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The Ascent to the Mount of Vision.
May 24. 1698.
§. I. A S I was recollecting, and casting up, in my mind the tribulated State of the Nazarite Flock, belong∣ing to the great Shepherd, I was put upon a sup∣plicating Inquiry, how long the Time of this Cloudy day might last? And it was Ecchoed in me: turn thine Eye into that Central light, which may make some discovery; by which the Redemption shall appear to be drawing near. Then suddenly there descended to my Internal seeing, from an high and lofty Sphear, a Mountain most Diaphanous, so great and large as to cover one quarter of the Earth: And round about it were numberless little Hills, of a dark Opacous sub∣stance, and (Lo) there was a great Shaking and Trem∣bling, as if they were to be moved out of their places.
§. II. Then of a sudden came a Flaming Blast out of this lof∣ty Mountain, which enkindled some of these Hills, and from them ran circling about the rest, Which made a great crackling noise among them: Then there was a Voice heard as out of the Mountain: Thus a Consumption is determinated upon the dark and dead Mold. Then were they changed into a pure white Earth, clear and transparent. And after this, did the Glori∣fied Iesus stand upon the top of this Mount, with innumer∣able Attendants, and uttered a mighty Voice of Thunder, saying: Come, behold and see, and rejoice, O ye Heavens, in what I am going to Create an New. Then immediately did there spring up in the room of the little Hills, certain figurative Bo∣dies, first to the number Seven, and then (by the Multiplica∣tion of these) to Seven times Seven. Then came there se∣veral