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Author: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
Title: Jacob Behmen's theosophick philosophy unfolded in divers considerations and demonstrations, shewing the verity and utility of the several doctrines or propositions contained in the writings of that divinely instructed author : also, the principal treatises of the said author abridged, and answers given to the remainder of the 177 theosophick questions, propounded by the said Jacob Behmen, which were left unanswered by him at the time of his death : as a help towards the better understanding the Old and New Testament : also what man is with respect to time and eternity, being an open gate to the great mysteries / by Edward Taylor ; with a short account of the life of Jacob Behmen.
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Print source: Jacob Behmen's theosophick philosophy unfolded in divers considerations and demonstrations, shewing the verity and utility of the several doctrines or propositions contained in the writings of that divinely instructed author : also, the principal treatises of the said author abridged, and answers given to the remainder of the 177 theosophick questions, propounded by the said Jacob Behmen, which were left unanswered by him at the time of his death : as a help towards the better understanding the Old and New Testament : also what man is with respect to time and eternity, being an open gate to the great mysteries / by Edward Taylor ; with a short account of the life of Jacob Behmen.
Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624., Taylor, Edward, fl. 1691.
London: Printed for Tho. Salusbury ..., 1691.
Alternate titles: Selections. English. 1691
Subject terms:
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Theology -- History -- 17th century.
Theosophy.
Mysticism.
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frontispiece
THE Publishers Preface TO THE READER.
Some Words used by Jacob Behmen explained near to his deep Sense.
summaries
I. The seven Spirits of God, or powers of Nature, as they shew and ma∣nifest themselves in Love and Anger, both in the Heavenly and Hel∣lish Kingdom, and also in the Kingdom of this World; not Extracted out of the Mysterium Magnum, but Transcribed page 22.
II. The Ten Forms of Fire. Extracted out of the Answer of the First of the Forty Questions of the Soul.
III. The Three Principles are,
Represented by Similitudes, viz.
A Preface to the Book of Extracts, AND The following Considerations by way of Enquiry into part of the Scope of the Writings of Jacob Behmen.
Considerations by way of Inquiry and Search INTO THE Subject Matter and Scope of the Writings of the Divinely instructed JACOB BEHMEN.
Section or Chapter I. Of the two Principles Darkness and Light, whence are come evil and good, fierceness and meekness, anger and love.
CHAP. II. A Description of the seven Fountain Spirits.
CHAP. III. Demonstrations of One, or the first Spirit.
Demonstrations of the first fountain Spirit. The Astringency. (Viz.)
CHAP. IV. Demonstrations of the second fountain Spirit, theAttraction.
CHAP. V. Demonstrations of the third fountain Spirit, the Anguish.
CHAP. VI. Demonstrations of the Spirit producing Heat.
CHAP. VII. Demonstrations of the Spirit producing Light and the Love fire.
Obj. Will any say, How are we concern'd to penetrate into the distinct Forms and Properties of Nature call'd fountain Spirits? Is not this the tree of Know∣ledge of Good and Evil which Adam fell by searching, sounding and feeling after, with neglect of the tree of Life?
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CHAP. VIII. Demonstration, being of the Sound, Tone, Noise or Voice.
CHAP. IX. Demonstration of the Body generated out of the other six Fountains.
CHAP. X. Of the Three Principles of the Divine Essence.
CHAP. XI. Concerning the first Principle, in four Demonstrations.
CHAP. XII. Of the Second Principle, in four Demonstrations.
CHAP. XIII. Of the Third Principle, in four Demonstrations.
CHAP. XIV. How the Sacrifices shew the Three Principles.
CHAP. XV. Of Jehovah, and the Creation.
CHAP. XVI. Man's Estate before his Fall.
1. Concerning Man's Estate before his Fall.
CHAP. XVII. Of a Virgin-Propagation.
Q. 1. WILL any ask, Could a Virgin-Propagation possibly have been?
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Demonstrations to the Senses of a Virgin-Propagation.
CHAP. XVIII. Of some Steps by which Adam declined towards his heavy Fall.
CHAP. XIX. What Fallen Man's Estate was by the Fall.
CHAP. XX. Of Mans Recovery; how he was helped again by Christ; and by what wonderful way and method Redemption was & is wrought.
CHAP. XXI. Of the Incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
CHAP. XXII. Of the Heavenly New Man, or Divine Humanity of Jesus Christ; what it is, where it is, and how to be participated of by us.
Q. What is This New Man which we are to put on?
Q. What of Christ may we put on, and be cloathed with, and wherewith to be cloathed upon?
CHAP. XXIII. Man's mistaken way towards a supposed Happiness.
CHAP. XXIV. The Lord's way home for Man to follow.
The 177 Theosophick Questions of the blessed Jacob Behmen divide themselves into Ten grand Distributions or Kinds, being of so many various Aspects; (viz.)
Extracts of the Answers of the first Fourteen, and part of the Fifteenth of the 177 Theosophick Questions.
Q. 1. What God is Distinct from Nature and Creature?
Q. 2. What is the Abyss of all Things where is no Creature, the Unsearchable Nothing?
Q. 3. What is God's Love and Anger? How may it be only one thing?
Q. 4. What was before Angels and the Creation were?
Q. 5. What was it of which the Angels were made? What in the Word of God became Creaturely?
Q. 6. What do Angels, and why doth God's Power become Image-like?
Q. 7. What moved Lucifer to depart from God?
Q. 8. How could an Angel become a Devil? What is a Devil?
Q. 9. Why did not the Omnipotent God prevent the Fall of Lucifer?
Q. 10. What did the Devil desire for which he left God?
Q. 11. What was the Strife between Michael and the Dragon, and what are they?
Q. 12. How can Man possibly know the Deep Unity?
Q. 13. How and whither was the Dragon, &c. thrust, seeing God fills all things? &c.
Q. 15. Had Hell a Beginning, and may it have an End?
extracts of responses to questions
Q. 14. What is Lucifer's Office in Hell with his Legions?
Object. 12. But the Mind of some may Judge, that to say that Lucifer and his An∣gels have one Will with the Property and Wrath of the Father, seems absurd; for God having no greater fixt Enemy than the Devil, That Enemy cannot have one Will with God: And that to say there is something in God which is not God; is to say, there is something in God which is not himself; which were rather Mad∣ness than Folly, rather Blasphemy than Error; for it divides the Infinite One from the Infinite One.
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extracts of responses to questions
Q. 15. Hath the Foundation of Hell taken a Temporary Beginning, or hath it been from Eternity? or how may it subsist Eternally, or not?
Q. 16. Why hath God poured forth such fierce wrath wherein an Eternal Perdition will be?
2. For the first, we are to know that Wrath as it is in God is an unsearchable Abyss; for as God is Infinite, so is his Anger, and all else as it is in him.
7. How may and must this Wrath have Eternity?
The last Branch of the Question is, Why hath God poured forth Eternal Wrath?
Q. 17. Whereas God is and remaineth Eternally undivided, what then is his working in the Place of Hell? Is there indeed a certain Place of Hell, or not?
8. Now to Answer directly what God's Working in Hell is? It is answered,
16. Is there indeed a Place of Hell, or not?
Q. 18. Where is the Place of Heaven where the Angels dwell? How is the same di∣stinguished from Hell? Is the same also a certain (circumscribed) Place? How is it to be understood?
