Aurora: The Day-Spring, or Dawning of the Day in the East, or Morning-Redness in the Rising of the Sun

«That is The Root or Mother of Philosophy, Astrology & Theology from the true Ground. Or a Description of Nature.» — la portadilla de la obra —voz del propio libro, no del editor moderno— se declara raíz o madre de la filosofía, la astrología y la teología desde el verdadero fundamento, y descripción de la naturaleza.

«I. How All was, and came to be in the Beginning. II. How Nature and the Elements are become Creaturely. III. Also of the Two Qualities Evil and Good. IV. From whence all things had their Origin. V. And how all stand and work at present. VI. Also how all will be at the End of this Time. VII. Also what is the Condition of the Kingdom of God, and of the Kingdom of Hell. VIII. And how men work and act creaturely in each of them.» — la misma portadilla reparte el asunto en ocho puntos, del principio de todas las cosas al obrar del hombre en el reino de Dios y en el del infierno.

«All this set down diligently from a true Ground in the Knowledge of the Spirit, and in the impulse of God. BY JACOB BEHMEN, THE TEUTONIC THEOSOPHER» — cierre de la portadilla: la obra declara su procedencia en el conocimiento del Espíritu y en el impulso de Dios, y firma con el apelativo de teósofo teutónico.

«COURTEOUS Reader, I compare the whole Philosophy, Astrology, and Theology, together with their mother, to a goodly tree which grows in a fair garden of pleasure.» — abre el prefacio del propio Boehme, dirigido *To the Courteous Reader*: compara la filosofía, la astrología y la teología con su madre común a un árbol plantado en un jardín. La comparación gobierna todo el prefacio.

«But when the tree bears few fruit, and those but small, shrivelled, rotten, and worm-eaten, the fault does not lie in the will of the tree, as if it desired purposely to bear evil fruit, because it is a goodly tree of good quality.» — Boehme descarga la culpa de la mala cosecha de la voluntad del árbol: el árbol es bueno y no se propone dar mal fruto.

«But here lies the fault: because there is often great cold, great heat, and mildew, caterpillars and other worms happen to it; for the quality in the deep, from the influence of the stars, spoils it, and that makes it bear but few good fruit.» — dónde pone él la culpa: en el frío, el calor, el añublo, las orugas y, en el fondo, en la cualidad de lo profundo que baja de la influencia de los astros.

«Now observe what I have signified by this similitude: The garden of this tree signifieth the world; the soil or mould signifieth nature ; the stock of the tree signifies the stars ; by the branches are meant the elements; the fruit which grow on this tree signify men ; the sap in the tree denoteth the pure Deity.» — Boehme desglosa la clave de la alegoría uno a uno: jardín igual a mundo, tierra igual a naturaleza, tronco igual a astros, ramas igual a elementos, frutos igual a hombres, savia igual a Deidad pura.

«Now men were made out of nature, the stars, and elements; but God the Creator reigneth in all: even as the sap does in the whole tree.» — el remate de la clave: el hombre está hecho de naturaleza, astros y elementos, y Dios reina en todo como la savia en el árbol entero.

«But there are two qualities in nature, even until the Judgment of God: The one is pleasant, heavenly and holy; the other is fierce, wrathful, hellish and thirsty.» — la tesis que la obra repetirá de principio a fin: dos cualidades en la naturaleza hasta el Juicio, una apacible y santa y otra feroz, iracunda e infernal.

«Now the good one qualifieth and works continually with all industry to bring forth good fruit, and the Holy Ghost reigneth therein, and affords thereunto sap and life: the bad one springeth and driveth with all its endeavour to bring forth bad fruit continually, to which the devil affordeth sap and hellish flame.» — cada cualidad tiene quien la alimente: el Espíritu Santo da savia y vida a la buena, el diablo da savia y llama infernal a la mala.

«That is, if man elevateth his spirit into the Deity, then the Holy Ghost moveth, springeth and qualifieth in him: But if he permit his spirit to sink into the world, in lust towards evil, then the devil and hellish sap stir and reign in him.» — la aplicación al hombre, y es una alternativa, no un destino: elevar el espíritu a la Deidad o dejarlo hundirse en el mundo decide cuál de los dos obra en él.

«Even as the apple on the tree becometh corrupt, rotten and worm-eaten, when frost, heat, and mildew fall on it, and easily falls off and perishes: So does man also when he suffers the devil to rule in him with his poison.» — el símil de la manzana podrida: el hombre se corrompe como el fruto cuando deja gobernar al diablo con su veneno.

«Now as in nature there are, spring up and reign, good and bad; even so in man: But man is the child of God, whom God has made out of the best kernel of nature, to reign in the good, and to overcome the bad: Though evil sticketh unto man, even as in nature the evil hangeth on the good, yet he can overcome the evil if he elevateth his spirit in God; for then the Holy Ghost stirs and moveth in him, and helps him to overcome.» — Boehme sostiene que el hombre está hecho del mejor grano de la naturaleza y puede vencer el mal si eleva su espíritu en Dios; el mal se le queda pegado igual que en la naturaleza cuelga del bien.

«But man, through the fall of Adam and Eve, has cast himself into fierce wrathfulness, so that the evil hangeth on him; otherwise his moving and driving would be only in the good.» — de dónde viene esa mezcla, según él: de la caída de Adán y Eva, sin la cual el moverse del hombre sería solo en lo bueno.

«But because man has an impulse or inclination to both good and evil, he may lay hold on which he pleaseth; for he liveth in this world between both, and both qualities, the good and the bad, are in him; in whichsoever man moveth, with that he is endued, either with a holy, or with a hellish power.» — el hombre vive entre las dos cualidades y puede asir la que quiera; queda dotado de un poder santo o de uno infernal según en cuál se mueva.

«Besides, God commanded man to do good, and forbad him to do evil; and now does daily call and cry aloud, preach and exhort man unto good; whereby we see well enough that God willeth not evil, but his will is, That his kingdom should come, and his will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.» — Boehme lee el mandato y la predicación diaria como prueba de que Dios no quiere el mal, y cierra con la petición del Padrenuestro.

«therefore said God, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated ; which is nothing else but that both qualities in nature have vehemently wrestled the one with the other.» — lee Malaquías —Jacob amado, Esaú aborrecido— no como elección divina sino como las dos cualidades de la naturaleza luchando entre sí.

«And they were mightily rejoiced, and did eat of the Tree of Life with great joy and refreshing, and so got new strength from the Tree of Life, and sang a new song concerning the true real Tree of Life, and so were delivered from their wild birth, and then hated the merchant and his factors, as also their false wares.» — los que comen del Árbol de la Vida cobran fuerza nueva, quedan libres de su nacimiento salvaje y aborrecen al mercader y su mercancía.

«But only the factors of the merchant came not, and his and their dissemblers, and those that made their gains with false wares, and had gathered treasure together, for they were drowned and quite dead in the gain of the merchant's whoredom, and lived in the wild nature;» — los que no acuden son los factores y sus encubridores, ahogados en la ganancia.

«Now because their shame, deceit, covetousness, knavery and wickedness were discovered, they waxed dumb, and stayed behind; they were ashamed, and repented not of their abominations and idolatry, and so went not with the hungry and thirsty to the Fountain of Eternal Life; and therefore they grew faint in their thirst, and their torment riseth up from eternity to eternity, and they are gnawed in their conscience.» — descubierta la vergüenza, no se arrepienten: enmudecen, se quedan atrás y su tormento sube de eternidad en eternidad.

«Now the merchant, seeing that the deceit of his false wares was discovered, grew very wroth, and despaired, and bent his bow against the holy people, who would buy no more of his wares, and so destroyed many of the holy people, and blasphemed the green twig that was grown up out of the Tree of Life.» — el mercader, descubierto, arma el arco contra el pueblo santo y blasfema de la ramita verde.

«Now when the noble and holy tree was revealed to all nations, so that they saw how it moved over them and spread its fragrancy over all people, and that any one that pleased might eat of it, then the people grew weary of eating its fruit, which grew on the tree, and longed to eat of the root of the tree; and the cunning and wise people sought after the root, and contended about the same: so the strife was great about the root of the tree, insomuch that they forgot to eat of the fruit of the sweet tree, by reason of the controversy about the root of the tree.» — el hallazgo central del prefacio: la gente se cansa del fruto y se pone a disputar por la raíz, y de tanto disputar se olvida de comer.

«Now they minded neither the root nor the tree, but the prince of darkness had another design, intending something else; when he saw that they would eat no more of the good tree, but contended about the root, he perceived that they were grown very weak and faint, and that the wild nature predominated in them again.» — el príncipe de las tinieblas saca partido de esa distracción: los ve flacos y a la naturaleza salvaje otra vez encima.

«All evil actions were approved of for bribery: The laws issued forth out of the evil quality in nature, and every one strove after riches and goods, after pride, pomp and stateliness; there was no deliverer for the poor; scolding, railing, cursing and swearing were not disapproved nor held vicious, and so they defiled themselves in the wrathful or fierce quality, even as a swine tumbleth in the dirt and mire.» — el retrato social que sigue: leyes salidas de la mala cualidad, cohecho, y nadie que libre al pobre.

«Thus did the shepherds with the sheep: they retained no more than the bare name of the noble tree; its fruit, virtue and life were only a cover to their sins.» — la acusación a los pastores: del árbol noble conservan el nombre, y su fruto les sirve de tapadera.

«But why men, in the end, did long so eagerly after the root of the tree, is a mystery, and hitherto it was concealed from the wise and prudent; neither will it rise up to the height, but in the deep, in great simplicity.» — Boehme declara mysterio el porqué de esa ansia de raíz y dice dónde se resuelve: no en lo alto, sino en lo hondo y en gran sencillez.

«As indeed the noble tree with its kernel and heart has always been concealed from the worldly wise, though they supposed they stood, some at the root, and some at the very top of the tree; yet this was no more than a shining mist before their eyes.» — los sabios del mundo creían estar en la raíz o en la copa y no tenían delante más que una niebla luciente.

«But the noble tree, from the beginning till now, strove in nature to its utmost, that it might be revealed to all people, [of all] tongues, and languages, against which the devil in the wild nature raged, and fought like a fierce lion.» — el árbol noble pugna por revelarse a todas las lenguas mientras el diablo pelea como león en la naturaleza salvaje.

«Now when this was done, then both the gates of nature, the knowledge of the two gualities of good and bad, were opened, and so the Heavenly Jerusalem was manifested, and the kingdom of hell also, to all men upon earth.» — las dos puertas se abren a la vez: con la Jerusalén celestial se manifiesta también el reino del infierno.

«This lasted but a short time; for men forsook that light, and lived in carnal pleasures, to their own perdition: For as the gate of light had opened itself, so did the gate of darkness also; and from them both went forth all manner of powers and arts that were therein.» — y duró poco: abierta la puerta de la luz se abrió la de la tiniebla, y de las dos salieron toda suerte de poderes y artes.

«In the middle of this time were raised many great stormy winds from the west towards the east and north: But from the north there went forth a great stream of water towards the holy tree, and spoiled many twigs in the holy tree, and in the midst of the stream it was light, and so the wild tree towards the north withered.» — del norte baja una gran corriente de agua que estropea ramas del árbol santo; en medio de la corriente hubo luz y el árbol silvestre del norte se secó.

«The tree of life was kindled in its own quality by the fire of the Holy Ghost, and its quality burnt in the fire of heavenly joyfulness, in an unsearchable light and glory.» — el fin del tiempo en la misma figura: el árbol de la vida se enciende en su propia cualidad por el fuego del Espíritu Santo.

«In this fire were consumed the earth, the stars, and the elements, for all were on fire at once, each in the fire of its own quality, and all became separable.» — en ese fuego arden tierra, astros y elementos, cada uno en el fuego de su propia cualidad, y todo queda separable.

«Those that on earth had eaten of the good tree, which is called JESUS CHRIST, in them flowed the mercy of God unto eternal joy;» — los que comieron en la tierra del árbol bueno —que él nombra JESUS CHRIST— reciben la misericordia de Dios.

«But those that were born in the light of nature, and of the Holy Ghost, and on earth never fully knew the Tree of Life, but were grown in its power, which overshadowed all men upon earth, as very many nations, heathen, and babes, which were also received into the same power wherein they were grown, and wherewith their spirit was clothed, they sang the song according to their power and measure in the noble Tree of eternal Life;» — la salvedad que Boehme abre para gentiles y niños: nacidos en la luz de la naturaleza, sin haber conocido del todo el Árbol de la Vida, cantan según su poder y su medida.

«But those who were grown on earth in the power of the tree of wrath, that is, those whom the fierce quality had overcome, and who were withered in the wickedness of their spirit, in their sins, all those came forth also, each in his power or faculty; and they were received into the kingdom of darkness, and each was invested in that power in which he was grown up; and their king is called Lucifer, viz. one expelled or driven forth from the light.» — los del otro lado entran al reino de las tinieblas cada cual con el poder en que creció, y su rey se llama Lucifer, es decir, el expulsado de la luz.

«The hellish quality brought forth fruit also, as it had done upon earth; only, the good was severed or parted from it, and therefore now it brought forth fruit in its own quality.» — también la cualidad infernal da fruto, solo que separada ya de lo bueno.

«For as there is a difference in men upon earth in their qualities, and all are not of one quality, condition or disposition, even so among the rejected reprobate spirits; and so also in the heavenly pomp in angels and men; and that lasteth unto its eternity.» — el cierre reparte la diferencia por igual a los dos lados: como entre los hombres hay diferencia de cualidades, la hay entre los espíritus réprobos y en la pompa celestial.

«And that was in the Father as a holy play, a triumphing joy; for to that end all things at the beginning were made out of the Father, and now they abide so to all eternity.» — la fórmula con que Boehme nombra ese estado: un juego santo en el Padre, un gozo triunfante, fin para el que todo se hizo desde el principio.

«Courteous Reader, This is a short information concerning the two qualities in nature from the beginning to the end, how there arose from thence two kingdoms, a heavenly and a hellish, and how they stir in this time and strive the one against the other, and what the issue of it will be in the time to come.» — el propio Boehme resume su prefacio: información breve sobre las dos cualidades, los dos reinos que salen de ellas y su pugna presente.

«Therefore said God, It repents me, that I have made man, and he stirred up nature so, that all flesh which lived on dry land died, excepting the root and stock, that remained in virtue: and so he has hereby dunged the wild tree, and manured it, that it should bear better fruit.» — el diluvio leído como abono: Dios estercola y cava el árbol silvestre para que dé mejor fruto, dejando en pie la raíz y el tronco.

«But when God saw that man was thus dead in his knowledge, he moved nature again, and shewed unto man how there was good and bad therein, that man should avoid evil, and live unto the good ; and he caused fire to fall down out of nature, and fired Sodom and Gomorrah, for a terrible example to the world.» — el fuego sobre Sodoma y Gomorra entra en la alegoría como enseñanza: Dios vuelve a mover la naturaleza para mostrar que en ella hay bien y mal.

«But when the blindness of men grew predominant, and they refused to be taught by the spirit of God, he gave laws and precepts unto them, shewing how they should behave themselves, and confirmed the laws and precepts with wonders, and with signs, lest the knowledge of the true God should be quite extinct.» — la ley y los prodigios como recurso segundo, cuando los hombres se niegan a ser enseñados por el espíritu de Dios.

«But for all this, the light did not manifest itself, for the darkness and wrathful fierceness in nature struggled against it, and the prince of darkness ruled powerfully.» — y su límite, dicho en la misma plana: ni así se manifestó la luz, porque la tiniebla forcejeaba y el príncipe de las tinieblas gobernaba con fuerza.

«But when the tree of nature came to its middle age, then it began to bear some mild and sweet fruit, to shew that it would henceforth bear pleasant fruit. Then were born the holy prophets, out of the sweet branch of the tree, who taught and preached of the light, which hereafter should overcome the wrathful fierceness in nature.» — los profetas nacen de la rama dulce cuando el árbol de la naturaleza llega a su edad media.

«And then there arose a light in nature among the Heathen, so that they knew nature, and her operation, although this was a light in the wild nature only, and was not yet the holy light.» — Boehme concede a los gentiles una luz verdadera —conocieron la naturaleza y su operación— y la acota en la misma frase: era luz en la naturaleza salvaje, no la luz santa.

«For the wild nature was not yet overcome, and light and darkness wrestled so long the one with the other, till the sun arose, and with its heat forced this tree, so that it did bear pleasant sweet fruit; that is, till there came the Prince of Light, out of the heart of God,» — la encarnación dicha en la clave del árbol: luz y tiniebla forcejean hasta que sale el Príncipe de la Luz del corazón de Dios. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana y sigue en la 13.

«That same Prince and Royal Twig grew up in nature, and became a tree in nature, and spread its branches abroad from the east to the west; and encompassed the whole nature, and wrestled and fought with the fierce wrath which was in nature, and with the prince thereof, till he overcame and triumphed, as a king in nature, and took the prince of wrath or fierceness captive in his own house.» — el mismo Príncipe se vuelve árbol que abarca la naturaleza entera y toma cautivo en su propia casa al príncipe de la ira.

«This being done, there grew out of the Royal Tree, which was grown in nature, many thousand legions of precious sweet twigs, all which had the scent and taste of that precious tree. Though there fell upon them rain, snow, hail and tempestuous storms, so that many a twig was torn and beaten off from the tree, yet still others grew in their places. For the wrath or fierceness in nature, and the prince thereof, raised great tempests, with hail, thunder, lightning and rain, so that many glorious twigs were torn from the sweet and good tree.» — de ese árbol real salen muchos miles de legiones de ramitas dulces, y las tempestades del príncipe de la ira arrancan muchas.

«But when the prince of darkness saw that the Heathen strove and contended about these twigs, and not about the tree, therein he found great loss and damage, and then he ceased with his storms toward the east and south, and placed a merchant under the tree, who gathered up the twigs which were fallen from the precious tree:» — el giro de la alegoría: al ver que los gentiles disputan por las ramitas y no por el árbol, el príncipe de las tinieblas coloca un mercader debajo a recoger lo caído.

«And when the Heathen came, and enquired after the good and virtuous twigs, then the merchant presented and offered them for money, to make gain of the precious tree.» — el mercader vende por dinero lo que era del árbol.

«But he sophisticated the wares, and sold other fruit instead of the good, which were not grown on the good tree; this he did to increase his master's treasure.» — y adultera la mercancía, vendiendo fruto de otro árbol para acrecentar el tesoro de su amo.

«Now when the merchant saw that his wares were in request and esteem, he plotted how he might gather a great treasure to his master, and so sent factors abroad everywhere, to offer his wares to sell, praising them highly:» — al ver la demanda, el mercader manda factores por todas partes a ofrecer la mercancía con grandes elogios.

«Now when the prince in the darkness, who is the source of wrath or fierceness, malice and perdition, perceived that men were healed of their poison and wild nature by the fragrancy of the precious tree, he was enraged, and planted a wild tree towards the north, which sprang up and grew in the fierceness or wrath of nature, and made proclamation, saying: This is the Tree of Life; he that eateth of it, shall be healed and live eternally.» — la contrajugada: el príncipe de las tinieblas planta hacia el norte un árbol silvestre y proclama que ése es el Árbol de la Vida.

«But in the evening God in his mercy took pity on man's misery and blindness, and stirred up the good tree again, even that glorious divine tree, which did bear the fruit of life; then there grew a twig nigh unto the root, out of that precious tree, and was green, and to it was given the sap and spirit of the tree, and it spoke with the tongue of man, and shewed to every one the precious tree, and its voice was heard in many countries.» — al atardecer Dios remueve otra vez el árbol bueno y de junto a la raíz brota una ramita verde que habla con lengua de hombre.

«TO this book I have given this name, The ROOT or MOTHER of Philosophy, Astrology, and Theology.» — la tabla de contenidos que escribe el propio Boehme abre nombrando el libro: raíz o madre de la filosofía, la astrología y la teología.

«In the Philosophy it treateth of the divine power. 2. What God is. 3. How in the being of God, is created nature, the stars and the elements. 4. From whence every thing has its original. 5. How heaven and earth were created. 6. How angels, men, and devils were created. 7. How heaven and hell, and whatever is creaturely, were created, and what the Two Qualities are in nature.» — el primero de los tres repartos: en la filosofía, el poder divino, qué es Dios, la creación de la naturaleza, los astros y los elementos, de ángeles, hombres y diablos, y qué son las dos cualidades.

«In the Astrology it treateth, 2. Of the powers of nature, of the stars and of the elements. 3. How all creatures proceeded from thence. 4. How the same do impel and rule all. 5. And work in all, and how good and bad are wrought by them in men and beasts. 6. Whence it cometh that good and bad are, and reign in this world. 7. And how the kingdoms of heaven and of hell consist therein.» — el segundo reparto: en la astrología, los poderes de la naturaleza, de los astros y de los elementos, y cómo por ellos se obra el bien y el mal en hombres y bestias.

«My purpose is not to describe the course, place and name of all stars, and what is their annual conjunction, opposition, quadrate, or the like, and what they yearly and hourly operate, which, by a long process of time, and by diligent contemplation, observation, deep sense, calculation and computation, has been observed by wise, skilful and expert men, who were rich and large in spirit.» — Boehme declara lo que NO va a hacer, y reconoce el mérito de lo que descarta: no describirá curso, lugar ni nombre de los astros, trabajo de hombres sabios y expertos.

«Neither have I studied or learned the same, and I leave that to the learned to discourse of; my intention is to write according to the spirit and sense, and not according to speculation.» — y por qué: dice no haberlo estudiado, lo deja a los doctos y escribe según el espíritu y el sentido, no según la especulación.

«In the Theology it treateth, 2. Of the kingdom of Christ, what constituteth the same. 3. How it is set in opposition to the kingdom of hell. 4. How in nature it fighteth and striveth against the kingdom of hell. 5. How men, through faith and spirit, are able to overcome the kingdom of hell, and triumph in divine power and obtain eternal blessedness, and all this as a victory in the battle. 6. How man, through the operation or working in the hellish quality, casts himself into perdition. 7. And what the issue of both will be at last.» — el tercer reparto: en la teología, el reino de Cristo frente al del infierno, cómo el hombre lo vence por fe y espíritu y cómo se despeña obrando en la cualidad infernal.

«The supreme title is AURORA, that is, The Dawning of the Day in the East, or Morning Redness in the rising of the SUN. It is a secret Mystery, concealed from the wise and prudent of this world, of which they themselves shall shortly be sensible: But to those who read this book in singleness of heart, with a desire after the Holy Spirit, who place their hope in God only, it will not be a hidden secret, but a manifest knowledge.» — Boehme explica el título mayor y lo declara misterio secreto para los sabios del mundo, y conocimiento manifiesto para quien lea con sencillez de corazón.

«I will not explain this title, but commit it to the judgment of the impartial Reader, who wrestleth in the good quality of this world.» — abstención expresa: no explicará el título y lo deja al juicio del lector imparcial.

«Now if Mr Critic, who qualifieth or works with his wit in the fierce quality, gets this book into his hand, he will oppose it, as there is always a stirring and opposition between the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of hell.» — Boehme se inventa un adversario, *Mr Critic*, y le adjudica de antemano la oposición al libro como caso de la pugna entre los dos reinos.

«First, he will say that I ascend too high into the Deity, which is not a meet thing for me to do.» — la primera objeción que se pone en boca del adversario: que sube demasiado alto en la Deidad y que eso no le toca.

«And when the MESSIAH, CHRIST, the Champion in the battle in nature, assumed the humanity, though he was the King and Prince of men, yet in this world he kept himself in a low estate and condition, and was a stranger to the world.» — la respuesta arranca por la condición baja de Cristo, rey y príncipe de los hombres y a la vez extraño al mundo.

«Nay, Christ himself returneth thanks to [Matt. xi. 25.] his heavenly Father, that he has concealed these things from the worldly wise men, and revealed them unto babes.» — y sigue por Mateo 11:25: lo escondido a los sabios del mundo y revelado a los niños. La referencia entre corchetes está en el impreso.

«So neither can I say anything of myself, nor boast or write of anything, save this: that I am a simple man, and, besides, a poor sinner, and have need to pray daily, Lord, forgive us our sins ; and to say with the Apostle, O Lord, thou hast redeemed us with thy blood.» — Boehme se sitúa: hombre sencillo y pecador que necesita pedir perdón cada día.

«Neither did I ascend into heaven, and behold all the works and creatures of God; but the same heaven is revealed in my spirit, so» — la acotación decisiva de todo el libro: NO subió al cielo a ver las obras de Dios; el cielo se le revela en el espíritu. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«that in the spirit I know the works and creatures of God.» — el remate en la plana siguiente: en el espíritu conoce las obras y las criaturas de Dios.

«The spirit of man is descended not only from the stars and elements, but there is hidden therein a spark of the light and power of God.» — la razón antropológica que da: el espíritu del hombre viene de astros y elementos, y esconde además una chispa de la luz y del poder de Dios.

«It is not an empty word which is set down [Gen. i. 27] in Genesis, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.» — apoya la chispa en Génesis 1:27 y niega que sea palabra vacía.

«As the eye of man seeth even unto the stars, from whence it has a finite original and beginning, so also the soul seeth even into the divine being wherein it liveth.» — el símil del ojo: como el ojo alcanza hasta las estrellas de donde tiene su origen finito, el alma ve dentro del ser divino en que vive.

«Therefore the soul cannot attain unto any perfect knowledge in this life, till at the end, when light and darkness are separated, and» — el límite que él mismo pone a esa vista: en esta vida no hay conocimiento perfecto hasta el fin, cuando se separen luz y tiniebla. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But when the soul is kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost, then it triumpheth in the body, like a huge fire, which makes the heart and reins tremble for joy.» — cuando el Espíritu Santo la enciende, el alma triunfa en el cuerpo como un fuego grande.

«There is not presently a great and deep knowledge in God its Father, but its love towards God its Father triumpheth thus in the fire of the Holy Spirit.» — y la acotación inmediata: lo que triunfa entonces no es conocimiento hondo, sino amor.

«It happeneth sometimes that it seeth nothing at all, for the devil does assault it furiously in the fierce wrathful source that is in the soul, and oftentimes covereth the noble mustardseed; therefore man must always be at strife» — la abstención dicha como experiencia: a veces el alma no ve nada, porque el diablo cubre la noble semilla de mostaza.

«In this manner, and in this knowledge of the spirit, I will write in this book concerning God our Father, in whom are all things, and who himself is all; and will handle how all is become separable and creaturely, and how all is impelled and moveth in the whole tree of life.» — Boehme declara el modo entero del libro: escribirá en este conocimiento del espíritu sobre Dios, en quien están todas las cosas y que él mismo es todo.

«For corruption is the cause why we know but in part, and have not perfect knowledge at once.» — la explicación que da del saber parcial: la corrupción, no la incapacidad del asunto.

«Yet this book is THE WONDER OF THE WORLD, which the holy soul will understand well enough.» — y aun así reclama para el libro el título de maravilla del mundo, comprensible al alma santa. La reserva y la reclamación van en la misma plana.

«T HOUGH flesh and blood cannot conceive or apprehend the being of God, but the spirit only when enlightened and kindled from God:» — abre el capítulo primero con la condición del conocimiento: carne y sangre no alcanzan el ser de Dios, solo el espíritu cuando Dios lo enciende.

«A man must diligently consider the powers in nature. Also the whole creation, heaven and earth. The stars, the elements, and the creatures that are proceeded from them. As also the holy angels, devils, and men; moreover, heaven and hell.» — y con el método que propone en su lugar: considerar con diligencia los poderes en la naturaleza, la creación entera, los astros, los elementos y las criaturas.

«In this consideration are found two qualities, a good one and an evil one, which are in each other as one thing in this world, in all powers, in the stars and the elements, as also in all the creatures; and no creature in the flesh, in the natural life, can subsist, unless it has the two qualities.» — el hallazgo que ordena el libro: las dos cualidades están una en otra como una sola cosa, y ninguna criatura subsiste sin las dos.

«Now here a man must consider what the word quality meaneth or is. A quality is the mobility, boiling, springing and driving of a thing.» — la definición de *quality*, que en esta obra no es propiedad estática sino movilidad, hervor, brote e impulso de una cosa.

«Now the heat reigneth and predominateth in all powers in nature, and warmeth all, and is one source or spring in all; for if it were not so the water would be too cold, and the earth would be congealed, and there would be no air.» — el calor como cualidad regente: sin él el agua sería fría, la tierra estaría cuajada y no habría aire.

«Heat wrestleth and fighteth together in its twofold source as one thing: It is also one thing, but it has a double source:» — y su duplicidad, que es la clave del capítulo: el calor tiene doble fuente.

«Thus the light in the heat is a quick spring or living fountain, into which the Holy Ghost entereth, but the Holy Ghost entereth not into the fierceness or wrath.» — el reparto: el Espíritu Santo mora en la luz del calor y no entra en su ira.

«Air has its original from heat and cold; for heat and cold work powerfully and replenish all, whereby is caused a lively and stirring motion; but when cold allayeth or mitigateth the heat, then both their qualities are rarefied and made thin; and the bitter quality attracteth or concreteth them together, so that they become dewy.» — el aire nace del calor y del frío, y de la contienda de ambos sale el rocío.

«Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables; all whatever is has its life from the air, and nothing whatsoever that moveth and is in this world can subsist without air.» — y de ahí que ninguna vida ni movimiento subsista sin aire.

«The water also has a fierce deadly spring, for it killeth and consumeth; and so all things that have a life and being must rot and perish in the water.» — el agua lleva también una fuente mortal: en ella se pudre y perece lo vivo.

«The bitter quality is the heart in every life; for as it attracteth together the water in the air, and also dissipateth the same, so that it [the water] becometh separable ; so also in other creatures, and in the vegetables of the earth.» — la cualidad amarga se declara corazón, y se la sitúa en los vegetales de la tierra.

«For the bitter quality, when stirred, causes the creature to tremble and be joyful, and to be lifted up in its whole body; for the stirring of the bitter quality is, as it were, a glimpse or ray of or from the heavenly kingdom of joy, an exaltation of the spirit, a spirit and virtue in all plants of the earth, a mother of life.» — removida, la amarga causa alegría y es madre de vida.

«But it has also in it another species or kind, namely, the fierceness or wrath, which is the very house of death, a corruption of all good, a perdition and destruction of the life in the flesh.» — y la misma cualidad, en su otra especie, es destrucción de la vida en la carne. Boehme no arbitra entre las dos caras: las consigna juntas.

«The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant. It is a longing delight in the taste, a pleasure of life, a stirring, boiling, flowing joy in everything; a desire, longing and lust of joyfulness, a still joy or habitation of the spirit. Thus it is a temperature to all living and moving creatures.» — la cualidad agria como temperamento y refresco de las otras dos cuando se elevan demasiado.

«It containeth also a source of evil and corruption: For if it predominate too much, or stirreth too much in anything, so that it be inflamed, then it engendereth sadness and melancholy.» — y su reverso: inflamada, engendra tristeza y melancolía.

«The saltish quality is a good temperature [or temper] in the bitter, the sweet and the sour, making every thing pleasant; it opposeth the rising of the bitter quality, as also of the sweet and the sour, lest they should be inflamed:» — la cualidad astringente o salada, que el capítulo trata aparte: temperamento de la amarga, la dulce y la agria, y freno para que no se inflamen.

«It containeth also fierceness and corruption: Being inflamed in the fire it engendereth a hard, tearing and stony nature, a fierce, wrathful source, a destruction of life, whereby the stone or gravel is engendered in the flesh, causing great pain and torment to the flesh.» — inflamada en el fuego engendra una naturaleza dura, desgarradora y pétrea: de ahí, según él, la piedra y la arenilla en la carne.

«But if it be inflamed in the water, then it engendereth in the flesh, scabs, sores, pox, leprosy, and is a mourning house of death, a misery and a forgetting of all good things.» — inflamada en el agua engendra costras, llagas, viruela y lepra, y es casa de luto y olvido de todo bien.

«In the water it causes a stink, putridness and rankness, a forgetfulness of all good things, a melancholy or sadness of life, a house of death, a beginning of sorrow and an end of joy» — el mismo esquema aplicado antes a la agria: en el agua, hedor, podredumbre y olvido de todo bien.

«All the creatures are made and descended from these qualities, and live therein as in their mother; and the earth and stones descend or proceed from thence also; and all that grows out of the earth liveth and springeth forth out of the virtue of these qualities; no rational man can deny it.» — el capítulo segundo arranca derivando todas las criaturas de esas cualidades, y presenta la derivación como cosa que ningún hombre racional niega.

«Now this twofold source, good and evil, in everything, is caused by the stars; for as the creatures in the earth are, in their qualities, so also are the stars.» — dónde pone Boehme la causa de la doble fuente: en los astros, que son a su vez de las dos cualidades.

«For the driving qualities cause a lust in all creatures unto evil and good, so that all [things] are desirous one of another, to copulate and increase, decrease, grow fair, perish, love and hate.» — las cualidades impulsoras causan apetito en todas las criaturas, y de ahí crecer y perecer, amar y aborrecer.

«There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.» — la formulación más rotunda de la tesis: no hay nada en la naturaleza donde no haya bien y mal, sea lo que sea.

«But the holy angels, and the fierce wrathful devils, are here to be excepted; for these are severed apart: Each of these liveth, qualifieth and ruleth in his own peculiar quality.» — ángeles y diablos comparten materia y se distinguen por la cualificación, no por la sustancia.

«First behold the sun; it is the heart or king of all stars, and giveth light to all stars from the east to the west; it enlighteneth and warmeth all, all liveth and grows by its power; besides, the joy of all creatures consisteth in its virtue.» — el sol como corazón o rey de los astros; en su virtud está el gozo de todas las criaturas de este mundo.

«If that should be taken away or become extinct, then all would be dark and cold; neither would there grow any fruit, and neither man nor beast could propagate and increase, because their heat would be extinguished and their seed would be cold and torpid.» — la prueba por sustracción: quitado el sol, todo quedaría tiniebla, frío y semilla yerta.

«For in thy flesh and blood thou art not able to apprehend it, and though thou dost read it, yet it is but as a fume or mist before thine eyes.» — el límite que el propio capítulo le pone a su lector: en carne y sangre esto no es más que niebla ante los ojos.

«As little as a piece of work can apprehend him that made it, so little also can man apprehend and know God his Creator, unless the Holy Ghost enlighten him; which happeneth only to those that rely not upon themselves, but set their hope, will and desires upon God alone, and move in the Holy Ghost, and these are one spirit with God.» — la condición para entender: tan poco como la obra conoce al maestro, conoce el hombre a Dios sin el Espíritu Santo.

«But here thou must elevate thy mind in the spirit, and consider how the whole nature, with all the powers which are in nature, also the wideness, depth and height, also heaven and earth, and all whatsoever is therein, and all that is above the heavens, is together the body or corporeity of God; and the powers of the stars are the fountain veins in the natural body of God in this world.» — la fórmula que sostiene la analogía del cuerpo: la naturaleza entera tomada como cuerpo de Dios en este mundo.

«The veins signify the powerful flowings out from the stars, and are also the powerful outgoings of the stars; for the stars with their powers reign in the veins, and drive forth the form, shape and condition in men.» — las correspondencias del cuerpo humano con el cosmos empiezan por las venas y las emanaciones de los astros.

