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AURORA
the
DAY-SPRING
Or
Dawning of the Day in the East
Or Morning-Redness
in the Rising of the SUN.
That is The Root or Mother of
Philosophy, Astrology & Theology
from
the true Ground.
Or a Description of Nature.
I. How All was, and came to be in the Beginning. II. How Nature and the
Elements are become Creaturely. III. Also of the Two Qualities Evil and
Good. IV. From whence all things had their Original. V. And how all stand
and work at present. VI. Also how all will be at the End of this Time. VII.
Also what is the Condition of the Kingdom of God, and of the Kingdom of
Hell. VIII. And how men work and act creaturely in Each of them.
All this set down diligently from a true Ground in the Knowledge of the
Spirit, and in the impulse of God.
BY JACOB BEHMEN, THE TEUTONIC THEOSOPHER
Transcribed by Wayne Kraus for
Jacob Boehme Online
[Marginalia
added by JB in 1620 appear in square brackets and italics.]
PREFACE FOR THE
AURORA To the Courteous Reader
1. COURTEOUS Reader, I compare the whole
Philosophy, Astrology,
and
Theology,
together with their mother, to a goodly tree which groweth in a
fair garden of pleasure.
2. Now the earth in which the tree standeth affords sap continually to the
tree, whereby the tree hath its living
quality:
But the tree in itself groweth
from the
sap
of the earth, becomes large, and spreadeth itself abroad with
its branches: And then, as the earth worketh with its power upon the tree,
to make it grow and increase, so the tree also worketh continually with its
branches,
with all its strength, that it might still bear good fruit abundantly.
3. But when the tree beareth few fruit, and those but small, shrivelled,
rotten,
and worm-eaten, the fault doth not lie in the will of the tree, as if it
desired
purposely
to bear evil fruit, because it is a goodly tree of good
quality.
But here lieth the fault: because there is often great cold, great heat,
and mildew, caterpillars and other worms happen to it; for the
quality
in
the deep, from the influence of the stars, spoileth it, and that maketh it bear
but few good fruit.
4. Now the tree is of this condition, that the bigger and older it is, the
sweeter fruit it beareth: In its younger years it beareth few fruit, which the
crude and wild nature of the ground or earth causeth, and the
superfluous
moisture in the tree: And though it beareth many fair blossoms, yet the
most of its apples fall off whilst they are growing; unless it standeth in a
very good soil or mould. Now this tree also hath a good sweet quality; but
there are
three
others, which are contrary to it, namely, the bitter, the sour,
and the astringent.
5. As the tree is, so will its fruit be, till the sun worketh on them and
maketh them sweet; so that they become of a pleasant taste, and its fruit
must also
hold out
in rain, wind and tempest.
6. But when the tree groweth old, that its branches wither and the sap
ascendeth
no more,
then below the stem or stock there grow many suckers;
at last from the root twigs grow also, and transfigure the old tree, shewing
that
it
also was once a green twig and young tree, and is now become old.
For nature, or the sap, struggleth so long till the stock groweth quite dry;
and then it is to be cut down and burnt in the fire.
7. Now observe what I have signified by this
similitude:
The garden of this
tree signifieth the
world;
the soil or mould signifieth
nature;
the stock of the
tree signifies the
stars;
by the
branches
are meant the
elements;
the fruit
which grow on this tree signify
men;
the sap in the tree denoteth the pure
Deity.
Now men were made out of nature, the
stars,
and
elements;
but
God
the Creator reigneth in all: even as the
sap
doth in the whole tree.
8. But there are two
qualities in nature,
even until the
Judgment
of God: The
one is pleasant, heavenly and holy; the other is fierce, wrathful, hellish and
thirsty.
9. Now the good one qualifieth and worketh continually with all industry
to bring forth
good
fruit, and the
Holy Ghost
reigneth therein, and affords
thereunto sap and life: the bad one springeth and driveth with all its
endeavour to bring forth
bad
fruit continually, to which the devil affordeth
sap and
hellish
flame. Now both are in the tree of nature, and
men
are made
out of
that
tree, and live in this world, in this garden,
between
both, in great
danger; suddenly the sun shineth on them; by and by, winds, rain, and
snow fall on them.
10. That is, if man elevateth his spirit into the
Deity,
then the Holy Ghost
moveth, springeth and qualifieth in him: But if he permit his spirit to sink
into the world, in lust towards
evil,
then the devil and hellish sap stir and
reign in him.
11. Even as the apple on the tree becometh corrupt, rotten and worm-eaten,
when frost, heat, and mildew fall on it, and easily falls off and perisheth: So
doth man also when he suffers the devil to rule in him with his
poison.
12. Now as in nature there are, spring up and reign, good and bad; even so
in man: But man is the
child of God,
whom God hath made out of the best
kernel of nature, to reign in the good, and to overcome the bad: Though
evil sticketh unto man, even as in
nature
the evil hangeth on the good, yet
he can overcome the evil if he elevateth his spirit in God; for then the
Holy
Ghost
stirs and moveth in him, and helps him to overcome.
13. As the good quality in nature is potent to overcome the evil, for the
good quality is and cometh from God, and the Holy Ghost is the
Ruler
therein, even so is the fierce wrathful quality powerful to overcome in a
malicious
wicked soul: For the devil is a potent
ruler
in the wrath or
fierceness, and is an eternal prince of the same.
14. But man, through the fall of Adam and Eve, hath cast himself into fierce
wrathfulness, so that the evil hangeth on him; otherwise his moving and
driving would be
only
in the good. But now his moving and driving are in
both.
And it is as St
Paul
saith,
Know ye not, that to whom you yield yourselves
servants in obedience, his servants ye are, to whom ye obey, either to sin unto
death, or to the obedience of God unto righteousness.
15. But because man hath an
impulse
or inclination to both good and evil, he
may lay hold on which he pleaseth; for he liveth in this world between
both,
and both
qualities,
the good and the bad, are in him; in whichsoever
man moveth, with that he is endued, either with a holy, or with a hellish
power. For Christ saith,
My Father will give the Holy Ghost to those that ask
Him.
[Luke xi. 13]
16. Besides, God commanded man to do good, and forbad him to do evil;
and now doth daily call and cry aloud, preach and exhort man unto good;
whereby we see well enough that God
willeth not evil,
but his will is, That
his kingdom
should
come,
and
his will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
But
now man is poisoned through sin, that the fierce wrathful quality, as well
as the good, reigneth in him, and he is now
half
dead, and in his gross
ignorance can no more know God his Creator, nor nature and its operation:

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