Jacob Boehme Resources
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This page collects existing resources from the WWW on the work, world, and influence of
Jacob Boehme (1575-1624), and adds some of my own resources, in an effort to support research and teaching on Boehme.
If anyone knows of additions to this page, please let me know at the email address below.
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Bruce B. Janz
Last Updated: 12 May 2007
 General Introductory Resources
See also below, in "Secondary Sources and Documents"
Complete list of Jacob Boehme's
Works
Boehme General Bibliography, also in a single file edition (B. Janz)
Bibliography of English
Behmenists (Adam McLean)
Ecole Initiative Introduction
to Boehme (Edward A. Beach)
Boehme Biography (Portuguese)
Boehme
Biography (King's Garden, Order of Martinism)
Boehme Links (with Russian resources)
Boehme in Poland: Strona Poswiecona Polskiej Recepcji Mysli Jakuba Boehmego Swiatowej
Slawy Zgorzeleckiego Mistyka I Teozofa (in Polish, auf Deutsch)
Geometry.net
Boehme Page
Google's
Boehme Page
Great Theosophists:
Jacob Boehme (Theosophy 28:9)
Jacob Boehme (Donivan Bessinger)
Jacob Boehme (Mythos and Logos, Brent Dean Robbins) - links to Amazon for Boehme's works.
Jacob Boehme (In Dutch, by Marcel Roggemanns)
Jacob Boehme (Invisible Basilica)
Jacob Boehme (Rotten.com, popularized introduction)
Jacob
Boehme (from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition)
Jakob Böhme (Philosophenlexikon.de, auf Deutsch)
Jakub
Boehme. Zyciorys
Jakub Boehme (Polish)
Introduction to
Jacob Boehme (from Pass the Word)
Boehme description (Glenn Everett)
Boehme entry at Biography.com
Christian Classics Ethereal
Library Introduction to Boehme (from 9th edition
of the Encyclopaedia Britannica - Vol. III, 1878)
Temple of Jacob Boehme
Underhill, Evelyn, Boehme Bibliography in Mysticism, 12th
Edition
Widmung (writings about Boehme, auf Deutsch)
Boehme Primary Texts
Sammtliche Werke, Collected Works
Boehme, Sammtliche Werke, Vol. 1.
Boehme, Sammtliche Werke, Vol. 2.
Boehme, Sammtliche Werke, Vol. 3.
Aurora
Aurora
(auf Deutsch, by Hans Zimmerman)
Aurora
of Morgenrood in Opgang (Dutch full text)
Three Principles of Divine Essence
Excerpt, "God is All"
Clavis, or Key
Clavis: The "Key" of Jacob
Boehme (not the text, but a publisher's
link)
Clavis
of Sleutel (Dutch full text in Word document form)
The Key of Jacob Boehme - Russian, Portuguese (downloadable executable program file)
A Chave
(Portuguese, downloadable executable file)
Six Mystical Points
Six
Mystical Points (French translation)
The Way to Christ (individual tracts or the whole)
The Way to Christ - CCEL (includes "Heaven and Hell", "True Resignation", "True Repentance",
and "Of Regeneration")
The
Way To Christ - Pass-The-Word (consisting of Boehme's works on Repentance, Resignation, Regeneration, the SuperSensual Life, The
Way from Darkness to True Illumination, of Heaven and Hell).
Der
Weg Tot Cristus (Dutch, 9 text version)
O Caminho para Cristo - (Portuguese, downloadable executable program file)
The SuperSensual Life from Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Gnosis Archive, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite, Google Books
Assorted Quotations
from The Supersensual Life
Of Heaven and Hell from Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite
The Way from Darkness to True Illumination
from Pass
the Word, Order of Martinism, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite
Of True Resignation -- Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite
Of True Repentance from Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Subru Publications, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite
Of Regeneration or The New Birth
from Pass
the Word, Order of Martinism, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite
The Incarnation of Jesus Christ
The
Incarnation of Jesus Christ
A Encarnação
de Jesus Cristo (Portuguese, downloadable pdf file)
Mysterium Pansophicum
Mysterium
Pansophicum - excerpts
Mysterium Pansophicum - Polish
Mysterium Pansophicum (auf Deutsch)
Signature Rerum
Signature Rerum,
chapter 1 (based on "William Law"
translation)
Mysterium Magnum
Mysterium Magnum,
introduction & chapter 1 - my translation
Het Mysterium Magnum (Dutch full text)
18 Kapitel (auf Deutsch)
On the Election of Grace
A Compendium of Repentence, or the Key to Divine Mysteries (excerpt)
Excerpt & Sampler collections
Confissoes - (Portuguese, downloadable executable program file)
Treasures from the writings of Jacob Boehme
- Pass the Word, ChristiansUnite
Jacob Boehme Sampler 1, 2 (Pass the Word) Part
One contains: The entire Author's Preface to Aurora:
The Day Spring; excerpts from the Appendix to The
Three Principles of the Divine Essence, entitled "Fundamental and True Description
of the Threefold Life in Man"; two additional excerpts from The Three Principles
of the Divine Essence; five excerpts from The Threefold
Life of Man. Part Two contains: Excerpts from Forty Questions Concerning the Soul, four more excerpts from The Threefold Life of Man; one more excerpt from The Three Principles of the Divine Essence; an excerpt from Mysterium Magnum;
and two excerpts from The Epistles of Jacob Behmen.
Text Archives That Include Boehme's Works
These sites usually contain more than just Boehme's work, and so are useful for the wider
mystical and devotional picture.
