Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	life_n	work_n	7,030	5	6.3476	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28521	The epistles of Jacob Behmen, aliter, Teutonicus philosophus very usefull and necessary for those that read his vvritings, and are very full of excellent and plaine instructions how to attaine to the life of Christ / translated out of the German language.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3404; ESTC R2334	183,592	232

our secret discourse as you know you must yet be patient to goe on in that knowne proâ—esse a good while and in this beginning no other will be admitted it may well in the seventh yeare be accomplished in this processe for it must bee opened through all the six Properties of the spirituall Ground albeit it is already opened through the Sunne yet the Key is scarce come into the first or second degree of the Centre of nature for each property among the six formes of the spirituall life hath a sundry or peculiar Sunne in it from the strength influence and originall of the light of nature that is of the Essentiall Sunne and are to be opened in order as their birth and originall is 9. First Saturnes Sunne is opened through the Key of the outward Sunne that the Severation of nature is discerned Secondly Jupiters Sun is opened and then the powers are discerned as a blossoming Tree and hither to you are come 10. Thirdly Mars Viz. the fire-soule is opened and then Virgin Venus appeareth in her white robes and playeth with the soule to see if it might move the same to the desire of Love it goeth out and in up and downe with the soule and lovingly accolates with it to see whether it would introduce the fugitive properties of selfe-will where the soule departed out of the temperature into the fugitive life of the divided properties of the body againe into her that Virgin Venus might be againe animated or Soulized and re-obtaine the Fires Tincture wherein its joy and its life consisteth 11. For Virgin Venus is the splendor of the white in the Sunne understood in this place but the ability to the shining is not its owne the spirituall water is its owne propriety which water ariseth out of the fire where the separation beginneth in the Salniter in Mars his Sun then Virgin Venus separates it selfe in it selfe and covereth her selfe with a Copper Vesture for Mars would have her for a propriety but he desiles her exceedingly in his malignity and spatters in earth and rust for he cannot have her as his espoused unlesse he gives her his owne fire will for a propriety and that hee willeth not and therefore they strive a long time they are marryed ones but they are faithlesse to each other 12. And even then comes the Sun and openeth the Sun of Mercury which is the fourth Key where you shall see great wonders how God hath created the Heaven and the Earth and moreover the ground of the foure Elements and if you then rightly observe you shall see your owne proper Genius unfolded before you and see how the Word is become Man Viz. the expressed Word in the re-expressing or speaking it selfe forth into the severation of the Powers you will see how Virgin Venus is severed and how the formes of nature doe take her into them and goe about in a pitifull estate with her and take her into their owne Domination and change themselves in her into a purple colour they would murther but shee is their Baptisme to the new life in this place 13. The fifth Key is Virgin Venus her selfe wherewith shee openeth her Gold Viz. the Sunne that shee giveth her will and faire Garland to the murtherers so that shee standeth as one impregnate or humbled then supposeth the Artist that he hath the new child but he is far enough from it till the birth thereof 14. The sixth Key is Luna when the Sun openeth this then Mars Jupiter and Saturne must all forsake their owne will and let their fugitive aspiring Pompe fall for the Sun in Luna taketh them into the Incarnation then the Artist beginneth to be sad and thinketh he hath lost but his hope shall not be ashamed for the Moone in its opened Sun is so hungry after the true Sun that shee attracteth it with force and effect into them whereupon Mars quaileth in his wrath and dyeth away in his owne right and then Virgin Venus receiveth him and insinuates with her love into him whereby Mars in Jupiter and Saturne is quick in this love of a joyfull life and all the six properties doe give their will in to Venus and shee giveth her will to the Sunne and then the life is borne that standeth in the Temperature 15. Deare Mr Doctor the pen is not to be trusted yet have a care unto the worke it will be so and no otherwise move it not least Mercury be enraged before his opening for outwardly he is evill but inwardly he is good and the true life yet Mars is â—ne cause to life also they proceed not so plainely and punctually in the order with their opening albeit the opening is done in Order but the sensall wheel turneth it self about and windeth inwardly till Saturne cometh with his will into the internall ground and then he standeth in the Temperature