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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28541	The way to Christ discovered by Iacob Behmen ... ; also, the discourse of illumination, the compendium of repentance, and the mixt world, &c.; Weg zu Christo. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?; Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. Selections. English. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing B3426; ESTC R19225	128,989	352

light in all its members Now if any boast himself to be the child of God and yet suffereth the body to burn in sins he is not yet capable of being a child but lieth captive in the fetters of the Devill in great darknesse and if he doe not find in himselfe an earnest will burning in him of well-doing in love then his pretence is but an invention of Reason proceeding from Selfe which cannot see God unlesse it be born anew and shew forth in its power and vertue that it is his child For there is no fire but hath light in it and if the divine fire be in the mind it will shine forth and the mind will doe that which God will have done 40. But perhaps thou wilt say I have a will indeed to doe so I would willingly doe it but I am so hindred that I cannot 41. Yes thou vile man God draweth thee to be his child but thou wilt not the soft cushion in evill is dearer to thee then so thou preferrest the joy of wickednesse before the joy of God thou wholly stick'st fast in Selfe still and livest according to the law of Sin and that hindereth thee thou art unwilling to dye from the pleasure of the flesh and therefore thou art not in the filiation and yet God draweth thee to it but thou thy selfe wilt not 41. O how fine a thing would Adam think it to be if he might be taken into heaven with this will of the voluptuous flesh to have the child of wickednesse that is full of deceit set upon the Throne of God Lucifer also would fain have had it so but he was spewed out 42. It is a troublesome thing to mortifie the evill will none are willing to have it so we would all willingly be the children of God if we might be so with this garment but it cannot be This world passeth away and the outward life must dye what good can the childhood in the mortall body doe me 43. If we would inherit the filiation we must also put on the new man which can inherit the filiation which is like the deity God wil have no sinner in heaven but such as are born anew and become children which have put on heaven 44. Therefore it is not so easie a matter to become the children of God as men imagine Indeed it is not a burdensome thing to him that hath put on the filiation whose light shineth for it is joy to him But to turn the mind and destroy Selfe there is a strong continual earnestnesse requisite and such a purpose that if the body and soule should part asunder by it yet the will should persevere constantly and not enter again into Selfe 45. A man must wrastle so long till the dark center that is shut up so close break open and the spark in the center kindle and from thence immediatly the Noble Lilly-branch sprouteth as from the divine grain of Mustard seed as Christ saith A man must pray earnestly with great humility and for a while become a foole in his own reason and see himselfe as voyd of understanding therin untill Christ be formed in this new incarnation 46. And then when Christ is born Herod is ready to kill the child which he seeketh to doe outwardly by persecutions and inwardly by temptations to try whether this Lilly-branch will be strong enough to destroy the kingdome of the Devil which is made manifest in the flesh 47. Then this destroyer of the Serpent is brought into the wildernesse after he is baptized with the holy Spirit and tempted and tried whether he will continue in Resignation in the will of God he must stand so fast that if need require hee would leave all earthly things and even the outward life to be a child of God 48. No temporall honour must be preferred before the filiation but he must with his will leave and forsake it all and not account it his owne but esteem himselfe as a servant in it onely in obedience to his Master hee must leave all worldly propriety Wee doe not mean that hee may not have or possesse any thing but his heart must forsake it and not bring his will into it nor count it his own if he set his heart upon it he hath no power to serve them that stand in need with it 49. Selfe onely serveth that which is temporary but Resignation hath rule over all that is under it Selfe must doe what the Devill will have it to doe in fleshly voluptuousnesse and pride of life but Resignation tteadeth it under with the feet of the mind Selfe despiseth that which is lowly and simple but Resignation sitteth down with the lowly in the dust it saith I will be simple in my selfe and understand nothing lest my understanding should exalt it selfe and sin