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 | Name of 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 |
65 | 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 |