The Reply Of Wisdom's Paradisical Inhabitant (Jane)
To The King-Crowned Beast,
As In Conjunction With The False Prophet


    Oh, thou subtle spirit! How long wilt thou not cease to seduce and tempt, plying hard upon the newborn innocent, which is gone out from thy kingdom? I am not ignorant of thy great rage, neither canst thou deceive me by putting on a seeming holy shape, pretending to an unparalleled, judicious uprightness with all thy cunning slight. Thou hast presented these arguments to me in order to draw me from the great work that is intended by Wisdom.

    But know that I do defy thy laws this day and am not afraid of thy terrible might and summons which seeks to enforce a compliance with that low, sordid, corrupt rational life. I do here renounce and despise them in Wisdom's holy fear. Far be it from me ever to listen to them. I, who have had such a call away from the precinct where the Dragon and the Beast (the professed enemies of my God and His Wisdom) do exercise their sovereignty, can have no inclinations of returning back. I cannot, I will not let them threaten me or make me feel the effects of their fury, which they boast they can let forth upon that part which is not yet freed from their astral dominion.(48)

   All this, Oh mighty subtle Prince, I have well considered. I have even considered how far your power may extend against me. I go not about to diminish you of your right. Neither do I in the least envy you your strong, jealous and fiery might or dominion. Only this you must give me leave to do, to disclaim your usurped power as making a challenge to any part in me, who do well know that I am set free from your arbitrary government by the birth of Jesus in me. And now it would be upon my own peril should I own any other law-giver or king besides Virgin Wisdom in Him who is the Yea and Amen.

    Now, if this be the ground of your quarrel and despite, that I will not yield to your summons or agree to any of your articles, I slight both your cause and you. Nor will I ever submit to any conditions that shall be inconsistent with what Wisdom hath set my hand and seal to already, so that I might not depart from her laws. In adherence to which I do not doubt but to find perfect freedom and to be delivered from your insolence wholly. The most potent instrument that you have in your kingdom is too weak to encounter God's agent, the spirit of Wisdom, who will rest with me and so defeat all plots and counsels that are contrived by the whole dark hierarchy conspiring in your earthly sphere.

    Therefore, I will not fear you, Oh great Leviathan, though you have defied and made light of that unspotted mirror of God's Wisdom, saying, "Tush! Let me see if she can secure you or deliver you out of my hands who can command legions of spirits to torment and devour you." I can hear such threats as these and bear your denunciations against faith's resoluteness, knowing Who is my standard-bearer and Who will come to my relief, bringing that which will make me able to hold out even for a long siege. For which Wisdom hath taught me to provide, expecting as little favor from thee and thy principle as from an open proclaimed enemy.(49)

    The contest is come now to be so great that the virgin seed must yet spring again in nature and rise till thy head, Oh Serpent, is brought under foot and so crushed by the Lamb of God that no more revenge or plots may be contrived by that head. Which head is the seat of the imaginary mind(50) which flows like a mighty torrent (as I have sometimes witnessed in sorrow) out from the same source as the flowings of strong reasonings, which are as the artillery of war that thou hast today displayed against me.

    By which indeed I grant thou hast overcome world after world, so that all people, nations and languages have bowed and submitted to thy monarchy, because it is agreeable to an outward natural birth, conceived and brought forth out of the lapsed womb of rationality. The life's food (of which alone is sensibility) is united with these gross and low elements in which the universe of creatures consist, and like natural children, they fall under thy starry dominion and incline themselves to all thy laws and constitutions to voluntarily obey them.(51)

    Against such as who do cleave to thee, Oh King of the bottomless pit, thou wilt never proclaim war. Only these shall live peaceably within thy gates. But for such as are again conceived in Virgin Wisdom's womb and brought forth from between her everlasting knees, at whose birth the eternal Day Star breaketh out, there is no quarter to be given. Therefore, consultations from thy dark Herodian kingdom do begin immediately as that which is not able to bear or hear of another king that cometh to thwart or alter the whole course of things as they are established in thy natural and earthly kingdom.

