14. They are the power of the feven Spirits of God: for when the wrath of c?od, was kindled by the Devil, in this world, then the whole Houfe of this world in Nature or the outermoft Birth or Geniture was as it were benumm'd or chilled in Death, from whence the Earth and Stones are come to be. But when this hard drofie or Scum was driven together into a Lump or Heap, then the Deep wasclear'd,but was very dark, for the light therein was dead in the wrath.
15. But now the Body of God, as to this world, could not remain in Death, but God moved himielf with Chap.XXIV. Of the incorporating of the St Art. j £p with his. feven qualifying or fountain fpirirs to the Birth or Gcniturc. ■ 'But thou mufl underßand thb high thing rightly: 16. The L/^kofGod, whichisthe^o/z^ofGod, as alio the Holy Ghoft^/V^ »of, but the Light,which is gone forth from or out of the heart of God from eternity, and hath enlightncd Nature, which is gene- rated out of the feven ipirits, that is departed or gone away from the hard corrupted Nature -y from whence k is that the Nature of this world with its compre- henfibility or palpability hath remained in Death, and cannot apprehend the Light of God, but is a dark Houfe of Devils.
17. Upon this On the fourth Day of the Creation. C7od regenerated anew the whole Hotifcof this world with the qualities thereof, and hath placed or fet tre qualifying or fountain fpirits in the Houfe of Dark- neflfe, that he might generate to himfelf again out of that, a nenr Body, to his praife honour and cJlory.
1 8. For his purpofc was to create another Angeli- cal Hoaft or Army3out of thisHoufe^ which was thus tobe done: He would create an Angel, which was Adam^wY.o fhould generate out of himfelf Creatures like himfelf, which lbould poffeflfe the Houfe of the New Birth, and in the middleof Time, their King fhould be generated or born out of a Humane Body, and pofleflethe new-born Kingdom as a King of thefe Creatures, inftead of the corrupted and expelL'd Lu- cifer.
19. And at thcfulne/Jecr accompliihmentof this Time, c?od would adorn and Trim this Houfe with its qualities, as a Royal Government, and let thofe D d d d very 5 7° Of we Incorporating of the Stars. Chap.XXlV.
very qualifying or fountain fpiritsfo/V/j^the whole Houfe, that they might in that Houfe of darkaeflc and of Death, bring forth Creatures and Images again, as they had done from eternity, till the accom- plifhment or fulfilling of the whole Hoaftor Army, of the new created Angels, which were Men: And Then^God would bolt and barr up the Devil in the Houfe of darkneffe in an eternal Hole, and then •kindle the whole Houfe in its own Light again, all but the very Hole Hell or Dungeon of the Devils.
Now it may be Asked; Why did not God bolt him up inftantly, and then he had not done fo much mifchief?
jivfwer, 20. Behold [ this was Gods purpoft,and that muft üandyivhich isy he would re-edifie out of the corrupt- ed Nature of the Earth, or build again to himfelf an Angelical Hoaftor Army: Underftand, viz,, a true Body, which fhould Subfift eternally in God.
2 1. It was not Gods intention at all to let the De- vil have the whole Earth for an eternal dwelling houfe, but onely the Death and ßerceneße of the Earth, which the Devil had brought into it.
22. For what fin hath the Saliner committed againft God, that it ihould ftand totally in Eternal fhame? None j Ic was onely a Body, which muft hold ftill, when the Devil elevated or fwelled him- felf therein.
2 3. Now if He lliould have inftantly left it to the Devil for an Eternal dwelling Houfe, then out of that place a New Body could not have been built.' Now what Sin had that fpace place or Room com- mitted Chap.XXIV. Of the IncöYpovAtingof the Start] tfl mitted againft God, that it fhould ftand in eternal Shame? None: and therefore that were unequAÜ to befo.
2 4. Now the purpofe of God was, to make a cu- rious excellent Angelical Hoaftor Army out of the Earthy and all manner of Ideas forms or Images. For, in and upon that all fhould Spring, and gene- rate themfelves anew, as we fee in mineral Oares, Stones, Trees, Herbs and Grafle, and all manner of Beads 5 after a heavenly Image or Form.
25. And though thofe Imagings were tranfitoryy being they were not pure before God, yet God would at the End of this time, extrail and draw forth the Heart and the kernel, out of the new Birth or Geni- ture, andfeparate it from Death and Wrath, and the new Birth (hould Eternally fpring up in God, without, dißinü from this place, and bear Heavenly fruits again.
