternal Wonders and so created Therefore also the Third Principle would not leave the Soul free being it also was created out of God's Wonders and stood in the Beginning as a Figure in God's Wisdom and desired seeing it was material that it also might have a material Similitude in or on the Soul so stirred up in the Souls Creation also its Spirit together in the Fiat 3. And there was the outward Image according to the Spirit of this World laid hold on by the outward Fiat and became a Body created out of the Earths Matrix A Mesch a Mixture a Red Earth consisting of Fire and Water 4 And the Heavenly Matrix longed also after the Soul and would that the Soul should bear its Image and with the Bodies creation laid hold of its own Fiat and did create before the earthly Fiat created that was the First for out of the Center of the Word went the Fiat forth with the Word thus was the Third Principle Created in the Second 5. The Virgin-Wisdom surrounded the Souls Spirit first with heavenly Substantiality with heavenly Divine Flesh and the holy Spirit gave the heavenly Tincture which made heavenly Blood in the Water as in our Third Book is mentioned at large 6. Thus stood the inward Man in Heaven and its Essences were Paradisical its glance in the inward Eye was Majesty an incorruptible Body that could understand God's and the Angels Language the Language of Nature as is to be seen in Adam that he gave all Creatures their Names every one according to its Essence and Property he stood thus in the outward Image and yet knew not the outward Image by Experience as indeed the outward Body hath no apprehension 7. In this Twofold Body which was created on the Sixt Day on the Sixt hour of the Day even in the Hour when Christ was hanged on the Cross was the Kingly or Royal Soul after the finishing of the Body breathed in by the holy Spirit into the Heart into the holy Man into its Principle like an awakening of the Deity 8. The Third Number hath moved it self with the Souls breathing in for it was upon the Center in the Seed as a sprout of the springing of the Essences thus it was breathed in into the inward Center into the inward Man into the Heavenly Heart-blood into the Water of the Eternal Life with all the two inner Principles 9. And the Outward Spirit viz. the Air with the total outward Principle with Stars and Elements hung to the Inward and the outward Spirit breatheth into him its life together also with the Soul through the Nostrils into the Heart into the outward Heart into the Earthly Flesh which yet was not so Earthly for it became corporeal out of the Matrix out of the seeking out of which the Earth came to be 10. Thus the Holy Spirit rode upon the Souls Chariot upon the Inward Majestick Will and moved upon the Water for the Water comprehended him not therefore he moved upon it and in it it is all one and the Soul did burn or flame out of the Heart-blood as the Light out of a Candle and went through all the Three Principles as a King over his Country or Dominion 11. It could potently rule over the outward Principle if it were with its will entered again into the Heart of God into the Word of the Lord. 12. Also the Source or Quality of the fierce Wrath did thus together press in with the Breathing in viz. with the Original of the Soul 13. And the Soul could not otherwise continue to be God's Image unless it continue in Humility and Obedience and incline or set its will into God's Will wherein it was an Angel and God's Child else there was great danger for a Creature to over-power two Principles viz. the Angry and the Outward which was generated out of the Anger 14. Therefore its Temptation was not the mere biting of an Apple and hath endured for a few hours only but Forty Dayes so long as Christ was tempted in the Wilderness and even by all the Three Principles and Israel in the Wilderness when Moses was Forty Dayes upon the Mount when they also stood not but made a Calf The Fifth Question How the Soul is peculiarly formed and fashioned or framed 1. VVHen a Twig or Branch groweth out of a Tree then its Fashion or Shape is from the Tree it is not the Stock or the Root but yet its Form is like the Tree So also when a Mother breedeth a Child it is an Image of her 2. And that cannot otherwise be for there is nothing else that can make it otherwise unless it be fallen back home to the Turba which often awaketh a Monster according to the Spirit of this World according to its beginning or inceptive Maker viz. the Moon where the Fiat maketh a Moon-Monster in the Turba 3. Thus we are to apprehend and know in what Form it is viz. of a round Globe according to God's Eye through which the Cross goeth or pierceth and parteth it self into two parts viz. into Two