    But why, Oh great Prince of Darkness, shouldest thou be offended at the birth of Emmanuel from the Virgin womb? It will not so presently turn thee out of dominion and possession everywhere as to have no more place in the earth. Why art thou so jealous? Thy dominion here is large enough and likely to so continue for a while, because the earthly inhabitants will still be thine, even all such as are of the unrighteous and serpentine seed. There is no danger but they will still bear thine image and likeness and so be on thy side to make war against the Lamb and His Bride. They alone (the Virgin's seed) are agreed to live and to maintain against thee their ancient rights in their Paradisical kingdom, out of which they are resolved to cast thee with all thine accursed and insinuating powers, which, like so many caterpillars, would eat holes in and so spoil and devour our Paradisical flowers.

    Do not think thou shalt forever engross all spirits to thyself. Thy date is seen in Wisdom's calendar, and the number of the time of thy ten-horned beast (Editor: I almost think this an intended pun by the Spirit) almost accomplished when he must return to his own place and be no more suffered to tempt those who have received the most holy and most precious Name. This Name, engraved within and without, shall be that signal token of victory over thee and thy seven-headed nations, whom thou hast called to thine aid that thou mightest hereby overturn the great design of wisdom, were it possible.

    But Wisdom hath now sounded her trumpet, that whosoever will fly to her banner shall be securely hid from thy eye and be made so strong and wise as to do such exploits by the weapons of faith as shall amaze and terrify thee.

    This I say, and say it again, as an immutable assertion from which I shall never depart but shall stand by it -- I am resolved to cleave to the eternal law and testimony given forth in Paradise, until it shall make me altogether so complete that thou mayest be grieved to see that God hath perfected holiness in so high a degree in that which was fallen humanity. Even that humanity which did once lie under thy dominion but is now recovered out of it by the mighty arm of the Lord of Hosts! And He will guard me from thy fury. Jehovah will be my safeguard! Yea, the whole blessed Trinity will concern Itself with my security if I am found to trust therein. Wherefore I shall not be further solicitous to answer any of thy upbraidings but will retire to my Ark of strength, and I leave thee in thy anguishing fire. From Wisdom's offspring this complete and final answer is given. So with this my pledge to God and His Wisdom, let thy mouth, Oh roaring Lion, be forever stopped! Even so, Amen.


CONCLUSION

    There is a mystical Paradise (as well as a local) which opens from a pure spiritual center and is a wonderful state to know and witness. It chiefly stands in divine visions, revelations, thoughts, presentations, manifestations in sounds, trumpets, voices, inspeakings, in powers, raptures, joys and sensible feelings. All of which golden springs flow from out of the bowels of the new Paradisical earth, according as Wisdom did some time afterward declare. She was then also pleased to declare her mind in this manner:

    "Ye that are resolved to taste of these flowing sweets, take heed to the Laws of Paradise and be not in the duality, halting between two principles.

    "The law from thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver" -- Ps.119:72.

    "Uncover thou mine eyes (by the taking away of the earthy veil and open to me the Paradisical life and sensation) that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law" -- Ps.119:18.

 

The MOTTO

Wisdom I have sought, and
Wisdom I have found;

And now I wear her as
My Garland and Crown.

 

THE END

 

48. We need not think it strange when, as we are hearing in this present hour, many are being attacked in their bodies. For, no sooner is the Dragon cast out of the heavenlies than he is cast down to the earth. No sooner is he cast out of our heavenlies but he is cast into the realm of our earth. Still, we are not to fear nor be dismayed at his roarings or threats, for as the Lamb has redeemed us in our spirits and souls, He shall not be satisfied until He has also reclaimed the body. That is the full redemption spoken of in Romans 8:23, and the privilege of them that follow Him whithersoever He goeth. As there can be no victory won without a battle fought, so it is through such an onslaught from the enemy that we shall finally expel him from this last dominion of the senses. Remember, it was through death that Jesus gained the mastery over death. The very word, overcomer, has no meaning without obstacles, impediments and hindrances. Many in this hour are finding themselves being severely tried in the area of their bodily health. Many are suffering pain of all sorts and some even make their pass through death. It is all a part of that battle in which the last enemy, even death, is overcome. We are to find our repose in faith, not looking at the outward appearance nor listening to the voice and counsel of Reason, but having our faces fixedly turned to Mt. Zion, let us set our gaze upon Christ Jesus, our Forerunner in these things, who is our Pattern and only reason for hope; rejoicing even in tribulation that the crown of life is ours through Him.

