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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28521	The epistles of Jacob Behmen, aliter, Teutonicus philosophus very usefull and necessary for those that read his vvritings, and are very full of excellent and plaine instructions how to attaine to the life of Christ / translated out of the German language.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.	1649 (1649)	Wing B3404; ESTC R2334	183,592	232

then we doe clearely see and understand in what blindnesse we for a long time have beene in Babel going astray in carnall evill wayes whereby we have forsaken the true Jerusalem and shamefully mispent our Patrimony and lightly esteemed our Angelicall Trophee or Diadem Viz. the faire Image and wallowed in the filth of the Devill and under a shew of Divine obedience have played with the Serpent and walked on in meere erroneous wayes This the Divine light doth at present set before our eyes and exhorts us to returne with the lost Sonne and enter into the true Zyon 5. Not with Historicall supposals opinions or blind perswasions as if we had apprehended and understood the same very well this is not Zyon but Babel which confesseth God with the mouth and maketh devout speeches to him from the lipps but in the heart hangeth unto the Great Babylonicall Whore unto the Dragon of selfe-love pride covetousnesse and pleasure and yet will set forth her selfe as if shee were a Virgin No this is not the Virgin in Zyon it must be seriousnesse 6. We must be borne of God in Zyon and know and also doe his will Gods spirit must beare witnesse to our spirit that we are Gods Children not onely in the mouth with knowledge and conjectures but in the heart in very deed not in an holy seeming way without power in formall wayes of Word-worship and rounds of Lip-labour wherein the captivated conscience placeth the power of godlinesse this the Devill mocks at and cares not for but wee must put on the Helmet of righteousnesse and of love also of chastity and purity if we intend to wage Battell against the Prince of this World he careth not a whit for any outward shew or for the long and loud mouth cryes of blinde Devotion it must bee power that shall overcome him and that power must shine forth in goodnesse and holy fruits of Christianity and so we may sight for the noble Prize or Crowne of life 7. For we have a powerfull Warrior against us he sets upon us in body and soule and soone casts us downe and there is no other way to overcome him but with power in humility which alone is able to quench his poysonfull fire wherewith he fighteth without us and within us against our noble Image 8. Therefore beloved Sir and brother in Christ seeing you doe apply your selfe to the Divine wisedome and labour in the same it is right and requisite that we exhort one another to be vigilant to withstand the Devill and continually set before our eyes the way which we ought to walke and also go on in the same else we effect nothing if we know that the World is blind in Babel and goeth astray then we must be the first that effectually go out of Babel that the World may see that we are in earnest 9. It is not enough that we lay open and Manifest Babel and yet be found doing as Bibel doth for if we doe so we thereby testify that God discovereth his light unto us so that we see but we will doe nothing but the workes of darknesse and that very light which enlightneth our understanding shall witnesse against us that the Lord hath called us and shewn us the way but we would not walke in the same 10. It is well that we lay open Babel but we must take heed in what spirit and minde and in what kinde of knowledge the same is done it is good that we be zealous but the heart must be upright towards God else we runne without being sent and in our course we are not knowne or acknowledged of God but so acting the Devill mocks us and leads us into by paths of Errour 11. Besides the holy Scripture doth declare that our workes and words shall follow us therefore we are seriously to consider in what spirit and knowledge we set upon the high Mysteries for he that will pull downe a thing that is evill must set up a better in the roome otherwise hee is none of Gods Builders also he laboureth not in Christs Vineyard for it is not good to pull downe unlesse a man knowes how to make up the Building againe in a better frame and forme 12. For God onely is the Master●builder of the World we are but servants we must take great heed how we labour if we will receive reward and also that we have learnt his work in his Schoole and not runne without being sent when as we are not yet capable of his service else we shall be found to be unprofitable Servants this I speake in good affection and in all faithfulnesse to instruct and direct one another what we ought to doe that so our labour may be accepted of God 13. For the darke Mysteries are no other way at all to be knowne save onely in the holy Ghost wee cannot make conclusions upon hidden