The Jewish Sources of Boehme

How did the Kabbalah reach Jakob Boehme, the Görlitz shoemaker who read no Hebrew and had never seen a synagogue? Hladík argues no direct filiation, which no document attests; he assembles a convergent body of evidence: Paracelsus, Valentin Weigel, the physician Balthasar Walther, the Christian Kabbalah of Pico and Reuchlin, and above all the 'holy Cabala of metamorphoses' Boehme himself names in 1624. An inquiry of exemplary caution, reading in the theosophist's Natursprache the three-seven-twelve structure of the Sefer Yetzirah. French text established from the Hladík autograph; the German original in appendix. The scholarly side of the Bibliotheca Hladikiana, by the Praguer of The Secret Miracle.