[38] _Fifteenth Epistle_, 18. This "new smell in the life of God" often occurs in Boehme's writings. Compare George Fox's testimony, "The whole creation had a new smell." For further comparisons see pp. 221-227. [39] The following is a complete list of his writings: 1612. _The Aurora_. 1619. _The Three Principles of the Divine Essence_. 1620. _The Threefold Life of Man; Forty Questions; The Incarnation of Jesus Christ; The Suffering, Death and Resurrection of Christ; The Tree of Faith; Six Points; Heavenly and Earthly Mysterium; The Last Times_. 1621. _De signatura rerum; The Four Complexions; Apology to Balthazar Tilken_ in 2 parts; _Consideration on Esaias Stiefel's Book_. 1622. Sec. _Apology to Stiefel; Repentance; Resignation; Regeneration_. 1623. _Predestination and Election of God; A Short Compendium of Repentance; The Mysterium magnum_. 1624. _The Clavis; The Supersensual Life; Divine Contemplation; Baptism and the Supper; A Dialogue Between the Enlightened and Unenlightened Soul; An Apology on the Book of Repentance; 177 Theosophic Questions; An Epitome of the Mysterium magnum; The Holy Week; An Exposition of the Threefold World_. Undated. _An Apology to Esaias Stiefel; The Last Judgment; Epistles_. [40] _Thirty-first Epistle_, 10. [41] _The Third Epistle_, 30. [42] _Ibid._ 29. [43] There are as many blasphemies in the shoemaker's book as there are lines. It smells of shoemaker's wax and filthy blacking. May this intolerable stench be far from us. [44] _Thirty-fourth Epistle_, 5. [45] _Thirty-third Epistle_. [46] _Thirty-fourth Epistle_, 16 and 21. [47] Weissner's Narrative, _Memoirs_, p. 49. [48] _Ibid._ p. 58. [49] _Wort und Geist_, p. 196 _seq._ [50] What could be a bolder criticism of the existing Church of his day than this: "In place of the wolf [the Roman Church] there has grown up the fox [the Lutheran Church] another anti-Christ, never a whit better than the first. If he should come to be old enough how he would devour the poor people's hens!"--_The Three Principles of the Divine Essence_, xviii. 102. [51] _Mysterium magnum_, xxvii. 47. [52] _Ibid._ xxviii. 49-51. [53] _Mysterium magnum_, xxxvi. 34; xl. 98. [54] _Ibid._ lxiii. 47-51; _Twenty-first Epistle_, 1. [55] _Myst. mag._ xxv. 13. [56] _The First Epistle_, 3-5. [57] _Apology to Tilken_, ii. 298. [58] _Ibid._ 72. Compare George Fox's testimony: "All must come to that Spirit, if they would know God or Christ or the Scriptures aright, which they that gave them forth were led and taught by."--_Journal_ (ed. 1901), i. 35 and _passim_. [59] _Sig. re._ xiv. i. [60] _Myst. mag._ lxx. 40. [61] _Fourth Epistle_, 27 and 32. [62] _The Three Princ._ xxii. 2. [63] _Aurora_, iii. 39. {172} CHAPTER X BOEHME'S UNIVERSE