JACOB BOEHME S
AURORA
OR
Day- Spring
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AURORA.
That is, the
Day-Spring.
Or Dawning of the Day in the Orient
Or Morning-Redness
in the Rising of the SUN.
That is
The Root or Mother of
Philosophy, Astrology & Theology from the true Ground.
Or a Description of Nature.
I. How All was, and came to be in the Beginning.
II. How Nature and the Elements are become Creaturely.
III. Also of the Two Qualities Evil and Good.
IV. From whence all things had their Original.
V. And how all stand and work at present.
VI. Also how all will be at the End of this Time.
VII. Also what is the Condition of the Kingdom of God, and of the Kingdom of Hell.
VIII. And how men work and act creaturely in Each of them.
All this set down diligently from a true Ground in the Knowledge of the Spirit, and in the impulse of God.
By
Jacob Behme
Teutonic Philosopher.
Being his FIRST BOOK.
Written in Gerlitz in Germany Anno Christi M. DC. X 1 1. on Tuesday after the Day of Pentecost or Whitsunday AEtatis Suae 37.
London, Printed by John Streater, for Giles Calvert, and are be sold at his Shop at the Black- spread-Eagle at the West-End of Pauls, 1656.
THE AURORA
Jacob Boehme
Translated by John Sparrow
Edited by C.J. Barker and D.S. Hehner
Front plate: etch from Wenceslaus Hollar.
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