Excerpt from Jacob Boehme: His Life and Teaching, or Studies in Theosophy
When during my younger days I was absorbed in the study if medieval mysticism, and listened, with the deep attention of a seeker, to the discourses of Master Eckart and Tauler, now in their quiet cloisters, and again under the arches of their churches, I was led forward, almost inevitably, from mysticism to theosophy, and, consequently, to Jacob Bohme. The first impression was not attractive. It was true that the light of the Reformation was here, shining with its great and universal energies; but this light had to force its rays into the narrowness and obscurity of a shoemaker"s room, where there was very much to obstruct the illumination. Bohme"s style and method of treatment struck me as intolerable and not to be entertained. A longer acquaintance with him and closer attention could not, however, but convince me that his works contained very attractive passages, - passages, indeed, of fascinating beauty combined with surprising depth, vivid and revealing lightning, and new light.
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