spring The Virgin feels her self in the Centre of the Deity she handles what doth not appear to be tangeable viz. Breath Spirit Fire and Air in all these her feeling-motion is in great Serenity A Center-Life that burneth from the Mirror of the Deity boyles Love up to that height as nothing is felt but Pleasure and ravishing Delight it is the Heat and Blood that runs through every Vein of the Virgin-Body and is an Antidote against all Fear and Pain which is felt in the mortal Sense Oh! what Deaths Akings and Griefs have we felt in our Souls as well as in our Bodies our Minds being in continual Anxiousness and Trouble to see what we are fallen into I speak of such who have been touched with the Fire-Stone of the Virgin which must go before her healing Medicine And blessed are they who have first known the painful feeling under her severe Discipline for such shall be her polished Pillars on which she will engrave her Virgin Name as he saith who is the true and faithful Witness who is come to take off the Virgins Vail that we may see her in the Glass of perfection and come to know and feel her not as distinct and a-part from us but all Virginized in her essential Deity that the joyful feeling in breath of Fire and Air may be witnessed and then we shall see what shall follow the Harmony of these Sences which is the Character of the Virgin-Nature the Pattern we are to try our selves by for which end we are also called to look into her Mirror that so it may stir up all favour of desire in us to have those Sences in their excellency awakened in us Oh great Goddess and Queen of all Worlds wilt thou after so long a time of Desertion once appear again Who is it that hath entreated thy Favour and gained a Promise from thee of a Visit though this be too short because nothing now will satisfie unless thou bestow thy self with all thy divine Sences as a co-deified Life to shew that thou art now prevail'd upon to joyn with the Redeeming Blood to restore thy own Virginity where thou findest Humility and Importunity in that Personality which is all beloved of the highest Wisdom and only Spouse of God know and remember us who are brought to thy feet and have been under thy severe Discipline therefore allot thy self to be our Garland and Crown Now we are advanced one step higher towards Wisdom's heavenly Throne from whence her Golden Scepter is stretched forth to lay hold on which passeth through and beyond every elementary Cloud which the sensitive Life hath raised so as we could not see our way to that sparkling Rock of the Deity for which cause the bright Sun now shines from her eternal Orb through the dark Clouds that we might see every ascending degree twisting and winding so intricately that without a Guide expresly sent down from that Sphear there is no possibility ever to come to any one of her Gates which lead to the New Jerusalem These are set before me to be in number Twelve five of which were spoken of in the fore-going Chapter and now we repair to her Oracle as our Guide for the revealing of the other seven Gates together with the Way which leads from one to to the other where the hidden Track of the Virgins Way may be found treading upon that unknown ground under which is found a rich and precious Stone from which the highest blessing will abound The Way to the first of these seven Gates is very solitary and lonely it is very rare to meet with two agreed to hold out in it to the end it is so full of rending Thorns and affrighting wild Beasts for herein lies the design of the horned Beast to scatter and divide such who are agreed to travel in Wisdoms Path Also the Nimrod Hunters of this World send out after them either to divide or bring them back again These are the Oppositions we may expect in this Way against which we must be provided and fore-armed that our entrance by this Gate may not be prevented The Inscription of this Gate is Abnegation or Renunciation of this outward Principle The first Question which is asked by the Angel who keeps this Gate is Are you come away as Strangers and Pilgrims Will you no more return to the Traffick of Babylon For the Prince of this City will only admit of such as shall abjure all Commerce with the Merchants of Tarshish though by this means all earthly Riches are gained to keep up a Worldly Reputation and Fame but the Angel of this Gate will have good Assurance that whoever comes up hither be quite broken off from and have no further dealing with the Harlot daughter of Sidon who hath deceived the Kingdoms of this World with her Sorceries Whoever they be that get through this streight Gate for them a sure and good Foundation is laid to walk forward towards the second Gate But here another thing is to be considered before entrance can be given for this Angel is charged not to take any ones single Security but enquires whether Christs Spirit in them and his Person for them will stand engaged to perform all this Agreement For she dares not trust the Soul upon a single Promise though fervent and unfeigned and full of good Will yet it is not sufficient if he be not able to maintain the Gate ground against his Enemies that will attempt to circumvent him Therefore we that are come hereunto are to give in the Name of our Security and so pass on freely to the second Gate The second Gate is called the wrestling or struggling Gate it is the Gate of Probation before it stands a Center-Gulf Here will rise what will countermand the Pilgrim back again into the worldly Principle which he had abjured and left behind Wisdom stands by her Angel to call and invite to come through but the Gulf swells so very high that it appears impossible to get over Legions of Spirits here do follow crying out What mean you to run so great a hazard as to have a place where is store of all good things for Supply and Maintenance Thus Temptations and Assaults will beset the Pilgrim threatning hard and bitter things to him who is a seeking his own Native Country and original Virginity and endeavours with great wrestling to get rid of all these knawing Vipers What! say they will you turn quite away from those pleasant Joys in which others live spending their days in Gods Love and Peace and therein rest contented not attempting the passing of this Gulf till the limit of your Life requires it All this and much more will press in to turn away the Soul from pursuing after its Virgin Crown and therefore this Gate is called the Probation Gate Now if the Spirit of Christ be so powerful in the Soul as not to regard these Temptations being resolved to venture through the fiery Gulf that
THE REVELATION OF Revelations Particularly as an ESSAY Towards The Unsealing Opening and Discovering THE Seven Seals the Seven Thunders and the New-Jerusalem State The which have not hitherto so far been brought forth to light except by the Spiritual Discerner to any degree of Satisfaction as to the understanding of the grand Mystery Published by J. L. the Author of the Heavenly Cloud made mention of particularly in the Preparatory Epistle to that late Theosophick Piece Entituled Theologia Mystica A Work never Extant before Rev. 5. 9. And they sang a new Song saying Thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof 1 Cor. 1. 10. For God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit 's for the Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God London Printed and Sold by A. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch Also by J. Lead at the Carpenters in Bartholomew-Close and at Book-sellers in London and Westminster 1683. H. LION To the living Stones gathered and to be gathered to Christ the Foundation Stone where-ever hid scattered and dispersed who are elected in God for the New-Jerusalem-Glory and Mount-Zion-Church all Love Grace Peace and Joy be multiplied from him who was is and is to come THe Establishment of the restored Sion-Church cannot be by Man or after Manly Wisdom but by the holy Spirit which Christ our Prince and Saviour hath sent in his own Name to build upon the Foundation of the Father and the Son a Rock indeed which remaineth steady and unshaken from Time to Eternity And indeed who else is found sufficient for the gathering and building of these holy Temple-Stones that are to be fitly compacted together to make up this glorious Church that may be presented all fair without Spot as becomes the Spouse and Bride of the Lamb which you will find the whole subject of the following Revelations tend to even to the bringing out of all that are found in Lifeless Forms into the very substantial Life and Ministration of the holy Spirit where the Increase and growing up is known into that Body in which God will move and work all for the which end all Prophecies that have been from the foundation of the World may have their fulfilling in this last Age for the which good Assurance is given from the fresh springing of the Word of Wisdom that may produce a sealed Commission not only in Letter but from the feeling fiery-breath of the true Unction which is the living Epistle by which alone I desire to be made known to you and from thence do send pure Love-greeting to them whose Ears are opened to hear and receive what the Spirit of Truth hath declared and unfolded in this little Volumn which now is presented to publick view contrary to the intent and purpose of the subordinate Author hereof who as I was waiting in my continued course and order upon the heavenly showring and to feed and be refreshed in this all-fruitful and pleasant Pasture being satisfied here to take my lengths and breadths in all free conference with the Lord the Spirit whom I did well know by his inward flaming Body which at certain times did stir and rise and then I could hear and distinctly know the Voice of his Mouth which came as a soft melting Fire-breath and said Record what since October 1679. hath been seen heard tasted and felt and shun not to declare it for it hath a peculiar service on Gods behalf to do though at present hid from thee only observe and be watchful and I will certainly Follow this at the Heels And thus you may perceive under what constraint I am and by whose Commission these deep and mystical Revelations are now published who fore-sees what effects they are to have and what Souls and Spirits are to be touched and enkindled from the same burning-Ray which will surely over-shadow the believing And for the doubtful I have only this Caution and that from the holy and just One. That henceforth they cease from rash and uncircumcised Judgment which doth arise from the rational Will and Spirit and above all to put on the meek simple and child-like Spirit and so cease to be injurious to their own Souls for nothing is more prejudicial to the growing and springing Life and Light than to give way to Incredulity and an evil Suspition raised from the dark Mists of Sense and worldly Wisdom which can never reach the deep things of the Spirit Therefore if there be any force power or authority in that Word of Life that was from the beginning and is now come to bear his own living Record in our day which Word and Spirit of Truth and Wisdom let none resist but open the everlasting Doors of their Souls and Minds for to take it in and so you will of the lively Hope partake and bear the true and living Testimony with us That the Morning Star is risen for to lead us out of our selves where nothing but Darkness is and where the fallen Spirits keep their strong Hold binding and putting out the Eyes of Sampson the Nazerite the figure of the eternal Spirit which is in all the Sons of Adam against which the grand Apollyon hatcheth his treacherous Conspiracy for he hath great Indignation against us because such Love Grace and Goodness hath now abounded to us in Christ Jesus our Lord who is come to offer himself an effectual Salvation in all there is not a Door that he passeth by but that at one time or other he knocks at it and would find entrance in to redeem and fetch out his own eternal Spirit from under Bondage Death and Misery But such are the subtil Wiles of that Enemy of all Mankind that he provides a Dalilah for some to steal and draw away their Minds and to seduce their more Noble part to that which is vile base and sensual And then another more subtil Bait he casts out for those who are mortified and have escaped those worldly Charms and are come to a sober and lawful use of the things of this Creation and yet are held Captives through the Multiplicity of Mortal Cares Businesses and Concerns for the outward Man whereby they are so overcharged and weighed down in their Spirits that they cannot get up to shake off this carthly Dust to walk with God in Enoch's state not observing that counsel of the Lord Christ First to seek the Kingdom of Heaven and with all getting to get Wisdom The contrary to which is most universally practised in making sure first of the Beasts Kingdom and the perishing Mamon of Unrighteousness and then if the Kingdom of Heaven will fall in and be added to them it shall be welcome but alas this will not do Christ will not be served last Wherefore let not the Serpent beguile any who seek the Pearl of Christs Kingdom but be wise to avoid the choaking Earth and drowning Floods and trust the Lord upon his Word who will certainly make
the preciousness of the Spirit for the Vessels sake wherefore I shall no longer be backward to reveal what is of great weight and importance as being well assured that the Lord Jesus will go along with me till I have fulfilled the Declaration of the whole Mystery I feel the divine Agent that works mightily in holy separated Souls and Minds driving on to make way for what is yet behind in reference to the manifestation of that Kingdom which now the Lord is about to restore in his Saints and therefore gives forth fresh and lively Ideas of it that pure Minds may be excited to look for its coming in their New Earth and Heavens which are to be garnished as with Purity so with Dominion and Power even the rising Body of the holy Spirit which must restore all things which have been in Confusion Now what goeth before to make ready for this hath been already set down by the Golden Pen which is dipped in the springing Unction to which more considerable Revelations are added by him who saith He is come to make all things New being ready to give forth the Promise of the Father in the Ministration of the everlasting Gospel I say the faithful Witness and Ground of all Mysteries minded me of his Charge to his Disciples when he was to disappear to the outward viz. That they should wait at Jerusalem the holy City in Harmony Concord and Oneness of Mind with great confidence and love to each other A deeper search the holy one doth make in them who in this last Age are waiting to be endowed with the full acting Body of the Deity which will be manifested in a different manner than in the days of the Apostles that being by way of Gift coming down as a Shower but now those who shall be endowed with this signal Blessing must have it by way of a Birth in them The Apostles were to wait at Jerusalem which was a figure of the Principle of Light where all Natures and Properties are harmoniz'd to an equal Temperature all Faculties are spiritualiz'd and purged from their Drossiness and reconciled to each other in a sweet Love-accord It is plainly shewed me that the holy Spirit will have his Birth in a peaceable Habitation where the conquering Life of Jesus by his dying and rising hath first made its way by reconciling the Properties of Nature and bringing them to a divine Harmony by which renewing Nature into a soft and sweet Mildness causing all Contrarieties of Spirit to cease by subduing it to the Light-Principle Wherefore it is but in vain to expect the Establishment of that Kingdom which the Birth of the holy Spirit will bring to us till this thorow Work be wrought that we may come to Unity in our selves and with one another which is a very high Perfection And truly from hence I have been informed where the Birth of Power hath stuck and why so many Faculties fruitless Births have been brought forth Wherefore let not our bribed Senses or the Spirit of Unbelief so far delude us to make us believe that the holy Spirit will open its Birth but according to what hath been by the Lord himself revealed But it may be objected That if the Terms be so hard it looks as an Impossibility to obtain it because nothing of the evil Qualities and striving Properties must remain which are not so quite allayed in any but may be stirred up again into Motion Pray therefore let us know what Provision hath been revealed against this that it may beg it a Hope and Belief in those who are yet in the Division and Strife the Good warring against the Evil and the Evil against the Good being divided betwixt the Night and the Day as the greatest Saints are For Answer to this Objection the Spirit of the Lord hath searched and found out a Cure which will bring the broken and divided Estate of the first Adamical Birth into Unity Harmony and pure Liberty I shall as I am able bring it sorth in the same Model it was given to me for a true seeing Glass by which I was directed to fathom the deepest Ground of my eternal Soul and to find out its true essential Properties as they were derived from the unmixed Purity of the one pure Element This pure eternal living Soul thus breathed by God into an Angelical Image and formed into an Organical Body from the one pure Element all which was to be seen in the first Paradisiacal Man But when Lucifer prevailed by darting in his hellish Fire it left such a Sting which hath poysoned all the inward Essences of of the very Immortal part and therefore the Wound is found so deep that no Medicine can be found to reach it but Christ the in-breathed Word who only can reach the Soul 's original Ground and being the Creating Fiat can alone make all Nowagain according to the highest Uniformity of the express Deity And this cometh first to be known in a fiery Ray of Loue-Light that discovers where the Root of sin doth lie and so when the Spirit of the Soul comes by the Word of Life to understand its own Original and by what means it hath been corrupted and captivated it is made full-willing and eager to strike in with that Christ which riseth from the Centre-Light in its own Soul to redeem and reconcile all to himself that was alienated from him in the Birth of Strife Thus Christin us is our Peace indeed who hath made of both and all one New Creature having abolished the Law of Enmity blotting and rcoting out sin by the same degrees as his own righteous Nature enters in which restores all peaceable Concord So that the Spirit who is made Partaker of this Gift of God hath put on Royal Liberty and being clothed with Christs essential Body finds it self unloaded of all sinful weights and moves swifty in the Circle of Light and runs its Races through the unknown Spaces and Christaline Spheres where other Worlds do appear with all their glorious Objects Ranks and Orders which must needs make this World look base and vile to a Soul that is come naked and free out of the original Womb as begotten again from the dead rising in a perfect clarified Body of Light and being quite recovered from that desperate lapsed state that would have sunk the Soul into everlasting Death Thus you see by what means the disagreeing Properties of Nature may come to be harmoniz'd as in the beginning God must become Man and by his consuming fiery Property destroy original Sin which is the first Engine that moves the Wheel of Strife and Division in the Soul which Fire is Gods choice Instrument when set and tuned by his hand who gave it a Beeing out of Eternal Nature into which it must be dissolved again that it may be a meet Instrument for the holy Spirit to play such Tunes and Triumphant Sounds and teach such new Lessons as have not hitherto
