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Eleven books by a shoemaker of Görlitz who wrote, by his own account, because he could not help it. Ten of them stand here in the seventeenth-century English of John Sparrow, who translated Boehme within a generation of his death and whose prose is itself now four hundred years old; where that English has drifted out of reach, the facing pane carries a modern register — the same text with archaic inflection and spelling normalised by rule, never paraphrased. Nothing is reworded, and where no register appears beside a passage it is because the rules found nothing to change.
The eleventh book is not in English at all, and it is the reason this note exists.
Des trois principes de l'essence divine, printed at Paris in 1802, is the same work as Concerning the Three Principles of the Divine Essence, which stands here as the second book — the same twenty-seven chapters in the same order, opening `Du premier principe de l'essence divine` against Sparrow's `Of the first Principle of the Divine Essence`. Its translator was Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, who gave the last years of his life to putting Boehme into French, and who has a shelf of his own in this Lycaeum.
That makes a closed circuit inside this archive, and it is worth naming plainly. Saint-Martin translates Boehme. La Iniciación, printed in Montevideo a hundred and forty years later, traces its own descent through Saint-Martin. A reader can therefore follow one thread from a German mystic of 1619, through the French philosopher who carried him into another language, to a Spanish-language monthly of the 1940s that claimed them both — and read every step of it in the original.
The two are shelved as one work rather than two because that is what they are. They are not set as facing panes: an English translation of 1619 and a French translation of 1802 are two independent readings of a lost German original, and pairing them line by line would assert a correspondence neither translator ever claimed.
1unworthiest of the children of men. JOHN SPARROW. THE BRIEF CONTENTS OF THE TWENTYSIX CHAPTERS OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE AUTHOR, CALLED THE AURORA. CHAPTER To the Reader Jacob Behme's Preface, being a brief information concerning the Two Qualities, the Evil and the Good in Nature, from the beginning to the end The Contents of this book Aurora 1. Concerning the searching out of the divine being in nature: Also concerning the two qualities, the good and the evil 2. An instruction, shewing how man may come to apprehend the divine and the natural being, and further of the qualities 3. Of the most highly blessed Trinity, One God 4. Of the creation of the holy angels 4. Of the divine quality 4. Of the divine Salitter 5. Of the corporeal substance, being and property of an angel 6. How an angel and how a man is the similitude and image of God 6. Of the blessed love of the angels towards God 7. Of the court, place and dwelling, also of the government, of angels; how it stood at the beginning,
2after the creation, and how it is become as it is 7. Of the nativities of the angelical kings, and how they came to be 7. Of the deepest ground and mystery 8. Of the whole body or corporation of an angelical kingdom. The great mystery: in his other writings called, Mysterium Magnum 8. Of the first species, circumstance, quality or spirit of God in the divine power or Salitter 8. Of the second 8. Of the third 8. Of the fourth 8. The great mystery of the spirit 8. Of the end of nature in this world 8. Of the Language of Nature 8. Of the fifth circumference or spirit in the divine power of the Father, viz. the love 9. Of the gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful love of God. The divine Mystery 9. What remains hidden since the beginning of the world 9. The wrath: the original of hellfire 10. Of the sixth qualifying or fountain spirit in the divine power, the Sound 10. What in men shall arise in heavenly joy or in hellish torment, the Salitter 10. How a man may quench the kindled wrath of God in this life, in himself 10. How near to us is God and the whole Trinity 11. Of the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit in the divine power, the divine Salitter 11. The holy gate. What the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is, whom we Christians worship 11. What the law of nature is 11. Why he only that sinneth shall be punished 11. The prerogative of Christians 11. Of the word Salitter 11. How the imaging in nature is 11. How our life is a perpetual warfare with the devil 12. Of the birth or descent of the holy angels, as also of their government, order and heavenly, joyous life
