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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.
145, et seq67. How Joseph interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh's butler and his baker, and what is thereby to be understood 1-18 68. The figure of Joseph's putting on other clothes and shaving himself 22 69. The figure of Joseph's letting his nine brethren out of prison and keeping Simeon prisoner 24-29 69. The lovely figure of Joseph's causing his brethren's sacks to be filled, and their money to be given them again 36, et seq. CHAP. Joseph VERSE 70. How Jacob's sons go again into Egypt to Joseph, and take Benjamin with them: how Joseph caused them to be brought to his house, and to eat at his table: how Joseph caused his brethren- to be set in their order, and how Joseph was served by himself and his brethren and the Egyptians also by themselves 1-94 71. How Joseph caused his brethren's sacks to be filled, and the money to be laid in the top of the sack, and his cup in Benjamin's sack, and caused them to be pursued and challenged for thieves 1, 66 72. How Joseph manifested himself before his brethren 1-38 72. How Joseph kissed his brethren 20, et seq. 73. How the countenance of Joseph was manifested to his brethren again, and how they must be ashamed. 15, 16 73. The figure of Joseph's saying: I will tell Pharaoh: My brethren and all my father's house is come to me 24, et seq. 74. The very potent figure of Joseph's gathering all the money together in the famine 9-15 74. The figure of Joseph's buying all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh 19-21
274. Wherefore Joseph bought not the priests' fields: what is the signification thereof 22, 27-33 74. The figure of Joseph's law concerning the Egyptians' fields to give the fifth part to Pharaoh 23-35 77. The Testament of Joseph, and the signification thereof 37, et seq. Judah 65. What the three sons that ]udah begat signify 6, et seq. 65. why the history of Judah and Tamar is put between in the history of Joseph 64, et seq. 76. of the Testament of Judah 38, et seq. Judging 70. What the speech of Christ concerning judging signifies: Judge not that ye be not judged 51 K Kenan, or Cainan 30. What Kenan signifies in the Language of Nature 17 Keturah 51. What Keturah signifies in the Language of Nature 2 CHAP. Kine VERSE 68. What Pharaoh's seven fat kine and seven lean kine signify 11-17 Kingdom 49. How the outward kingdom remains eternally 17, 18 76. How the time is near that the kingdom of Christ will be manifested to all people 50, et seq. Kings 66. for what kings and princes are served by the nobility 18, 19 Knowledge 45. What knowledge the outward man has of the kingdom of Christ 17, et seq. L Laban 58. The figure of Laban's changingJacob's wages ten times 28, et seq. 59. How Laban chid with Jacob, and what is thereby to be understood 19 Ladder 56. What the ladder of Jacob was, and what the angels descending and ascending signify 4-8 Lamb 37. What the wedding of the Lamb is, at which God and man is espoused, and Christ born 12, et seq.
3Lamech 29. What Lamech is in the Language of nature 37,38 31. What Lamech is in the Language of nature 2 29. of Lamech's two wives and their children 39-46,49 29. What the man and the young man which he slew are 48 29. What as to Lamech shall be avenged seventy-seven times 59-64 Land 75. of the piece of land that Jacob gave to Joseph severally from the rest of his children, and the signification thereof 31, et seq. Language 35. of the ground of the Head Language, when all people spoke but one language 54-59 35. What language the spirits use 60 37. How long the undivided language continued 4, et seq. CHAP. Life VERSE 11. Whence the true rational life in the elements is 27 35. The cause of the long life of the patriarchs before the flood 11, et seq Light 3. The eternal light, and the eternal darkness, are not created 2-5 10. Without light the elements had been unmoveable 44,45 Logic 77. When the acute logic came up 69 Lord 33. How a lord, prince, or magistrate has no authority to shed blood 15, et seq. Lot 43. why the two angels lingered in going in to Lot 34, et seq43. What is signified by Lot's wife 37 43. The figure of Lot in that he would give his two daughters to the Sodomites 53, et seq. 43. why Lot's kinsfolk would not follow him 65,66 44. How Lot went out of Sodom, and of the terrible destruction of that whole country of Ham's generations, and what happened upon
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.
