MASTER

It is sown a natural gross and elementary Body; yet in this gross Body

there is a subtle Power and Virtue. As in the Earth also there is a

subtle good Virtue, which is like the Sun, and is one and the same with

the Sun, which also did in the beginning of time spring and proceed out

of the Divine Power and Virtue, whence all the good Virtue of the Body

is likewise derived. This good Virtue of the mortal Body shall come

again and live for ever in a kind of transparent crystalline material

property, in spiritual flesh and blood; as shall return also the good

Virtue of the Earth, for the Earth, likewise shall become crystalline,

and the Divine Light shine in everything that hath a being, essence, or

substance. And as the gross Earth shall perish and never return, so also

the gross flesh of Man shall perish and not live for ever. But all

Things must appear before the Judgment, and in the Judgment be separated

by the Fire; yea, both the Earth, and also the ashes of the human Body.

For when God shall once move the spiritual World, every Spirit shall

attract its spiritual substance to itself. A good Spirit and Soul shall

draw to itself its own substance, and an evil one its evil substance.

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