Mysterium Magnum

...growing hot in the darkness. Furthermore, there are bitter, astringent, and stinging original: "Compunctive"; referring to a sharp, pricking, or piercing sensation often associated with the first properties of nature properties that are entirely harsh and full of enmity and opposition. They do not seek the One, but only the advancement of their own power. The greater their elevation and inflammation is, the greater is the joy in the light.

* The kingdom of joy, or the light of power.

7. That which is good and holy in the powerful light is anxious and hostile in the darkness. Darkness is the greatest enemy of the light, and yet it is the reason the light is made manifest. For if there were no black, then white could not be known to itself; and if there were no sorrow, then joy would also not be known to itself.

8. Thus, joy triumphs in itself because it is not like sorrow. And sorrow triumphs in itself because it is a power and strength of the fire and light. From this, pride and self-will arise, because the power of the dark fire provides the essence and the motivating source original: "Source"; Böhme uses this to describe a surging, boiling, or active quality of life and movement to the light. This is what affected and moved King Lucifer, so that he exalted himself in the root of the fire to rule and dominate over the fire and light. Therefore, he was cast out of the light into darkness, and the light withdrew from him.

9. Therefore, understand us well here regarding what hell and the dark world—or the anger of God—truly is. The Holy Scripture speaks plainly that there is a hell, which is a gulf of desperation or a pit devoid of the hope of God and all good. Now, we should not understand it to be a specific place located elsewhere; instead, it is the first foundation of Eternal Nature. This place exists between the Kingdom of God and this world, and it forms its own distinct principle, dwelling within itself. It has neither a physical location nor a local residence and is everywhere, but it only inhabits itself. Yet, it gives essence to the light and to the outward world. That is, it is the cause of the source (namely, the fire) and is the total being of all God's beings.

10. In the darkness, he is an angry, zealous God; in the fire-spirit, he is a consuming fire; and in the light, he is a merciful, loving God. In the power of the light, he is called "God" specifically, above all other properties. Yet, this is all simply God manifested, who reveals himself through Eternal Nature in the working properties. Otherwise, if I were to say what God is in his depth, I must say that he is entirely without nature and properties, being the understanding and origin of all beings. These beings are his manifestation, and we only have the ability to write about that manifestation, not about the unmanifested God, who would also not be known to himself without his manifestation.

The Origin of Life

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4. Jupiter.

11. The sixth property of nature and of all beings also arises out of all the rest and is manifested in the fire through the light in the love-desire. It is nature's understanding, voice, sound, and speech;