2 6. But the death of the Earth and the wrath therein fhould be Lord Lucifers eternal Houfe, after the accomplifhingof the new Birth or Geniture: in the mean while Lord Lucifer fhould lie captive in the Darkneffe in the Deep above the Earth; and there he is now, and may very fhortly expect his Portion.
27. And that this New Birth or Geniture might be accomplished, whether the Devil will or no, the Creator hath therefore in the Body of this world ge- nerated himfelf, as it were creaturely in his qualify- ing or fountain fpirits, and all the Stars are nothing elfe but Gods powers, and the whole Body of this world confifteth in the feven qualifying or fountain fpirits.
2 8.Butthat there arefo many Stars of fo manifold different effects and operations, it is from the Infi- Dddd 2 Mtexefje, 572 Of the incorporating of the Starrs. Chap. XXIV.
* InfeBion niteneße, which is in the * efficiency of the fcaven or Afiett- fpirks of God, in one another, which generate then*- ifigu felves infinitely.
29. But that the £irth or the Bodp of the Starrs doe not change or alter in their feat, but do as they did from eternitic, it fignifycth that there (hall be a conftant continued Birth or Geniture, whereby the tenumm'd Body of the Earth ihould continually and csnßantly, in one uniform operation, which yet itand- eth in the infinitencfle, be kindled ag aine, and gene- rate it fclfe anew, and fo alfo fhould the Houfe of darknefle of the Deep above the Earth; whereby the new Body might continually and conftantlybe generated out ol Death, till time fhould beatcom- pliihedj and the whole new borne Body.
Now thou wilt objeR and fay.
Then Aire the Starrs are God, and they mud be honoured and worfhipp'd as God?
30 »The- wife Heathen alfo came to mis who indeed' in their (harp or accute understandings idiX. excelled ourPhilofophers,but x\\q right Door of knowledge hath remained yet hidden to them.'
13. Behold! the Starrs are plainly incorporated or compaHedout of or from God, but thoumuft un- derftand' the difference between them:f or, they are not the Heart, and the meek pure Deitie, which man h^to honour and worfhip as God ^ ^ut they are.the innermoft and fharpeft 5irth or Geniture, wherein all things ftand in wreftling and j;^//W3wherein the Heart of God alwaies generateth k felt, & the Holy Ghoft continually rifcth up from the rifing of theLife* 32. ^ut'th^iliarp^ifth or Geniture of the Starrs cannot Cha-p.XXlV. Of the incorporating oftheSiarrS. 5 73 cannot apprehend the Heart of God again, nor the HolyGhoft; but the Light of God, which rilethup in the anxiety jogethcz with the moving of the Holy Ghoflremaineth/w to itfelfas the Heart, and ru- Ieth in the mid'ft or center of the flofure of the hid- den Heaven, which is from or out of the Water ot Life.
33. For from the Heaven the Starrs have their firfl kindling, and are onely as an infirument, which God ufeth to the #irthor< Geniture.
It is Juft fuch a #irth,as is in Manche Body ise v:-n tYie Father o£ the foule,,and when the Body ftandeth in the anguifhing #irth or ejenitureoi God, as the Starrs doe, and not in the fierce helliin ßirth, then the foul of Man qualifieth mixcth or unitetb with the pure Dcitic, as a Member in or of his Body.
35. Thus alio is the Heart or Light of God al- waies generated in the #ody of this world, and that generated Heart is one Heart with the eternal be- ginninglefTe infinite Heart of God 3 which is in and above all Heavens.
3 6. It is not only generated in and from the Starrs, bnt in the whole Body of this world, but the Starrs alwaies kindle the Body of. thjs VVorld, that the ftixth or Geniture may Cub Cii\ every where: But here thou muß well obferve thif*, 37. Thetight or the Heart off/od taketh«^it& or iginal,barely from the wild rough Starrs, where indeed Love and wrath are one in another, but our of or from the Seat where the meek water of Life is continually, generated.
38, For. that water/, at or. in thekindling of the wrath.
