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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

of Heaven and yet comprehendeth none of them 22. Thus we give you to consider what Will and Confidence is namely that it is the Master and Guide which bringeth mans Image both into Gods Love and also into Gods Wrath. 23. For in the Will is begotten the right true Faith wherein subsisteth the noble Image of God For in Faith we are born again through Christ in God and obtain again the noble Image which Adam had lost and Christ hath brought it again with Gods Life into the Humanity 24. Also a false Will destroyeth the Image because the Will is the Root of the Image for he attracteth the Mystery of God 25. And the spirit of that Mystery openeth that fair Image and putteth on it the Divine Mystery viz. Gods Entity understand Christs heavenly Body who was born out of God in the dear and beautiful Virgin of his Wisdom which filleth Heaven 26. Now if our mind and will is set into the same and the will desireth it then is the Will magical and entereth into it and if he be hungry then he may feed on Gods Bread 27. Now groweth up in him the new Body which is the pleasant or gracious Tree of Christian Faith for every body loveth himself 28. Now if the Soul getteth a body out of God which is so sweet and gracious needs must she love him being given unto him for a propriety in whom she dwelleth and liveth and from whose power she eateth and strengtheneth her self 29. Therefore let no man deceive himself and continue in his falshood and unrighteousness and comfort himself with an historical belief or faith when he thinketh and saith with himself Is not God gracious will he not forgive me I will gather a Treasure and enjoy the same make use of it and leave to my Children great Riches and Honor I will repent at one time or other This is a meer deceit 30. Thou gatherest in falshood and drawest into thy self unrighteousness and when it is done in the best manner yet it is but earthly and thou hast sunk thy heart and will into an earthy vessel and clotheth thy noble Image with it and so hast wholly infected it 31. Besides thou leavest to thy children only Pride for an Inheritance that they only fix set into it the spirit of their will 32. And putteth on the worst thing upon thee and thy children when thou thinkest to do good unto them 33. True external life must have sustenance and he doth foolishly who giveth his goods to a wicked man 34. But he doth more foolishly who turneth with his goods unto wickedness hanging his heart thereon and holdeth in higher estimation temporal and corruptible pleasures then the eternal incorruptible Good which is infinite 35. But he is blessed which helpeth the poor for they wish all happiness unto him and pray to God to bless him in his body and soul 36. Thus their wishes and praying go to the Giver into the Mystery and embraceth him and followeth after him as a good work born in God for that treasure he taketh along with him and not the earthly 37. For when the Body dyeth then the Image goeth into the Mystery that is she is revealed into the Mysteries of God 38. For in the time of the earthly Life the external principle hath been a cover for it which falleth away when the body dyeth then appeareth the Divine Mystery in the Image and therein also all good works and deeds which were born in Love in Gods Will. 39. The wishes and prayers of all Gods Children stand in the Mystery and makes a propriety with the Image For the children of the poor if he hath helped them in their miseries and afflictions have sent their will in their prayers into Gods Mystery and so united thereby with their Deliverer and Comforter and gave to him that likeness in the Divine Mystery 40. And if that Benefactor cometh into the Mystery that the earthly life falleth away then all things are revealed and each doth stick to his own whither the Will hath appointed it 41. And all this is reserved unto Gods Judgment of the holy Spirit in the Mystery where every one shall reap that what he hath sowed here into his Acre 42. Where all shall spring up grow and bring blossoms in a heavenly new Earth in which man in his divine Image shall put on the body of the perfect Mystery upon his divine Image and will see standing before him namely before his bodily Image his Righteousness why he is so fair 43. He will know the Causes thereof and rejoyce therein eternally and comprehend his Hymn therein unto Gods Honor and wondrous Deed. 44. On the other side the multitude of the wicked will have heaped on them Ignominy avarice pride wickedness and the curse of the oppressed gathered in the Mystery of Wrath which will follow after them and shall know the causes of their torment and therefore will be an eternal enemy of God and of his Children The Fifth Chapter 1. ALl this the multitude of the wicked cannot comprehend the reason of it is there is no will in them thereunto or to desire to comprehend it 2. For the earthly Being hath captivated them that they cannot draw any will unto Gods Mystery they are to God as dead men there is no breath in them of the Divine Life neither have they any mind to it they are lockt up bolted in Gods Wrath Mystery that they cannot do it 3. Not that God hath done-so to them but they are entred thereinto with the spirit of the Will and sunk themselves therein therefore they run like mad men 4. And whereas the noble Jewel standeth hid in them in the noble Center in the divine Principle and could very well go out from their earthly Being and wickedness with theirs into Gods Will. 5. Yet they wilfully suffer themselves to be held by the Fury for the proud self-honored Life pleaseth them too well and that doth hold them 6. But after this Life there is no more remedy if the Souls fire be naked and crude it cannot be quenched with any thing but only with Gods Meekness with the Water of eternal Life in Gods Mystery and that they cannot reach unto there is afterward a great Cleft or Gulf betwixt them viz. a whole Principle 7. But in this time of Life as long as the Soul swimmeth in the Blood and burneth it may be very well for the Spirit of God moveth on the wings of the Wind God is become Man 8. The Spirit of God goeth with the Will into the Soul he desireth the Soul she needs only to open the door for he goeth willingly unto it and revealeth or openeth the noble Corn or seed unto the Tree of Christian Faith 9. But this is the most smarting thing which is to man most bitter he must break off his spirit of his Will from the earthly Being he must bring forth the spirit of his Will out of the earthly Treasure as

