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& Hegel?

I just saw a refence that Bohme influenced Hegel and Blake, if correct it would be well to add it to this article, which only mentions Blake. Among other things it offers at least some link between Blakean and Hegelian trads.Wblakesx (talk) 21:09, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Biography

The phrase "focused his attention" in the biography section is a link to Scrying. I think the phrase is OK but I really think the link should go to Meditation rather than Scrying. Meditation is a common practice in all major religions and does indeed focus the attention but Scrying doesn't seem like a good fit for such a great mystic as Bohme. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LFlagg (talk • contribs) 01:54, 24 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Two Names

I don't know how this can be conveyed in the article but Jakob Boehme was also known as Jakob Behmen. I have no idea why but it explains why his followers were known as Behmenists. What's interesting about this is that Boehme, as Behmen, published books which have illustrations in them which show how connected he was with Kabbalah, Alchemy and other movements of his day. ThePeg10.8.2006

Mysticism

I've added a mention of the profound depth of his spiritual enlightenment, citing R.M. Bucke's exposition on the subject, and adding a quote from Way of Christ. But it would be great if any Boehme experts out there could fill this dimension of his life and work out even more--particularly regarding Boehme's nondualism, which is rare for any Christian mystic to espouse (because it says, in effect, that "I and the Father are One," which is partly what got Christ himself killed). Meister Eckhart is one of the only other medieval Christian mystics who spoke with a similar depth of enlightened insight, or God-realization. Kosmocentric 14:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, Kosmocentric, there were a lot of Christian Mystics who wrote with the same or similar vision to Boehme and Eckhadrt, geniuses though they were. Check out Hildegard von Bingen, Juliana of Norwich, Margerete Porete, Pseudo-Dionysius and a host of others. If you like Boehme you will love these. More modern figures include Sergei Bulgakov and Nikolai Berdayev. In fact if you go back to the New Testament you will find it all expressed there, even though you will never hear it said in a pulpit. ThePeg 15:02, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Jacob Boehme . . . discussed mystic, Kabbalistic, Gnostic, alchemical (Paracelsian) and other unorthodox ideas in a circle of merchants, intellectuals, tradesmen and one or two noblemen . . . " p.35 E.P. Thompson, "Witness Against the Beast" The New Press, New York

More Depth

Someone needs to go into a lot more detail in this article. Among esoteric and mystical circles Boehme is an immense influence as well as among literary circles - William Blake, for instance, was a massive admirer of Boehme. The Philadelphia Society cited Boehme as an key figure too.

Boehme was also an Alchemist and Christian Kaballist and drew countless extraordinary pictures and wrote important books inspired by these ideas. With this in mind I am not sure, in the end, just how orthodox he was in terms of Lutheran theology.

Could someone enlarge on all this? Sadly its very hard to get hold of many of his books nowadays. ThePeg 21:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ergotism

Has anyone read anything about ergotism being a probable cause for Böhme's visions? —Viriditas | Talk 11:21, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Does the article undermine his Christianity

Someone on the Talk:Christian mysticism page made the statement that this article claims Böhme was a Christian but then undermines that idea with the sources and references. As a result, he was removed from the list of Christian mystics. Should there be a section in Böhme's article that addresses how he's been interpreted (as either Christian or heretic) over the years? I know very little about him, so I can't help, but it might be useful for the article to address the continued controversy over his orthodoxy. Aristophanes68 (talk) 18:58, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Whiskey

Among his descendants was an emigrant who later anglicized his name to Beam. From him stems the Bourbon whiskey distiller family Beam. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:45:4942:47D0:844:DD2D:F264:2C8A (talk) 17:46, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lutheran?

Is he considered Lutheran? I think with Hegel the question also was wether they just accepted the label as a convenience. FourLights (talk) 01:09, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Richter quotation at top of Aurora and writings section

I suggest this quotation in the box at the top of the section be removed and replaced with a quotation from the same which actually gives the reasons Richter considered Aurora heretical or blasphemous. As it stands, this is simply libel and doesn't belong in the article. Skyerise (talk) 17:18, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Education

In the present version of the article is stated "he received no formal education". But if he received no formal education, how could he have read the books by Paracelsus and have written works himself in German and in Latin?! This statement makes no sense. Furthermore, at the end of his biography it is mentioned that he sold his shop, as a shoemaker, but some paragraphs earlier we read that he didn't finish hid education as a shoemaker! This is contradictory too. Hansung02 (talk) 16:20, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]