Jacob Boehme Resource Page


Mankind is like a tree with many branches, for all men have only one life
...Although each branch differs somewhat from the others,
yet all have the same vital sap, and so it is with every fellow creature,
whether he be Jew or Christian, Turk or heathen.
Truly there is only one God, who sustains us all,
and when your eyes are opened to see Him,
then you will also see all men as your brothers,
whether they be Christians or Jews, Turks or heathen.
Surely you dont think that God is only the Christians God?
No, the heathen too live in God; whoever does right is pleasing and dear to him.

A true Christian is not a mere historical new man,
he is the crown of the great work of spiritual alchemy.
Christian history is only the Cradle of the Child,
...within which the law of regeneration is perpetually manifested,
and the heavenly man, ...is brought forth in the world of time.
We wish the Lip-Christians might find (this) by experiencing in themselves,
and so pass from the history into the substance.


Primary Sources:
(As per Sparrow and Ellistone translations)
Forty Questions (1647)
The Clavis (1647)
The Three Principles (1648)
The Way to Christ (1648)
On True Repentance (1648)
On True Resignation (1648)
On Regeneration (1648)
The Supersensual Life (1648)
On Illumination (1648)
Of the Last Times (1649)
Epistles of Jacob Boehme (1649)
The Three-fold Life (1650)
De signatura rerum (1651)
Christ's Testaments - Baptism and Supper (1652)
The Mysterium magnum (1654)
A Table of the Divine Manifestation (1654)
A Table of the Three Principles (1654)
An Epitome of the Three Principles (1654)
On Predestination (1655)
A Short Compendium on Repentance (1645)
The Aurora (1656)
Of The Incarnation of Jesus Christ (1659)
The Great Six Points (1661)
The Earthly and Heavenly Mystery (1661)
The Four Complexions (1661)
Two Apologies to Tylcken (1661)
Considerations concerning Stiefel's Threefold State of Man (1661)
An Apology concerning Perfection (1661)
On Divine Contemplation (1661)
An Apology for the Books on True Repentance and True Resignation (1661)
177 Theosophic Questions (1661)
The Holy Week (1661)
25 Epistles (1661)

Secondary Sources:
William Law: The Way to Divine Knowledge (in Vol 7, The Spirit of Prayer)
Rufus Jones: Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries (Macmillan 1928)
Hans l. Martensen: Studies in the Life and Teaching of Jacob Boehme
(Evans trans., notes by Stephen Hobhouse, 1949)
Stephen Hobhouse: The Book which introduced Jacob Boehme to William Law
(in Selected Writings of William Law)
Stephen Hobhouse: Isaac Newton and Jacob Boehme (in Selected Writings of William Law)
Stephen Hobhouse: William Law and 18th century Quakerism (1927)
A. Koyre: La Philosophie de Jacob Boehme
H. Brinton: The Mystic Will
Franz Baader
Hamburger: The Doctrine of the German Philosopher Jacob Boehme, Munich 1844

Select Topics:
Bourignon, Antoinette and Boehme: see C. Walton's Bio of W. Law
Buber, Martin and Boehme
Baxter, Richard: On Boehme and the Quakers: See Reliquiae Baxterianae (London, 1715)
Freher, Dionysius Andreas (1649-1728) and Boehme
Hegel and Boehme
Luther and Boehme: H. Bornkamm
Newton, Isaac and Boehme: (in Jones, SR)
Quakers (Early) and Boehme: See Francis Ellington's Works:
Christian Information Concerning these Last Times (London, 1664)
Fox, George and Boehme: in R. Barclay's, Inner Life of the Religious Societies
of the Commonwealth (London, 1879); (See also Jones, SR)
Howgill, Francis and Boehme: See John Anderdon's (b 1624) One Blow at Babel (London, 1662)
More, Hannah and Boehme: see C. Walton's Bio of W. Law
Schelling and Boehme
Swedenborg, Emanuel and Boehme: see C. Walton's Bio of W. Law
Weigel, Valentin and Boehme:

Followers:
Johann Georg Gichtel (1638-1710): Life, Theosophica Practica (Letters)
Dionysius Andreas Freher: Complete Works
William Law: The Later Works
Balthazar Walther
Tobias Kober
Abraham von Franckenberg (1593-1652)
Cornelius Weissner
Carl von Endern
Richard Whitaker: The Life of One Jacob Boehme &c (London, 1644)
Two Theosophical Epistles, Englished (1645)
Charles Hotham and Durant Hotham (aka Durant Frater):
Introduction to Teutonic Philosophy, or A Determination concerning the Original of the Soul 1646
Durant Hotham: The Life of Jacob Boehme (H. Blunden, 1653)
John Sparrow and John Ellistone (Translation of Boehme's works into English (1647-1661)
Thomas Bromley (d. 1691): The Way to the Sabbath of Rest (1678?)
George Cheyne (1671-1743): Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion (1705)
Thomas Taylor: Works (London, 1697)
John Pordage (b 1607) Christopher Walton: Notes and Materials for an Adequate Biography of William Law
Jane Lead (1623-1704): A Fountain of Gardens (4 vols, London, 1696-1701)
Francis Lee (1661-1719): Dissertations (2 vols) 1752
Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659)
Richard Roach (1662-1730)
Thomas Tryon (1634-1703): The Knowledge of a Man's Self (1703); The Way to Health (1697)

See Bruce Janz's Boehme Resource Page