A large, complex engraving occupies the upper portion of the page. In the top left, a banner displays the word AURORA Latin for "Dawn" against a backdrop of radiating light. Below this, a large celestial or armillary sphere is covered in numerous human eyes, all looking in different directions. A dark, textured globe representing the Earth overlaps the base of this eye-covered sphere.

The Morning Redness in its Rising,

original: "Morgenröte im Aufgang"

that is:

the Root or Mother

Philosophy, Astrology, and Theology,

from the true ground,

Description of Nature.

how All has been

and was in the Beginning:

how Nature and the Elements became created beings, also concerning both qualities of Evil and Good; from where all things have their origin, and how it now stands and works, and how it will be at the end of this time: also how the Kingdom of God and of Hell are constituted, and how humans work within each as created beings.

All from the true ground, set down with diligence in the recognition of the Spirit in the surging of God

Jacob Böhme,

in Görlitz, in the year of Christ 1612.

at the age of 37 years, on Tuesday at Pentecost.

Everything newly overseen, and corrected and improved with diligence according to the author's own manuscripto manuscript.

New Edition.

Berlin and Leipzig, 1780.

at Christian Ulrich Ringmacher's.