Jacob Behmen's theosophick philosophy unfolded in divers considerations and demonstrations, shewing the verity and utility of the several doctrines or propositions contained in the writings of that divinely instructed author : also, the principal treatises of the said author abridged, and answers given to the remainder of the 177 theosophick questions, propounded by the said Jacob Behmen, which were left unanswered by him at the time of his death : as a help towards the better understanding the Old and New Testament : also what man is with respect to time and eternity, being an open gate to the great mysteries / by Edward Taylor ; with a short account of the life of Jacob Behmen.

CHAP. XXIX. How the Adamical Tree hath put forth it self in∣to Branches and Pullulation.

1. THE seventeen first verses is a profound Tract, how from Adam, &c. sprung evil and good, ver. 18. Cain in the Language of Nature signifieth a Source out of the Centre of the fiery Desire and Self-will, out of the fiery might of the Soul, viz. out of the first Principle.

2. Habel in the Language of Nature signifieth an out∣breathed Angel, viz. from the second Principle, and as a Type of Christ went out Childless, for Christ was to generate a new Humane Tree.

3. Therefore was it, that Adam generated Seth, which in the Language of Nature, signifying a forth-running or leap, where the Love-will riseth out of the Fire-will. From him went the Line of the Covenant.

4. Cain begat Hanock, and Built a City which he called also Hanock, signifying an outward selfish Dominion. Hanock begat Irad, signifying a Potentate or Tyrant. Irad begat Mehujael, signifying an assuming of the outward and inward Centre of Nature, an Earthy God, that would possess Riches and Domination; out of this Name came Babel. Mahujael begat Methusael, signifying that mine is the Divine Might. I am the Ordnance of God, which indeed was true, but only according to the first Principle. Methusael begat Lamech, signifying the sending of the An∣gel over the fleshly Life.

5. Lamech took two Wives, viz. a Twofold Effence and Will. Ada signifying that ••ain would be honest, and Zilla signifying fleshly Joy and Pleasure. Ada bare Jubal a plain Man, of him were such as kept Cattle; but the other was Jubal signifying Temporal Joy, viz. the Harp and Organ. Zilla bare Tubal Cain, it hath an excellent understanding; shewing how the Sulphurous Mercurial Wheel, opens it self in the Generation of Metals; and his Sisters Name was Naem••; here ••yeth the precious Pearl, a Heavenly Property, a Virgin of Purity; by the dy∣ing of the outward Man, Naem•• becomes manifest. And Lamech said, I have s••ain a Man to my Wound, and a young▪ Man to my Hurt. The Man was Abel, the young Man was Christ.

6. Cain was to be Avenged sevenfold, if any of the evil Spirits should kill him, vengeance should be on such-Spirit, by all the seven Properties of the dark World; and the mark God set on him, was the mark of the Covenant. But Lamech was the seventh from Adam, and spake Prophetically, of what should befal his Poste∣rity;

viz. should lose the unity, and fall into the seventy Languages; so that the ten Forms of Fire, should open themselves in every of the seven Properties of Nature, is seventy, and thereto belong the seven unchangeable Forms of the Eternal Nature is seventy seven.