«The heart in man signifieth the heat or the element of fire, and it is also the heat; for the heat in the whole body has its original in the heart.» — el corazón corresponde al calor, y en él tiene su origen.

«The liver signifieth the element of water, and it is also the water; for from the liver cometh the blood in the whole body into all the members.» — el hígado corresponde al elemento agua y reparte la sangre a todos los miembros.

«The hands signify God's omnipotence; for as God in nature can change all things, and make of them what he pleaseth, so man also can with his hands change all things which grow in or proceed from nature, and can make with his hands out of them what he pleaseth:» — las manos corresponden a la omnipotencia de Dios.

«Now heaven is a pleasant palace of joy, wherein all the powers are, as they are in the whole nature in the stars and elements, but not so hard working and springing.» — el cielo se describe como palacio de gozo, con obrar más suave que el de la tierra.

«However, heaven belongeth to nature, because the stars and elements have their original and power from the heaven.» — y a la vez pertenece a la naturaleza, porque de él sacan poder los astros.

«For heaven is the heart of the water.» — la fórmula corta: el cielo es el corazón del agua.

«So heaven is the heart in nature, wherein all the powers are, as in the stars and elements, and it is a soft, supple and meek matter of all powers, as the brain in man's head is.» — y en la analogía del cuerpo, el cielo hace de cerebro.

«For as in heaven all powers are meek and full of joy, and as heaven has a closure or firmament above the stars, and yet all powers go forth from heaven into the stars, so the brain also has a closure or firmament between it and the body, and yet all the powers go forth from the brain into the body, and into the whole man.» — los poderes bajan del cielo al cerebro y de ahí al hombre entero.

«But GOD in his TRINITY is unchangeable, and whatever there is in heaven and upon earth and above the earth, has its spring, source and original from the power which proceedeth from God.» — de la Trinidad dice que es inmutable, y que el bien y el mal vienen del poder que procede de Dios, no de Dios.

«Yet you must not therefore conceive that in God there is good and evil, for God himself is the good, and has the name from good, which is the triumphing eternal joy:» — la salvedad expresa: no hay que concebir en Dios el bien y el mal, sino el gozo eterno triunfante.

«Behold, there is a gall in man's body, which is poison, and man cannot live without this gall; for the gall makes the astral spirits moveable, joyous, triumphing or laughing, for it is the source of joy.» — la hiel como caso: veneno en el cuerpo y, a la vez, fuente de gozo. Es el ejemplo con que sostiene que el motor del ánimo es amargo.

«But it has no such substance in God, for he has not flesh and blood, but he is a Spirit, [John iv. 24.] in whom all powers are; as we pray in the Lord's prayer, Thine is the power.» — y la negativa que le sigue: en Dios no hay tal sustancia, porque Dios es Espíritu.

«And though it is written in Moses, I am [Exod. XX. 5.] an angry, zealous God [Deut iv. 24 ], yet the meaning of it is not that God is angry in himself, and that there ariseth a fire of anger in the Holy Trinity.» — Boehme se enfrenta a la letra de Moisés sobre el Dios celoso e iracundo y la lee sin atribuir ira a la Trinidad.

«No; that cannot be, for it is written, against those that hate me; in that same creature, the fire of anger riseth up.» — la negativa, dicha con la fórmula de la abstención razonada: eso no puede ser.

«If God should be angry in himself, then the whole nature would be on fire, which will come once to pass on the last day, in nature, but not in God, in God the triumphing joy will burn; it was never otherwise from eternity, nor will it ever be otherwise.» — el argumento por reducción: si Dios se airara en sí mismo, ardería la naturaleza entera.

«This indeed has been partly concealed from the beginning of the world to this time, and man with his reason could not comprehend it.» — la razón que da del ocultamiento hasta ahora: el hombre no podía comprenderlo.

«But seeing God is pleased to reveal himself in simplicity in this last time, I shall give way to his impulse and will; I am but a very little spark of light. AMEN.» — el cierre del capítulo, donde el autor se nombra a sí mismo chispa de luz.

«The meaning is not as if heaven could comprehend, encompass or contain God the Father; for heaven itself is made by the divine power: for Christ saith, My Father is greater than all.» — el capítulo tercero acota de entrada la fórmula *Padre celestial*: no es que el cielo lo contenga, el Padre es mayor que todo.

«But in that Christ calls his Father a heavenly Father, his meaning is that his Father's lustre and power appear and shine very bright and pure in heaven; and that above the circle or enclosure which we behold with our eyes, and which we call heaven, does appear the totally triumphing Holy Trinity, The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.» — por qué el título importa: al llamarlo Padre celestial, Cristo hace aparecer la Trinidad.

«Thereby Christ also distinguisheth his heavenly Father from the father of nature, which is indeed the stars and the elements; these are our natural father, out of which we are made, and by whose impulse we live here in this world, and from whence we have our food and nourishment.» — y distingue al Padre celestial del padre natural de la creación, de donde sale nuestro alimento.

«Therefore God is our heavenly Father, in that our soul continually longeth after him, and is desirous of him, yea it thirsteth and hungereth continually after him.» — el alma tiene hambre y sed continuas de ese Padre en quien vive.

«Yet we have not two fathers, but one only: For heaven is made by his power, and the stars are made out of his wisdom which is in him, and which proceedeth forth from him.» — la unificación: no hay dos padres, sino uno cuya sabiduría hace los astros.

«No, the Father is not so, but he is an all-mighty, all-wise, all-knowing, all-seeing, all-hearing, all-smelling, all-feeling, all-tasting God, who in himself is meek, friendly, gracious, merciful and full of joy, yea joy itself.» — Boehme rechaza la figura de un Dios severo y lo declara gozo mismo.

«He is proceeded or born of nothing, but he himself is all, in eternity; and all whatsoever is, is come from his power, which from eternity goeth forth from him.» — fórmula de la aseidad: no procede ni nace de nada, y todo sale de él.

«And he is thus from eternity to eternity unchangeable: He never changed himself in his being, neither will he change himself in all eternity.» — y su inmutabilidad de eternidad en eternidad.

«Yet thou must not think that God, who is in heaven and above heaven, does there stand and hover, like a power and quality which has in it neither reason nor knowledge.» — salvedad contra una lectura mecánica: Dios no es sin razón ni conocimiento.

«Yet you are not to think that the Son is another God than the Father.» — la primera negativa trinitaria: el Hijo no es otro Dios que el Padre.

«the Father and the Son are not of such a substance, or such a kind of thing; for the Father is not an image, to be likened to anything; the Father is the fountain of all powers, and all the powers are one in another as one power, and therefore he is said to be ONE only GOD.» — y la razón por la que se dice un solo Dios.

«Otherwise, if his powers were divided, then he were not allmighty, but now he is the self- subsisting, allmighty and allpowerful God.» — el argumento: poderes divididos harían un Dios no omnipotente.

«Neither should you think that the Son is without or apart from the Father, and that he is a severed part or divided piece, as when two men stand the one by the other, where one comprehendeth not the other.» — tercera negativa: tampoco uno es incomprensible para el otro.

«As the sun is a self-subsisting creature, power and light, which shineth not forth from or out of all creatures, but in and into all creatures, and all creatures rejoice in its power.» — el símil solar con que expone la Trinidad: el sol como criatura autosubsistente en cuyo poder se gozan todas las cosas.

«So the Son in the Father is a self-subsisting Person, and enlighteneth all the powers in the Father, and is the Father's joy or Heart in his centre, or in the midst of him.» — y su aplicación: el Hijo en el Padre es Persona autosubsistente, corazón en medio de él.

«Even so the Son of God in the Father is the Heart of the Father, and shineth in all the powers of the Father;» — el Hijo brilla en todos los poderes del Padre.

«So the Son of God is continually generated from all the powers of his Father from eternity, and is not made, but is the heart and lustre shining forth from the powers of his heavenly Father;» — la generación se dice continua, no hecha una vez.

«For the Father's power generateth the Son continually from eternity to eternity; but if the Father should cease to generate, then the Son would be no more:» — y se dice condicionada: cesando la generación cesaría el Hijo.

«And then the Father's power would not rise from eternity to eternity, and so the divine being would not subsist.» — con la consecuencia recíproca: tampoco subsistiría el ser divino.

«Do not conceive that the Son in the Father is so mixed that his Person can neither be seen nor known: No; for if it were so then it were but one Person.» — la negativa que impide leer la unidad como fusión: el Hijo no está tan mezclado que no se distinga.

«He is eternally in the Father, and the Father generateth him continually from eternity to eternity, and the Father and the Son are ONE God, of an equal being in power and omnipotence.» — Padre e Hijo, un ser igual en poder y omnipotencia.

«The Son seeth, tasteth, heareth, feeleth, smelleth and comprehendeth all, as the Father does; in his power all liveth and is, whatsoever is good, as in the Father; but that which is bad or evil is not in him.» — al Hijo se le atribuye todo lo bueno y se le niega expresamente lo malo.

«God the Holy Ghost is the third Person in the triumphing holy Deity, and proceedeth from the Father and the Son, and is the holy moving spring or fountain of joy in the whole Father.» — el Espíritu Santo como tercera Persona que procede del Padre y del Hijo.

«He is a pleasant, meek, quiet wind, or whispering breath, or still voice, out of all the powers of the Father and of the Son; as on mount Horeb with the prophet Elijah, and on Whitsunday or the Day of Pentecost with the Apostles, may be perceived.» — y su figura: viento apacible, manso y quieto, como el de Pentecostés.

«Therefore if we would describe his Person, substance and property from the true ground, it must be represented in a similitude.» — Boehme declara el límite del lenguaje: la Persona y la sustancia solo pueden representarse por similitud.

«Consider the sun and stars again: The stars being many and several, inexpressible and innumerable, signify the Father: out of the stars the sun is come to be; for God has made it out of them, and it signifieth the Son of God.» — la similitud escogida: los astros por el Padre, el sol por el Hijo.

«From the sun and stars proceed the four elements, fire, air, water and earth, as hereafter I shall demonstrate plainly, when I shall write of the creation.» — del sol y los astros proceden los cuatro elementos, asunto que remite a la parte de la creación.

«So the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father and the Son, and causes the living motion in all the powers of the Father.» — el paralelo se cierra en el Espíritu Santo, que se mueve en todos los poderes del Padre.

«Now when we speak or write of the three Persons in the Deity, you must not conceive that therefore there are three Gods, each reigning and ruling by himself, like temporal kings on the earth.» — la advertencia contra el antropomorfismo: las tres Personas no son como reyes temporales.

«No: such a substance and being is not in God; for the divine being consisteth in power, and not in body or flesh.» — la sustancia divina se dice poder, no cuerpo ni carne.

«The Father is the whole divine power, whence all creatures have proceeded, and has been always, from eternity: He has neither beginning nor end.» — y el Padre, poder divino entero, sin principio ni fin.

«In thy heart, in thy veins, and in thy brain, thou hast thy spirit; and all the powers which move in thy heart, in thy veins, and in thy brain, wherein thy life consisteth, signify God the Father.» — la Trinidad trasladada al hombre: los poderes que se mueven en corazón, venas y cerebro significan al Padre.

«From that power springeth up thy light, so that thou seest, understandest and knowest in the same power what thou art to do; for that light glimmereth in thy whole body; and the whole body moveth in the power and knowledge of the light, which signifieth God the Son; for the body helpeth all the members in the knowledge of the light.» — de ese poder brota la luz por la que el hombre entiende, y esa luz significa al Hijo.

«For as the Father generateth the Son out of his power, and as the Son shineth back in the whole Father; so in like manner the power of thy heart, of thy veins, and of thy brain generateth a light which shineth in all thy powers in thy whole body. Open the eyes of thy mind, consider it, and you will find it so.» — y el paralelo se dice completo: como el Padre engendra al Hijo, el poder del corazón, de las venas y del cerebro engendra una luz.

«Now observe: As from the Father and the Son there goeth forth the Holy Ghost, who is a self- subsisting Person in the Deity, and moveth in the whole Father, so also out of the powers of thy heart, veins and of thy brain, goeth forth the power which moveth in thy whole body; and out of thy light, in the same power, goeth forth reason, understanding, skill and wisdom to govern the whole body, and to distinguish all whatsoever is externally without the body.» — del poder y de la luz sale la razón y el entendimiento que gobiernan el cuerpo, como el Espíritu Santo procede del Padre y del Hijo.

«And the Holy Ghost from God ruleth in this spirit in thee, if thou art» — la condición que pone al final: el Espíritu Santo gobierna en ese espíritu si el hombre es hijo de la luz. La frase se corta en el corte de troceo, con la misma plana a los dos lados, y sigue con *a child of light, and not a child of darkness*

«For in respect of this light, understanding and government, is man distinguished from the beasts, and is an angel of God; as I shall clearly shew when I write of the creation of man.» — por esa luz y ese gobierno se distingue el hombre de las bestias y es ángel de Dios.

«Thus you find in man three fountainsprings. First, the power in thy whole mind, which signifieth God the Father. Then secondly, the light in thy whole mind, enlightening the whole mind, which signifieth God the Son. Then thirdly, there goeth forth out of all thy powers, and out of thy light also, a spirit which has understanding.» — el resumen del capítulo: tres fuentes en el hombre, poder, luz y espíritu con entendimiento.

«For all the veins, together with the light in thee, as also thy heart and thy brain, and all whatsoever is in thee, make or constitute that spirit; and that is thy soul; and it well signifieth the Holy Ghost, which goeth forth from the Father and the Son, and reigneth in the whole Father; for the soul of man reigneth in the whole body.» — y esa tercera fuente es el alma, que reina en el cuerpo entero como el Espíritu Santo en el Padre.

«But the body or the bestial flesh in man signifieth the dead corrupted earth, which man through his fall has so framed to himself; of which more shall be spoken in its due place.» — la carne bestial significa la tierra muerta y corrompida, y el asunto queda aplazado.

«Thus you find also the Ternary of the Deity in beasts; for as the spirit of a man is, and existeth, so is it also in a beast, and therein is no difference.» — el Ternario también en las bestias, y en eso Boehme no pone diferencia.

«But the difference lies in this, that man is made by God himself out of the best kernel or pith of nature, to be his angel and similitude, and God ruleth in man with his holy spirit; so that man can speak, discourse, distinguish and understand all things.» — dónde sí la pone: el hombre está hecho por Dios del mejor grano de la naturaleza.

«But a beast is made of the wild nature of this world; the stars and elements have generated beasts through their motion, according to the will of God.» — la bestia, en cambio, la engendran los astros y los elementos por su movimiento.

«Now observe: In wood, stone or herbs there are three things contained, nor can anything be generated or grow if but one of the three should be left out.» — las tres cosas que hacen falta en madera, piedra o hierba: poder, savia y espíritu.

«Thus you find in everything a similitude of the Ternary in the divine being, look upon what you will; let no man make himself so» — la conclusión, que la frase corta en el cambio de plana: en toda cosa hay similitud del Ternario en el ser divino.

«I shall make this more plain and clear when I come to write of the creation; for I do not borrow of other men in my writings: And though indeed I quote many examples and testimonies of God's saints, yet all is written by God in my mind, so that I absolutely and infallibly believe, know and see it; yet not in the flesh, but in the spirit, in the impulse and motion of God.» — Boehme declara no tomar prestado de otros hombres y remite lo escrito a lo que Dios pone en su mente, no a la carne.

«It is not so to be understood that my reason is greater or higher than that of all other men living; but I am the Lord's twig or branch, and am a very mean and little spark of his; he may set me where he pleaseth, I cannot hinder him in that.» — y lo acota de inmediato: no dice tener mayor razón que otros, sino ser rama del Señor y chispa pequeña.

«Nor is this my natural will, that I could do it by my own small ability; for if the spirit were withdrawn from me, then I could neither know nor understand my own writings; and I must on every side fight and struggle with the devil, and lie open to temptation and affliction as well as other men.» — la abstención más clara del capítulo: retirado el espíritu, dice, no entendería sus propios escritos.

«And though this ground and great mystery has remained hidden from the beginning of the world, and that human flesh and blood is not able to conceive or apprehend it.» — el capítulo cuarto abre reconociendo que el fundamento y el gran misterio han estado ocultos, y declara el límite del entendimiento.

«No, you must not conceive it so: For lord Lucifer by his elevation made the powers of impure nature thus burning, bitter, cold, astringent, sour, dark and unclean.» — la negativa que sostiene el capítulo: los poderes divinos no son como los de Lucifer, duros, agrios, oscuros e inmundos.

«But in the Father all powers are mild and soft, like heaven, and very full of joy, for all the powers triumph in one another, and their voice or sound riseth up from eternity to eternity.» — en el Padre los poderes son suaves y se elevan de eternidad en eternidad.

«There is nothing in them but love, meekness, mercy, friendliness or courtesy; even such a triumphing, rising source or fountain of joy, wherein all the voices of heavenly joyfulness sound forth, so that no man is able to express it, nor can it be likened to anything.» — y la abstención expresa: no hay con qué compararlo.

«But if a man will liken it to anything, it may nearest be likened to the soul of man, when kindled or enlightened by the Holy Ghost.» — la única comparación que admite: el alma encendida por el Espíritu Santo.

«In God the quality of water is not of such a running and qualifying condition or manner as it is in this world, but is a spirit, very bright, clear and thin, wherein the Holy Ghost riseth up, a mere power.» — la cualidad de agua en Dios no corre como en este mundo: es espíritu claro y delgado donde sube el Espíritu Santo.

«And this, in the deep of the Father, is like a divine SALITTER [SALNITRUM], which I must needs liken to the earth, which before its corruption was even such a Salitter.» — la entrada del término propio del libro: en lo hondo del Padre hay un *SALITTER* divino, que el impreso glosa entre corchetes como *SALNITRUM*, comparable a la tierra antes de su corrupción.

«But not so hard, cold, bitter, sour and dark, but like the deep, or like heaven, very clear and pure, wherein all powers were good, fair and heavenly; but that prince Lucifer thus spoiled them, as you will perceive here following.» — y la diferencia respecto de la tierra actual: no duro, frío, amargo ni oscuro, sino claro y puro, hasta que el príncipe Lucifer lo estropeó.

«This heavenly Salitter or powers one in another generate heavenly joyful fruits and colours; all manner of trees and plants, on which grow the fair, pleasant and lovely fruits of life.» — el Salitter celestial engendra frutos y colores gozosos, árboles y plantas.

«Also within the earth grow curious precious stones, silver and gold; and these are a type of the heavenly generating or production.» — las piedras preciosas, la plata y el oro de la tierra se leen como tipo de esa generación celestial.

«No, but my meaning is heavenly and spiritual, yet truly and properly such: I mean no other thing than what I set down in the letter.» — Boehme corta la lectura literal y a la vez rechaza que sea metáfora: no quiere decir otra cosa que lo que pone en la letra.

«In the divine pomp and state two things are especially to be considered: First, the Salitter or the divine powers, which are moving, springing powers.» — el primero de los dos asuntos de la pompa divina: el Salitter, poderes que se mueven y brotan.

«But stammer it like a child that is learning to speak, and can by no means rightly call it forth to be known as the spirit giveth it.» — y cómo dice él que lo dice: balbuceando como niño que aprende a hablar.

«The second form or property of heaven in the divine pomp or state is Mercurius or the sound, as in the Salitter of the earth there is the sound, whence there grows gold, silver, copper, iron and the like; of which men make all manner of musical instruments for sounding or for mirth, as bells, organpipes and other things that make a sound:» — el segundo asunto: *Mercurius* o el sonido, del que salen oro, plata, cobre y hierro, y de ahí los instrumentos musicales.

«There is likewise a sound in all the creatures upon earth, else all would be in stillness and silence.» — también en las criaturas hay sonido; sin él todo estaría en quietud y silencio.

«By that sound all powers are moved in heaven, so that all things grow joyfully, and generate very beautifully:» — por ese sonido se mueven en el cielo todos los poderes.

«If you should in this world bring many thousand sorts of musical instruments together, and all should be tuned in the best manner, most artificially, and the most skilful masters of music should play on them in concert together, all would be no more than the holdings and barkings of dogs, in comparison with the divine music, which riseth up through the divine sound and tunes from eternity to eternity.» — el símil musical llevado al extremo: ni miles de instrumentos de este mundo alcanzarían la música divina.

«But yet nature has not been able to bring forth heavenly power, virtue and qualities, therefore its fruit is half dead, corrupt and impure.» — la contraparte: la naturaleza de este mundo no logra sacar ese poder, y su fruto sale medio muerto.

«Now observe, God in his moving created the holy angels at once, not out of a strange matter, but out of himself, out of his own power and eternal wisdom.» — la creación de los ángeles se adjudica a Dios en su movimiento, de su propio poder y sabiduría eterna.

«But he became a fool; therefore this place or space, in its burning quality, could not subsist in God, whereupon the creation of this world ensued.» — el lugar de Lucifer quedó vacante por su necedad, y de ahí siguió la creación de este mundo.

«gels out of the light only; but they erred therein, for the angels were made not only out of the light, but out of all the powers of God.» — Boehme objeta la tesis de que los ángeles se hicieran solo de luz: dice que se hicieron de todos los poderes de Dios.

«But with its operation every power in God sheweth itself severally and distinctly.» — cada poder se muestra por separado y distintamente en su operación.

«For behold, the total holy Trinity has with its moving composed, compacted or figured a body or image out of itself, like a little god, but not so fully or strongly going forth as the whole Trinity, yet in some measure according to the extent and capacity of the creatures.» — el ángel como imagen compuesta por la Trinidad entera, un dios pequeño, aunque no tan pleno.

«For in God there is neither beginning nor end; but the angels have a beginning and end, but not circumscriptive, apprehensive, palpable or conclusive; for an angel can sometimes be great, and suddenly little again; their alteration is as swift as man's thoughts are.» — la diferencia: Dios no tiene principio ni fin y los ángeles sí, aunque no circunscrito ni palpable; su alteración es tan veloz como el pensamiento.

«But thou must rightly understand this: They are made and compacted together, or figured, out of the Salitter and Mercurius, that is, out of the exit or excrescence.» — la fórmula precisa: los ángeles están compactados o figurados del *Salitter* y del *Mercurius*, es decir, de la salida o excrecencia.

«Consider this similitude: Out of the sun and stars go forth the elements, and they make in the Salitter of the earth a living spirit, and the stars remain in their circle or sphere, and that spirit likewise get» — el símil que lo explica: del sol y los astros salen los elementos, y hacen en el Salitter de la tierra un espíritu viviente. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Nevertheless the quality of the stars reigneth in the spirit; yet the spirit can and may raise or demerse itself in its own qualities, or may live in the influences of the stars, as it pleaseth: It is free, for it has got for its own the qualities which it has in itself.» — el espíritu conserva en sí la cualidad de los astros de donde salió.

«And though it had them at the beginning from the stars, yet they are now its proper own: Just as a mother when she has the seed in herself, as long as she has it in her, and that it is a seed, it is hers;» — el símil de la madre y la semilla, que Boehme usa para la propiedad de lo engendrado.

«And in this manner it is with the angels, they also are all composed, framed or figured out of the divine seed, but every one has its own body to itself.» — cada ángel tiene cuerpo propio.

«Thus God may withdraw his divine power, which is externally without the angels, when they elevate themselves against him; but when that is done, a spirit must pine away and perish.» — y su dependencia: retirado el poder divino, el ángel se consume y perece.

«As man is created to be the image and similitude of God, so also are the angels, for they are the brethren of men, and men in the resurrection will have no other form or image than the angels have, as our King CHRIST himself testifieth.» — el capítulo quinto arranca por la resurrección: el hombre creado a imagen de Dios tendrá la forma de los ángeles.

«Besides, the angels never shewed themselves in any other form or shape to men here on earth, than in a human form and shape.» — el argumento por los testimonios bíblicos: los ángeles no se mostraron nunca sino en forma humana.

«Therefore seeing that in the resurrection we shall be like the angels, the angels must needs be shaped and figured like us, or else we must assume to ourselves another image or shape in the resurrection, which would be against and contrary to the first creation.» — de ahí infiere que la forma de los ángeles es la del hombre de la primera creación.

«The spirit also testifieth clearly that angels and men have one and the same image;» — ángeles y hombres, una misma imagen.

«But there is yet a sure hope of resurrection, and then we shall get the angelical clarity or glory and purity again.» — y la esperanza que abre: la restitución de la gloria y la pureza.

«First, the compacted, figured body is indivisible and incorruptible, and not to be felt by man's hands;» — el cuerpo del ángel se declara indivisible, incorruptible y no palpable.

«For as none, no not anything, can destroy the whole Deity, so also there is not anything that can destroy an angel;» — y nada puede destruirlo.

«First, the body is out of all the powers of the Father, and in those powers is the light of God the Son;» — de qué está hecho: de todos los poderes del Padre, con la luz del Hijo.

«First of all, the powers of the Father generate a light, whereby an angel seeth into the whole Father,» — los poderes del Padre engendran la luz, que vuelve a brillar en el Padre entero.

«After that there goeth forth out of all the powers of the angel, and also out of the light of the angel, a fountain, which springeth or welleth up in the whole angel; and that is its spirit, which riseth up» — y de todos los poderes sale el espíritu del ángel. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For that spirit springeth up out of all the powers of the angel, and goeth up into the mind, where it has five open doors;» — el espíritu brota de todos los poderes y tiene cinco puertas abiertas: es el esquema de los sentidos que ocupa el resto del capítulo.

«There are two things to be observed in God; the first is the Salitter, or the divine powers, out of which is the body or corporeity;» — los dos asuntos que separa en Dios: los poderes divinos y la corporeidad.

«You should not here scorn my spirit, for it is not sprung forth from the wild beast, but is generated from my power and virtue, and enlightened by the Holy Ghost.» — Boehme sale al paso del desprecio previsible y adjudica su espíritu al Espíritu Santo, no a lo bestial.

«In the angel the divine property qualifies only in perfect holiness, divinity and purity.» — en el ángel la propiedad divina cualifica solo en santidad, divinidad y pureza.

«I mean thereby the power, which in the body of the angel entereth in from without, and cometh forth again; as in a similitude, when a man fetcheth breath and breatheth it forth again; for therein stands the life both of the body and of the spirit.» — Boehme define qué entiende por *qualifying*: el poder que entra y sale en el cuerpo.

«The first counsellor is the eyes; they are affected with everything they look upon, for they are the light.» — el primero de los cinco consejeros del cuerpo angélico: los ojos, que son la luz.

«For as the light goeth forth from the Son of God in the whole Father into all the powers, and affecteth all the powers of the Father, and on the other side all the powers of the Father affect the light of the Son of God wherefrom ariseth the Holy Spirit:» — el paralelo trinitario del sentido: como la luz sale del Hijo, de ahí surge el Espíritu.

«The second counsellor is the ears, which have their rise also from all the powers in the whole body through the spirit; their fountain is Mercurius or the sound, which ariseth from all the powers.» — el segundo consejero, los oídos, que reciben el sonido nacido de todos los poderes.

«And as in all the powers of God the Mercurius riseth and soundeth, wherein the heavenly tone, tune or joy consisteth, and the tone or tune goeth forth out of all the powers, and so in the attraction of the spirit in God is elevated or raised up:» — el *Mercurius* se eleva en todos los poderes de Dios.

«And when one power toucheth or stirreth the other, and tuneth» — de un poder tocando y afinando a otro sale la melodía. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now where the Mercurius soundeth and is elevated or predominant, there the Mercurius of the spirit goeth also in, and is thereby affected, and bringeth it [the sound] before the princely throne in the head, where it is to be approved by the other four counsellors.» — el sonido se presenta ante el trono y lo prueban los otros cuatro consejeros.

«But if the whole princely council in the head be not pleased, so that it [the sound] is approved, then it [the princely council] lets that go again, and bringeth it [the sound] not to the mother, the heart.» — y si el consejo lo desaprueba, el sonido no llega al corazón: es el mecanismo de la aprobación, no la mera percepción.

«The third princely counsellor is the nose; there the fountain riseth up from the body in the spirit into the nose, and there it has two open doors or gates.» — el tercer consejero, la nariz, con dos puertas.

«As the excellent, precious and amiable blessed savour or smell goeth forth from all the powers of the Father and of the Son, and tempereth itself with all the powers of the Holy Ghost, whence the Holy Spirit and most precious savour riseth up from the fountain of the Holy Ghost; and floweth or boileth in all the powers of the Father, and kindleth all the powers of the Father, whereby they are impregnated again with the amiable blessed savour or saving smell, and so generate it in the Son and Holy Ghost:» — el olor se engendra en el Hijo y el Espíritu Santo.

«And there it is to be proved whether the smell be a good smell or savour, pleasing to man's constitution and complexion, or no:» — también el olor se somete a prueba antes de ser admitido.

«If it be good, then the counsellor bringeth the same to its mother, that the smell may be brought to effect; if it be not good, then is it expelled and thrust away.» — admitido si es bueno, expulsado si no.

«Just as the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Son, and is the sharpness or proof of all powers, and in his moving or rising up bringeth all that which is good again into all the powers of the Father, whereby the powers of the Father are impregnated again, and so continually generate the taste.» — el cuarto sentido, el gusto, se engendra sin cesar como el Espíritu Santo procede.

«But that which is not good the Holy Ghost speweth out, as a loathsome abomination, as it is written in the Apocalypse [Rev. iii 16 ]; and as he spewed out the great prince Lucifer in his pride and perdition;» — lo que no es bueno queda fuera, y el caso mayor que da es el del príncipe Lucifer en su soberbia.

«O man, let this be told thee, for the spirit is earnestly jealous in this thing especially: Desist from pride; or else it will be with you as it befell the devils.» — la advertencia dirigida al lector: que no le ocurra lo que a los diablos.

«But though the taste be pleasant to the tongue, and is a good taste, but yet is not serviceable and useful for the whole body, then it is rejected nevertheless, when it comes before the council, and the tongue must spit or spew it out, and touch it no more.» — la acotación fina: aunque el gusto sea agradable, puede ser rechazado por no convenir.

«For Christ saith in the Gospel [John v. 17], I work, and my Father works also.» — el apoyo evangélico del obrar continuo.

«Therefore the Holy Ghost floweth, boileth and riseth up from eternity to eternity, and kindleth again all the powers of the Father, and makes them stirring, so that they are always impregnated.» — el Espíritu Santo fluye y hierve en los poderes del Padre, que quedan siempre preñados.

«But if one member be too much stirred, it crieth to the whole body for help, and the whole body stirs, as if it were in a great commotion or uproar, as if the enemy were at hand, and cometh to help that member, and to deliver and release it from the pain.» — el quinto sentido, el tacto, expuesto por el caso del miembro excitado en exceso.

«Or if one member would stir and move too vehemently by hearing, and would fain hear false and wicked tongues in talking lies and fictions, and bring that to the heart, this also is rejected by the counsellors.» — el exceso de movimiento lo rechazan los consejeros.

«In short, there are therefore five in the princely council, that one should advise another, and every one is of a peculiar sundry quality;» — el resumen del capítulo: cinco consejeros, cada uno de cualidad propia.

«But with this difference alone, that an angel, and a man, is a creature, and not the whole being, but a son of the whole being, whom the whole being has generated; and therefore it is fit that it should be in subjection to the whole being, seeing that it is the son of the body of the whole being.» — el capítulo sexto trata al ángel y al hombre como hijos del ser entero, sujetos al Padre.

«Now if the son resist and oppose the father, it is but right that the father should cast him away out of the house, seeing the son sets himself against him that has generated him, and from whose power he is become a creature.» — el derecho del padre a expulsar al hijo que se le opone, que es la figura jurídica con que explicará la caída.

«For if any one make somewhat out of that which is his own, he may, if it does not prove according to his will, do with it what he pleaseth, and make it either a vessel of honour or of dishonour; which was done even so to Lucifer.» — quien hace algo de lo suyo puede hacerlo para honra o para deshonra, y así fue con Lucifer.

«From all qualities the whole divine power of the Father speaketh forth the WORD; that is, the Son of God.» — de todas las cualidades sale la palabra divina entera, que es el Hijo de Dios.

«Now that WORD which the Father pronounceth or speaketh forth has such a sharpness, that the tone of the WORD goeth swiftly in a moment through the whole deep of the Father, and that sharpness is the Holy Ghost.» — y la agudeza de esa palabra es el Espíritu Santo.

«For the WORD which is spoken forth or outspoken abideth as a splendour or glorious edict [or proclamation ] before the king.» — la palabra pronunciada queda como edicto glorioso ante el rey; los corchetes con la variante son del impreso.

«Now behold! An angel, and a man also, is thus: The power in the whole body has all the qualities, as it is in God the Father.» — el poder del cuerpo entero en el ángel y en el hombre corresponde al del Padre.

«And as all the powers in God the Father rise up from eternity to eternity, so all the powers rise up also in an angel, and in a man, into the head; for higher they cannot rise; for they are but creatures that have a beginning and end.» — con la diferencia de que en la criatura esos poderes tienen principio y fin.

«So also the tongue sharpeneth, articulateth and distinguisheth all» — la lengua afila, articula y distingue todo lo que los sentidos traen al corazón. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The mouth signifieth that thou art an unalmighty son of thy Father, whether thou art an angel or a man.» — la boca significa la filiación, y vale igual para el ángel y para el hombre.

«An angel must do so, as well as a man, though indeed he needs not to use the element of air in that manner as a man does; yet he must attract into himself, through the mouth, the spirit from which the air in this world existeth.» — el ángel ha de atraer el espíritu por la boca, no el aire de este mundo.

«For in heaven there is no such air, but the qualities are very meek and joyful, like a pleasant cheering breath of wind, and the Holy Ghost is among all the qualities in the Salitter and Mercurius.» — porque en el cielo no hay aire como acá: el Espíritu Santo está en el *Salitter* y en el *Mercurius*.

«Thou must not understand this in an earthly manner; for an angel has no guts, neither flesh nor bones, but is constituted or composed by the divine power in the shape, form and manner of a man, and has all members like man, except the members of generation, and the fundament or going out of the draff, neither has an angel need of them.» — la salvedad anatómica: el ángel no tiene ni necesita las vísceras del hombre.

«For heaven has but one form or manner: nothing grows there which is not good.» — en el cielo hay una sola forma y no crece nada que no sea bueno.

«Lord Lucifer alone has deformed and dressed this world in that manner: Therefore was mother Eve ashamed, when she had eaten of that which was dressed by the evil quality; in like manner also she was ashamed of her members of generation, which she had caused by the biting of this apple.» — toda la deformidad de este mundo se adjudica a Lucifer y a la mordida de la manzana.

«The angelical and heavenly fruit has not such [an evil quality or] substance: Indeed it is most certain and true that there are all manner of fruits in heaven, and not types and shadows merely: Also that the angels pluck them with their hands, and eat them, as we that are men do, but they need not any teeth to do it withal, neither have they any, for the fruit is of a divine power.» — el fruto celestial no lleva cualidad maligna.

«True it is that their body is their own propriety, for God has given it to them for a propriety.» — el cuerpo del ángel es propiedad suya porque Dios se lo dio en propiedad.

«Therefore an angel is an eternal incorruptible creature, which stands or subsisteth in all eternity.» — el ángel es criatura eterna e incorruptible.

«But what would the body profit him, if God did not feed it, for then it would have no mobility, and would lie still like a dead block.» — y la acotación que impide leer esa eternidad como autonomía: sin el alimento de Dios el cuerpo sería un leño muerto.