things unlesse we have the same in reall knowledge and experimentally finde in the illumination of God that what we averre is the truth and will of God and that it is also agreeable to his Word and grounded in the light of Nature for without the light of Nature there is no understanding of Divine Mysteries 14. The great Building of God is manifest in the light of Nature and therefore hee whom Gods light doth illuminate may search out and know all things albeit knowledge is not in one and the same way and measure for Gods wonders and works are boundlesse infinite and immense and they are revealed to every one according to his gifts and he to whom the light shineth hath meere joy in Gods workes 15. And also that which is old and past above a thousand yeares agoe is as nigh and as easily to be knowne in the light as that which is done to day for a thousand years before God are scarce so much as a minute or the twinckling of an eye is before us therefore all things are nigh and manifest to his spirit both that which is past and that which is to come 16. And if we see in his light then we must declare his wonders and manifest and praise his glorious Name and not bury our Talent in the Earth for we must deliver it unto our Master with Increase he will require an account of us how we have Traded with it and without knowledge or certaine illumination from God no man must presume to judge or be a Doctor or Master in the great Mystery for it is not committed to or commanded him but he must labour to attaine the true light and then he goeth rightly to worke in the Schoole of God 17. For there be many Masters to be found who presume to judge in the Mystery and yet they are not knowne or sent by God and therefore their Schoole is called Babel the Mother of Whoredome upon Earth they flatter on both sides they play the Hypocrites with God and also serve the Devill they call themselves the Shepheards

soul as a triumph as he goeth forth from God the Father through the word or mouth of the sonne that is from the Heart of the sacred Ternary out of the Divine essentiality and thus he goeth or proceedeth forth out of the being or essence of the noble lilly-twig which springeth forth and groweth out of the fire of the soul which lilly-twig is the true Image of God for it is the new-born or regenerated spirit of the soul the spirit of Gods will the Triumphing Chariot of the holy spirit in which he rideth into the sacred Ternary into the Angelicall World 39. And with this twig or Image of God renewed in us as is before mentioned we are in Christ without this World in the Angelicall World of which the old Adam hath no understanding or perceivance also it knoweth it not as the rough stone knoweth not the Gold which yet groweth in it The Gate of the true knowledge of the Threefold life 40. Man is the true Similitude or Image of God as the pretious man Moses testifyeth not onely an Earthly Image for the sake whereof God would not have become man and put forth unite and espouse his heart and spirit in deepest love after the fall unto it but he is Originally out of the Being of all Beings out of all the three Worlds Viz. out of the innermost Nature-world which is also the most outward and is called the darke World whence the principle of the fiery Nature taketh its rise as is declared at large in my Booke of the threefold life 41. And secondly he is out of the light or Angelicall World out of the true Being of God and then thirdly he is out of this externall World of the Sunne Stars and Elements an entire Image of God out of the Being of all Beings 42. His first Image stood in Paradise in the Angelicall World but he lusted after the externall World that is after the Astrall and Elementall World which hath swallowed up and covered the precious Image of the internall Heaven and ruleth now in the similitude as in its owne propriety 43. Therefore 't is sayd You must be borne againe or else you cannot see the Kingdome of God And therefore it is that the word or heart of God entred into the humane Essence that wee with our soule might be able in the power of the word or heart of God to beget and bring forth againe out of our soule a new Twig or Image like unto the first 44. Therefore the old Carcasse must rot putrifie and perish for it is unfit for the Kingdome of God it carryeth nothing but its owne Mystery into its first beginning that is its wonders and workes understand in the Essence of the first Principle which is immortall and incorruptible being the Magicall fire of the soule 45. And not this alone but he must bring and unite the End with the Beginning for the externall World is generated out of the internall and created into a comprehensible Being the wonders whereof belong unto the Beginning and they were knowne from Eternity in the wisedome of God that is in the Divine Magia not in the Being or essentiality but in the mirrour of the Virgin-like wisedome of God whence the Eternall nature doth alwayes arise or take its Originall from