it ruleth not only in it self but also externally without it self in whatsoever is Seed 4. Understand us aright thus God's Spirit the Soul's Spirit are two Persons each is free from the other and yet they stand both in the first Beginning each hath its will 5. But now it is right and just that the Child should be obedient to the Father upon forfeiture of the Fathers Inheritance the holy Spirit was the Souls work-master and had created it to that should the Souls Spirit be obedient upon loss of the holy Spirits inheritance viz. of the DEITY 6. And though much might be written yet it is very dangerous in respect of the false or wicked Magia for if the false or wicked spirit knew it it would practise Witchcraft therewith 7. Therefore we will so speak that we may be well understood by the Children and reserve the full or plain speaking of it for the Children for it is not good to write that seeing a Man knoweth not who will be the Reader 8. But to the wicked and ungodly we say that they belong to the Devil and shall have no part in our Writings we shut them out with a thick wall or enclosure and strong fortification or bullwark that they may be blind and not know our Spirit for we would not set the Serpent therein our will and mind is gone out from them therefore shall they not know us though they carry us in their hands there is a fast seal upon it 9. Christ saith If ye have Faith as a grain of mustard seed then ye might say to the Mountains be ye removed and cast into the Sea that is not an empty void word without truth and effect The First Power of the Souls Will. 10. The will if it go strongly forward is Faith It frameth its own form in the Spirit it hath also the Might or Power that it can form or frame another Image in the Spirit out of the Center of Natue 11. It can give to the Body another Form according to the outward Spirit for the Inward is Lord of the Outward the outward must be obedient to it it can set the outward in another Image but not permanent 12. For Adams Soul had let in the Turba of this World so that the Turba if it seeth a strange Child is suddenly uppermost and breaketh or destroyeth it only it continueth so long as the Inward Spirit can tame and over-power the Outward 13. And this Form Kind or Manner of Power is called Nigromancy a transmutation or changing where the Inward doth over-power the Outward for it is natural as we consider that when we shall be changed it is done by that very Turba which hath the First Fiat 14. For the Body is Sulphur and sticketh in the Tincture and the Spirit conducteth the Tincture therefore now if the First willeth therein or conanteth thereto viz. the Soul then can the Spirit of the Soul make another Form or Manner of Image in the Sulphur but the Devil mixeth himself readily therein for it is the Abysses Wonder wherein he is Lord. The Second Power of the Souls Will. 15. Also understand us thus The earnest will which otherwise is called Faith can with the Spirit do great things the Will can set or put the Spirit into another Form or Condition which is thus If the Spirit were an Angel a Similitude of God yet the Will can make of it a proud or stubborn Devil and also of a Devil an Angel if it sink down it self into Death into Humility under the Cross and cast it self again into God's Spirit that he may lead it by his government then it sinketh down into the still Eternity quite out from the source or quality of Torment into the still or quiet NOTHING which yet is ALL and then it standeth in the Beginning where God created it and the word Fiat receiveth or embraceth it again which containeth God's Image The Third Power of the Soules Will or Spirit 16. And then thirdly the Souls Spirit hath ability or power to enter into another Mans Marrow and Bones viz. into the Sulphur and if he be false or wicked to introduce the Turba into him so far as any is not armed with God's Spirit but that he be found naked in the Spirit of this World as is to be seen by the bewitching Whores or Sorcerers The Fourth Power of the Souls Will. 17. Fourthly It hath power if it be God's Child that it can lead the Turba captive and can pour it out upon the house of the wicked and ungodly as Elias did with the Fire and Moses before Pharoah for it can throw down Mountains break Rocks 18. This is understood to be so far as a place is capable of the Turba that it hath made the Anger stirring then it can be but if not and that God's Spirit be in a thing then it cannot be for Water will be poured into the Fires Turba and it is as it were dead and its ability or power lyeth in the dirt 19. And therefore is the Heaven the middle or medium between God and Hell viz. between Love and Anger which Heaven is created out of the midst of the Waters so that the Devil cannot rule with his Turba the Water turneth his purpose into scorn and derision as therefore the false or wicked Magia is drowned in the Water with its inchantment delusion The Fifth Power of the Souls Will or Spirit 20. Fifthly The Soul hath might or ability that it may and can seek or search out all Wonders or Works which are in Nature viz. Arts and Sciences Languages Building Tilling or Planting and Destroying it can subdue the Starry Heaven as Joshua commanded the Sun that it stood still and Moses the Sea that it stood up also he commanded the Darkness and it came also it can make or produce the Earthly Life as Moses the Lice Frogs also Serpents and other Wonders 21. Also it hath Death in its power or might that it can over-power that if it ride upon the Brides-Chariot it can subdue and over-power the Devil if it be in God 22. There is nothing which it cannot subdue only understand it aright The Soul hath such might or ability from its Original and such a Spirit it could have given forth out of it self if it had not let in the Earthly Great Turba which now giveth the stop unless it be so that the holy Spirit rideth upon its Chariot as with Moses Elias and all the Prophets with Christ and his Disciples also still continually with the holy Children of God they have all this Power or Authority they can awaken or raise the Dead heal the Sick and expel all Diseases it is natural the Spirit only ruleth therewith over the Turba 24. But there is this on the other side to be considered that the Soul knoweth very well what covenant compact or agreement it hath with
