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A69592	An apologie concerning perfection being a fundamentall answer and reply upon Esaiah Stiefel his exposition of four texts of the Holy Scripture written in the year 1622 ... / by Jacob Behme, also called Teutonicus philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow.; Vom Irrthum der Secten Esaiae Stiefels und Ezechiel Meths. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1661 (1661)	Wing B3415; ESTC R14771	119,599	158

struck him who afterwards after the birth did himself terribly and damnably persevere and purposed to slay the beloved Jacob. 14. How mightily holily and gloriously this holy Womans seed manifested it self in the beloved Jacob concerning which the Lord Zebaoth himself giveth glorious holy Testimony in so much as he so highly entituled him that he called him Israel a Prince and Ruler with God 15. This should the faithfull Children and Womans seed of the highly praised Triune God united with and in this God further consider of and especially through this holy good divine living working substantial Seed of God CHRIST JESUS apprehend to themselves the living word of God from the least grain of Mustard-seed and least minutest measure and peece even the totall appearing fullnesse of the Deity in and to themselves according to the Testimony of the Holy Scripture 16. To which holy new-birth originall and beginning in the Faithful Hearts no worldly Wit Art skill learning in the Scriptures and getting it without Booke Phylosophicall Logicall Naturall puft up Art can any thing at all in the least attain or performe according to the Testimony of the Scripture 17. Where are the Scripture-Learned or Scribes where are the Worldly wise Men where are the Judges where are the Councellours Hath not God turned the wisdome of the world into Foolishnesse as it appeareth cleerly and manifestly in all the worldly wise in Scripture-Learned Art and Experience though likely many years from their child-hood to their highest age they have in their state and condition taken great pains for worldly Art 18. Yet they must at last be ashamed before this Triune seed of God CHRIST JESUS the living substantial word of God from the least particle to the highest Perfection in all Saints and let go their ART and lament over it saying that it hath not at all profited them to salvation but been totally hurtfull 19. As many of them also before their decease have forgotten this acquired Art and worldly naturall wisdome which they have learnt and have become so foolish and childish and indeed in all Stations and conditions that they alas could not any more preserve and recollect in their memory OVR FATHER which they learnt from their child-hood according to the Letter 20. As then they will apprehend this necessary information according to the Glorious appearing of this holy womans seed according to the measure in all Saints in Joseph Moses Joshuah Rebeccah Samuel David Solomon and all holy honest faithfull people and Prophets of the Old and New Testament in works words and deeds to the totall perfection inwardly and outwardly visible Birth of the Sonne of God born out of the perfect pure Virgin and Genetrix of God MARY even every Elect to the highest praise of God will partake with GOD himself and delight himself therein and will know how to praise the most high Eternally for it with himself Jacob Behme's Answer To this Explanation of this Third Point of the Fourth Text. 1. THis Authour mentioneth concerning the Triune God and Man CHRIST and concerning the Divine Woman or Wife and signifieth that not only all things were created through and for that Triune Man CHRIST but also after the Fall were by his holy Becoming Man or Incarnation and precious Inward Passion and Dying Resurrection and Ascention into Heaven and perfect merit perfectly Delivered 2. All which needeth far another explanation for if I say CHRIST is the Triune God then I speak of no Man or Creature for the Holy Trinity is no Man nor Woman much lesse a Creature 3. Only he hath manifested himselfe through and IN the Humanity and made himself visible in a humane Image but the visible palpable Substance of the Flesh is not the Triune Deity but the Spirit in the power of the Flesh the divine Spirit in the Spirituall the uncreaturely IN the creaturely is GOD. 4. CHRIST so farre as he is called the Triune God according to the Eternall Word in the Name JEHOVA or JESUS so farre as concerns the unmeasurable God is no Man or Creature but the Fullnesse of all things dwelling in himself 5. But according to the Name CHRIST the Deity is visible and this CHRIST viz The Anointed of God penetrateth only or presseth upon the humanity NOT upon ALL Creatures he uniteth himself to NO Creature but Man he hath also with his Incarnation Suffering Dying and Resurrection delivered NO creature but MAN 6. With the Name CHRIST he is become manifest only in the Humanity not in the Earthly or Heavenly Creatures The Earthly and Heavenly Creatures need NO Christ and the Hellish have NONE 7. This Christ it is through whom God who dwelleth in him and hath