lower Orb. Therefore abide till full â—â—edged in Wing ye shall be able to fly and mount away when any creeping thing or hurtful Beast shall set upon you from this low World then fly to your munition Rock This is allotted for your more constant place of Dwelling for to be which so near bordering is upon the Heavens of Heavens where the immense Deity is Resident Who may appear while we keep oft to his Eagle Off-spring For when you come hither to Paradise there is still another Principle that must be passed through which will be very easy when ye shall bear this risen Eagle Body on you How suddenly will the ghostly Dove bring you into the very third Heavens there to see your Jesus with your Eagle Eye as Iohn Personally did when he upon the Wing of the Spirit was risen high Possibly somewhat of these Glories may be seen before ye actually enter in For blessed will they be called who are flying Angels that can declare what they have heard or seen in these higher Worlds These are they who shall bring down glad Tidings to the elect Number When any of these begin to sound the Tabernacle of God will out of the Heavens descend Oh what of Flesh shall live When the mighty Eagle shall call her own away to behold what she doth unfold within the third Principle The fight of the Eye and the hearing of the Ear in that eternal Sphere will so fill all with the Melody and Joy of the holy Ghost as nothing of the earthly Sence of things shall or can enter into this Eagle Brood Now hereby try your selves For the understanding of the foregoing Mystery you must then know every one of us have within our selves an inward eternal Man and an outward Man Now the inward eternal Man hath within himself his own eternal Adam and his own eternal Eve His eternal Adam is his own eternal Spirit within himself and his own eternal Eveâ— it is his own eternal Soul within himself This eternal Adam and Eve in themselves are now to be considered in their fallen and lapsed State as both being separated from their first true original Mate to wit from the eternal Virgin Wisdom of God who was united to both these in Paradise For they both sinned in Paradise then lost the Life of the Virgin Wisdom of God and their Virgin Purity in Paradise And therefore their true Mate being lost out of themselves in Paradise they were driven out of Paradise For when as before the eternal Spirit in Union with the eternal Soul both being united to their true Mate the Virgin Wisdom of God could and might have brought forth a holy Generation in their own Image and Similitude like unto themselves in Holiness and Righteousness and in Perfection But after that the eternal Spirit and Soul had sinned in Paradise that is after the eternal Adam and the eternal Eve belonging to the inward eternal Man had transgressed in Paradise and were ejected out then they lost their fructifying Power and then they could not bring forth a holy Off-spring Now this eternal Eve which is the eternal Soul belonging to the inward Man is called to return to her Restoration State and to return again to her first State in Paradise and to reunite her self again to her lost Mate to wit to the eternal Virgin Wisdom of God and then her Womb should be fruitful again and she shall bring forth none but Eagle Birds none but a holy Off-spring to make up a perfect Church on Earth without Spot or Wrinckle Here is now a Prophesie a Prediction that now the time is come that this eternal Eve which is no other but the inward eternal Soul in its lapsed State whose Womb hath been hitherto barren and unfruitful but now the eternal Virgin Wisdom of God will sow her Virgin Seed into her Womb and she shall be fruitfull and shall bear Twins and bring forth a perfect Eagle Off-spring and they shall make a perfect Church on Earth And now the Soul in her Restoration shall again be fruitful in Child-bearing in bringing forth Children to inherit perfect Justification and perfect Sanctification and Salvation but then this Eve must continue in Faith and Charity and Holiness with Sobriety as the Apostle mentioneth 1 Tim. 2. 15. The restored Soul by its Union with her true Guide and Mate the Virgin Wisdom of God shall bring forth a Royal Off-spring presented to be the strong Eagle Brood and this is the Work that Wisdom is about to do to reunite her self to the eternal Soul which is the eternal Eve as her true Mate and Guide and to sow her Virgin Seed into the Womb of Eve to break the Head of the Serpent then Eve shall be no more deceived but now shall become the Mother of Celestial and Heavenly Children all her Children shall possess Mount Sion and the new Ierusalem State of Glory This is the eternal Eve the eternal Soul which now shall be the Mother of all Living that is all her Posterity shall now feed upon the Tree of Life and thereby become all eternal immortal and incorruptible And all this shall be brought about by Wisdom's Art and Contrivance to wit by reuniting her self to the Soul and thereby becoming again the Souls true Mate and Guide This is the State of Restoration and this is that State that Wisdom is bringing forth upon the Earth and in this Figure of the Eagle birth Wisdom Prophesieth and Predicteth what is near at hand to be fulfilled and brought to pass to egg us forward in the belief of it to be done within our own eternal Man in the work of Regeneration But now there is belonging to the outward Man the mortal Man the immediate Product of the Fall a mortal Adaâ—â— and a mortal Eve The mortal Adam is the mortal Spirit of the outward Man and the mortal Eve is the mortal Soul of the mortal Man She is in her fallen State the Mother of all Living that is of all living mortal Spirits with mortal Souls and with mortal Bodies Her Womb in this state of Apostacy hath been very Fruitful She hath ever since brought forth in all Ages a mortal Off-spring subject to the death of Mortality who have only fed upon the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil. She hath brought forth a fleshly Off-spring in her likeness and similitude and hath had a long Day in the World Now the Prophesie and Prediction is not concerning this mortal Eve belonging to the outward Man in relation to her Restoration but it is to be understood of the eternal Soul that eternal Eve that hath been so long barren in her lapsed state But now Sophia will once more espouse her self unto her and she shall bring forth a holy Issue a birth of Divine eternal Eagles to make up a perfect Church on Earth whereof Christ will be the Head and King to reign over This is only wrought for explanation sake that you might not
transparent form of God having no more Shadow of Mutation to prevent those higher Degrees of Glorification which but by the ascended cannot be known or felt Hereupon I called all in me to account to be judged by the Superiour Will and Spirit of Light which gave me to see what was in Bondage and what was free that would not now be any longer in Bondage to the Condemnation of Sin Having that Word brought to me to search and find out that Salt Stone that would make all perfectly sound and savoury which the Corrupter had most subtlely defiled For I saw for every Sacrifice to be salted with this Stone of Fire was absolutely necessary for in it lay hid all Perfuming Sweets Therefore an express Charge came down to re-assume it to our selves as the choice Altar-Stone where the unknown Superscription should be written Oh then said the Spirit of Truth ye cannot ask any thing fruitlessly as ye have done do but will and it shall be done Oh that the Most High could have such as were so fixed in Body Soul and Spirit to this all-seasoning Stone of Wisdom as to trust them with this Jewel of Superiority so as to leave all Matters whether great or small with them in whom his Heart might rest That all and every Circumstance of things might be managed for those Ends and Services which might agree with the In-written Name that as a Fountain of Oyl doth run into those Vessels which are seasoned by this Salt Stone of Fire For know in Verity the most Holy hath no pleasure to see his own in this World to live and walk up and down in so mean a Capacity unskilful to set a Foot or Hand to what lieth in the Divine Magia Root Which you may lawfully stir up since for you Christ the Lord hath made the Way by ascending on High for to subdue all things under him that so of the same Power he might subordinately pass away from himself unto you Who calleth you to draw out the Purchase of his Death by like dying and by like immortal Living according to the penetrating quality Which by stirring up may effect thereby great and mighty things answerably to the Wisdom and Soveraignty of Holiness which all as in Inclosure doth lie about this holy thing for you You little know what a Principality is nigh to you but your Superiour Will hath yet somewhat that doth clog its Wheel which is designed for to be the running Chariot whereunto the Spirit of Infinite Might must joyn Now then by all means seek the unthralling of your Will for could nothing mingle therewithal but what did fall from the pure Deity how would you find God all-active in and through you But herein lieth the great Nicety to keep the Will-Spirit untouched that nothing from the Bryery Root doth twist about it if this is kept spotless and free what may you not find Power to do with the Most Holy Observe and keep this great Secret it is from great and high Love that I have given an insight to thee that so all Offences may be removed who would you should come to Reign over all of the Earthly Further of this I besought the Lord might be revealed For the great Depravation was in the matter of the Will for it was shewn me it was unequally yoked and had married strange Flesh from which there must be a Separation by Death Had not the Royal Will yielded to the tempting Eve but had kept its Priority how great and mighty a Lord might Man