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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.
1love to their neighbour in them as the devil in hell hath ... 24 Blessed. 17. How the body also is blessed 11 Body. 5. Why the body is like a cross. Our Fall and Redemption 34 8. How we should tame the body, and not pamper it as a wanton ass 22 8. The body will not readily break off its will: also it is a very unfaithful neighbour to the soul. . . 24 9. How every form or creature hath figured its body . 49 11. Out of what the body, and also the spirit of the creatures, is created 7 11. What kind of body we have in God .... 72 13. What body it was that Christ gave to his disciples . 22 13. Of the heavenly body of Christ that filleth the angelical world, and yet the creature [Christ] may well be seen standing palpably .... 24 14. How the anger of God is received instead of the body and blood of Christ 18 17. Whence the body is, and what it will be again . . 7 17. The body is a mixed mass or lump of two centres . 8 Breath. 11. Of the breathing in of the living breath: Advice to the high schools or universities .... 13 Bridegroom. 16. Advice to Christendom. Of the coming of the bridegroom 102 Brightness. 2. Whence the brightness existeth .... 82 Candlesticks. 3. Why the candlesticks were taken away after the time of the Apostles. The seven seals are the Father's nature: aud the seven candlesticks are the Son's . 42 CHAP. Candlesticks. VERSE 3. Of the image in the midst of the seven candlesticks or seven spirits of God 46
23. What we must do to behold the seven candlesticks in ourselves 65 Care. 17. How God taketh care for us 2 17. How man relieth upon his own labour and care-taking 5 Centre. 9. How before the creation of the sun the outward centre of nature wheeled itself thrice about 84 9. The similitude of the eternal centre was not figured before the creation 95 9. How the heart of God created the seven forms of the centre of nature 96 Ceremonies. 11. A speech to the Antichristian world, with its ceremonies; shewing what it should have taught men 46 13. It is better to shew the way of the Lord, than to set up ceremonies 43 Children. 11. How children are our school-masters . . . .110 15. If our children did not as others do, they would be the scorn of the world; as some parents allege . . 18 Christ. 3. The author's meaning is to be sought and found in the life of Christ 4 3. How Jesus Christ must become man in us, if we will find God 31 3. What man must do to have Christ, the Supper, the Baptism, and the Holy Ghost .... 86 3. Men must go with earnestness into the temple of Christ, as well as into the churches of stone . . 91 5. What body Christ giveth us to eat: also of the one element 68 5. Why the New- Adam Christ must hang on the cross . 140 5. Why the New- Adam Christ must go through hell . 142 CHAP. Christ. VERSE 5. The New- Adam Christ must he tempted forty days in the wilderness 143
36. How the innermost court shall be given to those that know not the name o f Christ .... 23 6. A wonderful exposition how Christ sitteth at the right hand of God upon the circle of our life ... 71 6. How the Three Principles were manifested in the person of Christ 81 8. Of our power in Christ to become the children of God 17 8. How the ministers or servants of the dragon would have smothered the Resurrection of Christ . . 70 8. How Christ is new-born in God, and sitteth on the rainbow 72 8. How Christ cast away nothing from him at his Resurrection, but the spirit of this world ... 73 8. How the soul attaineth the flesh of Christ even in this life-time 76 11. The author shutteth not up the grace from any, but writes why Christ is born 31 11. Reason asketh how we can be in the body of Christ . 67 11. Men must enter into the temple of Christ, else they stay i n darkness .78 11. How Christ warneth us, his appearing is as the lightning .82 11. Christ is the Way, the Door, and a good Shepherd . 83 11. It is not necessary to choose any place to find Christ in, he is everywhere. Christ is our carcase, to whom we fly as eagles .86 13. How Christ will be with us, and take care for us . 2 13. Christ gave his disciples no earthly transitory thing . 13 13. The apostles did not eat the outward flesh of Christ . 14 13. A plain (though to reason a high) similitude of eating the body of Christ 15
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.
