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Extracte aus des hochseligen Mannes gottes Johan Wilhelm Überfelds gesalbten Briefen
Copied by Philipp Wilhelm Immendorf. The original letters and extracts were written, copied and compiled in the 1680s. Immendorf belonged to a German pietist circle related to the so-called Engelsbrueder, a spiritual movement founded by Johann Georg Gichtel and inspired by the work of Jacob Boehme. Ueberfeld succeeded Gichtel (1638-1710) as spiritual leader after Gichtel's death. -- Information provided by Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica.
Gnostic Apocalypse
Jacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century German speculative mystic, influenced the philosophers Hegel and Schelling and both English and German Romantics alike with his visionary thought. Gnostic Apocalypse focuses on the way Boehme's thought repeats and surpasses post-reformation Lutheran thinking, deploys and subverts the commitments of medieval mysticism, realizes the speculative thrust of Renaissance alchemy, is open to esoteric discourses such as the Kabbalah, and articulates a dynamic metaphysics. This book critically assesses the striking claim made in the nineteenth century that Boehme's visionary discourse represents within the confines of specifically Protestant thought nothing less than the return of ancient Gnosis. Although the grounds adduced on behalf of the "Gnostic return" claim in the nineteenth century are dismissed as questionable, O'Regan shows that the fundamental intuition is correct. Boehme's visionary discourse does represent a return of Gnosticism in the modern period, and in this lies its fundamental claim to our contemporary philosophical, theological, and literary attention.
The Alchemical Virgin Mary in the Religious and Political Context of the Renaissance
This study explores the survival of Roman Catholic doctrine and visual imagery in the alchemical treatises composed by members of the Lutheran and Anglican confessions during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. It discusses the reasons for such unexpected confessional survivals in a time of extreme Protestant iconoclasm and religious reform. The book presents an analysis of the manner in which Catholic doctrines concerning the Virgin Mary, the Holy Trinity and the Eucharist were an essential factor in the development of alchemical theory and illustration from the medieval period to the seventeenth century. The role of the Joachimites, radical members of the Franciscan Order, in the his...