have been in and over the whole Creation of God having absolute Power in himself But hearkening to the Dalilah that is still acted by the Serpent-like Spirit to this day it becometh successively despoiled of this Lock of Strength and Power and so hereby the Shame of our Nakedness doth appear as to what Cloathing we might have been made known in Had not Adam thus lost his Dignity and so hereby brought forth Fruit unto Death running through all his Posterity in and after the Similitude of his Sin Which hath brought Impotency deflowring us of all that Spiritual Might of this we need no other Proof then what we do each one carry about with us But the great Thing is Oh thou who art promised as the mighty Restorer of this Breach What must we do who are so unavoidably overtaken with the same Thral and come bound with the same twisting Cords which hath altogether weakened the force of our Wills To this great Query as I humbly pursued so I had my desire resolved February the 7th 1676 7. This know and well consider that your Original is from high extracted Matter which is so Eternal that it cannot dye but it stands at the pleasure of the Will what way it will drive forth it self into For now it is a distinct Essence and had it not been corrupted from that simplified Being of Purity you could never have fallen into such an dishonourable state wherein the Royalty of your Power is so withdrawn as ye have no defence nor can make against those numerous Circumstances of Evils that do conspire where they may find degenerated ground for to work upon Now then yet for a more clear and perfect Information what further on your behalf is to be done that the choice faculty of the Will may come to regain its Primary Liberty that so it may have all powerful success as before it was enthral'd by the tempting Eve No other way there is but for the Will to be born again that thereby it may recover its Virgins Might and Force then every right Essence will move and open from pure Nature's Center This Birth is not according to the Will of Man but God Who out and from an infinite Pity and Love is come by Water Blood and Spirit to recover and lift up your relasped Wills that so they may stand upon their true native Prerogative being also set free from the flattering Dalilah which includes the whole variety of all attractive Delights from this Principle that as with Cords hath bound the Will down Oh now then as beloved of your God for ever drink in this Word of Counsel and herein joyn and work with the Spirit of your Lord Jesus who is come to perswade and allure you to fuffer joyfully the breaking up of your whole Earthly Family Which only consisteth of what is indged but lawful and expedient by the false Seers who are Babylon's Merchants But to you I have other things revealed and do incite you to be at variance with whatever will not consist with the new-born Will Who is to be matched with her who is the real Bride and Heir to whom a great Retinue doth belong of which Family you are to bear the Name only Therefore let it not seem grievous to rend and divide from what is of this evil World for verily hereby as God is true ye shall sustain no loss For your Superiour Will will hereby be so free chast pure
Death shall not at all hurt you let not your Souls faint but direct your Prayers to the Holy Temple that so through great fervency from these nether Depths you may there into enter and from Death's Bands ye shall beloosed The Body of mortality as the Fish shall vomit you up when great IEHOVAH shall once the Word give forth These Openings are still for your Support February the 21st 1676 7. I saw a Vision thus presented to me I did see a green Cloath-Covering which was sown over a White Sheet which was let down and I was bid to unrip it which after a metaphorical manner was done I know not how And under it there were Creeping Creatures that were of a devouring Quality then under the Linnen there appeared a Lamb pure and white with sparkling Eyes as Flames of Fire Which thing considering it was thus opened unto me This was the Face of the Covering that the Word of Command came forth to have unripped and taken off By which the very inward ground might be discovered where the fatned Beasts did lurk under who by the Covering were bounded But now the shame of their Nakedness did appear so as they crept away and could no longer abide by reason of the Lamb's sparkling Eye which caused the Remove to be made saying to me Now give place who am come to scatter and destroy all of this evil quality from before my Face I can no longer bear this Covering upon me this partition Vail must be rolled away even that dark Body of Sin which hath been as a weight upon the Lamb of God Whose Eyes do pierce to find out every thing that hath made a breach that so the Heart of God should not be concealed from you into which you could never see so long as this thick dark Covering remained whereby hid hath been the very Original matter that hath brought in all the Woe and Sorrow For which purpose by way of this Similitude you may come hereby to understand the force of that great Love that moveth to lay all naked and bare that so through the medium of that light Eye which did lie under covert for a time ye might see the Image of that Sin-breeding Beast that could multiply into such encrease under the green Covering Whose Seat and breeding-place shall make discovery to the most innermost Ground unto thee that so thou mayst be at rest from the source of Sin 's working property Let us in the first place now make enquiry into the Originality of this Monster how he came to have a Being For in the beginning of the Paradisical Creation all was created by God comely good and perfect how came then this strange Essence to be brought in to dispoil and alter the whole Heavenly Course of things in this Paradisical Creation Now know that before this there was a Creation of Angelical Hosts as an immediate product from the everlasting Being Who delighted to generate Thrones Mights and Powers that so God through distinct Existencies of Celestial Spirits of that high Angelical Order might come to manifest his Attributes which before lay void and hid in an Eternal Stillness So as here was the Angelical World in pre-existency before the Paradisical The Superiour Heavens were furnâ—shed in the first Place with Dignities suited for God's own peculiar Habitation Of which Number there was a Spirit of high Elevation that did awaken in some of them who were Principalities in this Kingdom to exalt themselves equal or above the Lord their Maker For which cause being cast out from the most meek and holy Presence they consulted how to spoil and infect having great Envy against God's new Creation and formation of Man in and after the express Image of himself This blew up their Coals of Jealousie and fiery Indignation which as deadly Arrows were soon sent forth namely so soon as Adam came to have an existency He must be tried by this subtle Serpent And the first onset was whether they could by their Magical Art cast him into a deadly Sleep that so thereby his Impotency might be manifested stupifying his seven high graduated Faculties Who hereby before he was aware did loose his Virgin generating strength and whereas it was said That God cast him into that Sleep the meaning is God suffered it and permitted the probation to come upon him to see whether he could stand this first Insinuation which was by some secret Poyson that he had drunk in from the fallen Spirits who had somewhat already of their evil Seed cast in In that God said Seeing Man is already fallen from that primary force and strength that he cannot bring forth from that Virgin Female property Now it will not be good for him to be alone he shall have a Companion answerable to his present state which is already lower by many degrees then when the pure immortal Breath did enter in But had Adam with his Eve here staid and had not been brought in a further Premunire Mankind had not seen the Sin fatal Death of Mortality But the Serpent seeing his Invisible Sorcery had taken so good â—ffect he now is more bold to adventure upon the second Tryal suiting his Temptation more subtlely telling them they should be as Gods Which was an inducing Argument at which Sugar-Bait they presently nibled and did eat of it and in that very moment were turned into that mortal Beastly shape the Figure whereof you do to this Day wear But well had it been if this had been all the injury but oh the Serpently Seed was cast in there who at once sent in that Poyson that hath had its death operation ever since Thus you see the Originality from whence ye have derived your Earthly Life of Mortality which is so inherent that as a boiling Source it is maintained from this strange introduced Fire so as though you are in continual Labour to scum off the Filth thereof yet it still renews again So while the root of this corrupt Matter remains your toil fear and care will have no end Now what is it think ye must enter in so deep as to suck out the Serpent's deadly Sting that hath made all this disorder in Nature Many Medicines have been applied and some have been safe and undoubted of yet they have not reached the place of Sin 's Conception to destroy both the Serpently Seed with the first Earthly Eve which is the Mother of all Living in the Earthly Property Her Womb is fruitful still to bâ—iâ—g forth Viperous Thoughts and evil Earthly Motion from a flowing Source throughout all Generations Now you will say how and by what means shall this be remedied You cry the Power is not in us how can that come to be nullified that is so essentially in us The Boughs may while but tender Boughs be bent and when strong grown they may be cropt but the stock as a deep grounded Oak our Arm is too short to reach We cannot move it the very Earth will
