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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
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Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
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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
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 LONDON Printed by John Macock 1653. The Open Fountain in the Heart of JESUS CHRIST be our Source and Constant Quickening 1. MOst Honored and much Esteemed Sirs in the Love of Jesus Christ and in the Union of his Humanity my Singular Friends and Brothers It is meer Joy unto me and the Recreation of my Soul that I do now perceive from divers places that the most precious Tree of Christ our Salvation hid through the fleshly Anti-christ beginneth again to green from the very Root through all the Gates of Darkness in the midst of the Captivity of Babylon Much more do I rejoyce in the Outgreening Plant of its Amiableness and Loveliness Power and and Vertue since I find my self also to be a little Twig on the same Tree and that it is so sweet and pleasant and I see this with great admiration that it as it were in the midst of the Night beginneth to green forth with fair Twigs yea that in the midst of the Winter Lillies and Flowers grow 2. Is not this contrary to all Outward Reason that an old desolate broken house that continually expecteth by the Tempest to be thrown into heaps beginneth to become New again and set forth its first youth as if it had never been old We see now the first shape of this Tree how it was in its youth and how in the age and youth of it there is one Shape Power and Vertue Is not this a great Wonder 3. We became in our First Mother that bare us all blind and are now in our old age in the end become seeing again in the Mothers bosom We became dumb and lost our Mother-Tongue and find it now in our old age again so that we know our Mother in and by the same and can speak with her out of her own Tongue Ought not we justly highly to admire that we were in our Mother and knew her not that we have been such a long time blind in her and now become seeing in the old age 4. But shall we speak of our Old age No We are a New Branch born of our first Mother We were a dryed Branch on the Tree but the Mother hath brought into us her Sap and Vertue and brought forth a young Twig out of her self wherein she will have Joy and through which she will bring forth her fruit yea she hath born a young Son out of the Old he shall not be blind neither go out from her but abide in her house for he is her only Heir in whom she hath Joy 5. Loving Brothers Let us rejoyce and be glad in the Lord that our City Jerusalem in Zion is now a building again in which our Mother dwelleth and shall also be our Everlasting Habitation 6. Sithence then Loving Sirs and Brothers as I perceive you stand also with us in the greening Essence and have received a seeing Eye therefore I desire to refresh my self heartily in my Members in the Essence of my Mother with you in our new Life and I beseech you that you would understand it no otherwise then in true Sincerity and Love as one Member is bound to the other 7. That I thus will speak with you is not done to ascend above your gifts nor to exalt my self above you because a sharper understanding is given me of the Divine Mystery but rather take it thus viz. that I am not become your Breaker but rather a Beam in our Building in the House of the Mother of us all not through Humane Reason or Art but he that hath Power hath so ordained it even He that doth what he will 8. Now a House must not only have spars and beams but also Stones for the Foundation and it must have divers Joynts Now if the Lord placeth one for the Foundation or Corner-stone and useth another about the Building then we ought to learn to acknowledg the one the other every one according to his gifts and not to despise or reject one another in regard of the unequal gifts as is practised hitherto for a long time in Babel But rather consider the good and benefit of the House and that the one Juncture must not be as the other although it is all one within another and is together but one House 9. To me it is given to understand and to speak of the Ground to another of the whole Building of God as in a sum Yet the Ground and the Whole House is but One it comes from One Spirit and all serveth for the Wonderful Manifestation of God 10. Therefore if I shall speak with you out of my gifts and shew you the House within I desire you to understand and take it Lovingly I do it not out of Levity and Presumption but in true Knowledg given to me of God for benefit and bettering that our Pearl might be found and the Enemy that hath so long detained us captive be choaked in his own Poyson that we may learn to know the Wonderful God in his bottomless Wisdom and delight our selves in him as Children like as a Branch on a Tree in his Essence and Power which Joy and delight is a greening in our Lives Essence Therefore you will not interpret it otherwise 11. You have sent me a Book to behold my self and also your Friends and request me to open my knowledg thereupon unto you which doubtless in my Writings which you have in your hands might be to you already sufficiently opened and understood what I would thereupon answer you Yet seeing it is for Gods Glory and the Benefit and Salvation of Man I wil give you a short and summary Answer unto it and further refer you to my other Writings 12. Of the Author himself who indeed according to mine outward Man is unknown to me yet in the Spirit is not a Stranger but born out of my Mothers Essence and Power I see say and know so much out of his Written Words which without doubt are also his Spirit and full Will that he indeed hath wholly given over himself as he also throughout mentioneth of himself into the Mothers bosom and desireth nothing else but the Mothers Life and Spirit 13. And that indeed the Mother-spirit is in him as in the old and yet now in a new greening Essence doth keep the old in the grim Qualm Prisoner and is so sunk down with the old Essence that he cannot know himself in that he supposeth he is wholly and totally and throughout new and without sin and spot This is truly and rightly said yet only according to the Inward new Man born out of Christ but not according to the Mortal Corruptible Man which the New holdeth captive in him as through-piercing and wholly overshadowing him 14. The Old Stock or Husk understand the Body which Adam by his Imagination into the