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A76951	XL. questions concerning the soule· Propounded by Dr. Balthasar Walter· And answered, by Jacob Behmen. Aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus. And in his answer to the first question is the turned eye, or, philosophick globe. (Which in it selfe containeth all mysteries) with an exposition of it. VVritten in the Germane language. Anno. 1620.; Viertzig Fragen von der Seelen Urstand, Essentz, Wesen, Natur und Eisenschafft. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. Clavis. English.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?.; Walther, Balthaser, 1586-1640.; Simons, Matthew, d. 1654, printer.	1647 (1647)	Wing B3408A; ESTC R172808	191,083	216

upon it 18. Wha● 〈◊〉 a Spirit seeke and finde in the Mysterie when it selfe is not in the Mysterie O! there is a great deceit in that when it is Day you will see that it is so ye are still in darknesse in the Mysterie so egregiously hath Babell blinded you 19. And it onely is because you have regarded Art and Favour and not the Spirit God therefore notorious delusions are seised upon you so that you believe the Spirits of lies who speake Delusions in o fine outside seeming holinesse Hypocrisie on these you depend and stick to them and cause Hypocrisie by your Errour Observe well what the Revelations of John and Daniel telleth you It is Day the Reward will shortly follow 20. Ye have Teachers now that wholly p Or cast to the ground suppresse the Spirit of the Primitive Church try them and you shall finde them to be a crew of the Whores Wolves which at first sprung up in the Primitive Church when men slept and these are they that will devoure the Whore themselves 21. But trie them they are Wolves sent from the q Malice sin and the Anger of God for the destruction of the world Turba they must doe it God permits it so to come to passe and will have it so that he may sweepe out one besome with another yet they are besomes and after the accomplishment of the r Or workings Wonders of the Anger they shall both be delivered to the ſ Or punishment or calamity Turba together 22. Let this Spirit tell you this it is your owne Prophet he is borne out of your t Disputing or contention Turba upon the u Finishing of the sixt Seale Crowne Awake or else your selves must be devoured one by another 23. For it is no stranger that consumeth you but your owne x Or sinne or malice Turba which is come to the Limit O! boast not so much as you doe of a golden time it is a time of Wonders The five and twentieth Question What is the Hand of God and the Bosome of Abraham 1. IT hath been sufficiently cleared already that it is the Essentiall Omnipresence of God but in its owne Principle as the Rich man who was in Hell could not obtaine that Abraham should send Lazarus to him with one drop of cold water to coole his tongue in those flames Abraham said there was a great Gulfe between them that is a whole Principle 2. But the bosome of Abraham is to be understood thus Abraham was the Father of all the Faithfull and God gave him the Promise that in his seed all people should be blessed this was to be understood of the Messia Chtist who would become man in the y Or Beleevers Faithfull and as he became man in Abrahams seed so also he would be borne anew in the Children of the faithfull and blesse them 3. Now this is the Holy Christian Church borne in Christ and that is the bosome of Abraham for we are All one Body in Christ and the Promise was made to Abraham He is the Patriarch we are all borne in the same Promise we meane by the New Birth in Christ and are in the same bosome which receiveth us 4. And when by earnest Repentance we enter into the Promise of Abraham then we goe into the bosome of Abraham viz. z Into the Promise that is made to us by the Trinity into our Promise and Christ is borne in us in the bosome of Faith this is the fulfillîng of the Promise 5. And thus in Humility we are with Lazarus in the bosome of Abraham for Christ is Abraham Christ was promised to Abraham and now he hath him and wee also and so we come into Abrahams bosome and are his Children in the Promise and Christ is the fulfilling of it and we in the fulfilling are in the bosome of Abraham and are the seed of Abraham by Faith and Spirit 6. Heare O ye blinde Jewes open your Eyes what was meant by Abrahams Circumcision nothing else but that sinne should be drowned in the bloud and death of Christ who shed his bloud for the Children of the Faith of Abraham and so we be regenerated in this bloud as in a heavenly Tincture 7. Abraham and his Children drowned sinne in their bloud by Faith in Christ who should become Man in their bloud and now it is fulfilled and therefore God hath set the seale of Faith a That is in the Essence or in the water in the substance and now we must be and are Regenerated in the true bloud of Christ 8. The bloud of Christ taketh away the Turba wholly from us and so we viz. the New Man out of the Old Adam b Or arise stand up in Christs bloud and beare Christs Image Christs flesh and bloud in us in our Image if we be Children of Abraham and not Ismaels 9. For to Isaack belong the Goods of the Image of the body of Christ the Circumcision is Ismaels for he is conversant about workes but the Goods are Isaacks yet Ismaell shall dwell in Isaacks Tents at last