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The Vision of the New-Jerusalem.

The Lord took me away from my mortal part, and shewed me * 1.1 the Scituation of this great Glory, and said, Behold, and see the Pattern of the heavenly Houses and Mansions, which make up the New-Jerusalem, where the Glory of the One only God doth fill all with the essential Light and Splendor of his divine goodness. I shall, as I am able, describe what I did see in the Heavens of this Mother-City (for so it was named to me) who is to bring forth her first and free-born to replenish the New Earth and Heavens. It appear∣ed as a City sounded upon one square Stone, whose Dimensions were very large; It was all paved with light flaming Colours, appearing like so many various sparkling Stones, inlaid on the great Foundation Stone, which gave forth a luster, as if so many bright Suns had been there: Towards the Verge or out-side of this square Stone were seen many Se∣raphick Bodies, wreathing Arm in Arm, and several rows of various spiritual Forms, of different Ranks and Stature: These Rews appeared like the Stories of a building, which were carried up higher & higher in a square Figure, till it was wonderful high; & upon the Heads of the most inward glorified Bodies a Covering was spread by one more Diapha∣nous, and of greater splendor than all the rest; the Height of his Person was higher by the head then all the other, who called to me, out of this most glorious Building, To take good heed of all I had seen,

for it had a further meaning, which I was to have revealed, when driven by the Spirit into the light Mystery, where all deep things do open. Oh my dear Lord! be thou an All-springing Testimony within, and from this New-Jerusalem.

My Spirit being drawn out for a further Enquiry concerning this New-Jerusalem state, what the Appearance of it to us did signifie for this present time? the Foundation Stone thereof gave forth this Word, That such a City the mighty Cyrus would himself be the Founder of, upon the visible Stage of this World, although there be little appearance of it, as yet, because the Elect Stones are at pre∣sent lying amongst the Rubbish of Confusion, who in due time are to be linked together, to make up a strong City of Defence, through the Gates of which no unclean Vessel shall pass, nor whatsoever is Lame or Ble∣mished, according as was seen in the Pattern. This the Lord will effect by his Might and Spirit, and establish this City on Mount-Zion, at which the whole World shall Tremble.

Whilst the Lord was communing with me about this heavenly City, I saw it descend and cover the whole Earth; and all those who were not prepared to enter, and who could claim no Birth∣right freedom in this Mother-City, did flee away by Multitudes, Heaps upon Heaps, to hide themselves from the bright Splendor of the divine Body, with the anointed head in the midst of it. The Glory was so great, that we can only give an Eclipsed ac∣count of what was seen. But as the descent of this Magnificence did terrifie, and cause above three parts of the World to flee away, as having an irreconcileable Enmity to Spirits and Bodies of such Purity; so on the other hand, I saw a Numerous Com∣pany gathered to it, from all Quarters; the Trumpet-shout of Jerusalems great King calling them in from all parts, they were all the first-born of this Mother-City, who well knows her own, calling them by that Name which is impressed upon them in flam∣ing Characters of Love. Multitudes of this kind encompassed the holy City, but few were admitted to the Seraphick wreathe, even those only who had put on the glorified Body. Whereupon I asked, Why those who were called, and had the Name of the heavenly City upon them, were not received in? And the Lord said, That those who were taken into the Glory, had finished their in∣ward Transformation, to the utmost Perfection, waiting only for the Consumation of the Nuptial Glory; but that the rest, though far gone

in true Regeneration, could not be admitted until their Redemption were perfectly wrought out, to the end that no flaw may be found in the Stones that are to constitute this divine Building; but as any shall arrive to this degree of Perfection, so this City shall descend and take them in.

Hereupon followed a further discovery, to let me know the Royal Freedom of the spiritual Seed proceeding from the New-Jerusalem, as the Virgin Bride of God, who though come down into this visible Birth of Time, yet was before all Time in the Substantiality of spiritual Essence, by whom the renewed fruitful∣ness of this free Birth shall in this last Age of the World be made manifest; which was the joyful Message which sounded in my Heavens, with what is further to be declared for our Conso∣lation. It was thus laid before me, That the Jerusalem from above hath been these many Ages travelling to bring forth her first and free∣born, according to that divine Likeness, whose Descent is not to be found within the verge of Time. For here the Gate of Gods deep hath been opened to let us in to see the wonderful Mystery that was fore-or∣dained to work through all the Vicissitudes of Time since the first Creation. Now then let us consider what the first Plant of Para∣dise was, from whence we are all sprung; it was but a flower from the Earth; for out of the Dust of the Earth the Lord God created man, and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life, and man became a living Soul; which was pure, as immediately proceeding from the most Holy. But how soon did this Glory fade and return to Earth again; whereas if he had kept his first Estate, he would have been advanced to higher degrees of Perfection, and become fruitful in Gods Virgin off-spring. All which Design for a limit∣ted time was overturned, but the Foundation of Gods Election stood so firm in the Essentiality of the out-breathed Word (which was the Light of Adam's Life in the Center of Immortality) that the same Word will restore all again, according to the first gra∣cious Intent of the wise Creator, whose purposed Grace shall re∣new the face of all things that have been marred in the first Ada∣miral Image. But though so desperate a Fall hath overtaken the whole Creation, yet is it but as the fading or cropping of a flower, whose eternal Root remaining, will put forth and spring a-fresh in a more glorious Beauty and Figure, than the first ever had. For though by one mans Disobedience all are made subject to Death and * 1.2 the Curse (which is the bruising of the Heel) yet the Head-Life * 1.3

remains, which will recover, raise and make all sound again; for in this promised seed the faded Life will be quickned, accor∣ding to the Election of Him, who will hereby more Eminently make known the Riches of his Grace and Glory, in his Vessels prepared thereunto. For though there be in all men an holy seed remaining whereby they are in a possibility of recovery; yet be∣cause all have not an Heart to improve this Talent, it continues an unprofitable dead Seed to many, notwithstanding all are called, To take of the Water of Life freely, that by its quickning Virtue * 1.4 the buried Seed may be raised to a new Life, in a Body of its own kind, which Seed through many Deaths does renew its never fading Flower of Life for a higher degree of Glory in the New Jerusalem state of fixation. Now from what hath been said, we are informed, that there is an Elect Number which is to make up the New Jerusalem-Bride, here upon Earth, who shall finish the Mystery of the Seventh Seal, and be all instated in that Kingdom which the Alpha and Omega hath designed for his Virgin-Bride, before Paradise or this World were: And that I might know that this design and unchangeable purpose of God is still going on, there was shewed me a clear White Stone, in which were engraven numberless Names, all ordained to make up the Glory of this City of God, which shall be the Praise and Admiration of the Heavens, and a dread and amazement to the Earth; for the Revelation of it will bring a Wo upon them, who have no part in it. This the Lord himself did signifie, say∣ing, Henceforth know your Free-Birth, Name and Place in this City, and be not fearful or unbelieving, but travel on in the assured Hope, that shall not be made ashamed; for the everlasting Father hath pre∣pared for you this City, of which I am the Builder in you.

The hand of the Lord was strong upon me still, and took me up into an high and lofty Place, where I saw a burning Furnace, which appeared all Blew like the airy Clouds, and the Lord walking in it to and fro, who said, See whether thou canst make thy Pass to me, and abide in this pure everlasting burning Region, which is the Spirits purging Fire, which will devour whatsoever is not of the same Essentiality with me. Upon which I replied, Ah! my Lord, I am free to make my Pass to thee, but how shall I get rid of this Body? I would fain exist in that pure Essence with thee,

where nothing of this lump of Earth might prevent my constant Walks in those high Places with thee, whose presence will make these outward Elements to flee away from the superior Spirit. The Holy One replied, Be not troubled at thy Binding Mortality, for I will descend in this fiery Cloud into thee as a baptizing Fire, which shall take away the gross Impurities of the Senses, that thou mayst be clarified, in order to thy Co∣deification, which will manifest the out-spreading Name of thy Emmanuel, whereby thou shalt receive Power to ascend through Fire and Air, and continue that all-desireable freedom of Com∣munion with the holy Trinity: And though none in a Body of Flesh and Six can come up to me, yet Grace, Pity and Love do move to descend in the Spirits flaming Cloud to make the way free, that such may have a Pass, who account no Place their Rest or Dwel∣ling besides me: Wherefore pursue and watch to drink in of this pure Spirit of Burning, which will clear and take out of the way whatsoever hath kept from ascending into the Holy City. Whilst these Words were in spoken from the Anointing, I felt a sensible rising and spreading over all my Heart, Head and Body, as if all were covered with a Cloud of Sun-heat, giving out light, by which I could soe what was inwardly done, as well as feel it. Then it was further spoke in me, that I should take notice that this was also the bright Garment of the Sun. Such is the Nature of this secret flaming Matter, that it seeds, strengthens and clarifies a naked Spirit all at once. Then was I inquisitive to know the Substance or Ground of it, but it was replyed; Meddle thou not with that, only receive it passively, and Co-operate with it when it ariseth, and then walk with, and draw in the feeding Fire and Air, and when it resteth in its own place, rest thou with it, and be assured it will not leave thee, till it have concentred thee in the Deity.

This light flaming Cloud encompassing me, gave this further Revelation, to shew what the Holy One is about to do, in order to the laying of the Foundation of this strong City, in which the mighty God will pitch his Tabernacle, and settle his Rest for∣ever. Many Types, Images and foregoing Figures of this Jeru∣salem have been given through the several Ages of the World, but the Heavenly Thing it self hath not been brought forth, as

no wt will be, because the set time approacheth: For the try∣ing burning Furnace is kindled, and the Wind of the Almighty forcibly blows up the Flames thereof in the center of the Soul of every one, who are the Elect Members of this Holy Corpora∣tion. Now is the time for the Spirit of Burning and Judgment to prepare each Stone, which is designed for this super-excellent Glory: No connterfeit Gold, or reprobate Silver can pass through this Furnace, which is ordained to prove whatsoever comes to be built on this Foundation. The mighty King sends forth his Decrees to fulfil the ancient Prophecies, concerning the return of the long Captivity of these, who belong to this Mo∣ther-City, that they may know their original freedom, and no longer abide as Captive-Exiles among the Babylonians in Con∣fusion and Reproach: And what sign will the Lord give for this, but by loosing the last Seal, under which doth lie the rich Bank and vast Treasury of Wisdom, Spirit and Power, which shall so vigorously carry on this New-Jerusalem-Building, that all the Powers which the Dragon and Beast can raise by their Agents, visible and invisible, shall but turn to their Shame and Confusion, when the Lamb ariseth to open the Seventh Seal, under which the most precious things, even that fine transparent Matter lies hid, to be manifested in due time, for the beautifying of this divine Building.

But here an Objection may arise, and question this revealed Grace and proclaimed Liberty to the Children of the Captivity, who are now called to sit upon this heavenly Building, which is this; That the time is not yet, and that the last Seal is not so near breaking open; and who is it that can give a Sign for a Testimony that this Decree is already gone forth?

To all which the Spirit of Truth gives this Answer, (who best knows what he hath wrought, in order hereunto, in the Central Deep of some Elect Vessels, who are not to make any out-cry until the Mystery be fully finished in them) know that the time is at hand; wherefore let none look afar off, or run out from themselves, and neglect their own Vintage at home, but regard how near the Grape is to ripeness, which contains the Wine that is to be drunk at the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb, who charges it as a great over-sight upon those that are Rege∣nerate,

that they have put this Day afar off, not discerning the Lords Body, who is quickned from the dead in them, who are pas∣sed from Death with him, and so are put in Subordinate Commis∣sion with the Lamb to break open all those Seals, which shall make way for the descent of the Holy City. For what in John's Reve∣lation is mentioned concerning these things, is very obscure and mystical, and there is no fathoming of it to the utmost, until the Lord himself come with the Plummet-Line of the Holy Spirit to measure out the meaning. Though there are some who have been favoured with this Light of Revelation, by means of which they understand what lies hid under those Allegorical Expres∣sions, and through the opening of the Seals have discovered those rich Jewels, which were concealed under that dark Covert; the opening of which Seals I shall set down in order, according as it was acted in my own particular, through my Soul's waiting with the Lamb's-rising Power, in a particular experience of my own in the divine Mystery.

At the opening of the first Seal, the Spirit of Faith came forth to encounter with the fearful and unbelieving Spirits, that set * 1.5 before me an Impossibility of ever reaching to a Paradisical Pu∣rity and Mount-Zion-Dignity, and was kept under a great Fear and Perplexity, under the dominion of Unbelief, until this first Seal was broke open; for thereupon the strong Lyon of the Tribe of Juda set me free to run the Race of Faith unto the end, giving in this Caution, to take care to be well mounted on this Horse of the Spirit of Faith, and to hold fast to him who rides on it, who hath the conquering Bow in his Hand, to shoot his Arrows into those unbelieving Spirits, that would still keep us in Doubts and Perplexity.

At the opening of the second Seal, all Peace, Pleasure and Joy were taken away from the Earthly Life, and withal such a Light * 1.6 broke forth, which made me see the vile Abomination of an earthly state, compared with the Perfection of the Divine Life, so that now I rejoyc'd in nothing more than to see him who sate upon the Red Horse, slaying with his Sword the Beasts and creeping things of the Earth; that is, all the moving stirring Essences, springing from the original source of Evil, and to find him ta∣king away Peace from the earthly Life, so that the earthly Mind

is berest of all Peace, Rest, Content and Satisfaction in all its goings out, whether in Thought, Word or Action. But how comes this to pass? Why? because he that sits on the Red Horse gives a mighty Sword to the Spirit of the Soul, that thereby it may kill and destroy all the Essences of the earthly Life in joynt-Union with Christ, which Sword is nothing else but the Power of the Spirit of Life, which is Christ's Deity in his Eternal Humanity, now fixed in the centre of the Soul. It is Christ's rising Life in his Saints enabling them to conquer the Essences of the earthly Life (which is the Beast) in themselves. Now this taking away of Peace from the earthly Life, is a blessed Introduction to its final Destruction, which is to follow upon it, according to the intention of the Kingly Redeemer.

The opening of the third Seal, sheweth Christ in us riding on * 1.7 a black Horse, with a pair of Ballances in his Hand, signifying Famine on the life of the Beast in his Saints, that its day of plen∣ty is passing away, and that its earthly Essences must be weighed in the Balance of Rightcousness. For the Lamb's Life rising in his dead and riaug Saints, putting them into one Scale, weigheth all chei. Thoughts Words and Actions, in the weight of Per∣fection; Christ, the holy One, in the other, to see whether they be brought into an even Pois with it; to the end that all Increase and Plenty might richly abound in the fruitfulness of the Spirit; from which heavenly sowing, such a Crop doth spring as may pro∣claim a Plenty, that may all former exceed; and thus it will natu∣rally spring in the Soul, which is even ballanced with Christ the Anointed: And nothing of the Oyl and Wine, which from hence shall proceed, shall ever be hurt or diminished.

At the opening of the fourth Seal, Christ rides in his Saints on a * 1.8 powerful Horse, whose Name is Conquering Death, and hath Hell following him. But though this Death looks grim, yet it is such a Death as shall only hurt the fourth part of the Earth, that is, the evil Principle in the earthly Life, which reigns, and hath the dominion until the Life of Christ be risen in his Saints, till which Time the Beast may be permitted to kill the Life of Christ in the Soul with Hunger, Famine, and languishing Death; for it is said, that the Beast shall make War with the Saints, and for a time overcome them, that is, keep them under by reigning over

them in the worldly dominion, which reacheth to their outward Man, as standing in his Elementary Kingdom, where he hath great Power to afflict and famish unto Death, by several Cruel∣ties, when so far permitted. But I have experimentally found that the greatest Fury, Hellish Force and Wrath of the Dragon * 1.9 is quelled and overcome by the Blood and inlaid Life of the Holy Lamb of God, rising in his powerful Might within me, who upon my complaint of the continual Usurpation of the Beasts Kingdom, hath given assurance that there is a Viol of Wrath prepa∣ring to be poured out upon him, which shall drown his Kingdom in everlasting Perdition, that he may no longer insult over the sealed Ones of God, to whom Power shall be given to bind him in everlasting Chains. For the Lord Omnipotent in the Life of the Lamb, is coming to reign over all the Beasts of the Earth, and to exalt them to a victorious Kingdom, who have been killed and slain with him.

The opening of the fifth Seal discovers the Souls of the slain Saints under the Altar of the Deity and Humanity: Here the * 1.10 Soul witnesseth Conformity to the Death of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and lies as a live burning Coal under his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 to rise in such Power of Majesty, 〈◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊〉to take Vengeance of those that have killed 〈◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊〉 eter∣nal Generation is to be counted 〈◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊〉 ••••••••••∣ced into Nature, who hath lain a 〈◊◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊◊〉; but as Abel's Blood did cry for Vengeance, 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 of Jesus cry more strongly in the Soul•• of them who are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with Christ; and the Lord hath expresly assured, that when the rising Incense goeth up from the Altar, from the Soul's live Coal, it is a sure Testimony that the Resurrection is nigh, when the naked Soul shall be cloathed with its long white Robe; & though this hath been a long Rest and Confinement to many, yet it hath only been permitted that a stronger Cry might ascend: Even as we see now that John's long sleeping Prophecy is now by some strong crying Souls awakened, till all the Seals be made to fly open, to the end that the imprisoned Souls in Christ may by their open∣ing, come to be set upon the Throne, where they shall judge the Dragon and the Beast, with all their Adherents, that formerly exercised Cruelty over them unto Death. Therefore rejoyce

all ye, who do find the Effects of the fifth Seal opening in your selves, for by them ye may know the nearness of the Jerusalem-Kingdom; look for its fulfilling in the World within, which shall also in due time be fulfilled in the outward World.