Constellation the Elements and if it be not a mymmick Ape suffereth it self to be captivated then it is powerful enough over the outward and the outward must suffer it self to be subdued if the Soul sinketh it self down into God and cometh upon the Chariot of the Bride again into the outward that it hath the holy Spirit for an assistant 7. Then no hinderance from the Devil availeth any thing it destroyeth his nest and driveth him out he must stand in scorn and derision 8. And this is our Instruction and Answer to this Question that it is not so to be understood that when a mans Head is cut off and the Blood runneth out and the outward Life breaketh that it hitteth and killeth the Soul 9. No it loseth indeed one Principle but not the Substance of that Principle that followeth after the Soul in the Tincture in the Spirit as a Shadow for the outward Substance reacheth not the inward in the Soul but only through the Imagination 10. Else there is nothing in this World that can touch or kill the Soul no Fire nor Sword but only the Imagination that is its Poyson for it is Originally proceeded out of the Imagination and continueth Eternally THEREIN The Twelft Question How the Souls enlightening is 1. VVE are to consider that if the Sun were taken away out of this World then all things would be in Darkness and then outward Reason might say we are in Dark Death and in the fierce wrathfulness of the Cold and it were so indeed 2. Now behold O beloved Mind consider when thy Body perisheth then thy Spirit also loseth the Sun and then how thou wilt be in the Light and by what means thou wilt see I offer to you in simplicity for your mind to consider of 3. A thing that is in the Eternal Liberty if it continually entereth into the Eternal Liberty hath no Darkness for it dwelleth in nothing which affordeth that it is free as the Eye of God which seeth into it self by or through the Substance 4. When it imagineth in or according to the Lust Pleasure or longing after any thing then the Will goeth into that thing which the desirous Pleasure or longing it self maketh that very thing receiveth or taketh in the will into it self and overshadoweth it so that it dwelleth in the Darkness and can have no Light unless it go out again into the Liberty 5. Thus we give you earnestly to understand that in all our matters and doings we have no Light if we enter with the will into that which is done or acted if we set our Heart and Will upon the Work of our Hands viz. upon Covetousness Then we are in our Souls totally blind and have no Light in us but only the outward Light of the Sun which giveth light to the outward Body if that breaketh or perisheth then is the Soul captivated with that thing 6. Understand here The Souls Spirit and Will for the stock or stem of the Soul is a dark valley it hath no Light and if perhaps it lift up kindle it self yet it is but a fierce wrathful Fire-Flash and is like the Devil and cannot attain the Divine Light in it self 7. The Cause is it hath introduced Abomination into its Will and Spirit which darkneth the Spirit and holdeth it captive with the Turba for God's Light goeth not back again but forward into the Eternity 8. And therefore is God's Eye twofold or in two parts and standeth back to back as is shewed above in the Figure One part goeth forward into the still Eternity into the Eternal Nothing viz. into the Liberty 9. The other goeth back again into the Desiring and maketh darkness in the Desiring and therein the Center of Nature and driveth on to the great Anguish and Sharpness 10. Where then the Will sinketh down again out of the Anguish through the Darkness into the still or quiet Liberty and so bringeth along with it out of the Anguish the fierce wrath of the Mobility and the earnest severe Sharpness 11. In which Sharpness the Liberty when the will bringeth the sharpness thereinto becometh a high Triumphant majestick Light which is called God's Light which giveth light Eternally and can be barred in by nothing for it giveth Light in the Eternal Liberty and desireth nothing more 12. And now if thou earthly Man shouldst think that God would receive thy Spirit into his majestick Light whilst thou introducest Abominations viz. Covetousness which hath pride and state which is the Fire-Life of Covetousness into thy will then thou wouldst thereby darken God's Majesty and thy will and spirit would stick still only in thy Covetousness and would burn with the fire-source or quality of the Soul in the glance of a looking-glass viz. in pride or state and couldst not reach or attain God's Majesty 13. And if thou didst sit in the Cross of the holy Number Three and wert surrounded with all the holy Angels yet thou didst but sit in the darkness and thy spirit would give Light only into the Looking-Glass of that substance or thing which thou thy self hast introduced into the Spirit 14. Therefore now if the Soul with its Spirit in its Image will behold God and see into God's Majesty and Eternal Light then must it in this world go two wayes and then it will retain the Eternal Body viz. God's Image as also the outward Life together with the Earthly Body and will introduce the Wonders for which God hath created it in the