574 Of the Incorporating of the Stars. Chap.XXIV.
wrath was not apprehended by Death, but fubfift- eth from eternity to eternity, and reacheth to all" the Ends and Parts of or in this world, and is the WCiter Of Life, which breaketh through Death, out of vvnich the new Body of God in this- world is built.
$$. But it is /«the Stars as well as in all Ends co ners and places, but not in any place, compre- henfibleor palpable, but fillethor replcnifheth all alike at once: It is alio in the Body of Man, and he that thirtieth after this water, and dri,.keth thereof, in him the light of life ^indleth it felfo which is the heart of God, and there pre- fentiy fpringeth forth, the Hply Ghoft.
Now thou Ash eft \ How then do the Stars fubfift in Love and Wrath?
sAnfveer.
40. Behold! the Stars are rifen or proceeded out t the firftin- 0f the Kindled Houfe of Gods wrath, as the f mobi- 5t£?*.ltty or ilirring of a Child in the Mothers Body or the Chad. Womb in Tnree ** Months: But now they have • asGenj8, attained their kindling from the eternal benummed *4. water of Life, for that water in Nature was neier dead.
41. But when God moved himfelfintheBodyof this world, then on the third Day the anxiety, in the- birth of this world rubbed it feif, from whence the firt-flaihexifted,and the light of the Stars kindled it felf.in the water of Life.
42. For C hap.XXI V. Of the Incorporating sf 'the Stars. 575 42. For till the third Day from the time of the kindling of Go. s wrath in this world. Nature in the anxiety was a dark valley, and flood in Death, but on the third Day the life brake through Deaths and the New Birth began.
43. For folong, and not an hour longer, the newborn King and Qrand^Prince of this World, jesus christ, retted W \Deäth0 and hath born or generated the firß three Dayes of the Creation of Nature, and that very Time; in Death to Light again, that this time might again beo^Time witn the Eternal Time, and that no Day of Death might be between: and that the Et. rnal Love, and the new born or Regene- rated Love out of the new Body of Nature might htone Eternal Loie, and that there might be /<* difference between the eternal Love, and the new- born or regenerated Love, but that the new-born Love might reach into the Being or Subitance, which was from Eternity, and it [elf alio be in Eternity.
44. Thus the new-born Love, which role out of the water of Life in the light in the Stars, and in the whole Body of this world, is wholly bound and uni- ted with the eternal beginninglefie infinite Love,fo that they are one Heart and one Spirit, which fup- porteth and preferveth all» 45. In this kindling of the Light in the Stars and Element?, the Birth of Nature did not thereupon. wholly trar.fnute or change it felf into the holy Meck- nefle, as it was before the Time of the wrath, fa that the Birth of Nature is now altogether l.oly and (ttre 5 No> but it ftandeth in its fharpelt, aultereft* and V7& Of the Incorporating of the Stars. Chap.XXIV, and raoft anxrous Birth, wherein the wrath of God unceßantly fpringeth up-like hellifh-Fire.
46. For it* Nature had fully chang'd it (elf with its fharp Birth intoLovc, accordi; g tothe heavenly Rigi)t Law or Manner, then were the Devils again in the Seat of God.
47i And this thou mayft very well perceive and underftand in Extream Heat and Cold, as alfo by the PoHon, Bitternefle and Sowrnefle in this world -y all which (land in the Birth or Geniture of the Stats? wherein the Devil Jyeth Captiie, 48. The Stars are onely the kind'ingof the great Hoüfe: for the whole hoiiie is t enumm'd in Death, as che Earth is, for the ouiermoft Birth or Genitüre is^f^/andbenumm'd, as the Rind Shell or Bark of a Tree: but the Aftral birth is the Bo y in which the Life rifeth up* . 49. Buc it is in its Body very lharp, yet the new Birth, which rifeth up in the water of Life, and prefTerh through Death, mitigatetb it. But it cannot alter the kernel of the iharp Birth, but is generated out of h>and keeps its holy new life to it felf,and pref- fech through the angry Death, and the angry D^ath comprehendeth it not.
50. Now this love and wrath is indeed one Bo- dy, but the water of Life is the heaven of Partition between them, fo that the Love doth not receive or comprehend theWrath,nor the wrath theLove,but the Love rifeth «/>in the water of Life, and receivcth into it felf from the Earth and auftere Birth, the few r, which is in the Light, which is generated out of the Wrath; fo that, the New Body is born out of the OH.
