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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.
116. That God willeth not evil, nor can do 16. Of pride 16. Of covetousness 16. Of envy 16. Of wrath 16 The final condemnation. Also of the last fight and expulsion of Lucifer and all his angels 16. What will be called the burning hell 17. Of the miserable state and condition of the corrupt, perished nature, and original of the four elements instead of the holy dominion of God 17. What is called the wrath of God 17. How a comprehensible is come out of an incomprehensible 17. How the devil still presents the crabapples of Paradise before the soul 18. Of the creation of heaven and earth. And of the first day 18. Why man in this world so loveth gold, silver and precious stones 18. How shall I understand myself according to the threefold geniture i n nature 18. An exposition of the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis, according to the Language of Nature 18. Into what the soul goeth when we die 18. Of the creation of the light in this world 18. Whence fightings among all creatures have their original 18. What light was before the sun and stars 19. Concerning the created heaven. And of the form of the earth and of the water; as also concerning light and darkness 19. From what light this author hath his knowledge 19. How it was that Jesus Christ could take the devil, death and hell captive. Also in what heaven he sitteth at the right hand of God 19. Where shall the wrath of God come to be at the end 19. Concerning the form of the earth 19. Why the earth is so hilly, rocky, stony and uneven 19. Of day and night 19. Of morning and evening 20. Of the second day: How God separated the waters
2beneath the firmament from the waters above the firmament 20. We should strive against the malice and wickedness that is in our hearts 20. What the moon or Luna is 20. How the heavens are not pure in God's sight 20. In what heaven the man that feareth God dwelleth 20. How Christ could go through closed doors. John xx. 19 21. Of the third day 21. The diurnal motion of the earth 21. Man is made out of the seed of the earth 21. How man's hope standeth in God 21. How sins are the cause that the Deity is hidden from us 21. Of the seven spirits of God, and of their operation in the earth 21. Why the astral birth of the earth did begin a day sooner than the astral birth in the deep above the earth 21. Whence mobility existed 22. Of the birth or geniture of the stars, and creation of the fourth day. Also the reason of the title Dawning or Morning Redness 22. Why the spirit of nature itself will open the door 22. What the store are 22. Sixteen questions asked of the doctors 22. How this work is the Holy Ghost's dear revelation 22. Of the earth 22. O f the vegetations of the earth 22. Of the metals in the earth 23. Of the deep above the earth 23. Of the astral birth or geniture: and of the birth or geniture of God 23. The severe geniture, out of which the wrath of God, hell and death, are come to be 23. What is called the animated or soulish birth 23. Of the being of the Deity, and of the three Persons Also whence the living and rational spirit existeth 23. What is the water of life 23. The gate of the Holy Trinity 23. Of the kindled nature
324. Of the incorporation or compacting of the store 24. Out of what the stars are come to be 24. Why God did not bar up the devil instantly 24. Why the stars should not be worshipped 24. In whom the light of life kindleth from the water of life 24. Why Christ rested in death forty hours and no longer 24. God an angry God to those that hate him 24. What is the water of life 24. Where the word of this author is generated 25. Of the whole body of the stars' birth or geniture, that is, the whole astrology 25. Though body and soul should fail, God is his refuge 25. What is called the corrupted nature 25. The kindling of the life of this world: of Sol 25. Of Mars 25. The highest ground of the sun and all the planets 25. How the eye of the Lord beholdeth all 25. How the desire of the flesh is the lake of hellish wrath 25. The annual motion of the earth round about the sun 25. Of the planet Mars 26. Of the planet Jupiter 26. Of the planet Saturnus 26. Of the planet Venus 26. The gate of love 26. How Christ is the Light of the World 26. What is the divine being 26. Of the planet Mercurius 26. The great depth concerning the centre or circle of the birth of life 26. What is called eternity. Also what the house of flesh is 26. Who hath the castingshovel in its hand: Also of man and the stars 26. How man became a living soul 26. The deep, hidden, secret mystery of the humanity 26. RA. RA. R.P 26. Four questions concerning that mass which is man 26. Notes concerning the not finishing this book Aurora
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.
