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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

out of Pride Covetousness and Envy as also out of Wrath and Falshood toward the Spirit of God 10. His mouth must not play the hypocrite nor his heart nor will must not persevere in the earthly Mystery there must be an earnestness from the bottom of the heart and soul 11. The Will must turn into the divine Mystery viz. into Gods Love that the Spirit of God may have place in him to blow on the divine Spark else there is no Remedy no flattering or dissembling availeth 12. And if a man learned all the Scripture by heart and did sit all the days of his life in the Church and yet continued in the Image of the Soul an earthly beastly Man who endeavoreth meerly after falshood in his heart his Dissembling helpeth him nothing 13. A Preacher who handleth the Mystery of God in the outward but hath not Gods Image in the Inward but striveth only after honour and covetousness he is as near unto the Devil as the meanest he is a meer Juglar with Gods Mysteries he is a hypocrite no efficacy is in him 14. Himself hath not the Mystery of God how should he give it unto others he is a false Pastor and a Wolf to the sheep 15. For every one that beareth Gods Mystery that is he that hath rouzed it in himself and yeilded himself unto it Gods Spirit does drive him he is Gods Priest for he teacheth out of God none can teach truly unless he teach out of Gods Mystery 16. But how shall he teach who is without the Mystery doth he not teach by Art and earthly Reason what is that unto Gods Mystery 17. Though Reason be a noble Being yet she is blind without Gods Spirit for Christ saith Without me you can do nothing 18. Those that are driven by Gods Spirit are Gods Children He that entereth any way else into the sheepfold then through Christs Spirit he is a Thief and a Murderer and comes only to rob and steal and seeketh his own profit he is not a Pastor of the sheep but a Devourer like a Wolf 19. Thus are we to conceive of the Tree of Christian Faith it must be living and not a dead history or knowledg The Word of Life must be new born in the Image that the Soul may bear Gods Image without it she is not Gods Child 20. No flattering nor delaying of Repentance upon hopes availeth any thing as long as one beareth the earthly Image on the Soul he is without Gods Mystery 21. Neither needst thou to think I wil turn one time or another but I will first gather enough that I may not want that afterwards the earthly business may not lie in the way 22. No this is a trick of the Devil but through persecution crosses and affliction through ignominy and contempt we must enter into Gods Kingdom 23. For the Devil leadeth his Government in the earthly Image and he mocketh Gods Children in his proud Seat when they will run away from him thus the multitude of the wicked serveth the Devil and helpeth him to drive his work 24. A man that intendeth to come to God must not regard this he must think that he is in a strange Country among Murtherers and is a Pilgrim which travelleth to his true home he falleth amongst Murtherers which torment and rob him 25. And if he bring but so much away that he preserveth his noble Image he hath Goods enough for he getteth the heavenly Mystery for it in which lieth all out of which the World is only a Mirror of it 26. And he is a very Fool that changeth the Reflex of a Mirror or Looking-glass for a substantial Being for when the Looking-glass breaketh he that loved it is bereaved of it 27. He is like unto one which buildeth a house on the sand near a great water where the water carryeth away his house so is it with the earthly hope 28. O son of Man thou noble Creature live not under Reasons power else it will cost thee loss of an eternal Kingdom seek thy self and find thy self but not in the earthly Kingdom 29. How well is it with him that findeth himself in Gods Kingdom that putteth on the heavenly and divine Mystery and entereth into it 30. All the worlds ornaments are no more but dirt in respect of the heavenly and they are not worthy that a man should set his love into them 31. And though it be so it must be brought into the Wonders to which God hath created it also that man understand the external man must reveal the Wonders of the external Nature as in the external Mystery both from within the Earth and above the Earth 32. All what the Stars are able to do and what the Earth containeth Man is to bring into wondrous Forms and Beings after the external Figure which in Gods Wisdom hath been foreseen before the times of the World 33. But he ought not to set his will on them and hold them for his treasure but he may use them to his joy and ornament but with the inner man he is to work in Gods Mystery then the Spirit of God will help him to seek and to find the outward things 34. Seeing we are thus corrupted by that heavy Fall that our mind is turned out of the heavenly Mystery into the earthly as in a Mirror that we are become as it were half dead therefore it is most necessary for us that we go out from the earthly splendor with our mind and will and seek our selves first before we seek the earthly ornament that we learn first to know where we are at home and do not make our mind earthly or be earthly minded 35. For man though he standeth in Gods Image is in a threefold Life but if he loseth Gods Image then is he only in a twofold Life 36. The first Life is the Souls Life and existeth in the Fire of the external Nature and standeth chiefly in seven Forms all after the spirit of Nature as in our second and third Book hath been demonstrated at large 37. And the second Life standeth in the Image which is begotten out of the Fountain of the eternal Nature as out of the Souls fire which Image standeth in the Light in the second Life and hath his living spirit as you may judg of it by the Fire and Lightening 38. For the quality of Fire is not the quality of the Light and yet the Light ariseth out of the Fire for by the quality of the Light is understood the meek pure and pleasing or gracious spirit and the causes of it are in the quality of the Fire 39. For you see how Ayr cometh out of the Fire which is the Spirit and the Ayr also is understood in four Forms as a dry one after the fury of the Fire and a wet one as water by the sharp drawing Thirdly a meek one as from the Light and fourthly an elevated one from the furious Crake of Fire 40. Whereby we