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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![neither hath he any greater authority than other children of God. Do but look upon yourself, why have you earthly thoughts of yourself? Why will you be mocked by the devil, and be fooled by the world, [so as to be led to think] that you are but a kind of figure like God, and not generated or begotten of God ? 7. Your monstrous form or shape indeed is not God, nor of his essence, or substance, but the hidden man, ^ which is the soul, ^is the proper i which the essence of God, forasmuch as the love in the light , of God is sprung up in your own centre, out of which the Holy Ghost proceedeth, wherein the substance, as & Ciiijici IS xn.6 second Principle of God consisteth: How then should father’s own substance. you not have power and authority to speak of God, who is your Father, of whose essence you are ? Behold, is not the world God’s ? And the Light of God being in you, it must needs be also yours, as it is written. The Father hath given all things to the Son, and the Son hath given all to you. The Father is the eternal power, or virtue, and the Son is the Heart and light continuing eternally in the Father, and you continue in the Father and the Son. And now, being the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son, and that the eternal power or virtue of the Father is in you, and that the eternal light of the Son shineth in you, why will you be fooled ? Know you not what Paul said : That our conversation is in heaven, from whence we expect our Saviour](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24867585_0099.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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