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.

  • Jakob Böhme
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1910
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which we carry within us, and which we ourselves now are. 3. And although I write now, as if there were a beginning in the eternal birth, yet it is not so ; but the eternal nature thus begetteth [or generateth] itself without beginning. My writings must be understood in a creaturely manner, as the birth of man is, who is a similitude of God. Although it be just so in the eternal being [essence or substance], yet that is both without beginning and without end; and my writing is only to this end, that man might learn to know what he is, what he was in the beginning, how he was a very glorious eternal holy man, that should never have known the gate of the strong [or austere] birth in the eternity, if he had not suffered himself to lust after it through lOrtempta- the ^infection of the devil, and had not eaten of 2 Yiz the ^ fruit which was forbidden him ; whereby he became such a naked and vain man in a bestial trix or gene- 2ost the heavenly garment of the divine power, and liveth now in the kingdom of the devil 3 Or poisonous in the ^ infected Salnitre, and feedeth upon the infected food. Therefore it is necessary for us to learn to know ourselves, what we are, and how we ^ Who bring- eth us forth out of the wrath into the love of God. might be redeemed from the anguishing austere birth, and be regenerated or born anew, and live in the new man (which is like the first man before the fall) in Christ our ^ Regenerator. 4. For though I should speak or write never so much of the fall, and also of the regeneration in
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