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Böhme, Jacob · [1636 ?]

In this light, the Father with the eternal essences in His eternal original will becomes lovely, kind, mild, pure, and gentle. Thus, the Father is not in the source-quality quael of the darkness. For the newly conceived or accepted Will which goes out from the center and scatters or dispels the darkness is His heart. It dwells in Him and enlightens the Father being the brilliance of the Father. being the brilliance of the Father. This same will is the Word of the eternal Father, which is born out of the eternal essences. It is rightly a separate person because it dwells in the Father's essences the outgoing essential powers within itself and is the Father's light. This Word or this will has created all things that is, out of the Father's essences. It is the eternal omnipotence because it cannot be grasped or contained by the eternal essences. It divides or scatters the eternal essences and dwells in itself, shining out of the essences. Yet it cannot depart from the essences any more than the brilliance can depart from the fire.
1. Concerning the foundation of the Genitrix the Mother-Birth or Womb, and the circle of life.
2. A warning against hypocrites and those learned only in the letter of the law.
3. How pride forbids the act of seeking.
4. What one must do to rightly seek and find: how the proud boast with foreign tongues and eloquence.
5. One must not trust their soul to any human: its power lies in the love and light of God.
6. How everything is created from the Genitrix the birth-giver: concerning the eternal Word and the name of God.
7. Neither God nor the will has a maker.
8. Where the foundation of Hell and all evil stands: the worst and the most useful.
9. Concerning the eternal Will, Word, Father, and of two wills: what nature and Alpha and Omega are called. In the second will, nature becomes manifest just as fire becomes manifest in light.
10. Why the Father is a first person. The desire in the will is the first thing.
11. What desire is and its operation.
12. What the sighing or the pregnancy of desire is.
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