Fr. 2. Contemplation of Divine Revelation.

A 2

...willing or welling, and this welling 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 other. original: "Exod. 20. Deut. 4: 39. C. 6: 4." Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 4:39 and 6:4.

3. And it is not as Reason supposes, that God dwells alone above the stars, outside the place of this world. No place is prepared for Him where He might dwell separately, but rather His revelation is merely diverse; He is in, by, and through us; and wherever He becomes active with His love in a life, there God is manifest in His operation. That is to say, His love, as the Unity, is there out-flowing, willing, and perceptible. There God has made Himself a place, as in the ground of the soulBoehme uses "ground" (Grund) to mean the deepest, uncreated essence of a person where they connect with God., in the eternal Ideaoriginal: "Idea"; here meaning the eternal blueprint or spiritual mirror of all possibilities within God. or reflection of the eternal willing in love, wherein love wills and perceives itself, as is to be understood in the case of angels and blessed souls.

The 2nd Question.

What is the abyss of all things, where there is no creature, but only the unfathomable Nothing?

The abyss is a dwelling of the Unity of God, §. 1. where Father, Son, and Spirit give birth to 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 Sensusoriginal: "Sensus"; meaning senses, meanings, or phonetic sounds. are understood: A. E. I. O. U. 5. The Trinity reveals itself with a threefold breath, called JEHOVAH. 6. Theosophical explanation of the Divine Name JEHOVAH. 7. 8. The Sensus of the perceptible opening-up is called ADONAJ. 9. Theosophical explanation of the Divine Name ADONAJ. 10. 11. This abyss, or the Eternal Nothing, sees through everything unhindered, as an eye of eternal vision, 12. and God is Himself 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 IchtsBoehme’s invented word "Ichts" (Somethingness) is a play on "Nichts" (Nothingness). It represents the first stirrings of existence emerging from the void. of the Nothing, is God Himself. The opening-up is the Unity, as an Eternal Life and willing, a pure will, which yet has nothing that it can will, except only itself.