Comforter Volume 6, "The Book of Paradise", pg. 49
"AND ONE OF THE ELDERS said unto me: Weep not; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the Book and to loose the Seven seals thereof." Revelation 5:5
The Lion of the tribe of Judah has set me free to run the race of faith unto the end and gives this caution: to take care to be well mounted on this horse of the Spirit of Faith and to hold fast to Him who rides on it; who has the conquering bow in His hand to shoot His arrow into those unbelieving spirits that would still keep us in doubt and perplexity.
At the opening of the Second Seal, Revelation 6:3-4; all peace, pleasure and joy were taken away from the earthly life and such a light broke forth which made me see the vile abominations of an earthly state as compared with the perfection of the Divine Life; so that now I rejoice in nothing more than to see Him who sat upon the red horse, slaying with His sword, the beast and creeping things of the earth-all the moving, stirring essence springing from the original source of evil-and to find Him taking away peace from the earthly life so that the earthly mind is bereft of all peace and rest, contentment and satisfaction in all its going out, whether in thought, word or action.
But how cometh this to pass? Answer: Why, because He that sits on the red horse is given the mighty sword of the Spirit of the Soul, that thereby it may kill and destroy all essence of the earthy life, which brings joint union with Christ-the Deity-in His eternal humanity now fixed in the center of the soul. It is Christ's risen life in His Saints, enabling them to conquer the essence of the earthly life, which is the beast within themselves.
Now this taking away of peace from the earthly life is a blessed introduction to its final destruction, which is to fall upon it according to the intention of the Mighty I Am That I Am, Jehovah.
The opening of the Third Seal, Revelation 6:5-6: "And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and He that sat upon him had a pair of balances in His hand," signifying the destruction of the life of the beast in His saints which in this day of plenty is passing away. Its earthly essence must be weighed in the balance of Righteousness for the Lamb's life rising in His dead and rising saints, putting them into one Seal, weighing all their words, thoughts and actions in the weight of perfection, Christ, the Holy One, to see where they be brought into an even poise with it, to the end that all increase and plenty might richly abound in the fullness of the Spirit, from which heavenly sowing so great a crop doth spring, as may proclaim such a plenty that may exceed all former crops. Thus it will naturally spring in the soul which is evenly balanced with Christ, the anointed. Nothing of the oil and wine which from hence shall proceed, shall be hurt or diminished.
At the opening of the Fourth Seal, Revelation6:6-8. Christ rising with His saints on a powerful horse, whose name is conquering. Death, hell and hate followed Him, but though this death looks grim, yet it is such a death as shall only hurt a fourth part of the earth.
This the evil principal in the earthly life, which reigns and hath dominion until the Life of Christ is risen in His saints; till which time the beast may be permitted to kill the Life of Christ in the soul, with hunger, famine and lingering death. For it is said that the beast shall make war with the saints and for a time overcome them; that is keeping them under by reigning over them in the worldly dominion which reacheth to the outward man, as standing in his elementary kingdom where he has great power to afflict and famish unto death by several cruelties when so far permitted.
But I have expressly found that the greatest fury, hellish force and wrath of the dragon is quelled and overcome by the blood and the endless Life of the Holy Lamb of God; rising in His powerful might within me upon my complaint of the continual usurper of the beast kingdom.
Therefore the Mighty Present God has given assurance that there is a vial of wrath to be poured out upon him which shall draw his kingdom into everlasting perdition; that he may no longer insult the Sealed Ones of God, to whom power shall be given to bind him in everlasting chains; for the Lord Omnipotent in the Life of the Holy Lamb is coming to reign over all beasts of the earth.
The opening of the Fifth Seal discovers the souls of the slain saints-Revelation 6:9-10-under the altar of the Deity of humanity. Here the soul witnesses and conforms to the death of the Lamb and lies as a Living, burning coal under the alter and cries incessantly to rise in such power that it may be able to take vengeance on those who had killed the Just One, whose eternal Generation is to be continued from the Virgin Seed-introduced into nature-who hath laid a long time sealed up in death.
As Abel's blood did cry for vengeance, so doth the blood of Jesus cry out more strongly in the souls of those who are dead in Christ; and the Lord hath expressly assured, that when the rising incense goeth up from the altar from the soul's live coal, it is a sure testimony that the resurrection is nigh; when the naked soul shall be clothed with its long white robe.