«Now, therefore, the angels are obedient to God, and humble themselves before the powerful God; they honour, laud and praise him in his great deeds and works of wonder, and sing continually of God's holiness, because he feedeth them.» — de ahí saca la obediencia de los ángeles: obedecen porque él los alimenta.

«The right love in the divine nature cometh from the fountain of the Son of God.» — el amor recto viene del Hijo de Dios.

«But if thou wilt have experience of it in this world, give over thy hypocrisy, bribery and deceit, and thy scorning; and turn thy heart in all seriousness to God: Repent thee of thy sins, with a true intention and resolution to live holily, and pray to God for his holy spirit.» — el modo de comprobarlo que él propone: arrepentirse y pedir el Espíritu Santo.

«If thou holdest on in thy earnestness, and wilt not give over, then will this fire come suddenly upon thee, like lightning, and shine into thee; and then thou wilt well experience that which I have here written, and wilt easily believe that which is in my book.» — la promesa condicionada: perseverando, el lector verá lo que el libro dice.

«Thou wilt also become quite another man, and wilt think thereon all the days of thy life; thy delight will be more in heaven than on earth.» — y el efecto que anuncia: el lector será otro hombre.

«yet it is always continually with its Redeemer JESUS CHRIST, and eateth as a guest with him. Note this!» — el cierre del capítulo sexto: el alma santa está de continuo con su Redentor Jesucristo y come como convidado con él. El pasaje empieza en la plana anterior con *For the conversation of the holy soul is in heaven*, y el corte de troceo parte la palabra *indeed* en dos.

«When God Almighty had decreed in his council that he would make angels or creatures out of himself, then he made them out of his eternal power and wisdom, according to the form and manner of the Ternary in his Deity, and according to the qualities in his divine being.» — el capítulo séptimo abre por el decreto: Dios resuelve hacer los ángeles de su propio ser.

«At first he made three kingly governments or dominions, answerable to the number of the Holy Trinity, and each kingdom had the order or ordinance, power and quality of the divine being.» — y el reparto que sale de ahí: tres gobiernos reales, según la Trinidad.

«Now elevate thy sense, thoughts and spirit into the deep of the Deity, for here a gate is opened.» — la fórmula con que Boehme pide al lector otro registro de lectura: aquí se abre una puerta.

«These three kingdoms together contain such a deep as is not of any human number, nor can they be measured by anything.» — los tres reinos no se pueden medir con nada.

«Yet you must know that these three kingdoms have a beginning and an end; but that God, who has made these three kingdoms out of himself, is infinite, and has no end.» — y a la vez tienen principio y fin, mientras Dios no lo tiene: la distinción se sostiene sin armonizar.

«But thou art to know this Mystery: that in the centre or midst of these three kingdoms is generated the splendour or Son of God.» — el misterio que el capítulo aporta: en el centro de los tres reinos se engendra el resplandor o Hijo de Dios.

«Neither have I any purpose to consider of it further, much less to write; but my revelation reacheth even into the three kingdoms, like an angelical knowledge.» — abstención expresa: no se propone ir más allá, y no reclama conocimiento angélico.

«But not in my reason or apprehension, nor in perfection like an angel, but in part, and so long only as the spirit tarrieth in me, further I know it not.» — la acotación de su propio saber: no es su razón la que alcanza, y más allá no sabe.

«When he parteth from me I know nothing but the elementary and earthly things of this world: but the spirit seeth even into the depth of Deity.» — y su dependencia: apartado el espíritu, dice no saber nada.

«The holy angels were made to be creatures from God, that they should praise, sing, ring forth and jubilate before the Heart of God, (which is the Son of God), and increase the heavenly joy.» — los ángeles se hicieron para alabar y acrecentar el gozo celestial.

«But the splendour and the power of the Son of God, or Heart of God, which is the light or source and fountain of joy, taketh up his fairest and most joyful original in the centre or midst of these kingdoms, and shineth into and through all the angelical gates.» — el resplandor del Hijo brilla por todas las puertas angélicas.

«For when I speak by way of similitude, and liken the Son of God to the sun, or to a round globe, it has not that meaning as if he were a circumscriptive fountain, which can be measured, or whose depth, beginning or end could be fathomed.» — aviso de método: cuando habla por similitud no está midiendo al Hijo.

«Behold, the sun is the heart of all powers in this world, and is compacted, framed or composed out of all the powers of the stars, it reenlighteneth all the stars, and all the powers in this world, and all powers grow active, operative or qualifying in its power.» — el sol como corazón de los poderes: todo se vuelve activo en su virtud.

«Just as the sun with its power presseth into all the stars, and affecteth them all; or as the power of God the Son presseth into all the powers of God the Father, whereby they are all affected, wherein the birth or geniture of the heavenly joyfulness springeth up.» — el mismo poder solar sirve de figura al brote del gozo celestial.

«Or as the sun is the heart of all the stars, and as all stars are members of the sun, and work one among another as one star, and yet the sun is the heart therein ; though indeed there are many and various powers, yet all work in the power of the sun, and all has its» — el remate del capítulo: el sol como corazón de todos los astros, que obran entre sí como una sola estrella. La frase se corta en el corte de troceo, con la misma plana a los dos lados, y sigue nombrando animales, metales y vegetales.

«For the powers of the Father are everywhere, from and out of which the Son is generated, and from which the Holy Ghost goeth forth; how then should he be generated in the centre of these angelical gates only?» — la objeción que se pone a sí mismo: si los poderes del Padre están en todas partes, por qué el Hijo se engendra solo en el centro de las puertas angélicas.

«This therefore is the only ground and meaning, that the holy Father, who is ALL, would have in these angelical gates his most joyful and most richly loving qualities, out of which is generated the most joyful and most richly loving light, word, heart, or fountain of powers; and therefore has he created his holy angels in this place for his joy, honour and glory.» — la respuesta que da: ése es el lugar escogido, hecho para gozo, honra y gloria.

«In the abyssal or bottomless eternity indeed, it is [the same ] in one place as in another; but where there are no creatures nothing can be known, except by the spirit in its wonders.» — donde no hay criaturas nada puede ser conocido sino por el espíritu en sus maravillas.

«has not this meaning, that the Son of God is a circumscribed, compacted, figured image, like the sun.» — la negativa que acompaña al símil solar: el Hijo no es imagen figurada como el sol.

«it were so, then must the Son of God have a beginning, and the Father must have generated him in time, and then he could not be the eternal, almighty Son of the Father; but the Son would be like a king, who had yet a greater king above him, who had generated him in time, and in whose power it was to alter and change him.» — porque entonces el Hijo tendría principio, y podría ser alterado.

«Father's power is all, in and above all heavens, and the same power everywhere generateth the light.» — el poder del Padre está en todos los cielos y en todas partes engendra la luz.

«therefore called the Son, in that it is generated out of the Father, so that it is the Heart of the Father in his powers.» — por qué se le llama Hijo: por ser engendrado, y por ser el Corazón del Padre en sus poderes.

«All growing or vegetation and forms in the Father arise and spring up in the moving of the Holy Ghost; therefore there is but ONE only GOD, and three distinct Persons in one divine being, essence or substance.» — un solo ser divino en el que todo crece y se forma.

«Which is not so: But the Father everywhere generateth the Son out of all his powers, and the Holy Ghost goeth everywhere forth from the Father and the Son, and so there is but ONE only God in one being, with three distinct persons.» — la corrección expresa: un solo Dios con tres personas distintas.

«Now the Salitter and Mercurius signify the Father, the gold signifieth the Son, and the power or virtue signifies the Holy Ghost: In such a manner also is the Ternary in the holy Trinity, only that all moveth and goeth forth therein universally.» — la analogía con el oro: el *Salitter* y el *Mercurius* por el Padre, y el resto del ternario en la misma figura.

«No; this would not be an eternal Son, but one that had a beginning, and was under, beneath or inferior to the Father that had generated him.» — el argumento por reducción: un Hijo con principio sería inferior al Padre.

«Neither would he be all-knowing, for he could not know how it was before his Father had generated him.» — ni omnisciente, porque nada sabría de antes.

«But the Son is generated continually from eternity unto eternity, and shineth continually from eternity into the powers of the Father again, whereby the powers of the Father are always from eternity to eternity continually impregnated with the Son, and generate him continually.» — de ahí la generación continua desde la eternidad.

«Out of which the Holy Ghost continually existeth from eternity to eternity, and so continually from eternity to eternity goeth forth from the Father and the Son, and has neither beginning nor end.» — y de ahí el Espíritu Santo, sin principio ni fin.

«If a man would find out the Mystery, and the deepest ground, he must diligently and exactly view and consider the creation of this world, the government or dominion, and rule or order, as also the qualities of the stars and the elements.» — el método que propone para el misterio: mirar la creación y las cualidades de los astros y los elementos.

«Although these are of a corrupted and twofold being, which is not living, nor has understanding; for it is but the corrupt Salitter» — con su límite dicho en la misma frase: eso es *Salitter* corrompido y de doble fuente. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the powers out of which his angels are made, and is the most powerful and the brightest of them all.» — el querubín o caudillo de un reino, el más luciente de todos.

«For the Creator has extracted the heart out of the Salitter and Mercurius of the divine powers; ["Understand he has composed it by the Fiat, viz. the centre of nature.» — el Creador extrajo el corazón y lo puso en el centro de la naturaleza.

«As the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Son, and affecteth all the powers of the Father, as also all heavenly fruits and forms, from whence all has its rising, and wherein the heavenly joyfulness does consist:» — el Espíritu Santo afecta todos los poderes del Padre y los frutos celestiales, y en eso consiste el gozo del cielo.

«Whereby all angels obtain the will of the throne-angel, and are all obedient to him; for they all work in his power which is in them all.» — de ahí que todos los ángeles obtengan la voluntad que hay en todos ellos.

«This only is the difference: that their bodies are creatures, which have a beginning and an end, and that the kingdom where their locality, habitation or court is, is not their corporeal propriety, or proper own, having it for their natural right, as they have their bodies for a natural right.» — el capítulo octavo empieza fijando la única diferencia entre los reinos angélicos y su cuerpo.

«But the kingdom belongs to God the Father, who has made it out of his powers, and he may set it and dispose it which way he pleaseth; otherwise» — la soberanía queda del lado del Padre. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«All power is in God the Father, and he is the fountain of all pow» — todo poder está en el Padre, fuente de todos los poderes. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«But here thou must not think that the powers in God the Father are in such wise, or qualify in such a corrupt manner and kind, as in man, which lord Lucifer has so brought to pass; no, it is all very lovely, pleasant, delicious and joyful, very gentle, and meek or mild.» — la negativa que ordena el capítulo: los poderes en el Padre no cualifican de la manera corrompida en que lo hacen en el hombre.

«First there is the light (as I may naturally compare or resemble it) like the light of the sun, but not so intolerable as the light of the sun is to our corrupted perished eyes, but very lovely, pleasant and delightful, an aspect or glance of love.» — la luz divina comparada con la del sol y a la vez distinguida de ella: no intolerable, sino mirada de amor.

«But the darkness is hidden in the centre of the light, that is, when a creature, who is made out of the power of the light, would move and boil higher and faster in that light than God Himself does, then in that creature that light would go out and be extinguished.» — la tesis dura del capítulo: la tiniebla está escondida en el centro de la luz, y se enciende si la criatura hierve más alto que Dios.

«Thus also the light shineth from all the powers of the Father; but when the powers are perished or corrupted, then the light is extinguished, and the powers would remain in darkness, as is apparent by Lucifer.» — y el caso: apagada la luz queda la tiniebla, como se ve en Lucifer.

«In God the air also is not of such a kind, but is a lovely, pleasant, still breath or voice, blowing or moving; that is, the exit, going forth or moving of the powers is the original of the air, in which the Holy Ghost riseth up.» — el aire en Dios no es como el de acá, sino aliento apacible en que sube el Espíritu Santo.

«It is lord Lucifer who has thus spoiled it, that it rageth and raveth so in this world, which so runneth and floweth, and is so thick and» — a Lucifer se le adjudica el haber estropeado la corriente de este mundo, que corre espesa. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«In Moses God saith, when he gave the Law to the Children of Israel, I am an angry jealous God to those that hate me ; afterwards he also calls himself a merciful God to them that fear him.» — Boehme cita el pasaje de Moisés sobre el Dios airado con los que le odian y misericordioso con los que le temen; en el capítulo segundo había negado que la ira sea de Dios, y aquí lo consigna sin armonizar.

«First: In the divine power there is, hidden in secret, the astringent quality, which is a quality of the kernel, pith or hidden being, a sharp compaction or penetration in the Salitter, very sharp and harsh or astringent, which generates hardness, and also coldness;» — la primera cualidad, la astringente, que engendra dureza y frío.

«But in the heavenly pomp or state it is not so elevating; for it does not elevate itself, neither does it kindle itself; king Lucifer alone has kindled this quality in his kingdom, through his elevation and pride, whence this quality is burning even till the last day.» — y su acotación: en la pompa celestial esa cualidad no ardía; solo Lucifer la encendió.

«But if it be kindled through exaltation, which those creatures that are created out of the divine Salitter alone can do (and only in their own kingdom), then it is a burning sourcevein of the wrath of God.» — encendida por exaltación se vuelve fuente ardiente de la ira de Dios.

«The astringent or harsh quality is the heart, pith or kernel in the divine power, the contraction, compaction or imaging, forming or impression; for it is the sharpness and cold, as it is seen that the harsh astringent cold drieth the water, and makes it sharp ice.» — la astringente descrita como corazón que contrae y hace hielo agudo.

«The sweet quality is the allaying or warming, whereby the harsh or astringent and cold quality becometh thin and soft, whence the water taketh its original.» — la dulce, que alivia y calienta, y de donde toma origen el agua.

«For the astringent or harsh quality, in its stock or kernel, when it qualifieth or operateth in its own power, is a darkness: The sweet quality, in its own power, is a moving, boiling, warming and rising light, a source or fountain of meekness and well-doing.» — el par completo: la astringente es tiniebla en su tronco, la dulce fuente de mansedumbre.

«But while both of them qualify or operate the one in the other, in the divine power, as if they were but one power, they are a meek, mild, lovely, pleasant, merciful qualifying.» — y obrando una en otra dan un cualificar amable y misericordioso: es el modo en que la obra resuelve los pares sin suprimir ninguno.

«These two qualities are two of the spirits of God, among the seven qualifying or fountain-spirits in the divine power.» — esas dos son dos de los espíritus de Dios en el poder divino.

«Whereof you have an image in the Revelation of John, where he seeth seven golden candlesticks or lights before the Son of God, which signify the seven spirits of God, which shine in great clarity, brightness or lustre before the Son of God, out of which the Son of God is continually generated from eternity to eternity, and is the Heart of the seven spirits of God, and which I will here describe in order one after another.» — el apoyo escriturario del esquema: la visión de Juan, que Boehme dice que irá describiendo uno por uno.

«You must here elevate your sense or mind in the spirit, if you intend to understand and apprehend it; or else in your own sense or mind you will be an astringent, hard, blind stock.» — la condición de lectura, dicha como amenaza: quien no eleve el sentido será tronco astringente, duro y ciego.

«The Third quality, or the third spirit of God in the Father's power, is the bitter quality; which is a penetrating or forcing of the sweet and the astringent or harsh qualities, and which is trembling, penetrating and rising up.» — la tercera cualidad o tercer espíritu de Dios, la amarga, que tiembla, penetra y sube.

«The astringent or harsh quality is the kernel or stock, and is sour or attractive ; and the sweet is the light, mollifying and softening;» — la correspondencia entre las tres primeras: la astringente es el grano, la amarga lo activo y la dulce la luz que ablanda. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«This is the source of joy, or the cause of the laughing, elevating joy, whereby a thing trembleth and jubilateth for joy; whence the heavenly joy existeth.» — de esa combinación sale, dice, la fuente del gozo celestial.

«The bitter quality is the first spirit from whence mobility taketh its original, whence the life becometh stirring, and is well called Cor or the heart, for it is the trembling, shivering, elevating, penetrating spirit, a triumphing or joy, an elevating source of laughing; in the sweet quality the bitter is mollified, so that it becometh very richly loving and joyful.» — la amarga se declara primer espíritu del que nace el amor.

«But if it be moved, elevated and kindled too much, then it kindleth the sweet and the astringent or harsh qualities, and is like a tearing, stinging and burning poison, as when a man is tormented with a raging plaguesore, which makes him cry out for woe and misery.» — y su reverso, que es el mismo movimiento en exceso.

«In the divine power this quality, when it is kindled, is the spirit of the zealous or jealous and bitter wrath of God, which is unquenchable, as may be seen by the legions of Lucifer.» — encendida, esa cualidad es la ira celosa de Dios, y el caso son las legiones de Lucifer.

«In the sour quality it causes a rankness and brittleness, a stink, a misery, a house of mourning, a house of darkness, of death and of hell; an end of joy, which therein can no more be thought upon: For it cannot be quieted or stilled by anything, nor can it be enlightened again by anything; but the dark, astringent or harsh, stinking, sour, torn, bitter, fierce quality riseth up to all eternity.» — en la agria causa rancidez y quebradizo, y sube por toda la eternidad.

«Now observe: In these three species or qualities stands the corporeal being, or the creatural being of all creatures in heaven and in this world, whether it be angel or man, beast or fowl or vegetable, of a heaven» — en esas tres especies está toda criatura, sea ángel u hombre, bestia, ave o vegetal. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now in the body these qualities are mixed, as if they all were but one quality; yet each quality moveth or boileth in its own power, and so goeth forth.» — en el cuerpo las cualidades van mezcladas, y cada una se mueve en su propio poder.

«Now the astringent or harsh quality (together with the sour), always contracteth or attracteth the other qualities together, and so apprehendeth and retaineth the body and drieth it.» — la astringente contrae, retiene el cuerpo y lo seca.

«The heat kindleth all the qualities, out of which the light riseth up and expandeth itself aloft in all the qualities, so that they see one another: For when the heat works in the sweet moisture, then it generateth the light in all the qualities, so that one quality seeth the others.» — el calor, cuarta cualidad, enciende a las demás y saca la luz por la que una ve a las otras.

«For it drieth all the other powers, and retaineth them all through its infection or influence; and the sweet softeneth and moisteneth all the others, and so blendeth and tempereth itself with all the others, whereby they become daintily pleasant and mild or soft.» — y el juego entre secar y ablandar del que sale la mezcla agradable.

«The bitter makes all the others stirring and moveable, and parteth or distinguisheth them into members;» — la amarga las pone en movimiento y las reparte en miembros.

«Now when these are imaged or formed, there it [the astringent quality] lies as a corporeal, springing, boiling mobility, for it moveth or boileth through and in the bitter quality in itself, as in its own imaged, formed or framed body; but without the heat, which is the spirit of nature [or nature-spirit], it has as yet no life to growing, vegetation, springing or spreading abroad.» — formadas así, se sigue el brote.

«But when the heat of the sun shineth upon the earth, then there spring and grow in the earth all manner of images or figures of ores or minerals, herbs, roots and worms, and all whatsoever is therein.» — el calor del sol hace crecer en la tierra imágenes y figuras.

«You have an example and type or resemblance of this, if you behold and consider this world, especially the earth, which is of the kind and condition of all qualities, and all manner of figures or shapes are formed and imaged therein.» — el mundo entero se ofrece como ejemplo y tipo de esa mezcla.

«In the earth the heat of the sun kindleth the sweet quality of water, in all imaged or framed figures; and then through the heat the light cometh to be in the sweet water, and that enlighteneth the astringent or sour quality, and the bitter, so that they see in or by the light; and in that seeing the one riseth up into the other, and proveth the other, that is, in that seeing the one tasteth of the other's sharpness, from whence cometh the taste.» — el calor del sol produce luz en el agua dulce de la tierra, y de ahí el sabor.

«When the sweet quality thus stretcheth or wideneth itself, and retireth from the bitter, then the astringent always presseth after it, and would also fain taste of the sweet: and always makes the body, that is behind it, and in it, to be dry; for the sweet quality is the mother of the water, and is very meek, mild, soft and gentle.» — la dulce, madre del agua, se declara mansa y blanda.

«That is, when thou pronouncest BAR, the last letter R snarleth and murmureth like a trembling breath, and thus does the bitter quality, which is a trembling.» — la fonética como prueba doctrinal: la R final gruñe y tiembla, y eso hace la cualidad amarga.

«Now the word BARM is a dead word, void of understanding, so that no man understands what it meaneth; which signifieth that the two qualities, astringent, and bitter, are a hard, dark, cold and bitter being, which have no light in them: And therefore a man cannot understand their power without the light.» — BARM es palabra muerta, sin entendimiento: las dos cualidades astringente y amarga no tienen luz.

«But when a man saith BARMHERTZ, he fetcheth or presseth the second syllable out from the deep of the body, out from the heart, for the right spirit speaketh forth the word HERTZ, which riseth up aloft from the heat of the heart, in which the light goeth forth and floweth.» — al decir BARMHERTZ se saca del hondo del cuerpo la sílaba HERTZ y sale la luz.

«Thus is the divine power also; the astringent and bitter qualities are the Salitter of the divine omnipotence, the sweet quality is the pith or kernel of the Barmhertzigkeit, warmheartedness, or mercifulness, according to which the whole being, with all the powers, is called GOTT (GOD).» — el mismo esquema en el poder divino, que por eso se llama GOTT.

«The light's flame or flash, which in the twinkling of an eye, or in a moment, shineth into all the powers, even as the sun does in the whole world, is the Holy Ghost, which goeth forth from the clarity or brightness of the Son of God, and is the flash of lightning and sharpness; for the Son is generated in the midst or centre of the other qualities, and is caught by the other qualities.» — el destello de la luz sale del Hijo de Dios y lo prenden las otras cualidades.

«When the Father speaketh or pronounceth the WORD, that is, generateth his Son (which is always done for ever and eternally), then that Word first taketh its original in the astringent quality; therein it fixeth, conceiveth or compacteth itself; and in the sweet quality it taketh its fountain, spring or source, and in the bitter quality it sharpeneth and moveth itself, and in the heat it riseth up and kindleth the middle sweet fountain or source.» — la palabra del Padre atraviesa las cualidades y enciende la fuente dulce del medio.

«Now it burneth jointly or equally alike in all the qualities of the kindled fire, and the fire burneth forth from the qualities; for all qualities burn, and that fire is one fire, and not many several fires.» — y arde un solo fuego, no muchos.

«Out of that fire goeth forth the flash or the light, and moveth or boileth in all the powers, and has or containeth in itself the fountain and sharpness of all the powers, because it is generated, through the Son, out of all the powers of the Father; and so then it reciprocally makes all the powers in the Father living and moving; and through that spirit are all the angels formed and imaged out of the Father's powers.» — de ese fuego sale el destello del que se forman los ángeles.

«That spirit formeth and preserveth and supporteth all, all vegetation, all colours and all creatures, both in heaven and in this world, and above the heaven of heavens.» — ese espíritu forma, conserva y sostiene todo.

«But when the fire is kindled in a creature, that is, when a creature elevateth itself too high or too much (as Lucifer and his legions did), then the light extinguished or goeth out, and the fierce, wrathful and hot source, the source of the hellish fire, riseth up, that is, the spirit of the fire riseth up in the fierce quality.» — encendido el fuego en una criatura que se eleva, la luz se apaga.

«Now when he elevateth himself, he elevateth himself first in the astringent quality, which he gripeth close together, as a woman who is in travail, and presseth himself, whereby the hard quality becometh so hard and sharp that the sweet water can force or prevail with it no more, and so can rise up no more meekly or mildly in the creature, but is captivated and dried up by the astringent quality, and changed into a hard, sharp, fierce coldness.» — el orden de la caída: se eleva primero en la astringente, y ésta se vuelve frío duro y agudo.

«So when the bitter quality riseth up in the exsiccated or dried sweet quality, then the sweetness cannot mollify it, and saturate it with its sweet light water, because it is dried up.» — seca el agua, la amarga ya no se puede suavizar.

«There the bitter quality raveth and rageth, and seeketh for rest and food, and finds it not, and moveth or boileth in the body as a lingering poison.» — y queda delirando, como veneno que no acaba.

«Now when the heat kindleth the sweet quality, and would mitigate its heat in the sweet water (whence it riseth up and shineth in the whole body), there it finds nothing but a hard, dry, sweet source or quality, there is no sap or moisture, the sap being quite exsiccated or dried up by the astringency.» — el calor no halla savia porque la astringencia la secó.

«Thus you have here the true description of an expulsed angel or of a devil, as also the cause thereof, and that not written in a similitude only, but in the spirit, through that power out of which all things are come to be.» — Boehme declara que esa es la descripción verdadera de un ángel expulsado.

«O man! behold thyself herein, look before thee and behind thee, nothing is in vain.» — y devuelve el caso al lector: nada de esto es en vano.

«The Fifth quality, or the fifth spirit of God among the seven spirits of God, in the divine power of the Father, is the gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and joyful love.» — la quinta cualidad o quinto espíritu de Dios: el amor amable y gozoso.

«When the heat in the sweet quality riseth up, and kindleth the sweet source, fountain or spring, then that fire burneth in the sweet quality; now seeing the sweet quality is a thin or transparent lovely pleasant sweet fountain or springwater, it allayeth the heat and quencheth the fire, and so there remaineth in the sweet fountainspring of the sweet water only the joyful light.» — del calor en la cualidad dulce sale la luz gozosa, y del agua dulce.

«The heat is only a gentle soft warming, even as it is in a man who is of a sanguine complexion, wherein also the heat is only a friendly, cheerly wanning, if the party liveth temperately, and keepeth a due measure.» — y ese calor guarda la medida debida, no arde.

«That friendly courteous lovelightfire goeth along in the sweet quality, and riseth up into the bitter and astringent qualities, and so kindleth the bitter and astringent qualities, feeding them with its sweet lovesap, refreshing, quickening and enlightening them, and making them living or lively, cheerful and friendly.» — ese fuego de luz de amor vivifica la amarga y la astringente.

«O immense greatness! I cannot compare thee to anything, but only to the resurrection from the dead; there will the love-fire rise up again in us, and embrace man courteously and friendly, and kindle again our astringent, bitter and cold, dark and dead quality, and embrace us most friendly.» — la abstención puesta como exclamación: no puede compararlo con nada.

«O fierce wrathful devil! O, what hast thou done, who hast sunk down thyself and thy beautiful bright angels into darkness?» — la apóstrofe al diablo, que abre la parte profética del capítulo.

«Thou sayest, if thy fall had not been, man would never have been thought of.» — Boehme pone en boca del diablo el alegato de que sin su caída no se habría pensado en el hombre.

«O thou lying devil! Though that should be true, yet the Salitter out of which man is made (which is also from eternity, as well as that out of which thou art made), had stood in eternal joy and bright glory, and had likewise risen up in God, and had tasted of the gracious, amiable, blessed love in the seven spirits of God, and enjoyed the heavenly joy.» — y se lo concede a efectos del argumento sin darle la razón: aun siendo así, el hombre gozó del gozo celestial.

«O thou lying devil, stay but a little, the spirit will discover thy shame to thee;» — la amenaza de que el espíritu descubrirá esa vergüenza.

«O, this is the devil's highmindedness, who fell out of heaven into hell.» — la altivez del diablo como causa de su caída del cielo al infierno.

«there is nothing in God but a merciful, amiable love and bright glory.» — y la contraparte: en Dios no hay sino amor misericordioso y gloria clara.

«Thus saith the LORD, Will ye not feed my people which I have committed to your charge?» — el oráculo contra los pastores, dicho en primera persona divina.

«Behold I have set you upon Moses' chair, and entrusted you with my flock;» — el cargo: los puso sobre la cátedra de Moisés y les confió el rebaño.

«I will set you on the stool of pestilence, and my own Shepherd shall feed my sheep eternally.» — y la sentencia: los pondrá en la silla de la pestilencia, y su propio Pastor apacentará las ovejas.

«Thus is the true springing or vegetation in nature, be it in man, beast, wood, herbs or stones.» — el brote verdadero de la naturaleza, igual en madera, hierbas o piedras.

«When the sweet quality thus flies from the bitter, and from the sour and astringent, then the astringent and the bitter make all the haste they can after it, as their best treasure;» — la alegoría del tallo: la dulce huye de la amarga y las otras la retienen como su mejor tesoro.

«But when the sweet quality leapeth or springeth up through the knot, then the bitter quality had so much affected or wrought upon it that it was all in a trembling;» — el salto de la dulce hace temblar a la amarga.

«And then the sweet quality yieldeth to be taken captive, and so the bitter, the sour, the sweet and the astringent reign jointly together,» — la dulce se deja cautivar y con eso reinan juntas.

«And then the sweet quality extends itself gently or mildly, and there grow little subtile leaves in the head,» — de ahí salen las hojillas sutiles en el capullo.

«And then also the sweet quality presseth forth in little leaves, like a woman who is in travail and bringing forth,» — el símil del parto: la dulce empuja como mujer que da a luz.

«And when this sweet mother has brought forth the fair, green, blue, white, red and yellow flowers, blossoms or children, then she grows quite weary,» — y la madre dulce se cansa tras engendrar.

«and cannot long nourish or nurse these children, neither can she have them long, seeing they are but her stepchildren,» — no puede criarlos mucho: son hijastros suyos.

«And seeing they are too weak for this strong spirit, and cannot elevate themselves, they yield or surrender their noble power, and that smells so lovely and with so pleasant a savour that it rejoiceth the very heart, and makes it laugh; but they must wither and fall off, because they are too tender for this spirit.» — los tiernos se marchitan por débiles.

«This they drive and act so long, till all the matter is quite dried, till the sweet quality or sweet water is dried up, and then the fruit falls off, and the stalk drieth also and falleth down.» — el ciclo se cierra con el tallo que se seca y cae.

«And this is the End of Nature in this World.» — y así, con esas cinco palabras, nombra el fin de la naturaleza en este mundo.

«Now in the body or fountain is the heat, which generateth the fire, and which is a form or kind of thing that a man can search into; and out of the heat goeth the light through all the spirits and qualities; and the light is the living spirit, which a man cannot search into.» — la luz en el cuerpo se declara espíritu viviente que el hombre no puede escrutar.

«A man can search into its will, and know what it willeth, or how it is: For it proceedeth in the sweet quality, and the light riseth up in the sweet quality in the sweet water, but not in the other qualities.» — el límite del escrutinio: solo en la cualidad dulce.

«canst kindle all things in this world, and so make them burn and give light, but where the other qualities are predominant thou canst kindle nothing;» — con predominio de lo dulce se enciende todo; donde mandan las otras cualidades no se enciende nada. El pasaje empieza en la plana anterior, con la condicional sobre el predominio de la cualidad dulce

«Thou canst not kindle light in a stone, because the astringent or harsh quality is chief or predominant therein:» — la prueba: no se enciende luz en la piedra, donde manda lo astringente.

«But thou wilt say that a man cannot kindle the water to make it give light.» — la objeción que se pone: pero el hombre sí enciende madera.

«Answer. Yes, dear man, here lies or sticketh the Mystery.» — y su respuesta, que remite al misterio.

«But thou must understand this concerning the sweet quality of the water, and not concerning the stick or block; but it is to be understood concerning the unctuosity [oiliness] or fatness which is the spirit therein.» — el misterio está en la grasa o untuosidad, que es el espíritu.

«The flesh neither burneth nor shineth nor giveth light, but its fat burneth and shineth or giveth light.» — solo la grasa arde y alumbra, no la carne.

«Behold, in flesh the astringent or sour, and the bitter qualities are predominant; and in the fat the sweetness is chief and predominant; therefore fat creatures are always merrier and frolicker than the lean, because the sweet spirit floweth more abundantly in them than in the lean.» — de ahí que las criaturas gordas sean más alegres que las flacas.

«This is the pith or kernel of the deity, and therefore IT is called GOTT, GOD, because it is sweet, meek, friendly and bounteous or good, GUTIG; and therefore is IT called Barmhertzig (warmhearted or merciful), because its sweet quality riseth up in the astringent or sour and bitter qualities, and refresheth, moisteneth and enlighteneth them, that they might not remain a dark valley.» — el pasaje de la lengua materna: se nombra a la Deidad GOTT, GOD, GUTIG y Barmhertzig porque su cualidad dulce sube en la astringente y en la amarga. Los paréntesis con la traducción son del impreso.

«For understand but thy mother tongue aright ; thou hast as deep a ground therein as is in the Hebrew or Latin : Though the learned elevate themselves in these, like a proud arrogant bride; it is no great matter, their art is now on the lees [Turba], or bowed down to the dust.» — la reivindicación de la lengua materna frente al hebreo y el latín, con el corchete *Turba* que el impreso pone junto a las heces.

«The spirit sheweth and declareth, that yet before the end, many a layman will know and understand more than now the wittiest or most cunning doctors know; for the gates of heaven set themselves open; those that do not blind themselves shall and will see it very well; the Bridegroom crowneth his bride. AMEN.» — la profecía con que cierra: antes del fin un lego sabrá más que los doctores más agudos.

«It is true, that from the beginning of the world it was not so fully revealed to any man; but seeing God will have it so, I submit to his will, and will see what God will do with it.» — el cierre del capítulo reconoce que desde el principio del mundo la revelación no ha estado entera al alcance del hombre, y remite a lo que Dios quiera hacer.

«For his way which is before him is for the most part hidden from me: But following after him the spirit seeth, even into the highest and profoundest depth.» — y el remate: el camino de Dios le queda oculto, aunque el espíritu, siguiéndole, ve hasta lo más hondo.

«the corrupted nature is to gaze on high things alone, like a proud, wild, wanton and whorish woma» — el capítulo noveno abre con la acusación a la naturaleza corrompida, que solo mira lo alto. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«Thus also is the proud, corrupted, perished nature of man, it stareth only upon that which is glittering and in fashion in this world,» — y su versión social: solo atiende a lo que brilla y está de moda.

«What was Moses, that dear man of God? A herdsman.» — la lista de los humildes elegidos empieza por Moisés, pastor de ganado.

«What were Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Herdsmen.» — y sigue con Abraham, Isaac y Jacob, también pastores.

«Though they did miracles and wonders, and shewed great signs, yet the world gazed on high things alone, and the Holy Ghost must be as the dust under their feet: For the proud devil always endeavoured to be king in this world.» — la acotación: aun haciendo prodigios, el diablo pretende ser rey en este mundo.

«The High Priests and Scribes were the executioners of Christ, [they] who cried out, Crucify him, crucify him.» — la adjudicación de la muerte de Cristo a los sumos sacerdotes y escribas.

«What were they that in all ages of the Church of Christ stood by it most stoutly and constantly? The poor, contemptible, despised people, who shed their blood for the sake of Christ.» — los que sostuvieron a Cristo en todas las edades fueron los pobres.

«But who were they that falsified and adulterated the right, pure Christian doctrine, and always fought against and opposed it? Even the learned doctors and scribes, popes, cardinals, bishops, and great dons or masters and teachers.» — y quiénes falsificaron la doctrina: doctores, papas y grandes maestros.

«But because they had great respect, were in great authority and power, lived stately, and carried a port in the world.» — la razón por la que el mundo los siguió: el respeto y el porte.

«By the power of God the Father, and by the power and might of God the Holy Ghost.» — la fórmula con que Boehme adjudica a Dios la purga de la Iglesia.

