When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature thou art that which God then wats thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.
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I did not climb up into the Godhead, neither can so mean a man as I am do it but the Godhead climbed up in me, and revealed such to me out of his Love.Jacob Boehme
When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
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You are at enmity with yourself.
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What kind of spiritual triumph it was I can neither write nor speak it can only be compared with that where life is born in the midst of death, and is like the resurrection of the dead.
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In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.
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