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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

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

quality of the fiery Essences till the quality in the breaking separateth then each steppeth into its own Mystery 15. Therefore the fire also will be free from water for water is a death unto fire and is a mystery unto it 16. And we see also hereby how the water holdeth the fire imprisoned and yet there is no dying in the fire but is wholy a Mistery in the fire 17. As it is apparent how it breaketh forth in the water and revealeth it self that it revealeth it self out of the Center of its own Genetrix as it is apparent in lightning and is known also in a stone which is but a Water 18. And we see chiefly how all the Formes of Nature are desirous of the light for in the same desire the Oyl is begotten in which the light is known for it existeth out of meekness 19. So we are to know our life that in us standeth open the Center of fire for the life burneth in the fire 20. And then are we to consider the desire unto Love which existeth in the word of life in the Angelicall world where the heart of God standeth with his desire toward us in his imagination and draweth us also into the Divine Mystery 21. And thirdly we are to consider the Magicall Kingdome of this World which burneth also in us and draweth us vehemently into its wonders for it will be manifest 22. And man is created unto that end that he should reveal the Mystery of it and to bring the wonders to Light and into Forms after the eternall Wisdom 23. Now if he shall do so and burn thus in a threefold fire then the true Spirit in whom the Angelicall Image sticketh is in great pains and in great danger for he walketh in a very narrow path 24. For he hath two friends which still draw him each will be in the Image and bring his quality into it as the inner fire and also the external fire The inner Kingdome of the fury and also the outer earthly Kingdome of the Mirror of this world and thus the true Image sticketh in the midst of the pressure 25. For the Inner Kingdome will reveal the wonders through the externall 26. But because it is too sharpe then the externall kingdome flyeth from the Inner and reacheth after the means as after the Image which standeth in the freedome of God and so involveth her self into the Image for all reacheth after the heart of God and after the Center of the Joy Kingdome 27. Now there lyeth a necessity upon the Image to defend her self and not to let the earthly guest come in much lesse the fiery one and yet it is born out of both as the life out of the fire and the wonders out of the externall 28. Therefore it is much required of man that he lead a temperate sober life and not to be pampered too much with the externall Kingdome else it maketh an habitation in the Noble Image 29. And herein we understand the mighty strife in man about Gods Image for there are three which fight about her as first the severe fiery life and then the Divine Life and thirdly the earthly Life thus the Noble Image sticketh in the midst and is drawn by these three 30. Now it is needful for him that he hide himself with Faith in the Mysterie of Hope and let him stand still in that Mystery 31. Where the Devil in the Inner fiery life still rideth forth into the outer earthly life in pride covetousness and falshood over the noble Image and will bring her into the fire and anguish life and breaks her 32. For he still supposeth that the place of this world is his Kingdome he will not endure any other Image in it 33. Now falleth the Noble Image into Crosses Affliction into Anguish and Misery and here belongeth a strif thereto to fight about the Noble Garland of Gods Kingdome 34. Hence arise Prayers that the Image goeth out continually out of the in-brought earthly Being and out of the proud hellish abominations with praying and still entreth into Gods life in his Love 35. Thus the true Image still Mortifieth the earthly Adam and also the hellish proud Devil and must still stand like a Warriour 36. And the most usefull thing for her is That she wrap her self up in patience and throw her self under the Cross and stil spring up in Love 37. For that Love is her sword wherewith she striketh at the Devil and expeleth the earthly Being she hath never another sword wherewith to defend her self but onely the meek water of eternall life which doth not please the proud furious Spirit of fire for it is poyson unto him and he flyeth from it 38. Now if we wil speak rightly of the Tree of Christian Faith then we say its Root standeth in Mystery of hope its growth standeth in Love and its Body in the comprehension of Faith 39. That is where the Image presseth in with her earnest desire into Gods Love and comprehendeth Gods entitie that is Christs Body now this is the Body in