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A76952	Four tables of divine revelation signifying what God in himself is, without nature; and how considered in nature; according to the three principles. : Also what heaven, hell, world, time, and eternitie are; together with all creatures visible and invisible: and out of what all things had their original. / Written in the German language by Jacob Behm, and Englished by H.B.; Tafeln von den dreyen Principien göttlicher Offenbarung. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; H. B. (Henry Blunden)	1654 (1654)	Wing B3408B; ESTC R175590	21,732	23

fall in the deep towards the Earth and that is the reason that all Power of motion even to this day and to the end of Time continueth so The seven Dayes and seven Planets signify the seven Properties of the spiritual world The three Principle in Spiritu Mundi as Sal Sulphur and Mercurius signifie the Trinity of the divine Revelation as an everlasting Spring or Fountain whereout all external Creatures are flown do flow and will flow even to the end of this time and therein the Separator with the 7 Properties is understood In this Table we see what proceeded from the 7 Properties and how the Spiritual power hath brought it self into a Material one as in the seven spaces downwards appears whereby we may understand whence Good and Evill sprung up in this World IV TABLE MICROCOSMUS In this Table MAN is held forth What he hath been in Paradise as also how the Properties in him without assuming Self-desire equally stood in the Image of God and what he is become through Satan's Deceits what that Monster of the Serpent whereby he is become earthly and mortal is in him And then how Gods Word and LOVE came in to help him again new born in CHRIST daily destroying that Serpentine Image also in what danger misery he standeth in such an Image either on the ground of Hell or Heaven Also a similitude of Divine Revelation and Knowledg in the seven Properties according to Time and Eternity formed out of all the Three Principles for a further understanding how he is wisely to regulate his Life and unto what driving impulsion he should yield himself Humane Ground before and after the FALL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 T I N C T U R S OU L E S PIR IT BODY ♄ Saturday ☿ Wednsday ♂ Tuesday Sunday ♀ Friday ♃ Thursday ☽ Monday Adam in Paradise Desire Motion Sensibility Seeing Loving Rejoycing Heavenly flesh Erring sp. Sharpness Anger Pain Bitter woe Hating Despair Passion Christ Gods word Life Acceptance Sweet Glorie Power Divine Essence Adam in Paradise Similitude Out going Spirit Heating High Humble Will Praising Unity Sathan self-seeking Self-knowl Self-will Dominiering Pride Reproaching Folly Christ Gods unity Resignation Suffering Yielding Desire Equality of Power Wisdom Adam in Paradise Tasting Thinking Mind Understanding Spirit Speaking Evestrum of Nature Sathan Desire of division Lying Anguish Doubting Fall Stinck Extruding Christ Baptism Law Breaking Hopeing Humility Believing Genius or Type Adam in Paradise Strength Pentrating Might Holy Modest Powerfull Throne Sathan Lord Potent Malice Thirsty Wanton Mad Self honor Christ Humility Obedience Mercy Forgiving Going Generating reverence Adam in Paradise Angel Officious Mild Friendly Beauty Vertue Diligent Sathan Devill Perverse Theevish mind Murther Belial's Whore Poyson Earthly flesh Christ Christ returning repentance New life Holy Restoring Sophia Adam in Paradise Heaven Child like Secret Manifest Singing Sounding Paradise Sathan Hell or Perdition Strife Torment Ever falling Fantasie Changing A Den of the Deep Christ Christs Calling Teaching Dissolving New mind Rejoicing Praying Springing An Explanation of the fourth Table MICROCOSMUS IN this Table Man is held forth as a similitude of the Three worlds according to the Soul Spirit and Body What he hath been in the beginning according to his Creation What he is become in the fall by the Spirit of Error and What he will be in the new birth through the Spirit of Christ which is a true Essential Image out of the three Principles of the Divine Revelation as from the outflown Word of the Divine will Man according to the Soul is an Eternal Nature of the firing quality as a spark out of the Center from whence the fire existeth If this ground cannot reach into the divine Light then is it a Darkness of the Magnetick attractive desiring power but if he reacheth out of the fire unto the light that his Magnetick desire feeds on the out flown Unity of Gods Love then ariseth from that fire the good true Spirit even as light shineth out of a Candle These are now two Principles the Soul in the fire of Eternal Nature and the Spirit in the light of Divine Power But the Body is the third Principle as an Essence of the visible world from the Starrs and Elements formed into an Image out of the seven Properties of Nature The Soul hath the seven Properties of the inward Spiritual world according to Nature But the Spirit of the Soul is without these Properties for it standeth out of Nature in Gods unity but through the Souls firie Nature is manifested in the Soul for it is the true Image of God as an Idea in which God himself worketh and dwelleth so far as the Soul brings