WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:10.599 You see something's going to happen. What What's going to happen? 2 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:28.199 What help? Welcome to the occult rejects. In this episode, 3 00:00:28.239 --> 00:00:31.160 we journey into the blazing center of mystic vision and 4 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:36.719 divine contradiction, the life and mind of Jacob Bowman, shoemaker 5 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:40.000 by trade. Jacob became one of the most profound Christian 6 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:43.159 mystics in our chemical visionaries of the early modern era. 7 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:47.000 Born in fifteen seventy five in Gorlitz, Germany, he would 8 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:50.439 go on to receive divine revelations that defied both church 9 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:55.560 and reason, triggering theological firestorms and spiritual awakenings that echo 10 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:59.039 to this day. This episode, we're going to peel back 11 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:03.280 the layers of his most important works, Aurora, whereas Divine 12 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:07.480 Spark first ignited the Three Principles, which reveal the cosmological 13 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.200 roots of good and evil in Divine will, and the 14 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:14.079 seven Signatures and metaphysical map linking all things in nature 15 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:18.159 to the divine archetypes. Will also confront the soul through 16 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.719 his Forty Questions, a haunting metaphysical interrogation of what we 17 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:25.680 truly are, and will dive into the depths of Mysteria magnum. 18 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.799 His grand commentary on Genesis that reveals an occult blueprint 19 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.079 hidden beneath creation itself. Whether you see him as a prophet, 20 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.319 heretic or philosopher, Jacob remains a voice from the edge 21 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:41.040 of the divine abyss, calling us to awaken to the 22 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:45.359 fire within. So here we go. We're gonna get right 23 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:50.719 into it. In the year sixteen hundred, in a small 24 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:54.719 German town, nestled on the edge of Saxony, a young 25 00:01:54.719 --> 00:02:00.000 shoemaker sat by a window polishing a dish of pewter. Outside, 26 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:05.000 sunlight poured across the landscape like molten gold, and then 27 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:10.960 something happened, something he would never forget. He later described 28 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.479 it as a moment of absolute clarity, as though the 29 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.159 veil of the world had been torn open and he 30 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:23.960 could see into the very heart of creation, trees, stones, water, light, 31 00:02:24.840 --> 00:02:29.680 all radiated with divine fire. It was the beginning of 32 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:33.439 transformation and the birth of one of the strangest and 33 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:38.120 most profound mystics Europe has ever known. This is the 34 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:42.879 occult life of Jacob Bone, a journey into visions, heresy, 35 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:48.919 divine darkness, and the hidden architecture of the cosmos. Jacob 36 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:52.280 Bone was born on April twenty fourth, fifteen seventy five, 37 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:57.159 in alt Seidenberg, a village and the electorate of Saxony. 38 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.599 He was the fourth of five children born to Jacob 39 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:05.639 and Ursulable, who were poor but devout Lutheran peasants. No 40 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:10.319 education in theology, no great library of ancient texts, just 41 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:13.919 a modest apprenticeship in shoemaking. At least that's how the 42 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:19.120 story goes. Bohm's formal education was limited, reflecting his family's 43 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:23.360 socioeconomic status. He attended a local village school, where he 44 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:27.000 learned basic reading and writing skills that were not common 45 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:32.439 amongst peasants at the time. His education were primarily religious, 46 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:35.360 centered on the Bible, which would later become the foundation 47 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:40.080 of his mystical theology. Despite his lack of advanced schooling, 48 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:45.479 Boum's intellectual curiosity and spiritual depth far surpassed the expectations 49 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:50.319 of his social class. After his basic schooling, Baum was 50 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.599 apprenticed to a shoemaker in Gorlitz around fifteen ninety four. 51 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:58.360 He completed his apprenticeship and became a master shoemaker, eventually 52 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:03.319 opening his own shop. In fifteen ninety nine. He married 53 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:07.879 Katharina Kunschmann, the daughter of a local butcher, and together 54 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:12.680 they had four sons. Bauhm's life as a shoemaker provided 55 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:16.720 him with his stable livelihood, but his true calling emerged 56 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:21.399 through his spiritual and philosophical pursuits spurred by the mystical 57 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:26.240 experiences beginning in sixteen hundred, and then came the moment 58 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:31.680 that would change everything. Jacob is at work polishing pewter. 