Opuscules
Spirituels
De Madame J.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
D.
.
.
.
1681.
[An account of Boehme's philosophy
by Dr Pordage, bound up with Theologia Mystica. . . . By J. P. M. D. . . .
1683,' and not separately catalogued in B. M. ]
Taylor, E. J. Behmen's Theosophick philosophy unfolded. 1691.
Theological and Practical Divinity: with Extracts of several Treatises written
by Jacob Behmen. . . . Published By a Gentleman retired from Business.
. . . 1769.
A Compendious View of the Grounds of the Teutonick Philosophy.
With considerations by way of Enquiry into the . . . writings of Jacob
Behmen. . . . Published by a Gentleman retired from Business. . . . 1770.
Walton, C. Notes and Materials. . . . 1854. [See under Law. ]
Whyte, A. Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation. Edinburgh, 1894.
[Articles on Boehme, of great value, are]
Allen, G. W. A Master Mystic. An Introduction to the teaching of Jacob
Boehme, in the Theosophical Review, 1904-5, vol. xxxv, pp. 202, 321, 420,
and vol. xxxvi, p. 160.
A Series of 'Excerpts from Boehme' with comments, in The Seeker,
ed. Allen, G. W. , Nov. 1906, Aug. , Nov. 1907, May, Aug. , Nov. 1908, Feb. ,
May, Aug. , Nov. 1909 in progress).
[The influence of Boehme on Sir Isaac Newton is an interesting point
which cannot be developed here. Law definitely asserts that Newton owed
a debt to Boehme. See Some Animadversions upon Dr Trapp's Reply,
Works, vol. vi, pp. 314-15, The Spirit of Love, Works, vol. viii, p. 38, and
letter to Dr Cheyne, printed in Walton's Notes, p. 46, note. See, also,
Walton's Notes, p. 408, note, and 416, note; the Athenæum, 26 Jan. 1867,
p. 127, and Overton's William Law, p. 189. ]
•
B. Other Writers
Antoinette Bourignon (1616-1680)
(1) Works
Toutes les œuvres de Mlle Anthoinette Bourignon. 19 vols. Amsterdam,
1679–84 and 1686. [Ed. by Poiret, Pierre. ]
[Mademoiselle Bourignon knew Boehme's works, and had met admirers
of him in Amsterdam; she enumerates him with Tauler, à Kempis and
Engelbrecht in her list of inspired and illuminated men. Her works were
translated into English (in 1699, 1703, 1707, 1708, etc. ) and much read, more
especially in Scotland. )
(2) Biographical and Critical
Gordon, Alex. The Fortunes of a Flemish Mystic. A paper read before the
Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 4 March 1872.
La vie de Damlle Antoinette Bourignon. Amsterdam, 1683. [By Poiret,
Pierre, translated by Dr Garden into English, in 1696. See below.
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Bibliography
Poiret also wrote an apologetic Mémoire of her in the Nouvelles de la rép.
des lettres, 1685, and defended her against V. L. von Seckendorf, 1686. )
Linde, Antonius von der. Antoinette Bourignon, das Licht der Welt.
Leiden, 1895. (This gives a very full account of her life and work, and of
the people closely connected with her, also a full list of her writings on
pp. 261-4, and of early lives and later accounts of her. ],
Macewen, Alex. R. Antoinette Bourignon, Quietist. 1910.
Select Lives of Foreigners, eminent in piety. 2nd edn. Bristol, 1796.
The Light of the World: A most True Relation of a Pilgrimess, M. Antonis
Bourignon, Travelling towards Eternity, To which is added A Preface to
the English Reader. 1696. (Preface by George Garden, an Aberdeen
minister (1650–78) who warmly esponsed Mlle Bourignon's views, and was
in consequence, in 1701, deposed by the General Assembly for teaching her
damnable errors. ' His chief opponent was Dr Cockburn, Episcopalian
minister of Aberdeen, who wrote Bourignianism Detected. Garden replied
to this as well as to Leslie's Preface to The Snake in the Grass, in his
Apology for M. Bourignon, 1699. His nephew, Garden, J. , also a mystic
,
was later a friend of Byrom; see Journal, vol. I, pt. 2, pp. 519-20 and
vol. 11, pt. 1, pp. 128-30. ]
(3) The Bourignon Controversy
Cockburn, John. Bourignianism Detected: or the Delusions and Errors of
Antonia Bourignon, and her Growing Sect. 1698.