her desire into God and submits unto Gods Will if that be not done then is this Idea or Spirit of the Soul dumb and actless not working standing like an Image in a Looking-Glass which soon vanisheth and hath no being as it befell Adam in the Fall But if the Soul submits to God and bringeth its Magnetick hunger into Gods Love the Soul then attracteth divine Essence namely the Essential Wisedom of God then her Idea or Spirit becometh Essential in the Lights power and obtaineth a pious life as being then the true Temple of God wherein Gods Unity is revealed and operative But if the Soul herself with her desire bring in self-love and with her desire turn herself into the seven Properties to try them and feedeth on the vain delights of the seven Properties then she extolls herself and maketh to herself an (a) Evestrum as an Astrall Object which Evestrum presently hungreth after the vanity of the false delight even as it befell Lucifer and Adam where the Evestrum of Lucifer imagined it self into a Phantasie and the Evestrum of Adams Soul into the Animalish Properties of the External world whereby the Soul was poysoned and the Body out of the Earth's Limus was suddenly infected that the Animalish properties awakened in him and longed after Earthly Beastly sustenance as Heat Cold Sharp Bitter Sweet and Sour and with these Properties introduced it self into a springing fountain of such delights and so with the desire Fed on Good and Evill whereby the Image of God as the Idea became obscure and unactive Thus the true Spirit as the active Idea became dumb and dead even as an Image in a Looking-glass and so was the Soul cut of from God and stood in a Naturall will but Gods will in the Spirit worked work'd no more and the will of the Evestrum as the Opposite Image of the dark eternal world began to work for the holy Genius was changed At the head of this Table standeth TINCTUR divided into the seven Properties which signifieth the Equalitie of the seven Properties according to the Soul Body that in the first man before the fall the propertie or inclination to separation (b) and Acceptation stood in a like will and all its desires were brought into Gods

though such Tearms and Phrases as he uses seem hard and harsh at first yet the diligence of an observant Reader that earnestly defireth knowledge for his Edification will by the indwelling Grace of God so bring him into a right apprehension thereof that what before seem'd difficult and dark will at length be plain clear and easy as it hath hapned to my self Thus far his own Country-man and Accquaintance Moreover he had the knowledge of that wonderfull Mystery containing the Secrets of the whole Creation The language of Nature and that in his Native tongue whereby the very name of every thing gave him clear Inspection into the Nature of it This Knowledge had Adam in his Innocency but by his Fall lost it Else it had been understood as our Author affirmeth in the Language of every Nation Now to the incredulous if they could but fathom his depths I should only bid them ask themselves this Question VVhether Art or Nature ever did or can produce such sublime Knowledge such pure and distinct knowledge of the highest Mysteries knowing that upon debate with their serious Thoughts they must speak the Negative But there is a malicious Ignorance possesseth many by which they condemn all things above their Sphear and cry down that excellency in others which exceeds the fathom of their own Comprehensions I need not travail for Proof or Instance Istorum plena sunt omnia They are no where not to be found Concerning the following Tractate it contains Four Tables with their Explication wherein may be seen by a spiritual eye the Ground and Foundation of all the Authors Works and profound Mysteries Yea there is also clearly decypher'd that so much sought and so rarely found Secret Cabal of the antient Rabbies These Tables indeed contain the Summe of all the Authors writings of all his Knowledge of all in Heaven and Earth yea of all the highest Mysteries that Man in this life is capable of knowing The First Table as the Radix briefly includes the rest The other three are Branches of the First and all together are properly termed an A.B.C. to all that the Author hath written which when I perceiv'd I could not but much desire their publication and not knowing when or by whom that might be done I furnish'd my self with all necessaries thereunto and so by God's enablement perform'd it with that care and diligence which the Majesty of the matter requires And though I know it a general Expect that the skill of a Translator should illustrate his Author yet that in this and some other of his Writings can not well be done for whoever not perfectly baptised into his Spirit shall render them in the genuine phrase of other language and not punctually verbatim will force his Reader to a double loss both in the significancie of expression and in the mind of the Mystery In a word this following Tractate I have annexed to the Author's Life and both not unfitly to his Mysterium Magnum For the first ten Chapters of that Book are not only introductory to the following Commentary but likewise an excellent illustration of these Tables wherein the pious Reader