[24] Christopher Walton, Notes and Materials for a Biography of Wm. Law (London, 1854), 55.
[25] The great passages in which Boehme expounds the seven qualities are found in the Aurora, chaps. viii.-xi.; Sig. re. chap. xiv.; The Clavis, 54-132; though they are more or less definitely stated or implied in nearly everything he wrote. Seven "qualities" or "principles" or "sources" appear and reappear in ever shifting forms throughout the entire literature of Gnosticism, alchemy, and nature-mysticism.
[26] Aurora, viii. 32-35.
[27] Some of Boehme's enthusiastic friends insist that Sir Isaac Newton, who was an admirer of Boehme, "ploughed with Boehme's heifer," i.e. got his suggestion of the law of universal gravitation from the philosopher of Görlitz. See Walton, Notes, p. 46 and passim.
[28] Sig. re. iv. passim.
[29] Sig. re. xiii.
[30] For fuller treatment of this point see Boutroux, Historical Studies in Philosophy, chapter on "Jacob Boehme, the German Philosopher," pp. 199-201.
[31] Third Epistle, 33.
[32] Twenty-fourth Epistle, 7; Sig. re. i.
[33] The Threefold Life, vi. 47.