K Obfcrvt i\ 1 6 Of the Trinity the One only C od, Chap.IH.
Olferie here, the deep (Jktyften, 7*. All the Stars which men fee, and thole which they do not fee, they all fignifie the Power of God the^ Father: and out oi thefe ftars is Generated the£#/z, which is the Heart of ail the ftars.
73. Alfo there goeth forth from all the ftars, the Power which is in every ftar, into the Deep: And the Power, Heat and ihining of the Sun. goeth likewife into the Deep.
74. And in the Deep, the power of all Stars, together with the Heat and luftre of the Sun, are all tut one thing; a moving boy ling hove ring,\ike a Spirit or Matter. Onely it hath not Rcafon, for it is not the Holy Spirit ♦ an4.thus alii) the fourth Element mu ft adhere or belong to a natural fpirit 5 or itis nop capable of Reafon.
A, cc [75. And ' thm God the Father. goeth forth in hi* a Deep out ofaU his powers, and (jener ateth the ^Splendor the- Heart or the Sonne of Cod m cc his Renter,,] -£.. Which may be likened to, the round Cjlohe. of the Sm^ which fhineth upwards, downwards,.and on every fide j And fo the fplendor together with all the powers, goeth forth from, the. Sonne of God in the. whole Father* 77, Now, in the whole Deep of the Father, Externally without the Sonne, there is nothing but the 1 manifold and Unmeafurable. or.unfearchahle Power of the Father., 78. And the unfearchablc Power and Light of the I Sonne^is in the Deep of the^f ather, a living,all- powerful Cha p.III. Of the Trinity the One only god. $-j erful, ail-knowing, all-hearing, all-feeing, all-fmelling, ail-tafting, all-feeling Spirit, wherein is all power fplcndor and wiidorii> as in the Father and the Sonne.
79. And as in the four Elements, there is the power and fplcndor of the Sun and all the ftars: fo it is in the whole Dff/> of Lhe Father: and that is* and is rightly called, the Holy ghofl, which is the third iclf-fublifting Terfon in the Deity.
Of the Holy TRINITY.
So.
Now when we fpeak or write of the Three Perfons in the Deity, you muft not conceive that therefore there are three Gods, each Raigning and Ruling by himfelf,Uke temporal Kings on the Earth.
8 1. No.- '* Such a Subßance and Being, is not in, ortllc Tr<., God: for the Divine Being confifteth in power and nity hpth H# not in Body or fiefh. £uch fufc; 82. The Father is the whole Divine power, Being in whence all creatures have proceeded; and hath been God., * aiwayes from Eternity^ He hath neither beginning nor end, 83. The Sonne is in the Father, being the Fathers. Heart or Light, and the Father generateth the Sonne continually from Eternity, to Eternity 5 and the •Sonnes Power and Splendof fhineth back again in the whole Father, as the Sua doth in the whole World.
84. Alfo the Sonne is another perfon then the Father, but not Externally without or fevered from the Father, nor is he any other God then the Father is 5 K 2 his £S Of the Trinity the One only Go J. Chap.IIL liis povvcr> Splendor, and Omnipotence is m leßc then the whole Father.
85. The Holy Ghoft yroceedeth from the Father and the Sonne, and is the Third feif-fub fitting pcrfon in the Deity: As, the elements in this World go forth from the Sun and the Scars, and are the moving Spirit, which is in every thing in this world.
$6. So the Holy Ghoft is the moving Spirit k%-the whole Father, and proceedeth or goeth forth from Eternity to Eternity continually from the Father and Sonne } and replenii"heth the whole Father; he is nothing LeflTc, or Greater then the Father and Sonne; His moving power is in the whole Father.
87. Alt things in this World are according to the fimilitude of this Ternary. Ye blind Jewes, Turks, and Heathens, open wide the Eyes of your Mind: I muft fhew you, in your Body, and in every Natural thing, in Men, Bcafts, Fowles, and worms -> alfo in wood, ft one, leaves and graife, the Likenes of the Holy Ternary in God.
Ob,eBioi7* 88. Ye fay, there is but One Being inGodj and.. that, God hath no Sonne.
Affaer.
