The Second Power of the Souls Will.
15. Also understand us, thus; The earnest will, which otherwise is called Faith, can with the Spirit do great things: the Will can set or put the Spirit into another Form
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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- 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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- Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
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- 1665.
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- Walther, Balthasar, 1586-1640.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28525.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2024.
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or Condition, which is thus: If the Spi∣rit were an Angel, a Similitude of God, yet the Will can make of it a proud or † 1.1 stubborn Devil, and also of a Devil an An∣gel, if it sink down it self into Death, into Humility under the Cross, and cast it self again into God's Spirit, that he may lead it by his government, then it sinketh down into the still Eternity, quite out from the source or quality of Torment, into the still or quiet NOTHING, which yet is ALL, and then it standeth in the Beginning where God created it, and the word Fiat receiveth or embraceth it again, which containeth God's Image.
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† 1.1
Stoltyen, Obstinate.