£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 akfogenerateth 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 Geniture 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 protection of theHoly Gl.of 3and the Devii knoweth r.cc the New man, for he is not in hin Houfe, but in Heaven, in the Firmament of God.
72. This I write as a JVord^ Which is (jener at ed in its Heayen, Inhere tJye Holy'Deity alwaiesgenerateth it felfc and where the moving fpirit rifeth up in the Flafh of Life 5 even there thisr Word and this knowledge is generated^ 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 Gcniturc, 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 Gcniiure ftandetn, and therein the Heaven is let in opposition 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 raireth, 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 meekniffe: 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 denunciation 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 outward 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, being 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 fpirit 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 purpose 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 agai 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 ReaionCap 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 troubled, and muft endure miferie, yet faith in the knowledge of the Light, mu ft move and foare above Reafon.
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 ano^her, who hath gained many Talents with his one, Therefore 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 GeniturcofGod,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 difliticl 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 ignominie, therefore he generated the whole old Body of this world againe into a rectified reformed Body, wherein 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 18. For which caufe tbcrcjs appointed in God, a Vay of feparauoa, on, which, Lite and Wrath {ball be ie para ced afuwkr.
ip. Now when thou behqideft the Stars, and the Deep, Together with the Earth, then thou feeft with thy boJify Eyes,nothing elie but the old Body in the wrathful! Death, thou canlt notice Heaven with ihy Bodily Eyes ^ for the Blew or Azure Sphere which then feeit aloff, is not the Heaven > but is only the old Body,which may be juftly called the COT} rHpt~ ed ü\[ature.
20. But that there feemeth to be a Blew or Azure Sphere above the Stars, whereby the place of this world is clofed and fhut out from the holy Heaven, as Men have thought hitherto; yet it is mt fo3 but it is thefuperiour water of feature y which is much brighter then the water below the Chloon; And now when the Sun fhineth through the Decpe, then it is as it were of a Light-Blew or Azure colour. v 21. T3ut how decpe or how large the place of this world is, no Man knowcth, though fome Natural Phylofophcrs Mathematicians Aftronomers or Aftrologers have undertaken to mcafure the Decpe with their Meafures of Circles 5 their meafuringis butconjedurall era meafuring of fomwhat that is comprehensible or Palpable: as ira Man would grafp the wind in his Fift.
22. But the true Heaven is everywhere all over,to this very time, and till the laft Judgment Day, and the WrathHoufe ofHell and of Death is alfo in this woxldevery where 3 even to the laft Judgment day.
~ * " ■■— • But Chap.XXV. Of the »hole Body of this Aft nil World. ^ j 23. But the dwelling of the DeviJIs is now from the Moon to the Earth, and in the deep Caves and Holes thereof: efpecially in Wilderneflcs and Derart Places, and where the Earth is full of Stones and Bitterneffe.
24. But their Kingly Regiment or Government is In theDecp in the fourCoalts orQuarters of theEcjuinoclial Line or Circle, of which 1 will write in another place.
25. But here I will (hew thee, i°. How the Body of this World came to be, and 2«. How it is atprefcnt,and then 3°how the Regimentor Govern, went thereinyis.
26. The whole Body of this world is as a Mans Body, for it is furrounded in its utmoft Circle with the Stars andarifen powers of Nature, and in that Body the je oven fpirits of Nature, Governe, and the Heart of Nature ftandeth in the Midft or. Center.
27. But the Star* in generali are and fignific the wonderfull propcrtion or changing variety of God: For when God Created the Stars, he created them, out of therifing up of the infinity, out of the Old-Body of Godythen further kindled.
2 8. For, as the feaven fpirits of God,had before the time of the wrath, generated themfelves infinitely by their rifing up and £j^#/«gy,whencerofe upfo many feveral varieties of figures and Heavenly Ideas or vegetations:So alfo theHolyGod formed his old. body of this corrupted Natur e^nto as many and variom powers as ever flood in the Birth or Geniture in the HolyneflTe..
5po Üf the »hole Body of this Jßrall World. Chap.XXY, Underhand this high thing rightly.