§?. Open your Eyes, and con fider your Selves; Man is made according to the fimilitude, and out of the power of Goi in his Ternary. Behold thy inward man, and then thou wilt fee itmoft plainly,, and clearly, if thou art not a fool, and an irrational Beaft; therefore obferve, 60. In thy Heart, in thy Veins, and in thy Brain, thou haft thy fpirit 5 and all the powers which move in Ghap.III. Of the Trinity the One only god. Cj in thy heart, in thy Veins, and in thy Brain, wherein thy Life confifteth,(ignifieth God the Father.
5? i. From that power Springcthupthy Light* Co that thou feeft, under ftandeft and k no weft in the fame power,, what thou art to do; lor that Light glimmcreth in thy whole Body ■ and the whole Body moveth in the power and knowledge of the Light, for ' the Body hclpeth all the Members in the knowledge of the Light: which fignifieth,God the Sonne.
92. For as the Fathtr generateth the Sö^p out of his power, and as- the Sonne fhineth back in thr whole Father; fo in like manner the Power of thy Heart, of thy Veins, and of thy Brain, generateth a Light which ihincth in all thy powers in thy whole Body. Open the Eyes of thy Mind, confider it, and i you mail find it fo.
93.. And Offerte: As from the Jacher and the Sonne there goeth forth the Holy Ghoft, and is a felf- -fubfifting Perfon in the Deity, and moveth in the whole Father $ fo alfo out of the powers of thy heart, veins and thy brain, goeth forth the Tower which moveth in thy whole Body; and out of thy light goeth forth in the fame Power, Reafon, Underftanding} skill, and Wifdom, to govern the whole body, and to diftinguifh.all whatfoever is Externally with* Extra out the Body. Corpm 94. And both.the.fe are but one in the government: of thy Mind? tiz>. thy f pi r it, which fignifieth God the Holy Ghoft; alfo the Holy Ghoft from God ru- -ktb in this fpirit in thee; if thou art a child of Light and not öidarkneße, $ 5. For in reipeft of this light underftanding and ' government, is man difiinouityed from Beafts, and is an Angel of God, as I mall clearly (hew, when I fhaM write of the Citation of Man.. $ 6. There- 1 ^d Oftfje Trixity the One only God. Chap JII. $6. Therefore obferve exactly, and take notice of the order of this Book, and thou wile find, Whatfoeve thy Heart defireth0 or ever longed for.
97. Thus you find in Man three fountains. Firft the "Tower in thy whole Mind, which fignifieth, God the Father 5 Then fecondly, the Light inthy whole mind, enlightening the whole Mind, which fignifieth, ood tne.sonne: Then thirdly, there goeth forth out of all thy powers, and out of thy light alio, a //*/>/>, which hath undtrftanding.
? 8. For, all the Veins together with the Light in thee, as alfo thy Heart and chy Brain, and all whatfoever is in thee, make or Conititute that fpirit, and that is thy Soul -> and it well fignifieth, the Holy Ghoft, which goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne, and raigneth in the whole Father: for the Souloi Man raigneth in the wjjole Body.
99. But the Body or the beaftial flefh in man, fignifieth,the dead corrupted Ear th,wh ich Man through his Fall hath fo framed it to himfelf, as more fhall be fpoken of in its due place.
100. The Soul contameth the flrft Principle, and the Soul's fpir it the fecond principle,/» Ternariofanfto, in the Holy Ternary^ and the outward fpirit^ viz. the Aftral,containeth the third principle of this world.
1 o 1.Thus you find alfo the Ternarie of the Deity,in Beads: for as the Spirit of a man, is, and Exifteth, fo it is alfo in a Beaft, and therein is no difference, 102. But the difference, lyeth in this, that Man is made by God himfelfc out of the belt Kernel or Pitb Chap.III, Of the Trinity the One only GoS. 71 Pith of Nature, to be his Angel and Similitude, and yedRuleth in man with his holy Spirit; To that Man can Speak difcourfe diftinguiili and undcrftand all things.
103. But a Beaft is made of the wild Nature of this World; the Stars and. elements \\2l\q generated Beafts through their- motion,. according to the will of God.
104. And fo- the fpirit in Birds, Fowles and Wormes, Exifkrh al(o: and all hath its three- fold fource infimilitude to the Ternary in the Deity.
105. And you fee alfo the Ternarie of the Deity in Wood and Stones, as alfo Herbs, Leaves,' and in Grafle: only tiefe are all Earthly.
