The Revelation

March 5. 1680. A further Revelation upon the Last Subject, which I thought had been concluded, but the running Oil doth spring a fresh for an Addition, that so all help might be ministered, by way of Manuduction, to such high Spirited Souls, as shall resolve to Separate themselves, that they may be meet to intermeddle with all Wisdom; and thereby be enabled to stand before the Globe-Eye of Almighty Soveraignity. Which is a peculiar Prerogative, appropriated only to the wise and pure in Heart, who shall set themselves apart to follow the Track of the divine Magia, which by the Holy Ghost is prescrib’d: that so we may once more again stand upon Paradisical Earth; with our impregnable Circle drawn about us, to keep the Serpent, and all his brood of wild Creatures out from us. It will be well worth our waiting for every drop of pure Unction, which shall now fall for fuller Instruction, and be distributed forth, as the Spring-Tide of the Spirit doth in us rise. Which was renewed in this Word; viz. Learn to LIVE GOD, and GOD shall live Thee [Margin note: A weighty Expression from Emmanuel.]: his most holy Tabernacle shall be thy Covert, which shall be visible to the Sons of Men; that they may know the Most Holy One, in the wast and desolate places of the Earth, with his Own will dwell. Urging that foregoing Rule for this end, that the Magical Attraction of Faith, which ariseth from the burning Love, must bring God down to be all in all: that so the Humanity may be covered over with the Tabernacle of the Deity. Which will be our House that cannot be dissolved; though the Starry Heavens, together with the four Elements, and all their product do pass away: For though they take their original from the holy Being, yet they cannot abide for ever; because they cannot incorporate with the pure Deity. Therefore they must have their time to expire, when God shall descend in his most Holy Tabernacle. Now what will it be less than the rending away the vail of these visible Heavens, in their first and second Administration, and all shadowed Representations and Figurations; wherein some-what of Glory, (as a twinkling Star) in this benighted Day, doth appear. All which have but made way for the opening of the everlasting Tabernacle, where we may be clothed upon with the Magical Body of the Holy Ghost; that so we way know what it is to Live GOD. Oh! what weight doth this Word carry with it? Let us not suffer it to go lightly off: but take in what the Urim and Thummim doth advertise about this high Contaction. But here may be Inquired, What it is that may qualifie us to possess God’s living Tabernacle? Verily no less is required than for us to live God, and for God to live us; which is the wonderful Hypostatical Union, which Christ our Lord spake of in his day. We shall know Him in the Father, and so reciprocally the Father swallowing up into himself the whole Body of the Sonship; which is the height and luster of that Kingdom which is to come, and is to be yielded up to the one God, who is over all: Not that he will be a living Tabernacle to all; but only to those who are meetly qualified. Who are they then who may expect to be rearers up of this Tabernacle, which the Majesty of the Glory will fill? They are pure, holy and separated Souls, set apart for this very purpose, bearing the Inscription of Heavenly Magicians; as being principled in that great Mystery, and being made all knowing through the friendly Counsel and Revelation of the Virgin-Wisdom; who is the great Revealer of these Mystical Sciences, and Magical Arts; such as were practiced before this World, or its Craft were in being. But now the Wisdom of this World is needed, and universally exercised, by all ranks degrees under the present Fall: Regenerate and Unregenerate do both agree in this matter, and do make use of Reason for the supply, succour and support of the mortal Spirit and Body. But what will you say, if this good old Magical way, from which the whole Creation is turned, shall in this Last Age be restored and found again; for the redeeming out of the Care, Sorrow and painful Exercise of Mind and Body? This will be worth lending an Ear to; it being such a mysterious and advantagious Art, as will sufficiently pay the Cost of what we shall be Out in Attaining it. The ground we go on for this new way of Living, after a God-like manner, are the many Scripture Prophecies that run all in this Sense; with which agrees what is of late renewed to Some, who are waiting for their Lot within this New Paradisical Scene; being under the Dispensation of such Revelations, as are in order to give entrance into the Tabernacle of God. Where it will be natural to produce all things Magically; beginning first to exercise this Mystical Wisdom, and Power upon it self; as having an Old Creation which must be dissolved, that a New one may take its place. The Physician must first give proof that he can heal himself, before he undertake others. So in this matter, the true Magus is taught to make a trial of his skill upon his own inward and outward Defects; and thereby gain the Fearful