0tM i«,V' T^ Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2010 witli funding from Researcli Library, Tine Getty Researcli Institute http://www.archive.org/details/fprtyquestionsofOObohm Forty Qf/ejlms — . of the ^^"■^ Sou I^'^^" concerning its Original, Eflence, Subftance, Na- ture or Qnality, and Property, vohat It jVjfrom Eternity to Eternity. Framed by a Lover of the Great Mvftcrics DOCTOR BALTHASAR ivALTEKy and Anfvvered in the Year, 1^20. by Jacob Behme called Teutonicus Philofophus. Engiiflied by John Sfarrovp, Inthefirft Qyeftion is contained, an £a'- jfUnationy of the Philofopbick Giobe,^r Won- der-Eye of Eternity , or Looking-Glafs ot Wirdom.being ONE half Light or DarkGlob or half Eye with a Rainbow about it, parted, with thcHaIvesreverfed,A Crofs,and Hearty appearing in theCentre,with the Abyfs every where, within it^ and without it, in Infinity, b:ing all ^jjj:^ Looks»g.C/a{s. rrintcd for U LhjfdfU ihe Caftic in Cmbif, i66^l To the Earnejl Lowers of IFijdom. THE whole World would not contain the Books that fliould be wriiren of Chrift, if all that hedid^ and fpake, fliould be Written of him, flowing from that Fountain of Wifdom which dwelt in him' ; What then can be expeiSed in a little Preface? but fome few Ob- fervations of the foot-fteps ^ and Paths of Wifdom, and they are fet down here , as they occafionally prefented themfelvcs to the Thoughts of him, who defireth to be made A Z fie To the earneft lowers fie for the acquaintance wich the Lowcft Scholar in her School. Many have been her Scho- lars in their own way, which Nature hath inchncd them to ; or God y in them that have kindled the Divine Natnre,and fo have been made parrakeis of it in their Souls : We m?.y per- ceive the Ixccllency of every one of them by that which hach been left for a Record behind them, and their ficnede to be followed in Order till we fhall attain the higheft Pitch we are Ciipable of. Since the true Grounds of the ancient Wifdom have been hidden of JVifdom, hidden in the Dark Writings of the wife Men of former Ages, fome in this latter Age have endeavoured to reform the Errors that have rifen from the want of knowing thofe grounds from which they wro:e : The Writings of that Learned S E L D EN, are e^ rainentin this kinde, among others, by which means, the true Fame, and Glory of Learns ing^ hath been in feme good part reftored again; as alio by contriving means to dire(5tthe way, to raife the feveral kinds ot knowledge fromtheirown^ true Balls and Foundation. The Renowned, Sir Framis A3 Bacon To the earnefl lowers Vacon Lord Verulam Vicount 5c. Jlbms , laid his foundation lure, and raifed his building high J by his Inflauratio Magm, be caught men , firft to free themfelves from the Ido^a Men^ tis human^^ and then laid down the whole procefs of the Mind, from a Natural and Experi^ mental Hiftory, to raife a Na- tural Philofophy : which doth iliew the way to compofe a Divine experimental Hiftory^ to the building of a Divine Phi. lofophy, or Myftical Divinity. Comenim alfo, by his Panjo- phia^ dehgneth the bcft way to educate ail from their Child- hood [oj that in the fhorrcil: time of Wifdom. time they may get the higheft Learning their Natures can at- tain to. ^ellms in his Platform con- cerning the Mathematicksy doth defign to raife the Principles, or whole Strudure of thai Art, out of every ones felf, without the help of Books or Inftru- ments, by a Treatife he callcth M^ithematkus ^*uTcl{m • which may well be transferred to a ^hilofo^hu^j Medicns^ LegiflMory Jurtf^erktiS, PoHticus, Theologus, ThcofiphtiSj ^'i/t/p^.j?^ Alio chat ftridl inquirer into Truth 3 Comes Cajlri InfuU in his Book De Ventate^ teacheth the true progrefle of the Mind A 4^ ia To the earnejl foyers in finding the certain infallible truth in all things. Des Qhartes doth hy the foun::: dation of his Philofcphy in fuch Grounds^ and Principles^ as^rc undeniable to him that doth but confider what is in bis own Thoughts. Thcfe and ibme others in their kind^ have gone as far, as the Natural faculty of Mans outward reafon can reach ; This Author Jacob Sehme^ e- fteemeth not his own outward Reafon, but acknowledgeth to have received a higher Gift from God, freely beftowed up* on him^and left in Writing, for the good of thofc that fhould live after him. And of JVifdom. And in his Writings he hath difcovered fucha Ground, and fnch Principles, as do reach into the Deepeft Myfteries of Nature, and lead to the attain-^ ing of the higheft Powerful Natural Wifdom, fuch as was amongft the Ancient Philofo- pherSj Hermes Trisme^ijius^ Zo- roajler , Pythagoras^ Plato^ and ■ other deep Men, converfant in ' the Operative Myftcries of Nature^ and the Modern^ Tre- VtJMHSy Raymundus LuUm^Para" celfuSj Sendivo^mSy and others : . by which men will befatisfied,' that not only they havegottCH;, , but that wealfo may get that Lapis ?hilofophorum'^th^ PhilofGr- phcrs Stone^, indeed, . Tfeofe -: To the earnejl lowers Thofe Principles do alPo lead CO the attaining fuch wif- dom as was caught in £grp/^in nil which Learning Mofes had skill-co the Wifdom alio which was taught in Babylon among the Caldeans^ Jfirokgiansy and wifemen or M^^i, with whom Vaniel was brought up : Alfo to that Wifdom of the Eaft, from whence came ihc Three M^^/j Mat, 2. 1, who faw the Scar that led them to Jemjalem^ and to Bethkm, where they faw the Child Jefus, and Woi (hip- ped, and fo returned, with wfaomGod himfclf vouchfafed to fpeak and dired: them what to do. The of TFifdom. The Ground and Principles in his Writings, lead to the at- taining the wifdom, which ex- celled the wifdom of theEaft, I K}ngs 4. 3O3 31. which Solomon had, and wrote in the Proverbs^ and in a Book Cwhich hath noc yet been extant with us in Eu- rope^ but is reported to be found in the Eaft Countrey^fome few years fince^) wherein he wrote of all Plants, from theCedar^ta the Mofs that groweth upon the Wall, and of all Living Creatures^ l things 4. 33^ His Ground difcovereth the way,to attain not only the deep- eft Myfteries of Nature^ but Divine Wifdom ^Co^Theofophie' To the earnejl foyers the Wifdom of Faich,which is the fubftance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not feen with the ouiw-^td Eys : this Wifdom bringeth our in- ward Eyes CO fee fuch things, as Mofes law in the Mount, when his Face (hone like the 5un,that ir could not be beheld : fuch things as Geha:^if^w^ when his Mafter ElijJ?a bad prayed thac his Eyes might be opened, (his inward Eyes, for his outward were as open bcfore^if not more then any of Ours^being he was Servant to fp great a Prophet) fo chey were optned^and he faW' Angels fighting for Ifrael : fuch ihijsgs ^s Stey0^ who fa w Jqfu5 iitiing of JVifdom. fitting at the Right Hand oF God ; when his Face fhonelrke the Face of an Angel at his ftoning : A nd Paul^ who faw things inutterable in Paradife^ when his outward Eyes were ftruck blind : fnch Wifdom as- this, feeth and knoweth all Myfteries/peaketh all Tongues of Men & Angels, that Tongue which Jdam named all the Creatures by in Paradife, alfo it can do all Miracles: for the^ enjoying whereof, men wouW give all their goods unto the^ Poor^ nay give their Bodies lo be burned • ib dcfirable a thing k is, to enjoy it in this Life, but while corruption fticketh :» the To the earnejl loyers the Soul, it muft have Charity^ or elfe this Seed of Faith will not bear the Fruit of Eternal Life in Paradife for everywhere there is Nothing but an Eternal Miracle, of which all Miracles on Earth are but in Part ; but when that which is perfedt is comej then that which is im- perfed (hall be done away. This is the Wifdom by which 'Mofes wrought his Wonders above Nature . and all the Prophets from theFiifl: along to Chri/i^ and it is that which Our Saviour Jefus Chriflhim- fclf taught to his Apoftles and Difciples^and which the Com- forter doth condnually teach the of JFijdom. the Holy Servants of God ever fince : and by what is written by this Author, it may be be- lieved chat both the fame Wi(^ dom may be attained now, and the fame Power of the Holy Ghoil, by which they fpeak and wrought their Miracles^ and the Caufe difcerned why fcarce any hath been wrought for fo long a while : yes-men will believe that greater things fhall be done^ as our Saviour tells the ApoftieSj then they faw him do : for it will ap- pear , that the Power in one Man, even of one Thought \a a Man, is able to change the whole UnivejdTe in a Moment : This. To the earnejl lowers This Power was in pare in the Prophets and Apoftles , who could raife the Dead ; and when the time appointed is conae, that all* the Dead fhall rife, that Power will do it, though it fliould be but as a Grain of Muftard-Sced in one Man 3 and reftore the whole Creature to the Gloriou? Liber- ty of the Sons of God ; Sure- ly it will be worth our pains, to find fuch wifdom as this. By the fludy of thefe Wri- tings, men may come to know ( every one according to his condition, property, and in-^ clination ) how all the real differences of Opinioas, of all forts of Pf^ifdom. forcfjmay be reconciled'^ even the nice ft Differences of the moft J JLearned Critieks in all Ages ; th.u which feemeth different in the Writings of the Pro- found Magical Myfiical Chjmick, Philofoi>hers 3 froai that which we find in the Experimental Vhjficians, Vlnlofo^hers ^ J/lro:: nomers, may be reconciled by Conlidering what this Author Teacheth, that the N^mes which were given to the Seven Planets^ do fignifie the feven Properties of the Eternal JSra:^ cure, and are the caufe of all chofe things, which are by Ex- perimental Men accounted the firft and deepeftcaufes of all. AUb To the earnesi lovers \ Alfo thereby the differences in Religion, may be fo recon- ciledj that the Minds and Con- fciences of all doubting per^ fons may be fatisfied about Predeftination,Ele(5tion, Crea- tion 5 Corruption , Salvation^ and Reftoration 3 fo clearly, thatall will love one another, & that hard Leffon, to love our Enemies^ willbc readily learnt, and Men will quickly Contri. bute to the ftudying that one neceffary thing, that Treafure hid m the Field, that Gold of the Kingdom of Heaven, that Precious Pearl, that All in All, Faich and Love , and Chrift, and God, when they fliall per. ceivc of VFifdom. '^^jeive that all this lyeth hid in ^j:very Soul, in oneMeafiire or ''pthcr, and may be founds and he way fet down fo plain^ thac every Soul may find it. Thereby the Writings of all Vlen will be underftood, even the very darkeft Myfteries^, conteined in the VVritinsrs of the Prophets^ and Apoftles ^ will be made plain and eafie to the fimpleftThirfty Soul : and then when that appeareth which is now hidden, that Ex- cellent Glory, every one will not only fee it, but walk in the way that leadeth to it, and fo at- tain it in the higheft Degree of every ones capacity and capa- bility. While To the earnejl lowers While this Wifdom \%¥ growings it will {o reform the Laws^the degrees in eve ry Nation^ that at lengthy the whole World will be. governed in Peace to the joy of all. Perhaps fome will think this impofl^ible^jlet them con- fider^ that if they be told of a Curious City^ and of the incredible things that are done there^ by him that hath been there, and feen what he relateth^ and he defcribe the wayfoplain^ that they may come thither themfelves^wil they not go ? that they may know as well as he that told them: of VVifdom. lem : do {o by this Auchor; Lead this Book diligeiirlv^^ nd lerioully^ till youappre- end the meaning but o? fomc art of the way he herede- :ribeth,which may eafily be one.and you will be fatisfi- d the things are true^ and !iat the way he fheweth is rue^ and be able to walk in z^ andalfo be very thirfty to ibour in that way.more and lore^ till you attain your /hole defire : and then you /ill keep it as the bed: Jew- I3 a Memorial of all Myfte- ies^ But let every one read it lemfelves^whccheritbe the higheft To the earnejl^ Sec. highell King that fitceth up on a Throne^ or the mcanc{ Maid that grindeth in aMill or hear it read with thei own Ears^ if they mean t partake of this fo high a gi! from the moll Hi2;h^ or ell the Devil may eafily bereav them of it^ To the Reader. IF we knew the pretioufiiefs of our ojvn Soul Si rve vpould confejs and acknowledge within inward feel- ingnefs , the Anfwer to Chris's §luejlton, v^henhe Jatdi Whatfliallic profit a Man to gain the whole World and lofe his own Soul > Or, what Hiall a Man give in exchange for his Soul ? The Soul IS fo pretious that No- thing can truly be valued at fo high a J^te. To fave it is the greatest Gain, to lofe it is the greatefi lofs : then who will not highly prz:{e the fludy and un^ derflanding of the way to fave it ? Chrtfl faith. He that will lave his Soul (hall' lofe it, and he th^c will lofe his Soul {hall fave it : hut who under [land- eththis? We know it is the earnefi de- fire of every Soul to be faved , and to k^ happy and glorious i but the way is very To the Reader^ very unknonn to us poor fallen Soulf for ire can hanlly fi^pofi that lojm'g will he the Javing of our [elves : Chtiji af/6 taught that the way to Glory wa tlirough many tribulations & Death ; this nay he entered into Glory y and fi have all the Blejfed from the beginning of the World, and can no otherivije tt the end thereof: but hojv JhalL a Soul knoiv the way to loje and deny it filf fi that it may ajfuredly attain Etemai Salvation f Let it lijlen, in its Heart and Conjcience tnrvardly to that Teacher, rvhich It /hall find there ^ rvho is Goa hmfelf: IFe have the Tejlimony of Mo- its for this y vpho told the Jfraelites^ The Word , the Commandment is nigh thee, in thy Heart and in thy Mouth {net the outward but the iuwara Heart a nd Mouth.) As alfo the Jp file Paul faith to the F^mans , That Chrifl the Eternal Effcntial Word oj God, the Word of Faith which they, the Apoflks preached, is nigh us, in our To the Reader. our Hearts and m onr Mouths : and in another place he faiths Do J^ou not know that Chriftis in you, except you be paft reproof, andfaid. We are all of his OiF-fpring, as the Apoftle mentioneth it : Nay vpe all knofv that he that doth well is the Ser- vant of God, but he that doth Evil is ii the Servant of the Devil who ruleth in his Heart : And though there is none CI that doth Good, no not one, nor can da III' of himlelf, ivhtle he is in this MortaU 4 Life, yet through Chrijl in him, he can de- «| fre to do well, andheforry when he hath :fi beendraxnawaytodoevil by the Lufls 10 bf his own Heart ^ by which the Devil n a temp' To the Reader. tcmptet]) us to do Evil J but if we will rejijl the Devil he rvill flte from us^ if rve will leave off to do evil^ and dejirey trie 9 and learn to do rvelly without doubt ive Jhall be able throng God that dwell- eth in us : a?id then he will teach us all things y and lead us into all Truth by his Spirit, JU this we (hall fully un- derfiandy and all Myjleries ^ when God Jhall manifefl himfe^. in usy if we ear- fiejily defire it with all Humility y felf denyaU lofingof Our Souls ^ and being Nothing in our /elves ; for then God will be All in Ally and nothing is tm- poffible with God: All thisy and much morehath the Author of this Anfwer to thefe §heJlions concerning the Sou/, found true^ and hath out of Im inward "Myftery manifeftedmany things in this^ and other Wntirigs of Imy the J^owing whereof will be exceeding ujeful to the furtherance of the Salvation of every Soul j which when I had ready I was very much fatisfedin my own Soul, and do To the Reader. do defre that others may be made fartO" h^rs of them ifo far as lyetb in me: I hate ti)erefore taken in hand to put this Trea^ tife into EngUJh^ which I chofe to do ra" ther out of the Original then out of any Tranflations, becaufe they many times come Jhort of the Authors own meanings and becaufe I found many Err ours in fome of them, and he is fa deep in his Writings, that rve have need to defire that our Souls may be put into fucb a condition as his was in^ elfe they cannot be fully under flood : But the fame God, that fatisfied his defires , voiR fattsfie ourSi if we cajl our f elves upon him in Our Souls, and let him do with us what hepleafeth* Concerning the Author, I have now puhUf^jed the Brief Tranflation of bis Life^ written in High-Dutch by Abra- ham Van Frankenberg, who was long his acquaintance and continued fo till his death. The J{clation is as foUowetb. a 2 J hrief Jccount of the Life and Con^^erfattonof JsLcoi:) Behmc, afterli>ards by Learned Men in Germany called Tcuconicas^ Written in High-Dutch> by Abraham van Franckenberg, one very much acq uainted ivith him, JAcoh Behme was born in the year, 157 y, n Old SeUenbHrg^ diftant about two Miles from Geriitjc^ a City in Upper Lufatla^ highly Eftccmed by Learned Men : His Parents were J^f^?^ his Fa- ther, & Vrfiilahis Mother, both Countrey people. In his youth he kept Cattel, and at length by advice of Friends was fent to School, where he learned to Read and Write, togethet with the Pear of God ; at- terwirds was put to the Handicraft Trade of a Shoemaker ; when he became Ma(kr of ' his Trade in the year, i ^94. he m^rry cd a Maid, one Catharine the Daughter of jF. Anno idoo. when he was a fecond time touched by the Di- vine Light, and by a fudden Glimpsof a Pewter Veflel,he was introduced into the Inward Ground or Center of the Hidden Nature. He not being yet fufficiently fatisfied with this, went forth into the open fields, and there perceived the wonderful or won- der-works of the Creator in the Signai turcs. Shapes, Figures and Qualities o: Properties of all created things,very clear ly and plainly laid open ; whereupon be- ing filled with exceeding Joy,kcpt filence praifmg God , and fo contentedly fatisj ficd himfelf therewirh for a while. I But according to God's Holy Counfelf and Determination •, who mansgeth hi works in fecret, about Ten years after^z'/;? in the year, \6\o, by the overfliadowin of the Holy Spirit, he was a third time flii red up and renewed by God, whercupc being fo enlightned, with fuch guat Grac bcftoweP k (?/ Jacob Behtnc. beftowed upon him, he could not put it cut of his mind, nor Ihivc againii his God, therefore did by fmall means, and without the help of any Books, but only the Holy Scripiures, wiite fecretly for himfelf thefe Books following, viz>, (i.) ji',7y}o^i6i2. the firft Book called ^uroray the Aforning Rednefs^ or Rifiyig of the Spin I and being complained of to the .i(|Magilhates of Gerlitz,^ for being the Au- thor thereof, the Book was taken and laid up in the Councel Houfe, with command Jtohim, that he being an Ideot or Layick, (hould from thence -forth forbear fuch Jwriting of Books, which did not belong to It his condition and employment, upon which he abftained for feven yearsjbut after that, u, being in like manner flirred up again by the )«, moving of the Holy Spirit, and being ex- lorted to it by the entreaty and defire of ijjrome people that feared God, he took Pen m hand again, and wenton to wiirc, and '{Ipcrfeded with good leafure and delibera- lijdon thefe that follow. 2. Akho, i<5ip. The fccond Book coq- zerning the Three PriKciples^ with an Jp- undix concerning the Three-fold Life of ,£^ 3. Anno, 1(^20. A Book of i\[zThree^ ]^9ld Life of Mar;, ^. The Of the Life afftl Converf-iltno 4. TheAnfvYer to the Forty Q^i eft ions of the Soul, propofcd by Dr. Balthaz,er y^alter ; in the firft Chapter whereof i$ contained a Treatife of the Reveried Eye, or Philofophick Glebe ; with an Appen- dix concerning the Soul, the Image of the Soul, and the Inrba or detlioyer of the In:iage. J. Three Books. Firft, i. of the becoin- ing Man or Incarnation of Jcfus Chiilh Second. 1, Of the Suffering Dying and Refurre6lion ofChrili Third. 3. Of the Tree of Faith. <5. A Book of the fmall fix Points, anc a Book of the Great Six Points. 7. A Book of the Heavenly and Earth- lyMyftery. 8. A Book of the Laft Times, orofth< looo. years Sabbath, being two Epiftle to Pistil. Kejm, p. Anno, 1621, De Stgyiatura Rernm of the fignification of the Signs or Mark of All Things. ic. A ConfoUtory Book of the fou Complexions. 