«No; but the philosophy, and the deep ground of God; the heavenly delightful habitation and pleasure; the revelation of the creation of angels; the revelation of the horrible fall of the devil; from whence evil proceedeth; the creation of this world; the deep ground and mystery of man, and of all creatures in this world; the Last Judgment and change of this world; the mystery of the resurrection of the dead; and of eternal life.» — lo que sí es doctrina, según él: la filosofía y el fundamento hondo.

«But why not in the height in art? [In order] that no man should dare to» — la objeción que se pone —por qué no en la altura del arte— con el comienzo de la respuesta. Los corchetes son del impreso y la frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But why does God so? Of his great love and mercy towards all people and nations, and to shew hereby that now is near at hand the time of the restitution of all whatsoever is lost, wherein men shall behold and enjoy the perfection, and move in the pure light and deep knowledge of God.» — por qué obra Dios así: por su gran amor y misericordia.

«But he that sleepeth at his coming, he sleepeth for ever, eternally in the dark prison of fierceness or wrath.» — el que duerme a su venida queda en la prisión oscura de la ira.

«But he careth for the lowly, how to help them.» — y Dios cuida de los humildes.

«Now this fountain-spirit taketh its original at first out of the sweet quality of the water.» — el espíritu-fuente toma origen en la cualidad dulce del agua.

«First there is the astringent quality, then the sweet, and next the bitter: The sweet is in the midst between the astringent and the bitter.» — el orden de las cualidades que el capítulo desarrolla.

«Now the astringent causes things to be hard, cold and dark; and the bitter teareth, driveth, rageth and divideth or distinguished.» — lo que hace cada una: la astringente endurece, la amarga divide.

«These two qualities rub and drive each other so hard, and move so eagerly, that they generate the heat, which now in these two qualities is dark, even as heat in a stone is.» — de frotarse las dos sale el calor, como el calor en la piedra.

«And this [process] together [with the agents therein] is the wrath or anger of God, the source and original of the hellish fire.» — y ese mismo proceso, dice, es la ira de Dios y el origen del fuego infernal. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«Therefore now he is eternally an astringent, hard, cold, bitter, hot and sour stinking fountain- source:» — de ahí que Lucifer quede eternamente como fuente astringente, amarga y hedionda.

«And that bright light fountain-water kindleth the astringent and the bitter qualities, and the heat (which is generated by the astringent and the bitter qualities in the sweet water), riseth up out of the sweet fountain-water through the astringent and bitter qualities,» — el agua clara enciende a través de la astringente y de la amarga.

«In this rising up the astringent quality becometh meek, light, thin or transparent and pleasant or lovely, and obtaineth its life,» — al subir, la astringente se hace dócil y cobra vida.

«But otherwise I cannot bring it into thy sense.» — abstención expresa: de otro modo no puede meterlo en el sentido del lector.

«But this earthly love is only cold water, and is not true fire:» — el amor terrenal no es fuego verdadero.

«A man cannot find any full similitude of it in this half-dead world.» — y no se halla similitud cabal en este mundo medio muerto.

«And the bitter quality also loveth all the other fountain-spirits.» — también la amarga ama a los demás espíritus-fuente: el amor es aquí una relación entre cualidades.

«And the hot quality also loveth all the other qualities; and the love is so great therein towards and in the others that it cannot be likened to anything, for it is generated from and out of the others.» — y la caliente, que sale de las otras.

«The astringent and bitter qualities are the father of the heat, and the sweet fountain-water is its mother, which conceiveth, retaineth and generateth it:» — el parentesco: astringente y amarga son los padres del calor, la dulce su madre.

«Wilt thou not believe this? Then open thy eyes, and go to a tree, look upon it, and bethink thyself; there you see first the whole tree, take a knife and cut a gash in it, and taste how it is; then you first taste the astringent, harsh, choky quality, which draweth thy tongue together, and that also draweth and holdeth together all the powers of the tree.» — el reto de comprobación: abrir el árbol y ver.

«Now these three qualities would be dark and dead, if the heat were not therein:» — sin el calor las tres serían oscuras y muertas.

«But as soon as the spring time cometh, that the sun with its beams reacheth and warmeth the earth, the spirit becometh living by the heat in the tree, and the spirits of the tree begin to grow green, flourish and blossom.» — llegada la primavera, el espíritu del árbol reverdece.

«Though it be impossible for the hands of men to describe this sufficiently, yet the enlightened spirit of man seeth it; for it riseth up just in such a form and birth as the light [does] in the divine power, and also in [such a form and birth as] the qualities which are in God» — el límite reconocido, con la frase cortada en el cambio de plana.

«Only this is to be lamented concerning man, that his qualities are corrupted, perished, and half dead; and therefore it is that man's spirit [in its] or his qualities [in their] rising or kindling in this world, can come or attain to no perfection.» — el lamento: en el hombre las cualidades están corrompidas y no llegan a perfección.

«On the other hand, it is highly to be rejoiced at, that man's spirit, in his necessity, becometh enlightened and kindled by the Holy Ghost: [just] as the sun kindleth the cold heat in a tree or herb, whereby the cold chilled heat becometh living.» — y la contraparte: encendido por el Espíritu Santo, el calor aterido vuelve a vivir.

«For in these five qualities rise up the seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling; and so a rational spirit cometh to be.» — de esas cinco cualidades salen los sentidos y el espíritu racional.

«When the sweet spring or fountain-water riseth up in the light, through all the spirits, then the one tasteth the other; and then the spirits become living, and the power of life penetrateth through all.» — el intercambio de sabores entre espíritus, por el que la vida penetra todo.

«When king Lucifer elevated himself, then he elevated himself in the seven qualifying fountain- spirits, and kindled them with his elevation, so that all was wholly burning, and the astringent quality was so hard and compact, that it generated stones; and it was so cold, that it made the sweet spring or fountain-water turn into ice.» — la caída dicha en el vocabulario de las cualidades: al elevarse, Lucifer convierte el agua-fuente en hielo.

«Upon this king Lucifer was thrust out of his royal place or kingly throne, which he had in that place where now is the created heaven, and thereupon instantly ensued the creation of this world.» — de ahí su expulsión del trono y la creación de este mundo.

«And then there will be two parts or divisions of this kingdom, the one men will get, with their King JESUS CHRIST; the other the devils» — el reparto final en dos partes, una con el rey Jesucristo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«T HE Sixth qualifying or fountain spirit in the divine power is the sound, tone, tune or noise, wherein all soundeth and tuneth; whence ensued speech, language, and the distinction of everything, as also the ringing melody and singing of the holy angels, and therein consisteth the forming or framing of all colours, beauty and ornament, as also the heavenly joyfulness.» — el capítulo décimo define el sexto espíritu cualificante o fuente: el sonido o tono, de donde salen el habla, las lenguas, la melodía de los ángeles y la formación de todos los colores.

«All the seven spirits are generated one in another, the one continually generateth the other, not one of them is the first, nor is any one of them the last; for the last generateth as well the first as the second, third, fourth, and so on to the last.» — la regla que gobierna el esquema entero: los siete se engendran unos a otros, sin primero ni último.

«But why one is called the first, another the second, and so on, that is in respect to that which is the first in order to the imaging, framing and forming of a creature.» — por qué se numeran entonces: por el orden de formación de una criatura, no por prioridad.

«For all the seven are equally eternal, and none of them has either beginning or end; and therefore, in that the seven qualities are continally generating one another, and that none is without the other, it followeth that there is ONE Only Eternal Almighty GOD.» — de la igual eternidad de los siete deduce que hay un solo Dios eterno todopoderoso.

«And if a creature, which is like or as the whole being of God, spoils, elevateth and kindleth itself in a qualifying or fountain spirit,» — la criatura que se echa a perder y se enciende en un espíritu cualificante. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana y sigue diciendo que no enciende uno solo, sino los siete.

«And therefore that creature is a loathsome abomination before the total God, and before all his creatures, and must stand in eternal enmity and ignominy or shame before God, and before all the creatures.» — por eso esa criatura queda como abominación ante Dios y ante todas las criaturas.

«The tone or Mercurius taketh its original in the first, that is, in the astringent and hard quality.» — el origen del tono o *Mercurius* se pone en la primera cualidad, la astringente y dura.

«Hardness is the fountain or wellspring of the tone, but it alone cannot generate the same, yet it is the father thereof, and the whole Salitter is the mother;» — el parentesco: la dureza es el padre del tono y el *Salitter* entero la madre.

«When the flash riseth up in the heat, then first the sweet water catcheth or captivateth it, for therein it becometh shining.» — el agua dulce prende el destello y con eso se vuelve brillante.

«Now when the astringent quality, which is very cold, catcheth the heat and the flash, then it is terrified, as in a tempest of lightning; for when the heat cometh with the light into the hard cold, then it makes a fierce flash, of a very fiery and light colour.» — de la astringente muy fría con el calor sale un destello feroz.

«But it is caught in the hard quality, so that it subsists in a bodily manner, and must shine so eternally, and the flash trembleth in the body, like a fierce rising up, whereby all the qualities are stirred, always and eternally.» — preso en la cualidad dura, el destello mantiene todas las cualidades en movimiento.

«The original of the bitter quality is when the flash of life in the heat riseth up in the astringent quality; and now when the flash of fire in the mixture of the water cometh into the astringent quality, then the spirit of the fiery flash catcheth the astringent and hard spirit, and both these together are an earnest severe fierce quality,» — el origen de la amarga en el destello de vida dentro del calor.

«I can liken it to nothing else but to a thunderclap, when the fierce fire first falls down, so that it dazzleth the sight ; that fierce fire is like the manner of the conjunction of these two.» — la única comparación que admite: el trueno.

«When the fire-spirit and the astringent spirit struggle and wrestle thus together, then the astringent makes a vehement hard cold astriction, and the fiery makes a terrible fierce heat.» — de la lucha entre el espíritu de fuego y el astringente sale el calor feroz.

«For from the fiery quality the spirit becometh trembling and hot, and from the astringent it becometh severe, astringent, hard and corporeal, so that it is a spirit which always subsisteth; and from the sweet it becometh meek or mild, and the fierceness changeth it into a gentle bitterness; which stands now in the fountain or wellspring of the seven spirits of God, and helpeth continually to generate the other six spirits.» — cada cualidad engendra a las otras: de la ígnea sale el espíritu que engendra a los seis.

«It does as well generate its father and mother, as its father and mother do generate it, for after that it is corporeally generated, it then, with the astringent quality, always generateth the fire again, and the fire generateth light, and the light is the flash, which always generateth the life again in all the qualifying or fountain spirits; whence the spirits have life, and always generate one another again.» — y engendra igualmente a su padre y a su madre: el esquema no tiene principio.

«But here thou must know that one spirit alone cannot generate another, neither can two of them do it, but the birth of a spirit stands in the operation of all the seven spirits, six of them always generate the seventh, and so if one of them were not, then the others would not be either.» — ningún espíritu se engendra solo.

«Every spirit has its own quality or source, though indeed it is generated of the others; and so it is with the apprehension of man; he has indeed the fountain of all seven spirits in him, but in what quality or fountain soever the spirit riseth up, the qualifying or fountain spirit thereof, wherein that same spirit is most strongly imaged, is that [one] which he comprehendeth most sharply in» — cada espíritu tiene su cualidad propia. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For even in the divine power one spirit, in its rising up [or ascension], does not go through all the spirits equally at once; for when it riseth up, then indeed it toucheth or stirreth them all at once, but it is caught in its rising up, so that it must lay down its stateliness and pomp, and not triumph over all the seven.» — ni aun en el poder divino un espíritu solo triunfa sobre los siete.

«Thus also in man: When one qualifying or fountain spirit riseth up, then it toucheth all the others, and seeth all the others, for it riseth up in the middle or central fountain or wellspring of the heart, where, in the heat, the flash of light kindleth itself, wherein the spirit in its rising up, in the same flash, seeth through all the spirits.» — y lo mismo en el hombre: el espíritu que se eleva ve a través de todos.

«But in our corrupted flesh it [the rising up] is only like a tempest of lightning: for if I could in my flesh comprehend the flash (which I very well see and know how it is), I could clarify or transfigure my body therewith, so that it would shine with a bright light and glory.» — el límite que pone la carne corrompida: si comprendiera el destello, el cuerpo brillaría. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«But hearken, Friend, tarry yet a little while, and then give the» — la promesa de que los espíritus volverán a subir y a hacerse cuerpo, dicha con el cuerpo bestial entregado a los gusanos. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«I cannot describe unto thee the whole Deity by the circumference or extent of a circle, for it is immeasurable; but to that spirit which is in God's love it is not incomprehensible: That spirit comprehends it well, yet but in part; therefore take one part after another, and then you will see the whole.» — abstención de método: no puede describir la Deidad entera, y propone verla por partes.

«In this corruption we cannot get higher than with such a revelation, neither does this world enclose itself any higher, both as to the beginning and the end.» — en la corrupción no se sube más alto que lo revelado; tampoco este mundo se encierra más alto. La misma frase se repite entre comillas dos renglones después, glosada por el aparato.

«I have read the writings of very high masters, hoping to find therein the ground and true depth; but I have found nothing, but a half dead spirit, which in anxiety travaileth and laboureth for health, and yet, because of its great weakness, cannot attain perfect power.» — Boehme declara haber leído a maestros muy altos y no alcanzar poder perfecto.

«Thus I stand yet as an anxious woman in travail, and seek perfect refreshing, but find only the scent or smell or savour in its rising up, wherein the spirit examineth what power sticketh in the true cordial, and in the meanwhile refresheth itself in its sickness with that perfect smell or savour, till the true Samaritan does come, who will dress and bind up its wounds and heal it, and bring it to the eternal inn or lodging, then shall it enjoy the perfect taste.» — se compara con la mujer en parto que aún espera.

«This herb, which I mean here, from whose fragrancy my spirit taketh its refreshing, every country ploughman does not know it, nor every doctor, the one is as ignorant of it as the other; it grows indeed in every garden, but in many it is quite spoiled and bad: for the quality of the soil or ground is in fault.» — la hierba crece en todos los huertos, y la culpa la tiene el suelo.

«this knowledge has been very rare, dear and precious, from the beginning of the world to this time.» — el conocimiento del que habla lo declara raro desde el principio del mundo.

«Thus saith the spirit, which riseth up in the seven spirits of God, which is thy Father: Despair not, behold, I am thy strength, and thy power, I will fill to thee a mild draught in thy age.» — el espíritu habla en primera persona y promete una bebida suave.

«Therefore I will comfort thee, and will give unto thee a young SON in thy high or old age; he shall abide in thy house as long as thou livest, and attend thee or minister to thee, and comfort thee against all the raving and raging of thy proud children.» — la promesa de consuelo a la madre despreciada por sus hijos soberbios.

«All qualities take their beginning-original [finite or transitory origin] in their middle or centre: Therefore observe where the fire is generated;» — todas las cualidades toman su origen en el centro donde se engendra el fuego. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«For instance: Kindle some wood, and then you will see the mystery: The fire kindleth itself in the hardness of the wood; and this is now the astringent hard quality, the quality or source Saturnus, which makes the wood hard and dry.» — el experimento de la madera encendida.

«But now the light, that is, the flash, does not consist in the hardness, otherwise a stone also would burn and give light, but the light subsisteth only in the sap of the wood, that is, in the water [or oiliness].» — y su lectura: la luz no está en la dureza, sino en el agua o untuosidad.

«While there is sap in the wood the fire shineth as a shining light; but when the sap is consumed in the wood the shining light goeth out, and the wood becometh a glowing coal.» — consumida la savia se apaga la luz y queda el carbón.

«Now behold: the fierceness which riseth up in the light consists not in the water of the wood, but when the heat riseth up in the hardness, then is the flash generated, which the sap in the wood first catcheth, whereby the water becomes shining.» — la ferocidad que sube en el destello hace brillar el agua.

«But thou must know this mystery, that the bitterness is already in the wood, else the fierce bitterness would not so suddenly generate itself like lightning in the natural fire.» — la amargura ya está en la madera y se engendra como relámpago.

«For every spirit in the seven spirits of God is impregnated with all the seven spirits, and they all are one in another as one spirit, not one of them is without the others.» — cada uno de los siete espíritus está en los otros.

«Here I will have the Reader warned that he rightly consider the divine birth.» — advertencia expresa al lector antes de seguir con el nacimiento divino.

«But all the seven are one in another as one spirit; as this may be conceived in man, who has several thoughts, because of the operation of the seven spirits of God, which keep and reside in the human body.» — los siete son uno en otro, también en el cuerpo humano.

«But you must say [admit], unless you be foolish, that each one of the members of the whole body has the power of the other.» — cada miembro tiene el poder del otro. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«If thou stirrest or awakest the spirit in the fire, then there riseth up in thee the bitter and harsh anger ; for as soon as the fire is kindled, which is done in the hardness and fierceness, then springeth up the bitter fierceness or wrath in the flash.» — removido el espíritu, sube la ira amarga en el destello.

«For when thou, in thy body, liftest thyself against anything whatsoever, be it in love or wrath, thou kindlest the quality of that against which thou liftest thyself; and that [kindled quality] burneth in the corporeal whole of thy spirit; but in the flash this same fountain-spirit awakeneth.» — el mecanismo: oponerse a algo despierta el espíritu-fuente contrario.

«At first it gloweth, but when thou stirrest the source or fountain of the heart more violently, then it is as when thou blowest the fire, so that the flame is kindled; and then it is high time to quench it, else the fire will be too great, and then it burneth and consumeth, and does hurt to its neighbour.» — primero arde despacio, luego daña al prójimo.

«Hearken, thou hast the sweet water in thee, pour that into the fire, and then the fire goeth out: If thou lettest it burn, then it consumeth in thee the sap that is in all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, so that thou wilt become dry.» — el remedio que ofrece: echar el agua dulce sobre el fuego, o secarse.

«When that is done, then thou art a hellish firebrand, and a billet or faggot to lay upon the hellish fire, and then there is no remedy for thee eternally.» — y su límite: hecho eso, no queda remedio eterno.

«But when thou lookest upon a thing which pleaseth thee, and awakenest the spirit in thine heart, then thou kindlest the fire in thine heart, which burneth first in the sweet water like a glowing coal.» — el mismo esquema en el deseo: mirar algo agradable enciende una llama en el agua dulce.

«While it is but glimmering it is only a gentle, soft, longing delight or pleasing lust in thee, and does not consume thee; but if thou exhaltest thy heart still more, and thou kindlest the sweet quality or fountain, so that it becomes a burning flame, then thou kindlest all the qualifying or fountain spirits, and then the whole body bumeth, and so mouth and hands fall on to work.» — mientras solo brilla, no pasa de ahí; encendida, mueven boca y manos.

«This fire is the most dangerous and hurtful, and has spoiled most since the world began, and it is a very hard matter to quench it; for when it is kindled it burneth in the sweet water in the flash of life,» — ese fuego lo declara el más dañino y difícil de apagar. La frase se corta en el corte de troceo, con la misma plana a los dos lados, y sigue diciendo que se apaga con amargura.

«But thou must know, that thou, in the government of thy mind, art thine own lord and master, there will rise up no fire to thee in the circle or whole circumference of thy body and spirit, unless thou awakenest it thyself.» — la soberanía que le reconoce al hombre sobre su propia mente: el fuego no arde si él no lo despierta.

«It is true that all thy spirits spring and move in thee, and rise up in thee, and indeed always one spirit has more power in thee than [in] another [man].» — con la salvedad de que un espíritu tiene siempre más poder que otro.

«For if the government of the spirits were the same in one man as in another, then we should all have one will and form; but all seven are in the power of thy compacted incorporated spirit, which spirit is the SOUL.» — el espíritu que unifica el gobierno es el ALMA.

«Now if a fire riseth up in one qualifying or fountain spirit, then that is not concealed or hidden from the soul, and it may instantly awaken the other qualifying or fountain spirits, which are contrary to the kindled fire, and may quench it.» — el alma no ignora ese fuego y puede apagarlo.

«But if the fire will be or becometh too big, then has the soul a prison, wherein it may shut up the kindled spirit, viz. in the hard astringent quality, and the other spirits must be the gaolers, till their wrath is allayed, and the fire is extinguished.» — y si crece demasiado, el alma lo encierra y los otros espíritus lo apagan.

«When one qualifying or fountain spirit driveth thee too strongly, or presseth thee too hard to a thing which is against the law of nature, then thou must turn thine eyes away from it: If that will not help, then take that spirit and cast it into prison.» — la instrucción práctica: echar a prisión el espíritu que arrastra.

«That is, turn thy heart away from temporal pleasure and voluptuousness, from fulness of eating and drinking, from the riches of this world, and think that today is the last day of the end of thy body ; turn away from the wantonness of the world, and call earnestly to God, and yield or submit thyself to him.» — y su contenido: apartar el corazón de lo temporal y someterse a Dios.

«But bear this cross patiently, and let not the imprisoned spirit get out of prison again, but trust in God, and he will set upon thee the crown of the divine joy.» — la promesa de la corona del gozo divino a quien lleve la cruz con paciencia.

«Then that kindled fire at the Last Judgment Day will not hurt thee; nor will it cleave or stick in thy sappy spirits; but after this anxious affliction and trouble thou wilt be, in the resurrection, a triumphing angel of God.» — y el efecto en el Juicio: el fuego encendido no dañará.

«Yet it does not therefore follow that there is a disunion or discord among them: for the very innermost, deepest birth or geniture in the heart or kernel is only and altogether so, which no creature can apprehend in the body; but in the flash, where the hidden spirit is generated, there it will be apprehended; for that is also generated in such a manner, and in such a power as is here mentioned.» — la negativa expresa: de todo esto no se sigue que haya discordia entre los espíritus de Dios.

«But if God did [but] once put away that darkness, which moveth about the light, and that thy eyes were opened, then in that very place where thou standest, sittest or liest thou wouldst see the glorious countenance or face of God, and the whole heavenly gate.» — quitada la tiniebla, se vería el rostro glorioso. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«Yea, God is so near thee, that the birth or geniture of the Holy Trinity is done or wrought even in thy heart, yea, all the three Persons are generated in thy heart, even God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.» — el nacimiento divino se sitúa en el corazón del hombre.

«No; but I speak in a corporeal or angelical or human way that the Reader may the better understand it, in such a manner as the angelical creatures were imaged or framed, and as it is in God everywhere universally.» — aviso de método: habla de manera corpórea, angélica o humana, para que el lector entienda.

«For thou canst not nominate any place, either in heaven or in this world, wherein the divine birth or geniture is not thus, be it in an angel, or in a holy man, or anywhere else.» — no hay lugar donde ese nacimiento no esté.

«And in such a manner is God an all-mighty, all-knowing, all-seeing, all-hearing, all-smelling, all- tasting, all-feeling God, who is everywhere, and proveth the hearts and reins of the creatures.» — y así es Dios omnipotente y escudriñador de los riñones de las criaturas.

«And all holy angels, together with all holy men, will eternally triumph above them, below them and round about them, and for great joy, delight and pleasantness will sing of God's holiness, of their royal kingly government or regimen, and of the gracious, amiable, blessed fruit of the heavenly spring or vegetation; and that will go forth according to the qualities of the seven spirits of God, in many various voices.» — ángeles y santos triunfarán cantando a muchas voces.

«On the contrary, the devils, with all wicked men, will be forced into a hole, where a hellish stink will well up and rise up, and the hellish fire, and the hellish coldness and bitterness, will burn after» — el reverso, con la frase cortada en el cambio de plana.

«Nay, if they could be locked in or barred up in a hole, that the angry face of God might not touch them, then they might be quiet and contented, and would not be necessitated to endure eternal ignominy, shame and reproach.» — la hipótesis de los condenados encerrados, que evitarían el tormento.

«But here is no help, their torment increaseth and becometh but the greater; the more they bewail it, the more does the hellish fierceness or wrath kindle itself, they must lie in hell, as dead bones, like singed scorched sheep in the fire, their stink and abomination gnaweth them.» — y su negativa: no hay tal ayuda, el tormento crece.

«They dare not lift up their eyes for shame, for they see in their circumference, courts or regions, nothing else but only a severe judge; and above them, and on all sides of them, they see the eternal joy.» — no se atreven a alzar los ojos, y así ven el gozo eterno.

«The hardness generateth a hard, raw, rough, cold and astringent quality.» — el catálogo de las cualidades de ese estado empieza por la dureza.

«The circuit, region, court or residence of the body of the seven is a house of mourning.» — y el recinto de los siete espíritus, allí, es casa de luto.

«O beauty, pleasure and voluptuousness of this world! O riches and proud stateliness! O might and power ! Thy unrighteous judg» — la invectiva con que cierra el capítulo, contra la hermosura, la riqueza y el poder del mundo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«Now eat and drink, now trim and dress thyself therewith, and domineer therein, thou fair goddess, how art thou become a whore, and thy shame and reproach continue for ever!» — y su remate, dirigido a la belleza personificada como diosa caída.

«If it were not for this spirit there would be neither angel nor man, and God would be an unsearchable being, subsisting only in an unsearchable power.» — el capítulo undécimo abre por el séptimo espíritu, sin el cual no habría ángeles ni hombres.

«But if thou understandest nothing by this spirit, then let this book alone, and judge neither of the cold nor of the warmth therein: For thou art too hard bound and captivated in Saturnus, and art not a philosopher in this world.» — y la amenaza que le pone al lector: quien no entienda queda preso en Saturno.

«Here I must lay hold on the whole divine body in the midst or centre at the heart, and explain the whole body, how nature is or existeth, and there you will see the highest ground, how all the seven spirits of God continually generate one another, and how the Deity has neither beginning nor end.» — la Deidad entera, sin principio ni fin.

«When the flash riseth up in the centre, then the divine birth stands in its full operation: In God it is continually and eternally thus; but not so in us poor fleshly children.» — el destello sube en el centro, y la diferencia con los hijos de la carne.

«Therefore it has a beginning in man, but none in God ;» — tiene principio en el hombre y no en Dios.

«For the creatures cannot comprehend at once all the seven spirits, one in another, but they look upon them;» — la criatura no abarca los siete a la vez: los mira.

«Behold, without the flash all the seven spirits were a dark valley, but when the flash riseth up» — sin el destello los siete serían valle oscuro. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now in this moving one power toucheth or stirreth another: First the astringent beateth or striketh, and the heat makes in that beating or stroke a clear ringing sound, and the bitter power divideth the ringing, and the water makes it mild and soft, and mitigateth it; and this is the sixth spirit.» — del toque de un poder en otro sale el sexto espíritu.

«So now, in the same sound that is gone forth (which now subsisteth, being dried) is the power of all the six qualifying or fountain spirits, and it is as it were the seed of the other six spirits, which they have there compact-ed or incorporated together, and made one spirit thereof, and which has the quality of all the spirits: and that is the seventh spirit» — y del sonido salido, el séptimo.

«But because the seventh has no peculiar quality in itself, therefore the flash in the seventh cannot be brighter, but it receiveth from the seventh» — el séptimo no tiene cualidad propia. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The seven spirits are the father of the light, and the light is their son,» — los siete son padre de la luz y la luz su hijo.

«Again, they all generate the light, and all are together alike the father of the light, and the light generateth no one spirit, but makes them all living and joyful,» — y la luz, engendrada, los hace vivos y gozosos.

«The astringent quality is the first spirit, and that attracteth or draweth together» — la primera cualidad, la astringente, que atrae y junta.

«Now the flash in the power of these four goeth forth in the heat, and riseth up in the sweet spring water or fountain; the bitter makes it triumphing; the astringent makes it shining, dry and corporeal; and the sweet makes it meek and mild; and so it receiveth its first shining and lustre in the sweet; and here now the flash, or the light, subsisteth in the midst or centre, as a heart.» — el destello queda en el centro como corazón.

«Now when that light, which stands in the midst or centre, shineth into the four spirits, then the power of the four spirits riseth up in the light, and they become living, and love the light; that is, they take it into them, and are impregnated with it, and that spirit which is so taken in is the love of the life, which is the fifth spirit.» — de ahí el amor, quinto espíritu.

«Then the tone riseth up; and the hard spirit beateth, striketh or thumpeth; but the sweet makes that beating or striking mild ; and the bitter divideth it according to the condition or kind of every quality; the fourth causes the ringing ; the fifth causes joyfulness; and the compacted incorporated sounding is the tone or tune, or the sixth spirit.» — luego el tono, sexto espíritu.

«In this tone riseth up the power of all the six spirits, and becometh a palpable body, to speak after an angelical manner, and subsisteth in the power of the other six spirits, and in the light; and this is the body of nature, wherein all heavenly creatures, ideas, figures and sprouts or vegetations are imaged or fashioned.» — en el tono sube el poder por el que se figura el cuerpo de la naturaleza.

«This light is the true Son of God, whom we Christians worship and honour, as the second Person in the Holy Trinity.» — la luz se declara el verdadero Hijo de Dios en la Trinidad.

«All the seven spirits of God together, are God the Father.» — los siete juntos son Dios Padre.

«For no one spirit of them is alone or without the others; they all seven generate one another; for if one were wanting the others could not be.» — ninguno existe sin los otros.

«But the light is another Person, for it is continually generated out of or from the seven spirits, and the seven spirits rise up continually in the light; and the powers of these seven spirits go forth continually in the glance or splendour of the light in the seventh nature-spirit [Or spirit of nature], and do form and image all in the seventh spirit; and this outgoing or exit in the light is the Holy Ghost.» — y la salida de esa luz es el Espíritu Santo.

«Thus, O blind Jew, Turk, and Heathen, thou seest that there are three Persons in the Deity, thou canst not deny it, for thou livest and art or hast thy being in the three Persons, and thou hast thy life from them and in them, and in the power of these three Persons thou art to rise from the dead at the last day, and live eternally.» — el apóstrofe a judíos, turcos y gentiles con que abre la parte moral del capítulo.

«Now if thou hast lived well and holily in this world, according to the law of nature, and hast not extinguished the clear flash, which is the Son of God, which teacheth thee the law of nature in thy seven qualifying or fountain spirits, and hast not put it out through a fierce elevation, which runneth on contrary to the knowledge of na» — la condición que les ofrece: haber vivido bien y no en elevación contraria al conocimiento de la naturaleza. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«The law of nature is the divine ordinance out of the centre of nature, he that can live therein needs no other law, for he fulfilleth the will of God.» — la ley de la naturaleza se identifica con la ley divina y con la voluntad de Dios.

«For it lies not in thy unbelief [or ignorance] to hinder it; thy unbelief does not take away or make void the truth of God: but faith bloweth up the spirit of hope, and testifieth that we are God's children.» — el juicio no está en la incredulidad. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«But if thou art grown on a sweet tree, and suppressest the evil influence or suggestions, and livest well and holily in the law of nature, that sheweth thee very well what is right, if thou art not indeed grown out from a fierce or wrathful twig or branch.» — el símil del árbol aplicado a las personas: rama dulce frente a rama de ira.

«That which thou hast sown in the ground, that will spring up, be it rye, wheat, barley, tares or thorns; that which is not combustible or capable of the final or last fire, that will not burn at all: But God will not himself corrupt or spoil his good seed, but will husband, till and manure it, that it may bear fruit in the eternal life.» — lo sembrado en tierra dará fruto en la vida eterna.

«But here it may be said: [Ezek. xviii. 4,20] He that sinneth shall be punished.» — la objeción escrituraria, con la referencia entre corchetes del impreso.

«the spirit saith thou hast no cause for it, viz. to judge him who is better than thou: Have we not all one flesh, and our life subsisteth in God, be it in his love, or in his anger? For what thou sowest, that thou shalt reap.» — y su respuesta: se cosecha lo que se siembra.

«he that moveth or acteth in the love of God moveth in the light, and the light is the heart of God.» — el criterio que propone: no el nombre, sino obrar en el amor.

«Is it not written, [Haggai ii. 7] He is the comfort of all the Heathen.» — el apoyo en Ageo 2:7, con la referencia entre corchetes del impreso.

«Now as sin without distinction reigneth through one man over all, so mercy and redemption reign through one over all.» — el paralelo paulino: como el pecado reinó por uno, así la gracia.

«they desire grace, though they seek not for it at the right mark, or in the right place or limit: but God is everywhere, and looketh upon the ground of the heart.» — Dios mira el fondo del corazón, no la búsqueda declarada.

«But if one among them lifteth up itself too high in its growth, and so withereth, because it has not sap enough, how can the earth help it?» — la pregunta con que descarga a la tierra de la culpa de la planta que se alza.

«Thus it is also with men, there are diversities of gifts and accomplishments, endowments or aptitudes; one it may be is much lighter» — los dones son diversos entre los hombres. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Answer. No; but when God kindled the light for them, then they lived after the pleasures, voluptuousness and lusts of their own hearts, and would not be led or directed by the spirit, and so the outward light extinguished.» — la respuesta que da al caso de los que no ven: encendida la luz, vivieron en placeres y se apagó.

«But it is not therefore so totally extinguished that it could not be generated in man; for man is out of or from God, and liveth in God, be it either in love or in wrath.» — y su acotación: no está del todo apagada, porque el hombre viene de Dios.

«But from whence cometh the Bridegroom? From the midst or centre, where the heat generateth the light, and goeth towards the north into the astringent quality; there the light grows bright.» — las correspondencias de los cuatro puntos empiezan por el norte, adonde va la luz.

«What do these towards the south? They are in the heat fallen asleep, but a stormy tempest will awaken them; among these many will be terrified to death.» — el sur, dormido en el calor hasta que una tempestad lo despierte.

«Then what do those in the west? Their bitter quality will rub itself with the others, but when they taste the sweet water, then will their spirit be mild and meek.» — el oeste, cuya cualidad amarga se suaviza al gustar el agua dulce.

«But what do these in the east? Thou art a lofty proud bride from the beginning; the crown was always offered to thee from the beginning, but thou thoughtest thyself too fair already; thou livest as the rest do.» — y el este, novia altiva a quien la corona se ofreció desde el principio.

«Now if thou wilt know what kind or manner of nature there is in heaven, and what kind of nature the holy angels have; also what kind of nature Adam had before his fall, and what, properly, the holy, heavenly or divine nature is; then observe the circumstances exactly concerning this seventh qualifying or fountain spirit of God, as followeth.» — el anuncio del asunto: qué naturaleza hay en el cielo, cuál la de los ángeles y cuál la de Adán antes de la caída.

«The seventh qualifying or fountain spirit of God is the qualifying or fountain spirit of nature: for the other six do generate the seventh; and the seventh, when it is generated, is then as it were the mother of the seven, which encompasseth the other six, and generateth them again: for the corporeal and natural being consisteth in the sev» — el séptimo espíritu es el de la naturaleza: los otros seis lo engendran y él los vuelve a engendrar como madre. La frase se corta en el corte de troceo, con la misma plana a los dos lados.

«The six rise up in a full or a complete birth according to the power and condition of each of them, and when they are risen up, then is their power mingled one in another, and the hardness drieth it [the whole], and is as it were the whole being.» — los seis suben en nacimiento completo y la dureza lo seca todo.

«This corporeal exsiccation or drying, I call in this book the divine SALITTER, for it is therein [in the seventh fountain spirit of nature] the seed of the whole Deity, and it [the seventh spirit] is as it were a mother, which receiveth the seed, and always generateth fruit again, according to all the qualities of the seed.» — la definición propia del término: Boehme llama *SALITTER* divino a esa desecación corpórea, semilla de la Deidad entera en el séptimo espíritu. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«Now in this rising up of the six spirits, there riseth up also the Mercurius, tone or sound of all the six spirits, and in the seventh na» — y en la misma subida sube el *Mercurius*, tono de los seis. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«ture-spirit it subsisteth as in the mother; and then the seventh generateth all manner of fruits and colours, according to the operation of the six.» — el séptimo engendra frutos y colores según la obra de los seis.

