Mysterium Magnum (An Exposition of the First Book of Moses, called Genesis)

11. Therefore the mind must be as a boned, servile, slavish ass, which, though it sitteth at ease and rest in a good habitation in the borders of God, yet it must bear the burden of sins and of death in the earthly sack, and there is no buying it off with the mandrakes before the death of the earthly man; also no praying to God for it availeth that thereby the strong-boned ass might come to divine liberty: it must remain an ass, till Christ in himself bringeth it into the eternal rest. The Adamical hurt and loss is so great that the ass must leave the sack in the death of Christ, else he will not be rid of it. 12. But he addeth the cause why he must remain a strong-boned ass, for he saith, He saw the rest, that it was good, and the land, that it was pleasant. That is, that the mind would always desire to rest in the lust and pleasure of the flesh, and would desire to take care of the earthly lust; and in that regard the mind must be a servile ass, and servant of God’s anger; and so separateth the natural Adamical man from the seed of the Covenant, viz. from the person of Christ, so that the natural Adamical man, in its inbred nature, is but this ass with the sack, till Christ possesseth his kingdom in him; no Covenant or pray¬ ing availeth, but that Adam must in this world remain an ass till the sack be gone. And then he is called a new child in Christ, which new child in this life is the inward ground: but the strong-boned ass is the

new child’s instrument, upon which the sack is carried, for the servility to God’s anger continueth so long as the sack lasteth. 13. Dan will be a judge among his people, as any other generation in Israel. Dan will be a serpent by the way, and an adder in the path, and will bite the horse in the heels, that his rider shall fall back. 0 Lord, I wait for thy salvation (Gen. xlix. 16-18). This is a powerful figure of the outward power and authority of human offices in the kingdom of this world, and is so strongly prefigured that it is terrible to read, if a man rightly discern the figure. And yet in the presence of God it standeth in its own proper figure, thus: The spirit saith, Dan will be a judge among his people, as one of the generations or tribes in Israel. In the figure it standeth thus : 14. Dan standeth in the figure of all outward offices, from those of highest authority and power, even to the government of the human life itself;1 therefore the spirit saith of him, he shall be in his own might and power as one man is to another. In the presence of God he is not esteemed greater in his own nature than a servant or minister, for he serveth God in his office as another servant doth his lord and master; the office is God’s, wherein he sitteth as a judge. The office is the authority and power, and he himself is, before God, as another man.

15. But the spirit saith, Dan will be a serpent by the way, and an adder in the path. That is, this judge in God’s office would draw poison out of the power and authority, viz. self-will, and say of himself, The authority is mine, the office is mine. That is called, in the way, for the way which they should go is God’s, viz. true righteousness. Then saith Dan, That land and country, this city, that village, those goods, that money, is mine ; it is my own. I will use it to my own profit, advantage and honour, and live in this office as I will. 16. And this very selfhood is the serpent and venomous adder on the way, for it walketh very dangerous steps upon the paths of 1 Ordering of a man’s own private affairs or employment. righteousness; it turneth righteousness into selfhood, to do what it will. It saith, I am a lord, the city, land and country, the village or authority and power is mine, I may do with the people what I will, they are mine. And so sucketh poison out of God’s office of a judge, and thereby afflicteth the miserable, and stingeth with this poison round about in the way of the office, as an adder and serpent.

17. For the spirit saith, He will bite the horse in the heels, so that his rider will fall backward. That is, he will bite the horse, that is, the office whereon he rideth, in the heels, viz. in the just right, that the righteousness, viz. God’s rider which he shall bring, may fall back¬ ward, and that he may govern as God’s rider instead of the righteous¬ ness. Whereupon the rider, God’s righteousness in his office, saith, 0 Lord, I wait for thy salvation, that is, till thou sendest the right rider, Christ, who shall ride over this adder and serpent again. 18. hHhen Rachel could bear no children to Jacob, she was troubled at Jacob, and said to him, Procure me children, if not, I die. But Jacob was wrath with Rachel, and said, I am not God, that I should give thee fruit of thy body. But she said, Behold, there is my maid-servant Bilhah, lie thou with her, that she may bring forth on my lap, and I shall be built up by her. And thus she gave him Bilhah her maidservant to wife: and Jacob lay with her. So Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. Then said Rachel, God hath judged my cause, and heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore she called him Ban (Gen. xxx. 1-6).

19. This now is the powerful figure of Jacob’s testament, wherein he prophesieth so terribly concerning Dan, that he would be a serpent; and in the right figure it signifieth, man’s own will, which will not suffer God to judge and lead it, but always murmureth against God, as Rachel murmured against Jacob, because it went not with her as she would, and was implacable with pressing Jacob, that he would give her children, or else she would die, at which Jacob was wrath. 20. So now the spirit represents the figure by Bilhah, Rachel’s maid-servant, whom she gave to Jacob for a wife, who bare this Dan, who should be a judge and determiner of the anger and strife between Jacob and Rachel, when the self-will of Rachel would have children by force. 21. And it prefigureth this to us, that the worldly office of a judge hath its original from God’s maid-servant, that is, from the kingdom and dominion of nature, and that God created man under no office of a judge; but the murmuring, stubborn and opposite self-will of man, which will not be obedient to God, nor endure to be judged and led by his spirit, that hath caused, that Dan, viz. the power and authority to j udge, is born in the lap of Rachel, viz. in the liberty of nature.

22. Therefore the spirit in the Covenant by Jacob pronounceth so sharp and severe a sentence upon it, and saith, this Dan, that is, this office of a judge, would be a serpent and adder in the way of righteous¬ ness, and would bite the just right, viz. the heels of his horse, that his rider, viz. justice and righteousness, might fall to the ground; and then nature shall wait for the salvation of God, viz. for the justice and right of Christ, by and through love: and then Dan’s office shall cease. 23. Which ought well to be considered by thee, Babel, seeing thou boastest of Christ, whether thy salvation be in thee or no; that thou mightest judge thyself, and not need to have judges who must judge thy unrighteousness, wherein thou art no Christian, seeing thou continually murmurest with Rachel, and seekest thy will, therefore also the adder and serpent of Dan may well sting thee; for thy evil malice and wickedness causeth that, viz. thy own wilfulness. There¬ fore also hath God given thee up under Dan’s fallen rider, so that thou must go along as a slave and ridden horse, whom the serpent stingeth with his venomous sting, viz. with the power and authority of usurping self.

24. But that Dan’s rider must fall backward, signifieth that this Dan with his office shall fall backward in the conscience of a Christian, when he turneth to Christ and worketh repentance; for in repentance Dan’s government ceaseth, the rider, God’s anger, falleth backward. Therefore also every Christian is bound to forgive every one from his heart, when repentance and confession and acknowledgment of sins cometh, and so cast the office of a judge behind his back, for the office ofa judge is the office concerning sin, that severeth right from wrong, and always falleth heavy upon that which is false and wicked; but the serpent often biteth the horse in the heels, viz. favour, greatness, reward, gifts and bribes : these make Dan an adder and serpent. 25. And we see clearly that Dan, viz. the office ofa judge in Israel, hath its original from the murmuring, stubborn and opposite will, and that Dan is only a determiner of strife, and not, as he supposeth to be his own lord in his office, but a divider, as Rachel saith: God hath judged my cause, viz. by this Dan, her maid-servant’s son, and not her own son; to signify that a child of God needeth no judge: he judgeth himself, and suffers with patience.

2 6. Gad stands prepared, he will lead a host, and retreat back again (Gen. xlix. 19). This figure doth not prefigure that the children of Gad shall be captains of troops, as also Dan’s children shall not be mere judges, but it represents the spiritual figure, which is to be seen by Leah, who gave her maid-servant also to Jacob, when she ceased to bear, and would make haste to prevent Rachel. For Gad was born ofZilpah, and should prevent Dan, for she said, readily, Turn thee before him, and turn about to me again (Gen. xxx. 9-1 1). And it denoteth human forecasting and carefulness, subtlety, policy and wicked craft and cunningness, that do with all subtlety prevent the right and justice, and would elevate themselves above all right and truth. 27. For Gad and Dan are both from the maid-servants, and are in the figure as a strife, for Rachel and Leah would one prevent the other, and therefore their ways were merely opposite: so this figure standeth thus: When Dan will judge, then cometh Gad with his subtle agility and readiness,1 and worketh him out of his office with flattering speeches and specious pretences; with lying and perverting pre¬ varication, for it windeth all truth about, and setteth his agile nimble subtlety in the right of truth, and so the judge is blinded by his agile nimble pragmaticalness.

28. This the spirit intimates strongly concerning Israel, signifying how they would live one among another, and how the self-power and authority with Dan, and the agility with Gad, would govern the world: But these are both of them but children of the maid-servants, and not of the free women, and their offices shall have an end. 29. From Asher cometh his fat bread f and he will act to please kings (Gen. xlix. 20). When Zilpah, Leah’s maid-servant, had born Gad, prepared, subtle, crafty, always ready at every subtle assault against the right, justice and judgment of Dan, then saith Moses, Zilpah bare Jacob the second son. And then said Leah, It is well with me, for the daughters will praise 1 Officiousness to undermine and insinuate himself. 2 Or, finest of flour. me and call me blessed: and she called him Asher (Gen. xxx. 12, 13). And Jacob said in the testament, From Asher cometh his fat bread, and he will live to please kings. Here Jacob, viz. the spirit in the Covenant, compriseth these two brethren together in a figure: for Gad hath the agility, and Asher taketh his fat bread from the king, and Leah saith at his birth, The daughters will praise me and call me blessed.

30. Here now standeth the figure. But what explanation may this have? Gad ordereth his ways with subtlety, and Asher with flattery and hypocrisy, among the kings and potentates in authority and power, whereby he attaineth prosperous fat days of plenty, pleasure and voluptuousness: and such are everyone that shall sit in offices; and as judges and magistrates they do all to please their lord and king; that they may be reputed, honoured, applauded and rewarded by him, and that they may have their fat bread from him. And the spirit by these three sons signifieth powerfully what kind of people would rule the world; viz. by Dan, the serpent, viz. self-will; and by Gad, subtlety, treachery, and undermining deceit; and by Asher, false and wicked flattery, and sycophanting hypocrisy, who always sit in the courts of kings, and serve them for their fat bread, and only hunt after the applause and honour of men. 31. Therefore saith the spirit, From Asher cometh his fat bread. From whom cometh the fat bread? Answer, from the nimble subtle heads, who make the cause of flatterers and hypocrites seem right. The flatterers sit near kings, and applaud them in their selfhood, and say, Do what thou wilt, it is all good and right: and when the king would fain have it in the appearance of right, that it also may be applauded, then cometh Gad with his nimble, subtle, perverted, far¬ fetched argumentative prerogative right, and setteth the king’s own self-will in the right of nature, so that it seemeth to be right: to these Asher giveth the king’s fat bread. Thus they all three live in the serpent, and so it biteth the horse in the heels, and they are all three the maid-servants’ children, viz. ministers and servants of self-will.

32. Dan is the manager of the superior1 office, Gad is his counsellor at law in matters of right, justice and judgment, such as the lawyers and jurists2 are; and Asher is the nobility and councillors of state. These the spirit hath foreseen in their testament in these things, which they would hereafter practise; for the testator saith not, ye shall be such, but ye will be such; and sheweth excellently what the government on earth in the self-will of the human nature would be. 1 Or, supreme. 2 Advocates, proctors, pleaders and attorneys. 3 3 . Naphtali is a swift hind, and givethfair words (Gen. xlix. 21). Naphtali is the second son of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid-servant, which she bare after Dan, and is a right brother of Dan. These brethren of Naphtali are now among kings and judges, and denote the earthly wisdom from the constellation1 or stars, which with eloquent fair speeches adorn the office of judicature, so that, Dan, Gad and Asher are called able, wise, understanding and learned lords and masters. 34. But he also proceedeth only from the strife between Rachel and Jacob. For Rachel said, when Bilhah her maid-servant bare him, God hath decided between me and my sister, and I shall prevail over her (Gen. xxx. 8). This signifieth in the figure, that these wise and learned speeches of Naphtali in this office ofjudicature would be able to bow, bend and turn about all causes, so that self-will would remain still a judge in all causes, so that none would be able to object anything in the least against these four rulers, the sons of the maid-servants, but they would have the government in Israel, and rule the world, and prevail over all men.

