Jakob Bohme Quotes


When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.


Citations

Böhme, Jakob. The Aurora. Translated by John Sparrow, John M. Watkins, 1914, p. 488.

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Jakob Bohme
Jakob Bohme
  • Born: April 24, 1575
  • Died: November 17, 1624
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Theologian

Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.