19. Every Star hath a feveral peculiar propcrtie, which thou maift perceive by the curious Ornament of the budding blofloming Earth ^ And the Creator hath therefore rebuilt and revived againe the old kindled Body into To many &^//Wpowers,that through this Old Life in the wrath, fuch a new life mightgenerateit felf therein, through the ckfureoi Heaven, that,that New Life might have all the powers & operations, that ever the old had before the times of wrath, that it might qualifie mixe or unite with me pure Deitiediftincl: from this world, and that it might be One holy God, together with the Deitie wkhout,diftin<St from this World.
30. Alio the New Birth bloflom'd in the time of the Creation, when Man had not fpoiled or corrupted it, but by him Nature was ftill more corrupted andfo God curfed the Ground. But being Man took hold of the fruit of the old Body, thereupon the...• fruit of the »^ Body was hidden in its Heaven, and Manmuft now behold it with the new Body, and cannot partake of it with the natural Body.
31. Of which I have a great longing to eate, but I cannot reach to it,for Heaven is the clofure or Firmament between the old and new Body. And therefore I muft let it alone till I come into the other Life, and muftgivemybeitialBody, jSdother EvCS Wrath-tipples to Eate.
Con- Chap. XXV. of the whole Body of this Jßrall world. ^\ Concerning The kindling of the Heart or Life 9 of this World.
32. When God had brought the Body of this worlds in two Dayes into a right forme; and had made the Heaven for a i^/Wo« betweene the Love & the Wrath, then on the Third Day the LoVc? prtff* cd through the Heaven and through the wrath 7 arid then inftantly the old Body in Death ftirr'd and m*0editfeife to the Birth or Gcniture.
33. EorthejLoTPtfisW, and that kindled the firc-fourcc or quality, and that rubb'd it felfe in the aftringent and coldquality of benumm'd Death, till rhcaftringent qualitic was heated on the third Day 9 whereby the mobiiitie or the allringent Earth 3 became moveable.
54. For all flood in the firecrak till the fourth 2>.i}, and then the Light of the * SUft kindled it fetf * SOL for the whole Body itood inanguiih or Paine in the Birch, as a woman in Travel!.
3 5. The Aft nngem qualitie was the encompafler or incloj'er of the life, in it now ^ the Heat was anxious, which was ki idled through the Love of God., and did thruß forth the aft ringent qualitie as a dead Body, but the Heat reteined its (eat in the mid'ft or center of the Body, and fo preflM through.
3 £, But when the Light of the Sub kindled it (elf, then the nex Circle or Orb above the Sun, flood in thefire-crak3for the Sun or the Light was ßiining in- * CM ARS 594 Of the whole Body of this Aßr all n wld. Chap.XXV.
in theWater,and thebitterne(Te afcendcd alibin the fire-crack out of the vvarcr; But the light made very great haße after ir,and laid hold on the fire crak, and there it remained (landing as a Ca[>tive3 and became corporeal.
37. In this Revolution the Planet * JS/TdfS came to bc,whofe power ftandeth in the Bieter firecrak, for it is a Tyrant, Ragcr, Raver and Stornier, like zfire-trak, moreover it is Hot, and a poifonous venomous enemie of Naturell;rough vvnole ridng up and Birch or Geniture in the Eanh all manner or Poifonous Venomousevill VYormes and^V/-mhie are come to be.
38.B11 being the Heat in the middle point or center of tue Body was/o Mighty Great, thereupon it extended it felf fo very largely, and opened the Chamber of Death fo wide before its kindling of the Light, tnat it, the SUN, is the Greatcft Star.
3?. But afT 01 as the Light kindled it felf in the heat, fo inftantly was that Hot place caught in the Light, and t. en the Body of the San could grow no bigger: For the light mitigated the Heat, and fo the Body of t cSu* remained there ßanding in the mi.l'ft or center as a Heart, for tnc Light is the Heart of Nature j^ef tne Heat. > Bat here thou muß olferie exaBh, 40. As far as the middle point or center hath kindled it CLlti >]uß fo bigg is the Su< -> for the Sun is nothing clfc but a kindled po.-n. in the Bocy of Nature.
41. Thou fiiuft not thinke, that there is any o- Chap.XXIV. OfthenhdeBoa) oftbisJftullmrld. VI other power or vertue in it or belonging to it, then there is in the whole Deep of the Body every where, all over.
