The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme

Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, November 2009 by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.

This is an anthology of writings by the German Christian mystic, Jacob Boehme, edited by the occult writer, Franz Hartmann. Hartmann was a noted Theosophist, who also wrote With the Adepts [Sacred Texts] and In the Pronaos of the Temple of Wisdom [Sacred Texts]. Other than organizing the quotes from diverse books of Boehme into a set of themes ('Angels,' 'The Christ,' 'Redemption'), Hartmann mostly lets Boehme speak for himself. Boehme, typical of mystics who have experienced ecstatic visions, can go into puzzling detail about the structure of the universe, and the metaphysical reality that pervades it. This is a great reference work on the thought of this profound mystic for students of the occult.

Also by Boehme at sacred-texts: The Signature of All Things [Sacred Texts], and Confessions of Jacob Boehme [Sacred Texts].