Stone yet in the Earth again Who will open in some such first that in a seperated Mind and Spirit do wait herein as Virgins not as with a double Eye to look forward and backward up and then down no such unsteady Spirit will ever be taken in Therefore the Spirit of Jesus doth give you this seriously to weigh as a seasonable Caution who would that this Prophecy might be fulfilled on you Oh pray for Stability and constancy continually March the 8th 1676. A Vision which I saw I with another Person was walking and conferring about the things of God in a by-place where no resort of Creatures use to be nor any did we see But suddenly lifting up my Eyes upon a lofty Tree I saw an Eagle's Nest they bâ—ing fledged did all present themselves to view The old one was flown from them to bring Provision to them At which sight of these young Eagles we who walked together consulted how to take them and to bring them away as a Prize While thus considering how to climb the Tree we were on a suddain carried level with the Nest and did not know how we got so high But one Eagle I did see had fluttered out and hung by the Twig of a Tree all martyred the Legs and the Neck all Bloody and broke The rest suffered themselves to be taken though they were so strong and fledged as they might have flown from us But that other Person took the Number of them which were Six and I did receive them into my Apron and so as strangely we were let down from this high Place as we were drawn up to it After this I set the Eagles down and they did very tamely eat Bread which I did provide for them I did remember nothing further hereof March the 9th 1676. But when I came to call over this Vision with all the Circumstances of it much from the Lord was opened to me from it Whose Spirit did immediately open this as he did the Parable to his Disciples as when he appeared in Person upon the Earth For this Word did through me pass Thy Jesus is at hand in Spirit to give the meaning of these presented Similies that so a Teaching by and through all ye may obtain for the perfecting of what doth remain behind that so ye may be gathered up among the Eagle train with that mighty Throne Eagle to Reign The Interpretation of the Vision Then was the Vision which I saw thus Interpreted The lofty Tree which thou didst see in that desert Walk presents that living Tree whereto none can reach but such who be of an Eagle birth whose Eye is fixed steddily on high where that mighty she Eagle hath fixed her Nest as in the munition of Rocks there to hatch her Number Seven Who then is this that favour hath found and that leave should be given to build upon this Tree of Life where of the holy one hath given such charge to the watching Cherub In plainness of Speech then it is Eve her self that hath lain long as dead under the Tree of Good and Evil whose time of raising is very nigh But with what Body will she now be raised up Look and see what is Prophecied of her Then I was pointed to the 6th of the Canticles ver 8. Who is she that looketh forth in the Morning fair as the Moon clear as the Sun terrible as an Army with Banners Then again ver 13. which was opened to me to be the Resurrection Call to lâ—psed Eve Return return O Shulâ—mite return return Thuâ— the lapsed Soul of the inward eternal Man is this fallen Eve here she is called to return to her Restoration State that we may again see her as bringing forth another more happy Generation a true Eagle Off-spring indeed But how and after what manner shall this be My Spirit was in deep Query as also when it should appear Then it was thus said Know ye not that Eve lost her Virgin Eagle Body and so hath long been sown into a slumbring Death in Folly Weakness and Dishonour But now the Life-Tree hath so fluently conveyed it self in this long Vacation as to raise Eves dead Body in the Strength and Honour of the Eternal Virgin Wisdom of God So as old Eve will now come forth as a mighty strong terrible Eagle And henceforth will more wisely build her Nest than at first she did through the Lord's permission For now she will be dignified with the Spirit of Virgin Wisdom to outvie the Serpents Subtilty according as it is written She now will build her House or Nest more sure to wit upon seven Silver Pillars Which do present the seven Eagle Birds which were seen in Vision they Wisdoms fiâ—st Brood shall be through Eves Wombs Restoration who will bring forth a most glorious Church in the Earth without Spot or Wrinkle Wisdom hath made choice of Eve for to be her Mate that is the lapsed Soul of the inward Man whose Hand must help to build this Nest for her Thus choice Eagle Spirits will be raised up out of old Eves Dust for this use and service to be Members of this perfect Church on Earth You may evidently see with an Eagle Eye that thus and after this sort a new Virgin Body must be raised up by Virgin Wisdom in this World for the Spouse and Church of Christ and so for every Member of that Body and so consequently for every lapsed eternal Soul to be cloathed upon with its new Virgin Body Oh! who then will strive first to mount and fly up in Spirit liberty hereunto being granted from the Power of the risen Body to prepare the First Matter for this Nest Because this Tree of Life is so pure that nothing but what is of its own must come upon it Which are the young sprouting Twigs and golden Leaves whereof the matter is to be which are no other then as in the Mystery Hereby they signifie a pure solid weighty Off-spring of holy Cogitations Words and Actions Which do ye skilfully unite for this purpose bâ—inging nothing out of the low â—â—ruâ—â—y Principle to enclose here Then your defence will be mighty and sure and your Bread and Waters will be serene The true Eagle Bird need not fly far the Tree of Life so nigh here are still fresh Fruits upon the Branches from it by no means start aside but keep close upon the Nest. You cannot yet be able to conceive what here by abiding close may be brought forth from this vertual Eagle Body to wit Throne Eagle Powers mighty to ascend to the number seven But if any shall look again downward into this Principle to descend before it is fully Feather'd great damage and hurt will necessarily accrue as in the Similitude I did see Therefore cauâ—ion take and let none trust themselves that would be of this Number to wander out before their time Ye had need to be strong as Eagles to encounter with what aversness you may meet withal from this
think that That which is written and manifested from above in the crystalline Glass of Divine Wisdom is mere Confusion Therefore you must distinguish between Eve and Eve between the eternal Eve and the mortal Eve the one belonging to the inward eternal Man the other to the outward mortal Man and the Prophesie is only to be understood of the eternal Soul and not of the mortal Soul Secondly You must distinguish in the eternal Eve between her fallen state and her restored state for the Prophesie is not what she is at present but what she is to be in her restored state In the Third place You are to consider that the eternal lapsed Soul is unable to effect it but it is the Work of God's eternal Wisdom who will freely espouse her self to her again after this long time of separation and alienation and then she shall be the Mother of a holy Generation Her Womb shall bring forth no other Children but such as shall make their Nest upon the Tree of Life And these things premised and understood the Representation will be easily understood by Wisdom's Eagles and confirmed sufficiently by the Holy Scriptures For you may read that Adam and Eve were both created eternal immortal and incorruptible Creatures in their Paradisical state and they both were created perfect without any spot of Sin or blemish of Weakness while they stood in their Paradisical Innocency and they were both to have brought forth an eternal holy Generation a perfect Church on Earth had they remained in Paradise But sinning in Paradise they thereby lost their Virgin Power and so consequently their Virgin Birth and they could not bring forth a perfect Generation having transgressed and lost their Virgin Power through Wisdom's withdrawing and estrainging her self therefore they were driven out out of Paradise But now being banished from their Paradisical Power and having both eaten of the Tree of Mortality and having both of them both Adam and Eve cloathed themselves with mortal Cloathing with a mortal Spirit that is with a mortal Adam and with a mortal Soul that is with a mortal Eve and with a mortal Body of Flesh. Now the mortal Eve hath been very Fruitful in the Birth of her Mortality but the eternal Soul the eternal Eve that Eve typed out in the state of Paradise to be the representative Mother of a perfect Generation to make up a perfect Church on Earth The Womb of this eternal Eve hath been barren to this Day but now Wisdom Prophesieth and Predicteth that she will look upon this eternal Eve this eternal Mother and will make her the fruitful Mother of a joyful Generation but she will reject the outward earthly Eve and will make her Womb to be barren that hath exalted her self in the Multitude of her Children but they were only to be the Brats of Babylon But the Children of the eternal Eve shall be the Children of Mount Sion and the Children of the New Ierusalem And this is the meaning of this Vision and divine Presentation for to support those that wait for Wisdoms Day to appear in Eves Birth through the eternal Souls Restoration in Union with eternal Wisdom It is not only the inward Man the eternal Adam that is an eternal Spirit with his Mind Will and Senses that shall now be restored but also his eternal Eve this is his eternal Soul withal his Affections and Passions shall be also restored And though the holy Scriptures make mention chiefly of the first Adamical Man's Restoration but yet it also mentioneth Eves Restoration I say the Womans Restoration as well as the Man's It is also clear