42. For (houldthe Love of God, through its Heaven kindle the whole body of this world through the Jfeatfy.t would be every where all over as Light as it is now in the Sun.
4 3. And now if the great Heat were taken a way from the Sur.>ihcn it would be One Light withGodj) but feeing that cannot bee in this time, therefore it remainctn a King and Regent in the., old corrupted. andkindledBody of Nature; and the clear Dcicie, remaineth hidden in the meek Heaven...
44. But the light of the meekneile of the Sun qualifieth mixeth cr unttetb with tiic pure Deitic, but. the Heat cannot comprehend the light, and there-, fore alio the place o( the Sun rcmainem inthe Boejy; of Gods wrath, and thou muft not worfhip, pray. to orr honour the Sun as God, for its p'acc or Body carrot apprehend the water of Life, becaufeofitsFfVWre-, nepe. j The Higheß ground of the S ü N and of ALL t ^PLANETS.;; 45. And here I fhall have adversaries enc.uzh who will be ready to ceniu cmee, for they will nor have regard,. to confider t e Sprit, but will mind tiic ir UcC Rules, and fay: Atlrologers underftand it bccter,vvho have written oi fuch matters: and they will look On this Great open Gate \ as a Cow looks on a new Bir'n Doare.
G g g g 46. Deare 46. Deare Reader, Iunderitand the ^ißrologers meanings and fayings full well, and I have perufed their writings alio, and taken notice, how they defcribe the co>*:fe of the Sun and Stars, neither do I defpiie it, ^ut hold that for the meft fart to be good and right.
47. But that I write otherwife t hen they infome things, I do it not out of felf will orconeeiptand fuppofition, doubting, whteher it be fo or no: I dare not make any doubt herein, neither can any man iniiruct mee herein.
48. I have not my knowledge by Study, indeed I have read the order and Poßtion of the Seazen planets in the Books of Aftrologers: and find them tobettfry right, but the Root, howthey came to be,& from what they are proceeded, I cannot learne it from any Man; for they know it *<tf,ncither was I prefem,whcn God created them.
49. But being the Dcores of the Deep, and the Gates of wrath, and the Chambers of Death alfo are fet open in my fpirit through the Love of God 5 the fpirit, tberefore,mutt. needs look thorough them.
50. And accordingly I find, that the Birth or Gcniture of "Nature ftandeth to this Day, and generateth k felfe juft fo as it firft took its beginning, and whatsoever rifeth up in this world, whether Men, Beafts, Trees, Herbs,GraiTe MinerallOars^or what it will, all rifeth up in fuch a qualitie manner & forme, alfo every Life be it good or bad, taketh its original thus.
51. For this is the Right or Law oftheDeitie, that every Life in the body of God, fhould generate it felfe in one manner or uniforme way, though it be, done through many various Jmagings, yet the Life lath Chap. XXV Of the whole Body of this Jßrall world. - ^ hath one uniform way, and Original, in all.
52.I fee not this knowledge with my fleftly Eyes, but with thofc Eyes, wherein life generateth it felt in me, in that feat the Gates of Heaven and Hell (land open to me, and the neve Man Speculatcth into the midft or center of the Aftral Birth or Gcniture,and to him the inner and outcrmoft Gate ftandcth Open.
53. While he yet flicketh in the Old Man of Wrath and Death, an J iitteth alio in his Heaven; he fecth through both, in fuch a manner alfo he feeth the Stars and Elements: For in God there is no place of hindcrancc: for the Eje öf the LORD beholdeth all.
54. Now if my fpirit did not fee thorough his fpirit, then I were but a blind Stock, but being I fee the Ctf^sofGodin my fpirit, and have the impulfe to do it, I will therefore write direRly according as I havefeen it; and will not regard any Mans Autho* rtty.
