Jakob Böhme
The Four Complexions (A Consolatory Treatise)
Written work
The Four Complexions (A Consolatory Treatise)
Trostschrift von vier Complexionen
A short pastoral piece for the afflicted and tempted soul. It describes the four temperaments (choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholic) and how each experiences temptation, with special attention to the melancholic, prone to believe himself abandoned by God. It is a text of counsel, of a psychological delicacy uncommon in Böhme.
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Authorship note
The title page of the Amsterdam edition (1661) dates it March 1624; other lists place it in 1621.
Editions and translations
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English
Jakob Böhme
The Four Complexions
The Conscious LibraryThe Four Complexions
Londres, 1730
Edición inglesa suelta del siglo XVIII (Eighteenth Century Collections Online).
Jakob Böhme
The Remainder of Books Written by Jacob Behme (incluye The Four Complexions)
The Conscious LibraryThe Remainder of Books Written by Jacob Behme (incluye The Four Complexions)
Giles Calvert (Londres), 1662
Translation: John Sparrow (1615–1665?)
Deutsch
Jakob Böhme
Trost-Schrifft von vier Complexionen
The Conscious LibraryTrost-Schrifft von vier Complexionen
Heinrich Betke (Ámsterdam), 1661
Other works by Jakob Böhme
- Aurora, or the Day-Spring (Morning Redness in the Rising) · 1612
- The Three Principles of the Divine Essence · 1619
- The Threefold Life of Man · 1620
- Forty Questions of the Soul · 1620
- Of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ · 1620
- Six Theosophic Points · 1620
- Six Mystical Points · 1620
- Mysterium Pansophicum (On the Earthly and Heavenly Mystery) · 1620
- Of the Last Times (to Paul Kaym) · 1620
- Apologies against Balthasar Tilke · 1621
- Antistifelius (Considerations upon Esaias Stiefel's Book) · 1621
- Of the Error of the Sects of Esaias Stiefel and Ezechiel Meth · 1622
- De Signatura Rerum (The Signature of All Things) · 1622
- Of True Repentance · 1622
- Of True Resignation · 1622
- Of the Supersensual Life (Dialogue between a Master and a Disciple) · 1622
- Of the New Birth (Regeneration) · 1622
- Theoscopia, or Of Divine Contemplation · 1622
- The Way to Christ · 1624
- Mysterium Magnum, or an Exposition of the First Book of Moses called Genesis · 1623
- Of the Election of Grace · 1623
- Of Christ's Testaments (Baptism and the Supper) · 1623
- Of Holy Prayer · 1624
- Dialogue between an Enlightened and an Unenlightened Soul · 1624
- Apology against Gregor Richter · 1624
- Written Defence to the Council of Görlitz · 1624
- Theosophic Questions (177 Questions on Divine Revelation) · 1624
- Tables of the Three Principles of Divine Revelation · 1624
- Clavis, or Key · 1624
- Theosophic Epistles · 1624
- Idea Chemiae Böhmianae adeptae (attributed) · 1690
Sources
- Buddecke, Werner. Die Jakob Böhme-Ausgaben: Ein beschreibendes Verzeichnis. 2 vols. Gotinga, 1937–1957 (vol. 1: ediciones en alemán; vol. 2: traducciones).
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