“Behold, thou reasonable Soul, to thee I speak, and not to the Body, thou only apprehendest [sic] it: When the Birth is thus continually generated, then every Form has a Center to the Regeneration. …
“Thus also is the eternal Birth, wherein the Virtue is continually generated from Eternity; and out of the Virtue the Light; and the Light causes and makes the Virtue. The Light shines in the eternal Darkness, and makes in the eternal Mind the desiring and attracting Will; so that the Will in the darkness generates the thoughts, … and the desiring is the attracting of the Virtue.” ~Jacob Boehme
Continuous Birth
This is the only place I have read of Spiritual birth being called a Continuous Birth. While we read that spirit have no beginning and no end, Boehme puts this idea in an unusual way by calling this continuous birth.
It makes me think of the “monsters from the id” in the science fiction classic “Forbidden Planet”. In that movie, they eventually figure out that their weapons are ineffective against the monster because it is simply being regenerated “from microsecond to microsecond”. It is impossible to kill something that is in a constant state of being reborn.
This is a great way of looking at the life of the spirit and the soul, even if it isn’t exactly true. The spirit and soul cannot die, or even become ill, because they are constantly replenished. What’s more, spirits exchange Light with other spirits and keep each other eternal by doing so.
Light out of Virtue
It is not clear to me exactly what Boehme means by Virtue. It is clearly more than the ordinary meaning of that word. But when he says the Light comes out of the Virtue, yet that Light cause the Virtue, we have a circular kind of creation.
While it is not clear exactly what Boehme meant, we do know this: the Light come from God. This is not all light, not ordinary light, but spiritual Light. We can think of it as being light of a much higher frequency than physical light. Be cause this Light is of a high frequency, spirits and soul that are nourished by that Light must also be functioning at high frequencies. Which makes one wonder why so many think that lowering their frequencies through certain forms of meditation is a path to spiritual growth.
Boehme says this Light shines in the “eternal darkness,” and makes an attracting will in the mind. First, much like the irresistible force and immovable object puzzle, Eternal Light and Eternal Darkness cannot both exist. If the Light from God is Eternal—and it is—then the Darkness is not. It may seem eternal, but all great spiritual schools tell us it will one day be completely destroyed by the Light.
Attraction of Light
We all know that moths and some other insects are attracted to ordinary light. In a similar way, spiritual beings are attracted to the Spiritual Light. Demons are attracted to it because they wish they had it, but because they are what they are, they wish to deny it to us. On the other hand, our own spirit and souls, even when they are dormant, are drawn to that Light as a thirsty animal is drawn to the scent of water.
Unfortunately, many think the way to get some of this Divine Light s to steal it from advanced spiritual beings who have become filled with it. While these beings may choose to share some of their Light with us, we should also be getting our own directly from the Spiritual sun. Then we can awaken our spirits and souls and rev that continuous birth up to such high levels we will convert, with the help of God, the worlds of matter back into spirit.
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