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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.
16S. What the ring, bracelet and staff of Judah signify 32 S Saba or Sheba 54. What the fountain Saba or Sheba signifies 15, 16 Sacrifice 27. Of Cain's and Abel's sacrifice 1-40 27. Why an earthly sacrifice must be 18, et Seq. 27. Why the sacrifice without faith is loathsome to God • 13 Sarah 40. why God made Sarah unfruitful 27, 28 42. How God asked for Sarah 26, 27 42. What Sarah's laughing and lying signify 30, et seq. 49. of Sarah's death and Abraham's purchased burying place: what is signified thereby 1-18 51. why Sarah brought forth but one son 3 CHAP. Schools VERSE 51. Of what profit the knowledge of the high schools or universities, and the Devil's knowledge, is 49, 50 64. Whence the confused languages of the high schools or universities come 24 69. The spying and prying of the high schools or universities helps not into the kingdom of God 20, 21 77. When the time of the high schools or universities began 67 Scorner 40. why God must have the scorner also, in this time of life 23, et seq. Sea 16. What the glassy sea is 27 Serah or Zerah 65. The powerful figure of the birth of Peres and Serah or Zerah 58, et seq. Serpent 20. Of the creation and subtlety of the Serpent 9-19 22. Of the creation and subtlety of the Serpent 29 20. In the Serpent lies excellent art 17, 18 22. The Devil has infected the ens of the Serpent 33 22. Why the Serpent is said to be a virgin 34
223. Wherefore God cursed the Serpent 23-29 27. Where the Serpent's head was first trod upon and broken. 11, 12 38. How the Serpent's ens and also the line of Christ lay in Abraham 13 Seth 29. What the name Seth signifies in the Language of nature 24 Shechem 61. What the name Shechem signifies 75 Shekel 49. An exposition of the four hundred shekels of silver that Abraham gave for the field 8, 9 Shem 31. What Shem is in the Language of nature 6 34. How Shem and Japhet took a garment upon their shoulders 20-26 CHAP. Shepherd VERSE 58. How a shepherd is more highly esteemed before God than the highly learned worldly wise man 32, et seq. 60. why God's Spirit has so exactly described the slight actions of mean shepherds 49, 50 Signal Star 70. How the signal star or ascendant appeared 32, et seq. Simeon 76. The Testament of Simeon and Levi, and the figure thereof. 19-37 Sin. Sinner 22. Of the original of actual sin, and of the awakening of God's anger in the human property . 1-82 22. What sin is, and what is not sin 39, et seq. 22. What the sin against the Holy Ghost is 43, 44 27. What it is that attains the forgiveness of sins 45 48. How far it must go with the repenting sinner 21, et seq. 78. The figure of a converted sinner 5,6 Sinew 60. What it signifies, that the children of Israel eat not that sinew of the ham 51, et seq. Sleep 19. What Adam's sleep signifies 5 Sodom
342. Of the three men, which appeared to Abraham in the plain of Mamre and went towards Sodom, and burnt the city of the children of Ham with fire from the Lord 1-35 43. Of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: how God showed it to Abraham before 1-71 43. How Sodom is a looking-glass for the present world 67, et seq. 43. What figure the judgement upon Sodom is 14 44. What fire was rained down upon Sodom 24, et seq. Sophia 25. Sophia is the tincture of the light 14 25. The fire-soul is the man or husband of the noble Sophia, and it is of the fire's tincture 14 37. How Sophia generateth the true Joseph 14,15 52. What is called Sophia 6 52. When the magic fire of the soul is bridegroom to the noble Sophia. 11-14 CHAP. Soul VERSE 10. True understanding lies in the soul 3 11. What the soul is 20, 25 15. How the soul stands in three kingdoms 15, 18-24 15. There are not three souls but one 24 17. Of the soul's great power 43 22. Whither the soul must go after the judgement 47 23. How the soul of Adam and Eve were ashamed I 25. How the soul may go through the judgement, or how not 2, 3, 26 25. How the virgin child must not flee from the fire- soul 9 34. of the animal soul in the regeneration 17 37. Wherefore God brings the soul into trouble 8,9 52. How the soul may see God 10 56. When God's grace enters into the soul 36 69. The first condition of the poor soul when it turns to Christ 7, et seq. 70. How the soul stands in three Principles 5 Sound
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.