5 5. Thou muft not conceive it fo, as if my Old man were a living S.iint or Angel. No, friend, He fitteth with all Men in the houfeof Wrath and of Death, and is a fo#/?jÄf Enemy to God, and fticketh in his Sins WkkednefiTe and Malice, as all Men do, an d is fu 11 of faul ts dcfe&s and I^fimi ies. " $6. Butthpumuftknow this, that he fticketh in a continual anxious Birth or Gcniture, and would fain be rid of the wrath and wicked nefle, andyet cannot: For he is as. the whole houfe of this world, wherein alwayes love and wrath wreftleone with another, and the new Body alwaies generateth itfelf in the midft or center of the anguifo. For fo it muft Wfc Of the whole Bocytfthh Aft* 'all world. Chap. XXV be, if tho&. wilt be born anew, otherwife no man ca<i re-ach^e Regeneration.
57- Man is alivates ikeWiflghere for fofc Da yes of ßaic lor cie Flcfh* and atccr Riches beauty and Bravery, and knowcth tot, that he fitteth therewith in thc«/ww^y of Deaths, where the Sting. of wrath dart-. cihintoiiim.
58. 'Behold i I tell this to thee y as a Word of Life ^ which 1 receive in the knowledge of the Spirit tn the midfl or center in the 'Birth cr C/emture of the new Body of this< Worlds over which the <£Man fSSUS CHRIST is Ttyler and* M^ngi together with his £t er nail Father.
59..Alio Ireceuveitfrom%fe -the Seat of; his Throne, where all Holy.Soules of men ftand before.
. -him,and rejoyce before him: T^hat the Us6~ ßre of the flefh in Joft pleaßngrtef[e0 tobe^ich^to he HandfomT Beautiful &Fair0or tobe Mighty or Tot ent0 ü a very Bath or Lake of belli ßJ^rath^to^w^ thou.
crowdeft and rnnneit, as if -thpu wert drawn in with Cartropes: for there is. very great danger therein. \ 60. But Ghap.XXV. Of the nUle Body of this Aß rail World. 557 60. But if thou wguIciu1 know? howit is, behold I will tell thee in a Parable or fimilitudc; When thou arc prcfled according to the dejire of thy Hearty into Riches and Power,ttienis it with thec.-as if thou floodjt in a deep water, where the water alwaics ftandethupto thy very mouth, and thou fecleft'/w £rc«W under thy Feet, but thou i wimmelt with thy Hands, andftrugglingwavcrcltthy felf; fuddenly thouartdeep in watcrjfuidenly above water again, yet alway in a great Tcrrourand danger, Expecting to fmckdown to the bottom 5 the water coming ot* ten ihto thy Mouth, alwaics expe&ing Death by being Drowned.
6 1. Juft in this manner thou fitteft and no otherj when.thou art in the pleafures of the rlefh, if thou wilt not Fight,.thou canft not look for any Victory^ but thou wilt bc.murtbeved inrhy foft Bed of Down: For man hath a continual Hoaft or Army before him, which fighteth with him continually; if he will not defe/jd himfelf) then he is taken captive and (lain.
62. But- how can he defend himi'elf,that//wVw/w^ in a Deep water, he hath enough to do, to keep himfelf up ftruggling and wavering in the water, and yet neverthelefle he is there alfo afläulted and ßermed by the* Devils..
as our King Ghrift alfo faith h It Ü Very hard for a 9^ich wan to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; a Camel teill eaßer go through the €ye of ft* Of the Me Body of ihh A}r ati World. Chap.XXV a u\(eedle D then a l^icb man enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Math. ip. 14. Mark. 10. i «j.
£4. But it any will becnew bcrn again, he muft not yeld\\'m\k\i to be a fervant to Cove tou fließe, Pride3 State and felf-power, to take delight in the willordcfires of his rlefhjbut hemuftftrugglcand fight againftfoV/>//~,againft the Devill, andagainft all the Lußs ot the Flefh, and he muft thinkand coniidcr that he is but a Servant and Pilgrim on Earth, which mult wander through many miferablc Seas of danger into another world; and there he will be a LORD, and his dominion willconfift in power and perfect delight beauty and brightnefTe, thÜ I tellas the word of the Spirit.
■ ■ Now olferve, *SoI. £5; The* SUN hath its own Roy a 11 place to it {elf, and doth not goe away from that place, where it came to be at the firft s asfomefuppofe, that it runeth round about the Globe of the Earth in a Day & a Night y aiidfome of the Aftrologers alfo write Jo, and. fpme have undertaken ro'meafure, novit 'far itsOrb and Circumference ofusfuppefed Motion, is.