59 00:04:33.079 --> 00:04:37.120 The sunlight strikes the dish, and suddenly he is overtaken. 60 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:43.360 A mystical experience floods his mind. For Boehm, this wasn't 61 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.959 just a vision. It was a revelation, a glimpse of 62 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.160 the divine structure beneath reality. He would later describe it 63 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:55.519 as seeing into the essence of essences. But visions don't 64 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:58.360 pay rent, at least that back then it didn't. So 65 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:03.079 returned to his shoemaking, quietly, secretly writing down fragments of 66 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.959 what he'd seen. Over the next decade, he began composing 67 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.040 a book, one that would remain hidden until it was 68 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:14.800 discovered by accident, a work he never meant to publish, 69 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:21.560 Aurora or The Morning Redness. The book was a strange, fiery, 70 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:27.879 chaotic thing, full of alchemical imagery, biblical references, and cosmic metaphors. 71 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.120 It spoke of a divine fire that moved through all things, 72 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.720 of the struggle between light and darkness within the soul, 73 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:41.279 and of God as both wrath and love. But Gurlitz 74 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:44.759 was not ready for this kind of theology, especially not 75 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:50.000 from a shoemaker. When the towns Lutheran pastor, Gregorious Rector, 76 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:54.519 got a hold of Arora, he was outraged. Bohm was 77 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:57.959 accused of heresy. In order to stop writing or face management, 78 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:04.759 Jacob agreed reluctantly. For years, he said nothing outwardly obedient, 79 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:09.639 but inwardly the fire still burned, and eventually it couldn't 80 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:13.879 be contained. He began writing again, not for the world 81 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:18.439 but for God. His ideas grew stranger, more alchemical, and 82 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:23.920 more apocalyptic. For years after the first blinding vision, Jacob 83 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:28.680 Boone kept silent. He worked, he prayed, he pondered, but 84 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:33.720 his inner world that was on fire. Sometime around sixteen twelve, 85 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:37.959 the fire spilled over. He began writing that sermons, not dogma, 86 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:42.319 but revelation, a kind of sacred science. His first major work, 87 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:47.480 Aurora of the Morning, Redness in the Rising Sun and 88 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.079 a quote from that book, For the wild nature was 89 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:55.839 not yet overcome, and light and darkness wrestled so long 90 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.480 the one with the other, till the sun arose, and 91 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:04.079 with its force this tree so that it did bear 92 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:08.399 a pleasant, sweet fruit. That is, till there came the 93 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:11.560 Prince of Light out of the heart of God and 94 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:16.439 became man in nature, and wrestled in his human body 95 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.000 and in the power of the divine light, and in 96 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:26.600 the wild nature. Aurora Chapter nineteen. Aurora is chaos and beauty, 97 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:33.240 Light and thunder, part spiritual journal, part metaphysical explosion. Bom 98 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:36.759 doesn't describe God as a simple, loving creator, know in 99 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:41.959 his vision, God is dynamic, unfolding process, a mystery of polarities. 100 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.920 At the heart of Bohm's vision is tension. Creation is 101 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:50.240 not clean, it's not easy. It begins with a rupture. 102 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.199 As we begin to start to take a look at 103 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:57.279 this book. In the preface paragraph one, you come across 104 00:07:57.399 --> 00:08:06.199 Jacob's cosmic tree allegory. Courteous reader, I compare the whole philosophy, astrology, 105 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:10.759 and theology, together with their mother, to a goodly tree 106 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.079 which grows in a fair garden of pleasure. Bohm sets 107 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:18.560 up the master metaphor for the book. Sap equals the 108 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:24.759 hidden godhead, trunk equals the stars, branch equals the four elements, 109 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:30.639 fruit equals humanity. The image lets him talk about nature, science, 110 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:37.000 and salvation as one living organism whose root is the divine. 111 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:42.759 Paragraph eight, he touches on the primemortal split. But there 112 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:46.200 are two qualities in nature, even until the judgment of God. 113 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.159 The one is pleasant, heavenly, and holy. The other is fierce, wrathful, hellish, 114 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:56.519 and thirsty. Here Bohm introduces his famous doctrine of the 115 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:01.039 two qualitating the mingled principles of love, light, and wrath, fire, 116 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:05.639 whose tension drives every process in the universe and inside 117 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:10.120 the human soul. This book is divided into three main parts. 