The Opposition Which This Translated Spirit
Met With DURING The Delivery Of These Laws

 

    As I was strictly engaged to attend the giving out of Wisdom's Paradisical Laws that opened in me like a flaming shower, drowning the old world that a New World might spring up in place of it (my whole New Man, walking up and down therein and drinking of that pleasant river Pison,(30) which waters this new-entered land into which no earthly stuff must be admitted), I could not yet be free from molestation.

    For though sin, that strange deformed monster, must look for no welcome here, being forever banished from this holy place, still he threatens to haunt me even after death, in several shapes, often saying he will be avenged of me, because I have exposed him to a violent death for making my way into Paradisical freedom. Therefore, he transforms himself now into a spirit and pursues me and would bring all my dead works after me so that I might be restless even here, where, according to the eternal law of liberty, I should rest from all fear and care.

    This occasioned somewhat of a complaint, which I brought before my mother, Wisdom, telling her that after death I did hope I should have been freed and that all wars should have ceased when I was once got within this gate. But, replied her witness (the spirit of prophecy in me), "I never said death would acquit thee so that no temptation at all should molest thee through the subtilty of the serpent. This serpent hath liberty to prove thee here(31) in like manner as he had liberty to prove thy dear Jesus, who for this end suffered him that He might give proof of an unconquerable steadfastness during the appointed time that He was to abide in Paradise.

    "So must thou here expect that the man of sin, though dead, may (by the angel of the bottomless pit) be again exhumed to make war against the angel of the covenant. As it is said, "There was war in heaven."(32) As of old, so now again in thee. Therefore, to the law and to the testimony which do open within thy heavens, do thou give good heed, that thou mayest prevail and come off a conqueror by the keeping of the commandments and the faith of Jesus. The last battle which is to be fought is in this Paradisical field. Thou art now to engage in a single combat.

    "Therefore, to thee I bring My flaming armor, which is love and faith, by which alone thou wilt be an overcomer. Remember that charge of honoring thy Father and Mother, and do not thou disgrace them. For now thou art upon the public stage where the whole hierarchy of throne-powers do view thee, to behold how thy Michael in thee will fight against the dragon with his fiery might. The honor of thy God is much herein concerned that thou prevail over the beast and the false prophet(33), defying the number and renouncing the mark of his name that he may be able to claim nothing in thee any longer.

    "For through victorious faith holding out, thou wilt see him cowardly sneak out of Paradise; since he will not care to abide there if he see thee resolutely fixed in the spirit of My might, who foreseeth all his cunning slights by which he would pluck thee down out of Paradise."

    Then saith he, "My design would take place and I should have Wisdom in derision, that hath provided no better for her children than to leave them thus to be foiled by the dragon."

    "See now how this evil one will reflect upon God, thy Father, and Me, thy Mother, if thou shouldest fall. Therefore, dear child, stand for our honor so that thy days may not be short in the promised land, to which thou wilt surely come if thou canst hold out all the appointed time of temptation. Then thou shalt see another advance where thou shalt no more be exposed to the dragon's fury, but shalt inherit the long and everlasting Day and keep this Sabbath(34) without end, rejoicing according as thou shalt here meritoriously vindicate that name of mine, which is an unknown secret to the world."

    I was also further encouraged by Wisdom against the great opposition which I felt, when, waiting for the opening of the Sixth Commandment, there appeared to me, all of a sudden (while she was giving her counsel and charge), a glorious circle with all flaming colors, upon which I looked very steadfastly. It continued a good space (as well as I might guess, nearly a quarter of an hour) before it vanished. This circle consisted of various and wonderful colors. The inmost part of it was all clear and bright as the air without a cloud.

    Then spake Wisdom's spirit in me, "What hast thou seen here but the Mystical Eye, which is an all-seeing globe(35) that includeth all light, power and might within its circle so that there is no need to go out for any supply, for all lieth within the compass of this all-generating eye. And as thou didst see it rise in a moment, so shall it give new existence from its own in the twinkling of an eye. This is the manner of Paradisical living. It is quite different from the way of the inhabitants of the outward world, who live upon the moldy bread of sense, upon whose breast they hang and cannot endure to be plucked from it, though they suck in thence the curse and poison of God's anger which came in when the Paradisical life ceased.

    "But to thee which art come out and art separated from these, My counsel is that thou entirely rest and depend upon this divine mystical eye and never wander out from it,(36) so will it become to thee thy basket and thy store. So it will be to thee thy fountain-blessing, and thou shalt need to know no more and to take care of no more than what this will give forth to thee. For it is an endless procreating source which continually puts forth new births that are altogether supernatural.(37)

    "To this also belongs a pure, sublime, organical body, having highly illuminated senses with uncorrupted and divine rationality, such as is grounded upon what is seen and known by this eye. Hence may be demonstrated the singularity of these holy beings who are generated from this source and origin. Here also may be added the perfect animal and vegetable life (with the sensitive and rational), they all making up the new creature or Paradisical man, but after a much different manner than that which they are in the degenerated state, or those that are departed from the faith.

    "Which faith is here again to be restored through a mystical operative life that maintains its own being after a wonderful manner, cutting off all occasions of contracting anymore with a sinful state. For there is here no coveting any mortal or perishing things which the low rational life stood in need of.