A Letter from John Cockburn, D. D. To his Friend in London. 1698.
(Leslie, Charles. ] The Snake in the Grass. Third Edition. . . . 1698.
(Garden, Dr George. ) An Apology for M. Antonia Bourignon, in Four
Parts. 1699.
White, George. Advertisement anent the reading of the books of Antonia
Bourignon. Aberdeen, 1700.
[Barclay, Robert. ] A Modest and Serious Address to the well meaning
Followers of Ant. Bourignon. 1708.
Hog, James. Notes about the Spirit's Operations. . . . Edinburgh, 1709.
[In 1771 the ordination formula was drawn up by General Assembly
of the Free Kirk of Scotland, embracing a renunciation of Bourignian
errors, which remained until in 1844 ' Erastian’ was substituted. ]
Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649-1728)
A large quantity of MS writings (duplicates in B. M. and Dr Williams's
library), some few in Freher's hand, but mostly copied by his friend Leuchter,
They are commentaries on and expositions of Boehme, and were much prized
by Law, who himself copied out a number of them. Freher also left many
symbolical drawings, illustrating Boehme, which are very interesting. Some
of these were specially chosen out by Law,and
were reproduced in the edition
of Boehme's works (1764-81) which appeared after Law's death.
For some account of Freher by himself, see Walton's Notes and Materials,
p. 141, note; and, of his writings, with copious extracts from them, ibid.
Pp. 258-491, and for a list of the MSS, see Walton, pp. 679-84, or Appendir
B. to Barker's reprint of Boehme's Threefold Life of Man, 1909. There
are 27 vols. of Freher's MSS in the B. M. [Add. MSS 5767-5794).
Madame Guyon (1648-1717)
(1) Works
Lettres Chrétiennes et Spirituelles (Madame Guyon et Fénelon), à Londres
(Lyons), 1767-8. 5 vols. [Ed. by Dutoit, J. P, and really published
at Lyons. )
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521
[‘Lettres Spirituelles' in) Le Directeur Mistique, ou Les Euvres Spirituelles
De Mons. Bertot,. . . Directeur de Mad Guion. [4 vols. ) A Cologne. . . .
1726.
Opuscules Spirituels De Madame J. M. B. de la Mothe Guion. A Cologne. . . .
1704.
Recueil de Divers Traitez De Theologie Mystique qui entrent dans la Célèbre
Dispute du Quietisme qui s'agite présentement en France. Contenant
I. Le Moyen court et très facile de faire Oraison: II. L'Explication du
Cantique des Cantiques. Cologne. . . . 1699.
Vie de Madame J. M. B. de La Mothe Guion, écrite par elle-même. . . .
Cologne, 1720. [Ed. by Poiret, P. ]
(2) Biographical and Critical
Allen, T. T. Autobiography of Madame Guyon. 2 vols. . . . 1897.
Guerrier, L. Madame Guyon, sa vie, sa doctrine, et son influence. Orleans,
1881.
Life, The, of Lady Guion. . . . Bristol. . . . 1772.
Masson, M. Fénelon et Madame Guyon, Documents nouveaux et inédits. . . .
Paris, 1907.
Matter, M. Le Mysticisme en France au Temps de Fénelon. Paris, 1865.
Quakerism A la-Mode: or a History of Quietism, Particularly that of the
Lord Archbishop of Cambray and Madam Guyone. Containing An
Account of her Life, her Prophecies and Visions. . . . 1698.
Upham, T. C. Life . . . of Madame Guyon. 2nd edn. 1905.
Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)
De La Recherche de la Vérité. . . . A Paris, chez André Pralard. 2 vols.
1674. 3rd vol. 1678. [Two English translations appeared in 1694. ]
9
V. LATER INFLUENCE OF LAW AND BOEHME
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
[See note 3 to p. 328, ante. ]
Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870)
Letters of Thomas Erskine. Ed. Hanna, W. Edinburgh. 2nd edn. 1878.
Henderson, H. F. Erskine of Linlathen, selections and biography.
Edinburgh, 1899. [See specially, pp. 26, 27, 67. ]
Louis Claude De Saint-Martin (1743-1803)
[St Martin visited London in 1787, where he became acquainted with Law's
writings which profoundly impressed him. He apparently did not read Boehme
until 1792, but was from that time onwards his devoted student and
admirer and called him le prince des Philosophes divins. He translated
several of Boehme's works into French. ]
(1) Works
(For complete list, see bibliographies by Matter, M. , and
Waite, A. E. ; see below. ]
De l'Esprit des Choses. . . . Paris, 1800. [St Martin describes this as a
preparatory introduction to the works of Boehme. ]
Le Ministère de l'Homme-esprit. Paris, 1802. [Translated into English by
Penny, E. B. , 1864. Contains, pp. 21-8, a masterly summary of Boehme's
philosophy. )
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522
Bibliography
Euvres Posthumes de St Martin. 2 vols. Tours, 1807.
