A fountain of gardens Vol. II. Being a continuation of the process of a life according to faith, of the divinely magical knowledge, and of the new creation. In mutual entertainments betwixt the essential wisdom, and the soul in her progress through paradise, to Mount Sion, and to the new Jerusalem. By J. Lead.

POSTSCRIPT.

IT may possibly to some seem very Harsh what is found pag. 125. and 126. There is yet a Woman to be revealed out from the Heavens, whereof Mary, that brought forth Christ accor∣ding to the Flesh, was but a Type. For it was neither Eve, nor she to whom the Pro∣mise was made concerning the Birth, which should bruise the Serpents Seven headed Power. There must be another Ge∣nealogy found out, from whence the Ser∣pent treader must also come. But it is ve∣ry far from the Author's Intent, (as it may be plainly evidenc'd both from the Scope in this particular place, and also from the whole Drift of her Writings) to derogate hereby from the High Pre∣eminence of Christ, the Son of Mary, above all Human Births whatever: or from the Honour of that Holy Virgin, whom all Generations of the World must call Blessed among Women. But

the Design of this Passage is no o∣ther than that of the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, when he represents the Great and True Melchisedeck to be without Father, without Mother, without Descent. Which cannot be understood any otherwise then of an earthly Father and Mother, and an Earthly Descent, it being immediately afterward added, having neither beginning of Days, nor End of Life. The which Words can by no wise be applicable to his Outward Corporeal Birth from the Virgin Mary. Wherefore the Apostle herein directs them to look for another Genealogy, and higher Descent; while he seems to take away for the present (or rather to pass over) the former. So that he would not have them to fix their Eye upon his Temporal Generation in an Elementary Form which had both beginning of Days; and end of Time, but rather to look to the Generation which was be∣fore all Time from the Eternal Father, through the Womb of the Morning; from whence all Angelical and Human Spirits were afterwards produced, be∣ing call'd Sons of the Morning, that is of

the Immortal, Virgin, Heavenly Princi∣ple, or Matrix. Which Celestial Nati∣vity being overclouded in many of the Angels, through their Tartarosis, men∣tion'd by St. Peter, in seeking to sink themselves into their own Indepen∣dent Will, that so they might be as Elohim; by Precipitating their Spiri∣tual Forces from the Centre of the Di∣vine Will, and going forth from a proper Centre of their own: and also in all the Human Race, through the Birth of Eve, entring into the Lust and Strife of the Elements, deluded hereto by the Seven-Headed Serpent; cannot possibly reappear till the Seven Heads, Powers, or Forms of the Serpent be en∣tirely Bruised or Crushed. This is to be done in each particular Soul, which hath within it self as the Kingdom of Heaven, so also the Kingdom of Hell, as it were in miniature; before there can be an Attainment of that Person to the Redemption of the Body, which is the visible Adoption, Recognition, and Seal∣ing of the Sons and Daughters of God. And it is likewise to be done in the whole Church Universally, by the Seed of Immortality flowing through the

Glorious Humanity of IESVs. Which Seed as it raised up his mortal Body, can∣not also but raise up, in due time, all his Members: and cause the vanished Image once more to appear, and the Lustre of their first Nativity from God to shine forth, as without any Cloud. Wherefore let the Reader remember this Caution, not at all to look Out∣wards, or to seek here or there after Particularities or Personalities, which will nothing avail him to know, and probably may do him great Hurt: but to retire into the inward Depth of his own Heart, that he may there come to know such a Birth from out of the Womb of the New Ierusalem Mother, as is so much spoken of in these Writings, and may be a Witness of the trampling down the Serpents Power and Polity. Then would he not be Solicitous about whom should be first Honour'd by Christ with the Marks of his Refurrection, but would endeavour to press forward to it, by the only al∣lowable Emulation of Humility, Love, and Faith. That if possible he may arrive to the Right of the First-born

Heirs of God in the Melchisedeckian Line. And then also would he clearly see, that nothing that is here said tends to the Lesseuing, but to the Greatening rather, and extending the Merit of IESVS the Son of God and of Mary, the True Christ, Blessed and Adored for ever: to whom every Knee both in Heaven, and in Earth, and under the Earth shall bow and Confess him that is, that was, and that is to come.

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