35. But they are all four the sons of the maid-servants. And Sarah said to Abraham, Thrust out the son of the maid-servant, for he shall not inherit with my son Isaac. And God was pleased with it, and commanded Abraham to do it: to signify that these offices shall not inherit nor possess the kingdom of heaven, but shall have an end, when Christ, the son of the free woman, shall receive the kingdom. All these states and governments shall [then] be thrust out, and he alone in his children and members shall govern. 36. Behold thyself in this looking-glass, thou politic, cunning, very wise and understanding world, in thy subtle policy, eloquence of speech, favour, might, potency and honour, and see where it is thou sittest, and whom thou servest ; behold thy fat bread, also the applause from the king whom thou servest, and what thou purposest, designest and doest, and how thou standest in thy figure before God and the kingdom of Christ. Thy eloquence availeth nothing in the presence of God; thy prudence, policy, subtlety and cunning, availeth nothing. If thou wilt not give right counsel, and say and do according to truth, and persuade and inform thy superior lord and master rightly, then

thou helpest to generate this adder and serpent in the testament of Dan for thy superior; and thou thyself art that adder and serpent, who biteth judgment, justice and right in the heel: and therefore thou also shalt attain the end, wages and recompense of the serpent in hell fire for it. 37. Joseph will spring forth : he will spring as by a fountain, the [ sprouts or] daughters pass on to the government ; and although the archers be angry , and fight against him and persecute him, yet his bow holdeth strong, and his arms and hands in strength, through the hands of the mighty in Jacob ; from whom have proceeded the shepherds and stone in Israel. Thou art helped by thy father’s God, and from the Almighty thou art blessed with blessings from heaven above, and with blessings from the deep that lieth beneath, with blessings of the breasts and womb: the blessings of thy father have prevailed more than the blessings of my ancestors, according to the desire of the lofty in the world ■ and shall come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of his head that was separate from his brethren (Gen. xlix. 22-26).

38. In this testament of Joseph the spirit in the Covenant repre¬ sents the figure of a right divine governor, in whom the spirit of God ruleth, who is not the son of the maid-servant, but of the free woman, who serveth God and his brethren, in his office, who governeth in truth and righteousness, who suffereth not tale-bearers, sycophants and flatterers about him, who seeketh not his own profit, credit and honour, but God’s honour, and his brethren’s profit: This the spirit hath powerfully prefigured by Joseph. 39. For Joseph was not an intruding governor, but one rightly called, not out of policy, subtlety and plausible speeches and pretences, so that he can draw and turn the horse about by the tail and yet persuade the simple people that he turns him about by the head: and the flattering hypocrite also saith of such governors and rulers, they are the head; and they do this only that they may eat their fat bread from the court. He sat not with adorned, eloquent, acute speeches in the office of judicature, but by divine understanding: if he would have flattered and have been a lascivious adulterer he could well have been a governor with Potiphar: but that ought not to be. For in him stood the figure of a true Christian man, shewing how such a one would regulate his life, and also his office, and how the good well-spring,

Christ, would flow forth through him, and judge and rule through him. 40. For Jacob began that testament and said: Joseph will spring, he will spring as by a fountain; that is, his wisdom will spring in God’s power, and flow forth from him; so that he will find wise counsel; also the [sprouts or] daughters pass on to the government, that is, his wise words, counsels and determinations go forth, as a fair daughter in her virgin chastity and virtue. 41. Also, though the archers be enraged, and fight against him and persecute him, yet his bom remaineth strong, and his arms and hands in strength, by the hands of the mighty one in Jacob', that is, though the devil with his crew set upon him and despise him, so that he seeketh not his own honour and profit, and though wicked people shoot their arrows upon him, who bring forth lies under the specious pretence of truth, against him, yet his wisdom remaineth under the divine arms, and his will to righteousness standeth as a strong bow, through the co-habitation of the mighty God. 42. Also, from him are proceeded shepherds and the stone in Israel ; that is, from him, from his wisdom, are proceeded other wise, righteous, understanding rulers, viz. faithful counsellors who are near him, shepherds and pillars in the government: for such as the prince is, such are his counsellors, as the proverb is. When the council seeth that the prince loveth righteousness, and that he will not be served with hypocrisy and flattery, and that only honest, trusty and understand¬ ing wise people bear sway with him, then they diligently labour for wisdom and righteousness, that they may please him therein: and then that land and country hath good shepherds.

43 . Also, Thou art helped from thy father’s God, and thou art blessed from the Almighty, that is, from the God1 of Abraham, which helped Abraham, thou hast gotten wisdom and understanding, and that helpeth thee against thy enemies, and against their arrows. And thou art blessed from the Almighty, with blessings from heaven above, and with blessings from the deep beneath; with blessings of the breasts and womb; that is, from waiting on the Lord thou shalt receive good things, honour and sustenance, he will bless thee in body and soul, in goods and estate, and in all thy ways, and give thee sufficient, so that thou wilt not need nor dare to use subtle cunning deceit to pervert that which is right; thou wilt not dare to say of anything it is thy own to use as thou wilt, and yet thou wilt have sufficient and plenty. 44. For one that feareth God, and leaveth selfhood or appropriating anything for his own, he getteth instead thereof, all, in the kingdom of Christ; the heaven and the world is his; whereas, on the contrary, the wicked must supply himself with a piece of that which he hath stolen in subtlety and acquired to himself with deceit, and take nothing of it away with him but the hell only, and his wicked unrighteousness, and the curse of miserable people whom he hath tormented upon earth; they have kindled hell fire with their curse in him, and that he taketh along with him.

45. Also, The blessing of thy father hath prevailed more than the blessing of my ancestors according to the desire of the lofty in the world ; and it shall come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of his head that was separated from his brethren: That is, Jacob’s blessing hath therefore prevailed more than his ancestors’, because in him the ens of faith was sprouted forth and come into many boughs and branches : for the fruit did shew forth itself more than by Abraham and Isaac. For Abraham generated but one twig out of the line of the Covenant, viz. Isaac; so also Isaac generated but one twig out of the line of the Covenant, viz. Jacob, on whom the spirit looked. Seeing Jacob generated twelve sons, which all stood in the root of the line of the Covenant, and grew out of it as twigs (but in Judah stood the stock), therefore he said, his blessing prevailed more-, as a tree which is grown into branches from the stock. 46. But that he saith, According to the desire of the lofty in the world, he signifieth under it the prosperity of the blessing to those that are blessed; for as the rich of the world desire only highness and good things, so these in the blessing of God receive temporal and eternal good things; these shall from the blessing of Jacob come upon the head of Joseph, that is, upon his children, so that they shall in this sprouting bear good fruit: for the head signifieth the blossoms and fruit of this tree.

47. Also, Upon the crown of his head that was separated from his brethren : that is, the blessing shall not press forth alone out of the line of the Covenant, so that it alone among Jacob’s children stood in the bless¬ ing, viz. the stock of Judah, but upon the crown of his head that was separated, viz. upon the ground of the natural root of the Adamical tree in them all; that they all of them together should be as a fruitful tree. But concerning their states and worldly offices, wherein they would live wickedly in the future, he representeth the figure in Dan, and the four brethren from Jacob’s wives’ maid-servants, signifying how in the end the Serpent would manage the government in the Adamical nature, and how their successors would live in their offices, and what kind of world would rise up therein: as it hath come to pass among the Jews and the Christians. 48. Benjamin is a ravening wolf: in the morning he will devour the prey, but in the evening he will divide the spoil (Gen. xlix. 27). Benjamin was Joseph’s nearest own dear brother, and yet the spirit saith of him: he is a ravening wolf, who in the morning would devour the prey. In this testament of Benjamin is couched the most hidden secret figure of the whole Scripture, and yet in its type, in the unfolding in the effect and work, it is the most manifest and open figure, which is clear in the fulfilling, so that men may see it with bodily eyes, and yet in their reason are quite blind concerning it.

49. This figure is fulfilled, and yet is in action, and shall be yet also further fulfilled: it is very secret, and yet as manifest as a sunshiny day, and yet is not understood. But it is known to the Magi and Wisemen, who indeed have written much concerning it, but it hath not been yet rightly explicated, while the time of the evening (when Benjamin’s spoil shall be divided) was far off; but now it is near. Therefore we shall offer somewhat concerning it, and hint the sense and meaning for those of our society to consider of, and yet remain as it were dumb to the unwise, seeing they sit in the dark, and open their jaws only after the spoil. 50. The two brethren, Joseph and Benjamin, are the image or type of Christendom, and of a Christian man, which in their figure is two¬ fold, viz. the Adamical man in his nature is signified by Benjamin, and the new man out of the Covenant in the spirit of Christ is signified by Joseph; and the figure representeth how Christ hath assumed the Adamical man, and that this man is half Adamical and half heavenly, and that entirely in one person which cannot be divided.

51. So also in this image or type he prefigureth Christendom, and how they would receive Christ and become Christians, viz. that in them Christ, and also the evil wolf Adam, would govern; that is, when they would receive the faith, they would be so ravenous raving and zealous as a wolf, and would draw the heathen to them with power and compulsion, and yet would devour them; that is, who¬ soever will not above all hold the same opinion with them, they would presently fall on to condemn that other opinion, and persecute it with wars and the sword ; as a raging lion or wolf biteth and devoureth, thus in zeal they would devour round about them with excommunica¬ tion and the sword; and that therefore, not because they are zealous in the spirit of Christ, but from the wolf of the evil Adam, which would always set itself in spiritual and worldly states and polities above the spirit of Christ. 52. Thus their zeal would be only from the devouring wolf, men being more zealous under the name of Christ for temporal goods, fat livings, good days and worldly honour, than for love, truth and salvation. They will not be zealous in the power of Christ’s love, but in the power of the devouring wolf ; also in the zeal of their accustomed exercises and worship, wherein yet they would but play the hypocrites before God, they themselves would devour one another as covetous greedy wolves; and so outwardly the wolf would govern. But yet inwardly, in the true children, Christ would govern: Outwardly Benjamin, viz. the natural Adam, which indeed is also a Christian, but it is first, after his resurrection, when he is quit of the wolf; and inwardly Joseph, who is hidden under the wolf.

53 . And now the spirit of Jacob in the Covenant of God pointeth at the time, shewing how it would be; viz. in the first time of Chris¬ tianity they would be zealous, and hunger after God in the spirit of Christ, and yet must hide themselves from their enemies, as [from] a wolf that men hunt as an enemy. 54. But when they shall be great and possess kingdoms, that is, when Christ’s name shall come under the power and authority of Dan, so that laws and ordinances shall be made out of pretence of Christian liberty, and its orders and exercises shall come under worldly authority and dominion, then will this Christendom be a wolf, which will no more judge and proceed in the love of Christ, but who¬ soever will not call all their belly-orders good and right, those they would devour with the sword of excommunication, with fire and vengeance,1 and would raise wars for Christ’s name, and for their superstitions; and compel the people with power to the acknowledg¬ ment of Christ, and devour round about them as a wolf, and always hunt after the spoil, and yet for the most part intend to get the goods and authority of strange and foreign people to themselves.

