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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28518	A consideration upon the book of Esaias Stiefel, of the threefold state of man, and his new birth written anno Christi 1621, by Jacob Behmen, otherwise called Teutonicus philosophus.; Bedencken über Esaiae Stiefels Büchlein Von dreyerley Zustandt des Menschen unnd dessen newen Geburt. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.	1653 (1653)	Wing B3400; ESTC R21020	39,297	158

of Christ he must be in Christ that he may have Christs Voyce in him otherwise he cannot feed Christs Sheep on the green Pasture What good doth a Wolf in the Sheepfold that intendeth nothing but prey He doth only waste and spoil the Sheepfold Wherefore then doth a Stranger intrude himself for a Shepherd not being called of Christ the chief Shepherd Why goeth he about to teach the Spirit of this World in Man which is in him afore 100. If he will sound the Inward in Death inclosed Bell then he must have even that same Clapper which breaketh the Death so that the dead Bell may sound For the Divine Sound was in Adam inclosed in Death Now if any will awake the same he must have in himself that same Living Sound he must speak out of Christs Spirit and Voyce or his teaching is only a Jugling or playing of tricks before a dead thing and he is only a belly-servant by Custom and no whit profitable to the Temple of Christ for he himself is not therein and how will he then bring others in 101. The Holy Ghost mixeth not himself in the Voyce of the Wicked the Word of the Wicked is not the Word of God Therefore it is a meer Deceit to preach out of Art the Art is born out of the Stars and it awaketh none that lieth inclosed in Death it must be a right hammer that will make a dead Bell sound 102. And it is very highly to be lamented that men do so prank with these Mouth-Apes and honour them for Gods and will also be called good Christians and yet name themselves after a Wolf and besides strive and contend for him and make desolate also their Land and Men and destroy their body and soul for a Wolfs sake 103. O thou worthy Christendom in blindness be seeing I beseech thee O how art thou blinded Thou sufferest thine eares to be filled with a tingling noyse that thou mayst but sleep hard in Adams sleep in the Sinworld with the Devil and very securely in the wicked flesh But an hard thunder wil awake thee for thou art too too fast a sleep thou wilt not yet be awaked let God call how he Will yet Adam the old Man sleepeth in his pleasure 104. That the Author also mentioneth That this fleshly Babel will fall and a Fountain spring up in Zion out of the true Jerusalem is very true and the Time is already born that that shal be broken which is grown unto and of it self without Divine Order for it hath attained its age and the bound The Begining hath found the End the Middle shal be Manifested and none shal be able to hinder it But seeing the child of sin and Perdition doth so rage against it therefore it must burst and break it self in pieces in its raging Madness 105. But if it would enter into the Beginning it would abide standing and its Wonders only would appear But seeing it is grown in Pride Covetousness and Envy and in all kind of Wickedness and Malice to what end shall that evil Beast abide It is unfit for an Offering of God neither will it be converted that it might get an humane heart 106. Therefore God caused it to be denounced that his Children should depart from it for the LORD will afright the Earth and overturn Babel and there shall a River flow out of Zion that the thirsty Soul may be refreshed For the poor shall be refreshed and eat in his Pasture 107. The Driver shall be broken in pieces and then shalt thou rejoyce a little while for thou art Wicked from thy very Youth and seekest only the Goal in the Wonder As thy Begining was so is also thine End Whosoever is blind will not see it but sleep till the Day breakon 108. Christ saith When the Son of Man shall come thinkest thou that he shall find Faith on Earth Therefore the Time of the End is an Evil dreg and there shall not be meer Zion save only in the sanctified Children of Christ For the Begining and the End are altogether like one another 109. The Wonders with the high Tongue were manifest in the Beginning and the Signature was exceeding well known this cometh again in the End But we understand also thereby a good and evil Time when the Gates of all Principles shall stand open as we also see this in the Beginning by Cain and Abel Therefore let every one look to it what he speaketh teacheth and writeth for it shall be tryed by the highest Tongue 110. But when we speak of the Temple of Christ and of the River out of Zion then we mean not one certain place in one Land alone for the Temple of Christ is over all we understand in all Tongues and Languages although the Tongues shall be brought higher in one place then in another all things according to the property of the people and according as the Spirit is in Man 111. For the Temple of Christ is In Us We must hear Christ teaching In Us if Christ teacheth not In Us then the outward Mouth-cry is in Vain and spoken but into the Ayr. 112. Therefore let no man think that it will be so that such Men will come which shall teach or force the Holy Spirit into Men No It is said To Day when you do hear the Voyce of the Lord harden not your ears and hearts Look not after another Time for This is the Time of your Visitation 113. Incline your Ears and Hearts into the Temple of Christ In You cast away your Abominations and false Will from you and bring your Will earnestly through Christ into the Father and resolve to enter no more into the Wickedness as into Pride Covetousness Envy Anger and Falshood leave off from all height of this World and humble your selves in the hand of the LORD and in the Love towards the needy 114. Esteem your selves as simple Idiots in Christ esteem your Art nothing for it draweth but away from Christ Desire to know no more but only that which the Holy Ghost in Christ will know in you that he only may be your Knowing and Willing 115. For the Fountain in Zion will not be found through any search out of Reason Zion will not first be begotten from Without but from Within We must seek and find our selves in our selves No Man needeth to run to another place where he thinketh the Spirit shall be more powerful but Within himself is the Gate of the Holy Deity 116. He must only enter into himself and seek and call upon the Holy Spirit in himself for in himself is the place where God dwelleth in his Heaven and receiveth the Will of the Soul with her Desire 117. Whither will the Soul swing her self being she her self is the Fountain of Etetnity In her standeth the Principle of the Light and Dark World she is all the Three Worlds 118. Only this is Necessary that like as she in Adam hath brought her self by her

