in. And though the Body ftandeth in the out- ward palpablenefle, yet is it formed according to the kind and wanuroi the inward Birth, for in the Inward Birth or Geniture ftandeth the word, and the Word is the Sound or Tone, which rifeth up in the Light in the fire-flalh through the bitter and the aftringent quality. 4> ii2. But being tfle 'Sjandoi Gods Word muf* rife up through the aftringent bitter Death, and ge nerate a Body in the hftlf-dead water, thereupoi that Body is Good and alio Evill, dead and living- f >r it muft inftantly attract thefapp of Fterceneße, a:id the Body of Death, and ftand in fuch a body and power, as the Earth its Mother doth.
113. But that the Life lyeth hid under and in t!-,e Death of the Earth, as alfo in the children of the Earth; I will here demonftrate it to you.
114. Behold! Man becometh weak faint and fick, and it no remedy be ufed, then he foon falls into Death. The licknerTe caufed either by fome bitter and aftringent Herb, which groweth out of the Earth, oreltecaufed by anevilmortiferous deadly water, or by feverall mixtures of earthly Herbs, or by fome evil ftincking and rank fiefh or Meat, and furfec from thence to Loathing.
115. Now if a Learned Phyfitian inquireth from the fick Perfon from what his Difeafe {^-proceeded, and taketh that which is the caufe of the Difeafe, .. whether Ghap.XXl. Of the Third 'Day. 505 whether it be Fkfh, Water, or Herbs, and diftilh or burneth it to powder, according as the Olfatur is, and fo burnetii away the outward Poifon thereof, which ikndethin Dtath; then, in that diftill'd Wa- ter or burnt Powder the Aftral Birth remaineth m its Seat) where life and death wreftleo e with an- other, and are both capable of being raifed up j foe the De ad body is gone.
116. And fo now, if thou mingleft with this wa- ter or powder, fome good Treacle or the like, which holdeth faptiie the rifing up and the power of the wrath in the Alkali Birth, and giveft it to the (ick party or Patient in a little warm drink, be it Beer or Wine; then operateth the inneweft and hidden Birth of the thing, which hath caufed the Difeafe in man through its outermoft dead Birth.
117. For when it is put into warm Liquor, then the life in the thi/.g becometh rifing, and would fain raifeit iclf, and be kindled in the Light, but it can- not becaufc of the nrath, which is oppofire to it in the Alfral Birth or Genitüre.
118. But it can do thus much, viz. * it can take*tv,;t <joti, away the Difeafc imm a Man: for the Aftral Lite takeaway rifeth up through Death, and caketli away the power l c difeaft> fnm the Ming of Death: and fo when that hath got- ten the viSory »then the Party becometh ("rund again.
115?. Thus thou feeft, how the power or vertue of the W ord and eternal life in the Earth and in its children lyeth hidden in the center in Death, and fpringeth up through Dear,incomprehcnf b!y as to the Death, and continually travelleth in anguifh to the Birth of //»,,and yet cannot flouriih or buddt-ill the Death be fevered from if.
l"2o. But it hath its Life in its Seat,and that can- 't tt not 500 Of the Third my. Chap.XXI.
notbc taken from it, but Death hangeth to it in the outermoft Birth or Geniture, as alio the wrath in Death: for the wrath is the life of Death and of the Dcvill: and in tne wrath ftandethalfo the corpo- real Being or the Bodies of the Devils, but the dead Birth or Genuure is their Eternali Dwelling Houle, The Depth in the Circle of the Birth or Geniture.
Now one might Ask: What manner of fubftance hath it, or what is the condition thercof>that the Aftral Birth of the Earth did begin its qualifying operating and generating one Day fooner then the Attral in the Dtfp above the Earth: feeing the^ in the Deep above the Earth is much (harper and eafkr to be kindled,then the fire in the Earth: and feeing alio that the Earth rauft be kindled by the fire in the Deep aiove the Earth, elfe it can Bear no fruit?
Answer.
1.2 1. Behold! thou understanding Spirit; the. Spirit fpeaketh to thee3 and not to the dead fpirit of 1 the flefh: Open the Door of thy Aftral birth wide, and elevate that one Part of the aftral Birth in the light\ and let the other in the wrath ftand ftill, and take heed alfo that thy animated or fouliiri fpirit do wholly unite with the Light.