1 1. An Apology to Bahhafar Tilkjn cor cernlng the Aurora, and another to hi! concerning Prcdeftination,and the Pcrfo of Ch rift and oi Marj, 12, Coi of Jacob Behmc. i'^. Confiderations upon Efalas Stlefells Bbokf 13. Anno, 1621, A Book of True Re- pefttance^ 14. A Book of True Refignation. 15. A Br>ok of Regeneration, or the New Birth. i or an Expofition of the Three-fbld World, to J(7^» Sigifmnnd o{ SiglfmHnd^znd to Abraham van Frankenhergy being at the End of an Epiftle concerning the True iand falfe Light. 2p. A Book of the Errours of the Sefts of Ex^ekicl Meths xo tA^ T. A,^i an 'Apology to Sjaias StlefeL 30, ABookof the Laft Judgment. 31, A Book of feveral Letters written at feveral times. 32, A Clavis or Key of hi$ Wiitingj^bc- i!3g the Expofition of fome words. The Books which the Author finidiec not, are marked thus. ( ) In thefe he hath left fo Noble and Pretious a Talen and Treafure, for the fetting forth God'i Honour and Glory, and for the promotinj Man's Salvation, both for the prefcnt am for the future times, that fince the time ^f the Apoftler higher and deeper ground 9 I I of Jacob Behme, ed Myfteries concerning the Deity have fcarce been revealed i his acquaintance for the moft part was with Godly Learned People, and fuch as were experienced in the knowledge of Nature, with whom he converfed, as alfo with fome of the Noble men of LufatU and Sllejia^ in all fear of God ; though fonae of the Common Preachers, have not forborn, as their ufu- al manner is, to caft forth theic venom againft his Writings, and to ftir up thi Rude and fooliili People with all manner of Reproach and Scandal : yet the Truth JivethlVill, and hath prevailed, and will at length Tryumph in fecret. But he the blefled Jacob Behmg the Tett^ tomcJ^j at Gerlitz, in his Houfe, near the Water-fide of the River Neifg, Anno. 1^24, the 18. Day of the Month of No^ 'vember^ new-ftile, about the fixth hour in the Morning, being the 24. Sundy aftec Trinity^ after he had heard moft exceeding lovely Tweet Mufick without his Chambeij^, and being refreilied with the Holy Ufe of the Teftament of Chrift at his Supper, his 'Sons and fome Good Friends praying and \ iwceping about him, with thefe his laft. ^ and Comfortable Words, "r NoTfi go I hmf im Turdife. ,, Meeklj Of the Life and Convtrfation Meekly and gently fighing, bleffedlyi departed in the fiftieth year of his Age; After the Preaching of the Funeral Scr- mon, he Was buried in the Church-yard at (j^r//V;?:,i& upon the Grave a Wooden Crof$ was fet with this Myftical three- fold Fi- gure graven upon it, VIZ,, An Eagle with a Lilly. Twig* A Lyon with a Sword. A Lamb with a Mitre. The Supexfcripdon over the, Crofs w« this, V. H. I. L. L C. I. V. That is, Vnfei.Heil Im Leben Jefu Ghrifti In Vwi In English thus. Oat Salvmon is Jn the Life of Jefus Ckrift In K/. Vfhieh w^s J.B.Motto,or uTual fpecch and Superfcription in his Letters. AUo thefc words- were the Infcriptio: qS the Crofs. Born of Gd.L Dfad In Jefu, Sc^leii mth the Hdy Spirit. Refteth here Jaco!^ Bfhms of Old Sh Hot and vrith its B:;ak re- ceived a Lilly-Twig reached forth out of the Sun. 2^ The Northern Lyon was Crowned, and figned with a Oofs-, and held in thfe Right foot before, a fire-flaming-Sword, and in the Left a fiery Heart, and refted with the hough'Oi'hitider part of the Right Foot behind upon jtCube, and -with the Left upon a Globe. 3. The Lamb with a Mitre , walked meekly and quietly between them both in the Meadows, and by the Brooks and Ri- vers of Grace. His Seal or Stamp was a Hand out of Heaven with a Lilly-Twig. In the Memorial Books ofgoodfileody,., he ufed to write thefe Verfes. Text, JVeme Zch ifi me Ewigkeit^ Und Evfi^ks'n rvle die Zclt^ Ptr ift kefrcj/t V9» allemftnit. . EngUfhed, To vohtm Time is 06 Sternitjy And Etermtj M Time^ ^4s- freed frcmallfirlf^^' Of the Life artd Converfatlon The outward Form of his Body was al- moft of no Peifont^e, he was lean and little of Stature, with a Fore-head very much inbowed, high Temples, fomewhac Hawk-nofed, his Eyes were Grey and ve- ry Azure, otherwife as the Windows of Solomons Temple, he had a lliort thin Beard, a fmall fliril Voice, an amiable pleafing Speech ; He was modeft in his Behaviour, humble in his ConverCation^ and meek in Heart; his highly cnlightned Spirit is to be difcerned by his Writings- in the Divine Light. The following J^latton was taJ^en out of a Memorial of Michael Curtz, con- cerning what happened at the Depav tureof theBleJfed Jacob Behme. ON Sunday {November i^ .) early in the Morning, he called his Son 71?- hia4y and asked him: If he heard the Ex- cellertt Mufick^y he fa id , No ; then he fpakc that the Door (houJd be opened, tbatthefinging might be the better heard ; afterward he asked what the Clock had ftuck, and was told it had ftruck Two,hc faidj/r ^ not )(t mj time^thrcf h^nrs hence u of Jacob Behmc. mj time ; In the mean while hi: fpake thefc vroids once. O th$u fi^ong Cod of Hvfis^ deliver me according to thy H'lll, O thou Crucified Lord Jefus ^hrlfi^have Mercy ufon me^ and receive me lftt& thy Kingdom, When it was near about [\^^ he took leave of his Wife and Sons ; bleffed them, »nd f aid , Now go I hence Into Paradlfe ; He 'did bid his Son to turn him about, fighed 'deeply, and fo very meekly and quietly ?,^cparted from this World. thin I ■ PREFACE. Thin followeth in the. former Pre- face fr'tnted:,^ 1647* Thus. IF it were not for the great Fruit that I conceive may grow to every one that ^udieth tt> IJhould be firry that 1 am the hi^rument ito mahejuch things known in my Native Language s and\ much more unwilling it jhould be pub- lifloed to the view of fi many various^ MindSy as are now fp^ung up : But my hope Uy Goodnejs will get the upper Hajidy and that the Fruits of the Spi" rit will prevail to the fiibduing of the tufts of the Flefh : Now I readily fub- mit to thsCenfiire of thofi rvbo have that good delirti and of tboje who are not proudly and perverjly wedded to their ewn conceits^ (when they have conjidered this Authors meaning) whether this niU not be c^ beneficial to us as it bath been U Preface. other Nations : Indeed fny Mi fid ^ led to thinj^i that our troubled douk- ing Souls may receive much Comforty leading to that fnirard Peace nhich pajfeth ail under fianding s that all the di^Ufbijig SeEls and Herejies arifing froni the Darl^nefs andAIalice of Men w and Devils, mil be made to van? Jh and eeafiy by that underflanding which may be kindled in them from it : they that ride will perceive how to effeH all their t good pur pofesy to the joy andhappinefs 11 ef them that are fubjetled to their Go- vernment s jindSubjeiis will foon learn to obey in every things as the Primi^ tive Martyrs did-, though they fhould live under fuch Governours as they bad : So God fhall beolorified by all mens love to one another ^ and Peace will flour rijh over all the Earth, It may be fome wiR thinJ^ it fo hard to attain the underflanding of this Au- thor , when they read the Anfiver to the Firfl ^luefiion (which is far more diffi- ^ cult Preface^ Cult then any of the others becaufe ii contains the fum of them all in brief] that they will forbear to take fo much pains as they fupfofe is requijite j but if it Jhould prove a little harder then other writings -, the profit vpill counter- vail the Labour with a hundredfold ad- 1 vantage > yet let every One read it themfelvesi or hear it read with their own EarSi that others mifeporty hin- der them not from fo great a benefit j and they jhall no doubt attaimty for I am convinced by my own Experience^ that every one may receive according to their vafi or narrow Capacity^ who have according to my own Meafure been fa- tisfiedi though 1 be One of the unworthiejl of the Children of Men, J. s. Before Before the Catalogue to the 40. ^e[fi' ons was this Preface to the leader, kihrlUc Author wrote this Anfwcr to tkii\ I thcfc Q^cftions, chiefly for his Fiicnds lake that fent them to him, J as alfo for the Benefit of all fuch as love '■' the knovyledgcof Myfteries : this Friend ]hoi his was Dodor Bahhafar fValteVy who 4 travelled for Learning and hidden Wif- //j-idom, and in his return home , hapncd to (^, hear of this Author in the City of (jerlitz,^ ^j and when he had obtained acquaintance ^ f with him , he re joyced that at laft he had '' found at home in a poor Cottage , that ^^ which he had travelled for fo far , and not '^i received fatisfa^^ion : then he went to the J. jfevcral Universities in Gtrmany ; and did there colle(^ fuch Qucftions concerning the Soul, as were thought and accounted i ImpolTiblc to be rcfolved fundamentally '^ and convincingly : which he made this Catalogue of, and fent to this Author, from whom he received thefe Anfwcrs ac- cording to his dc(irc,wherein he and many others that faw them received full fatis- fadion. When The Preface When this Book was firft Printed,! crv dcavourcd by a Fiiend to prefcntoncol tbcm to hif Majefty KingC/?4r/fj that ther vf as,who vouchfafed the peiufal cf itjabou- a Month after was defircd to fay what he thought of the Book, who anfwcred tha«#^ the Publifhcr in Engiidi feemed to fay ot the Author, that he was no Scholar, and if he were not, he did believe that the Ho ly Ghott was now in Men, but if he were a Scholar^ it was one of the bcft Inventi- ons that ever he read. I need not add the Cenfure of any other Perfon : kstwing none to coaipare with this one way or o- tbcr. n n$ 'his Author may be eafily wider jioodtn every tht7igy by fuch a Confiderati- on as thti which followeth, tH His outward World is to the out- I ward Man, the bcft Looking-Glafs to fee what ever hath been, is or lliali : in Etcrniry. Our Minds and the Co« rations therein, arc our beft Inward Look- g-Glifs, to fee Eternity exa(S^ly ia : In od are all thlyjgs^ therefore every thing ithbe^nin all Eternity in God both un- lanifefted, and manife(ted only to himfelf I himfclf: but in the ivorld and in our linds they arc unmanifefted and hidden, nd alfo Manifeft or capable of being ma- ifefttd in their real Truth and Exift- 3cc,both as they areuncrcaturally inGod, id Crcaturaily in all things. Accord- igly one Text ^lys^ Rom. 1,20, The Invlfi. UthlKgs ofhimy that isy hk Eternal Popper •ii-fjodhead or Deity are feen by the Crea^ on of the fi^'orldy bet Kg conjidered in his orkj, Rom. I. ip. And another h^t^what^ ever is pojjihls to he k^own of Gody he hath ^anifejied in Man.jobn 17.3 . And it is fife ternalto know ihsc the onlyTrne God^ and him To the leader, him whom thou haft fenty fayes the Son c God bimfelf Chrilt Jefus. The Ecci nal infinite Powers both of Light ar Daxknefs in their own Immenfitiesin Gc have alwayes been the fame, and ha\ Eternally wrought the fame effcdls, ac produced the fame Subftanccs Spirituall] and Invifibly to any thing but God hire feif, which they are Manifefted to do i the inviTible inward world of God, Spiri and the Minds of Men, and in this vifib' outward world ;So that we may truly leai to know him who is all things, inour ii ward and outward World : ail things th are manifefted come out from him, ar when they ceafc to be manifefted, they ei ter into him again as into their Center m manifefted : So he is the caufe of all Cai fes, and when we know how he caufes ar thing to be, as it is manifefted to be in felf, then we underftand the Thing, ai him that is the caufe of it : his works all things whatfoever arc good, and cai not ceafc to be fo, but when tCieatu to whom he has given the power of tl World to come, doth ufeitotfaerwife th< its true property requires, that only b comes evil inand to the Creature not Goi To the l^eader, Jod. But God being everywhere pre- [-;nt in his Tottl fulncfs, as himfelf fayes, ji Jm not I he that fUeth all things ? therefore ic highcft ctufc of every thing muft needs : in the thing it fclf.Thc inward heavenly nd Hdiifli Looking-Glafs is in all our lindf , & outwardly we want not a Corpo- IJial Looking-Glafs of whatfoever is Eter- lil to inftrud^ our Minds withal. So that if |c confider all the Works of God in the •jVoild, both inwardly and outwardly, we Innot but find and know him, and fo Iiow all things in our fclves and in Him, .Sid hina in our felves>&in all things elfc. ihis I thought convenient to hint in brief J an Introdu(^ion of the nfiind into the kntcrof AllMyftciies. J John SparroTV, ' Tinday, Decern^ %r, i8.iS<54. *^ ^ E^V^ATA, El^J^Ar A. T^-Orty Qucft ons, Jacob Bcbme p. 2. 1. 7. r fuch net x- Preface v. ^. r. Learned Ci'.dcaol. ?. 9. 1. 10. r *lto that V. 10 1 8 forBc^icraer. Behme. Qucftiont. v. 3 9.r.M?ftcrie,tov. 22 1. i, r. Pirft, there w. f, 66. I. 6. one r. n ne. v 77. 1. 3. f. dikcrnethr. difceYCfcrh.f . 17 J. 10. t in r. into, v 183.I. 7. for f r. •»«. V.190.I. l*Jt own fcif Art and m\t. v. 216. 1. lO. Marg. r. half CircJ 1. 12. f. OIK r.on. f. 222. 1. 17. f. world r. word. ?. 2f 1.2 r.^' One. Margin 4«. »JC I. ^. f. turns rtumt * V. 25:4. I.I. r or the tctal.l. 19. Marg. I. 7. Cor part*; Parrots v. 2f 6. 1. 7. r. Sulphur. J. 9. r. Magia. ?. i^/o 4.f Ma?.iakr.Afagfck. v a6o. I. ^.f. bcarcthr. bowc ». 278. i. f . f. right r. Light, t. 287. 1. ^. r. ChdftsFie v.327.1.8.r. God put out the Inward. Q. 4. v. 9. 1. a breathethr.bFeiihcd. ^'6. V. 10.1.8 f Natuer. Natu q.6. V. 14. 1 4. f conanteth r conccnttth. ▼. 1 5 . !» 4. Mar; f Stolyen r Stoltzcn. q.7.v.9.1,5.Marg,f W«ndclcr W dclt . q. I i.r.r.1.4. f Carnal r Counccl. 1 6. f Prime r Prir q.il.v6.l4.rMymick. q- U. v'ly.U.r ftouldft. I3.! fill, qix V 3x19. f haver bear. v^ol6f CbarityrcJar o 14 T I ? 141 Sclf-Dt fire, q 17 1 19 1 2 f yet r let. v 20 t tba r Tbce. 1 6 f thrm r thou. ▼ a 1 1 4 r to, and depe f j5 1 ^rihcHarrcii. qi8 v 5 Iif thcyrthen- \6 I rand, v «i l4rrcceiTCth q »i» 3I if Scckethr^ceth a^ l^r taken in. q 13 v 7 I4 rthereby- vio In f cca tftifcth. q 24V 17 14^ Chert, VTC lay. 926^19 17 ft' rthcm- y 2il2raGeth. q307 17 ref the world. V31 f breaking r breathing. ? ^ol 8r fuch fliort words or fyref. ¥5617. t been rhccre. q32vK I3 f Magiar k na- ¥ 20 f keep r know, q 35 vi 1 5 rfcctein- v< ' Diflinguifli. v ?7 UrSclfup- q36vi8 1 2 Marg. f ftcrr Wafler V 26I3 f ana ras. q;7f ^14^ ^inkt working, c 40 v iol ^ r Lifes-Eilenc'cs. A?pendi» v ( ritis. V19 I 3 r Imaged, v 31 1 9 t or !•• » 33 r Imaging. V34 1 I i Men r Mao. The Table of the Forty Quejiions, 'J. T Y 7 Hence the SoxAexipd at i VV ^^^ beginning. ^ _ ^ What the Souls Effence, Subjlance, Nature i2Lnd Property ^is. How the Soul was created to the Image of God. What the Souls breathing in, was, (3 and rvhe?i it was eiFedied, I \ How the Soul was properly forw^^ \ and fafhioned. fi i. What the Souls power or abilhy.\%. \\ Whether the Soul be corporeal or J! not corporeal, ^ , "). In ^\i2X. manner the Soul Cometh «J into Man, or into the Body. , . How the Soul doth unite it felf with the Body, o. Whether the Soul be Ex Traduce^ and propagated humanely and cor- poreally^ or every time nerv created \ and breltthed in from God. B I i-o How ^ The Table of the Forty ^uejlions. I j, How^nd in what place the Soi isfeatedinMan. 1 2 . How the enlightening of the Soi is. 13. How the Soul feeds upon tl: Word of God. 1 4. Whether fuch a new Soul be 2v/>/ .out Jin » ■I J. HowvyZ/z Cometh into the Soa feeing it is God's Work and Creij tute. .1^. How the Soul is kept in fuch un c^« or connexion, both in the Adi mical and Regenerate Body. •17. Whence and wherefore the of^pt fition of the Flefh and Spirk is . 18. How the Soul departs from tfc £ody in the Death of a man. I ^. Whether the Soul be mortal or in mortal, zo. How the Sonl retKrneth ti> G% again. ,^i. Whither the Soul goeth when •" parteth from the Body, be it hapf ^ruahappy. 22. Wh The Table of the Forty S^eflionf. } z. What every Soul doth, whether itenjoyeth orrejoyceth it felf till the Day of the Lail Judgment. J. Whether the wicked Souls with- out difference in fo long a time before the Day of Judgment, feel any eafe or refrefhment. 4. Whether mens wiflies benefit them orfenfibly r^w^ where they are. i^. What the /i/^iw^of God and the .Bofom ofyfbrdhamy is. 6. Whether the Souls departed, fa/^^ r^r^ about men, their friends, chil- dren and goods, and know, fee, ^ Jike or diflike their undertakings. • 7. Whether they know ^underftand I this or that art or bufinefs, whereof 'in the body they had good skill. M. Whether alfo they can certainly know and get ««y;7z^r^ skill in Di- ^^ vine. Angelical, Earthly, and Dia- bohcal things, than they had in the Body, p.; What their 7^^jf,wf2^4^fw*g, and CUnfivati(m, isj jur-) ' • B 2 30. What 4 The Table of the Tarty ^ejlims. 30. What the difference ef the livin 3 and deads Refurredion of the/7o and of the ^Sc?/^/, is. 3 I . What kind of new glorified Bo^t they will have. ;i. ( > 52. What furthermore in the othr life, their /irw, condition, joy, ail glory, is. 5l. What kind of ;?za^^r QurbodiB will have in the other life. 34. Of the mifcrable and horrilc condition of the damned Souls, -3f . What the Enachian \\i^ is , aii how long It will continue. 3^5. What the Soul of the Meffiah 1 <:hrifl n, 37. WhatthCiy/^/mofChrift is tit wa5X3bedient,which he coramen ed into his Father s hand ? 38. Of thofe things which fhall \ done at the Endoi the World. 3 9 . What and where Paradife is, wii it% Inhabitants f 40. Whether it be mutable, and win it will come to be hereafter ?. 75 f \fk Prefac EofJ.B.to Dr. Belthafar Walter. BEloved Sir, and my good Triendj It is not pojjihle for uj •^••Reafon to avfwer " Outvyard I) your Quefltons ; for they ^^^J:^"' ^^ liir^ the greatefi Myfierm, , . ^^ i^hicb are alone J^oa>n to ^^^005 dif- tfW» . cerned no i . 2. fa^'YZj: Daniel faub further than li)^ X?;2^N€buchadiiezzar, by the out- jiThat which the King ^^^f/^'^^^- lisketh and dcfireth of "^^^^^030/ he Learned Chaldeans, hVftroldgians, and Wife ^^ ^ cioen, '"is-not in their po- ^ ireri only the God of Heaven can feveal ormanifeft the hidden Thing. I t3is not ia my Reafon to anAver the rf^ag i biitthat theKing may perceive he Thoughts of his heart, God hath ?b'evealed it , not that my Reafon is greater than of all them that live. F B 5 3. So ^ The Preface. ! 3. So/ayla/fotoyoui youjhallh Aiifweredi not that my J{eaJonis greatk tkan of all them that live, but that yo^ ^ might perceive and obtain the thought! of yoMr heart, your earnefl feeding ari^ difiringat ij given to rae taan/weryo \\t And you Jhould not tn ■\ Jiich way fi eagerly Jeek ^/' tAccoFdingto terfuch things, for\ •u- -. J Itandeth in no out ware the ouiYvard- ''j> r i . . .1 c % u^ ji,^ J\eaJon i but to the Sp* ^ fit of God mthiiig i impojfible : and fe wig rvearetheChm dren of God, andmChrt^ born again i God^furely the Son muji needs fee ver^ n>ell what the Father doth in his hiufe^i and aljb learn his skill and wor/^ • J. And feeing rve our f elves are th Myfleries of God, Jhallj»enot fi miic as looh^ ttfon them, as if we ought not i meddle with fucb Myflenes, as Anti- chrift tn folly for biddeth us ifor none a^ frehendeth any thing of Gods Myflertei unlefs it be given to him : andSt.j^mci Jattbi chap, 1.17. Every good and per- The Preface. 7 IcaGift Cometh from above from the ather of Lights , in whom tliere is. D alteration nor fliadow of change. 6. But feeing you feeJ^tbefe things Ji rhemently, you are even become ths \u[e of finding them y for Godgiveth his lyjieries both by means and withoui; cans > but that none might boajl, he of- :ntimes ufeth very mean ^^eoj^le in tty tat it may be hriomi income from His land. 7. Toujhallbe anfiperedrvith a very rmanddeep AnfweTi yet compriT^din rief not according to outward I{eafhny ut according to the Sprit of Knonr-- 8. Andthough 1 couU have fully de* fionflrated thefe things , and fet them lorvn in a larger defcription > yet feeing hey are all plentifully enough defer i bed ind explained in my other Writings > I ^afi them ever now briefly for the delight f the J^eader^ and that this may be a- jrief Memorial of the great Myfie* B 4 9.Bu1^ 8 The Preface. 