51. For the old Body, which ftandeth in the äußere tfirth, Chap.XXIV. Of the Intoryomingof the Stars. %Jf Birth, belongeth to the Devil for a Houfe, and the new belongeth to the Kingdom or Chrift.
Now it may be Asked: Are not all the Three Perfons of the Deitie in the Birth or Geniture of Mceknelkjin cms World?
Anfwer.
52. r«, they are all three in this world in the full Bixth or Geniture;of Love, nueknefle, Holincilc and purity, and tney are älwaies generated in fuui äiuWta'nce and 8 ei g,as was done from Eternity.
53. Bihol i! God t.icFitl er Spake to the People of llraci on Mou u Sinai, w.en ne. pave the Law to them, faying, I am an dnyry \ea1otis or fealom C/od to tbofe, that hate me, Exod.io.j. Deut.f p.
54. Now tioucanitnot make oi tnis One onely' Father, who is both Angry and alio full of Love, two Period, but he is one onely Father^ w ikh con- tinually generateth his heard!y beloved Sonne, and from Doth thefc the Holy Ghofi goeth forth continu- ally.
Observe the depth in the Center, 55. The Father is the One one'y being-, whohim- felf is ALL 5 wlioco.itinuillygenir.ivt 1 his hear- tily belove-i Smne trom etc r i;ty,and in both of them ti.e Holy Gfrofi is continually Handing in the Fiafhj wherein the Life is Generated, y6. But now from the attfttre ad eatneli Bin.' or Eeee Geniiure 57$ Of the incorporatingaf the Stars Chap.XXlV.
Geniture of the qualify ing or fountain fpirits of the Father,'whcrein the Zealeor Jealoufy and the wrath ftandeth5the Body of Nature alvvaies cometh tobe, wherein the Light of the Sonne, viz: of the Fa- thers Heart ftandeth, incomprehensibly as to Na- ture, 57. For the light is in the Midft or Center of the .Birth or Geniture, and is the place of Life, wherein the meek Life of God is generatedfrom or out of all the powers of the Father, and in the fame place the Holy Gfoft goeth forth from the Father and the t Sonne.
5 8. Now thofe powers of the Father, which ftand Inthe kindling of the Light, are the hoty Fa- ther 0 and the meekFather 0 and the pure "Birth or Cjeniture of CjOU 5 and the Spirit, which rifeth therein^ is the holy Ghoft 5 but the (harp Birth or <7enitufeis the Body, wherein this Holy Life is continually genera- ted.
59. But when the Light of Godfhineth through this (harp Birth or e7eniture3 then itbecometh very meek, and is as it were like a Man that is a fleep, in whom the Life fliä movetb, and the Body is in a fweet quiet reft.
60. And in this Body of nature now was the kindling made, for out of this Body the Angels alfo were created; and itthey had not elevated and kind- led themfelves in their HighmindednefTe; then their Body might have flood eternally in aßilLeße and in an incomprehensible meekneffe, as it is in the tiher Principalities of Angels that are without,diftinä ftincVfrom this world, and their ipirit had genera- ted ic felt' eternally in their Body oi mceknelfe, as che holy Trinitie doth in the Body or Corporeity of Gud, and their inborn or/W^dpirit had been onetiearc, one Will, and one Love with or in the Holy irini- ty: for to that end alio they were created in che Bj- dy oi God, to be a. joy to the Deitie.
6 1. But Lord Lucifer^ would bimfelfe be the M igh- ty God, and kindled his Body, and excited or Jiirred up therein the (hasp Birth of God, and oppofed the Light or bright Heart of God, in tending to rule there- in wich his fharpnefle, which was a thing impofli- ble to be done.
62. But being he elevated and kindled himfelf againft the Right of the Deitie, thereupon the fharp Birch in the Body of the Father rofe up againft him: and took him as an angry Sonne Prifoner or Captive 3 in the iharpeft Birch, and therein now is his eternall Dominion, 63. But now when the Father kindled himfelf in the Body of the {harpnerTc ^ he did n$t for all that kindle the holy foirce, wherein hismoft lovingHeart genera tech ic fclf, and fo thereupon his Heart fhould fit in the lource of wrath. No! that is impoffible thaticihouldbe, for the fharp Birch cannot appre- hend the holy and pure Birth, but the holy and pure preffeth quite through the fharp, and genera- te h to it fclf a new Body, which ftandeth again in meeknefTe.