to see him who sate upon the Red Horse slaying with his Sword the Beasts and creeping things of the Earth that is all the moving stirring Essences springing from the original source of Evil and to find him taking away Peace from the earthly Life so that the earthly Mind is berest of all Peace Rest Content and Satisfaction in all its goings out whether in Thought Word or Action But how comes this to pass Why because he that sits on the Red Horse gives a mighty Sword to the Spirit of the Soul that thereby it may kill and destroy all the Essences of the earthly Life in joynt-Union with Christ which Sword is nothing else but the Power of the Spirit of Life which is Christ's Deity in his Eternal Humanity now fixed in the centre of the Soul It is Christ's rising Life in his Saints enabling them to conquer the Essences of the earthly Life which is the Beast in themselves Now this taking away of Peace from the earthly Life is a blessed Introduction to its final Destruction which is to follow upon it according to the intention of the Kingly Redeemer The opening of the third Seal sheweth Christ in us riding on a black Horse with a pair of Ballances in his Hand signifying Famine on the life of the Beast in his Saints that its day of plenty is passing away and that its earthly Essences must be weighed in the Balance of Rightcousness For the Lamb's Life rising in his dead and riaug Saints putting them into one Scale weigheth all chei Thoughts Words and Actions in the weight of Perfection Christ the holy One in the other to see whether they be brought into an even Pois with it to the end that all Increase and Plenty might richly abound in the fruitfulness of the Spirit from which heavenly sowing such a Crop doth spring as may proclaim a Plenty that may all former exceed and thus it will naturally spring in the Soul which is even ballanced with Christ the Anointed And nothing of the Oyl and Wine which from hence shall proceed shall ever be hurt or diminished At the opening of the fourth Seal Christ rides in his Saints on a powerful Horse whose Name is Conquering Death and hath Hell following him But though this Death looks grim yet it is such a Death as shall only hurt the fourth part of the Earth that is the evil Principle in the earthly Life which reigns and hath the dominion until the Life of Christ be risen in his Saints till which Time the Beast may be permitted to kill the Life of Christ in the Soul with Hunger Famine and languishing Death for it is said that the Beast shall make War with the Saints and for a time overcome them that is keep them under by reigning over them in the worldly dominion which reacheth to their outward Man as standing in his Elementary Kingdom where he hath great Power to afflict and famish unto Death by several Cruelties when so far permitted But I have experimentally found that the greatest Fury Hellish Force and Wrath of the Dragon is quelled and overcome by the Blood and inlaid Life of the Holy Lamb of God rising in his powerful Might within me who upon my complaint of the continual Usurpation of the Beasts Kingdom hath given assurance that there is a Viol of Wrath preparing to be poured out upon him which shall drown his Kingdom in everlasting Perdition that he may no longer insult over the sealed Ones of God to whom Power shall be given to bind him in everlasting Chains For the Lord Omnipotent in the Life of the Lamb is coming to reign over all the Beasts of the Earth and to exalt them to a victorious Kingdom who have been killed and slain with him The opening of the fifth Seal discovers the Souls of the slain Saints under the Altar of the Deity and Humanity Here the Soul witnesseth Conformity to the Death of the 〈◊〉 and lies as a live burning Coal under his 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to rise in such Power of Majesty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to take Vengeance of those that have killed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 eternal Generation is to be counted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—â—ced into Nature who hath lain a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but as Abel's Blood did cry for Vengeance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Jesus cry more strongly in the Soulâ— of them who are 〈◊〉 with Christ and the Lord hath expresly assured that when the rising Incense goeth up from the Altar from the Soul 's live Coal it is a sure Testimony that the Resurrection is nigh when the naked Soul shall be cloathed with its long white Robe though this hath been a long Rest and Confinement to many yet it hath only been permitted that a stronger Cry might ascend Even as we see now that John's long sleeping Prophecy is now by some strong crying Souls awakened till all the Seals be made to fly open to the end that the imprisoned Souls in Christ may by their opening come to be set upon the Throne where they shall judge the Dragon and the Beast with all their Adherents that formerly exercised Cruelty over them unto Death Therefore rejoyce all ye who do find the Effects of the fifth Seal opening in your selves for by them ye may know the nearness of the Jerusalem-Kingdom look for its fulfilling in the World within which shall also in due time be fulfilled in the outward World I proceed now to the opening of the sixth Seal where the first thing observable is the great Earthquake representing the terrible Shakings of the very Foundations of the old Earth in which is the original Seed of Sin the hour of whose Judgment is come and the Trumpet hath founded for the dissolving this first Earth and Heavens that their Place may be no more found the Wind of the mighty Spirit blows upon all Flesh to make it dye and wither The Sun of the outward Reason is changed into Blackness and the Moon of the Senses into Blood and all the Starry Imaginations drop like untimely Fruit and every Island and Mountain of strength meleth away For there can be no hiding in this Day a Consumption being determined upon the whole Universe which hath been under the Beasts captivity We may call this a blessed Ruin and Undoing to see a destruction come upon all that hath kept the Lamb and his Kingdom out This causes a great out cry and perplexity in the Properties of degenerate Nature where the King of Reason and the Captains the Senses do not know whither to slee from the face of him who is come to make all things new which could not be till all of the old Building was broken down and taken to pieces where the fretting Leprosie of Sin did still rise The Wisdom of God could no better way contrive for the laying of a sound and sinless Foundation for the New Jerusalem according to this fore-contrived Model as by express Word it came
the discovery of which we will pass by at present and first define what wonderful Virgin this is and of how noble an Extract who is taken into God's Bosom in a mutual Love-imbracing and therefore may be termed the eternal Goddess in a high and sober sense and it is an evil and sinful thing to give this Title to any other as it is too frequently done But to proceed to describe this Virgin according to the delineation which God hath given of her as first to its Matter and Substance it is of that thin pure airy subtlety so as nothing of the gross and ponderous outward Elements can mix with it for they would but tarnish her Clarity which is ever conversant with the Deity which was signified by the Sun and Stars which were seen about the Head of the Woman in the Revelations signifying those superior Planets which cannot be adulterated with the Desilemonts of this inferior Orb as possessing far higher and more exalted Powers carrying dominion over all that is beneath them For as the lower Planets hold down in subjection to the Curse so these deliver and set free from it Wherefore it is all-worthy to be enquired in what Planet the Nativity of the Virgin may be again renewed which must be by bright Venus which must bring forth the mighty Birth under Sol in Conjunction with the rest of the superior Planets which are all harmoniz'd in one for they agree to bring forth the Mother and then the Son in the Virgin-Humanity that bears from the heavenly Matter both Figure and Form Organically for operation in their various Properties which are deciphered by the highest Wisdom to illustrate the only true Virgin in her beautiful Form The divine Mould for her Shape is again found according to what was before either Angels or Man were formed which is not to be portrayed till she come to be essentially manifested within only her Organical Faculties are unto us described thereby to know what makes out the Virgin 's high Descent in these several Faculties as follow The first Faculty set before me was that of Seeing seated in her Eye which appeared like a fiery Ray and sparkled as a Star piercing all things in the Heights and Depths An Eye that slumbers not but watcheth at each Centers-Gate to spie what goeth in and out to prevent all violation of her Virgin-Chastity that her Vow may not be broken by which she stands engaged to her Husband The second Faculty is that of Hearing seated in the Ear which must be so Chaste as to turn away from all corrupt and unsavoury Language which speaks not God forth in his immense Love and Goodness or in his Greatness and Soveraignity The true Virgins Ear is turned inward to listen to the sweet Voice of her Bride-groom she waits for the dropping of his Lips whose Words are the strength and marrow of her Life she is in such union with the Deity that she can't hearken to any strange Voice left she should be desiled thereby The greatest danger and hurt she feels from the talking Spirits from the dark center in the Soul from which her Virgin-Ear turns away and dare in no wise stay in their astral counsel and therefore turns her Ear to those Eccho's Voices and Sounds which leave a sweetness which resists the taking of delight in corrupt and impertinent Communications from without Thus reserving both Eye and Ear she still moves forward in her heavenly Sphear The third organical Faculty is that of Smelling This may be understood in a two-fold sense the first is a drawing in of the Paradisical Perfumes and those sweet ravishing Odours which are sufficient to renew languishing Life and to make it strongly active and vigorous Secondly the Virgin is in her self an high sented Odour her Garments send forth a Fragrancy far surpassing all the spicy Compositions of this earthly Climate How Vile and Despicable doth every thing that hath lost its Paradisical Property appear to those who sometimes draw in these ravishing Odours which might they but continue they would never desire any other Food Shall I declare what is made known to me of the Virtue of these Virgin Perfumes It is aver'd to me they will recover a putrified Soul and eat out all the Poyson of Original Sin and recover dead flesh and keep it from Putrifaction it is a Balsom endued with so penetrating a Spirit that it can go through Stone and Iron Flesh and Bones None can know this till they have passed the Virgins Womb and then they will double this Witness Now it is to be considered how unsupportable all rank Plants of the Earth are to the Virgin who continually breathes this perfumed Air When ever she makes a swift pass through this noisom Kedar what a strong sented Garland doth she need that nothing of Infection may hurt her Virgin Purity To which end this Provision is made to keep out the evil Scents which every where meet us in the Walks of this World The fourth Faculty is that of Tasting Here we find what it is that nourisheth the Virgin her Food is in her self and it is no other than pure Deity which riseth as a flowing Spring from her own deep She lives upon Spirit of Air which maintains and blows up the Quint-Essential Fire as the first Virgin-matter out of which the Soul was made which in Adam became adulterated by eating of the forbidden-fruit who might have lived upon the Root of eternal Life which he had in himself he might have tasted the Paradisical Fruits at pleasure but what was palpable without he had essentially in the Virgin within himself so that he might chuse whether he would eat of them or no in a corporeal way This hath been a secret hitherto little understood but God in Christ through his appearance hath revealed it and for this end to let us know what we are to feed upon at the return of our Virginity whose Life's Nourishment will be in itself without any dependence upon any thing from without Oh! there will quite another thing be known in the Virgin Soul when she is espoused to her though she hath liberty to eat as Adam had before the fall So here the outward Month may taste of these mortal Fruits but not of necessity because the Life is centred in and maintained from the heart of the Deity for the enereass and growth of pure Virgin Nature And truly nothing but God can be the Virgins Food nothing is so well digested by her for it is a flowing source of Almighty strengthening and pleasant tasting according to an infinite variety This being once found the Soul can no more eat down the Fruits of the mixed Tree in whose Root the Curse is whereby Death comes in which hides the Virgin from the Soul's Essence The fifth Faculty is the saper-sential Feeling What Sence more excellent than this Can there be a greater Confirmation than a feeling Life out of which Joy Peace and Assurance do
Soul will win the Virgins Heart For here indeed is manifested a full proof of Love's affiance by coming out from and renouncing all the Charms of the Daughter of Babylon who hath used all her Art to fright her from attempting ever to enter this Gate She hath through all Ages rescued from the Serpent's twisting toil and brought many back to enter into her Gates again Wonderful it will be to see any one come of a Conquerour here for this is the most perilous Gate because of the Gulf which stands before it The mortal Spirit whose Affection is joyned to gross Elementary things cannot pass this Gulf without suffering loss it is a Life that cannot be saved but must be swallowed up But Christ our Life will swiftly pass through as a fiery Charriot and the naked Soul with him who hath resisted all those Temptations which would have hindred his entrance into this Gate which is the very winning of that Field where Wisdom's Gold of Opher and unknown rich Substance doth lie Oh! who is it that will hold out the Encounter at this Gate It may be truly said That many have striven to enter but because they would or could not leave behind all mortal Burthens and come quite naked out of Babylon they were not able to enter This is that which hath dis-enabled many to enter and will continue to do so except the Christ of the mighty God enable us to pass and then we shall with freedom and ease come up to the third Gate The third Gate is Translation by Fixation in Wisdom's Land or Principle The Center of the Virgin Wisdom may often open and take up the Soul and Spirit into it and then be shut again and the Soul let down into Babylon's Principle This I say may happen often before the Soul comes to be fixed in Wisdom's Orb. But when the Soul is fixed in the Heavenly sprouting life of its Emmanuel and translated into a pure Nazarite Virginity which knows nothing more of the fallen Birth Here the Soul stands in another Principle having got firm footing in Wisdoms Land Here a goodly Lot is cast for the conquering Soul who will find all riches stand before her in Wisdoms Treasury without either bounds or limits Whatsoever is of use or service is there laid down at the feet of a translated Spirit as the return of her Adventure and Trust in that day whilst she was under the Temptation of the glistering Stars of this Elementary Region all whose Promises were but as a snare and bar to keep from knowing this high Translation Oh! what a welcome Feast do I see already prepared within this Gate to satiate both the Eye and Taste The Virgin comes and salutes the Soul with a Loves entercourse saying Come now and inherit Substance with me ye who have been in weary Travel to attain this fixation Gate I behold you in the face of the Bridegroom by whose means you are arrived here Now in his Name ask and have See now what Honour and Preferment you shall have in my Kingdom which will recompence a thousand Fold for the loss you have sustained in the World from whence you are come out As you did give credit to me upon the Word of my Testimony and the fame which was brought to your Ear though as yet you possessed nothing of what 's intended for you But here is now what will weigh down and recompence all your Sufferings when you resisted manfully those busie Spirits that would have blocked up your way but in strong Faith you have broke through all Let your Victory be assigned to him who hath the opening Key for to let in from Gate to Gate All this is from the dropping Lips of Sophia and her Bridegroom who now stand ready to open the fourth Gate The fourth Gate is called the Bountiful Gate From hence the richest Gift is brought forth that ever hath been received since Adam lost his Virgin who now here gives her self again to the Soul Oh great is this Benignity who could ever have hoped for such degrees of Advancement after so long a day of Desertion night of Apostacy An Eccho sound we now do hear that she will appear in her Bounty But to whom shall this Gate open stand to receive this Liberality from her hand Is it not for Ruth who hath forsaken the Moabitish Land and come to be fixed there whence her eternal Nativity is derived where she is no sooner arrived but she is decked with all the Virgins Ornaments which are the various Accomplishments in all supernal Powers and high Abilities to act in a divine Omnipotent manner whether in a corporeal form or out of it as shall be judged moet with reference to Place Time or Persons and according to the Region where the Bridegroom with his Bride shall be whether in the Heights above or Depths beneath where his and her rejoycing shall be in each other through the breaking opening of the Center from whence the Virgin-Tincture as a warm Fire-blood doth flow in every Vein a nourishing Life is felt passing through every sense This is that Gift which the Virgin will bestow upon the fixed Soul for a greater Manifestation of God's manifold Wonders throughout the habitable part of this Earth where the whole Trinity in Wisdom will assume a Virgin-humanity to bring all what hitherto hath been confused into-order again The Government of the bruitish Spirit must give way to her day who comes to overturn all Merchants with their Merchandize No Wares of the Assyrian shall be brought through her Gates neither shall any Sale of the Harlot's goods be mingled with her Treasures but a vast separation there shall be as between Paradise and this World where all things stand in an anxious Birth but that other Sphear is blessed with a perpetual Spring of all pleasant things which we shall know and understand in their variety in the next Gate which now we are by the steady hand of Christ led up to that we may see the utmost Latitude of Wisdom's inward City and come to know all the goings in and comings out at these Mystical Gates The fifth Gate bears the Title of Wisdom's Factory of all that is mannaged by her Magia from her own stock and Principle being very different from all the Merchandize which is used in this visible World which is wholly shut out of her Gates for none can drive an earthly Trade but such as bear the Mark and Number of the Beast here in this outward Principle Wherefore Wisdom will take none to be her Factors but those who have renounced all Babylonish Trade which is maintained by bearing the Mark of the Beast from the introduced subtilty of Reason A new and wonderful Way is prescribed to them who shall have the Mark and Name of the Virgins white Stone by which they shall be impowered to drive a free and mighty Trade within this heavenly City which shall make all Babylon's Wares grow
