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As it was before the Times of this World in his eternal Harmony [or Voice] , so also it continues in the creaturely Voice in him in his Eternity; and this is the Beginning and the End of all Things.”
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Source: WikisourceJakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter XIV(1650s)
“All Things are generated out of the grand Mystery, and proceed out of one Degree into another: Now whatever goes forwards in its Degree, the same receives no Abominate, let it be either in Vegetables or Animals; but whatever enters in itself into its Self-hood, viz.He sigheth and wisheth continually that the Will of God might be done in him, and that his Kingdom might be manifested in him. — Jakob Bohme
You are at enmity with yourself. So that he can have no want of spiritual friends and relations, who are all rooted with him together in the Love which is from above, who are all of the same blood and kindred in Christ Jesus; and who are cherished all by the same quickening sap and spirit diffusing itself through them universally from the one true Vine, which is the tree of life and love.”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, The Signature of All Things — Chapter II(1650s)
“It finds nothing except only the Property of the Hunger, which is itself, which it draws into itself, that is, draws itself into itself, and finds itself in itself; and its Attraction into itself makes an Overshadowing or Darkness in it, which is not in the Liberty, viz.If thou wilt be like All Things thou must forsake all things; thou must not extend thy will to possess that for thine own, or as thine own, which is Something, whatever that Something be.”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“For the right way, even the Path of Light, is contrary to all the ways of the World.
But whereas thou art afraid of creating to thyself hereby trouble and inquietude, that indeed will be so according to the flesh.in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel. He combined the mind of a craftsman with the spirit of a mystic.
His “talent” was less scholarly learning than his capacity for symbolic vision, his ability to weave together theology, nature, and personal revelation into a grand cosmic narrative.
Famous Quotes of Jakob Böhme
“For in Yes and No all things consist.”
“You are in God and God is in you.
— Jakob Bohme
The heart in man signifieth the heat or the element of fire, and it is also the heat; for the heat in the whole body hath its original in the heart. — Jakob Bohme
It is the greatest folly that is in Babel for people to strive about religion, so that they contend vehemently about opinions of their own forging, viz.
The one is fire, and the other is light.”
“Do not be your own witness, let God be your witness.”
“He who seeks will find; he who knocks, to him it will be opened.”
“The greatest honor of man is to know himself truly.”
These sayings reflect his mystical dualism, his ethic of love, and his insistence on divine mystery within human existence.
Lessons from Jakob Böhme’s Life
Mystical experience transcends formal education: Profound spiritual insight does not require elite training.
Visionary courage: Despite persecution, he pursued his revelations with integrity.
Unity of opposites: His teaching that light and darkness coexist speaks to the complexities of human life.
Nature as divine text: His notion of a “signature of all things” encourages us to see the sacred in creation.
Humility before mystery: He reminds us that theology is less about mastery and more about reverence for the unfathomable.
Conclusion
Jakob Böhme stands as a luminous figure in the history of mysticism—an unlettered shoemaker whose visions reshaped theology, philosophy, and poetry.
— Jakob Bohme
What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak; it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead. Adam fell when his play became serious business . — Jakob Bohme
God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.
Behold this is the true supersensual ground of life.
Jakob Bohme Quotes & Sayings
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It was a complex, symbolic exploration of God, creation, and the struggle between light and darkness.
Local clergy, particularly Pastor Gregor Richter of Görlitz, accused him of heresy and forced him to stop writing.
It is this which breaks forth from the seed, forces itself up through the dark, imprisoning, and yet nourishing and necessary earth, and at last, if it can win its way through obstacles, cheerfully expands in the light of the sun and feeds upon his warmth.”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“There is in truth but one Religion, that founded upon the eternal, immutable, universal processes of the actual Nature of things, and of this Christianity, rightly apprehended, is the supreme Revelation.— Jakob Bohme
God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace. And then it becometh nothing to itself, as to its own working and willing, and so God worketh and willeth in it.
God's life is play. — Jakob Bohme
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.