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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.
127. What that is which is called faith 35 39. What it is rightly, to believe God, with Abraham. Which is the right ground of our Christian faith 8,9 48. What faith in God's children is able to do 33, 34 S6. How the faithful, or believers, put on Christ 32 , et seq. CHAP. Fall VERSE 9. of the Fall of Lucifer, and his legions 1-25 11. What the Fall of Lucifer, and the heathen idols, were 6 17. Whence the desire to fall in Lucifer proceeded 22-43 17. of the Fall of Lucifer 25, et seq. 17. How man came to fall 31 17. How God saw the Fall 33 20. of the lamentable and miserable Fall of man 1-38 Famine 73. How the great famine and hunger after heavenly food is near at hand 12-14 Favour 66. How the children of God must not set their hope in the favour of man 50-56 67. How the children of God must not set their hope in the favour of man 15, et seq. Fear 70. What Jacob's fear, that he would not let his son go to Joseph, signifies 28, 29 Fiat 11. How the Verbum Fiat, the Word of Creation, is still creating to this day 9 Figure 52. When the figure shall wholly be manifested in substance 52 54. of the figure of the Old and New Testament 17 Fire 3. of a twofold fire 23, 24 24. Wherefore all things shall be tried in the fire 4-9 27. With what fire the sacrifices of Abel and Moses were kindled 8, 23 27. How man in the Resurrection shall pass through the fire of anger 21, 22 27. The eternal fire, and also the love-fire is magical 31
237. What fire at the end of the Day shall purge the floor 20 Food 70. What is the food of the eternal Word that became man 60 CHAP. Fool VERSE 22. What the word fool means 65,66 24. What is the greatest foolishness 16-30 Form. Forms or Properties of Nature 28. The Spirit of Christ in his children is bound to no certain form 51-55 3. What the first form, condition, property or Fiat is 8, 9 3. What the second form is 10, 11 3. What the third form is 12, et seq. 3. What the fourth form is 18 5. What the fifth form is 1, et seq. 5. What the sixth form is 11, et seq. 6. What the seventh form is 1-13 6. of the seven forms, conditions or properties of the eternal nature 14, et seq. 6. of the out-birth or manifestation of the seven forms, conditions or properties 21-24 7. How seven forms or properties are in all things 18 20. of four forms or properties in man 33, et seq. 40. How in the moving of nature two forms or properties divided themselves 7,8 Free Longing 3. The free longing or lubet is no property 6 Fruits 70. What the fruits signify, which Jacob commanded his children to carry along with them 33, et seq. G Gad 77. The Testament of Gad, and the figure thereof. 26, et seq. Germany 45. How Germany shall be blinded by a star shining from east to west 12-14 Globe 18. Moses' Tables written on a globe 20, 21 God 1. What God is 2 2. Where God dwells 8 3. Where God is called Father and Son 7 CHAP. God VERSE
35. How God is in the darkness and in the light 10 8. How God wills good and evil 24 19. It is idolatrous to portray God as a man 27 36. why God became man 65, 66 43. How reason thinks that God dwells only above the stars and firmament 2, 3 43. Where God dwells according to love and anger 4 43. How God sees in the devils and in the wicked soul 5, et seq. 43. How that is understood where it is said, The cry was come God 6 60. How God is manifested in the thrones of the holy angels, and of the devils 45, 46 Good 2. of what God made the good and the evil 4, et seq. 3. How out of the eternal Good evil is come to be 1, et seq. 3. By what good is known 22 22. To whom we must do good, to whom not 81, 82 71. How the eternal Good became creaturely 14, et seq. Goshen 72. What the land of Goshen signifies 18 73. of the figure typified by Goshen 31, et seq. Government 22. Whence the earthly government arises 74 66. How the governor in the office of Joseph governs in Christendom 12, et seq. Gulf 8. The gulf between darkness and light, and between the holy world and the dark world 22, 23 Guts 19. How the guts and entrails were added to Adam and Eve 19 H Hagar
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.
