Am back in town now from the Thanksgiving Holidays. Read some more from Jacob Boehme last night and it was slow going. Will have to do some more homework to understand and appreciate him. Not something that can be done in one sitting or even a few months. So I hit the internet for some help. Here is one of several things. The complete essay by Mark Jaqua is at this link.
Boehme believed that this world is but a shadow play and representation of what occurs in higher dimensions. Everything in this world is the "signature" or symbol of something which exists more concretely in the spiritual world. Since the spiritual world is contained within oneself, the external world and the body could be viewed as a projection from these interior contents. Boehme's insight on this was that:
The whole outward, visible world with all its being is a signature or figure of the inward spiritual world; whatever is internal, and however its operation is, so likewise it has its outward character...for whatever the natural light is spiritually, that the earth is in its coarseness.*
*Jacob Boehme: His Life and Thought, John Joseph Stoudt, Seabury Press, New York, New York, 1968, p. 243,248.
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