«But here thou must know that the Deity does not stand still, but works and riseth up without intermission, as a pleasant wrestling, moving or struggling.» — la Deidad no está quieta: es forcejeo apacible.

«Thus also is the working of the six spirits of God in the seventh; suddenly one of them has a strong rising up, suddenly another; and thus they wrestle in love one with another.» — los seis espíritus luchan en amor unos con otros.

«When the light riseth up in this striving, then the Holy Ghost moveth in the power of the light, in the play of the other six spirits, and so in the seventh spring up all manner of fruits of life, and all» — de esa pugna brotan los frutos de vida. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now as that quality is which is strongest, so the body of the fruit is imaged, and the colours also; in this striving or wrestling the Deity formeth itself into infinite and unsearchable variety of kinds and manners of images or ideas.» — la cualidad más fuerte da la forma, y de ahí la variedad infinita.

«For the seven spirits are the seven head sources or springs, and when Mercurius riseth up therein, that stirreth all, and the bitter quality moveth it, and distinguished it, and the astringent drieth it up.» — los siete espíritus son las siete fuentes principales.

«But when the light, which is the Son of God, shineth into this sea of nature, then it getteth its yellowish and whitish colour, which I cannot compare to anything; you must be content to stay or tarry with this aspect or vision, till you come into the other life.» — la abstención sobre el color de esa luz, aplazada a la otra vida.

«For this now is the true heaven of nature, which is out of or from God, wherein the holy angels dwell, and out of which they were created in the beginning.» — el cielo verdadero de la naturaleza, donde moran los ángeles.

«Behold now, when the Mercurius or tone in this nature-heaven riseth up, there the divine and angelical joyfulness riseth up, for therein rise up forms, imagings, colours and angelical fruits, which blossom curiously, grow, spring, flourish and stand in perfection, as to all manner of bearing or fruit trees, plants and springing growths, of a gracious, comely, lovely, amiable, blessed prospect, vision or sight to be looked upon, with a most delicious, lovely, pleasant smell and taste.» — cuando el *Mercurius* sube en ese cielo aparece la visión gozosa.

«But here I speak with an angel's tongue, thou must not understand it earthly, like unto this world.» — aviso de registro: habla con lengua de ángel, no en el entendimiento de este mundo.

«O no, dear man, thou half dead angel, that is not so, but all is done and consisteth in power; for the divine being stands in power.» — el hombre llamado ángel medio muerto, y el ser divino puesto en el poder.

«But the holy angels sing, ring and trumpet forth with clear and shrill sounding; for to that end God has made them out of himself, that they should increase and multiply the heavenly joy:» — los ángeles cantan porque fueron hechos para acrecentar el gozo.

«but the corrupted Salitter did wrestle with the wellspring of life in Adam, till it overcame.» — el *Salitter* corrompido forcejeó con la fuente de vida en Adán hasta vencer.

«Thus there is an eternal wrestling, working and friendly amiable rising up of love; where then in this rising up the Deity continually sheweth itself more and more wonderful, more incomprehensible a» — el forcejeo eterno en el que la Deidad muestra cualidades cada vez más incomprensibles. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Although I have written here how all is come to be, and how all is framed, formed and imaged, and how the Deity riseth up, yet for all that thou must not think that it has any rest, ceasing or extinction, and that afterwards it riseth up thus again.» — la salvedad sobre su propia exposición: no hay que pensar que la Deidad descanse o cese.

«qualities rise up eternally, and so there is not with them or among them either beginning, middle or end.» — las cualidades suben eternamente, sin principio, medio ni fin.

«But I must write in part or by pieces, for the Reader's better understanding, that he might thereby apprehend somewhat, and so attain the sense and meaning thereof.» — y la razón declarada de su método: escribe por partes para que el lector alcance el sentido.

«Now I get the better of him, now he is too hard for me; yet for all that he has not overcome or conquered me, though he often get» — la vida presentada como pelea con el diablo, en la que dice no haber sido vencido. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Of which the sophister will know nothing; for he is not generated of God, but is born of flesh and blood: and though indeed the birth stands open for and towards him, yet he will not enter; for the devil withholds him. God blindeth none.» — la acusación al sofista, y la negativa: Dios no ciega a nadie.

«If he buffeteth me, then I must retire and draw back, but the divine power helpeth me again; then he also getteth a blow, and often loseth the day in the fight.» — el reconocimiento de las propias derrotas en esa pelea.

«But when he is overcome, then the heavenly gate openeth in my spirit, and then the spirit seeth the divine and heavenly being; not externally without the body, but in the fountain or wellspring of the heart there riseth up the flash in the sensibility or thoughts of the brain, and therein the spirit does contemplate or meditate.» — vencido el adversario, se abre la puerta celestial y el espíritu contempla.

«But now seeing man is corrupted, therefore the divine birth does not always spring, qualify or operate in him; no, nor in all men either: And though indeed it springeth in him, yet the high light does not presently shine in all men; and though indeed it does shine, yet it is incomprehen- sible to the corrupted nature.» — el límite: corrompido el hombre, lo divino le es incomprensible.

«For the Holy Ghost will not be caught, held or retained in the sinful flesh, but riseth up like a flash of lightning, as fire flashes and sparkles out of a stone, when a man strikes fire upon it.» — el Espíritu Santo no se deja atrapar: aparece como relámpago.

«But when the flash is caught in the fountain of the heart, then the Holy Ghost riseth up in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, into the brain, like the daybreak, dawning of the day, or morning redness: Therein sticketh the mark, aim or scope and knowledge.» — preso el destello en la fuente, sube la marca y el conocimiento.

«For the holy soul is one spirit with God; though indeed it is a creature, yet it is like to the angels: Also the soul» — el alma santa, un solo espíritu con Dios. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Therefore it must undergo many hard bangs and pinches, and must every day and hour wrestle and struggle with the devil, that is, with the hellish qualities [Or devilish conditions, inclinations, and passions in us] and so it liveth in great danger in this world; therefore this life is very well called the valley of misery, full of anguish, a perpetual hurliburly,» — la vida como valle de miseria y alboroto perpetuo.

«But the cold and half-dead body does not always understand this fight of the soul: The body does not know how it is with it, but is heavy and anxious; it goeth from» — el cuerpo no entiende esa lucha y anda pesado. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«When it cometh thither, where it would be, yet it findeth no such thing; then doubtings and unbelief fall in between and come upon it; sometimes it seems to it as if God had quite cast it off;» — la experiencia del abandono: parece que Dios lo hubiera desechado.

«But for the sake of the violent fight, and for the sake of the earnestness which we have together, this revelation has been given me, and the vehement driving or impulse to bring it so to pass as to set all this down on paper.» — la razón que da de escribir: la revelación le fue dada por esa pelea violenta.

«But what the total sequel is, which may follow upon and after this, I do not fully know: Only sometimes, future Mysteries in the depth are shewn to me.» — abstención expresa sobre lo que no le ha sido mostrado.

«So it goes also in the soul, when it presseth or breaks quite through in its flight or combat, then it beholdeth the Deity, as a flash of lightning; but the source, quality or fountain of sins covereth it suddenly again:» — la fuente del pecado vuelve a cubrir la visión de golpe.

«I do not write this for my own praise, but to that end that the Reader may know wherein my knowledge stands, that he might not seek that from me which I have not, or think me to be what I am not.» — declara no escribir para alabanza propia ni hacerse pasar por lo que no es.

«Therefore take heed, that you be not found asleep in your sins ; truly the prudent and the wise will take notice hereof, but the wicked will continue in their sins.» — y el aviso final del capítulo a los lectores.

«Now the Creator intended, according to his Ternary, to create three hosts, not one from another, but one by another, as in a circle or sphere.» — el capítulo duodécimo abre por el propósito del Creador: tres huestes según su Ternario.

«And as there are seven principal qualities in the divine power, out of which the Heart of God is generated; so there are also some mighty princely angels created in each host, according to each head or chief quality, the number of which I do not exactly know; and they are with or near the king, and are leaders of the other angels.» — los siete espíritus principales dan la pauta de los caudillos angélicos.

«Indeed every angel has the power of all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, but in every one there is somewhat of one quality more predominant and strong than another, and according to that quality is he also glorified.» — cada ángel tiene el poder de todas las cualidades, y una predomina y lo glorifica.

«As [in] the flowers in the meadows, every one receiveth its colour from its quality, and is named also according to its quality, so are the holy angels also:» — el símil de las flores del prado, cada una con su color. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«But the king is the heart of all the qualities, and has his circumference, court, [or province] quarters or residence in the midst or centre, like a fountain: As the sun stands in the midst among the planets, and is a king of the stars, and the heart of nature in this world, so great also is a Cherubim or king of angels.» — el rey angélico es el corazón de todas las cualidades.

«But thou must know here that they all have a lovewill one to another, none of them grudgeth the other his form and beauty ; for as it goeth among the spirits of God, so it goeth among these.» — todos comparten voluntad y hermosura, con el orden mismo de los espíritus de Dios.

«Only in the colours and strength of power is there a difference, but no difference at all in the perfection; for every one has in him» — la diferencia solo está en los colores y en la fuerza. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«I have reckoned up only some few of the forms and colours of them, but there are a great many more that might be written down, which I will omit for brevity's sake.» — abstención declarada por brevedad: enumera unas pocas formas y omite el resto.

«For as the Deity presenteth itself infinitely in its rising up, so there are unsearchable varieties of colour and form among the angels:» — la variedad de colores y formas se dice infinita.

«I can shew thee no right similitude of it in this world, unless it be in a blossoming field of flowers in May, which yet is but a dead and earthly type.» — y la abstención sobre la comparación: no hay similitud justa acá abajo.

«You may observe this, you greedy, covetous, griping persons, you who in this world seek after pride, state, dignity, honour, fame, glory, power, money and goods, and squeeze out the sweat and blood of the poor, oppressed and distressed, and spend their labours upon your gallantry, bravery and stateliness, and think yourselves better than plain and simple lay, vulgar people, and suppose it is what God has created you for.» — el reproche a los codiciosos, que creen que para eso fueron creados.

«Behold, God is the God of order ; and as it is, and as it goeth and moveth in his government in himself, that is, in his birth or geniture, and in his rising up, so also is the order of the angels.» — Dios es Dios de orden, y ese orden se traslada a los ángeles.

«Now as there are in him chiefly seven qualities, whereby the whole divine being is driven on, and sheweth itself infinitely in these seven qualities, and yet these seven qualities are the chief or prime in the infiniteness, whereby the divine birth or geniture stands eternally in its order unchangeably:» — las siete cualidades principales rigen ese orden sin variar.

«Thou must know that this is not forged out of a stone; but when the flash riseth up in the centre, then the spirit seeth and knoweth it.» — Boehme sale al paso de la sospecha de invención: no está forjado, el espíritu lo ve.

«Then the holy angels also walk and converse one with another friendly, graciously, amiably and blessedly in the heavenly circumference or region, and do behold the wonderful and pleasant form or prospect of heaven, and eat of the gracious, amiable, blessed and delicate fruits of life.» — los ángeles pasean, conversan y comen los frutos delicados de la vida.

«I will liken them to little children who walk in the fields in May, among the flowers, and pluck them, and make dainty garlands and posies, carrying them in their hands rejoicing, and always talk together of the several forms or shapes of beautiful flowers, leading one another by the hand when they go to gather flowers.» — el símil que da la nota del capítulo: niños que salen a coger flores.

«Therefore the angels can do no other than their Father does, as also our angelical King JESUS CHRIST testified, when he was with us on earth, as it is written in the Gospel, where he [John v. 19.] saith: Verily the Son can do nothing of Himself; but what he seeth his Father do, the Son does also:» — los ángeles no hacen sino lo que hace el Padre, con la fórmula joánica.

«If you do not convert, and become like children, you cannot come into the kingdom of heaven.» — el dicho de Mateo 18 sobre hacerse como niños.

«O no! the angels in heaven do not so; but they love one another, and rejoice in the beauty and loveliness of others, and none esteemeth or accounteth himself more excellent than the others;» — la negativa social: entre los ángeles ninguno se tiene por más excelente.

«Every angel is constituted as the whole Deity is, and is as a little god.» — cada ángel está constituido como la Deidad entera, y por eso lo llama dios pequeño.

«Now God is the same in one place as he is in another; God is everywhere the Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost.» — Dios es el mismo en todo lugar.

«They who stir up the wrath of God upon themselves, that wrath stands also in all the spirits of God, in that place where it is awakened, stirred up or provoked.» — la ira de Dios está también en los espíritus, cuando se la provoca.

«Here the spirit sheweth that where every angel is constituted, stated or settled, there that place in the heavenly nature, wherein and out of which he is become a creature, is his own seat, which he possesseth by right of nature, as long as he abideth in God's love.» — el derecho al asiento propio, condicionado a permanecer en el amor de Dios.

«But thou must not think as if God were tied to it, and cannot or may not expel him from thence, if he should move or stir otherwise than God had created, settled or stated him at first.» — y la salvedad: Dios no queda atado a ese asiento.

«For when a son resisteth his father, and striketh his father, then he loseth his paternal inheritance, and his father may thrust him out of his house; but so long» — el derecho de herencia del hijo que se rebela. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Then an angel is fully bound and tied to that place in which he is created, and must not stir, nor can stir from thence.» — la objeción que se pone: entonces el ángel estaría atado a su lugar.

«No: As little as the spirits of God are or will be tied in their rising up, that they should not move one among another, so little also are the angels quite [entirely] bound to their place.» — y su respuesta negativa.

«So the holy angels move, walk or converse in all the three kingdoms, one among another, whereby they conceive or receive their conceptions, one from the other; that is, from the other's beauty, comely form, friendliness, courtesy and virtue every one receives his highest joy, and yet each keepeth for his own propriety his natural seat or place in which he is become a creature.» — los ángeles se mueven y conversan, conservando su sitio natural.

«Like one in this world, when he has a dear and near kinsman, who returns home from foreign parts of the world, whom he had a very hearty desire and earnest longing to see, there is joy and friendly saluting, and bidding welcome, also a friendly loving discourse or conference between them, and so he treateth this loving and welcome guest in the best manner that he can; yet this is but cold water, in respect of the heavenly.» — la comparación del saludo terrenal, agua fría frente a lo celestial.

«Thus the holy angels do one towards another; when the army or company of one kingdom cometh to the other, or when the army or company of one princely quality cometh to an army or company of another princely quality, there is nothing but mere loving entertainment,» — entre ellos no hay sino trato amoroso.

«First, If one be nowadays a little preferred or advanced, and getteth but a little while into an office, then others, that are in no preferment, are no more so good as he, or fit for his company he counteth the vulgar or layman his footstool, he instantly endeavoureth by cunning and craft to get the vulgar or layman's goods under his disposal; if he cannot compass it by tricks and designs, then he does it by force, to satisfy his highmindedness.» — el contraste con el mundo: el que asciende un poco recurre a la fuerza.

«In brief, the simple plain man must be his fool, whereas he himself is indeed a proud angel, and is in his love but a dead man.» — al hombre sencillo se le tiene por necio.

«If one be richer nowadays than the other, then the poorer man is counted the fool; and if he can wear but better and more fashionable clothes or apparel than his neighbour, then the poorer man is no more worthy, or good enough to be in his company.» — y al pobre no se le admite en compañía del rico.

«The rich man does constrain the poor, And squeezeth out his sweat so sore, That's own great wealth abroad may roar.» — el rico exprime el sudor del pobre; los dos últimos renglones van rimados en el impreso.

«No! thou standest in the midst of hell: If thine eyes were but opened, thou wouldst see it.» — la respuesta al que se cree en su esplendor: está en medio del infierno.

«Take heed, Friend, what manner of princely angel indeed thou art; thou wilt find it well enough in the following chapter, concerning the fall of the devil; that will be thy looking-glass in which to see thyself.» — el aviso de que el capítulo de la caída servirá de espejo al lector.

«As the Deity in its being is threefold, in that the efflux out of the seven spirits of God sheweth and generateth itself as threefold, viz. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, one God; wherein the whole divine power consisteth, and all whatsoever is therein; and they are the three Persons in the Deity, and yet are not a divisible being or essence, but in one another as one:» — la Deidad trina como modelo.

«So also, when God moved himself and created the angels, there came to be three special angels out of the best kernel of nature, out of the being of the Ternary in the nature of God, and in such power, authority and might, as has the Ternary in the seven spirits of God;» — y de ahí los tres ángeles principales.

«Thus also are the three angelical kings risen up, each in the nature of his host or place, and a natural lord of his place over the government of his angels; but the Ternary of the Deity retaineth to itself that place which is unalterable or unchangeable; and the king retaineth the dominion of the angels.» — los tres reyes angélicos, cada uno con su dominio.

«Now, as the Ternary of the Deity is one only being or substance in all parts in the whole Father, and is united together, as the members in man's body, and all places are as one place, though one place may have a different function from the others, as also the members of men have; yet it is the one body of God:» — el Ternario constituye el único cuerpo de Dios.

«So it is also with the chief or principal of the holy angels in his constitution; and is in no other manner than as it is in God; and therefore they live all friendly, peaceably and blessedly one with another in their Father's kingdom, as loving dear brethren;» — los príncipes principales viven entre sí como hermanos queridos.

«Now the angels also have such bodies, but more dry and close compacted or incorporated together, and their body also is the kernel of or out of nature, even the best or fairest splendour and brightness of or out of nature.» — los cuerpos de los ángeles se hacen de lo mejor de la naturaleza.

«Now their foot does stay upon the seventh spirit of God, which is solid like a cloud, and clear and bright as a crystalline sea, wherein they walk upward and downward, which way soever they please.» — el pie del ángel se apoya en el séptimo espíritu, y se mueve adonde quiere.

«For their agility or nimbleness is as swift as the divine power itself, yet one angel is more swift than another, and that according to the quality of each.» — su agilidad varía con la cualidad de cada uno.

«Antiquity has represented the angels in pictures like men with wings, but they have no need of any wings, yet they have hands and» — Boehme consigna que la antigüedad los pintó con alas y niega que las necesiten. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«At the day of the resurrection from the dead there will be no difference between the angels and men, they will be of one and the same kind of form ; which I shall shew plainly in its due place; and our King JESUS CHRIST clearly testifieth the same, where he saith [Matt. xxii. 30], In the resurrection they are like the angels of God.» — en la resurrección los hombres serán como los ángeles.

«MICHAEL signifieth the great strength or power of God, and bears the name operatively, actually and in deed : For he is incorporated or consolidated together out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, as out of a kernel or seed of them, and stands here now as in the stead of God the Father.» — el nombre de MICHAEL se lee como la gran fuerza de Dios, en lugar del Padre.

«The meaning is not that he is God the Father, who consisteth in the seven spirits of the whole deep, and is not creaturely; but the meaning is, that in nature among the creatures there is also such a kind of creature, who is to reign among the creatures, who is like God the Father, as he is in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits.» — con la negativa inmediata: no es que sea Dios Padre.

«Thou must not understand this, as if these royal angels were to rule in the Deity, that is, in the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of God, which are without or distinct from the creatures; no, but each over his creatures, or the creatures of his own dominion.» — los reyes angélicos no gobiernan la Deidad, sino su propio dominio.

«Now as all angels are bound to the king, so is the king also bound to God his Creator, as body and soul; the body signifieth God; and the soul signifieth the angelical king, who is in the body of God, and is become a creature in the body of God, and abideth eternally in the body of God, as the soul does in its nest.» — los ángeles ligados a su rey como el alma en su nido.

«Thou must not compare him with the Heart or light of God, which is in the whole Father, which has neither beginning nor end, no more than has God the Father himself.» — prohibición expresa de compararlo con el corazón o la luz de Dios.

«This high and mighty, glorious and beautiful king, lost his right name in his fall: For he is now called LUCIFER, that is, one carried forth or expelled out of the light of God.» — Lucifer presentado como el alto y poderoso que fue echado de la luz de Dios.

«His name was not so at the beginning: for he was a creaturely prince or king of the heart of God in the bright light, even the brightest among the three kings of angels.» — y la aclaración de que ése no era su nombre al principio.

«As Michael is created according to the quality, manner and property of God the Father, so was Lucifer created according to the quality, condition and beauty of God the Son, and was bound to and united with him in love, as a dear son or heart, and his heart also stood in the centre of light, as if he had been God himself; and his beauty or brightness transcended all.» — Miguel y Lucifer, creados cada uno según la cualidad de su padre; la hermosura de Lucifer superaba a todas.

«For his circumference, conception or chief mother, was the Son of God, and there he stood as a king or prince of God.» — Lucifer tenía por circunferencia el corazón del Hijo de Dios.

«Now as God the Father is bound and united in great love with his Son, so was king Lucifer also bound with king Michael in great love, as one heart or one God, for the fountain or wellspring of the Son of God has reached even into the heart of Lucifer.» — y por eso Lucifer estaba unido con Miguel en amor, como un solo corazón.

«Only, the light which he had in his body, he had for his own pro» — la sola diferencia estaba en la luz que Lucifer tenía en su cuerpo, propia suya. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«And as the light of God reigneth in all the powers of the Father, so he also reigned in all his angels, as a mighty king of God, and wore on his head the fairest crown of heaven.» — Lucifer llevaba la corona más hermosa del cielo.

«This gracious, amiable, blessed prince and king has his name from the light, or from the flash or going forth of the light, which signifieth rightly God the Holy Ghost.» — URIEL toma su nombre de la luz del Espíritu Santo.

«Now this glorious and beautiful prince is imaged and framed according to the kind and quality of the Holy Ghost, and is indeed a glorious and fair prince of God, and is united with the other princes in love, as one heart.» — y estaba unido en amor con los otros príncipes, como un solo corazón.

«In this rising up the armies or companies of all the angels of the whole heaven become triumphant and joyful, and that melodious TE» — en esa subida las huestes celestiales se vuelven triunfantes y entona el Te Deum. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«I can compare this to nothing, except to the finest of precious stones, such as the ruby, the emerald, the topaz, the onyx, the sapphire, the diamond, the jasper, the jacinth, the amethyst, the beryl, the sardonyx, the carbuncle and the like.» — la única comparación que admite para esa luz: las piedras preciosas.

«Although the devil will raise scorners and mockers to vilify it, I do not much regard that; I am satisfied with this gracious, amiable and blessed revelation of God; they may mock so long till they find it by experience with eternal shame, then the fountain of remorse or shame will surely gnaw them.» — Boehme cuenta de antemano con los burladores.

«Also I have not gone up to heaven, and beheld it with my fleshly eyes, much less has any told it me; for though an angel should come and tell it me, yet I could not apprehend or conceive it without enlightenment from God, much less believe it.» — la abstención más importante del capítulo: no subió al cielo ni vio nada con ojos de carne.

«For I should always stand in doubt, whether it were a good angel sent of God or no, seeing the devil can transform or clothe himself in the form of an angel of light, to seduce men.» — y la razón que da: dudaría si un ángel enviado no sería el diablo disfrazado de ángel de luz.

«But because it is generated in the centre or circle of life, as a bright shining light, like unto the heavenly birth or rising up of the» — lo que sí reclama: que le nace en el centro, como el nacimiento celestial. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The spirit testifieth that there is yet a very little time remaining, and then the flash in the whole circle of this world will rise up, to which end this spirit is a forerunner, Messenger and proclaimer of the day.» — la profecía del destello que anuncia el día.

«Then whatsoever man is not found in the birth of the Holy Ghost at that time, in him the birth will never rise at all, but he abideth in the quality or source of darkness, as a dead, hard flintstone, in which the source or quality of fierceness, wrath and corruption riseth up eternally.» — y su reverso para quien no nazca del Espíritu.

«Thou livest between heaven and hell, into whichsoever thou sowest, in that thou shalt reap also, and that will be thy food in eternity:» — la ley de siembra y cosecha aplicada a la eternidad.

«Therefore, O Child of man! have a care, trust not too much upon worldly wisdom, it is blind, and is born blind; but when the flash of life is generated therein, then it is no more blind, but seeth» — el aviso contra fiarse de la sabiduría del mundo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Truly it must be generated in such a manner in the Holy Ghost: which riseth up in the sweet spring or fountain-water of the heart, in the flash.» — el Espíritu Santo se engendra en el corazón, en el destello.

«Therefore has Christ ordained or instituted the Baptism or New Birth or Regeneration of the Holy Ghost, in the water, because the birth of the light riseth up in the sweet water in the heart.» — y de ahí lee el bautismo y el nuevo nacimiento.

«Now observe: Every angel is created in the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit [or faculty], which is NATURE, out of which his body is compacted or incorporated together, and his body is given him for a propriety, and the same is free to itself, as the whole Deity is free.» — el ángel se crea en libertad, como libre es la Deidad entera.

«But now the seven qualifying or fountain spirits are the father of the light, and may permit or suffer the birth of as much light as they please; and the light cannot exalt or raise itself higher than the qualifying or fountain spirits will permit or give it leave.» — los siete espíritus son los que permiten o limitan la luz que sube.

«But when the light is generated, then it enlighteneth all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, so that all seven are [become] understanding, and all seven do give their will to the birth of the light.» — engendrada la luz, ilumina a los siete y ellos consienten en su nacimiento.

«But now, every one has power and might to alter its will in the birth of the light, according as there is need : Now if that be so, then the spirit cannot triumph thus, but must lay down its splendour.» — y cada uno debe deponer su esplendor si no puede triunfar.

«But the seven spirits, which are in an angel, and which generate the light and understanding, are bound and united with the whole God, that they should not qualify any other way, either higher or more vehemently, than God himself; but that there should be one and the same manner and way between them both.» — los siete espíritus del ángel deben obrar como obra Dios.

«Seeing they are but a part or piece of the whole, and not the whole itself, for God has therefore created them out of himself, that they should qualify, operate or act in such a manner, form and way as God himself does.» — por ser parte suya.

«But now the qualifying or fountain spirits in Lucifer did not so; but they, seeing that they sat in the highest primacy or rank, moved themselves so hard and strongly that the spirit which they generated was very fiery, and climbed up in the fountain of the heart, like a proud damsel or virgin.» — en Lucifer obraron con dureza y salió un espíritu ígneo, altivo.

«If the qualifying or fountain spirits had moved, qualified or acted gently and lovely, as they did before they became creaturely (as they were universally in God, before the creation), then had they generated also a gentle, lovely, mild and meek son in themselves, which would have been like to the Son of God; and then the light in Lucifer and the light of the Son of God had been one thing, one qualifying, operating, acting and affecting, one and the same lovely kissing, embra» — la hipótesis contraria: movidos suavemente, la luz de Lucifer y la del Hijo habrían sido una. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«For the great light, which is the Heart of God, would have played meekly, mildly and lovingly with the small light in Lucifer, as with a young son, for the little son in Lucifer should have been the dear little brother of the Heart of God.» — el Corazón de Dios habría jugado con la luz de Lucifer.

«To this end God the Father has created the angels, that as he is manifold and various in his qualities, and in his alteration or variegation is incomprehensible in his loveplay, so the little spirits also, or the little lights of the angels, which are as the Son of God, should play or sport very gently or lovely in the great light before the Heart of God, that the joy in the Heart of God might here be increased, and that so there might be a holy sport, scene or play in God.» — y para eso creó el Padre a los ángeles: para un juego de gozo en Dios.

«For they kindled the Salitter of the body, and generated a high triumphing son, which in the astringent quality was hard, rugged or rough, dark and cold, and in the sweet was burning, bitter and fiery; the tone was a hard fiery noise; the love was a lofty enmity against God.» — lo que sí pasó: encendieron el *Salitter* del cuerpo y salió una enemistad soberbia.

«Here now stood the kindled bride in the seventh nature-spirit, like a proud beast; now she supposed she was beyond or above God, nothing was like her now: Love grew cold, the Heart of God could not touch it, for there was a contrary will or opposition between them.» — la novia encendida, ya con voluntad contraria.

«The Heart of God moved very meekly and lovingly, and the heart of the angel moved very darkly, hard, cold and fiery.» — el contraste que Boehme sostiene: el Corazón de Dios manso, el del ángel duro, frío e ígneo.

«O no, thou thyself art faulty, the qualifying or fountain spirits in thy body, which thou thyself art, have generated thee such a little son: Thou canst not say that God has kindled the Salitter out of which he made thee, but thy qualifying or fountain spirits have done it; whereas thou wert clearly before a prince and a king of God.» — la adjudicación de la culpa, dicha en segunda persona a Lucifer.

«Therefore, when thou sayest God created thee thus, or that he has without sufficient cause spewed thee up out of thy place, then art thou a liar and murderer;» — y la calificación de mentiroso y homicida a quien diga que Dios lo creó así.

«If it be not so, then go before the face of God, and justify thyself.» — el reto: que vaya a justificarse ante Dios.

«If thou art in the right, then do but once look upon HIM:» — y su repetición condicionada.

«Stay yet a little while, and the hellish fire will kiss thee; in the meanwhile make much of this Latin, till more grows out of it; thou wilt suddenly lose thy crown.» — la amenaza de perder la corona.

«Thus, this is the very deepest and innermost hidden birth of God, according to which he calleth himself an angry zealous or jealous God, as may be seen by the Ten Commandments on mount Sinai.» — el fundamento hondo por el que Dios se llama Dios celoso en los Diez Mandamientos.

«In this quality stands hell and eternal perdition, as also the eternal enmity and murderous den, and such a creature the devil is come to be.» — en esa cualidad está el infierno, y de ella salió el diablo.

«I T WOULD have all proud, covetous, envious and wrathful men invited to look into this glass, and there they will see the original of their pride, covetousness, envy and wrath, also the issue and final requital or wages thereof.» — el capítulo trece abre ofreciendo el espejo a los soberbios, codiciosos, envidiosos e iracundos.

«The learned have produced many and various monsters concerning the beginning of sin, and original of the devil, and scuffled one with another about it; every one of them thought he had the axe by the handle, yet it continued hidden from them all till this very time.» — la objeción a los doctos: sobre el origen del pecado han producido muchos monstruos.

«But since it will henceforth be fully revealed, as in a clear looking-glass, therefore it may well be supposed or expected that the great day of the revelation of God is now near at hand, wherein the fierceness and the kindled fire will be separated from the light.» — el anuncio del día en que la ira quedará separada de la luz.

«Therefore let none make himself stark blind, for the time of the restitution of whatsoever man has lost is now near at hand: the day dawneth, or the morningredness breaketh forth; it is high time to awake from sleep.» — y el aviso de que el tiempo de la restitución está cerca.

«Here we must again take in hand the highest depth of the Deity, and see out of what king Lucifer became a creature, or what was the first source or fountain of evil or malice in him.» — el asunto: buscar en Lucifer la fuente primera del mal.

«The devil and his crew continually excuse themselves, and so do» — la excusa que Boehme atribuye al diablo y a los suyos. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana y sigue con los hombres impíos, que se disculpan diciendo que Dios los desechó.

«Nay, this present world does dare to say that God has decreed or concluded it so in his predestinate purpose and council that some men should be saved, and some should be damned; and they say, to that end also God has rejected prince Lucifer, that he should be a spectacle of God's wrath.» — y su versión en el presente, que él consigna sin hacerla suya.

«Christ saith, The devil was a Murderer [John viii. 44] and liar from the beginning, and did not stand in the truth.» — el apoyo evangélico: el diablo, homicida desde el principio.

«For as the devil is the founder and father of hell and damnation, and has himself built and prepared for himself the hellish quality to be his royal seat, so also such writers and scribblers are the master builders of lies and damnation, who help to confirm and establish the devil's lies, and to make of the merciful, loving and friendly God, a murderer and furious destroyer, and so pervert and turn the truth of God into lies.» — la adjudicación: el diablo es el fundador del infierno.

«For God saith in the Prophet [Ezek. xxxiii. 11], As true a s I live, I have no delight or pleasure in the death of a sinner, but that he turn and live ; and in the Psalms it is thus [Psalm v. 4.], Thou art not a God that hast pleasure in wickedness,» — el pasaje de Ezequiel sobre que Dios no se complace en la maldad. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«Then he that will not take heed and beware of his lies, while he may very well do it, there is no remedy for him neither here nor hereafter: he that soweth and will sow with the devil, must reap with the devil also.» — la advertencia de cosechar con el diablo.

«I would therefore have every one warned that he deal circumspectly and warily, and not be conceited that he is rich, and cannot grow poor; truly I have very admirable and wonderful wares to sell, every one will not have understanding and skill to know what to do with them.» — aviso de que no todos entenderán lo que ofrece.

«Else let him forbear to come into my warehouse, or he will but deceive his own expectation; for the ware which I have to sell is very precious and dear, and requireth a very sharp and acute understanding : Therefore have a care, and do not climb aloft where you see no ladder is, else you will fall.» — y el símil de la escalera: no subir donde no la hay.

«For he must climb through a horrible deep, a giddiness will frequently come into his head; and besides, he must climb through the midst or centre of the kingdom of hell, and there he will feel by experience what a deal of scoffings and upbraidings he must endure.» — el paso por el reino infernal, con los oprobios que hay que aguantar.

«In this combat I had many hard trials to my heart's grief: My sun was often eclipsed or extinguished, but did rise again; and the oftener it was eclipsed or put out, the brighter and clearer was its rising again.» — Boehme cuenta su propia pelea y el símil del sol eclipsado que vuelve más claro.

«Therefore have a care that thou put on the 1 corslet or coat of mail or habergeon [breastplate] of the spirit, else do venture to come near my warehouse, or thou wilt deal wrongfully [evilly] with my wares.» — el aviso de vestir la armadura del espíritu antes de tratar su materia.

«Be not deceived, God will not be mocked.» — la sentencia paulina, repetida.

«Truly it is a narrow and strait passage or entrance, through the gates of hell, for them that will press in to God; they must endure many pangs, crushings and squeezings from the devil.» — el paso estrecho, con los apretones del diablo.

«For the human flesh is very young and tender, and the devil is rough and hard, also dark, hot, bitter, astringent and cold, and so these two are very ill matched.» — la carne humana y el diablo, mal emparejados.

«Therefore I seriously exhort the Reader, and would have him faithfully warned, as it were with a Preface to this great Mystery, that if he do not understand it, and yet longeth and would fain have the meaning or understanding thereof, that he would pray to God for his Holy Spirit, and that he would enlighten him with the same.» — la exhortación a pedir el Espíritu Santo.

«For without the illumination thereof you will not understand this Mystery; for there is a strong lock and bar before it in the spirit of man, that must be first unlocked or opened; and that, no man can do, for the Holy Ghost is the only key to do it withal.» — y la declaración de que sin esa luz no hay llave para el misterio.

«The whole Deity has in its innermost or beginning birth, in the pith or kernel, a very tart, terrible sharpness, in which the astringent quality is a very horrible, tart, hard, dark and cold attraction or drawing together, like winter, when there is a fierce, bitter, cold frost, when water is frozen into ice, and besides it is very intolerable.» — la agudeza terrible que la Deidad tiene en lo más íntimo.

