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 ...

The Fortieth Question. (Book 40)

Whether Paradise is Alterable, and what shall be afterwards. (Book 40)

1. AS little as God is alterable, so little also is Paradise alterable; for it is a part of the Deity; when the outward Do∣minion shall pass away, then will in the Place where this world now standeth, be meer Paradise, For there will be an Earth of Heavenly Substantiality, which we may be able to dwell in Through and through.

2. At the Last Judgement Day, we shall not fly away from the Place of this World, but continue so in our Native Countrey, and go home into another World, into ano∣ther Principle of another source or quality.

3. For there will be no Frost nor heat, also no Night, and we shall be able to go through the Heavenly Earth, through and through, without dividing or disturbing any thing.

4. This Earth will be † 1.1 Like a Cristalline Sea, wherein all the * 1.2 Wonders of the World will be seen,

all very Transparently, and God's Glance Lustre or brightness, will be the Light there∣in; and the Holy Jerusalem the Great City of God, where Men shall offer to God the Calves of their Lips, there will be Paradise, * 1.3 And the Tabernacle of God with Men: For it is Written, Behold I make all things New, a New Heaven and a New Earth, so that Men shall not regard the Old any more; in that will the fair bright City of God, with the Wonders and Wisdom, stand; and the Temple of God, the New Jerusalem, will stand upon the New Earth, which is prepared and made ready out of God's Power and Wonders:

5. ALL whatsoever the Prophets have written will there be fulfilled, for God's Word and Wonders, will spring and grow as Grass upon the New Earth;

6. † 1.4 There is no more Death, also no fear, or sor∣row or sadness, No sickness, No Superiour Lord but only Christ, who will dwell with us; and we shall be in one Communion with the Angels; Our Fruits will Spring and grow to us there according to our De∣sire and Wish.

7. There will be no old Age there, but a Man of a Hundred Years, will be as a Child newly Born, and live in meer de∣light of Love,

8. All whatsoever is Joy will be sought after, and which way soever one can pro∣cure Joy to another, to that is his will en∣clined.

9. We shall lead a Holy Priestly Life, and all speak of God's Wisdom and Eter∣nal Wonders; for the Divine Magia hath Wonders without Number, the more is sought, the more is therein, and that is the Multiplication and increase or procre∣ation of the VVill of God;

10. And to this End hath God mani∣fested himself in Images Created, as in Angels and Men, that so he might have Joy in himself, and rejoyce himself with his Lifes-Essences Eternally. Hallelujah.

Notes

• † 1.1

  Rev. 4. 6.
• * 1.2

  Or Works that have been in the World.
• * 1.3

  Note. Rev. 21. 1, 2, 3, 5.
• † 1.4

  Rev. 21. 4.