145, et seq67. How Joseph interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh's butler and his baker, and what is thereby to be understood 1-18 68. The figure of Joseph's putting on other clothes and shaving himself 22 69. The figure of Joseph's letting his nine brethren out of prison and keeping Simeon prisoner 24-29 69. The lovely figure of Joseph's causing his brethren's sacks to be filled, and their money to be given them again 36, et seq. CHAP. Joseph VERSE 70. How Jacob's sons go again into Egypt to Joseph, and take Benjamin with them: how Joseph caused them to be brought to his house, and to eat at his table: how Joseph caused his brethren- to be set in their order, and how Joseph was served by himself and his brethren and the Egyptians also by themselves 1-94 71. How Joseph caused his brethren's sacks to be filled, and the money to be laid in the top of the sack, and his cup in Benjamin's sack, and caused them to be pursued and challenged for thieves 1, 66 72. How Joseph manifested himself before his brethren 1-38 72. How Joseph kissed his brethren 20, et seq. 73. How the countenance of Joseph was manifested to his brethren again, and how they must be ashamed. 15, 16 73. The figure of Joseph's saying: I will tell Pharaoh: My brethren and all my father's house is come to me 24, et seq. 74. The very potent figure of Joseph's gathering all the money together in the famine 9-15 74. The figure of Joseph's buying all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh 19-21
274. Wherefore Joseph bought not the priests' fields: what is the signification thereof 22, 27-33 74. The figure of Joseph's law concerning the Egyptians' fields to give the fifth part to Pharaoh 23-35 77. The Testament of Joseph, and the signification thereof 37, et seq. Judah 65. What the three sons that ]udah begat signify 6, et seq. 65. why the history of Judah and Tamar is put between in the history of Joseph 64, et seq. 76. of the Testament of Judah 38, et seq. Judging 70. What the speech of Christ concerning judging signifies: Judge not that ye be not judged 51 K Kenan, or Cainan 30. What Kenan signifies in the Language of Nature 17 Keturah 51. What Keturah signifies in the Language of Nature 2 CHAP. Kine VERSE 68. What Pharaoh's seven fat kine and seven lean kine signify 11-17 Kingdom 49. How the outward kingdom remains eternally 17, 18 76. How the time is near that the kingdom of Christ will be manifested to all people 50, et seq. Kings 66. for what kings and princes are served by the nobility 18, 19 Knowledge 45. What knowledge the outward man has of the kingdom of Christ 17, et seq. L Laban 58. The figure of Laban's changingJacob's wages ten times 28, et seq. 59. How Laban chid with Jacob, and what is thereby to be understood 19 Ladder 56. What the ladder of Jacob was, and what the angels descending and ascending signify 4-8 Lamb 37. What the wedding of the Lamb is, at which God and man is espoused, and Christ born 12, et seq.
3Lamech 29. What Lamech is in the Language of nature 37,38 31. What Lamech is in the Language of nature 2 29. of Lamech's two wives and their children 39-46,49 29. What the man and the young man which he slew are 48 29. What as to Lamech shall be avenged seventy-seven times 59-64 Land 75. of the piece of land that Jacob gave to Joseph severally from the rest of his children, and the signification thereof 31, et seq. Language 35. of the ground of the Head Language, when all people spoke but one language 54-59 35. What language the spirits use 60 37. How long the undivided language continued 4, et seq. CHAP. Life VERSE 11. Whence the true rational life in the elements is 27 35. The cause of the long life of the patriarchs before the flood 11, et seq Light 3. The eternal light, and the eternal darkness, are not created 2-5 10. Without light the elements had been unmoveable 44,45 Logic 77. When the acute logic came up 69 Lord 33. How a lord, prince, or magistrate has no authority to shed blood 15, et seq. Lot 43. why the two angels lingered in going in to Lot 34, et seq43. What is signified by Lot's wife 37 43. The figure of Lot in that he would give his two daughters to the Sodomites 53, et seq. 43. why Lot's kinsfolk would not follow him 65,66 44. How Lot went out of Sodom, and of the terrible destruction of that whole country of Ham's generations, and what happened upon
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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