118 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:13.799 It explores the divine Trinity, the creation of the world, 119 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:17.840 and the spiritual transformation of the individual. The first part 120 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:21.519 focuses on God as the eternal, infinite source of all existence, 121 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.240 emphasizing the trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as a 122 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:32.600 dynamic unity. He describes God as encompassing all qualities, light, love, wrath, 123 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:36.840 and fire in a harmonious balance. He introduces the concept 124 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:40.799 of the seven qualities or spirits, which correspond to planetary 125 00:09:40.840 --> 00:09:44.519 and elemental forces, forming the basis of both divine and 126 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:52.399 natural existence. These qualities astringent, sweet, bitter, heat, love, sound, 127 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:57.039 and corpus of the building blocks of creation, reflecting Divine's 128 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:03.879 will manifestation. Bomes also addresses the origin of evil, not 129 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.600 as an independent force, but as a distortion of divine 130 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:11.200 qualities when separated from God's unity. He uses the fall 131 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:15.519 of Lucifer as an example, describing how Lucifer's desire to 132 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:20.919 exalt himself disrupted the divine order, introducing discord into creation. 133 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:24.759 This sets the stage for the cosmic struggle between light 134 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:29.279 and darkness. The second part delves into the creation of 135 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:32.840 the world, portraying it as an act of divine love. 136 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:37.440 He describes how God's will through the seven qualities, generates 137 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.799 the elements in nature, forming a genetic matrix of existence. 138 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:45.559 He sees the universe as a reflection of divine order, 139 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.600 where every element, from stars to plants, contain a spark 140 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:54.360 of God's essence. Humanity, created in God's image is central 141 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:58.799 to the process tasked with participating in divine love to 142 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:04.440 reconcile creation with God. He emphasizes the dual nature of 143 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:10.039 humanity existing in both the outward material and inward spiritual worlds. 144 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.960 This duality creates a tension that humans must navigate to 145 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:18.879 achieve spiritual awakening. He warns against being consumed by material 146 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:23.519 desires which align with the darkness of Lucifer's fall, and 147 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:26.799 advocates for a return to the light through faith and 148 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:32.639 self awareness, and in quotes for according to the outward man, 149 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:36.399 we are in this world, and according to the inward man, 150 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:40.919 we are the inward world. Since then we are generated 151 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:44.320 out of both worlds. We speak in two languages, and 152 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:50.240 we must be understood also by two languages. The final part, 153 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:55.519 though incomplete, focuses on the individual's spiritual journey toward enlightenment. 154 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:59.679 He stresses the importance of self knowledge and the surrender 155 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:03.279 of ease go to achieve unity with God. He also 156 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:06.639 describes this process as a rebirth, where the soul, through 157 00:12:06.639 --> 00:12:12.519 faith and contemplation, overcomes its animal corrupted nature and aligns 158 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:17.840 with the divine will. This transformation is not merely personal, 159 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:24.399 but cosmic, contributing to the reconciliation of all creation with God. 160 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:28.279 For Jacob, the fall of man isn't just an event 161 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:34.399 in history, It's an ongoing spiritual condition. Humanity continuously experiences 162 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:38.720 separation and disunity, yet possesses the potential for redemption through 163 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:46.759 inner spiritual awakening and transformation. From Aurar, Chapter twelve, section 164 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:53.000 thirty six, man Hath lost his true image, but aliath 165 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:57.039 hidden within him, and he may find it again if 166 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:03.519 he turn and seek diligently within. Central to Aurora is 167 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:06.080 the idea that true knowledge of God can only be 168 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:11.200 found through personal internal revelation, not merely through external teachings 169 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:16.480 or dogma. Jacob emphasizes spiritual rebirth and inward awakening as 170 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:21.159 the path to genuine knowledge of divine truths, and from 171 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:26.000 chapter ten, section forty three, the Kingdom of Heaven is 172 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.200 not far off, but it is near us, yeah within us, 173 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:34.039 and it breaks forth and appears in the awakened soul. 174 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:40.639 Jacob's mysticism is practical, urging readers to praise, study, and 175 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:45.360 perform good deeds to transcend the tenevorous world of material existence. 