WEIGEL, Valentine

by Valentine Weigel

£2,750 · Offered by Sokol Books

Rare first edition of this translation into English of this important spiritual work that was to have tremendous influence in England in Theosophist circles in the C19th, especially after it was reprinted with a commentary by Anna Kingsford in 1886. Valentin Weigel (1553-1588) was a mystical writer who drew upon Paracelsist and alchemical ideas. His ideas influenced Jacob Boehme, and other German Protestant mystics of the 17th century. Most of his writings were published after his death, when a small group of Weigelians promoted his ideas, and some texts were issued in his name, pseudonymously. This is the only one of his works that was published in English. ESTC assigns the work to Valentine Wiegel, with the note "German or Latin original, if any, not traced It is, however, uncertain whether it was written by Weigel himself. The text was first printed anonymously in 1617 under the title: Astrologia Theologizata,. The following year a German translation was printed under Weigel's name as the second part of the Gnothi Seauton . There is no manuscript tradition associated with this text before c.1620, long after Weigel's death in 1588. But whether written by Weigel, or later by one of his school, it is a good illustration of the way in which mystically inclined Christians of that period, inspired by Weigel, endeavoured to make spiritual conquest of the prevailing Astrology. The Saxon Lutheran pastor Valentin Weigel (1533 1588) was marked by modern scholars as a mystic, a theoso

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