But here it may be asked What manner and kind of Offerings will those first Fruits of Redemption be This is a Question which cannot be so fully answered till we are compleatly perfected in this Tabernacle which hitherto is only a rearing But what of these Immunities hath been expressed by the great Priest and opened from the Tabernacle-Testimony unto me shall be given forth for their sakes who may have right to bring in such perfect Offerings to the most holy and separated place in the day of their Restoration mutually with us who are expecting the accomplishment in all its divine Ordinances and Consecrations for the perfecting every Comer hereunto But now to define what kind of Offerings we shall bring as Priests to God they are the Fruits of the Magia in their out-flowing Operation which actually send out a most powerful Spirit from its own essential Spring of Spirit wherein God is the only pure Original of it What is sent forth to effect but a new Generation of Heavens and Earth The Magia worketh in this manner saying Let the old Tabernacle with all its shadowy Appearances pass away and be no more And it is so for the force of the out-going Spirit incorporates with the Word and makes it Essential whether it be expressed Vocally or no the Co-centred Decree passeth into and though the Spirit carrieth all Power with it either to nullifie or make void or to give a new Plantation and an heavenly splendorious Formation upon Creatures and Things for a lustrious Transformation of what is fading and dying that so Immortality may be renewed whether in Rationals Animals or Vegetables The matter of the one Element is so immerced and coagulated in a Magical Spirit that it is able to give a Life where the very Face of Death doth appear whether dead as to a Spiritual Life according to that saying And you hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sens. Who is this in the Person of Christ but the same holy Ghost in his out-going Power that through our Persons so influencing and given a Resurrection to a dead Life whether in our selves or others as cause requires Then also as to the very mortal Life to prolong it and to secure it from Pain and Sickness Yea from Death it self But this quickinmg Spirit is only appropriated to such as have dyed and suffered with Christ in the Flesh and thereby have overcome the World Therefore let none think that they can come to this degree of Power Might and Dignity till they are Born again from the Dead that is a cessation to the enkindled Life from the Stars which generate earthly Motions and Thoughts which work in a way of Sensuality from which there must be a departing in reference to those great Things which are to succeed I have been often brought to see the limit of the first Born Life that doth consist between Time and Eternity in the stirring Essences of Sin whereby I am made so wisely knowing as not grieve or to have any Reluctancy upon the sentence of a total Expiration of such an injurious Life as keeps me out of God's Tabernacle-Body where I can no more dye Whereupon the holy Ghost out of the Virgin-Body doth cry and call to such who would come to be all Magical to offer up their first-Born rational Life for a Sacrifice And then of a truth we shall bring other kind of Fruits and Offerings and no more as Tributaries and Servants to Sin Beast or Dragon but be freed through the rising Birth that will mount and fly over all those who kept the other under great Fear and Bondage but in this we shall come to be Kings in God's House and of his own Family Oh! what hath been here let down by Golden Drops from the Head-Fountain Let it O God mingle all forcibly for Life contaction with the more noble part within us that so this great and perfect Tabernacle may be according to its own secret way compacted indissolvably where we may securely dwell and nothing of Violence Oppression or Fear but receive Power from the rising Body of the holy Ghost to bear down and expel whatsoever is against us This is what the Lord hath by a signal Word averred and he will see it fulfilled as in any one such a Spirit of Resolution shall be found to go forward in this great Enterprize to encounter and rush through every Throng that would stop and put them by who are ready to venter their All for it Now somewhat may be said as to those high Ends for which God is resolved to raise his principal Magia First to redress comfort and relieve the groaning Creation which is in spiritual travail even such who are in Famin and Death in Agonies Sorrow and Heaviness through divers Temptations and the Buffetings and Wiles of Satan To these the Magical Balsom shall be given for Cure from such as are first risen in the Tabernacle-Body of God They shall bind all evil Spirits and there shall go forth a virtual Power from them to do as if Christ were in person there And in the second place this Power shall extend it self to the taking away of all outward Maladies of the Body and all Sufferings relating to Penury and Want and all Weariness Toil and anxious Care for the Needs and Requirings of the Body A further addition to the former subject Know then that as in a miraculous way this will be made as healing Waters from out of the Threshold of the Sanctuary that shall recover the dry and parched Earth to make it bud and flourish as it did before the Curse did overflow it Take it inward as to spiritual Fruitfulness or otherwise as to the outward Elementary state Great also will be the Trust that will be granted by the mighty Jehovah for mannagement for his little Flock sake and put into the Hands of some that are to be set apart as good and principal Shepherds indeed who can both let out and lay down their Life for the elect Sheep which are to be gathered in not by Sounds or Words but by a Magical Impregnation which can send in a Breath of Life to quicken what is as dead This is now what we are in a daily expectation of from the rich Furniture which will come down with the Tabernacle-Body Oh come holy Souls and let us be in a watchful posture for I do see in Spirit that the Morning of this Day begins apace to clear the bright Clouds do open the face of our Heavens appear the separating Vail is all rending away that out of the first Tabernacle we may pass and within the most holy place fixedly stay where we shall have no cause to fear that God will henceforth move away because we our selves shall be brought up to that height of Purity that all Offerings shall be most pleasant and powerful from the everlasting Flame of the holy Altar from whence ascending Powers will go up to bring
under check and in awe Thy Throne is set thy Council is fixed the Urim and Thummim of sound and right Judgment is come down and Decrees are gone forth which all powerful Might will see executed within this hidden Kingdom of my Soul and Mind The Prospect of all this which now is come the Spirit in Christ my Lord's Personality did give me to see and therefore to Prophesie as hoping the Time is at hand which is so in good earnest for I am made to understand that the holy and just One is come in his first and early Reign to put all things to rights that were found in confusion in the fallen Properties of Nature and to Harmonize whatsoever did put forth from the bitter Root Essence in Jars and Strife Oht to have a Cure come in to relieve this fallen weary tired-out Life that was in perplexed Strife can do no less than give cause of Triumph where-ever such a Dominion is known and entred upon though invisible None is privy to what is done or acted there but the obedient Subjects that do wait upon the Throne are ready to fulfil all royal Laws that are expressed from the counsel of the Trinity And truly I do find great Joy in keeping up to this Restriction and Ordinances which do appertain to the Lord Christ's Kingdom although they be quite different and of another kind than what was allowed to be and by the just One winked at before that Word which is Spirit and Life did protest to me That he was come to make a total alteration and to throw out all the Forms and Constitutions which have passed for a heavenly Formation which yet never reached to this new most perfect and excellent Kingdom which is so Chrystaline as that the Spirit and Soul are realized in a circuled Glory and so shut up as no more to look out or come down from off this high mounted white Throne whereon the Reigns of a great and wonderful Government are to be held fast For which many cautional Words I have received for it is the abiding that will work out the most glorious Victory for no one that is shot up to the highest Stature in Christ and so ripe for the Government is yet come to be exempted from Assaults and Temptations that will put forth from the satanical earthly Kingdom where all carnal earthly Senses and rational Subtilty do still lie lurking that if the exalted Spirit that doth sit upon the Throne with Christ should but venture down and debase it self by complying with what it hath rejected of this world's Laws and Rudiments it is possible the Kingdom may be rent away as in Saul's case nay in Solomon himself God would not remit it when he departed from the Lord in any degree but received a Rebuke to purpose for it all which was laid before me for the holding fast the Scepter in Humility Purity Fear Righteousness and holy Couragiousness that I might so hold out in this first and invisible Reign of the Lamb of God that he may come to be visibly magnified for the Conviction of those that are yet alienated by a Spirit of Unbelief not knowing the peaceable Fruits of this Kingdom within which in no wise can mingle with what is of the Starry Government as being quite of another Spirit It neither careth nor seeketh for Regency or Dignity from these inferior Planets which give the World's Wealth and Honour to the vilest and basest of Men. Wherefore it is little regareded by such who have Eyes to see the workings of the superior Constellations which move in the third Heaven remote from all mortal sight from which alone I have sought for Honour Credit and Reputation And now I am greatly satisfied to be esteemed of no Repute and to be as a poor Lazarus for the joy of that Kingdom which is already possessed by me Yet not here so resting as not to expect and believe but that this invisible Kingdom will so work out visibly as it may make the Sun Moon and Stars of this inferior Orb to bow before it for the assurance of which we can desire no fuller nor better Evidence than the total and victorious Reign of God over all the Sin-infected Properties For let this be but finished and it will be a certain Introduction to the manifestative Reign of the holy Ghost who will not fear to face the Locusts of the Earth that have had their Fulness and Blessings from the Beast's Kingdom whose Glory will certainly wither and dye away Nay they who are of the number of Israelites and yet abide in the Abomination of Self-Love will be so ashamed and confounded at the opening of this plentiful Store that will so abundantly shower down upon them that sit on the Throne with Christ that all those who have detained these worldly Goods shall have such Indignation against themselves for it that they shall throw their Gold and Silver to the Bats and Moles of the Earth and take hold of the skirts of the Throne-Princes and cry to partake of their Lot and Portion For it will be of that Quality and daily increasing Substance for the satisfying of all kind of Requirings of the outward Body that Jacob's All and Enough will most surely be possessed without Curse or Sorrow which we know have attended the whole visible Treasury gotten by the outward Wisdom and Art of Man who have thereby so Idoliz'd the Works of their Hands that they have quite run themselves out of those Blessings which come in by giving up their whole Mind and Will to be the Lord's dominion This is the surviving Kingdom that shall spread from the root of Christ risen up in his perfect stature within and throughout the Souls Essence to deifie it so that it may abide in the unalterable Substance of a Godded Nature without the hazard of ever relapsing into Sin Curss or sorrowful Weakness which will be the most wonderful Salvation that ever yet was brought to manifestation For which cause it will necessarily follow that this visible Kingdom will be also established and become as a listed up Ensign that all flesh may tremble and fall before it which did so insult and lift up it self in Arrogancy Where the Lord was but as yet come in his first Reign no shew of Glory was seen to outward appearance but rather dark Clouds of Sufferings which being rightly improved makes meet for the full possession of the first and second Kingdom each one in their high graduation for coming forth to Glorification as are now in the hidden Sphears where the high Throne-Glories are manifested in another manner of Kingly Pomp and Splendor than what ever hath or indeed could possible be figured out here till the Kingdom it self do work out visibly and then we shall know what we at present are known of our God for in order to this excelling Reign which is to answer to the Royalty Purity and Pomp that God himself is now with all
good whatsoever we part with on his account as there are some who can witness to Gods Truth and Faithfulness in this matter A Third Caution is for those who are got out of the Throng and Incombrance of worldly Multiplicity and have thrown off all those weights and sins which do so easily beset them they must know that all this will not fully secure them though it be a very good Ground-Work and greatly advantagious for the rearing up of Gods perfect Tabernacle within them for the following Glories to rest upon it but be advertised from the holy and true fore-sight of the Spirit of Jesus who knows the Dangers and Perils which attend this state also which though they have escaped the worldly Bondage and earthly Pollutions yet spiritual Defilements may remain which are of more dangerous consequence than briary Cares and worldly Distractions for we have not only to do with a Birth of Flesh and Blood but there are internal Powers and Principalities of an higher Descent which joyn their Forces with the rational Spirit which is the more wise and sober part in man and therefore most readily take upon them to prescribe Laws and Rules for the superior Soul to walk by who finding it self fallen stands in great need of an Help and Guide to bring it out of this wretched Plunge and confused State being convinced by Christ the true Life and Light risen within how the case stands with it and thereby made eagerly desirous to be set free from those inward usurping Powers which come with all deceiveableness to circumvent and keep the Soul in the strong hold of a rational Sense which must be quitted And now the enlightned Soul feeling the Malady so great and so painful looks out diligently for a speedy Relief and is ready to embrace every Physitian that doth profess to be skillful in the curing of Souls whereupon comes in a second danger of which ye will do well to take heed that is to be cautioned from whom you receive Spiritual Medicine and whether they be such who have the true Balsom and Tincture of Life to give forth from the very Unction of God resting in them for no other can be profitable unto you All who have not this Soveraign White Stone which knows only how to pour out his Name as precious Oyntment from Vessel to Vessel are Physitians of no value Therefore while ye in the state of Minority are and have need to be under Pastors and Teachers till you are come up to the highest Form ready prepared and qualified for the great Master Teacher to undertake you even the holy Spirit who will perfect whatever was lacking in other Teachings and through other Mediums for which direct your Eye waiting in a peactable Concord and silent Harmony in your own Jerusalem within whereupon written is to be Holiness to the Lord in every Property and then you will come to know the fresh Pasturesprings which are only under the breaking-up-Seal of the holy Unction where no defiled foot hath ever come to raise the Dust to discolour this golden Stream This is the Ministration which you will find the following Openings to point out and lead to and though as yet it be an unbeaten Path which the Lord hath by his Instrument now declared and made known in way of Vision and Prophecy yet it is the true Day-star that will give its own light and witness Therefore let the Wonderers Despisers and Contemners take heed of making a Mock of that which the Alpha and Omega will own and stand by as his express Mind who prohibited the publisher hereof from altering the way and manner of the revealing of these great and deep things Therefore you have them unpollished in their own naked Simplicity as they were every day revealed given forth not in the dress of humane Wisdom no they are of another descent and the spiritual Ones in God will feel know and taste from what Treasure-House they proceed And as for others we do not heed their Judgment only shall be found in hearty Prayer for their true enlightning that all may come to know what the Love-Trumpet doth now sound for is it not that both Earth and Sea may give up their long buried Dead and that his cursed Ground may no longer shut up the dead in Christ Are not these Tidings brought from the bright East that the Lord is coming to bring forth himself in a new and marvellous Resurrection such as never was yet and therefore hath before-hand sent his holy Spirit of Prophecy to proclaim what he intends to fulfil according to his antient Purpose and Decree and for this end hath shewed what Gates are to open to give entrance into this All-fruitful Sharon where the scattered love-Flock hath been hunted and chased as panting Harts shifting their Pastares and yet not finding where to lie down and be at Rest which indeed can never be expected till through the Seven Seals ye do come where the full glorious Resurrection Day ye shall witness through all things becoming New where the holy Spirit your Over-seer and feeling Life shall ever and always be known for fixation in the Resurrection State And though the Saduces be numerous that have no Faith ever to see this first Resurrection which is from the Body of Sin to be made free giving witness hereunto first by being begotten alive from the Dead according to the Scriptures You hath he quickned who were dead in Trespasses and Sin Therefore it is not incredible to us that God should raise the Dead see Rom. 4 5 7 Chapters but each one in Christ's Order for allowance must be given for degrees for as the Death is gradually so is also the Resurrection perfected through received Acts of Power a Similitude whereof we may see in the visible Sun which doth not attain its Meridian height at his first rising and so the Body of the Resurrection doth not at once but by degrees advance to its full height of Lustre and Glory So as we must give way to Measures and Degrees in all sorts whether in dying or rising all opening one Everlasting Mystery of Glory in the Powers of our Lord Jesus who will bring all one after another up to Glory Now then let each one prove his own Work wrought in God whether in Death Resurrection Ascention or Glorification for these are all linked together though not attai ned or reached but in their own Order still going on from the first Step to the last the way for the Attainment of which you will find described according to the measure of the Spirit given for Manifestation of these long hidden Truths that have lain under the Seals where you will find the Path that leadeth into the Death and the loosing therefrom through the seventh Seal opening for the Resurrection which the seven Thunders do plainly express and so proceed on to the ascending Reign in Christs Kingdom which is great and magnificent giving its own
