Behmen
Americannoun
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On this one root of the whole matter Jacob Behmen insisted, expressing one truth in a thousand ways and through images, which to him are not images but the same process working in other spheres.
From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Böhme, Jakob
With a fine portrait of Behmen facing the title-page of the first volume.
From Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
Early in life, too, he met with the doctrines of Jacob Behmen, of whom, in the Biographia Literaria, he speaks with affection and gratitude as having given him vital philosophic guidance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
"Hence," says Behmen, "we may understand the cause of that infinite variety which is in the Wills and Actions of Men."
From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Böhme, Jakob
So again Behmen says: "The Fire in the Light is a fire of Love, but the Fire in the Darkness is a fire of Anguish, and is painful, irksome, and full of contrariety."
From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Böhme, Jakob
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