ABSTRACT
Jakob Bohme was a German shoemaker, philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian. Despite his lack of a formal education, Bohme became a prolific writer and mystic and has been described as one of the first German philosophers. The Melancholy nature is dark and dry, yields little corporeity, consumes and corrodes it self inwardly in its own being, remains constantly in the house of mourning, and even when the Sun shines in her, yet is she in her self sorrowful, she receives indeed some refreshment from the Sun's glance, but in the dark she is alwaies in fear and horror of Gods Judgement. When the Soul imagines into the Complexion, and eats of it, and turns herself from Gods Word and Will, she then doth after the property of the Complexion; she embraces all whatsoever is injected by the Stars unto the Complexion, all that the Spirit of the great world brings into the complexion by its imagination.
