? $\, And this now is the Mother. of 'ibefcule, which fhineth thorough the feaven fpirits, and maketh them living, 2nd in their iked the feed ciualifycth mixeth ovumtcib with the Hcarc of God • But it is that feed only, in which the Light is kindled 3 but in that, in which the wrath fire burnetii, there this third Mother rcmaineth C*ft*y*. in the dark Cham- ber.
$ 6, And though indecde it is the third Mother, yet it rernaineth "to be but a foolifh Virgin, if the Light be not kindled in it; juft as the Decpcofthis world is * a foolifh Virgin before the Heart of God in which the whecleofthcfeaven fpirits ftandcth in fuch anxietic, in fomuch corruption and redemptions in heate and cold as is apparent to the Eye.
9J. Bat whenighe wirk Mother is k ndled in the Light then it ftariaetn in the createdHeaven of the/;o/y Liie,& fhineth through the fecond Mother the feaven fpiric,vvherby thefe\en fpirnsget a friendly courtous wiflj which is the Lrueoi the Life,as you may rc^d in the Eighth Chapter of this Book,Co#C£m#g the Love- "Birth or Cjemture of Qod.
cß. But the third Mother, they cannot conftantly or permanently thine thorough, for it ftandeth in the houfe of darkneffe, but they often caft a Glimpfe up- on it, even as if it lightened, whereby the third Mo- ther many times becometh very longing, and rejoy- ccth highly, but is foone bolted up againe by the ferceneße of Gods wrath.
99. The Devill alio danceth at this Gate, for it is the Prilon, wherein the new Man iyeth hidd, and wherein the Devill lyeth Captive. 100. But £jo Of Afrn and the Stars. Chap. XXVI -ioo. But I meane, in the Houfe of theDeepeof this World j though indeed the Houle of Flejb and the Deepe3altogethcr qualifie mixe or unite one with another, as one Body, and is one Body, only they havediftind parts or Members.
The T>eepe in the Center.
io i. Now behold! When the fade is generated, it ftandeth in the center or mid'ft of the Body in the Heart • for there the CMother catch eth che Ternarie or Trini ty.
102. Firfl the aftringent fpirit catcheth hold, and thatdraweth together a Mafle^or Lump out öf the freet water, that is, out of or from the unctuofitie or fatnefle of the Blood of the Heart, or from the Sap cr Ojie of the Heart.
103. Now that Oyle hath clearly the rco^ofthe Ternarie or Trinity in it,viz; the whole Man, for it is jultas when kindled Tinder is caft into Straw.
. Now it may be asked, How commeth this to pafle £ 104. Here now is the true ground of <£K£an; obfene it ex- actly 0 for it is the Looking (fla/fe of the great Myßerie 5 the deep e fecret of the Humanities about which all the learned fine e the be- ginning ginning of the World have dan- ced0 and have fought after this i)oare 0 hut have not found it.
i of. 'But Imufl once mention that it is the dawningo^Morning Rednefs of the Day ^as the T>oare keeper will have me doe.
Now Olferve.
io6. Juftasthe firft Majje was, out of which vidam became a living Man • foalfo in like manner is every Maßeorfeede of the Ternarie or Trinity ia Olferve • 107. When the Saliner or Fabrick of the fix qua- lifying or fountain fpirits? which is thefeaventh Nature fpirit in the [pace or roome of this World 3 was kindled, then the word or Heart of God flood e- •very where in the center or mid'ft of theCircle of the feaven fpirits, as a Heart, which replenifhcd all at once&iz: the whole fpace or roome of this World.
108. But being the Deepe, that is3 the whole fpace of this World3 was theBody of the Father, undcr- ftand the Father of (the Heart of God) understand the Fathers Body 5 and the Heart in the whole Body did fhine forth 3 viz • Tne Fathers Luft re or Brightnefle then the corrupted fainter was affe&ed or poflefled every where with the Light andu ä» $ Of'M^ and t":e 'Sim. Chäp. XXVI _& the Heart of God could not flye out from it,but did hfdeits Lullre and fhinmg Light«» the Body of the \vholeDw'ep3f>6W the horrid -kindled Spirits of Devils, i op. And when this was dcne> then.the quali- fying or fountain fpirits became very fierce and tfc- hemeady ftrugling, and the aftnngent ipirit, as the ftrongeil, in the ieaventh nature-fpirit, drew very terribly together, the fabrickand effects of the Other fi^e, from vvhcr.ee the bitter Earth and Stones came to be 3 but were Kot yet driven together 3 but moved in the whole Deepe.
no. In thishoure the Afaffe was drawn together, for when the Heart of God did hide it felfe in the 'Splitter J then it c.aft a gl&me againe on the whole fpace or Body, and thought how it might be Remedi- ed, againe, whereby another Angelical Kingdom fight be in the Dcepeof this world.
in. "But the ■■ (fiance H>as the I^ove-fpirit in the Heart of(jod D which in that place of the (jlance0 affected or poffeffed the Oyle of the water 5 where before^ the Light Was rifen up.
nz. Here conßder Saint Pe- ters glance that jpas cafi upon him in the houfe of faiphas, it ü the very fame..
