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A76952 Four tables of divine revelation signifying what God in himself is, without nature; and how considered in nature; according to the three principles. : Also what heaven, hell, world, time, and eternitie are; together with all creatures visible and invisible: and out of what all things had their original. / Written in the German language by Jacob Behm, and Englished by H.B.; Tafeln von den dreyen Principien göttlicher Offenbarung. English Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; H. B. (Henry Blunden) 1654 (1654) Wing B3408B; ESTC R175590 21,732 23

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breath of the Omnipotent Spirit The word JEHOVAH is the most holy Name of God as the Divine sensual life the only good whereby the Holy Trinity with Glory and Omnipotency is understood the life of the Abyss as of the Unity which chiefly standeth in the only love And therein also is understood the most holy Name JESUS as the egress'd I is the ground and fountain of the breathing of Gods Unitie and a forming of the understanding For the egress of the Unity leadeth it self with the I into E as in the sight or beholding of a Chaos wherein the Mysterium magnum according to the Divine manner is understood and is a triple breathing of the powers J E is the breathing of the Unitie H O is the breathing of the J E. V A is the breathing of the H O and yet is only one breathing but maketh a triple egress of the 3. Centers or comprehensions And therein is understood how the triple I at last closeth it self in A as in a beginning to Nature Under V A standeth Life signifying that this threefold breathing is a real life and power Under that standeth Vertue which signifieth the immense Vertue of such a breathing life Now in this Table is rightly understood what God without Nature and Creature is in Trinitie as in a triple breathing of the Unitie in it self where nothing can be said of the place or dimension of his habitation for God is neither here nor there but every where alike as the Abyss is consider'd namely the Eternall Unitie without Nature and Creature and thus is he an active power and essence of Unity But that really such power and vertue is therein may well be understood in the effluence of the world and the Creatures therein generated by the breath of God and there is nothing in the being of this world which beareth not witness thereof if truly considered TETRAGRAMMATON In this Table is also manifested how the holy Name of the Eternall power with the knowledge hereof from Eternity to Eternity bringing it self into properties in Nature to eternal light darkness and how the word of breathing forth brings it self into a subject and how self-will acceptation of properties arise in the subject wherein two Essences are alwayes understood as Gods own effluence and then the properties own acceptation in the free wil in which acceptation another externall kinde of subject is understood whereby the Unity in its Effluence becomes more external and thereby the Eternal love bringeth it self into a sensiblenes and like a fiery flame as in the working of divine Power At the upper end of the Table standeth Dark World and under The first Principle and over-against it standeth Gods Love Light World and below it from the figure 4. to the figure 7. the second Principle which signifieth how the outflown will doth inclose and overshadow it self with acceptation of its own desire and with the self desire bringeth it self into properties and causeth Darkness in which Darkness the egressed one by fire in the Light is revealed and made sensible and is the cause of the Light in which Light Gods love assumeth a fiery operation from the fire of eternal Nature and shineth in fire through the dark painful acceptation even as the light from a Candle or day in the Night whence day and night have their names in Time but in the Eternal there is also an Eternal light and darkness in one another the Darkness is the ground of Nature and the Light is the ground of the joyful Divine Revelation The Dark world as the ground of the properties of self-desire and will is called the first Principle because it is the cause of Divine Revelation according to sensibilitie and also maketh a (a) proper Kingdom in it self as namely painfull torment according to which God calleth himself an Angry Jealous God and a consuming fire And the Light which is revealed in the fire wherein the unity of the divine effluence of Love is understood is called the second Principle as the divine Power-world wherein Gods love is a love-fire and active life as it is written God dwelleth in a Light which no man can approach unto for the power of the unity of God worketh in the Light and is God and the firy quality in the Light is of the eternal Nature wherein the Eternal love of the unity Perceiveth and loveth it self Below the first and second Principles in the 7. spaces stand seven numbers which signifie the seven properties of the Eternal Nature And under it standeth TINCTUR distributed in the seven spaces which signifieth the Divine Word in the (b) Temperature or equality of the seven properties wherein the divine powers lie in an equall will action and being as the outflown name of God wherein is understood the great Mysteries of Divine power and operation with the characters of the letters on the left side divided into the seven Properties For the word Tinctur is that separating word from whence flow the seven properties T is the Tau or the opening of the Unitie monas the cross of the triple I a ground to the breathing I is the effluence from Tau or the egress of the Unity as the cross-Angle of life N is the effluence of the sounding Threefold spirit C is the cutting of the sound where the I as the effluence of Unitie separateth it self again from Darkness and where the (c) acceptation of the Eternal will breaketh T under the figure 5. is that holy Tau or the opening of Glory in the firy sensibility openeth with * firing love as with Gods Kingdom and signifieth the great strength of the Light-Power V is the true Character of the Holy Spirit with three points the two upward signify the Fire and Light and the third downward signifieth the Unity in love as the meekness R with this the holy fire and light is comprehended in an active natural essence for it signifieth the Kingdom as the Throne and hereby is intimated how the holy Name with the outflown will introduceth it self in Mysterium Magnum as into the Eternal mystery whereout (d) existed the visible world The great Mysteries of the Tinctur or the highest ground of Gods Trinitie T is the triple I the Father I is that begotten I JESUS N is the threefold I in Spirit C signifieth CHRIST T in the fift Space is the Father in Christ U is the Spirit of Christ in the Word which quickneth R is the Royall Throne about which Darknes and Light strive there Satan and Christ stand against one another namely according to the assumption of Satans self-will as an Erronious Spirit and according to the Unity Christ where is understood Love and Anger in one Ground but in a two-fold Revelation Here are understood those that belong to God the other (e) a Lock rather at this place In this Table in the 7. Spaces is the ground of Angels and Soules as that
