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A76959	The tree of Christian faith: being a true information, how a man may be one spirit with God, and what man must do to perform the works of God: in which is comprehended (compendiously) the whole Christian doctrine and faith. Item, what faith and doctrine is: an open gate of the great mystery of God out of the divine Magia, through the three principles of the divine being. / Written in High Dutch by Jacob Behmen.; Baum des christlichen Glaubens. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?	1654 (1654)	Wing B3424; Thomason E808_8; ESTC R207521	28,149	56

the noble Image of God appeareth 73. And we understand herein that the will of Man must enter into Gods Will and then he entereth into Christs Death with Christs Soul through Death into the eternal Freedom of God into the Life of Light and there is he with Christ in God 74. And the third Form of Life is the external created Life out of this World as out of the Sun Stars and Elements 75. Which the Spirit of God breathed into Adams nostrils with the spirit of the Macrocosm where he became also an external Soul which moveth in Blood and Water and burneth in the outward kindled Fire as in a Warmth 76. That same external Life should not reach into the Image in the inner Life neither should the Image let it come into the inner Light which appeareth through Death and springeth up with his Power in the eternal Freedom for the external Life is only a similitude of the inner Life 77. The inner Spirit was only to reveal in the external Mirror the eternal Wonders which were seen in Gods Wisdom in the Abyss in the divine Magia and bring it to a formal Mirror as to a wonderful Game to the honour of God and to the joy of the inner Man born out of God 78. But his will should not have gone thereinto to draw the external Wonders into the Image as we now know in our misery how man draweth an earthly treasure into the mind and imagineth and thus destroyeth the pure Image of God in the second Principle 79. For the spirit of his will goeth into the earthly Being but bringeth his Love in which the Image standeth into the earthly Being as into an earthly treasure into an earthly vessel 80. Now the Image groweth earthly through imagination and so goeth again into Death loseth God and the Kingdom of Heaven for the spirit of the Will standeth with the Love in the external Life 81. Now the external Life must dye and break that the created Image of the inner Kingdom may appear 82. Thus the spirit of the Will striketh with the Love into the external Wonders and bringeth them at the death of the external Life along before Gods Judgment 83. There the spirit of the Will must go through pass the Fire and the Image must be approved in the Fire and all Earthliness must burn away from the Image she must be pure and without spot 84. Even as the Light subsisteth in the Fire so the spirit of the Will must subsist also in Gods Fire and if it cannot there pass freely through Gods Fire then this Image is spued out into eternal Darkness 85. And this is the heavy Fall of Adam that he did set the spirit of his Will into the external Life into the outer Principle in the false Infection and imagined after the earthly Life 86. And thus he went out of Paradise which springeth up through death in the second Principle in the outer and thus entered into Death and thus he dyed and thus was his Image destroyed 87. This by an Inheritance we had from Adam and from the second Adam Christ we have Regeneration 88. Where we must enter into Christs Incarnation and with him into his Death and from Death with him spring up in the Paradisical World in the Entity of Gods Freedom The Sixth Chapter 1. THus we understand that Lust is the Cause why Corruption is come in and still doth 2. For Lust is an Imagination where the Imagination windeth her self into all the Forms of Nature so as that they become all impregnated with that thing out of which the Lust ariseth 3. And we understand the external spirit of man who is a similitude of the Inner did lust after the fair Image and therefore hath set his Imagination into the Inner whereby the Inner was infected 4. And because he did not feel death instantly therefore hath he brought the spirit of his Will to the Outer thus the Outer went to lodg in the Inner and at last is become Host in the Inn and hath obscured the Inner so that the fair Image deceased 5. There the Image fell amongst the Murtherers and among the seven spirits of Nature and the Originals of Life these kept the Image imprisoned and pulled off her Paradisical Garment murthered and left her half dead 6. Now there was need of Christ the Good Samaritan and this is the Reason why God became Man 7. And if the Wound could have been healed by speaking of a word or a verbal remission then God would not have become Man 8. But God and Paradise was lost and then the noble Image was destroyed and wasted and must be new born again out of God 9. Therefore did God come with his Word which is the Center in the Life of Light and became Flesh And so the Soul obtained again a divine Paradisical Mansion Conceive it thus 10. That as Adams Soul had opened the door of the Essences of Fire and let in the earthly Essences whose Springs were turned into the Paradisical Image and made the Image earthy 11. So the Heart of God opened the Door of the Essences of Light and embraced or encompassed the Soul with heavenly Flesh and thus the Essences of the Holy Ghost imagined after the Image after the Essences of the Soul 12. Thus was the Soul impregnated again so as she