Concerning the three principles of the divine essence / by Jacob Boehme, translated by John Sparrow, revised by C. J. B., with an introduction by Dr Paul Deussen, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Kiel.

  • Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
Date:
1910
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    the essence and property of which it is proceeded. And this is not marvellous, for it doth but behold itself only in the rising of its birth ; and thus it seeth the whole depth of the Father in the first Principle. 3. This the devils also see and know; for they also are out of the first Principle of God, which is the source of God’s original nature. They wish also that they might not see nor feel it; but it is their own fault that the second Principle is shut up to them, which is called and is God, one- in essence, and threefold in personal distinction, as shall be mentioned hereafter. 4. But the soul of man, which is enlightened with the Holy Spirit of God, (which in the second Principle proceedeth from the Father and the Son in the holy heaven, that is, in the true divine nature ^ which is called God), this soul seeth even i viz. The into the light of God, into the same second Prin- ciple of the holy divine ^ birth, into the heavenly ^ or working, essence : But the ® sidereal spirit wherewith the ® astral, or . . starry spirit. soul is clothed, and also the elementary [spiritj which ^ ruleth the source, or springing and impulsion Or hath, of the blood, they see no further than into their mother, whence they are, and wherein they live. 5. Therefore if I should speak and write that which is purely heavenly, and altogether of the clear Deity, I should be as dumb to the Reader, who hath not the knowledge and the gift [to understand it]. Yet I will so write in a divine.