by a due search may happily find pulsanti dabitur a greater Treasure than the VVorld can afford and that to his infinite satisfaction which I heartily wish him together with the Life Light and Love of Jesus Christ In whom I rest His Servant H. BLUNDEN 1 Table What GOD is without Nature Creature What God without Nature and Creature is and what the Mysterium Magnum is How God by his breathing forth or speaking hath introduced himself into Nature and Creature 1 Abyss NOTHING ALL   Father 2 VVill of the Abyss JE Sonn 3 Delight or impression of the VVill HO Spirit 4 Science or Motion VA 5 GOD in Trinitie Thus is GOD without Nature and Creature considered 6 VVORD in GOD 7 VVisdom Begining of Mysterii Magni of the Eternal NATURE Here begineth Mysterium Magnum as distinction in speaking the WORD where the WORD by Wisdom is made distinct Natural Sensible Comprehensible and Invenible The Eternal begining of the Principles is here also understood with Gods Love and Anger in Light and Darkness GOD in LOVE GOD in WRATH 9. The First principle Spiri 8 The second Principle   Moving Thinking tual Dark Feeling Mind Nature V II Angel Light Love-fire 10 Tincture or speaking of the Trinity I Desire II. Prick or Science III Angu●sh IV Fire Angelical World Root of the four Elements VI Sound or Distinction VII Essence or essential wisdom Austere Cause of Enmity Fire root of heat   Hard Hellish-life Hell Sub Growing or Greening in the Spiritual World 12 Pure Element 13 Paradise Sharpness cold fire Root Devill stan SAL MERCURIUS SULPHUR tial 14 Begining of the external World Here begineth the external visible World as the out-spoken visible WORD 1 Is understood the good Life of the creature which stands in the Quint-Essence 2 The poison and grossness of the Earth and Earthy Life 3 The Reader understanding these all Doubts and Queries cease in him and Babel is lost in Ignominie The third Principle     15 Heaven Starrs 16 Quint-Essence Good Powers The 17 The 4 Elements Devill 's Poyson introduced Out spoken WORD 18 Earthly Creatures   A Brief Explication of the first Table of GOD revealed how out of himself he continually begetteth and breatheth forth himself And how this Table is to be understood NUmber 1. Is the Abyss the Nothing and the All There we begin to consider what God in himself is without or besides Nature and Creature and this consideration of the hidden God extendeth unto Wisedom Numb. 7. Therein is understood how God dwelleth in all and how all things from him have their existence but himself is to all Incomprehensible and as a Nothing yet through that All he maketh himself visible sensible and (a) attainable Numb. 2. Is the Will of the Abyss And by it at the right side FATHER and on the other side J E. This signifieth the Will of the Abyss which is the Father of all Beings And the J E signifieth the Eternall One as the Name JESUS from the Eternall One Numb. 3. Is the (b) Delight Lubet or Impression of the Will by which towards the right standeth SON and opposite to it H O signifying how the self will includeth it self in the place of its possession The place is the procreation out of it self where God begetteth God according to the good pleasure of his propriety The HO is the breathing of the will through which the Delight passeth Numb. 4. Is Science or Motion at the Right standeth SPIRIT and over against it V A. Science is the attraction of the Will to the place of God where the Will comprehendeth the Delight which proceeded to the Son or to the breathing by which outbreathing is understood the Spirit of God And here is understood the great Name JEHOVA as the (d) Tri-une Being

how the Father of himself begetteth the Son and how the Holy Spirit proceedeth from both and yet they be but one Being which hath nothing before it For the Science in the drawing in is understood a Root of the Eternal knowledge or motion Numb. 5. Is God in Trinity signifying that the Tri-une Being may be known as a Similitude of the Will Mind and Senses wherein lyeth the eternal understanding Thus is the Ternarie the one Eternal understanding and cause of all things Numb. 6. Standeth WORD signifying distinction in the understanding as speaking the (e) Perception of it self which word abideth Eternally in God himself and God as the Power of Perception is the Eternal good Numb. 7. Standeth Wisdom signifying the outspoken Word as the power of the Divine Contemplation wherein God to himself is Intelligible Perceptible and Revealed And thus far is God to the Creature Invisible Incomprehensible not Natural nor Creatural Below the line standeth Beginning of the Great Mysterie or of the Eternal Nature As of the Separability Perceptibilitie and Sensibilitie of the Properties wherein is understood the Divine Extrication or Revelation how God introduceth himself in the eternal Nature in Love and Wrath and not in himself for himself is the one Eternal good but without Distinction were not perceptible or manifest Here is to be Noted that the 7. Capitall Forms of Nature are marked to distinguish them from the other Numbers with I. II. III. IV. V. VI VII Numb. 8. The second Principle standeth to the Right And Numb. 9. The first Principle to the left Thus Numb. 9. signifieth the Fathers Propertie through