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Then shall the heavenly Fire descend, and illuminate the Earth withinconceivable Glory; the Crown of thy Labours shall be brought unto thee,when our Sol shall sit in the South, shining with redness incomparable.This is our Tyre, our Basilisk, our red Poppy of the Rock, our Adrop, ourUsifur, our red Lead, our Lion devouring all things: This is our true Light,our Earth glorified; rejoice now, for our King hath passed from death tolife, and now possesseth the Keys of both Death and Hell, and over himnothing now hath power.For like as Souls after pains transitory,Be brought to Paradise where ever is joyful life;So shall our Stone after his darkness in Purgatory,Be purged and joined in Elements withouten strife.As then it is with those who are Redeemed, their Old man is crucified, inwhich is sorrow, anguish, grief, heart-breaking, and many tears; after thatthe New man is restored, and then is joy, shouting, clapping of hands,singing, and the like, for the ransomed of the Lord shall return with Songs,and everlasting Joy shall be on their heads: even so it is after a sort in ourOperation, for first of all our old Body dyeth, rots, and is as it werecorrupted, yielding a most loathsome stink, and engendering squallid andfilthy colours, and most venomous exhalations, which is at it were thePurgatory of his old Body, in which its corruption is overcome by a longand gentle decoction.And when it once is purged, and made clean and pure, then are theelements joined, and are of four contraries made one perfect, perpetual,indissolvable unity; so that fro henceforth there is nothing but concord andamity to be found in all our habitations.Rejoyce the whiteness and beauty of his Wife.Our Man then to shew his singular love to his Wife, and to give an evidenttoken that they will never fall out any more, is content to attain the degreeof its perfection in her colour; so that the first stable colour of thy renovateBody, after its Eclipsation in blackness, is the sparkling white, which is aluster hardly imaginable.And pass from darkness of Purgatory to lightOf Paradise, in whiteness Elixir of great might.This is a noble step, from Hell to Heaven; from the bottom of the Grave, tothe top of Power and Glory; from obscurity in blackness, to resplendentwhiteness; from the height of venenosity, to the height of Medicine. Oh164