55. Thus would Benjamin, in the morning, viz. in his rising up, devour the prey, and towards the evening he would again divide this devoured spoil; that is, towards the end of the world, when Joseph’s government will get aloft again, so that Christ shall be wholly manifest, and that this wolf shall cease, then will Benjamin, viz. the holy true Christendom, divide the spoil of Christ, wherewith Christ hath suppressed death and hell. 56. This dividing or distribution of the spoil shall come, and is already come, and yet is not, though it is, really, in truth, and the whole world is blind concerning it, except the children of the Mystery. The time is, and is not, and yet truly is, when this prey and spoil of Christ, and also the wolf’s prey, shall, through Joseph’s hand, be given into Benjamin’s hand, and be divided and distributed. 57. O Babel, let this be a wonder to thee, and yet no wonder, either; for thou hast nothing, and seest nothing at which thou canst wonder: as a young plant groweth from a seed, and becometh a great tree which bringeth forth much fair fruit; so that a man would wonder at the grain of seed, how so excellent a tree, and so much good fruit, hath lain hid in one only grain or seed, which men neither knew of nor saw before. But, because men have knowledge and experience thereof, that it is possible that a tree should come out of one grain or seed, men wonder not at it;

yet men see not how it comes to pass, or where that great power and virtue was. So also at present, men see the grain or seed of the tree well enough, but reason contemneth that, and believeth not that such a tree lieth therein, whence such good fruit should come, that thereby the kingdom of Benjamin, at the end of time, shall be called a dividing or distribution of the prey and spoil.

58. But Joseph must first be a governor in Egypt, and then Benjamin cometh to him; and then Joseph giveth him five garments of sumptuous apparel, and five times more food from his table than the others. When the famine famisheth the land, and the soul of Jacob hungereth, then know that God will thereby draw Israel into Egypt, viz. into repentance: and then is the time of visitation, and Benjamin carrieth his spoiling sword in his mouth. But Joseph’s countenance smiteth him, so that he cometh into great terror, and fear of death, because the silver cup of Joseph was found in his sack, at which he is ashamed, and letteth his spoiling sword and wolves’ teeth fall from him. And then Joseph manifesteth himself to him, together with all his brethren, at which there will be such joy that the wolf Benjamin will become a lamb, and yield his wool patiently. This is the end of that speech. 59. The Testament of Jacob is a figure of the whole time of the world, from Adam to the end: of which we will set down a short figure for the Reader that knoweth the vision or histories to consider of.

60. I. Reuben , in this place, being the first son, is set in the figure of the first world, which lived in the right of nature without law, that hath the priesthood and the kingdom in the right of nature, and should be in the chiefest sacrifice, and in the greatest dominion: but he was fickle therein as water, and was thrust out. 61. II. Simeon beginneth with Noah, after the flood, and keepeth Levi with him; that was Shem. But the sword of Ham and Japhet was Simeon : so there went two in one substance, viz. the spiritual will and the fleshly will, till Moses, and then the worldly and the spiritual were divided into two several states. 62. III. Levi beginneth under Moses, who with the priesthood managed the sword of Simeon and Levi in the Law, and cut very sharply therewith. 63 . IV. Judah beginneth under the Prophets, and manifesteth him¬ self with the Incarnation of Christ, at which time this sceptre began. 64. V. Zebulun, with his co-habitation, setteth himself in the midst, viz. in the kingdom of Christ: and that was the beginning of Christen¬ dom, who dwelleth on the coasts of the sea, viz. among the heathen, and sat pleasantly, for it was a new love.

65. VI. Issachar is the time when Christendom was settled in rest, viz. in power, might and dominions, which must yet always bear the burden of the heathen, and be servile, and be as a bound ass for the burden, for they still bear the cross of Christ, and were still con¬ formable to the image of Christ, about three hundred years after Christ. 66. VII. With Dan did the potent kingdom and government of Christendom begin, when they set up kings, popes, archbishops and potent pompous churches, chapels and other consecrated places, and then was the adder and serpent by the way of Christ in human honour generated in the kingdom of Christ; when men began to dispute about the pomp, state and glory of churches, and to exalt men into the kingdom and offices of Christ, and set them in the place of Christ, and to honour them in Christ’s stead; then was Christ suppressed, and the adder and serpent sat in Christ’s office of judicature, and then the Holy Ghost was rejected, and councils were set in the place thereof, and then was Antichrist born. At that time the spirit of Christ said, Lord, I wait now for thy salvation, for here now my name must be the

cloak of Antichrist, till thou shalt deliver me in Joseph’s time. In this time is truth strongly bitten in the heels, so that the rider in the spirit of Christ must fall backward. 67. VIII. With Gad, who should be the leader of a host, beginneth the time of the universities and schools among Christians, about eight hundred years ago, when men readily set Antichrist with power and might of armies in the chair of Christ, and with babbling, disputing, and perverting prevarication, maintained him against all opposition; when men made the tail to be the head, and forced the power of Christ into human traditions and canons, and made a worldly kingdom of Christ’s kingdom. 68. IX. With Asher began the time when men lived to please King Antichrist, when he was God on earth. Then came the flattering hypocrites from the universities and schools, who flattered this king for fat bread, viz. for good offices, benefices, prebendaries and bishoprics, and applauded his doings and cause, and did all to please him, and set Christ with Antichrist upon a soft cushion, and so worshipped the image in the Apocalypse about six hundred years ago and nearer. 69. X. With Naphtali beginneth the time of the great Wonder, when man went on with high sermons and deep searching disputes about the council2 of God, so that men have seen that these in Christ’s chair were not Christ in power; yet men sought deep, that they might cover themselves with a mantle, with fair and plausible maxims, con¬ clusions and determinations, then came the knotty acute logic, whereby men dispute.

One part of them saith he is Christ, in power and authority; the other part contradicteth and opposeth it, that part setting his followers and dependents with his pretences into the blood of Christ, and buildeth all authority and holy sermons upon it; and so the spirit of Christ in the inward ground set itself against it, and saith, He is the Antichrist : This time hath continued to our time wherein we live.3

70. XI. With Joseph beginneth the time when Christ will be mani¬ fested again, when he shall cast to the ground the adder and serpent, Dan, with the chair of Antichrist, with all might and power of self¬ hood in the kingdom of Christ upon earth, and terrify it with his countenance, when Joseph’s brethren must be ashamed of their great unfaithfulness which they have committed against Joseph, in that they cast him into the pit, and moreover sold him for money. And then 1 Revelation. 2 Predestination. 3 Anno 1623. will all subtlety, craft, flattery, hypocrisy and deceit be made manifest, and will, by the aspect ofjoseph’s countenance, be cast to the ground. And it is that time wherein it will be said, Babylon, she is fallen, she is fallen, and is become a habitation of all devils and abominable beasts and fowls (Rev. xviii. 2). And then Joseph springeth up in his own power and virtue, and his daughters pass on in their ornament, and his blessing beginneth. 71. XII. With Benjamin beginneth the time of the evening, under Joseph’s time, for then he shall again divide and distribute the spoil of the first Christendom. He belongeth to the first and last time, especially to the first time of Joseph, when Christ beginneth to be manifested; and then he is first eager as a wolf, and devoureth far and wide, when he beginneth to bite and devour Antichrist; yet all that while he is but a wolf. But when Joseph’s countenance shall be un¬ veiled, then he is ashamed, as a wolf that is taken in a gin, and begin¬ neth to be a lamb, and to yield his fat and plenty of wool.

72. This is the testament of Jacob, in its true figure, wherein the spirit hath pointed at the times; and the spirit of Moses saith, When Jacob had finished all these sayings he drew bis feet up together upon the bed, and departed , to signify that when these his prophecies would be all fulfilled, then God would call again the unfolded nature in the strife of time into himself, and draw it together into the temperature; and then would this time have an end, and strife cease. This we desired a little to delineate for the lover of truth. Let him search further in the spirit of God, which searcheth all things, even the deep things of the Deity, and then he will see our ground in the truth. Of the Holy Patriarch Jacob’s Burial in the land of Canaan. What is thereby to be understood1 !• f I 'he burial of Jacob, that Joseph should carry him again into the land of Canaan, after his death, and bury him with his fathers, and that Joseph went thither with a great company, with all the children of Israel, and many Egyptians, it prefigureth to us Christ’s powerful exit out of this world, when the Adamical man, after its death, should again be carried from this Egypt and house of torment into its father’s first country, into Paradise, into which Christ will bring it.

2. But that also many Egyptians went along with Joseph thither, and accompanied him, signifieth that Christ, when he shall bring home his bride into Paradise, will have many strangers with him, who in the time of this life knew him not as to his person or office, and yet are sprung up in him, in his love, which will all go with Christ into Paradise, and dwell and co-habit with him. 3. Their weeping and mourning signifieth the eternal joy, which they should receive in Paradise, as the Magi always by weeping and mourning prefigure joy. This funeral solemnity, and what is to be understood thereby, is declared before concerning Abraham.2 4. Moses saith further in this chapter: Joseph’s brethren feared, after their father was dead, and said, Joseph surely is wrath with us, and will requite all the evil which we have done unto him. Therefore they caused it to be told him: Thy father commanded before his death, and said, Thus shall ye say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the misdeeds of thy brethren, and their sin, that they have done so evil to thee: therefore forgive the misdeeds of us the servants of the God of thy father. But Joseph wept when it was told him: and his brethren went in and fell down before him, and said, Behold, we are thy servants. But Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I am under the presence of God. Tou thought to do evil by me, but God turned it unto good, so that he hath done as it is at this day, to preserve much people. Therefore be not afraid, I will provide for you and your children. So he comforted them, and spake friendly to them {Gen. 1. 15-21).

1 Genesis 1. 2 Gen. xxiii and Mysterium Magnum , ch. s 1. 5. This figure is a mighty comfort to the brethren of Joseph. But seeing Joseph standeth in the image and type of Christ, and his brethren in the figure of a poor converted sinner, therefore we must expound this figure thus: that is, when poor sinful man, who hath committed great sins, and hath turned to repentance and attained grace, and committed some fault again, then he is always in fear and trembling before the grace of God, and thinketh God will impute his first committed sins to him again, and take an occasion against him by this fault; and in that regard standeth in great anguish, and beginneth to confess his first committed sins again, and falleth anew at the Lord’s feet and entereth again into earnest sincere repentance, and bewaileth his first misdeeds, as David did when he said: Lord, impute not to me the sins of my youth (Ps. xxv. 7). 6. But by this new repentance and earnest lamentation, when the poor man appeareth again so very earnestly and humbly before God, the heavenly Joseph is brought into such great pity and compassion (as here Joseph was), that he comforteth the poor soul in its conscience, saying, it should not be afraid, all its committed sins should not only not be imputed, but they shall also turn to the best: as Joseph said, Te thought to do me evil, but God intended good thereby. Thus God in Christ not only forgiveth the by-past sins to the humble converted man, but he also addeth to him provision for him and his children, with temporal blessing and maintenance, and turneth all to the best: as Joseph did to his brethren.

7. In the end, Joseph desireth an oath, that when he shall die, that they will carry his bones along with them out of Egypt to his fathers (Gen. 1. 25); which signifieth to us the oath of God in Paradise, that Christ, God and Man, would come again to his brethren, and stay for ever with them, and be their High Priest and King, and nourish them with his power of love, and dwell by and in them, as Joseph by his brethren, and provide for them, as his branches and members, eternally, with his power and sap. Amen. 8. This is a brief summary exposition of the first book1 of Moses, from a right true ground and divine gift, which we have very faith¬ fully imparted, in a co-operating member-like love and care, to our dear fellow brethren, that shall read and understand this. 9. And we admonish the Reader of this, that when he findeth somewhat in any place of our deep sense to be obscure, that he do not contemn it according to the manner of the evil world, but dili- gently read, and pray to God, who will surely open the door of his heart, so that he will apprehend and be able to make use of it to the profit and salvation of his soul, which we wish to the Reader and Hearer, in the love of Christ from the gift of this talent in the ground of the soul, and commit him into the working meek love of JESUS CHRIST. Dated n September 1623, and then finished.