been understood All which shall be made good when the Soul shall be brought forth as a well tuned Instrument new strung and qualified in the deified man where the holy Spirit moves every Property according to the central Wheel in its new begotten Form which is set free to run its Races in the Sphere of Light where weak Mortality with its sinful Essences are out-run and left behind in the Fall Let not this seem strange or impossible for in the Deep a Mean is found for the bringing forth of this long buried Seed which hath long waited to arise in its original Body of essential Perfection and harmoniz'd Powers that it may appear that God is come to move and shew himself in the Covenant of his Love according to the Preordination in the heart of Christ for by him we do obtain this Resurrection in order to all the following Glories which the holy Spirit shall bring with him even so Anon. This Instruction being so immediately from the Lord carried great weight with it and made me resolve to wait upon the working Power in my inward Deep for the reducing of every divided Property to Unity for I was fully convinced that this Uniformity must be the Temple in which the holy Spirit will appear for the bringing of all working Powers to a heavenly Consort and Agreement I sate upon this day by day and as I found great drivings thereunto from the South Wind of Heaven so strong Storms were raised from the North with roaring Seas that lifted up their Waves to scatter and make void this holy Enterprize in injecting divers Temptations that such a thing as this could not hold or abide but would have its Overturnings and Changes for that nothing less than a God can always be in an equal Temperature and that this was rather the full effect of the holy Spirits coming than a Preparation for it Thus was I puzled and tossed to and fro in my Mind as if I were put upon that which could never be brought about or carried through to the desired End But the Lords Word was mighty and powerful to press me forward to this sweet and well ordered Composure of Mind to abide in an equal Temperature notwithstanding all that might come in to discourage me whether from those visible things or from the dark Principality which is much more hurtful in regard that they as Spirits can shoot in their Darts before we are aware so that this bath been my watchful Exercise for some days to resist what would have done Violence to that which in Concord and Peace would ever unshaken remain The holy One according to his friendly way and manner of Visitation did after all this exceedingly comfort and strengthen me to maintain his right of Conquest over all that which yet is left to vex and awaken Anxiousness or any Fear or Turmoile in the Soul My Jesus thus spake Consider and know thou art to hold fast what I have purchased by the fore-passed Death in thee as having assumed that Body of Sin to offer it up for a consuming Sacrifice once for all as was shewed in the Type of the visible Body which is now done again in the invisible So that you are to reckon and account your sins virtually done away they can claim no Law either to reign or condemn Look upon all Motions of this kind to be at the check of the Spirit who hath again quickned the dead and will no more give way to that which came in to flesh for to destroy And therefore let none pretend a necessity of continuing in that which hath brought in Confusion and Disagreement seeing a Redeeming Spirit is come down to renew and gather in the lost again to the divine Beeing from whence they did proceed at first pure as God is pure to which degree of Perfection that we may be restored again is the end of Christs Mediatory Office not only without but within us where the Body of Sin hath been yielded up for an Offering This confirming Word Christ the Lord who is arising left with me for them who have been in the Death with him that we henceforth may know our selves in him to be acquitted and released from all Claims which the evil Powers and Properties can make for upholding that Kingdom where the Beasts Throne is which consists of envy wrath strife from all which by an eternal Decree of the Lord Jehovah you are set free and brought into the Harmony of that Kingdom where the springing Joy from the Peace of God doth run as a River that hath its Division through all Properties for to bring them to the heavenly Unity whereby the Creature is set free from the Bondage of Sin and a wafaring Life according to the Pattern seen in the Mount of Vision to which my Spirit hath been oft taken up to see the wonderful Plat-form of the New-Jerusalem The Vision of the New-Jerusalem The Lord took me away from my mortal part and shewed me the Scituation of this great Glory and said Behold and see the Pattern of the heavenly Houses and Mansions which make up the New-Jerusalem where the Glory of the One only God doth fill all with the essential Light and Splendor of his divine goodness I shall as I am able describe what I did see in the Heavens of this Mother-City for so it was named to me who is to bring forth her first and free-born to replenish the New Earth and Heavens It appeared as a City sounded upon one square Stone whose Dimensions were very large It was all paved with light flaming Colours appearing like so many various sparkling Stones inlaid on the great Foundation Stone which gave forth a luster as if so many bright Suns had been there Towards the Verge or out-side of this square Stone were seen many Seraphick Bodies wreathing Arm in Arm and several rows of various spiritual Forms of different Ranks and Stature These Rews appeared like the Stories of a building which were carried up higher higher in a square Figure till it was wonderful high upon the Heads of the most inward glorified Bodies a Covering was spread by one more Diaphanous and of greater splendor than all the rest the Height of his Person was higher by the head then all the other who called to me out of this most glorious Building To take good heed of all I had seen for it had a further meaning which I was to have revealed when driven by the Spirit into the light Mystery where all deep things do open Oh my dear Lord be thou an All-springing Testimony within and from this New-Jerusalem My Spirit being drawn out for a further Enquiry concerning this New-Jerusalem state what the Appearance of it to us did signifie for this present time the Foundation Stone thereof gave forth this Word That such a City the mighty Cyrus would himself be the Founder of upon the visible Stage of this World although there be little appearance
of it as yet because the Elect Stones are at present lying amongst the Rubbish of Confusion who in due time are to be linked together to make up a strong City of Defence through the Gates of which no unclean Vessel shall pass nor whatsoever is Lame or Blemished according as was seen in the Pattern This the Lord will effect by his Might and Spirit and establish this City on Mount-Zion at which the whole World shall Tremble Whilst the Lord was communing with me about this heavenly City I saw it descend and cover the whole Earth and all those who were not prepared to enter and who could claim no Birth-right freedom in this Mother-City did flee away by Multitudes Heaps upon Heaps to hide themselves from the bright Splendor of the divine Body with the anointed head in the midst of it The Glory was so great that we can only give an Eclipsed account of what was seen But as the descent of this Magnificence did terrifie and cause above three parts of the World to flee away as having an irreconcileable Enmity to Spirits and Bodies of such Purity so on the other hand I saw a Numerous Company gathered to it from all Quarters the Trumpet-shout of Jerusalems great King calling them in from all parts they were all the first-born of this Mother-City who well knows her own calling them by that Name which is impressed upon them in flaming Characters of Love Multitudes of this kind encompassed the holy City but few were admitted to the Seraphick wreathe even those only who had put on the glorified Body Whereupon I asked Why those who were called and had the Name of the heavenly City upon them were not received in And the Lord said That those who were taken into the Glory had finished their inward Transformation to the utmost Perfection waiting only for the Consumation of the Nuptial Glory but that the rest though far gone in true Regeneration could not be admitted until their Redemption were perfectly wrought out to the end that no flaw may be found in the Stones that are to constitute this divine Building but as any shall arrive to this degree of Perfection so this City shall descend and take them in Hereupon followed a further discovery to let me know the Royal Freedom of the spiritual Seed proceeding from the New-Jerusalem as the Virgin Bride of God who though come down into this visible Birth of Time yet was before all Time in the Substantiality of spiritual Essence by whom the renewed fruitfulness of this free Birth shall in this last Age of the World be made manifest which was the joyful Message which sounded in my Heavens with what is further to be declared for our Consolation It was thus laid before me That the Jerusalem from above hath been these many Ages travelling to bring forth her first and free-born according to that divine Likeness whose Descent is not to be found within the verge of Time For here the Gate of Gods deep hath been opened to let us in to see the wonderful Mystery that was fore-ordained to work through all the Vicissitudes of Time since the first Creation Now then let us consider what the first Plant of Paradise was from whence we are all sprung it was but a flower from the Earth for out of the Dust of the Earth the Lord God created man and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life and man became a living Soul which was pure as immediately proceeding from the most Holy But how soon did this Glory fade and return to Earth again whereas if he had kept his first Estate he would have been advanced to higher degrees of Perfection and become fruitful in Gods Virgin off-spring All which Design for a limitted time was overturned but the Foundation of Gods Election stood so firm in the Essentiality of the out-breathed Word which was the Light of Adam's Life in the Center of Immortality that the same Word will restore all again according to the first gracious Intent of the wise Creator whose purposed Grace shall renew the face of all things that have been marred in the first Adamiral Image But though so desperate a Fall hath overtaken the whole Creation yet is it but as the fading or cropping of a flower whose eternal Root remaining will put forth and spring a-fresh in a more glorious Beauty and Figure than the first ever had For though by one mans Disobedience all are made subject to Death and the Curse which is the bruising of the Heel yet the Head-Life remains which will recover raise and make all sound again for in this promised seed the faded Life will be quickned according to the Election of Him who will hereby more Eminently make known the Riches of his Grace and Glory in his Vessels prepared thereunto For though there be in all men an holy seed remaining whereby they are in a possibility of recovery yet because all have not an Heart to improve this Talent it continues an unprofitable dead Seed to many notwithstanding all are called To take of the Water of Life freely that by its quickning Virtue the buried Seed may be raised to a new Life in a Body of its own kind which Seed through many Deaths does renew its never fading Flower of Life for a higher degree of Glory in the New Jerusalem state of fixation Now from what hath been said we are informed that there is an Elect Number which is to make up the New Jerusalem-Bride here upon Earth who shall finish the Mystery of the Seventh Seal and be all instated in that Kingdom which the Alpha and Omega hath designed for his Virgin-Bride before Paradise or this World were And that I might know that this design and unchangeable purpose of God is still going on there was shewed me a clear White Stone in which were engraven numberless Names all ordained to make up the Glory of this City of God which shall be the Praise and Admiration of the Heavens and a dread and amazement to the Earth for the Revelation of it will bring a Wo upon them who have no part in it This the Lord himself did signifie saying Henceforth know your Free-Birth Name and Place in this City and be not fearful or unbelieving but travel on in the assured Hope that shall not be made ashamed for the everlasting Father hath prepared for you this City of which I am the Builder in you The hand of the Lord was strong upon me still and took me up into an high and lofty Place where I saw a burning Furnace which appeared all Blew like the airy Clouds and the Lord walking in it to and fro who said See whether thou canst make thy Pass to me and abide in this pure everlasting burning Region which is the Spirits purging Fire which will devour whatsoever is not of the same Essentiality with me Upon which I replied Ah! my Lord I am free to make my Pass to thee but how
shall I get rid of this Body I would fain exist in that pure Essence with thee where nothing of this lump of Earth might prevent my constant Walks in those high Places with thee whose presence will make these outward Elements to flee away from the superior Spirit The Holy One replied Be not troubled at thy Binding Mortality for I will descend in this fiery Cloud into thee as a baptizing Fire which shall take away the gross Impurities of the Senses that thou mayst be clarified in order to thy Codeification which will manifest the out-spreading Name of thy Emmanuel whereby thou shalt receive Power to ascend through Fire and Air and continue that all-desireable freedom of Communion with the holy Trinity And though none in a Body of Flesh and Six can come up to me yet Grace Pity and Love do move to descend in the Spirits flaming Cloud to make the way free that such may have a Pass who account no Place their Rest or Dwelling besides me Wherefore pursue and watch to drink in of this pure Spirit of Burning which will clear and take out of the way whatsoever hath kept from ascending into the Holy City Whilst these Words were in spoken from the Anointing I felt a sensible rising and spreading over all my Heart Head and Body as if all were covered with a Cloud of Sun-heat giving out light by which I could soe what was inwardly done as well as feel it Then it was further spoke in me that I should take notice that this was also the bright Garment of the Sun Such is the Nature of this secret flaming Matter that it seeds strengthens and clarifies a naked Spirit all at once Then was I inquisitive to know the Substance or Ground of it but it was replyed Meddle thou not with that only receive it passively and Co-operate with it when it ariseth and then walk with and draw in the feeding Fire and Air and when it resteth in its own place rest thou with it and be assured it will not leave thee till it have concentred thee in the Deity This light flaming Cloud encompassing me gave this further Revelation to shew what the Holy One is about to do in order to the laying of the Foundation of this strong City in which the mighty God will pitch his Tabernacle and settle his Rest forever Many Types Images and foregoing Figures of this Jerusalem have been given through the several Ages of the World but the Heavenly Thing it self hath not been brought forth as no wt will be because the set time approacheth For the trying burning Furnace is kindled and the Wind of the Almighty forcibly blows up the Flames thereof in the center of the Soul of every one who are the Elect Members of this Holy Corporation Now is the time for the Spirit of Burning and Judgment to prepare each Stone which is designed for this super-excellent Glory No connterfeit Gold or reprobate Silver can pass through this Furnace which is ordained to prove whatsoever comes to be built on this Foundation The mighty King sends forth his Decrees to fulfil the ancient Prophecies concerning the return of the long Captivity of these who belong to this Mother-City that they may know their original freedom and no longer abide as Captive-Exiles among the Babylonians in Confusion and Reproach And what sign will the Lord give for this but by loosing the last Seal under which doth lie the rich Bank and vast Treasury of Wisdom Spirit and Power which shall so vigorously carry on this New-Jerusalem-Building that all the Powers which the Dragon and Beast can raise by their Agents