an experience: "As
the lightning flash appears and disappears again in a moment, so it is
also with the soul. In its battle the soul suddenly penetrates through
the clouds and sees God like a flash of Light."--Ibid. xi. 76.

[27] _Memoirs_, p. 8.

[28] Evidently the "flash" of the year 1610 was not the last one. In
fact, he seems to have had frequent ecstasies.

[29] _The Second Epistle_, 9-10.

[30] _Third Epistle_, 35.

[31] See especially _Signatura rerum_, ix. 63, and _Forty Questions_,
xxvi. 2-3 and xxx. 3 and 5.

[32] _Third Epistle_, 32. The _Memoirs_ describe how it was copied by
"a Gentleman of some rank" [Carl von Endern].

[33] _Memoirs_, p. 9.

[34] Preserved in the Diary of Bartholomew Scultetus, then Mayor of
Goerlitz (Ueberfeld's edition, 1730). This Diary does not record any
actual banishment of Boehme. The data for our knowledge of the
persecutions of Boehme are found in a personal narrative written by his
friend Cornelius Weissner, M.D.--_Memoirs_, pp. 39-50.

[35] _Aurora_, xiii. 7-10.

[36] _Ibid._ xxxvi. 152.

[37] _Third Epistle_, 7.

[38] _Fifteenth Epistle_, 18.
This "new smell in the life of God" often occurs in
Boehme's writings. Compare George Fox's testimony, "The whole creation
had a new smell." For further comparisons see pp. 221-227.

[39] The following is a complete list of his writings:

1612. _The Aurora_.

1619. _The Three Principles of the Divine Essence_.

1620. _The Threefold Life of Man; Forty Questions; The Incarnation of
Jesus Christ; The Suffering, Death and Resurrection of Christ; The Tree
of Faith; Six Points; Heavenly and Earthly Mysterium; The Last Times_.

1621. _De signatura rerum; The Four Complexions; Apology to Balthazar
Tilken_ in 2 parts; _Consideration on Esaias Stiefel's Book_.

1622. Sec. _Apology to Stiefel; Repentance; Resignation; Regeneration_.

1623. _Predestination and Election of God; A Short Compendium of
Repentance; The Mysterium magnum_.

1624. _The Clavis; The Supersensual Life; Divine Contemplation;
Baptism and the Supper; A Dialogue Between the Enlightened and
Unenlightened Soul; An Apology on the Book of Repentance; 177
Theosophic Questions; An Epitome of the Mysterium magnum; The Holy
Week; An Exposition of the Threefold World_.

Undated. _An Apology to Esaias Stiefel; The Last Judgment; Epistles_.

[40] _Thirty-first Epistle_, 10.

[41] _The Third Epistle_, 30.

[42] _Ibid._ 29.

[43] There are as ma