Q. 19. What are the Dominions or Thrones, and Principalities of Angels, Evil and Good in the Invisible World? How is the Spiritual World of Eternity to be understood in the Visible World? Are they also severed by Place and Abode? Or what is the inward Foundation?
Q. 20. Out of what is the Visible World Created, seeing the Scripture saith, God made all things by his Word? how is the same to be understood?
Q. 21. Whereas God and his Word is only Good, whence proceeded the Evil in the Essence of this World? for there are Poisonous Worms, Beasts, Herbs or Weeds and Trees, also Venom in the Earth, and other things?
Q. 22. Why must there be Strife or Contrariety in Nature?
Q 23. What is the ground of the four Elements? How is the Division effected, that out of one four are come to be?
Q. 24. Wherefore, and to what use and benefit are the Stars created?
Q. 25. What is the Ground of the Temporal Nature▪Light, and of the Darkness; from whence doth the same arise? or out of what did they Exist?
Q. 26. What is the Heaven created out of the midst of the Water? And what is the Se∣paration of the Water above the Firmament from the Water underneath the Firmament?
Q. 27. What is the Ground of the Male and Female Kind in the Essence of this World? Whence is the Conjunction and Desire arisen? Could not the same be effected in one only Ground without dividing?
Q. 28. What are the Principles of the Spirit of this World, of the Superior or Inferior Being?
Q. 29. What is the Sperm or Seed of the Generation of all things?
Is it objected, God's Creating all things by His Word, is a giving Being where none was, exclusive of all Intermediate Causes, and the Out-birth was a sub∣stance from a Nullity or Vacuum?
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Q. 30. What is the distinction or difference of the Sperm or Seed betwixt Metals, Stones and Vegetables, viz. Herbs, Trees, and Earthy things, or Mineral Earths?
Q. 31. How is the Copulation and Conjunction of Female and Male Nature effected, whence their Seed and Growth ariseth?
Q. 32. What is the Tincture in the Spermatick kind or species whence the Growth and Lustre ariseth?
Q. 33. Out of what are all the Creatures of the Mortal Life sprung forth and created?
Q. 34. What was the Archeu or Separator of their Kind or Species and Property which formed them, and still to this day formeth them?
Q. 35. What are the six Days Work of the Creation and the Sabbath?
Q. 36. What is the Difference or Distinction of the Mortal Creatures? And what is their Chaos wherein each Kind liveth, and wherein are they distinct and severed one from another?
Q. 37. To what End, or wherefore were the Mortal Creatures created?
Q 38. Whence was Man Created as to his Body? The Fourth grand Distribution.
5. The Apostle saith, The first Man is of the Earth earthy; The second is the Lord from Heaven.
Q. 39. What was the Inspiration or Breathing in, whereby Man became a living Soul?
Q. 40. What is the Immortal Life in Man, (viz.) the Soul, and what is the outward Life in him?
Q. 41. What is the Idea, or exact express reflex Image of God in Man, wherein God worketh and dwelleth?
Q. 42. What was Paradise wherein God Created Man? Is the same Alterable or Changeable, and a Creature, or doth it stand in the Eternal Ground?
15. Say any, say not all (retaining the least degree above perfect Madness) if Pa∣radise be thus infinitely Good, what shall I receive in exchange for it? And how shall I search the Path leading to it? What Key opens the Door of it?
Q. 43. Why did God Create in the Beginning but one Man, and not forthwith a Man and a Woman together, as He did the other Kinds of Creatures? or other Species?
Q. 44. Was the first Man in such a habit of Condition created to Eternal Life, or to Change and Alteration?
Q. 45. What manner of Image was Adam before his Eve? In what Form and Condi∣tion was he, when he was neither Husband nor Wife, but both?
Q. 46. Had Adam before his Eve, Masculine Members, and such Bones, Stomach, Guts, Entrails, Teeth, and also such things as we now have?
Q, 47. If Adam also had been thus, as we are now, how was it possible he should in such a condition have been able to stand without suffering and corruption?
Q. 48. Should Adam's eating and drinking have been after a Paradisical manner, without care, distress and sorrow, if he had stood out the Trial or Proba?
Q. 49. Should Adam in Paradise have eaten such fruit as the heavenly eating shall be after this time? or where into should he have eaten? where should the same have continued, seeing all the Beings of this World are earthy and transitory, and he only was an Eternal Heavenly Image, and needed not the Vanity?
Q. 50. Whether did the four Elements also Rule in Adam in his Innocency, or but one only in the equality of likeness of the four Elements? Did he also before he fell feel heat and cold?
Q. 51. Should any thing have been able to Kill or Destroy Adam?
Q. 52. What should have been Adam's Condition and Estate upon Earth? What should he have done, if he had continued in Paradise?
Q. 53. What was the Earth with its Fruits before the Curse, when it was call'd Paradise?
Q. 54. Should the Propagation possibly haue been without Man and Wife, seeing in the Resurrection of the dead they shall not be Man nor Wife, but like the Angels of God in Heaven?
Q. 55. How could it have been possible that a Man and Wife should have continued eternally? Would God change his Creature Man, seeing in the Life Eternal they shall be like the Angels? Was Adam also in the beginning created in the same Angelical Form or Imaging, or in another, then he shall arise again and live for ever?
Q. 56. What were the Trees in Paradice which were amiable or pleasant to behold, and good to be eaten of?
Q. 57. What was the Tree of Life, and also the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, each in its Power, Essence and Property?
Q. 58. Wherefore did God Create this Tree, seeing be knew well that Man would offend, or lay hold on them, and hurt himself thereby?
Q. 59. Why did God forbid Man these Trees, What was the Cause thereof?
Q. 60. Wherefore should Man rule over all the living Creatures or Beasts of the Earth? How, and to what End could that have been?
Q. 61. Why did God say, it is not good for Man to be alone, whereas yet in the Begin∣ning he looks upon all his Works and said, They are very Good; yet of Man only he saith, 'Tis not good that this Man should be alone; Why was it not good?
Q 62. Why caused God, or did suffer a deep Sleep to fall upon Adam when he built a Wife out of his Rib? What doth it mean?
Q. 63. How was the Wife or Woman made out of Adam? What doth the Rib [taken] out of his Side signifie, of which God made the Wife, as Moses writeth?
Q. 64. Did Eve also receive a Soul and Spirit from Adam's Soul and Spirit, or a n strange one, peculiarly or severally given of God?
Q. 65. How was the dividing of Adam into the Wife or Woman effected?
Q. 66. Why did Adam presently take his Eve to him, and said she was his flesh? How could he know her?
Q. 47. What was the Serpent on the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil which de∣ceived or seduced Eve?
Q. 68. Why did the Serpent perswade Eve, and not Adam, to lust after the fruit? What was the fruit on which they both did eat death?
Q. 69. What was the sin, and how it is become a sin, that the same is an Enmity of God?
Q. 70. Why did not God hinder it from being effected, being he did forbid it them?
Quest. 71. How were the Eyes of Adam and Eve opened that they saw they were na∣ked, which before they knew not?
Q. 72. What was Adam's and Eve's Shame, that they hid themselves behind or by the Trees of Paradise? Whence came their fear and terrour?
