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A76951	XL. questions concerning the soule· Propounded by Dr. Balthasar Walter· And answered, by Jacob Behmen. Aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus. And in his answer to the first question is the turned eye, or, philosophick globe. (Which in it selfe containeth all mysteries) with an exposition of it. VVritten in the Germane language. Anno. 1620.; Viertzig Fragen von der Seelen Urstand, Essentz, Wesen, Natur und Eisenschafft. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. Clavis. English.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?.; Walther, Balthaser, 1586-1640.; Simons, Matthew, d. 1654, printer.	1647 (1647)	Wing B3408A; ESTC R172808	191,083	216

is that which goeth downwards and in the midst there is the Center l Or of the circumference which is the Father or whole God according to his manifestation 111. And as this is to be knowne in the Divine manifestation so it is also in the Eternall Nature according to Natures property for Nature is but a m Picture representation or shadow Resemblance of the Deity 112. Nature may be further considered thus the flash of the Originall of fire is a crack and salnitrous ground whence Nature goeth forth into infinite divisions that is into multitudes or varieties of Powers and vertues from which the multitude of Angels and Spirits and their colours and operations proceeded also the foure Elements in the Beginning of time 113. For the n Temperament or harmony temperature of fire and Light is the holy Element viz. the motion in the Light of the unity and from this salnitrous ground we meane spirituall not earthly salnitre the foure Elements proceed viz. in the o Compressure or impressure in every place where that word is used following compressure of the fiery Mercury Earth and stones are produced and in the Quintessence of the fiery Mercury the fire and Heaven and in the Motion or going forth the Aire and in the disruption or rending of the Desire by the fire the water is produced 114. The fiery Mercurie is a drie water that hath brought forth Mettals and stones but the broken or divided Mercury hath brought forth wet water by the Mortification in the Fire and the compressure hath brought the grosse rawnesse into the Earth which is a grosse salnitrous Saturnine Mercurie 115. By the word Mercurie you must understand here in the Spirit alwayes the outflowne Naturall working word of God which hath been the Separator Divider and former of every substance and by the word Saturne we meane the compressure 116. In the fift Property that is in the Light the Eternall unity is substantiall that is an holy Spirituall Fire an holy Light an holy Aire which is nothing else but Spirit also an holy water which is the outflowing Love of the unity of God and an p Ternarium Sanctum holy Earth which is all-powerfull vertue and working 117 This fifth Property is the true spirituall Angelicall world of the Divine joy which is hidden in this visible world ♃ The sixt Property 118. The sixt Property of the Eternall Nature is the sound noyse voyce or understanding for when the Fire flasheth all the Properties together sound the Fire is the mouth of the Essence the Light is the Spirit and the sound is the understanding wherein âll the Properties understand one another 119. According to the Manifestation of the holy Trinity by the effluence of the unity this sound or voyce is the Divine working word viz. the understanding in the Eternall Nature by which the supernaturall knowledge manifesteth it selfe but according to Nature and Creature this sound or voyce is the knowledge of God wherein the Naturall understanding knoweth God for the Naturall understanding is a platforme Resemblance and Effluence from the Divine understanding 120. The five Senses lie in the Naturall understanding in a Spirituall manner and in the second Property viz. in the motion in the fiery Mercury they lie in a Naturall manner 121. The sixt Property giveth understanding in the voyce or sound viz. in the q Articulation speaking of the word and the second property of Nature is the producer and also the House Toole or Instrument of the speech or voyce in the second Property the Power and vertue is painefull but in the sixt Property it is joyfull and pleasant and the difference between the second and sixt Property is in Light and darknesse which are in one another as fire and Light there is no more difference between them ☽ The seventh Property 122. The seventh Property is the substance that is the subjectum or house of the other six in which they all are substantially as the soule in the body by this we understand especially as to the Light-world the Paradise or budding of the working Power 123. For every Property maketh unto it selfe a Subject or r Or resemblance Object by its owne Effluence and in the seventh all the Properties are in a temperature as in one onely Substance and as they all did proceed from the unity so they all returne againe into one ground 124. And though rhey worke in different kindes and manners yet here there is but one onely substance whose power and vertue is called Tincture that is an holy penetrating growing or springing Bud. 125. Not that the seventh Property is the Tincture but it is the ſ Corpus aut Substantia Body of it the Power and vertue of the Fire and Light is the Tincture t Or with in the substantiall Body but the seventh Property is the substance which the Tincture penetrateth and sanctifieth we meane that it is thus according to the power and vertue of the Divine manifestation but as it is a Property of Nature it is the substance of the attracted desire of all properties 126. It is especially to be observed that alwayes the First and the seventh Property are accounted for one and the second and sixt also the third and fift and the fourth is onely the dividing Marke or u Or Limit bound 127. For according to the manifestation of the Trinity of God there are but three Properties of Nature the first is the Desire which belongeth to God the Father yet it is onely a Spirit but in the seventh Property the Desire is substantiall 128. The second is the Divine power and vertue and belongeth to God the Sonne in the second Number it is onely a Spirit but in the sixt it is the substantiall Power and vertue 129. The third belongeth to the Holy Ghost and in the beginning of the third Property it is onely a fiery Spirit but in the fift Property the great Love is manifested therein 130. Thus the Effluence of the Divine Manifestation as to the three Properties in the first Principle before the Light x Appearet is Naturall but in the second Principle in the Light it is spirituall 131. Now these are the seven Properties in one onely Ground and all seven are equally Eternall without beginning none of them can be accounted the first second third foutth fift sixt or last for they are equally Eternall without beginning and have also one Eternall beginning from the unity of God 132. We must represent this in a typicall way that it may be understood how the one is borne out of the other the better to conceive what the Creator is and what the Life and Substance of this world is Of the third Principle viz. The visible world whence that proceeded and what The Creator is 33. THis visible world is sprung from the Spirituall world before mentioned viz. from the outflowne Divine Power and vertue and it is