I proceed now to the opening of the sixth Seal, where the first thing observable, is the great Earthquake, representing the ter∣rible * 1.11 Shakings of the very Foundations of the old Earth, in which is the original Seed of Sin, the hour of whose Judgment is come, and the Trumpet hath founded for the dissolving this first Earth and Heavens, that their Place may be no more found; the Wind of the mighty Spirit blows upon all Flesh, to make it dye and wither. The Sun of the outward Reason is changed into Blackness, and the Moon of the Senses into Blood, and all the Starry Imaginations drop like untimely Fruit, and every Island and Mountain of strength meleth away; For there can be no hiding in this Day, a Consumption being determined upon the whole Universe, which hath been under the Beasts captivity. We may call this a blessed Ruin and Undoing, to see a destructi∣on come upon all that hath kept the Lamb and his Kingdom out. This causes a great out cry and perplexity in the Properties of degenerate Nature, where the King of Reason, and the Captains, the Senses do not know whither to slee from the face of him who is come to make all things new, which could not be till all of the old Building was broken down and taken to pieces, where the fretting Leprosie of Sin did still rise. The Wisdom of God could no better way contrive, for the laying of a sound and sin∣less Foundation for the New-Jerusalem, according to this fore∣contrived Model, as by express Word it came unto me, that none could or ever should come to the opening of the seventh Seal, till all this were fully finished; and I must give Witness that it is a doing, and it doth not seem grievous because of what is to succeed and follow, when the next Seal shall be opened.

Thus I have been driven on according to Experience and Re∣velation, to open the mystical meaning of what is written in the Revelation, according as it is to be fulfilled in Holy and Heaven∣born-Saints; though I also well know, that their opening will cause a terrible Day of Wo to the Rebellious and Unregenerate, for they who shall then be found in the Beasts Kingdom, must

look to fall and go into Perdition with him; for as there are in∣ward Vials to be poured forth, so there are outward Vials to be poured forth on the World, which I could enlarge upon, but that it is not my Commission, being otherwise instigated: Be∣sides, the Lord shewed me, that to every Seal there is an Eye opens within, which is therefore called upon to look inward, where the great Mystery is to be opened; and as every Seal hath it's Eye, so the Ear hath its sounding Horn, which is filled with Holy Oyl, which makes Kings and Priests in Gods Tabernacle: These are the Trumpets that give the most certain sound for Time to end, and the everlasting Kingdom of the Alpha and Omega to: begin, in that Soul where the sixth Trumpet shall sound, upon which so ows the loosing of those Angels that have been bound, who are to fight the Lamb's Battel, and to revenge his Quarrel. For the great and last War will be upon this sixth Seal opening; and the Lord did testifie it would be such, as in no fore-going Seal had been known. But he said withal, I am the Lord strong and mighty, who will prevail, and wholly overturn the Kingdom of the Dragron and Beast: Continue thou, whilst I am doing this in the most holy secret of my Beeing, where the constant Mediatorship and Offer∣ings may go on, as the strength of an Army that shall all overcome, through the burning Incense that is mingled by the Angel, whose place is to stand alwayes at the Altar; no hurt or suffering by all this Con∣stagration, shall touch the Jewel that lies hid in my Deity, that would shine forth again in the Body of its Native Virginity, as before time was; wherefore suffer thou all this Vulence on thy Elementary part, as knowing that it will not at all disturb the inward Temple-Worship and Communion of the pure Spirit. But now, as of old time in the first elect Church and People, God was ministred to, and wor∣shipped in a dark formal, mixed manner, going up and down in a moveable Tabernacle, till Solomon's day, where the Typi∣cal Temple, which was to be filled with the Glory, was built, even so since the time of the Son of Man's offering up himself, the holy One hath walked in Clouds, and hath been worshipped after an imperfect rate, and therefore he hath prepared a burn∣ing flaming Day for all his Vessels to pass through, to know whether they be Sanctuary proof or no: For the Lord is car∣rying on a pure Jerusalem-Worship in truth, and substantiality:

Rejoyce all ye, who shall stand the tryal of this sixth Seal, in order to it.

Now according to this divine Interpretation of the six Seal, we may know how near the end of time, and the passing away of the old Heavens and Earth in our selves are; for that it is we are to look to, at every Seals opening: For from the first to the last there is a sounding Trumpet to bring Ruin and Desolation, to the first six dayes Creation, because of sin and the Curse which came in by the Serpent's sting, by which means the Beast hath created his Kingdom, and corrupted the whole Principle of time, which the holy One hath suffered now so many thousand Years, during which all Just Men dyed indeed in the Faith of this Prophecy, but attained not to that degree, which is to usher in the heavenly new Jerusalem in her Glory. But the Lord is now stirring, and in good earnest is sounding his Trumpets for Battel; and there is that in us which doth witness he is going on gradually to unmake and dissolve all of the first Creation; for the Lamb will not much longer carry the weight and burthen of a sinful Creation; he hath in some already sounded to Judgment, and will set himself free thereby, and the Spirits and Souls of those who are resolved to follow him through every Seal, till they shall overcome. It was given me to observe, that there are six En∣gagements, to which six Overcomings do answer, mentioned in the Revelation, and to every Conquest a most high and won∣derful * 1.12 Reward promised; all which is to encourage to follow him cheerfully, who is our Leader, who hath sworn that time shall be no longer than till he hath gotten the Victory over the Beast and Whore, and hath destroyed the Dragon's Kingdom in every Property within us, who are elected to reign in his Life with him on his Throne, with a rain of new created Powers, in the Properties of the redeemed Earth in the Souls Essence; and then we shall know how unconfined the Lordly Dominion over all outward things is, even over all the Beasts of this vi∣sible Earth, who must be subjected to the Lamb, who hath ta∣ken his Victorious Crown, and put it on the Heads of the holy Warriors, that have passed through all, and are come to the last Overcoming, that gives entrance into the seventh Seal.

As I was collecting in my Mind the near approaching time for the manifestation of this great Overturning, which is to bring in the overflowing stream of Christ's Kingdom into the Over∣comers. Behold I did see and hear the Voice of him from whom the first Heavens and Earth die flee away, who uttered these Words; As there hath been a long and tedious War between the House of God, and the Serpent's Brood, together with the Harlot and Beast, who have maintained their envious War on the Ground of fallen Nature; but now come and see the Place where they shall lie bound in perpetual Captivity. And immediately I was all filled with Light from the opened Centre of the peaceable Kingdom, that flows in as a virtual Life, felt in the Quality of the pure glassy Sea, with Sounds, Powers and Lightnings, as if all of the old Earth were now drowned in this bright Ocean; and rollowed a bright Star, with a Voice going forth, which said, The Lamb rising out of this new Elementary Sea, overcomes the Serpent and Beast, with all their Seed; and this will be their Deluge to an everlasting Victory. So from hence it was demonstrated, that the Beast hath his Sea, wherein the great Leviathan sporteth himself, and casts out Floods to Persecute and make War against the Virgin-Seed, whose Element is mild and sweet Temperature of the glassy Sea: The other, out of which it is said that the Beast did rise, is a terrible tossing working Sea, where all the worldly Spirits drive their Traffick, for to make Babylon pompous and great, who ever loves the Earth, and are admirers of the Beast, who gives Riches and worldly Honours to such as serve him; but oh! come here and see how he must fall with his whole Hierarchy. Wherefore let none trust to his Kingdom, which in one day shall be made desolate through the fiery Judgments. Here are two Seas at strife one against the other; turn your Eyes inward, you who are the Lamb's Warriors, and witness bear to these two Seas meeting, within the Ground of Nature. The Sea of the Beast contains great abundance of Riches, according to its perishable kind; besides, there is an overflow to the Merchants of it, that are in a free Trade to uphold that worldly King∣dom, wherein all Nursery of Sins-Wuchcraft is maintained. But according as I was called upon to come and see, how the Beast and all his rich trafficking-Sea is to be dryed up, as the

Lamb of God shall fill his Vials from out of this glassy Sea, and pour them upon it, when all its Pomp and Riches shall sink as a Mill stone, never to rise again. Oh? at this let all our Nations rejoyce within us as this Vision is fulfilling.

Now follows another great Mystery, which I was called upon to look into, concerning the seventh Seal, wherein lies hid the Re∣ward * 1.13 and rich Price, which though not yet given in Possession, yet the Holy One hath seen it expedient to reveal it, by breath∣ing sorth this Word in me, saying, Come thou apart, and Sanctifie a Fast, tonelling nothing of the Leaven which is found in the House of fallen Nature; abstain from any other Cup, but what I the Anointed shall sill unto thee, from the burning Sea of Glass, which will be a Lamp to give Light, and perfect Knowledge in the most hidden things that everlasting Wisdom hath hitherto sealed up. For to you who are come to the sixth Seal, and to your burning Elements in the heat of that melting Furnace, these further Secrets are disclosed, for the Consolation, who shall hold out in this last Battel-Race for Conquest: Therefore put on your Life-Armour day by day, and continue in the Fight for joy of that which is now revealed, as your Reward; taking all care to abstain from the Leaven of Imaginations, which may stop the Sluce of Revelation in its Purity. The empty Bowl with light burning Oyl began to come in, and became a rising Spring, which did give light to the dark Socket of my Understanding within; and the first thing that was shewed me, was an open Book, written within, and every one of the seven Seals broken; and it was in the Hand of the God-head-man, who said, Come and read what the seven Wonders, which my faithful Witness did declare of in his day of Reve∣lation, which were then to be sealed up, because the Day of their ful∣filling was so far off. But now in this present time, there hath been such a servent heat of flaming Intercession, which hath made all these Seals to melt away, that the Secrets contained in the Book might be opened and made known. * 1.14

This Living Book, which was presented to my view to read, was the glorified Person of the Lord Jesus, who did now appear to reveal what was sealed up in the seven Thunders. His presence was not terrible, as appearing under the Vail of pure Humani∣ty, where he hides me as in the Clifts of his own Spiritual Body,

whilst he talketh with me; who thus said, Thou art come to a deep Knowledge; for here the greatest Good, & highest Beeing stands unseal∣ed to the introverted Eye of thy Spirit, that can enter into the Light of Eternity, where the Looking-Glass of all Mysteries does stand open.

Now the cry of the first Thunder was this; Behold! how the * 1.15 six dayes Creation is come to its limit, and Man ceaseth to be, being returned into the Eternity of his own Spirit, there to rest in God, while the Number of the Beast is summed up, and his Kingdom furnished, with the Ordinances of Day and Night, which take place in this changeable Element, from whence the Craft and Subtilty of Reason doth arise to uphold and maintain the lapsed earthly Life. All which there will be no further need of, according to what the second Thunder doth utter.

The second Thunder uttered as follows; Come and see, who out * 1.16 of the Bed of passive stillness do now arise and come forth all new and immortalized, to rule as Gods in an immutable Creation: These are they who have been exercised in great Tribulation, and lain as dead under the Seals; but they are come to live, and take the Lamb's Power to reign in Gods Omnipotency, which is the only Instrument they shall play upon, to subdue all inwardly and outwardly: For they are now put in Commission under him, who is come to judge the Quick and Dead, and to remove all things, wherein the Serpents Brood hath been nourished.

The cry of the third Thunder is this; Ho! come ye whose Names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life; The way is all clear∣ed, * 1.17 and the great River Euphrates is dryed up, for to give Passage to the Holy Land, where the Tree of Life shall meet you with its flowing Fruits, whose savour leaves a perpetual Sweetness, and such a strength of Joy as will make you know the Feast of Tabernacles it come indeed with God alone, for to celebrate and keep. The Walls all ranged are with Seraphims, that are appointed for your Guard, to usher you into an higher Sphear, and more magnificent place, than this which was the Seat of the first Paradisival Man, where you are to make but your forty dayes stay: For an higher Orb doth descend as a Cloud to take up the Elders, that have their Throne-Seats prepared in the great Jeru∣salem City, which is the settled Rest, where no more removing is feared, for there is an indissolvable Link, all fixed in a Co-operating Power, which never shuts up.

The fourth Thunder opened thus unto me, by way of Vision; I saw seven Golden Candlesticks branched out from a Suid of * 1.18 Gold, and each Socket appeared empty; and there came one in the appearance of a Jaspher-light, and poured in some spark∣ling Liquor, and there arose a shining burning, which sent forth Flakes of light very numerous, running up and down like Lightning, so as nothing could contain them, nor prevent them from going whither they would, then was it cry'd in my hearing, What hast thou seen? but the great Wonder of the fourth Thunder, disclosing the fiery Lamps, that are appointed to be fixed in renewed Nature, which are so impowering, that on whomsoever they rest, they may act and do whatsoever they will into. For the Concord of these seven Spirits is of that force, as they can save or destroy, bind or loose; they are the seven proper Powers that must make out, who are God's Co-deified Ones, and commissioned to act in this last Seene of Wonders, in the wonder-City, that shall be all compacted of pure Spirits: Hear and see, ye shall be planted there as the great Cannons; for these Powers will multiply as a great Host, which can cut off this visible World at one stroke: This is the great reserve to be given as a Reward to the suf∣fering Conquerors.

The fifth Thunder cryed, Now unseal the Tabernacle-Testimony; let the eternal Gospel of Love and Peace go forth in the cloven Tongue, * 1.19 which can only speak out what springs from the original Law of restored Nature, to its primary Purity, out of the Fountain of the Deity: Be∣hold, these are the separated and anointed Ones, who have this Gospel-Dispensation as a perpetual rising spring, proceeding from the holy Spirit, who can indeed absolve and pronounce Remission of Sins. For Power will rest upon those who can conveigh the New-Testament-Blood, to heal and deliver from the infective Root of Sin; not in a painted formal Imitation, but there shall go forth a Fire-breath, to send this healing Gospel into the very Center-Root of the sick and sor∣rowful in Spirit, who under the wound of Sin have laid long for Cure. To which true Royalty and Priesthood, some shall be more eminently ordained, for the gathering in of those who lie under the Babylonish Rubbish, who shall be raised through the out-going Might of the ever∣lasting Testimony in the Blood of the Lamb's Life, which is the known Character that only shall be given to them.

The Declaration of the sixth Thunder was thus represented to * 1.20 me; I saw one holding forth a Saphire Signet, or sealing Stone, with which were to be marked all the Free-born that do belong to the New-Jerusalem; for none but such as are marked can have right to the vast Riches which are concentred in Wisdom's Bank, who to this day hath locked up the Brides Dowry, and will not part with it, till she can come with this Seal upon her Heart, which is now brought out to put the highest impress of Saphire-Glory, and Purity, that may signifie, that the Lamb's Bride is all thus dignified. Oh! who shall henceforth detain those Riches, Wealth and Honour, which have been treasured up from before the Foundation of the World? For all must now be given up to her command, whether it be in Heaven or Earth, or in the glassy Sea, whether in Heights, or in Depths, or in any of the Eternal Sphears. The sealing Name is every where the Authority, that must set all open, which hath been locked up hitherto, because none could bring alone with them the Seal which is now freely brought down of God's own ingraving, and therefore can never be counterfeited; for it bears the lively Portraiture of Father, Son and Spirit, to whom all Riches Power and Glory are given.

The last Thunder comes in great Power, to declare the Great * 1.21 Day of the Marriage-Feast of the Lamb; The Fountains run now with that Spirit Wine, that was in the Grape before all Time; the choice and precious Fruits, ripened by the Serene and Pure Elements, are prepared, and the Table is covered with all Replenishments, that God himself can set out, to express the Content and Joy he takes to see this consummating Day, wherein I saac hath brought home his Rebecca in∣to God the Father's and Jerusalem's Glory, where henceforce a per∣petual Feast of Joy forever is to be kept. Angels now sound your, Trumpet-Songs, because the Harvest is reapea, and God's Kingdom come. The Lamb and Bride are now met to maintain a living Fame in another Creation. The Redemption is finished, Salvation is witnes∣sed, and the Mystery of God is unsealed. The Harpers are summon'd to the Holy Quire, with their Sounds and fiery Tongues, that may proclaim the Lamb hath given up the Kingdom consisting of perfect Spirits, that God only may be the top covering of great Majesty, Strength, Wisdom and Glory, in and over all the Inhabitants of this Holy City, which beareth this Name. The Almighty creating Power ••••••ileth and taketh up his abode here.

Henceforth bless the Lord on High, Its he that hath unsealed, Treasures richly. What can them hide from the Spirit's Eye, That pierced have into the Heart of the Deity Tribute-Offerings pay to our God and King, Who hath revealed Wonderful Things.

Oh what Seraphick Sounds do I hear! Are they not the Thunders of the Coelestial Sphear? Calling for an attentive Ear Spirit to hear o're, Which as the Doors be to the Golden Ore, Where vast Treasures land up are in store; But sound are only by Spirit's Pore.

