Important truths. With extracts from the way to Christ by Jacob Boehme

...raging flame of our passions. If we set each mental faculty to perform its specific role, not allowing one to interfere with the functions of another; and if we make our senses obey the mind, and then submit the mind to GOD—what more orderly or happy way of living original: "oeconomy"; here meaning the management or internal organization of one's soul and life could we achieve?

This will bless us with eternal peace and adorn our soul like a glorious throne for the reception of our sovereign Lord. It will raise the soul from the gutter of sensual pleasures to a blessed communion original: "intercourse"; in this context, spiritual fellowship or communication with the Holy Trinity. It will make the soul prefer the glory and happiness arising from a Christian life over all the advantages of natural talent or worldly wealth original: "nature and fortune".

If you wish to know the authors of these Discourses original: "Discourses"; formal writings or sermons on a specific subject, it is enough to say that some were learned men, high-ranking church officials, and ministers from various Christian denominations. Some were of noble birth and served in the army; others lived a secluded, contemplative life; and some were uneducated and worked in the lowliest manual trades. They lived in different eras and were from different nations and languages, but all of them were assisted by the Holy Spirit of GOD to trace sin and vice back to their source, and