5>. But hethat defireth to IqiovpthtJ^ things fully i and from the ground if them, let brn feck^ ^ * The Aurora, u fhe'''^ foregoing ?rrz- Three Principles, 2, ^- /i // .r^ i Ihiedold life, 5. f^^^'^ efpeciaHy m thi t Third Parr, txheil he hath the rr hole ground of the Di\'ino Subflance i as aljo of the Creation o^ all things^ of that which is Eternal j an A a I fo that which u temporary or tr an fit ok iy 3 and how all hath come to he, and acf as n doth i mdvfhat it will comett be at lajl. 10. Wherein lyeth the Myfteriunj m^Lgux^Td the great Myftery^ fo far as ^ Creature is able to apprehend or bear,* Thither 1 would have you dircffed for further Explanation, and commend m^ to you in Chriji, into the Brotherly Love,^ AnnpChnlli, i6iq. Jacob BehemCj Called Teutomciii^ The Firft Qneftion: Vhence the Soul T^\9ccA from the Be^ giytniyt^^ ths World. J, WE have fufficiently in th^ * Second and tThirdBook,.*nr^^PnV explaift'd the f/f/^^ Wl.yftery of the Soul, by the -[Thnefold^- three Principles of theDi- Life, i^ine Subftance ; where we lave defcrihd the Eternal Centre of the Bternal Nature ; as alfo the Number Three Df the Divine Subftance, with manycir- :urnftanccs ; -and what Eternity hath ever Decn ; and how the beginning of theCrea* :ion came to be ; what an Angel and Sout • is; as alfo the heavy Fall of Lttcifer^ and htH both the Mothers that havelo brought ;t forth ; the one generating the Heavenly SubR:antiality,the other, the Hellilli fAbomination ; aI[o ^or^Ahomlna^ of Light and Darknefs. l^Ie lfd>fia'/2ce^. . 2. Therefore in this Trea- rKe'Wc are not fo very eafily to be under*, ftood, Hnlefs the Third pfarc of'our wiiting^j^ tavc been read .and.v«feity is Naiure, but Majefty in ihe number Three ;yec wetnull fay^ (hat God is /« Nacurej though Naiure doth not contain or comprehend hicp, as litih as .the Air can contain or compiehend ths glaac^.ox IhiQing of the Sum^ yet w^ u IDO {tteft.f* from the Beginning* t} A .tuft needs fay, that Nature \$ ga-^trated in \% Will, and is a Seeking, proceeded out f the Eternity : 6, For, where there is no Will> there is Ifo no Defiring : But there is in God, an k '^'Eternal Wr*/?, which is" Himfcir, to generate 1 lis Heart or Sonne ; atid that ^^///jm^keth ' !'^J:he ftirring or the exit out of the mil o£ .he heart, which is- a Spirit : Vo that the Eteinity ftandeth ' * Drfhmi cr- ^ ;"[in ^^'^^ Eternail * Forms, dijhna krn^r- iltl i. I 11^1 n r ■ or manner s^j /which are called Performs, as subftjUnccu ;j' we have very exa<^ly explain- ■\ jheefild^'^ ' ' cd it in the f third B ook, Hfei ■ 2 Aftd fince we fee- and kriow; that there is^* • '^' not only Light and Majefty,but alfo Dafl^\ ^ ^f/>, as is plain before cur eyes, . - "I '8. Therefore we ought to know/■fr6[n•■ '''. whence D/?r/^>/f/jr originateth; for in the* * Eternity without or b^fides Natrre , K9 , E^knefff can be; for there is nothing that^ * can afford it; we muftonly look into the '! Win,andintotheE)efiriDg5 foi a Defiling,; ^ p.-And whcreas^yet inthc Eternity ir i f hath nothing, buroirly it felf; iiartr^Stsit I felf m the Will, and makcth the ^f^knI^l i ; ; itnd,xhaa5-utSiDirknd^t-o-. 12 ^i^lenc^ the Smi: exipd Qi?«ft. I^W 10. Whereas otherwife if it were notl 'i defirxmx it Would be ncrhing but an Eternaifc ftillnefs without Being ox Subftance ; thw attra(5ling therefore maketh Mobility andfii ElTence, which otherwife in the ftillnefji itk cannot be ; and therefbre alfo it makethnii auftere aftringeney, bardnefs, and grofncfs>, i^ as alfo Hiarpnefs. t\ 1 1 . Yet we cannot fay neither^ that the: im Darkncfs/jv^/^ow^iT/; up the Light, viz,,, the; u Eternal Liberty : for that which is Eternal^! \ fuffercth not it felf to be altered or changed: kutwemuft fay, that Light and Darknefs, are JN One another, 12. Now the Light is good, and hath pkaCant vertue or power ; and the Dark^ Bcfs hath auftere or aihingt^nr, hard, cold i and the Wills Defiring, makech Hflences and mraBlngy that is, a (Hrring in the bardnefs ; thus the attra<5>ed ftirreib from rhc drawing, and is a whirling, whereby in the /hiipnefs^ Light and Daiknefs be-i coitlt mi filled, .13, And thus we are to confider, how Ae free Light in the lliarp ftir>ring, in the Subliance Is alio, (liarpned, where we un<, derthnd the Fire-iafh of Lightning, and the eaittoii feveiity, and yet cannot fa^ thac any rending aiunder is ihere : I iu eft . I . from t h Begimt/i^. 1 3^ i 14. For that which is Eternal from no eginning, hath no farting of ne fiom another, but ftand- "^^heehrOrby th as a*^A^^.(j/^y>. finailitude of it,in the Mlrid fa man, where there is indeed a will of ri- ing and flying, but no departing away ; nd the greater the will isj the greater alfa Sihtfuh^aKce^ and the more potent IS the matter 01 the f Or^ cx^ hingreprefented^ feeing it is frep^ '^' ibarpncd. I J. Thus feeing the ftill liberty, wliich s. neither Light noi Darknefs, becomcth harp/ted in the I'harpdeGring U attracting, o that it appearctL as a flalli of Light- ling that Uaineth, 16, Therefore alfo we cannot fay, that :hc Liberty holdeth or captivateth the Light, for from Eternity it hath had w- f)ifig : but we may well fay> that the Light i;id the Glance fkineth in the Liberty, • 17, For that which is *free, lecteth in the Light ; ^Or^tramm but that which is not free, as ^arcmf^. the bar/Kor aiiftere al^iingen-.. Cfy which m^keth Darknefs, and ilMate^ lial ; fpokeaaftes a f^iritualimnn^h^^^t fc^dL.'te.tix a^ the Xa^hc^. ^ ,£a^. X4 H'hence the Soul exlftei Qj^ieft.x.' i8. But vre may well fay, that which i$ meek, and not holding or concradin^, re- . cciveth the Light: as ye fee in water,which| receivechthe Light^ and ths haiihaftrin- gent Earth, A;fff. 19. Alfoye have in FIRS a fufficicnt \af^ \ . - ^ / F^^^^fi^^of the Subftance of or U^a^l \ *^^ Subftances ; for ye fee thatj' the Fire burneth out of a har^^' a(Jringcntjtart,matter> for it is the fharp!^ Defuing, which thus as a great j^ngmfhy entereth into it felf, and grafpeth after the Liberty, whereby it catcheth the Liber- ty as ipjhy and with the Lightning ki-nd-s lethit felf> fathat it burneth oxflamnh. . 20. And though in the Eternal Sub* ftance no fuch Fire is to be underftood, a? fliineth in the Outward, yet itis fo in the Inwariy in the haifh aftringcnt Defii ling, and the outward remaineth a dark* acfs.: therefore is the Eternal Fire in thd OHtwardy dark ; and within in it felf^ in the will of the Eseroal Liberty, itisaLightj ^hich ihineth in the ftill Er crnity>' 2j^ NoW;-we underft^d iiv-thc Firej Ten^'Foirms^ which *CrilfJfinctm^^-. "^^", Yin th«l mpfiifremsA.. arc all generated. }° *"*^ ueft . I . from^ the Btgwmn^^ 15 iHy and arfi ail the Eternal Wills frofrie^ j therefore wc rightly fay,it is God*$; nd the Likrtjy which hath the will, i$- 'i>D himrelt'; for it is the Eternity, and pthingelCe. ;i. Ihe Firji ForrHi 22. Tinrfi^ Then there is the Eternal Liber*. y,,which hath the Will, and is it felf the- yjU. Now -every will hath a feekingto o or to defue fomewhat ; and in that, it > eholdeth it felf, and feeth in it felf in the' kernity, what it felf is ; it maketh to it slf th^ Looking'GUfs of its like ; and then Lbeholdeth it felf, what it felf is : andfo* iiiding nothing eUe but it felf, itdelireth; . tfclf." The Second Form. , The Second Forni is, that it is Befirom^ nd yet hath nothing but it felf ; therefore isdefiringdraweth ^ or Keprefentatitn, ; lie * Mmiel of its t Or^ a f^i^ov^ng evsTf ¥lllinit felf, and where, to^mak^ the repre' «,«r-r,r, ,^^f u L V-ic fttitanon if figures, as blak, mpregnatethlt.felf, 'if,aJ,y,ir,s'^ir drar^ini/om .j-o-ihat a darknefs or white-.^r fhadoi9ingsofaB - :\ovfrjhadowhg cam- ^ colour s.,t 9 reprtjentthingif . ;, Kth to be in the will> ^I'^h h^n^ thk it d^$ fipiQh. mmn yet ^,e[ent^,j^pj. . t6: whence the Soul exified Queft^'i would not have ; but ihe DeJirift^^xhQ Seek^ ing makcth it, and there is nothing that cai confumc or drive away the Defiring. 24,, For that which is before the Defi ring, beyond or befides the feeking, i Free and a Nothlngy and yet it Is ; but i it were any thing appreheniible or compre ^ hcnfible, itwereaSubftance, andftooda- ^^ain in a fubiUncc, that did afford it : B«. ^elng without Subftanc^, it is, the Etermty that is the ^OOD y for it is no fourc^ a pain, and hath no alteration or change, bu« i* a Reft, and an Eternal Peace. 25. But feeing the great Sface 1% withou* ground or foundation, where is no numb^ nor end, and alfo no beginning, therefore it is llks a Looking-Glafs. It is ALL, anc yet alfo as a NOTHING: "^AVge ftgnijes an it beholdeth it felf , anc E).e in the German .yet findeth nothing but ar ^^«»*'* A,.that isits eye i *AVge. A A A/ ^^- ^^* T^^i^iSy thqi jf\4^nf Eternal Original ^ tha«| A / /\ \ fomethingh'^ foritisthe ^^ y/ S/ Eternal Beginning, and the Eternal End. Thus the.Abyffe feeth.in it felf, tj^dEndethit ielf. 2.7, The 46® -s, AVge, the Eye, ^' md yet is in it lelf '' 10 Sublknce ; but "^ bus is the Original 5")f Subftance: there '^ s neither bebw nor above , onely its ^' -ooking-Glars in the AV is thus zfeew£. "0 28. But fince there is no ground, therc- '' brc its Lookjfjg-Giafs is fuch an O Eye ^Wge.-ForGodbimfclf ^ ^ ' ^ .^i^^jntheApocalips,;/ ;j-^J,/r.„^, ^ 11!^ A and O, the begmmng Q.^eg^.the BeiJning^ '^ wd the end 5 the frfl and and the End, '^ h Ufi. ^ Obfervethis according to its ptctiour ^' mimate iublinfilty ; for We fpeak not here; ^' ti Nature, in zform^hixt in the i^ Spirit above Nature, in Chara- GOTT in the ■ierGOTTts, in God^s Cha- C^^;^«-'';.^"^»' •* ratter or Letter. T. * 30, The O is, GOTTes AVge, Cod's Eye> the Eye of Eternity, that maketh ipd is a Lookiytg'Glafs^ and is a round circle like a globe, ©, not a ring , O. Since we canna; Qtbciwife defciibe it, thus 1 8 whence the Soul cxljltd Qu eft . r^ i ^^ thus underrtand hereby; the Globe 0of|.| the Eternity, wherein {iandeth the ground'* of Heaven and Earrh, and of the \Whee}y, Elements, together with the /^^r- tt:^,.7t Wheeler Sphere- 31. For that IS a Globe like^ an ey^, and is God's Wonder-Eye, where infrom'Eternity all Subftances or things] hive been feen or dilcerned, but mthoiit^. fubftance, as in a Looking-Glafs or Eye j| for the Eye is the Eye of the Ah)jfe ;. of which we have nopen or toiiguc to v\ritc or rpeak,only the Spirit of Eternity biingcth the Souls eye thereinto, and To we fee it, clfe it would remain in flencc mute, and undefcribed by this Hand. l^\ Thus there is in the Eternity fuch an Eye, which is God himfelfi and yet is not vaRd GOD, bu t Eternity ;-: yet as to the Eye, is A and O. B.efore the A there is NOTHING, and in the O there is ALL ; and in the A and O be^lnniyig and end : therefore we fundamentally apprehend, that in the O there is a Will, and the mil is the O it fclf, and maketh the A; W D that it ij the Eternities fimilitude, that tin it felf^W it felt; for in the Abyffe here is no finding , for there S no * place or //w;>,but only *0r Circnnf* he Abyfl'e • and when thus [crlption, t findeth it felf in the Eye, ?€t then it findeth nothing but the £;tf,that $ the Globe. 34. Now the Eye maketh the Globe, tnd is the Globe ; and all this is together Si the mil to fcek it felf, and fo to fee what the Eternity is, which becometh aia- aifeft or revealed in the Eye. ;. 35. For the Eye maketh a beginning aiid an end, and yet there is nothing that ittordetli it, but it giveth or affordeih it felf, and is from Eternity in Eternity,and xht Eternity it felf-, it toucheth nothing, for it is in nothing, but in it felf. 16, Nowbeing there isa WilljWhichif the Eye, which f holdeth or re- taineih the eye , therefore that \0r con- holding is a Dejirlng^ viz,, of t^ineih. the Eye, and fo the Defire is at- iri6ling into the Eye, and yet nothing is there but the Eye, and th^ Oefning only i*: . diaweth 20 whence the Sotil exifled Cjl^eft.i.^ I drawith it felf in the Eye, and impregna- \ teth the Eye with that which is attra^ed, fo that it IS full, and yet is nothing but a daiknsfs oF the free Eye, although the Ey& becometh not dark , but the Defiring itt the Eye, impregnateth k felf in it fclf. 3 7- The will of the Eye is filH or quiet, and the deliring of the will maketh it full, and the Eye remaineth free in it felf ; for it is from Eternirvj/r^f .• and that we cjU the Eternal Liberty inall ourWiitingj. - .'1 .• Jhe Third Fornix 28. Now a Defiling is ftiarp and dramng^ and maketh the third Form ; via;,, zfiirrlng in it felf, and i$ the original ^ , , of the^ EJTenccs, that in the ^^^^^.^f Eye and Will, Sjfenceszifi. ^^^^"'*"^^' 39. And yet the Will cannot endure that it be drawn, for its own right proper- ty is to be ftili, and hold or retain the Eye in the Circle in the Globe, and yec cannot defend it felf from the drawing and the//- ling^ for it hath nothing whereby it can de- fend it felf, but the Dr firing, 40. And here originateth the Eternal Enmity and ofpofte WilK The Will, wiU V:th ■ 3jcft.l, from the Beginning. 21 leth not to bs dark, and yet its dsllring - maketh it dark, it cnduretb tbxzfiirrirg rea- ••dily, for it is its manifefhtion orrcveU- ■ tionybut. the indrawing and darkning it doth " mt love ; though indeed the Will b^cometh aotdrawen notdarkned, but the Defiling ■ in the Will impregnate th it /f/f. 41. But now being the Deliring iHckcth in 'ijde darknefs,thcrefore there is a great ^«- ijhy for it become th ftirred and drawn-> and alio darkned, and vcxeth it felt in it felE, anddelireth the Liberty,and draw-eth fo eagerly after the Liberty, and wiileth to draw it felf into the Liberty, and yet % maketh it felf onely the wore eager rough i and hard, and is like a horrible fharpnefs, which is ccnftuningi viz,, of the Darknefs.; 42, For it grafpeth the Liberty into it felf, bcit isfo fharp, that it appeareth in [C the Liberty as a fl?.lliof lightning, which r«. -confumcth the darknefs, together with the ti cagemcfs.t Therefore faith * -God, ^ i AM a confumlna ^^^ut^^- 24. 43 . Here underftand, how all Matter ftandeth in the 1 fight Fires, Might ; and f;^<^3, 12: : •! -hwv the f ^^^^ i^iW once U 2-2 fVhsfice the SohI exlfted Qucft j|( h f urged y for that is the original of the Fire> which ha:h ALL Might and PowcTV for it confumeth whatfoever the defire hatb made, be it Stone or Earth: for it is the (hdrfnefs of the Eternal Liberty,and giveti or affordeth, Centrum Nat ur a, the Centei of Nature. 44. But that you may fearch yet dceperj know that the fire in it fclf originally (landeth in Three J^orms jviz.,Firft^ Inthc Defiring ; And thzn^ fee on d/j^ln the Mattel of that which is attra6led , viz., in tlw Darknefs, in which is Subftantiality frotti the attra6ting: And Third! jy InthcAn- guilli-fource or Pain. The Fourth Form. And the Fourth Form maketh it felf viz,, the FUfl^ of Lightning, for the Li- berty caufeth that, and that is the kindlcr of the Anguifli-fource : for the De(iring in the Darknefs willeth only to have the Li- bexty; and the Liberty being a light W/^- ofit fliining> is therefore like a vzry deej. Blew Colour mixed with Green, fo that it cannot ibe difccrned plainly what colour it is of, for allCototirs.ziz in it ; and the Deiiring X^J eft . I . from the Beginning, 2 3 :firing in it felf in its eager anguifli and harpncfsjbreakcth the colours^and maketh n it felf the terrible confuming Flafh of lightning, and changcth it according to he Anguilli, fo that it becometh Rc^, 46. "Yet the Liberty in the Defiring, ufFereth not if felf to be bound or hM-, )utaltereth it felf from the Red flailiof Lightening in the Light, nto a \gUnce of the Ma- f whoft Colour fcfty : and that is in the is Tellow. Liberty,an exulting great [oy. 47. For in the Light, the Eye becometh llanifefted or revealed ; as alfo the 5«^- ^antiality in the Will, where then it be- cometh apfrfhended what Light 01 Dark- ncf$ is. And thus the Eternity becometh apprehended, And thus originateth God's HoUnejs into Wonders continually ever- more>and from Eternity, and hath neither {! limit nor beginning ; for it is an Eternal ii Beginning, comprifed and framed into i' Nothing but into the Wonders, which arc its QYfnful?fiancej wherein there is neither limit nor number, 48. And thus in the ftill Eternity, is iilcothing apprehended but the glance of the tM^jepy^ and the Spirit which is generated ^■' iu -24 H'^htnce t he Soul exlfied Q^i e ft . r in the Will, and is the Government ii the Majefty. 49. Beloved Sir and Friend, underftand thi fence aright ; we mean not that the Birtt or Geniture taketh hold of the Liberty ex, rcrnaily without it felf, but in it felf in th« Center, it taketh hold of it felf initfelfi and maketh Majefly in it felf; and ydfc there is no barring in, but is as when oui of Death or Nothing a //f^? cometh to that thus dwelleth only in it feif ; and th; iscalleda PnW;j/f ; and that wherein dwelleth, is called Naturcy and hath Scvei Spirits or Forms : as i ! l^/'^Fyj'f^^J''' to be fcen in our * Sc. 50. Yet the Principle hath but one Spi- rit, which is the life of the Principle ; anc hath alfo but one Will, which is tht filling of the Eternity , with the glance of thtj Majefty. ^ rrji •. y I . For the Principle is the po^er o) vertuc, generated out of the will of th< Eternity : and the entrance or eternal be- ginning of the Power, is the Powers Lift and Spirit, which bringeth xhtEffeyices o! the Genetrixy and openeth the Original oJ the Majefty. f neft. I. from the Bi^tvfiiff^, 25 52. And the whole Eye which hath thus ►mprifed or framed it fell: into a Looking- Ufs in the A and O, is ALL : it is the tcinity,and bringech forth in it felf in the \ft^x\[t Majefljy which is the heart and >wer or vertue cf the Eye ; and alfo ingeth forth the 5/?/nr,which in the heart eth forth out of the Power, cue of the :ry-lighc-ftaming Effences. 5 3. Thus you underftand the holy Num- :r Three in one Subftance ; that the Father the Eternity without ground, where is OTHLNG, and yet there is ALL ; and the Eye of his glance or lulire h^feeth mfelf, that he is All : and in the Power ' the Majerty, he feeleth hiinfelf, and fleth himfelf, and/w^/Z^r/j himfelf, that ! is GUT, GOOD; ut is, that he is "; ^^f ^au .r Cro/.. '^ ^J\^ X.^' ?^' h:irdnefs,beavinefsy f^ ^OUgh the *T, viz.. Hdhy, xicnfit), or pom^, fVetght Inef s^on^inZ' derefity* ith in the Center. y4» And in the Spirit^ is the ftirring in te Power, and the Mul:iplictty without ound and nu[nber,wherein an eternal un- ;archable Multiplicity doth exift, and nil the Power. ry. For that which hath no ground, hath C no 2.6 iVhcKCt the Soul exi/led Que ft no number, and is no clefing up, or cor prehenfion, or iliutting in ; and that whi is within it lelf, is not apprehenfibie out it felf ; but as to the Spirit u^s feeling i deed. Thus the Inward diri^eth forth o of it felf, andmanifeftethorrevealeth; felf in F/j^;/rf/, elfe God would NOT known or apprehended. Thus God is together ONE Spir and ftandeth from Eternity in THRI Beginnings and Ends, a * 7^r 23.24. only inhlmfclf; * There. J-to.8.23,27. no fUce found for Him I ^ t FfnU 8^. 