or after him the truth that back of and behind
all that has come to appear of good and evil there is an immaterial
World which is the essence and reality of all that is."--Franz von
Baader, _Werke_ (Leipzig, 1852), iii. p. 382.

Novalis wrote in a letter to Ludwig Tieck in 1800: "Man sieht durchaus
in ihm [Jakob Boehme] den gewaltigen Fruehling mit seinen quellenden,
treibenden, bildenden, und mischenden Kraeften, die von innen heraus die
Welt gebaeren. Ein echtes Chaos voll dunkler Begier und wunderbarem
Leben--einen wahren auseinandergehenden Mikrokosmos."--Quoted from
Edgar Ederheimer's _Jakob Boehme und die Romantiker_ (1904), p. 57.

[11] His English translators in the seventeenth century variously
spelled his name Behm, Behme, and Behmen. This latter spelling was
adopted in the so-called Law Edition of 1764, and has thus come into
common use in England and America.

[12] Boehme refers frequently to "the writings of high masters," whom
he says he read (_Aurora_, x. 45), and he often names Schwenckfeld and
Weigel in particular. See especially _The Second Epistle_, sec. 54-62

[13] _Memoirs of the Life, Death and Burial, and Wonderful Writings of
Jacob Behmen_, translated by Francis Okeley (1780), p. 22.

[14] _Memoirs_, p. 2.

[15] _Memoirs_, p. 6. Von Franckenberg says that Boehme himself told
him this incident.

[16] Ibid. pp. 4-5. The reader will have noted the long history of
this phrase, "Sabbath of the soul."

[17] _Ibid._ p. 7.

[18] _Memoirs_, p. 8. Paracelsus taught that the inner nature of
things might be seen by one who has become an organ of the Universal
Mind. He says: "Hidden things which cannot be perceived by the
physical senses may be found through the sidereal body, through whose
organism we may look into nature in the same way as the sun shines
through a glass. The inner nature of everything may be known through
Magic [The Divine Magia] and the power of inner sight."--Hartmann's
_Life of Paracelsus_ (1896), p. 53.

[19] He uses this word _Seeker_ hundreds of times in his writings.

[20] _Second Epistle_, sec. 6-8.

[21] _Aurora_, xix. 10-13. He goes on in the following sections to
describe how for twelve years this insight "grew in his soul like a
young tree before the exact understanding of it all" was arrived at.

[22] _The Fifth Epistle_, 50.

[23] _Aurora_, xi. 146.

[24] _Ibid._ xi. 6.

[25] Aurora, xxii. 47.

[26] In the _Aurora_ Boehme speaks of the Flash as