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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.
1Jacob Boehme MYSTERIUM MAGNUM part one Mysterium Magnum PART ONE An Exposition of the First Book of Moses called Genesis written Anno 1623 by Jacob Boehme Translated by John Sparrow [ Editorial matter of the 2009 electronic edition withheld. ]
2passage withheldIntroductory matter written for the 2009 electronic edition has been withheld. Boehme (d. 1624) and the Sparrow translation (1656) are in the public domain and are carried in full; the modern editor apparatus is that editor own work and the Press does not republish it.
3Boehme's work deserves to be available freely, after about four hundred years. It is still relevant today, because it is process oriented and process philosophy (Whitehead, Peirce, etc.) is getting more attention now, promising some solutions to philosophical problems, like ontological ones, that have plagued science for a long time since quantum mechanics started to be developed. Psychologists can also benefit greatly from the insights into human nature that Boehme offers to the careful reader. Many more valuable documents (of Boehme and other theosophicalkabbalistic sources, like my ebook on integrative spirituality and holistic science) can be found at my main site: meuser.awardspace.com An older site, but with a nice search facility and blog: members.tripod.com/m euser My writers corner can be found at scribd: www.scribd.com/meuser My ebook at scribd is here . Lastly, I wish you an inspirative study of this great work. Martin Euser Contents Chapter 4: Chapter 5: Chapter 6: Chapter 7: Chapter 8: Chapter 9: Chapter 10 Author's preface. To the reader. Chapter 1: What the Manifested God is: and of the Trinity. Chapter 2: Of the Word, or Heart of God. Chapter 3: How out of the Eternal Good an Evil is come to be ; which in the Good had no Beginning to the Evil: And of the Original of the Dark World, or Hell, wherein the Devils dwell.
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.
1Jacob Boehme MYSTERIUM MAGNUM part one Mysterium Magnum PART ONE An Exposition of the First Book of Moses called Genesis written Anno 1623 by Jacob Boehme Translated by John Sparrow [ Editorial matter of the 2009 electronic edition withheld. ]
2passage withheldIntroductory matter written for the 2009 electronic edition has been withheld. Boehme (d. 1624) and the Sparrow translation (1656) are in the public domain and are carried in full; the modern editor apparatus is that editor own work and the Press does not republish it.
3Boehme's work deserves to be available freely, after about four hundred years. It is still relevant today, because it is process oriented and process philosophy (Whitehead, Peirce, etc.) is getting more attention now, promising some solutions to philosophical problems, like ontological ones, that have plagued science for a long time since quantum mechanics started to be developed. Psychologists can also benefit greatly from the insights into human nature that Boehme offers to the careful reader. Many more valuable documents (of Boehme and other theosophicalkabbalistic sources, like my ebook on integrative spirituality and holistic science) can be found at my main site: meuser.awardspace.com An older site, but with a nice search facility and blog: members.tripod.com/m euser My writers corner can be found at scribd: www.scribd.com/meuser My ebook at scribd is here . Lastly, I wish you an inspirative study of this great work. Martin Euser Contents Chapter 4: Chapter 5: Chapter 6: Chapter 7: Chapter 8: Chapter 9: Chapter 10 Author's preface. To the reader. Chapter 1: What the Manifested God is: and of the Trinity. Chapter 2: Of the Word, or Heart of God. Chapter 3: How out of the Eternal Good an Evil is come to be ; which in the Good had no Beginning to the Evil: And of the Original of the Dark World, or Hell, wherein the Devils dwell.
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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