8« he hatk aifo nothing in hit felf that is j- likj unto Hit. alfo there i^ Nothing that can feek or tr nifeft any thing more, than HIS Sfir which alvoajes it felf, from Eternity in ternity manifefts it Self. f 7. He is an Eternal Seeker and Find tSyviz,, of himfelf in great Wonders: a what he findeth, he findeth in the: g Power : he is the opening of the Powe nothing is like unto Him, and nothi findeth him, but what wdlneth or givetfc felf up in him, thatgoeth into him, tl wh'ich denyeth it felf that it \^, then God's Spirit therein ALLj far it is A w n eft . I . from the B'e^^lmtng, 2 7 the eternal NOTHING ; and y^^t b in LL, as God*5 Spirit it felt IS. And thisiift bdloved Sir, is the Bighe^ (jBery\, and therefore if you will find is, feek it not in me, but /« your felf'^ t not in your * Reafon^ that mult : zs dead, and your defuous ^Outward 11, in GOD, and fo it is f the ^ /j,'?; ^^ 7/ and deed, in you, and fo the 15. * * »iritofGod bringeth your will to it felf, and fo yo« may Well fee what OD is ; and what Spirits child this Imd is, out of which Spirit, it wrifeth. fp. And I exhort you bro.herly, thit lu would not fo toylfomely feek it ; you II hot fathom it fo with fearching, al- '' lOugh you are known and beloved of 1 k)d : and therefore alfo this is given you •r a Rule or Meafuring-Une. '■•' do. Yet I have no power without me to ■^ veydii ; only follow my advice, and go '" Jt from your toylfome fecking in Reafon^ '^'ito God's Will, into God's Spirit, and •■'ift the outward Reafon away; then is iiiour Will God's Will, and God's Spirit , i" ill feek you' r*ithin you . -'' ^i. And then finding your Will in it ^^ :lf, it reveakth it felf in jonr Will, as ia C 2 its .2.S ivhsncs the SohI exljkd fQuef its own ; fcr if you give up that, then d is its own, for it is All j and when it j cth, then go you forth, for you have divi ,' Power ; all which you then' fearch, IT' there IN,and nothing is hidden to it j rt you fee in its Light, and arc us own. \ '' " your labour, fee that you receive it and'' '! Uc aright, and f caflnot "^ i Fearl before Swine^'HWich f Mat, 7, 6, ^' : not worthy of it ; alfo in ;! trnit^ will «^r be worthy of it. '■ 5 J. For that which is herein revealed ,^, to you, beJongeth unto God's ChlUreni 'J rrefore be faithful, and trade with ic •ording to the 5p/r/f,and' 1 1 according to '' Rfcafon. " "ike Reafon o? ^66, Forit is fofubtile, theearthlydefift r..t it endureth not that 1^/^/ rt ich IS earthy generated, w^rtal corrupt S< Covetoufnefs, Piide,oi fiefhand blood, in boaftingand glorying i fclf : although you are one of them,' tlook into whon:i you pour Oyl, for ic 9yfon to many ; let thcmfeJves feek as have done ; but give the Children iir bread, that they may eat, and praifc ,1 r Father in Heaven : to that end it i^ : ^cn yoB. The Fifth Form of Fire in the Eternal WilL filThus having opened to you an Entrance ^id Lookl»g'g/afs of the Eternal Gnginal, C 3 whence 30 PVhefice the Soul exlfleii Queft whence thi Eternal F/V^ originateth, ai what it is ; To it is necelTary alfo fuichei lliew you, according to the hi^heft D^pi, what the Eternal Nature in its propag lion is. <5H. Wherein then T)i'(7 Kingdoms ? to be underliood ; the one a good and pk faiK one, the other an evil and fiei wrathful one> an eternal envious fad or After which two, the Philofcphers fr( the beginning of the world, have contli ally fought and laboured i but the time finding hath not been yet born, dp. But now it is, fo.xhat the hlk thing fhall be found, not by me alone, I by many who will be faithful, and hum! tlkmfelves in God, and feck in his Spi and Will. It will only be found in Go Eye, elfe no where : therefore let ne enter into any other thing with feekii clfe he findeth the Devil. 70. Seeing then the Eternity is th which yet is NOTHING ; but thereir Light and Darknefs,Life and Spirit, wh is ALL ; therefore there is and mull in boih a feeking, viz^, a deiiring contii ally to find it felf, where yet there is 1 thing that can find but the Sfirit, 71. Now fceins; it hath nothing iha ^ find tei ^eft. I . from the Beginning, 3 '^ idcth, and yet alio the Defuing etcrnal- goeth forward, therefore the Dsfning is ^gure of the feeking Will, a fimilitude Ofi wording to God's Eye, and is a Looking- :afs of the Eternal Eye, which is called 72.. Now this is in Two wayes, one ac- k ording to the Light ^ and one accoiding D the Dark^nefs ; for the Seeking is in thy and yet there is no departing of ne from the other : thus the Light is in e inward, and the Darknefs in the out- i^ard; whereas yet the moft inward of all, ;<■$. alfo the m-oft outward ; but the Light is e, be middlcmoft. ili 71* For it is in nothing, therefore it Sj ;annot be the inntrmoft of alljfor it hath no ^ tlace or limit ^ it is its own finding, which H he Darknefs find eth not ,• but the will in yJie Darknefs, which dcfireth the Light, hat goeth forth out of the Darknefs, and IB hat Ihndeth Eternally in the Light. ii 74. Now the Light's defiling, fetteh be- 'li ore it felf a Model of its likenefs, wherein 1 the Eternity ftandeth revealed or mani- iifefted, viz.. all and every thing which the il-Spirit in the Eternal Power of God from lEteinity in Etzvmi) findeth in it felf. 7 J. That Model is not God,ihe Eterni- C 4 ty ^2 . Whnce the Soul £X\fled Qu e ft . il^ ty itfelf, for it bsginncth it felf in thi Spirit, and is the Spirits wonder, which ii from Eternity fecketh and findeth ^ an< ftandethin Gods Eye as a Ft^nre^ and a] Wonders of the AbyiTe of Eternity an therein, and become feen in the Lii^hto the Mijeliy, as one Wonder in many end leis Wonders. 7efinng,where the Deiiring anraBith into t felf, and impregnateth it felf,- fo that it s -a ftinging bitter aflrin^ent> or harfli, urd, cold, fierce, wrathful fire-fpirit >•- or the Deiiring miketh aftringent, auftere- n harfh from the attracting in the Wilf, md the attracting is Ringing, and the. .uffering is bitter, which the Will willeth not^ and thereupon in it felf goeth forth from the fling, and makzth a Principle of it* own; in which the Mijelly app^areth* 82. Thus exi'Jeih in xhz bitter fufferin?,- tbcgteatAagulfn," whereas yet nothing is there that fuffcreth, but it is in it feM".^i«^,i oj G 5; ; tnd 5 4 1^'hemt the^ Soul exificii Q^el1:i. and it is its own Life ; and if this m no'-, the GUnce of the Majelty would n<' be neiche% the one is the caufe of nF| other^ for in the DaikneCs is the fl^rk/< Lightning, and in the Liberty the Ligl with the Majefty; K'u-^r. 8^. And this now is the parting, th the Liberty is a ftill nothing ; which L; berty receiveththe Light,and maketh th Darknefs M^terialy whereas yet there i no fublhnce of palpability ; but dark fpi Jit and power, a filling of the Lib:rtY ii it felf, underftand in the Defiling no without, for mtkom is the Liberty. 84. Therefore is God the moft fecrer. and alfothe moft revealed ; and that ij MyPerinm mugKHm^ the great Myf^cry, Thus the Abyff* is alfo fecrer, and yei revealed, as the Daikiefs is before qui eyes ; bur the fourceor pain is unfearch- able, or unperceptible, till the \ImmtY- wili|diveth thJereinto, then ^eth, ic become th iaXi and found, when the will lofeth the Ligh*: and herein lyeth the ground of right be- leeving, or true Fairh. Let this be told you ye Teachers in ^ahd, 8 J. Since then there is an Aby(l",vyh:ch is called dkGromidjinrerpei^ of the coin- prehenfion V .j ijueft. I . /o/?/ the Biglmlr,^, 3 5" ; vji nehenfion of the Dajknei's ,' where the ;. ourceorpain is as a caufe of th* Lifs • nthtn: for the fierce vvrathfull flalli o£ lightening, is the awakening of the Life; _ vhereas there is nothing there but in it elf, therefore it is alio a DeHring, and he Deliringis a Seeking, and ^et can find " lOihingbut a Looking-gU^s^ and a finr/ili- ce of the darkjhercc^ wrathful fource or uin, wherein KQthiyig is. 8d. For ir is a f ii.gnre of f Or^ Re}rc^ .he eaineft, fevere, fierce, fentatkyj, • vrathful flalli of L'ghtning, md of the limp and ftrong Might, which .. s God's, according to which ,,.ie calleth himfelf, "* aCon- *'DeHt>^.i^ J ''timing Fire y a n d z?;^ ^^^J > i; 87, This Looking-glafs is ^//i? wiihout .Ground, without Beginning and End, and I pet hath an Eternal Beginning and End, Jmd is the Eternal Only Caufe that the. Abyffe is Blew Dusky and Fiery. It is the Caufe. of the Stars and Elements ^ for the- Fiiniim^nt is the o:her or feccnd Look-* i.ng-gbfs generated cut 0^ .this, 88. Since then there is i^ all thing? a ThreefoldSouice,one vf hereof is the bihers Lobking^gla^y GenaatiiJg.and Caufe, no- thing ^6 H'Unee the Soul exited Qi^cft. Xtl thing excepted, All ftandeth according to the Subfhnce or Working of ihe Numbef Three. Novy feeing there is a Looking-ghfs id th:Aby{le, wherein the fource or quali^ ty beholdeth it f elf, therefore that alfois a tigure and image of the fource or quality, which ftandeth before the fource or quali- ty> and^^^^^or generateth nothing, but is a Virgin of the fource quality or pain, wherein the fierce Wrath of the fladi of Lightiiingdifcoversitfelf in injimtym:h^ out Number, and continually openeth it? wonders therein, wi^th the bitter fpirit of the ftirring Effences, which in the flafh of Lightening hath its Life, fo that it goeth fppifcer than a Thought. po. Though indeed the THOUGHTS of the Creatures ftand and move herein ; and the Spirits of all living Creatures are wi^h their Rooclhnding herdn^every Life according to its Principle. pi.. And in this Spirit of the fire-fla/?), ftandeth the Gre^t Omnipo*ent Life, for ic is confuming^as the fUlh of Lighcning con«. fumeth the Darknefs , and that Fire all things, and jet continueth a Life in it felf, but^it is an Hunger and Thiill, and m^ji ueft . 1 . from thf Beginning, 3 ?^- e Subftantiality , clfe it continueth 4 aik Hunger-fire,a will of devouring and, living Nothing, a will to rage, prick and. nd nothing, but it felf, out of which luf^ the Subftantiality, vlx,.. the Water, J alio Sifiphfir is generated and generatetk ; ielf, from Eternity to Eternity. 92^ Here feek tht firj} Root of the Soul,. Iz,. in the FirerLife, and ih^fecondy in? le Light-Life in the Majcfty, and then au will find God's Image and (imilitudey nd the greateft Myftery of. the Deity ly- ng therein. ^ Since then there is fifchan Eye of the. iercc Wrath, wherein th^ earneftfevere tern fire-life originateth, yet is not at all "ffxdred from theTire-Life, it is One and ibefame Life, and hath Two Principles ; 'or it burneth in a twofold fource or qua- ity, one within another,- and is One Spi- rit in Two diftir^tions with two Willsjthe. :>ne dwdling in the Fire, the- other in the Light* 94* And know foi certain alTu redly that^ the. Dark Fire-Life is the the Abyffe of Hfily for .it is the ftesn fevere Aii^er of God^ \Pj, And feek, it ..not.fo, as B^hl the. great- 3 8 fVhence the Soul exlfted (^i eft . i great City of Confufion upon earth Z^^ri foptghty which yet wc blame for nochinc elle,but her negligence and inconiiderate- Hefs, feeking felf-honour and power, and fo hath captvatei her fclf in the fierce wrathful Anger of Cod, which hath had her a long time under its Wonders, an4 ^ drawn many fouls into its fource or qua* lity. Confiderwell of it. i \rhree^fdd P^- In tjief Third Part Life. of our Writings, it is lar^e* ly defcribed, for that is fomewhat eafi^r to reach than this ; but this is the deepeft Ground of Eternity, as much as a Spirit can be capable of, for more it C A N N O T b2ar, yet it may be expreffcd much more at large , but not more deeply, for it is comprized in the Abyffe in both Principles; as indeed a Soul oiiginateth in the Abyife in both Prin- ciples, and in the fpiritual Will in the Eterhlty, 97. And therefore if it be not circum- fpec}^ the Devil may eahly ride upon ir3 Chariot, viz.. upon us Will ; but if it bi ^ r n 1 circumfped, and c;lkth it Into Good. r \c ■ u * r>x-/y c L -p. ^ felf into the * fi^lL of the ^'J''^^- Majerty ot God, then the holy Spirit of God ridcth upon its will, and it is his Chariot. ^ S . Here- i2,cft • ' • from the Beginmng, 3 9 I 98. Herein you may clearly difcern ■leaven and Hell, Angels and Devils, Evil nd Good, Life and Death, if you but mch after it, as weihall further mention D.you. The Sixth Term of Fire, 99- Thus then feeing Two Principles ftand n Oyje Subliance, as none vvith reafon can Beak againft it ; for every Life /ian^eth in foyfon and Light, every one in its own Principle, according as it bath the Source ff Fountain Quality, fo hath it alfa its irght. Thus it may be difcerncd concern, ig theSurtenance of the Life ; what that which fuftains or preferves tfaeLife,that fiarve or famillinot, and whatdiiveth :>rth its Source or fountain Quality ^ that mz'j.fMbfijiEtrrtjally, ." 100. Now this alio is inTV^jdiftiniS^i- ii^ ;- for'the Light-Life hath its fource or aim tain quality, and driving forth ; and le Fire-Life alfo its fource or fount^ir^ uality, and driving. forth, each in it felf ; ic the Fire- Life is a Canfeo^ the Light- ife ;' and the Light-Life is a Lord of the *i»e^-Life : aixd heicin lydtk the/^/fn- 4P wheKce the Soul exifled Qaeft.l urn magmm, the great Myftery. 10 1. For if there were no Fire, then would alfo be no Light, and alfo no Spi rit ; and if there were no Spirit that di( blow up the Fire> then the Fire w®uli fmother and extinguidi, and would be Darknefs ; and fo one mthoftt the othc would not be; thus they belong both t( one another> zxi^ yet they fever one fron the other, but without /;»«^ away ,» anc yet iherc is a flying of the Spirit. 102. To be underftood, thus look uponj a glowing red hot Fire ; F/Vy?, There ii the Matter 'OMX.oi which it burneth ; an that is the aftring^nr auftere fourcc attra-i ^ed bitter Subftancc, which {iandeth in ar anguilli Source or Quality> whether it hx wood or whatfoevet elfe, which isadari Bady. 103. Now when that is kindled, then j Man fees three Principles ; i. Tht Wood in the Darh^efs^ with the outwarc Source or fountain Quality of this World 2» Which aifo' hath its. life, elfeitwoulc not take fire, 104,. Now the Flr^ hath a fierce wrathful, aftiingent 01 four, ftrong orftern, bittej thiyfty^-d^firousSouiceoxQ^lity, a de- j vouring l"f' jiieft, I . from the BegiKnln^^, 4 1 f' Iturin^ Confuming, and the Great Bitter- t«rs is its right Lifv:,a rager aod a vpah^ner^ ^■athith all tflencesof Lifcinit, andis '«ilro the power of the Life, and of the Dri- ^«ng forth, el ic there would be noBurning: iifioj'. And that rnaketh the great An- »-'i liili- reeking after the Liberty, and in the )a :re it attatneth the Lihertjy for itcon- lio oieth in the fierce wrath, the Darknefs 5 id alio the Muter of- the Fire, from which leFirebuineth, , ip( 106, And here we apprehend the One only pirir, which parteth it fclf into Tvfo Pr in- .ples> into Two Spirits, yet not affunder, t one flying from the other, and yet the e comprehendeth not the other ; and one the Life and Caufe of the other. 107. And therefore it is Two Princi- cs, fince it giveth or affordeth a tvvo- i>ld Source or fountain Quality and Life ; nd is but one Root which affordeth that ; ne one giveth Life, the other giveth food the Life ; and this is a wonder, and yet 4ot a wonder, for there is nothing that ic If can wonder at, for it is it i^U allthifigx Q Oxe Suhftance-. ic8. Now biihold, the Fire isfiiftthe eeking, todrawinto it;lelf; that is-the Sub- 4 2 whence t he Soul extfied Qu e R . i SubiUntiality, the Phnr ; for the Seekinji maketh that in the D^firing, in refpecl c its dram-rig^ elfe Nothing would be ; am the Drawing is the bitter rting, a Breaker which cannot endure theSublhntiality ,na vflllnot endure it ; and that not willing t< endure, is an angui/Ii in the will, to oven pow,:r the Subliantiality with the bitte Sting; and the Anguish penitrateth or preC feth intoitfelf, and reacheth after the LI berty, and the Liberty \s efteemed a Ligh in refpev^: of the-Darknefs. 109. Now the Anguifh is a horribles Sharpnefs ; and thus is the Liberty capti vated and (harped^ fo that it is a Fire-fl^d of Lightning ; and the Anguifh Will ii the fliarpnefs of the bitter Flaili of Light ning co»fumeth the Subftintiallty , be i wood or any thing elfe. no. And when it hath confum^d if then is the Anguifh again a Da-rknef^, am tbePladiof Li^htnin^ rcmaineth bidder in ic feif again, and i? an extrngftiihinj^ and the Anguifh is in the Darknefs, viz, before the flilli of fire, and (Undeth no7 in a terrible Source or fountain Quality where the Blcternefs in refpecft of the rougl artradling, becometh continHdlly generate( the more terrible III. Nov ^^'^' J^ieft.i. fromtheBeginyilu^, 43 III. ^ .Now cbicrve, thi-s is thus according to he outward Principle of this World, as is ^''^ mdeniable before our eyes : andlother\ there is in the 6termtjiuc\\ a continual (tibfifting SublUnce, which we deinonftrate ^^'2fco you thus. Obferve and confider the "tteepth, and read here diligemly. 'rtl X12. Jhtfi/ikingdovonoi the Angtiiih in t the eternal Darkners,is an eternal Hunger 'aland Thiift, and an eternal D^firing, and die Daiknefs in itfelf, attaineth in the E- '''|'teniiy,iV that in every will of eve- ry Effence, there is again a C'>:nter of a whole Subftancc. 11(5. And I jMCft.l. fromtheSeglnnln-g, 45 116. And that is the Caufe of the Creation of this World, in that the Mo- el hath thcs appeared in A Looking-Glafs rem Eternity, and hath Itood in the Eter- ^ .f nal Eflences in the * Fi- . '^ ■' g^''- y ^^ inaVigmwitn- Totioft, out generating, and hath >cen feen in the Light of God : And thence >riginateth the Matter of the Earth, of be Stars and Elements, alfo all Art, Wit )r. Ingenuity, Craft or Subtilty> l^eceir, ?aI(hood,Covetourners and high-minded- jefs, in the Creatures of this World. . 117. For this World is a material feek- tflg out of the Eternal, and is in the Crea- tion, vtz,. In verho Viat^ in the word Tlat^ tl^rough the Water- Heaven, become ma^ serial and palpable ; as is to be feen in Eaith and Stones : And the Firmament with the Elements is ftill ihtfeeklng^ and feekech the Earthly., for it cannot reacjh back i-nto the EternaL 118. For every fubftance or thing-goes forward, folong, till the End findeth the Beginning ; then the BeginniRg fwaliow- €thuptheEnd again, and is i^'weternd" ly wlis,except this, that the Model remain- eth ; for the Model is out of the Eternal, out of which the Creation weivt forth into 4^ M^'hencethe Sonlexiflei Qiieftj^jr zSHhjla^we^ like the Wonder-Eye of Goi|^ 1 19. Alio ic is mentioned to you, tbi*-' the sp''i^it-^ir> ^hus originateth out of thi'i bitter eternal Fire-Spirit, which alfo gcjil^' cth forward after the Wonders in the WilfN" of the feeking of the Eflences, as of tlu '^' Stars, and therefore it maketh a whlrliM^ ^ aboHt^ and cometh from many places ; aM from above, from beneath, from this (idi and that fide, and often as a Wheel, al)f . iCcording as the Fire-feeking, with th«| Effences of the Srars> become kindled, 120. And this is together as a wheel the Mind, and hith its own Will-Spirit j| and an Own Self-Life, and an own Witf ^nd therefore it is a Principle, and ftant ethp long^ till the End findcth tlie Bcgii ning ; then the Beginning taketh the Eni into it felf, and maketh the Middle, anc^ whatfoevei was done therein, manifcftoi revealed: as you lliould, and will well confiderof this, unkfs you be FooUili Vir- gins. 121. Alfo this Dominion ftandeth no longer, then it is in the Number of the Creation ; for every Day of ibtCrean- cffy is a Circle of a %evolfition in tie ^jCy and jefl. I. from the Beginning, 47 d hath its Number ; whereof ^ en is the Crofs X, the higb:ft ^^ umber : and Man hath the Kum- r Ten^ 10 times Ten, viz,, A ndred 100. and in the Ctovvn of dradife, the number Thoufand, Qoo. and in the eternal Subftan- ality in the Divine Center of e Majetty, it hath No Num- ^ r, o. " 122. Now fee aright with good clear yes; Godcreatei in fix Dayes this World, ith all Subliances o:Tki>;gs^ and it was nidied in the middle of theSix:h Day, aft Noon, towards Evening ; then began he ^^/on the Sixth Day, and the Sabbath vas the Seventh Day : Thus the Eternal left jomi the Beginning of the Creation >n the Sixth Day after Noon, that was the ?nd ; there came the Beginning and £nd :ogether into one, and it was marnfejiei YhatGod had made in the Dayes. 