outward life which it shall awaken in the outward life even ALL of them into the inward life and eternally rejoyce it self therein and have them as a Looking-Glass and the right and true way is as followeth The highly pretions Gate of the Morning Redness or Aurora 15. Behold thou beloved Soul if thou wilt have God's Light and see with God's Eye and wilt also have the Light of this world and nourish thy Body and seek the Wonders of God then do it as God himself doth it 16. Thou hast in thy Soul Two Eyes which are set back to back one of another one seeth into the Eternity and the other back into Nature and goeth alwayes on forth and seeketh in the Desiring and maketh one looking-glass after another let it be so it should be so God would have it so 17. But the other Eye turn not that back into the seeking but with the right Eye alwayes draw the left backwards to thee and let the Eye together with the will of the wonders not go from thee from the Eye which is in-turned into the Liberty draw it s opened made or acted wonders to thee 18. Let that very Eye seek food for the earthly Life but let it not go into the food viz. into covetousness but draw it hard and close to the seeing Eye and let it not go 19. But let the hands work and make or procure food and let the Eye draw the Wonders to it
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
and Favour of the Giver or Donor why is the Servant in the House Angry and Discontented at it that the Lord is so Good and Gracious and giveth a stranger the Dominion 12. We were Strangers and the Work was in the Family but the Lord hath given us the Promise in Paradise he would bestow upon us again his Kingdom out of Grace he left Cains Offering but to Abel he gave the Kingdom of Grace for Abel sought it in the Spirit and Cain in the Work 13. Thus understand how God's Kingdom is Magical for the first Will attaineth it and the Will in the Substance or Work NOT for it remaineth in the Substance or Work but he that goeth free findeth the Eternity and the Kingdom of Grace therein and the Promise with the Substance or Work together and then the Work dwelleth in the Will and is the Wills Houshold Servant 14. Thus ye understand if ye be seeing the whole Old Testament this is the Only Ground but comprised briefly and if we come to write upon Moses you shall find it wholly and thus we have shewen you the right and true Ground of the Bosom of Abraham and of the true Christian Religion 15. Whosoever teacheth otherwise is of Babel beware of him he hath not Christs Spirit but he is Ishmael and seeketh or gropeth in his own conceit 16. O thou VVorthy and Pretious Christendom be yet seeing else it will no more shine so clearly to thee go yet to Lazarus into Abrahams Bosom The Six and Twentieth Question Whether the Souls of the Deceased take care about Men their Children Friends and Goods and know see like or dislike their Purposes and Undertakings 1. MY beloved Friend this Question is above all humane Reason and knowledge according to Outward Reason but being we are Abrahams Children therefore we have Abrahams Spirit in Christ And as Abraham looked backward upon the Promise in Paradise and forward upon the fulfilling of the Promise so that he saw in the whole Body of Christ what was to be in the Middle and saw Christ afar off so also we 2. And being you so vehemently long after the Great Mysteries and desire them with earnest seeking giving God the Glory and accounting your self in your high knowledge very unworthy of it and so humbling your self before God therefore God also giveth it you though by so slight and mean an Instrument who accounts himself much more unworthy yet doth not desire to resist his Will thus you are the finding in this Hand and the Cause of attaining it 3. For this Hand knew nothing of the Mystery it sought only Abrahams Faith but Abrahams understanding was also given to it which you have caused by your seeking 4. Now see that you attain also Abrahams Spirit which hath written in the Knowledge and Apprehension of this Hand we will set you it down in a Brotherly manner for we are not your Lord in the Mystery but your Servant 5. Apprehend us aright we are Lazarus and you are in respect of us to be accounted Abraham you have laboured much more then we but we are fallen into your Harvest not of Merit but of the Grace of the Giver that no Tongue might boast before God and say this hath my Vnderstanding done 6. You ask a high Question I understand it not for if I should apprehend it then must I be in the Departed Soul and must be in that Souls Spirit apprehension 7. Nevertheless being we are in Christ one Body have also Christs Spirit therefore we see all in Christ out of one Spirit and have its apprehension for he is in us become Man and all Holy Souls are our fellow Members ALL begotten from or out of ONE and we have all one Will in Christ and the right and true Bosom of Abraham 8. And so now we have gotten Might and Power to Manifest or Reveal unto you that Hidden thing in Christ for our Soul seeth in their Souls not that they press and come to us but we press and go to them for they are in Perfection and we but in Part. 9. And Now we can Answer you not from Reason of the outward World but from or out of the Image of Christ and out of his and our Spirit 10. You ask whether the Souls Departed take care about Humane Matters or Doings and see like or dislike them Now this is to be understood