A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the vision of Porphyry, the conversion of Paul, the aurora of
Behmen, the convulsions of George Fox and his Quakers, the illumination of Swedenborg, are of this kind.
The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob
Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader.
Any man of mechanical talents may, from the writings of Paracelsus or Jacob
Behmen, produce ten thousand volumes of equal value with Swedenborg's, and from those of Dante or Shakespear [sic] an infinite number./But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
Two brave and famous knights,
Behmen and Felson, are put in charge of transporting the accused witch to a remote abbey where the witch will have rituals performed upon her in the hope that the plague will be cured.
TWO AWOL Crusaders
Behmen (Nicolas Cage) and best friend Felson (Ron Perlman) find their homeland ravaged by the Black Plague.
Behmen (Nicolas Cage) and best friend Felson (Ron Perlman) go on a mission to take a young witch to an abbey to be exorcised.
SEASON OF THE WITCH (15)
Behmen (Nicolas Cage) and best friend Felson (Ron Perlman) are Crusaders who turn their backs on the Church and return home to discover that the plague has ravaged their beloved land.
Cast: Nicolas Cage(
Behmen),Ron Perlman(Felson), Stephen Campbell Moore (Debelzaq), Claire Foy (the Girl), Stephen Graham (Hagamar), Ulrich Thomsen (Eckhart), Robert Sheehan (Kay) and Christopher Lee (Cardinal D'Ambroise).
10 Season Of The Witch (15)
Behmen (Nicolas Cage) and friend Felson (Ron Perlman) are Crusaders who return to discover the Black Plague has ravaged the land.
Behmen - German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624)