The Author (under God) is very sensible to the fact that the subject matter contained in this Treatise will appear more than ordinarily strange to the greatest part of those who shall read it. Yet, it is not the least doubted that it will carry with it a Living Testimony for the confirmation of its truth, not only to those who are already redeemed from the earth to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth, being set free from the traditions, rules and manuductions (hand-led) of men, but also to some who may be yet under the name, mark and image of the beast, and of this worldly principle.

    This may sufficiently prove its primary Author (God), and demonstrate that the Great Shepherd of Israel is now desiring to lead His sheep into fresh pastures. The reception which the former books, offered through this instrument, (The Heavenly Cloud, and of the Revelation of Revelations [The Heavenly Cloud has been offered through this ministry under the title, Ascension Angels--Present Editor]) have found among the nations in the High Dutch tongue, is certainly greater than could have proceeded from any dead or lifeless testimony. To relate how God has blessed them and does daily bless them, as it appears from letters continually coming from foreign parts, would be to write a history.

    And if a prophet is not so much esteemed in his own as in another country, this is no new thing nor to be more wondered at than that our blessed Lord Himself did meet with the worst reception where he ought to have found the best. He was, as to His divine power, more a stranger and less believed in by His own town than by any other.

    The Wisdom of God is exceedingly wonderful in the choice He makes of instruments through which to Manifest Himself, so that which belongs only to Him may not be attributed to the creature. He takes up a meek and fearful vessel to make the most haughty powers to tremble; the youngest and most despised son of a shepherd, to make him a glorious conqueror over many potent princes and to leave a kingdom to his posterity in peace; an ordinary plowman, to make him mighty to command both heaven and earth, even to teach him to destroy his enemies by an invisible power and to raise up again the dead to life; a woman, to be a mother and savior in Israel when no man was found; and a few fishermen, to stand up against and triumph over all the strength and policy of the world. So that it must be said, "This is verily the Lord's doing and it is wonderful in our eyes."

    There is certainly so far from being anything of the refinement of man in whatever has passed through this blessed instrument, and such an inability in the subject to make use of it, that it cannot fail to give great offense to all that seek to be offended. So to those who seek more for the Wisdom that is from above than that which is below, there is here a clear demonstration from whence it must have proceeded. And I have permission to say here, that whoever in the meek and sober spirit shall desire further satisfaction in this subject here dealt with, the author will readily answer to such inquiring minds while still alive.

    This much is undeniable; that even though some may think that what is advanced here may serve to render some souls more careless concerning their future state and to stop their provision for it, there is not so much as a possibility of admission, even into the lowest heavens, without the New Birth. This is in accordance with the foundation upon which all this stands. Wherefore, it highly behooves everyone to secure that New Birth and to press forward with the greatest earnest so that they get entirely out of the hellish source and the evil nature, raising themselves up above whatever is elementary. Then, upon their leaving this visible world they may be found clothed upon with the Holy One Element.

    What I have revealed here might not have gone any farther than among a few confessing friends, except the same Spirit who revealed it was pleased to raise up, in a wonderful manner, a great and princely defender and protector of these divine truths and of the high mystery of faith. This person's name shines gloriously in the unsealed book of life.(1) He seems committed to do all that is needful for the promulgation of the glad tidings of the everlasting covenant and kingdom of God and man. This shall no doubt result in the building of the Temple of Jerusalem and the raising of the Tabernacle of David that is fallen. The effect of this will be more abundantly manifested by what shall be published hereafter through the assistance and direction of the great Master Builder, the Lord, Blessed forever.
   

The Contents

1. A Manifestation concerning the Eight Worlds, Regions Allotted to Human souls
2. A Further Manifestation concerning the Four Heavenly Worlds
3. An Answer to a Question
 

    "Whereas it hath been sounded in my ears that no new spring of revelation from Him who is ascended into the heavens doth come down, BEHOLD, I, JESUS THE LORD, have given and raised up, and will yet more evidently give and raise up, witnesses to contradict the unbelieving. They, while they continue so, will be excluded from this great and inestimable privilege of taking from Me and thereby of knowing the hidden secrets that lie in God, the Fountain of Eternity.

    "Now then, to you who have already borne a true witness for Me, I do give a further commission to go forth from an unsealed book within. Herein you shall meet with an immeasurable deep of revelation to publish for the universal enlightening of the ignorant and blind in mind. For as the result of this, the Spirit's day shall break up apace so that it may be known that God in His Christ has not forgotten to reveal Himself to the inhabitants of this lower world in truth and righteousness. But together with this, there will be that which shall take up a false covering of the Spirit."

    Therefore, my Lord did say to me that pure and right revelation shall not go forth naked or only literally, but clothed with power to the number seven, where the strength of an almightiness shall be guard upon its testimony of truth and verity.(2)

    Now then, I am to make report of some particulars revealed by the Spirit of Christ. The first of which is this: That the time is very near approaching in which the earth shall call forth the dead that have been buried in the body of sin.(3) For this end, a terrible blow and stroke upon the nations of the earth must suddenly come. God says He is wearied out with the sinful abomination of this world to which He purposes shortly to put an end.(4)

    For it hath accordingly been sounded in my inner ear that the ends of all sinful worlds are now determined by the great Creator of them. Upon this saying, I queried in Spirit with my Lord, "In what other worlds besides this visible and known world did the evil of sin yet remain?" Whereupon it was replied that such as go out of this world in their gross earthly life without a death to self or clarification, obtained through the waters of regeneration, and the blood of Christ shed in them, and so atoning for sin and trespasses (which not being entirely done away before they go out of this life, will still abide with them in their nature and quality after death), these pass into such worlds, stations, or centers which are most agreeable and natural to them. They do accordingly bear great varieties and sundry degrees of punishments proportioned to the impurity that is left in them.

    For sin does not die totally with the body unless there hath been a dying to it while yet in the body, by the Spirit of righteousness spreading over it. So because of this, a cry goes forth to all nations, peoples and languages to purge out the corrupt leaven of sin that it may not go with them into that world, or worlds, where their lot may be.

    It hath been revealed to me that there are eight regions, or worlds, that do receive the souls of all degrees and ranks:

- The FIRST of these is this mortal visible world.
- The SECOND is the astral or aerial world.
- The THIRD is the waterish elementary world.
- The FOURTH is the fiery dark world.

    These are all the worlds where sinful lusting may be, with punishments answerable until sin shall expire therein through the mediatorship and propitiation of Christ the Almighty Redeemer. For into the next four (upper) worlds nothing of evil or sin can enter to dwell with the inhabitants.

     For of these I must give an account as I have had them shown from the deep center and Original Being of them. I did not know, when I published my two last treatises, (The Enochian Life and Laws of Paradise) that my God would ever have made use of me any more in this way, the day of my life being so far spent and growing to its evening rest. But my Lord still follows me with fresh revelations and enkindlings from His own immense deep, which run as a fiery stream through me so that I find there is no resisting this all-propelling power. By such enkindlings are hidden and unknown worlds made manifest in this last age of times.

    Before I go upon this large and copious matter, it will be proper to answer the grand objection that is expected to be cast upon the reading hereof, "Since the Holy Scripture makes no mention of such various worlds and realms, how shall we give credit to it?"(5) In answer to this, it is given from Him who Was, and Is, and Will Be the true Inspirer to open new volumes of His mind which are not to be less honored and credited than the earlier Scriptures. The Old Testament has been appropriated to the ministration of the Father; the New Testament, to the Son; now the third day is come in which the Holy Ghost will have His.

    As for revealing and unsealing what was never before known or understood, they (the third day Scriptures) will excel all before them, and will be communicated to and by such as are sanctified and set apart in an extraordinary manner for this holy unction. For from this Spirit's Day, a new spring of things yet to be revealed must go forth, both as to the present and future state that has lain hidden within these mentioned worlds.

    This account I am more particularly to give according as it hath been shown to me from the Spirit of inspiration. For I write here from no other ground than what the Spirit of Christ, in the glass of Wisdom, hath presented to my inward eye, which pierceth into the deep of God's mind and is to be concealed no longer. For the Holy Unction is given for this end; to drop His Golden Oil, which will dissolve all those seals that have stood so long for a hiding and shutting up of those mysterious truths that a commission is now given to bring forth. This is in order for their being proclaimed and inscribed upon the pillars and temple of God's House.(6) Whether believed or not, it must stand as the engraving of God's hand.

    The first order is this corporeal visible world in which we now live, where good and evil births have been produced from Adam.(7) Such birth shall still go on to be procreated until the numbers shall be filled up, that are indeed to us as innumerable but numbered and known by God. Here a foundation is laid for His manifold Wisdom to be made manifest in a wonderful way from this first ground of natural generation. These births, after a limited time, must pass through the death of the elementary body to such regions as to which their lot will fall. As for such ranks of souls that die unregenerate, these, having no part in Christ and having lived ignorant of Him and as without God in this present world, go to their own direful place within the circumference of the evil worlds. There they will be proved and tried by the mighty God and Savior until the general restitution of all lapsed worlds shall come to be effected. But of this we will not further insist now, having more largely declared it elsewhere.

    4. Present Visible World
    3. Astral World (Airy)
    2. Waterish Elemental World
    1. Fiery Dark World

    Now therefore, beginning from below, I proceed to make known to the true simplified inquirers what the first and lowest of the worlds, or elements, is. This is entitled the DARK HELLISH WORLD, and is allotted a receptacle for Lucifer and the rest of the apostatized angels of that hierarchy by the only supreme Creator and Judge.(8)It may be also called THE DIREFUL AND BLACK KINGDOM, over which Lucifer is King, ruling there in the pride of his might in the wrathful fire. Now from hence it is given us to understand that such souls which, in the time of this life, are infected and deeply essenced in this satanic principle, being stained with all that is diabolical and leaving this life without being renewed and transformed in some degree by the light and love principle, must expect this hellish world to be their habitation and portion when they die out of the body. This shall be accompanied with all those punishments that the evil angels (spirits) shall delight to inflict upon them.

    Oh, that this dreadful place and company could warn and terrify all that are of this diabolical spirit! For who would ever endure, were it but for a year, or a few years, such intolerable sufferings if they might by any means be prevented?(9) This may be done if in holy fear they shall shun all those evils which lead here.

    So having no more to say to this Dark Kingdom, we must leave it to the fiery purgation until the venom of sin in every evil property shall expire by means of it, whether angels of the hellish source or such souls as have been deceived and captivated by them.