in Three several wayes as to Three sorts of Souls as indeed there are Three distinct kinds of them 11. First I. concerning the Souls that have not yet attained Heaven which-stick in the source quality or pain in the Principle in the Birth these have still humane Matters with the works on them and they search diligently after the Cause of their Detention 12. And therefore many of them come again with the Starry Spirit and walk about in Houses and other Places and appear in Humane Shape and Form and desire this and that and often take care about their Wills and Testaments supposing thereby to get the Blessing of Holy People for their Rest and Quiet 13. And if their Earthly business and Employment stick in them and Cleave to them still then indeed they take care about their Children and Friends and this continueth so long till they sink down into their Rest so that their Starry Spirit be consumed then all is gone as to all care and perplexity and they have no more feeling knowledge thereof but meerly that they see it in the Wonders in the Magia 14. But they touch not the Turba nor seek what is in this World for they are once sunk down from the Turba through Death they desire that no more neither do they take any more care for in care the Turba is stirring for the Souls Will must enter with its Spirit into Earthly things which it would fain forsake for it hardly got rid away from them before it would not cumber it self to let in the Earthly Spirit again 15. This is an Information concerning that one part or sort of Souls and we speak freely and certainly that this Part or sort do no more after they are come to Grace purposely take care about Humane Earthly Matters but about Heavenly Matters which come to them through Mans Spirit they see them and have their Joy therein 16. But there remains this still to be said that a Living Man hath such Power and Authority that he can with his Spirit reach into Heaven to the Souls departed and stir them up often in a Question or a hearty Desire but it must be Earnest there belongeth Faith to the breaking open of a Principle 17. Such a thing we see in Samuel the Prophet whom the King of Israel raised up that he might manifest his Will to him though some look upon it otherwise of whom we say they are blind without apprehension or knowledge and speak their School-Conceits and make meanings and Opinions about that they have no knowledge of in the Spirit and
that is Babel 18. And secondly II. The second Part or sort which sink down in their Dying without a Body they are with the first sort which are now sunk down further then they were all in one and the same Place of the Principle these all take upon them no evil business or Matter wherein the Turba sticketh 19. But as concerning the Living honest vertuous Souls which send their works with their Spirit and Will to them they rejoyce therein and are so Courteous and Friendly and Ready that they appear to Men Magically in their sleep and shew their Good Wayes and often reveal Arts and Skill to them which lie deep hidden in the Secret or Arcanum viz. in the Souls Abysse 20. For while the Earthly Spirit draweth the Mystery before the Soul and holdeth the Soul Captive in the Mystery the Souls Spirit cannot alwayes reach the Deepest secret or Arcannm of the Soul But after the departure of the Body the Soul is free and especially without a New Body that Soul seeth it self and also its Wonders it can indeed to one that is living shew somewhat in the sleeping Magia if the Man be honest or vertuous and hath not awaked the Turba for Dreams are all Magical and thus the Soul without a Body is in the Magia of God 21. Thus know as concerning wicked Matters or Doings the Soul which is departed from the Body entereth not into them unless it be a Damned Soul and that Soul goeth Magically into them and hath its recreation therein and teacheth many in Dreams great Master-pieces of wickedness for it serveth the Devil 22. Now that which an Evil Man desireth that the Devil acted for him very readily for he can better do it by or through a Humane Soul then by or of himself he is too rough and terrifyeth the Magia which astonisheth the Elementary Spirit and awaketh the Body and we acquaint you that all is done Magically in the Will without awakening or stirring up of the Source Quality or pain for No Soul awakeneth or stirreth up its Essences to please Man unless a Man awaken them and disquiet them himself 24. Also there are many pieces of wickednesse in Nigromancy which many times can torment the Spirit of a Man but of No Soul which carrieth about him Christs Substantiality for that Soul is Free 25. The Third Part or sort of Souls Departed are those which are in the Bosom of Abraham in Christ with Heavenly Substantiality those none can stir unless they will themselves that they bear favour to a Soul which is like it self these take not upon them any Earthly Thing at all unless it serve to Gods Honour and Glory and then they are very diligent and restless to reveal somewhat in a Magical Manner 26. But they let in No Turba neither do they pray for us in the presence of God what cometh to them that they have Joy in among the Angels of God for the Angels rejoyce at a Sinner that Repenteth much more the Souls 27. What should they pray for to God for us It lyeth not in their Prayer but in Mans Entring in to God when he pâ—â—teth his Will into God then God's Spirit helpeth him