visible and invisible shall but turn to their Shame and Confusion when the Lamb ariseth to open the Seventh Seal under which the most precious things even that fine transparent Matter lies hid to be manifested in due time for the beautifying of this divine Building But here an Objection may arise and question this revealed Grace and proclaimed Liberty to the Children of the Captivity who are now called to sit upon this heavenly Building which is this That the time is not yet and that the last Seal is not so near breaking open and who is it that can give a Sign for a Testimony that this Decree is already gone forth To all which the Spirit of Truth gives this Answer who best knows what he hath wrought in order hereunto in the Central Deep of some Elect Vessels who are not to make any out-cry until the Mystery be fully finished in them know that the time is at hand wherefore let none look afar off or run out from themselves and neglect their own Vintage at home but regard how near the Grape is to ripeness which contains the Wine that is to be drunk at the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb who charges it as a great over-sight upon those that are Regenerate that they have put this Day afar off not discerning the Lords Body who is quickned from the dead in them who are passed from Death with him and so are put in Subordinate Commission with the Lamb to break open all those Seals which shall make way for the descent of the Holy City For what in John's Revelation is mentioned concerning these things is very obscure and mystical and there is no fathoming of it to the utmost until the Lord himself come with the Plummet-Line of the Holy Spirit to measure out the meaning Though there are some who have been favoured with this Light of Revelation by means of which they understand what lies hid under those Allegorical Expressions and through the opening of the Seals have discovered those rich Jewels which were concealed under that dark Covert the opening of which Seals I shall set down in order according as it was acted in my own particular through my Soul 's waiting with the Lamb's-rising Power in a particular experience of my own in the divine Mystery At the opening of the first Seal the Spirit of Faith came forth to encounter with the fearful and unbelieving Spirits that set before me an Impossibility of ever reaching to a Paradisical Purity and Mount-Zion-Dignity and was kept under a great Fear and Perplexity under the dominion of Unbelief until this first Seal was broke open for thereupon the strong Lyon of the Tribe of Juda set me free to run the Race of Faith unto the end giving in this Caution to take care to be well mounted on this Horse of the Spirit of Faith and to hold fast to him who rides on it who hath the conquering Bow in his Hand to shoot his Arrows into those unbelieving Spirits that would still keep us in Doubts and Perplexity At the opening of the second Seal all Peace Pleasure and Joy were taken away from the Earthly Life and withal such a Light broke forth which made me see the vile Abomination of an earthly state compared with the Perfection of the Divine Life so that now I rejoyc'd in nothing more than
unto me that none could or ever should come to the opening of the seventh Seal till all this were fully finished and I must give Witness that it is a doing and it doth not seem grievous because of what is to succeed and follow when the next Seal shall be opened Thus I have been driven on according to Experience and Revelation to open the mystical meaning of what is written in the Revelation according as it is to be fulfilled in Holy and Heavenborn-Saints though I also well know that their opening will cause a terrible Day of Wo to the Rebellious and Unregenerate for they who shall then be found in the Beasts Kingdom must look to fall and go into Perdition with him for as there are inward Vials to be poured forth so there are outward Vials to be poured forth on the World which I could enlarge upon but that it is not my Commission being otherwise instigated Besides the Lord shewed me that to every Seal there is an Eye opens within which is therefore called upon to look inward where the great Mystery is to be opened and as every Seal hath it's Eye so the Ear hath its sounding Horn which is filled with Holy Oyl which makes Kings and Priests in Gods Tabernacle These are the Trumpets that give the most certain sound for Time to end and the everlasting Kingdom of the Alpha and Omega to begin in that Soul where the sixth Trumpet shall sound upon which so ows the loosing of those Angels that have been bound who are to fight the Lamb's Battel and to revenge his Quarrel For the great and last War will be upon this sixth Seal opening and the Lord did testifie it would be such as in no fore-going Seal had been known But he said withal I am the Lord strong and mighty who will prevail and wholly overturn the Kingdom of the Dragron and Beast Continue thou whilst I am doing this in the most holy secret of my Beeing where the constant Mediatorship and Offerings may go on as the strength of an Army that shall all overcome through the burning Incense that is mingled by the Angel whose place is to stand alwayes at the Altar no hurt or suffering by all this Constagration shall touch the Jewel that lies hid in my Deity that would shine forth again in the Body of its Native Virginity as before time was wherefore suffer thou all this Vulence on thy Elementary part as knowing that it will not at all disturb the inward Temple-Worship and Communion of the pure Spirit But now as of old time in the first elect Church and People God was ministred to and worshipped in a dark formal mixed manner going up and down in a moveable Tabernacle till Solomon's day where the Typical Temple which was to be filled with the Glory was built even so since the time of the Son of Man's offering up himself the holy One hath walked in Clouds and hath been worshipped after an imperfect rate and therefore he hath prepared a burning flaming Day for all his Vessels to pass through to know whether they be Sanctuary proof or no For the Lord is carrying on a pure Jerusalem-Worship in truth and substantiality Rejoyce all ye who shall stand the tryal of this sixth Seal in order to it Now according to this divine Interpretation of the six Seal we may know how near the end of time and the passing away of the old Heavens and Earth in our selves are for that it is we are to look to at every Seals opening For from the first to the last there is a sounding Trumpet to bring Ruin and Desolation to the first six dayes Creation because of sin and the Curse which came in by the Serpent's sting by which means the Beast hath created his Kingdom and corrupted the whole Principle of time which the holy One hath suffered now so many thousand Years during which all Just Men dyed indeed in the Faith of this Prophecy but attained not to that degree which is to usher in the heavenly new Jerusalem in her Glory But the Lord is now stirring and in good earnest is sounding his Trumpets for Battel and there is that in us which doth witness he is going on gradually to unmake and dissolve all of the first Creation for the Lamb will not much longer carry the weight and burthen of a sinful Creation he hath in some already sounded to Judgment and will set himself free thereby and the Spirits and Souls of those who are resolved to follow him through every Seal till they shall overcome It was given me to observe that there are six Engagements to which six Overcomings do answer mentioned in the Revelation and to every Conquest a most high and wonderful Reward promised all which is to encourage to follow him cheerfully who is our Leader who hath sworn that time shall be no longer than till he hath gotten the Victory over the Beast and Whore and hath destroyed the Dragon's Kingdom in every Property within us who are elected to reign in his Life with him on his Throne with a rain of new created Powers in the Properties of the redeemed Earth in the Souls Essence and then we shall know how unconfined the Lordly Dominion over all outward things is even over all the Beasts of this visible Earth who must be subjected to the Lamb who hath taken his Victorious Crown and put it on the Heads of the holy Warriors that have passed through all and are come to the last Overcoming that gives entrance into the seventh Seal As I was collecting in my Mind the near approaching time for the manifestation of this great Overturning which is to bring in the overflowing stream of Christ's Kingdom into the Overcomers Behold I did see and hear the Voice of him from whom the first Heavens and Earth die flee away who uttered these Words As there hath been a long and tedious War between the House of God and the Serpent's Brood together with the Harlot and Beast who have maintained their envious War on the Ground of fallen Nature but now come and see the Place where they shall lie bound in perpetual Captivity And immediately I was all filled with Light from the opened Centre of the peaceable Kingdom that flows in as a virtual Life felt in the Quality of the pure glassy Sea with Sounds Powers and Lightnings as if all of the old Earth were now drowned in this bright Ocean and rollowed a bright Star with a Voice going forth which said The Lamb rising out of this new Elementary Sea overcomes the Serpent and Beast with all their Seed and this will be their Deluge to an everlasting Victory So from hence it was demonstrated that the Beast hath his Sea wherein the great Leviathan sporteth himself and casts out Floods to Persecute and make War against the Virgin-Seed whose Element is mild and sweet Temperature of the glassy Sea The other out of which it is said that the
into which none can come to see or hear what passeth by way of Prospect or Communication but what and so much as I am ordered to declare I shall faithfully give out according to the mind of my Lord who sees the effect that shall follow all these Revelations given by him The Prophecy of the Thousand Years Reign mentioned in the Revelations was set before me and opened As to the Time Persons and Place much Controversie hath been concerning this Mystery which I shall not meddle with but shall only faithfully declare what the Morning-Star hath expresly revealed from his own Mouth who with this Salutation began Awake ye who have been under Death and Judgment know ye not that my Reign is near The fore-going Prophecy must have its fulfilling and there are those who are a ripening for it upon whom my Kingdom shall be fixed Wherefore do thou warily observe the following Particulars which are the fore-going Signs of my Personal Reign whereby it may be known how near it is The first particular concerns those Persons in whom this Reign is to begin who are such as have been Beheaded suffering an inward spiritual Martyrdom for the hope of a Resurrection in a God-head-Body and Spirit The manner of Death is here to be taken notice of they are said to have been Beheaded that is who have their Head Life where the rational Understanding is seated and from whence all sensible operation go forth cut off and separated from them because by means of it the Dragon and Beast have found place to establish their Kingdoms in Man and have been hereby in all Ages upheld the main of the Serpents strength having alwayes lain in the Craft and Subtilty of Reason which is the Fore-Head mark of the Beast Who then are they who have known this honourable Death from the flaming Sword in the Hand of the Cherubim but those who shall heat the Resurrection-Trumpet to let them know their Thrones are set and their Conquering-Crowns to their new-risen Heads are fitted and that all Power and Judgment is given unto them to personate the mighty King Jesus here upon Earth For Christ the Lord shall have no need in his own particular glorified Person to come down amongst the Inhabitants of the Earth There is something to be done first by them who are to Personate him in the Kingly Dominion his transparent Body is such as will not till this first Reign be finished be any way bearable to the present consistency of things which must be first sublimed It is sufficient that the Lord is come in his witnessing Power and Presence through a new-risen Life with and in his Elders for to reign in the Majesty of his all-governing Eye which pierceth as devouring Flames and burning Coals of Fire which run from each to other and from one end of the Earth to the other If the Lord will but supply the visible Humanity with a mighty flow from the Deity and with a witnessing Omnipotency it will be sufficient and considerable Glory Next we are to consider where the Reign of Christ is to be manifested to wit in renewed Natures center which is made all Seraphick in the Souls inward Essence from whence the Serpent and Beast are cast out and have no more place they are in this latter Reign chained up though in the fore-going dominion which the Lord had in the Soul he was alwayes in Contest with these potent Adversaries who exerted all their strength to keep their hold in the mixed frame of Nature all of which being now overturned they have no place where to establish their Dominion So that now all Strife ceaseth because the Lord alone doth reign in Peace over all the Region of Light For now the Soul is Born a new into the light World and is most firmly established in its Kingly Power which is not from received Gifts or Powers as in the day of Penticost but all comes in with the risen Birth from whence the Powers do naturally and uncessantly flow and therefore out of all danger of mutability which might threaten a disappointment of any thing that is agreed upon by the Kingly Soul with his seven counselling Spirits which do continually stand before the Thorne in the inward Heavens which by the scattering Coals from the Deity are made as an enduring burning Element where the Glory of Christ's Personality may be seen but no otherwise detained as to his individual Person but as the same likeness is risen by virtue of the creating Word in his Members who are intrusted with this active powerful Body suitable for the management of such a Kingdom in which the Soul at first reigns invisibly over all its inward Motions and Properties as over People Nations and Languages all which by Wisdom's Power are kept in a God-like temperature such as may express the Lord is come to Personate himself in a righreous and peaceable Government such as never yet hath been in the World since Adam lost Paradise Objection But shall this be an Universal Reign And after what manner shall it be Modalized in this visible Creation That which is Internal and Spiritual will not be so much taken notice of though it comes to this height of Perfection for it may be hid amongst a small Number yet may be known but only to one another the generality still abiding under the Beasts Power and Name which is his accursed Nature This Query was answered me in plainness of Truth thus That this glorious Reign would not be Universal nor break out all at once but gradually from the burning Unction which prepares Christ's way and makes room for his Kingdom There is much to be done first and here must a Beheading go before and a plucking up all that hath made desolats and after all this a coming up again in the Resurrection which is a rare attainment indeed for it is a Resurrection to a state wholly sound and sinless even the same to which our Lord was raised after Death The Prophecy doth not say That all the dead were raised up to reign with Christ a Thousand Years but it is expresly declared that the rest of the Dead did not rise till the Thousand Years were expired from whence it was cleared up to me that many may be going through this Spiritual dying and yet continue dead whilst others are raised according to that Word Blessed are they who are partakers of this first Resurrection so that it will not be Universal But besides this there are those who are Unrighteous of whom it is Prophesied Let him that is unjust be unjust still these shall in no wise enter into Christ's Kingdom but be shut out of the holy City which shall rule over them For this Kingdom shall not only be inward in the Properties of the Soul but shall also exercise its dominion over this visible Principle and those who are unconverted shall be as Stubble before the bright flaming Cherubims who in the Lamb's Power shall reign