12 2. And fo when tnou ftandeft in fuch a form, , then thou art as Heaven and Earth is,or as the whole •Pcitie C ha p.XXI. Of the Third T)af. 507 Ddtie is with its Births or Gcniturcs in this world.
123. But now if thou art #of thus, then thou arc blind herein, though thou were the wittieftand wi- feft Doctor, that ever could be found in the world.
124. Butif thou art Thm, then raifeupthy ipi. rit, and look through thy Art of Aftrology, thy deep fenie, and tncafurmg of Circles, and fee if thou art die to apprehend it? It mpfflbebom IN THEE«, Elfethougetaft neither Grace nor Arc 125. IftheEyesof thy Spirit fhall ftand open» then thou mu(t generate thtn0 elie thy Comprehend- bility isaFooliih Virgin, and it befalls thee as if a Limner fhould öfter to pourtray the Deity on a Ta- bic, and tell thee. It is made right, the Duty is juft fo.
I2£. Then the Believer and the Limner are both alike, both of them fee nothing but only wood and Colours, and the one blind leadcth the other; fure- ly thou art not to fight here with Beafts, but with Gods.
Now Obferve; «• 127. When the whole Deitie in this world mo- ved it felf to the Creation, then not onely the one gart did Move, and the other reft; but all flood joyntly in the CMobility, Even the whole Deep, fo far, as Lord Lucifer was King, and fo far as the place of h is Kingdom reach* d* and fo far as the Saliner in the L C IUI wrath-hre was kindUd.
128. The motion of the three Births lafted the length of fix D.iyes and Nights, wherein all the feitn Spirits ot God ftood in afuij moving Birth or Geni- ture, as alio the Beat tot thcfpirits 5 and ii\Q$#lk* T 1 1 2 Ur 5 o 3 Of the Third Day'. Chap.XXl, to of the Earth tUTYld about in that while, fix times in the great wliecljwhich wheel is the feven qualifying cr fountain fp'irits of God; and at each turning about, or Diurnal Revo'ution, there was generated a feverallpecial fabrickor H-or£,according to the innate Inftant qualifying or fountain ipirits.
12^. ForthcF/>/f qualLyingor fountain fpiri* is the Altringent5cold, iharpand hard Birth or Geni* ture3 and that belongetb to the firß Day in the Aftrall Birth or Gcniture, the Aftrologers call it the Satur- nine, which was performed on the Firft Day. For therein the hard dry lnarp Earth and Stones came to be: and were incorporated or compacted toge- ther, moreover then was alfo generated the flrong Firmament of Heaven j and the Heart of the feven fpirits of God ftood hidden in the hard ftiarpnefle.
130. Aftrologers appropriate or attribute the Se- cond Day to Solon the Sun, but it belongeth to Jspi* ter, to (peak of it Aftrologicaily: for on the J'econd Day the Light brake forth out of tne Heart of the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits through the' hard quality of the Heaven, and caufed a mitiga- tion or allaying in the hard water of the Heaven, and the light became joining in that rnecki efle and allay.
131. And then the meekneffe and the Hard wa- ter j'epar at ed themfelves afundcr, and the hardnerfc. remained in its hard place, as a hard Death, and themeekneife or foftneffe penetrated through the Hardnefle in the. power of the Light.
132. And this now is thtwAtey of Lirr, which is generated in the Light of God out of the hard Death.. And thus.thelight of God in thefoeet water.
of Chap.XXI. Of the Third Day] j q9 of Heaven brake through the aftringent and hard dark Death, and t\m the Heaven is made out of the m^ft er Center of the water.
133. The hard Firmament is the aftringent qua- lity, and ungentle Mild or meek firmament is the water, in wnich the Light of Life rifeth up, which is the (parity or 'Bright Light of the Sonne Of Cfod* And in this manner or- form alio tie k />ou lea^e, and the light of life rifeth up in Man, and the whole light of God in this world ftandeth infucb a Form, Birth.» and rifing up.
1 34. The Third Day is very rightly attributed to (Jlfars, becaufe it is a bitter, and afuriom raging and ftirring ipirit. In the third Revolution of the Earth the bitter quality rubb'd it felt with the aflringcnt.
Underhand this thing rightly.
135. When the Light in the fweet water did pe- netrate through theaftringent fpirit, then the fire- ßafh terrour or crack of the Light, when it kindled it felf in the water,^ rofe up in theaftringent and hard dead oua'itv^nd made all jr/Vyv/^trom thence exifted the JBatmljettygkeft, warmheartedneffe, £>i (tAdercy.
