Precisely the dimension of our heritage that most needs to be recovered...I cannot imagine a more timely publishing venture. Huston Smith Thomas J. Watson Professor Religion Adjunct Professor of Philosophy Syracuse University Jacob Boehme The Way to Christ translation, introduction and notes by Peter Erb, preface by Winifred Zeller For the source in light and the source in darkness is but a single source. Nevertheless they are one nature just as fire and light are one nature. Jacob Boehme, 1575-1624 Evelyn Underhill called the German Lutheran Mystic Jacob Boehme one of the most astonishing cases in history of a natural genius for the transcendent, Nicolas Beryaev described Boehme as Beyond a doubt...one of the greatest of Christian gnostics. I am using the word not in the sense of heresies...but to indicate a wisdom grounded in revelation and employing myths and symbols rather than concepts-a wisdom much more contemplative than discursive. Boehme was the son of a farmer who lived the