The Prophetic Telegraph No. 90
A MESSAGE
TO THE PHILADELPHIAN SOCIETY
WHITHERSOEVER
DISPERSED OVER THE WHOLE EARTH
PRESENTED
AS SIXTY PROPOSITIONS, BY JANE LEADE, 1679
[N.B. This has hitherto
been known as the 1619 prophecy. Here it is presented in its fuller form, as
retrieved from original manuscripts. The date was misread as 1619. It should
have been 1679]
1. There shall be a total
and full redemption by Christ.
2. This is a hidden mystery
not to be understood without the revelation of the Holy Spirit.
3. The Holy Spirit is at
hand to reveal the same unto all holy seekers and loving inquirers.
4. The completion of such a
redemption is withheld and obstructed by the Apocalyptical Seals.
5. Wherefore, as the Spirit
of God shall open seal after seal, so shall this redemption come to be revealed
both particularly and universally.
6. In the gradual opening
of the mystery of the redemption in Christ doth consist the unsearchable wisdom
of God which may continually reveal new and fresh things to the worthy
searchers.
7. In order to which the
8. The presence of this
Divine Ark will constitute the
10. The proclamation of the
Testimony of the Kingdom will be as the sounding of a Trumpet to alarm all the
Nations of the Earth, and more especially all the professions of Christianity,
because it will be attended with the power of enacting all wonders.
11. So there shall be an authoritative
decision given forth immediately from Christ to the putting an end to all
controversies concerning the
12. This decision will be
by the actual sealing of the members of this Church with the Name of God,
giving them a commission to act by virtue of the same. This New Name will
distinguish them from the seven thousand names of
13. The election and
preparation of this Church is to be after a secret and hidden manner, as David
in his minority was elected and anointed by the Prophet of the Lord; yet was
not admitted to the outward possession of the Kingdom for a considerable time
afterward.
14. Of the stem of David a
15. And if it is yet to be
born, then it will require some considerable time before it gets out of its
minority and arrives at full and mature age.
16. The birth of this
17. For as a virgin woman
brought forth Christ after the flesh, so likewise a virgin woman is designed by
God to bring forth the firstborn after the spirit, who shall be endowed with
the Holy Ghost and with power.
18. The Virgin that is
hereto designed must be as of a pure spirit, so also of a clarified body and
all over impregnated with the Holy Ghost.
19.This Church so brought
forth and signed with the seal of the Divine Name shall be adorned with the
miraculous gifts and powers beyond whatever yet hath been.
20. Hereby all Nations
shall be brought into it, so shall it be the Catholic [i.e. Universal] Church
according to the genuine sense and utmost latitude of the word.
21. It must be an
22. Hence there will be no
bonds or impositions, but the Holy Unction among these New Born Spirits will be
all in all.
23. This Universal and
Anointed Church must be perfectly holy, as Christ Himself is holy, so that it
may worthily bear the name of "The Lord our Holiness" and "The
Lord our Righteousness."
24. Until there be such a
Church made ready upon the Earth, so holy, so universal, and so anointed, that
is without all spot or wrinkle, and that is adorned as a Bride to meet her
Bridegroom, Christ will not personally descend to solemnise this marriage and
present the same to His Father.
25. But when the Bridal
Church shall be made and thoroughly cleansed and sanctified from every spot of
defilement through the blood of Christ, then He will no longer delay His coming
in person.
26. There is not at this day
[i.e. 1679] visible upon the Earth any holy, universal, anointed, and bridal
Church; all the churches and professions being found light when weighed in the
balance, therefore they are rejected by the Supreme Judge.
27. Which rejection and
condemnation will be for this end, that out of them a new and glorious Church
may arise in whom there shall be no fault to be found like as He findeth none
with the Philadelphian Church.
28. Then shall the Glory of
God and of the Lamb so rest upon it as the Cloud upon the typical Tabernacle,
so that it shall be called the Tabernacle of Wisdom.
29. Though this
Philadelphian Church is not known in visibility, yet it may lie hidden at this
present time as in the womb of the morning.
30. Notwithstanding it will
be brought forth into visibility as coming out of the wilderness within a short
period.
31. Then it will go on to
multiply and propagate itself universally, not only to the number of the
firstborn (which is 144,000) but also to the remnant of the seed against whom
the Dragon shall make continual war.
32. Wherefore the spirit of
David shall most eminently revive in this Church and most specially in some or
other selected members of it as the blossoming root which is to precede the Day
of Solomon in the blessed Millennium. These will have might given them to
overcome the Dragon and his Angels, even as David and his army overcame Goliath
and the Philistines.
33. This will be the
standing up of Michael, the great prince of Israel, and will be as the
appearance of Moses against Pharaoh, in order that the chosen seed may be
brought out from their hard servitude.