*4- A"d that new Body is the WAlCY öf JLtjC which is generated when the light pre (Teth tbr&u^hUiC wrath., and the holy Ghoft is the Former or i ram er therein: but He ven is the Partition be- E e e e 2 tween 580 of the Incorporating of the Stars. Chap.XXIV.
twecn love and wrath > and is thefeat> wherein the wrath is tranfmuted or changed into Love.
£5. Now when thou beholdeft the Sun and Stars, thou mull not think, that they are the Holy and pure God, and thou muft not o$er to pray to them or aske any thing of them, for they are not the Holy God,. but are the kindled äußere hirth or Genitureof his Body, wherein Love and Wrath wrefiU one with another.
66. But the holy Cod is hidden in the Centn of all thefe things in his Heaven, and thou canft neither fee nor comprehend him, but the /W comprehended!, him, and the Aftral Birth but half, for the Heaven, is the Partition between Love and Wrath: That lieaven is every where, even in thyfelfe..
67. And now when thou worfhippeft or prayeft to. the Holy God in his Heaven then thou worfhippeft or prayeft tohim, in that heaven, which is in thee, and that fame God with his light 5 and therein the holy Ghoft break eth through in thy Heart, and gencratcth *o New ^ Soil^ ZQ ^c * a Nevv Body of G^d, which ruleth Divine Jfrdi anc* raigneth with God in hü Heaven» £8. For the earthly Body, which thou beared,, is oncBody with the whole kindled tfodyofthis world and thy body.qualify eth mixeth or united j with the whole body ol this world j and there is no difference between the Stars and the Deep, asalfo the Earth and thy Body j it is all one Body; - This is the only difference; thy Body is a Sonne of the whole 5 and is in it felf as the whole Being it felfe, is.
69. And now as the new Body of this world ge-*. ncrateth it felfe in its Heaven, fo the new man ak- fogenerateth himfelfe in his Heaven, for it is all' but 00t Heaven, wherein. Cod dwelled), and therein thy Chap. XXlV Of the incorporating of the Siarrs. r #1 thy new man dweileth, and they canr*ot be divided afunder.
70. But if thou art wicked, then thy Birth or Ge- niture is not capalle of Heaven, but of the wrath, and remained! in the other part of thcAftral Birth or Geniture, wherein the earned and äußere fire-fource rileth up, and bolts it up into Death, 10 long, till thou breäkeft through Heaven, and Uzejt with God.
71. For inftead of thy Heaven the u haft the wrath- Devil fitting there 5 but if thou break eft thorough, then he mutt get him gone,and the Holy Ghoft ruletrj and reignexh inf/.tffSear, and in the other Pare itz. the fiercencfie,the Ötvil ten>pte;h'ihee^ for it is his Neft, and the Holy Gi;ofk oppofeth him, and the new man lyeth in his own Heaven hidden under the pro- tection of theHoly Gl.of 3and the Devii knoweth r.cc the New man, for he is not in hin Houfe, but in Hea- ven, in the Firmament of God.
72. This I write as a JVord^ Which is (jener at ed in its Heayen, Inhere tJye Holy'Deity alwaiesge- nerateth it felfc and where the moving fpirit rifeth up in the Flafh of Life 5 even there thisr Word and this knowledge is gene- rated^ andrifenupin the LoTe?- fire through the Zealous fpirit of- (god.
73.1 5 8 2 Of the incorporating of the Starres. C hap.XXlV.
73. I know very well, what the Devil intended for, that Part of the earned and äußere Birfti or Gc- niturc, wherein Love and wrath are let oppofite one to another, /"m/; into his \cry Heart. For when he conieth wi*n hi- fur.e and f.ellifh Temptation, like a fawning Dogg, then i,e feJLtetb upon us with his wrath in that part, wherein the auftcre Birch or Gc- niiure ftandetn, and therein the Heaven is let in op- position to him, and tiiere the fair Bnde is known.
74. For he tlir.geth t! rough ttit Old Man, with an intent, to fpoy! or ceftroy the Nen -, but when the new rifeth againit him, ti -en t: e Hcii-Hound rai- reth, and then the new Man fe 'letb very well, wnat device the Hell-1 cm d. ath. arrcdorfpit into t. e aural Binh, and then is it time to Purge and fcour it out.