176 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:51.720 He warns against dougmatic religion, advocating for a direct experiential 177 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:57.480 relationship with God and in quotes it is the greatest 178 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:00.679 folly that is in Babbel for people to stry about 179 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:05.679 religion so that they contend vehemently about opinions of their 180 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:11.039 own forging. In chapter one, he touches on how light 181 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:17.679 becomes dynamic. In quotes, heat wrestleth and fighteth together in 182 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:22.440 its twofold source as one thing. It is also one thing, 183 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:27.320 but it hath a double source. The light subsisteth in 184 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:31.960 God without heat, but it doth not subsist so in nature. 185 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.559 In his Elemental Physics, Jacob says fire and heat gives motion, 186 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:42.279 while light gives life. Their wrestling is what turns inert 187 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:47.799 divinity into living, perceivable nature. And in this book he 188 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:50.519 also talks about the mixture at the heart of creation. 189 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:55.679 This is the first chapter in quotes, in this consideration 190 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:59.279 are found two qualities, a good one and an evil one, 191 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.600 which are in each other as one thing in this world. 192 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.360 And no creature in the flesh in the natural life 193 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:13.240 can subsist unless it has two qualities. Having named the qualities, 194 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.720 Jacob insists that in the temporal world they are never 195 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:23.279 fully separated. Their interpenetration explains why created beings experience both 196 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:28.840 the light and torment. In Aurora, he also writes of 197 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:34.279 the ungrin, the groundless abyss, they state before creation, before 198 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:39.279 God as we know him. From this crownless, the divine 199 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:44.240 will emerges, raw, blind and longing to know itself. And 200 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:49.039 from that will light and darkness are born, pain and bliss, 201 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:54.919 wrath and love. Creation, for Jacob is not a peaceful act. 202 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:00.519 It is a cosmic alchemy, a divine war. To make 203 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.440 sense of this divine drama, Jacob develops a symbolic framework, 204 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:09.200 which he calls the seven qualities of nature and in quotes. 205 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:13.159 The first quality is a stringent or cold and sharp, 206 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:18.440 contracting and attracting. The second is sweet, soft and thin, 207 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:23.840 a friendly pleasure. The third is bitter, trembling and piercing, 208 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:28.519 a stinging or pricking. The fourth is the heat, which 209 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:32.480 maketh all soft and pliable, and is the beginning of life. 210 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.080 The fifth is the love or the light, wherein the 211 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:41.679 deity appeareth. The sixth is the sound of the word, 212 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:46.879 wherein all qualities are expressed. The seven is the substance 213 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:53.600 or the body, wherein all are contained. Aurora, chapter eight. 214 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:58.759 This is one of Boehm's clearest summaries of the seven qualities. 215 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:02.960 Outlining this sequence and rolls, Each quality builds on the 216 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.880 previous one, culminating in the seventh, which represents the complete 217 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:13.519 manifestation of creation, containing all prior qualities. Each one represents 218 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:17.920 a force in the unfolding of the vine being. The 219 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.680 first quality, a stringency, is a sharp, contracting force that 220 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:28.039 draws together and hardens, forming the foundation of structure and substance. 221 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:33.519 It is cold, severe, and represents the initial no or 222 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:38.920 resistance in the divine process. This quality initiates creation by 223 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:45.640 providing boundaries and form, akin to spiritual compression. The first 224 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:50.359 quality is a stringent or cold and sharp, contracting and attracting. 225 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.839 It is the beginning of all essence, drawing together the 226 00:17:53.880 --> 00:18:00.400 eternal being into a corporeal form. Aurora chapter eight. Tacob 227 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:04.599 likens this to the divine will's initial act of self limitation, 228 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:13.039 creating the potential for form and differentiation. The second quality, sweetness, 229 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:17.960 is a gentle, expansive force, softening the harshness of a stringency. 