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Here are up to 25 concepts that appear to be unique to Jane Lead’s writings, or at least are used in a distinctive way that sets her apart from other writers of her time:

• The Virgin Church: This is not merely a church of virgins, but a spiritual community characterized by purity, inner connection with the divine, and direct transformative encounter with the Holy Spirit. It is distinct from established religious institutions.
• The Fixed Body: A state of spiritual refinement achieved through intense purification, almost like a blacksmith forging a new creation. It involves a process of being “mouldered and crumbled into pieces” to be reborn in the resurrection state.
• Living Stones: Individuals who have gone through a fiery baptism and embody divine authority, playing a key role in the coming spiritual era.
• The Tabernacle of Wisdom: A spiritual entity, not yet visible, that will emerge from the wilderness and encompass the firstborn or 144,000. This is a place where wisdom dwells.
• Fiery Baptism: A process of inner purification and transformation, not a literal event but a symbolic one. It involves intense spiritual experiences and a willingness to confront one’s shadows.
• The Glassy Globe: A state of being clear and translucent, a vessel for divine light. It represents a purified state and the ability to perceive the divine more clearly.
• The Golden Oil: A symbol of divine wisdom, often depicted as a path.
• The Seven Spirits of God: Represent the fullness of God’s spirit, including wisdom, understanding, counsel, power, knowledge, the fear of the Lord, and the spirit of the Lord.
• The Firstborn/Firstfruits (144,000): A select group of spiritual pioneers who embody divine qualities and act as principal agents for God. They are the first to achieve a new spiritual state.
• The Holy Priesthood from Abraham’s Line (according to the Spirit): A spiritual lineage not based on bloodlines, but on a spiritual genealogy. It emphasizes a transformed consciousness.
• The Divine Ark: The Testimony/Covenant; Christ. Its presence is essential to the life of the Virgin Church.
• The Unsealed Testimony: The living testimony of Christ which is contained in the Ark and is to be unsealed.
• The New Jerusalem State: A state of spiritual perfection and transformation brought to earth through the Virgin Church and is not just a place but a condition of being.
• Fixed Oracles: Individuals who have become so purified that they act as conduits for divine wisdom and guidance.
• The Mystical Death and Annihilation: A process of transformation and purification involving the “Seven Seals,” that is completed with the seventh seal. It requires a surrender of the self and the annihilation of the old nature.
• The Seven Thunders: A powerful manifestation of spiritual awakening, following the purification process.
• The Ladder of Mystical Ascension: The path to divine magic, set forth according to the gates of the New Jerusalem, representing a progressive spiritual journey.
• The Third Temple: A metaphorical representation of a new way of connecting with the divine, not a physical building, but a shift in how we perceive and experience the sacred.
• The Spirit of Burning: An intense force that purges impurities and reveals the true nature of the heart.
• The Seven Candlesticks: These are connected to the seven churches of Revelation and represent different aspects of the church.
• The Mystical and Magical Sense: Jane Lead posits that there is a mystical and magical interpretation of the book of Revelations, beyond the literal one.
• The Divine Salt: The hidden light principle within all people that has lost its savour. This contains all principles because humans are an epitome of all the worlds.
• The Philosophers Tree: A tree sprung that will produce ripe golden fruit in the form of the virtues, which will enable the multiplication of the spirit, soul, and body.
• The Magical Power of the Word: Jane Lead describes a power where the speaking of a word can bring about transformation, like changing barren ground into a fruitful Lebanon.
• The Oily Pool: A symbolic representation of a divine substance that bathes and drenches the purified one, so that they are seen as fair to the glorified eye.

These concepts, often expressed through vivid imagery and symbolism, reveal Jane Lead’s unique approach to spiritual understanding and her vision of a transformed humanity. They emphasize the importance of personal experience, inner transformation, and direct connection with the divine, all within the context of her prophetic vision of a new spiritual era.

Exploring “The Revelation of Revelations” by Jane Lead available as a PDF by Diane Guerrero.