Eternity 46. And to this end the poore soule standeth in the prison of the Astrall and Elementall Kingdome that it might be a Labourer and reunite the wonders of the externall Nature with the light World and bring them into the beginning and though it must now be bruised and pressed and endure much yet it is the Servant in Gods Vineyard which prepareth the precious Wine that is drunk in the Kingdome of God it is the onely cause of the understanding that the desire worketh in the Mystery and manifesteth and bringeth forth to light the hidden wonders of God as we see plainely how man doth search out and reveale the wonders of Nature 47. Therefore we must not be amazed and strangely perplexed when as many times the noble Image is hid that we cannot receive any refreshment or comfort but we must know that then the poor soule is put into the Vineyard that it should worke and bring the fruit to be set upon Gods Table 48. It hath then a Twig or Branch of the wilde Vine given unto it it must trim and dresse that and plant in into the Divine and Heavenly Mystery it must unite it with the Kingdome of God this is to be understood thus 49. As a plant or grift that is set doth worke so long till it putteth forth its branches and then its fruit so must the twig grift or scion of the soule which standeth overshadowed in a darke valley continually labour that it might come to bring forth fruit which is the noble and precious knowledge of God when the same is growne in it that the Soule knoweth God then it yeeldeth its faire fruits which are good Doctrines Workes and Vertues it leadeth to the Kingdome of God it helpeth to plant and build the Kingdome of God and then it is a right labourer in the Vineyard of Christ 50. And thus that of which I teach write and speake is nothing else but the same which hath beene wrought in me otherwise I could know nothing of it I have not scrap't it together out of histories and so made opinions as the Babilonicall School doth where men Eagerly contend about words and opinions I have by Gods grace obteined eyes of my owne and am able in my selfe to worke in Christs vineyard 51. I speake plainly and freely that whatsoever is patcht together from Conjecture and opinion wherein man himselfe hath ●o Divine knowledge whereupon he makes conclusions that I say is Babel an whoredome for conceit or thinking must not doe it yea not any opinion or conjecturall apprehension but the knowledge of God in the holy Ghost 52. The Children of God have spoken as they were driven by the holy spirit they have planted many and divers Trees but they all stand upon one root which is the internall Heaven none can finde the same unlesse he likewise stand upon the same roote and therefore the externall Heaven cannot finde them out or explain them by art 53. The words of the holy Children of God remain as an hidden Mystery unto the Earthly man and though he thinkes that he understands them yet he hath no more then a darkesome hystoricall glimps of them as we see now adayes how men doe wrangle and contend about Christs doctrine and worship and fight about Gods will how he must be served whereas he is not served or worshipped with any opinion but in the spirit of Christ and in truth men serve God 54. It depends not on what ceremonies and manners we doe use every one laboureth in his worke and gifts from his owne Constellation and property but all are driven and lead from one and the same spirit

in the blood of Christ and taken it upon them for a covering and therewith they have onely covered the Antichristian childe of selfe will and so have painted over the Antichristian Bastard with a strange colour 15. For men doe exceedingly flatter it and cover it with Christs suffering merit and death and comfort it that Christ hath payd all for it saying It ought onely to apply or comfort it selfe with the merit of Christ and receive it in faith as a satisfaction and thus they shew us an outward imputed righteousnesse 16. But it hath far another A. B. C. in the true understanding no comforting selfe-willing running or keeping a round availeth any thing the suffering the death of Christ will not be given to the Antichristian Beast in Selfe but to them that depart from and relinquish all the ownehood and propriety of the creatures and wholly resigne up themselves into the suffering and death of Christ Jesus and dye to their owne will in and with Christ and are buried with him and also arise in him to a new will and obedience and hate sinne who put on Christ in his suffering reproach and persecution and take his Crosse upon them and follow him under his Red Banner to them I say it will be given these put on Christ in his processe and become in the inward spirituall Man Christs members and the Temple of God who dwelleth in V S. 17. None hath right to comfort himselfe with Christs merits unlesse he desireth wholly to put on Christ in himselfe and he is also no Christian before he hath put him on by true repentance and conversion to him with