[PHILOSOPHY / THEOLOGY]. BEHMEN [BOEHME OR BšHME], JACOB [OR JAKOB. 1575 - 1624]. SPARROW, JOHN [1615 - 1665?]. ELLISTONE, JOHN [D. 1652].,

XL QUESTIONS CONCERNING The SOULE. Propounded by Dr. Balthasar Walter [Walther]. And Answered by Jacob Behmen. Aliˆs Teutonicus Philosophus. And in his Answer to the First Question is the Turned EYE, or Philsophick GLOBE. (Which in it selfe containeth all Mysteries) with an Exposition of it. Written in the Germane Language. Anno. 1620. [bound with] The CLAVIS Or KEY. Or, An Exposition of Some Principall Matters, and Words in the Writings of Jacob Behmen. Very Usefull for the Better Apprehending, and Understanding of this Booke. Written in the Germane Language, in March, and Aprill, Anno. 1624.

London: Printed by M. S. for H. Blunden, at the Castle in Corne-hill., 1647. 4to: ¢4 (-¢1, a half-title?) (a)2 a3 B1 A4 (-A1) C - 2B4 2C2. 1st Edition, variant issue (Wing B-3408A. Another issue of the same year has the printer's name "Matth. Simmons. in the yeare 1647"). [18], 155, [7], 28, [4] pp. Separate t.p. for "Clavis". Last 4 pp: 2 pp 'Catalogue of Bookes' [viz. bibliographical list] by Behmen, 1 pp of "Faults Escaped in Printing" & a blank. Period full leather with modern rebacking to style. Red morocco title label in second spine compartment. Modern eps., check mark). Inserted table & plate (imperfect, lacking 'folded' left side [approx. 1 - 1.5"]).
¶ Bohme a German philosophical mystic who had a profound influence on such later intellectual movements as idealism and Romanticism. Born of poor parents in Goerlitz Germany, as a boy he tended cattle, later becoming a shoemaker, marrying & fathering 4 children. Boehme, at the robust age of 37 in 1612, wrote his first treatise Aurora, oder Die Morgenroete in Aufgang. In 1613, an unauthorized copy of the manuscript was copied and circulated by Karl von Ender. Its reception "raised him out of his homely sphere, and made him the centre of a local circle of liberal thinkers, considerably above him in station and culture." However, the local pastor primarius of Gorlitz, Gregorius Richter, leveled a charge of heresy. The local muncipal council administered an admonishment to no further "meddle in such matters." This charge Boehme [publicly] followed for 5 years. In 1618 Boehme again started writing expository & polemical treatises. The majority of his works were written, though not formally published, from 1619 - 1624. A second major work, Der Weg zu Christo, was published in 1624, and signaled a renewal of clerical hostility. Boehem, however, was destined to suffer but a short period of this second persecution; he died of an illness on 17 November 1624. Boehme has been said to have a "fertility of ideas" and a "trasncendent greatness of religious insight." Boehme was studied by Sir Isaac Newton and influenced the work Henry More, as well as [and especially] William Law [1686 - 1761].Xl Questions concerning the Soule was translated by the English mystic John Sparrow, in collaboration with John Ellstone, & financed by Humphrey Blunden. This the first of several works by Boehme that Sparrow & Ellstone were to translate into English between 1644 - 1662. Boehme proved to be highly popular in England, where there were regular societies of Behmenists at the time. This work, XL Questions, went into a second edition in 1648, and a third edition in 1665. [11th EB].A scarce title in the Boehme canon. We find no copies currently offered via the major on-line databases, OCLC records but 4 institional cc, and the work has only appeared at auction 3 times in the last 25+ years, the last in 1989.

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Book number: 24501

BOEHME, JACOB [ BÖHME, JAKOB (1575-1624)]

Six Theosophic Points : and Other Writings / by Jacob Boehme

Ann Arbor [MI], University of Michigan Press, (1958). orig.wrappers. 21x13cm, xli,208 pp. PAPERBACK. Translated by John Rolleston Earle.. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ With an introductory essay "Unground and freedom", by Nicolas Berdyaev. Contents : Six theosophic points -- Six mystical points -- On the earthly and heavenly mystery -- On the divine intuition.

