Awakening to Divine Wisdom: Christian Initiation into Three Worlds

by Johann Georg Gichtel, Arthur Versluis (Editor)

144 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2004

About the author

Johann Georg Gichtel (March 14, 1638 – January 21, 1710) was a German mystic and religious leader who was a critic of Lutheranism. His followers ultimately separated from this faith. He became an ardent disciple of Jakob Böhme, whose works he published in 1682 (Amsterdam, 2 vols); but before the time of his death, he had attracted to himself a small band of followers known as "Gichtelians" or "Brethren of the Angels," who propagated certain views at which he had arrived independently of Böhme.