66. This opinion er fuppofitiön is not right, but *Ver.tu the Earth Witt [ ■ jr ftlfe about j and runneth with the Mercury othcr planers, as in a whcelc, rowid about, the Sun. -\Saturnc jhc Earth doth no\ remaine hying In one Place; but 3"P'ter runneth round \ti a yearc, once about the Su,> as the * other Planets next the Sun, but f Saturne and Jupiter, Chap.XXV. Of the Stw and the ether Pia/, kl s. 159 piter, as alio Mars by reafon of their great Orb circumference, and great height c&nr.ot do it, becaufc they (tand fo high above and far ditlant from the How it may le ask ed, what is the SUN, and what arc the other PLANETS? or how are they come to be } 67. Behold! the other 'Planen are peculiar Bodys of their own which have a corporeal proprk tie of themfclves, and arc r.ot bound to any fetled or fixed place, but only to their Circle Orb or Sphere wherein they runne their ccurie. But the 6UN is not fuch a Body, but is only a plate or Locality kindled by the Light of God.
Undetfand it aright.
■ 68. The place, where the SUN is, is fuch a place, as you may choofc or fuppofe ar.y wl.ere above the Earth: and if God fhculd kindle the Light by theHcat,then the wide world would be Tuch a mccf SUNjfor that fame power,wherein thcSun ftandeth, is czeey whe>fj all overhand before the time of wrath, it was every where all over in the place of this world, as Light as the Sun is now, but not/o intollerable.
69. Forthat heat was not fo great as in theSun, and therefore the light alfo was very meek, and thus in refpccl of the horrible fiercenefleof the Sun> the Sun is differenced or diftinguifht from the Meekriefle of God. So that Man ihould not dare to fay. that the Sua is an open Gate of the light of God t but is is as the Light in a Mam £jf,\vfcfc*^*4lfothe-pfad£ ot'/thjQt£f ^-teei^flgeth to*feeü$$ody Vi^t'fhafLigitt is idiftc rem oc ^j/** tf frotn*he Bd^y. *'Mfa Andrtfoougb näadoed it exittetb-b^thß J&ate in the water of the Body 4'y otitis a peeuiiai;*iiAin<Ä' thing, wjiich the body r^/^c^rrrprehendjand Tuch adiliinft di&erence there is alfo between- God the Father and the Sonne. ' <?*7 7 1. Thus pn the Fbüstk^a}>m<xkQ anxious Birth* orfGenkure of this- world in theivrakfäic point or Center of -this World, the SUKlis- Sprungöp and ßa/uletbßiä in its Eternal Coxpo&al pkte, lot it« ■ 72. For it is the oiK4y^«dr*Sö/tr natural Li^ht of! tbis^wcrld, andbeiiebs, if there ds fc«#wvafty tnue •bight in the Houfe of Deaths and «hough it iecmeth as if the other Stars, did flji m -.Bright.and give Lights alfo, yet it-is ^^/%bm they,rake>aH their luftrcand fining Light Jror» the>i^>^ ai hereafter pre fently folio weth, «-,\...•'■!■♦• hi the Sum and office other ^Planets Is /*>/Pto # folloiteU}.
73. 'Mow when the 'Heaven was made foirad*- ßirsilio/jot partition between the Light of God and' thvMstfiled corruption of the -Body oi this world: then was the Body or this v\oFld a dark valley, and had ho light that could have fhene forth uYthe tutward Body bt {ides the Heaven, there flood all powers as it were captivated in Death, and were in great &??' gU'fy 3 till they had heatt dienliches in ci.emid'ft or or center of the Body.
74. But when th is was done, fo that the anxious Birth or Genkuf e ftood fo fevereiy in the Heaty then the Love in the Light of Cod brake through the Heaven of the Partition and kindled the Heat.
75. And there rofe up the (hining light in the Heat, in the water, or in the fat oroylinefle of the water, and the Heart of the water kindled it felfe, and this was done in the twimkling of an Eye.
76. Forafloonas the Light had rightly laid hold on the Body, the Body was captivated in the Light, and the Heac was captivated, and was changed in* to a competent Mccknefle, and could (land or extend no further in fuch Angu i(h.