Thought this has been a long rest and confinement to many, yet it only hath been permitted that a stronger cry may ascend, even as we see now that John the Beloved's long sleeping prophecies are now by some strong crying souls awakened, till all the Seals be made to fly open, to the end that the imprisoned souls in Christ may, by their opening, come to sit upon the throne when they shall judge the dragon and the beast with all their adherents that formerly exercised cruelty over them in the earth.
Therefore rejoice, all ye who did find the effects of this Fifth Seal opening in yourselves, for by them ye may know earnestness of the Jerusalem Kingdom, looking for its fulfillment in the world within, which shall also in due time be filled in the outer world.
I proceed now to the opening of the Sixth Seal, Revelation 6:4, where the first thing to observe is the great earthquake, representing the terrible shaking of the very foundation of the old earth in which is the original seed of sin, the hour of whose judgment has come and the Trumpet has sounded for the dissolving of the first earth and heaven that their place be no more found.
The wind of the Mighty Spirit blows upon all flesh to make it wither and die. The sun of the outward season is changed into blackness and the moon of the season into blood. All the starry imagination drops like untimely fruit and every island and mountain of strength melts away, for there can be no hiding in this day, a consumption being determined upon the whole universe which has been under the beast's captivity.
We may call this a Blessed ruin and undoing, to see a destruction upon all that hath kept the Holy Lamb and His Kingdom out. This causes a great out-cry and perplexity in the properties of the degenerated nature, where the king of reason and the captains, the senses, do not know where to flee from the face of Him who has come to make all things new; which could not be till all the old buildings were broken down and taken to pieces, where the terrible leprosy of sin did still arise.
The Kingdom of God could no better way contrive for the laying of a sound and sinless foundation for the New Jerusalem, according to this fore-contrived model as by expressed words it came unto me that none could or ever should come to the opening of the Seventh Seal till all of this be fully finished. And I must give witness of what it is doing and yet it doth not seem grievous, because of what is to succeed and follow when the next seal shall be opened.
This I have been shown according to experience and revelation, to open the wonderful meaning of what is written in Revelation, according as it is to be fulfilled in the Holy heaven-born saints. Therefore I also well know that their opening will cause a terrible day of the woe to the rebellious and unrighteous, for they who shall then be found in the beast's kingdom must look to fall and go into perdition with him, for as there are inward vials to be poured forth, so there are outward vials to be poured forth upon the world.
The Lord has shown me that to every Seal there is an eye open within, which is therefore called to look inward where the great Mystery is to be opened; and as every Seal hath its eye, so the ear hath its sounding horn, which is filled with Holy oil, which makes kings and princesses in God's tabernacle.
These are the Trumpets that give the most certain sound for time to end and the everlasting Kingdom of the Alpha and Omega to begin in that soul where the Mighty Trumpet shall sound,
upon which follows the loosening of those angels that have been bound,
who are to fight the Lamb's battle and to revenge His quarrel,
for the Great and Last War will be upon the Sixth Seal opening.
The Lord did testify that this would be such as in no fore-going Seal had been known, but He said withal: I Am the Lord, strong and mighty, who will prevail and wholly overcome the kingdom of the dragon and beast. Continue thou, while I am doing this in the most Holy Secret of My Being, where the constant mediatorship offering may go on as the strength of an army that shall overcome all through the burning incense that is mingled by the angel, whose place is to stand always at the altar.
No hurt or suffering by all this conflagration should touch the jewel that lieth hidden in My Deity that would shine forth again in the body of its native, Virgin purity as before time was. Wherefore suffer all of this violence on thy elementary part, as knowing it will not at all be disturbed.
The inward temple worships in the communion of the pure Spirit, but not as of old time in the first Elect Church and people God ministered to, who worshipped in a dark, formal, mixed manner, going up and down in a moveable tabernacle till Solomon's day, the typical temple which was to be filled with the glory and was built even so since the time of the Son of man's offering up Himself.
The Holy One had walked in clouds and hath been worshipped after an imperfect rate, therefore, He had prepared a burning, flaming day for all of His Vessels to pass through to know whether they be sanctuary proof or not; for the Lord is carrying on a pure Jerusalem worship in Truth and substantiality.
Rejoice all ye who shall stand the trial of the Sixth Seal in order to it.
Now according to this Divine interpretation of the Sixth Seal,
we know how near is the end of time and the passing away of the old heaven and earth in ourselves,
for it is we who are looking to every Seal opening, from the first to the last.
There is a sounding Trumpet to bring ruin and desolation to the first six days of creation because of sin and the curse which came in by the serpent's sting, by which means the beast hath created his kingdom and corrupted the whole principle of time, which the Holy One hath suffered now so many thousand years, during which time all just men indeed died in the faith of this prophecy but attained not to that degree which is to usher in the heavenly New Jerusalem in HER glory.
