Though I have in my other Writings, set down a clear description of Regeneration, or the New-Birth,from the Ground thereof; yet because everyone hath them not, neither hath everyone the Capacity to understand them; I have therefore, as a Service to the simple Children of Christ, here set down a short sum concerning the New-Birth. But if any desire to search the deep ground from whence all floweth, and have the Gift to understand it, let them read these Books following.
1. The Three Principles of the Divine Essence.
2. The three-fold Life of Man.
3. The forty Questions of the Original Essence, Substance, Nature, and Property of the Soul.
4. The Incarnation and Birth of Jesus Christ the Son of God; also of His Suffering, Death, and Resurrection.
5. The six Points treating ofthe Three Worlds how they are in one another as one; and yet make Three Principles, viz., Three Births or Centers.
6. The Mysterium Magnum, which is an Interpretation upon Genesis.
And in them he shall find all that he can ask, and that as deep as the Mind of Man is able to reach. I have written this for the true Israelites, that is, for the Hungry and Thirsty Hearts that long after the Fountain of Christ,who are my Fellow-Members in the Spirit of Christ: But not for the Ishmaelites and Scorners, for they have a Book within them, wherewith they vex, persecute, and suppress the Children of Christ that are under the Cross; and yet, though it be unwillingly and unwittingly to themselves, they must be Servants to such Children of Christ.
