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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. Advice to them that are able to understand this text . 59 18. If an ass should speak the Word of God, that soul which feareth God would understand it . 46 Universities. 15. What our children learn at the universities . . 9 15. How students in the universities are advanced to govern in Church and State; and how they rule then . 10 16. The Person of Christ is a Mystery, hidden from the pride of the high schools or universities ... 29 Uppermost. 9. How the uppermost desireth the nethermost, and the nethermost the uppermost 110 CHAP. Warning. VERSE 5. A warning not to account these things fictions . .147 5. A warning to go out from contention, a reproof to Babel ... 149 7. A warning to him that is fallen to rise again . . 13 8. Of God's care in warning of his children ... 48 11. A toarning to the children of God to go out from the whore of seeming holiness 50 11. A warning not to run after disputation and contention 85 12. A warning to those that are here advanced to honour 5 12. A. warning to the rich to be meek and gentle . . 6 12. A warning against the devil who soweth weeds. What the doctrine of Moses and of Christ was . . 15 12. A warning to wrestle in patience .... 47 13. The author's warning will not be in vain ... 41 13. Warning to those that say, If our teachers teach us not rightly, let them look to i t: Also of the misuse of the Baptism and Supper 42 14. Warning concerning the way of seeming holiness . 8
214. How God warneth man of his wrath .... 69 15. A teaming concerning the punishment that shall be over the face of the earth 16 16. Afore-warning of the Antichristian wolf born of an academy 26 16. A warning not to trust in the skill of the letter, but in the spirit of God 33 18. A warning to Europe, Asia, and Africa, concerning the strong bow that is bent; advice to arise from sleep, and to see with our own eyes .... 37 Wars. 5. Of the right murderers that provoke princes to wars . 11 12. Of him that is the cause of wars. What war is, and whence it springeth 43 Watchful. 14. What we are to be watchful against .... 42 18. Everyone should be watchful, both in a spiritual and temporal state and condition 42 Water. 8. How the water reacheth up to our lips ... 15 9. Of the water above the firmament, and of the water beneath 59 CHAP. Water. VERSE 10. How the water flieth from the fire, and the fire runneth after the water 26 13. A similitude, shewing how all things have water, and the substantiality from it . ... 25 Ways. 18. We have but two ways to go, one outwardly in working for necessity, and the other inwardly in the will of God 41 Weight. 2. How death trembleth at the life; and whence weight in nature proceedeth 72 3. Whence the weight, matter, lustre, and satiating the hunger of the first will proceed .... 10 Whore. 3. How the obstinate whore hath caused her laws to be reverenced and worshipped 71
33. How the whore possesseth the kingdom of Christ with deceit 73 3. The prophets have prophesied of the Babylonish whore, who must go into the lake 74 3. The whore scometh the angel's sounding of his trumpet, and flattereth herself 76 7. The false teachers compared to the whore ... 58 8. An admonition to the whore of Babel ... 11 11. All people are scandalised and kept back by the whore 90 13. Mention of the conceitedly wise whore who is no better, but worse, by the Reformation: Also of her punishment 58 17. When men were careless, the Babylonish whore brought forth the covetous devil: Also concerning the Last Time 25 18. How it is that the whore will not be converted . . 38 Wicked. 5. The wicked as well as the good grow to the wonders of God 3 Wilderness. 3. How men must go into the wilderness, and be tempted of the devil 34 CHAP. Will. VERSE 1. The eternal will of the Father is the original of the fire of life. 23 1. Of the eternal will and the eternal desire . «. . 24 1. How the will impregnated itself .... 25 1. How the will desireth to be free: Also what the second will, or the eternal mind is 26 1. Why the first will generateth a second will, and falleth into anguish 31 1. What the will, the contrary will, and the desire are . 32 2. Of the eternal will, Word, Father* of the two wills: What is called nature, and A and 0. Nature is manifested in the second will, as fire in light . . 9 2. Of the will, and of the desire in the will ... 13