Praise the LORD in Sion, and praise him all people, for his might and power goeth through, and is over, Heaven and Earth: Ha le lu jah. OF THE CHIEF MATTERS TO BE FOUND IN THIS BOOK OF THE 27. Why Abel offered sacrifice ....... 9 29. What the name Abel or Habel signifieth in the Language of 30. Why Abel must be slain ..... 61. How the soul may attain ability to receive grace 69. How man’s ability to receive grace is lost 46. What the names of Abimelech and Gerar signify 47. How Abimelech made a covenant with Abraham. What that signifieth in the spiritual figure; and what Moses here signifieth under the veil thereof ....... 1-27 47. The holy figure of Abimelech and Pichol . . . . 6, et seq. 43. What is called above and beneath in the text . . . 9, 11, 12 37. Of Abraham and his seed, and of the line of the Covenant in its 37. Why the Spirit called Abraham out of his father’s country 21, et seq. 37. How God appeared to Abraham ...... 45-49 39. How God appeared to Abraham ...... 1 38. How the ens of the Serpent as well as the line of Christ lay in

39. Of Abraham’s sacrifice ........ 13-25 39. How God established the Covenant with Abraham, and how the faith of Abraham laid hold of the Covenant, which was accounted to him for righteousness, and how God called Abraham to sacrifice .......... 1-32 40. What is represented under the history of Abraham, Isaac and 40. How two lines sprang out of Abraham ..... 2-6 40. From what property of Abraham Isaac and Ishmael were . . 13 40. How Abraham in his seed had the land for an eternal possession 50-58 42. How the Trinity appeared to Abraham ..... 1 42. What Abraham signifieth in the Language of Nature . . 1 42. What Abraham’s washing of their feet that came to him signifieth 11 43. What Abraham’s praying to the men for Sodom and Gomorrah 45. How Abraham’s pilgrimage was a type of Christendom . . 1-13 45. How Abraham, Sarah and Abimelech were a powerful figure of Christendom . . . . . . . . . 15, 16 45. How God led Abraham so wonderfully, and how he was always in trial, and how the Lord preserved him .... 1-20 46. Of Abraham’s unwillingness to thrust out the maid-servant with

her son .......... 24-28 47. Of the richness of the figure of Abraham’s actions ... 1 47. Of Abimelech’s covenant with Abraham ..... 2-27 48. How God tried Abraham, and represented the figure of Christ’s sacrifice in his sufferings and death ..... 1-34 48. How Abraham saw Christ’s sacrifice afar off, even 2000 years before it was done ........ 10 48. How Abraham went up with Isaac to sacrifice .... 8-13 48. Of Isaac’s carrying the wood, and Abraham’s carrying the fire and the knife . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15 48. Why God said: Abraham, Abraham ..... 25 48. How men should look upon Abraham’s figure .... 37-43 49. How Abraham would not have the field of the children of Heth for nothing ......... 11 50. How Abraham sent his servant to take a wife for Isaac . . 1-57 51. How Abraham had six sons by another wife, to whom he gave gifts, but all his goods he gave to Isaac; and how he died . 1-55 17. How Adam did eat before the Fall . . . . . . 13, 14 17. Whence Adam’s imagination and longing proceeded . . 37

18. How Adam was before the Fall . . . . . 2-9 18. Of two fixed substances in Adam . . . . . . 7, 8 18. How the propagation should have been if Adam had stood . 9-I4 18. How long Adam stood in Paradise before Eve was made . . 19-27 18. How Adam before his sleep had eaten of the forbidden fruit . 30-33 19. Adam was not created in a bestial image .... 20-25 23. At what Adam was afraid . 17, et seq. 25. How God drove Adam out of Paradise, and set the Cherubim before the Garden ........ 1-4 1 25. How Adam getteth his bride again that was taken from him in his sleep . . . . . . . . . • I4> J5 25. Why Adam and Eve were brought into Paradise ... 17 25. What provoked Adam that he lusted against God’s command . 18 25. Why God created Adam ....... 19 25. Why the Tree of Temptation was set before Adam ... 23 25. Why Adam was tempted and driven out of Paradise . . 38 37. Of God’s Covenant with Adam ...... 3 76. How Adam was, before his Eve was, and became monstrous . 11-18

3. How a particular is the sport of the universal total All . . 21 27. Where the altar of God is ....... 48 8. Of the creation of angels, and their dominion in all their worlds 1-34 8. Why we see not the angels ....... 19 8. Where the angels dwell . . . . . . 1 6, et seq. 17. How the holy angels live . . . . . . . 35 25. What the angel with the sword is ..... 2 42. For what God created the angels and man .... 24, 25 43. Of the two angels that came into Sodom .... 22-64 43. How the angels did eat with Lot . . . . . . 38 59. How the angel met Jacob, and what that signifieth ... 24 27. Of the wicked Antichristian Church, also of the true holy Church 41-60 28. Of Cain’s murdering of his brother, viz. of the proud Anti¬ christian seeming Church upon earth, as also of the true 36. What the Antichrist is ........ 17 43. The Antichristian whore doth as the Sodomites did . . . 47-52 51. What Antichrist is both among Jews and Christians . . . 44

70. How Antichrist hath deceived poor Christendom . . . 38, 39 77. When Antichrist will fall ....... 70 32. Of the name Ararat in the Language of Nature . . . 33-37 32. There is a very great mystery in the Ark of Noah VERSE IO, et seq. 77. The Testament of Asher, and the figure thereof 42. An exposition of these words : As I live .... 27, et seq. 5. From what sight and vision the Author hath written . . 15 12. The Author had a glass to see even beyond Moses ... 34 18. From what knowledge the Author hath written ... 1 21. The scope of the Author’s writing ...... 17 22. Out of what Babel is generated ...... 54 25. How Babel shall end by the fiery sword .... 26 27. How Babel entereth into the presence of God .... 52-60 29. How Babel speaketh out . . . . 7, 65, et seq., and 77 30. Of the fall of the city Babel ....... 43 31. How God will at present drown Babel with the fire of his anger 27 36. How the city Babel and Christ are one by the other . . 60, 61

36. Why so much is written concerning the beast and whore in Babel 68 36. What the city Babel is ........ 56 43. The time of the judgment upon Babel ..... 52 44. How the figure of the destruction of Sodom is applied to Babel 5, et seq. 59. How it is that Babel will have the children of Christ go to God . 19, 20 59. How it is that Babel cannot hinder or hurt the children of Christ 21, 22 69. How Babel is a spy as to the grace of God . . . . 19 70. The time is born, that Babel shall be spewed out ... 90 72. How Babel’s reproach is set in judgment before the Most High . 23 73. The number of Babel and of the beast . . . . .9,10 73. How Babel at present filleth its sack with provision . . .16, 17 73. How the deluge and the fire of Sodom falleth upon Babel unawares 18 41. A warning to Antichristian Babylon ..... 66-71 31. How the deluge signifieth the baptism of Christ . . . 38 41. Of the seals of the Covenant, circumcision of the foreskin and

41. Of Christian baptism ........ 10-14 41. How the Jews and the Christians have but one and the same 31. How abomination may be imputed to a beast .... 31-38 36. What the Antichristian Babylonish beast is . . .18, 19 36. What the beast and whore is ....... 64 36. Where the beast, the whore, and Christ in us, is . . . 49-51 73. What the number of Babel and of the beast is . . . . 9, 10 73. Wherefore the time is at hand that the beast and the whore must break in pieces . . . . . . . 14, et seq. 76. How Simeon and Levi prefigure the beast and the whore . . 29, 30 47. What the city Beersheba or Bersaba signifieth . . .20, et seq. 77. The Testament of Benjamin, and the signification thereof . . 48-58 63. What the name Benoni signifieth . . . . . . 26, 27 21. Of the bestial man’s original, and of his sickness and mortality . 1-17 21. Of the government of the bestial man . . . . .11,12 63. What Bethel signifieth ........ 19 74. How the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of hell are portrayed

by the histories in the Bible . . . . . . 50, 51 41. What in man shall possess the eternal blessing ... 1 2. We come short of that boasting or glory that we ought to have in God chap. Bodies. Body verse ii. Of two outward bodies . 22 11. How all things of this world have a twofold body ... 19 40. The heavenly body of the soul dieth not . . . . 44, 45 39. What the figure is of the bondage in Egypt . . .26, et seq. 43 . How a man must understand the first Book of Moses . . 57 52. How the first Book of Moses is a figure of the Spirit of God . 51 76. How all slanderous books and libels are the murdering swords of 15. Of a threefold breath in man, which is a threefold soul . . 14, 15 26. Of the propagation of man in this world, and of Cain the first¬ born and murderer ........ 1-76 27. What is to be understood by Cain’s sacrifice .... 41 27. Why the will of the Serpent and Devil in Cain would kill the body

of Abel . 9, 10 28. What was the cause that Cain murdered Abel .... 4-25 29. What the name Cain signifieth in the Language of Nature . 18 29. How Cain and Abel were the two branches, and the image of the whole tree ......... 23 29. What mark God had set upon Cain ..... 53 29. Of Cain’s fears ......... 54 29. Wherefore grace came upon Cain ...... 56 29. Cain was not born to perdition ...... 57 29. What should be avenged in Cain sevenfold .... 58 37. What in Cain is cursed . . . . . . . -35 40. Cain, Ham, Ishmael and Esau are an image of the Turks and Cainan, see Kenan Calf 42. What Abraham’s fatted calf signifieth . . . 19, et seil- 50. What the ten camels which Abraham’s servant took with him 49. What Moses understandeth by Canaan . . . . Care for the Belly 24. What a man doth effect by pride and care for the belly 49. What the twofold cave signifieth . . . . . 11. How all things may be changed . 1. What the eternal Chaos is wherein all things lie hid .

72. What the chariots, provision, and sumptuous apparel signify, that Joseph gave to his brethren ...... 24-38 25. Of the Cherubim, that drove the evil Adam out of Paradise 38, et seq. 46. How the child of perdition shall be revealed, and the beast and whore put to shame . . . . . . . . 33, 34 Children of God or Christ 31. How the children of God saw the daughters of men . . . 12-16 37. How the line of the children of God is as a tree . . I, 2 38. How God delivereth his children through the might of his anger 14 44. How the children of God do often keep back great plagues from 46. How it is that men see no more in the children of God than in 55. Of the misery and ignorance of the children of God . . . 35,36 55. Why the true children of Christ are persecuted by the children in the kingdom of nature ....... 47-50 56. How the children of Christ instantly after the blessing enter upon Christ’s pilgrimage . . . . . . . 1, 2 56. How God so wonderfully leadeth and preserveth his children . 3

chap. Children of God or Christ VERSE 56. How the Lord standeth aloft on Jacob’s ladder, calling and comforting the children of God . . . . . . xi, 12 64. How the despising of the children of Christ is good for them . 12 66. The type and image of the children of God in chaste Joseph . 32-40 66. How the children of God have the greatest danger in worldly 66. The final and last trial of the children of God . . 61-63 and 68 19. Wherefore Christ became a man on the woman’s part . . 17 23. Why Christ sweat drops of blood in the Garden ... 4 23. Why Christ must drink gall and vinegar . . . . 5, 6 23. Why Christ must be scorned, killed, etc. . . . 8, 9 23. How Christ assumed a masculine fire-soul in the woman’s property . 43, et seq. 25. Why Christ must be tempted ...... 24 29. What was Christ’s office ....... 25 34. Why Christ would not be generated of man’s, or the masculine, 37. How Christ should become a God-man, and Adam and Abraham a man-God ......... 28-32 37. Of Christ’s Person ....... 42, et seq.