unprayed to by them 28. For his Arms are stretched forth Day and Night to help Man what need then their Praying It is the Will of God that Man should come to him 29. Why then should a Soul be so perverse as to account God to be so severe a Judge that he will not recieve a Converting Sinner such a thing were not agreeable with the apprehension and knowledge of God but if the Blessed Souls see that a Soul with the Spirit presseth to God then they rejoyce that God's Kingdom is increased 30. The Heavenly Soul hath God's Will what God willeth that it willeth also but it is Gods Spirit it self that will help a Converting Sinner 31. The Souls see very well how God's Spirit penetrateth into a Soul if the Souls Will do but give Way and Place â—o if it needeth not the Prayer of any Angel they all wish that God's Kingdom may come into us and God's Will to be done but in the Dominion they give God the Glory 32. But that Men in Popery have prayed to the Great Saints Departed and that they have then appeared to Men and wrought Wonders all that we affirm it is true though perhaps now it be taught to the Contrary yet there is not any true apprehension among them it hath another A. B. C. which neither of the two Parties understand 33. One Faithful Soul layeth hold of the other the Livings Faith hath laid hold of the Deceased Saints Faith and the Faith hath wrought Wonders 34. Yes it is so powerful that it can remove Mountains should then the Pure Faith of the Saints be able to do nothing in the Livings Faith they could even dissolve the World if God would give leave 35. As God hath given leave that the Heathen have been converted by such means when they have seen such Wonders done at the Burial of the Saints 36. Should a Soul in Heaven not be willing to afford its Faith to serve the Glory of God and his Deeds of Wonders the Wonders are done in the Holy Spirit who hath wrought the Wonders through the Faith of both the Parties and they are only the Wonders of God and his Children 37. But that this way is so wholly thrown to the Ground and that now there is so learned a School that it contemneth all Gods Wonders that is Babel and not Spirit it is Envious Pride for a Man to stand up and Cry Come ye all to me here is Christ here is the Gospel Indeed there is Pride Covetousnesse seeking of Honour and Vain Glory own self will an Exalting of Proud Obstinate Babel 38. It is even the Old Antichrist they are young Branches sprung out of the Old Tree they have awakened the Turba with their strong fierce wrathful sap which will root out the whole Tree for God hath said it it is altogether evil and Worm-eaten it must fall 39. For it self is a Young Tree sprung out of the Root even out of the Old Root which will make known the Old Tree what it hath been in its Wonders 40. But we would hereby despise none but we speak thus of our Wonders and say that the Servant shall enter into the House and become Free for the time is near that the Servant should eat with the Sonne and be Merry and rejoyce with him 41. And thus we give you for an Answer to this Question summarily That indeed the Holy Souls know and like our Holy Works but they do not meddle about our false or wicked works for they dwell in another Principle No evil work cometh thither neither do they look upon it or regard it what belongs to the Devil they take no notice of only of what belongeth to their Principle 42. Their Children Parents Friends are all alike to them
Noah what should a scorner do with the Mystery he seeketh only for plenty to Eat and to Drink and looketh how he may satisfie his Pomp wherewith he might Ride on in Babel 42. Thus my Beloved Friend we have given you a short hint of the Enochian Life also what his Office and Condition is as also of Moses and Elias you should further consider of them as a discerning Man for we dare not speak otherwise of it also our Understanding and Will is turned into such a way of Speech and in this place at this time I am not allowed to write more fundamentally with a simple understanding 43. If God permit and that it be given to Us to write somewhat upon the first and also the second Book of Moses more may be opened for the Names that are set down of the Fathers before the Deluge or Flood belong all to the Mystery and there are Great Wonders therein when it will be Day then you shall by them apprehend the whole Course of the World The Six and Thirtieth Question What the Soul of the Messiah or Christ is 1. THis we have explained in our Third Book concerning the Three-fold Life of Man yet seeing every one that readeth this hath not that at hand also because of the Question more must be answered therefore it also shall be set down for you ask in the following Question concerning Christ's Spirit which was obedient and which Christ Commended to his Father 2. Here shall be given to the Old sick Adam a Good reviving Cordial a Medicine for Death that he may be awakened for his Mother will bear or bring forth a young Son who shall live in her Bosom and shall rejoyce at it 3. And now if we will consider of Christ's Soul we must our selves seek it and find it for Christ's Soul is a Hamane Soul conceived in Mary in the twofold Virgin 4. Though we acknowledge the outward Mortal Life in Mary for no Pure Virgin for that which is Mortal hath the Anger and the Turba which breaketh or corrupteth all purity so that no pure Virgin is born of Eve but all are her Daughters 5. And