I will lye down in the Courts of my God at his feet that I may serve my Lord in that which he commandeth me I will know nothing my selfe that the commandment of my Lord may lead and guide mee and that I may only doe what God doth through me and will have done by me I will sleep in my selfe untill the Lord awaken mee with his Spirit and if he will not then will I cry out eternally in him in silence and wait his commands 50. Beloved brethren men boast much now-a-dayes of faith but where is that faith The modern faith is but the History Where is that child which beleeveth that Jesus is borne If that child were in Being and did beleeve that Jesus is born it would also draw neere to the sweet child Jesus and receive him and ●urse him 51. Alas the Faith now a dayes is but Historicall and a meere knowledge of the story that the Jewes killed him that hee left this world that he is not King on earth in the animall man but that men may doe what they list and need not dye from sinne and their evill lusts All this the wicked child Selfe rejoyceth in that it may fatten the Devil by living deliciously 52 This sheweth plainly that true faith was never weaker and feebler since Christs time then it is now when neverthelesse the world cryeth a loud and saith we have found the true saith and contend about a child so that there was never worse contention since men were on earth 53. If thou beest Zion and hast that new-born Child which was lost and is found again then let it be seen in power and vertue and let us openly see the sweet Child JESUS brought forth by thee and that we may see that thou art his Nurse if not then the children in Christ will say thou hast found nothing but the History viz. the Cradle of the Child 54. Where hast thou the sweet child Jesus thou that art exalted with the History and with thy false and seeming faith O how will the Child Jesus visit thee once in the Fathers property in thy own Turba which thou hast fatted It

thing its owne will is without GODS will and there the Devill dwelleth and all what ever is without God The Scholar 42. How farre then is Heaven and Hell from one another The Master As far as day and night something and nothing are one from another they are in one another and they doe cause joy and trouble one to another Heaven is through the whole world and without the world all over without being divided or included in a place and worketh through the Divi●● Manifestation but onely in it self and in that which commeth into it or in that wherein it becommeth manifest and there God is revealed for heaven is nothing but a manifestation of the eternall One wherein all worketh and willeth in quiet love Hell also is through the whole world and dwelleth and worketh also but in it selfe and in that wherein the foundation of Hell is manifested viz. in Selfe and in the false or evill will The visible world hath both Heaven and Hell in it Ma● as to his Temporall life is only of the visible world and therefore during the time of this life he seeth not the spirituall world for the outward world with its substance is a cover to the spirituall world as the soule is covered with the body But when the outward man dyeth then the spirituall world as to the soule is manifested either in the eternall light with the holy Angels or in the eternall darknesse with the Devils The Scholar 43. What is an Angel or the soule of a man that they may be manifested thus either in Gods love or anger The Master They came from one originall they are a Branch of the Divine Sience of the Divine will sprung from the Divine Word and made an object of the Divine Love they are come out of the ground of eternity from whence Light and Darknesse spring viz. Darknesse consisting in the receiving of Self-desire and Light consisting in willing the same with God and there the love of God is in the working but in the receiving of Self in the willing of the soule Gods will worketh in pain and is a Darknesse that the light may be known They Heaven and Hell are nothing else but a manifestation of the Divine will either in Light or Darknesse according to the properties of the spirituall world The Scholar 44. What then is the Body of a Man The Master It is the visible world an Image and essence of all that the world is and the visible world is a manifestation of the inward spirituall world come out of the eternal light out of the eternall darknesse out of the spiritual weaving twining or connexion and it is an object or resemblance of eternity wherewith eternity hath made it self visible where self-wil and resigned will viz. evill and good work one with another and such a substance the outward man also is for God created man of the outward world and breathed into him the inward spirituall world for a soule and an understanding life and therefore in the things of the outward world man can receive and work evill and good The Scholar 45. What