{"collection":"Esoteric & Occult","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/eso/ldjb/ldjb02.htm","path":"eso/ldjb/ldjb02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/eso/ldjb/ldjb02.htm","text":"The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme, by Franz Hartmann, [1891]\n| I. | | \n| | PAGE | \n| THE LIFE OF JACOB BOEHME. | | \n| | | \n| Account of His Life and Labours, and of the Influence of his Writings upon the Outside World | 1 | \n| | | \n| II. | | \n| THE DOCTRINES OF JACOB BOEHME. | | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER I. | | \n| INTRODUCTION. | | \n| The only reality\u2014External reasoning is inadequate to comprehend internal truth\u2014Historical aspect of the Bible\u2014Man created in the image of God\u2014The universal and the perverted self-will of man\u2014Atonement\u2014The Yoga practice\u2014Illuminated seers\u2014Jacob Boehme's spiritual knowledge and his terrestrial conditions\u2014How his writings can be understood | 33 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER II. | | \n| UNITY. | | \n| God in his aspect as the Father\u2014The unity of the All\u2014Eternity and time\u2014The will\u2014Eternal wisdom\u2014The Son and the Holy Spirit\u2014Trinity\u2014The will the positive energy\u2014Wisdom is merely passive\u2014Three-personality of God\u2014God revealed in being\u2014The magic principle\u2014The antithesis or duality\u2014Fire and light | 58 | \n| p. viii | | \n| CHAPTER III. | | \n| THE SEVEN QUALITIES. | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Seven states of eternal nature referring to the Trinity\u2014Each quality existing within the others\u2014Seven in one\u2014Matter, darkness, corporification, motion, consciousness, salt, sulphur, and mercury\u2014The lightning flash, illumination, light, substantiality, the water-spirit, sound\u2014The seventh form\u2014Essential wisdom, the body of God, transcendental magnificence, the eternal virgin, glorification | 71 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER IV. | | \n| CREATION. | | \n| God the All and nevertheless not the All\u2014Pantheism and Theism\u2014Personality of God\u2014Perfection\u2014The subjective becoming objective\u2014Divine love\u2014The world not divine\u2014Eternal nature, wisdom\u2014Differentiation of divine powers\u2014Necessity of the dark fire\u2014Eternal chaos\u2014Beginning, unfolding\u2014The seven divine spirits\u2014Co-operation of Spirit | 89 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER V. | | \n| THE ANGELS. | | \n| Three types of God relatively to the Trinity\u2014Sub-divisions of divine intelligences\u2014Harmony\u2014The seven accords in each body\u2014The celestial world objective to the angels\u2014Its products corresponding to their terrestrial types\u2014Realms of Lucifer\u2014Michael and Uriel, dominions, guardian angels, fidelity, freedom of will\u2014Lucifer, his pride and fall\u2014Hell produced by the ignition of the lower principles\u2014Hell not yet complete\u2014Evil spirits\u2014Lucifer's knowledge merely scientific, but not divine\u2014An end of hell inconceivable, unless creation were destroyed | 101 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VI. | | \n| THE RESTORATION OF NATURE. | | \n| Mosaic account of the restoration of Nature\u2014The outcast spirits\u2014The allegory of the Flood\u2014The appearance of the | | \n| p. ix | | \n| | PAGE | \n| light\u2014The seventh day\u2014The separation of the material from the immaterial element of water\u2014Their separation not referring to locality\u2014The conjunction of the fiery and watery essence life\u2014Generation of gold and precious stones\u2014Relative good and-evil\u2014The light that shines into the darkness\u2014The sun and the planets\u2014Manifestation of divine wisdom\u2014The sun the life of the stars\u2014The objective planets\u2014Sidereal life\u2014The spirit of the stars\u2014The superiority\u2014The third principle\u2014Man a compendium of Nature and all terrestrial qualities\u2014The soul | 122 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VII. | | \n| MAN. | | \n| Man an image of God\u2014His celestial body\u2014His powers\u2014Eden\u2014The paradise\u2014Man not the equal of God\u2014His free will\u2014Object of the third principle\u2014Object of man's existence\u2014The heart of God and its antithesis the devil and the terrestrial world\u2014Adam's fall\u2014The tree of temptation\u2014The protection offered by the terrestrial form against the powers of evil\u2014The weakening of the divine image\u2014How Adam fell asleep\u2014The terrestrial woman the saviour of man\u2014Creation of Eve\u2014Eating the forbidden fruit\u2014The serpent\u2014Adam caused Eve to sin and Eve seduced him\u2014The rise of the desire for the knowledge of good and evil | 140 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER VIII. | | \n| NATURE, OR THE THIRD PRINCIPLE. | | \n| The origin of Nature\u2014Duality\u2014The powers of light and darkness\u2014Lucifer's influence in the world\u2014The power of God in the inner world\u2014The external sun au image of the divine heart of love\u2014The sun omnipresent\u2014Ruling of the planets\u2014Their good and evil influences\u2014Their living power\u2014Individual life of the earth\u2014Why the earth turns around her axis and around the sun\u2014The four elements and the fifth\u2014Origin of the terrestrial elements\u2014Their attractions and repulsions\u2014Latent qualities in the products of the earth\u2014The vegetable and animal kingdoms\u2014Their relation to paradise\u2014The imperishable inner principle The spiritual quality\u2014The external form | 164 | \n| p. x | | \n| CHAPTER IX. | | \n| GENERATION. | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The