LEADE, Jane - Lot 69

LEADE, Jane Offenbarungen der Jane Leade die letzten zeiten betreffend, nebst Anmerkungen und einer Lebensbeschreibung dieser Engländerin Der Baum des glaubens oder Baum des Lebens Strassburg, J. H. Silbermann, 1807, in-12, modern ecru suede binding, leather title page, VIII, 20, 128 pp. Untrimmed, dusty copy. Faint stains on the title pages and at the ends of the margins of a few leaves. Ex-libris: wet stamp in the name of Jean - Henri Hierthes, illustrator and printer in Wissembourg. This is a reprint of the 1696 German translation of L'arbre de la foi et l'arbre de la vie, a collection of visions by the famous English mystic Jane Leade (1623 - 1704), in whom Sédir took a close interest. His translation of "Le Messager céleste de la Paix Universelle" was published by Chamuel in 1894, preceded by a bio-bibliographical note from which the following lines are extracted: "The works of this illuminated woman, first a pupil then director of the physician John Pordage, and founder of the Society of Philadelphians, comprise exclusively, not Hermetic treatises, but amplifications of Christian mysticism. She was a clairvoyant and, like Boehme, describes only the inner pictures that unfolded before her [...] All her works were translated into German in Amsterdam, 1696-1698, by an anonymous person who was not unknown to Gichtel. Saint-Martin's Correspondence with Kirchberger contains many passages relating to this school of mystics."