Excerpts read from the teaching, "The Supersensual Life." Transcribed by Wayne Kraus The full text of the teaching can be found here: http://www.jacobboehmeonline.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/THE_SUPERSENSUAL_LIFE.6243904.pdf Jakob Böhme (April 1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. Böhme had a profound influence on later philosophical movements such as German idealism and German Romanticism. Hegel described Böhme as "the first German philosopher". original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4lc4QN9nzc