The Suprasensual Life: And the Way to Christ

Jacob Boehme rejects the notion, promoted by oriental mysticism and medieval monkery, that God-consciousness can only be found at the end of a long, strenuous course of spiritual discipline. Illumination, says Boehme, is not a matter of attainment but realization. We do not need to climb Mount Enlightenment; we open our eyes and find that we are on the mountaintop, where we have always been. This volume includes The Suprasensual Life and the five companion tractates traditionally published ...