136. Now I fpeak here not cn°h of the Heaven above the Earth, but this ftirring and Birth or Ge- niturc was alfo/'/z the Earth and e-iery where.
137. But being, the heavenly fruits before che time of the wrath, fprung rp onely in this ftirring of the feven qualifying^r fountain fpirits, and vanifh'd oipaßed away again by their ftirring, and fo changed or 5 io The Geniture of the Starres, ■ Chap.XXlt.
or altered themfelves; therefore on the -third Day of the Birth or Geniture of the Creation, they fprung up alio through the ftirring of the fire-flam in the ailringent quality of the Earth.
138. And though indeed the whole Dity is in the Center of the Earth bidden^ yet the Earth could not for all that bring forth heavenly fruit, for the ailrin- gent quality had jhut and barred the hard Bolt of Death upon i^ and lb theH^art of the Deity re- mailed hidden in its meek and Light He aven.
13?. For the outcrmoft Birth is CSsXätUT6^ and that ought not to reach Back into cue Heart of God, neither can it, but is the Body, in which the qualifying or fountain fpirits generate tiemlelvesj and (hew forth and marufeft their ßirth or Geniture fy their fruits.
[The Two and Twentieth Chapter.
Of the Birth cr Geniture »f*the Starres, and Creation of the Fourth ^Day.
TT 1.
Ere now is begun the defcribing of the Aitrall Birth, and it ought well 10 be ob- urved, what the ßrft üäe of this Book meaneth, which is this Expreffed, The Chap.XXII. and Creation of the Fourth T>ay\ 5 1 X The %)ay-fpring or T> awning in the Eafl, or Mormng-^Redneffe in the fifing.
For here will a leryfiwple Man be able to fee and comprehend or apprehend the Being of God.
2. The Reader thould not make himfclf blind through his unbelief and dull apprehenfion.- for here 1 bring in the whole or Totall Nature with all her children, for a mtnefjc and demonstration. And if thou art rationall, then look round about thee, and view thy felf, alfo confider thy felf aright, and then thou wilt foon fnd from or out of what fpirit I write.
3. For my part, I will obediently perform' the command of the fpirit, onely have thou a care, and fuffer not thy fclf to bejhutupby or in an open Door.- for here the Gates of knowledge Hand open to thee.
4. And though the fpirit will indeed go againfl the Current of iome Aftrologers, that is no great matter to me, for I am bound to obey God rather then Men: they are blind in or concerning the fpirit,and if they will not fee, then they may remain blind fUll.
Now Observe: 5. Now when upon the Thirdly the fire-flafk rofe up out of the Light, which was lliining in the fweet water 5 which tiafh is the bitter quality, which, generated! it fclf out of the kindled terrour or crack, of fire in the water, 6. Then 5 I & fix Genitare of the Starres, Chap.XXII.
6. Then the wuole Nature of this world, became fprioging boy ling and moving in the Earth, as well as above the Earth, and every wtiere, and began to generate it -felt again in all things.
7. Out of the Earth fpruag up GrafTe, Herbs and Trees, and in the Eartn filver, gold, and all manner of Oar came to be ^ and in the Deep above the Earth fprung up the wonderful! forming of power and ver- tue.
8. But that thou mayeft underftand, what man- ner of Subfance and condition all thefe things and Births or, Genitures have, I will defcribe all orderly one after another, that thou mayft rightly under- ßand the G round oi this Myftery.
And I will treaty r. Of the Earth, 2. Of the Deep above the Earth.
3. Of tne incorporating or comparing of the Bodies ot the Stars.
4. Of the feven chief qualities of theT/d/z^and of their Heart, which is the Su&.
5. Of the Foxr Elements.
6. Of the outward comprehenfible or palpable Birth or Geniturc, which exifleth out.of this whole Regiment 5 or Dominion.
7. Of "the wonderful proportioning fitnefle or dexterity of the wnole wheel of Nature.
9. Before this Looking- GlafTe I will now invite all Lovers of the Holy and highly tobe Eftcemed Arts, of philofophyl Aftrelooy, and Theology } wherein I will Lay open the Root and Groundoi them.
io. Aud though I have nocftudicd nor learned tbtir Ghap.XXII. and Creation of the Fourth Daf. 5 1 3 their Arts, neither do I know how to go. about to meafure Circles and ufe their Mathematicall In- ftrnments and Compafles; I take no great care about that: However, they will have/b much to learn from hence, that many will not comprehend the ground thereof^ thedayes of their Lives.
i.i. For I ufe not their Tables Formula's or Schemes rulesand wayes,for I have hotlearnedfcom -thcm,buc I have another Teacher, or School-mafter, which is the whole or Totall NATURE.
