Corruption was acted in and under the POWER of both Good and Evil while the World continued in that State wherein was Winter and Summer and Seed-time and Harvest But in the State under which the Worlds were FALN and under which all Principles in Nature were subjected in the Dominion of the BEAST over mankind thus degenerated from the Image in which he was planted there remained a Second WO on the Creature who being found flying away fled on and from the Sabbath Day and Rest of God through that which sought to avoid afflictions and shunned to keep in the Way wherein a sence of sufferings grew on that which was come on the Body of Nature CXXV And a THIRD WOE remained on the WOMAN that was with Child and upon her that was giving SUCK though the time had been wherein the SHEPHERD carried his Lambs in his Arms and gently drove those that were with young until he became SMITTEN for the sake of his Flock from whom he durst not fly in the Winter or because of the WOLF and through the Life which he laid down for his SHEEP prevailed with the Father against that which had hindred the Creature from its entring into the REST of God whereby a DART was struck through his SOUL that every Man might be driven to his OWN and that the thoughts and secrets of many HEARTS might be REVEALED for he could not draw back in a time of DANGER but indured the contradiction of sinners CXXVI And as I came to behold a strong ANGEL of God with a Sealed Book in his Hand he placed one Foot on the Earth and the other on the Waters and stood on both between the Banks of HIDDEKEL and the great River EUPHRATES and he lifted up the little Book unto the Heavens and went backward to the parting of the great SEAS where were two great PROPHETS cloathed in Sackcloth whose Prophecy was one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes a TESTIMONY of what remained under suffering to the preparing the way of the JUST that the Son of Man might come to inherit the Glory of his Temple and unseal the Mysteries of the Lambs Power in opening the Book of Wonders written in the Heavens while I beheld the prevailing of the Waters until a third part of the EARTH was covered thereby CXXVII In which time the WATERS were decreased from off the Earth and the Angel of God gave me a Reed of a measuring Line to measure the Waters and the Earth over which they prevailed in the World and I measured the Waters at the highest ten Cubits over the Earth and five Cubits under the Earth in the circumference of which a Man might Swim as in a great RIVER And from the Heavens as all forms in Nature were multiplyed I beheld on the great Seas until there appeared the number of seventy Vessels sayling over the same in the front they were seven and in each row ten and in the midst of the six stood that seventh Vessel which was the first into which was gathered the Patterns of all forms in the Heavens where the Creation of God did multiply CXXVIII And the VESSELS that I saw were born up above the rage and fury of the WATERS from whence the out-spread Firmament was inlarged in the Air seven Cubits upward and ten Cubits from the Waters downwards to the Earth on which it centered which was sventeen Cubits to the Head of the Image which I beheld that stood before the seventh Vessel which was in the midst of the six in the front of the seventy And behind the Vessel was the form of a DOVE with golden Wings stretched abroad in the Airy Firmament and the Image glistered like the Sun and had the tincture of fine Gold where the property of the Heavens beautified the Feathers that took form in Nature on the living Creature CXXIX And from the face of the Waters as they prevailed over the Earth was fifteen Cubits to the Center of the Earth in its sinking state and it was two and twenty Cubits in the circumference of the height wherein the WATERS prevailed for the space of these five months that they covered the Face of the EARTH after which I beheld them divided into four HEADS as they came to be dispersed by an East-Wind which compasseth about the whole EARTH in its divided QUARTERS CXXX And as the Vessels thereon became eased and delivered of their Burthen in that which fell under the Power of Corruption in the contrariety of all Elemental Properties imbodied in the Forms of Creation wherein I beheld the perishing of the first WORLDS glory in natural MAN through that faln state the Heavens also were discharged of Labour and Travel under which the BODY of NATURE suffered in those forms wherein that which caused the Sun to go back ten Degrees became manifest among those forms in Nature through the corruptible Ground CXXXI And in the separation of the WORLDS over which the Waters that were driven in HEAPS Westward prevailed for the space of their five months the falling back of those WATERS driven by an EAST WIND was North and South wherein the VESSELS arrived in their order place and number but every thing that the Enemy had power over in that Corruptible state perished in the WATERS yet was a SEED preserved through all those Storms and Tempests the strength of which continued a Month and twelve Dayes to replenish the Earth in its renewed state which was five dayes backward to the Months Nones and seven dayes forward in its IDES from the seventeenth day of that seventh month to the twenty fourth day of the Month. CXXXII For from the New of the MOON in that seventh month wherein the Waters brake first forth to the new of the MOON in the eighth month was twenty nine dayes which month called BUL or a BUBLING because of what again sprung up in the WORLD after the falling back of the WATERS under the Power of Corruption through which the Fruits of the EARTH perished was the Month from whence the Heavens began to manifest the multiplyed Forms in Nature under a corruptible State which is MARCHESHUAM in the falling away but in the bubling up of all forms of Nature in the New-created-Being and renewed State of the WORLDS in that same place it is the springs of the WORLD that are refreshing and restorative through the open Fountain of an everlasting good CHAP. XII Describes the manner how those Vessels were discharged of their burden among the created Forms in Nature as also the Four Heads of the River in the dividing of the Waters CXXXIII FRom the Tempests and Storms that I beheld in the increase and prevailing of those WATERS whereby the World was overspread and overwhelmed in its old corruptible State the Heavens were darkned and all forms in Nature remained under a Cloud until each month in the year had finished its COURSE in the Bodily frame through the Revolution and change that is wrought up in
raised up for the making known the Power of God and the Vessels fitted for destruction know that thy time is numbred to fill up the TWELVE years wherein the King was subject to K'DORLAOMER XVIII I counsel thee therefore in the Seed capable of gathering that thou come forth from among the Robbers and Spoilers of my People and let not thy horn be exalted because of the King of the North that is delivered into thy hands for a season for both your hearts have been set to do mischief and ye have spoken lies at one TABLE but that little space that is given thee to repent is to humble thee that thy Soul may live and thou not die in thy Iniquity XIX Now let him that is hungry come and let all that are thirsty come and drink a mighty draught at the Fountain of endless Mercy for this is the day of Mercy proclaimed towards a stiff-necked People a Rebellious House This is your day and hour to repent and return to God and there is not another season for Mercy or to mend that which is amiss for ye are become a wicked People but he that hath an Ear may hear though the hardned must remain in their guilt and the unclean be unclean still XX. For the spot of the LEOPARD cannot be washed off nor the skin of the Aethiopian changed and the filthy must have time to fill up their measure that it may be known that they are left without excuse who have slighted timely warning when the hour is come that they are concluded in the WILL of that which continueth filthy still The FIRST PART CHAP. I. The beginning of the REVELATION describing the Vision of the WHEEL in its Motion I. ACcording to the space of time before mentioned as I was waiting upon the Lord with my heart deeply exercised in his fear and dread the glory of what for a long season I had been visited with descended upon me in a Tempest and WHIRLWIND and I beheld until the Tempest was over yet the Whirlwind remained whilst I was taken into the Habitation of Wonders and the Glory of the Angel of God compassed me about in the form of TWO WHEELS moving one within the other as a Wheel within a Wheel II. By which means I came to the sight of TWO WORLDS standing the one in the other in the manner and form of the Wheels moving the one in the other as a World within a World And while I was thus beholding the Vision thereof the Power of the LIVING CREATURES that moved in the Wheels overcame me for the Spirit of the Living Creatures that moved in the Wheels was in the Wheels and it rested on my left Arm in form of a STAR and quivered in the Blood of my Body betwixt the skin and flesh of my left Arm for many dayes continuing thus upon me III. For in that in which the Worlds were setled and sought rest there was a continuance and abiding under subjection to such Power though faln from what it was in the first work of Gods Creation of all FORMS into being for the first FIVE dayes I thus beheld it and in every of these five dayes I saw a change and alteration in the Face of the HEAVENS which was like unto WATERS IV. Whose way and course I observed until the whole frame of the Worlds became like unto a SEA of GLASSE mingled with Fire and in the midst of these Waters broke forth a CLOUD which moved up and down like a Mans HAND and the Form of a Man was wrought up through the Cloud travelling in the Heavens with his Hands on his Loyns in whom was a sence of pangs and hard labour from whence I beheld a strugling and striving on the Face of the Waters as from the WOMB of ETERNITY of TWO NATIONS to come forth into appearance and manifestation V. And from the Heavens I heard a cry of pangs and hard suffering because of the labour and travel which the Body of NATURE was subjected under for such sufferings sake which was like to the sorrow of a Child-bearing-WOMAN who had brought to the Birth but had not power to bring forth until the appointed time of deliverance from the Father was come VI. But as the Womb of Eternity became eased of its suffering and hard labour the strugling and striving rested and seized on the Body of Nature wherein the