[11] His English translators in the seventeenth century variously spelled his name Behm, Behme, and Behmen. This latter spelling was adopted in the so-called Law Edition of 1764, and has thus come into common use in England and America. [12] Boehme refers frequently to "the writings of high masters," whom he says he read (_Aurora_, x. 45), and he often names Schwenckfeld and Weigel in particular. See especially _The Second Epistle_, sec. 54-62 [13] _Memoirs of the Life, Death and Burial, and Wonderful Writings of Jacob Behmen_, translated by Francis Okeley (1780), p. 22. [14] _Memoirs_, p. 2. [15] _Memoirs_, p. 6. Von Franckenberg says that Boehme himself told him this incident. [16] Ibid. pp. 4-5. The reader will have noted the long history of this phrase, "Sabbath of the soul." [17] _Ibid._ p. 7. [18] _Memoirs_, p. 8. Paracelsus taught that the inner nature of things might be seen by one who has become an organ of the Universal Mind. He says: "Hidden things which cannot be perceived by the physical senses may be found through the sidereal body, through whose organism we may look into nature in the same way as the sun shines through a glass. The inner nature of everything may be known through Magic [The Divine Magia] and the power of inner sight."--Hartmann's _Life of Paracelsus_ (1896), p. 53. [19] He uses this word _Seeker_ hundreds of times in his writings. [20] _Second Epistle_, sec. 6-8. [21] _Aurora_, xix. 10-13. He goes on in the following sections to describe how for twelve years this insight "grew in his soul like a young tree before the exact understanding of it all" was arrived at. [22] _The Fifth Epistle_, 50. [23] _Aurora_, xi. 146. [24] _Ibid._ xi. 6. [25] Aurora, xxii. 47. [26] In the _Aurora_ Boehme speaks of the Flash as an experience: "As the lightning flash appears and disappears again in a moment, so it is also with the soul. In its battle the soul suddenly penetrates through the clouds and sees God like a flash of Light."--Ibid. xi. 76. [27] _Memoirs_, p. 8. [28] Evidently the "flash" of the year 1610 was not the last one. In fact, he seems to have had frequent ecstasies. [29] _The Second Epistle_, 9-10. [30] _Third Epistle_, 35. [31] See especially _Signatura rerum_, ix. 63, and _Forty Questions_, xxvi. 2-3 and xxx. 3 and 5. [32] _Third Epistle_, 32. The _Memoirs_ describe how it was copied by "a Gentleman of some rank" [Carl von Endern]. [33] _Memoirs_, p. 9. [34] Preserved in the Diary of Bartholomew Scultetus, then Mayor of Goerlitz (Ueberfeld's edition, 1730). This Diary does not record any actual banishment of Boehme. The data for our knowledge of the persecutions of Boehme are found in a personal narrative written by his friend Cornelius Weissner, M.D.--_Memoirs_, pp. 39-50. [35] _Aurora_, xiii. 7-10. [36] _Ibid._ xxxvi. 152. [37] _Third Epistle_, 7.