La Correspondance Inédite de L. C. de Saint-Martin, dit le Philosophe
Inconnu, et Kirchberger, Baron de Liebistorf. . . da 22 mai, 1792, jusqu'au
7 novembre 1797. . . . Amsterdam. Paris (printed), 1862. [Translated
into English, under the title :)
Mystical Philosophy and Spirit Manifestations. Selections from the . . .
Correspondence between L. C. de Saint-Martin . . . and . . . Baron de
Liebistorf. . . . Translated by E. B. Penny. . . . Exeter, 1863.
(2) Biographical and Critical
Caro, E. Du Mysticisme au xville siècle. Essai sur la vie et la doctrine
de Saint-Martin. Paris, 1852.
Franck, A. Le Philosophie Mystique en France à la fin du xvi* siècle.
Paris, 1866.
Gence, J. B. M. Notice Biographique sur Louis Claude de Saint-Martin.
Paris, 1824. [See specially extract in Walton's Notes, pp. 492-626. ]
Matter, M. Saint-Martin, le Philosophe Inconnu. . . . Paris, 1862. 2nd edn.
1864.
Moreau, L. Le Philosophe Inconnu, Réflexions sur les Idées de L. C. de
S. Martin. . . . Paris, 1850.
Waite, A. E. The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin . . . and the substance
of his transcendental doctrine. 1901.
VI. LATER INFLUENCE OF BOEHME IN GERMANY IN EARLY NINETEENTH
CENTURY, RETURNING THENCE TO ENGLAND
[See, on this, Hamberger's preface to his Jacob Boehme, and Hoffmann's
book on Baader below. ]
Baader, F. X. v. Sämmtliche Werke, 16 vols. Leipzig, 1851-60. [Specially]
Vorlesungen über speculative Dogmatik. Fermenta Cognitionis
.
by Dr Pordage, bound up with Theologia Mystica. . . . By J. P. M. D. . . .
1683,' and not separately catalogued in B. M. ]
Taylor, E. J. Behmen's Theosophick philosophy unfolded. 1691.
Theological and Practical Divinity: with Extracts of several Treatises written
by Jacob Behmen. . . . Published By a Gentleman retired from Business.
. . . 1769.
A Compendious View of the Grounds of the Teutonick Philosophy.
With considerations by way of Enquiry into the . . . writings of Jacob
Behmen. . . . Published by a Gentleman retired from Business. . . . 1770.
Walton, C. Notes and Materials. . . . 1854. [See under Law. ]
Whyte, A. Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation. Edinburgh, 1894.
[Articles on Boehme, of great value, are]
Allen, G. W. A Master Mystic. An Introduction to the teaching of Jacob
Boehme, in the Theosophical Review, 1904-5, vol. xxxv, pp. 202, 321, 420,
and vol. xxxvi, p. 160.
A Series of 'Excerpts from Boehme' with comments, in The Seeker,
ed. Allen, G. W. , Nov. 1906, Aug. , Nov. 1907, May, Aug. , Nov. 1908, Feb. ,
May, Aug. , Nov. 1909 in progress).
[The influence of Boehme on Sir Isaac Newton is an interesting point
which cannot be developed here. Law definitely asserts that Newton owed
a debt to Boehme. See Some Animadversions upon Dr Trapp's Reply,
Works, vol. vi, pp. 314-15, The Spirit of Love, Works, vol. viii, p. 38, and
letter to Dr Cheyne, printed in Walton's Notes, p. 46, note. See, also,
Walton's Notes, p. 408, note, and 416, note; the Athenæum, 26 Jan. 1867,
p. 127, and Overton's William Law, p. 189. ]
•
B. Other Writers
Antoinette Bourignon (1616-1680)
(1) Works
Toutes les œuvres de Mlle Anthoinette Bourignon. 19 vols. Amsterdam,
1679–84 and 1686. [Ed. by Poiret, Pierre. ]
[Mademoiselle Bourignon knew Boehme's works, and had met admirers
of him in Amsterdam; she enumerates him with Tauler, à Kempis and
Engelbrecht in her list of inspired and illuminated men. Her works were
translated into English (in 1699, 1703, 1707, 1708, etc. ) and much read, more
especially in Scotland. )
(2) Biographical and Critical
Gordon, Alex. The Fortunes of a Flemish Mystic. A paper read before the
Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 4 March 1872.