106. However Nature Generateth nothing, be it what it will in this W7orld, and though perhaps« fhould (land or continue, but fcarce a Minute, yet it is all generated in. the Ternarie, or according to the fimilitudc of God, 107. jsrotp dkferve \ In either wood,ftone or herbs, there are three things contained, 'neither can any thing be generated or.grow,. itbutoneof the three fhould be left out.
108. I. Firft ttiere is thrower, from which a- Body comes to be,: whether wood,, ftone, or herbs. A> II. After that in the mm e, there is a S-aphi that thing, which is üiq ßeart of the ■thing P,? • HI. AadrtWr^y!tith«e-,is in *J*JH»M. flowing Power, Smell or Tafte,' which is:riie Jpfrit-öf'tht thing, whereby it groweth and encreafeth. Now if znf of rhefe three fail, the thing cannot.
10?, fk*$ 5 -2 Ofth e Trinity the One only God. Cha p.10 iop. Thus you find in Every thing a Similitude of the Terna* rie in the Divine Being; look upon what you will; let no man make himfelf fo ftark blind, as to think otherypife^ or to think that God hath no Sonne and Holy G ho ft.
no. I fhall make this more plain and clear, when I come to write of the Creation'* for I do not borrow of other men in my Writings: And though indeed. I quote many Examples and Teftimonies of Gods Saints; Yet all is written by God in my Mind, fo that I abfolutely and infallibly believe, know, and fee it, yet not in the flefh, but in thefpirit, in the impulfe and motion of God.
in. It is not fö tobe underftood, Chap.III. • Of the trinity the One only god.
flood, that my Reafon is greater or higher than all other mens living, but I am the Lords TfPiggor Branch, and am a very mean and little Spark of his; he may fet me where he pleafeth, I cannot hinder him m that.
iii. Neither is this my «5\£ztural WiI/9 that J can do it by my own fmall ability, for if the Spirit were withdrawn from me, then I could neither know nor underftand my oWn Writings', and I muft on every fide fight and ftruggle with the Devil!, and lye open to temptation and affliftion as well as other men.
113. But in the following Chapters you will foon fee the Devil and his Kingdom laidna- L, %ed9 flit Crettko of the Hot) Aagels. Chap JV.
tgd, his Pride and Reproach fhall fuddenly be difcoPtered.
■ The Fourth Chapter* Of the Creation of the Holy An InfiruBion, or open (jäte of Beavenö ;He teamed, and almoftafl Writers, have very much Cumbredr and troubled their Heads mightily, to fearcb contrive and ecu* ceive in Nature, fand have brought forth many and fundry Opinions) concerning How, and Of what* the Holy Angels were framed:: And on the other fide, what that horrible Fall of the Great Prince Lucifer was:or,How he became fo baft a wiclsed and fierce wrathful Devil; From whence that Svil Qxa* lay {houid Spring, or,, What drove him to hi- 2% And although this erouad a*»4 great Myftety hath remained hidden from the beginning of the Worlds and that humane flefli and blood is not able to conceive or apprehend it: 3. Yet God, who created the world? will reveal himfelf, mw at the Eiidrand all great Myfterfes will be jnanifefted or revealed.• to intimate? that the great Day of Revelation and the Final Judgment is ve*r> and dnify to be ejtpe&ed.
4, On Chap.1V. tfhe Creation of the Holy Angels. 7 ^ 4. On which, will be reftored again all that which hath been loft through Adm$ti& tn which the Kingdome of Heaven>and the Kingdom of the Devill fhall be fevered afunder> in this world.
5. But Hew all this will be done, God will revcal> in thehigheft plaihetfe, and simplicity, fo that ncr man will be able to Oppofe Him.
6. Therefore every one fhould lift up his Eyes, for his Redemption draweth near ^ And notfeek after bafe covetoufnefle^pridc and wanton luxurious ftatelinefle,fuppofing it the beft life to be Here 5 whereas in tlieir luxury, they fit in the midft of Hell,to wait upon Lucifer as/ is Guard.
7. Which themfelves fhall fuddenly be fur e to fee with great terrour, anguifh and eternal defpair, as alio to their ihame and fcorn; whereof the Devils are a terrible Example, who were once the faireft and brightefi Angels in Heaven, as I fhall reveal write and manifeft here following j I will fufferGods impulfe, I am not able to withstand it.
Of the 'Dfoine Quality s.