75. But I find, that the cunning ft Devil! is (et againit me, he will raife {corners and mockers, who will fay, that 1 intend oy mine own conceit to grope, dig deep and learcn out tie Deiri". Yes,Mr.Scorner, thou art indeed ai o'edie t (on co tne Devil, thou haft great cauiece nvoek Go's children, <# if /were alle in mine own power co tat. om cue depth of the Dekie., No 1 bu; che Deitie fearcneth uie Ground i. me 1 Or,dofttti u think, tt.at 1 am fuong enough to fhnd againit t?
j 6. Indeed thou p-oW Man, God is a cry meek, fimpie ani cuiiet ftili peeing, and groapeth not in the Bottom oi Hell and D^at,., but //, Us Heaven, where there isnotning, bu an Unarwraous meek- niffe: th; r lore it is not then for meto dofo.
77. But behold! it is not I that have made way fcr tias,Unti y df fire and nighly railed lofty Luft, ha..:. mo\ed tiitDeitie) to repeal to thee the defire of thy Chap. XXV. Of the »bole Afral Body of the Stars. 583 thy Heart in the higheft Jimpluity inthe greatefl depths that icmay be a witnefle againit thee, and denun- ciation oi the earned ievcre Day oi God; 78. Tim I fpeak^ to thee as a Word of the earnefl Severity of Qod, which ü generated or horn in the Fl aß of Life.
The Five and Twentieth Chapter.
Of the whole "Body of the Stars Birth or Cjeniture0 that is 0 the Whole Äftrologie, or the whole Body of this World.
1.
THc learned and highly experienced Maßers 01 Aftrology or the Starry Arc, are come io high and deep in their underitanding, that tri ey know the courfe and Eßefts of the Stars, what their conjunction, * influence and brea- # 'mre%ion king through ot'ti.eir powers, and venues denotcth, and produced^ and How thereby wind, rain, (now and $84 A9f%* »hole Afiral Bodyt of the Stars. Chap. XXV * Good Hap, and heat is caufed,alfo Good andEvill, *£rofpcri- VadHap: ty and Adveriity, Life and Death, and all the dri- Cjeod Ltul^ vlngS an(^ AgjtOiUQfySy'm this world. **L«fffr 2# And iiidecd it hath a v^ foundation' which I Mfchicfs, know m tiie ^P1^1* > to DCJfo > bur cneirkno\yledge ftandeth onely in t »eHouie oi Beath in the out- ward coniprciienftbili.y or pilpability, and in the beholding with the -Eyes of aic B&dj % but the root oithifTree hath hitherto remained hidden to them.
3. Neither bit my purpofe, to write of the Breaches' oi the Tree, and to invert or diiprove their knowledge j neither do I build upon theii Ground, but I leave t. eir knowledge to jit in its own feat, be- ing I have not ftudyed it * tut I write in the fpirit of my knowledge concerning the coot -iiock Branches and Fruits of the Tree j a^ anindulirious and laborious Set vant to./;«- Maftcr j in difcovering the whole Tree 01 tni> world.
4. -Not with an intent to fet any new thing on foote, for I Lave 00 command to do fo, but my knowr ledge ftanieth in thi B jtu orGeaiture of thenars, in the Midtt 01 Gcnteiywhcre the Life is generated, and breaketh through D^atn,and where the moving fpi- rit exiftetnand breaketh thorough, and in the. im» pulfe and moving thereof, I alfo write.
5. Alio 1 know very well, that the Children of the fiefh will fcome and mock at rae, and fay, 1 fhould tüisk to my own Calling, and not trouble my Head about tru le things, but rather be diligent to bring in *ood lor me and my familie: and let thofe meddle wi h p ihfophy that have ftudytd it, and arc called and apj ointec. to it.
6. Wit fuchan*t;cmpt the Devill hath given me fo many aflkultsyand hath fo neaped me, that I have Chap.Xx/v. Of the frhole Bitty fftbis Afirallmrld* * ghave tfltn refolved to let it alone,but my former pur- pose was t: o hard ft r me. For when I took care for Che Belly, and toget my Living) and refolved to give " over this bulincfle in hand, then cue Gate of Heaven ' v in my knowledge, was hi ed rip. *\*\i 7. And then my foul was to affliäed in anxiety-, as if it were captivated by the Devüfc whereby rea- /o«gatfo many checks and aflaulrs^as if the Body were prefertly to fall to the ground, and the fpirit would not give over, till it brake thorough againe through the Dead or oflfo^/ZReafon, and fo hath broke open to peeces, the D^or ofda/kneßey and hath gotten ics feat again 3 in the ftead thereof.
