Category: Philosophy & Ethics
The Works of Jacob Behmen, the "Teutonic Theosopher," translated into English, were first printed in England in the seventeenth century, between 1644 and 1662. In the following century a complete edition in four large volumes was produced by some of the disciples of William La...
Christ suffereth in the persecution of his members. Therefore all the wrong that such hard executors do to the poor wretches under their control is done to Christ himself; and f...
5. Part 5But in that it was also said, _Its greatness is greater than God_; that likewise is very true in the sense wherein it was spoken. For Love can there enter where God dwelleth not...
3. Part 3Those men therefore that strive and wrangle about the knowledge and will of God, and despise one another on that account, are more foolish than the birds in the woods, and the w...
7. Part 7To whom Theophorus presently returned this answer: The Kingdom of Heaven is in the Saints operative and manifestative of itself by _Faith_. They who carry God within them, and l...
2. Part 2God 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 angu...
1. Part 1The Works of Jacob Behmen, the "Teutonic Theosopher," translated into English, were first printed in England in the seventeenth century, between 1644 and 1662. In the following...
4. Part 4If thou dost once every hour throw thyself by faith beyond all creatures, beyond and above all sensual perception and apprehension, yea, above discourse and reasoning into the a...
6. Part 6If thou believest, then go and do accordingly. _All_ is in the _Will_, as I have shown thee. When the Will imagineth after _Somewhat_, then entereth it into that somewhat, and t...
9. Part 9Thou shalt do nothing at all but forsake thy own Will, viz., that which thou callest _I_, or _thyself_. By which means all thy evil properties will grow weak, faint, and ready t...