The Signature of All Things

By: Jacob Boehme

Narrated by: Matthew Coles

Signatura Rerum by the German Christian mystic Jacob Boehme examines the law of signatures, which is the notion that every object in the real world has a concealed meaning, and the way these signatures interact. He suggested that God marked objects with a sign or "signature" to indicate their purpose. Boehme’s concept of the creative vs the destructive principles became Hegel’s ‘dialected,’ while his influence is discernible in the thought of luminaries like Newton, William Blake and Alfred North Whitehead.

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Learn how to pronounce German names, you British bastard

I have to wonder who vets these people. The reader sounds like a smarty-pants British guy but betrays his country-bumpkin reality by pronouncing the author’s name as Jacob Bowem instead of Yakob Bermuh. Aside from that, the translation could really use a little work, at least to get rid of the archaic word “vis” which seems to recur at least 1000 times in chapter 3 alone. It is unnatural in modern English and really distracts from the listening experience