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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.
113. Another similitude of eating that body of Christ which is every where 16 13. Christ feedeth not the soul with spirit, but with body 17 13. How the once received body of Christ departeth not from us, except we ourselves like Adam spoil it . 21 13. How there were in the hand of Christ two kingdoms at once 23 13. How Christ standeth in the Father, as the sun in the elements 2 9 14. How Christ is reproached 17 14. It is no slight matter to put on the garment of Christ. 22 CHAP. Christ. VERSE 15. The lamentation of Christ at the disobedience of the world 1 15. To whom the sufferings of Christ are profitable . . 21 16. What profit Chrisfs Incarnation is to us . . 88 18. He that sitteth in the throne of Christ with an ass's heart, is but a teller of stories, and no preacher . 40 Christendom. Christian. Christians. 13. How Christendom hath fallen asleep by her whoredom 61 13. The author asketh whether Christendom thinketh him mad or no 62 6. The vain boasting of the name Christian or Jew . 25 15. How a sincere Christian knoweth not himself . . 26 6. The Christians say yea, in the parable of the two sons 27 6. The Christians judge and condemn that in others, which they themselves do 29 6. Christians should not be judges, but lights to the world 30 Church. Churches. 7. He that resteth contented with mere going to church, is as well before as after he comes there . . 2 7. The false Magus crieth, here is the church of Christ; but it is the whore 57
29. For whom it is best to stay from church ... 28 11. How one may be alone in a wilderness, and yet in the congregation or cfiurch of Christ at the same time . 66 11. The church of Christ is every where. A repentant Turk is in Christ 88 11. What it is the Antichrist scandaliseth the church of Christ with 99 12. The author declareth his hearty love to the church or congregation of Christ 9 13. When the Romish church lost the jewel, it became Babel 5 14. How the priest-devil hath made the church and congregation of Christ stark blind .... 23 9. The devil most readily driveth the distressed soul into the stone churches 24 11. The author would not have the stone churches destroyed ; but he sheweth the hypocrites; and sheweth also the living Temple of Christ . . 77 CHAP. Circle. Verse 11. How each circle in the wheel of nature giveth its own inclination to its creature 3 11. Of the circle between the moon and the earth: also of the property of the moon and of the earth . . 4 Clergy. 5. The worldly governments have their original from the heavenly, which the spirituality or clergy believe not .62 12. The clergy have thievishly dealt with the congregation of Christ 19 15. How the appearing holy clergy have the predominancy in the world 19 16. By the elder son in the parable, the appearing holy clergy are deciphered 24 Conceits. 4. All conceits are graven images in the wonders of God . 50 Contrariety.
32. Whence contrariety, anguish, and cold ariseth . . 14 Conversion. Convert. 18. Beading without conversion is as beneficial as a Psalter to an ass 39 18. It is good to convert in this life-time .... 54 Corporeity. 4. The seventh form is a substantial form, out of which corporeity proceedeth, which consisteth also of two forms, light and darkness 12 Corruptibility. Corruptible. Corruption. 18. Of the corruptibility 10 18. How that which is corruptible, hath an eternal mother; also wherefore the wonders shall continue eternally 20 I. Whence corruption and torment arise. ... 30 Covenant. II. Why God made his covenant with us in Christ .. 27 CHAP. Covetous. Covetousness. VERSE 17. The wicked covetous person hath his God in his chest 19 17. An admonition to depart from covetousness ... 26 Councils. 11. Why the councils are instituted: How the Antichrist glistereth in the form of Aaron .... 47 Create. Created. Creation. Creatures. 10. What it is to create 14 14. Admonition to consider whence we are, and to what end w e were created 1 5. The author will rightly shew the creation to the children of God 124 6. As all things were formed in -the creation, so our mouth formeth them 2 6. Why the seekers have not found the pearl of the creation 17 7. Without the creation of the world, the wonders of this world had not been known to the angels . . 23
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.