113 Chap.XXVI Of {Mm and tie Stars. 633 1 1 3. As the Man cafts a Glance on the womajj, and the woman on the Man, and fo the fpirit of the Man, underftand the Rootc of the Love, which in the rifing up of Life out of the water, rifcth up through the Fire9 as alfo the womans fpirit doth; and (o one fpirit catcbeth the other in that Oyle of the Heart, whereby prefently a Maße^Seede, or driving will, or defire, to the propagating of a Man againe,arifeth in the Maße. * 114. Juft in fuch a way and manner, the firfi Maße alio came to b)e, for the Love-Spirit in the Heart of God caft a Glance in the tfc^ofthe kind- led wrathfull Father on theater of Life, whereby, andoutofwhichjtheLox/finthe fire-Flafh arofe or fprung up before the time of the wrath.
115. In this calling of the Glance, the one fpirit caught the other, the un&uous Oyle or Water in the wtsithyconceived irom the Love- Spirit in the Heart of God, and qualified mixed or united with the fame, and the altringent fpirit drew the Maße together: and there was cleerely a Birth, or a wil),or defire,to the producing of a whole creature, juit as the Seede in Man is.
n£. But now, the Firmament of Heaven that is betweene the Heart of God and the kindled hard Chamber of Death, was clofed or (hut up; clfethe Life in the Maße had fuddenly kindled it felfe.
117. For the firmament was within in the mfaffe as well as without diftinct. from the Maße, which is the parting mark3 or limit Reparation between the Heart of God and the fierce Devills.
118. Therefore the word or Heart of God muft blow up the moving fpirit in thc^Majje, which was firft done but on the fixt Day, for very allured caufes.
Mm mm up. For ^2 * ofiMan and the Stars. Chap. XXVL i ip. For if Heaven had not as a Firmament been ßiut up in the A/4//>,between'the Heart of God and the corporeal qualifying or fountaine fpirits of the Majjejihen t\}c Mäße might have kindled the Soule from or by its own power 3 as it was with the Holy, Angels..
120. But it was to be feared, that it would come to pafle, as it did with that faire little Son Lucijer, being the corporeal qualifying or fountain fpirits in the Maße, Were kindled in the ftratb-fire.
i 2 1. Therefore Heaven mufl be a Firma ment,k>e- twe.cn the lparkle which had conceived from the Heart of God in the firfl Glance, that though the Bo- dy might happen to perifh, yet the holy Seed might re- maine, which is the Soul, which qualifyeth mixtth or uniteth withthe Heart ofGod,outof which anew Body -y might come to be j when the whole God ihould&iW/i againe the Deepe of this world in the Light of the Heart of God: and juft foit is come to be with the Body: The Loye of God have mercy and take pitty on it.
122. The deare man Mofes writett thdt vJO« made Alan out of a pod of Earth, as the Learned have rendred it. But Mofes was not prefent) when it was done.
123, But this I muft needs fay, that Mofes hath written very right, but the true understanding or meaning, out of what the Earth proceeded, re- mained hidden to Mofes and them that have come after him in the Letter, and the fpirit hath kept it hidden to this very time, 124. It Chap.XXVI. Of UK-art and the St mi. £35 124* It was alfohidden from^^whilehewäs yet in Paradife^ but nw> it wi\\ fully be rc\'ealed • for the Heart of Göd hath fee upon er afTaulted the Chamber of Death, and will jhortly brcake quite thorough.
125. And therefore in thefe our prefent time?, Gome Beames of the Day will more and more break thorough in the hearts offome men, and make known the Day.
12,6. "But When the Dawning ör Morning Rednefteßal/ßine from the Eafi to the tFefi or from the rißng to the fetting, then affu- redly 0 time will be no more; but theSUK of the Heart of God ^ rifeth or fpringeth forth, andy \ ^ RA. RA. R.P. will be preffed™* »• in the WinePreffe without the CittieDand therewith to R.P. L 117. Thefe are hidden myßi- cal Words 0 and are under- ßood onely in the Language of ü\[ature.