Artigos Mystical Texts - Portuguese and English texts, including Boehme, St. Martin.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - large collection of documents from the entire history of Christianity.
Heiligeteksten
(Dutch spiritual texts, including some
of Boehme's)
Kingsgarden.org
-- a host centre that houses a number of groups interested in religious, mystical, and theosophical things. Saint-Martin
texts are here, as well as others.
Matthew 5:48
Pass The Word Services
Sociedade das Ciencias Antigas - mystical texts in Portuguese
Boehme Secondary Sources and Documents
n.a. Boehme, Jacob, Quoted by Robert Bly in The Light Around
the Body . New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
n.a. Great Theosophists: Jacob Boehme -- Theosophy 26:9(July 1938)
n.a. Jacob Boehme and the Theosophical Tradition - Theosophy Magazine 87:1 (November-December 1998). OFFLINE
n.a. Astringency as Matter - Theosophy
Magazine 87:1 (November-December 1998). OFFLINE
n.a. The Language of Boehme - A Glossary - Theosophy Magazine 87:1 (November-December 1998). OFFLINE
n.a. The Words of Boehme - Theosophy
Magazine 87:1 (November-December 1998). OFFLINE
n.a. Boehme and the Occult Process - Theosophy
Magazine 87:1 (November-December 1998). OFFLINE
Bailey, Margaret. Milton and Jakob Boehme. OUP, 1914.
Bessinger, Donivan. Index of citations of Jakob Boehme in the Collected Works of Carl Jung.
Bourignon, Antonia. The Darkness in Four Parts.
Boutroux, Emile, Etudes d'histoire de la philosophie. Includes a chapter on Boehme. See also here for the chapter.
Buber, Martin, "Concerning
Jacob Boehme." Translation of "Ueber
Jacob Boehme" 1901.
Deghaye, Pierre. "El Hambre en el Desierto Segun Jacob Boehme."
DeLashmutt, Gary. Early German Lutheran Pietism's Understanding of Justification. Discusses Johann Arndt, Philip Jacob Spener, and August Hermann Francke.
Deussen, P. Jakob Boehme: Ueber sein Leben und seine Philosophie.
Ederheimer, E. Jakob Boehme und die Romantiker
Harless, A. Jacob Boehme und die Alchemissten.
Hartmann, Franz. Vida e Doutrina de Jacob Boehme - downloadable executable
file.
Hartmann, Franz. Personal Christianity a Science: The Doctrines of Jacob Boehme, the God Taught Philosopher.
Hegel, G. W. F. "Boehme" in Lectures on the History of Philosophy. Also
here and here.
James, Tamarra S. An Introduction to the Doctrine of Signatures.
Janssen, Frans A. Böhme's Wercken (1682): its editor, its publisher, its printer
Judge, William Q. Jacob Boehme and the Secret Doctrine.
Kinney, Jay. Esoterica: Overlooked and Undervalued. Boehme is one of the thinkers discussed in this essay.
Knoche, Grace M. "Within, Not Without".
Koole, Boudewijn. Man and Woman are one: Androgyny in Christianity, Particularly in the Works of Jacob Boehme. Abstract of dissertation, with other links. Longer summary
is here.
König, David. Le fini et l’infini chez Jacob BÖHME Etude sur la détermination de l’absolu. Jacob Boehme: The Finite and the Infinite. A Study on the Determination of the Absolute. Dissertation, in French.
Lamoen, Frank van. Spreading the Word: The Earliest Editions of Jacob Boehme.
Langford, Mary. Two Delightful Theosophers of the 18th Century.
Mpitsos, George. Newton's Heifer: From Metaphor to Mechanism. Invited letter to The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and
the Life Sciences. OFFLINE
Prinke, Rafel. Lampado Trado
Steiner, R. Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age, Part VIII: Valentin Weigel and Jacob Boehme (Rudolph Steiner Archives)
Versluis, Arthur. Review of Brian Gibbons, Gender in Mystical and
Occult Thought: Behmenism and its Development in England. Review in Esoterica 1(1999)i: 242-243.
Versluis, Arthur. Review of Andrew Weeks, German Mysticism and Boehme
Review in Esoterica
I(1999)i: 244-245.
Images Connected to Boehme
n.a. Picture of
Jacob Boehme
n.a. Uroburos
Symbol, from Theosophische Werke, Amsterdam,
1682
Gichtel, Threefold Life of the Inner Man
Kaym, Paul. The Mystical Heart Diagrams of Paul Kaym. Drawings based on the work of Abraham Franckenburg, biographer of Boehme.
Law. The
Divine Tree in Man (obverse and reverse), from
Law's Figures of Jacob Boehme.
Law. Jacob
Boehme, the Teutonic Philosopher, from William
Law's translation of the Works of Jacob Boehme.
Boehme Images on the Esoterica Site
The ejournal Esoterica has compiled a fine list of images from Boehme's Theosophia
Revelata, 1730. They are listed here.
Jacob
Böhme--Portrait
Supersensual
Life
Frontispiece
Conversation
Between Souls
Aurora
Apology:
Against Balthasar Tilken
Three
Principles
Signatura
Rerum
Threefold
Life of Man
Rebirth
Centrum
Naturae
Choosing
Grace
Forty
Questions on the Soul
De
Testamentis Christi
Philosophical
Globe, or Wonder-Eye of Eternity
Mysterium
Magnum
Christ
Becoming Human
Mysterium
Manuscript Illustrations
On
the Suffering and Death of Jesus Christ
Mysterium
Magnum II
The
Tree of Faith
Divine
Revelation
Earthly
and Heavenly Life
Theosophic
Letters
The
Way to Christ
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