Aurora. That is, the day-spring. or dawning of the day in the Orient or morning rednesse in the rising of the sun.
Publisher: John Streater
Published: 1656
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 632
Table of contents: title: THE BRIEF CONTENTS OF THE TWENTYSIX; title: CHAPTERS OF THE FIRST BOOK; title: OF THE AUTHOR, CALLED THE; title: AURORA.; title: CHAPTER; title: To the Reader; title: Jacob Behme's Preface, being a brief information concerning; title: the Two Qualities, the Evil and the Good in; title: Nature, from the beginning to the end; title: The Contents of this book Aurora; title: 1. Concerning the searching out of the divine being in; title: nature: Also concerning the two qualities, the; title: good and the evil; title: 2. An instruction, shewing how man may come to; title: apprehend the divine and the natural being, and; title: further of the qualities; title: 3. Of the most highly blessed Trinity, One God; title: 4. Of the creation of the holy angels; title: 4. Of the divine quality; title: 4. Of the divine Salitter; title: 5. Of the corporeal substance, being and property of an; title: angel; title: 6. How an angel and how a man is the similitude and; title: image of God; title: 6. Of the blessed love of the angels towards God; title: 7. Of the court, place and dwelling, also of the government,; title: of angels; how it stood at the beginning,; title: after the creation, and how it is become as it is; title: 7. Of the nativities of the angelical kings, and how they; title: came to be; title: 7. Of the deepest ground and mystery; title: 8. Of the whole body or corporation of an angelical; title: kingdom. The great mystery: in his other; title: writings called, Mysterium Magnum; title: 8. Of the first species, circumstance, quality or spirit of; title: God in the divine power or Salitter; title: 8. Of the second; title: 8. Of the third; title: 8. Of the fourth; title: 8. The great mystery of the spirit; title: 8. Of the end of nature in this world; title: 8. Of the Language of Nature; title: 8. Of the fifth circumference or spirit in the divine; title: power of the Father, viz. the love; title: 9. Of the gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful; title: love of God. The divine Mystery; title: 9. What remains hidden since the beginning of the world; title: 9. The wrath: the original of hellfire; title: 10. Of the sixth qualifying or fountain spirit in the divine; title: power, the Sound; title: 10. What in men shall arise in heavenly joy or in hellish; title: torment, the Salitter; title: 10. How a man may quench the kindled wrath of God in; title: this life, in himself; title: 10. How near to us is God and the whole Trinity; title: 11. Of the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit in the; title: divine power, the divine Salitter; title: 11. The holy gate. What the Father, the Son and the; title: Holy Spirit is, whom we Christians worship; title: 11. What the law of nature is; title: 11. Why he only that sinneth shall be punished; title: 11. The prerogative of Christians; title: 11. Of the word Salitter; title: 11. How the imaging in nature is; title: 11. How our life is a perpetual warfare with the devil; title: 12. Of the birth or descent of the holy angels, as also; title: of their government, order and heavenly, joyous; title: life; title: 12. What the angels do when they sing not. What they; title: talk of. Who they are like; title: 12. What heaven itself is; title: 12. What the angels walk upon; title: 12. Of Michael; title: 12. Of Lucifer's creation; title: 12. Of Uriel; title: 12. The beauty of heavenly forms likened to precious stones; title: 12. Why baptism was instituted in the water; title: 12. How the wisdom of God is incomprehensible; title: 13. Of the horrible fall of the kingdom of Lucifer; title: 13. What the fountain of the first sin of the angels is; title: 13. Where the fault lieth, that Lucifer is become a devil.; title: 13. The eternal geniture of Deity; title: 13. The beginning of sin; title: 14. How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful angel in; title: heaven, is become the most horrible devil; title: 14. The cause that God created angels; title: 14. Of the eternal enmity; title: 14. Seven sources of sin, and the eighth the house of; title: death; title: 14. Of the first source; title: 14. What the eternal sport of God was, before the time of; title: the creation o f the angels; title: 14. Of the second source of sin's beginning; title: 14. How God possesseth all, and yet no creature is He; title: 15. Of the third species or spirit of sin's beginning in; title: Lucifer; title: 15. What Lucifer knew before his fall; title: 15. When the end o f this time will be; title: 15. Of the fourth species of sin's beginning; title: 15. Of the sting of death; title: 15. What the comprehensibility is; title: 15. Of the fifth manner of sin's beginning; title: 15. Of the sixth form of sin's beginning; title: 15. Of the Old Serpent; title: 16. Of the seventh kind of sin's beginning in Lucifer and; title: his angels; title: 16. Of sorcerers and witches; title: 16. Wherein naturality consisteth; title: 16. Of the mourning house of death; title: 16. That God willeth not evil, nor can do; title: 16. Of pride; title: 16. Of covetousness; title: 16. Of envy; title: 16. Of wrath; title: 16 The final condemnation. Also of the last fight and; title: expulsion of Lucifer