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then we should well understand one another: But seeing we have them not, therefore we will express the great Deeds of God with the earthly Tongue, according to our [received] Gift and Knowledge, and open the Scripture to the Reader, and give him Occasion to consider further, whereby the Pearl might be sought and found at last; therefore we will work in our Daylabour, n according to our Duty, till the o Pearl of the Lily be found. 2. Reason asks, How long was Adam in Paradise before his Fall, and how long did the Temptation last? I cannot tell thee that out of Moses’s Description of the Creation, for it is for great Cause concealed: Yet I will show thee the Wonders of God, and p explain them according to the Knowledge that is given me, whereby thou mayest the better learn to q consider the Temptation and the Fall of Adam. 3. Beloved Reason, look into the Glass of the Actions and Deeds of God. When God appeared to Moses in the r burning Bush, he said, Pull off the Shoes; for here is a holy Place: What was that? Answer: God showed [Moses] thereby his earthly Birth. For he would give him a Law, wherein Man should live, (if it were possible,) and attain Salvation: But who was it that gave the Law, and commanded Man to live therein? Answer, It was God the Father, out of his Center, and therefore it was done with Fire and Thunder; for there is no Fire and Thunder in the Heart of God, but kind Love. 4. Hereupon Reason will say, Is not God the Father one [and the same] Essence with the Son? Answer, Yes. [They are] one Essence and Will. By what Means then did he give the Law? Answer, By the Spirit of the great World; because Adam after n And lead them that come after us into it. o Or Gate. p Or search into them. q Or understand. r Or Fire flaming. the Fall, and all Men, lived s therein, therefore it must be tried, whether Man could live t therein, in Confidence towards God. Therefore he established it with great Wonders [or Miracles,] and gave u it Clarity, [shining Brightness or Glory;] as may be seen in Moses, who had a [glorious bright] shining Face. And when he had chosen to himself this People, he destroyed the Children of Unbelief, and brought x them out with Wonders into the Wilderness; and there it was tried whether Men could live in perfect Obedience under this Clarity, [Glory or Brightness.] 5. What was done there? Answer, Moses was called by God (out from [among] the Children of Israel) up into Mount Sinai, and stayed there forty Days: And then he would try the People
whether it was possible for them to put their Trust [or Confidence] in God, that they might be fed with y heavenly Bread, that so they might attain Perfection. And there now stood the Mind Majoris mundi, of the z great World; and on the contrary, the eternal Mind of God, in Strife one against another; God required Obedience, and the Mind of this World required [or desired] the Pleasure of this transitory Life, as Eating, Drinking, Playing, Dancing; therefore they chose them moreover their BellyGod, a Golden Calf, that they might be free and live without Law, 6. Here you see again, how the three Principles strove one against another about Man: The Law that was given to Adam in the Garden of Eden broke forth again, and desired to have Obedience; in like Manner, also, the Spirit of strong [Fierceness or] Wrath broke forth again in the false Fruit and Voluptuousness, and sought the corruptible Life, And this Strife now lasted forty Days, before they set up the Calf, and fell [wholly like Adam] from God; so long the Strife of the three Principles continued. 7. But now when they were fallen away from God, [as Adam was,] then came Moses and Joshua, and saw the Apostacy [or Falling away,] and broke the Tables in Pieces, and led them into the Wilderness; where they must all die, except Joshua and Caleb: For the Clarity [or Brightness] of the Father in the Fire, in the first Principle, could not bring them into the promised Land; and although they did eat Manna, yet it did not help [in] the Trial, only Joshua, and at length JESUS must do it. 8. And when the Time came, that the true Champion, [or s In the Spirit of the great World. t In the Law. u The Law. x His chosen. y Manna. z Or Macrocosm. Saviour,] returned again out of Paradise, and became the Child of the Virgin, then the Strife of the three Principles a came again. For there he was again set before the tempting Tree, and he must endure the hard Brunt before the tempting Tree, and stand out the Temptation of the three Principles, which was not possible for the first Adam to do. And there the Strife continued forty Days and forty Nights, just so long as the Strife with Adam in Paradise continued, and not an Hour longer; and then the Champion [or Saviour] overcame. Therefore open your Eyes right, and look upon the Scripture right; although it be brief and obscure [to Reason,] yet it is very true. 9. You find not in Moses, that Adam was driven out of Paradise the first Day; the Temptation of Israel, and of Christ, informs us quite otherwise. For the Temptation of Christ is to
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