The Orthodoxy of Teutonic-Boehmian Theosophy Defended Against Holtzhausen,

original: "Orthodoxia Theosophiæ Teutonico-Böhmianæ contra Holtzhausium defensa." Theosophy here refers to "divine wisdom" or a mystical understanding of God, a term Böhme's followers used long before the 19th-century movement of the same name.

Christian

Investigations

of the Holtzhausian

Remarks

On and against Jacob Böhme’s

AURORA

Böhme’s first major work, "Aurora" (The Dawning of the Day), written in 1612, which led to his persecution by local church authorities.

Thorough Defense of the Old-Evangelical At this time, "Evangelical" was the standard term for the Lutheran faith. doctrine of the highly enlightened J. Böhme—who in his young years was his father’s cattle herder and later became a shoemaker in Görlitz—against Mr. Joh. Christoph Holtzhausen, appointed preacher in the Imperial Free Election- and Trade-City of Frankfurt am Main; who, in the appendix of his Anti-Barclay Johann Christoph Holtzhausen (1641–1707) was a Lutheran pastor who wrote "Anti-Barclaius" against the Quaker Robert Barclay., undertook to defile [Böhme's] book called Aurora with unseemly remarks in an un-Evangelical manner during the most recent autumn fair;

Just as Amaziah, the appointed priest in the Royal Sanctuary of Bethel, undertook to defile the prophecies of the Prophet AMOS, the former cowherd of TEKOA, without true knowledge of his divine mysteries;
A biblical parallel from Amos 7:10-17, where the established priest Amaziah attempts to silence the prophet Amos because of his humble background as a shepherd.

Along with an appendix, wherein other Anti-Boehmians are briefly answered; committed to paper in simplicity upon request

Master JOHANN MATTHÆI,

"Master" (M.) refers to the degree of Magister Artium, indicating the author was university-educated.

an Evangelical Preacher.