SYMBOLS - OCCULT ART - ROSICRUCIANS - SPIRALS One of a series of influential occult engravings by William Law, in explication of the principles in the arcane thought of the Rosicrucian, Jacob Boehme, from The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher, Vol 1, 1764. Plate 1. This design symbolizes the eternal Oneness of God, 'Without all Nature and Creature', it is (in the words of Boehme) an 'Abyss, without Ground, Time and Place', 'The Trinity unmanifest'. The creative work proceeds from the triangle, which represents the Godhead. This creation works into the Out-World through Seven W
SYMBOLS - OCCULT ART - ROSICRUCIANS - SPIRALS One of a series of influential occult engravings by William Law, in explication of the principles in the arcane thought of the Rosicrucian, Jacob Boehme, from The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher, Vol 1, 1764. Plate 1. This design symbolizes the eternal Oneness of God, 'Without all Nature and Creature', it is (in the words of Boehme) an 'Abyss, without Ground, Time and Place', 'The Trinity unmanifest'. The creative work proceeds from the triangle, which represents the Godhead. This creation works into the Out-World through Seven Working Properties, or Principles. The central 'Nothingness' (so called, because it is unknown and unknowable to Mankind) is symbolized as a triangle, within which is the sacred tetragrammaton, or name of God in Hebrew. This triangle is inscribed in the beginning of a spiral, from which all creation proceeds (a theme developed in the sequence of plates in Law's designs). The text, starting from the innermost part of the spiral, sets out the first two of Boehme's 'working principles' or 'Properties', and reads: This Abysal Nothing will introduce itself into Something. Viz. into Nature: that is into Properties: and through Nature into Glory & Majesty. This non is done: [two sequences, one text relating to the fine circling, the other to the dark circling, as follows:] by a Soft, Meek or Tender Lubet, represented by this finer Circling Line; which Lubet goes along with (but secretly and incomprehensibly to) the Desire throughÃ[This sentence is continued in the next plat- in our text at A] by a Sharp, Harsh or Strong Desire, represented by this Gross and Dark Circling Line; Which Desire is turning out, together with the Lubet (yet no mixed norà [This sentence is continued in the next plate- in our text at Z] The quotations are from William Law's An Illustration of the Deep Principles of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic Theosopher. *** Local Caption *** General;image;Colo
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