Jakob Böhme was a German freemason, kabbalist, alchemist, philosopher and Christian mystic of the Lutheran Protestant Church. He was influenced by Paracelsus. In 1612 he wrote Aurora (dawn). Jakob= Jack. He worked with Balthasar Walter (follower of Paracelsus). He influenced Sabbatean jews, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Quakers, Petrus Serrarius, rosicrucians, Martinist Order, German Idealism and Romanticism (Johann Fichte, GWF Hegel, Friedrich Schlegel), Theosophical Society, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Frederick Van Eeden (Monte Verità),...