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| | "Within, Not Without: Jakob Boehme" by Grace F. Knoche |
 | | One of the most illustrious and yet humblest of men was Jakob Boehme, a sixteenth-century cobbler who was born in Old Seidenberg, Germany, and who was to become known as the Illuminate of Corlitz, the Teutonic Theosopher, and later as the Theosopher par excellence. |
 | | Thundering invective against Boehme from his pulpit, he decreed exile, but through the persuasion of friends, the sentence was remanded the next day, though not without Boehme's promise to desist from further writing of his heretical views. |
 | | To this he acquiesced for several years, and then, realizing that his vows to his own divine promptings were thus neglected, he determined no longer to allow any outside authority to govern his inner life. |
| www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/world/modeur/ph-gfk.htm (1897 words) |
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