Since thou haft perceived* in the Third Chapter, the Ground of the Tcrnarie in the Divine Being, I fhall here fhew plainly., the pwer and operation, as alio the Qualities or (qualification in the Divine Bein&orjromwhat the Angels were properly and peculiarly created,. or what their flo^y and Power is.
9. And as I faid before: Ail the powers or vertues are in God the Father, and no man with his fcme and thoughts can reach to appre- L 2 hend bend it. But in the S tars and the Elements, asalfo by all the creatures in the whole creation of this World, a Man m ay clesrly know it.
io. All power and vertue is in God the Father, and proceedeth alfo forth from him, as Light, Heat, Cold, Soft, Gentle> Sweet, Bitter, Sowre, aftringentorharfh, found ornoife, and much more that is not poflible to,bc fpoken or apprehended. *All thefe are in God the Father, one in another as one power, and yet, all thefe powers move in his Exit or going forttv iL But the powers in God do not operate or qualify in that maner, as in Nature, in the ftars, and Elements, or in the creatures.
12. No; you muft net conceive it fo: For Lord Lucifer in his Elevation made the powers of impure Nature thus burning, bitter, cold, aftringent, foure, dark and unclean.
13. But in the Father, all powers are mild, foft, like Heaven, very full of joy, for all the powers tryumph in one another, and their voice or found rifeth up from Eternity, to Eternity.
14. There is nothing in them but Love, meekneffe, mercy 3 friendlineffe, or courtefie; even fuch a tryumphing, rifing fource or fountain of joy wherein all the voices of Heavenly joyfulnefle found forth, fo as no man is able to exprefTe it, nor can it be likened to anything.
1 5. But if a man will Liken it to any thing, it may nearefi be Likened to the Soul of Man, when kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghoft.
16. For then it is thus joyful and tryumphing> and all powers rife up in it, andtryumph> and fo raife the Beftial Body,that it trembleth: this is a true glimpfe Chap.IV. The Creation of the Holy Angels. 77 glimpjfc of the divine Quality, as the quality is in. God I But in God all is Spirit.
17. The quality of water, is not of fuch a running and Qualifying condition or mancr in God, asitfs in this VVorld; but is a Spirit, very bright clcare and thinne, wherein the Holy Ghoft rifeth up, a meer. power, 18. The bitter Quality Qualifieth in the fweet, aftringentorharfhand fowre Quality, and the £01? rifeth up therein from Eternity, to Eternity.
19. For the Love in the Light and clarity or Glorious Brightnes goeth forth from the Heart or Sonne of God, in all the powers of the Father, and the Holy Ghoft moveth in them all.
20. And this, in the Deep of the Father, is Like a Divine * SALITTER, which Imuft needs liken *or salnito the Earthy which before its corruption was even TRUM fuch a Saliner.
21. But not fo Hard, Cold, Bitter, Sowre, and Dark,but like the Deep or like Heaven,very clear and pure, wherein all powers were Good fair and Heavenly: But that Prince Lucifer thus Spoiled them -> as you (hall perceive here following.
22. This Heavenly Salitter, or powers one in another, generate Heavenly joyful fruits and colours s all manner of Trees and Plants, on which do grow the fair pleafant and lovely fruits of life.
23. There Spring up alfo in thefe powers and vertues, all manner of BlofToms and Flowers, wi& fair Heavenly colours and fmells.
24. They are of Several Taftes» each according t* its Quality and kind, very Holy, Divine, and full of 2 5, For every Quality beareth its own fruit, as it h 7$ TttfCreati&nof the Holy Angefs. Chap.IT» is 'm the corrupted murtherous Den or dark Valley and Dungeon of the Earth t, there fpring op all manner of Earthly X|ees,Plants, Flowers, and Fruits.
2 6. Alfo mtbin the Earthy Grow curious pretious Stones, Silver, and Gold* and thefe are a Type of the Heavenly Generating or Production.
27. Nature Laboureth to its utmoft diligenceupoa this corrupted Dead Earth, that it might generate Heavenly forms and Species or Kinds $ but itgenerateth only Dead, Dark, and Hard fruit, which are no more then a meer fhadow or Type of the Heavenly.
28. Moreover its fruit is altogether-fierce, cr biting,Bitter3 Sowre, a dringen t or harfh and Hot, alfo Cold, hard and naught 5 they have Scarce any ipark or fp ice of Goodnefiein them.