manifested himself with the Christ who will judge all things and separate the Good from the Evill HE is not manifested in the Creatures that he would deliver them to Eternity and dwell Creaturely in them as he dwelleth in MAN all Creatures of this world except Man go again into that out of which they proceeded in the beginning 8. When I will speak of the Man CHRIST what kind of Threesold God and Man he is then I distinguish the humane Creature which he hath received of us Men and difference it from the Triune Deity the manifested Substance from the power and Omnipotence 9. Not that he is divided but that the Spirit of God is higher then the Substance which he generateth in his Desire in his exhaled Sound for according to Our Substance CHRIST calleth himselfe the Sonne of Man and saith the Father is greater than HEE 10. According to the humanity he hath a given power and according to the Deity he is the Giver himselfe The Man is our Humanity and the Christ is the Anointed of God which God hath manifested out of the Name JEHOVA or JESUS out of the Deep of the wisdome out of the Center of God out of the Great Love and given it to the humane Creature for a Light and Eternall Seed 11. Not that this amiable blessed sweet Love of Christ is the Man but the holy SUN shine in the Great Love-flame in the Man for when I see a holy Christian Man going or standing I do not say there goeth or standeth Christ but I say there goeth or standeth a Christian Man in whom the Sun CHRIST shineth 12. The Person of Adam is not the Christ but the Person of the power of God which dwelleth in the Man Adam according to the Heavenly Part That is Christ 13. As the Sun shineth in the whole outward world and impowereth all and maketh it fruitfull and the world is not the Sun so also the CHRIST shineth as a revealed or Manifested Sun out of JEHOVA or JESUS in the Creaturely humanity of Christ 14. The Name Christ is the revealed or manifested Sun out of the Eternall Name JEHOVA or JESUS JEHOVA is the Eternall Divine SUN in which this great Love-Sun CHRIST as a Heart in the Center of

and Outwardly is and doth as to Conversation words and works And thereby Denyeth the Mortality and the Resurrection of the Dead being he saith that he hath wholly put on the Eternall PERFECT Life Inwardly and Outwardly and that he is no more what he was after Mans Fall it is only altogether CHRIST in him 19. Therefore he holdeth himselfe to be wholly like God the Eternall One only substance in all things in knowledge will and deed c. 195. This is the whole Summe of his Doctrine in all HIS Writings 196. Here followeth my Answer very briefly upon this 197. Man was not from Eternity only he was a Shaddow of an Image after the manner as God hath known all things from Eternity in his Wisdome he was in the wisdome without Image not particularly in One place alone but every where all over known by the Spirit of God in the wisdome 198. Mans Life also was not a Form but a Mystery of the Generating of the Holy Trinity viz in the out-breathed Longing delight or Lust which from Eternity in Eternity impresseth it selfe in the desire to the Eternall Nature which Form is the Eternall Fiat in the out-speaking or out-breathing of the Free-Lust or Longing delight viz of the Nothing 199. The Nothing is GOD who introduceth himself with the Free-Lust or Longing delight of the Nothing into Desire for in the NOTHING is an Eternall will to Manifestation or Revelation which no Creature Angell or Man can sathom or search out That very will manifesteth it self with the Eternall Lust or Longing-delight through the Desire in Trinity 200. The Will in the Free-Lust or Longing is called God for it is free from the Desire In the Desire the Will generateth viz in the Impression of the Desire Three Properties viz Darknesse Fire Light in which generating the Eternall Voyce existeth which the Will of the Free-Lust or Longing carryeth along with it 201. This Voyce is Gods Word viz the First Born without and before all Creatures through which Voyce the Will in the Impression generateth the Darknesse and Anguish as also perceptibility and feeling viz the eternall Nature which standeth in a spirituall Sulphur Mercury and Sal viz a Similitude and Out breathed Substance of the voyce of the Eternall Will of the Abysse viz of God 202. The Voyce in the Eternall Will which is a Spirit is resonant or such a thing as will Sound viz a possibility of a Sound but in it self it is still quiet or silent and the properties of the Impression viz of Nature are the Voyce of the Wills Instrument through which Gods Voyce manifesteth it self 203. For the Properties have also the Properties of the Voyce as a Lute or other Musicall Instrument hath the Tang in it self yet there must be a Motion or else it ringeth not 204. Thus the eternall Will-spirit to the Voyce of the Eternall Sound is the Lute Player or Manifester of the Tang in Nature viz in the Seaven Properties of the Generating of the Eternall Nature as in the Book of the Threefold Life also in the Book of the Signature and other Books of Mine is written very expresly at Large 205. Now