This is the state in which the Souls blest Eye May see God without Thought intellectually. Though Speech and Converse away may fly, The thunder of his Power abides essentially; This is the Day we rejoyce to see, Even the acting Power of the Deity.

What is it but the fiery piercing Eye, That can the unsealed Book untye? Wherein the perfect Number Seven lie; Blessed is that Power from on High, That hath struck the Crystial Rock, From whence the Thunders did fly.

I feel the gushing in of Crystial Springs, That whirleth as upon Cherubim Wings: No more to look down to Earthly Things, The Glass so clear through which I see, Beholding glorious Objects variously, That snatched away before I am awake.

Pass we on to the Sea of Glass; Through all Worlds we make our Pass.

Brought we are to our own Land, Where all Wonders in order stand; Rewing what the Mortal cannot endure, Even those Coelestials that are ever pure.

Blessed are those in whom the wonder Of the seven Thunders uncloaked be, That feel, that see, that possess God in Unity, Raised high into the Heart of the Deity; Whereout Spring secret pleasant things, That swallows up in Joy that hath no end.

Thus were the seven Thunders opened and interpreted to me from the springing Word, upon which I closely waited, and wit∣nessed & felt a sweet & precious anointing and refreshing Joy to come in from every Thunder-Cry. Oh! this is so great, so weighty and rich, and such surprizing Goodness, which in this Book of Life is found, which is now unsealing, that no other things any more ought to be minded by us.

Thus the triumphant King and Conqueror (who is possessed of all these Royal Powers and Dignities, that are infolded in these seven Thunders) hath given his Word, that none of these shall fail in any one that hath the mark of the seventh Conquering-Seal broken up in themselves, to whom joynt-power and autho∣rity will be given, in order to the beginning of that Reign, which is to be settled here on Earth, according to the Prophecy in John's Revelation, which presseth hard upon me from the Fiery Cloud, that circles round my Spirit for a defensive Banner, which will let nothing of the eclipsing dark Principle come in, whilst the Center deep from the Soul's fiery Essence opens, and the bright Streamers, from the Heart of the glorified Jesus, who meets me in such a peaceable Love-paved-Walk, into which none can come to see or hear what passeth by way of Prospect or Com∣munication; but what, and so much as I am ordered to declare, I shall faithfully give out, according to the mind of my Lord, who sees the effect that shall follow all these Revelations given by him.

The Prophecy of the Thousand Years Reign, mentioned in the Revelations, was set before me and opened. As to the Time,

Persons and Place, much Controversie hath been concerning this Mystery, which I shall not meddle with, but shall only faithful∣ly declare what the Morning-Star hath expresly revealed from his own Mouth, who with this Salutation began; Awake ye, who have been under Death and Judgment; know ye not that my Reign is near? The fore-going Prophecy must have its fulfilling, and there are those who are a ripening for it, upon whom my Kingdom shall be fixed. Wherefore do thou warily observe the following Particulars, which are the fore-going Signs of my Personal Reign, whereby it may be known how near it is.

The first particular concerns those Persons in whom this Reign is to begin, who are such as have been Beheaded, suffering an in∣ward spiritual Martyrdom, for the hope of a Resurrection in a God-head-Body and Spirit. The manner of Death is here to be taken notice of; they are said to have been Beheaded, that is, who have their Head Life, where the rational Understanding is seated, and from whence all sensible operation go forth, cut off, and separated from them, because by means of it the Dragon and Beast have found place to establish their Kingdoms in Man, and have been hereby in all Ages upheld; the main of the Ser∣pents strength having alwayes lain in the Craft and Subtilty of Reason, which is the Fore-Head mark of the Beast. Who then are they who have known this honourable Death from the fla∣ming Sword in the Hand of the Cherubim, but those who shall heat the Resurrection-Trumpet, to let them know their Thrones are set, and their Conquering-Crowns to their new-risen Heads are fitted, and that all Power and Judgment is given unto them, to personate the mighty King Jesus here upon Earth. For Christ the Lord shall have no need in his own particular glorified Per∣son to come down amongst the Inhabitants of the Earth. There is something to be done first by them, who are to Personate him in the Kingly Dominion; his transparent Body is such, as will not (till this first Reign be finished) be any way bearable to the present consistency of things, which must be first sublimed. It is sufficient that the Lord is come in his witnessing Power and Presence, through a new-risen Life with and in his Elders, for to reign in the Majesty of his all-governing Eye, which pierceth as devouring Flames, and burning Coals of Fire, which run

from each to other, and from one end of the Earth to the other. If the Lord will but supply the visible Humanity with a mighty flow from the Deity, and with a witnessing Omnipotency, it will be sufficient and considerable Glory. Next, we are to consider where the Reign of Christ is to be manifested, to wit, in renew∣ed Natures center, which is made all Seraphick, in the Souls in∣ward Essence, from whence the Serpent and Beast are cast out, and have no more place; they are in this latter Reign chained up, though in the fore-going dominion which the Lord had in the Soul, he was alwayes in Contest with these potent Adver∣saries, who exerted all their strength to keep their hold in the mixed frame of Nature; all of which being now overturned, they have no place where to establish their Dominion: So that now all Strife ceaseth, because the Lord alone doth reign in Peace over all the Region of Light. For now the Soul is Born a new into the light World, and is most firmly established in its King∣ly Power, which is not from received Gifts or Powers, as in the day of Penticost, but all comes in with the risen Birth, from whence the Powers do naturally and uncessantly flow, and there∣fore out of all danger of mutability, which might threaten a dis∣appointment of any thing, that is agreed upon by the Kingly Soul, with his seven counselling Spirits, which do continually stand before the Thorne in the inward Heavens; which by the scattering Coals from the Deity are made as an enduring burn∣ing Element, where the Glory of Christ's Personality may be seen, but no otherwise detained as to his individual Person, but as the same likeness is risen by virtue of the creating Word in his. Members, who are intrusted with this active powerful Body, sui∣table for the management of such a Kingdom, in which the Soul at first reigns invisibly over all its inward Motions and Proper∣ties, as over People, Nations and Languages, all which by Wis∣dom's Power are kept in a God-like temperature, such as may express the Lord is come to Personate himself in a righreous and peaceable Government, such as never yet hath been in the World since Adam lost Paradise.

Objection. But shall this be an Universal Reign? And after what manner shall it be Modalized in this visible Creation? That which is Internal and Spiritual will not be so much taken notice of, though it comes to this height of Perfection, for it may be

hid amongst a small Number, yet may be known but only to one another, the generality still abiding under the Beasts Power and Name, which is his accursed Nature.

This Query was answered me in plainness of Truth, thus; That this glorious Reign would not be Universal, nor break out all at once, but gradually from the burning Unction, which pre∣pares Christ's way, and makes room for his Kingdom: There is much to be done first, and here must a Beheading go before, and a plucking up all that hath made desolats, and after all this a coming up again in the Resurrection, which is a rare attainment indeed; for it is a Resurrection to a state wholly sound and sinless, even the same to which our Lord was raised after Death. The Prophecy doth not say, That all the dead were raised up to reign with Christ a Thousand Years; but it is expresly declared, that the rest of the Dead did not rise till the Thousand Years were ex∣pired; from whence it was cleared up to me, that many may be going through this Spiritual dying, and yet continue dead, whilst others are raised, according to that Word, Blessed are they who are partakers of this first Resurrection; so that it will not be Universal. But besides this, there are those who are Unrigh∣teous, of whom it is Prophesied, Let him that is unjust, be unjust still; these shall in no wise enter into Christ's Kingdom, but be shut out of the holy City, which shall rule over them. For this Kingdom shall not only be inward, in the Properties of the Soul, but shall also exercise its dominion over this visible Prin∣ciple; and those who are unconverted shall be as Stubble before the bright flaming Cherubims, who in the Lamb's Power shall reign on the Earth: The Elect shall reap and long enjoy the creating Works of their own Hands; for with no less Power shall the Representatives of Christ the Lord be invested. This declared, must be throughout all Worlds, that Christ will ap∣pear in his Saints that are risen again to bear the Tropky of a Death-Conquering Power.

Now the next enquiry is, When is the time that this may be expected, because hitherto there is but very small appearance of any such thing? that is, Who is it qualified in such a high degree as this heavenly Kingdom requires? Who are willing to be Be∣headed, and through Death to be made partakers of this Reign?

But yet notwithstanding all these Objections of Fear & Unbelief, and the whole throng of discouraging Spirits of the sensible Life, whose cry is, Who is able to suffer all this? Faith and Love are given to the worthy pretenders to this Kingdom, whereby they are carried as with Wings, over all the Floods of Fear and Dis∣couragement; neither shall they want either Resolution or Va∣lour to wade through the greatest opposing Difficulties, who are designed for it, and found in the Lamb's Roll. A double and trebble portion of his Spirit the Lord hath said he will add to them, who first shall abrogate the Law of Sease, which hath been the chief hinderance of his Kingdom, which therefore is to be made void, because it diverts the Soul from fetching all its Supplies from the Rock; neither can Faith arrive to its full strength, till Sense be led into captivity, and cast into a dead Sleep.

Now as to the time of the Lord's Reign, when it shall be, you will be apt to say, That this is an unknown thing, and that none can prefix the time. It is true that many have Calculated, and puzled their Spirits about it in vain: But if we will know how near the time is, we must not look without us, but in the unseal∣ed Book of Life within us; there you will find the fore-going Signs, which are first to be accomplished in your own Heavens and Earth: We may try and prove our selves by what hath been already revealed from the seven Seals and Thunders, how near the Kingdom of our Lord is approached unto us. Let each of us examin our selves, how far the preparative work is advanced in us: We see what the Beast and Dragon's Kingdom must suffer in us, to make way for this Reign, which cannot be established till all this Trash be taken out of the way. Therefore we shall only know the time by such an one, who shall give the first dead∣ly stroke, and come forth a Conqueror over the whole sensitive Life, and this outward Kingdom, which stands divided between Good and Evil; in such an Overcomer as this my Jesus expressed, he would appear and personate a Kingly Reign; and that we are not to look out for any other Sign at this time, but the Ma∣nifestation of this conquering Life: And further said, There would go forth an Arrow from the Word of Revelation, which should so closely stick in some, as to pierce through the Heart of

the Beast, who hath warred to hinder the Lord's triumphant Reign in his Saints. By all which it is clear, that there is no surer sign of the approaching Personal Reign of Christ, than to see the Beast wounded to the Heart; for no sooner will the Beast be removed, but his Kingdom will appear, whose right it is to rule in Heaven and Earth. Who is it now that will suck in the Marrow of these precious things, which is the dropping Oyl which distills from the Olive-Tree, to make our way smooth, light and clear, and to preserve us from being daunted, though our Por∣tion should be a draught of Blood? for the life of the Beast must be taken away, before the Lord appear in us like himself, in Power, Glory and Majesty. Oh! what Drawings and Desires may these weighty sayings from the Lord, enkindle in us from his coming to reign in absolute dominion within us!

The Word came to me, Run hard, there is a rich Prey to be taken, by treading down of the Beast, which may be taken, if pursued to the Victory: Wherefore be valiant in the Faith, for all Might is in God, to overcome whatsoever opposeth his Reign and Personal King∣dom.

Much and free Communication I had with the Lord this Night, and a Cloud of Light appeared in me, which raised my * 1.22 hope higher; I had also many Queries satisfied. Then there appeared to me a pitched Standard, which reached from the Earth to the Heavens, where its top was hid; it resembled a strait ascending Flame; and it was signified, that this was the Standard of overcoming Power, which no earthly Warrior would venture to engage with; for its Dominion reached from the Earth to the Heavens; and this Word was added, Stick close to it, and move not from under it, for it will be a shelter from the Storm which is coming on, with a flowing Sea of Troubles, raised by the wrathful One, whose Kingdom is Division.

This Motto and Inscription was given out from the sealed Book within, as follows; In Christ I live, in Christ I dye, that I may cease from Sin and beastly Properties, that so the first Ground of Life may rise over all, to immortalize the Reign of Christ. Words no more as empty Sails spread out shall be, but become the thundering Air of an Almighty Power, which is Christ in his essential Spirit, who wanders from the Heights above and Depths below, will in his time show:

Look and read the circle Line, and the most marvelous things may fur∣ther know and find.

Upon some inward Conference with my Lord about the Ship∣wracked-Bark of Nature, which still upon the forreign Coast doth lie, and is often in Jeapordy by reason of some Tides, which might make the Vessel spring-a-Leek; the Lord did immediately come in with these Words, saying, Make re∣flection, and ponder well my Grace and Love, which hath been so great, as to lay in my Life so deep with thine, that thou canst suffer nothing but I do call it mine. Thy broken Vessel shall be renewed into its Ori∣ginal, when all of sinsul Properties shall be drowned in the Alpha and Omega, who is the beginning and end of Time, and who will open the sealed Mine, where the unsearchable Riches shall freely abound as in the state of Innocency, where nothing of necessity or want was known: All this is going on, und advancing in the moving Circle of the Duty: all that is required of thee, is to be steady in the highest float of Earth.

My Spirit was let down into the deep Center and Circumse∣rence, where the personal Glory met me, with whom I had great Felicity to behold the Shepherd with his Fold, who friend∣ly faluted me; for though a naked Spirit, I was not despised by such dignified Bodies, though I was made very sensible of the * 1.23 want of such a glorious Body; and as soon as I desired it, I was forthwith imbodyed as in the same Glory, and was joyned to the heavenly Train. I rejoyced greatly that I had made a slip out of the vile Garment, though but for a while, though I was to take it up again, and appear amongst the Inhabitants of time, till my course was fulfilled: This bright Cloathing is only bearable by Jerusalem Natives; and though these were the all desirable Flocks, that I would chuse to abide withal forever, yet I found a prohibition at the present, that it must not be desired This royal Priestly Garment being reserved till we be called into view, and have communion with the most Holy of Beeings, who did not bring me hither to send me away empty, but gave me to taste of the choice Fruits of that unknown Climate, the refreshing take of which is left upon the Center-Mouth of my Heart, from whence the Life-Fruits should spring evermore, as was said to me, with an Advertisement to wait till Wisdom's Garden in the Soul be planted, and richly furnished with those blossoming

Powers that may draw the high and lofty One to look down and walk there.

Oh! what are these forcible Powers which I feel winding my Spirit deeper in; where enquiry was made, What would be the sign of the Center-dwellers in the most holy of Beeings, which should need no Witness from Man, for that was poor and insuffi∣cient? Wherefore be quiet and still, and cease from all Creaturely Evidence, and look for the Witness of the unsealed Book, to exert the seven flowing Properties of the holy Ghost, which will out-vive all worded Testimonies that are so fluent in this Age: Wherefore a more sure Seal is provided, that will remove all Doubts and Suspitions, of which feastival Cup I was called to drink, from the Hand of him who is appointed to fill it out, as the last and great Reserve which shall silence all Controversies, and doubtful Disputations, and ratifie and confirm who they are that are Born again to act, move and live from a new generating Spring, that worketh away every thing that defiles and makes obstruction: Which seven evidencing Powers were revealed to me, in which the Personal Reign of Christ would consist.

THe First was a circuling Cloud of Light, from whence unces∣sant * 1.24 Revelation would spring, and open what was never known before, concerning the invisible Scenes of Glory, to which the mortal Man hath been altogether a stranger, not having un∣derstood his original Royalty. But where Christ, the central Light, is entred into the Soul's Essence, there everlasting Light doth break, which shews invisible things in their first pure Ground, where the eternal Fire-Soul moves strong to come out of an impotent weak Life, that hath been shut up in this vile Body of Sin; the Light of Revelation making it restless any longer to abide therein, and so it is made to pursue another be∣ginning from a new-rising-Spring, flowing from the God-head, that affords strength for a Co-deified operation, which may give a living Testimony, that a new Spring is appearing out of an old Tree, whose Sap is renewed to bring forth the second Property of the holy Ghost, as another Fruit bearing Branch.

Which Branch is put forth from the all-encompassing-Element, wherein the Soul is baptized, as in a Cloud of Fire; whoever they * 1.25

be that come to know this, need no greater Witness, as to their own particular, for they know their dwelling is in the very center Heart of God; they are fed and cherished with the Blood of Life, and oily Lamp that makes all the Body within to be as a burning Cherubim, that at times and season can mount & fly into the very Heavens: Though this be yet a mystical and dark Speech, and little experienced, yet know, the time of Elijah is nigh, and a Whirl-wind is descending from the Alpha and Omega, to take up the stain Witnesses, who have been in the World so undervalued. The Ascention-Gate by this bright Key is unlocked, to go in after him, who was translated from among Men, so as not to be yet hid in the Mystery: And thus shall it be again, though in ano∣ther Form and Model; for these Elijah. Prophets, though they shall be redeemed from every thing which is of the 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 Nature, yet in this shall differ from Elijah, for whereas he was ta∣ken up, and seen no more among Men, those in their visible Persons shall remain on the Earth, and every where carry along with them their encompassing Charriots of hire, which shall be disco∣verable to none but the Ministring Elijah's, they will not safe to follow fully, where the Life-Witness doth remain after this sort and kind.

