THE

LIFE AND DEATH

OF

JACOB BOEHME original: "Behmen".

To describe the life of Jacob Boehme, a man so pious, a witness of God so highly favored, and so extraordinary a wonder of the German nation, might justly require the pen of the most able, judicious, and eloquent biographer. But as no person, even from his own province, has until now been inclined to engage in such a work, I—who am from a neighboring one—however insignificant original: "inconsiderable" I may be, intend to present my reader with real facts and anecdotes concerning the deceased. I will do so with brevity and simplicity, yet with soundness original: "solidity" and faithfulness, based on what my memory still retains from the frequent personal conversations I had with him between the years 1623 and 1624.

The late original: "happily deceased" subject of these memoirs, Jacob Boehme, was born in the year 1575 after the birth original: "Nativity" of our Lord Christ, at Old Seidenberg; formerly a market town, about eight...