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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.
12. That the will cannot be captivated by the two forms . 22 2. How the will is sharpened by the two forms . . 23 2. How the second will is free from nature, and consumeth not 62 2. A description of the first eternal will that is called God 75 2. The first will causeth the birth of the love: Also of the original of the names, Fattier and Son . . 87 3. Of the first and second will, and of the birth of nature 20 4. A clearer demonstration of the alteration in the will, or of the second will 24 4. The will is the master of every work, its first original is out of God 48 4. How men shall attain a divine will .... 53 4. Of the twofold acceptability from one will. . . 66 4. Why the second will is called Son, Word, Person, Heart light, lustre, love, and wonder ... 68 6. It lieth not in the opinion or knowledge of any, but in the good will and well doing: The will bringeth us either to God, or to the devil .... 19 6. How we are all blind: Our life and all our doings consist i n the will 22 8. What will is in God. The great power of the will hidden in the spirit of the soul .... 18 10. The will of God is not contention and strife; also concerning the hypocrites 33 12. We must go out from reason into the will of God; also what our continual purpose should be .35 14. God desireth to have no hypocrites, but a sincere earnest will 10 15. Earthly food passeth away, but the will and the desire in the will remaineth 15 CHAP. Wisdom. Wise men. VERSE
25. The wisdom of God is a virgin, and no woman or wife 44 5. Of the operation of the wisdom of God in both matrixes 45 5. The wisdom of God is an image of the Trinity . . 49 5. How the wisdom is the body of the spirit, through which we know his form 50 5. How we know the virgin of wisdom; she is the ornament of the heavenly fruit 52 5. The virgin of wisdom or the Trinity is no local thing, but without end 56 5. Our own wisdom attaineth not the crown of God's secrets 72 6. The eternal virgin, the eternal wisdom, and the eternal Word are not divided . 78 7. Solomon learnt his wisdom in no university . . 37 7. The constellation is a cause of wisdom, art, and subtlety, and of all worldly government amongst men, beasts, and fruits 79 11. How the first Adam lost the virgin of wisdom, and how the second Adam had it .... 69 13. How the light of the eternal wisdom of God in Adam was extinguished . . 18 14. The devil's practice is the wisdom of those that .are advanced to high places 38 14. How the divine wisdom is often covered in the children of God 56 2. What the wise men understood by Sulphur, Mercury, and Sal 38 Woman. 3. The Woman of the dragon is told what she hath built 63 3. A warning to the fair Woman, as, she accounts herself 6 4 3. The Woman hath no authority but from the dragon . 66 3. How the Woman upon the Dragon rideth in pride, pomp, and state 69 3. The anger of God accomplisheth all its wonders on the Woman of the Dragon - 70
33. How the Woman is said to be the God of the Beast; viz. how the spirituality or clergy are said to be the God of the magistrates, or worldly power . . 77 9. How man hath the tincture, and woman the substantiality, and how that was in eternity ... 44 CHAP. Woman. VERSE 9. Why the woman must be under the government of man 112 9. Why women are talkative; how the moon governeth their matrix; why the moon runneth her course so soon 113 11. How God divided Adam, and made woman out of him 23 Wonders. 3. How Christ prayed to his Father and wrought great wonders 72 9. How the spirit of God openeth the wonders which wereforeseen in the eternity in the wisdom . . .116 17. The outward body should manifest the wonders of God 14. Word. 1. How the Word is God, that eternally maketh itself . 38 2. The Word createth in the genetrix. What the eternal still joy is. Also in what nature is generated 78 2. The Word taketh its original in-nature: Two Words are generated in nature: The first expresseth the fierce power, which is the Father's nature . . 80 2. A description of the Second Word, which is called God 81 2. How the Second Word dwelleth in the first will . 84 2. How the Second Word is the Son, and the brightness of the Father: Also how love and hate stand in opposition 85 3. The Word of God hath broken the fierce might in the soul ... 55 4. How the Heart is the Word; and the spirit is the former of the Word 80
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.