    For the creating fiat will move the mystery yet once again for the making of all things new. Then shall the old things of hell, death, sorrow and pain come no more into remembrance. (Rev. 21:4) God is said to be everlasting and unchangeable in Love, but not so in anger and wrath, for Love must drown and swallow that up.

    Now the elemental worlds, with their peculiar inhabitants severally allotted to them, are next to be searched into. Be it known then, that each element or realm, has a Spirit of another kind than what is known or can be seen amongst mortals. The fiery region has a spirit proper to it that is only of the nature and quality of the Fire. The Water likewise and the Air, each has its proper spirit to inhabit therein.

    In these are filled up the wonders of God's Creation having their several offices, known to the Creator, which are not yet manifest to mortals. Only this much is revealed and deserves to be known; that these elementary spirits cooperate and qualify with the elementary nature of man, both for good and evil, according to the propensity of the mind, however it may incline. But we shall leave this mystery until the one everlasting element shall stand open for unveiling these secrets and so proceed to let you know the state of such as depart out of this body. This I am to order according to their several ranks and degrees:

    The first I have already mentioned; those who depart out of the body in the diabolical spirit.

    The second sort is such as are ignorant of God and of their own eternal Being, looking no further than to an earthly animal and rational life in which they are swallowed up. Yet, these do darkly see something beyond, believing in God and Christ historically, and are convinced by the light of nature that they stand in need of a Savior and so falsely take hold of Him.(10) These, when they die, pass no higher than the airy region,(11) where they are to abide until they receive power and strength to mount higher. For in these elements the proper rest is not found.

    Now for the third degree of souls, they are those that are more knowing and believing in God and Christ. These are truly convinced of their depravity and lost estate, yet cannot come off clearly from the worldly principle and so do not pass through the strait gate of the New Birth of Regeneration. Still, withstanding all this, they entertain hopes of salvation through Christ. They believe that at death they may presently enter without more ado into the heavenly Kingdom, in which millions of souls are deceived.(12)

    They that are of this rank and sort have but somewhat a higher degree in the elementary regions, where their receptacle and mansion must be, until time shall wear out all the gross matter of the impure elements. And as they feel not much pain, agony or sorrow, so also but little pleasure or joy, because they cannot reach the vision of God. But redemption will operate in these and work through great distress of mind and reflection for the lost time and opportunity which has been missed to gain a higher state.

    Here a query may be put concerning the fiery soul that is eternal and breathed forth from God and found to lie hidden in the unregenerate persons. It may be asked, "Where does this divine and pure Spirit go upon their decease?" In answer to this, we may give you to understand according to what has been made known in the divine Wisdom; that the supreme Spirit returns to God who introduced it into the elementary (dusty) body (Eccl. 12:7).

    Thus God takes that which is His own to Himself. For this is a high graduated Spirit that belongs to the soul and, being smothered and stifled by the contrary principle, never came into any dominion to suppress and reign over the opposite nature. And so with relation to this, God said of the old wicked world that His Spirit should no longer strive with man. So that the soul, which never was renewed and born again, may go into deprivation and suffering, together with the astral and elementary part, for a known and limited time, until that which is elementary shall be refined and transmuted.(13)

    When therefore the set time shall come for God to move and open the one element that shall transmute all elements into itself, then the New Creation of pure celestial bodies in every region will be made manifest.(14) Here I must stop my pen, for the mystery of both living and dead is so hidden and deep that the Holy Ghost brings to light a new record which this present age cannot well bear nor understand.

    Nor will it be well borne or understood until there comes a breaking off from the old traditional knowledge and a weaning from the breasts of a strange mother so that they, as newborn spirits, may draw fresh unction from the Eternal Word of Wisdom, which gives light to the understanding and by which the counsel of the Most High is made known and all the secrets that can be desired are manifested.

Which leads on to the Four Heavenly Worlds:

   1. Paradise
    2. Mount Zion
    3. New Jerusalem
    4. Still Eternity

   The first of these is the PARADISICAL WORLD. This world is all celestial and a very pleasant state where there is a growing to higher degrees of perfection.

    The completion of this perfection is for the second world called, the KINGDOM OF MOUNT ZION. This is where Christ the Lord's Kingdom is in great magnificence with all the angelic principalities under Him with the elders, patriarchs, prophets and apostles.

    The third heavenly world is the royal and principal seat of God the Father, with the eternal Virgin Wisdom and the Seven Spirits. The title of this great city is called the NEW   JERUSALEM, where the Glassy Sea doth encompass it about.

    Then above this (the fourth) is that world called the STILL ETERNITY. Out of this were generated all of these worlds above mentioned.

    The Paradisical World. The inhabitants of this world are such as have attained to a good degree of regeneration, being born of the Spirit and have been partakers of the baptism of the Water, blood and Spirit for change and alteration. These qualifications are so that the principle of the Paradisical World might be opened in them before they depart out of the body of mortality. If such may be their case, then they shall find a swift passage to enter Paradise where, as plants, they spring and grow for an higher transplanting into the Kingdom of Mount Zion.

    It is very rare that any souls come up to be with Christ the Lord immediately upon the departing from the body, though I do not say that some may not reach to such a perfect degree of Christlikeness so that when they die, this angelical World may stand open to receive them. Such, being admitted into that high glorification may ascend from glory to glory until at length they arrive to the New Jerusalem State. Beyond this there remains no more to pass into except the innermost place of purity, which bears the title of the Still Eternity. There is nothing to be perceived here but everlasting rest, stillness, and silence. Of course, there are some particulars of each of these worlds to be declared at this time from the faithful Witness (Virgin Wisdom) so that it may be known who are made fit to inhabit them. 

It ought then to be made known that those souls which are born of God and so renewed in every part (the whole man being changed into a deified nature), must needs enjoy and know beforehand the joys and pleasures of these worlds to which they do belong. For the joys and pleasures of these worlds shall be according to that degree to which any reach in this lifetime. When they expire, such as are allotted for the Paradisical world, will have it open to them and in them at some time or other while yet in the body. For the spiritual property will qualify most interiorly, so the true mystical paradise puts forth its flowing glory in the inward ground of a renewed mind.(15)

    This is so that this Outward Principle and evil world does not prevent those pleasant golden springs from running to encircle and water every plant in the holy and heaven-born souls which have been renewed by the Spirit of Christ. Therefore, the Holy Trinity often delights to manifest themselves in the souls of Paradisical hearts and minds, now as well as hereafter.

    Mount Zion.  From here it was given me to understand that, as with the mystical Paradise, so also does the mystical Zion, by the same operation of the Spirit, stand open in the ground of this pure heart, gradually shooting forth and revealing itself in it. And concerning this more-than-glorious world (the kingdom of Christ in which He reigns with His perfected saints), it is shown me how the same light and pure principle opens itself in those souls where the Paradisical or angelic life springs spiritually.

    Every world or principle attracts to itself its own which belong to it. The powers and influences of each are sensibly felt according to the spiritual constellations to which one is born.(16) The vile and wicked sort are pulled and drawn by the power of the dark world. The heaven-born souls however are inspired and qualified by these upper worlds, and this is well known by some, so that Paradise and the Mount Zion World are manifested in their own original light in the center of the soul. From this center I do give a description of these invisible worlds as they were first opened within.

    From here Love, power, joy and peace do spring, and make heaven to be present in those souls dwelling with Christ. Also, all the angelical train, though not visibly seen is essentially enjoyed. But this is only to be known by spirits that are deeply introverted and carried out beyond a creaturely life.(17) When any worthy ones shall be established in this light principle, then we may expect that the eternal powers will move and work through such, to whom the dominion of Christ's Kingdom here below will be entrusted.(18) For this assertion we have many Scripture prophecies in Isaiah, Revelation and Daniel that do abundantly declare how it must and will be given to the saints of the Most High to possess the Kingdom. There is also a confirmation of this by a renewed Spirit of Prophecy that assures us that this day is very near and that it will be upon the world before they are aware of it.

    For as the man of the earth has had his ruling day universally, so shall the Lord from heaven descend in such a manner into His own prepared vessels here below, in His Kingly and Priestly power, as shall overturn and bear down all earth powers. Of this we shall speak further in the next step up to the third court or principality of God the Father's majesty.

    The Jerusalem City.  The Jerusalem City is more glorious and magnificent than what has yet been mentioned, far surpassing the glories of the two lower blessed worlds. As to the walls and foundations of it, with the gates that open into it, they are all so diaphanous (delicately sheer and transparent) and full of radiant light that it is altogether impossible to describe it in any degree as it has been seen in the Spirit. All metaphorical figures of it fall very much short of the excellence of its actual spiritual substance.

    The City mentioned here is God Himself, dilating and spreading forth His Godhead in such amazing varieties as to be impossible to describe. This is a principle and world into which none but Christ in His glorified humanity, with such high saints as are glorified with His glory, can have any access. Of this inconceivable abundance of glory, these do continually participate with Him, ascending and descending as cause requires.

    There is no pass into this City but through the Glassy Sea.(19) (Rev. 15:2) None do tread and stand upon this sea but such spirits as are qualified and clothed upon with the self-same matter which is all crystalline water and transparent fire. O, how I am lost out of myself while this globe of light and all the wonders therein do open! For in this interim, it was said to me, "Behold! All the weights of glory have I prepared not only for pleasure to Myself, but for such as do love and put on their Lord Christ in Deiformity and so, as conquerors, pass through the Glassy Sea to enter through the gates, having this City written upon their foreheads."(20)

    The New Jerusalem. Now it remains to open the more mystical sense of the Invisible Eternity(21) of this Mother City, the New Jerusalem. From here the Father, in union with His Virgin Wisdom, multiplies and fills up that principle with virgin spirits that are most perfectly pure and immaculate. Nothing of the redeemed can any arrive unto beyond this realm. Mount Zion Kingdom is most great and glorious, but inferior to the New Jerusalem. The reason is, the Mount Zion Kingdom is part of the Priestly mediatorship of Christ, but in this New Jerusalem all is completed and finished.(22) So when this New Jerusalem shall descend, it will soon put this old, sinful and impure world to an end.(23) Being able to give no more than a short and finite description of this infinite, eternal and all-glorious world, I am led to further open the mystery of it so far as it relates to this present age and to the saints who are to make up this city and bring their glory to shine in it.

