Quotes:
The whole outward visible world with
all its being is a signature, or figure of the inward spiritual
world; whatever is internally, and however its operation is, so
likewise it has its character externally; like as the spirit of each
creature sets forth and manifests the internal form of its birth by
its body, so does the Eternal Being also
....
So likewise God dwells in all things, and the thing knows nothing of God; he likewise is not manifest to the thing, and yet it receives power from him, but it receives the power according to its property from him, either from his love, or from his wrath; and from which it receives, so it has its signature[156] externally; and the good is also in it, but as it were wholly shut up [or hidden] to the iniquity [or evil]; an example of which you have in bushes, and other thorny and pricking briars, out of which notwithstanding a fair well-smelling blossom grows; and there lie two properties therein, viz. a pleasant and unpleasant; which overcomes, that shapes [forms or marks] the fruit.
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The Being of all beings is but one only Being, but in its generation it separates itself into two principles, viz. into light and darkness, into joy and sorrow, into evil and good, into love and anger, into fire and light, and out of these two eternal beginnings (or principles) into the third beginning, viz. into the creation, to its own love-play and melody, according to the property of both eternal desires.
....
So likewise God dwells in all things, and the thing knows nothing of God; he likewise is not manifest to the thing, and yet it receives power from him, but it receives the power according to its property from him, either from his love, or from his wrath; and from which it receives, so it has its signature[156] externally; and the good is also in it, but as it were wholly shut up [or hidden] to the iniquity [or evil]; an example of which you have in bushes, and other thorny and pricking briars, out of which notwithstanding a fair well-smelling blossom grows; and there lie two properties therein, viz. a pleasant and unpleasant; which overcomes, that shapes [forms or marks] the fruit.
...
The Being of all beings is but one only Being, but in its generation it separates itself into two principles, viz. into light and darkness, into joy and sorrow, into evil and good, into love and anger, into fire and light, and out of these two eternal beginnings (or principles) into the third beginning, viz. into the creation, to its own love-play and melody, according to the property of both eternal desires.
On his influence, I found mythosandlogos.com which has this to say:
"His thought has since influenced
major figures in philosophy, especially German Romantics such as Hegel,
Baader, and Schelling. Indirectly, his influence can be traced to the work
of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hartmann, Bergson, and Heidegger. Paul Tillich
and Martin Buber drew heavily from his work -- as did the psychologist,
Carl Jung, who made numerous references to Boehme in his writings."
That is quite a lineup.
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