shall be after this world when all things perish The Master The materiall substance onely ceaseth viz. the foure elements the Sun Moon and Starres and then the inward world will be wholly visible and manifest But whatsoever hath been wrought by the Spirit in this time whether evill or good I say every work shal separate it self there in a spirituall manner either into the eternal light o● into the eternal darknesse for that which is born from each will penetrateth again into that which is like it selfe And there the darknesse is called Hell and is an eternall forgetting of all good and the light is called the Kingdome of God and is an eternall joy and an eternall praise in the Saints that they are delivered from the evill pain The last judgement is a kindling of the fire both of Gods love and anger in which the matter of every substance perisheth and each fire shall attract its own into it selfe viz. the substance that is like it selfe that is Gods fire of love draweth into it whatsoever is born in the love of God in which also it shall burn after the manner of love and yeeld it selfe up into that substance But the pain draweth into it selfe what is wrought in the anger of God in darknesse and consumeth the false substance and then there remaineth onely the painful or aking will in its own forme Image and figure The Scholar 46. What Matter and Form or shape shall our bodies rise with The Master It is sown a natural grosse elementary body which in this life time is like the outward elements and in this grosse body there is the subtile power and vertue as in the earth there is a subtile good vertue which is like the Sun and is one and the same with the Sunne which also in the beginning of time did spring and proceed out of the Divine power and vertue from whence all the good vertue of the body hath been received this good vertue of the mortall body shall come again and live for ever in a kind of transparent Crystalline material property in spirituall flesh and bloud as also the good vertue of the earth shall when the earth also shall bee Crystalline and the Divine light shine in every thing that hath a Being Essence or Substance And as the grosse earth shall perish and not return so also the grosse flesh of Man shall perish and not live for ever But all things must appeare before the judgement and in the judgement bee separated by the fire yes both the earth and also the ashes of the humane body For when God shall once move the Spirituall world every Spirit shall attract its spirituall substance to it selfe viz. a good Spirit and soule shall draw to it selfe its good substance and an evill one its evill substance But we must here understand such a substantiall materiall power and vertue whose substance is meere vertue like a materiall tincture whose grossnesse is perished in all things The Scholar 47. Shall we not rise again with our visible bodies and live in them for ever The Master When the visible world perisheth then all that which hath come out of it and hath been externall shall perish with it there shal remain of the world onely the heavenly Crystalline Nature and Form and so there shall remain of Man also onely the spirituall earth For man shall be then wholly like the spiritual world which as yet is hidden The Scholar 48. Shall there be also husband and wife or children and kindred in the spirituall life or shall one associate with another as they doe in this life The Master Why art thou so fleshly minded There will be neither husband nor wife but all will be like the Angels of God viz. Masculine Virgins there will be neither sonne nor daughter brother nor sister

meere gift of God given not for my sake onely but for your sakes also and for all theirs that shall get to read it 16. Let none gaze any longer after the time it is alreadie borne or begun whomsoever it hitteth him it hitteth hee that watcheth seeth it and he that sleepeth seeth it not the time is alreadie appeared and shall suddenly appeare more hee that watcheth he shall see it many have already felt it but a very great tribulation and calamity must passe over before it be wholly manifested The cause of which misery and calamity is the contention of the Learned who tread the cup of Christ under their feet and contend about a child with a contention then which there was never worse since men were that must be manifested therefore let no honest man defile himselfe with such contentions there is a fire from the Lord therein that shall consume them and himselfe reveale the Truth 17. You shall receive of Mr. Walter what he hath more especially a Table with an Exposition of it wherein the whole ground of all Mysteries is plainly laid down And so I commend you sir to the love of JESUS CHRIST Dated the 20. of April Anno 1624. Your Servant in the love of CHRIST JACOB BEHMEN AN EXPLICATION OF Some words in the writings of JACOB BEHMEN Turba