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THE ATLAS OF THE UNPAINTABLE

Jakob Böhme

Böhme
nature
A shoemaker in Görlitz who saw the whole of it in a beam of light on a pewter dish, and spent the rest of his life drawing wheels, eyes and mirrored triangles to explain the Ungrund — the groundless ground before God is anything at all.

⭐⭐ THE CLOSEST ANY CHRISTIAN GOT TO EIN SOF WITHOUT READING HEBREW, and his diagrams are the ancestor of every mystical wheel-chart in the West. Blake read him. Newton read him. The Philadelphians drew him.
The Ungrund — the unground, which is neither light nor darkness.
rhymes with
sephirahketer
whyThe Ungrund and the Ein Sof are two names for the same refusal to begin.
tags
boehme · ungrund · theosophy · gorlitz · wheel · diagram · protestant mysticism
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