hermeneutics

nationality

German

religion

Christianity

race / ethnicity

mystic

innovator in the field of

mysticism

is that which underlies the existence of differences and contrasts.

Boehme demands a God who manifests Himself in differences, in contrasts, in defining relations... and only this God is to him the true God'

is the seemingly paradoxical idea that to understand a theosophical text, we must have succeeded in finding the spot from which the author speaks. But in order for us to find this spot, we must have understood the text.

To understand a theosophical text (of ¡ Jacob Boehme, for example) entails having succeeded in finding the spot from which the author speaks. But in order for us to find this spot, we must have understood the text. That having been said, such a paradox appears to be less conspicuous or disheartening in theosophical than, for instance, in alchemical literature. (Dictionary of gnosticism 'secrecy' : 1060)

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