Travel remained and continued until the END of TIME and PLACE For on the Face of the Waters on which the SPIRIT of God did breath while a Cloud of darkness was over and covered the face of the mighty Deeps was hidden the form of all CREATURES thus come forth VII And the Womb of NATURE was also opened in and before me in which instant was made intelligible to my understanding the working of all forms in Nature that strove to come up in the bodily Frame and Temper that stood in the ground and cause of such suffering VIII And the NAME of the FIRST DAY was called LIGHT because in it the Light and Darkness were separated and divided and in this day came forth all that stood hidden in the Womb of Eternity in the form and likeness of WATERS that were of a distinct quality and operation in the creaturely being until the Word of God had commanded them into form through the work of Creation IX For as the division and separation of such Powers-work through the WORD of God wrought up the Will of the Worker into appearance and manifestation the WATERS had their enlightning quality and property in the separated beings shining out from the Face of that which gathered together in the Heavens from the three that therein bare Record yea and in the work of the first dayes separation which was betwixt Light and Darkness in these Waters on which the Spirit of God breathed in the light-part of the Waters which was the Face of the Heavens therein there became exalted the HEAD and FACE of a Man for a season and in the darkness or dark parts which is the dark parts thereof I saw working hiddenly the form of a FIRE-DRAKE or Serpent called Satan and the Dragon the old deceiver of mankind who was got behind God in the coming forth of his Glory in his Son or Image X. And the Waters that came forth out of the Womb of Eternity out of which sunk all forms in Nature that took being in the earthly frame and form being gathered together into one PLACE became an overflowing scourge and inundation of miseries and were like unto a great SEA which was the gathering together of all that came forth out of many Fountains and Rivers of Water XI Which thus I beheld until the SECOND DAY was passed over wherein was made a separation betwixt Waters and Waters that thus came forth out of the Womb of Eternity in a Mystery And in the Womb of Nature was the MATRIX of conception brought into a working frame wherein the SPERMATIC Vessels of the
SEEDS ingendrings opened the Gates of Glory into an inward world where the Kings Daughter was whom I saw all Glorious within XII And the separation that was made betwixt those Waters was a Power of firm glory in its working frame as a FIRMAMENT placed in the out-spread Air wherein every thing came forth in its DUALL number through divided qualities and the name of the SECOND DAY was called EXPANSUM or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of what came thus forth in the out-spread Firmament CHAP. II. A Description of the DIURNAL Motion in the Wheels in the coming forth of all forms in Nature into manifestation XIII THus beheld I the form of the Heavens like unto WATERS but of a more CHRISTALLINE and transparent brightness than the SUBLUNARY Waters for they were not Waters of such a gross and terrene Body as is centered in and on the EARTH in the harshness and astringency of depraved Nature fallen under the power of Corruption but they had a peculiar quality in the HEAVENS through the work of Separation in the Principles of the WORLDS being of an enlightning Nature in which the POWERS of all Caelestial Bodies were moved and BURNED over me as an inkindled flame mentained in the UNCTUOSITY of the lifes Operation in the Body of Nature XIV For the ground of all being in the Creature and Creation of God in its sinking condition became corruptible EARTH in the fallen state and condition of the imbodied being of Creatures and Things wherein the Earth centered and setled its rest in the Creature of God in what stood in and out of the WATERS and out of the Bowels of the Earth issued FOUNTAINS and Rivers of Waters which ran in the several Streams and Channels of the Earths 〈◊〉 thus faln under the power of Corâ—â—â—â—…on And the whole returned and met in the Ocean Seas which became the Womb of Nature in that they stood in the wide and open courses of the Earth and Worlds which notwithstanding was drawn up into the Heavens through a purgation by fire XV. But as all PROPERTIES and Principles came into the Womb of Nature in which the contest wrought betwixt THREE that laboured to come forth imbodied in form in the creaturely being I beheld the Womb of Eternity shut against the Third and LAST that was in the cause of such strife and contest who notwithstanding wrought up his way to come first forth out of the Womb of Nature XVI And in the Heavens I beheld the form of a great RED DRAGON sucking into his Belly the HEART of these Waters which was their Fatness and Unctuosity like a River of OYL wherein was an inkindled fire that burnt inwardly and was mentained and strengthened by the oyliness and fatness thereof together with the combustibleness of the material qualities ingendred under the Power of Corruption for destructions sake XVII And in the light of what continued thus burning and inflaming I beheld an innumerable company of divided ESSENCES which shined in the Heavens like STARS above and PLANTS beneath wherein was a tincture that wrought and moved in the Essence of each the one in and by the other as the Wheels wrought one in the other for TWO DAYES XVIII For in the contest in the Heavens were THREE though onely TWO came forth imbodied in the creaturely being out of the Womb of Nature so incorporated into form under the power of corruption fallen and sunk that wrought up their way out of all the powers of the Heavens so to come forth XIX And after the finishing of the third DAY which was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 BEGOYM because of what came forth in the Dual number I beheld a perfect separation made in the WHEELS motion betwixt that which is DIURNAL and NOCTURNAL which was the motion in and of the inward Wheels for in the Wheels was both a Diurnal Annual Motion and in the Power that wrought up its way and work through the course in and of Nature All Principles of Nature came forth in their separated and divided being XX. In which I beheld FOUR large hours in the day each hour containing three computed hours of the natural day And in the NIGHT were FOUR Watches in the which the ANGEL and the Watcher came down and the order of the Night-Watch I beheld from the evening of the Day until the first Cock-Crow which was after the conclusion of the FIRST WATCH XXI At length I beheld until a perfect separation was made in the Wheels and between PRINCIPLE Principle in the WORLDS And in the SECOND WATCH of the Night which was Mid-night an ANGEL and a WATCHER came down before me in the form and appearance of a MAN and with an Iron Instrument he smote me on the HEAD with both Hands for he had the Face of a good man and lifted up both hands to smite me XXII And I submitted to the Hand and stroak of the Watcher and lay DEAD IN MY BLOOD until the Night-watch was over wherein the HOLY ONE came down for it was the hour of the Bridegrooms awakening and the coming of the Son of Man and the conclusion of the second Watch was when the COCK had crowed TWICE and in the DAWNING of the DAY the Womb of the MORNING was opened in and before me and after the THIRD Cock crow all Powers in the Heavens were shaken and the Body of Nature was taken in a trembling state and condition for it was the conclusion of the Third Watch. XXIII Wherein all self-confidence became judged to be the TRUTHS denyal and resistance after the Cock had crowed Thrice because the day began to DAWN the DAY-STAR to arise in the Heart of the inward Worlds whereby the stumblings had been raised by that which became a ROCK of OFFENCE to both the Houses of ISRAEL XXIV And the FOURTH COCK-CROW was after the Dayes breaking forth wherein the Rock and Foundation of true confidence in God was raised up by turning Satan behind the back of God's Glory in the renewed day of the Son of Man which brought forth the Keys of him that unlocked the Treasury in the Heavens After the building of the CHURCH of God became setled on that raised Rock on which the LYON was made to tremble by the Crowing of the Cock before the Day dawned CHAP. III. Wherein the effects of the four large Hours of the Day and the four Watches of the Night in the inward Worlds are described XXV AND in the HEART of the WATERS which became like an inkindled flame burning in the order of the Eternities holy Will and working Power was HARSHNES in what wrought for Separations sake like unto Fire mingled with Blood in a Mystery which became bound in the form of the Heart of a LYON under which I saw the Bowels of Creation also comprehended in a state of Darknesse to the VIRGIN in Nature who sat mourning as one disconsolate with an EAR of WHEAT in her right Hand and the cry was from a
the Vegitative Being wherein the TREE of LIFE came to bear twelve sorts of FRUITS changing its Fruit every Month until its Leaves came to heal the NATIONS CXXXIV For that which divided between Principle and Principle in the Worlds said let there be light in the Firmament of the Heavens wherein the Waters are gathered together unto their own PLACE and Light shined from the Firmament of the Heavens in those Waters in the Seperation of all darkening Qualities into its NIGHT of Obscurity which notwithstanding was over-ruled in the hour of Darkness until the second great Light broke forth in the subjected Qualities of that Spirit in the Body of Nature by which the Night hath been ruled CXXXV And those VESSELS that were fitted and prepared for the use of the Creator from the Heavens were ordained to the service of the LORD and MASTER by whom they were imployed and it was the Creators Glory to suffer them to be raised up whatever dishonourable uses they were imployed to which falling under the rage and fury of the ENEMY that first prevailed over the World by those Waters the Vessels in which were God's Tents were notwithstanding preserved and discharged of their Burdens in the manner following through all opposition in the fury of what the Waters were raised unto CXXXVI And whatever the body of Nature travelled under the WOMAN was eased of in the discharge of what was carried on the Waters to a HAVEN of REST of the burthen whereof the Heavens were discharged in the strength of the Storm or according to the decrease of the Waters wherein a third part of those Vessels which were drawn