ving worthies,
and they were the believing holy ones, taught by her in her inward and
outward divine magic stone; and that the time was coming in which she
desired to make new artists and poets in this theosophic wisdom, who
should give a form to the things that had been so odiously disgraced and
lay under a cloud of contempt, ignorance and disgrace. Especially, no
other way besides this could be found than that the deep mine, in which
the treasure had lain hidden so long, should be broken open and unsealed.
[The lost that must be found again is called in freemasonry the master
word. The master wandering has the object of seeking what was lost there
[in the East] and has [partly] been found again.] Hereupon the apostle
John [Well beloved] spoke to me, to whom the secret was well known, and
who was the person who had spoken so kindly to me before, with these
words: 'Just as a natural stone, so is there also a spiritual stone which
is the root and the foundation of all that the sons of art have brought
visibly into being and into the light. And just as the external is
corporeal, and consists in work of the hands, and consumes a great amount
of time before it can be brought to perfection, so also is the internal
elaborated from degree to degree....' Therefore I begged and asked the
angel John in what manner I might go to work, to work out the same?" The
"angel John" accorded her the permission. Just as a furnace is used for a
chemical preparation, so also a furnace is necessary for the preparation
of the spiritual Philosopher's Stone. This outer furnace is, however, the
corporeal man, in which "the fire seeds of pure divinity itself are
kindled by the essence of the soul, when he finds for it a hallowed and
properly prepared vessel. The materia in which one must labor or work is
the divine salt, which is placed in a pure clear crystalline glass, the
pure spirit. Further shouldst thou know, that this divine salt is
concealed in all men." (L. G. B., I, pp. 40-43.)

Here I must insert the discussion of the salt (also salt stone) and its
effect. We must understand clearly that the salt stone of this symbolism
is the same as the cubical stone of the masonics. That the salt is
hieroglyphically represented by a cube, I have already shown. The concept
stone is the parting of the ways for two symbol groups of similar meaning,
both of which Jane Leade uses. The one group is the chemical preparation,
as the angel John just now describ