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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.
116. Amoog a thousand that have a several gift and knowledge taught of God, there is no strife about the food of the soul 34 16. Whence the strife amongst the Apostles arose . . 35 Subsistence. Substance. Substantiality. 2. Of the eternal subsistence of the hellish creatures . 57 4. A description of the substance in darkness, and of the desire which hath generated it: Also what is called fire .13 4. A substance may proceed out of a thought ... 30 6. Why that which is palpable is a dead substance . . 60 7. How the eternal substance is 64 7. In what manner every substance remaineth standing in the eternal nature 81 18. How men may be able to understand the heavenly substance 31 18. Own reason cannot attain the heavenly substance . 32 8. What is called air: Also what is called substantiality . 36 9. How out of the material substantiality two kinds are come 46 9. How all essences went forth: They all stood in the material substantiality 48 Sun. 9. What light was before the sun: How the sun and all stars came to be: The sun is the heart ... 61 9. How the zodiac, the earth, and the planets stand in order, and the sun in the midst .... 70 9. A description of light, and of the sun ... 89 CHAP. Sun. VERSE 9. How the sun penetrateth powerfully into all the six forms 92 9. How long the sun's standing still was to hare remained hidden 106 10. In what way many have found Sol, or the sun . . 3
213. How the sun hath the dominion in the four elements . 27 13. A resemblance of the elements and the sun to the Father and the Son 28 13. Of the sun's being every where in this world; and how it is a similitude of the Son's being every where . 30 Superior. 15. How the superior provoketh the inferior to wickedness 11 Supper. 13. How the Apostles and their successors have broken bread, and celebrated the Lord's Supper . . 10 13. How they have drunk of the Cup in the Supper . 11 13. How we receive the Holy Trinity in the Lord's Supper 31 13. How in the Lord's Supper we assume into our soul the body of Christ, which filleth the heaven, whereby at the judgment it will pass through the fire . 32 14. To what end the Testament of the Lord's Supper was instituted 19 Swine. 16. That men must not turn back to the husks of the swine 20 16. How we may powerfully cast away all swine and devils 21 Tabernacle. 11. How the present tabernacle, about which we strive, is none of ours, the devil hath defiled it: Our mother will purchase a new garment for us .. .111 Teachers. Teaching. 11. Of the teachers grown up of themselves, who teach for money to shew their eloquence and foreign language 85 11. The author envieth not what good people give to their teachers: The ox that treadeth out the corn should not be muzzled: Antichrist is laid quite naked . 104 CHAP. Teachers. Teaching. VERSE
312. The blessedness of the potentates and teachers, who govern and teach well those that are under them . 7 12. What teachers the princes should choose. Who is certainly the Antichrist. Also of one that cometh who will teach the truth 33 13. What the congregation's and the teacher's behaviour should be 8 3. The spirit of Christ in God is without law: The teaching from self-authority is false ... 67 Temptation. 3. Men ought to hold out in the temptation ... 35 Testament. Testaments. 13. How our soul often goeth out from the fair image; and how God giveth it the new garment again through the Testament, or Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 20 3. Without faith the Testaments are shut seals. Also how the Trinity i s ours 87 11. The hypocrites anger God with their use of the Testaments 45 13. The author will shew what the Testaments of Christ are 3 13. The Church in Babel danceth about the jewel of Christ's Testaments 4 13. How the virtue of the jewel remaineth sealed to Europe and Asia. The great misuse of this jewel (the Testaments) by Babel 6 Tetragrammaton. 16. Of what lieth hid in the words Tetragrammaton and Adonai 65 Theologists. 2. An admonition to the theologists or divines, with a reproof 94 4. A hint to the theologists, who preach of God's will . 45 Thoughts. 2. Whence the mind and thoughts proceed ... 40 CHAP. Thunders. VERSE 3. Of the seven stars, and of the seven thunders . . 43
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.
116. Amoog a thousand that have a several gift and knowledge taught of God, there is no strife about the food of the soul 34 16. Whence the strife amongst the Apostles arose . . 35 Subsistence. Substance. Substantiality. 2. Of the eternal subsistence of the hellish creatures . 57 4. A description of the substance in darkness, and of the desire which hath generated it: Also what is called fire .13 4. A substance may proceed out of a thought ... 30 6. Why that which is palpable is a dead substance . . 60 7. How the eternal substance is 64 7. In what manner every substance remaineth standing in the eternal nature 81 18. How men may be able to understand the heavenly substance 31 18. Own reason cannot attain the heavenly substance . 32 8. What is called air: Also what is called substantiality . 36 9. How out of the material substantiality two kinds are come 46 9. How all essences went forth: They all stood in the material substantiality 48 Sun. 9. What light was before the sun: How the sun and all stars came to be: The sun is the heart ... 61 9. How the zodiac, the earth, and the planets stand in order, and the sun in the midst .... 70 9. A description of light, and of the sun ... 89 CHAP. Sun. VERSE 9. How the sun penetrateth powerfully into all the six forms 92 9. How long the sun's standing still was to hare remained hidden 106 10. In what way many have found Sol, or the sun . . 3
213. How the sun hath the dominion in the four elements . 27 13. A resemblance of the elements and the sun to the Father and the Son 28 13. Of the sun's being every where in this world; and how it is a similitude of the Son's being every where . 30 Superior. 15. How the superior provoketh the inferior to wickedness 11 Supper. 13. How the Apostles and their successors have broken bread, and celebrated the Lord's Supper . . 10 13. How they have drunk of the Cup in the Supper . 11 13. How we receive the Holy Trinity in the Lord's Supper 31 13. How in the Lord's Supper we assume into our soul the body of Christ, which filleth the heaven, whereby at the judgment it will pass through the fire . 32 14. To what end the Testament of the Lord's Supper was instituted 19 Swine. 16. That men must not turn back to the husks of the swine 20 16. How we may powerfully cast away all swine and devils 21 Tabernacle. 11. How the present tabernacle, about which we strive, is none of ours, the devil hath defiled it: Our mother will purchase a new garment for us .. .111 Teachers. Teaching. 11. Of the teachers grown up of themselves, who teach for money to shew their eloquence and foreign language 85 11. The author envieth not what good people give to their teachers: The ox that treadeth out the corn should not be muzzled: Antichrist is laid quite naked . 104 CHAP. Teachers. Teaching. VERSE
312. The blessedness of the potentates and teachers, who govern and teach well those that are under them . 7 12. What teachers the princes should choose. Who is certainly the Antichrist. Also of one that cometh who will teach the truth 33 13. What the congregation's and the teacher's behaviour should be 8 3. The spirit of Christ in God is without law: The teaching from self-authority is false ... 67 Temptation. 3. Men ought to hold out in the temptation ... 35 Testament. Testaments. 13. How our soul often goeth out from the fair image; and how God giveth it the new garment again through the Testament, or Sacrament of the Lord's Supper 20 3. Without faith the Testaments are shut seals. Also how the Trinity i s ours 87 11. The hypocrites anger God with their use of the Testaments 45 13. The author will shew what the Testaments of Christ are 3 13. The Church in Babel danceth about the jewel of Christ's Testaments 4 13. How the virtue of the jewel remaineth sealed to Europe and Asia. The great misuse of this jewel (the Testaments) by Babel 6 Tetragrammaton. 16. Of what lieth hid in the words Tetragrammaton and Adonai 65 Theologists. 2. An admonition to the theologists or divines, with a reproof 94 4. A hint to the theologists, who preach of God's will . 45 Thoughts. 2. Whence the mind and thoughts proceed ... 40 CHAP. Thunders. VERSE 3. Of the seven stars, and of the seven thunders . . 43
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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