towards the SOUTH came under a Tryal by fire and the seventh part of the Earth was tryed by Waters but that other third part that was drawn towards the NORTH was reserved to a Tryal in the third and last day by the strength of Judgment in both CXXXVII Of the first Vessel the Heavens were eased and unburdened on the first day of the ninth Month whereby the World was first planted in that which hath overspread its QUARTERS and the time wherein I beheld the Heavens to be discharged was two dayes after the last quarter of the Moon in the eight month whereby the Work of God in the seven dayes wherein it was finished and setled recovered the Ides of that Month after new Moon and on the last day of the ninth month which was the first day after the first quarter of the Moon the Heavens were unburdened of a Second NATION in bodily Form into that second Vessel And in the conclusion of the ninth Month called KISU because it did bring Tempests before it the Waters were fallen back in the Degrees whereunto it overflowed by measure CXXXVIII And on the third day of the eleventh month vvhich vvas the third day after new Moon the Heavens vvere unburdened of a third Vessel but the tenth month being concluded vvhich vvas called THEBET because of comfort in bad times Israel began to forget the dayes of her MOURNING for the name of the Angel of God vvas called HEBER that had the conduct of that third Vessel and the name of that eleventh month vvas called SHEBAT because a Judge vvas brought up in that Vessel in the midst of the seven that svvayed the Scepter in ISRAEL CXXXIX And on the second day of the twelfth month vvhich vvas two dayes after new Moon the Earth and Worlds became divided in the dispersing abroad of the Waters vvhich continued decreasing until the end of seven months vvhereby the tops of the Mountains vvere beheld and the Worlds came forward to their day of Tryal vvherein the WATERS setled about the form of the Earth CXL For from the time that the WATERS decreased I measured them up to the Neck of the GIANT in the Forms of Nature after the measure of a Man which is the Angel And I observed their order in the falling back wherein the first Head of the River called PISON compassed about the Land of HAVILAH into which fell the Golden Head of the Image after the River was divided into four Heads And thence came forth the ASSYRIAN in the dispersing abroad of those seven Nations that came out of the seven Vessels according to the seven Months of the YEAR in which the WATERS decreased wherein the Revolution of all Powers in Nature thus imbodied came under a second Tryal by Fire CXLI And according to the NATURE of the EARTH in which the Worlds were setled in their sinking condition there was GOLD and BDELLIUM and the ONIX STONE and that Gold was good for it was Gold of OPHIR wherein was discovered the Beauty and Luster of what first fell in the WORLDS backward course and now was come forward for manifestation sake And under the second Head of the River called GIHON which compasseth about the Land of Ethiopia that hath its Spiritual signification among the Names in Nature fell the Silver Breast of the Image CXLII But on the fifth day of the first month which was five days after new of the Moon a fifth Vessel came forward in which the Heavens were unburdened of that which came forth manifest in the Line of Blessing to the discharge of the Powers of NATURE in God for whom the Bowels of the Earth were torn up that the replenishing forms in Nature might over-spread it in the New Created Being and the name of the twelfth month was called ADAR because of an excelling Governour that came forth to sway the Scepter in Israel CLXIII And on the fourth day of the second month which was five dayes after new Moon a sixth Vessel was unburdened in the Heavens through the discharge of the Power of God in the Body of Nature and he came forth under the conduct of a strong ARM wherein was displayed from the Heavens a Banner flying and the name of the first month was called JEHOVAH NISSAN but among the forms in Nature it had a name in the Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of the Green Ear. CXLIV For on the third day of the third month which was the fourth day after new Moon there was beauty on the new Created EARTH among the Forms in Nature because of the Flowers that did shine bright in the finishing of that second month which was called ZIV. because of the lustre in the Heavens but in the Earth it is Jar because of the Vail and Covering preceeding And I turned me towards the place in which I beheld the Form of the Image and I beheld the falling of the BRAS BELLY under the third Head of the River called HIDEKEL and there was nought remaining but the stumps of the Image which fell under the fourth HEAD of the River called EUPHRATES in which it was bound down in my sight with an Iron Bond for the stumps remained in the Earth until seven times past over my Head in which the Wheels were moved about in their seven Turns and overturnings THE SECOND PART With
Weeks from the time that I beheld the prevailing of those Waters on the Earth XV. For as the Heavens were discharged of this third Man in the Forms of Nature there was a great change and revolution in the Worlds wherein the Winds came again to strive and the Storms and Tempests prevailed on the great Seas and I beheld until there arose an uncontroulable Wind called EOLUS which caused the Foundations of the House wherein I lay to shake and the Fowls of the Heavens made a groaning noise like a young Child for the place was beset with terrors of the Night but the sound of the Voice was like unto the Ringing of BELLS under my Head as I was laid down to rest And I was charged by the Angel of God not to move from the PLACE where I lay in which I was preserved from hurt until I beheld the Tempest over XVI Then I was led by the ANGEL of God to a very high Mountain on which I beheld my self riding over the Land and in the bottom thereof stood a great CITY at some distance towards which I was travelling and there came forth the Hee Goat of a year old who was driven towards the WEST in which I beheld him a scape Goat for the yearly Sacrifice and behind the form of the Man that I saw in the Heavens the RAM prevailed that was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth who became a daily Sacrifice for the Sins and Transgressions of the first Covenant which were committed in the times of Ignorance wherein God winked at them XVII And the scape Goat also grew and became mighty and strong and came forth out of the WEST pushing three wayes to wit East and North and South and he broke and stampt in pieces those two Horns of the RAM whereby the BULL was lifted up out of the dark Pit in Nature and as I was enquiring of the Angel of God how long also this should continue He replyed Until the Heifer be yoaked and hath learned to tread out the Corn that it may be known the House of Jacob is like a fire and that the House of Joseph is the flame and the House of Esau the stubble whom God will leave nor Root nor Branch for Ephraim shall learn to tread out the Corn as one that is taught to Plow and Judah shall be inlarged in him while God doth ride and is exalted but Jacob shall break the Clods in pieces XVIII And while I was beholding the Glory of the ANGEL I was dismounted from the BEAST whereon I Rode and sought to turn it down before me as I apprehended my self walking down the steep of the Hill but the Beast could not go any further either up or down and striving to turn him about he fell to the bottom of the Hill which was very steep and terrible to behold yet he came to the ground without hurt which was much more Admirable and he ran towards the CITY that I saw with great speed leaving me for a season to wander on the Mountain which was on the fourth Month of the seventh year for which the Vision was set and there did sit the form of Women weeping for TAMUZ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the Name of the month in the discharge of the Heavens but in the Earth it is called Mazah XIX But through the opening and loosing of a fifth Seal on the Book of Wonders taken out of the Hand of the Angel of God which was on the Temple or House of God which had been made the seat of the BEAST in Nature I saw and heard from the Throne of God and the LAMB a great cry and lamentation How long Lord God holy and true wilt thou suffer the Members of Christ to be joyned to an Harlot and the Temple of thy Holy Ghost to be defiled that our Blood may be avenged on the Inhabitants of the EARTH for from the Blood of Righteous ABEL until the Blood of Zacharias the Prophet who was slain between the Temple and the Altar Blood hath cryed in thine EAR to be avenged on such a wicked Generation XX. And there was also a Seal on the Sun of the Day of the Son of Man which was taken off in the opening and loosing of a sixth Seal of the Book And all that was in the Temple of God was smitten thereby until I beheld the Sun turned into Darkness and the Moon into Blood and the Stars of Heaven withdrew their Light being shaken as with a mighty Wind and they fell unto the Earth as a Fig-tree that casteth her Leaves and all dominion in the Powers of Nature was terrified by which that subdued the Government of all Authority in the Kingdoms of the Earth wherein is the signification of the Birth of Kings and Captains and mighty Men and Noble Men and Bond and Free that fled to the Rocks and Mountains of the EARTH to hide them and crept into the Clifts and Dens for shelter XXI Then saw I the first turn of the WHEELS which made a perfect division between property and property of all SPIRITS thus fallen under the Power of Corruption in the imbodied being of what standeth manifest in three Principles of Government over Nature in time and place for after I had beheld destinction of Motion in the Rings of the WHEELS and the separation of each I beheld their order in their turns over all that became imbodied in the Ground of Corruption as it came forth out of the WOMB of Nature XXII And in this sirst turn of the Wheels all that came out of the Womb of Eternity rested in the Womb of Nature though therein was a continual Motion while time and place indured whereby the VIRGIN in the Forms of Nature came under the sufferance of the Power of Death and indured the bodily pangs that were opened through the way and course of Corruption which caused the FIELD of Nature and Place of Conception to become a field of Blood through that which strove there in which state was placed the Man that was formed to be Keeper of the Vineyard that he possesses in that corruptible state so that in the second Turn of the Wheels all came forth distinguishable in that separated being of fire Air and Water that had received a tincture of Glory in each Principle XXIII Which according to those three PRINCIPLES was in the Forms of Nature wherein the Man had both Soul Spirit and Body formed under the Workings and Motion of an incorruptible and immortal Power to the renewing of all faculties of the Mind wherein Man is imbodied And as it sought to settle under a Power of Corruption I saw wherein it became a ground of all Motion though a stilness and silence was in the Original Center of all Creaturely beings whereby the four destroying Angels of God were bound down under a course of Corruption in which the Enemy prevailed to ripen and hasten the day of everlasting Tryals in the sufferance
