Jakob Böhme

"I did not climb up into the Godhead,
neither can so mean a man as I am do it;
but the Godhead climbed up in me,
and revealed such to me out of his Love."

Jakob Böhme (1575-1624), the great mystic and visionary from Germany. He is credited with having founded modern theosophy.

His most important work is The Great Mystery (Mysterium Magnum) which reconciles nature mysticism with Biblical teachings, and The Supersensual Life.