Q. 73. How did Adam and Eve really Die in the Fall to the Kingdom of Heaven and Paradise, and yet live naturally to this World?
Q. 74. What was the Voice of God in the Word when the Day grew cool? How did God recall Adam? How is this to be understood?
Q. 75. What is the Seed of the Wife or Woman, and bruising and Treading upon of the Serpent? What did God speak or breath again into them? Was the same nothing else but an ouard Promise, or an Incorporation of the effectual working Grace?
Q. 76. What is the Curse of the Earth, what is thereby brought to pass?
Q. 77. How was Adam and Eve cast out of Paradice into this World? What was the Cherub with the naked Sword before Paradise?
Q. 78. Why was or did the first Man Born of a Woman become a Murtherer?
Q. 79. What was Cain and Abel's Offering? Why did they Offer Sacrifice? What did they do thereby?
Q. 1. What was Cain's and Abel's Offering? And what did they do thereby?
Q. 80. Why was Cain's Murther for the Offering sake? What was the ground of it? What Type are these two Brothers?
Q 81. In what Grace was the first World saved without the Law? What was their Justification?
Q. 82. Was Cain condemned for his sins? Or whether did Cain become damned in respect of his sins? What was his doubt or despair of Grace?
Q. 83. Why did God make a Mark on Cain, and said, he, or whosoever that slayeth Cain, his blood shall be avenged sevenfold?
Q. 84. Wherefore said Lamech, Cain's Successor, to his Wives Zilla and Ada, La∣mech shall be avenged seventy and seven fold; what doth this mean and signifie?
Q. 85. What was the greatest sin of the Old World? or first Terretial Human World?
Q. 86. What is the Henochian Life? What is become of Henoch? or where th Henoch retined; so also of Moses and E••as?
Q. 87. What doth Noah's Flood for Sin typifie and point out?
Q. 88. What doth Noah's Drunkenness signifie, by reason whereof he cursed his Son Ham?
Q. 89. What is the Tower of Babel; and wherefore were the Speeches there altered?
Q. 90. What was the Covenant of or with Abraham concerning the Blessing, and also the Circumcision? What doth that signifie?
Q. 91. What Figure is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? How was it effcted?
Q. 92. Wherefore did Lot's Wife become a Pillar of Salt, how is it to be under∣stood?
Q. 93. Wherefore did the Daughters of Lot lye with their Father, and first made him Drunk, that they might be with Child by their Father; whence arose two Potent Nations; what doth this Figure signifie?
Q. 94 What doth the figure of Moses signifie that he must be drawn out of the River or Lake of Water, and be preserved to such a great Office? The Sixth Grand Distribu∣tion.
Q. 95. Why did the Lord appear to Moses in a fiery flaming Bush when he chose him?
Q. 96. From or out of what Power did Moses do his Works of wonder before Pharaoh?
Q. 97. What figure is the Departure or bringing forth of the Children of Israel out of Egypt?
Q. 98. Why must Moses remain Forty Days upon Mount Sinai, when God gave him the Law?
Q. 99. What is the Law in one Total Sum?
Q. 100. What were the Offerings of Moses? How was Sin blotted out and appeased through these Offerings?
Q. 101. What is the Ground of the Prophetical Prophesyings? By what Knowledge and Spirit did the Prophets in the Old Testament Prophecy?
Q. 102. What is Christ of whom the Prophets Prophesied in the Old Testament? The Seventh grand Distribution?
Q. 103. What was John Baptist, Christ's forerunner?
Q. 104. What kind of Virgin was Mary (in whom God became Man) before she Conceived?
Q. 105. Why must Mary be first Espoused or Betrothed to Old Joseph before she Con∣ceived of the Holy Ghost?
Q. 106. How was God; viz. the Word made Flesh? What hath he assumed from Man?
Q. 107. Wherefore would God became Man? could he not forgive Man his Sins with∣out becoming Man?
Q. 108. How was the uniting of the Deity and Humanity in this becoming Man?
Q. 109. How did Christ become Born of Mary to this World, without prejudice to her Virginity? How could she after the Birth remain still a Virgin?
Q. 110. Why did Christ walk or converse Thirty years upon the Earth before he took or entred upon his Office? Why did he increase in Age and Favour with God and Man, see∣ing he is God himself; and needed no growing or increasing?
Q. 111. Why did Christ suffer himself to be Baptized by John with Water, whereas he himself was both the Baptism and Baptizer which should Baptize with the Holy Ghost?
Q. 112. Wherefore must Christ after his Baptism he tempted Forty days in the Wilder∣ness? What doth it mean that a God-man should be tempted? And why must the Devil tempt him before he began his Works of Wonder?
Q. 113. How was Christ in Heaven and also on Earth both at once?
Q. 114. Why did Christ upon Earth teach before the People concerning the Kingdom of Heaven in Similitudes or Parables?
Q. 115. Why hath not Christ himself described his Gospel with Letters in Writing, but only taught and left it afterwards to his Apostles to write down?
Q. 116. Why must it be the very High Priests and Scribes or Scripture learned (who taught the People) that must speak against or contradict Christ; and would readily mock him, and condemn him continually to Death? Why must not the worldly Magistracy do it or the common People? What doth that signifie?
Q. 117. Why must there be such a way and Process observed towards Christ, with Mockings, Reproaching, Derision, or Scorn and Scourging before his Passion? Why did God suffer that to be so done?
Q. 118. Why must the very Teachers of the Law bring Christ to the Judgment, and yet must be put to Death by the Heathenish Magistracy? What doth that signifie?
Q. 119. Why must Christ suffer and die? Was God to do it for such a revenge sake, that he might attone and reconcile or appease himself? Could he not otherwise forgive Sin?
Q. 120. What is the figure of the two Murtherers which hanged on a Cross on each ide of Christ? And why must Christ die on a wooden Cross and not otherwise?
Q. 121. How did Christ slay Death on the Cross? How came that to pass?
Q. 122. Why must Christ be nail'd to the Cross? And why must his ide be open'd with a Spear out of which Blood and Water ran? How do these signifie in the Figure.
Q. 123. Why must Christ be reproached on the Cross?
Q. 124. Whether was also the Divine Power in the Blood, which Christ shed or poured into the Earth? Q. 125. Why did the Earth tremble when Christ bung on the Cross?
Q. 126. What did the Darkness signifie, which at that time came over all Na∣ture?
Q. 127. Why did Christ in his Death commend his Soul into his Fathers Hand? What is the Hand of God?
Q. 128. Why did some convert and turn again when they saw what was done at the dy∣ing of Christ: And the High-Priests not? Why must they be blind and hardened as to this Work?
Q. 129. What was Christs going to Hell where he overcame Death and the De∣vil?
Q. 130. How did Christ 1 Pet. 3. 19, 20. preach to the Spirits; which in the time of Noah believed not?
Q. 131. What doth Christs rest in the Grave signifie; that he must lye Forty Hours in the Grave?
Q. 132. Why must Christs Grave be guarded with Watchers? What doth that signi∣fie that the High-Priests should resist or oppose Gods Power and Might, and would keep Christ in the Grave?
Q. 133. Why did the Evangelist say that the Angel removed the great Stone from the Door or Mouth of the Sepulchre? Could not Christ have rien else out of the Grave?
