Jakob Böhme
（重定向自Jakob Behmen）
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![Böhme's cosmogony or the Philosophical Sphere or the Wonder Eye of Eternity (1620).](/Images/godic/202501/21/Böhme_Philosophische_Kugel4501.JPG")
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Jakob Böhme (/ˈbeɪmə, ˈboʊ-/; 1575 – November 17, 1624) was a German Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.