Jacob Boehme's Aurora
Chapter 27: Note
Note.
"I advertise the Reader, who loves God, that this Book, the Aurora or Morning Redness, was not finished. For the Devil intended to put a Stop to it, and suppress it, when he perceived that the Day would break forth therein. And the Day has clearly made haste after the Morning Redness, so that it is become very Light. There wants about Thirty Sheets to the End of it. But seeing the Storm has broken them off, therefore it was not finished; and in the mean while it is come to be Day, so that the Morning Redness is passed away, and since that Time, the Work has gone on by Day. And it shall so stand, for an eternal Remembrance, seeing the Defect herein is supplied in the other Books."
Jacob Behmen, 1620. [ [Three Principles. Three-fold Life. 40 Questions.] See the Collection of Letters. Letter 10. v. 30.]
Jacob Behmen, 1620. [ [Three Principles. Three-fold Life. 40 Questions.] See the Collection of Letters. Letter 10. v. 30.]
Note.
The Dawning or Morning-Redness rises up from the Infancy and Child-hood, and shows or demonstrates the Creation of all Beings, but very Mystically, and not sufficiently clear, but full of magical Understanding, for there are some Mysteries therein which are yet to come to pass. [Collection of Letters. Letter 12. v. 66.]
Note.
This is the deep hidden magical Book, which the Author at that Time might not make clearer, but may now do it through the Grace of God. 1621.
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This Book is wrote in a magical Sense or Understanding, for the Author himself only, who knew of no other Readers; he supposed he made this Work only for himself, but God has disposed it otherwise.
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The Author expressed the first Syllable MER, in the Word MERCURIUS, with the first Vowel A, as MAR, MARCURIUS, not without a special mystical Cause. But because the self-conceited Wise in Reason dislike it, accounting it but a country, vulgar Expression, therefore it is wrote according to the common received Word, MERCURIUS.
The Corn grows against the Will of the Enemy. For that which is sown by God, no Man can prevent or hinder the Growing of it. [Collection of Letters. Letter 10. v. 32.]