Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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2. The Three Principles of the Divine Essence of the Eternal: Dark,
Light, and Temporary World.
3. Mysterium Magnum: or an Explanation of the First Book of Moses
called Genesis.
4. Four Tables of Divine Revelation.
5. The High and Deep-Searching of the Threefold Life of Man, through or
according to the Three Principles.
6. Forty Questions concerning the Soul, proposed by Dr. Balthasar
Walter, and answered by Jacob Behmen.
7. The Treatise of the Incarnation.
8. The Clavis, or an Explanation of some Principal Points and
Expressions.
9. Signatura Rerum.
10. Of the Election of Grace; or of God's Will towards Man, commonly
called Predestination.
11. The Way to Christ discovered in the following Treatises:--I. Of
True Repentance. II. Of True Resignation. III. Of Regeneration. IV. Of
Supernatural Life.
12. A Discourse between a Soul hungry and thirsty after the Fountain of
Life, the sweet Love of Jesus Christ, and a Soul enlightened.
13. A Treatise of the Four Complexions, or a Consolatory Instruction
for a Sad and Assaulted Heart in the Time of Temptation.
14. A Treatise of Christ's Testament, Baptism, and the Supper.
(2.) "Theosophic Letters, or Epistles of the Man from God enlightened in
Grace, Jacob Behmen, of Old Seidenburgh, wherein everywhere [are?] Divine
Blessed Exhortations to true Repentance and Amendment, as also Plaine
Instructions concerning the highly worthy and precious Knowledge of the
Divine and Natural Wisdome; together with a Right Touchstone or Triall of
these Times, for an Introduction to the Author's other Writings: published
in English for the good of the sincere Lovers of true Christianitie, by
I. S.[2]" (I have only a MS. copy of this publication.)
(3.) A beautiful MS. translation of "The Way to Christ." This is hardly so
accurate as the one already referred to, though some of the expressions are
better chosen. The date of this MS. is about 1730, or earlier.
(4.) A fair MS. translation of Jacob Behmen's treatise called "A
Fundamental Instruction concerning the Earthly and concerning the Heavenly
Mystery; how they two stand in one another, and how in the Earthly the
Heavenly becometh manifested or revealed, wherein then you shall see Babell
the great citty upon Earth stand with its Forms and Wonders; and wherefore,
or out of what, Babell is generated, and where Antichrist will stand quite
naked. Comprised in Nine Texts. Written May 8, 1620, in High Dutch." (I
have seen no printed translation of this treatise.)
(5.) MS. translation of the fourth treatise of "The Way to Christ," viz.
"of the Supersensual Life." This is a less accurate rendering than either
of the others above mentioned.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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