[20] Second Epistle, sec. 6-8.
[21] Aurora, xix. 10-13. He goes on in the following sections to describe how for twelve years this insight "grew in his soul like a young tree before the exact understanding of it all" was arrived at.
[22] The Fifth Epistle, 50.
[23] Aurora, xi. 146.
[24] Ibid. xi. 6.
[25] Aurora, xxii. 47.
[26] In the Aurora Boehme speaks of the Flash as an experience: "As the lightning flash appears and disappears again in a moment, so it is also with the soul. In its battle the soul suddenly penetrates through the clouds and sees God like a flash of Light."—Ibid. xi. 76.
[27] Memoirs, p. 8.
[28] Evidently the "flash" of the year 1610 was not the last one. In fact, he seems to have had frequent ecstasies.
[29] The Second Epistle, 9-10.