Sixty-two Theosophic Epistles/14

The fourteenth Epistle

Of the 21. Junii 1621. To C. B.

The Open well-spring or fountain in the heart of Jesus Christ, be our quickning or refreshing.

MY Dear Herr Christianus, and high friend. Your welfare and happinesse are alwayes dear to me. I send you herewith, Detribus Principiis, the Book of the Three Principles, to write it out fully, if you please, and I exhort you in the love of Christ, as one member should do to the other; to be diligent in study and prayer to God, that our Faith and knowledge, may grow and take place one among another; and that we at length, might reap the fruit thereof, and enjoy it. Be only watchfull in Christ, to fight against the Reason and the world, and the will of the FLESH; and fight like a valiant Souldier; your victory is in the Lord; who will set it upon Thee, when it pleaseth him. The Crown is deposited and laid by for you, for which you Eight, it will not repent you; but the Wound-Marks of Christ you must bear in this world, and be conformable to his Image: else you attain NOT the Crown: this I acquaint you with, in a brotherly Manner. Prepare your self diligently, for there is a Great Storm at hand; that you may be preserved to the praise of God, and to the year of the Lilly which Springeth: committing you to the Love of Jesus Christ. I pray you after you have written it out ; to fend it again, for it is desired; Scholars are found to whom it is to be lent.