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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

Kingdom of God neither is God revealed in any such Desire but only his Anger and the Property of the Dark and of the Earthly World and we live therein only to the Vanity of this World and stand therewith only upon the Pit of the dark World of the Anger of God that is of Hell which every hour opened its Mouth after these Properties and counteth these Properties its own fruit and children which it shall reap which also belong to it by right of Nature for these Desires are all originally from it and stand with their root in the ground of Hell and Destruction and indeed no otherways 67. Therefore said Christ Unless a Man be born a new he shall not see the Kingdom of God All these false Wills and Desires are predestinated to Damnation if any Will see God he must turn again and become as a Child and be New-born in the Holy Ghost through the Water of Eternal Life as through the Heavenly Ens which God hath revealed in Christ that the first right Man which dyed in Adam being from the Heavenly Worlds Substance might again in Christ out-green and become Living 68. All these Beasts are condemned and must dye in us and although somewhat of their Desires remaineth yet hanging on us in the flesh yet they must all be killed during this Time in the Soul as in the Inward Ground and the Inward Soulish Life be tinctured through the true Tincture in the Blood of Christ that the Properties of the Inward Ground may again live in Harmony otherwise they cannot reach the Deity in themselves 69. Now when a Man knoweth this he cannot better be rid of his evil Beasts then that he presently that very hour bring himself with all his powers into such a strong Will and Purpose that he will hate these Beasts of the Devil seeing they are only the Devils Servants and that he will turn again into his lost Country into the Childship and Unity and look upon himself no otherwise then upon the poor lost Swineherd for he is it also himself and indeed no other nor better and so instantly with the turning of his Soul come to the Father in highest Humility with acknowledgment of his own Unworthiness who hath shamelesly consumed the bestown Inheritance of the Merit of Christ and so enter into Repentance 70. Let him but give his earnest Will thereinto out of all his Powers that he this very hour even now will repent and amend and love no more these evil Beasts But it must be Earnestness and not to think of a day week or year but his Mind must condemn them to the Damnation of Death and not will love them any more but count them Enemies and will turn it self to the Grace of God 71. When this cometh to pass I say in high Truth that then he may turn himself to earnest prayers in Humility and beseech God for Grace and although his Heart saith utterly No and the Devil saith Stay yet it is not good Now and when to morrow cometh then saith he again To Morrow and speaketh into the Flesh thou must first do this or that gather first a Treasure that thou mayst not need the World then afterwards enter into such a Life Yet I say the Mind must remain and stand firm in the Purpose and think with it self These suggestions are mine evil hungry Beasts these I will kill and drown them in the Blood of Christ in his Love none of them shall live any more in me for I will have no more of them I am now in the Way to mine ancient Father who hath sent his Son to me in my Misery who said Come to Me all ye that are laden with sins and are grieved with them I will refresh you My Father will give the Holy Ghost to them that ask Him for it 72. Let him imagine this to himself into his heart and come with the lost Son to the Father and when He shall see that the Soulish Mind is directed to Him and would willingly turn and yet cannot then He will presently meet him and clasp the Soul into the arms of his Drawing and bring her into the Passion and Death of Christ where she through earnest Repentance will dye from the cruel horrible Beasts and arise out of the Death of Christ with a new Will and a right Divine Desire and begin to be another Man indeed and he will then not a whit esteem that which he hath loved before and held for his treasure and it will be to him as if he had it and also had it not and afterward he will in all his power esteem himself but a Servant of God 73. For so soon as he can but master the proud Lucifer with his Pride all the other evil Beasts one with another grow weak and faint and lose their Regiment although they yet live in this Time in this Earthly Flesh yet they are but only as an Ass which must carry the sack or as a mad Dog in a chain their strength is broken 74. For when Christ riseth Lucifer must lie captive and if it should be Earnest such a precious Jewel should follow upon it which this Pen cannot describe here and those alone know who have been at the Heavenly Marriage where the noble Sophia is espoused with the Soul whereof Christ said That there is such a great Joy in Heaven over One Sinner that Repenteth before ninety nine Righteous Which Joy is also performed in the Heaven of Man in the Desponsation This is understood of those that are Ours 75. My Beloved and Christian fellow-Brother I thought it good Christianly and Well-meaningly to put you in mind of this and out of my little Treasury in a Childlike Simplicity to decypher it unto you not intending thereby to shew or set forth my self but out of a true hearty Desire in a fellow-wishing that this might be felt in your heart and I also might refresh my self a little with you as a fellow-member though absent and yet present in the Desire and co-operating in the Divine Gifts and this upon your Desire as formerly is said 76. And if my good Will should find place and God would open the Door of his Mystery then had I yet haply some other more precious Jewels in my little Treasury wherein Time and Eternity may be known being ready therewith to serve you and so I commend you together with all your Beloved ones to the sweet Love of JESUS CHRIST into his Grace and into his Will FINIS