The Third out flowing Poperty of the holy spirit, which pshers * 1.26 in Christ's Reign, is this, that a simplified raked Som, coming forth from the baptizing Cloud, puts on a Cloathing of imprege∣nable defence and power, viz. a meer 〈◊〉〈◊〉 such as the Lord Christ had after his Resurrection, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the one pure Element, which can swallow up the visible gross substance of Flesh, that it may no longer be an Impediment to the Soul's runing its Race: Indeed such a Body is very suitable for the great things that are to be wrought by the christed Kings on Earth; for if provision of such a Body were not made by Christ, it would be in vain for him to go about to settle his Kingdom, where the Beast and Dragon have had their Dominion so long, and who will not now be dethroned upon a slight account: They will hold their Propriety in the outward Husk of the Body, when they can find no place for themselves in the Soul: There∣fore the Lord hath revealed, That he will turn the very Body into its Paradisical Property again, that the dark Prince and his

Agents may not be able to overthrow the Lord's personal reign in his Saints; who would desire no fairer mark to shoot their Arrows at, than a frail mortal Body of Flesh. Wherefore the Lord hath said, That he will raise a firm Tabernacle, which no earthly Weapon shall be able to pierce, which will be a fit Gar∣ment to last out the thousand Years: Let the Just and Holy be∣lieve this, and see at this finished first, in the Kingdom that is within the Soul's Essence, and then such may conclude that they shall assume a whole Power and Right to reign with Christ, over all Kingdoms of this World in Magical Might.

The Fourth out going Power of the holy Ghost, sets the Soul * 1.27 free in the eternal liberty, here all Conflicts which the Dragon, or the starry Region hath introduced; for the soul now is influenced by those superior Planets, to which these outward Planets are sub∣ject. The Soul & Christ are in a mutual agreement, to break a way from the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Rays of Time and Mortality; being encom∣passed 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 that will set no more, nor with-draw; for it is the glory of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Dayes, that runs its Circle without the least 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 Light, and fixeth the Soul in its pure splen∣dorious Body; when 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 shall find it self in another form of Life, and 〈◊◊◊〉〈◊◊◊〉 Principality before Jehovah's Throne, attend 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to know the counsel and decrees of the Sove∣raign Majesty, under whom is mannaged all inferior Government, which shall be committed to those who reign with Christ the Lord: Oh! this will be a wonderful time indeed! For while the Lord is opening these things to me, I am as one sunk into the Abyssal Ground, where I am as nothing, till he put forth a piercing Ray from his flaming Eye, to fetch my Spirit up again; who thus spake unto me, Stand thou up, and hear and declare the new Model of my Reign, and let it be published; for it is time to awaken those who are ordained for the first Resurrection, that they may no longer sleep in the day break of my appearance: And do thou solemnly see thy Heart to the great Immunities that are revealed, not only for spe∣culation, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for sulfilling, where great Earnestness shall be found. Thus the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 One set home his Word, and causeth it to pass through a Vessel that is nothing to be accounted of, whereat my self stands amazed, what should move the Lord thus to appear, and hold such a free Converse, and leave such weighty things

in trust with me? Oh! What can be said, but that it is the Good-will and Pleasure of my Christ and King, who will change Tin and Dross into Gold, as it pleaseth him?

The Fifth Property of the Holy Ghost is, that whereby the Soul gets free from the striving Elements, and comes to Rest and * 1.28 Peace, all Wars and Combates ceasing. The Soul having got up these four ascending Steps towards the Throne, can now look down like a Tower of strength, terrible to all the lower Inha∣bitants round about: It is a Palace compacted within it self, knowing nothing but a serene Peace and Concord; neither Dra∣gon nor Beast do so much as attempt to come here, for Love and Peace is their Hell and Torment. Christ's personal Reign in his Saints consists of Peace, Power, Love & Joy; the holy Ghost moveth in the mild and meek Property from the Water of Life, that cap∣tivates the Enmity and Strife, and shuts up the dark Center with all its Spirits: This carries a two-fold meaning, for first it is to be understood of that Love and Peace which possesseth the whole inward Hemisphere of the Soul; and in the next place of the same Love flowing forth and diffusing it self through all the Sub∣jects of that peaceful Kingdom, which Christ will establish in the high Angelical Harmony of Love.

The Sixth out-flowing Property, is the Omnipotence of God exerted in the renewed part, in an absolute and Almighty Do∣minion, * 1.29 that admits of no controule. Here is no need of going out to borrow Gifts or Powers, which are now fixed in the Soul to manifest the Wonders of the Magia, which hath been shut up in Wisdom's Principle, whose Virgins Crown of Power is sent down as a signal Testimony of the Kingly Reign that must pre∣vail over all the Earth. The bright flaming Standard of Christ's Personality will be of that Magnificence, as to draw home the dispersed and scattered Flock, which hath suffered Violence in this Babylonish Kingdom: A Jubile will be proclaimed by them, to whom this Dominion shall first come. They, the Head-Kings and Leaders are appointed to shine forth as Stars, that shall bear such sway in God's Omnipotency, as shall make all the Elect to haste and fly to this Kingdom, as Doves to the Win∣dows, where all occasions of complaint about the Necessities of Life shall be cut off, because Wisdom's Store-house shall from

the Inherent Omnipotency, abundantly supply whatsoever is need∣ful of this kind. The Paradisical lost Power shall be restored in a higher degree than ever, to the end that Self-Love and Propri∣ety may be taken away, which cannot enter into Christ's King∣dom; for the Lord hath averred, That none who are thus spi∣rited shall ever his Kingdom inherit. The vast and inexhaust∣able Treasure of divine Riches cannot be enjoyed in Propriety, but only in Loves Communion.

The Seventh and last Property of the holy Ghost, that gives wit∣ness to Christ's Reign, doth consist in a Life of Praise & Exaltation, * 1.30 which goeth forth in the Angelical Tongues, Powers and Sounds of so many persumed Offerings, paying an everlasting Love-Tribute of Joy to the Antient of Dayes, by and in whom they are come to reign over all Kingdoms in this World, in Christ's personal Power: The New Hallelujahs from the Fire-breath of the Holy Ghost shall be the Holy Sport and Coelestial Play of the Children of this Kingdom: All their Works shall speak forth the Praises of the Most High; for Wisdom's Spirit will act so high, and in such a mysterious manner, as hitherto hath not been known; all which miraculous Powers have been reserved to make up the Glory of Christ's second coming in his Representatives here on Earth: For if the Lord should not in this manner demonstrate his God-head-Power in his Saints, they would be set very light by, and it would be a vain thing to assume the Title and Name of Kings without anointing Power suitable to it. No Dominion, whe∣ther inward or outward, can be maintained without Loves-Omnipotency. And truly, my Lord hath assured me, that he hath made large and full Provision for this Day, who upon some pri∣vate Objections of my own, said to me, Be thou nothing doubtful concerning all the great Things of my Kingdom, which have been open∣ed to thee from the Center of Light; they have been revealed for a ground of Faith: The Head of the Dyal is moving towards the fixed Hour, which will manifest all these working Powers of the holy Ghost: Wherefore do not streighten thy self, nor any to whom this Word shall come, but run out in a spacious large Belief, answerable to Loves-Power, and the ability of the object, to whom the Eye of Faith is di∣rected: For wonderful things are upon the Wheel, by which you may know it is high time to put forth your Hands to raise and awaken that

which hath been so long asleep. This was the concluding Word of Counsel from the Lord.

The fore-going Properties, is that which makes way for the Reign of Christ in personal Power and Glory, which is now the great thing to be waited for, as the End and Consummation of all that hath been revealed, in the bare discovery of which we are not to rest, but we are to press forward to enjoy the Fruit or Product of it in the inward Center, where Christ will be manifested in his Personal Glory and Power: For the driving seeking Spirit will not be at rest, till it can put on its Resurrection-Body: It knows that hitherto, not∣withstanding all its Refinings and Dyings to sinful Self, and the World, it yet remains a naked Spirit, which must return into the Virgin-Womb of Eternity, there to be regenerated in∣to an heavenly Corporeity, from the one holy Element, out of which Christ's holy Personality is taken: This is the rich Gar∣ment with which the Sion-Kings are to be arrayed, and there∣by will be distinguished from those who stick fast in corrupted Nature, and are not regenerated into this bright Image, and from those also who though they are regenerated according to the inward man, yet being intangled in the Thickest of the many things, are fain to stay behind, till those who by their hard pressing forward have overcome the World, Beast and Dragon. Therefore be first instated in the Lord's personal Power; for the Lord assured me, that this would be the way he would take in this present Age, to instate some who are known to him, in his Personal reign, that they may enjoy here on Earth their first Heavens, to the ter∣ror, grief & envy of such, who have been hard, cruel in the dealt's Kingdom, restraining their good things from the Lambs of Christ's Fold. Here it will be as in the case of Dives and Laza∣rus, they shall see those who were most despicable in their Eyes, to be greatly beloved and honoured, as being intrusted with a Kingdom, in which they shall reign as the true Born Co-heirs with their Head, Christ; bearing rule over all those who have been their Oppressors in this World. It was also revealed to me, That there were others which stood in a mixed state, and divided between the two Kingdoms of Light and Darkness, but yet followed after the Mark and Crown; these would scarce be∣lieve

that such a Commission as this would ever be given to any appearing in a mortal Form, to be crowned as Co-heirs with the Lord in his Personal Glory: But the just One hath shewed that thus it shall be to convince and provoke to Emulation these last spoken of, that they also may make haste to be made Kings and Priests to God.

The grand Query after all that hath been revealed concerning the Reign of Christ in his Saints, is this, Where this Government shall be pitched? It is an ancient Scripture-Prophecy, that Judah shall reign with God, for he is faithful with the Saints. The Scepter shall not depart till Shiloh come, who is the King and Law-giver, that is, was, and is to come. And to whom will he come first of all, but to those pure Virgin-Spirits, who tra∣vel to bring forth Christ spiritually, as the product of an invi∣sible Almightiness, which will appear to be that Man-Child which is to rule the Nations with the Rod of God's Power, in this World, and do far greater Wonders with it than Moses ever did with his. For the eternal Magia shall bring forth all her Plants of renown. The highest Wisdom shall be brought into manifestation, and replenish the Earth a-new, that God may walk in the midst of it, and no longer be unknown to its Inhabitants, who are refined from their Dross, and thereby got a free and open entrance into the Jerusalem from above. The partition Wall must be broken down, that Christ above and Christ beneath may joy n together for mutual Joy and Fruition.

But here it may be objected, How can this be as long as the Body is yet Terrestrial; for an Earthly Body cannot ascend to the Lord's Glory?

I Answer; That therefore a new Body is prepared, even a Heavenly, such an one as Christ had, who could change his Form how and when he pleased: So he appeared to Moses and Elias in his transfigured bright Body, and then came down again in a terrestrial Body to the sight of Mortals; which Power shall be renewed again in those who shall personate Christ upon the Earth, they shall ascend and descend at pleasure, and transmute themselves readily, which state will much excell all Visions of the glorified Person of Christ; for without this Coelestial Body we cannot hold out in that Sublime and Seraphick Communion

hid with Christ, which shall be in this Kingdom of the Saints: Wherefore there is such a Body prepared, which shall be able to pass into the invisible Orb where the King of Glory dwells: It is given me to see this approaching day in the Spirit: if the Representation thereof be so glorious, what will the thing it self, when actually accomplished? This report which the holy Ghost doth give of it, doth powerfully constrain the Soul to put in its whole stock of faith for it.

The sum of all these Discoveries concerning the Reign of Christ, must be terminated in the Virgin seed. Eve's lost chastity will produce a new Generation, to whom this Kingdom shall be committed in trust. This was revealed from that Vision * 1.31 which Holy John saw, of a great wonder in Heaven, a Woman clothed with the Sun, and the Moon under her feet, and a Crown of twelve Stars on her head. Many interpretations have been made of this Vision, which here I am neither to approve of or condemn, but to mind the opening of the living Word, who is present to explain, whatsoever is obscure, to those who turn aside from the Wisdom of the flesh, and receive the united drops, as they fall from the Heavenly Cloud; to which is required a well purified vessel, in which no taint of putrifaction doth remain. This was a Proviso given me to observe throughout all this Mini∣stration, which made me set time a-part to prepare the vessel, be∣fore I could see the Cloud break, and send down its shower up∣on my ground: This I mention for their sakes who are in this Ministration of Revelation. Now to proceed to what the Lord hath opened to me, from this figure of the Woman, who is re∣presented here as travelling in Birth; intimating to us that as by a Woman a finful off-spring was brought forth, in which Sor∣row, Sin and the Curse had dominion; so from this Eternal Vir∣gin-Wisdom, a birth is to be born in which nothing but Joy, Life, Blessing and Eternal Power and Dominion shall take place. This Virgin Adam had in himself, before ever Eve was taken out of him, but she with-drew as soon as Adam looked outward, as if he were not sufficient of himself to encrease and multiply for the replenishing of Paradise, God having created him Male and Female in himself. But this design was overturned, and Eve's Generation is now multiplied over the face of the whole Earth, from whence Paradise with the Virgin is fled; yet a won∣der

is now again seen in the Heavens, which we are to declare to our own little flock, which brings such tidings of Joy, as doth far excel that of Gabriel, to her who was the blessed amongst Women, as being defigned to be the Mother of our Jesus in his fleshly appearance. But now, by this Virgin he is brought forth in another appearance, as a mighty Ruler and Potentate over this Earth, who is really and truly to fulfill whatsoever was tipified in Solomon's Reign. David's Wars must cease, which can∣not be till this everlasting Virgin hath brought forth her Man∣child, who is to possess what Adam and Eve have lost of Paradise and Mount-Zion Kingdom: All which is to be restored by the Virgin, who is not limited to Male or Female, for she may as∣sume either according to her good pleasure, for she is both Male and Female for Angelical Generation.

But here it may be asked, What is this Virgin? Whence is she? How can she introduce her self into that Nature, where her pure chasti∣ty hath been violated?

This last indeed may be accounted a wonder above our hopes and expectation, which yet she is in a rendiness to do, as is well known to them, who have understood her, and preferred her a∣bove all things, as being well assured, that like as all Bliss and Peace sted away with her, so upon her return, all good will come back * 1.32 with her again. As to her Nativity, it is from everlasting, be∣fore the Creation of Heaven or Earth. She was before all, as be∣ing the Co-essential creating Power in the Deity, which formed all things out of nothing, and hath given a dignified existency to all those Seraphick Glories which move within her own Sphear, who are the product of an unsearchable Wisdom, for the reple∣nishing of those superior Worlds which are little known in this, where we are out-casts; neither can we be acquainted with much glories, till we be born again out of her Virgin-Womb; for so it must be before ever we come to be Christs, in conformity with Christ our Head.

A Marvelous thing the Lord hath revealed to me, concerning this Woman which holy John saw, viz. that she represents Gods Spouse and Mate, from whom the highest Birth, the Eternal Word of Wisdom did go forth, as the mighty Alpha and Omega, in a distinct glorious personality, known to himself in God, and the Everlasting Virgin, before any thing of the heavenly Hosts

were created. For he stood equally in the Counsel of the Father and Virgin, for the bringing of the whole Creation into a figu∣rative manifestation. Now for what is all this, but to discover the mystery of this Woman, that she is the eternal Virgin, who will essentially introduce her self into those who are prepared and appointed to enjoy her? She will confer her Sun and Crown of Stars upon her Representatives. Here will be brought down the one elemental Robe, and the quint Essential Root will again be found, which will give a most glorious Luster, and all renew the gross vile matter as heing the acting Wisdom to shew forth Gods wonders; all which reserved are until her day. She is looked for as Gods fruitful Bride to bring forth Christs persona∣lity in plurality, as so many immaculate Princes, ruling in God. Just cause will be found, if we consider this Principle, wherein the Serpent with so much bitterness wars against the Virgin and her Seed, why her Off-spring, as soon as born, is caught up to Heaven, from whence the Dragon is cast out, and where the Iron Rod will crush him, and be too hard for him and his adherents. Her Off-spring will appear all Virgins, with her own lustrous Son, who is the first-born amongst the Kings of the Earth and Heavens. Oh the high and majestical Glory, which shall proceed from the Vir∣gins Womb, with whom is the blessing that will abound in fruit∣ful Gifts and high working Powers from the Magia ground. Eve's Conception in Sorrow shall not here be known; for this Virgin never was disobedient, or broke Faith with God, who is her Husband; the fruit of whose travel is Blessing and Joy through the whole Generation that shall be Born of her: She shall be the Mother of the true Virgin-Church, wherein no mix∣ture of Will-Worship or False Doctrine shall be found.

But it may be queried, How can this heavenly Virgin endure to come down upon this defiled Earth, for to multiply her Off-spring in it? For without doubt the Serpent and Dragon will violently rage against her, which we have experience of in our selves, when he crowds into our very Heavens, with all evil Beasts at his Heels, waging War against us.

