Written work
Forty Questions of the Soul
Viertzig Fragen von der Seelen (Psychologia vera)
Answers to the forty questions on the origin, essence and destiny of the soul put to him in 1620 by the physician Balthasar Walther: where it comes from, how it joins the body, what befalls it after death, what the resurrection will be. It includes the figure of the 'philosophical sphere' or 'wonder-eye of eternity', two intersecting circles meeting in a heart, which Jung reproduced in the twentieth century as an example of a mandala.
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Authorship note
The questions are Balthasar Walther's; the answers, Böhme's.
Editions and translations
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English
Forty Questions of the Soul
Kessinger Publishing, 1997
Translation: John Sparrow (1615–1665?)
ISBN 9781564592668
Reimpresión. ISBN visto en Open Library.
Jakob Böhme
The Forty Questions of the Soul and the Clavis
The Conscious LibraryThe Forty Questions of the Soul and the Clavis
John M. Watkins (Londres), 1911
Translation: John Sparrow (1615–1665?)
Ed. C. J. Barker.
Jakob Böhme
Forty Questions of the Soul
The Conscious LibraryForty Questions of the Soul
Lodowick Lloyd (Londres), 1665
Translation: John Sparrow (1615–1665?)
Latín
Jakob Böhme
Psychologia vera I.B.T.
The Conscious LibraryPsychologia vera I.B.T.
Johannes Janssonius (Ámsterdam), 1632
Traducción latina temprana.
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
- 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
- The Four Complexions (A Consolatory Treatise) · 1624
- 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
- Penman, Leigh T. I. «A Second Christian Rosencreuz? Jakob Böhme's Disciple Balthasar Walther (1558–c. 1630) and the Kabbalah». En Tore Ahlbäck (ed.), Western Esotericism (Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 20). Åbo, 2008, pp. 154–172.
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