123 'Now fince Man hath deftroyed theAnge- lical Body through his IlTiagiratlon^ ^d hath introduced it into a cor- ruptible Number, viz,, into the Outward Pimciple-; therefore he is alfo therein, for he 4^ fPhcKce the SohI exiJJcd Q;^ieft. he hath loll the Paiadiiical Number, ai 15 fee in the hundrech,ioo, Number,whe 'indeed aiio in ih^Ofitward Life, his Lead or ConduBrr is given to him ; that is, I hath given himielF tohimfelf; thercfoi, his Number of ^nifhingin the Circle the oucward Principle, is clearly appr hcnhble to us. 124. If we fundamentally know, it HoHr of the Sixth Day, in which the Cre; tion was finifhed, we would fet you dow the Year and Daj*^ undeiftand of the la Day, for it ftayeth not one Minute over it hath its Limit, which ftandcth hidde in the Inivard Circle. lay. Therefore know a{luredly>that th time is near^ for in the lixth Day af cej noon, began theRert of the Eternal Daj and therefore hath God inlUtuted the Sat bath of the Seventh Day for a Reft, an continual perpetual Remembrance^ 126, And as on the Sixth Day toward Evening, began the Reft and the entranc <>f the Revelation of the Works of -th Creation,where the £nd hath received th Beginning in again, and fo the Six Da ye in the Circle have ftood as a f^onder : S know this,tha.t ye were created inParadife hwi are gone out of it, and entered in:^ th ic Spirit of the fierce wrachfull Death, >hich hath now wrought its Wonders in ou al;ove the half iixt thoufand yeatjabovc 1 jco years. ' 127. And now the End hath found the leginning again, and yc i\\i\\ fee, alfo :el and tind W^at theParadife hath heett^ tlz., all thofe that become generated or lornin God, 128. For the Paradife is become genc- ated or horn again ; thus Tpoken after the nanner of Reafon, and not in God : but •e cannot efcape mortality, alio the fierce Ivrath ihtheFlerh,bat in the Mind and ia ' he Soul the Paradfie ftandeth now more ind more manifefted or revealed to the Mphildren of God, and they have the right Jlalic of the Power. ^ i2p. And, no Craft or Subtilty nor [jvlight and Power can keep it back, no jubtilty can tak^ It ayoaj or quench it, not j;io Devil deftroy it ; for the End hath .j'ound the Beginning : there is rw preven- jingofit, the Might or Power, and Falf- jood hreaV^th j and there is moreover a ^vattingfor the Bridegroom^ for the Chil- jiren of God iliaU become found in Para- dife, when the TVr^^ in the fierce wrath JOiall be fwallowed up. We fpeak what we J D deaily JO whsnectheSo^iexJjki Queft.^V del ly and pretioafly apprehend and affu ledly know in the Wonders. 130. Thus as above-men cicned, (un dcrliand us aright) there Is generai^doa of the fierce wrath of the Angcr,f)iit.of .ih Eternal Center, out of which ihisVVoiit is become generated and created , as, feeking of the Eternal in the Spirit of thi World, in this Principle wherein we no\ live> and there will continually be gene tated, Faliliood, Covetouinefs, Ciift q cunning Subtilty, Deceit, Enmity m th! will, Lying, Murder, High-mind^dneCs defire of Honour, cwn Self-m'ght an power. Art, Wit, the VVifdom^cf thi World proceeding from Reafon ; for all \ out-of this Root,and ftandcth in Gods Ar oer- Wonders,' And how firjc foever Reaio, and own Sslf-wit,-is,yet.it is .iatheAngc of God, and fpringeth out of the Abyfle. 131. Here behold thy felf thou fai" World, it is no conje^nre^ as thou holdft 1 to be, it is apprehended in Temario.fa'Mi in the. holy Ternary or Number" ■//-. And they that cannot re:ch this" Col,: Limit zrQ, captivated of Antichrifl, n bekngat hrt to this Like, out c^ w ^ thev are grown : there is no lim.e m lin^ ing) ^^^^ Doors 0. GaCv^s flana opeii %: Turha will fwaJlow up wiih ic I'clf f latfoever is grown up in it. 132. rhus'now obferve us, farther^ Cncerning the Eternal Fire, and take a fulitude from a!l fire in his world, for liat is in the Ete^niiy, ^ Sfirity that is in iS "^oMzSuhfiance : Thus ye fee (hat e, m it felf, is an anguishing fierce athful climing up, bitter fubli.^.nce and irce or foDntain-quality> and yet ye fee the Fires ownForm^nothing elle buc the fh of the ihiningjthe fource or fountain ality of heat ye fee not, you muft only ilthat. 133. Now ye fee alfo that the burning e fendeth a Smokf up from ir, and in the ^(loke is a Water, whence Soot cometh to ^which cleaves to the wall, efpecially ?|the fire be clofcd In that it is not free,. isnis the Soot manifeft as in a Furnace : illis is Soot and Water mixed one in ano- l^ler, by which, underftand ihe Material "hnh out of the Eternal Fire, which Lh- '^er kindled, where then in the fierce ^Irath, Time began, and- the •ireation proceeded, as in the T^W''^^' vThira Pare is mentioned. 1134. Now underftand the Great My- ::^':ry ^^jflerlum Magntim funher : ye fee ^1at every fire give th light, and then ye P a fee 5' 2 IVhence t he Soul exijfed Q;i ? ft . L f^c that Mr gosth forth out of the Firfe* fourcc 01 Quality : and ye underftand x^'eS ry well, that if the fire had r^ot Air a^ain^ it would fmoih:r or go out, as alffires ftnother, if they have not Air, and yg they alfo generate Air; the Air is the Fira life, which originateth out of th: anxiolf bitter ftirring Source or fountain Q^ialil of the Eflences out of the Will, ; 135'. Now ye fee alfo well, that Fiji f muft have fomewhat to conftimey clfe itl a Darknefs ; and though it devoureth •? felf, viz.. its (hong or fiern attradiion, yi that very fire is only a fourceor fou tain^«4//>7in the Darknefs, whereby iinderftand the Abyfs of the Anger ; whi in God, is not revealed or manifelled, bid only as a Canfe of the Life in the Kingdojl ^' cf God. ' K 1^6, Ye fee this, thit every Fire mm have fubftance, if it murt hnr/t : undet itand this thus, the Fire affordeth Air, thii Air, Water; and itdraweth the Air (irong-!!" ly^^ain into it felf with the watcr,whenc(' the Fires lource or fountainquality of hea| becometh mltilgated or mcekned, i?o thaij it Aiineth. * or ir>.r •, ^^J- For without * Wat« thit iiO^L ^^ ^^^^ fhineth, where iri ■ thing, the Water is mt to ' Atta,\niK left. I. from the Beginmng, f J vi;W, there is no/hinirg of iheFire, tonly a glimps ; as is lobefeen in a owing or red hoc Scone, whit h huh the urce or quality of Fire;6c of ih^ /Lining hath nochingbut only aglin:ips, it may : not that : but in the Iron ye lee a giimps^ herein the Fire attainech the Wa^er, berefore alfolron is at length <:5>»/j«w^^> ,^d getteth ruft) and a Stone Not* This is jius to be underllood according to the out- •ard Principle of this Woild. but accor- ,ing to the inward, W;?>. according to the ringdom of God ; obfcrve this underftan- ing : the Eternal Fire burneth Eternally, .utlt is a Spirit, and in the Kingdom of 3od, r>ot mmifefted or revealed in a fierce riathful manner. 138. Obferve this thus, the flalnmaketh (hining, which originatcth from the fire, pd dwellech not in the fierce wrath of ;he fire, but it fatiateth or fulfiUeth the ,ire totally, and giveth light alfo extein^l- iy out of the fire, and is not held or de- tained by the fire, and bringeih alio a fe- vcralfource orquallity, as MeeknefSjand hath yet the Fires venue or power. Wit or Ingenuity and Art;for in th;i Light is fiift^ the Fires Source or Quality in ih^ ElTen- ces, manifefted or revealed, C 3 . 130. Now :5'4 Jl-ijence the SonUx'fled Qnt{^,\< 139. Now [he Li?,ht miketh no fourc' orp/.7, but§02thin itfelf in:o a Meek nils, and is alio dv^firous, proceeding frdllf "the Fires fouiee or Qtality > anditsckjf liring is -alfo xn attracting, as viz.. of t^f ,meek'iers ai^d vertue or power into it feW and ifnprogna:th it felt' with meek^efs. jl 140. For ihe Light is alio a fire, a ve|| yearning Hre, a difirous Fir.*, and a con nuaiyj.^i;^^^ fire, which coniinualiy findeihj what is generated in the Original. '! 141. All the vertue and power whict oiiginateth in the fierce wrathful Fire, fi manifefied. or revealed in the Light, and tl«i light defireth that, inmeeknefs; for th^ Files ^ficrce wrath fulnefs and the Lightj (Inning, are Two Principles of a twofold Source or fountain Qjality, eachdwelletl: in it felf, and the one comprehendeth mt the Other, in Eternity, and yet the One is the others Life and Caufef Underfland it thus : 142. As we cjonfider,that a horrible an- xious Soarce or Quality, makech zJiKkJiig d(^wn\n it feif, like a death, where then is the partit^ lltKlt.^ and yet the Anguilli in it'fclf retameth its fource or quality, bit the fincking into it felF, as a Death enrer- e^h. into its AEtha ; where then the An- guilli ivheytce the Soul exlftei Q^eft.i. ifli-Life is no more apprehended, for the nkitr^ break^th it felf forth out of the fnguiili-fource, like a dying, and is a dy- iig, whereas yet in the Eternity is no dy-r g, bjt luch an Entr:':nce inco another jVorld of another Principle, of another ource or fountain-Qijality. 143 . For the hnking goerh into the ftill irernity, as into the Liberty, and being fie fierce wrathful fires-Source, continu- trhin it felf in its life,* therefore is the inking a going forth out of |hc Fire-Life, nd yet is from the Fire-Lifejbut its iourcc ^T fountain-fpirit it hath not^ for it is brok- noff in Death, and is the parting-limit in Death, that fo the finking prefieth ehtough Death, and hath another Sublhn- liality, W^. another Water wherein the Light diineth, wherein no fierce VYrathfuI- nefsis. 144. For in the Eternity is no Death that with-holdeth, but only fuch' an en- trance in; for that which hath no begin- ning, that hath alfo no end nor ground: and thus orlglmteth the Light out of the Fires-Source. i4j.FortheLi^htdwellethin the Fire, & alfo not in t^eFire,it is in anotherworld, ZVii\%an9thsr^'ut^ which i^ called Love, D 4. \^rtue 5^ lyhencefhc Soul exlficd Qucft. Vcrtuc or Power, Wonder, Sweer, Mi or Gentle, Pure or Clean ; and is no Sull Ihnce, and alfo not Nature, butwiihoij f>i /'f/ii^i Nature in another Principle. 1^6, Ic is nothing elfe but a Light-fli m\r^^ fi?rv erf ui MajelTy, and hath its ow 'fpiii!, which bringeih the finkin^ throus Deith ; which from the Anguiili is tl; (inking through Death, which maketh th [froHt'wgoui through Dc:a h. 147. It is ir ic ulf free, both fromth Fire and from ihe Light, and is held c del, lined bj n(^.e^ as UrtJe as the fire hole eih or detaineth rhe Air, and it goet for \h out of the Light, out of the Powc of the Lighf, and ppeneth all whatfoeve, is inthe Fiie-Source orQ^ulity, andaK in ih: Lights. Source or Qiiality. 148, But it hath no perception in it fe of the Fire, but it is a blower up of th Light-Fire> a brlnger cf theLove-Eflen CCS into thz defroHs power orVcrcue, a: Opener of the Love-Effenccs* 149. And yet that we may be un deiftood when we fpeak thus of the Love Eflence^j as oianother Fire ; Obferve it Behold, when the Li^ht h^comcth thu generated through the fierce wrathfulnefs To that the one Fire "oeth forth ou D' ^ ■ i in e ft . K trcm the Benrr/tltt^ . f 7 •> f ihe«r/> the one alwdyes calling the other, there •LS a mv^re ft'ire defiring and farisfyirg 01 •"fulfilUng , whereas yet there is nothing "^^hat theLove defiring can draw inro it felf; ^'•therefore it draweth it felf into it feif, and l^impregnateth it felf out of the Pow^roi the Majefty , fo that, that very will is full, ''and yet alio nothl>;g is there, but fuch pow- i^'erand vertue, anlmigeof theWondeT,ic f rs a Similitude of the Birth or Geniture, •''and is the power and vertue it felf ; It is the Sabjlance of the Spirit, whence the ^' Spirit hach its food, for it goeth forth out 'of the Image, and flow^thor bubkth, a» ': the Air in this World doth. ^- lyi. But now, if the Spirit findcth «o ^: Similitude, wich is without or befldesir, '•; and yet findah. it itelf thus in the Fcrvcr ^ D 5 and 5 & . h^'henee the Soul exited Qiicft.W ^nd Vertue, then it is alfo deiirous, fci'' it dwelech in the powers or vertues grounc and is not it f^lf the power or vertue.in the Power or Vertue and in the Light of thi Majefty; and is ait Jm4ge according to the Spirits Property • 1 3 J". Not that the Spirit is the Imtg^; but the Seeking & lisVe firing is the Image foricdwelleth in its felf, in its ieeking and is another /'^r/e;? in its Figure, vIk the Powers or Vertues Figure ,• and accor ding to this SublUnce is. God called, TW fqU in Pecfons^ But that we may open your eyes wide to fee ALL the Ground of the Deity ^ as i now wlU and rnuft be ; therefore behol now ihe great wonder, whkh we - had lo( with going o^i of Paradife, where we vrwti labour in ihe.Six. Dayes Woiks of thi World, and^fo fee \r/hat and where we are and ye vvill find here fueh a thing, as hac iipod hid v'.eii :.=Yea la Nature. -•. }5h Ce !lJjiltL»e{t.i. from the Be^\ny^i»£, 5^ %^55' Bshold,vvhen you will a £ i q V ^roi4eakof tbelr/.v/V^jlookupon t p q v \ cc.Iie firft Number upon A, up- i;«liv the Eternal Beginning,wbich is tie Fa^ \'^mPer^zv\di then look upon the O in [\\z mid- :tille, which isihe 5o«;then look upon the V, ^iJrhich is the Exit of ihs Holy Spirit^ which ileJocth into itfelf with thQ/t/Jckj^^ through liijlh-e ill arp fierce Wrath into the fecond ififfrinciple, which hath E,and goc^h through islhe Power or Vertue fonhas i light-tla- ning F/ajhy which hath I. 1 j6.Now take the/w//r-^^/;?^ of thefli ra- ng Flafh to iCjVvnich is T, Allmach T, de$ Ewlge/idOI^YL^yths Omnipotence of the E- \trnd ^oi;which there in the fierceVVrah, asaftilh, deUfoye;h; and in f/^rLIEB, in the Love, in ihi I, as a Mitihcy loving God, exnlieihy thi-oUj^hprefl'eth^ aid pav-v- erfuUy exaltcih or rifeth up; anj if you put the L ihereinro, then hive you the M^.:teT oF the Divine S'jbiiance; inthePo.ver or Vercue, it 'wElnEngel^ ^n Ax gel ^ and in the Onc-Blnh^ out of the Ccn:er, it i$GOLDT,Gold. I J 7. The vVoild is covetous, snd full of boalHni', prpi^cialiy ihofeihat would be accounted Mattets^af Arcs v and fay, they ky^Tv Cj.U^ and iii&.blind Pecplej why fee 'pa 6o whence the Soul exlfiM Qucft you it not ; thou wile fay, How ? Go m\ the omvoari life into death, there mulht outward life die, and in the Anguilli,gi\ it felf forth into the Number of the Crovf. viz., into the Thoufand Nunib^r, ioo( there is th^Eni, and Death aiifeih ar ftandeth up to a ^lor'iom Life^ with a N. fair Body, and you ncedo^vvz nothing to bur the Soul, it biingeth forth minifoJ fruic ; there thou haft m Angel which free from the fierce Wrath, for it is total! clean & purejCeik ir^and thou wilt find i .1^8. But thou fuppofeft perhaps to fin it thus in thy 0/(i Garment ; no friend- we will nov teach you another A, B, C learn that fifft, then feek, if you will the have a love to it, if not \G01T,God. leave it; for the * O:, GOLT, GoUy muchnobler and more pre tious than the L. 159. Obferve, tak the*A,t//:c.the Begir ningof the AVge>Kye with thcVjWhichis th Spirits mark, and g with it through the O then you will make firo^M.tLVCiiA throug ihe O, thus, /T\ I do. Mqdv ij^eft.l. from the Beginning, ^l li^o.Novy part the t /Tn/^I'x -^^ Tom another, feeing hey part themfelves, x-v , ■ ind fet one by ano- V^ ;'(her, each whha half O likea Reinbow, , ^h"5) D C 5 for fo they ftand in the Fi- Set the fierce ^r^rib at the left D and the Lliht at the righr C, for otherwife a Mm cannot defciibe ihem fo exactly, but they are One Globe. C. \i 1(^1. And* take t the Spirit y which is tJ ^ D\ i. generated in the ->Iy^ u Fire, and go with liW^ -Hp it out from the . -^'^• :t fierce Wrath, into the fink}^^ down, I- threugh Deith, into the other haJf Eye, :; v/zm into the fecond Principle, then will J ypu fee this Figure, which ftandcth thus i An^ 62 An Qaeft, ExpoficTorr of the Phlofophicl^ Globe , Eye, of both the Three fold * Circles, ivhich efpecially fignifie the two Eternal Frina^les > wherein yet the Third alfo is clear ly . under flood y And how - * Or halves a llanfhould tin- of Circles as t n i ^i 4 "I I 4« Ihough bete P C^<^> which is the Looking. Ghfs of \Ni^6o'Xi^ whireh from hternity all Wonder have been feen : andheiebj isdelinaied hovv it came in to fttoRance, for f he-Reader of this book to Thi nk a n d c n hd e rt)f ."'" • 163. Noc in tuch a vv.iy, i>s if a Man could fulJydeicribe or dcimea.. it, for the mind 9P jjnefl:.!. An Exfofnion- of ^S k\nd oxlhought only can apprehend it,ind 9nly that Mind which can walk in the Di- : ine Myftery,not through Art ' r • Realon, bi^t through the . ^^^''^''^ nderjUndlng which thi Spirit i Gcd opcneth to the humane Souls-Spi- lt in the Great Myftery^.elfe U can NOT le apprehended. The Reader mould take connderation of :heNt3[nber, and ihen of what lUndeth mthin or wlih^Ht the f Cir- cle, or where every word in the * Circle be-ginneth an.d endeth, it hath all its afl'ured certain fignifi cati- on ; for every word Rand- Cth in icsexav!:1 place* KTy. That which is ypifhoat, the t Circle or Wh:el, figniHeth the Ll- birty of the Abyfs with- ofit or bsfides the Piinciple. Numhcif'. I. Ahyjfe-, 166, The great Myftery of the Ai^fjfey wherein the Divine SubRance in- rhe Looking- GJafs of W\idon\^ ■ general eth it \ felf in ths Graund; is-ni^cd witii iVH.ti- bvr I, + Or two haife Circles, as jojn- * Or two half Circles, •\ Qr two hali/es cf one Wbtel, 4s joined. Qiieft. I . the PhyUfophicl^ Ghhe. 6 ^-^r I. and Number 2. ftandeth by it : ij al^o round about the wbok * Circle is 't be undeit^ood* Of the three '•' Ctaks, The Three * Circle * Or tw9 threefold ^rawn aboat one an© hajfarcUs^aspyn- ^^^^^ uamfic the Etef nalB4rthorGenitureo the Divine Subfence, together wi-th All E ternal Myfteries, without and within Na- ture ; viz,^ the Ofigioal of all Things Sublhnces as they are here marked. . Of that half of the Threefold \. Circle m the left band,and of Numb, 1. 1(^8. f OrUlfclrclety jhe Threefold f Clr- ""w'"^' ^""^ ^^' ^^^ *^ ^^^ ^'^^ ' ^^^^^ %'rWearchabIe' ^J^kf\ the + ^^^C^^ nefs in the 7ext* ftandeth Nu wber 2, The Myftery vpUhotit or bc- fides Nature, fignifieth how the profundi- ty or * ground lelhefs, bringeth it felf into a Ground ; W;&. the Eye of Eternity, the firft WiJi, which is called Father cf Eter- ternity, and of all Beginning?^ how in the Triniijfj 'm the Wifdom, he introduceth himself An Expof[io»of Qicft.I. Ilfcir into an Eternal Ground,and dwcl- Ih in himfelf, and poffeffeth himfelt. and he brtngeth himfelf into Nature ; and |w Sublhnc-i oiiginateth, as alfo Pcicep- )ility and Perception, If that half of the Three/o/d: ''^' Cir^ cle at the right hand. •he other Threefold * Cir- * , 0' ^.'^f at .he nV., , fionifi^h ^^^ Divine Subitance of the parted. >ly Trinity, together wirh lie Angelical World, which originatcth [at of the Great Myftery of theEteinity, id is manifeftedor revealed ihiough the [Uiflciple of the Fire. What tht Croft /Ignifieth. 170. The Crofs + through tht Twof Circles, ^1^ hgnifi- MbthePeifons ^^ of ihe Oeity, how they part ihem- civei in the Eternal 0»c on- ly Birth or Ceniture, as fur- 'ther is mentioned according to the Numbers. t Or half threefold Cir- clejybeing tne^ Of 6-6' the Fhjlofophick^ Gkhe. QueftI;*' Of the Eye in the Circle, i/i. The * Eye in the CIbcI * MatfEye , , . ^ it fht half Where the Crofs through, ;oei with an Angle., which turn^ih are a whole E\e,(^ whole threefold Cir- cle thlity Point and Line , fignifid each of th.'«?a VVoildj bcj at the left and right : At t life itngnifiith th: grearVl' (lery of theD^ri^ World, whj th: Wonder-Eye introducol it felf in Nature; At the rid It fignifieth the Light- worlT ^ where the Divine • Myftsd ^hath through the Fire,broug| it felf forth, and dwclleth , f}m^ ^•'f^ the majeftickLightjWithtr fiift Myrtery of Wonder. Of the Heart in the Ang of the Crofs. 172. The Keart/>n in the Ang; or Center \/ of the Gtof: Globes J and joyned,rrakfa whole Globe-, yet each bein^ .every where Hgeihcr^ they makj each a 'whole Globe ef dark sr light though bqth together^ every where aljo parte i(H t9 the Eternal Manifejlation, virtH^' into half Globes, though whole. L^ do fignifieththegroun I "l^or the Cfwrfr of th Duiry, not in fuch a manns ]hcft. i. ^nEx^fttlonof- 6y fit wsre partible, and did poffiefs a j?- irr^/ place, for it is i*: lelt" th^ place or ground of the Deity , and is every here all over the middleiiiolt ; but thit inan rriiy learn- to difimguil'h oidiffe- nee the Deity fiom Nature; and that 'hriltians may leun co u-^derfia^d the Re- :neration or the New Birch, how God in hrift ha.h reg^^neraced us out of his HeaJt pon the Crols : for which thi^^s fake> is Figure hith been thus delinaced, that t Reader (hould conlider and think up- n it ; for this F 1 G U R E comprifeth / whatfoever God ^nd the Eter- dn Expojjtion of the Circles at the left hands Numb, 3, 4>y. Th: three Ghara6lers or Letter?, A O V, barked with Number j(, 4, 5, Tignifie the Mj^ery o£ the holyD:ity, ^flthonc or he- Ides Nature^ how it minifefts 01 reveals tfelf in Nature. '^fAyNnm,'}. audTi77Hu,e-y NMm,6. 