that the whole inward eternal Man shall be Restored and not only one part of him not only the Will-Spirit which is but the superiour part of the inward eternal Man commonly called the first Adam that sinned but also his eternal Eve that is the eternal Soul the inferiour part of the inward eternal Man called the Woman this shall be Restored also So that the whole Man with his Spirit and Soul with his Adam and Eve shall be Restored in the Day of his Restoration when divine Wisdom shall espouse and contract her self to the inward Man Oh blessed Day Come dear Wisdom and finish this Act of Restoration in the Body Soul and Spirit of the inward eternal Man who is hid within the outward March the 10th 1676. This Day we were set upon by that strong Warriour that had assumed a poor corporeal Shape to shoot forth his venemous Arrows in great bitterness for to disturb us Which Grievance I did present in Prayer to my God that these raging Spirits might be bounded My Spirit crying and bewailing this wrathful boyling Cauldron that the Infernal dark Powers had kindled the Fire hereunto that so unsavoury Fumes do Daily as Scurn herefrom rise I besought then the Lord that if by any means both she and we might be delivered from these Buffetings and serpently Stingings My Spirit crying Oh Lord what have we done that this foaming tempestuous Sea must still roar about our Ears Is it needful it should be so Then reveal thy Mind herein still further to us Upon which I quietly reposed committing the whole of this Concern to that mighty One from whom both the Help and Power must only come to allay all of this boisterous Nature About break of Day this Word came to me saying Behold and see it is but a Worm that is of no moment who thus troubleth you only the subtilty of the Serpent hath entred to work through it but if you knew your own Spirit of Might and Fortitude ye might easily it suppress and bring all of this under and â—o nought Then again this Word came saying To what end is that Nest prepared upon the Tree of Life Is it not that you might fly away from all these hurtful Beasts Why do ye walk upon their Ground corrupting your pure spiritual Minds while ye do talk with serpently Worms Consider that to you both is given an Eaglewing that whenever you will its Rayâ— out-spread it will soon release you from all prickling Thistles Therefore give charge to your fellow Eagle from him who is the holy Watcher that henceforth ye wander not out from that munition Rockâ— where ye have that which is more weighty to regard than all of this low Oâ—b Then this Word run like Lightnâ—ng through me Oh faint not but as mighty Eagles renew your Strength and then ye will have rest from out all Tribulation Then this Word immediately also followed Though the evil One moves in the form of a Worm yet fear not for ye shall bruise him as a Worm March the 11th 1676. In my first Sleep in the Night time many magical Workings and Ideas were presented to me As first a Figure of a Woman with a Crown upon her Head who seemed to me to be but of a small Stature but her Visage was bright as the Sun and clear as the Moon with a
building of great fortitude and strength it was compacted so within it self as nothing by many miles could come near to it All the scituation of it was green and pleasant but the ascent to it was so high as it seemed impossible for any to come up thereunto who had not the Wings of a Dove Neither could I discern any Road or Path-way thither After the representation hereof was passed away leaving much thoughtfulness in me I had for that present time this word given to me That this separated Building was called the City of strength Some three nights after as I was in a slumber this high Mountain appeared again and I saw two Persons beckoning out of that place to come up then I attempted to ascend or to walk up to them but found my Corporeity so weighty upon me as I could not by any means at that present make up thither which caused great anxiousness in me for my will was very earnest to make up to that desired place April the 23d 1677. A further Discourse upon this high Mountain Upon which I moved my Lord who was nigh in Spirit why such inviting Ideas should so attract both Heart and Eyes and yet no might or power to come up to that holy Mountain upon which this glorious City stood which would be strength and fortitude from all sufferings and evils which while below this Mountain we are obâ—oxious to Upon which complaint the springing word thus said how is it that thy soul is hereat disquieted that thou canst not possess so immediately what is made known to thee in Vision and Prophecy The ground hereof is known to Wisdom who also will satisfie thee why this cannot yet be attainable First consider thy present Existency that it is in a very low degree inferior to the Angelical Sphear nay hardly meet for what might be enjoyed in the Paradisical Orb. That pure leavening Unction hath not gone through Body Soul and Spirit so as to change throughout into its own Nature which hath hindred you For nothing of corporeal matter could ever thither up ascend though the Will and Spirit put forth with great earnestness out thereunto But then again be it given ye to understand that this presentation doth signifie the reviving the remembrance of what hath been prophesied in foregoing Ages For Similitudes will go before to usher in the real thing The Preludiums of which have so long slept that some fresh warnings hereof will be given to them that wait for and believe in their day to see the Kingdom of God in its height of glory As this City is a true figure hereof which seems yet to be at a great distance from this low World as to its mighty height Which is a Confirmation to that old Prophecy the Mountain of the Lords house is established above all moâ—ntains and thereto will be the flowing of Dove Spirits as to their own habitation From hence a sweet and fresh Manifestation by way of a renewed Prophecy did open from those words That it shall come to pass in the last days and which thus spake That the Lot of this fulfilling Prophecy might be witnessed by some in this Age. For which end this Transient Vision of the City was shewed for to quicken and revive the hopes of those who were Mourners to see themselves remote herefrom because of the wonderful distance and height in the situation thereof which caused such anxiousness through their own insufficiency to reach up thither as not seeing any possibility to come to God's Holy Palace where only was our hoped for freedom But while I was in this demur and fear a swift Messenger from this high and lofty Place did reach out his hand to me and suddainly this House which was so far off was now to me as nigh For I did see it pass by me as in a clear Glass-case as if it had run upon a Chariot Wheel so swift that I could only spy through the Glass a light transparent Glory Which left me in no little Concern because not taken in hereinto But that word was spoken presently for support Thou canst not follow now but shalt afterwards Then did the Comforter commune of these things further unto me revealing the mystery of this City as to its consistency It s Building is of a threefold quality as to the making out of its glorious Variety The first foundation-matter was all Saphire-like of such virtue and clarity as it extracts the Jasperstone and so consequently the the ghostly Ruby of which three this City is compacted And is exalted above all degrees of created beings that none can come to dwell here within this deified place till a high Chymical Virtue do proceed from each stone in this Building for a separated operation For these stones will attract only out of the Soul and Spirit what is their own Therefore expect no less then three baptizing fires to pass upon you before ye can be Inhabitants in this transparent City of Glass The Saphire which is the Fathers fiery Property operates in the Spirit of Salts searching quality to find out all corruptibility Then secondly Christ the Jasper-light sends out his warm fire Blood-stone both to purge cleanse and heal Then the third dispensive Power will let out such a flood of Oyl of his own high persumed Nature mingling all through the foregoing Celestial fires in a blessed light flame as will burn away the first gross Elemental Matter which hath prevented the Spirits ascent into this Mountain of the Lord's House But however draw you near to the foot of this City-mountain which while ye fit therein waiting this very Mountain may melt and before you bow And this City which is called everlasting Righteousness and Strength will through its pure constellative virtue exhale and draw you up into it self Where ye then ever will be with the Deity in Berill flaming Bodies and Spirits according to the ghostly Purity of might as those who are ready for this spiritual and suddain flight April the 26th 1677. As I was considering of the openings which I had of that Vision relating unto the Cherubim-birth which was hatched under the Hand of the Power This Query arose in me how the Spirit of this New Creature was sustained And which way it could draw in that food that constituted it to be of that strength and excellency of Body and Spirit that it could mount away as a Dove into an unknown Orb Ah my Lord what manner of Birth is this Shall such a Birth ever be known to have existency in this terrestial sphere Sure such a Birth is only meet to be Born where is a pure and unmixed Element which may not be in strife against it For verily it is hard and very difficult for such a Birth to be nursed and brought up to perfection where all things work cross rising up against it Because it is a strange Child that beareth not this worlds Image as for example in our Lord Jesus his
