The Way to Christ (Weg zu Christo)

Therefore, be pious, fear God, and reverence His Word ; especially read the Bible diligently where thou hast comfort and instruction, for thou must endure much misery and poverty, and suffer persecution. But be courageous and persevere, for God loves and is gracious unto thee." The Stranger then pressed his hand, gave him a kind look, and departed — with the shoes. It is questionable whether these incidents were not visionary with, rather than of actual occurrence to, Jacob Boehme ; but the result of them was that his thoughts assumed a deeply religious form — far deeper than that of the mere '* Lutheran Faith" in which he had been brought up — which so operated upon him in the years to come that his Spirit was able to penetrate into the innermost mysteries of Nature : to foresee and foretell what is^ now^ known as Electricity, with its immense possiljilitick; and.tilsoc to divine the three great Principles or first Laws^of Nature-^attnSction, equal resistance producing orbicular Prefatory ^Vlemoir. movement, resulting in gravitation : which Principles, Sir ISAAC Newton, who was a diligent though unavowed Student of Boehm^s works, by reducing to a Mathematical Form, established that grand Theory of the Universe — the Solar System : which Thomas Carlyle described as the most perfect approach to a Theory that has ever been propounded.*