Logos\u2014The soul in the light of God\u2014Self-will destructive to the perception of the divine idea\u2014The growth of the manifestation of the evil principle\u2014Man creates his own hell\u2014His natural protection by means of external life\u2014The rise of his natural qualities\u2014Primordial man\u2014How he became dense and material\u2014Death\u2014Man's animal nature\u2014His senses\u2014Will and mind\u2014Temperaments\u2014Origin of his terrestrial desires\u2014Present method of reproduction caused by man's degradation\u2014The male and the female in one individuality\u2014Primitive generation\u2014Division of sex\u2014Sexual attraction\u2014Its necessity\u2014Generation of soul\u2014Sexual intercourse and its delight\u2014Interaction of divine elements during the same\u2014The nature of the child dependent on the qualities of the parents\u2014Each soul an individual being | 180 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER X. | | \n| THE CHRIST. | | \n| Necessity of divine aid\u2014Mercy\u2014The entering of the spiritual light into the body of humanity\u2014Preparation for redemption was made before the world was created\u2014The Redeemer in man not perceptible until after the fall\u2014The power of the Redeemer preeminently manifested in womanhood\u2014The celestial virgin\u2014Her influence over humanity\u2014When redemption became possible\u2014Cain and Abel\u2014Genesis\u2014The descendants of Seth\u2014The three primordial races\u2014The name of Abraham has no terrestrial meaning\u2014It is the antitype of Christ\u2014The sons of Isaac representing the first and the second Adam and the final conquest of the first by the second\u2014The false gods of the sons of Japhet\u2014Their oracles, symbols of celestial things\u2014The power of the Redeemer present in all mankind\u2014Sacrifices\u2014External ceremonies and internal faith\u2014The sacrificial fire not of a terrestrial but of a celestial wood\u2014The light of the Christ represented within the fire\u2014The children of light receiving the substance of Christ | 198 | \n| p. xi | | \n| CHAPTER XI. | | \n| INCARNATION. | | \n| | PAGE | \n| The configuration of the person of the Redeemer\u2014The Son of God; the celestial and the terrestrial man\u2014Christ's terrestrial nature\u2014The necessity of his suffering in the flesh\u2014The terrestrial virgin overshadowed by the virgin of wisdom\u2014The immaculate conception\u2014The restoration of the divine image in man by the power of the Holy Spirit\u2014The glorification of the virgin\u2014the three principles uniting but not commingling in the body of Christ\u2014The eternal Word not mingling with the body and not even with the soul\u2014The soul being penetrated and illuminated by the Word, Christ not a limited human being\u2014This celestial corporeity likened to the sun\u2014The Godhead | 224 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER XII. | | \n| REDEMPTION. | | \n| Means of redemption\u2014The absolute will becoming relative\u2014Necessity, of incarnation; the conquest of death\u2014The three temptations\u2014The victory\u2014Christ's corporeal death\u2014Sacrifice of the self-will and also of the holy love-will\u2014Its entering into the divine will\u2014The transmutation of the body\u2014The resurrection and glorification\u2014The approaching destruction of the whole terrestrial world\u2014The paradisical body\u2014The heaven of the Redeemer | 242 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER XIII. | | \n| REGENERATION. | | \n| Spirituality\u2014The living Christ\u2014Christ in man\u2014How to effect regeneration\u2014The nature of true prayer\u2014What is faith?\u2014Spiritual substantiality\u2014The new body\u2014Dangers\u2014The new life\u2014The terrestrial man realising the celestial ideal\u2014The three temptations\u2014Battle between the high and the low\u2014Relation between the outer and inner man\u2014Self-sacrifice\u2014Conquest of evil\u2014Uselessness of external desires\u2014Changes in the physical body of man\u2014Inner perception | | \n| p. xii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| of Christ\u2014Its realisation after the death of the body\u2014Trials, trouble, and suffering\u2014The mystical death\u2014External and eternal possessions\u2014The finding of salvation | 263 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER XIV. | | \n| DEATH AND ETERNAL LIFE. | | \n| Man's existence in three worlds\u2014Death of the physical body\u2014The soul in her twofold aspect after the death of the body\u2014The law of spiritual gravitation\u2014The power of self-control lost through death\u2014Heaven and hell\u2014Animal elementaries\u2014Tortured souls\u2014Objectivity and corporeity of mental images after death\u2014Conscience and remorse\u2014No salvation for devils\u2014Suffering, fear, and despair\u2014The redeemed souls in the light of God\u2014Intercourse between spirits and mortals\u2014Sanctified souls\u2014Orthodox superstitions\u2014Miracles\u2014The \"Thread-souls\" (Sutratma)\u2014Kama loca (Purgatory)\u2014Dead souls\u2014Astral forms of the dead\u2014Prayers and ceremonies for the dead | 289 | \n| | | \n| CHAPTER XV. | | \n| CONCLUSION. | | \n| What to believe\u2014Babel\u2014Christ\u2014The true light\u2014The unknown Church\u2014Humanity\u2014\"Practical occultism\"\u2014Divinity in Humanity | 311 | \n| | | \n| APPENDIX. | | \n| Apparitions\u2014Asceticism\u2014Astral spirit\u2014Atonement\u2014The Cross\u2014Death\u2014Doubt\u2014God\u2014Humility\u2014Jesus Christ\u2014Man\u2014Nature\u2014Path\u2014Planets\u2014Principle\u2014Sex\u2014Sophia\u2014Substantiality\u2014Sulphur, salt, and mercury\u2014Word | 321 |","title":"The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme: Contents","type":"page"}