the noble Image of God appeareth 73. And we understand herein that the will of Man must enter into Gods Will and then he entereth into Christs Death with Christs Soul through Death into the eternal Freedom of God into the Life of Light and there is he with Christ in God 74. And the third Form of Life is the external created Life out of this World as out of the Sun Stars and Elements 75. Which the Spirit of God breathed into Adams nostrils with the spirit of the Macrocosm where he became also an external Soul which moveth in Blood and Water and burneth in the outward kindled Fire as in a Warmth 76. That same external Life should not reach into the Image in the inner Life neither should the Image let it come into the inner Light which appeareth through Death and springeth up with his Power in the eternal Freedom for the external Life is only a similitude of the inner Life 77. The inner Spirit was only to reveal in the external Mirror the eternal Wonders which were seen in Gods Wisdom in the Abyss in the divine Magia and bring it to a formal Mirror as to a wonderful Game to the honour of God and to the joy of the inner Man born out of God 78. But his will should not have gone thereinto to draw the external Wonders into the Image as we now know in our misery how man draweth an earthly treasure into the mind and imagineth and thus destroyeth the pure Image of God in the second Principle 79. For the spirit of his will goeth into the earthly Being but bringeth his Love in which the Image standeth into the earthly Being as into an earthly treasure into an earthly vessel 80. Now the Image groweth earthly through imagination and so goeth again into Death loseth God and the Kingdom of Heaven for the spirit of the Will standeth with the Love in the external Life 81. Now the external Life must dye and break that the created Image of the inner Kingdom may appear 82. Thus the spirit of the Will striketh with the Love into the external Wonders and bringeth them at the death of the external Life along before Gods Judgment 83. There the spirit of the Will must go through pass the Fire and the Image must be approved in the Fire and all Earthliness must burn away from the Image she must be pure and without spot 84. Even as the Light subsisteth in the Fire so the spirit of the Will must subsist also in Gods Fire and if it cannot there pass freely through Gods Fire then this Image is spued out into eternal Darkness 85. And this is the heavy Fall of Adam that he did set the spirit of his Will into the external Life into the outer Principle in the false Infection and imagined after the earthly Life 86. And thus he went out of Paradise which springeth up through death in the second Principle in the outer and thus entered into Death and thus he dyed and thus was his Image destroyed 87. This by an Inheritance we had from Adam and from the second Adam Christ we have Regeneration 88. Where we must enter into Christs Incarnation and with him into his Death and from Death with him spring up in the Paradisical World in the Entity of Gods Freedom The Sixth Chapter 1. THus we understand that Lust is the Cause why Corruption is come in and still doth 2. For Lust is an Imagination where the Imagination windeth her self into all the Forms of Nature so as that they become all impregnated with that thing out of which the Lust ariseth 3. And we understand the external spirit of man who is a similitude of the Inner did lust after the fair Image and therefore hath set his Imagination into the Inner whereby the Inner was infected 4. And because he did not feel death instantly therefore hath he brought the spirit of his Will to the Outer thus the Outer went to lodg in the Inner and at last is become Host in the Inn and hath obscured the Inner so that the fair Image deceased 5. There the Image fell amongst the Murtherers and among the seven spirits of Nature and the Originals of Life these kept the Image imprisoned and pulled off her Paradisical Garment murthered and left her half dead 6. Now there was need of Christ the Good Samaritan and this is the Reason why God became Man 7. And if the Wound could have been healed by speaking of a word or a verbal remission then God would not have become Man 8. But God and Paradise was lost and then the noble Image was destroyed and wasted and must be new born again out of God 9. Therefore did God come with his Word which is the Center in the Life of Light and became Flesh And so the Soul obtained again a divine Paradisical Mansion Conceive it thus 10. That as Adams Soul had opened the door of the Essences of Fire and let in the earthly Essences whose Springs were turned into the Paradisical Image and made the Image earthy 11. So the Heart of God opened the Door of the Essences of Light and embraced or encompassed the Soul with heavenly Flesh and thus the Essences of the Holy Ghost imagined after the Image after the Essences of the Soul 12. Thus was the Soul impregnated again so as she entered with the spirit of her will through death into the Paradisical Life 13. And from hence came the Temptation of Christ that he was tempted whether the Soul would feed on the Lords Word and whether she could enter again through death into the Life of God 14. Which was accomplished upon the Cross where the Soul of Christ went through the Fire of the Fury through the severe Qualities through death and sprang up again in the holy Paradisical world in which Adam was created 15. Thus we Men were helped up again and it is requisite for us to turn away our wills or the senses of our will and mind from all earthly things and turn it into Christs sufferings dying death and Resurrection 16. That we still crucifie the old Adam with Christs death and stil dye unto sin in the death and dying of Christ arise with him out of the anguish of death in the new man and grow up in the Life of God as there is no other Remedy nor no other Help 17. We must dye unto the earthly world in our will and must still be new born again to the new world in Faith in the Flesh and Blood of Christ we must be born out of Christs Flesh if we intend to see the Kingdom of God 18. It is no easie matter to be a True Christian it is a most difficult business The Will must become a Warrior and fight against the corrupted Will 19. He must sink himself out of the earthly Reason in Christs death into Gods wrath and break the power of the earthly will like a valiant Champion 20. And he must hazard hard