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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.
140. How the holy voice of Christ is not departed from the Turks, to forget them eternally. 87, et seq. 40. of the difference between the Turks and the Christians 92-100 U Understanding 3. why the divine understanding brings itself into spiritual properties 13 3. The divine understanding receives no source into itself 21 29. What the eternal divine understanding is . 1,2 Unquietness 66. What the unquietness is 65 V CHAP. Venus VERSE 10. How the inward and the outward Venus are step-sisters 53 13. Venus is the substance of all metals 18 Verbum Fiat 1 1. How the Verbum Fiat is still at this day creating 9 Visions 67. What the right visions are 7 Voice 23. of the voice that was in the Garden 11-16 55. The figure of Isaac's saying: The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau 27, 28 W War. Warrior 22. How war is good, and how not good 73 38. Whence all war and strife has its original. 7-10 33. Whence all war and strife has its original 22, et seq. 38. of the beginning of the heathenish wars: how Abraham delivered Lot; and of Melchisedek to whom Abraham gave tithes. 1-26 55. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war 45, 46 38. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war 16, 17 30. What the Christians' wars are 42 38. No Christian warreth 15, 16 62. What the outward war that Christians make is . 24 33. What every warrior or soldier is 19,20
2Washing the Feet 42. What Abraham's washing the feet signifies 11 Water 4. of the water of eternal life 15 10. of the water which Christ will give us to drink 57 Wedding 70. Where the assured wedding of the Lamb is 25, et seq. 70. What a man must do, when he will enter into the wedding of Christ 38 CHAP. Whore VERSE 30. Whence the mother of the Babylonish whoredom is arisen. 22,23 36. What the Babylonish whore and the dragon beast are. 20, et seq., 37 36. of the Antichristian Babylonish whore, of all tongues, nations and languages, and what lieth hid under the languages and Tower of Babel 1-85 36. of the Babylonish whore's child or bastard, which is predestinated to damnation. 23, et seq. 36. What the whore's beast is 41 36. How the whore hopes for a golden temple or time 70, et seq. 36. How the whore must fall 69 36. What is meant by the whoredom committed with the letter. 44, et seq. 37. How the unchastity of the Babylonish whore is come up before the Most High 61 62. What is whoredom in the sight of God 30, et seq. 65. What the whoredom of Judah with Tamar signifies 38, et seq. 65. What David's whoredom with Bathsheba signifies 41 65. What Solomon's whoredom signifies 45, et seq. 66. What the powerful figure of the whorish unchaste world is: which vermin the world is at present full of 41, et seq. Wicked 60. How God dwells even in the abyss of the wicked soul 44 Wife
341. How a man must leave wife, children, etc. to be a true Christian 54,65 Will. Willing 26. Wherefore the fire- soul has free will 7 27. What the will must do that it may with its desire go to God 4, 5 27. The human free will is become sinful 16 29. Why there is a contrary opposite will 6, 7 61. What the ability of the will is 57, 58 61. The cause why the false wicked or evil will turns not itself towards grace 59 66. How in this time [of life] all things pass in free will 21 66. How knowing nothing is better than willing for self 66 71. Of the divine willing and of the human willing 25-36 Wisdom 1. What the eternal wisdom is 6 29. How the eternal wisdom has introduced itself into a formed visibility 1-70 41. A speech to the reason- wise 42, et seq. CHAP. Woman VERSE 19. of the building or framing of the woman 1-27 41. How the woman is saved through bearing of children 29, et seq. 66. What the woman upon the moon in the Revelation is 34,35 Word 2. Of the Word or Heart of God 1-11 2. Of the outspoken word 7 28. What the literal word is 56,57 36. How man should try himself in the framing of his words 81, et seq. 40. What God's Word assumed 10 56. Why our soul and the Word that became man, are compared together 23, et seq. 61. What the Word is 43,44 World 2. The whole world lies in a clod of earth 6 2. Of the inward world 9 2. How one world is in another . 10
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.
