Jakob Böhme

“ In Nature's Desire arises the Death and Enclosing, and in the Desire of the Liberty arises the Opening and the Life; for the Liberty's Desire tinctures the Desire of the dark Nature, so that the wrathful Mother foregoes her own Right, and freely resigns to the Liberty's Desire, and so the Life grows in Death, for there is no Life without Light; but if the Light goes out in the Essence of the Sulphur, then it is an eternal Death, which no Man can revive, unless God moves himself in the Lubet-Desire in the same Death; for Death can receive no Life into it, unless the first Desire, viz. ”

“ So the Artist takes him presently away with the old Adam from the strange Anger, and lays him in a soft Bed; for the old Adam is sick, and will die, and then his own Faber in the old Adam is in the Love of God, which destroyed the Anger, and will make a young Child, and rejoices in the Child; and the old Adam grows sick, and weak, wholly dark, and swarthish, and dies; and the four Elements go out from him with their Colours: So the Faber gives him even leave to go, and continually labours on the new Body, which shall arise from Death; and none sees his Labour, for he Works in the Dark. ”

“ Now Man, and every Life also, as to the Kingdom of this World, was created and generated out of the outward Sulphur; Man out of the inward and outward [Sulphur,] and the outward Creature only out of the outward; for Man is an Image and Likeness of God, and the other Creatures are as a Similitude according to the Figuration in the internal Generation in God's Wisdom, viz. in the expressed or procreated heavenly Essence, according to both eternal Principles. ”

“ For Man's Happiness consists in this, that he has in him a true Desire after God, for out of the Desire springs forth the Love; that is, when the Desire receives the Meekness of God into itself, then the Desire immerses itself in the Meekness, and becomes essential ”

“ Poison consumes the Body, unless you Remedy, stay, and allay its Hunger; yet there is none that can still this horrible Hunger, but God himself who has made him, and if he assists not in due Time, then the Hunger in the Wrath consumes the Body, and puts it into the eternal Darkness. ”

“ We know that the right Sulphur is a Generation of all Spirituality and Corporality; so far as concerns its first Original, where it is heavenly, it is the Generation or the Essence of all Essences: For all, whatever Eternity and Time is in itself, has, and is able to effect, lies in this Birth: But now as to the Kingdom of this World it is earthly, viz. ”