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The Signature of All Things

By Jacob Boehme

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Contents

 

SIGNATURA RERUM

 

CHAP.                                                                                                                                                                PAGE

I.

How that all whatever is spoken of God without the Knowledge of the Signature is dumb

and without Understanding, and that in the Mind of Man the Signature lies very exactly composed,

according to the Being of all Beings                                                                                                                       9

II. Of the Opposition and Combat in the Essence of all Essences, whereby the Ground of the

Sympathy and Antipathy in Nature may be seen, and also the Corruption and Cure of each Thing                     13

III. Of the great Mystery of all Beings                                                                                                                      22

IV. Of the Birth of the four Elements and Stars, in the metalline and creaturely Property                                       32

V. Of the Sulphurean Death, and how the dead Body is revived and replaced into its first Glory or Holiness        43

VI.How a Water and Oil is generated; and of the Difference of the Water and Oil, and of

the vegetable Life and Growth                                                                                                                                 48

VII.

How Adam (while he was in Paradise) and also Lucifer were glorious Angels, and how they were

corrupted and spoiled through Imagination and Pride                                                                                             56

VIII.

Of the Sulphurean Sude, or Seething of the Earth; how the Vegetation proceeds from the Earth; and

also the Difference of Sex, and various Kinds of Creatures; an open Gate for the searching Philosopher             76

IX. Of the Signature, shewing how the inward [Ens] signs the outward                                                                   91

X. Of the inward and outward Cure of Man                                                                                                              108

XI.

Of the Process of Christ in his Suffering, Dying, and Rising again: Of the Wonder of the Sixth

Kingdom in the Mother of all Beings; how the Consummatum Est was finished, and how like wise,

by way of Similitude, it is accomplished and effected in the Grand Philosophic Work, or Universal Tincture           129

XII. Of the Seventh Form in the Kingdom of the Mother; shewing how the Seventh Kingdom, viz.

the Solar Kingdom is again opened and revived, set forth in the Similitude of Christ's Resurrection                        152

XIII. Of the Enmity [contrary Will or annoying Distemper] of the Spirit and Body, and of their

Cure and Restoration                                                                                                                                                  162

XIV. Of the Wheel of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt; of the Generation of Good and Evil: how the one is

changed into the other, and how the one manifests its Property in the other, and yet remains in the first

Creation in the Wonder of God to his own Manifestation and Glory                                                                            176

XV. Of the Will of the great Mystery in Good and Evil; how a good and evil Will originally arises,

and how the one introduces itself into the other                                                                                                          196

XVI. Of the Eternal Signature and Heavenly Joy; why all Things were brought into Evil and Good;

wherein the real Ground of Election and Reprobation may be rightly understood                                                        210

 

 

 

 

Of the Supersensual Life: Two Dialogues between a Scholar or Disciple and his Master—

     Dialogue I.                                                                                                                                                         227

     Dialogue II.                                                                                                                                                        245

 

The Way from Darkness to True Illumination: A Discourse between a Soul Hungry and

Thirsty and a Soul Enlightened                                                                                                                               277