Theosophical Questions

XIX. original: "Quæstiones Theosophicæ. Fr. 1." Theosophical Questions. Question 1.

...bed [described] them, albeit briefly and summarily, yet in our other writings quite extensively and necessarily; and we commend the reader of this to the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

What is God apart from nature and creature in Himself?

Summary Points.

God is the eternal Unity, § 1. which flows out of itself, and thereby leads into willing and movement; 2. and has no place where He dwells particularly, but is in, with, and through us, in the ground of the soulIn Boehme’s theology, the "ground" (Grund) refers to the deepest, most fundamental essence of a being, where the human soul meets the divine.. 3.

Answer.

God is the eternal Unity, as the immeasurable, only Good, which has nothing behind or before it that might give or contribute anything to Him, or that might move Him; without all inclinations and properties, which without origin of time is only One in itself, as a pure clarity, without contact, which has no place or position anywhere, nor needs any for His dwelling; but is at once outside the world and in the world, and is deeper than any thought can soar; yes, if one were to speak numbers for a hundred thousand years regarding His greatness and depth, one would still not have begun to express His depth, for He is Infinity. Everything that can be counted and measured is natural and figurative; but the Unity of God cannot be expressed, for it is through everything at once, and is therefore called and known as "Good," because it is the eternal gentleness and the highest beneficence within the sensitivity of nature and creatureBoehme distinguishes between "Nature" (the governing forces and laws of the universe) and "Creature" (individual living beings)., as the sensitive, sweet love.

2. For the Unity, as the Good, flows out from itself, and conducts itself with the outflow into willing and movement; there the Unity loves or dwells through the