for Japhet shall dwell in the Tents of Sem but the Kingdome belongeth to Sem. 10. We have the goods of Isaack not by the merit of workes but from Grace from the Love of God wee cannot attaine them by workes but in Faith in the Will in the Deed and in entring into the promised Inheritance 11. He that entreth into an Inheritance that is not his owne by right of Nature he entreth into it by the favour of the c Or Giver Donor why is a servant in the house angry that his Lord is so bountifull to give a stranger the Dominion 12. Wee were strangers and must worke in his house yet the Lord did promise us in Paradise that he would againe freely out of Grace give us his Kingdome He rejected Caines offering but he gave the Kingdome of grace to Abell for Abell sought it in the Spirit and Caine in the worke 13. Thus you understand that Gods Kingdome is Magicall for the earnest will attaineth it and not the Will in the d Or worke Essence for that will remaineth in the Essence but he that is at liberty he findeth Eternity and the Kingdome of Grace therein and the Promise also together with the Essence and so the worke dwelleth in the Will and is the wills houshold servant 14. Thus you understand if you have your sight all the Old Testament this is the onely ground though comprised but in brief If we write upon Moses you shall finde it wholly there and thus we have shewen you the true ground of the bosome of Abraham and of the true Christian Religion 15. He that teacheth otherwise is of Babell beware of him he hath not Christs Spirit but he is Ismaell and seeketh but in his owne conceit 16. O! thou deare Christendome doe but open thine Eyes or else it will no more shine so cleerely upon thee

XL. QVESTIONS Concerning the SOULE Propounded By Dr. BALTHASAR WALTER And Answered By JACOB BEHMEN Aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus And in his Answer to the first Question is the Turned EYE OR Philosophick GLOBE Which in it selfe containeth all Mysteries with an Exposition of it VVritten in the Germane Language ANNO. 1620. LONDON Printed by M. S. for H. Blunden at the Castle in Corne-hill 1647. A CATALOGUE OF THE 40. QUESTIONS READER THe Author wrote this Answer to these Questions chiefly for his friends sake that sent them to him as also for the benefit of all such as love the knowledge of Mysteries this friend of his was Dr. Balthasar Walter who travelled for Learning and hidden Wisdome and in his returne home hapned to heare of this Author in the City of Gerlitz and when he had obtain'd acquaintance with him he rejoyced that at last he had found at home in a poore Cottage that which he had travell'd for so far and not received satisfaction then he went to the severall Universities in Germany and did there collect such Questions concerning the Soule as were thought and accounted impossible to be resolved fundamentally and convincingly which he made this Catalogue of and sent to this Author from whom he received these answers according to his desire wherein he and many others that saw them received full satisfaction QUESTION 1. WHence the Soule proceeded at the Beginning 2. VVhat is its Essence Substance Nature and Property 3. How is it created the Image of God 4. What and when was the breathing of it in 5. How is it peculiarly fashioned and what is its forme 6. What is its Power 7. VVhether is it corporeall or not corporeall 8. After what manner commeth it into the body of Man 9. VVhich way doth it unite it selfe with the Body 10. VVhether is it ex traduce and propagated after an humane bodily manner or every time new created and breathed in from God 11. How and where is it seated in man 12. How and what is the Illumination of it 13. How doth it feed upon the word of God 14. VVhether is such new soule without sin 15. How commeth sinne into it seeing it is the worke and creature of God 16. How is it kept in such union both in the Adamicall and Regenerate Body 17. VVhence and wherefore is the contrariety between the flesh and the Spirit 18. How doth it depart from the Body at the Death of a Man 19. How is it Mortall and how immortall 20. How doth it returne to God againe 21. VVhether goeth it when it departeth from the Body be it saved or not saved 22. VVhat doth every soule departed doth it rejoyce till the last Judgement Day 23. VVhether doe the soules of the wicked without difference for so long a time before the Day of Judgement finde so much as any mitigation or refreshment 24. VVhether doe mens wishes profit them any thing or sensibly doe them any good 25. What is the hand of God and the Bosom of Abraham 26. VVhether doth the soule take care for men their friends or Children or their Goods and whether doth it know see approve or disapprove their undertakings 27. Whether doth it know this or that Art or Occupation whereof while it was in the body it had sufficient skill 28. VVhether also doth it obtaine somewhat more certaine knowledge of Divine Angelicall Earthly and Diabolicall Matters then it had in the body 29. VVhat is its Rest awakening and Glorification 30. VVhat is the difference between the Resurrection of the flesh and of the Soule both of the Living and of the Dead 31. VVhat kinde of new Glorified bodies shall they have 32. What shall their forme condition joy and Glory be in the other Life 34. VVhat is that lamentable and horrible