and Unbelieving, that they also may come, and enter through this everlasting Gate: where the New Jerusalem Magicians are in their first * Paradisical Callings; which the Holy Ghost hath received Commission to put some holy qualified Souls afresh upon, that they may be leading Presidents to others. [Margin note: Methinks I hear some say, This is such a new Model as is wonderful strange; Pray open the Mystery of it yet more fully. Answer; I only can give out what the Measuring Line of the Spirit hath fathomed, and no more.] But it may be further Inquired, What this Magia is? And how it may be acted forth, to alter the whole state of things Internally and Externally? For this a greater Depth we have to sound From the Divine Abyssal Ground. It is thus made out to us, That it is a Rising Infinitum, that forms it self into a Birth; the Matter of which can no otherwise be described, than the Unknown Being of God himself, who is a meer virtual working Power in a infinite Being: From whence a flowing Source of generating Powers do Act forth, from what lieth hid so unconceiveably, as cannot be either seen, felt or heard out of it self; but only as it produceth great and marvelous Effects upon whatever it doth move: This is That which is called the Magia of the Holy Ghost, so defined, as He hath pleased to reveal it unto us. Now it remains to Inquire, By whom? and how this is to be acted forth? and for what end it is to be manifested after such an high degree? As to the first, By whom this is to be exerted, or acted forth? of this much hath been said already; we shall only therefore mention one thing, which is the principal Qualification of those to whom this Honour shall be given, viz. They are to take up a firm and fixed Resolution to follow this Magical Vocation only, and to reject all others that proceed from the Astral Birth, that do pour in whole Floods to drown the little spark of Faith, from whence the Magia Tree must first grow, and appear in all its various Fruits. [Margin note: Magia is the Faith of the operation of the Holy Ghost.] This I say, is that which is to be done on our parts, as we would be Adeptists in the supersensual working Wheel, which will run us into our lost Dominion, to be in God again. But then Watchfulness is required to repel, and judge down every whirling Motion and Thought, that shall rise to thwart the Magia Way; which indeed is nothing else but a most pure single act of Faith, heightned to that degree, as to become a kind of Omnipotency; if they can but get free from the Life of Sense, which is its great and home-born Enemy, which will hardly suffer the Soul to make its pass away: but follows still at the Heels; till the Hand of Faith grows strong enough to use the Magical Rod, which may break their binding Circle; that so we may get a swift pass into the boundless Liberty; and come to be expert in the Theosophical Science. Which is not of Man, nor after any rational Wisdom of Man: but as the pure fiery Breath of the Holy Ghost, that doth incorporate with the Fire-Essence of the Soul; and so drive it up into a Body of all-Magical operation. For the free actuation of which Life, we are warned to cease from all other ways and employs; and upon this only to fix our Minds: and to stop our Ears to the pleas and cries of the Senses, that would still have us to lie at the Breast of the Creature, when as nothing but Death, Sorrow and the Curse can be sucked from thence. It is indeed but Natural so to do, as long as we stand in the first Birth, from which it will be hard to get loose, till the Other come to rise in the Soul’s center. For in this second Birth, there is a strong force, which is able to overcome and break that Yoke, which hath been so often near strangling this Magical Birth of Life, that it could not display its free Breath. Wherefore let us now take heed and fly away from mortal Senses, and totally exclude them from that new erected Throne, Council and Court. Where in pure Abstraction, and Child-like posture of Spirit, we may wait to learn how to act forth, each one according to his Gift in this high and supernatural Magia. That we may speak out what Lineage and Birth we are brought forth in, after God’s own likeness in Power, Wisdom and Purity: to glorifie Him in a new Tabernacle-Body, Magically raised. The which being consummated within the outward form of visible Corporeity; the unchangeable Priesthood begins within the most holy Place: and is carried on, but not as in the figurative and fleshly Administration, wherein was need of Attonements and Offerings for Sin; which in this great and more perfect Tabernacle there will be no occasion for, Sin being ended; and the Holy Ghost having obtained a more excellent Ministration in us, to wit, Offering the first Fruits of Redemption, which in no fore-going Ministration was ever reached unto. March 16. 