translates to Printed (or pressed) in the year of Christ 1682
Jakob Böhme, (born 1575, Altseidenberg, near Görlitz, Saxony [Germany]—died November 21, 1624, Görlitz), German philosophical mystic who had a profound influence on such later intellectual movements as idealism and Romanticism. Erklärung über das erste Buch Mosis, better known as Mysterium Magnum (1623; The Great Mystery), is his synthesis of Renaissance nature mysticism and biblical doctrine. His Von der Gnadenwahl (On the Election of Grace), written the same year, examines the problem of freedom, made acute at the time by the spread of Calvinism.
ONE oplate had minor holes in it THE AURIORA see detail.
Some very slight underlining in a few poages (consolidated)
The binding prohibits opening the books all the.
Binding cover is some kind of waxy substance, clean and beautiful
These are some of the most beautiful works of art ever created.
Copper Plate Etchings.
We do not know who the illustrator is,
but it is speculated it was by Johann Georg Gichtel (1638 – 1710).
The volumes were bound sometime in the 17th or 18th centuyry.
The caligraphy on the spines probably done more contemporaneously.
Johann Georg Gichtel, (born May 4/14, 1638, Imperial Free City of Regensburg—died Jan. 21, 1710, Amsterdam), Protestant visionary and theosophist, who promoted the quasi-pantheistic teaching of the early 17th-century Lutheran mystic Jakob Böhme and compiled the first complete edition of Böhme’s works (1682–83, 10 vol.). Alienated from orthodox Lutheran doctrine and worship by his ascetic tendency (with the accent on celibacy) and by his ambiguousmysticism oscillating between monism and dualism, Gichtel founded a small sect that survived in Holland and Germany until recent times. He synthesized his teaching in Theosophia Practica (1701–22; “Practical Theosophy”).
