An excerpt out of a book I'm reading, with a Wikipedia excerpt to start:
"Böhme's mentor was Abraham Behem who corresponded with Valentin Weigel. Böhme joined the "Conventicle of God's Real Servants" - a parochial study group organized by Martin Möller. Böhme had a number of mystical experiences throughout his youth, culminating in a vision in 1600 as one day he focused his attention onto the exquisite beauty of a beam of sunlight reflected in a pewter dish. He believed this vision revealed to him the spiritual structure of the world, as well as the relationship between God and man, and good and evil. At the time he chose not to speak of this experience openly, preferring instead to continue his work and raise a family." -Wiki.
"Some think it is unnecessary to know such Mysteries; indeed everyone's Nature is not fitted with a Capacity for the highest Depths. But that they may see how necessary his Writings are, let them read the Author's Preface to this Book, and they will find the necessity of knowing themselves, for else they can never know God, and then they cannot know the Way to God, though they read it never so plainly set down in the Scriptures. Besides, the Scriptures have been so veiled by doubtful Interpretations and Conclusions, that it must needs be highly necessary that such a Foundation be laid, as may assure us of the true Meaning of them. Moreover, the Grounds of his Writings will teach us the way to get such Understanding, that we shall know and feel, as well as. they to whom the Apostle John wrote, that we shall not need any Man to teach us, for we shall know and get that Unction, which teaches all Things, and leads into all Truth; though it is thought People cannot have that now, by such as know not what is in Man, for want of examining what is in themselves. But they may well perceive, that the Ground of what has ever been, lies in Man; for whatsoever any Man has been, or can be, must needs be in that Man that attains it, as the Ground of the most excellent Flower is in the Root from whence it grows. And then surely the Ground of all that was in Adam, or any that have been since, or shall be, is in anyone of us; for whatsoever Ground lies in God, the same lies in Christ, and in Him it lies in us, because He is in us all.
There is nothing but may be understood, if we do but consider how every Thing that ever was, or shall be known truly, is feelingly understood, by and in him that knows it as he ought. And he that thus knows God within him, cannot but know the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Angels, Men, and all other Creatures, even the Devils, and may well be able to speak the Word of God infallibly, as the holy Men that penned the Scriptures, and others have done. And he that can understand these Things in himself, may well
know who speaks by the Spirit of God, and who speaks his own Fancies and Delusions; as our Saviour said, He that doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven, shall know of my Words whether they be of God. But if that Will of his Father in Heaven had not been in them from the Beginning of their Life, in their Conception in their Mother's Womb, how could they to whom he said this, have done that Will, whereby they might know whence his Words proceeded? And according to this Rule may any discern the Words and Writings of all. Therefore such Things as these are necessary to be known.
T H E
A U T H O R' S
P R E F A C E
MAN can undertake nothing from the Beginning of his Youth, nor in the whole Course of his Time in this World, that is more profitable and necessary for him, than to learn to know himself; what he is, out of what, from whence, and for what he is created, and what his Office is."
14. In this high Consideration it is found that all is through and from God Himself, and that it is his own Substance, which is himself, and he has created it out of himself; and that the Evil belongs to the Forming and Mobility; and the Good to the Love; and the austere, severe, or contrary Will belongs to the Joy; so far as the Creature is in the Light of God, so far the wrathful and contrary Will makes the rising, eternal Joy; but if the light of God be extinguished, it makes the rising, painful Torment, and the Hellish Fire.
So you see.... Rudolf Steiner was correct. Between Lucifer and Ahriman there is a balance, and as long as you are centered, then you have freedom. But as soon as you tread too far to the right or the left, you are suddenly dealing with a very tough structure that may topple you if you lose your sense of awareness. Just the same, before there was knowledge of Ahriman, there was the knowledge of Lucifer. And Lucifer in himself, had the structure, half and half. Therefore, he knows what balance is, and what freedom is, and so far as I have noticed, he is not toppling over! He's still as brilliant as ever. And that is why he is compared to the planet Venus, for Venus, the planet of Love, is also known to be in the early morning and in the late evening...which is what Ramtha calls "The Twilight." Which is what those movie makers turned into a vampire movie, but let that not distract you from the main aspects of the story, which is, beauty.
Yes, there is a lot to learn. Please, don't get stuck in your arrogance thinking you know everything and that you can duct tape those mouths whom you feel have nothing of worth to say, and then abuse them.
18. But if it should happen, that these Writings should come to be read; and perhaps the Sodomish World, and the fatted Swine of it, may light upon them, and root in my Garden of Pleasure, who cannot know or understand any Thing, but to scorn, scandalise, reproach, and cavil in a proud haughty Way, and so know neither themselves, nor God, much less his Children; (Hahahahahaa hilarious... yea. One must have a pitchfork in their hand at all times.)
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