77. But being the Heat was fo terrified by the Light, thereupon its horrible fire-fource was allayed and fo could kindle it felfe no further, andioalfo the breaking through of the Love in the Light of God through the Heaven at this time, with its breaking thorough, extended or ftretched it felfe m further out of or from Gods prcdeftinated purpofe: therefore alfo the SUN came Co be no bigger.
Of the Planet A4dr$.
I 78. But when theSun was kindled, then the horrible fire-crack went forth upward from the Place of the Sun y diltant from the Place of the Sun, as a horrible Tempeftuous Flafb, and in its corporeall. Being took along with it the rurcenefle-of the fire, whereby the water became very bitter, and the water is the kernel or ftock of the Crack, Hhhh 7$. Now 7p. Now the Aftrologers write, that the Planet Jkfars ftandeth aloft about 15750, Miles off from the &*#:which I contradict not, beciufe I meddle not with the meafuring of Circles; And fo iarr that fire-crack went on afuddainirom its own Place, till ihe light alfo laid hold on it, and then it alio was captivated by the Light, and ftaid, and took pofleffton of that Place.
80. But that the Light could lay no fooner hold of it 5 wascaufed by the earncft fiercenefle and' fuddenfiaih,foritwas not taken hold of by the Light before the Light had wholly or throughly a rTe&ed or pofleffed it.
81. And there it is now as a Tyrant Rager and Stirrer of the whole Body of this world • for that is its very Office,that with its Revolution in the wheele of Nature it moveth and ftirreth all, from whence every life taketh its Original.
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82. Now when the bitter firccrack was captivated by the-Light,. then the light in its own power prefled yet higher in the Deepe, till it reach'd into the hard and cold feate of Nature. And there the power of the firft going forth or rifing up from the Sun could not get Higher, but fitting flayed there corporeally a and took poneflion of that place for a Habitation.
But Q^pJtXV. Of tfc plattet Jtyü&. ^3 But thou rtuftt&derß and this thing drigbt: 8$. It was the power of the Light, which ßaytfin this place, which is a very Meek, friendly) gracious, amiable bleiTed jand fweet Being. The Aftrologers write, that thü Planet is diftant aloft above Mars, about 7875 Miles: But it is the Mitigator of the dejßroying furious Raging Raving Mars, and an origi* nalof theMeekneflein every Life, an original alfo o{ the water, from which the life generateth it felf > as I iriall mention hereafter.
84. Thus farr the power of the Ia^q reached forth from the Sun, and not higher, but the luftre or fkineing thereof which hath its power alfo; rcacheth cven to the Stars, and through the whole Body of this world.
But thou muß understand this exaBlj, from whence theft two Planets are cometbbe.
85. When the power ■ of the Heart of God prefled forth out of the eternal inexbaußible fountain of the water of life through the Heaven of the Partition, and kindled the water in the place of the Sun; then the fiafh, understand the fire-flafh did fhoot forth or went forth out of the water, which was very terrible and bitter, out of which, Mars came to be.
$6. After this Flafh the power of the Light fbol nimbly after it, like a meek elevated life, and overtook the fire crack, and mitigated it, fo that it became fomwhat weaker, and could breake no farther through the deepe, but ftayed trembling. • Hhhha 87. But I i %$, But the power that was go^ forth; jajfee Light had more ftrength then the fire^ra^>,< atvd fo it TfriMi^gfe^thtn^^ a $8, Jfrorao* otjt-tof this; power the.^Janet jty//*r caoae to be, and not out of or icons that jAgr B whese he is, but it alwaies kindle^ >t)üt very, place with its pöwtffa» ku? tf & a$.#a£(pf»{b$ Jfy«pfcc#,Serv.ants 4P tnat place? »who rauft aiwajes walk about iri tri* place ofc its office and fecviciev.,But, the Sua hath, a houfeof itsjOvyn^D^^i^ffr Planet-hath anyHoufe of its Own. k3.,.,,.:. ■„ u '^r^V^Vnßiight^ fe arch into fy$un SUrs\ffirf$ and Gtnkftrew their beginning 2 £#e?# jpe w#/£ exactly knoTb the. ^itth or Gmture of the l^ife. twj^: JH0fl* *#£ JL//tr generatetb ftfilfe i^^^ok; $J?Jg$ #// are one fyndtf Birth or Cjenitftte* uliiZ* " ■ f>.,^q^ Jietfeat doth not Vnow nor.underftand ^£5 he doth Jiot ataU Jmäw the Birth of the Stars, for* <# concrete togetherjs we Body. Every£reature,w hen life is once generated in it, then aiter war eU its Life ftandeth or fubfifteth in its Body,** theBinhorGeni» tu re oitheuaturalBody of this world doth,for every Life muß be generated according to the right Lawoc- Ordinance.
