The second booke, concerning the three principles of the divine essence of the eternall, dark, light, and temporary vvorld shewing what the soule, the image and the spirit of the soule are : as also what angels, heaven, and paradise are : how Adam was before the fall, in the fall, and after the fall : and what the wrath of God, sinne, death, the devils and hell are, how all things have been, now are, and how they shall be at the last / written in the German language by Jacob Behmen, aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus.

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Author:	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
Title:	The second booke, concerning the three principles of the divine essence of the eternall, dark, light, and temporary vvorld shewing what the soule, the image and the spirit of the soule are : as also what angels, heaven, and paradise are : how Adam was before the fall, in the fall, and after the fall : and what the wrath of God, sinne, death, the devils and hell are, how all things have been, now are, and how they shall be at the last / written in the German language by Jacob Behmen, aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus.
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Alternate titles:	Beschreibung der drey Principien göttliches Wesens. English
Subject terms:	Mysticism. God -- Attributes.
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title page

❧ To the READER.

The Authors Preface to this BOOKE.

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The First Chapter.

CHAP. II.

Further, of the Sulphur, Mercurius, and Sal.

The Gates of God.

CHAP. III.

The Gates of the great Depth.

Further of the Birth.

CHAP. IV.

The open Gate of the great Depth.

Now here followeth the Chapter.

The very sublime Gate of the Holy Trinity, for the Children of God.

A description of a Devill, how he is in his own proper forme, and also how he was in the Angelicall forme.

CHAP. V.

CHAP. VI.

CHAP. VII.

The Great Depth.

CHAP. VIII.

I will set it down more intelligibly [or plainly] for the simplest Readers sake.

CHAP. IX-

The Noble and most pretious Gate [or exposition] concerning the reasonable Soule.

The Gate [or the Exposition].

The Holy Gate.

The Depth in the Centre [or Ground].

CHAP. X.

The Pleasant Gate.

The deep Gate of the Soule.

The secret Gate of the Temptation of Man.

The Depth.

CHAP. XI.

The Gate of Good and Evill.

The Depth in the Centre.

The Gate of the Tempting.

The highest, strongest, and the mightiest Gate of the Temptation in Adam.

Of the Tree of knowledge [of] good and evill.

CHAP. XII.

The Golden Gate, which God affordeth to the last world, wherein the Lilly shall flourish [and blossome.]

Of Adams sleepe.

The gate of the highest depth of the life of the Tincture.

Of its [the Tinctures] Essences and property. The deepe Gate of Life.

Of the Death and of the Dying. The Gate of affliction and of misery.

The Gate [or Exposition] of the heavenly Tincture, how it was in Adam before the Fall, and how it shall be in us after this Life.

CHAP. XIII.

The fleshly, miserable, and darke Gate.

A Pleasant Gate.

Further concerning the Woman.

Concerning the Propagating of the soule. The Noble Gate.

The Gate of our Propagation in the Flesh.

The secret Gate of Women.

The Gate of the great necessitie and miserie.

Further in the Incarnation.

CHAP. XIV.

The very secret Gate.

The strong Gate of the Indissoluble Band of the soule.

The Gate of the Sydereall, or starry Spirit.

The Depth in the Centre.

The most precious Gate in the Roote of the Lilly.

The Gate of God the Father.

The Gate of the Sonne of God, the Plea∣sant Lilly in the Wonders.

The Gate of Gods Wonders in the Rose of the Lilly.

CHAP. XV.

Diligently and deeply to be considered.

The Life of the Soule. The Gate.

CHAP. XVI.

The Gate of Speech.

The Gate of the Difference between Man and Beast.

CHAP. XVII.

Mans Looking-Glasse.

If thou askest, How long Adam slept.

The Gate of the great Affliction, and Misery of Man.

The Gate [or Exposition] of the great sinne, and contrariety of will against God, in Man.

Of the voice of God in the Garden of Eden, and the Conference between God and those two, about sinne.

The most pleasant and most lovely Gate [or Expo∣sition] of the promise of the Treader upon the Serpent, highly to be considered.

The Gate of the Redemption.

The Gate of the Incarnation, of Jesus Christ the Sonne of God.

CHAP. XVIII.

The strong Gate of the [Incarnation or] becoming Man, of Jesus Christ the Sonne of God.

Of the three Regions of the [Incarnation or] be∣coming Man; the forming [or Imaging] of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The difference [or Distinction] between the vir∣gin Mary, and her Son JESUS CHRIST.

Of Purgatorie.

CHAP. XIX.

The Gate of the Bodies breaking off [or Part∣ing] from the Soule.

Of the going-forth of the Soule.

The Earnest Gate of the Purgatory.

The true Doore of the Entrance into Heaven, or into Hell.

CHAP. XX.

Of the Thrusting Adam and Eve out of the Paradise, of the Garden in Eden.

The Gate of the Mysteries [or the Exposi∣tion of the hidden secrets.]

Of the innocent and righteous Abel. The Gate of the Christian Church.

CHAP. XXI.

The Well-spring [or fountaine] of the Antichristian Kingdome.

Of the Kingdome of Christ in this world.

The victorious Gate of the poore soule.

CHAP. XXII.

The Gate of Immanuel.

This ought highly to be Considered.

The most precious Gate.

Of the deare Name Immanuel.

Of the Baptisme of Christ upon Earth, in Jordan,

O Man consider thy selfe.

Of the Temptation of Christ.

CHAP. XXIII.

The most Noble Gate of Christianitie.

Of the use of the highly Precious Testaments of Christ the Sonne of God.

CHAP. XXIV.

Of the way [or manner] of the Entrance.

CHAP. XXV.

The Gate of our Misery, and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love.

The very horrible wonderfull Gate of Mans Sinnes.

The Gate of the Great Secret.

The other Gate of the sufferings of Christ.

The Gate of a Poore Sinner.

Of Christs Rest in the Grave [or Sepulchre.]

Of Christs Resurrection out of the Grave.

Of Christs Ascension into Heaven.

CHAP. XXVI.

The Holy Gate of the Divine Power.

The Gate to Babell.

CHAP. XXVII.

The most horrible Gate of the wicked, and the joyfull Gate of the Godly.

AN APPENDIX. OR Fundamentall and true Description of the Threefold Life in Man.

The Table to the Three Principles.

part A

part B

part C

part D

part E

part F

part G

part H

part I

part K

part L

part M

part N

part O

part P

part Q

part R

part S

part T

part V

part W