Philosophy of Religion

Aurora

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Jakob Böhme

1612

Böhme's first and most turbulent work, written after a sudden mystical illumination in which he described seeing into the heart of nature itself. Unfinished when church authorities confiscated the manuscript, it lays out his fundamental vision: God as a living, self-generating fire, reality as the interplay of divine wrath and love, and the natural world as the visible body of invisible spiritual forces. Though rough in composition, Aurora established Böhme as the most original mystical thinker of the Protestant world.