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In Boehme's case, as in that of Swedenborg, whose faculty did not appear until he was fifty-four years of age, it would appear that the faculty was constitutional and already developed, waiting only the conditions which should bring it into active operation. The agent most suitable for developing clairvoyance cannot therefore be definitely prescribed.
"Hum," growled my good old chum, as he read it, "don't want to be disturbed to-day; sick, is he? I'd like to know who's to blame, if he isn't. Wishes me to bring my Shakspeare along; it's a wonder he had not said Plotinus, or Jacob Boehme's 'Aurora'; they're more in his style. The deuse take that boy and his picture, Ned! What if we two fools have been playing too roughly with such plastic clay?
He with a "look you!" vents a brace of rhymes, And in there breaks the sudden rose herself, Over us, under, round us every side, Nay, in and out the tables and the chairs And musty volumes, Boehme's book and all Buries us with a glory, young once more, Pouring heaven into this poor house of life.
"Oh Master," says the Scholar in Boehme's great dialogue, "the creatures that live in me so withhold me, that I cannot wholly yield and give myself up as I willingly would." No psychologist has come nearer to a statement of the human situation than have these old specialists in the spiritual life.
More perhaps than ever before, men are now driven to ask themselves the searching question of the disciple in Boehme's Dialogue on the Supersensual Life: "Seeing I am in nature, how may I come through nature into the supersensual ground, without destroying nature?" And such a coming through into the ground, such a finding and feeling of Eternal Life, is I take it the central business of religion.
Over and over again it assures him under various metaphors, that he must turn within, withdraw from the window, meet the inner guest; and such a withdrawal is the condition of all contemplation. Consider the opening of Jacob Boehme's great dialogue on the Supersensual Life. "The Scholar said to his Master: How may I come to the supersensual life, that I may see God and hear Him speak?
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