at time regular societies of _Behmenists_,
embracing not only the cultivated but the vulgar, existed in England
and in Holland. They merged into the Quaker movement, holding already
in common with Friends that salvation is nothing short of the very
presence and life of Christ in the believer, and only kept apart by an
objective doctrine of the sacraments which exposed them to the polemic
of Quakers (e.g. J. Anderdon). Muggleton led an anthropomorphic
reaction against them, and between the two currents they were swept
away. The Philadelphian Society at the beginning of the 18th century
consisted of cultured mystics, Jane Lead, Pordage, Francis Lee,
Bromley, &c., who fed upon Boehme. William Law (1686-1761) somewhat
later recurred to the same spring, with the result, however, in those
dry times of bringing his own good sense into question rather than of
reviving the credit of his author. After Law's death the old English
translation was in great part re-edited (4 vols., 1762-1784) as a
tribute to his memory, by George Ward and Thomas Langcake, with plates
from the designs of D.A. Freher (Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 5767-5794). This
forms what is commonly called Law's translation; to complete it a 5th
vol. (12mo, Dublin, 1820) is needed.

See also J. Hambetger, _Die Lehre des deutschen Philosophen J.
Boehmes_ (1844); Alb. Peip, _J. Boehme der deutsche Philosoph_ (1860);
von Harless, _J. Boehme und die Alchimisten_ (1870, 2nd ed. 1882). For
Boehme's life see the _Memoirs_ by Abraham von Frankenberg (d. 1652)
and others, trans, by F. Okely (1870); La Motte Fouque, _J. Boehm, ein
biographischer Denkstein_ (1831); H.A. Fechner, _J. Boehme, sein Leben
und seine Schriften_ (1857); H.L. Martensen, _J. Boehme, Theosophiske
Studier_ (Copenhagen, 1881; English trans. 1885); J. Claassen, _J.
Boehme, sein Leben und seine theosophische Werke_ (Gutersloh, 1885);
P. Deussen, _J. Boehme, uber sein Leben und seine Philosophie_ (Kiel,
1897).

BOEOTIA, a district of central Greece, stretching from Phocis and Locris
in the W. and N. to Attica and Megaris in the S. between the strait of
Euboea and the Corinthian Gulf. This area, amounting in all to 1100 sq.
m., naturally falls into two main divisions. In the north the basin of
the Cephissus and Lake Copais lies between parallel mountain-walls
continuing eastward the line of Parnassus in the extensive ridge of
Helicon, the "Mountain of t