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    Here it may be questioned whether any spirit or person in this mortal world can possibly become so clarified as to be a part of that High Court of Eternity, that is, New Jerusalem. It is clear that none may come here but those who have passed through the first two principles: Paradise and Mount Zion's Kingdom.

    The answer: it is granted that it must be so. Yet, it is not impossible for those of goodwill and obedience to be made suitable to this order, for these heavenly worlds will come down and open and diffuse their qualifying powers into them in order to make them partakers of this Jerusalem world.(24) These shall enjoy its spiritual substance, which will enter souls into a present most happy and blissful fruition of GOD.

    This is not spoken only by an intelligence revealed from the heavens, which is a great enough witness to confirm the truth of it, but there is yet another evidence as to where and in whom this City is already come down in its purity and brightness, though veiled to mortals here below.(25) The resplendent Deity may lie obscured for a time under the shade of contemptible humanity, but Virgin Wisdom's day will pierce through the dark pitcher of this earthly form to shine forth by her bright star. Even in this time of our eventide her morning light shall spread upon the earth.

    But methinks this question meets me by the way, "What do you mean by this Virgin Wisdom(26) who is the true Mother of the Citizens of this Jerusalem and the Princess of this Kingdom?"

    Of this I shall doubtless give the unbiased and godly inquirer a true and right account from the great knowledge that has been freely communicated to me, and of which I have made mention in some formerly printed books (Ascension Angels and Laws of Paradise [You may send for them at the address found on cover]). Now upon the opening of the four heavenly worlds, a fresh stream of her brightness has encircled my inward mind so that I might know and understand what has lain hidden in her secret deep.(27) This I am commanded to bring forth to light and manifestation. I must obey this command for publication and observe all her rules and methods.

    In the first place, we shall describe her Eternal Originality, which is from God the Triune Deity. Her Eternal Originality is that of a Virgin hidden in Him from all eternity. But, as to her nativity brought forth in time, I shall not speak in a proverb but plainly. God created Adam at the first to bear His own image and figure. He was to represent God Himself, the High and divine, Masculine and Feminine. Thus Adam had his Virgin within himself, in imitation of his Creator, which in time was brought forth in a distinct figure. This was a type of the Eternal Virgin Mother (Wisdom) who lay hidden in God, the center and heart of flaming Love.(28) From here (the flaming heart of God) the production of a glorious female figure was brought forth which was so co-mixed and mingled with Deity that she became God's Spouse and Bride, being Spirit of His Spirit.(29)

    Now be it known unto all, that from this Eternal Virgin Wisdom, a new generation of virgin spirits shall be born to make up the glory of the New Jerusalem City.(30)

    Jesus Christ shall be the head and the Firstborn of this royal and princely generation. He was conceived in the womb of that Virgin Mary after the way and manner of human nature, which was but a type of the Eternal Virgin (Wisdom) who brought forth the Son of God before all time. But Mary's womb was sanctified to bring forth that Christ in time, who was the Son of God before all time. And so the Eternal Virgin Womb goes on still, according to nature, to bring forth Wisdom's Off-spring by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost and the qualifying powers from the Jerusalem World.

    The next place I am to acquaint you with is the way of nurturing and the manner of education in which Virgin Wisdom's children are to be matured and disciplined. Because their birth is great and high, being heirs to the Father's Kingdom of Eternity, they must have all those worthy accomplishments suited to an (31)Eternal Kingdom. Such is required. The chiefest of these accomplishments, as they have been revealed by the Spirit of Wisdom, shall be declared and made known:

    The first proviso or caution which is given, is to be aware that these holy births are encompassed with an evil and sinful principle wherein are great dangers and temptations to prevent and hold down this pure thing from springing forth. Therefore, as soon as this birth occurs, it must deny and despise the image of the earthly sinful birth by which the heaven-born spirit will be daily proved. For Christ the Lord was not exempted from such temptations, so all must be tried in like manner until the conquest be wrought out. Therefore we are charged to forsake our sinful native country and people, with our father Adam and Eve's family and to return unto our first and ancient City of which God is the Light. This is the City which Wisdom rules through the Eternal Spirit and governs in all Love-sovereignty.

    This then being proposed, I come to give the particulars concerning after what manner Wisdom's children are to be educated. In the state of their infancy and minority, as soon as they are spiritually born, care is to be taken that this holy birth draw the sustenance of life from no other than its own Virgin Mother(32) whose breast must at all times satisfy and nourish it. For according to what it sucks in, so such a kind, nature and quality the birth is, for it draws in the spirit and life of its Mother. Therefore watch to it and hang not upon any strange breast.

    Question: "What kind of clothing must this Royal Birth have?"

    Answer: Though it is born a pure spirit, yet it must not be without a body (naked) and in want of that sort of clothing which becomes Wisdom's Princely Children. You may ask, "What is that?" It is a pure and fine robe made up of a Diaphanous Matter from the one Eternal and Unmixed Element which can never fade as did Adam's Paradisical body. That Paradisical body, though celestial, was yet alterable. When it withdrew itself, he became naked.

    For he had thus lost his Virgin Body wherein his strength did lie. But now again, care is taken in the New Creation that a body be fitly prepared for the making up the New Jerusalem Bride. It may be objected that none can expect to be made so ready and rarified in this lifetime, so long as they are clothed with the body of the four elements (as refers to nature--air, water, fire and earth).

    In answer to this, be it said that the corporeal body is but an outside covering, as the Badger's Skin was a covering upon the Tabernacle Glory. Yet I must distinguish between those who are renewed and born into this Virgin Mind and Nature, and those who are strangers to it. They who know nothing of it are in such a state only because they have not searched into their own deep where the (33)Original Matter of it doth lie. They who will not seek Him and find Him within, may and do wear out their clothes and go away naked without being clothed upon with this Spiritual Body. WITHOUT THE SPIRITUAL BODY THERE IS NO GETTING UP HIGH ENOUGH TO FACE THE THRONE MAJESTY.(34) So they must abide in centers of low degree until they can put on Christ's Resurrection Body. This is the Royal Robe in which the Virgin Bride, with all her offspring, shall appear at the festival day when the Marriage shall be solemnized.

    The Firstfruits of it (the new spiritual body) are given as tokens and pledges to Wisdom's Children by Christ, now in the time of His Betrothal, unto the pure in spirit who keep their Virgin Mind undefiled. He will, as a most intimate lover, make frequent visits, bringing to them choice spiritual food. This is so that the espoused may banquet with Him while the cup of Love is renewed and refilled as fast as it has been drunk.

    Oh, is this not a Ravishing Love which our Emmanuel confers upon this degree of persons, considering that we are yet but in our minority and carrying the profane appearance of a mortal cast? Out from this delightful relationship shall He give such a drawing and shaking as shall make the vile and gross image which we now bear to be more fine than the Gold of Ophir. It is by means of the Superior Element (the Royal Robe of the Resurrection Body) co-mingling with our minds which shall qualify and cause the Light to arise in a shining brilliance (as at Christ's transfiguration--Editor). This co-mingling shall bring one up into the unity of the Lord's glory.

    Now, having given you an account of the Seven Worlds, with the inhabitants assigned to fill them up, I will proceed to the Eighth. It is the beginning and the highest of all worlds, called the Still Eternity. It is impossible for anyone to describe or give an account of this world. They must be taken up into it in order to know it.

    Yet there is a freedom to attempt a description according to what hath been seen in this world by a spirit (Jane) that has been translated there. It may be most properly entitled, the Highest Principality of the Triune Majesty. The situation of it is founded upon an abyssal deep. From this place an inaccessible light generates and spreads itself without bounds as a vast globe of Eternity. God is here to be known and understood abstractly from Eternal Nature as abiding in His own simplified Deity before either the angels or any other creatures were created. Here the Holy Trinity dwells in the meek stillness, enjoying themselves before they brought forth any image or likeness of themselves. For in this high and lofty sphere, no figures of glory can be seen. Yet, great powers did move here, and various wonders did appear, sending forth a majestic awesomeness.

    Question: "What are the wonders of this world, since there is nothing of figure or form to be seen in it? Is neither the Father, the Son nor the Holy Ghost to be known here in any distinction?"

    Answer: It is verily so that there is no form nor figure to be seen herein [I MUST EXPLAIN SOMETHING HERE, USING THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTURE:  John 6:46  "Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God".  One must be "of God" before one can see - and indeed, feel, THE BELOVED MOST HIGH.  Rev. 22:3, 4 "And there shall be no more curse:  but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve Him:  And they shall see His Face; and His Name [shall be] in their foreheads."  Jane Leade does mention later on that she is "short" of this realm so she would not "see" Him.]  she continues:  yet verily the blessed trinity have their existence together in each other. The fullness of the Godhead dwells here without body [but not without SUBSTANCE, SUBSTANTIVE SPIRIT!!!], with His Virgin Wisdom [His Spouse] and the Seven Spirits [I BELIEVE THESE ARE WHAT IS KNOWN IN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AS THE ARCHETYPES!!!  NOT THE ARCHETYPAL IMAGES, BUT THE ARCHETYPES, THE PURE FIRSTBORN RESIDENT IN THE CHRIST, MAKING UP THE CORPORATE BODY OF THE ARCHETYPE OF WHOLENESS]. All of these [in corporate onesness, the FULNESS of GOD] do open themselves from an Infinite Source, and from thence all the creating powers do flow forth, for this is the Abyssal World, the Still Eternity, from which all other worlds were created.

    Question: "What further wonder did you see here?"

    Answer: A glorious and wonderful element was seen as innumerable sparks of light. As our outer atmosphere is full of stars, so this element was bespangled with these lights. Upon inquiry by the spirit (Jane) who was caught up there, what these might be, it was answered that these were simplified spirits that were ordained to beautify that globe and to attend the Triune Deity there, from whom they are generated. (35)Their only activity is to be ever watching the Eye to see when it would send them forth to assume bodies. These are all pure, meek and mild spirits which perfect whatsoever and wheresoever they enter. These are the spirits that will sublime and make bodies to become all divine.

    Question: "From whence was the birth of these pure spirits?"