condition of the damned Soules 35. VVhat is the Enochian Life and how long doth it continue 36. VVhat is the soule of the Messiah or Christ 37. VVhat is the Spirit of Christ which he willingly commended into his Fathers hand 38. Of the things which shall come to passe at the end of the world 39. VVhat and where is Paradise with its Inhabitants 40. VVhether is it mutable and what shall it be afterwards TO THE EARNEST LOVERS OF WISDOME THe whole world would not containe the Bookes that should be written of Christ if all that he did and spake should be written of him flowing from that Fountaine of wisdome which dwelt in him what then can be expected in a little Preface but some few observations of the footsteps and paths of Wisdome and they are set downe here as they occasionally presented themselves to the thoughts of him who desireth to be made fit for the acquaintance with the lowest scholar in her Schoole Many have been her schollers in their owne way which Nature hath inclined them to or God in them that have kindled the Divine Nature and so have been made partakers of it in their soules we may perceive the excellencie of everie one of them by that which hath been left for a Record behind them and their fitnesse to be followed in Order till we shall attaine the highest pitch we are capable of Since the true Grounds of the ancient Wisdome have been hidden in the darke writings of the wise men of former Ages some in this latter Age have endeavoured to reforme the Errours that have risen from the want of knowing those grounds from which they wrote the writings of that Learned SELDEN are eminent in this kind among others by which meanes the true fame and Glory of Learning hath been in some good part restored againe as also by contriving meanes to direct the way to raise the severall kinds of knowledge from their owne true Basis and foundation The Renowned Sir Francis Bacon Lord Verulam Vicount of St. Albans laid his foundation sure and raised his building high by his Instauratio Magna he taught men first to free themselves from the Idola mentis humanae and then laid downe the whole processe of the Mind from a Naturall and experimentall History to raise a Naturall Philosophie which doth shew the way to compose a Divine experimentall History to the building of a Divine Philosophie or Mysticall Divinity Comenius also by his Pansophia designeth the best way to educate all from their childhood so that in the shortest time they may get the highest Learning their Natures can attaine to Pellius in his platforme concerning the Mathematicks doth designe to raise the Principles and whole structure of that Art out of every ones selfe with-without the help of Bookes or Instruments by a Treatise he calleth Mathematicus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which may be well transferred to a Philosophus Medicus Legislator Jurisperitus Politicus Theologus Theosophus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Also that strict inquirer into Truth Comes Castri Insulae in his Booke de veritate teacheth the true progresse of the mind in finding the certaine infallible truth in all things Du Chartes doth

goe yet to Lazarus in the bosome of Abraham The six and twentieth Question Whether doe the Soules of the Dead take care about Men Children friends and goods And whether doe they know see allow or disallow their purposes and endeavours 1. MY beloved friend this Question is beyond the reach of all humane Reason and knowledge according to outward Reason But seeing we are Abrahams Children we have also Abrahams Spirit in Christ and as Abraham looked back upon the Promise in Paradise and then also forward unto the fulfilling of the Promise so that he saw in the whole Body of Christ what was yet to be brought to passe in the e Or the time between both the beginning and the End middle and saw Christ a farre off so also we 2. Now seeing you doe so vehemently long after the great Mysteries and seeke them with so earnest a Desire yet giving God the glory accounting your selfe unworthy in your high Art and so humble your selfe before God therefore God giveth you them by so meane and poore an Instrument who esteemeth himselfe much more unworthy of them but yet would not willingly strive against his will and so you are the cause that this hand findeth and attaineth them 3. For this hand knew nothing of the Mysterie It sought onely for the Faith of Abraham but the understanding of Abraham was also given unto it which you have caused by your seeking 4. Now have a care that you also obtaine the Spirit of Abraham which hath written in the knowledge of this hand wee will impart it to you as a brother for wee are not your Lord in this hidden thing but your servant 5. Know us aright we are Lazarus and you may be accounted Abraham in comparison of us you have laboured much more then we but we are fallen into your Harvest nor of merit but by the Grace of the Giver least any tongue should boast in the sight of God and say this hath my understanding done 6. You propound a deep Question f Viz. in his outward Reason or in the Old Adam I understand it not for if I should understand it then I should dwell in the separated soule and must have the very same spirit and knowledge of that soule 7. But now seeing we are one body in Christ we have all of us Christs Spirit therefore in