16S. What the ring, bracelet and staff of Judah signify 32 S Saba or Sheba 54. What the fountain Saba or Sheba signifies 15, 16 Sacrifice 27. Of Cain's and Abel's sacrifice 1-40 27. Why an earthly sacrifice must be 18, et Seq. 27. Why the sacrifice without faith is loathsome to God • 13 Sarah 40. why God made Sarah unfruitful 27, 28 42. How God asked for Sarah 26, 27 42. What Sarah's laughing and lying signify 30, et seq. 49. of Sarah's death and Abraham's purchased burying place: what is signified thereby 1-18 51. why Sarah brought forth but one son 3 CHAP. Schools VERSE 51. Of what profit the knowledge of the high schools or universities, and the Devil's knowledge, is 49, 50 64. Whence the confused languages of the high schools or universities come 24 69. The spying and prying of the high schools or universities helps not into the kingdom of God 20, 21 77. When the time of the high schools or universities began 67 Scorner 40. why God must have the scorner also, in this time of life 23, et seq. Sea 16. What the glassy sea is 27 Serah or Zerah 65. The powerful figure of the birth of Peres and Serah or Zerah 58, et seq. Serpent 20. Of the creation and subtlety of the Serpent 9-19 22. Of the creation and subtlety of the Serpent 29 20. In the Serpent lies excellent art 17, 18 22. The Devil has infected the ens of the Serpent 33 22. Why the Serpent is said to be a virgin 34
223. Wherefore God cursed the Serpent 23-29 27. Where the Serpent's head was first trod upon and broken. 11, 12 38. How the Serpent's ens and also the line of Christ lay in Abraham 13 Seth 29. What the name Seth signifies in the Language of nature 24 Shechem 61. What the name Shechem signifies 75 Shekel 49. An exposition of the four hundred shekels of silver that Abraham gave for the field 8, 9 Shem 31. What Shem is in the Language of nature 6 34. How Shem and Japhet took a garment upon their shoulders 20-26 CHAP. Shepherd VERSE 58. How a shepherd is more highly esteemed before God than the highly learned worldly wise man 32, et seq. 60. why God's Spirit has so exactly described the slight actions of mean shepherds 49, 50 Signal Star 70. How the signal star or ascendant appeared 32, et seq. Simeon 76. The Testament of Simeon and Levi, and the figure thereof. 19-37 Sin. Sinner 22. Of the original of actual sin, and of the awakening of God's anger in the human property . 1-82 22. What sin is, and what is not sin 39, et seq. 22. What the sin against the Holy Ghost is 43, 44 27. What it is that attains the forgiveness of sins 45 48. How far it must go with the repenting sinner 21, et seq. 78. The figure of a converted sinner 5,6 Sinew 60. What it signifies, that the children of Israel eat not that sinew of the ham 51, et seq. Sleep 19. What Adam's sleep signifies 5 Sodom
342. Of the three men, which appeared to Abraham in the plain of Mamre and went towards Sodom, and burnt the city of the children of Ham with fire from the Lord 1-35 43. Of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah: how God showed it to Abraham before 1-71 43. How Sodom is a looking-glass for the present world 67, et seq. 43. What figure the judgement upon Sodom is 14 44. What fire was rained down upon Sodom 24, et seq. Sophia 25. Sophia is the tincture of the light 14 25. The fire-soul is the man or husband of the noble Sophia, and it is of the fire's tincture 14 37. How Sophia generateth the true Joseph 14,15 52. What is called Sophia 6 52. When the magic fire of the soul is bridegroom to the noble Sophia. 11-14 CHAP. Soul VERSE 10. True understanding lies in the soul 3 11. What the soul is 20, 25 15. How the soul stands in three kingdoms 15, 18-24 15. There are not three souls but one 24 17. Of the soul's great power 43 22. Whither the soul must go after the judgement 47 23. How the soul of Adam and Eve were ashamed I 25. How the soul may go through the judgement, or how not 2, 3, 26 25. How the virgin child must not flee from the fire- soul 9 34. of the animal soul in the regeneration 17 37. Wherefore God brings the soul into trouble 8,9 52. How the soul may see God 10 56. When God's grace enters into the soul 36 69. The first condition of the poor soul when it turns to Christ 7, et seq. 70. How the soul stands in three Principles 5 Sound
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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