&L Questions
concerning
the Soule.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
[Published 1726.
] [Interesting for an account
of contemporary mystics, the Philadelphian Society, etc. ]
The Imperial Standard of Messiah Triumphant. . . . (1727. ]
H. Thomas Tryon (1634-1703)
The Way to Health. . . . 1691. Tryon's Letters. . . . 1700. The Knowledge
of a Man's Self. . . . 1703. Some Memoirs of the Life of Mr Tho. Tryon
[mostly by himself]. 1705. And other works.
Gordon, Alex. A Pythagorean of the seventeenth century. (A paper. ] 1871.
[Tryon is an interesting person, a student of Pythagoras and of Boehme.
He was read by Byrom (Journal, vol. I, pt. 2, p. 615), and was doubtless
known to Law. ]
1
IV. FOREIGN INFLUENCES
A. Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
[Although Boehme wrote some 32 works, only one small volume, Weg zu
Christo (=(13), (14), (15) in list below), was published during his lifetime. His
MSS went to Holland, and were printed one by one at Amsterdam, principally
by Heinrich Beets, a Dutch merchant, between the years 1633-76. Beets's
editions date from 1656-77. Three of his works, Christ's Testaments, the
Book of Prayer, and 177 Theosophic Questions, were also printed at Dresden,
1641, 1642. The first collected edition of Boehme was edited by Gichtel, J. G. ,
Amsterdam, 1682. His works—which must have been circulated in MS-were
translated into English, by John Sparrow, John Ellistone, Humphrey Blunden
and Charles and Durand Hotham, and published in London between the years
1645-62. Some of his books have rather long titles, and, in the various lists
given of them, are not always called by the same name, nor are the same
treatises always published together, which is confusing. Below is given
a complete list of his works in the order in which he wrote them, followed
by the titles of the English translations. For the best account of Boehme's
writings, see Hamberger's Jacob Böhme, 1844. ]
(1) Collected Editions
German.
Des Gottseeligen Hoch Erleuchteten Jacob Böhmens Teutonici Philosophi
Alle Theosophische Wercken. (Ed. Gichtel, J. G. ] Amsterdam, 1682
and 1715.
Theosophia revelata. Das ist: Alle göttliche Schriften . . . J. Böhmens.
Anbey mit. . . . J. G. Gichtels. . . Summarien. . . ausgezieret. 7 vols. Am-
sterdam, 1730-1. [This is the best and fullest edn of Boehme. ]
Jakob Böhme's sämmtliche Werke herausgegeben von K. W. Schiebler.
7 vols. Leipzig, 1831-46.
256
33-2
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516
Bibliography
English.
[There is no complete English edition of Boehme's works, although the
various translations published between 1644-62 make up a complete editing
,
with several works duplicated. The 4 vols. 4to of 1764-81, generally called
*Law's edition,' contain only 17 out of Boehme’s 32 works. This edition wa
not edited by Law, but by his friends George Ward and Thomas Langcake.
who published it after Law's death, at the cost of Mrs Hutcheson. They
rptd it in the main, with some few alterations, from the earlier English
editions by Sparrow. Below is the title of this edition, and its contents
The works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher. Volume 1 containing,
I The Aurora. II The Three Principles. To which is prefixed, The Life
of the Author. With Figures, illustrating his Principles, left by the
Reverend William Law, M. A. 1764. [Vol. m. 1772. Vol. iv. 1781
On pp. v-vi of vol. i there is A Dialogue between Zelotes, Alpha
betus, Rusticus and Theophilus, almost certainly by Law.
Altogether, the following works are printed in this edition (see complete
list): vol. 1, (1), (2); vol. 11, (3), (4), (5), (31); vol. 111, (19), (20); vol. 15, $
,
(17), (13), (14), (15), (21), (24), (10), (23).
A complete reprint of Boehme's works in English is now in hand, ed. by
Barker, C. J. , the first two volumes of which, The Threefold Life of Man, and
The Three Principles, have already been published.
(2) Complete list of Jacob Boehme's Works in the order
in which he wrote them
(1) 1612. The Aurora (unfinished). With Notes added by his own hand,
in 1620. (2) 1619. The Three Principles of the Divine Essence.
With an Appendix Concerning the Threefold Life of Man.
The Threefold Life of Man. (4) 1620. Answers to Forty Questions
Concerning the Soul, proposed by Dr Balthasar Walter. With an
Appendix Concerning the Soul and its Image, and of the Turba.
