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Jacob Boehme (Jacob Behmen), the "Teutonic Theosopher" was born on or soon before April 24, 1575 in Altseidenberg, near Görlitz in eastern Germany. Following apprenticeship, he set up his own shop as a shoemaker in Görlitz, where he resided (except for a period of exile in Dresden) until his death on November 17, 1624. After a profound mystical experience at the age of twenty five (1600), while remaining active as a shoemaker and later a merchant, he embarked on a remarkable career of independent scholarship and writing. Though censured for heresy and silenced for seven years by his town council, he eventually produced some twenty nine books and tracts on philosophical theology, and gained a growing following among the nobility and professional classes of the day. |
| The end of the 20th century is witnessing a crisis of relevance of traditional church doctrine, and rapidly waning ecclesiastical influence. In western culture, spirituality has literally broken out of the churches, to seek expression in a wide variety of ways, especially through explorations of eastern and primal traditions, nature mysticism, and transcendental psychologies. Jacob Boehme was a 17th century shoemaker whose radical and mystical theology is consistent with modern knowledge of the relationship of the physical world to nonlocal reality, and of the dynamics of the psyche. His Renaissance emphasis on individual transformative spirituality is in tune with the renaissance of spirit of our times. It thus has much to offer to churches and other spiritual communities seeking to meet the spiritual needs of modern people.
Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) was the son of peasant farmers, a shoemaker by trade, and had only a rudimentary education. One morning, watching the sunlight play on a pewter bowl, he experienced an extraordinary spiritual illumination, and started writing books -- Amazing books!! Scholars at the great German Universities were astounded that an unlearned craftsman could produce works like "The Three Principles of the Divine Essence" and "The Threefold Life of Man". |
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