"There are as many blasphemies in this shoemaker's book as there are lines; it smells of shoemaker's pitch and filthy blacking. May this insufferable stench be far from us. The Arian poison was not so deadly as this shoemaker's poison."
— Jakob Böhme

January 1, 1970

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Gregorius Richter, chief pastor of Görlitz, following the publication of Aurora, as quoted in Jacob Boehme : His Life and Teaching, or Studies in Theosophy (1885) edited by Hans Lassen Martensen; translated by T. Rhys Evans