1620. The Treatise of the Incarnation; in 3 parts. (i) of the Incarns-
tion of Jesus Christ. (ii) of the Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resur.
rection of Christ. (ii) of the Tree of Faith.
(6) 1620. A Book of
the Great Six Points. Also a small book of other Six Points.
Of the Earthly and of the Heavenly Mystery.
(8) 1620. Of the Last
Times. [2 Epistles to P[aul] K[eym), included in (32) i. ]
De Signatura Rerum. (10) 1621. Of the Four Complexions.
1621. Two Apologies to Balthasar Tylcken : (i) for the Aurora, (ii) for
Predestination and the Incarnation. (12) 1621. Considerations apop
Esaiah Stiefel's Book concerning the Threefold State of Man, and the
New Birth, (13) 1622. A Book of True Repentance.
A Book of True Resignation. (15) 1622. A Book of Regeneration
(16) 1622. The Apology in answer to Esaiah Stiefel concerning Per
fection. (17) 1623. A Book of Predestination and Election.
1623. A Short Compendium of Repentance.
(19) 1623. Mysterium
Magnum. (20) 1623. A Table of the Divine Manifestation,
Exposition of the Threefold World. (21) 1624. The Super sensual
(or super-rational] life. (22) 1624. Of Divine Contemplation
Vision (unfinished). (23) 1624. Of Christ's Testaments, viz. : Baptism
and the Supper. (24) 1624. A Dialogue between an
unenlightened Soul (or the Discourse of Ilumination].
An Apology in Answer to Gregory Richter [i. e. for the Books of True
Repentance and True Resignation). (26) 1624. 177 Theosophie
Questions, with answers to 13 of them (unfinished).
(3) 1631
(5
(7) 1641
(9) 1621.
:
(14) 160
(18
or SD
Of
enlightened and
(25) 1024
(27) 1624. AD
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517
119
Epitome of the Mysterium Magnum. (28) 1624. The Holy Week
or a Prayer Book (unfinished]. (29) 1624. A Table of the Three
Principles. (30) 1624. A Book of the Last Judgment [lost). (31)
1624. The Clavis. (32) 1618-24. Sixty-two Theosophic Epistles.
(i) 35 Epistles. (ii) 25 Epistles. (iii) 2 other Epistles (nos. 7 and 20
in German edn), one forefixed to The Super-sensual Life (21), the other
forms the Preface to the second Apology to B. Tylcken (11).
(3) English Translations
(For corresponding numbers see iv, A, (2), ante. )
" 'wo Theosophicall Epistles:. . . Whereunto is added, A Dialogue between
an Enlightened and a Distressed Soule. . . . 1645. Epistles 1 and 10 of
(32) i and (24).
&L Questions concerning the Soule. Propounded by Dr Balthasar Walter.
And Answered, By Jacob Behmen. . . . 1647 [reissne slightly altered in]
1665. [Translated by Sparrow. ] (4).
The Clavis, or Key, or, An Exposition of some principall Matters, and words
in the writings of Jacob Behmen. . . . 1647. (31).
The_Second Booke. Concerning The Three Principles of The Divine
Essence. . . 1648. (With] An Appendix or. . . Description of the Three-
fold Life in Man. [Translated by Sparrow, with preface by him. ) (2).
The Way to Christ Discovered. . . . 1648, and 1654. (13), (14), (15), Epistle 1
of (32) iii, (21), (24), (18), chap. xv of (3) and Epistle 32 of (32) i, are all
included here. [Translated by Blunden. ]
The Fourth Epistle. A Letter to Paul Keym: Being An answer to him
concerning Our Last Times. . . . The Fifth Epistle. Another Letter to
Paul Keym. . . . 1649. [Translated by Sparrow. ] Epistles 4 and 5 in (32) i.
The Epistles of Jacob Behmen. . . . 1649. [35 Epistles translated by
Ellistone. ) (32) i.
The High and Deep Searching Out of The Threefold Life of Man through
(or according to] The Three Principles. . . . Englished by J. Sparrow. . . .
1650. (3).
Signatura Rerum:. . . 1651. [Translated by Ellistone. ] (9).
Of Christs Testaments, viz. : Baptisme and the Supper. Englished by
John Sparrow. . . . 1652. (23).
A Consideration Upon the Book of Esaias Stiefel of the Threefold State
of Man and his New Birth. . . . 1653. (12).
