The Signature of All Things

Chapter XVI

Historical English translation published 1912, complete 16 chapters Jacob Boehme

Source notes

[234] Or comprehended, or conceived.

[235] Colours of distinction.

[236] Element

[237] Into the desired end or perfection of rest.

[238] Thus now

[239] In the outward principle in the expressed formed word

[240] Constellation

[241] Sphere

[242] Or in which the soul in the resigned will does again enkindle by its desire the true life in God’s will-spirit, viz. in the eternal light or liberty.

[243] Such a creature as it was at first, before it fell

[244] Source

[245] Equal essence

[246] Or departure

[247] Into a swoon, or impotency

[248] Or assimulate.

[249] Or vehemently, by force.

[250] Stirring, active.

[251] Enraged

[252] With their bestial lustful excess or disorder

[253] Seething

[254] Mortifying

[255] Seething

[256] Seething

[257] Or put his mercy into us

[258] Or what it is

[259] Mirror

[260] Or figures

[261] Or attraction

[262] The flowing, or proceeding forth

[263] Or fair complexion.

[264] Orb, or rotation.

[265] Or he

[266] Or noise.

[267] Or the first property

[268] Or the sting in the hardness, viz. the hardness itself.

[269] Understand the mother of Sulphur

[270] Prima materia.

[271] Or opposite to the dark desire, or dark impression, which is after the light’s desire

[272] Or without any ground

[273] Or reached.