    Answer: From God the Father in conjunction with the Eternal Virgin Wisdom who brought them forth.(36) Upon this, I was advised as to how these spirits are reserved in this High Globe until Wisdom's Day should break forth as the Morning Star upon this visible world. Then they are to go forth to multiply and make a Princely Host to display God's wonders throughout all nations.(37) This is so that this world of misery and mortality may see a more happy day from the influence and operation of this world of Eternal and meek Stillness. The world of the Still Eternity will infuse its powers and qualify those souls that were preordained before all worlds, to be anointed after this manner. That is, by means of (38)simple abstraction, and this simple abstraction is the result of these pure and eternal spirits being generated out from God in His Still Eternity. They fill up this globe of the majesty of the Triune God, who generated them out of Himself before the creation of angels or any other beings.

    These spirits are the firstborn out of the Womb of the Eternal Virgin which have been hid in God before there was any figurative manifestation. They will therefore enter into holy, elected souls with such penetrating powers as shall give another tendency of mind, bringing the soul into an Eternal Stillness, and quieting all the working properties and multiplicities in the region of nature. There shall then be no awakening or stirring of that former soulishness which existed because of its connection with the earthy body.

    The characteristic of the spirits is to do and act always in a still and silent way.(39) From there the greatest power and force shall most effectually go forth. It was told me that as these spirits of light, naked and unbodied, did fill up the Globe of the Unbodily Majesty in Trinity, so should it come to pass in the fullness of time, when Wisdom's Firstborn should be revealed, that this world or globe should descend into manifestation(40) and open in the Virgin Offspring of Wisdom. It is by and through Wisdom alone that the mighty deeds and works will be accomplished in order that it may be plainly known that they are wrought only in God. All counterfeit acts of this kind shall fall down as Dagon before the Ark so that no dark wisdom shall be able to stand. For in this day, all false coverings shall be torn away so that the true and right acts of the Spirit may be known.

    Now this new model is passive in spirit, soul and body, so that no other motion of life may be known except that which the Triunity begets as pure and simplified spirits, as innumerable as our thoughts. These holy, mild and quietened spirits shall multiply and populate in those who have been accordingly prepared for them. For it has been further shown to me that the very images of the mind should be all of a Deified Impression and of a most deep engraving from the Most High Majesty.

    Thus it is given to let you understand that as the outward mortal eye observes the objects and things of this world, causing thoughts to arise and multiply accordingly, so likewise these spirits, proceeding immediately from the Fountain Source of all spirits, see and behold their Original Being (the Father), and can do nothing but contemplate and delight themselves in what the Eye of God sees in them and His Ear hears in them.

    They (spirits) have no organical speech, but only pure thought. They thus generate according to what they see and hear in that globe of Eternity which fills them with exulting joy. Now be it known that when, by the Holy Ghost, the time shall come for their descent into corporeal beings here or elsewhere, their Eye shall become our Eye and their Ear ours in upper mansions. This is so that we, seeing and hearing in them, to whom all invisible Kingdoms do stand open, shall have thoughts of a right kind to spring into and dwell in our minds according to and agreeable with the objects presented.

    This shall be accompanied with a great variety of glories, inasmuch as it quite turns the stream, making that which was formerly downward and earthy now become upward and heavenly. Oh blessed time and day when this Still Eternity shall thus open and be made manifest in visible bodies! I AM GIVEN TO KNOW THAT THIS SHALL SURELY BE! It has been revealed that when these spirits shall descend into nature, a transfiguration will so continually be impressed upon the mind, producing an incessant generation of high and holy thoughts that are no less than the very nature and quality of these simplified spirits themselves.

    We are hereby permitted to look always into the Orb of Light and Love and to steadfastly fix there the Eye of the Mind. Thus, glorification may be brought down upon the visible Elementary body while remaining here at certain seasons and times of more intimate union and commixture with these powers. Then, as occasion may be, mortality shall be hidden, or swallowed up in immortality, to make good that saying, "We shall not all die." We shall be changed from glory to glory by this bright influence, namely, these simplified spirits, through the Father of Spirits.

    Question: "Is not the Holy Ghost assigned for this great change and work of renovation? And where do we read in the scripture of such a globe or world having such spirits inhabiting it?"

    Answer: It is true, the Holy Ghost is sufficient as being deputized and promised by the Lord Christ for the perfecting of Regeneration, or New Creation. (41)But what if it is the wise designation and pleasure of God and His Eternal Wisdom to separate such pure spirits from His own Fountain-source; to put a new face of glory upon what is so deformed and vile through the variety of His operating spirits and powers immediately proceeding from Himself, and thereby effect the counsel of His will relating to this lapsed creation?

    They are therefore most fit to open the depths that lie deeper than nature and creature, being brought forth for procreation of the inhabitants of the several worlds before any elements were in existence. All of these elements are to give place to that superstructure and building which shall be God Himself quite throughout His whole creation. For although (42)seven thousand years may be expired in the miseries and temptations of an elementary life in this outward and other invisible regions, yet what are these to a God who is an Eternal Circle which can never end? In this Circle of a boundless Eternity, the infinite and All-powerful God has much more to do in all worlds than what has been declared in Scripture or made known by any other means.

    All prophecies and revelations in Scripture records extend no further than to the limits of the seventh thousand years sabbath. What will successively be produced between this age and that great Jubilee, both in this visible world and in those invisible worlds I have mentioned, cannot now be spoken of in particular. In short, there will certainly be most strange and wonderful changes throughout the whole Globe of Eternity for higher admiration than is yet contemplated.

    God is so full of an infinite store that He must bring forth Himself perpetually in a variety of wonders. Let none therefore presume to set bounds or limits to the Wisdom and power of the immense Being, to shut Him up to this or that measure or degree, age or time. He has always moved in eternal liberty for the revealing and making known the counsel of His will and does not close up or restrict worthy inquirers and seekers of His mind from fathoming the treasures of His Wisdom.

    These treasures are so manifold that they are to be renewed in every generation, according as I myself have experienced in my age of time (as the volumes of my writings do give witness to), proving that revelation has no cessation but is daily renewed in vessels and instruments fitly qualified to receive it.

    Otherwise I could never have known what is written here or been able to give any account of the several worlds, regions or centers, had they not been shown to me. Therefore, this is much pressed upon me, knowing that it may be the last testimony I leave behind of this nature, to declare unto such as would know the mind and secrets of God. Thus, a special charge is given from the High Court of Eternity that you do not shut yourselves up to any foregoing dispensation or revelation. No, not to the Scripture record itself, which is truly weighty and worthy to be received, believed in and conformed to.

    Yet it is not to be taken up and rested upon as if there were nothing more to be revealed for the benefit and instruction of mankind, since the same Spirit that did heretofore inspire the Holy men of God to record them is now in this last day more abundantly shed forth to multiply additional volumes of Scripture. For whatsoever is purely dictated by the Holy Ghost may be called by that name (Scripture). That which came by the Spirit before Christ's appearing in flesh, the patriarchs and prophets called Scripture.

    Also, that which then was succeeded by a newer administration of the Spirit, the former being fulfilled in Him, was also called Scripture. This He promised should excel all that went before for a more plentiful sowing of the sacred unction in the holy ground of pure hearts. The Sower hereof is, according to His promise, gone forth, but where stony, thorny and unbelieving ground is, it cannot enter to take root. Such unbelief has hitherto, for a long time, caused a great scarcity and famine of the Spirit with all its fruitfulness. But now the day of the Spirit is arising and its bright Sun shall no more set, but multiply to its seven-fold light.

    "Hear and hearken, Oh England's inhabitants! For unto you a great light has shined. Oh, let it not cloud and pass over you but be a wife in this your day to follow the Spirit's bright guiding Star which is arising amongst you. Oh, London! There is hid in you those who have a true and right mission from the Munitions Rock, to give out the waters of the Spirit plenteously. For a cry is gone forth for persons to be prepared and sanctified by this Water of Life, so that they may receive of the Holy Ghost and be witnesses of His power.

    "Hear and hearken in the Spirit. Oh, hearken and you will hear the Seventh Trumpet sound from the seven Spirits before the throne that tell you the mystery of time is no longer delaying. They declare to you that the Everlasting Gospel of the Love is opening and that the heavens are ready to roll down to open their glory upon the earth so that the inhabitants thereof may no longer lie buried in the dark shade of an earthly life.

    "Over thee, O City of London! A mighty angel flies with this thundering cry, "Do not despise prophecy, neither criticize the Ark of the Living Testimony from which, as a flowing stream, the Spirit must renew Paradise upon earth. This warning is given to all ranks and degrees, whether high or low, whether in the outward grandeur or in the private and interior means of this world. Even to you each and everyone does this call reach!

"Shake, shake your earthy dust away,

    For scepters and crowns must be thrown down to the Lamb of God. He is, in His saints, come to reign. Wherefore all nations, languages and peoples, not only here in this dominion, but beyond the seas everywhere, must hear the sound of this trumpet. For a mighty (43)Cyrus is already raised whom the Most High will uphold and endue with His Spirit in such a manner that he shall be able to bring forth His temple-glory and praise. Then, out of all kingdoms, countries and languages there shall be a gathering as of eagles, that they may fly to that high mountain where the Olive Tree will drop the unctuous Oil most freely. This is the Oil that I see run so in Spirit. And I see that some in all nations will herewith be shortly sprinkled to give notice that the Omnipotent King is entering upon His thousand years reign.(44)

    Thus, in answer to the grand objection, "How should there be any world or worlds besides what the Scripture has mentioned," it is demonstrated that there is a continual succession of the Spirit of Revelation that is never to cease but is to increase yet upon the earth more than ever, as will be known and witnessed in this very age.(45)

    I must now draw to the conclusion of this world called the Still Eternity, concerning which I have this to declare from what I was permitted to know when taken up into it. I was shown and taught these three particulars worthy to be observed: First, that no entrance for habitation is found here (Still Eternity) by any departed Spirit, though arrived to ever so high a degree of perfection. No, it was said that even Christ Himself, as the First-born from the dead and as glorified in our humanity, did not ascend up to the Still Eternity. The unity in the Godhead is always here in abstraction, but not in His personality. This Globe and inmost Court is reserved for a greater mystery than is yet to be made known.

    Only this much was I informed with respect to it; that out of this Still Eternity, the Deity, in and through the Eternal Dilating Eye(46), forecasts His own working properties to manifest Himself in nature and thereby generate out of the Eternal Meek Stillness, the creating powers from the Trinity. It was these powers issuing from here which brought forth, in the first place, the angelical world, furnishing it with angelical Spirits and proceeding to the rest of the above-mentioned worlds.

