JAKOB BOHME: HIS THOUGHT AND EARLY RECEPTION -- The Seduction of Influence: A Forschungsbericht -- Bohme's Thought: A Precis -- Bohme's Reception in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Typology -- JAKOB BOHME AND THE JENA CIRCLE: THE STORY OF A RECEPTION -- The Discovery / Ludwig Tieck -- An Interrupted Reception: Novalis Towards a Mystical Science / J.W. Ritter -- The Limits of the Reception / FE. D. Schleiermacher, A.W., Caroline and Dorothea Schlegel -- FROM UNIVERSALPOESIE TO CHRISTIAN IDEALISM: BOHME'S THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHICAL ROMANTICISM -- Universalpoesie, Mythology, and Christian Idealism / Friedrich Schlegel -- Idealism, Human Freedom, and the Problem of Evil / F. WJ. Schelling -- Conclusion