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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.
15. The author admonishes the wolves to embrace the poor ABC scholars 78 6. Why the author hath undertaken to write this book . 5 6. The author writeth as for many 7 6. The author speaketh by living experience ... 35 6. The author speaketh what he knoweth, and must speak 73 7. The author will shew the hard prison of our blindness 53 7. The author bewaileth our blindness .... 59 8. The author is clothed with Adam's skin, and also liveth i n the hope o f Israel 8 9. The author speaketh what he must speak, and despiseth none 30 9. The author speaketh what he himself hath tried . 38 10. The author sheweth how far we ought to search . . 29 11. The author desireth not to reproach mankind by his wonderful discovery in his writings ... 30 13. The author speaketh what is given to him, and known to him . 63 CHAP. Author. VERSE 14. The author writeth that which he hath seen with spiritual eyes 55 16. The author hath experimented what he mentioneth concerning the soul 10 18. The author hath ability to write these Mysteries . 2 Babel. 3. When Babel breaketh, then there is the tabernacle of God with men 81 3. Babel reproved forjudging those that are in the angelical world 88 7. What the poor soul in Babel must do to be happy . 7 8. A wonderful description of the Fall of Babel, and the dragon, that is, the contentious disputation and tyrannical government 49 10. Vengeance denounced over Babel .... 35 14. An admonition to Babel. Also concerning the eternal
2satisfaction and atonement 39 Band. 1. Sourness and bitterness together are the band that maketh itself .29 1. Of the eternal band, out of which all things are made 40 Baptize. Baptizer. Baptism. 13. They that say the Testaments or Sacraments are but mere signs or symbols, are the Antichrist. Also how a simple person is able to baptize ... 38 13. The school rabbis will be baptized by One that is coming, who will baptize with the fire of anger . 39 7. Wherefore Christ hath instituted the baptism for us. 50 13. A wonderful description of baptism .... 33 13. Why God by Christ instituted two Testaments or Sacraments. How the devil's oracles ceased at the coming of Christ. An explanation how the baptism is for the ignorant and such as have not faith yet 3 6 13. The Holy Ghost chiefly manage th the office in baptism 37 Beast. Beasts. 3. The spirit resembleth us to an abominable beast, upon which he setteth the fine spirituality, or clergy . 61 3. What beast the dainty woman rideth upon, not Christ's ass, but the devil 62 CHAP. Beast. Beasts. VERSE 5. In the courts of princes the vials of anger are poured forth through the instigation of the hypocrites, the clergy: the might of princes is the beast of the whore 66 6. Advice to the seeking mind that would be rid of the beast .16 8. A beast understandeth not its beginning, but there is another life in us 26 8. We are not merely out of the earth as a beast is . .27
38. How the flesh of beasts which we eat sullieth the soul, 19 8. We are both men and beasts 25 8. Of the desire which beasts have .... 28 9. Whence the weeds and evil beasts have their original. 12 9. The evil beasts have proceeded according to the devil's desire 55 Beginning. 4. What the beginning is .... 21 Birth. 1. How we may enter into the New Birth ... 17 1. No nature is felt in the divine life: The soul is a fire in the eternal nature: The soul is a spirit having seven forms, wherein heaven and hell consist: The author here understandeth the eternal birth . . 19 2. Of the birth of nature in a similitude . .27 2. How the birth i s; also of the essences and of the fire-spirit 71 3. Of the birth of the four forms of the eternal nature . 8 3. The names of the second birth or Word ... 24 3. Without the sour birth there would be no nature nor life: The life is the most delectable: the sour birth is eternal . 27 3. A thanksgiving for the New-Birth out of darkness into the light 59 4. A warning to the mind to consider itself: for the eternal birth is like the mind .... 75 5. The author will speak and not be silent concerning the eternal birth of the heart of God ... 35 6. How the whole birth of the eternal nature is included in a small circle or point 43 9. What the eternal Word is, and its birth: The end of nature 93 CHAP. Bishops. Verse 14. How profitable the bishops chosen for art sake are to the world. Many of their writings have as much
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.