174. A, (ignifiech the iiilt profound or grounds. ^S the Phjlofcfhick^Glolre. Queft ground-lefs or unfearchable Will, whidl called Father: go about that * Circle to i' nether point of it, there ftandethTi«^J Or hdf Circle, ^j^'^^'l^' ^^\'^}'i \ Wills £«x, and the fit ^f^/W;;^^ to Nature ; for the Divine Ml ftcry of the Trinity ftandeth above, a the Myftery of Nature beneath ; cal Circle fignifie.h o/;^ Per f on of the Dei] in the fiiii Myftery. Of the O, Nmi.4, and of Trinctn and df Fire > Numb. 7, The O, with Number 4, fignifieth t Grou.:d of \he MNlkry, W^. the Get] tare or Biiih of the Heart or Word God, which the firl^will, viz,, the Aj the Looking-GJafs of Wifdom , compilj feth and hoWetb it in felf^ as a ground its fubftance. For the Ojfignifieth alfo t)| Eye of the Looking-Glafsof Ar//r/^w; ftl in the Wifdom is the Eternal H'ord compil fed, which manifefts or rcvealeth Itfel through the Piinciple of the Fire, in tl Light World. Go from the O, about th Circle, and fo thou findeft beneath, Prii c'lfUy and Fire Number 7, (\,i, j4n Expfttlon of 6^ If V, Numb, f . and of Snbjlance^ i Numb. 8. .||ThcV, with Number ^* fignificrh the irh of the Myftery without or befides iture ; vlz>, the fiift eternal profound Dundlefs or unfcarchable Wili-Spirit, lichoriginateth out of the iViH, and in e Power or Vcrtue of the Word, in the reat MyOery ; and goeth forch out of the ^ill and Word, and its Sxit msketh Sub- lnce,^'/^. Wonders, of the Power, Co- urs, and Vertue, whereas yet in the My- :ryof the Profundity Groundkrnefs ox *ifearchahlenefmi\\o\xi or befidcs Nature, > colours are apprehended : for they lye I in ONE, and it is the twincklipaof 1 reat Wonder, and that is called a^Stb- ince of the Wonder, Go about from V, on that t Or half cir- Circle, 2nd thou findeft «^/^ cncath at Nnmber 8, Sub- 4nc€ I fignifying that all Scibftance is be- neath the Spirit of the N; mber Three, or j'tinity ; and that men muft alwayes dtftirj- " mfh Subftarce from the Deity, '^' 177. For in Subftanceoriginateth Na- i ur€,with its feven Forms ; for the Num- "ber 70 the Phjlofiphlck^ Gkhe, Qneft. ber Three is only a Sflrlt in SLibft.!nce,ai| yet ihiie is alfo no-Subftancc wirhouid Number Three : for the Dwiire ot til Numbjr Three is rht Eternal Magla^ a maketh Subl\Ance,it bringeth inro a ^rounl according to the Model which rhe Spi openeth in the wlfdcm, outoF h:rist Creation proceeded according to the M\ dd of the virgin-like Wifdom. Further Information Concerning the Firft Prineiple, and t, Myjtery of the Begmning7n the Crea-^ tion^ and of the Dark World, ho^v the Jngle or Point of the Crofs^ rvith Number 9 . at the lefty . rvith its upper and neather Space is underwood, O/FATHEPv. Numkr% 178. Number p. there ftandeth before th Angle or Point of theCrofs, FATHER and before that the Abjjfe^ fignifying th (JHyjiery of the Father withottt or he/idc\ NAt,Hre : for with th -fOryohior end -f Angle of the CroffI of the Am oj the ^atute beginneth. T |ieft,l. ^« Bxpofiionof 71 t and Greatelt M^Ikry is the ^l^jjfe^ ,£rc the Nothing intiocKiceih it felt inta [nWy which ^s called FATHbR, or the Uginjl to lomevvhac : Outof the My-, iry ofihe Fathei is the Creatio?j^ throuj^h :iture, oiiginated : A Man is here to t' de.dmd the ^/^rK-^/NaturCjWith its Se* a^Forois, wiih or by this Mylkry. Soul i ]S:mib, 10. ^ ly.pf At the Angle or ?^oint ot the line, ftandeth ^ Or end 0} kNurnbeno.hgnifying '^;J^^;^;1^, \i Original of the Eternal /^^^j;/ |iiics,'3^/^. Angels & Souls Men : the Angle or Poinr,fignifieth the bncer in Naiure,vvhere the Threefold Spi- |rfx/f^/f.'^or manifclts it felf with or by lature, fignifying the Ma^UkJlre^ in the Lthers Property, out of which the An- Is have their Oiiginalj as aUb-ihe Souls Men. !(:3^8o. A man .iliould here underftand [, iC Grqund ar^ Original of an Eterml Spi- Hi:,- for nothing is Eternal, unlefs it hath (ij, orfginal oat of the Eternal Magick ii^.re. This Original is not underltood to |: the true or lighr Spirit, bitt to be the i;):5f»;er, viz., th? Caale of the Spirit, i'r •■; SohIs 72 th Phjlofophick^ Globe, Q;icft.] Souls Willi Numb. 1 1. 18 1, Every true or right Spirit is undd. ftood with the underftanding in the L'ul of Life : for in the Fire th^re can bci right or /r«^underftanding, but in thee fire of the Light. Therefr * rurntobe ^^^ ^^^ (^ ^^U . ^^^^ hk thtUihu ^^j^ ^^ ^^^ Heart of God,t.. to the ?oT9er or Vcrcue of the Light 1 underftanding, as here is to be feen,whc' upon the line of the Crofs ftandeth \ Souls Wili^ marked with Number 11 there it rcceivetH Powii and Vcrtue frc the Heart of God, and is generated or be an Un^er ft anting Spirit. Will, Numb. 12 . and SoulN.umb, i 1 82, For it receiveth the Power or V< tue of the Light, in the A/ipf)^«^/j and /^ milltjy and goeth with its Will- Spirit, t/j with the noble or pretious Image & Sin litudc of God, through the Power or Vi tue of the Heart, into the fecondVnvi^ c\^\t^viz.. into the Light World, as h« at the right beyond the Heart in the otk or fecond Circle is to be fecn, where flar eth Ar/7/Numb*r ii.andihen 5o«/Numt 13^ fignifyiug, how the Soul out of t Fire h icft. I . the Hilofdfhlck^ Globe . 7 3 :s fource or quality out of the Fathers operty, entereih into the Sons Power or :rtue and Property, and dwelleth in the vine Power or Vertue in the Light- .rld. HOLY SPIRIT, Numb.i^. t Or End of i8j. the Amcf ithout or beyond the Angle 'f ' ^''f'f t Point of the Crois, (iand- f/^^ ''^^'' b HOLY SPIRIT, Number ^ Beyond the i, fignifying the holy Spirit, endcfthearm nich from Eternity originat- ^/ ^^/ ^^ff^ hintheWilloftheFatherat «^ ^^^ ^^/^ e left at the Angle 01 f Point^Number p, idbringeth it felf through Nature, through c Heart and Divine Power or Vertue ac e right without or beyond Nature ,• alfo rough the Angels or Souls-«Spirits, Pow- or Vcrtae, forth, and dwelleth in the iherty in the Glance of the Power or Ver- e and Majefty, and is in Nature, yet of 'ature unapprehended, but only in the Hvlne Power or Vertues Property. ' Image y Numb, ij. 184. r Beyondtbe word HOLY SPIRIT, '•lumber ijt ihndtthlmage^ alfo without 74 -^« Exp fit I OK of Queft. or b*yond Nature, fignifying that the n ble or pretious Image fprouteth forth o of the Souls Fire, as a Bloffome or Flow out ef the Earth, and hath no feeling fenfe of the Fain of the fiery Prcp^it for the Fire ftandeth In it as it were fw. lowed up, and yet it is there but in an ther fource or fountain quality, W^. a d fire of Love, a light-flaming Fire Divine Property* MyJJe, Numb. 16, 1 8)-. Beyond Image, ftandech v4^7/^, Nu^ ber 16, fignifying, that the right m Image ftandeth in the Abyfie, withou,t b-yond all fource or pain, anddvvelletb: Nothing , but only ..* ^ui ^T^''l it felf,& with or throw 1::^:^t it, ^ ^OD Therefo^ fveuwherc in it- there IS Nothing that G; find touch or break it, b only the Divine Power or Vertue ; for ftandeth not in Nature, although indee with the Root it proceedeth from Natur r.nd yet it is another thing ; as an Apy is another thing than the Tr^^, 'though j i\ixA Hf9n the Tree, and receive pov '• ' (I lefl. I. the Philofophick, Globe, 75 and'vertuc from the Tree, and yet the n giveth It ilfo power and vertue i So bthe Divine Sun, viz,. theMajelty," gU fh the Image power and venue. ^ the Word Omnipotence J Numb ,17. and Wrath s Numb,i%. Further at the left ftandeth Number 17. itnifottnce'y and it ftand- i alio without or beyond I OrhitfOlote : + arde/,gnifymgche ^^'l^:^ hthers Myftery , which, ^^^, i:h the Ma^'ia^ vlx,, with % Defire , introduceth it felf into the '\ct Wrath, where then the ftrong loud- Vndinglife, and ftrength, isunderrtood ithe entrance of Nature in the firft Three ^rms,r/^. the aftringent> )ter, andanguifh, as the ^ Of fierce ■\ ;d * ^Vrath ftandeth in the ^ratb. ]ce under the j Lin-e, i^'f7,f{ ^ , or -r ' , ^ the Crofs at the •imber 1 8. fignifying that /,/, j^;,^^ fv fierce Wrath, doth mt "^Or end of the ^^ich the Angle, or * Point ^^^ of ^^^ ■ the "Nambcr Three, but Jy^^^' ^^^{j -ncrat^dcrborn in the. 'ArZf.gJfitthe •E 3 Crafty yS An Lxpfimnof Qtieft.:; Craft '^ Numb. 19. 187. ^ _ Under the word 0/»«/p5r(f;if fling sut' Number tp. ftandeth * Craf tiety^ li?nifying the fclTence out • the Looking-Glafs of the M; ftery: which Craft or Suttlety in the fi cond. Principle is changed into a righ^. reBtfied underftanding , and here in fl Magick Fire it is only Crafc or cunnii Suttlety, for it is accute or pointed aii fnarp, and a cafife of the Underilanding Devil i Numb, 10, 18^. Over againft it rtandeth,Dm/, Numt 20. in the fpace | of j Or within the Dark World/ignifyingt place of (hfD^ri gvilnefs malignity or ir ,.- 7/1 the lower ne IS gone away from t fpACe oftbatjrom Angle or Point of theNui the middle ber Three, and hath fet frpn-ward, ^^^ ^^^ ^-jj j^,^^ ^^^ fj^, 'Wrath Craft or Suttlety, in willing the) .iHrithto rule or lord it over God's M nefSj and h'imfelf to ufe thertrength 2^eft. I . the PhiIofophick.Gl^e. 7 7 light or potency of the Fire, and of the iicrce-wiath. Devils Art '^ Numb.zi, 12I 189. Under the word Cr*j//r, ftandet^ yivils : : : : : Art^ Number 21, 22. Dtf- 'i//,ftandeth wiihout the * Cir- le of Nature; and^rr,ftand- ^^,^-^'^^ th within the* Circle of Na- ^^'^'' arc ; Cgnifying, that the Devil "n^s crea- id, as well out of the Mylkryof theFa- fier, upon the Line or 4- Stroak thcCrors in the Eternal ^^'^'""^ Mature as the other Angels. But he hath rained or created to himfelf his Art\, lumber 22. in the magick feeking of Na- jrc in the Center of the dark. World, rkreasyct he (liould have gotten fiamed rcreated it in God's Heart and Power or ^CKue, and that is * his :aufe of his Fan and of his / ^^ f « ''''' :nvy, or^ Hatred and Ma- ^rl^/ ce. W'lll i Numb. 2f, 190. Above the [ Line, Num- + (Trflroak, or !er23.ftandeth,^///, figni- ^'""l 'f '^•'^ ying, that the Devil .hath ^^'■^^' E 3 fwung 78' ^nExj^oJitlonof Queft.' hath fwimg himfell? aloft above the Blvi Line, upon or in which he was created} a proud or haughty (lately Spirit,that woul hioifelf have been Lord, andhave ^o'^t ned in own Self^ Ait and Wit. i n ipi. As now at prefent, the prid^ ftate and haughtinefs^ and cunning fuefllf Policy and Prudence of Men doth, whi^ ^ fwingeth it felt alfo thus, fromxh^ Line< w God, np into own felf, wherein it cam ^ reach or attain the Divine Power or Vet rue and Light within, but fMlieth in it fe into the Dark anguifhing Magkk^ Fire , J above the word Will is marked Numbi 24. Firft into Varknefs ; for Rcafon Jofet the Divine Underftanding and 'Defri wherein it can take hold of ^nd receiv God's Subftance, and fo impregnate it fe' with Power and Vertue out of or fror God. Fire, Numb, 2^, ^ r- ' c ip2. And then th^ / C,atz.fewer, ^^.^^^^ „ ^f Cove felf, in thjt it wiUjth to have much, ani n j::eft.T. thc?h)lo[ofhu:}^(jlohe. 79 y : bath not enough ; as here Number 25-. iP3. And when jt hath filled it feir with Cvetoufnef?) then beginneih the Maglck, If in the Anguifh, Number z6, to burn. ir that which'is brought in by the Cove- iifnefs, and laden the fire with, is the y,glck^ fires wood or fewel wherein it jrneth : and there is P^^^^ generated or I'n ; which muft feparate what the Cove- if^iels hath laid in. Death i Numb. 27, (X5>4. And here is alio the c.u^^rp . eavy Fall cf Adam, who ^^^^;\ ' agined as the Devil did, ^ ^^^ ^* d defircd the multiplicity of this world rJris own ; he would be wile or futtle and ident, and get much VVit or cmfiy Inge- ity,and alfo the earthly &: heliifh iburce fountain quality in the wit. Had he re- clined upon the Stroak cr Arm in God's Ine, then he had KOt become earthly ; for b; wiil-fpirit had dwelt in God, and had l:roduced Vlvlnc food inro the Body ; but rwhe ftandeth in thz A tjgHijh, Number 12', and muft again go through the Princi- into Df. entereth e, into Death \.\y^ov\ th^ Crofs, then it diaweth lel again Divine Subftantiality, viz., Cbrift's OB Fiefh to it ielf, and biingexh the fame with 4it felf into the Light into ihe Light world, there tht Divine Life fprouteth again into ! the holy Body, and the Image ftandeih free Jfagain. As here Number 32. istobefeen, and dwelleth in C:?.'/, Number 33. andeat- eth of God's Word 01 Subftance 1 for the {Image is here without or beyond Nature in lijthe Liberty; hut \\i^ Humanity is within [jNature, as is dcfcribed. 3 19 8. But as to thofe Scvils which (tick in ;i- their proud or (htely ?nd haughty ecvetcus ■ Works in the Ar.gulfhy Number 26. they J IHck indeed ir. the Afaglck /if^gHl/h-Flre^ J and their wcrkj are wood, or fueJ^ to or for f the Fire. I - 35)'^^^ But if ihzWiLfpWlt do yec turn in it felf a little into the Death of Chrirt, ai yet alio is faft bound to the fierce ^rat, that foul hang<:ch as by athred to ihtDem ofChrirt. . The Ninth Number y N/mh.;^. yd m 200. This Soul may well thus burn while, till the mlLSpirit can enter in the "Death of Chrilt, till its iydereal wooij^'^ or fuel be burned up : when the earthli body dyeth, then mal-l the Image bathe which the. prefent too wife and fubtl world conteinneth, but in Death doth fin ^'^^ it by woful experience : There mulHhi little fparkl^, which haxigeth only by thredjWind it felf inco the Death of Chrif* for it hath Icil body and fubfhnce,and ftan ^^ deth naked and bite /vithout Dhiyje Sub ftance or Body in God's Mercy or Compal fion in the Divine Tinfiure, viz.. in th Ninth Ntimber^ Number 34.. and waitetl^ tor the lart Judgment ; wherein God wil' ^ in the Tincture, bring and reftore agaii whatfoever Adam\o?i ; but its here-actec works^wiil not go or pafs thro:jgh the Fire but the dark Magick Fire^ hath fwailowec them, up into its Mylhry into the Darl VZorld \ Lee thla be Uid ro thee,0 Man. hi 2i^ft.i. ih2 PBjIofophick Globe. 3 3 Souls Eternal Habitation) Numb, 3f. 201. After Ninth Namhrfizndtih the hnis Eternal tJabitation^ Number 37. iig- lifying, thatthefe efcaped Souls arenor- iiifjfhhftanding in God , in the Angelical riii ^orld, but without their works, and cm- lot io highly attain the Ghncc or Lalhe Df the Majefiy, as thofe Souls which have lere cloathed themfelves with God's Pow- ;iill:r and Vertue. The word Habitation go- k Cth into the Liberty without or beyond Na- Li tuie, as alio above, Ima^e, doth ; for the J. Sotplm\x{\ (land in Nature ; but the Images a Mnhitation is wi:hout or beyond Nature m II the Divide Liberty, Angelical Worldy Numb. 16. 202. Wiihcut or beyond this Habitation, flan- (3eth the Angelical ;^'f>r/^, Number 36. fig- tiifyins the Angels Courts and Quires, or Princely Thrones, in the Liberty of the Pivine Majeily, where yet their 10 jt alfo ftandeth IN Nature^ but is not appjelien- ded. i4 ^J^fi Exfofnlon of Qu eft j Proud Devil, Numb. 3 7 • ^^"^ ^f^^ Devtl Lucifer, Numb, j 8 . ^ 203. At the* left in t upper rpace,Number 3; (^andQih Protid Devily C ftubborn Devil, withfj* 4- Lines, one reaching 11 upon the Chara6lei a Letter O , Number ^\ and th^ other rcachinf up * above the Gje» Myfteiy of the Mumbe Three , where Handed fVill of the Devil Lucifer Number 38. 204. Here is the Devils Fall to be corti fidered, he hath brought his frond or rtub«. born Will up from the Line or Stroakoi the Crofs, aloft, and hath willed to rule over or above the Mydery of the Divine Wiidom, in wit and cunning, futtJety and fierce wrath in the Fires might or power, and to kindle the Myliery of the Number Three, that he might be Lord : As indeed he then kindled the Suhjlantiality in the Myftery ; whence Earch and Stones have come to be, and hath willed to fly cut above tbeMyi'l^ry of the Number Three, Num- bei * At the left hand tr left half Ofote $r Eye or Loo{hg- Glafs, in the upper fpact or quarter §f it above the left Arm cfthe Crofs^ t Stroaks or legi dravpn with prick/' * Above the three half Circles of the left haljOtcbe, Eye or Looking- Olaff<, aeft. 1. the VhllofofhlckGhhe. 85^ r 3 8. as ftill at (his day he defiieth to fly t above the Angelical Piinces-Thrones, ffyjfe of the Dark^ Worlds 'dumber 39. Eternal Hell of Devils ^ 'SumbeTi^o. 2oy. And upon this hath followed his rnfiifig out from the Divine Myftery, fo at he is Thruft out from the Superiour hrones into the D^ri^ Magick fire, and Thiuft down below, that is, into the hf^^f ^^^ 1>ArkT^orld;¥ox he muft dwell UernaHy without the Principle in the ire-crack, liz., in the fiift Three Forms to ire in the AKgmjh^ there he hath his HeH^ below at Number 40. is to be feen, and lereinco alfo the Damned fouls fall back, } that Eiernally they cannot fee or behold iod. The fecond Crofs Line upwards thus *{' 2.06, Over the line Numba i. above aloft, andetb, Myjfe^ Siermtj^ (tgnifying the ■iberty, wichout or beyond the Principle 5 nd thereby is underfiood the Myftery of Jhe Eternity , wherein every Creature tandeth in its [onrce or fountain Qnality^ ^n its own Fire, be ii in Darknefs or Ljght^ ^ncthath therein no other Li^ht than iljin- B <^ AnExpofitlon of Q^wfll eth within it,which light alio ic apprehej eth Externally without itfelf; there Both worlds, vir^. the Light-world, Dark-worId,are there in one another, ii the Light becometh»i)f attained, unld creature be capable of it. 207. There are Angelical Throni which we know nothing o^Experimental' our knowledge reacheih but only into Extent of the Place this world, fofarasil klndliKg in the Creatit leached, and of TTfy^ is this t wheel mai with the Crofs. + Or theft two halves of the whole fnbackio back with the Crop appearing in the midfi. S O N, "Numk 4 1 . a?id of the Hea^ 208, Above the upright Line,ftandeth SOI and at the Left Angle or Point, Numb p. FATHER, and at the Right Lin Number 14, HO Lr SPIRIT, fignifyii , the Birth or Geniture, zvid Per[onsoii\ Holy Trinity. The Heart /V^ *^" ^^ Crofs is the Center , and \/ /^gnifyc' A ri ^-L r the Eternal Band of i\ ^^z(\.i. the Fhylofofhlck^ Ciohe. ^7 209. The Word SON^ Number 41. Hgnifieth i: fVORD, which the Eternal FATHER^ c.itinually and from Eternity, fpeaketh i the Lighc and Dark world, according. t each worlds fource or fountain Qua- ly or Property. '10. But in that the Thrte Perfons at Crofs are free, and touch not the Line^ ijinifieth that God is free from Nature, not t iniheappiehenhon .^ . ,. vT L L J 11 L J Or I, able td Nature, buthe dwelleth the apprehen^ um[flf^ indeed in Nature, fion ofmture unapprehended, by that .^ch doth not give up it fel£/W>'C.e aj G« ijicfr.i. the Ththfofhlck^ Clohe. %9 vlirift, x.\\tit\%thewkokfulne[softheG(d' ^^; HI 4 Miat the Heaven is in the Man Chiift, and '^lliro in us, and that we muft through his . \AWo{s and Death go to him imo his Heaven^ ':.il«bicb himfelfis ; for on theCrofs is Hea* ivJfCD become opened to us again, or New- oj^oin and Regenerated to us. Secondly, J flit fignifieth that the right or true Vivm .^MHcaven is an Habitation of theDivinc Dc- JiixCi-Wx;. of the Divine ^-!