Yet nothing of all this shall be able to prevent God's purpose, who will appear with his Virgin in the divine Body, and cover her with the one Element, which will torment all

evil-Spirits, and wear them out, who can as little endute her Virgin-Purity, as the Virgin-Spirit can bear their Poyson. Therefore a separation is made, as we read, that the Woman had a Place prepared for her in the Wilderness, which signifies the Spirit of Faith, which carries it from off the sensual Ground, where the Concourse of fluttering Spirits of all kinds are; wherefore this is no place for God's Virgin to stay in, she may be in dan∣ger of having her Chastity violated, or of being drowned with the wrathful Floods of the Dragon. The Serpent will not cease to make his attempts with more subtilty than eyer, because by this introduced Virgin-Spirit, his Head-power shall be crushed, and his Seed dis-inherited; but the Virgin-Spirit shall mount like an Eagle, and so escape the Dragon's deluge. A Fountain is opened in the Desart, of which the Soul, which is in union with the Virgin, shall drink, instead of the muddy Waters of the Earth, which she loathes: Pleasant Food is provided in this Wilderness by God himself, and his Christ. The Lord affords these Dainties to the abstracted Life, where the Virgin-Spirit is a stranger to sensitive Self within, as well as to the enchanting World without. Here it wants no good company, for its ne∣ver without heavenly Visitants, because it reserves it self chiefly for converse with the Deity, from whom she expects all her Blessing and Encrease: And thus the Soul shall spring and mul∣tiply, where the Virgin hath realized her self. Her Wilder∣ness shall become a rich Sharon-Pasture, a Land of unknown Plenty, where Gold, Silver, and precious Stones shall be as the Dust under the Feet of these holy separated Virgins: Also with∣in and without, their feeding shall be on Power, Joy and Peace, till the division of Time shall come to an end, in which a fur∣ther Mystery will be understood. But oh! let all this be first sully witnessed.

Here follows a further Advertisement from him, who is come to fulfill old Prophesies in the substance of his own Person, that is Born of the Virgin; from whom we may expect the perfecting of that, which all fore-going Ministrations and Manifestations have left short, in regard of those wonders which shall be effected in this latter Age. To which end Christ hath opened the Center-Eye, that can pierce as deep as the Deity, where this Virgin lies

with all her Glory, who, ever since Adam's day hath been ob∣scured, because she would not trust her self with any Mortal, only some of her shining Rays have now and then been scattered into holy Souls, a taste of which hath been given, as the first Fruits of what is reserved for Christ the Lord's second Birth∣day, where shall be provided a Penticost-Feast, according to the royal and heavenly state of Jehovah's Bride and Mate. Oh! how unable am I to bring forth in Words what hath been shew∣ed me! of the later Fruits that Wisdom's Children shall feed upon in that day; the discovery of which we will pass by at present, and first define what wonderful Virgin this is, and of how noble an Extract, who is taken into God's Bosom, in a mutual Love-imbracing, and therefore may be termed the eternal Goddess, in a high and sober sense; and it is an evil and sinful thing to give this Title to any other, as it is too frequently done. But to proceed to describe this Virgin, according to the delineation which God hath given of her; as first to its Matter and Substance, it is of that thin pure airy subtlety, so as nothing of the gross and pon∣derous outward Elements can mix with it; for they would but * 1.33 tarnish her Clarity, which is ever conversant with the Deity, which was signified by the Sun and Stars which were seen about the Head of the Woman in the Revelations, signifying those supe∣rior Planets, which cannot be adulterated with the Desilemonts of this inferior Orb, as possessing far higher and more exalted Powers, carrying dominion over all that is beneath them. For as the lower Planets hold down in subjection to the Curse, so these deliver and set free from it: Wherefore it is all-worthy to be enquired, in what Planet the Nativity of the Virgin may be again renewed? which must be by bright Venus, which must bring forth the mighty Birth under Sol, in Conjunction with the rest of the superior Planets, which are all harmoniz'd in one; for they agree to bring forth the Mother, and then the Son in the Virgin-Humanity, that bears from the heavenly Mat∣ter both Figure and Form Organically for operation in their va∣rious Properties, which are deciphered by the highest Wisdom to illustrate the only true. Virgin in her beautiful Form. The divine Mould for her Shape is again found, according to what was before either Angels or Man were formed, which is not

to be portrayed, till she come to be essentially manifested with∣in; only her Organical Faculties are unto us described, thereby to know what makes out the Virgin's high Descent, in these se∣veral Faculties, as follow.

The first Faculty set before me, was that of Seeing, seated in her Eye, which appeared like a fiery Ray, and sparkled as a Star, piercing all things in the Heights and Depths. An Eye that slumbers not, but watcheth at each Centers-Gate, to spie what goeth in and out, to prevent all violation of her. Virgin-Chastity, that her Vow may not be broken, by which she stands engaged to her Husband.

The second Faculty is that of Hearing, seated in the Ear, which must be so Chaste as to turn away from all corrupt and unsavoury Language, which speaks not God forth in his immense Love and Goodness, or in his Greatness and Soveraignity. The true Virgins Ear is turned inward, to listen to the sweet Voice of her Bride-groom; she waits for the dropping of his Lips, whose Words are the strength and marrow of her Life; she is in such union with the Deity, that she can't hearken to any strange Voice, left she should be desiled thereby: The greatest danger and hurt she feels from the talking Spirits, from the dark center in the Soul, from which her Virgin-Ear turns away, and dare in no wise stay in their astral counsel; and therefore turns her Ear to those Eccho's, Voices and Sounds, which leave a sweetness, which resists the taking of delight in corrupt and impertinent Communications from without: Thus reserving both Eye and Ear, she still moves forward in her heavenly Sphear.

The third organical Faculty is that of Smelling: This may be understood in a two-fold sense; the first is a drawing in of the Paradisical Perfumes, and those sweet ravishing Odours, which are sufficient to renew languishing Life, and to make it strongly active and vigorous: Secondly, the Virgin is in her self an high sented Odour; her Garments send forth a Fragrancy far surpassing all the spicy Compositions of this earthly Climate: How Vile and De∣spicable doth every thing, that hath lost its Paradisical Property, appear to those who sometimes draw in these ravishing Odours, which might they but continue, they would never desire any other Food. Shall I declare what is made known to me of the

Virtue of these Virgin Perfumes? It is aver'd to me, they will recover a putrified Soul, and eat out all the Poyson of Original Sin, and recover dead flesh, and keep it from Putrifaction; it is a Balsom endued with so penetrating a Spirit, that it can go through Stone and Iron, Flesh and Bones. None can know this till they have passed the Virgins Womb, and then they will double this Witness. Now it is to be considered how unsupportable all rank Plants of the Earth are to the Virgin, who continually breathes this perfumed Air: When ever she makes a swift pass through this noisom Kedar, what a strong sented Garland doth she need, that nothing of Infection may hurt her Virgin Purity: To which end, this Provision is made to keep out the evil Scents, which every where meet us in the Walks of this World.

The fourth Faculty is that of Tasting. Here we find what it is that nourisheth the Virgin; her Food is in her self, and it is no other than pure Deity, which riseth as a flowing Spring from her own deep: She lives upon Spirit of Air, which maintains and blows up the Quint-Essential Fire, as the first Virgin-matter out of which the Soul was made, which in Adam became adul∣terated by eating of the forbidden-fruit, who might have lived upon the Root of eternal Life which he had in himself; he might have tasted the Paradisical Fruits at pleasure; but what was pal∣pable without, he had essentially in the Virgin within himself, so that he might chuse whether he would eat of them or no in a corporeal way. This hath been a secret hitherto little under∣stood; but God in Christ, through his appearance hath revealed it, and for this end to let us know what we are to feed upon at the return of our Virginity, whose Life's Nourishment will be in itself, without any dependence upon any thing from without. Oh! there will quite another thing be known in the Virgin Soul, when she is espoused to her, though she hath liberty to eat, as Adam had before the fall. So here the outward Month may taste of these mortal Fruits, but not of necessity, because the Life is centred in, and maintained from the heart of the Deity, for the enereass and growth of pure Virgin Nature. And truly no∣thing but God can be the Virgins Food, nothing is so well digested by her, for it is a flowing source of Almighty strengthening, and pleasant tasting, according to an infinite variety. This be∣ing

once found, the Soul can no more eat down the Fruits of the mixed Tree, in whose Root the Curse is, whereby Death comes in, which hides the Virgin from the Soul's Essence.

The fifth Faculty is the saper-sential Feeling: What Sence more excellent than this? Can there be a greater Confirmation than a feeling Life, out of which Joy, Peace and Assurance do spring? The Virgin feels her self in the Centre of the Deity; she handles what doth not appear to be tangeable, viz. Breath, Spirit, Fire and Air, in all these her feeling-motion is in great Serenity. A Center-Life, that burneth from the Mirror of the Deity, boyles Love up to that height, as nothing is felt but Plea∣sure and ravishing Delight; it is the Heat and Blood that runs through every Vein of the Virgin-Body, and is an Antidote against all Fear and Pain, which is felt in the mortal Sense: Oh! what Deaths, Akings and Griefs have we felt in our Souls, as well as in our Bodies! our Minds being in continual Anxiousness and Trouble, to see what we are fallen into; I speak of such who have been touched with the Fire-Stone of the Virgin, which must go before her healing Medicine. And blessed are they who have first known the painful feeling under her severe Discipline; for such shall be her polished Pillars on which she will engrave her Virgin Name, as he saith, who is the true and faithful Witness, who is come to take off the Virgins Vail, that we may see her in the Glass of perfection, and come to know and feel her, not as distinct and a-part from us, but all Virginized in her essen∣tial Deity, that the joyful feeling in breath of Fire and Air may be witnessed, and then we shall see what shall follow the Har∣mony of these Sences, which is the Character of the Virgin-Nature, the Pattern we are to try our selves by, for which end we are also called to look into her Mirror, that so it may stir up all favour of desire in us, to have those Sences in their excellency awakened in us. Oh, great Goddess and Queen of all Worlds! wilt thou, after so long a time of Desertion, once appear again! Who is it that hath entreated thy Favour, and gained a Promise from thee, of a Visit, though this be too short, because nothing now will satisfie, unless thou bestow thy self, with all thy divine Sences, as a co-deified Life, to shew that thou art now prevail'd upon, to joyn with the Redeeming Blood, to restore thy own

Virginity, where thou findest Humility and Importunity in that Personality which is all beloved of the highest Wisdom, and only Spouse of God; know and remember us who are brought to thy feet, and have been under thy severe Discipline; therefore allot thy self to be our Garland and Crown!

Now we are advanced one step higher towards Wisdom's hea∣venly Throne, from whence her Golden Scepter is stretched forth to lay hold on, which passeth through and beyond every elementary Cloud, which the sensitive Life hath raised, so as we could not see our way to that sparkling Rock of the Deity; for which cause the bright Sun now shines from her eternal Orb, through the dark Clouds, that we might see every ascend∣ing degree, twisting and winding so intricately, that without a Guide expresly sent down from that Sphear, there is no pos∣sibility ever to come to any one of her Gates which lead to the New - Jerusalem. These are set before me to be in number * 1.34 Twelve, five of which were spoken of in the fore-going Chapter, and now we repair to her Oracle as our Guide for the revealing of the other seven Gates, together with the Way which leads from one to to the other, where the hidden Track of the Virgins Way may be found, treading upon that unknown ground, under which is found a rich and precious Stone, from which the highest blessing will abound.

The Way to the first of these seven Gates is very solitary and lonely; it is very rare to meet with two agreed to hold out in it to the end, it is so full of rending Thorns and affrighting wild Beasts; for herein lies the design of the horned Beast to scatter and divide such who are agreed to travel in Wisdoms Path: Also, the Nimrod Hunters of this World send out after them, either to divide or bring them back again. These are the Oppositions we may expect in this Way, against which we must be provided and fore-armed; that our entrance by this Gate may not be prevented. The Inscription of this Gate is Abnegation or Renunciation of this outward Principle. The first Question which is asked by the An∣gel who keeps this Gate, is, Are you come away as Strangers and Pilgrims? Will you no more return to the Traffick of Babylon? For the Prince of this City will only admit of such as shall abjure all

Commerce with the Merchants of Tarshish, though by this means all earthly Riches are gained, to keep up a Worldly Reputation and Fame; but the Angel of this Gate will have good Assurance that whoever comes up hither be quite broken off from, and have no further dealing with the Harlot daughter of Sidon, who hath deceived the Kingdoms of this World with her Sorceries. Who∣ever they be that get through this streight Gate, for them a sure and good Foundation is laid, to walk forward towards the se∣cond Gate. But here another thing is to be considered, before entrance can be given; for this Angel is charged not to take any ones single Security, but enquires whether Christs Spirit in them, and his Person for them will stand engaged to perform all this Agreement? For she dares not trust the Soul upon a single Promise, though fervent and unfeigned, and full of good Will, yet it is not sufficient, if he be not able to maintain the Gate ground against his Enemies, that will attempt to circumvent him. Therefore we that are come hereunto, are to give in the Name of our Security, and so pass on freely to the second Gate.

The second Gate is called the wrestling or struggling Gate; it is the Gate of Probation, before it stands a Center-Gulf: Here will rise what will countermand the Pilgrim back again into the worldly Principle, which he had abjured and left behind. Wisdom stands by her Angel to call and invite to come through; but the Gulf swells so very high, that it appears impossible to get over. Legions of Spirits here do follow, crying out, What mean you to run so great a hazard, as to have a place, where is store of all good things for Supply and Maintenance. Thus Temptations and As∣saults will beset the Pilgrim, threatning hard and bitter things to him who is a seeking his own Native Country and original Virginity, and endeavours with great wrestling to get rid of all these knawing Vipers. What! say they, will you turn quite away from those pleasant Joys in which others live, spending their days in Gods Love and Peace, and therein rest contented, not attempting the passing of this Gulf, till the limit of your Life requires it? All this and much more will press in to turn away the Soul from pursuing after its Virgin Crown; and therefore this Gate is called the Probation Gate. Now if the Spirit of Christ be so powerful in the Soul, as not to regard these Temptations, being resolved to

venture through the fiery Gulf, that Soul will win the Virgins Heart. For here indeed is manifested a full proof of Love's af∣fiance, by coming out from, and renouncing all the Charms of the Daughter of Babylon, who hath used all her Art to fright her from attempting ever to enter this Gate: She hath through all Ages rescued from the Serpent's twisting toil, and brought many back to enter into her Gates again. Wonderful it will be to see any one come of a Conquerour here; for this is the most perilous Gate, because of the Gulf which stands before it. The mortal Spirit, whose Affection is joyned to gross Elementary things, cannot pass this Gulf without suffering loss; it is a Life that cannot be saved, but must be swallowed up. But Christ, our Life, will swiftly pass through, as a fiery Charriot, and the naked Soul with him, who hath resisted all those Temptations which would have hindred his entrance into this Gate, which is the very winning of that Field, where Wisdom's Gold of Opher, and unknown rich Substance doth lie. Oh! who is it that will hold out the Encounter at this Gate? It may be truly said; That many have striven to enter, but because they would or could not leave behind all mortal Burthens, and come quite naked out of Babylon, they were not able to enter. This is that which hath dis-enabled many to enter, and will continue to do so, except the Christ of the mighty God enable us to pass, and then we shall with freedom and ease come up to the third Gate.

The third Gate is Translation, by Fixation in Wisdom's Land or Principle. The Center of the Virgin Wisdom may often open and take up the Soul and Spirit into it, and then be shut again, and the Soul let down into Babylon's Principle: This, I say, may happen often before the Soul comes to be fixed in Wisdom's Orb. But when the Soul is fixed in the Heavenly sprouting life of its Emmanuel, and translated into a pure Nazarite Virginity, which knows nothing more of the fallen Birth. Here the Soul stands in another Principle, having got firm footing in Wisdoms Land. Here a goodly Lot is cast for the conquering Soul, who will find all riches stand before her in Wisdoms Treasury, without either bounds or limits. Whatsoever is of use or service is there laid down at the feet of a translated Spirit, as the return of her Adventure and Trust in that day, whilst she was under the

Temptation of the glistering Stars of this Elementary Region, all whose Promises were but as a snare and bar to keep from knowing this high Translation.

Oh! what a welcome Feast do I see already prepared within this Gate, to satiate both the Eye and Taste! The Virgin comes and salutes the Soul with a Loves entercourse, saying, Come now and inherit Substance with me, ye who have been in weary Travel to attain this fixation Gate, I behold you in the face of the Bride∣groom, by whose means you are arrived here: Now in his Name ask and have. See now what Honour and Preferment you shall have in my Kingdom, which will recompence a thousand Fold for the loss you have sustained in the World, from whence you are come out. As you did give credit to me upon the Word of my Testimony, and the fame which was brought to your Ear, though as yet you possessed nothing of what's intended for you. But here is now what will weigh down and recompence all your Sufferings, when you resisted manfully those busie Spirits that would have blocked up your way; but in strong Faith you have broke through all. Let your Victory be assigned to him who hath the opening Key for to let in from Gate to Gate. All this is from the * 1.35 dropping Lips of Sophia and her Bridegroom, who now stand ready to open the fourth Gate.

