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Jakob Bohme Biography

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Jakob Bohme, born on March 8, 1575, and died on November 17, 1624, was a mystic philosopher whose ideas had a profound impact on the fields of religion and philosophy.

Able Truth Is Environmental Manifest

Author: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? 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.”

Mind Heart Hard Whole Spirit Hell Sadness Birth Mercy Blessed Embrace Dear Storm Cease Broke Gates Locked My Thoughts Heart And Mind Brides God's Love Bridegroom

Author:Jakob Bohme

“We are all strings in the concert of God's joy.”

Joy Strings Concerts

Author:Jakob Bohme

“For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.”

Book:The Confessions of Jacob Boehme

Source: The Confessions of Jacob Boehme

“A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.”

Self Spirit Divine Wit Dominion Wisest Shepherds Spirit Of God

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“What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.”

Writing Kind I Can Spiritual Life Is Speak Born Triumph Midst Resurrection Reincarnation

Author:Jakob Bohme

“The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .”

States Play Life Is Perfect Serious Adam Fullness Serious Business Play Life

Author:Jakob Bohme

“Whatever the self describes, describes the self.”

Self

Author:Jakob Bohme

“You are at enmity with yourself.”

Conflict Enmity

Author:Jakob Bohme

“Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.”

World Whole Eye Spiritual Whole World

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“In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.”

Light Spirit Religion Spirituality Saws Creatures Garden All Things Plant Grass Gardening

Author: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.”

Light Spirit Saws Creatures Impulse Grass Herbs

Book:Science, Meaning, & Evolution: The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme

Source: Science, Meaning, & Evolution: The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme

“When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.”

Art Made Silence Saws Seeing Heard Willing Quiet Creatures Silent Thee

Author: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. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.”

Thinking Stills Self Seeing Willing Eternal Hearing Thee

Book:The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher

Source: The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher

About the Author

Born: March 8, 1575
Died: November 17, 1624
Known for: Author
Quotes: 14

Books & Sources

Science, Meaning, & Evolution: The Cosmology of Jacob BoehmeRelated source material

The Confessions of Jacob BoehmeRelated source material

The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopherRelated source material

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