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Author: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
Title: Forty questions of the soul concerning its original, essence, substance, nature or quality and property, what it is from eternity to eternity : framed by a lover of the great mysteries, Doctor Balthasar Walter, and answered in the year 1620 / by Jacob Behme, called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow ...
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Print source: Forty questions of the soul concerning its original, essence, substance, nature or quality and property, what it is from eternity to eternity : framed by a lover of the great mysteries, Doctor Balthasar Walter, and answered in the year 1620 / by Jacob Behme, called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow ...
Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624., Sparrow, John, 1615-1665?
[London]: Printed for L. Lloyd ..., 1665.
Alternate titles: Viertzig Fragen von der Seele. English
Subject terms:
Walther, Balthasar, 1586-1640.
Soul.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28525.0001.001
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To the Earnest Lovers of Wisdom.
To the Reader.
A brief Account of the Life and Conversation of Jacob Behme, afterwards by Learned Men in Germany called Teutonicus.
The following Relation was taken out of a Memorial of Michael Curtz, con∣cerning what happened at the Depar∣ture of the Blessed Jacob Behme.
PREFACE.
Before the Catalogue to the 40. Questi∣ons was this Preface to the Reader.
This Author may be easily understood in every thing, by such a Considerati∣on as this which followeth.
ERRATA.
The TABLE of the Forty Questions.
The PREFACE of J. B. to Dr. Belthasar Walter.
The First Question.
The First Form.
The Second Form.
The Third Form.
The Fourth Form.
The Fifth Form of Fire in the Eternal Will.
The Sixth Form of Fire.
An Exposition of the Philosophick Globe or Eye, of both the Threefold Circles, which especially signifie the two Eternal Principles; wherein yet the Third also is clearly understood; And how a Man should un∣derstand them.
Further Information Concerning the First Principle, and the Mystery of the Beginning in the Crea∣tion, and of the Dark World, how the Angle or Point of the Cross, with Number 9. at the left, with its upper and neather Space is understood.
The Conclusion.
The Seventh Form of Fire.
The Eighth Form of Fire.
The Ninth Form of Fire. The great earnest Severity.
The Tenth Number and Form of Fire. The Gate into the Holy Ternary.
The Second Question.
The Third Question.
The Fourth Question.
The Fifth Question.
The Sixth Question.
The First Power of the Souls Will.
The Second Power of the Souls Will.
The Third Power of the Soules Will or Spirit.
The Fourth Power of the Souls Will.
The Fifth Power of the Souls Will or Spirit.
The Seventh Question.
The Eighth Question.
The Ninth Question,
The Tenth Question.
The Eleventh Question.
The Twelft Question.
The highly pretions Gate of the Mor∣ning Redness or Aurora.
The Thirteenth Question.
The Fourteenth Question.
The Fifteenth Question.
The Sixteenth Question.
The Seventeenth Question.
The Eighteenth Question.
The Nineteenth Question.
The Twentieth Question.
The One and Twentieth Question.
The Two and Twentieth Question.
The Three and Twentieth Question.
The Four and Twentieth Question.
The Five and Twentieth Question.
The Six and Twentieth Question.
The Seven and Twentieth Question.
The Eight and Twentieth Question.
The Nine and Twentieth Question.
The Thirtieth Question.
The One and Thirtieth Question.
The Two and Thirtieth Question.
The Three and Thirtieth Question.
The Four and Thirtieth Question.
The Five and Thirtieth Question.
The Six and Thirtieth Question.
The Seven and Thirtieth Question.
The Eight and Thirtieth Question.
The Nine and Thirtieth Question.
The Fortieth Question.
Conclusion.
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Of the Soul, and of its Image, and of the Turba which destroyeth the Image.