Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

Dialogues on the Supersensual LifeThe Works of Jacob Behmen, the "Teutonic Theosopher," translated into English, were first...
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Author: Böhme, Jakob,1575-1624
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Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

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Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

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Author: Böhme, Jakob,1575-1624
Format: eBook
Language: English

Dialogues on the Supersensual Life

The Works of Jacob Behmen, the "Teutonic Theosopher," translated into English, were first printed in England in the seventeenth century, between 1644 and 1662. In the following century a complete edition in four large volumes was produced by some of the disciples of William Law. This edition, completed in the year 1781, was compiled in part from the older English edition, and in part from later fragmentary translations by Law and others. It is not easily accessible to the general reader, and, moreover, the greater part of Behmen's Works could not be recommended save to those who had the time and power to plunge into that deep sea in search of the many noble pearls which it contains. Behmen's language and way of thought are remote and strange, and in reading his thought one has often to pass it through a process of intellectual translation. This is chiefly true of his earlier work, the "Aurora" or "Morning Redness." But among those works which he[Pg vi] wrote during the last five years of his life there are some written in a thought-language less difficult to be understood, yet containing the essential teaching of this humble Master of Divine Science. From these I have selected some which may, in a small volume, be useful. It seemed that for this purpose it would be best to take the "Dialogues of the Supersensual Life," including as one of them the beautiful, really separate, Dialogue, called in the Complete Works, "The way from darkness to true illumination." In the case of neither of these works is the translation used that of the seventeenth century. The first three dialogues are a translation made by William Law, one of the greatest masters of the English language, and found in MS. after his death. This translation from the original German is not exactly literal, but rather a liberal version, or paraphrase, the thought of Behmen being expanded and elucidated, though in nowise departed from. The dialogue called "The way from darkness to true illumination" was taken by the eighteenth century editors from a book containing translations of certain smaller treatises of Behmen then lately printed at Bristol and made, as they say, "in a style better adapted to the taste and more accommodated to the apprehension of modern readers." I do not know who was the translator,[Pg vii] but the work seems to be excellently well done. It will be well to say a few words first as to the life, then as to the leading ideas of Jacob Behmen. This name is more correctly written Jacob Bhme, but I prefer to retain the more easily pronounced spelling of Behmen, adopted by the Editors of both the complete English editions. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 33742
Author: Böhme, Jakob
Release Date: Sep 17, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Holland, Bernard

Translator: Law, William, 1686-1761

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