"In water lives the fish, the plant in the ground, The bird in the sky, the sun in the firmament, The salamander must with fire be sustained, And God's Heart is Jacob Boehme's element."
— Jakob Böhme

January 1, 1970

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Angelus Silesius, as quoted in "Studies Concerning Jacob Boehme : Etude I. The Teaching about the Ungrund and Freedom" by Nikolai Berdyaev, in Journal Put', No. 20 (February 1930), p. 47