34. Egypt doth figure out
this servile creation, under which each one of Abraham's seed doth groan. But a
Prophet and a most prophetical generation will the Most High yet raise up who
shall deliver His people by mere force of spiritual arms.
35. For which there must be
raised up certain head powers to bear the first shock, who are to be persons of
great eminence and favour with the Godhead, [orig. "with the Trinity."]
whose dread and fear shall fall upon all Nations (Visible and Invisible)
because of the mighty acting power of the Holy Ghost which shall rest upon
them.
36. For Christ, before His
own distinct and personal appearance, will first appear and represent Himself
in some chosen vessel or vessels anointed to be leaders unto the rest and to
bring them into the Promised Land, the New Creation State.
37. Thus Moses, Joshua and
Aaron may be considered as types of some upon whom the Spirit may yet come to
rest in a greater proportion; whereby they shall make way for the ransomed of
the Lord to return to Mount Zion. 38. But none shall stand in any considerable
office under God but those who have become "Tried Stones" after the
pattern and similitude of the Chief Cornerstone, Christ Himself.
39. This will be a fiery
trial which very few will be able to pass or bear up in; wherefore the waiters
for this "Visible Breaking Forth" of this Church are strictly charged
to hold fast that which they have, and to wait together in the unity of pure
love, praying in the Holy Ghost according to the Apostolic Pattern, that they
may be sent forth to multiply more universally.
40. This trial will be of
absolute necessity to every one in particular and to all in general for the
constituting and cementing of the true Philadelphian Church, by clearing away
all the remaining infirmities of the natural mind, and the burning up of all
that is hay, stubble, and dross, which they may have added to the work of the
Lord.
41. For nothing must remain
in this pure Church but what can remain in the fire. For as a Refiner will the
Lord purify the sons and daughters of it and purge them as gold and silver,
that they may offer unto Him and offering in perfect righteousness.
42. Though the operation of
the Holy Spirit in these waiters may for a long time contend with many
infirmities and evils, yet if it be kept continually warm and watched to, it
cannot at the last but work out a perfect cure and bring about a full and total
redemption from the earth.
43. There may be some at
present living who may come to be thus fully and totally redeemed, having
another body put on them that is one after the Priestly Order.
44. This Priestly Anointed
Body will render them impregnable and qualify them for that high degree of
spiritual government to which they are called.
45. Wherefore it is
required on our part to suffer the spirit of burning to do upon us the refining
work, fanning us with His fiery breath and searching every work within us until
all be pure and clear and we thereby arrive at this fixed body from whence the
wonders are to flow out.
46. This body will be the
sealing character of the Philadelphian Church.
47. Upon this body will be
the fixation of the Urim and Thummim that are to be appropriated to the priests
of the Melchizedek Order, whose descent is not to be counted in the genealogy
of that creation which is under the fall, but in the genealogy which is from
the restoration.
48. Hence these priests
will have a deep inward search and a divine sight into the secret things of the
Deity, and will be able to prophesy in a clear ground, not darkly and
enigmatically.
49. For they will know what
is couched in the first originality of all beings and in the eternal archetype
of nature, and so will be capacitated to bring them forth according to the
divine council and ordination.
50. The Lord, whose hand is
lifted up, sweareth in truth and righteousness that from Abraham's line,
according to the spirit, there shall arise an holy priesthood. Abraham and
Sarah were a type of that which should be produced and manifested in the last
age of the world.
51. The mighty spirit of
Cyrus is appointed to lay the foundation of the Third Temple and to support it
in its building.
52. These are such
characteristics or marks whereby this pure Virgin Church, so founded, shall be
certainly known and distinguished from all others, and whereby the unction and
true sound of the Holy Ghost shall be discerned from that which is false, low,
and counterfeit.
53. There must be a
manifestation of the Spirit wherewith to edify and raise up this Church
suitable to the resurrection of Christ.
54. This manifestation must
be in the absoluteness of power as well as in the beauty of holiness, so
bringing down Heaven upon Earth and representing here the New Jerusalem state.
55. In order to which
spirits that are thus purely begotten and born of God can ascend to the New
Jerusalem above, where their Head in great majesty doth reign, and receive
there such a mission whereby they shall be empowered to bring down to this
world its transcendent glory. 56. None but those that are risen with Christ in
the regeneration can thus ascend, and none but those who have so ascended and
received of His glory can descend again to communicate the same, being thereby
His representatives upon the New Earth as subordinate priests and princes under
Him.
57. Now He that is ascended
and glorified has made Himself as it were, our debtor; consequently He will not
be wanting in qualifying and furnishing out certain high and principal
instruments who shall be most humble and as little regarded as David was, whom
He will dignify with great honour and priestly sovereignty for the drawing to
them the scattered flocks and gathering them into one fold out of all nations
and languages and kindreds.
