Joanna Southcott: Unpublished Manuscripts
Sun drawing Water, Woolands Wheel etc. August 23rd 1796.
I was ordered to look at the Sun at five in the evening, and the sun was drawing Water with Clouds all round it, and set with fiery clouds arising in the east.
Then to the Eastern part now come
Number the days are past and gone
Then twenty days it sure hath shined
And four more must be behind
If I my jury make complete
So here the mysteries here are great
For now the water I shall draw
To make my jury stand in awe
For every fountain I will fill
The four stars in Woolands wheel
Shalt spread the streams on all the Land
But that thou do not understand
For I shall fill the fountain high
And soon with blackness fill the sky
Let my shepherds now awake
The rocky hearts I bid them break
For like my Bible I now shall do
The end is coming to their view
And let the wise explain the Psalm (2nd Psalm)
For the fulfilment is at hand
But deeper mysteries lie behind
That thou another day shall find
From 1Potters words I’ll answer here
And tell thee deep's the mystery
And why a blast doth so appear
He caus’d the mist which brought it here
Then now to reason I’ll begin
The mist is on the sons of men
That every harvest doth appear
Now I shall make the mystery clear
Over the Earth a mist appear’d
When thou thy writings sealed here
I said ‘twas for the sons of men
And every harvest it was seen
I said the stars were sealed up
I said not one of them should drop
And now ‘tis coming to the year
That now shall make the mystery clear
Now for my chosen it doth shine
Thou’st little know what lies behind
Nor how my thunder it will break
But mark how Wooland he did speak
To say the moon appear’d like blood
Now let the words by understood
And know the answer thou didst make
It was like fire ordain’d for heat
Then all these words I say are deep
The blood and fire there will break
Like flames of fire they will appear
For so when I have ended here
And all the earth the heat they’ll feel
That will the hearts of thousands chill
In Woolands hands the pike do go
And Satan shall receive the blow
His hand shall slip behind my cord
He’ll leave my Wheat and tumble down.
1
Potter lived with Mr Wooland