out of this Voyce of the Eternall Nature which the Spirit of God with the Eternall Sound or Word of the Eternall Will moveth and maketh to be generating or Sounding are all eternall Spirits as Angels and Souls of Men Originated viz out of the Center of the Eternall Nature out of which the Dark-Fire-and Light-World take their Originall from Eternity out of which Joy and Sorrow Pain and Source or Torment originate each in ITS property in the Generating of the SEAVEN properties of all Substances or Things 206. And in this Place where the Eternall Sound or Divine Voyce through the Free-Will of the Abysse becometh alwayes continually generated originateth the highly Dear Name JEHOVA as an A. O. V. being the Character of the Holy Trinity which with the right forme standeth thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 JEHOVAH 207. The A is the Eternall beginning or Manifestation of the Nothing viz of the Abysse and maketh in it self an That is Beginning and Spirit and with the Lust or Longing Closeth in it self the O that is the Center of the Deity and standeth between A and V and V is the Spirits Character which in the Out-going from the A and O is an S viz a 🜂 Fire of the Light-Flame and standeth with its right Character and Word thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is ESCH by which the Hebrews with such a Word as there standeth understand viz the understanding Spirit which generateth it self and eternally goeth forth out of the A and O and hath in it self the Fire and Light 208. Viz The Property of the free-Lust or Longing without source or Torment and the property of Nature in all the Seaven Formes of the generating viz a Fire and Light-Flame which in all things whether it be in Darknesse viz in the Cold of the Impression or in the Sulphur to the Fire or in the Fire in every thing of any property CAN be as it will 209. In this place the eternall Voyce where the Fire in the desire of the Impression and the Light in the Free-Lust or Longing viz in the Will to Manifestation eternally generateth it self through the Fire the Dear Name JESUS originateth it self and is the humility or Love viz the Lights Desire or Property in the Divine Voyce in the eternall Sound viz an eternall Lust-Longing or Power of the Deity 210. In this Birth or geniture now there is no other originating of any other Spirit at ALL neither can there any other similitude or Image more at All be generated out of this holinesse or Voyce of God For God said to Moses Thou shalt make to thy self no Similitude of a God for nothing can be like him He hath also Created or generated no Image in himself that could be like comparable or Consormable to this JEHOVA in Trinity 211. For he is ONE only Spirit and is in all things or Substances HOW he will He is the potentiality of ALL things 212. He hath generated no expresse Image from Eternity in the Mother of the Love as this Authour Conceiteth but in his Voyce viz in the Eternall Word were all things which the Word through the Impression or generating of the eternall Nature and properties hath Manifested and through the Impression which is the Fiat hath Created them and in the Desire of the Fiat introduced them into Substance 213. There was no CHRIST here in which the Sound or Voyce of God hath manifested all things but his out-breathing of the Will in the Voyce was the eternall Wisdome viz the Glance of his Glory which God out of his Voyce eternally generated in which the Spirit of God hath seen all things from Eternity and through the Impression of the Desire in verbo Fiat in the word Fiat Created 214. Not in the Holy Trinity

then all was done concerning the faire Paradise of Man his heavenly Image of the divine Substantiality faded and was no more known 74. Which in a Similitude is understood to be no otherwise then as when look upon LEAD which before had been GOLD and had through MERCURY turned it selfe into LEAD wherein the poysonous Mercury is manifested which before in GOLD stood in great brightnesse and Perfection 75. And as now in the Lead there is yet a possibility to be Gold but it was not manifested in the Mercury the Mercury could not turn it self again into Gold unlesse the Artist came and brake to pieces the Lead Totally and turned it into the first matter out of which it was Created then might out of that matter fair Gold come to be as it was at first 76. Or else if the power of Sol did move it self in this Mercury of the Lead which yet is a Saturn but yet hath the Impression viz the first Ground to Gold in it selfe and generate in its power Gold again in the Lead so that I see Lead and Gold in ONE Substance and yet it is not manifested but the Lead holdeth the Gold as it were half Swallowed up and covered 77. Thus we are to understand in like manner concerning Adam and Eve their faire Golden Body in divine power and Substance became a Dark obscure Lead spoken by way of Similitude The Golden Mercury awaked in the vanity of the poyson then faded and vanished the Gold viz the holy Body in the Abomination and now it was totally Earthly and must to Earth again 78. But the voyce of God