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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    Christ, and did not come to the root and ground, what the fall was, and by what it was we came to perish, and what that property is which God abhorreth, and how that was effected, contrary to the command and will of God, what should I under- stand of the thing ? Just nothing! And then how should I shun or avoid that which I have no knowledge of'? Or how should I endeavour to come to the new birth, and give myself up into it, if I knew not how, wherein, nor wherewith to do it ? 5. It is very true, the world is full of books and sermons of the fall, and of the new birth : But in the most part of the books of the ^ divines, there ^ theology, is nothing but the history that such a thing hath been done, and that we should be regenerated in Christ. But what do I understand from hence ? Nothing, but only the history, that such a thing hath been done, and done again, and ought to be done. 6. Our divines set themselves hand and foot, with might and main, with their utmost endeavour, by persecution and reproach, against this, [and say] that men must not [dare to] search into the deep grounds what God is; men must not search nor curiously pry into the Deity. But if I should speak plainly what this trick of theirs is, it is the dung and filth wherewith they cover and hide the devil, and cloak the injected malice and wickedness of the devil in man, so that neither the devil, nor
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