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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.
141. why the males must be circumcised on the eighth day 35, et seq41. What circumcision is 3, et seq. Clod 2. The whole world lies in one clod of earth 6 Coat 64. What Joseph's particoloured coat which his father made him signifies 39 64. What it signifies that Jacob was deceived by Joseph's coat 49, et seq. Concubines 63. How Jacob's concubines signify the stone churches 36 Conditions. See forms CHAP. Configuration VERSE 13. A whole configuration or constellation lies in each element 12 Contention 17. The contention of the high schools or universities about the Tree of Knowledge 16 28. What the cause of contention about religion is 26-43 35. Whence contention does arise 61, et seq. 36. of the contention at the Tower of the confusion of tongues in Babel 12, 13 40. How contentious preachers embitter the ears of the hearers 98 51. How the false cold love of titulary Christendom contends about knowledge 46, et seq. 65. What the contentious opinions in Babel are 49, 50 Copulation 41. How the bestial copulation is borne withal under divine patience 2,3 Councils 77. When councils were set in the place of the Holy Ghost 66 Counsel 66. To whom there is no more counsel or remedy to eternity. 47 Covenant 30. of the line of the Covenant 1-54 32. of the Covenant between God and Noah 1 33. of the Covenant of God with Noah, and all creatures 1-40 Covering 22. The covering for our nakedness is ours and no more 77, et seqCovetousness
224. Whence the great covetousness does arise 10 Cradle 63. What the cradle of the child Jesus is 48 Creation 10. of the creation of heaven and the outward world 1-62 11. of the mysticalness of the creation 1 I Creature 32. How the image of the creature shall not pass away 16 CHAP. Cup VERSE 17. What Joseph's cup in Benjamin's sack signifies 1-13; 41-57 Curse 10. of the curse of the earth 8 24. of the curse, and of the body of sickness, whence that arises 1-35 24. What the curse is 2 D Damn. Damned 41. An excellent figure against those that, according to their conclusions in reason by the letter, damn some children from the womb 41 66. What the torment of all the damned is . 67 Dan 77. The Testament of Dan, and the figure thereof. 13-25 77. How it is signified by Dan, Gad and Asher, what kind of people would govern the world 30, et seq. Darkness 3. or the eternal original of the darkness 5 5. or the enmity in the darkness 6 Day. Days 12. of the six Days' work of the Creation 1-39 12. of the first Day 13, et seq. 12. of the second Day 19, et seq. 12. of the third Day 32, et seq. 13. of the fourth Day 1-20 14. of the fifth Day 1-13 15. of the sixth Day's work of Creation 1-31 16. of the creation of the seventh Day 16-18 16. How the seventh Day has been from eternity 28 Death
34. The original of the eternal death 12 11. What the death and misery of man and all creatures is 17 23. why the rocks clave in sunder at the death of Christ 3 33. why God's anger of ten puts one man to death by another 21, 22 Decrees 61. How the decrees in Scripture point only at two kingdoms 55 CHAP. Deity VERSE 52. How the Deity manifests itself through the soul's nature 7, 8 Delight 3. The delight or longing is the property of the Son 7 Deluge 32. why the Deluge, or Noah's flood, came after seven days. 20, 21, 22 32. Wherefore the fountains of water opened themselves, in the Deluge 26, et seq. Desire 3. The desire arises from the longing or delight, and is the Father's property 6, 7 3. The desire coagulates itself. 5 Devil. Devils. See Lucifer 8. That which is pain and torment to the devils, is joy to the angels 21 10. How the Devil is the most despicable poor creature of all 31 17. How Lucifer became a devil 28 22. Where the Devil's council-chamber and school is 17, et seq. 37. How the heathen had not their answers from the Devil 12, 13 38. How the Devil is a prince of this world 5,6 38. What those four elements are wherein the Devil and all evil creatures live 7 66. Where the Devil is a frolick guest 54 70. What the Devil's fishhook is 41 74. How the Devil lost his seat and stool in man 17, 18 Dinah
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.
