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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.
1it; also how it was done 1-47 44. why Lot's daughters made their father drunk with wine 3 44. To what end Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. 28, et seq. 44. Lot's wife is a figure of the present Babylonish Christendom 33, et seq. 44. why Lot's daughters did lie with their father 38-47 Love 71. How God's love comes only to help the weak . 19 Lucifer 12. Wherefore and from what Lucifer was thrust out 12. Where Lucifer lies captive 22. Wherefore Lucifer was swallowed up into the wrath 25. Where Lucifer sat before the creation of the earth 44. How Lucifer desired to see the wrath of nature 60. How the pride of Lucifer by the masters of the letter does up into a peculiar heaven apart M Magistrate 22. How the magistrate is good, and how not 74,75 4 35 30,31 18 17 shut God 41,42 CHAP. Magia. Magus VERSE 11. The Reader is admonished not to misuse the Magia or Magic 8 11. How man is hurt by the wicked Magus or Magician . 12, et seq. 68. of the Magi or Magicians, which titulary Christendom is full of 4, et seq. 68. of the Magia or Magic art, among the Egyptians and heathens, till the kingdom of Christ 3 68. How man is a true divine Magus or Magician 23, et seq. Mahalaleel 30. What Mahalaleel is in the Language of nature 18 Maid- servant 40. What it is that the son of the maid-servant shall not inherit with the son of the free- woman 16-70 Man 15. Man is threefold . 27, et seq.
216. of the distinction between the heavenly and the earthly man 1-15 16. How man was while he stood in Paradise 8, et seq. 18. How man shall be after the Resurrection 3 19. How man was ordained to the outward natural life 1-16 21. why God created man of the heavenly essence 16 22. How man deceived himself 27 23. How the Word in the seed of Eve was propagated from man to man 31 24. How man has a cure, and the Devil not 13, et seq. 24. How a divine man must have enmity in himself 31, 32 27. How man presses into God 14, 15 29. How man was in the beginning, in his properties 12, 13 29. How man is become a striving dominion 14 Mary 37. How Mary is not the mother that has generated God 37, et seq. 56. What is the blessing belonging to Mary 30 Mausim 36. What that god Mausim is 32 Meal 42. What the three measures of fine meal signify 17,18 Melchisedek 38. What Melchisedek was 19, et seq. 38. why Melchisedek blessed Abraham 21 CHAP. Mercifulness VERSE 70. How mercifulness hides its countenance from the repenting soul 3, et seq. Mercurius 17. What Mercurius is 18 Metals 10. What the metals are 17 10. of the seven properties in the metals 18-29 16. How in the earth, stones and metals lies a twofold substance 10 Methusael 29. What Methusael is in the Language of nature 35,36 Michael 12. When Michael strove with the dragon 10 Midianites 64. How the Midianites will bring Joseph with them to Pharaoh; the time is near 30, et seq. Money
370. The figure of the wrong money that Jacob commanded them to take with them again 36, et seq., 48, 49 Moon 23. What the moon and the woman in the Apocalypse signify 34,35 Moses 11. The time is born that Moses casteth away his veil 4 30. When Moses will keep the sheep 53, et seq. Motion 29. of God's eternal motion, moving and forming 4 Mouth 29. What the mouth of the eternal understanding is 3 Murderer 19. why Eve brought forth a murderer the first time 10 62. The figure of Simeon and Levi's murder 31-40 N CHAP. Naamah VERSE 29. of Naamah 43, et seq. 29. How Naamah shall be manifested to all people 68 Names 17. What the great names are that God called Abraham by 23, et seq. Naphtali 77. The Testament of Naphtali, and the signification thereof 33, et seq. Nature 3. The description of the eternal nature 35. How the Language of nature is extinguished 1-26 12, et Seq. 40. Whereto God uses the temporary nature 31 <+u. wnat tne conaemnation 01 tne temporary nature is Night iz. wnere mere is no nignt i Nimrod 35. of the name Nimrod 29, et seq. Noah 31. What Noah is in the Language of nature 3 32. What Noah is in the Language of nature 2 32. why Noah was accounted righteous before God 13,14 j't-. wnat iNoan s aruriKenness signmes Z / 34. How Noah cursed Ham 1-40 jj. ine names 01 ine cnuuren 01 iNoan are seveniy-iwo 1 J-tfl 43. Where Noah's curse came into judgement 29 Nothing 3. The nothing hungers after the something 5 0 Oak
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.