29. Their Sap and fpirit is mix'd with hellifrr quality, their {'cent or fmell is a very ftink;thus hath Lord Lucifer caufed them to be, as I (hall clearly fhew hereafter.
30. Now when I write of Trees,Plants and Fruits, you muß not underftand them to be Earthly >\ike thofe that are in this world: for it is not my meaning, that, there ihould grow in heaven, fuch Dead hard Trees of wood j or fuch ftones,as confift of an earthly Quality.
31. No; but my meaning Is heavenly and fpiritual, yet truly and properly fucb: I mean no other thing, Then what I fct down in the Letter.
3 2. In the Divine Pomp and State are efpecially two things to be confidercd • firß the Saliner or the Divine powers, which are moving fpringing powers.
3 3. In that fame power groweth up and is generated Chap.JT. TfolreatUtt of the Holy Angek. yp ted fruic according to every quality and fpecies or kind, lis. heavenly Trees and Plants, which without ceafing bear fruit, fairly blofTom, and grow in divine power^fo joyfully,} that I can neither fpeak nor write it down; 54.. But flaramer it like a child, that is learning to fpeak, and can by no means rightly call it,as the Spirit giveth it forth, to be known.
35. Thefecond form or property of Heaven in the divine pompe orftateis Uttemtrius, or the Sound, as, in the Saliner of the Earth, there is the Sound, whence there groweth Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron>_ and the likej of which men make all manner of Mu-ßcjl Inftrumexts for founding 5 or for mirth,as Bells, Organ-Pipes, and other things that make a found: Alio there is likewife aSound in all the creatures upon earth, effe all would be in ftillnefie and ßlence.
3 6. By that Jound in Heaven all powers are moved, fothat all things grow Joyfully, and generate very beautifully: And as the Divine power is manifold and various, foalfo the Jound or Mercurim is alfo> manifold and various.
37. For, when the powers fpring up in God, they touch and flirre one another andmove one in another, and fo there is a conftanc harmony, mixing or Conibrt, from whence go forth all manner of colours.
3 8. And in thofeCoiours grow all manner of Fruits; which rife or fpring up in the SaUtter, and the Mer* rn/iut or found uiingkth it (elf therewith, and rifeth up in all rhe powers of the Father,and then (bunding) and Tunes, rife up in the heavenly joyfulnelfe..
39. If you mould in this world bring many thoufand kinds of mufical Inftraments together, and all (houldg © The Creation of the Holy Angela CHap.IV.
ftiould be tuned in the beft manner moft artificially, and the moft skilful Matters of Mufick {hould play on them in confort together, all would be no more then the Howlings and barkings of Dogs in comparifon of the Divine Mufick, which rifeth up through the Divine Sound and Tunes from Eternity to Eternity.
40. Further, if thou wilt confider the heavenly Divine Pomp S täte and Glory, and conceive how it is, and what manner of Sprouting Branching delight and joy there is in it j 41. View this world diligently, and confider what manner of fruit fprouts branches and encreafes> groweth out of the Saliner of the Earth, from Trees, Plants, Herbs, Roots, Flowers, Gyles, Wine, Corn and whatever elfe there is that thy heart can find out: all is a Type of the heavenly Pomp.
42. For, the earthly and corrupt nature hath continually laboured from the beginning of its Creation to this day to bring forth heavenly forms or fhapes in the Earth, as alfo in Man and Beafts: as men very well fee that every year Wjw Arts are invented and brought to Light, which hath been conftantly fo from the beginning to this time.
43. But yet Nature hath not been able to bring forth heavenly power vertue and qualities, therefore its fruit is half dead, corrupt, and impure.
44. You muft not think, that in the divine pomp, there cometh forth, Beafts, Worms and. other creatures in tiefh, as in this World they do; No j but I mean only the wonderful proportion, power, vertue > and comelinefle of feature in them..
45. And Nature laboureth with higheft diligence, to produce in its Power heavenly figures ihapes or forms, Chap.IV. The Creation of the Holy Angels» %X forms, as we fee in Men, Beads? Fowles and Worms, as alfo in the encrcafe or growth of the Earth, that all things are done, fhew,and appear mod curioufly, Artificially, and delicately.
4^. For Nature would fain be delivered from this Vanity that it might procreate heavenly forms in the holy Tower.