voyde or naked feeble or vaine empty and knoweth not it selfe and therefore every Spirit desireth a Body for îts foode and for its habitation 2. And God having created the third Principle which is a Glasse of the Deity before the soule was created and so that Glasse clave already to the Eternall r Glasse for it was borne out of the Eternall Wonders and so was created and therefore the third Principle would not leave the soule free seeing it also was created out of the Wonders of God and stood in the beginning as a figure in the wisdome of God and desired being it selfe was materiall to have a materiall similitude in the soule and therefore in the Creation of the soule it stirred up its owne spirit also together in the Fiat 3. Hence the outward Image according to the Spirit of this world with the outward Fiat was ſ contrived or formed conceived and a body was created out of the t Matrix of the Earth a Masse of Red Earth consisting of fire and water r Or Quintessence of the inward ground 4. And the Heavenly Matrix also longed after the soule and would that the soule should beare its Image and tooke its own u The word or some other Creator or Maker Fiat in the Creation of the Body and did create therewith before the Earthly Fiat did create it was first for out of the Centre of the Word the Fiat went out x Or by with the Word and thus the third Principle was created in the second 5. The Virgine of the wisdome did encompasse the Spirit of the soule first with heavenly Essentiality with heavenly Divine flesh and the Holy Ghost gave it the heavenly Tincture which maketh heavenly blood in the water as is mentioned at large in our third Booke 6. And thus the inward Man was in heaven and his Essences were Paradisicall his y Light or lustre Glance in the inward Eye was Maiesty an incorruptible Body which could speake the Language of God and of Angels and the Language of Nature as we see in Adam z Gen. 2.19 20. that he could give names to all the Creatures to every one according to its Essence and property he was also in the outward Image and yet knew not the outward Image as indeed the body hath no knowledge 7. And in this twofold body which was created in the sixt Day in the sixt houre of the Day in the same houre in which Christ was hanged on the Crosse after the body was finished the a Note Or Kingly Royall soule was breathed in from within by the Holy Ghost into the heart in the Holy Man into its principle like an awakening of the Deity 8. The b Trinity or Number three Ternarie moved it selfe with the Creation and breathing in of the soule for it was in the Centre of the seed as a bud c Or of growing Essences growing from the Essences and thus it was breathed into the Inward Centre into the Inward Man into the heavenly heart-bloud into the water of the Eternall life with both the inward Principles 9. And the outward Spirit viz. the Aire and the whole outward Principle with the Starres and Elements did cleave to the inward and the outward Spirit breathed its life d At the same time in the same manner with the soule through the nostrills into the Heart into the outward Heart into the e Adams first flesh Earthly flesh which was not then so Earthy for it came from the Matrix from the f Sucking drawing or longing seeking from which the Earth became corporeall 10. And thus the Holy Ghost was carried upon the Chariot of the soule upon the inward Majestick Will and moved upon the water for the water comprehended him not and therefore he moved upon it and in it it is all one and the soule burned out from the bloud of the Heart as a light doth from a candle and went through all the Three Principles as a King through his Dominions 11. And it could Rule powerfully over the outward Principle if its will were entred againe into the Heart of God into the word of the Lord. 12. But the g Or Property source of the Wrath also insinuated it selfe with the breathing in viz. with the Originall of the soule 13. So that the soule could not remaine Gods Image unlesse it remained in humility and Obedience and yielded its will into Gods will wherein it was an Angell and the Child of God or else it were very h Or dangerous difficult for a Creature to rule such two Principles as the wrathfull and the outward are the outward being also borne out of the wrathfull 14. Therefore sure its Temptation was not onely the biting of an Apple nor did it continue onely for some few houres but fourty dayes just so long as Christ was tempted in the wildernesse and that also by all the three Principles and so were the Children of Israel in the Wildernesse while Moses was fourty dayes in the Mount when they stood not but made a Calfe The fift Question How is the Soule peculiarly fashioned and what is its Forme 1. WHen a twig groweth out of a Tree the forme of it is like the Tree indeed it is not the stock and the roote but yet the forme of it is like the Tree so also when a Mother bringeth forth a Childe it is an Image of her 2. And this cannot be otherwayes for there is nothing else that can make it otherwise unlesse it belong to the Turba which many times awakeneth a Monster according to the Spirit of this world according to its i The Imagination or longing or lusting of a woman with childe inceptive Maker as in the k Monde signifieth the Earthly Matrix of the Elementary Macrocosme in the Microcosme wherein Menstruae the Fiat maketh a l Maketh a Monde Monstrum a Moon Monster Monstum Lunare or a Lust-monster such a Childe as is deformed by the Mothers wanting of her longing Menstrous Monster in the Turba 3. So wee must understand that the soule is in the forme of a Round Globe according to the Eye of God through which the Crosse goeth and which divideth it selfe into two parts viz. into two Eyes standing back to back as we have made the figure above with two Rainbowes the Crosse going through them both and with one point reaching upwards in the midst between the bowes which m Or signifieth resembleth a sprouting through the fire through the Anguish as through Death and yet it is no Death but a going forth out of it selfe into another source standing thus in the midst between the two bowes as a sprout springing out of the Crosse 4. And the Arme of the Crosse at the right hand signifieth that the Spirit of the soule entreth into the Majestie of the Light and cloatheth the soule viz. the Centre with Divine Essentiality 5. The Arme at the left

