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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.
158. The figure of Dinah 39-45 62. How Dinah was deflowered, and Sichem and the city slain and spoiled: the gate of Christians' wars and the Babylonish whoredom, to be well considered of 1-40 62. How Dinah went forth to see the daughters of the land, and, what is prefigured thereby 3, et seq. 62. How Dinah's whoredom and Simeon and Levi's murder is a figure of Christendom 9-18 Doctors 35. What understanding the doctors have in their contention about God's habitation and being 66 CHAP. Dominion VERSE 39. Whence dominion arises 32 Dove 32. What Noah's first dove signifies 40 42. What the three doves and the raven signify 42-46 Dragon 76. What the dragon's seven heads are 25, 26 Drank plentifully 70. What that signifies, that Joseph and his brethren drank plentifully 94 Dreams 67. What it is to expound dreams 1, 2 67. Whence it is that a beast dreams 5 68. of King Pharaoh's dreams 1, et seq. 68. Wherefore the natural Magi could not expound Pharaoh's dreams 2, 10, 18, 19 Driver. See Hunter Dying 20. of Adam and Eve's dying 26, et seq. E Earth 10. Whence the grossness of the Earth proceeds 30 10. Out of what the Earth is proceeded 61 12. How the glove of the Earth is extruded 7 22. What the Earth is 45 25. why God created the Earth 29, et seq. 25. When God set the time for the Earth to endure 19 Eden 17. What Eden is 6 Edom 53. What Edom is, and signifies, in the High Tongue 5 64. What Edom is, and signifies, in the High Tongue 3
2CHAP. Egyptians VERSE 78. What it signifies that many Egyptians went along when Jacob was buried 2 Elected. Election 25. of that saying of St Paul, We were elected in Christ Jesus ere the foundation of the world was laid 20 48. How God elected not only the natural line of Christ, but also the line of nature 35, 36 51. An excellent figure, against the wise rationalists, concerning election or predestination 4-24 26. of election or predestination. 1-76 32. A curious example, how God has predestinated no election in nature 3, 4 46. How God's election passes only upon the figure 30 61. of God's election, or predestination, or decree concerning Jacob and Esau 1-3 and 23 Elements 10. That the four elements are but properties 49 Ember 23. How, in many there is an ember glowing towards the virgin's child of the new birth 41, 42 Enos. Enoch 30. What Enos signifies in the Language of Nature 11 30. What Enoch is in the Language of Nature 27, et seq. 30. How long Enoch's voice must be silent 49, 50 31. of the line of wonders, issuing from Enoch 1-45 Envy 24. Whence the great envy arises 11 Ephraim 75. The figure of Israel's laying his right hand upon Ephraim' s head 12, et seq. Esau 52. What Esau signifies in the Language of Nature 36 53. How Esau despised his being first-born, and sold it for a mess of pottage 1-28 54. The figure of Esau's forty years, and of his two wives 18, et seq. CHAP. Esau VERSE
355. How the figure of Isaac's blessing, and of Esau and Jacob is to be understood 1-5 55. why Esau was blessed with the word of strife 11 55. why Esau was all over rough and hairy 21, 22 55. What that signifies, that Esau attained not the blessing 39 55. What figure Esau is, in his blessing 40, et seq. 56. The figure of Esau's being a grief to his parents 9,10 60. What Esau the first-born signifies 3 60. What Esau's four hundred men signify 6 60. How Esau went to meet Jacob, and how Jacob sent Esau presents 1 61. The figure, of Esau's saying to Jacob: Whose are these with you 10, et seq. 61. How Esau's curse and malice was turned into love 18, 19, 53 61. A plain exposition of the Scriptures, saying, Esau sought repentance with tears and yet found it not 20, et seq. 64. How Esau stands in the figure of the kingdom of nature 2 Esdras, or Ezra 38. How Esdras, in the knowledge of the Spirit, had the lost Bible dictated to him 24 52. How Ezra has briefly written the figure and history 52 Eve 18. why Eve's will was subject to her husband's 11 20. why Eve so suddenly lusted after vanity 2-8 20. How Eve gazed on the Serpent 22 Evil 10. How the evilest must be the cause of the best 62 11. What the great evil of this world is 15 22. What the greatest evil is 25 28. How the evil causes that the good is manifest to itself 67, et seq. 29. How nothing is created evil, or to the dominion of evil 11 61. Whence evil and good proceed 61, 63, 68 F Faith
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.