140. How the holy voice of Christ is not departed from the Turks, to forget them eternally. 87, et seq. 40. of the difference between the Turks and the Christians 92-100 U Understanding 3. why the divine understanding brings itself into spiritual properties 13 3. The divine understanding receives no source into itself 21 29. What the eternal divine understanding is . 1,2 Unquietness 66. What the unquietness is 65 V CHAP. Venus VERSE 10. How the inward and the outward Venus are step-sisters 53 13. Venus is the substance of all metals 18 Verbum Fiat 1 1. How the Verbum Fiat is still at this day creating 9 Visions 67. What the right visions are 7 Voice 23. of the voice that was in the Garden 11-16 55. The figure of Isaac's saying: The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau 27, 28 W War. Warrior 22. How war is good, and how not good 73 38. Whence all war and strife has its original. 7-10 33. Whence all war and strife has its original 22, et seq. 38. of the beginning of the heathenish wars: how Abraham delivered Lot; and of Melchisedek to whom Abraham gave tithes. 1-26 55. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war 45, 46 38. How it is not God, but the kingdom of nature in the anger of God that will make war 16, 17 30. What the Christians' wars are 42 38. No Christian warreth 15, 16 62. What the outward war that Christians make is . 24 33. What every warrior or soldier is 19,20
2Washing the Feet 42. What Abraham's washing the feet signifies 11 Water 4. of the water of eternal life 15 10. of the water which Christ will give us to drink 57 Wedding 70. Where the assured wedding of the Lamb is 25, et seq. 70. What a man must do, when he will enter into the wedding of Christ 38 CHAP. Whore VERSE 30. Whence the mother of the Babylonish whoredom is arisen. 22,23 36. What the Babylonish whore and the dragon beast are. 20, et seq., 37 36. of the Antichristian Babylonish whore, of all tongues, nations and languages, and what lieth hid under the languages and Tower of Babel 1-85 36. of the Babylonish whore's child or bastard, which is predestinated to damnation. 23, et seq. 36. What the whore's beast is 41 36. How the whore hopes for a golden temple or time 70, et seq. 36. How the whore must fall 69 36. What is meant by the whoredom committed with the letter. 44, et seq. 37. How the unchastity of the Babylonish whore is come up before the Most High 61 62. What is whoredom in the sight of God 30, et seq. 65. What the whoredom of Judah with Tamar signifies 38, et seq. 65. What David's whoredom with Bathsheba signifies 41 65. What Solomon's whoredom signifies 45, et seq. 66. What the powerful figure of the whorish unchaste world is: which vermin the world is at present full of 41, et seq. Wicked 60. How God dwells even in the abyss of the wicked soul 44 Wife
341. How a man must leave wife, children, etc. to be a true Christian 54,65 Will. Willing 26. Wherefore the fire- soul has free will 7 27. What the will must do that it may with its desire go to God 4, 5 27. The human free will is become sinful 16 29. Why there is a contrary opposite will 6, 7 61. What the ability of the will is 57, 58 61. The cause why the false wicked or evil will turns not itself towards grace 59 66. How in this time [of life] all things pass in free will 21 66. How knowing nothing is better than willing for self 66 71. Of the divine willing and of the human willing 25-36 Wisdom 1. What the eternal wisdom is 6 29. How the eternal wisdom has introduced itself into a formed visibility 1-70 41. A speech to the reason- wise 42, et seq. CHAP. Woman VERSE 19. of the building or framing of the woman 1-27 41. How the woman is saved through bearing of children 29, et seq. 66. What the woman upon the moon in the Revelation is 34,35 Word 2. Of the Word or Heart of God 1-11 2. Of the outspoken word 7 28. What the literal word is 56,57 36. How man should try himself in the framing of his words 81, et seq. 40. What God's Word assumed 10 56. Why our soul and the Word that became man, are compared together 23, et seq. 61. What the Word is 43,44 World 2. The whole world lies in a clod of earth 6 2. Of the inward world 9 2. How one world is in another . 10
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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