and produceth no longer inclinations but all that you now see are the revolting fugitive spirits and Vaunt with Virgin Venus but they live all in Whoredome and they must be converted and turne into the inner ground that they may be fixed this is done so long till Virgin Venus looseth her materiall grosse impure water in which the Adulterers wantonize with her in false-will that so she may become holy spirituall and then the sun shineth in her which changeth the nature into love 16. Loving Mr Doctor the Phylosophicall body is the spirituall water from the fire and light Viz. The power of the fire and of the light when it is severed from its grossâ—esse through the opening of all the properties of nature then it is rightly spirituall then the Solar spirit receiveth no other property at all into it selfe save onely that which is able to reach its sensall Sun in the opened for the sun taketh nothing into it selfe but its likenesse it taketh its Heaven out of the earth if you will understand me aright for it is its food whence it generates a young Sun in it selfe which is also called Sol but it is a body therefore I say unto you keep you diligently and precisely to it you shall well rejoyce if God let you live so long if onely you have the right Father which I have sounded for and am greatly in love with him 17. This is well knowne to me for I have lately seen it at which I doe not onely wonder but rejoyce therein much is revealed to me and albeit I might write somewhat more largely yet it is not necessary in this processe also the pen is not to be trusted it may be done another time and I pray you to keep this Letter secret and in faithfulnesse if I come to you I may entrust you with somewhat which I have lately seen and received yet I shall goe so far as I dare if opportunity give way and the troubles which are nigh hinder me not then I come to Breslaw about Shrovetide and so I may visit you

light and effectuall working power of God in our Life-Tree Jesus Christ together with all bodily welfare 2. Upon the desire of your selfe and Mr. N. I have considered those sayings of scripture which Mr. N. set downe in his Letter which you delivered to me wherein I was exhorted to expound the same in Christian love according to my gifts and understanding but especially the ninth and eleventh Chapter of the Epistle of Paul to the Romans at which Reason stumbleth which I have not onely done willingly and readily in Christian obligation and good affection with expounding those alleadged Texts but I have also set downe and described the true GROVND of the Divine Manifestation in such a manner that I hope men will see the truth 3. But if there be a minde divinely bent and addicted that can give the honour unto God I hope it will be understood and taken according to my meaning and apprehension and not otherwise interpreted as was done formerly which I passe over and rather prefer christian love as we are bound in Christ to instruct one another friendly in our severall gifts and therein give God the honour and despise none in his Divine gifts for he that doth so he blasphemeth the holy spirit and against such a one the Scripture pronounceth an hard sentence 4. Now although this Treatise be somewhat large yet let not the Reader account it tedious and irksome for I thought it of little importance for me to goe about to prove and cleare such a writing without sufficient ground and therefore I have set the alleadged places of Scripture upon the inner most ground and shewne how they Originally arise out of their centre and what their sence and understanding is 5. For it is not enough that I should gather together a great heap of scripture places for to oppose and contradict the alleadged no no this avariseth nothing before God and the truth for the least tittle or letter of this Law shall not passe away till all be fulfilled saith Christ the sayings of the scripture must remaine true and not clash one against another and though they seem to be contrary and gainsay one another yet it is onely to those to whom the understanding of them is not given and are not gifted or made capable to explain and interpret them 6. But he that will undertake clearely to interpret them aright he must have the understanding of the Accordance that he may know how to reconcile those places which unto reason seem contradictory and not transfer or place them upon a conjecture or opinion whether it be so or no if he will teach fundamentally and assuredly thereof for from opinion and conjecture ariseth onely strife and controversy upon which great Babylon is erected Viz. the spirituall pride and Whoredome where one will be an Apostle and yet is not sent or acknowledged of God but he runneth in opinion and in the driving or instigation of the Cosmick Spirit 7. And albeit many runne in the Drawing of the Father yet if the true light of the eternall life in the word of the Divine essence being an expressing or spiration of the holy and also of the naturall word in its severation whence the creation is arisen and whence good and evill have their Originall doth