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— Jakob Bohme
What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.
Paradise is yet in the World, but Man is not therein, unless he be born again of God; then as to that new Regeneration he is therein, and not with the Adam of the four Elements.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter X(1650s)
“God must become Man, Man must become God; Heaven must become one Thing with the Earth, the Earth must be turned to Heaven: If you will make Heaven out of the Earth, then give the Earth the Heaven's Food, that the Earth may obtain the Will of Heaven, that the Will of the wrathful Mercury may give itself in unto the Will of the heavenly Mercury.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“Heaven is throughout the whole World, and it is also without the World over all, even everywhere that is, or that can be even so much as imagined.All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God. Its virtue is the principle of all principles; its power supports the Heavens and upholds the Earth; its height is higher than the highest Heavens, and its greatness is even greater than the very Manifestation of the Godhead in the glorious light of the Divine Essence, as being infinitely capable of greater and greater manifestations in all Eternity.”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“There can be no selfishness in love; they are opposite to each other.He reported that in that moment he felt he could see into the deepest structures of nature and divinity. His works reveal a cosmos alive with divine tension, where good and evil interweave, and where the human soul is called to return to its divine source.
Jakob Böhme
Quotes by Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“God is outside of Nature and yet in a sense inside also, because there is a divine life or virtue in Nature which, longing to re-unite itself with its source, is a cause of anguish while divided, and of joy when united.— Jakob Bohme
Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented. — Jakob Bohme
The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. into its own Lubet, the same receives, in passing through the Degrees, the Abominate; for each Form of Nature out of the Mystery receives of its Property in its Hunger, and therein it is not annoyed or molested, for it is of their Property.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“If thou forsakest the World, then thou comest unto that out of which the World is made, and if thou losest thy life, then thy life is in that for whose sake thou forsakest it.— Jakob Bohme
Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility. Despite his family responsibilities and trade, his interior life became increasingly dominated by visions and revelations.
Career, Persecution, and Writings
Early Works and Opposition
Böhme wrote his first major work, Aurora, or The Rising of the Dawn, in 1612.
Though poorly educated in the academic sense, his writings reveal a profound originality and daring imagination. For this end gather in all thy thoughts, and by faith press into the Centre, laying hold upon the Word of God, which is infallible, and which hath called thee. Love, that is, Divine Love (of which only we are now discoursing) , hates all Egoity, hates all that which we call I, or IHOOD, hates all such restrictions and confinements, even all that springs from a contracted spirit, or this evil Self-hood, because it is an hateful and deadly thing.
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It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. — Jakob Bohme
A Christian is of no sect. So shall thy light break forth as the morning; and after the redness thereof is passed, the Sun Himself, which thou waitest for, shall arise unto thee, and under His most healing wings thou shalt greatly rejoice; ascending and descending in His bright and salutiferous beams.
— Jakob Bohme
For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself. So that he can have no want of spiritual friends and relations, who are all rooted with him together in the Love which is from above, who are all of the same blood and kindred in Christ Jesus; and who are cherished all by the same quickening sap and spirit diffusing itself through them universally from the one true Vine, which is the tree of life and love.”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter II(1650s)
“It finds nothing except only the Property of the Hunger, which is itself, which it draws into itself, that is, draws itself into itself, and finds itself in itself; and its Attraction into itself makes an Overshadowing or Darkness in it, which is not in the Liberty, viz.— Jakob Bohme
Love is higher than the Highest.
— Jakob Bohme
We are all strings in the concert of God's joy. His faith is a desire after God and Goodness, which he wrappeth up in a sure hope, trusting to the words of the promise, and liveth and dieth therein; though as to the true man, he never dieth.”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“The Soul here saith "I have nothing, for I am utterly stripped and naked of every Thing; I can do nothing, for I have no manner of power, but am as water poured out; I am nothing, for all that I am is no more than an Image of Being, and only God is to me I AM; and so, sitting down in my own Nothingness, I give glory to the Eternal Being, and will nothing of myself, that so God may will all in me, being unto me my God and All Things." Herein now it is that so very few find this most precious treasure in the Soul, though every one would so fain have it”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter VIII(1650s)
“Every Root, as it is in the Earth, may be known by the Signature for what it is food or profitable, even such a Form also has the Earth, and it is discerned in the leaves and Stalks which Planet is Lord in the Property, much more in the Flower; for of what Taste the Herb and Root is, even such an Hunger is in it, and such a Cure lies therein, for it has such a Salt.And it is impossible that these [Pg 40] two should stand together, or subsist in one person; the one driving out the other by a necessity of nature.