47. For, in the Divine Pomp likewife go forth all wanner of Sprouting and Vegetation of Trees,Plants, and all manner of fruit, and every one beareth its own fruit, yet not in an earthly quality and kind, but in a Divine quality form and kind.
48. Thofe fruits are not of fo dead, hard, bitter, foure and aftringent a relifh hi food-, nor do they rot and grow ftinking, as thofe in this World do 5 but all confift in holy Divine power.
4^. Their Conftitution or compofition is from Divine power, from the Salitter and Mercuriw of the divine pomp, and are the food of the holy Angels.
50. If mans abominable Fall had not fpoiled it, he would have been feafted, in fuck a manner, in this world, and have eaten fuch fruit as indeed they were prefented to him in Paradife, in a twofold man* ner.
51. But the infectious Luft> longing and Malady of the Devil, who had infected and fpoiled the Saliner, of which Adam was made, that brought Man into an Evil Longing or Luft to eat of both the Qualities the Evil and the Goody whereof I (hail write clearly here following, anddemonArateit.
M Of 8 i Of the Creation of the Holy Angels. Chap.IV.
Of the Creation of Angels.
The Spirit fheweth plainly and clearly, that before the Creation of the ^Angels, the Divine Being with its riling and qualifying was from eternity, antf remained Co.in the Creation of Angela, as it is alfo at this day, and will io continue in and to Eternity.
53. And the Space Room at place of this world, together with the creatureiy hcavcn>which we behold with our eyes, as alio the Space or Place of the Sarth and S tars together with the Beep, was in fuch a form as now at tbts day it is in, aloft, above the Heavens^in the Divine Pomp.
54. But um the Kingdom of the Great Prince Luft, cifcr, in the Creation of the Angels; [« Understand " According to tie fecond Principle^ cut of which he rests cc tkrufi forth into the cuterweft, wlich alfo is the very in-*f nemojl of all.
5 5. Who by his proud elevation in his Kingdom, kindled the qualities, or the divine Saliner, out of C. which he was made; [cc UnderfUod the Center of " his Nature, or the firft Principle:] and let it on fire.
5 6. Suppofing thereby he fhould grow hugely and highly light and qualifying, aboye the Sonne of Cod; buche became a Fool, therefore thisflace or {pace in its burning quality could not fubfift in God> whereupon die Creation of this world enfued.
57. But this world at the End, in Gods appointed Time, will be/<?* again to its firft place, as it was before Chap.IV. the Creation of the Hoi) Angels. fore the Creation of Angels* and Lord Lucifer will have a hole— or dungeon for his eternal habitation therein, and he will remain eternally in his kindled quality, which will be an eternal bafe filthy reproachful Habitation, an empty void dark valley or dungeon, a hole of fierceneffeor wrath.
Now Qlferve; 58. God in his moving, created the holy Angels at once, notoutofaftrangewtftar, but out of himfelf, out ofhis w# power, and eternal wifdom.
5?. But the Philofophers had this opinion^ as if God had made the Angels only out of the light: but they erred therein, for they were made not only out of the light, but out of all the Powers of God.
60. And as I have {hewed before, there are tm things efpccially to be obferved in the Deep of God the Father.- firft the power, or all Powers of God the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghoft, arc very lovely, pleafant and various, and yet are all One in. another as one power.
6*1. And as the powers of all the flars rule in the Ayre, fo alfo in God: but every power in God Sheweth it felf with its operation, feverally and diftind- 6z. Then afterward the Sound is in every power, and the Tone or tune of the Sound is according to the quality of every power 5 and therein confifteth the total Heavenly Kingdom of Joy,and fo from this divine Saliner and Mercurm all Angels are made, viz. out of the Body of Nature.
M 2 Queftion.
o The Creation of the Holy Angels. Ghap»IV Qyeftion.
63. But thou mayeft here ask: Hot» are they made cr generated j or in what way and manner.?
Anfwer* 64. If I had the tongue of an Angel, and thou hadft an Angelical unde rftanding^we might very finely difcourfe of it. But the Spirit only doth fee it, and the tongue cannot advance towards it. For I can ufe#o. other words, then the words of this world: but now the Holy Ghoft being in thee, thy Soul will well apprehend it.