Christ we all see out of one Spirit and have one knowledge for he is become man in us and all holy soules are our fellow-members all begotten out of one and we all have one will in Christ in the true bosome of Abraham 8. And now we have obtained strength to reveale this hidden thing to you in Christ for our soules seeth in their soule not as if they came to us but we goe to them for they are in perfection and we but g In part or in imperfection in part 9. And now we are able to answer you not from the reason of the outward world but from the Image in Christ and from his and our Spirit 10. You aske whether the separated soules take care of humane matters and allow or disallow them Now this you must understand to be in three different manners concerning three severall sorts of soules 11. First those soules which yet have not attained Heaven and so stick in the source in the Principle in the Birth those have yet the humane Essence with the workes in them they diligently search out the cause of their h Or stay in that condition Retention 12. And therefore many of them come againe with the Astrall Spirit and wander up and downe in their houses and places of abode and appeare in a humane Shape and desire this and that and oftentimes take care about their wills or Testaments and also thinke to procure the blessing of the Saints that they may rest and if their Earthly affaires doe still stick in them they take care many times also about their Children and friends 13. This condition of theirs continueth so long till they fall into their Rest and till their Astrall Spirit be consumed then all such doings care and perplexities are at an end and rhey also have no more knowledge thereof but that they see them meerely in the Wonders in the Magick 14. But it stirreth not the Turba neither seeketh what is in this world for it being once passed through Death from the Turba it desireth such things no more It also taketh no further care for care stirreth up the Turba and then the will of the Soule should be forced to enter with its Spirit into earthly things but it had rather let such things alone because it hardly got rid of them before It will no more entertaine the Earthly will 15. This is an Answer concerning this first sort and wee tell you plainely and in Truth that this sort after they are once received into Grace take no more care purposely about humane Earthly i Or affaires matters but it beholdeth the heavenly matters which are brought to it by the Spirit of man and rejoyceth in them but there is somewhat still behinde which is this 16. A living man hath such Power that he is able with his Spirit to goe into Heaven to the separated soules and stirre them up about some Question by a hearty Desire but it must be earnest it must be Faith that can breake open a Principle 17. And this we see in Samuell the Prophet whom the k Saul King of Israel raised up that he might make his will knowne to him though this seeme otherwise to some of whom we may well say that they are blinde and voyde of knowledge for they speake but their owne scholastick Fables and frame Opinions about that they have no knowledge of in the Spirit and these are Babell 18. Now secondly the other sort which sinke into Death without a l Or the body of Christ body they are wholly in one and the same place of the Principle in which the first sort are which afterward did sinke downe in themselves All these take no evill affaires upon them wherein the Turba sticketh 19. But when the honest soules which are alive send them their workes with their Spirit and will they rejoyce in them and are so affable that they appeare to men Magically in sleepe and shew them good wayes and many times reveale Arts which lye in m In Arcano in the most inward Mysterie secret viz. in the Abysse of the soule 20. For seeing the Earthly Spirit thrusteth its Mysterie before the soule and keepeth the soule captive in that Mysterie therefore the Spirit of the Soule cannot alwayes attaine the deepest secrets but after the departure of the body the soule is naked and that especially if it be without a New body then it beholdeth it it selfe and also its Wonders and it can very well shew one that is living somewhat if he be honest and have not stirred up the Turba in the sleeping Magia

he in Christ becommeth the Childe of God this is the body wee shall have in Heaven 16. No grosse beastiall flesh as we have in the Old Adam but subtile flesh and bloud such flesh as can passe through wood and stone they remaining whole still as Christ came in to his Disciples the doore being shut It is such a body as hath no Turba or fragility Hell cannot retaine it it is like Eternity and yet it is reall flesh and bloud which our heavenly hands shall touch and feele and take hold of also a visible Body as that is which we have here in this world 17. Now pray consider how is it possible that such a body as we carry about us here can be f Comprehend or receive capable of the Divine Majesty sure it must be such a body as is like the Majestie that the Majestie can shine forth from it out of the Tincture and water of Eternall Life 18. Here indeed we are as it were g Or not intelligitable dumb to the apprehension of Reason yet wee are well enough understood by our Brethren this belongeth to the h Such as love God and are borne of him Children A Wolfe