«^/^; therefore dit is called not aningoing, but an ingene- :4i|ation of God's Fire, into Divine Subftan- fjtitlity, and that even only on the Crofs^ i/inu. through and in the Birth - or Geniture of the Holj 4- rn- ^^^^^^ Pure Element, l^u misery 34. The ^oidyPiire Elemr^t ^on theCroffe's upper Line, Number43. fignifieth the in- ward world, out of which this outward, with the Four Elements, is become gene- rated forth, and ftandcth in the Inward EoGt RiQt' in ^n Expftlon of Que ft. the SubRance thereof. Holy Siiriti Num,4^, Sen, Num,^\ 21(5. Moreover it is to be obfervcci e:] sclly, how the Words ftand, hgi/t anl end) for they begin on th| |0r half Circle, ourward" 1 Circle at Lcfr, where above Nui ber 5. the Holy Spirits Characleroi Lett( V. ftandeth ; and beneath Nunnber SJ Subft^nce y and goetl *0r half Circle, through the two * Circiti at the Right, even int( ihe fecond Space, which fignifieth th< Ture Divine Elements Original, its ii dwelling and Subftance, whence it Origi* nateth,^/^. from the Spirit of the Etert nalMyfteryin the Divine Subftantiality,] viz.. in the Subftance of the Great Myftc- ry, and yet is only manifeftor revealed in the fecond Principle, viz>, in the Sub-' ftance of the So-4 and Holy Spirit^ as above one the 4- Circle at the \0r half Circles, Right is to be feen,Num— ber 44, and 45". Father' ^'■eft. 1 . the Thjlofophlck^ Globe, ^ pi ii^^ihero Numb. 4^. Holy Spirit ofDi- vine W^jHom and Underjlandinvy Numb.A^y, oir" ' ''»aji7. Thz Pare Element is the working ^'■irhe light true Heaven, and fhuttcth it if in and out with or by the Crofs, it is e fpringit5g or flowing & n:ioving in the 'tfc and Lighr-Heaven, from or by with « Divine Subftantiaiity,anderliand Sub- cc, and not the Spirit, of Godjis a life; I it reaeheth not into the Subftance of the hcr^ Number ^6, where beneath on the ircle, ftandethP;t/m mt or Uftderfia/jd- ]gy for the -Element giveth 01 afifordeth «t divine Wit, but the Holj Spirit y^\im^ er 47 .giveth Divine apprehenfion, know- sdge.or skill and wit or underftanding, 218, The Element is a Subihnce in re- peal of the Deity ; as the Life in the tlefh runderftood to be,in refped of the Soul ; fer the Tin6lure is higher, and giveth the :NS of the Spirit, wherein the Light-Fire iunderftood. Humanity i FleJ7j, Numb^^S. 219. Under the word, Pftre Element^ rtandeth ^ m/f Circle. p2. An Expoj4tlon$f Queft ftandeth at Number 27. on the ftroak of upper. Line of the Cre beath^^nd the word beg netk laying hold omhe lefc *Circle,and | eth through the Crofs through xhtfirfi ri * Circle ; There obleive both the outw'- Circles at the left and at the right, abic! and beneath, and then thou wilt foon what the right or authority of "Death is,« howit is the dying (ource or fountain q lity in the O^agich, Ftre^ and holdeih t Subftantiality captive in itfelfj as att left beneath at Number 8. & at the rig" beneath at Number 48. is to be fecn ; then above on the fame Circle at Numbl 44. and at the left above, at Number thtre a man feeth, how the fpiritual goeth and fprouteth forth through t Veath^ and poffeffeth tUk i Theoutward- ^^g^gft | Qrcle : F allwhatfoever willethi: reach or attain theD vine Life, muft go through the Djri>7g Mt gich^ Fire, and ftand or fubfift therein ; i the Heart on the Groi ^Enctwrex everla- j^^ft ^nd doth ftand C ^ ^ God. ^ 220. Furthcl circle being ac counted whole. W(j jft.i* the Philofcphlck^ Globe, p^ 220. ^"'5|?Hrtheri-t is to be known, that- we in A- I have turned our i'elves away from the f;)fs, and are wich the Dedre of Luit or ifure, gone with our vpUI above the >fs at Number 23. into an Own felf ilc or Government ; and now Death :h captivated us in it felf, therefore we ift now fink down out of Death or* the ofs at the Line of Chrift again into the art, and become new born or regem* e in the Heart, elfe Death holds us cap- e in it felf. For now !)f Chrift, where the Life fprouted through Death, and the Heart.gave up or yeelded Lt felf into. the middle, . ^ i'/i. into the Center, as ■** ^ ^or.\^,^^. iviftoiious Lord ox Conqtceronr ef Death. P4 AnExfofition of QLicftJ Paradife-iNumb, 49. 222. Under the Heart at Number 4-p. ftai eth Paradife; the Word beginneth at left on the outward Circle, where abo] at Number 5* is marked, the Spirit of Great Myftery of the Profundhy or fearchabienefs of Eternity, viz.. V. aJ *,, / ; '/•.' it goeth through theCj Vlfi^'t'^ atthe right, through whole Circles, ^u tl * ^>- 1 the Three * Circles, e^ "into the Liberty : this fignifieth the coni I tuticn or cxljlence of Paradlfe ; it origin^ 'teth in the Myftery of the Eternity, ai fprouteth through the outward, and all through the Light World, hidden in tl outward World, and manifefted or rcvej led in the fecond Principle, in the Ligl World, as therefore the World penetn teth through allthe Three Circles, Hk ing the humane Bodies original. Divine Subflantiality, Taiumb.^io. 223. For in or at this place, out of thh fubftance, Adams Body ( unckrftand th< mtvpard Body ) was created according t< the Third Principle, and thzinrvard Body, ( underftand the Images Body) out of th< Divi ( .'left. I. the Phylojofhick^ Globe, pj' ;vine SuhjlHmalityi as at the righ-'-j near radile, is marked with Number jo, t;224. That very Divine Subftance, un- [fftand * Syybfiance, not Spirit, * jst , fincluded in the Wifdom of ^'^' [)d ; and therein is the heavenly Tin- jixc : For God's Word that became Man, Imght thi6 Subj}&nce into t^iary\nio her iDeathinclofed Subf^actiaiity, 't//'^. into Images Body, and thereby God and m became One Perfon, 225 . For this Flefli is Chrifis Flejh^ ac- :ding to the Heavenly pare ; therefore 7ond Subftantiality, ftandeth, Chrifi's^ •fhy Number 51, 52. Chrift bare fuch ;/h in the Inward Man, as Ad^m had be- z his.Evs was, when he ftood in the Di- .e Image in Purity. Therefore can no m go into PiradifejUniefs he attain chat ill again, that Adant had before th« 1, and Chrift attained in the becoming morlncarnatioti. Therefore muft we , become born out of the > « ^ , , , art upon the Crois, and (J4/.5.27, ■t OH Chrifi, Mjjtery ^6 An Ex^ijiuon of Queft V 5 Myjiery, Isiumbj^i* 226. UndQiParadiJey Numbery^ .fta? 4.t)r half of the ^^^ he word beo{nnc Circle on the left 1 1 r • . ^^ y;^f. at the left in the feco -j- Circle , where abo on the fame I Circle, Number 4. the CI raEier or Letter, O, ftandeth, and benet Princlfle^ and PirCy Number /♦ and gof to the right, through the CrofSjthrough ii firft \- Circle at the right. This fignifit rightly and exa(5lly Mans Creation ace ding to the Boh, 227. For the Body, is a Myflery^ tal out of the inward and outward World^Frj above and from beneath, underftand out the Earths M.nrix; This is the Earl Matrix ; out of this Myftery was it crl ted, and a Man feeth how it was creaj out of the inward and outward Subftai 'viz,, out of the dark and light World, is mixt with evil, viz,, with fierce-wi and alfo with Good. Wonder , l>iumb, 5'4. Anget, yf, Spiriti 'Humb, j6, Ni 228, But Man was out of the MA creat (jeft.i. the 'PhMofophick^ Globe, p7 c:ated, an Ima^c and Similitude of or a:ording to God,to or for God*s fVonder ; 1 ircfore at the right, Number 54, Ihnd- 1 fyo»der. For he was a ^Vo»der of all ngs or Subftances, a Lord of All things Sublhnces, taken out of all things or bftances, and was in the Inward Image, Angel, As next iVondcry in the Liberty, ;ndethv4«^ and thereby Loft hiis igels Form. For the Four Elements 'E)Dld ftand hidden in him, and he ihould 'Kc only in theO;?^ iE/^;«^;/r,inGods Power •ydVertuej and know or experiment no- 1 ng of the Evil : As at the Right, in the 'f-berty, Number fp. ftandeth, the SprL '^''d Marts Hahitatioriy there iliould the I- :iges*Body dwell, viz,, the Souls Body, :t that became hindred from it; itmuft tw under the Earth, and become includ- ^JorfliHt up in the Earthlinefs. Earthy Number 6(\ fl^iS' "Under the Fonr Elemr^n^ ftand- ••^,eh E4rf^,'Number 60, fignlfying that the '""^irtb is wholly fallen back to the Inner F a world. 4 7he left $r the j^ight half Gf Phe one Circle. doo Ah Exf!?jict9n of Qnt^}i^ VVorld.For the word tou( cth neither the 4- Lefc« the Right Circle, it is 4 -Dsath, but the Crofs gQ^ through it, {\f;^\i)\v\%nsReflaHrationy bringing again to what it waj?, that t Hptmnne Earth is new- Born or Regenc ted on the Crofs, and that the Heaver and Divine Subftancc, fhall be ftvei from the Dark, worlds Subftance, throi the Fire of God, where then (liall be n Earth in a Heavenly Source or Fount •Qtiality, Form> Effence and Propeit and that which is hidden in the Earth> J the Heavenly Part, fhall fprout or rpri| again* Further is to be Confidered, t ih^ Earth ftandeth thus upon or in the byffe, for it reacheth no Principle, thq rfore ic murt pafs away, or vanifh. Earthly Man^ Numb. 61^ ^34. Underneath ftandeth Nunaber, ■Earthly Man , where the Crofs g ^through the midft of the Word, which nifiech the fallen Earthly tJHan^ whi ^fallen under and into the Earth, that isJ iz fallen hoTie or back to the E^rth^ the Crois ,parte:.h or feparateth the wojj Earl fieft.T, thf Thllofofhlck^ Glohe, lor hrthl) and C^tin ; for Man fhall again pme feparated from the Earth, and en- into his Eternal Flirty either into ths ghtoiDarkworld,. Wonder, Numher 61, ijf. Under the Crofs Line ftandeth V! jmber 6z, pyonder^ fig- I /, ,xr J . . . . L ^ I + ^^ Wonders , ct r.^rying that the evil w.rk^s.gr Fr^duas, n kVonder, alfo the Evil )hx of the Earth, flialJ in the Judgement :| God, vvheo God will make feparation^ :|il home or back to the ^hlf^ ^f ^^rk^. \ fs, and that fhaJl be to All Devils and :• ;il Men their Earth, on which they fliall ; veil one among another, for the -^^;/r mdsth under it below, at Number i. ;i Babeh Number 6;. 1 23 (^. Near JVoncin ftandeth B^^f/,Nufn'' I'T 63 . fignifying , how Babd is only a \'onder of the Mjjfi, and worketh only ronders in the Abyjl^, I \OwnB^afonin^dbdi Kumli. 64, 237. Further , above under the 4- Circle .: the Ri^ht, after E^rr/?- . ^ , ,/: ay tJt L ^ n J I Or half eut* ' Man, Number (^4.ftand. wardCircU at th Own or felf Reason in ths Righu BAbcL 102 ^n Exfofit itm of Qj cft . i ^';^^tf/, which goeth round about the ot; iide of the Ciicle of the Second PrincipiL and goeth in own felf Authority under i Divine World, backward, and fuppofe She is in God, and ferveth or worlliippe him> but is wichout God in /f/f, She it Teacherh, and doih only i^s own Thin or Matters for itfelf, for its own Em H Ruleth ihe ouiward world in own fe K.!^fon, without Gods Spirk and ^i//, 6> iy according to its o,fin PVUL Therefore goeth about the Light worlds diflemblk in Hypocrilie, and giveth God gck Words, and cofttinueth only without Gd^ ™^^ upon or in the Abyffe, and thereinto alfo: falleth back and entereth, ■•■. ¥ Wonder of the Great Follji Num. 6-\ i 238. Under Ojv^ ^f^/e?», Number f: f ftandeth, mndcr of the great Folly^ figa ?il fying Bdel^ who hath found ail Art, Sti telty and Cunning, Politick Devices, ar LofUtfelf; It leeketh Gold, and lofet God ; it taketh Earth for Gold, Death fi Life : and that is the Greatert Folly that found in the Subftance of All Subftances as is fufficiently naentioned in other Pla ceSo %k . Cieiii. thff Phylofofhick. (jlohc. icf The Cunclufon, 239. Thus we fee, when we arc at home, net this World , but in the two inward orlds ,• in which foever we labour here, that we enter when we die : we muft fe ihz outward, we muft only be ncw^- rn or Regenerated on the Crofle. 240. Abel hath turned it felt wholly away m the Croffe,w-hich (ignirieth the Pioud n felf Reafon-Wife, Snbtle Men, who e and order themCelves in or according the ivit or Ingenuity of Fcllyi 241. The Earthly Man on the Croffe, umber 61, fignifieth the fim^le heap or >mpany, which yet hang to the Crcfle of arift, and become at /^;?^f^ new-boinor generated through the Croffe. 242. But^ Reafonhath * autw^rd [elf rcn rent and torn it felf ■^^'^M F from the Crofs in its own felf Pleafure id Voluptuoulnefle, in its own Pomp, iight or Power and Laws, and that is a .ATonder of Folly, which even the Devils - ofcorn and deride. [l 243. This the Reader iliould further F: 4. conhder- 1 04 whence the Soul exlfled Queft confidei of, for there lyeth much under it hath the mdnfitrndingoi all the 77j; H'orlds. Sec thy felf therein, it is a rij tme Looking-Glafs^for theNumber Thi is a Crofs, and hath Two Kingdom^ One, farting x\\tm{tU^ forth throu Deaths that is^it efteemeth it felf as dea and finketh down in it feh\like Death, ai fo falleth with its will through the fir Principle into God's Lighc-Eye, and th( it is the holy Spirits CW;V, on which lideih. H^. Bi p. (0 ^'"i tueft . I. from the Begmnhg, \o^ -\^^^* But when it will go ot' it felf, ic '^jcn contimeth in its own Fire-Neft in the '"'nginaJ, where it was awakened, like Lpt- . 'cr: for it was awakened at thebegin- ■ ng Point of the Crofs, at the left, as in "is Figure is to be feen; that isitsoii-* nal, as lliall be further mentioned. ', 247. The Soul is a total Figure of a- '' roiSy and is- like a Crofs-Tree, according l'\ the outward Image of the Body, the Bo- t'ly having two Aims, which fignifie two J; rinciples,the Body ftanding^n the midft, I, a yfhole Pvirfon ; the Heart is the Firil iincipJe,the Brain the Seond • the Heart I ith the Soul, and the Brain the Souls- Spi- Xy and it is a new -Child, and yet not a cw one ; the Stock^h from Eternity, but ic. Branches axe born or generated out of le Stock.. 248. Though indeed it hath not been .5oul from Eternity, yet it hath in the ^rgin of the Wifdom of God upon the koisfrom Eternity,. been k^own ; and ii^ ac'2^*:belongeth to God the Father,and a the S9ul to God the Son, &'in the Will © God the holy Spitjit. [ 245>. -And beiri^ it could not flandin heFather inlts wiflV whe4% it Ww)u!d-?uie n its will) and sh^p/Mlm^xatM^ ■ If! m die id in- 106 whence th Soul exlfleii Qucft^ f ©f the fierce VViath,* therefore the Fitb »F gave it to the Son, and the Son tcoki K»^' into himrelf,and became in it,a Man -at kf brought it again with, or by the wcrd-F?4 into the Majeity, into the Light ; ForitT Son introduceth it through the Anger it!-- Death ^^^/« into tlieEye of Holinefs at tt l^^\ light, into another World, in God, toil iCie Angeh • of which beie-following fti be mentioned further. Now come we again to the Sixt Fon ,. of Fire : and it is to be known,why wcfe itwe the Crofs here^ which elfe is the Tern li^ ^ ^ Number, accountirigac kiOie ^ Outward Compw Cording to the ordcrt em«i mien in the Ko- Way of * Reafon, bb 'Jitli rmnmrnbTinzmtb according to the m sCi Capual Utters. p^jn^ipj^,^ the Eye af i^t pearing parted, the Crofs belongeth to th u place between the fift and the fixt Foro; 'k\ wherein Light and Darknefs yart, ] sdl, 25* I.: ■ A But know, that God is the Begin nifljsipi and the End, therefore we fet the Crdi according to reafon 3"! I'hi End,,, for the/ we go through Dei^ in^oViiz y it i 3J2. TW left. I , from -tht Be^iiiKi'/ig, pfz. The Tenth Number, lo. 107 10- gain the fiift, and alfo the laR, Abeyond through that is Death, and af- f or. beyond Death, the Hell, that is, the irce WrAth of Darknefs, that is exter- ;lly without or beyond the Crofs, for ic llleth again into the A ; and in the A is c Creator, into which Lucifer would ve flien back,but was ihruft out into the aiknefs, and there is his Kingdom in the iurce or Torment. 2f3. You iliould underftand us thuj, aat we by the Twofold Eye mderfiarjd one ■)und Glob?, thus parti- kjor each haif divided iTunder,and turns away •cm the other, where ?}e Crofs is landing om Eternity within it : man cannot fully de- fcribeit with any pen or •cncU, for iris fo in one .notherjit is but ONE only, ec yet TWO^. he Spirit underftandeth it only; and who- bever doth not enter into the Regenera- [:i^n, through the Death upon the Crofs, as ' [5//«:..intoGods Body, he underlhndeth not this, an-d let him leave it uncontrouled^ . oihcmll be a Mater and Conc5oukr*I>€- - viL . JfZ. oj me round Qtobe^ CQnceived thm vir^ t unify partible^ and yet alwayes rphols anS entire* . io8 ivhence the SouUxl^d Qucft, vil. We would have the Reader faithfe ly warned, and ii is in earnert Sinceri and true Zeal. 25:4. For this Rgure. hath All, orto- CrouTid, or the Foundation of All thin§ as deep as -I- a Spirit isin it felf, and is n apprehenhble or knowabk to the Read •\Of anj. without Rioht or "Tr * truf spiritual £yes, alfo a man cani 4. Every ^ord flands as it doth MTid every n*here al- fo ^ therefsre it if imp^fjible to expreft it with am wdrds- iti \idonnin due ^ Ca aB Order aright wij 4. any words, for the fir is alfo the laft, and tl middle goeih throuj All, &.yetisnotkno^| or apprehended but iNicfelf : Therefoil fearching is not the chief or moft efpeci means to know or apprehend the MyJ}er\ but to be born or geneia is the right ° InventicI or finding ; for yvitk that is ' BAhel. 25-f. Alllyethintll Will and in the earncj Sincerity, .that the Wi * Or the very In- vention it f elf ^ ^JI/ ii but hahel ike Knowledge of all yi) fieri es\ right I) at the Apoflle me ntiisni, Wnhout Chariry,»'/;/r/; h the New Birtht is tut a tincklhl Cyrbal \ or Babtl atnere babble^of parts, words] n«t undtiftoodb) th^m that /pca^tj^^m, in the n t?cpenmin^alfen(g p/ the Spirits C9t< Liieft. I. r^^ ^^^ Beginning. i o^ Iter into the CMagU, for the Eternity is igie»l, All is out of the Mag^a come m- iSubftance, for in the Eternity, in the byfle, is Nothing .; But that which is, i$ le M(tgi^» 7,^6. AndoutoftheMagia^exifteth ^hylofophy, which fenchcth out the Magla, and feeketh therein, and findeth iftrology Eternally ; and Aflrologji, ceks again,its mafter Preceptor or Teach? jrand Maker,Gompofer or Producer, ^;;c. iftronomy, the Salfher ac the Af^r- ^my, which hath a Principle of its own, -i!nd the third MagU is therein i viz.. the ;;Medicus the Phyfician^ who feeketh ', the Corrupter or Difeafc, a:nd will heal or ■:nrc\ii but he findeth the fourth i^^j/^, ;^f?/i;c.theTheologUSjthe Divine, who fsekcth the Turba in all things, and will ctheal the Turba ; but hefindeth the Eye oF i::ihe flrft M^gla^ and there he feeth that all Ui* the wonder of the Magl^^ and there he r leaveth feeking^ and becom^th a MagUS in the firft Will, for he feeth that he hath ' ^ all-poweivto find &; xo make what be will y aad: X lo fVhence the Soul exi/Jed Qijeft.l ' and there he maketh of himfelf an Angcis and continucth in himfelf ; and thus he free from all others, and continueth ftanj ing Eternally ; This is the highefi Groui of theSubftanceof all Subrtances. 2.^7, And though indeed, the fvhdre Btubel will not lelilli this; therefore t fay with good ground, that Babel in h^ or great Mylkry contained c liift included. ^ 2.C6. Biu now will the Middle in th '^ Deiiring have a fatiating or fulfilling '^, wherem it may reft^elfe all would ftand o %^^ hz in an Anxious Source or Torment ^ an( the Ddiiingdraweth xhz MaidL'e-owt of al Forms, wherewith it fiUeth or fatiateth it % hanger, wherewith oi whereby in it felf •it ftandcthin Perfeftron in Joy,and foou 4>£ the Anguifb, a Love cometh to be,,.; fatiating fulfiUirgoj: ffifingoi thcSouxci 2ft. I-. fr&»f the Beginning, 1 1 ^ 'ountain Quality of Pain, and the mid- is Sulphur; with that, the Spirit re- ilicth icfelfin the Will; VoiSHlphar two Forms in it fe if, viz.. Power or rtueand Light. 67. And that is together, the Sub^ c B^ce generated out of All Forms, it is '^'•i^r^r, Subftantiality, Corporeity, God's '' ldy,Chrift'sFk{li, the Heavenly, and ^;^the total or univerfal fulfilling orfatia- ig of the Spirit in the O; it is the Reft, d Mamfe-iatisn or Revelation of the •Jleity, and Ihndeth in the Virgin of Wif- ^f 268. The Crofs is its limit, and is the uhllantiality, which goeth with thefink- !ig into Death as above mentioned, where e fierce Wrath remainech in Death, and is Hill & qtiiet as a Death or a Nothing, nd the Life fprouteth out of it into ano- her Principle, 2-^p. It is not the Principle, only the Principle becometh ^e^erated in it, in it Jre all Looking-GiilTes of the Mugla^ manifefted or revealed , moreover the 'Wonders of xhtGenetrlx : It containeth • the Mjfler'iHm Magmm^ the Great Myftc- ry, and out of it, the Spirit opencth the Wojidcrs.of Eteiniry, the Spirit giveth it the. 1 14 whence the SohI exited Queft the Effences, for that is its food forft'f hunger. 270. Itis afubftanceofvYonders vvi out number and end,' and is alio of no I ginning ; for the Splnt in the Defiring I ginnethit fromErernity, andcontinu in Eternity, itis a Body of the Numt Three, which is called God, and a Be t^iic of Angels, fo that the Spirit liandethoijli in an Image, elicit would NOT bi^pp: headed or known. 271. Thus k knoweth it felf intBU Image it felf> and leeketh the beft Mag and whatit fewketh, that it findeth, eateth it, and therewith or thereby giv^ to the Body of God, its will, fo that th is an uni^y in the holy Piinciple. 272. For in the Will of the corpor Spirit rife up the Wonders, thofe the S]f lit of Eternity, viz.. the holy Spirit ceiveth or af^nhendeth^ and fo there is ringing and fong out of the eternal Woi dersjfor the corporeal Spirits will is ther in. 273. And in thefe feven Forms the Jc of the Deity, becometh multiplied and pe fe6l,for it is a fulfilling of the eternal D( iiting, and is the Eternal Food. 274. But' feeing all things or every Sue flanc f J *■ left. I . from the Begt/imn^, 1 1 j^ k nc« orif,inateth from the Firey we vvill arly Tet before you the Myfiernm Mag- m, the Great Mylkry, and plainly ilievv ii Paradife, if any will be blind, to him 5 told and difcovered ; let him go away ;h BabeL -.. Ye know that in Fire A and Water Vy •'orjil Life ftandeth or conffteth^ and the Sub- ™ptiaiity is its Body, and the Body is or Ittfteth out of the Power or Vertue of the itlpirit,. foi it is the Spirits Food^ and the f'pirir is again the Bodies FW, and the J%heli & greatett Nutriment is in it felf j ^'ilMTthe outward would not hold oiret^in it, iJi: the right or true Life were not in it felf,. 