Mouth of Christ 49. For the Spirit goeth forth in two Principles in God that is in the Anger or Fire he goeth forth as the earnest wrath of the Fire-life in the light of the Love he goeth forth as a flame of the Divine Majestie and in the Spirit of this world he goeth forth as a Wonder of Life and all this is undeniable 50. And if perhaps some person would arrogate such exceeding high Learning to himselfe as to gainesay it to him we offer to demonstrate it in every thing we will except nothing in this world every thing will afford an evident Testimony of it let him come to us when he will he ought not to put it off and say we are mad for if these few words will not satisfie him we will so evidence it to him that he himselfe shall finde and see who himselfe is yes though the Devill himselfe should burst for very Anger yet we would set it downe plainely before his eyes 51. Now seeing this Spirit hath the word Fiat viz. Gods word and the Center of Nature whence it hath its Eternall Originall and as the Spirit of the Center hath a twofold Effluence the first being in the Fire in the Essences of the Originall of Life in the ground of the Origînall of the soule and the second in the light of the Fire which is the second g Or Property source which buddeth afresh through Death and is called the Kingdome of God where also in the Light it is a flame of Love and in the Fire it is a flame of Anger 52. And therefore it will breake open the Gates of Death for it shall raise the Dead and it hath the word Fiat in it and this Fiat is both in the soule and in the body also and although the body have been long corrupted yet the Turba remaineth still in the Fiat with the Wonders of the body 53. And now the foure Elements must restore to the Fiat that Essence which they have swallowed up for h Verbum Domini the word of the Lord is in it but in its owne Principle Every thing must i Give or yield up restore that which it hath received viz. the Earth the body viz. the k The substance or drosse Phur ' and the water also its Essence that is l The Light Sul The Aire the sound and voyce of the words and the Fire the Essences of the soule for All things must be judged 54. All the words which the Mouth hath spoken which the Aire hath received into it and m Which Aire hath served for the making of the words these the Aire shall againe n Or represent bring forth for it is the Glasse of the Eternall Spirit the Spirit seeth them in the Glasse 55. And so man shall be Judged according to his heart minde and thoughts for the Turba is in all malice or wickednesse which is contrary to Love here will be no making of excuse for every one will accuse himselfe his owne Turba will accuse him 56. And thus you must understand the Spirit which is All in All will raise up every Life which hath been immortall and by the Fiat give it to the body for the Fiat draweth the body to the soule and all its deeds and Wonders with it yea all that it hath done in this life by word or Deed all that hath reached the o The most inward and deepest ground Abysse of the soule must come forth 57. For in the still Eternity there shall be no Turba more and therefore Every Essence shall be p Tried washed cleansed or purged refined by the Fire and the q Sinne and wickednesse Turba shall remaine in the Fire and all whatever is evill and capable of the Turba unlesse it were washed away in the water of life by the conversion of the soule here in this life must remaine in the Fire 58. Now if any man have sowne much in the Fire he shall suffer losse as the Scripture telleth us that the workes of the wicked shall remaine in the fire and he shall suffer losse 59. But you must understand us aright the body which hath been here upon Earth that evill corruptible body which hath devoured the Noble and excellent Image of Paradise shall come and stand forth with its precious Image in it It must give an account of the Image of God 60. Now blessed are they that have Christs Spirit they have their first Image in the word Fiat which must restore it againe to the soule and that in the Adamicall Body 61. But they that have not Christs Spirit shall stand forth in the evill body but their soule shall have lost their true Image and they shall have such an Image in the Spirit of the Soule as their wills have been here as their daily lust hath been so shall their Image be 62. And in that houre also the wrathfull Fiat of the Darknesse shall bring forth the Devills who shall then receive their wages and lodging at the hearing of which they tremble 63. Thus all the Dead both good and evill shall arise every one in his r The transitory and Eternall body twofold body and shall have the soule with the Spirit in the body 64. One shall have the outward Earthly ſ Life in foure Copies it may be body by the sense Life and therein a bestiall Image in the Spirit of the Soule and in the Inward Image he shall have the Essentiality of the wrathfull Anger 65. Another shall have the outward body and Christs Image therein and the Divine Spirit of Love shall shine in the Spirit of his soule which body the word Fiat cloatheth againe with the true and pure Adamicall Image 66. For the pure Image hath been hidden in God in the Word which became Man and now when the Soule commeth to the Limit it obtaineth that againe and also the faire and excellent t See the booke of the three Principles ch 12. ver 53. Virgine of the Wisdome of God 67. For the noble Image was destroyed in Adam when the woman was taken out of him so that he retained onely the Tincture of the Fire and the woman had the Tincture of the Spirit but u In the Resurrection now both returne to them wholly againe 68. For the woman shall receive the Tincture of the Fire in the Divine Fire so that she shall be as Adam was neither Man nor woman but a Virgine full of Chastity without the x Forme or distinction shape or members of Man or woman 69. And then they shall no more say thou art my husband or thou art my wife but they are brethren indeed there shall some remaining tokens of the differences be in the Divine Magicall Wonders but none will regard that for they are all of them meerely the Children of God living the life of Children in the delighting sport of love 70. All this shall be done before the Sentence

but that flesh receiveth his power and vertue and assureth the outward Man that he doth nothing but what his Maker will have done and such a condition this pen is in and no otherwise 288. And thus we know the k Foundation Ground of this world that it is a figure of the Inward according to both the Mothers that is according to both the Fires viz. according to the fire of Wrath and according to the fire of Light The Sun is a l Or Idea or instance Modell or Glasse of the Light of Eternity and the outward fire is a Glasse of the Wrath and the Essentiality of them both is Water and Earth the m Resembleth the Father Earth is the Essentiality of Wrath and the n The Sonne water of the Light and the o The Holy Ghost Aire of the Eternall Spirit which is called God the Holy Ghost 289. Yet you must know that this world is not the Essence of Eternity but a figure or a Glasse of it therefore it is said to be a peculiar p Or third Principle Principle because it hath its owne life and yet consisteth only in the Magick seeking of the Inward 290. The q Verbum Fiat Word Fiat is the r Or Maker or Ruler or Orderer as an Artificer Master of the outward for it keepeth the outward in its conceived Glasse the outward is not the Glasse but it is a similitude in which his Spirit doth Å¿ Or contrive forme Appeare expresse it selfe in workes of wonder that it might see the Wonders of both fires viz. of the Wrath and of the Light and so continually bringeth the End of all Essences into the Beginning therefore this world t Or is like a wheele that turneth round turneth round for the end continually seeketh the beginning and when it findeth the Wonders then the End giveth the Wonders to the beginning and this is the cause of the Creation of this world 291. The life of every Creature was a Wonder before the beginning for the Abysse knew nothing of it and the beginning of the Eye findeth all and setteth the Modell in