Jacob Boehme Online

FIGURE THIRTEEN

When the third Hierarchy, which Lucifer destroyed and depopulated, shall be completely filled again with Inhabitants from the Children of Adam, Good and Evil shall be separated, Time shall be no more, and GOD shall be All in All. This third Hierarchy, which, for good Reasons, was always hitherto represented as inferior to those of Michael and Uriel, is now here again exalted above them in the supremest Place: For as the Hierarch Jesus Christ, being the Brightness of GOD the Father's Glory, and the express Image of His Person, excels all the Angels, and has by Inheritance obtained a more excellent Name than they, who are all to worship Him, and to none of whom HE ever said, as HE said to Him, Sit on my Right Hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy Footstool, (Heb. 1) so also His subjects in this Hierarchy, surpass all the Holy Angels in this,that they are Images of GOD, as manifested in all the three Principles, when the Holy Angels are only his Images, as HE was manifested in two of them: Wherefore also they are distinguished from the Angels by this peculiar character [the circled Stars of David] which is not contrived by human Speculation, but is written in the Book of Nature by the Finger of God; for it points directly, not only at the Creation of this third Principle in six Days; but also at fallen and divorced Adam's Reunion with the Divine Virgin SOPHIA.

To those who are more like (though not in their outward Shape) the Animals of this World than Men, nothing is to be said of these and the like Things, because they are Spiritual, and must be Spiritually discerned.