Pordage, John

Pordage, John.The wisdom of John Pordage [edited and introduced by Arthur Versluis], Edited by Arthur Versluis. St Paul (MN) New Grail, 2003. 80p. 

Bodl., MS Rawlinson D 833, fols. 63r-64r Richard Roach, The Great Crisis (1725), pp. 98-99 Ariel Hessayon, Pordage, John bap. 1607, d. 1681) , ODNB Ariel Hessayon, Bromley, Thomas bap. 1630, d. 1691) , ODNB Ariel Hessayon, Brice, Edmund fl. 1648-1696) , ODMB Ariel Hessayon, Gold Tried in the Fire . The ProphetTheaurauJohn Tany and the English Revolution (Aldershot, 2007), pp. 194-200, 317-23. 

Hessayon, Pordage, John , ODNB, and Pordage, Mary , ODNB. 

Hirst, Desiree. The riddle of John Pordage. Jacob Boehme Soc Q 1, no. 6 (Winter 1953-54) 5-15. 

An English mystic, she was a follower of Jakob Boehme, and was closely linked to the Berkshire Boehmian John Pordage, traditionally seen as her Jiatei mjsterium. Perhaps her most well-known work is the Rerelation of Revelations, which describes her 1670 vision of the Virgin in the form of Sophia, or Divine Wisdom. Her work is notable for its peace and happiness in this, she calls to mind another great mystic, her contemporary Thomas Traherne. 

This condition of the philosophical Blackness is described by the Alchemist John Pordage (some consider him to be the English Jacob Boehme) with the following words ... 

C. Barry, The English Mystics Jane Lead , Notes Queries, 2 series, 1 (1856), p. 93 A. Roffe, Jane Lead and Swedenborg , Notes Queries, 2 series, 2 (1856), pp. 470-71 The Philadelphian Society—Mrs. Jane Lead , The Dawn (1 December 1862), pp. 236—42 Spiritualism in Biography - John Pordage Jane Lead the Countess of Asseburgh , The Spiritual Magazine, (May, 1863), pp. 199-204. 

Joseph Sabberton, To make die true compound Elixir of scurvy-p/rass (1680) John Pordage, The true Spirit of Scurvy-Grass (no date) TNA PRO, Prob 11/393 fol. 71r-v. 

Walton, Notes, p. 203 John Pordage, Gdttliche und Wahre Metaphysica (Frankfhrt and Leipzig, 1715), pp. 596-97, 669-73 Thune, Behmenists, pp. 65-66. 

John Pordage, Theolo ia Mystica, or the Mystic Divinitie of the Eternal Invisibles (1683), p. 89. 

See, for example, the idea of God s Mystery in Jacob Boehme, The Tree of Christian Faith (London 1654) and the idea of the Eternal Nature and Spirit of Eternity himself in John Pordage, Theologia Mystica (1683). 

Besides the literature on the English Behmenists, for further information on John Pordage and his contribution to the reception of Boehme s thinking, see C.G. Manusow, Jacob Bohme and Britain , in J. Garewicz (ed.), Gott, Natur, Mensch in der Sicht Jacob Bohmes und seiner Rezeption (Wiesbaden, 1995), pp. 197-208 Arthur Versluis, Wisdom s Children. A Christian Esoteric Tradition (Albany, NY, 1999), pp. 39-56, 172-80. 

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