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Jacob Böhme and His World <<UUNN>> Aries Book Series texts and studies in western esotericism Editor-in-Chief Marco Pasi Editorial Board Jean-Pierre Brach Wouter J. Hanegraaff Andreas Kilcher Advisory Board Allison Coudert – Antoine Faivre – Olav Hammer Monika Neugebauer-Wölk – Mark Sedgwick – Jan Snoek György Szőnyi – Garry Trompf volume 25 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/arbs <UN> Jacob Böhme and His World Edited by Bo Andersson Lucinda Martin Leigh T.I. Penman Andrew Weeks LEIDEN | BOSTON <UN> Cover illustrations: Josef Metzker and Georg Scharffenbergk, Abcontrafeitung der Stadt Goerlitz im 1565 Jar (1566), Woodcut in 12 parts, Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz. Jacob Böhme writing; illustration from Alle de theosoophsche of godwijze werken (Amsterdam: Fredrik Vorster, 1686); Embassy of the Free Mind. Collection: Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, ubn 1222. Printed with permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Andersson, Bo, 1955- editor. | Martin, Lucinda, 1965- editor. | Penman, Leigh, editor. Title: Jacob Böhme and his world / edited by Bo Andersson, Lucinda Martin, Leigh Penman, Andrew Weeks. Description: Brill : Boston, [2018] | Series: Aries book series, issn 1871-1405 ; volume 25 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2018043306 (print) | lccn 2018050193 (ebook) | isbn 9789004385092 (eBook) | ISBN 9789004383852 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. Classification: LCC BV5095.B7 (ebook) | LCC BV5095.B7 J33 2018 (print) | ddc 230/.044092--dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018043306 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 1871-1405 isbn 978-90-04-38385-2 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-38509-2 (e-book) Copyright 2019 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. 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Contents Abbreviations of Jacob Böhme’s Works vii List of Illustrations viii Contributors ix Introduction: Jacob Böhme and His World xii Andrew Weeks and Bo Andersson 1 Jacob Böhme’s Writings in the Context of His World 1 Andrew Weeks and Bo Andersson 2 The Rhetoric of Presence: Reflections on Jacob Böhme’s Writing 21 Bo Andersson 3 The City of Görlitz during Jacob Böhme’s Lifetime 70 Ines Haaser (Anders) 4 Jacob Böhme and His Networks 98 Leigh T.I. Penman 5 Martin Moller (1547–1606) and the “Crisis of Piety” of Jacob Böhme’s Time 121 Lucinda Martin 6 Johann Arndt (1555–1621) and the “Crisis of Piety” of Jacob Böhme’s Time 145 Kristine Hannak 7 The New Adam: Jacob Böhme and the Theology of Paracelsus (1493/94–1541) 166 Urs Leo Gantenbein 8 “Out of Himself, to Himself”: The Kabbalah of Jacob Böhme 197 Gerold Necker 9 Jacob Böhme, Johannes Staricius (ca. 1580–??), and the Culture of Dissent 221 Andrew Weeks <UN> vi Contents 10 The Science of the Stars in Jacob Böhme’s World 244 Lutz Pannier 11 Jacob Böhme and Alchemy: A Transmutation in Three Stages 262 Mike A. Zuber 12 “A Philosopher Does Not Stand Still”: Legacies and Receptions of the “Philosophus Teutonicus” 286 Cecilia Muratori 13 Spiritualism and Cultures of Dissent: Johann Theodor von Tschesch (1595–1649) Interprets Jacob Böhme 313 Tünde Beatrix Karnitscher 14 Jacob Böhme’s Foremost Seventeenth-Century English Translator: John Sparrow (1615–1670) of Essex 329 Ariel Hessayon Concluding Bibliographical Remarks 359 Lucinda Martin and Leigh T.I. Penman Index of Names 364 Index of Places 378 Index of Topics 381 Index of Bible Quotations and References 385 Index of Biblical Names 386 <UN> Abbreviations of Jacob Böhme’s Works List of Abbreviations used for Böhme’s Writings. (Unless otherwise designated, all writings are cited by their chapter and section numbers given in the 1730 edition and most other versions.) A Morgen Röte im auffgang (Aurora) 3P Von den Drey Principien Göttliches Wesens (On the Three Principles of Divine Being) 3fL Vom dreyfachen Leben des Menschen (On the Threefold Life of Man) 40Q Viertzig Fragen von der Seelen (Forty Questions on the Soul) MJC Von der Menschwerdung Jesu Christi (On the Human Genesis of Jesus Christ) 6tP Von sechs theosophischen Puncten (Six Theosophical Points) 6mP Kurtze Erklärung Sechs Mystischer Puncte (Six Mystical Points) GB Gründlicher Bericht von dem Irdischen und Himmlischen Mysterio (Mysterium Pansophicum) LZ Unterricht von den letzten Zeiten (Informatorium Novissimorum) SR De Signatura