230 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.319 It is warm, fluid, and represents a yielding or merciful aspect, 231 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:31.279 often associated with a sweet fountain water. Sweetness balances contraction 232 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:39.240 with expansion, introducing pliability and life giving potential. The sweet 233 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:43.359 spring or fountain water is generated by the driving about 234 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:47.000 or rising up of the spirits. For when the light 235 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:50.559 is generated in the heat, then the enstringing quality is 236 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:55.559 amazed or terrified for great joy, and this is a 237 00:18:55.599 --> 00:19:03.839 submitting or lying down or growing thin chapter eleven. This 238 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:08.400 quality reflects the divine response to the initial harshness, introducing 239 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:14.640 a loving, softening dynamic that prepares for future manifestation. The 240 00:19:14.680 --> 00:19:20.079 third quality, bitterness, is a restless, stinging or trembling force 241 00:19:20.920 --> 00:19:25.599 characterized by agitation and motion. It arises from the tension 242 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:31.440 between its stringency and sweetness, creating a dynamic friction. Bitterness 243 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:36.680 introduces movement and struggle, driving the process forward and sparking 244 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:41.920 the potential for life. In the third quality, which is bitterness, 245 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:45.680 the spirits become moving and driving, and there is a 246 00:19:45.720 --> 00:19:51.359 stinging and trembling. It is a piercing and anguishing quality Aurora, 247 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:57.119 chapter twelve. Jacob sees bitterness as the source of motion 248 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:01.160 and conflict, essential for the emergence of life, but also 249 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:06.720 linked to suffering and turmoil. The fourth quality is heat, 250 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:12.200 which ignites and activates the previous qualities, marking the beginning 251 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:15.920 of life and light transforms the raw energy of bitterness 252 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:21.400 into a creative force. Heat is the turning point kindling, 253 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:27.119 the divine spark that leads to illumination and vitality. The 254 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:31.759 fourth quality is the heat, which maketh all soft and pliable, 255 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:36.000 and is the beginning of life. For in the heat 256 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:42.200 the light is kindled and the life beginneth Aurora, chapter twelve. 257 00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:48.359 Heat represents the divine fire that purifies and enlivens, preparing 258 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:52.160 the way for the emergence of love and light. The 259 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:56.480 fifth quality is love, manifested as the vine, light, clarity, 260 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.480 and joy. It is the revelation of God's essence where 261 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:07.000 the deity becomes fully perceptible. Love. Light is the spiritual pinnacle, 262 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.839 embodying divine grace and the presence of God, transforming the 263 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:18.039 process into one of harmony. The fifth is the love 264 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.880 or the light wherein the deity appeareth. It is the 265 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.680 holy clarity, the kingdom of joy, where the eternal love 266 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:34.839 riseth up Aurora, chapter eight. Jacob associates this quality with Christ, 267 00:21:35.119 --> 00:21:39.400 the Prince of Light, who embodies divine love and illuminates creation. 268 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:45.599 This six quality is sound, or the divine word, whether 269 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:50.799 equalities are expressed and articulated. It represents the communicative and 270 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:56.079 creative power of God. Sound gives voice to the divine process, 271 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:01.079 making the qualities manifest and audible to the logos. In 272 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:06.440 Christian theology, the sixth is the sound of the word, 273 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:10.160 wherein all qualities are expressed. It is the voice of 274 00:22:10.160 --> 00:22:17.480 the spirits, whereby the eternal will become manifest Aurora, chapter eight. 275 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:23.119 This quality reflects the divine act of self expression, where 276 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:27.440 the inequalities become outwardly perceivable, as in creation's harmony for 277 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:33.079 the human soul's praise. The seventh quality is the culmination 278 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:37.039 of the process, where all equalities coalesce into a complete, 279 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:41.160 tangible form or substance. It is the body of creation, 280 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:48.519 containing all prior qualities. The corpus represents the fully manifested creation, 281 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:53.240 both divine and material, embodying the unity of the process. 282 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:58.880 The seventh is the substance of the body, wherein all 283 00:22:58.920 --> 00:23:03.319 are contained. It is the house of qualities, the essence 284 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.160 of the eternal being, wherein the deity and the creature 285 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:14.480 subsist Aurora, chapter eight. Jacob sees this as the final 286 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:18.680 stage where the divine process becomes a stable, unified reality, 287 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:22.000 such as the physical world or the glorified human soul. 288 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:26.880 Before we move on, here are two more quotes from Aurora. 