entered with the spirit of her will through death into the Paradisical Life 13. And from hence came the Temptation of Christ that he was tempted whether the Soul would feed on the Lords Word and whether she could enter again through death into the Life of God 14. Which was accomplished upon the Cross where the Soul of Christ went through the Fire of the Fury through the severe Qualities through death and sprang up again in the holy Paradisical world in which Adam was created 15. Thus we Men were helped up again and it is requisite for us to turn away our wills or the senses of our will and mind from all earthly things and turn it into Christs sufferings dying death and Resurrection 16. That we still crucifie the old Adam with Christs death and stil dye unto sin in the death and dying of Christ arise with him out of the anguish of death in the new man and grow up in the Life of God as there is no other Remedy nor no other Help 17. We must dye unto the earthly world in our will and must still be new born again to the new world in Faith in the Flesh and Blood of Christ we must be born out of Christs Flesh if we intend to see the Kingdom of God 18. It is no easie matter to be a True Christian it is a most difficult business The Will must become a Warrior and fight against the corrupted Will 19. He must sink himself out of the earthly Reason in Christs death into Gods wrath and break the power of the earthly will like a valiant Champion 20. And he must hazard hard

THE TREE OF Christian Faith BEING A True Information how a Man may be one Spirit with God and what Man must do to perform the works of God In which is comprehended compendiously the whole Christian Doctrine and Faith ITEM What Faith and Doctrine is An open Gate of the Great Mystery of GOD out of the Divine Magia through the Three Principles of the Divine Being Written in High Dutch by JACOB BEHMEN LONDON Printed by JOHN MACOCK M. CX.L.IV The Tree of the Christian Faith Chapter the First CHrist saith Mat. 6.33 But first seek the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you 2. Item My Father will give the Holy Ghost to those that ask him when he cometh then will he lead you into all truth he will put you in mind of all what I have told you of 3. For he will take it of me and inform you of it he will give you speech and wisdom what you are to speak 4. And St Paul saith We do not know what we shall pray or speak but the Spirit of God intercedeth powerfully according to the pleasure of God 5. Now Faith is not an historical knowledg that a man should set down Articles unto himself and depend only upon them and so force his mind into the works of his Reason But Faith is a Spirit with God for the Holy Ghost goeth into the spirit of Faith 6. True Faith is a Power of God a Spirit with God it worketh in God and with God 7. It is free and not bound to any Article but only to true Love from whence it fetcheth the power of its life and strength and the opinions of men are of no consequence 8. For as God is free from all inclination he doth what he pleaseth and is not accountable for it so true Faith also is free in Gods Spirit It hath but one Inclination viz. unto the Love and Mercy of God to cast its will into the Will of God and it goeth forth out of the starry sydereal and elemental Reason 9. It doth not seek it self in fleshly Reason but in Gods Love and if it doth so it findeth it self and then it findeth it self in God and worketh with God not according to Reason what she pleaseth to have but in God what the Spirit of God willeth 10. For Faith esteemeth not the earthly life that so it may live in God and the Spirit of God be in it the will and the deed It submitteth in all humility unto Gods Will and sinketh down with Reason into Death but springeth up with Gods Spirit in the Life of God It is as if it were not and yet it is in God in All. 11. It is a Crown and Ornament of the Deity a Wonder in the divine Magia It maketh something where there is nothing and taketh something where nothing is made It worketh and no body seeth its Being 12. It exalteth it self and yet hath no need of any ascending it is of a mighty Power and yet it is the lowliest Humility It hath all and yet comprehendeth no more then Meekness thus it is free from all Malice 13. And it hath no Law for the fury of Nature toucheth it not it holdeth or subsisteth in Eternity because it is not comprehended in any ground it is not shut up in any thing 14. Even as the Abyss of Eternity is free and resteth no where but only in it self where there is an eternal Meekness even so doth true Faith in the Abyss 15. It is in it self a Being the Being it liveth but seeketh not its life but it seeketh the life of the eternal still Rest it goeth out of the spirit of its life and possesseth it self 16. Thus is it free from Torment and dwelleth in the eternal Freedom of God 17. It is with the eternal Freedom of God as a nothing and yet it is in all all comes well to pass to it what God and Eternity hath in his power It is comprehended of nothing and yet it is a fair habitation in the great Power of God 18. It is a Being yet is it not comprehended of any Being it is a companion and friend to the divine Virgin of Gods Wisdom in it stands the great Wonders of God and yet it is free of all 19. Even as the light is free from the fire and yet is continually begotten of the fire and yet it can neither touch nor move the quality of the fire so in like manner we give you to understand that Faith is begotten out of the Spirit of Life as out of an ever-burning fire and shineth in that fire and filleth the