Jacob Boehme is a fascinating German mystic, this text is an easy length and a good introduction to his work. William Blake was inspired by his work.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sat/index.htm
The Signature of All things by Jacob Boehme
I went looking for a copy of this text in Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive and could not find the 1912 edition that is on the Sacred Texts site as linked above, which is updated to more modern language and probably easier for most to read. However, Internet Archive does have a 17th century edition:
https://archive.org/details/signaturarerumor00bhme/page/n7
Of course I went down a bit of a Jacob Boehme (aka Jakob Bohme with umlaut over the O) rabbit hole and found other texts that might be of interest, especially to our readers who like to record Christian/mystical/philosophical works (these are all in English; there are additional works on Internet Archive in German and other languages):
PG has one of his works, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33742
Two additional works in English translation on Internet Archive:
The Confessions of Jacob Boehme, compiles and edited by W. Scott Palmer, with intro by Evelyn Underhill (1920)
https://archive.org/details/confessionsofjac00bh/page/n5
The Epistles of Jacob Boehme, 1886 reprint of 1649 edition:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924029351719/page/n3
Boehme and other Renaissance-era philosopher/mystics are discussed in Mystics of the Renaissance and their Relation to Modern Thought by Rudolph Steiner -- other names I recognized in the table of contents are Paracelsus and Meister Eckhart, though I know next to nothing about either of them! A brief scan of the TOC and a few chapters suggests that individual chapters could be good for Short Nonfiction collections as well:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924029351321/page/n5
Colleen
https://archive.org/details/signaturarerumor00bhme/page/n7
Of course I went down a bit of a Jacob Boehme (aka Jakob Bohme with umlaut over the O) rabbit hole and found other texts that might be of interest, especially to our readers who like to record Christian/mystical/philosophical works (these are all in English; there are additional works on Internet Archive in German and other languages):
PG has one of his works, Dialogues on the Supersensual Life: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33742
Two additional works in English translation on Internet Archive:
The Confessions of Jacob Boehme, compiles and edited by W. Scott Palmer, with intro by Evelyn Underhill (1920)
https://archive.org/details/confessionsofjac00bh/page/n5
The Epistles of Jacob Boehme, 1886 reprint of 1649 edition:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924029351719/page/n3
Boehme and other Renaissance-era philosopher/mystics are discussed in Mystics of the Renaissance and their Relation to Modern Thought by Rudolph Steiner -- other names I recognized in the table of contents are Paracelsus and Meister Eckhart, though I know next to nothing about either of them! A brief scan of the TOC and a few chapters suggests that individual chapters could be good for Short Nonfiction collections as well:
https://archive.org/details/cu31924029351321/page/n5
Colleen
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Hathi Trust has some Bohme too.
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Craig
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