To all of you who rejoice to die daily to that life which He essenced with sin, curse, bondage and sorrow⁽¹⁾; to such the following treatise is commanded, knowing that to no others will it be pleasing but those who have been convinced by the Spirit of Christ of the necessity of dying out to the body of sin(2), offering it up as a whole burnt offering upon our sacred Altar, Christ. Who then would grieve to die thus, to become a living sacrifice? The great joy and glory which follows such a death doth encourage us onward in spiritual dying until sin expires, whereby you will be secured from the Serpent's sting. He can reach no souls that are plunged into this dying pool where Christ first entered in to purchase full and perfect cure and to heal every spiritual malady under which the soul groans. To this end I am commissioned, as both servant and friend to my Lord and Heavenly Bridegroom, to invite you to the Great Supper of God and of the Lamb. A table here is furnished suitable to four ranks and degrees(3) of persons and spirits.

    The first course that is set hereupon is the broken and crucified Body of our Lord Jesus. This is proper Food for dying saints(4) who, by eating of this Spiritual Flesh, may come to have their own sinful flesh to die and decompose. For it is known and experienced that as we do daily feed upon a Crucified Christ,(5) it devours and gradually works away the life of sin and all the evil effects of it. Whoso is wise, let him understand and find out this Mystery and discern and taste of the Lord's Mystical Body, which, being well digested, the Table is again spread for such as are risen from the Dead.(6)

    Now what commences here? Behold and see -- Christ the Lord presents Himself in a Paradisiacal Body and saith, "Children, here, I give My risen Body, as more powerful, strong and pleasant to feed upon. It is for you who have not feared to encounter the Death." Oh, this is nothing less than the Marriage Feast(7) where water is turned into Wine! And you are called by the Governor of the Feast to partake of this transformed Body, which is so restorative that nothing of a corrupting nature shall any longer be known in the properties of the Soul.

    There is such sweetness and pleasure in eating of this Paradisiacal Body that all other perishing things are disdained and lose their taste. What joy it now is to God the Father, to see His table attended with risen and Spiritual Souls saying, "Hasten!" And dispatching also from this degree of attainment to press on higher, which is proper for Ascension. Now here Christ the Lord comes down(8) as a Mighty Eagle Body(9), rushing with out-spreading wings to bear and carry away the Waiters-for-Ascension, that they might go up to worship in the New Jerusalem to hold a seven-days Feast of Tabernacles(10) with all high celebration of praises.

    Here you may believe a Table is most richly furnished in the most high and excellent degree for all the Lord's Ascending Eagles which cannot be satisfied with other prey. They only feed upon the Glorified Body, which is filled with all the fullness of God and which flows largely into them whose vessels are hereunto prepared.

    Now then, the fourth and last ministration: What may be expected in the Great Nuptial day of this Feast when the Holy Trinity shall descend in the Ascended Angels of Time(11) for the celebration of the Marriage with the Lamb and Bride? What joys and glories are now renewed? For now appears the Glorified Person of Christ for a public owning of His Ascended Ones(12), and cries in the name of the Father, His own, and the Holy Ghost's saying, "These are they in whom I will be glorified! The long-sealed Fountain is broken open; the everlasting Mountain droppeth down the powers of the Holy Ghost! Come, all ye who have labored and not fainted and have kept your faith until this day. You are those that are to be fed and nourished with all the choice and precious Fruits of the Tree of Life. You are ordained to be those Josephs that shall give out of these Heavenly Stores and maintain an open community to the thirsty and needy that are in divine hunger, that they also may be enriched and partake of the same glory with you(13)." This is the Lord Christ's own prophecy, now renewed by His Spirit, and is sure and stable and near to be fulfilled in those who shall advance on to all of these Degrees that are mentioned and further enlarged upon in the following treatise.

    That Day-Spring from on High, who has visited me, would not conceal these considerable Heavenly Mysteries that I have been taught by the Holy Unction, having well assured me that there is a bright Star(14) that shall descend from Heaven and closely attend all those parallel and weighty Truths revealed, and fasten them with a Golden Nail which cannot be removed. I am made to know, however, that this Divine Ray shall pass over some and glide away without making any impression. Concerning this, I shall decline to make mention of what losers they will be by fighting and neglecting this festival invitation. I shall leave such to choose what they will not care to receive.