fire of life and yet is never comprehended 20. But if it be comprehended then it self is entered into Reason as into a prison and is no more in the Freedom of God Gods Freedom but it is entered into pain torment 21. It tormenteth it self whereas it might be at liberty it worketh in Reason the Wonders in the Fire of Nature and in the Freedom it worketh the Wonders of God The Second Chapter 1. NOw seeing Faith is thus viz. one Spirit with God we are then to consider its Original For we cannot say it is a Form or Image of Reason but it is the Image of God it is Gods Similitude and eternal Form 2. And yet during the time of this life it may break it self or be changed into an Anguish quality 3. For it is in its own Being in the Original meerly a naked Will and the same Will is a Seed which the spirit of the Fire the Soul must sow into the Freedom of God 4. Then there groweth a seed out of that Tree upon which the Soul feedeth and mitigateth her fire-life that she becomes powerful and giveth strength to the root of this Tree whereby the Tree groweth in the Spirit of God and springeth up in Gods Paradise 5. And though it be so that in this we might be dumb and ignorant for Reason would fain comprehend and know all therefore we will hold it forth clearly to the light why Faith and Doubt are one by another and are as it were chained together so that there is a vehement strife in man all his time so long as he is a guest in the cottage of this earthly life 6. Unless he sink so much in himself that he can bring the Fire of Life into the Freedom of God Then he is as it were dead in Reasons-life or in the life of Reason and if he liveth he liveth to God 7. Which indeed is a most precious dear life in a man and is seldom or rarely found in any for it is like unto the first Image which God did create 8. And although the mortal part sticketh unto him yet it is as it were dead just as if a dead image stuck unto him which belongs unto the corruption breaking in which the true man doth not live 9. For the true Life standeth turned and is in another World in another

God himself dweleth God putteth on thee his fairest ornament that thou shouldest rejoyce in him eternally 51. What is the Being of this World it is corruptible and bringeth man only into anguish perplexity and misery besides into Gods wrath and breaketh the fair Image in him and puts a vizard on him 52. O What a shame will it be unto that man who shall appear on the Judgment day of God with a beastly Image besides that what followeth in which he is to abide for ever 53. Here begins a penitet me it repenteth me here will be the sighiug and howling about the lost talent which may never be attained unto 54. Where the Image shall stand in eternity before the Devils and do what the terrible Prince Lucifer will have The Eighth Chapter 1. MY dear seeking and desirous mind which art hungry and thirsty after Gods Kingdom pray take notice of the ground which is shew-unto thee 2. It is not so easie a matter to become the Child of God as Babell teacheth where Consciences are lead into Histories and are courteously tickled with Christs sufferings and death where Remission of sins is taught Historically 3. Like unto a worldly judgment where a mans crime is remitted graciously though the man abide a Rogue in his heart but it is no such thing here 4. God will not have hippocrites he doth not take away sins from us because we depend upon knowledg and comfort our selves with Christs sufferings and abide yet in our consciences in the Abominations 5. It is said you must be new born again or you shall not see the Kingdom of God 6. That a man should please himself with Christs sufferings and death and apply it unto him but is unregenerated with his will in the Adamical will he doth as one who comforteth himself that his lord will bestow his land upon him not considering that he is not his son and he hath promised that his son alone should have it as it is here 7. If thou wilt possesse thy lords land and have it for a propriation then you must become a true son unto him for the son of the maid-servant doth not inherit with the free born the son of the History is a stranger 8. Thou must be born out of God in Christ that you be a natural son then art thou the Child of God and an heir of the sufferings and death of Christ 9. And Christs death is thy death his resurrection out of the grave is thy resurrection his ascension into Heaven is thy ascension and his eternal Kingdom is thy Kingdom 10. If thou art born his true son out of his flesh and blood then art thou an heyr of all his Goods else thou canst not be Christs Child and heyr 11. As long as the earthly Kingdom sticketh in thine Image then art thou the earthly of corrupted Adam no hippocrisy avai●eth give as good words as thou wilt 12 Yet art thou a stranger and Gods Goods do not belong unto thee unless thou returnest with the lost son unto the Father with a true repentance for thy lost Inheritance 13. Thou must go out with thy spirit of thy will out of the earthly life and break the earthly will which payneth the minde and the spirit of the will as to forsake a possest Treasure in which the spirit of the will was born and thou must enter into Gods Will. 14. There you sow your seed into Gods Kingdom art new born in God as a fruit which groweth on Gods Acre for thy will receiveth Gods Power Christs body and a new body groweth unto thee in God 15. Then art thou Gods child and Christs goods belong unto thee and his merit is thy merit his sufferings death and resurrection all thine thou art a member of his body and his Spirit