desireth to fill his mouth with such a piece of flesh as will fill his belly we speake not of such flesh but such as Christ hath given us in his Testament and left for a Remembrance and as an Earnest that he will remaine for ever with us we in him and he in us 19. Therefore we say that we shall have the Divine Body and Christs body which filleth Heaven wee shall not remaine in that which is his Creature but be joyned one to another as members brethren and Children 20. There is but one Life in us all there is nothing mortall All proceed from the Eternall one there is nothing that hath had any beginning but the Wonders onely one Essentiality is come out of the Eternall we are as Gods we are true Children of God proceeding from his Essences in body and soule The foure and thirtieth Question What is the miserable and horrible Estate of the Damned 1. IT is sufficiently declared already for Gods wrath in the Darkenesse is their dwelling Place their Light is that which shineth from their fiery Eyes like the glimmering of a flash of fire they have no Light at all but that for they dwell in that which is i As in utmost or utter darknesse most uttermost and so ascend in haughtinesse above the Thrones like strong Champions and yet they have different qualifications among them as their Spirits differ 2. For a Dog doth like a Dog a Wolfe like a Wolfe and so a Horse a Foule a Toade a Serpent every one in their kinde yet they are all more speedie and swift then thoughts 3. They have their joy in their abominations and their chiefest joy is to scorne God in that they are fiery Spirits and God a Spirit of Light 4. Their boast is alwayes of their strong fiery might they are as a Dragon that spitteth fire they seeke destruction and finde abominations 5. They have also fruit growing out of their own Principle as the abominations of their wills are 6. They have a sport like such as play with fireworkes as Rockets and Balls of fire also spitting fire out of their mouthes k Jesting jeering scoffing and deriding in strange Apish gestures of face and body fooling tumbling and jugling is their passe-time though indeed there is no time nor no feare of any other Torment after the last iudgement Day but their whole life is a continuall feare horrour terrour and Lamentation every one hath his worke which he did here while he lived in the Figure which awakeneth the Turba there and so he rideth in the Fire 7. The soule hath no feeling of it because it selfe is Fire but the Turba doth plague it with those Abominations which it introduced there is an Eternall despairing in them and therefore they are Gods Enemies 8. To blaspheme God is their chiefest Power they devoure Hellish brimstone and Abominations for their fruits are a kinde of stuffe that is outwardly faire but inwardly meere l Strong Abominations malice or wickednesse wrathfulnesse such Hypocrites as they have been upon Earth such bread doth their Heaven afford them to eate 9. They are at Liberty and not shut up at all they may descend as deep as they will for the Abysse and darknesse is every where and yet they are but in their first place the deeper they desire to throw themselves the deeper they fall and yet they finde no end or bottome 10. Their m Their time not the time of Man number is not the number of any humane time their n Refocillation breath is a meere stinke of Fire and Brimstone when they consider themselves in their Abominations that they were once Angels and now Devills then presently the gnawing worme ariseth which biteth and tormenteth them 11. To what end should their wickednesses be described they are evill uncleane Beasts that which they practised on Earth that followeth them and that they desire to doe there also they drinke downe abomination and wickednesse without measure 12. Their o Or Dominion Government is no way better to be knowne then in the Antichristian p Or Beast horse and scornefull men who rave with cursing and blaspheming yet this is but a q Shadow or Resemblance Glasse of the hellish Abominations we will not mention them any further for they are not worth the speaking of The five and thirtieth Question What is the Enochian Life and how long is it to continue 1. THis is also above humane Reason no outward Reason can comprehend it but seeing r The Enochian life is brought forth it is borne it must be made manifest For there are such Mysteries couched in it as the world is not able to conceive neither ought we to mention them all for they have their Å¿ Bounds or appointed time limit how farre they shall be mentioned for in t Time or Age. this u Or Wonders Miracles are yet to be done upon the Earth for which cause our speech is taken away and we must hold our peace in silence 2. Indeed we may declare what kinde of life it is or whether Enoch is gone as also Elias and Moses it is no Fiction we declare onely what is given us here wee must not mention any further we must not be believe Reason for it is a foole herein 3. But we may well speake something of it for the time is x Or come borne for y Or prophesie Enoch to speake and z Or the Sword Elias to worke againe which Babell shall finde by experience for Moses hath a Or Beames or Rayes which with their light shall contend with darkenesse hornes and yet he is a patient Lamb. 4. O how wilt thou rejoyce if thou dost get into Moses his Flock for he