German Theology

...purification. Secondly, enlightenment. Thirdly,
union.

The 13th Chapter.

¶ Everything that perished and died in Adam rose again in
Christ and became alive. Everything that rose and became
alive in Adam perished and died in Christ.
But what was that, and what is it still? I say: true
obedience and disobedience. But what is true obedience?
I say: a person should stand and be so completely without self—
that is, selfhood and "I-ness" original: selbhait vnd ichthait. These terms refer to the state of being centered on one’s own ego or self-will rather than on God.—that they seek
and intend themselves and their own as little in all things
as if they did not exist; nor should they feel their own self,
nor think so little of themselves and what is theirs,
as if they were not; and just as little of all created things
original: creaturen. In this context, it refers to all things in the physical or temporal world produced by the Creator.. What is it then, that exists and that one should hold to?
I say: only the One that is called God. Behold, that is
true obedience in truth. And so it is in the blessed
eternity; therein nothing is sought, intended, or loved
but the One; likewise, nothing is esteemed except the One.
☞ Hereby one may note what disobedience is:
that is, when a person thinks something of themselves,
and imagines they are something, and know something,
and are capable of something, and seeks themselves
and their own in things, and loves themselves, and such like.
¶ For true obedience, man was and is created,
and he owes this to God. And this obedience
perished and died in Adam, and has risen
and become alive in Christ. And disobedience
rose and lived in Adam, and died in Christ.
Indeed, the humanity of Christ stood and was
as completely without self and without all else
as any creature ever was, and it was nothing
other than a house or a dwelling place original: wonūg (Wohnung) of God.
And everything that belongs to God—even that
which this same humanity was and lived, being
a dwelling of the Godhead—of all this, it claimed
nothing for itself. It did not even claim the same
Godhead of which it was the dwelling, nor
everything that the same Godhead willed or permitted in it, nor