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The Mysterium Magnum
Jacob Boehme
(1575-1624)
Table of Contents
- Cover Page
- Author's Preface
- Glossary of Boehme's Terminology
- Chapter 1:
- What the Manifested God is: and of the Trinity.
- Chapter 2:
- Of the Word, or Heart of God.
- Chapter 3:
- How out of the Eternal Good an Evil is come to be; which in the Good had no Beginning to the Evil: And of the Original of the Dark World, or Hell, wherein the Devils dwell.
- Chapter 4:
- Of the Two Principles, viz. God's Love, and Anger; of Darkness, and Light; very necessary for the Reader to consider of.
- Chapter 5:
- Of the Five Senses.
- Chapter 6:
- Of the Essence of Corporality. The Seventh form of Nature. Luna (Moon) and Saturnus. Beginning --- End.
- Chapter 7:
- Of the Holy Trinity, and Divine Essence.
- Chapter 8:
- Of the Creation of Angels, and their Dominion.
- Chapter 9:
- Of the Fall of Lucifer, with his Legions.
- Chapter 10:
- Of the Creation of Heaven and the Outward World.
- Chapter 11:
- Of the Mystery of the Creation.
- Chapter 12:
- Of the Six Days' Works of the Creation.
- Chapter 13:
- Of The Creation of the Fourth Day.
- Chapter 14:
- Of the Creation of the Fifth Day.
- Chapter 15:
- Of the Sixth Day's Work of the Creation.
- Chapter 16:
- Of the Difference of the Heavenly and Earthly Man.
- Chapter 17:
- Of Paradise.
- Chapter 18:
- Of the Paradisical State showing how it should have been if Adam had not fallen.
- Chapter 19:
- Of the building (framing) of the Woman; showing how Man was ordained to the outward Natural Life.
- Chapter 20:
- Of the Lamentable and Miserable Fall and Corruption of Man.
- Chapter 21:
- Of the Impression and Original of the Bestial Man; and of the Beginning and Ground of his Sickness and Mortality.
- Chapter 22:
- Of the Original of Actual Sin, and the Awakening of God's Anger in the Human Property.
- Chapter 23:
- How God re-called Adam and his Eve when they were entered into Sin and Vanity, and awakened in the Serpent's Ens; and laid upon them the Order of this toilsome laborious world, and ordained the Serpent-Bruiser for a Help (or Saviour) to them.
- Chapter 24:
- Of the Cause and Rise of the Curse of the Earth, and of the Body of Sickness.
- Chapter 25:
- How God drove Adam out of Paradise, and laid the Cherub before the Garden.
- Chapter 26:
- Of the Propagation of Man in this World, and of Cain, the First-born, The Murderer of his Brother.
- Chapter 27:
- Of Cain's and Abel's offering and of the False and Antichristian Church, and also of the True Holy Church.
- Chapter 28:
- Of Cain's Killing of his Brother, viz. of the Proud, Haughty, Antichristian, hypocritical Church upon the Earth; and also of the True Christendom hidden under this Antichristian Church.
- Chapter 29:
- Shows how the Adamical Tree has put forth and opened itself out of its Stock, and introduced itself into Boughs, Branches, Twigs, and Fruit; out of which Pullulation or Manifestation the Invention of all Arts and Governments is Arisen.
- Chapter 30:
- Of the Line of the Covenant.
- Chapter 31:
- Of Enoch's Wonderful Line.
- Chapter 32:
- Of the Covenant between God and Noah.
- Chapter 33:
- Of the beginning of the Second monarchy, and of the Covenant of God with Noah, and all Creatures.
- Chapter 34:
- How Noah cursed his Son Ham, and of the Mystical Prophecy Concerning his Three Sons and their Posterity.
- To the reader by John Sparrow, translator
- Comments by Compiler Martin Euser
- Jacob Boehme at Wikipedia
- Source, free electronic text edition: Archive.Org
- Also on this site by Jacob Boehme:
- Franz Hartmann: Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme
- Confessions of Jacob Boehme
- Español: Confesiones de Jacob Boehme
- Several Pdfs for Jacob Boehme are in the Christian Index: /christian/
- Ebooks by Jacob Boehme: jacobboehmeonline.com