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The Signature of All Things
Jacob Boehme · Christianity · c. 1622
Translated by Anonymous (Dent / Dutton, 1912; uncredited older English version)
19 chapters
Boehme's systematic mystical-alchemical reading of nature — every created thing bears an outward signature (form, color, behavior) that reveals its inward spiritual essence, and to learn to read the signatures is to read God's self-disclosure written into the world.
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Contents
- 1Introduction by Clifford Bax
- 2Preface to the Reader
- 3Chapter I: On the Signature in the Mind of Man
- 4Chapter II: Of Sympathy and Antipathy in the Essence of All Essences
- 5Chapter III: Of the Great Mystery of All Beings
- 6Chapter IV: Of the Birth of the Four Elements and Stars
- 7Chapter V: Of the Sulphurean Death and Restoration
- 8Chapter VI: Of the Generation of Water and Oil
- 9Chapter VII: How Adam and Lucifer Fell Through Imagination and Pride
- 10Chapter VIII: Of the Sulphurean Sude of the Earth
- 11Chapter IX: How the Inward Signs the Outward
- 12Chapter X: Of the Inward and Outward Cure of Man
- 13Chapter XI: Of Christ's Passion and the Universal Tincture
- 14Chapter XII: Of the Solar Kingdom and Christ's Resurrection
- 15Chapter XIII: Of the Enmity of Spirit and Body
- 16Chapter XIV: Of the Wheel of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt
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