128. Mtfes xvr'mtXi x cry right > that Man was cre- ated out of the Earth a but at that time, when the Ul'faße was held by the word s then the Mjfj'e was M m m m 2 - not £ 3 £ Of Man and the Stars. Chap.XXVI.
#o*Earth: But if it had not been held or kept by the word 3 then at. that veryhoure it had become Black Barths but the cold wrath-fire was in it already. 1 29. For at the very f>oure9 when Lucifer elevated himfel'fe, the Father was moved to wrath in the qua- lifying or fountain fpirits againft the Legion$ol Lu- clter, and the Heart of God hid it felfe in the Fir- mament of. Heaven, where the Saliner > effed, pro- duel! or Fabrick>of the corporeity,was ^#i/2g alrea- dy, for without or diftinft from the Lighr,is th« dark Chamber of Death.
130, But the Mtfse' was held or kept in the Fir- mament of Heaven, that it might not be congealed: for when the Heart of God Glanced on the Mafsc with its hpt Love, then the unctuofitie or oylein the Mafse, which rofe up out of the water through the fire, out of which the Light rifethup, and out of which the Love-Spirit rifeth up, caught hold of the Heart Of (Bod 3 and wte impregnated with a yoüng Sonn*.
131. And that was the Seed of Love 5 for one Love embraced the other, the Love of the Maf$e embraced and' conceived from the Lave out of the Glance of the1 Heart of God 5 and was thereby im- pregnated.-and this is the Birth or Ceniture of the Soüle 1 and as to this Sonfte, Man is the Image of God.
1 3 2. But the qualifying or Fountain fpirits in the LMafse&ould not prefently be kindled thereby from theSouljfor theSoul flood only in the feed in the Mafse, hidden with the Heart of God in its Heaven^ till the Creator blew upon the UWafse, and then the qualifying or Fountain fpirits kindled the SouleaKo5 and then both Body and Soul lived equally toge- ther. J 3 3» In* 133. Indeede the Soul had its Life, before, the £ody,üUt it ftoödin the'Heart of God, hidden in the (Jltajje m Heaven, and was a kind ot holy Seed qualifying mixing or uniting with God, which is £- terr/al, incorruptible,and undeft royable, for it was a«f#>andpure Seed > for an Angel and Jmageof God.
134. But the Fabrick 3 effector produd, of the whole Maße, was an extract -, or attraction of the »w^/ of God, out of the Fabrick or effect of the qua- lifying or fountain Spirits, or of the Saliner, out ©f which the Earth came to be.
135. This extract was not yet become Earth, though it was the Saliner of the Earthy but was held, or kept by the iror^.
136. For when the Love-Spirit out of the Heart of God Glanced on the Saliner of 'the Maße, then trijj Saliner did catch hold of it and conceive from it,and was impregnated in the Center of the Soul * and the word flood in the Maße in the Sound, but the Light a* bode in the Center of the Maße, in the Firmament ofHeä ven,ftanding hidden in the unctuous oile of the heart; and did 'not move it felfc' forth out of the Fir-, mamentof Heaven3 in the Birth of the qualifying or* fountain Spirits.
137. Elfe if the tight had kindled itfelfein the Birth or Genkure of the Soul, then all the feaven qualifying or fountain Spirits, according to the eter-^ nail Birth-Right of the Deitie, had triumphed and* qualifyed mixed ox united m& with the Light, and had been a Living Angel 5 but being the wrath had cleereiy already infetted the Salitter, therefore that- danger was to be feared, which befell Lucifer».
fc N Non>( 6% Of Man and the Stars. Chap XXVI.
Now it may be Asked,...138. Why were not many Maffe's (jeatedyat this time, out of Tfrhkh infiantly at once0there might hay e been a whole <*j£ngeli- cal hoafi or Armyjnßead of fallen Lucifer.
\\y. Why fhottld there be fo long a time ofßay in the wrath.
140. And wbyßould the Tphole Hoafi or Army Regenerated out of that o#£ Maffe; info very long a Time I 141. Or did not the Creator at thü time fee and kno°fi> of the Fall of <£Kdan.
An fiver. ■ 142.This noTP is the very *Doare of the hidden fee ret my fiery of the deities Concerning which the Reader is-to conceive Chap.XXVI. Of Man and the S:a,s. $,» conceive, that it is not in the power or capacity of any Man to difecrne or to knovy it, if the DdtyfltyiZ or Morning- Redneße, did not break forth in the Center in the Soul., 143. For tney. arc divine myfteries, which no Man can fearch into, by his own Reaioh, and I alio eiteeme my felfe moft unworthy of inch a gift, and bcfidesllhall have many fcorners and mockers a- gainft me; {or the corrupted Nature is horribly ajbam*- edy before the Light.
