THE Word this Morning came to me thus: The Love-Chain is not to be unlinked betwixt God and you, while the Spirit is the only Eternal matter and quality. Therefore it will take hold so strongly, as to draw and fix within the circumference of the very immense Love, from which the Enmity is separated. Oh enter into this Love, for this is the infinite space, which is beyond the *Third Gate.
*This invisible Love-Chain, will work through the First Gate, which is so strait and narrow, if you give all length and breadth within you, to wind you up swiftly hither. For what is so strong as God's Love; for restoring into the desireable Fruition of all Plenty and Goodness.
[This refers to a Visional Representation, called The Magical Journey, inserted in the First Volume, pag. 53 which seems to belong to this Place: or at least to have been now again revived, as it was afterward (a Third Time) in the Year 1696. For it doth plainly relate to the Manifestation of Wisdom's Principle, or of a New LEBANON, through the mighty Powers of FAITH working by LOVE, in the Philadelphian-State now Beginning. Whence St. John is made to be the President of the Holy Magicians, or Wise men: who hath so excellently above all others described this Love. And with the Vision of the 30th of the last Month most expressly agrees what is there Written, pag. 62. 1. 13. Afterward I was brought into a barren dry Ground, and this by the speaking forth only of a Word (as, Let this Soil be changed into a fruitful LEBANON) brought up all variety of pleasant Flowers and Plants, &c. See the Three Gates there described.]
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