Thread by @djp1974

Magic is the mother of eternity, of the being of all beings; for it creates itself, and is understood in desire.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:1

It is in itself nothing but a will, and this will is the great mystery of all wonders and secrets, but brings itself by the imagination of the desireful hunger into being.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:2

It is the original state of Nature. Its desire makes an imagination (Einbildung), and imagination or figuration is only the will of desire. But desire makes in the will such a being as the will in itself is.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:3

True Magic is not a being, but the desiring spirit of the being. It is a matrix without substance, but manifests itself in the substantial being.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:4

Magic is spirit, and being is its body; and yet the two are but one, as body and soul is but one person.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:5

Magic is the greatest secrecy, for it is above Nature, and makes Nature after the form of its will. It is the mystery of the Ternary, viz. it is in desire the will striving towards the heart of God.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:6

It is the formative power in the eternal wisdom, as a desire in the Ternary, in which the eternal wonder of the Ternary desires to manifest itself in co-operation with Nature.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:7

It is the desire which introduces itself into the dark Nature, and through Nature into fire, and through fire, through death or fierceness into the light of Majesty.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:7

It is not Majesty, but the desire in Majesty. It is the desire of the divine power, not the power itself, but the hunger or craving in the power.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:8

It is not God's Almightiness, but the directrix in God's power and might. The heart of God is the power, and the Holy Spirit is the revelation of power.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:8

It is, however, the desire not only in the power, but also in the conducting spirit; for it has in it the Fiat.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:9

What the Will-spirit reveals in it, that it brings into a being by the sourness which is the Fiat; all according to the model of the will.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:9

According as the will makes a model in wisdom, so does desiring Magic receive it; for it has in its property imagination as a longing.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:9

Imagination is gentle and soft, and resembles water. But Desire is harsh and dry, like a hunger; it makes the soft hard, and is found in all things, for it is the greatest thing (Wesen) in the Deity.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:10

It leads the bottomless to foundation, and the nothing into something.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:10

In Magic are all forms of Being of all beings. It is a mother in all three worlds, and makes each thing after the model of that thing's will.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:11

It is not the understanding, but it is a creatrix according to the understanding, and lends itself to good or to evil.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:11

All that the will models in wisdom, if the will of the understanding also enter thereinto, that does Magic make into a being.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:12

It serves those that love God in God's Being; for it makes in the understanding divine substance, and takes this from imagination, as from the gentleness of the light.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:12

It is Magic that makes divine flesh; and the understanding is born of wisdom, for it is a disscerner of colours, powers and virtues.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:13

The understanding guides the right true spirit with a bridle; for the spirit is soaring, and the understanding is its fire.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:13

The spirit is not dissentient, that it should dissent from the understanding; but it is the will of the understanding. But the senses in the understanding are flying-out and dissentient.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:14

For the senses are the flash from the firespirit, and bring with them in the light the flames of Majesty; and in the darkness they bring with them the flash of terror, as a fierce flash of fire.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:15

The senses are such a subtle spirit that they enter into all beings, and take up all beings into themselves.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:16

But the understanding tries all in its own fire; it rejects the evil and retains the good. Then Magic, its mother, takes this and brings it into a being

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:16

Magic is the mother from which Nature comes, and the understanding is the mother coming from Nature. Magic leads into a fierce fire, and the understanding leads its own mother, Magic, out of the fierce fire into its own fire.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:17

For the understanding is the fire of power, and Magic the burning fire; and yet it is not to be understood as fire, but the power or mother to fire. Fire is called the principle, and Magic is called desire.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:18

By Magic is everything accomplished, both good and bad. Its own working is Nigromantia, but it is distributed into all the properties. In that which is good it is good, and in that which is evil it is evil.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:19

It is of use to the children for God's kingdom, and to the sorcerers for the devil's kingdom; for the understanding can make of it what it pleases.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:19

It is without understanding, and yet comprehends all; for it is the comprehension of all things.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:19

It is without understanding, and yet comprehends all; for it is the comprehension of all things.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:19

It is impossible to express its depth, for it is from eternity a ground and support of all things. It is a master of philosophy, and likewise a mother thereof.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:20

But philosophy leads Magic, its mother, as it pleases.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:21

As the divine power, viz. the Word (or heart of God), leads the severe Father into gentleness; so also does philosophy (or the understanding) lead its mother into a gentle divine quality.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:21

Magic is the book of all scholars. All that will learn must first learn Magic, be it a high or a lowly art. Even the peasant in the field must go to the magical school, if he would cultivate his field.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:22

Magic is the best theology, for in it true faith is both grounded and found. And he is a fool that reviles it; for he knows it not, and blasphemes against God and himself, and is more a juggler than a theologian of understanding.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:23

As one that fights before a mirror, and knows not what the quarrel is, for his fighting is superficial; so also the unjust theologian looks on Magic through a reflection, and understands nothing of the power.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:24

For it is godlike, and he is ungodlike, yea, devilish, according to the property of each principle. In sum: Magic is the activity in the Will-spirit.

- #JacobBöhme, ‘Six Mystical Points’ 5:24

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