12. From that ffrbole ^ättite^ together with its innate inftant Birch or Gcniture, have I ftu- died and learned my CPhilofopbie9 AfktQlogte and Theologie.) and not from Men, or by Men.
1 3. But being Men are Gods> and have the know- ledge of God the onely Father, from whom they are proceeded or defcended, and in whom they Live, therefore I defpife not the Canons Rules and Formu- la's of ^/VPhilofophie, Aftrologie and Theologie. For I find, that for the moft part they ftand upon a right Ground, and I will diligently endeazour3 to go according to their rulesand Formula's.
14. For I muft needs fay, that their Formula or Scheme is my mafter, and I have my beginning and firfl knowledge from their Formula or Pofitions.- neither is it my purpofe, to go about to amend or cry down theirs 5 for I cannot do it, neither have I learned them, but leave them {landing in their own Place and Worth.
1 5. But I will not build upon their Grounds,but as a laborious carefull fervant, I will diggzway the V v v Earth 5 * 4>. The Geniture of the Stars, Chap.XXIL Earth from the Root, that thereby men may fee the whole Tree with itsRoor,Stock, Branches, Twiggs and Fruits: And may fee that alfomy writing is no new thing, But that il-.eir Philofophie and my Phi- lofophie are one Body, one Tree, bearing one and the • fame fort of fruit.
i 6. Neither have I any command, to bring m com- plaints againft them, to condemn them, for any thing, but for their wi-.kednclfe and Abominations,, as Pride, CovetoufnenV, Envy and Wrath, againft which the fpirit of Nature complaincth very ex- • ceedingly, and not I: U r what can I do, that am pocr Dufi and si jh es, alfo very weak> fimplc and altoge- ther unable?
17. Onely the Spirit fheweth thus much, that to them is delivered and entruftcd the weighty Talent, and the Key,and they are drowned in the pleafurcsof the flefh, and bavc.iW^tbeir weighty Talent in, theEarth,and have faß the key in their proud Drun- kennefTe.
18. The fpirit hath a long time waited on them and importuned them, that they would once open the Door, for tj^e clear Dy is at Hand, yet they walk up and down in their Drunkennefle, feeking for the Key, when they have it about them, though they know it not; and fo they go up and down in their proud and covetous Drunkennefle, alwaies feeking about like the Country man for hishorfc3 who all tfot while he went a fcekirg for him, was riding up- on the Back of that very Horfe he looked for.
1 9. Thereupon faith the Spirit of Mature 0bein^ they will not awake from Chap.XXlI. and Creation of the Fourth Day. 5 1 5 from Sleep, and open the 'Door* I will therefore do it my felf 20. What could I fimple vulgar Lay Man teacl or write of their high Art, if it were not given to me by the Spirit of Nature, in whom I live and tarnet Wh * I am in the Condition or ftate of a vulgar or Lay- ^mj bt~ Man, and have no Salarie Wages or Pay for this writing: and fhould I then oppofc the Spirit, that He fhould not \egin to open, where and in whom he pleafeth? / Am not the Door* but an ordinary woodden Bolt up@n it: and now if che Spirit fhould pluck me eue from thence, and fling me into the Fire, could I hinder it } 2 1. But if I would be an unprofitable Bolt* which ftubbornly would refill to be puli'd out, and (hould bolt up and hinder the Spirit in the opening, would not the Spirit be angry with me3 tear me off, and caft me away, and provide a more profitable and a fitter Bolt > Then I fhould lye on the ground and be trampled under-foot, when as formerly I made fo fair a fhew upon the Door j what fhould f nil wood- den Barre then ferve for, but to be caft into she Fire and burnt?
32. Behold! I teil thee a Myftcry,fo foon as the Door is fet wide open to its Angle, all ufeleffe fa ft« nailed ftkking Bolts or Barres will be tafi way^ for the Door will never be (hut any more at all, but ftandeth open, and then the Four mwk will g© in and out ar it9 »3. But the Sorcerer fitteth in the way, and will make many /0 Blind, that they will net fee the Door: and then they return Home, and fay | there is no Door at all, but that it Is a meer Fi&iop, and fo they go thither no more, V v y % 14, Tlw* 51* The Genitun of the Surs* Chap.XXIL 24. Thus menfufferthemfelves eafily tobe turn'd away,and fo live in tkcir D/u/.kenneße.
