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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.
176. This Mark or Limit of the Covenant was propagated from Ada?n and his Children, from Man to Man, and did go through frojn one upon all ; as Sin also and the aivake 7 ied Vanity did go through from one upon all. 77. *And it stood in the Promise of the Covenant at the End , in the Root of David in the Virgin Mary , who was, in the imvard Kingdom of the hidden Humanity , (viz., of the Essentiality that disappeared as to the Kingdom of God) the Daughter of God's Covenant , but in the outward according to the natural Humanity, she w*s begotten by her true bodily Father Joachim ‘and her true Mother Anna , out of the Essences and Substance of their Souls and Bodies, like all other Children of Adam; a •true Daughter of Eve . 78. In this Mary from the Virgin {viz., the Wisdom of God) in the promised Limit of the Covenant , of which all the Prophets The Way to Qhrist. have prophesied. — The Eternal Speaking Word \ which 1 created all Things, did in the Fulness of Time move itself in the Name Jpsus , according to its highest and deepest Love and Humility , and bring again living, Divine, and Heavenly Substantiality into the Humanity of the heavenly Part, which disappeared in Adam, and from which he died in Paradise , into the Seed of Mary , into the Tincture of Love , into that Property wherein Adam should have* propagated himself in a Magical and Heavenly Manner, into the true Seed of the Woman , of Heavenly Substantiality , which disappeared in Paradise.
279. And when the Divine Light in the Heavenly Essence was extinguished , the Word of God, viz* the Divine Power of the Understanding , did bring in Heavenly and living Substantiality , and awakened the disappeared Substantiality in the Seed of Mary, and brought it to Life . 80. And so now God’s Substance k wherein He dwelleth and worketh, and the disappeared Substance of Man, are become one Person ; for the Holy Divine Substantiality did anoinl the disappeared ; therefore that Person is called Christies , the Anointed of God. Sr. And this is the dry Rod of Aaron , which blossomed and bare Almonds, and the true High Priest ; and it is that Humanity of which Christ spake, saying that, 1 He was come from Heaven * and was in Heaven/ and that 1 no man could ascend into Heaven f but the Son of Man which is come from Heaven, and is in ‘ Heaven/ 82. Now when he saith, ‘He is come from Heaven/ it is meant of the Heavenly Substance , the Heavenly Corporeality; for the Poiver and Virtue of God needeth no coming any whither, for it is everywhere altogether immeasurable and undivided. But Substance needeth coming ; the Power or Virtue needeth to move itself, and manifest itself in Substance. 83. And that Substance entered into the human Substance , and received it ; not that Part only of Heavenly Substantiality , wfiich disappeared in Adam , but the whole human Essence in Sml a«l Flesh , according to all the three Worlds .
384. But He hath not received, or taken upon Himself, the awakened or impressed Vanity , which the Devil , by his Imagination , brought into the Flesh , by which the Flesh did commit Sin . Though He hath indeed taken upon Him the awakened Forms of Life , as they were gone forth from their equal Agree-* ment, each of them into its own Desire. 85. For therein lay our Infirmity , and the Death , which He was to drown with his Heavenly holy Blood. Herein He took upon himself all our Sins and Infirmities , also Death and Hell in Of ‘Regeneration. 7*5 the WPath of God, and destroyed their Power in the human Properties. 86. The Wrath of God was the Hell into which the Spirit of Christ went, when JHe had shed that heavenly Blood into our outward human Blood \ and tinctured it with the Love ; thereby changing that Hell of the human Property into Heaven, and reducing the human Properties into equal Agreement, into the Heavenly Harmony. Chapter IV How we are born anew, and how we may fall into God's Anger again. N ' OW here we may rightly understand what our New- * Birth , or Regeneration , is ; and how we may become, and continue to be, the Temple of Qod ; though in this lifetime, according to the outzvard Humanity, we are sinful mortal Men.
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.
176. This Mark or Limit of the Covenant was propagated from Ada?n and his Children, from Man to Man, and did go through frojn one upon all ; as Sin also and the aivake 7 ied Vanity did go through from one upon all. 77. *And it stood in the Promise of the Covenant at the End , in the Root of David in the Virgin Mary , who was, in the imvard Kingdom of the hidden Humanity , (viz., of the Essentiality that disappeared as to the Kingdom of God) the Daughter of God's Covenant , but in the outward according to the natural Humanity, she w*s begotten by her true bodily Father Joachim ‘and her true Mother Anna , out of the Essences and Substance of their Souls and Bodies, like all other Children of Adam; a •true Daughter of Eve . 78. In this Mary from the Virgin {viz., the Wisdom of God) in the promised Limit of the Covenant , of which all the Prophets The Way to Qhrist. have prophesied. — The Eternal Speaking Word \ which 1 created all Things, did in the Fulness of Time move itself in the Name Jpsus , according to its highest and deepest Love and Humility , and bring again living, Divine, and Heavenly Substantiality into the Humanity of the heavenly Part, which disappeared in Adam, and from which he died in Paradise , into the Seed of Mary , into the Tincture of Love , into that Property wherein Adam should have* propagated himself in a Magical and Heavenly Manner, into the true Seed of the Woman , of Heavenly Substantiality , which disappeared in Paradise.
279. And when the Divine Light in the Heavenly Essence was extinguished , the Word of God, viz* the Divine Power of the Understanding , did bring in Heavenly and living Substantiality , and awakened the disappeared Substantiality in the Seed of Mary, and brought it to Life . 80. And so now God’s Substance k wherein He dwelleth and worketh, and the disappeared Substance of Man, are become one Person ; for the Holy Divine Substantiality did anoinl the disappeared ; therefore that Person is called Christies , the Anointed of God. Sr. And this is the dry Rod of Aaron , which blossomed and bare Almonds, and the true High Priest ; and it is that Humanity of which Christ spake, saying that, 1 He was come from Heaven * and was in Heaven/ and that 1 no man could ascend into Heaven f but the Son of Man which is come from Heaven, and is in ‘ Heaven/ 82. Now when he saith, ‘He is come from Heaven/ it is meant of the Heavenly Substance , the Heavenly Corporeality; for the Poiver and Virtue of God needeth no coming any whither, for it is everywhere altogether immeasurable and undivided. But Substance needeth coming ; the Power or Virtue needeth to move itself, and manifest itself in Substance. 83. And that Substance entered into the human Substance , and received it ; not that Part only of Heavenly Substantiality , wfiich disappeared in Adam , but the whole human Essence in Sml a«l Flesh , according to all the three Worlds .
384. But He hath not received, or taken upon Himself, the awakened or impressed Vanity , which the Devil , by his Imagination , brought into the Flesh , by which the Flesh did commit Sin . Though He hath indeed taken upon Him the awakened Forms of Life , as they were gone forth from their equal Agree-* ment, each of them into its own Desire. 85. For therein lay our Infirmity , and the Death , which He was to drown with his Heavenly holy Blood. Herein He took upon himself all our Sins and Infirmities , also Death and Hell in Of ‘Regeneration. 7*5 the WPath of God, and destroyed their Power in the human Properties. 86. The Wrath of God was the Hell into which the Spirit of Christ went, when JHe had shed that heavenly Blood into our outward human Blood \ and tinctured it with the Love ; thereby changing that Hell of the human Property into Heaven, and reducing the human Properties into equal Agreement, into the Heavenly Harmony. Chapter IV How we are born anew, and how we may fall into God's Anger again. N ' OW here we may rightly understand what our New- * Birth , or Regeneration , is ; and how we may become, and continue to be, the Temple of Qod ; though in this lifetime, according to the outzvard Humanity, we are sinful mortal Men.
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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