Item #69011 Mysterium Magnum. Or An Exposition of the First Book of Moses called Genesis ( 2 Volumes ); Concerning The Manifestation or Revelation of the Divine Word through the Three Principles of the Divine Essence; also of the Originall of the World and the Creation. Wherein The Kingdome of Nature, & The kingdome of Grace, are Expounded. For the better understanding Of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are, also, How Man should consider and may know himselfe in the Light of Nature, what he is, and wherein his Temporall, and Eternall Life, Consist; also, wherein his Eternall Blessednesse, and Damnation, Consist. And is an Exposition of the Essence of all Essences for the further Consideration of the Lovers, in the Divine Gift. Comprised in Three Part: Written Anno 1623. By Jacob Behm. To Which is added, The Life of the Author And his foure Tables of Divine Revelation. Jacob BOEHME, John Sparrow., C J. B., aka Charles John Barker.
Mysterium Magnum. Or An Exposition of the First Book of Moses called Genesis ( 2 Volumes ); Concerning The Manifestation or Revelation of the Divine Word through the Three Principles of the Divine Essence; also of the Originall of the World and the Creation. Wherein The Kingdome of Nature, & The kingdome of Grace, are Expounded. For the better understanding Of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are, also, How Man should consider and may know himselfe in the Light of Nature, what he is, and wherein his Temporall, and Eternall Life, Consist; also, wherein his Eternall Blessednesse, and Damnation, Consist. And is an Exposition of the Essence of all Essences for the further Consideration of the Lovers, in the Divine Gift. Comprised in Three Part: Written Anno 1623. By Jacob Behm. To Which is added, The Life of the Author And his foure Tables of Divine Revelation
Mysterium Magnum. Or An Exposition of the First Book of Moses called Genesis ( 2 Volumes ); Concerning The Manifestation or Revelation of the Divine Word through the Three Principles of the Divine Essence; also of the Originall of the World and the Creation. Wherein The Kingdome of Nature, & The kingdome of Grace, are Expounded. For the better understanding Of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are, also, How Man should consider and may know himselfe in the Light of Nature, what he is, and wherein his Temporall, and Eternall Life, Consist; also, wherein his Eternall Blessednesse, and Damnation, Consist. And is an Exposition of the Essence of all Essences for the further Consideration of the Lovers, in the Divine Gift. Comprised in Three Part: Written Anno 1623. By Jacob Behm. To Which is added, The Life of the Author And his foure Tables of Divine Revelation

Mysterium Magnum. Or An Exposition of the First Book of Moses called Genesis ( 2 Volumes ); Concerning The Manifestation or Revelation of the Divine Word through the Three Principles of the Divine Essence; also of the Originall of the World and the Creation. Wherein The Kingdome of Nature, & The kingdome of Grace, are Expounded. For the better understanding Of the Old and New Testament, and what Adam and Christ are, also, How Man should consider and may know himselfe in the Light of Nature, what he is, and wherein his Temporall, and Eternall Life, Consist; also, wherein his Eternall Blessednesse, and Damnation, Consist. And is an Exposition of the Essence of all Essences for the further Consideration of the Lovers, in the Divine Gift. Comprised in Three Part: Written Anno 1623. By Jacob Behm. To Which is added, The Life of the Author And his foure Tables of Divine Revelation

London: John M. Watkins, 1924. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Large thick octavos. Two volumes, complete. xxxvi + 408pp & 409-850pp. Original green publisher's cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine and front covers, b&w frontisportrait of editor, tables. The final, and some would say, most important work of the 17th century German Christian mystic, completed by him the year before he died. Mysterium Magnum is essentially a study and interpretation of the Book of Genesis, although it spreads to encompass the broader meaning of the New Testament, and the nature of the mystical experience. This superbly crafted edition is drawn from the first English language edition of 1654. Cloth lightly aged and shelfworn, some minor chafing to edges and points, bruising to spine ends and corners, uneven browning to page edges & early and later pages. Vol. I lacking front blank, pencil notes about the Editor at the lower edge of frontisportrait in Vol. I, and contemporary owner's name & date (1925) in pencil on front blank Vol. II, (all easily erased if so desired). The first few dozen leave of Volume I have been opened/cut, the remained pages in both volumes are uncut (unopened: they need to be carefully slit with a paper knife) and are thus bright, unmarked and unread. Overall a tight, mostly clean and unread VG+ set. A nearly hundred year old set that awaits a first reading. Item #69011

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