25. And now when this is done, then the Spirit is angry, which hath opened the Gates, becaufe none will go OUT and IN at its Doors any more, and then it flings the Door-Pofts into the AbyflTe, and then there is no ri c/e Time at all: thofe that are within, remain withirj and thofe that, are without, re- main without. AMEN.
Now. it may be- disked %: What are the Stars?
Anfwer.
2 6, iMofes writeth concerning them thus: And Godfaid^ Let then bf Lights in the Firmament of Hea- ven,to divide or diflinguijh the Day from the Night: and let them give figns and feafons, Dayes and Tears: and let them be Lights in the firmament of Heaven to jhine or give light upon the Earth> and it was fo done. And God made two great Lights-: the greater Light to rule the ~Day> and the leßer Light to rule the Night -, as alfo the Stars. And God f et them in the Firmament of the Hea- ven, to jhine or give Light upon the Earth: and to rule Day, and Nighty alfo to divide or diflinguijh the Light from the Darknejje, and God j aw that it was goody fo out of the Evening and the Morning the fourth day came to, bey Gen. 1. v. 1 4., 1 5, 16, 1 7,1 8, 1 9,.
27. This defcription lTiewethfufficiently,that the Dear man Mofes was not the original Author there- of: for the firft writer thereof did not know either the true God, or the Stars, what they were. And it Is very, likely, that the Creation,befcre the Flood>was.
not.
Chap.XXIL and Creation of the Fourth Day. 5*17 not described in writingjzut was kept as a Dark word in their memories, and fo delivered trom one gene- ration to another, till after the Flo jd, and till people began to lead Epicurean Lives, in all voluptuouf- nejje.
z8. And then the Holy Tatriarchsy when they fa w thaty. they deferi bed the Creation, that it fhould not be quite forgotten, and that the fwinity Epicwcan world might have a Looking-Glafle in the Creati- on, wherein they might fee, that there is a God, and that this Bccing of the world did not fo ftand from Eternity ^ whereby they might have a GlafTe to look into, and (ofear the Hidden God, 29. And it was the Chief eft Iuftru&ion and Do- Srineoi the Patriarchs before and after the Floud> that they led Men to the Creation:. as the whole book of Job alfo doth drive at That.
30. After thele Patriarchs came the wife Hea- thens, who went fomewhat deeper into the know- ledge of '.Nature: and I.muft needs fay, accordingto the Groundof the Truth, that they in their Philo- fophie and Knowledge did come even before the face or Countenance of God, and yet could neither fee nor know Him.
3 1. Man was fo altogether Dead in Death, and fo bolted up in the outermoft Birth or Geniture in the dead Palpability • or elfe they could have Thought, that in this Palpability, there muft needs be a Divine power hidden in the Center, which had fo created this Palpability, and moreover prefervetn uphold- cth and ruleth the fame.
32. Indeed they honoured prayed to or worfhip- ped the Sun and Stars for Gods, but knew not how they were created or came ta be 5 or out of what they.
c. The Ceniture of the Starret) Chap.XXlL hey came tobe.* for they Might well have thought, that they proceeded from fomewhat, and thatvrtaf, which created them,mult needs be Older and high- er or Greater then all the Stars, 33. Befides, they had the Stones and the Earth for an Example, to lhew, that they muft proceed from fomewhat, as alfo Men and a»Ü the Creatures upon the Barth. For all give teßimon^ that there muft need* be in thefe things a mightier and greater Pow» er at hand which hadfo created all thefi things, in that manner, as they are.
34. But indeed why fhould I write much of the klwmtße of the Heathens, are note«? Dolors in their Crowned Ornaments of Hoods and Corner'd» Caps, of blind as they I They know indeed that there is a God, who hath created all this, but they know not3 where that God is, or how he is.
