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Important theosophical work by Gichtel, the editor of Böhmes first critical collective edition

GICHTEL, Johann Georg and Johann Georg GRABER.
Eine kurze Eröffnung und Anweisung der dreyen Principien und Welten im Menschen in unterschiedlichen Figuren vorgestellet.....Abgemahlet und vorgestellet durch Johan Georg Grabern von Ringenhausen, Johan Georg Gichteln von Regensburg, im Jahr Christi 1696.

With title printed in red and black, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates, including the (Böhmian) Wheel of Birth (1 double-page, 1 folding).

With title printed in red and black, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates, including the (Böhmian) Wheel of Birth (1 double-page, 1 folding).

With title printed in red and black, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates, including the (Böhmian) Wheel of Birth (1 double-page, 1 folding).

With title printed in red and black, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates, including the (Böhmian) Wheel of Birth (1 double-page, 1 folding).

With title printed in red and black, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates, including the (Böhmian) Wheel of Birth (1 double-page, 1 folding).



(No place, no publisher), 1736. 8vo. 20th-century boards covered with marbled paper. With title printed in red and black, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates, including the (Böhmian) Wheel of Birth (1 double-page, 1 folding). 175, [1] pp.

Second edition of Gichtel's important theosophical work, in which he describes how the wheel of the planets lies on the human body in seven diabolical seals. It was first published in Leiden in 1723. The plates depict the Böhmian Wheel of Birth and demonstrate the evolution of humankind from the spirit.
Johann Georg Gichtel (Regensburg 1638 - Amsterdam 1710) was a German mystic and a critic of Lutheranism. When Gichtel came to Holland, ''he was gripped by the spiritual movements of the mystical emigrants, who had been forced to leave Germany as a result of persecution by the Lutheran orthodoxy. In Amsterdam he also became acquainted with the works of Jacob Böhme, who appealed to him so strongly that he regarded his works in an even higher light than the Bible. Gichtel's most enduring service to the revered master is undoubtedly the first critical edition [of Böhme's works] in 16 parts, for which he was active as editor, publisher, and occasionally even as printer. Gichtel's own works were shaped by Böhme, although Gichtel was also aware of the fact that he head to go one step beyond Böhme. For instance, he rejected marriage, because he took Böhme's idea about the original androgynous nature of man too literally, and thus regarded women as a reversion of the original order of creation. In the place of woman, Gichtel puts the heavenly virgin Sophia, who performs the spiritual marriage with the newly-born and enables the reintroduction of Melchizedekian priesthood'' (Gilly).

Book block cracked in two; one quire loose; some soiling. Good copy of this work by one of the most important followers of Böhme.
Cf. Bibl. Esoterica 1861; Caillet II, 4522 ; Gilly, 500 years of gnosis in Europe 61b; Roob, Alchemy & mysticism (Cologne, 1997), p. 559.

Related Subjects: Hermetica  Mystics  Occult  Occult Sciences  Theosophy 

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