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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.
15. How the sound or tune in heaven is 19 5. How the sound or tune in the darkness or hell is 19 Speak 35. Whence it comes originally that man can speak 73 36. From what it is that man can speak and understand 85 Spirit 4. of the original of the multitude of spirits, good and evil 11 8. Of the spirits of the outward world, from time, that pass away 13 29. How the Spirit of God has from eternity sported with itself in the spiritual world 4 36. From what the false spiritual persons or clergy have spoken. 30, et seq. Steward 70. What Joseph's steward signifies 50 Strife 25. Of the strife between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent 10, et seq. 36. Wherefore men do strive 62, 63 S2. When the strife in man is manifested, and Christ breaks the Serpent's head 31, et seq. 60. What the strife about the letter is 47,48 62. Wherefore the strife in Christendom must be 19 CHAP. Strife VERSE 62. With what strife a true Christian strives 21, et seq. 64. How all strife comes from the Tower of Babel 28 75. How the time of strife is at an end 29,30 Substance 53. How the divine substance gives itself into Nature 18 Succoth 61. The figure of Jacob's going to Succoth 72 Sun 11. From what power the sun shines 35 13. Whence the sun takes its lustre 16 Supper 70. What that supper is (Revelation iii) . 44-46 Swearing 53. What swearing by God is called 9 Sword 25. of the Cherubim angel's sword 4-13 25. The original of the flaming sword of fire 25 T
2Teachers 28. What teachers the children of this world will have 44 36. By what a man shall know whether a teacher come from God or from the letter 54, et seq. 41. How the unfitted teachers will needs preach the Holy Ghost into the self-will 46 Temple 15. What the temple of God is 28 36. What the temple of God is 16 52. What the temple of God is 8 27. How the temple of Christ must be brought along into the material church of clay 49 Temptation 48. How man without God's grace cannot stand in temptation 2 CHAP. Testament VERSE 46. What a man must do if he would read and understand the Old Testament 29, 30 46. Wherefore the figures of the Old Testament have remained silent to this last time and now shall be made manifest 31,32 54. Of the figure of the Old and New Testaments 17 Tetragrammaton 35. Of the name Tetragrammaton 53 Tamar 65. Of Judah and Tamar: A mystical figure of Adam and Christ, wherein the new birth is excellently prefigured 1-65 Time 30. Of the seven appointed times. 34-46 30. When the sixth number of time is 44 31. Of the seven times from Adam to the end of the world 38-45 69. How the time of redemption draws near 23 Timnath 65. What Timnath signifies 22 Torment 71. What it is that has no torment 21,22 Tower 35. Wherefore the children of Noah purposed to build a tower. 64,65 35. How the time is born that we shall be led away from the Tower of Babel 67 35. What the mystery is of the Tower, and of the divided languages 68-75
336. What the Tower of Babel is 15 36. What the figure of Babel's Tower is 5-11 36. What the Babylonish Tower was under Moses and among the heathen, and now is among Christians, Jews and Turks 33 36. How a man ought to consider of the Tower and city, Babel 58 36. How we must go out from all Babylonish master-builders of that Tower 50, et seq. 66. How worldly judges ought not to rely upon the Tower of Babel 60 Tree. Tree of Life CHAP. VERSE 35. How the human tree has by Noah's children spread itself abroad in its properties, and how at the Tower of Babel they were divided in the properties by the confusion of languages into several and different people and nations 1-75 36. How the Jews, Christians, Turks and heathens are but one only tree 37-40 36. How we may again, one with another, be one people, one tree, one man, with soul and body 43,44 17. why God set the Tree of Life before Adam 38-43 17. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are but one 10, et seq. Trinity. Threefoldness 1. of the Trinity 3, 4, 5 7. of the Holy Trinity or Threefoldness of the divine essence or substance 1-19 Tubalcain 29. Of Tubalcain 44-46 Turks 40. How the Turks lie under the veil of Christ, and are born in the house 72, et seq. 40. How God hears the Turks in the Son 74, et seq. 40. How the Turks do not blaspheme the Holy Ghost 78, et seq. 40. Wherefore God has taken away the candlesticks from the Turks 82, et seq.