Q. 134. What is the power of Christs Resurrection through Death? How did he make a Triumphant shew of Death on his Body? What was it then that he did with it?
Object. Some may say, Man having a visible, palpable, elementary Body, and an invisible, astral Spirit or Soul Author of the five Senses, at least that acts the Or∣gans: neither of those parts can share in the Resurrection; for the Stars shall fall and the Elements dissolve. Let them tell me too, our Flesh is Grass, Dust we are, of the Earth earthy, and like the Beast that perisheth. If therefore the Syderial Root and four Elements return into their Aether, can the Products thence, subsist, his Body being dependant on a transient Principle whereof 'tis compounded. With what Body therefore shall he arise?
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Q. 135. What manner of Door hath Christ through Death opened in our Humanity, in the Anger and Righteousness of God, where by we may enter into God? How is that done?
Q. 136. What doth the Pilgrimage or Journey of the two Disciples from Jerusalem to Emaus signifie, where they complained in Anxiety for their Master, and yet Christ walked among them, and enquired of them, and taught them: and yet they knew him not?
Q. 137. Why did Christ after his Resurrection first appear to a Woman, and not to his Disciples?
Q. 138. Why did Christ after his Resurrection eat of the broiled Fish with his Disci∣ples, and entred in unto them through a shut Door, and taught them?
Q. 139. Why did not Christ after his Resurrection she himself to every one, but to some only?
Q. 140. Why did Christ after his Resurrection converse Forty days on Earth before he went or was taken up to Heaven? What doth that signifie?
Q. 141. What is Christs going or Ascension to Heaven: that he did visibly ascend? Whither is he arrived, and where is he now at present?
Q. Is it askt, what is the Kingdom, City, Palace or Seat whither he ascended, and where he is?
Q. Is it askt how can this be intelligible to Mortals, living in Houses of Clay?
Q. It is said, concerning his visible circumscriptive Body, which rose again, and was seen by his Disciples on Earth, during his Forty days converse whom the Disci∣ples saw ascend, and of whom the two Men in shining Garments spake, that he should in like manner descend, Where is that Body?
Q. 142. What signifie the two Men in Shining Garments, who said; Ye Men of Ga∣lilee why look ye up after him: This Jesus who is taken from you to Heaven will come a∣again, as you have seen him ascend or go into Heaven?
Q. 143. Why must the Disciples of Christ yet wait ten days for his Ascention for the sending of the Holy Ghost? Why was not that done instantly? Here begins the Eighth Grand Distribution.
Q. 144. What is this that the Disciples must wait and continue together till the Holy Ghost came?
Q. 145. What is the Feast of Pentecost? How was the shedding or pouring forth of the Holy Ghost effected? And how did the Bands of the Tongues of the Lords Disciples become unloosed?
Q. 146. How is the difference or distinction of Languages among them to be understood; that they have all at one instant spoken all Languages at once in one sence; so that people of all Nations understood them?
Q. 147. What doth this shedding forth of the Holy Ghost out of Christs Resurrection and Ascention to Heaven profit or benefit us? How may that be also effected in us?
Q. 148. What is the Litteral Word and the Living Word Christ; in his shedding forth one with the other: How became they distinguished; seeing all did not hear the Holy Ghost teach from the Mouth of the Apostles: for one sort of them said, They are full of sweet Wine; these heard indeed Mans Word, but not Christ teaching in his Re∣surrection.
Q. 149. How doth Christ himself teach presentially in the Office of Preaching, and yet sitteth at the Right Hand of God? Or among whom doth Christ teach, what is a Shepherd or Pastor in the Spirit of Christ, and a Teacher of the Letter without the Spirit of Christ, each in his Office?
Q. 150. What is the Office of the Keys? How may they become rightly used, or who is worthy or it for this Office, or whether is he himself the Office? Or whether hath he freely given it to man, so that he may without Christ's Spirit forgive Sins, or how is it done?
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Q. 151. What is Christ's Testament, together with the last Supper with Bread and Wine: How is Christ really enjoy'd? what manner of Flesh and Blood is it? and what is the Mouth to eat it with.
Q. 152. What is the place in Man, wherein Christ's Flesh and Blood continueth; He himself saith, Whosoever eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood, he continueth in me, and I in him; Also, If you do not eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, then you have no life in you?
Q. 153. How is Man, and how doth he become a Branch on the Vine Stock of Christ? How doth Christ dwell in him, and yet sit at the right hand of God in Heaven? Also, how can he sit at the right hand of God in Man, and yet the outward Man not be he?
Q. 154. What manner of Christian is the titulary Christian in Name only, without or out of Christ: who only comforteth himself; and imputeth Christs Merits to himself, and yet is unregenerate of the Spirit of Christ, and liveth bestially? Whether also doth he in such working or doing belong to Christ? Or what doth he receive in Christ's Supper?
Q. 155. Whether also may Christ's Flesh and Blood become enjoyed by Believers, with∣out, or out of the Testamentary Ordinance and Observation, or how it may be done?
Q. 156. Why hath Christ Ordained and Instituted This Testament, and said, so oft as we do it, we should do it in remembrance? to what profit and benefit is it done with Bread an Wine, and not without? Or whether may it also become enjoyed or participated without Bread and Wine?
Q. 157. Whether is the True Testamentary Enjoyment or Participation bound meerly to the Apostolical Practice and Observation; or whether also men may have Power or Au∣thority to alter and change This Ordinance, as is done now-a-days?
Q. 158. Whether also is the Testament powerful in the alter'd or chang'd Ordinance or not?
Q. 159. What do the Learned when they reproach one the other about Christs Testa∣ments, and the precious Covenant of Grace: And disgrace one another, and give up one another to the Devil about it? Whether do they also manage the Office of Christ; whether is that right or wrong, whether also is this done as a Minister of Christ? Or whom do they serve thereby?
Q. 160. Which is the very mark of a right Christian upon Earth, whereby Men may distinguish him from a Titulary Christian? Here begins the Ninth Grand Distri∣bution.
Q. 161. What is properly a Christian within and without? How is he a Temple of the Holy Ghost in which the Kingdom of God is inwardly revealed or manifested? How doth he walk and converse in Heaven and upon Earth both at once?
Q. 162. What is the Antichrist upon Earth under Christianity?
Q. 163. What is Babel or Babylon, the Beast and the Whore in the Apocalypse or Revelations?
Q. 164. What is the Ruin of the Beast, and how is it effected that the seven headed Beast should become cast into the Abyss?
Q. 165. How doth Christ take the Kingdom when this Beast becometh slain? The Tenth Distribution.
Q. 166. What is the true new Regeneration in the Spirit of Christ? Is it done in this time, or after this time?
Obj. 1. 8. Is it objected Omnipotence may perfect the Regeneration at once by one single act?
Obj. 2. 9. But God new regenerateth the Spirit of Christ in Man at dissolution of the outward Life at one instant, and by the same dissolution is it effected and compleated.