of those Mansions that are near to me let them be driven out for the present Therefore let this suffice from the Scriptures themselves not to mention those particular Idea's and Manifestations that to some it hath been given to see these several Heavens which upon others cannot be imposed for to believe who yet have not those anointed Eyes given to see withal But surely there are some standing in the figure of the Body Whose Spirits have roved to and fro to see these several Mansions with Spirits of all sizes and degress who are herefor designed Only hereout excluding those who are for the Dragon's Kingdom Who do pass away in a reprobate sense out of the Body Those left-hand Goats have no portion within these Eternal Gates a deep Gulf is fixed It is only of the Sheep and Lambs that I am to treat who have found out this new and only Life path-way Who though they are not come to the top-stone of perfection before they see the dissolution of the body Yet having attained to a good degree they may come unto the very next Throne Region and there awhile stay till they have drawn and assumed a heavenly clarity that is such an Essential Body against which no exceptions by the highest Courts of Dignities can be objected These now are the highest degrees of those who before Perfection be wrought do cease out of the Mortal Body Then again there are of a lower degree of growth Now what reservatory is there for them who may be but young in the New Birth As to this it was clearly imparted unto my Intellect that such did enter into a more inferiour Mansion than Paradice for that was too pure and serene for such Therefore a lower degree is prepared for them till they do attain to an Increase of the Divine Nature They want not here their true Pastoral Teachers for the Spirit of Christ is every where with his own Therefore it was said that he went and preached to the Spirits in Prison that were disobedient in Noah's days For should all the old world have been cut off at once and sealed under a final condemnation the Attributes of God's Love Mercy Goodness Truth and Long-suffering would have been obliterated wherefore he must have yet had respect unto such after the dissolution of their bodies as had a sense in them awakened for compunction and sorrow for what Evils they had committed in their Bodies To confirm this that we might not be altogether out of hope for such as may die in the first beginnings of Regeneration it is given me to declare that if these pass out of the Body such cannot go indeed immediately to God For such will find it otherwise they must wait till they have got somewhat more then what they went out withall in this world and then shall they be admitted to see God Surely there is a Provision made for a perfect Salvation in another Principle besides this For which we have that word in Peter 1 Pet. 3. 19. by which also he went and Preached unto the Spirits in Prison Also these words seem to speak fully to this 1 Pet. 4. 6. For this cause was the Gospel preached to them which were dead which generally is applied to such as are living and yet dead in sins But by the foregoing verse it concerns the first Position verse 5. who saith the Apostle speaking of Christ is ready to judge the quick and the dead so that it implieth there is a Ministry belonging to the dead that are not here made perfect Much more might be enlarged upon some particular sights and manifestations that have hereof been given to some in the Spirit From hence ariseth this Objection If this be a Truth why was it not positively declared and clearly revealed as a foundational Doctrine To which it may be answered That the Infinite Wisdom did judge it meet to conceal this mystery because none might take advantage to turn the Grace of God into wantoâ—ness and thereby to neglect the present opportunity for working out their own Salvation in this present time which would make for a far and more exceeding weight of Glory Therefore left it was for the Worthy to have this Secret made known to them by the Spirit of Revelation who God foreknew would not take Liberty to continue in sin that this Grace after Death might be made manifest towards such as did stand in need hereof But now to great holy and aspiring Spirits these lower Mansions in their Fathers house are too mean who cannot be satisfied to be so many degrees remote any time after death from their God and Lord Jesus since Liberty is proclaimed to work through all while we are in this terrestrial Body For there will be more joy and acclamations in Heaven for one such as shall finish their work here so as to make a full conquest then for milions of Souls that in the invisible Regions must perfect what was lacking to compleat them here Oh said the Spirit it will be well worth your Labour and great Travel to break open this deep Gate and so to put on Christ your Lord as in his all-powerful body that ye may make hereof but one ascending flight This was the Mark that was after Christs ascending so eagerly aimed at and by some in that Age reached to For Christ could not lose the effect of his prayer in that he did make his request that those whom the Father had given him might be with him where he was that so they might see and possess the same glory which could not be till they had gotten the victory For to none else is the admission given into his Kingdom according to that in the Revelations to him that overcometh will I grant saith Jesus to sit with me in my Throne But this may be objected further Those who had the Holy Ghost poured down in such an eminent manner had their way made very easie who was as their fiery Chariot that cut their work short And if any now in this Age had such a high endued Power it might soon give them a translation out of all mortal impediments As to answer this The Holy Ghost in that day was given after a visible manner as a sealing Character displaying and acting forth himself in Gifts and Power and miracles but now the same Spirit works in its beginning after another manner where it falleth it doth all its mighty works Within before it will shew forth his power Without For if the Apostles had not been purified by the Holy Ghost and inwardly sprinkled with the Water of Life for Soul cleansing they could not have rejoyced in that assured hope of entring into the joy of their Lord and Master Then was it plainly opened to me by the Spirit that the Holy Ghost would not now in this latter Age act out his Mighty Deeds by any one till their Hearts were perfectly purified by Faith That Scripture being repeated to me who after believing were
Vile Body which is compacted all of putrefaction for this thou dost upbraid me that I do it not transform Now though I stand not liable to give any account to thee of my Will and Pleasure herein yet for the sakes of them who have been hereinto inquiring in fear and humility and have heard this thy severe Charge I shall Answer It is then Objected As to that ignominious form of Corporeity which the Fellow-heirs with me do bear upon which a transmutation hath been expected that yet no such thing doth appear but they do still expire in all things like others Answer There is good cause why it hath been so hitherto because the Fire-spark of the Deity hath not burnt through in any for the consumption of the drâ—ssy part meeting still with cold muddy damps that have often choaked the Life-flame which is cast in from thy ingendring property Who since Eves day art upon the revenge to slay and destroy that which remains of the Heavenly Matter Thou hast had thy inrode as a subtile Spirit for to prove and tempt all of her Race propounding this as an impossibility ever to see corruptibility made sublime Thou hast by thy craft thus raced out that grain of Faith that should produce this White Lilly Body For my way of redeeming proceeds from within the Heart-center Thereoâ—t my Birth-Life springs and will ever display it self through Soul and Body in fiery streams It is a deceit to believe that I am come to redeem any other way I shed my Blood to purifie and cleanse the inward ground that so the godly Plant of Righteousness might grow thereout whose clothing is of unchangeable Glory For my own Life wrought it self thus through while I was found in the earthly mould the invisible Perfect thing could put transparency upon the elementary Body So no other way can I bring any to my own transfiguration but by the same inkindling and by the Spirit springing up gradually All of this kind will be understood when the Wheel of the Will stands free and unclogged of all the Serpents suggested incredulity tending hereunto Who would have the Heart-purifying work evaded and us to look for Redemption to come as a violent shower to wash away the Vile Body at once which is contrary to my working method Whose internal Operation is to set free that which is under great labour and strife to get up to a flower of rich scented Glory Against which O Satan great hath been thy despight But now as to the Second Charge That my Sheep are put to their shifts and how that I suffer them to be exposed to great necessities so as to have their maintenance out of the Store-house of thy Kingdom or else their corporeal Bodies could not be sustained I Answer It is true O Spirit of Subtilty that mine are exposed to great sufferings and trials or else how could they be conformable to me their Head There are also many considerable Reasons why for the present time it should be so But this Weapon of thy Charge will turn against thy self As First If they were not to be included with the universality in the effects of that Curse that came upon all Adam's Line Thou O Lucifer wouldest have had something to have alledged as to God the Righteous Iudge that he would be partiaâ— to a certain number in securing them from all of this Worlds Calamity Therefore the Father hath in wisdom permitted it that thou mayst have nothing to accuse the Just One. As in Ioh's Case thy envy was great because he was perfect and upright And being but in a flourishing state