«Then think or suppose, if in such a hard winter, when it is so cold, the sun should be taken away, what kind of hard frost, and how very rough, fierce and hard darkness would it be, wherein no life could subsist.» — el símil del invierno sin sol: ninguna vida subsistiría.

«Now if there were no other quality in this body, which could quench the fierceness of these four qualities, then there would be a perpetual enmity therein.» — sin otra cualidad que la temple habría enemistad perpetua.

«The heat would be against both, in that with its fierce, wrathful kindling and rising up it makes all hot, burning and raging, and is fully or totally against the cold.» — el calor estaría contra las dos.

«So the tone would be a great enmity in all the others, in that it penetrateth forcibly through all, like a tyrant.» — y el tono penetraría todo como un tirano.

«But now, seeing he is a sworn archenemy of God, and though indeed the disputants and helpers of the devil will needs force it so in arguments (that God willeth the good and also the evil, and that he has created some men to damnation), therefore and thereupon the spirit of God citeth them, upon pain of eternal enmity, to come before this looking-glass, wherein their heart shall be laid open; and they shall see what God is, and who the devil is, or how he is become a devil.» — el propósito declarado: mostrar quién es Dios y cómo el otro llegó a ser diablo.

«If these things will not give thee satisfaction, then pray to God that he would open thy heart, and then thou wilt know and see heaven and hell, as also the whole Deity with all its qualities; and then no doubt thou wilt forbear, and justify the devil no more: I am not able to open thy heart for thee.» — la abstención sobre el efecto de su escrito: no puede abrir el corazón del lector.

«Behold, as I have mentioned above, the birth or geniture of God in its innermost being, in these four qualities, is thus sharp or tart.» — el nacimiento de Dios, agudo o áspero.

«The astringent quality is thus sharp in its own proper quality in itself, but it is not alone, or without the others; neither is it generated of or in itself, as being wholly free, but the other six spirits generate it, and they also hold it by the reins, and may let their reins and authority go as far only as they please.» — con la astringente sujeta al permiso de los otros seis.

«For the sweet spring or fountain-water is suddenly a whip, scourge or lash upon the astringent quality, and mitigateth, soft» — el agua-fuente dulce hace de látigo sobre la astringente y la mitiga. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«But that it is thus sharp in itself, is to the end that a body may be imaged or framed through its attracting or drawing together, otherwise the Deity would not subsist, much less a creature.» — y sin esa agudeza no subsistiría la Deidad ni criatura alguna.

«But if I should describe the Deity in its birth or geniture in a small round circle, in the highest depth, then it is thus: In a Similitude.» — el aviso antes de la alegoría de la rueda: será por similitud.

«The seven wheels are the seven spirits of God, the one always generating the others, and are like the turning about of a wheel, which has seven wheels one in another, and the one always wheeleth itself otherwise than the others in its station or position, and the seven wheels are hooped round with fellies, like a round globe.» — la rueda de siete ruedas: los siete espíritus.

«They generate in the seven wheels in each wheel a nave, and yet there are not seven naves, but one only, which fitteth in all the seven wheels: This is the heart or innermost body of the wheels, wherein the wheels run about, and that signifieth the Son of God.» — el corazón interior de las ruedas significa al Hijo.

«Now the spokes, which are always generated from the naves and wheels, and which fit themselves to all the wheels in their turning, and are their root, stay and fastening in which they stand, and out of which they are generated, signify God the Holy Ghost, which goeth forth from the Father and the Son, even as the spokes go out from the nave and wheel, and yet abide also in the wheel.» — los radios significan al Espíritu Santo que sale del Padre y del Hijo.

«The wheel in its incorporated structure and frame signifieth the astringent quality, which attracteth or draweth together the whole corporeal being of the Deity, and holdeth it, and drieth it, so that it subsisteth.» — la rueda incorporada como cualidad astringente que sostiene.

«Now the terror or the glance of the light riseth up in the astringent quality very gently and shivering, and trembleth, which now in the water is bitter, and the light drieth it, and makes it friendly and sweet.» — el destello vuelve dulce el agua amarga.

«Thus one tasteth and feeleth another, and in the sound one heareth another, and the tone presseth forth from all the seven spirits towards the heart, and riseth up in the heart in the flash of the light, and then rise up the voices and joyfulness of the Son of God; and all the seven spirits triumph and rejoice in the Heart of God, each according to its quality.» — los espíritus se gustan y se sienten unos a otros.

«But if the qualifying or fountain spirits should extol or lift up themselves, and penetrate suddenly one into another, driving hard, rubbing and thronging, crowding or squeezing, then the sweet water would be squeezed out, and the fierce heat would be kindled, and then would rise up the fire of the seven spirits, as it did in Lucifer.» — y si se aprietan demasiado sale fuego, como en Lucifer.

«For when Lucifer was created, he was altogether perfect, and was the fairest prince in heaven, adorned and endued with the fairest clarity or brightness of the Son of God.» — Lucifer fue creado en la perfección y la claridad del Hijo de Dios.

«When the Deity moved itself to creation, and would form, image or frame creatures in its body, it kindled not the qualifying spirits, else they would have burnt eternally, but it stirred them very gently or softly in the astringent qua» — la Deidad movió los espíritus con suavidad al crear. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«Now the captivated or incorporated power of all the seven qualifying or fountain sp» — el poder incorporado de los siete queda en el cuerpo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«One quality has always generated the others alike, and none of them have vanished or gone out of sight, just as it is in the whole God; and then the whole body, as it is also in the Ternary, generated itself just as the Deity generateth itself, without or distinct from the body in the Ternary.» — cada cualidad engendra a las demás, y el cuerpo se engendra en el Ternario.

«But this I must mention here, viz. that Lucifer, the king, was incorporated together out of his whole kingdom, as the heart of the whole place or room thereof, so far as his whole angelical host or army reached when it was created, and so far as that circumference or circle, region or quarter reached, wherein he with his angels became a creature, and which God before the time of creation had enclosed or concluded as a room or space for a kingdom, whose circuit or extent comprehendeth heaven and this world, as also the deep of the earth, and of the whole circle, sphere or circumference of this whole world of the heavens and stars.» — el alcance del reino de Lucifer, extendido a los cielos y los astros.

«According to the qualities were his [Lucifer's] qualifying or fountain princes created, which are his kingly counsellors, and so also were all his angels created.» — los príncipes de Lucifer, creados según las cualidades. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«Yet you are to know that every angel has all the seven spirits in him, but one of the seven is chief or principal.» — cada ángel tiene los siete espíritus con uno principal.

«When the king was thus incorporated or compacted together, as one comprehending his whole kingdom, then instantly, the same» — incorporado el rey, con su reino entero comprendido. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For in the driving together of the body, presently likewise rose up the birth also in great triumph, as in a newborn king, in God ; and all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits shewed themselves very joyful and triumphing.» — en la compactación del cuerpo, los siete espíritus quedan gozosos.

«And instantly, in the same moment, the light was generated and rose up out of the seven spirits in the centre of the heart, as a newborn son of the king, which also instantly, in a moment, transfigured the body of all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits from the centre of the heart; and externally from without the light of the Son of God transfigured it.» — y en ese instante la luz del Hijo de Dios lo transfiguró.

«Then, when our tone is thus incorporated in God's tone, so that the fruit is formed, imaged or framed, it must needs be wholesome or healthful for us, and so we are in God's love, and have that food to make use of, as by the right of nature, being our spirit in God's love did help to image and form the same.» — el tono incorporado hace saludable el fruto que ayudó a formar.

«Herein stands the innermost and greatest depth of God. O man, consider thyself! I will more largely declare it in its due place.» — la mayor hondura, que aplaza a su lugar.

«Now for such an end has God created the angels, and they do so too: for their spirit, which in the centre or heart goeth forth from their light in the power of all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, that goeth forth at their mouth, as God the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and Son, and helpeth to form, image or frame all in God (that is to say, in the divine nature) through the Mercurius, song and speaking and sport or scene of joy.» — para eso creó Dios a los ángeles: para que ayuden a formar, en escena de gozo.

«Thou hast many examples thereof in this world, that if some creature or man look upon a thing, it perishes because of the poison or venom in the creature: On the other side again, some men, as also beasts and other creatures, can with their tone or words change or alter the malignity or evil of a thing, and bring it into a right form.» — el poder de la palabra, que puede enmendar la maldad de una cosa.

«That now is the divine power, which all the creatures are subjected to; for all whatsoever it is that liveth and moveth is in God, and God himself is all, and all whatsoever is formed or framed, is formed out of HIM, be it either out of love or out of wrath.» — todo lo que vive se mueve por el poder divino, en amor o en ira.

«Now Lucifer being so royally imaged or framed, that his spirit in his forming and imaging rose up in him, and was received or embraced of God very excellently and lovingly, and was set or put into glorification, then instantly he should have begun his angelical obedience and course, and should have moved (as God himself did) as a loving son in the house of his Father; and that he did not.» — y la falta que Boehme le adjudica: siendo tan regiamente formado, no obedeció.

«But when his light was generated in him in his heart, and that his qualifying spirits were instantly affected or environed with the» — engendrada su luz, sus espíritus cualificantes quedaron afectados. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But these spirits elevating themselves thus, and triumphing so eagerly and vehemently one in another, and rising up against the right of nature, by that means they kindled the qualifying or fountain spirits an exceeding deal too much; viz. the astringent quality attracted or compacted the body too hard together, so that the sweet water was dried up.» — el efecto de esa elevación: el agua dulce se secó.

«For the flash was so bright, that it was as it were intolerable to the qualifying or fountain spirits, and therefore the bitter quality or source trembled and rubbed itself so hard in the astringent, that the heat was kindled contrary to the right of nature, and the astringent also dried up the sweet water by its hard attracting together.» — el destello, demasiado brillante, atrajo con dureza.

«But now the quality of heat was so severe, furious and eager, that» — el calor, severo y furioso. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The meaning is not here, as if the spirit of the water were swallowed up or devoured, which dwelleth in all the seven qualities, but its quality or upper place or predominancy was changed into a dusky hot and sour quality.» — la salvedad: no es que la cualidad desapareciera, sino que se volvió parda, caliente y agria.

«Here the spirit went forth, and as he was generated in the heart, so he went forth now at the mouth; but how welcome a guest he was before God, and in God, also before the holy angels of the other kingdoms, I leave to thee to consider of» — el juicio queda abierto: Boehme deja al lector considerar cómo fue recibido ese espíritu.

«He should now have united with the Son of God, as one heart and one God: Alas for ever!» — lo que debió pasar y no pasó: unirse con el Hijo de Dios como un solo corazón.

«H ERE, king Lucifer, pull thy hat down over thy eyes, lest thou shouldst see how man will take off thy crown away from thee, thou canst no more rule in heaven; stand still a little while, we must first view thee, and observe what a beauteous fair bride thou art, and whether the filth of thy whoredom may not be cleansed and washed away from thee, that thou may be fair again; we will a little describe thy chastity and virtue.» — el capítulo catorce abre apostrofando a Lucifer, con ironía.

«Come on ye philosophers, and ye lawyers and advocates, that justify and defend king Lucifer ! Come near and bring him to the bar, while he has yet the crown upon him, for here we will hold a court of judgment against malefactors for him; if you can maintain his cause to be right, then he shall be your king; if not, then he shall be turned out and cast down into hell; and another shall get his royal crown, who will govern better than he.» — y convoca a filósofos y juristas a defenderlo: es la figura del juicio que estructura el capítulo.

«When the royal body of Lucifer was incorporated or compacted together, in that very hour the light kindled itself also in Lucifer.» — compactado el cuerpo real, la luz se encendió en él.

«For as soon as his qualifying or fountain spirits in the building of the body began to qualify or operate, and to generate themselves according to the right of nature, then rose up the flash of life in the heart in the sweet spring or fountain-water, and so the royal body was ready furnished or complete, and the spirit went forth in the heart from the light through the mouth into the heart of God.» — los espíritus cualificantes hacen subir el destello de vida hacia el corazón de Dios.

«And so he was a most exceeding beautiful prince and king, and very dear and acceptable to the divine being, and was received and embraced with great joy.» — y así fue recibido y abrazado con gran gozo: Boehme no le escatima el punto de partida.

«In like manner also the spirit went forth from the heart into all the qualifying or fountain veins of the body, and kindled all the seven spirits, and so the royal body was glorified instantaneously, and there he stood as a king of God, in an unsearchable clarity or brightness, transcendently excelling the whole heavenly host or army.» — su espíritu quedó como rey de la hueste celestial.

«But if they had continued in their seats, and had qualified or operated, as they [the seven spirits of nature of which they were constituted] had done from eternity, then that high light had not hurt them.» — la hipótesis contraria: perseverando, la luz alta no les habría dañado.

«For they were not new spirits made of any new thing, but they were the old spirits, which had no beginning, which had been in God from eternity, and they knew very well the right of the Deity and the right of nature, and how they [the spirits] should move and stir.» — los espíritus no eran nuevos: existían desde la eternidad.

«The astringent quality was the first murderer, flatterer and hypocrite, for when it saw that it generated so fair and bright a light, then it compressed itself together yet harder than God had created it to be, intending to be much more terrible, and to draw together all in its whole region, circuit or circumference, and keep it fast, as a stern severe lord.» — el primero de los cuatro asesinos: la cualidad astringente, señor severo.

«The heat is the third murderous spirit, which killed its mother, the sweet water; but the astringent spirit is the cause thereof, for by its stern, severe attracting together and hardening, it has thus vehemently awakened and kindled the fire by the bitter quality;» — el tercero, el calor, provocado por la amarga.

«But since the fire riseth up in the sweet water, therefore itself has the whip or scourge in its own power, and might have staid or kept back the astringent quality in the water, but the heat also became a flatterer or hypocrite, and dissembled with the great quality, viz. the astringent, and did help to destroy the sweet water.» — el fuego, subido en el agua dulce, ayudó a destruirla.

«The tone is the fourth murderer; for it taketh its ringing sound in the fire, in the sweet water, and riseth up very gently and lovely in the whole body.» — y el cuarto, el tono, que obra en el cuerpo entero.

«Yet it did not so here, but after it was risen up in the water, in the astringent quality, it also dissembled [or played] with the astringent quality and broke out or burst forth furiously, like a thunderclap, whereby it would prove and shew forth its new Deity; and so the fire rose up, as when there is a tempest of lightning, intending thereby to be so great as to be above all things in God.» — el fuego pretendió estar por encima de todo en Dios.

«And this they practised so long till they had murdered their mother, the sweet water; and therein the whole body became a dark valley, and there was no more remedy or council in God that could help here: For love was turned into enmity, and the whole body became a black dark Teufel (devil).» — el resultado, con la etimología que el impreso deja entre paréntesis: el cuerpo se volvió *Teufel*.

«This is a high question, on which all those lay hold that justify and plead the cause of the devil; but they are all cited to appear at the court of justice held for trial of criminal malefactors: let them have a care how they plead for their master, else the sentence of judgment will be pronounced against him, and he will lose his crown.» — el aviso al que quiera defender la causa: perderá su corona.

«Behold, king Lucifer was the head in his whole region, circuit or circumference, also he was a mighty king, and was created out of the kernel or marrow of his whole region and circumference, also he would fain have kindled that whole circumference by his elevating,» — Lucifer, cabeza de su región, quiso encender toda su circunferencia al elevarse. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Though indeed the Deity, without or distinct from his body, would have meekly and gently qualified or acted towards him, and would have enlightened and exhorted him to repentance, yet now» — la Deidad lo habría iluminado y exhortado a arrepentirse. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now when the Heart of God with his meekness and love made haste towards Lucifer, he despised it, and thought himself far better than it, and then stormed back again with fire and coldness in hard claps of thunder against the Son of God, supposing the Son of God must be in subjection under him, and that he himself was lord; for he despised the light of the Son of God.» — y el desprecio con que trató la luz del Hijo de Dios.

«Answer. Yes, he had; for he was a great part of the Deity, and besides, was from or out of the kernel thereof, for he made an attempt also upon that king and great prince Michael, to spoil and destroy him, who at last fought with Lucifer, and overcame him, since [or because] the power of God in Lucifer's kingdom also fought vehemently against its king, till at last he was thrust down from his kingly seat, as one that was vanquished.» — la respuesta a si tenía poder: lo tenía, y aun así fue vencido.

«Answer. No! Lucifer would receive no light other than his own, for he scorned the light of the Son of God, which did shine without, distinct from his body, seeing he had such a glittering light in himself, and so he elevated himself more and more, till his water was quite dried up and burnt, and his light was quite put out; and then all was done with him.» — no quiso recibir otra luz que la suya, y con eso acabó.

«Answer. No : For if God had known it before the time of the creation of angels, it had then been an eternal predestinate purposed will in God to have it so, and it had been no enmity against God, but God had indeed at the beginning created and made him a devil.» — la negativa a la predestinación: si Dios lo hubiera sabido, no lo habría hecho diablo.

«The same King is called JESUS CHRIST, who is the Son of God and of man.» — el rey nuevo, llamado JESUS CHRIST.

«But in the outspeaking of his Word, wherein the nature of the spiritual world existeth, wherein perceptibility or sensibility is understood to consist, and wherein God calleth himself an angry, zealous or jealous God, and a consuming fire, therein, indeed, God has known the evil from eternity, and that in case he should once move himself therein, that the source or quality thereof would become creaturely also, but therein is he not called God, but a consuming fire.» — la distinción que sostiene: en la pronunciación de su Palabra no se le llama Dios, sino fuego consumidor.

«Sin has seven kinds, forms, species or sorts; among which there are four special wellsprings or sources: And the eighth kind or sort is the house of death.» — las siete especies del pecado, y la octava.

«The seven forms are the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of the body; when these are kindled each spirit generateth a special or particular enmity against God.» — cada una de las siete es una enemistad particular contra Dios.

«Out of these seven are generated other four new sons, and they together are the new god, which is wholly against the old God, as two professed armies of enemies, which have sworn eternal enmity» — de las siete salen cuatro hijos nuevos. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now let us view these in the ground from whence all has its original, and see how it is an enmity against God: and therein you will see what is the beginning and root of sin, and wherefore in God it cannot be suffered or endured.» — el origen del pecado, mirado en su fundamento.

«Therefore come on, ye philosophers and lawyers, you that will maintain, and undertake to prove it, that God created the evil also, and that he willeth the same; also that it is his predestinate purpose that the devil fell, and that many men are damned ; otherwise God could have altered all, and turned it some other way.» — la convocatoria a probar que Dios creó el mal.

«If you can prove and maintain that the seven spirits of Lucifer have of right and equity generated these four new sons, so that they of right and equity should govern heaven and the whole Deity, then king Lucifer shall be reenthroned, and set upon his seat, and his kingdom shall be restored to him again.» — la condición: probándolo, se le restituiría a Lucifer su lugar.

«If not, then a hell or hole, burrow or dungeon shall be given to him for an everlasting prison, and there shall he together with his sons be imprisoned for ever : and you should take heed lest a Court of Justice be held, and pass upon you also.» — y la contraria.

«Now seeing then you will plead the right of the devil's cause,» — la pregunta con que cierra el reto a quien alegue la causa del diablo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«I do not write this for my own glory; for my glory stands in my hope of that which is to come: I am a poor sinner as well as other men, and I also ought to come before this glass.» — Boehme se pone él mismo delante del espejo.

«But I neither can nor will oppose him; for I often stood in great striving against him, that if it were not his impulse or will, that he would be pleased to take it from me ; but I find, that with my striving against him I have but merely gathered stones for this building.» — abstención sobre su propio papel: solo ha juntado piedras para el edificio.

«Therefore have I put my confidence in the strong God, and will venture, and see what will come of it.» — y la confianza declarada, sin anticipar el resultado.

«When the light of the sweet water cometh into it, then it willingly, friendly and freely yieldeth up its birth thereunto, and makes it [the sweet water] dry and shining bright.» — el capítulo vuelve a la primera cualidad: la luz del agua dulce la deja seca y brillante.

«Now when God constituted Lucifer with his host or army, he created them out of this friendly Deity, out of himself, out of the place of heaven and of this world, there was no other matter to make them of, this living Salitter was very gently and softly attracted or drawn together without any killing or slaying it, or without any great stirring or motion.» — Dios constituyó a Lucifer y a sus espíritus sin violencia.

«They had also all power to dispose of all the ideas, figures and growths or vegetations, as they would; all was a hearty loveplay, sport or scene in God; they had not at all moved God their Creator to any contrary will, though they had broken all the heavenly ideas, figures or vegetations and growths, and had made of them all mere horses to ride on ; God had still always caused enough of others to come up instead of them, for it had all been but a play or scene in God.» — los espíritus tenían todo el poder de disponer figuras y formas, como escena de gozo en Dios.

«Thou hast a very good example and instance of this, if thou wilt but see, and wilt not be stark blind here; viz. in the beasts, fowls and all vegetations or growths in this world: All these were created before man was created, who is and signifieth the second host or army, which God created instead of expelled Lucifer, out of the place of Lucifer.» — el ejemplo que da: lo creado en el lugar de Lucifer.

«When God had thus gently incorporated it, or compacted it together, then it found and felt itself to be mighty and powerful, and saw that it had or possessed a body more beautiful than the figures were, that were without, distinct from it; thereupon it became high minded, and elevated itself in its body, and would be more severe and eager than the Salitter was, which was without, distinct from its body.» — incorporado suavemente, el espíritu astringente se distingue de su cuerpo.

«But seeing it [The astringent or harsh spirit] could not do anything alone, it flattered and played the hypocrite with the other spirits, so that they followed it as their father, and did all that they saw it do, each in its own quality.» — y cómo manejó a los otros espíritus, cada uno en su cualidad. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«But seeing it could not effect this in its true natural seat, it thereupon elevated itself, and kindled itself.» — no pudiendo lograrlo, se elevó y se encendió.

«And so when this was done, then the storm grew so hot that the astringent quality drew the Salitter together, so that hard stones proceeded from it;» — hecho eso, de ahí salieron las piedras duras.

«Answer. O dear blind man! it was not a man nor a beast that stood here before God.» — la respuesta al lector: lo que estaba ante Dios no era hombre ni bestia.

«Should God withstand him then with anger or wrath, (which indeed must be done at length), then God must have kindled himself in his qualities in the Salitter, wherein king Lucifer dwelt, and must in the strong zeal or jealousy strive and fight against him, which he did;» — y la pregunta sobre si Dios debía resistirle con ira, que él responde afirmando que lo hizo.

«Ye philosophers and jurists or lawyers of prince Lucifer, here you must first defend the astringent or harsh quality in Lucifer, and answer whether it has dealt righteously or no, and prove it in nature.» — el reto renovado: que lo prueben en la naturaleza.

«I do not accept of your extorted, wrested, bowed, stretched, and» — y su criterio de prueba: rechaza los textos de Escritura forzados y pide testimonios vivos. La cita se corta antes de un guion de fin de renglón que el troceo marca con guion blando y que la herramienta une como *farfetched*, sin que pueda saberse si el impreso llevaba guion léxico.

«For this is God's jus, right or law, which law has no beginning, and is, that the child which is generated of the mother should be humble before the mother, and be obedient to her;» — el derecho divino invocado: el hijo debe obedecer a su madre.

«But when the child rebelleth and resisteth against the mother, and takes away all from the mother, and domineers over her, and» — y el caso del hijo que se rebela y la domina. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Objection. God should have withstood him, that it might not have come so far.» — la objeción, planteada como tal: Dios debió detenerlo antes.

«then it is but just that the child should be expelled, out of the house, and left to sit behind the hedge and quite lose its child's portion and inheritance.» — la respuesta jurídica: es justo que pierda su porción y su herencia.

«But when the child got the robe and ornament, he despised the Father, and would domineer over the Father, and would ruin his Father's house; and besides, struck at the Father, and would not be advised or taught to do otherwise.» — el hijo, con la vestidura puesta, desprecia al padre.

«Thus king Lucifer in the same manner did get the sweet water for his corporeal government, and indeed the very kernel and best thereof.» — Lucifer recibió el agua dulce, y el mismo grano y lo mejor de ella.

«For God put on to his little son the best ornament, robe and attire of all, hoping to have great joy in him.» — Dios le puso el mejor adorno esperando gozarse en él.

«Thus it was between God and his child Lucifer.» — la relación entre Dios y Lucifer, dicha como de padre e hijo.

«According to this false or wicked conclusion and result they agreed to do one and the same thing, and so dried up the sweet water in Lucifer's body; the heat kindled it, and the astringent dried it, and then it became very sour and sharp.» — seca el agua dulce, se volvió agria y aguda.

«but none of the other qualities alter, but only into a stink, which is caused by the quality of water.» — la acotación sobre el mal olor, que atribuye solo a la cualidad del agua.

«nay, there was yet a nearer relation between them: For as parents generate a child out of their body according to their image, and keep it in their house, as a natural heir of their bodies, and cherish it, thus near also is the body of Lucifer to the Deity.» — la relación de Lucifer con la Deidad, más cercana aún que la de un hijo.

«But here you must know what it was with which Lucifer fought against God, and so moved God to anger.» — y lo que hizo para mover a Dios a ira.

«The spirit, which is generated from or out of all the seven qualifying spirits in the centre of the heart, the same does (while it is yet in the body, when it is generated) qualify, mix or act in and with God, as one substance or thing, nor is there any difference.» — el espíritu engendrado, sin diferencia con lo que obra en Dios.

«And when that same spirit, which is generated in the body, seeth anything through the eyes, or heareth through the ears, or smelleth through the nostrils, then it is already in that thing, and works, laboureth or acteth therein, as in its own propriety.» — ese espíritu percibe por los sentidos y obra dentro de las cosas.

«And if the same be pleasing to it, it eateth thereof, and infecteth itself with the thing, and wrestleth therewith, and makes a mixture or temper together; let the thing be as far off as it will, even so far as» — y consume lo que le agrada. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For it is and comprehendeth the power, as God the Holy Ghost does;» — comprende el poder como lo hace el Espíritu Santo.

«there is no difference at all between God the Holy Ghost and the spirit of the body,» — y no hay diferencia entre el Espíritu Santo y el espíritu del cuerpo.

«the Holy Spirit of God is the whole fulness, and the spirit of the body is but a piece or part,» — con la salvedad inmediata: el Espíritu de Dios es la plenitud entera, y el otro solo una parte.

«For it is of God and in God, and cannot be withheld or hindered,» — nada puede detener a ese espíritu.

«they have the reins in their hand, and generate it as they please.» — los siete espíritus llevan las riendas y lo engendran a su gusto.

«God's Spirit has all the wellsprings, but distinguished itself in three Principles,» — el Espíritu de Dios, distinguido en tres Principios.

«Therefore the original lust sticketh in the circle of the heart, in the council of the seven spirits;» — el apetito original queda en el círculo del corazón y en el consejo de los siete.

«So in this manner lord Lucifer brought the Deity into anger and wrath;» — así, dice, Lucifer trajo a la Deidad a ira.

«Now shew thou me any place, to which thou sendeth thy covetous or lustful spirit, where God is not;» — el reto de mostrar un lugar donde Dios no esté.

«Yes, dear man, all this is true: The wrath of God is certainly everywhere all over,» — concede que la ira de Dios está en todas partes.

«But thou must know that the kernel of love also sticketh in all in the hidden centre,» — y añade en la misma frase que el grano del amor está también en todo, en el centro oculto.

«Ye philosophers and jurists or lawyers, that make God to be as a devil, in saying that he willeth evil, bring in your plea, and answer once more here, and try whether you can maintain your cause to be just;» — el cierre del capítulo, contra los que hacen injusto a Dios.

«For when his animated or soulish spirit was generated in his body, then he stung forth from his body into the Salitter of God, as a fiery serp» — el espíritu del alma de Lucifer, vuelto serpiente de fuego. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«Observe: When the tone riseth up in the divine nature, then it riseth up gently from all the seven qualifying or fountain spirits jointly together, and generateth the word or ideas, figures and» — el tono que sube en la naturaleza divina engendra palabras, ideas y figuras. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«That is, when one qualifying or fountain spirit createth a will to the birth or geniture, then it presseth very gently through the other qualifying or fountain spirits, even into the centre of the heart, and there that will is formed and approved by all the s» — la voluntad de un espíritu ha de ser aprobada por todos. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«And the flash out of that same Word, or the stirring of the Word, which is the tone, goeth forth very finely and gently from the Word, and executeth, affecteth or performeth the will of the Word.» — el destello de esa palabra ejecuta su voluntad.

«Just as a son in the house helps his father to drive or manage his work, according to his father's way and profession, kind and art; so, in the great house of God the Father, according to the manner and way of God, should Lucifer also, with his angels, have helped with his animated or soulish spirit to image all the» — el símil del hijo que ayuda al padre en la casa: así debió obrar Lucifer. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«If they had but continued in their meek birth or geniture, according to the divine right, then all had been their own, and their will would have been always fulfilled eternally, and nothing had been among them and in them but merely the joy of love;» — la hipótesis contraria, aplicada a los ángeles: solo habrían tenido el gozo del amor.

«But when Lucifer exalted himself, and kindled his qualifying or fountain spirits, then the animated or soulish spirit went forth in the tone out of or from all the bodies of Lucifer's angels into the Salitter of God, as a fiery serpent or dragon, and imaged and framed all manner of fiery and poisonous forms and images, like to wild, cruel and evil beasts.» — y el efecto que le adjudica: de ahí las bestias fieras.

«And from hence the wild, fierce and evil beasts in this world have their orig» — el origen de las bestias salvajes de este mundo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«That beast, which had most of the fire or the bitter or the astringent quality in the Mercurius, became also a bitter, hot and fierce beast, all according as the quality was predominant or chie» — la bestia se forma según la cualidad de fuego que predomina en ella. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«Now, whether this fiery tone or dragon-spirit in Lucifer and in his angels be right, and whether God has thus created him, let the advocates of Lucifer, who make God to be as a devil, justify it here by their answer, and prove it in nature, if they can, whether God be such a God as willeth the evil, and has created the ev» — la pregunta procesal repetida sobre el tono ígneo o espíritu de dragón. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«And there is no difference here, but only such as is between the body and soul in man» — el capítulo quince arranca por la relación entre el cuerpo y el alma. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«and yet is united with the body, and cannot subsist without the body,» — el alma unida al cuerpo, sin poder subsistir sin él.

«and [it] had no cause to elevate itself, neither had it any impulse to it from anything, but followed the proud loftiness of the astringent quality,» — la cualidad amarga no tenía causa para elevarse: siguió a la altivez de la astringente. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«Concerning which Christ said,[John viii. 44] The devil is a liar and murderer from the beginning; and has not continued in the truth.» — el apoyo en Juan 8:44, con la referencia entre corchetes del impreso.

«But he saw and knew very well the divine meekness, and humble being in God his Father; moreover he knew also very well, that it stood in such meekness from eternity, and that he also should generate in such meekness, as a loving and obedient son.» — la acusación más dura del capítulo: Lucifer conocía muy bien la mansedumbre divina.

«then there was nothing but stinging, burning, murdering, robbing, and a mere opposi» — el catálogo de lo que quedó. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«But again, on the other side, God saith, [Exod. XX. 6.] I am a merciful God to those that love me; those I will do good to, and bless them, to a thousand generations.» — la contraparte escrituraria: la misericordia hasta mil generaciones.

«But this is their comfort and strong helmet against the fierceness and the kindled fire; according as the kingly prophet David saith [Psalm cxii. 4], To the honest or the upright the light riseth up in the darkness.» — el consuelo tomado del salmo: la luz nace en las tinieblas para los rectos.

«If there were not at all times some honest upright men on earth, who quench the wrath of God with their opposing, the hellish fire had kindled itself long ago; and then it would have been well seen where hell is, which men do not now believe.» — la tesis social: sin hombres rectos el infierno estaría a la vista de todos.

«But that the fierceness does terribly burn now at present, it needs no proof here, for, by woeful experience, it is known as clear as the day.» — y la constatación de que la ira arde ya, clara como el día.

«Behold, there riseth up yet a little fire, in the opposition against the wrath, out of a singular especial loverestraint of God: When this also grows weak, then is the end of this time.» — el fuego pequeño que se opone, y cuyo debilitamiento marcará el fin del tiempo.

«The fourth spirit of God is heat, which is generated between the bitter and the astringent qualities, and is conceived or bred in the sweet water, and is shining and giving light, and is the true fountain of life.» — el cuarto espíritu de Dios, el calor, verdadera fuente de vida.

«Now where the water is there is no burning fire, but a pleasing warmth, and a gentle qualifying or vivifying; but if the water should be dried up, then there would be burning fire there.» — la regla que lo acota: donde hay agua no hay fuego que arda.

«The Reader is advertised that he must not understand in any place, as if the devil had kindled or fired the light of God; no, but the forms of nature only, out of which the light shineth.» — aviso al lector sobre cómo ha de tomar la luz de que habla.

«He dares not say that God has framed or erected the hellish quality for him, but he himself has done it:» — la adjudicación central: el propio Lucifer se hizo su infierno.

«For when he and all his angels had kindled in their bodies the qualifying or fountain spirit of the fire, then the unctuosness, marrow or fatness burnt in the sweet water, and the flash or terror, which riseth up fiercely in the birth of the light, became raging and tearing, burning and stinging, and a being or substance of a mere opposite or contrary will.» — encendidos él y sus ángeles, quedó una voluntad meramente contraria.

«Here, in this quality, the life was turned into a sting of death; for through heat the bitter quality grew so fierce, stinging, raging and burning, as if the whole body were mere fiery stings; these did tear and rage in the astringent quality, as if one did thrust redhot bodkins through the body.» — la vida en esa cualidad, como punzones al rojo por el cuerpo.

«On the other side, the cold fire of the astringent quality was in a mad furious rage against the heat, and against the bitter venom or poison, like a great uproar or hurliburly; and now, furthermore, in the body of Lucifer there was nothing else but a murdering, rubbing, fretting, burning and stinging, a most horrible hellish fire.» — el fuego frío, que él llama el más horrible fuego infernal.

«This fire-spirit, and right devil's spirit, elevated itself now also in the centre of the heart, and would rule through the animated or soulish spirit, [ "Hereby is understood the spirit of the will, out of the centre, which is generated out of the genitrix, viz. out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, which is the image of God,"] in the whole divine power, and kindle the whole Salitter of God as a new and potent God; and so the formings and heavenly imagings should rise up in a horrible fiery quality, and suffer themselves to be imaged and» — el espíritu de fuego que se erige en dios nuevo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now when I write of the animated soulish spirit, then you must exactly know what it is, or how it is, else thou wilt read this birth or geniture [Or nativity] in vain, and it will happen to thee as it did to the wise Heathen, who climbed up to the very face or countenance of God, but could not see it.» — el aviso de que el lector puede no ver lo que escribe, como el gentil.

«The [soulish] spirit of the soul is very much more subtle, and more incomprehensible than the body, or the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, which hold, retain and form the body; for it goeth forth from the seven spirits, as God the Holy Ghost goeth forth from the Father and the Son.» — el espíritu del alma procede como el Espíritu Santo del Padre y del Hijo. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«But the animated or soulish spirit generateth itself in the heart, out of or from the seven qualifying or fountain spirits, in that manner as the Son of God is generated, and keepeth its seat in the heart, and goeth forth from that seat in the divine power, as the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son; for it has the same subtleness as the Holy Spirit of God, and it uniteth, qualifieth or operateth with God the Holy Ghost.» — y obra unido con el Espíritu Santo.

