ABSTRACT
Jacob Boehme shares a primacy of place with Eckhart in Jung's treatment of specific Western mystics. Even more than with Eckhart foundational elements in Boehme's mystical experience clearly anticipate essential elements in Jung's psychology. Boehme's inaugural experience is probably experientially continuous with Boehme's consequent personal and visionary life. Boehme was born into a place and time rife with religious and political strife. Boehme, like Jung, seems to have been possessed with a profound religious sensitivity from his younger years. His later visions and writings were but expansive elaborations and refinements in continuity with the initial vision. Hegel was to call Boehme the originator of a distinctly German philosophy but at the same time described his writing as barbaric and so in need of Hegel's rational clarification to save its valued meaning. The dialectic of Trinitarian life for Boehme is a dialectic in which every existent participates.
