Jacob Boehme
Jacob Boehme
Jakob Böhmewas a German Christian mystic and theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme...
became comfort highly melancholy quite scripture therefore though versed
I therefore became very melancholy and highly troubled. No Scripture could comfort me, though I was quite well versed in it.
climb climbed man mean neither revealed
I did not climb up into the Godhead, neither can so mean a man as I am do it; but the Godhead climbed up in me, and revealed such to me out of his Love.
alongside god great heaven valued work
I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven and earth.