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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.
139. How God established the Covenant with Abraham, and how the faith of Abraham laid hold of the Covenant, which was accounted to him for righteousness, and how God called Abraham to sacrifice 1-32 CHAP. Abraham VERSE 40. What is represented under the history of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 1 40. How two lines sprang out of Abraham 2-6 40. From what property of Abraham Isaac and Ishmael were 13 40. How Abraham in his seed had the land for an eternal possession 50-58 42. How the Trinity appeared to Abraham 1 42. What Abraham signifies in the Language of Nature 1 42. What Abraham's washing of their feet that came to him signifies 11 43. What Abraham's praying to the men for Sodom and Gomorrah signifies . 16-21 45. How Abraham's pilgrimage was a type of Christendom 1-13 45. How Abraham, Sarah and Abimelech were a powerful figure of Christendom 15, 16 How God led Abraham so wonderfully, and how he was always in 45. of Abraham's unwillingness to thrust out the maid-servant with trial, and how the Lord preserved him 1-20 46. of Abraham's unwillingness to thrust out the maid-servant with her son 24-28 47. of the richness of the figure of Abraham's actions 1 47. of Abimelech's covenant with Abraham . 2-27 48. How God tried Abraham, and represented the figure of Christ's sacrifice in his sufferings and death 1-34 48. How Abraham saw Christ's sacrifice afar off; even 2000 years before it was done 10 48. How Abraham went up with Isaac to sacrifice. 8-13
248. of Isaac's carrying the wood, and Abraham's carrying the fire and the knife . 14, 15 48. why God said: Abraham, Abraham 25 48. How men should look upon Abraham's figure 37-43 49. How Abraham would not have the field of the children of Heth for nothing 11 50. How Abraham sent his servant to take a wife for Isaac 1-57 51. How Abraham had six sons by another wife, to whom he gave gifts, but all his goods he gave to Isaac; and how he died 1-55 Adam 17. How Adam did eat before the Fall 13, 14 17. Whence Adam's imagination and longing proceeded 37 18. How Adam was before the Fall 2-9 18. of two fixed substances in Adam 7,8 18. How the propagation should have been if Adam had stood 9-14 18. How long Adam stood in Paradise before Eve was made 19-27 18. How Adam before his sleep had eaten of the forbidden fruit 30-33 19. Adam was not created in a bestial image 20-25 CHAP. Adam VERSE 23. At what Adam was afraid 17, et seq. 25. How God drove Adam out of Paradise, and set the Cherubim before the Garden 1-41 25. How Adam gets his bride again that was taken from him in his sleep 14, 15 25. why Adam and Eve were brought into Paradise 17 25. What provoked Adam that he lusted against God's command 18 25. why God created Adam 19 25. why the Tree of Temptation was set before Adam 23 25. why Adam was tempted and driven out of Paradise 38 37. of God's Covenant with Adam 3 76. How Adam was, before his Eve was, and became monstrous 11-18 All
33. How a particular is the sport of the universal total All 21 Altar 27. Where the altar of God is 48 Angels 8. of the creation of angels, and their dominion in all their worlds 1-34 8. why we see not the angels . 19 8. Where the angels dwell 16, et seq. 17. How the holy angels live 35 25. What the angel with the sword is . 2 42. for what God created the angels and man 24,25 43. of the two angels that came into Sodom 22-64 43. How the angels did eat with Lot . 38 59. How the angel met Jacob, and what that signifies 24 Antichrist. Antichristian 27. of the wicked Antichristian Church, also of the true holy Church 41-60 28. of Cain's murdering of his brother, viz. of the proud Antichristian seeming Church upon earth, as also of the true Christianity 1-71 36. What the Antichrist is 17 43. The Antichristian whore does as the Sodomites did. 47-52 51. What Antichrist is both among Jews and Christians. 44 70. How Antichrist has deceived poor Christendom 38, 39 77. When Antichrist will fall 70 Ararat 32. of the name Ararat in the Language of Nature 33-37 CHAP. Ark VERSE 32. There is a very great mystery in the Ark of Noah 10, et seq. Asher 77. The Testament of Asher, and the figure thereof 29-32 As I live 42. An exposition of these words: As I live 27, et seq. Author 5. From what sight and vision the Author has written 15 12. The Author had a glass to see even beyond Moses 34 18. From what knowledge the Author has written 1
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.
