1100. And thou Cainish church (with thy laws
and pratings, thy acute comments, and expositions
of the writings of the holy men [or saints] who
have spoken in the spirit of God) should look well
upon thyself, and do not build thy voluptuous and
soft kingdom so much upon those things ; for
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lthey are most of them 2in paradise; they speak i they that
out of the root of the holy element through the ^&
3 out-birth of the four elements, and many times jj c£d8pirit
apprehend (in the out-birth) the fierce wrath, 2 wl»>n 'they
which men had awakened ; therefore look to it,' 33?i?tt.ta
that thou build no stubble, straw, or weeds there- T^infe.
upon. If thou hast not the spirit of understanding
out of the holy element, then let them alone, do
not Maub them with the four elements, or else 'defile them
those things stand in Babel, it is not good to
build the four elements thereupon ; for the
Cherubim standeth between, and he will cut off
whatsoever doth not belong to the sheepfold ; thou
wilt have no benefit of it, for thy labour [or work]
stayeth 5 in the Land of Nod. 5 in gelf
2101. 0 Cain \ look but upon thy kingdom, and
consider what befell thy great [grand] father Cain,
who built this kingdom, who cried out, Woe is
me ! my sins are greater than can be forgiven me,
when he saw himself (with his kingdom) to be
without God, in the abyss of hell. And if the
loving Word of God had not recalled it, (when
it said, No, Whosoever killeth Cain, it shall be
avenged sevenfold ; and God made a mark upon
him, that none that met with him should kill him)
he had been quite lost. Those are wonderful
words, Moses' face is so very much under the
veil ; for the veil is rightly the Cainish church,
which covereth the kingdom of Christ.
102. Here is the clear and plain ground and
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3root of the false Cainish church ; for Cain had
made himself a lord of this world, and built [or
relied] upon himself. Yet now he had in himself
nothing for a propriety, but the first and the
third Principles ; for as to his soul, he was in
the first Principle, as all men [are], and as to
the body, he was in the third Principle in the
kingdom of this world. And now he should with
his soul go out of the kingdom of this world, and
press into the second Principle, (viz. into the trust
in God, into the Word of the Promise) to God, as
Abel did, and labour with his hands in this world,
and plant and build ; but his mind should be
directed to God in confidence, and should commend
1 rule or the * kingdom of this world to God, and carry
himself therein as a travelling stranger, which
only with this strange body is in his propriety, as
to the body, and a stranger only as to the soul,
and besides, as an ashamed guest, like a prisoner
in it, whose only study should be, to get again
into his true native country, out of which he
is gone forth with his father Adam; but he
let the second Principle, the kingdom of heaven
go, and yielded himself wholly with his soul
into the kingdom of this world, where he would
be lord ; and so the anger took hold on him,
for he went out from the Word, the promise
of grace.
103. And then the Word stood against him, in
the centre of the heaven ; and he stood (in the
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The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.