An explanation of the parables

disobeyed; and this was your enquiry; then mark in what manner my Spirit entered you, speaking to the tempter. So if men discern deeply, they will see in what manner I worked in you to place a likeness of the Creation the beginning of the world as described in Genesis: and this you know I told you before, that when you come to the Redemption the act of being saved from sin you must come back to the Creation; and in the shadow of that likeness I brought it back to you, to show plainly unto all men the true sense and meaning of the words spoken to the Serpent, when he betrayed the Woman, as I knew what horror and misery she felt, which yours was but a shadow of. And now mark for yourself the heavenly joy you felt, before these fears came upon you, whether in anything you had disobeyed. Here I have showed you the likeness of the Woman at first, as a shadow to resemble the substance; and by that I have showed them the sense and meaning of the words spoken to the Serpent, that his curse should be above every living creature, when I come to This refers to Genesis 3:15, where the offspring of the woman is prophesied to crush the serpent's head. bruise his head, according to the words I spoke plainly in you, for all men to understand the last, if they could not understand the first.

And now come to your History, that is placed here and there, but not in a regular manner to go on together; for like your history stand the Prophecies through the Scriptures, which men must discern from different places to bring them together, as they must discern the history of your life; and then let them discern all my sufferings from men and devils; how long I suffered myself to be tempted by the devil, and what I suffered from the persecution of men, and how I hid myself from them, and all the agonies I bore in the garden of Gethsemane the site where Jesus prayed before his arrest, when I knew my hour drew near to be offered up a SACRIFICE FOR MAN! Thus let men deeply discern all I went through in the Body; and then let them deeply discern in what manner I worked in you to go through the sufferings, trials, and temptations of the devil, and all kind of sorrows, when I came to visit you strongly in the Spirit, that men might call the whole to their remembrance, and see the shadows of all things before them.