Forty questions of the soul concerning its original, essence, substance, nature or quality and property, what it is from eternity to eternity : framed by a lover of the great mysteries, Doctor Balthasar Walter, and answered in the year 1620 / by Jacob Behme, called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow ...

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Title: Forty questions of the soul concerning its original, essence, substance, nature or quality and property, what it is from eternity to eternity : framed by a lover of the great mysteries, Doctor Balthasar Walter, and answered in the year 1620 / by Jacob Behme, called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow ...
Author: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
Publication: [London] :: Printed for L. Lloyd ...,; 1665.
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Subject terms: Walther, Balthasar, 1586-1640.; Soul.
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The Second Question. (Book 2)

What the Soul is in the Essence, Sub∣stance, Nature & Property. (Book 2)

1. THE Souls Essences are out of the Cen∣ter of Nature, out of the Fire, with all Properties of Nature; All the Three Principles lye therein; All whatsoever God hath, or can do, and whatsoever God is in his Number Three, that, the Soul is in its Essences, as a Branch out of the Power and Vertue of the Tree, its Sub∣stance is heavenly created, out of the hea∣venly Divine Substantiality.

2. But its Will is Free, either to sink down in it self, and to accompt it self No∣thing, but to sprout as a branch out of the Tree, and to eat of God's Love, or to climbe up in its Will into the Fire, and be its own Tree of it self, and of which so∣ever it eateth, of that it gets Substantiali∣ty; viz. the Body of the Creature.

3. Is Nature is the Center it self, with Seven Spirits to generate or propagate with; It is a Total Substance out of All

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Substances, and a Similitude of the Num∣ber Three, if it be in God; If not, it is the Similitude of Lucifer, and of all Devils; all furthermore according to their Proper∣ties.

4. Its Property, was in the First Soul created according to both Mothers, upon which followed the Command, and the Temptation, that it should not suffer it self to Lust to Eat of Evil and Good; but of Heavenly Paradisical Fruit only, & should with its Will & Property be directed and inclined to be in God.

5. But all Properties lye in it; it may awaken and let in what it will, and what∣soever then it awakeneth and letteth in, that is acceptable to God, if it stand con∣verted with its will into Humility, and in∣to Obedience into God's Love; then may it do what * 1.1 wonders it will, it stand∣eth or serveth all to Gods Honour and Glory.

Notes

* 1.1

All outward Works are the Wonders of God in this World.

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