When thou art quiet and ...

When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.
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 Jakob Bohme

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Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.
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 Jakob Bohme
In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.
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 Jakob Bohme
In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.
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 Jakob Bohme