    "But thou hast no need to go to any other fountain. Thou art born into this Seraphical nature, which looks only in to God, whose eternal stores stand open and free for thee to come and take as thy proper right. Now, as Christ said, all that the Father had was His, so is it thine by virtue of the same Spirit of Christ in thee. He never crouched to this world for any of its unrighteous mammon and would not disparage His Father's housekeeping to seek any benevolence from creatures that lived upon self-ownership. Him, therefore, I present herein to be thy Example, who had a body terrestrial as thou hast, but His celestial Paradisical man had keys to open all the treasures either in heaven above or in the earth beneath.

    "But I know thou wilt say, 'This is too wonderful for me to aspire to or to expect.' Nay, not so. For whatever thy Jesus acted here and did, thou mayest not fear to imitate. That which is formed in thee will certainly drive thee to this if thou dost not check it by unbelief. The nature of that Holy Thing which is condensed within, will contend for its high prerogative and not always, as it were ass-ridden, be subject to bestial properties and earthly spirits, who must all veil themselves and bow to that new name written within. And so that it may accordingly be, I will not fail to aid thee with my mystical eye."

Which shall give skill in this for thee to try,
How good it is to live by faith's supply.

 

 

30. "What, then, are these 'rivers' of which we read, not here only, but in all the prophets; which are known on the day of rest and not before, and which now take the place once occupied by salt and tossing waters? In Eden the stream is one, but 'from thence it is parted,' and becomes four distinct rivers (Gen.2:10). What is this but that stream of living waters, which is one and undivided for those who enter Paradise, -- and without a name while it is there, for in its undivided flow the one stream is beyond all human description,-- without the garden is parted into four streams, giving its waters to the world as Pison (intuition), Gihon or Nile (perception), Euphrates (reasoning) and Hiddekel or Tigris (testimony). For divine truth, which is the living water to those who can see it as it is within the veil, is one full stream in undivided flow; but to us on earth, it ever comes by four distinct channels. It may be said in general that these are the four, and only four, streams of truth accessible to men." Types In Genesis, Andrew Jukes.

31. And, pray tell, why not? Where was it but Paradise that man was first tempted by this same serpent? In what state but Paradise did Jesus walk while on earth and was tempted also of this serpent? Let us not be under the false presumption that when once come into the Paradisical state that we are somehow forever escaped and out of reach by the tempting serpent, for it is here that he must be finally and completely overcome.

32. This war in heaven will not be fought with the carnal weapons of men but with spiritual weapons, because, as Paul said, "we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual wickedness in high places" --Ephesians 6:12. What are these rulers of the darkness of this world? Perhaps not what you may think. "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" --II Corinthians 10:4&5. The battleground is the heaven of our skull, our Golgotha, and the enemy is the reasoning mind and all the vain imaginations brought forth from the reasoning mind. What other ruler of the darkness of this world has so ruled over men and nations through their minds than king reason? What has alienated men but darkened minds? Thus we need for our sun of reason to cease to shine, our moon of the senses to be clothed with sackcloth, we need every starry imagination to fall to earth like untimely fruit, and then shall we see the sign of the Son of Man coming in our new heavens with great power and glory. But it has to be fought and won first in our heavens, that is, in us.

33. While most of the Church is worrying about taking the mark of the beast, we are to know that unless we cease from his mark already taken, which is the fallen nature, we shall in no wise escape the judgment (the lake of fire) reserved for that beastly nature. If the fallen nature, with which every man is marked in both head and hand (both in thought and deed) is the beast, what is the false prophet? It can be nothing else but that which is spoken forth from the false and treacherous ground of reason.

34. What is this Sabbath Day here spoken of but the one and only true sabbath that the child of Wisdom should be mindful of keeping? All other sabbaths with which men would yoke themselves and their fellow men are but types of this one. Keep this true Sabbath in which all flesh has ceased from its works, as God ceased from His, and you have kept all the sabbaths God intends His creatures to keep. Keep all the sabbaths except this true sabbath and you have broken the very sabbath God said not to break. To keep a weekly sabbath is but to return to the weak and beggarly elements of this fallen creation which has been replaced by the New Creation of Christ. BE NOT ENTANGLED AGAIN WITH THE YOKE OF BONDAGE!

35. This mystical eye or all-seeing globe is representative of God's omniscience, that is, His ability to know all and see all.

36. This was the heritage of Adam in his original state, complete within himself to generate out from this place within anything and everything necessary to the maintenance of the outward man. He named the beasts according to their natures from this opening power within himself. When he sought an Eve outside himself he committed adultery against the virgin spirit of Wisdom who then fled and would have no part in such a vile and degenerated thing. Only in Christ is she rejoined to man after he has arrived at a certain standing and degree. As Proverbs tell us, God made nothing but in conjunction with Virgin Wisdom. All things thus created from this ground are created through Wisdom. Thus Wisdom holds the key to God's storehouse and basket out of which His entire New Creation must be maintained perpetually.

37. Is this not the basket out of which Jesus received all His resources? He did not look to Judas when He must feed 5,000 or 7,000, nor to an earthly source when He needed a room in which to eat the Passover with His disciples, or a mule upon which to ride into town, or for the money to pay His taxes. While the whole world hung at the empty breast of the beast kingdom for its every need, Jesus simply reached in and withdrew, in abundance, all that was needed for the moment. The Firstfruits Manchild company shall have access to this same creative source and supply. It was Adam's until he lost it and it has now been restored in the last Adam for those who will enter fully into His life.