Böhme, [Boehme, Behmen], Jacob [Mysticism, Occult, 1651] 
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Signatura rerum. Or the signature of all things, shewing the sign and signification of the several forms and shapes in the creation and what the beginning, ruin and cure of every thing is, it proceeds out of eternity into time (…) and comprizeth all mysteries. Written in high Dutch 1622 by Jacob Behmen, alias Teutonicus Phylosophus. London, Macock for Calvert, 1651. A very rare, first edition copy of the English-language translation of Jakob Boehme’s (1575-1642) Signatura rerum (1622). The writings of Boehme, a German mystic and theosopher, inspired the 17th-century Christian movement known as Behmenism. Controversial for its religious heterodoxy, Boehme’s mysticism nevertheless attracted a great number of followers across continental Europe and England.
This first-edition, English-language translation was published precisely during the height of Boehme’s popularity in England, during the years of the Interregnum (1649-1660). A period of political turbulence, people turned increasingly to astrology, mysticism, and the occult. This text, the Signatura rerum, discusses how God bestowed every object at creation with a “signature” that connects the material and spiritual worlds, and that can be decoded and intepreted as part of the natural order. The publication of this edition contributed to a larger project, undertaken from 1645-1662 by John Ellistone, John Sparrow (Ellistone’s cousin), Humphrey Blunden, and Giles Calvert, to translate and publish Boehme’s oeuvre in England.
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