in the same Glory and was joyned to the heavenly Train I rejoyced greatly that I had made a slip out of the vile Garment though but for a while though I was to take it up again and appear amongst the Inhabitants of time till my course was fulfilled This bright Cloathing is only bearable by Jerusalem Natives and though these were the all desirable Flocks that I would chuse to abide withal forever yet I found a prohibition at the present that it must not be desired This royal Priestly Garment being reserved till we be called into view and have communion with the most Holy of Beeings who did not bring me hither to send me away empty but gave me to taste of the choice Fruits of that unknown Climate the refreshing take of which is left upon the Center-Mouth of my Heart from whence the Life-Fruits should spring evermore as was said to me with an Advertisement to wait till Wisdom's Garden in the Soul be planted and richly furnished with those blossoming Powers that may draw the high and lofty One to look down and walk there Oh! what are these forcible Powers which I feel winding my Spirit deeper in where enquiry was made What would be the sign of the Center-dwellers in the most holy of Beeings which should need no Witness from Man for that was poor and insufficient Wherefore be quiet and still and cease from all Creaturely Evidence and look for the Witness of the unsealed Book to exert the seven flowing Properties of the holy Ghost which will out-vive all worded Testimonies that are so fluent in this Age Wherefore a more sure Seal is provided that will remove all Doubts and Suspitions of which feastival Cup I was called to drink from the Hand of him who is appointed to fill it out as the last and great Reserve which shall silence all Controversies and doubtful Disputations and ratifie and confirm who they are that are Born again to act move and live from a new generating Spring that worketh away every thing that defiles and makes obstruction Which seven evidencing Powers were revealed to me in which the Personal Reign of Christ would consist THe First was a circuling Cloud of Light from whence uncessant Revelation would spring and open what was never known before concerning the invisible Scenes of Glory to which the mortal Man hath been altogether a stranger not having understood his original Royalty But where Christ the central Light is entred into the Soul's Essence there everlasting Light doth break which shews invisible things in their first pure Ground where the eternal Fire-Soul moves strong to come out of an impotent weak Life that hath been shut up in this vile Body of Sin the Light of Revelation making it restless any longer to abide therein and so it is made to pursue another beginning from a new-rising-Spring flowing from the God-head that affords strength for a Co-deified operation which may give a living Testimony that a new Spring is appearing out of an old Tree whose Sap is renewed to bring forth the second Property of the holy Ghost as another Fruit bearing Branch Which Branch is put forth from the all-encompassing-Element wherein the Soul is baptized as in a Cloud of Fire whoever they be that come to know this need no greater Witness as to their own particular for they know their dwelling is in the very center Heart of God they are fed and cherished with the Blood of Life and oily Lamp that makes all the Body within to be as a burning Cherubim that at times and season can mount fly into the very Heavens Though this be yet a mystical and dark Speech and little experienced yet know the time of Elijah is nigh and a Whirl-wind is descending from the Alpha and Omega to take up the stain Witnesses who have been in the World so undervalued The Ascention-Gate by this bright Key is unlocked to go in after him who was translated from among Men so as not to be yet hid in the Mystery And thus shall it be again though in another Form and Model for these Elijah Prophets though they shall be redeemed from every thing which is of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nature yet in this shall differ from Elijah for whereas he was taken up and seen no more among Men those in their visible Persons shall remain on the Earth and every where carry along with them their encompassing Charriots of hire which shall be discoverable to none but the Ministring Elijah's they will not safe to follow fully where the Life-Witness doth remain after this sort and kind The Third out flowing Poperty of the holy spirit which pshers in Christ's Reign is this that a simplified raked Som coming forth from the baptizing Cloud puts on a Cloathing of impregenable defence and power viz. a meer 〈◊〉 such as the Lord Christ had after his Resurrection 〈◊〉 of the one pure Element which can swallow up the visible gross substance of Flesh that it may no longer be an Impediment to the Soul 's runing its Race Indeed such a Body is very suitable for the great things that are to be wrought by the christed Kings on Earth for if provision of such a Body were not made by Christ it would be in vain for him to go about to settle his Kingdom where the Beast and Dragon have had their Dominion so long and who will not now be dethroned upon a slight account They will hold their Propriety in the outward Husk of the Body when they can find no place for themselves in the Soul Therefore the Lord hath revealed That he will turn the very Body into its Paradisical Property again that the dark Prince and his Agents may not be able to overthrow the Lord's personal reign in his Saints who would desire no fairer mark to shoot their Arrows at than a frail mortal Body of Flesh. Wherefore the Lord hath said That he will raise a firm Tabernacle which no earthly Weapon shall be able to pierce which will be a fit Garment to last out the thousand Years Let the Just and Holy believe this and see at this finished first in the Kingdom that is within the Soul's Essence and then such may conclude that they shall assume a whole Power and Right to reign with Christ over all Kingdoms of this World in Magical Might The Fourth out going Power of the holy Ghost sets the Soul free in the eternal liberty here all Conflicts which the Dragon or the starry Region hath introduced for the soul now is influenced by those superior Planets to which these outward Planets are subject The Soul Christ are in a mutual agreement to break a way from the 〈◊〉 Rays of Time and Mortality being encompassed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that will set no more nor with-draw for it is the glory of 〈◊〉 Dayes that runs its Circle without the least 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light and fixeth the Soul in its pure splendorious Body when 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall
find it self in another form of Life and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Principality before Jehovah's Throne attend 〈◊〉 to know the counsel and decrees of the Soveraign Majesty under whom is mannaged all inferior Government which shall be committed to those who reign with Christ the Lord Oh! this will be a wonderful time indeed For while the Lord is opening these things to me I am as one sunk into the Abyssal Ground where I am as nothing till he put forth a piercing Ray from his flaming Eye to fetch my Spirit up again who thus spake unto me Stand thou up and hear and declare the new Model of my Reign and let it be published for it is time to awaken those who are ordained for the first Resurrection that they may no longer sleep in the day break of my appearance And do thou solemnly see thy Heart to the great Immunities that are revealed not only for speculation 〈◊〉 for sulfilling where great Earnestness shall be found Thus the 〈◊〉 One set home his Word and causeth it to pass through a Vessel that is nothing to be accounted of whereat my self stands amazed what should move the Lord thus to appear and hold such a free Converse and leave such weighty things in trust with me Oh! What can be said but that it is the Good-will and Pleasure of my Christ and King who will change Tin and Dross into Gold as it pleaseth him The Fifth Property of the Holy Ghost is that whereby the Soul gets free from the striving Elements and comes to Rest and Peace all Wars and Combates ceasing The Soul having got up these four ascending Steps towards the Throne can now look down like a Tower of strength terrible to all the lower Inhabitants round about It is a Palace compacted within it self knowing nothing but a serene Peace and Concord neither Dragon nor Beast do so much as attempt to come here for Love and Peace is their Hell and Torment Christ's personal Reign in his Saints consists of Peace Power Love Joy the holy Ghost moveth in the mild and meek Property from the Water of Life that captivates the Enmity and Strife and shuts up the dark Center with all its Spirits This carries a two-fold meaning for first it is to be understood of that Love and Peace which possesseth the whole inward Hemisphere of the Soul and in the next place of the same Love flowing forth and diffusing it self through all the Subjects of that peaceful Kingdom which Christ will establish in the high Angelical Harmony of Love The Sixth out-flowing Property is the Omnipotence of God exerted in the renewed part in an absolute and Almighty Dominion that admits of no controule Here is no need of going out to borrow Gifts or Powers which are now fixed in the Soul to manifest the Wonders of the Magia which hath been shut up in Wisdom's Principle whose Virgins Crown of Power is sent down as a signal Testimony of the Kingly Reign that must prevail over all the Earth The bright flaming Standard of Christ's Personality will be of that Magnificence as to draw home the dispersed and scattered Flock which hath suffered Violence in this Babylonish Kingdom A Jubile will be proclaimed by them to whom this Dominion shall first come They the Head-Kings and Leaders are appointed to shine forth as Stars that shall bear such sway in God's Omnipotency as shall make all the Elect to haste and fly to this Kingdom as Doves to the Windows where all occasions of complaint about the Necessities of Life shall be cut off because Wisdom's Store-house shall from the Inherent Omnipotency abundantly supply whatsoever is needful of this kind The Paradisical lost Power shall be restored in a higher degree than ever to the end that Self-Love and Propriety may be taken away which cannot enter into Christ's Kingdom for the Lord hath averred That none who are thus spirited shall ever his Kingdom inherit The vast and inexhaustable Treasure of divine Riches cannot be enjoyed in Propriety but only in Loves Communion The Seventh and last Property of the holy Ghost that gives witness to Christ's Reign doth consist in a Life of Praise Exaltation which goeth forth in the Angelical Tongues Powers and Sounds of so many persumed Offerings paying an everlasting Love-Tribute of Joy to the Antient of Dayes by and in whom they are come to reign over all Kingdoms in this World in Christ's personal Power The New Hallelujahs from the Fire-breath of the Holy Ghost shall be the Holy Sport and Coelestial Play of the Children of this Kingdom All their Works shall speak forth the Praises of the Most High for Wisdom's Spirit will act so high and in such a mysterious manner as hitherto hath not been known all which miraculous Powers have been reserved to make up the Glory of Christ's second coming in his Representatives here on Earth For if the Lord should not in this manner demonstrate his God-head-Power in his Saints they would be set very light by and it would be a vain thing to assume the Title and Name of Kings without anointing Power suitable to it No Dominion whether inward or outward can be maintained without Loves-Omnipotency And truly my Lord hath assured me that he hath made large and full Provision for this Day who upon some private Objections of my own said to me Be thou nothing doubtful concerning all the great Things of my Kingdom which have been opened to thee from the Center of Light they have been revealed for a ground of Faith The Head of the Dyal is moving towards the fixed Hour which will manifest all these working Powers of the holy Ghost Wherefore do not streighten thy self nor any to whom this Word shall come but run out in a spacious large Belief answerable to Loves-Power and the ability of the object to whom the Eye of Faith is directed For wonderful things are upon the Wheel by which you may know it is high time to put forth your Hands to raise and awaken that which hath been so long asleep This was the concluding Word of Counsel from the Lord. The fore-going Properties is that which makes way for the Reign of Christ in personal Power and Glory which is now the great thing to be waited for as the End and Consummation of all that hath been revealed in the bare discovery of which we are not to rest but we are to press forward to enjoy the Fruit or Product of it in the inward Center where Christ will be manifested in his Personal Glory and Power For the driving seeking Spirit will not be at rest till it can put on its Resurrection-Body It knows that hitherto notwithstanding all its Refinings and Dyings to sinful Self and the World it yet remains a naked Spirit which must return into the Virgin-Womb of Eternity there to be regenerated into an heavenly Corporeity from the one holy Element out of which Christ's holy Personality is taken This is the
or Female for she may assume either according to her good pleasure for she is both Male and Female for Angelical Generation But here it may be asked What is this Virgin Whence is she How can she introduce her self into that Nature where her pure chastity hath been violated This last indeed may be accounted a wonder above our hopes and expectation which yet she is in a rendiness to do as is well known to them who have understood her and preferred her above all things as being well assured that like as all Bliss and Peace sted away with her so upon her return all good will come back with her again As to her Nativity it is from everlasting before the Creation of Heaven or Earth She was before all as being the Co-essential creating Power in the Deity which formed all things out of nothing and hath given a dignified existency to all those Seraphick Glories which move within her own Sphear who are the product of an unsearchable Wisdom for the replenishing of those superior Worlds which are little known in this where we are out-casts neither can we be acquainted with much glories till we be born again out of her Virgin-Womb for so it must be before ever we come to be Christs in conformity with Christ our Head A Marvelous thing the Lord hath revealed to me concerning this Woman which holy John saw viz. that she represents Gods Spouse and Mate from whom the highest Birth the Eternal Word of Wisdom did go forth as the mighty Alpha and Omega in a distinct glorious personality known to himself in God and the Everlasting Virgin before any thing of the heavenly Hosts were created For he stood equally in the Counsel of the Father and Virgin for the bringing of the whole Creation into a figurative manifestation Now for what is all this but to discover the mystery of this Woman that she is the eternal Virgin who will essentially introduce her self into those who are prepared and appointed to enjoy her She will confer her Sun and Crown of Stars upon her Representatives Here will be brought down the one elemental Robe and the quint Essential Root will again be found which will give a most glorious Luster and all renew the gross vile matter as heing the acting Wisdom to shew forth Gods wonders all which reserved are until her day She is looked for as Gods fruitful Bride to bring forth Christs personality in plurality as so many immaculate Princes ruling in God Just cause will be found if we consider this Principle wherein the Serpent with so much bitterness wars against the Virgin and her Seed why her Off-spring as soon as born is caught up to Heaven from whence the Dragon is cast out and where the Iron Rod will crush him and be too hard for him and his adherents Her Off-spring will appear all Virgins with her own lustrous Son who is the first-born amongst the Kings of the Earth and Heavens Oh the high and majestical Glory which shall proceed from the Virgins Womb with whom is the blessing that will abound in fruitful Gifts and high working Powers from the Magia ground Eve's Conception in Sorrow shall not here be known for this Virgin never was disobedient or broke Faith with God who is her Husband the fruit of whose travel is Blessing and Joy through the whole Generation that shall be Born of her She shall be the Mother of the true Virgin-Church wherein no mixture of Will-Worship or False Doctrine shall be found But it may be queried How can this heavenly Virgin endure to come down upon this defiled Earth for to multiply her Off-spring in it For without doubt the Serpent and Dragon will violently rage against her which we have experience of in our selves when he crowds into our very Heavens with all evil Beasts at his Heels waging War against us Yet nothing of all this shall be able to prevent God's purpose who will appear with his Virgin in the divine Body and cover her with the one Element which will torment all evil-Spirits and wear them out who can as little endute her Virgin-Purity as the Virgin-Spirit can bear their Poyson Therefore a separation is made as we read that the Woman had a Place prepared for her in the Wilderness which signifies the Spirit of Faith which carries it from off the sensual Ground where the Concourse of fluttering Spirits of all kinds are wherefore this is no place for God's Virgin to stay in she may be in danger of having her Chastity violated or of being drowned with the wrathful Floods of the Dragon The Serpent will not cease to make his attempts with more subtilty than eyer because by this introduced Virgin-Spirit his Head-power shall be crushed and his Seed dis-inherited but the Virgin-Spirit shall mount like an Eagle and so escape the Dragon's deluge A Fountain is opened in the Desart of which the Soul which is in union with the Virgin shall drink instead of the muddy Waters of the Earth which she loathes Pleasant Food is provided in this Wilderness by God himself and his Christ. The Lord affords these Dainties to the abstracted Life where the virgin-Virgin-Spirit is a stranger to sensitive Self within as well as to the enchanting World without Here it wants no good company for its never without heavenly Visitants because it reserves it self chiefly for converse with the Deity from whom she expects all her Blessing and Encrease And thus the Soul shall spring and multiply where the Virgin hath realized her self Her Wilderness shall become a rich Sharon-Pasture a Land of unknown Plenty where Gold Silver and precious Stones shall be as the Dust under the Feet of these holy separated Virgins Also within and without their feeding shall be on Power Joy and Peace till the division of Time shall come to an end in which a further Mystery will be understood But oh let all this be first sully witnessed Here follows a further Advertisement from him who is come to fulfill old Prophesies in the substance of his own Person that is Born of the Virgin from whom we may expect the perfecting of that which all fore-going Ministrations and Manifestations have left short in regard of those wonders which shall be effected in this latter Age. To which end Christ hath opened the Center-Eye that can pierce as deep as the Deity where this Virgin lies with all her Glory who ever since Adam's day hath been obscured because she would not trust her self with any Mortal only some of her shining Rays have now and then been scattered into holy Souls a taste of which hath been given as the first Fruits of what is reserved for Christ the Lord's second Birth-day where shall be provided a Penticost-Feast according to the royal and heavenly state of Jehovah's Bride and Mate Oh! how unable am I to bring forth in Words what hath been shewed me of the later Fruits that Wisdom's Children shall feed upon in that day
