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Or, in one word, if Love had not something which it might love, and manifest the virtue and power of love in working out deliverance to the Beloved from all pain and trouble.”
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Source: Gutenberg“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.
Though poorly educated in the academic sense, his writings reveal a profound originality and daring imagination. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God.
Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth. — Jakob Bohme
In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.
— Jakob Bohme
When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? — Jakob Bohme
As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same expressed Word is in the angels, angelical; in the devils, diabolical; in man, human; in beasts, bestial.
So shall thy light break forth as the morning; and after the redness thereof is passed, the Sun Himself, which thou waitest for, shall arise unto thee, and under His most healing wings thou shalt greatly rejoice; ascending and descending in His bright and salutiferous beams. 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 perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. And then it becometh nothing to itself, as to its own working and willing, and so God worketh and willeth in it. He came from a humble peasant background; his father, George Wissen Böhme, was a farmer. Rightly speaking there is no such thing as supernatural religion; there is but one Religion, that of Nature.
— Jakob Bohme
All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.
This is not what I mean by walking contrary in everything to the World. — Jakob Bohme
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance.
Thy life is in God, from whence it came into the body, and as thou comest to have thine own power faint and weak and dying, the power of God will then work in thee and through thee.”
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Source: GutenbergJakob Böhme, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
“Know then, my son, that when the Ground of the Will yieldeth itself up to God, then it sinketh out of its own Self, and out of and beyond all ground and place, that is or can be imagined, into a certain unknown Deep, where God only is manifest, and where he only worketh and willeth.But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved. He sigheth and wisheth continually that the Will of God might be done in him, and that his Kingdom might be manifested in him.