139. How God established the Covenant with Abraham, and how the faith of Abraham laid hold of the Covenant, which was accounted to him for righteousness, and how God called Abraham to sacrifice 1-32 CHAP. Abraham VERSE 40. What is represented under the history of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 1 40. How two lines sprang out of Abraham 2-6 40. From what property of Abraham Isaac and Ishmael were 13 40. How Abraham in his seed had the land for an eternal possession 50-58 42. How the Trinity appeared to Abraham 1 42. What Abraham signifies in the Language of Nature 1 42. What Abraham's washing of their feet that came to him signifies 11 43. What Abraham's praying to the men for Sodom and Gomorrah signifies . 16-21 45. How Abraham's pilgrimage was a type of Christendom 1-13 45. How Abraham, Sarah and Abimelech were a powerful figure of Christendom 15, 16 How God led Abraham so wonderfully, and how he was always in 45. of Abraham's unwillingness to thrust out the maid-servant with trial, and how the Lord preserved him 1-20 46. of Abraham's unwillingness to thrust out the maid-servant with her son 24-28 47. of the richness of the figure of Abraham's actions 1 47. of Abimelech's covenant with Abraham . 2-27 48. How God tried Abraham, and represented the figure of Christ's sacrifice in his sufferings and death 1-34 48. How Abraham saw Christ's sacrifice afar off; even 2000 years before it was done 10 48. How Abraham went up with Isaac to sacrifice. 8-13
248. of Isaac's carrying the wood, and Abraham's carrying the fire and the knife . 14, 15 48. why God said: Abraham, Abraham 25 48. How men should look upon Abraham's figure 37-43 49. How Abraham would not have the field of the children of Heth for nothing 11 50. How Abraham sent his servant to take a wife for Isaac 1-57 51. How Abraham had six sons by another wife, to whom he gave gifts, but all his goods he gave to Isaac; and how he died 1-55 Adam 17. How Adam did eat before the Fall 13, 14 17. Whence Adam's imagination and longing proceeded 37 18. How Adam was before the Fall 2-9 18. of two fixed substances in Adam 7,8 18. How the propagation should have been if Adam had stood 9-14 18. How long Adam stood in Paradise before Eve was made 19-27 18. How Adam before his sleep had eaten of the forbidden fruit 30-33 19. Adam was not created in a bestial image 20-25 CHAP. Adam VERSE 23. At what Adam was afraid 17, et seq. 25. How God drove Adam out of Paradise, and set the Cherubim before the Garden 1-41 25. How Adam gets his bride again that was taken from him in his sleep 14, 15 25. why Adam and Eve were brought into Paradise 17 25. What provoked Adam that he lusted against God's command 18 25. why God created Adam 19 25. why the Tree of Temptation was set before Adam 23 25. why Adam was tempted and driven out of Paradise 38 37. of God's Covenant with Adam 3 76. How Adam was, before his Eve was, and became monstrous 11-18 All
33. How a particular is the sport of the universal total All 21 Altar 27. Where the altar of God is 48 Angels 8. of the creation of angels, and their dominion in all their worlds 1-34 8. why we see not the angels . 19 8. Where the angels dwell 16, et seq. 17. How the holy angels live 35 25. What the angel with the sword is . 2 42. for what God created the angels and man 24,25 43. of the two angels that came into Sodom 22-64 43. How the angels did eat with Lot . 38 59. How the angel met Jacob, and what that signifies 24 Antichrist. Antichristian 27. of the wicked Antichristian Church, also of the true holy Church 41-60 28. of Cain's murdering of his brother, viz. of the proud Antichristian seeming Church upon earth, as also of the true Christianity 1-71 36. What the Antichrist is 17 43. The Antichristian whore does as the Sodomites did. 47-52 51. What Antichrist is both among Jews and Christians. 44 70. How Antichrist has deceived poor Christendom 38, 39 77. When Antichrist will fall 70 Ararat 32. of the name Ararat in the Language of Nature 33-37 CHAP. Ark VERSE 32. There is a very great mystery in the Ark of Noah 10, et seq. Asher 77. The Testament of Asher, and the figure thereof 29-32 As I live 42. An exposition of these words: As I live 27, et seq. Author 5. From what sight and vision the Author has written 15 12. The Author had a glass to see even beyond Moses 34 18. From what knowledge the Author has written 1
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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