not appeare unto and illuminate him he will be far from being able to unite the supposed contraries of the Scripture-sayings and to speake from ONE centre so that not the least tittle be diminished in the Accordance or reconcilement of them 8. The which I set downe not to displease N. or any other but onely by reason of the long continued opposite disagreement of reason in which the World runneth astray and truth lyeth Vailed wherby men in this article about the will of God doe so judge and run on in reason and its reasonings without ground but where Christ is borne in man there strife ceaseth and God the Father speaketh his Word in Christ through the soule of man to such conclusions and reasonings there must be an inward divine light which affordeth certainty else there is no grounding upon the reason 9. You may get this Treatise of Mr Michael of Ender who hath now received it which containeth in my owne hand Writing about 42 sheets and if you are pleased to communicate the same to N as your good friend and Kinsman I am content provided that you tell him that he would not understand it so as if I had written anything therein passionately against him or any other for such passions or affections lye not so near in my soule without Vrgent and great cause albeit I am not without failings and declinings yet my Saviour Christ in me hath shewne me such grace that all invectives and opposite objections against me by one word which proceeds out of Divine love towards nâ—e where I perceive a divine earnestnesse doe fall away and are rejected as a weed which I would not williâ—gly plant in my Garden for from thence groweth nothing but a naughty weed again 10. Further it is againe desired of N out of christian love that seeing upon his desire I have expounded his alleadged places of Scripture according to my small gifts which are knowne unto God he would be pleased if this my exposition did dislike him and were not in his opinion sufficiently grounded and fundamentall to doe me so much favour as to expound the alleadged texts especially the 9. and 10. Ch. of the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans and even those very Scriptures which I have explained together with the whole ground of the Divine will to good and evill how its originall is in man or out of man and unâ—old and declare them in a sensall manner 11. And then I desire that he would declare and expound unto me the inspired word of grace in the seed of the Woman in Paradise and then the two lines Viz. Of the Kingdome of the Corrupt humane nature and of the Kingdome of grace in the in-spoken voice of grace 12. Or if my exposition in respect of Abraham Ishmael Isaac and also of Jacob and Esav did not like him that he out of christian love would shew his gifts and expound the ground of them that I might finde his gifts and understanding in those places and then if I can see that God hath gifted him with a larger measure of understanding in these high Mysteries then me I will accept it with great gladnesse and will love him in his gifts and give thankes unto our God therein and I will rejoyce with him as a member in our gifts in the spirit of Christ all which would conduce more to the profit and benefit of our brethren and christian fellow-members and would be more Godly commendable and praise-worthy then a raw contradiction out off affections for mans willfull selfe sake 13. But I pray unto my God in Christ that he would be pleased to open his heart that his soule

holdeth the sydereall body untill the Stars also consume it and it often hapneth that People doe appeare after there death in Houses with there owne body but the body is cold dead and num and the spirit of the soule doth onely put it on by the astrall spirit so long till the body putrifyeth 10. Also many a body is so strongly possessed of the Astrall or starry Spirit through the Desire of the soule that it is a long while a decaying for the desire of the soule doth bring the sydereall spirit thereinto so that the Elements are as it were impressed with an Astrall life especially if the soule hath not yet attained to rest and that in the life of the body it had strongly imagined upon any thing and taken it to heart and in the mean time the body dyed before it had quitted its desire and taken it out of that thing therefore the will doth still continually run in that same Impression and it would fain rightly effect its cause but cannot and thereupon it seeketh the cause or reason of its detainment and would fain rest in the Eternity but the impressed thing hath its effectuall working and driving untill the stars consume it formerly in the Popish Religion there was somewhat handled about it but without sufficient understanding 11. Now you may easily consider how it fell out that the Engraven Grave-stone shed water or wept it is not done from the power or vertue of the stone but from the strength and might of the spirit whose the stone is whose Image it beares also it is not done from the soules owne essence but magically through the astrall Spirit the constellations in the Spirit