    The second thing we are to note is that this closed Principle and Highest Court (Still Eternity) of the Triune God and His Virgin Wisdom (with her offspring of simplified spirits), is not to be opened until the will and pleasure of God the Creating Father shall move Himself to do so. He shall then open it through these mild and pure spirits for some new manifestation and alteration of that which is found defective in the created worlds. This is so that by a renewed creating power going forth in this manner, out from the Still Eternity, another face of more excellent beauty and more transcendent glory may, for an everlasting establishment, come over that which has been under a lapse and apostasy.(47)

    How finite and short is all that can be said or even imagined in comparison with those more amazing and stupendous changes that still add to the glory of God's workmanship in His New Creation.

    As to the third particular that we are to take notice of--the order, union and equal degree of these spirits in this Globe of Eternity--we can but just hint at it.

    This unity and co-equality of theirs is manifested by their operations. They are in their working motion most active, but all their acts and powers go forth in a most profound Stillness; the Deity co-operating through them, by which an influencing Stillness passes forth from them to the inhabitants of the other worlds. And yet these spirits remain all the while immoveable within their own principle and center, moving according as the Deity glimpses forth in them with the Governing Eye which gives them their all-seeing commission which, in a delightful obedience, they never fail to execute. Neither can they do otherwise, being unalterably fixed in the moving power of the Holy Ghost.

    Having now given a faithful and true description of these Eight different Worlds, not from history but from the revealed mystery, according to the measure of communication of the Spirit of Christ,⁽⁴⁸⁾ it remains to consider what use and application may be made by the readers of these deep and weighty things that have been unveiled here.

    In the first place, then, with the deepest humility, we are hereby called upon to consider the essential Cause and Founder of these Worlds, who produced them all out of an Abyssal Deep and an Eternal Nothingness. 

    Secondly, we are called upon to more greatly appropriate to God what is more immense than immensity and greater than all greatness, higher than all heights, deeper than all depths and more perfect than all perfections. He makes His dwelling in an Eternal Circle of Love, Power and Wisdom, filling all these Worlds with the fullness of His Godhead, made manifest in the express image of His glory, namely in the second number of the Three that bear record in heaven (the Son). 

    Thirdly, we are stirred to consider what we mortals are, from whom our descent is, and what manner of spirit we consist of and exist by. For until we understand our own Eternal Being, we cannot know God, the Being of all Being. As we are the inbreathed soul from God, we live in His essence. This is the glass through which we may see and know the invisible Deity and thereby also know ourselves as we consist of the higher principles and Worlds above, as likewise of those below. 

    They all correspond with the immortal and also with the elementary part in us, for most wise and wonderful ends. Oh, How great is the mysterious greatness of the soul that lies veiled, covered and unknown to itself? The body of outward sensibility shuts it up from understanding its own power, as it is an essence derived from God and an outflowing Breath from the Most High Majesty. The earthy life binds it down in all men until Christ in Spirit enters to make it free in His own liberty by quickening the dead essence of these principles of Light, Love and Power. 

    By this the soul is restored to its pre-existing and true nativity in God, which is apt to be forgotten if not continually revived in the mind. Being thus exercised, such a remembrance will put a check and awe upon it from the consideration of what it is and to whom it must return, as to its own Eternal Center.

    Being come to the conclusion of this subject, I must be permitted to fulfill my commission from the High and Heavenly Court and leave this word of caution and exhortation to those who would see full redemption and be glad to be set free from all fears, doubts and concerns upon that account. Watch against all baseless objections and commotions that are apt to arise in the mind by way of opposition to the pure inspiration of the Holy Spirit.⁽⁴⁹⁾

    Oh! Grieve Him not, neither in yourselves nor in any other, remembering that you have Him for a Counsellor and Comforter and for a Key to open the Heavenly Worlds to you and to give you an inheritance in them. The assurance whereof will be perfect joy, peace and glory, as some do truly witness and do give it forth as their experience. They therefore advise and exhort all to whomsoever may come in this nation (in her day England, but now America) or in any remote places where God is pleased to have it published,⁽⁵⁰⁾ that they seriously study and soberly ponder what hath been unveiled and declared here by the Wisdom of God. It is a Seal broken up which belongs to this present age, wherein knowledge is to increase in order to prepare for the great Day that has been prophesied concerning the daughter of Zion's Kingly Dominion.

    Oh, come forth! Be no longer hidden, ye precious Stones of Zion, whithersoever scattered and dispersed. Whether near or afar off, at home or beyond the seas, wherever ye lie hidden, come forth. 

    To you the Golden Bells from the Eternal Worlds sound out their alarm to draw you into them, where, as to your own people and native country, you may come to the Feast of Tabernacles, sitting down together in joy and evermore celebrating this marriage feast in the unity of love, where the author of this treatise would meet you in the Spirit and never cease to congratulate you as fellow citizens and to eat with you there in the Feast of Love.

    Into Paradise my spirit first takes its flight, where all things are in good order and in the same flowing state as before Adam lost his Virgin Mate. Paradise is now stocked again with those who have waded through the floating Sea of Sin and Mortality in order to put on that image of purity which is given by Jesus to the children of the resurrection. Not the least guile or fault may be found in any of the inhabitants of this place. My spirit sees all here in a wonderful harmony.

    This Word was heard from the High and Lofty One, saying, "With the risen from the dead will I dwell, though this principle of Paradise be allotted to them for a certain time, to be a separated mansion until all is gathered up into the superior Kingdom of Mount Zion and of the New Jerusalem." Thus did I hear the good news, that all is rich and flourishing within the Paradisical kingdom. Nor is there any decay or decline since Adam's day, but increase and enlargement is known daily through the resurrection of the spiritual man.

    After this, the Spirit of Wisdom said to me, "These things, whereof an account hath been given to you, may be declared concerning the local place of Paradise, into which, spirits separated by natural death, putting off their mortal earthly bodies, enter and there put on their Virgin Body. This prepares them to meet the Bridegroom who brings them from there up to Mount Zion. 

    "There are such, in this very time who have fought the good fight of faith and had very nearly overcome this world. What is lacking to make them fully perfected is to be done in this paradisiacal place where they are appointed to stay until all their bridal trimmings are finished. That is, until they find they can pass their way to the Tree of Life through the flaming Cherub who still remains a guard upon that figurative tree. In this place, Holy Angels also wait by their course to minister to those who come here as the designated heirs of that more glorious state which is revealed in Mount Zion. This is a part of those good things which belong to your Eternal Father.

    "Now I shall open to you a further mystery which is what may be entered upon in this very lifetime; for there is a mystical paradise as well as a local one. This mystical paradise springs forth metaphorically, opening from a pure supernatural center. This accounts for your present peace and joy. Wait, I say, to feel that joy and peace just now, that your spirit may give a seal with me that you have received the anointing, and that you do walk with your spiritual man in this paradise where you often hear the echo of your Bridegroom's voice calling you to hasten putting on all which shall make you look sweet and amiable in His eyes. It is the obtaining of the fragrant sweets that may perfume and scent you so that all your garments may smell of these beds of spices upon which you are allowed to stretch yourself. 

    "Here awhile be constrained to dwell after the manner of a spirit in a spiritual body, until you shall overcome all of this visible orb, and much excel all creatures in it, having the Tree of Life to live upon. This will put a most transparent body upon you. For they who daily feed upon this Tree shall be indeed transmuted by it. Behold, to you this gate of paradise stands open and whatsoever of the things of God is there, you have a right not only to know them, but to enjoy them as your own. 

    "This word of caution is given to you, that you take heed to the Laws of Paradise (You may apply to us for a writing of hers by this title, Ed.), which have been given to you in detail for this end. Observe them and your Jesus will talk with you here frequently and show Himself according to the Loves betrothal that is made afresh with you in this Paradise. This, many years ago, was communicated and recommended by the Spirit of Truth."

    On the 17th of October, 1695, as I was watching upon a deceased friend's account, after some time I found she had passed through the elementary regions. Then Paradise being opened, I searched for her and after about two hours I found her⁽⁵¹⁾ in the third degree of this heavenly world. She appeared to me of a most lively and angelic countenance. As soon as I had met her I congratulated her and said I had been a long while seeking to find her. To this she answered, "And very well you might, for I have been so taken up with the variety of the pleasures of this place that I had forgot all my mortal friends." Then she added, after a short pause, "Oh, my friend, the death which I feared and which had kept me in bondage all my life long, has been my friend to set me free, and its sting that I dreaded became nothing less than a living balsam by which now I can say in triumph, 'Mortality is swallowed up in joy and glory.'" To this I replied, "Did I not often tell you this and that I would venture my own soul for yours, as to the security of it?" She, smiling, said, "Now I find it so to be." And so, seeming to be unwilling to entertain any further discourse with me, as if thereby she was held from a better enjoyment, she left me.

    Upon this, I was exercised in some meditation, and it was thus concluded that persons who did live very circumspectly and watchful in all piety during their lifetime, as this person had done, though void of all sensible assurance and comfort of God's favor while they live, as if they did not live, but are estranged from this elementary body while they are in it, do, when they pass out of it, obtain a swift passage through the elements. Nothing here is able to cleave to or detain them long, but they are swallowed up and changed into the Paradisical body. Such is a good motive to incite all to live above the earthly life so that nothing may stick to them when they leave this world.   

MOUNT ZION

    Now from hence the Spiritual man must take another step to see what lies for him beyond this region, or Paradise, among the precious things that flow from that rich ocean which is between Paradise and the New Jerusalem. This is that Glassy Sea that is spoken of by the beloved John, upon which the conquerors are seen singing their songs of triumph. It doth compass the city round where the residence of the great King is. Here also is the Throne of the Lamb and the Seven Sealing Powers, or Fountain Spirits of God, that go forth from the Most Holy One. Now this burning sea is for probation (trial). None are able to pass unless they have gotten a full and complete conquest over the beast and his image so as they bear nothing more of his mark. They and they only can stand here because they are signatured from this flaming glassy sphere that will make bodies clear and shining as terrible crystal.

    This Kingdom is of Mount Zion, where there are an innumerable company of angels, with the Church of the Firstborn, and in which are contained all the originals and living patterns of what was copied out by Moses, who had sight of them. This must all open itself and be established before the Kingdom of the New Jerusalem can come down, either visibly or invisibly. There is a necessity for the mediatorial and priestly kingdom to go before and make way for that.