58. Therefore, there should
be a holy emulation and ambition stirred up among all the lovers of Jesus that
they may be of the Firstfruits unto Him that is risen from the dead, and so be
made Principal Agents for Him and with Him, that they may, if possible, be of
the number of the Firstborn of the New Jerusalem Mother.
59. All the lovers of Jesus
and the true waiters for His Kingdom in spirit, under whatsoever professions or
forms they are dispersed, ought to be numbered among the Philadelphian spirits
to whom this message appertains.
60. The Society is not the
Church, but preparatory to the Philadelphian Church. It consists of those who
have associated to wait in the unity of the spirit for its glorious appearance
and manifestation. Wherefore, there is such a strict charge given to them
throughout this message to be watchful and quicken up their pace.
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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILADELPHIAN SOCIETY
INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 1697
[Handwritten by Richard
Roach, which we transcribed from the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library,
Oxford.]
Reasons for the foundation
and promotion of a Philadelphian Society offered to the consideration of all
Christians.
Whereas the state of
Christendom is at this day miserably torn and rent through of manifold
divisions and sects of it, all equally pretending to be the True Church and
Spouse of Christ,
Whereas also all that of
learning, wisdom and power of man is able to do, has hitherto instead of
Healing, served rather to widen the breaches of all Partys,
And whereas likewise there
is not a Church anywhere visible, that is so one, as to be without all discord,
so holy as to be without Spot or Wrinkle, or so Catholick as to be void of
every degree of partiality and particularity,
It hath pleased our God and
Father of compassion to stir up powerfully in this day some persons, as well as
in other countries as in this Kingdom, deeply sensible of imperfections and
corruptions of all churches and congregations whatsoever, but especially in
their want of charity for one another and of their want of the faith which our
blessed Lord has desired as a grain of Mustard Seed,
And soberly considering the
insufficiency of Human Learning with regard to so glorious an attempt, as if
the reunion of all the Torn Limbs of Christianity and the folly of its wisdom,
as well as the weakness of its power, which is of this world in all that is
without or above its sphere,
To which separately and
faintly, in obedience to our Dear Lord and Master, with all Humility,
Resignation, and Perseverance, for Power from on High,
Whereby the day of his
Kingdom may come to be witnessed and proclaimed in all parts of the world, for
wisdom from above which sits on the Throne of God and is the Spirit of
Revelation which alone can enable any to see into and to govern in all
Spiritual Affairs,
And lastly for that Divine
Learning concerning which it is prophesied that all should be taught of the
Lord and which is the Secret Paths which the Vulters [i.e. Vulture's] Eye
neither has espied or ever can espy,
That so the Church and
Bride of Christ may be hereby prepared and adorned to meet her beloved, being
made throughout conformable unto him, through the Vital Operation and Resuscitation
of his one Holy and Catholick Spirit in her.
Secondly - Wherefore we do
not at all pretend to Appropriate or confine this Spirit to ourselves or by
consequence hereof to set up for a new Sect or Church, but we do only propose
that our Assembling and Convening together may be in order to keep warm that
spirit of love which is shed abroad in our hearts towards you all and to
strengthen one another in this Holy and Apostolical Faith which (primarily)
concerns the Revelation of the Kingdom and Glory of God within the soul,
That so by waiting
diligently upon and holding fast which we have already received of it, we may
be at length, with others whom God shall call to be the firstfruits of a Virgin
Church that may exactly correspond with the Titles whereby her Sovereign Head
stiles [i.e. styles] himself writing to her, being made holy as he is holy,
True as he is true, and bearing together with him the Key_of_David or the seals
of the Kingdom, or Anointed with him and consecrated by his Holy Ghost into the
Priestly, Prophetical, and Royal Order.
3.This is that perfect
Model which we have before our eyes and do press after, but which we
acknowledge ourselves very short of arriving to, therefore we look not back ,
though some of us may say that we have been made partakers of the Holy Ghost
and have trusted in some degree the Living Word of God and the powers of the
world to come, or of the future Blessed Age, but as if we had hitherto attained
nothing, so do we strive to reach out to the mark of the Philadelphian_Prize.
[The reason for their choice of this title was that the Philadelphian Church
was the only one amongst the seven churches in Revelation to which the Lord had
nothing negative to say. Ed.]
4. At present we are but as
the rough hewn stones that are designed to enter into the foundation of a
Goodly Structure, in much weakness and imperfection, in much Superfluity and
Mixture with great unevenness and some Rubbish (and thus it was in great
measure even with the Apostolical Church of Corinth, though so highly gifted),
all which must first be done away and the Stones prepared apart for their place
in the same, till being fitly cut and polished they be at last (by degrees) all
brought together and the Tabernacle of David then finished, before the Personal
Glory of the Lord from heaven, the true Son_of_David in the Power of his Father
will descend to fill it.
