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Christian : Catholic
17th Century

About Angelus Silesius

Timeline (1624 - 1677)

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English version by
Stephen Mitchell

Original Language
German
God is a pure no-thing,

 
 
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

The Angelic Verses: From the Book of Angelus Silesius, Translated by Frederick Frank
Angelus Silesius, by Jeffrey L. Sammons
Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer (Classics of Western Spirituality), by Angelus Silesius / Translated by Maria Shrady
Angelus Silesius' Cherubinischer Wandersmann: A Modern Reading With Selected Translations (Renaissance and Baroque Studies and Texts), by Maria M. Bohm
The Book of Angelus Silesius, Translated by Frederick Frank

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God is a pure no-thing,
     concealed in now and here:
the less you reach for him,
     the more he will appear.

 

 

-- from The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell

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