[38] _Fifteenth Epistle_, 18. This "new smell in the life of God" often occurs in Boehme's writings. Compare George Fox's testimony, "The whole creation had a new smell." For further comparisons see pp. 221-227.
[39] The following is a complete list of his writings:
1619. _The Three Principles of the Divine Essence_.
1620. _The Threefold Life of Man; Forty Questions; The Incarnation of Jesus Christ; The Suffering, Death and Resurrection of Christ; The Tree of Faith; Six Points; Heavenly and Earthly Mysterium; The Last Times_.
1621. _De signatura rerum; The Four Complexions; Apology to Balthazar Tilken_ in 2 parts; _Consideration on Esaias Stiefel's Book_.
1622. Sec. _Apology to Stiefel; Repentance; Resignation; Regeneration_.
1623. _Predestination and Election of God; A Short Compendium of Repentance; The Mysterium magnum_.
1624. _The Clavis; The Supersensual Life; Divine Contemplation; Baptism and the Supper; A Dialogue Between the Enlightened and Unenlightened Soul; An Apology on the Book of Repentance; 177 Theosophic Questions; An Epitome of the Mysterium magnum; The Holy Week; An Exposition of the Threefold World_.
Undated. _An Apology to Esaias Stiefel; The Last Judgment; Epistles_.
[43] There are as many blasphemies in the shoemaker's book as there are lines. It smells of shoemaker's wax and filthy blacking. May this intolerable stench be far from us.
[47] Weissner's Narrative, _Memoirs_, p. 49.
[50] What could be a bolder criticism of the existing Church of his day than this: "In place of the wolf [the Roman Church] there has grown up the fox [the Lutheran Church] another anti-Christ, never a whit better than the first. If he should come to be old enough how he would devour the poor people's hens!"--_The Three Principles of the Divine Essence_, xviii. 102.
[53] _Mysterium magnum_, xxxvi. 34; xl. 98.
[54] _Ibid._ lxiii. 47-51; _Twenty-first Epistle_, 1.
[58] _Ibid._ 72. Compare George Fox's testimony: "All must come to that Spirit, if they would know God or Christ or the Scriptures aright, which they that gave them forth were led and taught by."--_Journal_ (ed. 1901), i. 35 and _passim_.
"If thou wilt be a philosopher or naturalist and search into God's being in Nature and discern how it all came to pass, then pray to God for the Holy Spirit to enlighten thee. In thy flesh and blood thou art not able to apprehend it, but dost read it as if a mist were before thy eyes. In the Holy Spirit alone, and in the whole Nature out of which all things were made, canst thou search into Nature."--_Aurora_, ii. 15-17.