    But now, to return to those who are desirous to taste of those choice and heavenly portions, who most readily do embrace their Lord and Bridegroom's call to this continued Spiritual Feast. Know it, that for you great things are prepared in New Jerusalem, there to have communion in one Spiritual Body at one Table. Each one shall partake according to his measure and degree to which he has attained, without begrudging another. For you may see how the Lord Christ hath set Himself forth in a four-fold transformation in His heavenly Humanity in order to be a feeding and strengthening Life to four sorts and ranks of spirits (persons). This is so that all might participate according to their growth. (1) For New-born Babes, (2) For Children, (3) For the Young Man's State, (4) For Elders or Fathers, who are come to full and mature age, from whom may be expected the generating Power of the Holy Ghost to go forth to replenish the New Heavens and Earth.

    So you may see that there is a suitable provision for every sort and degree, according to their calling and election in God to a community in one Body together. Oh, why should there then arise such emulations, strife and spiritual wars among the Heaven-born Spirits that should meet one another in Harmony, Love and Unity? Great is this evil which has spread as a leprosy over all nations, kindreds and tongues. This infection has truly gotten so deep that I see no cure for it until the Mighty Sealing Angels do come forth with vials filled with the Love-Oil of the Holy Ghost to pour it forth everywhere. Then shall the Lord Christ's disjointed Body come bone to his bone and member to his member. For this we shall not cease to implore and daily intercede for the Holy Trinity to hasten the saints'(15) gathering into this unity. For I do see by the Spirit, evidences of hope, and therefore this is sent out as a Pilgrim to find whom it may meet with in this lonely walk.

    Oh! How great would be our rejoicing to meet with some fellow travelers herein that are resolved by God's power not to grow weary nor faint till they reach the top step of this Ascending Ladder, that we may be comforted, supporting each other while in this traveling way. Such are still putting off and putting on our changeable raiment,(16) that they may sit down at the Great Supper of the Lamb, Whose joy will be so great that, as a Bridegroom, He will come forth Himself to serve us with the new wine of the Kingdom. This new wine will cheer us for the great things that are to be manifested but now are still on the working wheel. Such faithful stewards will He honor, entrusting to them the secrets of His Kingdom.

    I shall now conclude this preface with all true fervor of Spirit and Love for the effectual operation of the Holy Ghost to attend this whole matter and subject which has been thus far given forth. It was my purpose that some preceding openings and revelations given to me should have been set forth first, but the wisdom and counsel of the Most High has changed what was so intended, bringing this first as a preparation of the other. In time, there may yet come forth many more wonderful and hidden things that have been under a seal, but these seals(17) have been broken for there is a ripe age(18) coming on that may be ready for their reception. In the meantime, I shall be waiting for the knowledge of such as bear the signature of a high and graduated spirit in which I would be found as a friend and servant to my Lord Christ and so to all my fellow members that wait for this great day of His appearance in His saints.(19) Even so prayeth yours in Him that was dead but now liveth for our springing Life and Joy evermore.

1. "For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, (or voluntarily) but by reason of Him who hath subjected it in hope" --Romans 8:20.

2. I am certain that these revelations have been given, written down and preserved for a people living in this present time, when we find ourselves at the end of the age. Never before in the history of man have there been such weighty and momentous things held out to anyone...and the time for entering into them is NOW! There have been many messages and views concerning "The Manchild," the resurrection, entering into our inheritance, and so forth, but for those who are earnestly panting after God rather than more gifts, more power, more doors of ministry, more recognition, more, more... these writings carry a weight and moment not to be found anywhere else except in the Bible. This is my opinion. It is also my opinion that these writings will be like treasure to those willing to bow to the requirements of the Holy Ghost in putting the soul-life to a very real and complete death. It will be but foolishness to those not willing to pay any price in order to know Him in the power of His resurrection, even the price of being conformed to His death.

3. This, of course, has reference to the various stages of growth and development in the lives of believers.

4. Dying saints are those who are actually dying daily; losing their lives that they might gain His.

5. To feed upon a Crucified Christ is to partake of His weakness, not His power. That is, to partake of that weakness that is known in dying, in not being able to do. This requires the offering of one's self through the Eternal Spirit.

6. It must be borne in mind that we are not to simply continue in the death posture. Although we shall continue as dead to this present world and its allurements, we are to enter into that resurrection life that Christ is. The goal is not simply to die and be done. It is to be so conformed to His death that we are then raised in the likeness of His resurrection.

7. We need not imagine that He, the Governor of this Feast shall put this precious, sweet and New Wine into old pigskins. It will not happen. It is for this reason that we are to enter into that death which will cost the life of the old, in order for us to become the recipients of the new Paradisiacal body from which there shall be no leakage of that New Wine which is poured into it in a limitless supply.