Beauty which setled that which was therein finished on those seven Mountains or high Hills that became its Foundations and they had an eighth Mountain LXVII These are the Mountains on which descended the Form of what ever was first built and erected in the Heavens setled among the forms in Nature wherein the fashions of all glory in the Worlds are decaying and are ready to pass away though it seemeth to be adorned with magnificence with Towers great and strong and its situation very pleasant and beautiful while the antient breach that hath been made thereon in its ruinated state many are seeking to prop up by worldly inventions the discovery of which is become the torment of the Worldly Spirit that hath sought a Life therein LXVIII And the Angel of God shewed me the whole frame of this building and bid me tell its Towers and count its Foundations and number its Mountains and behold its Situation that it may be said in Generations to come This is she of whom we were forwarned And while the Angel of God was thus talking with me I beheld the appearance of a living Creature that weaved out of his BOWELS the form of the Heavens and it stood in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters as between the Heavens and the Earth LXIX As to the living Creature he had eight Legs and through the Clouds of the Heavens which were over the face of the Waters he weaved out of his Bowels Coverings like unto the Spiders Web which had their course and motion according to the frame of the Worlds in their Corners and Quarters wherein his labour was in the Night in the distance of Degrees from the Sun of the Glory of the Son of Man formed in the Clouds of the Heavens which went before and came after the Sun of such Glory in which the Creation of God was first formed and brought forth who had his Star called HESPER and VESPER as Morning and Evening Stars And I beheld and hearkened until a Voice came from Heaven like unto those four Thunders which passed before me which had an interpretation among the sounds in Nature and the Voice was Over hundreds they have moved a hundred times as over ten thou movest because of Wages that have been changed ten times but over one I am once moving and the dividing of times hath discovered a time that was Mans glory to see and behold while good followed the WORLD in the state wherein it was planted though times are past in that wherein the Wheels have made a difference LXX And the fifth Thunder thundered from the New Jerusalem that descended from above out of Heaven as a BRIDE that is readily adorned for her Husband the Voice of which did reach into the great CITY that is Spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord lyeth Crucified and Slain Wherein I saw the fall of that which was setled on five of those Mountains and the sixth Foundation was also shaken that the seventh might come up and be revealed and in that seventh were the seven manifest from whence the WORLDS had bubled through the renewing of all forms in Nature which were tryed by Tempests until Gods goodness came up through that which swayed the Scepter in Israel and brought forth Judgment in the power of the Heavens LXXI For those seven Mountains had the names of seven Months in the Years in which God was manifest in the work of Creation according to the Power of his WORD in Nature by which the works of Wonder in GOD are established through that which wrought in a Mystery And they are the Months in which God discovereth the going forth of the WORLDS as they have their Foundations in the EARTH setled among the forms in Nature and the Towers which setled in that which adjoyned to the Body of that Temple as Heads of the Beast had the name of the seven dayes in the Week LXXII Wherein the beginning of Beauty and Glory revealed through the Foundation in which it setled rested its ruines on ASSYRIA through which the forms of the Towers were put forth as a Banner displayed towards ASIA and the name of that first Mountain was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereon stood a Man with both hands dipt in BLOOD and in his right Hand was a Sword but I beheld until the form of the Man vanished and there was nought left but the Head and Face of the RAM wherein was erected the form of the TOWERS and from the second Mountain which had the name of the second Month called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proceeded splendor and brightness as the flowers of all increasing properties in the power of Nature and from the third Mountain which had the name of the third Month called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proceeded the Vail and Covering of Green Leaves CHAP. VII Describing the form of the Temple which setled its Foundations on SEVEN MOUNTAINS of the EARTH LXXIII ON four of those MOUNTAINS rested the Body of the Temple according to its Foundations and the names of the Months by which they were called which stood in the fourth part of the WORLD with its Corners and Quarters East West North and South according to the four Winds of the Heavens that were moved from thence with their four Angels exalted on their Towers from the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES through that which prevailed in the fiery triplicity of the Heavens over the Earth and Waters in their third part LXXIV Wherein the Vernal Quarter was Manifest in a fourth Mountain from whence all Fruits of the Earth came under fiery Tryals to the scorching and consuming all that stood on that foundation in the Ground of such a Nature whence it received the name of the 4th Month called THAMUZ and on the fifth Mountain which had the name of the fifth Month called AB was manifest the Image of Jealousie from whence proceeded the fiery Zeal of that consuming power which prevailed over the Fruits of the Earth until they became reaped after which was nought found through the appearance of a sixth Mountain which had the name of the sixth month called ELVL LXXV And in the Temple there appeared the form of a WOMAN exalted in the Heavens on whose Forehead was written JEZEBEL the Mother of Harlots and I beheld until nought was remaining but the Palms of her hands which the Dogs refused to eat yet did she reign as Queen of Nations and had power over the Kings of the Earth there appeared the Scarlet coloured BEAST on which her form was exalted who was very gloriously decked and adorned with Gold and precious Stones and Pearls and Purple and delicate aray and on her forehead was a name wrote MYSTERY BABYLON the Great the Mother of all Fornication LXXVI And she was carried into the Wilderness whither I was led by the Angel who shewed me her Cities of Refuge and there was a very great City in which the sixth Thunder thundered
prevailed in the months thereof until the seven Mountains could be seen on which the great CITY was erected through the decreasing of the Waters in what remained falling backward for the space of seven Months XI And the CITY that thou sawest built and setled on those Mountains and high Hills which became the Foundations of all that fell into and under the palpability of WATERS is the City HENOCH which the first born of Nations erected under the power of Corruption from the ground which he became the Tiller and tearer up of when driven Eastward from the Face of the Earth and Presence of God into that Land where he took his Wife that he might call the name of his Buildings after the name of his Son for whom it was built XII For he possessed the seven forms of NATURE the number of years according to which the year increased its dayes and hath all the properties of the Heavens through a Translation wrought on the Body of Nature in what came forth mamfest in each line of the Fathers resting in LAMECH whence two Wives prevailed over the Man five years short of a sight into the destruction which prevailed over the Worlds in the state it was first planted CHAP. III. Describing the property of Enochs Prophecies XIII THose seven forms of Nature whose Characters are Figures in Hieroglyps have the property of Prophecy among the Works of Wonder which cannot be understood in the Creaturely Capacity but through the translations of ENOCH for whom the ground of conceiveability was torn up and no less power is requisite herein than that which smiteth the World in its third part of both Earth and Waters and all that lives therein or moves thereon wherein the Beast hath had his Seat as a Temple in which hath shined the glory of Sun and Moon and Stars XIV And for the revealing the true ground from whence all those glories may come again to shine in the Principles of Nature as in the beginning consumption and darkness must come before his Face who rideth in the Chariot of Nature wherein those glories are smitten in the third part until the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES which compasseth about the fourth part of the WORLDS over which the EAGLE hath prevailed XV. And though as those Angels stand manifest in the Heavens they are seven in number according to the seven forms of Nature through which are sounded the Mystery of God's Works of Wonders from the seven Golden TRUMPETS yet is their destroying power bound down in the four last forms only in which the Elements of Nature have spheared into Corruption for the discovery of the Lake of Fire that is hidden in the great River EUPHRATES from what is thence loosed XVI But the Witnesses hereof are only two manifested in each three Principles of both Heavenly and Earthly being in which the AIR is commanded until FIRE and WATER is become united in its ANGEL that hath one Foot on the Earth and hath his other on the great Seas for the Angel of the Waters saith It is done but an Angel of the Fire who continueth alwayes ministring before the ALTAR hath touched my Tongue with a live Coal he hath brought from thence wherein I am made