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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76959	The tree of Christian faith: being a true information, how a man may be one spirit with God, and what man must do to perform the works of God: in which is comprehended (compendiously) the whole Christian doctrine and faith. Item, what faith and doctrine is: an open gate of the great mystery of God out of the divine Magia, through the three principles of the divine being. / Written in High Dutch by Jacob Behmen.; Baum des christlichen Glaubens. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1654 (1654)	Wing B3424; Thomason E808_8; ESTC R207521	28,149	56

Child of Nature and a Life with Nature 7. But whatsoever goeth out of Natures longing groaning into the free Will of God the same is received and owned by the free Will and is a Spirit in God 8. And though it be of Nature as Nature from Eternity still begetteth her self in Gods will yet is his Life-spirit without Nature in the Free will and thus the Wonders stand in God revealed and yet are not in God himself 9. And if the spirit of the will of the Soul goeth out of the Reason of Nature into the free will of God then that spirit of the Will is the Child of God and the Spirit of Nature is Gods Wonder and the creature standeth turned into her self as God himself 10. For the sydereal or rational Spirit seeketh in his Magia in himself in his Center the Wonders of Eternity to which end God hath created the Soul in the Body of the external Nature though they be comprehended only in the internal 11. And the spirit of the Will goeth into the Freedom of God where the holy Spirit leads him into the divine free Mystery so that the Deity standeth revealed in the spirit of the Will and in the rational Spirit standeth the Magia of Nature revealed with her Wonders 12. Now if the Soul be the Center where the true spirit of the Will goeth out toward the Freedom of God into the Fredom of God as into the Divine then hath she the sydereal Spirit bound up 13. And if she tameth him that he do not work wickedness she may bring the sydereal Wonders which in the Elemental Mirror are made into a Substance before the Majesty of God into the free will of God so that the Wonders appear in the Divine Freedom as a Similitude of the Will of God 14. Yet not to be understood thus as if the Freedom of God doth mingle with the Wonders of Nature and with the Similitude to be one No God abideth free eternally 15. He dwelleth in the Wonders as the Soul doth in the Body as little as the Body comprehendeth the Soul or the Fire the Light even as little comprehendeth Nature the Deity 16. And yet is one Being and is separated into two Beings from Eternity even as the Fire and the Light 17. Where we understand by the Fire the life of Nature and by the Light the Mystery the Spirit of Life without qualm or pain though the Fire be also a Mystery 18. Thus understand us is Mans condition The Soul is the fire of the true humane life which God breathed forth out of the eternal Nature in Adam with his Spirit as out of the Center of God 19. And the Spirit which was born out of the Souls fire formeth Gods Spirit into his Image he hath the Divine Mystery out of which the Will towards Gods Love is begotten from whence existeth the Divine Magia or Longing that the spirit of the will is desirous of God 20. Now if he doth elevate himself that is goeth out of the hidden Mystery into the Freedom of God there is he a twig or branch in Gods Kingdom sprung up out of Gods Mystery and worketh into Gods Will and revealeth still the Wonders in Gods Kingdom 21. Not so as if any new thing were begotten in God which had not been from Eternity which hath neither ground nor end 22. Only in the Souls spirit the eternal infinite Mystery is revealed in its self to Gods honour and wondrous Deed and to his own namely to the creatures own or self eternal joy 23. Now whereas the earthly corrupted Longing mingleth it self with the Astral quality and the Soul at the heavy Fall of Adam hath imagined with her Will into the Astral Longing as also into the earthly and hath brought into her self the strange Magia then the Will was begotten and the divine Image was destroyed 24. And the heavenly divine Image of Man became earthly so that the true Will standeth turned upside downward as into the spirit of this world as into the Reason which is born out of the stars 25. Now the true Image of God which was thus destroyed and is become earthly hath need to be new born again 26. And there had not been found any Remedy to help this Image if the Word out of Gods Center as Gods own Life had not assumed Humanity and had not the poor soul whose Image was now corrupted been new born again in him Here the true Image was restored again else she had been bereaved eternally of the Freedom and Majesty of God 27. Seeing all souls are descended from one therefore are they all born out of one corrupted Root and the new regenerated Life is returned again into the soul of Christ therefore is it required of us to cast all our wills into Christs Regeneration 28. For in Christ are we born again in God with our souls and in Christ have we gotten again the Image 29. For our Mystery in the Soul stood meerly in the Magia of Nature which in her Center is a fire and the Image was turned out of Gods Freedom into the outer Magia as into the external principle of this world 30. Now if that breaketh in the Being then the poor corrupted Image of the Soul standeth meerly as a lost Child where in her own Center she can stir up nothing but the furious fiery quality for she is gone out of Gods Word into a corruptible Mirror as into the spirit of this world which hath a begining and an end 31. Therefore the body of the soul is become wholly earthly and is fallen home into corruptibleness and death 32. Therefore it is requisite for us because God hath graciously turned his Love to us and hath turned our souls again in him in Christ into the Freedom and made the divine Mystery in the Image moving so that the Image can dwell again in God as in the Wonders of Paradise that we break off our will from the external Centre as from the corruptible life and bring it into the free will of God 33. And hereunto belongeth not an historical knowledg for one to say I beleeve that is I know it or I desire it and yet abideth with the will in the external principle as standing in the outward infection 34. No it is said You must be new born through water and the holy Spirit else you cannot see the Kingdom of God 35. An earnestness is required here the will of Reason must be broken there must be a living motion of the will which breaketh through Reason and fighteth against Reason 36. And though it be not easie for the soul to do it being mightily corrupted yet is there no better Remedy for her then to make her self Dead in her Reason and senses and so to unite meerly with Gods Mercy and yeild her self unto it that no more room be left for Reason must be compelled 37. And if the Will thus beateth down Reason then is she as it were dead though she

