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By JACOB BȪHME
NEW YORK
ALFRED • A • KNOPF
MCMXX
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.
Electronic edition: 2010, Martin Euser; meuser.awardspace.com; theosophy.net
CONTENTS
good, etc. 47
Chapter III. 47
The Third Point. Of the origin of contrariety in
growth, etc. 54
Chapter IV. 54
The Fourth Point. How the holy and good tree of
eternal life grows through and out of all the growths
of the three principles, etc. 64
Chapter V. 64
Chapter VI. 70
The Fifth Point. How a life may perish in the tree of
life, etc. 76
Chapter VII. 76
Chapter IX. 99
The First Point. On the blood and water of the soul 129
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CHAPTER I
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10. And thus one is free from the other, and yet
the mirror is truly the container of the image. It
embraces the image, and yet is powerless in respect
of the form, for it cannot retain it. For if the
image depart from the mirror, the mirror is a clear
brightness, and its brightness is a nothing; and
yet all the form of Nature is hidden therein as a
nothing; and yet veritably is, but not in essence.
CHAPTER II
Of the proprium of the principle. What the
principle is, or what they all three are.
26. For where the will is dark, there also the being
CHAPTER III
47
54
CHAPTER V
64
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
76
after that which the outer world has ; and yet finds
in itself the inner world, which continually arraigns
the soul before God's wrath. It finds also the
light-world, to which the inward desires of the soul's
principle look. It feels indeed the longing after
God, but the outer world hinders this and covers
it up; so that the desire after God's world cannot
kindle fire in itself. If that were done, then would
the light- world be manifest in the first principle,
and the noble image of God would be revealed.
43. But when the outer evil body with its vapours
perishes, so that it can no longer obstruct the
glimmering wick, then the divine fire becomes
enkindled in its essence, and the divine image is
figured according to the strongest quality which the
man has here carried in his desire. If, however, he
continue not in the above-mentioned warfare, but
drops the struggle, he may again deteriorate most
dangerously.
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
1. The life of darkness is repugnant to all life
of light; for the darkness gives fierce and hostile
essence, and the life of light gives love-essence.
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30. Thus the soul with the image falls unto the
wrathful, dark world; and the image is brought
into a hellish figure, into a form of its property
which it had here. So it fared also with the devils,
who have lost their first image.
OR
A SHORT EXPLANATION OF
BY
JACOB BOHME
PREFACE
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129
131
1 I.e. What things are sins, and what makes them sins.
135
17. For all into which the will enters, and will
have as its own, is something foreign in the one will
of God. For all is God's, and to man's own will
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143
15. For the senses are the flash from the fire-
spirit, and bring with them in the light the flames of
Majesty; and in the darkness they bring with them
the flash of terror, as a fierce flash of fire.
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MYSTERIUM PANSOPHICUM
OR
A FUNDAMENTAL STATEMENT
BY
JACOB BÖHME
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8. All that goes out from God's will into its own
will belongs to Babel. This is seen in Jews and
heathens, and in all peoples.
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THEOSCOPIA
OR
DIVINE INTUITION
SHOWING WHAT MYSTERIUM MAGNUM IS, AND
BY
JACOB BOHME
CHAPTER I
177
CHAPTER II
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192 ON THE DIVINE INTUITION
19. For if the life stand still from its own will,
it is in the abyss of Nature and creation, in the eter-
nal, divine utterance ; and hence God speaks therein.
CHAPTER III
202
35. For this visible world with all its host and
being is nothing but an objective representation of
the spiritual world, which spiritual world is hidden
48. That the soft and thin arises from the Unity,
from its emanation, from the Mysterium magnum,
and is nearest to the Unity; and, on the other
hand, the noblest ground of divine revelation,
both in power and operation, lies in the fiery
hardness, and is a dry unity or a temperament,
wherein again is contained the separability of all
powers. For, where powers are comprised not in
the unity of a will, there the will is divided, and
no great power is to be understood in that
thing. Which ought well to be observed by the
physicians, that they should not look to the coarse
spiritus of strong smell, and regard that as
the true balsam; although it is present therein,
and so is the tincture therein very mobile and
evolant.
CHAPTER IV
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THE END.