«When the animated or soulish spirit goeth forth out of the body, then it is one thing with the hidden Deity, and is together the midst or centre in the imaging or framing of a thing in nature, as God the Holy Ghost himself is.» — hasta hacerse una cosa con la Deidad oculta.

«But yet whether this kindled fire-spirit has right therein, and whether God himself has kindled it, from whence the wrath-fire existed, let the Electionists or Predestinarians, or those that dispute so about Election, justify it, and prove it in nature, if they can; if not, then this fire-spirit is to be condemned also.» — la fórmula procesal que el capítulo repite: si no se prueba lo contrario, ese espíritu queda condenado.

«If Lucifer had not elevated and kindled himself, then his fountain of love would be no other than that in God, for there was no other Salitter in him than there is in God.» — la hipótesis contraria, otra vez: sin elevarse, su amor sería como el de Dios.

«But when the fire tasteth the mild, sweet and pliant taste, then is it mitigated and formeth itself into a meek warmth, very lovingly, and there riseth up a very friendly life in the fire, and penetrateth the astringent quality with this pleasing, lovely, gentle warmth, and allayeth or stilleth the cold fire, and mollifieth or suppleth the hardness, attenuateth the thick, and makes the dark to be light.» — el fuego que gusta lo dulce se mitiga y vuelve luz lo oscuro.

«But when he elevated himself, intending to rule the whole Deity with his animated or soulish spirit, then the stock and heart of light, which is the kernel, marrow or pith of love in the sweet water, became a fierce and hotly pursuing fire, source or quality, from whence in the whole body existed a very trembling, burning government and birth or g» — y lo que sí ocurrió al elevarse. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«The seven qualifying or fountain spirits have their compacted or incorporated body out of nature, that is, out of the seventh nature-spirit in the divine power; which in this book I call the Salitter of God, or the Comprehensibility, wherein the heavenly figures or shapes arise.» — la definición propia del término, dicha por el autor: lo que en este libro llama *Salitter* de Dios, o la Comprensibilidad, donde surgen las figuras celestiales.

«The birth or geniture of light, munificence and welldoing to be an eternal hellish pain and torment ; the food of pleasing relish to be an eternal abomination and stink, a loathing of all fruits; and the house of Lebanon and cedars to be a stony and rocky house of fire;» — la inversión que el capítulo describe: el nacimiento de la luz, vuelto casa pétrea de fuego.

«some have concluded peremptorily, That God must needs have willed the evil also, seeing he has created so much that is evil;» — la conclusión que otros sacan, consignada como ajena: que Dios quiso el mal.

«But seeing all the creatures and vegetables were created before the time of man, therefore the fault ought not to be laid upon man» — y la objeción de Boehme: las criaturas fueron antes, y la culpa no se le puede cargar al hombre.

«Neither has man brought the malignity, poison and venom into the beasts, birds, worms, and stones, for he had not their body; otherwise if he had brought malignity and fierceness or wrath into all creatures, then he, like the devils, could never obtain God» — tampoco el hombre trajo la malignidad. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Poor man did not fall out of a resolved, purposed will, but through the poisonous, vonomous infection of the devil, else there had been no remedy for him.» — el hombre no cayó por voluntad propia, sino infectado.

«Now this true information thou wilt find, described here following, not from a zeal to vilify anybody thereby, but in love, and as a humble information and instruction from the abyss of my spirit, and for an assured comfort to the poor, sick old Adam, who now lies at the point of his last departure from hence out of this world.» — la intención declarada: amor y consuelo al viejo Adán, no vituperio.

«For in Christ we are all one body, therefore also this spirit would heartily fain have it so, that its fellowmembers might be refreshed with a draught of the precious wine of God be/ore their departure from hence, whereby they might encounter and stand in the great fight with the devil, and obtain the victory, that the victory of the devil in this modern drunken world might be disappointed and destroyed, and the great name of the LORD might be sanctified.» — y el llamado a la unión en Cristo.

«When king Lucifer, together with his angels, was so gloriously, beautifully and divinely created, as a Cherubim and king in God, then he suffered his bright, beauteous form to befool him, in that he saw how noble, glorious and fair a spirit rose up in him.» — el relato de la rebelión: creado gloriosamente, vio subir en sí un espíritu noble.

«Then his seven qualifying or fountain spirits thought they would elevate and kindle themselves, and so they also would be as fair, glorious and mighty as the animated or soulish spirit, and thereby would domineer, by their own power and authority, in the whole court, circumference, dominion or extent as a new god.» — sus siete espíritus quisieron igualarse al espíritu animado y dominar como un dios nuevo.

«They saw very well that the animated or soulish spirit qualified, mixed or operated with the heart of God; and thereupon they were resolved they would elevate and kindle themselves, hoping to be as bright, illustrious, deep and almighty as the deepest ground in the centre of the heart of God.» — veían bien que el espíritu animado se junta con el corazón de Dios.

«And this high mind and selfwill was directly and wholly against the birth or geniture of God; for the body of the angels should abide and remain in its seat, and be nature, and, as a humble mother, hold still and be quiet, and should not have the omniscience, and own self rational comprehensibility of the heart, or of the deepest birth or geniture of the Holy Trinity; but the seven spirits should generate themselves in their natural body, as is done in God.» — esa altivez consistía en querer engendrarse a sí mismos.

«For this is the law of the comprehensibility, that it does not elevate itself u» — la ley de la comprensibilidad, que impide elevarse a lo incomprensible. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«Therefore one spirit in its own body, besides and distinct from its instanding or innate instant birth or geniture, cannot reach into the whole heart of God, and examine, try and search a» — un espíritu solo no alcanza el corazón entero de Dios. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Also the second cannot change itself into the third, which is the exit of the spirit; but every birth or geniture abideth in its seat; and yet all the births or genitures together are but the one only God.» — los espíritus no se transmutan unos en otros, y todos juntos son el único Dios.

«Ye blind and proud necromancers, jugglers and sorcerers, your art consisteth in your changing the elements of your body by your conjurations and instruments of the qualities or qualifying properties, which you make use of to that purpose, and ye think ye have right so to do; but is it not against the birth or geniture of God?» — el apóstrofe a nigromantes y prestidigitadores, que el capítulo enlaza con la rebelión.

«for the pith and heart therein is the changing or altering of the qualifying or fountain spirits, as Lucifer did, when he would needs be God.» — y el paralelo que traza: el meollo de esas artes es lo que hizo Lucifer.

«Behold, when the corporeal, qualifying or fountain spirits set their will into sorcery or witchcraft, then the animated or soulish spirit, which they generate, and which in the astral elementary quality ruleth in the hidden and deepest centre, is clearly already a sorcerer or witch, and has changed, transformed or metamorphosed itself into sorcery or witchcraft.» — cuándo el espíritu se vuelve hechicería.

«But the bestial body cannot follow so suddenly and nimbly, but must be charmed to it by characters and conjurations, and by some instruments for that purpose, whereby the animated or soulish spirit makes the bestial body invisible, and changeth it into such a form as the will of the qualifying or fountain spirits was in, at the beginning of its purpose to a metamorphosis or transmutation.» — el límite que pone a la transmutación: el cuerpo bestial no sigue.

«For nature will not suffer itself to be juggled with at all times and hours, as the spirits would have it, but all must be done according to that spirit which then at that present time is lord and chief or predominant.» — la naturaleza sigue al espíritu que domina en ese momento y no se deja forzar.

«It is not that spirit of God which is lord and chief in nature, which causes or makes the juggling, but it is made in the fierceness of the Salitter, which lord Lucifer has kindled with his elevation, and which is his eternal kingdom.» — la adjudicación de esas artes a Lucifer y no al espíritu de Dios.

«But when the power or might of that spirit is allayed, then the kindled fire can be no more useful to the juggler.» — y su caducidad: agotado el poder, ya no sirve al que juega con él.

«This I set thee down here for a warning, that thou may know what manner of ground sorcery or witchcraft has, not in such a way as if I would write any heathenish sorcery or witchcraft, neither have I learned any; but the animated or soulish spirit beholdeth their juggling, which in the body I do not understand.» — abstención expresa dentro del aviso: dice no entender él mismo aquello.

«The devil has taught man sorcery or witchcraft, thereby to strengthen and fortify his kingdom.» — el capítulo dieciséis abre adjudicando al diablo la enseñanza de la hechicería, para fortalecer su reino.

«But if he had revealed to man the right, true, fundamental ground, which lurked behind or under sorcery, many would have let it alone altogether, and not have meddled with it at all.» — y la acotación: si hubiera revelado la raíz, nadie se habría metido en ello.

«You rejoice [maliciously] with this; that the devil is in subjection to you, and ye suppose that ye are gods: Here I will describe the original and ground of necromancy, for I am become also a searcher into nature [natural philosopher], but not after your way and manner, but to discover your shame by a divine revelation,» — el reproche a los que se gozan de que el diablo se les someta. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«This seventh spirit has a colour and condition» — el séptimo espíritu tiene color y condición propios. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«And this spirit is always generated from the six, and subsisteth always continually, and is never missing or wanting, nor does ever pass away, and it again continually generateth the six; for the other six are in this seventh as in a mother, enclosed or encompassed; and they receive their nourishment, power and strength always in thei» — el séptimo se engendra siempre de los seis. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«For the seventh spirit is the body, and the other six are the life, and in the middle centre is the heart of light, which the seven spirits continually generate as a light of life; and that light is their son; and the welling out or penetration through all the spirits expandeth itself aloft in the heart, in the exit or rising up o» — el séptimo es el cuerpo y los otros la vida. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«For the Deity is like a wheel, which with its fellies and spokes, and with all the naves, turneth about, and is fellied together, as seven wheels, so that it can go any way, forward, backward, downward, upward and crossways, without turning» — la Deidad como rueda que se mueve en toda dirección sin volverse. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«In such a manner the Deity is continually generated, and never passeth away, or ceaseth or vanisheth out of sight; and in this manner also is the life in angels and men continually generated» — así se engendra sin cesar la Deidad, y con ella la vida en ángeles y hombres. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For it is the proper house and habitation of the six spirits, which they continually build according to their pleasure, or as a garden of delight into which the master of it soweth all manner of seeds, according to his pleasure, and then enjoyeth» — el séptimo espíritu como casa y jardín de los otros seis. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Thus the other six spirits continually erect this garden of delight and pleasure, and sow their fruits thereinto, and feed upon it to strengthen their might and joy; and this is the garden in which the angels dwell, and walk up and down in, and wherein the heavenly fruit grow» — los seis levantan sin cesar ese jardín, donde crece el fruto celestial. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For that which is predominant or chief in the striving, imageth or formeth the growth and vegetation according to its kind, and the others always help to promote it; now the one, now the other, now the third, and so on.» — la forma del crecimiento la da el espíritu que predomina en la pugna.

«This is also wholly hidden as to my body, but not as to my animated or soulish spirit, for so long as my animated or soulish spirit qualifieth or works with and in God it comprehendeth the same; but when it falls into sin, then the door is shut against it, which the devil bolteth up fast, and which must, with great labour and industry of the spirit, be set open again.» — la abstención sobre su propio cuerpo, y la puerta que puede volver a abrirse.

«I know very well that the wrath of the devil will mock and scoff in the hearts of many wicked men, at this revelation.» — cuenta de antemano con la burla de los hombres impíos.

«The glorification of this my knowledge I desire, and no other; for I know that when this my spirit in my new body, which I shall get at the day of my resurrection, out of this my now corrupted body, shall arise, that it will appear like the Deity, as also like the holy angels.» — y aplaza la glorificación de su conocimiento a la resurrección.

«Therefore I must now look for no other than his fierce wrath, but my stay, trust and refuge is the Champion in the Fight, who has often delivered me from his bands, in this Champion I will fight against him, till my departure out of this life.» — el amparo que declara: el Campeón, hasta su salida de esta vida.

«If all trees were writers or clerks, and all branches were pens, and all hills were books, and all waters were ink, yet they could not sufficiently describe the lamentable misery which Lucifer, together with his angels, has brought into his place or whole space of that world wherein he was created.» — la hipérbole de los árboles vueltos escribanos, con que dice no poder describir la miseria de Lucifer.

«For he has made the house of light to be a house of darkness, and the house of joy to be a house of mourning, lamentation and sadness; that which was the house of pleasure, delight, vivifying and refreshing, he has made to be a house of thirst and hunger ; the house of love to be a house of eternal enmity ; and the house of meekness to» — lo que le adjudica: haber hecho de la casa de la luz casa de enemistad eterna. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now when king Lucifer, together with all his angels, kindled himself, then the wrath-fire rose up instantly in the body, and the gra» — el fuego de ira subió al punto en el cuerpo cuando Lucifer y sus ángeles se encendieron. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now this animated or soulish spirit was bound or united with the Deity, in nature, and could qualify, mix or operate in and with the same, as if it were one and the same thing; and that now darted forth out of the bodies of the devils into the nature of God, like a thief and a murderer that desired to rob, murder and spoil all, and bring all under its power, and so kindled all the seven spirits in natu» — el espíritu animado, ligado a la Deidad, encendió los siete espíritus. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«No; but he has kindled the wrath of God, which, indeed, had otherwise rested eternally in secret, and so he has made the Salitter of God to be a murderous den ;» — la negativa y la adjudicación: no fue Dios, fue él quien encendió la ira.

«the wrath-fire of God does not reach in nature into the innermost kernel of the heart, which is the Son of God, much less into the secret glory or holiness of the spirit, but into the birth or geniture of the six qualifying or fountain spirits, in the place where the seventh is generated.» — el límite del fuego de ira: no llega más allá del séptimo espíritu.

«For the devil could not touch the heart, neither could he touch the innermost birth or geniture of the qualifying or fountain spirits; for his glory of the seven spirits was already mortified in the first flash of kindling, and was presently held captive and imprisoned in the first exit of the animated or soulish spirit.» — y el límite del diablo: no pudo tocar el corazón ni el espíritu animado.

«When this was done the light in nature was extinguished in the outermost birth or geniture also, and all became very dark, perished» — apagada la luz, todo quedó oscuro. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For before the times of the world the water was very thin or rarified, like air, and then the life was generated therein a» — antes del tiempo del mundo el agua era muy fina. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The gracious, amiable and blessed love which rose up in the flash of the life, became a fierce and bitter venom or poison,» — el amor, vuelto veneno feroz y amargo.

«But thou must not think that nature was thus corrupted and kindled even to the innermost ground, but only the outermost» — la salvedad que sostiene el capítulo: la naturaleza no se corrompió hasta lo más íntimo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For if the devil could have reached into the innermost birth or geniture, then instantly the whole circumference, court or extent of his kingdom would have been the kindled burnin» — y la hipótesis contraria, con lo que habría pasado. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But now he must lie captivated and imprisoned in the outermost» — el diablo queda cautivo en el nacimiento más externo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But Lucifer has kindled his qualifying or fountain spirits even in the innermost birth or geniture, and now his qualifying or fountain spirits generate an animated or soulish devil's spirit, which is an» — Lucifer encendió sus espíritus hasta engendrar un espíritu enemigo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For when God was angry in his outermost birth or geniture in nature, then it was not his purposed determinate will to be kindled, neither has he effected that kindling;» — la acotación decisiva: Dios no tuvo voluntad determinada de encender ese fuego ni lo efectuó.

«For the devil cannot be expelled quite out, away, beyond God, into another kingdom of angels; but a place must be reserved to him for a habitation.» — y la consecuencia: hay que reservarle un lugar de morada.

«Now come on, ye advocates [or justifiers] of Lucifer, maintain the cause of your king now, and shew whether he has done right in kindling of the wrath-fire in nature; if not, then he must bum therein eternally, and your lies against the tr» — el reto renovado a los abogados de Lucifer. Los corchetes son del impreso y la frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Here thou must know, that without, distinct from himself, he had no impulse at all to his pride, but his beauty and brigh» — la causa que le adjudica al orgullo: su propia hermosura. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Thus king Lucifer is the beginning of sin and the sting of death,» — la sentencia del capítulo: Lucifer, principio del pecado y aguijón de la muerte. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Also he is a murderer and father of lies, and a founder of hell, a spoiler and corrupter, and destroyer of all that is good, and an eternal enemy of God, and of all good angels and men; against whom I, and all men that think to be saved, must daily and hourly struggle and fight, as against the worst and arch enemy.» — y el llamado a pelear contra él como contra el peor enemigo.

«Moreover, I defy also all his lawyers and helpers, and will, with the divine grace, from henceforth fully reveal his kingdom, and demonstratively prove, that God is a God of love and meekness [Psalm v. 4.], who willeth not the evil, and who has no pleasure in the perdition of any, [ Ezek. xviii. 23] but willeth that all men should be helped or saved.» — el desafío a sus abogados, apoyado en que Dios quiere que todos se salven.

«Then I will shew and prove also that all evil cometh from the devil, and taketh its original from him.» — y lo que se propone mostrar: que todo mal viene de él.

«Now when this horrible Lucifer, as a tyrant and raging spoiler of all that is good, shewed himself thus terribly, as if he would kindle and destroy all, and bring all under his jurisdiction, then all the heavenly hosts and armies were against him, and he also against them all; there now the fight began, for all stood most terribly, one party against another.» — la batalla celestial, con los dos bandos enfrentados.

«And the great prince Michael [Rev. xii.] with his legions fought against him; and the devil with his legions had not the victory, but» — Miguel con sus legiones pelea contra él y el diablo no obtiene la victoria. La referencia al Apocalipsis va entre corchetes en el impreso y la frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Answer. The spirit alone understands this hidden secret, which spirit must fight daily and hourly with the devil, the outward flesh cannot comprehend it; also the astral spirits in man cannot understand it, neither is it comprehended by man at all, unless the animated or soulish spirit unite, qualify and operate with the innermost birth or geniture in nature, in the centre, where the light of God is set opposite against the devil's kingdom, that is, in the third birth or geniture, in the nature of this wo» — solo el espíritu entiende ese secreto. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«When it uniteth, qualifieth or operateth with God in this seat, then the animated or soulish spirit carrieth it into the astral ; for the astral must in this place fight hourly with the devil.» — la traslación de la batalla al hombre: pelea con el diablo cada hora.

«For the third or outermost birth or geniture in man, which is the carnal or fleshly birth, and which man through the first fall in his lust has raised and prepared for himself, is the devil's castle or fort of prey or robbery and dwelling-house, wherein the devil, as in a bulwark, fighteth with the soul, and giveth it many a hard knock on the head.» — el nacimiento más externo, castillo del diablo.

«Now this birth of the flesh is not the mansionhouse of the soul, but in its strife the soul goeth in with its light into the divine power, and fighteth against the murder of th» — y su acotación: la carne no es morada del alma. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«On the other hand, the devil with his poison shooteth and darteth at the seven qualifying or fountain spirits which generate the soul, intending to destroy and to kindle them, that thereby he may get the whole body for his own propriety.» — el diablo ataca los espíritus-fuente para apropiarse del cuerpo.

«Now if the soul would willingly bring its light and knowledge into the human mind, then it must fight and strive hard and stoutly, and yet has a very narrow passage to enter in at; it will often be knocked down by the devil, but it must stand to it here, like a champion in the battle.» — el alma ha de pelear como campeona para traer su luz.

«But seeing the fleshly birth or geniture is not the soul's own proper house, and that it cannot possess it as an inheritance, as the devil does, therefore the fight and the battle lasteth as long as the house of flesh lasteth.» — y la pelea dura mientras dure la casa de carne.

«But if the house of flesh be once destroyed, and that the soul is not yet conquered or vanquished in its house, but is free and unimprisoned, then the fight is ended, and the devil must be gone from this spirit eternally.» — deshecha la casa de carne, el diablo queda fuera para siempre.

«Therefore this is a very difficult article to be understood; nay, it cannot be understood at all, except by experience in this fight.» — la abstención de método: el punto solo se entiende por experiencia en la pelea.

«Though I should write many books thereof, yet thou wouldst understand nothing of it, unless thy spirit stand in such a birth or geniture, and that the knowledge be generated in thyself; otherwise thou canst neither comprehend nor believe it» — y su corolario: sin esa experiencia, ni muchos libros bastarían. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For their bodily or corporeal birth stands only in the seven quali» — el nacimiento corporal de los ángeles está solo en los siete espíritus. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«So far reacheth their extent now, till the last day, and then they will get a house in that place where the earth now is and stands, and this will be called the burning hell.» — el lugar de los diablos, que se llamará el infierno ardiente.

«Lord Lucifer, wait for it, and in the meanwhile take this for an assured prophecy concerning it; for thou wilt get the kindled Salitter in the outermost birth or geniture, (which thou thyself hast so prepared and fitted), to be thy eternal house to dwell in.» — la profecía dirigida a Lucifer sobre el *Salitter* que será su casa.

«Thou wilt be such an eternal, almighty god therein, as a prisoner in a deep prison or dungeon, where thou wilt neither attain nor see the eternal light of God.» — y el cierre: prisionero que no verá la luz eterna de Dios.

«A LTHOUGH God be an eternal, almighty regent or governor, whom none can resist, yet nature in its kindling has now gotten a very monstrous strange government, such as was not before the times of the wrath.» — el capítulo diecisiete abre contrastando el gobierno eterno de Dios con los tiempos de la ira.

«Moreover, all was very bright and light therein, neither was there need of any other light; but the fountain or wellspring of the Heart of God enlightened all, and was a light in all, which did shine everywhere all over incessantly without any obstacle.» — antes de la pelea, la luz del Corazón de Dios alumbraba sin estorbo.

«But as soon as in nature the fight began with the proud devil, then in the seventh nature-spirit, in the court, region or extent of Lucifer, which is the place of this world, all gat another form and operation.» — y con la pelea todo tomó otra forma y otra operación.

«For nature gat a twofold source, and the outermost birth or geniture in nature was kindled in the wrath-fire, which fire now is called the wrath of God, or the burning hell.» — la naturaleza queda con doble fuente, y el fuego de ira se llama la ira de Dios.

«But behold! when Lucifer with his host or army stirred or awakened the wrath-fire in the nature of God, so that God was moved to anger in nature in the place of Lucifer, then the outermost birth or geniture in nature gat another quality, which was very fierce, astringent, cold,» — el nacimiento externo quedó con cualidad feroz y astringente. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The moving or boiling spirit, which before qualified or operated very meekly in nature, became, in its outermost birth or geniture, very exhalted and terrible, which now, in the outermost birth, is called the wind, or the element of air, in regard of its el» — el espíritu que antes cualificaba con suavidad pasa a llamarse viento o elemento de aire. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«For the astringent quality now attracted the Salitter very strongly together, and dried it, whence the bitter earth is proceeded; but the stones are from the Salitter which at that time stood in the powe» — la astringente atrae el *Salitter* y de ahí salen las piedras. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«Thou hast a similitude of this, in that the earth and stones are proceeded out of the incomprehensibility.» — el símil que ofrece de la procedencia de tierra y piedras desde lo incomprensible.

«For behold, the deep between heaven and earth is also incomprehensible, and yet the elementary qualities sometimes generate living comprehensible flesh therein, as grasshoppers, flies, and» — del profundo entre cielo y tierra salen de pronto insectos. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Which is caused by the strong attracting together of the qualities, in which attracted Salitter the life is suddenly generated.» — la causa que da: la fuerte atracción de las cualidades.

«So in like manner the earth and stones have their descent; for when the Salitter kindled itself in nature, then all became very rugged, thick and dark, like a thick dark mist or cloud, which the astringent quality dried up hard wit» — así se hicieron la tierra y las piedras. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But seeing the light in the outermost birth was extinguished, the heat also was captivated in the comprehensibility or palpability, and could no more generate its life.» — apagada la luz, el calor queda cautivo y no engendra vida.

«First, thou hast the bestial flesh, which is come to be so through the lustful longing bite of the apple, for it is the house of corruption» — la carne bestial como casa de corrupción. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For when Adam was made out of the corrupted Salitter of the earth, that is, out of the seed, or mass, or lump which the Creator extracted out of the corrupted earth, he was not then at first such flesh, else his body had been created mortal, but he had an angelical» — Adán no fue hecho al principio de carne mortal: la obra le atribuye un cuerpo angélico. La cita se corta antes de un guion de fin de renglón que el troceo marca con guion blando y que la herramienta une como *powerbody*.

«But seeing the seed, or mass, or lump, out of which Adam was made, was somewhat infected with the corrupt disease or malady of the devil, Adam therefore longed after his mother, that is, to eat of the fruit of the corrupted earth, which then in its outward comprehensibility was become so evil, and in the wrath-fire was become so hard, palpable and comprehens» — la semilla ya iba infectada, dura y palpable. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But when the devil saw that the lust was in Adam, then he stung confidently at the Salitter in Adam, and infected yet more and more the Salitter out of which Adam was made.» — el diablo arremete contra el *Salitter* del que Adán fue hecho.

«Then it was time that the Creator should frame a wife for him, who afterwards set the sin on work, and did eat of the false, evil or corrupt fruit.» — la formación de la mujer y el fruto corrupto.

«But now the flesh is not the whole man; for this flesh cannot comprehend or apprehend the Deity, else the flesh were not mortal and corruptible, or fading and transitory; for Christ saith, [John vi. 63]: It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.» — la acotación paulina: la carne no es el hombre entero y no aprovecha nada.

«The outward comprehensibility or palpability in the whole nature of this world, and of all things which are therein, stands all in the wrath-fire of God, for it is become thus through the kindling of nature; and lord Lucifer with his angels has his dwelling now in the same outward birth or geniture which stands in the wrath-fire.» — lo palpable del mundo entero está en el fuego de ira.

«But now the Deity is not so separated from the outward birth or geniture, as if they were two things in this world; if so, man could have no hope, and then this world did not stand in the power and love of God» — con la salvedad que impide la desesperación: la Deidad no queda separada de ese nacimiento. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But the Deity is in the outward birth, hidden, and has the fan or casting shovel in its hand, and will one day cast the chaff and the kindled Salitter upon a heap, and will draw away from it its inward birth or geniture, and give them to lord Lucifer and his crew of followers for an eternal house.» — la Deidad está oculta en el nacimiento externo, y echará el salvado al fuego.

«In the meanwhile lord Lucifer must lie captive and imprisoned in the outermost birth in the nature of this world, in the kindled wrath-fire; and therein he has great power, and can reach into the heart of all creatures with his animated or soulish spirit in the outermost birth or geniture, which stands in the wrath-fire.» — entre tanto Lucifer queda cautivo en ese nacimiento.

«Therefore the soul of man must fight and strive continually with the devil, for he still presents before it the crabapples of Paradise— ["That is, the fierce source of malignity, wherewith the soul is infected." ] —and invites it also to bite thereof, that he thereby may also bring it into his prison.» — de ahí que el alma tenga que pelear con él.

«If that will not succeed to his purpose, then he strikes many a hard blow at the head, and that man must continually lie under the cross, affliction and misery in this world.» — y si no lo logra, el diablo golpea con miseria.

«For he hideth the noble grain of mustardseed, so that man does not know himself.» — el diablo esconde el grano de mostaza y así el hombre no se conoce.

«But stay a little; thou hast given me also many a blow, I have experimental knowledge of thee, and here I will open thy door to thee a little, that another also may see what thou art.» — el cierre, con la promesa de abrir una puerta para que se le vea.

«M OSES writeth in his first book [Genesis] as if he had been present, and had beheld all with his eyes; but without doubt he received it in writing from his forefathers: It may be he, in the spirit, might well have discerned somewhat more herein than his forefathers did.» — el capítulo dieciocho abre por Moisés y lo que pudo discernir. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«But because at that time, when God created heaven and earth, there was yet no man who saw it, therefore it may be concluded that Adam before his fall, while he was yet in the deep knowledge of God, knew it in the spirit.» — Adán, antes de la caída, lo conocía en el espíritu.

«But yet when he fell, and was set into the outward birth or geniture, he knew it no more, but kept it in remembrance, only as a dark and veiled story; and this he left to his posterity.» — caído, el conocimiento quedó como historia para su posteridad.

«For it is manifest, that the first world before the deluge or flood knew as little of the qualities and birth or geniture of God as this last world wherein we now live knoweth:» — y el primer mundo supo del nacimiento de Dios tan poco como el presente.

«But seeing through the divine grace in this high article this great mystery has been somewhat revealed to me, in my spirit, according to the inward man, (which qualifieth, mixeth and uniteth with the Deity), therefore I cannot forbear to describe it according to my gifts.» — lo que él dice hacer: describirlo según sus dones.

«For I do it not out of a desire of boasting and vainglory, but in a humble information to the Reader, (that thereby the works of God might be somewhat better known, and the devil's kingdom revealed and laid open, seeing this present modern world moveth and liveth» — la intención declarada, no de jactancia. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«I do it to try whether I may, with the entrusted talent, happily get gain of usury, and not return it to my God and Creator again singly and empty, without improvement, like the lazy servant who had stood idle in the vineyard of the Lord, and would require his wages without having laboured at all.» — y el símil del siervo perezoso, con que justifica el intento.

«But if the devil should raise mockers and despisers, who would say it does not become me to climb so high into the Deity, and to dive so deeply thereinto:» — cuenta de antemano con los burladores que le reprocharán subir tan alto.

«That I am not climbed up into the Deity, neither is it possible for such a mean man as I am to do it; but the Deity is climbed up into me, and from its love» — y la respuesta, que es la fórmula clave de su autoridad: no subió él a la Deidad. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But the bitter spirit is the chief cause of the black earth, for through its fierce bitterness the Salitter became killed in its outermost birth or geniture, from whence existed the wild or barren earth.» — el espíritu amargo como causa principal de la tierra estéril.

«But the heat in the astringent spirit chiefly helped to make the hardness; but where that [hardness] came to be, there it [the heat] generated the noblest and most precious Salitter in the earth, as gold, silver, and precious sto» — el calor en el espíritu astringente engendra oro, plata y piedras preciosas. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For when the shining light, by reason of the hard, dry and rough matter, became extinguished, then it was together dried up and incorporated in the heat, which is the father of the light.» — apagada la luz, se incorpora en el calor, que es su padre.

«Yet you must understand it thus: Where the hot spirit in the sweet water was predominant in love, there the astringent spirit attracted the matter together, and so thereby the noblest ores of minerals and precious stones were generated.» — dónde se engendran los minerales nobles.

«Herein lies the pith or kernel; for gold, silver, and precious stones, and all bright ores of minerals, have their original from the light, which shone before the times of wrath in the outermost birth or geniture of nature, that is, in the seventh nature-spirit:» — el meollo: el origen del oro y de las gemas está en la luz del séptimo espíritu.

«But the innermost kernel, which is the Deity, that they can nowhere comprehend, for the wrath of the fire lies before it, as a strong wall, and this wall must be broken down with a very strong storm or assault, if the astral spirits will see» — el grano más íntimo, la Deidad, tras una pared de fuego. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«And that is the hidden birth or geniture in nature, which no man by his own reason, wit or capacity can comprehend; but the soul of that man alone who stands in the light of God comprehends it, and no other.» — el nacimiento oculto en la naturaleza, que solo el alma iluminada comprende.

«The Second Birth or Geniture in Nature, are the seven Spirits of Nature» — el segundo nacimiento en la naturaleza son los siete espíritus. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But this [third] spirit, or this birth has seven kinds or species, viz. the astringent, the sweet, the bitter, the hot: these four generate the comprehensibility in the third birth or geniture.» — el tercer nacimiento, con sus siete especies. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«The fifth spirit is the love, which existeth from the light of the life, which generateth sensibility and reason.» — el quinto espíritu, el amor, del que salen sensibilidad y razón.

«The sixth spirit is the tone, which generateth the sound and joy, and is the spring or source rising up through all the spirits.» — el sexto, el tono.

«The seventh spirit is nature, in which stands the corporeal being of all six spirits, for the six spirits generate the seventh.» — y el séptimo, la naturaleza, madre y engendrada a la vez.

«But when king Lucifer was created, then he excited or awakened the wrath of God in this third birth or geniture; for the bodies of the angels came to be creatures in this third birth.» — Lucifer despertó la ira en ese tercer nacimiento.

«Now then, seeing the devils kindled their own bodies, intending thereby to domineer over the whole Deity, therefore the creator also,» — los diablos encendieron sus propios cuerpos para dominar la Deidad entera. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For the light of their heart, which qualified, mixed or united with the heart of God, they themselves have extinguished, and instead thereof have generated a fierce, hot, astringent, bitter, hard and stinking devilish spirit» — apagada la luz de su corazón, quedó un espíritu duro y hediondo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But now thou must not think that thereupon the whole nature or place of this world is become a mere bitter wrath of God.» — la salvedad que impide leer el mundo como pura ira.

«No; here lies the point: the wrath does not comprehend the innermost birth or geniture in nature, for the love of God is yet hidden in the centre, in the whole place of this world; and so the house which lord Lucifer is to be in is not fully separated, but there is still in all things of this world both love and wrath one in the other, and they always wrestle and strive one with the o» — el punto: ira y amor forcejean sin cesar. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But the devils cannot lay hold on the wrestling of the light, but only on the wrestling of the wrath, wherein they are executioners or hangmen, to execute the justice or law, which was pronounced in God's wrath against all wicked men.» — y el límite del diablo: no alcanza el forcejeo del amor.

«Neither ought any man to say that he is generated in the wrath-fire of the total corruption or perdition, out of God's predestinate purp» — la negativa a la predestinación, dicha como prohibición al lector. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Yet if a mother bears or bringeth forth a child of the devil, the fault is not God's, but the parents' wickedness.» — la culpa del hijo malo se pone en la maldad de los padres, no en Dios.

«Yet if a wild twig be planted in a sweet soil, and be engrafted with some other of a better and sweeter kind, then there grows a mild tree, though the twig were wild.» — y la contrapartida: la rama silvestre plantada en buen suelo da árbol manso.

«For every man is free, and is as a god to himself; in this life man may change and alter himself either into wrath or into light.» — la libertad del hombre, dicha sin reserva.

«For if the earth were quite forsaken of God, then it could never bring forth any good fruit, but mere bad and evil fruit.» — abandonada de Dios, la tierra solo daría fruto malo.

«But seeing the earth stands yet in God's love, therefore his wrath will not burn therein eternally, but the love which has overcome will spew out the wrath-fire.» — y por eso no arde para siempre.

«In this world the love and the wrath are the one in the other in all creatures, and that which overcometh in the wrestling inheriteth the house by right, whether it be the kingdom of hell, or the kingdom of heaven.» — en este mundo amor e ira están juntos, y el que venza hereda su reino.

«But the Salitter in a good beast will not therefore be left to the devil for a propriety, but will in the separated part, in the nature of God, eternally blossom— ["That is, their figure will stand as a shadow upon the holy ground, in the wonders, viz., in the eternal Magia:"] — and bring for» — el *Salitter* de la bestia buena florecerá. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But the Salitter of the beast of God's wrath will, in the wrath of God, bear eternal hellish fruits.» — y el de la bestia de la ira dará fruto infernal.

«For if the earth be once kindled, then in the wrath burneth the fire, and in the love the light; and then all will be separated, for the one cannot comprehend the other any more.» — separados amor e ira, ya no se comprenderán.

«But in this present time everything has a twofold source and quality; whatsoever thou buildest and sowest here in the spirit, be it with words, works or thoughts, that will be thy eternal house.» — lo que uno obra y piensa será su casa eterna.

