To
The Reader
From
The (Original) Editor
Eight
Worlds 1B
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, yet
here verily the blessed trinity have their existence together in each other.
The fullness of the Godhead dwells here without body, with His Virgin
Wisdom and the Seven Spirits. All of these 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 now it is the Spirit's
Day,
That will admit of no Delay."
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.
35. 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. |