49. Such an attitude as Jane displays here has not been seen much in the Christian community at large because there has not been much taught along these lines. Rather, we have heard much taught that is actually contrary to it. The health and prosperity gospel has taught that if one is financially lacking or if one is suffering ill-health, it is to be taken that God is displeased and that there is something lacking in the area of faith and obedience. What a travesty that such should be placed upon God's people! What an even greater mockery that it should displace the actual truth of the matter, leaving no room for real faith to work. Probably no greater work of destruction has been wrought among the ranks of God's young and immature children than this rebellious teaching of "health and prosperity." It cannot be taught in the catacombs. It cannot be taught in poverty-stricken India. It cannot be taught in those countries where persecution unto death is underway. And if it cannot be taught universally, it is not the gospel of Jesus Christ! It is a fake and a farce, and those men who teach it, I do not hesitate to say, shall one day be very, very much ashamed they ever did.

We are to give no quarter to such an enemy with whom we are engaged in mortal combat, and we are most surely to expect none from him. We are a people committed to the Lamb COME-WHAT-MAY! We are to count it a privilege to suffer with Christ and to drink of His cup. If we find ourselves lacking in this world's goods, there were others before us who "wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth," of whom, the Bible says, "the world was not worthy." Can we be a part of that celebrated number without taking part in like-sufferings? Christ-ians are like Christ who poured His life out unto death. The Christ-ian is not in this battle up-to-a-point, so-long-as-it-is-convenient, in half-measures. The Christ-ian is committed in an utterness that includes death, if necessary, and the martyr's crown. What of the apostles, who gave their lives, not to mention our Pattern, Jesus? What of Paul, who lost his head? What of Stephen, stoned to death? What of all those Christ-ian martyrs down through the years, who yielded their wills and their lives? Shall we be admitted to their distinguished ranks while holding fast to our lives in a partial commitment? Incomplete commitment is unfaithfulness. Incomplete obedience is disobedience.

50. Though I have already commented on this point, it bears repeating here that the imaginary mind is seen represented throughout Scripture in the Cherubim. The imaginary mind has proven a very great and insurmountable barrier between us and God and to the realm of Life in which He abides. We see the Cherubim placed at the entrance to the Garden to keep and guard the way to the Tree or realm of life. We see the Cherubim of a cunning work (how like the reasoning mind) upon the veil which bars one's way to the Holiest of all. These and other instances in the Bible represent that mind of man (or God's), his thoughts and imaginations, which have kept us separate from God and out of Paradise. But we finally see the golden Cherubim behind the veil in the glory of the realm of Life. They two are of one beaten work, representing God's and redeemed and reconciled man's thoughts, heart and mind having been made one in and through Christ. In this realm there can be but one mind and will. What a blessed hope!

51. She says here what we all already know if we but stop to take thought for a moment. It is that all the whole course of nature is so designed in every detail of it, to appeal to, and make sense to, the natural outward man. The whole of natural man's realm is upon a course governed by those laws needed for the preservation of life in this realm. But here comes the enmity and revolt brought on by those who esteem the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of this present Egypt, because they desire a better country. Now a civil war is commenced, because they look for that city which hath foundations in another realm, a realm about which Reason knows nothing, and about which he cannot speak at all except to denigrate and slander. Rationality works only along the lines of the visible and temporal, not along the lines of the invisible and eternal. So Reason declares that there has been an insurrection on the part of those who seek that City which hath foundations (disregarding completely the fact that the insurrection began at the first when man departed from Virgin Wisdom to form his illicit alliance with Reason), and war in the heavens begins. Shall we walk by sight and Reason? Or shall we walk by faith and Wisdom? Thus the battle shall rage until the walk chosen is established and one walks according to the laws of Paradise, which are all contrary to, and at odds with, the natural laws by which the rest of mankind must walk for the preservation of its natural life.