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Genius of the Transcendent - Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme (Paperback)
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Genius of the Transcendent - Mystical Writings of Jakob Boehme (Paperback)
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Jakob Boehme (1575-1624) was one of those remarkable teachers, like
Meister Eckhart, who pushed language to its limits to describe an
experience that happens above and beyond rational thought. He was a
Bohemian shoemaker who, in response to the overwhelming visionary
experiences he began to undergo as a teenager, wrote a series of
theosophical treatises that explored the relationship between the
One and the many, existence and nonexistence, the inner process of
divine emanation toward self-consciousness, the relationship of
good and evil, and the personal and cosmic urge toward
reintegration. Some hear in him resonances with alchemy, kabbalah,
and Platonism. His influence is seen in the Quakers, the German
Romantics, Pietism, various American utopian experiments, and in
the European mystics who came after him. The great scholar of
mysticism Evelyn Underhill called him "one of the most astonishing
cases in history of a natural genius for the transcendent."
Michael Birkel and Jeff Bach's translation liberates Boehme into
modern English. Previous editions have tended toward the academic,
or have been couched in intentionally archaic language reminiscent
of the King James Bible. This collection includes five essential
texts, among them "Life Beyond the Senses," Boehme's explanation of
the relationship between God and the soul.
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