Rerum (Von der Geburt und Bezeichnung aller Wesen) SBT Schutzschriften wieder Balthasar Tilken (Tilke Apologies) BES Bedencken über Esaiä Stiefels Büchlein (Antistiefelius) GW Von der Gnaden-Wahl (On the Election of Grace) ChT Von Christi Testamenten (The Testaments of Christ) MM Mysterium Magnum Qth Betrachtung Göttlicher Offenbarung (Questiones theosophicae) TPr Tafeln von den Dreyen Principien Göttlicher Offenbarung (Tabulae principiorum) Clav Clavis, oder Schlüssel der vornehmsten Puncten und Wörter, welche in diesen Schriften gebrauchet werden WCh Der Weg zu Christo (The Path to Christ) SGR Schutz-Rede wieder Gregorium Richter (Apologia contra Gregorium Richter) Ep. Theosophische Sendbriefe (Böhme’s Letters) <UN> Figures 2.1 Karl Bühler, Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language, trans. Donald Fraser Goodwin (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011), 35 (https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/z.164). 33 2.2 Jacob Böhme, Morgen Röte im auffgang, Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, Sign. Cod. Guelf. 62 Noviss. 4o, fol. 120. 47 2.3 Jacob Böhme writing; illustration from Alle de theosoophsche of godwijze werken (Amsterdam: Fredrik Vorster, 1686); Embassy of the Free Mind. Collection: Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, UBN 1222. 54 3.1–3.14 Josef Metzker and Georg Scharffenbergk, Abcontrafeitung der Stadt Goerlitz im 1565 Jar (1566), Woodcut in 12 parts, Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz. 70–91 3.15 Bartholomäus Scultetus, Woodcut, Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz. 92 3.16 Bartholomäus Scultetus’ map of Upper Lusatia (1593), Woodcut, Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz. 94 5.1 Portrait of Pastor primarius Martin Moller, oil on wood. Courtesy of the Innenstadtgemeinde Görlitz. 126 10.1 Solarium. 249 10.2 Arachne. 250 10.3 The Görlitz City Hall Clocks. 251 11.1 Scribal copy of Böhme’s De triplici vita hominis from 1628, Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka: Akc. 1975/271, f. 100r. Printed with permission. 274 14.1 Gestingthorpe, Essex. 332 14.2 Funeral monument of John Sparrow senior in the church of Gestingthorpe, Essex. 333 14.3 Funeral monument of John Sparrow senior (detail) in the church of Gestingthorpe, Essex. 334 14.4 Funeral monument of John Sparrow senior (detail), the Sparrow family coat of arms, in the church of Gestingthorpe, Essex. 335 <UN> Contributors Bo Andersson is Professor of German at Uppsala universitet. He has published monographs and many articles on 17th century German language, literature, and intellec- tual history, including Jacob Böhmes Denken in Bildern (2007). Urs Leo Gantenbein is the editor of the New Paracelsus Edition and founder of the Zurich Paracel- sus Project of the University of Zurich (www.paracelsus.uzh.ch). He has stud- ied mathematics and physics at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich eth and medicine at the university of Zurich. He graduated in history of medicine on the chemiatrist Angelus Sala. He was a longtime a research fel- low at the Institute and Museum for the History of Medicine of the University of Zurich with a teaching assignment. Now he is a research associate of the Paleopathology and Mummy Studies Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (www.iem.usz.ch) and of the Institute of Swiss Reformation History (www.irg.uzh.ch), both at the University of Zurich. He is specialized in Paracel- sus studies and in the history of Renaissance medicine and medical alchemy. Ines Haaser is museum curator at the Görlitzer Sammlungen, specializing in the history of Görlitz and Lusatia. She has organized several exhibitions and also published a number of articles on Görlitz history and the collections of the Görlitz museum. Kristine Hannak earned her PhD with the monograph Geist=reiche Critik. Hermetik, Mystik und das Werden der Aufklärung in spiritualistischer Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit. She has also published a number of articles on Mystics and religious Free Thinkers at the dawn of the German Enlightenment. Ariel Hessayon is a Reader in early modern history at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was written a monograph, edited / co-edited several collections of essays and published a number of articles on a variety of early modern topics. His next project is concerned with an attempt to colonise the Bahamas during the English Revolution. <UN>