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DocumentDIALOGUES ON THE SUPERSENSUAL LIFEPREFACEPrefacePREFACEPREFACEPREFACEPREFACEPREFACEPRELIMINARY NOTESentences Selected from Jacob Behmen's Treatises "Regeneration" and "Christ's Testaments"101111 (continued)121314151617181919 (continued)20212223242627282930Dialogue IMasterDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterMasterDiscipleMasterMasterDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterMasterDiscipleMasterDIALOGUE ONEDialogue OneMasterDiscipleDisciple (continued)MasterDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterDIALOGUE ONEMasterMaster (continued)DiscipleMasterMaster (continued)DiscipleMasterMaster (continued)DiscipleMasterMaster (continued)Dialogue OneDialogue OneDialogue IIDialogue TwoDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterDialogue TwoDialogue TwoMasterDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterMasterDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterDiscipleMasterDialogue TwoBetween Junius, a Scholar, and Theophorus, his Master, concerning Heaven and HellTHE SUPERSENSUAL LIFEDIALOGUE THREEDialogue ThreeThe Supersensual LifeDialogue ThreeMasterScholarMasterScholarMasterScholarMasterScholarMasterScholarMasterDialogue ThreeDialogue ThreeThe Way from Darkness to True IlluminationThe Soul saidThe Devil saidThe Soul saidThe Devil saidThe Soul did so and what happened thereuponThe Devil came to the SoulThe Soul did soJesus Christ met with the SoulHow Christ brought in the SoulWhat Christ saidWhat the Soul saidThe Devil came to it againThe Soul sighedThe Devil's OppositionThe Condition of the SoulDialogue FourThe distressed Soul answeredThe enlightened Soul saidThe distressed Soul terrifiedThe enlightened Soul came again, and spoke to the troubled SoulThe distressed Soul saidThe enlightened Soul saidThe poor Soul saidThe enlightened Soul saidThe Poor Soul's PracticeDialogue FourThe distressed Soul saidThe enlightened Soul saidThe Distressed Soul's Course

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Dialogue One

But in that I lastly said; Whosoever finds it finds All Things; there is nothing can be more true than this assertion. It hath been the Beginning of All Things; and it ruleth All Things. It is also the End of All Things; and will comprehend All Things within its circle. All Things are from it, and in it, and by it. If thou findest it thou comest into that ground from All Things are proceeded, and wherein they subsist; and thou art in it a King over all the works of God.

Here the Disciple was exceedingly ravished with what his Master had so wonderfully and surprisingly declared, and returned his most hearty and humble thanks for that light which he had been an instrument of conveying to him. But being desirous to hear further concerning these high matters, and to know somewhat more particularly, he requested him that he would give him leave to wait on him the next day again; and that he would then be pleased to show him how and where he might find this which was so much beyond all price and value, and whereabout the seat and abode of it might be in human nature, with the entire process of the discovery and bringing it forth to light.

The Master said to him: This then we will discourse about at our next conference, as God shall reveal the same to us by his Spirit, which d is a searcher of All Things. And if thou dost remember well what I answered thee in the beginning, thou shalt soon come thereby to understand that hidden mystical wisdom of God; which none of the wise men of the world know; and where the Mine thereof is to be found in thee shall be given thee from above to discern. Be silent therefore in thy spirit, and watch unto prayer; that, when we meet again to-morrow in the love of Christ, thy mind may be disposed for finding that noble Pearl, which to the World appears Nothing, but to the Children of Wisdom is All Things.