40. How Christ and his subjects must be twofold persons . . 11, 12 40. How Christ was generated out of the Covenant made with 40. How the humanity of Christ anointeth his branches . . 14 40. Wherefore Christ came ........ 48-70 41. What Christ’s, viz. God’s, corporeity is .... 19, et seq. 48. How Christ will certainly come to us again .... 13 50. How Christ is a masculine virgin and God .... 26 51. How Christ is a grape-gatherer that gleaneth . . . . 53 56. A firm ground and assurance that Christ assumed our Adamical soul and humanity in the body and womb of Mary . . 14-20 56. From what property Christ became man .... 20 56. Why Christ took his soul from woman and became a man . 21, 22 69. Where a man must seek Christ ...... 22 76. How the time is near, that the kingdom of Christ will be mani¬ fested to all people . . . . . . 5°, et seq- 27. How verbal Christendom partakes of the sacrifice of Christ . 42 68. How at present Christendom standeth in God’s presence . . 32-42 68. What the four elements of hunger in Christendom are . . 35—39

27. What a Christian is, and how he is a Christian ... 46 63. What a Christian is, and how he is a Christian . . 51, et seq. 40. How a Christian must be a Christian ..... 97 51. How a Christian in his faith worketh in the flesh of Christ . 31 51. When any is a Christian ....... 43 64. How a Christian must not account the hate from his brother to be grievous . . . . . . . . . . 26, 27 64. What the wish of a Christian to his enemies should be . 27 64. How a true Christian should present the misery and sins of the people where he liveth, daily before God . . . . 37, 38 66. What officer is a Christian, and what no Christian ... 20 66. How a Christian must be armed, in worldly offices . . 65, et seq. 68. The most excellent figure in the whole Bible, of a tried Christian ......... 48, et seq. 70. How a man beginneth to be a Christian ..... 24, 25 70. What the difference is between a Christian and other strange heathen people . . . . . . . . 80, et seq.

63. What the greatest whoredom is in the churches of stone . . 39-43 63. How at present men are ready to storm the Church, or house of 63. How churches were erected out of a good intention ... 46 63. What holiness is in the Church ...... 47 63. What a man must do that he may enter into the Church worthily 50 41. Why God commanded circumcision to Abraham 41. Why the males must be circumcised on the eighth day 41. What circumcision is ..... 2. The whole world lieth in one clod of earth 2, et seq. 35, et seq. 3 , et seq. 64. What Joseph’s particoloured coat which his father made him 64. What it signifieth that Jacob was deceived by Joseph’s coat 49, et seq. 63. How Jacob’s concubines signify the stone churches . Conditions. See Forms 816 13. A whole configuration or constellation lieth in each element . 12 17. The contention of the high schools or universities about the Tree of Knowledge ......... 16 28. What the cause of contention about religion is . . . . 26-43 35. Whence contention doth arise ..... 61, et seq. 36. Of the contention at the Tower of the confusion of tongues in

Babel . . . 12, 13 40. How contentious preachers embitter the ears of the hearers . 98 51. How the false cold love of titulary Christendom contendeth about knowledge . . . . . . .4 6, et seq. 65. What the contentious opinions in Babel are . . . 49, 50 41. How the bestial copulation is borne withal under divine patience 2, 3 77. When councils were set in the place of the Holy Ghost . . 66 66. To whom there is no more counsel or remedy to eternity . . 47 30. Of the line of the Covenant ....... 1-54 32. Of the Covenant between God and Noah .... 1 33. Of the Covenant of God with Noah, and all creatures . . 1-40 22. The covering for our nakedness is ours and no more . 77, et seq. 24. Whence the great covetousness doth arise .... 10 63. What the cradle of the child Jesus is ..... 48 10. Of the creation of heaven and the outward world . . . 1-62 11. Of the mysticalness of the creation ..... 1 32. How the image of the creature shall not pass away ... 16

17. What Joseph’s cup in Benjamin’s sack signifieth . 1-13541-57 10. Of the curse of the earth ....... 8 24. Of the curse, and of the body of sickness, whence that ariseth . I— 3 5 24. What the curse is ........ 2 41. An excellent figure against those that, according to their con¬ clusions in reason by the letter, damn some children from the womb .......... 41 66. What the torment of all the damned is ..... 67 77. The Testament of Dan, and the figure thereof . . . . 13-25 77. How it is signified by Dan, Gad and Asher, what kind of people would govern the world . . . . . 30, et seq. 3 . Of the eternal original of the darkness ..... 5 5. Of the enmity in the darkness ...... 6 12. Of the six Days’ work of the Creation ..... 1-39 12. Of the first Day . . . . . . . .13 , et seq. 12. Of the second Day . . . . . . . 19, et seq. 12. Of the third Day ....... 32, et seq. 13. Of the fourth Day ........ 1-20 14. Of the fifth Day ......... 1— 13

15. Of the sixth Day’s work of Creation ..... 1-3 1 16. Of the creation of the seventh Day ..... 16-18 16. How the seventh Day hath been from eternity ... 28 4. The original of the eternal death ...... 12 11. What the death and misery of man and all creatures is . . 17 23. Why the rocks clave in sunder at the death of Christ . . 3 33. Why God’s anger often putteth one man to death by another . 21, 22 61. How the decrees in Scripture point only at two kingdoms . 55 52. How the Deity manifesteth itself through the soul’s nature . 7, 8 3. The delight or longing is the property of the Son ... 7 32. Why the Deluge, or Noah’s flood, came after seven days . 20, 21, 22 32. Wherefore the fountains of water opened themselves in the Deluge . 2 6,etseq. 3. The desire ariseth from the longing or delight, and is the Father’s property . . . . . . . . . 6, 7 3. The desire coagulateth itself . ...... 5 Devil. Devils. See Lucifer 8. That which is pain and torment to the devils, is joy to the angels 21

10. How the Devil is the most despicable poor creature of all . . 31 17. How Lucifer became a devil ....... 28 22. Where the Devil’s council-chamber and school is . . 17, et seq. 37. How the heathen had not their answers from the Devil . . 12, 13 38. How the Devil is a prince of this world . . . . .5 ,6 38. What those four elements are wherein the Devil and all evil creatures live ......... 7 66. Where the Devil is a frolick guest ...... 54 70. What the Devil’s fishhook is ...... 41 74. How the Devil lost his seat and stool in man . . . . 17, 18 58. The figure of Dinah ........ 39~45 62. How Dinah was deflowered, and Sichem and the city slain and spoiled: the gate of Christians’ wars and the Babylonish whoredom, to be well considered of . . . . 1-4° 62. How Dinah went forth to see the daughters of the land, and, what is prefigured thereby ..... 3 , et seq. 62. How Dinah’s whoredom and Simeon and Levi’s murder is a figure of Christendom 9_I§ 35. What understanding the doctors have in their contention about

God’s habitation and being ...... <56 39. Whence dominion ariseth 32. What Noah’s first dove signifieth . 42. What the three doves and the raven signify 76. What the dragon’s seven heads are Drank plentifully 70. What that signifieth, that Joseph and plentifully ..... 67. What it is to expound dreams 67. Whence it is that a beast dreameth 68. Of King Pharaoh’s dreams 68. Wherefore the natural Magi could not dreams ...... 20. Of Adam and Eve’s dying io. Whence the grossness of the Earth proceeds .... 30 10. Out of what the Earth is proceeded ..... 61 12. How the glove of the Earth is extruded ..... 7 22. What the Earth is ........ 45 25. Why God created the Earth . . . . . . 29, et seq. 25. When God set the time for the Earth to endure ... 19 17. What Eden is ........ 6 53. What Edom is, and signifieth, in the High Tongue . 64. What Edom is, and signifieth, in the High Tongue . 78. What it signifieth that many Egyptians went along when Jacob was buried ......... 2 25. Of that saying of St Paul, We were elected in Christ Jesus ere the

foundation of the world was laid ..... 20 48. How God elected not only the natural line of Christ, but also the line of nature . . . . . . . . -35)36 51. An excellent figure, against the wise rationalists, concerning election or predestination ....... 4-24 26. Of election or predestination ....... 1-76 32. A curious example, how God hath predestinated no election in 46. How God’s election passeth only upon the figure ... 30 61. Of God’s election, or predestination, or decree concerning Jacob and Esau ........ 1-3 and 23 10. That the four elements are but properties .... 49 23. How, in many there is an ember glowing towards the virgin’s child of the new birth ....... 30. What Enos signifieth in the Language of Nature 30. What Enoch is in the Language of Nature 30. How long Enoch’s voice must be silent . 31. Of the line of wonders, issuing from Enoch 24. Whence the great envy ariseth 75. The figure of Israel’s laying his right hand upon Ephraim’s head . 12, et seq. 52. What Esau signifieth in the Language of Nature ... 36 53. How Esau despised his being first-born, and sold it for a mess of

54. The figure of Esau’s forty years, and of his two wives . 18, et seq. 55. How the figure of Isaac’s blessing, and of Esau and Jacob is to be 55. Why Esau was blessed with the word of strife . . . . 11 55. Why Esau was all over rough and hairy ..... 21, 22 55. What that signifieth, that Esau attained not the blessing . . 39 55. What figure Esau is, in his blessing . . . . 40, et seq. 56. The figure of Esau’s being a grief to his parents . . . 9, 10 60. What Esau the first-born signifieth ..... 3 60. What Esau’s four hundred men signify ..... 6 60. How Esau went to meet Jacob, and how Jacob sent Esau presents 1 61. The figure, of Esau’s saying to Jacob: Whose are these with thee . 10, et seq. 61. How Esau’s curse and malice was turned into love . . 18, 19, 53 61. A plain exposition of the Scriptures, saying, Esau sought repen¬ tance with tears and yet found it not .... 20, et seq. 64. How Esau standeth in the figure of the kingdom of nature . 2

38. How Esdras, in the knowledge of the Spirit, had the lost Bible dictated to him ........ 24 52. How Ezra hath briefly written the figure and history . . 52 18. Why Eve’s will was subject to her husband’s . . . . II 20. Why Eve so suddenly lusted after vanity .... 2-8 20. How Eve gazed on the Serpent ...... 22 10. How the evilest must be the cause of the best .... 62 11. What the great evil of this world is ..... 15 22. What the greatest evil is ....... 25 28. How the evil causeth that the good is manifest to itself . 67, et seq. 29. How nothing is created evil, or to the dominion of evil . . 11 61. Whence evil and good proceed ..... 61, 63, 68 27. What that is which is called faith . . . . . . 35 39. What it is rightly, to believe God, with Abraham. Which is the right ground of our Christian faith . . . . . 8, 9 48. What faith in God’s children is able to do . . . . 33, 34 56. How the faithful, or believers, put on Christ . . .32, et seq.

