[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.
[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.
[9] _The Three Princ._, xiv. 3 and 12; also _ibid._ 85 and 88.
[12] _Myst. mag._ xxvii. _passim_; also _Seventh Epistle_, 11-14.
[15] For a sample passage see _Sig. re._ xv. 22-47.
[16] _True Resignation_, 30-41. Freely rendered.
[25] _Myst. mag._ lxx. 7-10; _Three Princ._ xviii. 80; and _Supersensual Life_, 27.
[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.
[32] _Incarnation_, part iii. chap. i. 5-15.
[46] _The Three Principles_, xix. 47; xxi. 32.; _Sig. re._ viii. 27.
[48] For an example of it, see _Myst. mag._ lxxiv. 46.
[50] _Fourth Epistle_, 32, and _True Repentance_.
[52] _Myst. mag._ lxiii. 47. This theme constantly reappears.
[57] Von Hartmann's _Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme_, p. 50.
The first appearance in English of any of the writings of Jacob Boehme was in 1645, when a tiny volume was issued with the title: _Two Theosophical Epistles, Englished_.
There had appeared a year earlier (1644) a seven-page biography of Boehme which was the first presentation of him to the English reader. This brief sketch contains the well-known incidents which became the stock material for the later accounts of his life.[1] It also contained the following quaint description of Boehme which was the model for all the portraits of the Teutonic philosopher in the English biographies of him: "The stature of his outward body was almost of no Personage; his person was little and leane, with browes somewhat inbowed; high Temples, somewhat hauk-nosed: His eyes were gray and somewhat heaven blew, and otherwise as the Windows in Solomon's Temple: He had a thin Beard; a small low Voyce. His Speech was lovely. He was modest in his Behaviour, humble in his conversation and meeke in his heart. His spirit was highly enlightened by God, as is to be seen and discerned in the Divine Light out of his writings."