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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.
172. What the chariots, provision, and sumptuous apparel signify, that Joseph gave to his brethren 24-38 Cherubim 25. of the Cherubim, that drove the evil Adam out of Paradise 38, et seq. Child of Perdition 46. How the child of perdition shall be revealed, and the beast and whore put to shame . 33, 34 Children of God or Christ 31. How the children of God saw the daughters of men. 12-16 37. How the line of the children of God is as a tree 1, 2 38. How God delivers his children through the might of his anger 14 44. How the children of God do of ten keep back great plagues from God 19-21 46. How it is that men see no more in the children of God than in others 4-6 55. of the misery and ignorance of the children of God 35, 36 55. why the true children of Christ are persecuted by the children in the kingdom of nature . 47-50 56. How the children of Christ instantly after the blessing enter upon Christ's pilgrimage . 1, 2 56. How God so wonderfully leads and preserves his children 3 CHAP. Children of God or Christ VERSE 56. How the Lord stands aloft on Jacob's ladder, calling and comforting the children of God . 11, 12 64. How the despising of the children of Christ is good for them 12 66. The type and image of the children of God in chaste Joseph 32-40 66. How the children of God have the greatest danger in worldly honour 53 66. The final and last trial of the children of God. 61-63 and 68 Christ 19. Wherefore Christ became a man on the woman's part 17
223. why Christ sweat drops of blood in the Garden 4 23. why Christ must drink gall and vinegar 5,6 23. why Christ must be scorned, killed, etc 8,9 23. How Christ assumed a masculine fire- soul in the woman's property 43, et seq. 25. why Christ must be tempted 24 29. What was Christ's office 25 34. why Christ would not be generated of man's, or the masculine, seed 28 37. How Christ should become a God-man, and Adam and Abraham a man-God 28-32 37. of Christ's Person 42 , et seq. 40. How Christ and his subjects must be twofold persons 11, 12 40. How Christ was generated out of the Covenant made with Abraham. 15 40. How the humanity of Christ anoints his branches 14 40. Wherefore Christ came . 48-70 41. What Christ's, viz. God's, corporeity is 19, et seq. 48. How Christ will certainly come to us again 13 50. How Christ is a masculine virgin and God 26 51. How Christ is a grape-gatherer that gleans 53 56. A firm ground and assurance that Christ assumed our Adamical soul and humanity in the body and womb of Mary 14-20 56. From what property Christ became man 20 56. why Christ took his soul from woman and became a man 21, 22 69. Where a man must seek Christ 22 76. How the time is near, that the kingdom of Christ will be manifested to all people 50, et seq. Christendom 27. How verbal Christendom partakes of the sacrifice of Christ 42
368. How at present Christendom stands in God's presence . 32 -42 68. What the four elements of hunger in Christendom are 35-39 CHAP. Christian VERSE 27. What a Christian is, and how he is a Christian 46 63. What a Christian is, and how he is a Christian 51, et seq. 40. How a Christian must be a Christian 97 51. How a Christian in his faith works in the flesh of Christ 31 51. When any is a Christian 43 64. How a Christian must not account the hate from his brother to be grievous 26, 27 64. What the wish of a Christian to his enemies should be 27 64. How a true Christian should present the misery and sins of the people where he lives, daily before God 37, 38 66. What officer is a Christian, and what no Christian 20 66. How a Christian must be armed, in worldly offices . 65, et seq. 68. The most excellent figure in the whole Bible, of a tried Christian. 48, et seq. 70. How a man begins to be a Christian 24, 25 70. What the difference is between a Christian and other strange heathen people. 80, et seq. Church 63. What the greatest whoredom is in the churches of stone. 39-43 63. How at present men are ready to storm the Church, or house of whoredom 45 63. How churches were erected out of a good intention. 46 63. What holiness is in the Church 47 63. What a man must do that he may enter into the Church worthily 50 Circumcision 41. why God commanded circumcision to Abraham 2, et seq.