into himself the whole Body of the Sonship which is the height and luster of that Kingdom which is to come and is to be yielded up to the one God who is over all Not that he will be a living Tabernacle to all but only to those who are meetly qualified Who are they then who may expect to be rearers up of this Tabernacle which the Majesty of the Glory will fill They are pure holy and separated Souls set apart for this very purpose bearing the Inscription of Heavenly Magicians as being principled in that great Mystery and being made all knowing through the friendly Counsel and Revelation of the Virgin-Wisdom who is the great Revealer of these Mystical Sciences and Magical Arts such as were practised before this World or its Craft were in being But now the Wisdom of this World is needed and universally exercised by all ranks and degrees under the present Fall Regenerate and Unregenerate do both agree in this matter and do make use of Reason for the supply succour and support of the mortal Spirit and Body But what will you say if this good old Magical way from which the whole Creation is turned shall in this last Age be restored and found again for the redeeming out of the Care Sorrow and painful Exercise of Mind and Body This will be worth lending an Ear to it being such a mysterious and advantagious Art as will sufficiently pay the Cost of what we shall be out in attaining it The ground we go upon for this new way of living after a God-like manner are the many Scripture-Prophecies that run all in this Sense with which agrees what is of late-renewed to some who are waiting for their Lot within this New Paradisical Scene being under the Dispensation of such Revelations as are in order to give entrance into the Tabernacle of God where it will be natural to produce all things Magically beginning first to exercise this Mystical Wisdom and Power upon it self as having an old Creation which must be dissolved that a new one may take its place The Physitian must first give proof that he can heal himself before he undertake others So in this matter the true Magus is taught to make a tryal of his skill upon his own inward and outward Defects and thereby gain the Fearful and Unbelieving that they also may come and enter through this everlasting Gate where the New Jerusalem Magicians are in their first Paradisical Callings which the holy Ghost hath received Commission to put some holy qualified Souls afresh upon that they may be leading Presidents to others But it may be further enquired What this Magia is And how it may be acted forth to alter the whole state of things Internally and Externally It is thus made out to us That it is arising Infinitum that forms it self into a Birth the matter of which can no otherwise be described than the unknown Beeing of God himself who is a meer virtual working Power in a finite Beeing from whence a flowing source of generating Powers do act forth from what lieth hid so unconceiveably as cannot be either seen felt or heard out of it self but only as it produceth great and marvelous Effects upon whatever it doth move This is that which is called the Magia of the holy Ghost so defined as he hath pleased to reveal it unto us Now it remains to enquire By whom and how this is to be acted forth and for what end it is to be manifested after such an high degree As to the first By whom this is to be exerted or acted forth of this much hath been said already we shall only mention one thing which is the principal Qualification of those to whom this Honour shall be given viz. They are to take up a firm and fixed Resolution to follow this Magical Vocation only and to reject all others that proceed from the Astral Birth that do pour in whole Floods to drown the little spark of Faith from whence the Magia Tree must first grow and appear in all its various Fruits This I say is that which is to be done on our parts as we would be Adeptists in the supersensual working Wheel which will run us into our lost Dominion to be in God again But then watchfulness is required to repel and judge down every whirling Motion and Thought that shall rise to thwart the Magia Way which indeed is nothing else but a most pure single act of Faith heightned to that degree as to become a kind of Omnipotency if they can but get free from the Life of Sense which is its great and home-born Enemy which will hardly suffer the Soul to make its pass away but follows still at the Heels till the Hand of Faith grows strong enough to use the Magical Rod which may break their binding Circle that so we may get a swist pass into the boundless Liberty and some to be expert in the Theosophical Science which is not of Man nor after any rational Wisdom of Man but as the pure fiery Breath of the holy Ghost doth incorporate with the Fire-Essence of the Soul and so drive it up into a Body of all-Magical operation For the free actuation of which Life we are warned to cease from all other ways and employs and upon this only to fix our Minds and to stop our Ears to the pleas and cryes of the Senses that would still have us to lie at the Breast of the Creature when-as nothing but Death Sorrow and the Curse can be sucked from it It is indeed but natural so to do as long as we stand in the first Birth from which it will be hard to get loose till the other come to rise in the Soul's center For in this second Birth there is a strong force which is able to overcome and break that Yoke which hath been so often near strangling this Magical Birth of Life that it could not display its free Breath wherefore let us now take heed and ny away from our mortal Senses and totally exclude them from that new erected Throne Council and Court wherein pure Austraction and Child-like posture of Spirit we may wait to learn how to act forth each one according to his Gift in this high land supernatural Magia That we may speak out what Lineage and Birth we are brought forth in after Gods own likeness in Power Wisdom and Purity to glorifie him in a new Tabernacle-Body Magically raised which being consummated within the outward form of visible Corporeity the unchangeable Priesthood begins within the most holy Place and is carried on not as in the figurative and fleshly Administration wherein was need of Attonements and Offerings for Sin which in this great and more perfect Tabernacle there will be no occasion for Sin being ended and the holy Ghost having obtained a more excellent Ministration in us to wit Offering the first Fruits of Redemption which in no fore-going Ministration was ever reached unto
in his glorified Saints and Angels It is fully assured me that God hath taken into his Eye and Love election at this very day those who shall come to sit in Princely Majesty and great Dominion in the inward Regency of the Soul conquering the thwarting motions of sin and their own Passions for Faithfulness Truth and Love to carry through here will be signs and evidence sufficient what God will further exalt unto In the interim whosoever have attained to the first Kingdom in Wisdom Sanctification and in the excelling Charity know that these will give the mighty onset for enterance into the utmost bounds of this overlasting Kingdom which we shall not think it only sufficient to pray for but to be doing all that is required for it in all comely order and fixed resolution to hold fast what we have already gotten that none may supplant us of that which will be the lifted up Crown to be seen every where upon the heads of the anointed Ones Here follows divine Openings of the Reign and Kingdom of the Love Having been exercised for some considerable time in the Prophetical Office and Ministration from the spirit of Revelation as my writings bear witness concerning the Kingdom of Christ in its suffering state first of all then in its rising up through tribulation unto victory for dominion and glorification through the Love Now the degrees which lead hereunto have been sufficiently described in The Heavenly Cloud Printed in 1680 by the Author which hath had most forcible effects for the bringing in and establishing of this Kingdom wherein and to whom this Spirit of prophesie was given for a sealing evidence that the Spirit of Truth being the Spring of those foregoing Revelations which are now to be confirmed by the present Reign of a risen Christ in some personalities which are shall be taken up for this end to shew it forth by that most excellent and perfect thing coming in which is the Love Dominion which hath exalted the same Propetical Spirit now with Christ upon the Throne and doth absolutely rule in Gods meek Love over the whole Region even to the utmost parts of the Souls inward Earth where now great peace is found the Government being carried on sereinly and calmely through the conquering Love which hath like a River overflowed the whole Earth But this was not so fully felt known and witnessed as of late The former Reign was maintained in an imperfect degree the spirits within were indeed under awe and check and unwillingly made subject to the Kingdom 's Laws that were renewed suitable to this most eminent and singular Ministration While sometime I was under it which was looked upon as sharp and severe the whole man being rein'd in very Straight would have gone forth into a reluctancy and so break all Harmony in the properties that should be found abiding in a new Model And thus indeed the Kingdom hath suffered violence and hath been hid in great strife as many Holy Souls may witness with me in the same case who are come thus far to the Dominion Which is a good and hopeful introduction to the ruling Scepter of Love in which will be found a far more pleasant and joyous Kingdom when all and every Spirit is brought over and subjected to the Love's Soreraignity in their order and place to their superior Governour to wit the Heaven-born Spirit who personates Christ upon the Throne Now to come to have every motion tinged with the fiery Love Balsom how will they run and fly at the very look of the Kingly anointed Eye where Love's rayes are so vehement as to captivate every thought to the obedience of the Lords Anointed King not in some but in all and every thing which will indeed make every Saint that hath attained hereunto walk worthy of God whose beeing consisteth in the Essentiality of Love and admitted for to be Gods fellow companion being in the center-Life of a Love dominion There must necessarily follow all Holy Boldness to come into a Christ propriety with God the Father as Heirs of all Kingdoms that are worthy of inheriting whether in the Mystery or out of it Love's Center opens through all and brings in an endless pleasure and Joy which cannot be by any worldly craft stolen away Therefore it is that most excellent thing that will heal and cure all within the Soul reconciling what was at variance whether in relation to God or to any of our fellow Members Therefore what is to be more desired or to be paralleled with I must solemnly profess that I have found such soveraign power and sweetness in the opening of this Love center that I cannot but commend it to others and seek earnestly to have more fellow-Commoners with me at Gods Table that there we may sit down together and feed upon the fruits of Love which are the Wine and Strength of the Kingdom For in very Truth I am come to witness Holy Paul's conclusion of it that it is the absolute perfect thing that works out all imperfection removing all sorrow and grief from the mind and heart For it is a strong and vehement heat that devours fear and anxity Oh! how doth it shelter and secure from all blood sucking vipers that they cannot prey upon the inward part of the Soul Because this is a love which cannot imagine into any evil thing and therefore nothing of the Serpent Venom can mingle with it which makes the Soul to know it self to be returned to its priminary concord and Virgin Simplicity But now it may be queried Whether I give forth the commendation of this High and perfect Love from Revelation or from divine and pure sensation I must acknowledge it is from both they are met together as proceeding from one Love Center which is the first glass wherein I saw the aimable Beauty and worthiness of this most excellent thing with all those advantages and great prerogatives attending it for it brings in no less than a Kingdom of sweet peaceable Amity and Love whereby I now sind an unspeakable benefit But it may be asked farther How comes this most precious and worthy thing to be wrought so essentially in the Soul as to be evermore ruling upon the Throne and as having got absolute conquest over whatsoever would stir up Trouble and Sedition In answer to this I shall give my own experience as one who hath obtained Grace of this kind after it was begotten by Species and Revelation and formed in me as a true Essential life Birth which I did sind daily grow up and encrease in Wisdom and Strength But then after that this Love was grown up to such a vehemency towards my God as known to me in the person of my Lord Christ from and through frequent visits and very intimate conversation which I did daily enjoy in an unknown and most singular way which in very Truth was so grateful and sweet that it drew up my superior vital spirit after him that
enkindled Sparks encreasing to Flames which are to consume all envy wrath as Stubble and Dross The Trumpet sounds from Mount-Zion and waxeth louder and louder we daily hear it from which we have declared the most excellent things concerning the eternal Love-fellowship in Gods own clearness in which no spot of Darkness is to be found You will say Where are such to be found according to this degree which you have here described All vsiible Churches and Societies are far too light when weighed with this golden Grain and Shekel of the eternal Sanctuary We know it to be so from the all-piercing Eye which doth try all degrees of Love and it may be universally bewailed that so much superficial formal and dead Love is found both to God and one another Hence we do not wonder that the Bridegroom makes no more haste his Bride wanting as yet her full Vesture or Robe of pure Charity without which she can never be said to be ready for this is to be all her Glory both within and without and to adorn her for love and delight Therefore all Preheminence and Honour give to Love taking all care to nourish it up in God and there abound in it towards one another This high pure and mystical Unity of Love hath been yet very little understood and less practised that Leaven-born-society is much scattered Where is Love's paved habitation to be found in which fervent Charity doth wholly act and move loving and admiring as God appears and looks forth through the Lettice of Humanity in each one Oh! how should it draw out and open the Springs of Love as God himself who is the Spirit and Life of Love which moveth and riseth in holy Souls And therefore it becomes us to be tender of it not to grieve it or quench it in one another for that may cause it to sink and dye away in our selves and then the very Ark of our strength departs from us and the heat and vigour of all spiritual Life declines with it Upon which consideration O ye Heaven-born out of the Womb of eternal Love where-ever dispersed let your Gatherings be to this lifted-up-Standard where Love's Kingdom is known and possessed in all Peace Joy and Tranquility The Trumpet from Mount-Zion doth found to call you away from all worldly drossy perishing Loves which are not Supersensual and Coelestial nay further from all luke-warm supperficial Loves for Love's workings must be fervent strong and immutable for the making meet for the rising and abiding Powers of the holy Ghost to work from All which will be brought out of the firey Furnace of Love for the great and mighty things that give Testimony of Christ's Kingdom in his Saints being come for it will surely open from this Center Now who-ever ye are that feel the touch of this Coelestial Fire-Stone send forth your warming Sparks to set one another in an holy Flame know your own Mother's Children hide not your selves from them be no longer Strangers towards them sind them out from North to South revive yet once again the Apostolical knot and band of unfeigned Love that may fore-run the Bridegroom's return to dwell amongst us that so we may no longer Fast and Mourn but be ever feasted with Love's multiplyings from the Fountain-Deity Even so confirm it O Lord Jesus accordingly Oh God! inspire with thy Love-Fires That we may abide with Angelical Quiers The Lamb's Trump doth sound to call us up To drink of this Love-flaming Cup The Spirit thereof doth so sweetly burn That Mortals into Seraphims doth turn Is not this the transforming thing Which to a God-like Beeing will bring Oh Charity What can be said of thee Dost thou not proceed from the Deity Henceforth I must proclaim Love's Fame To all that bear that living Name Who would not in love be with Love also For its force is greater than all Foe How doth it expel all Fears that they fly Because of sweet Peace and Serenity Love born of God Heir to all Goods Steward of his House giving out Food Is not this the one only excellent thing Which will fetch out the Serpent's Sting Nay more than this I clearly see Love will enter the secret of the Deity Where ye will see Love a burning Lamp Upwards flying never choked or dampt Wind we up our Angels to God above Where we may drink our fill of Love And feast on those fat and pleasant things That are within the Gardening Springs Where the everlasting Gates open stand For such as be united in Love's hand Come enter then as Charriot burning Flame Into that holy Place which known is by Name We feel Love like a bubbling Spring Which make us the new Song ever sing All Praises we will give to Elohim Who rideth on the Seraphims Floods of Joy with Coelestial Praise Shall now out-flow to the Ancient of Dayes For while we feel and taste Love's Fire It doth extinguish all earthly Desire Let thy Love stream forth as a Shower Let it flow forth in Life and Power This is the thing that is most pure It can all of our Desires fully cure Oh! let the Kingdom of this Love come That we may reign with God the Son In everlasting Love's sweet Harmony Hereby conquering all of the Enmity Love is the Lamb 's pure Virgin-Bride She is all Fair and Comly So sweet so mild and ravishing in his Eye That in his Love-imbraces she must lie There possessing such pure Coelestial Joy As none can know nor come to annoy A Bed of Rest here for her is found That makes Love's-Trumpet ever found Having passed through Love's Region and Dominion we are come to set forth according to the Gift still bestowed upon us the glorious state of the everlasting Priesthood of Christ carried on in his most holy Temple Body and heavenly Sanctuary which is framed for it by the Love-Power and Wisdom of the Most-High who will have a Kingdom of Priests elected and set apart for this purpose To draw near in full assurance of acceptance with him in all their holy Offerings each one from their consecrated Tabernacle to minister to the mighty Jehovah For the which is required a special Ordination which none can be capable of but such as first are all purified in the burning Springs of Love that so they may become Holy Merciful and Compassionate to intercede for the Ignorant and such as are turned aside from the tract of the just and perfect One. Now then to be called anointed of God to this holy Function is the greatest spiritual Dignity and Honour that can be conferred upon the Love-Flock it excels both the Prophetical and Kingly Dominion all which intrinsically do agree together only the Priestly Office doth out-shine in Glory being the last and finishing Ministration which shall reconcile and gather into the Unity with the most holy and ever blessed Trinity where fixation within the Temple-Body of the holy Ghost shall ever more be enjoyed Now in
