. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . en of-fered in the colder logic of Spinoza, is sometimes setVignette of Jacob Bohmes Book on the Threefold Life of Man, aside as atheistical. Illustrating the three principles which pervade Translating Bohmes life, consisting of the principles of Good and ^1^0^],^ ^^jj ^f jj^g uncouthEvil as unfolded in Time. dialect of material symbols (as to which one doubts sometimes whether he means them asconcrete instances, or as pictorial illustrations, or as a mere moiw-ria technica) we find that Bohme conceiv
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . en of-fered in the colder logic of Spinoza, is sometimes setVignette of Jacob Bohmes Book on the Threefold Life of Man, aside as atheistical. Illustrating the three principles which pervade Translating Bohmes life, consisting of the principles of Good and ^1^0^],^ ^^jj ^f jj^g uncouthEvil as unfolded in Time. dialect of material symbols (as to which one doubts sometimes whether he means them asconcrete instances, or as pictorial illustrations, or as a mere moiw-ria technica) we find that Bohme conceives of the correlation of twotriads of forces. Each triad consists of a thesis, an antithesis, anda synthesis; and the two are connected by an important link. Inthe hidden life of the Godhead, which is at once Nichts and Alles,exists the original triad, viz., Attraction, Diffusion, and their resul-tant, the Agony of the unmanifested Godhead. The transition ismade; by an act of will the divine Spirit comes to Light; and im-mediately the manifested life appears in the triad of Love, THE DAWN OK A NKW KRA. 153 V**-r^v- j*. ; sion, and their resultant Visible ^^ariety. As the action of contra-ries and their resultant are explained the relations of soul, body,and spirit ; of good, evil, and free will ; of the spheres of the an-gels, of Lucifer, and of this world. It is a more difficult problem to account on this philosophyfor the introduction of evil. . Evil is a direct outcome of theprimary principle of divine ma-nifestation—it is the wrath sid%of God. The problem of theidea of evil is very promi-nent in Jacob Bohmesphilosophy, and has founda monistic solution. With-out identifying good andevil, he arrives at the con-clusion that the existenceof evil is intrinsically ne-cessary and unavoidable;it is ultimately rooted inthe nature of God yearning for self-real-isation constitutes a suffer- ^ . . , ,_ „ ^ . , iTontispiece oi Jacob Bohme s book oning in God hi
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