The fourth Gate is called the Bountiful Gate. From hence the richest Gift is brought forth, that ever hath been received since Adam lost his Virgin, who now here gives her self again to the Soul. Oh, great is this Benignity! who could ever have hoped for such degrees of Advancement, after so long a day of Desertion & night of Apostacy? An Eccho sound we now do hear, that she will appear in her Bounty. But to whom shall this Gate open stand, to receive this Liberality from her hand? Is it not for Ruth, who hath forsaken the Moabitish Land, and come to be fixed there, whence her eternal Nativity is derived, where she is no sooner arrived, but she is decked with all the Virgins Ornaments, which are the various Accomplishments in all supernal Powers and high Abilities, to act in a divine Omnipotent manner, whether in a corporeal form, or out of it, as shall be judged moet, with reference to Place, Time or Persons, and according to the Region where the Bridegroom, with his Bride, shall be, whether in the Heights above or Depths beneath, where his and her rejoycing shall be

in each other, through the breaking opening of the Center, from whence the Virgin-Tincture, as a warm Fire-blood, doth flow in every Vein, & a nourishing Life is felt passing through every sense. This is that Gift which the Virgin will bestow upon the fixed Soul, for a greater Manifestation of God's manifold Wonders throughout the habitable part of this Earth, where the whole Trinity in Wisdom will assume a Virgin-humanity, to bring all what hitherto hath been confused into-order again. The Go∣vernment of the bruitish Spirit must give way to her day, who comes to overturn all Merchants with their Merchandize. No Wares of the Assyrian shall be brought through her Gates, nei∣ther shall any Sale of the Harlot's goods be mingled with her Treasures, but a vast separation there shall be, as between Para∣dise and this World, where all things stand in an anxious Birth; but that other Sphear is blessed with a perpetual Spring of all pleasant things, which we shall know and understand in their variety in the next Gate, which now we are, by the steady hand of Christ, led up to, that we may see the utmost Latitude of Wisdom's inward City, and come to know all the goings in and comings out at these Mystical Gates.

The fifth Gate bears the Title of Wisdom's Factory of all that is mannaged by her Magia, from her own stock and Principle, being very different from all the Merchandize which is used in this visible World, which is wholly shut out of her Gates; for none can drive an earthly Trade, but such as bear the Mark and Num∣ber of the Beast here in this outward Principle: Wherefore Wisdom will take none to be her Factors, but those who have renounced all Babylonish Trade, which is maintained by bearing the Mark of the Beast, from the introduced subtilty of Reason. A new and wonderful Way is prescribed to them who shall have the Mark and Name of the Virgins white Stone, by which they shall be impowered to drive a free and mighty Trade within this heavenly City, which shall make all Babylon's Wares grow out of request, both as to spiritual Wares or bodily Sustenance, as soon as some Virgin-Passengers shall have entred this Gate, who shall be so highly favoured for having here broke through, that they shall have liberty to open this high Factory to the rest of their fellow-Members, that yet are Captives in the Assyrian Land, and

were there brought up according to the Laws and Customs of the Babylonians, which could not be avoided, during their time of Captivity. But now Babylon's Sun is going down, and the Night of Death and Darkness is spreading it self over all the * 1.36 pompous state of the Merchants of the Earth. All this will be seen upon the breaking in of the Bridegroom's Spirit, and his * 1.37 Virgin, who will deliver the exile Captives, and clasp them close within themselves, and exercise the Soul in another Science: Its skill and wisdom in the divine Magia will actually go forth from this Co-essential participation of the Virgin-Nature, to renew all good and pleasant things, according to the first Pa∣radisical Property, as in the following Gate will be made out, where the Virgin will particularly exercise her Magia for Re∣demption out of the present Captivity, under which the Israelites as well as Ethiopians do groan, being beset with the effects of Sin and Mortality, which this sixth Gate doth deliver us from.

The sixth Gate is called the transferring Gate, where the most choice and noble Gifts are transferred from the Palace of the glorious Majesty, as the Foundation of Wisdom's factory, man∣naged by Wisdom's Correspondents, who are skilful in the working Wheel of the divine Magia. Oh! what transferring Powers will pass from one to the other! to bring forth the flou∣rishing of Eden, that it may again appear in this habitable World. Wisdom's Lovers now must dig deep to find this Kernal, which hath lain hid in the Ground of Virgin-Wisdom, from whom it must be transmitted to them, who shall plant Pa∣radise in a greater Latitude in this World: For which a sure and unalterable Decree is gone forth: for it is affirmed by the living Word, who declares before-hand the truth of these things, which are already begun, and shall be finished as soon as all the Virgin's Gates are past and entred. And this is more considerable, where such a mutual constant Correspondency is betwixt those two Kingdoms, Paradise and Mount-Zion, all rich things will be transferred from each to other; yea, an immortal Factory is here to be maintained, betwixt the Inhabitants of these two heavenly Countries, and so transferred still into this lower Orb, as occasion shall be. For though some part of this Earth, by virtue of the Virgin-Stone, may be ting'd into a Paradisical

Property, and thereby made capable of Commerce with the supe∣rior Worlds, yet there will be a race of Vagabond Cains, that will abide still under the Curse. Tho Paradise be made visible in this World, yet all will not suddainly thereby be brought to leave Ba∣bylon's Merchandize, neither will the divine Arts and Mysteries be transferred commonly, but upon such who have sought them diligently, and have let all other Arts and Callings to for them, being resolved to know no other but the heavenly Magia. This is the invisible Stock which the Virgin doth traffick with, to gain Honour, Wealth, Renown, and a Crown of Glory to her God and Bridegroom.

Now it may be asked, What matter is here to work upon for such abundant increase? Where lies the Mystery of this Art, that must be transferred by her as a Gift.

I Answer; That this is a great Secret, which cannot be reveal∣ed all at once, and so deeply Mystical, that none but Wisdom's exercised Magicians have ever founded it, and found the matter hereof. Yet we must not deny the great favour which the Most-High hath afforded for the opening of this secret thing, through the very Person of Christ's glorified Humanity, that so we might know what will make mortal Dross become like the fine Gold of Opher. But to give an answer to that Question. What that matter is, which in Wisdom's Principle we are to work upon? I say, first negatively, That it is no gross tangible Matter, that we shall traffick with; we shall need no Barns or Store-houses to lay it up in: To describe it according to what is revealed, we say, it is a rushing Breath, a tincturing Blood, a running flash of Light and Fire coagulating together; in a word, it is the Power of the Deity transferred to a Virgin-Spirit, on God's behalf, as in the Person of Christ and his Virgin, transmitting themselves as a spiritual Root, from whence all fruitful Powers of the holy Ghost may be proved; for otherwise all fore-passed things will bring little Glory to our mighty King and Saviour.

The seventh Gate is the Gate of Projection, which will take off all Vails that have been upon the most Holy Place, where we may enter, as all knowing in Wisdom's Mysteries and Won∣ders. But here lies the difficulty, how to attain the skill to stir up the precious Gift, that according to what was before de∣scribed,

from the tincturing Blood of the divine Virgin, we may be able to bring forth Matter, Form and Colour, according to the Quint-essential Spirit, transferred from the highest Beeing.

But it may be asked here, How, or in what manner doth this Projection operate?

I Answer; Several wayes, all which may be referred to these two Heads, viz. Transformation and Transfiguration; in which two great effects, Projection will be known in its essential Virtue, flowing out and entring in where the Venom of the Serpent is, which poysonous matter is transferred in the Soul by means of this Projection, from the Tincture of Wisdom's Stone, which causes an unalterable Transmutation of all gross Matter, and the vile Bodie's shape into a bright heavenly Consistency: Such a Coelestial Body Wisdom's Virgin shall have power to put on, when called up to the Seraphick Thrones, and to appear before the highest Majesty, to receive new Commissions what to act further, according to the Counsel and Will of the Holy Trinity, who will greatly delight to put them upon working what is Noble, Great and Wonderful, which none can parallel, ex∣cept they have first passed all the fore-mentioned Gates.

If it be asked, What Works and Signs shall follow Wisdom's Pro∣jections?

I Answer; They are such as Jews will not believe before they see them; nay, even Wisdom's Disciples, who have been ga∣thered under her Wing, and drunk of her tincturing Blood, will be sometimes in doubt of these things, whilst they are yet but Passengers from Gate to Gate: Wherefore we must not ex∣pect to be believed by those who are yet without the Gates. However, we will, according to what hath been revealed by the supream Magns, declare and set forth what God can do by his Instruments, who are thus highly and divinely qualified.

In the first place, they will be able to act from a creating Power, the Virgin's Omnipotency will enable them to give a new Form, Virtue and Purity to all things now existing in gross Corruptibility. For as Transformation first passeth upon all the fallen Properties of the Soul's Essences, so it will go out and re∣new whatsoever doth stick in the Curse, even all Vegetable, A∣nimals and Minerals, together with the Body of fallen Man. All

these, I say, shall be sublimed and transmuted into a simple, pure and paradisical Figure, Colour and Taste, quite of another Na∣ture than what they now have. Thus the Disciples of Wisdom, by means of this tincturing Spirit, shall bring in a new Creation by way of Transformation: The Mystery of which none can ever find out but Wisdom's Magia, who are under her Discipline, and do lie in her Bridegroom's Bosom.

In the second place, they who are transformed into the Vir∣gin's Nature, will not only be able to separate the Curse from the outward Creation, so as Death and Corruption shall be ta∣sted no more, because healing Waters will flow from the glassy Sea, and encompass every place where Wisdom's Off-spring, shall pitch their Habitation; but they shall also be able to trans mute all gross Mettals into transparent Gold, so as it shall be far more plentiful than in Solomon's time. This very gross Earth on which we nowtread shall be made Chrystalline. The River that was divided into four Heads, which have been cut off ever since Adam was turned out of Paradise, shall now be made to return again with a full Stream to bring forth the Seed of Gold, Bedellium, and the Onyx Stone in a sparkling Glory. Mansion-Houses here shall be built, and goodly Tents pitched, which shall excell all the Structures which ever yet have been; for these dwelling places shall be Magical, sometimes visible, and at other times invisible, according to the pleasure of the blessed Inhabi∣tants, who dwell therein in everlasting Security: These shall live alone, and shall not be numbred amongst the Nations who live without Wisdom's Gates. If any Sodomites shall attempt to break in upon them, devouring Coals shall be scattered to terrifie and consume them; though destroying of any be their strange work, and also disagreeable to the Nature of Love, and the peaceful Region wherein they live; yet upon just occasion, Power will go forth in this way for their defence. Moses was a meek & peaceable Man, and yet he was made a terror to AEgypt: He had no way to subdue Pharoah, but by shaking his Magical Rod, which alone could do more than whole Hosts of armed Men, And this will be the way of God's appearance, to keep under the wild and bruitish sort of Men, who are as ravenous Beasts, greedy of Prey. Wherefore the Paradisical Planters will know

how to deal with such, whilst they are commissionated to go in and out amongst them; and it will be their daily business to de∣liver the Israelites from bondage and thrall, and that by display∣ing Jehovah's Wonders in such a manner as that Age shall re∣quire, which shall be in an higher degree than ever hath been done here before. For though the Miracles of former dayes were great and excellent, as those which were wrought by our Lord, and by the Prophets before him, as well as Apostles after him, such as were the healing of the Sick, the raising of the Dead, the restoring of the Lame, the making of the Dumb to speak, the Deaf to hear, and Blind to see; all which were both inwardly and outwardly performed by our Lord upon the Soul as well as the Body; yet the Lord hath given full assurance, that not only all these shall be revived, but that the Magical Center shall open in a greater degree of variety than heretofore. So that the greatest Wonders are yet to be manifested, which we are ap∣pointed to wait for, till this Projecting Gate shall open upon us, where all Miracles will be brought forth a fresh, for the Crown and Glory of the Virgin-Bride and her followers: Which Gate, Lord Jesus, hasten to open for such who are under thy strong and powerful Drivings!

In thy Light, sweet Sophia we are come to a discovery, Where long have lain our lost forgetten Doury. Those Coelestial Gates, which now open stand Hath giuen us a view into the wealthy Land, Where all things in the divine Magia stand; In that place there is no working with Tool or Hand, For all in Spirit there do act from that Power, Which nought of the Earthly Craft can Severe.

Joy we then now in sight of this blessed Day, Wherein Wisdom's Wonders so richly display. But is may be asked, When shall this be? And who amongst the now Living shall see? I tell thee for surety, some there are in Corporeity, To whom she will with her golden Key in Soveraignity, Thus shall unlock the precious stoney Rock fully, Where the Ocean-Treasury of her Deity lies hiddenly.

Oh! hear Virgin-Wisdom's call and cry, Who skill'd would be in her Mystery: A new Way of Manifactory stands open, I see Such Treasures as the World's Wonder be; A Ship laden within, that God himself again Will enter in to seise upon those heav'nly Gems; Ah, blessed sale for such rich Goods imbark'd here, For what less than the acting stone will appear?

Is there Merchants as are not Transitory, That understand Wisdom's Manifactory? Who hiddenly have increased their Store, And do studdy these Sciences yet more and more, That so they might to those eternal Gems reach, Or else Redemption will not be compleat, For putting an end to the Toyl, Care and Sweat, By passing through all of Wisdom's twelve Gates.

Come then away, holy Souls, and separate From all drossy Things that do captivate; And you will find such a Pearly Price, That will make you flourish as in Paradise; The golden River there-from will flow, That all the essential Goodness ye will know: For in Wisdom's Principle there doth lie That which will make the worldly Craft to flyc.

Upon the close of this subject, I had renewed again from the Person of my Lord, a firey Shower that did fall as the dropping Rain from the holy Ghost, to refresh and bring up what hath been sown by the former Revelations, which is to be looked for as the effect of every true discovery: And I desire the same plen∣tiful Shower may come down upon them, who shall receive and read the Words of this Prophecy: For a most wonderful and strange time is at hand, and doth call upon us to leave the Moa∣bitish Land, and to engrave our Names on every one of Wisdom's Gates, that so we may claim a right to enter, and not be only

Spectators and Admirers without of the great Riches and Glory to which Magical Spirits are advanced. But we are yet to open a more inward Ear: to hear the Message which the Lord hath expresly 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for his Elect, who are watching at Wisdom's Gates, from thence to ascend one step higher, that they may be enclosed in the Magical Eye of the holy Ghost, where the highest Wis∣dom is to be learnt and vnderstood, and actually practised, for the planting of a new Paradisical Nursery, and its never fading Beauty and Glory. By which means the Deity may be invited to renew his Walks with Men, as at the beginning, who will take great delight to see the Children of Paradise acting Magi∣cally under the Conduct and Government of the Eye of the holy Ghost: For no work or action is so agreeable to the Trinity, as that which is wrought from the Magical seeing Eye, where God beholds and views himself in his manifold Wonders of Wis∣dom in Nature's Virginity.

But now the great Question of those who are willing to be Wisdom's Disciples, is, Which way they may ascend up to this Globe-Eye, to become Magicians in the holy Ghost's Property?

This Question is deep and weighty, and shall be answered according to the Gift of Revelation received; Know then, that the way to ascend to the Globe-Eye, is through its descending down into the Root-Essence of the Soul, and contracting with it Philosophically, turning it into a Magick Eye; where then it may most easily ascend, and fly to be an Eye, in the Globe-Eye, before which all stands naked and open, whatsoever hath proceeded from the Center - Ground of God's Globe of Eternity. Therefore they who shall find such favour, as to be introverted and environed with this Eye, may well come to understand the grounds of the divine Magia, and be able to ex∣ert it from the Co-essential Power of the holy Ghost, without which all attempts for it will lie in Scorn and Derision. Hence we may understand where the Ground-work for divine Philo∣sophy doth lie; whereby great Overturns and mighty Changes may be effected in this Worlds Region, where God will have great occasions for divine Magia to act in his behalf: And truly somewhat begins to work in order hereunto; for the Magick Eye hath cast forth an enticing Glance to draw up unto it, and

there to stand a while as locked up in it, as a close working Phi∣losopher, that carefully tends his Furnace, where the Coelestial Fire burns softly to bring forth a transparent Stone, in which the first-born Magick of the holy Ghost doth consist: But here we may be said to lanch so deep into the Abyssal Eye, as to lose our selves whilst vve are seeking this one precious thing, that can make this old wrinkled Face of the Creation to become young and fresh, as Paradise in its first springing. But who will grieve at the loss of this gross Matter? the true Philosopher well knows, that this is the gross Body which the Fire is to kindle upon, being of that penetrating Nature, as to dissolve the whole bulk of Sensuality, with the strong twisted band of Rationality: For when the great Artificer, the holy Ghost, comes to set his Furnace at work in very deed, in the Soul, all gross thick matter does by degrees transpire. For what is so great an Enemy to the divine Magia, as the rational Wisdom, which is in strong Combination with the humane Sense? It is as an Inunda∣tion of Waters which hath prevailed like Noah's Flood, to drown the Fire-spark of Faith, so that it is scarce to be found alive in any ones Earth: All Furnaces have hitherto been too weak; the strong Tide of the rational Mind hath broke in like a Sea, to chill and damp what the Spirit of God would have still blown up unto Victory. For whosoever shall attain to be an Adiptist in the Magical Eye of Sophia, must watch the Mouth of the Fur∣nace continually, that the Spirit of Faith may work high through the gentle heat and constant supply of that Matter which maintains the heavenly Fire, which can only master and get dominion over all the thick dark Body of Mortal Sense, which hath long been the grand Adversary of Virgin-Wisdom's Magicians, and hath kept them from attaining the Gate of Pro∣jection. Now what is there to be considered further, to help us forward in this high point of Magical Philosophy, seeing the Be∣nefits are of so great import, and serve for the repairing of a ruinous state of things within our selves, and every where round about us. We are to observe these Orders and Rules, which go along with Faith's Magia.

