Fr. 2. Contemplation of Divine Revelation

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Willing or surging original: "Wollen oder Wallen"; a wordplay on the desire (will) and the boiling or surging movement of the spirit, and this surging or willing perceives the gentleness of the Unity; this is the ground of Love within the Unity, of which Moses says: The Lord our God is one God, and none besides Him. Exodus 20; Deuteronomy 4:39, 6:4

3. And it is not as Reason supposes, that God dwells alone above the stars, outside the location of this world. No place is prepared for Him where He dwells separately, but rather His revelation is merely diverse; He is in, with, and through us; and wherever He becomes active with His Love in a life, there God is manifest in His working; that is, His Love, as the Unity, is there flowing out, willing, and perceptible. There God has made a place for Himself, as in the ground of the soul, in the eternal Idea or "counter-throw" original: "Gegenwurf"; an object or reflection cast back from the divine will of the eternal willing in Love, wherein Love wills and perceives itself, as is to be understood in angels and blessed souls.

The 2nd Question.

What is the Abyss of all things, where no creature exists, but only the unfathomable Nothing?

Summaries.

The Abyss is a dwelling of the Unity of God, § 1. where Father, Son, and Spirit bring forth the Eternal Unity; 2. 3. and that which has gone forth is the Wisdom of God. 4. In the perceptibility of the Love of life, five audible senses original: "Sensus"; referring here to the vowels as spiritual sounds are understood: A. E. I. O. U. 5. The Trinity reveals itself with a threefold breathing, called JEHOVAH. 6. Theosophical explanation of the Divine Name JEHOVAH. 7. 8. The sense of the perceptible opening is called ADONAI. 9. Theosophical explanation of the Divine Name ADONAI. 10. 11. This Abyss, or the Eternal Nothing, sees through everything unhindered, as an eye of eternal seeing, 12. and God Himself is the seeing of the Nothing. 13. Why it is called a "Nothing"? ibid.

1. Answer. It is a dwelling of the Unity of God, for the "opening up," or the "Something" original: "Ichts"; a term coined by Boehme to represent the opposite of "Nichts" (Nothing), signifying the first emergence of substance of the Nothing, is God Himself. The opening is the Unity, as an Eternal Life and Willing, a pure Will, which yet has nothing that it can will, except only itself.