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. Advice to them that are able to understand this text . 59 18. If an ass should speak the Word of God, that soul which feareth God would understand it . 46 Universities. 15. What our children learn at the universities . . 9 15. How students in the universities are advanced to govern in Church and State; and how they rule then . 10 16. The Person of Christ is a Mystery, hidden from the pride of the high schools or universities ... 29 Uppermost. 9. How the uppermost desireth the nethermost, and the nethermost the uppermost 110 CHAP. Warning. VERSE 5. A warning not to account these things fictions . .147 5. A warning to go out from contention, a reproof to Babel ... 149 7. A warning to him that is fallen to rise again . . 13 8. Of God's care in warning of his children ... 48 11. A toarning to the children of God to go out from the whore of seeming holiness 50 11. A warning not to run after disputation and contention 85 12. A warning to those that are here advanced to honour 5 12. A. warning to the rich to be meek and gentle . . 6 12. A warning against the devil who soweth weeds. What the doctrine of Moses and of Christ was . . 15 12. A warning to wrestle in patience .... 47 13. The author's warning will not be in vain ... 41 13. Warning to those that say, If our teachers teach us not rightly, let them look to i t: Also of the misuse of the Baptism and Supper 42 14. Warning concerning the way of seeming holiness . 8
214. How God warneth man of his wrath .... 69 15. A teaming concerning the punishment that shall be over the face of the earth 16 16. Afore-warning of the Antichristian wolf born of an academy 26 16. A warning not to trust in the skill of the letter, but in the spirit of God 33 18. A warning to Europe, Asia, and Africa, concerning the strong bow that is bent; advice to arise from sleep, and to see with our own eyes .... 37 Wars. 5. Of the right murderers that provoke princes to wars . 11 12. Of him that is the cause of wars. What war is, and whence it springeth 43 Watchful. 14. What we are to be watchful against .... 42 18. Everyone should be watchful, both in a spiritual and temporal state and condition 42 Water. 8. How the water reacheth up to our lips ... 15 9. Of the water above the firmament, and of the water beneath 59 CHAP. Water. VERSE 10. How the water flieth from the fire, and the fire runneth after the water 26 13. A similitude, shewing how all things have water, and the substantiality from it . ... 25 Ways. 18. We have but two ways to go, one outwardly in working for necessity, and the other inwardly in the will of God 41 Weight. 2. How death trembleth at the life; and whence weight in nature proceedeth 72 3. Whence the weight, matter, lustre, and satiating the hunger of the first will proceed .... 10 Whore. 3. How the obstinate whore hath caused her laws to be reverenced and worshipped 71
33. How the whore possesseth the kingdom of Christ with deceit 73 3. The prophets have prophesied of the Babylonish whore, who must go into the lake 74 3. The whore scometh the angel's sounding of his trumpet, and flattereth herself 76 7. The false teachers compared to the whore ... 58 8. An admonition to the whore of Babel ... 11 11. All people are scandalised and kept back by the whore 90 13. Mention of the conceitedly wise whore who is no better, but worse, by the Reformation: Also of her punishment 58 17. When men were careless, the Babylonish whore brought forth the covetous devil: Also concerning the Last Time 25 18. How it is that the whore will not be converted . . 38 Wicked. 5. The wicked as well as the good grow to the wonders of God 3 Wilderness. 3. How men must go into the wilderness, and be tempted of the devil 34 CHAP. Will. VERSE 1. The eternal will of the Father is the original of the fire of life. 23 1. Of the eternal will and the eternal desire . «. . 24 1. How the will impregnated itself .... 25 1. How the will desireth to be free: Also what the second will, or the eternal mind is 26 1. Why the first will generateth a second will, and falleth into anguish 31 1. What the will, the contrary will, and the desire are . 32 2. Of the eternal will, Word, Father* of the two wills: What is called nature, and A and 0. Nature is manifested in the second will, as fire in light . . 9 2. Of the will, and of the desire in the will ... 13
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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