{"product_id":"the-signature-of-all-things","title":"THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS","description":"Publisher Marketing:\u003cbr\u003e'It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrow. There is no sorrowing. For sorrowing is a thing swallowed up in death, and death and dying are the very life of the darkness.' Jacob Boehme's mystical pantheism and dialectical conception of God - in which good and evil are rooted in one and the same being - soon brought him into conflict with Lutheran orthodoxy. It is in 'The Signature of all Things' (Signatura Rerum) that the tenets of Boehme's theosophy are related in their greatest detail. Casting the reader into the vortex of his cosmological universe, Boehme's endeavour to express a new sense of the human, divine and natural realms attains its apotheosis in his conception of the Ungrund, the uncertainty that precedes the divine will's arousing itself to self-awareness. Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, this is a profound text, deeply influential upon devotional writers such as William Law, visionaries such as William Blake (informing The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) and, more recently, upon cultural production as diverse as the psychology of Carl Jung and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents:\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Reader by Clifford Bax\u003cbr\u003eI. How that all whatever is spoken of God without the Knowledge of the Signature is dumb and without Understanding, and that in the Mind of Man the Signature lies very exactly composed, according to the Being of all Beings\u003cbr\u003eII. Of the Opposition and Combat in the Essence of all Essences, whereby the Ground of the Sympathy and Antipathy in Nature may be seen, and also the Corruption and Cure of each Thing\u003cbr\u003eIII. Of the great Mystery of all Beings\u003cbr\u003eIV. Of the Birth of the four Elements and Stars, in the metalline and creaturely Property\u003cbr\u003eV. Of the Sulphurean Death, and how the dead Body is revived and replaced into its first Glory or Holiness\u003cbr\u003eVI. How a Water and Oil is generated; and of the Difference of the Water and Oil, and of the vegetable Life and Growth\u003cbr\u003eVII. How Adam (while he was in Paradise) and also Lucifer were glorious Angels, and how they were corrupted and spoiled through Imagination and Pride\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Of the Sulphurean Sude, or Seething of the Earth; how the Vegetation proceeds from the Earth; and also the Difference of Sex, and various Kinds of Creatures; an open Gate for the searching Philosopher\u003cbr\u003eIX. Of the Signature, shewing how the inward [Ens] signs the outward\u003cbr\u003eX. Of the inward and outward Cure of Man\u003cbr\u003eXI. Of the Process of Christ in his Suffering, Dying, and Rising again: Of the Wonder of the Sixth Kingdom in the Mother of all Beings; how the Consummatum Est was finished, and how likewise, by way of Similitude, it is accomplished and effected in the Grand Philosophic Work, or Universal Tincture\u003cbr\u003eXII. Of the Seventh Form in the Kingdom of the Mother; shewing how the Seventh Kingdom, viz. the Solar Kingdom is again opened and revived, set forth in the Similitude of Christ's Resurrection\u003cbr\u003eXIII. Of the Enmity [contrary Will or annoying Distemper] of the Spirit and Body, and of their Cure and Restoration\u003cbr\u003eXIV. Of the Wheel of Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt; of the Generation of Good and Evil: how the one is changed into the other, and how the one manifests its Property in the other, and yet remains in the first Creation in the Wonder of God to his own Manifestation and Glory\u003cbr\u003eXV. Of the Will of the great Mystery in Good and Evil; how a good and evil Will originally arises, and how the one introduces itself into the other\u003cbr\u003eXVI. Of the Eternal Signature and Heavenly Joy; why all Things were brought into Evil and Good; wherein the real Ground of Election and Reprobation may be rightly understood\u003cbr\u003eOf the Supersensual Life: Two Dialogues between a Scholar or Disciple and his Master -\u003cbr\u003eDialogue I.\u003cbr\u003eDialogue II.\u003cbr\u003eThe Way from Darkness to True Illumination: A Discourse between a Soul Hungry and Thirsty and a Soul Enlightened\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the great mystics of the Reformation era none are so difficult to understand as Jacob Boehme, the Cobbler of Gorlitz. Yet a few can offer so much to the reader who is prepared to take the trouble to understand his message. It is in the 'Signatura Rerum' that Boehme expounds his cosmology. Here, for example, can be found the great passages expounding the seven fundamental laws or energies or qualities, like the seven-fold colour of the rainbow. Here, he shows the relationship between the Underground, the eternal matrix that is the Mother of all births and man's will, the essential key to the beginning of the road to salvation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview Quotes:\u003cbr\u003e\"We had great expectations about J. Boheme's work and the discussions arisen around it: 'The first German philosopher', Hegel claimed.\"Dialogo Filosofico vol III, issue 14, September\/December\"Boehme's text was an important influence on modern accounts of the relation of God as Trinity to the cosmos, creation or 'nature', including those of Hegel, William Blake and Alfred North Whitehead. The reissue of the Elliston English translation as revised by William Law is therefore a welcome new book from Lutterworth Press.\"-Michael Northcott, The Expository Times, Vol. 127, No. 2, November 2015","brand":"BOEHME JACOB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52819541098777,"sku":"9780718893446","price":54.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/crossroad.com.au\/products\/the-signature-of-all-things","provider":"Crossroad Distributors","version":"1.0","type":"link"}