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MYSTERIUM MAGNUM
AN EXPOSITION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED GENESIS (TWO VOLUME SET) |
| By: |
Jacob Boehme |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£43.25 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0718891279 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780718891275 |
| Publisher: |
JAMES CLARKE & CO LTD |
| Pub. date: |
27 February, 2003 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| Pages: |
882 |
| Description: |
The last and most important work of the 17th Century mystic, this is a wide-ranging interpretation of the Book of Genesis that touches also on the message of the New Testament and the nature of mystical experience. |
| Synopsis: |
Boehme was born in 1575. He received little if any formal education and was apprenticed to a shoemaker at Goerlitz in Saxony. From an early age he seems to have been devoted to the study of the Bible as well as having a growing, inner, sense of the reality of God. Walking one day in the fields, when he was twenty-five years old, the mystery of creation was suddenly opened to him, and 'in a quarter of an hour I saw and knew more than if I had been many years at the university ...and thereupon I turned my heart to praise God for it.' He puzzled as to why such revelations should be given to him, who sought only the love of God. Ten years later he began to record what he received, and thus was born The Aurora, his first book, finished in 1612. At once his work found both friends and enemies. To the struggles of the former to understand him, we owe the gradual development of his capacity to convey and express more and more of that which he had received. Persecution by the Primate of Goerlitz made him leave home and settle in Dresden, where he died in 1624. Written in 1623, when his powers of expression had developed to their full, Mysterium Magnum is central to his work.Taking the form of an interpretation of Genesis, it outstrips its apparent confines, explaining the popularity of his work among followers as varied as Hegel, Law, Blake and Berdyaev. From the first sentence it leads to the heart of the experience of all mystics: 'When we consider the visible world with its essence, and consider the life of the creatures, then we find therein the likeness of the invisible spiritual world, which is hidden in the visible world as the soul in the body; and we see thereby that the hidden God is nigh unto all and, through all, and yet wholly bidden to the visible essence.' |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Lutterworth Press |
| Returns: |
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