Mysterium Magnum

CHAPTER 5. Of the Five Senses. 17

speech; and everything that makes a sound, whether in living things or those without life. Its true origin comes from the astringent desire or impression Böhme uses "impression" to describe the inward-pressing force of spiritual contraction of the first, second, and third forms the first three of Böhme's seven qualifying forms of eternal nature, from which motion and hardness arise. The essence of this solidification original: "coagulation" is consumed in the fire, and from that devouring there proceeds a spirit. This spirit is shaped both by the property of light in love, and by the hostile, hateful source and anxious property in the darkness. We are to understand it in this way:

12. Every spirit desires substance original: "essence" according to its own likeness. Now, nothing more than one Spirit proceeds from the fire—which is a spiritual understanding, the manifestation of the understanding of the Abyss or God. This Spirit re-conceives itself in the love-desire and forms itself within the properties of the powers. This mutual intercourse, consent, and intimate, entire assimilation, one