Q. 10. But it may be enquired what the dissolution of the outward Life of its own Na∣ture contributeth hereunto?
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Obj. 3. 13. But we are told, and that by some who detest the Roman Purga∣tory, that something may be done to compleat the perfection of separate Souls af∣ter their separation from the Mortal Body; who produce several Texts out of the Old Testament, and out of the New, also out of the Apocryphal antiquity to point at it, or rather expresly to confirm it; as out of the Old, Deut. 26. 14. Isa. 61. 1. Zech. 9. 11, 12. out of the New, Matth. 12. 32. 2 Tim. 1. 18. 1 Pet. 3. 19. 1 Pet. 4. 6. out of the Antient Writings call'd Apocrypha, 2 Esdras 7. 37. Eccle∣siasticus 7. 33. 2. Maccab. 44. 45. Let us therefore post-pone the first step to the New Birth, till our bodily Letts be removed, when without the obstructions of the Rebel Passions ending with cutting of the Temporal Thread we be adapted thereunto.
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Q. 167. What is the Dying of a true Christian? What of him Dyeth?
Q. 168. What is the Dying of the wicked, in that it is called an Eternal Dying?
Q. 169. Whither goeth the Soul when it part from the By, be it Blessed to me?
Q. 170. What are the Doings and Life of Souls till the last Judgment Day?
Q. 171. What is the last Judgment, how is it Effected?
Q. 172. How is the Resurrection of the dead effected? What riseth again?
Q. 3. But is it askt how is this Body and Humane Soul the same of ours?
Q. 4. Is it ask'd what of this was raised again?
Q. 5. May it be fully so with other Bodies?
Q. 6. May it not be otherwise with us; our Bodies must putrifie, and the Incorruptible only rise?
Q. 7. Shall it be a Resurrection of all?
Q. 8. How is it effected?
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Q. 173. How doth this World pass away or vanish? And what doth remain thereof af∣terward?
Q. 174. What shall be after this Worlds time when God shall be All in All; when the Dominions shall cease?
1. Whether the Elements shall be dissolved at the instant of the Resurrection, or not remain till the compleat End of the Judgment Day?
2. Whether the Elements may not remain, and yet the Sun, Moon and Stars be resolved into their Aether?
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Obj. 26. But some by way of opposition may say, that God ever was, is, and shall all be in all; as it is written, Of him, for him and through him are all things; and in him we live, move, and have our Being.
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Q. 32. But is not God all in all in His Converted Children here, of whom it is said, He that is born of God sinneth not? And as many as be perfect, (viz.) meaning them, be thus minded. Again, He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified; and is not God all in all in Such?
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Q. 175. What will the Holy or Saints, and Damned each of them do and leave undone?
10. Obj. But will some say here seemeth a contradiction that the Faln Angels and Damned Men are one in Nature and Property with the Principle of Gods Wrath wherein they are comprehended, and yet at Enmity with and in the same.
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Q▪ 176. Where shall Hell, and also the Eternal Habitation of the Holy or Saints be?
Q. 177. What shall be the Eternal Joy of the Holy or Saints, and the Eternal Pain or Torment of the Wicked? Or also may there be any alteration effected?
Meditations and brief Contemplations on some of the Preceding Questions Propounded by Jacob Behmen.
On the 14th Question and Answer, What is Lucifer's Office in Hell with his Legions?
On the 15th Question and Answer. Hath Hell a Temporary Beginning, or Eter∣nal, &c.?
On the 16th Question and Answer, Why is God's wrath Eternal, &c?
On the 17th Question and Answer What is God's work in Hell, is Hell a local place?
On the 18th Question and Answer. Where is Heaven? is it a local place? &c.
On the 19th Question and Answer, What are the Dominions of Angels Evil and Good?
On the 20th Question and Answer. Out of what is the Visible World created? &c.
On the 21th Question and Answer. Whence proceeded Evil as poisonous Creatures here? &c.
On the 22th Question and Answer. Why must there be Strife in Nature?
On the 23th Question and Answer. On the Dividing the One Element into four.
On the 24th Question and Answer. Wherefore, and to what Benefit are Stars Created?
On the 25th Question and Answer. Of the Temporal Natures, Light and Darkness whence they sprung and exist.
On the 26th Question and Answer. Of the separation of the Water above the Fir∣mament from the Water, which is underneath the Firmament, and of the Created Heaven in the midst of the Water.
On the 27th Question and Answer. Of the Male and Female Kinds. Whence is their Desire to each other? And of the necessity of it.
On the 28th Question and Answer. Of the Principles of the Spirit of this World.
On the 29th Question and Answer. Of the Sperm or Seed of the Generation of all things.
On the 30th Question and Answer. Of the Distinction or Difference of the Sperm or Seed of Metals, Stones, Vegetatives, &c.
On the 31th Question and Answer. How is the Conjunction of Feminine and Mascu∣line Kind effected, whence the Seed and Growth existeth?
On the 32 Question and Answer. Of the Tincture in the Spermatick Kind or Species, whence Growing and Lustre ariseth.
On the 33 Question and Answer. Of the Original of the Creatures of the mortal Life.
On the 34th Question and Answer. On the Separator of every Species of every Property.
On the 35th Question and Answer. On the six days work of the Creation, and the Sabbath.
On the 36th Question and Answer. Of the difference of the Mortal Creatures their Chaos, kind, and how distinguish'd.
On the 37th Question and Answer. To what end, and wherefore were the mortal Creatures made.
On the 38th Question and Answer. Of that whence Man's Body was taken.
On the 39th Question and Answer. Of the Imbreathing whence Man became a Living Soul.
On the 40th Question and Answer. Of Mans Immortal Life, his Soul, Mans Spi∣rit, and his outward Life what all of them are.
On the 41st Question and Answer. The Idea or Express Reflex Image of God in Man wherein God worketh and dwelleth.
EXTRACTS Of several of the WORKS OF Jacob Behmen, Beginning with his first Book CALLED AURORA, OR, Morning Redness.
CHAP. I. Page 33. v. 1. Of searching out the Divine Being in Nature of both the Qualities of Good and Bad.
CHAP. II. The Visible Heavens and Earth, and all Creatures, have a good and evil Source or Will, except the Holy Angels and Devils.
Obj. Will you say, is not good and evil in nature, and is evil come from God▪
CHAP. III. Of the Property of the FATHER, &c.
The Trinity.
CHAP. IV. Of the Creation of Angels: And first, Of the Divine Quality.
CHAP. V. Of the Corporeal Substance, Being, and Property of an Angel▪
CHAP. VI. How an Angel and a Man is the Similitude of God.
CHAP. VII.
CHAP. VIII.
Q. Where are the seven Spirits?
Q. Seeing God is every where, and is himself all, How comes heat, cold, wrath, and fierceness among the Creatures?
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CHAP. X.
11. Q. Is there in God also any contrary Will, amongst the Spirits of God?
CHAP. XI.
CHAP. XIII. Of the Doleful Terrible Fall of Lucifer and his King∣dom.
The Head Spring and Fountain of Sin.
17. Q. Did not the Universal God know this before the Creation of the Angels?
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth.
CHAP. XIX. Concerning Heaven, what it is, where it is, and how it is.
Concerning the Constitution, and Form of the Earth.
Q. Why is the Earth so Mountany, &c?
On the words, the Evening and Morning were the first day, is said.
Query, Whether by it be not meant, by once turning about of the Earth, whereby the Evening and Morning came to be, that is, by one Revolution?
CHAP. XX. On the Creation in the Second Day, Let there be a Firmament in the midst of the Waters, &c.
CHAP. XXI.
The striving of the seven Spirits in the Earth, the Depth in the Centre.