able to declare of what he hath flung on the Earth XVII And beholding the seven Mountains of the Earth on which is setled the Foundations of that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Worlds in the in kindled Fire burning under its Foundations I see terrible shakings that are yet to pass through the Worlds over all buildings therein after the tenth part of the CITY is seen become fallen in the assending up of the Witnesses unto Heaven in the sight of their Enemies wherein the ten Horns of the BEAST shall hate the Whore and burn her flesh with FIRE XVIII Then shall be seen the seven Horns of the LAMB full of Eyes which are the seven Spirits of God which do walk among the seven Golden Candlesticks and the Books shall stand open on which hath been put those seven Seals that he may be known come into the Worlds that holdeth in his right Hand a Crown of seven Stars as seven golden Lamps burning before the Throne of God and the Lamb and lighting the whole Earth with his Glory in the form of the Pleiades for the seventh Trumpet shall sound forth the Mystery of what is thus unsealed over the mighty deeps which have filled the Worlds XIX And in the finishing of this great Mystery all Nations of the Earth shall be gathered to their appointed place that the Spirit and God of the World may bear the wrath of Indignation of what is poured forth on the frame of all created Principles into form without mixture which is the second Death executed in the seven last Plagues wherewith the seven Golden Vials are filled wherein God will appear in ten thousand of his Saints CHAP. IV. Describing the ground in Nature from whence the Wheels are moved about the frame of the WORLDS XX. THe seven spirits of God are moved about the frame of the WORLDS according to what doth operate and work up the way and course he is manifest through in the Seven forms of Nature which are become the Seven heads of the BEAST and the Seven Mountains of the WORLD on which the City is built wherein the WHORE doth sit exalted and therefore is God manifest in the Spirit of Judgement in those Forms of Nature that every thing may come forth tryed undeâ— the motion of the WHEELS XXI But though the BEAST hath taken Head in these forms of Nature Nature is again returning to its firsâ— subjection in the utter consumption and destruction of the power of the Dragon Beast and False Prophet ouâ— of those forms in Nature for now are the Wheels moving over the greaâ— River Euphrates on which the trumpet of God hath sounded and thence are loosed his destroying Angels which cause thunders and lightning in the Heavens XXII And the Clouds of Heaven are already tinctured with that which Ascendeth upward to prepare its motion in the Air whence his appearance is expected who judgeth the Prince thereof and casteth down the Accuser of the Just from those Airy Heavens wherein he hath been exalted though the Seven Forms of Nature which are moved about the heavens of the Worlds attend the first mover wherein the Work of God is manifest in the Seven Spirits of Nature XXIII For this center of the Inward WORLD which was thus unmovable had a power in and over all that was movable and changeable which became a cause in the motion of the WHEELS that was over-ruled by the wisdom and power of the first mover wherein all Glories of the FATHER shined in the Firmament of his POWER in which he remained unalterable and unchangeable the same without any shadow of turning or variation XXIV Yet is it only in Nature that God is become thus a cause
the Innocent shall take hold of his Feet in the Way he is walking when the wronged comes to be apprehended on a Hill that is higher than that on which the Enemy and Destroyer hath been exalted and into the Hands of the PURSUED is put a sharp Instrument the strength of that Reason whereof the World is robbed and bereft even the Sword of Goliah and Spear of their Adversary with which they shall wound the Head of RAHAB and the Dragon and thereby they shall do EXPLOITS XXVII Though they are kept from using it in a time of advantage yea I have seen I have seen while the Envious have been hunting abroad the Pursued have been led into the Tents of those that are Mighty in Battel and the Man of War hath been found sleeping over his Master until a Lap of his Garment with which the Envious hath covered the Cruelty of his Spirit is brought forth into open view and the Cruse and Spear at his Beds head can now be shown to his shame because the Blood-Avenger hath kept the Innocent from putting forth his Hand to touch Him that had once the Anointing Oyl on his Head that had the favour of a Lot in Israel when the Spirit of God rested on Him that made it a Proverb Is the Son of Kish also among the Prophets XXVIII But the Cry of the Poor is heard that hath been compassed about with Tormentors who hath said in his heat What shall I now do for behold here cometh a whole Army and I have no Sword but that of Goliahs and the Lord hath said Take it for there is none like it and it shall be known that a Stripling is engaged in the Lords Battel and is able to make war against Israels Enemies though he could not use the Sword in his own defence neither dares he be too bold in the exercise thereof abroad lest the bruised Reed should be broken and the smoaking Flax quenched before Judgment is brought forth into Victory at home where the War is begun by such that are engaged in the Lambs Battel XXIX Therefore in the Mystery of what is herein treated of is the depth of whatever hath relation to the concern both of SOUL or BODIES Welfare in the Knowledge and true understanding of its state and the universality thereof is a Testimony worthy to be heeded in the General or particular Concern because of the relation it hath to the true and right Information of the Mind of all that are capable of benefit therein through a pointing property at that which gives unto the Reader a sence of the Day in which many in old time were made Prophets and Messengers and have largely testified and prophesied thereof in the Restoration of all Principles of Nature it hath possessed and inhabited in the BODY into its first Glory which is the MYSTERY of the Second Resurrection in those in whom the Power of the first Death is weakened and over whom the second Death hath no power XXX For the Life of JESUS is manifest in their mortal Flesh discovering the Glory of which they are made Partakers in a Kingdom everlasting and World without End because of their Faith and Belief in the changing and renewing Power of GOD wherein the JUST do live and witness Redemption from the Sting of SIN and Strength of the LAW which is the Power of Death and the GRAVE hath not Dominion over the Soul therefore you that profess Scriptures contend not against the Verity and Infallibility of the Testimony hereof because for your sakes and satisfaction I am constrained in some cases to use such Words that the RECORD of TRUTH is sealed by in the Testimony of the PROPHETS of GOD in former Ages and Generations of the World XXXI Neither let it scruple any on the other hand that I use not an exact FORM and METHOD of Scripture-Terms but am oft constrained to apply the bent of my Spirit toward such significant terms as are brought to my Understanding in the exercise of the VISION for the Words are but an outward Sound and Declaration of what hath relation to an inward and invisible Work in the Heart of the Creature through the Salvation of the Soul from Death but I see it hard for many professing SCRIPTURES and the Knowledge of the TRUTHS of GOD therein declared to own it nakedly for its own sake and yeild and bend to the disposings of God in matters of such concern for then would it be consented to in what hath relation to the Minds Information without respect to the Persons of such that are found differing in Judgment concerning outward Circumstances in Gestures or PRINCIPLES in DOCTRINE while in the End and Aim there is a respect to Truth in the Heart XXXII And there will be a joyning in the Acceptance against whatever hath relation to Controversies in a state of disobedience against the Spirit of God in which the WORLD is endeavouring to settle a Rest and hence have I seen the Complainer vexed with Burdens of his unruly Passion but that God may more and more unseal the Fountain of endless Good and Happiness in the Knowledge of the Glory of his Kingdom that is everlasting is my Souls desire that Truth and Righteousness may be set up in the WORLD and the Glory of the ANTIENT OF DAYS proceeding in the increase of the Knowledge of GOD may run down like a River and cover the Earth like as the Waters cover the Sea XXXIII And as this hath its due acceptance in the Heart of the Upright and Unbiassed in Censure and Judgment for the sake of the Controversies among men about their Opinionatedness concerning the Truths of God contained in the Scriptures with which the World is filled they will more and more come to see into its service and the end for which it is given forth which will make way for the opening and discovery of many pretious Secrets pertaining to the Restauration of Nature in its depraved Body of infected Elements that are generated under a Power of Corruption that Creatures may come to see into the Mystery of what is contained in many words therein that hath a signification very intricate to the common sence of private Interpretations thereon which the limitting spirit of the WORLD is apt to tye up the Faith of their Communicants in because of the vulgar acceptance it hath in the Heart of a Multitude But the Encouragement I find for the prosecution of what is remaining in this Tract wherein I am taking view of my passage through those Forms of Nature in which I am imbodyed in time and place is centred in an higher Object than the Readers well or ill Acceptance XXXIV Though I am satisfied in the end thereof that coming to be seen into will cause many to say Now I know thou speakest no more unto us in PARABLES but hast plainly shewed us of the Father But among the Multitude how hard a thing is it to believe well of future Events