9. Of the Fall of Lucifer, and his legions ..... 1-25 11. What the Fall of Lucifer, and the heathen idols, were . . 6 17. Whence the desire to fall in Lucifer proceeded .... 22-43 17. Of the Fall of Lucifer ....... 25, et seq. 17. How man came to fall . 3! 17. How God saw the Fall ........ 33 20. Of the lamentable and miserable Fall of man .... 1-38 73. How the great famine and hunger after heavenly food is near at 66. How the children of God must not set their hope in the favour of 67. How the children of God must not set their hope in the favour of man ......... 15 , et seq. 70. What Jacob’s fear, that he would not let his son go to Joseph, signifieth . 28, 29 11. How the Verbum Fiat, the Word of Creation, is still creating to this day .......... 9 52. When the figure shall wholly be manifested in substance . 52 54. Of the figure of the Old and New Testament .... 17 3 . Of a twofold fire . . . . . . . . . 23 , 24 24. Wherefore all things shall be tried in the fire .... 4-9

27. With what fire the sacrifices of Abel and Moses were kindled . 8, 23 27. How man in the Resurrection shall pass through the fire of anger 21,22 27. The eternal fire, and also the love-fire is magical . . . 31 37. What fire at the end of the Day shall purge the floor . . 20 70. What is the food of the eternal Word that became man 22. What the word fool meaneth . 24. What is the greatest foolishness Form. Forms or Properties of Nature The Spirit of Christ in his children is bound to no certain form 51-55 3. What the first form, condition, property or Fiat is . 3. What the second form is .... 3. What the third form is ..... . 12, et seq. 3. What the fourth form is ..... 5. What the fifth form is . 5. What the sixth form is . 6. What the seventh form is .... 6. Of the seven forms, conditions or properties of the nature . . . . . . . . . 14, ^ seq. 6. Of the out-birth or manifestation of the seven forms, conditions or 7. How seven forms or properties are in all things . . . 18

20. Of four forms or properties in man . . . . 33 , et seq. 40. How in the moving of nature two forms or properties divided themselves . . . . . . . . . 7, 8 3. The free longing or lubet is no property ..... 6 70. What the fruits signify, which Jacob commanded his children to carry along with them ...... 33 , et seq. 77. The Testament of Gad, and the figure thereof. . . 26, et seq. 45. How Germany shall be blinded by a star shining from east to 18. Moses’ Tables written on a globe . . . . . . 20, 21 1. What God is ........ 2 2. Where God dwelleth ........ 8 3. Where God is called Father and Son ..... 7 C, H Ap. God VERSE 5. How God is in the darkness and in the light .... 10 8. How God willeth good and evil ...... 24 19. It is idolatrous to portray God as a man . 27 36. Why God became man . . . . . . _ . 65, 66 43. How reason thinketh that God dwelleth only above the stars

and firmament . . . . . . . _ . 2, 3 43. Where God dwelleth according to love and anger ... 4 43. How God seeth in the devils and in the wicked soul . 5, et seq. 43. How that is understood where it is said, The cry was come before God ......... 6 60. How God is manifested in the thrones of the holy angels, and of the devils . 45, 46 2. Of what God made the good and the evil . . . 4, et seq. 3. How out of the eternal Good evil is come to be . . 1, et seq. 3. By what good is known ....... 22 22. To whom we must do good, to whom not . . . . 81, 82 71. How the eternal Good became creaturely . . .14, et seq. 72. What the land of Goshen signifieth . . . . . 18 73. Of the figure typified by Goshen . . . . . 31, et seq. 22. Whence the earthly government ariseth ..... 74 66. How the governor in the office of Joseph governeth in Christen¬ dom . . . . . . . . 12, et seq.

8. The gulf between darkness and light, and between the holy world and the dark world . . . . . . . 22, 23 19. How the guts and entrails were added to Adam and Eve . . 19 40. Of the history and most wonderful prefiguration of the Spirit of God, by Hagar, Sarah’s maid-servant, and her son Ishmael, of his casting out from the inheritance, and of Isaac’s inheritance 1-100 46. The figure of Hagar’s casting out, and the birth of Isaac . . 8-15 46. A noble figure concerning forsaken nature, by Hagar and her son 16-23 31. What Ham is in the Language of Nature .... 7 32. Why Ham’s image was cursed by his father .... 9 34. How Ham’s spirit at present hath the government in Christen¬ dom . . . . . . . . ■ Zh tt teq. • 37. What in Ham and Cain is cursed . . . . . . 35 29. What Hanoch signifieth in the Language of Nature . . .28, 29 61. Why man continueth hardened . . . . . . 23, 42 61. How the hardening is not from the purpose of God . . 66, et seq.

23. What it is to tread upon or break the head of the Serpent . 32, 37 5. Of the fullness of joy in heaven ...... 5 8. Heaven is in hell and hell in heaven ..... 28 10. What we are to understand by the two words, Himmel and Erde, heaven and earth ....... 47, et seq. 23. What the stinging in the heels is ...... 33,34 3. The true original of the dark world or hell, into which the devils are thrust ......... 2 4. Whence hell hath its name ....... 16 5. What and where hell and the dark world is ... 9 8. How heaven is in hell and hell in heaven .... 28 73. The figure of this, that Joseph’s brethren must say before Pharaoh that they were herdsmen . . . . 35, seq. 65. What Hirah of Odollam is in the figure ..... 21 66. How all things must serve to the best for those that are honest or virtuous and fear God . 68, et seq. THE TABLE OF THE MYSTERIUM MAGNUM chap. Hunter 35. Of the hunter or driver and his office .... 37. The original of the heathenish idols, and their oracles 59. Of Rachel’s idol-gods ....

21. How the heavenly image that God created in Adam, is capable of the kingdom of God ....... 14 68. How the makers of images are threatened by the anger of God . 26-31 51. How infidelity is as great in one people as in another 37. By what understanding interpretations are made . . 10, et seq. 69. What the interpreter, by whom Joseph speaketh, signifieth . 35 40. Why Isaac was chosen and appointed to the inheritance . . 39, 40 46. Of Isaac’s birth, and Ishmael’s casting out with his mother Hagar: what is thereby signified ....... 1-37 48. Concerning Isaac’s saying to his father, Here is fire and wood, etc. 16, 17 48. Why Isaac must not be slain ...... 20 50. The figure of Isaac’s meeting Rebecca in the field . . 54, et seq. 52. How Esau and Jacob were born to Isaac, and what happened to them . . . . . . . . 19, et seq. 52. Why Isaac loved Esau more than Jacob . . . 44, et seq. 54. How Isaac in the famine went to Abimelech, and how the Lord appeared to him ........ 1-17 40. God did not reject the whole person of Ishmael ... 19

40. The figure of Ishmael’s rejection or casting out . . 36, et seq. 52. Of the twelve princes from Ishmael, and of his faffing before his brethren . . . . . . . . 16, et seq. 77. The Testament of Issachar, and the figure thereof . 52. That Jacob cometh after Esau, and holdeth him by the heel: what that signifieth ........ 37 52. What Jacob is in the Language of Nature .... 41 53. Why God called Jacob Israel ...... 23, et seq. 55. How Jacob was blessed by Isaac unknowingly in the stead of Esau; and what is signified thereby ..... 1-50 55. Why Jacob must take upon him the rough hairy beast’s skin 23, et seq. 55. The figure of Jacob’s being smooth under the skin ... 29 55. How the figure of Jacob points at Christ .... 30 56. How Jacob must wander away, and how the Lord appeared to 57. How Jacob came to Laban and served him in keeping his sheep fourteen years for his two daughters : what the spiritual figure thereof concerning the bride of Christ signifieth . . . 1-34 58. How Jacob served Laban twenty years, and begat twelve sons

and one daughter, and how God blessed him, and how Laban often changed his wages ....... 1-53 58. How Jacob’s subtlety was a figure of Adam’s subtlety 16, 17, 19, 24, et seq. 58. How the twelve children of Jacob signify the line from Adam to Noah and his children . . . . . . . 38 59. The figure of the sayings of Laban’s children that came to Jacob’s ear . . . . . . . . . . 1, et seq. 59. The figure that Jacob fled from Laban, and that Laban pursued 59. What that signifieth, that God said to Jacob: Get thee up, and go to Bethel . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15 59. How Jacob stole away Laban’s heart: what is thereby to be 60. What it signifieth, that Jacob divided his flocks into two parts because of Esau’s wrath ....... 4 60. What it signifieth, that Jacob humbled himself before God and his brother Esau . . . . . . . . . 7, 8 60. What the present that Jacob sent to Esau signifieth . . . 9-13 60. How Jacob arose in the night and led his wives and eleven children

over the water: what is thereby to be understood . . 14-16 60. How a man wrestled with Jacob ...... 17-23 60. How Jacob’s sinew was displaced: what that signifieth . . 24-27 60. The figure of Jacob’s saying: I will not let thee go except thou bless me ......... 28-35 60. The inward holy figure of Jacob’s saying: What is thy name . 37-50 61. The wonderful figure, how Jacob and Esau met, and all mischief and evil will was turned into great joy and compassion: what is thereby to be understood ....... 1-22 61. The figure how Jacob divided his wives and children, and went himself before them, and bowed seven times before Esau . 4-9 61. The figure, how Jacob would not go along with Esau . . 69-71 61. The figure, that Jacob pitched his tents before the city of Shechem .......... 63. How Jacob went to Bethel, how Benjamin was born, and Rachel and Isaac died : what is thereby to be understood . 63. The figure ofjacob’s coming to his father before his end . 64. How Jacob and Esau departed one from the other: what that 69. How Jacob’s sons came before Joseph: what is thereby to be understood .........

73 . How Jacob sacrificed at Beersheba to the God of his fathers, and spake with him : what the signification is 73. The figure ofjacob’s going forth out of Canaan into Egypt 73. The figure ofjacob’s sending Judah before him to Joseph, and his weeping upon Joseph’s neck ..... 19 74. How Jacob and the five youngest brethren ofjoseph were set before 74. The very mystical figure, that Jacob would be buried in the land of Canaan ........ 53: 75. How Jacob before his end blessed the two sons of Joseph . 76. How Jacob called for all his sons, and told them what the state and condition of every one of them would be 76. What Jacob in the Spirit calleth his honour 77. A short figure of the whole world in Jacob’s Testament 78. Ofjacob’s burial ....... 31. What Japhet is in the Language of Nature 30. What Jared is in the Language of Nature 30. How Jared’s office is twofold . .... , et seq. 24, 25 59-72 . 19, 20 21, et seq. 35. Of the name JEOVA . Jewel as a Present 50. What the jewel and present sent by Abraham’s servant signifieth 22-47

How the Jews are rejected, and shall be grafted in again . 59, et seq. The cause of the Jews’ and Christians’ blindness . . 47, et seq. Advice to the Christians, Jews, Turks and heathen . . 53—71 Why the Jews did not all turn to Christ when he manifested himself in the flesh . . . . . . . .25,26 51. What a Jew is . . . . . . . . .27,28 51. How a Jew in his faith worketh in Christ’s office . . 28, et seq. How the Jew and Christian come to salvation . . . . 44, 45 How to eat Christ’s flesh is an abomination to Jews, Turks and 70. How the Jews, Turks and strange nations do eat Christ’s flesh 69-77 70. How the Fathers, viz. the Jews, had no more a part in grace than the strangers had ........ 78 75. A figure, shewing that God would bring the Jews into the true Covenant into Christ ....... 1-36 76. How the Jews do in vain look after another Master, Ruler or 58. How Joseph signifieth Christ ..... 50 , et seq. 64. The beginning of the most excellent figure of Joseph . . 6-61

64. How Joseph was sold and carried into a strange land . 53, et seq. 64. How Joseph is taxed for unchastity by Potiphar’s wife . 56, et seq. 64. How Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of silver, and Christ for thirty pieces of silver . . . . . . . 59, 60 66. How Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of silver, and Christ for thirty pieces of silver . . . . . . 1, et seq. 64. What the whole history of Joseph drives at .... 61 66. Of Joseph’s chastity and fear of God ..... 1-72 66. How Joseph fled from the whore, and what is signified thereby 67. How Joseph interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh’s butler and his baker, and what is thereby to be understood . . . 1-18 68. The figure of Joseph’s putting on other clothes and shaving 69. The figure of Joseph’s letting his nine brethren out of prison and keeping Simeon prisoner ....... 24-29 69. The lovely figure of Joseph’s causing his brethren’s sacks to be filled, and their money to be given them again . . 3 6, et seq. 70. How Jacob’s sons go again into Egypt to Joseph, and take

Benjamin with them: how Joseph caused them to be brought to his house, and to eat at his table: how Joseph caused his brethren to be set in their order, and how Joseph was served by himself, and his brethren and the Egyptians also by them¬ selves .......... 1-94 71. How Joseph caused his brethren’s sacks to be filled, and the money to be laid in the top of the sack, and his cup in Ben¬ jamin’s sack, and caused them to be pursued and challenged for thieves . 1, 66 72. How Joseph manifested himself before his brethren . . . 1-38 72. How Joseph kissed his brethren . . . . 20, et seq. 73. How the countenance of Joseph was manifested to his brethren again, and how they must be ashamed . . . . 15, 16 73. The figure of Joseph’s saying: I will tell Pharaoh: My brethren and all my father’s house is come to me . . . 24, et seq. 74. The very potent figure of Joseph’s gathering all the money together in the famine ....... 9-15 74. The figure of Joseph’s buying all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh 19-21 74. Wherefore Joseph bought not the priests’ fields: what is the

signification thereof ....... 22, 27-33 74. The figure of Joseph’s law concerning the Egyptians’ fields to give the fifth part to Pharaoh . . . . . .23-35 77. The Testament of Joseph, and the signification thereof . 37, et seq. 65. What the three sons that Judah begat signify . . . 6, et seq. 65. Why the history of Judah and Tamar is put between in the history of Joseph ....... 64, et seq. 7 6. Of the Testament of Judah ...... 38, et seq. 70. What the speech of Christ concerning judging signifieth: Judge not that ye be not judged ....... 51 30. What Kenan signifieth in the Language of Nature ... 17 51. What Keturah signifieth in the Language of Nature . 68. What Pharaoh’s seven fat kine and seven lean kine signify . 11-17 49. How the outward kingdom remaineth eternally . . . 17, 18 76. How the time is near that the kingdom of Christ will be mani¬ fested to all people . . . . . . 5°> et iec[- 66. For what kings and princes are served by the nobility . . .18, 19 45. What knowledge the outward man hath of the kingdom of