La vie de Damlle Antoinette Bourignon. Amsterdam, 1683. [By Poiret,
Pierre, translated by Dr Garden into English, in 1696. See below.
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520
Bibliography
Poiret also wrote an apologetic Mémoire of her in the Nouvelles de la rép.
des lettres, 1685, and defended her against V. L. von Seckendorf, 1686. )
Linde, Antonius von der. Antoinette Bourignon, das Licht der Welt.
Leiden, 1895. (This gives a very full account of her life and work, and of
the people closely connected with her, also a full list of her writings on
pp. 261-4, and of early lives and later accounts of her. ],
Macewen, Alex. R. Antoinette Bourignon, Quietist. 1910.
Select Lives of Foreigners, eminent in piety. 2nd edn. Bristol, 1796.
The Light of the World: A most True Relation of a Pilgrimess, M. Antonis
Bourignon, Travelling towards Eternity, To which is added A Preface to
the English Reader. 1696. (Preface by George Garden, an Aberdeen
minister (1650–78) who warmly esponsed Mlle Bourignon's views, and was
in consequence, in 1701, deposed by the General Assembly for teaching her
damnable errors. ' His chief opponent was Dr Cockburn, Episcopalian
minister of Aberdeen, who wrote Bourignianism Detected. Garden replied
to this as well as to Leslie's Preface to The Snake in the Grass, in his
Apology for M. Bourignon, 1699. His nephew, Garden, J. , also a mystic
,
was later a friend of Byrom; see Journal, vol. I, pt. 2, pp. 519-20 and
vol. 11, pt. 1, pp. 128-30. ]
(3) The Bourignon Controversy
Cockburn, John. Bourignianism Detected: or the Delusions and Errors of
Antonia Bourignon, and her Growing Sect. 1698.
A Letter from John Cockburn, D. D. To his Friend in London. 1698.
(Leslie, Charles. ] The Snake in the Grass. Third Edition. . . . 1698.
(Garden, Dr George. ) An Apology for M. Antonia Bourignon, in Four
Parts. 1699.
White, George. Advertisement anent the reading of the books of Antonia
Bourignon. Aberdeen, 1700.
[Barclay, Robert. ] A Modest and Serious Address to the well meaning
Followers of Ant. Bourignon. 1708.
Hog, James. Notes about the Spirit's Operations. . . . Edinburgh, 1709.
[In 1771 the ordination formula was drawn up by General Assembly
of the Free Kirk of Scotland, embracing a renunciation of Bourignian
errors, which remained until in 1844 ' Erastian’ was substituted. ]
Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649-1728)
A large quantity of MS writings (duplicates in B. M. and Dr Williams's
library), some few in Freher's hand, but mostly copied by his friend Leuchter,
They are commentaries on and expositions of Boehme, and were much prized
by Law, who himself copied out a number of them. Freher also left many
symbolical drawings, illustrating Boehme, which are very interesting. Some
of these were specially chosen out by Law,and
were reproduced in the edition
of Boehme's works (1764-81) which appeared after Law's death.
For some account of Freher by himself, see Walton's Notes and Materials,
p. 141, note; and, of his writings, with copious extracts from them, ibid.
Pp. 258-491, and for a list of the MSS, see Walton, pp. 679-84, or Appendir
B. to Barker's reprint of Boehme's Threefold Life of Man, 1909. There
are 27 vols. of Freher's MSS in the B. M. [Add. MSS 5767-5794).
Madame Guyon (1648-1717)
(1) Works
Lettres Chrétiennes et Spirituelles (Madame Guyon et Fénelon), à Londres
(Lyons), 1767-8. 5 vols. [Ed. by Dutoit, J. P, and really published
at Lyons. )
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521
[‘Lettres Spirituelles' in) Le Directeur Mistique, ou Les Euvres Spirituelles
De Mons. Bertot,. . . Directeur de Mad Guion. [4 vols. ) A Cologne. . . .
1726.
Opuscules Spirituels De Madame J. M. B. de la Mothe Guion. A Cologne. . . .
1704.
