Mysterium Magnum

Boehme, Jacob.Mysterium magnum or an exposition of the first book of Moses called Genesis translated by John Sparrow, edited by C. J. B. Edited by C.J. B. 

Volume III. Printed for G. Robinson, MDCCLXXII. Contents l. Mysterium Magnum 507p. 2. Four Tables of Divine Revelation 20p. 

Deeply moved, you put on the white robe, admiring its fineness, then the silver sandals of the Moon. The Regent then places the hooded indigo robe over your head. Taking the hawthorn staff, you reverently lay it on the top altar step, giving thanks to the Mysterium Magnum who has guided you on the path. 

MYSTERIUM MAGNUM — The First Matter of all Things, the Principle and Mother of all the Corruptible Creatures of God, the Chaos, dark and rude. 

The Mercury of the Philosophers is the most secret of all, and it is hidden by the Hermetics under many mysteries and sheaths, because it is the Mysterium magnum. 

Jacob Boehme, Mysterium Magnum , Final Summary... 

Boehme, Mysterium Magnum, 17.17, ibid., vol.7, pp. 110-11 Jacob Boehme, Beschreibun der Drey Principien Gbttliches Wesens, 12.26, ibid., vol. 2, p. 136. 

Jacob Boebme, Mysterium Magnum, 19.7, ibid., vol.7, p. 126. See also C. Bendratb, Dibhaftigkeit Jakob Bohmes Inkarnationsmorphologie (Berlin/NewYork, 1999). 

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