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Author: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
Title: Signatura rerum, or, The signature of all things shewing the sign and signification of the severall forms and shapes in the creation, and what the beginning, ruin, and cure of every thing is ... / written in High Dutch, MDCXXII, by Jacob Behmen, aliàs Teutonicus Phylosophus.
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Print source: Signatura rerum, or, The signature of all things shewing the sign and signification of the severall forms and shapes in the creation, and what the beginning, ruin, and cure of every thing is ... / written in High Dutch, MDCXXII, by Jacob Behmen, aliàs Teutonicus Phylosophus.
Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624., Ellistone, John, d. 1652.
London: Printed by John Macock for Gyles Calvert ..., 1651.
Alternate titles: De signatura rerum. English
Subject terms:
Mysticism -- Early works to 1800.
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The Preface of the Translator to the Reader.
Signatura Rerum, J. B.
CHAP. I. How that all whatsoever is spoken of God without the knowledg of the Signature, is dumb, and without under∣standing, and that in the mind of man the Signature lieth very exactly composed according to theEssence of all Essences.
CHAP. II. Of the Opposition and Combate in the Essence of all Es∣sences, whereby the Ground of the Antipathy and Sym∣pathy in Nature may be seen, and also the Corruption and Cure of each thing.
CHAP. III. Of the Grand Mystery of all Beings.
CHAP. IV. Of the Birth of the Stars, and four Elements in the Metalline and Creatural Property.
CHAP. V. Of the Sulphurean Death, and how the dead Body is re∣vived, and replaced into its first Glory.
CHAP. VI. How a Water and Oyl is generated, and of the differ∣ence of the Water and Oyl, and of the Vegetable Life and Growth.
CHAP. VII. How Adam in Paradise, and Lucifer, was a fair Angel, and how they were corrupted and spoiled through Imagination and Pride.
CHAP. VIII. Of the fiery Sulphureous Seething of the Earth, and how the Growth is in the Earth; also of the Separation of the several Kinds of Creatures: An open Gate for the Wise Seekers.
CHAP. IX. Of the Signature, shewing how the Internal doth Sign the External.
CHAP. X. Of the inward and outward Cure of Man.
CHAP. XI. Of the processe of Christ in his suffering death, and Re∣surrection: Of the wonder of the sixth Kingdom in the Mother of all Beings: How the Consum∣matum est was finished, and how likewise it is symbolically accomplished in the Philosophick work.
CHAP. XII. Of the Seventh form in the Kingdom of the Mother, how the Seventh Kingdom, viz. the Kingdom of the Sun is again opened and made alive, set forth in Parable or by way of Simili∣tude of Christs Resurrection.
A brief Summary of the Philosophick WORK.
CHAP. XIII. Of theEnmity of the Spirit, and of the Body, and of their C U R E, and R E M E D Y.
CHAP. XIV. Of the wheel of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt; of the Gene∣ration of Good and Evil; shewing how the one is changed into the other, and how one doth mani∣fest its property in the other, and yet both re∣main in the first Creation in the Wonder of GOD, to his own manife∣station and Glory.
CHAP. XV. Concerning the Will of the Great Mystery in Good and Evil, shewing whence a good and an evil Will ariseth, and how one doth introduce it self into the other.
CHAP. XVI. Concerning the Eternal Signature, and Heavenly Ioy, wherefore all things were brought into Evil and Good.
The brief Heads of what the se∣veral Chapters do treat.
The Postscript.
The Translators Exposition of the word
Flagrat.
Lubet.
Source.
Sude.
The SeVerall Names, and Titles of the Authors Books collected out of his Writings, and put into Seven Parts.
The 177 Theosophick Questions of J. B. T.
The Authors Preface unto these Questions.