«Not that the light of the heart of God in its innermost birth is imprisoned: No; but the lustre and the shining thereof, in the third birth or geniture, was incorporated with, and in, the outermost comprehensibility; and therefore it is that men are in love with all those things which stand in that Salitter» — la negativa: no es que la luz del corazón de Dios quede encarcelada. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For the word (Am) conceiveth itself in the heart, and goeth forth to the lips, but there is captivated and goeth back again sounding, till it cometh to the place from whence it went forth.» — la lectura fonética de la creación empieza por la sílaba (Am), que se concibe en el corazón y vuelve a su lugar.

«This signifieth now, that the sound [voice of God] went forth from the heart of God, and encompassed the whole place or extent of this world; but when it [the place] was found to be evil, then the sound returned again into its own place.» — y su significado: el sonido vuelve a su propio lugar cuando el mundo se halla malo. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«The word or syllable (An) thrusteth itself out from the heart, and presseth forth at the mouth, and has an after-pressure [or murmuring sound]; but when it is spoken forth, then it closeth itself up in the nidst or centre of its seat with the upper gums [palate], and is half without and half within.» — la sílaba (An), mitad fuera y mitad dentro.

«This signifieth that the heart of God had a loathing against the corruption, and so thrust away the corrupted being from himself, but laid hold on it again in the midst or centre at the heart.» — y su lectura: el corazón de Dios retiene lo corrompido en el centro.

«As the tongue breaketh off or divideth the word or syllable, and keeps it half without and half within, so the heart of God would not wholly reject the kindled Salitter, but the malignity, malice and impulse of the devil; and the other part should be reedified or built again after» — la lengua parte la sílaba, y lo roto se reedifica después. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«This signifieth that the corrupted fierceness is thrust out eternally from the light of God, but the inward spirit, which is loaded therewith against its will, shall be set again in its first hous» — la ferocidad corrompida es expulsada y el espíritu interno restituido. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But that the mouth is swiftly opened again after the word is ended, it signifieth, concerning the deep above the earth, that God the Lord will nevertheless dwell there, and reserve his regimen for himself, and hold the devil as a prisoner in the wrath-fire.» — la boca que se abre de golpe significa al diablo preso en el fuego de ira.

«This signifieth that when God created heaven and earth, and all the creatures, he nevertheless remained in his divine, eternal, almighty seat, and never went away from it at all, and that HE alone is ALL.» — y que Dios queda en su trono, solo él todo.

«But seeing it is a word with a twofold syllable, and that the second syllable (mel) openeth the mouth again, it signifieth that the gates of the Deity have been opened again.» — la segunda sílaba vuelve a abrir las puertas de la Deidad.

«For the teeth retain the word, letting the spirit go forth leisurely between the teeth. This signifieth that the astringent quality holdeth the earth and stones firmly and fast together; and yet, for all that, letteth the spirits of the earth spring up, grow and bear blossoms out of the astringent spirit; which signifieth the regeneration or restitution of the spirits of the earth.» — los dientes retienen la palabra y dejan brotar los espíritus de la tierra.

«This signifieth that God would again give to this corrupted kingdom or place in God, a King or great Prince, who would open again the innermost birth or geniture of the clear and bright Deity, and thereby the Holy Ghost would go forth on both sides, that is, out of the innermost depth of the Father and of the Son, and would go forth again into this world, and would new regenerate this world again through the New King.» — y significa que Dios dará un rey nuevo.

«The word (und) conceiveth itself in the heart, and is stayed and compacted, or incorporated by the tongue on the upper gums; but when it is let loose, it makes another pressure from the heart, out at» — la palabra (und), concebida en el corazón y soltada con otra presión. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now this signifieth the difference or distinction between the holy birth or geniture and the earthly» — y la distinción que marca entre el nacimiento santo y el terrenal. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The word (Erden) is thrust forth from the heart, and is conceived on the hinder part upon the tongue, at the hinder gums, and trembleth; the tongue is used about the first syllable (Er), yet not steadily, but the tongue recoils [or staggers] inwards at the nether gums, and croucheth as it were before an enemy, trembling.» — la palabra (Erden) sale del corazón temblando, como ante un enemigo.

«The word or syllable (Er) signifieth the kindled astringent and bitter quality, the earnest severe wrath of God, which trembleth at the hinder part of the gums, before which the tongue is as it were» — la sílaba (Er) significa la cualidad amarga y la ira de Dios. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The word or syllable (den) conceiveth itself on the tongue again, and the spirit attracteth the power and virtue out of the word, and therewith goeth forth another way at the nostrils, and so goeth therewith up into or towards the brain before the royal seat.» — y la sílaba (den) se dirige al cerebro antes del trono real.

«He will extract from the earth the kernel, and the best or the good spirit, and will regenerate it anew, to his honour and glory.» — Dios extraerá de la tierra el grano para su honra.

«Here, O man, consider thyself well, and mind what manner of seed thou sowest into the earth, the very same will spring up, and bear blossoms and fruit for ever, either in the love or in the wrath.» — el llamado al lector a mirar qué siembra.

«But when the good shall be separated from the evil, then thou wilt live in that part which thou hast laboured for here, be it either in heaven, or in hellfire.» — y el destino según esa siembra.

«Or dost thou think that this which I have set down here my spirit has sucked out of the corrupted earth, or out of an old felt hat? Truly no, for the spirit at this time of my description and setting it down did unite and qualify or mix with the deepest birth or geniture of God.» — la pregunta al lector sobre de dónde viene lo que escribe.

«Had not our philosophers and doctors always played upon the fiddle of pride, but had played on the musical instrument of the prophets and apostles, there would have been far another knowledge and philosophy in th» — la conjetura contrafactual sobre filósofos y doctores. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Therefore he is a sweet, friendly, bounteous, good, meek, pure and merciful God, according to his heart in the innermost birth or geniture in the place of this world, and still continues so to be; and his meek love presseth forth from his heart into the outermost birth or geniture of the wrath, and quencheth the same, and therefore Sprach Er, He said, Es werde Licht, Let there be light.» — Dios descrito como dulce, amable y generoso, en el pasaje del hágase la luz.

«But if the innermost birth had been dark, then the wrath of God had rested in this world eternally, and it would never have been light; but the wrath has not thus touched or reached the heart of God.» — la hipótesis contraria: si el nacimiento más íntimo hubiera sido oscuro.

«For Moses writeth, Und es war Finster auf der Tieffe. And it was dark on the deep.» — la cita de Moisés en alemán, con su traducción, que el impreso conserva.

«Ye philosophers, open your eyes. I will, in my simplicity, teach you the Sprach Gottes, the speech, speaking or language of God, as indeed it must be.» — el reto a los filósofos y la promesa de enseñar la lengua de Dios.

«The word (Sprach) or said, is spoken after the manner of men:» — la palabra (Sprach) se dice a la manera de los hombres.

«The word (Sprach) conceiveth itself between the teeth, for they bite or join close together, and the spirit hisseth forth through the teeth, and the tongue boweth or bendeth in the middle, and setteth its forepoint, as if it did listen after the hissing, and was afraid.» — y su fonética: concebida entre los dientes, con siseo.

«Judge not, else here thou runnest counter against a strong gate, and wilt be imprisoned; if the wrath-fire catcheth thee, then thou wilt remain eternally therein.» — la advertencia contra el juicio del lector.

«Thou shouldst not think that God at that time did speak in that way as men do, and that it is but a weak, impotent word, like man's word.» — la negativa: la palabra de Dios no es impotente como la del hombre.

«For it is written, And it was dark on the deep, and the spirit of God moved on the water.» — la cita del Génesis sobre el Espíritu que se movía sobre las aguas.

«But that the spirit does hiss through the teeth signifieth that the spirit is gone forth from the heart of God through the wrath; but that the teeth remain closed together, while the spirit hisseth, and do not open themselves, signifieth that the wrath has not comprehended or reached the Holy Ghost.» — y la lectura del siseo entre los dientes.

«But that the lips stand open, when it is come hissing through the teeth, signifieth that he [The Holy Ghost] with his going forth out of the heart of God, in the creation of this world, has opened again the gates of heaven, and is gone through the gates of God's wrath, and has left the wrath of God strongly shut and bolted up, and has left the devil his eternal kindled wrathhouse close locked up, out of which he cannot come eternally.» — los labios abiertos significan las puertas del cielo, y la prisión de la que el otro no sale.

«But in the same way as the spirit effecteth his going forth, and his conceived or intended will, through the teeth, and yet the teeth do not stir, nor can they comprehend the will of the spirit, so the Holy Ghost also, without the apprehension or comprehension, either of the devil or of the wrath of God, buildeth or erecteth continually a holy seed or temple in the house of this world.» — el Espíritu Santo levanta un templo en la casa de este mundo.

«But that the whole word (Sprach) said, formeth or conceiveth itself at the hinder gums on the tongue in the hollow hole in the centre of the astringent and bitter quality, and snarleth, signifieth that God has conceived or framed the place of this world at the heart in the midst or centre of it, and has built to himself again a house to his praise, against all the grumbling, murmuring and snarling of the devil, in which he ruleth with his Holy Ghost.» — y la palabra entera forma ese templo.

«But that the astringent and the bitter qualities conceive themselves together with the word, and unite and agree one with the other, and yet the spirit of the heart alone speaketh forth the word at the mouth, signifieth that all creatures, which were produced and put forth by the word alone, viz. the beasts, fowls, fishes, worms, trees, leaves, herbs and grass, were formed from the whole body, being good and evil.» — de las cualidades astringente y amarga sale que toda criatura sea buena y mala.

«And that in all these there would stand both the angry and corrupt quality, and also the love of God; and yet all would be driven on by the spirit of love, though those two would disturb, rub, plague, squeeze and vex each other.» — y de ahí que se aflijan unas a otras.

«Whereby then, in many a creature the wrath-fire would be so very hard kindled that the body, together with the spirit, will afford and produce an eternal wrath Salitter in hell.» — el fuego de ira, encendido fuerte en muchas criaturas.

«For the spirit, which is generated in the heart, must in its body walk through the midst or centre of the hellish gates, and may very easily be kindled; they are as wood and fire, which will burn, if thou pourest no water in among them.» — y el símil de la leña sin agua.

«O man, thou wast not, by the Word, created together with and as the beasts, from good and evil; and if thou hadst not eaten of good and evil, then the wrath-fire would not have been in thee; but by that means thou hast also gotten a bestial body: It is done: The love of God take pity, and have mercy in that behalf.» — el hombre no fue creado con las bestias, y se volvió bestial.

«But, that after the conceiving and compacting of the word together in the astringent quality at the hinder gums upon the tongue, the mouth openeth itself wide, and the compacted and united spirit goeth forth together at the mouth, which spirit is generated out of the heart and also out of the astringent and bitter quality, signifieth that the creatures would live in great anguish and adversity, and would not be able to generate through one body, but through two.» — de ahí que la generación de criaturas pase por dos cuerpos y no uno.

«Therefore is nature now become too weak in the spirit of the heart, and is not able to deliver [itself from] its own innermost birth of the heart; and for that cause nature has brought forth a male and a female.» — la naturaleza, debilitada, saca macho y hembra.

«Thus it denoteth also the evil and the good will in the whole or universal nature, and in all the creatures; that there would be a continual wrestling, fighting and destroying; from whence this world is rightly called a valley of misery, full of crosses, persecutions, toils and labours.» — y de ahí el nombre de valle de miseria para este mundo.

«Now seeing the outermost birth or geniture in nature is twofold, that is, both evil and good, therefore it is that there is a perpetual tormenting, squeezing, lamenting and howling; and the creatures in this life are subject to torments and afflictions, so that this evil world is justly called a murderous den of the devil.» — y el de guarida de asesinos del diablo.

«Just as the meek spirit of the heart goeth through the astringent and bitter quality, and overcometh it; and though it be indeed infected with the astringent and bitter spirit, yet it teareth and breaketh thorough, as a conqueror: But if it should wilfully sit still in the hollow hole in the astringent and bitter spirit, and suffer itself to be taken captive, and would not fight, then the fault were its own.» — la responsabilidad devuelta al espíritu que se queda quieto.

«Thus it is also with those creatures that will continually sow and reap in the hellish fire, especially that man who liveth in a continual desire of pride, covetousness, envy and wrath, and will at no time fight and strive against them with the spirit and fire of love ; such a one himself attracteth the wrath of God, and the burning hellish fire, upon his body and soul.» — y lo mismo con el hombre soberbio, que atrae sobre sí la ira.

«Thus you have a short and real introduction concerning the word which God has spoken, rightly described in the knowledge of the spirit, faithfully imparted according to my gifts, and the talent I am entrusted with.» — el cierre del capítulo: una introducción corta y real, según el talento que declara tener.

«Thou must not think that the light of the sun and of nature is the heart of God, which shineth in secret. No; thou oughtest not to worship the light of nature, it is not the heart of God, but it is a kindl» — la negativa final: la luz de la naturaleza no es el corazón de Dios. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana a media palabra.

«Though it be generated in God and from God, yet it is but the instrument of his handiwork, which cannot apprehend and reach back again to the clear Deity in the deepest birth or geniture, as the flesh cannot apprehend or reach the soul.» — engendrada en Dios, esa luz no alcanza el alma.

«But it must not so be understood as if the Deity were separated from nature; no, but they are as body and soul: Nature is the body, and the heart of God is the soul.» — y la salvedad: la Deidad no está separada de la naturaleza, son como cuerpo y alma.

«There was a light arisen in the seven spirits of nature which had no peculiar distinct seat or place, but did shine everywhere all over, but was not bright like the sun, but like an azure blue and light,» — la luz primera, que no era como el sol sino azul celeste.

«Therefore we can neither see nor comprehend the holy angels; for the outermost birth of their body is incomprehensible to the outermost birth or geniture of» — la abstención sobre los ángeles, que no se ven ni se comprenden. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The second birth of this world stands in the life, for it is the astral birth, out of which is generated the third and holy birth or geniture, and therein love and wrath strive the one with the other.» — el segundo nacimiento del mundo, donde amor e ira pugnan.

«But the Holy Ghost also ruleth and reigneth in the second birth, and helpeth to generate the third holy birth or genitur» — el Espíritu Santo gobierna también en ese segundo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«this third birth or geniture is the clear and holy heaven, which qualifieth or uniteth with the heart of God without, distinct and above all heavens, as one heart;» — el tercer nacimiento, cielo claro y santo.

«And out of this heart JESUS CHRIST, the Son of God, in the womb or body of the Virgin Mary, went into all the three births or genitures, and assumed them really, that he might, through and with his innermost birth or geniture, take the devil, death and hell captive in the outermost birth, and overcome the wrath of God, as a king and victorious prince;» — Cristo atraviesa los nacimientos como rey vencedor.

«In this heaven now sitteth our King JESUS CHRIST, at the right hand of God,» — y se sienta a la diestra de Dios en ese cielo.

«Therefore, thou child of man, be not discouraged, be not so timorous and despondent; for if thou sowest in thy zeal and earnest sincerity the seed of thy tears, thou dost not sow it in earth, but in heaven; for in thy astral birth thou sowest, and in thy animated or soulish birth thou reapest, and in the kingdom of heaven thou possessest and enjoyest it.» — el ánimo al lector: que siembre en su cielo.

«While thou livest in this struggling or striving birth or geniture thou must buckle to, and suffer the devil to ride upon thee; but so hard as he striketh thee, so hard thou must strike him again, if thou wilt defend thyself.» — y la condición de defenderse mientras dure.

«Here the spirit answereth, that at the end of the time of this corrupted birth or geniture, after the resurrection from the dead, this place or space where the earth now is will be left to the devil for a propriety or possession and house of wrath, yet not through and in all the three births or genitures, but only in the outermost, in which he now stands: But the innermost will hold him captive in its might and strength, and use him for a footstool, or as the dust under its foot, which innermost birth he will never be able either to comprehend or to touch.» — el nacimiento interior tendrá cautivo al diablo al fin.

«If man's eyes were but opened, he would see God everywhere in his heaven; for heaven stands in the innermost birth or geniture everywhere.» — abiertos los ojos, se vería a Dios en el nacimiento interno de todo.

«Neither must thou think that the Deity is such a kind of being as is only in the upper heaven, nor that the soul, when it departeth from the body, goeth up aloft into the upper heaven many hundred thousand miles off.» — la negativa: la Deidad no está solo en el cielo superior.

«It needeth not do that, but it is set or put into the innermost birth, and there it is with God, and in God, and with all the holy angels, and can now be above, and now beneath; it is not hindered by anyth» — ni el alma tiene que subir allá. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«And where can there be greater joy than in that place, where every hour and moment there cometh to Christ beautiful, loving, dear, newborn children and angels, who are pressed or penetrated through death into life?» — dónde pone el mayor gozo: donde la vida rompe por la muerte.

«If thou wert come to this window, thou wouldst not then say that it is earthly: And though I must indeed use the earthly tongue, yet there is a true heavenly understanding couched under it, which in my outermost birth I am not able to express, either in writing or in speaking.» — el aviso de que usa lenguaje terrenal para algo que no lo es.

«I know very well that the word concerning the three births cannot be comprehended or apprehended in every man's heart, especially where the heart is too much steeped, soaked or drowned in the flesh, and bolted or barred up with the outermost birth.» — y reconoce que la palabra de los tres nacimientos resulta incomprensible.

«But I cannot render it otherwise than as it is, for it is just so; and though I should write mere spirit, as indeed and truth it is no other, yet the heart understands only flesh.» — la abstención sobre el lenguaje: no puede decirlo de otro modo.

«THE true heaven, which is our own proper human heaven, into which the soul goeth when it parteth from the body, and into which Christ our King is entered, and from whence it was that he came from his Father, and was born, and became man in the body or womb of the Virgin Mary, has hitherto been close hidden from the children of men, and they have had many opinions about it.» — el capítulo diecinueve abre por el cielo verdadero, que dice haber estado oculto.

«Also the learned have scuffled about it with many strange scurrilous writings, falling one upon another in calumnious and disgraceful terms, whereby the holy name of God has been reproached, his members wounded, his temple destroyed, and the holy heaven profaned with their calumniating and malicious» — y por la disputa de los doctos. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Men have always been of the opinion that heaven is many hundred, nay, many thousand miles distant from the face of the earth, and that God dwelleth» — la opinión corriente que consigna: el cielo a miles de millas. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Some naturalists [scientists] or artists have undertaken to measure that height and distance, and have produced ma» — los que han intentado medir su altura. Los corchetes son del impreso y la frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Indeed, before this my knowledge and revelation of God, I held that only to be the true heaven, which in a round circumference and sphere, very azure of a light blue colour, extends itself above the stars, supposing that God had therein his peculiar being, and did rule only in the power of his holy spirit in this world.» — lo que él mismo creía antes de su revelación: la esfera azul.

«I was thereupon very melancholy, perplexed and exceedingly troubled, no Scripture could comfort or satisfy me, though I was very well acquainted with it, and versed therein; at which time the devil would by no means stand idle, but was often beating into me many heathenish thoughts, which I will h» — el relato de su crisis: melancolía y perplejidad. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But when this had given me many a hard blow and repulse, doubtless from the [holy] spirit, which had a great longing yearning towards me, at last I fell into a very deep melancholy and heavy sadness, when I beheld and contemplated the great deep of this world» — el forcejeo interior que describe. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But when in this affliction and trouble I elevated my spirit (for I then understood very little or not at all what it was), I earnestly raised it up into God, as with a great storm or onset, wrapping up my whole heart and mind, as also all my thoughts and whole will and resolution, incessantly to wrestle with the love and mercy of God, and not to give over, until he blessed me, that is, until he enlightened me with his holy spirit, whereby I might understand his will, and be rid of my sadness.» — cómo elevó el espíritu a Dios en esa aflicción.

«But when, in my resolved zeal, I gave so hard an assault, storm and onset upon God, and upon all the gates of hell, as if I had more reserves of virtue and power ready, with a resolution to hazard my life upon it, (which assuredly were not in my ability without the assistance of the spirit of God), suddenly, after some violent storms made, my spirit did break through the gates of hell, even into the innermost birth or geniture of the Deity, and there I was embraced with love, as a bridegroom embraceth his dearly beloved bride.» — el pasaje central de la obra: su espíritu rompe las puertas del infierno y es abrazado como esposa amada.

«But the greatness of the triumphing that was in the spirit I can» — la abstención inmediata sobre la grandeza de ese triunfo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The first fire was but a seed, and not a constant lasting light: Since that time many a cold wind blew upon it; but the will never extinguished.» — y su acotación: aquel primer fuego era semilla.

«But because I could not at once apprehend the» — reconoce que no lo entendió de golpe. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For I am much too weak to know his purpose; and though the spirit affordeth in the light to be known some things which are to come, yet according to the outward man I am too weak to comprehend the same.» — abstención expresa: se declara demasiado débil para conocer el propósito de Dios.

«I write this not for mine own glory, but for a comfort to the Reader, so that if perhaps he be minded to walk with me upon my narrow bridge, he should not suddenly be discouraged, dismayed and distrustful, when the gates of hell and God's wrath meet him, and present themselves befor» — la intención declarada: consolar al lector. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Now observe: If thou fixest thy thoughts concerning heaven, and wouldst fain conceive in the mind what it is, and where it is, and how it is, thou needest not to swing or cast thy thoughts many thousand miles off, for that place, or that heaven, is not thy heaven.» — la aplicación práctica: no hace falta ir a miles de millas.

«But that there is assuredly a pure glorious heaven in all the three births or genitures alof» — el cielo puro y glorioso, cuya existencia afirma. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Therefore the upper heaven closeth itself so far in its outermost birth or geniture, and reacheth so far as the wrath of God reacheth, and so far as the government or dominion of Lucifer has reached, for the corrupted or perished birth or geniture cannot comprehend the» — el cielo superior se cierra al nacimiento externo. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Therefore there is a strong firmament or enclosure between the» — el firmamento firme entre los dos nacimientos. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Therefore in our outermost birth or geniture we cannot see the angels, neither can the angels dwell with us in the outermost birth of this world; but in the innermost th» — en el nacimiento externo no vemos ángeles. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Though this great work in man has remained hidden till this very day, yet God be praised, it will now once be day, for the dayspring or morningredness breaketh forth.» — la obra oculta en el hombre, que ahora se revela con la aurora.

«The word (Tag) conceiveth itself at the heart, and goeth forth at the mouth through the way or passage of the astringent and the bitter qualities, and does not awaken or rouse up the astringent and the bitter qualities, but goeth forth directly through their place, which is at the hinder gums upon the tongue, very softly or gently, and incomprehensibly as to t» — la lectura fonética de la palabra (Tag). La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But when it cometh forth upon the tongue, then the tongue and the upper gums close the mouth; but when the spirit thrusteth at the teeth, and will go forth, then the tongue openeth the mouth at the teeth, and will go forth before the word, and at the mouth does as it were leap forth for joy.» — la lengua salta de gozo al pronunciarla.

«Then the astringent quality drayleth [Drail, to trail] after it, as a drowsy man who is awakened from sleep; but the bitter spirit which goeth forth from the fire flash lies still, and heareth or regardeth not, neither does it move.» — la astringente se arrastra detrás y no se mueve. El corchete con la glosa del verbo es del impreso.

«These are very great things, and not so slight matters as the countryman supposeth.» — el aviso de que no son cosas menores.

«Now, that the spirit first conceiveth itself at the heart, and breaketh through all watches and guards till it come upon the tongue, unperceived or unobserved, signifieth that the light brake forth out of the heart of God, through the corrupted, outermost, fierce, dead, bitter and astringent birth or geniture in the nature of this world, incomprehensibly both as to death and the devil, together with the wrath of God; as it is written in the Gospel of St John, [John i. 5. ] The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it n» — el espíritu se concibe primero en el corazón, y la tiniebla no lo comprendió. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But that the tongue and the upper gums close the mouth, when the spirit cometh upon the tongue, signifieth that the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of nature in this world, at the time of the creation, were not mortified and dead through the wrath of God, but were lively, active and vigor» — los espíritus de la naturaleza no estaban muertos. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For the tongue signifieth or denoteth the life of nature, in which stands the animated, soulish and holy birth or geniture: For it is a type [prefiguration or resemblance] of the» — la lengua significa la vida y el alma. Los corchetes son del impreso y la frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But that the fore gums widen inward, and give room for the spirit to do as it pleaseth, signifieth that the whole astral birth yielded itself very friendly and courteously to the will of the light, and did not awaken the fierceness in it.» — las encías que se abren sin despertar la ferocidad.

«And that must be, because of the outermost comprehensibility or palpability, which must be held and sustained by the astringent fierceness, else nothing would subsist in its body, neither could the compressed, compacted earth and stones subsist, but would be again a broken, thick, muddy and dark Salitter, such as at first moved in the whole deep.» — sin la luz, todo quedaría *Salitter* roto en lo hondo.

«It signifieth also, II. That this Salitter, at last, when the spirit has done with its creation and work in this world, shall be roused up and revived at the Last Judgment Day.» — y ese *Salitter* volverá a la vida en el Juicio.

«But that the bitter spirit lies still, and neither heareth nor comprehendeth nor apprehendeth the work of the spirit, signifieth that the bitter wrath-fire, which ariseth in the flash of fire at the time of the birth or geniture of the light, is not awakened by the light, neither comprehendeth it, but lies captive, imprisoned in the outermost birth or geniture, and must give leave to the spirit of light to do its work in nature, how it pleaseth, and yet can neither see nor hear nor comprehend the work of the light.» — el espíritu amargo queda quieto y no percibe la obra de la luz.

«Therefore no man ought to think that the devil is able to tear the works of the light out of his [man's] heart, for he can neither see nor comprehend them: and though he rageth and raveth in the outermost birth in the flesh, as in his castle of robbery or fort of prey, do not despair; only take heed that thou thyself bring not the works of wrath into the light of thy heart» — y de ahí que el diablo no pueda quitar la luz del corazón. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«And though the devil cannot take the light from me, yet he often hideth or eclipseth it with the outward and fleshly birth or geniture, so that the astral birth or geniture is in anxiety, and in a strait, as if it were cap» — aunque sí la esconde con el nacimiento carnal. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«These are only his blows and strokes, whereby the mustard seed is overwhelmed, covered and obscured: Concerning which also the holy Apostle Paul saith, [Cor. xii. 79] that a great thorn was given him in his flesh, and he besought the Lord earnestly to take it from him, whereupon the Lord answered, Let my grace be sufficient for» — la espina de Pablo y la respuesta del Señor, con la frase cortada en el cambio de plana.

«But if the fierceness should be wholly taken away from the astral birth or geniture, then, in that [birth], man would be like God, and know all things, as God himself does» — la hipótesis contraria: quitada la ferocidad, el hombre sabría como Dios. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Thus thou seest that the day was created before the time of the sun and stars; for when God said, [Gen. i. 3] Let there be light ; there the light brake through the darkness, but the darkness did not comprehend it, but remained sitting in its seat.» — la tiniebla no comprendió la luz y se quedó en su sitio.

«Therefore if any one should be damned into hell, he ought not to say that God has done it, or that God willeth it to be so; but man awakeneth or stirreth up the wrath-fire in himself, which, if it grows burning, afterwards qualifieth, mixeth or uniteth with God's wrath and the hellish fire, as one thing.» — la adjudicación de la condenación al propio hombre, que despierta la ira.

«For when thy light is extinguished, then thou standest in the darkness, and in the darkness the wrath of God is hidden, and so if thou awakenest it, then it burneth in thee.» — apagada la luz, la ira arde en él.

«There is fire even in a stone, and if you do not strike upon the stone, the fire remaineth hidden, but if you strike it, then the fire springs forth; and then, if any combustible matter be near it, that matter will take fire and burn, and so it cometh to be a huge fire; and thus it is with man also, when he kindleth the resting wrath-fire, which otherwise is at rest.» — el símil del fuego en la piedra, que está en reposo.

«But that it grunteth within or at the astringent quality, signifieth that the darkness was a contrary or opposite will against the Holy Ghost, at or against which the spirit was displeased.» — la tiniebla como voluntad contraria que disgusta al espíritu.

«But that the bitter spirit is not awakened, while the spirit goeth through its place, signifieth that the dark night in the outermost birth or geniture of this world has never comprehended the light; also never will comprehend it in all eternity.» — y su acotación eterna: la noche nunca comprenderá la luz.

«At the present time the darkness is separated from the light, and abideth in the outermost birth or geniture, wherein the wrath of God resteth till the Last Judgment Day; but then the wrath will be kindled, and the darkness will be the house or habitation of eternal perdition, wherein lord Lucifer, together with all wicked men who have sown into the darkness in the soil of the wrath, will have his eternal dwelling and residence.» — la tiniebla, separada, será morada eterna.

«But the astral birth, in which the natural light now stands, and wherein the holy birth is generated, will be also kindled at the end of this time, and the wrath and the holy birth will be separated asunder, for the wrath will not comprehend the holy birth or geniture.» — y el nacimiento astral tampoco comprenderá el santo.

«And the house of darkness, which is the outermost birth, will be called death: And king Lucifer will be the god therein, and his angels and all damned men will be his ministers, officers and servants.» — Lucifer, con sus ministros y siervos en esa casa.

«Thus you may understand what the creation of heaven and earth signifieth and is, also what God made on the first day.» — el cierre del capítulo, sobre lo hecho el primer día.

«Though indeed the first three days were not distinguished or severed asunder by evening and morning, but a time is to be reckoned and accounted as of twentyfour hours, as there is on high above the moon such a time and day.» — con la salvedad de que los tres primeros días no se distinguieron por mañana y noche.

«Secondly, it is also therefore counted for a human day, because, doubtless, the earth instantly began its revolution and did turn round about once in such a period of time, while God was separating, and so till he had separated, the light from the darkness; and thus it [the earth] performed and finished its course the first time.» — y la razón que da para contarlos: la primera vuelta de la tierra.

«Now, where nothing is, there nothing can come to be: All things must have a root, else can nothing grow: If the seven spirits of nature had not been from eternity, then there would have come to be no angel, no heaven, also no earth.» — el principio que aplica: donde nada hay, nada puede salir.

«But the earth is come from the corrupted Salitter of the outermost birth or geniture, which thou canst not deny, when thou lookest on earth and stones, for then thou must needs say that death is therein:» — la tierra viene del *Salitter* corrompido, y por eso lleva muerte.

«Now one might ask, Are there also all the three births or genitures therein?» — la pregunta que se plantea sobre los tres nacimientos en la tierra.

«The outward earth is a bitter stink, and is dead; and that every man understands to be so.» — la tierra exterior, hedor amargo.

«But the Salitter is destroyed or killed through the wrath; for thou canst not deny but that God's wrath is in» — el *Salitter* destruido por la ira, que él no niega estar en la tierra. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But if thou shouldst say that God has created them thus out of his purpose, that is as much as if thou shouldst say that God himself is evil, malice, malignity or wickedness.» — la objeción de que Dios sería malo, y su rechazo.

«Pray tell me, Why was the devil expelled or thrust out? Surely thou wilt say, Because of his pride, in that he would needs be above God.» — la pregunta que devuelve: por qué fue echado el diablo.

«Before the times of the creation he sat in the Salitter of the earth, when the Salitter was yet thin or transparent, and stood in a heavenly, holy birth or geniture, and he was in the whole kingdom of this world, therein was neither earth nor stones, but a heavenly seed, which was generated out of the seven qualifying or fountain spirits of nature; for in the kingdom of this world sprang up heavenly fruits, forms and ideas, which were a pleasant, delightful food of angels.» — dónde estaba el diablo antes de la creación.

«But I. The outermost birth or geniture was burnt up, frozen, drowned, stupefied, chilled and stark benumbed.» — el estado del nacimiento más externo tras el incendio.

«But II. The second birth or geniture generateth the life again in the outermost.» — y el segundo, que vuelve a engendrar vida en el externo.

«But if thou sayest that there is no life in the earth, thou speakest as one that is blind; for thou may see plainly that herbs and grass grow out of it.» — la objeción de que la tierra no tiene vida, y su respuesta.

«But if thou sayest it has but one kind of birth or geniture, thou speakest again also like one that is blind; for the herbs and wood which grow out of it are not earth, neither is the fruit, which grows upon a tree, wood;» — y la de que solo tiene una clase de nacimiento.

«The hills came so to be in the driving together or compaction: For the corrupted Salitter was more abounding in one place than in another, according as the wheel of God was, as to its innate standing, or instant quali» — el origen de los cerros, por abundancia de *Salitter*. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For in those places where the sweet water in the standing wheel of God was chief or predominant, there much earthly, comprehensible or palpable water came to be.» — donde predominó lo dulce, salió el agua.

«But where the astringent quality in the bitterness in Mercurius was chief or predominant, there much earth and stones came to be.» — donde lo astringente, la tierra y las piedras.

«But where the heat in the light was chief or predominant, there much silver and gold, as also some fair, clear stones, in the flash of the light, came to be;» — donde el calor en la luz, la plata y el oro.

«but especially where the love in the light was chief or predominant, there the most precious stones or jewels, as also the best, purest and finest gold came to be.» — y donde el amor en la luz, las piedras preciosas y el oro más fino.

«Observe: The writer, Moses, saith, [Gen. i.] God separated the light from the darkness, and called the light day, and the darkness night, so out of evening and morning the first day came to be.» — la cita de Moisés sobre la tarde y la mañana del primer día. Los corchetes son del impreso.

«Morning and evening are and reach up from the earth to the moon only, and take their original from the light of the sun, and this makes evening and morning, as also the outward day, and the outward dark night, as every one knoweth.» — la explicación que da de la mañana y la tarde a partir de la luz del sol.

«But there was not a twofold creation of evening and morning at that time; but when evening and morning did once begin, they kept their constant course all along from that time to this.» — y la negativa: no hubo doble creación de tarde y mañana.

«I do not write this, and bring it to light, that others after me should presently fall a writing, and publish the conceits of their own spirit herein, and cry them up for sanctity, or for a holy thing.» — abstención sobre el uso de su escrito: no lo da por cosa santa.

«But now God separated the palpable water from the impalpable, and placed the palpable on the earth, and the impalpable remained still in the deep, in its own seat, as it had been from» — Dios separó el agua palpable de la impalpable. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But seeing the wrath also is in that water in the deep above the earth, therefore constantly, through the kindling of the stars, and of the water in the wrath, such palpable water generateth itself, which, with it» — la ira está también en esa agua honda. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«But that there is a firmament between the waters, which firmament is called heaven, has this understanding or mea» — el firmamento entre las aguas y su sentido. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«The whole deep, from the moon to the earth, stands with its whole working in the wrathful and comprehensible or palpable birth or geniture; for the moon is the g» — el profundo de la luna a la tierra, con la luna como diosa del nacimiento palpable. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«For the outermost birth of the water cannot comprehend the innermost birth of the water which is called heaven, and which is made out of the midst or cent» — el nacimiento externo del agua no comprende el interior. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.

«Heaven is the firmament, viz. the fire-sea, or sea of fire, out of the seven spirits of nature, out of which the stars, as a quintessence, were concreted, incorporated or created by the Word FIAT: It has or containeth both fire and water, and hangeth in itself inwardly on the first Principle, and will bring its wonders, with or as to the figure of them, into the eternal; but its birth or geniture fadeth or passeth awa» — el cielo definido como firmamento y mar de fuego. La frase se corta en el cambio de plana.