Q. How can God be in this Vegetation?
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CHAP. XXII.
CHAP. XXIII.
The Gate of the Holy Trinity.
CHAP. XXIV. Of the incorporating or Compaction of the Stars.
Q. Why had not this been done instantly, and then he had not done so much Mischief?
Q. When the Devil and his Angels fell, why had not God instantly bolted him up in the place where he fell?
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CHAP. XXV.
CHAP. XXVI.
THE Three Principles OF THE Divine Essence.
CHAP. I. Of the First Principle of the Divine Essence.
CHAP. II. Of the first and second Principles, what God and the Di∣vine Nature is.
CHAP. III. Of the endless and innumerable Productions of the Eter∣nal Nature.
CHAP. IV. Of the Eternal Essence generating Infinity of Existencies.
CHAP. V. Of the third Principle the Creation of the Material World, and farther clearing of the first and second Principles.
CHAP. VI. Of the Separation in Creating the Third Principle.
CHAP. VII. Of the Eternal Birth of Heaven, and generating the four Elements, &c.
CHAP. VIII. Of the Creation, Vegetation and Constellation, and Original Substance of this World.
CHAP. IX. Of Paradise.
The Holy Gate.
CHAP. X. Of the Creation of Man, of his Soul, and of Gods Breathing in.
CHAP. XI. Of all Circumstances of the Temptation.
CHAP. XII. Further of the Circumstances of the Temptation.
Of Adam's Sleep.
The Highest Gate of the Life of the Tincture.
The Tinctures Essences.
Of the Death and Dying.
How the Heavenly Tincture was in Adam before the Fall, and shall be in us after this Life.
CHAP. XIII. Of Creating the Woman.
CHAP. XIV. Of the Birth and Propagation of Man. The very Secret Gate.
CHAP. XV. Of the Knowledge of the Eternity (in the Corruptibility) of the Essence of all Essences.
CHAP. XVI. Of the Mind, Understanding, Senses, Thoughts, Threefold Spirit, Tincture, Inclination of a Child in the Womb, of the Divine, Hellish and Earthy Image, &c.
CHAP. XVII. Of the Lamentable Fall of Adam and Eve in Pa∣radise.
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Promised Seed, Adam's Exile, and Gods Curse.
CHAP. XIX. Of Souls entring to God and to Perdition, and of the Bodies Breaking.
CHAP. XX. Of Adam's going out of Paradise, also of the true Chri∣stian and Antichristian Church.
CHAP. XXI. Of Cain's Kingdom and Antichristian Church, and of Abel's Kingdom and true Christian Church.
The victorious Gate of the poor Soul.
CHAP. XXII. Of the new Regeneration in Christ out of the Old Ada∣mical Man.
CHAP. XXIII. Of the Testaments of Christ, Baptism and the Supper.
CHAP. XXIV. Of true Repentance.
CHAP. XXV. Of the Dying, Death, Resurrection, Ascension of Christ, and his sitting on the right Hand of God his Father. Also our Misery, and the Divine Power of his Love.
CHAP. XXVI. Pentecost. The sending of the Holy Ghost.
CHAP. XXVII. Of the Last Judgment.
AN APPENDIX, OR THE Threefold Life in Man.
THE THIRD BOOK OF Jacob Behmen, CALLED THE Threefold Life in Man.
CHAP. I. Of the Root, Beginning and Forms of Life.
CHAP. II. Of the Begun Life, the Principles, and Forms, and Fall.
CHAP. III. Is concerning the Sixth and Seventh Forms.
CHAP. V. Of the Seventh Form of Nature the Corporeity.
The Gate into the Holy Trinity.
CHAP. V. Of the Virgin the Wisdom of God, and of the Angelical World, and of the Holy Trinity.
The highly Precious Gate for Man to consider of.
The Distinction between the Substantiality and the Element, also between Paradice and Heaven.
The Gates of this World [also the Language of Nature.]
CHAP. VI. Of the World, and also of Paradise: The two Gates of high Consideration.
CHAP. VII. The Hypocritical and real Christian, the Gates of the Firmamental Heaven with Stars, &c. The Threefold Life of Man, and right noble Spiritual Stone.
CHAP. VIII. How by the outward World is opened the Eternal World. How a Man may seek and find himself; Whence is his Beginning, and what his End.
The highly precious Gate.
CHAP. IX. Concerning the Threefold Life. Also the Inclination and whole Government of Man in this Life.
Of the great strife about Man.
Of the Devil changing himself into an Angel of Light.
The Gates of the deep Ground concerning Man.
CHAP. X. Of the Creation of every Being; and how Man may find himself, and all Mysteries to, and only to the ninth Number.
CHAP. XI. Of the true Knowledge concerning Man.
The great Misery of Mans Destruction from the Womb.
The great open Gate of Antichrist.
The highly Precious Gate, also the Gate of Immanuel.
CHAP. XII. Of the true Christian Life and Conversation. What Man is to do, &c.
The Way we must walk through this World into the Kingdom of God.
CHAP. XIII. Of Christ's Precious Testaments the Lord's Supper and Baptism.
Concerning the Testament of Baptism.
The Magia out of the Wonders.
CHAP. XIV. Of the Broad and Narrow Ways.
Of the Company and Assistance of the Holy Angels.
CHAP. XV. Of the mixed World, its wicked exercise, being a Glass wherein every one may try out of what Spirit themselves are.
CHAP. XVI. Of praying and fasting, what praying its power, use, benefit and preparation to God's Kingdom is.
CHAP. XVII. Concerning God's Blessing in this World.
CHAP. XVIII. Of Death and Dying. How Man is when he Dieth, and how it is with him in Death.
Forty Questions OF THE SOUL, Answered by Jacob Behmen.
Quest 1. VVHence the Soul existed from the Beginning of the World?
Q. 2. What the Soul is in the Essence, Substance, Nature and Property?
Q. 3. How the Soul is Created to the Image of God?
Q. 4. What the Breathing in of the Soul is, and when it is done?
Q. 5. How the Soul is peculiarly form'd and fashioned, or framed?
Q. 6. What the Ability or Potentiality of the Soul is.
Q. 7. Whether the Soul be Corporeal or not Corporeal?
Q. 8. In what manner the Soul cometh into Man, or into the Body?
Q. 9. In what manner the Soul uniteth it self with the Body?
Q. 10. Whether the Soul be ex traduce by production, or every time new breathed in by God.
Q. 11. How, and in what place the Souls seat in Man is?
Q. 12. How the Souls Enlightning is?
Q. 13. How the Souls feeding on the World of God is?
Q. 14. Whether such new Soul be without Sin?
Q. 15. How Sin cometh into the Soul, seeing it is Gods Work and Creature?
Q. 16. How the Soul, both in the Adamical, as also in the new or regenerate Body, is held in such Union together.
Q. 17. Whence, and wherefore is there a contrariety, of the Flesh and Spirit?
Q. 18. How the Soul departs from the Body in the death of a Man?
Q. 19. How the Soul is Mortal, or who it is Immortal?
Q. 20. How the Soul comes, or returns to God again?
Q. 21. Whither the Soul goeth when it Departeth, &c. be it saved or not saved?
Q. 22. What every Soul departed doth, whether it rejoyceth or no, till the Day of the last Judgment?
Q. 23. Whether the wicked Souls, without difference in so long a time before the Day of Judgment, find any Mitigation or Ease?