35. When they would write of God, then they feek for him without, and abfent from this world^one- ly above in a kind of Heaven, of if he were fome Image,thatmay be likened to fomewhat • Indeed they grant, that. That God ruleth all in this world, with a Spirit; but his corporeal propriety or habitation they will needs have in a certain Heaven aloft many Thoufand Miles off, i6. Come on ye fDo&orsi if ye are in the Jfyghtjhen give anfwer to the Spirit: 1 mil m\you a few QueftiOflS- 0 l°* What do you think flood in the Place oi this wörld^before the Time of the world? Or i\ Out of what do you think the Earth and Stars came Chap.XXH. And Creation of the Fourth Day. 5 1 $ came to be? Or, 30. what do you think there is in the Deep of the Earth? Or, 40. From whence did the Deep exift? Or, 50. How do you think Man is the Image of God,whcrcin Goddwelleth? Or <5°.What do you fuppofe Gods wrath to be? Or, 70. What is that in man which difplcafeth God fo much, that he •tormenteth andafflicteth man fo, being he hath crea- ted Wim? And 8°. that he imputeth Sinne to Man,and condemneth him to eternal Punifhment? $°, Why hath he created that, wherein or wherewith Man committed! fin? Surely that thing rrmft be far #>or/>: 1 o0. Wherefore and cut of what, is that come to be? Or 1 1°. What is the caufe, or the beginning, cr the Birch and Geniturc of Gods fierce wrath3omoi or from which. Hell and die Devil, are come tobe? Or, 1 20. How comes it*> that all the creatures in this world \!obite, fcratch, ftrike, beat and worry one another, and yet fin is imputed onely to Man? Or, 1 30. Out of what are Poifonous and venomous Beafts and worms, and all manner of Vermine ccme tobe? Or i/\o,Out of what are the holy Angels come to be? And 1 ^ojyh&t is the Soul of Man? And laftly, i6°. irhat is the (jreat GOD Himfelf?
37. Give your dirC'di and j^c/atnental anfwer to tiiis, and demonlltate what you fay,' and leave off your Verbal Contentions.
Now if you can demonftrate out ofriJ your books and writings, i°. -t)\ax you knob the true and- onely God; and 2 °. How he is in Love and Wrath: Alio, 1°. what that God is? and 40. if you can demon- ftrate, that God is not in the Stars, Elements, Earth, Men, Beafts, Worms,Leaves, Herbsand Gräfte, ai- fo.in Heaven and Earth 5 alio that ail this is not God Himlelf,, Himfclf, and that my fpirit is /<*//<? and wicked-^ then /will be the firft, \that will ä/z my book in the Fire 5 and recall and recant &ll whatfoever I have wriicea, and will accurte it,.and: in alfc^obcciience muingly fubmit my felt' to be inftru>ied&yjo«.
38. I do not lay, that! cannot erre at all. For there are lbme things, which are notfußicieatly decla- red, and are defcribed as if it were from a Glimpfe ofc the great God, when the wheel of Nature whirl'd abomtoofwiftly, fo that Man with his hall dead and dull capacity or apprchenfion cannot fuffieientfy comprehend« 5 but what thou findefc mi' [ufiiciently declared in one place3 thou wilt £nd it done in an- otherjif not in th is,y et in the other Books.; ■ v- Now thou mit fay; It doth not become me, föask /Wfc.Queftions: for the faith is a Myr^ery, Which no *A»[wefm 19. Hearkens If it doth not become me to ask^heij k doth riot become thee to ffttdzC fH6€f Doft thou boaft in the knowledge of the Light, and art a L,6du€? of ^ 1C blind, and yet art £//W thy thy felf? How wilt thou fhew the way to the blind? muft ye pot both fall, in your blindneile > ■•" - But Chap.XXII. and Creati$n of the Fourth Daf. 52 1 But you mil fay: We arc not Blind: for we well fee the way of Light, though none cm fee it rightly.
40. Ye teach others the way, and you are alaraies fceking after it your felvcs; And fo you grope in the dark3sind difcern it not! Or do you fuppofe, that it is Sin, for any Man to Rafter the way > 4t. 0 ye blind JSden \ leave off your contentions \ and fhed not in- nocent bloody alfo do not lay Waße Countries and Qities, to fulfill the ^Devils ypill; but put on the HeU met of Teace 0 Qirt jour f elves with Love one to another, and pra&ife Meeknejfe: Leave off Pride and Qovetoufnejfe, (jrutch not the different forms of one an- othera alfofuffer not the Wrath- fire to kindle in you, but live in ^Kieekneffe, Chaftity, Friendli- neffe and ^Purity 9 and then you are and live ALL in (jod.
