German Christian mystic and theologian (1575-1624)
A 16th-century cobbler who saw God in a beam of light and wrote it down — badly enough that the Lutheran authorities banned his first book, brilliantly enough that Hegel called him the first German philosopher.
Jakob Böhme was born on 24 April 1575 in Germany, a Lutheran tradesman who received mystical visions he felt compelled to record. His first book, Aurora, scandalized the Lutheran establishment and brought him trouble with church authorities. He continued writing Christian mystical theology despite the controversy, blending his visionary experiences with Protestant thought in ways his contemporaries found both original and unsettling. His work lay largely outside formal academic philosophy, yet it seeped into the groundwater of German thought. By the 19th century, figures in German idealism and…
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I must tell you, sir, that yesterday the pharisaical devil was let loose, cursed me and my little book, and condemned the book to the fire.
If thou wilt use these Words aright, and art in good Earnest, thou shalt certainly find the Benefit thereof.
This is understood by none but the Children of Christ, who have known it by Experience.
And hereupon, Sir, I will declare unto you, out of my small gifts and knowledge: What a Christian is, and wherefore he is called a Christian.
We men have one book in common which points to God. Each has it within himself, which is the priceless Name of God.
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