of the soule have impressed themselves into the sydereall Spirit in the stone all according to the soules desire it hath hereby signified that there was something that lay heavy in its minde when it lived and this sadnesse or sore pensivenesse of Spirit was yet in the sydereall spirit for Christ said where your heart is there is also your Treasure also in the Revelation of Jesus Christ it is written our WORKES shall follow us 12. Deare Sir it behooves me not to Judge further herein consider whether the mentioned Person had not something in her that lay heavy upon her before her end whether any had done her wrong or shee had done wrong to any body or whether the care about her Husband and children so far as shee was a holy Person did not trouble her seeing any of them going on in an evill course that so through the power of the Sydereall spirit through the Stone shee might give such admonition for amendment Noble Sir consider your selfe aright I may likely among all these mentioned things hit one but seeing I never knew the Person also know nothing of her I leave the judgement unto your Favour you know better then I what her condition herein was I write onely of the Possibility how it may bee and passe no further judgement or determination 13. But that this might be laughed at and be accounted ridiculous I passe not for it I am not deceived I understand I blesse God this ground very well for such knowledge I have not learned of or by Man but it hath been given me and I would sufficiently ground it with further and larger exposition if I should write of the Humane Property how Man is in Life and how in Death 14. I send you the Booke of the Forty Questions there you may see further ground which notwithstanding is better grounded into the Centre of all Beings in the Booke of the Threefold Life and yet much more in the Book of the Signature of all things Furthermore I entreat you not to mention this my jndgement and explanation of the Question much among light people for to a Cow there belongeth Fodder and to the intelligent there belongeth understaning the wicked man judgeth wickedly the understanding man proveth all things I speake from a good intent and affection 1. Jan. 1622. J. B. THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH EPISTLE TO CHARLES OF ENDERN 1. NOBLE Right Honourable Sir I wish and desire unto you from the most holy omnipresent God who is the fulnesse of all things and the power of all Beings a happy joyfull new yeare and all prosperous welfare 2. Albeit I being a simple man never in all my life intended to have intercourse and converse with such high Persons with my Gift which God hath bestowed upon me out of his mercy and love or thereby to be knowne and acquainted with them but when the high light was enkindled in me and the fiery instigation fell upon me then my will was onely to write what I saw man an effectuall peculiar manner and knew in the Spirit and I intended to keepe my Writings to my Selfe 3. I saw well enough what would come to passe but that I should esteeme my selfe as to have my Writings knowne never as yet came into my minde for I esteemed my selfe too simple I intended to write downe the Pearle-like Garland onely for my selfe and to imprint it on my heart 4. But seeing that I as a very simple man did not understand or take notice of this and yet I now see plainely that Gods intention was farre otherwise then ever came into my minde thereupon I ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ first this consideration That there is no respect of Persons with God but he that dependeth on him is accepted and beloved of him and he driveth his worke in him for he is onely high and is pleased to manifest himselfe in the weak that it may be knowne That the Kingdome and the Power is his alone 5. And also that it lyeth not in humane Searchings and Reason or depends on the Heavens and their powers for they doe not comprehend him but that he is well pleased to reveale himselfe in the low and humble that he may be knowne in all things for the Powers of the Heavens doe also worke themselves forth continually in shapes formes plantâ— and colours to manifest and reveale the holy God that he may be knowne in all things 6. Much more high and cleare can the manifestation of God be made in man being he is not onely an Essence or Being out of the created World but his power matter and peculiar Being which he himselfe is standeth and assimulateth with all the three Principles of the Divine Being 7. And there is nothing diminished from the Being of the divine creature in its fall but onely the divine light wherein it should live walke and be in God in perfect love humility meeknesse and holynesse and so eat the Manna or Heavenly bread of the word and divine power and live in perfection like the Angels 8. This light which in the second Principle shineth eternally in God which is the onely cause of joy love humility meeknesse and mercy is withdrawne and hidden from man in his fall in that the first man when he was formed in

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