But the Lord is now stirring and in good earnest is sounding His trumpet for battle; and there is in us which doth witness that He is going on gradually to unmake and dissolve all of the first creation, for the Holy Lamb will no much longer carry the weight and burden of a sinful creation. He hath in some already sounded to judgment and will set Himself free thereby; and the spirits and souls of those who are resolved to follow Him through every Seal till they shall overcome.
It was given to me to observe that there are six engagements to which six overcomings do answer, mentioned in Revelation; and to every conqueror a most high and wonderful reward is promised, all of which is to encourage to follow Him cheerfully, who is our Leader, who hath sworn that time shall be no longer till He hath gotten the victory over the beast and whore and hath destroyed the dragon's kingdom in every property with us who are elected to reign in His Life with Him on His throne, with a train of new created powers in the properties of the redeemed earth. Herein we shall have dominion over all outward things, even over all beasts of this visible earth, who must be subject to the Lamb who has taken His victorious crown
and is putting it on the heads of the Holy Warriors that have passed through all and have come to the last overcoming that gives entrance into the Seventh Seal.
As I was collecting in my mind the near approaching time for the manifestation of the great overturning, which is to bring the overflowing stream of Christ's Kingdom unto His overcomers, behold I did see and hear the Voice of Him from whom the first heaven and earth did flee away; utter these words: There has been a long and tedious war between the house of God and the serpent's brood, together with the harlots and beast who have maintained their envious war on the grounds of fallen nature. But now come and see the place where they shall lie bound in perpetual captivity, wherein immediately we shall be filled with light from the open center of the Peaceable Kingdom that flows in as a Virtuous Life, felt I the quality of the pure, glassy sea, with sounding powers and lightnings ; as if all the old earth were now drowned in this bright ocean.
There followed a bright Star with a Voice going forth which said: The Lamb riseth out of the new elementary sea, overcoming the serpent and beast with all their seed and this will be their deluge, wherein the true loyal soldiers will obtain their Eternal Victory.
This is done through the opening of the Seventh Seal, wherein this Living Book, which was presented to my view to read, was the glorified person of the Lord Jesus Christ who does now appear to reveal what was sealed up in the Seven Thunders, wherein He hid me in the cleft of His own spiritual body while He talked with me, Who thus said: "Thou art come to a deep knowledge, for here the greatest good and highest, stands unsealed to the inward eye of thy Spirit, that can enter into the Light of Eternity. Where the looking glass of all mysteries stands open. Therefore the Seals are unloosed and the mysteries are made known. Oh SHOUT to Israel, AWAKE, AWAKE!
FOR THERE IS NO GOD IN ALL THE EARTH BUT IN ISRAEL AND I AM HIS SERVANT
BOOK of PARADISE, pgs. 217-18: HEARKEN O DAUGHTER of Zion; Behold thy Bridegroom cometh, no more a servant, but to be served by all flesh. THE WORD that was made flesh in Jesus Christ's Immortal body, reigns now in Spirit to prepare for Christ's Kingdom to come into a visible Dominion here upon earth by wonderful signs and miracles, wrought by the Spirit in form of flesh, to confirm Christ the Lord is coming to appear in His saints to set them over the earth.
For the DAUGHTER of ZION, the Dominion shall be restored
through a perfect union with the Lamb of God.
This is the First Resurrection of the Holy People which shall be the Trumpet Voice
that shall awake the rest that lie dead in sin.
The hour of God's judgment will thus come upon the evil nature that has hitherto reigned in man. And the SPIRIT shall be so fully poured forth upon these first rising ones as to forth with a quickening Spirit to raise the dead, spiritually and bodily.
This shall be the terrible day of the Lord for the condemning and destroying, not of persons, but of sin in the flesh. Therefore I have informed you, in that you are commanded to have all care to take this way of the Spirit free and clear that your ascension may not be stopped; so then you will keep your dwelling secretly with Me in the heavens and need not be careful what happens to the old world beneath, for your mountain situation in God shall never be moved.
THIS IS THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE.
Mary Purnell's Book of Paradise, published in 1944, completed the 14 years service as foretold by her husband: May 10, 1907: "Esau did not have to leave, but Jacob; then 14 years service". Unquestionably the most illuminating Visitation upon any of the 6 foregoing Messengers and back to Jane Leade's final manuscript of 1704. All of which was the breaking of seals upon the mystery of Godliness, God manifest in flesh.... and the opening of the Revelation, chapter 21
