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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.
163. What the oak signifies under which Jacob buried the idol-gods and the earrings 4-15 CHAP. office, officer, officers VERSE 22. How the office is good, and how not good 72 66. How the potent in the office of God are great trees without fruit 16,17 66. How the offices and officers are God's, and are God's servants 22 66. How a man in an office must serve either God or the Devil 59 66. How this world has two sorts of officers 37-59 77. Where the worldly office of a judge has its original 21-25 66. How an officer becomes a Lucifer; also how he is free from the commandment of death 23-27 66. How all officers are set in the kingdom of this world 28,29 66. How at present is the time of the coming of the Lord to burn the city of these wicked evil officers with the fire of God's anger 30,31 Oracle 37. How the first holy oracle after the flood manifested itself 15 P Paradise 17. of Paradise 1-43 18. of the Paradisical government 1-34 25. How Paradise is one certain place 16 Pastors 74. of all spiritual pastors or shepherds, who sit without Christ in that office 6 Pearl 22. How the pearl of the whole world is trodden underfoot 35 Philistine 47. What Philistine is 23,24 Physician 21. Whence the physician does arise 7-9 plants 12. Whence it is that some plants are poison 36 Potiphar 64. What the figure of Potiphar's wife is 10,11 Pottage 53. What the lentil pottage was 4 CHAP. Prayer VERSE
238. How man with his prayer and will awakeneth the sword of anger 11 Predestinated 30. What is predestinated to condemnation 8,9 40. Ishmael is not predestinated to condemnation 35-54 Present 70. What the present was that Joseph's brethren brought him in their hands 52,53 Pride 24. What men erect with their great pride and care for the belly. 21,et seq. Prince 33. How a prince or lord has no power to shed blood 15, et seq. Principles 4. of the two Principles, God's love and anger 1-21 32. How Shem, Ham and Japhet are an image of the three Principles 5, et seq. Prosperity 66. Man in temporal prosperity, and in favour and good will of many men, ought not to be secure 50-56 Prophet 67. How the Prophet is the mouth of the kingdom 9, et seq. Purgatory 25. of the purgatory of souls Purple Mantle 70. To whom the purple mantle of Christ is available 13, 14 42 ,43 Purpose 61. How in God there is no purpose 60, 61 and 64 Qualities. See forms R CHAP. Rachel 58. why Rachel said: Give me children. 58. why Rachel must be barren VERSE 1,2 47 63. What it signifies that Rachel died and was buried at the city Bethel 28 63. How Rachel was big with child when Jacob went from Laban 30 63. How Rachel bare Benjamin and died: what the signification of it is 20, et seq. Rained. Rainbow 32. why it rained forty days and forty nights 33. of the rainbow and its colours 23, et seq. 25-40 Ram 48. How the killing and dying falls not upon the right man, but
3upon the ram 28, et seq. Raven 32. What the raven signifies 38, 39, 41 Reason 41. How reason introduces everything into God's will 53-71 Rebecca 50. Rebecca signifies Sophia 48 50. The figure of the glorious banquet of Abraham's servant with Rebecca 49, et seq. 52. How in Rebecca two kingdoms strove one with another 20-30 52. Wherefore Rebecca loved Jacob 54 53. Why the strife arose in Rebecca 27 55. Why Rebecca must set Jacob in the place of the blessing 17, et seq. 55. Of Rebecca's subtlety and deceit with Jacob 19,20 Religion 36. Whence the contempt of religion proceeds 14 Remedy 66. To whom there is no more counsel or remedy, to eternity 47 Repentance 31. Of God's repentance, where he says: It repents me 17-45 70. It is a figure of repentance, that Jacob's children must go into Egypt for food twice 15-23 CHAP. Respect VERSE 51. How in God's presence there is no respect of name or person 34-41 Reuben 63. What Reuben signifies 44 63. How Reuben lay with his father's concubine, and what the signification thereof is 31-45 76. The Testament of Reuben, and the figure thereof 4-18 Revenge 22. Whence in man the wrath and vengeance to be revenged arises 58-64 Rib 19. What the rib and dividing of Adam signifies 2, 6 Riches 58. How the riches of the outward man belong to the new man. 21, et seq. Right 66. How right is God and wrong is the Devil . 60 Rocks 23. why at Christ's death the rocks clave asunder 3 Ring
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.