an absolute resignation and unfeigned selfe-denyall so that CHRIST espouseth and betrotheth himselfe with him 18. The beginning of which comes to passe in the Covenant of Baptisme where the childe promiseth and sweareth under Christs Red Banner that which afterwards must follow in very deed or reall practice or if one hath turned himselfe away from the practice of what he then promised he must in such a conversion of his will turne himselfe thereinto againe and I say upon sure ground that to many an one the Mantle of Christ will turne to hellish fire in that he covereth Antichrist therewith and yet remaineth but a Beast 19. For a Christian must be borne of Christ and dye to the Adamicall will he must have Christ in him and be a branch or member on his flesh and spirit not according to the Animall Beast but according to the spirituall Man 20. For the spirit of God possesseth not the Beast the outward sensuall naturall or rationall Man but indeed the Temple of Christ Viz. Christs spirituall flesh and blood in Vs for Christ sayd Whosoever shall not eate the flesh of the Sonne of Man hee hath no life in himselfe 21. Now there must be a mouth which indeed is proper and fit to eate it for it will not be given to the Beast much lesse to the Ens of the Serpent for every spirit eateth of its Mother whence it is a●isen which I give to every understanding man to consider of and here I onely mention what a Christian ought to be if he will account himselfe a Christian 22. For a Beast is no Christian but he that is Baptized with the Holy Ghost in the Death of Christ who hath put on Christ and liveth in Christs heavenly flesh and blood who hath tasted Christs Supper and sitteth with Christ at Table he is a Christian that walketh in Christs footsteps and continually mortyfieth the Antichristian evill Beast in flesh and blood which still adhereth to a Christian binds it and depriveth it of its strength and patiently resigneth himselfe up in temptations which many hundred wayes are offered him for his tryall and purification 23. A Christian must learne the A. B. C. backwards and account the wisedome of his Reason scolishnesse that Christ may gaine a forme in him and he be made capable of the heavenly Wisedome 24. For the wisedome of the outward World is blind in respect of God and seeth him not Albeit all things live and move in God and he himselfe is through all things and yet he possesseth nothing save that which dyeth from its owne will that he must possesse and he possesseth it willingly for it willeth nothing without him and it is in the End of the Creation and also in the Beginning 25. Whereof I could further mention unto you if occasion here did permit the which I have in my Writings largely described and declared out of the centre and Originall of all Essences and here onely I have hinted in briefe what a Christians state being and condition is if it should please you further to consider of it and to give up your selfe into this processe as I likewise hope that you are already in it 26. But for a more brotherly recreation I thought good to visit you with a short Epistle and to solace my selfe a little with you in the hope and faith which worketh and is in Vs untill we be once freed from this Cottage and be afterwards refreshed and quickned perfectly one with another in Divine and brotherly Union and Vision 27. And this I have done upon the desire of the Doctor above mentioned in all syncerity and uprightnesse and so I commend you to the tender Love of Jesus Christ THE ELEVENTH EPISTLE Our Salvation is in the effectuall working Love of Jesus Christ in Us. 1. DEARE Brother in the life of Jesus Christ I wish from my heart the Divine working Love unto you that your noble Lilly-twig sprung forth in Christ may in the power of Christ grow great and bring forth much fruit in the Paradise of God to the heavenly joy of us all and our eternall brotherly fellowship 2. I rejoyce in my soule when I perceive that a goodly vertuous faire Branch is sprung up in our Tree of life Christ and I hope also to be a partaker of its good fruit 3. As one branch on the Tree doth enjoy the sap and power of the other and they all doe mutually grow and beare fruit in one onely Power so likewise we are in the Tree of Christ all onely One which Tree is CHRIST in us ALL. 4. Seeing then that you freely and unfeignedly with all acknowledgement of heart and mouth doe approve your selfe to this Tree of life and on the contrary doe renounce and gainesay the poyson and delusion of Satan therefore I wish nothing more at present then that I might be able in the power of this Tree which is Christ to impart and give the influence of my power received from him unto you that we might grow together as members in one Power 5. And I make no doubt but the most High hath begotten his Lilly-twig in you for without Divine Power we have no longing or hunger after God and also we cannot know him without his spirit in us all that we understand and know of him fundamentally or in