Important truths. With extracts from the way to Christ by Jacob Boehme

...lash out original: "fome" (foam); meaning to froth at the mouth with rage or speak with great heat against what they call Mysticism, treating it as the most insulting name they can devise. Meanwhile, there is nothing more sinister in Mysticism, or "Mysticity," than the fact that this harmless word simply represents the secret guidance of the Spirit of GOD. As the Apostle Paul has testified, the human spirit is naturally unable to understand divine matters. His authority should be final for those who accept him as a teacher of divine truths—one who taught with simplicity and godly sincerity, not with worldly original: "carnal" wisdom, but as GOD revealed those truths to him by His Spirit. Nor does "Enthusiasm" Enthusiasm (in its true and ancient sense) mean anything other than these same divine communications. The only difference is that people under its influence have sometimes experienced ecstasies original: "extasies" and raptures, just as the Prophets and Apostles did on extraordinary occasions. Do not let the high level of purity proposed by some of our authors frighten anyone, for we can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us. These are the exact commands of our Savior and the practices of his first disciples: to reach heaven by way of the cross. Therefore, do not complain that there are too many difficulties in...

Enthusiasm — While modern readers see this as simple excitement, in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was a controversial term for "divine inspiration." Critics used it to mock people they believed were hallucinating or falsely claiming to hear from God.