113. Another similitude of eating that body of Christ which is every where 16 13. Christ feedeth not the soul with spirit, but with body 17 13. How the once received body of Christ departeth not from us, except we ourselves like Adam spoil it . 21 13. How there were in the hand of Christ two kingdoms at once 23 13. How Christ standeth in the Father, as the sun in the elements 2 9 14. How Christ is reproached 17 14. It is no slight matter to put on the garment of Christ. 22 CHAP. Christ. VERSE 15. The lamentation of Christ at the disobedience of the world 1 15. To whom the sufferings of Christ are profitable . . 21 16. What profit Chrisfs Incarnation is to us . . 88 18. He that sitteth in the throne of Christ with an ass's heart, is but a teller of stories, and no preacher . 40 Christendom. Christian. Christians. 13. How Christendom hath fallen asleep by her whoredom 61 13. The author asketh whether Christendom thinketh him mad or no 62 6. The vain boasting of the name Christian or Jew . 25 15. How a sincere Christian knoweth not himself . . 26 6. The Christians say yea, in the parable of the two sons 27 6. The Christians judge and condemn that in others, which they themselves do 29 6. Christians should not be judges, but lights to the world 30 Church. Churches. 7. He that resteth contented with mere going to church, is as well before as after he comes there . . 2 7. The false Magus crieth, here is the church of Christ; but it is the whore 57
29. For whom it is best to stay from church ... 28 11. How one may be alone in a wilderness, and yet in the congregation or cfiurch of Christ at the same time . 66 11. The church of Christ is every where. A repentant Turk is in Christ 88 11. What it is the Antichrist scandaliseth the church of Christ with 99 12. The author declareth his hearty love to the church or congregation of Christ 9 13. When the Romish church lost the jewel, it became Babel 5 14. How the priest-devil hath made the church and congregation of Christ stark blind .... 23 9. The devil most readily driveth the distressed soul into the stone churches 24 11. The author would not have the stone churches destroyed ; but he sheweth the hypocrites; and sheweth also the living Temple of Christ . . 77 CHAP. Circle. Verse 11. How each circle in the wheel of nature giveth its own inclination to its creature 3 11. Of the circle between the moon and the earth: also of the property of the moon and of the earth . . 4 Clergy. 5. The worldly governments have their original from the heavenly, which the spirituality or clergy believe not .62 12. The clergy have thievishly dealt with the congregation of Christ 19 15. How the appearing holy clergy have the predominancy in the world 19 16. By the elder son in the parable, the appearing holy clergy are deciphered 24 Conceits. 4. All conceits are graven images in the wonders of God . 50 Contrariety.
32. Whence contrariety, anguish, and cold ariseth . . 14 Conversion. Convert. 18. Beading without conversion is as beneficial as a Psalter to an ass 39 18. It is good to convert in this life-time .... 54 Corporeity. 4. The seventh form is a substantial form, out of which corporeity proceedeth, which consisteth also of two forms, light and darkness 12 Corruptibility. Corruptible. Corruption. 18. Of the corruptibility 10 18. How that which is corruptible, hath an eternal mother; also wherefore the wonders shall continue eternally 20 I. Whence corruption and torment arise. ... 30 Covenant. II. Why God made his covenant with us in Christ .. 27 CHAP. Covetous. Covetousness. VERSE 17. The wicked covetous person hath his God in his chest 19 17. An admonition to depart from covetousness ... 26 Councils. 11. Why the councils are instituted: How the Antichrist glistereth in the form of Aaron .... 47 Create. Created. Creation. Creatures. 10. What it is to create 14 14. Admonition to consider whence we are, and to what end w e were created 1 5. The author will rightly shew the creation to the children of God 124 6. As all things were formed in -the creation, so our mouth formeth them 2 6. Why the seekers have not found the pearl of the creation 17 7. Without the creation of the world, the wonders of this world had not been known to the angels . . 23
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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