and be you rightly informed, God the Father hath begotten us again in Christ, that we should with our imaginations enter again into the Word, viz. into the centre of the light flaming Heart, that the Holy Ghost might proceed from us again with miracles, power and works of wonder, as may be seen by the Apostles of Christ.
50. But since we have suffered ourselves to be held, by the seven fierce spirits of the Father's nature, out of his centre; and are not with our Immanuel, gone forth from our own reason and knowledge, and pressed into the life of Christ, that the Word in us might become man; therefore also all the six spirits of the wrathful nature, have shewn their might and wonders in us, and have let us go astray in Babel, so that we have not walked in the love of the Word, in the life of Christ, but after our own inventions in a forged hypocritical seeming holy conceit about the Will of God; and have not walked in the spirit of Christ, but in pride.
51. And because the seekers (in the Father's nature) have found out [black] arts, therefore they have trodden simple humility under foot: and because, in their own inventions, they have departed from the Heart of God, and so have erected an earthly kingdom for their voluptuousness, therefore all the six spirits of wrath have justly produced their effect upon them.
52. For though the Heart of God hath sounded a trumpet with a spirit out of its centre, and called upon people to repent, yet they had always rather take delight in their tender flesh, [and delicate life], and had rather follow the devil, who hath always, from the anger of God, sounded a trumpet contrary to it [viz. contrary to repentance], and hath stirred up wars and blood-shedding, of which the Revelation testifieth in a figure: And the spirit of God hath therefore declared the Revelation, as a clear glass.
53. And mark what the angel said; Seal what the seven thunders have spoken. The voices of the seven thunders out of the stern essences would be well enough hidden from us, if we did not put our imagination [thought, purpose, endeavour] into them, and open them in us: for in the centre of the Son
(in the meek love) they are not manifested or revealed.
54. But seeing the Word, or Heart of God, is become man, and that in him it hath assumed a human soul, to bring us again out of the wrathful nature into the glassy sea, viz. into the angelical world, to the wonders of the seven golden candlesticks; and because we yet lay hidden in the seven seals of the Father, therefore the Word of God, with its assumed humanity, must enter again into the stern matrix, into the sharpness of death and of the answer: And there the man Christ hath broken the seven seals in the soul of man.
55. For the Word of God, or the Heart of God which became man, and the human soul, which out of the seven spirits of God was breathed into man, from the spirit Mercurius, (that is, the spirit of the seven seals, which in the Word is called the Holy Ghost, and yet from the centre of the Father [is called] the spirit Mercurius, viz. out of the sharp essences, out of the fiery wheel, is mentioned before; but in the out-birth of the Father, through the meekness of the love in the Word, in this world, viz. in the third centre, is called air;) hath broken the fierce might in the centre of the soul.
56. For, when the soul of Adam went forth out of the Word, and entered into the third centre (viz. into the spirit of this world), then the centre of the soul was eternally sealed up in the matrix of the wrath, in the seven forms of the wrathful nature of the Father: and there was none in heaven, in the glassy sea, nor in this world, that was able to break open these seven seals: there was nothing else in the soul, but the eternal death in the horrible anguish, and in the darkness.
57. And there the mercy [or Barmhertzigkeit] brake forth out of the Heart of the Father, and entered into the human soul, and brake the seven seals of the fierce wrath, and kindled the light (which overcometh the death and the anger) in the soul.
58. Not that the soul was rent out from the
Father's essences, as if it were no more in the
and be you rightly informed, God the Father has begotten us again in Christ, that we should with our imaginations enter again into the Word, viz. into the centre of the light flaming Heart, that the Holy Ghost might proceed from us again with miracles, power and works of wonder, as may be seen by the Apostles of Christ.
50. But since we have suffered ourselves to be held, by the seven fierce spirits of the Father's nature, out of his centre; and are not with our Immanuel, gone forth from our own reason and knowledge, and pressed into the life of Christ, that the Word in us might become man; therefore also all the six spirits of the wrathful nature, have shown their might and wonders in us, and have let us go astray in Babel, so that we have not walked in the love of the Word, in the life of Christ, but after our own inventions in a forged hypocritical seeming holy conceit about the Will of God; and have not walked in the spirit of Christ, but in pride.
51. And because the seekers (in the Father's nature) have found out [black] arts, therefore they have trodden simple humility under foot: and because, in their own inventions, they have departed from the Heart of God, and so have erected an earthly kingdom for their voluptuousness, therefore all the six spirits of wrath have justly produced their effect upon them.
52. For though the Heart of God has sounded a trumpet with a spirit out of its centre, and called upon people to repent, yet they had always rather take delight in their tender flesh, [and delicate life], and had rather follow the devil, who has always, from the anger of God, sounded a trumpet contrary to it [viz. contrary to repentance], and has stirred up wars and blood-shedding, of which the Revelation testifies in a figure: And the spirit of God has therefore declared the Revelation, as a clear glass.
53. And mark what the angel said; Seal what the seven thunders have spoken. The voices of the seven thunders out of the stern essences would be well enough hidden from us, if we did not put our imagination [thought, purpose, endeavour] into them, and open them in us: for in the centre of the Son
(in the meek love) they are not manifested or revealed.
54. But seeing the Word, or Heart of God, is become man, and that in him it has assumed a human soul, to bring us again out of the wrathful nature into the glassy sea, viz. into the angelical world, to the wonders of the seven golden candlesticks; and because we yet lay hidden in the seven seals of the Father, therefore the Word of God, with its assumed humanity, must enter again into the stern matrix, into the sharpness of death and of the answer: And there the man Christ has broken the seven seals in the soul of man.
55. For the Word of God, or the Heart of God which became man, and the human soul, which out of the seven spirits of God was breathed into man, from the spirit Mercurius, (that is, the spirit of the seven seals, which in the Word is called the Holy Ghost, and yet from the centre of the Father [is called] the spirit Mercurius, viz. out of the sharp essences, out of the fiery wheel, is mentioned before; but in the out-birth of the Father, through the meekness of the love in the Word, in this world, viz. in the third centre, is called air;) has broken the fierce might in the centre of the soul.
56. For, when the soul of Adam went forth out of the Word, and entered into the third centre (viz. into the spirit of this world), then the centre of the soul was eternally sealed up in the matrix of the wrath, in the seven forms of the wrathful nature of the Father: and there was none in heaven, in the glassy sea, nor in this world, that was able to break open these seven seals: there was nothing else in the soul, but the eternal death in the horrible anguish, and in the darkness.
57. And there the mercy [or Barmhertzigkeit] brake forth out of the Heart of the Father, and entered into the human soul, and brake the seven seals of the fierce wrath, and kindled the light (which overcoms the death and the anger) in the soul.
58. Not that the soul was rent out from the
Father's essences, as if it were no more in the
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