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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    ^ substance, or offspring. 2 destruction or perdition. to do it, aud that he doth very sinfully in it, and runneth clean contrary to God and his will, in presuming, being but a man, to go about to speak and say what God is. 3. For it is lamentable, that since the fall of Adam^ we should be so continually cheated and befooled by the devil, to think that we are not the children of God, nor of his ^ essence. He continu- ally putteth the monstrous shape or form into our thoughts, as he did into our mother Eve, which she gazed too much upon, and by her representing it in her imagination, she became a child of this world, wholly naked and vain, and void of under- standing : And so he doth to us also still continu- ally ; he would bring us into another image, as he did Eve, that we might be ashamed to appear in the presence of the light and power of God, as Adam and Eve were, when they hid themselves behind the trees (that is, behind the monstrous shape or form), when the Lord appeared in the centre of the birth of their lives, and said. Where art thou, Adam'k And he said, I am naked, and am afraid; which was nothing else, but that his belief [or faith] and knowledge of the holy God was put out; for he beheld the monstrous shape which he had made to himself by his imagination and lust, by the devil’s [instigation] representation, and false persuading, to eat of the third Principle wherein ^ corruption was. 4. And now when he saw and knew by that
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