Complete List of Jacob Boehme's Works

With the name of the translator of the English edition, and the date of its first publication.

No.

Year Written

Title

Translator

Date of First Publication

1

1612

The Aurora (unfinished).

Sparrow

1656

2

1612

The Three Principles of the Divine Essence.

 

1648

3

1620

The Threefold Life of Man.

Sparrow

1650

4

1620

Answers to Forty Questions Concerning the Soul.

Sparrow

1647

5

1620

The Treatise of the Incarnations:

Sparrow

1659

 

 

I. Of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ.

 

 

 

 

II. Of the Suffering, Dying, Death and Resurrection of Christ.

 

 

 

 

III. Of the Tree of Faith.

 

 

6

1620

The Great Six Points.

Sparrow

1661

7

1620

Of the Earthly and of the Heavenly Mystery.

Sparrow

1661

8

1620

Of the Last Times.

Sparrow

1649

9

1621

De Signatura Rerum.

Ellistone

1651

10

1621

The Four Complexions.

Sparrow

1661

11

1621

Two Apologies to Balthazar Tylcken:

Sparrow

1661

 

 

I. For the Aurora.

 

 

 

 

II. Re Predestination and the Incarnation and Person of Christ, and of the Virgin Mary.

 

 

12

1621

Considerations re Esaiah Stiefel's Threefold State of Man and of His New Birth.

Sparrow

1661

13

1622

An Apology re Perfection. Reply to Stiefel's Expositions of Four Texts of Scripture.

Sparrow

1661

14

1622

Of True Repentance.

 

 

15

1622

Of True Resignation.

 

 

16

1622

Of Regeneration.

 

 

17

1623

Of Predestination.

Sparrow

1665

18

1623

A Short Compendium of Repentance.

Sparrow

1665

19

1623

The Mysterium Magnum.

Ellistone and Sparrow

1654

20

1623

A Table of the Divine Manifestation, or an Exposition of the Threefold World.

Blunden

Sparrow

1654

1665

21

1624

The Supersensual Life.

 

 

22

1624

Of Divine Contemplation or Vision (unfinished).

Sparrow

1661

23

1624

Of Christ's Testaments.

Sparrow

1652

 

 

I. Baptism.

 

 

 

 

II. The Supper.

 

 

24

1624

Of Illumination (along with Nos. 14,15,16,18 and 21 with title The Way of Christ).

Sparrow

1648

25

1624

An Apology for the Books of True Repentance and of True Resignation

Sparrow

1661

26

1624

177 Theosophic Questions, with Answers to Thirteen of Them (unfinished).

Sparrow

1661

27

1624

An Epitome of the Mysterium Magnum.

Sparrow

1654

28

1624

The Holy Week or a Prayer Book (unfinished).

Sparrow

1661

29

1624

A Table of the Three Principles.

Blunden

Sparrow

1654

1661

30

1624

Of the Last Judgement (lost).

 

 

31

1624

The Clavis.

Sparrow

1647

32

1618-1624

Sixty-two Theosophic Epistles.

 

 

 

 

(a) 35 with a warning from Jacob Boehme to such as read his works.

Ellistone

1649

 

 

(b) 25 (The 7th Epistle is prefixed to the Supersensual Life (No 21), and the 20th forms the preface to the Second Apology to B. Tylcken (No 11)).

Sparrow

1661

Source and Acknowledgement

This list appeared in Appendix A of The Threefold Life of Man, translated by J Sparrow, published in London, 1650, and reprinted by Watkins, London, 1909. The electronic version was prepared by Peter Twigg of Clairvision School, 1997. A few of Boehme's texts can be found on this Website.

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