10. Mystical Heart Diagrams of Paul Kaym

 

The mystical heart diagrams of Paul Kaym 

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The Helleleuchtender Hertzens-Spiegel, (A Bright, Shining Heart-Mirror), Amsterdam and Gdansk, Heinrich Betkius,1680, a visual interpretation of John Tauler, in the form of sixteen copper-plate engravings. is thought have been been compiled and edited by Paul Kaym from writings of Abraham von Franckenberg . The title page indicates that it written on the doctrine of Johannes Tauler (an "illuminated" 14th century German mystic), but it takes much from the mystical Jakob Boehme. Kaym had written to Boehme in 1620 asking him about the 'end of time', and was answered in letters 8 and 11 of Boehme's, later published, Epistles.  (numbers 4 and 5 in Collection 1 of THE EPISTLES OF JACOB BOEHME) which Kaym published as OF THE END TIMES.  

Time has ended over and over since then. Kaym also wrote commentaries on the Song of Songs and the Book of Revelation. He is called an eschatologist and a theosophist, believed in the thousand years, an immanent end of the world and dissed the organized rituals of religion for inward illumination for spiritual growth. He held internal, inward and inner,  internal absolution, inward Baptism, and inner union with the divine. Sounds like Matthius Bauman, born just after.  Helleleuchtender Hertzens-Spiegel is a spiritual journey of the human heart in images of obstacles of enlightenment. The sixteen images were most likely engraved by Nicolaus Häublin, who illustrated works for German followers of Boehme.

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The following are from a 1705 Amsterdam edition which includes only the first 14 diagrams. Nos. XV and XVI are taken from adern facsimi

Brightly illuminating Hertzens mirror: by means of a threefold presentation ..., I. The Erknnnis, II. The exercise, and then III. The secret of true godliness, that is, the whole act, Krafft and Hertzens theologia ... with highly valuable Kupffer figures ..., including a short-fisted yet complete prayer booklet, or devotional spear

 by Wehrd, N. of ; Tauler, Johannes, ca. 1300-1361

Publication date 1680

Topics Christian life

Publisher Amsterdam and Franckfurt: Bey Johann Bielcken, Buchhändl.


Reference:  
Divine Diagrams: The Manuscripts and Drawings of Paul Lautensack (1477/78-1558). Berthold Kress