Beloved Readers of Jane Lead,
During Jane Lead's lifetime in the late 1600's, other persons published works using her name, and Jane Lead referred to those "scandalous" works as "impostures".
scan-dal-ous (skan'dl uhs) adj.
1. disgraceful; improper or immoral:
scandalous behavior.
2. defamatory; libelous.
3. attracted to scandal: a scandalous gossip.
[1585-95; < ML scandalosus. See SCANDAL, - OUS]
Derived words
--scan'dal-ous-ly, adv.
--scan'dal-ous-ness, n.im-pos-ture (im pos'chuhr) n.
1. the action or practice of imposing
fraudulently upon others.
2. deception using an assumed character,
identity, or name.
3. an instance of fraudulent imposition.
[1530-40; < LL impostura = L imposit (us), ptp. of
imponere (see IMPOSTOR, IMPONE) + -ura - URE]
Derived words
--im-pos'trous(-pos'truhs)im-pos'tur-ous, adj.
These "impostures" were apparently so prevalent that Jane Lead would sometimes include an "Advertisement" in her authentic publications, thus giving a Fair Warning — that her readers might not be deceived.
Here is a graphic representation of one such "Advertisement" taken from the last 2 pages
at the end of A Fountain of Gardens, Volume II.
Below is the screen capture taken from PTW's electronic file of the same work.
After reading the words of the first paragraph from either version of the above "Advertisement", it seems clear that Jane Lead was very serious about her mission on Earth, and she did not take lightly the attempts to adulterate the content of her messages or to confuse those for whom those messages were meant. She and Francis Lee, her son-in-law, oversaw the publishing of the precious words given to her as messages to the growing body of Nazarites, both in her own time and in the last time. They strove to prevent those messages from being altered, added to, or changed in any way.
In the 21st Century, Jane Lead and Francis Lee are not with us in the flesh to defend her authentic works, but those at PTW stand with them in the Spirit, as a scripturally commanded "watchman" on the tower, to sound the alarm, that once again "scandalous impostures" of Jane Lead's works are being produced and printed by a deceiver. The same (or similar) titles are being used for the documents but the content is corrupted. The impostures are to be found on a website named to confuse even the very elect ... janelead.org.
This warning is given so that her Beloved Readers might not be deceived. Read on...
History of the electronic source files for the authentic works of Jane Lead: After more than 300 years, all that was left to the modern world of the works of Jane Lead, were highly abridged, modernized versions of bits and pieces of what she had originally published in the late 1600's. Those who presented the modernized tidbits to 20th century readers quickened a hunger in some to see the authentic originals. By an amazing set of circumstances, all but one of Jane Lead's authentic, original 17th century texts were located and recovered in English; these manuscript copies were donated to PTW with the condition and intention of returning them to public view in an unadulterated form. We owe so much to those whom God led to protect the originals, to keep them from destruction, to archive them, to photograph them, to microfilm them and allow others to access these precious copies. These twenty, highly valued, spiritual manuscripts were carefully transcribed in the mid to late 1990's and have been on-line at passtheword.org (PTW) for many years. In addition to the twenty, there is a twenty-first manuscript (JL's last work) in High Dutch; it was also donated and has been archived at PTW since 2000, but the English version had apparently been lost. However, as of June, 2010, a reverse-translation (back into English) of this last work was completed and is also now available.
In order to insure that the integrity of the on-line manuscript texts are retained and in order to prevent future adulterations of Jane Lead's authentic, original works, the electronic source files at PTW were and are clearly declared to be copyrighted. These electronic source-files are the intellectual property of those who did the transcriptions and as such, they are covered by copyright law of the United States. Furthermore, the Internet research on this matter shows that generating any derivative works from such copyrighted electronic source-files is also a violation of copyright law and therefore illegal.
The individual who is responsible for the current "impostures" being offered at janelead.org, applied to PTW for permission to use PTW's copyrighted e-files for her intended project back in 2004; PERMISSION WAS DENIED by PTW, stating that she was not to use the copyrighted files in any fashion, — but it seems from the detailed evidence that has been gathered, that she would not be hindered from proceeding with her plans. It was understood at the time, that if this person were to repeat PTW's work from scratch, it would not be PTW's business. However, simply possessing a copy of an authentic manuscript in no way grants her the right to steal copyrighted e-files from PTW and proceed to publish altered documents built upon those e-files. She must have done ALL of her own transcription work. If this woman was not dealing deceitfully, she should have readily provided the requested proof to PTW when her credibility was called into question by the evidence that had been gathered.