1love to their neighbour in them as the devil in hell hath ... 24 Blessed. 17. How the body also is blessed 11 Body. 5. Why the body is like a cross. Our Fall and Redemption 34 8. How we should tame the body, and not pamper it as a wanton ass 22 8. The body will not readily break off its will: also it is a very unfaithful neighbour to the soul. . . 24 9. How every form or creature hath figured its body . 49 11. Out of what the body, and also the spirit of the creatures, is created 7 11. What kind of body we have in God .... 72 13. What body it was that Christ gave to his disciples . 22 13. Of the heavenly body of Christ that filleth the angelical world, and yet the creature [Christ] may well be seen standing palpably .... 24 14. How the anger of God is received instead of the body and blood of Christ 18 17. Whence the body is, and what it will be again . . 7 17. The body is a mixed mass or lump of two centres . 8 Breath. 11. Of the breathing in of the living breath: Advice to the high schools or universities .... 13 Bridegroom. 16. Advice to Christendom. Of the coming of the bridegroom 102 Brightness. 2. Whence the brightness existeth .... 82 Candlesticks. 3. Why the candlesticks were taken away after the time of the Apostles. The seven seals are the Father's nature: aud the seven candlesticks are the Son's . 42 CHAP. Candlesticks. VERSE 3. Of the image in the midst of the seven candlesticks or seven spirits of God 46
23. What we must do to behold the seven candlesticks in ourselves 65 Care. 17. How God taketh care for us 2 17. How man relieth upon his own labour and care-taking 5 Centre. 9. How before the creation of the sun the outward centre of nature wheeled itself thrice about 84 9. The similitude of the eternal centre was not figured before the creation 95 9. How the heart of God created the seven forms of the centre of nature 96 Ceremonies. 11. A speech to the Antichristian world, with its ceremonies; shewing what it should have taught men 46 13. It is better to shew the way of the Lord, than to set up ceremonies 43 Children. 11. How children are our school-masters . . . .110 15. If our children did not as others do, they would be the scorn of the world; as some parents allege . . 18 Christ. 3. The author's meaning is to be sought and found in the life of Christ 4 3. How Jesus Christ must become man in us, if we will find God 31 3. What man must do to have Christ, the Supper, the Baptism, and the Holy Ghost .... 86 3. Men must go with earnestness into the temple of Christ, as well as into the churches of stone . . 91 5. What body Christ giveth us to eat: also of the one element 68 5. Why the New- Adam Christ must hang on the cross . 140 5. Why the New- Adam Christ must go through hell . 142 CHAP. Christ. VERSE 5. The New- Adam Christ must he tempted forty days in the wilderness 143
36. How the innermost court shall be given to those that know not the name o f Christ .... 23 6. A wonderful exposition how Christ sitteth at the right hand of God upon the circle of our life ... 71 6. How the Three Principles were manifested in the person of Christ 81 8. Of our power in Christ to become the children of God 17 8. How the ministers or servants of the dragon would have smothered the Resurrection of Christ . . 70 8. How Christ is new-born in God, and sitteth on the rainbow 72 8. How Christ cast away nothing from him at his Resurrection, but the spirit of this world ... 73 8. How the soul attaineth the flesh of Christ even in this life-time 76 11. The author shutteth not up the grace from any, but writes why Christ is born 31 11. Reason asketh how we can be in the body of Christ . 67 11. Men must enter into the temple of Christ, else they stay i n darkness .78 11. How Christ warneth us, his appearing is as the lightning .82 11. Christ is the Way, the Door, and a good Shepherd . 83 11. It is not necessary to choose any place to find Christ in, he is everywhere. Christ is our carcase, to whom we fly as eagles .86 13. How Christ will be with us, and take care for us . 2 13. Christ gave his disciples no earthly transitory thing . 13 13. The apostles did not eat the outward flesh of Christ . 14 13. A plain (though to reason a high) similitude of eating the body of Christ 15
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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