Preface.

[...blessedness] The text begins mid-word, likely "blessedness" (Seligkeit) or "godliness" (Göttlichkeit). should learn to recognize [God] through the dying away of its self-willed properties Eigenschafften: In this mystical context, it refers to the selfish, individualistic traits or "attachments" of the ego that separate a person from God.: and then live for that same GOD without self-will in His holy essence Wesen: A central term in German mysticism referring to the true, inner "being" or "substance" of God..

6. For in GOD there is no other knowledge than the dying in the earthly essence: and the life in the heavenly essence. And that is, within the Divine working, a blessed dying and a blessed life. Take this well to
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