Great Mystery of the change in which lyeth all Possibility Sidewayes after the seven figures the efflux from (f) one into seven is understood The first Principle is to be understood unto the Fire out of which the Light is manifested And from Fire to Essence the Second Principle And downward under every Propertie is understood what kind of Effluence out of every property in the cooperation of other properties doth proceed yet not so to be understood that One propertie alone gives the efflux but all seven afford it though the first Form is predominant therein and retains the higher Regiment As under the figure I. standeth Desire or Comprehending whereby is understood that the Desire is Magnetick and incloseth and darkneth it self which is also the ground of Temporal and Eternal darkness and from that (g) attraction cometh under it Sharpness Austereness and Hardness and is the Original of wrathfulness whence ariseth the Great Eternal Death For this Magnet draweth the Powers into it self and in it self incloseth them so that the working Standeth still and steps into Impotency as under the Number 1. appeareth Under number 2. standeth Science or Drawing which is the second Form to Nature as the motion of the Magnetick attraction from whence the sensibility of Nature existeth and is the ground of all Contraries for Hardness and Motion are Enemies Motion breaketh the hardness again and yet also begetteth Hardness by attraction Thus two Essences have their existence in the desirous out-flown-will of God as the drawing of the Magnetick power giveth Motion and Sensibilitie and the thing attracted affordeth Essence wherein is understood the cause (h) of Spirit and Body as in the attracting of Sensibilitie is caused the Spirit and in the extracted the body or cause to Corporietie Now if this attraction and Essence be not able to reach the Light of Gods Unity whereby it may be mollified then in it self remaineth onely a Meer Enmitie and is the cause of the torment of Fury and ambition whence existeth self-pleasing and Pride for the will of self-pleasing is a false-will a continuall corruptor of it self and its Essence And in these two Forms Desire and In-drawing in their out-flown Properties is understood Gods Wrath and though they be the ground of the sensible life Yet if the light shineth therein then are they the ground of the Joy-Kingdom as an inward motion of Gods Unitie and a ground of the five Senses whence also the creatural life hath taken its beginning and therein standeth its (k) corruption so farr as it loseth the light for it is the Spring of Hellish Anguish as the cause of painfulness and is also the Root of Natural life In the third space standeth the third Form of Nature called Anguish as a spiritual Sulphur-source according to its propertie This taketh its Ground from the first and second Form as from the Magnetick Desire and from the Motion of Drawing where the out-flown Eternal will in that unquietness standeth in Anguish This Anguish is the cause of Natural Will Mind and the Senses and is the Wheel of Life as the cause of the Firing-life for when the out-flown will of Gods Unitie standeth in Anguish then it longeth again after Unity as after Rest and the Unity or Rest longeth after Motion and Revelation for in the Unity there can be no Revelation without Motion and therfore the Divine will freely floweth out of it self and the Divine (l) good pleasure in the out-flown-will bringeth it self into a Desire and Motion unto a sensibility that it may perceive it self and remain two in one Essence as the sensible Divine delight and the cause of sensibility wherein God calleth himself a Loving God according to the sensibilitie of Divine Love-delight and an Angry God according to the cause of sensibility as after the Eternal Nature And thus we understand by Anguish when the divine Light is not revealed therein the Hellish fire and an Eternal despair and Terrour where the Self-will of Nature continually standeth in a dying Torment ever desiring to be released from such a condition which I therefore call the (m) lesser Death it is the Eternal dying Death but in the Hardness it is the great still-standing Death This Form if it hath not Light is the head spring of the false minde but if it perceiveth Light in it self then is it the spring and ground of the sensible mind and the right root of fire as appeareth in number 3. downwards The fourth Form numb. 4. is the Fire of the Eternal Nature understand spiritual Life-fire and that existeth from a continual conjunction or conjoyning of Hardness and Motion Understand that thence ariseth the Painfulness but the Splendor existeth from the Delight of the Free-will where the Unity of the Delight good pleasure is acuated in the properties then like a flash of lightning it shineth through the continued Conjunction of the great meekness of the Unity and the Fierceness and Motion of the three first Properties for then it is in the Essence of the Conjunction as if Steel and Stone were rubb'd together whence the flash ariseth Such a Flash is the true Natural Life of the Eternal for it is the Revelation of Divine Motion and hath the properties of Nature and also the Revelation of the Unity of Gods effluence in it self Now which of these two getteth predominancy in that standeth the Life The splendor of the Fire is the Light from the effluence of Gods Unity and the Essence of the Fire is the out-flown will which hath brought it self with the desire into such Properties Thus in the out-flown firy will we understand Angels and Souls and in the sensible sharpned Lights power from the Unitie we understand the Spirit wherein God is revealed and understood in the spiritual essence and in the Fire two Kingdomes separate themselves as the Kingdom of Glory from the efflux of Gods Unity and the Kingdom of the properties of Nature and yet these two Kingdoms dwell in one another as one The Kingdom of Nature is in it self that great Eternal Darkness but the Light is the Kingdom of God of which S John saith The Light shineth in darkness but the darkness comprehendeth it not As day and night dwell in one another and yet the one is not the other Thus from the Fires own propertie comes the painful life if it break it self off from the Eternal Light and doth as in the propertie of selfhood enter the object then is it only fantastick and foolish even such as the Devills were and the Souls of the Damned are as appears Numb. 4. downwards In the fift Propertie of Nature is the second Principle with its foundation understood as the Essence of the Unity in the Light-power where in the out-flown Unity is a fire-flaming-love understood whence existeth the true understanding-Spirit with the five Senses The first three Forms are only the property to Life and the fourth is the Life it self but