“Evil is the enemy of oneself, the beginning of anxiety, constantly striving to withdraw oneself”.

“Nothing can be revealed to itself without opposition”.

Jakob Bоhme

1575-1624

 German Christian mystic, sage, theosophist, ancestor of western sophiology – the doctrine of the “Wisdom of God”.

Jacob Böhme, like Luther, believed that the rescue of mankind is possible not by external good deeds, and even not by external help from God, but only by the inner faith of the heart. Böhme was called by contemporaries “Teutonic philosopher” (at that time, mysticism was not without reason called “Teutonic philosophy”).

Jacob Böhme has brought to bear a significant influence on the development of philosophy.                     Succession and evolution of his ideas were expressed by Christian von Rosenroth, Johann Hamann, Franz Baader, Hegel, Friedrich Schelling, Karl von Eckartshausen, Vladimir Solovyov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Semen Frank, and others.

Böhme’s successors in the mystical sense can be considered numerous communities, such as the Religious Society of Fellows, Philadelphia Society, Community of Gichtel, who was his student, the rose-crosses of XVII-XVIII centuries (members of mystical philosophical society – called “Martinists” in Russia), the Martinezists, including Saint Maarten and many representatives of Christian theosophy .

WORKS “Aurora: Die Morgenröte im Aufgang” (1612), “The Three Principles of the Divine Essence” (1619),                     “The Threefold Life of Man” (1620), “Of the Earthly and of the Heavenly Mystery” and others.