Mysterium Magnum or An Exposition of the First Book of Moses called
Genesis. . . . 1654. Fol. [Trans. Ellistone and Sparrow. ] (19) and (27).
The Tree of Christian Faith. . . . MDCXLIV (1654? ). iii of (5).
Four Tables of Divine Revelation. . . . Englished by H. B. . . . 1654. Fol.
[The first of these Tables is (20), the second, third and fourth are (29). ]
A Consolatory Treatise of the Four Complexions. . . . 1654. [Preface by
Ch. Hotham. ] (10).
Jacob Behme's Table, Of the Divine Manifestation. Or An Exposition of
The Threefold World. . . . 1655. [Sparrow. ) (20).
Concerning the Election of Grace. . . . 1655. [With] An Appendix To the
Book of Election. (Preface by Sparrow. ] (17).
Aurora. That is, the Day-Spring. . . . By Jacob Behme. . . . 1656. [Preface
by Sparrow. ] (1).
The Fifth Book of the Authour. . . . 1659. [Preface by Sparrow. ] (5).
Several Treatises of Jacob Bebme. . . . Englished by John Sparrow. . . . 1661.
(6), (26), (7), (28), (22), (29), letter 6 of (32) i, re-translated.
The Remainder of Books written By Jacob Behme. Englished by John
Sparrow. . . . 1662. (32) iii and (11), (10), (12), (16), (25), (32) ii.
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518
Bibliography
•
The Way to Christ Discovered. . . . Manchester. . . . 1752. [A reprint b
Byrom of Blunden's edn, 1648. ]
The Way to Christ . . . also . . . the Four Complexions. Bath, 1775. [With
preface; a different translation from H. Blunden's, 1648 and 1654. )
(4) Biographical and Critical
[The earliest (and best) life of Boehme is that written by his friend Abraham
von Franckenberg, in the printed editions always dated 1651, but written by
Franckenberg (in Latin) in 1637. It reached Amsterdam, and was translated
into German as early as 1638-and probably was circulated in MS (see a letter
from 'E. H. ' from Görlitz, 21 Feb. 1669, printed by Francis Okely, in his
Memoirs of J. B. , 1780, p.
of contemporary mystics, the Philadelphian Society, etc. ]
The Imperial Standard of Messiah Triumphant. . . . (1727. ]
H. Thomas Tryon (1634-1703)
The Way to Health. . . . 1691. Tryon's Letters. . . . 1700. The Knowledge
of a Man's Self. . . . 1703. Some Memoirs of the Life of Mr Tho. Tryon
[mostly by himself]. 1705. And other works.
Gordon, Alex. A Pythagorean of the seventeenth century. (A paper. ] 1871.
[Tryon is an interesting person, a student of Pythagoras and of Boehme.
He was read by Byrom (Journal, vol. I, pt. 2, p. 615), and was doubtless
known to Law. ]
1
IV. FOREIGN INFLUENCES
A. Jacob Boehme (1575-1624)
[Although Boehme wrote some 32 works, only one small volume, Weg zu
Christo (=(13), (14), (15) in list below), was published during his lifetime. His
MSS went to Holland, and were printed one by one at Amsterdam, principally
by Heinrich Beets, a Dutch merchant, between the years 1633-76. Beets's
editions date from 1656-77. Three of his works, Christ's Testaments, the
Book of Prayer, and 177 Theosophic Questions, were also printed at Dresden,
1641, 1642. The first collected edition of Boehme was edited by Gichtel, J. G. ,
Amsterdam, 1682. His works—which must have been circulated in MS-were
translated into English, by John Sparrow, John Ellistone, Humphrey Blunden
and Charles and Durand Hotham, and published in London between the years
1645-62. Some of his books have rather long titles, and, in the various lists
given of them, are not always called by the same name, nor are the same
treatises always published together, which is confusing. Below is given
a complete list of his works in the order in which he wrote them, followed
by the titles of the English translations. For the best account of Boehme's
writings, see Hamberger's Jacob Böhme, 1844. ]
(1) Collected Editions
German.
Des Gottseeligen Hoch Erleuchteten Jacob Böhmens Teutonici Philosophi
Alle Theosophische Wercken. (Ed. Gichtel, J. G. ] Amsterdam, 1682
and 1715.
Theosophia revelata. Das ist: Alle göttliche Schriften . . . J. Böhmens.