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.
15. How the sound or tune in heaven is 19 5. How the sound or tune in the darkness or hell is 19 Speak 35. Whence it comes originally that man can speak 73 36. From what it is that man can speak and understand 85 Spirit 4. of the original of the multitude of spirits, good and evil 11 8. Of the spirits of the outward world, from time, that pass away 13 29. How the Spirit of God has from eternity sported with itself in the spiritual world 4 36. From what the false spiritual persons or clergy have spoken. 30, et seq. Steward 70. What Joseph's steward signifies 50 Strife 25. Of the strife between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent 10, et seq. 36. Wherefore men do strive 62, 63 S2. When the strife in man is manifested, and Christ breaks the Serpent's head 31, et seq. 60. What the strife about the letter is 47,48 62. Wherefore the strife in Christendom must be 19 CHAP. Strife VERSE 62. With what strife a true Christian strives 21, et seq. 64. How all strife comes from the Tower of Babel 28 75. How the time of strife is at an end 29,30 Substance 53. How the divine substance gives itself into Nature 18 Succoth 61. The figure of Jacob's going to Succoth 72 Sun 11. From what power the sun shines 35 13. Whence the sun takes its lustre 16 Supper 70. What that supper is (Revelation iii) . 44-46 Swearing 53. What swearing by God is called 9 Sword 25. of the Cherubim angel's sword 4-13 25. The original of the flaming sword of fire 25 T
2Teachers 28. What teachers the children of this world will have 44 36. By what a man shall know whether a teacher come from God or from the letter 54, et seq. 41. How the unfitted teachers will needs preach the Holy Ghost into the self-will 46 Temple 15. What the temple of God is 28 36. What the temple of God is 16 52. What the temple of God is 8 27. How the temple of Christ must be brought along into the material church of clay 49 Temptation 48. How man without God's grace cannot stand in temptation 2 CHAP. Testament VERSE 46. What a man must do if he would read and understand the Old Testament 29, 30 46. Wherefore the figures of the Old Testament have remained silent to this last time and now shall be made manifest 31,32 54. Of the figure of the Old and New Testaments 17 Tetragrammaton 35. Of the name Tetragrammaton 53 Tamar 65. Of Judah and Tamar: A mystical figure of Adam and Christ, wherein the new birth is excellently prefigured 1-65 Time 30. Of the seven appointed times. 34-46 30. When the sixth number of time is 44 31. Of the seven times from Adam to the end of the world 38-45 69. How the time of redemption draws near 23 Timnath 65. What Timnath signifies 22 Torment 71. What it is that has no torment 21,22 Tower 35. Wherefore the children of Noah purposed to build a tower. 64,65 35. How the time is born that we shall be led away from the Tower of Babel 67 35. What the mystery is of the Tower, and of the divided languages 68-75
336. What the Tower of Babel is 15 36. What the figure of Babel's Tower is 5-11 36. What the Babylonish Tower was under Moses and among the heathen, and now is among Christians, Jews and Turks 33 36. How a man ought to consider of the Tower and city, Babel 58 36. How we must go out from all Babylonish master-builders of that Tower 50, et seq. 66. How worldly judges ought not to rely upon the Tower of Babel 60 Tree. Tree of Life CHAP. VERSE 35. How the human tree has by Noah's children spread itself abroad in its properties, and how at the Tower of Babel they were divided in the properties by the confusion of languages into several and different people and nations 1-75 36. How the Jews, Christians, Turks and heathens are but one only tree 37-40 36. How we may again, one with another, be one people, one tree, one man, with soul and body 43,44 17. why God set the Tree of Life before Adam 38-43 17. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are but one 10, et seq. Trinity. Threefoldness 1. of the Trinity 3, 4, 5 7. of the Holy Trinity or Threefoldness of the divine essence or substance 1-19 Tubalcain 29. Of Tubalcain 44-46 Turks 40. How the Turks lie under the veil of Christ, and are born in the house 72, et seq. 40. How God hears the Turks in the Son 74, et seq. 40. How the Turks do not blaspheme the Holy Ghost 78, et seq. 40. Wherefore God has taken away the candlesticks from the Turks 82, et seq.
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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