15. The author admonishes the wolves to embrace the poor ABC scholars 78 6. Why the author hath undertaken to write this book . 5 6. The author writeth as for many 7 6. The author speaketh by living experience ... 35 6. The author speaketh what he knoweth, and must speak 73 7. The author will shew the hard prison of our blindness 53 7. The author bewaileth our blindness .... 59 8. The author is clothed with Adam's skin, and also liveth i n the hope o f Israel 8 9. The author speaketh what he must speak, and despiseth none 30 9. The author speaketh what he himself hath tried . 38 10. The author sheweth how far we ought to search . . 29 11. The author desireth not to reproach mankind by his wonderful discovery in his writings ... 30 13. The author speaketh what is given to him, and known to him . 63 CHAP. Author. VERSE 14. The author writeth that which he hath seen with spiritual eyes 55 16. The author hath experimented what he mentioneth concerning the soul 10 18. The author hath ability to write these Mysteries . 2 Babel. 3. When Babel breaketh, then there is the tabernacle of God with men 81 3. Babel reproved forjudging those that are in the angelical world 88 7. What the poor soul in Babel must do to be happy . 7 8. A wonderful description of the Fall of Babel, and the dragon, that is, the contentious disputation and tyrannical government 49 10. Vengeance denounced over Babel .... 35 14. An admonition to Babel. Also concerning the eternal
2satisfaction and atonement 39 Band. 1. Sourness and bitterness together are the band that maketh itself .29 1. Of the eternal band, out of which all things are made 40 Baptize. Baptizer. Baptism. 13. They that say the Testaments or Sacraments are but mere signs or symbols, are the Antichrist. Also how a simple person is able to baptize ... 38 13. The school rabbis will be baptized by One that is coming, who will baptize with the fire of anger . 39 7. Wherefore Christ hath instituted the baptism for us. 50 13. A wonderful description of baptism .... 33 13. Why God by Christ instituted two Testaments or Sacraments. How the devil's oracles ceased at the coming of Christ. An explanation how the baptism is for the ignorant and such as have not faith yet 3 6 13. The Holy Ghost chiefly manage th the office in baptism 37 Beast. Beasts. 3. The spirit resembleth us to an abominable beast, upon which he setteth the fine spirituality, or clergy . 61 3. What beast the dainty woman rideth upon, not Christ's ass, but the devil 62 CHAP. Beast. Beasts. VERSE 5. In the courts of princes the vials of anger are poured forth through the instigation of the hypocrites, the clergy: the might of princes is the beast of the whore 66 6. Advice to the seeking mind that would be rid of the beast .16 8. A beast understandeth not its beginning, but there is another life in us 26 8. We are not merely out of the earth as a beast is . .27
38. How the flesh of beasts which we eat sullieth the soul, 19 8. We are both men and beasts 25 8. Of the desire which beasts have .... 28 9. Whence the weeds and evil beasts have their original. 12 9. The evil beasts have proceeded according to the devil's desire 55 Beginning. 4. What the beginning is .... 21 Birth. 1. How we may enter into the New Birth ... 17 1. No nature is felt in the divine life: The soul is a fire in the eternal nature: The soul is a spirit having seven forms, wherein heaven and hell consist: The author here understandeth the eternal birth . . 19 2. Of the birth of nature in a similitude . .27 2. How the birth i s; also of the essences and of the fire-spirit 71 3. Of the birth of the four forms of the eternal nature . 8 3. The names of the second birth or Word ... 24 3. Without the sour birth there would be no nature nor life: The life is the most delectable: the sour birth is eternal . 27 3. A thanksgiving for the New-Birth out of darkness into the light 59 4. A warning to the mind to consider itself: for the eternal birth is like the mind .... 75 5. The author will speak and not be silent concerning the eternal birth of the heart of God ... 35 6. How the whole birth of the eternal nature is included in a small circle or point 43 9. What the eternal Word is, and its birth: The end of nature 93 CHAP. Bishops. Verse 14. How profitable the bishops chosen for art sake are to the world. Many of their writings have as much
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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