Aurora (The Day-Spring)
- Language:
- English
- Translation:
- John Sparrow
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text · 3 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~170,000 words · 824 passages
Cite this work
- APAJacob Boehme. (n.d.). Aurora (The Day-Spring). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/jacob-boehme/aurora-the-day-spring
- MLAJacob Boehme. "Aurora (The Day-Spring)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/jacob-boehme/aurora-the-day-spring.
- ChicagoJacob Boehme. Aurora (The Day-Spring). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/jacob-boehme/aurora-the-day-spring.
What it is about
Jacob Böhme's first book: a vision of God, nature and the origin of evil, written in the vocabulary of a shoemaker with no schooling.
Context and history
He wrote it around 1612, after what he describes as a sudden illumination while looking at a reflection in a dish. He did not publish it: a manuscript circulated without his leave, the Görlitz consistory condemned it, and he was forbidden to write for years — a ban he kept until he could not keep it any longer. The prose is hard going because he invents his vocabulary as he goes. Much of later German mysticism comes from here, and Hegel and Schelling read him in earnest.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
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