Commonly Behmenism. The doctrines taught by Jakob Bœhme, a German mystic and theosophist (1575–1624); so Bœhmenist, Bœhmenite.
1656. More, Euthus. Tri. (1712), 49. Ranters and Quakers took their original from Behmenism and Familism.
1655. Baxter, Quaker’s Catech., Pref. C iij b. I could tell you of abundance of Popery that the Quakers and Behmenists maintain.
1824. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (ed. 2), 135. By any favouring the errors of the … Behmenists.
1846. Byron’s Wks., 668, note, [founder of the sect called Behmenites].