as to Honour and Riches and all fulness from this Creation What advantage didst thou take thereby Remember that word Does Job serve God for naught is there not a hedge made up of all plenty and good things about him So then if mine elect ones were not in common with thine to take their lot thou wouldst have whereof to glory in but now thy mouth must be stopped in that those who belong to me are more deeply exercised in all suffering necessities as daring to hunt after nothing of this Worldly Pomp. Whose Eyes see through all these contemptible things And as they live in me they are in-seeing into another manner of Sphere wherein their Portion is Yet know they shall lose nothing by their being humbled through manifold distresses and penury while they are in Child-like submission and have hereby accepted the chastisement that is due to their lapsed state All of which kind shall so operate as to work out their freedom when I have proved them by all the evil consequences of the Curse so as that I may say they have been tried through all Fires Fo so it doth become mine all for to be as weighty stones of Gold Then was this Discourse maintained in my hearing my Lord still taking occasion to resolve my doubts and satisfie my queries This Word was uttered But what thinkest thou O proud Prince of this exterior World who so many Ages hast by thy Agents lorded it over my Heritage If that thy time is near upon expiring In that I shall call thee to an account who hast abused thy Soveraignty For all who have been intrusted by thee have been cruel in their Arbitrary Government So that Injustice Oppression Pride Self-love and Vain Glory have born the sway to this day Therefore it is no marvel that those who are as the Pearl in my Eye have been in such distresses and oft-times forced to gather up the scraps which thy voluptuous Brood do let fall from their rich furnished Tables This hath been long permitted but now I am come to tell thee that thy Lease of Years is near worn out when thou must give up to me the Kingdoms of this World Who will seek out such as shall be after my own Heart that shall raign over thee and thy Hierarchy on this very Earth Know such I have this very day in my Eye Who are Meek Patient and Lowly and who have been proved Iob like suffering the loss of all that pleasurable has been as to this Worlds esteem These have stood against all thy malice and envy which hath been poured out by Instruments so assumed by thee These are those to whom the Dominion shall first come and so by degrees run through till this World shall be no more thy Region For the Kingdoms of this World shall be given to the Saints of the Most High Then thou and all thy sin-loyal subjects shall be ashamed and confounded gnashing their Teeth when they shall see thee put out of all power and authority And those who have followed the Lamb faithfully through the Kingdom of Patience and Tribulation shall be thus rewarded with Crowns each one as from the annointing Power consisting in the Holy Ghost Whose day of Almightiness shall here be to the chosen known August the 10th 1677. This Vision was shewn me I with another Person was ascending up towards
but all single Plants save one Which grew up with Twins upon one Stalk three times two and one more from the same Root which grew right up with its Head bowing down towards the rest It seemed to be like a Tulip the Colour being of a very dark Murray The other Planâ—s grew round about it and they were overspread with Caterpillaâ—s and slugs which did devour and spoil the beauty of them which I much lamented to see But suddenly a shower came and washed them all away Yet afterward I saw them come on again when the shower ceased And I marvelled that the Tulip Branch was still kept free And while I made this Objection how it should come to pass that being in the same ground it should be exempted It was answered Thou dost not see the deep Spring that lieth under ground that watereth this Branch continually Then saw I waters rise and all over it baptise so as the dark colour was changed into a green pleasant appearance to my intellectual sight Then after a little space the Spring did rise mighty high and did it so drench as from its greenness it was changed into a Lilly whiteness which was very marvelous to see such a sudden transmutation upon this Branch Oh my Lord signifie the true meaning of this similitude for it seemeth to have much in it October the 11th 1677. This Parabolical Vision was as a Text and Doctrine given upon which the Holy Spirit might make its comment By the Garden was given me to understand that inward flourishing ground of the Eternal Mind out of which a crop of pleasant Plants did put forth from the Seed of the Spirit The Eternal Sower planting himself in the midst hereof as that Lilly Branch which grew up in its twined might and beauty to the perfect number Seven Now it was queried by me Why those single Plants which were Divine Qualifications of the Mind proceeding from the Root of Life should be under the Power of these Despoilers The cause hereof I was then made to understand why those heavenly cogitations that would proceed forward to all Divine Virtue were overâ—un by the devouring Worms It was therefore resolved that it would continue stâ—ll so to be while they did put forth themselves from one weak stalk in the scattered confusion of a dispersed property Now being thus obnoxious to the intemperate motions of the visible Element and mixing therewith they are subject to smitings of all kinds And though through the help of those distilling showers of the Word of Life oftimes refreshing this inward ground and cleansing it from this swarming flying and superfluous thoughts which the Slugs and Caterpillars did really figure out they are freed herefrom yet upon the cessation of these upper and outward Showers of a visible teaching Ministery they are apt to swarm again upon the Mind to stain and enveâ—om those Plants which do bud forth in the single and divided property So that while the inward is thus invaded upon no Fruit can be brought to perfection for as fast as it comes on it is eaten off so the Work while standing in this posture it is always doing yet never done nor perfected And yet the Soul in the mean time is in great earnestness after and for its Restoration always striving against the Stream and Tide of Profuse Imaginations which keep back the Harvest from ripening of what hath been still a sowing by the Spiritâ— fixed If you do attain to such an enrichment as to have this Plant of United Force and Power to grow in the Garden of your Mind ye may then be out of all fear that any evil of sin or the effects of it can come in to Spoil or to devour For upon its own guard it stands and can defend it self against all Invasions Now for this end that ye may persue hereafter these things are revealed Make it your own Spiritual Business to come out of the meek single Plantation into the strong Unity of that Plurality of Spirit which is able at pleasure to change you into a Body of Heavenly Lustre such as is meet for that Work whereto ye are designed For this O ye well disposed Souls keep an Holy day within the Borders of a pure Mind October the 12th 1677. This word visited me about break of day Run away to the Everlasting Morning-day there to be hidden from the wrath of the Lamb. Which will be certainly expressed against those who are found naked having only the mortal clothing for their câ—vert in this great Day which is breaking forth unavoidably upon all Flesh. October the 15th 1677. Being thus warned to pursue and make hard after that securing state and to keep all watchfulness over our Hearts lest the Evâ—l Spirit should us beguile This word was gâ—ven for further caution Far be it from him who in all things must be approved a man of God therefore he is not to be found amongst evil doers to be a reproach in such a time as this or to take liberty lest a Snare come upon the Superiority of that Life which requires great sequestration Then again this Word was with me And ye shall be Holy unto me for I the Lord am holy and have sever'd you from all others that ye should minister before me and be mine only October the 18th 1677. I saw my own Figure sitting in a solemn still waiting posture and there passed by a Golden Candlestick with many Branches and in the midst thereof was the form of a Cup or Bowl all which distinctly had Lights like Lamps burning from Oyl but that out of the Bowl in the midst gave a greater blaze then all the rest Then this Word sounded Up up Follow this Light before it be out of sight Then was given into my Hand such an other Golden Candlestick without any Lights in their Sockets but I hastily so soon as the Candlestick was given followed the other into a Room which was all enlightned with the brightness of the Glory thereof which I could only view but â—ound I could not there abide but was ordered at that open door to wait till every Branch of the Candlestick should be answerably filled with Oyl and give forth Light as the foregoing brightness did which was as a Heaven for Light This Idea or Manifestation drew my mind after it that if possibly Light might be set up in every Property accordingly October the 19th 1677. In the Night after my first Sleep there appeared unto me a bright Sun and many Stars were fixed in the circumference of it that sparkled forth with a wonderful fury so that it enlightned the Earth with its reflexion And it said hereto gathered is that which fills up and makes compleat the whole Body of Light October the 20th 1977. This Word came unto me Pray ye evermore in that Faith where each one is to be their own Advocate in the free Liberty according as it is written In that day ask what ye will and it