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Book number: BOOKS018421I

Keywords: Christian Mysticism, Jacob Boehme, Rhineland Mystics, Mystic, , , , , ,

BOEHME, JAKOB,

Way to Christ.

Paulist Press International,U.S., 1990. Paperback, Very Good/. previous owner's name in ink on inside front cover Nice clean bright tight book.

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Book number: 545941

Keywords: Theology / Spiritual / Religion 0809121021

[BOEHME, JACOB] JAKOB BÖHME

Alle theosophische Wercken [12 bands] 12 volumes bound in 6. Included are the following titles: Aurora: Morgenröte im Aufgang, das ist: Die Wurtzel oder Mutter der Philosophiae, Astorlogiae und Theologie...; De signatura rerum; Genaden-Wahl, oder dem Willen Gottes über die Menschen; Viertzig Fragen vonder Sellen Vrstand; Von sechs Puncten, hohe und tieffe Gründung; Mysterium Magnum; Beschreibung der dery Principien Göttliches Wesens; Hohe und tieffe Gründe von dem Dreyfachen Leben des Menschen...; Theosophische Send-Briefe...; Bedencken über Esaiae Stiefels Büchlein; Der Weeg zu Christo; Von der Menschwerdung Jesu Christi; Christi Testamenta

Amsterdam: Johann Georg Gichtel, 1682. Type of binding: Full leather Details: 16mo. Worn, full leather bindings, gilt edges. Most volumes include engraved half-titles Some hinges tender, spine leather brittle and tearing in places. Ex-library, moderate to heavy foxing. One volume has some loose (but present) pages. Fold out engraved chart in 'Dreyfachen Leben' volume is torn along folds. Very slight ink underlining and notes. More details and photos available upon request.

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Book number: 376721

[PHILOSOPHY / THEOLOGY]. BšHME [OR BOEHME], JAKOB [1575 - 1624]. WERDENHAGEN, JOHANN ANGELIUS VON [1581 - 1652].,

PSYCHOLOGIA VERA IBT XL Qu¾stionibus explicata. Et Rerum Publicarum vero regimini: ac earum Maiestatico Iuri applicata, a Iohanne Angelio Werdenhagen ICC.

Amsterdam: Apud Iohann Ianssonium, 1632. 16mo: a - f^8 A - 2Q^8. 2Q8 a blank. 4-1/2" x 2-1/4". 1st Edition in Latin. [96], 621, [3 (blank)] pp. First word of title transliterated from Greek. Bound in plain binder's board., Bookplates to front eps ("Comte Etienne Karolyi"). A VG copy. Engraved title leaf. Folding plate.
¶ Bohme a German philosophical mystic who had a profound influence on such later intellectual movements as idealism and Romanticism. Born of poor parents in Goerlitz Germany, as a boy he tended cattle, later becoming a shoemaker, marrying & fathering 4 children. Boehme, at the robust age of 37 in 1612, wrote his first treatise Aurora, oder Die Morgenroete in Aufgang. In 1613, an unauthorized copy of the manuscript was copied and circulated by Karl von Ender. Its reception "raised him out of his homely sphere, and made him the centre of a local circle of liberal thinkers, considerably above him in station and culture." However, the local pastor primarius of Gorlitz, Gregorius Richter, leveled a charge of heresy. The local muncipal council administered an admonishment to no further "meddle in such matters." This charge Boehme [publicly] followed for 5 years. In 1618 Boehme again started writing expository & polemical treatises. The majority of his works were written, though not formally published, from 1619 - 1624. A second major work, Der Weg zu Christo, was published in 1624, and signaled a renewal of clerical hostility. Boehem, however, was destined to suffer but a short period of this second persecution; he died of an illness on 17 November 1624. Boehme has been said to have a "fertility of ideas" and a "trasncendent greatness of religious insight." Boehme was studied by Sir Isaac Newton and influenced the work Henry More, as well as [and especially] William Law [1686 - 1761]. "Poets such as Milton, Tieck, Novalis and William Blake found inspiration in Boehme's writings. Hegel went as far as to say that Boehme was 'the first German philosopher.'" [Wiki].

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Book number: 33227