1it; also how it was done 1-47 44. why Lot's daughters made their father drunk with wine 3 44. To what end Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. 28, et seq. 44. Lot's wife is a figure of the present Babylonish Christendom 33, et seq. 44. why Lot's daughters did lie with their father 38-47 Love 71. How God's love comes only to help the weak . 19 Lucifer 12. Wherefore and from what Lucifer was thrust out 12. Where Lucifer lies captive 22. Wherefore Lucifer was swallowed up into the wrath 25. Where Lucifer sat before the creation of the earth 44. How Lucifer desired to see the wrath of nature 60. How the pride of Lucifer by the masters of the letter does up into a peculiar heaven apart M Magistrate 22. How the magistrate is good, and how not 74,75 4 35 30,31 18 17 shut God 41,42 CHAP. Magia. Magus VERSE 11. The Reader is admonished not to misuse the Magia or Magic 8 11. How man is hurt by the wicked Magus or Magician . 12, et seq. 68. of the Magi or Magicians, which titulary Christendom is full of 4, et seq. 68. of the Magia or Magic art, among the Egyptians and heathens, till the kingdom of Christ 3 68. How man is a true divine Magus or Magician 23, et seq. Mahalaleel 30. What Mahalaleel is in the Language of nature 18 Maid- servant 40. What it is that the son of the maid-servant shall not inherit with the son of the free- woman 16-70 Man 15. Man is threefold . 27, et seq.
216. of the distinction between the heavenly and the earthly man 1-15 16. How man was while he stood in Paradise 8, et seq. 18. How man shall be after the Resurrection 3 19. How man was ordained to the outward natural life 1-16 21. why God created man of the heavenly essence 16 22. How man deceived himself 27 23. How the Word in the seed of Eve was propagated from man to man 31 24. How man has a cure, and the Devil not 13, et seq. 24. How a divine man must have enmity in himself 31, 32 27. How man presses into God 14, 15 29. How man was in the beginning, in his properties 12, 13 29. How man is become a striving dominion 14 Mary 37. How Mary is not the mother that has generated God 37, et seq. 56. What is the blessing belonging to Mary 30 Mausim 36. What that god Mausim is 32 Meal 42. What the three measures of fine meal signify 17,18 Melchisedek 38. What Melchisedek was 19, et seq. 38. why Melchisedek blessed Abraham 21 CHAP. Mercifulness VERSE 70. How mercifulness hides its countenance from the repenting soul 3, et seq. Mercurius 17. What Mercurius is 18 Metals 10. What the metals are 17 10. of the seven properties in the metals 18-29 16. How in the earth, stones and metals lies a twofold substance 10 Methusael 29. What Methusael is in the Language of nature 35,36 Michael 12. When Michael strove with the dragon 10 Midianites 64. How the Midianites will bring Joseph with them to Pharaoh; the time is near 30, et seq. Money
370. The figure of the wrong money that Jacob commanded them to take with them again 36, et seq., 48, 49 Moon 23. What the moon and the woman in the Apocalypse signify 34,35 Moses 11. The time is born that Moses casteth away his veil 4 30. When Moses will keep the sheep 53, et seq. Motion 29. of God's eternal motion, moving and forming 4 Mouth 29. What the mouth of the eternal understanding is 3 Murderer 19. why Eve brought forth a murderer the first time 10 62. The figure of Simeon and Levi's murder 31-40 N CHAP. Naamah VERSE 29. of Naamah 43, et seq. 29. How Naamah shall be manifested to all people 68 Names 17. What the great names are that God called Abraham by 23, et seq. Naphtali 77. The Testament of Naphtali, and the signification thereof 33, et seq. Nature 3. The description of the eternal nature 35. How the Language of nature is extinguished 1-26 12, et Seq. 40. Whereto God uses the temporary nature 31 <+u. wnat tne conaemnation 01 tne temporary nature is Night iz. wnere mere is no nignt i Nimrod 35. of the name Nimrod 29, et seq. Noah 31. What Noah is in the Language of nature 3 32. What Noah is in the Language of nature 2 32. why Noah was accounted righteous before God 13,14 j't-. wnat iNoan s aruriKenness signmes Z / 34. How Noah cursed Ham 1-40 jj. ine names 01 ine cnuuren 01 iNoan are seveniy-iwo 1 J-tfl 43. Where Noah's curse came into judgement 29 Nothing 3. The nothing hungers after the something 5 0 Oak
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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