144. But for allthat,I cannot forbeare • for when the divine Light brcaketh forth in the Circle or Birth of Life, then the qualifying or fountain Spirits^- Joyce, and in the Circle 01 the Life, reflecf or lo€>k back into their Mother, into the Eternity, and they alfo look forwards into the Eternitie.
145. But it is not a conftant and lofting thing or being, clarifying or brightamg, of the qualifying or fountain Spirits, much leßeot the BeflialBody, but it is the Rayoi the breaking through of the Liglrt of God with a firieimpulfe, which rifeth up through the meek water of Life in the Love, and remaineth landing in /tt Heaven.
146. Therefore I can bring it no further, then from the Heart into the Braine before the Princely Throne of the Senfes, and there it is fbut up in the Firmament of Heauen, and goeth not ^lagaine through the qualifying or fountain Spirits into the Mother of the Heart, that it might come on to the Tongue, for if that were don^ I would tell it with my mouth 9 and make it known to the World, 147. But.
£40 Qf Man and the Stars. Chap.XXVI ri47. But for that caufe I will let it ftandinctt Heaven y and write according to my gifts, and with wonder and admiration cxped what will be- come of it. for in the qualifying or fountain Spirits I cannot fußiciently comprehend or apprehend it, becaufc -tirey (land in the anxiom Chamber, 148. As to the Soul I fee it very nell> but the Firmament of the Heaven is between, in which the Soul bidetb it felfe, and there rcceiveth its Rayes from the Light of God; and in that re- fpccl: it goeth through the Firmament of Heaven as a Tempeft of Lightning y but very gently in a moft amiable and picalant delight and Joy.
149. So that I cannot in the comprehenfibility in my innate inftant or prefent qualifying or foun- tain Spirits, or in the Circle of Life, difcerneor know it otbewife, tor the &#) breadth forth apace. \ 150^ Forthat caufe I will write according to this knowledge, though the Devill fhould offer to affault and ßorm the world, which however he cannot doc: Yet his Houre-GlafTe is fhowen to him and fet before him. * Tijtf corlm 1 5 1.Now come on you * Ele&ionifts and conten- tend; about ders about the Election of Grace, you that fuppofe Lleblhnandyou onh are in the right,and efteeme a fimple Faith to Predefiixa-bc but a feolifb thing, you have danced long enough iion before this Doore, and have made your boaft of the ^ Scriptures, cho they maintaine that God hath of [ T&7£^ £ Grace chefenfome Men in their Mothers Womb, to JhVr^/L^heKingdomeofHeavcn.3 and reprobated or reject-" St ^S'cd others.
r 5*. Here make to your felves manytßfaße's, out of which there may proceed other manner of Men of other qualities, and then you maybe in the right: But out of the one only UUafte you can make no more then one only Love qf God, which prefleth forth, through the firft Man,and fo prefleth through and upon all. If God fhouid have permitted peter or Paul to have written other wife; however look you to t\\c Ground,of the Heart.
152. If you lay hold on the Heart of God 3 then you have Groan dftwrgfr.
154. If God give me Life for a little while lon- ger, I will well {hew you, Saint Pauls Election of Grace.
The Seven and Twentieth Chapter.
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Note. WxiZfa Note. WxiZfa Thk is the deepe hidden Magicall Book, which the v> 5 '\ >« | ^Author at that time might not make clear e(y, but may »ffei 3*a* DOW doe it, through the Grace of God, i6ii.
Note ^ This book is written in a Magi 'calif "er] > or underftand- ittgy for the ^Author himfelfe only 3 w\ 0 knew of no other Keaders-, hefuppofed,hewddethis work only forhimfelf t. but Godh&ih cliipofed it other wife..
Note. The Author exprefsed the ßrft fy liable MER^in the word ME RCtlRIUS, with an A, M MA R, ' MA RCU~ RIUSj not without afpeciall Myfiicall caufc,wiih the firft Lowell A, But bee auf e the f elf e conceited wife in Reafon, diflike if, actQiinting.it b u fr a, Country vulgar exprefsion^ TMfre\ore tie tr^fcrikr of the High Dutch Cop ie, from whence this was tranfiatedr wrote it according to the com- mon received word, MERQÜR1US, ? The Corne groTfceth again fi the *seethc will of the tnemie; For that fMS^ which ü [oVene by God, no Tl\ SoTr~ Adan can prevent or hin- der the growing thereof.