ght, majesty, heaven,
paradise, elements, stars, the whole earth--all is thine. Thou art in
CHRIST over hell, and all that it contains.' 'Behmen's speculation,'
Martensen is always reminding us, 'streams forth from the deepest
practical inspiration. His speculations are all saturated with a
constant reference to salvation. His whole metaphysic is pervaded by
practical applications.' And conspicuously so, we may here point out, is
his metaphysic of GOD and of the heart of man. The immanence of GOD, as
theologians and philosophers call it; the indwelling of GOD, as the
psalmists and the apostles and the saints call it; the Divine Word
lightening every man that comes into the world, as John has it,--of the
practical and personal bearings of all that Behmen's every book is full.
Dost thou not see it and feel it? he continually calls to his readers.
Heaven, be sure, is in every holy man, and hell in every bad man. When
thou dost work together with GOD then thou art in heaven, and thy soul
dwells in GOD. In like manner, also, thou art in hell and among the
devils when thou art in any envy, malice, anger, or ill-will. Thou
needest not to ask where is heaven or where is hell. Both are within
thee, even in thy heart. Now, then, when thou prayest, pray in that
heaven that is within thee, and there the Holy Ghost shall meet with thee
and will help thee, and thy soul shall be the whole of heaven within
thee. It is a fundamental doctrine of Behmen's that the fall would have
been immediate and eternal death to Adam and Eve had not the Divine Word,
the Seed of the woman, entered their hearts, and kept a footing in their
hearts, and in the hearts of all their children, against the fulness of
time when He would take our flesh and work out our redemption. And thus
it is that Behmen appeals to all his readers, that if they will only go
down deep enough into their own hearts--then, there, down there, deeper
than indwelling sin, deeper than original sin, deep down and seated in
the very substance and centre of their souls--they will come upon secret
and unexpected seeds of the Divine Life. Seeds, blades, buddings, and
new beginnings of the very life of GOD the Son, in their deepest souls.
Secret and small, Behmen exclaims, as those seeds of Eden are, despise
them not; destroy them not, for a blessing for thee is in them. Water
those secret seeds, sun them, dig about them, and they will grow up in
you also. The Divine Life is i