Chapter Xii : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 101 CHAPTER XII WHEN Christ asked his disciples, Whom do the people say that the Son of Man is? they answered: Some say thou art Elijah, some, that thou art John the Baptist. Then he asked them and said: Whom say...
Chapter Ix : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 74 CHAPTER IX THOU Sophister, I know thou wilt accuse me of pride because I saw so far into the Deep. But it is said that you look only upon the wisdom of this world: I do not esteem it or care for it; it affords...
Chapter Xiv : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 121 CHAPTER XIV WE cannot say that the outward world is God, or the speaking Word; or that the outward man is God. That is only the expressed Word, which has stiffened itself in union with the elements. I say...
Untitled : * Jacob Boehme (b. 1575, d. 1624) was a German Christian mystic, who, despite humble origins, wrote encyclopedic works detailing a visionary universe, densely inhabited by spirits. Like many other mystics, Boehme saw dualities and trinities everywhere. He believed that there were three worlds:...
Chapter Iv : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 32 CHAPTER IV WHEN thou beholdest the deep above the earth thou oughtest not to say that it is "not" the gate of God where God in his holiness dwells: No, no, think not so, for the whole Holy Trinity, God...
Chapter X : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 81 CHAPTER X THE law of God and also the way to life is written in our hearts; it lies in no man's supposing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well doing. The will leadeth us to God ...
Title Page : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], THE CONFESSIONS OF JACOB BOEHME COMPILED AND EDITED BY W. SCOTT PALMER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EVELYN UNDERHILL METHUEN & Co. LTD. [1920] Formatted , November 2009, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public...
Chapter Xi : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 94 CHAPTER XI GOD has set light and darkness before everyone; thou mayest embrace which thou wilt, thou dost not thereby move God in his being. His Spirit goes forth from him and meets all those that seek him...
Chapter V : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 40 CHAPTER V THE Simple says, God made all things out of nothing; but he knows not God, neither does he know what he himself is. When he beholds the earth together with the deep above the earth, he thinks verily...
Chapter Xiii : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 107 CHAPTER XIII OUTWARD reason saith, How may a man in this world see into God, into another world, and declare what God is? That cannot be: it must needs be a fancy wherewith the man amuses and deceives himself...
Chapter Xvi : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 140 CHAPTER XVI ALL sorrow, anguish, and fear concerning spiritual things, whereby a man is dejected and terrified in himself, proceedeth from the soul. The outward spirit, which is from the stars and elements, is...
Chapter I : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 1 THE CONFESSIONS OF JACOB BOEHME CHAPTER I ART has not wrote this, neither was there any time to consider how to set it punctually down, according to the right understanding of letters, but all was ordered...
Chapter Xv : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 129 CHAPTER XV I WILL now speak to those who feel indeed in themselves a desire to repent, and yet cannot come to acknowledge and bewail their committed sins; the flesh saying continually to the soul, Stay awhile...
Chapter Viii : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 63 CHAPTER VIII MY beloved Reader, I tell thee this, that everything has its impulse in its own form. It always makes that very thing with which the spirit is impregnated; and the body must always labour in th...
Introduction : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. ix IM Wasser lebt der Fisch, die Pflanze in der Erden, Der Vogel in der Luft, die Sonn' am Firmament, Der Salamander muss im Feu'r erhalten werden, Und Gottes Herz ist Jakob Boehmes Element. "Angelas" of Silesia"...
Chapter Vi : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 48 CHAPTER VI WHERE will you seek for God? Seek him in your soul that is proceeded out of the eternal nature, the living fountain of forces wherein the divine working stands. O that I had but the pen of a m...
Chapter Xvii : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 149 CHAPTER XVII THE disciple said to his Master: Sir, how may I come to the supersensual life, so that I may see God, and hear God speak? The Master answered and said: Son, when thou canst throw thyself into Th...
Chapter Iii : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 15 CHAPTER III MEN have always been of the opinion that heaven is many hundred, nay, many thousand, miles distant from the face of the earth, and that God dwells only in that heaven. Some have undertaken...
Note : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. v NOTE BY THE EDITOR ONE day last winter, in a moment which I must confess to have been idle, I took up Dr. Alexander Whyte's "Appreciation" of Behmen as, following William Law, he calls him. There I found...
Chapter Ii : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 7 CHAPTER II I AM a sinful and mortal man, as well as thou, and I must every day and hour grapple, struggle, and fight with the Devil who afflicts me in my corrupted lost nature, in the wrathful power which is...
Chapter Vii : * "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme", by Jacob Boehme, ed. W. Scott Palmer [1920], p. 58 CHAPTER VII THANKS be to God who has regenerated me, by water and the Holy Ghost, to be a living creature, so that I can in his Light see my great inbred vices, which are in my flesh. Thus now I live...