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— Jakob Bohme
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion. Despite persecution in his lifetime, his writings became foundational to later thinkers like Hegel, Schelling, William Blake, and even modern esoteric traditions.
Early Life and Family
Jakob Böhme was born on April 24, 1575, in Alt Seidenberg (today Stary Zawidów, Poland), then part of Saxony.
He combined the mind of a craftsman with the spirit of a mystic.
His “talent” was less scholarly learning than his capacity for symbolic vision, his ability to weave together theology, nature, and personal revelation into a grand cosmic narrative.
Famous Quotes of Jakob Böhme
“For in Yes and No all things consist.”
“You are in God and God is in you.
in the Spirit. — Jakob Bohme
In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God. — Jakob Bohme
When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me?
— Jakob Bohme
God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace. Rightly speaking there is no such thing as supernatural religion; there is but one Religion, that of Nature.
Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth. And then it becometh nothing to itself, as to its own working and willing, and so God worketh and willeth in it. — Jakob Bohme
You are at enmity with yourself.
It was a complex, symbolic exploration of God, creation, and the struggle between light and darkness.
Local clergy, particularly Pastor Gregor Richter of Görlitz, accused him of heresy and forced him to stop writing.
Jakob Bohme Quotes & Sayings
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. God's life is play. Known as the “Teutonic Theosopher,” he sought to explain the nature of God, creation, good and evil, and the human soul through symbolic and mystical insights.
— Jakob Bohme
All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.
That which you do not want to befall you, you should not cause to happen to another.”
“In all things there are two principles, good and evil. — Jakob Bohme
The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. into its own Lubet, the same receives, in passing through the Degrees, the Abominate; for each Form of Nature out of the Mystery receives of its Property in its Hunger, and therein it is not annoyed or molested, for it is of their Property.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“If thou forsakest the World, then thou comest unto that out of which the World is made, and if thou losest thy life, then thy life is in that for whose sake thou forsakest it.— Jakob Bohme
God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.