STUDIES IN JACOB BÖHME
Book Details + Condition: John M. Watkins (London). First Edition, 1912. Very scarce. Hardcover with black boards, gilt to front and spine. 473 pages with Appendix. Illustrated. A.J. [Anne Judith] Penny's seminal work is a foundational collection of essays analyzing the life, complex visions, and theology of the 17th-century German mystic Jacob Böhme / Boehme. Most of the essays were published in "Light" and other similar Spiritualist and Theosophical journals. The book includes an Introductory essay on the author (itself extracted from "Light") by Charles Carleton Massey, first President of the British Theosophical Society. Penny presents Boehme as a "God-taught" visionary whose work explains the spiritual universe, God's nature, and the human soul through divine revelation rather than academic study. Chapters include:
- Who Was Jacob Böhme?
- Jacob Böhme's Writings
- Böhme and Swedenborg
- The Power of Imagination
- Experiences in Open Vision
- Emanations of the World-Soul
- Communicating Spirits
- The Doctrine of Vicarious Suffering
- Who Are Our Spiritual Enemies?
- The Second Advent
- The Uses of Pain and Evil
- The Duration of Evil
- Reincarnation
- Ready-Made Clothes
- Eternal Bodies
- Buried Treasure
- Creation of the World
- Alchemistical Philosophers
- Böhme and the "Secret Doctrine"
- Unconscious Creation
- Spiritual Evolution
- Illusions of Life's Trance
- Planetary Influence
- Resurrection Bodies
- And much more.
An increasingly very scarce work with firm binding; light shelf wear to boards; chafed spine ends; toning to endpapers; a bit of foxing to first and last few pages; small tear to edge of one page; 2 religious stamps to the rear inside board; interior is clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
