Jakob Böhme
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Sep 17, 2026
Alberto de la CruzHOST
Who do we have?
Carlos EireHOST
Yes, we're back in the past again with Jacob Böhme, German, Lutheran.
Carlos EireHOST
Ooh, a Protestant.
Carlos EireHOST
Protestant, yes, and not a conforming Protestant, because like the previous Lutheran mystic we covered, Immanuel Swedenborg, Böhme is earlier, so his mysticism is not as kind of modern as Swedenborg's.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The theosophical elements developed later under the influence of Schelling's last writing, though he received the first impulse in that direction from Bader.
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They are principally met with in his Faith and Science, published in 1867, against Rasmus Nielsen, translated into German in Jahrbucher fur Deutsche Theologie, 14, 1869, and Jacob Boehme, 1881, translated into German, 1882.
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In his development of the logical, physical, and ethical idea of God, in his idea of the glory of God as the uncreated heavens, etc.
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Taylor CaronGUEST
I'm going to try to do that.
Taylor CaronGUEST
Like, as I said, I was talking about Jacob Bohm and stuff.
Taylor CaronGUEST
So we're going to start with Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836.
Taylor CaronGUEST
That is the beginning of American Gnosticism.
Jack TruckenpedderHOST
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Jack TruckenpedderHOST
If it survives, it's...
Taylor CaronGUEST
yeah and then later that's what they're just they're just called that you know so they just thought they were unitarians who were reading german idealists you know including jacob bohm and things like that um and then emerson joins this reading group but they still thought they were christian and he was like i actually have new ideas that i'm gonna leave we don't need christianity at all anymore you know and he publishes nature in which he establishes what uh It's so, like, you used to just be able to write books about, like, this is what I think reality is, you know? These are my, and people would take them seriously, you know, in the 19th century.
Taylor CaronGUEST
Like, if you were good at it.
speaker_4NARRATOR
The theosophical elements developed later under the influence of Schelling's last writing, though he received the first impulse in that direction from Bader.
speaker_4NARRATOR
They are principally met with in his Faith and Science, published in 1867 against Rasmus Nielsen, translated into German in Jahrbücher für deutsche Theologie XIV, 1869, and Jacob Boehme, 1881, translated into German 1882.
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In his development of the logical, physical, and ethical idea of God, in his idea of the glory of God as the uncreated heavens, etc.
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speaker_2NARRATOR
The theosophical elements developed later, under the influence of Schelling's last writing, though he received the first impulse in that direction from Bader.
speaker_2NARRATOR
They are principally met with in his Faith and Science, published in 1867, against Rasmus Nielsen, translated into German in Jahrbucher für Deutsche Theologie, 14, 1869, and Jacob Boehme, 1881, translated into German, 1882.
speaker_2NARRATOR
In his development of the logical, physical, and ethical idea of God, in his idea of the glory of God as the uncreated heavens, etc.,
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Mark BoothGUEST
And one day I was looking through that and I found in two volumes a commentary on Genesis.
Mark BoothGUEST
by the mystic Jacob Burma, who is one of the greatest mystics who ever lived.
Mark BoothGUEST
And it was reading that book and Burma's account of creation expressed as a commentary on Genesis that really made me think yes, I can get inside this.
Mark BoothGUEST
I can see how it works.
Mark BoothGUEST
behind the stage and I'll show you how it's all put together.
Mark BoothGUEST
And I think reading Jack of Burma did that for me.
Mark BoothGUEST
And I read relatively recently, I think while I was writing the last book, that the great, perhaps the greatest or the most famous German poet philosopher of idealism, Hegel said that Jacob Burma's mystical experience is the foundational event in German philosophy.
Mark BoothGUEST
Wow.
AndrewHOST
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AndrewHOST
Okay, so Jacob Bohm.
AndrewHOST
This is an important name here.
AndrewHOST
You see this? Jacob Bohm, okay? This is where a lot of people give me shit because I talk about how the Martin Luther...
AndrewHOST
Not whole denomination, but within it, there's a lot of Rosicrucian symbology and people who practice Christian mysticism.
AndrewHOST
Jacob Bohm is the proof that I will show you, you know, to prove that.
AndrewHOST
We'll get into him in a minute.
AndrewHOST
So concepts that are shared between the Platonist ideology and Martinism is this hierarchy of emanation.
Todd ElliottGUEST
And, uh, we, we actually, there was a colony, uh, actually not too far from King of Prussia on the Wissahickon Creek.
Todd ElliottGUEST
There was alchemists and, um, uh, like, kabbalists, followers of Jacob Boehme, and, um, uh, uh, in a place called, um...
Todd ElliottGUEST
There was a guy named Johannes Kelpius, and he started a, a place called, uh, an organization called Ephrata Cloister, I believe, and they had...
Todd ElliottGUEST
You know, they were these s- 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, like, mystics.
James LindsayHOST
So here we're talking about the German mystic and the pinnacle German mystic is Meister Eckhart.
James LindsayHOST
Now Meister Eckhart also was apparently a very significant inspiration to Jakob Böhme.
James LindsayHOST
Jakob Böhme was, and I'm not saying his last name correctly because I'm not German, it's more like Berman or Burma or something.
James LindsayHOST
Anyway, Jakob Böhme, you'd spell it Jacob with a K, was the mystic upon an alchemist literally upon whose works Hegel based most of his thinking.
James LindsayHOST
Arguably maybe Kant was influenced as well, but I don't know.
James LindsayHOST
Kant is given, basically Rosenberg says that Kant basically did the same thing as Eckhart but in dry philosophy instead of spiritual terms.
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James LindsayHOST
Um, but it was able to preach its infallible anathema over the profoundest German soul.
James LindsayHOST
So it was basically the Church waited till he was dead when his followers couldn't do anything about it, and were like, "No, he was wrong, uh, and we're right, and we're the Catholic Church, so deal with it." But his teachings survived anyway in the German soul and throughout German history, which is true.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The theosophical elements developed later, under the influence of Schelling's last writing, though he received the first impulse in that direction from Bader.
speaker_2NARRATOR
They are principally met with in his Faith and Science, published in 1867, against Rasmus Nielsen, translated into German, in Jahrbucher für Deutsche Theologie, 14, 1869, and Jacob Boehme, 1881, translated into German, 1882.
speaker_2NARRATOR
In his development of the logical, physical, and ethical idea of God, in his idea of the glory of God as the uncreated heavens, etc., his mysticism and theosophy were, however, very far from drawing him away from the world in which he lived.
speaker_2NARRATOR
On the contrary, some of the best things which come from his pen are a number of memoirs on Minster, Grundtvig, Rasmus Nielsen, etc., not seldom of a polemic character, and always intended for some practical instantaneous effect.
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