Magna 1. THE Turba Magna the great Turba is the stirred and awakened wrath of the inward ground when the foundation of Hell is made manifest in the Spirit of this world from whence great plagues and diseases arise And it is also the awakened wrath of the outward nature as may bee seen in great tempests of Thunder and lightning when the fire is manifested or generated in water In briefe it is the effusion of the Anger of God by which Nature is disturbed Ternarius 2. By the word Ternarius the Ternary or number three in the Language of Nature we understand the Divine Birth or Propagation in the six formes or properties of Nature which are the six Seales of God Ternarius Sanctus 3. The Ternarius Sanctus or holy Ternary is the Inward heavenly working power in that Substance wherein the Trinity of God worketh and so I understand thereby an Essentiall power and the Number Three or Trinity in the seven formes or Properties wherein also the Angelicall world is comprehended Tria Principia The three Principles Primum Principium The first Principle 4. By the first Principle is meant the Eternall Darknesse which consisteth in the receivingnesse of the Properties whence feelingnesse ariseth and its ground extendeth as farre as to Fire in order of the seven Properties fire being the fourth property into which its ground reacheth by which ground we meane the Eternall Nature and the wrath of God according to which God is said to be a zealous Angry Jealous God and a consuming fire Secundum Principium The second Principle 5. By the second Principle is meant the Light and the Angelicall powrefull World in which the effluence of the Divine Power and Will doth manifest it selfe by the Magicall Fire in the Light with the flaming fire of love by this is meant the Kingdome of God according to which God is said to be a loving mercifull God and the Eternall goodnesse and Light Tertium Principium The third Principle 6. By the third Principle is meant the visible produced and created world with all its hosts which is an effluence out of the first and second Principle caused by the motion and breathing forth of the Divine Power and will in which the spirituall world as to Light and Darknesse is represented and come to be a creature Tincture 7. By the Word Tincture is meant the power and vertue of Fire and Light and the stirring up or putting forth like a bud of this vertue is called the holy and pure Element the vertue of the Sunne is the Tincture of all things that grow and live in the visibility of the world so also the colour is the Tincture of the ground Christ ●s the Tincture of the soule in briefe the Tincture is the life and the perfluent and informing vertue by which any thing doth subsist for without the Tincture that proceedeth from the Sunne Gold were no Gold and so also the Image of God in the soule without the true Tincture the Eternall Sun of Righteousnesse were not the Image of God CHRISTUS Christ. 8. By the Word Christ is meant the inward new man in the Spirit of Christ understood inwardly Satan 9. By the word Satan is meant the Spirit of errour in us and not alwayes a creaturely Devill but the property of such an erroneous Spirit The end COncerning the Authors life the Reader may finde some information in the Preface to his 40. Questions of the Soul in English And at the end of that Book a Catalogue of his other Writings * * Or Worke. * * Or put a a Larva or monstrous shape b b Or by c c Or modell d d Or obtaine a drawing * * Or a way to conversion a a Or in b b As its nutriment c c Or represent or set before himself d d De ca●ed e e Or blowne out * * Or beings f f Or Step-child g g Barren or unprofitable h h I that which is called I or my self k k Or dying sparke ready to goe out l l Or I or I-hood or Inesse that which wee meane when we say 't is I. m m Or Bowe a a Or processes b b Or dumb c c Vertuous pious or godly life * * Or the Divine wisedome * * Or way † † Iericho a a Or disappeared ‖ ‖ Or Regeneration * * Or Divine wisedome d d In Paradise e e Having it manife sted in them f f The vineger or dreggs g g Processe or journey h h Or Time i i Bound end or full filling k k Or victorize l l Fortresse Castle or den m m Or ●nsigne n n pearl●ree or tree of faith o o His conscience is a sleepe still p p Triall or temtation q q Or Dawning ‖ ‖ Or eternal wisedome s s Or selfehood * * The Image * * Or a● guide ‖ ‖ The inward starres costellations in our bodies a a Or evill desires b b Gole or marke * * In virginali sapientiâ ‖ ‖ Or in thy sight c c Or sinck * * For. e e Or Valley f f Or journey g g Or vilenesse h h My enemies i i Or shame k k My enemies l l Or Day-breake * * Shineth through or co●●ureth ‖ ‖ Or the divine wisedome * * Sporteth o o Or into p p Division corruption or breaking asunder ‖ ‖ Or processe or course that he hath taken * * Or calling † † Sensing * * Or Vomb which bringeth forth fire * * Or false o o The