Jakob böhme quotes

— Jakob Bohme

The soul shall mightily rule in all hidden secrets: but it must not let in the devil. — Jakob Bohme

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

And then it becometh nothing to itself, as to its own working and willing, and so God worketh and willeth in it. From an early age, however, he displayed an unusual spiritual sensitivity and mystical imagination.

As a teenager, he apprenticed to a shoemaker in Görlitz, Germany, eventually establishing himself as a master shoemaker.

As it was before the Times of this World in his eternal Harmony [or Voice] , so also it continues in the creaturely Voice in him in his Eternity; and this is the Beginning and the End of all Things.”

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Jakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter XIV(1650s)

“All Things are generated out of the grand Mystery, and proceed out of one Degree into another: Now whatever goes forwards in its Degree, the same receives no Abominate, let it be either in Vegetables or Animals; but whatever enters in itself into its Self-hood, viz.

For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience. — Jakob Bohme

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal; and its palpability taketh its original in the anger; the eternal nature is its root.

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

When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee.

Rightly speaking there is no such thing as supernatural religion; there is but one Religion, that of Nature. Love, that is, Divine Love (of which only we are now discoursing) , hates all Egoity, hates all that which we call I, or IHOOD, hates all such restrictions and confinements, even all that springs from a contracted spirit, or this evil Self-hood, because it is an hateful and deadly thing.

— 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?

He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God. — Jakob Bohme

The city Babel is the Ham-like man, who builds this city upon the earth; the tower is his self-chosen god, and divine worship.

He reported that in that moment he felt he could see into the deepest structures of nature and divinity. — 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.

— 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.

— Jakob Bohme

All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. His faith is a desire after God and Goodness, which he wrappeth up in a sure hope, trusting to the words of the promise, and liveth and dieth therein; though as to the true man, he never dieth.”

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Jakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

“The Soul here saith "I have nothing, for I am utterly stripped and naked of every Thing; I can do nothing, for I have no manner of power, but am as water poured out; I am nothing, for all that I am is no more than an Image of Being, and only God is to me I AM; and so, sitting down in my own Nothingness, I give glory to the Eternal Being, and will nothing of myself, that so God may will all in me, being unto me my God and All Things." Herein now it is that so very few find this most precious treasure in the Soul, though every one would so fain have it”

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Jakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter VIII(1650s)

“Every Root, as it is in the Earth, may be known by the Signature for what it is food or profitable, even such a Form also has the Earth, and it is discerned in the leaves and Stalks which Planet is Lord in the Property, much more in the Flower; for of what Taste the Herb and Root is, even such an Hunger is in it, and such a Cure lies therein, for it has such a Salt.

This is not what I mean by walking contrary in everything to the World. So, in the outer world, the seed buried in earth contains a power kindred to the virtue of the sun. For Love possesses Heaven, and dwells in itself, which is dwelling in Heaven”

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Jakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

“This do and nothing shall hurt thee; for thou shalt be at friendship with all the things that are, as thou dependest upon the author and fountain of them, and becomest like him, by such dependence, and by the Union of thy Will with his Will.