Jakob Böhme

“ LUBET The Word in the Dutch is Lust, which signifies a longing Desire or Will to a Thing; also a Delight, or contented Joy; sometimes Imagination and Lust. But because our Word Lust is commonly used in the worst Sense (a Longing after Evil and Vanity) and would not properly agree to, or fully express the German Word Lust in all places, I have generally translated it Lubet, from the Latin Word Lubitum, whereby is meant the divine Beneplacitum, or good Pleasure. ”

“ For in the Darkness the Love-Ens, or Paradisical Light, is shut up in Death, and causes an austere dark Source, Pain, Horror, Torment, or Disquietude; and so it is the radical Property of the contentious Elements and Stars in the Curse of God: And in the Light the Life of Love breaks forth, and swallows up this wrathful Source of Darkness and Death, and turns it into Joy or a divine Source. So that by Source is understood the original Quality, Property, or Qualification of Evil, Darkness, Anger, Sorrow, Cursing, Damnation, Death, Hell ”

“ N.B.—There is One Character by which God has characterised both himself, and all the Creatures, and shewn that his presence is in all Things; yet so that each Creature has its Wonder, either of the heavenly or of the earthly Mystery. ”