Jakob Böhme

“ You have with Mary elected or chosen the best part, in that you set your youth not on worldly pomp state or Pride, but do offer it up to God; and though you thereby Sit a little while in the dark obscurity, yet you will therefrom attain Eternall Light, this I commend to you friendly and intend it faithfully. ”

“ Walter and also from your selfe, the Authour of them is unknown to you, he may well come to be known to you, if you have longing after the Noble or precious Stone, Lapis Philosophorum, the Philosophers Stone, spiritually.
5Then in that, when you attain it, you will have the Highest Joy; you will love and esteem it above Gold and all the world, for it is fairer or brighter then the SUN, and more costly or precious then the Heaven, and whosoever findeth it, is Richer then any Prince on the Earth ”