one Body 159. For I do very well know the Authors Spirit and I love to speak to him seeing he for Christs Name sake as you mention hath suffered much and willingly hath brought his Life into Christs footsteps therefore I acknowledg him for a right true Christian 160. But he need not to be ashamed to learn to know himself better and to learn more in the Spirit in the Spouse of Christ For Christ saith Seek and ye shall find The Wisdom hath neither number nor end 161. I say of my self nothing else but that I first am become an A. B. C. Scholer and will heartily seek in the Spouse of Christ of the Spirit of Christ in my Brethren and Members Me in them and them in Me. 162. I do not arrogate to me yet any perfect knowledg for that which is perfect is not of mine understanding but revealed in the Spirit of Christ in my Brethren I am in my self as a Nothing that I might be found and known to be somewhat in the knowledg of my Brother in his Spirit and that God in Christ may be All in us both the Understanding Willing and Doing 163. Therefore I exhort you not to take this otherwise then Christianly and Brotherly for I am not a Master of your Spirit and Knowledg but your help in the Lord that the Authors Course may not be in vain nor the Name of Christ blasphemed in his Members as Babel hath done I have written this short Declaration and Explanation to refresh us in our knowledg in the Lord What is more is to be found in the Book of the Threefold Life and in the three Books of the Incarnation of Christ and do commend you all to the Love of JESUS CHRIST Dated on the Sunday Quasi modo geniti Anno 1621. A Theosophick EPISTLE or LETTER WHEREIN The Life of a true Christian is Described What a Christian is and How he cometh to be a Christian Together with a Description What a Titular Christian is What the Faith and Life of both of them is Written to a good Friend of his in Christian Brotherlike and Memberlike Admonition and a good Intention BY JACOB BEHMEN LONDON Printed by John Macock 1653. The Fountain of the Heart of JESUS CHRIST be our Refreshing Renovation and Eternal Life 1. BEloved and much respected Friend in Christ I do wish to you out of a memberlike obligation as one branch on the Tree is bound to do to the other in a co-operating Desire the open Fountain of Grace which God hath revealed in Christ Jesus in our Humanity that the same may flow in you richly and the Divine Sun therethrough bring into the Soul his Love-beams and therewith awake and open the great Magnetick Hunger of the Soul as the true divine Mouth after Christs Flesh and Blood together with bodily Welfare 2. For as much as I have often perceived by your loving Friend D. K. and also in my presence marked that you in the Drawing of the Father have an extraordinary Thirst and great Longing after his Life which he hath manifested in Christ Jesus out of his highest Love therefore I would not omit out of a memberlike obligation to visit you with a short Epistle upon the desire of the D. and also of your self and to recreate and refresh my self somewhat in that same Fountain of the Life of Jesus Christ with you since it is meer Joy unto me that our Paradisical Pearl-tree greeneth and worketh fruit in our fellow-members to our Eternal Joy 3. And herewith I will shew unto you out of my small gifts and knowledg What a Christian is and Wherefore he is called a Christian namely that only He is a Christian who is become capable of this high Title In Himself who hath turned himself with his Inward Ground Mind and Will to the free-given Grace in Christ Jesus and is in his Souls-Will become as a young Child that only longeth after the Brests of the Mother and sucketh the Brests of the Mother whereof it liveth 4. So also this Man only is a Christian whose Soul and Mind entereth again into the First Mother whereout the Life of Man is sprung viz. into the Eternal Word which hath revealed it self with the true Milk of Salvation in our Humanity being blind in regard of God and drinketh this Mother-milk into his hungry Soul whence the New Spiritual Humanity springeth and the fiery Soul being out of the Fathers Propriety reacheth and obtaineth herewith the place of the Love of God in which place the Father begetteth his Beloved Son wherein alone the Temple of the Holy Ghost which dwelleth In Us is found and wherein also alone the Spiritual Mouth of the Soul which eateth Christs Flesh and drinketh his Blood is understood 5. For He alone is a Christian in whom Christ dwelleth liveth and Is in whom Christ after the Inward Ground of the Soul and the Heavenly Essence which disappeared in Adam is risen and become Living He that hath in his Inward Ground put on Christs Victory against Gods Wrath as also against Hell Devil Death and Sin I say Christs Humanity Passion Death and Resurrection the Seed of the Woman to wit Christ in his Victory also overcoming in him and dayly triumphing upon the Serpents head in the Will of the Wicked Flesh and killing the sinful Lusts of the Flesh 6. For in Christ alone we are received to be Gods Children and heirs of Christ not through an outward strange shew of a special grace-receiving through a strange merit of a grace imputed from Without but through a Childlike Inhabiting Memberlike and Essential grace where the Conqueror of Death to wit Christ with his Life Substance and Power ariseth In Us from our Death and ruleth and worketh In Us as upon a Branch on his Vine as the Writings of the Apostles throughout do witness 7. He is not a Christian who only comforteth himself with the Passion Death and Satisfaction of Christ and imputeth the same unto himself as a grace-gift and yet remaineth an Unregenerated Wilde Beast such a Christian is every Ungodly Man for every one will fain be saved through a grace-gift The Devil also would very willingly be an Angel again through Grace received or applyed from Without 8. But that he should turn and become as a Child and be born a new out of Gods Grace-Water of Love and the Holy Ghost that pleaseth him not So also it pleaseth not the Titular-Christian who putteth about himself the Grace-mantle of Christ and yet will not enter into the Childship and the New Birth although Christ saith he cannot otherwise see the Kingdom of God 9. For what is born of the Flesh is Flesh and cannot inherit the Kingdom of God Joh. 6. To be fleshly minded is Enmity with God but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace and He alone heareth Gods Word that is born of God for alone the Spirit of Grace in Christ heareth Gods Word 10. For no man hath seen God the