X x x 42. Fcr 42. For thouneedeiW to Ask; Where Ü C/Oul Hearken thou Blind M. m: thou liveft in See the God, and God is in thee, and if thou liveft holily,thcn i4.Chap. therein thou thy fclf arc God: For wherefoever chou I27verie.l00keft thcrcisGod. ■ 43. Wr.cn thou bcholdcft the I>f^ betwixt the Stars and the Earth, C^/./f thou fay, that is not God, or, there God is mt? O, thou miferable corrupted man! Be inftruded; for in the Deep above the Earth, where thou {cell and kno weft nothing, and fay ft, there is nothing, yet even there is the Light- Holy God in hisTrinitic, and is generating there 9 as well as in the high Heaven aloft above this world.
44. Or doft thou think, that he departed and went away from his feat wherein he did fit from eternity, in or at the time 3i trrc Creation of this world? O no; thatcavnotbes for though He would himfelf do fo. He cannot do ir^ for he himfelf is All: And as little as a member of the Body can be rent off from hfelf, fo little can God alfo.be *foiWr«^au or />/><*- YAted from Being E 1 em ybet •..
45. But that there arc fo many Formings figu- rings or framings in him, is cauled L\y his Internal!. Birth orGenkure, which firftis Threefold, and out of or from that Trinitie, or Tcrnaric,. it gencrateth it fclf infinitely or immensely unconceiveably.- 4<£» Of thefe Births or GenituresI will here write, and fhew to the children of the laft world, whflt God i$0 mt out of any Boafting or Pride, there- by to difgrace or reproach any böäy! No; the Spi-> ric will inftruct thee meekly and friendly, as a Fa- ther doth his children; for the work is not from my inmc.
Chap.XXIL nAd Creation of the Fourth ^af 5 2 3 twyflcflily Reafon, but the Höh Ghofls^orthtK^ deäT J\eveldttOft0 ov freaking through in flcA.
the Flcfli.
47. In my cbt* faculties or powers I am <y> blind a Mwßs ever was,& am able to do nQthing,buc in the Spirit of God^y * innate -fttrit ßeth thrOttgk \SX|£J ALL/5 but not alwaies with long Stay or Con- [h^'rege* tinuancc, onely when the Spirit of Cods Loze break-?eratcd in eth thorough my fpirit, then is the animated or fou- Itßj Birth or Geniturc and the Deity one Being, one Com prehenlibility, and one Light.
48. Am I alone onely (o? No,.but All Men are fo, be they Chriftians, |ews, Turks or Heathens; in rvhomfoever Love and Meckncffe is, in them is alto the ■Light of God.
// thou.fayß, No, this is not fo: Consider, 49. Do not the Turks, Jcws,and Heathens the in the fame Body, or Corporeity, wherein thouliveft, and make ufe of that power and vertue of the fame Body, which thou ufeft, moreover they have even the (ame Body, which thou haft, and the fame God^ which is thy God, is their God alfo.
But thou wilt fay 1 Xhev know him not j alfo they honour him not.
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-J 5$i Y^DearMari, now^bpaft4thxfo)f that thou ha^Jhitife well • tux knowejl God indeed above <^1rs/Beno^d\thouäftili ^'an, where ever Love rifethup inMeekneu^ there^c tfeArt.of God rifcth up, For the Heart of God is generated in\hc meek water of the kindled Light, be it in Man, or any where elfe without Man, it is every where generated in the Center, between the outermoft and innere molt Birth or Geniturc.
, 5 1. And whatfoe\ er thoi* doft but look upon, there is God, but the comfrebenftbility ftandeth in this WP*id, in^he wrath, which the Devil hatfi kindled; %nd in.th^ hidden kernel in the rnidlt or center of the wrath the light or Heart of God is generated, ifr- tfmj>r*he#fi6ty as to' the wrath, and fo each of them f emaineth in its Scar.? flI w^i^q Jwb 52. Yet for aÜ that, I do no ttky: approve or ex- cufe the Unbeliefottht Jews, Turks and Heathens, and their ftirf-necked flubbornoefley and their fierce wrath, furious malice and ^(Wafainft the Chri- ltiaas.. No j thefe things are weer Snares ©f the •Djevü> whereby he VW/bMeh to Pride, Co vetöuf- nefie, Envy and Hatred, that he may kindle in them -the hellifh fire: neither can I fay, that thefe four fens of the Devil are not domineering in Chriftertdome, nay indeed in every Man, ' ' not fee jj tWjh %e blind*