. 147, I find also this
remarkable passage: "The word of Jesus was revealed to me in the following
manner: O you that wait upon Jerusalem. Through what gate have you
entered? And what have you seen here that you are so desirous of living
here? Have you not been taken in by the fire flaming eye? [The eye is the
flaming star. In L. G. B., I, p. 196, is found the representation of a
face that is equivalent to the eye. A moon is added to it. The eye
[Symbol: Gold] is, as it were, the sun to this moon.] so that you intend
not to go out again from here, till you get another heart [The pectoral
learns who approaches to the flaming star.] which never could be
completely changed?... O then be therefore wise, and await your nuptial
spirit [Genesis] and the garment of the power unfailing. [i. i. d. St.] No
one can ever get that outside of this treasure city, for in this Zion all
must be born anew...." [Oswald Wirth regards the alchemistic concept Rebis
as the expression of the perfect degree of community. "The initiated, who
becomes in some way androgynous, because he unites the virile energy with
the feminine sensitiveness, is represented in alchemy by the Rebis [from
res bina, the double thing]. This substance, at once male and female, is a
mercury [Symbol: Mercury] animated by its sulphur [Symbol: Sulphur] and
transformed by this act into Azoth [Symbol: Mercury], i.e., into this
quintessence of the elements [fifth essence] of which the flaming star is
the symbol. It should be noted that this star is always placed in such a
way that it receives the double radiation of the male sun [Symbol: Gold]
and the female moon [Symbol: Moon]; its light is thus of a bisexual
nature, androgynous or hermaphrodite. The Rebis corresponds otherwise to
the matter prepared by the final work, otherwise called the journeyman who
has been made worthy to be raised to the mastery." (W. S. H., p.99.)]

But to return to Jane Leade's magical journey. "Hereupon I was moved
(because I well knew and was certain that this heavenly stone already had
its birth and growth in me) [Rebirth = the cubical stone's change from
potentiality to actuality] with great frankness to ask whether my external
furnace [her own body] would keep so long, and not perish [die] before the
stone would have attained its perfection. Whereupon this dear saint [John]
said to me in answer: Worry and trouble not yourself about this but be
only patient in hope; for the true philosophic tree is