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A28529	Mysterium magnum, or An exposition of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Concerning the manifestation or revelation of the divine word through the three principles of the divine essence; also of the originall of the world and the creation. Wherein the kingdome of nature, & the kingdome of grace are expounded. For the better understanding of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are. Also, how man should consider and may know himselfe in the light of nature, where he is, and where his temporall and eternall life, consist; also, where his eternall blessednesse, and damnation, consist. And is an exposition of the essence of all essences for the further consideration of the lovers, in the divine gift. Comprised in three parts: written anno 1623. By Jacob Behm. To which is added, The life of the author. And his Foure tables of divine revelation.; Mysterium magnum. English.	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?; H. B. (Henry Blunden)	1656 (1656)	Wing B3411A; ESTC R212985	753,539	662

brother and yet the Spirit sayth of him he is a ravening Wolfe who in the morning would devour the prey In this Testament of Benjamin is couched the most hidden secret figure of the whole Scripture and yet in its Type in the unfolding in the Effect and work it is the most manifest and open figure which is cleere in the fullfilling so that Men may see it with bodily Eyes and yet in their Reason are quite blinde concerning it 49. This figure is fullfilled and yet is in action and shall be yet also further fullfilled it is very secret and yet as manifest as a Sunshiny Day and yet is not understood but it is knowne to the Magi and Wisemen who indeed have written much concerning it but it hath not been yet rightly explicated while the time of the Evening when Benjamins spoyle shall be divided was far off but now it is neere therefore wee shall offer somewhat concerning it and hint the sence and meaning for those of our society to consider of and yet remaine as it were dumb to the unwise seeing they sit in the dark and open their Jawes onely after the spoyle 50. The two Brethren Joseph and Benjamin are the Image or Type of Christendome and of a Christian Man which in their figure are twofold viz. the Adamicall Man in his Nature is signified by Benjamin and the New Man out of the Covenant in the Spirit of Christ is signified by Joseph and the figure representeth how Christ hath assumed the Adamicall Man and that this Man is halfe Adamicall and halfe heavenly and that entirely in one person which cannot be divided 51. So also in this Image or Type he prefigureth Christendome and how they would receive Christ and become Christians viz. that in them Christ and also the Evill Wolfe Adam would governe that is when they would receive the Faith they would be so ravenous raving and zealous as a Wolfe and would draw the Heathen to them with power and Compulsion and yet would devour them that is whosoever will not above all hold the same Opinion with them they would presently fall on to Condemne that other Opinion and persecute it with warres the sword as a raging Lyon or Wolfe biteth and devoureth thus in zeale they would devour round about them with Excommunication and the sword and that therefore not because they are zealous in the Spirit of Christ but from the Wolfe of the Evill Adam which would alwayes set it selfe in Spirituall and Worldly States and polities above the Spirit of Christ. 52. Thus their Zeale would be only from the devouring Wolfe Men being more zealous under the Name of Christ for temporall Goods fatt livings good dayes and worldly honour then for Love Truth and Salvation they will not be zealous in the power of Christs Love but in the power of the devouring Wolfe Also in the Zeale of their accustomed Exercises and Worship wherein yet they would but play the hypocrites before God they themselves would devoure one another as covetous greedy Wolves and so outwarldly the Wolfe would Governe But yet inwardly in the true children Christ would governe Outwardly Benjamin viz. the Naturall Adam which indeed is also a Christian but it is first after his Resurrection when he is quitt of the Wolfe and Inwardly Joseph who is hidden under the Wolfe 53. And now the Spirit of Jacob in the Covenant of God pointeth at the Time shewing how it would be viz. in the first time of Christianity they would be zealous hunger after God in the Spirit of Christ and yet must hide themselves from their Enemies as a Wolfe that Men hunt as an Enemie 54. But when they shall be great and possesse Kingdomes that is when Christs Name shall come under the power and authority of Dan so that Lawes and Ordinances shall be made out of pretence of Christian Liberty and its Orders and Exercises shall come under worldly authority and dominion then will this Christendom be a Wolfe which will no more judge and proceed in the Love of Christ but whosoever will not call all their Belly Orders good and right those they would devour with the sword of Excommunication with fire and * * * Racha vengeance and would raise warres for Christs Name and for their superstitions and compell the