Translated from English by T. Sailor. In the hands of the reader is a legendary rarity, waiting for mass circulations for almost two centuries in the manuscript archives of Russian Freemasons. Relatively modest in volume, the treatise of Jacob Beme is a kind of testament of the famous "Teutonic philosopher", the result of his spiritual searches, which constituted a real milestone in the history of Christian philosophy and culture. "Forty Questions About the Soul" - a Pearl in the Treasury of Western European Mysticism , book, which marked the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment, laid the foundation of psychology as a "strict science", received the highest praise of many famous thinkers , from Saint-Martin , In the evaluation of which "whosoever wishes to comprehend all the depths of Providence and being can read nothing more".