will be impossible to carry this Evangelical Ministration in such an evil Region where the Cry and Plea of mortal necessities are continually heard as making it a lawful imposition upon the very illuminated Saints to puddle about Earthly things by which indeed the wayunto the most Holy hath been blocked up no open Face of God could through this muddy glass be seen as being the dark side of the Cloud which keeps from God by many removes and distances Therefore a healing Balsom for a continual bleeding wound the great and merciful High Priest hath sent down even the victorious reconciling Crown of the Priestly anointing which is in very truth his Essential Diety which riseth as a Fountain of purity overspreading the whole Humanity and consecrates it for both Tabernacle Ark and Altar in which the Holy Ghost officiates and accomplisheth the whole Divine service Now whatever Soul and Spirit shall be thus taken up and arrested upon Gods account to serve and minister about the Heavenly and most excellent things which belong to the Everlasting Priesthood for it is not to be thought that the most holy will allow or permit such to prophane what he hath Sanctified or the Living to be entombed with the Dead or the high sented Oyl which springs from the Holy Ghost to let in the noysom putrifactions from the loathed Kedar where all unclean Spirits do dwell Here is an absolute command to have no touch nor intermedling withal so as to ensnare or come into hazard of breaking the consecrated Vows For it is a true saying of that great Saint That we in this consideration do cease to be our own we cannot according to the Law of the Spirit dispose of our selves no not for an hour or day from our Lord and Master's Employ and Business further than as good and faithful Stewards we can give a satisfying account according to those Spiritual Circumstances we are bound in unto him The great and mighty King loveth to see all his Priestly train and attendants still about him in such an Holy order and Heavenly posture as they may be ready to be sent forth upon the most eminent services who can find employment enough for his Subjects and Ministering Spirits who takes it as a great dishonour to have this holy order bring their high profession to be brought into contempt by running into the cloud and thickest of vain rudimental things Nay more than this the restitution extends to the ordained and called ones upon whom the anointing hath been poured forth for the most Holy incense Offering they cannot be at liberty to fall in with those lawful and necessary concerns which pertain to the feeding and cloathing of the Body but if here at any time engaged the Spiritual part suffers hurt because it acts out of its own Sphear and divine property which should stand in Faiths essentiality where all our motions should be accompanied with the Principle of Faith in the Priestly Ministration for the supplying what is needful to the true Temple worshippers whereunto keeping and walking with God in a perfect way fulfilling all his Sanctuary institutions such are as Lillies to Spring and grow without toil or care The blessings of the Deep shall ever more abound and flow in while there is an abiding in the Faith hereof giving God full credit and running all fully upon his acconnt in this case The Truth is the Lord stands engaged to provide all sufficiency for his Servants whom he hath called from all other low inferior Services and Employes being himself in Covenant with the Priesthood of his own ordination Holy Paul makes use of it from the unchangeable Law that runs from Shadows and figurative Services till it comes to the Life and Substance Do you not know saith he that they which minister about Holy things live of the things of the Temple and they which wait at the Altar are partakers with it They have a right hereunto according to a Law of divine Institution But the Proprietors of these worldly Goods do uot hold themselves obliged hereunto but do engross and take up all and if they let go any thing it is rather by constraint than a free and voluntary Offering But we are not to search too deep into this matter for Faultiness may be found among our own Tribe that lie within the circle of the Priestly Covenant in whom much Remisness and Shortness hath been found as to the ministring to the Necessities of the true dedicated Nazarites But we hope to see another Power and Spirit that shall bear rule which shall make the fast clasped Proprietors to become all free and open-handed according to the fore-going Prophecy that the Churl shall be made liberal yea so as to reckon nothing to be his own But here it may well be asked What is it that must come to loosen from this Self-bottom so as to unhinge this strong Gate that hath kept out from the Land of eternal Store and Blessing whereof Abraham's Seed in the Faith are Heirs This doth in part answer the Question which may produce the great change in narrow Spirit 's which is the Gift of the Faith of the operation of God which openeth from the Springs of Love which are spread abroad by the holy Ghost and kept as a live Coal that can multiply it self into a strong and vehement flame of Love which is the cherishing Root that makes Faith to become all fruitful beyond all exteriour sense and sight resting and considing in the creating Fiat which can call those things that are not to be and make a something of nothing This we may call the Riches of Faith that can make an increase where no visible Matter appeareth This is no common Faith it is no where found but where the holy Ghost hath planted himself for a Blessing and growing Revenue Who ever shall receive of this Gift and taste the Power of it will soon cease to grasp and love earthly and perishing things they will be constrained to offer and consecrate all that may be for the service and use of the holy royal Melcbizedeck Priesthood And though at this time little of this Spirit and Power doth appear in the World yet know of a truth from the Witness of Jesus that the long tircling Motion of the holy Anointing which hath hitherto but scattered his Sparks of Light is now in very deed upon the out-breaking Day of Life that what hath been only in sweet Love-Movings and transcient passing Powers that have in the very Altar-waiters ceased But we shall say now again Behold come and see the burning ghostly Body is risen that will turn all uncertain Motion into a fixed act of all flowing generating Powers But this the Lord hath shewed me This will be first appropriated to the high Priestly Order that can pass beyond the Vail to whom the Holy of Holiest stands open For there are different Degrees States and Oders in this last and new erected Priesthood in which
The first Objection that meets me asking How and after what manner are these great and deep Mysteries revealed and made known for we are in doubt whether any since the Apostles days can have so pure and clear a Discovery of the Mind of God by way of Vision or Revelation As to this I Answer The thing is weighty and may be allowed of to search and follow this Query close and home for too many there be that are Pretenders to the Gift of Prophecy and Revelation whereby they put a cheat upon themselves and others and bring themselves under that Wo of taking up the Lords Spirit for their covering which is the greatest of all Evils to be under a spiritual Fraud Therefore I say let every one search try and examine from what ground and spirit they come forth as the Oracles of God to give his Mind out for assuredly they will be called to a severe Account by the Spirit of Truth Now as to this I will assure thee O Querior whoever thou art it was my great fear and jealousie even upon my first entrance into this Ministration and was made well aware of the wiles and subtilties of Satan that was ready enough to mingle his Deceits with Truth but divine Wisdom was my Counsellor and Cautioner and her Spirit became the Conduct to Truth and Separater she still throwing out what would not bear the touch of the burning Stone which Wisdom had placed in the Center of my Heart by which a wonderful Light of Manifestation did spring for the knowledge of the Truth in the deep Essentiality of it the Way Method Measure and Rules of it as experienced by me I shall demonstrate for the service and benefit of such as are true Seekers and fervent Lovers of Truth how they may come to know the true Revelation of the Spirit of Christ from those mixed Spirits that are apt to inject their Motions and so mudy the pure Springs of Revelation for know it is a nice and difficult matter to know the Spirit 's speech and voice in his day since Christ the Lords ascending than what it was before when as the Word of the Lord came expresly to the Patriarchs and Prophets articularly by immediate Voice God was very familiar in way of Speech as with Araham Moses and so to the Prophets till Christ's time but now in these last days he speaks to us by the Spirit of his Son which is the Spirit of Truth and Comforter that is the Spirit we are to try and to be proved by whether or no he is come into us as a Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation which you shall know first by way of Preparation of the inward Mind for the speaking Word or Oracle of God must have a most holy separated place distinct and apart from the outward Man for there is to be prepared an inward Temple body else no expectation of the holy Ghost without a suitable Body be prepared for him as the living Ark in which the Oracle of Truth may open and shew the Records of the Heavens But it may be further queried How can this Temple Body be raised up and kept so spiritually as to be distinct and separated from the mortal body with its senses and earthly Motions I Answer Herein indeed lieth the great Mystery of all Mysteries how to keep the spirit of the outward birth with all his infecting Multiplicities from rushing into the inward Court where the Soul and God are to be in private Counsel together for if there be a breaking in of the troubled Sea of thoughts this is that which adulterates the pure revealed things and brings a false covering upon them therefore I shall give these following Rules as they were given me by the holy Anointing when I first sought this Priviledge of divine Inspiration I was counselled as to the outward state of things To avoid as much as I could the choaking intangling Cares of this Life and also to sequester my self from all wordly Conversation and give up Spirit Soul and Body in pure dedication the which I can say in my measure I have been obedient to and have found good things as to the spiritual part have accrued thereby which I shall never have cause to repent of let my losses be what they can be as to the worldly lot of things Now the next Rule which is more interior and Evangelical as to the inward and holy place of the Mind For this take more special care and keep the outward Birth at distance from the superior and inward birth call in your heavenly guard upon it enter into no Parley with the outward Man of Reason concerning spiritual matters for you will find him a false Prophet and no way consonant to this Ministration the Soul is waiting upon therefore to watch and be in a defensive Posture against all invasions of this kind Then again take a further Caution concerning a more finer subtiltier sort of imaginariness which comes in the appearance of spirituality here lieth the greatest danger for mistake when seeming good Motions do rise and spring and yet but from the Astaral Kingdom but they are sometimes so divine as you can hardly discern them from the true teaching of the holy anointing there are Spirits that will put on such a Priestly dress like those that rose up against Moses the Lords infallible Prophet saying Are not we spiritual and therefore may be admitted into the secret of God with you and there give our Verdict as front the Oracle of God Thus we are in danger to be encompassed with Spirits so finely clothed as they would think much to be refused but where the Urim and Thummim of sound judgment in such is come that can only discern and taste Spirits of all sorts of Qualities Natures and Degrees for I well know a Mind may be replenished with knowledge and understanding of divine Mysteries from the outward Tongues receiv'd and taken in and yet have been kept strangers to the flowing Springs of Wisdom and Revelation within from whence the certainty of the true Prophet is to be known therefore let every one look to it what they speak teach or write for it will pass through the inward ground for trial where the fiery Region will prove it But now I shall come to describe the true and more certain way of divine Openings and Revelations know then where holy Consecrations and special Separations as the foregoing Preparation to this high Ministration those are as such may come to feel in themselves one essential Birth of Life to spring which is not to be catched in by verbal Comprehension Knowledge or Understanding No such thing But the Spirit of Truth and Revelation openeth himself in the fiery Essence of the Soul in a sweet silent stillness where out all thoughts are excluded then doth the light Ray of the Deity rise and overshadow and fill the Temple of the Mind with light and glory then will the soul sink away deeper
deeper into the abyss being where the greatest of Wisdom's secrets are to be known when the spirit of the Soul can after this manner steal slide away from time and mortal day then open stands that gate that given entrance to behold the glorisi'd beings to hear the languages of that light world which none else can hear but them that are got out of the noise of all other hearings into that still and silent deep where most pleasant joyful Voices and Sounds are heard which entring through the several Orgains as a siery Bresth and nothing of vocal Words is either required or needed there Now then by this you may judge that pure and unadultered revelation and vision of a true sight is not so quickly rushed into nor easily attained it is a great and peculiar Gift and also requires great watchfulness and attenders upon it if any would enjoy and hold it incorruptedly And that there may be no deceit in this matter when you come to try your own and other Spirits take this observation further with you If any one brings out a Prophecy or Revelation take notice what defensive power and guard it hath upon it The beloved John when he had all those visions and revelations he gives an account how they were seen and heard by him for saith he I was in the Spirit on the Lords day and a good proof there was of it as much as if he had said That it was neither Mans nor Mortals day that did rise and inclose upon him but the one everlasting Day or Ancient of Days in whose Light he had the glorious Prospect of heavenly things themselves Thus he was in the Spirit which was his defensive power and guard to keep out all ether trifling Spirits Observe this further it is a much different thing for the Mind and Spirit of the Soul to be caught and taken up into the spirit pure and abstractedly for then it is secured from mixtures but when the holy Spirit is come only into the Property of our Souls giving sorth lustrous Light and Revelation in speaking fluently yet hazardable to be twisted about from the self-promoting Essence that ready and apt is to dash in upon the divine inspiring as soon as it arise from its own center deep This I speak knowingly having traced through the deep Meanders before I arrived to know the true and certain way of Revelation by which now I am put out of doubt concerning the true Oracle speaking in the Soul as to my own particular watching thereunto with heedfulness for the keeping out all fluttering Spirits that have their birth and nourishment from the astaral and elementary Region that can go in and out for proving till we are got beyond their Kingdom Now indeed when the spirit of the Soul meets with such a pull up into the Spirit as the beloved Disciple then it is out of all fears but this is very rare they are high favourits that do frequently meet with such transportations but the other is more common and frequent to Saints that lovers and enjoyers are of that Ministration for whose sakes I have been impulsed to open these secret things that they may put on their impregnable strength of defence for the preserving this great immunity as the choicest of all of Gods favours and that incorruptedly as from the pure spring of the Spirit then you will find every faculty tinged with the fiery Glance of the holy Ghost as you see by the dark hard body of Iron being inclosed with Fire it is so penetrated therewith as it becomes as one and the same fire flame but you must keep and feed it there as the Salamander which always liveth in the fire after this manner doth the holy Ghost with his invisible flaming Body penetrate through the spirit of the Soul that it is encompassed with Light as the Angel which is said Rev. 19. 17. standing in the Sun all appearing as the very Sun of glory therefore highly valuable it is for any Saint to get such a clothing of the Spirit upon them for nothing of Adam's weak or impotent Nakedness can here be seen but all glory strength and power will be your habitation therefore these are gifts to be much set by and desired and not slighted or despised Now having given a plain and experimental account of this nice and difficult Point which I hope may have reached to the satisfaction of the doubtful I shall now by virtue of a heavenly Commission given me from the Lord give counsel and caution to three sorts and degrees of Persons The First of this is to them that do question Whether there be any Spirit of Prophecy or Revelation given forth since the Apostles deceased as believing all dyed with them This would be a sad and deplorable thing if God should since that Age cut off the spring of Revelation from its original that so the Sheep and Lambs of Christs flock should no more expect to be fed from the fresh springing Pastures where no footing hath been as also to drink of those flowing Rivers of Life that renew daily from the fount of the God head let such but call to mind and consider those many Scripture-Prophecies and Promises concerning the continuation of this Gift unto the very end of time both in the old and new Testament I shall mention only some of the latter John 14. 16 17 18. 2 Cor. 4. 8. 1 Cor. 2. 10 11 12 13 14. John 2. 28. Heb. 8. 9 10 11. Many more than these Scriptures could call up for confirmation of the continued run of the Spirit throughout all Ages Christ by his Spirit comforting us saying Lohe would be with his to the end of the World Now as from the Lord I beseech you not to eclipse the light of the Day-star 2 Pet. 1. 19. in your own Souls nor quench the Spirit nor despise Prophecying then may the witness of Jesus rise in you to confirm this most glorious Ministration as a burning Lamp of Revelation A word of Love-caution is to another sort of Persons who are entred into this Ministration in its first degree and are under the Spirits discipline and teaching the word of Counsel from the Father of Spirits is this That they keep precisely to the Rules and Laws of the Spirit for there will be expected from such more shining and singular Conversation shewed forth in a self-denying Life dying to all of those mortal things and sensual enjoyments that strangle and choke the fiery Breath of the holy Spirit to stop it from kindling further and deeper in the Soulish Essence that so there may be a coming up to a mighty Increase and Fruitfulness in the love and unity of the Spirit having all tenderness to support love and cherish each Olive Plant that springeth out of this Eden Garden which is watered by the holy Mists and dropping Dews of the Spirit Now to the third sort this word of Wisdom and Counsel doth