people with power to the acknowledgement of Christ and devoure round about them as a Wolfe and alwayes hunt after the spoyle and yet for the most part entend to get the Goods and authority of strange and forreigne people to themselves 55. Thus would Benjamin in the Morning viz. in his rising up devour the prey and towards the Evening he would againe divide this devoured spoyle that is towards the End of the world when Josephs Government will get aloft againe so that Christ shall be wholly manifest and that this Wolfe shall cease then will Benjamin viz. the holy true Christendom divide the spoyle of Christ wherewith Christ hath suppressed Death and Hell 56. This dividing or distribution of the spoyle shall come and is already come and yet is not though it is really in Truth and the whole world is blinde concerning it except the children of the Mystery The Time is and is not and yet truly is when this prey and spoyle of Christ and also the Wolfes prey shall through Josephs hand be given into Benjamins hand and be divided and distributed 57. O Babell let this be a Wonder to thee and yet no wonder neither for thou hast nothing and seest nothing at which thou canst wonder as a young plant groweth from a Seede and becometh a great Tree which bringeth forth much faire fruit so that a Man would wonder at the Graine or seede how so excellent a Tree and so much good fruit hath lyen hid in one only Graine or seede which men neither knew of nor saw before But because Men have knowledge and experience thereof that it is possible that a Tree should come out of one graine or seede Men wonder not at it yet Men see not how it comes to passe or where that great power and vertue was so also at present Men see the Graine or Seede of the Tree well enough but Reason contemneth that and beleeveth not that such a Tree lyeth therein whence such good fruit should come that thereby the Kingdome of Benjamin at the End of Time shall be called a dividing or distribution of the prey and spoyle 58. But Joseph must first be a Governour in Egypt and then Benjamin cometh to him and then Joseph giveth him five Garments of sumptuous apparell and five times more foode from his Table then the other when the famine famisheth the Land and the soule of Jacob hungereth then know that God will thereby draw Israell into Egypt viz. into Repentance and then is the time of visitation and Benjamin carrieth his spoyling sword in his mouth But Josephs countenance smiteth him so that he cometh into great Terrour and feare of

its Sword by them to destroy the heathen and the Generation of Ham Gen XIIII Verse 14. for Abraham went out with his whole house and people against the Heathen who had carried away Lot his brothers Son captive and he smote the heathen and delivered his brother This was done in the zeale of God which thus delivered his children through the might of his Anger for what conduceth to the wicked for destruction the same conduceth to the holy men for life and deliverance 15. But that those who will be called Christians who ought in and with Christ to be dead to the Anger and wrath of God in Christs death doe wage war they doe it not as Christians but as heathens No Christian warreth for if he be a Christian then he is dead in and with Christs death to the foure Elements of Gods Anger in Selfe and born a new man in Christs spirit of Love who liveth in Righteousnesse in Love and patience and liveth not to himselfe but to God in Christ. 16. For a true Christian leadeth his conversation and will in heaven in the life and Spirit of Christ as S t Paul saith our conversation is in heaven but when the Christians doe wage war they doe it from the heathenish property and not from Christs property for a Christian is not of this world his Kingdome is in heaven and he is dead in Christ to the world according to the new spirituall man in him the Heathen-man viz. the halfe-devillish man who hath his Kingdome in this world who never hath roome enough upon the Earth but liveth in the foure Elements of Gods Anger viz. in Pride Coveteousnesse Envy and Wrath the same desireth in the Christians to warre fight and slay 17. Saint Paul saith give your members to be weapons of Righteousnesse for why doe men fight for the Kingdome of this world Rom. 6.13 and yet as Christ said his Kingdome was not of this world James 4.1 so also his childrens Kingdome in him is not of this world Joh. 18.36 now then if we give up our body and Soule for weapons of Gods Anger and seek onely thereby Selfe interests liberties and priviledges of Mammon and slay one another for the Kingdome of this world I thinke we are herein Christians indeed in the mouth but the heart and Soul is an heathen and not born out of Christs Spirit 18. When Abraham had smote the heathen he desired nothing of the goods which he tooke but restored to the King of Sodom what the Heathen had taken from him and was onely zealous in the Lord he did not fight for Countrey and Kingdome but to deliver his brother Loth this was a true zeale which the Lord drove in him he did not stand up and fight for Countrey or City and albeit he obtained it he desired it not but went again unto his own place 19. And here the Spirit in Moses speaketh