289 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:33.000 The wheel and its incorporated structure and frame signifieth the 290 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.200 estringent quality, which attracteth or draweth together the whole corporal 291 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:41.119 being of the deity, and holdeth it and drieth it 292 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:46.880 so that it subsisteth. The sweet spring or fountain water 293 00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:50.000 is generated by the driving about or rising up of 294 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:53.720 the spirits. For when the light is generated in the heat, 295 00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:57.400 then the estringent quality is amazed or terrified for great joy. 296 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:01.640 And this is a submitting or line down or growth within, 297 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:06.160 and the hard corporal being sinketh down like a meekness 298 00:24:06.200 --> 00:24:12.680 of mildness Aurora, chapter eleven. This quote describes the first 299 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:18.359 two qualities, destrigency and sweetness, and their interaction with heat 300 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:21.960 and light. Jacob uses the metaphor of a wheel to 301 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:26.160 show the cyclical, interdependent nature of these qualities in forming 302 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:31.759 the divine material worlds, and the last one. In the 303 00:24:31.759 --> 00:24:35.720 third quality, which is the bitterness, the spirits become moving 304 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:38.839 and driving, and there is a stinging and trembling. And 305 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:41.799 in the fourth quality, which is the heat, the light 306 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:45.640 is kindled, and the love riseth up, and the life 307 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:52.559 beginneth in the sweet fountain water Aurora chapter twelve. Here 308 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:56.039 Jacob focuses on the bitterness and heat qualities which lead 309 00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:59.960 to the emergence of light. This illustrates the dynamic progress 310 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:05.119 toward divine life and illumination. But these aren't just metaphors 311 00:25:05.599 --> 00:25:09.640 in Jacob's mind. They are ontological engines, forces that shaped 312 00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:13.319 not just God's being but your soul, the planets, the stones, 313 00:25:13.559 --> 00:25:16.799 and the grass under your feet. And then there are 314 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:23.240 the three Principles, the Divine Trinity. As Jacob's sort, there 315 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:26.920 are the three principles in one only essence, and yet 316 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:31.160 there is but one God and one only essence. The 317 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.559 three principles are the dark world the light world. In 318 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:39.240 this outward visible world, the dark world is the eternal fire, 319 00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:43.359 the wrath of God. The light world is the eternal love, 320 00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:47.680 the kingdom of joy. And this outward world is generated 321 00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:51.599 out of both as a mixed thing, having in it 322 00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:58.920 the qualities of both Aurora, chapter sixteen. This quote encapsulates 323 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.759 Jacob's doctrine of the three Principles, showing how the divine 324 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.880 Essence contains the dark world wrathful and contracting fire, the 325 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:10.720 light world, loving and expanse of grace, and the visible 326 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:15.559 world material reality. A blend of the two. The unity 327 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:21.480 of these principles reflects God's singular essence. The dark world, 328 00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:26.359 the fire, the hunger, the wrath, the light world, the joy, 329 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:31.559 the revelation, the love, the outer world, nature itself, the 330 00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:36.400 realm of mixture and trial. Jacob believed we lived in 331 00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:40.119 the crucible where all three meet. But how do you 332 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:43.480 speak of such things? How do you put divine paradox 333 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:48.519 into human language? Jacob often wrote entangled, almost feverish prose, 334 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:52.759 full of invented words, al chemical references, and violent oppositions. 335 00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:57.799 Critics call the jebberish. Others heard truth in the madness. 336 00:26:58.559 --> 00:27:02.440 Though Aurora was never formally published in his lifetime, copies 337 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:09.200 circulated quietly among friends, seekers, even nobles. This book is 338 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:14.359 a visionary work that merges theology, philosophy, and mysticism to 339 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:18.200 explore the divine order, human purpose, and the path to 340 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:24.839 spiritual enlightenment. Through its three parts, Jacob articulates a cosmology 341 00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:30.480 where God's qualities permeate creation, humanity, navigates a dual existence, 342 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:35.960 and spiritual readbirth reconciles all things with the divine. The 343 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:41.440 books quotes reveal Jacob's poetic and profound style, urging readers 344 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:46.319 to seek God within themselves and the world. Despite its 345 00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:51.319 incomplete state and historical controversy, Aurora remains a cornerstone of 346 00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:58.480 Western mystical thought, offering timeless insights into the nature of existence. Now, 347 00:27:58.480 --> 00:28:01.240 while some whispered that Jacob had uncovered this secret of 348 00:28:01.240 --> 00:28:03.960 a creation, others feared he had opened the door that 349 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:07.799 should have remained shut. Jacob claimed to have received his 350 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:12.240 knowledge from divine vision. He had no formal education, no Latin, 351 00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:16.079 no university, just the and of fire and the will 352 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:19.920 to speak it. But here's the thing, he wasn't alone. 