Concerning the three principles of the divine essence / by Jacob Boehme, translated by John Sparrow, revised by C. J. B., with an introduction by Dr Paul Deussen, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Kiel.

  • Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
Date:
1910
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    It is intended that the book of the Threefold Life (which with the Three Principles and Forty Questions are a complete contence ^ of all the Mysteries) should be published in English with the soonest conveniency ; and in the meantime, for a taste of the spirit of prophecy which the author had, there is a little treatise of some prophecies concerning these latter times collected out of his writings by a lover of the Teutonic philosophy, and entitled Mercurius Teutonicus. In turning the German into English I retain in some places the propriety of the German language, because the author should be rendered as near as might be in his own expression, that those excellent notions which he layeth down might not be slipped over as men do common current English, but that the strangeness of the words may make them a little stay, and consider what the meaning may be, having some difference from the vulgar English phrase. Also, where it is somewhat hard at first sight to know what some of the words mean, I have set the synonyms in the margin, and sometimes the English rendering between two semiquadrates [ ].^ In the Preface to the lovers of wisdom set before the Forty Questions in English, there are some of ^ 06», = Table of contents. ^ Note.—The side-notes and all words within square brackets in the text are additions by the translator. Marks of parenthesis are usually equivalent to commas, the enclosed words being translations from the German.—C. J. B.