Synopsis
I'm sorry, but there seems to be a misunderstanding. The book ""The Signature Of All Things"" is actually written by Elizabeth Gilbert, not Jacob Boehme. Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author known for her best-selling memoir ""Eat, Pray, Love."" ""The Signature Of All Things"" is a novel that tells the story of Alma Whittaker, a brilliant botanist who is born in the late 18th century and grows up in a wealthy family in Philadelphia. Alma's father, Henry Whittaker, is a self-made man who made his fortune through the plant trade, and he instills in Alma a love for botany and science. As Alma grows up, she becomes one of the leading botanists of her time, traveling the world in search of new plant species and studying their properties. Along the way, she encounters a number of fascinating characters, including a Tahitian man named Ambrose Pike who becomes her lover and a spiritual guide. ""The Signature Of All Things"" is a sweeping epic that spans multiple continents and centuries, exploring themes of science, spirituality, love, and the human quest for knowledge. It is a richly detailed and beautifully written novel that has been praised for its vivid characters and lush descriptions of the natural world.THIS 220 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Signature of all Things; of the Supersensual Life; of Heaven and Hell; Discourse Between Two Souls, by Jacob Boehme. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564592154.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
Présentation de l'éditeur
If Signatura Rerum by the German mystic Jacob Boehme looks like a book you'd find in the library at a certain school of wizardry, you're not too far off. Boehme discourses at length here on one of the fundamental laws of Magic: the law of signatures, the concept that every object in the real world has some hidden meaning, and particularly how these signatures interact.
At the core of Boehme's philosophy is a mystical Christianity. However, his beliefs were far from that of the Lutheran establishment, and he was persecuted his entire life. Boehme's view of a universe where a creative and destructive principle are in conflict was later repurposed by Hegel as the dialectic. Newton, Nietzsche, the Quaker George Fox, and even Phillip K. Dick have all been cited as being influenced by Boehme. (Quote from sacred-texts.com)
About the Author
Jacob Boehme (1575 - 1624)
Bohme was born in eastern Germany, near Gorlitz. He grew up as a Lutheran, and worked as a shoemaker in Gorlitz.
Bohme had mystical experiences throughout his youth, culminating in a vision in 1600 that he received through observing the exquisite beauty of a beam of sunlight reflected in a pewter dish. He believed this vision revealed to him the spiritual structure of the world, as well as the relationship between God and man, and good and evil. At the time he chose not to speak of this experience openly, preferring instead to continue his work and raise a family. (Quote from wikipedia.org)
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
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