Jakob Boehme

Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

Jakob Boehme - German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)

Behmen, Boehm, Boehme, Bohme, Jakob Behmen, Jakob Boehm, Jakob Bohme

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

The title of the book, The Signature of All Things, is based on a 17th-century theory from a mystic named Jakob Boehme, who came up with the idea that God had hidden clues in the design of every plant.

Age of exploration: in her new novel, The Signature of All Things, the acclaimed author Elizabeth Gilbert charts the border between science and spirituality

Pordage encouraged Leade's visions and her writing, and he evidently introduced her to Jakob Boehme whose works were to occupy an immensely important place in her thought and composition.

Julie Hirst. Jane Leade: Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Mystic

Also in this period, thanks to Pordage she began to absorb the notions of Jakob Boehme, "Silesian theosopher," and the author investigates his ideas, which embraced "occult philosophy, Gnosticism, the Cabbala, alchemy and magic" (25).