1 True Repentance, i
[2] I have given his Weltanschauung in the previous chapter, and I shall discuss his mysticism at the end of this chapter.
[3] Hegel says that Boehme’s piety is “in the highest degree deep and inward.”—History of Philos. iii. p. 216.
[4] True Resignation, iii. 20.
[5] The Three Princ., Preface, 4.
[6] “There is in every man an incorporate ground of Grace, an inner Temple of Christ, the soul’s immortal Dowry. No man can sell or pawn this ground of Grace, this habitation and dwelling-place of Christ. It remains unlost as the possession of God—an inward Ground and spiritual substance.”—Myst. mag. lxxiv. 20-33, freely rendered.
[7] Sig. re. xv. 45.
[8] Aurora, xviii. 43.
[9] The Three Princ., xiv. 3 and 12; also ibid. 85 and 88.
[10] Myst. mag. xxvii. 41.
[11] Ninth Epistle, 16.
[12] Myst. mag. xxvii. passim; also Seventh Epistle, 11-14.
[13] Tenth Epistle, 13-14.
[14] Regeneration, 6.
[15] For a sample passage see Sig. re. xv. 22-47.
[16] True Resignation, 30-41. Freely rendered.
[17] The Three Princ. xxxiii. 8-17.
[18] Ibid. xix. 6.
[19] Sig. re. ix. 67.
[20] Ibid. xi. 88.
[21] Aurora, Preface, 27.
[22] Sig. re. xi. 80.
[23] Prayer in True Repentance.
[24] Three Princ. xxii. 81.
[25] Myst. mag. lxx. 7-10; Three Princ. xviii. 80; and Supersensual Life, 27.
[26] Three. Princ. xxv. 43.
[27] Ibid. xxv. 6.
[28] Read Ibid. xxv. 7-41.
[29] True Repentance.
[30] First Epistle, 6. Hegel well says of Boehme: “What marks him out and makes him noteworthy is the Protestant principle of placing the intellectual world within one’s own mind and heart, and of experiencing and knowing and feeling in one’s own self-consciousness all that was formerly conceived as a Beyond.”—History of Philos. iii. p. 191.
[31] Tenth Epistle, 16-19.
[32] Incarnation, part iii. chap. i. 5-15.
[33] Sig. re. xii. 10-13.
[34] The Threefold Life, iii. 31.
[35] Ibid. vi. 71.
[36] The Three Princ. iv. 9.
[37] Aurora, xix. 52-66.
[38] Myst. mag. lxxii. 7-10.
[39] Ibid. xxiv. 17.
[40] Sig. re. ix. 63.
[41] Seventh Epistle, 1.
[42] Ibid., 6 and 12.
[43] Apology to Stiefel, 23.
[44] True Resignation, iii. 21.
[45] Myst. mag. lxii. 25.
[46] The Three Principles, xix. 47; xxi. 32.; Sig. re. viii. 27.
[47] Forty Questions, xii. 39.
[48] For an example of it, see Myst. mag. lxxiv. 46.
[49] Forty Questions, x. 9.
[50] Fourth Epistle, 32, and True Repentance.
[51] Regeneration, 161-162.
[52] Myst. mag. lxiii. 47. This theme constantly reappears.
[53] Sig. re. xv. 37.
[54] Resignation, vi. 134-151.
[55] Forty Questions, xiv. 17-19.
[56] Op. cit. iv. 16.
[57] Von Hartmann’s Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme, p. 50.
[58] Twenty-fifth Epistle, 2.
[59] Aurora, xix. 95.
[60] Twenty-sixth Epistle, 7.
[61] Aurora, xviii. 9.
[62] Sig. re. xvi. 38.
[63] Ibid. ix. 65.
[64] Ibid. xiii. 27 and xv. 9.
[65] The Supersensual Life, 29 and 30.
[66] Ibid. 27.
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