the speaking of the Word in Wrath And the second Numb. 8. signifieth the Sons propertie in Love where the Love of God by the expressed Word is revealed As that in Love Numb. 8. sheweth the Angelicall power-world and that in Wrath Numb. 9. signifieth the Dark power-world of Painfulness wherein God is an Angry God Numb. 10. Standeth Tinctur signifying the Temperature of all powers how there through speaking they go forth in Distinction and Formes as first in the 7. Capital Forms the Desire Science Anguish Fire Love-Fire Sound and Being And further there standeth by every Capital Form what Properties are born and proceed out of themselves For if there must be a speaking then the power must first contract it self that it may breath forth it self then it begetteth that Comprehensive or Magnetick Impression the something which is the Beginning wherein the Fiat which attracteth the powers is understood I. Is the first Capital Form of the spiritual Nature and standeth with Numb. I. Desire which Desire sharpneth it self from whence existeth Sour Hard and the cause of Cold and is the ground of all Saltish properties Spiritual in the Spiritual world and Essential in the External world So also the Desire of Impression is cause of its own overshadowing or Darkness in the Abyss as all these Forms belong to Numb. I. To the desire of (f) Comprehensibility II. By the second Capital Form standeth (g) Compunction or Science signifying the contraction of the Desire where the first enmitie or contrary will ariseth for hardness and motion are not alike Now in this form ariseth moving and feeling as the root of pain wherein is understood the Mercurial Poyson-life both spiritual and (h) corporall and in the Darkness the paine or Torment of the wicked life Neither was the good life without the root of the Evill manifest unto him and that is the root of Gods wrath according to the Perception sensibility of the eternall Nature III. The third Capitall Form is Anguish which ariseth from the desire of Impression and from the Enmitie of Compunction where the will standeth in (i) Torment and is there the cause of feeling and of the five Senses for in the Anguish all Formes grow Painfull and then are they sensible of one-another And here is the Word become distinct and is the root of Sulphur both Spirituall and Essentiall Corporall wherein is rightly understood the Hellish Fire in Darkness in painfull life as appears in the Table downward IV. The fourth Capitall Form is call'd Fire where is Understood the kindling of the Fire from the painfull Sulphurish root for the Will goeth out of Anguish again into Libertie And the Libertie goeth to its Revelation in Anguish In which Conjunction cometh that terrible like a flash of lightning Coruscation where the Abyss as the Eternall good is revealed And is in the Forms of Nature the Understanding and Life in the dark Enmitie and in the Libertie is the root of Joy or rouzing up the (k) Powers and is the kindling of the Fire in which kindling the Abyss becomes a shining Light as Materiall V. The fift form is call'd the Love-Fire where is understood how the Eternall good through kindling the painfull Fire introduceth it self into an elevating burning Love-Fire which Love-Fire was first in God But thus only it (m) windeth up it self that it becomes sensible and moving where in the good Powers are operative VI Standeth Sound or Distinction as the sixt Capitall Form signifying that the Naturall manifested Life where the Eternall Divine Word through the Formes of Nature hath infolded it self and where all the Powers of Wisdom stand in (n) Sound therein standeth the Understanding Life which in Light is Angelicall and Divine but in Darkness it is Diabolicall As at the right Numb. 11. standeth Angell VII Standeth Essence or Essentiall Wisdom of the out-breathed word wherein all other Forms are revealed and is even the Essence of all Forms as good and Divine in the Light but in the Darkness Evill and Devillish And therein is chiefly understood Mysterium Magnum the great Mystery the Angelicall world is also therein understood and likewise the Internall spirituall body of Man which disappeared in Adam when the Souls will departed from Gods will but revived again in Christ that giveth to him for the Essence of this Power-World which is that heavenly flesh Joh. 6. And it is the dry Rod of Aaron which in the Spirit of Christ again springeth up in Man Numb. 12. Standeth Pure Element signifying Motion in the Angelicall world in Essence and is the One Holy Pure Element wherein the four Elements in the Temperature lay and is a root of the 4. Elements Numb. 13. Standeth Paradise signifying the Eternall springing or spiritual growing in the Spirituall world from which the externall visible world out of good and evill as out of both Eternall Principles is breathed forth In which Source and Regiment Adam in his Innocency stood when the four Elements harmoniously existed in him as in the holy pure Element Numb. 14. Standeth Beginning of the External World signifying how God by his Word hath breathed forth that spiritual Mysterium Magnum as the Eternall Nature of all Spirituall Properties into a visible externall formall Being and through the Fiat as the Divine Desire hath