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Excerpt from The Works of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic Theosopher, Vol. 2: Containing, I. The Threefold Life of Man; II. The Answers to Forty Questions Concerning the Soul; III. The Treaties of the Incarnation, in Three Parts; IV. The Clavis; Or an Explanation of Some Principal Points and Expressions in His Writings
If we consider the great and wonderful Structure of the Heaven, and of the Earth, and observe their Motions, and contemplate the manifold Operations of their Powers and Properties, and the great variety of the Bodies of Creatures, how they are hard and soft, gross and subtil, obscure and glistering, thick and clear, heavy and light, we then find the Twofold Origin of the Manifestation of God, the Darkness and the Light, which out of all their Powers and Wonders have breathed forth, formed, and made themselves visible with the Firmament, Stars, and Elements, and all the palpable Creatures, wherein all Things, Life, and Death, Good and Evil, are together. This is the third Life's, (besides the two that are hid, ) and is called Time in the strife of Vanity.
Here appears the Wisdom, in which the Holy Ghost has manifested the divine Powers every where, through Sun, Moon, and Stars, though Gold, Silver, and precious Stones, though pleasant Colours and Odours, and through all the good Part in all the Creatures, and especially through Man, in his Understanding, Skill, and Knowledge of God, his Justice, Love and Benevolence, his Meekness, Chastity, Modesty, and Virtue.
Here also the dark hellish Property manifests itself in the Earth, and through Harshness, Blackness, Frost, Poison, and Stink in all Creatures; and in the Man, though hatred, Malice, Anger, Folly, Impiety, Lewdness, Brutality, and all Vice.
So this World stands in a mixed Temporal Life, betwixt Light and Darkness, as being actually a Mirror of them both, in which the Wonders of Eternity, in Figures and Forms of Time, are manifested through the Word, as St. John says, 'All Things were made by him, and without him was not ant thing made that was made; as the deep Declaration of it in the divine Light, may be seen in this Book of the Threefold Life.
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