Jacob Böhme's, Angelus Silesius' and Hjalmar Ekström's long waiting
"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."
(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)
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."
(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)
What is the basis for this poem?
In 1612 the German mystic and theosopher Jacob Böhme (24 April 1575 –17 November 1624) (one of history's holiest philosophers, who is called "Germany's first philosopher" by Hegel, yes is called "the teutonic philosopher", a man who stuttered his philosophy like a child, based it on profound mystic visions and revelations) published his first book "Aurora, oder Morgenröthe im Aufgang" (Aurora, or the morning dawn in its rise, read an English translation here), where he, among other things, prophecied about a new golden age for humanity, the Millennial Kingdom.
This Wikipedia-article about Jacob Böhme says: "Böhme was especially important for the Millenarians and was taken seriously by the Cambridge Platonists and Dutch Collegiants."
"Millenarians" are those who believe in a coming Golden Age, it can be both secular and religious, among Christians it's usually a belief in The Millennial Kingdom, the thousand years of peace on earth, the Kingdom of God on earth.
It's impossible to find anything about Jacob Böhme's view on the Millennial Kingdom on the internet if you do a search, but the title of his 1612 book reveals everything we need to know here.
17 November 1624 Jacob Böhme died, without seeing the fulfilment of his prophecies. His last words were, “Now I go hence, into Paradise". This he said while he heard heavenly music from the paradise of God (see the end of this article).
Paradise was the essence of Jakob Böhme's philosophy, paradise was in his heart, and therefore he went into paradise when he died, because we go there where our heart is.
But Böhme is still waiting for that paradise to come to earth.
Almost 400 years has passed since Böhme died. He has waited for 400 long years. Isn't it strange that the Jews were, according to God in the Bible, 400 years in slavery in Egypt at the time from Joseph to Moses (Acts 7:6)?
And do you remember that I hoped that the Rapture will happen in 2024 (see here and here)? It is exactly 400 years since the death of Böhme.
Now Böhme is waiting in his heaven. Don't you think that he is conscious of the holy 400 number here? Will Böhme's long waiting for Aurora, paradise on earth, be fulfilled in 2024? At least for the "Bride of Christ"? That the Bride of Christ will be transformed and taken to heaven then (heaven is not a place, it can be on earth in the subtler, finer, invisible matter on earth, like elves and trolls are still on earth in the forests of the earth, albeit on a different vibration)?
Are there other saints that died in 1624?
Yes there are:
Ketevan the Martyr, (c. 1560 – September 13, 1624), a Georgian saint and martyr in the Orthodox church.
Are there saints that were born in 1624?
Yes, a very important and holy saint and mystic, the one, among all, who made the poem above (isn't this strange!? It's a minor mathematical miracle):
Johann Scheffler, or Angelus Silesius (c. 1624 – 9 July 1677) (I guessed that he was born this year, before I knew it. So I checked it out, and found that it was true!!).
Angelus Silesius has waited for paradise for 400 years since he was born on this earth. His poems in "Das cherubinic wanderer" are something of the best religious poetry we have.
Johann Arndt died in 1621, and his life and writings are the origin of pietism, this holy revival movement to which also Böhme belonged. So pietism is now about 400 years old, at least. Böhme is the father of radical pietism. One could say that pietism and radical pietism began about at the same time, the latter being just a more radical version of the former.
According to Åbo Academy University scholar Tomas Mansikka (in this article. I know him personally!), the first appearance of interest in Boehmenist ideas (i.e. the ideas originating from Jacob Böhme) is to be found in the Finland-Swedish prophet Lars Ulstadius, about whom I have written many times on my blogs, the man who shouted loudly in the cathedral of Turku against the corruption of the Lutheran priests and got 40 years of forced labour in prison, as punishment. He died in captivity, and had then been in captivity for 44 years.
Ulstadius was born in 1650 and died on October 6, 1732, at the very beginning of industrialism, exactly 300 years before the year 2032, when my father Willy Larsen expects the rapture of the saints to take place, and which is a very popular year for the Second Coming and the rapture in prophetic Christian circles. It is also almost exactly seven years after the 400 anniversary of the death of Böhme (on November 17, 1624) on November 17, 2024, more exactly seven years and 323 days after the anniversary of his death. Can this be a coincidence? (The number 300 is also holy in the bible, see the meaning of it here. It means the beginning of the seventh jubilee cycle, if a jubilee cycle is 50 years)
There are many strange coincidences in prophetic times, I often think about such things in church history, because this is what I know best.
I love Jacob Böhme so much, therefore I speculate around his death and find it prophetically relevant. Hjalmar Ekström (19 december 1885 - 27 december 1962), one of my most beloved spiritual teachers, also loved him very, very much, and said that he "belonged to the purest mysticism". Böhme was his greatest teacher in Christian mysticism.
2032 is 70 years after the death of Hjalmar Ekström, one of Jacob Böhmes greatest and holiest disciples. Also a strange coincidence. I believe Jesus will return visibly for all the world in 2032. Then Hjalmar Ekström has waited for 70 long years, in heaven, for heaven to come to earth. 70 is a very holy number in the Bible (see an article about it here). Ancient Israel spent a total number of 70 years in captivity in Babylon (see this Wikipedia-article), more than 500 years before Christ.
What more started in 1962? Oh man, the cultural revolution of the Western world! Communism! Cultural father murder! The horrible marxist revolution in the West! Ancient churches were destroyed all over the western world! The counterculture of the 1960s! The 68-movement and its horrible father-murder-secularism and marxism, and the hippie-movement, two horrible movements from the abyss! The drugs took over! Drugs and fornication! And the modern music, pop and rock, took over by then, and killed the traditional holiness and purity of music! And the Great Apostasy of the Christian church had begun by then, around 1948-1950! The Beatles played their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962, almost exacly when Hjalmar Ekström died!
These were antichrist-powers under which we were laid captive, in a spiritual Babylonian captivity, which I hope will end in 2032.