Christ . 17, et seq. 58. The figure of Laban’s changing Jacob’s wages ten times . 28, et seq. 59. How Laban chid with Jacob, and what is thereby to be understood 19 56. What the ladder of Jacob was, and what the angels descending and ascending signify ........ 4-8 37. What the wedding of the Lamb is, at which God and man is espoused, and Christ born . . . . . 12, et seq. 29. What Lamech is in the Language of Nature . . . . 37,38 31. What Lamech is in the Language ofNature .... 2 29. Of Lamech’s two wives and their children . . . 39-46,49 29. What the man and the young man which he slew are ... 48 29. What as to Lamech shall be avenged seventy-seven times . . 59-64 75. Of the piece of land that Jacob gave to Joseph severally from the rest of his children, and the signification thereof . . 31, et seq. 35. Of the ground of the Head Language, when all people spake but one language ......... 54-59 35. What language the spirits use . ...... 60 37. How long the undivided language continued . . . 4, et seq.

OH AP. Life VERSE 11. Whence the true rational life in the elements is .... 27 35. The cause ofthe long life ofthe patriarchs before the flood . 11 ,etseq. 3 . The eternal light, and the eternal darkness, are not created . . 2-5 10. Without light the elements had been unmoveable . . .44, 45 77. When the acute logic came up. ...... 69 33. How a lord, prince, or magistrate hath no authority to shed blood . . . . . . . . . 15, et seq. 43. Why the two angels lingered in going in to Lot . . . 34, et seq. 43. What is signified by Lot’s wife ...... 37 43. The figure of Lot in that he would give his two daughters to the Sodomites . . . . . . . 53, et seq. 43. Why Lot’s kinsfolk would not follow him . . . . .65,66 44. How Lot went out of Sodom, and of the terrible destruction of that whole country of Ham’s generations, and what happened upon it; also how it was done ....... 1-47 44. Why Lot’s daughters made their father drunk with wine . . 3

44. To what end Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt . . 28, et seq. 44. Lot’s wife is a figure of the present Babylonish Christendom . 33, et seq. 44. Why Lot’s daughters did he with their father .... 38-47 71. How God’s love cometh only to help the weak .... 19 12. Wherefore and from what Lucifer was thrust out ... 4 12. Where Lucifer lieth captive ....... 35 22. Wherefore Lucifer was swallowed up into the wrath . . .30,31 25. Where Lucifer sat before the creation of the earth ... 18 44. How Lucifer desired to see the wrath of nature . . . . 17 60. How the pride of Lucifer by the masters of the letter doth shut God up into a peculiar heaven apart . . . . . .41,42 22. How the magistrate is good, and how not . ii. The Reader is admonished not to misuse the Magia or Magic . 8 ii. How man is hurt by the wicked Magus or Magician . . 12, et seq. 68. Of the Magi or Magicians, which titulary Christendom is full of 4, et seq. 68. Of the Magia or Magic art, among the Egyptians and heathens, till

the kingdom of Christ ....... 3 68. How man is a true divine Magus or Magician . . . 23 > et seq. 30. What Mahalaleel is in the Language ofNature .... 18 40. What it is that the son of the maid-servant shall not inherit with the son of the free- woman ....... 16-70 15. Man is threefold ........ 27 , et seq. 16. Of the distinction between the heavenly and the earthly man . 1-15 16. How man was while he stood in Paradise . . . . 8, et seq. 18. How man shall be after the Resurrection ..... 3 19. How man was ordained to the outward natural life . . . 1-16 21. Why God created man of the heavenly essence .... 16 22. How man deceived himself ....... 27 23 . How the Word in the seed of Eve was propagated from man to man 3 1 24. How man hath a cure, and the Devil not .... 13 , et seq. 24. How a divine man must have enmity in himself . . . .31,32 27. How man presseth into God . . . . . . .14,15 29. How man was in the beginning, in his properties . . .12,13

29. How man is become a striving dominion ..... 14 37. How Mary is not the mother that hath generated God . 37, et seq. 56. What is the blessing belonging to Mary ..... 30 36. What that god Mdusim is ....... 32 42. What the three measures of fine meal signify . . . .17,18 38. What Melchisedek was ....... 19, et seq. 38. Why Melchisedek blessed Abraham ..... 21 70. How mercifulness hideth its countenance from the repenting soul 3, et seq. 17. What Mercurius is ....... 18 10. What the metals are ...... .17 10. Of the seven properties in the metals . 18-29 16. How in the earth, stones and metals lieth a twofold substance . 10 29. What Methusael is in the Language of Nature . . . -35,36 12. When Michael strove with the dragon ..... 10 64. How the Midianites will bring Joseph with them to Pharaoh; the time is near . 30, et seq. 70. The figure of the wrong money that Jacob commanded them to take with them again . . . . . .3 6, et seq., 48, 49 23. What the moon and the woman in the Apocalypse signify . -34,35

11. The time is born that Moses casteth away his veil 30. When Moses will keep the sheep 29. Of God’s eternal motion, moving and forming . 29. What the mouth of the eternal understanding is 19. Why Eve brought forth a murderer the first time 62. The figure of Simeon and Levi’s murder . 29. How Naamah shall be manifested to all people . 17. What the great names are that God called Abraham by 77. The Testament of Naphtali, and the signification thereof . 3. The description of the eternal nature . . . . 35. How the Language of Nature is extinguished 40. Whereto God useth the temporary nature 40. What the condemnation of the temporary nature is 12. Where there is no night . ...... 35. Of the name Nimrod ....... 31. What Noah is in the Language of Nature . . . . 32. What Noah is in the Language of Nature .... 32. Why Noah was accounted righteous before God 34. What Noah’s drunkenness signifieth . . . . 34. How Noah cursed Ham . ...... 35. The names of the children of Noah are seventy-two 43. Where Noah’s curse came into judgment .

3. The nothing hungereth after the something 63. What the oak signifieth under which Jacob buried the idoland the earrings ....... 43, et seq. 68 chap. Office. Officer. Officers verse 22. How the office is good, and how not good . 72 66. How the potent in the office of God are great trees without fruit . 16, 17 66. How the offices and officers are God’s, and are God’s servants . 22 66. How a man in an office must serve either God or the Devil . . 59 66. How this world hath two sorts of officers ..... 37-59 77. Where the worldly office of a judge hath its original . . . 21-25 66. How an officer becometh a Lucifer; also how he is free from the commandment of death ....... 23-27 66. How all officers are set in the kingdom of this world . . . 28, 29 66. How at present is the time of the coming of the Lord to burn the city of these wicked evil officers with the fire of God’s anger . 30,31 37. How the first holy oracle after the flood manifested itself . . 15 17. OfParadise .......... 1-43

18. Of the Paradisical government ...... 1-34 25. How Paradise is one certain place ...... 16 74. Of all spiritual pastors or shepherds, who sit without Christ in that 22. How the pearl of the whole world is trodden underfoot . . 35 47. What Philistine is . . . . . . • • .23,24 21. Whence the physician doth arise ...... 7-9 12. Whence it is that some plants are poison ..... 36 64. What the figure of Potiphar’s wife is . 10, 11 53. What the lentil pottage was . 4 38. How man with his prayer and will awakeneth the sword of anger . 1 1 30. What is predestinated to condemnation . . . . .8,9 40. Ishmael is not predestinated to condemnation .... 35~54 70. What the present was that Joseph’s brethren brought him in their hands . . . . . . . . . • 52? 53 24. What men erect with their great pride and care for the belly . 21, et seq. 33. How a prince or lord hath no power to shed blood . . 15, et seq. 4. Of the two Principles, God’s love and anger .... 1-21

32. How Shem, Ham and Japhet are an image of the three Principles 5, et seq. 66. Man in temporal prosperity, and in favour and good will of many men, ought not to be secure ...... 50-56 67. How the Prophet is the mouth of the kingdom . . . 9 , et seq. 25. Of the purgatory of souls . . . . . . .13,14 70. To whom the purple mantle of Christ is available . . .42, 43 61. How in God there is no purpose .... 60, 61 and 64 Qualities. See Forms 838 58. Why Rachel said: Give me children . . . . . .1,2 58. Why Rachel must be barren ....... 47 63. What it signifieth that Rachel died and was buried at the city 63 . How Rachel was big with child when Jacob went from Laban . 30 63. How Rachel bare Benjamin and died: what the signification of it is . . . . . . . . . 20, et seq. 32. Why it rained forty days and forty nights . . . . 23, et seq. 33. Of the rainbow and its colours ...... 25-40 48. How the killing and dying falleth not upon the right man, but

upon the ram ........ 28, et seq. 32. What the raven signifieth . . . . . .38,39,41 41. How reason introduceth everything into God’s will . . . 53-71 50. Rebecca signifieth Sophia ....... 48 50. The figure of the glorious banquet of Abraham’s servant with Rebecca . . . . . • • • 49) se(l- 52. How in Rebecca two kingdoms strove one with another . . 20-30 52. Wherefore Rebecca loved Jacob . . . . . . 54 53. Why the strife arose in Rebecca ...... 27 55. Why Rebecca must set Jacob in the place of the blessing . 17, et seq. 55. Of Rebecca’s subtlety and deceit with Jacob . . . .19,20 36. Whence the contempt of religion proceeds .... 14 66. To whom there is no more counsel or remedy, to eternity . . 47 31. Of God’s repentance, where he saith: It repen teth me . . . I7_45 70. It is a figure of repentance, that Jacob s children must go into Egypt for food twice ...•••••• x5_23 51. How in God’s presence there is no respect of name or person . 34-41 63. What Reuben signifieth ....... 44

63. How Reuben lay with his father’s concubine, and what the signifi¬ cation thereof is ........ 3 I— 45 76. The Testament of Reuben, and the figure thereof . . . 4-18 22. Whence in man the wrath and vengeance to be revenged ariseth . 58-64 19. What the rib and dividing of Adam signifieth . . . 2, 6 58. How the riches of the outward man belong to the new man . 21, et seq. 66. How right is God and wrong is the Devil ..... 60 23. Why at Christ’s death the rocks clave asunder .... 3 65. What the ring, bracelet and staff ofjudah signify ... 32 54. What the fountain Saba or Sheba signifieth . . . .15,16 27. Of Cain’s and Abel’s sacrifice ....... 1-40 27. Why an earthly sacrifice must be . 18 , et seq. 27. Why the sacrifice without faith is loathsome to God ... 13 40. Why God made Sarah unfruitful . . . . . . 27, 28 42. How God asked for Sarah . . . . . . .26,27 42. What Sarah’s laughing and lying signify . . . 30, et seq. 49. Of Sarah’s death and Abraham’s purchased burying place: what is

signified thereby . 1-18 51. Why Sarah brought forth but one son ..... 3 51. Of what profit the knowledge of the high schools or universities, and the Devil’s knowledge, is . . . . . 49, 50 64. Whence the confused languages of the high schools or universities 69. The spying and prying of the high schools or universities helpeth not into the kingdom of God . . . . . . 20, 21 77. When the time of the high schools or universities began . . 67 40. Why God must have the scorner also, in this time of life . 23, et seq. 16. What the glassy sea is ........ 27 65. The powerful figure of the birth of Peres and Serah or Zerah . 58, et seq. 20. Of the creation and subtlety of the Serpent .... 9-19 22. Of the creation and subtlety of the Serpent .... 29 20. In the Serpent lieth excellent art . . . . . .17,18 22. The Devil hath infected the ens of the Serpent .... 33 22. Why the Serpent is said to be a virgin ..... 34 23. Wherefore God cursed the Serpent ...... 23-29 27. Where the Serpent’s head was first trod upon and broken . . 11,12