'Ädinance^of the: Dtitie^te^tteigctätotcih it »elf CÖrfiirmaUy. " * — ßJgnatÄytoat bfiri 3d^Ji.l Wi.^i'this'berightlJ' cGhlidc-red, vJhkh indeed } can#ot%te done, without afyecial iltuhiinatio/i ohfftc" holy God; then firft of alll* Mältfindeth thx? aftrift* genty cold and äußere ifirth or Genkurewhfch is the cäufeofiheC^/wr^V Nature, or of the imaging faiTiioiiingor/ftfw/^ofathing. I »J •5 ^«V-Now if it1 were not for^ tfofe feVereflnd qoiä fharp contrading, com pafthig power., tlh^fc would be')*« natural or corporeaMbeing^ ncithct'cotild tfe* BtkfrVor Geniture of(W fubfift', and all wouldbc infearchable. *« ° M *• y^$. fcutin tnis J*ar<kfevere ant) coW po\ver fta^d-«h the corporeaX^eing, or the Body, wherein fte fpirlt of^rrre&^enerateds and ourof thst'JEiw fpifft the; lig(jt and ujiderßAndine is generated v^hereby then the ienfes andTryal or Probation of all powers, «Tothexift. '"■ ' ^ V Wk V! w4l $^; For when the Light as generated, it is generated, in the midft or Center of the Body, as a Heart or fpirit out of all powers, and there it -itancleth and rema iBeth in the place where it had its begimrrnc,, and goeth forth thorough all the powers^ ' ^ - #7; For a"slt Is Tgener^ed-oiiLof ail «power«, \and hath' the fountain of all powers, fo with its fhining luflre alfoitbringeth the Fountain of all powers/^ /oeacfo power, frorri whet, te then exifteth the taft and fmell, aifo feeing, feeling, and hearings asalfo Realem andunderftanding. ' * '* $6* r^owasrhe originall and beginning of the life, in a Creature,^ jfo is thefirft Regeneration of the Mature of the new Life in the corrupted Body of 'this world. And he that dtn^eth it, he hath not the trite under* «pA Of the mäfyiier. Chap.* tinder ftanding,nor any knowledge of Nature, and fo his knowledge is not generated in God, but he is a Mocker oSGod. l^ 97. For^firft behold! thou canft wit deny it, that the -Life'ln a creature exifteth in the He Ate of the Heart, and in that Life alio ftandeth theLightof the animated or fsultfo Birth or Geniture.
V ■$. Now the Heart fignifyeththeSa/?, which is the beginning of Life in this outward Body of this worldgand now thou canft not fay,that the animated or fouliili Birth goeth away or departeth from the Heart, whil'ft the Body ftandeth in the mobilitie cr Life.
99. No more doth the Sun go away or depart (remits feat > butretaines and keeps its own place, as a Heart,to it fclfe, and (hirtcth forth as a Light or asafpirit of the whole Body.
ioo. Tor its Birth alfo, hath a beginning out of all powers-, and therefore with its Light and Heate it is agaire one fti> it and Heart in the whole Body of this world.
II. i o i. And fecondly thou canft not deny neithc r3but that the Gall in a Creature, is not exifted from the Heartland yet is the mobilitie or i\ir ring of the Heart, by a Vein that goeth from the Gall to the Heart,from whence the Heate exifteth. But it hath its firft original from the fiajb of Life, and fo when the life generareth it ftlfc in the Heart, and the Light rifeth up in the water, then the ß re-crack goeth before, which rifeth up out of the anxietie of the water in the Heate.