exalt the four destroying Angels of Strength that are loosed out of the great River EUPHRATES by which Europe hath been compassed about until the end of seven Months and five days though in the time of the sounding of those Trumpets the Winds have been suffered to blow on the Earth by those that have held their corners as four Angels standing on the four Corners of the same and the Spirit of God hath and doth yet strive with a Generation and Generations on whom the fierceness of Gods wrath in the Plagues of those Vials is to be poured forth and is come L. And the Creature Mankind imbodyed in this third Principle in which he is called the Microcosm or little World is that third part of the Macrocosm or great World as it standeth divided into its four parts or Quarters wherein the Eagle hath had Power over the North Quarter or fourth part of the Worlds where those Tryals are manifest under which the Lyon came first forth with four Wings of the Foul on his Back in which were Golden Fethers with the names of 36000. Men in each Golden Wing while the striving continued between the four Winds of the Heavens on the great Sea and from the loss of dominion therein in the plucking of the Lions Wings wherein came forth four other Beasts and took head in the Nature of that which separated the Man from the power in which he was first planted and placed the Kingdoms of the Earth and World became dispersed abroad the same LI. Until the great Bear or Leopard who hereby purchased the strength of those four Wings had them also taken away and the Man came to regain his dominion over all the Works of God's Hands as Lord in the substance of what is already communicated to his understanding and through those four first Beasts that now have taken unto them each of them the six Wings of the Cherubims every one in their order calling to come and see the Mystery of what is come forth to the Tryal of the Year Month Day and Hour over which they have Power and Dominion in their Angels the Glory of the Father is hallowed having in each Wing two thousand Fethers and names of Men which makes the Glorious Hoast of God in the Heavens Numerable in their Tribes and according to the Families of those scattered Nations over the face of the whole Earth LII Which are the dispersed Army of God and goodly company of that Mighty Hoast in the four Wings of the living Creature by which they stand figured forth 144000. of the first Body in which God hath his sealed Number of Instruments that are engaged in the Lamb's Battel as the MEMBERS of what hath continued like unto dry Bones in the Valleys And for the exalting their Angels in the Heavens their destroying power over the Earth and Worlds is loosed out of the great River over which the winds of the Heavens have striven and blowed while their destroying Power was bound LIII But now are the Winds in the Hands of the Angels to be with-held from blowing and the Spirit of God from striving any longer with the Creature Mankind by the Prophesie of the Witnesses or sounding of the Trumpets of God committed to the Angels and the whole Worlds shall be smitten with Plagues through that which is thus loosed out of the bottomless Pit wherein the Earth hath been covered with those Beasts called Locusts and they have overspread the same in its third part smitten by the sounding of the five first Trumpets and that which is awakened by the sounding of the sixth Trumpet hath command in and over those four Winds of the Heavens to with-hold them from blowing as oft as they please because God will not alwayes strive with Man who is but flesh LIV. And when the Earth is quiet and still according to the silence that hath been in HEAVEN for the space of half an hour and the Worlds begin to settle in the ease and content of the flesh then remember what I say for before this day there hath come Wars and rumours of Wars and the smoake of the torment of those Men on whom Judgment hath rested under the Power of the Beast shall be seen known to be the SEAT of the Beast in a fourth part of the great World that hath yet hitherto escaped Death in what came on that third part thereof in the little World Mankind like the fume of a boyling Furnace whence hath ascended the thick Cloud of Darkness that filleth the Heavens and the Power of the DRAGON who had delivered up his Seat and Throne unto the Beast for the time he remained bound in the bottomless Pit But that now is loosed in the sounding of the three last Trumpets is a Spirit working Miracles in the Earth in the execution of the three last WOES that are come thereinto for the awakening and rising up of three therein that do bear witness for GOD of what hath been crucified and slain in the Streets of the great CITY of the Worlds LV. And into those Kings of the East that have their Power again revived and their Heads healed which is a second Beast come out of the Earth with two Horns of a Ram pushing three ways to wit West and North and South shall enter those three Unclean Spirits of the Beast Dragon and Whore like Frogs through the drying up of the Waters in the great River EUPHRATES in the Worlds Sea they shall come over the same and into the place where God hath settled his glorious City and they shall strive to defile and overcome the Holy Land between the Seas but the end shall come with an over flowing Scourge and great Flood and out of the Mouth of the Dragon Beast and false Prophet shall great things be performed and done LVI Yea all these things have a lively Character of the Truth hereof recorded in the Heavens by the Verity of Just Measure in time and Place for God is not to be limitted to time and place in his Work or to the prescription of men but he hath a time and season for every work according to which he hath determined and decreed an order wherein they are all to be fulfilled and brought to pass according to the measure by which they are measured and weighed in their day and the times and Seasons of their fulfilling have been in the Fathers hands until the hours thereof became made known to the Son of Man who is in Heaven in that which communicateth the sence thereof unto and in the World in whose behalf he came to lay down his Life in the Body of Flesh which he took up for the reconciling of the World unto the good will and pleasure of the Father LVII And the Star that is fallen from Heaven as an Angel that hath the Key of the bottomless-Pit I have beheld and do see the returning of such torment come on those men that have the Beasts mark on his Seat
and sought ease by weeping and mourning and coming to sit down by the side of a Wall I was awakened in a sence of the Agony which was upon me after which the glory of the SUN through which I beheld the Wonders of God in the Vision came out of the HEAD of Natures Government descending towards its HEART which was like the Heart of a LYON the Glory of which SUN was exalted in the Head and Face of a RAM amongst the forms of Nature XCIV And in the night season being perfectly awakened I was brought into an inclosed ground which was very dark wherein boisterous storms and tempests were arisen for I was led somewhat out of my way in the conflict and drew towards a little Town near my way wherein I was cruelly dealt withal and though it was late in the night yet I gave up in patience and drew towards a heap of straw in the way-side whereon I lay down to rest me XCV And by the excess of Rain which began to fall I was driven to leave that place also and went into the Fields again where there brake forth before me a WHITE LIGHT in the shape of a SHEEP so far as I could discern it which being round about me in a flame did surprize me with fear whereby the form of the ANGEL vanished and before him went a noise like the crackling of the rotten Hedge which left me much in amazement so that I could not find the way out of the Field or Inclosure in two hours time till I had given up in my mind and forgiven those that thrust me out after which I found my way and came quietly to the Journeys end XCVI After which the Angel of God led me about the circumference of the Worlds to behold the surface thereof and he brought me into a green Field where I saw the frame and form of the HEAVENS and of the Natures of all Creatures in the Worlds and the WHOLE was like unto WATER And there were a THOUSAND Hills and a Thousand Springs of Water And in the same manner as I was acted under the exercise of the Vision so appeared the form of the Worlds wherein came forth a great Number of WOMEN who at last were reduced into SEVEN and each of them sought to lay hold on me but I fled in great fear and lost the sight of the Angels Glory for a time CHAP. IX Declares how I was exercised under the Power of the Vision XCVII AS I was carried by the Spirit of the Lord into a great WILDERNES the Angel of God by whom the Forms of Nature were thus awakened in me brought up the appearance of that Wilderness-state into manifestation in which the Woman continued labouring in the Heavens which Heavens did multiply all forms in Nature into their number and order in which the power of Creation in individual Bodies was separated in its being into two third parts of such forms and the seventh part of the Worlds became corruptible Earth XCVIII From which one THIRD PART thereof was dryed up on the third day wherein Nature had its operation over all Bodies brought into Form in the Work of CREATION which was the TENTH PART of that which remained under the exercise of TRYALS both by FIRE and by WATER and the two third parts of those WATERS were comprehensible in their Qualities from the fiery Heavens whence the circumference of the out-spread Firmament was filled with Airy Bodies and the Earth and Waters were replenished with living Creatures which came under the refining power of those renewing Faculties and Virtues in the forms of Nature imbodied from those WATERS XCIX But what came thus forth in seven natural dayes came under tryal in the operation of three essential days wherein the power of God was manifest for the recovering of a SENCE in the Creature of that work wherein God doth glory and is praised which is the Resurrection of the Just in the first and last power of Creation wherein Majesty is Exalted and therein was manifest A restauration to all forms in NATURE fallen in the WORLDS wherein the MAN who had caused destruction to the Body of Nature was called to account in the Tryal while suffering remained in that third PRINCIPLE in which he was imbodied C. And as the WATERS were gathered together in their Course into the seventh part of the WORLDS which had form in the Earth those two living Creatures called BEHEMOTH or HENOCH Leviathan were separated into their being because it was so ordered in Wisdoms Counsellings that they could not both live together in one place But according to the operation of the day in Nature in which they were brought forth they possessed each part of the Worlds wherein the great WHALE had dominion in the moist part thereof and the Behemoth caused the Image of Giants in the forms of Nature brought forth in Woman in the coming down of the Watchers into the Creaturely conceivance through that which possessed the Earth CI. For in the Firmament