158. The figure of Dinah 39-45 62. How Dinah was deflowered, and Sichem and the city slain and spoiled: the gate of Christians' wars and the Babylonish whoredom, to be well considered of 1-40 62. How Dinah went forth to see the daughters of the land, and, what is prefigured thereby 3, et seq. 62. How Dinah's whoredom and Simeon and Levi's murder is a figure of Christendom 9-18 Doctors 35. What understanding the doctors have in their contention about God's habitation and being 66 CHAP. Dominion VERSE 39. Whence dominion arises 32 Dove 32. What Noah's first dove signifies 40 42. What the three doves and the raven signify 42-46 Dragon 76. What the dragon's seven heads are 25, 26 Drank plentifully 70. What that signifies, that Joseph and his brethren drank plentifully 94 Dreams 67. What it is to expound dreams 1, 2 67. Whence it is that a beast dreams 5 68. of King Pharaoh's dreams 1, et seq. 68. Wherefore the natural Magi could not expound Pharaoh's dreams 2, 10, 18, 19 Driver. See Hunter Dying 20. of Adam and Eve's dying 26, et seq. E Earth 10. Whence the grossness of the Earth proceeds 30 10. Out of what the Earth is proceeded 61 12. How the glove of the Earth is extruded 7 22. What the Earth is 45 25. why God created the Earth 29, et seq. 25. When God set the time for the Earth to endure 19 Eden 17. What Eden is 6 Edom 53. What Edom is, and signifies, in the High Tongue 5 64. What Edom is, and signifies, in the High Tongue 3
2CHAP. Egyptians VERSE 78. What it signifies that many Egyptians went along when Jacob was buried 2 Elected. Election 25. of that saying of St Paul, We were elected in Christ Jesus ere the foundation of the world was laid 20 48. How God elected not only the natural line of Christ, but also the line of nature 35, 36 51. An excellent figure, against the wise rationalists, concerning election or predestination 4-24 26. of election or predestination. 1-76 32. A curious example, how God has predestinated no election in nature 3, 4 46. How God's election passes only upon the figure 30 61. of God's election, or predestination, or decree concerning Jacob and Esau 1-3 and 23 Elements 10. That the four elements are but properties 49 Ember 23. How, in many there is an ember glowing towards the virgin's child of the new birth 41, 42 Enos. Enoch 30. What Enos signifies in the Language of Nature 11 30. What Enoch is in the Language of Nature 27, et seq. 30. How long Enoch's voice must be silent 49, 50 31. of the line of wonders, issuing from Enoch 1-45 Envy 24. Whence the great envy arises 11 Ephraim 75. The figure of Israel's laying his right hand upon Ephraim' s head 12, et seq. Esau 52. What Esau signifies in the Language of Nature 36 53. How Esau despised his being first-born, and sold it for a mess of pottage 1-28 54. The figure of Esau's forty years, and of his two wives 18, et seq. CHAP. Esau VERSE
355. How the figure of Isaac's blessing, and of Esau and Jacob is to be understood 1-5 55. why Esau was blessed with the word of strife 11 55. why Esau was all over rough and hairy 21, 22 55. What that signifies, that Esau attained not the blessing 39 55. What figure Esau is, in his blessing 40, et seq. 56. The figure of Esau's being a grief to his parents 9,10 60. What Esau the first-born signifies 3 60. What Esau's four hundred men signify 6 60. How Esau went to meet Jacob, and how Jacob sent Esau presents 1 61. The figure, of Esau's saying to Jacob: Whose are these with you 10, et seq. 61. How Esau's curse and malice was turned into love 18, 19, 53 61. A plain exposition of the Scriptures, saying, Esau sought repentance with tears and yet found it not 20, et seq. 64. How Esau stands in the figure of the kingdom of nature 2 Esdras, or Ezra 38. How Esdras, in the knowledge of the Spirit, had the lost Bible dictated to him 24 52. How Ezra has briefly written the figure and history 52 Eve 18. why Eve's will was subject to her husband's 11 20. why Eve so suddenly lusted after vanity 2-8 20. How Eve gazed on the Serpent 22 Evil 10. How the evilest must be the cause of the best 62 11. What the great evil of this world is 15 22. What the greatest evil is 25 28. How the evil causes that the good is manifest to itself 67, et seq. 29. How nothing is created evil, or to the dominion of evil 11 61. Whence evil and good proceed 61, 63, 68 F Faith
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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