and all his angels; title: 16. What will be called the burning hell; title: 17. Of the miserable state and condition of the corrupt,; title: perished nature, and original of the four elements; title: instead of the holy dominion of God; title: 17. What is called the wrath of God; title: 17. How a comprehensible is come out of an incomprehensible; title: 17. How the devil still presents the crabapples; title: of Paradise; title: before the soul; title: 18. Of the creation of heaven and earth. And of the; title: first day; title: 18. Why man in this world so loveth gold, silver and; title: precious stones; title: 18. How shall I understand myself according to the; title: threefold geniture i n nature; title: 18. An exposition of the first verse of the first chapter of; title: Genesis, according to the Language of Nature; title: 18. Into what the soul goeth when we die; title: 18. Of the creation of the light in this world; title: 18. Whence fightings among all creatures have their; title: original; title: 18. What light was before the sun and stars; title: 19. Concerning the created heaven. And of the form of; title: the earth and of the water; as also concerning; title: light and darkness; title: 19. From what light this author hath his knowledge; title: 19. How it was that Jesus Christ could take the devil,; title: death and hell captive. Also in what heaven he; title: sitteth at the right hand of God; title: 19. Where shall the wrath of God come to be at the end; title: 19. Concerning the form of the earth; title: 19. Why the earth is so hilly, rocky, stony and uneven; title: 19. Of day and night; title: 19. Of morning and evening; title: 20. Of the second day: How God separated the waters; title: beneath the firmament from the waters above the; title: firmament; title: 20. We should strive against the malice and wickedness; title: that is in our hearts; title: 20. What the moon or Luna is; title: 20. How the heavens are not pure in God's sight; title: 20. In what heaven the man that feareth God dwelleth; title: 20. How Christ could go through closed doors. John xx. 19; title: 21. Of the third day; title: 21. The diurnal motion of the earth; title: 21. Man is made out of the seed of the earth; title: 21. How man's hope standeth in God; title: 21. How sins are the cause that the Deity is hidden from; title: us; title: 21. Of the seven spirits of God, and of their operation in; title: the earth; title: 21. Why the astral birth of the earth did begin a day; title: sooner than the astral birth in the deep above the; title: earth; title: 21. Whence mobility existed; title: 22. Of the birth or geniture of the stars, and creation of; title: the fourth day. Also the reason of the title; title: Dawning or Morning Redness; title: 22. Why the spirit of nature itself will open the door; title: 22. What the store are; title: 22. Sixteen questions asked of the doctors; title: 22. How this work is the Holy Ghost's dear revelation; title: 22. Of the earth; title: 22. O f the vegetations of the earth; title: 22. Of the metals in the earth; title: 23. Of the deep above the earth; title: 23. Of the astral birth or geniture: and of the birth or; title: geniture of God; title: 23. The severe geniture, out of which the wrath of God,; title: hell and death, are come to be; title: 23. What is called the animated or soulish birth; title: 23. Of the being of the Deity, and of the three Persons; title: Also whence the living and rational spirit existeth; title: 23. What is the water of life; title: 23. The gate of the Holy Trinity; title: 23. Of the kindled nature; title: 24. Of the incorporation or compacting of the store; title: 24. Out of what the stars are come to be; title: 24. Why God did not bar up the devil instantly; title: 24. Why the stars should not be worshipped; title: 24. In whom the light of life kindleth from the water of; title: life; title: 24. Why Christ rested in death forty hours and no longer; title: 24. God an angry God to those that hate him; title: 24. What is the water of life; title: 24. Where the word of this author is generated; title: 25. Of the whole body of the stars' birth or geniture, that; title: is, the whole astrology; title: 25. Though body and soul should fail, God is his refuge; title: 25. What is called the corrupted nature; title: 25. The kindling of the life of this world: of Sol; title: 25. Of Mars; title: 25. The highest ground of the sun and all the planets; title: 25. How the eye of the Lord beholdeth all; title: 25. How the desire of the flesh is the lake of hellish; title: wrath; title: 25. The annual motion of the earth round about the sun; title: 25. Of the planet Mars; title: 26. Of the planet Jupiter; title: 26. Of the planet Saturnus; title: 26. Of the planet Venus; title: 26. The gate of love; title: 26. How Christ is the Light of the World; title: 26. What is the divine being; title: 26. Of the planet Mercurius; title: 26. The great depth concerning the centre or circle of the; title: birth of life; title: 26. What is called eternity. Also what the house of; title: flesh is; title: 26. Who hath the castingshovel; title: in its hand: Also of man; title: and the stars; title: 26. How man became a living soul; title: 26. The deep, hidden, secret mystery of the humanity; title: 26. RA. RA. R.P; title: 26. Four questions concerning that mass which is man; title: 26. Notes concerning the not finishing this book Aurora