Jakob böhme quotes

Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God. Its virtue is the principle of all principles; its power supports the Heavens and upholds the Earth; its height is higher than the highest Heavens, and its greatness is even greater than the very Manifestation of the Godhead in the glorious light of the Divine Essence, as being infinitely capable of greater and greater manifestations in all Eternity.”

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Jakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

“There can be no selfishness in love; they are opposite to each other.

His faith is a desire after God and Goodness, which he wrappeth up in a sure hope, trusting to the words of the promise, and liveth and dieth therein; though as to the true man, he never dieth.”

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Jakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

“The Soul here saith "I have nothing, for I am utterly stripped and naked of every Thing; I can do nothing, for I have no manner of power, but am as water poured out; I am nothing, for all that I am is no more than an Image of Being, and only God is to me I AM; and so, sitting down in my own Nothingness, I give glory to the Eternal Being, and will nothing of myself, that so God may will all in me, being unto me my God and All Things." Herein now it is that so very few find this most precious treasure in the Soul, though every one would so fain have it”

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Jakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter VIII(1650s)

“Every Root, as it is in the Earth, may be known by the Signature for what it is food or profitable, even such a Form also has the Earth, and it is discerned in the leaves and Stalks which Planet is Lord in the Property, much more in the Flower; for of what Taste the Herb and Root is, even such an Hunger is in it, and such a Cure lies therein, for it has such a Salt.

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For according to the outward man, we are in this world, and according to the inward man, we are in the inward world.... — 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.

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In 'Yes' and 'No' all things consist. And then it becometh nothing to itself, as to its own working and willing, and so God worketh and willeth in it. — Jakob Bohme

A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the powers out of which his angels are made, and is the most powerful and the brightest of them all.

That which you do not want to befall you, you should not cause to happen to another.”

For it is the young tree grown out of the old root which shall illuminate what the old tree has been in its wonders.

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility. Rightly speaking there is no such thing as supernatural religion; there is but one Religion, that of Nature. — Jakob Bohme

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself. — Jakob Bohme

It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. He came from a humble peasant background; his father, George Wissen Böhme, was a farmer.

Jakob 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.

Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God. — Jakob Bohme

When we consider the beginning of our life, and compare the same with the eternal life, which we have in the promise, we cannot say nor find that we are at home in this life. It was a complex, symbolic exploration of God, creation, and the struggle between light and darkness.

Local clergy, particularly Pastor Gregor Richter of Görlitz, accused him of heresy and forced him to stop writing.

Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables; all whatever is hath its life from the air, and nothing whatsoever that moveth and is in this world can subsist without air.

Jakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter II(1650s)

“It finds nothing except only the Property of the Hunger, which is itself, which it draws into itself, that is, draws itself into itself, and finds itself in itself; and its Attraction into itself makes an Overshadowing or Darkness in it, which is not in the Liberty, viz.