very wonderfully and saith that when Abraham returned from the Slaughter that the King of Sodome met him and Melchisedech King of Salem brought forth bread and wine who was a Priest of the most High God possessour of Heaven and of Earth and blessed Abraham and Abraham gave him Tithes And though we finde almost nothing elsewhere in the holy Scripture of this Priesthood yet the same was really in the figure of Christ for the Spirit saith in another place of Christ that he was an High Priest in the order of Melchisedech 20. Thus the Spirit of God doth very secretly and mystically represent the Figure of Christ by Abraham and calleth him a King of Salem and a Priest of the most High God viz. a Priest of Salvation and the holy Vnction as it intimates in the SenSAll Tongue that is Christ hath blessed Abraham and brought him forth bread and wine viz. his flesh and bloud and is the high Priest before God that makes Atonement for Abraham and his children 21. For Abraham had managed the Sword of Gods Anger against the Heathen now came Melchisedech and blessed Abraham againe least the Sword of the Turba should lay hold on him and he gave him forth bread and wine that is the heavenly Ens which he would introduce into Abrahams Seed and change it into flesh and bloud and here he appeased the Fathers Anger in the Covenant as in the Type 22. For this Priest with Abraham is really to be understood in a spirituall manner for although Abraham might have externally a Priest after the same manner with him under the figure of Christ yet Moses saith he was a Priest of God and said to Abraham blessed art thou Abraham unto the most High who possesseth heaven and earth who hath shut up thine Enemies into thy hands here is none other to be understood but Christ who very often appeared to Abraham in the figure and blessed him alwayes for the Spirit in Moses calleth him also a King of Salem which is nothing else but a King of Salvation 23. And Abraham gave him Tithes indeed he might have such a Priestly Order with him to whom he gave Tithes but this King and Priest was he of whom he preached to whom Abraham gave tithes viz. the Tenth Property of the humane properties of the fiery tongue of the Soule and the Priest gave his bread and wine and his blessing thereinto viz. the Love-fire the Tincture of the light together with the heavenly Substantiality that so Abraham might receive the lights Tincture into the Soules fiery Tincture and become again a compleat Image of God which was separated in Adam with the woman therefore Christ viz. the womans Tincture gave him againe the lights Ens that so the male and female property might become one Image or person this the Spirit doth here signifie in Moses under the Royall Priest of Salem 24. For Esdra when he dictated the lost Bible in the knowledge of the Spirit of God to his Scribes saw this very well Note Esdra dictated the Bible that was Lost. 2 Esdra 14. and therefore the holy Spirit doth so set it down and we see very exactly how Esdras wrote the hystories of Abraham in the vision of the Spirit for the whole hystory of Abraham is delineated under Christs Person and is an Image or Type of Christ. 25. Abraham saw in the Spirit this Priest of Salem and when Abraham offered Sacrifice then this Priest was in the offering and offered to God for he was to make reconciliation for the world with an offering therefore he was a Priest of God 26. He brought Abrahams will-offering viz. his prayer and desire in faith into the holy Ens of God and in the same Ens viz. in the divine Essentiality heavenly bread and wine was brought to Abrahams Soul that it might eat at Gods Table till this Priest became Abraham that is did manifest himselfe in Abraham with the heavenly Corporeity viz. with the Soules food in the Right bread and wine CHAP. XXXIX How God appeared to

the affliction of Joseph shall not be avenged behold in thy miserable Famine and distresse when thou shalt hunger and thirst even then thou must make thy Adresse and supplication to him the high Towre will give thee neither comfort nor deliverance the Time is come about that Josephs Affliction is to be Avenged and Reubens whoredome with Jacobs Concubine is come before Israel 32. Why makest thou such long delay and flatterest thy selfe playing the Hypocrite and saist not yet a good while behold it is come before the Eyes of Israel that thou hast committed whoredome a long time with the Concubine and defiled the line of Christ Israel will no longer endure it thou shalt with Reuben be cast out of the high Office of Sacrificing and Governing This is the voyce which the watchmen have pronounced 33. ‖ ‖ ‖ Gen. 37.5 6 7 8 9 10 11. When Joseph had had the two Dreames the one of his sheaf standing upright before which the sheafes of his brethren bowed the other of the Sun Moon and Eleven Starrs which had done obeysance to Joseph Envy forthwith arose amongst them and they supposed he would be their Lord and being that they were the Eldest they desired to rule over Him 34. Whereby we see how the outward man hath onely sought and aimed at the Kingdome of this world which was even the bane and undoing of Adam in that he forsook the inward and sought after the outward 