First, There must be an absolute trust reposed in Christ the essential Deity, as contacting and coagulating with our

soulish Essence, and thereby recover our unipotency. The depth of those Sayings of our Lord, when personally upon the Earth, who still invited and called upon all to believe on him, as Co essential with the Father, and thereby entrusted with all that Power and Sufficiency which can be called God's. Now here is given us to understand a deep and mystical Sense, how that the Lord did not limit or shut up the Faith to his particu∣lar Personality and appearance on the Earth; for that was not to abide, but directed to the exerting forth of our Faith to the Lo I am, in whom there is no change to the end of all Worlds. He is now therefore to be believed on, as introduced into our soulish Essence; for there he brings in the Globe-Eye, as the sure Ground-work for all the various operations of the holy Ghost to act out the great Magical Powers from: Thus our Faith is directed to a God like Almightiness within our selves. If we can but find the Incarnation of Christ, the Lord in us, we then have a sure and steady Anchor for our Faith to hold by, and work out our freedom Magically, having somewhat of subtle pure Matter to work upon, we may go on forward to Projection.

Another Rule is, the going forth in the prerogative Royal of the Will, that is immerced into, and become one with the Power of the holy Ghost. We may remember that Christ the Lord, upon doing any great or marvellous Cure, put forth the soveraignity of his Will, as when he said to the Leper, I will be thou clean: And sometimes he put it to those, who, he perceived had Faith in him, saying, What will ye that I should do unto you? And no less was effected for them than they desired the Lord should do for them. These expressions of our Saviour may be a grand Rule for us to follow, and ought well to be regarded by us, for in the Will is the highest Magick, when it is united with the Will of the Highest; when these two Wheels meet in one, they are the swift running Charriot, which nothing can cross or stop, in which the Bridegroom, with his Bride Sophia, ride most triumphantly together over all things, viz. over Rocks, Mountaints and Hills, which are all made a Plain before them, and Seas dryed up. What is able to resist a Will that is united with God's Will, before which every thing must stoop and bow? which Will, when ever it goes forth, alwayes accomplisheth

its Enterprise. Its not a naked Will that wants its Garment of Power, impregnable Almightiness is with it, to pluck up, to plant, to kill, and to make alive; to bind and to loose, to save and destroy: All which Power will be centred in the royal free∣born-will, which we shall come fully to know, and to under∣stand, as we are made one in the holy Ghost; then may we go forth safe and secure in the Magick VVill, to glorifie the great Elohim, whether in Body visible or invisible; all is and shall be acted forth according to the fore-sight of the Magical Globe-Eye, and carried on, in and through the operation of the holy Ghost in impotent and despicable Vessels in the Eye of the world. These are they whom God will take into his high School of divine Wisdom, there to be brought up in the deep VVisdom, and to be so perfectly accomplished, as that nothing may be beyond their art and skill to perform, to exalt and magnifie their God and King, by whom alone they shall be enabled to do all marvelous things.

Now from the fore-going Rales, we are taught to drown the many VVills, that have been generated from the mixed Essence of the Soul, and to loose them in the Abyssal-Deep, from whence then may spring the Virgin-Will, that never was in Bondage to any thing of degenerate Man, but stands free and clear in Con∣junction with Almighty Power, which will most certainly pro∣duce answerable Consequences, as kept fixed in the Socket, where the burning Oyl of the holy Ghost flames out in sparkling Magick, operating here and there upon Persons and Things, for Change and Renovation, yet none can pierce the way, but such as are become Masters of his high Art. I know nothing more worthy for the single Eye to look into, and contend for, than the Magia of Faith, which was once delivered unto, and exerted by the Saints of former Generations; and why we should give it for lost now, I see no cause, but should be earnest for the reviving of it, and calling it up from the Dead.

I shall not here determin whether for want of this Power, we may not lie under the charge of having lost our first Love, but sure I am, that this Magical Power of Faith is in a manner quite lost, for the re-attaining of which, the holy Ghost is awakening Wisdom's slumbering Virgins? And therefore the

Lord hath appeared in his own glorified Humanity to reveal these Mysteries, and that by one who is as the smallest Dust, that lies under the trampling Power of the earthly Wise, and those that are mighty in Reason. Yet here the Way is laid open to attain to this All-powerful Activity in the Magia of the holy Ghost, to encourage & provoke us to set upon the work, giving Praise unto him, who hath been pleased to reveal where the Key of the Magia doth lie, which will open that Treasury that can fully enrich all impoverished Souls: Wherefore it is worth the lending our Ear to Wisdom's renewed Call and Cry, and no longer to delay, but hasten to get through all her Gates, and to be Planters of a new Paradisical Earth, through the Ma∣gical Operation of the holy Ghost, which is the absolute im∣ployment and business of some known to God, who if they con∣tinue faithful, shall never have reason to be ashamed, or repent of their being engaged therein; notwithstanding they may meet with great Treats and Sufferings at first from Nabal, the chur∣lish Spirit of this World, that can love or favour nought but what is of its own liking: But Wisdom's Children shall be able to set themselves free, as they become Studients in the Art of this divine Magia. Rebecca the true Virgin-Mother, is ready to give such advice as will supplant Esau, that Jacob may carry away the Blessing. Oh! what is like to the Magical Stone, for the bringing in of a superabundant encrease from the right golden Grain, by which all excellent and perfect things did at first spring: At the return of which a new and marvelous Change every where will appear in the highest Unity and Community, in all those Coele∣stial Immunities which the Most-High is invested withal. Thus having brought forth, in some part, what hath been showered down from the heavenly Powers, at several Seasons upon me, with a command to publish it, I have nothing more but to Pray, we may obey all these precious Rules.

A further Revelation upon the last subject, which I thought had been concluded, but the running Oyl doth spring a fresh for an addition, that so all help might be ministred, by way of ma∣nuduction, to such high spirited Souls as shall resolve to separate themselves, that they may be meet to intermeddle with all Wis∣dom, and thereby be enabled to stand before the Globe-Eye of

Almighty Soveraignity, which is a peculiar Prerogative, appro∣priated only to the wise and pure in heart, who shall set them∣selves a-part to follow the Track of the divine Magia, which by the holy Ghost is prescrib'd, that so we may once more again stand upon Paradisical Earth, with our impregnable Circle drawn about us, to keep the Serpent and all his brood of wild Creatures out from us. It will be well worth our waiting for every drop of pure Unction, which shall now fall for fuller Instruction, and be distributed forth, as the Sping-Tide of the Spirit doth in us rise, which was renewed in this Word; Learn to live God, and God * 1.38 shall live thee; his most holy Tabernacle shall be thy Covert, which shall be visible to the Sons of Men, that they may know the most holy One, in the waste and desolate places of the Earth, with his own will dwell. Urging that foregoing Rule for this end, that the Magi∣cal attraction of Faith, which riseth from the burning Love, must bring God down to be all in all, that so the Humanity may be covered over with the Tabernacle of the Deity, which will be our House that cannot be dissolved, though the Starry Heavens, together with the four Elements, and all their product do pass away; for though they take their original from the holy Beeing, yet they cannot abide forever, because they cannot incorporate with the pure Deity. Therefore they must have their time to expire, when God shall descend in his most holy Tabernacle; what will it be less than the rending away the vail of these visible Heavens, in their first and second Administration, and all sha∣dowed Presentations and Figurations, wherein some-what of Glory, as a twinkling Star, in this benighted Day, doth appear. All which have but made way for the opening of the everlasting Tabernacle, where we may be clothed upon with the Magical Body of the holy Ghost, that so we may know what it is to live God. Oh! what weight doth this Word carry with it? Let us not suffer it to go lightly off, but take in what the Urim and Thummim doth advertise about this high Contaction. But here may be enquired, What it is that may qualifie to possess Gods living Tabernacle? Verily no less is required than for us to live God, and for God to live us; which is the wonderful Hypostatical Union, which Christ our Lord spake of in his day. We shall know him in the Father, and so reciprocally the Father

swallowing up into himself the whole Body of the Sonship, which is the height and luster of that Kingdom which is to come, and is to be yielded up to the one God, who is over all: Not that he will be a living Tabernacle to all, but only to those who are meetly qualified. Who are they then who may expect to be rearers up of this Tabernacle, which the Majesty of the Glory will fill? They are pure, holy and separated Souls, set apart for this very purpose, bearing the Inscription of Heavenly Magicians, as being principled in that great Mystery, and being made all knowing through the friendly Counsel and Revelation of the Virgin-Wisdom, who is the great Revealer of these Mystical Sciences and Magical Arts, such as were practised before this World or its Craft were in being. But now the Wisdom of this World is needed and universally exercised by all ranks and degrees under the present Fall: Regenerate and Unregenerate do both agree in this matter, and do make use of Reason for the supply, succour and support of the mortal Spirit and Body.

But what will you say, if this good old Magical way, from which the whole Creation is turned, shall in this last Age be restored and found again, for the redeeming out of the Care, Sorrow and painful Exercise of Mind and Body? This will be worth lending an Ear to, it being such a mysterious and advanta∣gious Art, as will sufficiently pay the Cost of what we shall be out in attaining it. The ground we go upon for this new way of living, after a God-like manner, are the many Scripture-Prophecies that run all in this Sense, with which agrees what is of late-renewed to some, who are waiting for their Lot within this New Paradisical Scene, being under the Dispensation of such Revelations as are in order to give entrance into the Tabernacle of God, where it will be natural to produce all things Magically, beginning first to exercise this Mystical Wisdom and Power upon it self, as having an old Creation which must be dissolved, that a new one may take its place. The Physitian must first give proof that he can heal himself, before he undertake others. So in this matter, the true Magus is taught to make a tryal of his skill upon his own inward and outward Defects, and thereby gain the Fearful and Unbelieving, that they also may come and enter through this everlasting Gate, where the New Jerusalem Magi∣cians

are in their first Paradisical Callings, which the holy Ghost hath received Commission to put some holy qualified Souls afresh * 1.39 upon, that they may be leading Presidents to others.

But it may be further enquired, What this Magia is? And how it may be acted forth, to alter the whole state of things Internally and Externally?

It is thus made out to us, That it is arising Infinitum, that forms it self into a Birth, the matter of which can no otherwise be described, than the unknown Beeing of God himself, who is * 1.40 a meer virtual working Power, in a finite Beeing; from whence a flowing source of generating Powers do act forth, from what lieth hid so unconceiveably, as cannot be either seen, felt or heard out of it self, but only as it produceth great and marve∣lous Effects upon whatever it doth move: This is that which is called the Magia of the holy Ghost, so defined, as he hath plea∣sed to reveal it unto us.

Now it remains to enquire, By whom? and how this is to be acted forth? and for what end it is to be manifested after such an high degree?

As to the first, By whom this is to be exerted, or acted forth? of this much hath been said already; we shall only mention one thing, which is the principal Qualification of those to whom this Honour shall be given, viz. They are to take up a firm and fixed Resolution to follow this Magical Vocation only, and to reject all others that proceed from the Astral Birth, that do pour in whole Floods to drown the little spark of Faith, from whence * 1.41 the Magia Tree must first grow, and appear in all its various Fruits. This I say, is that which is to be done on our parts, as we would be Adeptists in the supersensual working Wheel, which will run us into our lost Dominion, to be in God again. But then watchfulness is required to repel and judge down every whirling Motion and Thought, that shall rise to thwart the Magia Way, which indeed is nothing else but a most pure single act of Faith, heightned to that degree, as to become a kind of Omnipotency; if they can but get free from the Life of Sense, which is its great and home-born Enemy, which will hardly suf∣fer the Soul to make its pass away, but follows still at the Heels, till the Hand of Faith grows strong enough to use the Magical

Rod, which may break their binding Circle, that so we may get a swist pass into the boundless Liberty, and some to be expert in the Theosophical Science, which is not of Man, nor after any rational Wisdom of Man, but as the pure fiery Breath of the holy Ghost, doth incorporate with the Fire-Essence of the Soul, and so drive it up into a Body of all-Magical operation. For the free actuation of which Life, we are warned to cease from all other ways and employs, and upon this only to fix our Minds, and to stop our Ears to the pleas and cryes of the Senses, that would still have us to lie at the Breast of the Creature, when-as nothing but Death, Sorrow and the Curse can be sucked from it; It is indeed but natural so to do, as long as we stand in the first Birth, from which it will be hard to get loose, till the other come to rise in the Soul's center. For in this second Birth, there is a strong force, which is able to overcome and break that Yoke, which hath been so often near strangling this Magical Birth of Life, that it could not display its free Breath; wherefore let us now take heed and ny away from our mortal Senses, and totally exclude them from that new erected Throne, Council and Court wherein pure Austraction and Child-like posture of Spirit we may wait to learn how to act forth each one according to his Gift in this high land supernatural Magia. That we may speak out what Lineage and Birth we are brought forth in, after Gods own likeness in Power, Wisdom and Purity, to glorifie him in a new Tabernacle-Body, Magically raised, which being con∣summated within the outward form of visible Corporeity, the unchangeable Priesthood begins within the most holy Place, and is carried on not as in the figurative and fleshly Administration, wherein was need of Attonements and Offerings for Sin; which in this great and more perfect Tabernacle there will be no oc∣casion for, Sin being ended, and the holy Ghost having obtained a more excellent Ministration in us, to wit, Offering the first Fruits of Redemption, which in no fore-going Ministration was ever reached unto.

But here it may be asked, What manner and kind of Offerings will those first Fruits of Redemption be?

This is a Question which cannot be so fully answered, till we are compleatly perfected in this Tabernacle, which hitherto is

only a rearing. But what of these Immunities hath been expres∣sed by the great Priest, and opened from the Tabernacle-Testimony unto me, shall be given forth for their sakes who may have right to bring in such perfect Offerings, to the most holy and separated place, in the day of their Restoration mutually with us, who are expecting the accomplishment in all its divine Ordinances and Consecrations, for the perfecting every Comer hereunto. But now to define what kind of Offerings we shall bring as Priests to God; they are the Fruits of the Magia, in their out-flowing Operation, which actually send out a most powerful Spirit, from its own essential Spring of Spirit, wherein God is the only pure Original of it. What is sent forth to effect, but a new Gene∣ration of Heavens and Earth? The Magia worketh in this man∣ner, saying, Let the old Tabernacle, with all its shadowy Appear∣ances, pass away and be no more: And it is so, for the force of the out-going Spirit incorporates with the Word, and makes it Essential, whether it be expressed Vocally or no; the Co-centred Decree passeth into, and though the Spirit carrieth all Power with it, either to nullifie or make void, or to give a new Plan∣tation, and an heavenly splendorious Formation upon Creatures and Things, for a lustrious Transformation of what is fading and dying, that so Immortality may be renewed, whether in Ra∣tionals, Animals or Vegetables. The matter of the one Element is so immerced and coagulated in a Magical Spirit, that it is able to give a Life, where the very Face of Death doth appear, whe∣ther dead, as to a Spiritual Life, according to that saying, And you hath he quickned, who were dead in Trespasses and Sens. Who is this in the Person of Christ, but the same holy Ghost in his out-going Power, that through our Persons so influencing and given a Resurrection to a dead Life, whether in our selves or others, as cause requires: Then also as to the very mortal Life, to prolong it, and to secure it from Pain and Sickness, Yea, from Death it self. But this quickinmg Spirit is only appro∣priated to such as have dyed and suffered with Christ in the Flesh, and thereby have overcome the World. Therefore let none think that they can come to this degree of Power, Might and Dignity, till they are Born again from the Dead, that is, a cessation to the enkindled Life, from the Stars which generate

earthly Motions and Thoughts, which work in a way of Sensu∣ality, from which there must be a departing, in reference to those great Things which are to succeed. I have been often brought to see the limit of the first Born Life, that doth consist between Time and Eternity, in the stirring Essences of Sin; whereby I am made so wisely knowing, as not grieve, or to have any Reluctancy upon the sentence of a total Expiration of such an injurious Life, as keeps me out of God's Tabernacle-Body, where I can no more dye. Whereupon the holy Ghost, out of the Virgin-Body, doth cry and call to such, who would come to be all Magical, to offer up their first-Born rational Life for a Sacrifice: And then of a truth we shall bring other kind of Fruits and Offerings, and no more as Tributaries and Servants to Sin, Beast or Dragon, but be freed, through the rising Birth, that will mount and fly over all those, who kept the other under great Fear and Bondage; but in this we shall come to be Kings in God's House, and of his own Family. Oh! what hath been here let down by Golden Drops from the Head-Fountain! Let it O God, mingle all forcibly for Life contaction, with the more noble part within us, that so this great and perfect Tabernacle may be according to its own secret way compacted indissolvably, where we may securely dwell, and nothing of Violence, Oppres∣sion or Fear, but receive Power from the rising Body of the holy Ghost to bear down and expel whatsoever is against us. This is what the Lord hath by a signal Word averred, and he will see it fulfilled, as in any one such a Spirit of Resolution shall be found, to go forward in this great Enterprize to encounter, and rush through every Throng, that would stop and put them by, who are ready to venter their All for it.

Now somewhat may be said as to those high Ends, for which God is resolved to raise his principal Magia.