12. That the will cannot be captivated by the two forms . 22 2. How the will is sharpened by the two forms . . 23 2. How the second will is free from nature, and consumeth not 62 2. A description of the first eternal will that is called God 75 2. The first will causeth the birth of the love: Also of the original of the names, Fattier and Son . . 87 3. Of the first and second will, and of the birth of nature 20 4. A clearer demonstration of the alteration in the will, or of the second will 24 4. The will is the master of every work, its first original is out of God 48 4. How men shall attain a divine will .... 53 4. Of the twofold acceptability from one will. . . 66 4. Why the second will is called Son, Word, Person, Heart light, lustre, love, and wonder ... 68 6. It lieth not in the opinion or knowledge of any, but in the good will and well doing: The will bringeth us either to God, or to the devil .... 19 6. How we are all blind: Our life and all our doings consist i n the will 22 8. What will is in God. The great power of the will hidden in the spirit of the soul .... 18 10. The will of God is not contention and strife; also concerning the hypocrites 33 12. We must go out from reason into the will of God; also what our continual purpose should be .35 14. God desireth to have no hypocrites, but a sincere earnest will 10 15. Earthly food passeth away, but the will and the desire in the will remaineth 15 CHAP. Wisdom. Wise men. VERSE
25. The wisdom of God is a virgin, and no woman or wife 44 5. Of the operation of the wisdom of God in both matrixes 45 5. The wisdom of God is an image of the Trinity . . 49 5. How the wisdom is the body of the spirit, through which we know his form 50 5. How we know the virgin of wisdom; she is the ornament of the heavenly fruit 52 5. The virgin of wisdom or the Trinity is no local thing, but without end 56 5. Our own wisdom attaineth not the crown of God's secrets 72 6. The eternal virgin, the eternal wisdom, and the eternal Word are not divided . 78 7. Solomon learnt his wisdom in no university . . 37 7. The constellation is a cause of wisdom, art, and subtlety, and of all worldly government amongst men, beasts, and fruits 79 11. How the first Adam lost the virgin of wisdom, and how the second Adam had it .... 69 13. How the light of the eternal wisdom of God in Adam was extinguished . . 18 14. The devil's practice is the wisdom of those that .are advanced to high places 38 14. How the divine wisdom is often covered in the children of God 56 2. What the wise men understood by Sulphur, Mercury, and Sal 38 Woman. 3. The Woman of the dragon is told what she hath built 63 3. A warning to the fair Woman, as, she accounts herself 6 4 3. The Woman hath no authority but from the dragon . 66 3. How the Woman upon the Dragon rideth in pride, pomp, and state 69 3. The anger of God accomplisheth all its wonders on the Woman of the Dragon - 70
33. How the Woman is said to be the God of the Beast; viz. how the spirituality or clergy are said to be the God of the magistrates, or worldly power . . 77 9. How man hath the tincture, and woman the substantiality, and how that was in eternity ... 44 CHAP. Woman. VERSE 9. Why the woman must be under the government of man 112 9. Why women are talkative; how the moon governeth their matrix; why the moon runneth her course so soon 113 11. How God divided Adam, and made woman out of him 23 Wonders. 3. How Christ prayed to his Father and wrought great wonders 72 9. How the spirit of God openeth the wonders which wereforeseen in the eternity in the wisdom . . .116 17. The outward body should manifest the wonders of God 14. Word. 1. How the Word is God, that eternally maketh itself . 38 2. The Word createth in the genetrix. What the eternal still joy is. Also in what nature is generated 78 2. The Word taketh its original in-nature: Two Words are generated in nature: The first expresseth the fierce power, which is the Father's nature . . 80 2. A description of the Second Word, which is called God 81 2. How the Second Word dwelleth in the first will . 84 2. How the Second Word is the Son, and the brightness of the Father: Also how love and hate stand in opposition 85 3. The Word of God hath broken the fierce might in the soul ... 55 4. How the Heart is the Word; and the spirit is the former of the Word 80
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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