Abstract

Prefaced with a distinguished article by Nicolas Berdyaev entitled “Unground and Freedom”, this volume is a new translation of the Sex Puncta Theosophica, the Mysterium Pansophicum, the Sex Puncta Mystica, and the Theoscopia. All of the selections have been made to provide the reader with a good introduction to the basic idea of Jacob Boehme. The Six Theosophic Points is the most important of these essays and contains an excellent analysis and more extended treatment of such central concepts in Boehme’s thought as The Unground, the Trinity, Freedom, the Nature of Man, and the Problem of Evil. It will afford the reader a good introduction to Boehme’s peculiar and esoteric dialectic, and it will also be revealing to those who customarily think of Boehme primarily as a mystic. We have here a metaphysician of no little ability.