5.Our practice we would
have to be Apostolical abating from Temporary and Particular Constitutions;
conformable to the truth and power of the good Spirit of God, without whose
inspiration we can never perfectly love him, nor worthyly magnify him; as he
will be magnified and loved, when his Holy Will shall be done on Earth as it is
in Heaven, and his Kingdom be also established here as it is there.
6. We receive the Holy
Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments with the deepest Veneration; and the
hope which we have for the full completion of every Promise and Prophecy
therein contained can never be moved.
7. Our work is to pursue
peace and love towards all men and to submit to every Ordinance of God, the
Supreme Governor of the World, to Kings and all that are set in Authority over
us, according as he in his wisdom thinks fit, for the good of the same in the
old ministration of Secular Affairs.
Whoever would be further
satisfied as to our Faith and Practice may find them described in the Spiritual
Writers Ancient and Modern, and more particularly by some of our own Society.
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THE FOUNTAIN OF GARDENS
[Extract from Jane Leade's
work, which was originally published in four volumes, and is now being
re-published by Colleen Drounette in the Unites States.]
For here was revealed to me
a great secret concerning the birth of the manchild, that its production would
be after a marvellous invisible manner, begotten and generated from out of a
pure virgin mind. This is Christ's second birth, which is to know no more
sorrow, curse or death. Christ in His first birth was a man of sorrows,
suffering in the flesh with us, and in us. Now this birth in spirit is on this
wise, a pure perfect spirit immaterial, unknowable matter, of which the
transcendent inconceivable element giveth forth. And this becomes an all
powerful body which can go in and out, up and down the earth and no mortal can
see.
This is a strong and potent
angel that can do great wonders of God from his own essentiality, from whence
this angelical creature shall act its part in great love and meekness, yet
still upholding sovereignty, and thereby securing the visible impotent body
from those many evil things, whilst it remains an untransfigured body.
For this may be expedient
for a covert and vail upon the inward, for that would not be bearable among
mortals. But great will be the glory that this mortal figure will shine and be
illustrated from the inward, united firstborn with spirit, with virgin wisdom
through which its lost omnipotency will be recovered, as in the day when man
was created in the very similitude of God, male and female.
THE TWO WITNESSES.
I saw two olive trees
spreading out dropping their oil as a shower of rain. And it was said,
"Thus shall the prepared earth be sown again with such olive seed as shall
bring up anointed Christs all plentifully, that shall stand in this latter day
upon the outward earth to appropriate and maintain the MELCHISEDEK-Kings right,
the whole Kingdom shall spread to the ends of the earth."
Then there were three
bright suns in their eclipse, so as to be but half-suns in sight. And they
wrought themselves out of the clouds and joined together and became one
glorious SUN, which appeared with a rich and glorious crown upon the head of
it.
I was made bold to ask what
was their eclipsement. The Lord answered, "They do signify three days in
which my witnesses have lain slain. The which time my glory and dominion hath
been under an eclipse. But know and make it known to such, whom it may concern
thus with me to reign, that the three days are accomplished and the three
ministrations shall meet in One at the Half day, for the fulfilling that which
so many foregoing ages have prophesied of. Now this half day is dawning; in
which is to be understood the full height, or the one perfect day, which
neither eclipse nor sunset shall be feared any more. In which time I will by my
raised witnesses finish a mighty, strange, and marvellous work in the earth,
such as yet hath never been. And although three dead winter seasons have passed
upon my dead witnesses yet now they are called upon to rise out of their golden
moulds as most terrible to their enemies and all beholders."
I asked who the two
witnesses are. A voice said, "Behold me, in my glorified humanity."
Then I did see an human figure transfigured into a body as a crystal glass,
sending from all parts of its body flames of light which was flowing out of the
Deity from the glorified humanity.
Only this much was made
known to me that the mighty eagle from heaven is already so far descended as to
hatch two eagle-birds that will figure out these two witnesses first and be as
the two dropping olive trees that will multiply Christ in the earth as his
burning Ray of Deity in a glorious humanity. That shall a full and mighty
witness for God throughout the whole earth be.
Then a caution was given -
to beware the tempter; to avoid all elevated aims, all designs that are not
clear and justifiable in the eye of God; to make no terms and conditions with
Him; to rejoice in the cross and in the dying marks of Jesus, to sink down into
the most pure and naked resignation and to keep still upon that so even in the
midst of paradisiacal enjoyments the serpent might not creep in to deceive,
beguile and supplant.