AUTHOR: Peter Anthony TITLE: A fighting mind and spirit DATE: 9/17/2007 ----- BODY:

Man and woman contain heaven and hell and all the stars within themselves said Jacob Boehme in the seventeenth century. It's an example of the universal person that was so influential among the mystics and philosophers of the late eighteenth century." Our whole doctrine is nothing else but an instruction to show how man may create a kingdom of light within himself. He, in whom this spring of divine power flows, carries within himself the divine image and celestial substantiality. In him is Jesus born from the Virgin, and he will not die in eternity." There is a continual cycle of striving and becoming is activated by desire or will which is the flaming world. Its counter force is the abyss from which everything emerges. "Man must be at war with himself" Boehme wrote “If he wishes to be a heavenly citizen, fighting must be the watchword, not with tongue and sword, but with mind and spirit, and not to give over." Everything comes into being through conflict. Man and woman contain heaven and hell and all the stars within themselves said Jacob Boehme in the seventeenth century. It's an example of the universal person that was so influential among the mystics and philosophers of the late eighteenth century." Our whole doctrine is nothing else but an instruction to show how man may create a kingdom of light within himself. He, in whom this spring of divine power flows, carries within himself the divine image and celestial substantiality. In him is Jesus born from the Virgin, and he will not die in eternity." There is a continual cycle of striving and becoming is activated by desire or will which is the flaming world. Its counter force is the abyss from which everything emerges. "Man must be at war with himself" Boehme wrote “If he wishes to be a heavenly citizen, fighting must be the watchword, not with tongue and sword, but with mind and spirit, and not to give over." Everything comes into being through conflict.

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