eternity and is to eternity, and is one eternal day wherein God hearkened to the voice of a man.

Question. It is the opinion of some that the sun goes round the earth; and of others, that the earth goes round the sun.

Answer. The earth gives its increase through the power of the attraction of the sun, and other lights are borrowed from that; but have they asked me how they receive their attraction, for man must draw near unto my Spirit? If I was found of the Gentiles, which sought me not, how much more shall I now be found of Israel, which cry unto me evening and morning? for within the evening and morning is contained the whole of the visitation; but he who has fallen asleep in the evening cannot be awakened in the morning, and he that takes only a part of the revealed word, and despises the other, cannot see the light of the day, but it shall now shine to him that believeth as the light of seven days. (Isa. xxx. 26.) Let them not inquire about the fixed planets, but let them inquire after the life of their own temple.

Question.-"But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate." Rev. ii. 6.

Answer. Which was laying aside the whole of the law, and making use of women in their uncleanness, which is counted as adultery with God, if not done in ignorance.

Inquiry of Margaret Williamson.

Question." And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns." Rev. xvii. 3. Who is the woman?

Answer. It is Eve; her heart sitting on the evil, which Satan attracted in the garden; and the scarlet was the blood of her uncleanness, being decked in purple, the blood being polluted through the evil, which brings corruption to the body until it be taken away; so when the spirit of man leaves the body, it is then dead. The body of the woman being called

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the garden, the earth of it is the blood, which nourishes both the evil seed and the good which are sown in it, as the earth nourishes that which is sown in it, and the evil corrupts the good, as the salt water spoils the sweet water till it be taken away, so the fruit is marred, and is obliged to be sown in the earth again before it can be good; so where the evil is not taken away, the fruit is taken out of the corrupt earth and sown in the incorrupt.

Written from John Wroe's mouth by William Tillotson.

Brandy Carr, 13th of 5th month, 1838.

QUESTION.If thy servant has a candle, and he loses the light of it, and do much damage, wilt thou accuse him for the damage he has done, through his losing the light of the candle?

Answer. He should have gone back and sought for the candle to have been lighted. So was it with Adam in the creation: Adam's body was immortal, having the spirit of man and the spirit of woman within the temple; these two spirits being called two candles, they dwelling in one temple, it dwelling in the Spirit of God, making that body of Adam's to dwell in a spiritual house; so when God drew his Spirit from them, their candles went out, fulfilling the words of Paul, "The creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly." Rom. viii. 20. But that the power of God should be made manifest in them; that they should fall to a mortal life, to prove them whether they would serve God or mammon. Now the spirit of Adam was not in the transgression, but Satan, because Adam had no light, therefore when the law was given, light came, filling that passage, "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing." Deut. xxx. 15, 19. I create good and I create evil,

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(Isa. xlv. 7,) in the woman, permitting Satan to attract the evil, and I attracting the good, to prove to mortal man the difference between him that chose the good and him that chose the evil, the refiner being placed in the woman to divide the evil from the good. So that before the law there was no transgression to the soul. He then made a temple for the woman, it having a soul in it, but the body being dead. When God drew his Spirit from him, their candles went out, and they slept;* so while they were asleep he took the rib out of Adam, which was the spirit of the woman, (Gen. ii. 22,) it being her candle; he brought it unto the temple which he had prepared for it, and it attracted the fruit of the soul, which was the blood, to circulate to and fro, and it gave life to the body, but yet no light, that they might seek for that which proceeded from him that made them. Then the woman was brought unto the man, and the man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman." Gen. ii. 23. If they took of the evil, their bodies should die, but if they took of the good they should live, agreeing with the words of Jesus, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." John xi. 26. And this is the way that the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but that the power of God should be made manifest in them until the sixth day, (Rom. viii. 20,) that their houses should be rebuilt, which was shewn by Jesus Christ, by his body being made immortal, according to his words, A certain man had two sons, and the younger said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. So he divided their inheritance, that they should take a mortal life, and that he would try them by his laws, that he that kept his law should live, but he that kept not the law his body should die. The younger took his journey into a far country, and spent all he had,

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and became lost and dead, and he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare: I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son, make me as one of thy hired servants. And when his father saw him he had compassion on him, and said, Bring the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet; and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat and be merry. Now his elder son was in the field, and as he came and drew nigh to the house he heard music and dancing; and he called to one of the servants, and asked what these things meant? and he was angry, and would not go in, therefore came his father out and entreated him; but he answered and said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy command, and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends; but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine; it was meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found. (Luke xv. 11-32.)

"Adam being the youngest according to the Spirit of the creation of the heavens, and the Spirit of Jesus the elder; Adam being lost, first, by falling, secondly, from the immortal life to a mortal. The animal life was shed, being typical of them that repented while they were living, that there should be a seed sown of the mortal life, though their bodies were dead in the bowels of the earth, and that their spirits which were lost should be found, and should return to raise their souls alive. Now the elder son, the mortal life being the life of his body, the shedding of his blood was the killing of

the fatted calf, that he which was lost might be found, and the soul which was asleep might awake to life, being the seed of all souls. It was needful that the fatted calf should be killed, that the spiritual houses of them that were dead might be raised, that their spirits might live in them, making them spiritual; and for the living that their mortal bodies might dwell in the Spirit, they then keeping the law until the Spirit of God, with their spirits, be put within their temples, making them immortal, having no beginning or ending. When their spirit raises their soul incorruptible, their candles will be lightened their souls being spiritual houses for their spirits to dwell in, the life of them being eternal, fulfilling the words of Paul, "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day;" 2 Timothy iv. 8; and also the words of Jesus, the elder brother, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." John xi. 26. His body, soul, and spirit should be born of God, having the Spirit which Jesus should give to him, which he shall dwell in till the number of the days spoken of by Daniel be fulfilled, for blessed and holy is he that cometh to the five and forty days. (Dan. xii. 11, 12.) Each day being figurative of one year, that the body of man shall dwell in a spiritual temple forty-five years, the law not condemning him, it being taken out of the way by him obeying it; for to him that obeys the law, the offence is nailed to the cross, for it is written in the law, "Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." Gal. iii. 13. So the fruit of the soul of the woman's seed was shed, and the body became accursed for all men, but especially for them that believed, because their bodies should not die, but their spirits return into their temples with the Spirit of Christ, which God had hid in Christ, (Col. iii. 3,) opening the two-leaved gates.* (Isa. xlv. 1.) So now the Spirit is taken

*The door of the body of the man and the woman.