it selfe so that it hath an Eternall number and delighteth it selfe in the number of the Wonders The eight Forme of Fire 292. Seeing then an Essence consisteth thus in two Formes the one of which taketh an u Abyssal bottomelesse unsearchable beginning into it selfe and keepeth it Eternally and the other of them is the Modell of the Eternall x Or contrived Or conceived Or formed framed and the body of it included in a limit therefore the Turba must be considered which destroyeth the included framed life againe and setteth the Modell of the framed Wonders in the beginning againe and presenteth such a thing to the beginning as was not from Eternity but onely in the framed Time 293. My beloved friend such things as these are shewen to you and such as you are who seeke the beginning for your Minde is our Mysterie you should seeke it in Us not in mee I the outward Man have it not but the Inward in the Virgine wherein God dwelleth hath it which y Or calleth it selfe twofold speaketh of it selfe in the plurall number 294. My outward Man is not worthy of the Mysterie but God hath so prepared it that he might reveale himselfe to you by that meanes that you should know him by some other meanes and not say my wit hath done it 295. Because you are a very learned person therefore you shall know that God also loveth the simple and such as are contemned of the world if he seeke God as I have done and you shall know also that the true Invention consisteth not in Art but in the Spirit and Will of God 296. For this Hand is simple and accounted foolish in the Eye of the world as you know and yet there lyeth such a z Arcanum Or an hidden treasure secret therein as is incomprehensible to Reason 297. Therefore have a care poure Oyle into the wounds that require healing and consider what Christ a Mark 10.23 24 25. saith how hard it is for that man to enter into the Kingdome of God who is intangled with b Or cares for the belly worldly cares having great power and honour 298. You shall not finde this plant among the high ones of this world for c You have no power with them you cannot you are a Mysterie to them the Spirit it selfe seeketh the beginning looke to it play not the Hypocrite for the beginning is Paradisicall that the impure enter not into the pure and at last the Serpent beguile Eve againe 299. Let no d Soothing dissimulation be in you but plaine dealing yea and no and feare not for that which is Eternall will continue and the distemper is nothing else but the Turba which as a destroyer alwayes insinuateth it selfe beware of that for the Old Serpent is subtle and have a care that you may be pure both in the beginning and in the End 300. For this worke endureth no dissembling it hath a cleere ground also it belongeth not to the Turba but to the beginning of the e Or Clarity Glory therefore beware of those that are borne with a wolvish disposition whose Spirit is a subtle Serpent we speak freely to you 301. Every thing that hath a beginning is sought by the beginning for the beginning seeketh through the Deep and would find the f Or bottome Ground and if the beginning findeth the Ground and that there be a limit in a thing then the beginning proceedeth to the limit and leaveth the g Or former first and seeketh further till it finde the Abysse and then it must remaine in it selfe and it can goe no further for there is nothing beyond 302. But if the beginning leave the first then it is under the power of the Turba which destroyeth it and maketh it to be as it was in the beginning 303. Then when the thing is destroyed the Turba is naked without a body and yet seeketh it selfe and findeth it selfe but without h Or substance Essence and then it entreth into it selfe and seeketh it selfe till it come into the Abysse and then the first Eye is found whence it proceeded 304. But seeing it is naked and without Essence therefore it belongeth to the Fire for it putteth it selfe into it and in the fire is a Desire to seeke its owne body againe and so the i Or Originall fire Fire of the beginning is awakened 305. And herein we know the last Judgement in the Fire and the Resurrection of the flesh for the Turba desireth the body which it had before though destroyed in the limit and the desire of the soule was the life of the body 306. But seeing there are two fires therefore the Turba is known in a twofold k Or Forme manner in an incorruptible and in a corruptible body viz. the one in the

man together union the outward Spirit is very profitable to us for many soules would perish if the Bestiall Spirit were not which beholdeth the Fire captive and setteth before the Fire-Spirit earthly bestiall Labour and Joy wherein it may buisie it selfe till it be able by the x Or workes Wonders in the Imagination to discover somewhat of its Noble Image that it may seeke it selfe againe 12. My beloved Children who are borne y Or of in God I tell it you it was not for nothing that God breathed the outward Spirit viz. the outward Life into Adams nostrills for great danger did attend this Image 13. God knew how it went with Lucifer and also what the great Eternall z Magia or Desire Magick could doe yea Adam might have been a Devill but the outward Glasse hindred that for where Water is it quencheth the Fire 14. Also many a soule by its wickednesse would become a Devill in a a Or the twinckling of an Eye moment if the outward life did not hinder it so that the soule cannot wholly inflame it selfe 15. How many are there that are so full of poyson and b Or malice and wickednesse evill that they doe murther and commit villany but this their Fire hath water or else they were past remedy As ye see in gall which is a fiery poyson but it is mingled with water and so the violence of the fire is allayed 16. Thus it is also with the Inward Essence the Spirit of this world hath wound it selfe into the Abysse of the soule and in its source hath killing water wherewith it often bedeweth the soule when it would spit Fire 17. Moreover the outward Spirit could not have life without this Fire seeing it hath fire in all Creatures but this Fire is onely the wrath of the Inward fire 18. The Inward fire consumeth earth and stones also the body and bloud yea even the Noble Image if it be c Or kindled inflamed in the Will But there the water is a Medicine for it which pulleth down its aspiring force whereby it laboureth to get above the meeknesse of God as Lucifer did The seventeenth Question Whence and wherefore is the Contrariety between the Spirit and the Flesh 1. MY beloved friend you know well that fire and water are contrary for the fire is Life and the water is its Death and you see plainely that when water is poured upon the Fire the source of the Fire goeth out and so the Fire is dead 2. And although in Man the fire is not wholly dead because of the Light which continually causeth fire yet there is an enmity as there is an enmity between God and Hell and yet Hell or the Fire of wrath is Gods 3. And Gods Majesty would not be manifested if his Anger were not which sharpneth the darke hiddennesse of Eternity by the wrath of Nature so that it is changed into Fire whence the high Light in the free Eternity is brought forth which maketh a Majesty in the milde source 4. And yet the Fire is the onely cause that there is a d Or life or working source in the Light in the