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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.
14. How the third Person is the imager and former in nature 77 4. How the third Person manage th the sword of omnipotency 78 Petition. 16. An exposition of the first petition of the Lord's Prayer: The will is the soul's wedding chariot . . 45-48 16. An exposition of the second petition of the Lord's Prayer . 49-51 16. An exposition of the third petition of the Lord's Prayer 52-58 16. An exposition of the beginning of the fourth petition o f the Lord's Prayer 60-62 16. An exposition of the latter part of the fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer, also what lieth hid in the word Tetragrammaton and Adonai . . 64-66 16. An exposition of the fifth petition of the Lord's prayer 67-75 16. An exposition of the sixth petition of the Lord's Prayer 76-80 16. The beginning of the seventh petition of the Lord's Prayer 81-84 16. An exposition concerning the soul; also Of the seventh petition of the Lord's Prayer .... 89 Philosophers. 2. An admonition to the philosophers .... 91 5. The author tells the philosophers of the creating the world in six days 46 Physicians. 2. Physicians now understand not the centre of sulphur, Mercury and Sal, nor the divines the spirit of the Holy Scriptures 17 CHAP. Planet. Planets. VERSE 9. Of the property of the planet Saturn. ... 63 9. What the desire of the planet Saturn is . . 65 9. A description of the planet Jupiter .... 66 9. How the planet Saturn and the Moon stand opposite one to another 85
29. Of the operation of the planet Jupiter ... 86 9. Of the operation of the planet Mercury, where life taketh beginning; also of Mars .... 87 9. The description of the planet Venus, which hath a peculiar lustre of its own 88 9. The planet Mars standeth above the Sun, he is poison and anger, and betokeneth the fierceness of the fire 98 9. The planet Jupiter standeth above Mars, and maketh the brain .99 9. The planet Saturn standeth above Jupiter, and maketh the brainpan 100 9. The planet Venus standeth under the Sun; also what Venus maketh and causeth 101 9. The planet Mercury standeth under Venus; also what he causeth 102 9. The Moon standeth under the planet Mercury: The operation and fear of the Moon; the Moon flattereth with the centre of the earth, and centre of the Sun 103 9. How the planets are to be transposed, the Moon and Saturn make the body 64 9. Of the operation of the three planets above the Sun, and the three under the Sun, which is in the midst 97 9. The dominion of all creatures is like the dominion of the planets 104 9. As the planets draw virtue from the Sun, so doth the life from the heart 105 9. Of the rule of the three planets above the Sun, and of the three planets under the Sun . . . .109 10. Outward reason cannot understand the course of the planets 2 4 11. How the mixture is made; also of the working of the planets with the seed 25 18. Wherein the outward life consisteth; also of the spirit of the planets 11
3Pope. Popery. 16. Admonition to the Roman Pope and Emperor . . 25 12. Whence Popery is grown. The Antichristian priestdevil hath led the people astray .... 20 CHAP. Portion. VERSE 17. Man runneth after that which would run after him if he were virtuous and honest: Every one hath his sufficient portion 21 Power. 11. He that hath power in God is no Simon Magus . . 73 18. How the reason- spirit of the stars also longeth after the divine power . . 32 16. How the soul in the Fall of Adam was captivated by two fires; also how the soul hath the power of nature. 87 Pray. Prayer. 16. How we must root the abomination out of the soul, when w e desire t o pray 18 16. Why Christ came in the flesh; also what he hath taught us t o pray 37 16. How we enter into God when we pray: and how the soul eateth at God's table 99 9. How the devil taketh away the earnestness and virtue of the prayer out of the heart .... 32 9. What prayer it is which is no prayer, whereby the name of God is misused 33 9. What prayer is, and how men must strive against the devil . 34 16. How God heareth our soul in prayer: There are Three Principles in the soul 14 16. God dwelleth not afar off: A warning against false thoughts in prayer 17 16. Concerning prayer 27 16. What that prayer is which Christ hath taught us: No tongue can sufficiently express the contents of that prayer, nor of the Gospel 38 16. The author sets down but brief contents of the Lord's Prayer 40
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.