Eve her self was but half a Virgin for Adam was the other half according to the Two Tinctures wherein man appeared in a total entire Virgin and pure Love and God through him as the Original through the Creature which he made out of himself 6. And thus also in one whole or entire person there is a pure Love and Chastity for it seeketh no other Mixture it is it self the Mixture of both the Tinctures viz. of the Souls Tincture and of the Spirits Tincture and therein is power and ability that it can generate a Spirit out of the Fires Tincture which is called Soul and Spirit 7. Which Adam squandred away when he let the Earthly Life captivate him and therefore he must be broken and a Woman be made out of him which must set her Love Delight Longing and Imagination into Adams Tincture if she would be impregnate with a Soul 8. And None can say that Eve before the Touching of Adam was a pure Chast Virgin for as soon as Adam awaked out of sleep he saw her standing by him and imagined suddenly after or into her and took her to him and said This is Flesh of my Flesh and Bone of my Bone she shall be called a she-Man or Woman because she is taken out of Man 9. And she Eve also suddenly Imagined into Adam and one kindled the other in the seeking 10. And where is now the pure Chastity and Modesty It is not Beastial is not the outward Image become a Beast As is sufficiently to be seen in the Will and Substance or Doings that Man doth as a Beast and more foolishly for he hath Reason and rideth on in Reason so senslesly 11. But that it might be remedied and the Image come into One again therefore is the Word which spake the Soul forth out of God's Mouth and by the Holy Spirit breathed it into the Image become Man and is entred into the Earthly Image viz. into the Turba of Destruction 12. And you know very well that the Word hath the Water of the Eternal Life and the Fire of the Deity and out of the Fire the Tincture of the Deity and in the Tincture the Spirit of God which goeth forth out of God's Mouth and in the going forth is the Glance of the Majesty in the working of the Spirit Manifested 13. That very word is in the Virgin of the Wisdom of God and surrounded with the Eternal Wonders and that now out of the Great Love and Humility towards our Image which was destroyed to us in Adam is entered into us again and is in Mary understand in the Earthly Mary but with the Blessing become Man or Incarnate 14. The Blessing is this that to the Soul of Mary the Heavenly Virgin the Wisdom of God was put on which Adam had lost and therefore the Angel called her the Blessed a-among Women 15. No Woman from Adam to this Day had the Heavenly Virgin put on to her but only this Mary and therefore with the Blessing she became Chast and full of Modesty for the Spirit goeth not into the Earthly it Mixeth it self not with the Looking-Glass for that cannot be that the Looking-Glass should be as the Life it self 16. Thus understand us dearly according to its precious Depth Mans Soul is out of God and out of the Eternal but Mans Body is a Looking-Glass of the Eternal Thus hath God put on to the Virgin Mary God's Virgin but in the Souls Principle not in the Earthly Flesh as if she were Deified no she must die as all mankind doth 17. And in that very Virgin hath Gods Word out of God the Fathers Heart assumed the Seed of the Woman viz. the Souls Seed and the first Images Seed which now stood so long time in the Mystery broken 18. And now God's Life came thereinto made again a whole or Entire Image for the Water of the Eternal Life out of God's Heart mixed it self with the Souls Spirit 's Water for the Spirit existeth out of the Water and the Soul is Fire 19. Thus the Word took hold of the Souls Tincture and the Holy Spirit of the Spirits Tincture viz. of the Waters Tincture and out of Both became one Soul and yet the Creature remained distinct from God's Spirit but God's Spirit dwelleth therein and so out of God's Water and Tincture and out of the Seed of Mary out of her Tincture and Water in the high Blessing came one Flesh and Blood so that a Heavenly Man Equally at once in the Earthly became Man or was Incarnate 20. So that a Man might say this is the Womans Son viz. Maries right true bodily natural Sonne with Soul and Body with Flesh and Blood and all whatsoever a Man hath and also God's true Sonne which was generated out of God's Eternal Substance from
Eternity before the Foundation of the World was laid which stood in the Majesty of the Holy Number Three and also in the Body of Mary equally alike at Once 21. And the Soul of Christ belongeth half to the Principle of this World and half to the Holy Spirit for the Soul of Christ made use of the outward Spirits Air of the Stars or Constellations with the Power and Vertue of the Elements and also of the Word of God and of Divine food for such a Man was Adam in Innocency 22. Thus hath God in Christ Regenerated us anew and thus are we born anew in Christ out of God's Word and Spirit through the Water of the Eternal Life thus are we Gods Children in CHRIST and if we give our selves up into Christ out from our Reason then we are indued with Christs Body and our Will and Spirit liveth from or of CHRIST in US and we in him 23. Thus you may understand what Christ's Temptation was viz. that the New Regenerate Man should now hold out or endure Adams temptation to try whether his Soul could stand in God and there he was tryed in the