Meeknesse for the Light proceedeth from the Glance of the fire and hath the source of the Fire in it selfe 5. But the Will as is mentioned before sinketh downe in the Anguish even into Death and springeth againe afresh in the Liberty and this is the Light which hath the e Or property source of the Fire but yet it hath another Principle in it for the Anguish is become Love 6. After this manner also it is in the Body where the flesh striveth against the Spirit the Life of the outward flesh is a Glasse of the most Inward fire life viz. of the life of the soule and the life of the Spirit of the Soule with the Light of the Tincture is the middlemost Life and yet it is borne out of the soule 7. But understand our depth aright the Spirit of the soule wherein the Divine Image confistech ariseth in the fire and is first of all the will to the Fire but when the f Or wrathfull desire and indignation of the fire wrath in the fire is sharpned and inflamed then the Will commeth into a great anguish like a dying and sinketh downe in it selfe out of the wrath into the Eternall Liberty and yet there is no dying but g Or second another world thus commeth out of the first 8. For then the Will springeth up in the other world as a sharpnesse out of the Fire yet it is without any such h Or Aking property Anguish source in the Eternall Liberty and it is a moving a driving and an i Or feeling acknowledging of the Anguishing Nature it hath all the k Or springing vertues Essences which in the first sharpe fire-world are brought forth in the Anguish but they are like one that goeth out of Fire into water and so the Anguish of the fire is left in the water 9. You must understand that this Life is the Life of the Spirit of the soule the soule is the Centre of Nature and the Spirit is the precious and noble Image which God created for his Image herein standeth the High l Or Kingly Royall and precious Image of God for God is thus he is comprehended in the same source of Life 10. The Spirit is not parted from the soule no as you see Fire and Light are not parted and yet are not one they have a twofold m Or Quality Source the Fire is wrathfull the Light is Milde and Lovely in the Light is the Life and in the Fire the cause of the Life 11. And thus without much seeking you may finde the cause of the Contrariety that is between the flesh and the Spirit for the inward Spirit hath the n Or Gods body Divine Body from the meeke Essentiality and the outward Spirit hath the Body of the Glasse of the wrathfull Fire viz. the body of the Glasse of the soule which would alwayes awaken the o Vehemency or fiercenesse wrathfulnesse viz. the great Wonders which lie in the p In the secret or hidden Myst●rie of Etern●ty Arcanum in the q Sternnesse or fiercenesse or strength eagernesse of the soule but that the inward Spirit of Love hindreth it lest it should elevate it selfe and inflame the soule and so it would lose the r The habitation or sweet taste fruition of Love and the Image and the wrathfulnesse of the soule would destroy it and thus contrariety ariseth 12. The Inward Spirit would be Master for it tameth the outward and so also the outward would be Master for it saith I have the Great Wonders and the Arcanum thus it braggeth of the Mystery and yet it is but a Glasse of the Mysterie 13. It is not the Essence of the Mysterie but a ſ Seeking or longing Desire an incomprehensible Glasse in which the Mystery is

with this Spirit like an elevation or manifestation of the Deity 30. For the Spirit stirreth the Turba of all Essences in all the three Principles and then whatever is in Heaven Hell or this world will be manifested in one houre 31 For the Turba stirreth up all Essences and all creatures and all whatever is in Heaven and Hell will be made visible and every one shall see the workes of his owne Heart be they good or evill 32. In this houre also the Judge Christ will appeare upon the Bow of the Ternary as upon a Rain-Bow according to the Principle of this world it is a naturall Rain-bow but according to the Principle of God it is the Ternarie the Crosse with a twofold Rain-bow having one part turned towards the Internall Principle that is in the Abysse of the Anger and there he sitteth upon the Anger of God this the Devills and all wicked men shall see 33. For this Bow is included in all the three Principles and this Judge Christ sitteth upon and in the Omnipotency of Eternity above all that Å¿ Or ever had a Being is called Essence 34. Then the Miserable horrour of all Devills and wicked men will arise and they will houle lament yell and cry and say unto the wise Virgins give us some of your Oyle O! comfort us wee entreat you wee beseech you teach us what we shall doe Give us some of your holinesse that we may be able to stand before the Angry Countenance of God for the Eye of Hell standeth wide open whither shall we flie from this Anger 35. And the wise Virgins viz. the Children of God will say away to your t Those that sell Merchants and buy Oyle for your selves least there be not enough for us and you we have but enough for ourselves away to your Hypocrites and Deceivers who have tickled your eares with u Seeming holinesse and purity flattering fine dissimulation for your Money there buy for your selves what have you need of us now Have not we been your fooles Away now with the flourishing shew of your deceit and hypocrisie we will not make our selves partakers with you least we smart for it 36. They shall then stand in great horrour and trembling yelling and crying to the Judge Christ but his wrathfull Eye x Or by with their Turba entreth into the very Heart piercing through Spirit and flesh through marrow and bones for the soule in the Turba by the moving of God is stirred up already before-hand in the Wrathfulnesse 37. And then they will fall to the ground for very Anguish and some of them shall bite or gnaw their hlasphemous tongues and the proud will say O ye Mountaines fall on us and ye Hills cover us from the Eye of this wrathfulnesse they will creepe into the Caves and clefts of the Rocks and endeavour to bury themselves in the Mountaines they would willingly kill themselves but there is no Death more they will endeavour to bereave themselves of Life with Weapons yet there is no dying but Wrath and Anger left 38. In this horrour all the buildings in the world will fall downe for the Earth will tremble as if it were shaken with Thunder and the horrour will be in all living things every thing according to its y Property or Condition Source a Beast hath no such source as the soule hath onely it is afraid of the Turba 39. And in this elevation and Commotion all waters will arise above the height of all Mountaines so that there will be no z Or respiration breathing upon the Earth they will rise so high that they will be as it were consumed All things will be so comprehended in the Anger in the Turba that there will be nothing but meere Anguish in the Elements 40. All high Mountaines and Rocks cleave asunder and tumble downe the a That is those properties which are in the Firmament or a Magick desire as ver 41. following Starres likewise fall to the Earth with their strong influence and vertue All this will be brought to passe in severall dayes for as the world was created so it shall have its End for the b Seeking or earnest desire longing