Anbey mit. . . . J. G. Gichtels. . . Summarien. . . ausgezieret. 7 vols. Am-
sterdam, 1730-1. [This is the best and fullest edn of Boehme. ]
Jakob Böhme's sämmtliche Werke herausgegeben von K. W. Schiebler.
7 vols. Leipzig, 1831-46.
256
33-2
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516
Bibliography
English.
[There is no complete English edition of Boehme's works, although the
various translations published between 1644-62 make up a complete editing
,
with several works duplicated. The 4 vols. 4to of 1764-81, generally called
*Law's edition,' contain only 17 out of Boehme’s 32 works. This edition wa
not edited by Law, but by his friends George Ward and Thomas Langcake.
who published it after Law's death, at the cost of Mrs Hutcheson. They
rptd it in the main, with some few alterations, from the earlier English
editions by Sparrow. Below is the title of this edition, and its contents
The works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher. Volume 1 containing,
I The Aurora. II The Three Principles. To which is prefixed, The Life
of the Author. With Figures, illustrating his Principles, left by the
Reverend William Law, M. A. 1764. [Vol. m. 1772. Vol. iv. 1781
On pp. v-vi of vol. i there is A Dialogue between Zelotes, Alpha
betus, Rusticus and Theophilus, almost certainly by Law.
Altogether, the following works are printed in this edition (see complete
list): vol. 1, (1), (2); vol. 11, (3), (4), (5), (31); vol. 111, (19), (20); vol. 15, $
,
(17), (13), (14), (15), (21), (24), (10), (23).
A complete reprint of Boehme's works in English is now in hand, ed. by
Barker, C. J. , the first two volumes of which, The Threefold Life of Man, and
The Three Principles, have already been published.
(2) Complete list of Jacob Boehme's Works in the order
in which he wrote them
(1) 1612. The Aurora (unfinished). With Notes added by his own hand,
in 1620. (2) 1619. The Three Principles of the Divine Essence.
With an Appendix Concerning the Threefold Life of Man.
The Threefold Life of Man. (4) 1620. Answers to Forty Questions
Concerning the Soul, proposed by Dr Balthasar Walter. With an
Appendix Concerning the Soul and its Image, and of the Turba.
1620. The Treatise of the Incarnation; in 3 parts. (i) of the Incarns-
tion of Jesus Christ. (ii) of the Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resur.
rection of Christ. (ii) of the Tree of Faith.
(6) 1620. A Book of
the Great Six Points. Also a small book of other Six Points.
Of the Earthly and of the Heavenly Mystery.
(8) 1620. Of the Last
Times. [2 Epistles to P[aul] K[eym), included in (32) i. ]
De Signatura Rerum. (10) 1621. Of the Four Complexions.
1621. Two Apologies to Balthasar Tylcken : (i) for the Aurora, (ii) for
Predestination and the Incarnation. (12) 1621. Considerations apop
Esaiah Stiefel's Book concerning the Threefold State of Man, and the
New Birth, (13) 1622. A Book of True Repentance.
A Book of True Resignation. (15) 1622. A Book of Regeneration
(16) 1622. The Apology in answer to Esaiah Stiefel concerning Per
fection. (17) 1623. A Book of Predestination and Election.
1623. A Short Compendium of Repentance.
(19) 1623. Mysterium
Magnum. (20) 1623. A Table of the Divine Manifestation,
Exposition of the Threefold World. (21) 1624. The Super sensual
(or super-rational] life. (22) 1624. Of Divine Contemplation
Vision (unfinished). (23) 1624. Of Christ's Testaments, viz. : Baptism
and the Supper. (24) 1624. A Dialogue between an
unenlightened Soul (or the Discourse of Ilumination].
An Apology in Answer to Gregory Richter [i. e. for the Books of True
Repentance and True Resignation). (26) 1624. 177 Theosophie
Questions, with answers to 13 of them (unfinished).
(3) 1631
(5
(7) 1641
(9) 1621.
:
(14) 160
(18
or SD
Of
enlightened and
(25) 1024
(27) 1624. AD
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517
119
Epitome of the Mysterium Magnum. (28) 1624. The Holy Week
or a Prayer Book (unfinished]. (29) 1624. A Table of the Three
Principles. (30) 1624. A Book of the Last Judgment [lost). (31)
1624. The Clavis. (32) 1618-24. Sixty-two Theosophic Epistles.
(i) 35 Epistles. (ii) 25 Epistles. (iii) 2 other Epistles (nos. 7 and 20
in German edn), one forefixed to The Super-sensual Life (21), the other
forms the Preface to the second Apology to B. Tylcken (11).