is hereby to be revealed only as this pure Spirit comprehends its own Original from whence it proceeds infinitely and so sounds and finds infiniâ—â— things contained in the immense Being By vertue of a new Covenant tye which the Spirit of a new and perfect Heart is for ever under the obligation of a Love constraining Law from which there may be no departing But while upon these Myrrh-dropings my Soul was feeding this Word for Confirmation was added What if this may become such a time of Love as by passing by to look upon thee I shall Swear unto thee and not repent that I thy God will be unchangeable And will enter into such a Covenant as thou mayst henceforth become mine Then shall I know what to do with thee for further Glory and Excellency For in that thou wilt be commendable to thy God whose Eye only can take pleasure therein Then was presented a transient sight to wit a Pool wherein I was bid constantly to wash and bathâ— for the Word signified that such Virtue was herein as it would make White the very Blackamore's Skin and cleanse away every Leopard's Spot For it is a Bath of burning Oyl that will the first Birth of the earthly Heart to purpose try and melt away that so all pure Spirit of Life may spring and a body of a shining Skin as a Cherub-Covering be given For it was revealed to me that this should be done unto us as we were become the Lord 's by League and Covenant Whence it stood upon the Honour of the Lamb and of his Kingdom for us to be found all clear and perfect through this Pool of Balsoming Blood that throughly Baptizeth all who are in the true Memberhood of his Body November the 28th 1677. A holy and pure Communion and freedom being maintained in a Spiritual way betwixt the Spirit of the Bridegroom and the Spirit that is preparing to be the Bride of the Lamb thus it was manifested by this similitude presenting before my in-seeing Eye a Golden Charger and in it somewhat of a Spirit of an extracted Virtual Matter upon which fell a sparkling Star as from the Invisible Orb and caused the Liquor in the Charger to flame up And I heard presently the Word say Come my Spouse and draw near for here is provided Heavenly Chear Behold the Lord the Spirit is presented here in a Lordly dish wherein the true Body of your Jesus is both tastable and discernible Whosoever of this are able to drink in it will make them Spirits as all burning Flames Upon which great things were further opened in the Magia Line Which could I have but totally acquitted all those motions that concur to sense-awakening I might have given an account of an infinite space into which my Spirit was launching but was driven back by some stirring Essence that would not let my Spirit pass naked and pure in But this Word came tho thou canst not pass now yet thou shalt after thou hast eaten of this Lordly dish Which will turn Nature into Spirit then thou may into the secret ranges of all eternal heights and depths as an Eagle flye and see and know what lies beyond the Starry Sky November the 30th 1677. This divine Speculation which I had begat a mighty Magical drawing into those infinite heights and depths which did but just open upon me but then shut up But my Spirit did make again a fresh onset if by any means I might pass into that profound light Orb according to the Nature of a Spirit For an eccho did cry in me from that Sphere that the holy Trinity was there in the highest dimensions of Glory Which was a sufficient motive to attract my Spirit out of this vile Corporeity from which I found much resistency For I perfectly felt somewhat therefrom did rise that did bind my Spirit I was in great struggle for some hours for the Spirit wrestled for a full Liberty Then came this Word saying By all these Encounters the way will be made Only keep thy course strait on towards the everlasting deep Gate according as ye shall feel the Wind of the Spirit driving thereunto and so wait with it to moâ—e Oh to have a spirit in a Body of Flesh to be as free as a Bird which can when it will fly from his Nest This was to me a new revealed thing by which great discoveries may be made in the invisible Region who have been altogether Strangers to what is transacted there because the sensitive Soul doth claim such a Marriage Union with the Spirit that neither what is present or what is to come must sever them This is the Law of degenerated Nature which lawfully may be broken For the Spirit of the Soul is not for ever to be confined to the soulish depravity when once it comes to know and understand that it is a pure Grain let fall from the Deity into the soulish property Then it will not suffer it self to be imprisoned as under a Mountain-weight No sooner doth it spring and rise above the Ground as an ear of Corn which doth grow ripe but a separation from the earthly part or ground may be made by the mighty Lord of the Harvest who will come to reap where he hath sown pure Spirit And that in the very time of this exteriour Elementary Being Christs Last Day of Resurrection and Ascention shall appear through the Might of this precious Grain of the Deity by which I mean the Eternal Spirit of the inward man which is a Spark descended from the Deity and it differs from the eternal seed of Christ's Deity which is incorporated with this for its Resurrection and Ascension sake This spark of Eternity the Spirit of the eternal Soul belonging to the inward man will free it self from all and every corporeal tye For no â—errestrial Image though accomplished with all external Righteousness can ever attract this superiour spirit to be in a conjugal Union because it is too much below therefore it now seeks release from it as being ashamed of all and every circumstance concurring to the outward Life which would hold it so fast But Wisdom and Counsel is come from him who will be Salvation to the ends of our Earth His Spirit it is that hath called us from the other to an eternal conjunction with that wherewith it might most suitably agree so as to raise and heighten the Spirit to such a high degree of sublime purity as that it might pass as swift as a thought into the deep space where the infinite Globe of Eternity might come to be conspicuous with the glorious Trinity and with all those innumerable Spirits who incompass the Throne-Majesty Such Visions of Glory Spirits have been carried into while in the Body and so it shall come to be again and that more frequently and durably For upon an earnest enquiry hereunto it was revealed unto me by this Word The Way of the East should be prepared and the Gate thereof
thou think to recover Immortality of Life with that Inheritour who doth belong unto it while there is a divided Eye and Ear which still open are to see and hear all those Charming Sensualities which for this Earthly Kingdom do plead and do engage you still here to be Traffickers from which ye are prohibited by Mount Sion Laws Is not Wisdom's Merchandize more worthy to be all in your Eye who will assuredly find you daily employ as to work off your selves from all those Habits and Customs as have been brought in Traditionally from the Fall From which ye are redeemed as ye do feed upon the true Mystical Passover which will â—orestall the Earthly Life giving way to that pure thing which ye do feel stirring from the light Region This hath greâ—â— sufficiency to clear that evil staining Nature from out of which strange Essences do so turbulently arise to annoy and disturb that which would be free from all Sins Casualties reigning in the Princely Spirit of what will become the absolute King of Righteousness Who hath already set a Foot upon your Heavens and Earth for this very end that his Throne and Dominion might be so fixed within the circumfering Powers of your Wills that so Time may be swallowed up from an entire Act going forth from this Soveraignty which in an intrinsical way will bring all into subjection that is within He will first begin with the Judgment for cleansing the floor make but the inside clean and pure then Power will soon be known and understood whereby a Body suitable to such a Spirit may come to be perfectly framed As thus if the Pith of a Tree be by its Life extensive it makes the Bark through which it riseth fresh fruitful and beautiful that so you may easily conclude that a Life-Sap is vailed under the Bark but it is not perceiveable till it shoots forth it self getting through every branch and twig even so it is in you considered as Trees of a new Plantation in whom the Spirit riseth as an essential Pith of Life and distributeth it self through every Property permitting nothing to mingle with it that should abate its vigorous penetration for to assimulate and qualifie the very outward Bark or Body into a Iustrious Appearance and palpable Fruitfulness The meaning of the Spirit as to fruitfulness is not only the first and second Birth-degrees of Regeneration and here to stop as in measures of Love Joy Faith Hope Meekness and Patience which are the first Fruits of the Spirit But hereunto are to be added Fruits yet more super-eminent as the product of these When so ripened as each one their Seed do shed into the pure Heart whereinto the Blood of the New-Testament is poured in From hence now it is saith the living Word that a Spiritual Body will be driven forth all in the Heavenly Form acting forth in another kind of fruitfulness then the foregoing As thus a Terrestrial Creature worketh and produceth acts answerable to his Animal rational Life which may be justifiable before Men and nothing beyond his Life-Sphere is expected But now from a new-made Creature that deriveth a Birth so high as nothing less then God's own Likeness is to be evidenced in it This must needs work like it self in various Powers of another sort of miraculous Fruitfulness by which Jesus through this Ghostly Spirit and Body is glorified Ianuary the 12th 1676 7. IN the Night there was presented unto me two Forms very displeasing to my Eye being Cloathed with a Hairy Goats-Skin where spots and botches did appear so unlovely as I was