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.
172. What the chariots, provision, and sumptuous apparel signify, that Joseph gave to his brethren 24-38 Cherubim 25. of the Cherubim, that drove the evil Adam out of Paradise 38, et seq. Child of Perdition 46. How the child of perdition shall be revealed, and the beast and whore put to shame . 33, 34 Children of God or Christ 31. How the children of God saw the daughters of men. 12-16 37. How the line of the children of God is as a tree 1, 2 38. How God delivers his children through the might of his anger 14 44. How the children of God do of ten keep back great plagues from God 19-21 46. How it is that men see no more in the children of God than in others 4-6 55. of the misery and ignorance of the children of God 35, 36 55. why the true children of Christ are persecuted by the children in the kingdom of nature . 47-50 56. How the children of Christ instantly after the blessing enter upon Christ's pilgrimage . 1, 2 56. How God so wonderfully leads and preserves his children 3 CHAP. Children of God or Christ VERSE 56. How the Lord stands aloft on Jacob's ladder, calling and comforting the children of God . 11, 12 64. How the despising of the children of Christ is good for them 12 66. The type and image of the children of God in chaste Joseph 32-40 66. How the children of God have the greatest danger in worldly honour 53 66. The final and last trial of the children of God. 61-63 and 68 Christ 19. Wherefore Christ became a man on the woman's part 17
223. why Christ sweat drops of blood in the Garden 4 23. why Christ must drink gall and vinegar 5,6 23. why Christ must be scorned, killed, etc 8,9 23. How Christ assumed a masculine fire- soul in the woman's property 43, et seq. 25. why Christ must be tempted 24 29. What was Christ's office 25 34. why Christ would not be generated of man's, or the masculine, seed 28 37. How Christ should become a God-man, and Adam and Abraham a man-God 28-32 37. of Christ's Person 42 , et seq. 40. How Christ and his subjects must be twofold persons 11, 12 40. How Christ was generated out of the Covenant made with Abraham. 15 40. How the humanity of Christ anoints his branches 14 40. Wherefore Christ came . 48-70 41. What Christ's, viz. God's, corporeity is 19, et seq. 48. How Christ will certainly come to us again 13 50. How Christ is a masculine virgin and God 26 51. How Christ is a grape-gatherer that gleans 53 56. A firm ground and assurance that Christ assumed our Adamical soul and humanity in the body and womb of Mary 14-20 56. From what property Christ became man 20 56. why Christ took his soul from woman and became a man 21, 22 69. Where a man must seek Christ 22 76. How the time is near, that the kingdom of Christ will be manifested to all people 50, et seq. Christendom 27. How verbal Christendom partakes of the sacrifice of Christ 42
368. How at present Christendom stands in God's presence . 32 -42 68. What the four elements of hunger in Christendom are 35-39 CHAP. Christian VERSE 27. What a Christian is, and how he is a Christian 46 63. What a Christian is, and how he is a Christian 51, et seq. 40. How a Christian must be a Christian 97 51. How a Christian in his faith works in the flesh of Christ 31 51. When any is a Christian 43 64. How a Christian must not account the hate from his brother to be grievous 26, 27 64. What the wish of a Christian to his enemies should be 27 64. How a true Christian should present the misery and sins of the people where he lives, daily before God 37, 38 66. What officer is a Christian, and what no Christian 20 66. How a Christian must be armed, in worldly offices . 65, et seq. 68. The most excellent figure in the whole Bible, of a tried Christian. 48, et seq. 70. How a man begins to be a Christian 24, 25 70. What the difference is between a Christian and other strange heathen people. 80, et seq. Church 63. What the greatest whoredom is in the churches of stone. 39-43 63. How at present men are ready to storm the Church, or house of whoredom 45 63. How churches were erected out of a good intention. 46 63. What holiness is in the Church 47 63. What a man must do that he may enter into the Church worthily 50 Circumcision 41. why God commanded circumcision to Abraham 2, et seq.
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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