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That which you do not want to befall you, you should not cause to happen to another.”

“In all things there are two principles, good and evil. — Jakob Bohme

Whatever the self describes, describes the self. His works reveal a cosmos alive with divine tension, where good and evil interweave, and where the human soul is called to return to its divine source.

Jakob Bohme Quotes & Sayings
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness.

— Jakob Bohme
We are all strings in the concert of God's joy. In the world thou must have trouble, and thy flesh will not fail to be unquiet, and to give thee occasion of continual repentance. — Jakob Bohme
Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

But its substance which it [Pg 41] loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved. — Jakob Bohme
The heart in man signifieth the heat or the element of fire, and it is also the heat; for the heat in the whole body hath its original in the heart.

He combined the mind of a craftsman with the spirit of a mystic.
His “talent” was less scholarly learning than his capacity for symbolic vision, his ability to weave together theology, nature, and personal revelation into a grand cosmic narrative.
Famous Quotes of Jakob Böhme
“For in Yes and No all things consist.”
“You are in God and God is in you.

— Jakob Bohme
Therefore it is highly necessary that God's children earnestly pray and learn to know this false structure, and depart from it in spirit, and not help to build it up... Rightly speaking there is no such thing as supernatural religion; there is but one Religion, that of Nature.

Behold this is the true supersensual ground of life.
— Jakob Bohme
Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God. — Jakob Bohme
When we consider the beginning of our life, and compare the same with the eternal life, which we have in the promise, we cannot say nor find that we are at home in this life.

into its own Lubet, the same receives, in passing through the Degrees, the Abominate; for each Form of Nature out of the Mystery receives of its Property in its Hunger, and therein it is not annoyed or molested, for it is of their Property.”
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Jakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“If thou forsakest the World, then thou comest unto that out of which the World is made, and if thou losest thy life, then thy life is in that for whose sake thou forsakest it.

— Jakob Bohme
In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants. — Jakob Bohme
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance.

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.
then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride. 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.