Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Problem of Practical Mysticism; Boehme's Life and Influence; Alchemy; Symbol and Reality; From Nature to God; The Problem of Evolution; From God to Nature; The Problem of Emanation; Good and Evil; Recapitulation of Boehme's Evolutionary Cycles; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Jacob Boehme was one of the most important thinkers and mystics who ever lived. Unfortunately, being a genius and highly original, he wrote in a sometimes obscure and difficult style, and this was almost four centuries ago. If you think a mystic is a life-denying, impractical person with his head in the clouds you need to read this book. Professor Howard Brinton has written a clear, fascinating explanation of Boeme's thinking, which later had a major influence on German philosophy and many great writers and thinkers. Since I have been interested in New Thought for decades ("The Secret" and the law of attraction books borrow from New Thought often without giving credit and throwing out the Christianity) I was fascinated to see that Boehme dovetails into this type of thinking. If you have ever been interested in Religious Science or Unity you will be interested in this book. Boehme's is a living, vital Christianity not the dead Christianity and spiritually dead Christians we too often have today. And for an easy introduction to Boeme's writing find the little book called "The Confessions of Jacob Boehme."
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JACOB BOEHME (1575-1624), the inspired philosopher-shoemaker of the ancient city of Gorlitz in Silesia, attacked the central problem of the philosophy of religion with unparalleled persistence and astonishing originality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
three nature forms, lower ternary, higher ternary, ideal trinity, spiritual reformers, eternal freedom, eternal nature, painful desire, seven forms, fourth form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jacob Boehme, Holy Ghost, Middle Ages, George Fox, William Law, Forty Questions, Jacob Behmen, Mysterium Magnum, Saint Paul, William Blake, Old Testament, Holy Spirit, Signatura Rerum, Three-fold Life, Greek Idealism, Paradise Lost, Being of God, God the Person, The Meaning of God New!
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JACOB BOEHME (1575-1624), the inspired philosopher-shoemaker of the ancient city of Gorlitz in Silesia, attacked the central problem of the philosophy of religion with unparalleled persistence and astonishing originality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
three nature forms, lower ternary, higher ternary, ideal trinity, spiritual reformers, eternal freedom, eternal nature, painful desire, seven forms, fourth form Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jacob Boehme, Holy Ghost, Middle Ages, George Fox, William Law, Forty Questions, Jacob Behmen, Mysterium Magnum, Saint Paul, William Blake, Old Testament, Holy Spirit, Signatura Rerum, Three-fold Life, Greek Idealism, Paradise Lost, Being of God, God the Person, The Meaning of God New!
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- Way to Christ by Jacob Boehme on page 53, page 73, and Back Matter
- Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead on page 202, and page 232
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on page 66, and page 181
- True Repentance by Jacob Boehme on page 199, and page 200
- Muirhead Library of Philosophy (95 volumes): Psychology of the Religious Life (Muirhead Library of Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion) by Stratton George Malcolm on page 62, and page 106
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