much disgusted at the sight of them But while I was viewing them first the one rent this outward Deformity in twain and likewise the other following the example of the first did also rend open And I beheld two sweet amiable Children came forth from within this deformed Figure but at first sight they were as Babes still-born Upon which I took up one and it soon revived with all motions of Life and answerably the same vigorous Spirit manifested it self in the other so as I saw them able to stand upon their Legs and so the Vision shut up in the Formality of it and opened it self in the Spirituality as I thereupon waited After a little season the Spirit thus spake within me What have you seen in these two strange pieces of Deformity but a rough and unclean Vestment that is so ignominious Behold and see your own vile Bodies thus pourtraied out while that ye do bear those uncomly Shapes which as a Vail shall rend away that so the truly begotten of the Ghostly Body may appear Who is as those innocent and all-beautiful Babes that have been shut up under a Covert as in a twofold Body As first that thick and cloudy smothering Body of Sin Secondly the very visible form of Corporiety which is but a disgraceful Image being the product of a degenerate Spirit Which with the other must be put off For corruptible Humanity in its fleshly Figure is too mean for the high Birth degree of the Eternal Spirit Though it may be suffered for a time as a disguised Cloathing till that which is born without Sin be strong enough to break through the rough humane and Animal Beast that was ever designed for a Sacrifice That so all brought in by the Fall might come to be anatomized that in the room thereof another Body might rise not only like what was in Paradise but one Degree yet higher according as your Jesus hath assumed a more transparent Body As these things were plainly discoursed of to my Spirit an Objection did arise How this twofold Body should come to be so demolished while we live in this visible Sphere as no more to appear in its sinful Frailty or Elementary Ponderosity Having not heard or seen any one that hath yet so put off the vile Body though hereunto incited and prophesied of that such a Change is upon the Inward and Outward Man to come but it hath not yet happened in this Orb. Nay our Lord Jesus himself did not alter his humane Figure to endure till he had ascended out of all mortal sight and though after his Crucifixion he did appear and disappear at pleasure yet he always assumed a body like to ours as bearable to the view of those whom he delighted to shew himself unto in and after his Resurrection Therefore though he had no Body of Sin to put off yet he had a Body of Mortality which was not put off to the humane Eye till he gave up the Ghost of his Animal Life upon the Cross. All which strengthning the Argument that our Corporeity hardly in this Region admitteth of such a Transformation as thereby to pass out by and through a sublime airy Body in and among the high enthroned Powers and Dignities resident in the New Ierusalem This Doubt lay much upon my Spirit importuning a clear resolve that the mind of my God herein might be expresly revealed through
an immediate dictate which thus far I obtained Oh Soul true it is no one President there hath been that hath so wrought out the very Originality of all Impurity as to assume a Body of that Celestial Clarity as therein to walk up and down among Mortals yet that makes not against the possibility hereof for there is that to come that yet never was in existency Which still will steal upon the World by degrees as in the successive Ages some one miraculous thing or other will be produced which was not before For this very Unbelief hath sealed up the mighty Birth-working Power which still cries How can such Transmutations be as to come forth another Spirit actuating it self in a suitable Body Ah what Doubtings and Debates have been here about it So that Age upon Age hath nothing seen of the Resurrection-state because afraid to destroy the Body of Sin Which is the first Alteration that must be made before the outward Body can be translated And know this further whoever doth attain to the one hath Power and All-sufficiency for the other as they shall see it expedient to Metamorphose their gross Corporeity And though your Jesus did not alter his Humane Shape into any visible Body of Glory it was not through any deficiency that he could not do it but it was his pleasure that he would not do it Who knew his Times and Seasons when and for what Ends such Transfigurations were needful He coming into this World upon Suffering account that thereby Concuering he might have all Power to convey such a Spirit as might form to it self such a proportionable Body for all such as do give themselves to be made like unto him as he is now in a glorified state But your further Objection is that if possibly you should attain hereunto this World would be no fit Principle for such transparent Spirits and Bodies for to live in The Inhabitants here could neither bear your Transparency nor you their gross Corporeity attended traditionally with all Evil of Sin in some more refined in others visibly lascivious running into all Excess from which the true Eagle-Body will mount away But this understand that while ye have a Work and Service of God to do here in this Principle you will not want the Fence of a Spiritual Body to go in and out to meet the Sacred Trinity in the serene Principle And as Moses did when he did talk immediately with God was then put into a shining Body that was not known or understood which was laid aside as a Garment for that purpose that so he might speak with the Most Holy but as soon as he did come out from that Holy Place and Heavenly Parley he then put on that Form in which he might be known of the lower Orb. Think it not incredible that this and much more is again to be done as your Jesus did often change his Body though it was not known to the vulgar Eye Doubt not but such wonderful sufficiency will display it self from the pure contaction of the Sapphire Body Therefore proceed to keep among the Immaculate and Just Ones according to that present transferring Power which comply'd withal will produce a change internally till a Body be assumed invisibly as shall rend the outward Temple-Vail Then the Ark of the Living Testimony shall be known read and understood yet of none but the Disciplehood As your Lord did only appear unto his own in his risen Body so shall it be when you so risen are as to descend from the Heavenly Sphere Ianuary the 13th 1676 7. AFter this Conference and satisfying Resolve as to the matter of my doubt This Word was further spoke unto me through the Holy Oracle that all those Ceremonial Ornaments which the Priests were 〈…〉 were to illustrate and 〈…〉 glorious Transfiguration 〈…〉 required in that near approach and ministring Service in all the Tabernacle-Worship wherein we come to bow our selves before the Most High Therefore it was asked me how I did think it was possible for to see the glorified Person of my Jesus till I had put on the Priestly Robe of a New Body he being now ascended into the most Holy Waiting there till the whole Priesthood called and anointed to be of the same Order with himself do enter upon the same terms having offered up in Sacrifice the vile reproachful Body of the Flesh through the same Eternal Spirit by which your Jesus offered up his Body visibly as by a violent Death so yours by a voluntary mystical Transformation working invisibly Then what a most holy Melchizedeck-Spirit will ye pass into the Heavenly Place withal to effect in the true and eternal Tabernacle where the unchangeable Priestood is known in all the Celestial Orders for the accomplishing those Superiour Services required in that most Holy Place In which the pure Offerings celebrated will be no more grievous nor tedious because a Priestly Body is prepared to hallow and sanctifie incessantly the great Name of Iehovah and to proclaim in mighty Trumpet-sounds to the Ends of the Earth that the Kingly Priesthood is come with all the Tabernacle-Furniture revealed Which hath been concealed in Mount Sion only â—â—therto Types and Shadows of it have been manifested but now the real Thing it self shall be brought to pass in them who can hold out the Sanctuary Profession without turning aside or waving observing still their Nazaritical dedication Then the new Covenant will be confirmed upon you that their will need no more offering for Sin for a New Heart with the Law of the Spirit-written in the Heart as there will be no more a departing from the Mind of the Anointing For by this Fiery Law proceeding the Law of Sin within the Members where ever stirring will hereby be consumed For it is no more a weak literal Precept that now is given forth but the very Law-giver writes and engraves himself as an Endless Power of Life to obliterate and make void the Law of Sin and Death which to no other would ever have given place This is the Foundation-Work which the Spirit of your Jesus do first set about to pull down and demolish that which would be so great an impedimeâ—t and check to all this designed Reformation Now then let it be your Joy when you feel the Spirit of Burning is dispoiling all of Sin for that will perfect all the most holy Priesthood Ianuary the 14th 1676 7. UPon the Opening of the high Order of the Melchizedeck-Priesthood wherein I perceived such a deep Mystery lay hid as the Apostle himself had not fathomed But it was shewed to me that it was of great use to know and understand who this Melchizedeck was because thereto we had great reference For he had not only the denomination of a Priest to pronounce Blessings but a King to whom Tribute was paid for Abraham presented of the Spoil that he had taken and there Tiâ—led him the great King of Salem thus far the Scriptures give an