which called them again espoused it self again with the promise of the Serpent Crusher or Bruiser in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Second Principle in the part of the Heavenly Substantiality in which before the Word of the Divine sound had been manifested But when the Souls desire went out from it it faded and vanished in it selfe 79. Thus in this espousall in the Lead there was Gold and Lead one in another but the Gold was not manifested till Gods Mercury in the word of Promise manifested it self in the Lead viz in the Flesh then became the Lead in Christs humanity again changed into Gold and the processe was held as the Transmutation of Mettals is performed which becometh changed into Gold as in our Book of the Signature or Seal of things is very largely and expressely written of 80. And we are hereby to understand that the Limit of the Covenant viz the promised new Golden Life is become propagated in Venus'es Tincture as a Possibility of the Divine Regeneration which God through the Center of his Heart through that very moving Manifested in Christ 81. And manifested the CHRIST viz the Anointed out of JESUS and out of his deepest humility and Love and changed the poysonous Mercury in dark Lead into bright Gold 82. Whereby we are cleerly to understand that in all men the VANITY viz the awakened Lifes forms in their self-hood and strife are again become propagated and will still continually be propagated till in the breaking or Corruption of the Earthly Body for so long as Man findeth Heat and Cold or sicknesse and opposite will in his Spirit and Body so long the Abomination is in FULL Life 83. Concerning the Saints of God which as Prophets in the Spirit of JESUS have prophesied of the CHRIST to Come they have all spoken out of the Limit of the Covenant out of the promised Word which would move it self again in the Flesh none of them was totally new born again in the Flesh 84. For the Word stood in the inward faded Image and opened it self with the voyce through the outward Mercury and shewed the outward Man what would yet happen and be done to him when the word of Promise should he manifested in the Mercury of the Flesh and therein break to pieces the abomination and death of the Strife in the Lifes forms 85. But after CHRIST out of JESUS became manifested in the Flesh then that very Flesh became anointed and therefore he was called the Anointed of the LORD and if we introduce our Souls desire into this Manifested Word in the Flesh of Christ then will also that very promised word which is together propagated in ALL men in the Limit of the Covenant be manifested in our Souls-desire in the faded Image of the Divine Substantiality and in Venus'es Matrix viz in the Second Principle wherein God is viz in his right Heaven which is in MAN cometh to Life 86. That is the faded Image getteth the Divine sound in the Souls desire Christ becometh Man in the faded Image and crusheth or bruiseth Death viz the Abomination of the vanity in the outward Leaden Flesh viz the poysonous Mercury in the Lifes forms the Head of the false or wicked will and bringeth forth the Souls will in it self into GOD. 87. Now understand us further concerning the Propagation between Man and Wife both in the Holy Children and in the wicked How and in what manner it is with the Conjunction of the Masculine and Feminine desire and How in NO Man holy children without Sinne CAN be begotten as this Authour paints it forth to us without sufficient understanding 88. The Conjunction of the Desire towards Wife or Woman and Husband or Man cometh from both the Mothers viz from the dividing of Adam from both the Tinctures of Fire and Light which are in themselves not much nobler and purer than the Flesh or the Mercury in the Sulphur of the Flesh they are done with and have not the true Life in them but they are the fiery desire to the true Life 89. But if they come together into ONE into Substance then they awaken the true Life in the Mercury their vehement desire is after Life they would again be that which they were in the Image of God when Adam was Husband and Wife or Man and Woman out of which existeth now the vehement Imagination in the Sulphur and Mercury in the Flesh 90. The Fires Tincture longeth in the Flesh thus vehemently after the Lights Tincture and the Lights after the Fires The Man or Limbus or Limus Terrae et Coeli the extract of Earth and of Heaven longeth after Venus'es Matrix viz after the Joyous Conjunction of the Love-Life viz of the Love-relish which relish in Adam was one in another wherein he loved himselfe and the Perfection consisted therein 91. For the Flesh knoweth not what it doth it is indeed a substance of that desire for in the desire of the Tinctures the Seed is Generated wherein again the Tincture lyeth and so vehemently driveth on that it also might come to Life for all Life or every Substance and thing presseth after its Center out of which it is generated 92. Now it is to be known what is there sowen The Tinctures which Imagine so vehemently are in the Seed of Man and Woman and the Seed becometh in the Impression of