127. What that is which is called faith 35 39. What it is rightly, to believe God, with Abraham. Which is the right ground of our Christian faith 8,9 48. What faith in God's children is able to do 33, 34 S6. How the faithful, or believers, put on Christ 32 , et seq. CHAP. Fall VERSE 9. of the Fall of Lucifer, and his legions 1-25 11. What the Fall of Lucifer, and the heathen idols, were 6 17. Whence the desire to fall in Lucifer proceeded 22-43 17. of the Fall of Lucifer 25, et seq. 17. How man came to fall 31 17. How God saw the Fall 33 20. of the lamentable and miserable Fall of man 1-38 Famine 73. How the great famine and hunger after heavenly food is near at hand 12-14 Favour 66. How the children of God must not set their hope in the favour of man 50-56 67. How the children of God must not set their hope in the favour of man 15, et seq. Fear 70. What Jacob's fear, that he would not let his son go to Joseph, signifies 28, 29 Fiat 11. How the Verbum Fiat, the Word of Creation, is still creating to this day 9 Figure 52. When the figure shall wholly be manifested in substance 52 54. of the figure of the Old and New Testament 17 Fire 3. of a twofold fire 23, 24 24. Wherefore all things shall be tried in the fire 4-9 27. With what fire the sacrifices of Abel and Moses were kindled 8, 23 27. How man in the Resurrection shall pass through the fire of anger 21, 22 27. The eternal fire, and also the love-fire is magical 31
237. What fire at the end of the Day shall purge the floor 20 Food 70. What is the food of the eternal Word that became man 60 CHAP. Fool VERSE 22. What the word fool means 65,66 24. What is the greatest foolishness 16-30 Form. Forms or Properties of Nature 28. The Spirit of Christ in his children is bound to no certain form 51-55 3. What the first form, condition, property or Fiat is 8, 9 3. What the second form is 10, 11 3. What the third form is 12, et seq. 3. What the fourth form is 18 5. What the fifth form is 1, et seq. 5. What the sixth form is 11, et seq. 6. What the seventh form is 1-13 6. of the seven forms, conditions or properties of the eternal nature 14, et seq. 6. of the out-birth or manifestation of the seven forms, conditions or properties 21-24 7. How seven forms or properties are in all things 18 20. of four forms or properties in man 33, et seq. 40. How in the moving of nature two forms or properties divided themselves 7,8 Free Longing 3. The free longing or lubet is no property 6 Fruits 70. What the fruits signify, which Jacob commanded his children to carry along with them 33, et seq. G Gad 77. The Testament of Gad, and the figure thereof. 26, et seq. Germany 45. How Germany shall be blinded by a star shining from east to west 12-14 Globe 18. Moses' Tables written on a globe 20, 21 God 1. What God is 2 2. Where God dwells 8 3. Where God is called Father and Son 7 CHAP. God VERSE
35. How God is in the darkness and in the light 10 8. How God wills good and evil 24 19. It is idolatrous to portray God as a man 27 36. why God became man 65, 66 43. How reason thinks that God dwells only above the stars and firmament 2, 3 43. Where God dwells according to love and anger 4 43. How God sees in the devils and in the wicked soul 5, et seq. 43. How that is understood where it is said, The cry was come God 6 60. How God is manifested in the thrones of the holy angels, and of the devils 45, 46 Good 2. of what God made the good and the evil 4, et seq. 3. How out of the eternal Good evil is come to be 1, et seq. 3. By what good is known 22 22. To whom we must do good, to whom not 81, 82 71. How the eternal Good became creaturely 14, et seq. Goshen 72. What the land of Goshen signifies 18 73. of the figure typified by Goshen 31, et seq. Government 22. Whence the earthly government arises 74 66. How the governor in the office of Joseph governs in Christendom 12, et seq. Gulf 8. The gulf between darkness and light, and between the holy world and the dark world 22, 23 Guts 19. How the guts and entrails were added to Adam and Eve 19 H Hagar
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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