Theosophical Epistles

...reveal it to the weak, so that it might be recognized how the kingdom and the power are His alone, and that it does not depend on human research and reason, or on the heavens and their power, for even they do not comprehend Him. Instead, it pleases Him to reveal Himself in the lowly, so that He might be known in all things.

5. For the powers of the heavens also constantly work in images, plants, and colors to reveal the holy GOD, so that He may be known in all things. Much more, higher and clearer, can the revelation of GOD occur in a human being, since he is not only a being from the created world, but his power, matter, and own essence, which he himself is, stands and works within works within: "inqualiret," a term coined by Boehme from the Latin "in" and "qualitas," meaning to permeate or interact with the qualities and powers of another being all three principles of the Divine Essence.

6. And in his Fall, nothing was taken away from man regarding his divine creaturely nature except for the Divine Light alone, in which he was meant to live, will, and be in perfect love, humility, gentleness, and holiness in GOD, and thus eat the bread of heaven from the Word and Divine power, and live in perfection just like the angels.

7. This Light, which shines eternally in GOD in the second Principle original: "andern Principio." Boehme’s "Second Principle" refers to the world of light, love, and the Son of God, contrasted with the "First Principle" of dark, fire-like power., and which is the eternal cause of joy, love, humility, gentleness, and mercy, was withdrawn and hidden from man in his Fall; for when the first man was formed in his mother, the great world, he set his imagination, desire, and longing into the mother of nature, and craved the food of the first Principle, wherein lies the origin and the birth of nature, where the source of wrath original: "Zorn-quall." This is a pun central to Boehme’s thought: it means both "source of wrath" (from "Quelle," source) and "torment of wrath" (from "Qual," agony). exists, as well as the most anxious birth, from which all tangible things of this world have come. So it also happened to him, because he stood upon that same root.

8. Thus, according to both body and spirit, he became a child of this created world, which now rules, drives, and leads him, and also feeds and drinks him. He has received fragility and painfulness within himself and has acquired an animal body, which must decay back into its mother; for he was not meant to have this monstrous form, nor should the stars In the 17th century, "stars" or "the constellations" often referred to the governing astral influences that dictated a person's physical and temperamental fate. of the great world have ruled over him. Rather, he has his stars within himself, which work within the holy heaven of the second Principle of the Divine Essence—that is, with the rising and birth of the Divine Nature.