of the Earth in its Anguish will draw the Starres to it as it hath alwayes done c Or all this while in this time so that the Earthly body hath drawne the d Desire or longing seeking of the Starres to it 41. For the Starres are a Magicall d Desire or longing seeking which hath awakened Life therefore now when the Earth is awakened in the great Turba it will then become so thirsty and hungry that it will draw downe the Starres to it there will be such an Anguish upon the Earth 42. But the Children of God shall lift up their Eyes and hands to Christ for joy that the Day of their Deliverance is at hand for the e The water Anguish doth not touch them 43. And in those dayes but how many are appointed for it are onely knowne to God for in six dayes the world and all its Hoasts were created but it is now hidden to us the water will returne againe to its owne place and fill all the Deepes in a more abundant manner then they were before 44. For now Death commeth thereby and in that houre all Creatures except man shall die also all men that have crept into the Rocks and Mountaines shall come forth but with anguish of their Conscience although as yet the Turba hindred so that the horrour was in Death for the falling of the water doth captivate the Turba 45. And then the voyce of the Holy Ternarie will put forth it selfe according to all the three Principles and say by the Mouth of Christ the Judge Arise ye Dead and come to Judgement 46. This voyce is the originall Eternall Spirit which upholdeth every life and which also hath alwayes governed in all the three Principles for it is that Spirit whence the life of every thing hath sprung and in which it consisteth to Eternity It hath been the lif and motion of all things in which the beginning and also the end of every life hath stood yes even the Eternity it selfe for it is from Eternity and the Creatour of all things 47. It hath two Eternall beginnings viz. one in the Fire and one in the Light and the third beginning is become the f Wherein the Eternall hath been beheld Glasse of the Eternall viz. the Spirit of this world also it hath been as a Wonder in this world and the Wonders have been made manifest by it and it is he to whom the last Judgement doth belong his moving is the last 48. For in the Creation he moved the Father and in the Incarnation of the Word the Sonne and now the last moving and the Judgement is his he will reduce every thing to its Eternall abode and this is done by the voyce of the word proceeding from the

that readeth this hath not that and in regard of the Question it selfe we must answer somewhat the more here and therefore I set this down for you aske in the following Question about Christs Spirit which was u readily obedient or submissive willing and which he commended to his Father 2. Here the x Or Mankinde Old and sick Adam shall be comfortablely refreshed he shall have a y Or Cure for Death Medicine against Death and be z Or made alive quickned again for his Mother shall bring forth a young sonne to live in her bosome and he shall exceedingly rejoyce in him 3. If we would consider the soule of Christ we need onely seeke and finde our selves for Christs soule is a humane soule conceived in Mary the a Viz. the Eternall wisdome of God and the outward humanity that is God and Man twofold Virgine 4. Yet we doe not acknowledge the outward mortall Life in Mary for a pure Virgine for that which is mortall hath the Anger and the Turba which corrupteth all Purity so that no pure Virgine is borne of Eve but are all daughters of her 5. And Eve her selfe was but halfe a Virgine for Adam was the other halfe according to the two Tinctures in which man saw himselfe to be wholly a Virgine in pure Love and so saw God through himselfe that is through the Creature he saw the Originall which produced those two out of it selfe 6. And thus also in one b The whole and not divided person as Adam was before he slept whole person there is one pure Love and Chastity for it seeketh no other Conjunction it selfe is the Conjunction of both Tinctures viz. the Tincture of the soule and the Tincture of the Spirit and its power was such that it could bring forth a Spirit out of the fiery Tincture which is said to be a soule and Spirit 7. Which Adam c Extinguished or put out lost when he suffered the Earthly Life to take him captive and therefore he must be divided and a woman be made out of him which must set her Love d Longing delight or lust Desire and Imagination upon the Adamicall fiery Tincture if she would be pregnant with a Soule 8. Thus none can say that Eve was a pure and chaste Virgine before the contaction of Adam for as soone as Adam did awake from sleepe he saw her standing by him and did presently set his e Fancie or Desire or lusted after her Imagination upon her and tooke her to him and saide this is flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone she shall be called Woman because she is taken from Man 9. And she Eve instantly set her Imagination upon Adam and so both were mutually kindled with the Desire of each other 10. Where is now the pure Chastity and Modesty is it not bestiall is not the outward Image become a Beast as is to be seene plaine enough in his Will and f Or doings Essence that he doth like a Beast yea more foolishly for he hath Reason and yet runneth on against Reason as if he were voyde of sense 11. But that he might be restored and the Image reduced into Unity that word which spake the soule out of the Mouth of God and did breath it from the Holy Ghost into the Image is become Man and is entred into the Earthly Image that is into the Turba of Destruction 12. And you know very well that the word hath the water of Eternall Life and the Fire the Deity and out of the Fire it hath the Tincture of the Deity and in the Tincture the Spirit of God which proceedeth from the Mouth of God and in the proceeding forth the g Or Luster glance of the Majesty is made manifest in the operation of the Spirit 13. This word which is in the Virgine of the wisdome of God and encompassed with the Wonders of Eternity is now in humility of great Love towards our Image which was lost in Adam come againe into us and is in Mary understand the Earthly Mary yet in the Benediction become Man 14. The Benediction was that the soule of Mary was adorned with the heavenly Virgine of the wisdome of God which Adam had lost therefore the Angell called her blessed of all Women 15. No woman from Adam to that Time was ever cloathed with the heavenly Virgine but this Mary therefore by the blessing she became chaste and full of Purity for the Holy Ghost goeth not into that which is Earthly he mixeth himselfe not with the h Similitude or Resemblance Glasse for it cannot be that the Glasse should be as the Life it selfe 16. Understand our high and precious depth thus The soule of Man proceedeth from God and is from the Eternall and the body of man is but a Glasse of the Eternall and so God cloathed the soule of Mary with the Divine Virgine in the Principle of the soule not in the Earthly flesh as if she had been deified no! she must die 〈◊〉 well as all other people 17. And in this Virgine Gods word out of the Heart of God the Father assumed the seed of the Woman viz. the seed of the soule and the seed of the first Image which for so long a time stood hidden in the