65. For behold, the totall holy Trinity hath with its moving Compofed compaBed or figured a Body,or Image out. of itfelf, like a little God, but not fo fully or firongly going forch, as the whole Trinity, yet in fome mealure according to the extent and Capacity of the Creatures* 66. For in God there is neither beginning nor end, but the Angels have a beginning and cnd,butnot circumscriptive apprehenfive palpable or conclusive; for an Angel can fometime be great, and fuddeniy little again, their alteration is as fwift. as mans thoughts are. All qualities and powers are in an Angel, as they are in the whole Deity.
67. But thou muft rightly underftand this. They are made and compacted together, or figured out of the Salitterand Mercuriw? that is, out oi the exit or excrefcence, 68. Confider this Similitude: Out of the Sun and Stars, go forth the Elements, and they make in the Saliner of the Earth a living fpirit, and the ftars remain in their Circle or.Sphear, and that Spirit likewife Chap.IV. The Creation of the Holy Engels. 8 5 wife gctteth the quality of the ftarres.
69. But now the Spirit after its compaction, is a levered diflinci thing, and hath a fubftance of its own as all the Stats have, and the ftars alfo are and remain fevered and diftind things, each of them is free to it felf.
70. Neverthelcfle the quality of the Stars reigneth in the Spirit 5 yet the Spirit can and may raife or demerfe it felf in its own qualities, or may live in the influences of the ftars, as it pleafeth; for it is free, for it hath gotten the qualities which it hath in it felf, for its own.
7 1. And though it had them at the beginning from the ftars, yet they are now its proper own: Juft as a mother when (he hath the feed in her felf, as long as fhehath it in her, and that it is a feed ^ it is hers: but when the feed is become a child) then it is no more the mothers, but is the childs proper own.
72. And though the child be in the mothers houfe, and the mother nourijheth the child with her food, and that the child could not live without the mcther, yet both the Body and the Spirit, which are generated out of the mother, are the Childs proper own, and it retaineth its corporeal right to it felf.
73. And in this manner it is with the Angels, they are alfo all compofed framed or figured out of the Divine Seed^but every one hath his own Body to it felf, though they are in Gods houfe, and feed on the fruit of their mother, out of which they were made, yet their Bodies 3re their proper own..
74. But the quality Externally without them, or externally without their Bodies,i;/£.their mother 5 is not their propriety, as alfo their mother is not the childs propriety 5 alfo the mothers food is. not the (hilds g £ The firp oreal Subfiance of an Angel. C h ap. V.
r bihls propriety, but the mother gi veth it to the child, out ot love, feeing {he hath generated the child» 75. She may well alfo thruft the child out of her houle, when the child is ftubborn and will not be Obedient j and may withdraw her food from it, which alfo thus befell the Principality of Lucifer.
76. Thus God may withdraw his Divine Power which is Externally without the Angels, when they elevate themfelves againft him: but when that is done, a fpirit muft faint and perillv 77. As when the Ayr, which alfo is mans mother» is withdrawn from a man, he muft needs dye. So alfo the Angels cannot live without their mother.
The Fifth Chapter.
Of the Corporeal Subftance Being and Propriety of an s/ingeU N Queftibn, I.
Ow here the Queftion is; What manner of Body forfn or fhape hath an Angel,or what figure is it of?
Anfwer. i. As Man is created to the Image and Similitude of God, fo alfo are the Angels, for they are the Brethren of men ', and wen in the Rej "urrelMon will laze no other form or Image, then the e/fngels haze, as our King CHRIST himfelf teftifieth, Matth.22.so.
3.Befides, Chap.V. The £oY$orealSub$ once of an Angel, i 87 3. Befides, the Angels never Chewed themfelves in any ot her form or (hape to men here on Earth, then in a humane form and (hape.
4. Therefore feeing in the Refurrection, we fhall be like the Angels, the Angels muß needs be fhaped and figured like us, or elfe we muß aflum to us another Image or fhape in the Refurre&ion, which would be againit and Contrary to the firft Creation.
5. Thus al(o M<*fes and Silas apyeartd to the ViJ 'rifles of Chriß in their own form and fhape, on mount Tafor, though they had been a long time in heaven before, (Matth. 17. ).
6. And £ lias was takenup into Heaven alive, with Ms Living Body> and yet had now »0 other form or fhape then he had when he was on earth ( 2 Kings. 2, verfe 1 1. ).
