The Signature of All Things

Chapter XVI

Historical English translation published 1912, complete 16 chapters Jacob Boehme

[194] Or were.

[195] Royal fort, fort rampant.

[196] Or kindred.

[197] Text, bodily.

[198] By degrees.

[199] Or signatures.

[200] Speculates, or beholds.

[201] Orb, rotation, or course.

[202] Or judgment-seat.

[203] Or lets the woman deceive him.

[204] Or priests who call themselves the ministers of Christ, but are not.

[205] It freely loses itself in the nothing.

[206] Manner, or condition.

[207] Was born, or begotten.

[208] In the heat of his trial.

[209] Text, hold.

[210] Are drowned.

[211] Transformed

[212] Taken, or received.

[213] In war for their proud unrighteous mammon, and in bitter strife about their outward worship of Christ.

[214] Altogether

[215] Understanding of folly.

[216] Or number three.

[217] Mirror, resemblance.

[218] Things to be compacted.

[219] Text, the sun.

[220] Or wild.

[221] Goes out.

[222] Into the sole power and virtue of Jupiter.

[223] Soulish creature.

[224] Breath, air, tune

[225] Mirror

[226] Or conversed

[227] Or virgin

[228] It makes itself, or it has its own faber in itself.

[229] Or as dead.

[230] Or leave

[231] Contrariety

[232] Contrary will, contrariety.

[233] Or signs and marks itself in the body.