141. why the males must be circumcised on the eighth day 35, et seq41. What circumcision is 3, et seq. Clod 2. The whole world lies in one clod of earth 6 Coat 64. What Joseph's particoloured coat which his father made him signifies 39 64. What it signifies that Jacob was deceived by Joseph's coat 49, et seq. Concubines 63. How Jacob's concubines signify the stone churches 36 Conditions. See forms CHAP. Configuration VERSE 13. A whole configuration or constellation lies in each element 12 Contention 17. The contention of the high schools or universities about the Tree of Knowledge 16 28. What the cause of contention about religion is 26-43 35. Whence contention does arise 61, et seq. 36. of the contention at the Tower of the confusion of tongues in Babel 12, 13 40. How contentious preachers embitter the ears of the hearers 98 51. How the false cold love of titulary Christendom contends about knowledge 46, et seq. 65. What the contentious opinions in Babel are 49, 50 Copulation 41. How the bestial copulation is borne withal under divine patience 2,3 Councils 77. When councils were set in the place of the Holy Ghost 66 Counsel 66. To whom there is no more counsel or remedy to eternity. 47 Covenant 30. of the line of the Covenant 1-54 32. of the Covenant between God and Noah 1 33. of the Covenant of God with Noah, and all creatures 1-40 Covering 22. The covering for our nakedness is ours and no more 77, et seqCovetousness
224. Whence the great covetousness does arise 10 Cradle 63. What the cradle of the child Jesus is 48 Creation 10. of the creation of heaven and the outward world 1-62 11. of the mysticalness of the creation 1 I Creature 32. How the image of the creature shall not pass away 16 CHAP. Cup VERSE 17. What Joseph's cup in Benjamin's sack signifies 1-13; 41-57 Curse 10. of the curse of the earth 8 24. of the curse, and of the body of sickness, whence that arises 1-35 24. What the curse is 2 D Damn. Damned 41. An excellent figure against those that, according to their conclusions in reason by the letter, damn some children from the womb 41 66. What the torment of all the damned is . 67 Dan 77. The Testament of Dan, and the figure thereof. 13-25 77. How it is signified by Dan, Gad and Asher, what kind of people would govern the world 30, et seq. Darkness 3. or the eternal original of the darkness 5 5. or the enmity in the darkness 6 Day. Days 12. of the six Days' work of the Creation 1-39 12. of the first Day 13, et seq. 12. of the second Day 19, et seq. 12. of the third Day 32, et seq. 13. of the fourth Day 1-20 14. of the fifth Day 1-13 15. of the sixth Day's work of Creation 1-31 16. of the creation of the seventh Day 16-18 16. How the seventh Day has been from eternity 28 Death
34. The original of the eternal death 12 11. What the death and misery of man and all creatures is 17 23. why the rocks clave in sunder at the death of Christ 3 33. why God's anger of ten puts one man to death by another 21, 22 Decrees 61. How the decrees in Scripture point only at two kingdoms 55 CHAP. Deity VERSE 52. How the Deity manifests itself through the soul's nature 7, 8 Delight 3. The delight or longing is the property of the Son 7 Deluge 32. why the Deluge, or Noah's flood, came after seven days. 20, 21, 22 32. Wherefore the fountains of water opened themselves, in the Deluge 26, et seq. Desire 3. The desire arises from the longing or delight, and is the Father's property 6, 7 3. The desire coagulates itself. 5 Devil. Devils. See Lucifer 8. That which is pain and torment to the devils, is joy to the angels 21 10. How the Devil is the most despicable poor creature of all 31 17. How Lucifer became a devil 28 22. Where the Devil's council-chamber and school is 17, et seq. 37. How the heathen had not their answers from the Devil 12, 13 38. How the Devil is a prince of this world 5,6 38. What those four elements are wherein the Devil and all evil creatures live 7 66. Where the Devil is a frolick guest 54 70. What the Devil's fishhook is 41 74. How the Devil lost his seat and stool in man 17, 18 Dinah
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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