8. She is not speaking of anything of the nature which the Church in general thinks of as "rapture," or the return of the Lord Christ. This which she here describes is an internal, spiritual coming and catching up of those who have so entered into the death of the soul, that now that same Spirit which raised up Christ from the dead must also come and raise up this crucified member of His Body and clothe it upon with a new spiritual body. The outward manifestation of these things is yet future, but there must first be something to manifest before it can come to light.

9. The picture here is one of the eagle swooping down under the plummeting eaglets who have just been nudged out of the comfort of the nest-realm. Being here clothed upon with that invisible spiritual body, which is from above, the eaglets then mount up with eagle's wings to soar in realms they have never before known. They are in their element, the heavenly realm. This is only for eagle-saints.

10. "Seven days shall ye offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein" --Leviticus 23:36 These "waiters-for-ascension" have offered an offering made by fire in the laying down of their soul-lives in perfection (thus the number, 7), or completion. They have kept the feast and have not polluted it by doing any servile work, according to the flesh. Because they have poured out their souls unto death, they are to receive their "tabernacle" from above, the new body.

11. I will not go into the meaning of Angels of Time here, having done so in good detail farther on.

12. This is nothing other than that of which Paul, the apostle, spoke in Romans 8:23. "...even we ourselves also, groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our body." This is the receiving of the fullness of the Inheritance. It is, as Revelation 12:5 shows, a company of overcomers being caught up as a corporate body known as the Manchild, to receive governing authority and power, along with the New Body.

13. This is but strong confirmation that even though only the Firstfruits Company (Manchild, Overcomers, etc.) shall enter in first, according to Revelation 12:5, THE REST OF HER SEED, those who have not yet entered in and who must be ministered to by the Firstfruits Company, SHALL ALSO ENTER INTO FULLNESS EVENTUALLY! Until this remnant of the woman's seed enters into fullness they are still accessible to the Dragon; and saints, he is still making war with that portion of her seed!

14. As surely as there was a natural star which shone in the heavens to guide the wise men to the place of the birth of the Son of God in His natural person, so there is surely a bright star in the spiritual heavens that has attracted the notice of those few wise men (and women) of our day. It will no less guide and lead us, if we are willing, to the place of the birth of the Son of God in a corporate body. This spiritual star, just as that natural one did so long ago, has passed over many without attracting the least of their attention, but there are some who are ardently looking for the appearing of Christ. They must follow this star until it has risen in them to its meridian, when there shall be no shadow, only light!

15. I must say, that even though everywhere one looks today throughout the religious realm there is envying, jealousy and a jockeying for position for advantage sake, there verily is a people, small in number, who have lost caring for anything but Christ. They will gladly go to the back and never be seen or heard from again if it means that Christ will be lifted up and glorified. This is the obvious effect of that Love-Oil being poured out upon them. They are not pretending or play-acting. Their relinquishment is as real as the peace which attends them as a result. But to whom, do you suppose, the Lord will deliver the powers of the world to come? Will He put it into the hands of those grasping and clutching and clawing for power, recognition and gain? He will bestow it upon those who have become fixed in the experience of Christ being everything.

16. Changeable raiment being this weak and changeable mortal body in which we are now clothed. We must be putting off the old, if we are to put on the new, hence the need of the reality of dying daily.

17. These seals are no doubt the seven seals of Revelation 5:1, which kept the little book fast shut. But thanks be to God! The Lion of Judah has prevailed to open the book and to loose the seven seals from it. This is the statement made by one of the elders; yet when John turned to see the Lion that had prevailed, he beheld the Lamb, and not just "the Lamb" either. It was the Lamb that had been slain! It is the crucified and risen Christ Who prevails. It is the crucified Lamb, Who, though meek and lowly of heart, is Lion-like in His love and ardor for His Father's interests and for those foreordained to become heirs of salvation. We simply cannot partake of the mysteries of Christ, which are perfectly sealed seven times, unless we are amply partaking of the crucifixion of Christ, partaking of His crucified and broken Body. We delude ourselves when we imagine otherwise. We may have gifts and anointings, all of which were meant to bring us some place and none of which were meant as ends in themselves, but without partaking of the fellowship of His sufferings, we cannot know Him in the power of His resurrection and fullness.

18. That ripe age is that age in which God would bring forth those foreordained and predestined to the glory of knowing Him in fullness. That ripe age is the time of fullness, the time in which we now find ourselves living.