is thy Spirit and guideth thee on the true way and whatsoever thou dost thou dost it to God 16. Thou sowest in this World and reapest in Gods Heaven thou art Gods wonder work and revealest in the earthly life his wonders and drawest them with thy spirit of thy will into the holy Mystery 17. Thus observe it ye coveteous ye proud ye envious ye false Judges ye wicked men which bring your wills and desires into earthly goods into monies into pleasures of this World and money and goods you esteem to be your treasure and you set your desire upon them and yet you would be accounted Gods children 18. You stand and dissemble before God as if he remitteth the sins and you continue with your Image in Adams coat in Adams flesh you comfort your selves with Christs sufferings and you are me er hippocrites 19. You are not Gods children you must be new born in God if you will be children otherwise you deceive your selves with your dissembling which paint to you a false colour 20. They teach and are not known of God neither are they sent to teach they do it for the bellies sake and for worldly honours sake and are the great whores in Babel which dissemble with God with their lips and with the heart and spirit of the willl they serve the Dragon in Babel 21. Dear Mind if thou wilt be Gods Child then prepare thy self for Temptation and affliction it is not easie to enter into a childs life especially if Reason lyeth captivated in the earthly kingdom 22. She must be broken and the will must be gone from Reason he must sow himself into Gods Kingdom in a humble obedience as Corn is sowed into an Acre he must make himself in Reason as dead and submit unto God then the new Fruit grows in Gods Kingdom 23. Thus man standeth in a Threefold life and all belongeth unto God 24. The Inner fiery Essences of the first Principle are incorrporated with the new Body in Christ that they spring up in Christs Flesh and Blood out of Gods Will and their Fire is Gods Fire out of which burneth Love Meekness and Humility 25. Where the Holy Spirit goeth forth and helpeth him in the Combate against earthly Reason also against the corrupt flesh and the Devils will his yoke of the Earthly will groweth easier unto him but he must continue in the fight of this world 26. For unto the Earthly life belongeth sustenance which he must seek but must not hang his will and heart thereon 27. He must put his confidence in God and his Earthly Reason still steppeth into doubt that he will come short she will always see God and yet cannot or God does not dwell in an Earthly Kingdom but in himself 28. Thus Reason must be forced into hope because she cannot see God 29. There Doubt runneth against Faith and will destroy Hope then the earnest Will must fight with the true Image against the Earthly Reason here it doth smart and great sadness ensueth especially if Reason looketh on the course of this world and thinketh her spirit of her will to be foolish in regard of the course of this world 30. Here it is sayd Be Sober Watch Fast and Pray that is subdue the Earthly Reason and mortifie her that Gods Spirit may find place in you 31 If he appeareth he soon overcometh Earthly Reason and looketh on the will in the anguish with his love and sweetness where always is begotten a fair twig out of the Tree of Faith 32. And all tribulation and affliction serveth for the good of Gods Children for as often as God permitteth him to be brought into anguish and calamities then they always stand in the Birth of a new twig out of the Tree of Faith 33. When the Spirit of God appeareth again then he always rayseth a new growth at which the Noble Image highly rejoyceth 35. The first serious assault must do it that the Earthly Tree may be conquered and the Noble Corn be sowed into Gods Acre that it may learn to know the Earthly man 35. For when the Will of God receiveth light then the mirrour beholdeth it self the one essence seeth the other in the light and thus the whole man finds himself in himself and knoweth what he is which he cannot know in the earthly Reason 36. Therefore let no man think that the Tree of Christian Faith is seen or known in the Kingdom of this World external Reason doth not know it 37. Although the fair Tree standeth in the inner man yet the outer earthly Reason doubteth of it for the Spirit of God is a folly to her because she cannot comprehend him 38. And although it happeneth that many times the Holy Ghost revealeth himself in the external mirrour or glasse that the outward life rejoyceth much at it and quaketh for Joy and supposeth now have I gotten that worthy guest now I will beleeve it yet there is no perfect constancy in it 39. For the Spirit of God persevereth not always in the earthly quality he must have a pure vessel and if he goeth into his principle as into the true I mage then the external life groweth pusilanimous and timerous 40. Therefore the noble Image must still be in fight aginst the external life of Reason the more she fighteth the greater groweth the fair Tree because she worketh with God 41. For as an earthly tree groweth in wind rain cold and heat so doth the Tree of the Image of God under crosses and tribulation anguish and torment in ignominy and contempt and springeth up in Gods Kingdom and in patience beareth fruit 42. We knowing thus much let us strive for it not to be kept back by any fear or terrour because we shall enjoy it eternally and reap that what we have sowed in anguish and pain which will be an eternal comfort to us Amen Finis hujus tractatûs Anno 1620 mense Maji Soli Deo Gloria Written by the Author JACOB BEHMEN FINIS