placed between Waters and Waters living Creatures were multiplied in Airy Bodies from those Fiery Heavens which Creatures possessed that third part of the Worlds in which the Waters were dryed up from the Earth sixty thousand furlongs in its circumference which is the fourth part of what remaineth measurable in the forms of Nature wherein one third part of the Waters is comprehended CII And as the way and course of what was Generated from the HEAVENS above and Earth beneath was traced in the HEIGHTS and DEPTHS of the WORLD there appeared pourtraied forth through the motion of the Wheels in the Vision a GREAT CITY built on seven Mountains which were seven Foundations on which it setled and the Mountain in the Midl of the Seven which was the Seventh stood higher then the rest on which was built and founded the tenth part of the City which I thus beheld CIII In which place it was compassed about with Fowls of the Air and wild Beasts of Prey wherein the Enemy who is the power of Destruction went about continually seeking to betray and devour but I could not conceive that those BRUIT Creatures did build and rear up the Foundation of that City therefore I concluded in my mind that some Men had been there to build its Foundation though their Houses were left unto them DESOLATE And as I was thus musing in my mind concerning these things I came to apprehend my self a wayfaring Man and a wanderer in the World groaning in Spirit to see the issue of what was thus visioned for I came again to behold the form of the Woman in the Heavens that continued in labour and travel in that Wilderness-state until the time of her deliverance was come CIV And as she had conceived the Birth of Life under the power of contrariety that wrought in the HEAVENS through two Nations on which the blessing of God began to rest the Woman prevailed in the World for their bringing forthout of the
I beheld the Worlds moved two wayes for the bringing forth of those two Nations for which the Woman was in Labour in Her two dayes Travel and there were two dayes difference between them as they thus came forth in that which brought all forms in Nature under a power of Corruption and Destruction CXVI Of the One she was delivered on the tenth day of that fourth Month and of the Other on the twelfth day of the same Month which through a backward drawing in the Worlds did cause the Month to be divided in the account of dayes for he that came first forth drew the power of the Heavens Northward whereby the second who came under the power of the Awakened South wind and whose Face was Southward drew the Worlds under the power of the Waters through which that second Man was exercised in his Dominion by the Increase and Decrease of the Waters for the full term of a Year which I beheld in the accomplishment of that sixth Year CXVII And in a Month and twelve dayes did they increase to their height though they continued prevailing on the Earth for five Months and for seven Months did they fall backward the conflict of which Year I beheld in which time I saw the form of the two Men in their Nations awakened in the Worlds and wandering in that Wilderness both under the Denomination of VAGABONDS for they appeared like Wanderers and Wayfaring Men in the Earth and there was a third Man in form that came forth in the condition of a Wanderer or Vagabond CXVIII The one of them I beheld flying from those Wild Beasts of PREY that possessed that desolate Place and that which he fled from was the danger of pernicious wayes under the Beasts power who made hast to flee out of Babylon lest he should partake of her Plagues and thus flying he sought another and better Countrey and City but the other by means of a discontent with the pleasure and delight in the state of the glory in which that City and Countrey was first Planted hunted after another and better state then that in which was the first blessing of God and so wandred from and lost its first Habitation which was defaced under the Enemies power and become fallen under the workings of corruption and darkness and thus by conforming to and complying with the Enemies Power he became really a VAGABOND from the Lord and from the Glory of his City and Habitation though in the World he may have a Habitation very Glorious and be Lord of a City in the Earth CXIX But the third that I saw bore the AFFLICTIONS and abode in the CAUSE thereof until he became hardned under the Enemies Power and suffered the sting of that which overtook him in the Wilderness which rested in the GROUND of DESTRUCTION to the first Beauty and Glory of God in the Work of Creation for having neglected his own VINEYARD whereby his BROTHER was SLAIN who was made keeper of his VIRGIN and his Garden being thereby overgrown with WEEDS and Nettles and Bryers the Thorns of Corruption he was made Keeper of the VINEYARD of his BROTHER and the Keeper of the Living LAMB of GOD and SHEEP of that everlasting sold having his Life made a Sacrifice unto GOD as Inquisition came to be made for Blood when the Voice came Where is thy Brother and he replyed Am I my Brothers Keeper CXX And so came the Man that was thus made a Steward over that which was his Brothers right as his Birth-right therein was lost and forsited over which Vineyard he was appointed as a Keeper and Dresser as a Servant in the Minority of the Heir and owner thereof in the Resurrection of that which was first and is last the Elder Brother of all that believe in the Spirit of the JUST to Challenge a SELF-INTEREST PROPRIETY therein and refused to give the Owner Due and Right but did beat the SERVANTS that were sent for the Last Fruits thereof and sent them empty away and in the end slew the Lamb and Son himself and scattered his Sheep from the Flock and Fold of Everlasting Rest which became a daily Sacrifice unto God in the suffering State and Principle to reconcile the WORLD unto himself through the destruction of the evil therein in that Nature that saith SECRETLY Come let us kill the Heir that the Inheritance may be ours CHAP. XI Describing the Nature of the World in its faln Principles through the Bondage of the Power of Corruption CXXI FOR while I beheld both these Wayfaring Men in that WANDERING conditon the WATERS did MULTIPLY in abundance and became a GREAT SEA and the Angel of God shewed me a VESSEL that was erected and built in the Heavens in four Months in which was the Pattern of that Heavenly Form which through the Government of God was manifest in the Heavens of an Angelical World in that all forms in Nature fell under the Power of Corruption and Destruction while I beheld Gods and Lords many concerned in the dominion of those THREE PRINCIPLES in Nature because of dishonorable USES in which their LORD imployed them though the whole three were comprehended in that which was built and erected in the HEAVENS CXXII And the Lord-like Mind and Spirit that could not suffer any thing to be equal with it or to ballance that self-conceit through which he sought to subject all to his own Will was betrayed and is the Betrayer from the lovely TENT of the Plain Man whereby he weighed and measured in that selfish-will what was proper to his state that would rule alone and purchase an Authority and Dominion that was absolute that he might be chief in the WORLDS though for preheminence sake he ventured the destruction of Glory in that state under the workings of which the FIRST PRINCIPLE in Nature led the Man that was first brought forth under a suffering condition CXXIII For the MAN who was become PLANTER of a Vineyard under the Power of Corruption grew slothful therein and as he was surfeited with the Fruit thereof I beheld his nakedness in the TENT wherein he was placed though self was exalted and rejoyced because of what was brought forth from the Ground of CORRUPTION that was thus tilled and torn up under the power of the Enemy for Materials wherewith the CITY was built thus pourtraied forth in the Vision therefore was that CITY called by his Name HENOCH or the Son of Man in those fallen Principles who was become a discoverer of the nakedness of that and of himself therein which was by Nature his FATHER and a Revealer of the SECRETS thereof in the Forms of Creation possessing a REGION in the Seventh Part of the WORLD that is separated from the MOYST CXXIV And this Third Principle in Man and Third Man in those three Principles who were in the cause of Destruction to the GLORY of the CITY which I saw through whom notwithstanding it became Built under that POWER of
the BOOK and on the day of the first Beast in Nature I beheld the coming forth of the great LYON that stood Rampant in the WHEELS among the forms in Nature and he called to his DAY Come and see And I beheld on the back of the LYON four Wings of a Fowl in which were thirty six thousand Fethers in each Wing and therein were written so many names of Men for the Wings were of Golden Feathers and his Face was towards the WEST VI. But on the coming forth of this first BEAST the Winds were moved and greatly strove on the face of the WATERS which were gathered together in heaps on the great SEAS And in the Night season there broke forth flashes of Lightning and Fire under the Roof of the House wherein I was exercised with the Vision of the WONDERS of God and his Glory which the PEOPLE saw but understood not the Mystery thereof and great fear fell upon them being not usually exercised with things of that Nature but I laid up all these things in my Heart until I came to know the meaning thereof VII And I cryed unto the Lord with a loud Voice What is the Mystery of all these things that I have seen For loe I am become weak and feeble like a little Child and have beheld until nought was remaining in the Heavens but a Sealed Book under the Power of a Strong Angel of God and it hath been taken to the Learned to Read but they said Lo it is Sealed and we cannot read nor open the Book or loose the Seals thereon and also to the hands of the unlearned it hath been communicated and they say We are not learned so that through the power of the Lyon it hath been shut up for a long season that hath caused weeping in the Heavens VIII And through the loosing of the Seals of God from off the Book of Wonders that was taken out of the Angels Hand at the appearance of the Lamb of God that taketh away sin from the WORLD and that was slain from the Foundations thereof that in the Fathers time he might come forth a Witness of the fulfilling of the daily Sacrifice unto God I beheld the Lamb with his seven Horns full of Eyes as the seven Spirits of God that walketh among the seven Golden CANDLESTICKS and are like unto seven Lamps of fire