Jacob (Jakob) Boehme (Behmen), 1575-1624. German mystic and early modern philosopher. Known for his radical vision of God as including a negative, painful aspect. His influence on English Anabaptists, and later on the German Romantics, was especially marked. Works (5) 1. Behmenists - Biographical information on Boehme, general information about the English Behmenist movement which he inspired, and a bibliography. 2. Esoterica Image Gallery - Includes extensive collection of images from Boehme's 1730 Theosophia Revelata. 3. Jacob Boehme - Concise biography and links, with an emphasis on Boehme's relation to modern existentialist thought. 4. Jacob Boehme Resources - An extensive directory of annotated links to resources, images, articles and texts. 5. Jakob Boehme - His legacy and theological ideas. 6. Man and Woman are One - Androgyny in Christianity, particularly in the works of Jacob Boehme. Extensive English summary of a Dutch dissertation by Boudewijn Koole. 7. The Ecole Initiative : Jakob Boehme - An introduction to the work of Boehme. 8. Hegel - History of Philosophy - Boehme - An excerpt giving Hegel's historical interpretation of this early German philosopher. 9. Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Valentin Weigel and Jacob Boehme - An anthroposophist perspective on Boehme's role, from the Rudolf Steiner Archive.

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