Mystery 18. But now at length the Life of God entred into it and did make it a whole Image againe for the water of Eternall life proceeding from the Heart of God mingled with the water of the Spirit of the soule for the Spirit taketh its Originall from the water and the soule is Fire 19. Thus the word received the Tincture of the soule and the Holy Ghost the Tincture of the Spirit viz. the Tincture of the water and both became one soule and yet the Creature was still distinguished from Gods Spirit though Gods Spirit dwelt therein and of Gods water and Tincture and of the seed of Mary from her Tincture and water in the high benediction a flesh and bloud was produced so that an Heavenly Man in the Earthly was incarnate at once 20. So that it may be said this is the Sonne of the Woman viz. the very bodily and naturall Sonne of Mary with soule and body with flesh and bloud and all that belongeth unto Man and also the very Sonne of God which was borne from Eternity out of Gods Eternall Essence ere the foundation of the world was layd who stood both in the Majesty of the Holy Ternary and also in the i Or wombe body of Mary at once 21. And the soule of Christ doth belong halfe to the Principle of this world and halfe to the Holy Ghost for the sou e of Christ used the Spirit of the Aire and Starres with the vertue of the Elements and also the Word of God and the Divine food for such a man Adam was in his Innocency 22. Thus God hath regenerated us in Christ and so we are regenerated in Christ out of Gods

a Subject or Object resembling the Spirituall world the spirituall world is the Inward ground of the visible world the visible subsisteth in the Spirituall 134. The visible world is onely an Effluence of the seven Properties for it proceeded out of the six working Properties but in the seventh that is in Paradise it is in Rest and that is the Eternall Sabbath of Rest wherein the Divine Power and vertue resteth 135. Moses saith God created Heaven and Earth and all Creatures in six Dayes and rested on the seventh Day and also commanded y Or to rest on it it to be kept for a Rest 136. The understanding lieth hidden and secret in those words could not he have made all his workes in one Day neither can wee properly say there was any day before the Sun was for in the z Or depth or vast firmament above the Moone Deep there is but one Day in all 137. But the understanding lyeth hidden in those words he understandeth by each dayes working the Creation or Manifestation of the seven Properties for he saith In the Beginning God created Heaven and Earth The first Day 138. In the FIRST Motion the Magneticall Desire compressed and compacted the fiery and watery Mercury with the other Properties and then the grossenesse separated it selfe from the Spirituall Nature and the fiery became Metals and stones and partly Salnitre that is Earth and the watery became water then the fiery Mercury of the working became cleane and Moses calleth it Heaven and the Scripture saith God dwelleth in Heaven for this fiery Mercury is the Power and vertue of the Firmament viz. an Image and resemblance of the Spirituall world in which God is manifested 139. When this was done God said Let there be Light then the Inward thrust it selfe forth through the fiery Heaven from which a shining power and vertue arose in the fiery Mercury and that was the Light of the outward Nature in the Properties wherein the a Or growing vegetable Life consisteth The second Day 140. In the SECOND Dayes worke God separated the watery and fiery Mercury from one another and called the fiery the Firmament The * * This Table belongs to the Clavis at the End of the 132. verse seven Formes of Spirits mentioned REVELA cap. 1. ♄ ☾ The First forme Harsh Desiring will 1. Darke-world a similitude of it is a Candle ☿ ♃ Second Bitter or stinging ♂ ♀ Third Anguish till the flash of Fire ☉ Fourth Fire Dark-fire Light-fire 2. Fire-world a similitude of it is the fire of a Candle ♀ ♂ Fifth Light or Love whence the watet of Eternall Life floweth 3. Light-world a similitude of it is the Light of a Candle ♃ ☿ Sixt. Noyse sound or Mercurie ☾ ♄ Seventh Substance or Nature   The First Principle Darke or Fire of Wrath Light or Fire of Love The second Principle The Dark-world hence God the Father is called an Angry zealous Jealous God and a Consuming Fire The Light world hence God the Sonne the word the Heart of God is called a Loving and Mercifull God The third Principle This world of foure Elements which is produced out of the two Inward Worlds and is a Glasse of them wherein L●ght and Darknesse Good and Evill are mixt it is not Eternall but hath a beginning and an End of Heaven which came out of the midst of the waters viz. of Mercury whence arose the Male and Female b kinde Sex in the Spirit of the outward world that is the Male in the fiery Mercury and the Female in the watery 141. This Separation was made all over in every thing to the end that the fiery Mercury should desire and long for the watery and the watery for the fiery that so there might be a Desire of Love betwixt them in the Light of Nature from which the Conjunction ariseth therefore the fiery Mercury viz. the outflowne word separated it selfe according both to the fiery and to the watery nature of the Light and thence comes both the Male and Female kinde in all things both Animals and vegetables The third Day 142. In the THIRD Dayes worke the fiery and watery Mercury entred againe into Conjunction or mixture and embraced on another wherein the Salnitre viz. the Separator in the Earth-brought forth Grasse Plants and Trees and that was the first Generation or production between Male and Female The fourth Day 143. In the FOURTH Dayes worke the fiery Mercury brought forth its fruit viz. the fift Essence an higher power or vertue of Life then the foure Elements and yet it is in the Elements of it the Starres are made 144. For as the compression of the Desire brought the Earth into a c Or lamp Masse the compression entring into it selfe so the fiery Mercury thrust it selfe outwards by the Compressure and hath inclosed the place of this world with the d Or constellations Starres and starry Heaven The fifth Day 145. In the FIFT Dayes worke the e The Spirit of the world Spiritus Mundi that is the f Anima Macrocosmi soule of the great world opened it selfe in the fift Essence we meane the Life of the fiery and watery Mercury therein God created all Beasts fishes fowles and wormes every one from its peculiar property of the divided Mercury 146. Were we see how the Eternall Principles have moved themselves according to Evill and Good as to all the seven Properties and their Effluence and mixture for there are evill and good Creatures created every thing as the Mercury that is the Seperator hath figured and g Or Imaged framed himselfe into an Ens as may be seen in the evill and good Creatures And yet every kinde of Life hath its Originall in the Light of Nature that is in the Love of Nature from which it is that all Creatures in their kind or Property love one another according to this outflowne Love The sixt Day 147. In the SIXT Dayes worke God created Man for in the sixt Day the understanding of Life opened it selfe out of the fiery Mercury that is out of the Inward Ground 148. God created him in his likenesse out of all the three Principles and made him an Image and breathed into him the understanding fiery Mercury according to both the Inward and outward Ground that is according to time and Eternity and so he became a living understanding soule and in this Ground of the soule the Manifestation of the Divine Holinesse did move viz. the living outflowing word of God together with the Eternall knowing Idea which was knowne from Eternity in the Divine Wisdome as a Subject or forme of the Divine Imagination 149. This h Or Image Idea becomes i Indued or invested cloathed with the Substance of the heavenly world and so it becommeth an understanding Spirit and Temple of God an Image of the Divine k Or Contemplation vision which Spirit is given to the soule for a Spouse