not the Word of God but Babel a meer Confusion Misery Howling and Crying and no man heareth it but only the Spirit of the Outward World it is only an Antichristian Hypocrisie and a glittering Flattery 140. A Knave goeth into the Outward Church and a Knave sits therein and a Knave returneth thence and is an hypocrite who giveth good words before God and comforteth and tickleth himself from without with Christs Satisfaction yet still remaineth the old Man in himself 141. He supposeth God forgiveth sins as Life is of grace and favour given to a Murtherer although the Conscience doth continually accuse the Murtherer that he is guilty of the deed and of punishment O no it is not so Christ said Unless ye turn and become as Children ye shall not see the Kingdom of Heaven No Verbal Forgiving availeth before God but it is as Christ said to those that turned to him Thy Faith hath helped thee 142. For Christs Spirit went into the Faith of the Patient and the Faith of the sick went into Christs Spirit then the Cure was there otherwise there had been no healing 143. This a Man may see on the Day of Pentecost when those Men were attentive to S t Peter whose Will was bent into themselves and desired the Kingdom of God in them the Spirit of Christ sounded out of Peters Mouth But as for those whose Will was bent into this World the Spirit past by them who said These men are drunk because they speak thus 144. So it goeth also Now when the Spirit of Christ speaketh then saith the Outward Reason These men are mad and hereticks But as for those whose Will is turned into themselves in a desire after Gods Kingdom they hear the Spirit of Christ speak 145. Therefore all those into whose heart this throngeth are admonished to abide Constant and to meet the golden River that floweth out of Zion and they shall find the Pearl for it is born Let no man gaze on Time and Person it is the Spirit of Christ that speaketh 146. And the Author writeth out of the Bride of Christ very well and truly of the Spirit of Christ out of the New Man But he must learn to distinguish this Old Mortal being from the Spirit of this corrupted and cursed World from the New and not esteem the mortal corruptible flesh and bones for Christ his Flesh 147. Nor to seek Christs Flesh in the four Elements and in the Spirit of the Outward World but in the Root of it as in the Holy Element one Principle deeper then this World is yet not absent from the Outward Body 148. Nor must he think the Old is Transmuted into the New but as Gold groweth in the gross Stone out of the Stone the Sun being the Cause of the Tincture and the gross Stone the Cause of the Body and yet it must not be understood as if the New Body had any place or room in the Old in its Principle for it standeth a Birth deeper in it self 149. As we may know by this that God is in this World and yet the World neither knoweth nor seeth him He dwelleth a Birth deeper in the Center then this Outward World is He filleth all in this World and yet there is nothing that comprehendeth or seeth him for he dwelleth not in the World but in himself So also the New Man and yet there is no separation from one another 150. Like as there is a difference between Fire and Light the Fire not being able to comprehend the Light although the Light is born out of the Fire so also the New Man out of the Old through the Entering of the Spirit of Christ like as the Sun maketh a Tincture of Gold in the Stone 151. But when the Author writeth that the Old Man falleth wholly away in the Repentance and dyeth altogether in the Death of Christ he erreth For Christ is not come for the Old Mans sake nor is he become Man in the old defiled sinful flesh but in the Essence of the Image that a New Man may be born out of the Old and dwell in the Old yet not in the Third Principle in this outward World but in the Second in Heaven in God and God in him 152. Therefore he ought not to write I Christ the living Word in this my visible flesh and bones This none that is born out of Christ will grant him The Outward Man is conceived and born in Sin He is not Christ but the Inward Man is in Christ a Member of Christs Body in the Essence of Christ 153. And that he supposeth that Nature falls wholly and altogether away from Man when the New Birth ariseth that is not so and in that he understands as yet nothing of the Eternal Nature There falls no Nature away from him for the Life stands in the Nature viz. the Life of the Soul in the Eternal Nature and the outward Spirit in the Stars and Elements 154. The Eternal Nature holds in it self the seven Spirits or Forms of the Deity from whence the Holy Divine World is sprung and also this Outward World it parteth not to all Eternity from Man otherwise Man were a Nothing For out of Nature the Mystery of Eternity is revealed and also the Divine Being as is declared in my Book of the Six Points Nature came not into Man for Sins sake wherefore should it then for the Regenerations sake fall away 155. By Death the outward Nature falleth away from the Nature of the Soul but it goeth only into the outward Mysterium until the Day of Judgment then shall all its here-made Wonders and Works appear therein when the Spirit of God shall moor the Mysterium of this World then shall all be manifest and the Turba shall be separated from the good and given to the Dark World and the Mysterium unto the New Man yet only Holy and without spot 156. And this is the Resurrection of the Flesh it is not the Husk as the Bestial flesh which ariseth but the Life in the Outward Mysterium with the Wonders it shall be included in the Holy Element and united with the Body of Christ the New Man and in Eternity stand with its Wonders in it 157. But not in earthly Essence but as a shadow or figure For by reason of the Divine Life this same Life of ours is esteemed as dead for so was Adam also before his Heva before the Imagination but in the Imagination the Outward Life was made manifest and the Heavenly dyed 158. This I could not Loving Sirs and Brothers hide from you nor from the Author in an Answer of your Book sent to me for my Conscience requires it in the LORD not in any intention to reject or put down the Authors Book or high Spirit but in Love towards him I would communicate my gifts and understanding to him into his gifts as one member to the other that we might edifie and acknowledg one another in Christ as Members in