be alive and she becomes servant to the true Will or else she will be Master without him 38. For Gods Will must be the Master over Reason if so be that Reason shall do some things that are good and stand before God 39. For nothing subsisteth before God unless it be born in Gods will 40. But if the will turneth into good then the spirit of the will becomes to be Gods Child 41. And the Wonders also stand before God which are made by Reasons spirit for they are made in the Will of God and are transplanted from the beginning unto the Eternity 42. And although we cannot say that our works are to last for ever yet their shadow or image abideth and yet they abide really in the Being but in the Mystery as in the Divine Magia before Gods Wisdom 43. Wherein only the external Principle breaketh as the external Government in the four Elements 44. And those four are set again into one where all the Colours and Forms of the four Elements are known with whatsoever is born therein 45. Therefore hath God appointed in Nature a final day of separation where all must be approved through fire what is born in Gods Will or no that each principle must make harvest of its own 46. And there is many a one will leave much of his works in the fire because they are not born in Gods Will for into God no unclean thing entereth 47. But whatsoever is born out of another Magia is impure the Earth is an example unto us of that which is corrupted 48. Do you ask why The Devil sat with his Legions in the place of this Worlds Creation where indeed he was created an Angel in the Sulphur or in the Center of Nature out of which afterwards the Earth was created he hath excited the Fury in Nature 49. So that the Earth hath an evil impure sickness although she be inclosed in death and reserved for putrefaction 50. Where she must be approved in the eternal Fire and return unto that which she was before the Creation as to the eternal Magia of the eternal Nature The Fourth Chapter 1. SEeing all is inclosed in Gods Will which is born out of Nature and we understand it thus that nothing can enter into Gods Will unless it be first made or born in Gods Will. 2. Therefore we understand plainly that it is requisite for us that we submit our selves wholly with our Reason and senses unto the Will of God and so work with our hands in the world to provide food for the belly but not to set our will unto it as to esteem any earthly thing for our Treasure 3. For where our will and heart is there is our treasure also if our will be in Gods Will then have we the great Mystery of God out of which is born this world as a similitude of it and thus we have it both as the eternal and the corruptible also and something more we bring the wonders of our works into the eternal Mystery for they depend from the spirit of the will 4. But if we turn away our will from the eternal into the earthly Mystery and esteem Money to be our Treasure and the beauty of the body for our splendor Honour and power for our best Jewels then is our will captivated in it and depends only upon the Mirror and attains not unto Gods Freedom 5. For the Mirror as the external Kingdom must be approved through Fire and the Fury must be separated from the pure where the Fury will be an external Burning 6. Now if Reason bringeth the animated mind with the spirit of the will of the Soul in which stands Gods Image and the true Man into the external Mirror as into an hypocritical Infection needs must the Image and true Man be captivated thereby and with the external Magia as with its disease be infected 7. Where the Image putteth on the external Entity not only as a garment but it is an infection and a total mixture 8. Though the animated Fire doth not mix with the external Kingdom yet the Souls spirit of the will mingleth which is Magical and the Image of God is destroyed and transmuted into an earthly where the Souls fiery life abideth crude and hath an earthly Image in the will of the spirit 9. Now if the Body breaketh and dyeth then the Soul holdeth her Image as her spirit of the will is now that is as he departed from the body's image for at the dying there is a dividing Then there appeareth the Image with and in such things which she hath taken in wherewith she was infected the same quality she hath in her 10. What she hath loved here the same hath been her treasure into which the will of the spirit is entered and after the same shapeth her self also the animated Image 11. If one hath turned his mind and heart into pride in his life time then the same quality springeth up continually in the Souls fire in the Image and goeth beyond Love and Meekness as beyond Gods Freedom and cannot comprehend nor possess Gods Freedom 12. But springeth up thus in it self in that anguish quality and still shapeth the will of the spirit after earthly things wherein his will is entred and so glittereth with it in the Souls fire and still riseth in pride and will go beyond Gods Meekness in the Fire 13. For he cannot draw or make any other will because he cannot go into Gods Freedom into the holy Mystery where he might make another will he lives meerly in himself 14. He hath nothing neither may he reach unto any thing but only unto that which he had comprehended in him in his external life or whilest he lived in the world 15. And so it fareth with a covetous person he hath in his will and image the magical greedy disease and coveteth much continually and formeth that in his will of the spirit which he dealt withall in the life of his body 16. But because that hath left him and his being is no more earthly yet he carryeth the earthly will which tormenteth and plagueth himself with it for he cannot reach any other 17. And much worse it goes with falshood against which the poor cryeth and curseth him by reason of his oppression 18. For all that is wrought in wickedness which he hath caused followeth after him for it hath been wrought in the mystery of wrath then the corrupted soul after the body 's dying falls into it 19. There she must be bathed in those abominations that if it were possible to unite with the will in Gods Love yet the same abominations and wickedness keepeth him back for they bring him to an eternal Despair 20. Where at last the Soul presumeth and renounceth God and desireth only to ascend in the same abominations and to live so 21. And that is her joy to calumniate or blaspheme God and his Saints and exalteth himself in the Abominations above God and the Kingdom