. 34-36. Others
have had illuminations about the created world, Jacob Boehme for
instance. At the age of twenty-five he was "surrounded by the divine
light, and replenished with the heavenly knowledge, insomuch as going
abroad into the fields to a green, at Gorlitz, he there sat down and
viewing the herbs and grass of the field, in his inward light he saw
into their essences, use, and properties, which was discovered to him
by their lineaments, figures, and signatures." Of a later period of
experience he writes: "In one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more
than if I had been many years together at an university. For I saw and
knew the being of all things, the Byss and the Abyss, and the eternal
generation of the holy Trinity, the descent and original of the world
and of all creatures through the divine wisdom. I knew and saw in
myself all the three worlds, the external and visible world being of a
procreation or extern birth from both the internal and spiritual
worlds; and I saw and knew the whole working essence, in the evil and
in the good, and the mutual original and existence, and likewise how
the fruitful bearing womb of eternity brought forth. So that I did not
only greatly wonder at it, but did also exceedingly rejoice, albeit I
could very hardly apprehend the same in my external man and set it down
with the pen. For I had a thorough view of the universe as in a chaos,
wherein all things are couched and wrapt up, but it was impossible for
me to explicate the same." Jacob Behmen's Theosophic Philosophy, etc.,
by Edward Taylor, London, 1691, pp. 425, 427, abridged.

So George Fox: "I was come up to the state of Adam in which he was
before he fell. The creation was opened to me; and it was showed me,
how all things had their names given to them, according to their nature
and virtue. I was at a stand in my mind, whether I should practice
physic for the good of mankind, seeing the nature and virtues of the
creatures were so opened to me by the Lord." Journal, Philadelphia,
no date, p. 69. Contemporary "Clairvoyance" abounds in similar
revelations. Andrew Jackson Davis's cosmogonies, for example, or
certain experiences related in the delectable "Reminiscences and
Memories of Henry Thomas Butterworth," Lebanon, Ohio, 1886.

Similarly with Saint Teresa. "One day, being in orison," she writes,
"it was granted me to perceive in one instant how all things are seen
and contained in God. I did not per