Theosophical Questions

18. Theosophical Questions original Latin: "Quæstiones Theosophicæ". Fr. 1.

[...] itself in such hardness of death, an everlasting painful sensation. Fifthly, it creates within itself an anxious fire-source original: "Feuer-Quall." Jacob Böhme uses this term to suggest both a "source" (Quelle) and "torment" (Qual), describing the raw, churning energy of existence.. And in these properties, God's wrath and the hellish fire are understood: And it is therefore called Hell original: "Hölle" or a Hollow original: "Höhle", because it is a hiddenness or an enclosure; It is also called an enmity of God because it is painful, while the Unity of God is a pure gentleness; they are against each other like fire and water: From which also the essences of fire and water in the creation of this world have taken their origin.

16. The fifth property in such an ignition of the outflowing will is now the sensibility of the Unity of God, as Love, which becomes mobile and desiring within the fire, and makes within the fire (as within the painfulness) another principle (Principium): A fundamental realm or state of being. Böhme describes the universe as being composed of three principles: the dark world, the light world, and the visible world., as a great love-fire. For it is the cause and the ground of the light, so that the light springs forth in the fire-essence; it is the power of love within the light, for thus the Unity introduces itself into movement and sensibility, so that the Eternal Power may be sensible, and that a willing, desire, and discernibility original: "Schiedlichkeit." This refers to the capacity for things to be distinct, separate, and recognizable from one another, rather than being lost in an undifferentiated void. may be within it; otherwise the Unity would be an eternal stillness and insensible.

17. This love and light dwell in the fire and penetrate the fire, so that the essence of the fire is transformed into the highest realm of joy, and no more wrath original: "Grimm" is perceived, but rather a pure taste of love of Divine sensibility.

18. For thus the eternal Unity over-inflames itself, so that it may be a love, and that there may be something to be loved. For if the love of the Unity did not stand in a fire-burning manner, it would not be actual, and there would be no joy or movement in the Unity.

19. Thus one now understands God's wrath in the fire-essence: and the Divine love-fire in the sensibility of love, as in the sensible Unity; these make two centers in one ground, as two kinds of fire.

20. (1) The wrath-fire in the outflowing will of unpleasantness is a ground of eternal nature, from which the angels and the soul of man have received their ground, and it is called the Great Mystery (Mysterium Magnum): The vast, hidden potentiality or "chaos" from which God brings forth the manifestation of the universe.; from which eternal nature this visible world also sprouted and was created, as a reflection original: "Gegenwurf." Literally a "counter-throw" or projection; Böhme views the physical world as a mirrored reflection of the internal spiritual reality. of the inwardness.