which the Tree standeth groweth and springeth up and beareth fruit in Patience all these belong to the Angelicall World 40. They are the Food of the Soul on which she feedeth and refresheth her fiery life that it is changed into the light of meekness 41. And thus the Tree groweth in Gods Paradise whom the outward man knoweth not and no Reason comprehendeth it 42. But it is well known to the Noble Image and is revealed unto her then when the externall life breaketh and after him follow all his works in the Mystery of hope into which he hath sowed 43. Therefore let all those which travail like Pilgrimes in the Way of God think that they must not look for good and jolly days in this world in worldly honour for affliction contempt and persecution will wait on them hourly 44. He is here onely in a vail of misery and must continually stand in the fight For the Divel goeth about him as a roaring Lyon he raiseth all his children of wickedness against him 45. He is counted a fool his Brethren will not acknowledg him his mothers house maketh a mock of him and despiseth him 46. He goeth along and soweth in affliction and tormenteth himself but there is no body which taketh notice of him or that doth take it to heart every one thinketh his own folly doth plague him so 47. Thus is he hid in the World for he is not of the World with his noble Image but is born out of God 48. He soweth in affliction and reapeth in Joy but who can expresse his Glory which he hath to receive for a reward Or who can speak of the victorious Garland which he getteth 49. Who can express the Crown of the Virgin of Gods wisdom which the Virgin of Gods wisdom putteth on him Where is such a beauty which exceedeth Heaven 50. O Noble Image art thou not an Image of Gods holy Trinity in whom

Principle and liveth in another quality or source 10. Therefore understand us now in this way You see and know the original of mans life how the same existeth in the Mothers womb and you see also wherein it doth qualifie and moveth as chiefly in four forms viz. in Fire Ayr Water and Earth 11. And though it standeth therein thus yet is it no more in it then an animal life for he receives his Reason from the Stars and it is found that the Sun and the Stars make a Tincture in the four Elements from whence comes Reason and qualification lust and unlustiness or indisposedness 12. And is yet far from the true humane life for this Reason seeketh no further but her self in her Wonders 13. Yet in man it is a desire and a great longing after a higher better and eternal life in which there is no such quality 14. Though Reason doth neither comprehend nor see it yet there lieth a Mystery in Reason which tasteth and knoweth from whence existeth the languor or gnawing 15. Whereby we know that the same Mystery was implanted also in or at the first Creation and is mans propriety and we find it thus that it standeth in a desire or longing as in a Magical groaning 16. Moreover we find that we are in a strange lodging with the same Mystery that the same Mystery doth not stand in the spirit of this world for it comprehends it not neither does it find it 17. Here we know the heavy Fall of Adam for we find that Mystery in the will of the mind that it is a hidden Spring or Fountain which openeth it self in another Principle 18. We understand also how that Mystery standeth hidden in the Anguish-quality and openeth it self through the anguish of the Will 19. And then thirdly we find how the same Mysterium is held imprisoned by the Spirit of this World 20. And how the Reason of the external life hath power to enter into it and to corrupt it whereby that Mystery cannot come into the light because it doth hide it that the Genetrix may not bring forth her fruit and so lies hid as a Mystery 21. And if the Body dyeth then the will hath not another which might reveal the Mystery therefore the Spirit of the Fire or of the Soul abideth in darkness and the Mystery stands hid in him eternally as in a Mystery 22. Thus we know the Mysterie to be Gods Kingdom which stands hid in the Soul which gives a Lust and Desire to the Soul that it imagineth into that Mystery 23. Where she is magically impregnated in the same Mystery from whence ariseth a Will unto her to go out of the life of the Fire into Gods Mystery 24. And if it so come to pass that she lifteth up the Will and casteth the same into the Mystery then is the Will impregnated with the Mystery 25. For the Will is longing and getteth the body of the Mystery as the Being of the Mystery which is Gods Being which is incomprehensible unto Nature Thus the Will of God doth attract the similitude or image 26. Now if the Will be begotten out of the Souls fire then it standeth also with its Root in the Soul and there is no Division betwixt the Will and the Soul but the Will becomes a Spirit with God and becomes the