burning which are seven Stars in the Angel of God whose form is like unto the Son of Man and who travelled among the Churches who are saluted in their seven Angels until a second Seal on the Book became loosed in my sight IX And the second Beast with the Face and in the form of a Cherub or Calf called to his day Come and see and I beheld on the EARTH the form of a great BULL and he came at his Liberty and came towards me with Violence breaking over all bonds in his way and though I had by me a Weapon of Defence yet had I not power to use it to that end but was otherwise preserved from hurt of that Wild Beast But as the West Wind was reproved as the Waters were moved on the great SEAS by the striving of the Winds the second Beast roared rearing himself on his hinder Legs whereby he stood upright which was terrible to behold X. And I said unto the Angel of God How long shall this continue Then I beheld the BULL cast into a deep and dark Pit in Nature while the fourth Beast in the forms of Government in the Body of Nature was set to watch over him by the third Beast with the Face of a MAN for as the third Seal on the Book came to be loosed and taken off the third Beast called to his day Come and see And I beheld from the Face of the Heavens wherein a course of Glory in the Sun of the day of the Son of Man was comprehended in the Heart of the Lyon that night which was come into the Body of Nature was dispersed and the power of the Heavens over the forms in Nature were divided into four Parts in the coming forth of the Worlds into manifestation XI Then appeared the form of a little BEAR that arose on the LYONS side and he took three Ribs out of the Lyons side and held those three Ribs in his Mouth for a long season And from the Tail of the little Bear among the Signs in the Heavens the Power of the DRAGON was loosed and appeared among the Forms in Nature who made up his Tail out of a third Part of the Stars in the Heavens which were drawn towards the NORTH XII And I beheld until the LYONS Wings were pluckt from him and he stood on the EARTH like a Man and a Mans HEART was given unto him for out of the EAST came the form of a RAM with two Horns and his pushing was three wayes to wit WEST and NORTH and SOUTH and when he had lifted up the BULL out of the PIT he was caught by his Horns in the Thickets of the Earth And in the Heavens was the form of the WOMAN exalted in the Bulls Eye called Oculus Tauri And she had in her Hand a Crown of twelve Stars which was taken from her Head and put on the Head of the Lyon CHAP. II. Describing the Motion of the Wheels in their seven turnings over all that came forth into manifestation in the loosing of the seven Seals on the the Book c. XIII BUT as the fourth Beast called to his day Come and see through the loosing of the fourth Seal on the Book I saw the Face of an EAGLE in the Heavens in whose right Eye the form of the VIRGIN in Nature was exalted among the Forms and the second great light in the Heavens was comprehended in the Breast of a great Bear who had also the four WINGS of a Fowl on his Back And the Winds again strove on the great Seas wherein the WATERS were greatly moved in the coming forth of this fourth Beast XIV And as the MAN prevailed in the Heavens I beheld all consumed which stood under the Power of the Waters and the Name of the third Month was called SIVAN in the Nature of what was produced from the Heavens whence came a Voice from the Heart of the LYON in the fiery Heavens Let the Light shine into the Earth that that which is done may appear and be seen And the form of the Heavens stood divided in a double Relation of that which is comprehended in Day Night wherein the Day in Nature had its two-fold Operation over all forms subjected into being in that State and the Clouds of the Heavens were folded up together wherein I saw the form of the RAM coming down out of the Head of Nature descending the right Arm of the Man in the forms of Nature and there went up towards his Head the form of a HEE GOAT mighty and strong and there was labour in the Heavens for the space of sixty one
bewitching Vanities and Pleasures of the WORLD as one charmed among Wild Beasts of prey and stung by fiery flying Serpents and the devouring Creatures of that Field which afterward became healed by the lifting up of the BRAS and those Women came forth to reap the Fruits of the Earth XLII And from the Captivity of the South Wind did deliverance spring up to the Daughter of the North on whose back rested the two WINGS of an EAGLE wherewith she had fled into the Wilderness wherein she had a place prepared from the rage and fury of the DRAGON for time times and the dividing of times for as the North Wind came to prevail the Queen of the South was removed out of her own Land who wrought by craft and much subtilty to corrupt the Seed in the North for therefore was the Daughter of the SOUTH given to the King of the NORTH wherein the Enemy prevailed over the Daughter of the North forty and two months that the Holy City was troden under foot in which time the TWO WITNESSES finished their Testimony of one thousand two hundred and threescore dayes wherein they prophesied in Sackcloath XLIII Yet the King of the SOUTH did not retain the Arm for one of his Princes was exalted above him a man of fierce speech and dark countenance though a vile Person who stood up in his stead but the Hearts of both those Kings to wit of both North and South WINDS of the Heavens were set to do mischief and they spoke lies at one Table whereby the fourth part of the Worlds came under fiery Tryals through this fourth turn of the WHEELS which I beheld over the forms in Nature thus brought forth under the Power of Corruption wherein the Waters had prevailed that were smitten by those Tryals XLIV And through the sounding of the Trumpets the Earth was smitten in its third part wherein a third part of its Fruits withered and died And I beheld until the form of that third part became like unto a burning Mountain cast into the Sea which made its Waters like unto Blood and there was Thundering and Lightning and Tempest while the Mountain continued burning with Bounds placed about it so that no Beast could come near it but if he touched it he was struck through with an Iron Dart that he died neither was any to gaze thereon while the fury continued XLV And on the Rivers and Fountains of WATER also which did run in the several Streams and Channels of the Courses in the Worlds in their renewing state fell a STAR called COR LEONIS the Heart of a Lyon or WORMWOOD and those Waters were made BITTER and darkness came on all Celestial Glory in the Heavens wherein both Sun and Moon and Stars of Heaven were smitten in their third part which became black like Cloth of Hair and Fire mingled with Blood and those Lights shined not in their third part XLVI And there fell from Heaven a second Star called Sagitarius who descended on the bottomless Pit in which the Power of the great Red Dragon and old deceiver of mankind Satan and the Devil had been bound by the Chain in the Hand of the Angel and the Seal on the Pit which a strong Angel of God had put thereon who had bound him down for a thousand years was taken off in which time I beheld the Resurrection of the first Fruits of the Work of the Spirit of God which followed those that were made partakers of that first Resurrection over whom the second death had no Power though the Devil went about to deceive those Nations of the Earth that he had power over And the WHEEL moved about its fifth time and turn over those properties of Life wherein the forms of Nature remained imbodied subjected to a Power of Corruption in which those four Angels remained bound in that great River EUPHRATES XLVII Then came up on the Earth the form of Beasts like unto GOATS and their Faces were like unto the Faces of Men and their Hair like unto the Hair of Women and they had Tails like Scorpions and Stings in their Tails and their Power was over a third part of men imbodied in the Creaturely Being and forms of Nature the exercise of which Beasts was for the cleansing Gods Sanctuary and therefore had they power to exalt to Horn that the Wound of the Daughter of ZION which had been healed up deceitfully daubed with untempered MORTER might be throughly searched into for the separation of that and those over whom the Beasts had Power on whom was his Mark into their Mystery in reference to what was effected in those five Months through which the Wheels came again to move about in their SIXTH time and turn for the loosing of their Angels out of that great EUPHRATES and the name of that fifth Month was called A B XLVIII Yet had not the BEASTS power to kill those men in whom their dominion was exercised but to Torment them for those five Months whose Wound was like unto the biting of an ADDER in the Way or sting of a Serpent as when a Scorpion striketh a Man wherein the bruise on the WOMANS Heel was felt for as the Horse Heels the Beast on whom the destroying Power of God in the Heavens was exalted became bitten by the SERPENT its Rider fell backward and they lost the first shape of Men and through the Pangs of those Men a night of sorrow came over all their WORLDLY Glory and I beheld their Wound like unto a Plague-sore which came on the THIGH of Nature whereby many were made to seek Death because of their PANGS but it fled from them and they could not find the way of Dissolution though they sought it for the Darkness that was on the SUN and on the AIR was like unto the smoak of a Furnace and it was the Fume of the Bottomless Pit out of which the Nature of those BEASTS called Locusts was imbodied in FORM. CHAP. V. Describing the order of those four Angels that were loosed out of the great River Euphrates and came forth exalted on the four Horses of several Colours in those forms of Nature XLIX THrough the sounding of the sixth Angel on the great River EUPHRATES the power of those four Angels became loosed on the Earth towards the four Winds as it stood divided in its four Quarters and the destroying Power thereof in which Death became Potent was a strength in the North Winds of the Heavens over that fourth or North Quarter of the Worlds as it stood thus separated in its continent over which those Winds were withheld from blowing or striving therein with his Creature and through the loosing of those four destroying Angels I beheld wherein their Power was bound in that fourth part or quarter of the WORLDS compassed about by the great River Euphrates for the space of five years and five months and five dayes and five hours wherein each ANGEL became exalted on his Beast in the forms of