Divine Essence

Concerning the Three Principles of the Divine Essence. Translated by John Sparrow... 

Boehme, Jacob. Concerning the three principles of Divine Essence translated by John... 

Another Copy Seen with an Additional Title-Page in Before the Above. It Starts A Description of the Three Principles of Divine Essence. . . And Then Is Considerably Different. The Imprint Is the Same... 

CABALA - — is a secret art bestowed by God upon Moses, which he afterwards, not by means of writing, but orally, handed down to his posterity and these by knowledge of the Divine Essence can know the properties of all creatures in a wonderful manner, and use it to their own profit and that of others. 

Instead of Descartes, Spinoza might have offered Boerhaave a more attractive approach in the sense that Spinoza made the definition of God central to his philosophy. According to Spinoza the proper order of philosophical argument should start with that which is logically and ontologically prior, namely with the divine essence of nature. Only so could Spinoza rule out contingency in nature and develop a philosophy based on a true solid system, for... 

Apart from "popular Hermetism," as Festugiere used to say, represented by astrology and other occult sciences, there is erudite Hermetism, which is what principally interests us here, and which revolves entirely around the idea that Man can discover the divine, on one hand because of theurgic practices, and on the other hand through establishing a mystical relationship between the universe and humanity. One of the basic concepts of Hermetism (Hermetica as well as modern Hermeticism) is that one can regain his divine essence, lost since the Fall, by renewing his links with the divine... 

Boehme s theosophy is extremely complicated and cannot be summarised without oversimplification. But it is nonetheless useful here to highlight at least its central features, particularly with regard to its soteriological narrative . Briefly, the creation represents a continuing process of divine self-expression which transcends the inner-trinitarian life. God s revelation outside himself is his expression in an extra-divine existence, up to his externalization in nature. The first step of this process is the revelation of himself in the virgin Sophia , as divine Wisdom. The latter is a first hypostasis which enables God s self-contemplation outside the trinity and assures at the same time the original connection between divine and human, spiritual and material natures. Virgin Wisdom comprises all divine essences, models and archetypes and enables therefore not only God s self-contemplation but also the second step of the process, namely God s self-expression in the creation. ... 

Christ in glory was the proto-type for perfected human flesh. This idea parallels the Galenic theory of balancing the bodily humours in a perfectly tempered body. Schwenckfeld, however, did not envisage perfection in these medical terms, but in that of an immortal body, divinely illuminated by Christ s sacrifice. The existence of Christ s glorified, but human body on earth testified that humans are not in essence natural bodies, but that their true form is that of Christ. In this argument, Schwenckfeld was relying on Paul s problematic account of the risen body. ... 

The names given to this mystical something were as many as the properties which were assigned to it. It was called the one thing, the essence, the philosopher s stone, the stone of wisdom, the heavenly balm, the divine water, the virgin water, the carbuncle of the sun, the old dragon, the lion, the basilisk, the phcenix, and many other names were given to it. 

The use of cocaine by humans dates back to prehistoric times. The Incas of the Andes regions of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru developed the practice of chewing the coca leaf more than 3,000 years ago. Archeological sites in Peru that date back to 1300 B.C. contain mummified bodies with shell vessels for coca and the powdered lime used even today to enhance absorption of cocaine from the leaf (Streatfeild, 2001). Coca was a sacred drug to the Incas. Mama Coca" was viewed as possessing a goddess-like essence. One myth had it that coca had been a beautiful woman who was executed for adultery. From her remains the divine coca plant grew, to be consumed only by royalty in her memory (Petersen, 1977). 

Breathing in God becomes many and each and every being may savour the Divine within. Breathing out One need not have any reservation, but let the vessel become emptied into the Divine Ocean of space... vibrant with the pranic essence, infinite indivisible. 

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