The Three Principles of the Divine Essence

by Jacob Boehme

Overview

Jacob Boehme (1575-1624), was a humble shoemaker whose writings have run through western thought like a hidden stream. His three principles are the basis for dialectic philosophy and the visions of John Milton and William Blake. He named The Three Principles as the best of his books, "the ABC to all my writings."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157674656
Publisher:	Jacob Boehme Online
Publication date:	12/09/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	504 KB

About the Author

JACOB BOEHME (1575-1624) was the son of peasant farmers, a shoemaker by trade, and had only a rudimentary education. One morning, watching the sunlight play on a pewter bowl, he experienced an extraordinary spiritual illumination, and started writing books. Amazing books. Scholars at the great German Universities were astounded that an unlearned craftsman could produce works like The Three Principles of the Divine Essence and The Threefold Life of Man.

But Jacob Boehme explains:

I never desired to know anything of the Divine Mystery, much less understood I the way how to seek or find it. I sought only after the heart of Jesus Christ...

In this my earnest Christian seeking and desire, the gate was opened unto me, so that in one quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years together at an University...