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Updated: May 28, 2025
As it is, the unfinished, the scarcely-begun, Theoscopia only serves to show the student of what a treasure he has been bereft by Behmen's too early death. As I read and re-read the Theoscopia I felt the full truth and force of Hegel's generous words, that German philosophy began with Behmen. This is both German and Christian philosophy, I said to myself as I revelled in the Theoscopia.
Penney, that very able student of Behmen, lately deceased, 'can give an adequate glimpse of the light which streams from the Theoscopia when long and patiently studied. Another unfinished fragment that Behmen's readers seek for and treasure up like very sand of gold is his Holy Week.
The Theoscopia, or Divine Vision, is but a fragment; but, even so, the study of that fragment leads us to believe that, had Behmen lived to the ordinary limit of human life, and had his mind continued to grow as it was now fast growing in clearness, in concentration, and in simplicity, Behmen would have left to us not a few books as classical in their form as all his books are classical in their substance; in their originality, in their truth, in their depth, and in their strength.
Let the serious student listen to the titles of some of the chapters of the Theoscopia, and then let him say what he would not have given to have got such a book from such a pen in its completed shape: 'What GOD is, and how we men shall know the Divine Substance by the Divine Revelation. Why it sometimes seems as if there were no GOD, and as if all things went in the world by chance.
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