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 3, which is a textual continuation, in spiral form, of the previous plate, and which exhibits the development of the Fourth Principle, in what Boehme calls 'The Fire World'. This Fourth Principle, or Property, is illustrated as being a result of the meeting of light, and the light Fire, with darkness, and the dark Fire, b
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 3, which is a textual continuation, in spiral form, of the previous plate, and which exhibits the development of the Fourth Principle, in what Boehme calls 'The Fire World'. This Fourth Principle, or Property, is illustrated as being a result of the meeting of light, and the light Fire, with darkness, and the dark Fire, by way of 'the terrible Crack', which is the lightning flash. [continuation sentence B] which Conjunction is the Generation of Fire: Through which this Lubet, having thus taken up Life and Motion, returns Home in the Light Triumphantly, bringÃ[This sentence is continued in the next plate - in our text at C] [continuation sentence X] here, in the fourth it ends; as being fulfilled or satisfied by what non further is produced, in, by, and through the Fire. The quotations are from William Law's An Illustration of the Deep Principles of Jacob Behmen, the Teutonic Theosopher. *** Local Caption *** Personalities;image;Mono;Illustration;Esoterica;paranormal
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