163. What the oak signifies under which Jacob buried the idol-gods and the earrings 4-15 CHAP. office, officer, officers VERSE 22. How the office is good, and how not good 72 66. How the potent in the office of God are great trees without fruit 16,17 66. How the offices and officers are God's, and are God's servants 22 66. How a man in an office must serve either God or the Devil 59 66. How this world has two sorts of officers 37-59 77. Where the worldly office of a judge has its original 21-25 66. How an officer becomes a Lucifer; also how he is free from the commandment of death 23-27 66. How all officers are set in the kingdom of this world 28,29 66. How at present is the time of the coming of the Lord to burn the city of these wicked evil officers with the fire of God's anger 30,31 Oracle 37. How the first holy oracle after the flood manifested itself 15 P Paradise 17. of Paradise 1-43 18. of the Paradisical government 1-34 25. How Paradise is one certain place 16 Pastors 74. of all spiritual pastors or shepherds, who sit without Christ in that office 6 Pearl 22. How the pearl of the whole world is trodden underfoot 35 Philistine 47. What Philistine is 23,24 Physician 21. Whence the physician does arise 7-9 plants 12. Whence it is that some plants are poison 36 Potiphar 64. What the figure of Potiphar's wife is 10,11 Pottage 53. What the lentil pottage was 4 CHAP. Prayer VERSE
238. How man with his prayer and will awakeneth the sword of anger 11 Predestinated 30. What is predestinated to condemnation 8,9 40. Ishmael is not predestinated to condemnation 35-54 Present 70. What the present was that Joseph's brethren brought him in their hands 52,53 Pride 24. What men erect with their great pride and care for the belly. 21,et seq. Prince 33. How a prince or lord has no power to shed blood 15, et seq. Principles 4. of the two Principles, God's love and anger 1-21 32. How Shem, Ham and Japhet are an image of the three Principles 5, et seq. Prosperity 66. Man in temporal prosperity, and in favour and good will of many men, ought not to be secure 50-56 Prophet 67. How the Prophet is the mouth of the kingdom 9, et seq. Purgatory 25. of the purgatory of souls Purple Mantle 70. To whom the purple mantle of Christ is available 13, 14 42 ,43 Purpose 61. How in God there is no purpose 60, 61 and 64 Qualities. See forms R CHAP. Rachel 58. why Rachel said: Give me children. 58. why Rachel must be barren VERSE 1,2 47 63. What it signifies that Rachel died and was buried at the city Bethel 28 63. How Rachel was big with child when Jacob went from Laban 30 63. How Rachel bare Benjamin and died: what the signification of it is 20, et seq. Rained. Rainbow 32. why it rained forty days and forty nights 33. of the rainbow and its colours 23, et seq. 25-40 Ram 48. How the killing and dying falls not upon the right man, but
3upon the ram 28, et seq. Raven 32. What the raven signifies 38, 39, 41 Reason 41. How reason introduces everything into God's will 53-71 Rebecca 50. Rebecca signifies Sophia 48 50. The figure of the glorious banquet of Abraham's servant with Rebecca 49, et seq. 52. How in Rebecca two kingdoms strove one with another 20-30 52. Wherefore Rebecca loved Jacob 54 53. Why the strife arose in Rebecca 27 55. Why Rebecca must set Jacob in the place of the blessing 17, et seq. 55. Of Rebecca's subtlety and deceit with Jacob 19,20 Religion 36. Whence the contempt of religion proceeds 14 Remedy 66. To whom there is no more counsel or remedy, to eternity 47 Repentance 31. Of God's repentance, where he says: It repents me 17-45 70. It is a figure of repentance, that Jacob's children must go into Egypt for food twice 15-23 CHAP. Respect VERSE 51. How in God's presence there is no respect of name or person 34-41 Reuben 63. What Reuben signifies 44 63. How Reuben lay with his father's concubine, and what the signification thereof is 31-45 76. The Testament of Reuben, and the figure thereof 4-18 Revenge 22. Whence in man the wrath and vengeance to be revenged arises 58-64 Rib 19. What the rib and dividing of Adam signifies 2, 6 Riches 58. How the riches of the outward man belong to the new man. 21, et seq. Right 66. How right is God and wrong is the Devil . 60 Rocks 23. why at Christ's death the rocks clave asunder 3 Ring
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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