276, Therefore now the Fire,is the^r^ «aufeof the Life, and the Light thereof iixhzfecond caufc, and the Spirit the thiri vjufe, and yet is but one fubftance or hing, which clofeth it felf into a Body, Und manifeikth, and fo with feeking find- tith. 277. And every Subftance is or confi- ieth in two Subftances, viz.. in an outward and inward, the one feeketh and findeth the other; x.\\tot4tf the iV- vpard is Spirit above Nature, and yet there is no fchiim or rending aiunder, but only in ' I ^ fVhence the Soul exlflecl Q^eft 1^ that which is included in a time, ther j^ the time fevereth the limit, fo thatt Endfindeth the Beginning. 278. Thus ye fee alfo, how out of t Light, the right or true Subflantiality,c iBs ; for it is a fulfilling or fatiating Will ; The Water ex^fteth out of Meek»efsof the right, for the deliring la ethholdof the Meekn^efs, and retain it, for it is a good relifli ; thus is t Meeknefs Subftantial, and aSubftance the Fire, a fulfilling of the defirous fieri Wrath, an atiaying of the fierce Wra and a corporeity of the Time ; for w th^ Body falleth away, then is its Spirit \ the Beginning, in that which hath given forth,^ in thatlooking-glafsitis. So then- feeing the Source or fountai QHallty is twofold, therefore is the Wat alfo twofold, Wii,, an outward and an i ward ; the one belongech to the Spirit,t other to the outward Life; the outward accompted a Death, the inward is its Lif( the outward ftandeth between the fier Wrath and Paradife, in the in-funk do Death ; and the inward is the Paradife i felf, for the Spirit fprouteth therein o\xco: the Eternity. 280. Ai I7-I ueft.'i . from the Begivnlyjg, zZo, And you may lee that this is true js ; Confider Winter and Summerjalfo )ld and Heat, and you will foon perceive if you be born or generated internally dnot externally only, but with xh^firfi gick Will or Dcfire to find God, for lisdone in the twinckling of ajieye. 2S1. For the Water in the Deep,origi- uethfrom the Fire, yet not from the irce Wrath, but from the Light, for |ie Light goeth forth from the Fire, and ith its own feeking or longing, it fecketh )it felf a Lookirrg-Glafs, that it may he- ld it felf, and have it for a habitation, od draweth it in the Deiiring into it felf, nd dwelleth therein ; and that which is I in, is fVater^ which apprehendeth he Light, elfe the Deep of the World ould not apprehend rhe Light, if the L-ight didnot dwell in the Water : the Wa- er is the fulfilling or ighr, inics defiring. i 282. And the Water feeketh again a Looking-Glafs, and willeth to have a ha- Ditation, which is Flejh, as ye fee, that the Water, rsx:eiveth the glimps or ihadow of all Subflances or Things m their Body, fo that the Body it felf is reprefented in the Wat.-r, which is becaufe the feeking of the Fire hath taken hold of it. 283. Fur- fatiating of the 1 1 8 Whc?ice the Soul exified Qu^: 2S3. Further herein is feen the End Nature, foi the Eye findeth its Life in.t Water, and thus it goeth back into thei venth Form, and teeketh its Body in,t Water, and there is further no defire mc in the outward ; this Body defireth no' ther Body more in the outward, but it loo eth hck^ after its mother, of which have a right and true Example in a Loo/. ing-Glafs, which is Fire andiVater^ ai ^i that receiveth the Image very clearly ^"° iiiouflt :(Ir3Vi m 2 to 184. And thus ye fee,that the End g( mow »' 'ilttii eth back again,and feeketh the Beginninj and nothing further in the outward : f< , , this World is at the limit ^ and is includi |"^' in a Time, and runneth on to the Limit ^' and then the End findeth the Beginninj f"" and this World ftandet ', * Or Refreltn- as a * Msdel^oi as a Looi ' tation, ing-Glafs, in the Begii ning. Let this (ervc yo ??| to the finding of the Myftery, and rem your felf righrly into the Beginning, th ye may be apprehended or known to be wonder in God's Love 28 f. And thus ye are to know, that thi the fecond Form of theWatcr,confifteth ii] the Spirit ^[t is its Fathers Looking-Glafs its Makers, which dwelleth in the Spirit an m 3 •(!. I . from the Begiiinlytg^ 1 1^ ^ is found only by its Makerjic felf find- not it felf ; for fo long as a thing go- forward externally^ there is no finding he Inward internally, only the Spirit ch dwelleth in the Inward, findeth it in the Outward. 28 d. But the outward Life findeth not inward, unleCs it have the inward Spi- then is the finding, and it is done ac-^ "ding to the inward Spirit^ and then the ward Life fpeaketh of the inward, and knoweth it not ; only the inward Spi- filleth the otitward, fo that the outward I Mouth, and the inward haih and pro- ceth the Word,fo that the inward King- tn, ftandeth manifeft in the outward the found, and that now is a wonder. 287. The inward is a Prophet, and the tward apprehendeth it not, but if it do me to apprehend it, then it hath God's thfiantiality in it, viz,, God's Flefh^ irift'Fiefii, the Virgins Flefli, and yet : Prophet fiandeth or confilleth in the iirity but that Flefh co«ceiveth its Pow- or Vcrtue, and affureth the outward m, that he doth even that which his jlaker willeth ; as indeed this Pe^i is in :.ch a condition, and 00 oiherwife. ^88, Thus we apprehend ^he giound of this 120 from the he ginning, Queft, thiJ World, that it is * Or Reprefen- * Figure of the inWard^i tAtioft. -cording to both Mother ' i that is, according to bo 'J >rding to the Fire of ficr Wrath ; and according to the Fire of tl Fires, t//x.. according to the Fire of ficr Light; as the Model, W;?:,. the Lookinj L glafs of the Light of Eternity, is theSu ;, and the Looking-Glafs of the fierce Wm ; is the outward Fire, and theSubftantialr '"'J of both is the Water and the Earth, t j^' JE^r^^ is the fierce Wraths, Subftantialit ''^' thz Water ^ the Lights ; the^*>, the Et^ '"^, nal Spirits^ which is called God the hi ^'' Spirit. ? * 28p. Yet ye are to know, that tl "'. World, is not the Subftance of the Et< | nity,buta|F/^«r^,aLoo r 4- ShadoTVj Re- ing-Glafs, therefore itf f ; frefentatloHy or called aPrincipIe of or Mefemblance, it felf, becaufe it hatl peculiar Life of its ow and yet ftandeth in the Maglck^ Seeki of the inward. 2p0 The Word Flat is the Mafter of the oi ward, for it holdeth the outward in its co ceived or framed Looking-GIafs, it is n xhz LookiDg^Glafs it felf, but zSiml tUl eft. !• frotn the Beginmrj^, 121 f, in which its Spirit difcovereth it felf ieeds of Wonder, to behold the Won- s of Both Fires, viz., of the Wrath and he Love; and thus continually bring- the SubUance of all Subftances into Beginning : And there- eis this World turning as * Sfhear or Wheel or Oib, for the Globe. d feeketh continually the ginning, and when it findeth the Won* s, then the End giveth the Wonders to Beginning ; and that is the Caufe of the cation of this World. 2p I . The Life of all and every Creature I Wonder before the Beginning, for the >yfs knew nothing of it, and the begin- igof the Eye findeth iiall^ and fettet^ placeth the Model in it feif, fo that in :h an Eternal Number, and recreateth it f in the Number of the Wonders. The Eighth Form of Fire, 2p2. Seeing thus there is ONE Subftancein Vf O Forms, one that taketh on an un- tirchableBeginning in it felf, and holdeth Eternally> and another that- is the Eter- ilMod.el, which comprifcth,and with its [:* G Body 122 H'hence the SohI exlfle^ Qi^ieft,- Body is incJudcd in a limit'; therefore \ are to confider of the Turlra^ which brea. etii the included compriied Lifc,agai,» and fetteth the Model of ihi comprif Wonders in the Be^imin^^ and prefentc fuch things to the Beginning as were r from Eternicy, but came to be in the wi pr// and at laft the Serpent begnile f€ Again. 2pp. Let there be no fair glofs in you, but lak roundly or fincerely with youi outh, with Yea and Nay ; alfo fearnot^ f |hat which is Eternal, remainerh ftand- g, and it is only the filth and vanity^xhtt ufeih^ that the Tmha together infinua- G 2 teth .224 ivhence the SohI exljled Queft,if ceth it felf as a breaker or corrupter ; havff'' a care of that, for the Old Serpent is fu' tie, that ye may be p«r^ in the Beginnir and in the End. 300. For,thiswork^fufferethnotmu( G/'JfwffupoUy it hath a clear ground, ;|li it belonge[h not to the Tnrba^ but in to the Beginning of the Clarity, or bri Transfiguration or Glory : Therefore; rtllig' heed of thofe who ate born, or becomij a vvolfilli difpofition, whofe Sfmt is a' tie Serpent ; this we fpeak out of G( will towards you. Every thing that beginneth it felf/JWi fought of the Beginnin^,for the Beginnwb feeketh through xhzDeefy and willctbr find the ground ; If now the Beginning Wi find the ground, that there be a limit iiIiIk: Thing, then the Beginnings flips into wiroi limit,and leaveth or forfaketh the firR,-a u\ "'''""' ■ " ■' ' I \n\ feeketh further fo long, till it findeth ^hyfs^ -and there it muft ftand in it fe and can go no further, for thireiis'noi^ more. 302 But if the firft b^forfaken of • the B^g ningj then it is faUeis h^me totclje T<^{;ilt which bicakcthit^vta^ makstiau i^^^gi ink w hi fe'Fi h f (j eft* I . fro^ the Beginning, 125 ikx it was in the Beginning. 103. And then if the Thing be broken^ n the Tnrhi^k ftandeth naked without a ;y, and it ielf alfo feeketh it ielf, and leth it fe!F, but without Subftance, and it chtereth into it felf, and leeketh rlf- even in the Abyfs, and then the firfb : becometh found, out of which ic br- ie generated. 304. »ut being it is bare and raw without ftance, theiefore it is put l^ack^oi home he Fire, for it putteth it felf therein, 15 in the Fire a Deiiring, viz,, to feek Body again, and fo the Fire of the Or/- i/becometh awakened. ;of. And hereby apprehend we the lafb gem:m in the Fire, and the Re^nrreEli- )f the Fiefh, for the Turha in the Fire, efirous of the Body which ic hath had, . was broken in the limit ; and its defi- §, was the Bodies Life, viz.. the 5W. . 30(5. rhsrefore b^ing the Fires are TWO/ Turh^ alfo mult be apprehended in & ofoU Former Kind, 1//^. in a corrupti* Body, and in an incorruptible Bodyj •♦ one in the tierce wrachfu I Fire, and : in the Ligh.CrFiic,. wherein 0: where- by. xi6 fi^?eKce the Softl exijled Qucft by we underftand God's Body, and in fierce wrathful Fire, the Earthly Bo«l which the Turba corrupreth or breakc fox itfindeth its Limit. 307. Therefore now the Etefndl in God's Hye,is,to be iinderftood,bothf fierce wrathful, and alfo theLigbt-Lo Fire : And we give you to underftai that the Spirit without a Body, muft main in the Herce Wrathful Fire, for itb ^//i:s Subrtantialicy, the Turba hathfwi lowed it irpin the Fire. 308. But the Spirit with a Body, whi the Turba is not able to devour, remaini Eternally in theSubftantiality in Goi Body, wherein his Spirit ftandeth:; v\ the Body in the Love of God, which ist hMen Man^ in the Old Adamical, whi there hath Chrift's Flefli in the corruptil cr fragile Bodj^ 309. Thus we underftand the Soul to an awakerved Life out of God's Eye, Original is in the Fire, and the Fire is Life ; and fo if it goeth not omx. from t Fire with its Will and Imagination in the Light, viz., through the fierce wrathf Death into the Second Pri»cip/e into t Love-Fire, then it reinaineth in its ov Origifial F'lre^ and hath nothing but t Tm ucS.r. fromtheBeglmitA^, 127 irba for a Body , viz., the aftrlngcnt rce VVrath, a defiling in the Fire, a con- ning and a hunger, and yet an Eternal iking, which is the Eternal Anguilli. 310. Bat the Soul which with itsdefi- jswill, entereth into it feJf, and in its ifon, that is, in its de(iring,yr;?i^;^ down^ d feeketh not it felf, but God's Love,is its Fire as it were de^d^ for its will lich awakeneth the Fire, is dead to the re- Life, and is gone out from it fclf,into e Love- Fire; that Soul is fallen horr.e the Love-Fire, and hath alfo the Lovc- res Body, for it is entered thereuxnto, d is a great Wonder in God's Body^ and is no more.it felf, for it hath killed its ill, and fo its Turba alfo is as it were ad, and the Love-will filleth or fatia- th the Fire of the Original, and thers- it//W/> Eternally. 311. But thofe Soulsi^whlch have awalc- :d the Tnrha^ they have loft the Image :- )r the 7*/;W/-,itbiea ethic, andgoeth intoit, and feeketh fu ther into it felf, and findeth at laft tl Abomination of that, whIch the Soul ki done here in this life. 3 14. And then we utvderftand here^tPl: Fire which at the End jhallfHrge the Floa and the earneft fevere Judgement : At we underftand how every Fire, will r ceivc its Suhflance from the THrba^ i§^^^ what that is. i 31^, Where then the Fire, will fwa low up the Earth, and draw theElemen with the Hinders in them into the Begii ning, where then the Firll vviil beagiii and the Elements in One ; And evei thing will fet forth its wonders therejev< rv thing in its own Fire, into which tt Will is entered. 3 1.<5. L^t this be fisidto you yc Child C left. X . from the Beginning, i ip o.Mfin, it concerneth you, for No Beafi :ome out of the Eternal Beginning^buc : of. the Mod^l of the Eternal, and in Spiiit rcacheth not the Eternal, as the #/of Man doth. 317. Mfo the corrupt or perifhed i?ody, can^- t pofl'eis the Eternal, it is fallen honne :k to the TurhA^ but the New Man ge- tated or born in God, will poflefs the ernal, for it is gone forth from tbe cor- 3tible, and hath put on God in Chrii^^ (ich hath God's Body in the Old Body. 318. Thi earthly fource or fountain ality, xht'TurhA taketh that along vviih the outward Body from the E^rth, re- ineth with the Earthy but the will tak- 1 its Subftance doings or works along in- it felf, for they rtand in the Ne^v Body^. d follow afcer ir, therefore a Man iIlouU* ii/c/^r-what he doth in this Life. The NirJh Form of Fire, The' great earneji Seventy. ThuS'We underf^and that all proceedcth tt-of the Be^inni3g> and Co one 20^1 h ouc G'5 . ^ cC, 130 IVhcnce the SohI exlfid Q^^Aup, of the other; andweundcrftand,howtli , intO'the Eternal Nothing ; where there s no fource or quality or jfaif7y nor nothing iat ca?i either give or receive it. 32J. But now there is in the funk- ilown will, no dying, for it is gone our from the fiery Beginmyig in the Eye>and fo bring- eih its Life into another Principle, and dweileth in the Z./ifrf/, and yet huh all f Forms of the Effaces out of the Fire in k felt. 1-5^ f^hcrnii the Si^ul^xl^U QucJl felf, but mperce^tlhly^ for it is gone qui out from the Fire. 32(J, Therefore its Life of its EiTenc are in the Liberty, and is alfo defirou. and receiveth in the Defiring into its E fences, the Power or Vertue of the Ligh v^hlch jhi?ieth in the Liberty, thatis,Powr or Vertue without Tfirha : for that Fire only Love; which confumeth not; bf continually defireth, and fatiateth, fo th» the will of the Soul attraUeth a Body. 327. For the Will is a Spirit, andth Soul is the great Life of the Spirit, whic upholdeih or preferv*th the Spirit, & thu the Soul becometh indued with Powe and Vertue, and dwelleth in Tvpo Princi pies, as- God himieJf doth ; and accord ing to the outward, in 7/?r^^ Principles and is th;: Similitude of God, the inward 3 28.. The inward Water in the Spirit t!)e Soul, is the Water of the Eternal Life concerning which, Chril ■'^ J^/tj 4,14. faith, * y/ho[oevcr drlnketi of the Water that I ^Ive hiff^ he mil *;ez'er thlrfl more '^ this is that Wa- ter, 329,. The Subdantiiliry of the Spirit, '^yiuvh become th put on to the Soul,isGods: Chrifls MI eft.i* from the Beglnmng. i33 Chrifts Body ; concerning .John6,<6, which, he faith, \. yvhofo- ever eateth my Flefh and linketh m} Bloody contintieth in Me^ And I I Hinf, 330. But the right true Life in the Light of \z LMajefly in the Ninth-Number, is the irgin Tintiure ; it is a Fire, and yet not tFire, itburneth, butconfumethnot ; it i the Love, the Meeknefs, the Humility:) IS is God's Llfe^ the Holy Souls Life, an icorruptible Life ; and an unfearchable fe, for it ftandeth in the Al>y[s in it felf, ere is a Center therein, which Center is \ Firft Life, and yet it doth not comprc- •nd it, as the Fire doth not comprehend 5 Light. 331. Thus the Ninth Number is the- fc in the Fire of God, and is called the fe in the prefence of the Number Three; ! an Angely which ftandeth before the tofs to or for God's Deeds of Wonder, id to or far the Mar/ifeflAtlon of the He*i- , ^nly Honour and Glory. 1% 134 ffieffce the SohI exijlei E the Tenth Number and Form of Fir S it The Gate into the Holy Ternary. \ 332. » V/e kBOWMnRealcn, that where the f is a Root, therein alloisadefirouswii v as, viz., the Noble TlnBHrc^^\\\Q\\ drivci ".'^' upwards and forwards, andfeekethaS ?! militude according to its Form. \i 333. The Tincture is a Virgin, and !^'J known 01 apprehended in God's ^//J/e (5 in the Wonders ; It is no Genetrlx^ but i 1^ opener or manifefter of the Wonders \vhi< ftand in theWifdom, it feeks no Loekir^: ^'" Glafs, but meerly openeth 01 difcoven the Eirenccs,that fo a total Similitude m^ generate or produce it felf out of theEffit; ces, it driveth the Twig or Branch out the Tree. 354. This we undeffiand as to Angels, at Souls, which are proceeded out of Gojd EffenceSjOut of the total Tree, the Ange out of tvpo Principles ; and the Soul wi the Body of the outward Life out of Tk Principles : And therefore Man is high dignified than the Angels, if he contim in God. 3 3 J ^ C eft. * . from the Beginning, 1 3 J J35. And in the Tenth Number upon ll; Crofs> arc the. Angels and Souls awak- t\y and become corporifed in the Hca- . vnly Subftantialit/, although the Tenth timber belongcth to the place, between t: Fift and the Sixt ; but in a Globe,to be iderftood fo, that the Heart is in the i'dft in the Center^ which is God*s Heart, tac is, God's Word', the Power and Ver- te in or of the whole Tree, as the Kernel ^ Pith in the Wood, hath the Effences, .iertue or Condition of the whole Tree- ■^S^^ Thus God is a Spirit,and the Word his Heart,which he fpeaketh forth out of 1 Powers or Vertucs and Wonders 5 lerefore Ifalab callcth ir,. fyonder , Council , ^orvery Ifa, p. <^. rlnceof Peace, viz. aPici- er of the Anger, and an Eternal Power f Wonders, a Counfellour of iht Gene^ ;337. For the Word upholdeth or pre- frveth the Cf^r^r of Nature, & is a Heart nd Lord of Nature, it is ihzGenetrlx in tod's Eye,a Giver of the Power and Ver- ue, and the ftiength of the Omnipotence : t holdeth the Fire-Center captive with J)c Love-Fire, fo that it mul^ be dark in it elf, and the Word hath only the Lights Mfe. 35^* We f 3 ^ H^hcncc the SohI exifitd Quefti 538, We cannot apprehend the Teniijf N\jmber any otheiwiie, then that itii i^'^ Crofs, and is the Original of the Subliaiii i^ii of all Sublhnces ; which Subftancc pai 1^^' cth it felf into Three Beginnings, as abo mentioned, whereof each hath its Subftan( and are in one another, and have no mo than one Spirit^ \\\ 33P. And in the middle of the Point the Center^ which is the Caufc of the Lifi and in the CenteVy is the Light of tl Majcfty ; out of which the Llfcy as an tberPrincipJe, exifteth, out of which tl '%) Tree of the Eternal Life hath ever coi^ li tinmlly grown from Eternity , and tl Twigs 01 branches grow out of ti l\ Stock* 340. Which are the Spirits of Angel which indeed have not been corporeal froi Eternity, but the Effences or Qualitl have been in the Tre *Or%efre[en and their * Image hai tar'ion, been 1 dlfcovsred^^ hav 4- Shone forth., appeared in the Virgin c the Wifdom from Etet nity: for they have been a * f ;^«rf frort \M Eternity in the Tin6lure, yetnotCorpo 4i lealj but EjfentUl^ without Corporifatiofl 34^1,, Am eft . I . frof** ^^^ Beginning, 137 ^iji.541. And therefore this is the grcatel^ '••ndet that the Eternity bath wrought, ^^itit hath created the Eternal into a Cer- eal Spirit, which no Reafon apprehend- nor no Mindfinderh, alio it is not oughly fearchable or fathomable to us. 342. For, no Spirit can r/?r<7^^/»/)'rearchout or :hom it felf, it feeth its own deep very 5II even into the Abyfs; but its framer or [