Turba to see whether he could rightly stand in the Three Principles and rule over the Outward and therefore his food of the outward Life was withdrawn from him that the inward Life might overpower the outward and eat of the Word of the Lord and hold the outward in its own power and full Omnipotency and also hold Death Captive that it should not destroy the outward Life this must needs be a Great Combate 24. And then the other two Temptations were these he was tryed whether Man would live in full obedience to God and let God work in him or whether he would lift up himself again and free himself from God as Lucifer did and therefore the Devil must tempt him seeing this Man was to possess his Kingly or Royal Throne 25. Therefore the Devil complained that he was not able to stand the Mother of the fierce Wrathfulness drew him so hard therefore it was now permitted to him that he should tempt and try it in this Man and should set before him that which was set before himself and if this Man did overcome he should be the Devils Judge who was found to be a Lyar. 26. For he Tempted him in the second and third Assault fully to try whether he would flie in his own self might and he himself had done and had awakened the Anger or whether he would put his Trust alone in God and live in God with Will and Substance or Deed as a Child in Obedience to the Father and this he tryed so long with him as Adam was in the Temptation before his sleep 27. Thus must we also Continually be Tempted but in Christ who hath overcome we can have the Victory for his Soul is our Soul and his Flesh our Flesh if we trust in him and give up our selves wholly to him as Christ gave himself up to his Father 28. And thus beloved Friend you understand what Christ's Soul and Body is viz. Our Soul and Body if we cleave to God but if not then we are rent off and are according to the outward Life fallen home to the Spirit of this World viz. to the perished corrupt Adam and according to the Soul fallen home to the Devil in the Anger of God seek this more at large in our other Writings where you shall find the whole ground of Heaven and of this World The Seven and Thirtieth Question What the Spirit of Christ is which was Obedient and which he Commended into his Fathers Hands 1. THis is that Great Jewel for which we highly rejoyce that we know it so that we know our selves what we are and it is more dear and acceptable to us then the whole World for it is that Pearl for which one sold all his Goods and bought that Pearl of which Christ speaketh 2. For it is more profitable to Man then the whole World it is more Noble and Precious then the Sun for the Noble or Precious Stone of the Wise Men the Philosophers Stone lyeth THEREIN it hath the Mysterium Magnum The Great Mystery Heavenly and Earthly and there is nothing like it in this World but only the mean simplicity which standeth still and generateth or awakeneth no Turba this hath the Jewel hidden in it as the Gold lyeth in the Stone 3. And continueth unconsumed if a Robber with the Earthly Turba cometh not upon it and destroyeth it and yet attaineth it not so is also the own self-Reason in the Mystery 4. Therefore we dare and can with good ground say that a simple Layick which in simplicity without much Skill and Art cleaveth to God hath the Mysterium Magnum better and surer also undestroyed then a high learned Doctor that flyeth aloft in his Reason and destroyeth the Jewel and setteth it in Babel this indeed will not relish well but we are not much concerned in that we should set forth the Truth and baulk or shun none 5. Now when we speak of Christ's Spirit then Reason understandeth the Soul or indeed the outward Life's Spirit which standeth in power and vertue and winking of the Stars and Elements but no it is another thing wherein the Image of God standeth the outward Spirit belongeth not to the Deity but to the Wonders 6. We have truly and clearly mentioned before but since it is hinted expresly in the Question that Christ commended it to his Father in his Dying therefore we must speak thereof how it was 7. You have sufficiently conceived before in what manner the Soul is the Center of Nature the Original of Life and the Mobility as viz. a Fire of God which should be turned and inclined into Gods Eternal Will wherein it is Originally generated out of the Magick seeking and out of the Eternal Nothing is become a Great Mystery wherein ALL Things lye The Deity with all the Three Principles and all whatsoever is or is called Being or Substance or Thing 8. Also it is explained how out of the Fire the Light is generated and the Spirit-Air and then how the Fire draweth the Spirit-Air again into it self and so continually bloweth up it self again and so with the Light and the Air and the source or quality of the Fire is the Life of its own self 9. We have also mentioned moreover unto you concerning the Noble or Precious Tincture which thus ariseth in the Light in which is the Light 's meekness which is Generated out of the Anguish as a Mortification or killing and sprouteth forth out of the Mortification as another life of another source or quality where the Fires-source or quality is apprehended to be a Tincture like a driving forth of a Spirit and yet also is desirous and so draweth the power and vertue of the Light into it self and maketh it be a Substance viz. Water 10. Wherein the two Forms become apprehended one according to