    Yet there is such a close and intimate correspondence between these two worlds that they may in some sort bear the name of One Kingdom. For that the supreme Majesty often comes down here and the whole grand assembly, which is here, do at certain seasons ascend up into the New Jerusalem so that from the strict union that is between them, it is not to be wondered at if sometimes the name of the one be applied to the other. 

    It was further declared to a spirit (Jane) caught up there, that in the time of the accomplishment of the New Jerusalem glory below, there should be appointed certain very highly anointed keepers of the everlasting gates into it. These should be appointed to let in and shut out, according to the Laws of this Kingdom and that every such angel of these gates should sound forth his trumpet. 

    For the Holy Breath out of this City shall make them proclaim and sound forth to all parts of the earth, the glory and the mighty name of Jehovah Shammah (Yah is there). That is the name of the city that is to be written upon all those who are to be admitted into it. Therefore, arise, arise, ye Virgin Daughters, and draw near, having this name inscribed upon you with the finger of your God. Have also your twelve foundations according to the number of the precious stones of the Holy Oracle made clear and sure in you, being all that is to make up the honor of your Jerusalem glory. 

    Draw near now, ye Virgin Daughters of Zion who lie hidden, and bring your glory to this City--

At which all Gates shall open to you fly,

As soon as you can here with this come nigh.

    The apostolic name of the Lamb is written here upon every Gate by which the surviving number of apostolic spirits may obtain admittance. None can enter through the Gates but these Virgin Spirits who have before stood upon Mount Zion and passed through the Sea of Glass, being the Living Jasper Stones that are all covered upon with the flaming colors of the covenant rainbow. 

    Such therefore must ye be, O ye Jerusalem-waiters and children of Wisdom! And by her stone within you, ye must come to be touched and changed that ye may be joined to all these flaming stones. Be of good cheer, for this Ruby Stone is as a Cherub at work in the heavenly spheres of some that are known by Name. This work goes on in order to affect this great and mighty transmutation. Wherefore, it is given me to advise you to yield to this Live Coal within you so that it may burn away the dross and tin. This is so that only the Golden Matter for coagulation with the Deity may remain upon this Almighty and most sublime thing that is concealed in your inward furnace. 

    Are you still ministering fuel to it so that your fire may never go out?⁽⁵²⁾ Do you still draw from the pool of Golden Oil which shall make you come to such heights, even as to a perfect Jasper purity which will turn whatever it touches into its own source of light and power? This is the White Stone to which the Bride of the New Jerusalem will be joined and which will be hung in her crown.

    Therefore, aspire after nothing less, ye beloved ones. And say not within your hearts, "How can this be?" Let that be cast upon your God's All-sufficiency. By Wisdom's Stone shall be done High, Mighty and Marvelous things through those who doubt not. It shall be found that only they shall have the honor of bringing the Jerusalem down to be seen within this Orb. For in such as whom the Stone of Wisdom is sown and grown up, are the "lookers" and the "expecters" to see this wonderful time.

    Others who believe nothing of it will stand without this City among the worshippers of the beast, none of whom can traffic or merchandize with the precious foundation stones. They are the purchase of the Lamb for His conquering Tribe to follow after Him with palms of victory over all fears and doubts that spring from unbelief, which hath kept innumerable out and stopped their ascension up hither.

    Now, to you who through the Agate Windows of this walled City are allowed to look in, know that it is granted for no other end but to take your Eye and to draw your whole Spiritual Body herein. It is not to tantalize you or to let you see only the Tree of Virtue but not touch or taste hereof. You are evermore to live upon it. When you shall become as fixed inhabitants and no more go out, this tree will be food of most high Virtual Strength, Power and Spirit. This Word only then will I leave with you, to wait in pure Love-Patience until this final step the Stone completes within you through its all-tincturing power.

    As I was considering the high and weighty work whereunto we are called, my spirit was immediately caught up into a High Region that was all calm and still. Here I saw no figures or images, but there was a wonderful Light which flowed into me like a river. Then it was opened in me that this was the Creating Light from whence all beings proceeded. It was revealed that what was now expected, as a New Creation, must be brought forth from the Stillness of this Light with which the Soul's Essence must be mingled. And that from this union the variety of the wonders should be produced in the world.

    It was further said to me that I had been long driven to arrive at the farthest center of all centers, but the plummet line of my Spirit was too short to fathom that deep gulf that had been shown to me in a Visional Figure some years ago. Being led by the Spirit to call this to mind, there came before my internal Eye, a Deep Abyss which opened itself. It streamed forth with such a commixture of all variety of colors of precious stones so dreadfully sparkling and glorious that no other but a simple and abstracted spirit could behold it, much less enter into and be mingled with it, as I was invited to do.

    This second time it was renewed to me by an internal opening from which it was given me to understand that this Godhead Gulf was now broken up for a streaming forth with that high mixed matter which would Deify and tincture the soulish essence that had been under the depravity. Then it was said to me by the Spirit, that this was the true and right baptism into the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost by which the soul would return to its first original. Then the soul would know itself to have power in God as His Virgin Heart and Spouse, to do and act agreeably in so high a unity. 

    This is the pinnacle of all depths that can be searched into. If you will but study this, the Eternal Abyssal World will operate in you and qualify you for the longed-for transmutation. Hereby you will be admitted into all Wisdom's treasures, and the walls about your habitations shall be the Rock of Fire-Stones. In this Munition Strength, your hiding shall be in God's own secrecy until you go forth to proclaim another Day of Pentecost.

    Question: "Why do such departed souls that are detained in the middle regions often attract and draw their near relations and friends to be with them?"

    This, you must know, proceeds from a most intimate union that was between them while living. Not having centered their Loves higher than what was elementary, the deceased may have much power to draw away the life of such out of the body.⁽⁵³⁾ Concerning this, some instances have been known. Let this therefore be a good caution to all dear and near relations, not to carry up their love to one another beyond what is but creaturely. But this know, that no departed spirit can have any effect or power over the living unless they are of a low birth and mortal birth which lies under the Laws and Rudiments of this World. As for those who are gotten up higher by the supernatural and spiritual birth, such are out of danger to being influenced by any departed spirits. For such who make God their only center are above their influence.

    It has been shown to me also that there is a great correspondence and harmony between the highest degrees of saints departed into Mount Zion and Jerusalem principles and those here who have attained to that high birth. Such can reach that principle for intervals while still in the body.⁽⁵⁴⁾ Now those in the Mount Zion and Jerusalem principles act quite after another kind. They do not covet to draw any out of the body; rather they tend to influence and bring down their gifts and powers into manifestation in and through those with whom they stand in such Love-Unity.⁽⁵⁵⁾

    These perfected spirits in the separated order well know and take notice of those who are most fitly qualified for association with them, though still in elementary bodies. They therefore communicate and apportion the light of new revelations into this lower principle so that the inhabitants herein may come to be enlightened and transformed.⁽⁵⁶⁾ With much longing these blessed ones above wait for their Kingdom to be opened and spread among mortals, until immortality shall swallow up all in its own everlasting light and life.

    This I thought right to add to the foregoing subject as the opening renewed in me from Wisdom's Center. I am now under a commission to keep nothing back which may serve for the information or satisfaction of Wisdom's meek and lowly children. For they are restless inquirers to learn and understand what is to be proclaimed to the whole earth in this Her rising Day. End  

FOOTNOTES FOR THE EIGHT WORLDS

1. Jane here emphasizes that it is not only the primary instrument whom God wills to bless for its part in
declaring this great message but also all those who volunteer their resources to make it possible. In
Jane's day, it was this gentleman to whom she refers here. In our day, it is you who have unselfishly
given of your finances to make it possible to get this word to those who otherwise would never have
had the opportunity to hear it. There will certainly be some surprises in that day when rewards are
given. 

2. It should not be thought extraordinary that such a word as this should go forth in might and power
for certification and not simply as a literal word, since God saw fit to send forth a lesser declaration of
Pentecost clothed with power for validation. 

3. Those who have read much of Jane's writings, know by now that she incurably speaks in beautiful
metaphor. She is not referring here to that resurrection known as the general resurrection which takes
place at the close of the 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth in which all that are in the grave shall come
forth. She is speaking metaphorically of those who have long lain in the grave of the mortality of this vile
body. The time is now coming on when such a grave shall no longer be able to retain them. 

4. This phrase sounds very much like that spoken by Him just prior to the sending of a deluge of
waters upon the earth in order to bring an end to all flesh. The difference is that this time He will not
send a deluge of water but of Spirit! Such a deluge shall accomplish what water never could. It will
usher in a new race of human-beings through whose instrumentality all flesh shall finally and ultimately
cease from existence. Not in a day or a year, but as God usually does everything; little by little, starting
with a small remnant which shall grow to cover the face of the whole earth. 

5. Because traditional fundamental thought has placed such emphasis upon the error that all inspiration
has ceased since the completed canon of Scripture, many have unconsciously bought into it. Yet, the
Scriptures themselves declare otherwise. "The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God"
--I Corinthians 2:11. Meaning, it requires as much inspiration of the Spirit to hear what God is saying
through Scripture as it took for holy men of God to write them in the first place. This denies that
inspiration, or the need thereof, has ceased. We are clearly taught of Scripture that we are to be a
people born of the Spirit, taught of the Spirit and led of the Spirit. Are we therefore to limit the Spirit to
teaching and leading us only out of the written Word? Is He never allowed to give forth fresh and new
revelations which God, in His infinite Wisdom, has seen fit to close up under seal of secrecy until that
set time for their unsealing? Surely this cannot be, or else the Scriptures would not refer to such things
as, "The mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now
revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit" --Ephesians 3:5. The answer which the
Pharisees of Jesus' day gave was, "No." Therefore they missed the new thing God would perform.

The Spirit is the true Author of all Scripture. If He wishes to speak in addition to what has been written
and canonized, may He not do so? Where is it written that there can be no further Scriptures after our
canon? Scripture completion and conclusion of inspiration is but the error of man. 

6. Those elected, prepared and installed are the pillars and collective temple of the Lord. That these
things must be inscribed upon them is an idiom meaning that these truths have been so believed and
absorbed that they have become a part of them. These truths have become so much a part of their
hearers that they work toward making up the character and nature of these pillars and this temple. 

7. It strikes me as more than ironic that this present world in which we now live and with which
mankind is so enamored and captivated, is but the highest of the four hellish dark worlds. Adam fell
farther than most realize. 