(3) English Translations
(For corresponding numbers see iv, A, (2), ante. )
" 'wo Theosophicall Epistles:. . . Whereunto is added, A Dialogue between
an Enlightened and a Distressed Soule. . . . 1645. Epistles 1 and 10 of
(32) i and (24).
&L Questions concerning the Soule. Propounded by Dr Balthasar Walter.
And Answered, By Jacob Behmen. . . . 1647 [reissne slightly altered in]
1665. [Translated by Sparrow. ] (4).
The Clavis, or Key, or, An Exposition of some principall Matters, and words
in the writings of Jacob Behmen. . . . 1647. (31).
The_Second Booke. Concerning The Three Principles of The Divine
Essence. . . 1648. (With] An Appendix or. . . Description of the Three-
fold Life in Man. [Translated by Sparrow, with preface by him. ) (2).
The Way to Christ Discovered. . . . 1648, and 1654. (13), (14), (15), Epistle 1
of (32) iii, (21), (24), (18), chap. xv of (3) and Epistle 32 of (32) i, are all
included here. [Translated by Blunden. ]
The Fourth Epistle. A Letter to Paul Keym: Being An answer to him
concerning Our Last Times. . . . The Fifth Epistle. Another Letter to
Paul Keym. . . . 1649. [Translated by Sparrow. ] Epistles 4 and 5 in (32) i.
The Epistles of Jacob Behmen. . . . 1649. [35 Epistles translated by
Ellistone. ) (32) i.
The High and Deep Searching Out of The Threefold Life of Man through
(or according to] The Three Principles. . . . Englished by J. Sparrow. . . .
1650. (3).
Signatura Rerum:. . . 1651. [Translated by Ellistone. ] (9).
Of Christs Testaments, viz. : Baptisme and the Supper. Englished by
John Sparrow. . . . 1652. (23).
A Consideration Upon the Book of Esaias Stiefel of the Threefold State
of Man and his New Birth. . . . 1653. (12).
Mysterium Magnum or An Exposition of the First Book of Moses called
Genesis. . . . 1654. Fol. [Trans. Ellistone and Sparrow. ] (19) and (27).
The Tree of Christian Faith. . . . MDCXLIV (1654? ). iii of (5).
Four Tables of Divine Revelation. . . . Englished by H. B. . . . 1654. Fol.
[The first of these Tables is (20), the second, third and fourth are (29). ]
A Consolatory Treatise of the Four Complexions. . . . 1654. [Preface by
Ch. Hotham. ] (10).
Jacob Behme's Table, Of the Divine Manifestation. Or An Exposition of
The Threefold World. . . . 1655. [Sparrow. ) (20).
Concerning the Election of Grace. . . . 1655. [With] An Appendix To the
Book of Election. (Preface by Sparrow. ] (17).
Aurora. That is, the Day-Spring. . . . By Jacob Behme. . . . 1656. [Preface
by Sparrow. ] (1).
The Fifth Book of the Authour. . . . 1659. [Preface by Sparrow. ] (5).
Several Treatises of Jacob Bebme. . . . Englished by John Sparrow. . . . 1661.
(6), (26), (7), (28), (22), (29), letter 6 of (32) i, re-translated.
The Remainder of Books written By Jacob Behme. Englished by John
Sparrow. . . . 1662. (32) iii and (11), (10), (12), (16), (25), (32) ii.
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518
Bibliography
•
The Way to Christ Discovered. . . . Manchester. . . . 1752. [A reprint b
Byrom of Blunden's edn, 1648. ]
The Way to Christ . . . also . . . the Four Complexions. Bath, 1775. [With
preface; a different translation from H. Blunden's, 1648 and 1654. )
(4) Biographical and Critical
[The earliest (and best) life of Boehme is that written by his friend Abraham
von Franckenberg, in the printed editions always dated 1651, but written by
Franckenberg (in Latin) in 1637. It reached Amsterdam, and was translated
into German as early as 1638-and probably was circulated in MS (see a letter
from 'E. H. ' from Görlitz, 21 Feb. 1669, printed by Francis Okely, in his
Memoirs of J. B. , 1780, p.