Garment of the Soul so that the Soul is hid in the Will in God 27. And although she dwells in the Body yet is she encompassed with her Will and is hid in God and thus is she in the Will which is the true earnest Faith a Child of God and dwells in another world 28. This is not to be taken for an Historical Will where Reason knoweth that there is a desire after God in her but keeps that Desire imprisoned in wickedness that the Will cannot go out of the Soul and enter into Life or Gods Mystery but causeth opinions and setteth the Will into a Fancy 29. Where the Will is not able to reach the Mystery of God and thus abideth in the Fancy or quite bid in the Soul so to be judged at a future time where Reason holdeth the Will imprisoned in the Flesh groaning in the syderial Magia and still saith To morrow shalt thou go forth and seek the Mystery of God 30. There is truly no self-power of finding he that thinketh so is deceived neither is there any liberty in any Fancy where the Will might enter and see God that Reason durst imagine to make or to do any thing and so to please God thereby 31. For there is not any way which is more direct then to go with the Will out of Reason and not to seek it self but Gods Love and to cast himself wholly into Gods Will and to let alone all what Reason can object 32. And though they were great sins and crimes committed into which the Body was entered only pass them over with the Will and esteem Gods Love more highly then the filth of sins 33. For God does not accept of sins but he regardeth and accepteth the obedient Free-will he suffers not sin to come unto him 34. But an humble Will which goes out from the house of sin and refuseth sins and sinketh himself beyond Reason into his Love as an obedient humble Child that he receiveth because it is pure 35. But whilest it stands in the Fancy then is it encompassed with the Fancy and is not free 36. Now as God is free in himself from Malice so must the Will also be free then is it Gods Similitude Image and Property for that which cometh unto him into his Freedom he will not turn it out as Christ teacheth us The Third Chapter 1. UNderstand us now further in the way We know and the holy Scripture also speaketh of it and it is discernable also as well in the light of Nature as in all other Beings That all things descend from the eternal Being Good and Bad Love and Anger Life and Death Joy and Misery 2. Now we cannot say for all that therefore that the evil and death cometh from God for in God there is no evil nor death and in all Eternity there comes no evil to him 3. But the Fury descends out of the Fire of Nature where Life standeth as in a Magia where the one form desireth and exciteth the other from whence arise the essences of Plurality out of which are born the Wonders in which Eternity reveals her self in similitudes 4. And yet we must needs say that there is a desire in Gods Will which causeth the Magia out of which existeth Multiplicity 5. And yet this Multiplicity is not the Will of God it self which is free from all Being But in the groaning of the Will Nature begetteth her self with all the Forms so then every thing existeth out of the Desire as out of the eternal Magia 6. And we must further know that whatsoever getteth Life which imagineth into Longing and setteth his Will into Nature is the

and spend his earthly life about it and by no means give over unless he have broken the earthly will This indeed is a sharp War where two Principles fight for the Victory 21. Here is no jesting earnestness must be used in fighting for the Garland of Vallor for none obtaineth it unless he get the Victory He must break the power of the earthly Will which yet out of his own power he is not able to do 22. But if he doth sink himself out of the earthly Reason into Christs Death with his inner will then he sinketh through Christs Death through Gods Fury and through all the lets and stops of the Devil into the Paradisical World into the Life of Christ 23. He must make his will as if it were dead then he liveth unto God and worketh into the Love of God though he liveth in the external Kingdom 24. I speak of the warlike Garland which he geteth in the Paradisical World if he once presseth through for there is then sowed the Noble Seed there he getteth that most dear Pledg of the Holy Ghost which afterward leadeth and guideth him 25. And although he must walk in this world in a dark vail when the Devil and the worldly wickedness still assaulteth him and many times flingeth the external man into abominations and hideth that noble Mustard-seed yet it cannot be hid 26. But it springeth up and groweth to a Tree in Gods Kingdome against all the raging of the Devil and his complices 27. And the more the noble Pearl Tree is sought the more forcibly and powerfully it groweth it will not be supprest though it should cost