CONTENTS.

I.

THE LIFE OF JACOB BOEHME.

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ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND LABORS, AND OF THE ÎNFI.UENCE

OF HIS WRITINGS UPON THE OUTSIDE WORLD..........

II.

THE DOCTRINES OF JACOB BOEHME.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

The only reality-External reasoning is inadequate to compre-
hend internal truth-Historical aspect of the Bible-Man
created in the image of God-The universal and the per-
verted self-will of man-Atonement-The Yoga practice-
Illuminated seers-Jacob Boehme's spiritual knowledge
and his terrestrial conditions-How his writings can be under-
stood.....

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CHAPTER II.

UNITY.

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God in his aspect as the Father-The unity of the All-Eternity
and time-The will-Eternal wisdom-The Son and the
Holy Spirit-Trinity-The will the positive energy—Wisdom
is merely passive-Three-personality of God-God revealed
in being-The magic principle-The antithesis or duality—
Fire and Light.....

CHAPTER III.

THE SEVEN QUALITIES.

Seven states of eternal nature referring to the Trinity—Each

quality existing within the others-Seven in one-Matter,

darkness, corporification, motion, consciousness, salt, sul-

phur, and mercury—The lightning flash, illumination, light,

substantiality, the water spirit, sound-The seventh form

-Essential wisdom, the body of God, transcendental magnifi-

cence, the eternal virgin, glorification....

CHAPTER IV.

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CREATION.

God the All and nevertheless not the All--Pantheism and The-

ism-Personality of God—Perfection—The subjective becom-

ing objective-Divine love-The world not divine-Eternal

nature, wisdom-Differentiation of divine powers-Necessity

of the dark fire-Eternal chaos-Beginning, unfolding-

The seven divine spirits-Co-operation of Spirit.......

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THE ANGELS.

Three types of God relatively to the Trinity-Sub-divisions of
divine intelligences-Harmony-The seven accords in each
body-The celestial world objective to the angels—Its pro-
ducts corresponding to their terrestrial types-Realms of
Lucifer-Michael and Uriel, dominions, guardian angels,

duced by the ignition of the lower principles-Hell not yet
complete-Evil spirits-Lucifer's knowledge merely scientific,
but not divine-An end of hell inconceivable, unless creation
were destroyed....

CHAPTER VI.

THE RESTORATION OF Nature.

Mosaic account of the restoration of Nature-The outcast spirits

-The allegory of the Flood-The appearance of the light—

The seventh day-The separation of the material from the

immaterial element of water-Their separation not referring

to locality-The conjunction of the fiery and watery essence

life-Generation of gold and precious stones-Relative good

and evil-The light that shines into the darkness-The

sun and the planets-Manifestation of divine wisdom-The

sun the life of the stars-The objective planets-Sidereal life

-The spirit of the stars-The superiority-The third prin-

ciple-Man a compendium of Nature and all terrestrial quali-

ties-The soul..

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CHAPTER VII.

MAN.

Man an image of God-His celestial body-His powers-Eden

-The paradise-Man not the equal of God-His free will-

Object of the third principle-Object of man's existence-The

heart of God and its antithesis the devil and the terrestrial

world-Adam's fall-The tree of temptation-The protection

offered by the terrestrial form against the powers of evil-

The weakening of the divine image-How Adam fell asleep

-The terrestrial woman the saviour of man-Creation of

Eve-Eating the forbidden fruit-The serpent-Adam caused

Eve to sin and Eve seduced him-The rise of the desire for

the knowledge of good and evil. . . . . .

CHAPTER VIII.

NATURE, OR THE THIRD PRINCIPLE.

The origin of Nature-Duality-The powers of light and dark-
ness-Lucifer's influence in the world-The power of God in
the inner world-The external sun an image of the divine

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heart of love-The sun omnipresent-Ruling of the planets-

Their good and evil influences—Their living power-Individual

life of the earth-Why the earth turns around her axis and

around the sun-The four elements and the fifth-Origin of

the terrestrial elements-Their attractions and repulsions—

Latent qualities in the products of the earth-The vegetable

and animal kingdoms—Their relation to paradise-The im-

perishable inner principle-The spiritual quality-The ex-

ternal form...

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CHAPTER IX.

GENERATION.

The Logos-The soul in the light of God—Self-will destructive

to the perception of the divine idea-The growth of the mani-

festation of the evil principle—Man creates his own hell—His

natural protection by means of external life—The rise of his

natural qualities—Primordial man-How he became dense

and material-Death-Man's animal nature-His senses-

Will and mind-Temperaments-Origin of his terrestrial de-

sires-Present method of reproduction caused by man's deg-

radation-The male and the female in one individuality—

Primitive generation-Division of sex-Sexual attraction—

Its necessity-Generation of soul-Sexual intercourse and its

delight—Interaction of divine elements during the same—

The nature of the child dependent on the qualities of the

parents-Each soul an individual being.

CHAPTER X.

THE CHRIST.

Necessity of divine aid-Mercy-The entering of the spiritual
light into the body of humanity-Preparation for redemption
was made before the world was created-The Redeemer in
man not perceptible until after the fall-The power of the
Redeemer pre-eminently manifested in womanhood-The ce-
lestial virgin-Her influence over humanity—When redemp-
tion became possible-Cain and Abel-Genesis-The de-
scendants of Abraham has no terrestrial meaning-It is the
antitype of Christ-The sons of Isaac representing the first
and the second Adam and the final conquest of the first by

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