Preface to the Reader by Clifford Bax
I. How that all whatever is spoken of God without the Knowledge of
the Signature is dumb and without Understanding, and that in the
Mind of Man the Signature lies very exactly composed, according to
the Being of all Beings
II. Of the Opposition and Combat in the Essence of all Essences,
whereby the Ground of the Sympathy and Antipathy in Nature may be
seen, and also the Corruption and Cure of each Thing
III. Of the great Mystery of all Beings
IV. Of the Birth of the four Elements and Stars, in the metalline
and creaturely Property
V. Of the Sulphurean Death, and how the dead Body is revived and
replaced into its first Glory or Holiness
VI. How a Water and Oil is generated; and of the Difference of the
Water and Oil, and of the vegetable Life and Growth
VII. How Adam (while he was in Paradise) and also Lucifer were
glorious Angels, and how they were corrupted and spoiled through
Imagination and Pride
VIII. Of the Sulphurean Sude, or Seething of the Earth; how the
Vegetation proceeds from the Earth; and also the Difference of Sex,
and various Kinds of Creatures; an open Gate for the searching
Philosopher
IX. Of the Signature, shewing how the inward [Ens] signs the
outward
X. Of the inward and outward Cure of Man
XI. Of the Process of Christ in his Suffering, Dying, and Rising
again: Of the Wonder of the Sixth Kingdom in the Mother of all
Beings; how the Consummatum Est was finished, and how likewise, by
way of Similitude, it is accomplished and effected in the Grand
Philosophic Work, or Universal Tincture
XII. Of the Seventh Form in the Kingdom of the Mother; shewing how
the Seventh Kingdom, viz. the Solar Kingdom is again opened and
revived, set forth in the Similitude of Christ's Resurrection
XIII. Of the Enmity [contrary Will or annoying Distemper] of the
Spirit and Body, and of their Cure and Restoration
XIV. Of the Wheel of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt; of the Generation
of Good and Evil: how the one is changed into the other, and how
the one manifests its Property in the other, and yet remains in the
first Creation in the Wonder of God to his own Manifestation and
Glory
XV. Of the Will of the great Mystery in Good and Evil; how a good
and evil Will originally arises, and how the one introduces itself
into the other
XVI. Of the Eternal Signature and Heavenly Joy; why all Things were
brought into Evil and Good; wherein the real Ground of Election and
Reprobation may be rightly understood
Of the Supersensual Life: Two Dialogues between a Scholar or
Disciple and his Master -
Dialogue I.
Dialogue II.
The Way from Darkness to True Illumination: A Discourse between a
Soul Hungry and Thirsty and a Soul Enlightened
Jacob Boehme (1575 - 1624) was a German Christian mystic and theologian of the Lutheran tradition. Boehme's view of a universe where a creative and destructive principle are in conflict was later repurposed by Hegel as the dialectic. Newton, Nietzsche, the Quaker George Fox, and even Phillip K. Dick have all been cited as being influenced by Boehme.
"We had great expectations about J. Boheme's work and the
discussions arisen around it: 'The first German philosopher', Hegel
claimed."
Dialogo Filosofico vol III, issue 14, September/December
"Boehme's text was an important influence on modern accounts of the
relation of God as Trinity to the cosmos, creation or 'nature',
including those of Hegel, William Blake and Alfred North Whitehead.
The reissue of the Elliston English translation as revised by
William Law is therefore a welcome new book from Lutterworth
Press."
-Michael Northcott, The Expository Times, Vol. 127, No. 2, November
2015
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