7. Alfo when chrifi went to Heaven, two z/ingels hovered in the Clouds 3andf aid to the Difciples; ye men of lfrael} what do you look after} This JSSUS fhall tome Again) as yo% have fe en HIM go away to Heaven 5 &t. 1. verle. 11.
8. Thus it is plain and clear enough,that He will come again in the fame format thelaftday, with a divine and glorified Body, as a Prince of the Holy Angels, which (hall be the Men-Angels.
$. The Spirit alfo teftifieth clearly, that Angels and Men have one and the fame Image: for God hath made another Angel inftead of Expulfed Lucifer and his Legions, out of the fame pkce5 wherein Lucifer fate, and out of which, he was made, which Angel was ADAM, if he had but perfevered in his clarity brightnefle or Glory.
io. But there is yet a Sure Hope of Refurre&ion* and g $ Chap,V. The Corporeal Subftance of an AngeL and then we fhall get the Angelical Clarity or Glory and Purity again, Queftion.
1 1. t{pw thou wilt aik; How are the tAngeh then Created according to the Image of(jod > Anfwer.
12. Firft, the compacted figured Body is indivifible and incorruptible, and not to be /Wf by Mans Hands $ for it is conftituted or compofedout of the Divine power, and that power is fo knit and bound together, that it can never be deftroyed again.
13. For as none, no not airy thing, can deftroy the whole Deity, fo alfo there is not any thing can deftroy an Angel -3 for every Angel is formed figured fet together or compofed out of all the powers of God, not with flefh and blood, but out of the Divine power.
14. And firft the Body is out of all the powers of the Father, and in thofe powers is the light of God the Sonne; and now the powers of the Father and of the Sonne, which are in an Angel creaturely,generate an underftanding fpirit* which rifeth up in that Angel.
1 5. Firft of all the powers of the Father, generate a light, whereby an Angel feeth into the whole Father, whereby he can fee the outward power and operation of God, which is Externally without its own Body, and thereby can fee its fellow-brethren, and can fee and enjoy the glorious fruit of God,and therein confifteth its Joy.
1 6. And that light zxfirfi came out of the Sonne of Chap.V, the Corporeal Subfiance of an Angel 8$ of God in the powers of the Father, into the Angelical Body creaturely, and is the Bodies proper own, which cannot be withdrawn from it by any thing) unleße it felf cxtinguifheth it, as Lucifer did.
1 7. Now all the powers, which are in the whole Angel,generateth that light; and as God the Father generateth his Sonne to be his Heart, fo the power of the Angel generateth alfo/Vs Sonne andJHeart in it felf, and that again enlightneth all powers, in the whole Angel.
18. After that there goeth forth out of all the powers of the Angel, and alfo out of the Light of the Angel; a fountain, which fpringeth or boyleth in the whole Angel: and that is its fyirity which rileth up into all eternity: for in that fpirit is all knowledge and skill of all the powers, which are in the total God.
19. For, that fpirit fpringeth up out of all the powers of the Angel, and goeth up into the Mind* where it hath five open Doors, there it can look round about and fee whatfoever is in God, and alfo whatfoever is in it felf.
20. Andfo goeth forth from all the powers, of. the Angel, as alfo from the light of the Angel; as the Holy gkoft goeth forth from the Father and the Sonne, and filleth the whole Corpm or Body.
Now Observe the Cjreat Mßery.
2 1. As there are Two things to be obferved in God: the firfi is the Saliner, or the Divine powers, out of which the Body or Corporeity, is: and the fecond is the Mercuriuiy Tone^une^or Sound. Thus alfo it is in like manner and form, in an Angel.
N 22. Fir ft j q The Corporeal Subftance of an Angel. Chap.V.
2 2. Firft there is the power, and in the power is the Tone or Tune, which rifeth up in the fpirit, into the Head, into the Mind, as in man in the Brain, and in the Mind it bath its open Doors or Gates-, but in the Heart it hath its Seat Residence and Original, where it exifteth out of all powers. * or to. 2 3. For the fountain of all powers floweth * in the Heart, as it doth alfo in man, and in the Head it hath its Princely feat, where it feeth all, fmelleth all, and feeleth all.
24. And now when it feeth and heareth the divine Tone Tune and Sound rife up, which is externally without it, then is its fpiric affeBed, and kindled with joy, and elevateth it felf in its Princely feat, and Singeth and ringeth forth very joyful words concerning Gods Holinefle, and concerning the fruit and vegetation of the Sternal Life.