the external life 28. Thus my dear mind search after the Tree of thy Christian Faith rightly it doth not stand in this world 29. True it must be in thee but thou must be with the Tree with Christ in God so that the world doth only as it were hang about thee as it did hang on Christ 30. It is not my meaning as if this world were worth nothing or of no use before God it is the great Mystery 31. Man is created into this world to that end as a wire Governor of it that he should reveal all the Wonders which are in the Sulphur from Eternity out of which this world with the Stars and Elements is created and bring them after his will into Forms and Images all to his joy and glory 32. He was freely created without any Law he had no Law but only the Law of Nature viz. that he should not mingle one Principle with another 33. The inner man should not have permitted any earthliness to have entered into him but should omnipotently raign over the external Principle then no death or dying would have entered into him 34. Neither could the external Elements stir him neither heat nor cold could have toucht him 35. For as the Noble Image must hold in the Fire even so the same noble Image throughout the whole Man should rule and govern all through all the three Principles and fill it with a Paradisical Quality 36. But seeing it could not be and the flesh is become earthly therefore we must now be born in Faith where indeed the earthly life covereth the true Life 37. Therefore we must put on the true Garment which is called Hope and set our will on Hope and still work on in the Tree of Faith that he may bring his fruits as that gracious Love towards God and his Neighbor 38. He must do good not only for his own sake but he may edifie his Neighbor by his godly life and conversation 39. He must think that he is a Tree in Gods Kingdom that he bears fruit to God and grows in Gods Ayr that his fruit belongeth to the Lords Table 40. And that he take in his works and wonders into the true Love and walk in Love that he may bring her into Gods Kingdom 41. For God is a Spirit and Faith is a Spirit also in him and God is become Man in Christ and the Spirit of Faith is born Man also in Christ 42. Thus the spirit of the Will walketh in God for he is one Spirit with God and worketh with God divine works 43. And though it be that the earthly life hideth him that he knoweth not his works which he begot in Faith yet will it be revealed at the breaking of the earthly body 44. For Hope is his Chest and a Mystery into which the works of Faith are sowed and kept also The Seventh Chapter 1. NOw Man standing thus in a threefold Life each Life is then a Mystery unto the other and is desirous of the other to which this World with all its Beings is created 2. For the Divine Entity desireth the Mirror or Similitude 3. For this World is a similitude after Gods Being and God is revealed in an earthly similitude For the Wonders of the Mystery could not be revealed in the Angelical World in the lower birth 4. But in this World where Love and Wrath is mingled there is a twofold Genetrix there it might be 5. For all things exist out of the Root of the Fire but are encompassed with the Water of Meekness so that it is a pleasant Being 6. But if the Fire in the Angelical World be not known for the Center of the Genetrix standeth in the Light and is the Word of God then the Wonders of Nature may not any other way be revealed then in a spiritual Magia that is are foreseen in Gods Wisdom 7. But because the same is almost incomprehensible to the Angels and Souls of Men and seeing that God will be known in Angels and Men therefore the Angelical World lusteth after the great Wonders to know them which stood in Gods Wisdom from Eternity 8. And these are brought to a Being in the earthly Similitude into Forms and Images all after the eternal Essences of the Center of Nature that the Wonders may stand eternally 9. But not essentially but in Forms Images and Similitudes in Figures after the Will Magically indeed but yet the Genetrix is in the Center of Wonders 10. For she was once excited out of the Fire but is swallowed again into the Mystery and standeth as a hidden life 11. Therefore all Beings must be revealed as it were in a shadow in the Angelical World and such as are brought into Gods Will into the Mystery 12. For there are two sorts of Mysteries which are eternal as the one in Love and the other in Wrath where the spirit of the will turneth in with his wonders there stand also his works and wonders 13. So we are in like manner to know that the outer is vehemently desirous of the Inner for all runneth after the Center as after the Original and is desirous of the Freedom 14. For in the Fire of Nature is anguish and torment Now the form or the image of Meekness in the quality of Love will be free and yet may not be free in the