Q. 24. Whether mens Wishes profit them any thing, or sensibly come where they are, or no?
Q. 25. What the Hand of God and Bosom of Abraham are?
Q. 26. Whether the Souls of the Deceased take Care about Men, their Children, Friends and Goods, and know, see, like or dislike their Purposes and Undertakings.
Q. 27. Whether the Souls in Death know or understand this or that Art or Business in which they were Skilled when they were in the Body?
Q. 28. Whether they have any more Skill or Knowledge of Divine, Angelical and Earthy things, and also of Devillish things: and can have more certain Experience of them than they had in the Body.
Q. 29. What the Souling and Clarification are?
Q. 30. What the difference, of the Living, and Dead, resurrection of the Flesh, and of the Soul, is?
Q. 31. What manner of New Glorified Bodies the Souls will have?
Q. 32. What other Form, State and Condition, Joy and Glory, will there be, to Souls, in that other Life?
Q. 33. What kind of Matter our Bodies shall have in the other Life?
Q. 34. What is the lamentable horrible miserable Estate of the Damned?
Q. 35. What the Enochian Life is: and how long it lasteth?
Q. 36. What the Soul of the Messiah or Christ is?
Q. 37. What the Spirit of Christ is, which was Obedient, and which he commended into his Fathers Hands?
Q. 38. What are to be done at the End of the World?
Q. 39. What and where Paradise is, with its Inhabitants?
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THE FIFTH BOOK Of the AUTHOR Jacob Behmen▪
part 1
CHAP. VIII.
The 2d Part being of Christ's Suffering, Dying, Death and Resurrection.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. V. Ver. 54. to the end.
CHAP. VII. Ver. 75.
CHAP. IX.
The third part being of the Tree of Christian Faith.
CHAP. I.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III. Whence comes Good and Evil, Joy and Sorrow, Love and Anger, Life and Death?
CHAP. IV. How to attain the Liberty of God. How God's Image is destroyed. The State of the Wicked after the dying of the Body.
CHAP. V. Why the Wicked convert not. What the most smarting thing in Conversion is, &c.
CHAP. VI. What Lust can do. How we are fallen in Adam and helped again in Christ; and yet that it is not easie to be a Right Christian.
CHAP. VII. To what end this World was Created?
CHAP. VIII. In what manner God forgiveth Sins; and how Man becometh a Child of God?
THE Great Six Points.
The First POINT.
CHAP. I. Of the first sprout of Life out of the first Principle, whereby we may distinguish the Divine Being from Nature.
CHAP. II. What the Principle is, or what they all three are. Further of the First Point.
CHAP. III. The Second Point.
CHAP. IV. Of the Original of Contrariety in the springing of Life. The Third Point.
CHAP. V. How the Holy Tree of Eternal Life sprouteth through All the three Principles, yet not comprehended.
CHAP. VI. The outward manifestation of the inward three Worlds. How God is in all things. How all the World might be a meer Sun. What Man is. And wherein God beholdeth himself. Further of the 4th. Point.
CHAP. VII. How a Life passeth out of Joy into Misery. The fifth Point.
CHAP. VIII. Further of the 5th Point. The True Human Es∣sence or Substance is not Earthy, nor out of the Dark World, but out of the Substance of God.
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CHAP. IX. Of the Life of Darkness; wherein the Devils dwell; of what kind it is. The Sixth Point.
CHAP. X. Further of the sixth Point. Of the four Elements of the Devil.
A Brief Exposition of the Small Six Points.
The first Point. Of the Blood and Water of the Soul.
The second Point. Of Election and Reprobation.
The third Point. What Sin is, and how it is Sin.
The fourth Point. How Christ will deliver up the Kingdom to his Father.
The fifth Point. What the Magia and Magick Ground is.
The sixth Point. Of the Mystery, What it is?
A Brief Summary of the Earthy and Heavenly My∣steries Contracted and Comprised in Nine Texts.
Of the Divine Vision or Contemplation.
CHAP. I. Reason, Because it seeth not God with the outward Eyes, and observeth the Good and Vertuous, go often afflicted to the Grave, saith there is no God.
Argument 2. 1. Seeing God is the beginning of all things why is opposition permit∣ted, and not the Good only to be in all?
Argument 3. What good ariseth from this, that with the good there must be an evil?
CHAP. II.
Argument I. Seeing the Mind and Senses, or Thoughts is a beginning Natural Life subject to Corruption, how may the Super∣sensual Divine Life be in this Life?
Argument. How can a Man do that; (viz. that last above written) being the Scripture saith, The first Man is made to a Natural Life to rule the Creatures, therefore mst the Life go into the Earthy Properties.
CHAP. III. How Nature representeth and maketh visible the Divine Eternal and Abyssal Knowledge.
Of the Twofold Life in the Representation of the Divine Will.
Of the Threefold Spirit in the Growing Powers.
CHAP. IV. Of the Will of God flowing OUT, and in the percepti∣bility IN again into the ONE.
A Brief Explanation of the Knowledge of God and of all things, also of the true and false Light.
Signatura Rerum.
CHAP. I. Of the Signature, what it is, and that it lies ex∣actly in the Mind of Man.
CHAP. II. Of the Combate in all Beings. Of Antipathy and Sympa∣thy. And of the Corruption and Cure of each thing.
CHAP. III. Of the Grand Mystery of all Beings.
CHAP. IV. The Birth of the Stars, &c.
CHAP. V. Of the Sulphurian Death, and how the Body is revived, &c.
CHAP. VI. Of the generating Difference and Vegetation caus'd by Water and Oyl.
CHAP. VII. How Adam and Lucifer were Corrupted through Ima∣gination, &c.
CHAP. VIII. Of the Seething and Growth in the Earth, and the Separation of the several Kinds of Creatures.
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. The Process of Christs Suffering, Death and Resur∣rection Symbolized in the Philosophick Work.
CHAP. XII. How the Seventh Kingdom, viz. the Sun is reviv'd.
CHAP. XIII. Of the Enmity of the Spirit and of the Body, and of their Cure.
CHAP. XIV. How the three Principles interchange generating Good and Evil, yet all remain as at first to manifest the Glory of God.
CHAP. XV. How in the Will of the great Mystery a Good and Evil Will ariseth, and the one introduceth it self into the other.
CHAP. XVI. Of the Eternal Signature and Heavenly Joy, and why were produced Good and Evil.
Gods Election of Grace CALLED Predestination.
CHAP. I. What the Only God is, or the Sole Will what it is?
CHAP. II. Of the Original of Gods speaking Word, &c.
CHAP. III. Of the Seven Forms and Creation.
CHAP. IV. Of the Original of the Creation.
Obj. Though the Angels fell, God might have re-infused his Love into them.
CHAP. V. Of the Original of Man.
CHAP. VI. Of Man's Fall, and of his Wife.
Q. Why was not the Woman made at first, as the Female was of all other Creatures?
Q. 4. Why did God divide him into two Images? he foresaw what would be before the Creation; and therefore it must be his predestinate purpose that he should be, what he came to be by his Fall.
CHAP. VII.