First, to redress, comfort and relieve the groaning Creation, which is in spiritual travail; even such who are in Famin and Death, in Agonies, Sorrow and Heaviness through divers Temp∣tations, and the Buffetings and Wiles of Satan: To these the Magical Balsom shall be given for Cure, from such as are first risen in the Tabernacle-Body of God: They shall bind all evil

Spirits, and there shall go forth a virtual Power from them to do, as if Christ were in person there.

And in the second place, this Power shall extend it self to the taking away of all outward Maladies of the Body, and all Suf∣ferings relating to Penury and Want, and all Weariness, Toil, and anxious Care for the Needs and Requirings of the Body.

A further addition to the former subject; Know then, that as * 1.42 in a miraculous way, this will be made as healing Waters from out of the Threshold of the Sanctuary, that shall recover the dry and parched Earth, to make it bud and flourish, as it did before the Curse did overflow it: Take it inward as to spiritual Fruitful∣ness, or otherwise as to the outward Elementary state. Great also will be the Trust that will be granted by the mighty Jehovah, for mannagement for his little Flock sake, and put into the Hands of some that are to be set apart, as good and principal Shepherds indeed, who can both let out, and lay down their Life for the elect Sheep, which are to be gathered in, not by Sounds or Words, but by a Magical Impregnation, which can send in a Breath of Life, to quicken what is as dead. This is now what we are in a daily expectation of from the rich Furni∣ture, which will come down with the Tabernacle-Body. Oh come holy Souls! and let us be in a watchful posture; for I do see in Spirit, that the Morning of this Day begins apace to clear, the bright Clouds do open, the face of our Heavens ap∣pear, the separating Vail is all rending away, that out of the first Tabernacle we may pass, and within the most holy place fixedly stay, where we shall have no cause to fear, that God will henceforth move away; because we our selves shall be brought up to that height of Purity, that all Offerings shall be most pleasant and powerful from the everlasting Flame of the holy Altar; from whence ascending Powers will go up, to bring down such Gifts as will all abundantly enrich, more than came down in the day of Penticost; for they were but the first Fruits, and did but continue a little while; but here is such a Shower of the Eternal Powers to fall down upon this second Call to the Jerusalem waiters, as shall bring forth the Harvest of the Lord's Joy, whose Spirit, for the ripening of these Fruits doth work

most powerful. What is to be done by us? but only to drink in the falling Dews, and dropping Showers, and to grow as Lillies that may know neither Heat nor Draught, Toil nor Care. Hasten, oh God! and send thy Angel Reapers, for some Fields do begin to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 White, whose ripe Fruits may into thy Store-house be brought as the first Offerings for the consvmmating of all those great and mighty things, which thou hast taught us in this little Volumn of thy Life 〈◊〉〈◊〉!

Here follows a high ravishing Communion with the Trinity enjoy'd, but receive it not as an Elivation, but from a Spirit ••••••••••ated as into another light Region, the half of which is not to be expressed which was here enjoyed.

Some Throne of the most Holy is now pitched in the center of the Heart of Jesus, as in conjunction with my Heart, from whence such issues of Life do flow, which renew a perpetual Spring of Joy. For the Lord pronounced the fulness of all Blessing from the circle Throne of his Presence, bedewing me with the Water of Life from the glassy Sea, mingled with the Fire of Love, assuring me, that the Curse, which is annexed to fallen Nature, should now flee away from God, and the Lamb's Throne; which Throne, the Lord hath chosen me to be unto him, in which the Scepter of his Kingdom should rule over all in the divine Omnipotence. Upon which Thunder-cry, which passed through my Heavens, all Nations, Tongues and Languages, Spirits and Powers, did give up to him, who is come to fix his Throne, and to create all things new, and to confirm his Covenant in the newness of the Spirit, and to nullifie all of the dead and fruitless-Life, which stands in the Letter-Precept, which could never de∣stroy the Root of Sin. It is now made known from the Word of Truth, that nothing else shall ever fetch out the Serpent's Sting, but the overflowing of the burning Oyl from the Sea of Glass, which is broken up by the violent stroke of the holy Ghost: All Sanctifications and Renewings are imperfect and changeable, till this doth come to rise as a covering, to make the gross Body transparent. So now then we are to observe, that when-ever God shall come in very deed to enthrone himself in any, there will be felt this burning Sea, from which the firey

Lamps do proceed, which guard the Throne. Oh! it is the great and high attainment, that a Spirit vail'd with Corporeity can look for, to have God come down in his Throne-dominion, and to cast down all other Thrones, in which the dark firey Spirits have acted their part in the inward Tent of the Mind; all which now to be destroyed and consumed by the pure flaming Throne, will sufficiently witness, that God's Kingdom is now got beyond Words, & is sprung up in a feeling Power. Oh! the Joys & Pleasure, which my Soul doth feel in its first rising, which is infi∣nitely more precious than hath been related, though by Christ's own Personality, whose appearance did so variously describe the Glory of his Kingdom to me; but now to come and bring it into me, will in due season produce other things, than what hath been be∣lieved or expected by the Staggering & Fearful, who have cryed, The Lord doth yet delay his coming; so upbraiding and beating his fellow Servant, crying for Signs and Wonders, without which they can own nothing. But let all such slighting Spirits know, that the Throne and Kingdom of the Lamb may for some con∣siderable time be forming, fashioning, furnishing and enriching with Glory; and all this carried on very secretly, till the whole Mystery of the Kingdom be first inwardly compleated, before it come to make a visible Show, by a terrible acting of Wonders. And know, that such as are come to feel the Kingdom in its in∣visible Powers, and the seven Lamps of Fire burning, and are set down with Christ upon the Throne, reigning over, and judg∣ing down all Nations in themselves, shall have Judgment and Power given them over all, that have villified and set light by them, in the day of their outward Rule and Authority, whilst the suffering Lambs of God were in their Minority. But care∣ful we will not be concerning Judgment given, or Dominion ex∣ercised as yet out of the Throne of the Lamb in our selves, but must follow on till it be fully perfected, and the Kingdom esta∣blished. It is the present Business of our Day, to watch to have every Lamp fed from the glassy Sea, that so springing in the Light & Love-Flames, a Chrystaline Throne may be maintained for the whole Deity: For verily whilst such a thing as this is felt and witnessed, there is a most ravishing Tranquility. Oh! what is greater than to have Christ seated upon his Throne

within us? All things then must needs be in a peaceable and holy Order, and blessed Subjection: Happy are they whose inward Eyes are opened all this to see, possess and enjoy, even when retired out from all Creaturely Society, and so translated into and among the Seraphick Spirits in heavenly Places.

Since my apartment to be alone, a full Concourse doth now continually meet me, even such Company, as makes me spend my hours and dayes with all spiritual Mirth and Joy: For I am now come in truth (without Flattening, or crackling Sparks, that go out again) unto the everlasting burning Throne of the Deity, where just and perfect Spirits do use as so many lesser Flames, most numerously, as God's encompassing Host, mini∣string all that may delight me: So that I find I am to be reserved for God's Throne-Conversation, which is as the seven dayes Feast of Tabernacles, wherein nothing of servile work * 1.43 is to be thought upon. This is a time of an holy Convocation, and for celebrating the Praises of the Lamb, who alone hath wrought the Victory for us. Oh! what shall let now, but that all within me may give the Trumpes-sound, and great shout, that the Lord Omnipotent is come to Reign: Rejoyce ye Heavens without, with∣in, and round about, for the Lord Jehovah hath only done it: He hath made Wars to cease, and keeps the Enemy without the Gates. Oh mighty Prince and Saviour! thou art entred into thy Throne-rest! Thou art become Lord of the Sabbath indeed, and therefore thou hast Power to Eternalize it; as a Memorial of thy redeeming Blood, which is become the quickning and reigning Life: Maintain my Love evermore in this new governing Sphere with thee; for never knew I such a pleasant state, as since the time thou hast brought thy Kingdom into me, to rule over all in Peace and Love, and keep every Spirit un∣der check and in awe: Thy Throne is set, thy Council is fixed, the Urim and Thummim of sound and right Judgment is come down, and Decrees are gone forth, which all powerful Might will see executed within this hidden Kingdom of my Soul and Mind. The Prospect of all this which now is come, the Spirit in Christ, my Lord's Personality did give me to see, and therefore to Prophesie, as hoping the Time is at hand, which is so in good earnest: for I am made to understand, that the holy and just One is come, in his first and early Reign to put all things to rights, that were found

in confusion, in the fallen Properties of Nature, and to Har∣monize whatsoever did put forth from the bitter Root Essence in Jars and Strife. Oht to have a Cure come in to relieve this fallen, weary, tired-out Life, that was in perplexed Strife, can do no less than give cause of Triumph, where-ever such a Do∣minion is known, and entred upon, though invisible: None is privy to what is done or acted there, but the obedient Subjects that do wait upon the Throne, & are ready to fulfil all royal Laws that are expressed from the counsel of the Trinity. And truly, I do find great Joy in keeping up to this Restriction and Ordi∣nances which do appertain to the Lord, Christ's Kingdom, al∣though they be quite different, and of another kind, than what was allowed to be, and by the just One winked at, before that Word, which is Spirit and Life did protest to me, That he was come to make a total alteration, and to throw out all the Forms and Constitutions, which have passed for a heavenly Formation, which yet never reached to this new, most perfect and excellent Kingdom, which is so Chrystaline, as that the Spirit and Soul are realized in a circuled Glory, and so shut up as no more to look out or come down from off this high mounted white Throne; whereon the Reigns of a great and wonderful Government are to be held fast: For which many cautional Words I have re∣ceived, for it is the abiding that will work out the most glorious Victory; for no one that is shot up to the highest Stature in Christ, and so ripe for the Government, is yet come to be ex∣empted from Assaults and Temptations, that will put forth from the satanical earthly Kingdom, where all carnal earthly Senses, and rational Subtilty do still lie lurking, that if the exalted Spi∣rit that doth sit upon the Throne with Christ, should but venture down and debase it self, by complying with what it hath re∣jected of this world's Laws and Rudiments, it is possible the Kingdom may be rent away, as in Saul's case; nay, in Solomon himself, God would not remit it, when he departed from the Lord in any degree, but received a Rebuke to purpose for it; all which was laid before me, for the holding fast the Scepter in Humility, Purity, Fear, Righteousness and holy Couragious∣ness, that I might so hold out in this first and invisible Reign of the Lamb of God, that he may come to be visibly magnified, for

the Conviction of those that are yet alienated by a Spirit of Un∣belief, not knowing the peaceable Fruits of this Kingdom with∣in, which in no wise can mingle with what is of the Starry Go∣vernment, as being quite of another Spirit. It neither careth nor seeketh for Regency or Dignity from these inferior Planets, which give the World's Wealth and Honour to the vilest and basest of Men. Wherefore it is little regareded by such, who have Eyes to see the workings of the superior Constellations, which move in the third Heaven, remote from all mortal sight, from which alone I have sought for Honour, Credit and Reputation: And now I am greatly satisfied to be esteemed of no Repute, and to be as a poor Lazarus for the joy of that Kingdom, which is already possessed by me: Yet not here so resting, as not to expect and believe, but that this invisible Kingdom will so work out visibly, as it may make the Sun, Moon and Stars of this inferior Orb to bow before it; for the assurance of which, we can desire no fuller nor better Evidence, than the total and victorious Reign of God over all the Sin-infected Properties: For let this be but finished, and it will be a certain Introduction to the manifestative Reign of the holy Ghost, who will not fear to face the Locusts of the Earth, that have had their Fulness and Blessings from the Beast's King∣dom, whose Glory will certainly wither and dye away. Nay, they who are of the number of Israelites, and yet abide in the Abomination of Self-Love, will be so ashamed and confounded at the opening of this plentiful Store, that will so abundantly shower down upon them that sit on the Throne with Christ, that all those who have detained these worldly Goods, shall have such Indignation against themselves for it, that they shall throw their Gold and Silver to the Bats and Moles of the Earth, and take hold of the skirts of the Throne-Princes, and cry to partake of their Lot and Portion. For it will be of that Quality and daily increasing Substance, for the satisfying of all kind of Requirings of the outward Body, that Jacob's All and Enough will most surely be possessed without Curse or Sorrow, which we know have attended the whole visible Treasury gotten by the outward Wisdom and Art of Man; who have thereby so Idoliz'd the Works of their Hands, that they have quite run themselves out of those Blessings, which come in by giving up their whole Mind and Will to be the Lord's dominion.

This is the surviving Kingdom that shall spread from the root of Christ risen up in his perfect stature, within and throughout the Souls Essence to deifie it, so that it may abide in the unalter∣able Substance of a Godded Nature, without the hazard of ever relapsing into Sin, Curss or sorrowful Weakness, which will be the most wonderful Salvation that ever yet was brought to manifestation. For which cause it will necessarily follow, that this visible Kingdom will be also established and become as a listed up Ensign, that all flesh may tremble and fall before it, which did so insult and lift up it self in Arrogancy. Where the Lord was but as yet come in his first Reign, no shew of Glory was seen to outward appearance; but rather dark Clouds of Sufferings; which being rightly improved makes meet for the full possession of the first and second Kingdom, each one in their high gradu∣ation, for coming forth to Glorification; as are now in the hid∣den Sphears, where the high Throne-Glories are manifested in another manner, of Kingly Pomp and Splendor, than what ever hath, or indeed could possible be figured out here, till the Kingdom it self do work out visibly, and then we shall know what we at present are known of our God for, in order to this excelling Reign, which is to answer to the Royalty, Purity and Pomp, that God himself is now with all in his glorified Saints and Angels. It is fully assured me that God hath taken into his Eye and Love election at this very day, those who shall come to sit in Princely Majesty and great Dominion in the inward Regen∣cy of the Soul, conquering the thwarting motions of sin and their own Passions; for Faithfulness, Truth and Love to carry through here, will be signs and evidence sufficient what God will further exalt unto. In the interim, whosoever have attain∣ed to the first Kingdom, in Wisdom, Sanctification, and in the excelling Charity; know that these will give the mighty onset for enterance, into the utmost bounds of this overlasting King∣dom, which we shall not think it only sufficient to pray for, but to be doing all that is required for it, in all comely order and fix∣ed resolution, to hold fast what we have already gotten, that none may supplant us, of that which will be the lifted up Crown, to be seen every where upon the heads of the anointed Ones.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Rev. 11 10.
• * 1.2

  Rom 5. 12
• * 1.3

  Gen 3 5.
• * 1.4

  Isa. 55. v. 1.
• * 1.5

  The open∣ing of the first Seal, Rev. 6. v. 1, 2.
• * 1.6

  The open∣ing of the second Seal Rev. 6. v. 3, 4.
• * 1.7

  The open∣ing of the third Seal, Rev 6. 5, 6.
• * 1.8

  The open∣ing of the fourth Seal. Rev. 6 7, 8
• * 1.9

  Pa••••icular experiences co••••••rning this seal opening.
• * 1.10

  The open ing of the fifth Seal. Rev. 6, 9, 10, 11.
• * 1.11

  The open∣ing of the sixth Seal. Rev. 6 14. to the end, & chap 7.
• * 1.12

  Rev. 2. 3.
• * 1.13

  The seventh Seal: shown by way of Vi∣sion, some space of time after the open∣ing of the other Seal.
• * 1.14

  The se∣venth Seal is included in the se∣ven Thun∣ders, open∣ing as the effect of this Seal.
• * 1.15

  The frst Thunder
• * 1.16

  The second Thunder.
• * 1.17

  The third Thunder.
• * 1.18

  The fourth Thunder.
• * 1.19

  The fifth Thunder.
• * 1.20

  The sixth Thunder.
• * 1.21

  The se∣venth Thunder.
• * 1.22

  January, 2d, 1682.
• * 1.23

  So soon as desired, that is to be under∣stood, car∣ried up in a Spiritual Transpor∣tation.
• * 1.24

  First Property.
• * 1.25

  Second Property.
• * 1.26

  Third Property
• * 1.27

  Fourth Property.
• * 1.28

  Fifth Property.
• * 1.29

  Sixth Pro∣perty of the Soul.
• * 1.30

  Seventh Property.
• * 1.31

  Rev. 121.
• * 1.32

  Meaning Wisdom, who is God's e∣sposed Vir∣gin.
• * 1.33

  For this Virgin-Nativity, see into she Wis∣dom of Se∣demon, Chap. 6. 7.
• * 1.34

  Which five Gates were the 5 Sen∣ces spoken of before. Now pro∣ceed we to the follow∣ing Gates.
• * 1.35

  By Sophia is meant Virgin-Wisdom.
• * 1.36

  See Rev 18. 11, 12, &c.
• * 1.37

  The word Magia is the created Power of the-Holy Ghost, so to be un∣destood as often as named.
• * 1.38

  A weighty Expression from Emma∣nuel.
• * 1.39

  Methinks I hear some say, This is such a new Model as is wonder∣ful strange; Pray open the Mystery of it yet more fully.
• * 1.40

  Answer; I only can give out what the Measuring Line of the Spirit hath fathomed, and no more.
• * 1.41

  Magia is the Faith of the operation of the Holy Ghost.
• * 1.42

  A fresh Pro∣phetical o∣pening upon this subject
• * 1.43

  Seven days of Solitude from all of mortal So∣ciety as might be avoided.