Late in the Fall of 2008, when PTW learned of the presence of the new website devoted to Jane Lead, the name of the woman who had launched the new site was recognized — it was the same person who had asked permission to use the copyrighted e-files in 2004. After watching what was happening at the new website for some time, and after much prayer, PTW's administrative contact confronted the offending editor of the derivative counterfeits. Following substantial email correspondence with this editor, she has refused to remove the derivative files based on PTW's copyrighted e-files, sticking to an elaborate but unproved cover story which she has also refused to substantiate. Her claims have been investigated and the evidence of her deceit is documented*.Suffice it to say, dear ones, be ye veteran readers of JL, or new to her works... be very careful of what you find under the name of Jane Lead and her self-appointed editor at janelead.org. These documents, which carry the name of Jane Lead as the author, are by Jane Lead's own definition, to be recognized as "impostures". The counterfeit versions at janelead.org are already fractured sufficiently to make it difficult for you to compare them with the original transcriptions, and we expect that more changes will quietly continue to be made. PTW has requested proof of the existence of her OCR (scanning) software and raw output from that software, a total of 5 times, and she has not complied. If this woman was speaking the truth about how she produced her electronic versions of JL's works, why not simply provide the necessary proof? We can come to no other conclusion than that the copyrighted e-files from PTW of Jane Lead's works, were simply copied illegally and then modified by this editor.
In the spirit realm, a she-wolf is to be seen, marking JL's territory, adding her own name to everything in sight, passing herself off as a shepherdess, wearing a fleece of religious ornaments, sniffing after and engaging each lamb that she encounters, moving among the flock, talking the talk, but not walking the walk. She is allowing herself to be used by the enemy, at work again in this last time, just as he was in the the time of JL — confusing and coming against those who desire to feed upon the authentic messages brought by Jane Lead.
This is a Fair Warning. Do not be deceived by guile and religious doublespeak. Always inspect the fruit that you find. Watch not what is said, but what is done. Test the spirits, and above all, listen to the true Spirit of Christ within...(not the counterfeit anti-Christ-spirits, that are furiously working and tickling the ears in the modern counterfeit churches).
For any soul to undertake the study of Jane Lead's works in the 21st century, there must be an investment of precious time. There are thousands of pages of originals archived by PTW, that have been transcribed into many hundreds of printed letter-size pages. If you are to commit your time to the study of your own personal copies of JL's works, it might be wise to consider partaking of the authentic 17th century versions.
Visitors to the offending site, janelead.org, where the impostures are to be found, might consider ...
Is the Editor's presentation coming from a place of personal self-denial (the call of the true Christ Jesus) or from a place of personal high self-esteem?
Why has the Editor made no mention of, or reference to the transcriptions of the authentic versions of Jane Lead's or Francis Lee's works that are available at PasstheWORD?
Why are there no links on her "Resources" page back to the many additional resources to be found at PTW?
Why is she trying to prevent those souls who are new to the study of Jane Lead from even knowing that the transcriptions of the authentic versions of the originals are available on-line? Is this not the action of a deceiver?
Is the elaborate, head-spinning description of the Editor's lengthy process which she allegedly used to scan each original page in order to turn each page into electronic text (which process employs an incredible, 100 step macro and many manual passes by the Editor on each and every scanned page) — is that story really believable? ... or is it an attempt to cover up the theft which has been exposed. Note: The Editor's above-mentioned description appeared at janelead.org in August of 2009, but had disappeared by April of 2010. A copy of that description is still held at PasstheWORD for those who wish to examine it.
Why has the Editor taken the name "janelead" as her email address for her account at Scribd, where she has uploaded some image copies (which are also copyrighted by the British Library) of those originals that she has managed to obtain, if not to confuse and deceive those who might find the documents?
* We trust the Holy Spirit to guide each of you in your response to this Fair Warning. For those mature brethren who are saddened by the appearance of these counterfeits, there is available on-line, the full report from those who have investigated and documented the evidence of copyright violation committed by the offending editor at janelead.org. with evidence that had been gathered as of July of 2009.
Before deciding to view the on-line report**, please pray for confirmation that you are to divert from your other assignments. In the event that you are directed to proceed with your review, please allow the Spirit to guide your impressions, and upon completion of your review, to guide any intercession or intervention on behalf of the protection from corruption of Jane Lead's authentic works.
Please also join us in praying for the deliverance and repentance of this misguided soul, that she may come out of Babylon's web of deceit, acknowledge her sins and confess them that she may thereby receive forgiveness and cleansing. She is but a willful child in the school of Christ, but one who must be reprimanded for stealing the school project that was assigned to others by the school-master, putting her own name upon it, and pretending to her school-mates that she has done all of the work herself.
**To request the link to the full report of copyright violation, send your email address to PTW's Administrative Contact
and the link to the full report will be emailed to you.
