"The fundamental task which Bohme has set himself is to apprehend God, and in this light to apprehend the world. The God whom Bohme seeks to know is not any kind of a God, an unknown God, such as is sought after the fashion of earthly philosophers, without any presuppositions whatever, while the thinker, like Robinson Crusoe, speculates in perfect isolation, gazing out from the solitary island of his own thought into the abstract infinity of the ocean and horizon. The God, whom Bohme seeks to know, is the God of Christianity, the God of revelation and of the Church, in whom he believes, the God who is Holiness and Love, whose manifestation he is absolutely certain of, but whose depths he desires to explore."
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Jacob Boehme: his life and teaching. Or Studies in theosophy by Martensen, H. (Hans), 1808-1884; Evans, Thomas Rhys, tr 1885 P. 36
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