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
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
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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No text description is available for this image![all the fountain-spirits, what joy, virtue, or power, essence, substance, or property [they have], and in the water it is a very drying fire. 17. The propagation of the love is most especially to be observed, for it is the loveliest, pleasantest, and sweetest fountain of all. When the love generateth again a whole birth, with all the fountains of the original essences out of itself, so that the love in all the ^springing veins in that new birth be predominant and chief, so that a centre ariseth therein, then the first essence, viz. the tartness, is wholly desirous or longing, wholly sweet, wholly light, and giveth itself forth to be food to all the qualities, with a hearty affection towards them all, as a loving mother hath towards her children, and here the bitterness may be rightly called joy, for it is the rising or moving [thereof]. What joy there is here, there is no other similitude of it, than when a man is suddenly and unex- pectedly delivered out of the pain and torment of hell, and put into the light of the divine joy. 18. So also the sound, where the love is pre- dominant ; it bringeth most joyful tidings or news into all the forms of the birth, as also the fire in the love, that kindleth the love rightly in all the fountain-spirits, as is mentioned above; and the love kindleth love in its essence. When the love is predominant in love, it is the sweetest, meekest, humblest, most loving fountain of all that springeth in all the fountains; and it confirmeth and fixeth ^ Or well- spring.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24867585_0093.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)