8. A much fuller account of this is given in her writing, The Everlasting Gospel which is made available
by writing to us and requesting it. It should be noted here that the great fear held almost universally by
those believing in eternal torment (that we believe in no hell at all) is seen to be unfounded. We declare
a hell just as tormenting, just as horrid and dreadful as the hell declared by those who hold it to be
eternal. The only difference is that we hold that it is not eternal, but for a set time and duration and for a
wise, loving and prescribed purpose. 

9. I cannot bring myself to believe that those holding to an eternal punishment really believe it. This
question Jane here asks begs an answer. If the creature can ask it, why would not the God of all
wisdom and compassion ask it before creating a condition in which almost 100 billion of His creatures
languish for an eternity in torment without ever a hope of deliverance? Such is not the God of Love of
which the Bible speaks. 360 verses of Scripture declares that His mercy endures forever. 700 verses
state that God loves all mankind, the mercy of Jesus is mentioned 360 times, His kindness 52 times,
His goodness to all men 100 times and His lovingkindness 29 times. 

10. These are those who have not heard of Christ, who have not been taught concerning him or who,
like the New Agers, do not acknowledge Him or give Him His due honor and glory. It is those who
have not purposely turned their backs on Him. They simply have not known Him. 

11. Jane speaks of these four regions out of the order she has listed them. If the reader will refer to
them as they are named, and not as they are numbered, all should be cleared up. 

12. These are those who by far represent the majority of mankind, many, many of which are regular
attendants of some traditional church. They know but a historical Christ and have never known a birth
of His Spirit. What a tragedy shall be visited upon both minister and people when the day shall reveal
that those under whom they have sat, to whom they have given their money and time, have been but
merely religious spin-masters who had a form of godliness but none of the power that might have
actually touched and transformed their lives! What disappointment. What confusion, upon death, to
find oneself in quite another circumstance than what had been taught and hoped for. 

13. Jane is here referring to the fuller thought found in Genesis 6:3-- "My Spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that he is also flesh: yet his days shall be 120 years." God's intention never was simply to
drown everyone. It was a type of that deluge of His Spirit which He would surely send upon the earth
after 120 Jubilees. 50 (Jubilee) X 120 (end of flesh) = 6,000. Thus, what God was really saying was
that at the close of man's six working days (a day equaling 1,000 years), He would bring an end to the
working of all flesh so that man could enter into the true 7,000th year (day) Rest of God on the ground
of Christ's resurrection. 

14. The transmuting power that Jane is here speaking of, which she alludes to later, is that which
follows the installation of the virgin eternal spirit in its physical body. This will be entered into for greater
explanation later, but the Still Eternity of God is inhabited only by God in His abstract being as He is
here beheld by those eternal spirits generated out from Him in this world. Their only function is to
behold Him, waiting to be commissioned and sent to inhabit a body, upon which there is given such a
new tendency of mind that even the physical body itself is affected by it and clarified to a diaphanous
and transparent body of light and power. These see with that eye which beholds only God; they hear
with that ear which hears only God, so that they can also say, "I do only that which I see my Father do
and speak only that which I hear my Father speaking." They see and hear only from the eye and ear of
their eternal spirit which is in the Still Eternity with God. It was to this place (the Still Eternity of God)
Jesus referred when He said, "No man hath ascended up to (this) heaven, save the Son of man who is
in heaven."

15. This dashes the fairy tale-like ideas of receiving the promises "over there" on the other side after
death. All that any are to enter into after death must already have begun to be their experience while
still in this life. Indeed, according to what Jane says, it is these experiences and states of being which
qualify for entrance into the various corresponding worlds after departure from this life. An example:
the thief on the cross who acknowledged Christ could qualify for no higher than paradise, while Paul
was caught into paradise (II Cor. 12:2 & 4) and to, but not into, third heaven (New Jerusalem) for
there is apparently such a passing from Mount Zion into New Jerusalem and back again that they are
almost considered by Jane to be synonymous. 

16. This is not a reference to astrology. Jane is speaking metaphorically and is alluding to the spiritual
constellations, that is, to the person's election according to the foreknowledge of God.

17. This refers to those who have turned inward to the Christ within and have essentially left the
outward life for the kingdom within. 

18. I must draw the reader's attention to the fact that here we see the powers of the world to come
entrusted to those who are established in this place. I say this because of the much confusion being
wrought by those among us who claim and declare that they have arrived. Such arrival shall not be
completed without the accompanying power. Again and again, Jane asserts this thought, that God will
not send forth such a glorious declaration naked, but clothed in power. Not the power of a mere
Pentecost, either, but of Tabernacles; a power which speaks of an endless life. 

19. This Sea of Glass is mingled with fire for those still walking out their probation period. But for those
who have overcome the Beast and his mark and his number and his name, there is no fire, only a Sea
of Glass upon which they now stand. For where there is no wood (fallen human nature), the fire which
cannot be quenched goes out.(Prov. 26:20) 

20. A people who were once so united with the Beast in his nature that they bore his name in their
foreheads and performed his works all so very naturally, are to become so united with the Father,
through the Son, that they now bear His name and the name of all this City stands for, in their
foreheads. They shall also be so conformed to His nature, with nothing of the fallen creation to bind
them down or to influence them, that they shall now perform the greater works of which Jesus spoke
when He said, "And greater works than these shall ye do…" 

21. This invisible eternity is not to be confused with the Still Eternity wherein is God in His abstract and
incomprehensible Being. 

22. This priestly mediatorship speaks of an ongoing work of redemption, for all must eventually come
to the ultimate, God All in all! That is the New Jerusalem state for which the Son Himself delivers up
the kingdom to the Father, that God may be All in all. (I Cor. 15:24-28).

23. We are not to carnally consider this statement as meaning that something shall be perceived as
literally and geographically coming down out of the sky. What is here meant, if I err not, is that this
higher world will come to be the real one perceived by all, though not necessarily into physical visibility,
thus bringing an end to all visible and typical worlds. Even though we need not the witness of man, the
Quantum Theory, only discovered within the last 40-50 years, does agree with this. 

24. It should not be thought a thing incredible that God is able to so renovate an individual as to
suddenly translate him from one level of existence to another. He did it when you received the baptism
of the Holy Spirit, did He not? 

25. I cannot but think this evidence, which Jane fails to name, is this very writing received by herself.
Modesty would not allow her to say that this vessel, in whom these things were opened, had received
such a work of preparation to this Jerusalem world. Though hid by the contemptible clay of humanity, it
shall declare itself in that day when all things are made manifest. I must add in all honesty that this is
only my personal speculation and opinion. 

26. Tradition-marred minds have been somewhat stumbled by this metaphorical term, "Virgin Wisdom"
and "God's Spouse." If man was created in the image and likeness of God, and in so doing, God at the
first made him male and female (Gen. 1:27) so that man had his virgin mate in himself, it is not possible
that God has not the same corresponding condition in Himself. Let us not be so gun-shy of the Romish
dogmas concerning the Virgin Mary (who is, by the way, truly blessed) and all the appellations
erroneously given her, that we automatically flinch when some of these same terms are correctly used. 

27. I find it particularly enlightening to stop here and read again Proverbs 7:24-9:6, and all the things
spoken here concerning this Virgin Wisdom. 

28. To simplify, God brought forth from the deepest abyssal deeps and center of Himself, and that
which came forth was Wisdom. So much a part of Himself, so suitable to Him and agreeable with Him,
that she is His spouse. It is she through whom all generated worlds exist and through which Wisdom all
things are created by the Logos of the Son. She seems to be the generating power of the Holy Spirit. 

29. "The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by
the things that are seen, even His eternal power and Godhead" --Romans 1:20. Eve, the spouse of
Adam and mother of all living, now brought forth into visibility, is but the type of God's Spouse as she
exists in the Flaming Heart of Love in the Still Eternity of God, in the abstract. Abstract, meaning there
is nothing visible there. All is intangible, ethereal and practically undefinable.

The German mystic, Jacob Boehme, who lived about 1577-1623, explained Virgin Wisdom something
like this: "The Still Eternity of God, which is the nothingness of His freedom, is nowhere and in no
space, but exists in the depths of your own soul. It is the source of everything, and yet it is nothing.
Nothing is in this freedom except God. In this free sea of nothingness there is nothing for God to search
into except Himself. God actually mirrors Himself into existence by searching into His own mind to see
what He will be; what He wants to be. The mind of God is His Wisdom. This mind-mirror is the female
aspect of His creative power. His Wisdom is the divine Sophia. She is His own mind. Sophia, the
mind-mirror does not create. The Father principle creates, but Sophia holds the images in her
mind-mirror of what the Father can be. Sophia stands symbolically before the Father as a mirror to
show Him what He can be as He looks into His own mind." 

30. As Eve is properly called the mother of all living, so this Virgin Spouse of God shall be known as
the Mother of all who shall inhabit this New Jerusalem from above. "But Jerusalem which is above is
free, which is the mother of us all" --Galatians 4:26. She will train up all who shall eventually inhabit this
realm. 

The virgin spirits mentioned here are a totally new thought. These are spirits which never fell and were
never essenced with sin and so, have an altogether different tendency of mind and nature than our
human, fallen and redeemed spirits. In fact, this is a concept so new to the understanding of most that it
raises obvious questions. "What are these spirits? What is their origin and purpose? Are these spirits
other and apart from the Holy Spirit?"

It becomes clear a little further on that these virgin spirits were generated and brought forth out of God
Himself, through Wisdom, as He exists in the Still Eternity of God. Therefore, these virgin spirits, being
brought forth out from God, are of His very essence! They could therefore be no less holy than the
Holy Spirit Himself. They provide the tincture a redeemed man experiences, of which Jane speaks of in
various other places. There is very little reason to become suspicious or uneasy about these virgin
spirits since there are only a select number who shall qualify in the first place and secondly, by the time
any have qualified for such an honor all doubt will have been removed and fears banished. 

If the New Jerusalem shall have no light of the sun of reason, nor light of the moon of the senses, nor
even the candle-light of Bible knowledge, then, on the part of those making up the stones and
inhabitants of this glorious city, it is to be required that a new habit of thought be given them. These
new generated virgin-spirits are that.