14. How the third Person is the imager and former in nature 77 4. How the third Person manage th the sword of omnipotency 78 Petition. 16. An exposition of the first petition of the Lord's Prayer: The will is the soul's wedding chariot . . 45-48 16. An exposition of the second petition of the Lord's Prayer . 49-51 16. An exposition of the third petition of the Lord's Prayer 52-58 16. An exposition of the beginning of the fourth petition o f the Lord's Prayer 60-62 16. An exposition of the latter part of the fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer, also what lieth hid in the word Tetragrammaton and Adonai . . 64-66 16. An exposition of the fifth petition of the Lord's prayer 67-75 16. An exposition of the sixth petition of the Lord's Prayer 76-80 16. The beginning of the seventh petition of the Lord's Prayer 81-84 16. An exposition concerning the soul; also Of the seventh petition of the Lord's Prayer .... 89 Philosophers. 2. An admonition to the philosophers .... 91 5. The author tells the philosophers of the creating the world in six days 46 Physicians. 2. Physicians now understand not the centre of sulphur, Mercury and Sal, nor the divines the spirit of the Holy Scriptures 17 CHAP. Planet. Planets. VERSE 9. Of the property of the planet Saturn. ... 63 9. What the desire of the planet Saturn is . . 65 9. A description of the planet Jupiter .... 66 9. How the planet Saturn and the Moon stand opposite one to another 85
29. Of the operation of the planet Jupiter ... 86 9. Of the operation of the planet Mercury, where life taketh beginning; also of Mars .... 87 9. The description of the planet Venus, which hath a peculiar lustre of its own 88 9. The planet Mars standeth above the Sun, he is poison and anger, and betokeneth the fierceness of the fire 98 9. The planet Jupiter standeth above Mars, and maketh the brain .99 9. The planet Saturn standeth above Jupiter, and maketh the brainpan 100 9. The planet Venus standeth under the Sun; also what Venus maketh and causeth 101 9. The planet Mercury standeth under Venus; also what he causeth 102 9. The Moon standeth under the planet Mercury: The operation and fear of the Moon; the Moon flattereth with the centre of the earth, and centre of the Sun 103 9. How the planets are to be transposed, the Moon and Saturn make the body 64 9. Of the operation of the three planets above the Sun, and the three under the Sun, which is in the midst 97 9. The dominion of all creatures is like the dominion of the planets 104 9. As the planets draw virtue from the Sun, so doth the life from the heart 105 9. Of the rule of the three planets above the Sun, and of the three planets under the Sun . . . .109 10. Outward reason cannot understand the course of the planets 2 4 11. How the mixture is made; also of the working of the planets with the seed 25 18. Wherein the outward life consisteth; also of the spirit of the planets 11
3Pope. Popery. 16. Admonition to the Roman Pope and Emperor . . 25 12. Whence Popery is grown. The Antichristian priestdevil hath led the people astray .... 20 CHAP. Portion. VERSE 17. Man runneth after that which would run after him if he were virtuous and honest: Every one hath his sufficient portion 21 Power. 11. He that hath power in God is no Simon Magus . . 73 18. How the reason- spirit of the stars also longeth after the divine power . . 32 16. How the soul in the Fall of Adam was captivated by two fires; also how the soul hath the power of nature. 87 Pray. Prayer. 16. How we must root the abomination out of the soul, when w e desire t o pray 18 16. Why Christ came in the flesh; also what he hath taught us t o pray 37 16. How we enter into God when we pray: and how the soul eateth at God's table 99 9. How the devil taketh away the earnestness and virtue of the prayer out of the heart .... 32 9. What prayer it is which is no prayer, whereby the name of God is misused 33 9. What prayer is, and how men must strive against the devil . 34 16. How God heareth our soul in prayer: There are Three Principles in the soul 14 16. God dwelleth not afar off: A warning against false thoughts in prayer 17 16. Concerning prayer 27 16. What that prayer is which Christ hath taught us: No tongue can sufficiently express the contents of that prayer, nor of the Gospel 38 16. The author sets down but brief contents of the Lord's Prayer 40
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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