1. v. 118. Q. ALL are dead in Adam, therefore some are predestinated to Life, others reprobated, and how can the Child help it if God will not have it? v. 132. Q. What can the Child help it, that it becomes a Thistle Child? v. 133. Q. And are not men at coming into the World excluded by Reprobation?
CHAP. VIII.
BAPTISM AND THE Lord's Supper.
The first Part being of Baptism.
CHAP. I. First Book of Baptism.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III.
The Lord's Supper. Part II.
CHAP. II.
CHAP. III. How the Disciples of Christ did Eat and Drink Christs Flesh and Blood?
CHAP. IV. What the Wicked partake of, and how a Man should prepare, that he may be Worthy?
CHAP. V. Of the Disputes, &c. about Christs Testaments.
Mysterium Magnum.
PART I.
CHAP. I. What God manifested is, and of the Trinity.
CHAP. II. Of the Word or Heart of God.
CHAP. III. How out of the Eternal Good, an Evil is come to be; the Original of the Dark World.
CHAP. VII. Of the Holy Trinity and Divine Essence.
CHAP. XII. Of the Six Days Work.
CHAP. XIII. Of the Creation of the Fourth Day.
CHAP. XIV. Of the Creation of the Fifth Day.
CHAP. XV. Of the Sixth Days Work of the Creation.
CHAP. XVI. Of the difference of the Heavenly and Earthy Man.
CHAP. XVII. Of Paradise.
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Paradisical Life, State or Dominion, how it should have been if Adam had not fallen, &c.
CHAP. XIX. Of the Building of the Woman, and how Man was Ordained to the outward Natural Life.
CHAP. XX. Of the Lamentable and Miserable Fall and Corruption of Man.
CHAP. XXI. Of the Impression, and Original of the Bestial Man, and beginning of Sickness and Mortality.
CHAP. XXII. Of the Original of Actual Sin, &c.
CHAP. XXIII. How God recalled Adam and his Eve, and ordained the Saviour?
CHAP. XXIV. The Cause of the Curse, and of the Body of Sickness.
CHAP. XXV. How God drove Adam out of Paradise, and laid the Cherub before the Garden.
CHAP. XXVI. Of the Propagation of Man in this World, and of Cain the Murtherer of his Brother.
CHAP. XXVII. Of Abel's and Cain's Sacrifices.
CHAP. XXVIII. Of Cain's Murthering his Brother Abel.
CHAP. XXIX. How the Adamical Tree hath put forth it self in∣to Branches and Pullulation.
CHAP. XXX. Of the Line of the Covenant.
CHAP. XXXI. Of Enoch's Wonderful Line.
CHAP. XXXII. Of the Covenant of God with Noah.
CHAP. XXXIII. Of the beginning of the second Monarchy; and of the Covenant of God with Noah, &c.
CHAP. XXXIV. How Noah Cursed Ham, and the Mysteries concerning the three Sons, &c.
The Second Part.
CHAP. XXXV. How the Humane Tree by the Children of Noah hath spread it self, &c.
CHAP. XXXVI. Of Babel, and the Mystery of the Speeches sprung thence, and the Recovery therefrom.
CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Line of Abraham, and of the Hea∣thenish Gods.
CHAP. XXXVIII. Of the Beginning of the Heathenish War, of Abraham's rescuing Lot, and of Melchisedeck.
CHAP. XXXIX. God's Covenant with Abraham, his Faith, and Sacrifice.
CHAP. XL. Of Hagar and Ismael.
CHAP. XLI. Of the Seal of the Covenant of Circumcision, and of Baptism.
CHAP. XLII. Of the three Men who appeared to Abraham in the Plain of Mamre, &c.
CHAP. XLIII. Of the Ruin of Sodom and Gomorrah, how foretold to Abraham.
CHAP. XLIV. Of Lot's Departure out of Sodom, and the terrible overthrow of that whole Region.
CHAP. XLV. How God defended Abraham and Sarah.
CHAP. XLVI. Of Isaac's Birth, and casting out Ismael and Hagar, and what it means.
CHAP. XLVII. Of the Covenant of Abimelech and Abraham, and what it points at.
CHAP. XLVIII. Of Abraham's Offering up Isaac.
CHAP. XLIX. Of Sarah's Death, and Abraham's Hereditary Sepulchre.
CHAP. L. Of Abraham's sending his Servant for a Wife for Isaac.
CHAP. LI. Of Abraham's taking Keturah to Wife, and of his Six Sons and Death.
CHAP. LII. The History of Isaac, Birth of Esau and Jacob.
CHAP. LIII. How Esau contemn'd his Birthright, and sold it for a Mess of Pottage.
CHAP. LIV. How Isaac, by reason of the Famine, went down to Abimelech at Gerar, &c.
CHAP. LV. Of Isaac's Blessing Jacob unknowingly when he was Old, and ready to Die.
CHAP. LVI. Of Jacob's Leaving his Parents for fear of Esau, and of his Vision of the Ladder.
CHAP. LVII. How Jacob kept Laban's Sheep Fourteen Years for his Two Daughters, &c.
CHAP. LVIII. Of Jacob's serving Laban, and of his Wives, and Children, and Wages.
CHAP. LIX. Of Jacob's departure from Laban, &c.
CHAP. LX. Of Esau's going to meet Jacob with Four Hundred Men. Jacob's Present and Wrestling, &c.
CHAP. LXI. Of Jacob and Esau meeting all Heart-burning turn∣ed to Joy, &c.
CHAP. LXII. Of Dinah Deflour'd, all the Males of Sichem slain by Simeon and Levi.
CHAP. LXIII. How Jacob leaves Sichem. Rachel bare Ben∣jamin, Isaac died.
CHAP. LXIV. Esau's Genealogy, his own Name and Posterity; and of Joseph.
Mysterium Magnum.
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CHAP. LXIV. Of Joseph Jacob's Son.
CHAP. LXV. Of Judah and Thamar, and how they Figure Christ and Adam.
CHAP. LXVI. How Joseph was sold to Potiphar. And of his Chastity and Fear of God.
CHAP. LXVII. Of Joseph's Expounding the Dreams of Pha∣roah's Butler and Baker.
CHAP. LXVIII. Pharoah Dreaming saw seven Fat Kine, &c.
CHAP. LXIX. How the Famine driveth Joseph's Brethren to him, and how he shew'd himself to them.
CHAP. LXX. Jacob's Sons went into Egypt the second time, and did eat at Joseph's Table, yet knew him not.
CHAP. LXXI. Of Joseph's Cup being put into Benjamin's Sack.
CHAP. LXXII. How Joseph manifested himself before his Brethren.
CHAP. LXXIII. How Jacob, and his Children, and all his, &c. went into Egypt.
CHAP. LXXIV. Jacob and five of Joseph's Brethren set before Pharaoh. Egypt Sold for Corn.
CHAP. LXXV. How Jacob blesseth the two Sons of Joseph, and preferreth the Youngest, &c.
CHAP. LXXVI.
CHAP. LXXVII.
CHAP. LXXVIII. Jacob's Burial in Canaan accompanied with all the Children of Israel, and many of the Egyptians.
Some Brief Remarks concerning the Life and Conver∣sation of the Blessed Jacob Behmen, Collected out of the Relations published concerning him.
The Seven Spirits of God, or Powers, or Forms, in Nature.
The Ten Forms of Fire.
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The General Heads of the following Treatise.
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