8. Whereby lunitrftand, that the fpirit muß be tryed through the C'offe & Afolkiioriy and I have not failed of bodily Temptation,but wa^ faineal waves to ftand ready for an encounter, fo much hath the Devill fct himfclfc againft this, 9. But when I perceived, that my Eternal Salvo» thu was concerned therein 3 and that through my negligence the Gates of the Light would be (hut a- gai it rnee, which yet was the very Firmament and Fort of my Heaven, wherein my foul did bide it felf f om the Itorms of the Devill, which I took in, and gained with great toyle and ma:iy hard aflaults, and itormings throus'i the Loveo\ God, bv rhe breaking thrruehtf my Redeemer and King JE- SVS CHRlST^ndthereiorel leave my care to God,and will take my flefhly Rea- ionCap ive.
10. And I have chofen the Gate of knowledge of «he Light, and will follo*v after the impulfe and kiiOwkJge of t'e fpxit, though my tepid Body Fi t f fhould 86 Of the whole Body of this Aflrallmrld. Chap.XXV.
fhould be brought to beggery or quite fall to the around, Iregard noneottheie things: but will fay though my 'Body and Soul fhould faint and 'faile, yet thou 0 Qodart my Salvation^ my comfort 0 and the refuge of my Heart.
n. In thy Name I will venture it, and will not drive aga in ft thy Spirit: though thefiefhbe trou- bled, and muft endure miferie, yet faith in the know- ledge of the Light, mu ft move and foare above Rea- fon.
12. And I know alfo very well that it is not fit for the difciple to fight againft his Maßer, and I know that the high experienced Mafters of Andrologie do far exceed me in their way. But I labour in my calling, and they in theirs, left I ihould be found a Lazy Idle Servant to my Lord, at his coming, when he fhall demand the ^ dient he hath cmrufted me with.
all; but that I may prefent it to him with ufury, or profit and gaine..
13. Therefore I will not bury his Talent in the Earth but lend it out upon ufury or inter eft >lefk hefliouldfay to me at that time, of his requiring it of me, Thou wicked, floathfull Servant, whyhajl thou hid my Talent in the Darknt fle, and did'ß not put it out upon ufe, andfo novo T might have received it with ufury, gain and profit > and fo then he will t&ke it quite away from me} and give it to a- no^her, who hath gained many Talents with his one, There- fore I will low j let him water it, I leave the care to him..
Now Chap. XXV Of the whole Body of this Afrall World. 587 Now observe, 14. The whole Houfe of this World, which ftandeth in a vifible andcomprehenfible or Pjlpaile being, is the old Houfe of God, or the Old Body,which flood before the timeofwrathina Heavenly cteritic and higbtneße: But when the Devill ftirredupthe wrath therein, then it became a Houfe of darkneile and of Death.
25. Therefore then al fo the holy Birth or Geni- turcofGod,asa fpecial Body of kfclk-feparated ic felf from the wrath, and made the Firmament of Heaven,betvvecn the Love and the Wrath, fo that theBirth or Geniture of the Stars ftandeth in the middle: underftand it thus; viz: with its outward comprehen Ability and vifikilhy it ftandeth in the wrath of Death, and with the New Birth, riling np therein, which ftandeth in the middle or central feate, where the clofure or Heaven is 3 it ftandeth in the mceknelTe of the Life.
1 6. For MeeknelTe moveth agaihft the wrath,and the wrath againft the Meeknefle, and foboth are di- fliticl Kingdoms in the one onely Body of this World. 17. But being the Love and MeeknelTe of God 'would not leave the Body or place of this kindled wrath world, flicking in eternal wrath and ignomi- nie, therefore he generated the whole old Body of this world againe into a rectified reformed Body, where- in life did rule in a divine manner and way, though in the kindled wrath, yet it muft fubllft according to the * Right of the Deitie,?^* outof it, a New Body * Law and might be generated, which fhould fubfift in holinefle Order. and purity, in Eternity.
Ffff* 18. For 55K>* Ofihe whole Bafy of t}j;$ jtfrallyorld. Chap. XXV