312. What the angels do when they sing not. What they talk of. Who they are like 12. What heaven itself is 12. What the angels walk upon 12. Of Michael 12. Of Lucifer's creation 12. Of Uriel 12. The beauty of heavenly forms likened to precious stones 12. Why baptism was instituted in the water 12. How the wisdom of God is incomprehensible 13. Of the horrible fall of the kingdom of Lucifer 13. What the fountain of the first sin of the angels is 13. Where the fault lieth, that Lucifer is become a devil. 13. The eternal geniture of Deity 13. The beginning of sin 14. How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful angel in heaven, is become the most horrible devil 14. The cause that God created angels 14. Of the eternal enmity 14. Seven sources of sin, and the eighth the house of death 14. Of the first source 14. What the eternal sport of God was, before the time of the creation o f the angels 14. Of the second source of sin's beginning 14. How God possesseth all, and yet no creature is He 15. Of the third species or spirit of sin's beginning in Lucifer 15. What Lucifer knew before his fall 15. When the end o f this time will be 15. Of the fourth species of sin's beginning 15. Of the sting of death 15. What the comprehensibility is 15. Of the fifth manner of sin's beginning 15. Of the sixth form of sin's beginning 15. Of the Old Serpent 16. Of the seventh kind of sin's beginning in Lucifer and his angels 16. Of sorcerers and witches 16. Wherein naturality consisteth 16. Of the mourning house of death
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1unworthiest of the children of men. JOHN SPARROW. THE BRIEF CONTENTS OF THE TWENTYSIX CHAPTERS OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE AUTHOR, CALLED THE AURORA. CHAPTER To the Reader Jacob Behme's Preface, being a brief information concerning the Two Qualities, the Evil and the Good in Nature, from the beginning to the end The Contents of this book Aurora 1. Concerning the searching out of the divine being in nature: Also concerning the two qualities, the good and the evil 2. An instruction, shewing how man may come to apprehend the divine and the natural being, and further of the qualities 3. Of the most highly blessed Trinity, One God 4. Of the creation of the holy angels 4. Of the divine quality 4. Of the divine Salitter 5. Of the corporeal substance, being and property of an angel 6. How an angel and how a man is the similitude and image of God 6. Of the blessed love of the angels towards God 7. Of the court, place and dwelling, also of the government, of angels; how it stood at the beginning,
2after the creation, and how it is become as it is 7. Of the nativities of the angelical kings, and how they came to be 7. Of the deepest ground and mystery 8. Of the whole body or corporation of an angelical kingdom. The great mystery: in his other writings called, Mysterium Magnum 8. Of the first species, circumstance, quality or spirit of God in the divine power or Salitter 8. Of the second 8. Of the third 8. Of the fourth 8. The great mystery of the spirit 8. Of the end of nature in this world 8. Of the Language of Nature 8. Of the fifth circumference or spirit in the divine power of the Father, viz. the love 9. Of the gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful love of God. The divine Mystery 9. What remains hidden since the beginning of the world 9. The wrath: the original of hellfire 10. Of the sixth qualifying or fountain spirit in the divine power, the Sound 10. What in men shall arise in heavenly joy or in hellish torment, the Salitter 10. How a man may quench the kindled wrath of God in this life, in himself 10. How near to us is God and the whole Trinity 11. Of the seventh qualifying or fountain spirit in the divine power, the divine Salitter 11. The holy gate. What the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is, whom we Christians worship 11. What the law of nature is 11. Why he only that sinneth shall be punished 11. The prerogative of Christians 11. Of the word Salitter 11. How the imaging in nature is 11. How our life is a perpetual warfare with the devil 12. Of the birth or descent of the holy angels, as also of their government, order and heavenly, joyous life
312. What the angels do when they sing not. What they talk of. Who they are like 12. What heaven itself is 12. What the angels walk upon 12. Of Michael 12. Of Lucifer's creation 12. Of Uriel 12. The beauty of heavenly forms likened to precious stones 12. Why baptism was instituted in the water 12. How the wisdom of God is incomprehensible 13. Of the horrible fall of the kingdom of Lucifer 13. What the fountain of the first sin of the angels is 13. Where the fault lieth, that Lucifer is become a devil. 13. The eternal geniture of Deity 13. The beginning of sin 14. How Lucifer, who was the most beautiful angel in heaven, is become the most horrible devil 14. The cause that God created angels 14. Of the eternal enmity 14. Seven sources of sin, and the eighth the house of death 14. Of the first source 14. What the eternal sport of God was, before the time of the creation o f the angels 14. Of the second source of sin's beginning 14. How God possesseth all, and yet no creature is He 15. Of the third species or spirit of sin's beginning in Lucifer 15. What Lucifer knew before his fall 15. When the end o f this time will be 15. Of the fourth species of sin's beginning 15. Of the sting of death 15. What the comprehensibility is 15. Of the fifth manner of sin's beginning 15. Of the sixth form of sin's beginning 15. Of the Old Serpent 16. Of the seventh kind of sin's beginning in Lucifer and his angels 16. Of sorcerers and witches 16. Wherein naturality consisteth 16. Of the mourning house of death
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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