ed it; the other is the treatment of the
stone as a building stone (which is to be dressed, etc.) found in other
passages from Jane Leade, namely, in connection with the building of a
temple, a sanctuary, the New Jerusalem. Important use is made of men as
building stones preeminently in her "Revelation of Revelations." This one
passage from L. G. B. (II, p. 138) may be quoted: "Who will now blow this
trumpet of mine that they may break loose from their iron yokes and bonds
and come hither, so that they may become worthy to be built in as well-cut
pillars for the temple of wisdom." The quadrangular form is several times
mentioned also. Jane Leade is quite right when she says that the divine
salt, the cubic stone, lies concealed in all men; the unprepared man is
the crude stone and in him lies to be developed (potentially not actually)
the cubic. In the preparation of the stone, the alchemistic as well as the
building stone, it depends on the clearing away of the disturbing
elements, not on ornamentation. The purification (rectificatio,
purificatio, etc.) of the alchemistic stone exactly corresponds to the
working over the raw stone with the pick. Crystallization produces the
regular form; fixation, the density. The projection corresponds to the
employment in the building of the temple (which appears infrequently in
symbolism). Probably the most appropriate place for these passages (L. G.
B., I, pp. 131 ff.) is in connection with this mention of building. "Only
have faith, so I will go before you and reveal my name and show you the
foundation of it [the city], wherefrom your strength increases and your
victorious power shall be known. But who must be your architect to
instruct you in this foundation work of yours but this Wisdom who was with
the great God Jehovah from eternity, who gave you existence and being from
the breath of the eternal Will? Therefore thus and in such manner the
motivating power of the will must result and proceed.... Come therefore to
me and I will show you where all these foundation stones lie. Look and see
the material of the treasure in the circumference of your new earth....
Here you might spy out or find this foundation, [Cf. what was said
previously about the new earth], for which purpose will be given to you
the golden measuring line, or the plummet of my spirit." [The master
stands on the pillar of strength. Jehovah was the last master word.]

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