31. It is hoped that the reader will please keep in mind that eternal carries with it not the sense of
duration, but of timelessness; no time, for it is certain that all reigning in this kingdom, as far as Christ
and the Overcomers are concerned, have certain limitations. "Then cometh the end, when He shall
have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all
authority and power. For He must reign until He hath put all enemies under His feet" --I Cor.
15:24,25. 

32. This should shed some light on why we were so often so very dissatisfied in our infancy as we
sought to men and doctrines and movements. Milk is not only good, it is essential for those who need
it. It makes them ready and brings them to the place eventually of partaking of the meat of the Word.
Sadly, some have disdained the breast of Wisdom, preferring instead to hang at the strange breast of
the Harlot, and so never develop the taste or capacity for meat. 

33. Remember, Jacob Boehme says that God is in the very depths of your soul and He is the Original
Matter from which all else must spring. While most of the Church World looks without, scanning the
skies for the appearing of Christ, He is appearing within! As there is one form of worship in the Outer
Court and another, yet higher form of worship in the Holy Place, there is a still higher form of worship
in the Holy of Holies. It is a simple turning within to God to find Him waiting in the same garden from
which Adam was so long ago expelled.

No sooner do we turn within than we find that we are indeed compassed about with such an evil,
hellish principle which would seek to prevent us from being successful in our turning to God inwardly.
But we are promised that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against His Church! Jacob Boehme says
this of his experience; "So hard did I dig in, within the recesses of my being, towards the life of God
and against the gates of Hell, that suddenly my spirit crashed through the gates of Hell and beyond even
into the innermost moving of God Himself, and there I was suddenly embraced in love as a bridegroom
embraces his dearly beloved bride." The bride who finds Him whom her soul loves shall not find Him
upon her bed as before, or even in the broad ways and streets of religion. She must go down into her
garden where she shall surely find Him feeding among the lilies. That is, feeding among those who are
coming forth in His Lily-life. 

34. Those having put on their New Spiritual Body are seen being caught up to God and to His throne
in Revelation 12:5. Those who are believers but who have not as yet put on this resurrection body are
seen as the woman who must abide in lower regions, in the wilderness, until she is ministered to by
those who have found the way in reality. She eventually comes up higher also, but a distinction between
the Manchild/Firstfruits Company and those who later follow, should be understood. Even though the
"woman" shall later follow the Firstfruits Company into the same fullness of the measure of the stature
of Christ, neither she nor any other shall ever attain to the same rank, honor and status as the Sons --
as it pertains to relationship to the Father! But they shall be fully satisfied.

. It seems important that we remember that these simplified spirits are holy, since they were generated
and brought forth from the Father through Virgin Wisdom. They are said to do only one thing in the
Still Eternity of God--behold Him. These spirits may indeed be what Jesus referred to in Matthew
18:10--"Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones (His disciples); for I say unto you, that in
heaven their angelsdo always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." "Who maketh His
angels spirits . . ."--Ps. 104:4. 

36. Because of the great fear and superstition which prevails throughout much of the Body of Christ, it
might be well to note that these spirits were not the spirits of those who had once lived, or demonic
spirits, but Holy, simplified spirits brought forth and reserved for those elected ones who will show
forth the character and nature of God from whence these spirits originated. 

37. Unless I am very wrong, this is none other than the Manifestation of the sons of God spoken of in
Romans 8:19, for which the whole creation urgently awaits. 

38. This word, abstraction, is not one so commonly used today. The Britannica World Language
Dictionary says, "In mental processes, we separate some one element from all that does not necessarily
belong to it, abstract it, and view it alone." This definition seems to support the term, simplified, which
Jane likes to use for these spirits. It is meant to denote, I believe, the distinction from the multiplicity
found to be so common and so smothering in fallen Adam. This simple abstraction is the single eye, the
single heart, the single purpose, the one nature and character of the servant of the Lord who is blind to
all except what the all-seeing Eye sees and the all-hearing Ear hears the Father saying. It is a smaller
image of Deity, bearing all the intrinsic characteristics and values of Himself. 

39. This statement brings to our minds the regal majesty in which our Lord Himself walked through the
gospel pages, always without a ruffle in His spirit, with never a trace of fear or anxiety about Him, even
when faced with the accusations and villainy of His detractors. It was present as He stood to be judged
before Pilate and was still present upon the cross, as He prayed, "Father, forgive them." He trod upon
a sea of crystal glass, not a sea of glass mingled with fire. 

40. This descent has nothing to do with a visible circular globe coming down from the sky. It denotes
the spiritual descent of the principle from its higher realm (another dimension, if you will) into our own
lower realm for the manifestation of its influence. No one will see a globe descending in the air, but its
influences and powers will no doubt be known to all. 

41. As I read this portion, I was disappointed that Jane, in answer to the question, answered with what
seemed to me a weak, "What if. . ." One may "what if" themselves to any destination desired. I thought
about this and even slept on it. Finally, I was somewhat comforted in her steadfast and consistent
integrity which is found throughout all her writings in that she simply will not fudge or overstep her
bounds where the Lord is concerned. She does not say, "The Lord has shown me that He has so
designated these spirits in place of the Holy Spirit." She merely asks "What if" He has designated them
for this assigned purpose? I have no explanation to offer, as to the question asked, other than to
observe that God is sovereign and may still at any time do as He pleases. She does make a pretty
good case for this as we read on. Personally, I am persuaded that these things are true, or else none of
her writings are to be trusted. For those who may feel otherwise, please do not shut yourself off by
closing your heart, but merely lay these things aside for the present until you feel you have attained
further growth in spirit. Then read it again and see if you still feel the same.

42. We are not to misconstrue this statement to mean that no one shall come into Christ's fullness and
character until after 7,000 years, but that some shall still be found in the miseries of such an earthly life
until the great Jubilee shofar has sounded and been heard by all. 

43. What mighty Cyrus could this refer to except the mighty One who said, "I will build My church and
the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Cyrus was the man in the Old Testament (Isaiah 44:28)
who, as a type, bountifully supplied all that was needed for the rebuilding of Jerusalem and laying the
foundations for the Temple of God. The Cyrus spoken of here is Jesus Christ, who shall bountifully
supply all that is needed for the bringing forth of the New Jerusalem and the laying of the foundations of
that true Temple that shall be known as none other than Wisdom's Temple. 

44. What a time for us to be living in! What privilege to see the things God is now revealing to us! We
actually live in that time when the 1,000 years reign of Christ is no longer future, but already begun,
albeit still veiled. 

45. If this statement were not true, we would all still be safely ensconced in the local church or
fellowship we started out in. But because God has been merciful to us in revealing His Son to us and in
us in ways He has not yet revealed Him to others, we are known by them as heretics and in many
cases are so labeled by them. This will continue to be the case as we say with Paul, "After the way
which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the
law and the prophets" --Acts 24:14. 

46. There will be a later, special publication made available which goes into more detail as to the
Abyssal Dilating Eye and what that concerns. There are those who would be interested and others who
would not. It will therefore be made available in this manner so as not to bore or perplex those who are
not interested. 

47. While most people reading these pages readily believe that such a renewing work is planned upon
the sons of God as well as upon all who shall afterwards follow them, few realize that even the
vegetable and animal kingdoms (Col. 1:20--all things) shall be renewed by and through the creative
powers manifested upon earth, making real that saying that all kingdoms are become the kingdom of
God and His Christ. The entire wrinkled face of God's fallen creation shall eventually be renewed by
that New Creation known as the sons of God-- the priests of the Lord according to the order of
Melchizedek.

48. It should be noticed that Jane here, as elsewhere, gives what can be called nothing other than a
claim to divine inspiration as we see in Revelation 1:1. Such authority is not often seen, even among
those who are light and false in such matters. While she is extremely careful not to overstep her bounds
in speaking as for the Lord, she does not hesitate to place upon these writings the ultimate authority of
divine inspiration. To repeat, it is worthy of note. 

49. Again, she comes right out and clearly says that these writings are the "pure inspiration of the Holy
Ghost." We are to conclude from this that she is either an outright liar of the most extravagant sort, or
what she claims to be--a prophetess inspired of the Holy Spirit. I am persuaded of the latter. 

50. In 1695, when this was written, America had been settled no more than 75 years, since the landing
of Plymouth Rock took place in 1620, if my memory serves me. She could not have imagined that her
writings would be so taken to heart and so well received by the then, fledgling country. But God knew
both that England would reject them and that an elected remnant in America would treasure them. 

51. Allow me, with great emphasis here, to declare that what Jane is here involved in is not spiritism or
anything like it. She is but doing what Jesus Himself did when speaking with Moses and Elijah upon the
mount of transfiguration. The people are not dead as nearly everyone supposes them to be. God is not
the God of the dead, but of the living and since He is said to be the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
they are obviously not dead but living. We need very much to rid ourselves of the effects of traditional
thought and teaching. We are come to Mount Zion and to the spirits of just men made perfect! 

52. She asks if we are still feeding into the fallen nature the rubbish of those things which will act as a
tidbit to a dying man, that is, just enough to keep him alive and never quite dying.

53. This problem is not one that any born again child of God would need to concern himself with. It is
not a possibility where they are concerned but applies only to those not yet quickened by the Spirit and
who have no relationship with the Father. 

54. Jesus did this on what is called the Mount of Transfiguration when He spoke with Moses and
Elijah. The only thing which holds some back from this free association with that portion of the body
already on the other side is--fear. Men often fear what they don't understand. 

55. As Jane says, this is altogether after another fashion than that which is commonly known as
spiritism or necromancy which seeks its own interests and has a definitive draining effect upon its
subjects. The communion with the living saints inhabiting Mt. Zion and New Jerusalem does not take
away but adds to those with whom they communicate. Keep in view what transpired on the Mt. of
Transfiguration as Jesus spoke with Moses and Elijah concerning His soon to come crucifixion. I'm
sure He was encouraged and strengthened by this otherworldly event. 

56. The thought entered my mind, "But the Holy Spirit is given in order to lead us and guide us into all
truth." As I pondered this seeming contradiction, it came to me that He is indeed the Spirit of all truth
and that there is no truth He is not the author of, whether it comes to us by way of direct personal
illumination, or a preacher, teacher or the spirit of a just man made perfect. I'm sure that whatever
Jesus and His two conversants spoke about at the transfiguration (His crucifixion), it shed light on the
matter for Him, and He was strengthened thereby. We need never fear that when we have asked of
our Father a fish, that He will instead give us a serpent. And if we ignorantly reach for a serpent, He
will give ample warning.