38. How the Serpent’s ens and also the line of Christ lay in Abraham . 13 29. What the name Seth signifieth in the Language of Nature . . 24 61. What the name Shechem signifieth ...... 75 49. An exposition of the four hundred shekels of silver that Abraham gave for the field . . . • • • • * 8, 9 31. What Shem is in the Language of Nature ..... 6 34. How Shem and Japhet took a garment upon their shoulders . . 20-26 58. How a shepherd is more highly esteemed before God than the highly learned worldly wise man ..... 32, et seq. 60. Why God’s Spirit hath so exactly described the slight actions of mean shepherds . . . . . . . . 49> 5° 70. How the signal star or ascendant appeared . . . 32, et seq. 76. The Testament of Simeon and Levi, and the figure thereof . . 19-37 22. Of the original of actual sin, and of the awakening of God’s anger in the human property ........ 1-82 22. What sin is, and what is not sin ..... 39, et seq. 22. What the sin against the Holy Ghost is . . . . .43,44

27. What it is that attaineth the forgiveness of sins .... 45 48. How far it must go with the repenting sinner . . . 21 > et seq. 78. The figure of a converted sinner . . . . . .5,6 60. What it signifieth, that the children of Israel eat not that sinew of the ham ......... 51 , et seq. 19. What Adam’s sleep signifieth ....... 5 42. Of the three men, which appeared to Abraham in the plain of Mamre and went towards Sodom, and burnt the city of the children of Ham with fire from the Lord .... 1-35 43 . Of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah : how God shewed it to Abraham before ........ 1-71 43. How Sodom is a looking-glass for the present world . . 67 , et seq. 43. What figure the judgment upon Sodom is . .... 14 44. What fire was rained down upon Sodom . . . . 24, et seq. 25. Sophia is the tincture of the light ...... 14 25. The fire-soul is the man or husband of the noble Sophia, and it is of the fire’s tincture ........ 14 37. How Sophia genera teth the true Joseph . 14, 15

52. What is called Sophia ........ 6 52. When the magic fire of the soul is bridegroom to the noble Sophia . 1 1-14 10. True understanding lieth in the soul . 3 11. What the soul is . . . . . . . . .20,25 15. How the soul standeth in three kingdoms . . . . 15,18-24 15. There are not three souls but one ...... 24 17. Of the soul’s great power ....... 43 22. Whither the soul must go after the judgment .... 47 23 . How the soul of Adam and Eve were ashamed .... 1 25. How the soul may go through the judgment, or how not . 2, 3, 26 25. How the virgin child must not flee from the fire-soul ... 9 34. Of the animal soul in the regeneration ..... 17 37. Wherefore God bringeth the soul into trouble . . . .8,9 52. How the soul may see God ....... 10 56. When God’s grace entereth into the soul ..... 36 69. The first condition of the poor soul when it turneth to Christ 7, et seq. 70. How the soul standeth in three Principles ..... 5 5. How the sound or tune in heaven is . ..... 19

5. How the sound or tune in the darkness or hell is ... 19 35. Whence it cometh originally that man can speak ... 73 36. From what it is that man can speak and understand ... 85 4. Of the original of the multitude of spirits, good and evil . . II 8. Of the spirits of the outward world, from time, that pass away . 13 29. How the Spirit of God hath from eternity sported with itself in the spiritual world ......... 4 36. From what the false spiritual persons or clergy have spoken . 30, et seq. 70. What Joseph’s steward signifieth .... • • 5° 25. Of the strife between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent . . et seq. 36. Wherefore men do strive . . . • • - . 62, 63 52. When the strife in man is manifested, and Christ breaketh the Serpent’s head ...••••• 31, et seq. 60. What the strife about the letter is . . . . • • 47>48 62. Wherefore the strife in Christendom must be .... 19 62. With what strife a true Christian striveth . 64. How all strife cometh from the Tower of Babel . 75. How the time of strife is at an end .

53. How the divine substance giveth itself into Nature 61. The figure ofjacob’s going to Succoth 11. From what power the sun shineth . 13. Whence the sun taketh its lustre 70. What that supper is (Revelation iii) . 53. What swearing by God is called 25. Of the Cherubim angel’s sword 25. The original of the flaming sword of fire . VERSE 21, et seq. 28 28. What teachers the children of this world will have ... 44 36. By what a man shall know whether a teacher come from God or from the letter . . . . . . . 54, et seq. 41. How the unfitted teachers will needs preach the Holy Ghost into the self-will ......... 46 15. What the temple of God is ....... 28 36. What the temple of God is ....... 16 52. What the temple of God is ....... 8 27. How the temple of Christ must be brought along into the material church of clay ......... 49 48. How man without God’s grace cannot stand in temptation . 46. What a man must do if he would read and understand the Oid Testament . 29, 30 46. Wherefore the figures of the Old Testament have remained silent

to this last time and now shall be made manifest . . .31,32 54. Of the figure of the Old and New Testaments .... 17 35. Of the name Tetragrammaton ...... 53 65. Of Judah and Tamar: A mystical figure of Adam and Christ, wherein the new birth is excellently prefigured . . . 1-65 30. Of the seven appointed times ....... 34-46 30. When the sixth number of time is ...... 44 31. Of the seven times from Adam to the end of the world . . .3 8-45 69. How the time of redemption draweth near .... 23 65. What Timnath signifieth ....... 22 71. What it is that hath no torment . . . . . .21,22 35. Wherefore the children of Noah purposed to build a tower . . 64, 65 35. How the time is born that we shall be led away from the Tower of 35. What the mystery is of the Tower, and of the divided languages . 68-75 36. What the Tower of Babel is ....... 15 36. What the figure of Babel’s Tower is ...... 5-11 36. What the Babylonish Tower was under Moses and among the heathen, and now is among Christians, Jews and Turks . . 33

36. How a man ought to consider of the Tower and city, Babel . . 58 36. How we must go out from all Babylonish master-builders of that Tower . 5°, et seq. 66. How worldly judges ought not to rely upon the Tower of Babel . 60 chap. Tree. Tree of Life verse 35. How the human tree hath by Noah’s children spread itself abroad in its properties, and how at the Tower of Babel they were divided in the properties by the confusion of languages into several and different people and nations .... 1-75 36. How the Jews, Christians, Turks and heathens are but one only 36. How we may again, one with another, be one people, one tree, one man, with soul and body . 43 5 44 17. Why God set the Tree of Life before Adam .... 3 8—43 17. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are but one . . . . . . . 10, et seq. I. Of the Trinity . . . . . . . . . 3,4)5 7. Of the Holy Trinity or Threefoldness of the divine essence or 29. Of Tubalcain ......... 44-46

40. How the Turks lie under the veil of Christ, and are born in the house ......... 72, et seq. 40. How God heareth the Turks in the Son .... 74 , et seq. 40. How the Turks do not blaspheme the Holy Ghost . . 78, et seq. 40. Wherefore God hath taken away the candlesticks from the Turks . . . . . . . . 82, et seq. 40. How the holy voice of Christ is not departed from the Turks, to forget them eternally . . . . . . 87, et seq. 40. Of the difference between the Turks and the Christians . .92-100 3. Why the divine understanding bringeth itself into spiritual 3. The divine understanding receiveth no source into itself . . 21 29. What the eternal divine understanding is . . . . . 1, 2 66. What the unquietness is . 65 10. How the inward and the outward Venus are step-sisters . . 53 13. Venus is the substance of all metals . 18 11. How the Verbum Fiat is still at this day creating ... 9 67. What the right visions are ...... 7 23. Of the voice that was in the Garden . 11-16

55. The figure of Isaac’s saying: The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau . . . . . . . 27, 28 22. How war is good, and how not good ..... 73 38. Whence all war and strife hath its original . .... 7-10 33. Whence all war and strife hath its original . . . . 22, et seq. 38. Of the beginning of the heathenish wars: how Abraham delivered Lot; and of Melchisedek to whom Abraham gave tithes . . 1-26 55. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war ........ 45, 46 38. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war . . . . . . . . 16, 17 30. What the Christians’ wars are ....... 42 38. No Christian warreth . . . . . . . .15,16 62. What the outward war that Christians make is . . . . 24 33. What every warrior or soldier is . . . . . .19,20 42. What Abraham’s washing the feet signifieth . . . . 11

4. Of the water of eternal life . . . . . . . 15 10. Of the water which Christ will give us to drink .... 57 70. Where the assured wedding of the Lamb is . . . 25, et seq. 70. What a man must do, when he will enter into the wedding of Christ . . . . . . . . . .38 30. Whence the mother of the Babylonish whoredom is arisen . . 22,23 36. What the Babylonish whore and the dragon beast are . 20, et seq., 37 36. Of the Antichristian Babylonish whore, of all tongues, nations and languages, and what lieth hid under the languages and Tower of 36. Of the Babylonish whore’s child or bastard, which is predestinated 36. What the whore’s beast is ...... 36. How the whore hopeth for a golden temple or time 36. How the whore must fall ...... 36. What is meant by the whoredom committed with the letter . 37. How the unchastity of the Babylonish whore is come up before the 62. What is whoredom in the sight of God . . . 30, et seq. 65. What the whoredom ofjudah with Tamar signifieth . . 38, et seq.

65. What David’s whoredom with Bathsheba signifieth ... 41 65. What Solomon’s whoredom signifieth .... 45, et seq. 66. What the powerful figure of the whorish unchaste world is: which vermin the world is at present full of .... 41, et seq. 70, et seq. 69 60. How God dwelleth even in the abyss of the wicked soul . . 44 41. How a man must leave wife, children, etc. to be a true Christian . 54, 65 26. Wherefore the fire-soul hath free will ..... 7 27. What the will must do that it may with its desire go to God . . 4, 5 27. The human free will is become sinful . 16 29. Why there is a contrary opposite will . 6, 7 61. What the ability of the will is . . . . . . .57,58 61. The cause why the false wicked or evil will turneth not itself towards grace ......... 59 66. How in this time [of life] all things pass in free will ... 21 66. How knowing nothing is better than willing for self ... 66 71. Of the divine willing and of the human willing .... 25-36 1. What the eternal wisdom is ....... 6

29. How the eternal wisdom hath introduced itself into a formed 41. A speech to the reason- wise . 42, et seq. 19. Of the building or framing of the woman . 41. How the woman is saved through bearing of children . 66. What the woman upon the moon in the Revelation is . 2. Of the Word or Heart of God ..... 2. Of the outspoken word ...... 28. What the literal word is . ..... 36. How man should try himselfin the framing of his words 40. What God’s Word assumed ..... 56. Why our soul and the Word that became man, are together ........ 61. What the Word is . ...... • 56, 57 81, et seq. IO 23, et seq. . 43)44 2. The whole world lieth in a clod of earth ..... 6 2. Of the inward world ........ 9 2. How one world is in another ....... 10 4. Of the three worlds ........ 12 17. That same world, wherein Adam was before his Eve was, must come again ......... 9 29. What the invisible spiritual world is . . . . .4,5 3 1 . How Shem, Ham and Japhet are an image of the three worlds . 10, 1 1

71. How man doth a twofold wrong ..... 25, et seq. 77. The Testament of Zebulun, and the figure thereof . . . 3-7