Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) was a simple shoemaker of Görlitz, Silesia (now part of Saxony, Eastern Germany) who has had an enduring influence within the path of what may be termed as inner alchemy. Historically, he occupied a significant position and can be seen as a bridge, or conduit, from a Germanic period of mysticism – [...]
Introduction to Dionysius the Areopagite by James Cowan I first encountered the name of Dionysius the Areopagite when I purchased a second-hand copy of his Celestial Hierarchies in 1971. Reading his work changed my life forever. Not because his thought was comprehensible (which it wasn’t) but because he intimated a way of viewing reality that suggested [...]
Late medieval Europe was blessed with a number of important religious thinkers who enlivened the austere Aristotlism of past scholastic writers. Men such as Meister Eckhart, John Tauler, and mystics such as Julian of Norwich and Walter Hilton helped to leaven a Christianity that was in danger of becoming reduced to an arid analysis of [...]
