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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. According to the outward man we are strangers in our mother's house, and therefore understand not the mother tongue 24 5. How man is drawn by two, and is in this world as a balance 3 0 5. When the four elements in man break, then the soul is either in paradise or in the abyss . . .126 6. We wholly sleep in the outward man . 37 6. When it is that man seeth with his own eyes . . 39 6. Man cannot carry the eternity up and down, much less the Deity; what.that is that maketh locality, and why God is A and 0 44 6. All whatsoever can be named is in man ... 47 6. The whole man consisteth of Three Principles, and how that can be 48, 49 6. How man was constituted of Three Principles, and what they are 55 6. How man standeth between the kingdom of God, and the kingdom of hell, and is the servant of that to which he yields 56 6. The fall of man toucheth not God. How the Number Three dwelleth i n the anger 57 6. How mankind is without beginning .... 74 6. How the eternal flesh is hidden in the earthly man which must perish 97 7. The soul must not set the garland of pearls upon the old man 10 7. How children are begotten in two kingdoms: Also of the strife about man . 33 8. The author understands what man was before the Fall, in the Fall, in the Regeneration, and after this life 7 9. Hell in the anger, the spirit of this world, and the kingdom of God; all three strive about man . . 17 9. The desire of man standeth in three things or dominions 18
29. How man followeth all three desires .... 23 CHAP. Man. Men. VERSE 9. The gate of the deep ground of man was barred up by Adam, and opened to the author .... 39 9. What we must do to know what man is . . 40 9. The author beginneth to handle the image of man, how man cometh to be, or is incarnate ... 42 10. How man seeth in two kingdoms with a twofold eye; the inward will should be lord: What man must do to be like God, and to find all things ... 10 11. How God created man to his image; and out of what he is created 10 11. Man's ability before the Fall, and his condition . 19 11. Why God created man in a sixth day by himself, and not on that day that the beasts were created: Also why he created but one man .... 20 11. How the man soweth souls and the woman spirit: How Adam saved Eve, and Eve Adam . . 24 11. Of the devil's practice in man's carelessness and evil constellation 37 18. How heaven and earth and all things lie in man; also of the true heaven 33 7. What concerneth us men most of all ... .1 9. Men can better remember the slanders than that which concerneth the soul 27 Mary. 6. The error of the ancients that supposed Mary was one come from heaven, and not of earthly parent? . 76 6. Of the blessing of Mary, and how God and man became one 77 6. How the Word became man in Mary. ... 79 Meekness. 4. Of the two centres, the one thirsting after meekness, the other after fierceness. The meekness is generated out of the fierceness 67
35. How the fierceness is changed into meekness . . 21 7. How the meekness of God holdeth the anger captive . 68 Mercy. Mercifulness. 3. The Word only can overcome the wrath, and is rightly called God's mercy or mercifulness ... 22 3. An exposition of the word Barmhertzigkeit, mercifulness 23 16. How at present the mercy of God is grieved for us . 28 CHAP. Mind. Minds. VERSE 1. A question to the mind why it speaketh more of God than it understandeth 37 2. How the mind and the poor souls see the devil, and the anger of God; and how it cometh that many fall into despair, and make away with themselves . 52 4. The mind searcheth after the most hidden ground, which is here shewn; also how doubting cometh . 60 5. Here we need an angelical tongue: the mind understandeth a corporeal thing 55 7. The whole deep likened to the mind of man . . 77 9. What the mind in the deep is, and in the creatures . 71 12. The devil hath sown an evil will into our mind . . 14 16. What the desire of the hungry and thirsty mind is . 2 16. A description of the state of our souls or minds before the creation of the world, and in this time and valley of misery 3 Ministers. 11. A discourse about the ministers of Antichrist, who will be rich, and have fat bellies or livings ... 96 Miracles. 12. A wonderful exposition what the zealous will can do in the wonders or miracles 22
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. According to the outward man we are strangers in our mother's house, and therefore understand not the mother tongue 24 5. How man is drawn by two, and is in this world as a balance 3 0 5. When the four elements in man break, then the soul is either in paradise or in the abyss . . .126 6. We wholly sleep in the outward man . 37 6. When it is that man seeth with his own eyes . . 39 6. Man cannot carry the eternity up and down, much less the Deity; what.that is that maketh locality, and why God is A and 0 44 6. All whatsoever can be named is in man ... 47 6. The whole man consisteth of Three Principles, and how that can be 48, 49 6. How man was constituted of Three Principles, and what they are 55 6. How man standeth between the kingdom of God, and the kingdom of hell, and is the servant of that to which he yields 56 6. The fall of man toucheth not God. How the Number Three dwelleth i n the anger 57 6. How mankind is without beginning .... 74 6. How the eternal flesh is hidden in the earthly man which must perish 97 7. The soul must not set the garland of pearls upon the old man 10 7. How children are begotten in two kingdoms: Also of the strife about man . 33 8. The author understands what man was before the Fall, in the Fall, in the Regeneration, and after this life 7 9. Hell in the anger, the spirit of this world, and the kingdom of God; all three strive about man . . 17 9. The desire of man standeth in three things or dominions 18
29. How man followeth all three desires .... 23 CHAP. Man. Men. VERSE 9. The gate of the deep ground of man was barred up by Adam, and opened to the author .... 39 9. What we must do to know what man is . . 40 9. The author beginneth to handle the image of man, how man cometh to be, or is incarnate ... 42 10. How man seeth in two kingdoms with a twofold eye; the inward will should be lord: What man must do to be like God, and to find all things ... 10 11. How God created man to his image; and out of what he is created 10 11. Man's ability before the Fall, and his condition . 19 11. Why God created man in a sixth day by himself, and not on that day that the beasts were created: Also why he created but one man .... 20 11. How the man soweth souls and the woman spirit: How Adam saved Eve, and Eve Adam . . 24 11. Of the devil's practice in man's carelessness and evil constellation 37 18. How heaven and earth and all things lie in man; also of the true heaven 33 7. What concerneth us men most of all ... .1 9. Men can better remember the slanders than that which concerneth the soul 27 Mary. 6. The error of the ancients that supposed Mary was one come from heaven, and not of earthly parent? . 76 6. Of the blessing of Mary, and how God and man became one 77 6. How the Word became man in Mary. ... 79 Meekness. 4. Of the two centres, the one thirsting after meekness, the other after fierceness. The meekness is generated out of the fierceness 67
35. How the fierceness is changed into meekness . . 21 7. How the meekness of God holdeth the anger captive . 68 Mercy. Mercifulness. 3. The Word only can overcome the wrath, and is rightly called God's mercy or mercifulness ... 22 3. An exposition of the word Barmhertzigkeit, mercifulness 23 16. How at present the mercy of God is grieved for us . 28 CHAP. Mind. Minds. VERSE 1. A question to the mind why it speaketh more of God than it understandeth 37 2. How the mind and the poor souls see the devil, and the anger of God; and how it cometh that many fall into despair, and make away with themselves . 52 4. The mind searcheth after the most hidden ground, which is here shewn; also how doubting cometh . 60 5. Here we need an angelical tongue: the mind understandeth a corporeal thing 55 7. The whole deep likened to the mind of man . . 77 9. What the mind in the deep is, and in the creatures . 71 12. The devil hath sown an evil will into our mind . . 14 16. What the desire of the hungry and thirsty mind is . 2 16. A description of the state of our souls or minds before the creation of the world, and in this time and valley of misery 3 Ministers. 11. A discourse about the ministers of Antichrist, who will be rich, and have fat bellies or livings ... 96 Miracles. 12. A wonderful exposition what the zealous will can do in the wonders or miracles 22
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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