353 00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:25.359 Across Europe, a secret current was rising, a revival of 354 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:31.799 ancient wisdom, alchemy, hermeticism, Christian Kabbalah, occult ideas hidden beneath 355 00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:36.839 the surface of religion, philosophy, and even science. And he 356 00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:39.079 was right at the heart of it, whether he knew 357 00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:42.519 it or not. Now, going back a little before we 358 00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:45.319 get into more of Jacob's writings, let's touch on some 359 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:49.319 of Jacob's spiritual influences for a moment. Growing up, he 360 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:53.519 was raised Lutheran and did accept many key doctrines, salvations 361 00:28:53.559 --> 00:28:58.880 through Christ, the centrality of scripture, the hiddenness of God, 362 00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:02.519 yet he divert word sharply in mystical and esoteric directions, 363 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:07.480 which caused tension with church authorities. The Bible, especially the 364 00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.839 Book of Genesis, was a huge influence. Bohme's entire metaphysics 365 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.319 is grounded in a mystical reading of Genesis, the same 366 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.160 with the creation out of the Abyss and the fall 367 00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:21.319 as a cosmic event, not just moral. And he saw 368 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:24.599 the serpent, the Tree of life, and divine wrath as 369 00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:28.960 spiritual realities. He was also influenced by new ideas and 370 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:31.960 thoughts of the time. During the late fifteen hundreds and 371 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.079 early sixteen hundreds, it was a strange place. Europe was 372 00:29:35.119 --> 00:29:40.440 caught between worlds, between Reformation and counter Reformation, science and superstition, 373 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:45.200 apocalypse and rebirth, and beneath it all another world. The 374 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:50.440 occult revival. Books like the Corpus Hamticum, rediscovered in the Renaissance, 375 00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:53.319 spoke of a hidden divine wisdom, one that linked the 376 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:58.519 human soul to the stars as above so below, that 377 00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:02.359 which is in heaven is reflec upon earth. This was 378 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:07.079 the language of hermeticism, a sacred science blending astrology, alchemy, 379 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:12.000 and mystical philosophy. It also introduced the idea of the 380 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:16.640 divine mind shaping the cosmos, unity of all things through 381 00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:21.119 divine energy. And it wasn't just fringe magic. Even thinkers 382 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:26.599 like Giordano Bruno, Marcello Ficino, Paracelsus were steeped in these ideas. 383 00:30:27.559 --> 00:30:31.640 They believed in a universe alive with meaning symbols in 384 00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:36.240 divine patterns, and so did Jacob. One of the strongest 385 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:41.359 influences on Jacob, whether directly or through cultural osmosis, was Paracelsus, 386 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.960 the wandering physician and philosopher who declared the universe is 387 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:49.480 a living organism, the human being is a microcosm of 388 00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:56.519 the macrocosm. Disease and salvation alike come from hidden spiritual forces. Now, 389 00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:01.319 even though Jacob didn't practice laboratory alchemy, used its symbolic language. 390 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:06.359 Transformation of base metals, transformation of the soul fire is 391 00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:10.480 both destructive and regenerative central to his cosmology, and the 392 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:15.119 seven qualities are properties of nature that are folded divine. Also, 393 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:20.119 Jacob drew from the Kabbalah and Neoplatonism, which emphasized interconnectedness 394 00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:24.480 of the spiritual and material worlds. He was also influenced 395 00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:30.000 by Christian mysticism. The Theologia Germanica, an anonymous fourteenth century 396 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:35.319 mystical texts highly influential in German Lutheran spirituality. It emphasized 397 00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:37.599 the death of the ego and the rebirth of God 398 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:42.519 within the soul, a central theme for Jacob. The Rhineland 399 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:46.400 mystics Johannes Toller and Friends of God to what about 400 00:31:46.440 --> 00:31:49.720 inner surrender to the divine and detachment from the world. 401 00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:54.240