Behmen
Americannoun
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Hallam writes Behmen: his index-maker, rather superfluously, gives "Behmen or Boehm."
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
Early in life, too, he met with the doctrines of Jacob Behmen, of whom, in the Biographia Literaria, he speaks with affection and gratitude as having given him vital philosophic guidance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
I do not think this mention will revive Behmen; but it may the whizgig, a very pretty toy, and philosophical withal, for few of those who used it could explain it.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
One of these fell into the hands of the Lutheran Clergyman of Görlitz, Pastor Primarius Gregorius Richter, who thenceforth became a bitter opponent of Behmen.
From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Böhme, Jakob
But Behmen never uses words in this merely literary way, being indeed in nowise a man of letters.
From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Böhme, Jakob
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