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Jakob Behmen

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Jakob Behmen see Boehme, Jakob .

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Magazine article from: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...firmly rooted in the German Romantic tradition. She was influenced by the Catholic Middle Ages, German mysticism and Jakob Boehme, the 17th century thinker who believed that "God" was characterized by a balance of two extremes; light and dark...
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Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...seems, is heavy with allusion. The allusions are not all to places--they are personal as well: from Max Jacob to Jakob Boehme, and from Montesquieu to Marshall Ney, they range across centuries and through the pages of our cultural archive...
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Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...copies found should be confiscated. His works nonetheless continued to circulate, influencing the Lutheran mystic, Jakob Boehme. Weigel's writings on prayer, which were known to Johannes Arndt, helped to shape the Pietist emphasis on inner...
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Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 5/12/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Christologically tinted" Berlin home, the frail, impressionable Sachs developed an interest in mysticism, primarily that of Jakob Boehme, the 17th century theologian. In the thirties, after receiving two books by Martin Buber, she encountered Hassidism...
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