116. That God willeth not evil, nor can do 16. Of pride 16. Of covetousness 16. Of envy 16. Of wrath 16 The final condemnation. Also of the last fight and expulsion of Lucifer and all his angels 16. What will be called the burning hell 17. Of the miserable state and condition of the corrupt, perished nature, and original of the four elements instead of the holy dominion of God 17. What is called the wrath of God 17. How a comprehensible is come out of an incomprehensible 17. How the devil still presents the crabapples of Paradise before the soul 18. Of the creation of heaven and earth. And of the first day 18. Why man in this world so loveth gold, silver and precious stones 18. How shall I understand myself according to the threefold geniture i n nature 18. An exposition of the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis, according to the Language of Nature 18. Into what the soul goeth when we die 18. Of the creation of the light in this world 18. Whence fightings among all creatures have their original 18. What light was before the sun and stars 19. Concerning the created heaven. And of the form of the earth and of the water; as also concerning light and darkness 19. From what light this author hath his knowledge 19. How it was that Jesus Christ could take the devil, death and hell captive. Also in what heaven he sitteth at the right hand of God 19. Where shall the wrath of God come to be at the end 19. Concerning the form of the earth 19. Why the earth is so hilly, rocky, stony and uneven 19. Of day and night 19. Of morning and evening 20. Of the second day: How God separated the waters
2beneath the firmament from the waters above the firmament 20. We should strive against the malice and wickedness that is in our hearts 20. What the moon or Luna is 20. How the heavens are not pure in God's sight 20. In what heaven the man that feareth God dwelleth 20. How Christ could go through closed doors. John xx. 19 21. Of the third day 21. The diurnal motion of the earth 21. Man is made out of the seed of the earth 21. How man's hope standeth in God 21. How sins are the cause that the Deity is hidden from us 21. Of the seven spirits of God, and of their operation in the earth 21. Why the astral birth of the earth did begin a day sooner than the astral birth in the deep above the earth 21. Whence mobility existed 22. Of the birth or geniture of the stars, and creation of the fourth day. Also the reason of the title Dawning or Morning Redness 22. Why the spirit of nature itself will open the door 22. What the store are 22. Sixteen questions asked of the doctors 22. How this work is the Holy Ghost's dear revelation 22. Of the earth 22. O f the vegetations of the earth 22. Of the metals in the earth 23. Of the deep above the earth 23. Of the astral birth or geniture: and of the birth or geniture of God 23. The severe geniture, out of which the wrath of God, hell and death, are come to be 23. What is called the animated or soulish birth 23. Of the being of the Deity, and of the three Persons Also whence the living and rational spirit existeth 23. What is the water of life 23. The gate of the Holy Trinity 23. Of the kindled nature
324. Of the incorporation or compacting of the store 24. Out of what the stars are come to be 24. Why God did not bar up the devil instantly 24. Why the stars should not be worshipped 24. In whom the light of life kindleth from the water of life 24. Why Christ rested in death forty hours and no longer 24. God an angry God to those that hate him 24. What is the water of life 24. Where the word of this author is generated 25. Of the whole body of the stars' birth or geniture, that is, the whole astrology 25. Though body and soul should fail, God is his refuge 25. What is called the corrupted nature 25. The kindling of the life of this world: of Sol 25. Of Mars 25. The highest ground of the sun and all the planets 25. How the eye of the Lord beholdeth all 25. How the desire of the flesh is the lake of hellish wrath 25. The annual motion of the earth round about the sun 25. Of the planet Mars 26. Of the planet Jupiter 26. Of the planet Saturnus 26. Of the planet Venus 26. The gate of love 26. How Christ is the Light of the World 26. What is the divine being 26. Of the planet Mercurius 26. The great depth concerning the centre or circle of the birth of life 26. What is called eternity. Also what the house of flesh is 26. Who hath the castingshovel in its hand: Also of man and the stars 26. How man became a living soul 26. The deep, hidden, secret mystery of the humanity 26. RA. RA. R.P 26. Four questions concerning that mass which is man 26. Notes concerning the not finishing this book Aurora
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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