as fire and Light are espoused together so it is here also to be understood 150. This Divine Ground budded and pierced through soule and body and this was the true Paradise in Man which he lost by sin when the ground of the darke world with the false Desire gat the upper hand and Dominion in him The seventh Day 151. In the SEVENTH Day God rested from all his workes which he had made saith Moses yet God needeth no Rest for he hath wrought from Eternity and he is a meere working Power and vertue therefore the meaning and understanding here lieth hidden in the Word for Moses saith he hath commanded us to Rest on the seventh Day 152. The seventh Day was the true Paradise understand it spiritually that is the Tincture of the Divine Power and vertue which is a temperament this pierced through all the Properties and wrought in the seventh that is in the substance of all the other 153. The Tincture pierced through the Earth and through all Elements and tinctured All and then Paradise was on Earth and in Man for evill was hidden as the Night is hidden in the Day so the l Or grim fiercenesse wrath of Nature was also hidden in the first Principle till the fall of Man and then the Divine working with the Tincture m fled into their owne Principle viz. into the Inward Ground of the Light-world 154. For the l Or retired wrath did rise aloft and got the predominancy and that is the Curse where it is said God cursed the Earth for his cursing is to leave off and flie from his working as when Gods Power and vertue in a thing worketh with the Life and Spirit of the thing and afterwards withdraweth it selfe with its working then the thing is cursed for it worketh in its owne will and not in Gods will Of the Spiritus Mundi and of the foure Elements 155. We may very well observe and consider the hidden spirituall world by the visible world for we see that Fire n Or Water Light and Aire are continually begotten in the deep of this world and that there is no Rest or cessation from this begetting and that it hath been so from the beginning of the world and yet men can finde no cause of it in the outward world or tell what the ground of it should be but Reason saith God hath so created it and therefore it continueth so which indeed is true in it selfe but Reason knoweth not the Creator which doth thus create without ceasing that is the true o Distinguisher or divider Archaeus or Seperator which is an Efluence out of the Invisible world viz. the outflowne word of God which I meane and understand by the word fiery Mercury 156. For what the invisible world is in a spirituall working where Light and darknesse are in one another and yet the one not comprehending the other that the visible world is in a substantiall working whatsoever powers and and vertues in the outflowne word are to be p Or conceived understood in the Inward Spirituall world the same wee understand also in the visible world in the Stars and Elements yet in another Principle of a more holy q Kind quality or condition Nature 157. The foure Elements doe flow from the Archaeus of the Inward ground that is from the foure properties of the Eternall Nature and were in the beginning of time so outbreathed from the Inward ground and compressed and formed into a working substance and Life and therefore the outward world is called a Principle and is a subject of the Inward world that is a Toole and Instrument of the Inward r Artificer or workman Master which r Artificer or workman Master is the Word and Å¿ Or vertue power of God 158. And as the Inward Divine world hath in it an t Or Intellectuall understanding Life from the Effluence of the Divine knowledge whereby the Angels and soules are meant so likewise the outward world hath a Rationall Life in it consisting in the outflowne powers and vertues of the Inward world which outward Rationall Life hath no higher understanding and can reach no further then that thing wherein it dwelleth viz. the Stars and foure Elements 159. The Spiritus Mundi is hidden in the foure Elements as the soule is in the body and is nothing else but an Effluence and working power proceeding from the Sunne and Stars its dwelling wherein it worketh is spirituall encompassed with the foure Elements 160. The Spirituall house is first a sharp Magneticall power and vertue from the Effluence of the Inward world from the first property of the Eternall Nature this is the ground of all salt and powerfull vertue also of all forming and substantiality 161. Secondly it is the Effluence of the Inward Motion which is outflowne from the second u Species kinde or property forme of the Eternall Nature and consisteth in a fiery Nature like a drie kind of water source which is understood to be the ground of all Metall and stones for they were created of that 162. I call it the fiery Mercury in the Spirit of this world for it is the mover of all things and the Separator of the Powers and vertues a former of all shapes a ground of the outward Life as to the Motion and sensibility 163. The third ground is the perception in the Motion and sharpnesse which is a spirituall source of Sulphur proceeding from the Ground of the painfull will in the Inward Ground hence the Spirit with the five senses ariseth viz. seeing hearing feeling tasting and smelling and is the the true Essentiall Life whereby the fire that is the fourth forme is made manifest 164. The ancient wise men have called these three properties Sulphur Mercurius and Sal as to their Materialls which were produced thereby in the foure Elements into which this Spirit doth coagulate or make it selfe Substantiall 165. The foure Elements lie also in this ground and are nothing different or severall from it they are onely the manifestation of this spirituall ground and are as a dwelling place of the Spirit in which this Spirit worketh 166. The Earth is the grossest effluence from this subtile Spirit after the Earth the water is the second after the water the Aire is the third and after the Aire the Fire is the fourth all these proceed from one onely Ground viz. from the Spiritus mundi which hath its root in the Inward world 167. But Reason will say to what End hath the Creator made this manifestation I answer there is no other cause but that the spirituall world might thereby bring it selfe into a visible forme or Image that the Inward powers and vertues might have a forme and Image now that this might be the spirituall substance must needs bring it selfe into a materiall ground wherein it may so figure and forme it self and there must be such a separation as that this separated being might