Recueil de Divers Traitez De Theologie Mystique qui entrent dans la Célèbre
Dispute du Quietisme qui s'agite présentement en France. Contenant
I. Le Moyen court et très facile de faire Oraison: II. L'Explication du
Cantique des Cantiques. Cologne. . . . 1699.
Vie de Madame J. M. B. de La Mothe Guion, écrite par elle-même. . . .
Cologne, 1720. [Ed. by Poiret, P. ]
(2) Biographical and Critical
Allen, T. T. Autobiography of Madame Guyon. 2 vols. . . . 1897.
Guerrier, L. Madame Guyon, sa vie, sa doctrine, et son influence. Orleans,
1881.
Life, The, of Lady Guion. . . . Bristol. . . . 1772.
Masson, M. Fénelon et Madame Guyon, Documents nouveaux et inédits. . . .
Paris, 1907.
Matter, M. Le Mysticisme en France au Temps de Fénelon. Paris, 1865.
Quakerism A la-Mode: or a History of Quietism, Particularly that of the
Lord Archbishop of Cambray and Madam Guyone. Containing An
Account of her Life, her Prophecies and Visions. . . . 1698.
Upham, T. C. Life . . . of Madame Guyon. 2nd edn. 1905.
Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715)
De La Recherche de la Vérité. . . . A Paris, chez André Pralard. 2 vols.
1674. 3rd vol. 1678. [Two English translations appeared in 1694. ]
9
V. LATER INFLUENCE OF LAW AND BOEHME
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
[See note 3 to p. 328, ante. ]
Thomas Erskine of Linlathen (1788-1870)
Letters of Thomas Erskine. Ed. Hanna, W. Edinburgh. 2nd edn. 1878.
Henderson, H. F. Erskine of Linlathen, selections and biography.
Edinburgh, 1899. [See specially, pp. 26, 27, 67. ]
Louis Claude De Saint-Martin (1743-1803)
[St Martin visited London in 1787, where he became acquainted with Law's
writings which profoundly impressed him. He apparently did not read Boehme
until 1792, but was from that time onwards his devoted student and
admirer and called him le prince des Philosophes divins. He translated
several of Boehme's works into French. ]
(1) Works
(For complete list, see bibliographies by Matter, M. , and
Waite, A. E. ; see below. ]
De l'Esprit des Choses. . . . Paris, 1800. [St Martin describes this as a
preparatory introduction to the works of Boehme. ]
Le Ministère de l'Homme-esprit. Paris, 1802. [Translated into English by
Penny, E. B. , 1864. Contains, pp. 21-8, a masterly summary of Boehme's
philosophy. )
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522
Bibliography
Euvres Posthumes de St Martin. 2 vols. Tours, 1807.
La Correspondance Inédite de L. C. de Saint-Martin, dit le Philosophe
Inconnu, et Kirchberger, Baron de Liebistorf. . . da 22 mai, 1792, jusqu'au
7 novembre 1797. . . . Amsterdam. Paris (printed), 1862. [Translated
into English, under the title :)
Mystical Philosophy and Spirit Manifestations. Selections from the . . .
Correspondence between L. C. de Saint-Martin . . . and . . . Baron de
Liebistorf. . . . Translated by E. B. Penny. . . . Exeter, 1863.
(2) Biographical and Critical
Caro, E. Du Mysticisme au xville siècle. Essai sur la vie et la doctrine
de Saint-Martin. Paris, 1852.
Franck, A. Le Philosophie Mystique en France à la fin du xvi* siècle.
Paris, 1866.
Gence, J. B. M. Notice Biographique sur Louis Claude de Saint-Martin.
Paris, 1824. [See specially extract in Walton's Notes, pp. 492-626. ]
Matter, M. Saint-Martin, le Philosophe Inconnu. . . . Paris, 1862. 2nd edn.
1864.
Moreau, L. Le Philosophe Inconnu, Réflexions sur les Idées de L. C. de
S. Martin. . . . Paris, 1850.
Waite, A. E. The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin . . . and the substance
of his transcendental doctrine. 1901.
VI. LATER INFLUENCE OF BOEHME IN GERMANY IN EARLY NINETEENTH
CENTURY, RETURNING THENCE TO ENGLAND
[See, on this, Hamberger's preface to his Jacob Boehme, and Hoffmann's
book on Baader below. ]
Baader, F. X. v. Sämmtliche Werke, 16 vols. Leipzig, 1851-60. [Specially]
Vorlesungen über speculative Dogmatik. Fermenta Cognitionis
.
