Dialogues on the Supersensual Life
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Selection or partial work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~30,700 words · 146 passages
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- APAJacob Boehme. (n.d.). Dialogues on the Supersensual Life. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/jacob-boehme/dialogues-on-the-supersensual-life
- MLAJacob Boehme. Dialogues on the Supersensual Life. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/jacob-boehme/dialogues-on-the-supersensual-life.
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What it is about
Dialogues on the Supersensual Life.
Context and history
The same Böhme at his shortest and clearest: a master and a disciple discuss how one gets out of one's own will. It was the most widely circulated of his texts in English in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and by that route reached William Law, the Quakers and, later, Blake.
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But if thou shalt have put off the bestial nature, and left the imaginary life, and quitted the low-imaged condition of it, then art thou come into the super-imaginariness and into the intellectual life, which is a state of living above images, figures and shadows. And so thou rulest over all creatures, being re-united with thy Original, in that very ground or source, out of which they were and are created, and thenceforth nothing on earth can hurt thee. For thou art like All Things, and nothing is unlike thee. DISCIPLE O loving Master, pray teach me how I may come the shortest way to be like unto _All Things_. MASTER
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