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This vision was the beginning of his lifelong exploration of metaphysical and theological mysteries.
He married Katharina Kuntzschmann in 1599, with whom he had four children. in the Nothing; for the Will of the Liberty overshadows itself with the Essence of the Desire, for the Desire makes Essence and not the Will.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter XV(1650s)
“A true Christian is himself the great and anxious Work which continually desires to Work in God's Will, and forces against the self-ful Lusts of Selfhood, and wills continually so to do, and yet is many Times hindered by Self-hood: He breaks Self-hood, as a vessel, wherein he lies captive, and buds forth continually in God's Will-Spirit, with his Desire resigned in God (as a fair Blossom springs out of the Earth) , and Works in and with God, what God pleases.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter VIII(1650s)
“He gives in his Power to all his Beings and Works, and each Thing receives his Power according to its Property; one takes Darkness, the other Light; each Hunger desires its Property, and yet the whole Essence [or Being] is all God's, be it Evil or Good, for from him and through him are all Things, what is not of his Love, that is of his Anger.— Jakob Bohme
In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God. — Jakob Bohme
When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me?
— Jakob Bohme
For according to the outward man, we are in this world, and according to the inward man, we are in the inward world....
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Quotes by Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“God is outside of Nature and yet in a sense inside also, because there is a divine life or virtue in Nature which, longing to re-unite itself with its source, is a cause of anguish while divided, and of joy when united.In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. This is not what I mean by walking contrary in everything to the World. — Jakob Bohme
Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God. — Jakob Bohme
A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.
— Jakob Bohme
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion. So, in the outer world, the seed buried in earth contains a power kindred to the virtue of the sun. — Jakob Bohme
In 'Yes' and 'No' all things consist.
— Jakob Bohme
All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. — Jakob Bohme
Adam was the image of God, he was man and woman, and yet neither of them before his Eve, but a masculine virgin in peculiar love, full of chastity and purity.
As it was before the Times of this World in his eternal Harmony [or Voice] , so also it continues in the creaturely Voice in him in his Eternity; and this is the Beginning and the End of all Things.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter XIV(1650s)
“All Things are generated out of the grand Mystery, and proceed out of one Degree into another: Now whatever goes forwards in its Degree, the same receives no Abominate, let it be either in Vegetables or Animals; but whatever enters in itself into its Self-hood, viz.Known as the “Teutonic Theosopher,” he sought to explain the nature of God, creation, good and evil, and the human soul through symbolic and mystical insights.
— Jakob Bohme
We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root. in the Spirit. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him. — Jakob Bohme
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Cease but from thine own Activity, steadfastly fixing thine eye upon one point, and with a strong purpose relying upon the promised grace of God in Christ, to bring thee out of thy darkness into His marvellous light.
For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience. If thou wilt be like All Things thou must forsake all things; thou must not extend thy will to possess that for thine own, or as thine own, which is Something, whatever that Something be.”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“For the right way, even the Path of Light, is contrary to all the ways of the World.
But whereas thou art afraid of creating to thyself hereby trouble and inquietude, that indeed will be so according to the flesh.It is this which breaks forth from the seed, forces itself up through the dark, imprisoning, and yet nourishing and necessary earth, and at last, if it can win its way through obstacles, cheerfully expands in the light of the sun and feeds upon his warmth.”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“There is in truth but one Religion, that founded upon the eternal, immutable, universal processes of the actual Nature of things, and of this Christianity, rightly apprehended, is the supreme Revelation.Paradise is yet in the World, but Man is not therein, unless he be born again of God; then as to that new Regeneration he is therein, and not with the Adam of the four Elements.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter X(1650s)
“God must become Man, Man must become God; Heaven must become one Thing with the Earth, the Earth must be turned to Heaven: If you will make Heaven out of the Earth, then give the Earth the Heaven's Food, that the Earth may obtain the Will of Heaven, that the Will of the wrathful Mercury may give itself in unto the Will of the heavenly Mercury.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“Heaven is throughout the whole World, and it is also without the World over all, even everywhere that is, or that can be even so much as imagined.All reason-taught, from the school of this world, are the master-builders of this tower. — Jakob Bohme
In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.