35. * * * Gen. 37.3 Josephs party-coloured Coat which his father made signifieth how the inward power of God would again be revealed through the outward man whereby the humane nature would be variously coloured that is mixed with God as the inward spirituall Kingdome with the outward The Spirituall Christian figure is thus to be understood 36. Joseph with his Coat of many colours was as yet a Ladd both tender and young and had not yet the wit craft and suttlety of the world but spake the truth in simplicity for his soul was not yet defiled from without with the craft of lying and the Spirit of God began to † † † Work act or move in him drive him forward for his Coat of many colours was a figure of the inward 37. This figure prefigureth and representeth to us the Image of a true young Schollar and beginner in Christianity how he must be when the Spirit of God shall drive and act him namely he must turne his heart to God his Father and learn to love him heartily As Joseph loved to be with his father and told him the evill that was committed among his children so must a beginner in Christianity daily bring before God all his own miseries and the miseries and sins of all that belong to him yea of all Christendome As Daniel confessed the sins of the People of Israel before God and Joseph the evills of his brethren before his father so also a true Christian doth daily confesse the misery and sin of his People and Nation in hearty Compassion that God would be mercifull to them and preserve them from Great Evills and Sins 38. And when this is brought to passe his heart becometh very simple honest and upright for he desireth no craft but would fain have all things proceed righteously and justly and he cannot abide any unrighteousnesse or suttle dealings for he alwayes confesseth the peoples unrighteousnesse before God and thus his minde becometh altogether simple and seeketh no kinde of craft or suttlety but putteth his hope and confidence in God and liveth in the simplicity and lowlinesse of heart before God and the world and he is as the tender young ladd Joseph for he hopeth for good continually from God his Father 39. Now when a man is come so far then Joseph viz. the chast virgin childe of Sophia is even born then God his father cloathes his soul with the party-coloured coat viz. with the divine power and forth with the Spirit of God in him beginneth to play with the soul as he did with Joseph for the Spirit of God seeth through the soul and with the soul as Joseph in the Type saw things which were to come represented to him in the vision of dreames whereby the Spirit did also play with the soul even so the Spirit of God doth forthwith take delightfull communion with the soul of a new Joseph viz. with the inward spirituall world so that the soul understandeth divine mysteries and seeth into the Eternall life and knoweth the hidden world which yet is to be revealed in man as this Pen hath found by Experience from whence it hath received its Spirit of knowledge 40. Now when this man beginneth to speake of divine things and visions of the hidden worlds divine mysteries and speaketh forth the wonders of God that his brethren viz. the children of the outward world in whom the hidden spirituall world is not yet manifest do heare it they count it a meer fable and a melancholly Chimera and whimsey and esteem him foolish in that he speaketh of those things which they cannot understand and comprehend they make a meer Phancy and Fiction of it also they account it some Astrall instigation or false Enthusiasm or the like especially if he revealeth and reproveth their evill workes and wayes as Joseph did then they turn his open Enemies and grudge him his very life as hapned to Joseph 41. Now when it is thus Reason beholdeth it selfe at a stand as if it were confounded and knoweth not the wayes of God viz. that it must be thus with the children of God it thinketh thou seekest God and he bringeth thee into distresse and misery thus this man doth now wander up and down as Joseph wandred in the * * * Or Field Wildernesse when his father sent him to his brethren to see how it was with them 42. So it goeth likewise with Gods new children when Gods Spirit sendeth them to be zealous about the affliction of Joseph and the world doth every way hate and persecute them for it then they thinke in the Reason of this world dost thou not goe in the wayes of God wherefore then doth it goe so with thee that thou art but the fool of the world and then the Minde beginneth to be troubled and knowes not how it is with it for he heareth that he is every where accused for a frantick wicked person and hated for the young minde in flesh and bloud understandeth not the divine processe viz. how reason must become a fool and how Christ doth very willingly take upon himselfe in man the reproach and scorn of the Devill and of the world and how Gods righteousnesse and Adams propagated Guilt must be alwayes fullfilled with suffering how a Christian must stand in Christs figure 43. And now when it comes to be thus then Reason goes truely a wandering in great sorrow and desertion with Joseph in the wildernesse and is every way in distresse and yet he must performe his