1680 But here it may be asked, What manner and kind of Offerings will those first Fruits of Redemption be? This is a Question which cannot be so fully answered, till we are compleatly perfected in this Tabernacle, which hitherto is only in rearing. But what of these Immunities hath been expressed by the great Priest, and opened from the Tabernacle-Testimony to me, shall be given forth for their sakes who may have right to bring in such perfect Offerings, to the most holy and separated Place; in the day of their Restoration, mutually with Us, who are expecting the Accomplishment, in all its divine Ordinances and Consecrations; for the Perfecting every Comer hereunto. But now to define what kind of Offerings we shall bring, as Priests to God; we must know they are the Fruits of the Magia, in their own out-flowing Operation, which actually send out a most powerful Spirit, from its own essential Spring of Spirit: wherein God is the only pure Original of it. What is it sent forth to effect, but a new Generation of Heavens and Earth? For the Magia worked in this manner, saying, Let the old Tabernacle, with all its shadowy Appearances, pass away, and be no more. And it is So: for the force of the out-going Spirit incorporates with the Word, and makes it Essential; whether it be expressed Vocally or no. The Co-centred Decree passeth into it: And then the Spirit carrieth all Power with it, either to nullifie and make void, or to give a new Plantation, and an heavenly splendorious Formation upon Creatures and Things, for a lustrous Transformation of what is fading and dying; that so Immortality may be renewed, whether in Rationals, Animals or Vegetables. The Matter now of the One Element is so immerced, and coagulated in a Magical Spirit; that it is able to give a Life, where ever the very Face of Death doth appear, whether dead, as to a Spiritual Life (according to that saying, And you hath he quickned, who were Dead in Trespasses and Sins) or otherwise, as to that which is Natural. Who is this Spirit in the Person of Christ, but the same Holy Ghost, in his out-going Power; that through our Persons so influencing, gives a Resurrection to a dead Life; whether in our selves or others; as cause requires? Then also it influenceth, as to the very mortal Life; to prolong it, and to secure it from Pain and Sickness: yea, from Death it self. But this quickning Spirit is yet only appropriated to such as have dyed and suffered with Christ in the Flesh; and thereby have Overcome the World. Therefore let none think that they can come to this degree of Power, Might and Dignity, till they are born again from the Dead: that is, to a cessation of the enkindled Life from the Stars, which generate earthly Motions and Thoughts, and work in a way of Sensuality; from which there must be a departing, in reference to those great Things which are to succeed. I have been often brought to see the limit of the first Born Life, that doth consist between Time and Eternity, in the stirring Essences of Sin. Whereby I am made so wisely knowing, as not grieve, or to have any Reluctancy upon the sentence of a total Expiration of such an injurious Life; as keeps me out of God’s Tabernacle-Body, where I can no more dye. Whereupon the Holy Ghost, out of the Virgin-Body, doth cry and call to such, who would come to be all-Magicals, to offer up their first-Born rational Life for a Sacrifice. And then of a truth we shall bring other kind of Fruits and Offerings: and no more as Tributaries and Servants to Sin, Beast or Dragon; but be freed, through the Rising Birth, that will mount and fly over all those, who have kept the other under, in great Fear and Bondage. In this we shall come to be Kings in God’s House, and to be of his own Family. Oh! what hath been here let down, by Golden Drops, from the Head-Fountain! Let it O God, mingle all forcibly for Life-contaction, with the more noble part within us: that so this great and perfect Tabernacle may be, according to its own secret way, compacted indissolvably; where we may securely dwell, and nothing of Violence, Oppression or Fear meet with; but receive Power from the rising Body of the Holy Ghost, to bear down, and expel whatsoever is against us. This is what the Lord hath by a signal Word averred: and he will see it fulfilled, as in any one such a Spirit of Resolution shall be found, to go forward in this great Enterprize; to encounter, and rush through every Throng, that would stop and put Them by, who are ready to Adventure their All for it. Now somewhat may be said as to those high Ends, for which God is resolved to raise his principal Magia; Which are These. First, To redress, comfort and relieve the groaning Creation, which is in spiritual travail; even such who are in Famine and Death, in Agonies, Sorrow and Heaviness through divers Temptations, and the Buffetings and Wiles of Satan. To these the Magical Balsam shall be given for Cure, from such as are first risen in the Tabernacle-Body of God. They shall bind all evil Spirits, and there shall go forth a virtual Power from them to do, as if Christ were in Person there. And in the second place, this Power shall extend it self to the taking away of all outward Maladies of the Body; and all Sufferings relating to Penury and Want; and all Weariness, Toil, and anxious Care for the Needs and Requirings of the Body.