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Jane Lead: Exclusive Concepts

The excerpts contain “40 PROPOSITIONS To be considered by them that would read with profit Jane Lead’s book of the Revelation of Revelations”, which appear to summarize the key themes and concepts discussed within that book.

According to these propositions, the “Revelation of Revelations” has a mystical and magical sense, in addition to a literal and ecclesiastical one. The mystical sense relates to the hidden mystery of God in the soul, while the magical sense concerns the knowing and setting on work the forms of nature by the Holy Ghost. Understanding this sense is not possible through human reason, but only through the Divine Spirit within a person, although this spirit can be obstructed or hidden.

Key concepts described within the framework of the “Revelation of Revelations” include:

• The Seven Seals and Seven Candlesticks: The Seven Seals are understood mystically as the seven forms of nature in the soul, representing the Seven Spirits belonging to the Father’s power in anger and severity. The Seven Candlesticks, conversely, are understood as the Son’s nature.
• The Lamb’s Role: The soul is described as being sealed up in the justice of God under the Seven Seals, and only the Lamb that was slain and is alive is able to break open these seals and enkindle light in the soul to overcome death.
• Revelation of the Kingdom and Angelical World: The opening of the Seals by the Lamb signifies the revelation of His Kingdom and of the Angelical World. This process involves the Lamb generating the soul into the light through Himself.
• New Generation and Redemption: The new generation of the soul is described as a passing out of darkness into light through the power of the Lamb, redeeming the soul from the wrathful, dark, and fiery properties of nature. This internal resurrection and redemption leads the spirit through the seals into the substantiality of Christ’s Universal Body, the center of Eternal Light where Wisdom reigns.
• The Seventh Seal and the Seas: The Seventh Seal, when opened, reveals the Holy Temple of God containing the Seven Candlesticks (the Seven Lights of Christ in the soul). The Seventh Seal is also linked to two “Apocalyptical Seas”. When the Seventh Seal is shut, it represents the Sea of Corrupt Nature and is the seat of the Antichristian Beast. When opened, it represents the Sea of Uncorrupt Nature and is the seat of the peaceable Lamb-like Kingdom and the Throne of Christ in the soul.
• The Glassy Sea: This is identified as the Seventh Spirit of the eternal incorruptible nature, where the Divine Majesty finds joy and delight. It is where the blessed Trinity manifests and beholds the true Angelical World. The Glassy Sea is described as the water-spirit and water-stone of the wise, representing the substance and corporeity of the divine nature and the compaction of all eternal divine powers, properties, and forms, containing the burning Lamps of Love (the Seven Spirits of the Lamb).
• Conquerors upon the Glassy Sea: Those who stand upon this Sea are individuals in whom all the Seven Seals have been broken and the Seven Holy Lights of Christ unsealed. Through a perfect conversion of the human will into the divine will, they are made “as it were the Harps of God”.
• The Process of Transformation: The “Revelation of Revelations” outlines a process involving:
  • Mystical Death and Annihilation: Comprehended under the Seven Seals, this involves a sevenfold purification and refining, primarily under the first four seals.
  • Mystic Resurrection and the First Resurrection: Looked for under the Mystery of the Seven Thunders.
  • Mystical Ascension: A “manuduction to the Divine Magic,” set forth according to the successive gates of the New Jerusalem.
  • Glorification, or Descension: The state of the New Jerusalem itself, a full consummation of the divine nuptials introduced into the soul, answering to the city descending from God.
• Divine Magic: In the consummation of the divine nuptials, the true Divine Magic breaks forth through the soul’s “unipotency” with Christ, allowing nature’s secret forms to be set on work from the Holy Ghost.
• Angels of the Revelations: These are described as Angels of Time who have been consummated in this manner and are Magicians of the Holy Ghost and Priests of the Third and highest Order.

In essence, the “Revelation of Revelations,” as described through these propositions, provides a mystical and magical interpretation of the book of Revelation, focusing on the internal spiritual transformation of the soul through various stages represented by the seals, seas, and other symbols, leading to union with the divine and the manifestation of God’s Kingdom and power within individuals and on Earth.

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