Jacob Boehme Resources

This page collects existing resources from the WWW on the work, world, and influence of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624), and adds some of my own resources, in an effort to support research and teaching on Boehme. If anyone knows of additions to this page, please let me know at the email address below.

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General Introductory Resources

See also below, in “Secondary Sources and Documents”

Complete list of Jacob Boehme’s Works
Boehme General Bibliography (B. Janz)
Bibliography of English Behmenists (Adam McLean)
Ecole Initiative Introduction to Boehme (Edward A. Beach) (auf Deutsch)
Boehme Biography (Portuguese)
Boehme Biography (King’s Garden, Order of Martinism)
Boehme Links (with Russian resources)
Boehme in Poland: Strona Poswiecona Polskiej Recepcji Mysli Jakuba Boehmego Swiatowej Slawy Zgorzeleckiego Mistyka I Teozofa (in Polish, auf Deutsch)
Geometry.net Boehme Page
Google’s Boehme Page
Great Theosophists: Jacob Boehme (Theosophy 28:9)
Jacob Boehme (Donivan Bessinger)
Jacob Boehme (Mythos and Logos, Brent Dean Robbins) – links to Amazon for Boehme’s works.
Jacob Boehme (In Dutch, by Marcel Roggemanns)
Jacob Boehme (Invisible Basilica)
Jacob Boehme (Rotten.com, popularized introduction)
Jacob Boehme (from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition)
Jakob Böhme (Philosophenlexikon.de, auf Deutsch)
Jakub Boehme. Zyciorys
Jakub Boehme (Polish)
Introduction to Jacob Boehme (from Pass the Word)
Boehme description (Glenn Everett)
Boehme entry at Biography.com
Christian Classics Ethereal Library Introduction to Boehme (from 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica – Vol. III, 1878)
Temple of Jacob Boehme
Underhill, Evelyn, Boehme Bibliography in Mysticism, 12^th Edition
Widmung (writings about Boehme, auf Deutsch)

Boehme Primary Texts

Sammtliche Werke, Collected Works

Aurora

Aurora (auf Deutsch, by Hans Zimmerman)
Aurora of Morgenrood in Opgang (Dutch full text)

Three Principles of Divine Essence

Excerpt, “God is All”

Clavis, or Key

Clavis: The “Key” of Jacob Boehme (not the text, but a publisher’s link)
Clavis of Sleutel (Dutch full text in Word document form)
The Key of Jacob Boehme – Russian, Portuguese (downloadable executable program file)
A Chave (Portuguese, downloadable executable file)

Six Mystical Points

Six Mystical Points (French translation)

The Way to Christ (individual tracts or the whole)

The Way to Christ – CCEL (includes “Heaven and Hell”, “True Resignation”, “True Repentance”, and “Of Regeneration”)
The Way To Christ – Pass-The-Word (consisting of Boehme’s works on Repentance, Resignation, Regeneration, the SuperSensual Life, The Way from Darkness to True Illumination, of Heaven and Hell).
Der Weg Tot Cristus (Dutch, 9 text version)
O Caminho para Cristo – (Portuguese, downloadable executable program file)
The SuperSensual Life from Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Gnosis Archive, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite, Google Books
Assorted Quotations from The Supersensual Life
Of Heaven and Hell from Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite
The Way from Darkness to True Illumination from Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite
Of True Resignation — Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite
Of True Repentance from Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Subru Publications, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite
Of Regeneration or The New Birth from Pass the Word, Order of Martinism, Matthew548, ChristiansUnite

The Incarnation of Jesus Christ

The Incarnation of Jesus Christ
A Encarnação de Jesus Cristo (Portuguese, downloadable pdf file)

Mysterium Pansophicum

Signature Rerum

Signature Rerum, chapter 1 (based on “William Law” translation)

Mysterium Magnum

Mysterium Magnum, introduction & chapter 1 – my translation
Het Mysterium Magnum (Dutch full text)
18 Kapitel (auf Deutsch)

On the Election of Grace

A Compendium of Repentence, or the Key to Divine Mysteries (excerpt)

Excerpt & Sampler collections

- Confissoes – (Portuguese, downloadable executable program file)
- Treasures from the writings of Jacob Boehme – Pass the Word, ChristiansUnite
- Jacob Boehme Sampler 1, 2 (Pass the Word) Part One contains: The entire Author’s Preface to Aurora: The Day Spring; excerpts from the Appendix to The Three Principles of the Divine Essence, entitled “Fundamental and True Description of the Threefold Life in Man”; two additional excerpts from The Three Principles of the Divine Essence; five excerpts from The Threefold Life of Man. Part Two contains: Excerpts from Forty Questions Concerning the Soul, four more excerpts from The Threefold Life of Man; one more excerpt from The Three Principles of the Divine Essence; an excerpt from Mysterium Magnum; and two excerpts from The Epistles of Jacob Behmen.

Text Archives That Include Boehme’s Works

These sites usually contain more than just Boehme’s work, and so are useful for the wider mystical and devotional picture.

Artigos Mystical Texts – Portuguese and English texts, including Boehme, St. Martin.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library – large collection of documents from the entire history of Christianity.
Heiligeteksten (Dutch spiritual texts, including some of Boehme’s)
Kingsgarden.org — a host centre that houses a number of groups interested in religious, mystical, and theosophical things. Saint-Martin texts are here, as well as others.
Matthew 5:48
Pass The Word Services
Sociedade das Ciencias Antigas – mystical texts in Portuguese