Jacob Boehme
MYSTERIUM MAGNUM
part one
Free electronic text edition
Mysterium
Magnum
PART ONE
An Exposition of the First Book of Moses called
Genesis
written Anno 1623 by
Jacob Boehme
Translated by
John Sparrow
Free electronic text edition, 2009
Introduction to the electronic edition of Mysterium Magnum
It is with great pleasure that I offer this electronic edition of Jacob
Boehme's work "Mysterium Magnum, part one".
It was his last great book before his death. It contains an explanation of the allegories found in Genesis. From the alphabetical list of topics, names and places, appended to this part, one can see how much ground Jacob Boehme has covered.
Some of his other books, available on www.scribd.com/meuser, and in the internet archive, are: The Aurora, Election of Grace,
" The Three Principles of the Divine Essence", and " Threefold Life of Man ". Four Tables of Divine Revelation and Franz Hartmann's study of Jacob Boehme are also available at those places.
There are many themes in common with the theosophical neoplatonic tradition of Ammonius Saccas, Plotinus, Porphyry,
Iamblichus and Proclus, as well as with the Kabbalistic tradition.
Hierarchies, the emanational generation of Cosmos, angelic kingdoms, trinities, signatura, ideation, duality, transformation can all be found with Boehme, as with the other traditions. Keep in mind that Jacob Boehme uses a ver…